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09.01 / 15:56
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Trump presses immunity claim, says could prosecute Biden if re-elected
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09.01 / 15:42
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Macron, Li Qiang, Zelenskyy to take part in WEF Davos meet; Irani, Vaishnaw, Puri to represent India
World Economic Forum (WEF). In an online pre-meeting press conference, WEF President Borge Brende said the meeting will take place in a very complicated and the most challenging geopolitical and geo-economic scenario.
09.01 / 14:35
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BJP set to win Sikkim Rajya Sabha seat uncontested
BJP nominee DT Lepcha is set to win the Rajya Sabha election in Sikkim uncontested with no other candidate filing the nomination papers, officials said on Tuesday. Lepcha, the MLA of Gnathang Machong in Pakyong district, would have anyway won the election with the ruling SKM extending support to him. The BJP and the SKM together account for 31 of the assembly's total 32 seats.
09.01 / 13:34
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'YSRCP govt manipulating poll process', Chandrababu Naidu complains to Election Commission
Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday met Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar here and raised a slew of complaints against the ruling YSRCP government in Andhra Pradesh. Accompanied by Janasena chief Pawan Kalyan, Naidu said they explained all the issues clearly to the Election Commission, whose members are on a two-day visit to the state ahead of the forthcoming legislative assembly and Lok Sabha elections. «Atrocities are happening unlike any other time.
09.01 / 08:56
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Thai PM expects multibillion $ handout scheme to be rolled out by May
BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand's plan to kick-start its economy via a $14.3-billion cash handout programme will proceed by May, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin told reporters on Tuesday.
09.01 / 06:55
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Kazakhstan poised to lead key organisations including SCO in 2024: President Tokayev
Tokayev has recently elaborated on the country’s foreign policy approach for 2024, saying that Astana will continue a constructive and balanced foreign policy, taking into account the national interests of the state. He pointed out that the country in 2024 will chair several international organizations at once, most notably the Organization of Turkic States, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Collective Security Treaty Organization, and the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia.
09.01 / 05:49
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Budget 2024 could unify equity, debt long term capital gain tax, holding period
interim budget 2024 before the Lok Sabha elections later this year. Over the last few years, capital gains taxation is one aspect of individual taxation which needed some reform. While some changes have been made over the years, the structure is still pretty complex and difficult to comply with for a layperson.
09.01 / 04:17
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India's neighbours have a democracy deficit
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina swept the country’s 7 January elections to achieve a fourth straight term in power, with her Awami League party winning a heavy majority of the parliamentary seats up for contest. It is another matter that these were not contested in any real sense, as the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) had boycotted the polls.
09.01 / 01:36
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Nigerian leader suspends poverty alleviation minister after financial transactions are questioned
Nigeria’s president has suspended the country’s minister of humanitarian affairs and poverty alleviation over the use of a private bank account for ministry financial transactions in the government’s social welfare program
08.01 / 21:52
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Florida Republicans replace party chairman under rape investigation
(Reuters) — Florida's Republican Party on Monday ousted their chairman as police investigate a rape accusation against him, switching leaders a week before Governor Ron DeSantis faces his first test in his quest for the GOP presidential nomination.
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China sanctions 5 US defense companies in response to US sanctions and arms sales to Taiwan
The move comes in response to U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and sanctions on China.
08.01 / 16:55
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Taiwan gears up for historic presidential elections amid heightened US-China tensions
United States and China, is set to go into elections on 13 January. In what is set to be a historic year for elections worldwide, after Bangladesh concluded a rather violent general polls, all eyes are now set on Taiwan, as voters will head to the polls this week to choose their next president, vice president and legislative representatives. A population of 23.5 million people will vote in a poll process that outsizes itself in importance owing to the disputed political status.
08.01 / 15:30
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Opposition alliance members can't add to single vote outside their state, says Piyush Goyal
opposition alliance INDIA bloc cannot garner a single vote outside their state and were struggling for their survival, Union Commerce and Industry, and Textiles Minister Piyush Goyal said here on Monday. On the political scenario ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in Tamil Nadu, he said «the air is pregnant with the possibility of an alliance.» «The INDIA bloc is only a new avatar of the UPA.
08.01 / 13:55
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Authentication of content, its source will be key with Gen AI: Tamil Nadu IT minister
Generative AI, Tamil Nadu's minister for IT and digital services Palanivel Thiaga Rajan (PTR) said during the Global Investors Meet (GIM) in Chennai. «As much as Generative AI can replace human beings, you can also do a lot of deep fakes. So, authentication of content and origination of source are going to be very important,» he said. «We have seen election manipulation in many countries through AI, deep fakes and content manipulation.»
08.01 / 13:45
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Nawaz Sharif gets fresh chance to contest polls as Pakistan's Supreme Court scraps lifetime bans on convicts
ISLAMABAD : Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday scrapped lifetime bans from contesting elections for people with past convictions, Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa said, giving Nawaz Sharif the chance to become prime minister for a fourth time. Sharif's party, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), is considered a frontrunner to win the election, scheduled for February 8, with his main rival, former prime minister Imran Khan, in jail and barred from contesting the polls for five years.
08.01 / 13:42
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PM Modi congratulates Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina on poll win, latter lauds India's ‘pivotal role’
Awami League, Sheikh Hasina cinching victory and her fifth term in office. A general election that would join the list of Bangladesh's tumultuous poll history, saw opposition parties boycott the voting citing non-guarantee of ‘fair and free’ polls. Sheikh Hasina's Awami League party won 223 of 299 seats for a simple parliament majority, according to unofficial results from the offices of the Election Commission.
08.01 / 13:42
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The Indian economy’s ‘long covid’ problem
₹1.15 lakh per year. In real terms (adjusted for higher prices of goods and services), that is 6.7% higher than in 2019-20, the last pre-covid year. After the steep decline in incomes in absolute terms in the covid years of 2020-21 and 2021-22, all states staged a recovery in 2022-23, as areas emerged from lockdown, and consumers opened their wallets.
08.01 / 13:26
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Pakistan's apex court rules against life-long disqualification of lawmakers from holding public office
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) restricted it to a five-year term only. A seven-member bench, headed by Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa, on Monday ruled that no person can be barred for a lifetime from running in elections if they are disqualified under Article 62 (1)(f).
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