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Snapshot of the day
November 9, 2026
Sidharth Bhatia, Anirudh S.K.
As expected, the BJP-led Mahayuti’s candidate has won the election to the post of chairperson of Maharashtra’s influential Gokul Dairy. That’s not because of the strength of his candidature but because the Devendra Fadnavis government brazenly tilted the playing field in favour of his side by allowing government-nominated and designated directors to vote in the chair’s election days after the Congress-led bloc trumped the Mahayuti in the main board election. Former Nationalist Congress Party MLA Rajesh Patil’s victory today comes just a day after Congress leader Satej Patil led a massive protest in Kolhapur – where Gokul is based – that was attended by thousands of people.
Though Fadnavis has sought to justify his move in the lead-up to the chair’s election by saying that the lack of a quorum had forced his hand – lest the board election itself be nullified – Kunal Purohit points out that there was no quorum on October 29 because Mahayuti directors had abstained from the meeting that day.
The US federal court for the southern district of New York has allowed Khalistani separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun – who Washington alleges was the target of an assassination plot orchestrated by former Indian intelligence officer Vikash Yadav – to serve summons on national security adviser Ajit Doval and former Research and Analysis Wing chief Samant Goel through Indian courts. This is in connection with a civil lawsuit that Pannun, a dual citizen of America and Canada, filed two years ago naming the Indian government, Doval, Goel, Yadav and Nikhil Gupta, whom the US government has accused of trying to execute the plot allegedly orchestrated by Yadav. Pannun’s lawyers have said they previously tried to serve the summons to Doval, Goel and Yadav through the Ministry of Law and Justice in New Delhi. Separately, the US state department confirmed that it transmitted the summons and complaint to the Indian embassy in D.C. last month.
On Raisina Hill, the external affairs ministry rejected that there is any path to serving summonses in India that bypasses the law ministry. “We reject the fabricated and malicious attacks on our high officials. As also we reject the frivolous lawsuits,” ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal also said.
Three workers at Tata Electronics’ iPhone manufacturing hub in Hosur, Tamil Nadu died in the line of work yesterday night; they had inhaled gas while inspecting a filtration facility at one of the effluent treatment plants at the site. The incident marks the latest setback for Apple’s India ambitions – it makes about a quarter of all iPhones here as part of its bid to diversify production away from China – and Tata, which was hit by a cyberattack earlier this year.
Because they travelled for official programmes or to be with their families, many Union ministers on Diwali escaped having to be in Delhi, which has the dubious distinction of being one of the world’s most polluted capital cities round this time of year. For instance Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in verdant Bastar, defence minister Rajnath Singh was in alpine Sikkim and parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju was well clear of Delhi’s noxious air in Riyadh
