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Donald Trump was heavily criticized for posting a video on a social media platform, containing the image of a hog-tied President Joe Biden painted on the tailgate of a passing truck. The video, posted on Truth Social, shows a passing truck decked with the ‘Trump 2024’ campaign for the upcoming US presidential elections. The visuals were taken in Long Island, New York.

gold in the last one week has been -0.85% .whereas in the last month it has been -7.05%. The cost of silver is Rs.77800.0 per kg up by Rs.200.0 per kg. Gold Rate Today in Delhi is ₹69135.0/10 grams.

The Indian rupee's path against the US dollar is one of long-term appreciation as India builds increasingly strong services and goods export buffers to offset the country's traditional current account deficit, said Patrick Law, head of Asia-Pacific fixed income, currencies, and commodities trading, at Bank of America. While a weaker Chinese yuan and the risk of US rates staying higher for longer pose risks for emerging market currencies, the rupee is «a very special case» because of India's bullish outlook, Law tells Bhaskar Dutta. Edited excerpts: Amid sharp swings in the US dollar and Asian currencies, the rupee continues to be stable. Have the fundamental drivers changed for the Indian currency? I am very bullish on India. It's not just about global bond index inclusion. It's about the long-term prospects of the country and the economy, foreign inflows, and investment. India is definitely benefiting from the China-plus-one narrative.

China whenever Japan, engages in military and security-related activities. On March 26, as Japan removed restrictions on transfer of defence technology in order to allow the worldwide export of advanced fighter jets that it is jointly developing with Italy and the UK, China expressed its concern on the development. “China noted relevant reports and expresses grave concern over the decision. Given Japan’s not-too-distant history of militarist aggression, Japan’s military and security moves are closely watched by its Asian neighbours and the international community,” China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian said. The Japanese government-led by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida approved revised export rules on transfer of defence equipment and technology after the ruling outfit, the Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner, the Komeito Party agreed on these rules, according to a report in The Japan Times.

Maldives President Muizzu advised to mend India ties, ‘stop being stubborn’ Since then ties between India and Maldives remained strained. However, last week, the Maldivian President requested New Delhi for debt relief measures. In an interview with local media 'Mihaaru', President Muizzu said that he hopes India will accommodate debt relief measures for the Maldives' in the repayment of the hefty loans taken from the country over consecutive governments.

Piyush Goyal said Friday. The theme of the upcoming general election is Viksit Bharat with a focus on «nari shakti» and «bhrashtachar-mukt Bharat (women power and corruption-free India),» he added. India's growth will be based on the twin pillars of being inclusive and sustainable and the government wants to ensure that people are free from having to worry about the necessities of «roti, kapda aur makaan». «We believe that nobody should slip back into poverty. As people's basic needs are being met with free ration and other benefits, they should be free from the tension of daily needs,» Goyal said at a meeting with ET journalists. «We want an aspirational India, which can dream of big leaps and aspire for high quality of life.»

Anchorage Daily News reported. The transportation department released a video of the robot climbing rocks, going up stairs and doing something akin to dancing while flashing green lights. Those dancing skills will be put to use this fall during the migratory bird season when Aurora imitates predator-like movements to keep birds and other wildlife from settling near plane infields.

Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD), an industry body representing India's retail chemists has asked the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) to include the banning of e-pharmacies, regulations of deep discounts and prohibition on discount advertising in their manifesto. «This will save the livelihood of crores,» said the letter by the body to the BJP president JP Nadda. AIOCD said that the online medicine business poses a serious threat to public health, serving as a gateway for counterfeit medications in the country.

Electric two-wheeler registrations in India are set for a record high in March, topping 100,000 units for the second time in less than a year, as the rush to buy before a possible price increases. Vehicle registration count is a proxy for retail sales. It touched 111,964 units for electric two-wheelers on March 29 — the highest for any month — according to data from Vahan, the government's repository of all vehicle registrations in India. The previous monthly high was 105,389 units in May 2023, when consumers had brought forward their purchase plans to avoid paying more due to a reduction in government subsidy from June.

clean energy. GoI is reportedly planning to offer free PNG connections and consumption subsidies to poor households to help its wider adoption, following the Ujjwala scheme, which nudged the less well-off to use LPG instead of burning biomass. That's fine.

MUMBAI : Actor and entrepreneur Shilpa Shetty Kundra may have spent over three decades in the film industry but has made most of her money in the past six years through strategic investments, including in startups, she said at the Mint India Investment Summit & Awards, 2024 on Friday. “Back in the day, we didn’t have different investment avenues. Today, the options are so many more.

savings instrument and form of insurance all rolled into one in this country, it is the yellow metal that Indians love: gold. Every household in India — from those at the bottom-most rung of the income ladder to the super-rich — has some amount of gold. However, the ways in which this item is being consumed by different household segments are changing. Universal penetration: Over 87% households are gold-owners, and 1 in 2 households has purchased gold during the last five years. Rural consumers are significant users of gold, with 63% ownership. Gold and gold-related products investors in 2020-21 were to be found among 7% of destitute families (those earning less than ₹1.25 lakh annually at 2021 prices), 16% of aspirers (annual income between ₹1.25-5 lakh), 23% of the middle class (yearly income of ₹5-30 lakh) and 33% of rich households (those earning more than ₹30 lakh annually).

Netflix’s 3 Body Problem has sparked fascination and controversy.Based on the 2008 novel by Liu Cixin and brought to the small screen by Game of Thrones creators D.B. Weiss and David Benioff, the series tells the story of an impending alien invasion of Earth.The show portrays some science that left some viewers with questions and some historical events that have upset some people in China.Global News spoke to experts to separate fact from fiction and history from hysteria.A three-body problem refers to three astronomical bodies, like planets or suns, and how each object’s gravity impacts the other’s orbits.But it’s easiest to understand if we start with a two-body problem.“The closer objects are, the stronger is the gravitational pull,” York University professor emeritus of physics and astronomy Paul Delaney said.The sun is about a million times larger than the Earth, according to NASA, and so its gravity holds our planet in orbit around it.The orbit is stable, making it predictable, Delaney said.This is a two-body problem, just like the moon and the Earth, and it’s a problem that’s been solved since Sir Isaac Newton’s work on gravity.“We can theoretically figure out where (the two objects) will be as a function of time,” Delaney told Global News.“There are complications with angular momentum and tidal forces and friction,” he said, speaking from Tuscon, Ariz., “but to all practical intents and purposes, the moon will stay in a stable orbit.”There are other planets in the solar system and the moon orbits Earth.

Election Commission has directed the authorities in Manipur to make arrangements to ensure and facilitate all Internally Displaced People (IDPs) to cast their votes for the Lok Sabha elections at the special polling stations without any difficulty. The special polling stations would be set up in all the relief camps in different districts so that the voters among the IDPs could cast their votes in the two phases of Lok Sabha elections on April 19 and 26. A 6-member Election Commission team led by Dharmendra Sharma, Senior Deputy Election Commissioner arrived in Imphal on Thursday and conducted a thorough review of the election preparedness. The ECI team also reviewed the preparedness of elections with the District Election Officers and Superintendents of Police of all 16 districts.

Among the seven startups selected under Cisco and Social Alpha’s Krishi Mangal second edition, Pune-based Proximal Soilsens Technologies Pvt. Ltd. stands out due to the uniqueness of their product and its relevance for farmers. Launched in 2021, Krishi Mangal is a scale-up accelerator program that supports agritech startups to design solutions for and support smallholder farmers.

Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that when they come to power, they will take «strict action» against those trying to «murder the democracy.» Accusing the Income Tax Department of double-standards, Congress on Friday alleged that while it has been penalised for «a violation of Rs 14 lakh», the income tax authorities were completely silent on «Rs 42 crore violation» by the BJP and that the violations by the ruling party at the Centre entailed a penalty of Rs 4,600 crore. «When the government changes, action will definitely be taken against those who 'murder the democracy'! And such action will be taken that no one will have the courage to do all this again. This is my guarantee,» Rahul Gandhi said in a post on X (formerly Twitter).

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge accused the BJP-led Centre on Friday of misusing institutions like the income-tax department, ED and CBI to subvert democracy and belittle the Constitution, and asked why is the I-T department being used as a weapon to harass the principal opposition party. He asserted that such actions would not deter the Congress from contesting the upcoming Lok Sabha polls and vowed that his party will free the country's institutions from the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) «dictatorship». Congress leader Rahul Gandhi also hit out at the BJP, accusing it of indulging in «tax terrorism». «When the government changes, action will definitely be taken against those who have 'disrobed democracy'. And such exemplary action will be taken that no one will dare to do all this again. This is my guarantee,» Gandhi said in a post in Hindi on X.

Kangana Ranaut, Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from Himachal Pradesh's Mandi on Friday said that people of Mandi should give a befitting reply to Rahul Gandhi over his 'Shakti' remarks, adding that «how can he say such things in a Hindu Rashtra». Questioning who has been writing his speeches, Kangana Ranaut said, «Rahul Gandhi says he wants to destroy 'Shakti'. Who writes such speeches for him? How can Rahul Gandhi say such kind of things in Hindu Rashtra? I want the people of Mandi to give an answer to those who have spoken indecently about women. The people of India have always blessed me.» The 'Shakti' remarks row erupted earlier this month following Gandhi's remarks during the campaign conclusion speech in Mumbai's Shivaji Ground.

Kia India on Friday said it is planning to have around 700 sales and service touchpoints in 300 cities by the end of the year. The automaker, which sells models like Seltos and Sonet, has 522 such touchpoints across 236 cities. The company said it is focussed on strengthening its presence in Tier-1 and Tier-2 markets, contributing 40 per cent to its total network strength. Kia India is also focused on expanding its touchpoints in the Tier-4 and upcountry markets, it added.

Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) has written to the Aam Admi Party (AAP) requesting its participation in the party's campaign efforts in all the 28 constituencies to counter the BJP. KPCC President DK Shivakumar, who is also the Deputy CM, has written to AAP State President Mukhya Mantri Chandru, requesting him to deploy the party workers and leaders to work for the success of Congress candidates to save the country's “democracy and the Constitution” that had been threatened under the authoritarian regime of the BJP. The AAP joining hands with the Congress would defy communal forces and consolidate the secular votes, he said. Chandru, responding positively to the request, suggested to Shivakumar to hold a meeting with the leaders and office-bearers of AAP to draw up a campaign strategy.

students who were evacuated by the Union government from Ukraine during the country's war with Russia gave money for Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan's security deposit for his candidature in Attingal Lok Sabha constituency. The students, along with their parents, visited Muraleedharan on Friday at the BJP's state office here. The students said that they have decided to pay for Muraleedharan's security deposit as a token of gratitude for their evacuation. «I was a student at Zaporizhzhia University in Ukraine. We were there when the Russia-Ukraine war was going on. At that time, we were evacuated due to the efforts of Prime Minister Modi ji and Minister V Muraleedharan,» Sai Sruthi told ANI.