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Karnataka BJP unit has come to the fore with sections of leaders holding secret parleys and planning a separate padayatra against the ruling Congress in North Karnataka, next month. The group does not want to involve the State unit president BY Vijayendra in an apparent challenge to his leadership. A dozen of them met in Belagavi on Sunday on the pretext of chalking out plans for the padayatra, but the discussions were focused around the 48-year-old leader’s style of functioning and how they could rein him in, sources said. Some of those who attended were former MLAs and MPs.

Samsung Electronics' biggest workers' union in South Korea said on Tuesday it would begin a four-day strike from Thursday to pressure the company over higher wages and bonuses after talks with management fell through in July. Lee Hyun-kuk, vice president of the National Samsung Electronics Union (NSEU), said in a live YouTube broadcast: «This strike is strategically designed to damage the company.» He said the union, whose 36,500 members make up about 30% of Samsung Electronics' South Korean workforce, expects the company would not have enough backup office workers to support production lines during the planned strike, as many workers would be away for a national holiday on Thursday.

TOKYO—Eight decades ago, when Japan’s kamikaze pilots were crashing their planes into American ships and its soldiers were dying from the Aleutian Islands to Guadalcanal, all were given the same promise: Upon death, their souls would be enshrined at Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine. The shrine was the symbol of the religious-military state that sought to mobilize the population to fight in the name of a divine emperor.

Ukraine’s top military commander says his forces now control 1,000 square kilometers (386 square miles) of Russia’s neighboring Kursk region, the first time a Ukrainian military official has publicly commented on the gains of the lightning incursion that has embarrassed the Kremlin.

State Street Corporation has announced a new head of Investment Services, its largest business.

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Boeing has partnered with India's AI Engineering Services Ltd to provide overhaul services to the Indian Navy's fleet of 12 P-8I maritime surveillance aircraft. As part of the partnership, the first landing gear overhaul of a P-8I aircraft was recently completed at naval base INS Rajali in Tamil Nadu, Boeing India said on Tuesday. «This is a first in India and reflects the growth in India's indigenous capabilities for undertaking complex Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) services,» it said in a statement. The Boeing P-8I, a multi-role long-range maritime reconnaissance anti-submarine warfare (LRMR ASW) aircraft, is integral to the Indian Navy's maritime surveillance missions in the Indian Ocean.

India looks forward to bidding for the Olympics 2036, French President Emmanuel Macron said that India has the «capacity» to organise such events. Speaking to Jio Cinema, Macron said he believes in India's future. He added that the Olympics is fierce competition. «First of all, I am a strong believer in your country and the future of your country. And what you can build and your capacity to organise such events. I think this is a fierce competition. You should not underestimate that fact. I remember that seven years ago when we went to Lausanne, we did compete with the US at that time — Los Angeles. And we found this agreement at the end, it was, it is still a great cooperation. So, competing, by itself, is clearly a great preparation,» Macron said.

UN sanctions banning North Korea's imports of luxury goods, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appeared to be using a new model of a Mercedes-Benz SUV, local media in neighbouring South Korea reported. Seoul-based Yonhap news agency on Tuesday published photos carried by the Korean Central News Agency, which showed a black Mercedes-Benz SUV on a special train that Kim used to visit flood-hit areas in the northwestern province of North Phyongan last week. Under UN resolutions, first enacted in 2006 after Pyongyang carried out underground nuclear tests, exports of luxury cars and other high-end items to North Korea are banned.

Israel, which possibly can take place this week, said White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby on Monday (local time) amid the ongoing tensions in the Middle East. This comes after President Joe Biden held talks with the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Italy as the US aims to de-escalate tensions in the Middle East. «We share the same concerns and expectations that our Israeli counterparts have with respect to potential timing here. Could be this week,» Kirby told reporters, according to The Times of Israel.

White House said, emphasising that President Joe Biden is «consistent in speaking loud and clear» on human rights issues. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was responding to questions regarding calls from Hindu-American groups and Indian-American lawmakers seeking the US government's intervention in protecting the lives and properties of the minority Hindu community in Bangladesh following the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government. «We are certainly going to continue monitoring the situation. I don't have anything else to add beyond that. But, when it comes to any type of human rights issues, the president (Joe Biden) has been very consistent in speaking loud and clear in public and also privately and he'll continue to do that,» Jean-Pierre told reporters at her daily news conference on Monday. Over the past few days, hundreds of Hindu-Americans in various US cities have been holding peaceful protest rallies against the alleged human rights violations of the minority Hindu community in Bangladesh.

₹5,200, a jump of 23% from a year earlier. Similarly, a Bengaluru-Kochi ticket now costs around ₹3,500, a 46% spike from a year ago. While air traffic slowed in July on account of monsoon, travel picked up in August.

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Kamala Harris surpassed Donald Trump in popularity and she took a lead in most of the opinion polls held since Joe Biden pulled out endorsing her last month, the advisers and top aides of the Republican candidates are upset with his public appearances, reports 'The Beast'. The Trump campaign team is getting increasingly anxious about his public meetings that are going from bad to worse. The aides who were very happy after Donald Trump emerged as a hero after the failed assassination attempt at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee are now upset. The main change in his behavior is his increasing anger perhaps due to the Democrats’ resurgence that came out first when he used derogatory words against Kamala Harris. He questioned the Black identity of the first black vice president of the US at a gathering of the National Association of Black Journalists. Also Read: Billionaire Island: Here’s release date, where to watch, cast and production team

US Presidential Election 2024 is only a few weeks away, the political tension is escalating by leaps and bounds, US President Joe Biden has come under scathing attacks for the most unexpected reasons. He was caught taking forty winks under the sun at Delaware Beach. The Republican Party lost no time in attacking him and accusing him of dereliction of duty. They went to the extent of saying that Biden has spent 40% of his entire presidency on vacation. The RNC Research took to social media platform X and wrote in a post, «Biden- who held just one public event this week- is currently lounging on the beach in Delaware. He has spent 40% of his entire presidency on vacation. Who is running the country?» This triggered reactions among the netizens who came out on the social media platforms in a large number, most of them slammed or ridiculed the 81-year-old president. A user called Collins Opara wrote, «This is a joke! Biden has spent 40% of his presidency on vacation while the country falls apart. Inflation, crime, border crisis — who cares? He's too busy relaxing on the beach. Unbelievable dereliction of duty. Incompetent leadership. America deserves so much better than this.»

A poll conducted by Paradigm Policy Lab revealed a growing affinity for cryptocurrency among Democratic voters, potentially reshaping the landscape of the upcoming presidential election.

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An attorney for former President Donald Trump has filed a legal notice announcing that his client plans to sue the Justice Department and the FBI for $115 million for alleged «malicious political prosecution» and «abuse of process.»

Donald Trump as he has committed many avoidable mistakes one after the other despite warnings by his team. Consequently, his allies and donors are upset, his campaign team is frustrated and his closest aides find it difficult to turn the tide in his favor. According to 'The New York Times', at a dinner hosted by Howard Lutnick, the Cantor Fitzgerald Chief Executive at at the Bridgehampton on August 2, the Republican candidate said, “We’ve got to stop the steal,” reviving his false claims about the 2020 election. More than 130 guests present at the dinner were shocked as Trump's advisers had urged him to drop this issue because they wouldn't help him with swing voters.

Donald Trump and his billionaire family have spent a whopping amount of $1 million on plastic surgeries and other works of aesthetic enhancements, reports the 'Daily Mail'. This amount has been spent on face lifts, hair transplants, nostril jobs and veneers, besides Botox and fillers. Quoting plastic surgeon to the celebrities Dr Gary Motykie, the British news outlet has said that surgical procedures and procedures he believes the Trump household has had by images of them over a few years. However, he has said that he has not seen or carried out procedures on anybody in the Trump family his evaluation is based on the images of the family members he has seen.

Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) Urban 2.0 plan over the next five years is expected to boost the affordable housing segment, allowing those migrating to cities for a livelihood to secure reasonable accommodation. PMAY-U is among the major flagship programmes being implemented by the government to provide all-weather pucca houses to all eligible beneficiaries in the urban areas. Under PMAY-U, more than 11.8 million homes have been sanctioned while nearly 9 million houses have already been constructed and delivered to the beneficiaries. “The nature of the housing scheme has changed in its new avatar. Government is using a wider mix of schemes ranging from interest subsidy to credit guarantee. While the quantum of interest subsidy per beneficiary has been scaled down, the government’s capital support will help a larger base of needy population. The government intends to do both — enhance its capital productivity and accelerate the ‘Housing for All’ timelines,” said Vivek Rathi, National Director Research, Knight Frank India.