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Preparing for the D-day Social media narrative notwithstanding, ruling BJP is confident of coming back for a third term at the Centre. The government machinery is working towards a specific date — June 10 for swearing in and the first Cabinet meeting. The government is also working towards rolling out a 100-day agenda after a full-body Niti Aayog meeting on June 24. Campaign stuck due to traffic Pune traffic is turning out to be a nightmare for Lok Sabha candidates, especially during the second half of the day. Maharashtra deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis had a first-hand experience when he reached the city to campaign for BJP candidate Murlidhar Mohol. While Fadnavis was somehow able to reach the designated venue on time, Mohol arrived late as he was stuck in city traffic.

labour and employment ministry has boarded the PM Gati Shakti portal to identify and bridge gaps in social security coverage across the country and expand its health infrastructure to industrial clusters as well as special economic zones (SEZs) for the benefit of workers, said the secretary to the ministry Sumita Dawra. She told ET that the idea is to leverage the infrastructure data available on the portal to extend social security coverage to workers engaged in existing and upcoming industrial clusters around these projects while also ensuring availability of Employees' State Insurance Corporation's hospital and dispensary in the closest vicinity to these clusters. To begin with, the ministry has geotagged 1.3 million establishments covered under the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), about 1.5 million under the Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) and 104 ESIC hospitals for assessing the current social security coverage and planning future expansion.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Sunday Prime Minister Narendra Modi stayed in Raj Bhawan last night and he should have asked Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose to resign from his post but he didn't utter a single word, amid allegations against Bose over molestation. «The Prime Minister comes to Bengal and stays in Raj Bhavan. The PM should have asked him (Governor) to resign from his post but he didn't utter a single word,» Banerjee said on Sunday during a public rally in North 24 Parganas Amdanga. «There is a Constitutional crisis. No women is ready to enter Raj Bhawan after some shameful deeds recently came to light,» Banerjee said while speaking at an election rally on Sunday. «PM should have asked him to resign from his post but he didn't utter a single word.»

Prashant Bhushan on Sunday alleged that companies used electoral bonds to bribe political parties to secure projects worth lakhs of crores of rupees. He said a petition has been filed before the Supreme Court, seeking an independent probe by a special investigation team (SIT) into the alleged nexus between political parties and companies for corruption through electoral bonds. «The Rs 16,500 crore electoral bond donations that companies gave to political parties were merely bribes or kickbacks in exchange for which contracts or projects worth lakhs of crores were given to the companies in quid pro quo arrangements,» Bhushan alleged in a press conference here. Bhushan and social activist Anjali Bhardwaj were in Ranchi as part of their awareness campaign regarding electoral bonds and bringing transparency in political funding. Bhushan said they have visited 11 states before Jharkhand.

ISRO Chairman S Somanath has said the Indian space industry is offering a tremendous opportunity to the private sector in the country as a new area of growth and development. He said the union government envisages the space sector in the country to become a 9 to10 billion dollar industry in the next 5-10 years from the current levels of 2 billion dollars. Somanath was speaking after unveiling the carbon reduction initiative of SFO Technologies, the flagship company of the NeST Group, in a function on Saturday, a company release said. He also said that 400 private sector companies have benefited from the technology developed by ISRO for its various missions. Companies like SFO Technologies are well positioned to take further advantage of the new policy initiatives in the space sector by the government of India.

Also Read: Northern Lights Visible in India? Aurora borealis may glitter tonight in this state The image was later deleted by the Reddit user. The aurora lights are generally visible near the poles of both the northern and southern hemispheres. When the lights are witnessed in locations near the North Pole, they are called aurora borealis, and when they are visible in the South they are called aurora australis.

Rohit Sharma was seen out on the ground. He spoke with various KKR players and was once seen expressing his discontent with Mumbai Indians' performance in IPL 2024. A video is breaking the internet showing Rohit Sharma speaking with KKR's Abhishek Nayar about how things are changing in Mumbai Indians and how he can't do anything about it.

World Atlas of Tea (2016) by Krisi Smith. It is a great book to make your acquaintance with the beverage and its origins. What I like is the practical tips on how to blend, brew and even grow tea at home.

₹34 billion by 2026, from ₹19 billion in 2023, as businesses increasingly turn to social-media influencers to drive sales and deepen brand connect, a recent Ficci EY report said. While Instagram and YouTube are the platforms of choice, smaller platforms such as Snapchat will also increasingly be used to reach out to niche audiences.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer as a child and one of the stories that made an impression was a first season episode titled Out of Mind, Out of Sight, where an extremely shy high school girl becomes literally invisible after being ignored by teachers and classmates alike. Of course, this being the 1990s precursor to modern-day superhero fare (Buffy creator Joss Whedon went on to direct the first two Avengers movies), the episode ended with the invisible girl becoming an FBI assassin-in-training.

Also Read: Google layoffs: It is about taking the time to do it correctly and well, says CEO Sundar Pichai On the other hand, Google Nest easily answered questions related to Nakba. The AI described Nakba as an “ethnic cleansing of Palestinians." "Google Nest can't answer questions about the Holocaust and Jews. "Coincidental error" or deliberate on the part of their software engineers," wrote a social media user on X while sharing the viral video.

Chennai Super Kings last month, Rohit Sharma has looked out of form. In his last 7 innings, the former MI captain has only reached double figures twice, with a highest score of 36 against Punjab Kings. Moreover, Rohit's 19-run knock against KKR came at a strike rate of less than a run a ball as his team chased down a total of 158 in 16 overs.

Purulia Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal with lack of industrialisation and corruption allegations dominating the poll narrative in the backdrop of the omnipresent local Kurmi struggle for Scheduled Tribe status. The stage in this Kurmi-majority seat looks all set for a fierce three-cornered battle between incumbent BJP MP Jyotirmoy Singh Mahato, TMC's former state minister Shantiram Mahato and Congress's old war horse Nepal Mahato, all of who are represent the Kurmi scheduled caste community. While the BJP perceptively earned the Kurmi confidence to dislodge the TMC from the seat in 2019, the latter, in its bid to regain the community's support in the region, has announced in its poll manifesto that it will stand by its demand for ST status and pursue the Centre for its approval. Even smaller parties like SUCI (Communist) have fielded candidates from the same community in the form of young student leader Sushmita Mahato.

Lok Sabha constituency Visakhapatnam is one of the twenty-five Lok Sabha constituencies of Andhra Pradesh. It will go to polls on May 13. The results will be declared on June 4. Ruling Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP's) candidate Botsa Jhansi Lakshmi faces a tough battle in Visakhapatnam against Telugu Desam Party's Sri Bharat and Congress's P Sathyanarayana Reddy. Botsa Lakshmi is the wife of the State Education Minister and YSRCP senior leader, Botsa Satyanarayana.

Arvind Kejriwal will hold a meeting with the Aam Aadmi Party MLAs in the national capital on Sunday. This will be his first meeting with legislatures after he walked out of Tihar Jail post the Supreme Court decision of granting him interim bail till June 1. In a post on X, CM Arvind Kejriwal wrote, «11 am — MLA meeting 1 pm — press conference at party office, 4 pm — Road Show — New Delhi Lok Sabha — Moti Nagar 6 pm — Road Show — West Delhi Lok Sabha — Uttam Nagar. All of you have to come.» Meanwhile, Aam Aadmi Party Chhatra Yuva Sangharsh Samiti organised the 'Jail Ka Jawab Vote Se' cyclathon in the national capital.

Arvind Kejriwal over his «retirement at 75 years of age» remark on Prime Minister Modi, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that knowing their defeat in the Lok Sabha elections, desperate opposition making futile attempts. Earlier, Kejriwal claimed that PM Modi after turning 75 next year will make way for Home Minister Amit Shah and also alleged Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will be left out in the cold after the general elections. In his post on X, CM Yogi said, «The entire propaganda of the opposition has failed in the face of the immense public support that the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi ji is receiving from East to West and North to South. Knowing that its defeat in the Lok Sabha elections is certain, the desperate opposition is making futile attempts to launch attack by using the excuse of Modi ji's age.»

BJP would not be able to win Odisha in the next 10 years, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday claimed his BJD would return to power for the sixth consecutive time after the assembly elections. Patnaik was reacting to PM Narendra Modi telling an election rally earlier in the day that the swearing-in ceremony of a «BJP chief minister» will be held in Bhubaneswar on June 10. «Nothing will happen on June 10. BJP will not be able to win the hearts of the people in the next 10 years, forget about June 10,» the chief minister said, maintaining that the BJD will form the government in Odisha for the sixth consecutive time. He also questioned why Biju Patnaik was not being considered for Bharat Ratna.

security arrangements for the May 13 polling in Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency, even as political parties expressed concern that their workers are being harassed by police. The Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency with about 17.4 lakh voters, including 2 lakh first-time voters, is spread over 18 Assembly segments in the four districts of Ganderbal, Srinagar, Pulwama and Budgam, where voting will take place at 2,135 polling stations. The administration has deployed police and paramilitary forces on all major roads and erected checkpoints in the constituency. Election Commission of India mandated security has been placed around polling stations as well.

Also Read: Eurovision 2024 final mired in controversy over Israeli participation, expulsion of Dutch contestant | 5 points The voice of thousands of pro-Palestine protesters demonstrating in Malmo reverberated on social media as several users criticised Israel's participation and its performance. Swiss singer Nemo won the contest and became the first non-binary artist to lift the trophy. However, what drew social media's attention was the significant amount of scores awarded to the Israeli contestant.

Northern Lights’, was visible across various parts of the globe for the another consecutive night on May 11, as per an AFP report. Caused by a massive solar storm, expected to last till May 12, these captivating displays already mesmerised viewers worldwide on May 10. Also Read | Northern Lights visible in India? Aurora borealis may glitter tonight in this state "I have the sensation of living through a historic night in France...

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