Anti-Padamavati protest, Modi in Manila and other news of the day in pictures

Members of the Rajput Karni Sena held massive protests in Gandhinagar and Surat demanding a ban on the release of Padmavati’ alleging that the filmmakers had distorted historical facts. While over one lakh members of the community converged in Gandhinagar, thousands took part in the protest march in Surat. The movie is scheduled to release on December 1.

 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Donald Trump at the gala dinner organised by the Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in Manila to celebrate the golden jubilee of ASEAN. Mr. Modi will also attend the 15th India-ASEAN Summit and the 12th East Asia Summit. This year also marks the 25th anniversary of the India-ASEAN dialogue partnership.

 

U.S. President Donald Trump said on a visit to Vietnam on Sunday he was prepared to mediate between claimants to the South China Sea, where five countries contest China's sweeping claims to the busy waterway. “If I can help mediate or arbitrate, please let me know,” Mr. Trump said in comments at the start of a meeting in Hanoi with Vietnam's President, Tran Dai Quang.

 

 

 

 

Rahul Gandhi is on a three-day campaign tour leading his party’s Navsarjan Yatra. He met with his supporters and spoke in detail about his social media policies.

 

Emirates, the Middle East’s largest air carrier, has unveiled new, state-of-the-art, first class private suites. In an industry first, passenger suites in the middle aisle without windows will be fitted with “virtual windows” relaying the sky outside via fiber optic cameras on the plane. There’s also a video call feature in the suites that connects passengers to the cabin crew, as well as temperature control and various mood lighting settings. The private suites will be available on the airline’s Boeing 777.

 

Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Prakash Javadekar on Sunday said the first draft of the new National Education Policy will come out by December end. The policy is being prepared by a nine-member panel headed by former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman K. Kasturirangan. “They have said that we can have the first draft of the policy by December end.... It will be implemented as soon as possible after it has been debated (in Parliament),” Mr. Javadekar said during a press conference. 

 

The Uttar Pradesh CM released the manifesto along with State BJP chief Mahendra Nath Pandey (right), Deputy Chief Ministers Keshav Prasad Maurya (second from left) and Dinesh Sharma (left), and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Urban Development Suresh Khanna (not in picture) for the upcoming civic elections, in Lucknow.

 

 

Kashmir’s unusually long dry spell is expected to end soon as the Meteorological department has predicted light rains by mid of November.

 

Having been routed 9-0 in the previous meeting with India in all formats of the game, Sri Lanka is due to play three Tests, three ODIs and as many as T20 internationals starting on November 16. Sri Lanka started their campaign against a depleted Board President's XI team. Sri Lanka coach Nic Pothas said the team had learnt from its defeat against India. “The series was a huge learner for us. If we didn’t learn from a very good team, then we would have made the biggest-ever mistake. We learnt what India did very well and the areas we needed to improve,” said Pothas at the team’s arrival press conference.

 

 

Chinese consumers have spent billions of dollars shopping online for anything from diapers to diamonds on “Singles Day,” a day of promotions that has grown into the world’s biggest e-commerce event. China’s largest e-commerce giant, Alibaba Group, said on Sunday sales by the thousands of retailers on its platforms for the 24-hour period on Saturday amounted to 168.3 billion yuan ($25.3 billion), setting a new record for the company. It was 39% more than sales clocked last year on Alibaba’s platforms of 120.7 billion yuan. - AP

 

 

U.S. President Donald Trump said in a tweet on Sunday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had insulted him by calling him “old” and said he would never call Kim “short and fat.” Mr. Trump made the comment after attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Vietnam.

 

Americans honoured their military veterans on Saturday with a parade in the wintry cold of New York City, where one World War II vet thanked onlookers for remembering, and in a somber ceremony in a Texas community bloodied by a church massacre where almost half of those killed had ties to the U.S. Air Force. - AP

In parks, war memorials, football fields and on streets across the United States, politicians and citizens gathered to thank those who have served in the nation's armed forces.