👉 The ED arrested Ajay Ajit Peter Kerkar, the promoter of bankrupt travel firm Cox and Kings in connection with its money laundering probe.
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👉 Tribal rights activist Stan Swamy filed a bail application before a special court, saying there was no purpose in keeping a “sick, 83-year-old incarcerated”.
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⌛ *And Finally...*
Twelve years after the 26/11 attack exposed wide gaps in India’s coastal security, almost 60 per cent of India fishing boats are smaller than 20 metres — much like the inflatable boats the attackers used to reach Mumbai’s shores — and most do not have transponders to help authorities track them. But several government departments are looking to fix the issue.
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🤐 Delhi confidential: On a mission to repair ties with Nepal, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Thursday landed in Kathmandu and spoke to the local media in fluent Nepalese. His mother is from the Himalayan neighbour, and Shringla knows the language quite well.
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🎧 In today’s episode of the Three Things podcast, we’re looking at a controversy over land encroachments in Jammu and Kashmir that features prominent names, and the opposition to the resettlement of over 30,000 people in Tripura.
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👉 Tribal rights activist Stan Swamy filed a bail application before a special court, saying there was no purpose in keeping a “sick, 83-year-old incarcerated”.
https://www.inexp.in/PPMC7P
⌛ *And Finally...*
Twelve years after the 26/11 attack exposed wide gaps in India’s coastal security, almost 60 per cent of India fishing boats are smaller than 20 metres — much like the inflatable boats the attackers used to reach Mumbai’s shores — and most do not have transponders to help authorities track them. But several government departments are looking to fix the issue.
https://www.inexp.in/xIKb3k
🤐 Delhi confidential: On a mission to repair ties with Nepal, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Thursday landed in Kathmandu and spoke to the local media in fluent Nepalese. His mother is from the Himalayan neighbour, and Shringla knows the language quite well.
https://www.inexp.in/lpD8S4
🎧 In today’s episode of the Three Things podcast, we’re looking at a controversy over land encroachments in Jammu and Kashmir that features prominent names, and the opposition to the resettlement of over 30,000 people in Tripura.
https://www.inexp.in/rA+iSh
Until tomorrow,
Leela Prasad G and Rahel Philipose
The Indian Express
ED arrests Cox and Kings promoter Peter Kerkar in money laundering case
Cox and Kings owes Rs 5,500 crore to banks and financial institutions and it is one of the top borrowers of Yes Bank Ltd when co-founder Rana Kapoor was heading it.
🔍Explained: BrahMos missile and significance of ongoing series of tests by Armed forces
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Explained: The BrahMos missile, and significance of the ongoing series of tests by Armed forces
A look at the supersonic cruise missile, the significance of its land, sea, and air-launched versions and the strategic posturing behind the ongoing series of tests in the light situation with China and of competition in the strategically important Indian…
🔍Explained: What explains the ‘blue tide’ spotted at Mumbai’s beaches?
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Explained: What explains the ‘blue tide’ at Mumbai beaches?
Bioluminescence or light-emitting tide made an appearance on Tuesday night on Juhu beach in Mumbai and Devgad, Velas and Murud along the state's coastline.
🔍Explained: Delhi and other parts of north India are bracing for near cold wave conditions, here is why
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Explained: Delhi and other parts of north India are bracing for near cold wave conditions, here is why
Over the past two days, the minimum temperature has risen by close to four degrees, up to 10.4 degrees Celsius, but a forecast from the India Meteorological Department (IMD) shows it is expected to fall again.
🔍Explained: Delhi and other parts of north India are bracing for near cold wave conditions, here is why
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Explained: Delhi and other parts of north India are bracing for near cold wave conditions, here is why
Over the past two days, the minimum temperature has risen by close to four degrees, up to 10.4 degrees Celsius, but a forecast from the India Meteorological Department (IMD) shows it is expected to fall again.
🔍Charlie Brown on Apple TV: Why are people outraged?
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Charlie Brown on Apple TV: Why are people outraged?
A look at Charlie Brown, the popularity of the comic strip Peanuts, and the Apple deal that has caused outrage.
🔍Explained: Who are the farmers protesting at Delhi’s borders, and why?
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Explained: Who are the Punjab & Haryana farmers protesting at Delhi’s borders?
Delhi Chalo farmers protest march: A look at who is protesting, and what led to this situation where farmers are surrounding the national capital from all directions.
🔍Explained: The accused in Hathras rape case will undergo brain fingerprinting. What is it?
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Explained: The accused in Hathras rape case will undergo brain fingerprinting. What is it?
Brain Electrical Oscillation Signature Profiling (BEOSP) also known as brain fingerprinting is a neuro psychological method of interrogation in which the accused’s participation in the crime is investigated by studying their brain’s response
🔍Explained: What is a climate emergency, which the New Zealand government might declare?
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Explained: What is a climate emergency, which the New Zealand government may declare?
As prime minister, Jacinda Ardern has been vocal about climate change and last November, the parliament passed the Zero-Carbon Act, which commits New Zealand to zero carbon emissions by 2050 or sooner.
🔍Explained: Why the ‘Burj Khalifa-sized’ asteroid approaching Earth is not a threat
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Explained: Is the ‘Burj Khalifa-sized’ asteroid approaching Earth a threat?
In reality, a civilisation-threatening risk from space objects is extremely rare – occurring once every few million years, according to NASA.
🔍Explained: Brereton War Crimes Report, and why Australian special forces troops may be sacked
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Explained: Brereton War Crimes Report, and why Australian special forces troops may be sacked
The report alleges that a group of 19 soldiers within the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) elite Special Air Services and commandos regiment had killed at least 39 Afghan civilians.
🔍India’s push for gender equity in science
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Explained: India’s push for gender equity in science
One of the focuses of the new Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, currently being drafted by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), will be to increase the participation of women in science.
🔍Study associates high levels of PM2.5 with severity of Covid waves
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Study associates high levels of PM2.5 with severity of Covid-19 waves
The findings suggest that high concentrations of PM2.5 may modulate, or even amplify, the waves of SARS-CoV-2 contamination, and explain in part the particular profile of the Covid-19 pandemic.
🔍Explained: The politics of creating community-based corporations in Karnataka
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Explained: The politics of creating community-based corporations in Karnataka
All parties have created boards and corporations for sub-sects in castes and religious groups with political objectives.
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🚨 *The Big Story*
The stage for the latest showdown between police and farmers protesting the newly enacted farm laws was at the Singhu border, one of the main access points to reach New Delhi. Like the previous day, police rained tear gas shells, sprayed water and used lathis to block the farmers march. A farmer also accused police of digging up pits on roads to slow them down.
https://www.inexp.in/ILt83X
Our Punjab edition has the most exhaustive coverage on the farmers protest march (https://www.inexp.in/-9oDAw). Here, we look at who is protesting and why (https://www.inexp.in/iq1nC2). And a 45-year-old who mobilised farmers from 40 villages died on the way to Delhi (https://www.inexp.in/rMo9rC).
📰 *From the Front Page*
The economy is in recession, at least technically, as the country’s GDP contracted for the second consecutive quarter. However, the July-September quarter data (7.5 per cent contraction) was a significant improvement over the unprecedented 23.9 per cent year-on-year contraction in April-June.
https://www.inexp.in/JEmZbk
As polling for the first ever District Development Council in J&K begins today, we catch up with Khalida Bibi, one of the 89 women candidates contesting in the election. She is up against Farhana Akthar of Congress and three Independents—all marking their debuts.
https://www.inexp.in/B9FwJb
A request from a 83-year-old jail inmate, who has Parkinson's disease, to access a straw and sipper cup has become a textbook case of how insensitive legal procedure can be. That old man is Jesuit priest Stan Swamy, who was arrested by the NIA in the Elgar Parishad case. From his arrest on October 7, the two items have been tossed from one desk to another.
https://www.inexp.in/McO+ye
⚡ *Only in the Express*
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: “The Central Government may, by hook or crook, ride out the current Punjab-based farmers’ agitation. But the underlying logic of the situation can sow the seeds of a long term crisis. The existential stakes in this agitation for both the farmers and the government are high; but the possibility of a good faith material resolution of the problem is low.”
https://www.inexp.in/G5+kBx
In an interview with the Indian Express, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray spoke about his plan to tackle the financial stress on the state economy, on the BJP’s “vendetta politics” and on contesting BMC and other municipal corporation polls along with allies NCP and Congress.
https://www.inexp.in/knMP+6
When the coronavirus pandemic struck less than two years after he made Kerala his home, 30-year-old coconut climber and Chhattisgarh-native Ranjeet Singh Paikra knew he had to do all that he could to help the people of his adopted state. He and his co-workers pooled together their savings to contribute Rs 52,000 to the Chief Minister’s Distress Relief Fund.
https://www.inexp.in/HtxX7J
👩💻 *Must Read*
A 15-year-old boy was arrested in Agra on Sunday after he allegedly threatened to “blow up” Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. According to police, the boy had sent the threat by WhatsApp on the state’s Dial 112 helpline number.
https://www.inexp.in/knMP+6
The Sikh community in the UK has been rallying together on social media to express outrage against the hate crime faced by a young school boy in Telford Shropshire. In a video circulated widely on social media, the Sikh boy is seen being assaulted by two others in school uniform as he was walking back home from class.
https://www.inexp.in/uHSmw-
🎯 *ICYMI*
👉 The J&K police prevented former CM Mehbooba Mufti from holding a press conference at her residence, where she claims to have been “illegally detained yet again”.
https://www.inexp.in/0ESZf0
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🚨 *The Big Story*
The stage for the latest showdown between police and farmers protesting the newly enacted farm laws was at the Singhu border, one of the main access points to reach New Delhi. Like the previous day, police rained tear gas shells, sprayed water and used lathis to block the farmers march. A farmer also accused police of digging up pits on roads to slow them down.
https://www.inexp.in/ILt83X
Our Punjab edition has the most exhaustive coverage on the farmers protest march (https://www.inexp.in/-9oDAw). Here, we look at who is protesting and why (https://www.inexp.in/iq1nC2). And a 45-year-old who mobilised farmers from 40 villages died on the way to Delhi (https://www.inexp.in/rMo9rC).
📰 *From the Front Page*
The economy is in recession, at least technically, as the country’s GDP contracted for the second consecutive quarter. However, the July-September quarter data (7.5 per cent contraction) was a significant improvement over the unprecedented 23.9 per cent year-on-year contraction in April-June.
https://www.inexp.in/JEmZbk
As polling for the first ever District Development Council in J&K begins today, we catch up with Khalida Bibi, one of the 89 women candidates contesting in the election. She is up against Farhana Akthar of Congress and three Independents—all marking their debuts.
https://www.inexp.in/B9FwJb
A request from a 83-year-old jail inmate, who has Parkinson's disease, to access a straw and sipper cup has become a textbook case of how insensitive legal procedure can be. That old man is Jesuit priest Stan Swamy, who was arrested by the NIA in the Elgar Parishad case. From his arrest on October 7, the two items have been tossed from one desk to another.
https://www.inexp.in/McO+ye
⚡ *Only in the Express*
Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: “The Central Government may, by hook or crook, ride out the current Punjab-based farmers’ agitation. But the underlying logic of the situation can sow the seeds of a long term crisis. The existential stakes in this agitation for both the farmers and the government are high; but the possibility of a good faith material resolution of the problem is low.”
https://www.inexp.in/G5+kBx
In an interview with the Indian Express, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray spoke about his plan to tackle the financial stress on the state economy, on the BJP’s “vendetta politics” and on contesting BMC and other municipal corporation polls along with allies NCP and Congress.
https://www.inexp.in/knMP+6
When the coronavirus pandemic struck less than two years after he made Kerala his home, 30-year-old coconut climber and Chhattisgarh-native Ranjeet Singh Paikra knew he had to do all that he could to help the people of his adopted state. He and his co-workers pooled together their savings to contribute Rs 52,000 to the Chief Minister’s Distress Relief Fund.
https://www.inexp.in/HtxX7J
👩💻 *Must Read*
A 15-year-old boy was arrested in Agra on Sunday after he allegedly threatened to “blow up” Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. According to police, the boy had sent the threat by WhatsApp on the state’s Dial 112 helpline number.
https://www.inexp.in/knMP+6
The Sikh community in the UK has been rallying together on social media to express outrage against the hate crime faced by a young school boy in Telford Shropshire. In a video circulated widely on social media, the Sikh boy is seen being assaulted by two others in school uniform as he was walking back home from class.
https://www.inexp.in/uHSmw-
🎯 *ICYMI*
👉 The J&K police prevented former CM Mehbooba Mufti from holding a press conference at her residence, where she claims to have been “illegally detained yet again”.
https://www.inexp.in/0ESZf0
The Indian Express
Daily Briefing: Protesting farmers clash with cops near Delhi; GDP contracts for second consecutive quarter
From the latest showdown between police and protesting farmers near the national capital to the women candidates contesting in J&K's first ever District Development Council polls, here are today's top stories.
👉 A day after TMC leader Suvendu Adhikari resigned as chairman of Hooghly River Bridge Commission, sources in the BJP said he would join the party soon.
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👉 In relief to actor Kangana Ranaut, the Bombay High Court on Friday quashed and set aside the BMC order to demolish a part of her office in Bandra.
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👉 Hyderabad-based drugmaker Hetero Drugs, through its biologics arm, will be producing “over” 100 million doses of the Russian Covid-19 vaccine ‘Sputnik V’ starting in 2021.
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👉 Smith, Finch and Maxwell, the men who had a forgettable run in the UAE, lead Australia to a comprehensive win over India in the first ODI.
https://www.inexp.in/9+yuQ9
⌛ *And Finally...*
The owner of a missing one-and-a-half-year-old Tibetan Mastiff has announced a reward of Rs 31,000 for anyone who is able to find his pet. The dog, named Pablo, went missing from his home in Chandigarh’s Sector 25 after firecrackers lit during Diwali triggered his anxiety.
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📽️ Explained: Will Indian apps benefit from ban on Chinese apps
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Until tomorrow,
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👉 In relief to actor Kangana Ranaut, the Bombay High Court on Friday quashed and set aside the BMC order to demolish a part of her office in Bandra.
https://www.inexp.in/HpFV7r
👉 Hyderabad-based drugmaker Hetero Drugs, through its biologics arm, will be producing “over” 100 million doses of the Russian Covid-19 vaccine ‘Sputnik V’ starting in 2021.
https://www.inexp.in/JBQ1hC
👉 Smith, Finch and Maxwell, the men who had a forgettable run in the UAE, lead Australia to a comprehensive win over India in the first ODI.
https://www.inexp.in/9+yuQ9
⌛ *And Finally...*
The owner of a missing one-and-a-half-year-old Tibetan Mastiff has announced a reward of Rs 31,000 for anyone who is able to find his pet. The dog, named Pablo, went missing from his home in Chandigarh’s Sector 25 after firecrackers lit during Diwali triggered his anxiety.
https://www.inexp.in/ll-JMO
📽️ Explained: Will Indian apps benefit from ban on Chinese apps
https://www.inexp.in/eD+2K3
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The Indian Express
Suvendu Adhikari quits TMC govt; he, others will join us: BJP
Adhikari, son of the Trinamool MP from Kanthi, Sisir Adhikari, and himself a two-term Lok Sabha MP, has been in touch with BJP leaders for some time now, sources in the party in Delhi said.
🔍Explained: Their teeth fell out. Was it another Covid-19 consequence?
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Explained: Their teeth fell out. Was it another Covid-19 consequence?
Dentists haven't seen many of these cases, and some dismiss these individual claims. But physicians say Covid-19’s surprises require that the profession be on the lookout for unexpected consequences of the disease.
🔍Explained: Why France may soon pass a law banning discrimination on the basis of accents
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Explained: Why France may soon pass a law banning discrimination on the basis of accents
If passed, the new law will make linguistic discrimination a criminal offence along with sexism, racism and other forms of outlawed bigotry.
🔍Explained: Who was Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the assassinated Iranian nuclear scientist?
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Explained: Who was Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the assassinated Iranian nuclear scientist?
According to media reports, Hossein Dehghan, who is the military adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has vowed to avenge Fakhrizadeh’s death.
🔍Explained: The new guidelines for cab aggregators
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Explained: The new guidelines for cab aggregators
In the guidelines the government has laid down various procedures pertaining to conditions for grant of licence to an aggregator, compliance with regard to vehicles, regulation of fares, etc.