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Tribal people dominate Bastar region, which has 12 Assembly seats that will go to the polls on November 7.The ruling Congress had won 11 seats in the last polls in 2018 while the BJP managed victory only in Dantewada. However, the Congress blanked out the saffron party in Bastar with a resounding win in the bypoll, which was necessitated after BJP MLA Bhima Mandavi was killed by Maoists in the run up to the Lok Sabha polls in 2019.“For the first time since late 1980s, when Maoists started planned violence in the forested patches, Bastarias (residents of Bastar) are feeling…

A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Dipankar Datta posted the matter for further hearing on February 6, 2024.In the previous hearing held on September 26, the top court could not take up the matter for hearing due to paucity of time and decided to take it up in the first week of November. Gangster-turned-politician Anand Mohan Singh was released from the Saharsa jail following an amendment in Bihar’s prison rules. The petition, filed by widow of slain bureaucrat, alleged that the state government amended the 2012 Bihar Prison Manual with retrospective effect in order to ensure that he is…

“And on top of that, we’ve had the conflict in Ukraine, and that has affected the globalised world, it has affected every part of the world,” he said.Jaishankar said this in his address at the joint session of the Senate’s External Affairs and Defence Commission in Rome, during the last day of his two-day visit to Italy.”It may be different. I know in Europe, because the conflict is at your doorstep, in fact, in a way, right in Europe, this is in many ways the most intense and obviously the most affected part. But in even further regions, I’ve seen…

Ranchi, Nov 3 (IANS) Hockey India on Friday decided to grant financial assistance to its member units for winning medals and participating in national championships to encourage hockey at the grassroots level.In a groundbreaking move to strengthen their State Member Units, Hockey India has decided to award Rs 10.00 lakh to each Member Unit that won medals at the Hockey India National Championships held throughout the year 2023.The decision to give financial assistance was taken by Hockey India at its 13th Congress in Ranchi on Friday at the Marang Gomke Jaipal Singh AstroTurf Hockey Stadium meeting hall. The Congress saw…

New Delhi, Nov 3 (IANS) Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious “WhatsApp spy mod”, which has attacked messaging platform Telegram users more than 340,000 times in October alone, a new report said on Friday. According to the cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, this malware mainly targets users who communicate in Arabic and Azeri, with victims identified globally.As users turn to third-party mods for popular messaging apps to add extra features, the researchers explained that some of these mods, while enhancing functionality, also come with hidden malware.According to them, the new WhatsApp mod offers not only additions like scheduled messages and customisable…

London, Nov 3 (IANS) Ukraine has claimed that the Kremlin deliberately spreads rumours about President Putin’s death to test his popularity among the Russians, media reports said.Ukrainian Military Intelligence Spokesman Andrii Yusov said that a report last week by a Russian Telegram channel on the alleged death of the Russian leader was a strategy used by Moscow aimed to help it gain a firmer grip on domestic control.“In this way, the empire, which is built on the work of the secret services, learns how to continue to rule,” Daily Mail reported quoting Yusov.The Telegram channel, General SVR, reported last Friday…

“Starting this week, we are releasing the Facebook Stories API that allows developers, creators, and brands to use the desktop or web-based application of their choice to create and publish their Stories to publicly available Facebook Pages,” Meta said in a blogpost.Facebook Stories API will remove the friction for users previously using third-party platforms and then uploading at a later time to Facebook.This API will allow one-button sharing directly from their preferred third-party platform, the company said.Moreover, the company mentioned that apps will not need to go through additional App Review, as long as apps have already been approved for…

Chandrasekhar, who attended the UK summit this week as India, along with 27 countries, signed a declaration pledging to work on the assessment of risks linked with AI, said that about two years ago, the government started talking very clearly about what ought to be the principles and foundational elements around policy-making for the today and the tomorrow of technology.“We have been talking about openness, safety and trust and accountability. We have always argued that innovation must not get ahead of regulation. We have spoken about the need to have safe and trusted platforms,” he told reporters here.At the UK…

He was in Kolkata on Monday to attend the opening session of the three-day extended state committee meeting where he explained to his party leaders that though the INDIA bloc has been formed as a united “anti-BJP” front in the country, its applicability will be state-specific.”In West Bengal there is no question of any understanding with Trinamool Congress, though the latter is a constituent of the INDIA bloc. Similarly, in case of Kerala, there we and Congress will be opponents, despite having understanding in the remaining parts of the country especially West Bengal,” Yechury told the media at the sidelines…

On October 20, the Delhi High Court dismissed Singh’s plea while upholding his arrest and remand by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the money laundering case registered by the agency in its ongoing probe into the alleged irregularities in the now-scrapped excise policy. On October 13, Special Judge M.K. Nagpal of Rouse Avenue Court had sent Singh to 14 days’ judicial custody in the case. Singh has challenged his arrest by and remand to the ED saying that the grounds of arrest were not given to him by the financial probe agency. On October 10, the ED had sought his…