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- Donald Trump launched a blistering attack on prosecutor, Judge Juan Merachan and a key witness in the Stormy Daniels hush-money criminal trial against him.
- 19th annual conference at BBAU discussed Dr BR Ambedkar's life & contributions. Participants from across India attended. Various activities & competitions held.
- Patil has already collected nomination form and is likely to submit the papers as an independent with the support of Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) on Tuesday, said sources close to him
- Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, HT looks at some key constituencies across India which encapsulate the issues shaping the elections.
- The land, located in 12 spots of eight villages, is worth ₹236.80 crore as per the prevailing market rates, according to officials
- Parents in their complaint said that their daughter used to play with that man, as they originally belong to the same town and he lives next door in Noida
- Earlier in the day, thousands of Bengali community people wearing new outfits thronged the Kali Bari temple at Ghasiyari Mandi to seek blessings of the deity.
- State Disaster Emergency Response Force, National Disaster Response Force and local administration were engaged in the rescue operation, but the boy was found unresponsive on Sunday
- According to the Punjab agriculture director Jaswant Singh, the department has set a target to cover 2 lakh hectares under cotton in the 2024-25 kharif cycle. Punjab is struggling with diversification plans by turning farmers towards the cultivation of the traditional crop of cotton.
- Firemen could not detect any short-circuit in the switchboards, any mosquito coil that was lit or anything like diyas or candles in the house
- The videos of the incident went viral on social networking sites in which the BJP workers were caught on camera assaulting each other with chairs, tables in Payal. The police intervened in the matter and pacified the annoyed party workers.
- Has Donald Trump violated the Logan Act with his threats to Iran? Divided netizens debate over the heated issue.
- UN Climate Chief Simon Stiell emphasised last week that the World Bank’s Spring Meetings, from April 17-19, will be crucial in addressing significant gaps in climate finance
- The Congress party will contest around 298 seats, down from previous elections.
- India is set to complete a 2.7-km runway at Nyoma airbase in Ladakh by October 2024, boosting infrastructure near the China border.
- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Lok Sabha candidate from Patiala and wife of former Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh, Preneet Kaur, again faced farmer’s ire during her campaign in Samana town on Sunday.
- BJP releases manifesto for 2024 elections, focusing on development, welfare, and governance, with promises on social groups, sectors, and policies.
- India’s output of pulses dipped to 23.4 million tonne in 2023-24 from 26.1 million tonne a year ago, the agriculture ministry estimates
- To ensure free, fair and peaceful Lok Sabha elections, the Punjab Police on Sunday carried out a special operation ‘OPS Seal-VI’ aimed at checking all the vehicles entering or exiting the border state of Punjab to keep vigil around the movement of drug smugglers and bootleggers.
- Joe Biden asked PM Benjamin Netanyahu to think through the next steps “carefully” and “strategically”, US official said
- The AAP state leaders gathered at Corporation Chowk in Jalandhar to protest against central government’s “dictatorial attitude”. AAP’s Hoshiarpur candidate Dr Raj Kumar Chabbewal said, “Only the AAP is taking forward the thinking of Dr BR Ambedkar and working for the betterment of the common man.”
- Congress has also started working at booth level strategy and a 12-member team for every Gram Panchayat in rural belts is working to contact voters