The Catch Up: SC allows 'green firecrackers', Bihar polls candidate list, and more (17 Oct)

The headlines of the day by The Indian Express

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
This is the catch upon three Things by the Indian
Express and I'm Ichhasharma. Today is the seventeenth of October
and here are this week's headlines. Starting with major news
this week, the BJP on Tuesday released its first list
of seventy one candidates with the highest stakes wehire Assembly elections,

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even as seat sharing talks within the NDA remain unresolved.
Deputy Chief Minister Samad Chadri and whij Sinha will contest
from Tarapur and Lakisarai respectively, while Assembly speaking on the
Kishor YadA has been dropped from Patna Sahib his seat
since twenty ten. A day after Alais, BJP and ham
Secular revealed their candidates, Natish Kumar's JDU released its first

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list of fifty seven nominees on Wedness Day for the elections.
The list, featuring a mix of sitting MLAs, ministers and
new entrants, also includes major seat swaps within the NBA.
The JDU retained twenty three MLAs and now shifting our

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focus on news from the capital as Delhi prepares for
the Vali. The Supreme Court's decision to allow green crackers
on a test basis reignited the debate over balancing festive
tradition with public help. Delhi Environment Minister Manjinder Singh SERSA
welcome the verdict as a balanced decision, saying it respects
both cultural sentiment and environmental responsibility. SISA said the government

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would strictly implement the order word by word and would
meet retailers and enforcement agencies to finalize a detailed compliance plan.
And now moving to news from the South, Andhra Pradesh
I TNHRD Minister N Lokash Naidu announced that Google will
invest fifteen billion dollars over five years to build its

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largest AI data center in v Shakhapatnam, a massive boost
for the state's tech ambitions. Meanwhile, Karnatika's IT Minister Pryang
Kharge hit back, calling Andra's incentives an economic disaster. Andra,
still rebuilding its IT base after losing Hyderabad to Telangana,
also secured a thousand kurore rupee's investment from Raymond Groups

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A JK. Meny Global Aerospace, signaling its aggressive push to
rival Bengaluru's IT dominance. And now in news making global headlines,
India dismissed US President Donald Trump's claim that PM Narayan
Ramodi promised to stop Russian oil imports, saying policy decisions

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prioritize Indian customer interests in a volatile energy market. MIA
spokesperson rundhjs Weill said India and the US regularly discuss
energy cooperation, including higher imports from America, but refused to
confirm or deny Trump's remarks about a personal conversation with Pmody.
The statement underscores new delis strategic balancing act between Washington

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and Moscow amid global energy realignments, and in the end.
For this week, all remaining living hostages in Gaza have
been freed from Harmas's captivity and returned to Israel after
two years of war. Earlier, seven hostages were released, followed

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by thirteen more escorted across the border by the Israeli
military under the first phase of the US broke a ceasefire.
Two fifty Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences are also being released,
while seventeen hundred and eighteen Palestinian detainees remain in Israel.
US President Donald Trump arrived at Israel's parliament meeting Prime

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Minister Nathan Yahoo, planning to address the Nissett and meet
families of the freed hostages. And with that this was
all for this week. This was the catch upon three
things by the Indian Express us M.