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โ€œDifficult Nightโ€: Australian PM Scott Morrison Concedes Defeat After Being Ousted In Polls

After a โ€œdifficult nightโ€ for his conservative government, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison admitted defeat in national elections Saturday.

โ€œTonight I have spoken to the leader of the opposition and the incoming prime minister, Anthony Albanese, and I have congratulated him on his election victory,โ€ Morrison said.

According to media projections, Australians have voted to remove Scott Morrison-led government, ending a decade of conservative rule. 

With half of the ballots counted, Anthony Albanese, the Labor leader, is likely to win more seats than the ruling coalition, national broadcaster ABC and other media said.

At the time of this report being prepared, it was not clear whether Labor would need allies to secure a majority.

According to ABCโ€™s projections, Labor had so far secured 72 seats against the 51 seats secured by conservatives. 

The majority mark to form a government is 76 seats. 

Australians, after a flurry of climate-induced crises and the Covid pandemic, a string of climate-focused candidates who could yet hold the balance of power. 

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โ€œIt Is Called Confidenceโ€: S Jaishankar Refutes Rahul Gandhi Over Remarks On Foreign Service

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New Delhi: The Indian Foreign Service, which the Congress leader claims has become arrogant and does not listen, was the latest target of Rahul Gandhiโ€™s โ€œnot enough talkโ€ theme on Saturday. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar responded angrily and publicly to the remark.

โ€œI was talking to some bureaucrats from Europe and they were saying that the Indian foreign service has completely changed. They donโ€™t listen to anything; they are arrogant. Now, they are just telling us what orders they are getting. There is no conversation. You canโ€™t, you canโ€™t do that,โ€ alleged Rahul Gandhi at โ€˜Ideas for Indiaโ€™ conference in London.

Minister S Jaishankar, a career diplomat, responded by saying it was a display of โ€œconfidenceโ€ and โ€œdefending national interest.โ€

Congress leader Randeep Surjewala joined the conversation and responded to the Ministerโ€™s rebuttal.

โ€œYes, it is also called being subservient to the political masters in face of foreign policy bloopers. Yes, it is called not being able to stand up to China in face of illegal occupation of our territory. Yes, it is called furthering the agenda of a party rather then the Nation,โ€ Randeep Surjewala responded to the Foreign Ministerโ€™s tweet attacking Mr Gandhi.

Mr Gandhi drew analogies between the Russian-Ukraine crisis and Chinese efforts in Ladakh when asked about it during the conference. He claimed that, like Pakistan, Indiaโ€™s โ€œdeep stateโ€ is devouring the country.

According to reports, China is building a second bridge across the Pangong Tso Lake in the Union Territory of Ladakh.

India stated on Friday that China is building a second bridge across Pangong Lake in a region that has been under its illegal possession since 1960.

โ€œWe have seen reports of a bridge being constructed by China on Pangong Lake alongside its earlier bridge,โ€ said the External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi. โ€œBoth these bridges are in areas that have continued to be under the illegal occupation of China since the 1960s,โ€ Mr Bagchi said.

Mr Gandhi blasted the BJP government at the Centre on a number of fronts at the conference, alleging that Indiaโ€™s โ€œdeep stateโ€ is assaulting and conquering institutions.

โ€œWhat is happening today is that there is a systematic attack on the institutions that allow conversations to take place. There is an attack on the Constitution of India. The result of this attack is that the states of India are longer able to negotiate with the government,โ€ said Mr Gandhi.

The BJP claimed that the Congress leaderโ€™s โ€œhateโ€ for Prime Minister Narendra Modi was damaging India, and that his repeated disparaging remarks about the country from foreign land amounted to โ€œbetrayal.โ€

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