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A Taiwanese blockchain tech firm is teaming up with journalists to fact-check the upcoming election in India in a battle against digital deception.

AAP) leader and Delhi minister Atishi on Tuesday claimed that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) will soon be issuing summon to top party leaders including Raghav Chadha, Saurabh Bhardwaj and Durgesh Pathak, ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. The minister also claimed that her house will be raided by the authorities in the coming days. Furthermore, the AAP leader claimed that a person close to her advised the Delhi minister to join BJP. If not, she should be prepared to be arrested by ED within a month, Atishi said quoting the person, in a press conference.

Disney’s contentious proxy battle is in the homestretch. After several years of share price underperformance at the entertainment giant, at least three activist shareholders have launched proxy campaigns, with some hoping to get their own candidates elected on Disney’s board. Investors have begun casting votes ahead of Disney’s April 3 annual meeting.

National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) told Reuters. In FY23, India collected over ₹5,40,000 crore in toll collections compared to ₹2,52,000 crore in FY19, as per Reuters. The increase in revenue can be credited to the hiked toll taxes and the rise in the number of toll plazas.

South Korean politicians are accusing one another of crypto-related wrongdoings ahead of parliamentary elections in the nation on April 10.

Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat is the home constituency of Mehbooba Mufti, whose party is a partner in opposition INDIA bloc as is Farooq Abdullah-led National Conference. Both Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti attended the INDIA bloc show-of-strength ‘Loktantra Bachao’ rally in New Delhi on March 31. Lahrvi’s candidature was announced by NC vice president and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on April 1, a day after the New Delhi rally.

Amit Shah on Monday recalled the “blunder" committed in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) by former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, while praising PM Narendra Modi for correcting it during his tenure. Amit Shah said Jawaharlal Nehru made an error when he implemented Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, which was abrogated by PM Modi who also raised an Indian flag in the Union Territory.

National Conference on Monday nominated its prominent tribal leader Mian Altaf as a candidate for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from Anantnag-Rajouri constituency spread across the Pir Panchal region. Altaf hails from Wangath area of Ganderbal in central Kashmir and his family has political and spiritual influence on the tribal community across J&K. His family has won nine assembly elections since 1967 which included his five assembly election wins since 1987. He also has close family relations with some influential tribal families in Rajouri, which fall in the same constituency. The announcement of the NC candidate has made the contest on this Lok Sabha seat interesting as the party’s opposition INDIA bloc partner People’s Democratic Party is likely to field party president Mehbooba Mufti from the same constituency. She has won this seat in 2004 and 2014, before the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019 and completion of delimitation exercise in 2022.

BWSSB has engaged in discussions with the Confederation of Real Estate Developers' Association of India (CREDAI) and the Bangalore Apartments Federation (BAF) regarding this endeavor. According to BWSSB authorities, developers have already placed orders for 62 lakh liters of recycled water, with expectations of increased demand in the future. This move will not only serve as a source of income for BWSSB, which has collaborated with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) for third-party certification. Additionally, BWSSB has authorized apartment complexes to sell 50% of their recycled water. Plans are underway to install separate pipelines for supplying treated water to construction sites within a 500-meter radius of sewage treatment plants. In Bengaluru, some apartment complexes are already selling surplus treated water at rates ranging from Rs 100 to Rs 125 per tanker, TOI reported. However, the availability of tankers for transporting treated water is limited due to most being utilized for delivering drinking water. Moreover, tankers used for transporting treated water cannot be repurposed for delivering potable water to prevent contamination. BWSSB has convened meetings with Bangalore Apartments Federation to address this issue.

Uttarakhand: PM Modi address an election rally in Rudrapur- Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to kick off the BJP's Lok Sabha election campaign in Uttarakhand with a rally in Rudrapur, situated within the Nainital-Udham Singh Nagar constituency. According to state BJP president Mahendra Bhatt, the rally is expected to draw a crowd of over one lakh people.

Sensex gained 363.20 points, or 0.49%, to close at 74,014.55, while the Nifty 50 settled 135.10 points, or 0.61%, higher at 22,462.00. “The market is expected to continue its positive momentum but the journey could be volatile on the back of elections and Q4 earnings this month. Now all eyes will be on RBI monetary policy due this Friday where status quo is expected but commentary would be keenly watched," said Siddhartha Khemka, Head - Retail Research, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd.

Donald Trump's hush money case to include family members of the court and the District Attorney's office, as per reports. The move came days after Trump assailed and made false claims about Judge Marchan's daughter Loren Merchan on social media, AP reported. The original gag order had barred the former US president from making public statements about jurors, witnesses and others connected to the case.

Catch all the LIVE Updates on the Lok Sabha Election 2024 hereLok Sabha Election 2024 LIVE: Days after BJP MP Varun Gandhi was denied a ticket from his constituency, his mother and BJP MP Maneka Gandhi expressed happiness to be a part of the saffron party. On being asked what Varun Gandhi would do now, she replied, "Ask him what he wants to do. We will consider this after the elections.

Andrew Furey is calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to call an “emergency meeting of leaders from across the country” to talk about potential alternatives to the federal carbon price increasing to $80 per tonne.When asked about the call for a meeting, Trudeau said that provinces have always had the ability to come up with their own alternative plans that include the minimum carbon price.“So, all those premiers that are busy complaining about the price on pollution but not putting forward a concrete alternative that they think would be better for their communities are just playing politics,” Trudeau said at a news conference in Scarborough, Ont.“Every province has the opportunity to put forward its own plan as long as they are fighting climate change to the same level that we’re asking all other Canadians to do. That’s what a federal backstop is.

Election Commission of India has «strongly condemned» and censured the BJP's Dilip Ghosh and Congress' Supriya Shrinate for their offensive comments against women and has warned them against any such public utterances during the general election campaign. The EC has written to BJP president JP Nadda and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, asking them to issue a specific advisory to all party functionaries involved in election campaign to guard against such types of violation amid the model code of conduct code period. EC has underlined that it considers the whole process of conduct of election as a major enhancer of status of women in lndia and that it is committed not to allow any erosion of this status in any manner during the election period under its own aegis. The poll panel had last week issued a notice to the BJP's Bardhaman Durgapur candidate Dilip Ghosh for his «offensive» and «insulting» remarks on West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee which were found violative of the model code of conduct

election season, the government has sent advisories to the Election Commission (EC) for safeguarding against heatwave to reduce fatalities and illness. The country is expected to experience extreme weather difficulties in the form of increased number of heatwaves during the next three months, said Kiren Rijiju, minister of earth sciences, which operates IMD. During the general election there will be an increase in outdoor activity such as election rallies, meetings and campaigns, which could heighten public vulnerability to heatwaves, according to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) which has sent advisories to the EC.

ALSO READ: Rahul Gandhi takes 'cheerharan' jibe at Centre after new I-T notice — 'someday, BJP govt will change and then...' "In Jaipur, INC President Sh. Mallikarjun Kharge, CPP Chairperson Smt. Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, and Priyanka Gandhi will be launching the manifesto addressing the Mega Rallies," the Congress General Secretary said.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor Arvind Kejriwal was on Monday sent to judicial custody till April 15 by the Rouse Avenue Court in an alleged money laundering case linked to the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy case. The Enforcement Directorate (ED), while seeking direction to send the Delhi Chief Minister to judicial custody, said the arrestee (Kejriwal) is not only concealing the information but also misleading the probe agency by giving false and contrary statements and vis-a-vis other members of his party.

Arvind Kejriwal has been remanded in judicial custody till April 15 following his arrest in the Delhi excise policy case. GST collection data released on Monday indicated an 11.5% rise to ₹1.78 lakh crore while the Election Commission received complaints about Rahul Gandhi and the Trinamool Congress. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court refused to stay Hindu prayers in the southern cellar of Gyanvapi mosque and the India Meteorological Department issued a major heatwave warning.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) ahead of 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Taking to microblogging platform X (formerly known as Twitter) Siddiqui posted in Hindi, “Yesterday I sent my resignation from the membership of the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) and the post of national vice president to national president Jayant Singh. Today, when India's Constitution and democratic structure are under threat, remaining silent is a sin." “I am grateful to Jayant ji but I am forced to distance myself from the RLD with a heavy heart.

NEW DELHI : An uninhabited island has sparked a political controversy in the election season. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reignited a longstanding debate in Indian politics by criticizing the Congress party for relinquishing control of the Katchatheevu Island to Sri Lanka in 1974, under Indira Gandhi's leadership. This move has elicited responses from opposition parties, bringing the island's status back into the spotlight.