Shah Rukh Khan gets death threat | Top News of Nov 7, 2024

[00:00:09] Hello, this is your daily dose of news from Onmanorama. I'm your host Vishnu and these are the major news stories of Thursday, Nov 7, 2024.

[00:00:19] Actor Shah Rukh Khan received a death threat and a demand for Rs 50 lakh, Mumbai police confirmed on Thursday, adding an extortion case had been filed.

[00:00:29] The Israeli Defense Ministry said it had signed an agreement to acquire 25 next-generation F-15 fighter jets from Boeing for $5.2 billion.

[00:00:38] The agreement is part of a broader package of U.S. aid approved by the U.S. administration and Congress earlier this year.

[00:00:46] Palestinians expressed fear at Donald Trump's return to the White House, while the leaders of the militant group Hamas and Palestinian Authority urged him to act for peace.

[00:00:56] The Supreme Court ordered the liquidation of jet airways assets and forfeiture of the winning bidder's money.

[00:01:02] A political controversy erupted in Vyanat ahead of the Lok Sabha by-elections after around 30 footkits carrying pictures of Congress leaders were seized by the flying score of the Election Commission and the police in the district.

[00:01:14] Let's get into the details.

[00:01:17] Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan received a death threat and a demand for Rs 50 lakh, Mumbai police said on Thursday, adding an extortion case has been filed in this connection.

[00:01:26] The Mumbai police have also summoned a man from Raipur in this connection, a senior police officer from the Chhattisgarh capital said.

[00:01:33] The threat to Shah Rukh Khan follows a series of threats issued to fellow actor Salman Khan allegedly from the Lawrence Bishnoi gang.

[00:01:39] As part of the investigation into the threat to Shah Rukh Khan, Mumbai police visited Raipur and summoned a man identified as Fayyaz Khan.

[00:01:47] As per preliminary information, the threat called to the actor was made from a phone number registered in the name of Fayyaz.

[00:01:53] The Israeli Defense Ministry said on Thursday it had signed an agreement to acquire 25 next-generation F-15 fighter jets from Boeing.

[00:02:01] It said the $5.2 billion agreement was part of a broader package of U.S. aid approved by the U.S. administration and Congress earlier this year

[00:02:08] and included an option for 25 additional aircraft.

[00:02:12] Delivery of the new F-15 IA aircraft will begin in 2031 with four to six aircraft to be supplied annually, it said.

[00:02:19] The aircraft will be equipped with weapon systems integrated with existing Israeli weapons as well as having increased range and payloads.

[00:02:26] Director General of the Defense Ministry Eyal Zahmir said the Israeli government has secured procurement agreements worth nearly $40 billion since the onset of the war in Gaza that began on October 7, 2023.

[00:02:40] Palestinians logged in war with Israel for more than a year to express fear Donald Trump's return to the White House,

[00:02:45] while the leaders of the militant group Hamas and the Palestinian Authority urged him to act for peace.

[00:02:50] In Khan Yunus, in the southern Gaza Strip, Abu Osama, a man displaced by unrelenting Israeli bombardments,

[00:02:57] called Trump's election victory a new catastrophe in the history of the Palestinian people.

[00:03:02] Over 43,300 Palestinians have been killed in more than a year of war in Gaza, health authorities and the enclaves say,

[00:03:09] and much of the territory has been laid to waste.

[00:03:12] The war began after Hamas-led militants attacked Israel on October 7, 2023,

[00:03:17] killing about 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages to Gaza, according to Israeli tallies.

[00:03:23] Efforts by the United States and Arab mediators Qatar and Egypt have so far failed to arrange a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that would end the fighting

[00:03:30] and see the release of Israeli and foreign hostages in Gaza as well as Palestinians jailed by Israel.

[00:03:36] Hamas said the U.S. election was a matter for the American people,

[00:03:39] but it called for an end to the blind support for Israel from the United States.

[00:03:45] In a major development in the jet airways insolvency saga,

[00:03:48] the Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the grounded airlines liquidation for future of the Rs. 200 crore infused by successful bidder Jalen Caldra Consortium

[00:03:56] and permit to the lenders led by SBI to end cash Rs. 150 crore performance bank guarantee.

[00:04:03] Invoking its extraordinary powers under Article 142 of the Constitution,

[00:04:07] a bench compressing Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachodh and Justices J.B. Pardewala and Manoj Mishra

[00:04:12] put the curtains down on the insolvency proceedings of the airlines

[00:04:15] by setting aside the order of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal.

[00:04:19] The bench termed the case as an eye-opener and draped the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal

[00:04:23] for allowing adjustment of performance bank guarantee in view of payment of the first tranche by Jalen Caldra Consortium.

[00:04:30] After grounding in 2019 owing to a severe liquidity crisis at the time,

[00:04:34] the full-service carrier underwent an insolvency distribution process.

[00:04:39] A political controversy has erupted in Vyanad ahead of the Lok Sabha by-elections

[00:04:43] after around 30 foot kits carrying pictures of Congress leaders

[00:04:46] were seized by the flying score of the Election Commission and the police on Thursday

[00:04:50] at Tolpeti in the district.

[00:04:52] The kits containing tea dust, sugar, rice and other grocery items

[00:04:56] and carrying pictures of Rahul Gandhi, Priyanga Gandhi,

[00:04:59] Karnataka Chief Minister Siddharamaya and Deputy CM Keshiv Kumar

[00:05:02] were seized from a flour mill located near the residence of a local Congress leader.

[00:05:07] The ruling left has alleged that the kits were brought for distribution to voters

[00:05:11] in an attempt to influence them in favour of the Congress in the November 13th by-poll.

[00:05:15] The kit was labelled for distribution to landslide victims.

[00:05:18] However, the Congress said these are the same kits previously brought in

[00:05:21] for distribution to the survivors of the Vyanad landslide disaster on July 30th.

[00:05:27] That brings us to the end of this episode.

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