News Headlines : 15th November 2021

  • Legendary Hindi writer and feminist Mannu Bhandari passes away at 90. Mannu Bhandari was suffering from age-related ailments and admitted at the Hospital for the past one week. She was the wife of late Hindi fiction writer Rajendra Yadav.
  • The Nation celebrates birth anniversary of tribal freedom fighter Bhagwan Birsa Munda as Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas today.
  • PM Narendra Modi to take part in the programme to mark the first Audit Diwas. he tweeted “Audit Diwas seeks to highlight the rich contributions of CAG to boost transparency and good governance.”
  • Birsa Munda scripted a golden name in nation’s freedom struggle, says Prime Minister; inaugurates  virtually Birsa Munda Museum in Ranchi, Jharkhand.
  • Prime Minister to address Janjatiya Gaurav Diwas Mahasammelan in Bhopal; Will launch multiple initiatives for the welfare of the community.
  • Two unidentified terrorists have been killed in an encounter between police and security forces, and terrorists in Srinagar’s Hyderpora area, Jammu and Kashmir Police said.
  • Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to interact with Chief Ministers, State Finance Ministers and Lieutenant Governors of Union Territories this afternoon.
  • Supreme Court directs Centre and States to consider work from home mode for employees and asks farmer not to burn farm waste to minimise pollution in NCR.
  • Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri to attend International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference beginning today in Abu Dhabi.
  • 1986 batch Bihar Cadre IPS Officer Sheel Vardhan Singh takes charge as Director General of Central Industrial Security Force.
  • Heavy rain  batters normal life in Kerala; Met Department issues Orange alert in six districts of the state.
  • More than 112 crore 34 lakh COVID vaccine doses administered in the country so far; National recovery rate stands at 98.26 percent.
  • “Hinduism is a beautiful religion that has given a fantastic culture to this country, and I’m proud of it. This attack is not on me, but on Hindu religion,” Congress leader Salman Khurshid said.