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Even before the first Coronavirus vaccine is rolled out in India, are people becoming complacent with regard to the pandemic? Some recent decisions by state and district authorities across the country defy the logic in the fight against Coronavirus.

India and Australia are involved in a four-Test series for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Down Under. All the players are confined to a bio-bubble sphere, as they are restricted from wandering off. However, some players have been accused of a possible violation.

Bollywood celebrity Sussanne Khan has issued a clarification after reports emerged that she was among the 34 people who were booked for violation Covid-19 guidelines at the Dragon Fly Club at JW Marriot Hotel, Sahar in Mumbai.

Facebook's India chief Ajit Mohan has reportedly told a parliamentary panel that there was no need to ban the Bajrang Dal as the social media company's fact-checking team had found no evidence to that effect.

The FO alleged that India has committed over 2,820 ceasefire violations this year resulting in 26 deaths and serious injuries to 245 civilians.

Rakesh Dobhal, who had joined the BSF in 2004 and was posted in Jammu & Kashmir since last one year, was killed during heavy artillery fire by Pakistani forces on the eve of Diwali in violation of the ceasefire agreement along the Line of Control.

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) condemned, in the strongest terms, the "deliberate targeting" of innocent civilians by Pakistani forces and said it was highly deplorable that Pakistan chose a festive occasion in India to disrupt peace and perpetrate violence in Jammu and Kashmir through coordinated firing along the the LoC.

Yet to come to terms with India's precise retaliation to its ceasefire violations along the Line of Control, Pakistan has completely lost the plot and is now speaking out in delusionary mode.

The list of Pakistan Army soldiers killed includes 2-3 Special Service Group commandos, Indian Army sources said, adding that 10-12 Pakistan Army soldiers were injured.

Pakistani rangers resorted to unprovoked ceasefire violation along LoC in Uri this afternoon.
 

Over 1,000 GPS-fitted sound monitoring devices were distributed by the West Bengal Pollution Control Board among different police stations in the state to track people violating the firecracker ban during Diwali and Kali puja.
 

In an exclusive interview with Asianet Newsable's Sunita Iyer, Kashmir-based journalist Aarti Tikoo Singh, slams the Gupkar Alliance President Farooq Abdullah for claiming he won't die till Article 370 is restored in Jammu and Kashmir. She adds, "Article 370 or no 370, 35A or no 35A, the truth today is that equality, which is enshrined in the Indian constitution, has been extended to Jammu and Kashmir and people of India when it comes to the state."

The Foreign & Strategic Affairs editor of IANS also lambasts Pakistan for inaction over cross-border terrorism and instead projecting India as an oppressor of human rights world over, even as violations continue in the 'military-Islamic state'.

Aarti Tikoo Singh also shares her views on how the current Modi government dealt with separatist voices in Kashmir and what does the future hold for Kashmiri Pandits in the state.

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The Karnataka government on Monday informed the High Court that Bengaluru South MP and the National President of BJP Yuva Morcha Tejasvi Surya was fined for appearing in a public rally without wearing a mask on September 30. The fine was paid on November 7.

India has time and again reminded Imran Khan that "any action by Pakistan to alter the status of the militarily occupied so-called Gilgit-Baltistan has no legal basis whatsoever and is totally void ab-initio." 

The External Affairs Ministry said: "We strongly deplore the personal attacks in unacceptable language on President Emmanuel Macron in violation of the most basic standards of international discourse. We also condemn the brutal terrorist attack that took the life of a French teacher in a gruesome manner that has shocked the world. We offer our condolences to his family and the people of France."