# Supreme Court

• Four years after decriminalising consensual private sexual relationship between adults of LGBTQ+ communities, the Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine legalising same sex marriages in India.
• Supreme Court sought the central government response to the pleas of two gay couples for making special marriage Act (SMA), 1954, gender neutral.
• A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice Hima Kohli issued notice to the centre and asked it to file its responses in four weeks to two petitions.

# Big tech

• India should follow in the footsteps of Australia and Canada to put in place concrete policy measures that push big tech companies to come to the negotiating table with digital news publishers and pay them equitably for the content they publish, said speakers at India’s first criss continent DNPA dialogues held on Friday.
• The DNPA dialogues is the brainchild of Digital News Publishers’ Association (DNPA) an advocacy body and Umbrella organization for the digital arms of India’s 17 top news outlets seeking to protect the interests of digital news publishers.
• Speaking at the DNPA dialogues, Australian regulatory Stalwary Rod Sims, who was instrumental in helping the code cone into effect in 2021, said the bargaining code left scope for arbitration in the legislation if talks did not work.

# Foreign exchange

• The country’s foreign exchanges reserves rose by $2.5 billion during the week ended November 18.
• The forex reserves at the end of the week stood at $547.2 billion.
• This is the second consecutive week forex reserves have risen.

# Jammu and Kashmir

• Around 5.1 lakh new voters have been added to the Jammu and Kashmir electoral rolls as part of the special summary revision with reference to October 1, 2022 as the qualifying date since the last revision undertaken in 2019 for the erstwhile state, which also included ladakh with around 1.8 lakh voters.
• The UT now has 83,59,774 electors which has earlier 78,44,887 electors at the time of 2019 Lok Sabha.