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• Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said that Emmanuel Macron's warning that NATO was dying reflects a "sick and shallow" understanding, telling the French president "you should check whether you are brain dead".


• The comments drew a swift rebuke from the French foreign ministry, which summoned Turkey's ambassador to Paris to protest over what a French presidential adviser called "insults".


• Erdogan was speaking days ahead of a summit of the military alliance, which Macron has said is experiencing "brain death" because of U.S. unpredictability under President Donald Trump and strained ties with Turkey.

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• A U.S. congressional panel gave President Donald Trump a deadline in one week to say whether his legal counsel intends to introduce evidence and call witnesses in upcoming impeachment proceedings that could lead to formal charges of misconduct within a few weeks.


• The Democratic-led House Judiciary Committee, which is due to begin weighing possible articles of impeachment against Trump next week, sent a two-page letter to the president setting a deadline of 5 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT) on Dec. 6 for the president's counsel to specify intended actions under the committee's impeachment procedures.

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• Danica Martinez, 16, grew up in a house that grows taller every few years.


• Her father raises the stilts of their bamboo hut so water from the sea doesn't reach the floor. They live in Sitio Pariahan, a coastal village in the Philippines that was once an island, and is now without land.


• Sitio Pariahan, about 17 km (10.5 miles) north of Manila, is sinking about 4 cm (1.5 inches) every year, owing largely to land subsidence from the population's overuse of groundwater, according to experts.

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• A journalist with Chinese state broadcaster CCTV was convicted of slapping an activist with Britain's governing Conservative Party during a debate over Hong Kong.


• Linlin Kong, 49, was given a suspended sentence for assaulting Enoch Lieu at a fringe meeting at the Conservatives' annual conference in Birmingham, central England, in September 2018.


• She shouted at human rights activists on the panel that they were "trying to separate China" and when Lieu asked her to leave, she slapped him, the city's magistrates court heard.

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• Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa assured Prime Minister Narendra Modi that India will remain a “top priority” and no “third force” will hamper bilateral cooperation, people familiar with their discussions said, even as New Delhi announced fresh aid worth $450 million for Colombo.


• Rajapaksa’s decision to visit New Delhi just 10 days after becoming president is significant in view of the intense competition between India and China in the Indian Ocean region. India had dispatched external affairs minister S Jaishankar to Sri Lanka within a day of Rajapaksa assuming office to invite him for a visit.

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• The late justice Sunanda Bhandare was one of the earliest feminist voices in the legal fraternity, legal scholar and former Delhi University vice-chancellor Upendra Baxi said on Friday, delivering the 25th Justice Sunanda Bhandare lecture.


• Referring to justice Bhandare’s pioneering role, first as a lawyer and subsequently as a judge, in the sphere of women’s rights, Baxi said the lecture series lasting into its 25th edition was an achievement.

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• The Supreme Court observed that there can be no restrictions on alliances between political parties in a democracy as it dismissed a petition by the Hindu Mahasabha challenging the post-poll alliance in Maharashtra between the Shiv Sena, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Congress.


• The petition was dismissed a day after Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray became the chief minister of Maharashtra with support from the NCP and the Congress, ending over a month of political uncertainty in the state where assembly elections on October 21 produced a hung house in which no single party had a majority on its own.

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• The controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, or CAB, which proposes to provide Indian citizenship to members of religious minorities from Muslim-dominated Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, is likely to be placed before Parliament next week, senior government officials aware of the development said.


• In a related development, Union home minister Amit Shah is holding a series of meetings with chief ministers of northeastern states and leaders of social and cultural bodies, students’ organizations and political parties starting on plans to amend the Citizenship Act, officials in the home ministry said on condition of anonymity.

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• India and Japan are expected to explore ways to strengthen security cooperation during their first foreign and defence ministerial dialogue in New Delhi on November 30 to give greater depth to their special strategic partnership.


• The 2+2 dialogue, which has been held at the level of officials since 2010, will also prepare the grounds for the visit next month of Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for the annual summit with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi. The two premiers are expected to meet in Guwahati in the middle of December.


• Modi and Abe had decided to elevate the 2+2 dialogue to the ministerial level during their last annual summit in Japan in October 2018. India has such a dialogue only with Japan and the US.

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• The Union government announced that the December 1 deadline for all toll collection centres of its highways to switch to a cashless “FASTag” system will be pushed back by a fortnight, a decision meant to ease a transition that officials predict will come with significant teething troubles.


• A FASTag, a radio frequency identification (RFID) device, will be required by all vehicles passing through the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI)-run highways from December 15.


• Commuters will, for now, have the option to pay cash, but that will be done through only one lane and the charges will be double.

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• The National Investigation Agency on Friday arrested Sumitra Punem, a Maoist commander involved in the May 2013 attack on the convoy of Congress leaders and workers in Chhattisgarh’s Darbha Valley, in which 27 people were killed including Mahendra Karma.


• Punam, NIA said, is a Local Organisation Squad (LOS) commander and was a team member of the Darbha Division Committee of CPI (Maoist) formation in Chhattisgarh, which executed the deadly attack. 26 more Maoists are still wanted in the case.


• About 100-150 cadres of Maoists had targeted the convoy of Parivartan Yatra of the Congress Party in Jheeram Ghati in Darbha on May 25, 2013, with bombs, indiscriminate firing, and grenades as part of the organization’s Tactical Counter Offensive Campaign (TCOC).

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• Andhra Pradesh government has planned to set up a skill development university in the state to incorporate world-class technologies to match with industrial needs, State Skill Development Corporation officials said.


• Moreover, as many as 25 skill development centres will also be set up in the state, one centre each in every parliamentary constituency.


• According to the officials of Andhra Pradesh State Skill Development Corporation (APSSDC), the corporation authorities have visited varsities like Viswakarma University, Bharatiya Skill Development University, Centurian University, Teamlease Skill University, etc to study the modalities to be adopted for the proposed university.

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• Calcutta University has declared the B Com Part 2 results, November 28, 2019. Students who have appeared in the examination can check their results online at wbresults.nic.in.


• The result for both Honours and General has been released.

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• India’s economy grew 4.5% in the July-September quarter (the second quarter of fiscal 2019-20), the slowest pace of expansion since March 2013, hurt by inadequate revival in consumption and stagnant investment, with only strong government spending preventing an even steeper slowdown.


• The latest numbers mark the longest continuous deceleration in gross domestic product (GDP) growth, which has been slowing for six straight quarters.


• Top officials of the finance ministry said the worst was over and the economy will grow faster in the last two quarters of the current financial year, although high-frequency indicators and anecdotal accounts are yet to reflect this.

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• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said it has filed an application to begin bankruptcy proceedings against Dewan Housing Finance Corporation (DHFL).


• The housing finance company owes its creditors, which include mutual funds, banks, pension funds, insurance firms and retail investors, nearly ₹1 lakh crore. The RBI superseded DHFL's board earlier this month and appointed an administrator.

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• Steve Smith became the fastest man to score 7,000 Test runs, shattering a record that had stood since 1946, while moving past Donald Bradman to become Australia's 11th highest scorer.


• The 30-year-old took a single off Muhammad Musa during the second Test against Pakistan in Adelaide to reach the milestone and take possession of a record held for 73 years by English great Wally Hammond.


• Hammond reached the mark in 131 innings, while Smith, who played his first Test nine years ago, made the grade in his 126th.

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• Aruthless India raced to a 2-0 lead in their Davis Cup tie for the loss of just two games as Ramkumar Ramanathan and Sumit Nagal toyed with their teen rivals from Pakistan.


• In a mismatch of epic proportions, Ramkumar double-bageled 17-year-old Muhammed Shoaib in just 42 minutes in the opening singles.

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• Unai Emery said it had been an "honour" to coach Arsenal despite being sacked as manager of the Premier League club after just 18 months in charge.


• The 48-year-old Spaniard was fired following the 2-1 home defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt in Europa League match, which extended their winless run to seven games.


• Assistant Freddie Ljungberg has taken over as interim manager with ex-Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri and Wolves boss Nuno Espirito Santo among the early favourites to be named the next full-time boss.

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• The first-ever TVR Shenoy award for excellence in parliamentary journalism has been given to veteran journalist and political analyst Vinod Sharma, who is currently political editor, Hindustan Times.


• The award comprises a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh and citation. The award was presented to Sharma by vice-president M Venkaiah Naidu at a function held at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Conference Hall at the vice-president’s residence.


• Former Union defence minister and Kerala chief minister AK Antony delivered the commemorative address.

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• Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan has congratulated his former co-star Usha Jadhav who bagged the Silver Peacock Award for Best Female Actor at the 2019 International Film Festival of India for her film Mai Ghat: Crime No 103/2005.


• Big B took to his Twitter to pen a heart-warming message for the actor who had worked with him in his 2014 release Bhoothnath Returns.


• Usha Jadhav for winning Best Actor Award at the IFFI just concluded in GOA Proud of you and an honor to have worked with you in Bhootnath Returns.

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• Aday after more than 40 protesters were killed by security forces, Iraq's prime minister announced that he would submit his resignation to parliament, a step that carried uncertainty for the entire government and stirred fears of a possible political crisis.


• The move by Adel Abdul-Mahdi came 13 months after he took office and followed calls by Iraq's top Shiite cleric for lawmakers to withdraw support. At least four protesters were killed in the hours after the announcement in continuing violence in Baghdad and southern Iraq.