Current affairs notes on November-Part 1


1.Odisha Government is to partner with Massachusettes Institute of Technology (MIT)-based Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), co-founded by Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo.

2.Pooja Rani (75kg) clinched gold medals with impressive wins, while Ashish (69kg) settled for a silver, Shiva Thapa (63kg) clinched gold medals in boxing categories at the Olympic Test Event for Boxing in Tokyo. Indian Wrestler Pooja Gehlot has won the silver Medal in the 53-kg category of the Under-23 World Wrestling Championship.

3.The 35th Summit of The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) began in Bangkok.

4.World Cities Day is observed on October 31. The theme for the year 2019, selected by the United Nations, is changing the world: innovations and a better life for future generations.

5.Noted Hindi poet Leeladhar Jagoori, whose poems often celebrate love and hope, received the KK Birla Foundation's 2018 Vyas Samman.

6.Alberto Fernandez won Argentina's presidential elections 2019.

7.The Rashtriya Ekta Diwas or the National Unity Day is celebrated on 31 October in India. The day marks the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. 'Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat' is an initiative to pay tribute to Sardar Patel.

8.India signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia to launch the RuPay card in the country, making it the third nation in the West Asia to initiate India's digital payment system.

9.Brazil's model of Human Milk Bank is to be adopted by India to have access to breast milk by the year 2025.

10.Hyderabad has been selected as Creative City in the category of gastronomy by UNECSO.

11.The Odisha government follows the 5-T initiative for the welfare of the people. 5T stands for Technology, Transparency, Teamwork, Transformation, and Time.

12.Spain has offered to host COP-25 UN Climate Change Summit.

13.Australia is going to host the 2020 ICC T-20 Men's and Women's Cricket World Cup.

14.Russia has successfully test-fired a Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile from its latest nuclear-powered submarine.

15.Dustlik-2019 is a Military exercise of India with Uzbekistan.

16.Rajinikanth is going to get a big honour 'Icon of Golden Jubilee' at the 50th International Film Festival of India to be held in Goa. French actress Isabelle Huppert will get Lifetime Achievement award at the Golden Jubilee of International Film Festival of India,

17.Novak Djokovic won the Paris Masters Title 2019.

18.First ever ‘BIMSTEC Ports’ Conclave will be held at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. BIMSTEC was formed in 1997, originally with Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka and Thailand, and later included Myanmar, Nepal and Bhutan.

19.Human Resource Development ministry has launched Shaala Darpan portal. It is an end to end e-Governance school automation and management system.


20.India and Bangladesh has agreed on the withdrawal of 1.82 cusecs (cubic feet per second) of water from the Feni river by India for a drinking water supply scheme for Sabroom town in Tripura.


21.'The Brus' In Tripura, they are recognised as a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group.

22.Nepal government has strongly objected to the inclusion of ‘Kalapani’ under the Indian Territory as per the newly released political map of India. It is included in Uttarakhand state.

23.India will host the next edition of the ”No Money For Terror” conference to be held in 2020. The announcement was made at the ”No Money For Terror” conference in Melbourne, Australia. 

24.Tiger Triumph- is a first tri- services amphibious exercise between India and the US. Conducted in Visakhapatnam, 'Samudrea shakti'- is a bilateral maritime exercise between India and Indonesia.

25.Odisha recorded the highest number of lightning strikes in the country, while Jammu and Kashmir recorded the least according to IMD.


26.New Zealand passed Zero Carbon bill which aims to make New Zealand reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to the point the country becomes mostly carbon neutral by 2050.


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