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2 weeks ago | 
newindianexpress.com | Anup Verma |Shekhar Singh
The new leadership inherits a civic body in deep financial and administrative trouble. A recent report submitted by a high-level committee to the Delhi High Court - constituted after the tragic drowning of three UPSC aspirants in a waterlogged basement - lays bare the severe dysfunction within the MCD.
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1 month ago | 
newindianexpress.com | Anup Verma |Ifrah Mufti
NEW DELHI: Amid the chants of ‘Modi-Modi’, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta presented the BJP government’s first Budget of Rs 1 lakh crore after 27 years, focusing on infrastructure development, water, electricity, women’s safety, and empowerment, in the Assembly on Tuesday. Gupta’s speech — lasting two hours and 19 minutes — was a scathing criticism of the previous AAP government, holding Arvind Kejriwal’s party guilty of ignoring the city’s infrastructure.
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1 month ago | 
newindianexpress.com | Anup Verma |Ashish Srivastava
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) has suffered a staggering revenue loss of approximately Rs 1,700 crore since 2016 due to its failure to revise bus fares, according to the latest Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report tabled in the Delhi assembly on Monday. The report highlighted that DTC’s reluctance to implement a fare hike led to an annual revenue shortfall of around Rs 170 crore. The last fare revision for DTC buses took place on November 3, 2009.
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2 months ago | 
newindianexpress.com | Anup Verma |Ifrah Mufti |Shekhar Singh |Ashish Srivastava
We were told, the new government hit the ground running even before it was formed! There were whispers of a ‘100-day action plan’ coming up to swiftly improve our lives; well, address some basic necessities at least. A high-level meeting of bureaucrats was reportedly convened before the Cabinet was sworn-in, ‘setting clear targets for departments to achieve within the first three months’.
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Feb 10, 2025 | 
newindianexpress.com | Harpreet Bajwa |Anup Verma
The Punjab MLAs were instructed to cancel all their engagements on Tuesday and attend the meeting at the Kapurthala House, the official residence of Punjab CM during his Delhi visits. Mann, who had been camping in Delhi for the past three days, arrived in Chandigarh on Sunday afternoon. The state cabinet meeting scheduled for Monday was postponed to February 13.
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Feb 9, 2025 | 
newindianexpress.com | Ifrah Mufti |Anup Verma |Ashish Srivastava
Darkness descended upon the AAP headquarters in the capital after the party, pushing for a fourth consecutive term in the Delhi Assembly, faced a major setback to its political ambitions at the hands of BJP, putting its ‘Delhi dream’ to bed (forever or not, only time will tell). Dashing the hopes of the AAP leadership, the party’s dream of national expansion faced a major jolt in the Saturday verdict.
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Feb 9, 2025 | 
newindianexpress.com | Ifrah Mufti |Anup Verma |Ashish Srivastava
Darkness descended upon the AAP headquarters in the capital after the party, pushing for a fourth consecutive term in the Delhi Assembly, faced a major setback to its political ambitions at the hands of BJP, putting its ‘Delhi dream’ to bed (forever or not, only time will tell). Dashing the hopes of the AAP leadership, the party’s dream of national expansion faced a major jolt in the Saturday verdict.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
newindianexpress.com | Ashish Srivastava |Anup Verma
NEW DELHI: The national capital witnessed an intense political drama as the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) team arrived at Arvind Kejriwal’s residence at 5, Ferozeshah Road, on Friday, a day after the AAP chief had alleged that the BJP attempted to poach his party leaders offering them money. The ACB move came after L-G VK Saxena sanctioned a probe into the AAP chief’s allegations.
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Feb 2, 2025 | 
newindianexpress.com | Anup Verma |Ifrah Mufti |Ashish Srivastava |Prabhat Shukla
AAP is eyeing a fourth consecutive term. The BJP, “the wounded tiger”, is hoping to roar back to power after a 27-year hiatus. Meanwhile, Congress has finally awakened to the fact that it once governed Delhi for 15 years and is pulling out all stops to regain the past glory. These parties, including the BJP, which earlier had been averse to freebies, targeted voters with various social welfare schemes.
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
newindianexpress.com | Anup Verma
NEW DELHI: A day after Arvind Kejriwal’s car was “attacked”, both AAP and the BJP exchanged accusations on Sunday. While AAP claimed to have uncovered the opposition’s conspiracy behind the attack, the BJP firmly denied the allegations. AAP asserted that video evidence and photographs reveal a close connection between the attackers and BJP leader Parvesh Verma. They said the assailants’ criminal history exemplify a disturbing pattern of politically motivated violence.
