Latest News, Live Updates Today May 8, 2024: Letter from hundreds of Jewish students at Columbia Uni consolidates divisive views on pro-Palestine campus protest

• The new letter from pro-Israel Jewish students surfaced just days after pro-Palestine Jewish students published an open letter.

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• Arshdeep Singh and Princedeep Singh are pass outs of the Malwa Hockey Academy, Ludhiana, have been called to the India junior men’s hockey team to embark on a Europe tour from May 18 to May 31.

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• Hinting at the possibility of changing the name of Akbarpur, the CM emphasises that it’s crucial to put an end to the signs of slavery and honour our heritage.

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• The meeting served as a platform to exchange ideas and experiences, and explore avenues for mutual growth and innovation

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• District magistrate, social media influencers and Fever FM come together for an interactive session, ‘HT Spotlight – Elections 2024’ and discuss measures to boost voter turnout in Lucknow

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• The meeting served as a platform to exchange ideas and experiences, and explore avenues for mutual growth and innovation

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• Hundreds of people have been injured and nearly 1,60,000 forced from their homes.

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• A video shared by the Raj Bhawan showed Khan bowing before the idol of Ram Lalla as chants of ‘Jai Shree Ram’ echo in the background.

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• Chirag and Simnizki met for the first time during this event – the transplantation took place in 2016.

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• Union minister Parshottam Rupala said the just-concluded elections as the toughest period of the four-decade-long political career

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• More than 80 per cent of candidates in Bihar have forfeited their security deposits in the last two parliamentary elections in the country as well as the assembly polls in the state.

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• If these two princes come to power, they will put Babri lock on Ram temple, says Union home minister Amit Shah at election meetings in Uttar Pradesh, asserts game is over for SP, Cong, BSP as Modi has crossed 190 seats in three phases of LS polls

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• In Samastipur Lok Sabha seat, Shambhavi, 25, daughter of Ashok Choudhary, a confidant of CM Nitish Kumar, is the NDA nominee fighting on the symbol of Chirag Paswan’s LJP (RV). She is pitted against Congress’s Sunny Hazari, 33, son of Maheshwar Hazari.

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• Akhilesh Yadav described the BSP chief’s decision as an indication that her party is not winning a single seat and urged voters to vote for INDIA bloc instead.

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• “It (service lane) was cleaned after the matter came to light,” an NDMC official said.

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• The ICMR dietary recommendations provide evidence-based food and lifestyle related recommendations to ensure diet diversity to meet the requirements of essential nutrients and prevent non-communicable diseases

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• In the state capital, getting the test report online is available at Balrampur Hospital, Lokbandhu Hospital, Civil Hospital, Jhalkari Bai Hospital, Rani Lakshmi Bai Hospital

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• Bhokse suffered from stomach ache and vomiting after he ate the shawarma. He also went to a municipal hospital nearby to get medical treatment.

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• As part of its Summertime menu, Starbucks is also bringing back the beloved White Chocolate Macadamia Cream Cold Brew

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• The two-judge bench rejected the man’s contention that he was the child’s natural guardian, underlining that the interfaith marriage between the two was void

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• On May 2, the first phase of deportation of illegal immigrants from Myanmar was completed in Manipur, with 38 immigrants exiting the country via Moreh

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• The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the Calcutta high court’s order to terminate the teaching and non-teaching posts in state-run and state-aided schools of West Bengal

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• The decision to expel her was taken by party’s secretary general Balwinder Singh Bhundur following a number of complaints from the SAD Chandigarh unit that Kaur was wilfully sabotaging the party in Chandigarh by unilaterally supporting the candidature of BJP candidate Sanjay Tandon

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• The Bengal Raj Bhavan said Governor CV Ananda Bose has launched a program Sach Ke Saamne in the background of the mischievous and fabricated allegations by the police that Raj Bhavan is not sharing the CCTV footage of the incident

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• Court’s decision to consider the case seems likely to cause a delay in a case and further reduce the possibility that it will get to trial before the election

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• Corporal Vikky Pahade was killed, and four IAF personnel were injured after armed terrorists attacked a convoy of the force at Lassana Top in Surankote tehsil of Poonch district

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• The two runways will be closed for six hours from 11am to 5pm on May 9.

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• Mamata Banerjee alleged that the BJP is paying between ₹5,000 to ₹15,000 to people to purchase their votes.

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• Earlier today, PM Modi said that he wonders why Rahul Gandhi has stopped taking the names of Adani and Ambani since the declaration of the Lok Sabha elections.

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• In India, the Serum Institute of India (SII) said it stopped the manufacturing of additional doses of Covishield since December 2021.

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• Tom was implying that Ariana’s refusal to speak to him on camera meant she wasn’t being professional.

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• The Uttarakhand government told the apex court that 398 forest fires were reported in the state since last November.

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• About six hours into what should have been a nine-and-a-half-hour flight to Seattle, a burning smell and smoke were detected onboard

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• Nearly a month after being linked to a multivehicle crash in Dallas, Chiefs’ Rashee Rice has been tied to an alleged assault case.

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• According to the complaint, police said, the accused gang-raped her when she was with her friend on Monday night and also shot an obscene video of the minor with her male friend and threatened her with dire consequences

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• Sam Pitroda resigns from Indian Overseas Congress post amid racist remark row

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• Beijing has been eyeing Dhaka’s planned Teesta River Comprehensive Management and Restoration project, with an estimated cost of $1 billion, for the past few years

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• The woman, a second-year forestry student at Birsa Agriculture University, in her suicide note said she would not be able to survive the suffocation

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• Sam Pitroda, in a controversial remark, also said that those from the North East resemble the Chinese.

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• The agency arrested nine persons, including doctors, clerks of RML and private middlemen, medical equipment suppliers after carrying out searches at around 15 locations

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• The Election Commission had directed X to take down the contentious video on Tuesday, less than two hours before polling ended in Karnataka

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• The agency had named seven suspects, including former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Naresh Kaushik and five unknown persons for the attack in its first information report (FIR) filed on May 1

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• PM Modi asserted that the country would not tolerate insult on the basis of skin colour.

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• Pro-Palestinian encampment around NYC’s Fashion Institute of Technology dismantled, while several arrested.

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• Sharad Pawar predicted that many regional parties would want to merge with the Congress after the Lok Sabha election 2024.

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• Twenty-nine nominations were received for Allahabad seat but after scrutiny, now just 14 candidates are left after papers of 15 were rejected . Likewise, there were 32 nominations for Phulpur seat but 15 candidates are left after the papers of 17 got rejected. In Pratapgarh, where 34 candidates had filed papers, nominations of seven were rejected by the poll officials.

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• The Singapore defence ministry said that the plane experienced ‘an issue’ during take-off at about 12.35 pm.

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