*TODAYS TOP NEWS*
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1. PM Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated the Bharat Renewable Energy Summit & Expo 2026 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, held with the 9th International Solar Alliance Assembly and the 4th International Conference on Green Hydrogen. He said over half of India’s installed power capacity is now non-fossil, over 44,000 government buildings run on solar, saving about ₹700 crore a year, and over 30 lakh farmers use solar irrigation under PM-KUSUM. He urged solar for every government building, school and hospital.
2. PM Modi will inaugurate Pune Metro Line 3 (Pink Line) today at 12:30 PM by video conference. The 23-km line from Maan to District Court, built for over ₹8,300 crore, links the Hinjewadi IT hub with Shivajinagar; it will be run entirely by women train operators and meet about 30% of its power needs from solar. He will also lay the foundation of Phase-II (Lines 2A, 2B, 4 and 4A, about ₹13,500 crore).
3. Over 21 lakh of the 65 lakh homes with rooftop solar under PM Surya Ghar have received zero electricity bills, MNRE Minister Pralhad Joshi said. At the summit he said India has attracted $67 billion of investment in the sector in two years and non-fossil capacity has risen to 310 GW from 200 GW in September 2024; solar power now sells for as little as ₹2.15 a unit.
4. The Rural Development Ministry notified the VB–G RAM G Grievance Redressal Rules, 2026, under the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin). States must set up a multi-tier system at Gram Panchayat, Block and District levels; complaints can be filed in person, by post, online or by phone, the enquiry must finish within 7 working days and the grievance be resolved within 15 days.
5. Home Minister Amit Shah has directed that Foreigners Regional Registration Offices (FRROs) be set up in all State capitals by 2027. With new offices at Jaipur, Chandigarh, Guwahati, Aizawl and Amravati, the country now has 20 FRROs, and three more have been notified at Kohima, Agartala and Bhubaneswar. The e-FRRO portal offers 35 online services.
6. Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda inaugurated an Advanced Radiotherapy Facility at AIIMS Rajkot, set up for about ₹39 crore under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana. It will serve an estimated 1.54 crore people of Saurashtra. Nadda said 37.7 crore oral cancer screenings have been done across the country.
7. The Centre has notified the Bharatiya Vayuyan Niyam, 2026, which take effect on 1 January 2027. Under Rule 192, the government can issue directions on airfares in extraordinary circumstances, and airlines must publish their fares and show passengers a breakdown of the fare.
8. Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan asked officials to prepare a concrete plan to deal with drought, cyclones and erratic rain, and to give relief to farmers without delay. Reviewing kharif harvesting and rabi sowing, he said farmers with little irrigation should be encouraged to sow less water-hungry crops such as chickpea, mustard, lentil and millets.
9. The Skill Development Ministry recognised 19 institutions as Centres of Excellence-Skills (CoE-Skills) through a ‘Green Channel’ for institutions of established standing. Secretary Debashree Mukherjee presented the certificates at Kaushal Bhawan, New Delhi; the recognition is valid from 9 October 2026 to 8 October 2029.
10. The Union Environment Ministry has allowed planned, time-bound dredging of rivers inside forest areas for flood control and disaster management, after a request from Himachal Pradesh. Removing silt, stones and boulders left by floods, landslides or cloudbursts will not count as a non-forest purpose, but the exemption does not cover commercial mining or protected areas.
11. Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurated a new Seismological Observatory at Kishtwar, a high-seismic zone in J&K. He said the region has gone from no Doppler Weather Radar in 2014 to four, with four more coming up at Doda, Kishtwar, Anantnag and Baramulla, and Automatic Weather Stations have risen from 3 to 12.
12. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla inaugurated the Haryana Vidhan Sabha’s ‘Janpratinidhi Sammelan’ at Panchkula, part of the Samvidhan Pakhwada programme. He said agreement and disagreement are two sides of the same coin in a democracy, dissent must be respected, and the Constitution is the living soul and moral compass of India.
13. Severe Cyclonic Storm Murasu began crossing the south Andhra Pradesh coast close to Ongole in Prakasam district at 1 AM today, IMD said, with gale winds of 100–110 kmph gusting to 120 kmph likely till morning. A storm surge of 1.5–2 metres may flood low-lying areas of Bapatla, Krishna and Prakasam. NDRF and SDRF teams are deployed and the state is assessing damage to power lines, roads, houses and crops.
14. Odisha evacuated over 1.6 lakh people from five vulnerable districts, about 1.5 lakh of them in Ganjam, as Cyclone Murasu brings heavy rain to the south of the state. Over 300 NDRF, ODRAF and Fire Service teams are deployed and schools in vulnerable areas are closed today and tomorrow. People who had just returned home after Cyclone Arnab were moved back to shelters.
15. Delhi recorded its first ‘very poor’ air of the season with an AQI of 324, up from 261 a day earlier, and the CAQM imposed Stage 2 of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP-2) across Delhi-NCR. Jahangirpuri (436), Rohini (415) and Punjabi Bagh (413) were in the ‘severe’ category, and the air is expected to stay ‘very poor’ till 5 November.
16. After the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the electorate in the five poll-bound States has fallen about 12.2%, from about 18.71 crore to 16.43 crore. Uttar Pradesh saw the steepest drop of 13.24%, from 15.44 crore to 13.40 crore voters; Uttarakhand fell 10.07% and Punjab 6.34%.
17. The CRPF has completed 12 months without a single operational fatality, the first time in 47 years, DG G.P. Singh said; the last such period ended in January 1979. The force, about 3.25 lakh strong, lost its last man in operations on 30 October 2025.
18. Paddy stubble-burning cases in seven States fell 26.63% to 3,316 between 15 September and 1 November, ICAR satellite data showed. Punjab had the most with 1,514, followed by Rajasthan (671), Madhya Pradesh (566), Uttar Pradesh (345), Uttarakhand (176), Haryana (42) and Delhi (2).
19. Mobile internet was suspended in Arunachal Pradesh’s Upper Siang district during a 36-hour bandh against the proposed Siang Upper Multipurpose Project. Protesters are demanding the release of anti-dam activists arrested after the violence at Pasighat on 24 October.
20. Asma Banu, an English teacher from Karkala in Udupi district, Karnataka, has been chosen for the Plant Genome Saviour Farmer Recognition for conserving about 1,540 traditional rice varieties with her husband Abubakkar over 12 years. The award will be presented in New Delhi on 12 November.
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*NEW APPOINTMENT*
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1. Inbasekar Sundaramurthi, a 2004-batch IFS officer now Consul General of India in Barcelona, has been appointed India’s next Ambassador to Senegal, the MEA announced on 2 November. He was earlier High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, and has served in India’s missions in France, Côte d’Ivoire, Pakistan, Belgium and Russia.
2. Lieutenant General I.S. Rathore took over as the 43rd Commandant of the Military College of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering (MCEME), Secunderabad, on 1 November. He succeeds Lt Gen Neeraj Varshney, who retired on 31 October. MCEME trains officers and men of the Corps of EME in maintaining and repairing military equipment.
3. The Andhra Pradesh government has appointed a three-member Specified Authority, headed by TTD Executive Officer Muddada Ravichandra, to run the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams after the tenure of the B.R. Naidu-led Trust Board ended. Finance Secretary V. Vinay Chand and Endowments Secretary K. Kannababu are members; it will serve for one year or until a new Board is formed.
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*LEGAL REPORT*
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1. The Supreme Court has allowed only CSIR-NEERI-approved green crackers in Delhi-NCR for Diwali: bursting is permitted from 6 AM to 8 PM on 7 November and from 7 AM to 10 PM on 8 November, and the full ban returns on 9 November. A Bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and Prasanna B. Varale said series crackers (ladis), garlands and barium-based crackers remain banned.
2. The Supreme Court dismissed the Centre’s appeal against a Delhi High Court order letting Vedanta and Ravva Oil (Singapore) enforce foreign arbitration awards of nearly $99 million. A Bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and Manmohan warned that resisting awards at the enforcement stage would hurt trust in India as an arbitration destination.
3. The Supreme Court closed the petitions seeking a CBI probe into the theft of cash donations at the Ayodhya Ram temple after the UP government said the SIT had filed a chargesheet. The Bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V. Mohana told the trial court to proceed and allowed the petitioners to assist it.
4. The Supreme Court refused to entertain former Tamil Nadu Minister K.N. Nehru’s plea against a Madras High Court order directing the DVAC to register an FIR against him in the alleged ₹634-crore cash-for-jobs scam, based on information from the ED. A Bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu found no ground to interfere.
5. The Delhi High Court stayed JNU’s 9 October order dismissing Professor Bimol Akoijam, the Congress MP from Inner Manipur, over sexual harassment complaints by students. Justice Anup J. Bhambhani issued notice to the university and listed the case for January.
6. The Bombay High Court at Goa directed Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, owners of the Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, to pay ₹20 lakh each as interim compensation to the families of the 25 people killed in the fire there on 6 December last year. The money is to be paid in instalments by February; the next hearing is on 2 December.
7. A Special Task Force arrested brothers Bhagwan Singh and Pritam Singh for shooting at the male cheetah KNG-22 in Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno landscape on 24 October, and seized the licensed double-barrel muzzle-loading gun used. The STF said it found no sign of an organised wildlife-trade gang.
—— *MISHAPS*———-
1. In Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan — Eight Labourers Electrocuted
Eight labourers working on a road project were electrocuted in Chhapoli village, under Udaipurwati police station, when the gravel-mixing machine they were using touched an overhead high-tension line. PM Modi announced ₹2 lakh from the PMNRF for the family of each deceased and ₹50,000 for the injured.
2. In Florida, USA — Nine Killed in Learjet Crash: A Learjet 60 flying from Austin, Texas, to North Eleuthera in the Bahamas crashed into a residential area in Lake Worth Beach, Palm Beach County, killing all nine people on board. About 600 residents were evacuated, and the US National Transportation Safety Board has begun an investigation.
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*DEFENCE News*
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1. The Defence Ministry Shri Rajnath Singh signed contracts worth ₹53,866.50 crore for eight Next Generation Corvettes for the Indian Navy: GRSE will build five and Goa Shipyard three. It is the first project in which the ships are designed by the Navy and built by Defence PSUs chosen through competition. The contracts were signed in the presence of Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh.
2. Sail training ship INS Sudarshini returned to Kochi on 2 November after Lokayan 26, a ten-month voyage across the oceans covering over 22,000 nautical miles. Vice Admiral Sameer Saxena, FOC-in-C, Southern Naval Command, presided over the Flag-in ceremony.
3. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh met Air Chief Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, who took over as the 29th Chief of the Air Staff on 31 October, calling him a distinguished air warrior known for excellent leadership.
4. A two-day seminar on ‘Cyber-Enabled Cognitive Warfare’, organised by the Centre for Joint Warfare Studies (CENJOWS) under HQ Integrated Defence Staff, began in New Delhi. It is looking at influence operations, the targeting of soldiers, veterans and their families, and the use of AI in digital manipulation.
5. The IAF has brought Air Force Schools across the country onto ‘ScrollControl’, a child digital safety programme. So far 261 teachers from 42 schools have been certified as Cyber Crime Intervention Officers to deal with online grooming, AI misuse, gaming risks and financial fraud.
6. A 41-member delegation from the Brazilian Army Command and General Staff College visited defence establishments and heritage sites in Delhi and Agra on a Foreign Study Tour, the Indian Army said.
7. The Indian Navy has set out a need for an indigenous space-based Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) satellite system to detect and map radar and radio emitters over the Indian Ocean, according to Indian Defence News; it says one satellite alone cannot give continuous coverage.
*FINANCE*
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*INDIAN RUPEE VALUE*
💷 *GBP* ₹127(Approx)
€ *Euro* : ₹106(Approx)
*USD* ₹ 95(Approx)
🇨🇦 *Canada* :CAD ₹68
🇦🇺 *Australia* : ₹ 67
🇦🇪 *UAE Dirham* : ₹ 26
*🇨🇳 China Yuan ¥* : ₹ 14
🇲🇻 *Maldives Rufiya* : ₹ 6.14
🇧🇹 *Bhutan ngultrum* : ₹ 1.00
🇳🇵 *Nepal Rupee* : ₹ 0.62
🇧🇩 *B’desh Taka** : ₹ 0.76
🇵🇰 *Pak Rupee* : ₹ 0.34
🇱🇰 *Sri Lanka Rupee* : ₹ 0.29
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*BSE SENSEX*
75,692.78 +1,233.25 (1.66%)🔺
*NIFTY*
23,440.80 +387.70 (1.68%)🔺
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*Rates in Financial Capital Mumbai*
*GOLD* : ₹ 13,937/ 01gm (24 krt)
*SILVER* : ₹ 2,00,000/KG
1. The Sensex jumped 1,233 points and the Nifty 388 points on Monday, their third straight gain, as Reliance Industries surged 11.64% after its record quarterly profit and crude oil prices eased. The rupee slipped 10 paise to close at 94.86 against the US dollar.
2. The HSBC India Manufacturing PMI eased to 54.7 in October from 55.1 in September as output and new orders grew a little more slowly, but it stayed well above the 50 mark that separates growth from contraction.
3. Petronet LNG’s July–September net profit rose 53% to ₹1,235 crore, its highest ever for a second quarter, despite disruptions in LNG supplies from Qatar due to the Strait of Hormuz crisis.
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*ENTERTAINMENT NEWS*
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1. *SRK Releases ‘Tu Mil Jaye’ from ‘King’*
On his 61st birthday, Shah Rukh Khan released ‘Tu Mil Jaye’, the first song from Siddharth Anand’s ‘King’, featuring him with Deepika Padukone. Composed by Sachin-Jigar and sung by Arijit Singh and Madhubanti Bagchi, it has an English rap by Ed Sheeran. ‘King’ releases on 24 December.
2. *Dogri Writer-Filmmaker Ved Rahi Dies at 93*
Veteran Dogri and Hindi writer, screenwriter and director Ved Rahi died in Thane on 1 November. His Dogri short-story collection ‘Aale’ won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1983; he directed the serial ‘Gul Gulshan Gulfam’ and the film ‘Veer Savarkar’ (2001) and wrote for about 25 Hindi films.
*3 Nov (Tuesday)*
*Vedic Ritu/* Sharad
*Drik Ritu* : Hemant (Prewinter)
पक्ष :: *Krishnapaksh*
*Samvatsara* : Parabhava Nama
(Purnimanta)
*Vikram Samvat – 2083*
*Month* : Kartika 9
(In Amanta calendar)
*Shaka Samvat – 1948*
*Month* : Ashvina 24
*Tithi* : Navami (up to 11:54 am)Dashami
*Nakshatra*: Magha/
Purva Phalguni
*Rahu* : 02:50 PM – 04:12 PM
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