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.