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🔍Want a preview of President Biden? Look at the campaign trail

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🔍An Expert Explains: How to read serosurveys

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As the surge in Covid cases in New Delhi placed an immense strain on the healthcare system, Union Home Minister Amith Shah ordered the implementation of a multi-pronged strategy that includes doubling RT-PCR testing capacity, providing 300 dedicated ICU beds and organising additional medical equipment to tackle severe cases.

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*(Express Exclusive)* With the railways suspending goods and passenger services in Punjab after farmer protests, the situation has posed a challenge for the Army in transporting winter supplies to troops stationed in J&K. The Army, for now, completed winter stocking by moving supplies via road. Any further replenishment will be flown in once the roads are blocked due to snowfall, sources said.

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The suspense over Nitish Kumar returning as Bihar Chief Minister ended with lawmakers from the JD(U)-BJP alliance electing as leader of the NDA. However, there was a surprise twist. Sushil Kumar Modi, his deputy chief minister, may not return to the post again.

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*(Express Exclusive)* The writing is on the wall for the Congress, says party leader Kapil Sibal in this exclusive conversation with The Indian Express on the Bihar verdict and its performance in the recent bypolls. "The people of the country, not just in Bihar but wherever by-elections were held, obviously don’t consider the Congress to be an effective alternative," he says.

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*(Express Exclusive)* It has been forty-one days since the arrest of Delhi-based journalist Siddique Kappan for allegedly conspiring to inflame religious enmity over the Hathras rape. With a habeas corpus plea pending in Supreme Court and his wife says: “I feel that even the judiciary has abandoned us...Justice is not for all, only for some. How did things move so fast in the case of Arnab Goswami?’’

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ISL clubs ATK Mohun Bagan and Mumbai City have new principal sponsors this season: two sports websites backed by online betting companies. Gambling and betting are prohibited under Indian law but the issue of online gambling remains a grey area and is yet to be adjudicated by the courts.

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Meet newly elected CPI(M-L) Mahboob Alam, who lives in a house with an asbestos roof, mud floor, and unplastered walls. His "humbled background" is well known in Balrampur, but his popularity was visible on Bihar election day as he defeated his nearest rival by 50,000 votes.

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*(Express Exclusive)* In this edition of the Idea Exchange, noted economist Pronab Sen talks about the impact of the government’s economic stimulus, highlights the need for traders to have access to credit, assesses why the new method to calculate GDP is better, and says lockdowns in towns to control Covid will hurt due to supply chain disruption.

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🎯 *ICYMI*

👉 Twenty-two months after he was extradited to India from Senegal, gangster Ravi Pujari is set to be finally brought to Mumbai from Bengaluru before December 10

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👉 Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel, who had been undergoing treatment for Covid-related complications, has been placed in ICU, his family said.

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👉 Five-and-a-half months after it erupted, Oil India Limited’s (OIL) Baghjan well in Assam’s Tinsukia district was brought under control on Sunday, authorities confirmed.

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⌛ *And Finally...*

Our film critic Shubhra Gupta pays tribute to legendary actor Soumitra Chatterjee, who passed on Sunday.

"Right from his 1959 debut Apur Sansar, the final part of Satyajit Ray’s iconic Apu trilogy (after Pather Panchali and Aparajito), Soumitra Chatterjee’s quality of sincerity was his most abiding trait, and it held him in solid stead through his career."

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🔍Explained: What makes SpaceX NASA’s Crew-1 mission launch significant?

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🔍Explained: Moderna COVID-19 vaccine stability eases distribution challenges

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🔍Explained: Why Peru’s new President has been forced out

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🔍Explained: Who is Khadim Hussain Rizvi, the Barelvi cleric whose supporters are protesting France caricatures in Islamabad?

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🔍Was it Michelangelo? Why a piece of 16th century street art in Florence is triggering fresh excitement

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🔍Explained: The China factor and India’s strategic thinking on RCEP

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🔍India out of RCEP, trade angle…

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Starting today, The Indian Express will be publishing a series of stories based on the confessions of key accused in the Rs 3,000-crore Augusta Westland VVIP chopper deal case. Part-1 of the series focuses on the interrogation statements of Rajiv Saxena, chartered accountant and key accused. And former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath’s son Bakul Nath, his nephew Ratul Puri, Congress leaders Salman Khurshid and Ahmed Patel find mention in Saxena's statements.

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American biotech company Moderna says its vaccine candidate is 94% effective, making it a promising option for India, according to health experts. What makes it feasible is that the vaccine's long term storage is at minus 20°C, the same temperature at which India stores its polio vaccines. However, the biggest hindrance is the vaccine cost: $37 (more than Rs 2,750).

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Retaining power in Bihar is an achievement the BJP has been talking up since the results came in, but deep down, the party is aware of the challenges thrown up by the close verdict. The RJD-led alliance secured an almost similar vote share is a red flag, indicating how it managed “wider support group” than envisaged by the NDA.

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“Why can’t you go to the high court?” A bench headed by Chief Justice of India S A Bobde made the remark while hearing a plea challenging the arrest of Kerala-based journalist Siddique Kappan, who was held on his way to Hathras in October. The court observed that it is trying to discourage petitions under Article 32 of the Constitution—which grants individuals the right to approach the top court.

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👩‍💻 *Only in The Express*

The Indian Express has learnt that an internal assessment of India’s bilateral free trade agreements with nine countries, including five signatories of the RCEP has played a pivotal role in the government firming its position against joining the mega trade pact. The assessment showed a “moderate utilisation rate” of Free Trade Agreements over a five-year period, and a trade deficit for India in most cases, save in regard to SAARC nations.

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Ahead of the 2021 Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu, the state unit of BJP is working towards obtaining the support of M K Alagiri, the elder son of late M Karunanidhi, and brother of DMK president M K Stalin. At this point, an alliance with Alagiri, who will likely meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah on November 21,
may give shape to a broader political front in the state.

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Even as the Centre has announced production-linked incentives worth some Rs 2 lakh crore for a host of sectors to boost manufacturing investments, the sugar industry is complaining of huge non-payments against schemes notified more than a year ago. “From where can we pay? The Centre owes us roughly Rs 2,400 crore of export incentive and another Rs 280 crore as buffer stock subsidy.”

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In his much-anticipated book, ‘A Promised Land’, which hits the bookstores on Tuesday, former US president Barack Obama has recalled his conversation with Manmohan Singh during his visit to India in December 2010 and said Singh had resisted calls to retaliate against Pakistan after the 26/11 attacks, “but his restraint had cost him politically”. "He feared that rising anti-Muslim sentiment had strengthened the influence of BJP."

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🎯 *ICYMI*

👉 A day after Kapil Sibal criticised the state of affairs in the Congress, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot said there was “no need” for Sibal to mention “internal issues” in the media.

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