2023 Men’s FIH
Hockey World Cup will be held on Bhubaneshwar India.
Rafael
Nadal(Spain) won the Davis Cup 2019.
Events:
The 35th ASEAN summit was organized in Bangkok(Thailand).
There are 10 permanent members of ASEAN.
Headquarter of ASEAN is in Jakarta (Indonesia).
Member countries of ASEAN
Brunei
Cambodia
Indonesia
Laos
Malaysia
Myanmar
Philippines
Singapore
Thailand
Vietnam
Full-Form of RCEP (Trade Agreement): Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership.
UN climate conference, COP25 was held in Madrid(Capital of Spain).
The 5th India International Science Festival(IISF) was held in Kolkata.
The theme of the 5th India International Science Festival(IISF) was “RISEN”- Research, Innovation and Science Empowering the Nation.
Brasília(Brazil) hosted the 11th BRICS summit.
Member countries of BRICS:
Brazil
Russia
India
China
South Africa
The theme of 11th BRICS Summit: ‘BRICS: Economic Growth for an Innovative Future’.
The 8th International Tourism Mart 2019 for North East Region at Imphal, Manipur.
The four-day-long International Lavi fair is being organised in Rampur district of Shimla, Himanchal Pradesh from 11 to 14 November 2019.
‘Operation Ma‘ by Indian Army helps Kashmiri youths to abandon terrorism and return to normal lives.
International Film Festival of India 2019 was held in Goa.
Indian Army conducts test firing of “Spike” LR anti-tank missiles.
Russia to be partner country at International Film Festival of India
Important Persons:
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan is the current president of UAE(United Arab Emirates).
T. N. Seshan was the former Chief Election Commissioner.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa sworn in as Sri Lanka’s new president.
Sharad Arvind Bobde is the 47th Chief Justice of India.
Sharad Arvind Bobde is a former Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court.
Famous mathematician Vashishth Narayan Singh passed away on 14th of November.
International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA) Board Appoints Rafael Grossi as Director General.
Uddhav Thackeray sworn in as the 18th chief minister of Maharashtra.
Pravind Kumar Jugnauth (born 25 December 1961) is a Mauritian politician who is the current Prime Minister of Mauritius.
Satya Pal Malik is the 18th and current Governor of Goa.
Important Days:
National Press Day of India is celebrated on 16 November.
World Science Day is celebrated on 10th of November.
National Milk Day of India is celebrated on 26 November.
Constitution Day (National Law Day), also known as Samvidhan Divas, is celebrated in India on 26 November.
World Pneumonia Day is celebrated on 12 November.
The theme of World Pneumonia Day was “Healthy Lungs For All”.
World Toilet Day is celebrated on 19 November.
National Education Day is celebrated on 11 November on the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the first education minister of independent India.
Foundation Days of these states are celebrated on 1 November:
Madhya Pradesh,
Karnataka,
Kerala and
Andhra Pradesh
Awards:
Madhuri Vijay has
been awarded with the JCB Award for Literature 2019 for her debut
novel, The Far Field.
Hyderabad Bags the UNESCO Title of ‘Creative City of Gastronomy’.
Serbia’s Sara Damnjanovic has been crowned “Miss Asia Global
2019”.
Miss Asia Global
2020 will be held in Malaysia.
Raja Ram Mohan Roy Award 2019 for excellence in journalism.
The chairman of Rajasthan Patrika Gulab Kothari has been awarded Raja Ram
Mohan Roy Award for excellence in journalism.
Tobacco Board of India was awarded the Golden Leaf Award in the
Most Impressive Public Service Initiative category for the year 2019.
Chitharesh Natesan was crowned Mr. Universe 2019
PETA India’s 2019 Person of the Year: Virat Kohli.
David Attenborough gets the Indira Gandhi Peace Prize
2019.
Rajinikanth was awarded with Golden Jubilee Icon award at International
Film Festival of India.
Best Film: Golden Peacock Award at International Film Festival of India : “Particles”
by Blaise Harrison.
Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri(Malayalam Poet) was awarded with the 55th
Jnanpith Award(Gyanpith Award)
Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik was awared with Italian Golden Sand Art Award
2019
Neha Dixit gets 2019 International Press Freedom Award
Military Exercises:
Joint Military Exercise “SHAKTI-2019” between India and France was held in Rajasthan.
Joint military Exercise “Dustlik-2019” between India and Uzbekistan was held in Tashkent.
Joint Naval Exercise “Samudra Shakti 2019” between India and Indonesia held in the Bay of Bengal.
“Roar of the Sea”( Za’ir-Al-Bahr ) is the joint Naval Exercise between India-Qatar that took place in Doha, Qatar in 2019.
Tiger Triumph is Joint Military Exercise between US and India. It was scheduled in Andhra Pradesh .
Economy:
RIL becomes first Indian company to hit Rs 10 lakh crore market cap.
Science and Technology:
Alzheimer’s disease is caused by brain cell death.
Amazon has launched “Project Zero” to Empower brands against
counterfeits.
ISRO launched advanced earth imaging and mapping satellite CARTOSAT-3 and
13 other nano-satellites from Sriharikota on 27 November 2019 using PSLV-47.
Microsoft launches K-12 Education Transformation Framework.
Books and Authors:
Jui Karkare Navare is the author of the book Hemant Karkare: A Daughter’s Memoir.
Author of the book “Finding the Gaps: Transferable Skills to Be the Best You Can Be” is Simon Taufel
The Oxford Word of the Year 2019 is “Climate Emergency”.
Author of the book “R.N. Kao: Gentleman Spymaster” is Nitin A Gokhale.
First:
Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu launches the first Hindi daily
newspaper of the state, ‘Arun Bhoomi’.
Sub Lieutenant Shivangi is India’s first woman navy pilot.
India’s first day-night Test match was played at Eden Gardens
in Kolkata.
Kolkata becomes first city to
install RT–PCR machines in India.
Bangladesh is set to become the first country to approve golden rice.
Others:
Chief Guest of Republic Day Parade of 2020 will be President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro.
The Union Territories of Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli became a single union territory.
The current number of Union Territories of India is 8.
President’s rule is the suspension of state government and imposition of direct central government rule in a state. Under Article 356 of the Constitution of India.
The government has given its approval for setting up four medical device parks with a view to support the ‘Make in India’ initiative in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala.
India’s rank in 2019 Global Terrorism Index
UP govt launches e-Ganna app
The Kartarpur Corridor is a visa-free border crossing and secure corridor, connecting the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Pakistan to the border with India.
Indian Oil launches special winter-grade diesel for UT of Ladakh.
Bihar is proposing to ban all state-owned vehicles that are older than 15 years
The slogan/motto for the office of Lokpal is thus-“मा गृधः कस्यस्विद्धनम्”
