Congress MLA Nana Patole and BJP's Kisan Kathore will fight it out in the contest for the Maharashtra Assembly Speaker's post, voting for which will be held on Sunday.

BJP state president Chandrakant Patil said Kisan Kathore will be the party's candidate for the Assembly Speaker post while Nana Patole's name was announced by PCC chief and state minister Balasaheb Thorat.

Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday held discussions with leaders of political parties, students bodies and civil society groups of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya on the contours of the proposed Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), sources said.

The meetings were attended by chief ministers of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya Sarbananda Sonowal, Pema Khandu and Conrad Sangma respectively, Union minister Kiren Rijiju and several MPs among others.

Apple Inc is taking a deeper look at how we handle disputed borders after it referred to the Russian-annexed Crimean Peninsula as part of Russia in its Maps and Weather apps for Russian users, a company spokeswoman told Reuters on Friday.

Apple spokeswoman Trudy Muller told Reuters that Apple has not made any changes to its maps outside of Russia and made the change for Russian users because of a new law that went into effect in that country.

Facebook said on Saturday it had issued a correction notice on a user's post at the request of the Singapore government, but urged for a measured approach to the implementation of a new fake news law to protect freedom of speech.

Facebook is legally required to tell you that the Singapore government says this post has false information, the notice, which could be seen by some users in Singapore, said.

Deaths due to tuberculosis (TB) have reduced by 19 per cent from 5,57,000 in 2010 to 4,49,000 in 2018, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan informed the Lok Sabha on Friday.

The government is committed to end TB by 2025, five years ahead of the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) target i.e. 80 per cent reduction in incidence and 90 per cent reduction in mortality (base line 2015), he said.

India announced a $400-million line of credit for infrastructure development in Sri Lanka within hours of the arrival of President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa amid domestic upheavals in the island nation over the past one year.

Cooperation in fighting terrorism was the highlight of the official meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa who also met National Security Advisor Ajit Doval.

The Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government of the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress alliance will face floor test in the Maharashtra Assembly on Saturday.

The floor test will be held after the House meets at 2 p.m., a Vidhan Bhavan official told PTI.

The government is expected to have a smooth sailing in the floor test, the official said.

Chanda Kochhar, ICICI Bank's former managing director and chief executive officer, has moved the Bombay High Court, challenging the decision of the bank's board earlier this year to terminate her employment and claw back the bonuses and stock options she received between April 2009 and March 2018.

A division Bench of the high court comprising Justice Ranjit More and Justice Makarand Karnik will hear Kochhar's plea on December 2. With this, the stage is set for an intense legal battle between the bank and its former CEO.

Reliance Infratel, which controls towers and fibre assets, is one of the three companies that are on offer as part of the process under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC).

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a plea challenging the post-poll alliance of Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress to form government in Maharashtra.

A bench of Justices N V Ramana, Ashok Bhushan and Sanjiv Khanna said constitutional morality is different from political morality.

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