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🚨 *The Big Story*

The 18-point political resolution moved by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath at the first BJP National Executive meeting in two years was largely devoted to lauding Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership over a range of issues, from Covid to his stand on climate change, as well as reduction of the excise duty on petrol and diesel. However, the resolution was silent on the contentious farm laws, as well as on the CAA and the border dispute with China.

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In this edition of the Idea Exchange, Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Shekhawat says Captain Amarinder Singh alone can’t be faulted over Punjab government’s problems, stresses the farm laws issue will be resolved before Punjab polls, and explains Jal Jeevan Mission’s thrust on managing demand.

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📰 *From the Front Page*

A fisherman from Palghar, Maharashtra, was killed and another wounded in the high seas off the Gujarat coast after personnel of Pakistan’s Maritime Security Agency allegedly opened fire at an Indian fishing boat in the Arabian Sea, official sources said on Sunday. “We have taken serious note of this incident. We are going to take up this issue diplomatically with the Pakistan side,” a government source said in New Delhi on Sunday.

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As the first week of the Glasgow climate conference drew to a close, NGOs and civil society organisations were complaining about the lack of any progress in the negotiations, particularly on difficult issues like finance. Developed nations are under an obligation to provide money to developing countries to help them fight climate change — India has reinforced this saying developed countries can’t get a free pass.

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👩‍💻 *Must Read*

Officials of three state cricket associations, a suspected match-fixer, a former convenor of selectors of Delhi cricket, a one-time IPL cricketer, a Bengal under-19 player and the operators of a sports management company that brought all of them together. This is the cast of characters so far in an alleged “cash for selection” scam to dupe aspiring cricketers around the country.

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Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope denied the charge that no fire safety audit had been conducted at the District Government Hospital in Ahmednagar, where 11 people died in a blaze on Saturday, while hinting that there was delay on the part of the PWD to provide technical sanction for safety works. Tope, however, refused to answer when asked if the PWD should be held responsible for the fire that left 11 Covid patients admitted in the ICU dead.

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In 2020, a year of pandemic-induced economic distress, suicides among “tradesmen” increased by 50 per cent — the highest across categories — compared to 2019, even as the broader business community recorded more such deaths than farmers. According to the latest data from the National Crime Records Bureau, as many as 11,716 businessmen died by suicide in 2020 compared to 10,677 farmers in the same year.

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While the queue of companies planning to raise money through initial public offerings is getting longer, investors who put funds in many of the IPOs launched earlier this year are sitting on notional losses. Investments in almost 40 per cent of the issues are going at lower than the issue price. “Around 23 per cent have outperformed. Overall, around half have given returns of above 10 per cent so far. Therefore, it has not been a uniform story across the board,” a Care Ratings study showed.

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⌛ *And Finally...*

The International Amateur Boxing Association has employed military-approved artificial intelligence voice analysis and cyber technology systems to analyse judges and referees at the recently-concluded men’s World Championships in Belgrade. Two individuals were also removed from the officiating pool after being questioned by an automated phone questionnaire, which has been dubbed a tool to put AIBA’s “house in order”.

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🔍Explained: Here’s why almost all MSRTC depots are shut in protest across Maharashtra

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🔍Explained: Over 2 decades, growing proportion of voters who decide choice late

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🔍Simply Put: India’s submarine strength

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Expressing its lack of confidence in the judicial commission appointed by the Uttar Pradesh government to probe the October 3 incidents in Lakhimpur Kheri, the Supreme Court proposed the appointment of a retired judge from “a different High Court” to monitor investigations till the chargesheets are filed. The bench’s suggestion came after it said that evidence of some of the witnesses in the case relating to the death of the driver and the two BJP workers were overlapping with the case related to the death of four farmers. It raised doubts whether this was being done to benefit a “particular accused”.

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China became the second country after Pakistan that is set to give tomorrow's NSA-level meeting on Afghanistan a miss. Sources said the meeting, attended by NSAs from Russian, Iran and other key countries in the region, will look at the challenge arising out of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. However, sources said, there was no request or plan to invite the Taliban since none of the participating countries have recognised or legitimised the regime so far. They did not rule out the possibility of inviting other countries, including the US, in future editions of the event.

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*From the Front Page*

A day after a policeman was shot dead in Srinagar, suspected militants killed a civilian in the Old City area. Mohammad Ibrahim Khan, 45, was shot in the chest and abdomen. He worked as a salesman at a grocery shop run by a Kashmiri Pandit who had returned to Srinagar in May 2019 after migrating to Delhi in the early 90s at the onset of militancy.

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Days before his transfer to Jammu & Kashmir, a CRPF jawan allegedly killed four and injured three of his batchmates at a camp in Chhattisgarh’s Naxal-hit Sukma district. The reasons for his action were not immediately clear, but sources said he fought with his colleagues over some "trivial matter" a few days ago.

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At least four infants died in a fire that broke out in the children’s ward of the Kamla Nehru Hospital, which is located within the premises of Bhopal’s state-run Hamidia Hospital. Officials said that 36 of the 40 infants in the ward were rescued while four, who were already in a critical condition, succumbed in the blaze.

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Meanwhile in Maharashtra, the fire safety recommendations put together by an audit committee of the Maharashtra government after a fire claimed the lives of ten newborn babies inside a hospital are yet to be implemented. Since then, five major fires have been reported in the state’s hospitals with 45 more deaths, including the 11 Covid patients who were killed in Saturday's fire.

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Last month, six men waylaid and murdered his 14-year-old daughter while she was cycling to his coaching institute in Bihar's Samastipur. Within the next 10 days, all the accused were arrested and jailed. And a week later, Umashanker Thakur was back teaching at the institute he started after leaving his job as a marine engineer in Mumbai “to lift the education profile” of rural students.

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There is a new sub-vertical in the online grocery segment — Quick Commerce, or q-commerce, where the promise of deliveries within 10-30 minutes of ordering is the unique selling proposition. But how do companies meet the delivery deadlines? They set up 'dark stores' located closer to the point of delivery.

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⌛ *And Finally...*

Our sports correspondent who is in UAE to cover the cricket T20 World Cup dissects the factors that contributed to India's failed campaign (https://www.inexp.in/ayOcCR). And our chief cricket writer looks back on Ravi Shastri's five years as the team's head coach and the legacy he leaves behind (https://www.inexp.in/mMOby5).

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