HT morning news brief November 13: Nvidia scandal spirals, Jensen Huang resigns; Delhi's air quality in 'severe' category

Good morning, readers. Here is a quick roundup of the major headlines in politics, national and international affairs, sports, and entertainment. Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO; Delhi's air quality in 'severe' category (Photos Credit: AFP (L); PTI (R))Jensen Huang resigns as Nvidia CEO, accused of third affairJensen Huang resigned as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Nvidia on Thursday after his alleged extramarital affairs came to light.

Meanwhile, he has reportedly been accused of having another affair with an employee. Check here. Delhi's air quality deteriorated into the "severe" zone on Friday morning, with a thick, smoky haze continuing to envelop the national capital.

According to HT’s real-time air quality dashboard and the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the Air Quality Index (AQI) stood at 403 at 7:30 am. Check the full story here. A day after Nationalist Congress Party’s (NCP) national president and Maharashtra deputy chief minister Sunetra Pawar addressed the merger buzz between the two factions saying, “You will know at the right time,” NCP (SP) national working president Supriya Sule ruled out a reunion.

Read the full story here. Microsoft saw a massive global outage on Thursday, with services such as Outlook, Teams and Copilot disrupted. Amid the outage, Downdetector tracked a peak of about 2,00,000 reports of user issues across Microsoft services shortly after 1 pm New York time.

Read more. India's Shreyas Iyer won the toss and opted to bowl in the fourth ODI against New Zealand on Friday. Follow live updates here. Pyre is reportedly adding 200 shows in theatres across India from Friday. This comes after a huge row over a 75 to 80 per cent reduction in the film's shows following the release of Ramayana.

On Thursday, director Vinod Kapri expressed his gratitude to the audience for the love and appreciation towards his independent film. Read more. Follow the latest breaking news, major developments and agenda-setting stories from India and around the world with the newsdesk at Hindustan Times.

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