Current affairs notes on 06/11/2018-11/11/2018

1.'Mare Pyare Prime Minister' is the India's lone entry at the Rome Film Festival 2018.

2.INS Arihant- India's first nuclear-powered submarine completed its first deterrence patrol, which means that the country now has the capability of firing nuclear weapons from land, air and sea.

3.The 2018 National Ayurveda Day (NAD) is celebrated on November 5 with the theme “Ayurveda for Public Health” to create awareness on people’s health.

4.The Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI) has recently approved the operationalisation strategy for Operation Greens to ensure availability of Tomato, Onion and Potato (TOP) throughout the country,One of the objectives of “Operation Greens” is the reduction in post-harvest losses.

5.N. Ram, the veteran journalist and The Hindu publishing group chairman, has been chosen for the prestigious Raja Ram Mohan Roy Award 2018 for his outstanding contribution towards journalism.

6.Changsha Declaration  was signed for agricultural and rural development, at the end of a forum on international development cooperation in Changsha, China.The Changsha Declaration focuses on agricultural and rural development. It aims to eliminate poverty and hunger. FAO,WHO,UNICE..ets are the major members in it.

7.The newly-built Ekana International Stadium of Lucknow was renamed after former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The stadium will now be known as 'Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee International Cricket Stadium'. 

8.The 49th International Film Festival of India, IFFI 2018 will be held in Goa from 20th to 28th of November. 

9.The new court, which will be the 25th High Court in the country, will start functioning from 1 January 2019 in Amravati. Presently, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have a common High Court situated at Hyderabad. The existing court will from next year be known as the Telangana High Court.

10.South Africa hosted the 18th Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) Council of (Foreign) Ministers Meetings (COM) in Durban under the theme of "IORA - Uniting the Peoples of Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Middle East,IORA is an international organisation consisting of coastal states bordering the Indian Ocean. 

11.India has been elected as a member of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Council for another four-year term from 2019 to 2022. India has been a regular member of the ITU Council since 1952.

12.In the 8th Asian Shotgun Championship 2018 in Kuwait, Angad Vir Singh Bajwa has won the men’s skeet gold with a perfect score of 60 a World record ,With this, he became the first Indian skeet shooter to win a continental or world level event.

13.Snehlata Shrivastava has been appointed the new Secretary General of Lok Sabha for another term,She is the first woman Secretary General of the Lok Sabha.

14.Jawahar Lal Sarin, the president of the Alliance Francaise de Delhi’s governing body, has been bestowed with France’s highest civilian honour “Knight of the Legion of Honour”.

15.China’s state news agency Xinhua has recently launched the world’s first Artificial Intelligence (AI) news anchor at the ongoing 5th World Internet Conference.

16.The 25th edition of bilateral maritime exercise “SIMBEX-18” has started between the Navies of the Republic of Singapore and India from 10th to 21st November 2018 off Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal.

17.The 5th edition of World Buddhist Forum (WBF -2018) was recently held in Putian, the southeast Fujian Province of China.

18.IIT Madras researchers have designed India’s first indigenous microprocessor called ‘Shakti’.

19.The “Quad” countries, namely India, US, Japan and Australia, will hold their next meeting on the sidelines of the 13 th East Asia Summit at Singapore in mid-November,Quad is an opportunity for like-minded countries to share notes and collaborate on projects of mutual interest. All four countries share a vision of an open and free Indo-Pacific.

20.The Union Cabinet has approved setting up of Central Tribal University in Andhra Pradesh .

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