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Polling underway across 70 Assembly constituencies in Uttarakhand

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Polling underway across 70 Assembly constituencies in Uttarakhand

Voting begins at 8am in Uttarakhand’s 70 parliamentary constituencies on Monday.

The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) is seeking to retain power in the mountains while Congress hopes to make a comeback. After the state was spun off from Uttar Pradesh in 2000 under former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, both Congress and the BJP have struggled with battling political instability in the state.

The BJP is tasked with twinning – to defeat the electoral trend against incumbents and the incumbent who voted in the state. By the way, Uttarakhand has seen 11 chief ministers in the past 20 years.

As per established norms, campaigning in these states ends at 6 p.m. Saturday (February 12).

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The BJP has stationed 11 cabinet ministers and state unit chairman Madan Kaushik. Incumbent Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dami is running for a third Hatima parliamentary seat and faces Congress nominee Bhuwan Chandra Kapri.

Congress veteran Harish Rawat is running for a new parliamentary seat after losing three consecutive elections. He is running for Lalkuwa.

A newcomer to Uttarakhand politics, the Aam Aadmi party has fielded candidates in all 70 parliamentary seats with the face of chief minister Ajay Kothiyal.

Voting also began in Goa and parts of Uttar Pradesh for the second phase of the election at 7am on Monday. Counting will take place on March 10.

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IDF releases video of Hamas’ Yahya Sinwar dodging drone moments before death

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IDF releases video of Hamas’ Yahya Sinwar dodging drone moments before death

Yahya Sinwar, who was the alleged mastermind behind the October 7 attacks, was killed in Gaza on Wednesday.

The Israeli Defence Forces or IDF released footage from a drone on Friday that captured Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar moments before his death in a firefight against the troops in Gaza’s Rafah on Wednesday.

The video shows a building filled with debris, where a man is sitting on an armchair covered with dust with his face wrapped, who is supposedly Sinwar. He then proceeds to throw a stick towards, the drone but misses.

Also ReadYahya Sinwar killed: Why is Hamas chief death significant?

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Along with Sinwar, the IDF also confirmed the death of two other “terrorists”.

Yahya Sinwar took over as the chief of Hamas after the killing of Ismail Haniyeh in July 2024. He was supposedly the architect of the attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, which sparked the conflict in the Gaza strip.

Also ReadYahya Sinwar death live updates: Netanyahu vows Gaza war ‘not over’ after Israel kills Hamas chief

Sinwar’s death has been celebrated by Israel as well as its key allies, the US and France.

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After Sinwar’s death Israeli prime minister Netanyahu released a video statement, where he stated, “Today we have settled the score. Today evil has been dealt a blow but our task has still not been completed.”

U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller called Sinwar the “chief obstacle” to ending the war and expressed hope for more headway in the peace process.

French president Emmanuel Macron has also expressed the hope that hostages will be returned now that the political head of the militant organisation is dead.

However, Iran, has stated that the death of Sinwar will only serve as a catalyst for further resistance against Israel.

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The Hezbollah also proclaimed that after the death of Sinwar they were going to “transition to a new and escalating phase in the confrontation with Israel.”

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