Evening briefing: Uddhav Thackeray's ‘power jihad’ barb at BJP; Shubhanshu Shukla's father on son's space mission, more

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of indulging in "power jihad" by breaking political parties to be in government, reported PTI. Dig deeper Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray Shambhu Dayal Shukla, the father of Indian Air Force Wing Commander Shubhanshu Shukla, who has been chosen as the 'prime Gaganyaatri' for the first Indo-US collaborative mission to the International Space Station, expressed that their family has “never been nervous” about his son. Dig deeper More news | Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla picked for mission to Space Station Latest News ‘Karnataka will construct 100 houses for victims in landslide-hit Wayanad’: CM Siddaramaiah Dig deeper MP rains: Two children of family killed, four injured in house collapse Dig deeper India News ‘No historical evidence of Lord Ram’s existence', says DMK minister SS Sivasankar. Dig deeper Business News Microsoft is alleged to have banned young interns from being alone with billionaire co-founder Bill Gates as he was “flirty” and like a “kid in a candy store,” according to an upcoming book by New York Times journalist Anupreeta Das titled ‘Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World.’ The Daily Mail reported the news, after having seen excerpts from the book. The book claimed that it was “not unusual for Gates to flirt with women and pursue them, making unwanted advances such as asking a Microsoft employee out to dinner while he was still the company’s chairman,” and added that his alleged infidelity left his then wife Melinda French Gates “seething for a long time.” Dig deeper Global Matters Professor Allan Lichtman, a forecaster dubbed as the 'Nostradamus' of US presidential elections, shared his thoughts on how Ohio Senator JD Vance might influence the outcome of the 2024 battle between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.