Kyiv targets moscow with 34 drones Russia said it downed 34 Ukrainian attack drones targeting Moscow, the largest attempted attack on the capital since 2022. It forced the temporary closure of three airports. The picture on the left shows a car damaged in the attack. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia launched 145 drones at Ukraine overnight | AFP | p9 MADURAI l Monday l November 11, 2024 l `9.00 l PAGES 12 l late city EDITION CHENNAI ■ MADURAI ■ VIJAYAWADA ■ BENGALURU ■ KOCHI ■ HYDERABAD ■ VISAKHAPATNAM ■ COIMBATORE ■ KOZHIKODE ■ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM ■ BELAGAVI ■ BHUBANESWAR ■ SHIVAMOgGA ■ MANGALURU ■ TIRUPATI ■ TIRUCHY ■ TIRUNELVELI ■ SAMBALPUR ■ HUBBALLI ■ DHARMAPURI ■ KOTTAYAM ■ KANNUR ■ VILLUPURAM ■ KOLLAM ■ TADEPALLIGUDEM ■ NAGAPATTINAM ■ THRISSUR ■ KALABURAGI express read Veteran Tamil actor Delhi Ganesh dies at 80 Chennai: Renowned veteran actor Delhi Ganesh succumbed to agerelated ailments on Saturday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chief Minister M K Stalin and other leaders condoled his death. The 80-year-old’s final rites are scheduled for Monday | P2 Justice Sanjiv Khanna to take over as CJI today Justice Khanna will succeed Justice D Y Chandrachud, who retired on Sunday. He will be the 51st Chief Justice of India and his tenure will end on May 13, 2025 | P7 in jaffna rally, lankan prez firm on stopping tn fishers pon vasanth Express @ Sri Lanka Parliamentary polls jaffna Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who addressed his first public meeting in Jaffna since coming to office in September, on Sunday took a firm stance against Indians “illegally” fishing in Sri Lankan waters. Dissanayake was in the city a day before the campaign for the Sri Lankan parliamentary elections, scheduled for Thursday, comes to an end to canvas votes for his Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) -led National People’s Power (NPP) alliance. In a well-attended meeting, he said Indian fishermen were Dalla, designated as a terrorist by India, nabbed over a shooting incident in Ontario A Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) of the Indian Army was killed in an encounter with terrorists in Jammu’s Kishtwar district on Sunday . “Based on specific intelligence input regarding the presence of terrorists, a joint operation was launched by security forces in Bhart Ridge, Kishtwar. Contact was established and fight ensued,” the Army’s Jammu-based White Knight Corps said in a post on X. During the gunfight, JCO Rakesh Kumar of 2 Para (SF) was killed and three para commandos were injured, Army officials said. “A group of three to four militants are trapped in the area. It is the same group that had abducted and killed two village defence guards in Kishtwar two days ago,” an official said. More Police. Incidentally, the Punjab Police confirmed they have arCanadian police have de- rested two members of Dalla’s tained Arshdeep Singh Gill ali- Canada-based gang in Mohali as Arsh Dalla, a close aide of for their alleged involvement in slain Khalistani terrorist Hard- the murder of a Sikh activist eep Singh Nijjar, in connection last month. with a shootout case, sources The Delhi Police had said last said on Sunday. The Union year that Dalla has links with home ministry had designated inter national terror outfit Dalla as a terrorist Lashkar-e-Taiba and Wanted under the Unlawful Pakistan’s Inter-Servin India Activities Prevention ices Intelligence Act (UAPA) last year. The Punjab Police (ISI). Government sourcHe is a key member said preliminary es said New Delhi of extremist groups investigations would not seek his ex- revealed Arsh Dalla Khalistan Tiger Force tradition as ties with (KTF) and the Intertasked Navjot Canada are cold after Singh alias Neetu, national Sikh Youth the latter’s accusation Federation (ISYF). He a resident of of India’s involve- Kharar, Punjab, to lives in Surrey in ment in the killing of Canada’s British Cotarget Gurpreet Nijjar. “Extradition is lumbia province with Singh Hari Nau, going to be tough, as his wife and a minor who runs a under the present sit- YouTube channel daughter. uation it is going to be under the name of In a Facebook post, almost impossible. Dalla had taken reHari Nau Talks And also, the Canadisponsibility for the an authorities have not arrest- murder of an electrician, Paraed him so far, only detained mjeet Singh, from Punjab’s Jahim,” an official said. graon. His associates had shot According to intelligence of- dead Manohar Lal, a Dera Sacha ficials, information related to Sauda follower in November Dalla’s detention in Ontario 2020. He was also involved in came shortly after reports of hatching a conspiracy to kidhis involvement in a shootout nap and kill Shakti Singh, anon October 28. He was detained other Dera Sacha Sauda on Sunday by Halton Regional follower. M U K ES H R A N J A N @ New Delhi President Dissanayake assured Tamils that steps would be taken to return their land occupied by the Lankan government, especially the military | Express destroying the marine resources that belong to the Tamil-populated northern region of Sri Lanka. Stating that his government will ensure that such exploitation of marine resources does not happen and will protect the rights of Sri Lankan fishermen, he asked “Should we not?” to which the crowd responded with a resounding yes. His speech comes in the backdrop of the arrest of 23 fishermen from Rameswaram and detention of three Indian trawlers by the Sri Lankan Navy on Sunday for illegally fishing in Lankan waters. This is the latest in a series of arrests.  P5 Army officer killed during encounter in Jammu F AYA Z W A NI @ Srinagar Nijjar’s aide Arsh Dalla arrested by Canadian police troops have been rushed to the area to strengthen the siege. Forces are using drones and other surveillance equipment to track down the terrorists hiding in the dense forest. In all, three encounters took place in Jammu and Kashmir since Saturday night. In another incident, security forces and terrorists exchanged fire in the forest area of Zabar- wan in Ishber Nishat in Srinagar. The gunfight erupted after terrorists fired indiscriminately at a search party comprising police, CRPF and Army personnel, an official said. The security agencies suspect two or three terrorists are hiding in the forest area of Zabarwan. Earlier, a terrorist was killed in an overnight encounter with security forces in the Rajpora area of Sopore in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Trump wins all seven US swing states, bags 312 electors in all Agencies US President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday added Arizona to the list of states he won. With that, the Republican has beaten his Democratic rival Kamala Harris in all seven battleground states. The seven battle g round states in this election cycle were Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia. The victory in Arizona took Trump’s electoral college tally to 312 against 226 of Vice President Harris. Arizona holds 11 electoral college votes. In 2020, President Joe Biden became the first Democrat to win Arizona since Bill Clinton in 1996. Trump has now flipped it back. Arizona is the sixth state Trump has flipped from Biden’s Electoral College victory in 2020. He campaigned heavily on border security, immigration and crime committed by illegal immigrants on the trail, all issues that resonated in the state with a record influx of migrants last year. Trump pledged mass deportations, promoted hiring an additional 10,000 border agents to patrol the US-Mexico border and promised to use some of the military budget for border funding.