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Democratic presidential nominee and US Vice President Kamala Harris/Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
Vice President Kamala Harris, who lost the presidential elections to her Republican rival Donald Trump, would address her supporters on Wednesday afternoon, according to her campaign and the White House. In an invite sent to her supporters and volunteers, her campaign said the Democratic...
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A person in the Paithani area of the Pauri district of Uttarakhand allegedly posted obscene photos and videos of a girl on social media, after which she left her home.Despite the arrest of Shahnawaz Mirza (24), who runs a barber shop in Paithani, local traders kept the market closed on Wednesday...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to US President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday to congratulate him on his spectacular victory, and said he looked forward to working together with him again to further strengthen India-US relations across technology, defence, energy, space and other...
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At least 18 workers were injured in an accident at a steel plant in eastern Maharashtra's Wardha district on Wednesday evening, police said. The incident took place in furnace area at Evonith Steel Plant on Bhugaon Link Road during the process of cooling of slag, a mixture of metal...
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The Porsche car that hit a motorcycle at Kalyani Nagar in Pune, May 19, 2024/ANI Photo
The father of a friend of the teenage driver involved in the Porsche car accident in Pune that claimed two lives in May this year surrendered before a court in Pune on Wednesday. The Supreme Court had on Tuesday refused to grant anticipatory bail to Arunkumar Devnath Singh, whose son...
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US stocks surged on Wednesday after the re-election of former US president and Republican nominee Donald J Trump in the presidential election, reports CNN. The Dow surged 1,309 points, or 3 percent in morning trading, touching new peak. Interestingly, the Dow jumped more than 1,000...
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Republican presidential nominee Donald J Trump/Jeenah Moon/Reuters
China on Wednesday reacted guardedly to Donald Trump's election as the US president for the second time, saying it will continue to handle China-US relations in accordance with the principles of mutual respect and peaceful coexistence.' The state media, however, said Trump's victory could...
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A pickup vehicle fell into the Arabian Sea at the Murud coast in Maharashtra's Raigad district while trying to get on board a Ro-Ro ferry service, police said on Wednesday. There was no casualty in the incident, an official said. The incident occurred this morning when a pickup vehicle...
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The Mumbai police on Wednesday arrested a man from Karnataka for allegedly sending a threat message to Bollywood actor Salman Khan along with a demand for Rs 5 crore on traffic police's helpline, an official said. The 35-year-old accused, Bhikaram Jalaram Bishnoi, a resident of Haveli in...
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Republican presidential nominee Donald J Trump speaks to supporters in Florida, November 6, 2024/Carlos Barria/Reuters
Pollster Pradeep Gupta claimed on Wednesday that his Axis My America predicted the US election results spot on while many local pollsters missed the mark. The Axis My India chief, who was considered to be the poster boy of exit polls in India, faced flak this year after his predictions for...
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Actor Kasturi, who sparked controversy with her comments about Telugu-speaking people settled in Tamil Nadu, announced that she has withdrawn all references to Telugus from her November 3 speech. She stated that it was never her intention to hurt or offend my Telugu extended family. I...
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Donald Trump's Presidency of the United States will open new opportunities for India though certain sectors, especially pharma and IT, may face the heat if the incoming president decides to impose restrictions on imports and H1B visa regulations, experts said on Wednesday. Prime Minister...
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Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday said there will be basic continuation of the India-US relationship with Donald Trump staging a comeback and noted that his being tough on China is good for us. Tharoor, the chairperson of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External...
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Vivek Misri
A scheduled briefing by Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri to a parliamentary panel headed by Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on India's volatile ties with Canada and China did not take place on Wednesday and is likely to be taken up later, sources said. They said the briefing by the external affairs...
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India and US relationship will be on a very firm footing with Donald Trump returning to the White House, as the cooperation between the two nations extends from environment to technology, space and defence, Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said Wednesday. As a candidate, Trump had spoken...
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Congress MP and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi congratulated Donald Trump on his presidential polls victory.Congratulations on your victory, @realDonaldTrump! Wishing you success in your second term as US President. All the best to @KamalaHarris in her future endeavours,...
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Donald Trump's election as the president of the United States is a profound blow to global climate justice and his disregard for international agreements and refusal to provide climate finance will deepen the crisis, international policy experts said on Wednesday. Sunita Narain, the director...
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Donald Trump is elected the 47th president of the United States, declares AP. Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States on Wednesday, an extraordinary comeback for a former president who refused to accept defeat four years ago, sparked a violent insurrection at the...
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Congress leader and former environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday said Donald Trump's comeback has made the future of the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change which America had rejoined under President Joe Biden extremely shaky and added that if the US were to withdraw again it would...
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Trump and Putin at the G20 in 2019
Russian President Vladimir Putin has not congratulated Donald Trump on his impending win, and has no plans to congratulate him either. The Kremlin spokesperson told CNN that, Let's not forget that we are talking about an unfriendly country that is both directly and indirectly involved in the war...
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US polls memes taking over social media. This one's from @sagarcasm and he writs on X: 'Things that don't exist.'
15:44
Sensex jumps 901.50 points to settle at 80,378.13; Nifty surges 270.75 points to 24,484.05 on the back of Donald Trump's shoo-in as the next president of the United States of America.
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Bibek Debroy, a key economic adviser to the Prime Minister whose prolific work included translations of the puranas and the vedas, passed away last week. He was 69.His wife Suparna posts this message on X today: This is Suparna, wife of Bibek Debroy. At this darkest hour, the Prime Minister's...
15:36
A pond in Kamala Harris' village
As the projections for the US Presidential elections indicate a win for Republican candidate Donald Trump, the people of Kamala Harris' ancestral Thulasendrapuram village in Tamil Nadu expressed their disappointment since they had planned to celebrate the Democrat's victory by bursting crackers...
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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge congratulates Donald Trump. On the behalf of the Indian National Congress, we extend our congratulations and best wishes to President @realDonaldTrump for his election victory. India and the United States share a robust comprehensive global strategic...
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Kamala Harris scored 224 electoral votes so far
Donald Trump on Wednesday promised to bring a golden age for America, as he appeared poised to win the presidential election with a mandate he called unprecedented and powerful. According to races called by the Associated Press up to 2 pm (IST), 267 electoral votes had gone to Republican...
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Democrat Ami Bera won election to a US House seat representing California.
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A throwback image of Trump and Zelenskyy from 2019
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he appreciates Trump's commitment to peace through strength as the Republican presidential nominee closes in on the electoral votes needed to win the White House.I recall our great meeting with President Trump back in September, when we discussed in...
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And so, the chanting has fallen silent at the Sri Dharma Sastha Sri Sevaka Perumaal Temple at Kamala Harris' ancestral village of Thulasendrapuram, Tamil Nadu. The priests were holding back-to-back prayers at the temple over a couple of days hoping to usher in a win for their favourite...
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NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte says he looks forward to working with Trump to advance peace through strength' as the former president closes in on the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House.We face a growing number of challenges globally, from a more aggressive Russia, to terrorism,...
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More congratulatory messages pouring for Donald Trump:Congratulations on history's greatest comeback! wrote Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on X. Your historic return to the White House offers a new beginning for America and a powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel...
14:12
Iran's currency, the rial, fell to an all-time low as former President Donald Trump was on the verge of clinching the US presidency again. The rial traded at 703,000 rials to the dollar. It may be recalled that Trump unilaterally withdrew America from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 and...
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JUST IN: Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweets:'Heartiest congratulations my friend Donald Trump on your historic election victory.'As you build on successes of your previous term, I look forward to renewing collaboration to further boost India-US ties.' d Trump on Wednesday is cruising...
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Actress Brooke Shields had posted this message a few hours ago urging people to vote: Get out and VOTE! This is probably the most important election in our lifetime.
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Donald Trump's running mate JD Vance, says, Mr President, I appreciate you for allowing me to join you on this incredible journey. I thank you for the trust you placed in me. I think we just witnessed the greatest political comeback in the history of the United States of America. Under...
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A supporter wears a cape with an image of a bleeding Trump
Former President Donald Trump at the speech at Florida: He says that people tell him that God spared my life for a reason. And that reason was to save our country and restore America to greatness. And now we're going to fulfill that mission together. Telling supporters early Wednesday...
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West Palm Beach, Florida: Donald Trump says, This is a great job. There is no job like this. This is the most important job in the world...Nothing will stop me from keeping my word to you.At Trump's 'victory' speech to this supporters, former first lady Melania Trump stood near her husband and...
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Donald Trump who is 78 years old is set to become the oldest president to be elected to the White House. President Joe Biden was previously the oldest president to be elected at 77. It marks a comeback for Trump who is facing multiple federal convictions and scandals.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses his supporters: This is a movement that nobody has ever seen before. Frankly, this was, I believe, the greatest political movement of all time. There has never been anything like this in this country and maybe beyond. Now, it is going...
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Donald Trump has 267 of the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House and is leading in key races left to be called, including Michigan and Wisconsin.Trump cut into Harris' margins in Philadelphia and its suburbs and expanded his share of the vote elsewhere in the state...
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Donald Trump wins Pennsylvania.
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CNN: Donald Trump's campaign team woke up confident Tuesday morning as polls opened and voting got underway. But multiple campaign aides that CNN spoke to didn't expect his wins to be anywhere near where the numbers are tonight.Aides constantly predicted it would be close -- potentially take days...
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Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk exuded confidence of Donald Trump's return to the White House, as the early projections show the former president ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris.In a recent post on the microblogging platform X, Elon Musk shared his photograph along with former US...
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As the poll projections start for the US presidential elections, Vice President and Democrat Candidate Kamala Harris will not address supporters tonight, but is expected to speak tomorrow. Harris' campaign co-chair Cedric Richmond said that the Vice President will be back to address not only...
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An interesting take on the shift in the electorate from the Democrats. CNN says that black voters -- men and women -- have been the bedrock of the Democratic Party, and Democrats have had a strong pull for Latino voters. It's been the same with young voters.But preliminary data from AP VoteCast,...
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Kamala Harris wins New Hampshire. Former President Donald Trump has 246 electoral votes while Vice President Kamala Harris has 187 electoral votes according to CNN. Each candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win the presidency.
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Former President Donald Trump has won Georgia, which gives him 16 electoral votes. Joe Biden had won Georgia in 2020, but Republicans have won every other Georgia presidential vote since 1996. Trump's victory proves Georgia still has a Republican bent.When Trump tried to overturn his 2020...
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Amid the counting of votes for the US presidential elections, a special Pooja was organised on Wednesday morning for Kamala Harris at Sri Dharma Sastha Sri Sevaka Perumaal Temple in her ancestral village of Thulasendrapuram, Tamil Nadu. Harris' supporter, Joy, who came to stay in the...
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Kamala Harris' maternal grandfather PV Gopalan used to have a house in this plot in Thulasendrapuram. Gopalan moved to Chennai and was a high-ranking government official at the time of his retirement.
11:19
Indian American Congressman Shri Thanedar was re-elected from the thirteenth Congressional district of Michigan. He defeated his Republican rival Martell Bivings by a margin of over 35 percentage points as he was re-elected for the second term. In a statement he credited his victory to his...
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The mood is grim at Kamala Harris' ancestral village at Thulasendrapuram in Tamil Nadu. Priests have begun the third round of prayers with chants, ringing of bells and offerings of flowers and bananas, as numbers seem to indicate a Trump win. In fact, her maternal grandfather PV Gopalan who...
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Democratic Rep Ro Khanna has won reelection to a US House seat representing California on Wednesday. Khanna defeated Republican Anita Chen in a solidly blue district.
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Kamala Harris' running mate Tim Walz shares this image with his family saying, 4 votes for @KamalaHarris! If you've already voted, make sure your family and friends do the same. http://IWillVote.com.
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Update: Republicans have just seized control of the US Senate after flipping Democratic held seats, holding onto GOP incumbents and wresting away the majority for the first time in four years.
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US Senator Ted Cruz
Republicans are just a seat away from seizing the Senate majority after Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas defeated Democrat Colin Allred.Point to note is that Texas has not elected a Democrat in almost 30 years! In fact, Allred, a Dallas-area Congressman and former NFL linebacker, pushed...
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Former President Donald Trump won his home state of Florida, making it three times in a row that the Sunshine state has voted for the Republican candidate according to Decision Desk HQ projection on Tuesday. As per the latest projections by Politico at 10 am IST Trump had surged to 230...
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Priests perform a ritual for the Democratic presidential nominee, US Vice President Kamala Harris' success in the upcoming American elections inside a temple in Thulasendrapuram, the village where Harris' maternal grandfather was born, in Tamil Nadu. Pic: Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters
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Did the prayers work? Vice President Kamala Harris has just won Virginia and added 13 electoral votes to her tally. Virginia has historically voted Democrats.
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Text, Pic: Ganesh Nadar
At the Dharma Shasta temple in Kamala Harris' ancestral village Thulasendpuram, the priest Natarajan, has been conducting prayers for the Democrat presidential candidate. He says, We are waiting for the results for a special pooja. The first pooja was done right after nomination, the second pooja...
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A banner in support of Kamala Harris in Thulasendpuram, her ancestral village in Tamil Nadu.
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An election official in Milwaukee
Multiple students in Washington DC expressed support for Kamala Harris during a watch party hosted in support of the Democratic presidential candidate at Howard University on Tuesday (local time). Ariana a Howard University student told ANI, I voted for Kamala and I think she is going to win...
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Here's how former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are doing at this hour. Both have notched up early wins in states that historically vote Republican and Democrat, even as a divided America is set to decide on the nation's future today. As of 9.34 am (IST), 230...
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US Vice President Kamala Harris has won the Democrat blue stronghold New York according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ even as the key battleground states remain too early to call, as counting for the US Presidential elections. AP has just now said Harris has also won...
09:23
Another win for Trump: Former President Donald Trump has won Kansas and its six electoral votes, but Kansas has been a Republican state since 1964. In fact, this is Trump's hat-trick in the state.
09:19
Former President Donald Trump is leading his Democratic rival Kamala Harris in the latest rounds of vote count in the high-stakes US Presidential election but a clear picture is set to emerge on who will occupy the White House once definitive trends emerge from the seven battleground states....
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84 million have already voted
Multiple polling stations and municipal buildings received hoax bomb threats across Pennsylvania, Governor Josh Shapiro said on Tuesday (local time). The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and state officials are investigating each threat. USA Today quoted Josh Maxwell, Chair of...
09:05
Vice President Kamala Harris has won the District of Columbia on Tuesday, securing the three electoral votes.
08:46
Finally, a win from Kamala Harris. The veep has won Colorado picking up 10 electoral votes. Colorado has been a blue state for 20 years now, with George W. Bush in 2004 its last Republican prez candidate.
08:42
Donald Trump wins Montana for the third consecutive election today. He adds four electoral votes to his tally. Trump has also just won Utah and thereby six electoral votes. So for a background, a Democratic presidential candidate has not won in Utah since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.
08:36
Polls have closed in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin and North Carolina, six of the seven closely fought battlegrounds expected to decide the election. Tens of millions of Americans added their ballots to the 84 million cast early as they chose between two candidates with...
08:25
Harris and Trump each need at least 270 electoral votes to win the presidency in an election that is seen as one of the most significant in recent US history. Trump, who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021, is seeking a return to the White House after...
08:21
Donald Trump defeats Kamala Harris in Nebraska. Trump has also won Texas. Trump also won Louisiana for the third consecutive presidential election, increasing his electoral vote tally by eight.
08:16
Democrat Raja Krishnamoorthi wins reelection to US House in Illinois' 8th Congressional District.
07:49
The Associated Press declares Vice President Kamala Harris the winner in Illinois, claiming the state's 19 electoral votes for Democrats.Illinois is the home state of former President Barack Obama. It has supported Democratic presidential candidates since 1992.Meanwhile, former President Donald...
07:45
The first results are coming in for the US presidential election with Republican leader Donald Trump projected to notch up wins in Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Florida, Arkansas and Vice President Kamala Harris set to emerge victorious in Vermont, Delaware and New Jersey.As per latest...
07:03
The Associated Press declared Trump the winner in Florida on Tuesday for the third consecutive election, earning the state's 30 electoral votes.Vice President Kamala Harris, meanwhile, won Rhode Island and Connecticut, giving her four and seven electoral votes respectively.
06:59
The Associated Press has declared Donald Trump the winner in West Virginia, Tennessee, South Carolina and Mississippi, while Kamala Harris won Massachusetts and Maryland.West Virginia has four electoral votes. No Democrat has won the presidential election in West Virginia since Bill Clinton in...
06:29
Voting in the United States presidential election entered the final hours with millions of Americans already deciding whether to elevate Vice President Kamala Harris to helm the White House or send Republican leader Donald Trump to the top office for a second time.Polls closed in Georgia,...
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A day after its official candidate Madhurima Raje Chhatrapati withdrew her nomination at the last moment, the Congress on Tuesday declared support for Rajesh Latkar, an independent candidate, in Kolhapur (North) assembly constituency. Local Congress leader Satej Patil expressed dismay over...
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Voting hours have been extended in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, due to a software malfunction that prevented voters from scanning their ballots, CNN reported on Tuesday. According to a statement from the office of county commissioners, Voting time has been extended in Cambria County,...
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A suspended post office employee has been detained for allegedly using false identity while entering the premises of a high-security institute of the Department of Atomic Energy in Indore, the police said on Tuesday. The accused, who worked as a postal assistant at the general post office...
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