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Rajnath Singh on Saturday left for Uttar Pradesh by road from Jharkhand's Garhwa as his helicopter could not refuelled at Banshidhar Nagar where he addressed a rally, a top police officer said. «He left for UP by road from Garhwa as his chopper could not be refuelled,» Jharkhand DGP Anurag Gupta told PTI. Garhwa SP Deepak Pandey told PTI that since the vehicle carrying fuel for the helicopter failed to reach, Singh decided to proceed to Varanasi by road.

drone attack set multiple Russian arms depots ablaze, including one deep inside the country, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed for quick action from the United States to send more weapons ahead of his visit to the White House with a multi-point "victory plan." Ukraine launched over 100 drones at Russia and occupied Crimea overnight, Russian news reports and the Defense Ministry said Saturday. The strikes set an arms depot on fire that appeared to be in the same town as one struck by Ukrainian drones early Wednesday, injuring 13 people and also causing a huge blaze. Arms and ammunition depots were also hit in southwestern Russia, sparking speculation that missiles supplied to Moscow by North Korea may have been destroyed.

Catch LIVE updates with MintSri Lanka elections result 2024 LIVE Updates: In July 2022, Ranil Wickremesinghe was elected by Parliament to complete Rajapaksa's term and is now seeking another term to build on recent gains.However, many accuse him of shielding the Rajapaksa family, whom they hold responsible for the crisis, and he was primarily elected with support from Rajapaksa loyalists in Parliament and his Cabinet.Sri Lanka elections result 2024 LIVE Updates: The economic collapse in Sri Lanka caused severe shortages of essentials like medicine, food, cooking gas, and fuel, leading to long lines and widespread riots. Protesters stormed key buildings, including the president's house and office, ultimately forcing then-President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee and resign.Sri Lanka elections result 2024 LIVE Updates: According to a report by DW, the cost of living in Sri Lanka remains very high, unemployment remains very high, so people are still reeling from the economic crisis.Therefore, a nation that has voted on the lines of religion, of race, and ethnicity, in all these years, only has 'ECONOMIC CRISIS" as their sole concern for electing the 10th President.Notably, none of the 38 candidates in this election are women, despite Sri Lanka's historical significance in having the world’s first female prime minister, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, who took office in 1960.Namal Rajapaksa, at 38, is the youngest candidate in the race and the eldest son of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

defamation case against Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi in a MP-MLA court in this Uttar Pradesh district was postponed on Saturday due to a health camp organised by the bar council. The matter will now be heard on October 1. Plaintiff Vijay Mishra's lawyer Santosh Kumar Pandey said his client's statement was to be recorded on Saturday, but due to the health camp organised by the Bar Association on the civil court premises, the lawyers were busy in it and no court work could be done. «The court has postponed the matter to October 1,» he said. Gandhi has been accused of making objectionable comments during the 2018 Karnataka polls about Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who was the BJP president then.

Voting has ended in Sri Lanka’s presidential election as it seeks to recover from the worst economic crisis in its history and the resulting political upheaval

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. PINGTUNG, Taiwan—Taiwan’s military recently set up live-fire exercises on this stretch of coastline facing China to show off half a dozen brand-new Humvee armored vehicles mounted with antitank missile launchers—part of its recent delivery of weapons from the U.S. But the missiles designed for use with the launchers didn’t arrive with the shipment.

Delhi New CM Oath Ceremony 2024 Live Updates: Aam Aadmi Party (AA) leader Atishi will take oath as the new Delhi Chief Minister at Raj Niwas around 4:30 pm on Saturday. Atishi will be the 17th woman chief minister in the country and the third woman Chief Minister of Delhi, after Sushma Swaraj and Sheila Dikshit.Five others will be sworn-in as ministers.

Jasper will have a devastating impact on local families, Mayor Richard Ireland said.The company announced this week it aims to transfer its operations from Jasper to Hinton about 100 kilometres east in Alberta, come September 2025.A company memo sent to about 200 impacted workers on Monday says the change will improve efficiency by reducing stops between Edmonton and Blue River, B.C. on the western side of the Rocky Mountains.Ireland says CN Rail’s presence in town, which dates back over a century, is a key part of the community’s identity and he hopes the company will reconsider.“This removal will have a profound impact on local jobs and local families,” Ireland told reporters Friday at a virtual news conference.

Kamala Harris sat down with Oprah Winfrey in the key battleground state of Michigan Thursday for a “virtual rally” that saw a slate of A-list Hollywood stars join a live discussion via video chat to discuss issues in the upcoming U.S. presidential election.Winfrey hosted the Unite for America event, with activist group Win with Black Women, that aimed to register people to vote and bolster Harris in states like Pennsylvania, Georgia and Michigan, that are set to decide the Nov.

2024 election looming, the first since the mass popularization of generative artificial intelligence, experts feared the worst: social media flooded with AI-generated deepfakes that were so realistic, baffled voters wouldn't know what to believe. So far, that hasn't happened. Instead, what voters are seeing is far more absurd: A video of former President Donald Trump riding a cat while wielding an assault rifle. A mustachioed Vice President Kamala Harris dressed in communist attire. Trump and Harris sharing a passionate embrace. AI is playing a major role in the presidential campaign, even if the greatest fears about how it could threaten the US presidential election haven't materialized yet. Fake AI-generated images regularly ricochet around the web, but many of them are so cartoonish and absurd that even the most naive viewer couldn't take them seriously.

Nayib Bukele met in the United States on Friday with tech billionaire Elon Musk to discuss artificial intelligence and other topics, after which the pair piled on mutual praise. «It was a pleasure to spend several hours talking with one of the great minds of our time @elonmusk,» Bukele said on X, the social network owned by Musk. The Salvadoran president posted a short video showing Musk receiving him at his gigafactory plant in Austin, Texas, where batteries for Tesla electric cars are manufactured.

Indian Army personnel involved in the Oting massacre on December 4, 2021. These organizations include the Oting Students' Union (OSU), Naga Students' Federation (NSF), NSCN (I-M), and Naga Hoho. The Supreme Court's decision followed an FIR against the army personnel accused of a botched operation that resulted in the deaths of 13 civilians. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and P B Varale stated that because Nagaland is under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958, sanction from the competent authority was required under Section 6 of the Act to proceed with prosecuting the personnel. On February 28, 2023, the competent authority declined to grant this sanction.

Google has opened its defense against allegations that it holds an illegal monopoly on online advertising technology with witness testimony saying the industry is vastly more complex and competitive than portrayed by the federal government

A constitutional challenge to the Biden administration program enabling Medicare to negotiate lower prices for prescription drugs has been revived by a federal appeals court

Boeing is replacing the head of its defense and space business

Generative artificial intelligence is playing a major role in the presidential campaign, even if the greatest fears about how it could threaten the U.S. presidential election haven’t materialized yet

Summit of the Future' during the UN General Assembly (UNGA). This visit seeks to enhance diplomatic ties and collaborative efforts between India and the US. Here are key agendas of PM Modi's visit to the states:

Wilmington on Saturday morning (local time) for the Quad Summit in US President Joe Biden's hometown, Delaware. Biden is hosting the leaders of India, Australia, and Japan and will hold bilateral meetings with them. The gathering will be the first time that Joe Biden, as President, has ever asked a foreign leader to visit Wilmington, a reflection of his closeness with each dignitary: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

Kamala Harris has been on the receiving end of the rumors which are going on around in social media in recent times. Snopes reported that just some hours before the US Presidential Debate, there was post by Facebook page SpaceX Fanclub claiming Vice President Kamala Harris as the ‘worst student ever’ has been said by the professors of Kamala Harris from Howard University. According to Snopes, the SpaceX Fanclub Facebook post gained around 50,000 reactions of different kind adding on to the fact that the post was shared for 28,000 times receiving 13,000 comments at the same time. Some people actually took the post pretty seriously while individuals commented that Vice President Kamala Harris had failed her first bar exam and she is actually a pretty bad student. Also Read: Monsters Season 3: Release window, cast, and all about Ed Gein

Lorne Michaels who is the all in all of the Saturday Night Live (SNL) starting from being the creator to the producer of the show has recently told the Hollywood Reporter that the character of former President Donald Trump has to be reinvented and reimagined in a creative manner to make the show more interesting. The Hill reported that Lorne Michaels has also added that James Austin Johnson is going to be the actor again who going to play the character of Donald Trump in Saturday Night Live. According to Lorne Michaels, one of the significant parts of show business is the creativity that changes with every passing day and he always likes to take up the new challenge of providing his viewers with a different kind of content every time. Alec Baldwin was present in the show depicting Donald Trump for most of the time who is being really missed, asserted Lorne Michaels. Also Read: Alyssa Milano reflects on ‘Who's the Boss?’ as the show celebrates its 40th anniversary.

US Secret Service which was responsible for the safeguard of former US president Donald Trump during his campaign rally, accepted today that because of the failed communication and the lack of intelligence by its agents, Donald Trump was shoot during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.