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Mumbai North West Lok Sabha constituency, a tight contest unfolded between both Shiv Sena factions. Ravindra Waikar of Eknath Sinde's Shiv Sena narrowly defeated Amol Kirtikar of Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena (UBT) by a margin of only 48 votes.Aaditya Thackeray weighed in on the ongoing row over Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) tampering after the Lok Sabha Elections 2024 results were declared.Later, Shiv Sena leader Deepak Kesarkar accused Thackeray of creating confusion and claimed that the Shiv Sena (UBT) is not in a condition to 'face the public' in the Maharashtra Assembly Elections, likely to be held later this year.“Aaditya Thackeray is still very young.

Priyanka Gandhi is joining the poll race from Wayanad, after Rahul Gandhi opted to retain Raebareli, the Gandhi family bastion.After the announcement was made by Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, Priyanka Gandhi said, “I am very happy to be able to represent Wayanad and I will not let them feel his (Rahul Gandhi's) absence.""I will work hard and I will try my best to make everyone happy and be a good representative. I have a very old relationship with Raebareli and Amethi and it cannot be broken.

euro on Monday, as the common currency recovered from the more than one-month lows hit last week driven by political turmoil in Europe. The euro was up 0.1% to $1.0718 on Monday, rebounding from the six-week low of $1.066775 touched last week following news of a snap parliamentary election in France.

Juneteenth 2024 is going to be just one of them. This auspicious occasion marks Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arriving in Galveston Bay, Texas in 1865 with troops to declare the independence of Black people in the state, two years after President Lincoln signing the iconic Emancipation Proclamation

Trump who is also the presidential nominee of the Republican party in the upcoming US presidential election has said that he has decided on his running mate who will contest the vice-presidential elections. He added that he shall be announcing the name of the candidate in the Republican Party convention in July. Analysts opine that he will have to pick a candidate who can help his campaign consolidate votes from the minority voters, suburban woman and young voters who appear to be moving away from supporting the Democrats. There are several considerations for Trump to pick his vice-presidential candidate.

In the face of calls around the world to diversify out of the dollar in recent years, the US has nabbed almost one-third of all the investment that flowed across borders since Covid struck.

ALSO READ: Captain Babar Azam on Pakistan's T20 World Cup 2024 exit, 'cannot play in every player's place, there are 11 players...Lamicchane made his return in the Nepal cricket team against South Africa last week. He was not playing international cricket for over a year, reason being he was facing an eight-year prison sentence before his rape conviction, reported NDTV Sports.Report says that he had been training regularly at Kathmandu's TU Ground after he was cleared of charges.Despite Nepal's cricket board and multiple agencies made efforts, Lamicchane's arrival in the USA was delayed by two months, as he ailed to obtain a US visa twice in May.ALSO READ: Babar Azam is given enough chances to improve as Pakistan captain, but…: Shahid AfridiFollowing this, Nepal requested the ICC to allow Lamichhane as a late addition to their World Cup squad, which was later approved."We, along with Nepal government, had tried hard to secure a US visa for Lamichhane but that didn't work out.

EVMs, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday asked the Election Commission to ensure complete transparency of the machines and processes or abolish them. The demand came a day after the Congress leader had alleged that the electronic voting machine is a «black box» and nobody is allowed to scrutinise them while further alleging that serious concerns are being raised about transparency in our electoral process. «When democratic institutions are captured, the only safeguard lies in electoral processes that are transparent to the public,» Gandhi said in a post on X. «EVM is currently a black box. EC must either ensure complete transparency of the machines and processes or abolish them,» the former Congress president also said.

U.S. consumer sentiment fell in June for the third straight month as Americans took a dimmer view of their own finances and worried about persistent inflation

A lawsuit challenging federal rules entitling workers to time off and other accommodations for abortions lacks standing, a federal judge in Arkansas ruled on Friday

Cyprus says it won’t let up on a course of strict fiscal discipline while supporting economically vulnerable groups and the middle class after credit ratings agency Standard & Poors upgraded the country’s rating to BBB+ from BBB

The deadly implosion of an experimental submersible en route to the deep-sea grave of the Titanic last June has not dulled the desire for ocean exploration

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has dismissed a cease-fire offer for Ukraine by Russian President Vladimir Putin as “propaganda” as she wraps up a Group of Seven summit that saw a deal reached for a $50 billion loan to Ukraine

India Inc’s sequential revenue growth is expected to taper in the first quarter of FY25, stated a report by ICRA. While signs of a revival in rural demand have emerged, ICRA said that headwinds such as a slowdown in the Government of India’s (GoI) spending during the Parliamentary elections and onset of monsoon period are likely to weigh on growth in H1 FY2025. However, the operating profit margin (OPM) will remain steady in the range of 15-18 per cent, despite the expected tapering in revenue growth, as raw material costs are expected to remain steady. 

BJP national President J P Nadda on Monday announced the leaders in charge and co-incharge for the upcoming Assembly elections in Maharashta, Haryana Jharkhand, and Jammu and Kashmir. The party appointed Bhupender Yadav and Ashwini Vaishnaw as State election incharge and co-incharge for Maharashtra.

S Jaishankar held a meeting with United States National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in New Delhi on Monday and discussed various bilateral, regional and global issues. Jaishankar expressed confidence that the strategic partnership between India and the US will continue to advance strongly in the near term. In a post on X, Jaishankar stated, «Delighted to welcome US NSA @JakeSullivan46 in New Delhi today morning. A comprehensive discussion on a broad range of bilateral, regional and global issues. Confident that India-US strategic partnership will continue to advance strongly in our new term.»

France’s political upheaval has led the country to lose its spot as Europe’s biggest equity market, less than two years after stealing that title from the UK. President Emmanuel Macron’s shock announcement of a snap election sparked a rout that wiped off about $258 billion from the market capitalization of French firms last week. Shares of banks Societe Generale SA, BNP Paribas SA and Credit Agricole SA all big holders of government debt lost more than 10% each.

Ajit Doval on Monday held extensive talks with his American counterpart Jake Sullivan primarily focusing on implementation of the ambitious India-US Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET). The two top security officials are also learnt to have deliberated upon pressing global and regional issues of mutual interest. Sullivan, accompanied by a delegation of senior American officials and industry leaders, is on an official visit to New Delhi from June 17 to 18. Following the launch of the iCET by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Joseph Biden on the sidelines of the Quad summit in Tokyo in May 2022, the two NSAs have driven a concerted effort to engage in identified areas of collaboration in diverse domains of new and emerging technologies, including semiconductors, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, defence innovation, space and advanced telecommunications.

NATO is in talks to deploy more nuclear weapons, taking them out of storage and placing them on standby, in the face of a growing threat from Russia and China, the head of the alliance said on Monday. Jens Stoltenberg told Britain's Telegraph newspaper that there were live consultations between members to use transparency around its nuclear arsenal as a deterrent. «I won't go into operational details about how many nuclear warheads should be operational and which should be stored, but we need to consult on these issues. That's exactly what we're doing,» he told the paper.

Russia must be held accountable for “an element of genocide” it’s perpetrating by taking thousands of Ukrainian children from their homes and trying to erase their Ukrainian identity, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday at the end of a global summit focused on restoring peace between the two countries.

Blaming corporate greed for inflation isn’t working. Hence Team Biden’s new deflection: Donald Trump would make inflation worse. The president’s chihuahuas in the press are running with the line.