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‘घातक’ की ज्यादतर शूटिंग बनारस शहर में हुई थी. इसमें डैनी डेन्जोंगपा की खलनायकी के खूब चर्चे हुए थे. विलेन कात्या का रोल निभाकर वह छा गए थे. ‘घातक’ में डैनी और सनी के बीच जबरदस्त टक्कर देखने को मिली थी. मुकेश ऋषि, दीप ढिल्लों, टीनू वर्मा, टीनू आनंद, अंजन श्रीवास्तव और केके रैना जैसे सितारे भी फिल्म में नजर आए थे. (फोटो साभार: IMDb)

Former President Evo Morales chews coca leaves during a hunger strike in Lauca N, in the Chapare region, Bolivia, Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024, amid an ongoing political conflict with the government of President Luis Arce.
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Bolivia’s constitutional court has barred former leader Evo Morales from standing for re-election next year, after reaffirming that a president cannot serve more than two terms.

In a ruling made public on Friday (November 8, 2024), which upholds a 2023 decision, the high court said the mandate of an elected official is “only for two periods, whether consecutive or not, without the possibility of extending it to a third term.”

Bolivia’s first Indigenous president, Morales led the country from 2006 to 2019 and was extremely popular until he tried to bypass the constitution and seek a fourth term.

The leftist won that vote but was forced to resign in 2019 amid deadly protests over alleged election fraud, and fled the country.

He returned after his former ally Luis Arce won the presidency in 2020, but since then the two men have struggled for power over the ruling party.

The ruling announced Friday came in response to a request from a parliamentarian who asked the constitutional court to clear up doubts about its December 2023 decision.

It also comes about a month into protests by Morales’s supporters, who have blocked roads, taken soldiers hostage and called for Arce to resign.

Charge of rape

The protests began on October 14 after prosecutors charged Morales with statutory rape over his alleged relationship with a 15-year-old girl while in office.

He denies the charges, saying they were brought by Arce’s government to prevent him from making a political comeback.

The 65-year-old Indigenous leader has not commented on the latest court decision, but says he is eligible to run and the Arce government is blocking his candidacy.

Bolivia will hold its next presidential election in August 2025.

Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with his Indonesian counterpart Prabowo Subianto during a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 9, 2024.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping told his Indonesian counterpart that Beijing hopes for a “new chapter” in bilateral relations, as the two leaders met on Saturday (November 9, 2024).

Mr. Xi held talks with President Prabowo Subianto in Beijing, the first stop of the Indonesian leader’s inaugural foreign tour since he took office in October.

China is keen to work with Indonesia to “write a new chapter of joint self-reliance, solidarity and cooperation, mutual benefit and win-win results as major developing countries”, Xi told Prabowo in front of journalists.

Beijing and Jakarta are key economic allies, with Chinese companies ploughing money into extracting Indonesian natural resources in recent years, particularly the nickel sector.

But the two countries have sparred verbally over disputed claims in the South China Sea.

Prabowo said that the relationship between the two countries was “getting stronger and stronger”.

“I would like to reiterate our commitment… to work together for the mutual benefit of our two peoples and for the prosperity, peace and stability of all of Asia,” he added.

Xi held a welcome ceremony for Prabowo at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People on Saturday.

After their talks, officials from the two countries signed a series of documents including memorandums of understanding on maritime safety and water resources cooperation.

Prabowo, who landed in China on Friday, is also meeting Premier Li Qiang and number three official Zhao Leji during his trip, which ends on Sunday.

He will travel onwards to Washington, at the invitation of US President Joe Biden, as part of a world tour which will also include Peru, Brazil and Britain.

Prabowo has pledged to stick to Jakarta’s traditionally non-aligned foreign policy while making the world’s fourth-most populous nation more active abroad.

Maritime disputes

Confrontations over what Indonesia says are Chinese incursions into its territorial waters have weighed on the trading partners’ relationship in recent years.

In 2020, Indonesia deployed fighter jets and warships to patrol around the Natuna islands in the South China Sea after Chinese vessels entered the area.

Last month, Indonesia said it drove Chinese coast guard ships from contested waters in the South China Sea on three separate occasions.

Indonesia says it is trying to stop foreign vessels from fishing in its waters, costing the economy billions of dollars annually.

Huge unexploited oil and gas deposits are believed to lie under the South China Sea, though estimates vary greatly.

Beijing has for years sought to expand its presence in the contested waters, brushing aside an international ruling that its claim to most of the waterway has no legal basis.

It has built artificial islands armed with missile systems and runways for fighter jets, and deployed vessels that the Philippines says harass its ships and block its fishers.

The recent confrontations were an early test for Prabowo, who has pledged to bolster the defence of Indonesian territory.

Prabowo has promised to be bolder on foreign policy than his predecessor Joko Widodo, who focused more on domestic issues.

HYDERABAD

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has hit out strongly at the “objectionable and filthy comments” made by Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on his birthday on Friday (November 08) against former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao.

In a statement, working president of the BRS K.T. Rama Rao said on Saturday (November 09) that nobody could wipe out the imprint of KCR on Telangana for the simple fact that he led the struggle for Statehood to Telangana for 14 years before achieving the goal withstanding all sorts of conspiracies.

“When you (Revanth Reddy) were an errand boy, he resigned from his position for the people of Telangana. While you were busy lobbying for party tickets, he envisioned a dream — a Telangana born from struggle and perseverance,” Mr. Rama Rao reminded the Chief Minister.

Further, when Mr. Revanth Reddy wielded guns to silence the voices raised for Telangana and against the rulers of the undivided State, KCR risked his life for a dream called Telangana. “When you carried bags to destabilise Telangana, his heart charted a course for a State that would make history,” Mr. Rama Rao said.

BRS senior leader T. Harish Rao, in a separate statement, remarked that Mr. Revanth Reddy could not match the KCR’s stature by using filthy language against him and the country did not so far see a Chief Minister speaking so “cheap” against a leader who had achieved Statehood to Telangana. He reiterated that it was the six-decade rule of the Congress and Telugu Desam Party that was responsible for the filth flowing in the Musi and the fluoride problem in Nalgonda district.

Other senior leaders of the party S. Niranjan Reddy, former MP B. Lingaiah Yadav, former MLA B. Mallaiah Yadav, party leaders Dasoju Sravan, Kyama Mallesh and others condemned the “filthy” comments of Mr. Revanth Reddy against KCR and said by using such a language the latter had lowered the stature of Chief Minister’s post.

HYDERABAD

Working president of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) K.T. Rama Rao has alleged that the Congress party is utilising Telangana as its ‘ATM’ (automated teller machine) to fill its coffers and the awarding of Kodangal Lift Irrigation Scheme contract to two companies after disqualifying two other major companies at technical bids level as part of that.

Mr. Rama Rao said on Saturday that by awarding the KLIS works to Megha Engineering and Raghava Constructions the Chief Minister had resorted to making money and sought to know how a company whose inferior work led to the Sunkishala Project retaining wall collapse could be given the works. He alleged that the project works worth ₹4,350 crore were shared between the two companies on a “quid-pro-quo” basis.

Alleging that the Chief Minister had resorted to misuse of power and his official position to disqualify two major bidders, he claimed that L&T and NCC having decades of experience in the construction sector were disqualified.

Mr. Rama Rao claimed that companies that were awarded the KLIS works had quoted 3.9% and 3.95% higher than the estimated cost indicating that the State government had engineered the bids so that they could be bagged by the two preferred companies.

Samajwadi party national president Akhilesh Yadav during the birthday celebration of Khajanchi, the boy who was born as his mother stood in a bank queue a day after the 2016 demonetisation, in Lucknow, on November 9, 2024.
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Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday (November 9, 2024) said a man becomes a “saint” not by what he wears but what he speaks.

The dig, apparently aimed at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, was made on the birthday of ‘Khajanchi’ – a boy born to a woman standing in a queue to exchange banknotes after demonetisation. The boy was named so by Mr. Yadav.

“Countdown has started for those who do encounters. Their days in the seat of power are numbered,” Mr. Yadav said at the programme. Mr. Yadav, without naming anyone, said people with cunningness tend to become bitter in speech.

“You can see that their language has changed, their way of thinking and understanding have also changed,” he said. “A person who does not consider anyone to be bigger than him, what kind of a yogi is he? If there is anybody who is setting the seers against each other, it’s the people in the government,” the former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister said.

“It is said that the greater a saint is, the less he speaks, and when he speaks, it is for public welfare. Here, everything is the opposite. The kind of language which is being used… A person is not a Yogi by what he wears, but by what he speaks,” the SP chief said. Mr. Yadav said the older ‘Khajanchi,’ gets, the more he will remind people of the failure of demonetisation.

“And the truth is, demonetisation emerged as the biggest corruption in economic history of the world. Demonetisation has proved to be the ocean of BJP’s corruption. It was a cosmetic exercise, and it has remained so,” he said.

Mr. Yadav likened the impact of demonetisation to that of a “slow poison” which afflicted farmers, labourers, the middle and salaried class, small traders and street vendors, all alike.

The Ponguleti Swarajyam-Raghava Reddy (PSR) Charitable Trust donated dining tables and chairs to Telangana Social Welfare Residential School/Junior College for girls at Danavaigudem in Khammam rural mandal.

The furniture and other equipment in the residential education institution were badly damaged during floods in Munneru that wreaked havoc on Khammam district in September this year, sources said.

Minister for Revenue, Housing, Information and Public Relations Ponguleti Srinivas Reddy handed over the dining tables and chairs to the staff concerned at the residential school premises on Friday.

Speaking on the occasion, the Minister said proposals are being prepared by the officials concerned for construction of a compound wall and address power supply related issues at an estimated cost of ₹2.80 crore.

He said the Congress government accorded top priority to strengthen the government schools, including residential educational institutions.

He celebrated the birthday of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy with the students of the residential school by cutting a cake.

Later, the Minister visited the Zilla Parishad High School at Mallemadugu and distributed 62 bicycles to girl students of the school under the aegis of the PSR Charitable Trust.

The task force teams of Telangana’s Commissioner of Food Safety inspected the canteen of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB-Habsiguda) on November 8.
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The task force teams from Telangana’s Commissioner of Food Safety conducted extensive inspections on November 8 at eateries in and around Nacharam, discovering numerous hygiene violations across multiple establishments, including the canteen of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in Habsiguda.

The CCMB canteen was flagged for live cockroach infestation in the kitchen and signs of rodent activity in the storeroom, where rat droppings were observed on storage racks. Additionally, the kitchen floor had patchy and broken tiles in food preparation areas, and food items stored in refrigerators were found unlabelled. The team also identified improper storage practices, with food bags placed directly on the floor and without adequate space from walls. Open dust-bins were found in the kitchen, and several expired items, including kasuri methi, corn flour, sabudana and jaggery, were immediately discarded, the officials said.

The task force teams of Telangana’s Commissioner of Food Safety inspected restaurants in Nacharam on November 8.
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The Siri Suprabhath Hotel in Nacharam was found holding only an FSSAI registration certificate, though it falls under the State License category. Essential documentation such as pest control, medical fitness, and water analysis reports were missing. Uneven flooring and water stagnation in the kitchen were observed, and though food items in the refrigerator were covered, they lacked labels. Expired packets of hydrogenated oil and rotten tomatoes and potatoes were found and discarded on the spot. Temperature records were not maintained, and some food handlers were seen working without hair caps, as per a release.

The task force teams of Telangana’s Commissioner of Food Safety inspected restaurants in Nacharam November 8.
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In Manu’s Kitchen, also in Nacharam, the FSSAI license was not displayed, and crucial records, including pest control and medical fitness certificates, were missing. Doors and windows were not fitted with insect-proof screens, and the refrigerator was found in a rusted and unsanitary condition. Food items inside the refrigerator were uncovered and improperly labelled. A packet of paneer with an unclear date label, and expired mushrooms, were discarded immediately. Inspectors also reported live cockroach infestations in the kitchen and storeroom, as well as cobwebs on the ceiling and walls. Food handlers were found without hair caps or gloves, further compounding hygiene concerns.

In this image from video provided by NASA, astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps participate in a news conference at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Friday (November 8, 2024).
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Three NASA astronauts whose prolonged space station mission ended with a trip to the hospital last month declined to say Friday (November 8, 2024) which one of them was sick.

Astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps publicly discussed their spaceflight for the first time since returning from the International Space Station on October 25. They spent nearly eight months in orbit, longer than expected because of all the trouble with Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule and rough weather, including Hurricane Milton.

Soon after their SpaceX capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast, the three were taken to a hospital in nearby Pensacola along with Russian cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, who launched with them back in March.

One of the Americans ended up spending the night there for an undisclosed “medical issue.” NASA declined to say who was hospitalized or why, citing medical privacy.

When asked at Friday’s (November 8, 2024) news conference which one had been sick, the astronauts refused to comment. Barratt, a doctor who specializes in space medicine, declined to even describe the symptoms that the unidentified astronaut had.

“Spaceflight is still something we don’t fully understand. We’re finding things that we don’t expect sometimes. This was one of those times and we’re still piecing things together on this,” said Dr. Barratt, the only member of the crew who had flown in space before.

Ms. Epps said everyone is different in how they respond to space — and gravity.

“That’s the part that you can’t predict,” she said, adding, “Every day is better than the day before.”

Mr. Dominick said little things like sitting comfortably in a hard chair took several days to get used to once he returned. He said he didn’t use the treadmill at all during his time in space, as part of an experiment to see what equipment might be pared on a long trip to Mars. The first time he walked was when he got out of the capsule.

The two astronauts who served as test pilots for Boeing’s Starliner — Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams — will remain at the space station until February, flying back with SpaceX. Starliner returned empty in September.

A resident with a baby stands next to a crater that appeared after a Russian drone strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Odesa, Ukraine November 9, 2024.
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One person died and 13 people were wounded by a Russian drone in a residential area in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa overnight, local officials said Saturday (November 9, 2024), as EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell arrived in Kyiv to discuss European support for Ukraine.

Odesa regional Gov. Oleh Kiper said high-rise residential buildings, private houses and warehouses were damaged by the “fall” of a drone. He did not specify whether the drone had been shot down by air defenses.

A further 32 Russian drones were shot down over 10 Ukrainian regions, while 18 were “lost,” according to Ukraine’s Air Force, likely having been electronically jammed.

A Russian aerial bomb struck a busy highway overnight in the northeastern Kharkiv province, Kharkiv mayor Ihor Terekohov said. No casualties were reported.

Russia is mounting an intensified aerial campaign that Ukrainian officials say they need more Western help to counter. However, doubts are deepening over what Kyiv can expect from a new U.S. administration. President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly taken issue with U.S. aid to Ukraine, made vague vows to end the war and has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Mr. Borrell, however, reassured Ukraine of European support as he arrived in Kyiv on Saturday (November 9).

“EU support to Ukraine has been my personal priority during my mandate and will remain on top of the EU’s agenda,” he wrote on X.

In Russia, the Defense Ministry said 50 Ukrainian drones were destroyed over seven Russian regions — more than half over the Bryansk region, bordering Ukraine.