Haryana Assembly elections: Bhupinder Hooda, the former Congress chief minister and a prominent political leader in Haryana, is leading from his stronghold Garhi Sampla-Kiloi by a margin of nearly 41,000 votes, according to the 12:00 pm counting trends on Tuesday.

Election officials began counting votes for the Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections at 8am. The 12:00 pm trends showed a major trend reversal, in which the Congress is leading in at least 34 seats.

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. engaged in a pattern of discriminatory conduct toward non-Indian workers and should pay punitive damages to compensate employees who suffered harm, a US jury found.

The verdict came after the IT firm failed to persuade a Los Angeles federal judge last month to toss a 2017 job bias class-action lawsuit when a previous trial ended with a deadlocked jury.

The ruling BJP edged past the Congress in Haryana while the National Conference-Congress alliance was headed for a majority in Jammu and Kashmir, according to trends on the Election Commission website on Tuesday.

As votes were counted for assembly elections held last month, it was a mixed bag for the Congress and the BJP - the saffron party headed for defeat in Jammu and Kashmir but bucked early morning trends to move ahead of the Congress in the nail biting Haryana contest.

Amazon on Monday said it has acquired free streaming OTT platform MX Player and merged it with its content streaming service miniTV to launch 'Amazon MX Player'.

Amazon did not disclose the valuation of the acquisition.

The merger aims to make premium-free entertainment accessible to a larger audience.

God is with the Aam Aadmi Party and there is no need to be scared because no wrong has been done, party convenor Arvind Kejriwal said on Monday as the ED searched multiple locations linked to AAP's Rajya Sabha MP Sanjeev Arora as part of a money laundering probe.

Addressing a press conference, Kejriwal charged the BJP-led Centre with targeting the party through its agencies in the name of a corruption probe.

Jammu and Kashmir BJP chief Ravinder Raina on Monday asserted that his party will emerge as the single largest party in the region by securing 35 seats and will form government with the help of like-minded and independent candidates.

He also said that the nomination of five MLAs by the Lieutenant Governor is being carried out as per the Reorganisation Act.

RTI activist Snehamayi Krishna on Monday lodged a complaint against Karnataka Urban Development Minister Byrathi Suresh for allegedly shifting crucial files and documents related to MUDA 'scam' involving CM Siddaramaiah.

In his complaint submitted to the Director General of Police Alok Mohan, he also accused the former Superintendent of Police of Lokayukta in Mysuru Sujeeth of "conniving" with the Minister in shifting the files in July this year, officials said.

A reduced majority, or even a loss for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Haryana and Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) state elections is unlikely to ruffle the markets much, suggest analysts.

As thing stand, the markets, they said, have much bigger things to worry about such as the developing geopolitical situation in West Asia and its impact on oil prices, outcome of the US presidential polls in November and the upcoming corporate results season back home. Monetary policy of the global central banks, too, will be keenly eyed.

India’s benchmark indices fell nearly a per cent on Friday in a topsy-turvy session to cap their worst weekly performance in more than two years.

A deepening conflict in West Asia triggered risk-off bets from global investors and raised the risk of a runup in oil prices.

India’s foreign exchange reserves jumped by $12.6 billion to cross $700 billion for the first time after reporting a steady climb for seven straight weeks, according to the Reserve Bank (RBI).

The overall kitty swelled by $2.838 billion to touch $692.296 billion during the previous week.

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