The Morning Standard - October 23, 2024

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October 23, 2024

40 more flights get bomb threats

HOAX bomb threats continued to keep the security agencies on their toes and inconvenience passengers on Tuesday as about 40 more flights received threat emails.

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Six-storey B'luru building caves in; One dead, 5 injured

A construction worker was killed and five others were injured when a six-storey under-construction residential building collapsed in the city on Tuesday afternoon.

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Behind drug bust: Luxury cars bought in cash, encrypted apps to stay in touch

A port in Mumbai was the smugglers' first stop way back in 2021. The ship brought about 294 kg of heroin from Afghanistan, though it didn't land at Mumbai first. The merchants chose a circuitous way - to Iran, and other West Asian countries - to evade detection.

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JPC MEET ON WAQF TURNS UGLY AS TMC MP SMASHES BOTTLE

THE meeting of the Joint Committee on Waqf (Amendment) Bill witnessed high-voltage drama on Tuesday as Trinamool MP Kalyan Banerjee smashed a glass bottle during a heated exchange of words with BJP member and former Calcutta HC judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay, injuring himself in the process.

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Rai to 3 states: Stop diesel buses from entering city

ENVIRONMENT Minister Gopal Rai on Tuesday wrote to the transport ministers of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, urging them to ensure no diesel buses from their states plied to the national capital in view of GRAP-II restrictions in place.

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MODI, XI TALKS TODAY

● Bilateral dialogue before BRICS Summit opens at Russia's Kazan, says government ● Need to restore mutual trust to go back to status quo ante: Army Chief Gen Dwivedi

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Pollution rises, so does political blame game

AAP targets neighbouring states for spike; why not Punjab, asks BJP

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‘33K deaths from pollution’: NGT takes cognizance of study

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has initiated suo-motu proceedings following two critical studies that have revealed a disturbing decline in air quality across India.

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24 officials suspended in Haryana

THE Haryana Government has suspended 24 officials for their alleged failure to prevent and stubble burning cases in their respective areas, sources said.

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Govt launches 'Red Light On, Gaadi Off campaign

ELHI Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Monday launched the 'Red Light On, Gaadi Off' campaign - turning off car engines at traffic signals - to reduce vehicular pollution in the capital.

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AQI300+, GRAP-2 IMPLEMENTED

Use of coal, firewood, including in tandoors, and diesel generators have been banned

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Sacked employees of DCW will be reinstated: Kejriwal

Services of contractual workers were terminated over 'illegal' hiring

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'FIRECRACKER BAN HAS RENDERED THOUSANDS OF FAMILIES JOBLESS'

As the winter season approaches and pollution levels spike, the Delhi government has ordered a complete ban on firecrackers across the National Capital Territory (NCT) until January 1, 2025. The ban extends to the manufacturing, storage, sale, and online delivery of all firecrackers, including those marketed as eco-friendly or green crackers.

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Right To Reside At Marital Home For Working Woman Not Absolute: HC

THE Delhi High Court has recently held that a wife's right to reside in a shared household under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (DV Act) is not absolute, particularly when she is financially independent.

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Centipede in curd, customer alleges; IRCTC says old incident

A Delhi man was disgusted to find a live centipede in his IRCTC meal and took to social media to highlight the issue of food safety recently. The photograph of the centipede in the 'raita' went viral on social media on Tuesday.

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‘Matter of right’: Man moves HC to get his wife’s gender checked

IN a unique legal battle, a husband has moved the Delhi High Court, requesting a medical examination of his wife at a Central Government hospital to verify her gender.

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Specially-abled with high needs to get ₹5K monthly assistance: Minister

DELHI Social Welfare Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj on Tuesday said AAP-led city government has decided to provide a monthly financial assistance of ₹5,000 to disabled persons with high special needs.

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2020 riots: No bail to accused who pointed pistol at policeman

THE Delhi High Court on Tuesday rejected the bail plea of Shahrukh Pathan, who gained widespread attention for pointing a gun at a police constable during the 2020 Northeast Delhi riots.

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IIT-D offers MSc in 'Healthcare Technology'

IN a programme aimed at bridging the gap between medicine and engineering, the Centre for Biomedical Engineering (CBME) at IIT Delhi has launched an exclusive Master of Science (Research) program in 'Healthcare Technology'.

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LG extends nurses' contract; orders clearance of pending 11k electricity connections

DELHI Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena has approved the extension of services for 962 nursing staff working in city hospitals on a contractual basis for an additional year. The LG's approval is aligned with the one-time regularisation policy issued on October 11, 2020, according to a statement from Raj Niwas.

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Appoint nodal officer for better probes in PMLA cases, ED tells TN police

TN only state without a nodal officer for info

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Priyanka, along with Sonia, reaches Wayanad for bypoll

CONGRESS general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who is making her electoral debut in the bypoll from Wayanad, reached the constituency on Tuesday evening. Her mother and Congress parliamentary party chairperson Sonia Gandhi accompanied Priyanka on her maiden poll tour. Priyanka will file her nominations on Wednesday.

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Drone tech game-changer, I will be brand ambassador, says Naidu

ASSERTING that Andhra Pradesh government is committed to develop Amaravati as the hub for drone technology, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu rolled out the red carpet for investors and pitched himself as the best ambassador for the drone industry.

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Cyclone Dana to hit Odisha today

Landfall point remains unclear, IMD predicts coastal districts will start getting heavy rains

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North Bengaluru crumbles under massive cloudburst, daily life severely affected

AN overnight cloudburst pulverised North Bengaluru, especially the Yelahanka zone, and other key city areas, exposing the I-T City's fragile infrastructure and inadequacies in enduring heavy rains.

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Students ask cops for matchbox to light ganja, beedi

“DO you have a matchbox,” asked a group of school students after entering a building in Adimaly, reckoning it to be a workshop. They requested the matchbox to light a beedi rolled with ganja.

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EXTEND SOCIAL SECURITY FOR WORKERS IN ODISHA

A rapid structural change in the economy notwithstanding, social security continues to elude a large chunk of the labour force in Odisha. Two reports, completely different in scope and objective, give a clear picture of the situation.

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FOCUSING ON STATES TO ACHIEVE A VIKSIT BHARAT

THERE has been a growing realisation of the need to accelerate economic growth at the state level to take the Indian economy to a higher growth path. At NITI Aayog's ninth meeting of the governing council on July 27, Narendra Modi observed that states could play an active role in achieving Viksit Bharat by 2047. Even earlier, at NITI Aayog's governing council meeting on June 15, 2019, the PM had appealed to the states to recognise their core competence and work towards making India a $5-trillion economy.

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NETANYAHU: THE MAN AND HIS MISSION

With the world waiting for Israel's response to attacks from Iran and its proxies, it's essential to understand the anxieties and convictions that drive its leader, Bibi Netanyahu

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SMALL SATELLITE CITIES ARE A BETTER SOLUTION TO URBAN CONGESTION

QUIETLY but surely, a string of satellite cities have come up dotting India's urbanscape in recent decades. These offer affordable housing and jobs that help decongest the old, creaking megalopolises. Gurugram and Navi Mumbai come to mind first.

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On 19th year, RTI reels under vacant positions amid uptick in complaints

A year after the Supreme Court directed the Central and the state governments to take immediate steps to fill the vacancies in the Central Information Commission (CIC) and state information commissions (SICs), the transparency watchdog is functioning with reduced capacity, leading to inordinate delays in resolving RTI cases and backlog of complaints.

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Rlys widens search for specialised technical staff

TO address specialised technical requirements, the Ministry of Railways has announced that it will recruit officers for the Indian Railway Management Service (IRMS) through both the Civil Service Examination (CSE) and the Engineering Service Examination (ESE) conducted by the UPSC starting next year.

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SC says 171 encounters in Assam 'very serious'

THE Supreme Court on Tuesday described the matter concerning 171 police encounters in Assam from May 2021 to August 2022 as \"very serious\", noting that such petitions \"could not be brushed aside as premature.\"

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Clamour for relook as 35 of 66 BJP candidates are turncoats

AS many as 35 of the 66 BJP candidates in the Jharkhand Assembly polls are turncoats, upsetting the party workers who say their credibility is being doubted within the party. Besides, many of the close relatives of some top politicians have managed to get tickets, putting BJP workers in a tight spot over their plank of dynastic politics.

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Teesta can go abroad to attend film festival: SC

THE Supreme Court on Tuesday permitted social activist Teesta Setalvad to travel from November 14 to 24 to attend the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam.

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15-seat Maha hurdle between Congress and Uddhav sorted?

THE opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi on Tuesday decided to iron out its differences over seat-sharing by negotiating the disputed seats for the Maharashtra assembly polls.

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BJP's minority outreach: 26L members brought to saffron party fold during drive

MORE than 26 lakh people from minority communities, including a large number of Muslims, have become members of the BJP during its nationwide membership drive. Nearly six lakh people from minority communities have taken memberships offline. So far, the party has managed to rope in more than 10 crore members.

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Powerful blast at Jabalpur ordnance factory kills 2 workers, injures 15 others

A powerful blast inside the Ordnance Factory Khamaria (OFK) premises in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh killed at least two workers and wounded 15 others on Tuesday.

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Budgam village loses the healer in terror attack

WE have lost the healer and an honest man,\" said Abdul Gaffar, an elderly resident of Nadigam village of central Kashmir's Budgam district. Dr Shahnawaz was among seven persons killed on Sunday in the terror attack on a workers' camp at an under-construction site belonging to APCO Infratech company at Gagangir in central Kashmir's Ganderbal.

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Charges framed against MLA over CAA protest

A special court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday framed charges against activist-turned-MLA Akhil Gogoi and three of his associates for their alleged role during the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) protests in Assam.

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Oppn plans to take up RG Kar against Mamata in 6 bypolls

WITH by-elections to six Assembly seats in West Bengal scheduled for November 13, the Opposition parties have decided to corner the ruling Trinamool Congress over the RG Kar incident, in which a 31-year-old post graduate student was raped and murdered while on duty. The EC announced bypolls for Sitai (SC), Madarihat (ST), Naihati, Haroa, Medinipur, and Taldangra, as their MLAs have contested and won seats in the Lok Sabha.

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Of 193 Maoists killed in encounter with security forces in Bastar, 68 women

CHHATTISGARH has witnessed more casualties of women Maoist cadres than any other Indian state. The outlawed CPI (Maoist) is believed to be most active in Chhattisgarh where they have been waging a war on the security forces for nearly four decades.

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Prosecution sanction against Ram Rahim in sacrilege cases okayed

DAYS after the Supreme Court vacated a stay on the prosecution of Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, the Aam Aadmi Party-led Punjab government on Tuesday gave the prosecution sanction for the controversial sect head in three sacrilege cases of 2015.

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Shah's big push for coop sector

Minister says govt to set up 2 lakh new farm credit societies to empower rural communities

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Ukraine peace talks tied to US presidential polls

UKRAINIAN President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the prospect of peace talks with Russia \"depends\" on the outcome of next month's US presidential election.

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New Zealand airport imposes 3 min cuddle cap for drop off

EMOTIONAL farewells are a common sight at airports, but travelers leaving the New Zealand city of Dunedin will have to be quick. A new three-minute time limit on goodbye hugs in the airport's drop-off area is intended to prevent lingering cuddles from causing traffic jams.

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China-Vatican deal on bishop appointment extended

CHINA said on Tuesday it agreed to extend for four years a deal with the Vatican concerning the appointment of bishops.

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Two Men Plead Guilty To Murder Of Air India Bombing Accused

TWO men accused of killing Ripudaman Singh Malik, a Sikh man acquitted in the tragic 1985 Air India Kanishka terrorist bombing case, have pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in a Canadian court, according to media reports.

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Blinken asks Israel to capitalise on Sinwar's death for Gaza ceasefire

He pressed for more aid to be allowed as concerns rise for civilians

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Maduro's ex-oil czar in dock for sharing secret

VENEZUELA's top prosecutor on Monday announced the arrest of a former oil minister and accused him of working with the US government to undermine the industry that drives the country's economy.

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Afridi chosen Pak chief justice, not seniormost Shah

THE Special Parliamentary Committee constituted to decide on the appointment of Pakistan's next chief justice on Tuesday agreed on the name of Justice Yayha Afridi as the new top judge.

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BSNL not to raise tariff in near future, says CMD

STATE-owned telecom company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has said that it won't increase tariffs in the near future even though all its private peers have raised tariffs by up to 25%.

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India strong amid global economic challenges: FM

DESPITE challenges in the global economic environment, India is in a strong position to leverage new growth prospects, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said at an address at the Columbia University.

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Only structure realigned, no cut in agent fees: LIC chief

AMID threats of a nationwide strike by its agents to force LIC not to change their commission structure or lower the fees, the national insurer has denied any plans to do so.

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Shrinking middle class dragging volumes growth: Nestle chairman

THE fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector is facing challenges as inflation continues to drag volume growth. Chairman and managing director of Nestle Suresh Narayanan blames it on the “shrinking” middle class.

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Markets crash as FII sell-off continues

Foreign investors shift to cheaper markets amid weak Q2 earnings, stronger bond yield & dollar

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Reliance Infra to set up ₹10K cr ammunition unit

ANIL Ambani-led Reliance Infrastructure on Tuesday announced it would set up India's largest integrated project for manufacturing explosives, ammunition, and small arms at an investment of ₹10,000 crore in Ratnagiri in Maharashtra.

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Hyundai Motor shares plunge 7% on debut

SHARES of Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL) made a tepid debut on the stock exchanges on Tuesday as they were listed at ₹1,934 on NSE, a discount of 1.3% to the issue price of ₹1,960. On BSE, the shares were listed at ₹1,931, down 1.5%.

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Allianz seeks to exit JVs with Bajaj insurance

ON a day the insurance regulator has invited all companies, both domestic and foreign, to set up more insurance ventures in the country, one of the oldest JV partners - the Allianz group of Germany, which has two joint ventures with the Bajaj Group in the life and general insurance spaces - said it wants to exit.

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Adani group to acquire 46.8% stake in Orient Cement for ₹8,100 crore

ADANI Group's Ambuja Cements on Tuesday announced the signing of a binding agreement for the acquisition of Orient Cement Ltd (OCL) at an equity value of ₹8,100 crore. Ambuja will acquire 46.8% shares of OCL from its current promoters and public shareholders at ₹395.4 apiece. This acquisition would trigger an Open Offer, under which Ambuja will acquire an additional 26% stake at the same share price of ₹395.4 apiece.

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ISL: Fall rises to lift Odisha

MOURTADA Fall scored the decisive goal as Odisha FC condemned East Bengal to their sixth consecutive defeat in the ongoing season of the ISL, here on Tuesday.

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Sarfaraz Vs Rahul For One Spot

AT any given point of time, at least one Indian middle-order batter is in constant scrutiny. Over the last few years, that particular mantle has been occupied by the likes of Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer and Shubman Gill. It's now time for this particular spotlight to shine on KL Rahul.

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Bates & Martin, the Bert & Ernie of NZ cricket

CONVENTIONALLY speaking, Bert and Ernie are two Muppet characters who appear together on the PBS children's television show called Sesame Street. Both of these characters have been part of one of the most beloved shows since its inception. Who are these two? Simply put, Bert and Ernie are best friends and they are always by each other's side. They go on adventures, learn a thing or two in an episode, and interact with guests but all of this by remaining together. You cannot separate one from the other. Suzie Bates and Katey Martin are the Bert and Ernie of New Zealand cricket and even when one of them has replaced wicketkeeping gloves for commentary mic, they are still standing together like they did when the journey started in Dunedin, Otago.

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Sporting fraternity not happy with CGF move

THE Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) officially announced that Glasgow will be hosting the 2026 Commonwealth Games. In a statement on Tuesday, the body also said that the event will feature just 10 sports across four venues.

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Wood helps Forest down Palace

CHRIS Wood scored his fifth goal of the season as Nottingham Forest overcame Crystal Palace 1-0 to move into the top half of the English Premier League. Wood was always dangerous and came close before he bagged the only goal 19 minutes into the second period.

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FROM AAM PAPAD TO ADZUKI

At INJA, an Indo-Japanese restaurant in Delhi, Chef Adwait Anantwar combines minimalist principles with rich Indian flavours to create a unique dining experience

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Vacation vibes

With these chic vacation shirts, you can effortlessly transition from sunny beaches to lively nightlife

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ECHOES FROM AN ADVENTURE

I do not consider 'Echoes of Wisdom' as just some minor spin-off game in the Legend of Zelda series. For the first time in a very long time, Zelda is herself the main playable character in the series. And I am quite upset that we've completely slept on her druid abilities for all these decades.

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