Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: November 18, 2023

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Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for November 18, 2023

Voter turnout crosses 74% in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh elections.
Punjab and Haryana High Court quashed the Haryana government’s law guaranteeing 75% reservation for local people in private sector jobs in the State.
Rescue work to reach the 40 trapped workers in the Uttarkashi tunnel has been halted due to a technical snag in the drilling machine.
Senior IPS officer Alok Sharma was appointed Director of the Special Protection Group (SPG).
WHO and the Ministry of Ayush signed the Traditional and Complementary Medicine ‘Project Collaboration Agreement’.
India conducted the second edition of the Voice of Global South Summit (VOGSS) in a virtual format.

Government approves 27 manufacturers under Production Linked Incentive scheme (PLI) Scheme – 2.0 For IT Hardware.
UCO Bank says it recovered about 79% of the money that was erroneously credited to some of its accounts via the Immediate Payment Service (IMPS).
India’s market for technical textiles is targeted to touch USD 40 billion by 2030 from the current USD 23 billion: Ministry of Textiles.

‘Hallucinate’ is the Cambridge Dictionary’s Word of the Year for 2023.
In 2022, an estimated 11 lakh children in India missed their vital first dose of the measles vaccine: CDC-WHO Report.
The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter mission by the European Space Agency (ESA), observed a luminous Martian night sky in the optical spectrum.
NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment successfully transmitted and received data beyond the Moon using a near-infrared laser.
United States and the Philippines signed an agreement that permits Washington to export nuclear technology and material to Manila.

Carlos Alacraz sets up an semi-final meeting with Novak Djokovic after beating Daniil Medvedev and topping the Red Group.
Jannik Sinner defeated Daniil Medvedev to become the first Italian man to reach the summit clash at the ATP Finals.
India’s Rohan Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden suffered a straight-sets defeat in the semifinals of the ATP Finals men’s doubles event.