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In recent weeks, Bangladeshi garment-factory owners have been on the phone with Western clothing brands, making the case that their country is a stable link in their supply chains. It has been a tricky sell. The world’s second largest garment producer has been rocked in recent weeks by protests and instability triggered by anger over grim employment prospects.

Mayawati on Sunday announced that her party will field candidates in all the 10 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh where bypolls are going to be held. The Election Commission is yet to declare the schedule for the by-elections to Karhal, Milkipur, Katehari, Kundarki, Ghaziabad, Khair, Meerapur, Phulpur, Majhawan and Sisamau assembly seats. In a statement, released after a meeting of the BSP's state unit district chiefs, office bearers and functionaries, the party said Mayawati reviewed the preparations for the upcoming assembly bypolls. «Ten assembly constituencies have fallen vacant after the Lok Sabha elections. No official announcement of the date has been made so far but activities pertaining to this are increasing continuously, especially the ruling party, BJP, and its government have made it an issue of prestige, due to which the interest of the people in the bypolls has also increased,» it said.

Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Sunday said the Election Commission has the exclusive right to decide the schedule for Assembly elections in the Union Territory. However, he expressed hope that the democratic exercise would be conducted soon in Jammu and Kashmir, which has been under the central government rule for over six years after the fall of the PDP-BJP government in 2018. Talking to reporters after inaugurating the newly constructed building of the Malaviya Mission Teachers Training Centre at the University of Jammu, LG Sinha also referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks during his visit to Srinagar in June that the Assembly elections will be held soon and the statement of Home Minister Amit Shah in Parliament on August 5, 2019 that delimitation will be followed by Assembly polls and then statehood at an appropriate time. «It is happening in the same sequence… I hope the Assembly elections will take place soon,» Sinha said.

Bangladesh, an interim government is now in place to begin the difficult work of bringing stability and order to the South Asian nation. Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus will helm the temporary government made up of a team of 16 other advisers, including two leaders of the student-protest movement that swept the country in recent weeks. The inauguration of the temporary government on Thursday brought to an end a four-day power vacuum after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled to India following street protests that left hundreds dead.

K Natwar Singh wore many hats as he straddled the worlds of diplomacy, politics and writing but what remained consistent across decades was his sharp-wit and plainspeaking. The former Congress leader had a love-hate relationship with the party as while he had a great equation with the likes of former prime ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, he had a fallout with Sonia Gandhi after allegations were levelled against him when he was part of the UPA-I Cabinet. Singh passed away on Saturday night after a prolonged illness, family sources said. He was 93. He breathed his last at Medanta Hospital in Gurugram near Delhi, where he had been admitted for the past couple of weeks, they said.

Kamala Harris told supporters in Nevada on Saturday she supported eliminating taxes on tips, taking a similar position to her rival Donald Trump in an effort to win over service workers, an important constituency in the state. Harris and her Democratic running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, wrapped up a multi-day tour of battleground states on Saturday with their stop in Nevada, a western state that could play a pivotal role in the Nov. 5 presidential election. «It is my promise to everyone here when I am president we will continue to fight for working families, including to raise the minimum wage and eliminate taxes on tips for service and hospitality workers,» Harris said.

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader and PM-in-waiting Tarique Rahman allegedly held meetings with Pakistani intelligence agency ISI in a Gulf nation where a plan was hatched to organise a campaign for ousting the Sheikh Hasina government, said people in the know. Rahman allegedly travelled to the Middle Eastern country a few months ago for meeting the ISI officials where the plot was hatched for launching the campaign and creating conditions in Bangladesh for ousting Hasina, ET has reliably learnt. ET had reported last week how the Pakistan Embassy in Dhaka allegedly played a role in instigating the move to hijack the student movement.

Michael Kugelman, Director of the South Asia Institute at The Wilson Center, said on Saturday that the longer Bangladesh's interim government stays in power, the higher the chances of the military assuming a more definitive role in the country's politics. His remarks come amid ongoing political unrest in Bangladesh, following the ousting of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, which has left the timing of general elections uncertain. Kugelman emphasized that the Awami League, Hasina's party, is currently sidelined, with no representation in the interim government. However, he noted that if unrest persists, the Awami League might regain favour in future elections.

The polls of likely voters by The New York Times and Siena College showed Democratic presidential candidate Harris leading her Republican rival Trump by an identical 50 percent to 46 percent margin in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Under the US electoral college voting system, those three populous Midwestern states are considered key to victory for either party.

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Congress on Saturday stated that the chief minister of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance will be declared after the Maharashtra assembly elections even though the allies have already started their seat-sharing talks. BJP leaders claimed earlier this week that Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray visited Delhi and met top Congress leaders only to ensure that he would be the chief ministerial candidate of the MVA. Congress, Sena (UBT) and NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) are the chief constituents of the opposition alliance, pitted against the ruling 'Mahayuti' coalition of the BJP, Shiv Sena and NCP. Congress in-charge of Maharashtra Ramesh Chennithala said the MVA will contest the coming state elections unitedly.

Donald Trump concerning his alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 election has encountered a significant delay. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, overseeing the case, granted Special Counsel Jack Smith's request for additional time to propose the proceedings, making it highly unlikely that the trial will commence before the upcoming Election Day.

Assam and Mizoram resolved that the public and all stakeholders are expected to bring any differences on border issues to the appropriate authorities without taking law into their own hands. A joint statement was issued by K. Sapdanga, Home Minister Mizoram and Atul Bora, Assam Minister for Border Protection & Development Department, Assam in Aizawl on Friday. The statement stated it is reaffirmed that the Goodwill Mission' between the Government of Mizoram and the Government of Assam held on 9th August 2024 at Aizawl, Mizoram is to take forward the firm commitment and initiative made in the meeting on 9th February 2024 between the Chief Minister of Assam and the Chief Minister of Mizoram for resolution of the inter-State boundary dispute in an atmosphere of understanding and goodwill between the two States. Both the States agreed to continue to promote and maintain peace and harmony and prevent any untoward incidents along the inter State border. Joint Cultural and Sports festivals may be organised at frequent intervals by concerned administrative authorities of the inter-State border Districts of Mizoram and Assam to start before 31 January 2025.

Parliament by a Congress-led UPA government minister to emphasise that no concept of «national disaster» exists under the rules of the central government. The clarification came amid a demand, including from Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, that the landslide tragedy in Kerala's Wayanad be declared a national disaster. The then minister of state for home and Congress MP from Kerala Mullappally Ramachandran had told the Lok Sabha in 2013 in a reply to a question that «there is no provision to declare a natural disaster as a national disaster», the sources noted. The reply stated that the government of India adjudges a calamity of severe nature on case-to-case basis, taking into account its intensity and magnitude, level of relief assistance, capacity of the state government to tackle the problem, and alternatives and flexibility available within the plan to provide succour and relief etc.

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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sajeeb Wazed Joy has expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his government's quick action following the developments in the neighbouring country which led to her departure. Sheikh Hasina's son also dismissed media reports of a revocation of her visa stating that no one has revoked the visa of the Awami League leader and neither has she applied for political asylum anywhere. In an exclusive interview with ANI, Wazed said «No one has revoked her visa. She has not applied for political asylum anywhere. Those are all rumors.»

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Treasury investors should consider the possibility of a Donald Trump presidency after the Republican candidate said he would look to influence US monetary policy if elected, according to Wei Li, global chief investment strategist at BlackRock.  

swing states, the Republican candidate is losing ground in battleground states. The Cook Political Report has predicted that the former president would not win in Arizona, Georgia, and Nevada, reports the 'Independent'. It has moved these states from leaning Republican to “toss-ups.” Editor-in-chief Amy Walter wrote in the report on Thursday that Kamala Harris leads Trump by less than one point. He pointed out that Battleground state polls show similar results, the vice president is reducing the Republican's lead by two to five points.

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US Presidential Election 2024 wear eyeliner? After much of speculation, Usha Vance, wife of JD Vance, has finally revealed the truth. The Indian American wife of Donald Trump's running mate has said that these are all natural and that she has been always jealous of those lashes, reports 'The Beast'. Vance came into discussion for his eyes after his photographs showed smoldering cerulean eyes, appearing to pop off his face in a way that few people can achieve naturally. Earlier, it was said that he might have been born with these eyes. An expert told 'Slate' that the shape of his eyelids made the effect especially pronounced.