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• The US has sanctioned two Turkish ministries and three senior government officials in response to the country's military offensive in northern Syria.


• President Donald Trump also phoned his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to demand an immediate truce, Vice-President Mike Pence said.


• Mr. Pence said he would travel to the region "as quickly as possible".

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• Ecuador began counting the cost Monday of 12 days of indigenous protests against fuel hikes that left eight demonstrators dead and severely dented President Lenin Moreno's austerity program.


• Moreno and indigenous leaders reached an agreement after the president pledged to withdraw subsidy cuts, known as Decree 883, that had more than doubled fuel prices.


• The cuts were part of an austerity package to obtain a $4.2 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to shore up the oil exporter's brittle economy.

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• Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg confirmed reports that he had hosted a series of dinners with right-wing figures, as the social media platform stands accused of stifling conservative voices.


• Zuckerberg held small, off-the-record dinners with journalists, commentators and at least one Republican lawmaker to talk about free speech, partnerships and other issues, the Politico news website said.

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• The United States slapped sanctions on Turkey as it demanded an end to its deadly incursion against Syrian Kurdish fighters, accusing its NATO partner of putting civilians at risk and allowing the release of ISIS extremists.


• The actions came hours after regime troops returned for the first time in years to parts of northeastern Syria, invited by Kurdish fighters desperate for protection as the United States pulls out.


• President Donald Trump took extraordinary measures against a country that is officially a US ally as he faces mounting criticism at home, where even usually supportive lawmakers accuse him of abandoning Kurds who had spearheaded the fight against the ISIS group.

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• As Facebook readies to launch its answer to bitcoin, China is set to introduce its own digital currency one that could allow the government and the central bank to see what people spend their money on, according to analysts.


• Far from the libertarian ideals of cryptocurrencies, whose anonymity allows users to buy and sell without leaving a digital trail, China's mooted e-cash system will be tightly regulated, experts say, and run by the People's Bank of China, the central bank.

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• Pakistan is on the verge of strong action by the international terror financing watchdog FATF and the country may be put in the ''Dark Grey'' list, the last warning to improve.


• Officials attending the ongoing plenary of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) said as per indications, Pakistan will be isolated by all members for not doing enough.

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• Osmanabad Zilla Parishad school postponed its first-term examination paper for Chemistry to apparently due to a public meeting organised by the district unit of Shiv Sena for party chief Uddhav Thackeray.


• Sources said that the compound wall of the school was broken down for Mr. Thackeray's rally, which was held on the ZP Girls High School ground.

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• Nepal and China have agreed to jointly re-measure the height of Mount Everest, amidst reports that the world's highest peak may have shrunk after the massive earthquake that shook the Himalayan nation in 2015.


• Many geologists have argued that the magnitude 7.6 earthquake that jolted Nepal on April 2015 may have shrunk the mountain by about three centimetres, while the current officially recognized height of Mount Everest is 8,848 metres.

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• The Rajasthan government decided to withdraw the allowances being given to those detained under MISA (Maintenance of Internal Security Act) during the Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi, saying they were not freedom fighters.


• At a meeting of the state cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, the government also reversed its decision to hold the direct election for the posts of mayors and chairpersons in corporations and municipalities.

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• Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address an election rally in support of Bharatiya Janata Party candidates in Kurukshetra. This will be Modi’s second rally in the poll-bound Haryana in two consecutive days.


• Preparations were in full swing at Kurukshetra’s theme park, the venue of the rally. Several officials of the Kurukshetra district administration were camped at the site.

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• BJP president Amit Shah said on Monday that he will make way for a new leader to head the saffron party when its organisational elections are over by the end of this year.


• Shah, who is also the Union home minister, said a new party president is expected to take charge by December.

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• GATE 2020 form correction process begins today. The form correction window is only for minor corrections like name, father's name, college name etc.


• Candidates requesting correction will not be allowed to change entries such as qualifying exam details at this stage.


• Candidates who wish to request a change in their examination city will have to submit their request by November 15 with an additional fee.

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• NCERT, in its preschool curriculum, advocates teaching in mother tongue for preschoolers. Council cites research which say children who attend preschool programmes in their mother tongue face fewer problems in comprehension.


• In case of areas where more than one language is spoken, NCERT says that teachers can use more than one language as medium of instruction.

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• The National Eligibility Test (NET) for determining the eligibility for lectureship in state agricultural universities and other agricultural universities under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) will be held from December 9 to December 15.


• Online registration for the exam will begin today. The ICAR NET will be conducted by the Agricultural Scientists Recruitment Board (ASRB).


• Apply Online (Direct link will be generated after 11 am)

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• Online registration process for Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)'s admin and allied cadre recruitment will close today.


• Candidates can apply at the official website drdo.gov.in. A total of 224 vacancies will be filled by the DRDO in this recruitment.


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• Candidates have to pay Rs. 100 as the application fee. All women and SC/ ST/ PWD/ ESM candidates are exempted from payment of application fee.

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• The Department of Business Administration (DBA), Faculty of Management Studies and Research (FMSR), Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), organized the inaugural ceremony of MBA- Islamic Banking and Finance last week.


• MBA- Islamic Banking and Finance has been introduced in the Department of Business Administration as a full-time two-year course.


• "A big portion of the society is left out of the banking system and Islamic Finance will be the answer to that problem in our economy," said Prof.

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• Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday urged the Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das to try and expedite payments to “genuinely suffering” customers of the crisis-ridden PMC Bank.


• “Even this afternoon, I had a word with the RBI Governor on the PMC Bank matter. He has assured me that he will keep the interests of the customers in mind and at the earliest try to resolve it,” Sitharaman told presspersons after her review meeting with the chief executives of public sector banks (PSBs) here.

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• The Reserve Bank of India has imposed a monetary penalty of ₹1 crore on Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB) and ₹75 lakh on Syndicate Bank.


• In the case of LVB, the RBI said the penalty has been imposed for non-compliance with certain provisions of directions issued by it on ‘Income Recognition and Asset Classification (IRAC) norms’.

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• Public sector banks (PSBs) alone have disbursed Rs 81,781 crore in the first phase of the outreach programme between October 1-9, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said.


• Of this, as much as Rs 34,342 crore has gone to new entrepreneurs, Sitharaman told a press conference after a review meeting with chief executives of PSBs in the capital.

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• France drew 1-1 with Turkey in Euro 2020 qualifying on Monday in a match played against a backdrop of diplomatic and security tensions after Paris condemned Ankara for its military offensive against Kurdish forces in Syria.


• Substitute Olivier Giroud headed in from a corner to put France ahead on 76 minutes at the Stade de France but Kaan Ayhan nodded in an equaliser six minutes later a goal celebrated by a military salute in front of the Turkish supporters.

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• Ukraine beat Portugal 2-1 to clinch a place at Euro 2020 despite Cristiano Ronaldo scoring his 700th career goal.


• Roman Yaremchuk and Andriy Yarmolenko put Ukraine two goals up after 27 minutes. Although Ronaldo scored his landmark goal from the penalty spot in the 72nd minute and Taras Stepanenko was sent off, Ukraine held on to secure first place in Group B.

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• The four winners from India, include one from Ahmedabad -- Award of Distinction for Vikram Sarabhai Library, Indian Institute of Management (IIM); and three from Mumbai -- Award of Merit for Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue and Our Lady of Glory Church; while Honourable Mention for Flora Fountain.


• Mumbai's iconic 155-year-old Flora Fountain and two other heritage landmarks in the country's financial capital are among the four sites that have been chosen from India for the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation announced.


• The fountain, a veritable symbol of Mumbai was opened to the public early this year after painstaking restoration.


• The UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation awards were announced at a ceremony held in Penang, Malaysia, marking 20 years since its institution

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• Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo have been named the joint winners of the 2019 Booker Prize after the judges broke their rules by declaring a tie.


• Atwood's The Testaments, the Canadian writer's follow-up to The Handmaid's Tale, was recognized alongside Londoner Evaristo's novel Girl, Woman, Other.


• The pair will split the literary award's £50,000 prize money equally.


• The Booker rules say the prize must not be divided, but the judges insisted they "couldn't separate" the two works.

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• Renowned Malayalam and Hindi film director and producer Priyadarshan was awarded Madhya Pradesh (MP) government’s National Kishore Kumar Samman for 2018-19 at a function in Khandwa, MP.


• The award is instituted by MP’s Department of Culture and is given for excellence in cinematic achievements.

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• According to the Edelgive Hurun India Philanthropy List 2019 which was released on October 14, 2019 by Hurun India, HCL (Hindustan Computer Limited) Technologies Chairman Shiv Nadar emerged as India’s most generous philanthropists who contributed Rs 826 crore during the financial year 2018-19 (FY19).


• The cut-off rate to reach top 100 in the philanthropic list was increased by 130% and most spending by the philanthropists focused on education and health.