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BJP dependent on allies to run a stable government at the Centre, the focus has shifted to possible demands Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar could make on berths in the Union Council of Ministers and financial and other relief for the state.

BENGALURU , MUMBAI : In a rare case of a business family scion exiting the board of another family-owned company, Nisaba Godrej has resigned as an independent director from the board of VIP Industries Ltd. The development comes over differences in succession planning with Dilip Piramal, the founder-chair of the country’s second-largest luggage maker, which had a market capitalization of $830 million on 5 June. “As discussed, due to my differing view on leadership accountability and succession planning, I will be resigning from the Board effective June 3rd, 2024," Godrej, who is the executive chairperson of Godrej Consumer Products Ltd (GCPL), said in her resignation letter to Piramal, according to a disclosure made by the company to the exchanges.

SÃO PEDRO DE ALCÂNTARA, Brazil—A prison in southern Brazil has come up with a novel way to bolster security: replacing guard dogs with geese. A squadron of nine silky-feathered birds—the “geese agents," as guards call them—now patrol the grassy strip of land between the inner fence and the outer wall at the high-security prison here in São Pedro de Alcântara, a small town some 400 miles north of the border with Uruguay. Fiercely territorial, the fiendish nine-pounders can be surprisingly intimidating, charging at anyone who dares enter their enclosure and unleashing a deafening cacophony of honks and shrieks that serves to alert guards if one of the prison’s 1,300 inmates tries to escape.

A 74-year-old woman was declared dead in a nursing home in Nebraska on Monday. Two hours later, a funeral home employee noticed the woman was alive and still breathing.

new moon in Gemini will be there for three days, the day before, the day and the day after. It will occur on Jun 6, so it will be there from June 5 to June 7. How will it affect people of different zodiac signs? It is known to everyone that the moon goes through different phases each month, and a new moon is when it looks all but invisible from the Earth. According to astrology, the new moon affects people with different zodiac signs as they uniquely sync with them. However, the vibe from the new moon in Gemini will technically only last a few days.

candidates who contested in the 42 Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal registered victories by massive margins. Trinamool Congress general secretary and Diamond Harbour candidate Abhishek Banerjee topped the list of nominees winning the election with a massive margin of over 7 lakh votes.

bullet fired at him narrowly? This is what happened to an individual in his real life in Commerce City just outside Denver. A man who got into an argument with an armed individual had a narrow escape when a bullet was fired at him. While many people avoid accessories, they may someday, save someone’s life and this was proved on Tuesday in this particular case. Commerce City in Colorado is about 10 miles northeast of Denver.

Tribal Affairs and Agriculture Minister Arjun Munda lost the Khunti Lok Sabha seat to Congress's Kalicharan Munda by 1.49 lakh votes, officials said. Arjun Munda, a three-time chief minister, had defeated Kalicharan Munda by 1,445 votes in 2019.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday won the Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh by a margin of 3,90,030 votes, bettering his mother Sonia Gandhi's victory margin in 2019. According to the Election Commission (EC), Rahul Gandhi secured a total of 6,87,649 votes against the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Dinesh Pratap Singh who got 2,97,619 votes. Thakur Prasad Yadav of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) secured 21,624 votes.

SJVN expects its under-construction 900 MW Arun-3 hydro-electric project in Nepal to start power generation from next year as nearly three-fourths of work has been completed, its chairman and managing director Sushil Sharma said on Tuesday. Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal triggered the last blast to mark the completion of heading excavation 11.8 km long head race tunnel of 900 MW Arun- 3 Hydro Electric Project in Sankhuwasabha district of Nepal, SJVN said in a statement. SJVN is constructing the multi-crore Arun 3 Hydro Electric Project in Nepal. More than 74 per cent of the project works have already been completed and the remaining works are going on in full swing. The project will start generation by next year and has the potential to generate 3924 million units of electricity every year, Sharma said in the statement.

Shatrughan Sinha won from the Asansol Lok Sabha seat in West Bengal on Tuesday, the ECI said. The TMC leader defeated his nearest rival S S Ahluwalia of the BJP by a margin of 59,564 votes.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should immediately resign «accepting the moral defeat» because he campaigned in the Lok Sabha polls claiming that the BJP would win over 400 seats but in reality, it failed to get a majority on its own. Addressing a press conference, Banerjee said she would try to ensure that Modi is out of power from the Centre, and the "INDIA bloc is in".

BJP's vote share suffered a decline this time while the Congress and the Samajwadi party garnered more votes compared to what they did in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, according to Election Commission data on Tuesday. The BJP, which contested more seats this time than in 2019 but is likely to fall short of the magic figure of 272, garnered 36.91 per cent of the total votes polled, a drop of around 0.39 percentage points as of 6.15 pm.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday during a press conference said that INDIA will hold a meeting with alliance members and take a call tomorrow on the possibilities of forming a government.

defence ministry said on Tuesday.

foodgrain production in India is estimated at 3,288.52 lakh tonne in 2023-24, which is lower than 3,296.87 lakh tonnes of foodgrain production of 2022-23, according to the third advance estimates of production released by agriculture ministry on Tuesday.

Mohmad Haneefa won the Ladakh Lok Sabha constituency, defeating his nearest Congress rival Tsering Namgyal by a margin of 27,906 votes, Returning officer Santosh Sukhadeve said.

political leaders, including four from the BJP, crushed the previous record of the highest victory margin in the Lok Sabha polls, with Indore's incumbent MP Shankar Lalwani topping the chart with a winning margin of more than 11.72 lakh votes. Home Minister Amit Shah, former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and BJP's Gujarat leader C R Patil were also leading with more than seven lakh votes each from their respective constituencies at the last count. Congress's Rakibul Hussain is also leading from Dhubri in Assam by a margin of more than 7.36 lakh votes.

instructors who train Ukrainian soldiers in the country would have no «immunity» from Russian strikes, the Kremlin said Tuesday, amid reports that France could despatch military trainers to Ukraine.

Indian Railways continued to register highest ever freight loading in May 2024.

delayed local train services on the Central Railway, with the authorities attributing the disruptions to the new signalling system. The Central Railway undertook a 36-hour mega block over the weekend along with a 63-hour block for widening platforms at Thane station between Friday and Sunday.