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Narendra Modi and 34 Union Ministers featured in the first list. However, at least 33 members of parliament (MPs) were dropped. Prominent names in the second list include nine Union Ministers, including Nitin Gadkari, Piyush Goyal, Anurag Thakur and Prahlad Joshi.

broader Indian market, which is now an underperformer in Asia Pacific after a multi-year rally. An index of small-cap stocks has lost more than $80 billion in market value in less than two weeks after authorities flagged risks of overheating and guided funds to limit purchases. The selloff deepened on Wednesday, with gauges of small- and mid-cap stocks plunging more than 4% each.

Lok Sabha elections 2024, a recent opinion poll predicted. It also suggested that, out of the 242 seats surveyed so far, NDA is expected to get 174 seats. It further concluded that 59% of people feel that Narendra Modi is ‘most capable as the next Prime Minister’ while only 21% voted for Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.

fraud and sexual abuse lawsuits, charged with dozens of felonies and declared politically dead again and again — but count Donald Trump out at your peril. Eight months ahead of the US presidential election, and days before he is due to stand trial for alleged 2016 campaign finance violations, the Republican tycoon looks as strong politically as he ever has.

equity benchmarks tumbled nearly 1.5% on Wednesday, defying Wall Street's overnight gains, as investors spooked by the recent freefall in small-cap and mid-cap stocks rushed to offload riskier holdings. Brokers pushed traders to liquidate bets in smaller shares bought on loans following the capital market regulator's recent warnings of 'froth' and 'bubble' in pockets of the market. This sent the Midcap 150 and Smallcap 250 indices plunging 4.2% and 5.2%, respectively-their biggest single-day fall in two years.

fund managers adopted a cautious approach in February and bought into stocks that haven’t participated much in the recent run-up. They bought oil & gas, real estate, cement, and consumer durables stocks.

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday urged the nation to take part in the upcoming presidential election on March 15-17 saying that, ‘determination to go forward together’ The President said, as reported by the state news agency TASS reported, “We need to confirm our consolidation, our determination to go forward together. Each vote counts.

NEW DELHI : A sharp rise in onion prices in the middle of an export ban has prompted the Centre to consider extending the restriction beyond 31 March, a senior official aware of the matter said. At ₹33.34 a kg, the all-India average onion price in the retail market was 41.3% higher than the previous year on Wednesday, data from the consumer affairs ministry showed.

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Vladimir Putin is poised to sweep to another six-year term in this week’s presidential election, even though Russians are dying in Ukraine in a war that is grinding through its third year and his country is more isolated than ever

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced the schedule for the first 21 matches of the upcoming IPL between March 22 and April 7. It is waiting for the Election Commission to announce the schedule for the Lok Sabha polls, slated to be held in April and May, before scheduling the rest of the tournament. Industry insiders said companies looking at campaign-based advertising would want more visibility on the schedule. IPL official broadcaster Disney Star and official streamer Viacom18 have managed to close a slew of sponsorship and spot-buy deals and are expected to sign more deals in the run-up to the IPL, which will kick off on March 22. «The IPL on-ground sponsorships were also closed very late, with some sponsorship slots remaining unsold even now,» said the official cited above. «Both Disney Star and Viacom 18 have to offer the first right of refusal to IPL's on-ground sponsors.»

News18 shows that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is set to bag a total of 77 seats, predicting a landslide victory. The survey also shows that the Opposition INDIA bloc will bag two seats, leaving one for Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) in Uttar Pradesh. The New18 opinion poll has predicted BJP-led NDA will cinch a 57% vote share in the Lok Sabha Elections 2024.

Also Read: SBI electoral bonds data submitted to Election Commission a day after Supreme Court rebuke “In compliance of the Hon'ble Supreme Court's directions to the SBI, contained in its order dated Feb 15 & March 11, 2024 (in the matter of WPC NO.880 of 2017), data on electoral bonds has been supplied by the State Bank of India to the Election Commission of India, today, March 12, 2024," the poll panel had said. Also Read: SC Bar Association writes to President Murmu, says ‘if donors are singled out …’ The SC had instructed SBI to provide information to EC following the correlation of donor data with political party affiliations.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday announced names of seven more candidates in Gujarat, which has 26 Lok Sabha seats, dropping five sitting MPs, including junior Railway minister Darshana Jardosh, and replacing them with new faces. On March 2, the BJP, in its first list of 195 candidates, had announced nominees for 15 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat, where the saffron outfit had swept the polls in 2019. After the release of second list of 72 candidates in New Delhi, contestants for only four seats in the BJP-ruled state remain to be declared by the saffron party.

Kriti Singh Debbarma as the party candidate for Tripura East (ST) Lok Sabha seat. The BJP earlier nominated former Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb, who is currently the Rajya Sabha member, for the West Tripura Lok Sabha seat. The Central Election Committee (CEC) of BJP on Wednesday declared its second list of 72 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections and Debbarma, a former royal scion of Tripura and a social activist, is also one of the nominees. Debbarma is the elder sister of Tipra Motha Party (TMP) supremo and former royal scion Pradyot Bikram Manikya Deb Barman.

Chirag Paswan on Wednesday said that his party has agreed to a seat-sharing formula with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the Lok Sabha elections in Bihar and the formal announcement of the same will be made in due course. Taking to microblogging site X (formerly known as Twitter) after meeting BJP national president JP Nadda, the LJP president wrote," As a member of the NDA, today in a meeting with BJP National President Hon Shri @jpnadda ji, we have together finalised the seat sharing in Bihar for the ensuing Lok Sabha polls.

By Mike Dolan

Investing.com – Main U.S. indexes were mixed Wednesday, with strength in the Dow and weakness in the tech-heavy Nasdaq, while the S&P 500 traded flat. Averages consolidated gains after moving higher following data on consumer prices yesterday, with more inflation data on tap for later this week.

Piyush Goyal is all set to take the plunge in the rough and tumble of electoral politics as the BJP's candidate from Mumbai North in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. A three-term Rajya Sabha member, Goyal (59) has been in the thick of politics since his teenage years when he campaigned for his mother, late Chandrakanta Goyal, for the Maharashtra Assembly election. Ved Prakash Goyal, Piyush Goyal's father, was an old-time RSS worker who worked closely with Sangh stalwarts Balasaheb Deoras, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L K Advani. The Goyal home at Sion in central Mumbai was a beehive of political activity, with veteran leaders opting for it as a residence of choice when visiting the metropolis. Piyush Goyal, known largely by his pet name «Happy», had the task of escorting leaders around Mumbai. The formal alliance of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiv Sena was also struck at the Goyal residence after a meeting between Sena supremo Balasaheb Thackeray and Vajpayee in 1984.

simultaneous polls headed by former president Ram Nath Kovind is likely to submit its report on 'one nation, one election' on Thursday, it is learnt. Though there was no official word yet, sources said the report could be submitted to President Droupadi Murmu. The panel may recommend amending at last five articles of the Constitution to enable holding of simultaneous polls in the country. The proposed report would also focus on having a singular electoral roll for holding Lok Sabha, state assembly and local body polls.