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• Alphabet Inc's Google is teaming up with a health-care company on a secret project to collect personal health-related information of millions of Americans across 21 states, the Wall Street Journal reported.


• Google launched "Project Nightingale" last year with St. Louis-based Ascension, according to the report, citing people familiar with the matter and internal documents.</li

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• Spain's Socialists faced tough talks to form a government after the party emerged on top but weakened from a repeat election that produced an even more divided parliament and propelled far-right Vox into third place.


• Neither the left nor the right bloc is anywhere near an absolute majority in the 350-seat assembly following, prolonging political deadlock in the eurozone's fourth-largest economy following a similar result in April's election.

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• The head of Iran’s nuclear program said that the country is now producing more low-enriched uranium daily, after restarting an underground lab.


• Ali Akbar Salehi of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran made the comments as Iranian President Hassan Rouhani also called on hard-liners to support the country’s troubled nuclear deal, saying it could open up international arms sales for the Islamic Republic next year.


• Iran has broken out of the accord’s limits since President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the accord between Tehran and world powers over a year ago.

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• Hundreds of academics, students and activists have signed an open letter to lobby the UK Home Office to reconsider its decision to deny a University of Cambridge scholar permanent residency in the UK for spending too much time in India, which she says was essential for fieldwork and research.


• Dr. Asiya Islam’s application for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) was refused by the UK Home Office last week on the grounds that she had been out of Britain for longer than the stipulated period for such an application.

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• France, Germany, Britain and the European Union have said they are “extremely concerned” by Iran’s decision to re-start nuclear activities at one of its key sites, in breach of a landmark 2015 deal with international powers.


• “The Foreign Ministers of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom and the High Representative of the European Union are extremely concerned by the latest announcements that Iran is restarting uranium enrichment activities at the Fordow facility, as confirmed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in its November 11 report,” they said in a joint statement.

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• Jharkhand's ruling NDA constituent, the All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU) party, announced the first list of 12 candidates.


• Party president Sudesh Kumar Mahto was re-nominated to contest from Silli assembly constituency. Mr. Mahto had lost the seat in 2014 assembly polls.


• The party also named Jharkhand Water Resources Minister Ramchandra Sahis to contest from Jugsalai, a party release issued said.

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• Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Brazil on November 13 and 14 to attend the 11th BRICS summit, the theme of which is "economic growth for an innovative future".


• This will be the sixth time PM Modi will be participating in the BRICS summit, his first being at Fortaleza, also in Brazil in 2014, a statement from the Prime Minister's Office said.


• Sources said he would leave for Brasilia, Brazil. A large business delegation from India is also expected to be present during the visit, especially to attend the BRICS Business Forum where the business community of all the five countries is represented.

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• India and China began jointly training a second batch of Afghan diplomats as part of their efforts to work together for the development of war-torn Afghanistan.


• The two countries had decided to work together on programs for Afghanistan during the first informal summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping at Wuhan in April last year.


• Ten diplomats from Afghanistan are participating in the course. As with the training of the first batch of Afghan diplomats last year, the current batch will spend time at the elite Foreign Service Institute (FSI) in New Delhi during November 11-23 and undertake study tours in India before traveling to China for further training.

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• The government is likely to invite Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro as the chief guest at next year’s Republic Day celebrations as part of New Delhi’s outreach to South America, people familiar with developments said.


• Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Brasilia on November 13-14 to attend the Brics (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) Summit.


• A formal invitation is expected to be extended when the Indian premier holds a bilateral meeting with Bolsonaro during the visit, the people cited above said on condition of anonymity.

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• Prince Charles of the UK will begin a two-day visit to India on November 13 to celebrate bilateral ties and focus on shared global challenges such as sustainability and climate change.


• His engagements in New Delhi include a meeting with President Ram Nath Kovind and he will present a Commonwealth Points of Light award to an Indian winner for her exemplary contribution to social development, including the uplift of disabled children, family counseling and therapy sessions.

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• Selecting a school for their children is possibly the most crucial decision parents make. The Hindustan Times Top Schools survey is an important tool to help them arrive at this choice.


• It’s not easy, of course. Parents decide on a school after careful consideration of various factors: distance from home, fees, the institution’s academic record, its infrastructure, the quality of teachers and the support staff, children’s safety, curricular and co-curricular activities, etc.


• While earlier this would have been a limited but easy choice, it is not so now thanks to an explosion in the number of schools, curricula options, and the city’s evolving demographics.

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• Many students who got their degrees at the third convocation ceremony of the Jawaharlal Nehru University were left disheartened owing to the protests over fee hike as they felt their last day as a JNU student was “ruined”.


• There were several others who extended support to the protesting students and even protested inside the convocation venue in solidarity.


• Thousands of students of the JNU clashed with police as their protest over fee hike on the varsity’s convocation day escalated, forcing HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ to stay inside the AICTE premises for over six hours.

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• Admit cards for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) main, scheduled for next year, will be released on December 6.


• The admit cards having details of the exam date, shift, centre and subject details will be released by the National Testing Agency (NTA).


• Candidates who have registered for the exam can download the admit cards from the official website of the exam conducting agency, NTA, at nta.ac.in.

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• The World Bank announced it was cutting back a vocational education project in China's Xinjiang province, even though an internal investigation did not back up claims the scheme was linked to the mistreatment of minority Muslim Uighurs.


• The World Bank launched a review of the program in late August after Foreign Policy magazine reported that a school that benefited from a tranche of the $50 million loans to China bought "barbed wire, gas launchers, and body armor."


• The Washington-based development lender said its review "did not substantiate the allegations."

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• Dwayne Bravo, who retired from international cricket in October 2018, took a dig at former Cricket West Indies president Dave Cameron for "keeping certain people away from the team".


• Dwayne Bravo, who represented the West Indies in 164 One-Day Internationals (ODIs), added that it ended many careers but expressed his happiness over Dave Cameron's six-year reign coming to an end. In March 2019, former West Indies team manager Ricky Skerritt took over as the new president of Cricket West Indies replacing Dave Cameron at the role.

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• Rafael Nadal refused to make excuses after being outplayed by defending champion Alexander Zverev at the ATP Finals as Stefanos Tsitsipas got his campaign off to a flying start.


• The Spanish top seed, who has never won the season-ending event, came into the tournament at London's O2 Arena under an injury cloud and was well short of his imperious best as he went down 6-2, 6-4.

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• Chief minister Nitish Kumar lauded the contributions of the first central education minister Maulana Abul Kalam Azad towards enrichment of academic excellence in the country and reiterated his resolve to bring about qualitative change in the academic standards in the state.


• Inaugurating a two-day program to mark the birth anniversary Azad here at Gyan Bhawan, Kumar said that every panchayat of the state would be equipped with a class 12-level school from the next year.


• “This is in sync with the vision of Maulana Azad to encourage girl and women education,” said the CM.

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• President Ram Nath Kovind today accepted the resignation of Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant from the Union council of ministers with immediate effect, a Rashtrapati Bhavan spokesperson said.


• Mr. Sawant's resignation has been accepted on the advice of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, according to the spokesperson.


• As advised by the Prime Minister, the President has directed that Union minister Prakash Javadekar be assigned the charge of the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises in addition to his existing portfolios, the spokesperson added.

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• Veteran British lawmaker Keith Vaz has announced he is standing down from parliament, just weeks after he was censured in a cocaine scandal.


• Vaz, who was born to Goan parents in Yemen, was first elected for the central English city of Leicester in 1987. He will not stand again in next month's vote, he announced.


• A parliamentary watchdog last month recommended Vaz be suspended for six months for expressing a willingness to buy cocaine during an encounter with two male prostitutes.

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• SpaceX's plans to bring global internet coverage to the world just took another leap forward as its 9th Falcon 9 rocket flight of the year launched 60 new Starlink internet satellites into orbit Monday (Nov. 11).


• The satellites rode into space atop a veteran Falcon 9 first stage, ending a nearly three-month launch hiatus for the company.


• The last time a SpaceX Falcon 9 took to the skies, was on Aug. 6th, when the company’s flagship rocket carried the Israeli AMOS-17 communications satellite into space.