Important Weekly Current Affairs PDF Download (Nov 23rd to 30th Nov 2021)

Dear Readers, Here we have given the list of Important Weekly Current Affairs of Nov 23rd to Nov 30th 2021. Candidates those who are preparing for Upcoming SBI Clerk 2021 and other competitive exams can make use of it.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: IMPORTANT DAYS

• World Fisheries Day is observed on 21 November every year by fishing communities across the world & the first World Fisheries Day was celebrated on November 21, 2015.
• World Television Day is commemorated on 21 November every year.
• The United Nations General Assembly has designated November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women & the theme for 2021 is “Orange the World: End Violence against Women Now!”.
• Constitution Day, also known as National Law Day, is celebrated in India on 26 November every year to commemorate the adoption of the Constitution of India.
• November 26 is observed as National Milk Day in India, every year & the day has been observed since 2014 to commemorate the birth anniversary of the Father of India’s White Revolution, Dr Verghese Kurien.
• National Organ Donation Day is celebrated on November 27 in India every year, organised by the National Organ & Tissue Transplant Organization (NOTTO) under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare & the 2021 marks the 12th National Organ Donation Day.
• The Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare is an annual event held November 30

CURRENT AFFAIRS: NATIONAL NEWS

• Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has inaugurated the state-of-the-art Centre for Nanotechnology (CNT) and Centre for Indian Knowledge System (CIKS) at IIT Guwahati.
• Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has approved works on significant National Highways and Roads worth about 3,900 crore rupees in the Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh and the neighbouring State of Punjab, including the construction of Akhnoor-Poonch road on National Highway

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• The President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind has felicitated the awardees of the cleanest cities of India at the ‘Swachh Amrit Mahotsav’ & for the fifth consecutive year, Indore was awarded the title of India’s Cleanest City under Swachh Survekshan, while Surat and Vijayawada bagged the second and third spots respectively in the

‘more than 1 lakh population’ category.

• The 37th edition of India-Indonesia Coordinated Patrol (CORPAT) is being held in the Indian Ocean region from 23-24 November 2021.
• The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) in its meeting of 23 November 2021 held under the Chairmanship of Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh accorded Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) for one Capital Acquisition proposal of Indian Air Force for its modernization and operational needs amounting to Rs. 2,236 Cr.
• Ashwini Vaishnaw, the Union Minister of Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India, has inaugurated a 3-day workshop titled ‘Aadhaar 2.0- Ushering the Next Era of Digital Identity and Smart Governance’ at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi.
• The Union Cabinet, in its meeting on November 24, will take up for approval the repeal of the three farm laws announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 20.
• NITI Aayog under the Indo-German Cooperation has released the inaugural Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Urban Index and Dashboard 2021-22.
• To promote cooperation between India and Germany on various areas of mutual interest, NITI Aayog and Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation & Development (BMZ) signed Statement of Intent & the Indian delegation was led by Rajiv Kumar, Vice Chairperson, NITI Aayog, Government of India and the German delegation was led by Claudia Warning, Director General, BMZ, Government of Germany.
• On Nov 23, 2021, Coal and Mine Minister Prahlad Joshi Inaugurated E-portal of accreditation scheme for minerals exploration and handed over 52 mines block to 15 state government’s representatives including two northeast states in 5th National Conclave on Mines and Minerals at New Delhi.
• The Union Cabinet has approved the extension for the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY-Phase V) for a period of another 4 months e. December 2021 till March 2022 @ 5 kg per person per month free of cost for all the beneficiaries covered under the National Food Security Act [Antodaya Anna Yojana & Priority Households] including those covered under Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT).
• The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has approved the formation of Company to privatize the electricity distribution business in the Union Territory of Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu, sale of Equity Shares of the newly formed Company to highest bidder and formation of Trust(s) for serving employees’ liabilities.
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi gave its approval for continuation of the umbrella scheme “Atmosphere & Climate Research-Modelling Observing Systems & Services (ACROSS)” along with its eight sub-schemes to the next finance cycle of five years i.e. 2021-2026 at an estimated cost of 2,135 crore.
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi to gave its approval for continuation of the umbrella scheme “Ocean Services, Modelling, Application, Resources and Technology (O-SMART)” of Ministry of Earth Sciences, for implementation during the period from 2021-26 at an overall cost of 2177 crore.
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has accorded its approval for stipendiary support of Rs. 3,054 crores to apprentices who undergo apprenticeship training under National Apprenticeship Training Scheme (NATS) of Ministry of Education for the period from 2021-22 to 2025-26.
• Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Chemicals &Fertilizersis scheduled to inaugurate the 2nd Global Chemicals & Petrochemicals Manufacturing Hub in the presence of Bhagwanth Khuba, Union Minister of State, Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers and Ministry of New & Renewable Energy.
• The 1st International Conference on Hydrogen Energy – Policies, Infrastructure Development and Challenges is being organized by Central Board of Irrigation and Power (CBIP) with the support of Ministry of New & Renewable Energy, Central Electricity Authority and NTPC on 24th -25th November 2021
• The 20th Meeting of the SCO Council of Heads of Government will be held in Nur-Sultan in virtual format under the Chairmanship of Kazakhstan.
• Ministry of IT has organised 24th CISO Deep Dive Training program under Cyber Surakshit Bharat initiative
• ∙Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs Shri Hardeep S. Puri along with Transport Minister for the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi, Shri Kailash Gahlot virtually inaugurated the Unattended  Train Operations (UTO) on the Pink Line of the Delhi Metro.
• ∙ Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat has launched River Cities Alliance and National Urban River Management Plan for Kanpur in New Delhi.
• ∙ Union Minister of Consumer Affairs and Food & Public Distribution Piyush Goyal stated that the Centre has constituted a ‘Group of Food Secretaries’ from states, along with the senior officers of central  government to deliberate on the framework of the Community Kitchen Scheme.
• The PLI Scheme for Pharmaceuticals is based on the strategy of “Atma Nirbhar Bharat- Strategies for enhancing India’s manufacturing capabilities and enhancing exports in ten sectors”, which had been approved by the Union Cabinet
• 6th Edition of biennial Indo – France military exercise “Ex SHAKTI- 2021” culminated in france after twelve days of intense joint military training, exhibiting their combat power and dominance over the extremist groups in simulated Counter Insurgency / Counter Terrorism environment.
• Minister of State for Ayush Munjpara Mahedrabhai virtually inaugurated the Ayurveda Parv-2021 in New Delhi.
• Minister of Railways, Ashwini Vaishnaw has announced the launch of Bharat Gaurav, which will be run in theme-based circuits by both the private sector and the
• To commemorate the monumental occasion of India’s 75 years’ independence, the Ministry of Women and Child Development Celebrated Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav during the week 14-21 November, 2021 with the theme of ‘Children Ideas, Rights & Nutrition’. 
• As per the Collins Dictionary, it has named the term ‘NFT’ as the Word of the Year 2021. 
• The Women’s Involvement in Science and Engineering Research (WISER) program was launched by Indo-German Science & Technology Centre (IGSTC) for encouraging women researchers in joint R&D projects, to promote women in the field of research and development through lateral entry.
• The Union government has formed a five-member committee to ensure timely completion of various projects executed under the Central Vista Redevelopment Plan & Former Finance Secretary Ratan P Watal has been appointed the Chairman of the five-member Central Vista Oversight Committee.
• Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur, has announced that, Prasar Bharati has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with IIT, Kanpur to develop Next Generation Broadcast solution for digital terrestrial broadcasting consistent with emerging standards such as 5G broadcast.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate InFinity Forum, a thought leadership Forum on FinTech, on 3rd of December via video conferencing & it is being hosted by International Financial Services Centres Authority under the aegis of Government of India in collaboration with GIFT City and Bloomberg.
• Parliament passed the Farm Laws Repeal Bill, 2021, with the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha approving it on the first day of the Winter Session & the three Laws sought to be repealed include the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020, the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020 and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.
• The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, CCEA empowered Alternative Mechanism comprising Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Science and Technology Minister Dr Jitendra Singh, has approved the highest price bid of M/s Nandal Finance and Leasing Private Limited for sale of 100 percent equity shareholding of Government of India in Central Electronics Limited.
• NITI Aayog has released an Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) Designing the Future of Dispute Resolution for speedy access to justice.
• Production Linked Incentive of 120 crore is provided for Indian manufacturers of drone and drone components.
• The fifth East Asia Summit, EAS Conference on Maritime Security Cooperation has begun in Kolkata & the two-day event is being organized by India in partnership with Australia.
• The Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has inaugurated, ‘The Chinars’, a new Aayakar Bhawan-cum- Residential Complex at Rajbagh in Srinagar in the presence of Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on the first day of her two-day visit to the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
• Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister of Railways, announced the introduction of theme-based tourist circuit trains Bharat Gaurav Trains.
• Uttar Pradesh is poised to become the only state in India to have five international airports, as Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone of the Noida International Airport (NIA) in Jewar, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh.
• Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), a flagship initiative of Niti Aayog has announced collaboration with Vigyan Prasar, an autonomous organization of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India to drive synergies between AIM’s Atal Tinkering Labs and Vigyan Prasar’s unique interactivity platform, Engage With Science (EWS).
• Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurated ISRO’s 5-day Technology Conclave-2021 & the Futuristic and Disruptive Technologies to be developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation, ISRO.
• Union MSME Minister Narayan Rane unveiled the Special Credit Linked Capital Subsidy Scheme (SCLCSS) for the services industry at Guwahati.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: INTERNATIONAL NEWS

• Singapore and India have reached an agreement on resumption of scheduled commercial passenger flights between the two countries. 
• The Sixth Edition of Indo – France joint military exercise Ex SHAKTI 2021 has commenced at the Military School of Draguignan, France.
• India and the United States held the twelfth Ministerial-level meeting of the India-United States Trade Policy Forum (TPF) in New Delhi .
• The unique Khadi Prakritik Paint developed by Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) using cow dung as raw material has been adopted by the state governments of Chhattisgarh and Haryana as a model of sustainable employment & a total of 31 Prakritik Paint manufacturing units – 25 in Chhattisgarh and 6 in Haryana
• In the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, Union Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office, Public Grievances, Jitendra Singh has inaugurated a second separate Bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) at Old Assembly Complex in Shergari area of Srinagar city.
• India and the United States have agreed on a transitional approach on Equalisation Levy 2020.
• The 13th ASEM Summit will be held virtually & the theme of the two-day summit is Strengthening Multilateralism for Shared Growth. 
• The 11th round of Foreign Office Consultations between India and Estonia was held in Tallinn & the Indian delegation was led by the Ministry of External Affair’s Secretary (West Reenat Sandhu and the Estonian delegation was led by Under Secretary for Political Affairs Rein Tammsaar.
• The 18th meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Russia, India, and China (RIC) will be held in digital video conference format under the chairmanship of External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar.
• India’s candidate, Praveen Sinha, Special Director of Central Bureau of Investigation was elected today as  Delegate for Asia on the Executive Committee of the International Criminal Police Organization  (INTERPOL).
• Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO presented the first ever global standard on the ethics of artificial intelligence adopted by the member states of UNESCO at the General Conference.
• The 4th Foreign Office Consultations between India and Uruguay were at Montevideo. Secretary (East), Riva Ganguly Das led the Indian delegation.
• South Korea to get the world’s first floating city by 2025, it will be built off the coast of South Korea, and work on it will likely be completed as early as 2025.
• El Salvador is planning to come up with a city that will entirely be funded by Bitcoin-backed bonds.

CURRENT AFFAIRS : STATE NEWS

• Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK. Stalin has appealed to the Union Civil Aviation Minister to make a temporary Air Transport Bubbles agreement with Singapore and Malaysia at the earliest.
• ∙ The finance minister has announced new schemes and initiatives for Jammu & Kashmir which included launch of Tejasvini & Hausala schemes of J&K Bank, Shikhar & Shikara schemes of Punjab National  Bank (PNB) and SIDBI cluster development fund for Rs. 200 crores.
• An MoU was exchanged between Tamil Nadu eGovernance Agency and the Chennai Mathematical Institute at the CII Connect 2021 in the presence of Chief Minister MK Stalin & it aims to establish cooperation to create necessary capabilities and analytical framework for the Tamil Nadu decision support system.
• Asian Paints has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Gujarat, commencing the proposed expansion of manufacturing capacity at its Ankleshwar facility at a total investment of about ₹960 crore at the current prices.
• Nagaland DGP T. John Longkumer officially launched the ‘Call your Cop’ mobile App at Police Headquarters in
• The Chennai-headquartered ICT Academy, an initiative of the Government of India in collaboration with the State governments and industries, has partnered with UiPath, an enterprise automation software company, to take the UiPath Academic Alliance programme to over 1,000 ICT Academy partner institutions across India.
• Meghalaya became the first state in the north-eastern region of India to signed an MoU with United Nations World Food Programme (UNWFP) for streamlining and strengthening of Public Distribution System and improving food security in the state.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: BANKING AND ECONOMY

• BOB Financial Solutions Limited (BFSL), a Non-Banking Financial Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bank of Baroda, has partnered with National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to launch BoB Credit Cards (in two variants of Easy and Premier) on the RuPay platform.
• The Network International, a digital commerce company based in Dubai, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with NPCI International Payments Ltd (NIPL), the international arm of National Payment Corporation of India to facilitate UPI transactions in the UAE.
• The Government of India, Government of Andhra Pradesh and the World Bank on has signed the legal agreements for $250 million for a project which aims to improve quality of learning for over 50 lakh students in the state of Andhra Pradesh.
• ICICI Bank has announced the launch of an online platform, ‘Trade Emerge’, to offer comprehensive digital banking as well as value-added services to exporters and importers across India.
• The Government of India and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a $300 million loan to strengthen and improve access to comprehensive primary health care in urban areas of 13 states that will benefit over 256 million urban dwellers including 51 million from slum areas.
• ∙ The Asian Development Bank has approved a USD 1.5 billion (around Rs 11,185 crore) loan to India for COVID-19 vaccine procurement.
• ∙ The Thrissur-based ESAF Small Finance Bank Limited has announced the latest “ESAF Go Green” range of electric vehicle loan schemes. The launch coincides with COP26.
• Yes Bank has announced its collaboration with Amazon Pay and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer customers an instant real-time payment system through a UPI transaction facility.
• The Reserve Bank of India has imposed a monetary penalty of ₹1 crore on the State Bank of India (SBI) for contravention of a provision in the Banking Regulation (BR) Act, 1949, relating to the extent of shares a Bank can hold in borrower companies.
• The Reserve Bank of India has appointed P.N. Raghunath, General Manager, Reserve Bank of India, as an Additional Director on the board of Ujjivan Small Finance Bank for a period of two years.
• Agriwise Finserv Limited, an agri-focussed NBFC, has entered into a co-lending agreement with Central Bank of India for agri-loan disbursal.
• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a monetary penalty of ₹1 crore on Union Bank of India (UBI) for non-compliance with certain provisions of its directions relating to fraud classification and reporting and sale of stressed assets.
• Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) have been playing an important role in purveying agricultural credit, particularly to Small and Marginal Farmers (SF/MF) and weaker sections of the society.
• The Government of India, Government of Andhra Pradesh and the World Bank signed the legal agreements for $250 million for a project which aims to improve quality of learning for over 50 lakh students in the state of Andhra Pradesh.
• IDFC FIRST Bank partnered Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) enabling bank’s FASTag customers to facilitate fuel payments of passenger vehicles at HPCL’s retail outlets using the bank’s FASTags via HP PAY app.
• SBI Research has upgraded India’s GDP growth projection for financial year 2022 to the range of3%-9.6% from its earlier estimates of 8.5%-9%.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: BUSINESS NEWS

• Google has announced the 7th edition of its Google for India event 2021 held virtually.
• Moody’s latest report, Moody’s Investors Service pegged the country’s GDP growth at 9.3 percent in the 2022 financial year and 7.9 percent in 2023.
• ∙ Goldman Sachs has Projected India’s GDP growth in financial year 2021- 22 (FY22) at 8.5 percent, and increased the rate of GDP growth in FY23 to 9.8 percent.
• Bajaj Finserv, one of the largest financial conglomerates in India, has kicked off the second phase of ‘Savdhaan Rahein. Safe Rahein’. a public awareness campaign focusing on Life Insurance Frauds.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: APPOINTMENTS AND RESIGNATIONS

• The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President and former cricketer Saurav Ganguly was appointed as the Chairman of the International Cricket Council Men’s Cricket Committee after succeeding Anil Kumble.
• The President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis nominated former army general Nicolae Ciuca as the new Prime Minister of the country.
• The first female Prime Minister of Sweden Magdalena Andersson resigned on November 24, 2021.
• In a sudden development, leading truck and bus-maker Ashok Leyland has announced that its Managing Director & CEO, Vipin Sondhi, has resigned due to certain personal and family commitments.
• Sheikh Sabah Al Khaled Al Hamad Al Sabah has been appointed the new Prime Minister of
• Indian tech wizard Parag Agrawal takes over as CEO of the social media platform Twitter following the departure of its co-founder CEO.
• Admiral R. Hari Kumar has assumed charge as the 25th Chief of the Naval Staff.
• Petr Fiala has been appointed as the new Prime Minister of the Czech Republic by President Milos Zeman. Fiala succeeds Andrej Babis.

CURRENT AFFAIRS : AWARDS & HONOURS

• A TV show produced by Doordarshan and radio show by All India Radio received multiple awards at the recently held ABU – UNESCO Peace Media Awards-2021 at Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.
• The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the winners of the 49th International Emmy Awards -2021 over the event organised at the Great Hall of Casa Cipriani in New York City, USA.
• S K Sohan Roy, the Chief Executive Officer and founder of Aries Group of Companies has become the first Indian to be honoured with the Knighthood of Parte Guelfa for his humanitarian and Environmental protection efforts in business and movies.
• Lyricist and CBFC Chairperson Prasoon Joshi was honoured with the ‘Indian Film Personality of the Year’ award at the 52nd International Film Festival of India (IFFI).
• Sascan Meditech, the start-up incubated at the SCTIMST-TIMed the Technology Business Incubator of Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for MedicalSciences & Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), received a Cash grant of INR 15,00,000 at the Grand Challenge organized by Department of Pharmaceuticals, Govt of India along with Startup India and Investindia.org.
• The former Indian badminton player Prakash Padukone will be awarded with the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award 2021’ from the Badminton World Federation (BWF).

CURRENT AFFAIRS : ACQUISITIONS & MERGERS

• Competition Commission of India (CCI) has approved the acquisition of a minority stake in logistics services provider Delhivery Ltd by FedEx Express, a unit of American transportation giant FedEx Corp.
• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has granted approval to state-owned insurance behemoth, Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), to raise its stake in private lender Kotak Mahindra Bank up to 9.99 percent.

CURRENT AFFAIRS : SUMMITS & CONFERENCES

• The Election Commission of India organized a conference with the Chief Electoral Officers of all States/UTs in New Delhi. 
• ∙ Minister of Electronics & Information Technology, Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw inaugurated India Internet Governance Forum 2021 (IIGF 2021), which is jointly being organized by the Ministry of Electronics and  Information Technology (MeitY) and the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) from 8th to 11th of  November, 2021.
• The Election Commission of India (ECI) hosted an international webinar, in New Delhi on the theme “Enhancing electoral participation of Women, Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) & Senior citizen Voters: Sharing Best Practices and New Initiatives”.
• India’s Minister for Science & Technology Dr Jitendra Singh, who chaired the 9th BRICS Science & Technology Ministers meet held, has called for working towards rightful place for BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) in the Global Innovation Index.
• The 20th edition of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) flagship event ‘Connect 2021’ will be held here from November 26 to 27 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

CURRENT AFFAIRS : DEFENCE NEWS

• On Nov 21, 2021, INS Visakhapatnam has been formally commissioned into the Indian Navy in the presence of Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai.
• The 15th edition of the biennial Trilateral Exercise ‘Dosti’ between the Maldives, India, and Sri Lanka is taking place in the Maldives from November 20 to 24, 2021.
• The Sagar Shakti Mega Military Exercise was held from November 19 to 22, 2021 held in creek sector of the Kutch peninsula. 
• Pune-headquartered Southern Command of the Army launched Exercise Dakshin Shakti in Rajasthan and Gujarat.
• On Nov 23 & 24, 2021, Navies of India and Indonesia are undertaking the 37th edition of India-Indonesia Coordinated Patrol (CORPAT) along the International Maritime Boundary Line.
• ∙ On Nov 25, 2021, The Indian Navy commissioned India’s fourth Scorpene-class submarine INS Vela at the naval dockyard in Mumbai, in the presence of the chief of naval staff Admiral Karambir Singh. ∙ This is the fourth of the six submarines the Indian Navy is to induct under the Kalvari-class submarine Project 75.
• On Nov 25, 2021, The Indian Air Force received two Mirage 2000 fighter aircraft from France at its Gwalior air base.
• The ships and aircraft of the Indian Navy participated in the first-ever Colombo Security Conclave (CSC) Focused Operation to enhance maritime security in the Indian Ocean region, along with Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
• As part of ‘Swarnim Vijay Varsh’ and ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ celebrations, a live ‘Symphony orchestra’ was conducted by the Air Force Band of the Indian Air Force (IAF) at Golconda Fort.
• The Defence Ministry approved a proposal to procure GSAT-7C satellite and related equipment for the Indian Air Force (IAF) at a cost of Rs 2,236 crore.
• The Russian military has successfully test-fired a Zircon hypersonic cruise missile from the Admiral Gorshkov warship and hit a test target in Russia’s Arctic waters of the White Sea in northern Russia.

CURRENT AFFAIRS : SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

• On Nov 22, 2021, The Delhi Metro in association with Bharat Electronics Limited launched the prototype of an indigenous Rolling Stock Driver Training System (RSDTS) & demonstrated functioning of a Super – Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system.
• NASA selected Investigation of Convective Updrafts (INCUS) through the agency’s Earth Venture Mission-3 (EVM-3), to study the behavior of tropical storms and thunderstorms, including their impacts on weather and climate models.
• The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. (CASC) announced China launches its third Gaofen-11 reconnaissance satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China & it was launched by a Long March 4B rocket inserting the Gaofen-11 (03) satellite into a 247 by 694-kilometer altitude orbit inclined by 5 degrees.
• The US-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)‘s launched the world’s first planetary defense system called DART spacecraft from the Vandenberg US Space Force Base in California, United States.
• ∙ Skyroot Aerospace, a firm founded and led by former Isro scientists has successfully tested India’s first privately developed fully Cryogenic rocket engine ‘Dhawan-I’.
• ∙ On Nov 25, 2021, China launched the Shiyan-11 satellite into space aboard a Kuaizhou-1A carrier rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China.
• On Nov 26, 2021, The new SARS-CoV-2 variant, B.1.1.529 has been classified as a “Variant of Concern” and is named Omicron, the World Health Organization.
• On Nov 25, 2021, Pakistan conducted a successful test launch of an indigenously developed Shaheen-1A surface to surface ballistic missile.

CURRENT AFFAIRS : ENVIRONMENT

• A new plant species Cryptocarya Muthuvariana has been discovered from the Southern Western Ghats, Kerala, India & it has been found in the Edamalakudy forests in Idukki District, Kerala.

CURRENT AFFAIRS : RANKING & INDEX

• On Nov 18, 2021, according to the Indian Police Foundation Smart Policing Index 2021, Andhra Pradesh Police topped with an index score of 11 among 29 states and Union Territories, released by Indian Police Foundation (IPF).
• On Nov 19, 2021, The Sadar Bazar police station in Delhi was ranked as the best police station in the country in the annual rankings of police stations for the 2021 by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
• ∙ In the 2021 Access to Seeds Index India is among the six countries in South and South-East Asia that attracts most investments in the domestic seed sector from the global seed industry & in that index East-West Seed (also in 2019 index)  ranks first with a score of 81.9/100 followed by Advanta (2 positions higher than in 2019)  2.
• According to findings of the Kantar’s BrandZ India 2021 report, Amazon, Tata Tea and Asian Paints emerged as the most purposeful brands in India across technology, fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) and in non-FMCG categories respectively.

CURRENT AFFAIRS : BOOKS & AUTHORS

• Celebrated art historian and critic BN Goswamy announced A New book titled “Conversations: India’s Leading Art Historian Engages with 101 themes, and More” will hit stands in 2022.
• ∙ On 24 November 2021, General MM Naravane, Chief of the Army Staff (Indian Army) released a Book Titled Bangladesh Liberation @50 Years ‘Bijoy’ with Synergy India-Pakistan War 1971.
• A retired Indian Army officer Maroof Raza authored a new book titled Contested Lands: India, China and the Boundary Dispute & it Book has been published by Westland Non-fiction.
• Indian businessman and philanthropist Narotam Sekhsaria authored a book titled The Ambuja Story: How a Group of Ordinary Men Created an Extraordinary Company.
• Retired Indian civil servant Syed Akbaruddin authored a New Book Titled India vs UK: The Story of an Unprecedented Diplomatic Win.
• A Nobel Prize– winning economist Abhijit Banerjee authored a cookbook titled Cooking to Save Your Life & France based Cheyenne Olivier is an illustrator of the book & the Book is published by Juggernaut books.
• A New Book Titled Resolved: Uniting Nations in a Divided World authored by Former UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon.

CURRENT AFFAIRS : SPORTS NEWS

• In the 2021 Asian Archery Championships, India concluded their tournament by winning one gold, four silver and two bronze medals, sitting second on the medal tally held in Dhaka, Bangladesh Meanwhile South Korea won 15 medals to top the medal table, meanwhile the host Bangladesh settled at third place with 3 medals.
• On Nov 21, 2021, Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes-Great Britain), won the 2021 F1 Qatar Grand Prix & Max Verstappen (Red Bull – Netherlands) came second while Fernando Alonso (Alpine- Spain) came
• Tamil Nadu have been crowned champions of the 2021/22 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy after beating Karnataka in the final and won their 3rd title at Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi.
• On Nov 21, 2021, Germany’s Alexander Zverev defeated World No.2 Russia’s Daniil Medvedev 6-4, 6-4, in the men’s single finals to clinch the 2021 ATP Finals title held at Turin in Italy.
• Indian tennis player Ramkumar Ramanathan won his maiden Challenger level singles title 12 years after turning a Pro, after he defeated Evgeny Karlovskiy of the Russian Tennis Federation in the final of the ATP Challenger tournament in Manama, Bahrain.
• On Nov 27, 2021, Squash star Saurav Ghosal made history as he became the first Indian to win the Malaysian Open Championships after beating Miguel Rodriguez 11-7, 11-8 and 13-11 in the men’s singles final in Kuala Lumpur to win the 2021 Malaysian Open Squash Championships title.
• The Asian Paralympic Committee (APC) has named Tashkent in Uzbekistan to be the venue for the 2025 Asian Youth Para Games.
• World No. 1 Japan’s Kento Momota clinched the 2021 Indonesia Masters Super 750 badminton tournament men’s singles title after beating Denmark’s Anders Antonsen in the final 21-17, 21-11 points.
• Pakistan cricketer Usman Shinwari has announced his retirement from the longest format to “prolong his cricket career”.

CURRENT AFFAIRS : OBITUARIES

• On Nov 21, 2021, Renowned Punjabi folk singer Gurmeet Bawa passed away.
• On Nov 23, 2021, Former South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan Passed away.
• On Nov 25, 2021, Sahitya Akademi Award-winning & Eminent Assamese poet Sananta Tanty Passed
• On Nov 28, 2021, National Award-winning choreographer & actor Sivasankar Passed away at the age of 72.
• On Nov 28, 2021, The founder and former chief of the Williams Formula One team , Sir Frank Williams Passed away at the age of 79.

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