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This is a catch up on three things for the Indian

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Express and I am Flora Swain. It's

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the 6th of May and here are today's headlines.

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Exuding confidence that the BJP would form

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the government in Odisha, Prime Minister Narendra

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Modi today said that the Biju-Jantadal government's

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expiry date was 4th of June, the

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day the results would be declared. Addressing

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a rally in Barampore parliamentary constituency,

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Modi said, Today is

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6th of May. By 6th of June, a

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BJP Chief Minister will be nominated and on

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the 10th of June an oath-taking ceremony will

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be held. Write it down. I

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have come here to welcome you to

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the BJP government's oath-taking ceremony. The double-engine

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government will come to Odisha for the

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first time. Odisha

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Assembly elections will be held simultaneously with

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the Lok Sabha polls. A

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day ahead of polling in all 26 Lok

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Sabha seats in Gujarat, 16

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schools in Ahmedabad received bomb threat

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emails today. According to

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JCP crime ranch, Sharad Singhal, 12

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schools in Ahmedabad city and 4

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in Ahmedabad rural jurisdiction received the

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email threats around 6am. The

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emails were received from a Russian domain

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name Mail.ru. He

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further stated that comming operations were undertaken

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in all the schools and nothing was

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found comming the threats to be hopes.

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Paruk Abdullah today warned about Pakistan being

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a nuclear power in response to Defence

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Minister Rajnath Singh's comment on people

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of Pakistan occupied Kashmir wanting to

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merge with India. Abdullah

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said, If the Defence

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Minister is saying it then go ahead.

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Who are we to stop? But remember,

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Pakistan are also not wearing bangles. It

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has atom bombs. And unfortunately that atom

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bomb will fall on us. with

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force because the people on their own would

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want to be part of the country after

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seeing the developments in Kashmir. In

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other news, the Bombay High Court today granted

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temporary bail of two months on health

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grounds to Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal

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arrested in a money laundering case lodged

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by the enforcement directorate. Goyal was arrested

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by the Central Agency in September last

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year and had approached the High Court

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after the special court denied his bail.

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The court also asked Goyal to surrender

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his passport and directed him to furnish

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a personal bond of Rs. 1 lakh

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with surety. The

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third phase of the Lok Sabha elections will be held on

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7th May with voters in 94 parliamentary

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constituencies across 12 states and union

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territories casting their ballot to elect

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the new government. By tomorrow evening,

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over 280 constituencies will have gone

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to court, meaning that more than

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half the total season Lok Sabha

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will have been decided. The state

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of Gujarat and the union territories

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of Goa, Dhadra and Nagar Kavehli

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and Daman and Gheel will be

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holding in a single phase on Tuesday.

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This was a catch-up on the three things by the

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Indian Express.