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Mumbai to chart out a strategy for the upcoming assembly polls in Maharashtra. The party has scheduled a meeting of all the senior leaders of the state, which will be chaired by the General Secretary (organisation) KC Venugopal, and the AICC Incharge of Maharashtra, Ramesh Chenithalla. In the recent parliamentary elections, Congress emerged as the largest party in the state, with 13 Lok Sabha MPs, and along with Shiv Sena UBT's 9 and the NCP (Pawar)'s 8 MPs, Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) won 30 seats out of the total number of 48 constituencies in Maharashtra.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has opened a new parliamentary term

III Points Festival with a special headlining show, as per the reports of the New York Post.

British voters are picking a new government in a parliamentary election Thursday that is widely expected to bring the opposition Labour Party to power

Christopher Hui, the Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury of Hong Kong stated on July 3 that Hong Kong regulators would closely monitor market developments following several global crypto exchanges’ withdrawal of license applications.

Uddhav Thackeray during the Lok Sabha Elections, hinting at possible discord in the Mahayuti alliance that comprises the Eknath Shinde faction of Shiv Sena, the Thackeray clan plans to leave no stone unturned to secure a similar fate in the upcoming state Assembly elections. Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray will address the party cadre at Dadar's Shanmukhananda Hall on Wednesday evening.

Narendra Modi will be sworn in as India's Prime Minister for his third term in a row on the evening of Sunday, June 9, at Rashtrapati Bhavan. His new council of ministers, including those from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), will also take the oath of office at the ceremony that will be attended by heads of state and government from neighbouring nations.

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

Lugano, Switzerland – 5/20/2024 – Enthusiasts of NFT and blockchain technology are invited to mark on their calendars the dates of June 14 and 15, 2024, when the city of Lugano will host the new edition of NFT Fest Lugano.

The future of the Tampa Bay Rays is about to come into clearer focus as the St. Petersburg City Council begins discussions about the team's planned $1.3 billion ballpark

Madonna has put on a free concert in Rio de Janeiro, turning the vast stretch of sand of Copacabana beach into an enormous dance floor teeming with a multitude of her fans

Copacabana Palace hotel, where Madonna is staying, hoping to catch a glimpse of the pop star. During the sound check on the stage that's in front of her hotel, they danced on the sand. “Since Madonna arrived here, I've been coming every day with this outfit to welcome my idol, my diva, my pop queen," said Rosemary de Oliveira Bohrer, 69, who was supporting a gold-colored cone bra and a black cap.

Sadiq Khan on Saturday registered a decisive victory to secure a record third term as Mayor of London, as the local election results from England and Wales continued to reflect a strong swing in favour of the Opposition Labour Party. The 53-year-old Pakistani-origin Labour candidate secured a massive 10,88,225 votes with a 43.8 per cent vote share, well ahead of the Conservative candidate Susan Hall's 8,12,397 votes – an impressive majority of over 2,75,000.

UCLA, hours after police arrested activists who occupied a building at Columbia University and cleared a tent city from its campus. Eyewitness videos from the University of California at Los Angeles, verified by Reuters, showed people wielding sticks or poles to hammer on wooden boards being used as makeshift barricades to protect the pro-Palestinian protesters before police were called to the campus.

New York City police officers began entering the Columbia University late Tuesday as dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters remained on the campus. Shortly before officers entered the campus, the New York Police Department received a notice from Columbia authorising officers to take action, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. The official was not authorised to discuss details of the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. After entering the campus, a contingent of police officers approached Hamilton Hall, the administration building that students began occupying in the morning.

Columbia University in New York early Tuesday, barricading entrances and unfurling a Palestinian flag from a window in the latest escalation of demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war on college campuses nationwide. The school promised they would face expulsion. The occupation at Columbia — where protesters shrugged off an ultimatum to abandon a tent encampment Monday or be suspended — unfolded as other universities stepped up efforts to clear out encampments. Police swept through some campuses, spurring confrontations with protesters and plenty of arrests. In rarer instances, university officials and protest leaders have struck agreements to restrict the disruption to campus life. And as cease-fire negotiations appeared to gain steam Tuesday, it wasn’t clear whether those talks would inspire campus protesters to ease their efforts.

Ralph Lauren has been known for many a grand fashion show over the years: taking over Central Park for a sumptuous anniversary celebration, for example, or staging a runway show amid his eye-popping classic car collection. But for his Fall/Holiday 2024 collection, he decided to go minimal — at least, minimal in Ralph Lauren terms. That meant an intimate show Monday night in a (relatively) small design studio at his New York City offices, inspired by his first women's fashion show in 1972, where he displayed his wares to editors and friends in his own office. In front of a typically starry front row that included actors Glenn Close, Jessica Chastain, Kerry Washington, Rebecca Hall and Jodie Turner-Smith, Lauren opened his show on a note of timelessness — his longtime ethos — with the appearance of muse and supermodel Christy Turlington, now 55, in a sleek beige wool coat.

Donald Trump’s campaign said it raised $50.5 million on Saturday when major donors gather for his biggest fundraiser yet

new single-event fundraising record and is almost double the $26 million that Biden's campaign said it raised recently at a gathering with former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama at Radio City Music Hall in New York. Saturday's event, billed as the “Inaugural Leadership Dinner," sends a signal of a resurgence of Trump and the Republican Party's fundraising, which has lagged behind Biden and the Democrats.

Ajit Doval on Wednesday met with his Russian counterpart Nikolay Patrushev and discussed measures to strengthen counter-terror cooperation. A special focus will be on the Afg-Pak and Eurasian region in the backdrop of the recent terror strike in the Moscow region that killed 144 people. The two NSAs, who met at the sidelines of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in Kazakhstan, discussed countering terrorism both bilaterally and in multilateral formats, and emphasised on regular exchange of information about terrorist and extremist elements, sources told ET. Doval strongly condemned the «barbaric» terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow on March 22 and expressed condolences to the families who lost their loved ones.