Current Affairs November 2017

1. Current Affairs
November 1
Anirudh Reddy

2. India

3. ease of doing business
 World Bank
 India – 100th
 report ‘Doing Business 2018: Reforming to Create Jobs’
 1 New Zealand
 2 Singapore
 3 Denmark

4. Global Gender Gap Index 2017
 World Economic Forum (WEF).
 India has ranked 108th out of 144
 1 Iceland
 2 Norway
 3 Finland

5. Gender Vulnerability Index (GVI)
 By Plan India
 4 parameters – health, education, poverty, safety from violence
 1st goa and
 2 Kerala
 3 Mizoram
 last bihar

6. Geographical Indications
 Pochampally Ikat of Telangana
 Banaganapalle mangoes of Andhra Pradesh
 Tulapanji rice and Gobindobhog Rice of West Bengal
 Chakshesang Shawl of Nagaland;
 Durgi Stone Carvings and
 Etikoppaka Toys of Andhra Pradesh

7. Inter-State Council
 investigates and advises on disputes between states
 Indian constitutional body
 Prime Minister, Chairman.
 Chief Ministers of all states.
 Six central cabinet ministers

8. Mudhol Hound
 Indian dog breed, Karnataka
 First Indian Dog Breed to be trained for Army Duty

9. world’s highest motorable road
 86km long road connecting Chisumle and Demchok villages, located 230 Kms from
Leh.
 Umlingla Top at a height of over 19,300 feet

10. Deen Dayal SPARSH Yojana
 increase the reach of Philately

11. 2017 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Award for
Cultural Heritage Conservation
 Royal Opera House, Mumbai
 originally inaugurated by Britain’s King George V in 1911
 Ranganathaswamy temple, Srirangam , Tiruchirapalli,
Tamil Nadu

12. Balijatra festival
 banks of river Mahanadi ,Cuttack, Odisha

13. India’s first-ever “Air Dispensary”
 based in a helicopter
 Northeast - Imphal in Manipur and Shillong, Meghalaya

14. ‘Shri Narendra Modi Resilient Rice Field
Laboratory’
 International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Los Banos, Philippines

15. Hausla 2017
 Child Rights Week
 16th to 20th November, 2017
 International Child Rights Day is on 20th November

16. World Food India’ 2017
 India’s first World Food fair
 New Delhi.
 India sets Guinness Record for cooking 918 kgs of Khichdi

17. UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network for
Contribution in Music
 Chennai is the third Indian city to be included
 Jaipur and Varanasi

18. Bandhan Express
 Kolkata to Khulna, Bangladesh
 172 kms
 second Indo-Bangla train service
 Maitree Express, runs between Dhaka and Kolkata
 Pakistan
 Samjhauta Express – Lahore to Attari
 Thar Express –Karachi - Jaipur

19.  Telangana CM declares Urdu as second official language
 India’s first cartoon network theme park-’Amaazia’ - Surat

20. World

21. tallest statue in the world
 Spring Temple Buddha, china
 208 metres
 Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj
Memorial project
 210 m statue

22. Forbes 100 most powerful women in the
world
 1 German Chancellor Angela Merkel
 2 UK Prime Minister Theresa May
 3 Melinda Gates
 PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi is at the 11th position
 CEO & MD of ICICI - Chanda Kochhar -32
 HCL Corp. CEO Roshni Nadar Malhotra – 57
 editorial director for HT Media Shobhana Bhartia – 92
 Priyanka Chopra, at 97

23. word of the year 2017
 by Collins dictionary
 ‘FAKE NEWS’

24. Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC)
 Da Nang, Vietnam
 Theme of this meeting was ‘Creating New Dynamism, Fostering a Shared Future
 Headquarters – Singapore

26. Kazakhstan to change its name by 2025
 Qazaqstan
 Russian Cyrillic to a Latin-based alphabet

27. World Book Capital 2019
 Sharjah
 by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
 World’s third largest book fair opens in Sharjah

28. World’s Top City for International Visits
 Hong Kong
 by Euromonitor International
 Bangkok - second place

29. India-US Ocean Dialogue
 Goa
 aimed at promoting sustainable development of the Blue Economy
 Blue Economy is the sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth,
improved livelihoods and jobs, and ocean ecosystem health

30. Prime Minister of Italy
 Paolo Gentiloni

31. Technology & science

32. Shibuya Mirai
 virtual seven-year-old boy
 doesn’t exist physically
 world’s first, artificial intelligence robot to be granted a place
 tokyo

33. Tiankun - island-building vessel
 China
 Break underwater rocks and then suck out sand,

34. Environment

35. COP23 climate change summit
 Bonn,Germany
 under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
 Kyoto Protocol

36. International Solar Alliance
 alliance of countries which are located completely or partly between Tropic of
Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn
 Guinea becomes new member

37. Tyrannomyrmex alii: New ant species
 Western Ghats
 tribute to eminent myrmecologist
 Musthak Ali - India’s ‘ant man’

38. New species of wild banana discovered
 Andaman and Nicobar
 Musa paramjitiana

39. CK Mishra panel
 air pollution in Delhi
 control of road and construction dust
 garbage burning,
 control of power plants and industrial emissions,
 entry of vehicles
 Stubble burning

40. North India’s biggest butterfly park
 Gurugram
 Lepidopterology – study of

41. PEOPLE IN NEWS

42. Asia’s richest person
 Mukesh Ambani
 overtook China’s Hui Ka Yan

43. 2017 Jnanpith Award
 Krishna Sobti - hindi

44. Girija Devi
 Sumitra Charat Ram Award for Lifetime Achievement

45. Mother Teresa Award 2017 for social
justice
 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

46. world’s most endangered great ape.
 New Orangutan Species - becomes Endangered right after discovery
 Pongo tapanuliensis’
 Great ape?
 Humans/Gorilla/Chimpanzee/Orangutan

47. World’s longest living dolphin in captivity
dies at Japan aquarium
 Nana, a female bottlenose dolphin
 42 years and 11 months

48. Ravinder Singh Bhalla
 first Sikh mayor of US city
 New Jersey’s Hoboken city

49.  World Vegan Day – November 1
 World science day for peace and development – November 10
 National Education Day – November 11 - birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam
Azad, the first education minister of independent India.

50.  Neelamani N. Raju is Karnataka’s first woman police chief

51. SPORTS

52. Virender Sehwag Gate
• inaugurated at Feroz
Shah Kotla

53. Kidambi Srikanth
 World No. 2
 titles at Indonesia and Australia and
then at Denmark and France.
 World Champion Viktor Axelsen

54. two hat-tricks in one game
 Mitchell Starc – Australia
 8 th time
 After 37 years


55.  Mary Kom wins gold in Asian Boxing Championships

56.  All India Police Championship - Geeta Phogat wins Gold

57. DEFENCE

58. Blue Flag-17
 exercise held by Israeli Air Force with air forces of other countries.
 Indian Air Force is participating

59. Prabal Dostyk- 2017
 Indian and Kazakhstan armies
 Himachal Pradesh

60. SAMPRITI 2017
 Indo-Bangladesh
 military training exercise
 Meghalaya

61. Military Literature Festival
 First -Chandigarh from 7th – 9th December, 2017.