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Tamil Nadu's main opposition party AIADMK on Wednesday finalised seat sharing arrangement for the Lok Sabha polls with allies DMDK, SDPI and Puthiya Tamizhagam. Announcing the electoral pacts here at the party headquarters, AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami said the DMDK would contest from Tiruvallur (SC), Central Chennai, Cuddalore, Thanjavur and Virudhunagar Lok Sabha constituencies. Puthiya Tamizhagam has (PT) been allocated Tenkasi constituency and SDPI the Dindigul segment, Palaniswami said. The poll pacts were signed with DMDK general secretary Premalatha Vijayakanth, PT chief K Krishansamy and SDPI's state unit chief Nellai Mubarak.

Aircraft lessor Wilmington Trust SP Services has moved NCLAT, filing an appeal against an earlier order of NCLT, which had dismissed its insolvency plea against low-cost carrier SpiceJet. Wilmington Trust's petition has been listed for hearing on Thursday before a bench headed by the Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT). Earlier on January 29, the Delhi-based bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) dismissed the insolvency petition filed by Wilmington Trust SP Services against SpiceJet. Wilmington, the aircraft lessor based in Dublin, Ireland had moved the insolvency plea against SpiceJet in June 2023 over unpaid dues.

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Suspended BSP leader and Lok Sabha MP Danish Ali joined the Congress on Wednesday in the presence of senior party leaders. After joining the Congress here, he said that going by the prevailing situation in the country, it is important to join the grand old party in the fight against «divisive» forces. «On one side are divisive forces and on the other are those forces fighting to get 'nyay' (justice) for the poor and oppressed sections of society, and the choice is very clear,» Ali said, asserting that time has come to decide where one stands. «If we have to fight with divisive forces, then one has to strengthen the Congress under the leadership of Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi,» he said.

Caribbean leaders say all groups and political parties except one have submitted nominees for a transitional presidential council charged with selecting an interim prime minister for Haiti

IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel says in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press the federal tax collector will expand its pursuit of high-wealth tax dodgers with new initiatives in the coming months

The Biden administration this week is expected to announce new automobile emissions standards that relax proposed tailpipe limits for three years but eventually reach the same strict standards set out by the Environmental Protection Agency

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) manifesto for Lok Sabha Elections 2024. Stalin also announced a list of candidates from the ruling party of Tamil Nadu for the elections beginning April 19. Stalin's sister and member of parliament (MP) Kanimozhi and other party leaders were also present at event in Chennai.

Russia’s seizure of billions of dollars worth of foreign-owned planes has set off the biggest-ever brawl in the normally staid business of aircraft insurance. Some of the world’s biggest insurers are fighting back against claims by the aircraft’s owners. The insurers say the owners should have done more to grab planes before they were seized.

Samajwadi Party on Wednesday hit out at Uttar Pradesh government over Budaun double murder accusing BJP of carrying such incidents to create religious disputes among people. «BJP wants to win elections by creating riots and communal tension in UP and that is why it is itself carrying out such incidents and creating communal tension in the districts, the result of which is today's incident in Badaun,» Samajwadi Party said in a post on X. «When BJP has lost on the real issues of the people, then religious dispute, religious fight is the last weapon left for BJP. At the behest of BJP, many goons and miscreants are roaming freely and are committing such incidents due to which fights are increasing in the society,» it added.

Ukraine amid the ongoing conflict with Russia, US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin warned that if Vladimir Putin is successful here, he will not stop there. Convening the 20th meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group, Austin said that Ukraine will not back down in the face of the Russian invasion of the country, and neither will the United States, the statement from the US Department of Defence (DOD) stated. The meeting took place at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, praising the «countries of conscience» that are working together to aid Ukraine in its fight.

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Rameshwaram Cafe was from Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister MK Stalin demanded stringent action against the minister for causing a threat to peace, harmony and national unity. Taking to microblogging platform X (formerly known as Twitter), the Tamil Nadu chief posted, “One must either be an NIA official or closely linked to the Rameshwaram Café Blast to make such claims." “Clearly, she lacks the authority for such assertions. Tamilians and Kannadigas alike will reject this divisive rhetoric of BJP" the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister said calling for appropriate legal action against the Union minister for “causing threat to peace, harmony and national unity." “From the Prime Minister to cadre, everyone in the BJP should stop engaging in this dirty divisive politics at once.

K S Eshwarappa, a staunch RSS supporter, has revolted against the party. Eshwarappa went all out against the former chief minister and BJP parliamentary board member B S Yediyurappa after his son K E Kantesh could not make it to the list of candidates announced by the high command a week ago. Karnataka has 28 Lok Sabha seats.

Narendra Modi will be speaking at the Startup Mahakumbh event in New Delhi tomorrow. “At 10:30 AM tomorrow, I will be speaking at the Startup Mahakumbh, a forum which brings together stakeholders from the world of startups, innovators and upcoming entrepreneurs. India’s strides in the world of Startups has been phenomenal in the last few years,” Modi said on microblogging platform X.

Opposition was fighting against a “Shakti". However, Rahul Gandhi, in his comments made on Sunday in Maharashtra, raised concerns about the operation of EVMs to emphasise the Opposition's struggle against the might of the state. “There is a word 'Shakti' (might) in Hinduism.

The U.N. labor agency says illegal profits from forced labor globally have risen to the “obscene” amount of $236 billion per year

Global rideshare giant Uber will pay $178 million to settle a long-running dispute with Australian taxi and hire car drivers who lost out when the company entered the Australian market

Analysts at Redburn Atlantic downgraded Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) and MongoDB (NASDAQ:MDB) to Sell from Neutral on Tuesday, saying they “lack a clear Gen-AI advantage, posing a budget reallocation risk that their current valuations do not reflect.”

Pashupati Paras claimed injustice to his party and said, "Yesterday, the NDA alliance announced the list of 40 candidates for Bihar Lok Sabha...Our party had five MPs & I worked with utmost sincerity...Injustice has been done with us and our party. Therefore, I resign from the post of Union Minister." The rift in the Bihar NDA started showing when Pashupati Paswan hinted at going solo in the Lok Sabha elections 2024, declaring that the existing MLAs of his party will recontest from their seats. However, speculation is rife that smelling the RLJP's sidelining, some of his MLAs are allegedly actively pursuing pre-poll deals with other parties.

Raw wrestling held Monday night, DIY defeated The Creed Brothers via pinfall. In yet another match, Candice LeRae & Indi Hartwell thrashed Katana Chance & Kayden Carter via submission, 'Sportskeeda' reports. Similarly, Ricochet beat Dominik Mysterio via pinfall, while Awesome Truth defeated Indus Sher via pinfall. In other fights held in the same night, New Day defeated Alpha Academy via pinfall while Becky Lynch thrashed Nia Jax.