Overview
- China issued harsh warnings after Sanae Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks, its Osaka consul posted violent language about her before deleting it, and Beijing sent armed coast guard ships near the Diaoyu/Senkaku waters as a Japanese envoy arrived in Beijing to cool tensions.
- China also advised citizens against travel to Japan, with reports noting pressure on Japan’s tourism-linked stocks during the ongoing diplomatic flare-up.
- U.S. immigration officers in Los Angeles detained Anmol Bishnoi after identifying him through travel documents, notified the FBI and Indian agencies, and his extradition to India has been reported as imminent.
- Gujarat ATS is probing an assault inside Sabarmati Jail on ISKP-linked suspect ‘Dr. Ahmed,’ who was arrested on November 8 with two others over an alleged ricin plot, as agencies concurrently trace funding and recruitment lines tied to recent blast probes.
- Investigators say zakat-based donations were diverted via a trust and raided Al-Falah University records; NIA questioned Dr. Shaheen over alleged grooming of women and teenagers for suicide attacks, and CIK in Srinagar arrested Shehzada Akhtar and Dr. Umar Farooq Bhat over alleged online promotion of extremist agendas, with devices seized, while Bihar’s NDA moves toward a November 20 swearing-in with portfolio talks focused on the Home department.