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With 238,295 views on Thursday, 18 April 2024 our article of the day is 2024 Indian general election.

A general election is to be held in India from 19 April 2024 to 1 June 2024 to elect the 543 members of the 18th Lok Sabha, in seven phases. The results will be announced on 4 June 2024. This is the largest-ever election in history, surpassing the 2019 Indian general election, and lasts 44 days, second only to the 1951–52 Indian general election. The incumbent prime minister Narendra Modi, who completed a second term, is running for a third consecutive term.

Approximately 970 million people out of a population of 1.44 billion people are eligible to vote. The state legislative assembly elections in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Odisha, and Sikkim are to be held simultaneously with the general election, along with the by-elections for 35 seats in 16 states.

This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:56 UTC on Friday, 19 April 2024.

For the full current version of the article, see 2024 Indian general election on Wikipedia.

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With 225,230 views on Wednesday, 17 April 2024 our article of the day is Jontay Porter.

Jontay Porter (born November 15, 1999) is an American professional basketball center and power forward who last played for the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Missouri Tigers. Porter was previously listed as a recruit under the Class of 2018 before reclassifying up a year to join his older brother, Michael Porter Jr., at Missouri.

On April 17, 2024, after four seasons playing in the NBA and the developmental G League, Porter received a lifetime ban by the league for gambling.

This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 02:59 UTC on Thursday, 18 April 2024.

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With 181,989 views on Tuesday, 16 April 2024 our article of the day is 2024 WNBA draft.

The 2024 WNBA Draft, the WNBA's draft for the 2024 WNBA season, following the 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season, was held on April 15, 2024, the 29th draft in WNBA history. The draft took place at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, New York, and allowed fans to be in attendance for the first time since the 2016 WNBA Draft. It was exclusively televised on ESPN in the United States and on TSN1/3/4 in Canada at 7:30 p.m. EDT.

This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 02:05 UTC on Wednesday, 17 April 2024.

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With 392,362 views on Monday, 15 April 2024 our article of the day is Etel Adnan.

Etel Adnan (Arabic: إيتيل عدنان; 24 February 1925 – 14 November 2021) was a Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and visual artist. In 2003, Adnan was named "arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab American author writing today" by the academic journal MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. Besides her literary output, Adnan made visual works in a variety of media, such as oil paintings, films and tapestries, which have been exhibited at galleries across the world.

This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:21 UTC on Tuesday, 16 April 2024.

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With 835,210 views on Sunday, 14 April 2024 our article of the day is Scottie Scheffler.

Scott Alexander Scheffler (born June 21, 1996) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. He is currently ranked world number one, first reaching the position in the Official World Golf Ranking in March 2022, and has held that ranking for over 80 weeks. He has won two major championships, both the 2022 Masters Tournament and the 2024 Masters Tournament. He is the only player to win The Players Championship in back-to-back years (2023 and 2024).

This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:13 UTC on Monday, 15 April 2024.

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With 292,595 views on Saturday, 13 April 2024 our article of the day is Tama Tonga.

Alipate Aloisio Leone (born October 15, 1982), better known by his ring name Tama Tonga (タマ・トンガ　Tama Tonga), is a Tongan professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand as a member of The Bloodline. He is best known for his tenure with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) from 2010 to 2024, where he was a founding member of Bullet Club alongside Bad Luck Fale, Karl Anderson and Prince Devitt, as well as being a founding member of Guerrillas of Destiny (G. O. D.) alongside his brother Tanga Loa.

Tonga began to work with NJPW in 2010. In 2013, along other gaijin wrestlers, created the stable Bullet Club. In 2016, Tonga joined his brother, creating the tag team Guerrillas of Destiny. They won the IWGP Tag Team Championship seven times, the 2020 edition of the World Tag League tournament and, due to the collaboration between NJPW and Ring of Honor, the ROH World Tag Team Championship. As a singles wrestler, Tonga held the NEVER Openweight Championship four times. He has also worked with NJPW's partner promotion in Mexico, Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) where he has held the CMLL World Tag Team Championship twice. On the April 12, 2024 edition of SmackDown, Tonga made his WWE debut as a member of the Bloodline.

Tonga is the nephew and adopted son of professional wrestler Haku.

This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:52 UTC on Sunday, 14 April 2024.

For the full current version of the article, see Tama Tonga on Wikipedia.

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