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Marxist politician took a comfortable lead Sunday in a keenly fought presidential election that has turned into a referendum on an unpopular IMF bailout. Early results from Saturday's vote strongly suggested that the 55-year-old Anura Kumara Dissanayaka could end up the first leftist commander-in-chief and head of state of the small but strategically placed island nation. Dissanayaka had 58 percent of the 250,000 votes counted out of just over 700,000 postal ballots. Public servants involved in conducting the election are entitled to post their ballots, which are the first to be counted.

US Presidential Elections 2024. In an interview, he said he presumes former US President Donald Trump will win this election ultimately, however, he would vote for Vice President Kamala Harris despite his prediction. He added that he feels most of the Americans are not intelligent enough to decide properly what is good for them. This statement has ignited debates about the matter of electoral outcomes, which is completely dependent on voter awareness, reported The Telegraph.

The nation's wealthy opened their wallets in August with a focus on election season, donating millions to the super PACs backing Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump and Democrats and Republicans throughout the country, according to monthly reports filed with the Federal Election Commission on Friday.

Sri Lanka voted for its next president Saturday in an effective referendum on an unpopular IMF austerity plan enacted after the nation's unprecedented financial crisis. Turnout was nearly 70% an hour before polling stations shut at 1030 GMT, an election commission official said, citing provisional figures. The record for voter turnout in a Sri Lankan presidential election was set in 2019 with 83.72%. President Ranil Wickremesinghe is fighting an uphill battle for a fresh mandate to continue belt-tightening measures that stabilised the economy and ended months of food, fuel and medicine shortages. His two years in office restored calm to the streets after civil unrest spurred by the downturn in 2022 saw thousands storm the compound of his predecessor, who promptly fled the country. «I've taken this country out of bankruptcy,» Wickremesinghe, 75, said after casting his ballot. «I will now deliver Sri Lanka a developed economy, developed social system and developed political system.»

Heritage Foundation came up with Project 2025 back in 2022. It aims to provide a comprehensive framework of policy for the Republican administration in future. It is focused on the outline of the series of few proposals, which are intended to reform the shape of the federal governance and the in-line policies with the conservative values. However, it has become a focal point of controversy as Donald Trump goes for the campaign for another term. It raises concerns about the potential strategies of implementation of Donald Trump’s electoral prospects, an Independent report said. Critics come with the argument that this project is formed to reflect an extreme approach to governance which has the tendency of alienating the moderate voters. The proposal of this initiative might develop significant inclusion of the rollbacks of the environmental regulations and take the common people away from addressing climate change. Also Read: Whopping $260,000 on a meteorite watch! That's Mark Zuckerberg's latest splurge

Devi Lal clan — the Chautalas — is attempting to retain its dominance in state politics while battling the most difficult election campaign this time around. The clan has produced six of Haryana's eleven CM, including Devi Lal himself twice and his son Om Prakash Chautala four times. However, the family had been out of power since 2000 and only achieved success in 2019, when Devi Lal's great grandson, Dushyant Chautala, became Haryana's Deputy Chief Minister after his party, JJP, allied with the BJP.

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Former US President Donald Trump asserted in a recent speech that the Jewish people in America have a huge part to play in the US Presidential Elections. Forward reported that Donald Trump is going to blame the Jews if he ends up losing the US Presidential Elections. Following that speech, former US President Donald Trump elaborated about his claims which he is making in recent days that if Donald Trump is not going to end up victorious in the November elections then bad days are looming over Israel.

Catch LIVE updates with MintSri Lanka elections result 2024 LIVE Updates: In July 2022, Ranil Wickremesinghe was elected by Parliament to complete Rajapaksa's term and is now seeking another term to build on recent gains.However, many accuse him of shielding the Rajapaksa family, whom they hold responsible for the crisis, and he was primarily elected with support from Rajapaksa loyalists in Parliament and his Cabinet.Sri Lanka elections result 2024 LIVE Updates: The economic collapse in Sri Lanka caused severe shortages of essentials like medicine, food, cooking gas, and fuel, leading to long lines and widespread riots. Protesters stormed key buildings, including the president's house and office, ultimately forcing then-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee and resign.Sri Lanka elections result 2024 LIVE Updates: According to a report by DW, the cost of living in Sri Lanka remains very high, unemployment remains very high, so people are still reeling from the economic crisis.Therefore, a nation that has voted on the lines of religion, of race, and ethnicity, in all these years, only has 'ECONOMIC CRISIS" as their sole concern for electing the 10th President.Notably, none of the 38 candidates in this election are women, despite Sri Lanka's historical significance in having the world’s first female prime minister, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, who took office in 1960.Namal Rajapaksa, at 38, is the youngest candidate in the race and the eldest son of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

Nara Lokesh on Saturday said that creating 20 lakh jobs is the single agenda of the TDP-led NDA government in the state, which was given a massive mandate of 93 per cent seats in the 2024 elections. Addressing a special plenary session of the CII Southern Regional Council 2024-25 here, he highlighted that creating 20 lakh jobs in five years was one of the six primary promises NDA made in the run-up to the polls. «That is the single agenda (20 lakh jobs) with which your government is going to actually work here in the state of Andhra Pradesh,» said Lokesh, adding that the southern state aspires to become one of the first three states to achieve a GSDP of $1 trillion. Observing that CII has always played a collaborative role, he said that Andhra Pradesh, which has been a hub for agriculture, MSMEs and other sectors, now aims to move faster in Information Technology.

assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir, Union Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jitendra Singh said that his party does not need help from other parties in the Union Territory. Speaking during a political campaign in Budhal assembly constituency on Friday, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said, «We fought the election alone. We don't want any help from others.» The remark came after BJP leader Devender Singh Rana's statement claiming that NC supremo Farooq Abdullah always wanted to go «hand-in-hand» with the central government.

Voting has ended in Sri Lanka’s presidential election as it seeks to recover from the worst economic crisis in its history and the resulting political upheaval

AAP) leader Atishi was sworn-in to lead the national capital till February 2025, when the term of this government is scheduled to end. Leitenant General VK Saxena administered oath of Atishi alongside her new team of Ministers which includes veterans Gopal Rai, Kailash Gahlot, Saurabh Bharadwaj, Imran Hussain and a fresh face, Mukesh Ahlawat. Atishi was chosen unanimously as the Chief Minister designate during the AAP legislature party meeting on Tuesday, following Arvind Kejriwal's resignation, which changed Delhi's political landscape.

Delhi New CM Oath Ceremony 2024 Live Updates: Aam Aadmi Party (AA) leader Atishi will take oath as the new Delhi Chief Minister at Raj Niwas around 4:30 pm on Saturday. Atishi will be the 17th woman chief minister in the country and the third woman Chief Minister of Delhi, after Sushma Swaraj and Sheila Dikshit.Five others will be sworn-in as ministers.

2024 election looming, the first since the mass popularization of generative artificial intelligence, experts feared the worst: social media flooded with AI-generated deepfakes that were so realistic, baffled voters wouldn't know what to believe. So far, that hasn't happened. Instead, what voters are seeing is far more absurd: A video of former President Donald Trump riding a cat while wielding an assault rifle. A mustachioed Vice President Kamala Harris dressed in communist attire. Trump and Harris sharing a passionate embrace. AI is playing a major role in the presidential campaign, even if the greatest fears about how it could threaten the US presidential election haven't materialized yet. Fake AI-generated images regularly ricochet around the web, but many of them are so cartoonish and absurd that even the most naive viewer couldn't take them seriously.

JJP leader Dushyant Chautala, whose party is contesting the October 5 Haryana assembly polls jointly with Azad Samaj Party, predicts a hung assembly but exudes confidence that their alliance will win enough seats to emerge as a key player after the results. The JJP had won 10 of the 90 assembly seats in the 2019 Haryana assembly polls, the BJP 40 and the Congress 31. Chautala, 36, the great grandson of former deputy prime minister Devi Lal, predicts that no single party will be able to cross the 40-seat mark in the assembly elections. No single party can form government on its own. There are chances that nobody crosses the 40-seat mark. So, there will be parties with numbers and some Independents too who will win, former deputy chief minister Chautala told PTI.

Generative artificial intelligence is playing a major role in the presidential campaign, even if the greatest fears about how it could threaten the U.S. presidential election haven’t materialized yet

Wilmington on Saturday morning (local time) for the Quad Summit in US President Joe Biden's hometown, Delaware. Biden is hosting the leaders of India, Australia, and Japan and will hold bilateral meetings with them. The gathering will be the first time that Joe Biden, as President, has ever asked a foreign leader to visit Wilmington, a reflection of his closeness with each dignitary: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

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cooking oil have turned pricier in the run-up to the Maharashtra assembly election, following the government's interventions to ensure better returns to farmers in the state which is the country's largest producer of the kitchen staples, said industry executives. Cooking oil prices have increased 18-25% in the wake of the imposition of import duty last week, they said, and as prices of all oils, including soybean, have gone up, farmers in Maharashtra are expected to get higher prices for their crop. Similarly, onions have become about 12% costlier in a week following the government's move to free up exports, according to the executives. Sugar prices have increased about 5% over the past month, they said, as the government, instead of following the usual practice of releasing more sugar in the market during the festive season, slashed the sugar quota for September by 6% to assuage the politically strong cooperatives and sugarcane farmers of Maharashtra.

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