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Los Angeles Clippers. This notorious past involving one of basketball’s well-known controversies will come to light in a new documentary named ‘Clipped’ which is streaming on OTT Platform Hulu. The documentary will show the team’s owner Donald Sterling, played by Ed O’Neil who fell out of grace for promoting a toxic workplace culture, racism and more. It not only shows the toxic behavior of the owner but also the effects it had on the players, the team management and other staff. It affected their morale and this in turn affected their performance.

Agniveer scheme and farmers protest against the three farm laws made the BJP suffer heavy losses in two states – Haryana and Rajasthan – which the party swept in 2019 and its candidates won by the handsome margins.

Tamil Nadu leaving its main Opposition party, the AIADMK and the national giant BJP, gaping. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the DMK-led alliance won 38 of the 39 seats in the state.

BJP a simple majority, the INDIA bloc members demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi resign on moral grounds after his party failed to retain majority without allies. They said the poll result “is also a popular rejection of the politics of vendetta” by the BJP-led government.

world’s largest democratic exercise. In the face of the surprising drop in the BJP's support, the opposition claimed they had also won a victory of sorts, with the main opposition Congress party saying the election had been a “moral and political loss" for Modi. “This is public’s victory and a win for democracy," Congress party President Mallikarjun Kharge told reporters.

NEW DELHI , CHENNAI : New Delhi: Mandate 2024 marked the return of coalition politics to India after a decade of absolute majority, requiring respect for the wishes of smaller allies and raising the prospect of slower economic reforms. Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) saw its seat count dip to 240 as per trends late evening—a loss of 63 seats from the 303 it won five years earlier. While BJP is far from a simple majority of 272 seats in the 543-member Lok Sabha, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) it leads is set to cross the half-way mark.

BJP candidate and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh won the Lucknow Lok Sabha seat with a margin of 1,35,159 votes on Tuesday. Rajnath Singh polled 6,12,709 votes against Samajwadi Party candidate Ravidas Mehrotra who got 4,77,550 seats. This is the third consecutive victory of Singh from Lucknow. In 2019, Rajnath Singh defeated Poonam Sinha with a margin of over 3.4 Lakh votes. He also secured a comfortable victory against the congress candidate. Lucknow is a prestigious parliamentary seat represented by late former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1991-2004) for five consecutive times. Singh had earlier won the election from Ghaziabad in 2009. Before Singh, who is a former Chief Minister of UP and former National President of BJP, Lucknow was represented by the former Governor of Madhya Pradesh Lalji Tandon.

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A U.S. federal court of appeals panel suspended a venture capital firm’s grant program for Black women business owners on Monday, ruling that a conservative group is likely to prevail in its lawsuit claiming that the program is discriminatory

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INDIA bloc's show in the Lok Sabha polls, Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday pushed for staking a claim to form the next government at the Centre and said the opposition alliance's leaders will meet on Wednesday in New Delhi to decide on the Prime Minister's face.

political leader with grassroots connect, Rajnath Singh is credited with expanding the BJP's organisational network in the Hindi heartland of Uttar Pradesh in the 1990s and the subsequent decades. The man from Chandauli district of the politically-crucial state is known as a moderate face and is widely respected by leaders cutting across party lines.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday won the Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh by a margin of 3,90,030 votes, bettering his mother Sonia Gandhi's victory margin in 2019. According to the Election Commission (EC), Rahul Gandhi secured a total of 6,87,649 votes against the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Dinesh Pratap Singh who got 2,97,619 votes. Thakur Prasad Yadav of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) secured 21,624 votes.

Lok Sabha Election 2024, Deputy Press Secretary to the President on 4 June said that Rashtrapati Bhavan will remain closed for the general public from 5-9 June.Releasing an official statement, the Navika Gupta – on behalf Rashtrapati Bhavan – cited the decision has ben taken for preparation for forthcoming event of swearing-in-ceremony of the Council of Ministers.ALSO READ: Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 Live Updates“Visit of Rashtrapati Bhavan (Circuit -1) will remain closed for the general public from June 5 to 9, 2024, due to preparation for forthcoming event of swearing-in-ceremony of the Council of Ministers at Rashtrapati Bhavan," the official statement said.According to the details, NDA is leading in 292 seats, while INDIA bloc leads in 232 Lok Sabha seats. As per ECI website at 8:30 pm, BJP has won in 154 Lok Sabha seats and leading in 86 seats, taking the tally to 240 seats.

Lok Sabha polls while Ashok Tanwar, Sita Soren and Preneet Kaur joined the list of those who had defected to the saffron party but could not succeed.Aviation Minister Scindia won from Guna constituency in Madhya Pradesh by a margin of over five lakh votes.In 2019, Scindia had contested the polls from Guna on a Congress ticket but lost to BJP's Krishna Pal Singh. The constituency has been a stronghold of the Scindia family, represented by his grandmother Vijaya Raje Scindia, popularly known as the Rajmata of Gwalior, for four consecutive terms from 1989 to 1998 as a BJP member.ALSO READ: Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 Live UpdatesIn 2020, he revolted against the Congress and joined the BJP along with his 22 loyalist MLAs in Madhya Pradesh, which resulted in the BJP assuming control of the state government.Industrialist and two-time MP Naveen Jindal had joined the BJP in March this year, ending his two decade long association with the Congress.

defence agreement with the Maldives, China's Ambassador here has met with the island nation's defence minister to discuss «the strengthening of military ties and the security and safety of the two countries.» Chinese Ambassador to Maldives Wang Lixin paid a courtesy call on Defence Minister Ghassan Maumoon on Monday, news portal Adhadhu.com reported.

Shatrughan Sinha won from the Asansol Lok Sabha seat in West Bengal on Tuesday, the ECI said. The TMC leader defeated his nearest rival S S Ahluwalia of the BJP by a margin of 59,564 votes.