Current Affairs November 2017

1. Current Affairs
November- 2
Anirudh Reddy

2. India

3. Project Saksham
 By Indian Railways
 to upgrade the skill sets of its 13 lakh employees
 Every employee from the rank of a peon to the Railway Board Members
 Why ? to boost the productivity and efficiency

4. Sangai Festival 2017
 held in Manipur
 Manipur’s state animal, the brow-
antlered Sangai deer.
 Keibul Lamjao – Floating National
Park

5. UMANG app
 a state and central government services app
 Unified Mobile Application for New-age Governance

6. Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA)
 setting up a Centre of Excellence in Kochi, Kerala
 studies in the field of fisheries and ocean studies
 IORA
 21 Indian Ocean-bordering countries
 Headquarters – Ebene, Mauritius

7. CriSidEx
 Index for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME)
 CRISIL(Credit Rating Information Services of India Limited) and Small Industries
Development Bank of India (SIDBI)
 provide insights into employment, business environment and foreign trade trends
in the MSME sector.

8. Andhra Pradesh hosting its first ever hot-
air balloon festival
 Araku Valley
 organised by SkyWaltz and supported by Andhra Pradesh tourism

9. India’s 1st Tribal Entrepreneurship Summit
 Dantewada, Chhattisgarh

10. India’s first mega coastal economic zone
(CEZ)
 Jawaharlal Nehru Port in Maharashtra

11. Hunar Haat
 Pragati Maidan, New Delhi
 works of artisans belonging to minority communities and Tihar Jail inmates are
kept on display.
 by the Minority Affairs Ministry

12. BSE Electronic Smart Trader (BEST)
 By Marketplace Tech Infra Services, an arm of the premier exchange BSE (Bombay
Stock Exchange) and Thomson Reuters
 Trading platform

13. Moody’s Rating upgrade
 to Baa2 from Baa3
 outlook on the rating to stable from positive.

14. Government at a Glance 2017
 published by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
 Trust in govt
 1st Switzerland
 2nd Indonesia
 3rd India

15. World Economic Outlook
 report of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
 in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita
 India ranks 126th out of 200 countries
 USD 7170
 1 Qatar $124930
 2 Macau $114430
 3 Luxembourg $109190
 4 Singapore $90530

16. #MuhPeTaala
 Axis Bank and Mumbai Police
 how to keep oneself safe from falling prey to fraudulent calls asking information
such as pin code, CVV, OTP etc.

17. India becomes second largest fish
producing country in the world
 11.41 million tonnes in 2016-17.
 Blue Revolution
 November 21 is celebrated as a World of Fisheries Day
 India theme “2022 ka hai sapnaa…… kisaan ki aay ho duguna – Sankalp se siddhi”.

18.  West Bengal gets GI Tag for ‘Rosogolla’ . Created by Nabin Chandra Das, a famous
sweetmeat-maker in 1868

19.  Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team (APCERT) Conference is held in
New Delhi. The conference theme is “Building Trust in the Digital Economy”
 India International Trade Fair (IITF) – 2017, at Pragati Maidan, in New Delhi. The
theme for ITTF 2017 is “Startup India: Stand Up India”. Jharkhand is the partner
state for the fair and Vietnam is the partner country.
 Traditional ‘Lavi fair’ was in Rampur, Himachal Pradesh. important point of trade
between India and Tibet for centuries

20. World

21. 31st ASEAN Summit held in Manila,
Philippines
 15th ASEAN-India Summit and 12th East Asia Summit
 East Asia Summit – 18 countries

22. Royal Bank of Canada -‘too big to fail’
 global systemically important banks (G-SIB)
 By Financial Stability Board (FSB), Basel, Switzerland

23. World’s Best Travel Destination for 2017
 Canada
 travel publication Travel+Leisure

24. World’s Richest Country according to IMF’s
GDP per capita
 Qatar is World’s Richest
 2 Luxembourg
 3 Singapore
 Fortune Magazine

25. The Eye of Binhai
 Library in China

26. Most Expensive Retail Location
 Delhi’s Khan Market World’s 24th
 1st - Upper 5th Avenue in New York
 2nd - Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay
 3rd - London’s Bond Street

27. ‘World Toilet Day’
 is celebrated on November 19

28. International Men’s Day
 November 19
 International Women’s Day – March 8

29. Technology & science

30. India’s first offshore desalination plant
 40km from the Chennai coast
 Technology is Low Temperature Thermal Desalination (LTTD)
 By National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT)

31. Asgardia-1
 first satellite of Asgardia
 virtual nation
 project of Russian scientist and billionaire Igor Ashurbeyli
 nation which would be based in space in order to be outside of the control of
nations on Earth.
 Contains the nation’s constitution, its national symbols, and data from its 115,000
citizens.

32. Abilify MyCite
 first pill with digital tracking device
 to ensure that patients with mental illness take the medicine prescribed for them

33. India’s longest expressway
 Agra to Lucknow – 302 km
 Wifi facility

34. YONO by SBI
 You Only Need One
 India’s first integrated lifestyle and banking app

35. RippleNet
 Axis Bank
 blockchain-based international payment service

36. Mahindra opened its new manufacturing
plant
 Detroit, USA - first automotive production facility in 25 years
 world’s car capital - Detroit

37. India’s first mission to study the Sun
 Aditya-L1

38. Asia’s largest Solid State Interlocking (SSI)
system
 Kharagpur
 railway signal apparatus
 800 different routes for trains in a matter of minutes

39.  China launches world’s first fully electric cargo ship
 80 km with 2000-tonnes cargo after a two-hour charge.
 powered by a 26-tonne lithium battery

40. Environment

41. International Solar Alliance (ISA)
 alliance of more than 121 countries
 which are located completely or partly between Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of
Capricorn
 Interim Director General of the ISA, Upendra Tripathy
 Founding Ceremony of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) held at Bonn, Germany

42. Climate Change Performance Index 2018
 by environmental organisation Germanwatch.
 India has ranked 14th
 1 Unoccupied
 2 Unoccupied
 3 Unoccupied
 4 Sweden
 5 Lithuania
 6 Morocco

43. BS-VI fuel roll out in Delhi to cut pollution-
from April 1, 2018
 BS-VI – equivalent to Euro-VI grade
 BS-VI grade fuel contains 10 parts per million (ppm) of sulphur as against 50 ppm
in BS-IV fuels.

44. India’s first electric charging station
 In Nagpur
 Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) in collaboration with Ola

45. Mount Agung Volcano
 in Bali erupts for the first time in 54 years
 Pacific “Ring of Fire”?

46.  Maharashtra bans Plastic Bottles at Government Offices, with effect from 18 March
2018

47. PEOPLE IN NEWS

48. India’s first woman lawyer
 Cornelia Sorabji

49. first female pilot in Indian Navy
 Shubhangi Swaroop
 Maritime
Reconnaissance
aircraft

50. Asia’s Richest Families
 1st - Ambani family - net worth of$44.8 billion, up $19 billion from the previous
year
 2nd - South Korea’s Lee family
 3rd - Hong Kong’s Kwok family

51. Forbes list of highest-earning women in
music
 1st - Beyonce
 2nd – Adele
 3rd – Taylor Swift

52. Robert Mugabe
 Robert Mugabe resigns, ending 37-year rule
 Emmerson Mnangagwa sworn in as Zimbabwe’s President
 Some of the current longest ruling non-royal national leaders:
 Paul Biya – Prime Minister, then President of Cameroon – for 42 years
 Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo – President of Equatorial Guinea – for 38 years
 Ali Khamenei – President, then Supreme Leader of Iran – for 36 years
 Longest ever – Fidel Castro – 52 years

53.  Pankaj Mishra’s ‘Age of Anger: A History of the Present’ was named as Best Book of
the year 2017 at Tata Literature Live! Awards
 Business Book of the Year – YV Reddy’s ‘Advice and Dissent: My Life in Public
Service’

54. Awards and appointments
 Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) appoints S Ravi as its new chairman
 Rashtriya Bal Kalyan Award for 2017 - Anand Kumar of Super 30
 2017 Indira Gandhi Peace Prize goes to Dr Manmohan Singh
 Nabaneeta Dev Sen honoured with Big Little Book Award - Tata Trusts to promote
children’s literature
 India’s Justice Dalveer Bhandari re-elected as Judge in International Court of Justice
 Ira Joshi appointed director general of Doordarshan News

55. SPORTS

56. Aditi Ashok
 becomes first Indian golfer to qualify for LPGA(Ladies Professional Golf Association)
Tour Championships
 19 years old and hails from Bangalore

57. National Women’s Trap champion
 Shagun Chowdhary

58. Anjum Chopra
 Gates 3 & 4 of Feroz Shah Kotla to be named

59.  France named as host of 2023 Rugby World Cup
 Sushil Kumar, Geeta Phogat(59kg), Sakshi Malik (62kg) win gold in 62nd National
Wrestling championship

60. DEFENCE

61. Portable Diver Detection Sonar
 Indian Navy signs deal with Tata Power SED
 enhance its underwater surveillance capability

62. IMBAX-2017
 India-Myanmar joint Army exercise
 begins in Meghalaya

63. Brahmos
 Successfully test-fires Brahmos from Sukhoi fighter jet
 world’s fastest supersonic cruise missile (travelling at speeds of Mach 2.8 to 3.0)
 named after Indian river Brahmaputra (Brah) and Russian river Moskova (Mos)
 Indian armed forces have already inducted land and warship versions