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India and China are now likely to conduct Major General-level talks to strengthen confidence-building measures towards reducing the friction and trust deficit between the two armies till the two main faceoffs at Depsang and Demchok in eastern Ladakh can be resolved.

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00:00 Hello and welcome to National Headlines. I am Amina Ansari and I will be taking you through
00:22 the top headlines from the leading newspapers of the country. Let's start with the Times
00:27 of India. India and China are likely to hold talks at
00:30 major general level on confidence-building steps. India and China are now likely to conduct
00:36 major general-level talks to strengthen confidence-building measures toward reducing the friction and
00:42 trust deficit between the two armies till the two main face-offs at Debsang and Demchowki
00:47 in eastern Ladakh can be resolved. Next headline is from the Indian Express.
00:53 Landslides in Hill States NDMA's 2019 report flagged poor planning,
00:58 low tourism pressure. As heavy rain and landslides continue to ravage
01:03 hill states in the country, a 2019 strategy document published by the National Disaster
01:08 Management Authority shows that concerns related to poor urban planning, lack of comprehensive
01:14 land use policy, lack of enforcement of construction laws, and excessive tourism in these regions
01:19 had flagged there too. The document pointed out how the building
01:23 plans of hill states were copied from the Delhi Master Plan.
01:28 Let's move on to the headlines from the Hindu. No more bulk SIM card as government steps
01:33 to curb fraud. In order to reduce cyber frauds performed
01:37 through the fraudulently acquired SIM cards, the Department of Telecommunications will
01:42 now require registrations and disputable verifications of SIM dealers, it was announced on Thursday.
01:49 Government effort to curb the fraudulent mobile connections have led to the blacklisting of
01:53 67,000 SIM dealers, 52 lakh connections, and the registration of over 300 first-information
02:00 reports, Minister of Communication Ashwini Vaishnav told reporters.
02:07 Next let's move on to the headlines in the Economic Times.
02:10 Costs gear up to deliver bumper festival season. E-commerce and logistics companies have stepped
02:17 up hiring of first- and last-mile delivery personals ahead of the upcoming festival season,
02:22 according to top industry officials. Such companies across all segments are planning
02:27 to hire two or three times more people who are pickers, packers, loaders, and warehouse
02:33 and delivery persons. Every month from September to November, compared
02:37 with the year earlier, said Praveen Agrawal, co-founder and group CEO of Frontline Workforce
02:42 Management Platform. Next headline is from the Telegraph.
02:47 Hindu outfit call for out-of-court settlement of Gyanvapi dispute.
02:52 A Hindu outfit on the forefront of the legal battle on Gyanvapi complex located next to
02:57 Kashi Vishwanath Temple has written an open letter advocating an out-of-court settlement
03:03 of the dispute. The letter has come at the time when the scientific survey of the Gyanvapi
03:08 complex is underway on the order of the Varanasi District Court.
03:13 The letter has come at the time when the scientific survey of the Gyanvapi complex is underway
03:18 on the order of the Varanasi District Court. Finally, our last headline is from the HinduSun
03:23 Times. Why selective application? Supreme Court to
03:27 Gujarat on Bilkis convicts. "The opportunity to reform must be given to
03:32 all prisoners and not to few," the Supreme Court said on Thursday as it asked Gujarat
03:37 whether the remission policy was applied selectively and why the Mumbai court that convicted 11
03:43 people in the 2002 Bilkis-Vano gang rape case not consulted when the men were released last
03:48 year. That's all for the national headlines. To
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