TODAYS TOP NEWS
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1. PM Shri Narendra Modi, by video conference, opened the Hinjawadi– Shivajinagar Pune Metro Line 3 and laid the foundation of new Phase-II metro corridors, projects worth about ₹21,800 crore. He said India’s metro network has grown from 248 km before 2014 to about 1,200 km, and that around 50 crore people have come out of extreme poverty in the last decade, making India the world’s fastest poverty reducer.
2. PM Modi hailed the CRPF for recording zero casualties for 12 months in a row, a first in 47 years, calling it “a ZERO that speaks volumes”.
3. Social Justice Minister Dr Virendra Kumar will launch the ‘Vayo Samman Rashtriya Abhiyan’ in New Delhi today, a national campaign under the Atal Vayo Abhyuday Yojana to bring senior citizens and young people closer through a ‘5C’ model: Connect, Converse, Co-create, Contribute and Continue. A ‘Vayo SAATHI’ initiative will enrol volunteers aged 18 and above to care for the elderly.
4. The Road Transport Ministry and the Bihar government signed an MoU under ‘Nadi Sanjivani’ to desilt rivers and water bodies and use the silt in National Highway projects, in the presence of Nitin Gadkari and CM Samrat Choudhary. About 243 lakh cubic metres of silt will go into 16 ongoing projects, and 835 lakh cubic metres are proposed for 27 future projects, helping cut flood risk.
5. The IndiaAI Mission released three home-grown AI models: Soket’s EKA-1, with 26.3 billion parameters, trained on about 7.5 trillion tokens covering all 22 scheduled Indian languages and English; and ZenteiQ’s open-source Dhīr 2B and Dhīr 5B, multilingual assistants supporting English and 10 Indian languages.
6. Ports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said the Centre aims to double the share of coastal and inland waterway shipping in India’s freight from 6% to 12% by 2047 and attract 10 lakh (1 million) sea-cruise passengers by 2029, through a Coastal Cargo Promotion Scheme and the Cruise Bharat Mission. Paradip Port and Odisha will build a ₹1,500-crore Puri International Cruise Terminal.
7. India was re-elected President of the International Solar Alliance for a third straight term at the ISA’s ninth Assembly, with France re-elected co-President. The alliance, co-founded by India and France in 2015, now has 130 signatory and member countries. At the Bharat Renewable Energy Summit, Odisha signed 18 MoUs worth about ₹1.17 lakh crore.
8. NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Ashok Kumar Lahiri launched the India Science and Technology Scoreboard covering 36 States and UTs. Of India’s research papers in 2024-25, Tamil Nadu led with 44,611, followed by Uttar Pradesh (29,298), Maharashtra (28,947), Karnataka (27,970) and Delhi (24,417) — the five together produce nearly 70% of the total.
9. The Health Ministry has proposed amendments to the Drugs Rules, 1945, under which every drug maker must name a qualified person authorised to release each batch, with a set format for the Batch Release Certificate. It has also proposed more authorised entry points for importing drugs, medical devices and cosmetics, including ICDs at Sonipat, Dadri and Whitefield and the Noida International Airport.
10. The Election Commission told all States and UTs that voters who were enrolled earlier but are missing from the SIR draft rolls can file Form 6. This will not be treated as a false declaration under Section 31 of the Representation of the People Act, 1950.
11. TRAI has directed telecom operators and internet providers to run 24-hour complaint centres, which may be handled by AI agents. Under the amended complaint redressal rules, companies face penalties of up to ₹20 lakh per quarter per service area for mishandling complaints, and must submit quarterly performance reports.
12. Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said India will push for solution-oriented and equitable climate action at UNFCCC COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye, from 9 November. Climate finance will be a key priority, and India will work with the G-77 and China, the Like-Minded Developing Countries and BASIC groups.
13. The VELC coronagraph on Aditya-L1, India’s first space-based solar observatory, has shown that solar eruptions expand unevenly by tracking hot solar material moving towards and away from the spacecraft. This can change their speed and direction towards Earth and helps scientists better predict space weather, which affects satellites and communications.
14. Severe cyclonic storm Murasu crossed the coast near Ongole in the early hours of 3 November with winds of 100–110 kmph, gusting to 120 kmph. APSDMA MD Prakhar Jain said at least two people died and 12,230 were still in cyclone shelters; crops on 52,459 hectares, 312 houses and 2,750 power poles were damaged, with a preliminary loss of at least ₹344 crore. Both deaths were in Bapatla district, where walls collapsed in heavy rain.
15. Murasu weakened into a deep depression over coastal Andhra Pradesh on Tuesday night, about 70 km west-southwest of Vijayawada, and IMD expects it to weaken further into a depression by this morning. Home Minister Amit Shah spoke to CM Chandrababu Naidu, who thanked him for sending a central team to assess the damage. A total of 38 NDRF teams have been deployed in five States, including Andhra Pradesh.
16. Delhi recorded its worst air in 287 days on Tuesday, with an AQI of 350 (‘very poor’); 10 of 57 stations were ‘severe’ and Jahangirpuri was worst at 462. GRAP Stage 2 is in force. To encourage public transport, NCRTC will run 20 more Namo Bharat trips on the Delhi–Meerut corridor from today.
17. Eminent neurosurgeon and Padma Shri awardee Prof. Ashok Kumar Mahapatra died at AIIMS, New Delhi, aged 74. The founding Director of AIIMS Bhubaneswar, he led the surgical team that separated the conjoined twins Jaga and Balia in 2017, and also headed SGPGIMS, Lucknow.
18. In the QS World University Rankings: Asia 2027, India remained Asia’s second most represented country with 34 new entries, but all six of its top institutions slipped. IIT Delhi stayed India’s best at 66th (59th last year), Delhi University fell out of the top 100 to 106th, and Chandigarh University reached its best-ever 104th.
19. Union Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri is set to win the Rajya Sabha by-election from Madhya Pradesh unopposed after the nominations of two independents, including Congress-backed Rajkumar Lohani, were rejected. The result will be declared on 5 November; Congress said it will move the Madhya Pradesh High Court.
20. The judicial commission headed by retired Justice N. Ramachandran Nair, which probed the 21 April fireworks blast at Mundathikode near Thrissur that killed at least 16 people, found that about 7,000 kg of explosives were stored at the unit against a limit of 15 kg, and that banned potassium chlorate was used. The report was submitted to Kerala Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala.
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NEW APPOINTMENT
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1. Sudhakar Dalela took charge as India’s Ambassador to Nepal on 3 November, succeeding Naveen Srivastava. A 1993-batch IFS officer, he was Ambassador to Bhutan from 2022 to 2025 and Secretary (Economic Relations) in the MEA from September 2025.
2. Rajesh Kumar, a 1995-batch AGMUT cadre IPS officer serving as Special DG in the CRPF, has been appointed DGP of Arunachal Pradesh by a Home Ministry order of 3 November. He replaces his batchmate Shiv Darshan Singh Jamwal, who has been moved to Delhi.
3. Lt Gen Ajay Ramdev took charge as Commandant of the Army Service Corps (ASC) Centre and College, Bengaluru, on 1 November. An alumnus of RIMC Dehradun, NDA Pune and the Army War College, Mhow, he also serves as Colonel Commandant of the Army Service Corps. After taking charge, he laid wreaths at the ASC War Memorial.
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LEGAL REPORT
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1. The Supreme Court held that a foreign court’s divorce on the ground of irretrievable breakdown of marriage is not valid in India for a couple married under Hindu rites, as the ground is not recognised by Indian law. A Bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Shree Chandrashekhar dismissed a man’s plea to quash a bigamy case.
2. The Supreme Court rejected former Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel’s plea against the High Court’s refusal to frame a preliminary issue in the election petition challenging his 2023 win from Patan. “Let the trial proceed,” the Bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V. Mohana said.
3. The Supreme Court posted the pleas challenging the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025, for hearing on 21 January 2027 and asked all parties to complete pleadings by 31 December. A Bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and P.B. Varale allowed applicants to file writ petitions within two weeks.
4. The Supreme Court asked the Centre for a State-wise summary of the laws and rules governing the selection of DGPs. The Bench of CJI Surya Kant accepted the suggestion of amicus Raju Ramachandran, who said some States had framed rules like Jharkhand’s while claiming to follow the Prakash Singh judgment.
5. The ED attached assets of ₹247.12 crore in the Reliance Communications case and ₹263.05 crore in the RHFL–RCFL case, including two chartered aircraft and two windmills, in bank fraud probes against the Reliance Anil Ambani Group. Its total attachments in these cases now stand at about ₹23,100 crore.
6. The Karnataka High Court said a wife who is well educated and earns enough to support herself cannot claim maintenance just because her husband earns more. Justice Chillakur Sumalatha set aside a Chikkamagaluru family court order directing a Bengaluru engineer to pay ₹20,000 a month to his wife, also an engineer.
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1. In Solukhumbu, Nepal — Indian Killed in Helicopter Collision
Two helicopters of Air Dynasty and Fishtail Air collided while landing at Pheriche helipad near Mount Everest at about 8:12 AM on 3 November. Vasanth Kumar Balaramudu, an Indian passenger from Tamil Nadu, was killed and three others were injured. Nepal’s Civil Aviation Authority has ordered an inquiry.
2. Off Oman — Indian Seafarer Killed as Vessel Struck
The Indian vessel MSV Al Jusufi, carrying 14 Indian crew, was hit by an unidentified aerial object near the coast of Oman on 2 November. Shipping Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said 13 crew members were rescued by the Omani Coast Guard, but Gandhar Nahim Ajij of Gujarat died of his injuries.
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DEFENCE News
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1. In an operation lasting over 48 hours, the Indian Navy freed the hijacked fishing vessel ‘Azini’ from armed pirates off the north-eastern coast of Somalia and rescued all 20 crew safely. Marine Commandos (MARCOS) were airdropped by an IAF C-17. The vessel had been hijacked last month and could have been used as a ‘mother ship’ for more pirate attacks.
2. Chairing the Defence Ministry’s Consultative Committee in Jaisalmer, Rajnath Singh said India aims to reach ₹3 lakh crore in defence production and ₹50,000 crore in defence exports by 2029. The meeting discussed modernisation, jointness, indigenous manufacturing and emerging technologies such as AI and unmanned systems.
3. At the third Delhi Defence Dialogue at MP-IDSA, Rajnath Singh said defence exports rose to ₹38,424 crore in 2025-26 from ₹686 crore in 2013-14. He said Aatmanirbharta means technological sovereignty, so that India’s critical defence needs are “not held hostage to external dependencies”.
4. Navy chief Admiral Krishna Swaminathan called self-reliance a “strategic necessity” and said India needs a Navy that can fight, sustain and adapt without external dependencies. He said self-reliance does not mean isolation, and India should work with friendly countries from a position of strength.
5. The 5th India–US tri-service HADR exercise Tiger Triumph 2026 opened at the Maritime Warfare Centre, Visakhapatnam. Held as a tabletop exercise this year, it focuses on joint planning for large-scale disaster relief; an NDRF team is taking part for the first time.
6. Indian and Indonesian special forces began the 48-hour validation phase of Exercise GARUDA SHAKTI 2026 in East Java, testing endurance, tactical coordination and decision-making in a realistic combat scenario.
7. The 9th High-Level Meeting between the Indian Coast Guard and the Sri Lanka Coast Guard was held at Mirissa, Sri Lanka, led by ICG Director General Paramesh Sivamani and SLCG chief Rear Admiral Ruwan Rupasena. Talks covered marine pollution response, search and rescue, and maritime law enforcement.
FINANCE
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INDIAN RUPEE VALUE
💷 GBP ₹127(Approx)
€ Euro : ₹106(Approx)
USD ₹ 95(Approx)
🇨🇦 Canada :CAD ₹68
🇦🇺 Australia : ₹ 66
🇦🇪 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
76,917.85 +1,225.07 (1.62%)🔺
NIFTY
23,810.85 +370.05 (1.58%)🔺
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Rates in Financial Capital Mumbai
GOLD : ₹ 13,964/ 01gm (24 krt)
SILVER : ₹ 2,00,000/KG
1. The Sensex rose 1,225 points and the Nifty 370 points on Tuesday, their fourth straight gain, led by FMCG, realty and private bank stocks. The rupee rose for a third straight day to close at 94.75 against the US dollar.
2. The RBI simplified foreign exchange reporting for service exports and imports. Individuals exporting services no longer need a separate Export Declaration Form, and banks must report service imports only above ₹10 lakh when the importer is not a resident individual. The changes apply from 1 October 2026.
3. NSE International Exchange in GIFT City has extended trading to 23.5 hours a day, from 3:15 AM to 2:45 AM IST the next day. GIFT Nifty futures now open at 5:15 AM instead of 6:30 AM.
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ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
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1. Ajith’s 64th Film ‘Dare Devil’ Begins
The muhurat of Ajith Kumar’s 64th film, ‘Dare Devil’, directed by Adhik Ravichandran, was held in Chennai on 2 November. His wife Shalini makes her debut as producer under Bravehearts Production; Sreeleela and Unni Mukundan are in the cast, and Anirudh Ravichander is composing the music.
2. Vidya Balan, Saif Ali Khan Reunite After 21 Years
Ritesh Batra, director of ‘The Lunchbox’, has started shooting his Hindi film ‘Long Years Ago’ in Mumbai with Saif Ali Khan, Vidya Balan and French actor-director Mélanie Laurent, who makes her Hindi film debut. Vidya and Saif last worked together in ‘Parineeta’ (2005).
3. Honey Trehan Criticises New CBFC Guidelines
Filmmaker Honey Trehan, director of ‘Satluj’, called the CBFC’s revised guidelines issued on 2 November “cowardness and dictatorship”. The CBFC has said that, except for the anti-drug warning, the core provisions remain unchanged.
4 Nov (Wednesday)
Vedic Ritu/ Sharad
Drik Ritu : Hemant (Prewinter)
पक्ष :: Krishnapaksh
Samvatsara : Parabhava Nama
(Purnimanta)
Vikram Samvat – 2083
Month : Kartika 10
(In Amanta calendar)
Shaka Samvat – 1948
Month : Ashvina 25
Tithi : Dashami (up to 11:03 am)Ekadashi
Nakshatra: Purva Phalguni/
Uttara Phalguni
Rahu : 12:04 PM – 01:27 PM
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