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INDIA block is finally going to announce the seat sharing formula on Friday in Patna. Sources tell ET that as per the agreement, RJD will contest 26 seats, Congress will contest on nine seats and Left parties will contest on remaining five seats. Among Left parties, CPI (ML) will contest three seats and CPI and CPM will contest one seat each. However, meeting went on till late evening in Delhi between Congress and RJD over the specific Lok Sabha seat. Congress wants Purnia Lok Sabha seat for Pappu Yadav. But RJD has already fielded Bima Bharti from the seat. Congress has been given the Supaul seat. Sources tell ET that there is possibility that RJD can exchange Supaul giving Madhepura to Congress from where Pappu Yadav can fight the election. Pappu Yadav on the other hand is still adamant on Purnia seat. Congress will get Sasaram, Katihar, Patna Sahib, Bettiah, Valmiki Nagar, Maharajganj among others. Congress is also likely to get one seat between Muzaffarpur and Bhagalpur.

INDIA Bloc on Friday announced seat sharing in Bihar for the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls starting April 19, 2024. The RJD has been given 26 seats. Meanwhile, Congress and the left bloc received nine and five seats respectively. The INDIA bloc had called a joint press conference in RJD headquarters where Tejashwi Yadav, who is also the Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly, officially announced the number and the names of candidates for all 40 Lok Sabha seats.

Congress will reserve 50 per cent of government jobs for women if it is voted to power, former party chief Rahul Gandhi said on Friday, asserting that powerful women will change the destiny of India. Gandhi asked why even today only one in three women is employed and why is there only one woman in 10 government jobs. «Isn't the population of women in India 50%? Is the presence of women in higher secondary and higher education not 50%? If so, then why is their share in the system so less?» the former Congress chief said. «Congress wants — 'Aadhi Abaadi Poora Haq', we understand that women's potential will be fully utilized only when women have equal contribution in the government running the country,» he said in a post in Hindi on X.

Quant Value Fund, the topper in the list, offered 69.40% CAGR on a lumpsum investment made in this fund on April 1, 2023. A lumpsum investment of Rs 1 lakh in this fund would have been Rs 1.69 lakh now.

Nirav Sheth, CEO-Institutional Equities, Emkay Global Financial Services, says: “We are in a very fortunate situation in terms of the earnings trajectory. My earnings have almost doubled in the last three years and I am talking about the largecap sector. The macros are solid in terms of the outlook on the current account deficit, rupee, interest rates, earnings. And when you have got all the cylinders firing, you generally do not expect valuations to come cheap. You will have to take some level of risk. So sitting where I am today in terms of what we can see, I would go out and say that India could end up in bubble territory in the next three, four, five years in the emerging market universe. At the start of March, there was talk in the market that seasonally March turns out to be volatile because of a lot of adjustment happening in advance tax numbers, then a lot of leverage guys do reshuffling and usually it is a bit volatile. But the big factor that came out is that in net-net, people made a lot of gains this fiscal. This is the eighth year in a row that we are seeing positive returns from the market. Do you see the construct of the market being easy in the new fiscal year or should investors’ return expectations be moderated this year? Nirav Sheth: To answer your first question, I am very constructive on the economy; maybe constructive is not the right word. I am terribly bullish on the trajectory of the economy for the next several years, as we can see today.

death of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari due to cardiac arrest, Umar Ansari, son of Mukhtar Ansari, claimed that his father was given poison in the food and said they would move to the judiciary. «We have full faith in it,» he added. «I was not told anything from the administration side, I came to know about it through the media… But now the whole nation knows everything… Two days ago I came to meet him, but I was not allowed… We said earlier also and even today we will say the same about the allegation of giving slow poison. On March 19, he was poisoned in the dinner. We will move to the judiciary, we have full faith in it...» Umar Ansari, son of Mukhtar Ansari, said. «Post-mortem will be conducted tomorrow, after that, they will give us the body. We will then follow with the further process (cremation)… My father alleged being given a slow poison… Around five doctors panel has been made (for carrying out the post-mortem),» Umar Ansari added.

Mukhtar Ansari, who suffered cardiac arrest on Thursday night. Police conducted a flag march in the area, and an alert has also been issued in the entire state, said IG Aligarh Range Shalabh Mathur. «After the death of Mukhtar Ansari, an alert has been issued in the entire state. There is also an alert in the area regarding this and now SSP Aligarh is with us and taking stock regarding this. Police administration will remain alert on all these points. All the officials will monitor the spread of rumours on social media,» he added.

Mukhtar Ansari in Ghazipur. Paramilitary forces have also been deployed outside Banda Medical College. According to Hindustan Times, Mukhtar Ansari's brother Afzal Ansari said Mukhtar Ansari was poisoned in jail by a substance mixed in food.

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Mukhtar Ansari passed away on Thursday night. Ansari was admitted to Banda Medical College earlier today after he was found lying unconscious in his barrack. The jail officials immediately spotted him and took him to the district hospital, said a TOI report. Sources in Banda jail said that Mukhtar Ansari suffered a heart attack and was taken to the hospital.

Election Commission has rejected 71 of 155 nominations filed for eight Lok Sabha seats of Uttar Pradesh that will go to polls in the first phase of elections, Chief Electoral Officer Navdeep Rinwa said on Thursday. Saharanpur, Kairana, Muzaffarnagar, Bijnor, Nagina, Moradabad, Rampur, and Pilibhit will vote in the first phase on April 19. Thirteen candidates filed nominations from the Saharanpur Lok Sabha seat. During scrutiny of nomination papers, one nomination was rejected and the remaining 12 nomination papers were found valid, the officer said. Seventeen candidates filed nominations from the Kairana Lok Sabha seat. Two of these were rejected.

Ontario-based couple Kathleen*, 62, and Charles, 65, are preparing to start drawing from their retirement savings as their main source of income and are looking to put their registered retirement savings plans to work for them.

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The coach of Oxford’s crew taking part in the Boat Race has described the pollution in London’s River Thames as a “national disgrace.”

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₹6,238 crore. According to BNP Paribas, the market size of ACs in India is ₹18,000 crore and it is estimated to grow 12-15% by 2027.

BJD. He was representing the Cuttack Lok Sabha seat since 1998. Along with Mahtab, MP Sidhant Mohapatra and Padma awardee Dr Damayanti Beshra also joined the BJP.

I have to say that watching the recent fiasco in the House of Commons with respect to the subtle (maybe not too subtle) shift in Mideast policy makes it embarrassing enough to be a Canadian, but the government’s mishandling of the economy and fiscal policy is beyond the pale — declining real per-capita incomes in Canada year in and year out.

Rajnath Singh on Thursday said India and its borders are «totally secure» and the people of the country should have full faith in the armed forces. During a fireside chat on the concluding day of the Times Now Summit here, while responding to a question on the criticism of the Agniveer scheme, the minister said such questions have «no standing» and underlined that everyone will accept that the armed forces should have a young profile. During the event, the Union minister also shared anecdotes from his nearly 50-year-long political journey. Asked how he reacted to questions raised by many, including members of the opposition, on the India-China border issue, Singh said they never made him uncomfortable.