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successfully conducts night trial of 2,000-km range surface-to- surface Agni II missile

 Health Ministry launches ‘SAANS’ campaign aimed at reducing child mortality due to pneumonia

 SAANS is Social Awareness and Action to Neutralise Pneumonia

 EC to establish chair in honour of former CEC TN Seshan at IIIDEM ((India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management)), New Delhi

 Mumbai tops the tap water quality ranking released by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)

 National Press Day celebrated on November 16; marks the foundation of Press Council of India in 1966

 National Tribal Festival ‘Aadi Mahotsav’ being held in New Delhi from November 16 to 30

 International Cherry Blossom Festival celebrated in Shillong from November 13 to 16

 Infosys Foundation chairman Sudha Murty launches her new book ‘The Daughter from a Wishing Tree: Unusual Tales about Women in Mythology’

 ITAT (Income Tax Appellate Tribunal) orders withdrawal of income tax exemption to Congress-controlled Young Indian

 Students in Kerala’s Ernakulum district set a new Guinness World Record for holding the largest cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training on a single day

 Goa’s Director General of Police Pranab Nanda dies at 57 in New Delhi

 SC paves way for ArcelorMittal’s takeover of Essar Steel in Rs42,000 crore deal

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’s green and white tea registered as geographical indication (GI) products

 International Day for Tolerance observed on November 16

 US Senate unanimously passes resolution honouring Sikh Community

’s Rabindra Sangeet exponent conferred the ICCR (Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre) distinguished alumni award in Dhaka

 Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) President Rajat Sharma resigns

 India beat Bangladesh by an innings and 130-run victory in the first Test at Indore

 Defence Minister inaugurates 200-m long Sisseri River bridge at Lower Dibang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh

 AYUSH Ministry organising International Conference on Yoga in Mysuru on Nov 15-16; theme: ‘Yoga for Heart Care’

 Delhi govt. signs MoU with J-PAL (Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab), co-founded by 2019 Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee, to conduct real- time monitoring of its public services

 Punjab govt. gives Rs 2,500 per acre as compensation to small and marginal farmers for not burning paddy straw

 India ranks second in govt requests for user data from Facebook in first half of 2019; US tops

 Govt asks airlines to have Swachh Bharat-themed cover page for in-flight magazines

 Home Ministry and UN Women launch awareness campaign to end violence against women

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 Ramesh Hospitals Vijayawada sets Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of cardiac surgery patients at one place

 Agriculture Ministry to hold International Conference on Agricultural Statistics in New Delhi on Nov 18-21

 Foreign exchange reserves touch a new high of USD 447.81 billion in the week to November 8

 Govt won’t release Consumer Expenditure Survey results of 2017-2018 due to data quality issues

 DPIIT (Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade) establishes Development Council for Bicycle

 ‘Titan’s watch brand Sonata launches smartwatches – Stride and Stride Pro from Rs. 2995

 Mahindra Group subsidiary Classic Legends launches Jawa Perak motorcycle at Rs 1.94 lakh

 Vodafone Idea reports a loss of Rs 50,921 crore for July-September quarter, highest ever for any Indian company

 India pledges to contribute $13.5 mn for UN development activities for 2020

 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is 2020 Republic Day chief guest

 BRICS Summit held in Brasilia on November 13-14; theme ‘BRICS: Economic Growth for an Innovative Future’

 Swedish PEN’s Tucholsky Prize awarded to detained Chinese-Swedish book publisher Gui Minhai

 Branko Lustig, producer of ‘Schindler’s List’ and ‘Gladiator’, dies art 87

 Sharad Kumar and Mariyappan Thangavelu win silver and bronze respectively in high-jump at World Para-Athletics

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 SC refers to 7-judge bench pleas seeking review of its September 28, 2019 verdict allowing women, girls into Sabarimala

 SC dismisses petitions seeking review of its Dec 14, 2018 verdict that had upheld purchase of 36 Rafale fighter jets by the govt.

 Defence Minister Rajnath Singh attends 11th Maitree Diwas celebrations in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh

 Air Chief Marshal R K S Bhadauria, IAF Chief, flies in basic trainer aircraft HTT-40, developed by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, in Bengaluru

 ‘Rosogolla Dibas’ ( Day) celebrated in West to mark the granting of GI tag for ‘Banglar Rosogolla’ in 2918

 AP CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy launches ‘Nadu-Nedu’ programme aimed at transforming government schools

 Britain’s Prince Charles presents Commonwealth ‘Points of light’ award to Kerala-based Jolly Johnson, the founder of Helping Hands Organisation (H20), during India visit

 Conference of Indian Society of Aerospace Medicine (ISAM) being held at the Institute of Aerospace Medicine in Bengaluru: Nov 14-16

 Renowned mathematician Vashishtha Narayan Singh dies in Patna at the age of 74

 Children born in India will face higher burden of climate change says ‘Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change’ report

 Delhi High Court judge Dhingra Sehgal appointed as a member of the Competition Commission of India (CCI)

 Water Resources Ministry finalises committee to draft a new National Water Policy (NWP) that will be headed by former Planning Commission member Mihir Shah

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 India and China running 2-week programme to train diplomats from Afghanistan at External Affairs Ministry’s Foreign Service Institute (FSI) in New Delhi

 eases KYC norms for migrants to open bank account. They can give a self-declared local address as sufficient proof of residence in case it is different from one mentioned in Aadhaar document.

 International Symposium on Lighting (iSoL) organised at International Centre for Automotive Technology (ICAT), Manesar

 Wholesale Price Index (WPI)-based inflation declines to 0.16% in October, lowest since June 2016

 Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, founder, MD and CEO of Bandhan Bank, is the Business Standard Banker of the Year for 2018-19

 Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI) launches new BS VI- compliant bike SP 125 at Rs 72,900

 Publisher Westland launches new children imprint ‘Red Panda’

 ‘112 service’ of UP Police wins 3rd prize in emergency response category at international call centre event organised by the Dubai Police

 Catalan poet Joan Margarit wins 125,000 euros Cervantes Prize for 2019, the Spanish-speaking world’s highest literary honour

 MoS for External Affairs V Muraleedharan visits Kazakhstan; calls on Chairman of the Majilis, the Lower House of the Kazakh Parliament, in capital Nur-Sultan

 Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 starts year-long journey home from asteroid Ryugu, about 300 million kilometres from Earth

 Facebook says it has removed 5.4 billion fake accounts so far this year

 World Diabetes Day observed on November 14; birth anniversary of Frederick Banting who discovered insulin

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