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Narendra Modi from the Varanasi seat in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections 2024, the party chief, Swami Chakrapani told ABP Live. As per reports, Himangi Sakhi has entered the fray to give the transgender community their rights and respect. As per the Election Commission, there were 48,044 third-gender voters registered with the ECI in 2024.

Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra. “Rahul is an impatient man, doesn't take briefings before coming to Assam," Assam CM told in an interview with PTI. He was speaking with the agency at Titabor in Jorhat district.

Trinamool Congress delegation will meet Election Commission officials in New Delhi on Monday to complain about «misuse» of central investigating agencies against TMC leaders and party candidates. The delegation will be led by TMC's Rajya Sabha leader Derek O'Brien and MP Dola Sen is also likely to meet the full bench of the Election Commission. «The BJP is misusing central agencies against us. The way NIA, ED and CBI are working and targeting TMC leaders is shameful. We would request the EC to ensure a level playing field for all political parties,» Sen told reporters at the airport before leaving for New Delhi. The TMC alleged on Sunday an «unholy alliance» between the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and BJP ahead of elections, prompting the central investigating agency to deny any mala fide intention and label the entire controversy as «unfortunate».

FADA) said on Monday. With the expiration of FAME-II subsidy on March 31, e-2W sales rose, with the category seeing a market share bump to 9.12 per cent for the first time ever. Upcoming Lok Sabha took a toll on sales of PVs, CVs and tractors however. PV segment fell 2 per cent on a month-on-month basis and a 6 per cent YoY due to heavy discounting and selective financing, the auto lobby said.

Mandi seat. The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has fielded actor-politician Kangana Ranaut from Mandi - one of the four seats in the hill state going to polls in the last phase on June 1. Mandi seat is presently represented in the Lok Sabha by Vikramaditya’s mother, Pratibha Singh, who is also the state party president.

eclared assets of over ₹55 crore in his nomination papers while Chandrasekhar declared assets worth over ₹28 crore. While giving details of his assets and liabilities, in the affidavit, he mentioned that he has movable assets of over ₹49 crore while immovable assets are worth over ₹6.75 crore.

TOKYO—Japan’s largest telecommunications company and the country’s biggest newspaper called for speedy legislation to restrain generative artificial intelligence, saying democracy and social order could collapse if AI is left unchecked. Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, or NTT, and Yomiuri Shimbun Group Holdings made the proposal in an AI manifesto to be released Monday. Combined with a law passed in March by the European Parliament restricting some uses of AI, the manifesto points to rising concern among American allies about the AI programs U.S.-based companies have been at the forefront of developing.

Yogi Adityanath accused the grand old party of being compassionate with the terror suspects and called it the “biggest problem" for the country. The chief minister was addressing a public rally in Rajasthan's Sikar seat as a part of Lok Sabha election campaign for BJP candidate Sumedhanand Saraswati. Rajasthan will go to the polls in two phases, April 19 and April 26.

“Cyclicals, commodities, capex are the most promising segments in the market,” says Somnath Mukherjee, CIO & Senior Managing Partner – Product & Research, ASK Private Wealth. In an interview with ETMarkets, Mukherjee said: “India’s a structural growth story, so expect FII flows to remain quite good. The real breakout will be the start of US rates cuts,”. Edited excerpts: As we step into FY25 – how do you see markets in the next financial year? Do you see a double-digit return? Somnath Mukherjee: Markets are pricing in multiple best-case scenarios currently – a)Current Ruling Party’s victory in elections, b)inflation continuing on its downward trajectory, c)US rate cuts sometime during the year, and d)conflict zones remaining non-disruptive.

Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Hyderabad, after her appearance on a popular television show. The show, said Prime Minister Modi, was exceptional in which Madhavi made solid points with logic and passion. “Madhavi Latha Ji, your ‘Aap Ki Adalat’ episode is exceptional.

ANI, Vallabh had said that he had asked the high command of the Congress to stop criticising Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani. This was after the Adani Group chairman was given a clean sheet by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), which had launched an investigation into him over allegations made by US-based short-seller Hindenburg. "The Congress has made a habit of going at Adani and Ambani (Reliance Industries chairperson Mukesh Ambani) night and day.

Elections in Uttarakhand, coinciding with the peak wedding season, have resulted in a surge in demand for buses and cabs across the state. Families who had made preparations for weddings say they are struggling for vehicles for their baraats (wedding processions) since a large number of taxis and buses have been diverted for election duty. According to information made available by the transport department, a total of 12,395 vehicles, including 3,653 buses and 7,161 private taxis and cabs, have been acquired by state authorities for election duty. This has led to vehicle bookings for weddings being cancelled abruptly. All five Lok Sabha constituencies in the state will go to the hustings in the first of the seven-phase polls on April 19. This year, peak wedding season has also arrived around this time with April 18, just a day before the polls, being considered the most auspicious day of the season to get married. Priests say that the wedding season gains momentum after Baisakhi on April 13, and extends until April 24.

Top Events of The Day: PM Modi to visit Telangana, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, Total Solar Eclipse today. Meanwhile, SC will hear petition filed by the Shiv Sena-Uddhav Thackeray faction for April 8, NSE will introduce 4 new indices in capital market and F&O segment from April 8 and more PM Modi to visit Telangana, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka on April 8-9: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Telangana, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka on April 8-9.

Narendra Modi’s hypnotic sway on the landlocked, impoverished north. The south’s rejection of the leader and his Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, will be brushed aside because it may not change the overall outcome. That is a mistake.

Indonesia, following its recently concluded elections, wants to usher in new socio-economic initiatives under President-elect Prabowo and has approached India to adopt best practices in mid-day meal scheme and digital inclusion. Notwithstanding the Ramadan period and election process in India, Mochammad Firman Hidayat, Deputy Coordinating Minister of Maritime Resources, Coordinating Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Investment, Indonesia led a high-level delegation on a visit to India last week. The working visit was aimed at fostering collaboration in the field of biotechnology, digital inclusion, agriculture, and to study the world’s largest free school lunch programme with the objective of implementing a similar programme to provide quality meals to school students in Indonesia, officials said. The proposal for mid-day meal schemes in schools is mentioned in Prabowo’s election manifesto.

NEW DELHI : Big Tech firms like OpenAI, Google and Meta agreed to add checks and balances to deepfakes and election-related discussions on online platforms, after meeting with officials at the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity), including Union ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw and Rajeev Chandrasekhar. At least three senior officials close to the developments told Mint that the meetings gave the tech firms “informal directives" to tackle issues of misinformation, by curbing artificial intelligence (AI)-driven content and generative results about “highly sensitive keywords".

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's roadshow in Jabalpur which marked the beginning of BJP's Lok Sabha campaign in Madhya Pradesh, nearly four people were injured after a stage collapsed at the event on Sunday. The injured people, including a police personnel, were admitted to the city's Victoria Hospital. Later in the day, Madhya Pradesh minister, Rakesh Singh met with the injured people and said that all of them were fine and receiving proper treatment.

If ever there was a case for the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to present a straight bat, and not attempt any theatrics, Friday, 5 April 2024, was the day. With the economy doing well, inflation down, if not out, and general elections looming ahead, it made no sense to rock the boat.

NEW DELHI : The Lok Sabha elections are here, and so is the noise. And this time, political parties and their campaigners are seeking to leverage digital technologies to the hilt, to invoke a ‘buzz’ among young, social-media savvy voters particularly in the 18-29 age group, in the hope that it might eventually translate into votes. From artificial intelligence (AI)-generated speeches of living, and even dead leaders, to politicians’ interviews on popular podcast channels and tie-ups with influencers, the 2024 general elections are throwing up several novel approaches to canvassing.

TMC alleged on Sunday an "unholy alliance" between the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and BJP ahead of elections, even as the central agency denied any mala fide intention in its probe and labelled the entire controversy as «unfortunate.» A team of the NIA was allegedly attacked by a mob on Saturday when it went to arrest two main suspects in a 2022 blast case in West Bengal's Purba Medinipur district, sparking a political slugfest with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accusing the investigators of assaulting the villagers. Amid allegations of the NIA colluding with the BJP and attacking the villagers at Bhupatinagar, the central investigating agency on Sunday dubbed the entire controversy as «unfortunate» and rejected any allegations of malice in its investigation. TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said in a post on X, «Experience the unfolding alliance between the NIA and BJP, orchestrating conspiracies against Trinamool leaders and the Model Code of Conduct.»

National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday strongly refuted the allegation of mala fide intention while carrying out raids and arrests in a two-year-old blast case during which its team was attacked by an unruly crowd in West Bengal's Purba Medinipur district. One NIA officer was injured and a vehicle was damaged on Saturday when the NIA team was going to arrest two persons in the Bhupatinagar blast case, in which three persons were killed in December 2022. «The NIA categorically refuted allegations of mala fide in its Bhupatinagar blast case,» an agency spokesperson said. The NIA spokesperson termed the entire controversy «unfortunate» and made it clear that the attack on its team was «completely unprovoked».