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United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned that a “whole civilisation will die” in Iran if the country does not agree to a deal before the deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. On Sunday, Trump extended the deadline for Iran to agree to 8 pm US Eastern Time (5.30 am on Wednesday in India).

On Tuesday, Trump said that while he did not want Iranian civilisation to “die tonight”, “it probably will”. Iran said that it would respond to any attacks “without any consideration”.

“The US and it’s allies [will be deprived of] oil and gas for years,” the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps stated. Read on.

Nearly 91 lakh voters have been removed from West Bengal’s voter lists after the special intensive revision of the state’s electoral rolls ahead of the Assembly polls. The deletions represent nearly 11.9% of the state’s electorate of 7.6 crore that existed before the voter roll revision process began.

District-wise, the highest number of deletions during the adjudications phase had taken place in Muslim-dominated Murshidabad, where 4.5 lakh names were struck off the list.

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