News Snippets

  • Supreme Court refused an urgent hearing against rising airfares and advised people not to fly if fares were high
  • Nationalist Congress Party spokesperson Umesh Patil rejected reports of internal differences after six senior party leaders met Amit Shah, saying Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and party president Sunetra Pawar had herself facilitated the meeting and had not been sidelined. Sunetra also called a meeting of all NCP legislators at her Mumbai residence amid speculation over the party's internal leadership arrangements
  • The Supreme Court dismissed the Centre's appeal against enforcement of two foreign arbitration awards in favour of Vedanta and Ravva Oil (Singapore), involving claims of approximately $99 million. Questioning the government's prolonged resistance to the awards, the court warned that such conduct could undermine confidence in India's arbitration framework
  • Actor Imran Khan, a US citizen holding Overseas Citizen of India status, tendered an unconditional apology before the Bombay High Court and undertook not to participate in future protests after his alleged involvement in an anti-SIR demonstration. The court kept the FRRO's Leave India notice in abeyance until December 7, pending a decision by the authorities after giving him an opportunity to respond
  • A Delhi court granted the CBI two days of transit remand of Sourabh Chandrakar, promoter of the Mahadev online betting syndicate, following his extradition from Oman. He is wanted in two CBI cases and a separate Enforcement Directorate investigation and is to be produced before a special CBI court in Raipur
  • Severe Cyclonic Storm Murasu was approaching the south Andhra Pradesh coast, with the IMD forecasting landfall between Nellore and Narsapur from around 11:30 pm on Monday to the early hours of Tuesday. Winds of 100–110 kmph, gusting to 120 kmph, and storm surges of up to 1.5 metres were forecast, prompting evacuations and deployment of disaster-response teams
  • SEBI has recommended that the government abolish long-term capital gains tax on foreign equity investors and exempt domestic mutual fund investors from tax when switching holdings held for more than a year. The proposals form part of confidential, non-binding pre-Budget recommendations and would require government approval; the regulator has cited declining foreign investment and high transaction costs among its concerns
  • The rupee closed almost unchanged at ₹94.90 against the US dollar on Monday, surrendering its early gains despite a decline of more than 4% in Brent crude prices and a weaker dollar index
  • The Sensex surged 1,233.25 points, or 1.66%, to close at 75,692.78 on Monday, while the Nifty 50 gained 387.71 points, or 1.68%, to settle at 23,440.80, taking both benchmarks to their highest levels in nearly two months. Reliance Industries jumped 11.6% following stronger-than-expected quarterly earnings, while the Nifty Midcap 100 and Smallcap 100 advanced 1.2% and 0.7%, respectively.
  • The BCCI announced a 15-member India A squad for the ACC Men's Rising Stars Asia Cup, to be held in Doha from November 19 to 29, with Tilak Varma appointed captain and Rajat Patidar vice-captain. Abhishek Sharma, Rinku Singh, 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and Harsh Dubey are among those selected, with India A scheduled to face Pakistan A on November 22.
  • India A versus New Zealand A - New Zealand score 424 to get a first innings lead of 78 runs. Md Siraj took 4/118 and Mukesh Kumar took 5/87. India were 32 without loss in their second innings
  • Ranji Trophy: Services were all out for 266 against Delhi while Gujarat reached 300 for 5 against Kerala
  • Ranji Trophy: Bengal bowled out for 143 but Md Shami strikes back for them to reduce Maharashtra to 21 for 2 at the ned of a truncated days play
  • ACT Hockey - India thrash South Korea 8-0 to top the group with 5 wins
  • The Supreme Court directed the Election Commission to investigate alleged irregularities in bulk Form 7 applications during Uttar Pradesh's Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, take corrective steps and submit a compliance report. The Commission's counsel told the court that its officers had found the bulk applications false and had not acted on them
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