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| Here’s everything that transpired during the course of the day… |
| The Congress wrested the BJP bastion Gurdaspur as its candidate Sunil Jakhar won the Lok Sabha bypoll seat by a huge margin. Jakhar polled 4,99,752 votes while his BJP rival Swaran Salaria polled 3,06,533, poll officials said. Aam Aadmi Party nominee Major General (Retd) Suresh Khajuria was at the third sport with 23,579 votes. The seat had fallen vacant after the death of BJP MP Vinod Khanna in April this year. |
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| Union minister Rajnath Singh said India has become a powerful country and its prestige at the international level has grown. “Since the formation of government at the Centre under the leadership of PM Modi, India has become a powerful country in the world. India’s borders are completely safe, and China has started to understand that India is no more weak,” he said. |
| A 25-year-old Indian-origin woman was left to die in a blazing car following a fiery crash in the United States. Harleen Grewal was burned to death on Friday after Saeed Ahmad slammed the car into a concrete barrier on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. While the car was still in flames, Ahmad took himself to Maimonides Medical Center, police said. Cops charged him with manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and speeding. |
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| The death toll from the bomb blast that struck Somalia’s capital Mogadishu rose to 189 with more than 200 injured. President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed declared three days of mourning and joined thousands of people who responded to a desperate plea by hospitals to donate blood for the wounded victims. Somalia’s government has blamed the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group for the attack it called a “national disaster.” |
| External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said a Pakistani woman would be given visa for undergoing a liver transplant surgery in India. The minister’s intervention came after M Mohsin, a resident of Faisalabad in Pakistan, tweeted to her, requesting visa for his ailing aunt. Swaraj has been sympathetically considering the medical visa applications of scores of Pakistani nationals, notwithstanding the strains in ties between India and Pakistan |
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