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BJP leader Sanjay Tandon who is making his Lok Sabha election debut from the Chandigarh parliamentary seat said his opponent and senior Congress leader Manish Tewari is a "political tourist" and will look for a new constituency in 2029 to fight polls from. Tandon, who has been the Chandigarh BJP President for 10 years, exuded confidence that the party will secure a hat-trick of wins from the constituency which will go to polls in the seventh phase on June 1. «Manish Tewari is a political tourist… In 1991, he went to Kanpur to contest election… even before he reached the constituency people objected and he was sent back to Delhi from the airport itself,» Tandon told PTI in an interview. «Since then he has been behaving like this only. He goes to a constituency, tries to play with the system there. He has been elected twice from two different constituencies. The question that comes to the mind of people in Chandigarh is why did he leave Ludhiana?» he asked.

With the Fed still holding firm on interest rates and the election ahead, U.S. consumers have revealed mixed sentiment in new research from The Conference Board.

PM Modi) is the God of the gods... one leader says Lord Jagannath is his devotee... if he is God, then God should not do politics.

Sensex, Nifty 50 fall almost 1% each; why did the Indian stock market fall today?- explainedThe Indian stock market is expected to remain volatile until the Lok Sabha election results on June 4. Will this volatility drag the index below the 22,000 mark before the election result? How much more pain is in the offing?Mint collated the views of 10 experts to understand how the Nifty 50 may move in the next few days. Here's what they said:If the current downturn continues, the Nifty 50 could see the level of 22,520 before the exit poll results are out.Nifty 50 has resisted near the trendline's higher end, coinciding with the retracement hurdle.

₹5.At 12:30 pm, the scrip was trading at ₹886.90 per share on Wednesday. The stock closed at ₹860.10.Also read: Multibagger stock: Magellanic Cloud soars 8166% in 5 years, 4078% in 3 years; should you invest?In an exchange filing, Cello World announced that the fund-raising will require shareholder approval.

increase of 43 per cent over the last five years in the assets of 324 MPs who have entered the poll fray again in this Lok Sabha elections, according to an analysis by a poll rights body. The average assets of these MPs in 2019 was around Rs 21.55 crore while in the current electoral cycle, the average asset value has increased «significantly» to Rs 30.88 crore, marking an increase of Rs 9.33 crore over the past five years, the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) said in a report. It analysed the financial growth among Members of Parliament (MPs) recontesting in the 2024 general elections. The counting of votes for the seven-phase polls will be taken up on June 4. The percentage growth in assets for these 324 MPs between the 2019 and 2024 polls averages at 43 per cent, the ADR said.

MEXICO CITY—Claudia Sheinbaum, a Jewish woman with a Ph.D. in energy engineering, is expected to become the first female president of Mexico, a historic ascent in a largely Catholic country. Sheinbaum’s commanding lead in polls ahead of Sunday’s election is rooted in her endorsement by Mexico’s popular nationalist leader, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who shepherded Sheinbaum’s career over the past two decades.

West Bengal will exercise their franchises in the last phase of Lok Sabha elections 2024. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that she won't be able to attend the meeting of the Opposition INDIA alliance on June 1 due to the voting of the last phase of elections and relief work after cyclone 'Remal' hit the state's coastal regions.

₹142 on May 29, against previous at ₹138 per share on Tuesday.The state-owned construction company reported a 24.6 percent year-on-year increase in net profit, reaching ₹141.5 crore, and a 43 percent year-on-year surge in revenue from operations, totaling ₹4,025 crore for the reviewed quarter.Also read: Dividend stock: Multibagger chemical stock declares final dividend for fourth straight yearAt the operational level, NBCC's EBITDA rose to ₹240.2 crore in the fourth quarter of FY24, compared to ₹104.5 crore in the same period of FY23. The EBITDA margin improved to 6 percent from 3.7 percent in the previous fiscal's corresponding quarter.At 9:30 am on Wednesday, the NBCC shares opened 4.17 per cent higher at ₹144.80 per share.

Also Read: Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Defence, power, industrials among sectors to bet on ahead of election resultMindspace REIT registered its best-ever quarterly gross leasing since IPO in Q4FY24, while Embassy REIT and Brookfield REIT had achieved this milestone in Q3FY24.“Over the past couple of years, higher exits, predominantly from IT/ITeS companies had dragged net leasing into negative territory. While exits continued in Q4FY24, the pace seems to be moderating.

NEW DELHI : Ten of India’s 65 cities with over a million population experienced more than 100 hours of ‘heat stress’—dangerous levels of both heat and humidity—in May, in the midst of India’s longest election season, data analysed by climate tech startup, Respirer Living Sciences, showed. Heat stress refers to situations when the heat index, which accounts for both surface temperature and humidity, exceeds 41°C.

‘Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Nehru couldn’t imagine…', Priyanka Gandhi in Rae BareliIn the video clip of the TV interview that has gone viral on social media, PM Modi suggests that Mahatma Gandhi's global recognition was significantly influenced by cinematic portrayals of his life and principles. Flagging a 'durdasha' (sad state of affairs) in post-Independence India, PM Modi said that when the movie was made of Mahatma Gandhi, did the world get 'curious' about Gandhi? ALSO READ: ‘Mahatma Gandhi said soon after Independence…’ Rajnath Singh reiterates ‘abolish Congress’ remarkPM Modi further emphasises that if Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela had been well-known figures worldwide, India should have 'worked' better to make Mahatma Gandhi a world-renowned figure.

r 57 parliamentary seats on June 1. The results will be declared on June 4.Election watchdog Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) analysed the self-sworn affidavits of 8,337 of the 8,360 candidates in the fray in seven phases.

Rajnath Singh on Wednesday claimed that under the free ration scheme, people were getting more foodgrains than they could consume and they ended up selling the surplus in the market. The former BJP president, who was addressing an election rally in Karakat Lok Sabha constituency of Bihar, also, cited figures to assert that the food inflation rate in the country was «the lowest in the world» and expressed dismay over allegations of price rise. «Are you not getting five kilogrammes of foodgrains each? I know if there are four members in a family, each is getting a supply of 5 kg and those who are not able to consume it, sell off the surplus,» Singh said with a chuckle, breaking into the local dialect Bhojpuri. Claiming that the central government has not done a favour to people by providing them with welfare measures like toilets and pucca houses, he said BJP people are in politics with the spirit of service.

rupee logged its biggest daily decline against the U.S. dollar in nearly seven weeks on Wednesday, pressured by persistent dollar demand from importers and election-related risks. The rupee ended at 83.3450, down from 83.1775 in the previous session. It fell 0.2% on Wednesday, its biggest daily fall since April 12.

Indian benchmark equity indices closed in the red for the fourth straight session on Wednesday, dragged down by losses in heavyweight financials and IT stocks. Uncertainty around domestic election results and the timing of US rate cuts also contributed to the decline. The 30-share BSE Sensex declined by 668 points, or 0.89%, to settle at 74,503. The broader NSE Nifty dropped 183 points, or 0.80%, to end at 22,704.

Ripple announced a second $25m donation to the crypto super Political Action Committee (PAC) Fairshake on Wednesday. This contribution supplements the $25m it provided to Fairshake last year.

India is poised to begin wheat imports after a six-year gap, to replenish depleted reserves and hold down prices that leaped following three years of disappointing crops, sources say, as the approaching end of general elections removes a key hurdle. New Delhi is expected to abandon a 40% tax on wheat imports this year, officials and other sources told Reuters, paving the way for private traders and flour millers to buy from producers such as top exporter Russia, albeit in modest volumes. As the new-season wheat harvest rolls in, the government is likely to wait until after June to scrap the import tax, in time for Russia's harvest, the sources said.

Nuvama initiated coverage on Inox Wind and Suzlon Energy, with target prices suggesting an upside potential of 33% and 15%, respectively. Nuvama has a ‘buy’ rating and a target price of Rs 195 on Inox Wind as it believes the company is one of the only two WTG and turnkey EPC companies in India, wherein annual wind demand is reviving to more than 12GW.

Supreme Court's Registry refused to accept the request for an urgent hearing of Arvind Kejriwal's plea for an extension of his interim bail, BJP candidate and Union Minister Anurag Thakur said the Delhi Chief Minister can undertake a roadshow in the national capital's sweltering 47-degree temperature but is seeking bail on the pretext of ill health. «He is exposed once again. It is visible to everyone that he can do a roadshow in 47-degree temperatures but asks for bail on the pretext of ill health,» Thakur said. The Supreme Court's Registry on Wednesday said that the apex court's previous order gave Kejriwal the liberty to move the trial court for regular bail.

South Africans head to vote on Wednesday, May 29, the country is facing a crucial election that could end the African National Congress (ANC)'s 30-year dominance, according to an AFP report.The ANC is South African independence movement leader Nelson Mandela's political party.Polls opened at 7 am local time and will close at 9 pm local time today at 23,292 voting stations, as per a Bloomberg report. The country will see close to 28 million registered voters elect a new parliament, which will then select the president.Also Read | Neuralink brain implant: Elon Musk's company looking for three patients for long term study.