Indonesian President Passes G20 Presidency To PM Modi, BJP Releases Fifth List Of 3 Candidates for Gujarat Assembly Polls, Beyonce rules Grammy after leading nominations with 9: Top headlines | Lets Catch Up 16th November 2022

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS

• NASA's unmanned Moon mission Artemis-1 has finally had a successful liftoff from the Kennedy Space Centre.
• British PM Rishi Sunak has greenlit 3,000 UK visas for young Indian professionals to come to the UK to live and work for up to two years.
• Indonesian President Joko Widodo officially handed over the G20 presidency to India at the end of a summit of the bloc's leaders in Bali.
• World leaders of the G7 held an emergency meeting chaired by US President Joe Biden hours after Russian-made missiles struck Poland near the Ukrainian border, two persons killed.
• Former US president Donald Trump has filed paperwork for the 2024 presidential run, officially setting off his third White House bid.  

NATIONAL NEWS

• PM Modi inaugurates Bengaluru Tech Summit; Says India is using technology in war against poverty, India has shown how to give technology human touch
•  The Delhi Police has moved a court to conduct Narco test on Aaftab, who strangled his live-in partner, Shraddha and chopped her body into 35 pieces
• The Anti Corruption Branch of Delhi arrested AAP MLA Akhilesh Pati Tripathi’s brother-in-law and his two associates for allegedly demanding Rs 90 lakh as bribe for giving ticket to a party worker’s wife in the civic polls.
•  Congress general secretary Ajay Maken has stepped down as Congress incharge of Rajasthan and has written to Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge expressing his "inability and unwillingness to continue" as incharge of Rajasthan.
• BJP released its fifth list of three candidates for the upcoming Gujarat Assembly Polls.

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

• Kunal Kemmu has kick started the shoot of his maiden directorial project ‘Madgaon Express’ 
• Akshay Kumar is all set to play mining engineer Jaswant Singh Gill, who had rescued 64 miners from a flooded quarry in West Bengal in 1989, in an upcoming movie.
• The 65th Grammy Awards is scheduled to take place in Los Angeles on Feb 5 2023, Beyonce topped the nominees list by grabbing 9 spots.

SPORTS NEWS

• Hardik Pandya, who will lead India in the upcoming three-match T20I series against New Zealand, said the road map for the 2024 T20 World Cup starts now.  India will face New Zealand in a three-match T20I and ODI series, beginning with the first T20I on November 18 in Wellington.
• Rafael Nadal was eliminated from the ATP Finals on Tuesday, which guaranteed teenager Carlos Alcaraz would end the year as world number one.

STOCK MARKET

• Closing Bell | Market ends flat amid volatility; realty, power, metals drag, banks gain. Power, realty and metal indices fell 1 percent each, while some buying was seen in the banking names.
• Kotak Mahindra, Coal India, Dr Reddys Labs, HDFC Bank, HUL were top gainers in the nifty today ,The losers included -  Bajaj Finance, Tata Steel, NTPC, Bajaj Finserv, UltraTechCement