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2020 Delhi riot was not spontaneous but pre-planned, Solicitor General tells Supreme Court
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta submitted successful the Supreme Court connected Tuesday (November 18, 2025) that the communal unit witnessed successful Delhi successful February 2020 must not beryllium viewed arsenic a “spontaneous” aftermath of the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act. Appearing earlier a Bench headed by Justice Aravind Kumar, Mr. Mehta said the tribunal should not bargain into the “false narrative” being weaved successful the media and different outlets successful the nationalist domain.
SIR Phase 2: Nearly 99% electors person received SIR forms, says Election Commission
Two weeks aft the 2nd signifier of the peculiar intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls began successful 9 States and 3 Union Territories, the Election Commission of India connected Tuesday (November 18, 2025) said more than 50.25 crore of the astir 51 crore electors had received the enumeration forms. The enumeration signifier began connected November 4 and volition proceed till December 4. The draught database volition beryllium published connected December 7 followed by a claims and objections period, and the last database volition beryllium released connected February 9.
Delhi blast: Government cautions TV channels against airing videos of accused persons justifying convulsive acts
The Information & Broadcasting Ministry connected Tuesday (November 18, 2025) cautioned TV channels against airing delicate contented linked to the car weaponry blast, including videos of accused persons that warrant convulsive acts. The advisory was issued hours aft an undated video purportedly of Umar un Nabi, a doc who was allegedly down the instrumentality of the car that exploded connected November 10 adjacent the Red Fort successful Delhi, was telecast by immoderate quality channels.
J&K constabulary detain doctor, woman for ‘unlawful activities online’ successful Kashmir
The J&K Police’s peculiar cell, Counter Intelligence Kashmir (CIK), connected Tuesday (November 18, 2025) detained a doc and his wife for “unlawful activities online“. Officials said CIK teams launched coordinated searches astatine 4 locations crossed the districts of Srinagar, Kulgam and Anantnag connected Tuesday. “These searches are portion of an ongoing crackdown against societal media abusers operating successful connivance with handlers crossed the border, who person been deliberately engaged successful furthering terrorist, secessionist, and separatist agendas,” the constabulary said.
On Bangladesh’s extradition petition for Hasina, Delhi has respective options
As Bangladesh’s National Security Advisor Khalilur Rahman arrived successful New Delhi connected Tuesday (November 18, 2025), and Dhaka prepares a ‘note verbale’, the Indian authorities is considering its response to Bangladesh’s request for the extradition of its erstwhile Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Officials and experts are wide that Ms. Hasina — who has lived successful New Delhi since past August — is and volition stay an “honoured guest”. However, they besides constituent retired that according to the India-Bangladesh communal extradition pact signed successful 2013, determination are galore steps yet to beryllium followed by the medication of Chief Executive Muhammad Yunus earlier the authorities needs to proceed.
Chhattisgarh ATS apprehends 2 minors for links with ‘Pakistan-based ISIS module’
The Chhattisgarh Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has apprehended 2 juveniles, some from Raipur, claiming that Pakistani handlers associated with a Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) module radicalised them. Police officers added that these handlers attempted to disseminate ISIS ideology and convulsive provocative contented and acceptable up an ISIS module successful Chhattisgarh done the duo.
Trump repeats assertion helium stopped warfare betwixt India, Pakistan
U.S. President Donald Trump connected Tuesday (November 18, 2025) repeated his claim that helium stopped the warfare betwixt India and Pakistan, arsenic helium addressed a bilateral gathering with the Saudi Crown Prince. “I’ve stopped really 8 wars…. Have different 1 to spell with, Putin. I’m a small amazed astatine Putin. It’s taken longer than I thought, but we stopped India and Pakistan. Wish I could spell done the list. You cognize the database amended than I do,” Mr. Trump said.
Sonbhadra chromatic quarry collapse: Another assemblage pulled out, decease toll mounts to seven
The death toll successful the chromatic quarry collapse successful Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra territory has climbed to 7 with different assemblage being recovered from the rubble, officials said connected Tuesday (November 18, 2025). The rescue operations are present over, they said. According to the territory administration, the seventh assemblage has been identified arsenic that of Gulab Kharwar (32), a nonmigratory of Obra constabulary presumption country of Sonbhadra. Kharwar’s assemblage was recovered connected Monday (November 17, 2025) evening.
Cloudflare Outage: How a ‘latent bug’ triggered a planetary disruption of X, ChatGPT services
Several of the world’s largest online services, including X, ChatGPT, and galore websites that beryllium connected Cloudflare for information and postulation routing, were disrupted connected November 18, 2025, erstwhile a important outage rippled crossed the internet. Users reported dilatory loading, breached pages, and implicit downtime for platforms that typically grip billions of regular requests. As disorder mounted, Cloudflare’s Chief Technology Officer, Dane Knecht, posted a elaborate mentation connected Twitter, outlining the interior nonaccomplishment that cascaded into a planetary disruption.
Trump defends Saudi Crown Prince implicit writer Khashoggi’s murder
Donald Trump defended Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman implicit the execution of a writer and hailed a $1 trillion concern pledge Tuesday (November 18, 2025) arsenic the U.S. President laid connected a lavish invited astatine the White House. Opening their White House gathering with praise for the Prince’s “incredible” quality rights record, Mr. Trump dismissed the 2018 sidesplitting of Jamal Khashoggi, saying “things happened” and calling the dormant writer “extremely controversial.”
Thirteen radical killed successful Israeli onslaught connected Lebanon’s Sidon, Lebanese Health Ministry says
An Israeli onslaught connected the confederate Lebanese metropolis of Sidon killed 13 radical and wounded respective others, the Lebanese Health Ministry said connected Tuesday (November 18, 2025). The Israeli subject said that it struck militants who it said were operating successful a grooming compound successful the crowded Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian exile campy adjacent Sidon. The subject said the compound has been utilized by the Palestinian question Hamas to transportation retired attacks against Israel.
U.S. lawmakers ballot for Epstein files merchandise aft Trump U-turn
U.S. lawmakers voted overwhelmingly connected Tuesday (November 18, 2025) for releasing authorities files connected enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein, aft President Donald Trump dropped his absorption to opening the books connected a ungraded that has roiled politics, instrumentality enforcement and the country’s elite The House of Representatives approved the Epstein Files Transparency Act successful a near-unanimous ballot compelling work of unclassified documents detailing the probe into the disgraced financier’s operations and jailhouse death.
IND vs SA | Test specialists: is Team India missing the wood for the trees?
It is simply a truism that Test cricket is for specialists. Concentration and patience signifier an important portion of its lexicon not instant gratification and abbreviated attraction spans. But the playing XI that India enactment retired for the archetypal Test against South Africa astatine the Eden Gardens had nary much than six specialists. It was efficaciously 5 due to the fact that Shubman Gill suffered cervix spasms and his engagement was restricted to conscionable 3 balls. Though it volition not beryllium wholly close to blasted the deficiency of specialists for the location side’s crushing 30-run loss, determination has been an expanding inclination nether caput manager Gautam Gambhir to prime players based connected their 2nd accomplishment alternatively than primary.
