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Patna. The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday released its poll manifesto ‘Sankalp Patra’ for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Reacting to it, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav said: “There is no mention of jobs and employment anywhere in the manifesto of the BJP. Neither is there any mention of eliminating or reducing inflation,unemployment and poverty. There is nothing in the manifesto of BJP for 60 percent of the youth of the country, 80 per cent farmers and more than 6 lakh 40thousand villages of the country. “PM Modi said for the same manifesto: “The entire country waits for the BJP’s ‘Sankalp...

Jaipur. Congress leader Sonia Gandhi launched a direct assault on Prime Minister Narendra Modi during her first Jaipur campaign rally for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. She accused him of thinking he was better than the people, plotting to alter the constitution, and undermining democracy. She declared that PM Modi “desh aur loktantra ka cheerharan kar rahe hain” (PM Modi is depriving the nation and democracy of dignity) during her seven-minute address. She claimed he was employing every strategy to destroy democracy and scare opposition politicians into joining the BJP.

Mumbai. The third weekend of Randeep Hooda’s starring and filmmaker Swatantrya Veer Savarkar, which debuted on March 22, is still going strong in Indian theatres. Based on the well-known and contentious Indian freedom warrior, the biopic-epic continues to garner significant theatrical attendance and box office receipts, which is a credit to its gripping story and effective word-of-mouth marketing. The movie has gotten positive reviews all throughout the country, but especially in Maharashtra, where it has become a local favourite and maintained its top rating over the course of the weeks.

Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao stated that the VRA (Village Revenue Assistants) system would be abolished in its entirety. He argued that the feudal system, which had persisted for so long with outmoded terms like Neerati, Maskuru, and Lashkar, should be completely abolished. During a high-level review meeting at the Secretariat, he announced that employees who serve as VRAs around the State would be regularized in excess positions in the Revenue department.

The biopic of Robert Oppenheimer, the mind behind the world’s first atomic bomb, released recently. The movie is in buzz in Indian audience as there is a connection with the Bhagavad Gita. Oppenheimer had a long and documented fascination with the Bhagavad Gita. He learned Sanskrit in the early 1930s while working at Berkeley, after befriending a professor of the language. “We knew the world would not be the same,” he said onscreen. “A few people laughed; a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to...