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

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

INDIA

  • 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).

ECONOMY & CORPORATE

  • 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.

WORLD

  • 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.

SPORTS

  • Paris Masters 2023: Tsitsipas beats Zverev to qualify for ATP Finals.
  • National Games: A.B. Arun wins triple jump gold and breaks record.

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