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As the nation will mark Constitution Day on Friday (November 26), President Ram Nath Kovind will lead the celebrations at the Central Hall of Parliament House. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also address the distinguished gathering and participate in the programmes that will be organised in the Parliament and Vigyan Bhawan. 

The nation celebrates Constitution Day on November 26 to commemorate the adoption of the Constitution of India by the Constituent Assembly in 1949.

The Centre will celebrate Constitution Day as a part of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs. The programme organized in Parliament will also be addressed by Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla.

November 26, 2021, marks 13 years since the series of dreadful terror attacks in Mumbai when 10 members of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), a jihadist outfit based in Pakistan, carried out 12 coordinated attacks lasting as many as four days across major locations.

As many as 166 people from 15 countries were killed in the attacks at the iconic Taj Mahal Palace hotel, the Nariman House, the Metro Cinema, and the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, among other places.

The November 2008 Mumbai attacks, also referred to as 26/11 attacks, perhaps for the first time drew widespread global condemnation at a scale hitherto unseen and prompted the central government to critically heighten its counter-terrorism operations and re-examine several aspects of its already straining ties with Pakistan.

The National Investigation Agency raided multiple locations in Srinagar and south Kashmir on Thursday morning.

The raids, assisted by paramilitary troopers and the J&K police, raided multiple houses in Wachi area of Zainpora, Shopian, and Nowgam area in Srinagar district. "During the searches … a large number of incriminating documents and digital devices have been seized," an NIA spokesman said.

In Srinagar, NIA sleuths raided the residence of Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) president Parvez Amroz but his family denied that their residence had been searched.

Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, at her meeting with PM Modi in Delhi on Wednesday, raised a host of Centre-state administrative and political issues and invited him to inaugurate next year’s Bengal Global Business Summit, which he has “accepted”.

After the meeting, the Trinamool chief said that she asked the PM to withdraw the order on extending the jurisdiction of BSF in border states since “it would disturb the local law and order situation within the state due to confrontations between central and state law and order agencies”. She said, “We are not against BSF or central agencies, but it is a question of federalism.”

The state’s interest must be kept in mind. If you have to secure the border, state will help the Centre with additional forces… There should be a meeting and the order should be revoked,” she said.