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A federal judge has affirmed a $5 million arbitration award against MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell

₹340 per quintal for the 2024-25 marketing season, on a day the protesting farmers marching to Delhi clashed with the police on the Punjab-Haryana border. The sugarcane marketing season runs from October to September. The “significant" increase in the procurement price of sugarcane is about 8% higher than the FRP of sugarcane for the current 2023-24 season, which is ₹315/ quintal.

Back in 2013, when Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was facing bogus criminal charges, I recalled when my great-grandfather, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, compared Russia to a tub full of dough. “You put your hand down in it, down to the bottom," and “when you first pull out your hand, a little hole remains." But then, “before your very eyes," the dough returns to its original state—a “spongy, puffy mass." Navalny’s death more than a decade later proves that little has changed. The prison where Navalny died is a brutal one.

BeerBiceps has nearly 7 million followers, has hosted various leaders of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) including Smriti Irani, S. Jaishankar and Rajeev Chandrasekhar. While Congress leader Rahul Gandhi appeared on Curly Tales, which has nearly 3 million subscribers, Nationalist Congress Party leader Supriya Sule has gone on The Bombay Journey, a part of Mashable India that has 567,000 subscribers.

BJP is set to release a documentary on Sandeshkhali on Thursday with the party intensifying its attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led TMC government over the alleged incidents of atrocities and sexual assault on women there. The «exclusive» documentary titled 'The Sandeshkhali Socker — The Big Reveal' will be released Thursday morning at 9 am, the BJP said in post on X, asking Banerjee in Bangla, «Didi ke bolo aaro koto 'Sandeshkhali' (Tell didi how many more Sandeshkhali like incidents)». This comes amid a raging war of words between the BJP and the TMC over alleged incidents of rape and harassment of women in Sandeshkhali in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. The riverine Sandeshkhali area — situated on the borders of the Sunderbans, about 100 kilometres from Kolkata — has been witnessing protests after the local women accused absconding Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Sheikh Shahjahan and his supporters of land grab and sexual assault under coercion.

Al Jazeera report, teams across India’s political parties, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and the Congress, are deploying deepfakes to influence voters. In recent months, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which governs Tamil Nadu, has used AI to resurrect its iconic leader M Karunanidhi from the dead, using lifelike videos of the former movie writer and veteran politician at campaign events. Between March and May, India’s nearly one billion voters will pick their next national government in the world’s, and history’s, biggest elections.

Yuvraj Singh will be contesting on BJP ticket from Gurdaspur parliamentary constituency, a report by Times of India stated. Currently, Sunny Deol is the BJP MP from Gurdaspur. Reports have stated that Yuvraj Singh will be replacing Deol in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Arvind Kejriwal hit out at BJP over the Supreme Court overturning the outcome of the Chandigarh mayoral polls. Quoting from the Bhagavad Gita, Arvind Kejriwal said that God decided to intervene and put an end to the prevailing "adharm (unrighteousness)" of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Kejriwal said that all the devotees of Lord Ram, Krishna, Shiv-Parvati are with the country and finally, the "adharm" of the BJP will come to an end, and "dharm (righteousness)" will prevail.

We will try to get all 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh," Ravidas Mehrotra told news agency ANI. Akhilesh Yadav confirmed on Wednesday that there will be an alliance between the SP and the Congress and that “everything will be cleared soon." On asking why he was not present twice for the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, Yadav said, “All is well that ends well... Yes, there will be an alliance.

Congress National President Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday, expressed strong support for the ongoing farmer's protest, declaring that the party stands firmly with them. «We are supporting them (farmers). We are saying openly that their reasonable demands should be fulfilled. We are going to say this in our election manifesto also that a legal guarantee will be given. All crops cannot be covered but the essential crops should be done (providing MSP),» Mallikarjun Kharge said. Reacting to the farmers' protest, Madhya Pradesh Congress president Jitu Patwari targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying he promised to double the minimum support price of farmers during the 2014 elections but did not fulfil it.

Akhilesh Yadav today said that there will definitely be an alliance with Congress for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Akhilesh Yadav confirmed this during a press conference in Moradabad today. As per some reports, SP is likely to give 17 seats to Congress and will contest on the rest of the seats in Uttar Pradesh. Akhilesh said that an official announcement will made There this evening. «All is well that ends well… Yes, there will be an alliance. There is no conflict. Everything will be out and clear soon… All is well that ends well...» Akhilesh said on being asked over alliance with Congress.

irregularities in the February 8 polls, clearing the way for the formation of a coalition government to end the political uncertainty in the country. The apex court also imposed a fine on the petitioner, a former army officer, over his failure to appear before the court. Retired Brigadier Ali Khan last week urged the apex court to order new elections within 30 days to be held under the direct supervision and oversight of the judiciary «to ensure fairness, transparency and accountability». He had also sought a stay order to stop the formation of a new government till the case was decided.

Lok Sabha polls in India, the Election Commission said it has taken a variety of measures to ensure free and fair elections in the nation, including using technology to put a check on the use of Money and Muscle power in elections. The EC said enforcement agencies have been asked to take strict action against the usage of money power during elections. Action will be taken against 'liquor kingpins', the agency said in a post on X. Directions have been given to dry up the inflow and distribution of liquor, cash, freebies and drugs. To this end, a host of government agencies will be functioning in co-ordination with each other, including State Police, Excise Department, DRI, ED, I-T, Forest Department, Postal Department, among others.

Akhilesh Yadav said on February 21 that the party's alliance with the Congress party as part of INDIA ahead of Lok Sabha elections was 'very much happening.' Yadav's statement comes at a time when Rahul Gandhi is travelling in his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Uttar Pradesh. “It is happening.

By David Milliken and Suban Abdulla

Britain’s Conservative Party faces the nightmare of an election this year after the economy has dipped into recession, and the Tories have no one to blame but themselves. At least their predicament is a warning for others. The U.K.

Vladimir Putin's two-and-a-half decades in power, Western leaders thought they understood the strategy of the Kremlin leader and argued that Russia merited a place as an international partner. But that approach was blown apart two years ago on February 24, 2022, when Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, consigning to a distant past images such as that of the smiling Russian leader bounding up the steps of Macron's Mediterranean Fort de Bregancon residence in August 2019 bearing flowers for the French leader's wife Brigitte.

added. Since President Biden took office in 2021, the cumulative figure for illegal crossings stands at 72,98,486 (nearly 73 lakh). This statistic outnumbers the populations of several states, including but not limited to Alabama, Colorado and Maryland, as per Fox News.

Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of major Apple supplier Foxconn, made his first high-profile appearance in months on Tuesday at the firm's 50th birthday, following the ending of his bid for Taiwan's presidency late last year. Gou, who stepped down as Foxconn chief in 2019 and resigned as a board member last September, remains the company's largest shareholder and is still reverentially referred to by company executives as «the Founder».

PTI. This would be the first meeting of the FSDC after the passage of the ₹47.6 lakh crore Budget for 2024-25, focussing on capital expenditure with an outlay of ₹11.11 lakh crore. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to visit Punjab today and meet her Delhi and Punjab counterparts, Arvind Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann respectively, an official source told PTI on 15 February.

TAIPEI (Reuters) — Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of major Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) supplier Foxconn, made his first high profile appearance in months on Tuesday at the firm's 50th birthday, following the ending of his bid for Taiwan's presidency late last year.