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Lok Sabha elections 2024, PM Modi said that the streets of India are echoing with the chants of "Phir ek baar, Modi sarkar." "If you wish to see the wave, you will have to go to the ground, be among the masses. You will see the enthusiasm among people for the third term of the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) government at the Centre. Our workers are already in the field.

Question Hour (QH) is a powerful tool in the hands of the Legislature to question the Executive. In India, each Lok Sabha session begins with the QH from 11am till noon, in which parliamentarians pose a range of questions for various ministers to answer on a range of policy matters. The questions need to be given around two weeks in advance, so the ministers who respond have adequate time to prepare their answers.

Last week, the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) announced a partnership with the Michigan Milk Producers Association (MMPA) under which branded Amul milk will be made available to thousands of Indians and Americans in the US. This is significant for many reasons. One, even though Amul products are already being exported to about 50 countries, this is the first time that Amul’s branded fresh milk range is being launched anywhere outside India.

An internal report from Canada’s financial crimes watchdog found that most banking and real estate companies it audited last year are not following the country’s anti-money laundering laws, sparking calls for greater oversight and higher fines.

Hungary’s government will add new restrictions on the import of Ukrainian agricultural products to protect Hungarian farmers from market fluctuations caused by cheaper Ukrainian imports

Four railroads have asked federal appeals courts to throw out a new rule that would require two-person train crews in most circumstances

A Vietnamese real estate tycoon has been sentenced to death in the country’s biggest ever financial fraud case

A Vietnam court has sentenced real estate tycoon Truong My Lan to death in the country’s largest financial fraud case

China has announced rare sanctions against two U.S. defense companies over what it calls their support for arms sales to Taiwan

Lufthansa and a union representing cabin crew have reached a pay deal, concluding the last of several major disputes that have led to recent strikes at Germany’s biggest airline and in the country’s wider aviation sector

Rajnath Singh said that Congress never tried to develop the boundary region near the neighbouring country China because they were «scared» of the enemy. He further asserted that under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, no one can stop the country from becoming 'Ram Rajya'. Addressing the rally in Madhya Pradesh's Satna, Singh said, «Congress did not carry out development work in border villages and areas because they were scared of the enemy that it could exploit the new roads to enter into the country but China kept developing its border infrastructure.»

Modi Thursday reviewed the preparedness for heat wave conditions and called for all arms of governments at central, state and district levels to work in synergy. An official statement said Modi chaired a meeting where he was briefed about the likelihood of above-normal maximum temperatures over most parts of the country during April-June, with high probability of such condition in central western peninsular India. Preparedness in the health sector was reviewed in terms of availability of essential medicines, intravenous fluids, ice packs, ORS and drinking water, the statement said. The timely dissemination of essential information, education and communication (IEC) awareness material, especially in regional languages, through all platforms such as television, radio and social media was stressed upon at the meeting, it said.

tourists back to the Maldives, a major tourism body here has announced that it will hold road shows across key Indian cities. A full-blown backlash was directed at the Maldives following derogatory remarks against India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on social media by three Maldivian officials after Modi posted photos and video of the pristine Lakshadweep Islands on India's west coast on January 6 on his X handle. Scores of Indians, including multiple celebrities, cancelled their reservations and dropped plans to visit Maldives. The tourism arrival statistics reflected how from being a top visitor country, India's position went down to first fifth and now at the sixth position after January.

IAF helicopters to snow-bound Marwah and Warwan areas in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district which is part of the Udhampur parliamentary seat, officials said. Udhampur goes to polls in the first phase of the elections on April 19. The officials said the airlifting of 144 Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) and 44 Jammu and Kashmir Police officers for deployment at 31 polling booths in the remote pockets marks the maiden airlift of men and materials in the country under the Lok Sabha elections. In preparation for the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections, the significant deployment of security personnel has been executed in both the cut off remote regions of Kishtwar with joint efforts of the district election office, Kishtwar, and the Indian Air Force (IAF), they said.

Kishida cracked jokes and invoked a touchstone of American culture as he quoted from «Star Trek» at Wednesday's state dinner, telling guests at the White House that he hoped the «unshakable relationship» between his country and the U.S. would «boldly go where no one had gone before.» «I would like to propose a toast to our voyage to the frontier of the Japan-U.S. relationship with this word: boldly go,» Kishida said, quoting the iconic opening monologue of the original «Star Trek» series.

tax system, hangs over many non-resident Indians (NRIs), recent migrants, and families who are planning to make the UK their new home. The new tax order, expected to take effect in April 2025, would increase their tax burden, require meticulous planning, and may even make the UK a less attractive country to migrate. Think you check all the immigration boxes? Find out Over the past one month, tax experts and lawyers have been visiting London, exchanging notes with their City counterparts, to find ways to soften the blow.

Russia launched a major missile-and-drone assault on Ukrainian power stations, part of a new campaign to exploit delays in Western aid for Kyiv to press Moscow’s growing advantage in the third year of war. The overnight strikes hit several regions across the country, destroying a power plant in the Kyiv region and inflicting fresh damage on others that had been struck in earlier attacks. Tens of thousands of homes were left without power, according to Ukrainian officials.

Also Read: Oil traders stay bullish as Brent hovers at $90: ‘Crude to stay elevated even if Middle East tensions cool down’ The elevation in crude prices also comes as OPEC, the group comprising the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and allies led by Russia, last kept its oil supply policy unchanged and pressed some countries to increase compliance with output cuts. Morgan Stanley said that with OPEC supply restraints, some downside to Russia production, and a seasonal upswing in demand ahead, it expects tightness in the second and third quarters.

border situation with China "urgently". "China has noted the remarks by the prime minister," Mao Ning, the spokesperson of Chinese foreign ministry said in a media briefing. She added that China believes "sound and stable China, India relations" serve the common interests of both sides and "are conducive to peace and development of the region and beyond." PM Modi, in his interview, said that the stable relations are important "for not just our two countries but the entire region and world".

ghar mein ghus k marenge' jibe, while BJP leader Amit Shah mocked former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, saying that “Singh as PM was silent on terror attacks by those from Pakistan" Union Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah, teamed up his statement with a praise for PM Modi ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, “Modi as PM conducted surgical strikes". Notably, former prime Minister and Congress leader Manmohan Singh retired from the Rajya Sabha this year. PM Modi had paid homage to his predecessor Dr Manmohan Singh, who governed India between 2004 to 2014.

Whooping cough is making a post-pandemic comeback in China, with cases surging more than 20-fold in the first two months of 2024. The country reported a combined 32,380 cases of pertussis — more commonly known as whooping cough — in January and February, compared with 1,421 cases during the same period in 2023, Bloomberg reported, citing National Disease Control and Prevention Administration. There were 13 deaths. The number of infections detected in the first 60 days of the year is near the full 2023 total, underscoring the risk of the highly contagious respiratory disease in China. China had seen a major respiratory disease outbreak in 2023 after pulling itself out of the Covid mire in late 2022.