India, Nov. 14 -- Good evening! Here's your 5-minute wrap of the day's top headlines from across the country and the world.

The Congress is seeking 181 of the 403 assembly seats ahead of the Uttar Pradesh (UP) elections due early next year, the party's ally and Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav said on Saturday. Yadav said the SP has decided how many seats it will contest and underlined that the goal is to defeat the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Pakistan's climate minister Musadik Masood Malik is likely to visit India later this month after he was nominated to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) civilizational dialogue in Delhi, Pakistan's foreign ministry said on Saturday.

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