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Few people like to point out the paradoxes between art and commerce quite as much as artists themselves. At Art Basel in Miami Beach this week, a piece from the appropriately named Brooklyn group MSCHF found a new and amusing way to investigate this conflict. A functional ATM puts the cash balance of each user up on a video screen display. It then maintains a ranking, such that the person with the most dough gets the top perch. It’s a lot like playing coin-operated video games, but instead of awarding kudos for blasting asteroids, it’s based on how quickly your wealth management team got you out of crypto. Here you can see DJ Diplo joining in the fun. After an appearance from Rich Uncle Moneybags a/k/a Mr. Monopoly—surely that falls under “fair use”—you’ll see that he’s got over three mil in his checking account and became the high scorer. Twitter content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. Daniel Greenberg, a co-founder of MSCHF, told NPR that the work, called ATM Leaderboard, has sold for $75,000. Where and if the object appears in the future is up to the new owner (the name of whom was not disclosed), but the top scorers on the leaderboard will remain after each showing “to encourage people to top previous users.” Greenberg also called the piece “an extremely literal distillation of wealth-flaunting impulses,” and said that “from its conception, we had mentally earmarked this work for a location like Miami Basel, a place where there is a dense concentration of people renting Lamborghinis and wearing Rolexes.” Previous notable MSCHF pieces include Spot's Rampage, in which a Boston Dynamics robotic dog was fitted with a paintball gun, the unlicensed Nike footwear called Satan Shoes made in collaboration with Lil Nas X, and large-scale paintings based off ludicrous hospital bills, which were then sold to pay off the debts of those who donated them. ATM Leaderboard (which, again, is a functional ATM) was created in partnership with Perrotin, a gallery with outposts in New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, and Las Vegas. In 2019 Perrotin brought Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian to Art Basel, which consisted of a banana duct taped to a wall. Two of the three editions sold for $120,000, but another was yanked down and eaten by Georgian artist David Datuna in an unannounced site-specific performance piece called Hungry Artist. In an interview, Datuna said that he does not really like bananas, but he felt connected with “part of [Maurizio] Cattelan” when the piece eventually exited his body. God bless the world of contemporary art.
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Online betting markets are heavily favoring incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) over Republican Herschel Walker in Georgia’s Senate runoff with two days until the election. The Democrat’s chances of winning the runoff were at 89.5 percent to Walker’s 10.5 percent as of Sunday afternoon, according to the tracker Election Betting Odds, which culls odds from other popular betting markets. The site, run by conservatives John Stossel and Maxim Lott, notes Warnock’s lead has climbed 1.4 percent in the last day. PredictIt and Polymarket both show Warnock at 89 percent. Smarkets, another betting market used by Election Betting Odds, puts Warnock’s odds even higher — at 92.6 percent to Walker’s 8.3 percent. Recent polling has also put Warnock in the lead, though only slightly. Results from Emerson College and The Hill released last week showed the Democrat up by 2 percentage points, and a CNN poll released Friday found Warnock leading by 4 points. Georgia’s Senate race went into a runoff after neither candidate earned the required majority to take the seat outright. Warnock came in ahead of Walker by just under 1 percentage point. Early voting in the runoff, which ended Friday, smashed records for turnout with more than 300,000 Georgia voters casting their ballots in a single day last week. Strong early voting is typically good news for Democrats, who have encouraged their supporters to turn out well ahead of election day through initiatives such as “souls to the polls,” encouraging people to vote after attending church on Sundays. Warnock also held a massive advantage in fundraising and has reportedly kept up an ad blitz in recent weeks on television as well as Christian and conservative radio. CNN’s survey noted that 47 percent of likely voters who support Walker said they were casting their ballots for the Republican out of opposition to Warnock rather than support for their chosen candidate. On the other hand, 83 percent of likely voters who support Warnock said the main factor in their Senate vote was support for the Democrat — which tends to be a stronger indicator of motivation to vote. Though popular Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) has campaigned for Walker for the first time ahead of the runoff, the governor won’t be on the ballot, which is seen as a handicap for Walker. Neither former President Trump nor President Biden has campaigned in Georgia ahead of the high-stakes Senate election, though former President Obama did stump with Warnock earlier this week. Though Democrats have already won enough races to keep control of the Senate, the Georgia contest could have significant repercussions on both sides of the political aisle. A Warnock win could deliver yet another midterm loss to Trump, and it could reduce the leverage of moderate Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.).
https://www.news10.com/hill-politics/betting-markets-heavily-favor-warnock-over-walker-in-georgia-runoff/
2022-12-05T00:57:47
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2022-12-05T01:00:15
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2022-12-05T01:00:33
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2022-12-05T01:00:45
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2022-12-05T01:01:33
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2022-12-05T01:02:29
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2022-12-05T01:02:35
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HOUSTON — A man shot a woman multiple times in a car in the parking lot of Texas Children's Hospital West Campus before turning the gun on himself in the passenger seat on Sunday, according to the Houston Police Department. Police said the shooting happened around 2 p.m. and the woman's 8-year-old daughter was in the back seat. They said it appears the two were bringing the girl to the hospital for medical attention for an unrelated reason. The girl was uninjured in the shooting. Both the man and the woman were pronounced dead at the scene. Police said their relationship isn't yet known, but the man was not the girl's father. HPD said the girl is receiving treatment at the hospital. The hospital's operations were not impacted by the incident.
https://www.12newsnow.com/article/news/crime/texas-childrens-hospital-possible-murder-suicide/285-04f087c0-0e7c-4dae-ab86-5f3c0c4c58ff
2022-12-05T01:02:36
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2022-12-05T01:02:41
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LUBBOCK, Texas — This story was originally published by the Texas Tribune on Dec. 3, 2022. The Northwest Texas Annual Conference of United Methodist Churches started like a regular church service. Participants sang, took communion, then prayed before voting to split from the United Methodist Church, the nation’s second-largest Protestant denomination. “We are a broken body,” Presiding Bishop James G.Nunn, said as he explained to his hundreds of congregants how the communion bread represented both the broken body of Jesus Christ but also the tension within the faith. “But it teaches us that the breaking is not the end.” Nunn continued, calling the accompanying communion juice “cups of forgiveness.” He prayed for the congregation’s mercy and forgiveness toward one another. “Even in the best of circumstances, there are feelings that are hurt, and sometimes, relationships are rendered in two,” Nunn said. The Northwest Texas Conference includes 200 churches from far West Texas up through the Panhandle. The Lubbock gathering included 145 of those churches — about a third of the 439 Texas churches that finalized their departure from the denomination on Saturday. The split, organized by more conservative church members, comes after years of infighting that stems from the UMC’s more inclusive stances when it comes to congregants and its acceptance of gay marriage and other divides that mirror, and are likely to intensify, America’s broader, ongoing polarization. The measure in Lubbock passed by a vote of 261-24. Hundreds more are expected to similarly depart in the coming months after getting final approval from church leaders and join the Global Methodist Church, which would follow the same beliefs more conservatively. The UMC has four regional bodies in Texas, two of which met on Saturday: the one in Lubbock and another and the Texas Annual Conference in Houston. There, in the nation’s fourth-largest city, 1,245 members voted to approve the disaffiliation, with 3% voting to oppose the split and another 4% abstaining. Nearly half of the UMC congregations in East Texas — 294 churches — voted to leave the denomination. The fight within the denomination occurs as the UMC has expanded into more conservative areas of the world. And it comes amid a national reckoning in broader, American Christianity over similar questions about inclusivity and doctrinal alignment that have intensified. “It parallels this moment in the broader world,” said Rev. Nathan Lonsdale Bledsoe, senior pastor at St. Stephen’s United Methodist Church in Houston, which is remaining in the UMC. “It's a hard time to bring people together. We really reflect the brokenness of the culture and the world.” In Lubbock, the Northwest Texas Annual Conference greenlit the exits of nearly 75% of the region’s congregations. According to the conference workbook, it is anticipated the northwest division will cease to exist. Archie Echols, a retired deputy minister who has been part of the conference for 75 years, was the only person to speak before the vote to disaffiliate. He referenced a scripture that instructs them to prepare a way for God, and closing the church to gay members goes against that. “I think there’s a whole mass of God’s children,” Echols said. “And I feel, instead of preparing a way with that mass of people, who happen to be gay, we’re making a block that doesn’t let them in. May we open up the table and not cause people to be left out.” When they asked church members to raise their hands in favor of disaffiliation, dozens of arms flew up. In response to the vote, St. John’s United Methodist Church in Lubbock released a statement saying they will continue being part of UMC and advocate for church policy changes at local and denominational levels. “We will continue to work at being an affirming and inclusive community for all,” the church said in a statement. Many of the Texas congregations say they’ll join a new, more conservative breakaway denomination, the Global Methodist Church, that was created earlier this year. The mass exodus in Texas significantly exacerbates ongoing issues for the UMC: Since 2019, when UMC delegates approved initial disaffiliation plans, more than 1,300 of the UMC’s 30,500 American churches have voted to leave, and the denomination is now bracing for massive spending cuts and 30-year budget lows, the denomination’s news service reported earlier this year. The split is likely to further religious and political partisanship as United Methodists — who make up a huge portion of more moderate, mainline Christianity — lose influence, said Ryan Burge, an Eastern Illinois University professor of religion and political science who has for years studied the decline and polarization of American religious life. Burge noted that mainline Christian denominations have for decades been hemorrhaging members and power as younger generations become increasingly nonreligious. He said the new, breakaway denomination is much more likely to align with strands of conservative evangelicalism that are already the dominant force in American religion and Republican Party politics. “It’s going to accelerate religious polarization because the mainline is going to be even more marginalized, and they were always the moderates,” Burge said. “We are losing the middle tranche. They have always been the counterpoint to evangelicals.” UMC fight history The UMC debates date back to the 1970s, a few years after the 1968 merger of the Methodist Church and Evangelical United Brethren Church that created the denomination. As the sexual revolution and other progressive social movements of the 1960s continued to flourish in more liberal parts of the country, the UMC attempted to reconcile its ranks’ divergent views on gay rights and other issues. At the UMC’s 1972 meeting, Don Hand, a San Antonio lawyer and Methodist layman sought what he thought was a compromise on the issue: An amendment to the faith group’s doctrinal stances that said all people were created equal by God, but that homosexuality was nonetheless “incompatible” with Christian beliefs. “We do not condone the practice of homosexuality, and consider this practice incompatible with Christian doctrine,” Hand, wrote at the time. That 16-word addition, known as the “incompatibility clause,” has only grown more contentious in the 50 years since, as Americans — including many Methodists — increasingly accept same-sex marriage. Meanwhile, the denomination has increasingly expanded globally, giving more power to voting blocs from conservative countries. And, after the United States legalized same-sex marriage, American ministers were forced to decide whether they’d condone gay marriage. Nathan Lonsdale Bledsoe, the pastor of St. Stephen’s United Methodist Church in Houston, said that he is sad to see so many churches depart from the UMC, but that he is hopeful for a future. “In the very short term, it hurts,” he said. “We’ve fought a lot, and not talked about what it means to love our neighbors or what this seemingly endless fight does to our witness. And I am hopeful that, moving forward, we are able to do more interesting things that make the church look a little more like the Kingdom of God.” The Texas Tribune is a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Also on 12NewsNow.com ...
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2022-12-05T01:02:42
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TEXAS, USA — The Texas House Republican Caucus backed House Speaker Dade Phelan, R- Beaumont, over Rep. Tony Tinderholt, R-Arlington, 78-6, during a closed-door meeting at the Capitol. Phelan served as speaker for the first time in the 2021 session. While the official vote is a month away, when all 150 members will select a speaker, Saturday's vote signals that Phelan has strong support among the majority party. The 47 year-old real estate broker thanked his Republican colleagues on Twitter Saturday: “Every member will play a role in our legislative process, and I look forward to earning the votes of all my colleagues.” During the 2021 session, Phelan helped push for the passage of the state’s new laws banning almost all abortion and allowing permitless carry of handguns. His endorsement by the GOP caucus follows pressure from a vocal group of more conservative Republicans who want to ban Democratic committee chairs. It’s been a longtime tradition to allow the minority party to chair committees, despite being out of power. But the conservative agitators might not get their way. Phelan needs to secure 76 votes in the House to win the gavel and Saturday’s vote shows that he likely has the support to serve a second term. Following the endorsement, Tom Oliverson, chair of the Texas House Republican Caucus said in a statement that the GOP caucus is "unified in our choice" for Phelan. "Under Speaker Phelan’s leadership in the 87th Session, the Texas House accomplished one of the most conservative sessions in our legislature’s history and we are confident this momentum will continue in the next session,” Oliverson said. Phelan has publicly defended the practice that allows Democrats to chair House committees. and said in September that if reelected as speaker, he would appoint the same proportion of Democratic committee chairs for the next session. Phelan appointed 13 Democratic committee chairs at the start of the last session, out of 34 standing committees. Tinderholt, Phelan’s challenger and one of the most far-right members of the Texas House, made it clear when he announced his run for speaker in November that he would be running on his opposition to Democratic committee chairs. The 52-year old senior partner at a campus security company has served in the House since 2015 and once was a member of the conservative Freedom Caucus. He is a vocal opponent of abortion and has filed legislation in 2019 that would make it possible to charge a woman who has an abortion with criminal homicide. That measure failed after a Republican lawmaker did not allow for the bill to leave his committee for a vote of the full House, stating the bill moves “"our state and the pro-life cause in the wrong direction.". In response to the vote on Saturday, Tinderholt said on Twitter he is “undeterred in my fight to ensure we have strong conservative leadership this session,” and added that he will “look forward to the floor vote on the first day of session.” The 88th Texas Legislature begins meeting on Jan. 10. Phelan said he is “deeply grateful” to his Republican colleagues for their support. “The 88th Texas Legislature will include important debates on issues ranging from property taxes to foster care, and I’m confident that our chamber and our caucus will lead the charge on policy proposals that better the lives of all Texans,” he said in a statement. This story was originally published by The Texas Tribune.
https://www.12newsnow.com/article/news/politics/texas-house-speaker-dade-phelan/285-a2f00eb2-2e5b-4911-9029-3964d56d0445
2022-12-05T01:02:48
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FORT WORTH, Texas — A jury of eight men and six women has been selected for the trial of former Fort Worth officer Aaron Dean, who is charged with murder in the 2019 shooting death of Atatiana Jefferson. No Black jurors were selected for the case, which in 2019 sparked protests from the Black community over the killing of Jefferson, a Black woman. A majority of the selected are white; several jurors are people of color, though none are Black. Twelve jurors will sit for the trial, with two selected as alternates. Opening statements in the trial are scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Monday. The 200 potential jurors were randomly numbered. After dozens of potential jurors were excused either because they had conflicts at home or work or because they told the court they were biased or the judge deemed them to be biased based on their answers, the potential jury pool was “shuffled,” meaning they were given new random numbers. The jurors were then picked in numerical order from that remaining pool. Sources with knowledge of the jury selection process said the jury was ultimately picked from the first 46 potential jurors. Among that group, there was a Black female who was excused from jury service because her spouse was having surgery. The judge gave both sides the opportunity to challenge of the jury members that were picked, and neither side had any objections. The final day of jury selection followed a week of questionnaires and voir dire. Judge George Gallagher started Thursday by talking to the potential jurors about their responsibility to be fair and impartial and what their duty will be once they take an oath to serve on the jury. “We need you to be open and honest with us today. There are no right or wrong answers. We need 12 impartial jurors and two alternates who can come in with no preconceived notions,” said Gallagher. Aaron Dean is accused of shooting Atatiana Jefferson in October 2019 in her home. Jefferson’s neighbor, James Smith, called a non-emergency number to check on Jefferson’s home after he saw an open door. Dean and his partner responded and went around the back of the home. Dean shot Jefferson within seconds after she peered out the window to see who was in her backyard and was holding a gun. Police have said Dean never announced himself as an officer. During jury selection this week, prosecutors allowed prospective jurors to ask questions and talk about how they felt about law enforcement. Several jurors stood up and said they could not be impartial and were biased toward Dean because he is a police officer. “I am sick and tired about the way police officers are treated and how they do their jobs," one juror said. "You could present your case but I am not going to be unbiased. I couldn’t convict any law enforcement of murder while involved in a shooting because they are doing their jobs and trying to come home to their families.” One potential juror served 32 years as an officer in Tarrant County and said, “You will have an uphill battle convincing me that 10 seconds you can get into his mind and see what he saw and heard.” Cory Session, a Fort Worth community leader, told WFAA that he was concerned about the makeup of the jury. “It’s just mind-boggling that this would happen at this date and time given the circumstances,” Session said. “If he’s found not guilty of the charges, race will be brought up and it could be a bad day for the city of Fort Worth and race relations. But the people who are the custodians of the judicial process are the ones should answer for how this jury pool ended up this way.” Valerie Baston, a former Tarrant County prosecutor, said she was not shocked at all by the composition of the jury. “It is a typical Tarrant County jury,” Baston said. “I was a prosecutor in Tarrant County for many years… and the jury pools would be predominantly white.” But Baston said that in recent years as the county has become more diverse, the jury pools have slowly started to improve. “We still have a long way to go,” she said. Baston encouraged people to make sure when they are called that they come down and serve. Both Session and Baston said they are putting their faith in the jury to make the right decision. “I can't tell you if it's going to be harder on the prosecutors with this particular jury makeup,” Baston said. “But I'm confident that these jurors will do the right thing, and that they will listen to the evidence and if the State meets their burden of proof and proves the elements then the jurors should return a guilty verdict.”
https://www.12newsnow.com/article/news/special-reports/aaron-dean-trial-atatiana-jefferson-murder-fort-worth-police-officer-jury/287-32991672-fe18-407c-bf34-21113e29e5fa
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Biden administration supports zero-COVID protesters in China Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that the Biden administration supports the zero-COVID protesters in China, explaining that he will address the topic when he visits the country early next year. Related video above: Blinken responds to questions about competition turning into war with china "Of course, we do," Blinken told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union" when asked about the U.S. support for the protesters demonstrating against the Chinese government's stringent COVID-19 restrictions. "We support the right for people everywhere, whether it's in China, whether it's Iran, whether it's any place else, to protest peacefully, to make known their views, to vent their frustrations." Blinken said he would bring up the protests with Chinese officials in person next month. "We will say what we always say and what President (Joe) Biden has said to (Chinese leader) Xi Jinping, which is that human rights and basic civil liberties go to the heart of who we are as Americans. And no American government, no American president is going to be silent on that," Blinken said. Blinken also said the U.S. would take the same approach when the rights of protesters are repressed anywhere else: "We speak out against it, we stand up against it, and we take action against it." Demonstrations have rocked Iran for several months, sparking a deadly clampdown from authorities. The nationwide uprising was first ignited by the death of Mahsa (also known as Zhina) Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in mid-September after being detained by the country's morality police. Since then, protesters across Iran have coalesced around a range of grievances with the Iranian government. Yet while Blinken pointed to U.S. sanctions on those responsible for the crackdown on protesters in Iran, he did not mention any cost that has been imposed on China for its crackdown on protests. Blinken said that "fundamentally" the protests in China and Iran were not about the U.S. "This is about people in both countries trying to express their views, trying to have their aspirations met, and the response that the governments are taking to that," he said.
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Thousands lost to fire at Greensboro Family Dollar A Family Dollar is facing around $16,000 worth of losses after a fire from Sunday morning. Advertisement Thousands lost to fire at Greensboro Family Dollar A Family Dollar is facing around $16,000 worth of losses after a fire from Sunday morning. A Family Dollar is facing around $16,000 worth of losses after a fire from Sunday morning.Greensboro's Fire Department told WXII it happened around 9:30 a.m. on East Cone Boulevard.No one was injured. While there was structural damage, most of the fire was on items themselves. The cause is under investigation. GREENSBORO, N.C. — A Family Dollar is facing around $16,000 worth of losses after a fire from Sunday morning. Greensboro's Fire Department told WXII it happened around 9:30 a.m. on East Cone Boulevard. Advertisement No one was injured. While there was structural damage, most of the fire was on items themselves. The cause is under investigation.
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2022-12-05T01:07:07
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Tampa police chief on leave after golf cart traffic stop The police chief of Tampa has been placed on leave after a video emerged of her flashing her badge from the passenger seat of a golf cart to get out of a traffic ticket. Tampa Mayor Jane Castor placed Chief Mary O'Connor on administrative leave Friday pending an investigation of the Nov. 12 traffic stop in Oldsmar, a city northwest of Tampa. The body camera video, posted online by the Tampa Police Department, shows O'Connor's husband driving the cart and the chief in the passenger seat when a Pinellas County sheriff's deputy pulls them over for not having a tag. "Is your camera on?" O'Connor said. "I'm the police chief in Tampa." "I'm hoping that you'll just let us go tonight," she says, showing the deputy her badge. The deputy let them leave without a ticket, saying "it's nice meeting you." In a statement, O'Connor said it was "poor judgment" for them to have taken the cart out on public roads without a tag. She said it was the first time they had driven it outside of a golf cart-friendly community where they own property. "As someone who has dealt with, taken ownership of and grown from my past mistakes, I know that no one is above the law, including me," she said. The mayor said an internal review is underway. Assistant Chief Lee Bercaw will serve as acting chief. "We hold everyone accountable, no matter their position and this behavior was unacceptable," Castor said. "Chief O'Connor will go through the due process and face appropriate discipline."
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2022-12-05T01:07:17
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Voting will be held on Monday in bypolls to six assembly seats in five states and the Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh, where the Samajwadi Party is locked in a high-voltage contest with the BJP. Rampur Sadar and Khatauli in Uttar Pradesh, Padampur in Odisha, Sardarshahar in Rajasthan, Kurhani in Bihar and Bhanupratappur in Chhattisgarh are the assembly seats where the bypolls will be held. Election authorities have made elaborate arrangements for the by-elections. The counting of votes for the single parliamentary and six assembly seats will be held on December 8, coinciding with the ballot count for Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh assembly elections. In Uttar Pradesh, a direct contest between the BJP and the Samajwadi Party-Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) alliance is on the cards in bypolls to the Rampur Sadar and Khatauli assembly seats and the Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency. The BSP and the Congress are not contesting from the seats. According to a statement issued by the office of Uttar Pradesh's Chief Electoral Officer, 24.43 lakh people will exercise their voting rights in the bypolls. This includes 13.14 lakh male voters, 11.29 lakh female voters and 132 third category voters, it said. Voting will take place from 7 am to 6 pm at 3,062 polling booths located in 1,945 polling centres. \While the bypoll to the Mainpuri parliamentary seat is taking place due to the death of Samajwadi Party (SP) founder Mulayam Singh Yadav, in Rampur Sadar and Khatauli, the polls were necessitated after SP MLA Azam Khan and BJP MLA Vikram Singh Saini were disqualified following their conviction in separate cases. While Khan was disqualified after a court awarded him three-year imprisonment in a 2019 hate speech case, Saini lost his membership of the assembly after his conviction in a 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots case. The outcomes of the bypolls will not have any impact on the central or the state governments as the BJP enjoys a comfortable majority at both levels. However, wins would provide a psychological advantage ahead of the 2024 general elections. Mulayam Singh Yadav's elder daughter-in-law Dimple Yadav is the SP candidate in Mainpuri while the BJP has fielded Raghuraj Singh Shakya, a former confidant of Mulayam's brother Shivpal Singh Yadav. Dimple Yadav is the wife of SP president Akhilesh Yadav. While Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is hoping to demolish the key Samajwadi Party (SP) citadels after wresting Azamgarh and Rampur Lok Sabha seats in June bypolls, the SP is keen to turn the tide with the public show of unity by Shivpal and Akhilesh, who declared that they have bridged their differences. The Sardarshahar seat in Rajasthan was held by Congress MLA Bhanwar Lal Sharma (77) who passed away on October 9 after a prolonged illness. The Congress has fielded the late Sharma's son Anil Kumar while former MLA Ashok Kumar is the BJP candidate. Eight other candidates are in the fray. The by-election to the Padampur seat in Odisha was necessitated by the death of BJD legislator Bijay Ranjan Singh Bariha. Officials said elaborate security arrangements have been made for free and fair voting. As many as 10 candidates are in the fray for the by-election. The bypoll assumes significance in the wake of the BJD's loss in Dhamnagar, its first such defeat since 2009, with many in political circles claiming that the result would also indicate if electoral scales were tilting against the Naveen Patnaik-led party ahead of 2024 state elections. The BJD has nominated from the seat the deceased MLA's daughter, Barsha, who is set to take on BJP's Pradip Purohit, a former MLA, and Congress candidate and three-time legislator Satya Bhusan Sahu, among others. The bypoll to Bhanupratappur seat, reserved for Scheduled Tribes, in the Maoist-hit Kanker was necessitated due to the death of Congress MLA and deputy speaker of the Assembly Manoj Singh Mandavi last month. As many as seven candidates are in the fray, though it is largely a direct contest between the ruling Congress and the BJP. The Congress has fielded Savitri Mandavi, the wife of the deceased MLA, while the BJP nominee is former MLA Brahmanand Netam. Sarva Adivasi Samaj, an umbrella body of tribal communities in Bastar, has also fielded former Indian Police Service Officer Akbar Ram Korram, who is contesting as an Independent. Korram retired as Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police in 2020. In the Kurhani assembly segment in Bihar, the success of JD(U) candidate Manoj Singh Kushwaha, a former MLA, will cement Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's position, while a loss may embolden his detractors. The JD(U) is contesting the seat where the by-election has been necessitated by the disqualification of RJD MLA Anil Kumar Sahani.
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2022-12-05T01:07:23
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The Allahabad High Court will hear on Monday a Gyanvapi masjid management’s revision petition challenging a Varanasi court order on the maintainability of a plea seeking permission to offer regular prayers to idols of deities in the mosque complex. During the last hearing on November 30, the counsel for the Hindu side argued that the case before the lower court was drafted honestly. He was arguing with the counsel for the Anjuman Intejamia Masjid, the Gyanvapi mosque management committee, who alleged that the case was cleverly drafted. The Hindu side counsel further submitted that the provisions of the Places of Worship Act would not apply in the present case. However, after a brief hearing, Justice J J Munir directed the matter to be heard next on December 5. The Gyanvapi mosque management committee had challenged the Varanasi court order rejecting its objection to the maintainability of the suit filed by five Hindu women who sought permission to worship Shringar Gauri and other deities whose idols are located on an outer wall of the mosque. The district judge of Varanasi had on September 12 dismissed the plea. The high court also fixed January 18, 2023, for further hearing on another revision petition filed by Laxmi Devi and others challenging the Varanasi district judge's order by which the lower court had refused the demand of carbon dating of a 'Shivling' claimed to have been found in the Gyanvapi mosque complex. This plea was also heard in the court of Justice J J Munir. The counsel for the Hindu side sought time to gather information on whether the May 17 order of the Supreme Court is about a stay or whether the 'Shivling' should be examined scientifically without damaging it. On October 14, Varanasi District Judge A K Vishvesh had turned down the plea seeking scientific investigation and carbon dating of the 'Shivling', citing Supreme Court directives for its safe keeping so that no tampering can be done. Four of the five Hindu parties had sought carbon dating of the 'Shivling' found during a court-mandated videography survey of the mosque premises close to the "wazookhana", a small reservoir used by Muslim devotees to perform ritual ablutions before offering Namaz. The revision petition has sought appropriate survey or excavation to find out the nature of construction beneath the 'Shivling' discovered on May 16, 2022. The Hindu parties have also sought scientific investigation by carbon dating to determine the age, nature and other constituents of the 'Shivling' in accordance with the provisions of The Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1958. (With PTI inputs)
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2022-12-05T01:07:35
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