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[00:00.000 --> 00:16.200] Hello, this is your Daily Dose of News from Onmanorama. I am your host Anjou S. Kuneemon
[00:16.200 --> 00:23.880] and these are the major news stories of Friday, February 9, 2024.
[00:23.880 --> 00:29.560] The union government has announced that it will confirm Bharat Ratna on Narasimharao, Charensing
[00:29.560 --> 00:35.560] and Malayali scientist M.S. Swaminathan.
[00:35.560 --> 00:40.560] With over 100 seats counted, independent candidates supported by the jailed former Prime Minister
[00:40.560 --> 00:45.760] Imran Khan lead in Pakistan.
[00:45.760 --> 00:50.720] The overnight violence over the demolition of a Madrasa claimed two lives in Uttarakhand's
[00:50.720 --> 00:57.000] Haldwani. Three people have been critically injured.
[00:57.000 --> 01:02.160] Israel launched new airstrikes in Gaza after U.S. President Biden called the military response
[01:02.160 --> 01:07.160] to the Hamas attack over the top.
[01:07.160 --> 01:12.280] Ten-year jailed term for Rya Zabubakar for conspiring to carry out Aya's model suicide
[01:12.280 --> 01:14.280] attack in Kerala.
[01:14.280 --> 01:18.960] Let's get into the details.
[01:18.960 --> 01:24.720] Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Friday, announced that former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimharao,
[01:24.720 --> 01:30.400] Charensing and scientist Dr. M.S. Swaminathan will be conferred with the Bharat Ratna.
[01:30.400 --> 01:35.080] The government had earlier announced the country's highest civilian honor for Al-Khadwani and
[01:35.080 --> 01:39.040] Karpurita Khur. Narasimharao's tear India through critical
[01:39.040 --> 01:45.080] transformations and also enriched its cultural and intellectual heritage, the PM said.
[01:45.080 --> 01:50.080] Modi added that Bharat Ratna was dedicated to Charensing for his incomparable contribution
[01:50.080 --> 01:51.080] to the country.
[01:51.160 --> 01:56.000] P.A. Modi also acknowledged the monumental contributions made by Swaminathan to the country
[01:56.000 --> 01:58.440] in agriculture and farmers welfare.
[01:58.440 --> 02:03.440] With this, the number of recipients of the country's highest civilian award touched 53,
[02:03.440 --> 02:07.520] five of them within 2024, the maximum in a year so far.
[02:07.520 --> 02:12.840] Till now, the maximum number of Bharat Ratna's were awarded in 1999 when four recipients
[02:12.840 --> 02:17.760] were given the coveted award.
[02:17.760 --> 02:23.600] Supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan had the edge on Friday in Pakistan's
[02:23.600 --> 02:28.960] election results from over 100 seats, local media said, after vote counts were hit by
[02:28.960 --> 02:34.800] unusual delays that the government ascribed to a suspension of mobile phone services.
[02:34.800 --> 02:40.960] A leading news channel said, independence, whom mostly of allergens to Khan, had won 47 of
[02:40.960 --> 02:44.040] 106 seats for which it had results.
[02:44.040 --> 02:48.720] A total of 265 seats were contested in Thursday's election.
[02:48.720 --> 02:54.480] The Pakistan People's Party of Bilal Bhutto Zardari, the son of assassinated Trimia Ban
[02:54.480 --> 03:01.400] Azir Bhutto, also got 24, while former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League
[03:01.400 --> 03:03.400] Nawaz 118.
[03:03.400 --> 03:09.800] Khan is in jail and has Pakistan Tahri Khan's party was barred from the election, so he supporters
[03:09.800 --> 03:11.760] contested as independence.
[03:12.320 --> 03:17.200] Analysts have predicted there may be no clear winner, adding to the woes of a country, struggling
[03:17.200 --> 03:21.960] to recover from an economic crisis, while it grapples with rising militant violence
[03:21.960 --> 03:24.880] in a deeply polarized political environment.
[03:27.880 --> 03:32.400] Two people were killed and three critically injured in violence that broke out over the
[03:32.400 --> 03:38.320] demolition of an illegally built madrasa and a place for offering namas inside its premises
[03:38.320 --> 03:43.960] in this Uttarakhand town, where a curfew has been imposed and shoot at site orders have
[03:43.960 --> 03:47.040] been issued, officials said on Friday.
[03:47.040 --> 03:53.600] 9th Al-Dhisthikmajistrit Wanda Nasing and senior superintendent of police, Prahilat Nina,
[03:53.600 --> 03:58.720] who held a joint press conference here, confirmed the two deaths in the violence that erupted
[03:58.720 --> 03:59.720] on Thursday.
[03:59.720 --> 04:03.840] However, some news said five have lost their lives in the violence.
[04:04.200 --> 04:08.720] Chief Mr. Pushka Singh Dhami held a high-level meeting at his official residence in Dehradun
[04:08.720 --> 04:14.040] on Friday and instructed the additional director general of police, law and order, AP Anshamant
[04:14.040 --> 04:19.840] to camp in Haldwani to ensure peace and law and order in the town's Banbulpurah area.
[04:19.840 --> 04:24.120] Four people have been arrested for allegedly being involved in the attack on the police
[04:24.120 --> 04:27.720] station and police personnel and three FIRs were registered.
[04:28.720 --> 04:36.160] Israeli forces carried out deadly airstrikes on Gaza on Friday, hours after U.S. President
[04:36.160 --> 04:41.080] Joe Biden described the military response to the October 7 attack on Israel by the Palestinian
[04:41.080 --> 04:44.600] territories ruling Hamas movement as over the top.
[04:44.600 --> 04:50.040] Israel pressed on, with its bombing campaign as diplomats sought to salvage ceasefire talks
[04:50.040 --> 04:55.960] after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a Hamas proposal that also envisaged
[04:55.960 --> 05:00.040] the release of hostages held by the Palestinian militant group.
[05:00.040 --> 05:05.120] The United States hopes to secure a pose in fighting before Israel carries out a threatened
[05:05.120 --> 05:11.200] ground assault on the Saturn city of Rafa where over half of Gaza's 2.3 million people
[05:11.200 --> 05:14.520] are sheltering near the border with Egypt.
[05:14.520 --> 05:19.160] Palestinian health officials said at least 15 people were killed in the latest airstrikes,
[05:19.160 --> 05:26.080] including 8 in Rafa, the last refugee, for many gases displaced as Israel's offensive
[05:26.080 --> 05:29.400] advance southwards through the narrow coastal enclave.
[05:29.400 --> 05:32.880] Israel did not immediately comment on the latest airstrikes.
[05:36.040 --> 05:41.560] Biyaz Abu Bakr, the 34-year-old Palakar native who was arrested by the National Investigation
[05:41.560 --> 05:47.320] Agency, was sentenced to 10 years in jail for conspiring to carry out IS model suicide
[05:47.320 --> 05:48.800] attacks in Kerala.
[05:48.800 --> 05:51.880] An NIA court in Kochi awarded the punishment.
[05:51.880 --> 05:55.800] The court also imposed a fine of Rs. 1.25 lakh on him.
[05:55.800 --> 06:00.760] He was arrested by the NIA during the investigation into 14 people who are believed to have left
[06:00.760 --> 06:07.880] Qasar Godfer Afghanistan to join IS in 2016.
[06:07.880 --> 06:09.760] That brings us to the end of this episode.
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