Morning Digest: Joe Biden wins key States in U.S. presidential election, three more Rafale jets arrive in India, and more

Joe Biden gained the battleground prizes of Michigan and Wisconsin on Wednesday, reclaiming a key a part of the “blue wall” that slipped away from Democrats 4 years in the past and dramatically narrowing President Donald Trump’s pathway to re-election.

Democrat Joe Biden stated Wednesday he was assured of profitable the presidency as soon as all votes are counted, saying he was main Donald Trump in the remaining swing States that can decide the election’s final result.

With mailed-in votes nonetheless being counted in key ‘Battleground States’ via the evening of November 3, neither U.S. President Donald Trump nor Democratic candidate Joe Biden emerged victorious after a fiercely fought election for the Presidency of a deeply troubled and polarised nation.

A recent FIR has been registered in opposition to Republic TV chief Arnab Goswami, his spouse Sayambrata Ray, and their son, for deterring the police from discharging their responsibility once they got here to arrest Mr. Goswami on Wednesday morning.

The Supreme Court on November 11 held that abandoned wives and youngsters are entitled to alimony/upkeep from the husbands from the date they apply for it in a courtroom of regulation. In a major judgment by a Bench of Justices Indu Malhotra and R. Subhash Reddy, the highest courtroom stated girls abandoned by husbands had been left in dire straits, usually lowered to destitution, for lack of means to maintain themselves and their youngsters.

Amid the continued suspension of products trains by the Railways to Punjab, key sectors from agro-processing, engineering, hosiery, pharmaceutical, textile, energy to auto parts makers have taken a blow in Punjab as provide of uncooked materials has lowered and supply of merchandise have come to a close to halt.

As many as 56.5% migrant employees who returned to Madhya Pradesh from Maharashtra throughout the COVID-19-induced lockdown had been unemployed, whereas these engaged in work had been incomes a lot lower than earlier than, in accordance with a survey.

Further, 67% of the 1,500 respondents who returned in May and June throughout Madhya Pradesh demanded pressing reduction to help their households. And 90% of them had not acquired any financial reduction promised by the federal government, stated a survey undertaken by two regulation graduates, an engineering scholar and Zenith Society for Socio-Legal Empowerment, Shivpuri, with assistance from 50 volunteers.

In distinction to the robust response to India’s Jammu and Kashmir reorganisation transfer final 12 months, China on Wednesday avoided voicing its opposition to Pakistan’s introduced transfer to accord “provisional provincial status” to Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

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In a more muted response, the Chinese Foreign Ministry stated it had “noted relevant reports” and that “China’s position on the Kashmir issue is consistent and clear”.

A second batch of three Rafale fighter jets arrived at Jamnagar airbase in Gujarat on Wednesday night after flying continuous from France, in an extra increase to strike functionality of the Indian Air Force when India and China are locked in a bitter border row in japanese Ladakh.

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With the arrival of the brand new batch, the variety of Rafale plane has elevated to eight.

The first batch of 5 Rafale jets arrived in India on July 29, practically 4 years after India signed an inter-governmental settlement with France to acquire 36 plane at a price of Rs 59,000 crore.

Defending champion Mumbai Indians could have been thrashed by 10 wickets by Sunrisers Hyderabad, however going into Thursday’s first qualifier in opposition to Delhi Capitals on the Dubai International Stadium, it’s the agency favorite.