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Ontario Provincial Police are investigating reports of an illegal online gambling operation targeting youth in the city of Orillia after students reported being threatened over money they owed.

construction season.Workers will be outside taking advantage of the weather to get all sorts of projects done, such as road maintenance and sewer upgrades.However, the season is notorious for its traffic congestion, and with the amount of work going on, planning experts say better execution is needed to reduce the impact on people’s lives.“Disruption for a day, week or month is understandable. Disruption for five years to your life is something unacceptable,” said Murtaza Haider, a professor of management at Toronto Metropolitan University and director of the Urban Analytics Institute.“The kind of systems we have put in place (and) the kind of oversights we have put in place are not necessarily conducive for rapid, fast execution and delivery of transit infrastructure or transportation infrastructure.”Every spring, construction crews take to the streets of many Ontario cities to begin work on projects, taking advantage of the warm weather because some work can’t be done during the cold months, said Matti Siemiatycki, a professor of geography and planning and director of the Infrastructure Institute at the University of Toronto.Last year, work during Toronto’s construction season was pegged at $1.14 billion, and involved maintenance and upgrades to roads, bridges, expressways, TTC tracks, sewers and watermains.But nowadays, Toronto residents are beginning to see projects planned for year-round work.For example, parts of the city’s Gardiner Expressway were recently reduced by one lane in each direction for “critical rehabilitation work” over the next three years.

Rahul Gandhi also challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to inform the people if he increases the reservation limit beyond 50 percent. "This is the main issue in this elections...," he said. In its manifesto for the Lok Sabha Elections 2024, the Congress guarantees that it will pass a constitutional amendment to raise the 50 percent cap on reservations for SC, ST and OBC.

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“snatch your property" and “distribute it among selected people" like when it was in power, the Karnataka BJP's animated video showed caricatures of Rahul Gandhi and Siddaramaiah placing an egg with "Muslims" written on it in a nest along with three eggs marked as "SC, ST and OBC." The video further showed the caricature of Rahul Gandhi feeding "funds" only to the bird that hatched out of the "Muslim" egg. The case against the BJP leaders has been registered under the Indian Penal Code’s (IPC) section 505(2) (statement conducing public mischief), and the Representation of People Act’s Section 125 (promoting enmity between classes). “We have registered a case against JP Nadda, Vijayendra, and [Amit] Malviya on the complaint filed by KPCC member Ramesh Babu.

FIR has been lodged against BJP national president JP Nadda, Karnataka state BJP president BY Vijayendra, BJP social media in-charge Amit Malviya after Congress filed a complaint over BJP Karnataka's social media post allegedly intimidating members of SC, ST community. Congress had earlier filed a complaint against BJP officials over a video posted by BJP Karnataka on their social media for allegedly intimidating members of Schedule caste or tribe to not vote for a particular candidate with an intention to create feelings of enmity, hatred and ill-will against members of SC/ST community. BJP was also accused of violating model code of conduct by using animated video of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah by portraying Congress party as favouring a particular religion and suppressing members of SC/ST and OBC community.

India,- New Balance, one of the world’s fastest growing sports brands, unveils its newest retail concept at Linking Road, Mumbai alongside celebrated cricketer,Pat Cummins.The launchhighlights New Balance's strategic expansion plans, under the newly launched India subsidiary,of broadening its global presence and making significant strides within India. The unique retail concept embodies New Balance at the intersection of sports and culture catering to both, the fashion influencers, and the elite athletes. The new store intends to offer a dynamic retail experience highlighting the brand’s quality craftsmanship and its consistent strive for innovation.

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Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant says the BJP will cross the 50% vote share mark in South Goa, a seat the ruling party lost last elections. In an interview with Himani Kothari, the CM calls the BJP a secular party and talks about what his government is doing to ensure Goans always have a place in Goa. Edited excerpts: Q. How has Goa benefitted over the last 10 years because of a double-engine government? Goa has got direct benefit of over Rs 35,000 crore – from infrastructure to the various schemes. Q) How confident is the BJP about winning both the seats? We are 100% confident. We’re winning with 100,000+ margin in North Goa and in South, it would be a margin of 60,000+ votes.

Emmanuel Macron was on Monday set to warn Chinese leader Xi Jinping against backing Russia in the conflict over Ukraine but also seek to enlist his help in finding an end to the war. Xi is making a state visit to France marking 60 years of diplomatic relations between France and China. The trip is his first to Europe since 2019 and will also see him visit Serbia and Hungary later in the week.

Kolhapur is one of a few seats in Maharashtra that Congress is confident of bagging in this election. BJP's decision to backtrack from claiming this seat from Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena too indicates that the going will not be easy for NDA this time. In the runup to the polls, BJP was pressurising Sena to hand over this seat in western Maharashtra to it. Shinde resisted the pressure as the Sena had a sitting MP, Sadashiv Mandlik. Yet BJP was relentless in seeking the seat, but then gave up the claim, the reason for which probably was the candidate Congress has fielded. Congress has managed to convince Shahu II Chhatrapati Maharaj, a descendant of Maratha warrior king Shivaji, to contest the polls. More importantly, he is the great grandson of Rajarshi Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj, a maharaja of the former princely state Kolhapur and a well-known social reformer. During his rule, he had encouraged Dalit children to study and provided 50% reservation for them, as well as offered scholarships for poor meritorious students from the community. He established schools for women and legalised widow remarriage and worked to abolish child marriage. Within a day of Congress announcing Shahu Maharaj as its candidate, Prakash Ambedkar's VBA, which was making its own plans to contest separately, announced it would support his candidature.

Cryptocurrencies BLP, PEPE, and BONK are catching investors’ attention as they show signs of recovery ahead of others. Observers are closely watching these tokens to see if this uptick signals a sustainable upturn or is merely a fleeting surge. With the bull run of 2024 already making waves, the significance of these movements is under scrutiny. Readers are eager to understand the potential for a lasting rally in these alternative coins.

H D Revanna on Sunday called his arrest over the allegations of abducting a woman, whom Revanna's son is alleged to have sexually abused, an outcome of a political conspiracy. The former minister, who is the son of former prime minister H D Deve Gowda, is facing the charge of kidnapping and illegally confining a woman who is the mother of three children. The complaint was lodged by the woman's son on Thursday. Revanna claimed there is no evidence of his involvement in the case based on the complaint against him registered on May 2.

Kshatriya leaders associated with the BJP in Gujarat on Sunday appealed to the community to forgive Union minister Parshottam Rupala for his remarks and vote for the saffron party in the nation's interest. Rupala is the BJP candidate from Rajkot Lok Sabha constituency. Barring Surat, where the party nominee has won unopposed, the other 25 seats in the state will go to polls in the third phase on May 7. Kshatriyas, also known as Rajputs, have been protesting in different parts of Gujarat over Rupala's alleged derogatory remarks about former rulers, urging people to vote against BJP candidates across the state. With just two days left for polling, BJP's Kshatriya leaders on Sunday issued a joint statement appealing to the community to show a big heart and embrace the Sanskrit verse «kshama virasya bhushanam» (forgiveness is the ornament of the brave).

Assembly elections in Odisha, the Congress on Sunday replaced its five candidates and announced Akshaya Acharya from the Nilgiri constituency. All India Congress Committee (AICC) in a press release on Sunday said that the Central Election Committee of the party has approved the revised list of Congress candidates for the Odisha Assembly polls. Out of six constituencies, the party replaced the candidates in five constituencies.

Congress and INDIA bloc are using them as pawns, asserting that the community is also coming to the BJP after seeing the development done by it. Addressing a rally in support of the BJP candidate in Dhaurahra, Modi also said that the poor and those belonging to the SC, ST and OBC communities have distanced themselves from the Congress and the opposition alliance, and come to the BJP. «Politics of appeasement has become compulsory for the existence of 'shehzade' of SP and Congress,» he said in an apparent attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav. «Muslim community also understands that the Congress and INDI alliance have made them pawns,» Modi, said adding that the Muslim community is also coming to the BJP after seeing the development done without any prejudice.

AICC spokesperson Radhika Khera on Sunday resigned from the party claiming that criticism over her visit to Ram Lalla in Ayodhya culminated in the denial of justice to her in the incident that happened at the Chhattisgarh Congress office. Khera, the AICC's communication and media coordinator for Chhattisgarh, posted her resignation letter addressed to AICC president Mallikarjuj Kharge on her 'X' handle. «For every Hindu, the birthplace of Lord Shri Ram holds great significance. While every Hindu considers his life successful just by seeing Ram Lalla, some people have been opposing it. The party to which I have given more than 22 years of my life, while working with full honesty right from NSUI to AICC's media department,» she stated. «Today I have to face such intense criticism because I could not stop myself from visiting Ram Lalla in Ayodhya. The criticism to this noble work reached such a level that justice was denied to me in the incident that happened with me in the Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress office», Khera added.

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A weekly newspaper in a rural Oklahoma community was at the center of a path of destruction

Congress leader Vijay Wadettiwar stoked controversy by claiming that former ATS chief Hemant Karkare was «not killed by terrorists during the 26/11 attack but by a police official close to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh», Shiv Sena leader Milind Deora said that such remarks made by Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Assembly are shameful and the opposition party is busy giving «clean chit to the Pakistan». «It is a very shameful statement. During the 26/11 attack. I saw the pain, suffering and terror that the people of South Mumbai, Maharashtra and India had to witness. Why are they trying to appease Pakistan and blame one community? As an Indian, a responsible leader from an Opposition party is making this statement for the second time from the same party and giving a clean chit to Pakistan,» Milind Deora told ANI. After the outrage, Vijay Wadettiwar issued a clarification, saying that these are not his words and it has been mentioned in the book authored by SM Mushrif, a former Inspector General of Police, Maharashtra.