The biggest stories of the day.
The Congress and
other Opposition parties on Thursday criticised the central government for its
decision to demonetise notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 in November 2016. On the
second anniversary of demonetisation, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said
November 8 is a day to remember how “economic misadventures can roil the nation
for a long time”. While the Congress sought an apology from Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said demonetisation
had been a “disaster”.
Meanwhile, thick smog enveloped Delhi
and the National Capital Region a day after Diwali. There were several
violations of the Supreme Court order on firecrackers, with people bursting
fireworks outside of the two-hour limit mandated by the court.
Here
are the biggest stories of the day:
Bengaluru:
N Chandrababu Naidu meets HD Deve Gowda and HD Kumaraswamy to discuss
Opposition unity
Telugu Desam Party chief and Andhra
Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu met Janata Dal (Secular) President
HD Deve Gowda and Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy in Bengaluru on
Thursday. Naidu is trying to unite the opposition against the Bharatiya Janata
Party ahead of the Lok Sabha elections next year.
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Madhya
Pradesh elections: Congress names former BJP MLA Sartaj Singh in fifth list
The Congress had declared its
first list of 155 candidates on November 2, the second list of 16 candidates on
November 3, the third with
13 names on November 5 and the fourth on
Wednesday.
Read more here
Madhya
Pradesh polls: BJP releases third list of 32 candidates, six contestants yet to
be announced
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday released its
third list of 32 candidates for the November 28 Assembly elections in Madhya
Pradesh. With this, the party has announced 224 of the 230 candidates.
Read more here
Tamil
Nadu: AIADMK workers protest against ‘Sarkar’ outside theatres in Madurai,
Chennai, Coimbatore
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam
workers on Thursday protested outside a theatre in Madurai demanding that
certain scenes from actor Vijay’s movie Sarkar be
removed. Tamil Nadu Information and Publicity Minister Kadambur C Raju had asked the
filmmakers on Wednesday to remove scenes showing people throwing freebies
provided by the state government into a fire.
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Sabarimala:
Kerala High Court rejects plea that wanted Devaswom board to seek review of SC
verdict
Petitioner MK Gopinath argued that the
board, which runs the hilltop shrine, was a trustee of the Ayapppa deity and
therefore had to act as per its wishes. The petitioner also urged the court to
direct the state government to file an affidavit in the case, keeping in mind
the interests of most Ayyappa devotees to preserve existing traditions.
Read more here
Centre
trying to ‘capture’ RBI to tide over its fiscal crisis, says P Chidambaram
Congress leader P Chidambaram claimed on
Thursday that the government was trying to “capture” the Reserve Bank of India
to tide over its fiscal crisis. The former finance minister warned that any
such attempt will be “catastrophic”.
Read more here.
Sabarimala
row: BJP launches six-day rath yatra in Kerala to ‘protect’ traditions of
temple
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday
launched a six-day “Save Sabarimala Rath Yatra” from Kasargod district to
“protect the traditions and rituals” of the Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala. The
march will culminate near Sabarimala on November 13 when the Supreme Court is
set to hear the review petitions against
its order allowing women of all ages to enter the shrine.
Read more here.
DGCA
asks SpiceJet, Jet Airways to check Boeing 737 MAX planes after Lion Air crash:
Report
The Directorate General of Civil
Aviation has asked Jet Airways and SpiceJet to monitor and fix potential
problems with Boeing 737 MAX planes that could lead to a “significant altitude
loss” of the aircraft.
Read more here.
Chhattisgarh:
CISF jawan, three civilians killed in suspected Maoist blast in Dantewada
A jawan of the Central Industrial
Security Force and three civilians were killed on Thursday when suspected
Maoists triggered a blast on a bus in poll-bound Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada
district.
Read more here.
Kerala
CM accuses Sangh Parivar of forcing Railways to remove mural depicting 1921
wagon tragedy
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan
on Wednesday accused the Sangh Parivar of trying to rewrite history by forcing
the Indian Railways to erase a mural depicting the 1921 wagon tragedy at Tirur
railway station. The mural, part of a beautification project, was reportedly finished on
Friday, but erased by Monday.
Read more here.
Demonetisation
led to formalisation of India’s cash-based economy, says Arun Jaitley
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on
Thursday defended demonetisation and said it was “one of the key steps in a
chain of important decisions” taken by the government to formalise the economy.
Read more here.
‘When
will Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis rename Aurangabad and Osmanabad?’ asks
Shiv Sena
Days after the Uttar Pradesh government
renamed Allahabad and Faizabad to Prayagraj and Ayodhya, the Shiv Sena on
Wednesday asked Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis when his
government would rename Aurangabad and Osmanabad districts.
Read more here.
Demonetisation:
‘Economic misadventures can roil the nation for a long time,’ says Manmohan
Singh
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on
Thursday said that November 8 – the day when India demonetised high-value currency
notes in 2016 – is a day to remember how “economic misadventures can roil the
nation for a long time”. He urged the government not to resort to any more
“unorthodox, short-term” economic measures that can lead to uncertainty in the
economy and financial markets.
Read more here.
Fuel
prices drop again, petrol costs Rs 78.21 and diesel Rs 72.89 per litre in Delhi
The Indian Oil Corporation on Thursday
said fuel prices were reducedfurther
and that petrol now costs Rs 78.21 per litre in Delhi, down 0.21 paise. A litre
of diesel in the Capital costs Rs 72.89 per litre, lower by 0.18 paise.
Read more here.
Air
India flights delayed at Mumbai international airport after ground staff go on
strike
Several Air India flights from Mumbai’s
Chhattrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport were delayed on Thursday
following a flash strike by the contractual workers of Air India Air Transport
Services Limited. The airline’s permanent employees have been deputed to
normalise the flights, a spokesperson said.
Read more here.
Election
Commission asks Odisha government to seal border with Chhattisgarh before polls
The Election Commission on Wednesday
asked the Biju Janata Dal-led Odisha government to seal its border with
poll-bound Chhattisgarh and increase monitoring. Odisha’s Chief Electoral
Officer Surendra Kumar said the poll panel had asked eight border district
administrations in Odisha to increase monitoring to detect Maoists or people
carrying alcohol, cash and other materials.
Read more here.
Thick
smog in Delhi the day after Diwali as people burst firecrackers outside of
mandated time
Delhi and the National Capital Region on
Thursday woke up to a thick smog the day after Diwali celebrations in the
region. The overall Air Quality Index at 6 am was at 325, according to the
Central Pollution Control Board, but the AQI at multiple places including Anand
Vihar was at 999, beyond which a deterioration in air quality cannot be
measured.
Read more here.
Tigress
Avni was killed in an area proposed for Anil Ambani project site, says
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj
Thackeray on Wednesday claimed he was told that the state government had killed
tigress Avni in an area in Yavatmal district that is the proposed site of
businessman Anil Ambani’s project.
Read more here.
Uttar
Pradesh: Three-year-old girl in critical condition after youth lights cracker
in her mouth
A youth allegedly forced a cracker into
a three-year-old girl’s mouth and lit it leaving her with serious injuries in
Uttar Pradesh’s Milak village in Meerut on Tuesday. The girl is being treated
at a local hospital and is in critical condition. She needed 50 stitches and
has contracted a throat infection.
Read more here.
Mining
baron G Janardhan Reddy is absconding, say police
The Karnataka Police on Wednesday said
Ballari-based mining baron and former Bharatiya Janata Party minister Gali
Janardhan Reddy is
absconding. The owner of a firm called Ambident Group has accused Reddy of
demanding Rs 18 crore to bail him out of a case. Reddy was a minister in the BS
Yeddyurappa government at the time.
Read more here.
Man
arrested for allegedly assaulting woman pilgrim at Sabarimala temple
The Kerala Police on Wednesday arrested
a man for allegedly assaulting a woman pilgrim at the Sabarimala temple,
suspecting her to be of the menstrual age. A group of devotees had surrounded
Lalitha Ravi, 52, and heckled her as she arrived at the hill shrine with her
family members to offer prayers on Tuesday.
Read more here.
Madhya
Pradesh elections: Congress names Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s brother-in-law in
fourth list
The Congress on Wednesday named 29
candidates in its fourth list of candidates for the Madhya Pradesh Assembly
elections. The polls will be held on November 28 and the results will be
announced on December 11.
Read more here.
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