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'Bigg Boss 15' fame Abdu Rozik has been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case for an alleged connection with drug dealer Ali Asghar Shirazi. Giving this information, ED said that on Tuesday afternoon, Abdu arrived at the ED office in Mumbai to record his statement. More details regarding the matter are awaited. Abdu is a popular musician from Tajikistan. He gained a lot of popularity in India with his stint in 'Bigg Boss 15'. However, Abdu voluntarily left Bigg Boss 16 due to prior professional obligations. Prior to Bigg Boss, he became a social media sensation with his 'Burgiir' meme. He also owns a restaurant named Burgiir in Mumbai. from NDTV News- Topstories https://ift.tt/I3rbcA4

Ishan Kishan , star Indian cricket team wicketkeeper-batter, finally made a return to competitive cricket at the DY Patil T20 Cup on Tuesday. Ishan Kishan's absence from competitive cricket made big news since he opted for a break midway into India's Tour of South Africa. Since then, he was ignored for the home T20 series against Afghanistan and the Test series against England. Indian cricket team coach Rahul Dravid made it clear that he has to play some form of cricket to make a comeback to the national side.  However, he missed the Ranji Trophy and instead chose to train with his IPL captain Hardik Pandya . he even shared a video of his gym session with Hardik Pandya. On Tuesday, Ishan Kishan was finally seen in action for Reserve Bank of India (RBI) team against Route Mobile Limited in Navi Mumbai. Kishan kept the wickets for RBI as his team fielded first following Route Mobile's decision to bat. pic.twitter.com/4NVlYFIV60 — World Cricket Live (@world_cric_live) Feb

Underling that the conflict in Gaza is of “great concern”, India on Monday said the humanitarian crisis arising from conflicts required a sustainable solution that gives immediate relief to those most affected. Addressing the 55th Session of the UN Human Rights Council, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that terrorism and hostage-taking are not acceptable and hoped that the conflict does not spread within or beyond the region. India strongly condemned the terror attack by Hamas on October 7 last year. “At the same time, we must be clear that terrorism and hostage-taking are unacceptable,” he said in his address via video link from New Delhi. He said that international humanitarian law must always be respected. “It is vital that the conflict does not spread within or beyond the region,” he said, adding that the efforts must also focus on seeking a two-state solution where Palestinian people can live within Israelis. Speaking at an interactive session at the Munich Securi

India and China are rising and the two countries, in the process, are changing the world order, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Monday. Mr Jaishankar, citing talks between the leadership of the two countries in Mamallapuram and Wuhan, said India tried to maintain an "equilibrium" in the ties through diplomacy, but the relations took a different turn following China's military build-up along the Line of Actual Control in 2020 in violation of laid down norms. The external affairs minister, speaking at a media summit organised by the TV9 Network , described the rise of India and China as "significant" in the global geopolitical scenario. "If you were to list three or four really big things which have changed in the last 20-25 years, I think most people would agree it would be the rise of China and the rise of India," he said, replying to a question. "You can say China started it much earlier because our own politics here delayed th

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar called out the space given to extremist Khalistani elements in foreign countries and said this is not freedom of speech, but a misuse of it. He said it is not good for any country to send that kind of message for their own reputation and expressed hope that action will be taken against those who attacked Indian missions. The Minister was speaking at the event 'The Rise of the Global South' at TV9 Bharatvarsh Conclave on Monday. Speaking about the situation in Canada, Mr Jaishankar said, "We had to suspend the issue of visas in Canada because our diplomats were not safe going to work, they were repeatedly threatened, intimidated, and got very little comfort from the Canadian system at that time...which has improved since then." "We reached a stage, where, as a minister, I could not risk exposing my diplomats to the kind of violence prevalent there. That part of it has been rectified, so today our visa operations are prett

Expressing disappointment after the Aam Admi Party (AAP) was allowed to contest from the Bharuch seat in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections as a part of seat-sharing pact with Congress, Mumtaz Patel, the daughter of late veteran Congress leader Ahmed Patel on Sunday said that sometimes sacrifices have to be made in the larger interest of the country adding that she will follow the "alliance dharma". In Gujarat, the Congress has decided to contest 24 of 26 Lok Sabha seats, leaving the remaining two --Bharuch and Bhavnagar -- for the AAP. Speaking to ANI, Mumtaz Patel said, "I was disappointed but I believe that whatever decision our alliance committee has taken is in the national interest. I respect their decision. Discussions were already held in this regard. I am sad but we will accept the decision. Whatever party instructs, I will follow Alliance Dharma." "Whenever there is talk about Bharuch, the name of Ahmed Patel comes. He was the voice of Bharuch for 45

A 27-year-old Indian man died in a deadly fire incident in New York's Harlen on Friday. The Indian Embassy in New York identified him as Fazil Khan and said they are in touch with his friends and family. Saddened to learn about death of 27 years old Indian national Mr. Fazil Khan in an unfortunate fire incident in an apartment building in Harlem, NY. @IndiainNewYork is in touch with late Mr. Fazil Khan's family & friends. We continue to extend all possible assistance in… — India in New York (@IndiainNewYork) February 25, 2024 "Saddened to learn about death of 27 years old Indian national Mr. Fazil Khan in an unfortunate fire incident in an apartment building in Harlem, NY. India in New York is in touch with late Mr. Fazil Khan's family & friends. We continue to extend all possible assistance in reparation of his mortal remains to India," the Indian Embassy posted on X. A lithium-ion battery caused a deadly fire at a Harlem apartment building on Frid

Donald Trump cruised to a decisive victory Saturday in the South Carolina Republican primary, blitzing rival Nikki Haley in her home state and continuing his march to the nomination and a White House rematch with Joe Biden. Trump completed a sweep of the first four major nominating contests, converting a year of blockbuster polls into a likely insurmountable lead going into the "Super Tuesday" 15-state voting bonanza in 10 days. While Haley repeatedly questioned the 77-year-old former president's mental fitness and warned another Trump presidency would bring "chaos," her efforts appeared to do little to damage his standing among Republicans. The margin of victory was not immediately clear but it was expected to be significant, with major US networks calling the race within seconds of the polls closing.  Haley, a popular governor of South Carolina in the 2010s and the only woman to have entered the Republican contest, was looking to outperform expectations in

A global alliance of Manipur's Meitei community has called for scrapping a controversial ceasefire with over two dozen Kuki-Zo insurgent groups amid the ethnic conflict between the hill-majority Kuki-Zo tribes and the valley-majority Meiteis. The Kuki-Zo insurgent groups that signed the tripartite suspension of operations (SoO) agreement with the Centre and the Manipur government in 2008 have been hiding under the SoO safety net "to covertly act against India's peace and security," the Meitei Alliance, a group whose members are Meitei civil society organisations around the world including in the UK, the US, and Europe said in a statement on Saturday. Every year, a joint monitoring group (JMG) reviews the SoO agreement and decides whether to end or renew it. The next review is on February 29. Broadly, the SoO agreement says the insurgents are to stay at designated camps and their weapons kept in locked storage, to be monitored regularly. The Manipur government in Ma

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday used a virtual reality headset as he inspected the Kashi Ropeway in Varanasi. #WATCH | Uttar Pradesh | Prime Minister Narendra Modi uses a virtual reality headset as he inspects the Kashi Ropeway, in Varanasi. PM will inaugurate and lay the foundation of several development projects shortly. pic.twitter.com/Vh6mqHknsQ — ANI (@ANI) February 23, 2024 The PM reached his parliamentary constituency on Thursday night and launched several development projects and address public meetings. He said that Kashi will emerge as an important sports city in the country and also acknowledged Kashi as a major contributor to the Make in India and Aatmnirbhar Bharat Abhiyan. He informed that in the next five years, Kashi will be a hub of employment and skills. During this period the National Institution of Fashion Technology campus will also be completed which will create new opportunities for the youth and weavers of the area. "In the last decade, we

Alexei Navalny's mother Lyudmila on Thursday accused Russian investigators of planning a "secret" funeral for her son and said she would not agree to it. "They want this to be done secretly, with no farewell. They want to bring me to the edge of a cemetery, to a fresh grave and say: here lies your son. I don't agree to this," she said in a YouTube video. There was no immediate response from Russian investigators. Navalny, 47, Russia's best known opposition politician, died suddenly in an Arctic penal colony last week. His team and family have alleged that the Kremlin murdered him, an allegation the Kremlin has angrily rejected. His mother said she had been shown his body and death certificate. Navalny's team said the death certificate stated that the opposition politician had died of natural causes. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.) from NDTV News- Topstories https

Rakul Preet Singh married her longtime boyfriend Jackky Bhagnani on February 21 in an intimate ceremony in Goa. Ever since, the couple's friends and guests at the wedding have been sharing inside pictures from the wedding ceremony. In new clips shared by a guest at the wedding, Rakul Preet Singh and Jackky Bhagnani can be seen performing various rituals. In one video, they can be seen exchanging varmalas. The text below the video read, "What a beautiful wedding." In another video shared, the Doctor G actress can be seen walking down the aisle in her gorgeous pastel bridal lehenga. Rakul can be seen flashing her million dollar smile as she walks down the aisle to Jackky. Take a look at the inside pics below: Rakul Preet Singh and Jackky Bhagnani shared dreamy pictures from their wedding on Wednesday and wrote, "Mine now and forever. 21-02-2024 #abdonobhagna-ni." View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rakul

Ahead of the arrival of the Congress's ongoing 'Bharat Jodo Nyaya Yatra' in Kanpur, Congress leader Sandeep Shukla on Wednesday put up hoardings where Rahul Gandhi was depicted as Lord Krishna and state party chief Ajay Rai as Arjun from the epic 'Mahabharat'. The hoardings went up across the city on Wednesday. Speaking to reporters, Mr Shukla said he sees Rahul Gandhi as a modern-day incarnation of Lord Krishna. "His purpose is clear, much like when Lord Krishna, during the Dwaparyug, countered the hostility of the Kauravas towards the Pandavas. At the time, Lord Krishna appeared to spread love. Similarly, our leader Rahul Gandhi has taken it upon himself to spread the message of love and brotherhood in this Kalyug. Today, he is arriving in Kanpur to spread love and oneness everywhere. I see him as an incarnation of Lord Krishna," Mr Shukla said earlier in the day. "Honourable Ajay Rat-ji is by his side, portraying the role of Arjun, ready to tak

A moon lander built by Houston-based company Intuitive Machines reached lunar orbit on Wednesday, headed for an attempt at the first US touchdown on Earth's nearest celestial neighbour in more than 50 years, and the first ever by a private spacecraft. The six-legged Nova-C lander, dubbed Odysseus, entered a circular orbit 57 miles (92 km) above the lunar surface after firing its main rocket thruster for nearly seven minutes in an orbital insertion manoeuvre, the company said in an online statement. Assuming all goes according to plan, the robot spacecraft is expected to gradually lower its orbit over the next 24 hours and land at crater Malapert A near the moon's south pole at 5:49 p.m. EST (2249 GMT) on Thursday, carrying a suite of NASA science instruments and technology demonstrations. Odysseus was launched six days ago, on Feb. 15, atop a Falcon 9 rocket built and flown by Elon Musk's California-based company SpaceX from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canave

Two men have been charged with murder over the shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade which left one person dead and 22 wounded, officials said Tuesday. Dominic Miller and Lyndell Mays, both local residents, were charged with second-degree murder, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon, Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker told reporters. Peters Baker said Mays got into a verbal altercation with other individuals at the parade that "very quickly escalated." She said Miller allegedly fired the shots that killed a local DJ, Lisa Lopez-Galvan. Peters Baker said both men were being held on $1 million bond and face a potential sentence of life in prison on the murder charges. The prosecutor said the arrests of Miller and Mays were in addition to those of two juveniles whose arrests were announced last week. The pair, who were not identified because of their ages, are facing gun-related charges and are accused of resisting arrest. The shootin

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Gunfire echoed around Palestinian medics, patients and displaced people during what they described as a terrifying and chaotic night evacuation from Gaza's Nasser Hospital after Israeli forces rushed in the hospital. Survivors of last week's assault on the second-biggest hospital in Gaza said they then faced a treacherous walk to safety through the dark, passing corpses along the way. One doctor said a male nurse was detained at an Israeli checkpoint, stripped naked and taken away screaming. "Smoke was everywhere, it was like doomsday, people running everywhere," said Doctor Ahmed al-Mughraby, head of the plastic surgery department, who fled with his wife and children. Mughraby, who has found refuge with his family in a shelter near another hospital where he now works, said Israeli forces had ordered everyone to evacuate except patients unable to walk and medics looking after them. Details of the military assault on Nasser Hospital have been gradually emerging as

Inflation expectations in India may stabilise and edge down going ahead but renewed pressures from cereals and proteins cannot be ruled out, the Reserve Bank of India said in its February bulletin published on Tuesday. India's retail inflation eased to a three-month low of 5.1% in January, from 5.69% in December and 5.55% in November. Overall inflation developments are turning favourable, providing a stable environment for corporates to plan expansion strategies in anticipation of a pick-up in demand, the RBI wrote in its regular article titled 'State of the Economy'. "Core inflation is at its lowest since October 2019 and non-food wholesale price inflation remains in deflation. This should augur well for the input cost outlook and selling prices of manufacturing firms." The RBI said evolving conditions are turning favourable on the agriculture front as well for the next financial year. The likelihood of the global economy exhibiting stronger-than-expected gr

National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah has reacted sharply to Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) President Ghulam Nabi Azad's claims that he met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah 'secretly' at night. Mr Abdullah said that he would meet the Prime Minister or the Home Minister during the day if he had to and asked why Mr Azad was "defaming" him. "If I have to meet PM Modi or Union Home Minister Amit Shah, I will meet them during the day, why should I meet them at night? What is the reason that he has thought of defaming Farooq Abdullah? When no one wanted to give him a Rajya Sabha seat, I was the one who gave him a Rajya Sabha seat, but today he is saying all this," the National Conference chief said. "They want to malign my image and drag my name into every matter. He should reveal the names of his agents who are sitting at the residence of the PM and Union Home Minister. He should tell people so that they can

The weather in Chandigarh and other parts of Punjab and Haryana turned gusty this evening after heavy rain and hailstorm hit the region. Visuals from Zirakpur, a town near Chandigarh, show heavy rainfall accompanied by shower of hailstones.  The weather office had earlier issued an orange alert for Punjab and Haryana and predicted isolated hailstorm with gusty winds. According to weather office's two-day forecast, Chandigarh, Punjab and Haryana are likely to witness similar weather tomorrow as well.   Isolated hailstorm with gusty winds (speed reaching 40-50 kmph) likely over Haryana & Chandigarh on 19th & 20th February 2024. pic.twitter.com/nWklHya5TL — India Meteorological Department (@Indiametdept) February 17, 2024 The India Meteorological Department has issued similar warnings for several parts of north India including Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.  According to the weather office, "Intense spell of rainfall/snowfall activity

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday a plea of Sharad Pawar challenging an Election Commission order recognising the Ajit Pawar-led faction as the real Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). A bench of Justices Surya Kant, Dipankar Datta and KV Viswanathan is likely to hear Sharad Pawar's plea. On February 16, the top court had agreed to urgently list the plea after Sharad Pawar stated that a whip may be issued by the faction led by Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar. The veteran leader had sought an urgent hearing of his plea in the wake of twin blows suffered by the group led by him and the consequential fear of facing action for possible violations of whip by his MLAs. Sharad Pawar had sought urgent hearing in view of the February 15 order of Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar. Mr Narwekar held that the NCP faction led by Ajit Pawar was the real NCP and that the anti-defection provisions in the Constitution cannot be used to stifle internal dissent

Former India head coach and ex-international player Ravi Shastri was all praise for young India opener Yashasvi Jaiswal following his terrific performance against Engalnd during the third Test in Rajkot. Jaiswal, who failed with a run-a-ball 10 in India's first innings, scored big in his next opportunity. He crafted a beautiful 104-run knock before an injury forced him to retire hurt mid-way. As soon as Jaiswal raced to his third Test century on Saturday, Shastri compared his skills to that of cricket great Sachin Tendulkar. "Impressed with the way (Yashasvi) Jaiswal has stepped up today. Not just with the bat, but his performance on the field too. I think going forward, he could be one of Rohit's go-to part-time options. The ball would be in his hands - whether it's leg-spin, off-spin or medium-pace. Jaiswal reminds me of a young Tendulkar. Busy all the time," said Shastri during commentary after Jaiswal completed his ton as quoted by Hindustan Times. "Thi

A 38-year-old man was arrested Saturday for allegedly making a threat call to blow up the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport here on January 28, police said. Krishno Mahto, who hails from Bihar's West Champaran, was arrested in Delhi's Kapashera, they said. Deputy Commissioner of Police (IGI Airport) Usha Rangnani said during an interrogation, Mahto confessed to making the bomb threat call. On January 28, he was heavily inebriated when he made the call from a mobile phone and threatened to blow up IGI airport, Usha Rangnani said. He was arrested following a long chase as he had switched off his mobile phone after making the call. A police team also visited his native place in Bihar as the mobile phone number was registered at his home address. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.) from NDTV News- Topstories https://ift.tt/Z3GaKAW

A 24-year-old man allegedly slit his own throat with a blade after losing an online game, police said on Saturday. The incident took place in Jereng village in the Jarpada police station area on Friday evening. The man, identified as Soumya Ranjan Nayak, is undergoing treatment in a hospital in Cuttack, where his condition is stated to be serious. Nayak was playing a game on his phone and he lost thrice, following which he slit his throat, a police officer said. His parents rushed him to Angul government hospital and he was later shifted to the SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack.  (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.) from NDTV News- Topstories https://ift.tt/v2s3iR1

Ravichandran Ashwin withdrew his name from India's ongoing 3rd Test against England in Rajkot due to medical emergency in family. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) shared the news on Friday night. Notably, Ashwin had to withdraw his name from India squad hours after he claimed his 500th Test wicket in Rajkot. He is out of the team with immediate effect, informed the board in a release. While the apex cricket body extended its complete support to the player, it also requested the media and fans to respect the privacy of Ashwin and his family. "Ravichandran Ashwin has withdrawn from the Test squad, effective immediately due to a family medical emergency. In these challenging times, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the team fully supports Ashwin," said the cricket board in its release. "The BCCI extends its heartfelt support to the champion cricketer and his family. The health and well-being of the players and their loved ones are of

Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar chief Sharad Pawar on Friday said he was not worried about losing the NCP name and symbol but asserted people did not approve of those who chose to go on a different path, a reference to the rebellion by Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar. Maharashtra assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar on Thursday held that the Ajit Pawar-led group was the real Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) when two factions emerged in July 2023. Ajit Pawar and eight MLAs joined the Eknath Shinde government on July 2 last year, leading to a split in the Sharad Pawar-founded NCP. Addressing a public meeting in Satara in western Maharashtra, Sharad Pawar said power comes and goes but ideology, policies and the thought to take the country forward are permanent. "But some of our colleagues deviated from this path. Some took away the party, some took away the symbol. I never worry about all this. Some people chose to go on a different path by forsaking ideolog

Actor-comedian Johny Lever, who has starred alongside Shah Rukh Khan in several films, in a recent interview, recalled working with the star through the 1990s and also shared how during the shoot of Baazigar , he was way more popular than Shah Rukh Khan. Johnny Lever told YouTuber Ranveer Allahbadia , “We started working together in Baazigar back in 1991. He had done Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman and a few other films by then but I was more famous than him at that time. Even during the shoot, more people knew me. I was a star back then, Shah Rukh was upcoming. We had great understanding.” Johnny then added, “I have never seen anyone as hardworking as him, so hardworking.” The veteran actor also shard how Shah Rukh Khan was not good at performing action sequences and dance but he worked hard and made sure that he performed them well enough. “Shah Rukh Khan was not good at fight sequences, he was not good at dance also,” he said and later added, “He made himself what he is by working hard. H

The BJP on Thursday defended the electoral bonds scheme, struck down as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, saying it had a laudable objective of bringing transparency in poll funding. BJP leader and former law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, however, added that his party respects the Supreme Court verdict. Noting that the verdict has been delivered by a Constitution bench of the top court, he said the judgment runs into hundreds of pages and requires a comprehensive study before a structured reply is given by the party. He told reporters that the government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made efforts to reform election funding and the introduction of electoral bonds was a part of such measures. Mr Prasad said the voters' list now carries photographs of electorates while electronic voting machines are being used in large numbers, curbing the menace of booth-capturing. "This (bonds) was also a part of similar sincere efforts to make elections transparent. The

The Supreme Court was told on Thursday that lawyers or legal practitioners cannot solicit or advertise their work unlike doctors and hospitals, who can publish advertisements, and hence, their services cannot be brought under the Consumer Protection Act. Differentiating between the services rendered by a lawyer and a doctor, senior advocate Narendra Hooda, appearing for bar bodies and other individuals, told a bench of justices Bela M Trivedi and Pankaj Mithal that first and foremost, the duty of a lawyer is towards the court to assist it in a settlement of law and not his client. The bar bodies, such as Bar Council of India, Delhi High Court Bar Association and Bar of Indian Lawyers, and other individuals in a batch of petitions have challenged a 2007 verdict of the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC), which has ruled that advocates and their services come under the purview of the Consumer Protection Act, 1986. Replying to the court's observation made on Wed

Several social media users have complained that a simple search for "Domino's" on the food delivery application Swiggy shows a number of results, all of which misspell the name of the international pizza brand. A user, Ravi Handa, took to X and highlighted the problem. In the screenshot shared by him, one can notice several Domino's pizza outlets near his address in Kolkata, however, all of them had different spellings to trick the customer. One restaurant was named "Domino Pizza" while another is called "Domino'ss Pizza". "Hey @Swiggy This is clearly a fraud. Only one of these is genuine. Why are you letting this happen? Why isn't @dominos objecting to blatant violation of trademark," he wrote on the microblogging platform alongside the screenshot. In a follow-up post, Mr Handa said, "This isn't just a joke. Someone close to me actually fell for it. They realised it only after they got the delivery and saw the box."

The Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday informed the Madras High Court that the Sri Lankan Deputy High Commission here has issued temporary travel document to Santhan, a Sri Lankan national convicted in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and freed in 2022. The submission was made before a bench of Justices R Suresh Kumar and K Kumaresh Babu. Suthendraraja T alias Santhan has been accommodated in the special camp, Tiruchirappalli post his release. The External Affairs Ministry has been requested to take necessary action for issuance of emergency travel document. A request has been made to the Foreigners Regional Registration Officer (FRRO), here. The court granted FRRO time till February 29 to respond and posted the matter for hearing on that day.  (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.) from NDTV News- Topstories https://ift.tt/sdlrGnu

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) stepped up pressure on its INDIA bloc partner Congress on Tuesday, announcing candidates from South Goa and two seats in Gujarat for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls and complaining over delayed seat-sharing negotiations. In a further attempt to corner the Congress, the AAP offered just one of the seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi to the grand old party while making its intentions clear that it would like to contest from the remaining six seats. At a press conference following a Political Affairs Committee (PAC) meeting of the party, AAP general secretary (organisation) Sandeep Pathak declared Venzy Viegas as the party candidate from South Goa and Chaitar Vasva and Umeshbhai Makwana from the Bharuch and Bhavnagar seats in Gujarat. Mr Viegas, an AAP MLA, has been nominated from South Goa, a seat that was won by the Congress's Francisco Sardinha in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Mr Pathak said on the basis of its vote share in the last Assembly polls in Gujarat, the

New York City police said on Monday that multiple people were shot at a subway station in the Bronx, with local media reporting as many as six people hit by bullets. The local ABC TV affiliate citing unnamed police sources reported one person had died from their injuries, and five other people sustained non-life threatening wounds. A spokeswoman for the New York Police Department said they did not yet have details on exactly how many people were shot, nor the condition of any of the victims. It was not yet known if the shooter was in custody. The most recent data shows crime remains rare on New York's subway system: about 3.8 million trips are taken on the system on an average weekday, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority reported 570 felony assaults in all of 2023. Shootings are especially uncommon: in 2022, when a man with a handgun injured 10 people on a train passing through Brooklyn, it was the first mass shooting attack on the subway system since 1984. A few wee

Farmers leaders who met Union ministers in Chandigarh for six hours alleged the government was not sincere about the talks, even as tractor-trolleys set out from different parts of Punjab to go to Delhi. In the national capital, massive deployment of police and paramilitary personnel, besides multi-layered barricading have been made to seal the city at Singhu, Tikri, and Ghazipur. "The talks did not lead to any result. We will start our march to Delhi at 10 am. We will, however, discuss the proposals given by the government in our forum. The government is clearly at fault here," a farmer leader told reporters after the meeting ended. They discussed repealing the Electricity Act, 2020, and compensation for farmers who were killed in the violence in Lakhimpur Kheri. An agreement was reached between the government and the farmer groups to withdraw the cases filed against them during the year-long protest against the now-scrapped controversial farm laws. However, the meeting e