Aggrieved candidates, who have applied for Supreme Court-directed checking of EVMs for tampering post Lok Sabha and assembly results, have been given various choices by the Election Commission, including picking machines from any polling station in an assembly segment and opting for a mock poll and mock VVPAT slip count.

US President Joe Biden said on Monday he made a mistake when he told supporters to put rival Donald Trump in a "bullseye," but said Trump regularly employed rhetoric that was inflammatory and lied repeatedly at their debate last month.

A day after urging Americans to lower the political temperature in the wake of the assassination attempt on Trump, Biden renewed his criticism of Trump's actions, from his role on Jan.

Amid the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kyiv, the US has urged India to "utilise" its longstanding relationship with Russia and tell President Vladimir Putin to end his "illegal war" in Ukraine.

The spokesperson of the US State Department, Matthew Miller, in a press briefing on Monday not only noted the strong Delhi-Moscow ties but also urged India to tell Putin to respect the UN Charter.

Singapore government’s sovereign wealth fund Temasek is looking to invest $10 billion in India during the next three years, Ravi Lambah, Temasek's head of India and strategic initiatives, said.

This investment is set to take Temasek's total India exposure to $47 billion.

Jio Financial Services on Monday reported a 5.72 per cent decline in the consolidated net profit at Rs 313 crore in Q1FY25, as against Rs 332 crore in the corresponding period a year ago, according to the company’s exchange filing.

Interest income was down 19.8 per cent to Rs 162 crore in Q1FY25 as against Rs 202 crore in Q1FY24.

The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea seeking review of its January 3 verdict by which it refused to transfer the probe into allegations of stock price manipulation by the Adani Group to a special investigation team or the CBI.

A bench comprising Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud, Justice J B Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra dismissed the review plea filed by one of the PIL petitioners, Anamika Jaiswal, against the January 3 verdict.

Petrol pump owners said PUC centres will be shut from Monday onwards, expressing their dissatisfaction over the recent proposed hike in rates of pollution certificates by the city government.

The operation of the pollution under control (PUC) centres is unviable, they said in a statement issued on Sunday.

Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) Chairman SR Srinivas has said that a bus fare hike is unavoidable due to rising oil prices. He explained that it has been five years since the last fare increase in 2019, and current economic conditions necessitate an adjustment to cover operational costs and support employee benefits.

"The last bus ticket price increase was in 2019. It has been five years since then without any increase. Due to the rise in oil prices, a fare hike is inevitable. To increase salaries and provide benefits to employees, adjusting the rates is necessary," Srinivas said.

After former US President Donald Trump survived an assassination, his wife and former First Lady Melania Trump urged Americans to "ascend above the hate" and work towards realising a world where "love transcends". A 20-year-old gunman fired multiple shots at Trump, 78, at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, injuring his right ear.

In her first public response, 54-year-old Melania said, "This morning, ascend above the hate, the vitriol, and the simple-minded ideas that ignite violence.

Following the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, US President Joe Biden addressed the nation on Sunday, stating that violence cannot be normalised at any cost and emphasising that differences in America are "resolved at ballot boxes, not with bullets."

In his Oval Office address Sunday evening, President Joe Biden stated that while some Americans disagree on the country's future, "politics must never be a battlefield."

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