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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of «dirty election manipulation and „institutional sabotage“, Congress leaders on Tuesday said that the Supreme Court has saved democracy with its verdict in the Chandigarh Mayor election case. Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge and party leader Rahul Gandhi made a scathing attack on BJP after the Supreme Court verdict which quashed the election result and said that AAP's Kuldeep Kumar is the winner in the election for Chandigarh Mayor. Rahul Gandhi said that Returning Officer Anil Masih, who was the Returning Officer for the election, was just a pawn in the conspiracy.

Samajwadi Party leader Saleem Iqbal Shervani, who resigned as a general secretary of the party, on Tuesday said leaders from other parties have approached him but he is not going anywhere “as of now”. The former Union minister and five-time Lok Sabha MP from Badaun quit his post Sunday over the absence of a Muslim among his party's three nominees for the Rajya Sabha polls, saying it was an insult to the community. On Rahul Gandhi's “Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra”, Shervani told PTI that going by the photos and videos on social media, there was no doubt that the Congress leaders is drawing people to him.

Canada will donate more than 800 drones to Ukraine that will help its military forces detect and identify targets as it continues to fight Russia’s invasion, Defence Minister Bill Blair announced Monday.

Supreme Court on Monday ordered that the ballot papers and video that have been taken into custody by the Registrar General of Punjab and Haryana High Court according to its order, be produced before the apex court on February 20 at 2 pm. The bench expressed concern over the "horse trading" and slammed Anil Masih, the Returning Officer for the Chandigarh Municipal polls, saying he must be prosecuted for "defacing ballot papers". During the hearing today, the bench asked Masih why he had made marks (ticks and x marks) on the ballot papers he was tasked to count.

Abraham Lincoln pardoned Joe Biden's great-great-grandfather after a late-night Civil War-era brawl, documents reportedly show, linking the two US presidents across the centuries. The court martial records in the US National Archives, reported on by the Washington Post Monday, detail the trial of Moses J. Robinette after a fight with fellow Union Army civilian employee John J. Alexander on March 21, 1864.

Chandigarh Mayoral Election leading to a political and legal fight between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have to be produced in the Supreme Court February 20. The votes already cast will be counted by disregarding the marks which were made on them by the previous Presiding Officer Anil Masih, as per SC directives. Basically there won't be any fresh election to settle the dispute over the outcome of the results of election held on January 30.

Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Vasundhara Raje may form their own political outfits. "Today, if the ED (Enforcement Directorate) is stopped and section 45 of the PMLA (The Prevention of Money-Laundering Act) is abolished, half of the BJP leaders will quit the party," he said. Chouhan and Raje were overlooked by the BJP for the chief minister posts in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan respectively despite ensuring the party's return to power in the assembly polls held recently.

Shivaji is more than a historical figure in India. The very name is nothing short of an emotion in this part of the world. For many Indians, especially in the Northern belt, Shivaji is not just a mere inspirational historical figure but a symbol of resistance against oppression as well as a cultural renaissance of sorts. Every year, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Jayanti is observed on 19 February. This year will mark his 394th birth anniversary. Also referred to as Shivaji Jayanti, the day is celebrated with great zeal across the state.

Chandigarh AAP President Sunny Singh Ahluwalia alleged that they had been threatened or brought by the BJP. «They launched 'Operation Lotus'. The councillors who were protesting against them just three days ago, fighting for democracy, were either threatened or brought by the BJP and the same is going on inside the country,» Sunny Singh Ahluwalia said. The three Aam Aadmi Party Chandigarh councillors who joined BJP are Punam Devi, Neha Musawat, and Gurcharan Kala in the presence of party National General Secretary Vinod Tawde, in Delhi.

Robert Kiyosaki, author of the best-selling financial book “Rich Dad Poor Dad,” has once again made a bullish case for bitcoin price.

Israel will launch its long-threatened offensive against Rafah next month if Hamas has not freed the remaining hostages held in Gaza by the start of Ramadan, Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz said. «The world must know, and Hamas leaders must know — if by Ramadan our hostages are not home, the fighting will continue everywhere, including the Rafah area,» Gantz, a retired military chief of staff, told a conference of American Jewish leaders in Jerusalem Sunday. Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, is expected to begin on March 10.

AAP, Cong ‘mutually agreed’ to go solo in Punjab says Arvind Kejriwal "Chandigarh councillors Punam Devi, Neha Musawat, and Gurcharan Kala have joined BJP today. They are unhappy with the behaviour of their party with them. BJP will respect them and they will help in the development of Chandigarh," Vinod Tawde told ANI.

veto. Algeria, the Arab representative on the council, put the draft resolution in a final form that can be voted on. Council diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly, said the vote will take place Tuesday morning. In addition to a ceasefire, the final Algerian draft, obtained by The Associated Press, reiterates council demands that Israel and Hamas “scrupulously comply” with international law especially the protection

Nikki Haley assailed Donald Trump’s foreign policy, condemning criticized Donald Trump's approach to foreign policy, particularly highlighting his failure to speak out against the death of Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny. As reported by Bloomberg, Hayley said Sunday on ABC’s This Week, “Either he sides with Putin and thinks it’s cool that Putin killed one of his political opponents, or he just doesn’t think it’s that big of a deal.

Test match to romp to a 434-run win, their biggest victory in terms of runs. India now lead 2-1 with two Tests to play and once again look like a force at home. For some time now the template has been to play on rank turners at home, and this has resulted in a lottery of sorts. But, with England attacking relentlessly, India returned to the old model. On a Rajkot pitch that was built to last five days, with wear and tear coming into play at the back end, India played to their strengths and pulled off a perfect home Test. Records fell along the way. Yashasvi Jaiswal, returning to the crease, creamed 12 sixes — equalling the mark Wasim Akram set in the course of his unlikely double-hundred against Zimbabwe — and became the third Indian to score back-to-back double-hundreds in a series.

Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said Congress and Aam Aadmi Party had "mutually agreed" to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in Punjab separately and there is no bitterness between the two parties over the issue. “In Punjab, the Congress and AAP have mutually agreed to contest the polls separately. There is no hostility over this," NDTV quoted the Delhi Chief Minister as saying.

Jagran has reported. The top court had declared that Masih, the designated council member, must appear before the top court on February 19. Earlier on 5 February, the Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud-led bench which included Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra observed that the returning officer Anil Masih must be prosecuted as he was clearly seen defacing the ballot papers on video.

Benjamin Netanyahu responded on February 17 to rising appeals from world leaders to avoid a ground operation in Rafah, remarking that doing so would mean «losing the war against Hamas,» as reported by The Times of Israel. «Those who want to prevent us from operating in Rafah are essentially telling us: 'Lose the war.' I won't let that happen,» he vowed at an evening press conference in Jerusalem. «We won't capitulate to any pressure,» he said.

Netherlands on Saturday night, said police adding that tear gas was also used to quell the unrest in The Hague as rioters torched police cars and a bus, AP reported. Images from the scene showed vehicles in flames and dozens of men in the street, some throwing rocks. “It got seriously out of hand," The Hague Municipality spokesman Robin Middel said.

UFC 298 is taking place in California's Anaheim tonight. UFC 298 fight card shows that there will be a number of interesting MMA match-ups including the featherweight title. UFC 298 fight card includes Ilia Topuria vs Alexander Volkanovski for featherweight title, Robert Whittaker vs Paulo Costa in middleweights, Geoff Neal vs Ian Machado Garry, Henry Cejudo vs Merab Dvalishvili.

MUNICH (Reuters) — Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said on Saturday the pattern of negotiations for a framework ceasefire deal for the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza was «not very promising» in recent days.