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BJP contested in 31 assembly seats but failed to win a single one in Sikkim where it had 12 members in the outgoing House. The results of the Sikkim Assembly were announced on Sunday with the Sikkim Krantikari Morcha returning to power by winning 31 of the 32 seats.

presidential candidate Donald Trump has joined TikTok, the short video social media platform that is owned by China-based tech giant ByteDance and that he tried to ban as president, ahead of the U.S. elections in November.

Sikkim BJP president Dilli Ram Thapa lost to SKM nominee Kala Rai in the Upper Burtuk assembly constituency, officials said on Sunday. Thapa, a sitting MLA and a former minister lost to Rai by 2,968 votes.

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Congress leaders on Sunday exuded confidence that the party will do much better than what was projected in the exit polls in states such as Karnataka, Maharashtra, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, and asserted the INDIA bloc is going to form the next government. The assertion was made at an online interaction Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh had before the media with key state leaders, PCC presidents and legislature party leaders of various states.

PTI, the passengers will also have the option to credit the amount instead of using it for travel.Air India Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Klaus Goersch wrote a letter to the passengers over the inordinate delay and the inconvenience caused to them.Also Read: Air India passengers faint on San Francisco-bound flight amid 8-hour delay; no AC, say fliersThe San Francisco flight from Delhi got delayed by 30 hours, before it took-off on Friday and landed in San Francisco on Saturday, after the flight duration of around 16 hours.The apology and travel voucher gesture comes after the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Friday issued a show-cause notice to airlines for inordinate flight delays and failure to take care of passengers."Please allow me to sincerely apologise, on behalf of Air India, for the extended delay in bringing you to San Francisco, which was caused by several technical delays and other operational constraints," reported PTI quoting Klaus Goersch.Also Read: Air India gets DGCA's show-cause notice over two international flight delays and 'failure to take care of passengers'"We are very sorry for this lapse in our service and the inconvenience caused to you," Goersch said in May 31 letter.The letter said that as a gesture of apology, Air India has offered a "travel voucher worth USD 350" for future travel with the airline.The regulator has asked Air India why enforcement action shall not be initiated against the airline as flight Al-179 dated 24 May and flight Al- 183 dated 30 May were inordinately delayed.Milestone Alert! Livemint tops charts as the fastest growing news website in the world

Also Read: PM Narendra Modi to hold 7 meetings, session to review agenda for 100 day program todayBharat Rashtra Samiti working president and former state minister KT Rama Rao said that the struggle for the formation of the state was successful as Telangana has become one of the leading states in India."We are happy that our struggle for the formation of this state was successful. The state is among one of the leading states of the country.

convicted of a felony—34 felonies, in fact. This historic disgrace should both shock the nation and reassure it about its capacity to achieve justice. That the conviction of Donald Trump will probably accomplish neither result testifies partly to the corrosive power of Mr Trump’s shamelessness and partly to the complex, contestable nature of the charges brought against him.

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft was called off at the last minute at the Kennedy Space Centre on Saturday. The mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has been postponed for the third time in the last two months.

PTI, it was also emphasised that Arvind Kejriwal's wife Sunita Kejriwal will continue to covey his messages to party leaders, volunteers and the people of Delhi.He later attended an INDIA bloc meeting at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's home.On May 10, Arvind Kejriwal was released from jail on interim bail to pursue campaigning for the Lok Sabha elections. On Friday, Arvind Kejriwal said he will leave around 3:00 pm on June 2 to surrender before the jail authorities.The chief minister's plea seeking seven-day extension of the interim bail granted by Supreme Court was refused for an urgent listing on Wednesday.

Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy has expressed confidence that the Congress will win at least 10 of the 17 Lok Sabha seats in the state and that the INDIA bloc would form a government at the Centre. In an informal interaction with mediapersons here on Saturday, he cited a post by BJP on 'X', where the saffron party has said that it would get four-five Lok Sabha seats in Telangana.

Reuters.The deadline for prosecuting most federal crimes is five years.The Justice Department found in mid-May that Boeing violated a 2021 deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) that had shielded the company from a criminal charge arising from the fatal crashes.Also Read: 'I don't sit by the door': US President Joe Biden cracks joke about Boeing mishapsOfficials agreed to ask a judge to dismiss the charge of conspiring to defraud the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as long as Boeing abided by the terms of the agreement over a three-year period ending Jan.

Arvind Kejriwal, AAP chief and Delhi Chief Minister, will be back in jail today (June 2) as his plea seeking interim bail on medical grounds has been put off by a court.

Dong Jun warned Sunday his military is ready to «forcefully» stop Taiwan independence but called for greater exchanges with the United States.

Lok Sabha polls and the exit polls predicted yet another victory for the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government at the Centre, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi is slated to join a virtual meeting with all candidates from his party along with party chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday morning, sources from the party said.

Nayib Bukele, on a trip to Washington, snubbing the self-proclaimed “world's coolest dictator" for fear a photo op would embolden his attempts to expand his power base. A little more than three years later, it's the United States that's courting Bukele. A high-level delegation led by U.S.

Egypt will host Israeli and US officials on Sunday to discuss the reopening of the Rafah crossing, a vital conduit for aid into Gaza, a state-linked news outlet reported.

Iceland, the world's most gender equal country, is set to elect a woman as president for the second time in its history.

BJP candidate from Sambalpur Lok Sabha constituency, Dharmendra Pradhan, expressed confidence on Saturday that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would form a government in the state and the Centre under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Air India has apologised and offered a travel voucher of USD 350 each to the passengers of the San Francisco flight that took off from the national capital after a delay of more than 30 hours. There were 199 passengers in the flight, according to a source.

Congress on Saturday claimed that the exit polls had been «orchestrated» by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said these are all psychological games he is masterminding but the actual results will be very different. Several exit polls on Saturday predicted that Prime Minister Modi will retain power for a third straight term, with the BJP-led NDA expected to win a big majority in the Lok Sabha polls.