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• Chinese diplomats in the US will have to notify American authorities before holding any meetings with US officials.


• Official visits to "educational and research institutions", such as schools and universities, must also be pre-registered, the state department said.


• China said the US was breaking international rules - but the US said American diplomats in China faced similar restrictions.

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• President Donald Trump has said Turkey's incursion into Syria is "not our border", and called the former US allies the Kurds "no angels".


• The US is facing intense criticism for withdrawing its forces from Syria, which some say gave Turkey the green light to launch a cross-border offensive against Kurdish-led forces.


• Mr. Trump told reporters at the White House the US is "not a policing agent".

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• Two US fighter jets conducted pre-planned airstrikes targeting an American munitions storage bunker in Syria to destroy munitions and other equipment left behind following the withdrawal of its troops from the country, United States defence officials said.


• Myles Coggins, a spokesman for the US-led military coalition fighting ISIS, said that the airstrikes were conducted by two F-15Es at the Lafarge cement factory to destroy an ammunition cache, and reduce the facility's military usefulness, reported CNN.

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• The twists and turns of Brexit - after more than three years of negotiations - dominate an EU summit, amid signs of an emerging deal.


• Intensive negotiations went on all day to nail down complex special arrangements for Northern Ireland, the main sticking point in the UK's exit from the EU.


• The threat of a no-deal Brexit at the end of this month energized both sides.

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• An Italian court rejected a last-minute bid to halt the loan of Leonardo da Vinci's iconic Vitruvian Man drawing and other works to France's Louvre museum, ending a bitter cultural row.


• The court last week suspended the loan of the world-famous artwork, due to appear later this month in an exhibition at the Paris museum to mark the 500th anniversary of the artist's death.


• It did so after the group Italia Nostra (Our Italy) filed a complaint saying the drawing was too fragile to travel.

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• Britain and the European Union said that they have struck an outline Brexit deal after days of intense see-saw negotiations — though it must still be formally approved by the bloc and ratified by the European and UK Parliaments.


• Hours before a summit of all 28 EU national leaders, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker tweeted: "We have one! It's a fair and balanced agreement for the EU and the UK and it is testament to our commitment to find solutions."

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• Wearing traditional headgear and clapping to music, Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate met a tiny animist tribe in northern Pakistan, after flying by helicopter to a remote Hindu Kush glacier near the Afghan border.


• The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge spent the afternoon witnessing the effects of climate change on the Kalash, Pakistan's smallest religious minority -- an ancient, polytheistic tribe who live in three valleys.

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• Investors can find "no better place" in the world than India, which has a democracy-loving and capitalist-respecting environment, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said.


• She assured international investors at an interaction session at the IMF's headquarters that the government was continuously working to bring reforms.

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• Congress leader Manish Tewari took potshots at the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) for propping up the name of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar for Bharat Ratna in the BJP's manifesto for the upcoming Maharashtra elections and said that the party should straightaway confer Nathuram Godse with the highest civilian honour.


• "Savarkar was only accused of conspiring to assassinate Mahatma Gandhi, whereas Nathuram Godse carried out the assassination.

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• An IIT Kharagpur graduate has invented a device called "PM 2.5" which he claimed when fitted near the silencer pipe in vehicles will curb air pollution.


• Debayan Saha, a mechanical engineering graduate from IIT Kharagpur, who has invented the device claims that one the car fitted with the device can neutralize the pollution emitted from 10 cars in its vicinity.


• "The technology developed by us uses a combination of electric energy and wave energy to influence the pollutants like PM 2.5 such that they act like a magnet attracting other particulate pollutants from the ambient atmosphere to get attached to it.

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• The Congress party challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to show "courage" and announce the removal of cap on withdrawal of money by depositors of scam-hit Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative (PMC) Bank. Otherwise, it said, he should stop giving challenges to other parties on "non-issues".


• The statement from Congress spokesperson Akhilesh Pratap Singh came at a press conference in New Delhi and appeared a response to Prime Minister Modi's repeated dare to the opposition party to declare it will reverse his government's decision to nullify Article 370 if it is voted to power.

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• Those looking to update six kinds of details fed into the Aadhaar database are required to visit an Aadhaar centre.


• For any update or correction in details such as biometric scans, address, photo, name and registered mobile number, Aadhaar enrolees are required to visit any “Aadhaar Kendra” (Aadhaar centre) with valid supporting documents in original, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) said on Twitter.

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• The settlement plan suggested by the Supreme Court-appointed mediation panel in the decades-old Ayodhya temple-mosque dispute is a "win-win" for both Hindus and Muslims, the Sunni Waqf Board's lawyer has said.


• "We have given our views to the mediation panel but we can't disclose the details of the settlement plan which has been submitted to the court.


• It is a positive one and everyone - Hindus and Muslims - will be happy," Shahid Rizvi, the advocate for the Sunni Waqf Board, told NDTV.

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• UAE entities are expected to invest up to USD 7 billion in India's food sector in the next three years as part of the UAE-India food corridor project that aims to secure the UAE's food security, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal told Emirates News Agency, WAM.


• These entities, coordinated by Dubai-based Emaar Group, plan to invest up to US$5 billion in mega food parks and similar facilities in various Indian cities, and up to US$2 billion in contract farming, sourcing of agro commodities and related infrastructure, Piyush Goyal had said.

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• Indian Air Force's Central Airmen Selection Board or CASB has released the Intake 02/2020 results.


• According to an update released on the official website of CASB, result of online examination for Intake 02/2020 has been uploaded in candidates' login and the same can be accessed under 'view result' link on the login page.


• The update also said the CASB admit card for candidates shortlisted for phase-II is also available in their logins on the official portal. The CASB result can be accessed from the official website, airmenselection.cdac.in

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• Research team from IIT Hyderabad and KIIT School of Architecture, Bhubaneswar, has developed bio-bricks from agricultural waste products.


• These bio-bricks are not just eco-friendly, sustainable building materials but are also an effective way of waste management.


• The bio-bricks have received a Special Recognition Trophy for sustainable housing at Rural Innovators Start-Up Conclave 2019 organized recently by National Institute of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (NIRDPR), Hyderabad.

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• Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) has declared the result of the Combined Junior Engineer Exam 2013.


• The result comes 3 years after the exam was conducted and 6 years after the recruitment was notified.


• The recruitment was notified in December 2013 and the written exam was held on May 22-23, 2016. A total of 13,745 candidates took the exam and 3710 candidates have been shortlisted for the next round of selection which is the personality test or the interview.

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• This year onwards, the MBA (International Business) entrance test of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) would be computer based.


• The exam will be held on December 1. Until now, selection to MBA programme for the academic session 2020-2022 for IIFT Campuses in New Delhi, Kolkata and Kakinada was through computer based test, group discussion, writing skills assessment and interview.

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• Uttar Pradesh Civil Services exam details have been announced. The exam otherwise referred to as Combined State/ Upper Subordinate Services exam or the Provincial Civil Services (PCS) exam, will be conducted by Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC).


• Along with general and special recruitment to posts within state upper subordinate services, the Commission would also conduct exam for Assistant Conservator of Forest (ACF) / Range Forest Officer (RFO) Services.

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• Domestic stock markets started Thursday's session on a positive note amid gains in Asian peers.


• The S&P BSE Sensex index rose as much as 103.9 points to touch 38,702.89 in the first few minutes of trade, and the broader NSE Nifty benchmark moved to 11,480.90, up 16.9 points from its previous close.


• Gains in financial stocks supported the markets however losses in metal shares limited the upside.

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• PMC needs to be saved because funds of cooperative credit societies are also deposited in the bank, said Vishwas Utagi.


• The depositors' association of the scam ridden Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank could soon approach the RBI seeking a merger of the bank with a large public sector bank, said Vishwas Utagi, President of the PMC Depositors’ Association.

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• The Indian tea industry, which has been facing difficulty in getting bank finance, might soon get some respite.


• The Tea Board of India has roped in ICICI Bank to extend credit facility in the form of corporate credit card to the buyers registered on its auction platform.

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• All-rounder Mitchell Marsh is set to miss the opening Test against Pakistan after fracturing his right hand punching a wall, with Australian coach Justin Langer branding him "an idiot".


• The Western Australia captain took his frustrations out in the changing rooms after he was dismissed for 53 in a Sheffield Shield match against Tasmania.


• Scans revealed a fracture, and an apologetic Marsh said he faced up to six weeks on the sidelines. That would almost certainly rule him out of the opening Test against Pakistan in Brisbane starting on November 21.

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• Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has admitted midfield star Paul Pogba will miss Premier League clash with bitter rivals Liverpool while goalkeeper David De Gea is also in a major injury doubt.


• French World Cup winner Pogba, 26, has failed to recover from an ankle problem while De Gea was forced off in Spain's Euro 2020 qualifier against Sweden.


• "Paul had an injury, he came back, he worked really hard. He played a couple of games, maybe played through the pain barrier," Solskjaer told Sky Sports.

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• Argentine forward Lionel Messi was presented with his sixth Golden Shoe award after scoring 36 league goals for Barcelona last season.


• Messi is the first player to win the accolade for three successive years. He was presented the trophy by his sons Thiago and Mateo. Today also marks 15 years since Messi's debut match for Barcelona.

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• The winning images for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2019 were announced on October 15, and a shot of standoff between a Tibetan fox and a marmot leads the list.


• Wildlife Photographer of the Year is developed and produced by the Natural History Museum, London, who hailed the image by Chinese photographer Yongqing Bao as "extraordinary".


• Hailing from the Chinese province of Qinghai, Yongqing Bao captured his winning image at the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in early spring. Titled 'The Moment', it shows the predator mid-move, teeth bared in front of her terrified prey.

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• NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has taken a fresh set of pictures under better lighting conditions of the area where the Indian moon lander Vikram likely ended up and experts will be making a rigorous search for it, according to LRO Project Scientist Noah Petro.


• "The lighting conditions were much more favorable, (with) less shadow in the region" compared to last month, Petro told IANS.

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• Government of India has appointed Shri J. P. S. Chawla, 1985-batch Indian Civil Accounts Service (ICAS) Officer as the new Controller General of Accounts (CGA), Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure with effect from October 2019 on regular basis


• Shri Chawla is a bachelor of Engineering (BE) in mechanical engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi.