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Anthony Albanese on Thursday announced his engagement to partner Jodie Haydon, posting a selfie photo of the couple with the caption "She said yes" on his social media platforms. Albanese and Haydon first met at an event in Melbourne in early 2020 and appeared together during the campaign of the 2022 federal election, which Albanese won.

There are some things the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) can take for granted. Such as its hold on the so-called Hindu vote, no matter how defined, and its poll prospects bumped up by the popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

MintGenie, Chopra said that when analysing fund performance, investors should consider not only point-to-point performance but also the fund's rolling returns relative to its benchmark, as well as risk-adjusted performance. 6.5% economic growth is expected in Fiscal year 2024-25 making India one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. The Indian Economy is expected to outgrow China’s economic growth because of the high foreign investments expected in 2024.

Indonesia former Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto has declared victory in the presidential election following unofficial vote counts indicating a significant lead, potentially securing a single-round win in his third bid for the presidency. 

TikTok is taking measures to combat misinformation about the upcoming European Union elections, including setting up fact-checking hubs inside the app, the video-sharing platform said Wednesday in a blog post. TikTok plans to launch local language in-app «election centers» next month for each of the 27 EU countries so that «people can easily separate fact from fiction.»

₹1,300 crore through electoral bonds in 2022-23. The party's total contributions stood at ₹2,120 crore in the 2022-23 fiscal, of which 61 per cent came from electoral bonds.

Indian National Congress on Wednesday announced the list of six candidates from Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana for the Rajya Sabha elections to be held on February 27. The party has fielded AICC treasurer Ajay Maken, Rajya Sabha MP Syed Naseer Hussain and GC Chandrashekhar from Karnataka. Ashok Singh has been fielded from Madhya Pradesh, while former MP Renuka Chowdhury and Anil Kumar Yadav will contest from Telangana.

Shivakumar on Wednesday said the Congress party was carrying out another round of surveys to finalise the Congress candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. «We reviewed the reports submitted by the party observers, district in charge ministers and party workers. We have suggested another round of surveys to further evaluate potential candidates. The list of candidates is not finalised yet and we will hold a meeting in Delhi very soon,» Shivakumar, who heads the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC), told the media. This time, the committee met in Bengaluru in view of the ongoing budget session. «The list needs to be finalised at the earliest. We need to ask at least 50% of candidates to start election related activities,» he said, in response to a query.

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Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday issued a sixth summon to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal asking him to appear on February 19 in the liquor policy case. Earlier on February 7, Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court on Wednesday took cognizance of the Enforcement Directorate's complaint and summoned Kejriwal on February 17, 2024. ED had approached the court against Kejriwal for not complying with the summons issued by the central probe agency in the Delhi liquor policy money laundering case.

Sakshi Malik and Bajrang Punia on Wednesday alleged that national federation chief Sanjay Singh used devious means to get the suspension on WFI lifted by United World Wrestling (UWW) and threatened to restart their agitation against the body. The UWW on Tuesday lifted the provisional suspension on India but directed the national federation to provide written guarantees that there would be no discriminatory action against the protesting trio of Punia, Malik and Vinesh Phogat. The suspension was imposed by UWW in August last year after the WFI failed to hold elections in time. Punia, Malik and Phogat have been protesting for more than a year, demanding the arrest of former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh for allegedly sexually harassing women grapplers.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said two Congress MLAs, Kamalakhya Dey Purkayastha and former minister Basanta Das, have decided to "join the government". Sarma welcomed both the legislators at the chief minister's chamber inside the assembly complex while the Budget session of the House was in progress. Purkayastha, who has been with the Congress for several decades since his NSUI days, was elected from the Karimganj North constituency in 2021. Das was a former minister in Tarun Gogoi's government and had won the assembly polls from Mangaldoi seat in 2021.

Congress on Wednesday nominated its former party chief Sonia Gandhi and senior leaders Ajay Maken and Abhishek Singhvi for the Rajya Sabha election to be held on February 27. Gandhi, who was accompanied by her son Rahul Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra besides former Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot, filed her nomination papers in Jaipur. The 77-year-old former Congress president is set to enter the Upper House for the first time from Rajasthan. Gandhi will fill the seat that will fall vacant in April after former prime minister Manmohan Sigh completes his Rajya Sabha tenure. Party treasurer Maken has been fielded from Karnataka and Abhishek Singhvi from Himachal Pradesh. The party has its government in both states. Maken had unsuccessfully contested the Rajya Sabha election from Haryana last year.

Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party leader Arshid Mehmood Khan Wednesday joined the BJP along with a number of his supporters in Jammu. Khan, a three-time sarpanch from Dandesar village of Nowshera, and his supporters were welcomed into the BJP by the party's J&K president Ravinder Raina and other senior leaders, including former deputy chief minister Kavinder Gupta and MP Jugal Kishore. The former PDP leader had unsuccessfully contested the 2008 assembly elections from the Nowshera constituency of Rajouri district Addressing a press conference after the joining, Raina said the BJP was ready for elections in the Union territory.

The front-runner in Indonesia’s presidential election on Wednesday has endeared himself to young voters by projecting an image of a cuddly, cat-loving grandfather figure. But Prabowo Subianto has a checkered history. He was dismissed from Indonesia’s military 25 years ago on allegations he kidnapped democracy activists.

hundreds of farmers were tear-gassed at the Delhi borders to restrict them from entering the national capital. Farmer unions have huddled at Delhi borders to pressure the government in accepting their demand of a law that guarantees MSP for all crops and the determination of crop prices as per the Swaminathan Commission’s report.

Nilesh Shah, MD of Kotak Mahindra AMC says there are mixed signals in the market for various segments. While there is a green signal for large caps, there are red signals for micro, mini-caps and SMEs. In an interview with Mint, Shah recommends investors should maintain a neutral allocation to equity with a long-term view while keeping some cash to increase exposure when valuation is cheaper.

₹2,263 crore, driven in part by growth in its defence business, which is expected to generate ₹1,000 crore in revenue for FY24. Additionally, robust infrastructure spending and rising private capital expenditures are likely to keep domestic demand strong in the industrial segment.

one-day elections. The Southeast Asian nation's election is a mammoth exercise in logistics spanning three time zones with ballot boxes transported by truck, boat, helicopter, horse and even ox-cart.

defence ministry said it detected 14 Chinese air force planes operating around Taiwan and carrying out "joint combat readiness patrols" with Chinese warships on Wednesday. China, which views Taiwan as its own territory, has over the past four years regularly sent warplanes and warships into the skies and waters around the island as it seeks to assert sovereignty claims that the Taipei government rejects. Taiwan's defence ministry said that starting around 1 p.m. (0500 GMT) on Wednesday it had detected 14 Chinese aircraft including J-16 fighters and drones operating off northern and southwestern Taiwan.

Congress party announced on Wednesday the first list of candidates for the upcoming Rajya Sabha Biennial Elections to be held in various states. According to an official release from the All India Congress Committee (AICC), «Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has approved the candidature of Sonia Gandhi from Rajasthan and Dr. Akhilesh Prasad Singh from Bihar.» Additionally, Abhishek Manu Singhvi has been fielded from Himachal Pradesh and Chandrakant Handore from Maharashtra.