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November 2018 ARUL IAS ACADEMY CURRENT AFFAIRS - NOVEMBER 2018 NOVEMber - 2018 ARUL IAS ACADEMY Page 1 ARUL IAS ACADEMY CURRENT AFFAIRS - NOVEMBER 2018 S.NO TOPICS PAGE NO 1. Appointments 3 2. Awards 7 3. Books 11 4. Committees 12 5. Days 13 6. Defence 16 7. Economy 18 8. International 26 9. Meetings 34 10. National 37 11. Persons 57 12. Science 62 13. Sports 63 ARUL IAS ACADEMY Page 2 ARUL IAS ACADEMY CURRENT AFFAIRS - NOVEMBER 2018 Appointments A.M. Naik has been appointed as Chairman of National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). Arvind Saxena has been appointed as Chairman of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). Asim Kumar Roy appointed Lokayukta of West Bengal for 3 years. Bank for International Settlements (BIS) appointed Siddharth Tiwari joining as theChief Representative for Asia and Pacific. Finance Ministry appointed CBDT member Akhilesh Ranjan as Convenor of Task Force that is drafting New Direct Tax Legislation (Law). It was constituted in November 2017 to review Income-tax Act 1961 and to draft new direct tax law in consonance with economic needs. Gafur Rakhimov (Uzbekistan) elected as President of International Boxing Association (AIBA). Goverment appointed UIDAI CEO Ajay Bhushan Pandey as new revenue secretary, succeeding Hasmukh Adhia. Also, Sumanta Chaudhuri is appointed as new Coal Secretary. Government appointed Ashok Kumar Gupta as Chairperson of Competition Commission of India (CCI), replacing Sudhir Mital. Competition comissoion was established in October 2003 and became fully functional in May 2009. It consists of Chairperson and 2 - 6 Members. Presently, Chairperson and four Members are in position. Government appointed K Dash, Akhilesh Ranjan and Neena Kumar as new members of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT). Current Chairperson of CBDT is Sushil Chandra. Government appointed Nageswara Rao Guntur as Chairperson of Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB). Government appointed Sanjay Kumar Mishra as full-time Director of Enforcement Directorate (ED), for 2 years. Government appointed Vijay Kumar Dev as Chief Secretary of Delhi. ARUL IAS ACADEMY Page 3 ARUL IAS ACADEMY CURRENT AFFAIRS - NOVEMBER 2018 International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) elected South Korea’s Kim Jong- yang as its next president. Jalaj Srivastava has been appointed the chairman of the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI). Misc. Appointments (Nov 2018) - MSG Menon appointed as Director General (Wks & Cer) of IAF. P S Rajeshwar appointed as 12th Chief of Integrated Defence Staff to Chairman, COSC. Vishwesh Chaube appointed as new Member (Engineering) in Railway Board. Hemant Gupta, R Subhash Reddy, M R Shah and Ajay Rastogi appointed as Judges in Supreme Court. 1. Sanctioned strength of Supreme court judges is 31. Current strength is 28. Sanjay Kumar Verma appointed as next Ambassador of India to Japan. Dinkar Asthana appointed as next Ambassador of India to Lao People's Democratic Republic. Nina Tshering La appointed as next Ambassador of India to Democratic Republic of Congo Gaddam Dharmendra appointed as India’s Ambassador to Iran. American multinational investment bank Citigroup appointed John Dugan as its new chairman. Electric carmaker Tesla appointed Robyn Denholm as Chairman, after Elon Musk resigned from Post. Indian-American Sikh businessman Harry Singh Sidhu been elected as Mayor of Anaheim city in California (US). Lok Sabha Secretary General Snehlata Shrivastava got one-year extension in her tenure. Apple appointed Ashish Chowdhary as its India operation head. Abhay Kumar appointed as next Ambassador of India to Republic of Madagascar. Abhay Thakur appointed as next High Commissioner of India to Nigeria. ARUL IAS ACADEMY Page 4 ARUL IAS ACADEMY CURRENT AFFAIRS - NOVEMBER 2018 Stephen Barclay has been appointed as new Brexit Secretary by British Prime Minister Theresa May. Ministry of Woman and Child Development (WCD) nominated three members to National Commission for Women (NCW) - Chandramukhi Devi, Soso Shaiza, and Kamlesh Gautam. New appointments now leave two positions vacant in NCW. Rekha Sharma is current chairperson of NCW. Ms Nina Tshering La appointed next Ambassador of India to Republic of Congo (Central Africa). Google appointed Kerala-born former Oracle product chief Thomas Kurian as head of its cloud division. Hospitality chain OYO Hotels appointed Aditya Ghosh as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for its India and South Asia operations. Messaging Platform WhatsApp appointed Abhijit Bose as its India head. State Bank of Mauritius (SBM) appointed Sidharth Rath as its Managing Director (MD) for India Operations. LG Electronics appointed Brian Kwon as new president for its Mobile Business. Earl Eddings named as Chairman of Cricket Australia (CA). New Chief Justices of 4 High Courts Appointed - Sanjay Karol - Tripura Amreshwar Pratap Sahi - Bihar SK Seth - Madhya Pradesh Govind Mathur - Uttar Pradesh Pranoy Kumar Musahary has been appointed as chairperson of Meghalaya’s first Lokayukta. RBL Bank appointed Vikas Muttoo as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of its subsidiary Swadhaar Finserve. Salome Zurabishvili to become First woman to be appointed as President of Georgia, after she won Georgia’s presidential elections. Sprinter Hima Das appointed as first ever youth ambassador of United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) India. She was the first Indian athlete to win gold medal in track event at IAAF World U20 Championships held in Tampere (Finland). In 2018 Asian Games, she won silver medal in 400 m. ARUL IAS ACADEMY Page 5 ARUL IAS ACADEMY CURRENT AFFAIRS - NOVEMBER 2018 Sunil Arora appointed as new Chief Election Commissioner of India, replacing OP Rawat. Election commission of India contains 1 Chief Election Commissioner and 2 Election Commissioners. 1 Seat of Election commissioner is held by Ashok Lavasa and Other is currently vacant. Tanzanian biologist Joyce Msuya appointed as acting Executive Director of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), after resignation of Erik Solheim. United Nations children’s agency UNICEF appointed 14 year old Millie Bobby Brown as its youngest ever goodwill ambassador. Also, Singer Nahid Afrin of Assam has been appointed as first ‘Youth Advocate’ of north eastern region by UNICEF to fight for child rights. Voreqe Bainimarama re-appointed as Prime Minister of Fiji (Oceanic Nation). ARUL IAS ACADEMY Page 6 ARUL IAS ACADEMY CURRENT AFFAIRS - NOVEMBER 2018 Awards ATP World Tour Tennis Awards 2018 - Player of the Year - Novak Djokovic (Serbia) Doubles Team of the Year - Oliver Marach (Austria) AND Mate Pavić (Croatia) Most Improved Player - Stefanos Tsitsipas (Greece) Newcomer of the Year - Alex de Minaur (Australia) Comeback Player of the Year - Novak Djokovic (Serbia) Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award - Rafael Nadal (Spain) ATPWorldTour.com Fans' Favorite - Roger Federer (Switzerland) - Record 16th Consecutive Time In Asia Pacific Screen Award (APSA) 2018 (Brisbane (Australia)) - Best Performance by an Actor (Male) won to India's Nawazuddin Siddiqui for Manto. Nandita Das, director of Manto received International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF) Award for achievement in film in Asia Pacific region. India's Saroj Suman Gulati (Director of Blue Bells Schools) conferred with Global Education Leaders Award 2018 by UAE. Indian Actor Anupam Kher honoured with ‘Distinguished Fellow Award’ in Boston (USA), at 3rd India Global Summit held at MIT Sloan School of Management in Boston. Indian freelance journalist Swati Chaturvedi won 2018 London Press Freedom Award for Courage. She is author of I am a Troll: Inside the Secret World of the BJP Digital Army. Infosys Science Foundation (ISF) announced winners of Infosys Prize 2018 in 6 different categories - Engineering and Computer Science - Navakanta Bhat (IISc Bangalore), for his work on novel biosensors. Humanities - Kavita Singh (School of Arts & Aesthetics at JNU), for her illuminating study of Mughal, Rajput and Deccan art. ARUL IAS ACADEMY Page 7 ARUL IAS ACADEMY CURRENT AFFAIRS - NOVEMBER 2018 Life Sciences - Roop Mallik (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)), for his work on molecular motor proteins. Mathematical Sciences - Nalini Anantharaman (University of Strasbourg in France), for her work related to ‘Quantum Chaos.’ Physical Sciences - SK Satheesh (IISc Bangalore)., for his work in field of climate change. Social Sciences: Sendhil Mullainathan (University of Chicago (US)), for his work in behavioural economics. International James Dyson award 2018 won by Nicolas Orellana of Chile and Yaseen Noorani from Kenya, for their innovative design ‘Urban wind turbine’ called O-Wind Turbine. It would help cities to harness energy to produce electricity and was inspired from NASA’s Mars Tumbleweed Rover. Journalist N Ram (Hindu Group of Publications Chairman) chosen for Raja Ram Mohan Roy Award by Press Council of India (PCI). It will be presented on November 16, on National Press Day. Other Winners are - Rural Journalism - Ruby Sarkar Developmental Reporting - VS Rajesh Marathi actor Jayant Sawarkar will be awarded Maharashtra government’s Natvarya Prabhakar Panshikar Lifetime Achievement award in the field of theatre. Also, Tabla artist Vinayak Thorat will be awarded Sangeet Acharya Annasaheb Kirloskar Lifetime Achievement. Both awards consist of cash prizes of Rs 5 lakh. Mathematician and Super 30 founder Anand Kumar honoured with education award global education award in Dubai, by Malabar Gold & Diamonds. Mexican government
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