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Congress on Monday described the killing of Indian National Lok Dal's (INLD) Haryana unit president Nafe Singh Rathee as the state's «first political murder» and demanded a probe into the incident either by a high court judge or a high court judge-monitored CBI investigation. Senior Congress leader Raghuvir Singh Kadian said Rathee's death was not natural. «It is a political murder and the first such incident in Haryana after it was carved out as a separate state (in 1966),» Kadian said in the Assembly. At the beginning of the day's proceedings, the Haryana Assembly paid tributes to former Lok Sabha speaker Manohar Joshi, who died recently.

Trinamool Congress leader Ajit Maity has been arrested by the West Bengal Police in the trouble-torn Sandeshkhali area of North 24 Parganas district on charges of land grabbing from villagers, an officer said on Monday.

All India Muslim Jamaat, Maulana Shahabuddin Razvin, has appealed to Muslims to not oppose Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. In a viral video, Maulana Mufti Shahabuddin Razvi Bareilvi can be seen saying that political situation is changing in the country and advised all Muslims in the country not to oppose the Prime Minister. He was speaking during a conference held in Ambikapur district of Chhattisgarh. Also hitting out at secular parties, Mufti Shahabuddin Razvi Bareilvi said that political parties claiming to be secular have only put the responsibility of opposing Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the shoulders of Muslims. This keeps Muslims always on the sidelines, while secular parties and their representatives benefit politically, he said in the video.

Firstpost Defence Summit in New Delhi. The ex-defence minister claimed that there is no threat to the sovereignty of Maldivian citizens by Indian troops stationed in their country, even as “(Maldives President Mohamed) Muizzu thinks that there is an antagonism between the Maldivians and the Indians.… (It has been) three months since he came into government, the Indian troops are still there." She remarked that the sovereignty of a nation is assured when there is trust and friendship among neighbours and friends.

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President Mohamed Muizzu regarding the presence of «thousands of Indian military personnel» in the Maldives. Shahid stated that there are no armed foreign soldiers stationed in the country, labeling Muizzu's assertions as «just another in a string of lies.» In a social media post, Shahid, who is also the newly elected president of the Maldivian Democratic Party, emphasized the importance of transparency and the need for the truth to prevail. He highlighted the current administration's failure to provide specific numbers, questioning the credibility of Muizzu's claims. The removal of Indian troops from the Maldives was a key campaign promise of Muizzu's party. Currently, approximately 70 Indian troops, along with Dornier 228 maritime patrol aircraft and two HAL Dhruv helicopters, are stationed in the Maldives. Muizzu had formally requested the Indian government to withdraw its military personnel from the country on the second day of assuming office.

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PTI, with this development, both the Congress and NPP now have two MLAs each in the 60-member assembly, strengthening the BJP's position in the state. During a ceremony held at the BJP headquarters, senior Congress MLA and former union minister Ninong Ering from the Pasighat West seat, along with Wanglin Lowangdong from the Borduria-Bogapani constituency, joined the saffron party.

Mohamed Muizzu about “thousands of Indian military personnel" were just another in a string of lies. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), the newly elected president of the Maldivian Democratic Party said, “100 days in, it's clear: President Muizzu's claims of 'thousands of Indian military personnel' were just another in a string of lies. The current administration's inability to provide specific numbers speaks volumes." "There are no armed foreign soldiers stationed in the country.

artificial intelligence services and forge ties with business and government leaders in the region. Meta Platforms Inc.’s chief executive officer, who’s been in Japan the past week to accompany his family on a ski trip, will meet with his company’s developers in Tokyo on Monday and Tuesday, according to a spokesperson. They’ll discuss the company’s Quest virtual-reality headsets and its large language model Llama, one of its efforts to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

Nikki Haley says it's not «the end of our story» despite Donald Trump's easy primary victory in South Carolina, her home state where the onetime governor had long suggested her competitiveness with the former president would show. Defying calls from South Carolina Republicans to exit the race, Haley planned to travel Sunday to Michigan, which holds its primary on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President Joe Biden plans to meet with congressional leaders Tuesday to discuss funding the government as a partial shutdown deadline looms on Friday, the White House announced Sunday.

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KYIV (Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed since Russia's full-scale invasion two years ago, giving the first official figure for more than a year.

Realistic AI-generated images and voice recordings may be the latest threat to democracy, but they’re part of a long-standing family of deceptions. The way to fight so-called deepfakes isn’t to develop some rumour-busting form of AI or train the public to spot fake images. A better tactic would be to encourage a few well-known critical thinking methods—refocusing our attention, reconsidering our sources and questioning ourselves.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President Joe Biden has joked to aides that the key to a long and lasting marriage is «good sex,» according to a new book about first lady Jill Biden that casts a spotlight on their 47-year romance.

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Nafe Singh Rathee, the chief of Haryana's Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), was fatally shot while traveling in an SUV with a party worker on Sunday. Opposition parties have blamed BJP-led Haryana government for the incident. INLD has demanded the resignation of Haryana's Chief Minister and Home Minister, alongside a CBI investigation into the incident. Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij has directed officials to promptly address this issue and a Special Task Force (STF) has been mobilized to investigate the incident. Speaking on the incident, Jhajjar SP Arpit Jain said that the accused will be arrested soon.