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🔍Study suggests delirium can predict Covid in the elderly

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🔍Study suggests delirium can predict Covid in the elderly

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🔍Explained: Which antibodies give immunity?

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🔍Greater Hyderabad civic polls: What is at stake for TRS and BJP?

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🔍Explained Ideas: India vs Pakistan — comparison of economic histories

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🚨 *The Big Story*

An overwhelming body of evidence indicates that the four Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists gunned down in a recent encounter in Jammu came from Pakistan. They used smartphones made by a Pakistani company, carried medicines manufactured in Karachi and wore shoes made in Pakistan. Prime Minister Narendra Modi lauded the security forces for having “defeated a nefarious plot” to target grassroots democracy in J&K.

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📰 *From the Front Page*

Moves by three BJP-ruled states, Uttar Pradesh being the latest, to bring in a law to check what they say is “love jihad” has attracted criticism from at least five Opposition-ruled states that said any such law would be an an encroachment on personal liberty, and an attempt to create a communal divide in the country.

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The pace at which the economy reopened after a strict lockdown has been matched by foreign portfolio investors who pumped into Indian equities Rs 1,40,295 crore, the highest-ever in any financial year, in the last eight months. This is in sharp contrast to the record Rs 61,973 crore that was pulled out by them in March.

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In an affidavit before the Supreme Court in response to a petition seeking the release of Delhi-based journalist siddique Kappan from custody, the Uttar Pradesh government said "AM I NOT INDIA’S DAUGHTER" pamphlets were recovered from him and they "have an effect of amplifying social hostility and public revolt”.

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Days after it registered FIRs to probe the illegal diversion of the Centre’s pre-Matric scholarship for poor minority students, based on the findings of an investigation by The Indian Express, the Jharkhand government has ordered its officers to “physically verify” all schools and applicants seeking to avail scholarships under the Union Ministry of Minority Affairs for 2020-21.

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The State Bank of India (SBI) sold Electoral Bonds worth Rs 282 crore to fund political parties in October ahead of the Assembly elections in Bihar. With this, total donations to political parties through Electoral Bonds have touched Rs 6,493 crore from the time the scheme was introduced in 2018.

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Meet Mumbai’s new homeless. They lost their livelihoods during the Covid lockdown and now seek shelter in the city’s hospitals, arriving for treatment and then quietly claiming corners in corridors and waiting areas, clinging on for survival, nowhere else to go.

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👩‍💻 *Must Read*

Less than two months from now, the Maha Kumbh will return to Haridwar, bringing with it a sea of pilgrims and enormous logistics challenges in the middle of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday set up three committees comprising top party leaders to help her formulate the party’s position on economic issues, foreign affairs and national security. Barring one or two, the panels are packed with the old guard.

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🎯 *ICYMI*

👉 As Covid-19 cases surge in Delhi, Maharashtra is considering curtailing or discontinuing flights and trains to the national capital.

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👉 Launching the second phase of RuPay card, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India will soon be sending a Bhutanese satellite to space.

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Attorney general K K Venugopal has granted his consent to initiate contempt proceedings against stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra in connection with a tweet he posted on Chief Justice of India S A Bobde.

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👉 In view of the rising Covid-19 cases in the state, the Gujarat government has decided to impose night curfew in Surat, Vadodara and Rajkot from Saturday.

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👉 The World Health Organisation (WHO) revised Covid-19 treatment protocol, advising against administering Remdesivir to patients.

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⌛ *And Finally...*

“If you are honest and sincere to the game, the game will look after you,” flashed a message on Suryakumar Yadav’s phone. The message was from Sachin Tendulkar. Yadav, nursing the wounds of yet another omission from the national squad, despite a rich haul of runs in domestic cricket and IPL, felt overwhelmed.

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🤐 Delhi confidential: In what will be a first for a Governor of West Bengal, Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday took part in a panel discussion on a news channel, and vehemently criticised the state government over a host of issues.

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🔍Explained: Who is Natalia Garibotto, model at the centre of a Vatican investigation?

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🔍Explained: Mystery of Meghalaya’s glowing mushrooms

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🔍Explained: How to read the drop in diesel consumption in November

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🔍Quixplained: Why are trains not running in Punjab

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🔍Explained: What is regional navigation satellite system or IRNSS that India is 4th nation to have

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🔍Explained: How a pizza parlour employee’s lie triggered South Australia’s strictest lockdown yet

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🔍Explained: Why has Tamil Nadu banned online games?

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🔍Explained: The Queen’s Gambit, and the rise and fall of chess

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🔍Explained: The Queen’s Gambit, and the rise and fall of chess

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🔍Explained: What is the Sentinel-6 satellite and why is it important?

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🔍Explained: Why right wing groups in Germany have compared a Covid law to Nazi-era ‘Enabling Act’

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🚨 *The Big Story*

Among the first official assessments of the fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic, a report prepared by a Parliamentary Standing Committee notes that the number Government hospital beds was grossly inadequate, contact tracing was poor and testing slow in the initial phase, and the chances of false negatives is high due to the use of less reliable diagnostic kits.

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📰 *From the Front Page*

At the G20 virtual summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for a “new global index for the post-Corona world that comprises four key elements—creation of a vast talent pool; ensuring that technology reaches all segments of the society; transparency in systems of governance; and dealing with Mother Earth with a spirit of trusteeship”.

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In a brief reprieve for Punjab, which has been starved of essential supplies for nearly two months, the farmer unions in the state have agreed to suspend their train blockade for 15 days. The farmer leaders said they would continue with their plans to “lay siege to Delhi” on November 26-27.

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The draconian ordinance brought forward by the LDF government in Kerala that provides for a 5-year jail term for any "offensive" social media or cyber post has received Governor's approval. It is feared that the amendment could have a chilling effect on free speech giving more power to the police and restricting freedom of the press.

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⚡ *Only in The Express*

On November 2, Aishwarya Reddy, a student of Delhi University’s LSR College, killed herself, citing financial troubles. The Indian Express tells the story of the 19-year-old —the front bencher for whom the campus opened a world of possibilities — and her desperate cries for help.

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Koneru Humpy is yet to watch the Netflix mini-series The Queen's Gambit, but the premise, she says, is all too familiar. After becoming the youngest woman Grandmaster in the world (at that time) at the age of 15, Humpy disturbed the status quo which resulted in several insinuations on her credentials.

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👩‍💻 *Must Read*

BJP national vice-president Baijayant Panda and his wife Jagi could land in jail after the Odisha High Court refused to intervene in a case of alleged grabbing of land belonging to people from the Dalit community by a company owned by Panda.

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A Delhi court urged former Minister of State for External Affairs MJ Akbar and journalist Priya Ramani to consider settling the criminal defamation case that Akbar has filed against Ramani since the offence was compoundable in nature.

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🎯 *ICYMI*

👉 The health condition of three-time former Assam CM Tarun Gogoi, 85, deteriorated with post-Covid complications and he was put on ventilator support.

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👉 A discussion between linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky and historian-editor Vijay Prashad, part of the ongoing week-long Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest, was cancelled hours before the event.

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👉 The AIADMK-BJP alliance is set to continue for the upcoming Tamil Nadu Assembly polls.

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👉 The Narcotics Control Bureau arrested comedian Bharti Singh (36) and seized 86.5 grams of ganja from her home and office in Andheri West.

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👉 The Ministry of External Affairs summoned Pakistan’s acting envoy and lodged a protest after the latest Jaish bid to carry out terror strikes in J&K.

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⌛ *And Finally…*

In 2018, when she turned 50, Mumbai resident Salvi ran the Berking Marathon and set a Guinness record for being the fastest to complete a marathon in a sari.

In the 21-km 'Pinkathon' this Sunday, there will be 15 others hitting Mumbai roads in saris and sneakers, inspired by Salvi.

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🤐 Inside Track: The Citizenship (Amendment) Act was passed by Parliament in December last year with much fanfare, and notified shortly afterwards amidst protests. Surprisingly, the government has yet to frame rules under the Act, although these have to be issued within six months or else an extension has to be sought.

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🎧 In this week’s Express sports podcast, we look at why this ISL season promises to be better than ever

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