1. Last date for submission of applications for the National Means cum Merit Scholarship Scheme (NMMSS) for the year 2022-23 has been extended till 30th of this month. The Education Ministry said, under the scheme, scholarships are awarded to meritorious students of economically weaker sections to stop their drop out at class 8th level and encourage them to continue their education. The amount of scholarship is 12 thousand rupees per annum.
2. Minister of State for Education Dr Subhas Sarkar has said that the government is committed to transforming India into a global education hub and attracting international students.
3. National Commission for Women Launched the fourth phase of the Digital Shakti Campaign, a pan-India project Digital Shakti 4.0 on digitally empowering and skilling women and girls in cyberspace.
4. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a plea challenging the collegium system for judicial appointments in the apex court and the high courts.
5. PM Modi will deliver the inaugural address at the third ‘No Money for Terror’ Ministerial Conference on Counter-Terrorism Financing in New Delhi on Friday.
6. Chemicals and Petrochemicals Secretary Arun Baroka inaugurated 4th edition of Indian Chemicals Council, ICC Sustainability Conclave in New Delhi on Thursday.
7. Mahatma Gandhi’s great-grandson Tushar Gandhi (62 years) has said that he would join Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra on Friday in Maharashtra’s Shegaon. He shared a picture of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru on Facebook.
8. Assam, Mizoram govts hold talks over interstate border dispute issue.
9.GUJARAT : Filing of nominations for second phase of Gujarat assembly elections ends; scrutiny on Friday.
10. HARYANA government has declared a public holiday on November 22 and 25 in Faridabad, Palwal, Fatehabad and Hisar districts due to panchayat polls.
11.J&K: State government issued final notices to 586 entities on Thursday for cancellation of the land allotted to them under the state’s ‘industrial development scheme’.
12. Former Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray paid tributes to his father and Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray at his memorial at Mumbai’s Shivaji Park on his death anniversary on Thursday.
14 MIZORAM : The three-day long International Tourism Mart (ITM) will begin in Mizoram this evening. Union Minister for Tourism, Culture and Development of North East Region (DoNER) G. Kishan Reddy.
15. PUNJAB : NHRC has issued notice to Punjab government over reported lack of proper access to education facilities for children in the Sutlej surrounded border areas of Ferozpur district. The National Human Rights Commission of India is a statutory public body constituted on 12 October 1993.
16. President Droupadi Murmu has expressed grief over the demise of former diplomat, author and Chairman of Institute of Odia Studies & Research Abasar Beuria.
17. WEST BENGAL : Dr C V Ananda Bose has been appointed as the Governor of West Bengal.
18. TELANGANA state government will relaunch the Kanti Velugu scheme from eye health from January 18 across the state. The scheme includes free eye check-up, surgery and distribution spectacles as needed to beneficiaries, free.
19. The government on Thursday extended the tenure of Enforcement Directorate Director Sanjay Kumar Mishra by one year. The extension comes a day before his retirement. The Centre had earlier extended his tenure till November 18, 2022. This is the third extension for Mishra as the director of the federal agency.
20. Former Chief Economic Advisor, Arvind Virmani has been appointed as a full time member of NITI Aayog.
21. A low pressure area formed over southeast Bay of Bengal and adjoining north Andaman Sea on Thursday under the influence of a cyclonic circulation over the south Andaman Sea and its neighborhood.
22. Alleging breach of assurance by the Centre on farmers’ pending demands, the Samyukta Kisan Morcha to stage nationwide stir on Nov. 26.
CRIME REPORT
1. Enforcement Directorate quizzes Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren and his wife Kalpana Soren at Ranchi in alleged money laundering case in Sahebganj.
2. In Telangana, Five students of Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT), also known as IIIT Basar, have been booked for allegedly ragging three juniors at the institute’s hostel in Telangana’s Nirmal district. They allegedly beat up three students of Pre-University Course-I.
3. Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan’s name was removed from the electoral roll in Rampur, weeks after he was convicted in a 2019 hate speech case.
4. Madras High Court on Thursday said a petition seeking a CBI probe into late Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa’s death at a private hospital in Chennai in 2016 was not maintainable. The court was hearing a petition from social activist RR Gopaljee.
5. 38 Indian nationals who were victims of job offers from ‘transnational crime syndicates’ in Myanmar 🇲🇲.
6. A Varanasi court on Thursday rejected Gyanvapi Masjid committee’s objection to a petition seeking the right to worship the ‘shivling’ claimed to have been found in the mosque complex and fixed December 2 as the next date of hearing in the case.
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1. Minister of State for Finance for Finance Bhagwat Karad presents 8th FICCI higher education excellence Awards 2022. He also emphasises the significance of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, a programme for financial inclusion, and claimed that , it was a big success for the government because under the scheme more than 47 crore accounts were opened.
2. A Session on Financial Action Task Force and India’s Priorities in G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group, ACWG was organised by Department of Revenue in New Delhi on 17 Nov. It came on the eve of 3rd “No Money For Terror” Ministerial Conference on Counter-Terrorism Financing.
3. Tata Group is considering a plan to integrate its four airline brands under Air India, as per reports. The group plans to merge Air India with full-service carrier Vistara, along with budget carriers Air India Express and AirAsia India.
4. The launch of 5G services will strengthen India’s position as an economic and technology powerhouse globally and is expected to boost 2% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), amounting to approximately $180 billion by 2030, according to a new report by industry body Nasscom.
5. India has emerged as the second-largest producer of crude steel by replacing Japan. The biggest steel producing country is currently China, which accounted for 57% of world steel production.
6. Hyderabad, Chennai and New Delhi, have emerged as three of the top data centre markets in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region.
7. El Salvador President Nayib Bukele took to Twitter to announce that the country will start buying one Bitcoin a day starting Friday, November 18. El Salvador became the first country to use Bitcoin as legal tender in June last year.
ENTERTAINMENT
Ajay Devgn and Shriya Saran-starrer ‘Drishyam 2’ has collected ₹3 crore in advance booking after selling around 1.25 lakh tickets by Thursday afternoon. The film will be a sequel to Ajay’s 2015 film ‘Drishyam’, which was directed by late filmmaker Nishikant Kamat.
DEFENCE
1. Army Chief General Manoj Pande who is on a four-day visit to France, received a Guard of Honour at the Les Invalides in Paris yesterday.
2. Army organized an Ex-Servicemen Rally at Shalateng Garrison on 17 Nov. The Rally attracted over 300 ex-servicemen and their dependents from North Kashmir area.
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of India’s definitive victory over Pakistan in the 1971 war, the Ex-Servicemen’s rally kicked off with wreath laying ceremony at the War Memorial, paying respects to our brave soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty.
3. Ahir regiment protest to be held in Gurugram on 18 Nov today, by the members of the Ahir community near the Kherki Daula toll plaza in Gurugra. They are demanding a separate regiment in the Indian Army. Like Punjab Regiment, JAT Regiment, MARATHA Regiment etc.
4. Army has deployed new landing docks and speed boats for patrolling on the Pangong Tso Lake in Eastern Ladakh matching the Chinese deployments on the lake located close to 14,000 feet.This is part of an overall capability enhancement and infrastructure.
5. Indian Army is making a large number of ponds to get fresh drinking water for the troops even in freezing winters.
6. INS Trikand participated in the Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) led Focused Operation “Sea Sword 2” in the Northwest Arabian Sea to counter terrorism, prevent narcotics trade and stop smuggling entities from using the seas for their nefarious activities.The Operation “Sea Sword 2” was held from November 6-14, 2022.
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