An Indian-origin politician, Pravin Gordhan has been appointed as South Africa̢۪s new Finance Minister. With this he becomes country̢۪s third Finance Minister in a week. He replaces David van Rooyen who was appointed on 10 November 2015.

Powerful Typhoon Melor (also known as Nona) has hit the central Philippines battering the coast with powerful winds with speed of 20kph followed by intense rainfall.

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• Coast Guard DIG Loshali sacked over Pakistani boat blow-up claim.
• Justice Narasimha Reddy to head committee on OROP
• Samuels banned from bowling for 12 months

Justice (Retd) L. Narasimha Reddy, former chief justice of Patna High Court, will head the judicial committee, which will look into the implementation of One Rank One Pension (OROP) scheme for the ex-servicemen.

The climate deal adopted in suburban Paris was the culmination of four years of negotiations on how to get nearly all countries to jointly reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that scientists say are warming the planet.

Olympic silver medallist Vijay Kumar, with a score of 588, pipped Gurpreet Singh by two points to win the centre fire pistol gold in the 59th National shooting championship at the Dr. Karni Singh Range, Tughlakabad. Vijay finished strongly by shooting 296 in the rapid fire section of the centre fire pistol event, after having shot 292 in the precision stage.

West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels has been banned from bowling for 12 months by the International Cricket Council after undergoing testing on his action.

Benedict Anderson, a Cornell University scholar who became one of the most influential voices in the fields of nationalism and Southeast Asian studies, died on Sunday in Indonesia. He was 79.

Saudi voters have elected 20 women for local government seats, according to results, a day after women voted and ran in elections for the first time in the country̢۪s history.

Coast Guard DIG B.K. Loshali has been sacked following a Board of Inquiry over his comments that contradicted the government̢۪s stand on the sinking of a Pakistan fishing boat in 2014.

• Ahmad Javed appointed as Ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
• Construction work TAPI gas pipeline project begins.
• Legendary actor Dilip Kumar conferred with Padma Vibhushan.