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In Bihar, CM Nitish Kumar announced a hike in reservations to 65%. The announcement was made on November 7, and the proposed hike will be tabled in the Assembly on November 9. The hike is divided into 10% reservations for the Economic Weaker Section, 20% for SCs, 2% for STs, 18% for OBCs, and 25% for EBCs. The reservation limit is above the approved 50% limit by the Supreme Court.

Taking a dig at Congress, PM Narendra Modi said, "Whenever the Congress comes to power in the country, terrorists and Naxalites get emboldened. News of bomb blasts and murders are reported from here and there." The Congress government has failed to contain incidents of Naxal violence (in Chhattisgarh), the PM said. The criticism came after the recent Naxal attack on police official, amid the Chhattisgarh Assembly elections.

A 21-year-old youth, in love with his distant relative, killed an 87-year-old woman because he “wanted a corpse to cook up his girlfriend’s death story and eventually elope to a foreign country”. The incident took place in Bhachau town of Gujarat’s Kutch district as the youth went on a search for a woman of the same height and build of his 22-year-old girlfriend, which led him to the elderly woman.

WeWork, the SoftBank Group-backed startup whose meteoric rise and fall reshaped the office sector globally, sought U.S. bankruptcy protection. Notably, bets on companies using more of its office-sharing space soured. The move represents an admission by SoftBank, the Japanese technology group that owns about 60% of WeWork and has invested billions of dollars in its turnaround, that the company cannot survive unless it renegotiates its pricey leases in bankruptcy.

The makers of Sidharth Malhotra, Disha Patani and Raashii Khanna's Yodha shared intriguing posters of the film on Tuesday and also announced the film's new release date. The makers have decided to postpone the official release date of the film for the fourth time. Yodha was earlier scheduled to hit the big screens on December 15, 2023. However, it has now been pushed to March 15, 2024.