New Delhi, Nov 14 Following are the top stories at 9 PM:
NATION
DEL24 MEA-INDOUS-TRADEDEAL-LD JAISHANKAR (03.52 PM)
**** Bulk of issues resolved, India-US trade pact approaching ‘finishing line’: Jaishankar
New Delhi: India and the US have sorted out the bulk of the issues relating to the proposed trade deal, including tariff lines, and the deal could be sealed “soon” as talks continue to resolve the last stretch of concerns, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday.****
DEL22 MEA-SINOINDIA-JAISHANKAR (03.37 PM)
**** China border has become ‘more alive,’ India enhancing frontier infrastructure: Jaishankar
New Delhi: India’s border with China has become “more alive” and requires a much greater commitment of Indian troops on a sustained basis, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday as he listed New Delhi’s policy approach to enhance infrastructure along the frontier.****
DEL40 INDIA-US-PAK-LD BLINKEN (08.28 PM)
**** US must respect India’s right to defend itself, maintain zero tolerance towards terrorism: Blinken
New Delhi: The US must respect India’s right to defend itself and should maintain a zero-tolerance policy towards terrorism, former US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Saturday, while describing Washington’s ties with New Delhi and Islamabad as “fundamentally different”.****
MDS28 TL-SUMMIT-RAHUL (05.31 PM)
**** India no longer a democracy under BJP-led regime: Rahul Gandhi
Hyderabad: Launching a diatribe against the BJP, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday alleged that India is actually no longer a democracy. ****
DEL37 BJP-LD CONG SUMMIT (08.20 PM)
**** Rahul Gandhi puppet of foreign powers, wants regime change with oversees help: BJP
New Delhi: Accusing the Congress of inviting “anti-India forces” to its Bharat Summit in Hyderabad, the BJP on Saturday said that Rahul Gandhi’s politics is now crossing the limits of political opposition and moving towards an “anti-national agenda”.****
DEL16 ENV-MINISTER-NCR-POLLUTION (02.48 PM)
**** Bhupender Yadav calls for coordinated implementation of pollution control measures across NCR
New Delhi: Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav on Saturday said air pollution does not recognise state boundaries, and called for coordinated implementation of pollution control measures across the national capital region (NCR).****
BOM13 MH-SULE-DELIMITATION (06.49 PM)
**** No fresh proposal from govt over delimitation: NCP (SP) leader Supriya Sule
Mumbai: No fresh proposal has been shared by the government regarding delimitation, NCP (SP) working president Supriya Sule said on Saturday, while recalling an earlier informal discussion in which a uniform 50 per cent increase in seats across all states was mooted. ****
MDS20 TN-MEKEDATU-CONG (04.07 PM)
**** TN Cong slams K’taka CM’s Mekedatu push, urges CM Vijay to step up legal battle
Chennai: Strongly condemning Karnataka Chief Minister D K Shivakumar for pushing the “controversial” Mekedatu dam project in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, TNCC president Manickam Tagore on Saturday warned that the move could turn the Cauvery Delta into a desert. ****
CAL34 JH-MLA-RAPE-2NDLD FIR (07.17 PM)
**** 2 booked for forcing J’khand Cong MLA’s minor domestic help to make ‘false’ rape charge against him
Ranchi/Simdega: 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. ****
LEGAL
LGM1 KL-HC-JUVENILE (05.20 PM)
**** Kerala HC suggests lowering juvenile age to 16, cites growing maturity of children
Kochi: The Kerala High Court has called for legislative amendments to lower the age threshold for juveniles and children in conflict with the law to 16 years, citing their growing maturity at that age.****
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.****
FOREIGN
FGN38 CHINA-SHENZHEN-LD APEC (08.32 PM)
**** Xi, Trump, Putin set for historic trilateral meeting in China next week
Beijing/Washington: Chinese President Xi Jinping, US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are set to hold an unprecedented trilateral meeting next week on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in China’s Shenzhen city, the White House has said.****
FGN22 UN-INDIA-PALESTINE (11.34 AM)
**** India supports UNGA resolution on permanent sovereignty of Palestinian people
United Nations: 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.
(PTI News)
