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Former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Sunday asserted that only Congress could challenge Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh assembly elections, while calling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) “merely a party of UT Delhi”.

Months after exiting the decades-long association with the Congress party, Azad said that he was not against its policy of secularism, but its weak party system. While talking to ANI at Srinagar, he said, “Although I have separated from Congress, I wasn’t against their policy of secularism. It was only due to the party’s system getting weakened. I would still want Congress to perform well in Gujarat and HP Assembly polls. AAP isn’t capable to do so.”

Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi, commander of the Northern Army, unveiled a 464-bed new transit facility in New Delhi for soldiers stationed in the J&K region on behalf of the Indian Army.

The project, which began in 2017 and was completed in New Delhi for about Rs 18 crore, has now been officially opened, a press release from the Army said.

The operationalization of this facility would allow troops to be comfortable and give them essential ease during transit. Currently, troops moving to J&K were sleeping in temporary housing.

Arvind Kejriwal today declared former TV anchor Isudan Gadhvi the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)'s presumptive chief minister for Gujarat, where the party is campaigning aggressively to try and oust the ruling BJP in next month's election. Isudan Gadhvi, a former journalist and TV anchor, won 73 per cent of the votes in an AAP survey on who should be its chief ministerial candidate in Gujarat. 

AAP had last week asked people to share their views on who should be chief minister through messages, voice mail or email, replicating its Punjab strategy.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said that the people of Delhi would choose his party in the upcoming Delhi Municipal Corporation Election 2022 once again. The AAP chief also accused the BJP of doing nothing to improve the state of three civic bodies in the national capital and indulging in the blame game.

Taking to Twitter, Kejriwal said, "In the last 15 years, BJP has spread garbage all over Delhi and created mountains of garbage. This time on December 4, the people of Delhi will vote for the cleanliness of Delhi. People will vote to make Delhi clean and beautiful. This time people of Delhi will choose AAP in the Municipal Corporation election also."

Delhi Chief Minister's tweet came shortly after Delhi State Election Commissioner Vijay Dev announced dates for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD).

As many Russians suffer in the pursuit of Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine, one beneficiary seems to be emerging.

Kalashnikov, maker of the legendary AK-47, is reporting a huge increase in small arms sales. Though the company is attributing the boom to increased overseas exports and sales to civilians, the fact that it is happening alongside the war in Ukraine seems more than coincidental.

Russia has already suffered an estimated 65,000 dead and is drafting 200,000 or more men who are being sent to the front with little training. Many of those troops are already complaining about being issued old and rusty AK-47s dating to the Cold War.