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BJP. The BJP's southern push is part of its larger plan to emerge as a pan-India party. But there are short-term considerations too. The party's target of winning 370 seats when it has maxed out in its traditional stronghold states can be realised only by winning more seats in the South. Additionally, it is expecting strong resistance from opposition parties in Maharashtra and Bihar and also its South Indian bastion of Karnataka, where its NDA coalition won 26 out of 28 seats in 2019 polls. Its new chief ministers in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh are untested which could be a vulnerability. For these reasons, the BJP has crafted a major campaign for South India led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi who has visited South India nearly two dozen times in the past few months. Modi on Tuesday wrapped up his whirlwind tour of South India by holding a roadshow in Kerala and a public rally in Tamil Nadu

In major centres such as India's 'Silicon Valley' Bengaluru, home to firms like Google, water supply is already being curtailed. The 150 reservoirs monitored by the federal government -which supply water for drinking and irrigation and are the country's key source of hydro-electricity — were filled to just 40% of capacity last week, government data showed.

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam head M K Stalin on Wednesday released a list of 16 candidates who will contest the Lok Sabha elections under the party banner. Featured on the list are party heavyweights K Kanimozhi, A Raja, T R Baalu and Dayanidhi Maran, among others. Stalin also launched the party's manifesto for the polls, which included promises to not implement the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the National Educational Policy (NEP) and the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the state.

Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Tuesday brushed aside President Joe Biden's opposition to a planned ground invasion of Rafah, a city in the southern Gaza Strip, saying that his government would press ahead despite pleas for restraint from the United States and key allies. Netanyahu made the remarks to Israeli lawmakers a day after speaking by phone with Biden, who reiterated his stance against an offensive into Rafah, arguing that it could be disastrous for the people there and that Israel had other ways of achieving its objective of defeating Hamas.

NDA partners in Tamil Nadu, has added more than half a dozen partners in the southern state with the latest entrant being PMK. In a state where politics is dominated by the Dravidian parties, BJP has stitched up alliances with Tamil Manila Congress led by GK Vasan, TTV Dinakaran's Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK), TR Pachamuthu's Indhiya Jananayaga Katchi (IJK), AC Shanmugam's New Justice Party (NJP) and John Pandian's Tamizhaga Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (TMMK). Veteran Tamil actor R Sarath Kumar has merged his Akila Indiya Samathuva Makkal Katchi (AISMK) with BJP. Now, the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), which enjoys influence among the Vanniyar caste and is concentrated in northern Tamil Nadu, has announced that it will join BJP-led NDA. BJP is also in talks with the late Captain Vijayakanth's DMDK. At present, BJP has no MP from Tamil Nadu. The last time the party won a seat in the state was in 2014, when Pon Radhakrishnan won the Kanyakumari seat in a four-cornered contest. The politics of Tamil Nadu is mainly dominated by the two Dravidian parties — AIADMK and DMK.

Northern Hemisphere, a sense of rejoicing will rest with the citizens based in the Eastern time zone as this is the most awaited season, relieving them from the harsh winter and giving them the chance for some great outdoor picnics and outings. The beginning of the academic season is another good reason why the arrival of spring is very important for Universities and colleges.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday wrapped up his whirlwind tour of South India by holding a roadshow in Kerala and a public rally in Tamil Nadu, marking the continuation of the BJP's southern outreach, as he made a strong election pitch for the party, a month ahead of Lok Sabha polls. Over the last five days, Modi visited all of south, held roadshows, made an aggressive bid for his party, and took on the rivals with full gusto, especially the ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu, and the BRS in Telangana that was in power for 10 years. He also stepped up his attack on the opposition bloc India over Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's 'Shakti' remark. Not just through the week, but PM Modi had made repeated stopovers in multiple southern destinations in the past few months, crisscrossing the region, in a bid to get a firmer foothold for the saffron party. He combined official engagements with visits to places of Hindu religious significance. But for Karnataka, the region has eluded the BJP of many electoral gains. Kerala and Tamil Nadu even bucked the national trend in 2014 and 2019, cold-shouldering an otherwise resurgent and powerful BJP that swept across the country in the polls.

big celestial event, several parts of the world are set to witness a Total Solar Eclipse on April 8, 2024, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said. The total solar eclipse--where the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, completely blocks the face of the Sun, and casts a shadow on Earth— will cross North America, passing over Mexico, the US, and Canada in the second week of April. Though such celestial events are common, but the solar eclipse falling this April is very rare given its recurrence at a particular location.

David Brend and Gustavo Rogriguez, promoters of the fraudulent crypto mining and trading facility IcomTech, were found guilty of conspiracy to commit wire fraud by a New York jury on Friday, according to a press release from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

₹1,000-crore fund to bolster technology-driven agri-startups and rural enterprises, said chairman Shaji K.V. on Monday. The fund will back startups facing challenges in scaling up their operations due to limited access to equity and debt instruments, and will seek to foster new linkages in the rural ecosystem, both forward and backward.

A suspected attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels saw an explosion detonated near a ship in the Gulf of Aden, potentially marking their latest assault on shipping through the crucial waterway leading to the Red Sea

Officials say a post-flight inspection revealed a missing panel on a 25-year-old Boeing 737-800 after it arrived at its destination in southern Oregon

Article 370 that benefited from such strategies. Over the past weekend, Sidharth Malhotra-starrer Yodha operated with a ‘buy one, get one ticket’ offer while on Cinema Lover’s Day on 23 February, tickets were available at a discounted price of ₹99, including for premium formats, except for southern states, excluding Karnataka. Kiran Rao’s Laapataa Ladies was priced at ₹100 on 8 March to mark International Women’s Day.

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Ukraine launched a new massive wave of drone attacks Sunday as Russians cast ballots on the final day of a presidential vote set to extend President Vladimir Putin's rule for another six years. The Russian Defence Ministry reported downing 35 Ukrainian drones overnight, including four in the Moscow region. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said there were no casualties or damage.

(Reuters) -The U.S. military said it destroyed a drone fired by the Yemeni Houthis on Saturday, with another presumed to have crashed into the Red Sea.

Mother Dairy will invest Rs 650 crore to set up two new plants for processing of milk as well as fruits and vegetables to expand its business amid rising consumer demand. Mother Dairy, which is a leading milk supplier in Delhi-NCR, will also invest another Rs 100 crore to expand capacities of its existing plants. «In our endeavour to expand our distribution and reach to our consumers, we have earmarked a capital expenditure (capex) outlay of over Rs 750 crore to enhance our dairy and F&V (fruits and vegetables) processing capacities across key locations,» Mother Dairy Fruits and Vegetables Pvt Ltd MD Manish Bandlish told PTI. Mother Dairy is coming up with a big dairy plant in Nagpur, Maharashtra with an investment of around Rs 525 crore, he said.

Yemen's Houthi rebels saw an explosive detonate near a ship early Sunday in the Gulf of Aden, potentially marking their latest assault on shipping through the crucial waterway leading to the Red Sea. The British military's United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said the vessel's crew saw the blast as it passed off the coast of Aden, the port city in southern Yemen home to the country's exiled government. «No damage to the vessel has been reported and the crew are reported safe,» UKMTO said.

blew off a Boeing Max 9 jet in midair just minutes after an Alaska Airlines flight took off from Portland, leaving a gaping hole and forcing pilots to make an emergency landing. There were no serious injuries.

In the last assembly polls, YSRCP clinched 151 seats while TDP could grab only 22 seats. In the southern state, a party to form a government needs a majority of 88 seats. The current party in power, YSRCP released its list with the constituencies for both Lok Sabha and state assembly polls together just hours before ECI made the official announcement. It has announced the names of 25 candidates for Lok Sabha polls along with 175 Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh.