News highlights: PM Modi to inaugurate the new campus of Dr B R Ambedkar School of Economics University in Bengaluru on December 6

Delhi Transport Department fixes fees for issuing speed limit device certificates at Rs 500, move to benefit commercial vehicle owners in national capital

. Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel writes to PM Narendra Modi, requesting to provide an ex gratia of Rs 4 lakhs each to families of Covid victims; says state govt is committed to giving its share of the ex gratia i.e. Rs 1 lakh per deceased as per SDRF norms

. Gautam Gambhirallegedly received a second death threat from 'ISIS Kashmir'. A video containing footage from outside his residence is also attached with the threat e-mail, says Delhi Police

. Ban on entry of trucks into Delhi to continue till December 3 but smaller trucks run on CNG and electric trucks can enter city: Gopal Rai. (This clarifies that the restriction is applicable only to trucks and not to all vehicles)

. Union Cabinet approves formation of company (special purpose vehicle) to privatise electricity distribution business in Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu, sale of equity shares of newly formed company to highest bidder andformation of trust(s) for serving employees’ liabilities

. Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has written to PM Modi, requesting an immediate sanction of Rs 1,000 crores as an interim relief, andalso for deputing an inter-ministerial central team for damage assessment in affected areas due to heavy rains and floods in the state

. The man, who owns a poultry farm in Balasore district, filed a police complaint on Tuesday alleging that more than 60 chickens died of shock from the high-decibel music.

. Launching a tirade against his own party's central leadership, BJP leader and former MLA Ram Iqbal Singh said the death of over 700 farmers could have been prevented had the Union government withdrawn the three contentious agriculture laws within 30 days of the farmers' agitation.

Singh, an executive committee member of the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, also called Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut "manchali" (crazy) for her remarks about the country's independence.

"Over 700 farmers would not have died if the three agricultural laws were withdrawn within 30 days of the farmers' agitation. This decision to repeal the laws is a sign of happiness on one hand and 'late latifi' (a late act) on the other," Singh told reporters in the Nagra area of the district here on Tuesday evening. (PTI)

. With the Indian government seeking to ban all private cryptocurrencies in the upcoming Crypto bill 2021, experts and leading industry players on Wednesday said that provisions relating to "banning" private cryptocurrencies would have to be looked at very carefully.

The Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill, 2021 seeks to prohibit all private cryptocurrencies in India in the Winter Session of Parliament starting November 29.

It, however, allows for certain exceptions to promote the underlying technology of cryptocurrency and its usage. (IANS)

. Police have collected a fine of Rs 200 from the driver of AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi's SUV, in which the latter was brought to Solapur city in Maharashtra, as the vehicle was found without a number plate, an official said on Wednesday.

. A spacecraft that must ultimately crash to succeed was launched late on Tuesday from California on a NASA mission to demonstrate the world's first planetary defense system, designed to deflect an asteroid from a potential doomsday collision with Earth.

The so-called DART spacecraft soared into the night sky at 10:21 pmPacific time on Tuesdayfrom the Vandenberg USSpace Force Base, about 150 miles northwest of Los Angeles, carried aboard a SpaceX-owned Falcon 9 rocket.

The blast-off was shown live on NASA TV. (Reuters)

. The rupee recovered most of its initial losses and settled 4 paise down at 74.43 (provisional) against the US dollar on Tuesday, tracking a positive trend in domestic equities and easing crude oil prices.

. Congress-Trinamool relationship is set to nosedive further with theWest Bengalparty eyeing political space beyond its traditional base and chipping away some more leaders close to Rahul Gandhi.

. BJP MP from East Delhi Constituency &former Cricketer Gautam Gambhir has approached the Delhi Police, alleging he has received death threats from 'ISIS Kashmir'. The investigation is underway. Security has been beefed up outside Gambhir's residence: DCP central Shweta Chauhan

. Srikesh Kumar, who had been kept in the mortuary freezer for more than seven hours after being presumed dead and later slipped into a coma, has passed away.

. Oil prices fell on Wednesday as the US-led coordinated release of stocks from strategic reserves eased concerns over tightness in global supply, while investors took profits from the previous day's rally ahead of the USThanksgiving holiday.

. Share markets were jittery in early Asia on Wednesday as trading was buffeted by a step-up in USTreasury yields as well as volatile oil prices in the face of price-cooling moves by the United States and other nations.

. The Biden administration has invited Taiwan to its "Summit for Democracy" next month, according to a list of participants published on Tuesday, a move likely to infuriate China, which views the democratically governed island as its territory.

The first-of-its-kind gathering is a test of President Joe Biden's assertion, announced in his first foreign policy address in office in February, that he would return the United States to global leadership to face down authoritarian forces led by China and Russia. (Reuters)

News highlights: PM Modi to inaugurate the new campus of Dr B R Ambedkar School of Economics University in Bengaluru on December 6

PM Modi to inaugurate the new campus of Dr B R Ambedkar School of Economics University in Bengaluru on December 6

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal expresses his resolve to provide public all facilities available to ministers, lashes out at opposition parties for terming his government's schemes 'freebies'

Police order probe after document containing details of security arrangements for President Ram Nath Kovind's two-day visit to Kanpur surface on some WhatsApp groups

Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot writes to PM Narendra Modi, urges him to increase compensation for families of those who died due to Covid-19 from Rs 50,000 to Rs 4 lakh:

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