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Brakes India on Wednesday announced its plans to develop and manufacture advanced braking products for the domestic light vehicle market in a 51:49 joint venture partnership with Japanese AISIN Group company ADVICS at an investment of Rs 500 crore over the next three years. The joint venture entity will focus on developing these products in a phased manner of which Electronic Stability Control (ESC) will be among the initial products to be rolled out, Brakes India said in a statement.

JDS state president HD Kumaraswamy and Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president DK Shivakumar had been locked in an intense battle over the past 18 months to prove their popularity in the Vokkaliga heartland of Old Mysuru region. This only intensified after the Congress won in the assembly polls last year, leaving the regional party deeply wounded.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav said on Wednesday that both of them greeted each other and Nitish called him to sit with him.

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Acha, dekhten hai, Rashtrapati Bhavan ko bataya? Acha theek hai dekhten hai [We will see, did he tell this to President, okay we'll see]," Tharoor said while speaking with news agency ANI on Wednesday. Several reports claimed on Wednesday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi may take oath for a third time on Saturday, June 8.Tharoor's statement came a day after the Election Commission declared the Lok Sabha Elections 2024 results.

ALSO READ: 'PM Modi defeated because...': How 1% drop in vote share put BJP below majorityThe INDIA bloc leaders will meet at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's residence on Wednesday evening to deliberate on the Lok Sabha poll results, decide on the strategy to form the government, and consider reaching out to former allies Nitish Kumar and Chandrababu Naidu.ALSO READ: Lok Sabha election 2024 results: Did Narendra Modi's Muslim pitch backfire?The TDP and JD(U) have already dismissed suggestions of defecting to the opposition alliance.Opposition leaders, including NCP-SP’s Sharad Pawar, DMK’s MK Stalin, JMM’s Champai Soren, TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee, Samajwadi Party’s Akhilesh Yadav, RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav, CPM’s Sitaram Yechury, and CPI’s D Raja are likely to attend the meeting, along with Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.

Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Janata Dal (United) [JD(U)], crucial to NDA's third successive central government, are pressuring for the Lok Sabha Speaker post. Both TDP and JD(U) conveyed to BJP top leadership that the role should go to alliance partners, recalling TDP's GMC Balayogi's tenure as Speaker during Atal Bihari Vajpayee's coalition government in the late 1990s.

prime minister chaired a meeting of the Union Cabinet, which recommended the dissolution of the 17th Lok Sabha, whose term ends on 16 June.According to people familiar with the development, the Cabinet meeting also took stock of the Lok Sabha election results and discussed likely government formation.As per election results on Tuesday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) saw its seat count dip to 240—a loss of 63 seats from the 303 it won five years earlier. While the ruling party is far from a simple majority of 272 seats in the 543-member Lok Sabha, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has crossed the halfway mark with 293 seats, securing a clear third term.The opposition INDIA alliance managed 233 seats, led by the Indian National Congress, which nearly doubled its Parliament strength to 99 seats.In the 2019 election, the NDA had won 353 seats, while the main opposition, the Congress party-led United Progressive Alliance, had secured a modest 91 seats.Rating agency Moody's on Wednesday said the victory of the NDA in the recently concluded Indian general election would result in policy continuity.

resignation along with Cabinet to President Droupadi Murmu, said Rashtrapati Bhavan in its official statement.

China on Wednesday congratulated Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi following his election win, adding it was «ready to work» with its neighbour.

Twelve US lawmakers have urged President Joe Biden to facilitate the return of Tigran Gambaryan, a Binance executive held in Nigeria for over three months on allegations of money laundering and tax evasion.

ANI report.“Not ruling out using US military force. There's a distinction between deploying on the ground, air power and naval power," he said during the exclusive interview conducted at the White House on May 28, as quoted by ANI.Biden also said that he had communicated to Chinese President Xi Jinping that the United States would not seek independence for Taiwan, which was in line with Washington's long-standing agreement with Beijing.

Maldives gained traction in India, with many people canceling their vacation plans to the island nation after Maldivian ministers made derogatory remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Several tourism-related businesses in India supported the boycott and ceased their services in the Maldives.

Leaders of India’s three neighbours — Bhutan, Nepal and Sri Lanka on Tuesday evening sent congratulatory messages to PM Narendra Modi on winning third term in office and leading NDA to victory.

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Lok Sabha elections 2024 Results: June 4 is here, and people across the world have set their eyes on the clock as the biggest democracy is all set to get its new government. The year 2024 is packed with elections across several nations, and India's general election is one of the most crucial ones, as the new government will be formed amid intense geopolitical tensions and wide trade disruptions.

Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs by offering to let the professional football franchise shape a plan for using state bonds to finance a new stadium in Kansas. Kansas House Speaker Dan Hawkins and Senate President Ty Masterson said in a statement Tuesday that the Legislature would consider the proposal during a special session set to convene June 18.

Martin Walcoe, the CEO and president of David Lerner Associates Inc., is the latest senior executive at the firm to face an investigation by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. over the appropriate or suitable sale of proprietary energy funds to clients.

A new report from the Finra Investor Education Foundation reveals that despite AI’s increasingly central role in investments and daily life, few consumers would rely on it for personal finance advice.

A pair of former Merrill Lynch advisors have made a break for independence by launching their own billion-dollar RIA practice.

at the popular Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area. The agreement, which was signed by the city manager and major cruise line executives, also calls for yearly meetings to “review lessons learned, to review and optimize the subsequent season’s operations, and align on community and industry parameters, goals, and opportunities." Pierce said city leaders are “trying to balance the needs of our residents, the needs of our economy, the needs of future opportunities for people to stay in our community." Karla Hart, a longtime critic of the industry, is skeptical of the new agreement, saying it doesn't do enough to address concerns many residents have that current tourism levels are unsustainable.