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In a virtual meeting with Chief Ministers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought individual plans from them to prepare a final blueprint of the country’s largest immunisation drive. In the meantime he told them to work towards bringing the positivity rate under 5 per cent and the fatality rate under 1 per cent.

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📰 *From the Front Page*

Former chief minister Farooq and Ommar Abdullah, Farooq's sister Suraiya Matto, National Conference offices in Jammu and Srinagar, and a Trust once owned by the Congress have illegally occupied state land, according to J&K administration’s fresh list of illegal beneficiaries of the Roshni Act.

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A jail term of up to 10 years and a minimum fine of up to Rs 50,000 are among the provisions included in a draft ordinance cleared by the Uttar Pradesh Cabinet to check “unlawful religious conversions” and “inter-faith marriages with the sole intention of changing a girl’s religion”. Such marriages, according to the ordinance, would also be declared null and void.

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Online retail service AliExpress, on-demand courier service Lalamove and at least 15 dating apps with Chinese links were among the 43 mobile apps banned by the Centre, citing “sovereignty and integrity of India”. The move follows the on 177 apps over two rounds in June and September this year.

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Taking note of the The Indian Express investigation into the pre-Matric scholarship scam, the Ministry of Minority Affairs listed five key preventive measures to plug the loopholes. Among the measures include conducting random checks, using fraud detection software and preparing a listor suspicious institutions.

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Hours after the Haryana government announced that it will seal state borders ahead of a farmers’ march against the Centre’s farm laws, state police conducted raids in the dead of the night and took several farmer leaders into preventive custody.

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Amid concerns that a Covid-19 vaccine would require an efficient, countrywide cold chain infrastructure, the dairy industry and its reliance on a temperature-controlled supply chain to carry out artificial inseminations could offer some answers to policymakers and public health professionals.

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From state capital Thiruvananthapuram to commercial hub Kochi, unconventional non-political movements have fielded candidates for Kerala’s upcoming local body elections. All of them depend on crowdfunding and hope to claim the electoral space available at a micro local level, where familiarity and accessibility matter the most.

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To cope with the effects of the lockdown, the Maharashtra government has decided to give financial aid and 5-kg ration to 5,600 sex workers of Mumbai every month till the Covid-19 pandemic is over. But NGOs point out that a larger share of sex workers are missing from government’s list of beneficiaries to get the financial aid.

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🎯 *ICYMI*

👉 Shiv Sena MLA Pratap Sarnaik, who had initiated a breach of privilege motion against Republic TV Editor Arnab Goswami, was the target of ED raids on Tuesday.

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👉 The Allahabad High Court has said that “two adults are free to choose their partner” while hearing a plea challenging an inter-faith marriage.

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👉 Journalist Priya Ramani, on trial in a defamation case filed by former Union minister M J Akbar, told a Delhi court that she will not settle the case with Akbar and stands by her statement.

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👉 Stubble burning increased by 46 per cent in Punjab and dropped by 28.

6 per cent in Haryana this year in comparison to last year, according to official data.

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👉 Cyclone Nivar is predicted to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm in the next 12 hours and into a very severe cyclonic storm in the subsequent 12 hours.

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⌛ *And Finally...*

The Indian cricket team will go retro for the limited-overs series in Australia by donning the iconic dark-blue team kit from the 1992 World Cup. The jersey marked the introduction of coloured-clothing, white balls and floodlight at a 50-over World Cup.

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🤐 Delhi confidential: Lok Sabha MP Karti Chidambaram on Tuesday sprang a surprise on the party, suggesting that Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra should contest the by-election for Kanyakumari Lok Sabha seat in Tamil Nadu.

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🔍Explained: What you need to know about the certification process in the US elections

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🔍What is eVIN and how will it be used for distributing Covid-19 vaccine?

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🔍Explained: How cab drivers in Mumbai manipulated the Ola app to cheat customers

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🔍Explained: Uttar Pradesh’s ‘love jihad’ law, and why it could be implemented vigorously

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🔍Cyclone Nivar to make landfall near Chennai: Its intensity and impact right now

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🚨 *The Big Story*

Diego Maradona is no more. Some players who came after him might be spoken of in the same breadth, but there will only be one Diego Maradona. And it is with good reason he was the joint winner of FIFA Player of the Century award. His magical feet, his breathtaking slalom runs and his determination to make his own destiny. That is Maradonna. One would run out of superlatives describing him.

Our sports correspondent Sandip G pays tribute to the legend in this beautiful obituary. (https://www.inexp.in/P-7bAR)

His colleagues Shamik Chakrabarty and Mihir Vasavda look at Maradona's time in Italy (https://www.inexp.in/d3Z5qd) and his moments of magic on big stages (https://www.inexp.in/lQ9zEL).


📰 *From the Front Page*

Voicing his concern over "judicial overreach", Vice President Venkaiah Naidu cited curbs on Diwali fireworks ban, denying the executive a role in the appointment of judges and monitoring investigations as examples of the courts overstepping their limits.

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PDP youth chief Waheed ur Rehman Parra was arrested by the NIA in connection with a terror case against suspended J&K officer Devinder Singh. The PDP, however, sought to draw a connection between his arrest and the DDC polls in which Parra is contesting from Pulwama.

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The Centre has brought back night curfews in its fresh containment guidelines in which states have been given more elbow room to impose local restrictions on public movement and gatherings. However, states cannot seal borders and no separate approval would be needed for inter-state movement.

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Former Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi released an audio clip purportedly featuring RDJ chief Lalu Prasad Yadav telling a BJP MLA to skip Wednesday’s Speaker's election. In the tape, the man said to be Lalu offers the MLA ministerial berth should the Grand Alliance topple the NDA government and get Speaker of its choice.

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Despite testing positive for and recovering from the debilitating Covid-19 infection himself, 62-year-old Dr Jalil Parkar, continues to spend hours in the hospital treating patients — much like countless other corona warriors, risking everything so that their patients can be secure.

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👩‍💻 *Must Read*

Ahmed Patel, “one of the pillars of the Congress”, who passed away early Wednesday fighting multiple organ failure post-Covid, was the go-to man whenever the party faced trouble. Which meant quite often.

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Braving the cold blast of water canons and breaking police barricades erected along the Ambala-Delhi National Highway, farmers pushed forward with their quest to march to the national capital as part of their ‘Delhi Chalo’ call scheduled for Thursday and Friday.

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Due to the curtailment of railway operations in many parts of the country, smaller cities are now showing faster air growth, those tracking the sector have said.

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🎯 *ICYMI*

👉 Hours before the “very severe” Cyclone Nivar made landfall along the Tamil Nadu-Puducherry coast, the Tamil Nadu government evacuated about 1.25 lakh people to relief camps.

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👉 The SC stayed the Andhra Pradesh HC order restraining the media from reporting the FIR registered in connection with alleged irregularities in land deadlings in Amaravati.

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👉 Citing the “security scenario”, the MHA informed Lok Sabha that it will not be able to disclose information relating to suspension of telecom and internet services in Jammu & Kashmir.

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