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Delhi Assembly summons Facebook India representatives over 2020 riots
In a letter, the Committee said that it will focus on the social media giant's role in curbing false and malicious messages that could cause disharmony in society. "Since Facebook has lakhs of users in the NCT of Delhi, the Committee has decided to hear the views of representative(s) of Facebook India."
Delhi's air quality 'poor', IMD forecasts clear skies
While the maximum temperature will rest at 29 degrees Celsius -- four notches below normal, the minimum temperature will be pegged at 14 degrees Celsius -- two notches below normal. The relative humidity at 8.30 a.m. was pegged at 94 per cent.
J&K government sacks 8 employees on graft, integrity issues
The sacked employees, who have been prematurely retired from service, include four Jammu and Kashmir administrative service (JKAS) officers and a doctor, against whom there were charges of corruption. Official sources said the action is part of an ongoing process to remove deadwood from the administration.
2nd time in 4 days, NCB's Sameer Wankhede seeks court 'protection'
Rushing to the Bombay High Court on Thursday, a division bench comprising Justice Nitin Jamdar and Justice S.V. Kotwal granted him partial relief after an assurance from the Mumbai Police. "I am personally attacked by the state... My apprehension is they will arrest me. I want interim protection in the form of no coercive action," Wankhede appealed to the division bench.
Delhi logs 42 Covid cases, infection rate at 0.07 per cent
The city's death toll stands at 25,091. The national capital has recorded four deaths due to the infection in October, so far. The death rate stands at 1.74 per cent. The Covid infection rate in the national capital has slightly increased to 0.07 per cent. Currently, there are 345 active cases here. However, with 45 patients recovering in the last 24 hours, the total number of recoveries now stand at 14,14,315, the health bulletin said.
Centre extends Covid containment measures till Nov 30
The order issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs and signed by the Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla said, "In exercise of the powers, conferred under Section 10(2)(1) of the Disaster Management Act, 2005, the Union Home Secretary undersigned hereby directs that the Order of the Ministry of Home Affairs of even number, dated 28 September, 2021.
Almost 90% of Indians continue to support ban on Chinese apps
The CVoter Tracker is India's only daily Opinion Tracking exercise mapping more than a hundred thousand randomly selected respondents in a calendar year. The tracker is run in 11 Indian languages and has interviewed more than a million respondents in person and CATI over the last ten years. The sample size was 3000 all India as part of the main tracker.
2022 to be celebrated as friendship year for India, ASEAN: Modi
The event will coincide with India's celebrations of the 75th year of Independence from the colonial regime, he added. While participating in the 18th edition of India-ASEAN Summit, Modi said, "India is committed to deepen its relations with the next presidency, Cambodia and country-coordinator Singapore." Speaking about the Covid pandemic which engulfed the whole world, he further said that the Covid period was also a test of India-ASEAN friendship.
Finally, Bombay HC grants bail to Aryan, Arbaaz and Munmun
While granting a conditional bail to the trio, Justice N.W. Sambre passed the operative order and the detailed order is expected on Friday. Accordingly, the trio of Khan, Merchant and Dhamecha will not step out of the jails till the court's orders are received, said a defence lawyer. The accused trio -- along with five others -- were detained on October 2 when the NCB swooped on the alleged rave party aboard the Cordelia Cruise ship.
Pegasus spyware issue is India's internal matter: Israeli ambassador
The NSO is a private company and it has a licence to sell its software to the government entities only, he added. Gilon said: "This is an internal issue of India and I can't speak beyond this point. This is the only main requirement that... under the requirements, they cannot sell it to non-governmental actors". Responding to a query if the Indian government will contact them, he said that he has no idea whether the Indian government has contacted them or not.
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