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Kshatriya leaders associated with the BJP in Gujarat on Sunday appealed to the community to forgive Union minister Parshottam Rupala for his remarks and vote for the saffron party in the nation's interest. Rupala is the BJP candidate from Rajkot Lok Sabha constituency. Barring Surat, where the party nominee has won unopposed, the other 25 seats in the state will go to polls in the third phase on May 7. Kshatriyas, also known as Rajputs, have been protesting in different parts of Gujarat over Rupala's alleged derogatory remarks about former rulers, urging people to vote against BJP candidates across the state. With just two days left for polling, BJP's Kshatriya leaders on Sunday issued a joint statement appealing to the community to show a big heart and embrace the Sanskrit verse «kshama virasya bhushanam» (forgiveness is the ornament of the brave).

Brazil's Copacabana beach for a free Madonna concert on Saturday, braving the heat to see the end of her «Celebration» world tour. The sand and oceanfront boulevard around Rio de Janeiro's famed beach were filled for several blocks by a crowd the city estimated at 1.6 million. Many had been there for hours or even days to get a good spot, while richer fans anchored in dozens of boats near the beach and onlookers crowded beachfront apartments.

Ravindra Jadeja produced an all-round effort to help Chennai Super Kings beat Punjab Kings by 28 runs in an Indian Premier League match here on Sunday. Sent into bat, Jadeja made 43 runs off 26 balls and then picked up 3 for 20 to ensure a win for CSK. Chasing a modest 168, PBKS faltered from the word go with only Prabhsimran Singh (30) and Shashank Singh (27) making significant contributions with the bat before being restricted to 139 for 9 in 20 overs. Besides Jadeja, Simarjeet Singh (2/16) and Tushar Deshpande (2/35) picked up two wickets each for CSK.

Workers have demolished a bridge over a Connecticut highway that was damaged in a fiery crash involving a gasoline tanker truck

The government and Google are making their closing arguments in a high-stakes antitrust trial to a federal judge in Washington who must now decide whether the tech giant’s search engine constitutes an illegal monopoly

Major League Baseball uniforms will have larger lettering on the back of jerseys and individual pant customization will be available to all players beginning in 2025

Berkshire Hathaway says its first quarter profit plummeted on the paper value of its investments

The WNBA debuts of Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso were widely watched on a social media livestream from a fan who stepped in when the league’s app couldn’t broadcast the game

Madonna has put on a free concert in Rio de Janeiro, turning the vast stretch of sand of Copacabana beach into an enormous dance floor teeming with a multitude of her fans

The nation’s employers pulled back on their hiring in April but still added a decent 175,000 jobs in a sign that persistently high interest rates may be starting to slow the robust U.S. job market

A weekly newspaper in a rural Oklahoma community was at the center of a path of destruction

Taiwan's Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker and the biggest assembler of Apple's iPhone, reiterated on Sunday it expected a rise in second-quarter revenue, and reported record sales for the month of April. Foxconn said in a statement that this year's second quarter «remains a traditional off-peak season, and major products are entering a period of transition between old and new products».

I was disappointed by this year’s Whitney Biennial—it was hard for me to tell if one video installation was art or an HR training video—but as an economist, I have to admit the exhibition was successful in at least one respect: It did what art is supposed to do, which is to hold up a mirror to our society and economy. And this year’s biennial shows how America’s elite institutions are stifling innovation and creativity. The theme of this year’s show was to use AI and the “rhetoric around gender and authenticity" to “explore the permeability of the relationships between mind and body, the fluidity of identity, and the growing precariousness of the natural and constructed worlds." I liked some of it, but I was not alone in my disappointment.

treat children has a deep impact on their minds throughout their lives...I will never forget that day in school. I was not a juvenile delinquent when my hands were caned. I was learning the craft and didn't bring the right-sized needles to class for the assignment," CJI Chandrachud said.

Indian stock market: The Nifty index is showing signs of near-term bearishness as it forms a double top pattern on the daily chart, coupled with a bearish engulfing candle. This suggests a sell-on-rise approach in the market. Confirmation of the double top pattern would require follow-up selling in the upcoming week.

Karan Singh getting ticket from the BJP from Kaiserganj, Sitharaman said the allegations have not been proved against Brij Bhushan. "Nothing is proven against Brij Bhushan. Nothing has been proven about it.

Mount Ruang volcano put on a spectacular show Tuesday, sending hot gas and debris high into the sky as an intense lightning show raged overhead.Like a scene from Lord of the Rings‘ fictional Mordor, footage released by BNPB Indonesia shows a continuous cascade of lightning in a toxic ash cloud over the volcano’s crater, as the sky above glows red and lights up with huge flashes.Thousands of people have been forced to evacuate the island where the volcano is located, Reuters reports, and officials warned residents of nearby Tagulandang island that a tsunami could be triggered by volcanic materials falling into the ocean.This is the second time in two weeks Mount Ruang has erupted, spewing ash almost two kilometres into the sky, closing an airport and showering nearby villages with debris.So far, there have been no reports of injuries or deaths associated with any of the eruptions.

Congress has filed a complaint to the Election Commission against BJP national president JP Nadda, social media in-charge Amit Malviya, and state chief BY Vijayendra for allegedly posting a video on social media aimed at «intimidating» members of Schedule Caste/ Schedule Tribe to not vote for Congress in the Lok Sabha polls. In a complaint filed to the Chief Electoral Officer in Bengaluru, the party also alleged the violation of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) by using animated videos of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah by portraying the Congress party as favouring a particular religion (Muslims) and suppressing members of SC/STs and OBC communities, with the intention to create feelings of enmity, hatred and ill-will against members of the SC/ST community. Ramesh Babu, Chairman, Media and Communication of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC), said in the complaint, "… the tenor of video… is in nature of intimidating persons belonging to SC/ST Community that leaders of Congress party are likely to favour Muslims at cost of SC/ST Community. Since, elections to Lok Sabha is being held on 07/05/2024 in 14 constituencies, the video post of BJP on their official social media handle is nothing but intimidating SC/ST community not to cast a vote to Congress. This is a clear case of intimidating SC/ST community members and further projecting SC/ST community people in a bad light showing them as 'Eggs' and being kicked by another religion i.e., Muslims."

interest rate alone may not help with the repayments by home loan borrowers. Prudential measures like risk weights and loan to value adjustments along with interest rate are more effective in repayments of loans and help in housing credit growth as well as controlling the asset quality of banks' home loan portfolio, a research paper supported by the Reserve Bank shows. «Banks’ capital adequacy had a positive impact on housing credit growth. Macro prudential policies and monetary policies were more effective when used in tandem. Macro prudential policies were not weakened by business cycle booms. While macro prudential policy alone did not seem to affect housing sector NPAs, tighter Macro prudential and monetary policies in conjunction could help to reduce the NPA ratio in the housing sector» said a research paper titled " Assessing the Impact of macro-prudential Policies on Housing Credit Dynamics: Evidence from India" The research paper written is jointly by Amar Nath Yadav, Vivek Kumar and Jyoti Kumari of the Reserve Bank of India's Department of Statistics and Information Management and the external contributor Alok Kumar Chakrawal, vice-chancellor of Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Chhattisgarh. The views expressed are not necessarily of the central bank.

BJP leader Narendra Modi said, "INDI Alliance is asking Muslims to do 'vote jihad'. This is new because we have so far heard about 'love jihad' and 'land jihad'," said Modi, referring to a string of Islamophobic conspiracy theories, before emphasising to his audience why they needed to be fearful. "I hope you all know what the meaning of jihad is and against whom it is waged," This statement came after Samajwadi Party leader Maria Alam, while addressing a gathering in Uttar Pradesh, urged Muslim voters in India to carry out 'Jihad' of 'votes' as the 'only' method to usurp PM Modi.