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The Election Commission said ‘test of legislative majority’ helped Ajit Pawar faction clinch NCP symbol in view of disputed internal organisational elections The Election Commission of India (ECI) has recognized the Ajit Pawar-led faction as a real Nationalist Congress Party and granted them NCP’s “clock” symbol ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The poll body’s ruling in favour of the Ajit Pawar-led faction after more than 10 hearings spread over more than six months came as a big blow to the Sharad Pawar faction. The Election Commission said the ‘test of the legislative majority’ helped the Ajit Pawar faction…

New Delhi: An Indian-American Purdue University student who was pursuing a doctorate in mechanical engineering was discovered dead in a nature preserve on Monday evening, the Warren County Coroner’s office reported. The student, Sameer Kamath, 23, had completed his master’s degree in the same field from Purdue University in August 2023 and held a U.S. citizenship, the coroner’s office confirmed. The body of Kamath was located around 5 p.m. Monday at the Crow’s Grove Nature Preserve, which is part of the Niches Land Trust at 3300 North Warren County Road 50 West, in Williamsport. Warren County Coroner Justin Brummett issued…

New Delhi: Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday raised concern about opportunistic politicians wanting to remain associated with the ruling party of the day and said such “deterioration in ideology” was not good for democracy. He also said there are leaders who stand firm in their ideology but their number is gradually declining. “I always say this jokingly that no matter which party’s government it is, one thing is sure that the one who does good work never gets respect and those who do bad work are never punished,” Mr Gadkari said, without taking names,…

India advised its citizens not to travel to Myanmar’s Rakhine state in view of the “deteriorating security situation”. New Delhi: India on Tuesday advised its citizens not to travel to Myanmar’s Rakhine state in view of the deteriorating security situation. In its first advisory following the spike in violence, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) asked Indians not to travel to the Rakhine state because of the prevailing situation, including disruption in telecommunication network and scarcity of essential commodities. “In view of the deteriorating security situation, disruption of means of telecommunications, including landlines, and severe scarcity of essential commodities, all…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: Hyatt Hotels Corporation (NYSE: H) announced the opening of Ronil Goa, part of the JdV by Hyatt brand, in the holiday state of Goa, India. This marks the entry of the JdV by Hyatt brand in Southwest Asia. Located on the iconic Calangute Baga Road in north Goa, Ronil Goa has a legacy of more than 35 years. In its new position as a JdV by Hyatt hotel, this boutique resort will be the first five-star hotel on this bustling stretch and is well connected to key tourist attractions as well as upscale shopping and entertainment areas.…

Goemkarponn desk Hyderabad: The TS Anti-Narcotics Bureau (TS-Nab) and the Panjagutta police on Tuesday arrested and brought to the city a Nigerian national from Goa for peddling drugs and seized illegal narcotics worth Rs 8 crore from the suspect. The police arrested the accused, Iwuala Udoka Stanley, 43, from his residence in Candolim Bardez in north Goa after keeping a watch on him for the past month. Sandeep Shandilya, director of TS-NAB, said that Stanley came to India on a business visa in 2009 and initially stayed in Andheri of Mumbai, where he worked in a readymade clothing business. He…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: During the preliminary investigation in the murder of 77-year-old Narottam Singh Dhillon, alias Nims Badal, who was found dead in his villa in north Goa on Sunday morning, the Goa Police have found that it was a case of robbery, which led to his killing after an altercation between him and an unmarried boy and a girl from Bhopal, who had come to his villa on Saturday night. The victim and suspects came to know each other through Instagram, but how the altercation started and why they were invited to his villa was still a matter of…