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Jaivardhan Singh is Madhya Pradesh’s former urban development minister, a two-time MLA, and Congress leader Digvijaya Singh’s son. We tracked his campaign seeking a re-election from his constituency Raghogarh – earlier represented by his father – in Guna district.

In Mizoram’s capital Aizawl, thousands gathered in protest last month to question the eligibility of a Congress candidate from the Lunglei South constituency in Lunglei district. 

Wearing a white cotton kurta, Kiren Rijiju sat in the sitting-room area of Room 706 at Aizawl’s Regency Hotel, talking about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s keen interest in Northeast India.

Chhattisgarh excise minister and five-time Konta MLA Kawasi Lakhma is facing a challenge on his home turf in Sukma district this time. The reason? Growing unemployment and the Congress’s unfulfilled poll promise to ban liquor in the state. A Congress worker says Lakhma, popularly known as “Daadi” in the region,…

“We will get killed, it is just a matter of when…These uniforms and helmets don’t protect us. Nothing protects journalists,” said Palestine TV reporter Salman Al Bashir, while removing his press vest and helmet on-air, while the news channel’s anchor sobbed in the studio. 

हिंदी के प्रमुख अख़बारों ने आज एक नहीं बल्कि अलग-अलग ख़बरों को प्राथमिकता दी है. किसी ने महुआ मोइत्रा द्वारा आचार समिति के सामने पेश होने तो किसी ने दिल्ली के मुख्यमंत्री अरविंद केजरीवाल द्वारा प्रवर्तन निदेशालय के सामने पेश नहीं होने की ख़बर को पहली सुर्खी बनाया है. वहीं,…

In July 2023, 40 representatives of the Muslim community came together to put forth a list of demands, ahead of the Telangana Assembly elections that are scheduled for November 30. Titled the Muslim Declaration 2023, the demands included, among other things, the implementation of 10-12 percent reservation for Muslims in…

Yesterday was a hectic day for the media in Delhi. Reporters and camera crews camped out for hours at the Enforcement Directorate office in New Delhi’s Parivartan Bhawan, waiting for the arrival of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal who had been summoned by the central agency for questioning in the…

Egypt has reportedly imposed a six-month ban on the website of Mada Masr, one of its few remaining independent media outlets, after a report that relied on interviews with anonymous political and diplomatic sources to claim that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s regime was preparing to accept Palestinian refugees fleeing Israel’s…