Highlights: At COP27, Joe Biden calls for commitment to climate targets amid Ukraine war

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At COP 27, United States President Joe Biden called for collective effort of all the major ’emitting’ nations to fight the impending risks of climate crisis on Friday.

The Punjab government announced on Friday a special holiday for employees who are voters of Himachal Pradesh due to the polling for the assembly election.

The Gross direct tax collections have risen 31 per cent to ₹10.54 lakh crore so far this fiscal, news agency PTI reported citing govt data.

Indian boxer Lovlina Borgohain has won gold in women’s 75 kg division at Asian Championships, reports PTI.

Industrial production has grown 3.1 per cent in September, says government data.

The Russian Defense Ministry said Friday that it finished pulling out its troops from the western bank of the Dnieper River in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region. 

The Supreme Court on Friday extended the protection of the area inside Gyanvapi mosque where a “Shivling” was stated to have been found during the survey…read more.

Vladimir Putin will not be attending G20 due to schedule commitments, says Kremlin.

The Congress on Friday described the Supreme Court’s decision to free the killers of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi as “totally unacceptable”, and “completely erroneous”.

The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday forecasted heavy rainfall over the Southern peninsular region from November 11 to 13.

Supreme Court sets free all six accused serving life imprisonment in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

In an embarrassment for the Bihar government and its Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, JD (U) leader and the party’s national parliamentary board chairman Upendra Kushwaha has said that the liquor ban has been unsuccessful in Bihar and the citizens of the state have to come forward to make it successful.

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Puducherry CM N Rangasamy announces a holiday today for all schools & colleges there, in view of heavy rains.

Australian police on Friday said Russian hackers were behind a cyberattack on a major healthcare company that breached the data of 9.7 million people, including the country’s prime minister.

Australian Federal Police commissioner Reece Kershaw said intelligence indicated a “group of loosely-affiliated cyber criminals” carried out the hack from Russia.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday arrived in the city where he would unveil the 108-feet tall bronze statue of city’s founder ‘Nadaprabhu’ Kempegowda, and inaugurate Terminal 2 of the International Airport here, built at a cost of around ₹5,000 crore.

India reported 842 new Covid cases in last 24 hours. Active cases stand at 12,752.

A member of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terror outfit was killed in an encounter in the Kapren area of the Shopian district in Jammu and Kashmir in the early hours of Friday, said police.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and U.S. President Joe Biden will hold talks in Cambodia on Sunday, Kyodo news agency reported on Friday.

Biden and Kishida are also scheduled for a trilateral meeting with South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on the same day when they are expected to discuss North Korea’s nuclear programme.

The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution Thursday accusing the Taliban of violating the human rights of Afghan women and girls, failing to establish a representative government, and plunging the country into “dire economic, humanitarian and social conditions.”

The U.S. will buy 100,000 rounds of howitzer artillery from South Korean manufacturers to provide to Ukraine, a U.S. official said Thursday, in a deal the two governments have been working on for some time.