News Today Live Updates, 11 September: As his troops patrolled the streets of Kathmandu to restore order after two days of violent protests triggered the fall of the K P Sharma Oli government, Nepal Army chief General Ashok Raj Sigdel Wednesday appeared to have succeeded in persuading Sushila Karki, former Chief Justice of Nepal, to step in as the interim Chief Executive of the country.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday said that a Special Investigation Team, which the Assam government had constituted to probe alleged Pakistani links of Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi, submitted its report on Wednesday. Sarma had launched a series of attacks on Gogoi earlier this year, alleging Pakistan links. In February, a Special Investigation Team was formed in the state to probe an FIR registered against Pakistani climate police expert Ali Tauqeer Sheikh and “unknown others” on charges of abetment from outside India for an offence in India.

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Over three-fourth of Bihar’s 7.89 crore existing electors were traced, directly or indirectly, to the state’s 2003 electoral roll during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) — a model that the Election Commission (EC) now wants replicated nationwide, The Indian Express has learnt.

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