✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. Kartarpur Corridor reopens after 20 months, Several pilgrims travelled through the Kartarpur Corridor on 17 Nov (Wednesday) and others made plans to offer prayers at the historic Sikh shrine in Pakistan as the route reopened after a 20-month gap.
2. The first batch of 28 Indian Sikhs, including women, arrived at the revered Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib in Pakistan on Wednesday by using visa-free corridor, some 20 months after the pilgrimage was suspended in March 2020 following the Covid-19 outbreak.
3. Pakistan enacts law to allow Kulbhushan challenge his conviction.
Pakistan’s Parliament in its joint sitting on Wednesday enacted a law to give Indian death-row prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav the right to file a review appeal against his conviction by a military court.
Jadhav, a 51-year-old retired Indian Navy officer, was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of espionage and terrorism in April 2017.
4. INDIA, CHINA to hold Working Mechanism for Consultation & Coordination meeting on Nov 18. The last meeting between Indian and Chinese army generals on the Line of Actual Control being inconclusive, the two countries are going into a Working Mechanism for Consultation & Coordination or WMCC meeting on 18 November at around 11:30 am.
5. Maldives condemns ‘India Out’ campaign, calls India its ‘closest ally’ : The Maldives government on Wednesday strongly rejected attempts to spread what it called “false information” using the ‘India Out’ slogan which alleges that bilateral cooperation between the 2 governments undermines Maldives’ national security and sovereignty. The “false allegations” are “misguided and unsubstantiated”, the statement said. The Maldives government called India its “closest ally”.
🌎WORLD NEWS🌍
1. Pakistan’s parliament on Wednesday passed a law allowing electronic vote counting despite furious protests from the opposition which said it had been pushed through by the government to rig the next election.
2. Gulf Arab navies and Israeli warships have conducted their first joint military exercise in coordination with the United States Naval Forces. The five-day drill in the Red Sea included naval vessels from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Israel and the US. The maritime drill began on 10 Nov and engaged in several exercises, including boarding, search and seizure tactics helping to ensure freedom of navigation aboard the USS Portland transport dock ship.
3. Two explosions hit the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least one person and wounding at least six, including three women.
4. The Resistance Front (TRF) commander Afaq Sikander was among four terrorists killed on 17 Nov (Wednesday) in twin encounters with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kulgam district.
5. Mobile lines in Sudan were cut on Wednesday as people gathered in the capital Khartoum and other cities to protest against the military establishment in the country, witnesses claimed. Thousands were seen marching in the cities with security forces using tear gas to disperse the crowd. The protesters have urged a complete handover of power to civilian authorities.
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