IMPORTANT CURRENT AFFAIRS
OF NOVEMBER 4th to 9th, 2019
IMPORTANT
CURRENT AFFAIRS OF NOVEMBER 4th to 9th, 2019
1.
8th November 2019 was observed as World Usability Day.
a. This day was
established in the year 2005 by the Usability Professionals Association, (now
the User Experience Professionals Association).
b. Aim of World
Usability Day : to promote the values of usability, usability
engineering, user-centered design, universal usability, and every user's
responsibility to ask for things that work better.
c. Theme of
World Usability Day 2019 : “Design for the Future We Want”.
2.
6th November 2019 was observed as International Day for
Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict.
a. This day was
established on 5th November 2001 by the United Nations General
Assembly, during Kofi Atta Annan's tenure as Secretary-General.
b. Aim of this
day : To educate people about the damaging effects of war and
armed conflict on the environment.
3.
5th November 2019 was observed as the World Tsunami
Awareness Day.
a. Aim of this
Day : to spread awareness among people across the world about
Tsunami.
b. The United
Nations General Assembly (UNGA) had constituted the day by adopting a
resolution in December 2015.
4.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a
2-day visit to Brazil from the 13th of this month.
a. During this
visit, he will attend the 11th BRICS Summit in Brasilia.
b. This will be
the sixth time that Mr Modi participates in the BRICS Summit. His 1st BRICS
Summit was at Fortaleza in Brazil in 2014.
c. Important
Note : Theme of 11th BRICS Summit : "Economic Growth
for an Innovative Future”.
5.
India in 2020 will host the next edition of 'No
Money for Terror' Ministerial Conference on Terrorism- Financing.
a. The
conference is a group of countries that focuses on countering terror financing.
6.
New Zealand has passed a "zero carbon" bill that
aims to reduce the country's carbon emissions to zero by 2050 and
meet its commitment under the Paris climate agreement.
7.
US President Donald Trump administration
has filed paperwork with the United Nations (UN) to
withdraw the United States (US) from the Paris climate agreement.
a. President
Trump in 2017, while announcing the US' withdrawal, had said the climate accord
would negatively impact the US economy and kill jobs.
8.
PM Narendra Modi on Saturday
inaugurated Kartarpur Corridor.
a. This will
allow pilgrims to travel to Gurudwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan.
b. Modi flagged
off the procession of around 500 pilgrims, which also includes ex-PM Manmohan
Singh, Punjab CM Amarinder Singh and actor-politician Sunny Deol.
9.
9th November is National Legal Services Day.
a. This day was
first started by the Supreme Court in the year 1995 all across the India to
offer help and support to the weaker and poor group of sections of people (women,
disabled persons, Scheduled Tribes, children, Scheduled Castes, human
trafficking victims as well as natural calamities victims).
b. Minister of
Law and Justice - Ravi Shankar Prasad
10. Pronouncing
the verdict in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title suit, the
Supreme Court ordered that the disputed land must be given to Hindus for
the construction of temple and alternate land must be given to Muslims.
a. Adding the
Ayodhya site is one composite site, the court said, "Land measuring 5
acre shall be given to Sunni Waqf Board."
b. While reading
out the verdict in the Ayodhya title suit case, the Supreme Court said that
Babri Masjid was not constructed on vacant land.
c. The Supreme
Court has also said that the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has not established
whether a temple was demolished to build Babri Masjid.
i) The court,
however, said that the fact that there was a temple beneath the destroyed
structure has been established by the ASI.
ii) While
pronouncing the verdict, the court also said that Allahabad High Court was
wrong in dividing the disputed site into three parts in its 2010 ruling.
iii) Today's
verdict coincides with the foundation laying ('shilanyas') ceremony performed
on November 9, 1989 by the RSS and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leaders.
iv) The 5-judge
Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court, which pronounced the verdict
is headed by Ranjan Gogoi (Chief Justice of
India).
v) The bench
also includes :
(1) Justice SA
Bobde (He will be the next Chief Justice of India)
(2) Justice DY
Chandrachud
(3) Justice Ashok
Bhushan
11. Vice
President M Venkaiah Naidu has
inaugurated the 10th Asian Conference of Emergency Medicine in
New Delhi.
12. The 7th
edition of the 'North East Festival', that aims to raise
awareness about the people, resources and culture of the country's northeast
region, is being hosted in New Delhi from November 8-10.
a. The event
will witness music and folk dance performances, handicraft exhibitions, various
cuisine stalls, handloom fashion shows and art exhibits.
13. Nitish
Kumar-led Bihar government has banned all the
state-owned vehicles which are over 15 years old across the state to
fight the rising pollution levels.
14. The annual
white desert carnival of 'Rann Utsav', held by Gujarat Tourism
Department in the country's largest salt desert 'Great Rann of Kutch',
began from October 28 and will last till February 23.
a. Visited by
lakhs of people each year, it celebrates cultural and artistic heritage of
Kutch.
b. The
activities include folk dance performances, handicraft shopping, star gazing
and sightseeing.
15. Union Home
Minister Amit Shah will preside over the concluding session of Global
Investors' Meet, in Dharmshala today.
a. Prime
Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the meet yesterday, organised by the Himachal
Pradesh government to attract investment and create employment
opportunities in the state.
b. Over 1,700
business delegates, including 200 International delegates are participating in
the Global Investors' Meet with UAE as the partner
Country.
16. In a move to
give impetus to the export of Khadi, the government has
allocated a separate Harmonized System (HS) code for this
fabric.
a. Allocation of
HS code to the khadi will help the government to plan the export strategies
effectively.
17. The 11th
edition of Bal Sangam to be organised by the National School
of Drama (NSD) began today (9th November) in the New Delhi.
a. It is a
confluence of folk and traditional art forms performed by children.
b. The 4-day
festival will showcase enthralling folk and traditional performing arts and
folk theatre dedicated to children.
18. The 25th
Kolkata International Film Festival begins today.
a. Bollywood
Actor Amitabh Bachchan inaugurated the 8 day long festival at Netaji Indoor
Stadium in Kolkata in presence of Sahrukh Khan, West Bengal Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee and a galaxy of cine stars.
b. Note : Germany is
the focus country of this year’s festival.
19. India opted
out of the RCEP trade agreement.
a. The Regional
Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a trade deal that
proposed to create an "integrated market" spanning across 16
countries, 10 ASEAN members and 6 countries with which the ASEAN bloc has free
trade agreements.
b. RCEP would
make it easier for products and services of the signatory countries to be
available across the region. India opted out of the agreement.
20. The Reserve
Bank of India (RBI) in its amended compensation guidelines for private
bank heads, has mandated at least 50% of compensation for CEOs to be
variable and linked to their performance, starting April 1.
a. It said
employees were often rewarded for boosting short-term profit without proper
recognition of the risks and long-term consequences of their moves, which can
threaten the financial system.
21. The RBI
enhanced the withdrawal limit for Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative
(PMC) Bank customers to ₹50,000,
inclusive of the ₹40,000 allowed earlier.
a. With this,
more than 78% of the depositors of the bank will be able to withdraw their
entire account balance.
b. Depositors
have also been allowed to withdraw from the bank's own ATMs within the prescribed
limit.
22. The Cabinet
has approved setting up of ₹25,000
crore fund with LIC and SBI's
participation for stalled affordable and middle-income housing projects.
a. Sovereign
wealth funds and pension funds have shown interest and may join the fund in the
future, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said.
b. Funding will
also be made available to projects that have been classified as non-performing
assets.
23. The Reserve
Bank has imposed a fine of Rs 5 lakh on prepaid payment instrument Oxigen
Services.
a. The move was
taken in exercise of powers vested under Section 30 of the Payment and
Settlement Systems Act, 2007, for non-compliance of regulatory guidelines.
b. Oxigen
Services facilitates payment processing and money transfer services.
24. Canadian
small-satellite startup Kepler has achieved the world's
first successful satellite-based broadband connectivity with a speed
of over 100 Mbps to the Arctic.
a. Kepler's
nanosatellites transmitted the internet to a German icebreaker sea vessel that
acts as a mobile lab for the MOSAiC research expedition in the Arctic.
b. Kepler has
demonstrated 38 Mbps download and 120 Mbps upload speeds.
25. European
Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), which tracks
global temperatures, revealed that October 2019 was the hottest
October ever recorded on Earth.
a. 2019 also
witnessed the hottest-ever September, June and July and the second-hottest
August.
26. Sara
Damnjanovic (Serbia) was crowned 'Miss Asia Global 2019' at the
international beauty contest held in Kerala.
a. Vietnam's Nguyen
Thi Yen Trang was crowned 'Miss Asia'.
b. Samiksha
Singh from India won the sub-title of 'Miss Beautiful Face'.
c. Note : Asia Global
is one of the 3 beauty pageant contests in India which doesn't have a bikini
and other similar rounds.
27. Italian movie
‘Despite the Fog’ will be the opening at the International
Film Festival of India (IFFI) this year.
a. The film is
directed by Europe’s noted filmmaker Goran Paskaljevic.
b. The 50th
edition of IFFI, beginning 20th of this month in GOA, will witness the
screening of over 200 best films from 76 countries.
28. The 9th
edition of the Dhaka Lit-fest started today with a galaxy of writers
and book lovers thronging the venue ground at the Bangla Academy.
a. Over the
three day of the festival 200 speakers, performers and thinkers, will take part
in discussions on diverse topics.
b. The special
focus of this year's lit-fest is on Indigenous Languages as the UNESCO has
marked 2019 as the year of Indigenous Language Protection.
c. Important
Note : On the first day of the event, West Bengal-based writer Abhisek
Sarkar and Bangladeshi poet Rofiquzzaman Rony were
given the Gemcon Young Literature Award and Gemcon
Young Poetry Award.
d. Abhisek and
Rofiquzzaman won the awards for their manus, "Nishiddho" and
"Dhoashar Tamate Rong," respectively.
29. To mark 200
years of Indian English poetry, India's National Academy of Letters, Sahitya
Akademi has published an anthology called 'Modern English Poetry by Younger
Indians'.
a. The book
contains pieces of poetry by poets aged 40 or less.
b. This book has
been edited by poet Sudeep Sen.
30. Satya Pal
Malik sworn in as the new Governor of Goa.
a. Chief Justice
of Bombay High Court Pradeep Nandrajog administered the oath
of office to
b. Note : Malik was
the Governor of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir before its bifurcation
into Union Territories.
31. Justice AK
Mittal sworn in as the Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh
High Court.
a. He was
earlier Chief Justice of the Meghalaya High Court.
32. India have been
named as the host country for 2023 Men's hockey World Cup.
a. This is
the 2nd consecutive time that India will be hosting the World
Cup.
b. India will
also become the 1st country to host the men's hockey World Cup 4 times.
c. Note : The
worldcup is scheduled to be held from January 13 to January 29.
33. Stand-in
skipper Rohit Sharma became the 1st Indian man
and second in world cricket to complete 100 T-20 Internationals.
a. He reached
the milestone when he led the team in the second match against Bangladesh at
the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium.
b. Note : Shoaib
Malik (Pakistan) with 111 games is the only player to have played more than 100
T20 Internationals.
34. Opener Smriti
Mandhana became the 2nd fastest Indian to score 2,000 runs in
ODI cricket.
a. The
23-year-old reached the landmark in her 51st innings, second only to Shikhar
Dhawan (48 innings).
b. Note : Mandhana is
the 3rd-fastest player in women's cricket to achieve the milestone.
35. Cricket Australia has
appointed former cricketer Melanie Jones as its New
director.
a. Jones, who
debuted for Australia in 1997 and played five Test matches and 61 ODIs, has been
recognised with one of the country's highest honours, the Medal of the Order of
Australia.
36. India's Lakshya
Sen has won the SaarLorLux Open badminton tournament at
Saarbrücken in Germany.
a. He defeated
Sen Weng Hong Yang of China in an exciting final last night.
37. World number
one tennis player Novak Djokovic defeated Canada's
Denis Shapovalov in straight sets to lift his 5th Paris Masters title.
38. Australian
tennis world number one Ashleigh Barty defeated Elina
Svitolina of Ukraine to win the WTA Finals in China and claim
a record-breaking $4.42 million in prize money, the
biggest ever prize money amount won in men's or women's tennis
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