✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will represent India at a meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on Thursday. The meeting is expected to deliberate on a range of pressing regional issues, including the situation in Afghanistan.
2. The 20th Meeting of SCO Council of Heads of Government (CHG) will be held on November 25 in Nur-Sultan in virtual format under the chairmanship of Kazakhstan.
3. Singapore Airlines and its subsidiary Scoot will gradually operate flights from Singapore to 10 Indian cities from November 29 onwards.
4. Singapore Airlines is offering upto 50% discount on return fares as it resumes flights to India on November 29. It will operate daily vaccinated travel lane (VTL) flights to Chennai, Delhi and Mumbai, providing quarantine free entry into Singapore.
5. The single-dose Sputnik Light COVID-19 vaccine will likely be launched in India by December, Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), said.
6. South Korean electronics maker Samsung is looking to hire more than 1,000 engineers from India this year for its R&D centres in Bengaluru, Delhi and Noida. “One-fourth of these engineers will be coming from IITs and the balance would be coming from other tier-one colleges,” said Sameer Wadhawan, Senior VP & Head of HR of Samsung India.
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. Social Democratic Party leader Olaf Scholz is set to become next chancellor of Germany as the Greens and Free Democrats reached a coalition deal to form the government. Scholz will replace Angela Merkel, ending her 16-year-long tenure. The alliance named ‘traffic light coalition’ will install a three-way federal government in Germany and is expected to take office by December 6.
2. Swedish Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson has been appointed as the country’s first female Prime Minister. Andersson, who recently took over as the leader of the Social Democratic Party, cleared the winning post by just one vote as 174 lawmakers voted against her. In Sweden, a candidate can become Prime Minister if a minimum of 175 parliamentarians isn’t opposed to them.
3. Singapore and Malaysia to open land border for vaccinated people.
4. At least 257 media outlets have shut down in Afghanistan after the Taliban seized power in the country, The shutdown, reportedly due to financial constraints, has rendered over 70% of media professionals jobless in Afghanistan.
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