Overview
- The CAQM’s GRAP curbs take effect today, barring entry of commercial goods vehicles registered before 2015 into Delhi to help contain winter smog.
- The Delhi High Court levied a ₹1 lakh cost on a litigant for misleading the bench, citing wasted judicial time and harm to procedural integrity.
- Education access moves include the Supreme Court’s directive for UPSC to provide screen-reader software to visually impaired candidates and Maharashtra’s call for medical applicants to fix document errors before the next allotment.
- Diplomacy accelerates with EU negotiators due in New Delhi on November 3 for FTA talks and Pakistan–Afghanistan ceasefire discussions scheduled for November 6.
- US authorities say the FBI thwarted a planned Halloween-period terror attack in Michigan, while India’s Women’s World Cup triumph is underscored by Jemimah Rodrigues being named Best Fielder.