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Tornado, hail, wind gusts are likely to hit Texas cities such as Austin, San Antonio, Waco, Houston and Corpus Christi, Shreveport, New Orleans, and other parts of Louisiana, Southern Arkansas, and Mississippi.

WWE Raw will take place on May 13 as "King and Queen of the Ring" matches will be held.

In a recent interview with James Corden on SiriusXM's This Life of Mine, renowned media personality and momager Kris Jenner firmly talked about her retirement rumours.

Shivajirao Adhalrao Patil, who was with Eknath Shinde faction of Sena, joined the NCP (Ajit faction) when he realised that the Shirur seat was given to the Ajit camp. Ajit has, so far, held close to a dozen rallies in the constituency. "Within two years after winning the elections, he came to me and said that he is a celebrity and that he needs to work again as he had financial issues and he wants to resign as an MP. I told him how he could resign so soon as people would be very angry," said Ajit in one of his speeches. Читать дальше...

The BJP first wanted the seat claiming that Sena MP Hemant Godse would not be able to retain the seat. However, after a seat exchange deal with NCP (Ajit), the BJP offered the seat to the latter. However, with Godse not willing to vacate the seat, CM Eknath Shinde refused to hand over the seat to the NCP(Ajit). Shinde kept dragging the issue till the date of filing of nomination after which the Ajit camp withdrew its claim for the seat.

Congress has fielded Dhangekar as the Lok Sabha candidate from Pune while BJP has fielded former mayor Murlidhar Mohol. Bapat was a Brahmin and this time, BJP has bet on a Maratha to douse the Maratha anger in parts of this constituency. Dhangekar is an OBC and an assembly victory has given hope to the Congress that he can end the dry spell for the party ever since Suresh Kalmadi won the seat in 2009. From poor urban infrastructure, traffic woes, the Maratha quota issue and Congress' allegation that... Читать дальше...

The BJP's incumbent two-term MP Sakshi Maharaj is facing a spirited fight from former Congress MP from Unnao Annu Tandon for a third time, but this time as SP candidate. Originally from Kasganj, he won three Lok Sabha elections from Mathura and Farrukhabad, before being brought here in 2014, then winning on the back of almost en bloc support from the dominant Lodhi caste here as well as Nishads, combined with the Hindutva and Modi factor. But he has not been able to develop much of a positive reputation for himself in the past ten years. Читать дальше...

Kanpur, one of the oldest major industrial and commercial centres of Uttar Pradesh which has in the past sent heavyweights such as Murli Manohar Joshi and former Union minister Shriprakash Jaiswal to Parliament, is currently held by the BJP's Satyadev Pachauri, 76, who is not contesting this time.

Labour reforms have been approved by Parliament in 2020, but it has not been implemented. In 2019 and 2020, 29 central labour laws were amalgamated, rationalised and simplified into four labour codes -- the Code on Wages, 2019; the Industrial Relations Code, 2020; the Code on Social Security, 2020; and the Occupational Safety, Health & Working Conditions Code, 2020.

Sharad Pawar has claimed that when the Vikhe Patils came to know about his move to field Lanke, they sent out a message to get Pawar to select any other candidate. While there is no way of confirming Pawar's claim, Ajit has publicly spoken about how he did his best to dissuade Lanke from contesting against Vikhe Patil. Failing to persuade him, Ajit asked Lanke to resign as an MLA or else face disqualification. So confident was Lanke of his victory that he resigned as an MLA before joining the Sharad Pawar faction.