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UP assembly election 2022: Congress releases first list of 125 candidates, 50 of them women

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UP assembly election 2022: Congress releases first list of 125 candidates, 50 of them women

The Congress party on Thursday released the first list of candidates for the Uttar Pradesh parliamentary elections, which will begin on February 10. General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said the party had given women a large representation in the upcoming elections.

“Out of a total of 125 candidates, 40 percent are women and 40 percent are young people. With this historic move, we hope to introduce a new kind of politics in the state,” she said during a virtual conference.

Vadra said there were 50 female candidates on the list, including the mother of Unnao’s rape victim. “We sent Poonam Pandey, an Asha worker from Shahjahanpur, who led an agitation to raise the remuneration,” she added.

In the past few months, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has announced several women-focused commitments, including smartphones for girls who pass grade 12, electric scooters for graduating women, and a skills development school for women

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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.

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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.

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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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