New Delhi:
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has again justified revoking provisions of Article 370 and ending special status to Jammu and Kashmir- this time in Bangkok. Speaking to Indian diaspora during his Thailand visit, he claimed that the move has helped eliminate the root cause of terrorism and separatism in the country. Delhi was enveloped in a thick layer of smog on Sunday morning with the minimum temperature settling at 18.7 degrees Celsius, four notches above the season's average. The city received 0.3 mm rain in the past 24 hours which slightly lowered the hazardous level of air pollutants in the air. Relative humidity was 85 per cent at 8.30 a.m., said a MeT department official.
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Maharashtra Assembly Polls
Mumbai: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar holds meeting with party leaders.
All schools in Gautam Buddh Nagar including in Noida shut till November 5 following deteriorating air quality.
Maharashtra Assembly Polls
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut: We have more than 170 MLAs supporting us, the figure can even reach 175.
Maharashtra: Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray met farmers who suffered losses due to heavy rains, in Aurangabad district, today.
Thailand: Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets Indonesian President Joko Widodo in Bangkok.
Snooping Row
Asaduddin Owaisi: We've learnt that there is a company from Israel that can get access to your WhatsApp account. They can listen to the conversations you have in your homes.Government should summon Israel's ambassador and ask him about it, instead of questioning WhatsApp.
Andhra Pradesh: Four dead, one critically injured in a road accident in Garikapadu, Krishna district.
Bihar: Two minors die in Chhath puja stampede in Aurangabad.
Snooping Row: Sent First Alert In May, 2nd In September– WhatsApp Tells Govt
Amid raging controversy over the WhatsApp snooping allegations, the Facebook-owned company has responded to a notice issued by the Ministry of Information Technology on privacy breach allegations, saying that the platform had informed the government in September that 121 Indian citizens may have been targeted by an Israeli company’s spyware. Read here...
Delhi Air Quality Remains 'Severe'
The people of Delhi-NCR woke up to light showers on Sunday morning but the air quality in Delhi and the surrounding regions remained in the severe category. Two days after the Delhi-NCR recorded its worst air quality forcing authorities to shut schools, ban construction activities and declare a public health emergency, the overall Air Quality Index (AQI) was at 410 at 8:00 am on Sunday, according to System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR).
Three killed as vehicle falls into gorge on Jammu-Srinagar NH
Three persons were killed and seven others injured on Sunday when a truck carrying a nomadic family skidded off the road and fell into a deep gorge along the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, police said. The accident took place near village Samroli in Udhampur district around 2 am when the driver of the truck lost control over the vehicle while moving from Srinagar to Jammu with a Bhakerwal family, a police official said.
