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Contents
Topic Page Number MOU/Agreement Countries 3 MOU Industry/States/Others 3-4 Appointments and Resignations 4-9 Awards and Recognitions 9-13 Conference and Summits 13-18 International News 18-21 National News 21-28 State News 28-35 Finance and Banking News 35-39 Business News 39-41 Economy News 41-43 Science & Technology 44-45 Defence News 45-47 Sports News 47-53 Committees 53-54 Rankings of Countries 55-56 Rankings (Persons and Organisations) 56-57 Loans from Banks 57-58 Deadlines 58-59 Books and Authors 59-60 Obituaries 60-62 Nobel Prize Winners 62-63 Important Days (Dec-Jan) 63-64 Union Budget 64-65 Important Government Schemes 66-67 Demonitisation in India 68
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MOU/Agreement Countries
India Japan To start a postal service called cool box service , which will help Japanese people living in India to order food from Japan. India Belarus Both countries released a postage stamp to mark 25 years of diplomatic ties between the two sides. India Russia To build the Roppur nuclear power plant in Bangladesh, the first initiative under a Indo-Russia deal to undertake atomic energy projects in third countries. India Switzerland On technical cooperation in the rail sector, including development of tilting trains that tilt on approaching a bend. India Myanmar On upgradation of the Women s Police Training Centre at Yamethin, Myanmar. India Sweden A Sweden-India Startup Sambandh initiative has been launched by Invest India and Founders Alliance in Sweden for higher cooperation among start-ups. India Mozambique To expedite development of the giant Rovuma gas discovery, which is planned to be converted into LNG for exports. Myanmar Bangladesh For the return of over six lakh Rohingya Muslims who had fled to Bangladesh to escape a violent crackdown by the Myanmar military.
MOU Industry/States/Others
NITI Aayog International Road They have signed a Statement of Intent (SoI) to Federation, Geneva (IRF cooperate in the field of Intelligent Transportation Geneva) Systems (ITS). Punjab National Bank BSNL They have teamed up to roll out open mobile wallet Speedpay across 10 states in the country. PNB s Speedway wallet will operate like any other mobile wallet for paying bills, recharging phone besides its users will be able to deposit and withdraw money from authorised retail outlets. Yes Bank IIM-Lucknow They have signed a charter to help spread Climate Literacy, aiming to achieve sustainable development through shared learning. Paytm Payments Bank National Payments to launch a RuPay-powered digital debit card. Corporation of India (NPCI) HSBC Sa-Dhan To develop digital ecosystem for India s unbanked segment. Sa-Dhan is microfinance industry association. Amazon Web Services Microsoft To launch an open-source and deep learning interface (AWS) Gluon that will help developers to deploy machine learning models across several platforms. Indian Railways German Railways To make country s existing rail corridors semi high speed. The semi high speed trains will run at 200 km per hour. Punjab National Bank Engineering Export To provide access to finance for the small and medium Promotion Council (EEPC) enterprises and merchant exporters of the council
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of India Andhra Pradesh Govt Visa For Digital Dhan Sankalp project. It is an initiative to develop Visakhapatnam into India s first less cash city. Vijaya Bank Hindustan Petroleum For enabling all HPCL retail outlets with BHIM/UPI Corporation Ltd (HPCL) merchant solutions. IndusInd Bank MobiKwik To launch a co-branded wallet IndusInd Mobikwik Kotak Mahindra Bank Fintech firm Zeta Launch of Paymint , a multi-wallet digital prepaid solution for salaried employees. AU Small Finance Bank Small Industries To launch a Rs. 200-crore fund for providing loans to Development Bank of India MSMEs. (SIDBI) Yes Bank Abu Dhabi Global Market To further foster cross-border exchange between the (ADGM), the International fintech ecosystems of the United Arab Emirates and Financial Centre in Abu India. Dhabi, Punjab National Bank Action Construction For augmenting tractors/agricultural implements Equipment Ltd (ACE) financing to the farmers across the country through PNB s branch network Yes Bank Innovation Centre Denmark To bring fintech innovations and startups from India (ICDK India) Denmark to India, and facilitate entry of Indian startups to the region. Reliance General YES Bank A comprehensive bancassurance-corporate agency Insurance agreement has been signed between the two. Paytm ICICI Bank To jointly launch Paytm-ICICI Bank Postpaid , the most seamless way to access interest-free short-term digital credit. Karnataka Bank Boston Consulting Group MoU for transformation initiatives of banks. Project - (India) Pvt Ltd KBL Vikaas – was launched for same.
Appointments and Resignations
Cabinet Reshuffle:
Newly-appointed Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is only the second woman after late Indira Gandhi to become the Defence Minister of India, and the first one to take independent charge. She is the first full-time woman defence minister of the country after late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had twice held charge of defence portfolio. Sitharaman previously served as a Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs and the Minister for Commerce and Industry with independent charge, and now succeeds Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to take charge of the defence ministry. Now the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS), has two women ministers - Nirmala Sitharaman and Sushma Swaraj.
Piyush Goyal elected as new Railway Minister after Suresh Prabhu quit the post. Earlier he was Minister of State for Power. Nitin Gadkari gets additional charge of Ministry of Water Resources, River Development Ganga Rejuvenation from Uma Bharti.
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Suresh Prabhu is new Minister of Commerce and Industry. Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi is new Minister of Minority Affairs. Olympic silver medallist Rajyavardhan Rathore replaced Vijay Goel as the new Sports Minister. He is the first sportsperson to take charge of Sports Ministry. Alphons Kannanthanam is new Minister of State (I/C) for Tourism.
President Kovind appoints five new Governors for states and Lieutenant Governor for Andaman
B. D. Mishra (Retd.) as the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh. Took over from Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya. Banwarilal Purohit as the Governor of Tamil Nadu. Took over from C. Vidyasagar Rao. Satya Pal Malik as the Governor of Bihar. Took over from Keshari Nath Tripathi. Professor Jagdish Mukhi as the Governor of Assam. Took over from Banwarilal Purohit. Ganga Prasad as the Governor of Meghalaya. Took over from Banwarilal Purohit. Devendra Kumar Joshi as the Lieutenant Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Took over from Jagdish Mukhi.
Name Post Institution and other Info Nirmala Sitharaman Defence Minister India Rajiv Mehrishi Comptroller and He is Former Union Home Secretary AuditorGeneral of India Uma Shankar Executive Director Reserve Bank of India Dr. A. Surya Prakash Chairman Prasar Bharati Board BJP s Sanyukta Bhatia will be the first woman to hold the Lucknow Municipal Corporation Mayor s post in 100 years after the Uttar Pradesh Municipalities Act came into being in 1916 The Union Agriculture Ministry has roped in actor Akshay Kumar for television advertisements to promote the government s flagship agriculture schemes like soil health card and crop insurance. Besides soil health card scheme, the actor will promote Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bhima Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana, Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana and others. Salil S. Parekh Chief Executive Officer and Infosys Managing Director Vice Admiral Ajit Kumar Vice Chief Naval Staff, India Preeti Sudan Union Health Secretary Gautam H. Bambawale Indian ambassador to China He will replace Vijay Gokhale Dineshwar Sharma Interlocutor in Jammu and The Centre has decided to start a sustained dialogue Kashmir in Jammu and Kashmir and added that former Intelligence Bureau (IB) director Dineshwar Sharma will be the representative from the Government of India. Dr. Arvind Subramanian Chief Economic Advisor Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India Dr. Arvind Subramanian has been given a one year extension, post the completion of his current-three year tenure. Ajay Bhushan Pandey Chairman Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN). He is Aadhaar authority UIDAI Chief Executive. Viveck Goenka Chairman Press Trust of India
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Rajnish Kumar Chairman State Bank of India Suresh Sethi MD and CEO India Post Payments Bank Ashish Srivastava MD and CEO PNB MetLife Jayant Rikhye CEO Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) India Ajay Vipin Nanavati Chairman Syndicate Bank Sankara Narayanan Managing Director (MD) and Vijaya Bank Chief Executive Officer (CEO) P R Seshadri MD and CEO Karur Vysya Bank KV Rama Moorthy MD and CEO Tamilnad Mercantile Bank M Nagaraja Sarma Chief Managing Director United India Insurance Co Ltd. Shashi Shanker Chairman and Managing Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) Director Rajiv Kumar Secretary Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance Rajiv Kumar Vice Chairman NITI Aayog Sanjaya Baru Secretary General Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) Desh Deepak Verma Secretary General Rajya Sabha India TV chairman and President News Broadcasters Association (NBA) editor-in- chief Rajat Sharma Rajni Kant Mishra Chief Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) Y.C. Modi Director General National Investigation Agency (NIA) Gopal Singh Chairman and Managing Coal India Ltd (CIL) Director B Sambamurthy Chairman Board of National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) Balraj Joshi Chairman-cum-managing NHPC Limited director (CMD) Anita Karwal Chairperson Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Royana Singh Chief Proctor First woman to hold the post at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) Akshay Kumar Ambassador Uttarakhand Swachh Bharat Mission brand ambassador Sanjeev Kapoor Ambassador World Food India s Food Street. Food Street, being held by Ministry of Food Processing Industry, will be hosted for the first time in India from November 3. Parineeti Chopra first Indian woman for Tourism Australia Ambassador Ajay Bisaria India s new High He succeeded Gautam Bambawale Commissioner to Pakistan Actress Dia Mirza UN Environment s Goodwill Ambassador for India Ellie Goulding Global Goodwill Ambassador She is British singer-songwriter for UN Environment
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Mary Kom Ambassador Youth World Championships Vikas Seth Chief Executive Officer Bharti AXA Life Insurance Sudhanshu Jain Chief Financial Officer Paytm Payments Bank (PPB) Sethurathnam Ravi Chairman Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Y.C. Modi Director-General National Investigation Agency (NIA) Ira Joshi Director-General Doordarshan News Ajay Bisaria Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan Navtej Sarna Indian Ambassador to the US He was supposed to retire November 2017 end, has been given a year extended. Neelamani N. Raju Karnataka s first woman Director General and Inspector General of Police Kenneth Juster US Ambassador To India S Y Qureshi Ombudsmen to formulate the AIFF Constitution within eight weeks. Tulsi Gabbard Chairperson World Hindu Congress 2018 Debjani Ghosh 1st woman President National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) Pradeep Singh Chairman and Managing Director Air India Kharola (CMD) B.N. Sharma Chairman National Anti-profiteering Authority – which is under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Act Actor Trisha Krishnan UNICEF celebrity advocate for She is the first actor from the South Indian film child rights industry to receive this honour, which was previously bestowed upon Bollywood celebrities like Nandita Das, Madhuri Dixit, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Raveena Tandon. AVPS Chakravarthi Ambassador World Packaging Organisation Anupam Kher Chairman Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune Sambit Patra Non-official director Board of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Ltd. Nisha Desai Biswal President US-India Business Council NS Venkatesh Chief Executive Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) Rukaiya Rangwala Business Head MobiKwik Payment Gateway Rakesh Asthana Special Director Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Gurbachan Singh Special Director Intelligence Bureau (IB) Deepak Kumar Special Director General Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Mishra and Sudeep Lakhtakia Rajesh Ranjan and Special Director General Border Security Force (BSF) A.P. Maheshwari Alok Kumar Pateria Additional Director General (ADG) Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) Birendra Prasad President Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWLF) Baishya Suresh Raina Ambassador Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation (GMC)
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Soumya WHO Deputy Director General for Swaminathan Programmes Jane Ellison WHO Deputy Director General for Corporate Operations Brenda Hale first female president of UK s supreme court Jagmeet Singh first Sikh politician to lead major Canadian party French Audrey Director-General UNESCO Azoulay David Harquail Chairman World Gold Council. It is headquartered in London United Kingdom Eman Al-Ghamdi First time a Saudi woman has been named to a senior government post for the first time. Former United Chair of Ethics Commission International Olympic Committee (IOC) Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Peter Thomson first special envoy for the oceans UN has appointed him as the first special envoy for the oceans, seeking to galvanize efforts to protect the world s seas. Kenneth I Juster Ambassador US Ambassador to India. Juster is Successor to Richard Verma (First US Ambassador to India of Indian origin) Jacinda Ardern Prime Minister New Zealand Ukhnaa Khurelsukh Prime Minister Mongolia
Halimah Yacob President First woman and 8th President of Singapore Joao Lourenco President Angola JY Pillay President Singapore s acting President Uhuru Kenyatta President Kenya Borut Pahor President Slovenia Emmerson President Zimbabwe Mnangagwa Mercedes Aráoz Prime Minister Peru Fernández Angela Merkel Chancellor Germany Raquel Dodge Prosecutor-General For the first time in Brazil