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Congress leader Mohammed Arif Khan quits as star campaigner, writes to Kharge Maharashtra's politics has become complex since 2022 after Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party split into two parts. Currently, there are two Shiv Sena--(Uddhav Thackeray and Eknath Shinde). Similarly, there are also two NCPs- Sharad Pawar and Ajit Pawar.

India secured one of their biggest wins in archery as men's recurve team of Dhiraj Bommadevara, Tarundeep Rai and Pravin Jadhav stunned reigning Olympic champions South Korea to win the gold medal at the ongoing World Cup Stage 1 here on Sunday. In a battle between the top-two seeds of the competition, Indians showed ice-cool composure to get the better of the mighty Koreans without dropping a set. India won 5-1 (57-57, 57-55, 55-53), taking their gold medal count to five in the season-opening global showpiece. Indian compound archers had swept the team events winning men's, women's and mixed team gold medals on Saturday.

DD Mishra, VP Analyst, Gartner, says, “in 2024-25, we see that AI-led growth is going to come and AI has to play a very critical role. In 2023, AI spending was around $3.5 billion, but we are expecting that this thing is going to grow in 2024-25 significantly. There are other challenges and CIOs are struggling and in this situation, they take a lot of consulting support as well because they do not know what they do not know and this is where they depend on the consulting services which has been growing significantly. We will see disruptions in the short term, but the long term outlook is positive.” Just wanted to get a sense from you with respect to the earnings read through and the commentary that we have heard from the management of the Indian IT majors. It lacks the confidence that a recovery is around the corner. They are still non-committal about it. However, the forecasts coming in from Gartner have been improving consistently. What kind of outlook are you witnessing with respect to client spends, discretionary spends and the pace of ordering. DD Mishra: The way we look at it, there are two perspectives of it. One is the larger perspective where we see how the next four to five years are going to change around IT and that looks quite promising because we see that in 2025, 2026 and 2027, we are going to see double-digit growth and there is no cause of concern as of now.

tornado that struck Guangzhou, in southern China, reported CNN, citing Chinese state media. Guangzhou, a city of 19 million people in southern China, has been witnessing tornadoes at level-three intensity, two below the highest level of five.

Top Events of the Day: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold four rallies in the North Karnataka region in Belagavi, Uttara Kannada, Davanagere and Ballari on April 28. Orange alert issued over severe heatwave until April 28. Congress in Karnataka to stage protest on Apr 28 against 'paltry' drought relief given by Centre and more PM Modi will begin a full-fledged campaign in parts of Karnataka: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address four rallies in the North Karnataka region in Belagavi, Uttara Kannada, Davanagere and Ballari on Sunday.

Indian IT seemed elusive. And the start to FY25 hasn’t deviated much from the script, barring only pockets of resilience demonstrated by some of the biggest players, including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). Mat ters have been fu r t her complicated as the onslaught of generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) further clouds the revenue picture for an industry initially modelled after cost arbitrage in solutions delivery.

Karate Kid fans: The release date of this classic franchise has been pushed back by almost five months by Sony due to production delay, according to a ScreenRant report. Karate Kid, a 2010 film starring Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith in lead roles, has been considered a cult classic in the marital arts drama genre. The film had received critical acclaim and was a hit at the box office back then.

Madhya Pradesh that went to polls on Friday in the second phase of general elections recorded a voter turnout of 58.59 per cent, according to data released by the Election Commission on Saturday. Of the 1.1 crore eligible voters in these seats, 61.61 per cent of men and 55.46 per cent of women electors exercised their franchise, officials said. «The voter turnout in the previous (2019) Lok Sabha elections was 67 per cent in these six seats,» the state's Chief Electoral Officer Anupam Rajan said. Hoshangabad recorded the highest voting at 67.21 per cent, while Rewa stood at the bottom of the list with a turnout of 49.42 per cent, official numbers showed.

Australia's Jake Fraser-McGurk smashed 84 off 27 deliveries to fire Delhi Capitals to 257-4 and a 10-run win over Mumbai Indians in another IPL high-scorer on Saturday. Delhi, at their home Arun Jaitley Stadium, posted their best-ever total in the T20 tournament, a day after Punjab Kings chased down a record target of 262. Delhi's previous best was 231-4 in 2011 against Punjab Kings. This edition Sunrisers Hyderabad have twice smashed IPL records with totals of 277 and 287.

second phase of polling for five Lok Sabha constituencies, officials said on Saturday. The Nagaon seat registered the highest polling percentage at 84.97, followed by Darrang-Udalguri at 82.01, Karimganj at 80.48, Silchar at 79.05 and Diphu at 75.74, they said. Altogether 77.26 lakh electors were eligible to exercise their franchise in the second phase of polling held on Friday, the election officials said. Women voters recorded a higher turnout of 85.55 per cent compared to the polling percentage of men at 84.41 and the third gender at 16.47.

Sonali Bendre says she had decided to pack her bags and leave the film industry if she was unable to do a good performance in the song 'Humma Humma' from Mani Ratnam's 1995 movie 'Bombay'. Bendre, who was barely five films old in the industry, said she was often «slammed» by choreographers for her moves until she got a breakthrough for her stint as the female dancer in the superhit track 'Humma Humma' alongside Prabhu Deva's brother Raju Sundaram. According to the actress, it was a common perception at the time that one couldn't become a heroine if they didn't know how to dance. The 49-year-old said she wanted to give dancing a shot as the song was choreographed by the legendary Prabhu Deva. «I'm not a trained dancer. When I got into movies, I really got slammed by dance directors for my dancing. 'Badi heroine banne chali hai, dancing nahi aata'. So, if you couldn't dance, you couldn't be a heroine. I was going through all of that so whatever time I would get before and after the shoot, I started to train in 'Bollywood dancing', as it's called.

ALSO READ: DC vs MI IPL 2024: Hardik Pandya furious outburst on the ground as Jake Fraser-McGurk, Porel wreak havoc | Watch However, with their current momentum, winning all five remaining matches may not be possible. So, they will have to depend on other teams' performances.

Congress on Saturday accused the BJP of accommodating corrupt leaders and taking no action in cases against them once they join the ruling party. The allegations came as Prime Minister Narendra Modi campaigned in Maharashtra and ahead of his rally in Goa. It also raised the plight of onion farmers and giving clearance to projects to select corporate groups, asking if the prime minister is working for the people or his «crony businessmen friends». In a post on X, Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh alleged that the BJP's deluxe brand washing machine has been reserved for Goa.

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Kerala governor Arif Mohammed Khan on Saturday said he has given his assent to five Bills passed by the state assembly which had been pending for long. The bills include the Land Assignment Amendment Bill, Kerala Co-operative Societies (Amendment), the Paddy Wetland Amendment Bill, the Dairy Cooperation Bill and the Abkari Law Amendment Bill. Governor Khan who met the media said the assent was given a few days ago and the details were revealed today as the General elections in the state had concluded yesterday. «We had received many petitions (against the bills). So we had to send it to the government and seek their comments. Then other petitions also came in favour of the Bills. It takes time to evaluate everything and make a decision,» Khan said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday targeted the Congress-led INDI alliance, saying it is mulling to have five prime ministers in five years if voted to power. Addressing a rally at Kolhapur in western Maharashtra, Modi said the opposition bloc cannot even reach a three-digit figure or «at the doorstep of forming a government, but has plans to have one prime minister every year if they get a chance». «In Karnataka, Congress has planned to rotate the post of the chief minister by handing it to the deputy chief minister after 2.5 years. They had this arrangement in Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan as well,» he said. Modi said the Congress wants to extend the «Karnataka model wherein Muslims were inducted in the 27 per cent quota for OBCs», in the entire country.

Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday staged a demonstration at the BJP headquarters against the postponement of the election for the mayor of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. According to an official statement, over a dozen AAP MLAs and volunteers, including MLAs Rakhi Birla and Ajay Dutt, along with mayoral candidate Mahesh Khichi were detained by the police during the protest. The AAP accused the BJP of «conspiring» with the Lt Governor VK Saxena to «cancel» the mayoral elections fearing the win of the AAP candidate in the polls. The AAP alleged that the BJP wanted to stop a person from the Dalit community from becoming the Mayor of Delhi.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday received minor injuries while getting into her helicopter on Saturday from Durgapur on her way to a public rally in Asansol Constituency's Kulti for BJP candidate Shatrughan Sinha. Meanwhile, Banerjee slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a «jumla» and «Jhhuta» PM who brought CAA and NRC to Bengal to throw people out of the country. The West Bengal Chief minister Mamata Banerjee reportedly stumbled on board of her chopper while on her way to a campaign in Kulti on Saturday afternoon from Durgapur. The nature of her injury is not known yet. However, the injury was minor and she went to her scheduled rallies in Kulti and Asansol. Demanding Prime Minister's resignation from her rally, Banerjee said in the Kulti public rally, «I have never seen such a „jhhuta“ (Liar) PM. He wants to malign us. He wants to sell the country. BJP government has brought CAA, NRC and wants to throw people out of the country. But people want 'Roti Kapda Makaan' and jobs for the people, not their lofty speeches.»

Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday said that it was due to a «misunderstanding» that a leader from Maharashtra had expressed his resentment over the party not fielding any Muslim in the Lok Sabha polls in the western state. Without naming the disgruntled party leader, Kharge said that he would be «compensated», maintaining that Rajya Sabha and assembly elections in Maharashtra were also due. «To say that no Muslim candidate was fielded is wrong. It is a three-party alliance there (in Maharashtra) and mutual decisions were taken,» the Congress chief said at a press conference here. He was reacting to a question on the Maharashtra Congress leader (Naseem Khan) criticising the party for not naming any Muslim candidate in the western state, where the Congress is fighting the Lok Sabha polls as part of the Maha Vikas Aghadi along with Udhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) and Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).

Taarak Mehta Ka Oolta Chasmah’ star Gurucharan Singh has been seen in a CCTV camera. The TV actor, who has been missing for more than five days, was last seen in the Delhi airport. He was travelling to Mumbai. However, he had not landed in Mumbai or returned home. This made his father file a report. In an interview with ANI, DCP South-West Delhi Rohit Meena assured that an investigation was going on to trace the missing actor. ‘'Gurucharan Singh's family lodged a complaint with us that he left for Mumbai on 22 April at 8:30 pm. He has been missing since then. We have registered a case and are investigating from multiple angles. We are looking for footage and technical investigation, and we have even found many vital clues,” he told the news agency. The DCP further revealed that Singh was seen leaving with a backpack. The actor’s co-star from the sitcom reacted to the news. Sachin Shroff who essayed the role of Taarak Mehta, told HT City, “I got to know on Saturday morning only. Though I have not worked with him on this show, the team is definitely helping the family and in touch with the agencies, it is quite disturbing."

₹3,000 to ₹3,500 per month and govern the state from Visakhapatnam. The chief minister noted that welfare pensions, which are currently at ₹3,000 per month, will be raised to ₹3,250 from January 2028 and subsequently to ₹3,500 from January 2029.