US Presidential Election: Donald Trump bags unprecedented victory

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WASHINGTON: Republican former president Donald Trump has won the United States presidential election 2024 bagging 277 electoral votes, Fox News said in its report. 

Rival Democrat Kamala Harris has won 226 electoral votes, according to the report.

Earlier Trump won the key swing state Pennsylvania reaching near to the threshold of the magic number of 270 electoral votes required for winning the election.

Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican former president Donald Trump battling it out for the White House.

Tesla tycoon and diehard Trump supporter Elon Musk has announced the Republican presidential candidate’s victory saying, “The United States people have given a crystal-clear mandate to Trump”.

President Trump has bagged 277 electoral votes to lead the United Sates for the next four years, according to media report.

US media earlier projected that Trump has won in 23 states, including big prizes Texas and Ohio, key battleground North Carolina and other reliably Republican-leaning states.

Harris has so far captured 12 states including big electoral vote prizes California and New York — as well as the US capital Washington.

The magic number to win the presidency is 270.

The following is a list of the states won by each candidate and the corresponding number of electoral votes, based on the projections of US media including CNN, Fox News, MSNBC/NBC News, ABC and CBS.

Kamala Harris

California (54), Colorado (10), Connecticut (7), Delaware (3) District of Columbia (3) Illinois (19) Maryland (10) Massachusetts (11) New York (28) Oregon (8) Rhode Island (4) Vermont (3) Washington (12)

Donald Trump

Alabama (9) Arkansas (6) Florida (30) Idaho (4) Indiana (11) Iowa (6) Kansas (6)
Kentucky (8) Louisiana (8) Mississippi (6) Missouri (10) Montana (4) North Carolina (16) North Dakota (3) Ohio (17) Oklahoma (7) South Carolina (9) South Dakota (3) Tennessee (11) Texas (40) Utah (6) West Virginia (4) Wyoming (3)



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US Elections 2024: Harris defeats Trump for Oregon’s eight electoral votes

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Kamala Harris has won the Oregon contest, and secured the state’s eight Electoral College votes in the US Elections 2024.

In 2020, Biden won Oregon with 57% of the vote to Trump’s 40%. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won Oregon with 52% to Trump’s 41%.

In a reliably blue state in presidential elections, the Democratic Party controls the governor’s office and both chambers of the state Legislature.

The magic number to win the presidency is 270. Observers expect the hotly contested race for the White House to come down to a handful of key battleground states.

The following is a list of the states won by each candidate and the corresponding number of electoral votes, based on the projections of US media including CNN, Fox News, MSNBC/NBC News, ABC and CBS.

Read more about US Election 2024

In the United States, a candidate becomes president not by winning a majority of the national popular vote but through a system called the Electoral College, which allots electoral votes to the 50 states and the District of Columbia largely based on their population.

Here are some of the rules that could decide the Nov. 5 contest between Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican challenger Donald Trump.

WHAT IS THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE?

When voters go to the polls to pick a president, they usually only see the names of the presidential and vice presidential candidates. However, voters are actually voting for a group — or “slate” — of electors.

Nationally, there are a total of 538 electoral votes, or electors, meaning a candidate needs to secure 270 to win.

Electors are typically party loyalists who pledge to support the candidate who gets the most votes in their state. Each elector represents one vote in the Electoral College.
In 2020, President Joe Biden won 306 electoral votes to defeat Trump, who had 232 electoral votes.

Donald Trump

Donald Trump, a 78-year-old Republican, survived two assassination attempts, one by millimeters, just weeks after a jury in New York – the city whose tabloids first elevated him to national fame and notoriety – made him the first former U.S. president to be convicted of a felony.

Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris, 60, was catapulted to the top of the Democratic ticket in July – giving her a chance to become the first woman to hold the world’s most powerful job – after President Joe Biden, 81, had a disastrous debate performance and three weeks later dropped his reelection bid under pressure from his party.

For all of that turmoil, the contours of the race have changed little. Polls show Harris and Trump running neck and neck nationally and in the battleground states. More than 77 million voters have already cast ballots, but the next two days will provide a critical test of whether Vice President Harris’ or former President Donald Trump’s campaign does the better job of driving supporters to the polls.

Voters, both Democrats and Republicans, have broken century-old records in the last two presidential elections, a sign of the passion that Trump stirs in both political parties.

In the final days of this campaign, both sides are flooded social media sites and TV and radio stations with a last round of ad campaigns, and racing to knock on doors and make calls.

Harris’ campaign team believes the sheer size of its voter mobilization efforts is making a difference and says its volunteers knocked on hundreds of thousands of doors in each of the battleground states this weekend. ”We are feeling very good about where we are right now,” campaign chair Jen O’Malley Dillon told reporters.

The campaign says its internal data shows that undecided voters are breaking in their favor, particularly women in the battleground states, and that they see an increase in early voting among core parts of their coalition, including young voters and voters of color.

Donald Trump’s campaign has its own in-house canvassing operation, but has effectively outsourced most of the work to outside super PACs, allied political groups that can raise and spend unlimited sums of money.

They were more focused on contacting “low propensity” voters, or voters that often do not go to the polls, instead of appealing to middle-of-the-road voters who can flip to either side.



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“Ted Bundy had better manners than Salman Khan.”

Salman Khan accused of infidelity, abuse by ex-girlfriend Somy Ali

After dubbing Salman Khan to be worse than notorious gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, his ex-girlfriend Somy Ali has made some serious new allegations against the Bollywood superstar, claiming that even serial killer Ted Bundy has better manners than him.

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In an AMA session on the social platform Reddit, Somy Ali, who previously defended Salman Khan and even apologized and appealed to Lawrence Bishnoi not to harm the ‘Tiger 3’ star, has now made a series of allegations, including infidelity and abuse, against him.

When asked about her decision to quit Bollywood, following her split from Khan in 1999, Ali responded to the Redditor saying, “I was tired of Salman’s 8-night stands not one.”

“Also, I didn’t appreciate being physically and verbally abused on a daily basis. I left when a bf I was with some new girl named Ash,” she alleged. “I was tired of his 8 nightstands! And I finished my education.”

Moreover, Ali divulged that her main goal in entering Bollywood was her teenage crush on Khan, which didn’t turn out exactly the way she had expected. “I didn’t go there to act. I went on a stupid teenage crush which is why they say you should meet your idols in real life,” she noted. “And to say I was disappointed would be an understatement.”

“I think Ted Bundy had better manners than Salman,” she added.

It is to be noted here that Ali, now 48, and Khan, 58, were reportedly in a relationship for eight long years, before parting ways in 1999.

Also Read: Salman Khan’s ex Somy Ali invites Lawrence Bishnoi for a Zoom meeting

Earlier this year, after Salman Khan’s residence in Bandra, Mumbai, was attacked by the Bishnoi gang, Ali publicly appealed to the community and the incarcerated gangster Lawrence, to forgive her ex-beau and not harm him, as the jailed Lawrence Bishnoi had admitted to plans of eliminating Khan for killing a black buck [which is considered sacred by their community] in 1998.

Speaking about her appeal, Ali labelled Bishnoi as the new ‘Dawood and Chota Shakeel of Bollywood’ and shared that she stands by her earlier comments despite being against Khan. “I am anti the death penalty and murder be it Salman or a stranger on the street. I do not care for Salman in fact I can’t stand him, but I do not want him murdered as I am a pacifist and a Gandhi follower,” she explained her stance.



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Umair Jaswal speaks up about life post divorce, second marriage

Umair Jaswal speaks up about life post divorce, second marriage

From his divorce from A-list actor Sana Javed to a happy life after his second marriage, famed singer Umair Jaswal tells all in the new interview.

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For the unversed, singer-songwriter Umair Jaswal was married to celebrated actor Sana Javed, from 2020 till 2023.

While there had been speculations about their split last year, after the two unfollowed each other on the social site Instagram and also removed their wedding and other pictures, their separation was confirmed in January when his ex-wife announced her second marriage to cricketer Shoaib Malik.

Jaswal took his fans by a pleasant surprise last month when he shared a picture of himself, in a groom attire, to announce his second marriage.

 

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In a new tell-all, the ‘Sammi Meri Waar’ hitmaker has now reflected on the ‘beautiful’ life after marriage saying, “Alhamdulillah. God has been very very kind.”

“God takes you through a journey and brings you to the right place. And when you reach that place, you realize that the journey was meant to take you there so that you understand and you can appreciate that time and place,” he noted.

“A lot of people reached out to me, millions of my fans and people who were not even my fans. They were concerned and reached out to me from all over the world. But I kept telling them that it was God’s plan,” Jaswal shared. “And now they are so happy.”

“I got so overwhelmed with the love and response we got from posting just one picture of the announcement. I’m happy that there are people out there, who love me and I’m in their prayers,” he added.

 

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When further quizzed about not revealing his bride’s name or identity, the singer maintained, “People are obsessed with the lives of other people and celebrities, and I believe that people open that door themself. I want the focus to be on my work.”

“Also, you have to respect the other person’s space and privacy too,” he concluded.

Also Read: Umair Jaswal asks fans for prayers in viral post



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SHC dismisses petitions against Mayor’s election

SHC dismisses petitions, Mayor's election

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday dismissed petitions of Hafiz Naeem ur Rehman and others against the mayor’s election, ARY News reported.

The court will issue the reasons later, the bench said in its order.

“The issue before the court, has been the election of the mayor,” the bench observed. “If the election for mayor has been a separate poll?” the court posed question.

“Your case has been that the law was amended after the electoral process began,” the bench remarked.

“If a separate notification was issued for the mayor’s election,” the court asked.

“The electoral process begins with the notification of the election commission,” lawyer said. “The polling day was changed by amending this notification,” petitioner’s lawyer said.

Mayor Karachi’s lawyer said that the electoral college was incomplete before the amendment in the law. “The mayor’s election could not happen before the amendment,” the lawyer further argued.

Pakistan People’s Party’s Barrister Murtaza Wahab had won the Karachi’s Mayoral election that took place on 15 June 2023. Jamaat-e-Islami fielded Hafiz Naeem Ur Rehman as its candidate for the mayor’s office.



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Rs100 prize bond: Check out draw, winning prize details, November 2024

Prize bond Rs100 prize bond draw list, November 2024

Many Pakistanis still choose prize bonds as their preferred investment choice because they offer a secure way to save money and the possibility of winning big prizes.

Rs100 Prize Bond Balloting is around the corner. The draw can win you the bumper price of Rs700,000.

Rs100 Prize Bond Draw Date

The balloting of Draw for the Rs100 prize bond will be held in Multan on November 15, 2024 (Friday).

Prize Winning Amount

First Prize 700,000
Second Prize 200,000
This Prize 1,000

 

The prize bond program is being run by the Central Directorate of National Savings since the 1960s.

National Savings hosts lucky drawings every three months where participants can win rewards.

The program’s dual objectives are to raise money for the government and provide regular people with a safe way to save their money that won’t lose value.

پرائز بانڈ سے انعام حاصل کرنے کا فارمولا 



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CTD registers FIR of Mastung bomb attack

Mastung bomb attack, FIR registered, CTD

MASTUNG: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) Quetta on Saturday registered FIR of the bomb attack in Mastung, ARY News reported.

The case has been filed by the SHO city police station as complainant against unidentified terrorists under charges of terrorism, attempt to murder and explosives Act.

Nine persons were killed and 22 others injured in the deadly terrorist act on Friday that targeted a police van.

Mostly schoolchildren died and injured in the attack near a police mobile at Civil Hospital Chowk in Mastung.

Police said that around seven to eight kilograms of explosives with ball bearings, were used in the explosive device for the attack.

The attackers had targeted a police van on the security duty of a polio vaccination team.



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Lahore air pollution reading hits to above 1000 level

Lahore air pollution, above 1000 AQI

LAHORE: Punjab’s capital city passing through dangerously high air quality index (AQI) reading of 1067 on Saturday morning that later improved to 702.

Lahore has been on the top of the hazardous air quality list in the world as India’s Kolkata with 253 AQI reading, Delhi, 238, Mumbai 199 and Tashkent in Uzbekistan with 181 reading much behind.

Smog in Lahore causing serious health problems for residents toiling in polluted air and reported to have breathing difficulties, coughing and burning eyes.

AQI as high as 151-200 is considered unhealthy, while an AQI rating between 201 to 300 is more harmful and AQI over 300 has been extremely hazardous.

Lahore had the worst air quality of 1,067 at 9:30 in the morning Swiss air quality watchdog’s real-time list of most polluted cities in the world, despite provincial government’s desperate attempts to fight off smog.

Air pollution level goes upward in the city on the onset of winter, change in the wind speed, wind direction and sliding minimum temperature increases air pollution.

The air becomes heavier in the winter and traps poisonous particles in the atmosphere to downward and making the atmosphere polluted. As a result, a layer of polluted particles, including large amounts of carbon and smoke, covers an area.

The smoke produced by burning crop remnants, factories and burning coal, garbage, oil or tyres enters in the atmosphere and the impact of it appears at the onset of winter and remain till the season’s end.

Thus, air pollution reaches to extremely dangerous levels, severely compromising the air quality.



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NEPRA receives 12,938 complaints against power companies

NEPRA discos complaints

ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has released the details of complaints registered by the consumers against the power distribution companies during past three months, ARY News reported.

According to the official document, NEPRA witnessed a massive surge of consumer complaints against electricity companies in the first three months of the current fiscal year.

A total of 12,938 grievances were registered with NEPRA against the DISCOs over the past three months.

According to the report, the NEPRA received 3,588 complaints against LESCO, followed by FESCO with 2,302 complaints and MEPCO with 2,177.

1,268 complaints were lodged against K-Electric during the past three months, the documents revealed.

On September 23, the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) imposed a fine of Rs10 million on Lahore Electric Supply Company (Lesco) over failure to implement safety measures.

Read more: NEPRA imposes Rs10m fine on LESCO over safety lapse

According to National Electric Power Regulatory Authority, LESCO had previously been instructed to complete the earthing of 100% of their poles, but they failed to implement the directions.

As a result, National Electric Power Regulatory Authority  not only imposed the fine but also instructed LESCO to complete the earthing of the remaining steel structures within three months.

Additionally, LESCO has been ordered to complete the earthing of PCC poles within a year. Such fines were previously imposed on other companies such as K-Electric, FESCO, and GEPCO.

Earlier, National Electric Power Regulatory Authority imposed a Rs 10 million fine on K-Electric (KE) over the electrocution incidents in Karachi from 2022 to 2023 that resulted in the deaths of 33 citizens.



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FBR to disburse Rs32 bln tax refunds to exporters

FBR tax refund exporters

Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) said that the board will disburse Rs.32 billion pending sale tax refunds to exporters on November 1 (today).

This move comes after the Chairman FBR directed the speedy processing of refund payment orders up to September 30, 2024, said a FBR statement.

Separately, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) launched an advanced Stock Register system via the Information Center 2.0 platform to provide officers real-time, in-depth access to registered persons’ data, bolstering transparency and securing compliance with Income Tax (IT) and Sales Tax (ST) regulations.

A press statement said the board launched the system under the direction of the Chairman FBR as part of FBR’s comprehensive digitalization efforts to optimize tax administration and boost revenue collection.

Read more: FBR rules out further extension in deadline for filling income tax returns

The system functions as a sophisticated management information and reporting system, empowering tax officers to securely retrieve detailed stock data to facilitate precise tax assessments and mitigate the risk of tax evasion.

The system centralizes taxpayer profiles, offering thorough views of IT & ST filing histories, summaries, and authorized representative profiles. This integrated access is further strengthened by tax and declaration comparisons, providing comprehensive oversight capabilities.

By meticulously recording stock movements and capturing essential details such as quantities, valuations, and transaction dates, the system enables tax officers to enforce regulatory compliance and validate accurate stock and compliance reports.



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کراچی کے شیرشاہ بازار میں کمپیوٹر کے کچرے سے ’خالص سونے کی تلاش‘

کراچی میں شیر شاہ کی کباڑی مارکیٹ میں کمپیوٹر کے کچرے سے سونا کیسے نکلتا ہے اور یہ کام ہوتا کیسے ہے۔

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US again denies allegations of involvement in PTI founder’s ouster

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WASHINGTON: The US State Department has again rejected allegations suggesting American involvement in the ousting of former prime minister Imran Khan on Thursday.

Addressing a press conference in Washington, US State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller denied any US involvement in the removal of former prime minister, Imran Khan.

Miller clarified that allegations of American interference in the ousting of the PTI founder are “baseless.”

In response to a question referencing claims by Latif Khosa that the PTI founder would be released if Trump wins the upcoming US election and that Donald Lu was involved in a conspiracy against the former premier, US State Department spokesperson Miller firmly stated: “The legal proceedings against the former Prime Minister are a matter for Pakistani courts alone to decide.”

He added that decisions regarding Pakistan’s political matters rest solely with the Pakistani people.

Read more: PTI founder will come out of jail in November, claims Latif Khosa

When questioned about Canada’s allegations that Indian federal minister Amit Shah was involved in a conspiracy against Sikhs, Miller commented that the accusations were “concerning” and said that the US would continue to consult with Canada on the matter.

Earlier this week, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader and senior lawyer Sardar Latif Khosa Tuesday claimed that PTI founder Imran Khan could come out of jail in November.

Talking in ARY News’ program Bakhabar Savera, Khosa ruling out the impression of any deal said the PTI founder will get relief from the judiciary.

Commenting on the upcoming US presidential elections, Khosa claimed that the matter of PTI founder release could be affected by the upcoming US presidential elections. Khosa suggested that if Donald Trump were to win, it might shift the political landscape in favor of the PTI founder.



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“Ranbir Kapoor is the next Shah Rukh Khan”

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Bollywood A-lister Ranbir Kapoor is the next megastar like Shah Rukh Khan, believes an Indian cinema critic and trade analyst.

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In a new interview with an Indian media outlet, leading Box Office trade analyst, Taran Adarsh spoke about last year’s blockbusters and the Bollywood stars who bounced back successfully after a string of flops.

He cited Ranbir Kapoor as an example, whose action entertainer by Sandeep Reddy Vanga was the third highest-grossing Bollywood film last year, following Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Pathaan’ and ‘Jawan’ in the top two spots, terming the former the next-gen megastar like SRK.

“I didn’t get a chance to watch Animal in the theatres or the preview screenings at T-Series,” Adarsh revealed. “I saw Animal on Netflix once first, then once more, and once again. I saw it thrice and every time I saw it, I felt it was a fantastic film.”

“Anyone can judge me for it but I don’t care. But I loved the film. Sandeep Reddy Vanga is a genius,” he asserted.

Adarsh went on to declare, “Ranbir Kapoor is the next Shah Rukh Khan.”

“Having said that, Shah Rukh Khan has a different position. But Ranbir is something else. There is no actor, his age, with due respect to Ranveer Singh or Kartik Aaryan and many other actors who are his contemporaries, I don’t think anyone can match Ranbir Kapoor after Animal. He is a fantastic, fantabulous actor. For me, he is the best we have today,” he explained.

Also Read: Ranbir Kapoor to quit T-Series’ ‘Animal Park’ over?

Notably, Vanga’s neo-noir action thriller, starring Kapoor, was one of the highest-grossing films of 2023, despite the polarizing reviews from critics, where many dubbed it as misogynistic, like previous ventures of the filmmaker, including ‘Arjun Reddy’ and ‘Kabir Singh’.

On the other hand, Khan also returned to the screens in 2023, after a four-year hiatus, delivering a string of hits, ‘Pathaan’, ‘Jawan’ and ‘Dunki’.



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