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India Meteorological Department (IMD) and Indian National Centre for Ocean Information (INCOIS), the sea will witness a “swell of surge waves" from 11.30 am on Saturday to 11.30 pm on Sunday, the civic body said. During this time, the height of the waves will rise by 0.5 to 1.5 metres, it said.

ALSO READ: TCS World 10K in Bengaluru: Namma Metro to start services early, traffic restrictions and more | 5 points Adding more details, the city traffic police said that the Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) has already started the work to lay a 220 kV cable along the metro line. It also said that BMRCL will carry out the work from Salarpuria Soft Zone on the Ibbalur service road towards Bellandur's Centro Mall.

Appointment committee of Cabinet has approved the appointed Sanjaya Kumar Mishra, former Chief Justice, Jharkhand High Court as President GST Appellate Tribunal (GSTAT) for 4 years. The selection was made on the recommendations of a Search-Cum-Selection Committee. This will speed up the process of making the GSTAT functional at earliest. The Centre is planning to make the tribunal functional from July 1, officials had indicated earlier.

National Testing Agency (NTA) has released the admit cards for the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (Undergraduate) 2024 examination. Candidates who have completed the registration process for NEET UG 2024 can go to the official website at exams.nta.ac.in/NEET to obtain their NEET admit card for the year 2024. Meanwhile, many students have been complaining about errors while downloading admid cards. Many also pointed out that they have encountered errors with the verification code after entering the login details.

Bengaluru weather update: For the second day running, Bengaluru city saw its maximum temperature hold steady at 38.5 degrees Celsius, according to CP Patil, Director of Meteorological Centre, Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), Bengaluru. Meanwhile, Raichur district in Karnataka recorded the highest temperature in the state at 43 degrees Celsius, PTI reported. IMD had previously forecasted that Bengaluru's maximum temperature would reach 39 degrees Celsius today.

home ministry has cancelled the Foreign Contribution Registration Act (FCRA) licences of six non-governmental organisations (NGOs) for their alleged violation of the FCRA rules, misuse of foreign grants, religious conversion, among others, ET has learnt. The cancellation came following a scrutiny by the Centre in March-April this year, said officials familiar with the developments. The NGOs include the Diocesan Society Church of North, Jesus and Mary Delhi Educational Society, Delhi Diocese Overseas Grant Fund, Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), Samuel Foundation Charitable India Trust and Hemophilia Federation of India (HFI). Earlier this month, the home ministry had revoked the FCRA licences of five leading NGOs on charges of violations.

Dozens of friends and family of Ahmad Al Marrach gathered in prayer at Peace and Friendship Park on Sunday afternoon — as the community held a vigil in remembrance of the 16-year-old who was killed outside the Halifax Shopping Centre earlier this week.

IMD has forecasted light rainfall on May 2 and 3, which is expected keep the temperatures within this range. The experts have pointed to the El Nino effect and anti-cyclone conditions as the causes behind the intense heatwave in Bengaluru.

Taija Howard wouldn’t know she was carrying twins if she hadn’t paid out-of-pocket for a private ultrasound.

The Times, scientists have discovered a gas in a planet's atmosphere which could be "only produced by life". The planet is called K2-18b and is located beneath a constellation Leo and on a star K2-18. K2-18 is believed to be roughly half the size of the Sun.

Lok Sabha elections 2024: Nationalist Congress Party-SCP chief Sharad Pawar warned that voting for Prime Minister Narendra Modi back to power for the third term is 'dangerous', claiming that his government will “impose dictatorship" in India. Addressing an election rally in Sangola in Maharashtra’s Solapur on Friday, Pawar said, “It is dangerous to vote Prime Minister Narendra Modi back to power. He will impose dictatorship in the country." The veteran leader claimed foreigners have visited India to "monitor elections" to see if "democracy will survive in India".

Madhya Pradesh's longest-serving chief minister and BJP stalwart Shivraj Singh Chouhan is likely to play an important role in national politics with Prime Minister Narendra Modi telling an election rally recently that he wanted to «take him to Delhi (Centre)». Chouhan, who was the chief minister from 2005 to 2023, is contesting the Lok Sabha polls from his stronghold Vidisha, an ancient city incidentally located on the Bhopal-Delhi train route. The BJP candidate is up against Pratap Bhanu Sharma, a Congressman who won the seat in 1980 and 1984 on the back of the post-Emergency Indira Gandhi juggernaut and later, the sympathy wave caused by her death. These were the only two occasions when the Congress won the seat since it was created in 1967.

China on Thursday sent three astronauts to its permanently inhabited space station for a six-month stay, in a regular rotation of Chinese astronauts onboard the "Tiangong" orbiting high above the Earth's atmosphere. The spacecraft Shenzhou-18, or «Divine Vessel», and its three passengers lifted off atop a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China at 8:58 p.m. (1258 GMT), according to state media.

₹500 per cylinder if the INDIA bloc is elected at the Centre in the Lok Sabha elections 2024. The party also favours caste census, a demand long been made by Congress, and separate commission for farmers' welfare in the manifesto. Apart from that, the Sharad Pawar-led party said it supports full statehood for Jammu and Kashmir, scrapping of the Agnipath Scheme and rejects the idea of ‘one nation, one election’ – a policy promoted in the BJP manifesto.

mangalsutra, gold’ remark that sparked “hate speech" row, PM Modi has doubled down on his anti-Muslim statements at a campaign rally for Lok Sabha elections 2024. Addressing a speech in Rajasthan's Tonk-Sawai Madhopur, PM Modi attacked the Congress, saying it will wants to reduce the “SC-ST reservation and distribute it among the Muslims." Continuing his scathing attack on Congress, PM Modi also said that the grand-old party was hatching a conspiracy to “snatch your property" and “distribute it among selected people".

Arvind Kejriwal is being pushed towards a «slow death» inside Tihar jail by denying him insulin and consultations with his doctor. Kejriwal, who has Type-2 diabetes, has been asking for insulin and a video conferencing with his family doctor but his requests are being denied by the jail administration, party spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj said in a press conference. «I want to say with full responsibility that a conspiracy is underway for the slow death of Kejriwal,» Bharadwaj claimed citing blood sugar readings of the Chief Minister in jail. He also slammed the Tihar administration, BJP, Centre and Delhi LG for allegedly denying insulin to Kejriwal and said the Delhi Chief Minister had been suffering from diabetes for the last 20-22 years.

CSDS earlier released a detailed analysis of how accurate were the opinion polls during the Lok Sabha Elections from 1998 to 2009. A political party needs to win 272 seats of the total 543 seats to gain a majority in the Lok Sabha in India. The report revealed that the pre-election opinion polls in the 1998 Lok Sabha Elections were "almost accurate", while the prediction in the 1999 elections "slightly overestimated" the performance of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA).

Delhi metro officials announced that train operations between Delhi Metro's Samaypur Badli and Jahangir Puri stations on the Yellow Line will be restricted to a single line for a duration of four months to facilitate the execution of Phase-IV work for the Magenta Line extension. Service disruptions will occur between 10 pm and 7 am during this period. The Yellow Line links Samaypur Badli in Delhi with Millennium City Centre Gurugram in Haryana. The DelhiMetro Rail Corporation (DMRC) said in a post on X, "Train movement between Samaypur Badli and Jahangir Puri on the Yellow Line shall be done via single line from 10 pm till end of revenue services and from start of revenue services till 7 am with effect from Thursday (18.4.2024) for a period of four months for execution of Phase-IV work of the Magenta Line extension."

Arunachal Pradesh is all set to vote on Friday to elect two Lok Sabha MPs and 50 MLAs. In the 60-member assembly, the BJP has already won 10 constituencies unopposed. In the Arunachal West Parliamentary seat, eight candidates are in the fray including Union Earth Sciences Minister Kiren Rijiju and state Congress president Nabam Tuki. Sitting BJP MP Tapir Gao and state Congress vice-president Bosiram Siram are among six candidates who are contesting from Arunachal East.

Supreme Court on Thursday reserves its judgment on petitions seeking 100 per cent verification of Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slips, ahead of the Lok Sabha elections set to begin Friday. The VVPAT is a mechanism that ensures that voters are given visual confirmation that their vote has been cast. Paper slips show in a display on the VVPAT machine with the candidate’s serial number, name, and party symbol for seven seconds so that the voter can verify their vote. As it stands, the mechanism to tally votes post-polling is as follows: VVPAT paper slips of five randomly selected EVMs in each assembly constituency or each assembly segment in a parliamentary constituency are physically verified to confirm the accuracy of the election.

GE (formerly General Electric) recently sold its iconic 60-acre Crotonville campus, established in 1956, for $22 million. This facility, once the heart of GE’s corporate culture, thrived during Jack Welch's tenure when managers yearned to network with top executives and immerse themselves in the company's culture. But following GE's recent segmentation, Crotonville's significance dwindled.