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Late last year, U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi reported a transaction to purchase call options in NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA). After a massive rally in the stock this year related to breathtaking AI uptake and the company's strong financial results, Pelosi is now said to be sitting on a significant windfall profit.

A post shared by Sonu Nigam (@sonunigamofficial) Recalling his multiple interactions with Pankaj Udhas, PM Modi wrote," We mourn the loss of Pankaj Udhas Ji, whose singing conveyed a range of emotions and whose Ghazals spoke directly to the soul. He was a beacon of Indian music, whose melodies transcended generations. I recall my various interactions with him over the years.

Nirmala Sitharaman and S Jaishankar will contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, their cabinet colleague Pralhad Joshi said on Monday without elaborating much on the subject. “It is more or less decided that they will contest the LS polls,” he told the media in Dharwad while adding that the party was yet to take a call on whether either of them should contest from Karnataka or both from outside. It is often speculated that either Jaishankar or Sitharaman will contest from Bengaluru as the BJP won all three seats in the city in 2019. The FM represents Karnataka in the Rajya Sabha and is also quite familiar with Tamil Nadu and Telangana. Born in Madurai, she toured Tamil Nadu ahead of the Ram Mandir Pran Pratishtha in January and watched the ceremony from Kanchipuram. Jaishankar, who did his early schooling in Bengaluru, actively campaigned for the party ahead of the assembly polls, last year.

Smriti Irani said on Monday and questioned the Congress' silence on alleged sexual abuse of women by TMC supporters in the village. Congress people want to go there and talk but the «shehzada», who is still lost in the maze of politics, has not said a word on this matter, the Women and Child Development minister said in an apparent reference to senior party leader Rahul Gandhi. Sandeshkhali in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district has been on the boil for a month with protests against local TMC leader Sheikh Shajahan and his supporters over allegations of land grabbing and sexually abusing local women. Sheikh has been absconding since an Enforcement Directorate team that raided his house in connection with an alleged ration scam was attacked by a mob last month.

Nafe Singh Rathee and one of his three bodyguards succumbed due to heavy bleeding, the other two are in critical condition. The Haryana police are scanning the CCTV footage around the area and have identified a suspected car.

RIA Novosti news service published on Monday. RIA reported that Siluanov’s answer was in response to a question on Russia’s frozen foreign reserves. The group of seven (G-7) nations should be “bolder" in seizing frozen Russian assets, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said in an article published on Sunday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid homage to the death anniversary of freedom fighter Veer Savarkar, praising his contributions as a source of inspiration to pursue the advancement and prosperity of our nation. The prime minister said in a post on X, “Tributes to Veer Savarkar on his Punya Tithi.

Across the EU, those battling climate change and defending the environment feel they are ever more on the defensive

Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas on charges of land grabbing from villagers, news agency PTI reported. The report said Maiti, a close aide of fugitive Shajahan Sheikh, was detained from the residence of a civic volunteer where the TMC leader had locked himself for over four hours after being chased by villagers. "We detained him following complaints of land grabbing by villagers.

The prime ministers of Hungary and Sweden have concluded a defense industry agreement that will expand Budapest’s fleet of Swedish-built fighter jets

The body of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been handed over to his mother, a top aide to Navalny said Saturday on his social media account.Ivan Zhdanov, the director of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, made the announcement on his Telegram account and thanked “everyone” who had called on Russian authorities to return Navalny’s body to his mother.Earlier Saturday, Yulia Navalnaya, Navalny’s widow, accused President Vladimir Putin of mocking Christianity by trying to force his mother to agree to a secret funeral after his death in an Arctic penal colony.“Thank you very much. Thanks to everyone who wrote and recorded video messages.

Donald Trump is looking to win his fourth straight primary state on Saturday over Nikki Haley in South Carolina, aiming to hand a home-state embarrassment to his last remaining major rival for the Republican nomination. Trump went into Saturday's primary with a huge polling lead and the backing of the state's top Republicans, including Sen. Tim Scott, a former rival in the race.

The latest fashion in tax grabs is the vacant property tax (VPT). In Vancouver it’s called the “empty home tax.” In Toronto it’s the “vacant home tax.” Whatever the name, taxing residential property that isn’t used for a government-prescribed minimum number of days in a year is pernicious.

Al Jazeera report, teams across India’s political parties, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and the Congress, are deploying deepfakes to influence voters. In recent months, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), which governs Tamil Nadu, has used AI to resurrect its iconic leader M Karunanidhi from the dead, using lifelike videos of the former movie writer and veteran politician at campaign events. Between March and May, India’s nearly one billion voters will pick their next national government in the world’s, and history’s, biggest elections.

Yuvraj Singh will be contesting on BJP ticket from Gurdaspur parliamentary constituency, a report by Times of India stated. Currently, Sunny Deol is the BJP MP from Gurdaspur. Reports have stated that Yuvraj Singh will be replacing Deol in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Congress MP from Thiruvananthapuram. The accolade was announced in August 2022 but awarded on February 20. France recognised Tharoor for his efforts to strengthen the bond between India and France, his dedication to global peace and his friendship with France, as per a statement issued by the French Embassy.

By Daniel Tichenor, University of Oregon Immigration is already a major polarizing issue in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Arrests for illegal border crossings from Mexico reached an all-time high in December 2023, and cities like New York and Chicago are struggling to provide housing and basic services for tens of thousands of migrants arriving from Texas. In early February 2024, a group of senators proposed new immigration legislation that would have slowed the migrant influx at the border. The bill would have made it harder for migrants to both apply for and receive asylum, which is the legal right to stay in the U.S. because of fear of persecution if they return back home. But the bill, like others proposed in recent years, quickly faltered after Republicans opposed it.

In a highly fractious polity, convergence of views is a rarity. Yet, there are issues on which people across India’s political divide agree.

Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, which started on January 14 from Thoubal in Manipur and will end on March 20 in Mumbai, spanning the country from east to west, was planned with the aim of pre-poll mobilisation of voters. It was expected to repeat the success of Bharat Jodo Yatra which had catapulted Rahul to the top of the news for a long period and positioned him as a leader who had the support of different sections in India. A large number of celebrities and politicians from different parties had joined Rahul to deliver the message that Rahul is a big leader who enjoys widespread support. However, the Nyay Yatra pales in comparison to the previous yatra. Rahul has been isolated as alliance members have been ditching the party during the yatra. How Bharat Jodo Yatra fared

Enforcement Directorate has issued fresh summons to TMC leader and expelled Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra for questioning in a FEMA contravention case after she did not depose on Monday, sources said. The 49-year-old politician has been given a week's time to appear after she sent a communication to the agency expressing her inability to depose, they said. A response from the Trinamool Congress (TMC) politician was not available immediately. The ED wants to question Moitra and record her statement under the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) once she deposes.