👉 BJP general secretary Tarun Chugh Monday said his party has started preparations on a war footing to contest all 117 seats in the 2022 Punjab assembly elections.
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👉 Amid rising Covid cases in the capital, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain Monday said there is “no chance” of another lockdown as the third wave has already peaked.
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👉 The Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting issued a public notice on Monday for online news platforms to comply with certain conditions within a month.
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👉 Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take part in the 12th BRICS summit to be hosted by Russia on Tuesday, where he will once again share a platform with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
https://www.inexp.in/0elw51
⌛ *And Finally...*
Walker, a radio-collared tiger in India which grabbed global attention in March by traversing a circuitous forest route from Yavatmal in Maharashtra through Telangana before re-entering the state to finally settle down in Buldana, is now at the centre of a conservation challenge to find whether establishing corridors from one “island-like forest” to another is the solution to accommodate the country’s growing tiger population.
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🤐 Delhi confidential: The worsening pandemic situation seems to be making it difficult for Parliament to meet for winter session. Many MPs are learnt to have pointed that during monsoon session, many had got affected by coronavirus despite all precautionary measures taken, and the session had to be curtailed in the end.
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🎧 In today’s podcast episode, The Indian Express’s Udit Misra talks about the Indian economy’s first ‘technical recession’ since Independence and the challenges of pulling the economy out of it.
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Until tomorrow,
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👉 Amid rising Covid cases in the capital, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain Monday said there is “no chance” of another lockdown as the third wave has already peaked.
https://www.inexp.in/DBegnJ
👉 The Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting issued a public notice on Monday for online news platforms to comply with certain conditions within a month.
https://www.inexp.in/FLodXx
👉 Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take part in the 12th BRICS summit to be hosted by Russia on Tuesday, where he will once again share a platform with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
https://www.inexp.in/0elw51
⌛ *And Finally...*
Walker, a radio-collared tiger in India which grabbed global attention in March by traversing a circuitous forest route from Yavatmal in Maharashtra through Telangana before re-entering the state to finally settle down in Buldana, is now at the centre of a conservation challenge to find whether establishing corridors from one “island-like forest” to another is the solution to accommodate the country’s growing tiger population.
https://www.inexp.in/6j7Qzb
🤐 Delhi confidential: The worsening pandemic situation seems to be making it difficult for Parliament to meet for winter session. Many MPs are learnt to have pointed that during monsoon session, many had got affected by coronavirus despite all precautionary measures taken, and the session had to be curtailed in the end.
https://www.inexp.in/CPwmWH
🎧 In today’s podcast episode, The Indian Express’s Udit Misra talks about the Indian economy’s first ‘technical recession’ since Independence and the challenges of pulling the economy out of it.
https://www.inexp.in/MK+DOz
Until tomorrow,
Leela Prasad G and Shreyasi Jha
The Indian Express
BJP makes it official: will contest all 117 seats in 2022 Punjab polls
Chugh's statement comes nearly two months after the Akali Dal, one of the oldest allies of the BJP, had quit the NDA over the the three farm laws enacted by Centre.
🔍New research: Arthritis drug may offer hope for older Covid-19 patients
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New research: Arthritis drug may offer hope for older Covid-19 patients
Using artificial intelligence, Imperial team initially identified it as a drug that could have antiviral and anti-inflammatory effects.
🔍Explained: What is mRNA vaccine?
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Explained: What is mRNA vaccine?
The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines use the same technology, based on messenger RNA, or mRNA.
🔍India coronavirus numbers explained, Nov 17: Delhi’s cases drop as a result of low testing
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India Covid-19 numbers explained, Nov 17: Delhi cases drop as a result of low testing
India coronavirus numbers explained: Even with reduced numbers, Delhi remains the highest contributor of Covid-19 cases in the country. The only exception had been on Sunday, when Kerala had reported higher number of cases.
🔍Explained: How Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis is impacting the Horn of Africa
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Explained: How Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis is impacting the Horn of Africa
If the conflict were to spill outside Ethiopia’s borders, it may potentially destabilise the Horn of Africa region. The US and China have several strategic military bases in that region, the closest being Djibouti.
🔍Explained: What does the FBI’s new report on hate crimes say?
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Explained: What does the FBI’s new report on hate crimes say?
The report is compiled by the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) programme, which relied on 2019 data provided by over 15,500 law enforcement agencies across the US on offences, victims, offenders and locations of hate crimes.
🔍Explained: How severe is hurricane Iota that made landfall in Central America?
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Explained: How severe is hurricane Iota that made landfall in Central America?
Aid workers are struggling to reach communities cut off by washed-out bridges, downed trees and flooded roads in some regions of Central America, which are still reeling from the effects of hurricane Eta.
🔍Barack Obama and basketball: In his life and in his book
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Barack Obama and basketball: In his life and in his book
With a sharp passing eye, long jumpers drained to perfection, and a swell passing game, Obama aced what Americans adore the most in sport: an ‘assist’.
🔍Explained: What the fresh Adani Group offer means for DHFL bidding process
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Explained: What the fresh Adani Group offer means for DHFL bidding process
The Adani Group's bid is now higher than other offers for Dewan Housing Finance Limited, which is undergoing a corporate insolvency resolution process.
🔍Moderna’s COVID vaccine: What you need to know
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Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine: What you need to know
Even if Moderna’s vaccine gets the green light from the Food and Drug Administration, it will take months to reach widespread distribution.
🔍Explained: Article 32 and Supreme Court
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Explained: What have been the Supreme Court’s recent observations on Article 32?
Article 32 affirms the right to move the Supreme Court if a fundamental right is violated. How does this provision of the Constitution define this right, and how has the SC interpreted it over the years?
🔍Explained Ideas: Why Pratap Bhanu Mehta believes the Supreme Court is failing to live up to its role
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Explained Ideas: Why PB Mehta believes the Supreme Court is failing to live up to its role
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: This phenomenon is not just a matter of individual judges or individual cases. It is now a systematic phenomenon with deep institutional roots.
🔍New research: Hepatitis C drugs shown to inhibit coronavirus enzyme
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New research: Hepatitis C drugs shown to inhibit coronavirus enzyme
Researchers looked at several well-known drug molecules for potential repurposing efforts. These included three hepatitis C protease inhibitors: telaprevir, narlaprevir and boceprevir.
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In part-2 of our exclusive series on Agusta Westland case, we focus on what chartered accountant Rajiv Saxena told the Enforcement Directorate (ED) about the entities and investments through which part of the alleged kickbacks were routed in the Rs 3,000-crore VVIP chopper deal. And how defence dealer Sushen Mohan Gupta and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath’s nephew Ratul Puri were allegedly involved.
https://www.inexp.in/3W2cCh
In the scholarship scam uncovered by The Indian Express, the first set of 11 FIRs have been filed in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad against two officials of the district welfare office whose job is to screen scholarship applications, a mastermind and his two associates, five school principals who have been accused of creating fake beneficiaries, a local advocate — and a mother of two who has gone missing.
https://www.inexp.in/hwJxC0
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: "The Indian Supreme Court was never perfect. It has had its dark periods before. But the signs are that it is slipping into judicial barbarism... This phenomenon is not just a matter of individual judges or individual cases. It is now a systematic phenomenon with deep institutional roots.
https://www.inexp.in/vDmFR3
📰 *From the Front Page*
Covid-19, climate change, and cooperation in the Indo-Pacific Region: These were the three issues that had come up in the first conversation between US President-elect Joe Biden and Prime Minister Narendra Modi since the US election results. PM Modi said "we reiterated our firm commitment to Indo-US strategic partnership".
https://www.inexp.in/V7lVRh
The Supreme Court expressed its displeasure, for the second time in two months, after a fresh affidavit filed by the Centre was silent about the coverage of television news channels in a case related to the media’s reporting of the Tablighi Jamaat attendees in Delhi testing positive for Covid-19.
https://www.inexp.in/DgdAYL
Calling the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) the “Gupkar Gang”, Union Minister Amit Shah said it, along with the Congress, wanted to “take J&K back to the era of terror and turmoil”. And former Chief Ministers Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah, whose parties are part of the PAGD, reacted sharply to Shah’s remarks.
https://www.inexp.in/wwfRXq
To check "rising incidents of love jihad", according to Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra, the state government is planning to bring out a Bill that would supersede the Freedom of Religion Act and increase jail time for violators to five years of rigorous imprisonment. And the offences listed in the Bill would be non-bailable.
https://www.inexp.in/Rhhbuo
👩💻 *Must Read*
Even though the BJP emerged as the bigger partner in the NDA in Bihar assembly elections, portfolio allocation in the new Nitish Kumar government does not show much change, with the JD(U) keeping all important departments it had in Nitish’s previous term. Division of departments between the two partners also shows that the BJP is also not trying to put pressure on Nitish. At least, for a while.
https://www.inexp.in/sdnWnV
The Congress, which a year ago had asked the government to not sign the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement and claimed credit when the Centre decided to put on hold its decision to join the RCEP, stood divided on Tuesday, with leaders speaking in different voices, and reflecting the confusion within on key issues.
https://www.inexp.in/9r-kzc
China on Tuesday signed off on the BRICS counter-terrorism strategy that called upon on all countries to take steps to prevent the use of their territories for terrorist activities against other countries or their own citizens.
Read the briefing in a single page here: https://indianexpress.com/article/live-news/top-news-briefing-today-7055321/
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🚨 *Only in the Express*
In part-2 of our exclusive series on Agusta Westland case, we focus on what chartered accountant Rajiv Saxena told the Enforcement Directorate (ED) about the entities and investments through which part of the alleged kickbacks were routed in the Rs 3,000-crore VVIP chopper deal. And how defence dealer Sushen Mohan Gupta and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath’s nephew Ratul Puri were allegedly involved.
https://www.inexp.in/3W2cCh
In the scholarship scam uncovered by The Indian Express, the first set of 11 FIRs have been filed in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad against two officials of the district welfare office whose job is to screen scholarship applications, a mastermind and his two associates, five school principals who have been accused of creating fake beneficiaries, a local advocate — and a mother of two who has gone missing.
https://www.inexp.in/hwJxC0
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: "The Indian Supreme Court was never perfect. It has had its dark periods before. But the signs are that it is slipping into judicial barbarism... This phenomenon is not just a matter of individual judges or individual cases. It is now a systematic phenomenon with deep institutional roots.
https://www.inexp.in/vDmFR3
📰 *From the Front Page*
Covid-19, climate change, and cooperation in the Indo-Pacific Region: These were the three issues that had come up in the first conversation between US President-elect Joe Biden and Prime Minister Narendra Modi since the US election results. PM Modi said "we reiterated our firm commitment to Indo-US strategic partnership".
https://www.inexp.in/V7lVRh
The Supreme Court expressed its displeasure, for the second time in two months, after a fresh affidavit filed by the Centre was silent about the coverage of television news channels in a case related to the media’s reporting of the Tablighi Jamaat attendees in Delhi testing positive for Covid-19.
https://www.inexp.in/DgdAYL
Calling the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) the “Gupkar Gang”, Union Minister Amit Shah said it, along with the Congress, wanted to “take J&K back to the era of terror and turmoil”. And former Chief Ministers Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah, whose parties are part of the PAGD, reacted sharply to Shah’s remarks.
https://www.inexp.in/wwfRXq
To check "rising incidents of love jihad", according to Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra, the state government is planning to bring out a Bill that would supersede the Freedom of Religion Act and increase jail time for violators to five years of rigorous imprisonment. And the offences listed in the Bill would be non-bailable.
https://www.inexp.in/Rhhbuo
👩💻 *Must Read*
Even though the BJP emerged as the bigger partner in the NDA in Bihar assembly elections, portfolio allocation in the new Nitish Kumar government does not show much change, with the JD(U) keeping all important departments it had in Nitish’s previous term. Division of departments between the two partners also shows that the BJP is also not trying to put pressure on Nitish. At least, for a while.
https://www.inexp.in/sdnWnV
The Congress, which a year ago had asked the government to not sign the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement and claimed credit when the Centre decided to put on hold its decision to join the RCEP, stood divided on Tuesday, with leaders speaking in different voices, and reflecting the confusion within on key issues.
https://www.inexp.in/9r-kzc
China on Tuesday signed off on the BRICS counter-terrorism strategy that called upon on all countries to take steps to prevent the use of their territories for terrorist activities against other countries or their own citizens.
The Indian Express
Daily briefing: Amit Shah calls Gupkar alliance a gang; Congress a little confused on RCEP
From the Express investigation on AgustaWestland deal, Jharkhand Scholarship scam to Amit Shah saying Gupkar alliance and Congress will bring terror back, here are the top news today.
China also signed off on the declaration which talked about “respect for territorial integrity” of Syria, Libya, Iraq. However, there was no mention of the border stand-off between India and China.
https://www.inexp.in/gtZCOe
🎯 *ICYMI*
👉 The RBI imposed a 30-day moratorium on struggling Lakshmi Vilas Bank and restricted withdrawals by depositors at Rs 25,000, and expenditure on any item at Rs 50,000 per month.
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👉 The Uddhav Thackeray government in Maharashtra has shelved its plan to absorb the power bills of domestic consumers for three months during the lockdown.
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👉 A 15-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly set on fire in Bulandshahr on Tuesday morning and died at Delhi’s RML Hospital later in the day, the police said.
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👉 After spending 21 days behind bars, the man who had allegedly posted inappropriate comments on social media against Uddhav Thackeray and his son Aaditya, was granted bail by a local court on Monday.
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👉 The Lady Shri Ram College Staff Council has passed a resolution expressing regret that members of the college administration are being “targeted” over the suicide of second-year student Aishwarya Reddy.
https://www.inexp.in/aGNXn3
⌛ *And Finally...*
Roy Krishna, who boarded a flight from Labasa on September 24, spent 30 days in quarantine, in three countries, to make it in time to play for defending champions ATK Mohun Bagan. Ten Covid tests, 40 days and four connecting flights later, the Fijian footballer of Indian origin stepped onto the training field in Goa, where this season of the Indian Super League (ISL) will start Friday.
https://www.inexp.in/lD+oH8
🤐 Delhi confidential: Although Kerala was one state Amit Shah had focussed on during his tenure as BJP president, the state unit’s failure in bringing in even a semblance of unity among its leaders seems to have upset the party. So the second state now on the party’s priority list is Tamil Nadu.
https://www.inexp.in/nznLy+
🎧 In today's episode of the Three Things podcast, we look into the long term mental health issues that some face post COVID-19, how Moderna and Pfizer vaccine candidates compare with each other, and why Delhi's third wave of infection may not have peaked yet.
https://www.inexp.in/MBDJZW
Until tomorrow,
Leela Prasad G and Shreyasi Jha
https://www.inexp.in/gtZCOe
🎯 *ICYMI*
👉 The RBI imposed a 30-day moratorium on struggling Lakshmi Vilas Bank and restricted withdrawals by depositors at Rs 25,000, and expenditure on any item at Rs 50,000 per month.
https://www.inexp.in/n7IucQ
👉 The Uddhav Thackeray government in Maharashtra has shelved its plan to absorb the power bills of domestic consumers for three months during the lockdown.
https://www.inexp.in/ouEvkP
👉 A 15-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly set on fire in Bulandshahr on Tuesday morning and died at Delhi’s RML Hospital later in the day, the police said.
https://www.inexp.in/876K-J
👉 After spending 21 days behind bars, the man who had allegedly posted inappropriate comments on social media against Uddhav Thackeray and his son Aaditya, was granted bail by a local court on Monday.
https://www.inexp.in/gsrsFG
👉 The Lady Shri Ram College Staff Council has passed a resolution expressing regret that members of the college administration are being “targeted” over the suicide of second-year student Aishwarya Reddy.
https://www.inexp.in/aGNXn3
⌛ *And Finally...*
Roy Krishna, who boarded a flight from Labasa on September 24, spent 30 days in quarantine, in three countries, to make it in time to play for defending champions ATK Mohun Bagan. Ten Covid tests, 40 days and four connecting flights later, the Fijian footballer of Indian origin stepped onto the training field in Goa, where this season of the Indian Super League (ISL) will start Friday.
https://www.inexp.in/lD+oH8
🤐 Delhi confidential: Although Kerala was one state Amit Shah had focussed on during his tenure as BJP president, the state unit’s failure in bringing in even a semblance of unity among its leaders seems to have upset the party. So the second state now on the party’s priority list is Tamil Nadu.
https://www.inexp.in/nznLy+
🎧 In today's episode of the Three Things podcast, we look into the long term mental health issues that some face post COVID-19, how Moderna and Pfizer vaccine candidates compare with each other, and why Delhi's third wave of infection may not have peaked yet.
https://www.inexp.in/MBDJZW
Until tomorrow,
Leela Prasad G and Shreyasi Jha
The Indian Express
China signs off on BRICS counter-terror strategy, no mention of border stand-off
While Russia was the key drafting country as the host and chair of BRICS this year, China also signed off on the declaration which talked about "respect for territorial integrity" of Syria, Libya, Iraq and in the context of the UN.
🔍India coronavirus numbers explained, Nov 18: Kerala seems to have left the worst behind
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India coronavirus numbers explained, Nov 18: Kerala seems to have left the worst behind
India coronavirus numbers explained: In the last one week, Kerala has reported less than 7,000 cases every day. Though these numbers are still the second highest in the country, after Delhi, a declining trend seems to have been established.
🔍Explained: Is Delhi contemplating a lockdown? What is the market shutdown move?
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Explained: Is Delhi contemplating a lockdown? What is the market shutdown move?
Delhi lockdown? CM Arvind Kejriwal's statements on Tuesday triggered fears that the national capital could be headed for a lockdown, something that officials have said is not on the cards.
🔍Explained: All about the rare Ebola-like Chapare virus that can spread from human to human
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Chapare virus Explained: What is this rare Ebola-like virus that can spread from human to human?
What is the Chapare virus? What have CDC researchers discovered about the virus? How is the Chapare hemorrhagic fever treated? What is the threat posed by the Chapare virus?
🔍Explained: Where does BJP stand in Tamil Nadu
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Explained: Ahead of state polls, where does the BJP stand in Tamil Nadu?
BJP has been on a recruitment spree in Tamil Nadu since 2014. In the past years, it has brought to its fold celebrities, bureaucrats, politicians from other parties and even some individuals with criminal backgrounds.
🔍100 years of SGPC: A tumultuous history of faith and politics
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Explained: The 100-year journey of SGPC, ‘mother of SAD’
There have been no SGPC elections for the last nine years and the leadership has failed to act on the report about the 328 missing copies of Guru Granth Sahib, arguably the biggest issue to grip the body in recent times.
🔍Explained: Why Akhilesh Yadav will not risk any alliance for 2022
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Explained: Why Akhilesh Yadav will not risk any alliance for 2022
Why has Akhilesh Yadav already decided to go solo and project the Samajwadi Party as the main opposition party when the Uttar Pradesh polls are still 14 months away?