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Following our reporters on election trail, we present exclusive reports from political battlegrounds across the country.

The UN has warned the world has two years to save the planet. UN Climate chief Simon Steill said the world still has a chance to make greenhouse gas emissions decrease. "I will be candid: blame-shifting is not a strategy. Sidelining climate isn't a solution to a crisis that will decimate every G20 economy and has already started to hurt," Simon Steill said.

Former Congress spokesperson Rohan Gupta has slammed the party's communications department over several issues that have been plaguing it for years. Mr Gupta, who joined the BJP recently, said the Congress has become directionless and is full of contradictions, leading to loss of credibility.

More setbacks for the Aam Admi Party. A day after the Delhi High Court rejected Arvind Kejriwal's petition against his arrest, a senior leader and minister Raj Kumar Anand quit his post, saying that allegations of corruption made it untenable for him to continue. The AAP said Mr Anand was under intense pressure from the Enforcement Directorate, was scared, and had no choice. Arvind Kejriwal approached the Supreme Court today, which has not scheduled any immediate hearings on his appeal to have the charges against him be thrown out. Are things now spiraling out of control for the AAP? Is the party unravelling?

PM Modi hit out at the ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu, accusing the party of hate politics and of creating divisions. There was a sharp counter from MK Stalin who said the PM's visits to the state were akin to those of a migratory bird. This on a day when the row over the Katchatheevu Island, a tiny island in the Palk strait between India and Sri Lanka, flared once again with the PM alleging that the Congress and DMK had ceded the island to Lanka.

Arvind Kejriwal will remain in jail, the Delhi High Court said Tuesday afternoon as it knocked back the Chief Minister's challenge to his March 21 arrest in the alleged liquor policy scam. Mr Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party responded swiftly, confirming, within the hour, that it will appeal to the Supreme Court.

In a significant judgment, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court has ruled that the right of voters to know about each and every moveable property owned by candidates contesting elections is not absolute. This order is significant because it comes at a time when the right to information on electoral bonds has been cleared by the Chief Justice's court in the name of transparency. So the question is whether the transparency that we seek in our democratic processes may in fact be impacted.

A war of words has broken out between the Congress and the BJP. Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge hit back at the Prime Minister after the BJP targeted the Congress party's election manifesto as having the imprint of the Muslim League. Is Congress manifesto based on minority appeasement as the BJP alleges or is it genuinely forwarding looking?