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The Maha Vikas Aghadi has reached consensus on 210 of the 288 assembly seats in Maharashtra, which is a "significant achievement", Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut said on Monday. The aim is to ensure the defeat of forces looting Maharashtra, he said in a swipe at the ruling alliance comprising Chief Minister Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena, the BJP and Ajit Pawar-led NCP.

Indian and Chinese military negotiators have reached an agreement on border patrolling along LAC, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri stated today.

Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu  on Monday stated that the government is looking to amend rules to put perpetrators of bomb threats to airlines in a no-fly list.

Addressing the NDTV World Summit, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated that India is a "ray of hope" for the world amid several global crises. He asserted that there is no scope for rest as his government works to make India's dreams come true and fulfill its pledge. PM Modi added that multiple agencies have revised India's growth forecast because of the speed of work in his government's third term. "The change in the thinking and approach of India would be noticed by you. Now we do not want to compare times gone by and rest on our achievements, we are concerned about our target with a new approach," he stated.

Khalistani extremist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun  today issued a chilling warning, asking passengers not to fly on Air India flights from November 1 to 19, having issued a similar threat around the same time last year. Pannun has claimed that, due to the "40th anniversary of the Sikh genocide," an attack could occur on an Air India flight.

Amid the allegations linking him to the killing of Khalistan separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Sanjay Kumar Verma, the outgoing Indian High Commissioner to Canada, has accused Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of "destroying" the bilateral ties between the two countries for political gains. After Ottawa named him a 'person of interest,' New Delhi recalled Verma and some other diplomats from Canada.  In an interview to CTV News, Verma stated that Trudeau has ruined the bilateral ties between the two countries. Verma said, "Canada didn't follow the practice which should have been there. Evidence should have been shared first, but someone (Trudeau) decided to stand in Parliament and talk about a thing for which he himself has said there was no hard evidence."   

The Congress has announced candidates for the bypolls to the legislative Assemblies of Assam and Madhya Pradesh on Sunday.  Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge gave the nod to the proposals to nominate candidates for two assembly seats in Madhya Pradesh and four seats in Assam. In Assam, Dhrubajyoti Purakayastha has been named from Dholai (SC) seat, Sanjib Warle from Sidli (ST), Brajenjit Sinha from Bongaigaon and Tanzil Hussain from Samaguri.

Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini on Sunday slammed the Aam Aadmi Party's government in Delhi saying it has a tendency to lie and shift blame on others for its own shortcomings. This came after Delhi Chief Minister Atishi, earlier in the day, asserted that the "dirty politics" of the BJP is responsible for growing air and water pollution in the national capital.