1.
Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili has nominated the country's
interior minister as his successor. The nomination on Saturday of
Irakli Garibashvili comes a week after elections that chose
Ivanishvili's ally Giorgi Margvelashvili as the country's new president.
2. Riding on Rohit Sharma's
record-breaking 209, India registered their first bilateral ODI series
win at home against Australia as they crushed the visitors by 57 runs in
the seventh one-day international on Saturday.
3. Novak
Djokovic extended his winning streak to 16 matches as he came back from a
set down to defeat Roger Federer on Saturday and reach the final of the
Paris Masters.
4. Australian Mark Webber put Red Bull on pole
position for the floodlit Abu Dhabi Formula One Grand Prix on Saturday
in a front row sweep with quadruple world champion teammate Sebastian
Vettel.
5. Russia and Japan have moved to dramatically upgrade
bilateral ties, holding their first joint Defence and Foreign Ministers’
meeting and agreeing to expand their defence and security cooperation.
6. The Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, famous for dense population of
one-horn rhinos, reopened to tourists on Saturday after remaining closed
during the monsoon.
7. The Pakistani Taliban on Saturday confirmed the death of its leader Hakimullah Mehsud in a U.S. drone strike.
8. Kannur (also known as Cannanore, is a city in Kannur district in the
Indian state of Kerala) declared first zero-landless district in
country.
9. India moved a step closer to sourcing uranium from
Australia, the world’s biggest exporter of the radioactive mineral, with
the Foreign Ministers of both countries agreeing to hold the third
round of talks on a bilateral civil nuclear agreement towards the end of
this month.
10. President Barack Obama has wished Indians "a
Happy Diwali and Saal Mubarak" saying the festival reminded Americans
that the US "is home to many faiths and traditions, and that our
diversity makes us stronger."
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