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• US President Donald Trump disregarded senior advisers and pushed a false theory that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 election, an ex-White House aide has told the impeachment inquiry.


• Fiona Hill said the president had instead listened to the views of his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.


• Ms. Hill called the claims about Ukraine a "fictional narrative".


• The inquiry is assessing if Mr. Trump withheld aid to pressure Ukraine to investigate a political rival.

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• The United States said that it supported continued Indian involvement in Afghanistan, even as President Donald Trump looks to withdraw troops.


• India is one of the most enthusiastic backers of Afghanistan's government, contributing more than $3 billion since the 2001 US-led invasion toppled the Taliban.


• "The United States welcomes India's substantial investment in and assistance to Afghanistan," said Nancy Izzo Jackson, a State Department official in charge of Afghanistan.

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• We will issue a formal apology for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, and hold a public review into Britain''s role in the Amritsar massacre," notes the manifesto under the sub-head "Effective Diplomacy".


• In 2014, declassified UK government documents had revealed that British military advice was given to Indian forces prior to Indian Army intervention at the Golden Temple.


• There have been calls for a public inquiry into the exact nature of that advice from some British Sikh groups over the years.

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• Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu became the country's first prime minister to be indicted in office, on corruption charges, but defiantly condemned the "coup" against him and vowed to hold onto power.


• The shock announcement compounded the political chaos gripping Israel, which has been without a government for months and faces the prospect of its third election in a year.


• After months of suspense, Israel's longest-serving premier was charged by Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit with bribery, fraud, and breach of trust.

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• Bangalore emerged as India's highest ranked city at No. 83 in a new index of the world's 113 cities in terms of economic and social inclusivity, topped by Zurich in Switzerland.


• The first-ever Prosperity & Inclusion City Seal and Awards (PICSA) Index, released in the Basque Country capital of Bilbao in northern Spain, is designed to showcase not only the quantity of economic growth of a city but also its quality and distribution across populations.


• Delhi at 101 and Mumbai at 107 are the other Indian cities to make at the index, with the top 20 awarded a PICSA Seal as the world's highest-ranked cities building inclusive prosperity. Bilbao, the host city of the new index, is ranked at 20.

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• A debate on pollution in Parliament went musical with a union minister belting out a Bollywood number for clean air and a member echoing similar songs.


• And there was also a witty response from another member to suggestions from two union ministers that consuming carrots and listening to music can help check the effects of air pollution.


• "They are asking us to eat carrots. Are we goats?" asked Pratap Singh Bajwa, a Congress member in the Rajya Sabha, taking a dig at Health Minister Harsh Vardhan for his suggestion that consuming carrots can help avoid pollution-related harms.

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• First woman pilot of Indian Navy will join Naval operations in Kochi on December 2, two days ahead of Navy Day on December 4, a Defence source told PTI.


• The first woman pilot, Lieutenant Shivangi, will join naval operations on completion of operational training here on December 2.


• "Shivangi will graduate to become the First female Pilot of Indian Navy. She hails from Muzzafarpur, Bihar and completed her schooling from DAV Public school, Muzzafarpur," the source told PTI.

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• Slamming the government over the appointment of controversial BJP MP Pragya Thakur to a consultative committee on defence, the Congress today said Prime Minister Narendra Modi "not forgiving" her for the "Nathuram Godse patriot" remark was "only for the elections".


• Pragya Thakur, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case, will be part of the 21-member panel headed by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.


• "Turns out Modiji has forgiven Pragya Thakur. The Gandhigiri was only for the elections. In their hearts, Godse will always reign supreme.

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• Board of Secondary Education (BSE) Odisha has released the Odisha Teacher Eligibility Test (OTET) result today.


• The OTET result has been released on the official portal of the exam for the test held on August 5. The results have been released at bseodisha.ac.in.


• Candidates may check the OTET result now from bseodisha.ac.in after entering their registration number and password.

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• The Common Law Admission Test or CLAT 2020 will be held on May 10, 2020 (Sunday), according to an official release from the Consortium of National Law Universities (NLUs).


• The CLAT 2020 notification will be released in the last week of December 2019 and the online application form would be available from January 1, 2020.

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• According to a reply given by Minister OF Human Resource Development (MHRD) Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' in the Rajya Sabha today, the representation of Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) faculty in IIMs is less than 1 per cent, 0.96 per cent to be precise.


• Out of the total 1,148 sectioned faculty strength in 20 Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) only 11 teachers are currently employed from SC and ST categories, the minister said.

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• Former Reserve Bank of India Governor C Rangarajan feels that the reaching the $5-trillion GDP target by 2025 is "simply out of question".


• "Today, our economy is about $2.7 trillion and we are talking about doubling this over the next five years at $5 trillion.


• The required rate of growth to achieve that level is in excess of 9 percent per annum. Reaching $5 trillion by 2025 is simply out of question.

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• ICRA expects India's growth rate to fall to 4.7 percent in Q2 of FY20, amid weak demand and tepid investment.


• The rating firm also sees the country's gross value added (GVA) at basic prices in the year-on-year (YoY) basis at 4.5 percent for the quarter ending September of FY2020.

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• Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) share price was down more than 1 percent in the early trade on November 22 after CRISIL downgraded the company rating.


• CRISIL has downgraded the rating on the long-term bank facilities to ‘CRISIL AA’ from ‘CRISIL AA+.

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• India are all set to enter the pink-ball Test era when they take on Bangladesh in the second and final match of the series in Kolkata, starting.


• After long resisting the latest innovation in Test cricket, India will join the party that is aimed at increasing crowds and TV audiences for the longest format of the game.


• Day-night Tests were successfully introduced in 2015 but it took India a new BCCI regime under former captain Sourav Ganguly to take the pink ball plunge.


• Ahead of the ongoing series, Ganguly convinced the Bangladesh Cricket Board to play a Test under floodlights and now he has arranged a grand spectacle at the Eden Gardens.

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• Australia vs Pakistan (AUS vs PAK) 1st Test, Day 2 Live Updates: A confident Australian side led by Tim Paine will look to bat Pakistan out of the game as they go after the visitors' first-innings score of 240 at the Gabba Stadium in Brisbane. Follow ball-by-ball updates of the match.

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• Manoj Bajpayee is having quite a year. First, he received the Padma Shri in recognition of a career full of noteworthy performances including that of Bhiku Mhatre in Satya.


• Then his OTT debut, The Family Man, received positive reviews from audiences and critics, alike. And now, Manoj Bajpayee caps off the year with his second Asia Pacific Screen Award, this time for Devashish Makhija’s Bhonsle. His first win at the noted awards came for Aligarh.

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• Sri Lanka’s newly elected President Gotabaya Rajapaksa sworn in as prime minister his brother and the former president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, capping a victorious return to power of the brothers credited with a military victory over Tamil rebels but also implicated in human rights violations.


• Ranil Wickremesinghe stepped down as prime minister earlier to clear the way for the president to form his government.


• Wickremesinghe said in a statement that he was quitting despite having a parliamentary majority, respecting the mandate Gotabaya Rajapaksa received in last Saturday’s presidential election.