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At least 42 people have been killed in days of fighting with machine guns and mortar fire in a tribal land dispute in northwest Pakistan, authorities said on Monday.Family disputes are common in Pakistan but can become particularly protracted and violent in the mountainous northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where communities adhere to traditional tribal codes of honor. The Sunni Madagi and Shiite Mari Khel Muslim tribes have been fighting since gunmen opened fire on Wednesday on a council that was discussing a decades-old dispute over farmland, local police official Murtaza Hussain said. No one was injured in the attack,…

Maharashtra Latest News: The announcement for the Maharashtra Assembly elections is likely to come in September. After that, it will become clear when and in how many phases the elections will be held. However, the Mahayuti Party and the Maha Vikas Aghadi Party have already started preparing for the elections even before then. Maha Vikas Aghadi Party leaders are confident that “we will win 200 seats”. After winning 30 seats in the Maharashtra Assembly elections, the Maha Vikas Aghadi Party’s confidence has soared. Meanwhile, the Mahayuti Party has learnt lessons from its defeat in Maharashtra (2024 Assembly elections) and is…

XRP rose 3%, bucking the bearish trend. Indicators are showing positive momentum. With bearish sentiment dominating the market, XRP unexpectedly recorded a massive 3% gain, a ray of hope for investors amid a broader market decline. But what are the factors behind this unexpected rally? Since breaking out of the symmetric triangle, Ripple’s token has continued to rise to its current range. Source: Tradingview XRP’s scarcity drives demand Another factor that has contributed to XRP’s recent success is the decline in total supply. According to data from Cryptoquant, the overall supply of XRP is trending downwards, which creates scarcity and…

Down icon An icon in the shape of a downward angle. Paveletskaya Plaza shopping mall in Moscow, Russia. Getty Images Russians are spending freely, with per capita consumption surging by more than 20% from 2021 to 2023.This spending is taking place against the backdrop of an overheated economy, whose growth was driven by wartime state spending.Russia’s central bank has raised interest rates to 18% to combat annual inflation of more than 9%. Russia’s economy is doing well, some people are spending generously and prices are rising.Russia: 3.6% GDP growth rate last year. The unemployment rate hit a record low of…

Ajit Pawar received a major shock in the Baramati Lok Sabha elections when his wife Sunetra Pawar lost to his cousin and NCP (SP) supremo Sharad Pawar’s daughter Supriya Sule. However, Sunetra Pawar was later accepted into the Rajya Sabha.In the Vidhan Sabha elections, the NCP (SP) will field Yugendra Pawar against Ajit Pawar, a seven-time MLA from Baramati.Ajit Pawar is now planning to undertake a massive interaction and awareness tour, ‘Jan Samman Yatra’, during which he will travel across the regions of Konkan, Western Maharashtra, North Maharashtra, Marathwada and Vidarbha.During the pilgrimage, state Finance and Planning Minister Ajit Pawar…

The U.S. women’s soccer team will try to replicate its strong start to the 2024 Paris Olympics but will face a much bigger test in Germany when its group stage continues on Sunday.Watch the USA Women’s Soccer Team vs Germany liveThe USA edged out Zambia 3-0 to move level on points and goal difference with Germany, who thumped Australia in their opening match, for the top spot in Group B. With a Zambia player sent off in the 34th minute, 3-0 could have been 5-0, 6-0 or even worse. Trinity Rodman opened the scoring and Mallory Swanson scored two goals…

Stock Market Today: Domestic benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty 50 opened higher on Monday, driven by a surge in global stock prices. The Sensex rose 346.93 points, or 0.43 percent, to 81,679.65, while the Nifty 50 index rose 108.45 points, or 0.44 percent, to open at 24,943.30. All indices on the NSE including Nifty Midcap, Nifty Small Cap and Nifty Next 50 opened higher in the market. Sectoral indices continued to rise and started the new week on a higher note. Get cash in minutes! Best personal loans with lowest interest rates Apply now Among the biggest losers in the…

ELANCOURT, France (AP) — Hayley Batten Olympic mountain bike judges She was fined for violating rules on the final lap of Sunday’s race, but will no doubt be happy to pay the modest fine since her silver medal was the best ever result for an American athlete. Batten was battling for second place with Sweden’s Jenny Rissveds. She was far behind the eventual winner, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot.Batten was involved in the incident while passing through designated lanes for receiving food and drink or stopping for mechanical problems, but after reviewing the video, judges determined that Batten had not done either of…

The United States has signaled a possible strategic shift away from traditional intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) systems to more advanced platforms that leverage new technologies, such as space-based assets and stealth drones. This month, The Warzone reported that U.S. Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall hinted at the new ISR platform during a roundtable discussion ahead of the Farnborough International Airshow in the UK. The discussion began with aviation journalist Chris Pocock asking about the U.S.’s ISR future after the retirement of the U-2 Dragon Lady and RQ-4 Global Hawk, to which Kendall described future ISR as “a…

Caracas, Venezuela: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was re-elected with 51.2% of the vote, the electoral commission said on Sunday, after a campaign marred by opposition intimidation and fears of fraud.Elvis Amoroso, president of the CNE electoral body loyal to the government, told reporters that opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia, who was leading in the polls, had won 44.2 percent of the vote.Maduro, 61, was elected to a third six-year term at the helm of a once-wealthy oil nation that has seen its gross domestic product fall by 80 percent in a decade and forced more than 7 million of its…