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[00:00:10] This is your daily dose of news from Onmanorama. I'm your host Deepa Soman and these are the major news stories of Saturday, Nov 2, 2024.
[00:00:20] India summoned a representative of the Canadian High Commission after Canadian Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister David Morrison alleged that Indian Home Minister Amit Shah had ordered a campaign of violence targeting Khalistani extremists.
[00:00:36] Russia unleashed its latest overnight drone strike on Ukraine, targeting the capital Kyiv.
[00:00:43] The attack lasted into late morning and wounded at least one person, officials said.
[00:00:49] Three days before the US presidential election, Democrat candidate Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump will visit North Carolina to claim support in the Southeastern battleground.
[00:01:00] More than 70 million Americans have already cast ballots.
[00:01:05] US authorities alerted Mumbai police to the presence of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi's brother on American soil.
[00:01:13] Mumbai police have started the process to extradite 25-year-old and Maul Bishnoi.
[00:01:19] Neat, like the Sanskrit of the 1920s, deny medical education to poor students, said Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister Udayanidi Stalin at Manorama Horthos.
[00:01:29] Let's get into the details.
[00:01:32] Rubbishing a Canadian minister's claims that Home Minister Amit Shah had ordered the targeting of Khalistani extremists in Canada, India has termed them absurd and baseless.
[00:01:44] India also said a Canadian diplomat had been summoned on Thursday.
[00:01:48] Canada's Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister David Morrison had told members of the country's Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security on Tuesday that Mr Shah had ordered a campaign of violence, intimidation and intelligence-gathering targeting Khalistani extremists.
[00:02:06] Replying to a question on Friday, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Ranthir Jaiswalt said a representative of the Canadian High Commission had been summoned on Thursday and a diplomatic note had been handed over.
[00:02:20] It was conveyed in the note that the government of India protests in the strongest terms to the absurd and baseless references made to the Union Home Minister of India before the committee by Deputy Minister David Morrison, Mr Jaiswalt said.
[00:02:34] Russia unleashed its latest overnight drone strike on Ukraine, targeting the capital Kyiv in an attack that lasted into late morning.
[00:02:43] Officials said the attack wounded at least one person.
[00:02:46] Debris from downed drone struck six city districts, wounding a police officer, damaging residential buildings and starting fires, according to Kiev's city military administrator.
[00:02:59] Reuters' correspondents reported hearing explosions in and around the city during an air raid alert that lasted more than five hours.
[00:03:07] One drone was seen flying low over the city amid the din of automatic weapons fire.
[00:03:13] Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump headed to North Carolina on Saturday to try to clinch support in the southeastern battleground state.
[00:03:22] The US presidential election is scheduled for November 5th.
[00:03:26] More than 70 million Americans have already cast ballots, according to the election lab at the University of Florida.
[00:03:33] This is below the record early voting phase in 2020 during COVID-19.
[00:03:38] Saturday also marks the last day of early voting in North Carolina.
[00:03:42] The state backed Trump in 2020 but elected a Democratic governor on the same day, giving hope to both parties.
[00:03:50] The state's report is a very important issue.
[00:03:50] In a major development for Indian law enforcement, US authorities have alerted the Mumbai police to the presence of Unmol Bishnoi, the younger brother of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi, on American soil.
[00:04:02] Acting swiftly, the Mumbai police have started the process to extradite 25-year-old Unmol Bishnoi.
[00:04:07] He is implicated in a series of high-profile cases, including a shooting incident outside Bollywood actor Salman Khan's residence.
[00:04:15] In October, the National Investigation Agency had announced a reward of Rs. 10 lakh for information leading to the arrest of Unmol Bishnoi.
[00:04:24] The National Eligibility Come Entrance Test or NEET, the nationwide entrance exam for medical colleges pushed by the union government, is just like how Sanskrit was used in the 1920s to prevent students from studying medicine, said Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister Udayanidi Stalin.
[00:04:43] Need prevent students from rural, backward and marginalized communities, Sanskrit was once used as a barrier to prevent many students from studying medicine, Udayanidi said.
[00:04:55] He was speaking at Manorama Horthos, Malayala Manorama's three-day art and literary festival in Korkod on Saturday.
[00:05:03] Tamil Nadu and Kerala have successfully kept fascist and communal forces at bay, he said.
[00:05:09] That brings us to the end of this episode.
[00:05:11] Thanks for listening to Daily News Doze, hosted by me, Deepa Soman and produced by Vishnu Murlidharan.
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