News Headlines For 17 November Thursday

News Headlines For 17 November Thursday

• Union Tourism Ministry to organize three-day 10th International Tourism Mart (ITM) for North East Region in Aizawl,

• Union Tourism Minister G. Kishan Reddy to address inaugural session of 10th ITM for North East Region in Aizawl

• Sanjay Verma, Secretary (West), Ministry of External Affairs & Dinker Gupta, Director General, NIA to address Curtain Raiser Press Conference on 3rd “No Money for Terror Conference” being hosted by India in New Delhi on Nov 18-19, 2022 at National Media Centre (NMC) at 5 PM

• Exchange of Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between National Museum & Museum Kolding, Denmark , of exhibition “Silver Treasures from Denmark & India”at Auditorium, National Museum, New Delhi at 4:15 PM

• Third round of border talks between Mizoram & Assam to be held in Guwahati to resolve long-standing inter-state boundary dispute

• Tamil Nadu Finance Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan to inaugurate ‘Ancient Genomics-Modern DNA Lab’ Kamaraj University at Madurai

• Enforcement Directorate (ED) to summon Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren’s for questioning in a money laundering case linked to alleged illegal mining in state at Ranchi

• A Varanasi court to pronounce its judgment on a plea seeking permission to allow worship of a “Shivling” claimed to have been found inside the Gyanvapi mosque complex at Varanasi

• A Delhi Court to pronounce order on bail plea of Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain, who is arrested under provisions of Prevention Money Laundering Act

• Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) to hold a rally in New Delhi to protest against privatisation & corporatisation of state-owned utilities & firms

• A five -day Mega Krishak Mela 2022 to begin at Main Campus, Chatha , Jammu with theme “Diversification in Agriculture for Self Reliant India”

• India-Nepal border in Darjeeling district of West Bengal to clos between Nov 17 and 20 in view of upcoming Nepal general elections

• Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping for talks that come as tensions in Asia have risen over Taiwan & North Korea in Bangkok

• Lord Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala to open a day ahead of commencement of two-month long pilgrimage season

• Australia vs England 1st ODI (D/N), at Adelaide at 8 :30 AM

• International Students’ Day

On This Day – What Happened Today In History – 16 November 

Ecuador and Venezuela separated from Greater Colombia in 1831.

The US agreed to trade in 1933, recognizing the Soviet Union.

India’s Rita Faria won the Miss World title in 1966. She was the first Asian woman to become Miss World.

UNESCO approved International Mother Language Day in 1999.

The US Senate approved the Indo-US nuclear treaty in 2006.

Stanley Cohen, American physician, Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine, was born in 1922.

Freedom fighter Lala Lajpat Rai died in 1928.