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Bengali actor and Trinamool&nbsp;Congress MP Nusrat&nbsp;Jahan, who was admitted to a&nbsp;Kolkata&nbsp;hospital on Sunday evening, was discharged on Monday evening. Her family has rubbished the reports of drug overdose as rumours. The Basirhat&nbsp;MP was rushed to hospital after breathing problems on Sunday at around 9:30pm. ""She has an asthma problem and uses inhaler, but her condition worsened on Sunday,' news reports quoted her family members as saying. They added that the MP is now stable.&nbsp;

The CRPF has asked the SPG to provide its bulletproof cars, earlier earmarked for the Gandhi family, to the paramilitary unit, the Hindustan Times has reported. The request has gone as the CRPF doesn&rsquo;t have armoured vehicles to ferry around VIPs, the report said quoting officials. The SPG had bullet-resistant Tata Safaris, Scorpio and sedans used for the Gandhi family&rsquo;s protection. On November 8, the government withdrew the SPG cover of the Gandhi family, designating CRPF to provide them the Z-Plus category protection.

NCP chief Sharad Pawar may have insisted that he did not discuss Maharashtra with Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday, The Indian Express has reported that Sena, Congress and NCP have arrived at a tentative understanding to form the next govt. Quoting sources, the report said that the govt will have Uddhav Thackeray as CM for 5 years and two deputy CMs -- one each from Congress and NCP. The report added that there will be no rotational&nbsp;CM ship as was earlier reportedly demanded by the NCP.

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 The Union government has said that it will crack down on those violating anti-pollution rules over the next fortnight, Hidustan Times has reported. The govt is trying to prevent another severe deterioration in air quality in the national capital. While the NCR air quality improved over the weekend, forecasts show that the pollution could again enter the &ldquo;severe&rdquo; zone by Thursday.
 The US continues to be a popular destination for Indian students, though fewer are flying out now because of unfriendly visa and immigration policies, The Times of India has reported. Indian student population in the US went up marginally by 2.9% from 1.96 lakh in 2017-18 to 2.02 lakh in 2018-19.
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NCP chief Sharad Pawar may have insisted that he did not discuss Maharashtra with Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday, The Indian Express has reported that Sena, Congress and NCP have arrived at a tentative understanding to form the next govt. Quoting sources, the report said that the govt will have Uddhav Thackeray as CM for 5 years and two deputy CMs -- one each from Congress and NCP.
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ICICI Bank plans to raise at least ₹20,000 crore by selling shares to institutional investors, business paper Mint has reported. It is the biggest such capital raising in India, as the nation&rsquo;s largest private lender looks to expand lending and compete with rivals to fill in the void left by shadow lenders after a crisis engulfed the sector.

Four soldiers and two army porters were killed after an avalanche hit an eight-man patrol in the Siachen glacier in Ladakh on Monday afternoon. An army officer said eight personnel came under snow in the Northern Sector of Siachen which is&nbsp;at an altitude of 19,000 feet.&nbsp;Avalanche rescue teams from the nearby posts were rushed for rescue. All eight personnel were pulled out but six succumbed to extreme hypothermia. Since 1984, India and Pakistan have lost more soldiers to adverse weather than combat in Siachen, which the world&rsquo;s highest and coldest battlefield.&nbsp;

Days after a BIS report stated that drinking water in the national capital failed quality tests, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday accused the Centre of playing "dirty politics" and scaring people.&nbsp;Kejriwal said five random water samples will be lifted publicly from each ward in the city for examination and asserted that only 1.5% of the 1.55 lakh water samples picked up by the Delhi Jal Board in January-September this year have failed the tests.&nbsp;Union Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Saturday had stated that Delhi along with Kolkata and Chennai failed in almost 10 out of 11 quality parameters of drinking water.

A marble-laden truck&nbsp;overturned in&nbsp;Bihar's Gopalganj district on Monday killing six minors standing on the roadside. The victims who were in the age group of 10-17 years were standing by the road while their goats&nbsp;were grazing nearby. While the 18-wheeled vehicle overturned after hitting potholes, the driver managed to escape from&nbsp;the spot after the accident.

Claiming that he didn&rsquo;t discuss the possibility of forming an alliance with Shiv Sena&nbsp;with Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi, Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad&nbsp;Pawar&nbsp;feigned ignorance about the claims that Uddhav Thackeray&rsquo;s party had support of 170 lawmakers. Holding the cards close to his chest,&nbsp;Pawar&nbsp;said he only discussed the political situation in Maharashtra with Sonia Gandhi during their nearly one-hour-long meeting&nbsp;in Delhi.&nbsp;

Scuffles ensued between the Jawaharlal Nehru University students and Delhi Police as they were stopped from taking out a march to the Parliament. As Police imposed curbs,&nbsp;under section 144 in and around the campus, the students who are protesting a draft hostel manual, which has provisions for hostel fee hike, dress code and curfew timings, broke barricades.&nbsp;The students,&nbsp;then marched and&nbsp;gathered near Safdarjung Tomb to continue their protest.&nbsp;The protest led to massive snarls in Central Delhi, with authorities shutting down three metro stations.&nbsp;The protest&nbsp;is being held&nbsp;even as the Education Secretary addressed the concern of students by a partial roll back and on Monday announced a new&nbsp;three-member&nbsp;committee to open dialogue with the students.

Former Prime Minister&nbsp;Manmohan Singh&nbsp;has said India's&nbsp;economic slowdown&nbsp;is the result of 'profound fear and distrust' among people who act as agents of economic&nbsp;growth.&nbsp;Writing for The Hindu newspaper, the noted economist said&nbsp;tearing of our social fabric of trust is the fountainhead of our current economic malaise.&nbsp;The two-time former Prime Minister&nbsp;blamed the Modi government for&nbsp;what he called &lsquo;rupturing&rsquo;&nbsp;the country's social fabric through&nbsp;&lsquo;mala fide unless proven otherwise&rsquo;&nbsp;doctrine of governance.&nbsp;Citing that the&nbsp;GDP growth&nbsp;is at a 15-year low, unemployment is at a 45-year high&nbsp;and bad loans are at an all-time high,&nbsp;he&nbsp;wrote &lsquo;these are mere manifestations of a deeper underlying malaise that plagues the nation&rsquo;s economy today&rsquo;.&nbsp;

Speaking at the historic 250th session of the Rajya&nbsp;Sabha,&nbsp;Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said Rajya Sabha is the soul of India&rsquo;s federal structure. He also said that&nbsp;the Rajya Sabha has time and again made a strong contribution to national good by passing come together&nbsp;to pass landmark&nbsp;bills.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi and NCP chief Sharad Pawar will meet today to discuss their alliance with the Shiv Sena for government formation in Maharashtra. Congress and NCP have already worked out a common minimum programme with the Sena and reports indicate the allocation of portfolios between the three parties could be discussed in the meeting. Shiv Sena has said they have the support of 170 MLAs and will show their strength on the floor of House.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on&nbsp;Monday said in Rajya Sabha that people's hearts can be won by&nbsp;political parties even without rushing to the Well of the&nbsp;House to register their protest on various issues.&nbsp;Speaking in the House during a special discussion marking 250 sessions of Rajya Sabha, he said that the&nbsp;NCP and BJD&nbsp;have always adhered to parliamentary norms, something even his party, the BJP&nbsp;could learn from.

Agra may be speeding towards a rechristening. According to reports, the Yogi&nbsp;Adityanath government is planning to change the name of Agra district to Agravan. The state government has also asked the&nbsp;Ambedkar University to look into the circumstances and time when Agravan's name was changed to Agra. The proposal follows the Uttar Pradesh government earlier move to rename Allahabad to Prayagraj and Mughal Sarai railway station to&nbsp;Deendayal Upadhyay.

The Congress has moved an Adjournment Motion in the Lok Sabha over "instability" in Jammu and Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370. The Shiv Sena, too, has given Adjournment Motion notice over the loss of crops due to heavy rainfall in Maharashtra. The Trinamool Congress also joined in moving for an adjournment over the detention of National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah in Jammu and Kashmir.

Speaking ahead of the winter session, Prime Minister Narendra&nbsp;Modi&nbsp;upheld the oneness and unity of the country, adding that the ongoing session is the last one in 2019 and urged all members of parliament to make the session productive. "In the last few days, we have got an opportunity to meet all the party leaders. Parliament sessions have been successful because of the support of all the MPs and this is a success of the entire Parliament. I thank all the MPs and I hope this session also works on the agenda of the progress of the nation. We want discussion on all issues. Constructive discussion and debates are welcome and everyone should use their capabilities to the best possible use of the session," Prime Minister Narendra Modi said.

In a veiled dig at his Gujarat counterpart Vijay Rupani, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said that instead of buying a Rs 191 crore-plane for himself he preferred to provide free ride to women in public transport buses. He added that opposition parties were getting "uncomfortable" by his govt's schemes facilitating people. Women in Delhi have been allowed free travel in public transport buses by the AAP government from October 29. "We allowed free travel to women in public transport buses and the opposition raised noise over it. People ask where did the money for it come from. The chief minister of a state bought a plane worth Rs 191 crore for himself. I did not buy a plane and instead made travel free for my sisters," said Kerjiwal.

The winter session of the Parliament starts today and fiesty faceoffs are likely with the Opposition planning to corner the government over key issues like economic slowdown and the Kashmir crisis. The govt meanwhile seeks to push through the contentious Citizenship (amendment) Bill. PM Modi on Sunday asserted that the government is ready to discuss every issue and urged all MPs to make the session productive. Opposition leaders, including Ghulam Nabi Azad, will raise the detention of leaders in Jammu and Kashmir like Farooq Abdullah, who is also a Lok Sabha MP.

Newly appointed Lok Jan Shakti party chief Chirag&nbsp;Paswan&nbsp;has said NDA convener should be appointed for better coordination among alliance partners.&nbsp;Paswan, who spoke to reporters after an NDA meeting ahead of the winter session of Parliament, said Shiv&nbsp;Sena's&nbsp;absence was felt at the meet as it was one of the oldest National Democratic Alliance member.&nbsp;

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Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood&nbsp;Qureshi&nbsp;in a video message has said that they will be inviting India's former Prime Minister Manmohan&nbsp;Singh&nbsp;to the&nbsp;Kartarpur corridor inauguration event. The unaccepted announcement comes as India and Pak&nbsp;are racing to finish work on the pilgrim corridor in time for the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak in November.&nbsp;Once built, the corridor will connect the Darbar Sahib in Pakistan's Kartarpur with the Dera Baba Nanak shrine in India's&nbsp;Gurdaspur district and facilitate visa-free movement of Sikh pilgrims between the two countries. Meanwhile, the former prime minister's office has said it has no information about the invite so far and sources indicated that he is unlikely to attend.

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi in a video message has said that they will be inviting India's former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the Kartarpur corridor inauguration event. The unaccepted announcement comes as India and Pak are racing to finish work on the pilgrim corridor in time for the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak in November. Once built, the corridor will connect the Darbar Sahib in Pakistan's Kartarpur with the Dera Baba Nanak shrine in India's Gurdaspur district and facilitate visa-free movement of Sikh pilgrims between the two countries. Meanwhile, the former prime minister's office has said it has no information about the invite so far and sources indicated that he is unlikely to attend.

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