Hours after the Supreme Court directed to conduct a floor test in the Maharashtra assembly tomorrow, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has resigned on Tuesday, November 26, 2019.

He submitted his resignation letter to Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari.

Addressing a press conference in Mumbai, Mr. Fadnavis said his government lost majority after NCP leader Ajit Pawar's resignation as the Deputy Chief Minister earlier today.

He said the BJP will not indulge in horse-trading and will act as a responsible Opposition.

November 26 has a unique historical significance as it was on this day in 1949 that the Constitution was adopted, and, thereafter, came into force on January 26, 1950, marking the beginning of India as a republic. The government is celebrating ‘Constitution Day’ or ‘Samvidhan Diwas’ on Tuesday in the Central Hall of Parliament to mark the 70th anniversary of adoption of the Constitution by the Constituent Assembly.

President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the MPs on the occasion.

The President will also inaugurate a digital exhibition through video conferencing.

Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri launched Credit-linked Subsidy Services Awas Portal, CLAP, in New Delhi today.

The portal provides a transparent and robust real-time web-based monitoring system for credit-linked Subsidy Services, CLSS, beneficiaries.

Using the portal, a beneficiary can track his application status in real-time.

Addressing media persons after the launch, Hardeep Singh Puri expressed confidence that CLAP will be quite instrumental in addressing the grievances of beneficiaries in a much comprehensive and organized manner.

The embattled Indian archers overcame all odds to ensure two medals in the recurve and compound mixed event of the Asian Archery Championships on Tuesday.

Competing under a neutral flag due to the suspension of Indian federation, the Indian archers opened their account with a bronze medal in the recurve mixed pair event where Atanu Das and Deepika Kumari defeated Yichai Zheng and Shaoxuan Wei of China 6-2 without breaking a sweat.

But it was the compound mixed pair team of Abhishek Verma and Jyothi Surekha Vennam who produced a stunner ousting Korea 159-154 in a one-sided affair to set up a gold medal clash with Chinese Taipei, slated for Wednesday.

Haryana's Sangram Dahiya and Varsha Varman of Madhya Pradesh clinched double trap titles, winning gold at the 63rd National Shotgun Shooting Championship in New Delhi today.

 In men's category, Sangram shot 142 out of 150 targets to leave behind former world champion Ankur Mittal, who managed 137 hits over the five rounds of 30 targets each to win a silver.  Punjab's Prithvi Singh Chahal won bronze with a score of 135.

Varsha, in the women's category of 120 targets each, had 97 to her name to clinch the gold ahead of state-mate Manisha Keer, who had 93 hits winning Silver. Mahima Vishwakarma ensured a Madhya Pradesh sweep in the category, winning bronze with 92.

The International Film festival of India, IFFI at Goa is seeing all the hustle and bustle expected of its 50th edition. Various sections like World Panorama, Foreign Kaleidoscope and Soul of Asia have acquainted delegates with the gems of world cinema. IFFI will also present films by renowned filmmaker Takashi Miike. AIR correspondent reports that the golden jubilee edition of IFFI honours a well known auteur in its Filmmaker in Focus section.

This time, Japanese Takashi Miike has been chosen. He is considered one of the foremost filmmakers today. His work has achieved cult status due to his films mixing distinctly different genres and creating exceptional movies.

Today, the festival will showcase one of the Director's most popular films. Audition, released almost two decades ago is a disturbing Japanese thriller. A son sets up a fake audition to get a date for his widowed father. But, things take a dramatic and deadly turn.

Uttar Pradesh government is launching a massive immunisation campaign against the filariasis or Filaria from today. Central government has set year 2021 as the deadline for complete eradication of filaria in country.

AIR correspondent reports that under this campaign more than 65 thousand teams of health workers will distribute medicines to around 6.5 crore people till 10 December in 19 districts.

Campaign will be launched by Health and Family Welfare Minister Jai Pratap Singh who told AIR that at present there are 1.25 lakh cases of filaria in these 19 districts.

Hosts Spain made light work of a youthful Canadian side to win the inaugural edition of the new-look Davis Cup and claim the team trophy for a sixth time, on Sunday.

Fittingly it was Spain's talisman Rafael Nadal who sealed the triumph, beating 20-year-old Denis Shapovalov 6-3 7-6(7) to rack up his eighth victory in eight matches during a gruelling week.

Playing for the fourth successive day, the 33-year-old was surely tired and it began to show as Shapovalov fought to keep Canada alive in their first Davis Cup final.

In badminton, India's Lakshya Sen has won the Scottish Open men's single title, defeating Brazilian Ygor Coelho to seal his fourth title in three months.

Entering the tournament as the top seed, the world number 41 registered an 18-21, 21-18, 21-19 win in 56 minutes to claim the title in Glasgow.

The 18-year-old Indian started his year with a silver medal at the Polish Open International Challenge in March. After a series of disappointing exits, Sen went on to win the Belgian International in September, his first title of the year.

Within a month, Lakshya won his first BWF Super 100 title at the Dutch Open, with the second one coming soon after, at the SaarLorLux Open in Germany. He will be next seen in action in the Syed Modi International Championship, starting tomorrow in Lucknow.

New Delhi: The first flight from Kalaburagi Airport took off today, headed for Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru, after the inauguration of Kalaburagi airport by the Chief Minister of Karnataka. The airport has been built under the ‘Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik‘ Regional Connectivity Scheme (UDAN-RCS) of the Government of India and is spread across 742 acres and developed at an estimated cost of Rs. 176 crores.

Kalaburagi Airport is at a distance of 13.8 km from Kalaburagi City and is a DGCA licensed Aerodrome for VFR/Day operations. Three flights per week will be operated by Star Air on Monday, Friday and Sunday. It will depart Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) at 12:20 pm and land at Kalaburagi at 1:25 pm. From Kalaburagi it will depart at 1:55 pm, and reach at 3 pm.

Last month, Star Air had launched a flight from Hubballi in Northern Karnataka to Hindon, Delhi’s second airport. This is the longest commercial air travel route under the UDAN-RCS scheme.

The Ministry of Civil Aviation undertook the task to develop the Kalaburagi airport as it will pave the way for direct connectivity to North Karnataka with state Headquarters and other commercial centres.

Kalaburagi Airport will act as a gateway for tourist destinations including Buddha Vihar, Sharana Basaveshwara Temple, Khwaja Banda Nawaz Dargah, and Gulbarga Fort.