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 chennai l Monday l November 11, 2024 l `9.00 l PAGES 16 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. He also assured Tamils that their land occupied by the Sri Lankan government would be returned to them. 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 Dalla, designated as a terrorist by India, nabbed over a shooting incident in Ontario President Dissanayake assured Tamils that steps would be taken to return their land occupied by the Lankan government, especially the military | Express (JVP) -led National People’s Power (NPP) alliance. In a well-attended meeting, he said Indian fishermen were 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 A Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) of the Indian Army was killed during 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 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. by Halton Regional Police, along with another person. Canadian police have deMeanwhile, the Punjab Police tained Arshdeep Singh Gill ali- said on Sunday that they have as Arsh Dalla, a close aide of arrested two members of Dalslain Khalistani terrorist Hard- la’s Canada-based gang in Moeep Singh Nijjar, in connection hali for their alleged involvewith a shootout case, sources ment in the murder of a Sikh said on Sunday. The Union activist last month. home ministry had designated The Delhi Police had said last Dalla as a terrorist year that Dalla had Wanted under the Unlawful links with internain India Activities Prevention tional terror outfit Act last year. The Punjab Police Lashkar-e-Taiba and Government sourcPakistan’s Inter-Servsaid preliminary es said New Delhi ices Intelligence. He investigations would not seek his ex- revealed Arsh Dalla was a key member of tradition as ties with e x t re m i s t g ro u p s tasked Navjot Canada are cold after Singh alias Neetu, Khalistan Tiger Force the latter’s accusation and the International a resident of of India’s involve- Kharar, Punjab, to Sikh Youth Federament in the killing of tion. Sources said he target Gurpreet Nijjar, who was shot lives in Surrey in Singh Hari Nau, dead last June. “ExCanada’s British Cowho runs a tradition is going to YouTube channel lumbia province with be tough, as under the under the name of his wife and a minor present situation it is daughter. Hari Nau Talks going to be almost imIn a Facebook post, possible. And also, the Canadi- Dalla had taken responsibility an authorities have not arrested for the murder of an electrihim so far, only detained him,” cian, Paramjeet Singh, from an official said. Punjab’s Jagraon. His associAccording to intelligence of- ates had shot dead Manohar ficials, information related to Lal, a Dera Sacha Sauda followDalla’s detention in Ontario er in November 2020. He was came shortly after reports of also involved in hatching a conhis involvement in a shootout spiracy to kidnap and kill one on October 28. He was detained Shakti Singh. M U K ES H R A N J A N @ New Delhi 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.