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A Commanding Officer of the Assam Rifles, his wife and their five-year-old son and four personnel were killed in an ambush by insurgents in Manipur. Their convoy came under attack after an IED was set off. Sources said around 100 to 150 rounds were fired. Manipur government sources said over 15 insurgents were possibly involved in the attack.

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The attack comes less than a week after the officer's parents had travelled from their hometown in Raigarh in east Chhattisgarh, to celebrate Diwali with them. His younger brother is also posted in Manipur with the Assam Rifles.

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Former Union Minister P Chidambaram writes on the hostile attitude of cricket fans when India plays Pakistan: "I suspect that the poison that is being spread in the polity of the country has seeped into cricket stadia and cricket-watching living rooms. Among India’s best writers, poets, musicians, painters, actors, scientists, professors and teachers, doctors, lawyers, architects, businesspersons and legislators are Muslims."

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a meeting on the way forward for managing the cryptocurrency sector where a consensus emerged on the government needing to take “progressive and forward-looking” steps while ensuring that an unregulated crypto market does not lead to “money laundering and terror financing”, sources said.

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who was in Uttar Pradesh's Azamgarh to address a BJP meeting, accused the Samajwadi Party of minority appeasement and vote bank politics, saying it was all about “Jinnah, Azam Khan and Mukhtar (don-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari)” for the party.

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In the second biggest encounter in the history of Gadchiroli, at least 26 Maoists were killed during a security operation in a dense forest of the district. Sources told The Indian Express that over 500 C-60 commandos of the Gadchiroli police carried out the operation. The encounter was one of the longest in the history of Gadchiroli—it started at around 6 am and ended by 4 pm.

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In 2018, the Sanik School at Chhingchip in Mizoram became the first to admit girl students as part of a pilot project. In 2020, five more schools became coeducational by admitting 55 girls. This year, with all 33 Sainik Schools across the country shedding their only male status, 315 more girls secured admission at the six-decade-old institution set up with the “primary aim of preparing boys” for the National Defence Academy.

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The UN’s COP26 climate conference has come to an end, a day later than predicted. But as expected, all was not smooth sailing. The Glasgow climate pact, which called for ending subsidies on fossil fuels, was adopted despite strong objections from India and many other developing countries. India was particularly critical of a section of the draft agreement that calls for parties to accelerate efforts towards “phase-out of unabated coal power and inefficient fossil fuel subsidies”, the first such explicit mention in any climate agreement in over 20 years.

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On November 10, after her start-up FSN E-Commerce Ventures, the parent firm of beauty products retailer Nykaa, made a debut on the stock exchange, Falguni Nayyar became the second richest businesswoman in the country. But no one who knows the middle-class Gujarati girl who aced IIM, had a long successful banking career, and then took a giant leap into a new and unknown field at 50, is surprised.

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⌛ *And Finally...*
A wooden stick that does a rescue act, friends in the afterlife, the snotty history of mucus and more — in this Children’s Day special issue, deep dive into stories, poems and essays that celebrate curiosity, mischief and all the things that make childhood a tough act to follow

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Leela Prasad G and Rahel Philipose
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Days before the extended tenure of Enforcement Directorate (ED) Director Sanjay Kumar Mishra is scheduled to end, the Centre has brought in ordinances to extend the tenures of the chiefs of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the ED for up to five years. The ordinance now opens the door for a further extension of Mishra's tenure even as the Supreme Court had asked the government not to extend it any further.

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Meanwhile, the Opposition questioned the motive and intentions behind the government’s “tearing hurry” to promulgate an ordinance to ensure that Directors of the ED and CBI could have longer tenures, given that Parliament is scheduled to meet later this month.

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In this edition of Idea Exchange, Kerala’s Health Minister Veena George talks about her state's Covid strategy and explains why she has reached out to the Centre on booster doses.

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In a big boost to India’s air-defence capabilities, Russia has started delivery of the much-awaited S-400 missile system for deployment on schedule this year, official sources have confirmed. The S-400 is among the most advanced air-defence systems in the world, with a range of around 400 km. The system is already available with China, which has deployed it along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh.

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Milind Teltumbde, a Central Committee member of the banned CPI (Maoist) organisation, was among the 26 Maoists killed in Saturday’s encounter with security personnel in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district, a senior police officer said. He was also the younger brother of former IIT professor, Dalit intellectual and writer, Anand Teltumbde, who has been jailed in connection with the Elgar Parishad case.

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Based on a complaint by Vishva Hindu Parishad activists, two women journalists reporting on recent instances of alleged religious vandalism in Tripura were detained by the Assam Police. A senior officer said a few videos posted by the journalists on social media are suspected to have been "doctored". They have been booked under sections relating to spreading communal disharmony, committing insult with the intent of provoking breach of peace and criminal conspiracy.

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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has claimed that Chandragupta Maurya, who founded the Mauryan kingdom, had defeated Alexander of Macedonia, and yet historians did not describe him as “great”. Alexander died in 323 BC, a few years after his Indian campaign. There is some debate among historians over when Chandragupta came to power, but it is generally believed to have been after Alexander’s death.

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Shops owned by the minority Muslim community were targeted for arson and destruction during a bandh called by the BJP in Amravati, 150 km west of Nagpur in central Maharashtra, officials told The Indian Express. In the Kotwali area, where the violence took place, police officials said they were outnumbered by a massive gathering of activists of the BJP, Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena.

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The decision to rename the newly built railway station of Bhopal, which will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi today, reflects an attempt by the BJP to regain some of the ground that it lost among tribal and Scheduled Caste voters in the Assembly elections of 2018. The station has now been named after Rani Kamlapati, the first Gond queen of Bhopal. Earlier, it was called Habibganj. The Gonds, who number more than 1.
2 crore, are India’s largest tribal group.

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A visit to the National Museum in the capital feels decidedly different this festive season. India’s largest museum has quietly leaped to the age of immersive digital technology — a first in the country. Now, visitors don’t just have to view an inscription of a prehistoric cave, read about it on a display and move on to the next object. They get a 270-degree digitally-projected experience of actually being in that cave as well as learning about that era, thanks to an augmented reality projection system.

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⌛ *And Finally...*

What was once a grazing land has now become the breeding ground for some of India’s most talented hockey players. In 2004, while travelling to Sonepat, former India captain Pritam Rani Siwach spotted a parcel of unkempt land large enough to play hockey. For a player who was rated highly for her leadership qualities and game intelligence, coaching seemed to be a logical step. On Saturday, 17 years later, Siwach, who had earlier won an Arjuna Award, received the prestigious Dronacharya Award, making her one of the few recipients of the National Sports Award as both a player and now a coach.

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Until tomorrow,

Leela Prasad G and Rounak Bagchi