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Conservative Party councillor Sanjay Modhwadia will compete with Rita Patel, a former Labour councillor who announced her bid recently in order to scrap the role. Rita Patel (Photo | Leicester Cabinet); Sanjay Modhwadia (Photo | Linkedin) LONDON: Two Indian-origin candidates are lined up to go head-to-head for the post of Leicester Mayor in the local elections coming up in the UK early next month. Conservative Party councillor Sanjay Modhwadia will compete with Rita Patel, a former Labour councillor who announced her bid recently in order to scrap the role. Patel, a Rushey Mead councillor from Leicester who will run as an independent, launched her campaign saying the city needed “a fresh start” and promised one of her first jobs will be to remove the mayoral role. Sitting Labour Mayor, Sir Peter Soulsby, expressed disappointment at Patel’s exit from the party after she was one of four city councillors suspended for six months for their attempt to scrap the mayor’s office through a v...

Launching a scathing attack on Modi, she said his statements either ignore the most pressing issues of the day or are "platitudes and verbal gymnastics" to distract from these matters. Congress leader Sonia Gandhi. NEW DELHI: Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday said with the Narendra Modi government bent on “misusing every power” and elections approaching in several key states, her party will take its message directly to people and join hands with all like-minded parties to defend the Constitution. In an Op-Ed in “The Hindu”, Gandhi also accused Prime Minister Modi and his government of “systematically dismantling” the legislature, the executive and the judiciary, saying their actions demonstrate a “deep-rooted disdain” for democracy. She also alleged that the prime minister “ignores” the rising tide of hatred and violence, egged on by BJP and RSS leaders, and has not once called for peace or harmony or acted to reign in the offenders, let alone bring them to...

Ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, along with the company's former chief legal and financial officers, claim in the suit that they are owed a total of more than $1 million, and that Twitter is legally bound to pay them.  The three former executives argue that Twitter is bound by agreements to reimburse them San Francisco: Three top Twitter executives who were sacked by Elon Musk last year when he took over the social media company filed suit on Monday, seeking to be reimbursed for costs of litigation, investigations and congressional inquiries related to their former jobs. Ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, along with the company’s former chief legal and financial officers, claim in the suit that they are owed a total of more than $1 million, and that Twitter is legally bound to pay them. Twitter responded to an AFP request for comment with a poop emoji, as has become its practice. The court filing outlined numerous expenses related to inquiries by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the ...

The teenage girl, who lost her father and grandfather to COVID-19 in 2020, recalled her meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Bhopal a few days back and how he encouraged to pursue her dream.  Tanishka Sujit had cleared the Class 12 exams at the age of 13 Indore: Tanishka Sujit, a bright and meritorious student from Indore in Madhya Pradesh, is set to appear for the Bachelor of Arts (BA) final year exams at the age of 15 and she aims to further study law and become the country’s Chief Justice. The teenage girl, who lost her father and grandfather to COVID-19 in 2020, recalled her meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Bhopal a few days back and how he encouraged to pursue her dream. Tanishka Sujit, a student of Indore’s Devi Ahilya University, told PTI on Monday that she will appear for her BA (Psychology) final year exams to be held from April 19 to 28. She had cleared the Class 12 exams at the age of 13 straightaway after passing Class 10 in first division. Rekha ...

On Sunday night, humanitarian organization Alarm Phone said it received another distress call from a boat with about 400 people who had departed from Tobruk, Libya. Representative Image: Rescued migrants sit covered in blankets at a beach near Cutro, southern Italy on Feb. 26, 2023 ROME: At least two migrants have died and about 20 others are missing after their boat sank over the weekend in the Mediterranean Sea between Tunisia and Italy, German aid group ResQship said on Monday. ResQship said its rescuers reached the area of the wreck on Saturday and found about 25 people in the water, who said they had been there for two hours. “Our crew was able to recover 22 survivors and 2 deceased,” the aid group tweeted, adding that survivors said about 20 people drowned. The group’s ship, the Nadir, took the rescued migrants to the Italian island of Lampedusa. “We are angry. This is an unspeakable tragedy that could — and should — have been prevented by a humanitarian approach to migration ...

The exercises this time have focused more on air strength, with Taiwan reporting 200 flights by Chinese warplanes in the past three days. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen deliver statements to the press after a Bipartisan Leadership Meeting at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, on Ap TAIWAN: China’s military declared Monday it is “ready to fight” after completing three days of large-scale combat exercises around Taiwan that simulated sealing off the island in response to the Taiwanese president’s trip to the U.S. last week. The “combat readiness patrols” named Joint Sword were meant as a warning to self-governing Taiwan, which China claims as its own, China’s military said earlier. “The theater’s troops are ready to fight at all times and can fight at any time to resolutely smash any form of ‘Taiwan independence’ and foreign interference attempts,” it said Monday. The exercises were similar to ones conducted by China last August...

Five people in a neighbouring building sustained minor injuries in the blast and collapse, which occurred around 12:40 am on Sunday (2240 GMT Saturday).                  Firefighters work after a building collapsed early Sunday, April 9, 2023 in Marseille,                                                                                         southern France.  MARSEILLE: Rescue workers on Monday recovered a fourth body from the rubble of a collapsed apartment in France’s Marseille, a cabinet minister said, as firefighters raced against the clock to find four people still missing. More than 24 hours after a suspected explosion at the building, where residents reported a strong smell of gas, dozens of civil defence ...

Throughout the conflict, Elon Musk has frequently voiced his opinions about the Russia-Ukraine war.                               Elon Musk made the comment on Twitter while responding to a user. Twitter chief Elon Musk has said that Vladimir Putin called him a “war criminal” clarifying that the Russian President is “not exactly my best friend”. The world’s second-richest person tweeted this while responding to a Twitter user who questioned why Russian leaders were being allowed on the platform. The user, Anonymous Operations, posted a screenshot of former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who said in his tweet that Ukraine will “disappear” as “no one needs it”. The user tagged Mr Musk and asked why he allowed Russian leaders back on the platform. “I’m told Putin called me a war criminal for helping Ukraine, so he’s not exactly my best friend. All news is to some degree propaganda. Let people decide for the...

The two were constantly together after their dramatic escape from a police dragnet in Jalandhar last month.                          Fugitive Amritpal Singh's Aide Arrested, Both Had Escaped Cops Together  New Delhi: Fugitive radical Sikh preacher Amritpal Singh’s close aide Pappalpreet Singh was today arrested by the counter-intelligence unit of Punjab police from Punjab’s Hoshiarpur. He has been detained under the stringent National Security Act, police said. The two were constantly together after their dramatic escape from a police dragnet in Jalandhar last month. They had taken different routes to escape after reaching Hoshiarpur. The arrest was part of a joint operation of the Punjab Police and the special cell of the Delhi police. Amritpal Singh, who has evaded arrest so far, sought a meeting of the Sikhs later this month, after which the Punjab police cancelled the leaves of all cops in the state till Baisakhi ...

Mr Shah will visit Arunachal Pradesh on April 10 and 11 where he will launch the 'Vibrant Villages Programme' in Kibithoo, a village along the border.               India has always maintained that Arunachal Pradesh is an inalienable part of the country. New Delhi: China firmly opposes a visit by Home Minister Amit Shah to Arunachal Pradesh and views his activities in the area as violating Beijing’s territorial sovereignty, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson told a news briefing on Monday. Last week, China “renamed” some places in Arunachal Pradesh that it claims as part of its territory. “Zangnan is China’s territory,” spokesperson Wang Wenbin said in response to a question on the visit by Home Minister Amit Shah. “The Indian official’s visit to Zangnan violates China’s territorial sovereignty, and is not conducive to the peace and tranquility of the border situation.” Mr Shah will visit Arunachal Pradesh on April 10 and 11 where he will l...