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November 2019 CURRENT AFFAIRS CAPSULE CURRENT AFFAIRS CAPSULE (MARCH 2019 TO 20th NOVEMBER 2019) (FOR IBPS PO 2019 MAIN EXAM) November 2019 • Madhuri Vijay has won the JCB Prize for Literature 2019 for her debut novel ‘The Far • Amazon has introduced ‘Project Zero’ in India, in Field’. a bid to ensure that customers receive authentic • Wrestler Pooja Gehlot claimed the second silver goods when shopping on Amazon. medal for India in the finals of UWW Under-23 • The World Congress on Rural and Agricultural World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Finance (WCRAF) was held in New Delhi. • The Spanish capital city of Madrid will be hosting • BRICS Trade Ministers Meet was held in the world’s annual climate conference, called Brasilia, Brazil. COP-25 (Conference of the Parties). • Sri Lanka has become the first South Asian • The Shanghai Cooperation Organization Joint nation to criminalize several offences related to Exercise on Urban Earthquake Search and match-fixing. Rescue- ‘SCOJtEx-2019’ held in New Delhi. • India will be hosting the 19th Council of Heads of • The Kanpur city held the title for the world’s most Government of the Shanghai Cooperation polluted city in the latest edition of Guinness Organization in 2020. World Records. • Justice Sanjay Karol has been sworn in as • India conducted its first ever military exercise the 43rd Chief Justice of Patna High Court. with Uzbekistan titled “Dustlik 2019”. • The Kung Fu Nuns of the Drukpa Order received • IIIT-Hyderabad have created the first- Asia Society’s prestigious Game Changer Award ever Indian Brain Atlas referred to as IBA 100. in New York. • As per 2019 Open Doors Report on International • Gujarat government has given its approval to a Educational Exchange” report India is the 2nd Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) terminal facility largest source of foreign students to the US. The at Bhavnagar port. This would be the world’s first first largest source is China. CNG port terminal. • The 8th International Conference on Agricultural • Wildlife biologist K. Ullas Karanth was awarded Statistics (ICAS-VIII) was held in New Delhi. the Wildlife Conservation Society’s George • Indian paddler Harmeet Desai won men’s Schaller Lifetime Award in Wildlife Conservation singles title at International Table Tennis Science. Federation (ITTF) Challenge Indonesia Open • Former Chief Election Commissioner TN 2019. Seshan passed away. • The World Day of Remembrance for Road • The 19th Indian Ocean Rim Association COM Traffic Victims was observed on 17 November (Council of Ministers) meeting was held in Abu 2019. Dhabi, UAE. • Sudarsan Pattnaik becomes the first Indian to • The Navies of India and Indonesia are holding win the Italian Golden Sand Art Award, 2019. bilateral naval exercise called ‘Samudra Shakti’ • International Conference on Yoga held in in Bay of Bengal. Mysuru. • The NASSCOM report on Indian Tech Start-Up • The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Ecosystem said that India continues to the third conducts first ever National Agro Chemicals largest start-up ecosystem after China and US. Congress in New Delhi. • Government of India announced the • The 4th edition of India International Cherry establishment of `25,000 crore fund for home Blossom Festival, 2019 was celebrated in buyers whose money is stuck in stalled projects. Shillong, Meghalaya. • Rajasthan Patrika group chairman Gulab Kothari • Union Ministry for Health and Family won Raja Ram Mohan Roy Award by Press Welfare (MoHFW) launched SAANS: ‘Social Council of India (PCI). Awareness and Action to Neutralise • IIT-Madras has launched India’s first Pneumonia Successfully’ campaign to reduce indigenously designed standing wheelchair child mortality due to pneumonia. named as ‘Arise’. • Darjeeling Green Tea & White Tea received • First BIMSTEC Ports Conclave held at Geographical Indication Tag. Visakhapatnam. • Pakistan becomes the first country to introduce • International Conference on Soil and Water WHO approved typhoid vaccine. Resources Management held in New Delhi. • India conducted its first night trial of AGNI II • The 5th India International Science Festival missile successfully. (IISF) is held in Kolkata. • The Water Quality Report was released by the • The Union Ministry of Skill Development & Union Minister of Consumer Affairs Shri Ram Entrepreneurship (MSDE) has launched the Vilas Paswan. Mumbai ranked first, and Delhi Skills Build platform in collaboration with IBM. was at the bottom of tap water quality ranking. Triumphant Institute of Management Education Pvt. Ltd. (T.I.M.E.) HO: 95B, 2nd Floor, Siddamsetty Complex, Secunderabad – 500 003. Tel : 040–40088400 Fax : 040–27847334 email : [email protected] website : www.time4education.com 1 • Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh • The Brazilian football team defeated the football inaugurated the Sisseri River Bridge at Lower team of Mexico to win the 18th edition of the FIFA Dibang Valley in East Siang District of Arunachal under 17 World Cup trophy held in Brasilia, Pradesh. Brazil. • The European Investment Bank will stop funding • Sudhir Mital and Shantikumar Singh were oil and coal projects at the end of 2021. elected as president and general secretary • National Initiative for School Heads’ and respectively, of the Gymnastics Federation of Teachers’ Holistic Advancement India (GFI). (NISHTHA) was launched in Union Territory of • Lieutenant Colonel Jyoti Sharma has been Jammu and Kashmir. appointed as Indian Army’s first female Judge • Every year 14 November is observed as World Advocate General officer to be deployed on a Diabetes Day (WDD). foreign mission. • World Heritage Week is celebrated by UNESCO • ICICI Lombard partnered with Fino Payments between November 19, 2019 and November 25, Bank to offer non-life insurance solutions to its customers. 2019. • The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has • United Nations’ new report on Pneumonia stated been conferred with two awards- Last Mile that India has the second largest deaths of Connectivity and Green Metro project – An children under the age of five due to Pneumonia. Initiative for Sustainable and Viable Urban Nigeria is the first country. Transport’ at the 12th Urban Mobility India • Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will be Chief Conference and Expo 2019 held in Lucknow. Guest at India’s Republic Day celebrations on • The International Institute of Management 26 January 2020. Development’s (IMD) World Talent Ranking • Renowned mathematician Vashishtha Narayan (WTR) report for the year 2019 was released. Singh, who was known as India’s Einstein, India was ranked 59th. The list was topped by passed away. Switzerland. • Nita Ambani has been named the Honorary • The Home Ministry in collaboration with the UN Trustee of New York City’s the Metropolitan Women flagged off an awareness campaign Museum of Art, the largest U.S. art museum. To End Violence Against Women. As part of the • International Union for Conservation of Nature campaign, people would be made aware about organized the 7th Regional Conservation Forum India’s single emergency helpline 112. st in Islamabad, Pakistan. • 1 Indo-Qatari joint Naval Exercise called Za’ir- • India’s Ravi Prakash has won the BRICS-Young Al-Bahr was held in Doha, Qatar. Innovator Prize for inventing an affordable • India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV- indigenous milk chilling unit for smaller and C47 will launch Cartosat-3 and 13 commercial nanosatellites into Sun Synchronous orbit from marginal rural dairy farmers. Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, • Justice Muhammad Raffiq was sworn in as th Sriharikota. 8 Chief Justice of Meghalaya High Court. • South Korea's Kim Joo Hyung has won the Panasonic Open held at the Classic Golf and October 2019 Country Club in Gurugram, India. • Renowned Rabindra Sangeet exponent from • The 28th Vyas Samman for the year 2018 was Bangladesh Rezwana Choudhury Bannya has conferred on noted Hindi poet and writer conferred the ICCR distinguished alumni award Leeladhar Jagoori for his poetry collection ‘Jitne in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Log Utne Prem’. • Laishram Sarita Devi (Manipur) is among the • The 5th International Conference on Road Tech 6 boxers from 5 continents who were elected as (Sustainable Roads and Highways) was held in members of AIBA Athletes Commission. New Delhi. • According to the International Monetary Fund • The second assembly of International Solar (IMF), Guyana to be the fastest growing country Alliance (ISA) was hosted by India. in the world next year at 86%. • National Health Authority signed a Statement of • UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) has Intent (SoI) with Google to collaborate and released a 28-page booklet called “From strengthen the implementation of Ayushman uttapam to sprouted dal parantha”. It explains Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana that nutritious food prepared at less than (PMJAY). 20 rupees will help in dealing with problems like • NITI Aayog released India Innovation Index underweight, obesity and anaemia in children. 2019. Karnataka was ranked the most innovative • Indian wrestler Bajrang Punia has been state in major Indian states category. conferred the Indian Personality of the Year • World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a Award (Sports) at the Indo Arab Leaders Summit cinema advertisement campaign ‘Feed Our Future’. & Awards 2019 in Dubai. Triumphant Institute of Management Education Pvt. Ltd. (T.I.M.E.) HO: 95B, 2nd Floor, Siddamsetty Complex, Secunderabad – 500 003. Tel : 040–40088400 Fax : 040–27847334 email : [email protected] website : www.time4education.com 2 • National
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