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Congress over its assertion to protect democracy, asking how it was possible with the party «taking» the support of SDPI, the political arm of the banned PFI, besides being in alliance with the DMK which she said was «renowned for burning the Constitution.» Campaigning for the BJP's North Chennai candidate RC Paul Kanagaraj, for the April 19 Lok Sabha polls, she also slammed the ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu over its leaders' alleged anti-Sanatana Dharma comments. «Today I stand in a state that is renowned for its spiritual power...which is renowned for our culture and that is why the nation is outraged when DMK leaders attack Sanatana Dharma, when the DMK leaders try to bring disrepute to the Hindu religion and today they stand exposed in front of the country when they speak about India and Indianness,» she said. She also slammed the Congress.

Mark Zuckerberg passed Elon Musk on Friday to become the third-richest person in the world, the first time since 2020 the arch-rival billionaires have held those positions. Musk, who ranked first on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index as recently as early March, fell to fourth after Reuters reported Tesla Inc. had canceled plans for a less-expensive car, sending shares lower. However, Musk denied the report. That followed news earlier in the week that Tesla’s vehicle deliveries fell in the three months through March, their first year-over-year decline since the early days of the Covid pandemic.

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The Indian National Congress (Congress) has released its list of candidates for Goa North, Goa South, Morena, Gwalior, Khandwa, and Dadra & Nagar Haveli (ST) Lok Sabha seats, ahead of the upcoming General Elections. For Goa North, the Congress has named Ramakant Khalap, while Capt. Viriato Fernandes will represent the party from the Goa South Lok Sabha seat.

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Congress leader and MP Rahul Gandhi believes his party has a chance of winning the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Speaking to reporters after the Congress released its 2024 manifesto called ‘Nyay Patra’, Gandhi expressed confidence in his party and said projections are underestimating their odds.

Qassem Suleimani with a drone strike in 2020. Israeli officials did not publicly claim responsibility for the strike (though in private they leave little doubt about their role). But they did argue that whoever bombed the embassy compound had a right to do so.

A group of lawmakers in Paraguay have called for a temporary banning of Bitcoin mining, which they say has been interrupting the nation’s power supply.

Kumaraswamy has said he is sincerely working for NDA's better prospects in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls and the continuation of alliance with BJP, after the parliamentary elections, will depend on how his party and its leaders are treated. The former Chief Minister further said that given an opportunity and if Prime Minister Narendra Modi has confidence in him, he wants to be the agriculture minister, in the event of NDA coming back to power at the Centre. In an exclusive interview to PTI Videos, after filing his nomination from Mandya on Thursday, the state JD(S) President said: «We being part of the NDA depends on how our party leaders are treated in the future. We are sincerely working and we want a long-standing relationship with BJP. But ultimately we will take a decision depending on how we are treated and how much respect we get from the BJP.» JD(S) headed by former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda joined the BJP-led NDA in September last year.

Congress is struggling to finalise candidates for the three Delhi Lok Sabha seats it is contesting in alliance with AAP. The bone of contention seems to be Chandni Chowk. Former Congress CM Sheila Dikshit's son has staked claim to it, from where former Delhi unit chief JP Aggarwal has fought. The high command is confused with the request since Sandeep has represented North East Delhi and his mother has fought from there. The AAP and Congress are part of the opposition INDIA alliance. The AAP will contest four Lok Sabha seats from the national capital, while the Congress will field candidates from three. The AAP will contest four seats — New Delhi, South Delhi, West Delhi and East Delhi — while the Congress candidates will fight the polls from Chandni Chowk, North East Delhi, and North West constituencies.

Dune 2' proved to be a massive success with a worldwide box office collection of more than $630 million and counting, director Denis Villeneuve has planned to make its sequel. Led by Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya and a host of other Hollywood A-listers, 'Dune 2' has become the highest-grossing film of 2024. Released in 2021, the original 'Dune' grossed $402 million globally. In the sequel, Chalamet's Paul Atreides fights to exact revenge against those who destroyed his family.

Lakshadweep will witness a triangular fight between NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar), Congress, and the Ajit Pawar-led NCP supported by the BJP. The incumbent Lok Sabha member Mohammed Faizal Padippura of NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) is pitted against Congress' Muhammed Hamdulla Sayeed and Yusuf T P of NCP (Ajit Pawar). The Lakshadweep constituency, which is reserved for the Scheduled Tribes, will go to the polls on April 19 in a single phase.

K Padmarajan, proudly calls himself the ‘election king’. Hailing from Tamil Nadu, Padmarajan is, perhaps, the only candidate in poll fray in Lok Sabha Elections 2024 , who has been urging people to not choose him. Why? Because, he wants to retain his tag of being the "most unsuccessful candidate", a feat also registered in the Limca Book of Records.

An environmental group is challenging the U.S. Energy Department's decision to award over $1 billion to help keep California’s last nuclear power plant running beyond 2025

Argentina says that it had cut 15,000 state jobs as part of President Javier Milei’s aggressive campaign to slash spending

Gaza. An investigative report published by +972 Magazine and Local Call, citing six Israeli intelligence officials, has made the shocking revelations.

AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh on Thursday said the six months he spent in jail boosted his morale and strengthened his resolve to raise his voice against "injustice and dictatorship". Singh, who walked out of Tihar jail on Wednesday, told PTI that his jailed party colleagues — Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia and former minister Satyendar Jain — will also be released soon. Singh had been lodged in the high-security prison in the national capital since October 13, 2023. He was arrested on October 4 last year in connection with an excise policy-linked money laundering case. He was granted bail by the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Kejriwal and Sisodia have also been arrested in the same case, while Jain is in jail in connection with a separate money laundering case.

PMLA). The CPI(M) appealed to voters to defeat the BJP, strengthen the Left, and ensure the formation of an alternative secular government at the Centre. In its manifesto, the party pledged to fight for «an uncompromising adherence to the principle that religion is separated from politics». «The CPI(M) stands for the scrapping of all draconian laws like UAPA (Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act) and PMLA,» the manifesto stated.

President Javier Milei’s aggressive campaign to slash spending, the latest in a series of painful economic measures that have put the libertarian government on a collision course with angry protesters and powerful trade unions. Presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni announced the job cuts in a news conference, portraying them as key to Milei’s promised shake-up of Argentina’s bloated public sector.

Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday filed his nomination papers from Wayanad in Kerala that he currently represents and said the upcoming Lok Sabha election «is a fight for democracy and the Constitution of India». His sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and other state leaders accompanied Gandhi for filing of the nomination and later the roadshow, displaying a major show of strength by the local Congress unit and its ally Indian Union Muslim League. Gandhi won Wayanad, considered among the safest constituencies for the party, in 2019 with a majority of over four lakh votes even as he lost from his traditional Amethi seat in Uttar Pradesh. Gandhi's main rival in the seat, Annie Raja of CPI, also filed her nomination, and she alleged that the Congress leader had neglected his constituency in the last five years.

PDP) will contest all three Lok Sabha seats in Kashmir, party chief Mehbooba Mufti announced on Wednesday. She said the INDIA alliance partner, National Conference, had humiliated her party, leaving it with no option in the run-up to the general election. The former J&K chief minister said at a presser at party headquarters that the desperate situation in the region after August 5, 2019, demanded a united response but NC vice-president Omar Abdullah humiliated the PDP and left no room for any consultations. «There has been an environment of oppression here since August 2019 and thousands of youngsters are rotting in jails outside J&K. In this situation, we had to stand united. But my workers were humiliated by the remarks of Abdullah,» said Mufti.

AAP leader Sandeep Pathak on Wednesday said Arvind Kejriwal, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate last month, is the Delhi Chief Minister and will continue to hold the post, ruling out that he will resign. He alleged that part of the conspiracy of BJP was that they would first arrest Kejriwal and say he should resign and then try to break the AAP. Talking to reporters in Amritsar after holding a meeting with party volunteers, Pathak said, «Kejriwal is CM and will remain the CM, and if need be he will run the government from inside the jail.» To another question, Pathak, who is AAP national general secretary (organisation), said people of Punjab and country are emotional, they do not like any big person dominates another person and commits excesses.

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann Wednesday asked AAP leaders to take «positive agenda» to people and seek votes for the Lok Sabha polls on the basis of work done by his government in the past two years. Mann discussed a poll strategy with AAP candidate from Sangrur parliamentary seat Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer and party MLAs from assembly segments which are part of the Lok Sabha constituency. The chief minister, who is also AAP's Punjab unit president, is the MLA from Dhuri seat which is part of the Sangrur parliamentary constituency. He has been taking meetings of party candidates along with MLAs to discuss strategies for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. On Tuesday, he held meetings with AAP candidates from Patiala and Faridkot and party MLAs.