- The Election Commission of India has announced dates for assembly elections in five states. Vote counting in all five states will take place on December 3.
Mizoram – November 7
Chhattisgarh – November 7 & 17
MP – November 17
Rajasthan – November 23
Telangana – November 30
- In Sikkim, nearly 3000 people remain stranded in Lachen and Lachung towns five days after the glacial lake burst. Many of them are tourists. The local administration is supporting them.
- The BJP has released its first list of candidates for the Rajasthan Assembly polls to be held on November 23 in a single phase. The list of forty-one candidates includes 7 MPs.
- Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan arrived at the national capital Delhi on her state visit to India. She will meet President Droupadi Murmu and hold bilateral talks with PM Narendra Modi.
- The TN Assembly adopted a resolution today urging the Central government to direct Karnataka to release Cauvery water to the state as per the Supreme Court’s order. While AIADMK offered support for the resolution after a debate, BJP staged a walkout.
- In Pimpri Chinchwad’s Tathawade area, a massive fire erupted after multiple LPG cylinders blasted. Two buses belonging to a college nearby were gutted in the fire. Police suspect the Illegal filling of LPG from a tanker to be the reason for the accident.
- Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) students held a solidarity march for Palestine and Hamas. Students could be heard shouting Allah hu Akbar slogans, carrying posters reading “AMU stands with Palestine.”
- Qatar is mediating a hostage swap between Hamas and Israel, asking the militant group to release Israeli women and children it is keeping as hostages in exchange for the release of some 36 Palestinian women and children in Israel’s prison.
- As per WhatsApp tracking website Wabetainfo, the popular chatting app is working on giving users lock chats with a secret code. With the new feature, users will be able to create a custom password for their locked chats.
- The war between Israel and Hamas has so far killed 800 Israelis and 500 Palestinians. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has warned of an unprecedented retaliation against Hamas, which he said has just begun.