*TODAYS TOP NEWS*
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1. Stage set for counting of votes for Assembly elections for Maharashtra and Jharkhand along with bypolls today.
2. President Smt Droupadi Murmu Friday inaugurated a three-day-long Odisha Parba in New Delhi and said that it is more than a festival — it’s a global celebration of Odisha’s timeless heritage and the indomitable spirit of its people.
3. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will share his thoughts with the people of the country and abroad in the ‘Mann Ki Baat’ programme on Akashvani tomorrow (Sunday) . It will be the 116th episode of the monthly radio programme.
4. The President Smt Droupadi Murmu visited Telangana from November 21 to 22, 2024. The President attended the Koti Deepotsavam-2024 & inaugural address at the Lokmanthan-2024 at Hyderabad.
5. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has invited online applications from eligible students for the Merit Scholarship Scheme for Single Girl Child. It has invited applications for the CBSE Merit Scholarship Scheme for Single Girl Child, who has passed Class 10 in 2024 from CBSE and is studying in Class 11 at CBSE-affiliated schools.
6. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Labour and Employment Minister Mansukh Mandaviya today launched a report titled Jobs at Your Doorstep in New Delhi.
7. BJP President J P Nadda yesterday held a meeting with the party leaders in New Delhi ahead of the counting of votes of the Maharashtra and Jharkhand assembly elections.
8. The Chairman of the Joint Committee of Parliament on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, Jagdambika Pal, has said that the draft report of the bill is ready and the committee will soon give a date for clause-by-clause discussion.
9. On 21 November 2024, the Assam government officially renamed the Karimganj district to Sribhumi, along with its headquarters town, Karimganj, which will now be called Sribhumi town. This move, authorized by Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, aims to honor the cultural heritage.
10. India’s first Constitution Museum, inaugurated by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, at O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) in Sonipat, Haryana, aims to enhance public understanding of the Constitution.
11. The Telangana government is set to establish an AI advisory council for the life sciences sector, which is part of a broader strategy announced during the Telangana Global AI Summit in September 2024. The council aims to enhance the integration of AI in life sciences.
12. In Andhra Pradesh the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) is edging closer to resolving its decades-old issue of the presence of non-Hindu employees in its fold. The board has resolved to offer such employees an opportunity for voluntary retirement or transfers to other government departments. This decision was taken at the first meeting of the new trust board headed by its chairman BR Naidu.
13. National Green Tribunal has been informed by the Uttar Pradesh government’s environment department that over 1.12 lakh trees will be felled in the protected forest area in the state to make way for the upcoming Kanwar Yatra route.
14. The Government has selected 28 projects under the Tomato Grand Challenge to address critical issues across the tomato value chain. Tomato Grand Challenge was started last year and one thousand 376 ideas were received from students, faculty, industries and startups.
15. Justice Harjit Singh Bedi, former Supreme Court judge and ex-Chief Justice of Bombay High Court, passed away on Thursday. He is remembered for his significant role in reviewing fake encounter cases in Gujarat, where he recommended further probes into three of 17 cases. He was 78 years.
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*LEGAL REPORT*
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1. National Investigation Agency (NIA) has conducted searches across five districts of Jammu and Kashmir in connection with a case involving terror infiltration and recent attacks on security forces and civilians. The searches were conducted at eight locations in the Reasi, Udhampur, Doda, Ramban, and Kishtwar districts.
2. Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C), in collaboration with the Department of Telecommunications, has successfully blocked 17,000 WhatsApp accounts linked to cybercriminals operating in South East Asia.
3. Ten Naxalites, three of them women, were gunned down in an encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district on Friday,
4. The Supreme Court on Friday observed the 1976 amendment to the Constitution adding terms “socialist”, “secular” and “integrity” to the Preamble underwent judicial reviews and it cannot say whatever Parliament did during the emergency period was all nullity.
5. The ethnic violence between Meitei and Kuki communities in Manipur has claimed 258 lives since May last year, the state government’s Security Adviser Kuldiep Singh said on Friday.
He said that the state would get around 90 companies of the Central Armed Police Force (CAPF), over and above the 198 companies that are already in Manipur.
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*FINANCE*
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1. Reserve Bank of India and the Maldives Monetary Authority (MMA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a framework for promoting the use of local currencies Indian Rupee and Maldivian Rufiyaa in cross-border transactions. The MoU was signed by RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das and MMA Governor Ahmed Munawar in Mumbai.
2. Government has directed the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) to ensure activation of the Universal Account Number (UAN) for employees through Aadhaar-based OTP. Labour and Employment Ministry has directed EPFO to work in a campaign mode with employers to ensure that the maximum number of employers and employees benefit from the Employment Linked Incentive Scheme announced in the Union Budget 2024-25.
3. The Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal has said that by 2030, the country will have a 1000-gigawatt grid connected through the length and breadth of the country. Addressing the UK-India Technology Futures Conference in New Delhi .
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*ENTERTAINMENT NEWS*
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1. Over 70 films scheduled to be screened on Day 2 of IFFI Goa : the 55th International Film Festival of India.
2. 82 young artists were awarded with Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar New Delhi. The awards were conferred for the years 2022 and 2023 in a special ceremony by Culture Ministry Secretary Arunish Chawla. The Yuva Puraskar honours young artists in the field of music, dance, drama, folk and tribal art forms. The awards carry purse money of twenty-five thousand rupees and are awarded to artists under the age of 40.
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*DEFENCE News*
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1. General Upendra Dwivedi of the Indian Army during his Five-day-long visit to Nepal called on Prime Minister of Nepal K.P. Sharma Oli and Defence Minister of Nepal Manbir Rai and discussed various aspects of unique and close bilateral defence cooperation between India and Nepal.
PM Oli expressed happiness over the continuity of the exchange of conferring the title of honorary general to the CoASs of India and the same being reciprocated with Nepal as a welcome tradition.
2. An Indian fishing vessel Marthoma with a crew of 13 members reportedly collided with an Indian Naval submarine near Goa on Thursday evening. Search and rescue efforts were immediately launched by the Indian Navy with six ships and aircraft. The Indian Navy said, 11 crew have been rescued so far and efforts for rescuing the remaining two crew is in progress.
3. The 22nd meeting of the India-Russia Working Group on Military Technical Cooperation and Defence Industry of the India-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission on Military and Military Technical Cooperation (IRIGC-M&MTC) took place in New Delhi.
The meeting was co-chaired by the Secretary of Defence Production, Sanjeev Kumar, and Russia’s First Deputy Director of the Federal Service for Military Technical Cooperation, A. Boytsov.
4. Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh, on November 22, 2024, met his Japan counterpart Mr Gen Nakatani and Secretary of National Defence (Defence Minister) of the Philippines Mr Gilberto Teodoro on the final day of his three-day visit to Vientiane, Lao PDR.
5. The top air force commanders of the US, South Korea and Japan have held talks to discuss ways to strengthen their cooperation, such as expanding joint air drills. The talks held over video-conferencing vowed to continuously cooperate to deter the North’s Korea’s evolving threats.
*23 Nov(Saturday)*
*Vedic Ritu/* Sharad
*Drik Ritu* : Hemant (Autumn)
पक्ष :: *Krishnapaksh*
*Vikram Samvat – 2081*
*Shaka Samvat – 1946*
*Month* : Agrahayana 8, (Purnimanta)
Kartika 22 (Amanta)
*Nakshatra*: Magha (up to 7:27 pm) Purva Phalguni
*Tithi :* Ashtami (up to 7:57 pm) Navami
*Rahu* : 09:31 AM – 10:52 AM
*Yamaganda*: 01:34 PM – 02:54 PM
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