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Factbox-India’s Lok Sabha election 2024: What you need to know
Elections to the 543 contested seats in the lower house of parliament, called the Lok Sabha, for a term of five years. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 303 seats the last time, followed by 52 for the main opposition Indian National Congress (INC).
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Factbox-India's Lok Sabha election 2024: the main political parties and candidates
The country has more than 2,500 political parties but just 10 of them hold 86% of all seats in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament. A serious contest between a few parties will likely be dominated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. The BJP, the world's largest political outfit with nearly 180 million members, was born out of the Jan Sangh party, an offshoot of a men-only Hindu nationalist organisation, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
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US 'swatting' pranks stoke alarm in election year
Startled by nighttime pounding on his door, American political strategist Rick Wilson walked out in his underwear to find policemen with guns drawn."It's hard to have dozens of cops around the house with AR-15s banging on the door at three in the morning," said Wilson, a former Republican strategist and co-founder of the Lincoln Project.
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Apple removes WhatsApp, Threads from China app store on government order
"The Cyberspace Administration of China ordered the removal of these apps from the China storefront based on their national security concerns," Apple said in an emailed statement to Reuters. The Wall Street Journal first reported about the Meta apps removal.
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Hindu nationalist Modi the favourite as India votes
India began voting Friday in a six-week election with an all but assured victory for Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as a weakened opposition is pushed to the sidelines."I urge all those voting... to exercise their franchise in record numbers," Modi wrote in a social media post on X as the election began.
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Eiffel Tower loses sparkle for Parisians ahead of Olympics
The Eiffel Tower is set for a starring role during the Paris Olympics this year, but the landmark and its park have become symbols of the capital's struggles with cleanliness and crime.- Street crime - Around seven million people ascend the Eiffel Tower each year and many more pose for photos, eat picnics, or play ballgames in the Champ-de-Mars.
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TSMC's Taipei-listed shares slide around 6% after Q1 results
Taipei-listed shares of TSMC fell around 6% on Friday following the company's first-quarter earnings report where it retained its capex and full-year revenue guidance and flagged only a gradual recovery for the chip sector. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world's largest contract chipmaker and a major Apple and Nvidia supplier, forecast on Thursday second-quarter sales may rise as much as 30% as it rides a wave of demand for semiconductors used in artificial intelligence (AI)
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