1. Congress Releases First Candidate List for Gujarat Polls, PAAS Unhappy
The Congress on Sunday night released its first list of 77 candidates for phase one of the Gujarat Assembly polls, with senior leaders from the state, Arjun Modhwadia and Shaktisinh Gohil, getting tickets for the crucial election.
However, after the list was released, Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) members expressed anger and started protesting in many parts of the state, claiming they were not given proper representation.
Two PAAS members were given tickets in the released list, while the Hardik Patel-led organisation had demanded 20 seats. Around 20 other Patel candidates, who are not members of the PAAS, also find mention in the list.
(Source: Times of India)
2. Release of Padmavati “Deferred Voluntarily”, Say Producers
The release of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s controversial film ‘Padmavati’ has been “deferred voluntarily”, said Viacom18, the makers of the film. The film was originally scheduled to release on 1 December.
"We have faith that we will soon obtain the requisite clearances to release the film. We will announce the revised release date of the film in due course," a Viacom18 statement said.
The controversies surrounding the film further erupted. Two days after a Meerut resident from the Kshatriya community announced a bounty of Rs 5 crore on the heads of Sanjay Leela Bhansali and actor Deepika Padukone, Haryana BJP’s Chief Media Coordinator doubled the amount and announced a reward of Rs 10 crore for beheading them.
(Source: Indian Express)
3. 17 Years On, Miss World Crown Comes to India with Manushi Chhillar
On Saturday, 18 November, the crown of Miss World 2017 was placed atop Manushi Chhillar’s head, a medical aspirant from Haryana. Chhillar was chosen for the title from among 108 contestants at the beauty pageant.
Born to a family of doctors, Chhillar studied at St Thomas School in Delhi and Bhagat Phool Singh Government Medical College for Women in Sonepat.
In an interview during her grooming for Miss World, Chhillar said: "The only thing I believe is certain in life is uncertainty and this is what is amazing about the pageant."
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4. To Counter China's OBOR, India Pushes its Own Idea of Connectivity
When India stood up against China's OBOR in May this year, it inserted a new thinking to the whole idea of connectivity as an instrument of foreign policy. Until then, connectivity was how China would build its way through Asia and Africa using highways and rail networks — its excess capacity and capital creating fabulous infrastructure and debt underbellies.
India, too, used connectivity to further its own foreign policy, but not to the same effect.
Since this summer, India has pushed its own connectivity mantra with most of its international partners, but with very different rules from China.
A cursory glance at joint statements between India and its international partners shows how New Delhi is trying to change the language of development aid and connectivity initiatives as well as getting its friends to agree.
(Source: Times of India)
5. Like it or Not, India And China Have to ‘Live Side by Side’: Dalai Lama
Referring to the strained ties between India and China in the wake of Doklam standoff, Tibetian spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Sunday asserted that both the countries have to “live side by side” and that they should work towards making a more compassionate world.
“And then India and China, at a practical level also, neither one has the ability to destroy others. Whether you like it or not, you have to live side by side,” the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate said during an interaction with children at an event organised by the Smile Foundation in New Delhi.
He also said that both the countries across the border have more than two billions of people together and though they might have differences, they share the Nalanda thoughts.
(Source: Indian Express)
6. In Cryptic Tweet, Kamal Haasan Slams AIADMK on Recent I-T Raids
After Friday's late night drama at late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's Poes Garden home in Chennai, Kamal Haasan on 19 November, Sunday, hit out at the ruling AIADMK government on Twitter.
The 63-year-old actor, who is an open critic of ruling AIADMK, wrote on the micro-blogging site that 'criminals should not rule' and people should 'turn judges and wake up'.
"Theft by a government is a crime. Not proving after unravelling, isn’t it a crime too? The bell has been rung. Criminals should not rule. People should turn judges. Let’s wake up," Kamal Haasan tweeted in Tamil on Sunday.
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7. Pro-IS Slogans at Funeral of Slain Terrorist in J&K
Thousands of people gathered in Parampora area on Srinagar-Gulmarg road to join the funeral of a terrorist killed by security forces, and raised anti-Hurriyat, and pro-Islamic State and pro-Zakir Musa slogans.
Cries of "Na Hurriyat wali Shariat, na Hurriyat wali azadi, Kashmir banega Darul Islam (neither Hurriyat-type Shariat, nor Hurriyat-type freedom, Kashmir will become an Islamist nation)," rent the air at the funeral of a Tehreek-ul Mujahideen terrorist, Mugees Ahmad Mir.
IG Kashmir, Munir Khan, told TOI, "We are in the process of investigations as to what is the quantum of influence of ISIS on Kashmir militancy."
(Source: Times of India)
8. ‘Bodh Gaya Attack Was to Avenge Rohingya Killings’
The Juvenile Justice Board that held an 18-year-old boy guilty of planting explosives at the Bodh Gaya temple complex in Bihar in 2013 has said the attack was to avenge the atrocities against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
The juvenile placed a bomb under the 80-ft statue of Gautama Buddha at the revered temple complex as “Buddhists from all over the world used to come there and a message will be sent to all,” an order of the juvenile court that convicted the boy of terrorist activities said.
The board sentenced him to three years in a remand home on October 11.
A monk from Thailand, a prime witness in the case, told National Investigation Agency (NIA) officials that he became suspicious when he saw one of the accused doing the “wrong parikrama [rituals]” at the temple complex
(Source: The Hindu)
9. India Goes All Out to Get Dalveer Bhandari Elected to ICJ
As the world remains riveted by an epic battle between India and the UK for the post of a judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the government is going all out to thwart a bid by the UK to stall voting at the UN General Assembly where India's candidate Dalveer Bhandari enjoys support of more than 120 countries.
TOI reported that the UK is instead looking to invoke a mechanism of GA and Security Council Joint Conference, which has never been used in the history of ICJ, to choose the judge and, in the process, invalidate popular support for Bhandari.
The UK's candidate Christopher Greenwood holds on to a slender lead in the 15-member Council and, under the present rules, this is enough to offset the nearly two-thirds support for Bhandari in the GA.
(Source: Times of India)
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