WION morning news brief, November 28, 2017

WION morning news brief, November 28, 2017

Hafiz Saeed

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Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) co-founder and Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed has filed a petition in the United Nations to remove him from the list of designated terrorist, news reports said Tuesday.Saeed was put on the UN terror list onDecember 10, 2008, a few days after the November 26 attacks on Mumbai which claimed 166 lives.

The United States President Donald Trump's daughter and advisor Ivanka Trump arrived at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad early Tuesday morning.
Ivanka will be inaugurating and addressing the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) in Hyderabad today.

Trump called a Democratic rival "Pocahantas" while hosting Native Americans veterans at the White House Monday. The Native Americans had been "wind talkers" -- Navajo Indians who helped keep Allied operations secret during World War II.

Indonesian authorities on Tuesday extended the closure of the international airport on the resort island of Bali for a second day over fears of a volcanic eruption. Bali's Ngurah Rai airport will remain closed until at least Wednesday morning local time.

Data put out by the government said GST collections fell to Rs 83,346 crore in October from over Rs 90,000 crore in each of the first three months since the tax was rolled out on July 1.