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In terms of domestic politics, the failure of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to secure a majority of its own in the just-concluded national elections in India is undoubtedly a setback. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was personally confident that the BJP would get an absolute majority on its own and could touch the 400 mark with its alliance partners. The BJP has secured 240 seats (compared to 303 in 2019) and 293 in total with its National Democratic Alliance (NDA) partners. The NDA led by Modi will now form the next government. Securing a third term as leader is an…
The GRP has recovered an unidentified woman’s body cut into two pieces, with her hands and legs missing, and stuffed in two bags in a train in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore city, an official said. The police suspect the woman was murdered at some other place and the body was dumped in the train on Saturday night, he said. After being informed by a sanitation worker, the body was recovered from Dr Ambedkar Nagar-Indore passenger train, Government Railway Police (GRP) station in-charge Sanjay Shukla said. The victim, who was yet to be identified, was believed to be in the age group…
A retired senior executive of a multinational firm was coerced into paying Rs 85 lakh by a gang posing as CBI, customs, narcotics, and income-tax officers – all on Skype. A police case has been filed in Andhra Pradesh’s Visakhapatnam, which the fraud happened, and Delhi too. The gang took the money by cheque, and transferred it to a company called ‘Rana Garments’, which operated an HDFC account in Delhi’s Uttam Nagar. According to the first information report (FIR) filed with the police in Visakhapatnam, the gang transferred the money from the HDFC account run by ‘Rana Garments’ to 105…
College days create memories that last a lifetime. From bunking lectures to staying in hostels and eating in the mess, these memories are for life. However, when the quality of food in a hostel mess is poor, it can be extremely distressing. A recent X (formerly Twitter) post claims that students had to eat food at IIIT Hyderabad, where cockroaches and flies are found in the mess food. Shedding light on the issue, a former undergraduate researcher at IIIT Hyderabad, Shashwat Goel, shared a series of notes on X. In one of the notes, he wrote, “Students are forced to…
India and Pakistan do not play against each other in a bilateral series, due to the political tensions between the two nations. They only face each other during the ICC tournaments and this is what makes their rivalry even more intense. Not just their respective fans but all the fans around the world eagerly wait for these two teams to square off against each other as it always promises to be a high-voltage clash. Both India and Pakistan are now set to face each other again in the T20 World Cup 2024, Group A match on Sunday in New York.…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take oath today for a record third term, along with with several ministers who will be a part of the new cabinet. The National Democratic Alliance won 293 seats in the Lok Sabha polls and the Bharatiya Janata Party is expected to give out some positions to its allies. Here is a tentative list of MPs who could take oath with PM Modi today at the Rashtrapati Bhavan: Amit Shah – BJP Rajnath Singh – BJP Nitin Gadkari – BJP Jyotiraditya Scindia – BJP Arjun Ram Meghwal – BJP Raksha Khadse – BJP Jitendra Singh…
The Indian cricket team heads into the T20 World Cup 2024 clash against Pakistan with the ‘favourites’ tag, owing to an embarrassing defeat Babar Azam’s men faced against co-hosts USA in their opening match. In terms of the batting unit, the likes of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma will arguably be the two players in the spotlight during the match, but former Pakistan wicket-keeper batter Kamran Akmal also has his eyes on Suryakumar Yadav, the No. 1 T20 batter in the world at the moment. Though the ICC rankings have Surya sitting on the top in the shortest format, his…
Many wrote the Congress’ obituaries ahead of the election, but the party has come back strongly and demonstrated its resilience, re-elected Congress parliamentary party chief Sonia Gandhi has said, congratulating and praising the newly-elected MPs. Addressing the party’s parliamentary party meeting yesterday, she said, “I am deeply conscious of the great responsibility all of you have placed on me yet again. Let me first of all greet and congratulate all the newly elected Lok Sabha MPs. You have fought a tough election under the most challenging of circumstances. You have surmounted many obstacles and campaigned so very effectively.” The Congress’s…
Earlier this year, Sofia Firdous was preparing for her father, Mohammed Moquim, the then-incumbent Congress MLA of Odisha’s Cuttack, to fight reelection. However, barely a month before the state Assembly elections were supposed to begin, a jolt hit the family when Mr Moquim, managing director of his real estate firm Metro Group, found out that he was ineligible to contest the polls as the Supreme Court did not stay his conviction in an Orissa Rural Housing Development Corporation (ORHDC) loan fraud case. With 30 days left and no candidate, the Congress pinned its hope on Ms Firdous. The 32-year-old abandoned…
Sonam Kapoor, 39 today, received the sweetest wish from Veere Di Wedding co-star Kareena Kapoor. On Sunday, the Udta Punjab star wished the bir5thday girl by sharing a monochrome image of them. Below the image, Kareena Kapoor wrote, “Happy birthday darling Sonam. Love you and wish you all the happiness.” For the unversed, Kareea Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor have worked together in the 2018 comedy film Veere Di Wedding, which also starred Swara Bhasker and Shikha Talsania in titular roles.See Kareena Kapoor’s wish for Sonam below:On the personal front, Anand Ahuja and Sonam Kapoor got married in May 2018. They welcomed…