The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday suspended Bhojpuri actor and singer Pawan Singh from the party for contesting the Lok Sabha elections as an independent candidate against an NDA nominee.
Mr Singh, who had earlier turned down a BJP ticket for Asansol in West Bengal, is contesting polls from the Karakat Lok Sabha seat in Bihar. Former Union minister Upendra Kushwaha, who heads the Rashtriya Lok Morcha, is contesting as the NDA candidate from the south Bihar constituency.
“You are contesting the Lok Sabha elections against the official candidate of the NDA. This act of yours is against the party and has tarnished the party’s image and violated party discipline,” the BJP’s Bihar unit said in a letter to Mr Singh.
“The decision to suspend you has been taken by Bihar BJP president Samrat Chaudhary,” the statement read further.
Besides him, Mr Singh’s mother, Pratima Singh, has also filed the nomination paper from the same seat as an independent candidate.
The Karakat constituenc..

A spooky video showing the simulation of a head transplant is making waves on social media. It shows two autonomous surgical robots performing simultaneous surgeries on two robotic bodies. They take out the head from one and transplant it into another robotic body. It might appear like a scene from a Hollywood movie, but a startup in the US is actually working on this technique. BrainBridge, a neuroscience and biomedical engineering startup, has announced its ambitious goal to develop the world’s first head transplant system.
The company has so far been operating in stealth mode, but now wants the world to understand more about the work it does. BrainBridge says it aims to offer new hope to patients suffering from untreatable conditions such as stage-4 cancer, paralysis, and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
The procedure involves transplanting a patient’s head onto a healthy, brain-dead donor body, with the aim of preserving consciousness, memories and cogni..

Sanju Samson’s Rajasthan Royals will face a big test of character as they look to arrest their slide in a do-or-die Indian Premier League (IPL) Eliminator against an in-form Royal Challengers Bengaluru, on Wednesday. The Royals, at one stage, had looked set for a top-place finish in the league stage before a string of four defeats and a washout in the last game against KKR resulted in Sanju Samson’s side finishing third behind Sunrisers Hyderabad. (RR vs RCB Eliminator Live Updates | Live Scorecard)
On the other hand, RCB have sensationally fought their way back from the brink of elimination. After losing seven of their first eight games this season, the team led by Faf du Plessis hit a dream run and finally knocked out defending champions Chennai Super Kings a few nights ago to seal a playoffs berth.
If Rajasthan Royals are coming off four losses and a rained-off game, RCB have notched up six consecutive wins to sound a warning to their rivals that they mean business in the playoffs. ..

The Shah Rukh Khan-owned Kolkata Knight Riders had a great day in office as it crashed SunRisers Hyderabad to enter the IPL 2024 final. the team chased down a 160-run target in less than 14 overs to stamp their authority. Mitchell Starc-powered Kolkata Knight Riders’ juggernaut rolled into the IPL final as the two-time champions produced a ruthless performance against Sunrisers Hyderabad for an eight-wicket win in Qualifier 1 on Tuesday. Starc produced a stunning opening burst of three wickets in the powerplay to break the back of SRH’s dangerous batting.
They were eventually shot out for a mere 159 in 19.3 overs with Rahul Tripathi scoring a vital 55 while Heinrich Klaasen (32) and Pat Cummins (30) also fought hard.
On a benign wicket in steaming hot conditions, SRH’s fight petered out as KKR knocked off the innocuous 160-run target in a mere 13.4 overs with skipper Shreyas Iyer (58 not out off 24) and Venkatesh Iyer (51 not out off 28) taking them over the line.
After the win, Shah R..

In a fresh road rage incident in Bengaluru, a scooterist attacked a car in which a couple and their three-year-old daughter were travelling. The incident, which was captured by a CCTV camera, reportedly took place after the two-wheeler failed to overtake the hatchback.
Akhil Sabu, an IT professional originally from Kerala, has filed a police complaint over the incident. He has said the accused, identified as Jagadish, shattered the car’s glass window, injuring the child. Police have registered a case and arrested Jagadish, a local resident.
Road Rage Bangalore, Sarjapur main road, 9645354194 help.@DrParameshwara@Prateek34381357@Shiva1306@karnatakaportf@poha_met_jalebi Guys pls help to get reach, i was on car with my wife n 3 year old daughter when biker attacked us pic.twitter.com/KZNaSIi5Ds

— Akhil Sabu (@akhilsabu45) May 22, 2024Mr Sabu had earlier flagged the incident on social media and said it took place on Sarjapur main road. CCTV footage shows the scooterist intercepting the Hy..

The Porsche involved in the car crash in Pune on Saturday, in which two techies were killed, had been out on Pune roads without a number plate for months.
The registration of the luxury sports Porsche Taycan, worth Rs 2.5 crore, was pending as the owner had not paid a Rs 1,758 fee, officials have said.
Maharashtra Transport Commissioner Vivek Bhimanwar told news agency PTI that the electric Porsche car was imported in March by a dealer in Bengaluru and from there it was sent to Maharashtra after a temporary registration.
“It was found that a certain registration fee was not paid and the owner was asked to pay the amount for completion of the procedure. However, the vehicle was not brought to the Regional Transport Office (RTO) for the registration process after that,” he said.
Officials said it was the responsibility of the owner to get it registered.
Road tax is exempted for electric vehicles in Maharashtra, so the registration of this vehicle was on Rs 1,758 – Rs 1,500 hypothecation ..

Five phases of the Lok Sabha election over, the Election Commission today came down heavily on the ruling BJP and the main Opposition Congress over poll speeches by its star campaigners. This comes after both the parties had filed complaints against each other, flagging speeches by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi.
In separate directions issued to BJP president JP Nadda and Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, the poll body said the country’s socio-cultural milieu cannot become a casualty to elections.
“Elections are a process when political parties not only contest to win, but also avails the opportunity to present themselves in their ideal best for the voting community to experience, emulate and build hopes on. The second part constitutes the more precious heritage of Indian elections and our electoral democracy and this should not be allowed to be weakened by anyone, including your party,” the commission said.
“Elections are periodic exercises, they come and..

Indian-born Nikesh Arora, the CEO of Palo Alto Networks, has landed the second spot on The Wall Street Journal’s 2023 list of highest-paid CEOs in the US. With a compensation of $151.43 million, the 56-year-old’s earnings have surpassed those of many tech giants, like Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s Sundar Pichai.
Here are some facts about Nikesh AroraNikesh Arora was born on February 9, 1968, in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. His father served in the Indian Air Force. He studied at The Air Force School (Subroto Park) before graduating in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi in 1989. After a brief stint at Wipro, he went to the US for an MBA at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.
His work journey started in 1992 when he joined Fidelity Investments, where he took on roles in finance and technology management. Eventually, he became the Vice President of Fidelity Technologies. In 2000, he established T-Motion, a subsidiary of Deutsche..

One team between Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers Bengaluru will get knocked out of the IPL 2024 on Wednesday. The two sides face off in the Eliminator in Ahmedabad. The winner will go on to face SunRisers Hyderabad in Qualifier 2 on Friday, while for the lose it will be the end of the road. If Rajasthan Royals are coming off four losses and a rained-off game, RCB have notched up six consecutive wins to sound a warning to their rivals that they mean business in the playoffs. RR, the 2008 IPL winners, suddenly find themselves as the underdogs, when a couple of weeks ago they were red-hot favourites. (RR vs RCB Eliminator Live Updates | Live Scorecard)
When on song, Rajasthan Royals have shown they are unbeatable, but the last four games have exposed frailties in their batting and bowling. The exit of Jos Buttler has taken a lot of firepower out of their batting and a lot will depend on Yashasvi Jaiswal (348 runs), skipper Samson (504) and Riyan Parag (531) to halt the slide.
Forme..

The Calcutta High Court has cancelled all certificates to Other Backward Classes issued in Bengal since 2011 under the Trinamool Congress administration, calling them “illegal”. This, however, would not affect the jobs held currently by the people, the court said. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said she “will not accept” the order, which takes away the rights granted to the Tapashili community.
The court struck down reservation for several communities as Other Backward Classes under a new law of the state government passed in 2012.
Justices Tapabrata Chakraborty and Rajasekhar Mantha, however, said the executive orders of the state government classifying 66 classes of OBC before 2010 were not interfered with, since these were not challenged in the petitions.
“The OBC reservation quota introduced by the West Bengal government will continue. We had drafted the Bill after conducting a house-to-house survey, and it was passed by the cabinet and the assembly,” Ms Banerjee was quoted as ..