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NOVEMBER 2019 Current Affairs Monthly 2020 - 21 CURRENT AFFAIRS STRAIGHTZERO President of India hosts President of SriLanka 8 Contents No Pegasus spyware is used for UA interception ......................................................................... 8 International Affairs 1 Guru Ghasidas Park now a tiger reserve ......... 8 Pakistan introduced vaccine to combat typhoid Logo, motto introduced for Lokpal ................... 9 .......................................................................... 1 47th All India Police Science Congress began 9 Indra Nooyi's portrait in the NPF ...................... 1 IFFI concluded at Panaji in Goa....................... 9 Dhaka International Folk Festival inaugurated . 1 National Tribal Craft Mela 2019 ..................... 10 Match fixing a crime: Sri Lanka ........................ 1 Devi Ahilya University gets A grade from NAAC FIFA banned three football officials for life ....... 2 ....................................................................... 10 Sumatran rhinoceros are extinct in Malaysia ... 2 UP to set up state's 1st vulture conservation . 10 Ocean Dance Festival 2019 began in Amaravati included in India's political map .... 10 Bangladesh ....................................................... 2 3-day Commonwealth Youth Parliament began Climate Emergency: Word of the Year ............. 3 ....................................................................... 11 2nd Summit of World Religious Leaders begun Awards & Honours 12 .......................................................................... 3 ‘Particles’ wins the Golden Peacock Award 2019 The 2nd edition of the Paris Peace Forum held ....................................................................... 12 .......................................................................... 3 Ekalavya award 2019 for Jhilli Dalabehera .... 12 Second Ebola vaccine to be offered in Congo . 3 Ranjana wins National Award for Journalism 12 Facebook removed 5.4 billion fake accounts ... 4 Malayali poet Akkitham wins 55th Jnanpith Iran discovered new oil field ............................. 4 award. ............................................................ 12 Dhaka Global Dialogue begun.......................... 4 IFFI 2019 Award winners ............................... 13 Mauritius PM claimed victory ............................ 4 ‘Rwanda’ won the ICFT–UNESCO Gandhi Medal ............................................................. 13 30th year of the Fall of the Berlin Wall ............. 5 Indian journalist Neha Dixit won award .......... 13 50th WEF Annual Meeting to be held in Davos 5 Swachh Survekshan Grameen Awards 2019 13 Scientists declared a climate emergency ......... 5 Sir David Attenborough to receive award ...... 14 China launched Sudan’s first ever satellite ...... 5 Virat Kohli named Person of the Year ........... 14 Guyana to be fastest growing country .............. 6 Delhi Metro won 2 awards ............................. 14 China approved drug to cure Alzheimer's ........ 6 China launched new Earth observation satellite Floating school project in Bangladesh awarded ....................................................................... 14 .......................................................................... 6 First blockchain-based carbon trading exchange Marathon man Kipchoge won Athlete of the Year ....................................................................... 15 .......................................................................... 6 Manisha Kulshreshtha won award ................. 15 Russia’s Submarine test fired Missile ............... 7 Bajrang Punia honored in Dubai .................... 15 Spain offered to host COP Climate Summit ..... 7 Greta Thunberg received Peace Prize .......... 16 National Affairs 8 Kiran Mazumdar Shaw conferred with award 16 President to Visit UP from Nov 30 to Dec 1 ..... 8 Winners of Gandhian Challenge announced . 16 Sridevi and Rekha conferred with award ........ 16 Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji Award instituted ........ 24 Rejoice National Ayush Awards presented .... 17 Rajnikanth to receive Special Icon award ...... 24 Rezwana Choudhury Bannya got award ........ 17 Days & Events 25 Movie “Bhonsle” won awards ......................... 17 IR First electric loco shed 91st anniversary: 28 November ....................................................... 25 Tobacco Board of India won Award ............... 17 National Milk Day: 26 November ................... 25 PCI's journalism award presented .................. 18 11th anniversary of 26/11: November 26 ....... 25 Robert De Niro to be conferred with award .... 18 Constitution Day celebrated on 26 November 25 Dr. Cyrus conferred with the ABLF Award ..... 18 Day for the Elimination of Violence: 25 Amit Panghal conferred Haryana Gaurav award November ....................................................... 26 ........................................................................ 18 NCC celebrated its 71st Raising Day on 24 Nov Avneet Sidhu honored with award .................. 19 2019 ............................................................... 26 Indian scholar won BRICS-Young Innovator Indian Army celebrated Poonch Link Up Day on Prize ................................................................ 19 23 November .................................................. 26 Munin Barkotoki Literary Award announced ... 19 World COPD Day: 20 November ................... 27 Shanta Gokhale awarded ............................... 19 World Philosophy Day: 21 November ............ 27 Wildlife biologist K. Ullas Karanth won award 20 World Television Day: 21 November ............. 27 Golden Jubilee of IFFI starts on November 20 World Fisheries Day: 21 November ............... 27 ........................................................................ 20 World Children’s Day: 20 November.............. 28 National Entrepreneurship Awards conferred 20 Africa Industrialization Day: 20 November ..... 28 Punjab CM conferred achievers award .......... 20 Kumar Mangalam Birla conferred with an award World Toilet Day: 19 November ..................... 28 ........................................................................ 21 Day for remembering road traffic victims on 17 November ....................................................... 28 Infosys Prize 2019 for science and research . 21 Abhishek Sarkar wins award at Dhaka Lit-fest National Epilepsy Day: 17 November ............ 29 ........................................................................ 21 UK observed the 101st Armistice Day on 11 November ....................................................... 29 Kothari to get Raja Ram Mohan Roy Award .. 21 International Day for Tolerance: 16 November Sara Damnjanovic won Miss Asia Global title 22 ....................................................................... 29 Neeraj Sharma won award ............................. 22 National Press Day: 16 November................. 29 Sudarshan Pattnaik selected for an Award .... 22 World Kindness Day: November 13 ............... 30 Madhuri Vijay’s debut novel won prize ........... 22 World Pneumonia Day: November 12 ........... 30 Documentary on Real Kashmir FC bagged World Diabetes Day on 14 November ........... 30 awards ............................................................ 23 Children’s Day: 14th November ..................... 30 Writer Anand selected for Ezhuthachan award ........................................................................ 23 Public Service Broadcasting Day ................... 30 Nawazuddin Siddiqui wins Golden Dragon 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev ji 31 Award .............................................................. 23 World Science Day for Peace and Development PepsiCo India wins US award for saving water ....................................................................... 31 ........................................................................ 23 National Education Day: 11 November .......... 31 Contact No. +91 84470 22 777 www.straightzero.in [email protected] Legal Services Day: 9th November ................ 31 Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan re-elected ....................................................................... 39 International Day of Radiology: 8 November .. 32 Amitabh's six films to be screened at IFFI ..... 39 National Cancer Awareness Day.................... 32 FICCI & Chairman of Modi Enterprises K.K. 2nd ‘No money for terror conference 2019' .... 32 Modi passed away ......................................... 39 International Day celebrated on 6 .................. 33 Dhanlaxmi Bank MD, CEO T. Latha resigns . 40 World Tsunami Awareness Day: 5 November Government Policies & Schemes 41 ........................................................................ 33 End Impunity for Crimes against Journalist Day Subsidy Services Awas Portal launched ....... 41 ........................................................................ 33 UP govt launched immunisation campaign .... 41 Books & Authors 34 Andhra Pradesh govt launched a scheme ..... 41 Assamese version of 'Courts of India' released J&K achieves highest road length under ........................................................................ 34 PMGSY .......................................................... 41 Three books on Guru Nanak Dev Ji launched Assam govt released the new Land Policy 2019 ........................................................................ 34 ....................................................................... 42 ‘The
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