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11:23 PM

PM Modi meets veteran actor Saira Banu

9:36 PM

DoT issues advisory against calls threatening disconnection of mobile services

"The DoT does not make calls to citizens threatening disconnection. Citizens are urged to exercise caution and not provide any personal information if they receive such calls," the advisory said. In the advisory, the DoT urged citizens to not share any personal information if they receive a call threatening disconnection.

8:16 PM

PM Modi meets Blinken, Lloyd Austin; says India-US partnership is truly a force for global good

8:02 PM

Palestinians flee north Gaza as Israel opens window for safe passage

Thousands of Palestinians streamed onto Gaza's only highway on Friday, fleeing the combat zone in the north after Israel announced a window for safe passage, as officials in the enclave said the Palestinian death toll surpassed 11,000 people. Amid an intensifying campaign of airstrikes and ground battles in Gaza City, the search for safety in the besieged enclave has grown increasingly desperate. Tens of thousands have walked south, where they face the prospect of ongoing bombardment and dire conditions. Others have crowded into and around hospitals, sleeping in operating rooms and wards.

7:30 PM

India-US defence relationship has evolved into strategic partnership based by mutual trust: Singh

6:15 PM

Heavy rains in Tamil Nadu disrupt normal life

With the onset of the northeast monsoon, several areas in Tamil Nadu were left inundated due to the harsh weather conditions. Since the beginning of November, it has been raining widely. For the past 4 days, most places in Tamil Nadu have received moderate rain and heavy rain in some places, resulting in severe waterlogging and schools being shut down.With the onset of the northeast monsoon, the rainfall was 43 percent less than normal last October. However, Tamil Nadu is likely to receive rain at many places for 4 days due to the low atmospheric circulation, the Meteorological Centre said.

4:31 PM

Delhi govt defers implementation of odd-even scheme as AQ improves

The Delhi government has postponed the implementation of the odd-even car rationing scheme as there has been a notable improvement in Delhi's air quality due to rain, Environment Minister Gopal Rai said on Friday. Addressing a press conference here, he said the government will review the air quality situation after Diwali and a call on the odd-even scheme may be taken if there's a sharp increase in pollution levels.Rai had earlier said the scheme will be implemented in the city after the Supreme Court reviews its effectiveness and issues an order.

4:21 PM

Air pollution: Delhi University declares winter break from November 13-19 in view

The Delhi University has declared an early winter break from November 13-19 in view of the air pollution in the national capital, according to an official notification released on Friday. The winter break, which is usually given in December, has been revised keeping in mind the GRAP-IV measures being implemented amid the prevailing air pollution in Delhi.

3:59 PM

Narco-terror module case: J-K SIA searches house of key accused in Poonch

The Jammu and Kashmir Police's Special Investigation Agency (SIA) on Friday searched the house of a key accused in a narco-terror module case in a hamlet near the Line of Control in Poonch district, officials said. A SIA team had taken accused Mohmmad Iqbal, who was arrested from Himachal Pradesh's Mandi district in October, along with it to Karmara, they said. The case pertains to cross-border smuggling of arms, explosives and narcotics into Poonch, the officials said. Three accomplices of Iqbal were caught with a huge cache of arms, explosives and narcotics near the border fence in Poonch's Karmara area on the intervening night of May 30 and 31, they said. Iqbal was at large since then.

3:48 PM

China says Dalai Lama's successor needs its approval, projects Tibet as gateway to South Asia

China on Friday asserted that any successor to 88-year-old Dalai Lama should be from within the country and his heir needs to have its approval, as it projected the strategically-located Tibet region as the gateway to South Asia by highlighting the infrastructure development close to the Indian border. China, which refers to Tibet as Xizang, is increasingly anxious as the octogenarian Dalai Lama who lives in exile in Dharamsala in India will take the lead in appointing his successor which could have a profound spiritual impact in the Himalayan region as his legacy is ingrained in the minds of Tibetan masses.

2:23 PM

Farm fires in Punjab, NCR have to be stopped, says SC

The Supreme Court on Friday said that crop residue burning in Punjab and some other states adjacent to Delhi have to be stopped and solution has to found to reduce the pollution level in the national capital region (NCR). While hearing a matter relating to the debilitating air pollution in the Delhi-NCR, a bench headed by Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul observed there were several reports and committees on the pollution issue, but nothing was happening at the ground level.

2:13 PM

Air emergency: Health advisory for schools call for use of public transport

Amid the air emergency in the national capital, the Union Health Ministry on Friday issued an advisory for children in Delhi and neighbouring states amid mounting pollution concerns and toxic air days that have emerged as a clear and present danger to public health. However, in a measure of respite from the smog or toxic cloud that has been hanging heavy over the national capital in the last week and more, the city on Friday received showers that saw the overall Air Quality Index (AQI) drop below 400.

2:02 PM

EU's major plan aimed at fighting climate change to go to final votes

European Union institutions and conservationists on Friday gave a conditional and guarded welcome to a major plan to better protect nature and fight climate change in the 27-nation bloc. The plan is a key part of the EU's vaunted European Green Deal that seeks to establish the world's most ambitious climate and biodiversity targets and make the bloc the global point of reference on all climate issues. Yet it has had an extremely rough ride through the EU's complicated approval process and only a watered down version will now proceed to final votes.

1:32 PM

Article on Adani Group: SC grants protection to 2 journalists summoned by Gujarat Police

The Supreme Court on Friday granted protection from arrest to two journalists who have challenged the summons issued to them by the Gujarat Police in connection with an article allegedly written by them on Adani Group. A bench of Justices B R Gavai and P K Mishra directed the journalists to cooperate in the investigation and issued notice to the Gujarat government on the pleas filed by the duo.

12:56 PM

THDCIL inks pacts to develop 3,270 MW renewable energy projects in K'taka

THDC India Ltd (THDCIL) is planning to set up 3,270 megawatts (MWs) of clean energy projects, including pumped storage and floating solar, in Karnataka, its chairman and managing director R K Vishnoi has said. In this regards, the Uttarakhand-based company on Thursday signed two memoranda of understandings with Karnataka Power Corporation Limited (KPCL) and Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Limited (KREDL) in Bengaluru.