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Mandate 2024 is an economic one. The electorate has emphatically rejected any ideological political pursuits by making it numerically impossible to prioritise them, but put enough on the board for BJP-led NDA to spearhead initiatives needed to catapult India's economic profile.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into major stock market boom on the eve of election results and the massive crash on day of election results on June 4, leading to lakhs of people losing their money.

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said that he did not campaign in Northeast India in Lok sabha polls for party has tasked him to campaign in Eastern India.

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general election having concluded with Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA winning a third term, the second biggest electoral exercise got underway on Thursday as around 450 million European Union (EU) citizens began voting to choose 720 members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from 27 countries. In partnership with leading Bulgarian news agency BTA, PTI is in Sofia to capture the scale of these elections — one of the biggest democratic exercises in the world, second only to India as it signifies as many as 27 national elections. In Bulgaria, where voting will take place on Sunday, the elections have taken on an even greater significance as the country is simultaneously voting in its early National Assembly elections to elect 240 members of Parliament.

deal activity declined by 3 per cent to USD 5.023 billion in May compared to USD 5.192 billion in the preceding month of April, a report said on Thursday. The merger and acquisitions plummeted 58 per cent to USD 1.05 billion during the month compared to USD 2.526 billion in April, while a 49 per cent increase in the private equity deal values to USD 3.973 billion from April USD 2.666 billion helped the overall number.

₹30 lakh crore, and demanded a joint parliamentary committee probe into it.Goyal said, "It is baseless"."Rahul Gandhi is hatching a conspiracy to mislead investors out of frustration following the opposition's defeat," he said.Projections made by Saturday's exit polls sent stock markets surging on June 3, with the NSE Nifty 50 and S&P BSE Sensex jumping 3.3% and 3.4% respectively, a day before the Election Commission counted votes and declared results, dragging the markets back down again.Modi and some of his BJP ministers had said during campaigning that the markets would surge when results were declared on June 4, with Home Minister Amit Shah saying in a television interview, "buy before June 4, they will shoot up".Milestone Alert! Livemint tops charts as the fastest growing news website in the world

Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena secured seven seats, and Ajit Pawar's NCP managed only one, reducing the NDA's total to 17 out of 48 seats in the state. In 2014, the undivided Sena-BJP alliance had won 43 seats.After the poll results, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis had urged the saffron party's senior leadership to relieve him of his duties, taking 'responsibility for the loss'. Marathwada sends eight MPs to the Lok Sabha.

Delhi...", Gopal Rai told reporters on Thursday."It is clear from the beginning that the INDIA alliance was formed for the Lok Sabha Elections. We fought Lok Sabha elections together but in Delhi Vidhan Sabha Elections, there is no alliance in the country", Rai said.The AAP and other parties had formed an alliance to fight the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) for the Lok Sabha Elections 2024.Not just AAP, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee helmed Trinamool Congress (TMC) had also refused to form an alliance at the state level.

NEW DELHI : The Bharatiya Janata Party might have to abandon its plan to introduce a Uniform Civil Code nationwide, given the compulsions of coalition politics with some of its main allies likely against the legislation. According to two people familiar with the post-election developments, the Telugu Desam Party and the Janata Dal (United), key members of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance, are against introducing a Uniform Civil Code.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to form the national government without the support from the Janata Dal (United) (JDU) and the Telugu Desam Party (TDP). Meanwhile, the Opposition's INDIA bloc managed to put up a tough contest against the NDA, partly because of its allies, such as the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK).However, a few regional parties, which didn't join the BJP-led NDA or the Opposition's India bloc, were wiped out in the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls. As many as 41 political parties will have their representatives in the 18th Lok Sabha.

Stocks to buy: The Indian stock market sustained its positive momentum, indicating stability post the Lok Sabha election 2024 results, on June 7. Both the Sensex and the Nifty 50 indices climbed by almost 1 percent each, marking the second successive session of gains.

LJP (Ram Vilas) has extended «unconditional» support to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the BJP-led NDA's victory in the just-concluded Lok Sabha polls is the «victory of his leadership», party chief Chirag Paswan said on Thursday. Leaders of the BJP-led NDA unanimously elected PM Modi as the ruling bloc's leader on Wednesday, passing a resolution to underscore the government's commitment to serving the poor, women, youths, farmers and deprived sections of society.

Top news of the day: On 6 June, a series of events are set to take place right from politics to business. Wipro has been awarded a $500-million deal by a leading US communication service provider over a period of five years.

Rahul Gandhi won the Rae Bareli constituency from Uttar Pradesh and the Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency from Kerala. Earlier in the day, Congress MP-elect Manickam Tagore, in a post on microblogging site X, urged former Congress party president Rahul Gandhi to lead the Congress in the lower house."I sought votes on the name of my leader, Rahul Gandhi. I think he should be the Leader of Congress in the Lok Sabha.

ALSO READ: Naveen Patnaik's 24-year rule ends: Who will be next Odisha CM? Check top 7 contendersHis statement after the BJP comfortably ousted Naveen Patnaik's Biju Janata Dal (BJD) from power in the state. In the Odisha Assembly Elections 2024, the BJD secured 51 seats, way behind the majority mark of 74.

Rajasthan minister Jhabar Singh Kharra said on Thursday that farmers' agitation and mistakes in ticket distribution in the Lok Sabha elections were some of the factors behind the BJP's decline in number of seats in the state. In the election results declared on Tuesday, the BJP secured 14 out of 25 seats in Rajasthan, with the Congress winning eight and the India bloc partners — the CPI(M), the Rashtriya Loktantrik Party and the Bharat Adivasi Party — winning one seat each.

Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu has received an invitation to join the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his third successive term, according to media reports.

Special Investigation Team (SIT) custody of former JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna, who is facing charges of rape and sexual abuse against several women. He was produced before the special court for elected Representatives which had on May 31 remanded him to SIT custody till June 6.

Bollywood actor and newly elected BJP MP from Himachal Pradesh’s Mandi, Kangana Ranaut, was allegedly slapped by a CISF woman guard at Chandigarh Airport on Thursday. Kangana, who recently won the Lok Sabha elections from Mandi by defeating Congress leader Vikramaditya Singh, was on her way to Delhi when the incident occurred.

Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray will not switch to the ruling BJP-led NDA, Maharashtra NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) president Jayant Patil asserted on Thursday, seeking to scotch speculation about a possible crossover by his key ally.