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New Delhi, Nov 17 (PTI) Following are the top stories at 1.15 PM
    
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     DEL21 PM-GLOBAL-SOUTH-SUMMIT
     * India strongly condemned death of civilians: PM Modi on Hamas-Israel conflict
     New Delhi: New challenges are emerging from the incidents in West Asia and it is time for the countries of the Global South to talk in one voice for greater global good, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday amid the Hamas-Israel conflict.
    
    
     DEL25 UKD-LD TUNNEL
     * Silkyara Tunnel collapse: 22 metres drilled through rubble for labourers' rescue
     Uttarkashi: Working overnight with a powerful machine, rescue workers had by Friday drilled up to 22 metres through the rubble in Silkyara tunnel, inching closer to the 40 labourers trapped there for five days.*
    
    
     DEL31 BJP-MODI
     Use of AI for creating 'deep fake' problematic, media must educate people: PM
     New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday flagged the misuse of artificial intelligence for creating 'deep fakes', and said the media must educate people about this crisis in making.

    
    
     DEL3 DL-AIR QUALITY
     * Delhi air quality close to 'severe plus' category, odd-even on anvil
     New Delhi: Delhi's air quality has deteriorated further and now stands closer to the "severe plus" category, a stage which might trigger the implementation of the odd-even car rationing measure in the capital. *

    

     DEL24 JK-LD ENCOUNTER
     * J-K encounter: Five terrorists killed
     Srinagar: Five terrorists were killed in an overnight encounter with security forces in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Friday.*
    
    
    
     BOM12 ELECTIONS-CG-LD TURNOUT
     * Chhattisgarh polls 2nd phase: 19.65 pc voter turnout till 11 am
     Raipur: A voter turnout of 19.65 per cent was recorded till 11 am in 70 assembly constituencies for the second phase of the Chhattisgarh elections that began on Friday under a thick security blanket of police and paramilitary personnel, a poll official said.*
    
    
     BOM11 ELECTIONS-MP-LD TURNOUT
     * Madhya Pradesh polls: 28.18 pc voter turnout till 11 am, says official
     Bhopal: Over 28.18 per cent of electorates exercised their franchise till 11 am in Madhya Pradesh, where polling began on Friday morning for the 230-member assembly.*



     CAL4 OD-CYCLONE
     * Deep depression intensifies into cyclonic storm 'Midhili', to make landfall in Bangladesh coast
    Bhubaneswar: The deep depression over the Bay of Bengal on Friday intensified into a cyclonic storm and will graze past the Sunderbans before making landfall on Bangladesh coast with a maximum wind speed of 80 kmph, India Meteorological Department (IMD) said in a bulletin.*
    
    
     MDS5 ELECTIONS-TELANGANA-BJP-MANIFESTO
     * T’gana polls: Amit Shah to launch BJP manifesto, to address rallies on Nov 18
     Hyderabad: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be releasing the BJP's manifesto for Telangana assembly polls on November 18, party sources said on Friday.*
    
    
     BOM14 MH-FIRE-HIGHRISE
     * Fire erupts in Mumbai high-rise; several stranded residents rescued
     Mumbai: A fire erupted on the eighth and the 12th floor of a residential building in the Grant Road area of south Mumbai on Friday morning, and no casualties were reported, an official said.*

    
    
    
     FOREIGN:
    
    
     FGN17 US-BLINKEN-BIDEN-LD XI
     * Blinken asks China to expect candid talk after Biden calls Xi 'dictator'
     San Francisco: Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said the US will continue to say things that China doesn't like, as he defended President Joe Biden's remarks in which he called his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping a "dictator." By Lalit K Jha*
    
    
     FGN16 PAK-ECONOMY
     * Pakistan's economy still fragile; support from IMF to continue: Finance Minister
     Islamabad: Pakistan's caretaker Finance Minister Shamshad Akhtar has said Pakistan's economy continues to remain fragile despite improvements and the cash-strapped nation would have to go for more IMF loans for some time, a media report said on Friday. By Sajjad Hussain*
    

     FGN12 UN-REFORM-INDIA
     * Share collective angst of Global South countries of not having voice at UNSC high table: India
     United Nations: India has said it shares the “collective angst” of countries of the Global South that they have no voice at the UN Security Council high-table on core issues concerning them, as it joined nations in stressing that a representative UNSC is required to deal with the proliferation of global crises. By Yoshita Singh**
    
    
    

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