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India sent a special envoy to Israel during its war with the Hamas terror group, to urge them to maintain peace rather than engage in combat during the month of Ramadan. In an interview with Republic TV, PM Modi stressed on Friday that Israel should not fight, at least during the auspicious month of Ramadan. «The time when Israel and Hamas were at war. I sent my special envoy to Israel to explain that Ramadan is going on. At least don't fight in Ramadan, don't attack anyone,» PM Modi said.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday walked out of Tihar jail after 50 days. The Supreme Court granted him interim bail in the Delhi Excise Policy case till June 1 and said that the Aam Aadmi Party leader is not a threat to the society. A huge crowd of supporters gathered outside Tihar jail to welcome the Chief Minister on his release. After coming out of jail, the Delhi CM said, " I have a request, we have to save the country from dictatorship. I am fighting against it with all might."

world will witness a «very, very stormy» churn because of conflicts, power shifts and sharpening competition in this decade, which makes it all the more important for India to have a stable and mature leadership, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said. In an exclusive interview to PTI late Thursday, Jaishankar painted a picture of the world radically different from the one we are living in now by the end of 2020s when asked to draw on his nearly 50 years of experience in diplomacy and politics to give an assessment of the global power balance. «Multiple conflicts, tensions, divides! With all these variables that I am putting to you, I am painting to you, actually, a very, very stormy international scene for the balance of the decade,» said Jaishankar, a former ambassador to China and the United States, who was tapped for the political role by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2019. Jaishankar especially referred to the declining influence of the United States, the conflict in Ukraine, the fighting in Gaza, attacks in the Red Sea, tensions in the South China Sea, the challenge of terrorism in different geographies and advent of new technologies as the drivers of the «churn».

Opposition leaders on Friday welcomed the interim bail given to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by the Supreme Court, saying the «fight to save democracy» will now be with more intensity. Congress leader Pawan Khera hoped former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren also gets due justice. «We welcome the intervention by the Supreme Court in granting bail to Arvind Kejriwal...We also hope that the prime minister gets enough time after June 4, when he becomes the former prime minister of India, to introspect sitting in Sabarmati Ashram the kind of politics he has indulged in,» he said. West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee also welcomed the Supreme Court order, saying «I am very happy to see that Shri Arvind Kejriwal has got interim bail. It will be very helpful in the context of the current elections.»

Pakistan being discussed when elections are taking place in India and the unemployment rate here is at a 45-year high, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra asked on Friday as she hit back at the BJP on the row over Mani Shankar Aiyar's remarks. She also asked the ruling party to fight the polls on real issues. In an exclusive interview with PTI, Priyanka Gandhi accused the BJP of raising the Hindu-Muslim rhetoric to win the elections and asserted that the people don't want the polls to be contested on the basis of religion and caste. «People are saying you've (the BJP) won two elections on religion and now move forward from that,» the Congress general secretary said.

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world will witness a «very, very stormy» churn because of conflicts, power shifts and sharpening competition in this decade, which makes it all the more important for India to have a stable and mature leadership, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said. In an exclusive interview to PTI late Thursday, Jaishankar painted a picture of the world radically different from the one we are living in now by the end of 2020s when asked to draw on his nearly 50 years of experience in diplomacy and politics to give an assessment of the global power balance. «Multiple conflicts, tensions, divides! With all these variables that I am putting to you, I am painting to you, actually, a very, very stormy international scene for the balance of the decade,» said Jaishankar, a former ambassador to China and the United States, who was tapped for the political role by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2019. Jaishankar especially referred to the declining influence of the United States, the conflict in Ukraine, the fighting in Gaza, attacks in the Red Sea, tensions in the South China Sea, the challenge of terrorism in different geographies and advent of new technologies as the drivers of the «churn».

₹2 lakh if the grand old party comes to power," he said while addressing an election rally in Ratlam. He also spoke about the ‘Mahalaxmi Scheme’ announced in the Congress manifestofor the Lok Sabha Elections 2024, which says, “one woman from every poor household" will get ₹1 lakh annually. State BJP spokesperson Narendra Saluja slammed the Congress party over Bhuria's “two wives" statement, asking the Election Commission of India to take action on the matter.

BJP in Telangana is aggressively pushing to improve on its previous tally of four out of 17 seats in the May 13 Lok Sabha polls in the face of the ruling Congress party’s guarantees that are less than one year old. A larger tally would help the saffron party establish a firm foothold in another southern state, aside from Karnataka and aim for a win in the assembly in coming years. Sections of political analysts believe pro-BJP sentiment is one the rise in state, especially in urban areas, amidst heavy campaigning by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union home minister Amit Shah, party president J.P. Nadda, Union minister Smriti Irani, and other national leaders. A slew of defections from the Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) may also help the saffron party’s chances, they said. However, the BJP giving five of the 17 available NDA tickets to recent imports in the place of older core members may leave the party with internal fissures. In the assembly polls last year, the party had fielded 118 candidates, 54 of which were defectors. Only one of them managed to win. “We have been working for the party and have managed to build a base ever since the state was formed. But the leadership has chosen to field people from other parties over our own leaders, which is disappointing,” a party member said.

As policy-wonk buzzwords go, few are more important these days than “ample." What that word means, or rather what the Federal Reserve thinks it means, has become a $7.4 trillion question hanging over the U.S. economy. The issue is the Fed’s balance sheet, which currently stands at about that level.

₹6.49 lakh ex-showroom. It launched the new Swift with six airbags as a standard offering across all its variants, marking a change in the carmaker's stance, and after fighting back regulation that could potentially make six airbags standard equipment in cars. The Swift also debuts a new Z-series 1.2 liter engine, the most fuel-efficient in its segment, with a claimed fuel efficiency of up to 25.75 kmpl.

A battle is underway in California between a unit of the Wonderful Co. and United Farm Workers over how a group of workers organized under a recently-enacted labor law

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Murshidabad's Baharampur, where five-time MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury of the Congress is taking on Trinamool candidate Yusuf Pathan and BJP's Nirmal Chandra Saha. Voting is scheduled for May 13. The fight has also turned personal between chief minister Mamata Banerjee and Chowdhury, who was against any compromise by the Congress with the Trinamool over seats. To challenge Chowdhury, Trinamool has brought in Pathan, a Gujarati who for several years was a player of the Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL. While Chowdhury is very vocal in his criticism of Banerjee, the CM has also not minced words in attacking the Congress leader. She blames him for the failure of the alliance with the Congress as part of INDI Bloc in Bengal, and calls him an «agent of the BJP» who has teamed up with the CPM.

National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah wrote to the Election Commission of India (ECI) seeking its immediate intervention as the party claimed that the Jammu and Kashmir Police had cancelled the permission it had granted the party for holding election rallies in Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency, which goes to the polls on May 20. Former J&K chief minister Abdullah, the party's Lok Sabha candidate from Baramulla, urged the ECI to take action against the «unjust move», which he said was designed to «create obstacles» in his election campaign. «We have received a letter informing us about cancellation of permission. On one hand BJP claims that the situation has changed in J&K, but when it is about the election campaign, they create obstacles because we are fighting elections against representatives of the BJP here,» said Abdullah.

enforcement agencies against its candidates or office bearers. A BJP spokesperson, however, denied that the Opposition was being targeted for political reasons. Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (UBT) Sena's candidate for Mumbai North-West, Amol Kirtikar, has received a notice from Enforcement Directorate hours after he filed his nomination. The notice was in a case of 'providing substandard khichdi' to migrant workers after the Modi government's overnight nationwide lockdown to stop the spread of Covid-19. Similarly, Nashik police served UBT Sena district chief Sudhakar Badgujar with an 'externment' notice. He has several cases against him and it is not clear why the notice was served on him. However, he was in the news for allegedly dancing in a farmhouse in 2016 with Salim Kutta, an aide of gangster Dawood Ibrahim convicted in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case. The notice was served hours after Shiv Sena minister Dada Bhuse said, during a campaign for Sena MP Hemant Godse, that CM Eknath Shinde should look into the Badgujar and Kutta issue. Godse is engaged in a tough fight with UBT Sena's Rajabhau Waje in Nashik.

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did not say anything about Sonia Gandhi, she came from Italy...This is the mindset of the Congress..." It is important to note that Congress leader Sam Pitroda, in an interview with 'The Statesman', while reflecting upon the democracy in India said, “We have survived 75 years in a very happy environment where people could live together, leaving aside few fights here and there. We could hold a country together as diverse as India, where people on east look like Chinese, people on West look like Arab, people on North look like white and maybe people on South look like Africans." Earlier on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi criticised the grand old party and asked the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), the key ally of Congress, if it would snap ties with the party.

Adarniya Behen (Dear sister)" said that he would accept and obey the BSP chief's commands. “Aaapka adesh sir mathe par (Your orders are our obedience)", Anand wrote. Divested of responsibilities as the BSP national coordinator, Akash Anand said that he considered Mayawati a role model for the entire Bahujan community.

HD Kumaraswamy said that the Prajwal Revanna case was not small and the accused even if he is powerful should be dealt with seriousness. JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy said, «I don't consider this Prajwal Revanna case as a small case. However powerful that person is, he must be dealt with seriousness. I'm the first person to say that the culprit should be dealt with properly.» DK Shivakumar had alleged that HD Kumaraswamy is behind the release of Prajwal Revanna's pen drives.

Mayawati removes Akash Anand as her successor and BSP national coordinator She said her brother and Akash's father Anand Kumar will continue to fulfil his responsibilities as before. On April 28, Akash Anand was booked in a case of violation of Model Code of Conduct along with four others for allegedly using objectionable language at a poll rally in Sitapur.