Monday, 18 November 2024
Monday, 18 November 2024
India’s ruling party, the BJP, has faced setbacks in India’s three biggest states electorally. The 170 seats in the three biggest states – UP (80), Maharashtra (48) and Bengal (42) – would have helped Modi secure a third term as prime minister without the two ‘N’ crutches – Nitish Kumar and N Chandrababu Naidu.
Congress Working Committee (CWC) unanimously urged Rahul Gandhi to take on the mantle of the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha to which he told the party's top brass that he will take a decision on it 'very soon'. Kharge said the Lok Sabha poll mandate is a "decisive rejection" of the politics of divisiveness and hate, and stressed that the INDIA bloc must continue functioning cohesively both inside and outside Parliament.
Amid allegations of inflation of marks in the NEET-UG medical entrance exam, the National Testing Agency (NTA) announced that the education ministry has set up a four-member panel to review the grace marks awarded to more than 1,500 candidates. The issue also took political turn with the AAP demanding a Supreme Court-monitored SIT probe into the alleged irregularities and the Congress alleging paper leaks, rigging and corruption have become an integral part of many examinations.
Passengers faced hardship for the second day as several suburban trains were cancelled or short-terminated for infrastructure upgrade at Sealdah station in Calcutta, officials said. An Eastern Railway official said that 147 services of suburban trains were scheduled to be short-terminated or short-originated during the period of the work, which include the length extension of five platforms to accommodate 12-coach EMU trains and for electronic interlocking system, from the early hours of Friday to Sunday afternoon.
Suspected militants torched a police outpost and set several houses on fire in Manipur's Jiribam district, officials said. The gunmen suspected to be hill-based militants also launched multiple attacks taking advantage of the darkness at Lamtai khunou, Modhupur area of the district located nearly 220 km from the state capital Imphal.
India on June 7 announced that leaders of seven countries from India's neighbourhood and the Indian Ocean region including Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will attend the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi on June 9. Besides Hasina and Afif, the other leaders attending the ceremony are Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda', Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe, Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Kumar Jugnauth and Bhutanese Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay, according to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).
Actor-politician Kangana Ranaut criticised people praising the CISF woman constable who allegedly slapped her, asking if they also justify "rape or murder". In her video message, Ranaut said she was hit in the face and abused by a CISF constable, who appeared to be upset with the actor over her stance on the farmer protests, during security check at the Chandigarh airport.
Humanitarian aid entering Gaza by sea via a U.S.- built pier will resume in the coming days, the Israeli military said, after repairs to the structure were completed. The U.S. Central Command said it had re-established the temporary pier anchored off Gaza's coast, which had been temporarily removed after part of the structure broke off, two weeks after it started operating.
Russian authorities have recovered bodies of all the four Indian students who drowned in the Volkhov river, a Maharashtra Government official said. The bodies are being flown to Mumbai and will be later taken to the students’ native places in Jalgaon district, the official said.
A determined Afghanistan rode on splendid spells from their skipper Rashid Khan and left-arm pacer Fazalhaq Farooqi to stun an under-prepared New Zealand by 84 runs and make a strong case for a Super Eight berth in the T20 World Cup in Georgetown. The decision to bowl after winning the toss backfired on the Black Caps as the Afghans relied on openers Rahmanullah Gurbaz's 56-ball 84 and Ibrahim Zadran's 44 off 41 to post a reasonably good total of 159/6 in the low-scoring tournament.
