When Geeta Phogat created history by becoming the first Indian woman wrestler to clinch a gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, the then 15-year-old Sarita Mor was in the junior national camp.

Geeta's famous victory turned her into a role model for every budding woman wrestler and Sarita was one of them. Such was Sarita's obsession with her idol that she used to keep Geeta's pictures in her diary.

As she graduated to senior level, the duo faced each other on the wrestling mat, at least, on a couple of occasions with Geeta emerging triumphant every time. Incidentally, they last met in the 2017 nationals semifinal wherein Geeta posted a come-from-behind victory. Four years later, Geeta's all-win record over Sarita was broken in Nandini Nagar, Gonda (Uttar Pradesh) as the younger grappler recorded a comprehensive 8-0 victory in the 59kg final of the senior nationals on  Nov 12 .

Haryana won the team championship in women's wrestling with Railways and Delhi finishing second and third respectively.

·       Emphasising that Afghanistan’s territory should not be used for sheltering, training, planning or financing any terrorist acts, the National Security Advisers / Secretaries of the National Security Councils from eight countries declared jointly on  Nov 11 after a regional security summit hosted by India.

·       The Heads of the National Security Councils of seven nations, who are in Delhi for the Regional Security Dialogue on Afghanistan hosted today by National Security Advisor  Ajit Doval, collectively called on Prime Minister  Narendra Modi after the completion of the Dialogue.

·       The joint statement - the Delhi Declaration on Afghanistan - said the eight participating nations discussed the evolving Afghan situation, especially the global ramifications post the Taliban's takeover in August.

·       While the eight officials from India, Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan paid special attention to the current political situation in Afghanistan and threats arising from terrorism, radicalisation and drug trafficking, they also emphasised on the need for humanitarian assistance.

·       The participants thanked the Republic of India for holding the Third Regional Security Dialogue on Afghanistan in New Delhi. The participants agreed to hold the next round in 2022.

·       This is for the first time all central Asian countries - Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan - and not just Afghanistan's immediate neighbours, are participating in this dialogue.

·       China and Pakistan were also invited to attend. While China declined the invitation due to "scheduling reasons

·       Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis and his government have resigned in a formal step required by the Constitution following last month's parliamentary election.

·       Babis said  on Nov 11  that  he sent the resignation letter to President Milos Zeman.

·       The head of state is expected to ask Babis to stay in office until a new government is appointed.

·       Babis' government had to resign after the first session of the new lower house of Parliament was over, which happened on  Nov 10 .

·       A three-party, liberal-conservative coalition known as Together won the Oct 8-9 election with a 27.8% share of the vote.

·       Together teamed up with a center-left liberal coalition made up of the Pirate Party and a group of mayors and independent candidates, which came in third place with 15.6% of votes.

·       The new partnership will hold 108 seats in the the 200-seat lower house of Parliament, relegating Babis, a populist billionaire, and his centrist ANO (YES) movement to the opposition.

·       Zeman has already asked Petr Fiala, the candidate of the winning coalition, to form a new government.

·       After quitting the AAP, MLA Rupinder Kaur Ruby has  joined the Congress in the presence of Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and state party chief Navjot Singh Sidhu.

·       Ban Ki-moon will come out with a personal account of his decade at the helm of the United Nations during a period of historic turmoil and promise.

·       "Resolved: Uniting Nations in a Divided World" is being published by HarperCollins Publishers India and releases on November 18. Ban performed what has been called the "most impossible job on this earth" with a genuine belief in collective action and global transformation.

·       F.W. de Klerk, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela and as South Africa’s last apartheid president oversaw the end of the country’s white minority rule, has died at the age of 85.

·       De Klerk died after a battle against cancer at his home in the Fresnaye area of Cape Town.

·       De Klerk was a controversial figure in South Africa where many blamed him for violence against Black South Africans and anti-apartheid activists during his time in power, while some white South Africans saw his efforts to end apartheid as a betrayal.

·       It was de Klerk who in a speech to South Africa's parliament on Feb. 2, 1990, announced that Mandela would be released from prison after 27 years. The announcement electrified a country that for decades had been scorned and sanctioned by much of the world for its brutal system of racial discrimination known as apartheid.

·       With South Africa’s isolation deepening and its once-solid economy deteriorating, de Klerk, who had been elected president just five months earlier, also announced in the same speech the lifting of a ban on the African National Congress and other anti-apartheid political groups. Amid gasps, several members of parliament members left the chamber as he spoke.

·       Nine days later, Mandela walked free.

·       Four years after that, Mandela was elected the country’s first Black president as Black South Africans voted for the first time.

·       By then, de Klerk and Mandela had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for their often-tense cooperation in moving South Africa away from institutionalized racism and toward democracy.

·       After Mandela became president, de Klerk served as deputy president until 1996, when his party withdrew from the Cabinet. In making history, de Klerk acknowledged that Mandela’s release was the culmination of what his predecessor, former President P.W. Botha, had begun by meeting secretly with Mandela shortly before leaving office. In the late 1980s, as protests inside and outside the country continued, the ruling party had begun making some reforms, getting rid of some apartheid laws.

·       Devasahayam Pillai, a Hindu converted to Christianity in the 18th century, will become the first Indian layman to be conferred sainthood.

·       Pope Francis will canonize Blessed Devasahayam Pillai, together with six other Blesseds, during a Canonization Mass in St Peter's Basilica in Vatican on May 15, 2022.

·       Habibganj railway station in Bhopal, which has been re-developed as the country’s first world-class station with facilities equivalent of a modern airport, will soon to be dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It will tentatively be on November 15.

·       The station has been equipped with modern facilities after being developed on the PPP mode at the cost of Rs 450 crore by the Indian Railways Station Development Corporation. There will be facilities like lounges, ATMs and others. There will also be lifts, escalators and moving walkways.