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1.The Orissa High Court Wednesday cancelled the Main Written Examination held July 13, 2025, for recruitment to Assistant Section Offi cer (ASO) posts under Advertisement No. 02/2024.
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2.The Maharashtra government will take over the historical “India House” in London, once the abode of freedom fighters, including VD Savarkar, and preserve it as a memorial, state Cultural Affairs Minister Ashish Shelar said Wednesday.
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3.More than 2.17 crore citizens have been mapped and 3.9 crore enumeration forms distributed as part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls which began a week ago across Gujarat, offi cials said Tuesday.
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4.Taking note of stubble burning leading to further worsening of air quality levels in Delhi-NCR, the Supreme Court Wednesday asked the Punjab and Haryana governments to apprise it about the action taken to control the situation.
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5.Nuapada Assembly constituency has recorded a huge voter turnout as 83.45 per cent of over 2.53 lakh people exercised their franchise during the bypoll held Tuesday, an official said.
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6.Tehsildars have now been empowered to carry out corrections to land records or sale deeds as CM Mohan Charan Majhi has approved an amendment to Odisha Survey and Settlement Rules to address long-standing problems faced by land buyers and sellers.
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7. India needs an estimated $52 billion (about Rs 4.58 lakh crore) annually to address its urban climate adaptation needs effectively, according to a new report.
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8.The Bali Yatra annual trade fair, which began on the occasion of Kartika Purnima November 5 and was supposed to conclude Wednesday (November 12), will now end November 13.
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9.The Centre has approved the purchase of 1,000 electric buses for Pune under the PM E-DRIVE scheme, giving a major push to the city’s public transport network, Union Minister Murlidhar Mohol said.
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10.The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has fi led a plea in the apex court over allegations that female sanitation workers at the Maharashi Dayanand University, Haryana, were asked to prove through pictures of their private parts that they were menstruating.
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11.India accounted for the highest number of TB cases in 2024, followed by Indonesia, the Philippines, China, and Pakistan, said the WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2025, as it called for increased funding to eradicate the disease.
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12.BJP leader Aparajita Sarangi was Wednesday appointed as chairperson of the Joint Committee of Parliament to examine bills to remove the prime minister, chief ministers and Union/state cabinet ministers, if they are arrested or detained for 30 days straight on serious charges.
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13.A Union Cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi upon his return from Bhutan, reaffirmed India's unwavering commitment to a policy of zero tolerance towards terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.
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14.Retail inflation fell to a record low of 0.25 per cent in October following cut in GST rates on nearly 380 items of mass consumption coupled with subdued prices of vegetables, fruits and eggs.
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15.India stalwarts Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma have reportedly been instructed to participate in domestic matches for their respective state teams to stay in the reckoning for ODI team.