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700 grapplers, representing all affiliated state units except Punjab and Odisha, will participate in the Senior National Championship in Pune from Monday, the suspended Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) said on Saturday. The national body was suspended by the Sports Ministry on December 24, just three days after it held its election for violating its own constitution after it announced to host the 2023 age group nationals in Gonda, UP in last week of December.

election in-charges and co-in-charges for 23 states and Union territories in view of the Lok Sabha polls this year. BJP national general secretary Vinod Tawde has been made the election in-charge for Bihar, while BJP Rajya Sabha member and former Jharkhand unit chief Deepak Prakash will be the co-in-charge, according to a party statement. Tawde is the BJP's in-charge for political affairs in Bihar.

Pakistan has sought financial assistance of USD 2 billion from its close ally China for a year, according to a media report on Saturday. Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar, in a letter, has requested his Chinese Premier Li Qiang to roll over the debt as soon as the deposit time for the loan from China is completed on March 23. In his letter, Kakar expressed gratitude to China for its financial assistance to Pakistan during its economic crisis as the cash-strapped country has secured a safe deposit of a total of USD 4 billion in loans from China, reducing the country's mounting pressure on external debt payments and stabilising its foreign exchange reserves, The Express Tribune newspaper reported.

Mallikarjun Kharge is “trying to speak with the Bihar chief minister". Ramesh said Kharge made several attempts to speak with Nitish Kumar, but as both of them are very busy, no conversation could be held between them. Follow Bihar politics LIVE Updates here “There will be a time…they have called back but no conversation could be held between them so far…this happens sometimes," Ramesh said.

'PDA' strategy will change history." Akhilesh Yadav's 'PDA' strategy refers to targeting the "Pichada (backward), Dalit (oppressed), and Alpsankhyak (minority)" communities. ALSO READ: ‘Want Nitish Kumar to stay’: Akhilesh Yadav blames Congress for Bihar political turmoil Uttar Pradesh sends 80 members to the Lower House of Parliament. The SP chief's statement came as the Lok Sabha Elections are due in April-May this year.

Sudhanshu Trivedi, on Saturday, expressed concern over the current political scenario in Bihar and the tense situation inside the INDIA bloc, citing the departure of key partners. «When Rahul Gandhi did his first (Bharat Jodo) yatra, Congress lost in 3 states. Now, he is conducting his yatra from east to west.

BJP leader and Union Minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey participated in the foundation laying ceremony of development works with CM Nitish Kumar on Saturday at Bihar's Buxar and said that whatever will happen, will happen according to «God's wish». «Whatever is God's wish, will happen. The first time around, I only brought him (Nitish Kumar) here, and today also I have brought him,» he said. Bihar CM Nitish Kumar along with Ashwini Choubey laid the foundation of the second phase of development works in Buxar's Brahmpur today. Several NDA leaders including former Bihar CM Jitan Ram Manjhi have indicated an alliance breakdown between JD(U)-RJD. Meanwhile in Delhi, BJP National President JP Nadda arrived at the residence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has decided to leave the opposition alliance, while the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has chosen not to join the grand alliance in Punjab. Additionally, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has rejected the Congress party's 'Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra' and will contest the Lok Sabha elections independently.

Nitish Kumar may rejoin the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), BJP leader CT Ravi on Saturday said that the INDIA alliance does not even exist anywhere as allies of INDIA bloc are fighting each other. "… Politics is not stagnant, it goes on… INDIA alliance does not even exist anywhere.

MintGenie, Monga said that reviving expired incentives, such as tax breaks, is crucial for affordable housing. As Budget 2024 approaches India’s real estate scenario amid an upcoming election year, the focus is on potential changes to home loan interest rates under Section 24 of the Income Tax Act. Currently capped at ₹2 lakh, experts suggest raising the limit to at least ₹5 lakh.

₹25 crore each to seven of its MLAs in Delhi to quit the party. However, the BJP dismissed the allegation and challenged AAP to name the MLAs and the people who contacted them with the offer. BJP leader Kapil Mishra said, “Arvind Kejriwal is again lying as he has done since the last seven times.

New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday claimed that the BJP has offered Rs 25 crore each to seven of its MLAs in Delhi to quit the party while also threatening to topple the Kejriwal government. The Delhi BJP, however, rubbished the allegation and challenged AAP to name the MLAs and the people who contacted them with the offer.

Imran Khan is wildly popular in his constituency and ancestral homeland of Mianwali, but the political posters that line the streets do not bare his face and flags do not fly his colours. A relentless crackdown widely attributed to Pakistan's powerful military has seen him and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party almost erased from the election campaign ahead of the vote. «Our party workers are facing harassment, and I personally have received death threats,» says 61-year-old Jamal Ahsan Khan, who is standing for PTI in Mianwali in place of his leader.

The Biden administration said Friday it is delaying consideration of new natural gas export terminals in the United States, even as gas shipments to Europe and Asia have soared since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Former West Virginia coal executive Don Blankenship has filed paperwork to run for Joe Manchin's U.S. Senate seat

The Biden administration is delaying consideration of new natural gas export terminals in the United States, even as gas shipments to Europe and Asia have soared since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Bihar politics LIVE updates He said Bihar's political crisis could have been averted if Congress had taken some initiative. Yadav said he is disappointed about the reports claiming that Kumar will join the NDA camp. "I want Nitish Kumar to stay with the INDIA bloc.

jury in New York ordered former US president and 2024 candidate Donald Trump on Friday to pay $83.3 million to compensate the writer E. Jean Carroll whom he was found to have sexually assaulted and defamed. The civil order, which prompted an audible gasp in the federal court, far exceeds the more than $10 million in damages for defamation that Carroll had sought.

vote in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, for which more than 12 lakh polling booths would be set up across India. Over 1.73 crore of those eligible to vote are in the age group of 18 to 19 years, according to Election Commission data.

Zomi Council Steering Committee (ZCSC) submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister highlighting the plight of the Zo people — the Hmars, the Kuki-Zos and the nine Zomi tribes — who continue to bear the brunt of Meitei radicals. The ZCSC letter described how the Arambai Tenggol, a Meitei militia group, after radicalizing and then subsequently militarizing the 700-odd square miles of Meitei ancestral territory within the last eight months, have influenced 39 Meitei representatives — 37 Members of Legislative Assembly (MLAS) and two Members of Parliament (MPs) — to take an Oath favouring the desires of the militia group. The memorandum explained how the Oath commissioned by Arambai Tenggol is a pledge by the Meitei MLAs and MPs to further the State sponsored ethnic cleansing pogrom on the Zo ethnic tribes and is no different from relinquishing of the Indian State of Manipur to a group of armed Meitei radicals. The entire Oath-taking exercise testified the collapse of democracy and all forms of governance in Manipur, a case similar to Afghanistan, Libya, Gaza, etc. where armed militias took over the elected government.

BJP leaders held consultations among themselves and with allies on Friday amid signs that the party is open to joining hands with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar yet again as his ties with INDIA bloc partners nosedive. Former Bihar deputy chief minister and Rajya Sabha member Sushil Kumar Modi, who has been among the state leaders consulted by the BJP top brass, told reporters that doors are never closed permanently for anyone in politics. They open and close as per the necessity, he said, when asked about the party's earlier stand that its doors were closed for Kumar forever after he snapped ties with the BJP in August 2022.