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Former Union Minister Dilip Ray He filed an election suit in the Orissa High Court. Biju Janata Dal (BJD) candidate Sarada Prasad Nayak As the MLA from Rourkela constituency, he has stopped campaigning for filing false affidavits and nomination papers.Ray, who served as coal minister, was convicted in 2020 and sentenced to three years in prison for his role in the coal scam linked to irregularities in the allocation of mining blocks in Jharkhand in 1999.In April this year, the Delhi High Court suspended his conviction and granted him partial relief to enable him to contest the 2024 Odisha Assembly…
Image caption, Evgeny Prigozhin led Wagner’s army into the Russian city of Rostov with little resistance.Article informationauthor, Matt Murphyrole, BBC News London1 hour agoRussia has effectively dismantled the Wagner Group and created a new organisation a year after the mercenary group shocked the world with an uprising against President Vladimir Putin’s government, experts have told the BBC. The late paramilitary leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, crossed the border from Ukraine on June 23, 2023, and seized the southern city of Rostov after months of rising tensions with military leaders in Moscow.His troops then launched a short charge towards the capital but encountered…
Chase Elliott will be looking to extend his newly acquired lead in the NASCAR standings when the NASCAR Cup Series heads to Northern New England on Sunday for the USA TODAY 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.Elliott, who placed runner-up at New Hampshire in 2022, finished third in last week’s Iowa race and is considered one of the favorites to win Sunday at the “Magic Mile,” a fixture on NASCAR’s schedule since 1993.Following the conclusion of the USA TODAY 301, there are only eight races remaining on the NASCAR Cup Series schedule, and drivers will undoubtedly be battling for position…
In an era when political polarization dominates the conversation, expressing nuanced opinions may seem like a bridge-building strategy. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology We provide evidence that people who express ambiguous attitudes on political issues may pay a social price for their nuanced opinions: those who express their positions in an ambiguous manner are often perceived as less likeable, less warm, and less competent. This finding appears across a range of policy topics.Previous research has shown that people often expect that expressing ambivalence will be socially valued, especially in controversial situations. This expectation makes intuitive sense: when people see that…
This essay is based on conversations with Dahlia Rose, a 27-year-old lawyer who worked as an intern at Ray Dalio’s hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, in 2017 and 2018. Her employment has been confirmed, and the following has been edited for length and clarity.When I first watched the Black Mirror episode “Nosedive,” a show that depicts a world in which people are constantly judging each other, I thought to myself, “Is this really the kind of thing we do? Wait, I’ve worked in places like this before..During the summers after my sophomore and junior years at Harvard, I interned at Bridgewater…
We all have our own ways of getting through the journey, whether that be reading a book, watching a movie or just sleeping through.But there’s a new travel trend taking social media by storm, and it’s all about abstinence.For many of us, the prospect of taking a long-distance flight accompanied only by our thoughts is nightmarish, to say the least.And yet people willingly subject themselves to such tests of mental strength by cutting themselves off from all entertainment and distractions.To some people, especially those who consult Urban Dictionary, “raw-dogging” is a blatantly vulgar term that specifically refers to risky unprotected…
SEATTLE (AP) — Jordan Morris scored two goals late in the second half and the Seattle Sounders rallied from a two-goal deficit to beat FC Dallas 3-2 in a hard-fought game on Saturday night. What you need to know Neither team was able to score, but rookies Logan Farrington and Patrickson Delgado combined for a goal in the 66th minute to give Dallas (5-9-5) a 1-0 lead. Delgado recorded his third assist of the season on a goal by rookie Petar Musa four minutes later to put the team ahead 2-0. Dallas had been winless in six straight games when…
The final six weeks were tough for the Virginia Tech baseball team last season. The Hokies were all but guaranteed a spot in the NCAA Tournament, but struggled mightily in their ACC series last weekend and missed out on the 64-team berth entirely.While the competition was tough on the field, there was plenty of good news for coach John Shefke and the eight players who were selected to the 2024 All-ACC Academic Team: Madden Clement, Henry Cook, Preston Crowl, Carson DeMartini, Eddie Eisert, Ethan Gibson, Grant Manning and David McCann.Here is the complete list from ACC with each student’s major.Cameron…
CNN — A little more than a month before the Iowa caucuses, a Republican political operative was sitting in a Washington bar ticking through the dynamics of his party’s presidential primary. A veteran of campaigns across more than two decades of election cycles, he weighed the strengths of the winnowing list of Republican contenders and the potential risks of nominating a former president staring down four indictments and dozens of criminal charges. He didn’t hedge in his conclusion. “One thing that hasn’t changed: This is Trump’s party,” the operative said. But he wanted to make clear that didn’t mean a…
Srinagar: A highly encrypted Chinese-made ‘Ultrasett’ telecommunications device used by Pakistani troops has been seized in an encounter with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said, after it fell into the hands of terror groups.This has also raised concerns about undetected infiltration across the Line of Control and the possibility of terrorists hiding out on the outskirts of cities and villages, they said.Officials familiar with the matter said the seizure of mobile phones, mostly used by foreign terrorists from Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, indicated that terror groups were receiving training, arms and ammunition from Pakistani state agencies.These specialized mobile phones,…