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Weeks after The Indian Express's Pandora Papers revelations, the probe set up by the Government into individuals and businesses who had used companies and trusts in offshore tax havens to evade detection has gathered pace. Notices via the Income Tax Department have been sent to “most” of the Indians named in the ongoing investigation. Officials said responses are trickling in to queries sent by the Financial Intelligence Unit from New Delhi to offshore jurisdictions which figure in the Pandora Papers.

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According to one of the several Facebook's internal reports provided to the US Congress by former employee and whistleblower Frances Haugen, as much as 40 per cent of “borderline content” that was ignored by the social media company’s contractual moderators was problematic and included “nudity”, “violence” and “hate”. More significantly, such content got “higher distribution” — meaning it reached more users.
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In what could mark a key turning point in gay rights, the Supreme Court Collegium has recommended the name of senior advocate Saurabh Kirpal as judge of the Delhi High Court. If appointed, Kirpal will be India’s first openly gay judge. The Indian Express has learnt that the Collegium, which deferred its decision on Kripal’s candidature at least four times since 2018, took the call despite repeated objections by the government.

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The petitioner in the landmark 1997 Supreme Court judgment, which granted “independence” to the CBI and fixed a two-year term for its director, has said the apex court should intervene in the matter related to ordinances that empower the Centre to appoint chiefs of the Central Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement Directorate for tenures up to five years.

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Expressing its unhappiness over the lack of concrete steps to tackle the Delhi air pollution crisis, the Supreme Court asked the Centre to hold an emergency meeting today to decide on how to tackle the situation. Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, pointed out that stubble burning by farmers now contributes only 10 per cent to pollution and that dust is one of the major contributors. And the counsel who appeared for the Delhi government said they are ready to impose a lockdown.

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Over the last 20 years, 1,888 custodial deaths were reported across the country, 893 cases registered against police personnel and 358 personnel charge-sheeted. But only 26 policemen were convicted in this period, official records show. The dismal record assumes significance in the wake of the custodial death last Tuesday of a 22-year-old, Altaf, in Uttar Pradesh after he was detained in the case of a minor girl from a Hindu family gone missing.

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Even as Ahmedabad became the fourth Gujarat city to remove all carts and stalls selling non-vegetarian food from the main roads, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel said his government has no problem with what people ate. "We have no issues with who eats vegetarian or non-vegetarian food but the food sold on these carts should not be harmful to health and if they obstruct traffic, the municipal corporation can remove them…," he said.

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A part of the house of senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid in Uttarakhand’s Nainital district was vandalised and set on fire on Monday afternoon, the police said. The incident comes days after Khurshid’s new book on Ayodhya created a row by drawing a parallel between “Hindutva” and radical Islamist groups. Posting images and videos of the vandalism and arson, Khurshid wrote on Facebook, “I hoped to open these doors to my friends who have left this calling card. Am I still wrong to say this cannot be Hinduism?…”

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During an interaction on the sidelines of the T20 World Cup, ICC’s Anti-Corruption Unit head Alex Marshall said the captain and senior players in a cricket team remain the “ultimate target” for corrupters but their mode of operation has undergone a change. While T20s remain the favourite format for corrupters, he said, they aren’t trying to manipulate the result of a game. “Two overs, at the most four overs. It’s not a no-ball. It’s not a toss. It’s elements in a phase of a game…”

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🔍BJP vs SP over Purvanchal e-way, explained: Idea, construction, competing claims

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🔍Explained: What happened at Biden-Xi summit, why it matters to India

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🔍Explained: Why has Bengaluru witnessed the wettest November in the past six years?

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🔍A new oral medicine for diabetes, and what makes it different

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🔍Antibiotic consumption rates up 46% in last two decades: study

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🔍ICC timetable explained: Hello again Pakistan, welcome America

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Ahead of Gur Purab, the Centre announced that the Kartarpur Sahib corridor will be reopened from November 17 to allow pilgrims from India to visit the Sikh shrine in Pakistan. The Ministry of Home Affairs said the decision has been taken keeping in view “the improved Covid-19 situation”.

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Almost a year after an investigation by The Indian Express uncovered a pre-Matric scholarship scam in Jharkhand involving fake beneficiaries, official data shows that the number of beneficiaries of the Centrally-funded scheme for poor minority students reduced by more than 85% in the academic year 2020-21. But during the same period, the number of applicants for the pre-Matric scholarship reduced by only 22%.

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Former Union minister Salman Kurshid writes on the controversy around his new book: "...Hinduism and Hindutva are two different things for the reason that the latter participates in the killing of innocent persons, what debate survives? The truth is that we have for too long given the forces of Hindutva the freedom to push us around, giving the impression that they have a monopoly of the truth."

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“What is important is that other than the damage and destruction of some shops and vehicles, no one died, no one was injured. There was no riot.”

That was a police officer taking stock of last week's Amravati violence even as there was panic among the city police and senior cops from Mumbai had to be scrambled to take charge.


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Families of three of the four persons killed in Monday's encounter in Srinagar are contesting the J&K Police claim that they were shot dead during a security operation against a terror module. Calling them “innocent”, the families demanded that the bodies of the three men, buried by police, be turned over to them. Leaders of J&K mainstream parties called for an “impartial” and “credible” inquiry into the killings to “bring out the truth”.

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Of the over 7.86 crore registrations on the e-Shram portal — the country’s first centralised database of unorganised workers seeded with Aadhaar — 40.5 per cent belong to Other Backward Classes (OBCs), 27.4 per cent to the general category, 23.7 per cent to the Scheduled Castes and 8.3 per cent to the Scheduled Tribes. The estimations are significant because they offer, for the first time, an indicator of the social profile of the informal sector workers in the country.

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Amid anxieties over the crackdown on food stalls in Gujarat, especially those selling non-vegetarian food, anguished vendors say that have been left in the lurch. The crackdown on Tuesday was tagged an “anti-encroachment drive”, with authorities seizing carts, chairs and other paraphernalia. Meanwhile, BJP President CR Paatil maintained that people are entitled to eat what they want and “nobody can stop them”.

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The issue surrounding the Centre’s contentious new farm laws, which prompted over a year of widespread farmer protests, must be resolved to get things back to normal in Punjab, former CM Amarinder Singh said in an Idea Exchange with The Indian Express. If these laws aren’t repealed villagers in Punjab won’t allow political parties to campaign for next year’s Assembly polls, he said.

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As it probes the financial dealings of alleged hacker Srikrishna alias Sriki in a cryptocurrency scandal, the ED is closely looking at a Kolkata-based Bitcoin trading services provider, who reportedly doubled up as the 26-year-old’s personal accountant.

Between 2017 and 2020, Rs 5 crore of funds were reportedly provided by the Bitcoin trader, Rajeev Khandelwal, to Srikrishna — including for chartering a private flight and yacht, and for five-star hotel stays.

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⌛ *And Finally...*

At the T20 world cup, the Indian team looked visibly jaded and spent. While this may seem like an excuse to some, cold numbers reflect that there is some truth in this assessment. The Indian players who feature in all three formats have been much busier than their counterparts from other countries. Besides this, bowling coach Bharat Arun noted that the players have not gone home since right after IPL. “They are in a bubble for the last six months, which takes a huge toll.”

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🤐 Delhi Confidential: With the UP assembly polls around the corner, the BJP is working on CM Yogi Adityanath’s image. The campaign theme, decided as of now, would be to project Adityanath as a fighter – against corruption and criminals.

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🎧 In today’s episode of the ‘3 Things’ podcast, we look at concerns over the tenures of CBI and ED chiefs, why people are disappointed with the Glasgow Climate Pact, and S Gurumurthy’s remarks over social media.

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🔍Explained: Why the second dose of Covid-19 vaccine is important

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