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Polling commenced for six Lok Sabha constituencies and 42 assembly seats in Odisha on Saturday morning, amid tight security, a poll official said. Voting began at 7 am in Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapara, and Jagatsinghpur Lok Sabha seats, along with the 42 assembly segments that constitute these parliamentary constituencies.

Voting for three Lok Sabha seats in Jharkhand commenced on Saturday, amid tight security, officials said. Polling began at 7 am in Dumka, Rajmahal, and Godda, and will continue till 5 pm.

meditation on the Vivekananda Rock Memorial that began on Thursday continued today and will conclude on Saturday evening.

NEW YORK: Donald Trump stared down a bank of cameras inside Trump Tower on Friday and delivered a message fitting for both his legal and political battles: He is ready to fight. A day after a New York jury found him guilty of 34 counts related to falsifying documents to hide hush money payments to a porn star, the Republican presidential candidate rattled off a list of adversaries and grievances in angry, rambling remarks.

polls in the last phase of Lok Sabha elections in Kolkata, its suburbs and Sunderban region were never won by BJP, except Dum Dum. South Bengal, specially Kolkata and adjoining seats, are considered as a bastion of Trinamool Congress. In 2019, Trinamool won all the nine seats going to the polls on June 1. Out of these nine seats, several political heavyweights are in the fray in the south Bengal region including Trinamool general secretary Abhishek Banerjee in Diamond Harbour. Banerjee is party's de facto number two and has vowed to win the seat with the highest margin. Another Trinamool stronghold is Kolkata Uttar (North), fought by Sudip Bandyopadhyay who has a tough challenger this time with former Trinamool MLA Tapas Roy fighting on a BJP ticket. A key battle is on the anvil this time in Jadavpur with a three-cornered contest between Trinamool youth leader Sayoni Ghosh, CPI-M youth brigade representative Srijan Bhattacharya and BJP's Anirban Ganguly. Trinamool has a complete stronghold in Kolkata Dakshin (South) which includes Mamata Banerjee's assembly constituency. The seat is witnessing mostly an all-women contest with Trinamool's Mala Roy contesting against BJP's Debashree Chaudhuri and CPI-M's Saira Shah Halim.

Punjab goes to polls on June 1, in the last phase of the Lok Sabha elections, wrapped in an air of unpredictability. With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) breaking the alliance with the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), now there are four big parties in fray. For a long time, Punjab had been a two-party state with the Congress and the SAD. The AAP's victory in the 2017 assembly polls changed that. In several seats, it's a five-cornered fight as Sikh radical candidates who support Khalistan, are also contesting. The chief among them is Amritpal Singh, the Sikh separatist who headed the 'Waris Punjab De' outfit, and is lodged in Assam's Dibrugarh jail under the National Security Act. However, the most influential among the separatists fighting elections is Simranjit SIngh Mann, the president of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar), who had won in the 2019 elections from Sangrur, the home district of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann of the AAP. Amritpal, the candidate in jail The entry of jailed radical Sikh preacher Amritpal Singh into the poll fray as an Independent candidate from the Khadoor Sahib Lok Sabha seat has stirred the politics in this region, which borders Pakistan.

NDTV, the Congress chief said that Rahul Gandhi would be a popular choice for the top post."Rahul Gandhi is my choice to be Prime Minister," Kharge told NDTV, adding, he represents the youth, and length and breadth of the country.Also Read: Who will be PM if INDIA bloc wins election: Here's what AAP's Arvind Kejriwal has to sayHowever, the Congress chief added that the INDA bloc has decided they are fighting together, and after winning, the coalition will jointly decide who will be PM.He also rubbished talk that he too could be a PM candidate."How can I propose my (own) name? The party will take a call. Alliance parties might have named me but, in our party, we will sit (together) and decide...

convicted of a felony — let alone 34 of them – is the kind of blow that would normally tank any politician’s ambitions. Donald Trump will instead try to turn what might otherwise be a career-ending judgment into campaign fuel.

Authorised Push Payment fraud has soared in recent years, with UK losses of more than $500 million last year. To tackle this, regulators are rolling out new rules for the banking industry that, from October, will see the vast majority of money lost to APP frauds reimbursed to victims. However, UK banks have long been campaigning for big tech, social media and telcos to take more responsibility for fraud that originates from their platforms.

Monkey D. Luffy and his adventures on the Grand Line. However, Netflix's live adaptation of the anime was just a gift from the universe, as non-anime viewers also got a taste of what One Piece means for manga and anime lovers. 'One Piece Season 2' previously introduced two new characters earlier, according to a previous ET report, that included Smoker and Tony Tony Chopper.

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies asked state forces and combatants Thursday to respect its neutrality and work of delivering urgent humanitarian help to the most destitute in war and other high-risk zones, saying 24 of its aid workers had been killed so far this year mostly in the Gaza Strip. IFRC President Kate Forbes, who is visiting the Philippines, said in a statement posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, that two more of her group's aid workers, Palestine Red Crescent Society paramedics Haitham Tubasi and Suhail Hassouna, were killed Wednesday when their ambulance was hit west of Rafah, Gaza's southernmost city.

Louisiana has come out with an innovative way to fight the menace of child sex offenses. Its House of Representatives passed a bill 74 to 24 Tuesday, authorizing the judges to sentence the convicted child sex offenders to surgical castration, reports 'The US Sun'. Originally, the bill required the sex offenders to undergo surgical castration, but an amendment left it to the decision of the judges.

California lawmakers have advanced a host of artificial intelligence proposals that would protect jobs, build public trust, fight algorithmic discrimination, and outlaw deepfakes involving elections or pornography

Basirhat (WB): BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday urged women in troubled Sandeshkhali region, as well as other areas of Basirhat Lok Sabha constituency, to blow conch shells as a signal if they see any suspicious activities before the June 1 election. Speaking at a campaign rally in support of BJP candidate Rekha Patra, Adhikari voiced concerns about potential visits by «TMC-controlled state police» and others to intimidate residents into voting for the ruling party. He advised residents to blow conch shells if they observe unfamiliar people entering their neighborhoods late at night and cautioned against accepting money from organisations linked to the TMC. «If you (residents) see any suspicious movement at night, if you notice police personnel accompanied by strangers but not central force personnel entering your locality, blow conch shells if the situation warrants,» he said.

Kolkata: No joy for residents of the City of Joy who seem to have been thrust into a whirlwind of anxiety and are bracing for a possible disruption in their daily lives starting this Friday. The source of their dread is the looming Lok Sabha polls on June 1 when the city and its suburbs vote and its aftermath till the results are announced on June 4. This critical period promises chaos, as a substantial portion of the workforce engaged in myriad professions across the metropolis prepares to abandon the city and return to their villages to exercise voting rights. Polling will take place in various constituencies in Kolkata and its adjacent districts of North, and South 24 Parganas in the final leg of the general elections.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said renowned figures like Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and Albert Einstein drew inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi. He made these remarks during a political gathering in Odisha's Balasore district. Responding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's assertion that the world only learned of Mahatma Gandhi through the film 'Gandhi,' Rahul Gandhi criticised those affiliated with the RSS, suggesting their lack of understanding regarding Gandhi's legacy. «Whose training is done in 'sakha' of RSS, they are followers of Godse, they do not know anything about Gandhiji. They do not know about the history of Hindustan, truth and violence. This is expected that the PM will tell that the world does not know anything about Gandhiji,» he said.

The problem of climate change cannot be solved without capitalism. Governments have tried for more than three decades with little to show for it. And while more of them are now engaging partners in the private sector, the world is still lagging in deploying the full power of the market.

Stay up to date with our new daily update, The US in brief, and our presidential poll tracker. Read more of our coverage of the US elections of 2024. Admirers and detractors alike, however, struggle to predict specific policies Mr Trump might adopt. Even those close to him admit that, until he is in the room with the likes of Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping or Prince Muhammad bin Salman, he may not know himself what he wants to do. The art of the deal, they claim, lies in personal dynamics.

war in Gaza might persist until the year's end, casting doubt on hopes that the fighting would cease after the military operation against Hamas in Rafah, CNN reported. Tzachi Hanegbi, Israel's national security adviser, indicated that 2024 had been designated a «year of combat» by Israel's war cabinet. «We are now in the fifth month of 2024, which means we expect another seven months of fighting to deepen our achievements and achieve our goal of destroying the military and governmental capabilities of Hamas and Islamic Jihad,» Hanegbi stated. These remarks come as Israeli tanks, spotted in central Rafah for the first time since the operation commenced, continued to advance on the southern Gaza city on Wednesday. This action persists despite mounting global pressure to halt the offensive, as reported by CNN.

McDonald’s is fighting back against media reports it says have exaggerated its price increases

About 10 drag artists from around the United States are banding together to protect and promote their art form