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Mayawati on Saturday said some opposition parties were spreading rumours about the BSP forming an alliance ahead of the Lok Sabha polls. The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister reiterated that the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) will contest the elections on its own. In a post in Hindi on X, Mayawati said, «BSP is fighting the Lok Sabha elections on its own and is completely prepared.» «Rumours about the BSP forming an electoral alliance or a third front are fake and wrong. Media should not publish such mischievous news and the people should also be careful,» she added.

Yemen's Houthi rebels on Friday set off explosions ahead of a Singapore-flagged vessel in the Gulf of Aden, authorities said. The attack targeted the bulk carrier Propel Fortune, which continued on its way, according to the United States military's Central Command. «The missiles did not impact the vessel,» Central Command said. «There were no injuries or damages reported.» The Houthis did not immediately claim responsibility for the attack. A statement from Houthi military spokesperson Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree was delayed on Friday night over «urgent military developments in the theatre of military operations», according to the rebel-controlled SABA news agency. He was scheduled to speak on Saturday.

Maharashtra for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections with coalition partners Shiv Sena chief Eknath Shinde and NCP president Ajit Pawar. Shinde and Pawar — chief minister and deputy chief minister of Maharashtra — held talks with Shah here late Friday. Senior BJP leader and Maharashtra deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis was also present in the meeting. Shinde-led Shiv Sena, Pawar-led NCP and the BJP will contest the Lok Sabha elections in alliance in Maharashtra which sends 48 members to the lower house of Parliament. BJP had won 23 of the 25 seats it had contested in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, while its then alliance partner — undivided Shiv Sena — won 18 seats of the 23 seats it had contested.

Assam's Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve on Saturday morning, an official said. Modi, on his maiden visit to the UNESCO World Heritage Site, first took the elephant safari in Mihimukh area of the Central Kohora Range of the park followed by the jeep safari inside the same range. He was accompanied by park director Sonali Ghosh and other senior forest officials. The prime minister had arrived at Kaziranga on Friday evening on a two-day visit to the state.

China's consumer prices rose for the first time in six months, providing some reprieve for the world's second-biggest economy, which faces sluggish demand, a property slump and high local government debt, although producer prices dropped. The consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.7% year-on-year in February, after the steepest fall of 0.8% in over 14 years in January, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Saturday.

workers were injured after a portion of an under-construction medical college building in Gujarat's Morbi collapsed on Friday evening, officials said. According to officials, four of the workers engaged in filling the roof were injured in the collapse incident that took place at around 8:00 pm. Police said that the incident, which took place during the filling work on the first floor of the medical college's new building, resulted in a slab collapse, leaving at least four workers injured.

external commercial borrowing, professional fees, referral fees, and dividend income to finance companies and banking units, established in IIFC will be exempted from the tax deducted at source (TDS) from the next financial year. The Centre on Friday notified 14 categories of payments made by any payer to IFSC units on which no TDS is required.

Solo Leveling's first eight episodes have already grabbed the attention of anime fans across the globe and they are yearning for this thrill to continue in the next episode, set to be broadcasted on Tokyo MX and other TV networks followed by online availability on Crunchyroll.

Election Commission of India on Friday held a meeting with the Ministry of Home Affairs to take stock of security requirements for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Chief election commissioner Rajiv Kumar and election commissioner Arun Goel held a meeting with Union home secretary Ajay Bhalla to discuss deployment of central forces for the general elections. It is gathered that officials from the Ministry of Railways were also part of the deliberations in order to plan smooth movement of central forces across the country. The discussions come just ahead of the commission members' visit to Jammu & Kashmir next week. The deliberations will help in scheduling Lok Sabha and assembly polls in the Union Territory. Kumar and Goel are scheduled to visit Jammu and Kashmir on March 12-13.

As per an internal assessment, there are about 10,000 cases where taxpayers have received notices from both the central and state GST authorities. Courts have made adverse comments in many such cases of parallel investigations. The matter was discussed at a recent meeting of enforcement officials from the central and state GST departments, chaired by union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman. «There are instances where both the Centre and states have issued notices or have started investigations in the same case. We are working on a detailed directive on that,» a senior official told ET.

Competition Commission of India (CCI) has rejected stakeholders' plea opposing the new, more stringent monetary penalty framework for antitrust activities where the maximum penalty would be linked to the global turnover of a firm. The stakeholders wanted the imposition of penalty «to be based on relevant turnover/relevant profit in line with Excel Crop judgment» of the Supreme Court, the regulator said in a «general statement». The CCI issued the statement after it notified on Wednesday its new regulations, moving on from the earlier regime of pegging the maximum penalty to a firm's turnover in the relevant market where the abuse of law has taken place.

Tamil Nadu's ruling DMK on Friday finalised seat-sharing agreements with allies VCK and MDMK, repeating its 2019 deal. However, the party, which is a part of the Opposition INDIA bloc, is yet to clinch a pact with Congress. MDMK was allocated one seat that will be announced later, said party founder Vaiko. DMK had allotted a Lok Sabha seat and one Rajya Sabha seat to MDMK during the 2019 elections. VCK will contest from two reserved constituencies — Chidambaram and Villupuram — the two seats it represents in the outgoing Lok Sabha. Party founder Thol Thirumavalavan currently represents Chidambaram in the Lok Sabha. The party will also field its nominees from around 15 seats in Karnataka, Kerala and Telangana, said Thirumavalavan.

competition law with respect to mergers and acquisitions that are also expected to reduce the regulatory burden on the Competition Commission of India (CCI). Notifications have been issued by the corporate affairs ministry related to Section 5 of the competition law. Section 5 pertains to combinations. Vaibhav Choukse, Partner and Head of Competition Law at JSA Advocates and Solicitors, said it is an important development concerning M&As in the country. «The government has increased the existing financial thresholds as prescribed under Section 5 of the Competition Act by 150 per cent. Further, the De Minimis or the Small Target Exemption thresholds have also been increased. This is in line with the government motto of ease of doing business in India as less M&A deals would require CCI approval,» he said.

Assam Rifles and other law enforcement agencies have seized drugs worth Rs 47.35 crore, a large cache of explosives and arrested three people in Mizoram. The heroin, grade number four, smuggled from neighbouring Myanmar.Assam Rifles sources said that in its crusade against smuggling activities, the para-military forces accompanied by Mizoram police recovered heroin weighing 5394 gram worth Rs 37.75 crore at Melbuk Road Junction, Zokhawthar in Champhai district on Thursday. In a separate joint operation by the Assam Rifles and the police recovered heroin weighing 1376 gram worth Rs 9.6 crore at the same Zokhawthar area in Champhai district on Thursday.

James Webb Space Telescope has discovered what could be a 'Waterworld with a boiling ocean'. Situated on a sub-Neptune distant exoplanet nestled in the TOI-270 system, it is nothing short of a space spectacle. According to 'The Guardian', the exoplanet is twice Earth’s radius and about 70 light years away. A vast reservoir of water vapor and chemical signatures of methane and carbon dioxide have been found in the atmosphere of this exoplanet.

Previous Elections and Current Scenario: In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, Telangana played a crucial role as one of the opening states. With little change in the state's political landscape over the past five years, it is likely to retain this significance in the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections, tentatively scheduled for April. The official confirmation will be provided following the Election Commission of India's (ECI) announcement of election dates.

Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI) on Friday said it is recalling certain units of its superbikes GL1800 Gold Wing and CBR1000RR to inspect and replace faulty fuel pumps. Honda GL1800 Gold Wing manufactured between December 2017 and December 2023 and CBR1000RR manufactured between September 2017 and April 2020 are affected, the two-wheeler major said in a statement. HMSI, however, did not provide an exact number of the units being recalled. «The fuel pump impellers may have been improperly molded, which can cause them to deform and result in fuel pump failure. If the fuel pump module becomes inoperative, the engine may not start or can stall without indication while riding,» the company stated.

Final Destination: Bloodlines, the sixth installment in the iconic Final Destination horror series. As fans eagerly await the release in 2025, here's a comprehensive look at what's known so far, from the cast to potential plot twists.

Coal India Ltd hit a record 703.91 million tonnes (MT) in this fiscal until March 7, surpassing the last fiscal's output of 703.20 MT, the Coal Ministry said on Friday. Highlighting that several key measures were implemented to enhance production, the ministry said Coal India maintains an ample stock of 72.70 MT as of 7th March 2024. "Coal India Limited (CIL) has achieved a record production of 703.91 million tonnes of coal up to 7th March 2024 during the current fiscal, surpassing last financial year's production of 703.20 MT by an impressive margin of 26 days," the ministry said in a release. Adoption of the Mine Developer and Operator model, mechanization and modernization of CIL mines, both Underground & Opencast, undertaking new projects, expanding existing projects, have bolstered coal production, it said.

Hitoshi Iwaaki’s sci-fi horror manga of the same name, 'Parasyte: The Grey' was published from 1989 to 1994 by Kodansha. Despite being based on a Japanese manga, a Korean production house is making the television series. Netflix has released the first trailer of the live-action television series. The trailer has introduced many elements, unfamiliar to the readers of the manga.

Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday said it has attached immovable assets worth Rs 367 crore in Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and some cities in Odisha as part of a money-laundering probe linked to an alleged bank-loan fraud against Bhushan Steel Limited (BSL). A provisional order has been issued under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to attach the assets that were held «in the name of benamidars/shell entities through dummy directors so as to conceal them and to ensure that they are out of the reach of law enforcement agencies», the ED has said in a statement. After completing the corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP), BSL was taken over by Tata Steel Limited in 2018.