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<p><strong>Breaking News Live: </strong>Hello and welcome to Breaking News live blog. Please follow this space for all the breaking news and latest updates from India and around the world.</p> <p><strong>Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah To Meet PM Modi Today For The First Time Since Assuming Office</strong></p> <p>Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a few Union Ministers in New Delhi on Thursday.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; This will be his first meeting with the Prime Minister, after the Congress formed the government in the state under his leadership, following victory in the Assembly polls in May. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</p> <p>Siddaramaiah will meet Modi at 11 am on August 3 and hold talks, the Chief Minister's Office said in a statement. On the same day, he will meet Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari, it said.</p> <p>On Wednesday, the Chief Minister along with state Congress leaders and Ministers met the party leadership in New Delhi to strategise on a plan of action for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.</p> <p>Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and former party chief Rahul Gandhi were part of the meeting where Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar, apart from AICC general secretary in-charge for Karnataka Randeep Surjewala were present.</p> <p><strong>Manipur: 35 Kuki-Zo People Killed In violence To Be Buried Today</strong></p> <p>Bodies of 35 Kuki-Zo community people who died in the ethnic strife in Manipur will be laid to rest at Lamka town in Churachandpur district on Thursday. The Indigenous Tribal Leaders Forum (ITLF), an organisation of the Kuki-Zo community, is organising the burial programme at the Tuibong peace ground. The ITLF said in a statement that its Chairman Pa Gin Haokip will give a farewell speech on the occasion.&nbsp;</p> <p>More than 160 people lost their lives and several hundreds were injured since the ethnic clashes broke out in Manipur on May 3, after a 'Tribal Solidarity March' was organised in the hill districts to protest against the Meitei community's demand for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status.&nbsp;</p>

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