NATIONAL NEWS:

1. In Bihar, all arrangements have been put in place for the second phase of assembly elections . 94 constituencies spread over 17 districts including Patna, Vaishali, Sitamarhi, Darbhanga and Madhubani will go to polls in this phase today.
2. Bypolls in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka on November 3; Voting for by-elections to 28 Assembly seats in Madhya Pradesh will be held from 7 am to 6 pm on Tuesday while adhering to the COVID-19 restrictions. The day will also witness bypolls in Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka also.
3. The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras has developed “IITM COVID Game” to create awareness about the COVID-19 virus. The game mainly focuses on children. This game was launched by Union Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan. The game is web-based and was designed to influence the players to use masks and practice healthy eating and washing hands regularly.
4. The Rajasthan assembly on Monday passed three bills to counter the farm laws enacted by the Centre with the state following the example of Congress-run Punjab and Chhattisgarh
5. Chhattisgarh launches Fortified Rice Distribution Scheme : The scheme was launched to reduce malnutrition and anaemia. Under the scheme, fortified rice is distributed through fair price shops. The fortified rice is a mixture of Vitamin-B12, iron and folic acid. It helps to control malnutrition and anaemia.
6. Police arrested a man and booked three others after a video clip showing members of their group offering namaz on the premises of a temple in Mathura surfaced on social media. Uttar Pradesh Cabinet minister Shrikant Sharma has termed the incident as an attempt to create differences between different communities in the state and said the accused won’t be spared.
7. The Rajasthan government on Monday said they were open to further negotiations with Gurjars, who are demanding reservation even as agitating members of the community continued to block a rail track in Bharatpur’s Bayana. The protest called by the Gurjar Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti entered its second day.
8. An FIR has been registered against Urdu poet Munawwar Rana for allegedly defending the recent killings in France over a caricature of Prophet Muhammad , police said on Monday. The case has been lodged against Rana at the Hazratganj police station in Lucknow under various Indian Penal Code sections, including 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony),
9. Telangana, Andhra Pradesh resume inter-state RTC bus services.
10. The Supreme Court on Monday refused to extend the security of former special judge S K Yadav who had pronounced the verdict in the Babri Masjid demolition case and acquitted all 32 accused, including BJP veterans L K Advani, M M Joshi and Uma Bharti.
11. KBC 12: FIR registered against Amitabh Bachchan, show makers for a question regarding Manusmriti, Dr BR Ambedkar ,: The question for Rs 6,40,000 was, On 25 December 1927, Dr. BR Ambedkar and his followers burned copies of which scripture? The options given were, a) Vishnu Purana, b) Bhagavad Gita, c) Rigdev, and d) Manusmriti.
12. Himachal Pradesh, one of India’s most visited hill states, received season’s first snow on Saturday . Set at a high altitude in the Himalayas, Keylong in Himachal was covered in a thick white blanket of snow. According to the weather department, the minimum temperature recorded in Keylong was minus 0.8 degree Celsius.
13. With nine of 11 Rajya Sabha MPs elected on Monday belonging to BJP, the party has touched a high of 92 MPs in the upper House, a major feat for the saffron party given the challenges it had to face in getting key legislations passed in its first term. Congress numbers have fallen to 38, a low for the party in Rajya Sabha with its combined strength in Parliament — including the Lok Sabha representation — at 89.
14. Unlock 5.0: West Bengal on Monday took several major decisions especially on re-opening of schools, colleges and cinema halls. The West Bengal government decided to extend certain lockdown measures till November 30 but included certain restrictions and relaxations during the period.the teaching-learning physical assemblies in schools, anganwadis, colleges, and universities will continue to be disallowed.
15. Swimming pools (except for use of training of sportspersons) will continue to remain closed. The Cinemas/Theatres/Multiplexes will operate with up to 50 per cent of their seating capacity in areas outside the containment zone only.
16. Coronavirus Cases:
    8,262,478
    Deaths: 123,025
    Recovered: 7,596,418

✈INTERNATIONAL NEWS

1. German warship to patrol Indian Ocean from next year : German defence minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said a German naval presence in the Indo-Pacific will help safeguard the rules-based world order.
2. China has shortlisted nearly two dozen private companies to supply advanced unmanned weaponry and graphene clothing to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) regiments deployed along the long high-altitude border areas with India.
3. First phase of four-nation Malabar naval exercise kicks off today : The 24th edition of the Malabar naval exercise is scheduled to be held in two phases in November 2020 with the first phase set to kick off today. “Phase 1 of the exercise Malabar 20 involving participation by Indian Navy (IN), United States Navy (USN), Japan Maritime Self Defence Force (JMSDF), and Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is set to commence off Visakhapatnam in Bay of Bengal from 3-6 November, 2020.
4. Greece Rushes to Establish Military Alliance With India As Turkey, Pakistan Develop Close Defence Collaboration : The situation in the eastern Mediterranean has been tense with Turkey and Greece involved in a dispute over energy exploration rights and maritime boundaries in the area. The two neighbours have been wrangling over military games in the region despite both being part of the NATO alliance.
5. Nineteen Indian passengers tested positive for COVID-19 in a recent flight from New Delhi to the Chinese city of Wuhan under the Vande Bharat Mission, even as India on Monday announced plans to operate four more such flights to China beginning November 13.

🌎WORLD NEWS🌍

1. Campaigning for US Presidential elections has entered its last lap. Donald Trump and Joe Biden are criss-crossing the country to woo the voters ahead today’s general election.
2. A protest march organised by the hardline Islamist organisation Hefazat-e-Islam to besiege the French embassy in Dhaka was foiled by the police in the afternoon on Monday . The protest march was organised by Somomona Islami Dal, a platform of Islamist parties under the leadership of Hefazat-e-Islam.
3. The protest march started from the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque seeking to besiege the French embassy over the remarks of the French President Emmanuel Macron on the controversy surrounding the publication of the cartoon of Prophet Mohammed by a magazine in Paris.
4. Home Minister of Bangladesh Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said on Monday that government has issued orders for stern action against the people who vandalised and torched homes of minority Hindu community in the Comilla district on Sunday over an alleged Facebook post derogatory to Islam.
5. The world strongest Typhoon Goni hit the eastern part of Philippines. This typhoon is considered as the strongest typhoon in the world. It is bringing in catastrophic violent winds and is thus being considered as the hardest landfall on record.
6. The Typhoon Goni has attained its maximum speed of 310 km per hour. More than 347,000 people have been evacuated. This is the second super typhoon in the Pacific Ocean in 2020.
7. UK PM Boris Johnson imposes stay-at-home order in England till December 2 as Covid-19 cases surge
8. Tanzania’s president, John Magufuli, has won re-election , the national electoral commission said, after a contest that has been dismissed by the opposition as a “travesty” due to widespread irregularities.
   Magufuli received 12.5m votes in presidential ballot.
9. In Vienna, several people are reported to have been killed and many others injured in the shooting incident at a synagogue on Monday, November 2. French President Emmanuel Macron expressed solidarity with Austria. According to reports, Vienna police have confirmed reports of shooting and informed of several injuries. However, the exact number of causalities is yet to be clear.
10. Coronavirus Cases :
    47,078,580
    Deaths: 1,208,418
    Recovered: 33,926,621
    ACTIVE CASES 11,943,541

🚣🚴🏇🏁🏊Sports:

1. Monday, 2nd November 2020

DELHI CAPITALS- 154/4
Vs
ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE- 152/7

Delhi Capitals won by 6 wickets

2. Tuesday, 3rd November 2020
   SUNRISERS HYDERABAD
   Vs
   MUMBAI INDIANS

19:30 IST (14:00 GMT), 18:00 LOCAL
Match 56 Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah.

3. Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Kiren Rijiju on November 2nd virtually inaugurated Sports Authority of India’s (SAI) new Regional Centre in Zirakpur, Punjab which will now act as one of the main SAI centres for the northern belt of India
4. Ace Indian shuttler PV Sindhu on Monday gave a “mini heart attack” to sports fraternity with a social media post where she said: “I RETIRE”. However, Sindhu later acknowledged in her cryptic tweet that she must have given her fans a mini heart-attack, but she is not retiring from the game and rather wants to draw everyone’s attention towards the fight against substandard hygiene amid coronavirus pandemic.

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😀Thought of the day

A correct decision can double the confidence. And A wrong decision can double the experience. So no need to worry about both the situations. Continue to do efforts and handle the situations.

Joke of the day

1)टीचर : वाक्य को अंग्रेजी में ट्रांसलेट करो ‘ वसंत ने मुझे मुक्का मारा’

पप्पू : वसन्तपंचमी (Vasant punch me🤜🏻🤛🏼) 😂😂😂😂😂

2)कहते हैं कभी भी किसी की,“परिस्थिति” पर मत हंसो!!वही परिस्थिति हमारी भी आ सकती हैं।इसलिए मैं रोज़ सिर्फ“अम्बानी” की ही “परिस्थिति” पर हंसता हूँ..!!

😳 Tell Me Why❓❓❓

 *Why are airplanes usually painted white?* ✈️🛫🛬🛩️🚀The main reason why aircraft are painted white or light colours is to reflect sunlight. Other colours will absorb most of the light. This is crucial as when sunlight is absorbed by an aircraft, this heats up the body of an airplane. Painting a passenger plane white minimises both the heating and potential damage from solar radiation not only when the airplane is in flight, but also when it’s parked on the runway.
When flying at high altitudes, airplanes are completely exposed to various atmospheric conditions. Coloured aircraft tend to fade over time, and thus require repainting to maintain their aesthetic appeal. Aside from the fact that paint adds significant weight to an aircraft –meaning more fuel is burned. White exteriors can enhance aircraft visibility and potentially increase its detection and avoidance by birds strike.

LEARN Sanskrit🙏🏻

*विस्मर्* : Forgetting

🤔 How it works ⁉

How does Cyclones form.

In meteorology, Cyclone refers to a large-scale air mass that revolves around a strong low atmospheric pressure centre. We can characterize cyclones by spiralling inward winds rotating around a low-pressure zone
To form a cyclone, warm, moist air over the ocean rises upward from near the surface. As this air moves up and away from the ocean surface, it leaves is less air near the surface. So basically as the warm air rises, it causes an area of lower air pressure below

Cyclones can form only on oceans with sea surface temperature greater than or equal to 26 to 27 degree Celsius.

💁🏻‍♂️ GK TODAY

WHO The World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.

Headquarters : Geneva, Switzerland
Founded : 7 April 1948
Now Tedros Adhanom is the Director general of the World Health Organization

🛕 VEDIK GYAN

Akshayapatra (अक्षयपात्र) 🍚 meaning inexhaustible vessel, is an object from Hindu mythology. It was a wonderful vessel given to Yudishtira by Lord Surya which held a never-depleting supply of food to the Pandavas every day.

One day, Krishna suddenly came to visit the Pandavas when they are in forest, he visits Draupadi and ask for food, she was sitting and weeping in the kitchen. With tears in her eyes, Draupadi bowed her head before Krishna and showed him an empty pot in which she had cooked rice that morning and she did not have any more rice in the house. But Krishna said to her: “Thank you sister
Look carefully.” Draupadi looked, and she found a single grain of rice stuck inside the pot. Krishna said “A single grain of rice, if offered to God with love and humility, becomes the beeja (primordial seed) which feeds and satiates the whole universe.” He then ate that single grain of rice. This miraculous divine episode happened on the day which is commemorated as “Akshaya Tritiya” every year, and it occurs around the time of the spring harvest in April-May every year.

Krishna was very sorrowful to see the condition of his sister Draupadi and his cousins, the Pandavas, he then suggest to hymn 108 chants of lord Surya by Pandavas. Later tgey Blessed by Surya with an Akshaya Patra, the inexhaustable vessel.

🧬 HEALTH CARE: HOME REMEDIES🩺
( Note : These home tips followed in villages/ancient traditions, it is up to you to use it or not🙏🏻)

Getting a runny nose

A runny nose may be due to allergies, hay fever, or other causes. following home treatments can help to stop it:-

1. Drinking fluids and staying hydrated when dealing with a runny nose can be helpful if you also have symptoms of nasal congestion.
2. Inhaling hot steam has with vicks or zandu balm or Amrutanjan or Eucalyptus leaves oil or Camphor कर्पूर, help treat a runny nose. Eating spicy foods . Hot spices like cayenne pepper, ghost pepper, habanero, wasabi, horseradish, or ginger are great options. The bottom line : These approaches will only give you relief. Make sure to seek more direct treatment if you’re experiencing colds, viruses, and allergies.

🙏PLZ FOLLOW GOVT. NORMS, MAINTAIN SOCIAL DISTANCE, KEEP YOURSELF & YOUR FAMILY SAFE🌼 ENDS