DNA Explainer: What is MUDA land scam case in which Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to face prosecution
The allegations centre around the MUDA and claims of malpractices surrounding land allotments.
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The Central Water Commission (CWC) has also issued an orange alert for the Manimala River in Kottayam as water levels have reached dangerous heights.
Kolkata rape-murder case: Police imposes prohibitory order in and around RG Kar Hospital
In an order released on Saturday by the Commissioner of Police, Vineet Kumar Goyal, it was stated that rallies, meetings, processions, dharnas, demonstrations, and the unlawful assembly of five or more persons are prohibited in the specified area of Kolkata.
Trump says Harris has gone ‘full communist’ after unveiling handout-filled economic policy: ‘Never worked’
Former President Trump took a swing at Vice President Harris’s recently debuted economic plan, saying the Democratic presidential nominee had gone “full communist.” “In her speech yesterday, Kamala went full communist. You heard that? She went full communist,” Trump told supporters during a spirited swing-state rally Saturday at Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes-Barre Township, Pennsylvania. Calling her “Comrade Kamala,” the Republican presidential nominee blasted her “socialist price controls.” “Comrade Kamala announced that she wants to institute socialist price controls. You saw that? Never worked before,” he said. “This is the [President Nicolás] Maduro plan in Venezuela [of government price controls], the Maduro plan of the old Soviet Union. “They tried it there,” he said. “And how did the Soviet Union turn out?” TRUMP ACCUSES HARRIS OF ‘SOVIET STYLE’ POLICIES FOLLOWING PRICE CONTROL PROPOSAL Trump said Harris’ plan for federal price controls, which her campaign packaged as a solution to “price gouging,” “excessive prices” and “excessive corporate profits,” will lead to rationing and skyrocketing prices. TRUMP ACCUSES HARRIS OF ‘SOVIET STYLE’ POLICIES FOLLOWING PRICE CONTROL PROPOSAL “It will cause rationing, hunger and skyrocketing prices,” Trump said. “Just like [the Biden-Harris administration’s] Inflation Reduction Act, which is one of the great scams of all time. Inflation has been so bad, it’s gone up much more than 50%. They say 30%, 40% — many more people are being devastated.” On Wednesday, Harris announced that, as president, she would institute a federal price-fixing plan “on food and groceries” in an attempt to stop “big corporations” from taking advantage of consumers. Harris has framed her economic road map, dubbed “Kamalanomics” by social media pundits, as an “opportunity economy” plan. Her price control plan includes expanded down payment assistance for first-time homebuyers and a $6,000 child tax credit for first-time parents. Trump said Harris’ economic policy will not work, saying that similar price fixing has been tried — unsuccessfully — by other countries throughout history. “The things that she said yesterday don’t work. They have never worked,” he said. “They’ve been used by many countries, and in every single event, it ruined those countries.” RUBBER-STAMPED’: KEY DEM HIT OVER BIDEN-HARRIS SUPPORT ON BORDER, INFLATION He said Harris is promising “things she can’t deliver.” “It’s a communist system. … She’s promising to hand out things she can’t deliver. She’ll never get them approved,” he said. “Just like when she and Crooked Joe tried to give away student debt. How did that work out? Not too good.” Trump turned his attention to young voters who looked favorably at Biden’s promise to eliminate student debt, saying a communist takeover may sound good politically but is “very dangerous.” “The students are saying, ‘I love him because of student debt,’ but he got rejected,” Trump said. “Her plan is very dangerous because it may sound good politically, and that’s the problem. … This is Marxist, this is fascist.”
Michael Moore’s stark warning to Democrats on election momentum: ‘It’s ours to blow’
It’s the Democrats’ race to lose. That’s the view of liberal activist and filmmaker Michael Moore who has warned Democrats not to fumble their chances of beating former President Trump in November’s presidential election now that Vice President Kamala Harris heads the ticket. The outspoken and influential Moore told the Guardian that the party is riding on a wave of optimism following President Biden’s decision to bow out of the race after succumbing to unwavering pressure from powerful left-wing voices, including Moore. “This isn’t just a sugar-high or what [recovering] heroin addicts call a pink cloud,” Moore told the U.K. publication. “It was so depressing for so many weeks and then it was instantly not depressing. I am hopeful now but it’s ours to blow – and we have a history of blowing it.” MICHAEL MOORE WARNS KAMALA HARRIS TO NOT GO ‘CENTRIST’ Moore has been here before. He warned Democrats of Trump beating Hillary Clinton in his 2016 movie “in Trumpland” where he said Trump’s message appealed to disenfranchised voters in Michigan and other battleground states. In 2020, he took to X and said that enthusiasm for Trump was “off the charts” and pleaded with Democrats to come together to defeat the incumbent. Moore says he’s happy Harris chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate and that he’s confident Harris can inflict serious damage on Trump when they debate next month. “Once anybody gets under that thin skin anything can happen,” Moore says. “On live TV? Trump could explode, start talking like a 12-year-old, though no offense to 12-year-olds, or get up and leave.” ‘I understand why people are nervous it might be a sugar high but Harris and Walz are people of substance. They’re being slow and cautious enough to get it together. It’s just been a couple of weeks. They are going to have to tell us what they’re going to do and hopefully come up with the right thing. And there will be mistakes.” MICHAEL MOORE SAYS CONTINUING TO PUSH FOR BIDEN AFTER THE DEBATE IS A FORM OF ‘ELDER ABUSE’ Moore hailed Harris’ decision not to attend Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to congress last month, signaling a change of direction while urging her to cater to the party’s anti-Israel base. “Young people hate war and they’re totally against Biden and his support of the war.” He says Harris needs to tap into “affordable housing, student debt, peace and the dying planet.” Moore says the way to beat Trump is to continue doing “weird and cringe until the debate and then nail him.” “But nail him with irony, satire and a simple way to point out the beyond weird absolute idiocy and insanity of what these two men are talking about. Reach them on a commonsense level so it doesn’t matter if you’re Democrat or Republican.” Democrats have been labeling the Trump-Vance ticket as “weird” as part of a new line of criticism, while the Harris-Walz campaign have been criticized for their cringeworthy and scripted online videos. Last month, Moore joined many on the Left in calling for Biden to drop out of the race and allow Vice President Kamala Harris to take his place. “May I ask you, Mr. President, for one more brave and bold action?” Moore wrote in a Substack article days before Biden withdrew. Weeks earlier, he accused the Democratic Party of committing “elder abuse” by continuing to push President Biden to stay in the race. “She will have three and a half months (as they say, ‘an eternity in politics’) to show the American people her smarts, her strengths, her heart,” he continued. “She is fierce, and compassionate, and unstoppable. She will have the power to issue significant executive orders that can provide help to the middle class, protect the environment, restore basic women’s rights.”
Walz makes pitch to Republican, Libertarian voters during Nebraska rally
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, made a pitch to Republican and Libertarian voters in Nebraska while speaking at a rally in Omaha Saturday. Walz, who grew up in the Cornhusker State, told the audience, “In Nebraska, you got a slogan here: ‘Nebraska. It’s not for everyone.’ Well, it sure ain’t for Donald Trump, I’ll tell you that. This guy is the opposite of everything here. “I know where I’m at, and I know my family. Many of you can probably remember when Republicans talked about freedom. They meant it. They would never turn their backs on our allies. The traditional Republican Party before Donald Trump contributed much to this state and this great nation. But he’s not that. “Today, when they talk about freedom, they mean the government should be free to invade your exam room,” Walz added, referring to abortion. “Or that corporations should be free to pollute the air and water, banks should be free to take advantage of the least fortunate.” WALZ DEFENDS HIS MILITARY RECORD, PRAISES JD VANCE’S IN FIRST SOLO CAMPAIGN STOP Repeating his often-used line, “Mind your own damn business,” Walz said he also knows the state has a “Libertarian bent.” TRUMP RECRUITS TULSI GABBARD FOR DEBATE PREP AFTER SHE ‘DOMINATED’ HARRIS IN 2019 PRIMARY “You don’t need [the] government to tell you about your health care,” he told the audience. “You don’t need [the] government to pick your books out that you can read. Look, folks, this becomes really personal. “And, for me, this idea about the health care decisions we make and the choices about our family, that’s your family. You don’t need me. You don’t need Donald Trump. You don’t need anyone in [the] government telling you about your family. But that’s exactly what they’re doing. … If you’re an old-school Libertarian, Republican, Nebraskan, this is the ticket for you. This is the ticket for you.” The governor was in Omaha Saturday because Nebraska is one of only two states in the country that awards some of its Electoral College votes by congressional district. And while most of Nebraska is deep red, its 2nd Congressional District has gone for Democrats in recent years. Former President Obama won the 2nd Congressional District in 2008, splitting the state’s vote for the first time since 1964 after strategically targeting it, and President Biden won its sole electoral vote in 2020. Harris and Trump are targeting it this year since the election is expected to be close. Former President Trump rallied a large crowd in Pennsylvania Saturday, a day after Harris laid out her economic vision at a North Carolina rally. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Harris and Walz are also expected to rally in Wisconsin Tuesday as the Democratic National Convention kicks off in Chicago next week.
Kamala Harris on the hot seat for ‘hiding’ from American people and her ‘Kamalanomics’ plan to increase taxes
Resounding calls for Vice President Kamala Harris to conduct press interviews are mounting after the Democratic presidential nominee unveiled her economic plan days before heading to her party’s national convention in Chicago. Tim Murtaugh, senior adviser to the Trump campaign, told Fox News Digital Harris is running the “most deceitful campaign in history” as she “hides from the American people.” Murtaugh added that Harris is following President Biden’s lead in avoiding the media. “While she hides from the American people like Joe Biden always does, she’s pretending to hold the opposite position on everything she’s ever stood for as a San Francisco liberal,” the Republican nominee’s adviser said. TRUMP ACCUSES HARRIS OF ‘SOVIET STYLE’ POLICIES FOLLOWING PRICE CONTROL PROPOSAL Harris has gone 27 days without giving a formal interview or holding a press conference since Biden dropped out of the race and she quickly rose to take his spot. CNN’s Jim Acosta pressed a Harris campaign spokesperson Wednesday on why she had avoided doing a press conference. Harris communications director Michael Tyler said she and her running mate, Tim Walz, had been “busy” traveling across the country and conducting campaign rallies. Tyler assured Acosta that Harris would be sitting down for an interview by the end of the month. On Wednesday, Harris announced that, as president, she would institute a federal price-fixing plan “on food and groceries” in an attempt to stop “big corporations” from taking advantage of consumers. Harris has framed her economic road map, dubbed by social media pundits as “Kamalanomics,” as an “opportunity economy” plan. Her price control plan includes expanded down payment assistance for first-time homebuyers and providing a $6,000 child tax credit for first-time parents. ‘RUBBER-STAMPED’: KEY DEM HIT OVER BIDEN-HARRIS SUPPORT ON BORDER, INFLATION Murtaugh told Fox News Digital Harris is choosing not to say that her economic policy supports higher taxes for Americans. “On taxes, she’s promised to eliminate the Trump tax cuts, and she voted against the package when it expanded the child tax credit,” he said. “It doesn’t matter what she says today. When she had the choice, she supported higher taxes. “No wonder her handlers don’t want her to talk. Every time she does, she causes problems for herself.” Since Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz joined the Harris ticket as her running mate, Trump gave press conferences at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, and Bedminster, New Jersey, and was part of a lengthy sit-down with tech billionaire and supporter Elon Musk. Trump’s running mate, JD Vance, has spoken to reporters multiple times in that period and has appeared on a series of shows.
Harris and Trump zero in on key swing state as US election race heats up
Democratic and Republican presidential candidates are campaigning in battleground state of Pennsylvania this weekend. Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are holding campaign events in the key US swing state of Pennsylvania this weekend, as the race between the United States presidential candidates heats up before November’s election. Trump will hold a rally in the small town of Wilkes-Barre on Saturday while Harris is expected to make several stops on a bus tour around the city of Pittsburgh on Sunday. The focus on Pennsylvania — one of several battleground states expected to be critical in deciding the election — comes as recent polling shows a close fight between the Republican and Democratic candidates in key parts of the country. A New York Times/Siena College poll on Saturday showed that Harris, who launched her campaign after President Joe Biden dropped his re-election bid last month, had gained ground in four states that Trump had looked set to win comfortably over Biden. The US vice president and Democratic nominee was leading Trump among likely voters in Arizona and North Carolina, the poll showed, and had narrowed the former Republican president’s lead in Georgia and Nevada. An earlier New York Times/Siena College poll released last week also showed Harris with 50 percent support among voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, compared with Trump’s 46 percent support in each state. Harris’s push for the White House has reinvigorated an election race that had largely failed to inspire many Americans frustrated by a choice between Trump and Biden. The pair had faced off in 2020, with Biden defeating his predecessor in a race Trump falsely claimed was marred by widespread fraud. Trump lost to Biden in Pennsylvania in that election by a narrow margin, but he has strong support in rural areas and small towns. With Harris now atop the Democratic Party’s 2024 ticket, Trump has struggled to find an effective way to counter her campaign. Recent statements from Trump’s team have focused on issues such as immigration and inflation, but he has spent large parts of recent speeches launching personal attacks against Harris‘s identity. “Hard-working Americans are suffering because of the Harris-Biden administration’s dangerously liberal policies,” the Trump campaign said in a statement in advance of Saturday’s rally in Wilkes-Barre. “Prices are excruciatingly high, cost of living has soared, crime has skyrocketed, and illegal immigrants are pouring into our country,” it said, although a recent crackdown on the US-Mexico border has stemmed much of the flow of migrants and asylum seekers. He also hammered Harris on Thursday over the economy, saying she has a “very strong communist lean” that would bring the “death of the American dream”. For her part, Harris — who will be travelling to Chicago for the Democratic National Convention next week — has promised to “bring down costs and increase economic security for all Americans”. In one of her first major policy speeches of the campaign, on Friday, she put forward a set of proposals that she said would help boost the economy and combat food “price gouging”. “I will be laser-focused on creating opportunities for the middle class,” Harris told a crowd of supporters in North Carolina. “Together, we will build what I call an opportunity economy.” Adblock test (Why?)
Protesters rally in Venezuela’s capital as post-election crisis persists
Opposition protesters are taking to the streets of Venezuela’s capital once more to denounce the results of a recent election that saw President Nicolas Maduro secure another term in power. Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado urged her supporters “to remain firm and united” in a social media post on Saturday, shortly after she called for people to demonstrate in hundreds of cities across the country and abroad. “We won’t leave the streets,” Machado told the crowd in Caracas, where hundreds of demonstrators waved the national flag and printed copies of election records that the opposition says is proof of its election victory. “With intelligence, prudence, resilience, boldness … peaceful protest is our right,” she said. The South American nation has seen weeks of unrest following the July 28 election, which opposition leaders said was marred by fraud. The National Electoral Council (CNE) formally declared Maduro the vote winner, saying in early August that he had secured 52 percent support compared with 43 percent for main opposition challenger Edmundo Gonzalez. However, the opposition has said its tally of the votes showed Gonzalez had defeated the incumbent, spurring international calls for Maduro’s government to release the full breakdown of votes. At least 25 people have been killed in post-election protests so far, with nearly 200 injured and more than 2,400 arrested — and the continued crisis has fuelled fears the Venezuelan authorities could launch a wider crackdown on opposition leaders and protesters. Reporting from Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Saturday, Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo said relatives of many of those who have been detained in recent weeks in Venezuela say they don’t know where their loved-ones are. “Human rights organisations [have been] expressing their concern about what’s been happening,” Bo reported. “The opposition have asked people to gather with their families at protests, saying Venezuelans should remain united … They have also asked people to go with Venezuela flags and tally sheets — the centre of the dispute,” Bo said. “Until now, the Venezuelan government has been unable to provide proof of the election results,” she added. “The government is saying that the system was hacked and that’s why the results have not been provided.” Machado, who had her presidential candidacy blocked by institutions loyal to Maduro, is expected to take part in the march in the capital, Caracas, on Saturday. A heavy security presence was deployed in the city before the start of the rally. Access to the vast Petare neighbourhood, a few kilometres from the opposition’s announced gathering point, was controlled by two National Guard armoured vehicles and backed by about 40 motorcycle-mounted troops. Local media reported similar deployments in other key areas. “I came today to support Maria Corina and Edmundo to be able to have a future in this country and have a family,” Jesus Aguilar, a 21-year-old theology student, said at the rally in Caracas. “We know that with this government there are no possibilities for growth, I’ve even seen myself trying to leave the country.” Maduro, who came to power in 2013 following the death of his mentor and predecessor Hugo Chavez, has presided over an economic collapse that has pushed millions of people to leave Venezuela over the past years. In the aftermath of July’s election, he accused his political opponents of trying to carry out a “coup d’etat”, and he has called for the arrests of Machado and Gonzalez. “Maduro says there is a plan by the opposition to get him out of office,” Al Jazeera’s Bo reported, noting that the Venezuelan leader has accused the United States of being involved, as well. Maduro’s government also urged its supporters to take to the streets later on Saturday as the embattled president continues to strike a defiant tone. But Maduro continues to face both domestic and international pressure to provide a full accounting of the vote. Last week, Colombia and Brazil called for new elections in Venezuela, but Machado — the opposition leader — said this would show “a lack of respect” for the popular will already expressed on July 28. On Friday, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, traditionally a left-wing ally of Maduro, took a harsh tone, describing the regime in Caracas as “very unpleasant” as he insisted it release a detailed vote breakdown. In a radio interview, Lula declined to label the Maduro government a dictatorship, but said it had an “authoritarian bias”. The Organization of American States (OAS) approved a resolution in Washington on Friday urging Caracas to “expeditiously publish the presidential election records, including the voting results at the level of each polling station”. In a joint statement that same day, the European Union and 22 other countries also called for an “impartial verification” of the election outcome. Meanwhile, protests also broke out in other countries around the world to show support for the Venezuelan opposition. Australia held one of the first demonstrations on Saturday, where more than 100 Venezuelans rallied in Sydney, waving national flags. “This is a strong message to our people in Venezuela. We are with you, and we want the world to listen to what we are saying,” protest organiser Rina Rivas told the AFP news agency. Members of the Venezuelan community also rallied in Melbourne. Members of the Venezuelan community protest the recent election results in Venezuela during a rally in Melbourne, Australia [William West/AFP] Adblock test (Why?)
What are the prospects for talks to end Israel’s war on Gaza?
Discussions brokered by the US, Qatar and Egypt to resume in Cairo. As Israel continues its relentless war on Gaza, Palestinians are pinning their hopes on talks that have paused in Doha but are set to resume in Cairo next week. Israel and Hamas are studying proposals from mediators Qatar, Egypt and the United States. But what are the chances of a ceasefire this time? Presenter: Hashem Ahelbarra Guests: Alon Pinkas – Former Israeli ambassador and previous government adviser Rami Khouri – Distinguished fellow at the American University of Beirut Niall Stanage – White House columnist for the publication, The Hill Adblock test (Why?)