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🚨 *The Big Story*

Three internal reports flagging hate speech, "misinformation" and "problem content", among several other red flags concerning Facebook operations in India in the months ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections were played down during review meetings with Chris Cox, then Vice President of Facebook. Minutes of the meeting concluded: "Survey tells us that people generally feel safe. Experts tell us that the country is relatively stable.”

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The day after a salesman at a wholesale grocery shop was shot by suspected militants in the old city area of Srinagar, the shop-owner, who is a Kashmiri Pandit, said he had been warned Monday afternoon by the local police about a possible attack and advised to leave the shop. Shop-owner Sandeep Mawa told The Indian Express that the killing may have been a case of mistaken identity.

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With fatigue being listed as one of the key reasons for India’s early exit from the T20 World Cup, sources said the BCCI will assess and decide on the workload management of players — before the selectors pick a team – to prevent bio-bubbles from taking a toll on the mental well-being of overworked players. told The Indian Express has learnt that new coach Rahul Dravid will be part of this process along with BCCI secretary Jay Shah.

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📰 *From the Front Page*

The forensic examination of a rifle belonging to Ashish Mishra, son of Union minister Ajay Mishra, has established that the weapon had been discharged, a senior police officer associated with the Lakhimpur Kheri investigation said. However, police said it was not clear when the rifle was fired — whether on October 3, when the incident took place, or on another day.

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Coinciding with Nepal Army chief General Prabhu Ram Sharma's four-day visit to India, Brigadier General Shantosh Ballave Poudyal, Nepal Army spokesperson, wrote in The Kathmandu Post that “Nepal is struggling against the headwind created by growing fissures in the India-China relationship."

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Hearing a petition challenging the clearance granted for improvement and expansion of roads by felling trees, the Surpeme Court asked if it can “override defence needs” on environmental grounds. The Centre has been pushing for increasing the width of the Char Dham road in Uttarakhand to allow the Army quicker access to areas along the boundary with China, but the petitioner contended that the Army was happy with existing roads but was only following the dictates of the political establishment.

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“If I can save the lives of these innocent babies, God will protect mine.” This was the thought that struck Rashid Khan on Tuesday night, when he arrived at the ill-fated infant’s ward at Kamla Nehru Hospital in Bhopal, where a devastating fire killed four babies. He was able to rescue eight infants that night, but could not save his eight-day-old nephew, Rahil.

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The National Security Advisors of seven countries are set to meet today for the ‘Delhi Regional Security Dialogue on Afghanistan’, chaired by India’s NSA Ajit Doval. Pakistan and China have opted out of the talks. Meanwhile, the participating NSAs will discuss some of the challenges Afghanistan faces today — from the threat of terrorism and arsenal of weapons left behind by the US, to the cross-border movement of people and drug trafficking.

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Alarmed by the increasing number of suicides in the CRPF, the force has decided to introduce a system of weekly “chaupals”, where personnel drawn from all ranks will interact with one another on a range of issues other than those concerning their work.
The aim is to promote a culture of talking and greater interaction at its camps so as to prevent the build-up of stress.

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A poster promoting a webinar organised by the Urdu department at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) is at the centre of the latest controversy to hit the college campus. Members of the ABVP, the RSS’s students’ wing, took objection to the fact that the poster had the photograph of Urdu poet Allama Iqbal but not that of BHU founder Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya. The university subsequently issued a “warning letter” to Urdu HoD Prof Aftab Ahmad, and formed a committee to probe the issue.

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⌛ *And Finally...*

🤐 Delhi Confidential: Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya is a stickler for time and cleanliness. On Monday, the minister took a round of various office rooms on different floors and observed that some officers were absent and also inspected the cleanliness of the premises.

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With winter here and millions of Afghans in urgent need of humanitarian aid, National Security Advisors of eight countries, including India, expressed concern over the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan and said assistance should be provided in an “unimpeded, direct and assured manner”. They also called for cooperation against radicalisation, extremism and drug trafficking.

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Meanwhile, Russia, which issued its own statement on the NSAs’ meeting on Afghanistan, made no mention of collective cooperation on these issues.

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Multiple internal Facebook reports over the last two years red-flagged an increase in “anti-minority” and “anti-Muslim” rhetoric as “a substantial component” of the 2019 Lok Sabha election campaign. Inflammatory content in English, Bengali, and Hindi also spiked numerous times and especially in December 2019 and March 2020, coinciding with the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act and start of lockdowns enforced to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

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📰 *From the Front Page*

A country-wide National Achievement Survey, aimed at assessing learning loss among school students due to disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, will be carried out on Friday. But the conduct of the survey, the first such since the pandemic broke out, will be hobbled by realities of delayed school reopenings and natural calamities.

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A day after Nawab Malik said he was going to drop a "hydrogen bomb", the Maharashtra minister accused former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis of suppressing a fake currency case following demonetisation, and protecting "known criminals". The BJP rubbished the allegations and displayed pictures of men Malik accused Fadnavis of protecting with leaders of the MVA coalition.

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A 22-year-old detained over a minor going missing in Kasganj district of Uttar Pradesh was found dead at a police station on Tuesday. Five officials of the Kotwali Police Station, including the SHO, were suspended over the incident, with police claiming that Altaf had hanged himself with a drawstring from the hood of his jacket, using a water pipe in a toilet that is a couple of feet from the ground.

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👩‍💻 *Must Read*

Two of the three senior faculty members of NCERT’s Department of Gender Studies, who helped develop a first-of-its-kind teachers’ manual on inclusion of transgender children in school, have been transferred. The manual was earlier removed from the NCERT website after a complaint by the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights.

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In what appears to be an attempt to appropriate the legacy of late Congress stalwart ND Tiwari, Uttarakhand’s BJP government shortlisted the former chief minister for its prestigious annual state award. Tiwari will be posthumously conferred the state award for his “social work and public service”, and for this contribution in the state’s development, the government said. Meanwhile, the Congress has questioned why the BJP hasn’t honoured Tiwari in the last four years.

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At the COP26 conference, India has joined over 30 other countries in signing a declaration that promises to work towards ensuring that only zero-emission cars and vans are sold by the year 2040. However, this timeline is meant mainly for the developed country signatories, and is not a legally-binding commitment. Emerging markets like India have only promised to work “intensely towards accelerated proliferation and adoption of zero-emission vehicles”.

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⌛ *And Finally...*
Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai now has a cricket connection after marrying Asser Malik, Pakistan Cricket Board’s general manager (high performance). So what do we know about Malala’s husband? A cricket enthusiast, Malik helped build one of Pakistan’s biggest amateur cricket leagues and has also been involved with grassroots cricket in low-income areas in southern Punjab for quite some time.

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🤐 Delhi Confidential: Congress president Sonia Gandhi has asked party general secretary (organisation) K C Venugopal to call a meeting of Telangana leaders to discuss the defeat of the party candidate in the Huzurabad bypoll. This comes in the backdrop of a section of party leaders blaming the former state leadership for the humiliating defeat of party candidate B V Narsing Rao, who could garner only 3,012 votes.

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🎧 In today’s episode of the ‘3 Things’ podcast, we look at how the hospital in Bhopal was ill-equipped to deal with fire outbreaks, the challenges security forces are facing in Poonch, and why e-commerce companies are looking to deliver groceries in under 30 mins.

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Until tomorrow,

Leela Prasad G and Rahel Philipose