Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: November 2, 2023

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Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for November 2, 2023

Kozhikode And Gwalior have been declared Creative Cities of Literature and Music By UNESCO.
UPSC tightens norms for Director General of Police (DGP) appointments.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina jointly inaugurated key rail link between Tripura’s Nischintapur and Gangasagar, 65-km Khulna-Mongla Port Rail Line, and Unit 2 of the Maitree Super Thermal Power Plant in Bangladesh’s Rampal.
A leopard, which had been wandering in Bengaluru, succumbed to injuries it sustained from a gunshot fired by Forest Department personnel.
IRDAI constitutes taskforce to review existing Bancassurance framework.
India and Sri Lanka re-launch negotiations of the Economic and Technology Cooperation Agreement (ETCA).

October gross GST collections climb to ₹1.72 lakh crore, rising at a 10-month high pace of 13.4%.
Record number of over 7.85 cr Income Tax returns were filed till October 31: CBDT data.
India’s UPI transactions scale new high in October; clock Rs 17.2 trillion in value.
RBI appoints Manoranjan Mishra as Executive Director effective from November 1.

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s daughter, Saima Wazed, was elected Regional Director of the World Health Organization’s South-East Asia region.
Indian-born author Nandini Das has been named the winner of the 2023 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding.
Politicians and tech leaders gathered in the U.K. for the first Artificial Intelligence (AI) Safety Summit.
Iran urges Muslim countries to halt trade with Israel; Bolivia cuts ties with Israel.