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Congress and Trinamool Congress made gains in the first set of bypolls covering 13 assembly seats across seven states since the Lok Sabha election. Congress and TMC won four seats each while BJP bagged two seats with Aam Aadmi Party, DMK and an independent candidate getting one each. The good news for Congress came from the hilly states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand where the party won two seats each. In Himachal, chief minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu further consolidated his position by winning two of three seats. Three independent MLAs, who had switched to the BJP from Congress, were contesting on these seats. Sukhu's wife Kamlesh Thakur won from Dehra seat. The party bagged Nalagarh constituency as well. BJP's sole win was in Hamirpur where party candidate Ashish Sharma won the seat.

medical procedural series, “The Pitt,” featuring Noah Wyle, has expanded its cast with nine new actors. The series will focus on frontline heroes in a modern Pittsburgh hospital.

Since childhood, Anant Ambani has been enchanted by the animal kingdom. In a widely viral Instagram reel by @vantarareliancefoundation, Nita Ambani, Anant's mother, recalls a sweet incident that shows Anant’s obsession with animals.

Vending machines selling ammunition are now appearing in grocery stores across Alabama, Texas, and Oklahoma, stirring mixed reactions from officials in these states, CNN reported. American Rounds, the company behind these machines, uses AI technology for customer identification. According to their website, the machines use both ID scanning and facial recognition software to confirm a customer's identity. This ensures that the buyer's age is verified and that the person using the machine matches the scanned identification. These vending machines offer ammunition for a variety of firearm calibers, including rifles, shotguns, and handguns, as stated by American Rounds. Grant Magers, CEO of American Rounds, mentioned that local grocery stores had approached him in the spring of 2023 about using his technology to sell ammunition. The company's first machine was installed in Alabama last November.

The latest BRC retail sales monitor found that growth flatlined for the month, coming in at 0.2%. «Summer may finally have arrived, but it did little to persuade consumers to hit the shops,» said Linda Ellett, UK head of consumer, retail and leisure at KPMG. 'There is no time to waste': Rachel Reeves requests public spending assessment Home and domestic items were the most best-sellers for the period, with homewares, cooking accessories and furniture all seeing positive growth in June as well as computing sales, which boasted double digit growth both online and on the high street. ...

Fed Chair Jerome Powell said on Tuesday in congressional testimony. In comments that appeared to show increasing faith that inflation will return to the Fed's target, a requirement for easing monetary policy, Powell compared the lack of progress on that front in the first months of the year to recent improvement that has helped build the Fed's confidence that price pressures will continue to diminish. As well, the chair noted, the Fed is now also concerned about risks to the job market and economy should rates remain too high for too long.

After a rocky start to the tournament, Shubman Gill & Co found their rhythm in the second T20I against Zimbabwe, thanks to a explosive century by debutant Abhishek Sharma and heroics of spinners Ravi Bishnoi and Washington Sundar and beat the hosts by 100 runs. In the third T20I, the young Indian team continued their victory march against Zimbabwe with a 23-run win.

Marico Ltd.(up 4.22%), Jyothy Labs Ltd.(up 4.13%), Godrej Consumer Products Ltd.(up 3.80%), Emami Ltd.(up 3.50%), Bajaj Consumer Care Ltd.(up 2.85%), Dabur India Ltd.(up 2.81%), Gillette India Ltd.(up 2.59%), Adani Wilmar Ltd.(up 1.93%), Hindustan Unilever Ltd.(up 1.58%) and Procter & Gamble Hygiene & Healthcare Ltd.(up 1.37%) stood among the top gainers.

BJP's Kamlesh Shah on Saturday won the bypoll to Amarwara (ST) assembly constituency in Madhya Pradesh by a margin of 3,027 votes, defeating his nearest Congress rival Dheeran Shah Invati in a close contest after 21 rounds of counting. Shah polled 83,105 votes while Invati garnered 80,078 votes, a poll official said. This is after 16 years that the BJP has won the Amarwara constituency after BJP's Premnarayan Thakur had trounced GGP's Manmohan Shah Bhati in 2008 by a thin margin of 437 votes. Incidentally, Thakur, like Kamlesh Shah, was also a Congress turncoat.

Hardik Pandya bowled the final ball in ICC T20 World Cup 2024, the celebrations of India's victory have not ceased. Rohit Sharma & Co met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on July 4, soon after landing in Delhi from Barbados. The PM hosted the World Cup champions for breakfast at his residence and also interacted with the entire team and learning about their experiences throughout the marquee tournament. BCCI secretary Jay Shah and President Roger Binny were also present at 7 LKM and gifted Modi an Indian jersey.

wedding of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant was one of the most-awaited events of 2024. The wedding, which took place on Friday, was a star-studded affair, attended by the who’s who of showbiz. Bachchans, the first family of Bollywood, was also on the illustrious guest list. However, Bachchan Sr made a cryptic post after the event. Taking to his blog on Sunday, he wrote about how old acquaintances may have changed physically, but the mutual affection remained unchanged. “Back from a glorious wedding and the feel after a very long time of public exposure, the wealth of love and affection that I can possibly think of with so many old acquaintances… they seemed to have changed in their physiognomy, but extremely sincere in their affection towards the association and the love of our times well spent together," wrote the Bollywood veteran. Big B added, «This is what life is all about… the associations and love and care… It is strange how the little things that matter to each other, remain, but those that had a deeper association or a meaningful spent time, is lost and forgotten… well, not really forgotten, but kept on the back burner, and remembered or brought out only when there is required meaning of the association.»

candidates for the Maharashtra Legislative Council polls won on Friday by engineering a cross-voting from among the opposition ranks. Five MLCs of the BJP, two from the Shiv Sena (Shinde) and two from the NCP (Ajit) won the elections despite being short of votes. There were 12 candidates in fray for 11 MLC seats. The MLC elections were seen as a precursor to the assembly polls and a litmus test for the ruling parties as to whether they would be able to keep their flock together after the drubbing in the Lok Sabha polls. Barring the Congress and the NCP-SP, all the other political parties had kept their MLAs ensconced in different hotels two days prior to the voting.

Zerodha users on Monday took to social media to complain about tech glitches related to placed orders. While the broker updated that the glitch has been fixed, investors expressed their anger on social media. “10 lakh lost due to Zerodha. 9.15 orders executed 1.5 hours later. Zerodha, what the hell. This is money we earned by hard work. I want my money back and going to court,” said a user.

Bergen in Norway. Strictly speaking, the gleaming Northern Lights terminal is just the gateway to the actual dump, where carbon dioxide will be offloaded from ships and then pumped down into an aquifer 1.6 miles below the seabed, about 60 miles offshore, keeping it locked away. Getting to net zero mostly means stopping doing things that emit carbon. A supplement to this is capturing those emissions and storing them, like refuse in a landfill. In theory, carbon capture and storage, or CCS, offers the ultimate climate hedge for fossil fuel producers, albeit at a cost of perhaps $10 trillion through 2050.More likely, it will play a vital role in mopping up the most stubborn emissions, but will be outcompeted by faster-moving alternatives for energy transition. Moreover, the incentives required to make it work would present, in themselves, a profound risk to fossil fuel producers. Of the emissions that need to be eliminated to achieve net zero in 2050, Bloomberg NEF projects CCS accounting for 16% of them. The amount being captured annually by 2050, more than 8 gigatons, would be bigger than the total energy-related emissions of the Americas today.

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Lok Sabha, saying that he mentioned "tumse na ho payega" in his speech when 140 crore Indians had told his government the same thing in the just-concluded general election. Prime Minister Modi mounted a stinging counterattack on Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi as he mocked him as «balak buddhi» (childish mind), accusing him of linking Hindus with violence and making false claims in Lok Sabha. Modi also sought stringent action against Gandhi to protect parliamentary democracy. Replying to nearly 18-hour long discussion on the Motion of Thanks on the President's Address in the Lower House, Modi said the Congress and its «ecosystem» are working day and night to impress upon people that the BJP-led NDA has been defeated in the elections despite voters handing his government a historic third-term for stability and continuity. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge slammed Modi for calling the party «parasite» and claimed that the prime minister had used the term for farmers as well in 2021.

Finra has imposed an $850,000 fine on UBS after an investigation revealed the firm failed to establish and maintain an adequate supervisory system, leading to millions in losses for at least 30 customers.

The Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers are moving their local broadcasts to Scripps Sports, leaving financially troubled Bally Sports and bringing the club’s games into more homes on a regular basis than ever before

Riyadh: Ace Indian cueist Pankaj Advani fell short in his quest to secure a hat-trick of titles, losing 2-5 to compatriot Dhruv Sitwala in the final of the 2024 Asian Billiards Championship here on Saturday. Dhruv set the tone for the match with an impressive start, scoring 103 points, while Advani struggled to get on the board, finishing with no points. Advani managed to improve his game, scoring 36 points, but Dhruv maintained his dominance with another 100. Advani found his rhythm in the third frame and outplayed Dhruv, achieving a remarkable 101. Dhruv, however, had an off-frame, scoring only two points. Advani continued his momentum and scored a perfect 100, while Dhruv managed only 11 points. Dhruv's consistency shone through as he scored 100 again.

Parliamentary Activity (PA) — much like the Paranormal Activity series of supernatural horror movies created by Oren Peli — is bona fide creepy. Which, as far as its schlock value goes, means that PA has become downright entertaining.

private investment plans reportedly slumping to a 20-year low in the first quarter of this fiscal, the Congress on Monday alleged India has suffered due to «random policy changes» and an atmosphere of «fear and intimidation». Congress general secretary, in-charge communications, Jairam Ramesh, in a statement alleged that everyday in the «Modi-Made Anyay Kaal» is a new record of economic failure. «We have already seen a 45-year high unemployment rate, a 50-year low household savings rate, and the first-ever decrease in real rural consumption. Now, we have another disturbing fact to reckon with. The Hindu reports that in the April-June quarter of this 2023/24 fiscal year, fresh investments announced by corporates is just Rs. 44,000 crore. This is a 20-year low,» Ramesh said in a post on X. «Compare the decade of Manmohan Singh as Prime Minister with that of the non-biological PM. Investment as percentage of GDP (average over time) was 33.4% during the UPA and 28.7% in the Anyay-kaal,» he said.