1.In 2025, as of November 21, as many as 3,155 Indian nationals have been deported from the US, the government informed Parliament on Friday.

2.The United States wants Europe to take over the majority of NATO’s conventional defense capabilities, from intelligence to missiles, by 2027, Pentagon officials told diplomats in Washington this week.

3.In view of the surge in passenger demand following widespread flight cancellations, the Indian Railways has deployed 116 additional coaches in 37premium trains operating over 114 enhanced trips across the country.

4.IndiGo cancelled over 1,000 flights Friday and said operations are expected to normalise in the next 10 days.

5.The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has reduced the repo rate by 25 bps, its fourth cut since February 2025.

6.The Supreme Court Friday said that money belonging to a temple deity cannot be used to prop up financially distressed cooperative banks.

7.President Droupadi Murmu Friday conveyed her warm wishes to Prof K Lakshmi Bai on her 100th birthday and lauded her extraordinary gesture of donating her self-earned savings of Rs3.4 crore to AIIMS Bhubaneswar for cancer care.

8.Attacks by tigers, leopards, bears and other animals has claimed more than 900 lives in Uttarakhand in the last 25 years.

9.Leaders of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi have not been invited to the banquet for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

10.The World Book of Records, London, Friday recognised Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s “milestone” of having taken oath as chief minister for the 10th time.

11.The Assam government Friday diluted the two-child norm for ST, SC, tea garden, Moran and Matak communities, amending its policy in this regard.

12.Forest officials in Ganjam district have seized two fishing trawlers from Andhra Pradesh for alleged illegal fishing near the Rushikulya river mouth.

13.The Odisha Government is moving to revise the entire school curriculum from Class I to Class XII in alignment with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.

14.The matriculation examination for 2026 will begin February 19 and end March 2.

15.One of the two cheetah cubs released into the wild at the Kuno National Park the day before was found dead on Friday.