Assam Home Secretary Shiladitya Chetia shoots self with service gun moments after wife dies in hospital
Chetia was on leave for the past four months because of his wife’s illness.
Atmanirbhar Bharat in action: Indigenous manufacture of AK-203 rifles begins
The Indian Army is replacing its older Indian Small Arms System (INSAS) rifles with more advanced weapons and the AK-203 is expected to be a key part of this upgrade.
Israel on the ballot in Westchester as activists slam ‘Squad’ incumbent amid reported photo flap
Embroiled in controversy over his position on the Israel-Hamas conflict, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., was subjected to more scathing press that cited local Jewish leaders adamantly opposed to his re-election. Bowman, considered a member of the left-wing “Squad” in Congress, was the subject of a Jewish Insider piece headlined “No More Bridges to Burn in Westchester,” referencing the suburban New York City county that makes up much of his district and is also home to the largest Jewish population outside the Big Apple. The former junior high school principal is in the political fight of his life against a more moderate Democrat, Westchester County Executive George Latimer, and has even lost the support of some fellow progressives over his criticism of Israel. According to the Jewish Insider piece, Bowman asked a local Westchester Jewish leader in 2022 whether he had photographs of the two of them together as he tried to rally support for his election. DONALDS SLAMS LIBERALS LIKE BOWMAN, MIDLER FOR ATTACKS ON MANCHIN “Do you have pics of us … so I can show the world I’m friends with Jewish people[?]” according to contents of a text reportedly viewed by the outlet. The Jewish leader told the outlet he had at least one image from an event Bowman attended after a promise to support a House bill favoring former President Trump’s Abraham Accords Mideast peace deal. Bowman later reportedly withdrew his support for the legislation, and the Jewish leader said the overall situation made him “uncomfortable.” That situation and other content in the piece caused outrage among Jewish activists, including StopAntisemitism founder Liora Rez, who told Fox News Digital it is time for Bowman to “find a new job.” “Jamaal Bowman has consistently made clear in his statements and actions his animus toward Israel and the Jewish people,” said Rez, who escaped antisemitism as a refugee from the Soviet Union. BOWMAN SWIPES AT HILLARY CLINTON AFTER SHE ENDORSES HIS OPPONENT “His hostility to individuals, including his own constituents, simply because of their faith and ethnic background is sickening, and he and his bigoted views deserve no recognition in Washington.” Bowman’s office did not respond to a request for comment on the Jewish Insider piece. Another local Jewish leader, Rabbi Evan Hoffman, recently told the New York Post he would support Latimer as Jewish constituents are reportedly organizing a “Vote Shabbat” drive to oppose the incumbent. “Bowman is opposed to Israel and more subtly the Jews in his own district,” Hoffman said. Bowman has spoken out on the BDS (Boycott Divestment Sanctions) movement against Israel, calling it a “nonviolent protest opportunity to hold Israel accountable.” Pro-Israel activists consider it conversely antisemitic and an effort to hurt Israel. Bowman’s opponent, Latimer, has gotten the opposite reception. A February report from The Intercept said support from AIPAC – the American Israel Public Affairs Committee – has constituted more than two-fifths of his fundraising war chest. Bowman has, in turn, accused the group of trying to “buy” the race. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Former Rep. Mondaire Jones, D-N.Y., a fellow progressive who represented the district across the Tappan Zee Bridge from Bowman, notably chose to endorse Latimer this year. Jones’ former district, now mostly represented post-redistricting by Rep. Michael Lawler, R-N.Y., also hosts a large Hasidic population in Rockland County. “I’m making this endorsement [of Latimer] to stand up for my Jewish constituents because Representative Bowman and I have very different views on Israel,” Jones told the Associated Press. Bowman’s supporters, however, sing his praises as much as his critics do the opposite. Angela Davis-Farrish, an official with the New Rochelle Municipal Housing Authority, praised the lawmaker in a Politico piece after the introduction of legislation to establish a rent ceiling for certain families on government assistance. He is also endorsed by New York’s Working Families Party and the Democratic Socialists of America. The Republican contender primed to face either Bowman or Latimer is Dr. Miriam Flisser, a pediatric consultant who previously served as mayor of Scarsdale. The district, however, is rated D+20 by the Cook Partisan Voting Index, which suggests that the eventual Democrat nominee is a heavy favorite in November.
‘Political pandering’: GOP lawmakers rip Biden’s ‘mass amnesty’ order as election-year ploy
Top House Republicans are criticizing President Biden’s new executive order that’s expected to shield as many as 500,000 illegal immigrants from deportation. “President Biden’s election-year, 11th-hour ploy for mass amnesty is not surprising, but it is an important reminder for anyone who doubted: This administration was never serious about securing the border,” House Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green, R-Tenn., told Fox News Digital. “By allowing otherwise inadmissible aliens to remain in the country indefinitely through a ‘parole-in-place’ sleight of hand and to receive generous, taxpayer-funded benefits, this president is sending a loud and clear message to any would-be border crosser that the door is not only wide open, there’s a welcome mat.” RACHEL MORIN MURDER: OPEN BORDER ‘ALLOWED’ ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT TO KILL MOM OF 5, MARYLAND SHERIFF SAYS Biden unveiled a plan on Tuesday aimed at giving undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens a pathway to permanent residency if they have lived in the U.S. for at least 10 years and satisfy legal requirements. In addition to protecting a half million undocumented spouses, the order also protects 50,000 noncitizens under age 21 whose parent is married to a U.S. citizen, the administration said. But GOP lawmakers like Green dismissed it as a cynical bid to win over Hispanic and Latino voters ahead of the November election. BIDEN ANNOUNCES SWEEPING PROTECTIONS FOR MIGRANT SPOUSES OF US CITIZENS “Joe Biden is a failed president kowtowing to the same left-wing radicals who pushed him to throw open the border in the first place. Americans are begging for more border security, but the Administration’s misplaced mass amnesty plan encourages even more illegal immigration,” National Republican Congressional Committee Chair Richard Hudson, R-N.C., told Fox News Digital. Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, a member of the Homeland Security Committee, said, “Within the same month, he pretended to shut down the border with a meaningless executive action, and now he is granting mass amnesty to half a million illegal migrants. This is political pandering in an election year at its finest.” Biden’s executive order inspired praise from Democrats in the House. “President Biden’s actions will keep American families together,” Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Nanette Barragan, D-Calif., said on X. “In California it means possible relief for up to 120,000 non-citizen spouses and provide many of our DACA recipients and Dreamers the opportunity to continue their pursuit of the American dream.” Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., wrote on X, “President Biden’s executive action is the most significant positive policy change for immigrants and their families since the DACA program in 2012.” The amnesty order comes after Biden issued another directive this month severely restricting asylum claims at the southern border. FBI DIRECTOR WRAY WARNED OF TERROR THREAT POSED BY OPEN BORDER DAYS BEFORE 8 ISIS SUSPECTS ARRESTED ACROSS US But the president’s Republican critics have dismissed that effort as too little, too late, as major cities far from the border are now grappling with the effects of the migrant crisis. “Just two weeks ago, the President pretended to crack down on the open-border catastrophe by engaging an election-year border charade. Now he’s trying to play both sides and is granting amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens,” Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said in a Tuesday afternoon statement. “The President may think our homeland security is some kind of game that he can try to use for political points, but Americans know this amnesty plan will only incentivize more illegal immigration and endanger Americans.” Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment.
Legal experts say gag order in Trump case is ‘untethered’ to ‘rationale’ after court order
A New York appeals court on Tuesday kept in place a gag order on former President Trump, who asked the court to lift the ban on his speech after the recent guilty verdict in his unprecedented criminal trial. Now that the trial has concluded and the former president and presumptive GOP nominee in the 2024 presidential election awaits sentencing next month, experts say the gag order, which Judge Juan Merhcan has refused to lift, is “untethered from any compelling rationale.” “You have a local New York judge effectively limiting what the leading presidential candidate can say in the months leading up to an election,” Johnathan Turley, practicing defense attorney and law professor, told Fox News Digital. “The continuation of the gag order seems untethered from any compelling rationale, particularly in light of the election,” he said. NEW YORK APPEALS COURT REJECTS TRUMP’S BID TO LIFT GAG ORDER Turley noted that appellate courts are generally “highly deferential” to courtroom management-type issues like the imposition and continuation of gag orders, but he said it is “deeply concerning that Judge Merchan would continue a gag order long after the verdict has been reached and the jury dismissed the case.” “Putting aside the questionable value of the continuation of the gag order, in this case, Judge Merchan is ignoring the countervailing cost for the political system,” Turley added. The New York Court of Appeals on Tuesday rejected Trump’s bid to have the gag order against him lifted, citing that “no substantial constitutional question is directly involved.” Trump’s lawyers cited the November presidential election and the first debate against President Biden later this month, as well as the First Amendment rights of the former president and his supporters, as reasons for the order to be lifted. TRUMP ATTORNEYS REQUEST MERCHAN LIFT GAG ORDER AHEAD OF PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE, FOLLOWING END OF TRIAL The former president was found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree last week. The six-week trial stemmed from charges brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Trump will be sentenced on July 11, just days before the Republican National Convention. Merchan imposed the gag order on Trump before the trial began, barring Trump from making or directing others to make public statements about witnesses with regard to their potential participation or about counsel in the case – other than Bragg – or about court staff, DA staff or family members of staff. John Shu, a constitutional attorney who served in both Bush administrations, noted that some of New York’s highest-profile defendants were not subject to such a gag order as the 45th president. TRUMP SAYS GUILTY VERDICT A ‘SCAR’ ON NEW YORK JUSTICE SYSTEM, VOWS TO ‘KEEP FIGHTING’ “The Manhattan DA’s office has charged all kinds of high-profile criminal defendants throughout its history, ranging from celebrities to gangsters, such as Lucky Luciano, the head of La Commissione, and they weren’t silenced the way former President Trump was,” said Shu. “Neither was John Gotti, the former head of the Gambino crime family and known as the ‘Teflon Don,’” he said, though that was a federal case. “Say what you want about Donald Trump, but he’s not a mobster,” Shu added. “The trial is over and there’s no chance that Judge Merchan is going to vacate the verdict and grant a retrial,” Shu told Fox News Digital. “Both the verdict and the gag order now will go through the New York state appellate system as two separate appeals.” Shu noted that Trump’s lawyers filed an expedited appeal of the gag order and that typically “anytime a litigant asks the highest court in a jurisdiction to step in and shortcut the process, it has to be something very unusual for them to agree.” Steven Cheung, Trump campaign spokesperson, said in a statement, “President Trump and his legal team will continue to fight against the unconstitutional Gag Order imposed by Justice Merchan.” “The Gag Order wrongfully silences the leading candidate for President of the United States, President Trump, at the height of his campaign. The Gag Order applies only to President Trump and not to any of his political opponents, critics, or even Crooked Joe Biden,” Cheung wrote. “The Election Interfering Gag Order violates the First Amendment rights of President Trump and all American voters, who have a fundamental right to hear his message,” he added. Fox News Digital reached out to Merchan’s and Bragg’s offices for comment. Fox News Digital’s Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
Biden team argues that all unflattering videos of him are fake, but that’s not true
I think I’ll do some trash-talking today. Not my style, I know. But indulge me here. The two candidates spend so much time and energy denigrating and denouncing each other that you really can’t cover this campaign without delving into that. Even when the charges and counter-charges are false, misleading or based on digital manipulation. TRUMP’S LEAD JUST WON’T BUDGE: WHY THE DEBATES MAY BE BIDEN’S LAST SHOT Let’s start with Joe Biden’s alleged “frozen” moment, at least according to his detractors. The trash-talk tally: This guy is really out of it, always seems to be wandering aimlessly. On Sunday, the campaign released footage of the star-studded L.A. fundraiser that raised $30 million. Biden and Barack Obama are waving to the crowd. Biden, 81, stops for a few seconds and is basking in the thunderous cheers. He wasn’t dazed or confused, just taking in the moment. But what Obama did next is inexplicable. He knows his former VP has been under a constant barrage as frail and confused. Yet he literally took Biden’s hand to lead him off the stage, then kept his hand on the president’s back as they walked. Not a single second of that video was distorted in any way. Nobody had to. Everyone could watch it and make up their own minds. But Karine Jean-Pierre was unusually aggressive in attacking distorted videos of her boss. What the Biden White House, the Biden campaign and its media defenders are trying to make people believe that any video that portrays the president in an unflattering light is a “deepfake” or “cheapfake,” to use the press secretary’s words. Cheap, maybe, but not always fake. That effort conflates two very different situations. The New York Post seemed to follow the RNC’s lead in running a cropped photo of Biden staring into space at the G-7 – when he was actually talking to and giving a thumbs up to skydivers who had landed a few feet away, before the Italian prime minister pulled him back to the group of world leaders. KARINE JEAN-PIERRE’S LIES ABOUT ‘DEEPFAKE’ VIDEOS REVEALED BIDEN TEAM’S WORRIES, SAYS KELLYANNE CONWAY But the embarrassing moment on the Los Angeles stage was totally real and not manipulated in any way. Meanwhile, the author of a new book who spent many hours interviewing Trump reports that the former president has a poor memory. Trash-talking tally: This 78-year-old guy keeps attacking his opponent as mentally clueless when he’s not playing with a full deck? Ramin Setoodeh, co-editor-in-chief of Variety and author of a book on “The Apprentice,” reports that Trump has “severe memory issues.”. “He couldn’t even remember me. We spent an hour together in 2021, in May, and then a few months later, I went back to the White House, I went back to Trump Tower to talk to him about his time in the White House. And I said, he had this vacant look on his face. And I said,’ Do you remember me?’ And he said, ‘No.’ He had no recollection of our lengthy interview that we had, and he wasn’t doing a lot of interviews at that time.” In an excerpt in the Washington Post, he writes: “Once we get started, he keeps extending our time together, which would spill over into follow-up appointments. ‘Okay, so why don’t we do another meeting?’ is how he’d usually end our sessions. SUBSCRIBE TO HOWIE’S MEDIA BUZZMETER PODCAST, A RIFF ON THE DAY’S HOTTEST STORIES “I never know when our afternoons together will end. There is always the possibility that if things went extremely well, Trump could keep talking at me through dinner, and maybe I’d have to excuse myself to escape from him.“ Trump spokesman Steven Cheung, like his boss, hit back hard, telling Newsweek: “President Trump was aware of who this individual was throughout the interview process, but this ‘writer’ is a nobody and insignificant so of course he never made an impression. After recognizing the importance of The Apprentice and its significant cultural impact on a global scale, this ‘writer’ has now chosen to allow Trump Derangement Syndrome to rot his brain like so many other losers whose entire existence revolves around President Trump.” All right, I’ll give my trash talk a rest. The media need to intensify their efforts to separate truth from fiction. But most voters don’t have time to watch a three-minute video and examine different angles. They may just see a five-second clip or a single image. In the end, maybe all the attacks cancel each other out. Maybe people throw up their hands and don’t know what to believe. Maybe, without even getting into AI, there will be a fatal erosion of belief in media institutions that are already widely distrusted. And that is a depressing thought.
PM Modi inaugurates new campus of Nalanda University in Bihar, takes tour of Nalanda Mahaviharam ruins
Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a plaque at the new campus of Nalanda University in Rajgir as he inagurated the campus in Bihar on Wednesday morning. The PM also planted a sapling.
Newsom seeks to restrict students’ cellphone use in schools: ‘Harming the mental health of our youth’
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, announced Tuesday his pledge to restrict students’ smartphone use during the school day, pointing to statements from the Biden administration that social media harms the mental health of children. The decision comes after U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy urged Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms about their impact on young people, similar to the warning labels on cigarettes and alcohol about their impacts on a person’s health, according to POLITICO, which first reported Newsom’s announcement. Newsom and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, have warned for years about the harm of social media to children, saying tech companies have been blocking efforts to protect young people. Last year, Newsom called on NetChoice to drop a lawsuit against the children’s online safety law, the Age-Appropriate Design Code Act, that he signed in 2022. NetChoice, whose members include tech giants like Meta, Amazon and Google, is a trade association that advocates for free expression and free enterprise on the internet. STATE LAWMAKERS PUSH FOR BAN ON PHONES IN SCHOOL The governor said Tuesday he plans to build on a law he signed in 2019 that gave school districts the power to limit or ban students’ use of smartphones during school hours. He said he would work with his Democratic-controlled Legislature during the current session to pass a measure to restrict smartphone use in schools. “As the Surgeon General affirmed, social media is harming the mental health of our youth,” Newsom said in a statement. “Building on legislation I signed in 2019, I look forward to working with the Legislature to restrict the use of smartphones during the school day. When children and teens are in school, they should be focused on their studies — not their screens.” The California School Boards Association said school districts should be making decisions on whether to regulate smartphone use in schools, rather than the state. “We support legislation which empowers school leaders to make policy decisions at a local level that reflect their community’s concerns and what’s necessary to support their students,” California School Boards Association spokesperson Troy Flint told The Associated Press. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGIST URGES PARENTS TO KEEP SMARTPHONES AWAY FROM KIDS TO ‘PROTECT’ THEIR MENTAL HEALTH The Los Angeles Unified School District board voted Tuesday for the district to establish policies prohibiting students’ smartphone use during the school day, with some exceptions. Board Member Nick Melvoin noted how “students are glued to their cell phones, not unlike adults.” “When I talk to teachers and students and parents and principals, I also hear the same, which is that more and more time is being spent on policing student phone use,” he said at the meeting. “There’s not coherent enforcement, and they’re looking for some support from the board and from the district.” Newsom’s announcement is noteworthy as California’s Silicon Valley is where many tech companies are located. The decision also puts the California governor on the same side of the debate as Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who earlier this year signed one of the most restrictive bans in the country on children’s social media use. In recent years, a California proposal to fine social media platforms for addicting children has failed to become law. However, Democrat state Sen. Nancy Skinner’s bill to ban platforms from providing addictive feeds to children passed the state Senate in May. “A warning label is important, but we also need to provide parents with tools to protect their kids from preventable harms,” Skinner told POLITICO, saying her bill would complement Murthy’s proposal. State Sen. Henry Stern, a Democrat, introduced a bill earlier this year to expand school districts’ power to restrict social media use for students during school. He said he would be open to pulling his bill, which already passed the Senate, if Newsom and the Legislature can find a better alternative. “It’s just too hard for every teacher, every school, or every parent to have to figure this out on their own,” Stern told The Associated Press. “There’s some times where government just has to step in and make some bigger rules of the road.” The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Delhi: 1 dead in firing incident at a food outlet in Rajouri Garden
The police said that they were checking the CCTV footage to gather more information. Further investigation is underway, they added. More details are awaited.
Tight Virginia GOP contest between Bob Good and John McGuire too close to call
The Republican primary race in Virginia’s 5th Congressional District between House Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good and state Sen. John McGuire was too close to call on Tuesday night. As of 11 p.m., 92% of the vote was called – with McGuire being up by just 300 votes. The race will now move to a recount for the GOP primary in the state’s reliably red 5th Congressional District, in the southern part of the commonwealth. TRUMP-BACKED CANDIDATE WINS VIRGINIA’S REPUBLICAN SENATE PRIMARY TO TAKE ON TIM KAINE In a statement on X, Good thanked supporters for their volunteer efforts and slammed the “D.C. Swamp.” “The entire DC Swamp was aligned against us with over $10 million in attack ads, but with your help we were able to make this race too close to call,” Good wrote, in part. “No matter the outcome, you’ve shown the DC Swamp that you won’t back down from standing for what’s right. Keep the faith and don’t stop fighting now,” he said. The intra-party primary battle came after former President Donald Trump unleashed his wrath against Good for previously endorsing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for president. SMASAL WINS DEM PRIMARY TO FACE JEN KIGGANS IN KEY VIRGINIA SWING DISTRICT Even though the two-term congressman avoided criticizing Turmp and quickly endorsed the former president after DeSantis ended his White House bid in January, Trump wrote on this Truth Social platform that “the damage has been done!” The former president last month endorsed McGuire, who also had the backing of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a conservative firebrand and major Trump ally who is a vocal critic of Good who last year broke with the House Freedom Caucus. The group is considered the most far-right organization of lawmakers in the chamber. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE BACKS CHALLENGER TO FREEDOM CAUCUS CHAIR AS 2024 STIRS HOUSE GOP CIVIL WAR Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy also targeted Good, who was one of eight Republicans last autumn who joined with Democrats to vote to oust McCarthy from his leadership position. However, Good had the support of Reps. Matt Gaetz and Byron Donalds of Florida, two conservatives who are also strong backers of Trump. Additionally, fellow House Freedom Caucus members, Reps. Chip Roy of Texas and Andy Biggs of Arizona, joined Good in Virginia for a rally on Friday. Even though he was targeted by Trump, Good spotlighted his support for the former president as he ran for re-election. “Happy Birthday to the best and next President of the United States, President Trump!” Good wrote on social media on Friday, on the former president’s 78th birthday. Good also showed up earlier this spring at Trump’s criminal trial in New York City, to show his support for the former president. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub. Fox News’ Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.