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Live news updates: Prime Minister Modi will attend a G20 meeting on Afghanistan; unions will honour the farmers who died in Lakhimpur Kheri.

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One Pakistani national Mohd Asraf was arrested by Delhi Police: DCP Special Cell

2:25 PM

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra attends the 'antim ardas' of farmers killed in Lakhimpur Kheri violence

2:12 PM

Bureaucrats here are not public servants they are political servants: West Bengal Governor

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Ashish Mishra taken to Crime Branch office for interrogation

The Uttar Pradesh Police took MoS Home Ajay Mishra's son Ashish to the Crime Branch office here on Tuesday for interrogation in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case, a day after a court sent him to three-day police custody, an official said.

Chief Judicial Magistrate Chintaram on Monday had granted three-day police remand, with the condition that Ashish Mishra would not be harassed and his lawyer would remain present during interrogation.

He was arrested on Saturday night in connection with the October 3 Lakhimpur Kheri violence in which eight people, including four farmers, were killed.

1:38 PM

Covaxin approved for children?

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Samsung leader Lee pleads guilty to unlawful use of sedative

Samsung conglomerate leader Jay Y. Lee plead guilty in court on Tuesday to a charge of unlawful use of a controlled substance, as legal woes continue to haunt the executive even after his release on parole in August following a bribery conviction, Reuters reported. Lee's release had raised market watchers' expectations of a flurry of major decisions at crown jewel Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and its affiliates, including the location of a $17 billion chip factory being planned in the United States.

12:17 PM

Some people try to dent country's image in name of human rights: Modi

Some people try to dent country's image in name of human rights, we need to be alert about it, PTI quotes Modi as saying. He is speaking at the foundation day of the National Human Rights Commission.

12:05 PM

Looking at human rights for political gains harmful: Modi

 
Looking at human rights with an eye on political gains and loss harms these rights as well as democracy, says Prime Minister Narendra Modi, according to PTI. He is speaking at the foundation day of the National Human Rights Commission.

10:57 AM

Evergrande misses 3rd round of bond coupon payments

China Evergrande Group on Tuesday missed its third round of bond payments in three weeks, intensifying market fears over contagion involving other property developers as a wall of debt payment obligations come due in the near-term, Reuters reported. Some bondholders said they did not receive coupon payments totalling $148 million on Evergrande's April 2022, April 2023 and April 2024 notes due by 0400 GMT on Tuesday, following two other payments it missed in September.

10:46 AM

HC rejects plea challenging Asthana as Delhi Police chief

Delhi High Court dismisses petitions challenging the appointment of Rakesh Asthana as Delhi Police commissioner and extension of his service by a year, say media reports

9:37 AM

India logs lowest daily Covid-19 cases in 224 days

India recorded 14,313 new cases of Covid-19 in 24 hours, said the health ministry on Tuesday, marking the slowest rise in daily infections in 224 days. Active cases—patients under treatment—are at the lowest in more than 200 days.

 

9:30 AM

Power firms asked to boost supply to Delhi

The power ministry said on Tuesday it has issued directions to the country's largest electricity producer state-run NTPC Ltd and Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) to supply as much power as available to the national capital Delhi due to a potential shortage. The move comes after Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday warned of a power crisis in the capital due to a coal shortage, which has already triggered electricity cuts in some of the country's eastern and northern states, Reuters reported.

8:52 AM

Three militants killed in Jammu and Kashmir

Indian soldiers Monday night killed three militants in a gunfight in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir, the police said. The militants belonged to a group called The Resistance Front and one of them had killed a Bihari street hawker in Srinagar a week ago, PTI reported.

 

7:36 AM

New Zealand 2021 budget deficit much smaller than forecast

New Zealand's government on Tuesday reported a marked improvement in its finances thanks to a surprisingly brisk recovery for its economy, though a fresh coronavirus outbreak has since clouded the outlook somewhat. The treasury said it had a budget deficit of NZ$4.6 billion ($3.2 billion) in the year to end June 2021, compared with a shortfall of NZ$15.1 billion forecast just a few months ago in May, Reuters reported.

 

5:54 AM

Adani Ports to stop handling containers from 3 countries

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone, India's largest port operator, said on Monday that its terminals would no longer handle export and import of container cargoes from Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan from Nov. 15. The decision comes weeks after officials seized nearly three tonnes of heroin originating from Afghanistan worth an estimated Rs 200 billion ($2.65 billion) from two containers at western Gujarat's Mundra Port, run by Adani Ports.