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BJP announced its first list of 195 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, the Overseas Friends of BJP in the US has kicked off its 2024 election campaign pledging to volunteer and contribute towards the goal of winning 400 seats in the elections. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday released its first list of 195 candidates out of which 51 are from Uttar Pradesh, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi. «The Indian Diaspora is going to support the BJP in India,» Adapa Prasad, president of Overseas Friends of BJP (OFBJP) USA told PTI after the conclusion of the kick-off event on Saturday in a Maryland suburb of Washington DC. The event was attended by about 100 core members of the OFBJP.

Lok Sabha polls, the Overseas Friends of BJP in the US has kicked off its 2024 election campaign pledging to volunteer and contribute towards the goal of winning 400 seats in the elections. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday released its first list of 195 candidates out of which 51 are from Uttar Pradesh, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi.

Trump continued his march toward the GOP nomination on Saturday, winning caucuses in Idaho and Missouri and sweeping the delegate haul at a party convention in Michigan. Trump earned every delegate at stake on Saturday, bringing his count to 244 compared to 24 for former U N Ambassador Nikki Haley. A candidate needs to secure 1,215 delegates to clinch the Republican nomination. The next event on the Republican calendar is Sunday in the District of Columbia. Two days later is Super Tuesday, when 16 states will hold primaries on what will be the largest day of voting of the year outside of the November election. Trump is on track to lock up the nomination days later.

attention and eye movements are linked, while unveiling how the brain coordinates the two processes. Attention is a unique phenomenon that allows us to focus on a specific object in our visual world, and ignore distractions. When we pay attention to an object, we tend to gaze towards it. Therefore, scientists have long suspected that attention is tightly coupled to rapid eye movements, called saccades. In fact, even before our eyes move towards an object, our attention focuses on it, allowing us to perceive it more clearly – a well-known phenomenon called pre-saccadic attention, IISc said in a press release. However, in a new study published in PLOS Biology, the researchers at CNS show that this perceptual advantage is lost when the object changes suddenly, a split second before our gaze falls upon it, making it harder for us to process what changed.

A few Indians caught in the Russia-Ukraine conflict have sent desperate pleas back home asking to be rescued, saying the Russian military had hired them as helpers but coerced into fighting in the war. Out of roughly 100 Indians hired by the Russian military, at least one has been killed in battle. The Indian government is scrambling to secure the discharge of these individuals.

Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas on charges of land grabbing from villagers, news agency PTI reported. The report said Maiti, a close aide of fugitive Shajahan Sheikh, was detained from the residence of a civic volunteer where the TMC leader had locked himself for over four hours after being chased by villagers. "We detained him following complaints of land grabbing by villagers.

Mars surface mission which will help inform NASA's plans for human exploration of the Red Planet, the space agency said on its website. In spring 2025, CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog), the second of three planned ground-based missions, is expected to launch.

Earlier this week, Edmonton MLA Rakhi Pancholi said that buying a membership in the party she hopes to lead — the Alberta NDP — should not automatically bring a membership in the party Jagmeet Singh leads — the federal NDP — as it does now.

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Mandir in Abu Dhabi is witnessing an overwhelming influx of people, resonating with enthusiastic «Modi-Modi» chants, as they eagerly await the historic inauguration ceremony by Prime Minister Narendra Modi today. As the first Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi, the BAPS Mandir has become a focal point of cultural and spiritual significance, drawing devotees from various corners. The atmosphere is charged with excitement as the faithful gather in huge numbers to witness the culmination of years of dedication and hard work that have gone into the construction of this magnificent temple.

Manipur Police Training College (MPTC) at Pangei in Imphal East district, a senior official said. It is suspected that the village volunteers tried to barge into the premises to loot firearms as they had earlier posted on social media that they needed more weapons to fight off attackers. However, officials have remained mum over the motive of their attempt to enter the police facility, which houses a large number of weapons. One person, identified as 24-year-old Okram Sanaton, succumbed to his injuries while being taken to a state-run hospital in Imphal after sustaining gunshot wounds. «The incident took place on Tuesday night when a large number of local youths, mostly village volunteers, gathered at the MPTC gates and tried to barge into the premises, with some even succeeding in their endeavour,» the official told PTI.

Mount Baldy to find the missing woman.Search and rescue workers and volunteers battled through heavy snowfall and were hampered by avalanche risks in their attempts to find Lifei Huang. In the end, it was a civilian flying a drone who spotted her eight days after she went missing, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department wrote in a press release.Huang set off for a solo hike in the Mount Baldy area of the San Gabriel Mountains on Feb.

children in begging activities. The authorities discovered that she had accumulated a plot of land, a two-storeyed house, a motorcycle, a smartphone worth Rs 20,000, and a significant sum of Rs 2.5 lakh within a span of six weeks. Indra, who has a history of such offenses, was charged with begging and exploiting her children for the crime. She was subsequently remanded to jail on Monday, while one of her daughters was placed under the care of an NGO. Indra Bai defended her actions when confronted by volunteers from the NGO Sanstha Pravesh, stating, «Instead of starving, we chose to beg. It is better than stealing.» The NGO, in collaboration with the Indore Municipal Corporation, has been gathering data on approximately 7,000 beggars, half of whom are children, from 38 major squares in Indore. Rupali Jain, a volunteer from the NGO, revealed that these beggars collectively earn over Rs 20 crore annually.

Goa, Delhi’s favourite holiday destination, with criminals using a north Indian restaurant as cover, seems perfect for the portly private eye. Delhi Police’s Economic Offences Wing, which carried out this real-life operation last August, must have had no problem getting volunteers. All they knew was that the targets, a couple accused of embezzling more than Rs 4 crore, had taken cover running a restaurant in North Goa with ‘Rasoi’ in its name. So, to apprehend the criminals, the team booked into a hotel and ordered from every restaurant with Rasoi in its name. We’re told that the orders were lavish — shahi paneer and naan are mentioned, but there must have been much more — presumably to ensure the restaurant delivered directly, rather than through a delivery app. They then followed the delivery guy back and finally, on the fifth order, hit gold at a restaurant named Aunty ki Rasoi.

Finland's national carrier Finnair is asking passengers to be weighed voluntarily and anonymously so that it can update their standard weight figures

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated the SAMALEI project in Sambalpur on Saturday. According to the Odisha government, the SAMALEI (Samaleswari Temple Area Management and Local Economic Initiative) Plan is proposed to comprehensively develop the temple precinct to provide a unique experiential experience to visitors and pilgrims by creating an ambiance of spirituality. The project includes peripheral development of the shrine, construction of a heritage corridor, amenities for pilgrims, improved access to the temple, and development of the Mahanadi riverfront. «People of Odisha will always remember those who volunteered to forego their lands for the SAMALEI project. The blessings of Maa Samaleswari always remain with the people of the state,» said Patnaik in Sambalpur. The Chief Minister added that COVID created some problems but the Maa Samalaei Project has been completed in record time. The state government has spent more than Rs 200 crore on this project.

village volunteer was killed and two others were injured during a gunfight between two armed groups in Manipur's Kangpokpi district on Saturday morning, police said. The gunfight broke out after armed miscreants entered the vicinity of the hill village of Satang Kuki and launched a gun and bomb attack. The fighting stopped after the attackers retreated following the arrival of additional backup forces at Satang village, they said. The injured has been rushed to a private hospital in Imphal. One of the injured person received splinter injuries on the face and another on his thigh, hospital sources said. Further details are awaited, they added.

The small New Brunswick town of Beresford is now home to overnight multi-millionaires, as a couple from the area became the recipients of the largest-known Chase the Ace prize in Canadian history after winning $8.2 million on Tuesday night.

Pran Pratishtha ceremony on Monday, one is reminded of the dramatis personae of the Ram Janmabhumi momvement since the 1949 when the litigation over the dispute began. LK Advani of the BJP, then UP chief minister Kalayan Sngh and Ashok Singhal of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) have been known faces of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement who led from the front for decades. However, from saints to lawyers to politicians to common people, the movment was built, led and run by a diverse set of people. Below are some of the personalities associated with the movement who are not as well known as its top leaders.

Ram temple in Ayodhya. The car rally, organised by six volunteer Hindus from the Bay Area, was taken from Sunnyvale to Warm Spring BART station, Golden Gate, followed by a spectacular Tesla car light show on Saturday evening. Led by a giant Ram Rath, the rally covered almost 100 miles and was escorted by two police cars for security reasons.

Assam CM calls for caste census among Muslim community, says ‘crucial for…' During the ‘caste survey’, volunteers will visit every home to collect the caste details, which will be relayed to the village secretariat system. In the village secretariat system across the state will verify the accuracy of the information collected by the volunteers and correct it, if necessary, before making the final record.