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0:00 severe cyclonic storm murasu struck the andhra pradesh coast near angol in the early hours of this morning bringing gale winds of up to 120 kilometers an hour yesterday we tracked its advance across the bay of bengal today its storm surge is inundating low lying districts across prakasham papatla and krishna in mumbai union finance minister nirmala sitharaman signalled0:29 a notable shift in economic posture she acknowledged mounting anxiety over sustained foreign portfolio outflows confirming the government will reconsider investor concerns surrounding the long term capital gains tax regime ahead of the upcoming budget sitharaman also intervened in high corporate drama urging the leadership of tata sons and tata trusts to settle their escalating boardroom feud behind closed doors0:57 warning that public discord risks harming a critical engine of the indian economy this fiscal scrutiny arrives alongside remarkable structural figures latest world bank data reveals india's extreme poverty rate dropped to 2.6% in 2023 while lower middle income poverty fell to 16.1% and yet that is not the whole picture over 40% of the workforce remains tied to agriculture1:27 underscoring the pressing need for productive industrial employment on the infrastructure front prime minister narendra modi launched the 23 kilometer pink line of the pune metro linking the hinjewadi tech hub directly to shivaji naga meanwhile the capital faces its perennial seasonal challenge the commission for air quality management invoked stage two emergency restrictions across the national capital region after1:56 delhi's air quality index spiked to 324 to ease accompanying festival pressure northern railway suspended platform ticket sales across six major delhi stations through mid november finally the judiciary delivered two sharp boundaries on executive power the supreme court dismissed the center's appeal against a $99,000,000 foreign arbitration award involving vedanta warning that resisting settled international awards destroys2:26 foreign investor trust in a separate ruling the court rebuked rajasthan's election commission declaring that state bodies hold no monopoly over voter education across today's shifting landscape india's institutions are confronting a singular test balancing acute domestic pressures against the exacting standards demanded by the wider world
