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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday appealed to all parties to ensure an unopposed bypoll in the Baramati assembly constituency, necessitated by the death of then NCP president Ajit Pawar in a plane crash, to elect his wife and incumbent Deputy CM Sunetra Pawar.
He urged consensus in backing Sunetra Pawar to respect Maharashtra's political traditions.
Recalling past instances, Fadnavis cited the unopposed bypoll held after the death of NCP (undivided) MLA and former state home minister R R Patil. His wife, Suman Patil, was elected from the Tasgaon-Kavathe Mahankal assembly constituency following her husband's death in 2015.
"All parties should show a large-hearted approach and ensure the by-election is held unopposed," Fadnavis told reporters.
The BJP, which heads the Mahayuti alliance, shares power with the NCP and Shiv Sena in Maharashtra.
NCP sources had said that Sunetra Pawar, currently a member of Rajya Sabha, will file her nomination on April 6 for the 

Devendra Fadnavis, Devendra, Fadnavis, Sunetra Pawar, Eknath Shinde

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday alleged that the Modi government is putting the security of every Indian at risk by attempting to "cover up its own failures" and concealing the reality of foreign surveillance through Chinese cameras installed at vital locations.
"This is a deliberate conspiracy to keep India in the dark," he said in a post in Hindi on Facebook.
Gandhi said the government recently banned the public use of Chinese CCTV cameras.
"Yet, Chinese cameras remain installed inside government buildings. Banned Chinese apps are resurfacing under changed names. Foreign AI platforms are processing sensitive data. And the government has absolutely nothing to say about this," he said.
The leader of opposition in Lok Sabha said he asked these questions in Parliament to the Ministry of Electronics and IT.
"The response offered plenty of verbiage, but provided no answers to the specific questions asked," he claimed.
"From which countries did our cameras originate? How many

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi

A spouse cannot be accused of abetting the suicide of his or her partner merely because there was marital discord between the two, the Bombay High Court has said while quashing a case lodged against a woman for abetting the suicide of her husband.
The HC's Nagpur bench, in its order passed last week, held that matrimonial discord is common in domestic life and suicide cannot be attributed to any of the spouses merely because there was a matrimonial dispute. It added that there has to be instigation or direct incitement from the accused to the victim to end life.
"In such cases, it cannot be held that due to abetment from one partner the other committed suicide," the court said.
The bench allowed the plea filed by a 49-year-old woman, a teacher by profession, seeking to quash the abetment of suicide case filed against her in 2019 by the Amravati police.
A single bench of Justice Urmila Joshi Phalke said that in the present case both the husband and the wife had levelled allegations 

Bombay High Court

According to the Dubai Media Office, debris from an aerial interception fell on the facade of the Oracle building in Dubai Internet City

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The collapse of these diplomatic efforts coincides with a sharp escalation in military hostilities

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The second of a six-part series analyses the impact of the West Asia crisis on the plastic industry, based on a ground report from Balasore, Odisha

Inside Hari Plast, a plastic pipes and fittings manufacturing unit, long extrusion lines that once ran continuously now stand cold. (Photo: Hemant Kumar Rout)

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The Centre on Wednesday asserted that the country has an adequate supply of seeds and agro-chemicals for the upcoming Kharif season, and asked states to check hoarding, black marketing, smuggling and diversion of fertilisers for non-farm usage.
Addressing an inter-ministerial briefing on recent developments in West Asia,  Maninder Kaur Dwivedi, Additional Secretary in the Agriculture Ministry, said, "The most important input is seeds. There is an adequate availability of seeds for the upcoming Kharif (summer-sown) sowing season".
She said the total estimated requirement of seeds for the Kharif 2026 is 166.46 lakh quintals, while the availability is 185.74 lakh tonnes. So, there is a surplus of 19.29 lakh tonnes.
Dwivedi noted that there is enough supply of seeds for all major crops.
She said the total availability of seeds for paddy crop is 80.9 lakh quintals, soyabean 35.7 lakh quintals, groundnut 21.1 lakh quintals, and maize 11.9 lakh quintals.
The availability of seeds is ...

Kharif

Power consumption in the country grew marginally by 1.8 per cent to 149.56 billion units in March from 146.92 BU a year ago amid lesser use of appliances like air-conditioners and coolers due to unseasonal rains.
Intermittent rains have kept the temperature at a lower level, delaying the onset of summer across the country.
According to the government data, the peak power demand met or the highest supply during March this year rose slightly to 238.37 GW from 235.22 GW recorded in February 2025.
The peak power demand touched an all-time high of about 250 GW in May 2024. The previous all-time peak power demand of 243.27 GW was recorded in September 2023.
During the last summer (April 2025 onwards), the peak power demand reached 242.77 GW in June, but stayed lower than the government's estimate of 277 GW.
The power ministry has estimated about 270 GW of peak power demand during the summer season this year.
According to the Indian Meteorological Department, March this year saw higher

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Adani Ports handled 500 million tonnes of cargo in FY26, up 11.1 per cent year-on-year, and reaffirmed its target of reaching 1 billion tonnes by 2030

Adani, Gautam Adani

US President Donald Trump Wednesday said China, Japan and South Korea should be involved in opening Strait of Hormuz.
The president has previously directed much of his anger at NATO allies for their reluctance to get involved in securing the Strait of Hormuz until the US and Israel finish prosecuting their war against Iran.
In his remarks at the private Easter lunch he hosted at the White House on Wednesday, Trump also expressed frustration with some Asian countries that are more reliant on Gulf oil than the US.
"Let South Korea, you know, we only have 45,000 soldiers in harm's way over there, right next to a nuclear force - let South Korea do it," Trump said. "Let Japan do it. They get 90 per cent of their oil from the strait. Let China do it."
Trump also derided NATO as 'very bad allies' and 'paper tiger' during the private lunch, ahead of his address.
"NATO treated us very badly, and you have to remember it because they'll be treating us badly again if we ever need them," Trump

Donald Trump

Prime Minister Modi also filled his self-enumeration details in the presence of the officials

PM Narendra Modi completes his self-enumeration for Census 2027, in New Delhi on Wednesday. About 55,000 households across eight states and UTs availed of self-enumeration on the first day of the exercise

The war could result in huge geoeconomic shifts. The big immediate winner is Russia, benefitting from higher oil prices and the removal of sanctions

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RBI bars NDF trades with corporates 

The RBI has barred banks from offering rupee NDF contracts to corporate clients to curb speculation and stabilise the currency.

Cheap, accessible, and powerful semaglutide is changing India’s weight-loss and diabetes landscape. But as prices crash and access expands, the risks also increase

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