1. Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid Dispute: Mosque Side Set to File Review Plea Against SC Order, Rejects 5-Acre Plot
The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) and Jamiat ulama i Hind announced on Sunday that they would file review petitions on the Supreme Court judgment in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute, and would not accept the 5-acre plot awarded by a five-judge Bench in lieu of the disputed site.
After a meeting held in Lucknow, AIMPLB working committee member Kamal Farooqui said, “The board has decided that a review petition should be filed against the Supreme Court verdict.”
(Source: The Indian Express)
2. Army Jawan Killed, Two Others Injured in IED Blast Along Loc in Akhnoor
One soldier was killed while two others were injured in a suspected improvised explosive device (IED) blast along the Line of Control (LoC) in Pallanwalla area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Akhnoor on Sunday, defence spokesperson said.
As per sources, the blast took place when an army team was patrolling the Pallanwalla area of Jammu district.
Three army personnel suffered injuries in the blast and they were rushed to the Northern Command hospital in Udhampur. However, one of the personnel succumbed to his injuries in the hospital.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
3. Security Forces Prep To Shoot Down Drones In Maoist-Hit Areas: Report
Shoot-at-sight orders have been issued to security forces deployed in Maoist-hit areas after a "serious and new" threat of possession and operation of drones by the terrorists came to light recently, officials said on Sunday.
The latest directive by a unified command of security and intelligence agencies at the centre comes in the wake of an incident where drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were seen hovering over a strategically important CRPF camp in Chhattisgarh's Sukma, south Bastar region.
(Source: PTI)
4. Pilgrims Grow at Kartarpur; Sunday Sees 1,800 Visitors
The number of pilgrims and tourists from India who are travelling to the Kartarpur Sahib gurudwara across the border in Pakistan is gradually rising after a lukewarm initial response to the landmark initiative. According to people familiar with the development, as many as 1,800 people were scheduled to cross the border to visit Kartarpur on Sunday, 24 November – nearly three times the 671 people who were scheduled to visit on 17 November.
Government data accessed by HT shows that the flow of pilgrims to Kartarpur Sahib is picking up on weekends and on specific Sikh religious days. A total of 562 Indian pilgrims and tourists visited Kartarpur Sahib on 9 November, the day the corridor was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the Indian side.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
5. 30 Political Detainees in Srinagar Moved Amid Claims of Manhandling
Numbering over 30, all the mainstream political leaders kept under detention at the Sher-e-Kashmir International Conference Centre (SKICC) in Srinagar since 5 August were on Sunday afternoon moved to the MLA hostel within the city, amid allegations of manhandling by police.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) claimed that the hostel wasn’t equipped with heating facilities, the reason unofficially given for shifting the detainees. This led to protests, after which some leaders were allegedly roughed up. People’s Conference (PC) claimed its chairman Sajad Lone had been “manhandled and misbehaved with” under the pretext of security checking.
(Source: The Indian Express)
6. House to Pay Homage to Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj in Winter Session of Parliament
The winter session of Parliament will open on Monday with obituary references to two members of the Upper House – former Union ministers Arun Jaitley and Ram Jethmalani – and former external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj.
Two leaders speaking on the sidelines of an all-party meeting convened by parliamentary affairs minister Pralhad Joshi on Sunday said both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha might be adjourned for a few hours on Monday morning to pay respects to the deceased members.
(Source: Hindustan Times)
7. In High Court Bail Denial to Chidambaram, ‘Copy, Paste’; Matter in SC Today
Portions of the 15 November order of the Delhi High Court dismissing the bail plea of Congress leader P Chidambaram in the INX Media money laundering case – it has emerged – bear striking resemblance to both a previous high court order as well as a Supreme Court decision on the bail plea of lawyer Rohit Tandon, arrested in several money laundering cases (he is currently out on bail).
Justice Suresh Kumar Kait’s 41-page judgment denying bail to the 74-year-old Congress leader also, in parts, resembles the counter-affidavit filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) during the course of the proceedings.
This emerged after Justice Kait’s order was uploaded late on Saturday evening. Senior Advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, who represents Chidambaram, said they would raise this when the matter comes up in the Supreme Court on Monday.
(Source: The Indian Express)
8. Captured and Translocated, Rogue Elephant Dies of Cardiac Arrest
A rogue elephant that killed five people in Goalpara district on 29 October, and was subsequently captured and translocated to Orang National Park on 12 November following a 10-day operation, died in captivity on Sunday morning, forest officials said.
Dr K K Sarma, a top veterinarian who was among the four doctors who conducted the autopsy, said the primary cause was “cardiac arrest”. “The primary reason was a heart disease that the animal had and the process of capture and translocation could have been a precipitating cause,” said Sarma, professor and head of surgery and radiology at the College of Veterinary Science in Guwahati.
(Source: The Indian Express)
9. What Bill Gates Said About Bihar's Efforts To Fight Poverty, Diseases
Billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Sunday praised the Bihar government's progress in fighting poverty and disease in the last 20 years. He said only a few places have been able to surpass the achievements made by the state.
The co-chair and trustee of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, who is on a visit to Bihar, said this at a meeting with Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in Patna.
"Over the past 20 years, few places have made more progress against poverty and disease than Bihar. Compared to her mother born two decades ago, a child born today in Bihar is twice more likely to reach her fifth birthday," a press release quoted Bill Gates as saying.
(Source: PTI)
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