1.The Winter Session of Parliament is scheduled to begin November 25 and continue till December 20, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju said Tuesday.

2.Cyclone ‘Dana’ struck the eastern coast early October 25, triggering torrential rain and high-speed winds uprooting trees and utility poles. The storm also caused significant damage to public infrastructure and standing crops in 14 districts of the state.

3.The Iskcon’s Bhubaneswar unit Tuesday said the organisation has cancelled its proposed chariot festival there November 9. The devotees in Houston will instead perform another ritual - Goura Nitai Sankirtan Yatra, the religious body said in a statement here.

4.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Tuesday said the BJP-led government at the Centre will organise various programmes across the country to mark the 125th birth anniversary of the state’s icon Harekrushna Mahatab.

5.Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Tuesday asked the Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare department to provide three months of rice in advance to the benefi ciaries of the Public Distribution System (PDS).

6.The Archae ological Survey of India (ASI), Chennai Circle, will commence excavation work soon at Amoor, a protected site near Thiruporur in Tamil Nadu’s Chengalpattu district.

7.Opposition members in the parliamentary committee on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla Tuesday to register their protest against alleged "unilateral" decisions by panel chairman and BJP MP Jagdambika Pal.

8.Railway Board Chairman Satish Kumar has asked all the general managers and divisional railway managers to follow the proper procedure of loading and unloading in freight trains to prevent derailment.

9.Former British Indian home secretary Priti Patel has been chosen by the newly elected Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch as her shadow foreign secretary to join her top team on the Opposition benches in the House of Commons Tuesday.

10.The renewable energy investment globally is likely to register 29 per cent growth to touch USD 3.1 trillion in 2024 against USD 2.4 trillion in 2018, a report said Tuesday.

11.Delhi was ranked the most polluted city in India in October, with an average PM2.5 concentration of 111 micrograms per cubic metre, according to a new analysis.

12.Popular folk singer Sharda Sinha, who was undergoing treatment at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)-Delhi, died Tuesday night. She was 72.

13.Hinting at retirement from parliamentary politics, NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar Tuesday said he will have to think about whether he should seek another Rajya Sabha term after his current tenure ends.

14.Indian professional boxer Mandeep Jangra has won the World Boxing Federation’s super featherweight world title after defeating Britain’s Conor McIntosh in the Cayman Islands.

 15.India has submitted a ‘Letter of Intent’, expressing its desire to host the 2036 Olympic and Paralympic Games, to the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Future Host Commission, taking the first concrete step in an ambitious plan after months of informal dialogue with the IOC.