Shiromani Akali Dal President Sukhbir Singh Badal has targeted Amritpal Singh, who is in Dibrugarh Jail. Badal, who reached various constituencies for campaigning in favor of the candidate Virsa Singh Valtoha from Khadur Sahib, said that Amritpal was contesting the election not to fight the captive Sikhs but to free himself. He said that the person who used to say that he does not believe in the Indian Constitution has now started believing in the Constitution to fight the elections. Badal said that where was Amritpal a year ago, he said that he suddenly created all the drama. Sukhbir Badal f

Media reports say Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico was injured in a shooting and taken to hospital. The incident took place in the town of Handlova, some 150 kilometers northeast of the capital, according to the news television station TA3. A suspect has been detained, it said.

A former British Columbia forests minister says the province is on the right track as it responds to worsening wildfires, but the scale of the challenge is so great, it's falling behind and needs to prioritize a "whole-of-society" approach. Doug Donaldson says the place to start should be a dedicated provincial wildfire strategy that lays out responsibilities for each government ministry, while supporting the participation of local communities, civil society and the forest industry. The former member of the legislature for Stikine, who served as forests minister from 2017 to 2020, says the BC

Arvind Kejriwal himself is reaching to campaign for the candidates of the Aam Aadmi Party, which is fighting the election without an alliance with the Congress in Punjab. This is his first visit to Punjab after being granted temporary bail by the Supreme Court in the Delhi liquor scam. Sources said that Kejriwal will hold a road show with Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann in Amritsar on Thursday and Mr. Harminder Sahib will also pay homage. The Supreme Court has granted bail to Kejriwal for the election campaign till June 1, on June 2 he will go back to jail. It is to be noted that in Punjab AAP

Thousands of people in Western Canada remain displaced from their homes as wildfires threaten their communities, triggering evacuation orders and alerts. In British Columbia, a widening area around the northeastern community of Fort Nelson is under evacuation, with the Parker Lake wildfire burning close by and the larger Patry Creek wildfire raging to the northwest. Both blazes are listed with the B.C. Wildfire Service as "wildfires of note," with Parker Lake measuring 84 square kilometres in size and the Patry Creek blaze covering a whopping 464 square kilometres. In Alberta, a 209 square kil

Aam Aadmi Party will also be made guilty in Delhi's liquor scam case. The ED said this during the hearing on Manish Sisodia's bail plea in the Delhi High Court today. Manish Sisodia was arrested by the CBI on 26 February 2023. After this, ED took him into custody in a money laundering case and he is currently in Tihar Jail. Sisodia is accused of benefiting the licensees through the liquor policy, causing loss to the exchequer and receiving a bribe of around Rs 2.2 crore to benefit a businessman. According to the investigating agency, Sisodia changed 14 phones and 43 SIM cards to erase the evi

Shiromani Akali Dal is not contesting the Chandigarh Lok Sabha seat. The reason for this is that Shiromani Akali Dal has no leadership in Chandigarh. In the past, the only councilor of the party, Hardeep Singh Butrella, had joined the Aam Aadmi Party. He was also the president of Shiromani Akali Dal's Chandigarh unit and the party made him the Lok Sabha candidate but he returned the candidature ticket to Sukhbir Singh Badal accusing him of not being supported by the party.

Nobel laureate Alice Munro has died. The Canadian literary giant who became one of the world's most esteemed contemporary authors and one of history's most honored short story writers was 92. Munro achieved stature rare for an art form traditionally placed beneath the novel. She was the first lifelong Canadian to win the Nobel and the first recipient cited exclusively for short fiction. Munro was little known beyond Canada until her late 30s but became one of the few short story writers to enjoy ongoing commercial success. A spokesperson for her publisher confirmed the death of Munro but di

The wildfire burning near Fort Nelson continues to grow rapidly. As of Tuesday morning, the B.C. Wildfire Service reported the fire had grown to over 84 square kilometres. That marks a significant expansion of the fire, which as of Monday morning, was just under 53 square kilometres in size. This comes as efforts to evacuate Fort Nelson continue to be made due to the Parker Lake wildfire, which is still two kilometres outside the town. Mayor of the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality Rob Fraser says efforts were made to call "holdouts" in the last few days, with some of those efforts being