Labour tipped for historic win as UK voters go to the pollsLONDON, July 4, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - Britain voted Thursday in a general election widely expected to hand the opposition Labour party a landslide win and end nearly a decade-and-a-half of Conservative rule. That would almost certainly put Labour leader Keir Starmer, 61, in Downing Street, as leader of the largest party in parliament. Centre-left Labour is projected to win its first general election since 2005 by historic proportions, with a flurry of election-eve polls all forecasting its biggest-ever victory. But Starmer was taking nothing for granted as he urged voters not to stay at home. The Lib Dems were tipped to scoop dozens of seats -- up from their current tally of 15 -- while Nigel Farage's anti-immigrant Reform UK party was set to win a handful.

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Bengaluru, India's tech hub of 14 million people, reeled under a water shortage this year and had to rely on tanker deliveries. That is adding urgency to public and private-sector efforts to conserve the resource, find ways to recycle waste water and reduce the country’s over-reliance on the annual monsoon, especially in the agricultural sector. Some industries are investing in waste water recycling and rain harvesting to cut their dependence on fresh water. Between 2021 and 2026, it plans to invest about $36 billion to ensure equitable water distribution, reuse of waste water and mapping of water bodies, the government has said. If we save just 10% of water used in agriculture, it will take care of the water problems of all the Indian cities."

KATHMANDU, July 3, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - Embattled Nepali Prime Minister PushpaKamal Dahal lost his government's majority Wednesday after his key coalitionpartner withdrew support, triggering fresh political uncertainty in Kathmandu'svolatile parliament. The Maoists have played a key role in Nepal's politics for more than 20years, after waging a decade-long insurgency against government forces thatclaimed more than 16,000 lives. The civil war ended in a 2006 peace deal, which saw rebel leader Dahalbecome Nepal's first post-war prime minister. The three main parties -- the Maoists, CPN-UML, and the NC -- have sincemonopolised politics, forming varying brittle coalitions with one another. Nepal, a Himalayan nation of 30 million people, is sandwiched betweenpowerful neighbours India and China -- with both New Delhi and Beijingcampaigning for influence.

General Daily Insight for July 03, 2024 Emotion comes to the forefront. Wait a moment and decide if what you’re saying will actually get your message across. Taurus April 20 – May 20 You might be worried about a decision that you were once sure of. Scorpio October 23 – November 21 Breaking free from the current expectations of others can minimize possible chaos. Sagittarius November 22 – December 21 You and someone else might be lifting each other up while the other is down.

LIFTING my head cautiously from my pillow, I feel like I’m going to be sick. But my condition is self-inflicted, down to the two bottles of wine I’d happily swigged in the sunshine the previous day. It started with two mozzarella and tomato croissants at 6.30am, thanks to Deliveroo, and finished with a 10pm Pot Noodle. Proceeded to eat my way through the sortof menu that would make a sumo wrestler proud. I want to be one of those people that has a glass of wine with a meal and then potters home.

Most of the damage associated with that tornado was to tree limbs, Wood said. Multiple cars got stuck in floodwaters in north Lincoln just after midnight, and a couple of them remained stranded under the North 48th Street bridge near Cornhusker Highway early Tuesday morning. Barjenbruch said the highest rain totals in Lincoln — about 4½ inches — were concentrated near the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's East Campus. The university suspects overnight rainfall was the cause of the damage, but that hadn't been confirmed, Keenan said. The storms still weren't finished, though, as another severe thunderstorm rolled through north Lincoln just before noon Tuesday, dropping more rain and hail up to 1½ inches in diameter, Barjenbruch said.

Can I count on your vote in the forthcoming election?” I asked, beaming. People are probably going to vote for the Labour Party. There’s no great feeling around that Sir Keir’s Labour Party will change the way we live for the ­better, as there was back then. The biggest things bothering the voters, though — once you’ve removed “Tory utter uselessness” from the equation — is the cost of living and immigration. MY guess is that this election will be a ­little tighter than the polls currently ­predict.

A tribunal has sentenced four people to death and 10 to life in prison for the 2012 murder of Sarail Upazila Awami League leader Iqbal Azad in Brahmanbaria. Chattogram Divisional Speedy Trial Tribunal Judge Halim Ullah Chowdhury delivered the verdict on Wednesday after finding the 14 accused guilty, said Public Prosecutor Ashok Kumar Das. Those who got the death penalty are Rafiq Uddin Thakur, Mafuz Ali, Mokarom Ali Sohel and Ismat Ali. Abdul Jabbar, Caesar, Idris Ali, Babu, Haris, Bakul, Limon, Abdullah, Sharif and Mizan were sentenced to life in prison. The tribunal acquitted the other accused in the case, said prosecutor Ashok.

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Doctors say he developed a blood clot in his head after falling from the rickshawShamim Us Salehin Shuvo, a social media moderator at bdnews24.com, has suffered serious head injuries in an attack by a group of motorcycle-riding robbers in Dhaka's Agargaon. The incident occurred outside the IDB building near the metro rail station around 10:45pm on Tuesday. "Two robbers on a motorcycle snatched the mobile phone from me while on the move and sped off towards Sheorapara. Shamim was initially taken to the National Institute of Neurosciences and Hospital by Mahbub but was discharged after receiving first aid due to bed shortages. He was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital at midnight and later transferred to a private hospital on Wednesday, where doctors found a blood clot in his head.

DHAKA, July 2, 2024 (BSS) – The Finance Ministry has issued a clarification on relevant issues of the recently introduced pension scheme titled "Prattay Scheme" for incorporating the staff of the self-governed, autonomous, state-owned, statutory or homogeneous organizations and their subordinate bodies in the Universal Pension Scheme. According to Section 14 (2) of the Universal Pension Management Act, 2023, provision has been made for introduction of pension scheme for all the people of the country. All employees joining self-governed, autonomous and state-owned enterprises on or after 1 July 2024 will be compulsorily covered under the 'Prattay Scheme'. On the other hand, in Funded Contributory Pension System, a fund will be formed on the basis of contributions received and investment profits, so it is a sustainable pension system in the long term. Only teachers and staff in public universities who are newly recruited on and after July 1, 2024 will be included in the 'Prattay Scheme'.

Marking the Fourth of July holiday, the Beatrice Daily Sun will not be distributing a print edition Thursday, July 4. Today's edition has some of the features you would find in your Thursday paper, such as comics on Page A5 and puzzles on B4. Others, such as next week's menus at the senior centers, will appear in Friday's paper. There will still be an e-edition of the Daily Sun on Thursday, and BeaticeDailySun.com will be updated throughout the day. Your regular print edition of the Daily Sun will return Friday.

National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) Chairman Prof Md Moshiuzzaman discussed the new evaluation framework with bdnews24.com. According to Prof Moshiuzzaman, a few changes have been made to the draft of their evaluation strategy before it was finalised. If they are awarded 'preliminary,' then they are achieving the lowest level on the proficiency scale," Prof Moshiuzzaman said. According to Prof Moshiuzzaman, there will be no selective exams before the SSC exams. The subjects of the new curriculum will be evaluated based on the implementation of the new rules.

Results are due to be announced in each of parliament's 650 constituencies throughout the nightUK election: Ten seats to watch as the results come inOpinion polls project Britain's Labour Party is on course to return to government with a large majority in Thursday's national election after 14 years in opposition. BROXBOURNE, RESULT EXPECTED 2315 GMTThis seat has been won by the Conservatives at every election since it was created in 1983. CANNOCK CHASE, RESULT EXPECTED 0100 GMTLabour would have to achieve a huge swing to reclaim Cannock Chase, which it held from 1997-2010. GODALMING AND ASH, RESULT EXPECTED 0230 GMTThis seat is being contested by finance minister Jeremy Hunt who has been the area's Member of Parliament since 2005. At the last election in 2019, the Conservatives won it with a majority of just over 4,400 votes.