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Daisy Chain Fields festival: Date, lineup, ticket presale and all about Olivia Rodrigo’s all-women music festival

Daisy Chain Fields festival: Date, lineup, ticket presale and all about Olivia Rodrigo’s all-women music festival

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Olivia Rodrigo has announced her first-ever music festival named, Daisy Chain Fields Festival, featuring an all-female lineup. Olivia Rodrigo has announced her all-female Daisy Chain Fields Festival. (AP) The ticket presale begins on June 24 at 10am PST (1pm EDT). Fans can sign up for presale access through the festival’s website. When and where is Daisy Chain Fields festival? Daisy Chain Fields Festival will be held on August 29 at Great Park in Irvine, California. The event is being promoted by C3 and Live Nation. In the festival’s mission statement, Rodrigo described Daisy Chain Fields as “a festival founded on the belief that joy, community and creativity can inspire meaningful change. It affirms that music and collective experience can serve as enduring drivers of progress and social change. It’s a place where inspiration and curiosity lead to knowledge, strength and action.” Also Read: Are Off Campus co-stars Mika Abdalla and Josh Heuston dating? Paris sighting sparks romance rumors; ‘happy for them’ Who is performing at the festival? The festival will feature performances from Rodrigo alongside …

Noida International Airport: From fields to flight, how dreams spread wings for Jewar farmers

Noida International Airport: From fields to flight, how dreams spread wings for Jewar farmers

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From fertile fields to runways paved with possibilities, dreams spread wings for 170 passengers, mostly farmers from villages around Jewar whose ancestral land was acquired for the Noida International Airport’s construction in lieu of compensation, which gave them the wherewithal to realise their aspirations. Farmers and locals at Noida internatioal airport on Monday. (ANI) On Monday, they boarded one of the first flights from the newly operational airport and reached Lucknow. Most of them continue to be farmers, having bought land in nearby villages. For Dr Hira Rashid of Rohi village, who completed her MBBS at AMU, the compensation money helped her complete the course without hassle. She cracked NEET in 2021. Her father could not only foot the MBBS tuition bill but also bought new land with the compensation money in a nearby village and continued to farm. Dharmendra Kumar Verma of Banwariwas village said the transition had not always been easy, but it had opened doors for the younger generation. “I received fair compensation for my 4.5 bigha land. I have purchased agricultural …

Rajya Sabha polls: M.P. Congress mulls moving MLAs away as BJP fields candidate on third seat

Rajya Sabha polls: M.P. Congress mulls moving MLAs away as BJP fields candidate on third seat

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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav, state BJP President Hemant Khandelwal and others present as party candidate Mahesh Kewat files his nomination papers for Rajya Sabha elections, at State assembly, in Bhopal, on Monday, June 8, 2026. | Photo Credit: PTI Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s Mahesh Kewat also entered the fray soon after Congress candidate Meenakshi Natarajan filed her nomination on Monday (June 8, 2026), confirming an intense contest for one of three Rajya Sabha seats going to poll on June 18. The name of Mr. Kewat, an OBC leader from the Bundelkhand region and chairperson of the State’s Fishermen Welfare Board, was announced late on Sunday after rounds of meetings of top State BJP leaders in Bhopal over the weekend and a nod from the party’s national leadership. The BJP’s move pushed the Congress into alert mode with Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Umang Singhar hosting party MLAs and senior leaders over dinner at his residence and to discuss the election strategy. A senior party leader, present at the dinner meeting, said options …

PDP leaders plough paddy fields to protest govt. takeover of land from farmers in Pulwama

PDP leaders plough paddy fields to protest govt. takeover of land from farmers in Pulwama

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PDP leader Iltija Mufti, who also joined the farmers, accused the Revenue Department of “trying to snatch 2000 Kanals of fertile agricultural land in Dangerpora in Pulwama from poor families who’ve cultivated paddy here for centuries”. Photo credit: X/@jkpdp In a unique protest, leaders of Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday (June 8, 2026) ploughed paddy fields to oppose the administration’s move to take over a huge tract of land from farmers in south Kashmir’s Pulwama. “A few days ago, a local tehsildar warned members of 400 villages not to sow paddy seedling in fields spread over 3000 kanals (375 acre) of land. The villagers were warned of a First Information Report (FIR) if they step inside fields. We have been sowing the land for more than 80 years. What will happen to our families and cattle, which are dependent on the yield,” said Shabir Ahmad, a farmer from Pulwama’s Padgampora. He said small patches of 3-4 kanals of land were being utilised by locals to procure rice and feed for cattle. “If the …

BJP fields third candidate in Madhya Pradesh, announces Karnataka picks

BJP fields third candidate in Madhya Pradesh, announces Karnataka picks

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has released its official list of candidates for the upcoming biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha from Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka, as well as the Karnataka Legislative Council, party sources said.  The announcement was made through a press release issued late Sunday evening by the party’s central office in New Delhi. For the upcoming Rajya Sabha biennial elections, the BJP has nominated Mahesh Kewat from Madhya Pradesh and M. Nagaraja from Karnataka. Both names were approved by the party’s Central Election Committee. In addition to the Rajya Sabha nominations, the BJP also declared its candidates for the Karnataka Legislative Council biennial elections. Disclaimer: We do not own any of the content, ideas, images, or text presented here. All rights belong to their respective owners. For more information and to view the original source, please visit the following link: Source link

PSA World Championships 2026: India fields all-men team in Giza

PSA World Championships 2026: India fields all-men team in Giza

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The PSA World Championships, the most prestigious title in professional squash, returns to Giza, Egypt from May 8 to 16, 2026. Hosted at Palm Hills Sports Club, the event features a $1.403 million total prize fund ($701,500 each for men and women). The tournament follows a single-elimination knockout format with 128 players (64 men + 64 women) from over 50 countries. It is a pure knockout, one loss and you’re out. Players qualify through PSA World Rankings, Challenger Tour events, or Continental Qualifying tournaments. Egypt continues to dominate the championship with World No.1 Mostafa Asal and women’s World No.1 Hania El Hammamy. The defending champions are Mostafa Asal in the men’s category and Nour El Sherbini in the women’s category. India’s campaign India will have an all-men contingent this year as no Indian woman qualified for the tournament. Tanvi Khanna, the only Indian female participant in the qualifiers, was eliminated in the quarter-finals, resulting in no Indian women making the main draw. Anahat Singh was also set to take part in the Asian Qualifying Event …

Maharashtra: Congress fields Akash Vishwanath More for Baramati bypoll

Maharashtra: Congress fields Akash Vishwanath More for Baramati bypoll

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The All India Congress Committee (AICC) on Sunday announced its candidate for the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly by-elections in the Baramati constituency. While issuing an official statement, Congress has named Advocate Akash Vishwanath More as the party’s nominee from the constituency. The official statement from AICC highlighted that Congress National President Mallikarjun Kharge has approved More’s candidature for the by-election to the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly from the 201-Baramati seat. The announcement, issued under the signature of K. C. Venugopal, General Secretary of the AICC, confirms the party’s decision as part of its strategy for the crucial by-elections in the state. Congress nominates fresh face for Baramati by-election Baramati in Maharashtra is considered to be one of Maharashtra’s most politically significant constituencies with a history of high-profile electoral contests.  The Congress’ decision to field a relatively fresh face in More signals an attempt to strengthen its position in the region. The by-election comes at a time when political parties are recalibrating their strategies ahead of future electoral battles in the state.  Further details regarding campaign schedules and …

For a victory lap in north Bengal, Trinamool fields ex-cricketer, athlete

For a victory lap in north Bengal, Trinamool fields ex-cricketer, athlete

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Former first-class cricketer Shib Sankar Paul contesting on a Trinamool Congress ticket from Tufanganj Assembly seat. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement An Asian Games gold medal-winning athlete and a former first-class cricketer who represented Bengal in the Ranji Trophy are the Trinamool Congress candidates taking on Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) nominees in north Bengal. Swapna Barman, the first Indian heptathlete to win an Asian Games gold in 2018 is the Trinamool candidate from Rajganj Assembly seat in the State’s Jalpaiguri district. On Monday, the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) authorities formally accepted her resignation and issued her a clearance letter to contest the West Bengal polls. The celebrated athlete, who joined the ruling party weeks before the polls on February 27, 2026, has come to realise that sports and politics are different disciplines. Swapna Barman, the first Indian heptathlete to win an Asian Games gold in 2018 is the Trinamool candidate from Rajganj Assembly seat in the State’s Jalpaiguri district.  | Photo Credit: Special arrangement “Sports is a very different field and cannot be compared with politics. …

BJP fields Harshad Parmar for Umreth bypoll in Gujarat

BJP fields Harshad Parmar for Umreth bypoll in Gujarat

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The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday (March 30, 2026) announced Harshad Parmar, son of former MLA Govind Parmar, as its candidate for the upcoming byelection to the Umreth Assembly constituency in Gujarat. The bypoll has been necessitated following the death ofGovind Parmar, who passed away on March 6 at the age of 72 after a brief illness. He had represented the Umreth seat in Anand district. In a statement, the party’s central leadership confirmed Mr. Harshad Govindbhai Parmar’s candidature, marking his first major electoral contest. The Election Commission of India has scheduled polling for April 23. Other parties, including the Congress, are yet to declare their nominees for the seat. In the 2022 Assembly elections, Govind Parmar, a four-term legislator, had retained the seat by defeating Nationalist Congress Party candidate Jayant Patel, also known as Boski, by a margin of over 25,000 votes. The 182-member Gujarat Assembly currently has 161 members from the BJP, 12 from the Congress, five from the Aam Aadmi Party, one from the Samajwadi Party, and two Independents. The next Assembly …

BJP releases 2nd list of 111 candidates for West Bengal polls, fields Rekha Patra from Hingalganj| India News

BJP releases 2nd list of 111 candidates for West Bengal polls, fields Rekha Patra from Hingalganj| India News

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday released its second list of 111 candidates for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections, intensifying the contest with the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) across all 294 seats in the state. BJP’s Rekha Patra is contesting from Hingalganj (SC), Roopa Ganguly is contesting from Sonarpur Dakshin. (File photos) According to the list, Rekha Patra has been fielded from Hingalganj (SC), Kalyan Chakraborty from Khardaha, and Roopa Ganguly from Sonarpur Dakshin. The party has also nominated Nisith Pramanik from Mathabhanga, Shankar Adhikari from Chopra, Koustav Bagchi from Barrackpur, and Arup Choudhury from Kamarhati. Among other key names, Priyanka Tibrewal will contest from Entally, while Tapas Roy has been fielded from Maniktala. Focus on high-profile contests The second list builds on the BJP’s earlier announcement of 144 candidates. In the first list, Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari was named from Nandigram, where he defeated Mamata Banerjee in 2021, as well as from Bhabanipur, currently represented by the TMC chief. Other candidates announced earlier include BJP MLA Agnimitra Paul from Asansol Dakshin, …