The Catch Up: BJP releases first list for Bihar polls (14 Oct)

The headlines of the day The Indian Express

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
This is a catch up on three things by The
Indian Express and I am Flora Swine. Today's the fourteenth
of October and here are the headlines. The BEJP today
released its first list.

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Of seventy one.

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Candidates for the high stakes Behar Assembly elections, even as
seed sharing talks within the NBA remain unresolved. Deputy Chief
Ministers Samarad Chadri and which Is Sinha will contest from
Tarapur and Lakhi Sarai respectively, while Assembly Speaker nan Kishor
Yadav has been dropped from Patna.

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Sahib, which was his seat since twenty ten.

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Other keen names include Ramkripaliada for Danapur, prim Kumar for
Gaya Tarkeshour Prashad for Katihar, Alo Grandandja for Saharsa and
mangal Pandi for Sevan. The BJP's list signals a mix
of experience and renewal. In news from the south, Google

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announced today it will invest fifteen billion dollars over five
years to establish an artificial intelligence data center in Andhra Pradesh, which.

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Is its biggest investment in India so far.

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The move comes amid tense US India trade relations and
Prime Minister Narada Moodi's call to boycott foreign goods. At
the New Delhi launch event, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian
said Andhra Pradesh facility would become the company's largest.

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AI hub outside of the United States.

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Indian infotech and finance ministers were present at the event,
highlighting the project's strategic importance. In other national news of
the day, Loksapa leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi today accused
Haryana Chief Minister Nayam Singh Saini of failing to deliver
justice to the family of Senior IPS Officer ypur And Kamar,

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who was found dead with a gunshot wound at his
Jundigirt home on the seventh of October. Rahul met Kumar's
family and said and I quote haryanacm asshured that justice
would be done, but three.

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Days have passed with no action unquote. Kumar, who was
a two thousand and one.

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Batch officer and ADGP, is survived by his wife and
two daughters.

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Moving on, Prime Minister and.

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Arendra Modi today held bilateral talks with Mongolian President kurelsuk
Ukna in New Delhi, marking seventy years of diplomatic relations
and a decade of strategic partnership. Welcoming Ukna and his delegation,
Modi said, and I quote, after six years, a Mongolian
president is visiting India. This visit is special as we
celebrate our friendship and shared democratic values.

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Unquote. The two leaders planted a tree under ach.

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Paid markinam campaign and discussed expanding cooperation in trade, culture
and energy. Next up in global news, Israel's military said
it opened fire in northern Gaza today after spotting a
potential threat near its troops. Health officials in Gaza reported
at least six Palestinians killed in the incident. The shooting

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occurred hours after Hamas released all twenty remaining living Israeli
hostages under President Donald Trump's.

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Peace deal to end the war.

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The Gaza Seas Fire was signed in Egypt, with former
US Presidents Joe Biden and Bill Clinton praising Trump's historic
diplomatic achievement in brokering peace after two years of conflict.

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That's all for today. This was a catch up on
three things by the Indian Express.