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21:24 Turkish airstrikes kill 18 Islamic State terrorists in air strikes

Turkey's military killed 18 Islamic State terrorists in northern Syria over the last 24 hours, the army said, intensifying strikes against the militant group.

Four buildings and one vehicle used by the Islamic State fighters were destroyed in the strikes, an army statement said.

Separately, five Turkey-backed rebels and five Islamic State militants were killed in clashes on the ground, the army said in its statement. In addition, it said coalition forces conducted six air strikes which killed another 10 Islamic State militants.

Turkey is backing a group of Syrian Arabs and Turkmen in northern Syria in its Euphrates Shield operation, which has swept Islamic State from its southern border.

The hardline Sunni group claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack in the Turkish southeastern city of Diyarbakir that killed 11 last week.

An American woman has announced 30 days of sex sanctions against her husband.

Appealing to the global community on Reddit, the husband in question related the events since Tuesday but stopped short of calling them the actions of a rogue, or hostile spouse.

The husband also argued that such a sanction was not how sex ought to be used, and that by reducing access to it was he being subjected to a 'control move on her part'.

Critics of the sanctions are likely to view them as disproportionate and could have significant impact on the population.

Fears of a 'domino effect' against the 60 million other Trump voters from their spouse is causing a stir in other households.

De Niro has had a lot to say during and in the aftermath of the US elections. First describing how he would like to punch Mr Trump in the face and then declaring he would no longer like to do so, the Raging Bull actor's palpable confusion embodies the disbelief felt across America.

He said he felt as disturbed as he did learning the Twin Towers in New York had been attacked by terrorists. His struggle to comprehend the surreal situation America finds itself was clear.

"I feel like I did when the World Trade Centre was attacked. I'm waiting to see. I'm stunned. We're gonna see. I'm gonna give him the benefit of the doubt. We'll see what happens.

"This was about world order, doing things, trying to work our way through a lot of problems internationally and domestically and you need a grown up for that. We'll see. We're all waiting, we're watching."

At leas thirty people have been killed and scores of others injured as a result of huge blast in the crowded Shah Noorani Shrine in Hub town of Balochistan's Lasbela District on Saturday evening, police said.

As per sources, at least thirty dead bodies have been take to hospital. The death toll may increase as the nearest hospital is at least 150 kilometer away from the shrine.

Balochistan Home Minister Mir Sarfaraz Bugti immediately responded to the incident, saying the provincial administration was focused on saving maximum human lives.

A man has been shot at an anti-Trump rally in Portland, Oregon, where demonstrations against the president-elect had already become violent.

Portland police reported projectiles were thrown at them by protesters before a shooting was reported on Morrison Bridge in the centre of city.

In a statement, police have described the victim's injuries as non-life threatening and said he is being treated in hospital.

Police have described the possible suspect as a thin man in his late teens, 5 foot 8, wearing a black hoodie and saggy blue jeans.

An eyewitness to shooting, local community activist Cameron Whitten, said protesters were moving westbound over the bridge when a car with multiple occupants drove onto the bridge travelling eastbound.

The 25-year-old activist said the car's multiple occupants got out and one of them armed with a gun shot in the air before shooting a demonstrator in the lower body.

Post offices across Maharashtra and Goa have collected as well as exchanged the demonetised

currency notes worth around Rs 435 crore within two days, a senior official said today.

After Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, people have been thronging not only banks, but also post offices, to exchange the scrapped currency notes.

"On 10 November, our post offices collected savings deposits and exchanged demonetised notes worth around Rs 205 crore. On Friday, the day's collections went up to Rs 230 crore," Chief Post Master General of Maharashtra and Goa circle H C Agrawal said.

The postal department had initially witnessed some problems in distribution of newly-printed currency notes.

"Now, the process of exchanging old notes with new ones, has been streamlined. The total value of transactions will go up in the coming days," he said.

Endless queues, chaos and agitated crowd -- scenes outside most banks and ATMs across the country as millions rush to exchange and deposit discontinued currency. But amidst the hassled crowd are some who have tried to ease this transition by helping strangers at a time of need.

To deal with the heavy rush, some banks have asked retired staff to help ease the load on bank employees -- and they readily agreed.

"I was called by the regional head to go and assist one of the nearest branches, so I came here," said Shankar Rao, a retired employee of the Bank of Baroda in Bengaluru.

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A US national has been apprehended by police after he allegedly flew a drone near the high-security Taj Mahal.

Officials said the incident was reported around 2 pm yesterday when a small white-coloured drone was spotted twice near the historical monument which is a tight security zone.

A joint search was soon launched by local police and the CISF, entrusted to guard the Taj Mahal, to check on the object and after few hours they spotted a man atop a nearby

hotel preparing to fly the machine.

"The man, a tourist from Ohio in US, has been identified as R Nicholas. He was detained by police and brought to a local police station. Flying of drones or any other flying object is prohibited in and around Taj Mahal," they said.

Prima facie nothing suspicious has been found in the flying machine and in Nichloas's activities, they said, adding, police is investigating the matter.

Police has also informed the United State of America embassy in Delhi about the incident, they said.

In a fallout of demonetisation, a bride's father suffered a massive stroke in Bihar's Kaimur district and later died fearing that the groom's family might not accept the amount of Rs 35,000 demanded as dowry in Rs 500 and Rs 1000 currency notes.

The victim Ram Awadh Sah, 45, had fixed the marriage of the eldest of his four daughters and the marriage was supposed to take place early next year.

In the evening on November 8, PM Modi had announced that Rs 500 and Rs 1000 currency notes would be demonetised.

The election of Donald Trump and running mate Mike Pence set off panic in gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities across the country, as people worried which of their divisive campaign promises would come true.

Would the President-elect make good on his pledge to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which protects transgender people from discrimination in accessing health care? Will he appoint conservative judges to the US Supreme Court who could roll back marriage equality and other civil rights? Will Pence's long-ago support for so-called "conversion therapy" translate to a directive for LGBT youth?

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17:10

JUST IN: Narinder Batra becomes first Indian to be elected as International Hockey Federation president

17:04 Modi's Twitter handle springs back after losing 3 lakh followers in a day

There is no beating Prime Minister Narendra Modi on social media. So while there was a backlash on his twitter handle @narendramodi soon after the demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes was announced, his number of followers has bounced back to keep the growth trajectory consistent. As per Twitter analytics tool TwitterCounter.com, on November 8, when the Prime Minister came on national television to announced that Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes will cease to be legal tender after midnight, he had 24,120,043 followers.

However, next day he lost 3,13,312 followers, taking his overall follower count to 23,806,731. This fall is unprecedented as the @narendramodi handle has been on a roll ever since he started campaigning for Indias top elected post.

But it seems his clout in the social media circles turned the tide within 24 hours. By November 10, the number spiked back growing by 4,30,128 new followers to negate the effects of the fall a day before. The daily average new followers for this handle is just above 27,000. By November 11, the numbers were once again showing a regular growth trajectory.

In fact, @narendramodi is the 46th most popular handle in Twitterverse with 24,256,662 followers, 19,803 of which came on November 11. Modis handle has so far posted 13,241 tweets and follows 1,431 other handles, including a lot of top global leaders.

READ: In 2015, these world leaders were most followed on Twitter

16:46 Trump's 'assassination' posts flood Twitter

Twitter users have flooded the micro-blogging website with calls to assassinate the US president-elect Donald Trump and the US authorities were probing the threat, media reported on Saturday. Some posts called for both Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence to be assassinated, and theres even an #AssassinateTrump hashtag, New York Post reported.

Meanwhile, thousands of people all across the US continued to march down streets and interstates opposing Trumps victory in the presidential election.

Rock star Sting will on Saturday reopen the Bataclan, the revered Paris concert hall where extremists massacred 90 people, with a hugely symbolic show to mark the first anniversary of France's bloodiest terror attacks.

Scores of survivors of the Bataclan assault -- the worst of the gun and suicide attacks across the city that night which left 130 dead -- will attend the concert, the dominant event in a weekend of otherwise low-key commemorations.

On Friday, November 13, 2015, a night of horror began with three suicide bombers who blew themselves up outside the Stade de France national stadium.

As people line up outside banks and ATMs to deposit the now-illegal Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley held a meeting with the heads of several banks, including SBI and PNB.

Following the media, he is addressing the media on the currency ban.

>> The currency replacement around the country is being continuously monitored

>> I want to thank especially the people of the country who have gone to the banks for currency replacement, as there is several times the usual crowd at banks, but they have maintained order, and the banking employees are managing the action, along with the usual duties well

>> It is a massive operation and it has just started

>> It was expected that there will be some difficulty for the first few days as 86 per cent currency is changed

>> Today, till 12:15 pm, SBI alone has made 2 crore 28 lakh transactions in two and a half days after the scheme was announced

>> This kind of currency replacement can't happen overnight, it takes time

>> The ATMs have not been re-calibrated for new Rs. 2000 currency note; the process is on

>> If we had recalibrated ATMs earlier, we couldn't have maintained the secrecy

>> And since the new notes are of different size, it will take time to recalibrate the ATMs to them

A Gujarat-based evening newspaper, which published a news item as a prank on its readers on April Fools Day saying the government will scrap Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, has been flooded with calls ever since the government demonetised them.

The daily -- Akila -- is at pains now explaining to one and all that it was just an April fool prank as the picture of the story published on April 1, 2016, has gone viral on social media after the government's overnight decision on Tuesday.

"We had published the news on April 1, as a prank on our readers that high denomination notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 will be discontinued. It's nothing but a coincidence that thenews eventually turned out to be true after six months," owner and editor of the eveninger, Kirit Ganatra said.

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JUST IN: One soldier succumbed to his injuries last night in a ceasefire violation in the Keran sector of Jammu-Kashmir.

14:33 Mamata pens Bengali poem to slam Modi's decision to scrap banknotes

Renewing her attack on the Modi government for demonetisation of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today demanded withdrawal of this "black" political decision saying it is against the common people.

"Withdraw this 'black' political decision which is anti-commoner. Markets across India ruined, purchasing power crashing, people pained," she tweeted.

She also posted a 32-line Bengali poem on the move.

Banerjee hit out at an unnamed ruler an apparent reference to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who announced the dramatic move Tuesday evening.

The Trinamool chief calls the ruler an autocrat and asked whether he is deaf to the agony of the workers who are suffering as a direct outcome of his decision.

Be ready for a triple talaq from those who lost all following your decision, she writes in the last two lines that appear to be a warning for the BJP ahead of crucial assembly polls next year.

J Jayalalithaa's lung infection is now fully under control and she can leave whenever she feels fit, the chairman of Apollo Hospitals, where the Tamil Nadu chief minister has been recovering for nearly two months, said today.

"Jayalalithaa's infection is fully under control. She can go whenever she feels fit. Her discharge depends upon her. There is no fixed date. She has to reinvigorate herself to go back. What's required is recuperation. The team working towards that," Dr Prathap C Reddy said.

The 68-year-old, one of India's most powerful politicians, was admitted to the hospital on September 22 and was being treated for lung infection.

Earlier this month, Reddy had said that the chief minister was completely recovered. A specialist from London and three doctors from AIIMS have been treating Jayalalithaa, besides a team of doctors from Apollo Hospitals.

The Centre today dismissed the rumours of shortage of salt in the market and said adequate stocks are available across the country, including Uttar Pradesh, Delhi-NCR and Tamil Nadu.

The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, which comes under the ministry of commerce and Industry, in a series of tweets said there is sufficient stocks of salt in the country.

"Salt produced at Nawa and Phalodi from Rajasthan is supplied to Delhi. Refined salt is available in market at the rate of Rs 8-18 as per brand. Adequate edible salt has been supplied to Delhi & NCR areas by salt producers from Santalpur and Kharaghoda from Gujarat. There is no scarcity in Delhi,"

it said.

Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that "authorities are in the field and reporting back. No shortage".

Rumours about shortage of salt triggered panic among people in areas like Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Delhi and Maharshtra.

The demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 banknotes is unlikely to help the government suck out black money from the economy as hoarders keep a tiny portion of their ill-gotten wealth in hard cash, going by income-tax data.

Cash recovery has been less than six per cent of the undisclosed income seized from tax evaders.

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While addressing the Indian diaspora in Japan, PM Modi spoke of his huge fight against black money in the form of the demonetisation of the Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes.

Here are the highlights of his speech:

>> I salute each and every Indian. Many families had weddings, health problems...yes they faced inconvenience but they accepted the decision

>> Money that has been looted has to be recovered. And the rules have to be same for everyone

>> This (demonetisation) is a big cleanliness drive of the country

>> This is not an overnight decision, first we had brought in a scheme. It's not that no opportunity was given, it was given

>> This government will do everything to protect the interests of honest citizens

>> We cannot guarantee that after the completion of this scheme, there will be no further move to keep the corrupt in check

>> I will fully back honest people and go to any extent to punish the corrupt

13:01 Invalid Rs 1,000 notes found floating in Ganga

Demonetised Rs 1,000 notes were found flowing in Ganga river at Nayaghat area here, police said.

According to reports, boatmen got into a fight after spotting the invalid Rs 1,000 notes flowing in the river yesterday after which police was informed.

Nineteen Rs 1,000 notes in a torn condition have been recovered from the river, Superintendent of Police Kalanidhi Naithani said.

The authenticity of the notes will be known only after further investigations, the SP added.

PM Modi's demonetisation move may be hailed by many for its efforts against black money. However, a post speaking of a cabbie's reaction has gone viral with over 27,000 reactions.

New Delhi-based Viplav Arora booked a cab to take him to the railway station. Since he only had Rs 500 notes with him, he chose an online transaction to pay for the ride. "But somehow my bill for ride was little over the amount I had in Ola money and rest of amount I was supposed to pay to driver in cash," he says on Facebook.

With ATMs not working, Arora was in a fix. He also knew no one would exchange the note for a smaller amount. That's when his driver said the most wonderful thing.

"Sir, baaki ke paise rehne dijiye, do paise kam kama lenge, thodi si takleef hogi or vo to sab ko ho rhi hai, ab sarkaar ke faisley ka samaan krte hue, desh ki tarakki me ye hamara yogdaan hi samajh lenge. Aap befikr hokar apni train lijiye. (Sir, please let the rest of the amount be. It's alright if I earn a little less. It's only a bit of trouble, not much more than what everybody else is facing. We should respect the decision of the government. This can be my contribution for the country's progress. Don't worry and board your train)," cab driver, Vipin Kumar, told him.

Arora ends his post by praising the cab driver. "He proved the PM Modi quote in which he said -- common man of India always ready to face hardship in country's interest," he says on Facebook.

After the Supreme Court on Friday issued suo motu contempt notice to its former judge Markandey Katju, the latter launched a personal attack on the bench in a series of tweets calling the decision the result of a "pre-arranged drama".

Slamming the bench's decision to issue him a contempt notice, Katju wrote, "In India too, this rule of judicial 'omerta' applies. I have been speaking against judicial corruption at the higher levels for long. For long I have been speaking out against the misdeeds of Dattu, Thakur, Anil Dave, and their ilk. As a result I have been ostracised."

Alleging that the bench, comprising of Justices Ranjan Gogoi, P C Pant and Uday U Lalit, was playing out a "shameless", pre-orchestrated "drama" in court, Katju wrote, "My guess about the event yesterday is that a 'surgical strike' was pre-planned by Thakur, Dave etc in cahoots with Gogoi to humiliate me and issue a contempt of court notice to me in order to silence me, & also give a warning to others not to speak out about the misdeeds of judges."

The bench had issued the notice to Katju for writing blogs that the court called "an assault on the judges", a first in the country's judicial history, after he criticised the September 15 judgment that had set aside the death penalty for the convict in Kerala's Soumya rape-cum-murder case.

Few prognosticators predicted a Donald Trump victory ahead of Tuesday night. Polls showed Hillary Clinton comfortably ahead, and much of America (chiefly the media) failed to anticipate the wave of pro-Trump support that propelled him to victory. But a Washington, DC-based professor insisted that Trump was lined up for a win -- based on the idea that elections are primarily a reflection on the performance of the party in power.

Lichtman has made another call: that if elected, Trump would eventually be impeached by a Republican Congress that would prefer a President Mike Pence -- someone whom establishment Republicans know and trust.

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11:19 'Dainik Bhaskar' scribe shot dead in Bihar

Dharmendra Singh, a journalist with the Hindi newspaper Dainik Bhaskar, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Bihar's Rohtas in wee hours on Saturday.

Singh was standing at a tea stall near his house early in morning when three bike-borne assailants opened fire on him, peppering his chest with bullets.

The incident took place near Amra Lake in the Mufassil police station area.

Locals immediately rushed him Singh to the Sadar Hospital in Sasaram, where he received primary treatment and was referred to Varanasi.

However, Singh succumbed to injuries on his way to Varanasi.

A case has been registered and the police is investigating to nab the assailants.

3 killed and 13 others injured in explosion at Bagram Airfield, the largest US base in Afghanistan.

"We can confirm there was an explosion at Bagram Airfield this morning just after 5:30 a.m. There have been casualties. Our Force Protection and medical teams are responding to the situation. As we get more information, we will release it," the NATO-led Resolute Support Mission announced in a statement.

The district governor of Bagram, Abdul Shokor Qodosi told Reuters that at least three were killed in the explosion and as many as 13 are injured. He said the blast happened near a dining facility.

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As expected, the highlight of the visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Japan has been the signing of the civil nuclear cooperation agreement in Tokyo on Friday.

The 6-year long protracted negotiations have reached a successful end. This is Japan's first such nuclear deal with a non-NPT country and that alone is suffused with symbolism of the special regard Japan attaches to India's friendship.

The germane seeds sown by former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have taken roots.

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Australia suffered humiliation in the second Test against the Proteas at the Bellerive Oval in Hobart as they were bowled out for 85 on the opening day of the second Test.

Their innings lasted just 32.5 overs, making it their second shortest innings at home since the Perth Test in 1984, where they were bowled out for just 76 in 31.2 overs.

The most remarkable aspect of this innings was that out of the 85 scored by Australia, 48 of those runs came from Steven Smith.

Philander ended up with figures of 5/21 while Kyle Abbott finished with 3/41.

For a third night since Donald Trump was elected the 45th president, anti-Trump protests have erupted with thousands marching from every corner of the country.

On Friday, protests were scheduled in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Greensboro, Honolulu, Indianapolis, Omaha, Orlando and Washington D.C among others.

Once again, one of the largest crowds in the nation congregated outside Trump Tower in New York City. On Wednesday evening, thousands gathered near Trump Tower while the president-elect was meeting with aides. And on Thursday night, there were protests in front of Trump's Manhattan home.

In Portland, protestors vandalized 19 cars at a dealership, according to local reports. The incident comes less than 24 hours after 25 people were arrested during a riot that began with 4,000 protesters peacefully exercising their right to speak out.

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President-elect Donald Trump has shaken up his White House transition team, appointing Vice President-elect Mike Pence as its head and three of his children as part of the group that would shape the direction of Trump's administration beginning January 2017.

Trump, who won the general elections on November 8, would be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States on January 20, 2017, replacing Barack Obama, whose tenure ends that day.

Till then, the 70-year-old real estate tycoon has a transition team which would help him prepare to hit the ground running from day one.

The announcement by Trump came on Friday that Pence would be head of his transition team which was previously held by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.

According to a media release, Pence would replace the New Jersey Governor to serve as the Chairman of the Presidential Transition Team.

Dr Ben Carson, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former Speaker of House of Representatives Newt Gingrich, Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, USA (Ret) former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Senator Jeff Sessions will join the team's executive committee as vice chairs, it said.

08:40 Facebook mistakenly declares live users dead

Facebook accidently declared live users dead, acknowledging after fixing the problem that it had committed a "terrible error."

"For a brief period, a message meant for memorialised profiles was mistakenly posted to other accounts," a Facebook spokesperson told AFP.

"This was a terrible error that we have now fixed."

Media reports indicated that some two million errant memorials were posted on profile pages. The social network yesterday apologized and said it work as quickly as possible to correct the problem.

"Damn. I should have used Facebook Live to show how I was Facebook Dead," Search Engine Land editor Danny Sullivan said in a message fired off at Twitter. Facebook Live feature lets people broadcast video in real-time at the leading social network.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a three-day visit to Japan, took a ride on the famous Shinkansen bullet train in Tokyo today.

Accompanied by his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe, PM Modi is traveling to Kobe by the train.

"Putting #IndiaJapan relations on the fast track! PM @narendramodi and PM @AbeShinzo arrive at Tokyo Station to board the Shinkansen," External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup tweeted.

"A unique friendship on a unique train journey. PM @narendramodi and PM @AbeShinzo inside the Shinkansen bullet train to Kobe," Swarup said in another tweet accompanied by a picture of the two leaders inside the train.

Donald Trump's administration would build on progress made in Indo-US ties and be less tolerant of Pakistan's "dual policies" on terror, but the issue of H-1B visas could be a potential area of friction with New Delhi, a noted US expert on South Asian issues has said.

"It seems likely that a Trump administration will build on the marked progress made in US-India relations over the last couple of years," Lisa Curtis of the Heritage Foundation, a top American think-tank, said.

Curtis said Trump's tougher stance on terrorism, in general, will find favour among Indians, who are wary of attacks by Pakistan-based terrorist groups.

"It is expected that a Trump administration will work more closely with India on combating terrorism in the region and will be less tolerant of Pakistan's dual policies toward terrorism," Curtis said.

However, H-1B is a potential area of conflict between the two countries, she noted.

"One area of potential friction could be over the H1-B visa issue. It is still unclear how Trump's global business background will impact on his commitment to protect American workers," she said.

00:21 Michelle Obama covers her third Vogue

First Lady Michelle Obama has achieved so much in her eight-year tenure in the White House: She's assisted veterans and their families, given knockout speeches (including one at the Democratic National Convention this summer) on topics she feels passionately about, transformed the way that kids think about healthy eating and being active, seen her eldest daughter get into Harvard and done all of that while achieving fashion icon status.

And now she has one more accomplishment to add to her list: a third Vogue cover within seven years.

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00:20 Actor Robert Vaughn dies aged 83

Actor Robert Vaughn has died at the age of 83 after a short battle with leukaemia.

The star, best known for his role as Napoleon Solo in The Man From U.N.C.L.E., died surrounded by his family, his manager said today.

The father-of-two is survived by wife Linda, son Cassidy and daughter Caitlin.

Vaughn's prolific small-screen career included stints on The A-Team, Murder She Wrote, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU and the British soap opera Coronation Street.

Day one of Donald Trumps America came with countless acts of hate that were carried out by his supporters against several of the countrys most marginalized groups.

Day two was no different.

Since Tuesday, people from all types of communities - black, Latino, Muslim, Jewish, Asian, queer people, women -- have been physically harmed, slandered with hate speech or been the targets of racist graffiti.

Trump supporters feel more emboldened than ever to express their disdain for those they dislike or dont think matter.

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00:12 Top headlines at this hour

Deadline extended: Rs 500, Rs 1,000 notes valid for key utilities till Nov 14

Pay up to Rs 8,500 extra per air ticket so that aam aadmi can fly!

Amid cash rush, RBI asks people to be patient

After 6 years of toil, India and Japan ink historic nuclear deal

When people standing in bank queue found Rahul Gandhi among them

Rohit 'can't wait to return' following surgery

Stats: Vijay-Pujara partnership crosses 2000-run mark!

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