Daily Briefing: Maharashtra BJP releases 1st list of candidates; PM Modi’s push against ‘pariwarwaad’; India’s Test defeats

With that, let’s determination connected to today’s edition:

• Make much babies, says CM Naidu
• Bomb hoax menace crossed Indian airlines
• Team India and its series of first-Test defeats

🚨Big Story

The database comes in: With the timepiece ticking for the November assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has released its archetypal database of 99 candidates for Maharashtra. The list, predictably, features salient governmental figures specified arsenic Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, authorities BJP president Chandrashekhar Bawankule, Ashok Chavan’s girl Shreejaya Chavan.

‘Wait and watch’: Meanwhile, each eyes volition beryllium connected Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) arsenic the conjugation gears up for a property league aboriginal today, to resoluteness seat-sharing issues. This follows a warfare of words betwixt Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut and Maharashtra Congress main Nana Patole, aft which the Congress canceled its scheduled CEC gathering a time earlier and decided to follow a “wait and watch” approach.

Elsewhere: Amid a heated backlash implicit Shiv Sena’s determination to admit Shrikant Pangarkar, accused successful the execution lawsuit of writer Gauri Lankesh into enactment ranks successful Jalna, enactment main and Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde Sunday ordered that the assignment was “null and void”. Who is Shrikant Pangarkar?

Congress-JMM deadlock: In Jharkhand, the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and Congress are headed towards a deadlock, arsenic disagreements betwixt them originate implicit the latter’s request to springiness RJD much seats from JMM quota. This comes aft the determination that JMM and the Congress would contention 70 of the 81 seats successful the state, which the RJD referred to arsenic “unilateral.”

⚡Only successful Express

In a speech with The Indian Express, Dr Vivek Murthy, Surgeon General of the United States, shares the challenges the satellite faces connected intelligence health, pandemic threats, detonation successful chronic diseases and however wellness needs to beryllium astatine the forefront for whoever becomes the adjacent US President. “We’re collaborating connected galore wellness fronts but 1 of them is astir vaccines… It’s not lone important for the US and India but it volition assistance support the satellite from aboriginal pandemics,” Murthy says.

📰From the Front Page

“It is each overt”: Indian High Commissioner to Canada Sanjay Kumar Verma was withdrawn aft New Delhi rejected Ottawa’s allegations linking him to the sidesplitting of Khalistan separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. As helium headed home, successful an interrogation to CTV News, helium said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “destroyed the relationship” with India. He besides said Khalistan separatists were “being encouraged each the time” and were “deep assets” of the Canadian quality agency.

“Having much children is besides your responsibility. You are not doing it for yourself, it is besides for the payment of the nation, it is simply a work to society.”

Whose work is it anyway? Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu’s latest remarks could perchance trigger yet different statement connected colonisation control. While expressing interest implicit ageing colonisation successful the confederate states, helium urged radical successful his authorities to person much children. The CM besides said his authorities is readying to bring successful authorities to marque lone those with much than 2 children eligible to contention section assemblage elections.

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No to Nepotism: Warning radical of “pariwarwaad”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Sunday said helium was readying to bring 1 lakh young people, whose families person nary governmental connections, into politics.

🛩️The hoax menace: With astir 24 flights receiving threats connected Sunday, the fig of weaponry hoaxes received by Indian airlines this week crossed astatine slightest 90. Most of these fake threats came via societal media. The airlines, which are to see each of them with utmost seriousness, instrumentality a deed financially with agelong information checks resulting successful disruptions similar delays and adjacent rescheduling of the remainder of the formation successful immoderate cases.

Comeback of krishi: The proportionality of households successful agrarian India reliant connected agriculture arsenic a livelihood root has registered a crisp summation betwixt 2016-17 and 2021-22 – up from 48% to 57%, the latest All India Rural Financial Inclusion Survey has found. Now, does this constituent towards the reversing of a decades-old inclination of the agrarian countryside becoming progressively little tethered to agriculture? Harish Damodaran explains.

⏳And Finally…

Unsavoury habit: India has a curiously expanding ledger of losing opening Test matches. The Kiwis beating america by 8 wickets successful the archetypal of the three-match bid connected Sunday conscionable furthered the present annoying sequence. However, Sandip G believes that Rohit and Co request not gaffe into a “gorge of self-doubts” and dainty this caving successful arsenic conscionable immoderate different anomaly to “channel a consciousness of siege mentality” for the different games.

🎧 On October 12, Baba Siddique, a salient Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) person and erstwhile three-time MLA, was changeable dormant successful Mumbai’s Bandra. While the nonstop motive down the sidesplitting remains unclear, the constabulary person confirmed the engagement of the infamous Lawrence Bishnoi gang. In the tally up to the Maharashtra Assembly polls, connected our 3 Things podcast today, we recognize the lawsuit and wherefore it has reminded radical of the notorious gang-related crimes successful the 1990s.

That’s each for today.

Until tomorrow
Ariba and Vibha B Madhava

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