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During her address at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Hyderabad on Tuesday, US President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka hailed PM Narendra Modi's journey from a tea-seller to his election in 2014, saying he proved transformational change is possible. She also praised him for working towards building India "as a thriving economy, a beacon of democracy and a symbol of hope."

The Karnataka Assembly on November 16 passed an Anti-Superstition Bill, which bans 23 superstitious practices. These include human sacrifice, parading women naked and segregation of menstruating or pregnant women, among others. The bill had faced considerable opposition from BJP and some members of the ruling Congress, who expressed fears about the bill hurting sentiments of the Hindu community.

US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi “expressed satisfaction” over the Global Entrepreneurship Summit that the countries co-hosted in Hyderabad last month, in a conversation over phone, according to the White House. The US delegation at the summit included representatives from 38 US states and was headed by President Trump's daughter and senior advisor Ivanka Trump.

The Bhopal gas tragedy had occurred on the night of December 2 and 3, 1984, following a leak of the poisonous gas– methyl isocyanate, from the Union Carbide plant. Although government data recorded 3,000 casualties in the leak, activists claimed around 8,000 to 10,000 deaths. The leak caused 5.5 lakh injuries, which included blindness and birth defects in future generations.

The Indian Navy Day is celebrated on December 4 to commemorate the launch of Operation Trident against Pakistan's naval headquarters during the 1971 Indo-Pak War. The operation was successful as it sank four Pakistani ships and also crippled the Karachi port and fuel depot. On the other hand, the Indian Navy suffered no casualties or damage to its ships.

Centred upon National Capital Territory of Delhi, the National Capital Region (NCR) includes 23 districts of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, and Rajasthan. Apart from 13 districts of Haryana including Gurugram and Rewari, the NCR comprises of eight districts of UP such as Ghaziabad, Meerut, and Muzaffarnagar. The two districts of Rajasthan that are a part of NCR are Alwar and Bharatpur.

A three-judge bench of the Allahabad High Court ordered the division of the 2.77 acres of disputed Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid site in Ayodhya equally among the Nirmohi Akhara, Sunni Central Waqf Board and Ram Lala Virajman. The verdict was delivered with a 2-1 majority after the bench heard the arguments non-stop over a period of 90 working days.

On December 3, 1971, Pakistan's military attacked several Indian posts and declared a state of war against India because of India's support to East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) against Pakistan's military oppression. Indian forces defeated the Pakistan Army after a 13-day war and freed Bangladesh on December 16, which has been celebrated as 'Vijay Diwas' ever since.

The youngest President of the Congress was Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, who was elected at the age of 35. While Rahul Gandhi formally took over today aged 47, his father Rajiv Gandhi became Congress President at 41, and his mother Sonia Gandhi was elected at 52. Further, Rahul Gandhi's grandmother, Indira Gandhi was elected when she was 42.

After winning the Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat Assembly elections, the BJP and its allies now control governments in 19 of the 29 states in India. The BJP runs a coalition with People's Democratic Party in J&K, Janata Dal (United) in Bihar, and Shiv Sena in Maharashtra. The party had ended Congress' 15-year rule in Assam in 2016.

The 2G spectrum scam, which the CAG claimed caused a ₹1.76 lakh-crore presumptive loss to the national exchequer, involved Sun TV's Maran brothers, executives from Reliance ADAG, including its President Surendra Pipara and Senior Vice President Hari Nair. Swan Telecom's promoters Vinod Goenka and Shahid Usman Balwa, and Unitech Managing Director D Sanjay Chandra were also named as accused.

The Indian PM's security is constituted by the Special Protection Group (SPG), which is the sole security organisation overseeing and coordinating PM's security. SPG, which gets its personnel from central forces, conducts anti-sabotage checks, accompanies the PM everywhere, and handles the PM's public events. It was conceived in 1985, following the assassination of former PM Indira Gandhi.

Adarsh Housing Society was a residential complex in Mumbai, originally meant to provide houses to Kargil war widows. The scam came to light in 2010 when it was found that houses were being allotted to politicians' relatives at below par prices. The then Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan resigned after it was revealed that he approved selling 40% flats to civilians.

The coal scam or Coalgate accounting for over ₹1.86 lakh crore was one of the biggest scams reported by the Comptroller and Auditor General in 2014. Another case was the ₹1.76 lakh crore 2G Spectrum Allocation scam reported by CAG in 2010, in which all accused were recently acquitted. The 2010 Commonwealth Games scam was estimated at ₹70,000 crore.

Fodder scam is a series of financial irregularities where ₹950 crore was fraudulently withdrawn by Bihar's animal husbandry department by making a false paper trail of fodder, medicines, and equipment purchases. The scam was exposed in 1996, leading to Lalu Prasad Yadav's resignation as Bihar CM. He was today convicted in second of six fodder scam cases against him.

Himachal Pradesh's CM-elect Jai Ram Thakur is a five-time MLA, who won the Seraj seat in the recently concluded elections with a margin of over 11,000 votes. He started as an active student leader in RSS-affiliated ABVP and later joined the BJP's youth wing in the 1990s. Thakur has earlier served as state Minister of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj.

Of the 20 MLAs inducted in Gujarat's Council of Ministers, six are from the Patidar community, including former BJP state President RC Faldu and Kaushik Patel. Minister of State and three-time MLA Vibhavariben Dave is the only woman in the Council. Meanwhile, CM Vijay Rupani and Deputy CM Nitin Patel assumed office for the second time.

The National Medical Commission Bill, 2017, that was tabled in the ongoing Lok Sabha session proposes allowing homeopathy, Ayurveda doctors to practise modern medicine after completing a 6-month 'bridge course'. It seeks to replace the Medical Council of India with a four-tier structure to regulate medical education, with a government-appointed National Medical Commission at the top.