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Former Pondicherry Lt Guv Chandrawati passes away

November 17, 2020
Chandrawati
  • Former Lt Governor of Pondicherry, Chandrawati passed away. She has a number of 1st to her honor as she was the 1st Member of Parliament (1977), the 1st MLA, 1st minister (1964-66 and 1972-74) & 1st leader of Opposition in the Haryana assembly (1982-85).

Japanese Nobel-prize-winner Masatoshi Koshiba passes away

November 17, 2020
Masatoshi Koshiba
  • Physicist Masatoshi Koshiba, who won the 2002 Nobel prize for the detection of cosmic neutrinos, passed away.
  • Koshiba’s most famous contribution involved detecting neutrinos from a distant supernova explosion using a vast detector based in a mine in central Japan.

SpaceX sends 4 astronauts into space

November 17, 2020
SpaceX
  • SpaceX has sent Four Astronauts (3 Americans, 1 Japanese) to the International Space Station on the first full-fledged taxi flight for NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) by a private company.
  • They were sent by Falcon Rocket from the Kennedy Space Center.

Dr. Susanta Kar conferred with Prof. A N Bhaduri Memorial Lecture Award-2020

November 17, 2020
Susanta Kar
  • Dr. Susanta Kar, Senior Scientist, Molecular Parasitology and Immunology, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research- Central Drug Research Institute (CSIR-CDRI) was honored with “Prof. A N Bhaduri Memorial Lecture Award 2020” by the Society of Biological Chemists (India), Bengaluru.

HDFC Bank, IndusInd in ‘red flag’ list on nearing foreign investment cap

November 17, 2020
IndusInd Bank
  • HDFC Bank & IndusInd Bank have been placed in the ‘red flag’ list, a system used for observing foreign portfolio investor (FPI) limits.
  • A listed company enters the list when the available legroom for overseas investment is less than 3% of the sanctioned limit.

SBM Bank India ready to launch a neo banking platform

November 17, 2020
SBM Bank India
  • SBM Bank India, the wholly-owned subsidiary of State Bank of Mauritius has paired up with Fintech PayNearby to launch a neo banking platform.

RBI enforces Rs 1 crore penalty on Punjab National Bank

November 17, 2020
Punjab National Bank
  • The Reserve Bank of India has enforced a penalty of Rs 1 crore on Punjab National Bank for violating the Payment and Settlement Systems Act, 2007.

ED Director SK Mishra’s tenure continued by one year

November 17, 2020
ED Director SK Mishra
  • The Union government has continued the tenure of Enforcement Directorate (ED) Director Sanjay Kumar Mishra by a year after revising his appointment order that was issued in 2018.

Nitish Kumar takes an oath as Chief Minister of Bihar for the 7th term

November 17, 2020
Nitish Kumar
  • The Chief of Janata Dal (United), Nitish Kumar has sworn in as the Chief Minister of Bihar and he will start his 7th term on 16th November 2020.
  • Bihar Governor Phagu Chauhan administered the pledge of office and secrecy to Mr. Kumar at Raj Bhavan in Patna.

The world’s first Tram library for children started in West Bengal

November 16, 2020
library on the tram
  • On the occasion of Children’s Day, a first-of-its-kind in the world, library on the tram for children was started in Kolkata, West Bengal. A tram is a rail vehicle that moves on tramway tracks along public streets.