President Donald Trump has baselessly claimed anew that he had won the election and uttered repeated falsehoods as he called into an event held by Pennsylvania Republicans to investigate unproven allegations of voter fraud.

This was an election that we won easily. We won it by a lot, Trump declared to the group gathered at a hotel in Gettysburg on Wednesday.

US Covid-19 deaths surpassed 2,60,000 on Wednesday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.

With the national caseload topping 12.6 million, the death toll across the US rose to 2,60,322 as of 11:25 a.m. local time (1625 GMT), according to the CSSE data.

Shares of Puravankara hit a fresh 52-week high of Rs 78.90, up 4 per cent on the BSE in intra-day trade on Thursday after reports said that Godrej Fund is in talks with Bengaluru-based developer for Rs 1,200 crore deal.

In the past three weeks, the stock price of Puravankara has rallied 80 per cent from the level of Rs 43.80 on November 5. In comparison, the S&P BSE Sensex gained 6 per cent during the same period.

Telangana posted 862 fresh coronavirus cases, taking the total caseload to nearly 2.67 lakh while three fatalities pushed the toll to 1,444.

Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) accounted for the most number of cases with 164, followed by Medchal Malkajgiri 91 and Khammam 63, a government bulletin said on Thursday providing details as of 8 pm on November 25.

The very severe cyclonic storm Nivar, crossed the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry coast late night and early Thursday morning with an estimated wind speed of 120-130 kmph, said the India Meteorological Department (IMD).

On its way the cyclone uprooted several trees and power lines in Tamil Nadu's Cuddalore, Marakkanam and in Puducherry.

The Uttar Pradesh government has approved an ambitious 594-km Ganga Expressway project worth Rs 36,402 crore running along the river from Hardwar to Allahabad.

The decision to build the expressway between the two cities on the riverbank while running through Meerut, Hapur, Bulandshahr, Amroha, Sambhal, Shahjahanpur, Hardoi, Unnao and Rae Bareli was taken in a UP Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

The Supreme Court Wednesday stayed the Andhra Pradesh High Court direction restraining the media from publishing news regarding an FIR lodged on alleged irregularities in land transactions in Amaravati.

A bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan said that the high court shall not decide till January last week the pending matter which relates to the alleged illegal land transactions in shifting of the state capital to Amaravati.

The government on Wednesday asked the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to take action against those responsible for debacle at troubled private lender Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB) and improve oversight of entities under its regulation.

Giving finality to the efforts towards salvaging LVB, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday gave its nod to merge LVB with DBS Bank India (DBIL). The amalgamation will come into force on.

Senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel, one of Sonia Gandhi's closest political advisors and a top party leader-shooter, has died at 71. His health worsened after COVID's infection. A staunch Nehru-Gandhi family loyalist, Ahmed Patel worked for years as the political secretary to Sonia Gandhi and was one of the most influential leaders in the Congress. Still, he never joined the government, preferring to keep a low profile.

He represented Gujarat eight times in Parliament - three times as a Lok Sabha member and five times from Rajya Sabha.

Wearing a mask is mandatory in India, and authorities have been cracking the whip on those who break the rule. Amidst a sudden surge in Covid-19 cases across Delhi and other Indian cities, Delhi announced a steep rise in fine, from Rs.500 to Rs.2000 for those caught without masks, in a bid to help control the coronavirus surge.

The Chief Minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal appealed to all political parties and social organisations to distribute masks at public places in Delhi.

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