Since months of closure due to lockdown, schools and colleges in Karnataka reopened on Tuesday following all COVID-19 health protocols.

Every student would need to undergo RT-PCR test and they will be permitted to join only if tested negative for the infection.

“We had to submit the COVID-19 test result before joining. We have been given certain instructions to be followed. I am feeling good but a little tense too,” a student of St Joseph’s College.

St Joseph’s College has begun conducting examinations and students are coming back from their homes to appear for the same.

“I am happy but tensed too. It took a lot of time for us to adjust to the online scheduling of classes. I do not know If I am ready for the examinations but I hope for the best,” said another student.

Thermal screening and sanitisation are mandatory at the entrance of the college, Students are asked to wear masks and maintain social distancing inside the college premises.

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For the first time in history, SpaceX(a private company) launches a manned mission to International Space Station.

A SpaceX shuttle carrying four astronauts took off into space on Sunday, on its first manned mission NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) to expect this process to be a long-term plan in assisting Humans to the International Space Station (ISS) completely to operate as expected.

The crew will take 27 hours in orbit as the spacecraft gradually moves toward its objective.

The time taken would have been more shorter if the Crew Dragon were able to lauch on Saturday, as NASA initially arranged, due to a Hurricane the ETA had to be delayed and took off on Sunday.

The container has a working restroom, and the astronauts will have time to get some sleep as the completely self-sufficient vehicle moves through orbit while SpaceX and NASA authorities in Houston, Texas, and Hawthorne, California, look after the excursion.

Sunday’s mission was quickly tossed into question after SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed on Twitter that he was encountering manifestations and was being tested for COVID-19, prompting NASA to complete a contact tracing effort to guarantee no basic staff for the dispatch may have been uncovered.

The US has gone through almost 10 years without the capacity to dispatch space travelers into space after the retirement of the Space Shuttle program in 2011, and NASA had to depend on Russian Soyuz rocket to get space explorers to the ISS, which the space organization says left the multibillion-dollar orbiting research center understaffed.

SpaceX built up the Crew Dragon case under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, which, for the first time in the space agency’s history, given over a large part of the plan, advancement and testing of new human-evaluated shuttle to the private sector.

US President Donald Trump responded to the news by saying that NASA was a closed up disaster when he accepted the administration in 2016 and was currently the ‘hottest’, most developed space community on the planet.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted the nation on the occasion of Bhai Dooj.

In a tweet, Prime Minister Modi said: “Best wishes to all of you on the holy occasion of Bhai Dooj.” Bhai Dooj, the festival of a symbol of brother-sister love is being celebrated all over the country today.

On this day, sisters pray for their brothers to have long and better life by performing Tika function and brothers offer gifts to their sisters.

The festival is known as:

Bhai Dooj is also known as Bhau Beej and Bhathru Dwithiya. According to Hindu traditions, it is believed that Goddess Yamuna took care of her sibling Yamraj on Kartik Dwitiya at her own home. From that point forward this day is known as Yama Dwitiya.

Bhai Dooj (Hindi: भाई दूज) in entire Northern part of India, observed during the Diwali festival. This is also the second day of the Vikrami Samvat New Year, the calendar followed in Northern India (including Kashmir), which starts from the lunar month of Kārtika. It is widely celebrated by Awadhis in Uttar Pradesh, Maithils in Bihar as Bhardutiya and people from various other ethnic groups. The first day of this New Year is observed as Govardhan Pūja.

Bhai Tika (Nepali: भाई टीका) in Nepal, where it is the most important festival after Dashain (Vijaya Dashmi / Dussehra). Observed on the fifth day of Tihar festival, it is widely celebrated by the Khas people.

Bhai Phonta (Bengali: ভাই ফোঁটা) in Bengal and it takes place every year on the second day after Kali Puja.

Bhau Beej, or Bhav Bij (Marathi: भाऊबीज) or Bhai Beej amongst the Marathi, Gujarati and Konkani-speaking communities in the states of Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat and Karnataka.

Another name for the day is Yamadwitheya or Yamadvitiya, after a legendary meeting between Yama the god of Death and his sister Yamuna (the famous river) on Dwitheya (the second day after new moon).
Other names include Bhatru Dviteeya, or Bhatri Ditya or Bhaghini Hastha Bhojanamu in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

According to a popular legend in Hindu mythology, after slaying the evil demon Narakasura, Lord Krishna visited his sister Subhadra who gave him a warm welcome with sweets and flowers. She also affectionately applied tilaka on Krishna’s forehead. Some believe this to be the origin of the festival.

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Zoom intends to lift the default 40-minute meeting limit on Thanksgiving day so that family’s stay connected without interruption.

Zoom, the communications tech company has said that it would lift its default forty-minute limit on free video calls for ‘Thanksgiving Day’ to make it easier and simpler for families to spend time virtually on the US holiday.

The forty-minute time limit has been a major restriction throughout Covid pandemic, which forces groups to restart the calls after the specified time. Zoom’s competitors have imposed comparable limitations, including Google Meet (hour long cutoff) and all similar service providers charge extra for enterprise-grade plans that eliminate the restrict and grow the quantity of members permitted.

Zoom’s expulsion of the forty-minute cutoff will be from 12 PM on Thanksgiving Day (November 26th) to 6 am ET on November 27.

Recently Zoom announced a feature update where they tend to see spoken words into caption.

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Sachin Tendulkar made his debut in international cricket on November 15, 1989.

He made his debut in a Test match between India and Pakistan that was played in Karachi in 1989. In the same match, Pakistan’s pacer Waqar Younis had also made his debut. The match had finished in a draw.

Since then, Tendulkar has forged his name in history as the ‘bgreatest batsman of all time’ and he additionally got nicknamed as the ‘Expert Blaster’.

Tendulkar, bid adieu to international cricket in 2013 and to date, he remains the most run-scorer in both, Tests as well as ODIs. He additionally has the record for enlisting most international centuries.

Last year, Tendulkar became the sixth Indian to get to get into the ICC Hall of Fame. The 46-year-old made his introduction for India at 16 years old and quickly turned into nation’s number one cricketer.

He made 34,357 runs across formats, which is more than 6,000 runs ahead of the second-placed former Sri Lanka cricketer Kumar Sangakkara.

The Master Blaster has likewise filled in as a coach to the Mumbai Indians that contends in the Indian Premier League (IPL).

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The online Preliminary Examination begins on the 25th of November and the exam will also take place on 27th, 28th, 29th of November while the last exam day is 1st of December, 2020.

Srinagar, J&K —

Jammu & Kashmir Bank has announced that the Probationary Officer (PO) aspirants can download their Call Letters from the official website of the Bank.

The aspirants were open to download their Call Letters from November 12, 2020. However, the last date for downloading the Call Letters is December 1, 2020.

It is pertinent to mention here that Jammu and Kashmir Bank had earlier notified that the J&K Bank Preliminary examinations for the posts of Probationary Officers will be held in the last week of November.

The online Preliminary Examination begins on the 25th of November and the exam will also take place on 27th, 28th, 29th of November while the last exam day is 1st of December, 2020.

How To Download J&K Bank PO Admit Cards/Call Letters?

Follow the link from J&K Bank’s official website to download the Call Letter. At login page, enter your Registration No./Roll No. and Password/DOB (dd-mm-yy) at the required places to download the Call Letter.

Applicants need to feed in the “Registration No.” & “Password” that was generated at the time of registration and displayed on the screen. These were also sent to the candidate immediately upon successful registration, by way of auto-generated email acknowledgement, at the email address registered by him/her.

Internet-based Call Letter download depends on various factors like Internet speed, a large number of applicants trying to download the Call Letter at the same time etc. Therefore, if you are not able to download the Call Letter immediately, please retry after a gap of five minutes or during off-peak hours during the night.

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This Children’s Day, actor Vidya Balan collaborated with Anshula Kapoor’s fundraising platform, Fankind to help and light up the day for few child sex abuse survivors.

Vidya Balan to play virtual antakshari with five lucky winners to help NGO Arpan, which pursues the prosperity of such survivors. The mission with Vidya Balan will start today, on the event of the birth anniversary of Jawaharlal Nehru, which is celebrated as Children’s Day.

As the whole nation celebrates Diwali, the actor has decided to start a conversation on this very sensitive but integral topic of how to keep children safe from abuse.

“Its heart wrenching to know that 1 of 2 children experience some sort of Sexual Abuse,” the ‘Kahaani’ actor said in an Instagram video, which she posted from her handle.

“On this Children’s Day lets all of us take a pledge to keep the children in our homes, society safe from abuse and let them flourish with love hope, and joy. Fankind has joined Arpan and me in this journey to keep a World free of Child sexual abuse, have you?” she added.

1 out of 2 children encounters some type of Child Sexual Abuse (both boys and girls), while 1 out of 5 face extreme sexual abuse, as per a 2007 based investigation of the Ministry of Women and Child Development.

Arpan is one of the not many associations dealing with this issue in India for a very long time. Until this point, Arpan has empowered more than 130,000 children and 100,000 adults, guided 8000 kids who disclosed abuse and stopped all ongoing abuse.

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