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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s swearing in ceremony will be attended by around It will also mark the first time his cabinet will require a coalition in order to function. It is expected that very few ministers will hold more than one portfolio. Here are 10 facts on the big story: ① PM Narendra Modi will take oath as the ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chief rival Rahul Gandhi was nominated on Saturday to lead India’s opposition in parliament after national election. Modi will be sworn into office for a third term this weekend following a poll that deprived his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of a majority, forcing it to rely on coalition allies to govern. Gandhi defied analysts’ expectations ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was elected as the Leader of Lok Sabha, Leader of the BJP and Leader of National Democratic Alliance Parliamentary Party during a meeting of newly elected MPs of the alliance on Friday, thus paving the way for the coalition to stake claim to form the government. Senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh proposed Modi’s name as the ...

The Supreme Court of Saudi Arabia on Thursday announced that Friday (June 7) will mark the first day of Zil Hajj, as the crescent moon of Zil Hajj has been sighted in the kingdom on Thursday evening. “Arafat Day falls on Saturday, 15 June, while Sunday, 16 June will be the first day of Eid-ul-Azha,” according to a Saudi Supreme ...

An Israeli air strike on a UN school packed with displaced Palestinians in central Gaza has reportedly killed at least 35 people. Local journalists told the BBC that a warplane fired two missiles at classrooms on the top floor of the school in the urban Nuseirat refugee camp. Videos showed the destruction and a number of bodies. Israel’s military said ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met President Droupadi Murmu at the Rashtrapati Bhavan and tendered his resignation along with his council of ministers on Wednesday, ahead of the oath-taking ceremony of the new cabinet for a third time. He also recommended the dissolution of the 17th Lok Sabha. Prime Minister Narendra Modi may take oath on Saturday evening (June 8). ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was set to meet his allies on Wednesday to discuss forming the government, a day after his Hindu nationalist party lost its outright majority in parliament in a surprise election verdict. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 240 seats on its own in the general election, 32 short of the halfway mark in the 543-member ...

Congress candidate Kishori Lal Sharma defeated the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Smriti Irani in Amethi Lok Sabha constituency. Irani was vying to retain the seat in a close fight with the Gandhi family’s trusted lieutenant, Kishori Lal Sharma, in one of the most prestigious battles of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Amethi’s fate was sealed during the fifth phase ...

Even before the poll bugle was sounded, Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee had asserted she alone would be enough to stop the BJP juggernaut in Bengal. On Tuesday, Didi seems to be well on way to prove it. Till 2.25 pm, the Trinamul was leading in 29, out of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state, while the principal ...

India’s election commission began tallying on Tuesday the 642 million votes cast in just-concluded elections, an AFP reporter at a counting centre said, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi tipped to win. In past years, key trends in the vote have been clear by mid-afternoon, with losers conceding defeat even though full and final results may only come late on Tuesday ...