1.Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to undertake a threeday visit to the state from November 29 to attend an all-India conference of Director Generals of Police and Inspector Generals of Police in Bhubaneswar.

2.The Council for the Indian School Certifi cate Examinations (CISCE) Monday released the schedule for ICSE (Class X) and ISC (Class XII) examinations.

3.The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Monday took a host of decisions to provide the citizens state-of-the-art amenities including installation of solar-powered water kiosks on major thoroughfares and construction of permanent sheds at key intersections in the City.

4.According to a report released by the Kerala State Commission for the Protection of Child Rights recently, 21 per cent of such cases were reported at children’s homes, and 4 per cent in schools.

5.AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal Monday announced that an additional 80,000 people in Delhi are now eligible for old-age pensions, bringing the total number of benefi ciaries to 5.3 lakh.

6.The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) seized a vessel with six Myanmarese crew carrying 6,000 kg of contraband Methamphetamine near Andaman and Nicobar Islands, an offi cial said Monday. The drugs were found packed in around 3,000 packets of 2 kg each, which are worth several crores of rupees in the international market.

7.The single-day coal despatch from commercial mines was the highest ever at 0.617 million tonne Sunday, a coal ministry statement said. “This represents a remarkable 36 per cent growth compared to the despatch of 0.453 MT on the same day last year.

8.French energy giant Total Energies SE Monday said it was not aware of the corruption investigation its partner Adani group’s founder chairman was facing in the US and that it is pausing fresh investments in the conglomerate pending the outcome of the charges.

9.India’s domestic air passenger traffic grew 5.3 per cent to 1.36 crore in October from 1.26 crore in the same month last year, aviation regulator DGCA’s monthly data showed Tuesday.

10.Preliminary results from an Iraqi national census, the fi rst in nearly 40 years, show that the population has grown to 45.4 million, the Prime Minister said Monday.

11.SP MP Zia-ur-Rehman Barq, party MLA Iqbal Mehmood’s son Sohail Iqbal booked, and 25 people arrested.

12.Policeman killed, 70 injured as former PM Imran Khan’s supporters clash with cops.

13.Seventy-one tigers died due to unnatural causes, including poaching and seizures, since 2021, the Environment Ministry said Monday.

14.Bihar’s Vaibhav Suryavanshi became the youngest-ever player to be signed by an IPL franchise at 13 years as Rajasthan Royals bought the prodigy for Rs 1.10 crore in the mega auction here Monday.

15.Jasprit Bumrah led a feisty bunch of Indian cricketers to their most dominant Test victory on Australian soil, winning by a massive 295 runs in a remarkable turnaround that will fi nd a pride of place among the country’s golden moments in international cricket.