Current Affairs November 2017
30th November 2017
- Mirabai Chanu wins gold medal at IWFWWC
- Archers Abhishek Verma and Jyoti Surekha Vennam bags Gold and Bronze medal in Asia Archery Championship
- India and Iatly sign MoU for enhanced cooperation in health sector
- Pankaj Advani secures IBSF World Snooker Championship title
- Assam girl wins Best Boxer title in World Youth Women’s Boxing Championship
- E Chandrasekharan Nair passes away
- SAUBHAGYA Scheme Launched in Manipur
- Hwasong-15: North Korea tests most powerful ICBM
- Skill India partners with Airbnb to Upskill hospitality Entrepreneurs
- Malayalam actor and mimicry artist Abi passes away
- GDP growth recovers to 6.3 pct in second quarter of FY18
- Former India women’s cricketer, coach Sreerupa passes away
29th November 2017
- French film on AIDS wins Best Film Award at IFFI 2017
- Bitcoin Crosses $10,000 for the First Time Ever
- India and UK to sign MoU in Urban Transport Sector
- Aung San Suu Kyi stripped of Freedom of Oxford Award
- Snehlata Shrivastava appointed first woman Secretary General of Lok Sabha
- Jet Airways and Air France-KLM tie up to Boost Traffic
- Thodupuzha Vasanthi passes away
- Pradeep appointed as Air India CMD
- Russia to Help India to Set up National Crisis Response Centre
28th November 2017
- NK Singh Appointed as 15th Finance Commission Chairman
- Aegon Life Insurance Appoints Vineet Arora as MD & CEO
- Hindustani classical music exponent Pandit Narayanrao Bodas passes away
- Shaktikanta Das appointed as India’s G 20 Sherpa
- Japanese professor Horoshi Marui conferred with 3rd ICCR Distinguished Indologist Award
- India Win 10 Medals in Para Badminton World Championships
- Serene Valtteri Bottas Wins Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
- PM Narendra Modi, Ivanka Trump Inaugurate Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Hyderabad
- Karen Pierce appointed as Britain’s Ambassador to UN
- IAS Officer B.N. Sharma appointed Chairman, National Anti-profiteering Authority
- Nirmala Sitharaman Elected IDSA President
- 7th World Military Games to be Held at Wuhan in China
27th November 2017
- Soumya Swaminathan to take charge as Dy Director-General of WHO
- Punjab Govt notifies Ban on Truckers’ Cartelisation
- WHO for first time releases guidelines on child sex abuse
- Indonesia raises Bali volcano alert to highest level
- Global University Employability Ranking 2017 – IISc Ranks 29th in the World
- SAM: World’s first AI politician developed
- Ruskin Bond conferred with Lifetime Achievement Award
- IMMSAREX-2017 begins in Bangladesh
- India clinched 5 gold medals at World youth women boxing championship
- South Africa Contestant wins Miss Universe crown
- Gopi Wins Asian Marathon Championship Gold
- PV Sindhu wins Silver at Hong Kong Badminton Open
- Health Ministry Wins Bronze Medal at the India International Trade Fair 2017
- 12th meeting of Standing Committee of Inter-State Council held
26th November 2017
· 26 November: Constitution Day
· Iran allows women weightlifters to compete internationally
· Gopi Thonakal becomes 1st Indian man to win Asian Marathon Championship
· Delhi to host International Geological Congress in 2020
· Nirmala Sitharaman elected IDSA President
· Rajasthani singer Mangi Arya passes away
· India to help Mauritius on digital locker
· India and Finland join hands to boost mutual ties in IT renewable energy
· Golden Temple awarded as the most visited place in the World
25th November 2017
· Lionel Messi wins fourth European Golden Shoe Award
· N Sambasiva Rao appointed as DGP of Andhra Pradesh
· 25 November: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
· Rajkummar Rao, Newton win big at Asia Pacific Screen Awards
· DANX-17: Defence of Andaman and Nicobar Islands Exercise concludes
· Ritu Phogat wins silver in U-23 Senior World Wrestling Championship
· Indian Railways installs Asia’s largest Solid State Interlocking in Kharagpur
· First Indian casino game training course centre in Goa
· 12th meeting of Standing Committee of Inter-State Council held
· President inaugurates International Gita Mahotsav in Haryana
· Two-day Korea Tourism Festival 2017 opens in Gurugram
· Indian football team remains 105th in FIFA rankings
· Indian Navy Chief visits Bangladesh for IMMSAREX
24th November 2017
- Five Indian films nominated for ICFT UNESCO Gandhi Medal
- WB govt forms Hill Area Development Committee under Mann Ghising
- SBI launches YONO, an Integrated app for Financial Services
- Union Cabinet introduces Pradhan Mantri Mahila Shakti Kendra
- Basel first city to jointly host Badminton and Para Badminton World Ch’ships
- Paytm Payments Bank raises to 122 crore
- HRD ministry launches Digital Signature campaign on Constitution Day
- Reserve Bank of India raises Shareholding Limit of ARCs
- Mount Agung erupts after 54 years
- Multi State Mega Mock Tsunami Exercise 2017 begins
- Jazz Singer and Lyricist Jon Hendricks dies
- Bamboo not ‘Tree’ any more: President promulgates ordinance to amend Forest Act
- Migratory birds start arriving in Chilika Lake
23rd November 2017
- Northeast Development Summit held in Manipur
- Telangana makes Telugu compulsory till Inter from next academic year
- India is one of top global cybercrime hotspots: study
- Union Govt initiates ‘safe-city’ plan for women in 8 metropolitan cities
- PM Narendra Modi inaugurates 5th global conference on cyber space
- Hike partners with Airtel Payments Bank mobile wallet
- Shubhangi Swaroop becomes first female pilot in Indian Navy
- Prime Minister Modi launches Umang app
- Government Sets up a Panel to Draft New Direct Tax Law
- TN has highest number of women entrepreneurs: Report
- Palestinian factions agree to hold election by 2018 end
22nd November 2017
- Paes-Purav lift JSM Champaign trophy
- India becomes Second Largest Fish Producing Country in the World
- NASA tests Supersonic Parachute for Mars 2020 mission
- Brahmos Flight test from IAF’s Su-30MKI Fighter Aircraft
- India and Russia join hands to provide visa free entry for flight crew members
- India’s first mission to the Sun to be launched in 2019
- Conference of Commanders of Eastern Air Command commence in Shillong
- Kendall Jenner becomes world’s highest paid model in 2017
- Rajasthan launches ‘Dishari’ to provide free study material for competitive exams
- Robert Mugabe resigns as Zimbabwe’s President, former VP to take oath as new President
- Feroz Shah Kotla gates to be renamed after Anjum Chopra
- Modi Govt. 3rd most trusted in the world
- China launches remote sensing satellites
- UBS India chief Aashish Kamat quits
21th November 2017
20th November 2017
- 20 November: Universal Children’s Day
- Qatar, the Richest Country in the World Per Capita
- Gleadovia konyakianorum: Parasitic plant found in Nagaland
- Afghanistan wins Maiden Under-19 Asia Cup
- Grigor Dimitrov beats David Goffin to lift ATP finals title
- Women’s Youth World Boxing Ch’ship begins in Guwahati
- Anand Rajeshwar Baiwar takes charge as SEBI Executive Director
- Ex-Union Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi passes away
- Former Wimbledon Champion Jana Novotna passes away
19th November 2017
- Former PM Manmohan Singh to get Indira Gandhi Peace Prize
- 42nd International Congress of Military Medicine begins in New Delhi
- 19th November: World Toilet Day
- Britain appoints the first female Black Rod in 650 years
- Qaumi Ekta Week being observed across country
- Toyota and Suzuki partners together to bring electric vehicles to India by 2020
- Ethiopians Birhanu Legese, Almaz Ayana win Delhi Half Marathon
- Indira Gandhi’s 100th Birth Anniversary
- Wrestler Sandeep banned for failing dope test
- Assam launches its first air ambulance for the public
- 62nd National Wrestling championship
- Delhi to form ‘Mahila Suraksha Dals’
- President’s visit to 3 NE States
- Punjab to compensate acid attack victims
18th November 2017
- Shagun Chowdhary crowned National Women’s Trap Champion
- Nicaraguas Sergio Ramirez wins Spains Cervantes Prize
- VP receives first copy of book on law and women
- India, France agree to deepen Security Co-operation
- Child Care activist Gopinath R. selected for Prof. Yashwantrao Kelkar Youth Award 2017
- Maharashtra CM launches initiative to curb Childhood Obesity
- India’s first Mega Coastal Economic Zone to come up in Maharashtra
- Iraqi forces successfully liberated town of Rawa from ISIS
- Yes Bank ties up with Centre Denmark India for fintech collaboration
- AVPS Chakravarthi appointed World Packaging Organisation Ambassador
NASA launches Joint Polar Satellite System-1 into space - China Opens World’s Coolest Library
- India’s Manushi Chillar crowned Miss World 2017
- Sri Lankan author bags 2017 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
- Former SC Judge V Khalid passes away
- First Namami Barak festival held in Assam
17th November 2017
- INS Sarvekshak reaches Dar-Es-Salaam to conduct Joint Hydrographic Survey
- France named as host of 2023 Rugby World Cup
- Nagaland becomes first North East state to launch PoS for electricity bill payments
- Legendary Hindi Poet Kunwar Narayan passes away
- Karnataka launches project to install WiFi facilities in gram panchayats
- 4th Global Conference on Sustained Eradication of Child Labour held in Argentina
- Moody’s upgrades India’s Sovereign rating for first time in 14 years
- 1st WHO Global Ministerial Conference on Ending TB
- India Disease Burden Initiative Report
- RBL Bank opens all women branch in Chennai
- Maharashtra bans Plastic Bottles at Government Offices, Hotels
- Bihar govt to set up “State Ayush Society”
16th November 2017
- 16 November: National Press Day
- Da Vinci’s Christ painting sold for record USD 450 Million
- US approves first Pill with Digital Tracking Device
- 16 November: International Day of Tolerance
- Andhra Pradesh hosting its first ever hot-air balloon festival
- BSE appoints S Ravi as its New Chairman
- Mukesh Ambani topped Forbes List of Asia’s Richest Families
- RBI Governor Urjit Patel appointed to advisory board of BIS
- UN Peacekeeping Defence Ministerial Conference 2017 held in Canada
- Abu Dhabi award for APMDC
- Army takes over Mugabe government in Zimbabwe
- Vice President inauguraes ‘Aadi Mahotsav’ Tribal Festival
15th November 2017
- Aditi, first Indian to qualify for LPGA Tour Championships
- 15th Asia Pacific Computer Emergency Response Team Conference held in India
- Founding ceremony of International Solar Alliance held in Germany
- China launches world’s first fully electric cargo ship
- India, US, Japan, Australia hold first quad talks on Indo-Pacific Cooperation
- Anand Kumar of Super 30 is Awarded Rashtriya Bal Kalyan Award for 2017
- Saudi Arabia recognizes Yoga as Sport
- Virtual Nation Asgardia launched its first Satellite Asgardia-1 into Space
- Vijay Prasad Dimri appointed President of 36th Intl Geological Congress
- Slovenia’s President wins second term in runoff election
- India’s global rank up to 14th for reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- Indonesian beauty queen crowned Miss International 2017
- Kamal Haasan, Rajinikanth and K. Raghvendra Rao win NTR Award
14th November 2017
- 14 November: World Diabetes Day
- Sujoy Ghosh resigns as Jury Head of 48th International Film Festival of India
- United Nations hosts first talks on use of killer robots in Geneva
- 10th South Asia Economic Summit begins in Nepal
- Italy failed to qualify for FIFA World Cup 2018
- Thirty seventh India International Trade Fair begins in New Delhi
- Rasgulla gets GI status and it goes to Bengal
- Dantewada hosts India 1st Tribal Entrepreneurship Summit
- India to be third largest economy by 2028: Report
- UP tops in mobilising Jan Dhan Accounts
- President gives away National Child Awards 2017
13th November 2017
- Bhaskar Ganguly appointed AIFF Ombudsman by Supreme Court
- Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit held in Vietnam
Teddy Riner remains undefeated and claims tenth World title - th India-Canada annual Ministerial Dialogue in New Delhi
- Youth Affairs Minister releases India Youth Development Index and Report 2017
- Leander Paes and Purav Raja won Knoxville Challenger men’s doubles title
- Bharat Khandare, First Indian fighter to be signed for UFC
- India sixth most vulnerable country facing extreme weather events: Report
12th November 2017
- 1.3 lakh Indians book ticket to Mars
- Transport for London gets 2017 Bad Grammar Award
- 12 November: Public Service Broadcasting Day
- Bangladesh Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha resigns
- Dubai police officers set a Guinness World Record by pulling3 lakh kgplane
- Modi leaves for Philippines to attend ASEAN Summit
- Not to pursue Islamic banking in India
- Former Nepal Prime Minister Kirti Nidhi Bista passes away
- Varanasi tops list of India’s most polluted cities
- Sainik Sankshema Sabha to be organised in all districts of AP and TS
- Pankaj Advani clinches 17th world title
- Dhoni inaugurates his first global cricket academy in UAE
11th November 2017
- The 23rd edition of the Kolkata International Film Festival inaugurated
- Padma Shri awardee Author Manu Sharma passes away
- Debjani Ghosh to be first woman President of NASSCOM in 2018
- GST on AC, non AC restaurants reduced to 5 percent
- Haryana, first state in India to treat Hepatitis-C patients with Oral Medicine
- Qatar appoints four women to Shura Council for the first time
- India became the first country to partner with Facebook on disaster response
- Gautam Gambhir named Govt Nominee in DDCA managing committee
- UNESCO confirms France’s Audrey Azoulay as New Head
- Pune University to give gold medal to only vegetarians and non drinkers
- Govt to give proxy voting rights to over 25 million Non Resident Indians
- Prannoy emerges as New National Champion
- China all set to make first contact with aliens
- 11 November: National Education Day
10th November 2017
- Indian origin Priti Patel resigns as British Minister
- India re-elected Member of UNESCO’s Executive Board
- UNHCR to receive Mother Teresa Award 2017 for social justice
- Uber joins forces with NASA to develop flying taxis
- First ever Nordic-Baltic Youth film festival in India
- Radha Mohan Singh inaugurates three-day Organic World Congress 2017
- Baahubali The Conclusion film to be screened at International Film Festival Goa
- Telangana State Assembly passes Police Protection Bill
- ATP World Tour Awards 2017
- National Entrepreneurship Awards 2017
- Telangana govt declares Urdu as second official language
9th November 2017
- Government doubles import duty on wheat to 20%
- Bank of China begins operations in Pakistan
- In a first, Kerala launched ‘She Pad’ scheme for School Girls
- India-Bangladesh inaugurated Train service between Kolkata and Khulna
- Morocco launches earth observation satellite
- EU launches election observation mission for Nepal Polls
- Hong Kong is World’s Top City for International Visits
8th November 2017
- MC Mary Kom wins Gold in 48 kg category in Asian Boxing Championship
- HDFC Bank makes RTGS, NEFT online transactions free
- Chennai included in UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network for contribution in Music
- The 20th International Children’s Film Festival begins in India
- Coal India launched ‘Grahak Sadak Koyla Vitaran App’
- Ola inks partnership with Microsoft for enhanced passenger experience
- Twitter officially expands its Character Count from 140 to 280
- Union Minister Smriti Irani flags off Digital Rath in New Delhi
- NASA: Ozone hole over Antarctica smallest in 30 years
- India slips to 7th position in business optimism ranking
- 8 November: International Day of Radiology
- Saina Nehwal, Shuttler Prannoy win Senior National title
- Prince of Wales Charles arrives India on 2-day visit
7th November 2017
- Punjab government to organise village-level tournaments to curb drug menace
- Commonwealth Shooting Championships 2017 in Australia
- India unveil logo, mascot and song for AIBA Youth Women’s World Boxing Championship 2017
- ISRO’s AstroSat accomplishes X-ray polarisation for the first time
- Coal Ministry launches Grahak Sadak Koyla Vitaran App for transparency in coal despatches through road
- WorkoLab launches India’s first co-working space with research facility
- Tata Steel sets up country’s largest coke dry quenching facility in Odisha plant
- India test fires ‘Nirbhay’ missile
- Gujarat Cadre IAS Officer Hasmukh Adhia named New Finance Secretary
- Binoy Kumar appointed as Special Secretary in Commerce Ministry
- Indian short film ‘School Bag’ wins award in Montreal
- Apollo Munich Health Insurance wins ‘General Insurance Company of the Year’
- Maya Swaminathan Sinha awarded Entrepreneur of the Year by ASSOCHAM
- Kerala govt inks MOU with Intel, UST Global
- Ola inks partnership with Microsoft for enhanced passenger experience
- Paytm introduces BHIM UPI for seamless money transfer
- HDFC Bank makes RTGS, NEFT online transactions free
- India to contribute USD 100 mn to UN Partnership Fund
- International Consortium of Investigative Journalists releases The Paradise Papers
- Guinea becomes new member of International Solar Alliance
- COP23 climate change summit held in Bonn,Germany
Power Ministry sets up panel under P.D. Siwal to probe NTPC’s Unchahar plant accident
6th November 2017
- ICIJ releases Paradise papers
- Rajyavardhan Rathore in Egypt to attend World Youth Forum
- Veteran Actor Mohan Joshi honoured with Vishnudas Bhave award
- Poonguzhali becomes First Woman Sr DDG appointed in TERM, DoT
- Balijatra Festival begins in Cuttack
- Aditi Ashok wins in Abu Dhabi for her third LET Title
- Satbir, Manorama win in Elite category at Cyclothon
- China launches two BeiDou-3 navigation satellites
- Indian short film wins award in Montreal
- Guinea becomes new member of International Solar Alliance
- India, Bangladesh begins joint military combat exercise
5th November 2017
- Goa to hold Nobel Prize Series-India 2018
- China unveils Asia’s largest Island-Building Vessel
- Ferrari may quit Formula 1 from 2020
- 5 November: World Tsunami Awareness Day
- Signature Hyderabadi dishes get India Post stamps
- China makes disrespecting national anthem punishable by jail
- Mary Kom named Women’s Youth World Championships Ambassador
- Indian golfer Shiv Kapur wins Panasonic Open India
- Singapore Changi airport opens new terminal with cleaning robots
- Free treatment for road victims: Kerala
- Indian women’s hockey team lifts hockey Asia Cup after 13 years
- Sonepur cattle fair begins in Bihar
4th November 2017
- India successfully tests its first fully indigenous Glide Bomb
- Deen Dayal SPARSH Yojana launched to promote philately
- President of Armenia on a three-day visit to India
- Air New Zealand wins Airline Excellence Award for the 5th time
- 7th Asia Ministerial Energy roundtable held in Bangkok
- Technical Education can not be provided through correspondence courses- SC
- Trump will make his first official visit to Japan on November 5
- Tamil Nadu’s Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple wins UNESCO award
3rd November 2017
- Sikkim to get its first airport this month
- PM Modi inaugurates World Food India 2017
- Hindi Writer Krishna Sobti awarded Jnanpith award 2017
- Indo-Kazakhstan Joint Exercise “PRABAL DOSTYK 2017″ begins
- President inaugurates 21st World Congress of Mental Health
- Etikoppaka toys from Andhra Pradesh get GI tag
- Rajesh appointed High Commissioner to Malta
- World’s third largest Book Fair opens in Sharjah
- Walmart’s first fulfillment centre in Mumbai
- Aadhaar-mobile number linking must by February 6: Govt
- World’s highest motorable road ready in Ladakh
- Mumbai received its first batch of four battery operated eco friendly BEST buses
- Kazakhstan to change its name by 2025
- Gagan Narang wins Silver in Commonwealth Shooting Championships
- Nadal secures world No.1 until end of year
2nd November 2017
- India and US Ocean Dialogue held in Goa
- 9th ‘CMS Vatavaran’ begins in Delhi
- President inaugurates Global Clubfoot Conference
- Ajay Bisaria named India’s next High Commissioner to Pakistan
- K Satchidanandan selected for Ezhuthachan Puraskaram
- Maharashtra Govtt adds 18m to Shivaji statue, to be World’s Tallest at 210m
- Mukesh Ambani becomes Asia’s Richest Person: Forbes
- Max age of joining NPS increased from 60 to 65 years: Finance Ministry
- Goa tops Gender Vulnerability Index, Bihar at bottom
- India slips 21 slots on WEF Gender Gap Index
- Odisha imposes 7-month ban on fishing to protect endangered Sea turtles
- Mumbai’s Royal Opera House gets UNESCO heritage award
- Fake news’ named word of the year 2017
- Srikanth rises to career-best 2nd rank
- Chanda Kochhar named most powerful woman in India by Forbes
1st November 2017
- Tata Steel elevates T V Narendran as global CEO, MD
- Martina Hingis announces retirement from Pro Tennis
- Suresh Chukkapalli appointed as Consul General of Korea
- Neelamani N Raju appointed as DG-IGP of Karnataka
- Bharti AXA Life appoints Vikas Seth as CEO
- Haryana announces lifetime pensions for ‘Hindi Satyagrahis’
- Michael Jackson named top-earning dead celebrity
- Diya wins medals in ITTF WCC
- ERO-Net launched in Rajasthan
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