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BJP fields Sushma, Rudy, Shahnawaz

March 14, 2014

New Delhi, Mar 14: The BJP on Thursday announced its third list of candidates for nine states for the April-May Lok Sabha elections.

The list of 100 candidates included prominent leaders like Sushma Swaraj, Shahnawaz Hussain and Rajiv Pratap Rudy.

Sushma__HussainThe party, however, decided to delay announcement of candidates from Uttar Pradesh owing to lack of unanimity on Varanasi and Lucknow constituencies from where Modi and president Rajnath Singh are expected to contest.

The BJP has also decided to give electoral space to children of two leaders, Yashwant Sinha and the late Pramod Mahajan. With former finance minister Sinha deciding not to contest elections, the party has given the ticket to his son Jayant Sinha to contest from his father’s Hazaribagh constituency in Jharkhand. Late Pramod Mahajan’s daughter Poonam Mahajan has been pitched against sitting Congress MP Priya Dutt from Mumbai North-Central constituency.

The 19-member central election committee (CEC) headed by president Rajnath Singh cleared the names of 100 candidates–Bihar (25), MP (24), Karnataka (5), Assam (6), Jharkhand (13), Kerala (14), Maharashtra (2), West Bengal (7) and Lakshwadeep (1), said BJP leader Ananth Kumar.

The CEC will meet again on Saturday and immediately after Holi to decide on the remaining candidates. Prior to the meeting, the parliamentary board decided not to merge the BSR Congress with the BJP, given strong opposition from senior leader Sushma Swaraj.

Due to electoral compulsions, the BJP has opted for a safer route by allowing BSR party founder B Sriramulu back into the saffron fold as he is not facing any case.

Party sources said that he may join the BJP on Friday and will be given the ticket to contest from Bellary. The party top brass also could not take a call on two other seats-Bidar and Hassan–both in Karnataka, due to strong differences against the proposed candidates.

The party, however, has accommodated former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa’s close confidante Shoba Karandlaje from Udupi-Chikmagalur and Basavaraju from Tumkur.

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March 30,2020

New Delhi, Mar 30: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday interacted with Indian ambassadors and high commissioners abroad and urged them to remain alert to developments in global efforts against COVID-19 including breakthroughs to help the country's fight against the coronavirus.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla were also present during the interaction through video-conferencing.

"Coming together for India PM interacted with Indian Ambassadors/High Commissioners abroad and urged them to remain alert to developments in global efforts against COVID-19 including breakthroughs to help our national efforts to fight COVID19," External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said in a tweet.

"PM appreciated the efforts of our missions in helping Indians abroad, in particular, students and workers," he added.

The number of positive coronavirus cases in the country stood at 1,071 on Monday. It includes 29 deaths and 99 people, who have been cured of the highly contagious virus.

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June 5,2020

New Delhi, Jun 5: India registered its highest spike in COVID-19 cases with 9,851 more cases and 273 deaths reported in the last 24 hours. The total number of cases in India reached 2,26,770 including 1,10,960 active cases, said the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

The Ministry informed that 1,09,462 persons have been cured/discharged/migrated while 6,348 people have succumbed to the disease so far.

Maharashtra has so far reported 77,793 cases, more than any other state in the country, while the total number of active cases in the state stands at 41,402.

In Tamil Nadu, 27,256 cases have been detected so far while Delhi has reported 25,004 coronavirus cases.

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June 15,2020

New Delhi, Jun 15: With an increase of 11,502 cases in the past 24 hours, the COVID-19 count in India reached 3,32,424 on Monday, according to the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry.

The spike is marginally lower than the highest-ever spike of 11,929 new cases the country registered a day earlier.

With 325 deaths being reported from across the country, the toll due to COVID-19 has now reached 9,520.

The COVID-19 count includes 1,53,106 active cases while 1,69,798 patients have been cured and discharged or migrated so far.

Maharashtra with 1,07,958 cases continues to be the worst-affected state in the country with 53,030 active cases while 50,978 patients have been cured and discharged in the state so far. 3,950 deaths have been reported due to the infection so far from Maharashtra.

It is followed by Tamil Nadu with 44,661 cases and the national capital with 41,182 confirmed cases.

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