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Aaj Ka Panchang, May 30, 2025: Tithi, Vrat And Today's Shubh, Ashubh Muhurat
Last Updated: Aaj Ka Panchang, May 30, 2025: Devotees will celebrate Vinayaka Chaturthi today. The Shukla Paksha Chaturthi and Panchami Tithis will fall on Friday, May 30. The day also coincides with the observance of Vinayaka Chaturthi. It is recommended to consult the Tithi calendar to identify the day's auspicious and inauspicious muhurats before beginning any significant activities. Planning your actions in alignment with these timings can enhance success and help navigate obstacles more smoothly. SUNRISE, SUNSET, MOONRISE, AND MOONSET ON MAY 30 Sunrise is anticipated at 5:24 AM, while sunset will take place at 7:14 PM. The moon is expected to rise at 8:16 AM and will set at 10:50 PM. TITHI, NAKSHATRA, AND RASHI DETAILS FOR MAY 30 The Chaturthi Tithi will be in effect until 9:22 PM, after which the Panchami Tithi will begin. The Punarvasu Nakshatra will remain active until 9:29 PM, followed by a transition to Pushya Nakshatra. The moon will stay in Mithuna Rashi until 3:42 PM, after which it will move into Karka Rashi. The sun will continue its transit through Vrishabha Rashi. SHUBH MUHURAT FOR MAY 30 On May 30, the day's auspicious timings begin with Brahma Muhurat from 4:03 AM to 4:43 AM, followed by Pratah Sandhya from 4:23 AM to 5:24 AM. The Abhijit Muhurat will take place between 11:51 AM and 12:46 PM, and the Vijaya Muhurat is set for 2:37 PM to 3:32 PM. In the evening, Godhuli Muhurat will be observed from 7:12 PM to 7:33 PM, coinciding with Sayahna Sandhya, which lasts from 7:14 PM to 8:15 PM. The day wraps up with the Nishita Muhurat, occurring between 11:58 PM and 12:39 AM on May 31. The inauspicious timings for the day include Rahu Kalam from 10:35 AM to 12:19 PM, Yamaganda Muhurat between 3:46 PM and 5:30 PM, and Gulikai Kalam from 7:08 AM to 8:51 AM. Dur Muhurtam will occur in two phases—first from 8:10 AM to 9:05 AM, and then again from 12:46 PM to 1:42 PM. First Published: May 30, 2025, 05:00 IST
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7 wounded in shooting at park in Washington state: Police
Last Updated: Lakewood, May 29 (AP) Seven people were shot and wounded at a park near Tacoma, Washington, where more than 100 people were gathered when the gunfire erupted, police said. Police detectives believe a dispute between two groups escalated to gunshots on Wednesday evening, Lakewood Police Sgt Charles Porche said. Investigators don't know how many shooters were involved or whether the victims were targeted, he said. No arrests were made in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. 'Unfortunately, there were unintended/uninvolved victims struck during this careless act of violence," Porche said in a news release. 'Detectives will continue to sort through the information gathered to hold those involved accountable for their actions." The police spokesman said the victims ranged from a 16-year-old female, who was in stable condition, to a 38-year-old male who was the only person still in critical condition on Thursday. He added that two others were in serious condition and the rest stable. Officers found a 'very hectic scene" when they responded to calls reporting shots at Harry Todd Park in Lakewood just before 8 pm (local time), Porche told KOMO-TV. The park is beside a lake in the suburb just south of Tacoma. He said medics transported five people to hospitals and two others went to hospitals on their own. The Seattle Times reported that Porche initially said three people were in critical condition. More than 100 people were at the park at the time, Porche said, adding the shooting remains under investigation. 'We've had these couple days here where the sun finally came out and it's been a gorgeous time for people to get out and enjoy the park, the lake and then you have something like this that happens," he said. 'It is one of the great tragedies, right? You don't want anybody to get shot and then you end up with seven different victims that happen out of this act of violence." The shooting comes days after a Memorial Day shooting at a Philadelphia park killed two people and injured nine. (AP) ARI First Published: May 30, 2025, 03:15 IST
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Bodies of 5 missing musicians of Mexican regional band found near Texas border
Last Updated: Ciudad Victoria (Mexico), May 29 (AP) The bodies of five musicians, members of a Mexican regional music group who had gone missing, were found in the northern city of Reynosa along the Texas border, authorities said on Thursday. The musicians from the band Grupo Fugitivo, which played at parties and local dances in the region, had been reported missing since Sunday. Tamaulipas state prosecutors, who had been investigating their disappearance, said the men were kidnapped around 10 pm (local time) that night while travelling in an SUV to a venue where they were hired to play. Their bodies were found on the fringes of Reynosa. Prosecutors said nine suspects believed to be part of a faction of the Gulf Cartel, which has strong presence in the city, have been arrested. Authorities were not immediately able to say why the men were slain, and did not deny reports by local media that the bodies had been burned. The genre they played — Mexican regional music, which encapsulates a wide range of styles including corridos and cumbia — has in recent years gained a spotlight as it entered a sort of international musical renaissance. Young artistes sometimes pay homage to leaders of drug cartels, often portrayed as Robin Hood-type figures. It was not immediately clear if the group played such songs or if the artistes were simply victims of rampant cartel violence that has eclipsed the city. But other artistes have faced death threats by cartels, while others have had their visas stripped by the United States under accusations by the Trump administration that they were glorifying criminal violence. The last time the musicians were heard from was the night they were kidnapped, when they told family members they were on the way to the event. After that, nothing else was heard of them. Their disappearance caused an uproar in Tamaulipas, a state long eclipsed by cartel warfare. Their families reported the disappearances, called on the public for support and people took to the streets in protest. On Wednesday, protesters blocked the international bridge connecting Reynosa and Pharr, Texas, later going to a local cathedral to pray and make offerings to the disappeared. Reynosa is a Mexican border city adjacent to the United States and has been plagued by escalating violence since 2017 due to internal disputes among groups vying for control of drug trafficking, human smuggling and fuel theft. This case follows another that occurred in 2018, when armed men kidnapped two members of the musical group 'Los Norteños de Río Bravo", whose bodies were later found on the federal highway connecting Reynosa to Río Bravo, Tamaulipas. (AP) ARI First Published: May 30, 2025, 03:15 IST
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Trump's latest pardons benefit array of political allies, public figures
Last Updated: Washington, May 30 (AP) A governor who resigned amid a corruption scandal and served two stints in federal prison. A New York Republican who resigned from Congress after a tax fraud conviction and who made headlines for threatening to throw a reporter off a Capitol balcony over a question he didn't like. Reality TV stars convicted of cheating banks and evading taxes. All were unlikely beneficiaries this week of pardons, with US President Donald Trump flexing his executive power to bestow clemency on political allies, prominent public figures and others convicted of defrauding the public. The moves not only take aim at criminal cases once touted as just by the Justice Department, but also come amid a continuing Trump administration erosion of public integrity guardrails, including the firing of the department's pardon attorney and the near-dismantling of a prosecution unit established to hold public officials accountable for abusing public trust. 'He is using pardons to essentially override the verdicts of juries, to set aside the sentences that have been imposed by judges and to accomplish political objectives," said Liz Oyer, who was fired in March as the pardon attorney after she says she refused to endorse a recommendation to restore the gun rights of actor Mel Gibson, a Trump supporter. 'That is very damaging and destructive to our system of justice." To be sure, other presidents have courted controversy with their clemency decisions. President Gerald Ford famously pardoned his predecessor, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton pardoned fugitive financier Marc Rich just hours before the Democratic president left office. More recently, Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter, sparing the younger Biden a possible prison sentence for federal felony gun and tax convictions and reversing his past promises not to use the extraordinary powers of the presidency for the benefit of his family. But the pardons announced Wednesday are part of a pattern of clemency grants that began in Trump's first term and has continued in the current one in which bold-face names, prominent supporters and defendants whose causes are championed by friends time and again have an edge on ordinary citizens who lack connections to the White House. In 2020, for instance, he pardoned allies convicted in the Russia election interference investigation that shadowed his first term as well as his son-in-law's father, Charles Kushner, who was later named ambassador to France. On his first day back in office, he pardoned, commuted the prison sentences or vowed to dismiss the cases of all of the 1,500-plus people charged with crimes in the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot, using his clemency powers to undo the massive prosecution of the unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy. Twice indicted by the Justice Department, and entangled in criminal investigations in the White House and in his post-presidency life, Trump has long conveyed public suspicion about prosecutorial power and found common cause with politicians — including on the other side of the aisle — he sees as having been mistreated like he believes he was. In February, for instance, the Republican president pardoned former Democratic Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich after having earlier commuted his 14-year sentence on political corruption charges. Blagojevich, he said, 'was set up by a lot of bad people, some of the same people I had to deal with". The most recent pardon beneficiaries include former GOP New York Republican Michael Grimm, who pleaded guilty in 2014 to underreporting wages and revenue at a restaurant he ran in Manhattan. The former Marine and FBI agent resigned from Congress the following year and served eight months in prison. Grimm tried to reenter politics in 2018 but lost a primary for his old district. Others include former Republican Connecticut governor John Rowland, whose once-promising political career was cut short by an investigation into gifts and favours from state contractors. Rowland was convicted and imprisoned a second time for conspiring to hide his work on political campaigns and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison. The White House also announced pardons for rap artiste NBA YoungBoy on gun-related charges and TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, famous for 'Chrisley Knows Best", a reality show that followed their family and extravagant lifestyle that prosecutors said was boosted by bank fraud and hiding earnings from tax authorities. The couple was convicted in 2022 of conspiring to defraud banks out of more than USD 30 million in loans by submitting false documents. The latest pardons unfold as Trump has departed from the norms and protocols of the clemency process and as the Justice Department has signalled a tweaked approach to public corruption and white-collar fraud. In place of Oyer, the fired pardon attorney, the administration installed Ed Martin, a Trump loyalist who briefly served as interim US attorney in Washington. He has already pledged to scrutinise pardons that Joe Biden issued on his way out of the White House and has said he would take a 'hard look" at two men who are serving long prison terms for leading a conspiracy to kidnap Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. (AP) ARI (This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed - PTI) First Published:
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Janhvi Kapoor ‘Likes' Reel Claiming Madhuri Won Award For ‘Vulgar Step' While Sridevi ‘Ignored'
Last Updated: Janhvi Kapoor 'likes' viral reel shading Madhuri Dixit while praising Sridevi. Reddit reacts with jabs about 'algorithm likes' and accidental support. Janhvi Kapoor has found herself at the centre of an unexpected controversy online. The Mr. & Mrs. Mahi actress recently liked an Instagram reel that compared her late mother, legendary actress Sridevi, to Bollywood icon Madhuri Dixit and social media users have been quick to react. The viral reel splits the screen between two performances. On one side, Madhuri Dixit's iconic dance sequence Dhak Dhak Karne Laga from the film Beta plays, with overlaid text alleging she won the Filmfare Best Actress award for a 'vulgar step" and 'doing nothing." On the other side, Sridevi is shown in Khuda Gawah, portraying a dual role. The text claims she was 'ignored" for delivering a 'landmark performance" that carried the film. Janhvi's like on the post hasn't gone unnoticed. A screenshot showing her Instagram handle among those who liked the reel is now going viral, particularly on Reddit, where fans and critics alike are debating the implications. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Old Bollywood (@magical_cinema1990) Many online users are accusing her of indirectly shading Madhuri while trying to boost her late mother's legacy. 'Even she will come up with the algorithm story now," one Reddit user wrote, referring to the recent controversy involving Virat Kohli and Tamannaah Bhatia, who claimed their Instagram accounts 'accidentally liked" a reel featuring Avneet Kaur and Deepika Padukone, respectively. Another comment read, 'Wait for her to join the Kohli-Tamannaah gang of accidental like posts." A third added, 'Yes, Madhuri's Beta was a hit, and she performed brilliantly. But acting-wise too, she earned that award. It wasn't just a dance number." Others took a more sarcastic tone, with one user joking, 'Another victim of the algorithm pandemic… hoping Instagram comes with a vaccine soon." Janhvi Kapoor has not issued a statement addressing the viral post or whether the like was intentional. However, with screenshots continuing to circulate and Reddit threads filling up with speculation, it's clear the internet isn't buying the 'accidental like" excuse just yet. First Published:
