Rush Hour: SC told Manipur audio clips ‘tampered’ with, Trump says Pak conducted nuke tests & more

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The National Forensic Science University laboratory informed the Supreme Court that the audio clips allegedly linking former Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh to the ethnic violence in the state were tampered with and are not scientifically fit to compare the voice. Therefore, it cannot provide an opinion on whether the voice in the clips is that of Singh, the laboratory told the court.

The bench was hearing a plea filed by a Kuki group demanding an independent probe into the audio clips.

In the recordings believed to be from 2023, a voice purported to be that of Singh takes credit for “how and why the conflict started” bragging that he had defied Union Home Minister Amit Shah's order against the use of “bombs” in the conflict and shielding individuals who snatched thousands of weapons from the state police armouries from arrest. Read on.

The Enforcement Directorate attached 40 properties worth about Rs 3,000 crore linked to businessperson Anil Ambani's Reliance Group companies as part of a money-laundering investigation. The properties include a house owned by Ambani in Mumbai, the Reliance Centre in Delhi and other assets in the national capital region, Mumbai, Pune, Thane, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kancheepuram and Andhra Pradesh's East Godavari district.

The probe is based on two first information reports filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation in September 2022. The FIRs pertained to two separate loans given by Yes Bank to two firms of the conglomerate.

It has been alleged that loans of about Rs 3,000 crore received by the companies from the bank between 2017 and 2019 were illegally diverted to shell companies and wholly owned subsidiaries of the conglomerate with an intention to siphon the money. Read on.

United States President Donald Trump told CBS News that Pakistan was among the countries actively testing nuclear weapons. He made the comment while justifying his decision to resume the US' nuclear trials for the first time since 1992, stating that China, Russia, North Korea and Pakistan were conducting the tests.

When the anchor said that it was unclear if Pakistan had tested nuclear weapons, Trump said: “Of course they have”. “They [countries] test way underground where people don't know exactly what's happening,” he added.

Trump did not provide details to back his assertion that Pakistan was testing nuclear weapons or when the claimed tests had been carried out. Read on.

At least 20 persons were killed and several injured after a truck collided with a state transport bus in Telangana's Rangareddy district. This came hours after 15 persons were killed when a mini bus collided with a parked truck in Rajasthan's Phalodi district on Sunday evening.

There has been a spate of bus accidents across several states in the past month.

On October 14, 26 persons died after a bus travelling from Jaisalmer to Jodhpur in Rajasthan caught fire because of a short circuit. On October 28, two passengers died and ten were injured after their bus came into contact with a high-tension power line in Manoharpur near Jaipur.

Twenty persons had died after a bus caught fire following a collision in Andhra Pradesh's Kurnool district on October 24. Read on.

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