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AWARDS AND HONOURS

NAME OF THE AWARD	AWARD WINNER	KEY POINTS TO NOTE
Infosys Prize 2017	Prof. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhya, Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Upinder Singh Bhalla, Ritabrata Munshi, Yamuna Krishnan, Lawrence Liang.	To make DNA machines to study living cells
National Child Award for Exceptional Achievement 2017	Zaira Wasi	Performing Arts on the occasion of Children’s Day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

APPOINTMENTS

NAME	DEPT/FIELD
Tulsi Gabbard	Chairperson of World Hindu Congress 2018
Audrey Azoulay	Director-General of UNESCO
Phanindra Sama	Chief Innovation Officer of Telangana
Debjani Ghosh	President of NASSCOM
Bhaskar Ganguly	Ombudsman of All India Football Federation (AIFF)
Sethurathnam Ravi	Chairman of Bombay Stock Exchange
Gordon Watson	CEO of Global insurance company AXA, Asia
Urjit Patel	Financial Stability Institute Advisory Board or the Bank of International Settlement (BIS)
Vijay Prasad Dimri	President of 36th Intl Geological Congress

NATIONAL AFFAIRS

• The Minister of Women & Child Development, Smt Maneka Sanjay Gandhi launched an online complaint management system titled Sexual Harassment electronic–Box (SHe-Box) for registering complaints related to sexual harassment at workplace in New Delhi.
• The Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Kiren Rijiju has said that India need to prepare itself for moving towards Disaster Risk Management (DRM) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) from an approach of traditional Disaster Management.
• The Ministry of Women and Child Development will celebrate the Child Rights Week (Hausla 2017) from 16th to 20th November, 2017.
• The government will start its second and final phase of BharatNet project – with an outlay of around Rs 34,000 crore — to provide high-speed broadband in all panchayats by March 2019.
• Northeast is all set to get India’s first-ever “Air Dispensary” based in a helicopter and the Union Ministry of Development of Northeast (DONER) has already contributed Rs. 25 crore as part of the initial funding for this initiative.
• India is likely to achieve strong growth over the next decade and will overtake Japan in nominal GDP by 2028, to emerge as the world’s third-largest economy, says a foreign brokerage Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BoAML).
• Apple Inc has agreed to give limited help to the Indian government to develop an anti-spam mobile application for its iOS platform, after refusing to do so based on privacy concerns.

NEWS IN STATES

• Chief Minister of Telangana K Chandrashekhar Rao recently declared Urdu as the state’s second official language.
• Jharkhand was celebrated its 17th Statehood day on November 15. Birsa Munda, also known as Bhagwan Birsa, was born on November 15, 1875in Ulihatu region of Jharkhand.
• A new tourism product ‘AyurBodha’, which blends tourism and learning about ayurveda for those visiting Kerala.
• The Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA), common platform of 21 countries including India and geographically bordering Indian Ocean, is to set up a Centre of Excellence in Kochi.
• Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has inaugurated Hajee Sir Ismail Sait Gosha Women and Children Hospitalin Shivajinagar.
• Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah inaugurated the sixth China-India Forum meet being jointly hosted by the Government of China
• Karnataka Bank has launched a special campaign for opening current account and savings accounts (CASA). The campaign will remain in force for a period of three-and-a-half months from November 15 to February 28.
• Indore will be hosting the National Wrestling Championship.The championship will start on November 15 at Khel Prashal.
• For the first time, the nation’s financial capital will host the 34th annual conference of the Asian Bankers Association (ABA) this week.
• Chennai is the third Indian city on the list of UNESCO Creative Cities list after Jaipur and Varanasi.
• The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India, has signed an Institutional agreement with Anna University, Chennai.
• Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami was launched a project to provide free coaching for Plus-Two students to enable them take competitive examinations, including the controversial National Eligibility- cum-Entrance Test or NEET.
• The second edition of the two-day UEF Trade Summit will deliberate on ways to effectively influence economic, social and educational development of the country on November 18 and 19 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced that the largest so far Asean-India business and investment summit is slated to be held in New Delhi in January next year.
• India has signed a financing agreement for IBRD loan of US$ 119 million (equivalent) for the “Odisha Higher Education Programme for Excellence & Equity (OHEPEE) Project” with the World Bank.
• The historic city of Cuttack, Former capital of Odisha got a judicial museum.Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra inaugurated the Orissa High Court museum, which was the erstwhile official residence of State chief justices, located inside the famous Barabati fort.
• The Punjab government and Chandigarh administration will jointly organise the three-day Military Literature Festival from December 7 at the Lake Club.
• The Haryana government will launch cashless medical facility on November 30, under which treatment costing up to Rs five lakh will be provided to its regular employees and pensioners.
• Broadcaster Turner International India and Gujarat-based Rajgreen Group have entered into a brand partnership to set up Amaazia – India’s first Cartoon Network branded amusement park, in Surat.
• The Araku valley near Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh is all set to host the first edition of its Hot Air Balloon Festival.

CABINET APPROVALS

• Cabinet approves creation of body to conduct entrance exams
• Cabinet approves continuation and Restructuring of National Rural Drinking Water Programme
• Cabinet approves Creation of National Testing Agency (NTA)
• Cabinet approves utilisation of pulses from the buffer stock
• Cabinet approves MoU between India and Philippines on agriculture and related fields

BANKING AND FINANCE

• Federal Bank has obtained RBI approval to open representative offices at Kuwait and Singapore
• Emirates NBD the biggest lender from Dubai has entered the country with its first branch in the megapolis and will cater to corporates, institutional clients and NRIs.
• American digital payments company PayPal launched domestic operations in India. At launch, Indian consumers will be able to make transactions at select online merchants.
• IndiaFirst Life Insurance, a joint venture between Bank of Baroda, Andhra Bank and Legal and General (UK), introduced Little Champ

FOREIGN RELATIONS

• India and Kazakhstan reviewed bilateral defence cooperation engagement between the two countries recently.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi was tried a hand at agriculture as he visited the International Rice Research Institutein Los Banos, Philippines.
• Officials from India, the US, Japan, and Australiahave  held extensive talks to pursue common interests in the strategically important Indo-Pacific region where China has been aggressively expanding its military presence.

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

• According to a new study published in the scientific journal The Lancet, while most news
• London has jumped two spots to become the second most visited city in the world, according to an annual study that tracks international arrivals.
• External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj held a meeting with Guinea’s Foreign Minister, Mamady Toure, during the course of which the latter handed over his country’s instrument accession to the India-initiated International Solar Alliance (ISA).
• Pope Francis has ordered the Vatican to stop selling cigarettes, believing the Church should not be complicit in something that damages people’s health.
• Bank of China has formally launched its operations in Pakistan, with its first branch inaugurated in Karachi.
• The United States’ Congress has authorised to reimburse up to USD 700 million in Coalition Support Fund (CSF) for activities carried out in support of the U.S. operations in Afghanistan.
• Qatar has appointed women to one of its most important consultative bodies, the Shura Council, for the first time in the country’s history
• Hong Kong has signed free trade and investment pacts with the ten-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations, in what one of the Chinese territory’s senior officials called a “loud and clear” vote against rising regional trade protectionism.
• Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit was held at Da Nang,Vietnam. The theme of the summit was “Creating New Dynamism,Fostering a Shared Future”. Vietnam was holding the summit for the 2nd time.
• Uber Technologies Inc. approved SoftBank Group Corp.’s offer to buy a multibillion-dollar stake in the ride-hailing company, setting the stage for one of the largest private start-up deals ever.
• China has launched the world’s first all-electric ship, which can travel up to 80km with 2000-tonnes cargo after a two-hour charge
• Syria has officially signed up to the Paris Agreement, leaving the United States as the only country to reject the global climate-rescue pact.
• Saudi Arabia has approved teaching of Yoga and declared it as a sport. An individual who wants to practice yoga can avail a licence to do so, as per the Saudi Ministry of Trade and Industry.
• The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug in the U.S. with a digital ingestion tracking system. Abilify MyCite (aripiprazole tablets with sensor) has an ingestible sensor embedded in the pill that records that the medication was taken.

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• Uber has struck a deal with NASA to develop software for managing “flying taxi” routes in the air along the lines of ride-hailing services it has pioneered on the ground.

INDEX AND RAKING

• India has slipped in ‘business optimism’ index to the 7th position in the September quarter, from the 2nd slot in the previous three months, showing clear signs of lag in the economy, says a survey.

DEFENCE NEWS

• The governments of Odisha and neighbouring West Bengal will soon organize a joint security exercise named as ‘Sagar Kavach’ to further tighten the existing coastal security mechanism along the 630 km long coastline
• Indian and Kazakh armies have completed the second edition of their joint military exercise – Prabal Dostyk – in Himachal Pradesh in a significant step towards fostering military and diplomatic ties between the two countries.
• Indian armed forces are preparing to have a ‘deadly combination’ in their armoury.

SPORTS

WINNER	TITLE	SPORT/ VENUE
Saina Nehwal	Senior National Badminton Championships	Held in Nagpur
Pankaj Advani	IBSF World Billiards Championship 2017	Held In Doha, Qatar
Marc Márquez	MotoGP world title	─
Sebastian Vettel	Brazilian Grand Prix	─

• Aditi Ashok has qualified for the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship on the LPGA, becoming the first from the country to play in the prestigious meet.
• Bengaluru FC was announced former India captain Rahul Dravid as their ambassador for the upcoming ISL season.

OBITUARY

NAME OF THE PERSON	FIELD
Abdul Mannan Hossain	Politician; Trinamool Congress leader
Shyama	Actress
Kunwar Narayan	Poet
V Khalid	Former SC judge Justice

IMPORTANT DAYS

DATE OBSERVED	DAY OBSERVED	THEME / PURPOSE
November 8	International Day of Radiology	Emergency Radiology
November 9	Legal Service day	To make people aware of justice for all
November 9	World Quality Day	Everyday Leadership
November 10	World science day	Science for Global Understanding
November 11	National Education day	Birth anniversary of India’s first Education Minister Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
November 12	World Pneumonia Day	To raise awareness of pneumonia as a public health issue
November 14	National Children’s Day	Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru Birth anniversary
November 14	World Diabetes Day	Women and diabetes – our right to a healthy future