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Notification No. FEMA 23(R)/(2)/2026-RB dated November 02, 2026, amends the Foreign Exchange Management (Export and Import of Goods and Services) Regulations, 2026. The regulations come into force from October 01, 2026.
The amendment defines a 'resident individual' as a person resident in India who is a natural person. It provides that resident individuals exporting services are deemed to have submitted the Export
The Kochi Corporation Council passed a political resolution moved by UDF councillor Deepthy Mary Varghese, expressing solidarity with nationwide protests against alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
Backed by LDF leader V.A. Sreejith, the resolution criticised Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar for allegedly sabotaging the democratic process by stripping over 13 crore voters of their voting rights. Six BJP councillors, led by Sudha Dilipkumar
Students across the United States are set to engage in a live, interactive in-flight call with the International Space Station (ISS) to celebrate National STEM Day. The event, hosted by NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement, features NASA astronaut Anil Menon, the Expedition 74 flight engineer, and Mark Rober, a STEM content creator and founder of the ClassCrunchLabs Foundation. The downlink begins at 11 a.m. EST on Wednesday, Nov. 4, and will be streamed on NASA’s YouTube channel.
From orbit, Menon
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has launched the November 2026 round of its regular Inflation Expectations Survey of Households (IESH). The survey captures subjective assessments of price movements and inflation based on individual consumption baskets across 19 major cities, including Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Delhi, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jammu, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Patna, Raipur, Ranchi, and Thiruvananthapuram.
The survey seeks qualitat
Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah addressed a gathering in Raipur on November 3, 2026, during the closing ceremony of Rajyotsav‑2026. He compared the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance’s (INDIA) recent mock Parliament session to the Maoists’ ‘Jantana Sarkar’, calling it a parallel, unconstitutional government. The mock Parliament was held at Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge’s New Delhi residence on October 31 as a “public impeachment” of Chief Election Commissioner
On October 29, 2026, CSA astronaut Joshua Kutryk performed a spacewalk while the International Space Station (ISS) orbited 267 miles above the South Atlantic Ocean. Alongside NASA astronaut Anil Menon, Kutryk focused on upgrading the station's energy infrastructure by installing a new roll-out solar array.
This mission is part of a broader effort to modernize the ISS power system. The duo also completed preparatory tasks for a follow-up spacewalk scheduled for November 5, 2026. During that sub
During environmental acceptance testing of printed circuit board assemblies, NASA’s NESC observed two instances of thick‑film chip resistor body cracking. Both failures occurred during thermal cycling after vibration testing, with intermittent open‑circuit faults at hot dwell temperatures that disappeared at room temperature. The fractures ran across the short axis of the resistors, indicating bending or tensile stresses. Failure analysis ruled out defective lots or fatigue, pointing instead to
On a review of current and evolving liquidity conditions, it has been decided to conduct a Variable Rate Reverse Repo (VRRR) auction on Wednesday, November 04, 2026, as under:
2. The operational guidelines for the auction as given in the Reserve Bank's Press Release 2019-2020/1947 dated February 13, 2020 will remain the same.
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Padma Shri awardee and eminent neurosurgeon Dr. Ashok Kumar Mahapatra passed away at AIIMS Delhi on Monday evening, leaving behind a remarkable four-decade career in medicine.
In 2017, he led a multidisciplinary team in a historic 16-hour surgery to separate Odisha's conjoined twins, Jaga and Kalia. Both children survived, marking a landmark moment in Indian neurosurgery.
His contribution extended beyond the operating theatre. As the founding director of AIIMS Bhubaneswar (2012–2016), he built
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report alleging that minor girl children are being sold by their parents to middlemen in border districts of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan for Rs. 3 lakh to Rs. 5 lakh. The report states that these girls are subsequently trafficked using false documents indicating they are adopted children. Upon reaching adulthood, they are allegedly sold in various cities in Maharashtra for Rs. 35 lakh to Rs. 40 lakh for the sex