ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• 1903 Windshield wiper patented
• 1775 US Marine Corps is created
• 1951 North American Numbering Plan begins

NATIONAL

• Sanskrit Bharati Vishwa Sammelan being organised in New Delhi from November 9 to 11
• Indo-Russian joint tri-service exercise codenamed INDRA 2019 to be held from December 10-19
• Assam Civil Service officer Hitesh Dev Sharma replaces Prateek Hajela as NRC (National Register of Citizens) Coordinator
• Dhrupad maestro and Padma Shri awardee Ramakant Gundecha dies at 56 in Bhopal

• Supreme Court settles the long pending Ayodhya land dispute case
• In a unanimous decision, a five-judge Constitution bench ruled that the 2.77 acres of the disputed land will remain with the Central government and be handed over to a Trust for the construction of a temple
• Latest Sample Registration System (SRS) 2015-2017 bulletin for Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) released on October 7, 2019

ECONOMY

• Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship confers the National Entrepreneurship Awards 2019 to Enterprises and Ecosystem builders in New Delhi
• Govt decides to import 1 lakh tonnes of onion to control price rise; MMTC to import and NAFED to distribute

INTERNATIONAL

• Brazil’s former President Lula da Silva walks free from jail after spending a year and a half behind bars for corruption
• Mauritius PM Pravind Kumar Jugnauth gets another five-year term as his Militant Socialist Movement (MSM) wins 38 out of 62 seats in Parliament
• Ullas Karanth, Director, Centre for Wildlife Studies, Bengaluru, awarded the George Schaller Lifetime Award in Wildlife Conservation Science