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1. Senior IAS Officer Sunil Arora has been

senior appointed as the new Chief Election
Commissioner (CEC) of India.

2. State Bank of Mauritius (SBM) has

appointed Sidharth Rath as the Managing
Director & CEO of SBM Bank (India).

3. Anil Manibhai Naik has been appointed

as the new chairman of National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC).

4. Arvind Saxena has been appointed as the next chairman of Union

Public Service Commission (UPSC).

5. Joyce Msuya of Tanzania (Capital: Dodoma, Currency: Shilling)

has been appointed as acting Executive Director of United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP) (Headquarter: Nairobi, Kenya).

6. Akhilesh Ranjan, member of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT)

has been appointed as the convenor of Task Force that is drafting New
Direct Tax Legislation Law.

7. Union Government has appointed renowned scientist Nageshwara Rao

Guntur as Chairperson of Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB).

1. Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs

(CCEA) has approved continuation of nine
sub-schemes of umbrella scheme
“Atmosphere & Climate Research-
Modelling Observing Systems & Services
(ACROSS)” during 2017-2020. The scheme
aims at improving of weather and climate
forecast through sustained observations.

2. Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman launched ‘Mission

Raksha Gyan Shakti’ in New Delhi to boost Intellectual Property Right
(IPR) culture in the Indian defence industry.

3. Himachal Pradesh has become the first state in the country to

implement Emergency Response Support System (ERSS). Rajnath
Singh launched ERSS number 112 for the state.

4. State Government of Andhra Pradesh has launched Bhuseva and

Bhudaar web portal through which people can view land records online.

5. Logix India 2019 which aims to serve as major initiative to improve

logistics cost effectiveness and operational efficiencies for India’s global
trade will be held in New Delhi in 2019. The logo and brochure for the
same was launched recently.

6. Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs launched ‘PAiSA’

portal - a centralised electronic platform for quicker processing of
loans under the Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana – National Urban Livelihoods
Mission. The aim is to provide Affordable Credit and Interest Subvention
Access.

7. Sashakt Mahila Yojna which aims to empower rural women by

providing them an interface for organization and socio-economic
development has been approved by Himachal government.

8. Karnataka government in partnership with start-up accelerator

Numa, launched a 7-month innovative programme that will enable
corporates to identify the relevant innovative start-ups. Initiative is called
‘DataCity’.

1. European Investment Bank (EIB) and State

Bank of India (SBI) agreed to cooperate on
financing renewable energy and wind
energy projects across India in the first
offshore wind investment conference held in
New Delhi.

2. According to RBI, total credit growth

from banks to the commercial sector grew at 15.6 per cent to Rs
97.32 lakh crore the highest growth since demonetization.

3. According to the ‘SBI Ecowrap’ report released by the State Bank of

India, the GDP growth in the September quarter (2nd quarter) is
expected to decelerate to 7.5-7.6 per cent over the previous three-
month period.

4. The Reserve Bank has launched a survey on India’s start-up

sector (SISS). The survey is intended to create a profile of the start-up
sector in India and provide dimensions relating to turnover, profitability and
workforce.

5. Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD)

(Headquarter: Paris) released its Economic Outlook 2018 and
predicted GDP at market prices to decline marginally to 7.3% in
2019 and 7.4% in 2020.

6. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has reduced the mandatory hedging

provision to 70 per cent from 100 per cent to ease the External
Commercial Borrowing (ECB) norms. The move will help Indian
companies to borrow foreign currency-denominated ECBs for more liquidity.

7. SEBI set up 24-member Kotak panel on corporate governance led

by Uday Kotak released the amended SEBI (Listing Obligations and
Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2018 with new rules for re-
classification of a promoter as a public investor. As per new rules promoter
cannot hold over 10 per cent stake in the firm.

8. Union Government has inked $75 million loan agreement with

Asian Development Bank (ADB) for Karnataka Integrated Urban Water
Management Investment Program.

9. Paytm (One 97 Communications Limited) has partnered with the

Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) to offer online insurance
premium payments on its platform.

10. HDFC ERGO General Insurance set up a remote sensing lab for
crop insurance which will help in early detection of information and will be
used to alert the farmers.

11. In a first by any small finance bank, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank, a
wholly owned subsidiary of Ujjivan Financial Services Limited
introduced a new personal loan scheme for salaried individuals.
Personal loans starting from Rs 50,000 up to Rs 15 lakhs would be given to
individuals who earn more than 15 thousand per month.

12. According to the 2017-18 annual report of Pradhan Mantri Mudra

Yojana (PMMY), Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) sanctioned
Mudra loans of Rs 27,000 crores under PMMY, as against Rs
92,492.68 crores sanctioned by public sector banks.

However, NBFC Mudra loans grew faster than banks in FY18. Among
this, AU Small Finance Bank was the top lender among Small Finance Banks
(SFBs) and the State Bank of India (SBI) was the top lender among state-run
banks.

13. Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of India

signed a $200 million loan in New Delhi to fund upgradation of 230
kilometers State Highways in Bihar.

1. IIM Calcutta Innovation Park and Indian

Chamber of Commerce (ICC) signed
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for
energizing start-up ecosystem in East and North
east India.

2. Japanese electronics company ‘CASIO’ has

launched world’s first Goods and Services
Tax (GST) calculator in India in two variants
MJ-120 GST and MJ-12GST for simplify the GST calculations for the tax
payers.

3. Google’s Next Billion Users (NBU) announced the national roll-

out of its Neighbourly app in Delhi and Bangalore. The app will provide
local information about playgrounds, schools, medical shops, coaching
classes etc.

4. The feature phone maker Easyfone launched “Easyfone Star”,

India’s first mobile phone for kids to help them be safer and connected to
parents at Rs. 3490.

5. Start-up called “Emotix” has launched India’s first advanced

personal robot Miko 2 for Kids.

1. United Nations Environment Program has

chosen Wildlife Crime Control Bureau
(WCCB), India and its enforcement officer
RS Sharath for 2018 Asia Environmental
Enforcement Awards.

2. Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui won awarded

Best Performance by An Actor (Male) for
his film Manto and actress-filmmaker Nandita
Das received International Federation of Film Producers Associations
(FIAPF) award for achievement in films in the Asia-Pacific Region at
the 12th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA).

3, Sanjay Kumar, Founder and CEO of Geospatial Media &

Communications, was conferred the ‘Global Geospatial Industry
Ambassador’ Award at the United Nations World Geospatial
Information Congress held at Deqing city in China. Theme of the congress
was “The Geospatial Way to a Better World”.

4. Nicolas Orellana of Chile (Capital: Santiago, Currency: Peso) and

Yaseen Noorani from Kenya (Capital: Nairobi, Currency: Shilling) were
awarded International James Dyson award 2018 for their innovative
design ‘Urban wind turbine’ called O-Wind Turbine.

5. Amitabh Bachchan was awarded the third Sayaji Ratna Award for
his social contribution to pay off the loans of several farmers from Uttar
Pradesh and Maharashtra.

6. In the 49th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) held in

Panaji, Goa, best film (Golden Peacock) award was given to
Donbass (Ukrainian movie) directed by Sergei Loznitsa. ICFT –
UNESCO Gandhi Medal has been given to ‘Walking with the Wind’ film
directed by Praveen Morchhale.

7. Manipal Academy of Higher Education won silver in the

International Green Apple Award for environmental best practice
2018.

8. Chairman of IT major Wipro and philanthropist Azim Premji was

bestowed with highest French civilian distinction Chevalier de la
Legion d’Honneur he was awarded for his outstanding contribution to
developing information technology industry in India.

9. Renowned flute player (flautist) Pandit Keshav Ginde has been

selected for 2018 Bharat Ratna Pandit Bhimsen Joshi Lifetime
Achievement Award for Classical Music.

10. Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) won the CII-Exim Bank Business
Excellence Award, for being a role-model organization, at the Quality
Summit held in Bengaluru.

11. Senior artist Mr. A. N. Patil was announced to be the recipient

of the Kuncha Kala Tapasvi Award, in the category of lifetime
achievement.

12. Uttarakhand was adjudged as the best state in the 38th India
International Trade Fair, which was held at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.

13. According to Global Wage Report 2018-19 “What Lies behind

Gender pay gaps” published by International Labour Organization
(ILO), on average, women are paid 34% less than men in India when it
comes to hourly wages for labour, this figure stands at 16% globally.
14. As per World malaria report by WHO (Headquarter: Geneva,
Switzerland), India has registered a 24 % reduction in cases from
2016 to 2017, mainly due to its reduction in the highly malaria infected
state of Odisha. India accounted for 4 % of global malaria cases in 2017.

15. UN Environment released the 3rd edition of ‘Inclusive Wealth

Report 2018’ and an Inclusive Wealth Index during UN Environment
Finance Initiative Global Roundtable in Paris, France. Republic of Korea,
Singapore and Malta topped the chart of survey of growth in the wealth of
nations.

16. Expedia Vacation Deprivation Report 2018 stated that India is

among the most vacation deprived nation in the world ranking 5th
among the 19 surveyed countries.

17. As per the 6th edition & 2019 version of India Skills Report,
Andhra Pradesh topped the list of states with the highest employability
followed by Rajasthan and Haryana.

18. In the 4th edition of a new NASSCOM - Zinnov report titled

“Indian Start-up Ecosystem 2018: Approaching Escape Velocity,”
India has been ranked the 3rd biggest start-up hub in the world. The top
spot has been held by US.

1. Seventh edition of the ‘International

Tourism Mart’ was held in Agartala,
Tripura. The theme for this year is “Adventure
Tourism”.

2. The India Rivers Week (IRW) 2018 was

organised by World Wide Fund for Nature-India (WWF), New Delhi.
The focus of this year’s three-day meet was ‘Can India Rejuvenate
Ganga?’. The Bhagirath Prayas Samman (BPS) 2018 was given to
Vishwanath Srikantaiah, and the Anupam Misra Medal 2018, for path
breaking media work on Rivers with focus on Ganga, was given away to
River Journalist Shri Arun Tiwari.

3. National Foundation for Communal Harmony (NFCH), an

autonomous organization under Home Ministry, started observing the
Communal Harmony Campaign and Fund-Raising Week from 19th to 25th
November 2018.

4. 3rd India-Singapore Defence Minister dialogue (DMD) was

recently held in Visakhapatnam.

5. Indian Air Force (IAF) and US Air Force (USAF) will participate in
bilateral exercise ‘COPE INDIA 2019’ in December in West Bengal.

6. 12th biennial World Congress on Mountain Medicine commenced

in Kathmandu, Nepal. Theme: “Mountain Medicine in the Heart of the
Himalayas”.

7. The naval exercise Konkan 18 between India and United Kingdom

is being organised off Goa coast.

8. Sustainable Blue Economy Conference was held at Nairobi, Kenya

recently to advance the global conversation on the sustainable
development of the Blue Economy.

9. Second edition of India Gold and Jewellery summit was held in New
Delhi

10. The International Gita Festival 2018 will be organised in

Kurukshetra, Haryana in the month of December.

11. Three-day South Asia Regional Youth Peace Conference was

held in New Delhi as part 150th  birth anniversary celebrations of father of
nation Mahatma Gandhi.

12. International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The

Union) announced to host the 4-day 50th Union World Conference
on Lung Health in Hyderabad next year.

13. United Nations selected Noida and Greater Noida, twin cities in
Gautam Buddha Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh to participate in its
Global Sustainable Cities 2025.

14. Africa Industrialization Day (AID): November 20

15. 46th World Hello Day to express the power of communications to

resolve differences was observed on 21, November.

16. 23rd annual World Television Day: 21 November.

17. World Fisheries Day: 21st November

18. World COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) Day: 21st

November

Theme: ‘Never too early, never too late’

19. International Day for the Elimination of Violence against

Women: 25th November

20. International Day for the Elimination of Violence against

Women: November 25.

“Orange the World: #HearMeToo” is the theme of the 16-day event (25
November – 10 December) to observe the event and spread awareness.

22. National milk day: 26 November

23. 69th Constitution Day: 26 November

24. Indian Organ Donation Day: 27 November.

Tamil Nadu was awarded the best performing state in the field of organ
donation category.

25. 14th Formation day of National Disaster Management Authority

(NDMA): November 27.

Theme: “Early Warning for Disasters”.

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1. The annual Sangai Festival was

celebrated recently in north-eastern state
of Manipur. The festival is named after the
state animal Sangai.

2. Indian Railways unveiled ‘e-Drishti’

software that will help Union Railway
Minister to keep track of punctuality of
trains as well as freight and passenger earnings and much more from
anywhere in the country.

3. Former PM Manmohan Singh launched a book authored by Manish

Tewari “Fables of Fractured Times”.

4. ISRO’s PSLV - C43 successfully launched country’s first Hyper

Spectral Imaging Satellite (HysIS), dubbed ‘Sharp Eye’, in its
intended orbit besides 30 small commercial satellites from various countries
into the orbits.

5. The committee formed for dealing with stressed thermal power

projects chaired by Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha has submitted its
recommendations. The committee recommended closing down of old,
inefficient thermal power units.

6. With an aim to bring back the tribal languages in circulation and prevent
them from vanishing, Odisha government released lexicons of 21
tribal languages for multilingual education (MLE) purposes for
elementary schools in tribal dominated districts.
7. Telangana Chief Electoral Officer Dr Rajat Kumar inaugurated a five-day
exhibition on “Our Vote- Our Future” in Hyderabad.

8. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath unveiled the

finalized details for the construction of a 221-metre long statue of
Lord Ram in Ayodhya.

9. As per National Health Agency, after two months of launch of Ayushman

Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana, Gujarat has emerged as
the top performer among the states under the scheme.

10. Annual ‘Jangalmahal’ festival began in the forested areas of

West Midnapore, Bankura and Purulia districts of West Bengal.

11. Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd (GRSE) launched two
fast patrol vessels (FPV) ICGS Amrit Kaur and ICGS Kamla Devi,
(named after freedom fighters) in the river Hooghly in Kolkata.

12. The President of India received the first copy of the book
“Making of New India: Transformation under Modi Government”,
written from Arun Jaitley.

Arun Jaitley had also recently unveiled a curated coffee table book titled
‘The Illustrated History of Indian Hockey: A Saga of Triumph, Pain and
Dreams’

13. Bhadohi district of Uttar Pradesh, which is known for its hand-
woven carpets around the world, was granted the export ‘excellence
tag’ by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) under the
commerce ministry.

14. A new deep-sea shark species named Pygmy false catshark, was
discovered in the northern Indian Ocean.

15. Union Government has conferred status of Miniratna: Category–I to

National Projects Construction Corporation Limited (NPCC).

16. Popular teenage singer Nahid Afrin of Assam has been

appointed by UNICEF as the first ‘Youth Advocate’ of the north-
eastern region to fight for child rights.

17. Union Government has approved building and development of

Kartarpur Corridor from Dera Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur district of
Punjab to international border with Pakistan. The Kartarpur Corridor will
facilitate pilgrims from India who visit Gurdwara Darbar Sahib,
Kartarpur, on the banks of the Ravi River in Pakistan every year.

18. Bihar government unveiled 70-feet tall statue of Lord Buddha at

Rajgir in Nalanda district of state. The statue has been installed in the
middle of lake Ghora Katora.

19. Food delivery platform  Uber Eats announced the appointment of

actress Alia Bhatt as its brand ambassador.

20. Uttarakhand government approved renaming the Dehradun

airport (Jolly Grant airport) after former prime minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee.

21. Historic Bali Yatra festival was inaugurated in Cuttack, Odisha

recently.

22. Pharma company Lupin launched India’s First chatbot named

‘ANYA’ to provide medically verified information for health-related queries,
at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Research Society for the Study of
Diabetes, in Bengaluru.

23. Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik inaugurated a

week long annual ‘Jhiri Mela’ festival at village Jhiri in Jammu district.

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1. Kim Jong Yang of South Korea (Capital:

Seoul, Currency: Won) has been elected as
the new president of INTERPOL
(Headquarter: Lyon, France).

2. Salom Zurichishvili was elected as the

first female President of Georgia (Capital:
Tibilisi, Currency: Lari).

3. India agreed to grant a total line of credit proposal offer of USD

250 million to Lao PDR. (Capital: Vientiane, Currency: Kip)

4. Millie Bobby Brown, actor of Netflix sci-fi drama ‘Stranger

Things’ has been appointed as UNICEF’s Goodwill Ambassador.

5. Slovenia (Capital: Ljubljana, Currency: Euro) became the first

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) (Headquarter: Belgium,
Brussels) country with the female army chief after appointment of Major
General Alenka Ermenc.

6. Russia’s space agency “Roscosmos” has planned to venture into

Internet of things (IoT) with launch of new satellite system named
‘Marathon’.

7. In a historic definition of the kilogram, the International

Prototype of the Kilogram (IPK), a cylinder of a platinum alloy stored at
BIPM will be replaced by the Planck constant – the fundamental
constant of quantum physics. Likewise, standard definitions of kilogram,
Ampere, Kelvin and mole. This decision was made at the General
Conference on Weights and Measures held in Versailles, France.

8. World’s first ever underground luxury hotel named- The Inter

Continental Shanghai Wonderland- opened in Songjiang district,
southwest of Shanghai, China.

1. Sameer Verma has won Syed Modi India

Grand Prix Gold badminton title 2018 held
in Lucknow, UP in men’s singles category.

2. Lewis Hamilton wins the Abu Dhabi

Grand Prix.

3. Sachin Tendulkar has been named as the

new brand ambassador of Apollo Tyres.

4. Indian men’s hockey team captain Manpreet Singh inked pact

with Adidas.

5. Top Indian boxer Mary Kom (from Manipur) won gold medal (her
6th medal in all) at World Women’s Boxing Championships held in New
Delhi. Sonia Chahal (Silver), Simrajit Kaur (Bronze) and Lovlina Borgohain
(Bronze), helped the India finish at the third position overall.

6. Laureus World Sports (also known as Oscars of sports) Awards

2019 would be organised in Monaco.

7. Bangladesh cricket team captain Shakib Al Hasan has become

the fastest to complete the double of 200 wickets and 3000 runs in
the Test format of the game.

8. Former Indian Hockey player Sandeep Michael passed away.

9. 59th edition of Subroto Cup International Football Tournament

(Junior Boys category) was won by Bangladesh’s Krida Shiksha
Prothishtan (BKSP) by defeating Amini School of Afghanistan.

10. Netherlands won the seventh title of the Women’s Hockey

Champions Trophy with the victory over Australia, in China.

11. Magnus Carlsen of Norway (Capital: Oslo, Currency: Krone)

retained his title as World Chess Champion at the World Chess
Championship held in London on 28th November 2018.
12. The Illustrated History of Indian Hockey: A Saga of Triumph,
Pain and Dreams, the book on the journey of the national game released
by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.

13. England beat India to win the sixth edition of ICC women’s T20
World cup held in West Indies.

14. Artistic Gymnastics World Cup was organised in Germany, Dipa

Karmakar won the bronze medal in the Vault event.

15. Croatia (Capital: Zagreb, Currency: Kuna) defeated France to

lift the 2018 Davis Cup Tennis Tournament.

1. Indian classical muscian, Ustad Imrat

Khan, passed away in St Louis, United States.

2. Prominent Politician, writer and Promoter

of Odia Language Baishnab Charan Parida
passed away.

3. Former Union railway minister CK Jaffer Sharief passed away in

Bengaluru.

4. Veteran Actor and Politician MH Ambareesh who was popularly

known as “Rebel Star” passed away recently.

5. One of the world’s leading Scholar on Indus Valley and Tamil Brahmi
scripts, Iravatham Mahadevan passed away.

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