New Delhi, Nov 14 Following are the top stories at 1 pm:
NATION
DEL1 PM-NEHRU (8.27 AM)
**** PM Modi pays tributes to first prime minister Nehru on birth anniversary
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday paid tribute to the country’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, on his birth anniversary. ****
MDS14 TL-RAHUL-LD GIG WORKERS (12.36 PM)
**** Cong stands with gig workers, considers them partners in progress: Rahul Gandhi
Hyderabad: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday dedicated the gig workers’ welfare legislation enacted by the Telangana government to the workers, describing them as the foundation of the economy and partners in progress. ****
DEL2 RAMESH-NEHRU-ARCHIVE (9.08 AM)
**** Distorians will keep trying to defame Nehru but digital archive on him will be a ‘kavach’: Ramesh
New Delhi: In an apparent swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Saturday said the “distorians led by the supposed MA in Entire Political Science” will try to defame and denigrate Jawaharlal Nehru, but the digital archive on him will be a “kavach” that will preserve his monumental legacy. ****
DEL11 BJP-PATRIARCHY-LD CONG (11.25 AM)
**** ‘Smash the patriarchy’ slogan hollow as Congress silent on POCSO case against J’khand MLA: BJP
New Delhi: The BJP on Saturday accused the Congress of maintaining silence over serious allegations of sexual assault by its sitting MLA from Jharkhand against a minor tribal girl, questioning the party’s commitment to women’s safety. ****
DEL9 CBI-MAHADEV-LD SEARCHES (10.58 AM)
**** Mahadev betting app case: CBI searches in 6 states lead to recovery of digital devices, key docs
New Delhi: The CBI has conducted searches at 33 locations across six states in connection with its investigation into the Mahadev online betting app case, recovering digital devices, mobile phones and documents indicating the use of mule bank accounts and hawala channels, officials said on Saturday. ****
BOM3 MP-VOTERS-SSR (10.19 AM)
**** MP adds 8.19 lakh voters since final SIR roll, electorate rises to 5.48 crore
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh has recorded an addition of 8.19 lakh voters in the draft electoral roll published under the Special Summary Revision (SSR) 2027, taking the state’s total electorate to nearly 5.48 crore, two years ahead of the next assembly elections, officials said. ****
CAL10 JH-MLA-RAPE-FIR (12.42 PM)
**** 2 booked for forcing J’khand Cong MLA’s minor domestic help to make ‘false’ rape charge against him
Simdega (Jharkhand): Hours after an FIR was registered against Congress MLA Bhushan Bara on the charge of raping his minor domestic help, police said on Saturday that they booked two persons for allegedly abducting and coercing the girl into making a “false” statement against the legislator. ****
MDS10 KL-UNIVERSITY ORDER-MINISTER (12.17 PM)
**** Keralam Minister demands withdrawal of university order restricting media access
Thiruvananthapuram: Keralam Higher Education Minister Roji M John on Saturday demanded the immediate withdrawal of a Mahatma Gandhi University order requiring journalists to obtain prior permission from the Vice-Chancellor to enter the campus and gather news, describing it as an “attack on press freedom”. ****
CAL3 BH-MULE ACCOUNTS (9.11 AM)
**** 1.09 lakh mule accounts identified across Bihar; Patna tops list
Patna: Bihar Police identified 1.09 lakh mule accounts across all 38 districts of the state, with Patna accounting for the highest number of such accounts, according to a report. ****
MDS7 TN-LIBRARIES-BOOKS (11.53 AM)
**** Over 70,000 books from two publishers to be removed from TN public libraries
Chennai: Following controversies over authenticity of books published by two publishing houses, the Directorate of Public Libraries has ordered the removal of over 70,000 books from these publishers across 4,755 libraries in Tamil Nadu, official sources here on Saturday said. ****
BUSINESS
DEL12 BIZ-MICROSOFT-RESTORED (11.49 AM)
**** All Microsoft services become operational after global outage; company says ‘deeply sorry’
New Delhi: All Microsoft products became operational on Saturday, the company’s service health page showed, after a massive global outage that disrupted Outlook email and other workplace services, with the firm saying it was deeply sorry and blamed the incident on a network capacity upgrade issue. ****
LEGAL
LGD1 DL-COURT-GANGRAPE-CHARGESHEET (12.43 PM)
**** Delhi Police files 450-page chargesheet in Aastha Kunj Park gangrape case
New Delhi: Delhi Police has filed a 450-page chargesheet against three men accused of posing as police personnel before allegedly raping a 17-year-old girl at knifepoint inside south Delhi’s Aastha Kunj Park in September. ****
FOREIGN
FGN23 BIZ-GOYAL-EGYPT (11.40 AM)
**** Goyal in Egypt: Both sides to discuss increasing cooperation in infra, manufacturing, logistics
Cairo: Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal will begin a two-day visit to Egypt on Sunday, focusing on ways to strengthen bilateral trade, investment ties and explore opportunities for cooperation in the Suez Canal Economic Zone, industrial development, manufacturing, infrastructure, ports and logistics, an official statement said. ****
FGN22 UN-INDIA-PALESTINE (11.34 AM)
**** India supports UNGA resolution on permanent sovereignty of Palestinian people
United Nations, Nov 14 (PTI) India has voted in favour of a UN General Assembly draft resolution that reaffirms the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people and the population of the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources and demands that Israel cease the exploitation and damage of these resources. By Yoshita Singh ****
FGN14 US-CHINA-TIBET (8.02 AM)
**** China extending Tibet template to global community: Tibetan leader
Washington: China’s hegemonic actions in Tibet are a template for what it plans to do to the international community, Sikyong Penpa Tsering, the political leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile, said. By Sagar Kulkarni ****
FGN8 UK-INDIAN STUDENT-JAIL (4.19 AM)
**** Indian student jailed for 30 years for online child sex abuse in UK
London: A 27-year-old Indian student described by UK authorities as a “serial online groomer” was sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment in north-west England on Friday for “exploiting and coercing” several children online to commit sexual acts.
(PTI News)
