Students in West Bengal appearing for the Class X and Class XII exams will not be required to sit for their pre-final tests at the school level, state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced on Wednesday.

Due to the ongoing COVID pandemic situation, the State Education Department has decided that students currently studying in classes 10th and 12th will not have their pre-final tests, she said.

The 17th India-ASEAN summit will take place today in a virtual format with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and all the ten ASEAN leaders participating in the meet.

A release by the Ministry of external affairs said, the Summit will review the status of ASEAN-India Strategic Partnership and take stock of progress made in key areas such as connectivity, maritime cooperation, trade and commerce, education and capacity building etc.

Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Wednesday said that a total of 2.06 lakh passengers have used the domestic air services since May 25, the day when flight operations resumed post-COVID lockdown.

Domestic operations recommenced with 30,000 passengers on May 25 and have reached 2.06 lakhs on November 8, 2020, Puri wrote on Twitter.

Gold price today went up to Rs 53,610 from Rs 53,600 per 10 gm, while silver was trending at Rs 62,800 per kg, according to the Good Returns website.

Gold jewellery prices vary across India, the second-largest consumer of the metal, due to excise duty, state taxes, and making changes.

President Donald Trump's campaign on Wednesday took another step in its legal strategy to upend his US election loss by filing a lawsuit in Michigan while Georgia announced a recount and President-elect Joe Biden focused on laying the foundation of his incoming administration.

The Republican president's team went to federal court to try to block Michigan, a Midwestern battleground state that he won in 2016, from certifying the Nov. 3 election results. Trump trailed by roughly 148,000 votes, or 2.6 percentage points, in unofficial Michigan vote totals.

Global coronavirus cases touched 52 million, two days after hitting the grim milestone of 50 million.

The exact case count stood at 51,817,846 as of Wednesday (local time). The number of confirmed virus-related death reached 1,278,086, according to data provided by Johns Hopkins University.

Andhra Pradesh has suffered agricultural and infrastructural damages worth Rs 8,084 crore in the recent heavy rains and floods.

The estimated loss is about Rs 8,084 crore, of which Rs 5,000 crore occurred due to infrastructure damages. Also, agriculture and allied sectors suffered flood damage of Rs 3,000 crore as incessant rains occurred right before the harvesting period, said a government statement.

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday, November 11 pulled up the Delhi government for opening up most of the commercial activities and relaxing COVID-19 norms for public movement and gatherings in the city.

Taking strong objection to the government relaxing the norms, a bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Subramanium Prasad asked What's with the Delhi government allowing all the un-lockdown when the cases are skyrocketing? Why have you opened everything.

World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his strong commitment to Covax and making COVID-19 vaccines a global public good.

I thanked Prime Minister @narendramodi for his strong commitment to COVAX and making #COVID19 vaccines a global public good. The pandemic is an unprecedented challenge for the world, and we agreed to work shoulder to shoulder to end it. #ACTtogether, Tedros said in a tweet in Hindi.

President Trump, facing the prospect of leaving the White House in defeat in just 70 days, is harnessing the power of the federal government to resist the results of an election that he lost, something that no sitting president has done in American history.

In the latest sign of defiance, the president’s senior cabinet secretary fueled concerns on Tuesday that Mr. Trump would resist handing over power to President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. after legal challenges to the vote. There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said.

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