✈️ INTERNATIONAL NEWS
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1. Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri held Foreign Secretary-level talks with Nepal’s Amrit Bahadur Rai in Kathmandu, covering high-level visits, connectivity, trade, energy and development cooperation. He also met Nepal’s Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal and Finance Minister Swarnim Wagle. Nepal PM Balendra Shah is expected to visit India later this month, his first bilateral trip abroad since taking office.
2. A senior Iranian lawmaker, deputy chairman of Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said ships from India, China, Iraq and Qatar are exempt from Iran’s transit restrictions in the Strait of Hormuz. He said the exemption for Indian ships is meant to allow imports of medicines from India.
3. At the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Antigua and Barbuda, EAM S. Jaishankar spoke about how India’s Digital Public Infrastructure has widened opportunities, and about India’s recent Free Trade Agreements, which he said help predictable trade and resilient supply chains.
4. MoS Commerce Jitin Prasada visited Poland on 2–3 November with 12 Indian companies and met Deputy PM Krzysztof Gawkowski to discuss cooperation in AI, semiconductors, data centres and cybersecurity. The visit followed Polish PM Donald Tusk’s visit to India last month.
5. Tourism Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat met Qatar Tourism Chairman Saad bin Ali Al Kharji at World Travel Market 2026 in London. The Tourism Ministry also signed an MoU with Eros to promote Indian destinations through films and storytelling.
6. A second Indian national injured in the 10 October attack on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport died in the ICU, the Indian Embassy in Saudi Arabia said; the total toll is now 14. The Embassy will help bring the body home or arrange a funeral in Riyadh, as the family wishes.
7. Nalanda College in Colombo opened a Tinkering Lab with training and curriculum support from India’s Atal Innovation Mission under NITI Aayog. Indian High Commissioner Santosh Jha said the project reflects shared aspirations; the lab has robotics, AI and 3D printing facilities.
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🌎 WORLD NEWS 🌍
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1. Democrats won control of both Houses of the US Congress in the midterm elections, a major setback for President Donald Trump. They are projected to win at least 258 of 435 House seats and hold 54 Senate seats to the Republicans’ 44, with Alaska and Mississippi still to be called. Adam Hamilton became Kansas’s first Democratic senator in 94 years, and Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan the first Muslim elected to the US Senate.
2. Former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms won the Georgia governor’s race, becoming the first Black woman elected governor of a US State. Indian-Americans Ami Bera, Ro Khanna, Pramila Jayapal and Suhas Subramanyam were re-elected to the House and Pia Dandiya won Florida’s 22nd district, while Vivek Ramaswamy lost the Ohio governor race to Amy Acton.
3. The death toll from Monday’s Russian bombing of an aid centre and shelter at Komyshuvakha in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region rose to 40, with 59 people still missing, officials said. The US is due to host Ukrainian and Russian delegations in Abu Dhabi for peace talks within a week.
4. Israeli President Isaac Herzog accepted the certified results of last week’s election and began consultations with the parties on who should be asked to form the next government. Neither PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc nor that of challenger Gadi Eisenkot has a majority.
5. Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto sacked his chief of staff, former police chief Listyo Sigit Prabowo, a day after he was arrested with two senior police officers on charges of illegally tapping the phones of the President, ministers, journalists and others.
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