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assembly elections in Rajasthan are set to be a showdown between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), with both parties acutely aware of the critical anti-incumbency factor that has shaped the state's politics since 1993. The state has witnessed a revolving chair scenario where no CM has won two consecutive terms since 1993. Gehlot is counting on his welfare schemes, but faces a tough fight. What is the date for Rajasthan elections, when are the results? The voting for the 200-seat Rajasthan state assembly will be held on November 23.

UFC and the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency is coming to an end, which could mean that Conor McGregor will be back in the octagon sooner than anticipated. USADA CEO Travis Tygart on Wednesday made a pair of announcements in a statement regarding his agency's relationship with the UFC.

₹1 trillion-plus Cipla family stake sale saga will unfold. In the first scenario, interested bidders – ranging from domestic pharmaceuticals major Torrent, which in turn is in talks with CVC Capital Partners and Brookfield’s to raise the required capital, to private equity funds like Blackstone, KKR and Advent – sweeten their current offer and acquire the company. In the second scenario, Cipla patriarch Yusuf K Hamied wins over family groups who are currently against cashing out and the sale goes through.

More than 2,000 people have been killed in the past five days following the unprecedented surprise attack by Hamas on Israel and the resulting Israeli airstrikes on Gaza.

Investing.com — Crude prices fell for a third day in a row as trading began in Asia Thursday, responding to a report by industry group API that the largest weekly crude stockpile build in eight months may have taken place in the United States last week.

Israel, US President Joe Biden on Wednesday addressed Jewish community leaders at a roundtable in the White House and called the attacks by Hamas a «campaign of pure cruelty». «I never really thought that I would see and have confirmed pictures of terrorists beheading children,» Biden said in broader remarks about his administration's support for Israel amid its war with Hamas and efforts to free American hostages. During the event at the White House, featuring a group of around two dozen rabbis and leaders of Jewish organisations, Biden also warned Iran to «be careful». «We moved the US carrier fleet to the eastern Mediterranean and we are sending more fighter jets to that region, and made it clear to the Iranians: Be careful,» he said, adding, «When terrorist groups like Hamas, brought not only a sheer evil, sheer evil to the world, evil that echoes the worst matches in some cases exceeds the worst atrocities of ISIS.» Earlier on Wednesday, the US president spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhu, marking the fourth known call between the two.

Conor McGregor, the Irish MMA sensation, is edging closer to his UFC comeback. After a significant hiatus from the sport due to a devastating leg injury, McGregor is now back in the United States Anti-Doping Agency's (USADA) testing pool, taking a significant step toward a return to the octagon.

Germany's government says it expects the country’s economy to shrink by 0.4% this year

One of the two biggest proposed carbon dioxide pipeline projects in the Midwest is being put on hold so the company can reevaluate the route

Federal Reserve officials regarded the U.S. economy’s outlook as particularly uncertain last month, according to minutes released Wednesday, and said they would “proceed carefully” in deciding whether to further raise their benchmark interest rate

Investing.com — Saudi Arabia is truly “balancing” the oil market by preparing to ship full volumes required by its North Asian customers, notwithstanding its output cuts — an act that’s costing it in price-per-barrel.

Christopher Waller on Wednesday said higher market interest rates may help the Fed slow inflation, and let the central bank «watch and see» if its own policy rate needs to rise again or not. Waller, who has been among the most vocal advocates for higher interest rates to fight inflation, said price data seemed to now be moving back towards the Fed's 2% target, with financial markets adding further credit tightening of their own. «We're in this position where we kind of watch and see what happens on rates,» said Waller, who was interviewed by former Republican House Speaker and Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan at a high-profile GOP event in Utah. «The financial markets are tightening up and they are going to do some of the work for us...We are just keeping a very close eye on that.

Israel but he was not aware of any Indian national getting injured or killed in the ongoing fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas militants, Israel's Consul General in Mumbai Kobbi Shoshani has said. Airline operations from India to Israel have been stopped and the Ministry of External Affairs is working to bring back the Indians stranded in his country, he told PTI on Tuesday.

PlayStation Store ha now listed ##k now listed "Jujutsu Kaisen Cursed Clash" (Jujutsu Kaisen Senka Soran), a 2-on-2 fighting game based on Gege Akutami's popular «Jujutsu Kaisen» manga. It is scheduled for release on February 2, 2024, in Great Britain.

Commander Inder Singh (retired), who famously sank the Pakistani submarine PNS Ghazi during the 1971 war, passed away on Monday night in Haryana. He was cremated on Tuesday at Rambagh on the Sheela bypass with full state honours.

MARRAKECH (Reuters) — The European Central Bank may have done enough to fight off inflation but needs to keeps its options open in case new shocks throw price growth off its current trajectory, Spanish central bank chief Pablo Hernandez de Cos said on Wednesday.

Israel calls last week's devastating attack by Hamas its 9/11 moment. The secretive mastermind behind the assault, Palestinian militant Mohammed Deif, calls it Al Aqsa Flood. The phrase Israel's most wanted man used in an audio tape broadcast as Hamas fired thousands of rockets out of the Gaza strip on Saturday signalled the attack was payback for Israeli raids at Jerusalem's Al Aqsa mosque. It was in May 2021, after a raid on Islam's third holiest site that enraged the Arab and Muslim world, when Deif began planning the operation that has killed more than 1,200 people in Israel, according to a source close to Hamas in Gaza. «It was triggered by scenes and footage of Israel storming Al Aqsa mosque during Ramadan, beating worshippers, attacking them, dragging elderly and young men out of the mosque,» the source said.

Mortal Kombat 1, which is the latest addition to Netherrealm Studios' iconic fighting game series, is set to compete with Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8 for the title of the ultimate fighting game. Alongside traditional game modes, it will introduce an RPG-inspired Invasion mode and boasts an extensive character roster, comprising both familiar faces and Kameo fighters.

Gaza border areas from Hamas militants as the war's death toll passed 3,000 on Tuesday, the fourth day of fierce fighting since the Islamists launched a surprise attack. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Israel's military campaign following Saturday's onslaught was only the start of a sustained war to destroy Hamas and «change the Middle East». Fears of a regional conflagration have surged amid expectations of a looming Israeli ground incursion into Gaza, the crowded enclave from where Hamas launched its land, air and sea attack on the Jewish Sabbath. The death toll in Israel has surged above 900 from the worst attack in the country's 75-year history, while Gaza officials have reported 765 people killed so far. Hamas gunmen killed more than 100 people in the kibbutz of Beeri alone, said Moti Bukjin, a volunteer with the charity Zaka that recovers bodies in accordance with Jewish law.

first learned on Sunday that Mizrachi was missing through a social media post by his former high school, King David High School in Vancouver, and confirmation from The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.He is the second Canadian believed to have been killed in Israel since Hamas launched its attack Saturday.Israel has since retaliated with airstrikes in Gaza and by cutting off supplies of food, fuel, medicines and other goods.Alexander Look, from Montreal, is also believed to have been among those killed.

Some lawmakers and regulators are calling for interest rate caps and lower fees on credit cards as debt levels march higher.