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Arvind Kejriwal's wife Sunita on Sunday alleged he was put in jail before the elections to «stifle» his voice and urged people to vote against «dictatorship» when the national capital goes to polls on May 25. Sunita held her third roadshow in the national capital in south Delhi in support of AAP candidate Sahiram Pahalwan on Sunday. She said her husband was put in jail since he built good government schools, mohalla clinics and promised to give Rs 1,000 to every woman in Delhi. «He has put in jail just before polls to stifle his voice. Dictatorship is at its peak. Please save this country. Please cast your vote irrespective of the heat,» she added.

Saudi Arabia posted a budget deficit Saudi Arabia posts budget deficit of $3.30 billion in first quarter of Saudi Arabia posts budget deficit of $3.30 billion in first quarter of 12.387 billion riyals ($3.30 billion) in the first quarter of 2024, the finance ministry said on Sunday, after lower oil revenues and increased spending weighed on the economy. The kingdom needs to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to fund giga-projects aimed at weaning the economy off oil and to boost tourism and the private sector.

Lok Sabha elections 2024: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said Samajwadi Party (SP) founder, late Mulayam Singh Yadav, had predicted in 2019 that Modi would become the prime minister again. Addressing a Lok Sabha election rally at Uttar Pradesh's Etawah, the home turf of Samajwadi Party supremo, PM Modi said, “It was Mulayam Singh's blessing for me." The prime minister also attacked the Samajwadi Party and Congress, and termed them “liars" and “thieves". He said the slogans of both the SP and Congress are "lies" and their “intentions are also not good".

We will not have to use force to take PoK as people would say that we must be merged with India. Such demands are now coming," the defence minister said, asserting that "PoK was, is, and will remain ours". Jammu & Kashmir National Conference (JKNC) chief Farooq Abdullah reacted to Rajnath Singh's comments, saying, "If the defence minister is saying it then go ahead.

NewsX. The prime minister’s last term had been beneficial for the people of the country. It aided people and provided them with employment opportunities leading to several developments in the country without any descrimination towards people, said NewsX report citing Ansari.

Here are top 5 news of the day: Belstar Microfinance Ltd submitted draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) to the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) to raise ₹1,300 crore through an initial public offering (IPO). According to the draft red herring prospectus (DRHP), the initial public offering (IPO) of the Chennai-based company comprises a ₹1,000 crore fresh issue of equity shares and an offer-for-sale (OFS) of ₹300 crore by existing investor shareholders.

foreign policy today affects every citizen, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that if India had not been clear on the Russia-Ukraine war, petrol price would have gone up. Highlighting the pressure and the problems India faced, Jaishankar said, «Look at one example. We had this pressure on Russia and Ukraine. We were clear. Suppose we had not been clear. Suppose we had said. Sorry. Sorry. You are saying it very strongly. We will not do what we did. Your petrol price would have gone up by Rs 20 because of that.» «We take a stand on foreign policy for average citizens,» he said during an interactive session in Odisha's Cuttack.

Rahul Gandhi always wear a white T-shirt? The Congress leader has not one but two reasons — it conveys "transparency" and "simplicity". Gandhi answers several such light-hearted questions in a more than two-minute video released by the Congress on its social media channels. In the video captioned «A day campaigning in Karnataka. Some light rapid fire questions and some very illustrious company», Gandhi also talks about his take on the importance of ideology. «In my view, you cannot go as a large organisation towards power without a clear understanding of the ideology. We have to convince the people of our ideology which is pro-poor, pro-women, plural, treating everybody equally,» he says.

dynastic politics" of the Samajwadi Party and the Congress on Sunday, saying while the opposition alliance partners work only to benefit their own families, he is building a better future for the nation's next generations. «Modi and Yogi are working for the future of your children… we don't have children (of our own),» he said, addressing a Lok Sabha poll rally here in the home district of Samajwadi Party (SP) founder Mulayam Singh Yadav, who died in 2022. The prime minister said that he is laying the foundation to ensure that India remains a powerful nation for the next 1,000 years. «Modi is doing this because irrespective of whether Modi is there or not, the country will always remain and what are these SP-Congress people doing? They are fighting elections for their future and the future of their children,» he added.

Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has operationalised an advanced 2.0 version of its information technology system, armed with artificial intelligence and machine learning tools, to check money laundering and terrorist financing crimes in the country's economic channels. The upgrade of the technological backbone was required as the volume of data (suspicious transaction reports) flagged by banks and various other financial institutions to the FIU for analysis and further dissemination to investigative and intelligence organisations has been «increasing», a latest report for the 2022-23 fiscal said. The agency was set up in 2004 to «play a decisive role in India's fight against the menace of money laundering and terrorism financing» under the legal setup of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

Secularism means respect for all religions and it does not mean that you deny your own religion or are somehow not proud of your culture and heritage, said External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday, clarifying what he means by the concept. His remarks came during an interactive session in Odisha's Cuttack while campaigning for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) amid Lok Sabha elections. On being asked how secularism can be incorporated in the country's foreign policy, EAM Jaishankar explained, «Now first of all let us be very clear what we mean by secularism. Secularism means respect for all religions. Secularism does not mean. that you deny your own religion or you are somehow not proud of your culture and heritage. Today's Bharat there are history, culture, and traditions.»

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said that a leader who is not being praised in his country but is getting applauded by Pakistleaders, has «no moral right» to do politics. He was addressing a public meeting in Kadapa constituency in Andhra Pradesh on Sunday. «Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is being praised in Pakistan, you can't find anyone praising him in India, but a former Pakistan minister has praised him. As per my understanding, if a person who is not praised in his own country but is being praised but other country, that person has no moral right to do politics in India,» Singh said in his address.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his government has voted unanimously to shutter the offices of the Qatar-owned broadcaster Al Jazeera in Israel

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin says new rules governing electric vehicle tax credits are a giveaway to China

Tanzania's meteorology department says Cyclone Hidaya has significantly weakened as it approaches Tanzania’s coastline

Colombia has become the latest Latin American country to announce it will break diplomatic relations with Israel over its military campaign in Gaza

South Sudan has removed recently imposed taxes and fees that had triggered the suspension of U.N. food airdrops

A U.K. High Court judge has ruled that the government acted unlawfully when it approved a plan to meet climate targets without evidence it could be delivered

Ukraine, trade and investment are expected to dominate Chinese leader Xi Jinping's first trip to Europe in five years, which starts in France on Monday

The historic Kashan bazaar in central Iran once sat on a major caravan route, its silk carpets known the world over

Women's T20 World Cup 2024 schedule: The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Sunday announced the schedule for the upcoming Women's T20 World Cup 2024. The ninth edition of the marquee event will be held between October 3 and 20 in Bangladesh. The high-voltage India vs.