Mallica Joshi is the Chief Reporter, Delhi with The Indian Express. She has been covering politics, education and environment in Delhi for 13 years. She tweets @mallicajoshi

June 12, 2019 02:21 IST
BJP won all seven Lok Sabha seats by a sizeable margin in Delhi last month. While Chadha had secured the second highest vote share, Atishi finished third behind BJP and Congress.
Wed, Jun 12, 2019
June 07, 2019 00:41 IST
Delhi government’s proposal to make bus and Metro rides free for women has drawn reactions ranging from approval to rejection. What are the precedents for the idea; what do studies on other cities show?
Fri, Jun 07, 2019
June 06, 2019 02:19 IST
To develop a professional community of teachers across the globe, teachers in Delhi government schools are spearheading a movement to bring more educators — from government and private schools — to social media.
Thu, Jun 06, 2019
June 05, 2019 01:05 IST
The commission, an advisory body of the Delhi government, is behind the proposal to make Metro rides free for women.
Wed, Jun 05, 2019
June 04, 2019 01:52 IST
In December last year, Luxembourg announced that it would make all public transportation — trains, trams and buses — free for everyone by March 2020, becoming the first country in the world to do so. Years before that, in the mid 1990s, cities in Germany and Belgium had also made public transportation free for residents. […]
Tue, Jun 04, 2019
June 04, 2019 01:50 IST
Officials said that if Metro agrees to the move, it will have to devise a mechanism to register the number of women who avail free rides and those who don’t
Tue, Jun 04, 2019
May 27, 2019 01:53 IST
The BJP has again won all seven Lok Sabha seats in the capital — this time with a vote share of 56%. AAP’s vote share is down from 33% in 2014 to 18% now, leaving it a distant third and giving hope to the Congress that its vote bank is slowly, but surely, returning to the fold.
Mon, May 27, 2019
May 26, 2019 06:08 IST
A few weeks ago, AAP had alleged that the BJP had reached out to seven of its MLAs and offered them Rs 10 crore for switching over before elections.
Sun, May 26, 2019
May 25, 2019 01:35 IST
AAP’s performance in three assembly segments in south Delhi could also ring alarm bells.
Sat, May 25, 2019
May 24, 2019 02:30 IST
Each of BJP’s seven candidates got more than 50%, suggesting that a tie-up between its rivals would not have mattered; Cong pulls ahead of AAP in five seats
Fri, May 24, 2019
May 23, 2019 13:13 IST
The biggest margin, so far, is in West Delhi, where BJP's Parvesh Sahib Singh has a lead of 1.56 lakh votes over Congress's Mahabal Mishra.
Thu, May 23, 2019
May 14, 2019 04:45 IST
Be it Patiala, the home district of Punjab CM Capt Amarinder Singh, Sangrur, the stronghold of AAP leader Bhagwant Mann, or Bathinda, the seat of Union Akali minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal, large tracts of farmland are being set on fire.
Tue, May 14, 2019
May 14, 2019 01:52 IST
The second-highest turnout was seen in Ballimaran, which largely has a minority population. Both these areas are in the Chandni Chowk constituency, where BJP's Harsh Vardhan is pitted against Congress's J P Agarwal and AAP's Pankaj Gupta.
Tue, May 14, 2019
May 10, 2019 02:13 IST
Several school principals that The Indian Express spoke to confirmed that more and more parents are reaching out to them, wondering how their children missed out on the best possible percentage owing to the strict marking scheme.
Fri, May 10, 2019
May 08, 2019 04:03 IST
The practice, which comes under manual scavenging, is outlawed. That, however, does not stop government agencies or private ones from hiring sanitation workers and labourers to descend into sewers to clean them.
Wed, May 08, 2019
May 06, 2019 04:30 IST
A fisherman’s livelihood, a daily wager’s picnic spot, a slum cluster’s nightmare — the Yamuna is many things to many people. In poll season, it’s also a hot topic among those living on its banks. The Indian Express travels across five constituencies to listen in
Mon, May 06, 2019
April 30, 2019 02:07 IST
BJP president Amit Shah is expected to address three rallies over the coming week, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to address a rally in the second week of May.
Thu, May 02, 2019
April 27, 2019 03:59 IST
According to officials, once a candidate’s nomination has been declared fit, only the court can bar him/her from contesting elections.
Sat, Apr 27, 2019
April 25, 2019 03:01 IST
Kejriwal is expected to release the party’s election manifesto Thursday. He will also meet MLAs, the seven candidates and senior party leaders to set the tone for the third and final phase of the campaign.
Thu, Apr 25, 2019
April 23, 2019 02:49 IST
Women, meanwhile, continued to be under-represented, with each party backing only one woman candidate each — Congress’s Dikshit, AAP’s Atishi and BJP’s Meenakshi Lekhi.
Tue, Apr 23, 2019
April 14, 2019 03:01 IST
The statement came a day after AAP and Jannayak Janata Party announced an alliance in Haryana, where AAP will contest on three seats and JJP on seven.
Sun, Apr 14, 2019
April 13, 2019 02:01 IST
The development comes two days after coalition talks broke down between AAP and Congress in Delhi, over the former’s insistence on seat sharing in Haryana.
Sat, Apr 13, 2019
April 11, 2019 02:19 IST
The two parties had come to an understanding for Delhi, where AAP would have contested on four seats and Congress on three. But AAP’s demands outside the city played spoiler. The Congress, meanwhile, hit back at AAP, questioning its sincerity in defeating the BJP.
Thu, Apr 11, 2019
April 10, 2019 01:58 IST
The first eight to get the machines will be for the kin of those whose family members died after inhaling noxious fumes from sewers and one manual scavenger who escaped death in an incident at Lajpat Nagar in August 2017.
Wed, Apr 10, 2019
April 08, 2019 02:10 IST
A government notification of 2007 says all schools on government land will have to reserve 20% seats for EWS children and there is no question of these children being forced to pay fee or leave, says Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi Manish Sisodia.
Mon, Apr 08, 2019




