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Show Quick Read Key points generated by AI, verified by newsroom As the first phase of the Bihar Assembly Elections 2025 got underway on Thursday, the election campaign for the second phase reached fever pitch, with both the NDA and Mahagathbandhan holding high-voltage rallies across the state. Top leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh campaigned for the NDA, while Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra led the charge for the Opposition alliance. Sharp political barbs and charged rhetoric dominated the trail as both sides sought…

When billionaire Dutch TV producer John de Mol sued Facebook in 2019 over its alleged failure to stop scammers from using his image in deceptive ads, the social media company sent Rob Leathern to Amsterdam to meet with Del Mol’s team and to speak with the media.“The people who push these kinds of ads are persistent, they are well funded, and they are constantly evolving their deceptive tactics to get around our systems,” Leathern told Reuters at the time.During his four years at the company now known as Meta, Leathern was in many ways the public face of its effort…

BANGKOK (AP) — An American man and his teenage son died last month after they were swarmed by wasps while ziplining at an adventure camp in Laos and stung many dozens of times, a hospital official said Thursday. Dan Owen, the director of an international school in neighboring Vietnam, and his son Cooper were attacked by the insects on Oct. 15 at the Green Jungle Park, as they were descending from a tree at the end of the zip line. The camp is located outside the city of Luang Prabang, a popular tourist site in the Southeast Asian nation that…

New Delhi: The Election Commission top brass is constantly monitoring the ongoing polling in Bihar through the live feed available from polling stations. CCTVs have been installed for the first time in all polling stations of the state. Officials said Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and Election Commissioners S S Sandhu and Vivek Joshi have stationed themselves at the EC’s control room at the Nirvachan Sadan here. As many as 121 seats are going to poll in the first phase on Thursday. The second phase will be held on November 11 and the results will be announced on November 14. …

MEXICO CITY (AP) — What should have been a five-minute time-saving walk from Mexico’s National Palace to the Education Ministry for President Claudia Sheinbaum has become a symbol of what Mexican women face every day after a video captured a drunk man groping the country’s first woman president.On Wednesday, gender violence catapulted to the highest-profile platform, and Sheinbaum used her daily press briefing to say that she had pressed charges against the man. She also called on states to scrutinize their laws and procedures to make it easier for women to report such assaults and said Mexicans needed to hear…

The email also asks the Zuckerbergs to, “ideally stop—but at a minimum give us extended breaks from—the acquisition, demolition and construction cycle to let the neighborhood recover from the last eight years of disruption.”At this point, the email requests that the family “abide by both the letter and the spirit of Palo Alto” by complying with city code about residential buildings.Specifically, it asks the Zuckerbergs to get a use permit for the compound’s school and to hold “a public hearing for transparency.” It also asks the family to not expand its compound any further. “We hope this will help us…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian drones struck a major oil refinery in Russia’s Volgograd region for the second time in almost three months, Ukraine’s general staff said Thursday. Russian officials did not confirm the attack, although the local governor said drones started a fire at an unspecified industrial facility in the region.Ukraine’s general staff said in a statement that the attack took place the previous day. The refinery is the largest producer of fuel and lubricants in Russia’s Southern Federal District, processing more than 15 million tons of crude annually — about 5.6% of the country’s total refining capacity, according…

PARIS (AP) — France’s court of auditors urged the Louvre museum to speed up its security modernization plans as a priority, in a report conducted before the Oct. 19 jewels heist that noted major delays in the renovation of the world’s most-visited museum.Thursday’s report by the Cour des Comptes comes after a series of failings and security issues came to light following the robbery of the $102 million worth Crown Jewels that shocked the world. The thieves used a truck-mounted basket lift to reach a window of the Apollo Gallery and fled with the trove within minutes.“The theft of the…

LucknowNovember 6, 2025 02:56 PM IST First published on: Nov 6, 2025 at 02:56 PM IST Ahead of BSP chief Mayawati’s first rally for the Bihar Assembly elections, at Kaimur on Thursday, the Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP), an ally of the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, has announced its support for the BSP. In a move that may also have repercussions on politics in Uttar Pradesh, the SBSP said it will support the BSP in all the seats where it does not have a candidate. SBSP national spokesperson Arun Rajbhar told The Indian Express that the decision would benefit both…

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], November 6 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday dismissed any claims of her accepting the enumeration form for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR), saying that until and unless every person in Bengal fills out the form, she would refrain from doing so.Banerjee is opposed to the ongoing SIR in West Bengal and 11 other states, alleging that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is using the exercise to insert fake votes in the electoral roll. “Until every person in Bengal is filling the form, I myself have not filled any form and will not.…