# SCO summit

• This year’s SCO summit is chaired by vice-president Venkaiah naidu. One of the topics of discussion is terrorism.

• Venkaiah naidu said in the meeting that cross border terrorism is one of the biggest challenges for countries belonging to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. He said this without naming Pakistan.

• With the exception of India, all other SCO member nations expreseed their support for china’s Belt and road initiative and joint implementation of projects with the Eurasian economic union.

# DELHI

• Delhi government has cut the price for RT-PCR tests from rupees 2400 to 800.

• Positivity rate of covid-19 is declining in Delhi reaching upto 7.35% on 30th november.

• With a mean minimum temperature of 10.2 degree celsius, this november has been the coldest in 71 years, according to data available with the Indian meteorological department.

# Nagaland

• Nagaland governor RN Ravi, who is also the interlocutor for Naga peace talks, made it clear that there would be no separate flag and constitution for Nagaland.

• This demand for a separate flag and constitution has been consistently made by NSCN-IM*.

• Governor RN Ravi said the flag and constitution are the pride of India and the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the Union of India are supreme.

# Countering maoists

• The union government is in the process of deploying five more batallions of CRPF  to Chattisgarh to scale up anti maoists operations, particularly in the south bastar region.

• More than 45 CAPF batallions are already deployed in Chattisgarh, where 14 districts are maoist affected. Out of which 8 districts are severly affected.

• In addition, the CRPFs specially trained “cobra units” and the state’s special task force and District reserve guards are also engaged in the forward areas.

# Fitch report

• After a covid-19 pandemic led contraction consumer spending in 2020, household spending will return to growth in 2021, expanding by as much as 6.6%. A report of Fitch solutions said on 30th november.

# 5G connections in India

• India is expected to surpass 350 million 5G subscriptions by 2036, accounting for 27% of all mobile subscriptions in India. According to a report by Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson.

• As per “the Ericsson mobility report 2020”, four out of every ten mobile subscriptions in 2026 will be 5G globally with 5G  subscriptions forecast to reach 3.5 billion.

• Based on the reported timeline for spectrum auction for 5G services, India could have its first 5G connection in 2021.

• The report also mentioned that traffic per smartphone user in India, rising from 13.5 GB a month in 2019 to 15.7 GB in 2020.

# Today in India’s history

• 1963 – Nagaland becomes the 16th state of Indian Union.

• 1965 – Border security force (BSF) was organised, which would be armed and trained to man the international border with Pakistan.

• 1993 – World AIDS day.