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A total of 889 candidates from six states and a Union Territory are going to polls in the sixth phase today. These include all the seven seats in national capital Delhi. Prominent candidates in this phase include former JNU students’ union president Kanhaiya Kumar, now with the Congress, BJP veteran and former Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, four-time MP and former Union minister Maneka Gandhi and singer-turned-politician Manoj Tiwari. Here’s a look at key candidates in this phase: Manoj Tiwari: The two-time MP from North-East Delhi is the only sitting MP in the national capital who has been retained…
The sixth and penultimate phase of polling for the 2024 Lok Sabha election begins this morning with voting in 58 seats across six states and two union territories, including Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag, which was to vote in the third phase but will do so today after adverse weather conditions on May 7. The seat has flipped between Farooq and Omar Abdullah’s National Conference and Mehbooba Mufti’s PDP over the last five elections. The focus, though, will be on the national capital, where the BJP faces an INDIA bloc challenge – the AAP and Congress have united to stop the…
When the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 started, Lucknow Super Giants’ Mayank Yadav was being hailed as the breakaway star of this edition. His speed generated awe as he regularly clocked over 150kmph. His case was almost same as Umran Malik, a couple of seasons back, who broke fast bowling record in the IPL. Umran Malik has been in the shadows in the IPL 2024. Mayank also did not look the same after an injury cut kept him out for considerable time. In the midst of such youngsters, one bowler who made a brilliant comeback was Rajasthan Royals’ Sandeep Sharma.…
Several families whose children were killed or wounded in a mass shooting at their Texas school two years ago have sued the gun manufacturer as well as Instagram and video game company Activision for marketing the weapon, their lawyer said Friday. Nineteen young children and two teachers were killed in the city of Uvalde on May 24, 2022, when a teenage gunman went on a rampage with an AR-15 style assault rifle at Robb Elementary School, in America’s deadliest school shooting in a decade. The families accuse the companies of wrongful death and gross negligence, saying gun manufacturer Daniel Defense,…
The sixth phase of voting in the ongoing Lok Sabha election has begun in 58 seats across seven states and one Union Territory (UT). Delhi and Haryana are voting in a single phase. Lok Sabha and Assembly elections are being held simultaneously in Odisha. By the end of today, elections will be completed in 486 of the 543 Lok Sabha seats. Polling will also be completed in Haryana, Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir. The Election Commission has asked poll officers and authorities to take adequate measure to mitigate the effects of rising temperatures in Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh due…
A 25-year-old Delhi resident, accused of endangering the safety of pedestrians by allegedly driving his SUV recklessly on a street here, was arrested on Friday, police said. Prince Mavi has been booked for violation of road traffic rules and fined Rs 35,000 as a penalty, they said. In videos that surfaced on social media, he is seen driving an SUV on a street near Amity University and braking close to pedestrians, leaving them terrified. Those terrified by his acts included college-going men and women, it was seen in the videos. “On Friday, a viral video on social media came to…
In a cowshed in Gaza’s Khan Yunis, zookeeper Fathi Ahmed Gomaa has created a temporary home for dozens of animals including lions and baboons, having fled with them from Israel’s offensive in Rafah. A lioness rests in a cage after the animals of the Rafah Zoo were evacuated to a location in Khan Yunis in the Gaza strip. “We’ve moved all the animals we had, except for three big lions that remain (in Rafah)”, he said. “I ran out of time and couldn’t move them.” Ahmed abandoned his zoo in Rafah when Israel ordered the evacuation of parts of the…
The so-called FLiRT variants of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that cause COVID-19 have been the dominant forms of the virus circulating this year globally, according to the World Health Organization The moniker FLiRT is an acronym for the locations of the mutations the variants share on the virus’ spike protein. One of them, called KP.2, has become the most commonly circulating variant in the United States over the past month, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Here is what you need to know about FLiRT. HOW ARE THE FLIRT VARIANTS DIFFERENT FROM PREVIOUS VARIANTS? The FLiRT variants, which…
In a bizarre incident, a man drove with a cop on his car’s bonnet and another chasing him on a civilian’s scooter after he refused to stop when he was asked to. What’s possibly even more bizarre, however, is that he was let off with a challan. A video of the incident, which took place in West Delhi’s Punjabi Bagh area on Friday, shows the traffic policeman’s cap peeking above the car’s roof as he hangs on to the moving vehicle. When the car finally stops, the angry cop on the bonnet is seen shouting at the driver. The other…
Three days after a massive crackdown was launched across four states in the Rameshwaram Cafe blast case in Bengaluru, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday arrested one more accused who is an ex-convict in a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror conspiracy case. According to an official statement issued by the NIA, the arrested person has been identified as Shoaib Ahmed Mirza (35) alias Chhotu, a resident of Hubbali, Karnataka. Mirza is the fifth accused to be arrested in connection with the low-intensity blast that rocked the Rameshwaram Cafe in Bengaluru on March 1, injuring at least 10 persons. The NIA investigation…