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China on Monday for a six-day official visit during which he will hold talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang on ways to further deepen bilateral ties. Gunawardena was received on his arrival by Chinese Vice Foreign Minister and former Ambassador to India Sun Weidong, Chinese official media reported. This will be the first visit by a Sri Lankan leader to Beijing after Colombo put a moratorium on recurring visits by Chinese research ships to Hambantota port, reportedly due to India's security concerns.

Bharat Chandra Narah, the MLA of Nowboicha in Assam's Lakhimpur district, resigned from the Congress on Monday. The resignation comes two days after Congress announced Uday Shankar Hazarika as its candidate for the Lakhimpur Lok Sabha seat. Narah was hopeful that his party would nominate his wife Ranee Narah, a former Union Minister, for the seat. He sent a one-line resignation letter, which he shared with PTI, to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge. «I do hereby resign from the Indian National Congress with immediate effect,» the MLA said in the letter.

Rahul Gandhi in Kerala's high-profile Wayanad constituency for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections that are scheduled to take place in seven phases beginning from April 19. The BJP is striving to break decades-old bipolar politics dominated by the Congress-led UDF and the CPI(M)-led LDF in Kerala. The party had earlier announced the candidates for 12 seats.

massive fire broke out in a factory in Delhi's Alipur on Monday morning, officials said. According to the Delhi Fire Service department, a total of 34 fire engines were rushed to the spot to douse the leaping flames. «A fire broke out at a factory in Alipur. 34 fire tenders at the spot,» the Fire Services Department informed. Efforts to bring the fire under control were underway, officials said, adding that no casualties or injuries were reported in the incident.

Former Maldivian President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has urged President Dr. Mohamed Muizzu to abandon his obstinacy and engage in dialogue with neighboring countries to address the nation's financial woes, according to news portal adhadhu.com. Solih made these remarks during a rally in Male' organized to garner support for Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) ahead of parliamentary elections. At the gathering, Solih highlighted media reports suggesting Muizzu's interest in discussing debt restructuring with India. However, Solih argued that Maldives' financial challenges stem primarily from debts owed to China rather than India. He emphasized that Maldives owes China more than two times the debt as compared to India. Expressing confidence in the willingness of neighboring and Islamic countries from the Middle East to assist Maldives, Solih emphasized the necessity of abandoning stubbornness and embracing dialogue. He criticized the current government's actions, sarcastically remarking on the limited assistance received from the Middle East, citing only 50 tons of dates.

South Korea said they will cut back on the hours they spend in practice starting on Monday to support trainee doctors on strike for more than a month over a government plan to boost medical school admissions. «It is clear that increasing medical school admissions will not only ruin medical school education but cause our country's healthcare system to collapse,» Kim Chang-soo, the president of the Medical Professors Association of Korea, told reporters.

Congress leaders from Goa have been summoned to Delhi by the party's central leadership to decide on candidates for the two Lok Sabha seats in the state, a functionary said on Monday. Leader of Opposition Yuri Alemao, Goa Pradesh Congress Committee president Amit Patkar and South Goa election coordinator Altone D'Costa have been called, the functionary told PTI. The ruling BJP has already announced candidates for North Goa (Shripad Naik) and South Goa (Pallavi Dempo) seats. «The party is considering the names of leaders like Viriato Fernandes, Francisco Sardinha (sitting MP from South Goa seat), Girish Chodankar and Amit Patkar for South Goa seat.

Mohamed Muizzu to engage in dialogue with neighbouring countries to tackle the nation's financial challenges, PTI reported. Solih's remarks come in response to recent calls from President Muizzu, known for his pro-China stance, urging India to provide debt relief to the Maldives. Speaking at an event in Male', Solih emphasised the importance of dialogue and cooperation in overcoming the economic hurdles facing the nation.

Kangana Ranaut and Arun Govil. Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan will vie for the Sambalpur seat, while the party's spokesperson, Sambit Patra, will make another attempt from Puri after narrowly missing out in 2019.

March 22 this year, marking the return of the students' union after a four-year hiatus. Here are the top ten updates about the JNUSU results: 1. In the polls that happened after a hiatus of four years, Dhananjay from the All India Students' Association (AISA) won the JNUSU president's post by securing 2,598 votes against the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad's (ABVP) Umesh C Ajmeera who secured 1,676 votes.

Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday said the electoral bonds scam is the biggest corruption ever witnessed in India and added the BJP government at the Centre arrested his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal to divert attention from the same. Addressing the third consecutive rally organised here by the CPI(M) against the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), Vijayan alleged the BJP-led Central government and the Sangh Parivar give scant regard to the rule of the law in the country. He alleged that the Sangh Parivar was trying to take control of the Constitutional institutions and even threatening the country's judiciary. «The Union government, BJP, Sangh Parivar, they all very well know that the Supreme Court order on the electoral bond scam was harmful to them. They wanted to divert the attention from this topic and for that they have arrested Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal,» Vijayan said.

meeting of BJP state office bearers and parliamentary candidates was held on Sunday at Dr Shyam Prasad Mukherjee Bhavan, the BJP State Office in Nampally, Hyderabad. Union Minister G Kishan Reddy, BJP National Vice President DK Aruna, and BJP National General Secretary and State Incharge Sunil Bansal were among those who attended the meeting. Other leaders and candidates who are set to contest the forthcoming elections also participated. While speaking to after the meeting, BJP National Vice President DK Aruna stated that with the election dates announced and public sentiment favouring Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP is actively preparing to ensure a large voter turnout.

Moscow concert hall that killed 137 people were remanded in custody Sunday, as Russia observed a national day of mourning following the attack claimed by the Islamic State. All four suspects have been charged with terrorism, according to Moscow's Basmanny district court, and face life imprisonment. Their detention is set until May 22 but may be extended depending on the date of their trial.

Gabriel Attal made this announcement after a meeting with top security and defence officials alongside President Emmanuel Macron. Attal shared on social media site X (formerly known as Twitter), that the decision to elevate the alert level was made "in light of the Islamic State's claim of responsibility for the (Moscow) attack and the threats facing our nation". "Following the attack in Moscow, a Defense and National Security Council was convened this evening at the Elysée by the President of the Republic.

By Diadie Ba

United Left panel on Sunday effected a clean sweep in the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union (JNUSU) election, defeating its nearest rival the RSS-affiliated ABVP. In the polls that happened after a hiatus of four years, Dhananjay from the All India Students' Association (AISA) won the JNUSU president's post by securing 2,598 votes against Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad's (ABVP) Umesh C Ajmeera who secured 1,676 votes. Dhananjay hails from Gaya, Bihar, and is the first Dalit president from the Left after Batti Lal Bairwa in 1996-97.

Empower, a subsidiary of Great-West Lifeco US, has announced a new comprehensive suite of retirement income products for participants in its defined-contribution plans.

Rockefeller is broadening its presence in the West Coast as it takes on a six-person advisory practice that manages nearly $1 billion in assets from J.P. Morgan.

Pope Francis presided at the service, read his noon prayer and was driven around the crowd in a popemobile. However, Pope Francis, at the last minute, skipped reading his homily during the Palm Sunday Mass for tens of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia lowered flags to half-mast on Sunday for a day of mourning after scores of people were gunned down with automatic weapons at a rock concert outside Moscow in the deadliest attack inside Russia for two decades.