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Current Affairs: Important Days

Date	Important days	Theme
November 1	World Vegan Day	–
November 5	World Tsunami Awareness Day	–
November 6	International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict	–
November 7	Infant Protection day	–
November 7	National Cancer Awareness Day	–

Current Affairs: National

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has released a special commemorative coin on Paramahansa Yogananda to mark his 125th Birth Anniversary

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Ministry of Finance and Corporate Affairs	Nirmala Sitharaman
Constituency	Rajya Sabha (Karnataka)

Government has increased the target for e-transactions in the financial year ending March 2020 to 45 billion (by volume) from 40 billion
The government has accorded ‘Maharatna’ status to state-owned Hindustan Petroleum and Power Grid Corporation

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HPCL MD	M K Surana
HPCL Headquarters	Mumbai
PGCIL Chairman & MD	Kandikuppa Sreekant
PGCIL Headquarters	Gurgaon

Mumbai (Creative City of Films) and Hyderabad (Creative City of Gastronomy) have been included in UNESCO’s network of ‘Creative Cities’ on the occasion of World Cities Day 2019

Chennai and Varanasi	UNESCO cities of music
Jaipur	UNESCO cities of Crafts and Folk Arts

Minister for Environment and Climate Change Prakash Javadekar stated that all the 5 lakh government vehicles on conventional fuel will be converted into e-vehicle in a phased manner
Union Minister for Development of North Eastern Region Dr. Jitendra Singh announced that Bamboo Technology Parks would be set up in the two new Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh
PM Modi released a commemorative coin marking the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev in Bangkok

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Thailand Capital	Bangkok
Thailand Currency	Thai baht
Thailand Prime Minister	Prayut Chan-o-cha

According to Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE)India’s unemployment rate in October rose to 8.5% from 7.2% in September
Coal India Ltd to meet one billion tonne production target and look to achieve the goal by 2023-24

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Coal India Ltd
Chairman & MD	Anil Kumar Jha
Headquarters	Kolkata

Minister of State (I/C) for Labour and Employment Santosh Kumar Gangwar has launched 3 Apps:uan registration, e-inspection and digi locker,developed by EPFO at its 67^th Foundation Day
Amit Shah inaugurated the Shanghai Cooperation Organization(SCO) Joint Exercise on Urban Earthquake Search and Rescue(SCOJtEx) in New Delhi
AYUSH Minister Yesso Naik inaugurated National Research Institute of Unani Medicine for Skin Disorders (NRIUMSD) at Hyderabad
Atal Pension Yojana (APY), an emblematic government pension scheme to cover workers in the unorganized sector, has crossed the subscriber mark of Rs 1.9 million
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman unveiled two new IT Initiatives – ICEDASH and ATITHI for improved customs clearance

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Ministry of Finance and Corporate Affairs	Nirmala Sitharaman
Constituency	Rajya Sabha (Karnataka)

First ever containerised cargo movement via Indo-Bangladesh protocol route and Brahmaputra river will start from West Bengal’s Haldia
Prakash Javadekar will attend the 15th meeting of the Governing Council of South Asia Co-operative Environment Programme (SACEP) in Dhaka

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Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change & Minister of Information and Broadcasting	Prakash Javadekar
Constituency	Madhya Pradesh, Rajya Sabha

The Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE) launched the SkillsBuild platform in collaboration with IBM

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Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
Union Minister	Mahendra Nath Pandey
Constituency	Chandauli, Uttar Pradesh

Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar released the fifth edition of Wastelands Atlas – 2019.

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Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Welfare
Union Minister	Narendra Singh Tomar
Constituency	Morena, Madhya Pradesh

Government approved to set up of 25,000 crore alternative investment fund (AIF) to revive stalled housing projects

Current Affairs: International

Singapore-based AirCarbon Pte launched the worlds’ first blockchain-based carbon trading exchange
China to roll out world’s largest 5G mobile phone network

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China Capital	Beijing
China Currency	Renminbi, Yuan
China President	Xi Jinping

Australian Government announces 2020 New Colombo Plan India Mobility Grants

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Australia Capital	Canberra
Australia Currency	Australian dollar
Australia Prime Minister	Scott Morrison

Current Affairs: State

Tamil Nadu has become the first State in the country to enact a law on contract farming

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Tamil Nadu Capital	Chennai
Tamil Nadu CM	E. Palanisamy
Tamil Nadu Governor	Banwarilal Purohit

The Kolkata International Film Festival will start on November 8

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West Bengal Capital	Kolkata
West Bengal CM	Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal Governor	Jagdeep Dhankhar

The French Development Agency (AFD) and the Government of Assam signed a 50 million euro (Rs 400 crore) project agreement to restore Assam’s forest ecosystems and preserve their biodiversity

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Assam Capital	Dishpur
Assam CM	Sarbananda Sonowal
Assam Governor	Jagdish Mukhi

Odisha government signed agreements with Tata Strive and Tech Mahindra for skill upgradation

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Odisha Capital	Bhubaneswar
Odisha CM	Naveen Patnaik
Odisha Governor	Ganeshi Lal

Current Affairs: Banking and Finance

ICICI Bank announced that it has crossed a milestone of issuing 2 million FASTag till date

ICICI Bank Headquarters	Mumbai
ICICI Bank Tagline	Hum Hain Na!
ICICI Bank MD & CEO	SandeepBakhshi

Government e-Marketplace (GeM) has signed MoU with Indian Bank and Canara Bank for payment related services

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Indian Bank CEO	PadmajaChunduru
Indian Bank Headquarters	Chennai
Indian Bank Tagline	Your Tech-friendly bank
Canara Bank CEO	RA Sankara Narayanan
Canara Bank Headquarters	Bengaluru
Canara Bank Tagline	Together We Can

According to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) India’s gross domestic product (GDP) to grow 6.6% in 2020-24

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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Secretary Generals	José ÁngelGurríaTreviño
Headquarters	Paris, France

ADB will provide a $451 million (about Rs 3,200 crore) for Chennai-Kanyakumari Industrial Corridor (CKIC) power links in Tamil Nadu

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)
ADB President	Vacant
ADB Headquarters	Mandaluyong, Philippines

Ujjivan Small Finance Bank has launched Instant Digital savings and Instant Fixed Deposit account

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Ujjivan Small Finance Bank
MD & CEO	Samit Kumar Ghos
Headquarters	Bengaluru

ORGANISATION	GDP RATE
ORGANISATION	2019 – 20 (FY20)	2020 – 21 (FY21)
Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML)	5.8%	–

Current Affairs: Business

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has fixed call ring time at 30 seconds for mobile phones and 60 seconds for landline phones

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Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)
TRAI Chairperson	Ram Sewak Sharma
TRAI Headquarters	New Delhi

Tech Mahindra Ltd has acquired New York based BORN Group for $95 million

Current Affairs: Appointments

Datta Padsalgikar	Deputy National Security Advisor (NSA)
Arvind Dutta ( Lieutenant General)	Next Adjutant General of the Indian Army
Air Marshal Amit Tiwari	Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) of the Southern Air Command (SAC)
Aditya Mishra	Chairman of Land Ports Authority of India
Sumant Kathpalia	New MD & CEO of IndusInd Bank
ShaikhKhalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan	President of the UAE
Sudhir Mital	President of Gymnastics Federation of India (GFI)
Shantikumar Singh	General secretary of Gymnastics Federation of India (GFI)

Current Affairs: Resignation

T Latha

Dhanlaxmi Bank MD & CEO and director

Current Affairs: Awards and Honours

Nawazuddin Siddiqui (Actor)	Golden Dragon Award at the Cardiff International Film Festival for excellence in cinema in the global arena
Rajinikanth (Actor)	Special Icon of Golden Jubilee award at 50th International Film Festival of India (IFFI)
Isabelle Huppert (French actor)	Lifetime Achievement Awardat 50th International Film Festival of India (IFFI)
Sudarsan Pattnaik (sand artist)	Italian Golden Sand Art Award 2019
Writer Anand	27th Ezhuthachan Puraskaram(highest literary honour of the Kerala State government) Cash prize of Rs 5 lakh and a citation
Madhuri Vijay’s debut novel ‘The Far Field’	2019 JCB prize for Literature (Award worth ₹25 lakh)
Neeraj Sharma	‘Early Career Researcher of the Year (Physical Sciences)‘
Sara Damnjanovic ( Serbia)	‘Miss Asia Global 2019’ at the international beauty contest
Nguyen Thi Yen Trang ( Vietnam)	‘Miss Asia’ title
Samiksha Singh (India)	Sub-title of ‘Miss Beautiful Face’
Documentary on Real Kashmir Football Club	British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) and Scotland Awards
Venu Srinivasan ( Chairman of TVS Motor Company)	Deming ‘Distinguished Service Award For Dissemination and Promotion Overseas by the Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers (JUSE)

Current Affairs: Summit and Conference

The 35th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit begins in Bangkok

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Thailand Capital	Bangkok
Thailand Currency	Thai baht
Thailand Prime Minister	Prayut Chan-o-cha

3^rd Global Ayurveda Summit 2019 inaugurated in Kochi, Kerala

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Kerala Capital	Thiruvananthapuram
Kerala CM	Pinarayi Vijayan
Kerala Governor	Arif Mohammad Khan

The 7th India – US Economic and Financial partnership meeting was held in New Delhi.

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US Capital	Washington DC
US Currency	Dollar
US President	Donald Trump

Biennial Commonwealth Law Ministers’ Conference began in Colombo under the theme Equal Access to Justice and the Rule of Law
Katowice to host 2019 World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) congress
50th World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting to be held in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland

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World Economic Forum (WEF)
WEF Executive Chairman	Klaus Schwab
WEF Headquarters	Cologny, Switzerland

PM Modi inaugurates 5^th India International Science Festival 2019 in Kolkata

8. First ever ‘BIMSTEC Ports’ Conclave’ held in Vishakhapatnam

Current Affairs: Science and Technology

IIIT Hyderabad researchers created the first ever Indian Brain atlas (IBA)
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi to set up Space Technology Cell in collaboration with ISRO

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Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
ISRO Chairman	Kailasavadivoo Sivan
ISRO Headquarters	Bengaluru

Robotic surgery facility inaugurated at Centre-run Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi
IIT-Madras, in collaboration with Phoenix Medical Systems, launched the country’s first indigenously-designed standing wheelchair named ‘Arise’

5. China launches Sudan’s first satellite “SRSS-1” (Sudan Remote Sensing Satellite) by a Chinese Long March 4B satellite launch vehicle

Current Affairs: MoU

Siemens Limited has signed a MoU with NTPC, TERI on decarbonisation, energy transition

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National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC)
Headquarters	New Delhi
Chairman & MD	Gurdeep Singh
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Headquarters	New Delhi
Director General	Dr. Ajay Mathur

MSTC Ltd has signed an agreement with Allahabad Bank for the development of a dedicated e-Auction platform

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Allahabad Bank CEO	S. S. Mallikarjuna Rao
Allahabad Bank Headquarters	Kolkata
Allahabad Bank Tagline	A tradition of trust
MSTC Ltd Headquarters	Kolkata

Current Affairs: Defence

India and Uzbekistan will carry out a joint military exercise ‘Dustlik-2019’ at Chirchiq training area in Uzbekistan

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Uzbekistan Capital	Tashkent
Uzbekistan Currency	Uzbekistani som
Uzbekistan President	Shavkat Mirziyoyev

Indian Army to have first Dhanush regiment by March 2020 and will get all 114 guns by 2022
US- Bangladesh Navy exercise named ‘Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT)- 2019’ started in Chattogram, Bangladesh
GRSE delivered ‘Annie Besant’ fast patrol vessels (FPV) to the Indian Coast Guard

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Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd (GRSE)
GRSE Chairman& CEO	Rear Admiral VK Saxena,
GRSE Headquarters	Kolkata

5. Indian Coast Guard’s two-day rescue exercise ‘ReSAREX- 19’ conducted off Goa shore

Current Affairs: Sports

Shiva Thapa(63kg) and Pooja Rani(75kg) clinched gold at Olympic Test event for Boxing
India’s Lakshya Sen has won the SaarLorLux Open badminton tournament at Saarbrücken in Germany
South Africa beat England to win the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan
Indian wrestler Pooja Gehlot (53kg) wins Silver in UWW Under-23 World Championships in Budapest
Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes – Finland) has won the Formula One, United States Grand Prix 2019

6. Ashleigh Barty beats Elina Svitolina to win the WTA Finals title

Novak Djokovic beats Denis Shapovalov to win fifth Paris Masters title
Ireland Women’s Amy Kenealy has announced her retirement from international cricket

Current Affairs: Obituaries

Person	Field
Gurudas Dasgupta	Veteran CPI leader
Sadako Ogata	First woman head to the UN’s refugee agency UNHCR
Geetanjali Ramakrishna	Veteran Telugu actress
K K Modi	Industrialist
Justice N. V. Balasubramanian	Retired Judge of Madras High Court
Babasaheb Dhabekar	Former Maharashtra minister

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