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Top News Highlights: BMC bans open garbage burning following a report on negligence by Indian Express, Time for India to proscribe Hamas as terror group: Israeli envoy, Tragic multiple shootings in Maine leave 22 dead, and more.
Today’s Latest News Transcript at 10:30 AM on 26 October 2023
In top national news: On the day The Indian Express published a report on how Mumbai’s civic body took its eyes off the garbage dumping and its burning, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation ordered a complete ban on the burning of garbage in the open. Earlier, the city’s Guardian Minister Deepak Kesarkar said the BMC had sent notices to 6,000 construction sites to install fogging machines and sprinklers. At a press conference Wednesday, Kesarkar also said the BMC is putting in place a process to soon start segregation of waste — extraction of pollutants from the garbage — at its two landfills in Deonar and Kanjurmarg.
Meanwhile, Israeli ambassador Naor Gilon said on Wednesday that the time has come for India to proscribe Hamas as a terrorist organisation like many other nations have done. The Israeli envoy, at an interaction with journalists, also thanked India for its “100 per cent” support to Israel in its anti-terror operations against Hamas. Gilon said Israel has conveyed to relevant Indian authorities on declaring Hamas as a terrorist organisation following its brutal attack on Israel on October 7. At the same time, he indicated that the matter was taken up earlier as well. Gilon said: “Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among the first world leaders to condemn the terror attack”
In other news: A month after it suspended Indian visa services in Canada and asked Ottawa to reduce its diplomatic presence in India following the diplomatic firestorm over Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s allegation of a potential Indian link to the killing of a Canada-based Khalistan separatist, Delhi moved to reduce tensions between the two countries by restoring visa services in some categories with effect today. While the entry visa is meant for Indian-origin Canadian passport holders, the business visa is for Canadian business travellers and investors in India. These have been restored keeping in view the high demand from Indian-origin Canadian citizens who don’t have OCI cards as well as Canadian investors in India.
Underlining the importance of the roster for allocating work to Judges, the Supreme Court has said that “Judges have to follow discipline and ought not to take up any case unless it is specifically assigned by the Chief Justice”. The bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Pankaj Mithal was hearing an appeal against a Rajasthan High Court Judge’s decision to allow a civil writ petition for clubbing of FIRs against some accused. The bench noted that the accused had first filed two criminal writ petitions, but a single Judge, in April this year, had refused to grant any interim relief. Thereafter, in what the SC called a “very extraordinary step”, the accused filed a civil writ petition.
In top international news: At least 22 people have been killed and more than 50 others have been injured in multiple shootings in United States’ Maine on Wednesday night, reported NBC News, citing a police source. The suspect is still at large. The shootings took place across three separate incidents in a bowling alley, a restaurant and a Walmart distribution centre in Maine’s second most populous city of Lewiston, as per reports in local media house Portland Press Herald. Police, fire and rescue personnel were seen at the sites of reported shootings at around 7.15 pm local time (4.45 am IST on Thursday), it said. US President Biden has been briefed on the situation and will continue to receive updates.
In news from Japan: Japan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a law requiring transgender people to undergo sterilization surgery in order to officially change their gender is unconstitutional, a landmark verdict welcomed by advocates as a sign of growing acceptance of LGBTQ+ rights. The ruling by the top court’s 15-judge Grand Bench only applies to the sterilisation portion of the 2003 law. It does not address the constitutionality of requiring gender-transition surgery in general to obtain a state-sanctioned gender change — a requirement also criticised by international rights and medical groups. The decision comes at a time of heightened awareness of issues surrounding LGBTQ+ people in Japan and is a partial victory for that community.
In news from Mexico: Hurricane Otis ripped through the Mexican beach resort of Acapulco as a Category 4 storm early on Wednesday, battering hotels and sending tourists running for cover as it pummeled the southern Pacific coast with torrential rain and high winds. Videos posted on social media showed rooms wrecked by the passing of the hurricane, ceilings and walls rent open and cars partly submerged in floodwaters as the southern state of Guerrero awoke to the disarray left in Otis’ wake. Footage from one hospital on social media showed nurses evacuating patients from their rooms to keep them safe from Otis, one of the strongest hurricanes ever to hit the region.
Lastly: Amid uproar over his remarks that attacks by Hamas “did not happen in a vacuum”, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday expressed shock at the “misinterpretations” of his comments and asserted it was necessary to set the record straight that he was not justifying acts of terror by Hamas. In remarks that angered Israel, Guterres had told the Security Council ministerial meeting on Tuesday on the Israel-Hamas conflict that it is “important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation.”
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