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Though commonly portrayed as educationally and economically successful as well as hardworking, around half of all Indian adults living in the US have faced some form of discrimination based on colour, race or ethnicity, or have been treated as foreigners.

According to the latest study by the Pew Research Center, 57% of Asian adults see discrimination in the US as a major problem and 63% say too little attention is paid to race and racial issues concerning Asian Americans.

Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) and INDIA leader Sanjay Raut on Friday said no exit poll, opinion poll are required to confirm that achhe din (good times) for the Congress has arrived. The results of the assembly elections of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram will come out on December 3, the counting day. The exit polls on November 30 projected a neck-and-neck fight between the Congress and the BJP in the 4 states while Mizoram will continue to be the bastion of the local parties. The predictions for the exit polls 2023 varied but broadly it is 'advantage BJP' in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. The Congress is likely to have an edge in Chhattisgarh and Telangana, the projection said.

Widespread panic hit Bengaluru on Friday morning after forty-eight private schools received a bomb threat via email. As the school authorities alerted the police, parents scrambled to the respective schools of their children. The authorities also reached the schools with bomb disposal squads to rule out the possibilities of bombs inside schools. The security apparatus of the Karnataka city hasn't found a bomb inside any school as of now but is cautious.

The students and the staff of the schools were evacuated. A senior police official told the news agency PTI that 48 schools had received the bomb threat from an email id. The search operation was nearly over and the police hadn't found any suspicious objects, he said.

Banks across the country will be closed for a total of 18 days in December, according to the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) holiday list. In the case of state-specific festivals, the banks will remain shut only in those states, while during national festivals like Christmas this month, banks will be shut across the nation.

Border Security Force (BSF) director general Nitin Agrawal on Thursday said Pakistani Rangers could not come up with a "convincing" explanation at a flag meeting held to discuss the November 9 ceasefire violation by the latter along the international border in Samba, in which a BSF jawan was martyred. Not only this, he alleged that Pakistani Rangers are in perpetual denial mode when confronted at flag meetings about the heightened drone activity from their side of the border, to smuggle drugs and weapons to Punjab.