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Sports Minister starts 2nd edition of Fit India School Week

November 27, 2020
Kiren Rijiju
  • Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju has started the 2nd edition of the “Fit India School Week” program in the presence of Fit India Mission.
  • Sports Minister supports school children to participate in the Fit India movement.

Father of Indian IT industry FC Kohli passes away

November 27, 2020
FC Kohli tcs
  • Founder of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Faqir Chand Kohli, famously known as the Father of the Indian IT industry, passed away.
  • Besides being the founder, he was also the first CEO of TCS.

Former World Bank President James Wolfensohn passes away

November 27, 2020
James Wolfensohn
  • Australian-American lawyer, investment banker, and economist James Wolfensohn, who worked as the President of the World Bank for 10 years, passed away.
  • He had worked as the ninth president of the World Bank Group from 1995 to 2005.

Malayalam film ‘Jallikattu’ is India’s official entry for the Oscars

November 27, 2020
Jallikattu
  • Malayalam film “Jallikattu”, directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery, has been chosen as India’s official entry for the Best International Feature Film category for the 93rd Academy Awards.
  • Jallikattu is the third Malayalam film after Guru (1997) and Adaminte Makan Abu (2011) to be selected as the country’s official entry for the Oscars.

Prakash Javadeker starts India Climate Change Knowledge Portal

November 28, 2020
prakash javadekar
  • Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Prakash Javadekar has started the “India Climate Change Knowledge Portal”.
  • The portal will have all the main steps the Government is taking at both national and international levels to address the climate change issues.

Nitin Gadkari introduces Highway projects in Uttar Pradesh

November 28, 2020
nitin gadkari
  • Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has introduced and placed the foundation stones of 16 National Highway projects in Uttar Pradesh.
  • The construction cost of these infra projects is approximated to be around Rs 7477 crore.

Russia test-fired Tsirkon hypersonic missile in the Arctic

November 28, 2020
Tsirkon hypersonic missile
  • Russia successfully test-fired a Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile in the Arctic. the frigate Admiral Gorshkov in the White Sea fired a Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile, hitting a naval target 450 km away in the Barents Sea at a speed of over Mach 8.

‘Quarantine’ named Cambridge Dictionary’s Word of the Year 2020

November 28, 2020
Cambridge Dictionary
  • Cambridge Dictionary has named ‘quarantine’ as Word of the Year 2020. The word has been named the word of the year based on data that showed that it was one of the most highly searched words on the Cambridge Dictionary this year.

India’s GDP contracts 7.5% in September Quarter

November 28, 2020
GDP
  • The National Statistical Office (NSO) has published the estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the second quarter (July-September) Q2 of 2020-21.
  • The GDP at Constant (2011-12) Prices in Q2 of 2020-21 is approximated at Rs 33.14 lakh crore, as against Rs 35.84 lakh crore in Q2 of 2019-20, showing a contraction of 7.5% as compared to 4.4% growth in Q2 2019-20.

Indian Army begins cycling expedition in Gujarat & Rajasthan

November 28, 2020
Indian Army launches cycling expedition in Gujarat & Rajasthan
  • Konark Corps of Indian Army has started 1971 kilometres cycling expedition in Gujarat and Rajasthan to celebrate the commencement of the Golden Jubilee Victory Celebrations of Indian Armed Forces in the Indo-Pak War of 1971.

India uplift four spots to 104th in the latest FIFA rankings

November 28, 2020
FIFA
  • The Indian national team has climbed up a spot to 104 in the latest FIFA Rankings. The Indian team was ranked 108th in the October 2020 rankings.
  • In two months, India has escalated 5 spots after being 109th in September.

SpiceJet starts dedicated freighter services to Leh in Ladakh

November 28, 2020
SpiceJet
  • SpiceJet has started dedicated freighter services connecting Leh with the rest of the country.
  • This is the first time a civil airliner has commenced freighter services to Leh.

L&T bags Rs 7,000-cr order to construct part of Bullet Train project

November 28, 2020
Larsen and Toubro
  • Infrastructure major Larsen and Toubro (L&T) has bagged an order worth over Rs 7,000 crore to make a part of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail (MAHSR), also recognized as the Bullet Train Project.

Bengaluru’s Bowring Medical College titled after Atal Bihari Vajpayee

November 28, 2020
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
  • The Bowring and Lady Curzon Medical College and Research Institute in Bengaluru have been identified after former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
  • The institute was established up in 2018-19 on the campus of Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital in Shivajinagar in the heart of Bengaluru.

PM Modi leads 33rd PRAGATI Meet

November 29, 2020
33rd PRAGATI Meet
  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi has led the 33rd PRAGATI meeting to review multiple projects, grievances and programmes.
  • PRAGATI stands for “Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation”.
  • These projects were associated to the Ministry of Railways, MORTH, DPIIT and Power Ministry.

Narendra Singh Tomar starts Honey FPO Programme in 5 states

November 29, 2020
Narendra Singh Tomar
  • The Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar virtually initiated Honey Farmer Producer Organisation (FPO) Programme in five states, for producing honey.
  • These 5 FPOs will be set up by the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Limited (NAFED). They will be set up at East Champaran (Bihar), Morena (Madhya Pradesh), Bharatpur (Rajasthan), Mathura (Uttar Pradesh) and Sunderbans (West Bengal).

UBS predicts India’s GDP at -10.5% for FY21

November 29, 2020
GDP
  • The UBS has projected India’s real GDP to decline 10.5% in FY21, in its Global Economics & Markets Outlook 2021-2022 report.
  • For the fiscal 2021-22 (FY22) UBS assumes India’s real GDP growth to rebound to +10%  in FY22. UBS also estimates India’s GDP to stabilize at 6.2 percent YoY in FY23.

YES Bank starts ‘SMS Pay’ on POS Terminals

November 29, 2020
Yes Bank
  • Private lender Yes Bank has started an ‘SMS Pay’ functionality on POS terminals, which would let merchants accept contactless and remote payments from their customers.
  • Yes Bank has tied-up with French payment services company Worldline to launch the new facility.

Virat Kohli to be the fastest to reach 22,000 international runs

November 29, 2020
Virat Kohli
  • Indian cricket team skipper Virat Kohli scripted one more record in the game. He broke Sachin Tendulkar’s record and became the quickest batsman to achieve 22,000 runs. He reached the milestone in his 462nd innings.

International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People: November 29

November 29, 2020
International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
  • The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People is an UN-organized day held annually on November 29.
  • It is commemorated to mark the anniversary of resolution 181, wherein the Assembly adopted the resolution on the partition of Palestine on November 29, 1947.

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