Current affairs notes on 28/11/2018-30/11/2018

1.The Jolly Grant airport in Uttarakhand will be renamed after Atal Bihari Vajpayee. 

2.ISRO is all set to launch its workhorse rocket PSLV-C43 carrying India's earth observation satellite Hyper Spectral Imaging Satellite (HysIS) and 30 co-passenger satellites, including 23 from the US, from Sriharikota on November 29. HysIS is an earth observation satellite developed by ISRO.

3..The Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju has inaugurated the 14th Formation Day of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on 27th November 2018 in New Delhi. The theme of this year's Formation Day is 'Early Warning for Disasters'. 

4.The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (IDEVAW) is observed every year on 25th of November to raise public awareness on issues of violence against women and girls,2018 theme is 'Orange the World: #HearMeToo'.

5.Tamil Nadu bagged the Best State Award in cadaveric organ donation from the National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation (NOTTO), Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

6.The Croatia Davis Cup team has won the 107th edition of the Davis Cup tennis tournament 2018.

7.The United Nations has officially selected Uttar Pradesh's Noida and Greater Noida to participate in its Global Sustainable Cities 2025 initiative. The twin-cities in Gautam Buddh Nagar district have been selected in the "University City" category.

8.Arvind Saxena has been appointed as the new Chairman of Union Public Service Commission. Saxena will be serving in the office till August 7, 2020, when he attains the age of 65 years.
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9.The Government of India and the People's Republic of China signed a protocol to amend the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) for the avoidance of double taxation and prevention of tax evasion through exchange of information. 

10.Naval exercise between India and the United Kingdom, KONKAN held in Goa this year. Both Navies have, over the years, undertaken bilateral activities such as training exchanges and technical cooperation.

11.In Kenya, the first-ever Sustainable Blue Economy Conference 2018 was held in Nairobi from November 26 to 28 with theme ‘The Blue Economy and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’. india participated in it, The Blue Economy refers to sustainable use of ocean resources for growth, jobs and improved living standards, while preserving the ecosystem.

12.The National Milk Day (NMD) is celebrated every year on November 26 to mark the birth anniversary of Dr. Verghese Kurien, the father of India’s White revolution.started 'operation flood'.

13.The International Gita Festival 2018 will be held at Kurukshetra in Haryana from December 7-23,Mauritius will be the partner country and Gujarat the partner state.

14.The 2018 G20 Summit began on November 28, 2018 in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is the 13th meeting of Group of Twenty (G20) and the first G20 summit to be hosted in South America.

15.Ukrainian film 'Donbass', directed by Sergei Loznitsa, has won the coveted Golden Peacock Award at the 49th International Film Festival of India (IFFI-2018) in Goa on November 28.

16.Defence Minister Smt Nirmala Sitharaman launched Mission Raksha. The main aim is to provide a boost to the Intellectual Property Right (IPR) culture in indigenous defence industry.

17.Chardham project: The project involves developing and widening 900-km of national highways connecting the holy Hindu pilgrimage sites of; Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri, and Yamunotri.

18.qewr Indian scientists have discovered in India an endangered sub-species of hog deer (Axis porcinus annamiticus) ,a small population of hog deer in Keibul Lamjao National Park (KLNP), Manipur.The hog deer or Pada is an endangered species in the IUCN Red List 

19.Himachal Pradesh is the first state to launch pan-India single emergency number ‘112’ under ERSS (Emergency Response Support System).

20.The Indian Owl Festival, the country’s first owl fest, is being held at Pingori village in Purandar taluka of Pune.

21.The International Labour Organization (ILO) has released Global Wage Report 2018-19. The gender wage gap has remained unchanged at 20% from 2016 to 2017.


22.‘COPE INDIA 2019’ It is a bilateral exercise between Indian Air Force (IAF) and US Air Force (USAF) in West Bengal.

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