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- Senior BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya on Wednesday retracted his tweets on Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, saying he was "misconstrued by some". He had on Tuesday attacked the superstar over his "extreme intolerance" comment, saying his "soul" is in Pakistan though he lives in India and also painted him as an "anti-nationalist".
- BJP faces more controversy with party lawmaker Yogi Adityanath comparing the popular actor with 26/11 terror mastermind Hafiz Saeed of Pakistan. "Shah Rukh should understand that if Muslims don't see his films, he will be on the roads. There is no difference in what Shah Rukh Khan and Hafiz Saeed say," said Aditynath.
- The woman researcher, who leveled charges of sexual harassment against environmental scientist R.K. Pachauri, has quit her job at The Energy Research Institute (TERI). "Your organisation has treated me in the worst possible manner. TERI failed to uphold my interests as an employee, let alone protecting them," the 29-year-old woman said in her resignation letter. In February this year, the woman complained to police that Pachauri, the 75-year-old environmental scientist, began harassing her soon after she joined TERI.
- Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said the government in the next few days will list out the exemptions to be phased out as part of its plans to gradually bring down corporate tax rate to 25 percent, the first tranche of which will be announced in the Budget in February.
- China on 3 November 2015 launched a civil communication satellite Chinasat 12 from the Xichang space center. The 11000 pounds satellite was launched aboard the launch vehicle Long March 3B rocket which placed the satellite in its orbit successfully.
