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00:00Good evening, hello and welcome, you're with the news today, your prime time destination, news, newsmakers, talking points, our big
00:07talking point, the big breaking story today, NVIDIA's CEO has quit, how is this going to impact the world's top
00:15company that's leading the AI race, we'll have more on that big breaking news that's coming in.
00:21Also, our newsmaker tonight, Asad Uddin Ovesi has tied up with Chandrasekhar Azad Ravan to form what he's calling a
00:29third front in Uttar Pradesh ahead of the big elections. Is this now an alliance that will divide the India
00:36alliance vote? More on that ahead. But first, as always, let's get cracking with the nine headlines at nine tonight.
00:45Jensen Wang resigns as the president, CEO and board member of NVIDIA with immediate effect after affairs with a Chinese
00:53woman and alleged involvement with an NVIDIA executive become public. Company's CFO, Colette Kress, is named the interim CEO.
01:06Two special officers who went missing in Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar have been found dead. Bodies found with multiple bullet
01:14wounds. Agencies now investigating a possible terror angle.
01:21A potential third front takes shape in Uttar Pradesh ahead of 2027 elections. AIMIM.
01:31Sorry, Prime Minister Modi's big attack on the opposition on India Today platform says something democracy and constitution are in
01:38their pockets.
01:39Claims when in power, opposition could not digest the rise of Gujarat when he was chief minister.
01:47A third front takes shape in Uttar Pradesh ahead of the 2027 elections. AIMIM and Azad Samaj Party join hands.
01:55They will contest on all 403 seats.
01:58Chandrasekhar Azad is named the chief minister candidate. OAC tells India Today, Akhilesh Yadav has betrayed Muslims. He is not
02:07secular.
02:09AIMIM and Azad Samaj Party announces a second list of 31 candidates in Punjab. Two sitting Lok Sabha MPs given
02:16a ticket. Eight MLAs including the Agriculture Minister are dropped.
02:21Credit war in Karnataka ahead of the Prime Minister's Bengaluru visit and Pink Metro Line inauguration.
02:27DK Shipkumar government seeks greater central funding. Claims it bears 84% cost of metro projects.
02:34BJP hits back, says Congress is misleading people.
02:39Veteran Congressman Sam Pitroda praises Prime Minister Modi, calls him a good person and friend.
02:45Prime Minister responds with a Diwali wish, calling him by. Congress says these are Pitroda's personal remarks.
02:53India's inflation levels soar and breach RBI's tolerance mark for the first time in two years.
02:59Retail inflation for October rises to 6.9%. Food inflation nears the 9% mark.
03:09And a historic goal for India in the Youth Olympics 2026.
03:13Manipur's Ambekar Mithais secures the top spot in boxing, wins the 50kg event 3-2.
03:20First ever goal in boxing at the Youth Olympics.
03:40But the big story that we are breaking at the moment, Jensen Wang has stepped down as the CEO of
03:46NVIDIA,
03:46the world's richest company, president and board member with immediate effect after multiple affair scandals have come out in the
03:54public domain.
03:55Colette Press, current executive vice president and chief financial officer of NVIDIA,
04:00has agreed to serve as an interim chief executive officer.
04:04Trump has pitched Tim Cook, formerly of Apple's name, as a replacement,
04:08saying now that NVIDIA CEO Jensen Wang, who has done a fantastic job, has resigned,
04:13there is only one man to take his place, Tim Cook of Apple.
04:17Let's go straight across to get the very latest on that big story.
04:22Remember, NVIDIA is the company that's driven that AI race.
04:25Rohit Sharma is our man on the spot in Washington, D.C.
04:29Rohit, give us the kind of early reactions that are coming to this news.
04:33Was it expected or has it taken everyone by surprise that Jensen Wang has handed in his papers?
04:40It's not surprising, Rajdeep.
04:42I think he was under a lot of pressure, especially after the second scandal that had emerged over the weekend,
04:48where Jensen Wang was also in an inappropriate relationship with a top executive at NVIDIA.
04:54And also the fact that we've got Congress back in town.
04:57We've heard from senators who've said that they would be investigating it, what had happened.
05:03And remember this, Rajdeep, this AI race that both China and the U.S. are fighting.
05:08The chips are the important component of it.
05:11And we've got export controls on these chips.
05:13What NVIDIA was doing and what Jensen Wang ended up doing with Ellis Wang
05:18is allow a backdoor for these chips to be exported out to a third country,
05:22where it could be then used and leased by the Chinese.
05:26And I think that is a very important thing.
05:28It is a security lapse.
05:30It is an intelligence failure.
05:32This lady was with Jensen Wang for more than a year and a half.
05:35The intelligence officials knew about it.
05:37They had alerted the State Department, the White House.
05:40And even after that, you know, he continued to serve in this role for such a long time.
05:44So there will be multiple investigations, not only by the Congress.
05:48There's going to be one by the CIA.
05:50There's going to be all intelligence agencies.
05:52Also an internal world with NVIDIA.
05:54So I think this was on the expected lines and exposes, Rajdeep, how deep the Chinese have infiltrated in the
06:00U.S.
06:05I'm just going to hold your thoughts.
06:06Thanks very much, Rohit, for joining us, because I'm also joined by Ray Locker, author and security expert joining me
06:12from Washington, D.C.
06:14As Rohit said there, Mr. Locker, thanks for joining us.
06:17But Rohit saying that, look, multiple investigations are going to take place.
06:21This is a major security breach.
06:23Serious questions will be raised over oversight, over the possible role of the Trump administration.
06:29How much did they know about this?
06:32Do you believe that this is not the last that we've heard of it?
06:34And this could go much further and much higher in the food chain, if I may call it, or certainly
06:40in the power chain?
06:42Oh, absolutely.
06:43I mean, Jensen Wang's future is the least of it.
06:46And the affair is the least of it, or the affairs.
06:50You have all sorts of ramifications here.
06:53What did the U.S. government know about this?
06:55You know, what did Trump do?
06:56What did Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick do?
06:59We're seeing him being named as somebody who kind of put the kibosh on any kind of limits to the
07:06sale of NVIDIA chips.
07:07I mean, that's all very damaging.
07:09And all it takes in a situation like this is for one thing to break the seal, and then everything
07:15spills out.
07:16And I think we're going to see that over much of 2027, because the implications of this are huge.
07:23I mean, what if you're a bank or somebody who's leveraged against NVIDIA stock, and this stock plummets?
07:29Then it creates ripple effects throughout the entire economy.
07:32And then there's a run on all sorts of things, like we saw with the financial crisis in 2007, 2008,
07:39etc.
07:43You know, we're already seeing the share price of NVIDIA falling by 10% in the U.S. markets.
07:48So there's the economic angle, but there's also the security angle.
07:54Just how much, who knew how much?
07:57Do you believe that Congress, particularly now that the Democrats are dominating the Congress come January,
08:03will push for an even deeper investigation into the entire NVIDIA affair?
08:09Oh, absolutely.
08:11I mean, look, politically it's good for the Democrats, because it makes Trump look bad.
08:15That's obvious.
08:16But the ramifications are far deeper than any kind of political view of this or partisan gain.
08:22I mean, this could cripple big chunks of the U.S. economy.
08:25We need to know, as a nation, why these things happen and how to prevent them from happening in the
08:31future.
08:36You know, prima facie, though, what does it appear to you?
08:41A massive intelligence failure?
08:43Is that what it appears to you?
08:45Is it just one man and his wrongdoing that's being exposed?
08:50Or is it just as during the midterm campaign in the U.S., it was suggested many tech billionaires are
08:56getting away much too easily?
08:59What does this suggest?
09:00What, you know, prima facie, what does the entire case suggest to you there, Mr. Locker?
09:06Well, in one case, I mean, it's like people like Wong has been seen as too powerful to challenge.
09:13And so there's a cult of personality that comes up around many of these leaders.
09:18Oh, they're so wise.
09:20Let's look at, let's dress like Jensen Wong and I'll wear a black leather jacket.
09:24You know, let's idolize these people.
09:25Well, they're only human.
09:27And just because you're good at designing a chip for a computer doesn't mean you're all seeing and all powerful.
09:33And that's something that needs to, I think, be stopped in terms of like, let's have some perspective here.
09:40But, you know, the intelligence failures are massive, particularly when it comes to the executive branch and the president and
09:48the commerce secretary really not doing anything about this.
09:51Because in many cases, the people in the intelligence community did their jobs.
09:55They said, who is this woman who's hanging around with Jensen Wong?
09:59What company does she run?
10:01What are the deals, details of this company?
10:04You know, where are our chips going?
10:05They were asking the right questions and bringing up the right, you know, information to Trump.
10:11And he just ignored it.
10:12And the ramifications of that are severe.
10:19Ramifications are severe and could go well beyond Jensen Wong and even touch, as you're saying, the Trump administration.
10:27Ray Locker for joining me there from Washington, D.C. to give us some context in this big breaking story.
10:33Appreciate you joining me here on the show tonight.
10:36Thank you very much.
12:05That was the Prime Minister at that Kisan conclave.
12:09But the big political story today came from Uttar Pradesh, which, remember, goes to the polls early next year.
12:16A new political front has set Uttar Pradesh and the country wagging with what its implications could be.
12:24The AIMIM chief, the AIMIM chief, have joined hands ahead of the 2027 polls with a new alliance, which they've
12:38called the Samajic Parivartan Morcha.
12:40While they insist that it's not a third front, they've even invited the Samajwadi Party and Congress to join them.
12:47But their clear target seems to be Akhilesh Yadav and the Congress.
12:52Will they end up dividing the Dalit Muslim vote?
12:55And will it, therefore, will it, therefore, will it, therefore, will it be Advantage BJP?
12:58The latest political equation will be decoded.
13:02Asaduddin Ovesi will be speaking to me shortly.
13:05But first, take a look at this report.
13:17The battle for Uttar Pradesh is heating up with a fresh political twist.
13:25AIMIM chief, Asaduddin Ovesi and Bheem Army founder, Azad Samaj Party chief, Chandrasekhar Azad, joined hands on Thursday, announcing an
13:35alliance ahead of the 2027 assembly elections.
13:41A new Dalit Muslim political combination with its eyes on reshaping Uttar Pradesh's electoral arithmetic.
13:50At their joint press conference, Azad named the alliance, Samajic Parivartan Morcha.
14:20AIMIM chief, Asaduddin Ovesi,
14:42AIMIM chief, Asaduddin Ovesi,
15:00But the two parties had a limited electoral record in the 2022 UP polls.
15:08In the 2022 assembly elections, AIMIM contested 95 seats.
15:15One, none.
15:16Its vote share stood at 0.49%.
15:19The Azad Samaj Party contested 110 seats, but failed to win a single constituency.
15:27The 2AC Chandrasekhar Azad alliance is already facing dismissal and criticism from its rivals.
15:33B.J.P.
15:36B.J.P.
15:37J.P.
15:37J.P.
15:41J.P.
15:41J.P.
15:44J.P.
15:46J.P.
16:08J.P.
16:09J.P.
16:09J.P.
16:12J.P.
16:24J.P.
16:29A new alliance, an ambitious Dalit Muslim consolidation pitch
16:34and a direct challenge to Uttar Pradesh's established political equations.
16:41Will the new alliance emerge as a force to reckon with
16:44or end up splitting the opposition vote to the BJP's advantage?
16:49Bureau Report, India Today.
16:58And joining me now is one of our newsmakers of the day,
17:02the AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Ovesi, Member of Parliament joins me.
17:07He's just forged that alliance in Uttar Pradesh,
17:10the Samajik Parivartan Morcha with Chandrasekhar Azad's Samaj Party.
17:15Mr. Ovesi, is this alliance of you and Chandrasekhar Azad
17:18against Akhilesh Yadav and the Congress, the India alliance,
17:23much more than it is against the BJP of Yogi Adityanath?
17:27Am I right in saying that?
17:29No, you're absolutely wrong.
17:32This alliance was forged between our party and Mr. Chandrasekhar Azad's party
17:37to ensure that we stop BJP and Yogi Adityanath
17:42from becoming the Chief Minister for third time.
17:44And of course, yes, we'll have to fight with the Samajwadi party,
17:49the political opponents, and whatever political parties will be there.
17:53But the main objective was that these other parties have completely failed
17:58in stopping the BJP, whether it's 2014 elections, 17 elections,
18:0619 elections, 22 elections, and 2024.
18:10And that is why we have come to the conclusion that we will form this alliance.
18:17But with due regard, sir, you're saying that the other parties have failed
18:21to prevent the BJP's rise.
18:23The fact is that the Congress Samajwadi party was party number one
18:27or alliance number one in 2024 general elections in Uttar Pradesh.
18:31And the votes that you are seeking are votes that traditionally the Congress
18:37has relied on, Muslim, Dalits, Samajwadi party on Muslims.
18:41So you will be breaking the anti-BJP alliance.
18:45Let's be clear.
18:46You're saying that you're fighting the BJP,
18:48but the maximum damage you're likely to do is to Akhilesh Yadav and Rahul Gandhi.
18:55Well, is it an hegemony or is it a monopoly of one political party
19:00that some, their old bank becomes their private property?
19:04If one believes in democracy, if you believe in free speech,
19:08if you day in, day out talk about saving the Constitution,
19:13then what is the message of the Constitution?
19:15What did the makers of the Constitution talk about political justice in the preamble?
19:20Have you been able to stop BJP? No.
19:23Have you been able to ensure that they're defeated? No.
19:27Now, when you talk about old bank,
19:29why did Samajwadi party went and campaign against AIMM in Bihar
19:34after taking up four MLA's?
19:37Was that taking a great Gandhian act?
19:39Why did you go and contest Nuttrakhan wherein BJP won?
19:44Do you know that Samajwadi party went and contested in Jammu?
19:48So, why isn't this question posed?
19:51No, the question will be posed to them.
19:53Sir, Mr. Ovesi, the question will be posed to them.
19:56But when I look at Uttar Pradesh specifically,
19:58AIMIM, you polled just 0.49% of the vote share
20:03and won zero seats last time in 2022.
20:06Azad Samaj party, 0.13%, zero vote.
20:09So, by coming together, I repeat, by coming together,
20:13you're not going to be able to defeat the BJP, surely.
20:16The BJP is the dominant party of UP.
20:18What stopped you from aligning with the Samajwadi party Congress alliance?
20:22Why didn't you become part of that?
20:24Why didn't you negotiate with them and become part of a wider alliance
20:28if your aim is to defeat the BJP?
20:31Well, if we believe you,
20:33and I'm completely sure your assumption is wrong,
20:35well, if we believe you for argument's sake,
20:38why is there so much of pain?
20:41Leave it.
20:41Because if that is the odd percentage we have got,
20:44then you go and have a good night's sleep.
20:46You know, but now we are contesting together.
20:50And as far as alliance is concerned,
20:53I have repeatedly said that we are open for our alliance.
20:57Even now, Chandrasekhar has said that
20:59if Congress and Samajwadi party want to join us,
21:03this is a formidable combination.
21:05And we are willing to accommodate them.
21:07And in fact, he went to the extent of saying today
21:10that at the, you know, it might cause a loss to me.
21:14I'm ready for it.
21:14No, no, no.
21:15You want them to accommodate you?
21:21Or you will accommodate them?
21:22I mean, let's be honest again.
21:24They are the larger alliance.
21:25I mean, surely you would want them to accommodate you
21:28rather than vice versa.
21:29That's the point.
21:30I mean, isn't there, I repeat,
21:34if your aim is to defeat the BJP,
21:36the sense would be all of you coming together arithmatic, right?
21:39Your arithmatic would help the Samajwadi Congress.
21:42Now, it will be division, not arithmatic.
21:45Not one plus one is two.
21:47Rajdeep, please understand.
21:50Five years ago, our Madhmi party contested 300 odd seats.
21:54Yes.
21:55Samajwadi contested 300 odd seats.
21:58Congress contested nearly 400 seats.
22:01I had contested on about 80 or 85 seats
22:04because we were part of the alliance, Mr. Babu Singh Kuswaha,
22:07who's now a John Poore MP of Samajwadi Party.
22:10Now, these questions are not asked.
22:13Please remember that, you know, in Bihar,
22:15we had said, give us six seats.
22:18You took away our four MLAs.
22:20Despite that, we showed our magnanimity,
22:23but no, you blamed me.
22:25You made wild allegations.
22:26We won back those four seats which you have taken away.
22:30I'm thankful to Allah and to the people of Srimanchal.
22:34Rajya Saba election in Bihar,
22:36RJD sitting Thakur candid.
22:38Despite my objections, my party said,
22:41no, sir, we will support them.
22:42I said, go ahead, but be careful.
22:44They'll blame us.
22:45You know what happened in Rajya Saba election in Bihar?
22:48Six Congress MLAs, four didn't turn up.
22:52RJD had one Muslim MLAs.
22:54That gentleman didn't turn up.
22:56We did our part.
22:58Now, that is why we are saying that there are so many internal contradictions of blaming us.
23:05You have a party which is in power in Punjab.
23:08They want an alliance with Achilles.
23:10Congress party calls them B-team.
23:13They call Congress party with other kind of names.
23:16I don't know how to name them.
23:18What is this hypocrisy?
23:19At least we have a clarity as far as our alliance is concerned that we want to defeat BJP.
23:25We want to stop them from your government.
23:28Now, Rajya, please remember what has happened in the past.
23:32Is there a guarantee that it will be repeated now?
23:35Now, if you believe that…
23:37No, Mr. Ovesi, did you make an effort to reach out to Achilles Yadav?
23:41Is it true that you tried and the backroom negotiations failed?
23:44Is that true or not?
23:47Rajya, when Asad Uddin Ovesi had publicly made a statement,
23:51not once, not twice, not thrice, but five to six times,
23:57that please look into it.
23:59We don't want BJP to come back in power.
24:02But you assume that you are the biggest Choudhury of so-called secular values.
24:09And please remember, you talk about secularism.
24:12After independence, when Mr. Achilles Yadav was the chief minister,
24:17there was biggest displacement of people in the Muzaffar Nagar riots.
24:21Please read the report of Neha Dixit, that famous courageous reporter, journalist.
24:27Eight women went to courts for justice because they were raped.
24:32Seven were forced to withdraw.
24:33Only one woman got justice.
24:36Who was the chief minister in 2017?
24:38Mr. Achilles Yadav.
24:392013, 2012, 2013.
24:42Exactly.
24:43He was a CM till 2017.
24:45He could have easily given them protection.
24:47But where was the secularism?
24:48He was busy in bringing those two-hour heroes to Saifi and see them dancing and merry-making
24:55was happening while these people were suffering in camps in Muzaffar Nagar.
25:00Sir, you're questioning Achilles Yadav's secularism.
25:03When I speak to the so-called secular parties, they question your Islamism.
25:07They say the moment we get OVC on our platform, the Hindus will consolidate behind the BJP.
25:12That's the reason why they are reluctant to ally with you.
25:16The reason for a reluctance to ally with you is that just as you are accusing them of flawed secularism,
25:23they are accusing you today of practicing Islamism, of only focusing on a Muslim vote bank.
25:30Rajdeep, this is all rubbish.
25:34What is the majority vote they're getting?
25:37What is the percentage of majority vote they're getting?
25:40Rajdeep, you have done so many shows.
25:42And as far as I know my opinion about you is concerned, I feel Rajdeep Sarasai bats like Sachin Tendulkar
25:51only when election happens and he comes out with the empirical electoral data.
25:55That data clearly shows them where is the majority vote for them.
25:58And what is this Islamist?
26:01Am I trying to impose a theurocritic ideology on the country as RSS is trying to do?
26:07No.
26:07I believe in democracy, continue to believe in democracy.
26:11My fight is that what our forefathers had told us, that we should have a representative form of democracy.
26:18Is it good for a democracy that you have only 4% of Muslim MPs getting elected?
26:23And who are these torched leaders of secularism who shamelessly blame me?
26:27Why is it that I'm not able to elect more Muslims into the Indian parliament?
26:32How many seats did I contest?
26:34And I can go on and go on.
26:57A terror angle is being investigated.
27:00Security alert in J&K.
27:02We'll tell you more on the return of terror to the valley.
27:06You're watching the news today.
27:08News without the noise.
27:09Back to our other big story today.
27:12Now it's a case of two terror strikes in two districts and a widening security operation in Jammu and Kashmir.
27:18A day after CRPF jawans were targeted in the Kulgam area, two SPOs, special police officers, were found murdered in
27:27the Kishwar forest areas with bullet-ridden bodies.
27:31Suspected Lushkar operatives are allegedly behind this.
27:36Mir Farid now reports on the return of terror to the valley.
28:26Jammu and Kashmir is on high alert after an attack on a CRPF checkpoint.
28:30In Kulgam and the recovery of bullet-riddled bodies of two special police officers in Kishwar.
28:37Both SPOs had suffered multiple gunshot wounds.
28:41Their service weapons were also missing.
28:46The two personnel missing since the Kulgam attack were found dead in Dachan forests, triggering a massive search for the
28:54suspects involved.
28:56Security agencies have put up posters of four wanted terrorists.
29:00Mohd Latif Bhatt, Bilal Ahmed Meir, Mohd Umar Meir and Abid Kiyom Lone.
29:06Lushkar commander Mohd Latif Bhatt is suspected to be involved in the Kulgam attack.
29:12At 22, carpenter-turned-terrorist Latif Bhatt went missing in November 2025 and allegedly joined Lushkar.
29:20He is wanted in the July 22 murder of head constable Ashik Hussain Qureshi in Anantanag and the July 31
29:28killing of two migrant labourers from Chhattisgarh in Kulgam.
29:32There is 15 lakh rupees reward on his head.
29:35The security sweep has also extended to Baramulla.
29:39During a joint operation in Badarkot forest, a suspect was arrested.
29:43Two hand grenades were recovered based on information provided by him.
29:48The Kishtivar killing comes hours after a terror attack on a CRPF check post in Kulgam's Akhran area.
29:55At around 2.15pm, two heavily armed terrorists emerged from a dense tree line, barely 50 metres from the check
30:03post and opened fire.
30:04While one terrorist fired at the personnel, the other provided cover.
30:10Three CRPF jawans were injured as the attackers escaped through the forest towards Naupur.
30:17A Motorola phone and SIM card have been recovered.
30:20CCTV footage is being examined to trace their movements.
30:25Two attacks, two districts and a fresh terror hunt.
30:29Jammu and Kashmir remains on high alert.
30:32Bureau report, India Today.
30:38Okay, just about enough time though to leave you with our image of the day where there was a rather
30:43rare and unusual reprimand
30:46at one of America's most solemn military memorials.
30:49US Defence Secretary Pete Hexit and his delegation were called out by an army sentinel
30:55after laughter was heard during their visit to the tomb of the unknown soldier.
31:00Hexit, his wife and senior aides were taking pictures and chatting on the memorial steps after Veterans Day event.
31:07The sentinel promptly intervened, ordering the visitors to show respect.
31:12The tomb honours, unidentified American service members, a sacred side of mourning and reflection.
31:17It is guarded around the clock as a mark of respect for the fallen.
31:22It is, therefore, Pete Hexit has been told that there are moments that you can't take power for granted.
31:30From Nvidia to Hexit, that's the message that's come out from the United States.
31:36I'm going to leave you with that image tonight.
31:38Thanks very much for watching.
31:40You stay well.
31:42Stay safe.
31:43Good night.
31:44Shubratri.
31:45Jai Hind.
31:47Namaskar.
31:48All visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times.