Members of the INDIA bloc on Saturday won the bypolls to 10 of the 13 assembly seats across seven states and said that the results were a reflection
| | | Members of the INDIA bloc on Saturday won the bypolls to 10 of the 13 assembly seats across seven states and said that the results were a reflection of the growing discontent against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which won only two of the constituencies that voted on July 10. | THE DAILY QUIZ You can’t see him. He just announced that he’ll retire from the WWE next year. He’s 47, a 16-time WWE world champion, and an actor. He thanked viewers “for letting me play in the house that you built for so many years”. Who is he? a. Dwayne Johnson
b. Hulk Hogan
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d. Steve Austin TAKE THE FULL QUIZ | | THE BIG STORY INDIA parties clinch 10 assembly bypoll seats Although the results have little bearing on the equations in the respective state assemblies, they are likely to provide impetus to a buoyed Opposition after the Lok Sabha elections, which saw the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) come to power for the third consecutive time, but with a reduced majority. Of the 13 seats that went to polls, the BJP had held three , Congress two and the Trinamool Congress (TMC), Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), Janata Dal United or JD(U) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) one each. Three seats were held by Independent candidates before the bypolls. The Congress won four seats — two each in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand; TMC won all four seats that polled in Bengal; AAP won the lone Punjab seat; DMK the one Tamil Nadu seat. The BJP won one seat each in Himachal and MP. The one seat that polled in Bihar was won by an Independent candidate. Read more. | | THE BIG QUESTION How were the Burger King shooters tracked down? Team of 17, e-surveillance, shoe-leather intel: The 3-week pursuit of Burger King shooters A 17-member Delhi Police team worked for three weeks, leaning on electronic surveillance and a bevy of inputs from their human intelligence network to narrow in on the men who were involved in the Burger King shootout last month, investigators aware of the matter said on Saturday, a day after three men were shot in an exchange of fire with officers in Sonepat, Haryana. The three men were headed for a village five kilometres away, to extort ₹50 lakh from a local doctor for their gang leader, fugitive Portugal-based gangster Himanshu Bhau, when they were waylaid by the raiding team, two police officers who were part of the encounter said on Saturday. The gangster and police exchanged 43 bullets during the shootout. A member of Bhau’s gang had tipped off the Delhi Police crime branch team about their plan, leading officers to the three men – Ashish Lalu, Vikas (also known as Vicky Ridhana) and Sunny Kharar (also known as Gujjar). The informer’s identity has been withheld and he has been assured police protection. Read more. | STORIES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED | | | | PHOTO OF THE DAY | | Were you forwarded this email? Did you stumble upon it online? Sign up here. | | Written and edited by Koel Banerjee. Produced by Md Shad Hasnain. | | | | | | | Get the Hindustan Times app and read premium stories | | | | | | View in Browser | Privacy Policy | Contact us You received this email because you signed up for HT Newsletters or because it is included in your subscription. Copyright © HT Digital Streams. All Rights Reserved | | | | |  | |
