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2:03 AM

Cyclone Nivar LIVE: 49 flights that were scheduled for tomorrow cancelled, says IndiGo

Due to Cyclone Nivar, IndiGo flights to or from in the southern region, mainly Chennai, have been disrupted. 49 flights that were scheduled for tomorrow have been cancelled. We will monitor the situation and decide on the further course of action for Nov 26: IndiGo Statement

1:38 AM

Nevada Supreme Court approves Biden win over Trump in state

The Nevada Supreme Court made Joe Biden's win in the state official on Tuesday, approving the final canvass of the November 3 election. The unanimous action by the seven nonpartisan justices sends to Democratic Governor Steve Sisolak results that will deliver six electoral votes from the Western US battleground state to Biden over Republican President Donald Trump.

The court action drew extra scrutiny amid legal efforts by the state GOP and Trump campaign to prevent sending vote-by-mail ballots to all 1.82 million active registered voters and then to stop the counting of the 1.4 million votes that were cast.

12:44 AM

Prominent Shia cleric and All India Muslim Personal Law Board vice president Maulana Kalbe Sadiq has died at the age of 83 in Lucknow, says his son

11:40 PM

India successfully test-fires land-attack version of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile

India on Tuesday "successfully" test fired the surface-to-surface supersonic cruise missile BrahMos as part of a series of planned trials of the weapon, known for its precision strike capabilities, official sources said. The range of the new land-attack version of the missile has been extended to 400 km from the original 290 km but its speed has been maintained at 2.8 Mach or almost three times the speed of sound, they said. "The land-attack version of the missile was test-fired in the Andaman and Nicobar at around 10 am and it was a successful trial", an official source said.

According to official sources, in the next few days, the Indian Air Force and the Indian Navy are scheduled to carry out separate test-firing of the new version of the air-launched and naval versions of the supersonic cruise missile respectively. BrahMos Aerospace, an India-Russian joint venture, produces the lethal weapon that can be launched from submarines, ships, aircraft, or from land platforms. India has already deployed a sizeable number of the original BrahMos missiles and other key assets in several strategic locations along the Line of Actual Control with China in Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh.

11:13 PM

Pennsylvania certifies election results; declares Biden the winner

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris have been certified as the winner of the presidential election in Pennsylvania, the governor said on Tuesday. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf said that he has signed the certificate of ascertainment for the slate of electors for Biden and Harris. "Today @PAStateDept certified the results of the November 3 election in Pennsylvania for president and vice president of the United States. As required by federal law, I've signed the Certificate of Ascertainment for the slate of electors for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, Wolf tweeted.

"Again, I want to thank the election officials who have administered a fair and free election during an incredibly challenging time in our commonwealth and country's history. Our election workers have been under constant attack and they have performed admirably and honorably," Wolf said. The certification of Pennsylvania election results comes a day after the General Service Administration wrote a letter to President-elect Biden on providing all the access including financial resources required for transition. Trump in a tweet said that he has instructed his officials to do the needful. At the same time he refrained from formally conceding the election.

10:30 PM

Violence against girls, women in UP rose from 23.5% in 2015-16 to 51% in 2018-19: Study

Violence against girls and women in the country's most populous state Uttar Pradesh rose from 23.5 per cent in 2015-16 to 51 per cent in 2018-19 while the sexual violence increased from 30 per cent to 48 per cent in the same period, according to a new study based on a survey of 10,100 adolescents. The results of the findings were released on the eve of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

When asked why UP was chosen for the study, the Population Council said it is because it is the most populous state in the country. The UDAYA (Understanding the lives of adolescents and young adults) study by NGO Population Council was carried out on 10,100 adolescents in Uttar Pradesh in 2015-16. The same set of adolescents were re-interviewed in 2018-19. According to the study, the number of married girls who reported ever experiencing emotional, physical or sexual violence almost doubled over the two survey waves.

10:28 PM

Atmanirbhar 3.0: Cabinet may consider equity infusion of Rs 6,000 cr into NIIF

The Union Cabinet is likely to consider on Wednesday a proposal to infuse Rs 6,000 crore into the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF), a move which will help the entity raise Rs 1.10 trillion by 2025 for financing infrastructure projects. According to sources, the fund infusion would be made into the infra debt fund and infra finance company floated by the quasi-sovereign wealth fund. NIIF Strategic Opportunities Fund has set up a debt platform comprising an NBFC Infra Debt Fund and an NBFC Infra Finance Company.

The platform has a loan book of Rs 8,000 crore and deal pipeline of Rs 10,000 crore. The Strategic Opportunities Fund, one of the three funds -- which has a more diversified investment strategy, including green-field projects and debt platforms -- has a funding commitment of $1 billion from the government. The proposal to invest Rs 6,000 crore as equity into NIIF is part of the Aatmanirbhar Bharat 3.0 package announced earlier this month.

10:20 PM

17 dead, at least 50 injured in blasts in Bamiyan city of Afghanistan, reports TOLO News quoting sources

9:59 PM

Cyclone Nivar LIVE: Likely to intensify into severe cyclonic storm in next 6 hours, says IMD

9:48 PM

IMA demands withdrawal of Centre order to allow Ayurveda doctors perform surgeries

Indian Medical Association demands withdrawal of notification authorising post-graduate Ayurveda practitioners to be trained to perform general surgical procedures, says move is a "khichadification", or a confused mix, of medical education and practice

9:46 PM

Delhi Police cheking vehicles in view of proposed farmers' protest on Nov 26

9:44 PM

5 trains cancelled, 7 trains short terminated/originated and 9 trains diverted, due to farmers protest in Punjab: Northern Railway

9:13 PM

Cyclone Nivar LIVE: Chennai records heavy rainfall, says IMD

8:56 PM

Centre, states can't have indefinite right over acquired properties of citizens: SC

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the Centre and state governments cannot have an indefinite or overriding right to continue occupying citizens' properties after acquiring them on any pretext and permitting such an act would be no less than condoning lawlessness. The verdict was delivered in the matter in which the apex court court directed the Centre to return within three months over four acres land in Byppanahalli, Bangalore, to the legal heirs of one B M Krishnamurthy nearly 57 years of their acquisition.

 

A bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and S Ravindra Bhat said that though the right to properties was not a fundamental right under the Constitution, but the states and the Centre cannot be allowed to have indefinite right over the acquired properties of the citizens.

 

It is, therefore, no longer open to the state: in any of its forms (executive, state agencies, or legislature) to claim that the law - or the constitution can be ignored, or complied at its convenience. The decisions of this court, and the history of the right to property show that though its pre-eminence as a fundamental right has been undermined, nevertheless, the essence of the rule of law protects it, the bench said.

8:36 PM

Cyclone Nivar to intensify into severe storm in 12 hours: Home Ministry

Cyclone Nivar is very likely to intensify further into a severe cyclonic storm during the next 12 hours and is centred about 380 km east by southeast of Puducherry and 430 km southeast of Chennai, the Union Home Ministry said on Tuesday.

 

Sharing the information based on inputs received from the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the Ministry said the cyclone is very likely to cross Tamil Nadu and Puducherry coasts between Karaikal and Mamallapuram around Puducherry during late Wednesday evening as a severe cyclonic storm with a wind speed of 100-110 kmph gusting to 120 kmph.

 

"A close watch is being kept over the system," it said.

 

The Ministry said that National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) headquarters and commandants of battalions located at Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh are in coordination with the respective state authorities.