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• General Elections 2024 generate up to 9 lakh temp jobs: Industry experts
  9 lakh temporary jobs are projected during the general elections, spanning roles like polling booth officials, data entry operators, accounting, public relations, and AI strategies essential for the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections.
• SC issues notice to EC on PIL seeking re-election if NOTA gets maximum votes
  The PIL also seeks to disallow candidates who get less than NOTA to contest the bye-elections to the same constituency. A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud, and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra entertained the PIL by motivational speaker and author Shiv Khera, who seeks to take further the SC judgment of 2013 that introduced NOTA as an option in the EVMs.
• Google Doodle marks Phase 2 of Lok Sabha elections
  Google Doodle marks Lok Sabha Phase 2, urging high turnout. 1202 candidates compete, incl. third-gender electors. Election Commission ensures inclusive voting with initiatives like webcasting and model polling stations.
• 'Why is the life of the poor still miserable?': BSP supremo Mayawati attacks BJP government
  In a post on X, Mayawati said, "In the second phase of Lok Sabha elections in the country today, especially the poor, unemployed, farmers, women and other deprived people must think that you have brought the good days of BJP but what happened to their much-publicized and tempting promise of bringing 'good days' for you? Rather, why is their life so troubled?"
• SC rejects all petitions seeking 100% verification of VVPATs during elections
  
• Judicial I-T infrastructure building has solid government backing: CJI DY Chandrachud
  CJI acknowledges govt support for IT modernization in courts, emphasizing digitization, virtual access, and efficient data storage. The SC's integration of WhatsApp for notifications showcases a step towards a paperless court, setting high standards for technology adoption in the legal system.
• BJP intensifies 'Muslim quota' attack on Congress, cites Manmohan Singh's 2019 remarks
  "April 2009: In the run up to Lok Sabha election, Dr Manmohan Singh, reiterated his statement that minorities, especially poor Muslims, should get priority when it comes to the nation?s resources. He categorically stated that he stood by his earlier assertion that Muslims should have first right when it comes to resources," BJP wrote on X.
• Indian-origin man shot dead by US police as they tried to apprehend him
  
• 'Important day for future of Thiruvananthapuram': Rajeev Chandrasekhar urges voters to vote in Lok Sabha polls
  Chandrasekhar rallies for high voter turnout in Thiruvananthapuram's Lok Sabha polls phase 2, emphasizing the constituency's stagnant growth. He underlines the necessity of democratic participation and visits Padmanabhasamy temple.
• After phase one, PM is panicking, says Congress' KC Venugopal after casting vote in Alappuzha
  Venugopal confident of UDF victory in Alappuzha against AM Ariff and Sobha Surendran. Historical Congress stronghold in Alappuzha with voting in all 20 Kerala constituencies. Results on June 4.
• Polling begins in 20 Lok Sabha seats in Kerala; 5.62% turnout after first hour's voting
  Kerala's 20 Lok Sabha seats had 5.62% turnout in 2024. Tight security, EVM breakdowns, and 194 candidates were part of the election process. Union ministers, sitting MPs, and actors are contesting.
• BJP on guard as wounded Baghel eyes redemption in Rajnandgaon
  
• For Nitish, a lot at stake as 5 seats vote
  
• South Karnataka: JDS fights for survival against rising Congress
  
• In Maharashtra?s cotton county, it?s farm issues vs Hindutva
  
• SC: Man can be prosecuted for misappropriating streedhan
  Reinforcing married women?s right over ?streedhan?, Supreme Court on Wednesday held that streedhan cannot become joint property of a couple, and a husband has no control over his wife?s assets, which he may use during times of distress but must return to her. Adjudicating a matrimonial dispute over streedhan, a bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta said a woman has absolute rights over her streedhan ? gifts given to a woman before, during, or after marriage.
• PM Modi accepts Meloni?s invite to G7 meet in Italy in June