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He took to social media on Sunday to share it.Gokhale asserts that PM Modi, during his speech, improperly announced the extension of the government’s free ration scheme for the next five years — a declaration he contends could have been made outside the election period. He argues that this timing of the policy announcement, made in the midst of an ongoing campaign for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), constitutes an unfair attempt to sway voters.In his detailed letter to the ECI, Gokhale highlighted that such an announcement from a minister during the election period violates Election Commission rules designed to…

Ahmedabad, Nov 5 (IANS) With England officially out of the 2023 ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup after their 33-run loss to Australia here at the Narendra Modi Stadium, captain Jos Buttler admitted that his woeful run with the bat has been incredibly frustrating, though his belief hasn’t shaken yet. In chasing 287, Buttler holed out for just one to long-off against leg-spinner Adam Zampa, who claimed 3-21 and took the Player of the Match award as Australia inched a step closer to the knockouts. Overall, Buttler has made 106 runs in seven matches at an average of only 15.14.“I wouldn’t…

London, Nov 5 (IANS) Bruno Fernandes struck in stoppage time as Manchester United claimed a vital 1-0 win over Fulham to relieve the pressure on Erik ten Hag. Following consecutive 3-0 losses to Manchester City and Newcastle, doubts were growing about the manager’s abilities. Concerns were further heightened before the match when Marcus Rashford was omitted from the squad.But, United clarified that the forward, who had faced criticism from Ten Hag on Friday for celebrating his birthday in the wake of the defeat to City, was sidelined due to an injury.United thought they had claimed an early opening goal, but…

Manchester, Nov 5 (IANS) A record-equalling performance from Jeremy Doku made up for a misfiring Erling Haaland as Manchester City moved top of the Premier League table with a 6-1 victory over Bournemouth. Doku scored one goal and provided four assists in City’s 15th home league victory in a row on Saturday night. He became the eighth player to set up four goals in a single Premier League match.The Belgian opened the scoring after half an hour after a delightful curling strike following a neat one-two with Rodrigo.Three minutes later it was 2-0, with Doku at the heart of it…

New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) Popular chat platform Discord has announced that it will switch to temporary file links for all users by the end of the year to fight malware.Links to those files will begin to refresh every 24 hours by the end of this year to block malware delivery.The company told BleepingComputer that it is evolving its approach to “attachment content delivery network (CDN) URLs in order to create a safer and more secure experience for users”.“In particular, this will help our safety team restrict access to flagged content, and generally reduce the amount of malware distributed using…

New York, Nov 5 (IANS) Men are less eager and likely to share negative information about themselves than women, finds a study that showed little difference when it comes to positive news.Published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, the researchers suggest that this may be due to a greater concern among men over how other people will see them, resulting in a tendency to self-promote by sharing positive information about themselves and not revealing their negative experiences to others.”The results from our studies revealed a consistent, and to the best of our knowledge not previously identified, nuanced pattern, wherein…

San Francisco, Nov 5 (IANS) Non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace startup OpenSea, valued at $13.3 billion last year, has laid off about half of its workforce as part of “significant organisational and operating changes”.A company representative told Decrypt that approximately 50 per cent of employees were impacted across the company. The exact number of affected employees were not revealed.“We are making significant organisational and operating changes as we focus on building a more nimble — and ultimately better — version of OpenSea,” the spokesperson was quoted as saying.“With these changes, we are better positioned to deliver for the community, shipping high-impact…

Former Bangladesh Home Minister and current BNP Vice-Chairman,Air Vice Marshal (retd) Altaf Hossain Chowdhury, has been arrested in connection with the cases of sabotage, violence and police killings in Dhaka.The Dhaka court granted a six-day remand to BNP Standing Committee member and former Commerce Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury and BNP media cell convener Zahir Uddin Swapan in the murder case of police constable Amirul Islam Parvez.Earlier, between 7:30 and 8 p.m. on Saturday, three buses were set on fire in the Elephant Road, Newmarket and Saidabad areas.It is known that the besiegers set fire to the Mirpur Link bus…

On the 58th birthday of SRK, Kamal took to X, and wished the former with a heartfelt note.The pan-India superstar had written: “Wishing the Badshah of Bollywood and my friend @iamsrk , a very happy birthday! Your Charisma, talent and charm continue to cheer your fans around the world just like your blockbuster movies. May you have a great day filled with love and laughter.”SRK said to Kamal in response to this message: “Thank u so much sir. Been learning from you and trying to do my best. Love to you and happiness.”Meanwhile, on the work front, SRK is gearing…

In an interview to the Globe and Mail newspaper, Sanjay Kumar Verma said neither Canada nor its allies have shown concrete evidence backing PM Justin Trudeau’s allegations that Indian agents were behind Nijjar’s killing outside a Sikh temple in British Columbia province.”There is no specific or relevant information provided in this case for us to assist them in the investigation,” Verma told the Canadian daily.Trudeau’s allegations have led to a diplomatic spat between India and Canada with New Delhi rejecting Ottawa’s claims as “absurd and motivated”, followed by tit-for-tat expulsions of senior diplomats and travel advisories.”Where is the evidence? Where…