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GENERAL AWARENESS–CURRENT AFFAIRS TO THE POINTS: NOVEMBER–2019

• Recently the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman released a special commemorative coin on Paramahansa Yogananda to mark his 125th birth anniversary.

• The government is making changes in its digital payments road map as it has now increased the target for e-transactions in the financial year ending March 2020 to 45 billion (by volume) from 40 billion.

• Recently, Government accords ‘Maharatna’ status to Hindustan Petroleum and Power Grid Corporation.

• Tamil Nadu is the first state of India to enact a law on contract farming.

• ICICI Bank has issued the highest number of FASTag till now.

• Datta Padsalgikar is appointed as one of the Deputy National Security Advisor (NSA) to the Government of India.

• Arvind Dutta has been appointed as the new Adjutant General of the Indian Army.

• Nawazuddin Siddiqui received the Golden dragon award at Cardiff international film festival 2019 held in Wales, UK.

• Theme for the 35th ASEAN Summit is Advancing Partnership for sustainability.

• 80 achievements of India are listed in the Guinness World Records 2020.

• India’s first Indian Brain Atlas (IBA) has been developed by IIIT Hyderabad.

• Colombia has topped the EIUs 2019 Global Microscope Report on Financial Inclusion index.

• India has been ranked 5th spot in the 2019 Global Microscope on Financial Inclusion report by The Economist Intelligence Unit.

• Indian professional boxers Shiva Thapa (63kg) and Pooja Rani (75kg) claimed the gold medals at the Olympic Test Event for Boxing in Tokyo, Japan on October 31.

• Japanese academic and diplomat Sadako Ogata who became the first female to be appointed as the U.N. refugee chief passed away.

• Pavan Kapoor took charge as India’s new Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

• KVS- Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat Parv was inaugurated at India Gate, Maharashtra.

• Nalco has been honoured for excellence in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility for its flagship project ‘Nalco Ki Ladli’ at the National CSR Awards ceremony.

• Girish Chand Murmu has been appointed as the Lieutenant Governor of the union territory Jammu & Kashmir.

• Dhanlaxmi Bank MD and CEO T. Latha has resigned recently. Thrissur, Kerala is the bank headquartered.

• Srei Equipment Finance Ltd has partnered with Union Bank of India to offer loans to the MSME sector & retail customers under a co-lending arrangement.


• Indian men’s doubles pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty were ranked 9th in the Badminton World Federation’s (BWF) World Rankings 2019.

• All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) has signed an MoU with Frankfurter Innovationszentrum Biotechnologie GmbH (FiZ), Germany in New Delhi for research in the field of genomics.

• World Vegan Day observed on November 1.

• Hyderabad from India has recently been included in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) in the field of Gastronomy.

• The worlds’ first blockchain-based carbon trading exchange launched at Singapore.

• China has officially launched 5G Service.

• Union Minister and Minister of Development of North Eastern Region Dr. Jitendra Singh announced that Bamboo Technology Parks would be set up in Jammu and Kashmir & Ladakh.

• Kolkata International Film Festival is set to begin on November 8. Germany is the focus Country of this year’s festival.

• TRAI has fixed the phone call ring time on mobile phones to 30 seconds.

• IIT Delhi will set up a space technology cell in collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organization and becomes academic partner of ISRO in various research areas.

• Air Marshal Amit Tiwari has taken over as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) of the Southern Air Command (SAC).

• Kochi hosted the Global Ayurveda Summit 2019.

• 7th India-US Economic & Financial partnership meeting was held in New Delhi. Steven T Mnuchin co-chaired the meeting with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

• India and Uzbekistan will carry out a joint military exercise ‘Dustlik-2019’ will be held at Chirchiq training area in Uzbekistan.

• M. C. Mary Kom has been included in 10-member athlete ambassadors group for boxers from India for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics 2020.

• Rajinikanth has been selected for the ‘Icon of Golden Jubilee of IFFI’ award.

• The 3rd Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership meet held on Thailand.

• Coal India limited has targeted to achieve one billion tonne of coal by 2024.

• French actor Isabelle Hupert is being conferred the prestigious Lifetime Achievement award at the Golden Jubilee of International Film Festival of India.

• Spain will host the COP 25 climate summit on 2019 December 2-13.

• China is suffering from outbreak of ‘African Swine Fever’.

• Punjab passed a resolution to institute Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji Award for Promotion of Peace and Interfaith Understanding, in commemoration of the 550th Prakash Purb of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji.


• Odisha was recently tagged with Maharashtra under the Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat initiative of the Government.

• Minister of State (I/C) for Labour & Employment Santosh Gangwar launched 3 Apps: UAN Registration, E-Inspection & Digi Locker-developed by EPFO. UAN - Universal Account Number.

• Women soldiers will be inducted into the Indian Army by 2021.

• 50th Union World Conference on Lung Health held at Hyderabad, India.

• PM Modi released a commemorative coin marking the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev on November 2, 2019.

• Tamil Nadu has recorded the lowest rate of unemployment level during October 2019 data of Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE).

• 8.5% is the recorded unemployment rate in India in October 2019 as per the data by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE).

• The new Union Territory of Ladakh consists of two districts of Kargil and Leh.

• The Shanghai Cooperation Organization Joint Exercise on Urban Earthquake Search and Rescue (SCOJtEx) will be held in New Delhi.

• Government e-Marketplace (GeM) has signed MoU (Memorandum of understanding) with Indian Bank and Canara Bank to provide a paperless, cashless, and transparent payment system on its portal.

• Siemens Ltd signed MOU with TERI for collaboration on technologies to support the energy transition in India.

• Siemens has signed MoU with power producer NTPC (formerly National Thermal Power Corporation Limited) and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) for decarbonisation.

• India’s GDP growth for 2020-2024 is estimated at 6.6%.

• Sudarsan Pattnaik has been selected for Italian Golden Sand Art Award 2019. He hails from Odisha.

• Writer Anand has been selected for the 27th Ezhuthachan Puraskaram, the highest literary honour of the Kerala State government.

• U.S. based-Indian author Madhuri Vijay’s debut novel, The Far Field bagged this year’s JCB prize for Literature, the most expensive Indian award for writing.

• IIT Delhi will set up a space technology cell in collaboration with the Indian Space Research Organization and becomes academic partner of ISRO in various research areas.

• DUSTLIK-2019 is the first-ever joint field training exercise of India with Uzbekistan.

• Lakshya Sen has won the SaarLorLux Open badminton tournament at Saarbrücken in Germany.

• South Africa has won the Rugby World Cup 2019.


• Haruna Okuno won Gold in the 53kg women’s wrestling UWW Under-23 World Championships.

• Noted industrialist KK Modi passed away recently. He was the former President of FICCI.

• The number of transactions of UPI has crossed 1 billion in October according to the NPCI reports. UPI - Unified Payments Interface.

• Rahbar is a Uttarakhand government sponsored programme for the development with focus on remote hilly areas.

• Spain will host the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25).

• India’s gross domestic product (GDP) could grow 6.6% in 2020-24, lower than its 2013-17 average of 7.4%, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

• The Supreme Court blamed states of Punjab, Haryana, and UP for crop stubble burning, which has majorly caused air pollution in Delhi-NCR.

• National Tribal festival hosted by New Delhi.

• IIT-Kharagpur invented methods to generated electricity from clothes drying in the natural ambience.

• Madhuri Vijay won the 2019 JCB Prize for Literature.

• World Tsunami Awareness Day was observed on November 5.

• The National Research Institute of Unani Medicine for Skin Disorders (NRIUMSD) has been inaugurated in Hyderabad.

• As per the data by PFRDA, the number of subscribers under the Atal Pension Yojana has reached upto 1.9 million.

• Vigyanika-International Science Literature Festival hosed by Kolkata.

• The growth rate of Indian economy for 2019-20 according to the Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML) is 5.8%.

• In Sri Lanka, the biennial Commonwealth Law Ministers’ Conference began in Colombo under the theme Equal Access to Justice and the Rule of Law.

• The world anti-doping agency’s (WADAs) Fifth World Conference on Doping in Sport held in Poland.

• Indian-origin researcher Neeraj Sharma has been awarded with the ‘Early Career Researcher of the Year’ award by the Australian government.

• The Indian Army will have the first regiment of 18 indigenously upgraded Dhanush artillery guns in place by March 2020.

• Dhanush Artillery Guns developed by Ordnance Factory Board.

• Lewis Hamilton has won the Formula One World Drivers’ Championship 2019.

• Valtteri Bottas has won the Formula One, United States Grand Prix 2019.


• Ashleigh Barty has won the WTA Finals 2019 in women’s single. She plays for Australia.

• Novak Djokovic won the fifth Paris Masters title.

• Supreme Court imposed Rs. 5,000penalty for burning garbage & waste in Delhi, Punjab, Haryana & western UP states.

• Ministry of Rural Development recently released the Wastelands Atlas 2019.

• China has approved the sale of a home-grown drug that is expected to cure Alzheimer’s.

• The fifth edition of women scientists’ and Entrepreneurs’ conclave will be organized at the India International Science Festival (IISF) at Kolkata.

• Coimbatore railway station has now become visually-challenged friendly.

• P.S. Sreedharan Pillai was sworn in as the Governor of Mizoram.

• In December 2015, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) marked 5 November as World Tsunami Awareness Day.

• A naval exercise Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT), 2019 between the US and Bangladesh, began in Chattogram, Bangladesh.

• Theme of the 2019 biennial Commonwealth Law Ministers’ Conference is Equal Access to Justice and the Rule of Law.

• Ministry of Home Affairs has released the report titled “Annual report 2018- 2019” that ranks the Indian States based upon the violence occurred.

• 6th Parliamentary Speakers’ Summit of G20 Countries held at Tokyo, Japan.

• Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman unveiled two new IT Initiatives – ICEDASH and ATITHI for improved monitoring and pace of customs clearance of imported goods and facilitating arriving international passengers.

• The first ever Integrated Inland Water Transport (IWT) movement was announced on Brahmaputra River.

• Union Minister Prakash Javadekar will attend the 15th meeting of the Governing Council of South Asia Co-operative Environment Programme in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

• IBM has associated with Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE) has launched SkillsBuild platform.

• Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar released the fifth edition of Wastelands Atlas – 2019.

• The Wastelands Atlas 2019 was prepared by the Department of Land Resources in collaboration with the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC).

• 16.96 % of India’s geographical area are wastelands in India in the year 2015-16 as per the National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC)’s 5th Wastelands atlas 2019.

• The French Development Agency (AFD) and the Government of Assam has signed a Rs 400 crore agreement to restore Assam’s forest ecosystems and preserve their biodiversity.


• Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved to provide $451mn loan for Chennai-Kanyakumari industrial corridor power links in Tamil Nadu.

• Aditya Mishra has been appointed as the Chairman of Land Ports Authority of India (LPAI).

• Sara Damnjanovic won the 5th edition of ‘Miss Asia Global Title 2019’ that held in Kochi, Kerala.

• Allahabad Bank has signed an agreement with MSTC Limited (formerly known as Metal Scrap Trade Corporation Limited) for the process of developing an e-Auction platform aimed at selling non-performing assets (NPAs).

• China launched Sudan’s first-ever satellite, ‘SRSS-1’ on November 3, 2019.

• Theme of the 50th edition of the World Economic Forum (WEF) is Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World. That is to be held in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland in the year 2020.

• A group of students from Kolkatta created a Guinness World Record for the largest astrophysics lesson.

• CARAT 2019 is a joint naval exercise between US – Bangladesh.

• Ireland Women’s Amy Kenealy has announced her retirement from international cricket.

• Justice N.V. Balasubramanian who died recently was a former judge at Madras high court.

• The Reserve Bank of India has announced the opening of first cohort under the Regulatory Sandbox (RS) with ‘Retail Payments’, as its theme.

• Gujarat based IFFCO Nano Biotechnology Research Centre (NBRC) has launched India’s first ‘nano-technology’ based products to cut usage of chemical fertilisers and boost farmers’ income.

• International oil and gas company Saudi Aramco announced to float its initial public offering (IPO).

• Indian Pharmaceutical Industries Sun entered into a licensing agreement with Astra Zeneca UK Ltd. to introduce specialty and generics products in the China market.

• The first-ever BIMSTEC Ports’ Conclave is to be held at Visakhapatnam on 7-8 November 2019. BIMSTEC - Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation.

• Theme for the India Pavilion that is held at World Travel Market (WTM) 2019 is Incredible India-Find Incredible India.

• Baker McKenzie reported that in 2019, India is expected to see mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals of over $52.1 billion.

• Voyager 2 Spacecraft became the second human-made object to journey out of the Sun’s influence.


• Textile major Arvind tied up with GAP Inc to develop measures to eliminate the use of freshwater at its Ahmedabad plant.

• Government approved a Rs 25,000 crore fund to help complete over 1,600 stalled housing projects.

• Dharamshala city hosted the recently held Global Investors Meet.

• The Odisha state government signed agreements with Tata Strive and Tech Mahindra to add new dimensions in skilling and employability of the youth.

• IndusInd Bank appointed Sumant Kathpalia as the new MD & CEO.

• Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan was recently re-elected as the President of UAE.

• Former Competition Commission of India chairman Sudhir Mital and Shantikumar Singh were on elected as president and general secretary respectively, of the Gymnastics Federation of India.

• Ujjivan Small Finance Bank has launched an instant digital savings account (SA) along with Fixed Deposit (FD) and Privilege Savings Account.

• Tech Mahindra Ltd has acquired New York based Born Group Pte. Ltd (formerly known as Group FMG) for $95 million.

• Real Kashmir FC has bagged the prestigious British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) and Scotland Awards at a glittering ceremony in Glasgow, Scotland.

• Venu Srinivasan became the first Indian to get Deming award for total quality management.

• Colombo hosted the Biennial Commonwealth Law Ministers’ Conference 2019.

• The first BIMSTEC Port Meet has been organized in Visakhapatnam.

• Three books on Guru Nanak Dev were launched at Sri Guru Teg Bahadur Khalsa College.

• 101st warship and second in the series of the fast patrol vessel (FVP) Annie Besant was delivered by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) to the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) recently.

• The Regional level Search and Rescue Workshop and Exercise – 2019 (ReSAREX – 2019) was held in Goa by the Indian Coast Guard.

• Recently, the Indian Railways has installed 2 ‘Health ATMs’ at the Charbagh railway station in Lucknow.

• A top American university will expand genetic testing in India in partnership with the AIIMS in Delhi and the Kasturba Medical College in Manipal.

• Despite the Fog will be opening the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2019.

• Vigyan Samagam is an 11-month duration multi-venue Science Exhibition planned to be held in the four cities of Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata and New Delhi.

• China and France signed contracts totaling $15 billion during a visit by President Emmanuel Macron.


• According to International Monetary Fund, Eurozone economic growth is set to slow more than expected, It would grow by 1.2% in 2019.

• Bihar has announced the ban of over 15-year-old government cars in entire state to curb air pollution.

• Pakistan was named as not free in terms of internet freedom status for the ninth consecutive year in the Freedom on the Net (FoTN) report for the year 2019.

• Ghulab Kothari won the Raja Ram Mohan Roy award of the 2019 National Awards For Excellence in Journalism.

• RBI Bank increased the withdrawal limit of PMC bank to Rs.50,000 per account.

• Infant Protection Day was celebrated on 7 November.

• National Cancer Awareness Day is observed annually on November 7.

• Khadi fabrics has been allocated separate Harmonized System (HS) code by the ministry of commerce and industries. HS is a 6 digit identification code to clear every commodity that enters or crosses any international border.

• Indian Railways’ Western Railway Zone has introduced state of the art Uttam Rake for the local trains in Mumbai.

• Punjab government recently launched first of its kind job helpline number 76260-76260 for the job seekers.

• Recently, The Indian Railways has installed two ‘Health ATMs’ at Lucknow railway station.

• Bajaj Allianz General Insurance has introduced new mobile app called ‘Farmitra’ for the ease of farmers.

• Government e-Marketplace (GeM) signed MoU with Central Bank of India to provide an array of payment related services to the registered users on the portal.

• First Indian and Asian Vinaya Shetty was elected as the General Vice President (GVP) of the International Organization Development Association (IODA) on November 6, 2019.

• Arun Alagappan was appointed as the Managing Director of Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company Ltd.

• Gulab Kothari will be conferred with the prestigious “Raja Ram Mohan Roy Award 2019”, for his outstanding contribution towards journalism by Press Council of India (PCI).

• The 6th G20 Parliamentary Speakers’ Summit was held in Japan.

• India is set to host the 2020 ‘No Money For Terror’ Conference. The 2019 edition of the conference was held in Melbourne.

• The 10th Asian Conference on Emergency Medicine 2019 (ACEM 2019) was held in New Delhi.

• Maharashtra has topped the ‘India Justice Report (IJR) 2019’ ranking which ranks states on their capacity to deliver justice to citizens.


• 2 Indian firms Paytm and OlaMoney have been named in the Top 10 of KPMG and H2 Ventures’ ‘Fintech100’ list 2019.

• Dinesh Shahra is the author of the book ‘Simplicity and Wisdom’.

• Babasaheb Dhabekar who died recently was a former minister of Maharashtra.

• Manu Bhaker is related to Shooting.

• U GRO Capital has entered into a Rs 20-crore co-lending programme with Sunvest Capital.

• According to the Sample Registration System (SRS) Bulletin-2016 India has registered a 26.9 per cent reduction in Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) since 2013.

• Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ and Minister for Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal will launch three books on Guru Nanak Dev Ji at Guru Teg Bahadur Khalsa College.

• Theme of the International Day of Radiology (IDOR) 2019 - sports imaging.

• Shilpostav- 2019 is the annual fair of artisans from across the country is conducted in New Delhi.

• Indian Railways launched three applications namely “CRS Sanction Management System”, “Railroad crossing GAD approval system” and “TMS for construction” for India to strengthen IT enablement of railways.

• India’s 1st online repository called IndAIR (Indian Air quality Studies Interactive Repository),which documents air quality studies undertaken in the past 60 years.

• As per the latest special bulletin on MMR released by the Registrar General of India, India’s maternal mortality rate declines by 6.2 per cent.

• IRDAI has barred Reliance Health Insurance Ltd (RHICL) from selling new policies due to its weak financial health.

• Export-Import (Exim) Bank has given a $30 million (about Rs 210 crore) line of credit (LoC) to the Government of the Republic of Ghana for financing rehabilitation and up-gradation of Potable Water System in Yendi, Ghana.

• RBI has increased the household income limits for borrowers of Non-Banking Financial Companies-Micro Finance Institutions (NBFC-MFIs) in rural to Rs 1.25 lakhs.

• Chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis resigned recently.

• Google has appointed Sanjay Gupta as its new country manager (India) and vice president of sales and operations.

• Kumar Mangalam Birla has been honoured with the ABLF Global Asian Award by the UAE Government.

• The 15th Meeting of South Asia Co-operative Environment Programme (SACEP) Governing Council was held in Bangladesh.

• Kolkata will host the 27th Conference of Central and State Statistical Organizations (COCSSO) in 2019.


• India ranked third in the “Indian Tech Start-up Ecosystem” released by NASSCOM.

• Arundhati Roy is the author of the book ‘The God of Small Things’.

• The Indian navy undertook the Bilateral Maritime Exercise ‘Samudra Shakti’ in Bay of Bengal with Indonesia.

• Indian Air Force (IAF) has launched the multiplayer version of its interactive mobile game which lets users experience the thrill of flying a combat aircraft.

• Indian Bank has inked an memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Muthoot Microfinance Ltd, to jointly lend to the MSME (micro, small and medium enterprises) borrowers.

• India will be the host country for the FIH Hockey Men’s World Cup 2023.

• Rohit Sharma became the first Indian man and second in world cricket to complete 100 T-20 Internationals.

• Nabaneeta Dev Sen who passed away recently was a renowned Writer.

• Former General Secretary of Mohun Bagan club Anjan Mitra passed away following multiple problems.

• According to PNB Housing Finance, LIC has invested Rs 2,500 crore in the company by subscribing to its secured redeemable non-convertible debentures (NCDs).

• According to RBI’s recent data, countries Gold reserves increased by $301 million to $ 27.353 billion.

• K. Ullas Karanth has become first recipient of George Schaller Lifetime Award.

• Abhisek Sarkar won the “Gemcon Young Literature Award” for the year 2019 for his manuscript “Nishiddho”.

• Maharashtra topped among the 18 large-medium states in the overall ranking of Indian States on justice delivery as per the “India Justice Report 2019”.

• Tata Trusts in collaboration with the Centre for Social Justice, Common Cause, and Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative released the India Justice Report 2019.

• Cabinet Secretary chairs NCMC meeting to deal with Severe Cyclone Bulbul over West Bengal and Odisha.

• Sports Minister lauds CBSE for organizing Fitness Week in schools plans to take it to all states in India.

• National Legal Services Day is celebrated every year on 9th November.

• National Education Day of India is celebrated on 11th November every year.

• ‘World Tolerance Summit’ was held in Dubai, UAE.

• The ‘Accidental Deaths & Suicides in India’ (ADSI-2016) report states that the all-India suicide rate was 10.3 (per lakh of population) in 2016. The report has been released by National Crime Records Bureau.

• The final verdict on the Ayodhya Ram Temple case was announced on November 9, 2019. 5 judges of Supreme Court were part of the bench formed for the case.


• PM Modi inaugurated the Integrated Check Post of the Kartarpur Corridor. 4.7 km is the total length of the corridor.

• India’s first elephant memorial has come up in Mathura.

• For 2020-21 (FY21) Nomura has predicted India’s GDP Growth rate at 6.1%.

• USD 200 mn amount has been approved by ADB to Bangladesh for power transmission expansion project.

• Moody’s has recently changed India’s economic outlook to Negative.

• Karnataka Gramin Bank (KGB) has launched ‘mobile ATMs’ in Kalaburagi among several other districts in the state to boost digitisation in rural areas.

• Justice Sanjay Karol was sworn in as the chief justice of the Patna High Court.

• Anjani Kumar was appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Mali.

• New Delhi hosted the first-ever global Sanskrit Bharati Vishwa Sammelan recently.

• 5th edition of GES to be held from Nov 26-28 in Bangalore.

• The first-ever joint tri-service exercise between India and Russia codenamed INDRA 2019 will be conducted from December 10-19.

• Fed Cup is the premier international team competition in women’s tennis.

• Kento Momota won his 10th title of a remarkable year as Japan’s world number one defeated Chou Tien-chen to retain his Fuzhou China Open crown.

• Indian cricketer Shafali Verma has surpassed Sachin Tendulkar to become youngest player to score international fifty.

• TN Seshan has died recently at the age of 86. He was the former Chief Election Commissioner.

• SC has directed Centre for arrangement of suitable alternative plot of land measuring 5 acres at Ayodhya for Sunni Waqf Board (for Mosque).

• Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has launched the Swachh – Nirmal Tat Abhiyaan 2019.

• Puducherry Government has approved the Comprehensive Development Plan (CDP) for the overall growth of the coastal town by 2036.

• Margaret Atwood bagged the Booker prize, 2019. She is from Canada.

• Theme for 2019 World Science Day for Peace and Development is "Open science, leaving no one behind".

• Thomas Dennerby has been appointed head coach of India U17 women’s football team.

• Ministry of Environment has granted clearance to the Indian Oil Corporation Ltd to set up a Rs 766-crore 2G ethanol plant in Haryana’s Panipat district.

• The second edition of Indo-French Investment Conclave was held in Goa.

• The first ever CNG port terminal of the world is scheduled to be set up in Gujarat.


• Marengo sachintendulkar is a new species of Spider discovered recently and named after cricket legend Sachin Tendulakar.

• 50 beaches have been identified for mass cleanliness-cum-awareness drive under the “Swachh – Nirmal Tat Abhiyaan” announced by the government.

• The government of India has given green nod to Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) to set up new 2G Ethanol plant at Panipat.

• RBI has mandated the banks not to charge savings bank account customers for online transactions in the NEFT system with effect from January 2020.

• PayNearby has partnered with Equitas Small Finance Bank along with NPCI to launch its own micro ATMs at retail shops.

• Bolivia’s President Evo Morales resigned on November 10, 2019 over a disputed election result.

• Shanta Gokhale has been selected for the Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award for 2019.

• Ullas Karanth won the first ever instituted George Schaller lifetime award for the year 2019 for his contribution in the field of wildlife Conservation.

• Ranjan Gogoi released the Assamese version of the book ‘Courts of India: Past to Present’.

• Inaugural Conclave on “National Capital Region -2041” held in Delhi. Theme - Planning for Tomorrow’s Greatest Capital Region.

• The Defence Innovations Conference ‘Def-Connect’ was held in New Delhi to showcase the accomplishments of the Innovations for Defence Excellence (iDEX) initiative.

• The ‘Air Fest-2019’ was held in Nagpur by the Indian Air Force.

• Abhishek Verma & Sharvan Kumar bagged men’s air pistol silver in the Asian shooting championship held in Doha, Qatar.

• Thomas Dennerby was appointed as the Indian head coach of the Women’s U-17(under 17) football team by Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA).

• Theme of the 19th Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) Council of Ministers (COM) Meeting held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) is Promoting a Shared Destiny and Path to Prosperity in the Indian Ocean.

• Vijay Karnani is set to retire as Goldman Sachs India co-head, after 21 years.

• Assam has signed a MoU with Malaysia India Business Council (MIBC) to improve the two-way trade and investment.

• According to the latest CSO data, India’s industrial production contracted 4.3% in September, the weakest performance in seven years.

• Ramon Magsaysay Awardee & former chief election commissioner (CEC) Iyer Seshan passed away recently.


• Shaala Darpan portal launched for E-Governance school automation and management system for Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS) by Sanjay Dhotre in New Delhi.

• The eight-session of the Governing Body of International Treaty of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) is being held in Rome, Italy.

• The Gujarat government gave its approval for a Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) terminal in Bhavnagar, Gujarat. The proposed investment for the CNG terminal project is Rs.1,900 crore.

• HSBC launched HSBC Kinetic, a new app-based business banking service.

• The World Pneumonia Day was observed across the world on November 12 every year.

• Public Service Broadcasting Day observed internationally on November 12.

• Maharashtra has been brought under the President’s rule for the third time due to inability of political parties to form a government after an assembly election 2019.

• The cyclone Bulbul recently hit parts of West Bengal and Odisha.

• Mobile application Sishu Suraksha App is launched by Assam State Commission for Protection of Child Rights.

• New Delhi hosted the exhibition of Technologies in Food Processing developed by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.

• 5.0% is the latest SBI GDP forecast for the fiscal year 2020.

• Shane Watson has been appointed as the president of the Australian Cricketers’ Association (ACA).

• Mohammad Imran has been appointed as the new High Commissioner of Bangladesh to India.

• Pravind Jugnauth was sworn in as Mauritius’s incumbent Prime Minister for a five-year term.

• Hyderabad is all set to host the four day prestigious ‘IndiaJoy’, an important global platform for Digital, Media and Entertainment Corporations.

• Theme of the 11th BRICS summit that is going to held in Brasilia is Economic growth & innovative future for BRICS economies.

• India is going to host the 19th council of heads of government of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in 2020.

• Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria will inaugurate the 58th Indian Society of Aerospace Medicine (ISAM) Annual Conference in Bangalore.

• Satellite Starlink has launched by Elon Musk-run SpaceX for cheaper global Internet.

• Industry body Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) signed an agreement with Singapore Fintech Association (SFA) to boost cooperation for development of financial technology industry in India and the southeast Asian country.


• The maiden India-US joint tri-services Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) exercise named ‘Tiger Triumph’ is scheduled to begin at Visakhapatnam.

• Sundar Singh is associated with Javelin throw.

• Justice Ajay Kumar Mittal has been appointed as the Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court.

• Bangladesh has partnered with China to build its first smart city and the biggest planned township on the outskirts of Dhaka.

• In women’s 10 m air pistol event, Manu Bhaker of India won the gold medal at the 14th Asian Championship Shooting.

• India and Russia are to set up cybersecurity cooperation in the backdrop of cyber-attack on the Kudankulam nuclear power plant that happened in the year 2019.

• As per the Parliamentary Committee report, 68% of people die every year in India due to cancer.

• Gujarat launched an online registration portal for MSME units to facilitate the setting up of new MSME units in November 2019.

• Korea is the Focus Country for the year 2019 in the 39th edition of India International Trade Fair (IITF).

• Every year November 14 is observed as World Diabetes Day. Theme - Family and Diabetes.

• Children’s Day is celebrated across India on November 14, the birth anniversary of Jawahar Lal Nehru.

• Rampur town in Himachal Pradesh hosted the four-day-long International Lavi fair 2019.

• The festival ‘Bali Yatra’ is organized every year in memory of the rich maritime history of Odisha.

• Uttar Pradesh government has launched a dedicated web portal and a mobile application, e- Ganna App, for sugarcane farmers of the state.

• USD 5 million amount has been pledged by India to UN Palestine Refugee Agency for 2020.

• Prakash Javadekar has been given the additional charge of the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.

• Multi-national company Unilever appoints Nils Andersen as chairman.

• Justice Muhammad Raffiq has been appointed as the Chief Justice of Meghalaya High Court.

• India has received the first prize at BRICS Young Scientist forum’s conclave in Brazil.

• Croatia captain Luka Modric has been awarded the 2019 Golden Foot award in a ceremony in Monaco.

• New Delhi hosted the 6th World Congress on Rural and Agricultural Finance 2019.


• Ministry of AYUSH is organizing the International Conference on Yoga on 15-16 November 2019 at Mysuru.

• Sri Lanka becomes First South Asian Nation to Criminalize Match Fixing & Sports Betting.

• Punjab government is going to organize 2019 World Kabaddi Cup from December 1 to 9.

• Aradhya Garg is associated with Chess.

• Mihir Shah committee has been formed to draft a New National Water Policy.

• India and Russia are to set up cybersecurity cooperation in the backdrop of cyber-attack on the Kudankulam nuclear power plant.

• India and China jointly began the training programme of the second batch of Afghan diplomats.

• The 39th India International Trade Fair (IITF) 2019 is to begin in New Delhi on 14 November 2019. The Focus States will be Bihar and Jharkhand in this edition of the fair.

• The Munin Barkotoki Memorial Trust has selected young poet Ankur Ranjan Phukan and short story writer Monoranjan Bori for the Munin Barkotoki Literary Award 2019.

• IIT Guwahati has developed a paper-based sensor to detect the quality of Milk.

• Cochin Azad has died recently at the age of 62. He was a well known Singer.

• The Supreme Court has referred the Sabarimala case to a larger 7-judge bench.

• Russia has invited Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the massive Victory Day celebrations in May next year.

• Jair Bolsonaro has been invited as the Chief Guest at the Republic Day 2020 celebrations in India.

• USD 43 million amount has been approved by the UNDP Green Climate Fund for India to boost climate resilience in 3 costal states.

• Nitin Gadkari inaugurated the Khadi Pavilion at the India International Trade Fair – IITF in New Delhi.

• Andhra Pradesh has launched the ‘Nadu-Nedu’ programme to introduce English medium from classes 1 to 6 in state-run schools.

• Moody’s Investors Service revised India’s economic growth forecast for current year to 5.6 percentage.

• CCI approved the merger of the BNP Paribas (BNPP) Mutual Fund and BoB Mutual Fund.

• Based on the 5th annual Doing Business in India Report released by UK India Business Council (UKIBC), 21 percent of the respondents finds doing business in India has not improved.


• According to the UK India Business Council (UKIBC) 5th annual Doing Business in India Report, Maharashtra has topped in terms of States and Union Territories that are performing best on the ease of doing business.

• Ms. Padmaja has been concurrently accredited as the next High Commissioner of India to the Kingdom of Tonga.

• Robert De Niro receives the Life Achievement Award from Screen Actors Guild (SAG) at the 26th edition of the ceremony next year.

• Google is partnering with Citigroup and Stanford Federal Credit Union to offer checking accounts beginning next year in a project code-named Cache.

• National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange has partnered with NSE Indices Limited to launch India’s first agri index named ‘NCDEX Agridex’.

• India sprinter Dutee Chand has been named in the TIME 100 Next, an expansion of the TIME 100 list of the most influential persons in the world.

• Karabi Gogoi has become first women from the Navy to be posted as a Defence Attache at an Indian mission abroad (Moscow).

• Vashishtha Narayan Singh passed away. Professinally he is a Mathematician.

• Japan’s satellite Hayabusa-2 has started a journey to return to Earth from an asteroid named Ryugu.

• Central Bureau of Investigation has set up the Online Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation (OCSAE) Prevention Unit to counter the growing menace of child porn on the internet.

• Theme of the 8th International Conference on Agricultural Statistics (ICASVIII) is Statistics for Transformation of Agriculture to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

• IBM is to launch the Global High-Resolution Atmospheric Forecasting System, which will be able to predict conditions up to 12 hours in advance.

• Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) is an apex body that functions under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India, responsible for the export promotion of agricultural products.

• Indian Railways and France’s Alstom have signed a procurement cum maintenance agreement with Madhepura Electric Locomotive Pvt. Ltd. to deliver ten high-powered electric locomotives in the financial year 2019-20.

• Theme of the Regional Conference that is organized by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) is Replication of Good Governance Practices in Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh.

• RailTel Corporation of India Ltd. has introduced Railwire Wi-Fi at the historic Dera Baba Nanak railway station in Punjab.

• Tobacco Board of India has been awarded with the Golden Leaf Award in the Most Impressive Public Service Initiative category, 2019.

• National Press Day is celebrated every year on 16 November.


• International Day for Tolerance observed on 16 November.

• UN General Assembly (UNGA) pass the resolution 51/95 on 1996 and designated the observance of International Day for Tolerance.

• Jharkhand celebrates the State Formation day on 15 November.

• Jharkhand, the land of forests, was formed on 2000.

• International Folk Festival, the largest folk festival of Asia, is celebrated by Bangladesh.

• Bhabna Nrityadal, a prominent dance troupe are from Bangladesh.

• The Sisseri River bridge has been inaugurated by the Defence Minister in Arunachal Pradesh.

• According to The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report, Nigeria topped in the pneumonia deaths of kids under 5 in 2018.

• National Mission NISHTHA has been launched in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir aimed at improving learning outcomes at Elementary level through integrated Teacher Trainings.

• Aadi Mahotsav 2019 held in New Delhi.

• Theme of the 2019 Aadi Mahotsav - A Celebration of the Spirit of Tribal Crafts, Culture, and Commerce.

• New Delhi is going to host the 8th edition of the International Conference on Agricultural Statistics (ICAS-VIII).

• A two-day Regional Conference on the theme: “Replication of Good Governance Practices in Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh” began in Jammu.

• Nita Ambani becomes 1st Indian Trustee to be Elected to Board of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.

• Andhra Pradesh appointed IAS officer Nilam Sawhney as Chief Secretary of the State.

• Harish Bhat is the author of the novel ‘An Extreme Love for Coffee’.

• According to the Trace Bribery Matrix which releases annual ranking for 200 countries report, Bangladesh has the highest business bribery risk among South Asian courtiers.

• Arsene Wenger has been appointed as the new Chief of global football development by FIFA.

• 9 countries are to participate in the 2019 World Kabaddi Cup tournament.

• 2019 World Kabaddi Cup tournament will be organized by Punjab.

• Lieutenant Colonel Jyoti Sharma is appointed as the Indian Army’s first female Judge Advocate General officer to be deployed on a foreign mission.

• J&K Grameen Bank topped the RRBs in terms of achievement of Rupay Card transaction targets (POS and eCOM).

• National Epilepsy Day is observed across India on November 17 every year.


• Theme for ‘World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims’ is Life is not a car part.

• ‘International Students’ Day’ was observed on November 17.

• Delhi government has launched the scheme ‘Mukyamantri Septic Tank Safai Yohana’ to allow residents to avail free septic tank cleaning service.

• Campaign launched for reducing child mortality due to pneumonia called SAANS.

• The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) has pegged India’s GDP growth for 2019-20 at 4.9 per cent.

• ICICI Bank will host around 2000 ‘Maha Loan’ camps across the country by March 2020.

• The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has approved $575 million to boost investment in renewable energy for Mumbai.

• David Villa is associated with Football.

• Researchers from IIT-Guwahati have developed a paper based sensor to check freshness of milk at home.

• India recently conducted a successful trial of surface-to-surface medium range Agni-II missile. 2000 kms is the range of the missile.

• The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has officially changed its name to World Athletics. Sebastian Coe is the President of IAAF.

• Bill Gates has overtaken Jeff Bezos to claim the status of the world’s richest person.

• Dr Ravi Ranjan has been appointed as the new Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court.

• According to a study by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Delhi has been ranked at the bottom with the poorest water quality.

• Akil Kureshi has been sworn in as the new Chief Justice of Tripura High Court.

• Veteran actors Sridevi and Rekha were conferred with the ANR National Award for 2018 and 2019 respectively.

• Sudarsan Pattnaik has recently won the Italian Golden Sand Art Award 2019.

• Sri Lanka has elected Gotabaya Rajapaksa as its new President.

• Tobacco Board of India, Guntur has been awarded the Golden Leaf Award at Tab Expo 2019, recently held in Netherlands.

• Green and White variety of Darjeeling Tea has been granted Geographical Indication (GI) tag under statutory provisions of Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection Act), 1999.

• International Men’s Day is observed across the world on November 19 every year.

• Theme for ‘World Toilet Day’ is Leaving No One Behind.

• 29th Regional Contact Points (RCP) meeting of Asia Pacific (A/P) region of World Customs Organization (WCO) being organized in Puducherry.


• Bill Gates with Union Minister of Women and Child Development (WCD) and Textiles, Smriti Irani has launched “Bharatiya Poshan Krishi Kosh (BPKK)’’ to reduce malnutrition problem faced by the country.

• North India’s first sugar mill which will produce ethanol directly from sugarcane has recently been inaugurated in Uttar Pradesh.

• South Korea was the partner country of India International Cherry Blossom festival held in Shillong from November 13 to 16, 2019.

• Pakistan has become the first country to introduce WHO recommended typhoid vaccine in its national immunisation program.

• The 21st Annual Meeting of the International Society of Addiction Medicine was recently held in New Delhi.

• ADB has agreed to provide a $91 million loan to India for comprehensive water management in the state of Karnataka.

• The special winter grade diesel launched by Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL) for UT of Ladakh remains unfrozen upto a temperature of - 33 degrees.

• Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde has been sworn in as the 47th Chief Justice of India.

• Maiden maritime exercise Za’ir-Al-Bahr held between Indian Navy and the Qatari Amiri Naval Force (QANF).

• Sindhu Sudarshan exercise of the Indian army has been recently conducted in Rajasthan.

• ISRO will launch ‘Carto-sat 3’ along with 13 commercial nano satellites from the US via PSLV-C47. The satellites would be launched from Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh.

• Famous boxer Sarita Devi has been elected unopposed as a member of AIBA athletes’ commission.

• Stefanos Tsitsipas defeated Dominic Thiem to win his maiden ATP World Tour Trophy in London’s O2 Arena.

• Kim Joo Hyung has won the Panasonic Open held at the Classic Golf and Country Club in Gurugram, India.

• Harmeet Desai has won Gold in Men’s single ITTF Challenge Indonesia Open 2019 played in Batam, Indonesia defeating Anthony Amalraj.

• Shreyasi Singh is associated with Shooting.

• Max Verstappen has won the Formula One Brazilian Grand Prix, 2019. He races for Red Bull.

• The Union Home Ministry has launched a campaign to end violence against women and a single emergency helpline number 112.

• Telangana recently got its first child-friendly police station.

• Assam has launched the Arundhati Scheme to provide 1 tola of gold free to the brides.

• Insurance company ICICI Lombard has partnered with Fino payments Bank to offer sachet based insurance products.


• Jyoti Sharma has been appointed as Indian Army’s first female Judge Advocate General officer.

• The 2019 Indira Gandhi Peace Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development has been awarded to Sir David Attenborough.

• Delhi Metro has won two awards for promoting a green and sustainable mode of mass transport.

• India ranked 59 spot in the IMD World Talent Ranking Report.

• The 2 World Religious Leaders Summit was held in Baku, Azerbaijan.

• Tamil Nadu will host the 9th World Engineering Education Forum (WEEF).

• Anand Kumar has been awarded the Nachiketa Sarvottama Award at International Principal’s Education Conference (IPEC) in Nagpur.

• Pakistan has recently conducted the test launch of nuclear-capable surface-to-surface ballistic missile Shaheen-I.

• Brazil has beaten Mexico to win the 18th edition of FIFA U-17 World Cup.

• Universal Children’s Day is observed on 20th November annually by the UN.

• The World Philosophy Day celebrated every third Thursday of November was first celebrated in the year 2002.

• Government has approved the establishment of National Institute for Sowa-Rigpa, a traditional system of medicine in Leh.

• Kolkata has become the first one to install ‘Third Umpire’ RT-PCR Machines for Speedy Detection of Dengue.

• Visakhapatnam Police has launched a cybersecurity interactive robotic agent CYBIRA to automatically take down complaints.

• Mahinda Rajapaksa will be sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Sri Lanka.

• 2nd India ASEAN InnoTech Summit 2019 be held in Philippines.

• The 29th World Customs Organisation (WCO) Asia Pacific Regional Contact Points (RCP) meeting will be held in Puducherry.

• The 2nd edition of South Asia Safety Summit is being organized in New Delhi. We Think Digital is the name of the website launched during the summit.

• New Delhi ranked 9th spot in the prime residential market report by Knight Frank.

• IRCTC has inked an MoU with Karnataka State Tourism Development Corporation (KSTDC) to market and operate Golden Chariot train.

• 102nd warship Amrit Kaur was delivered by Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) to the Indian Coast Guard.

• Virat Kohli has recently been named as named PETA India’s Person of the Year.

• Bajrang Punia has recently been conferred with Indian Personality of the Year award at the Indo Arab Leaders Summit & Awards 2019 held in Dubai.


• India will host the 2020 Hockey Pro League in Bhubaneswar.

• Manu Bhaker has bagged gold medal at the ISSF World Cup Finals held in China.

• Transgender Day of Remembrance also known as the International Transgender Day is observed annually on 20th November.

• Satya Nadella has topped Fortune’s Businessperson of the Year list.

• World Television Day is celebrated as on 21st November every year.

• The NuGen Mobility Summit 2019 is being organized in Manesar, NCR from 27th to 29th November by ICAT.

• Theme of World Fisheries Day is Social Responsibility in the fisheries value chain observed annually on November 21st.

• The Union Cabinet has approved an MoU with Finland to strengthen cooperation in the field of Tourism.

• In a bid to improve the domestic of availability of Onion the Union Cabinet has approved its import of 1.2 lakh tones.

• I&B Minister Prakash Javadekar inaugurated Film Bazaar on sidelines of golden jubilee edition of IFFI 2019 in Goa.

• Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan has introduced a bill to prohibit the production and sales of e-cigarettes, ENDS - Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems.

• First Hindi daily Arun Bhoomi launched in Arunachal Pradesh.

• Assam has released its new Land Policy 2019 after a gap of 30 years.

• RBI has superseeded DHFL board to initiate insolvency proceedings against the company.

• Tamil Nadu has bagged the top ranked in Swachh Survekshan Gramin Awards 2019.

• India’s top-ranked city in the new global prosperity index is Bangalore.

• Greta Thunberg has recently been awarded international children’s peace prize. She is from Sweden.

• Trust Exercise book written by Susan Choi for which she has been awarded the National Book Award.

• Three-day Global Bio-India Summit being held in New Delhi.

• QUAD has organized the first counter-terrorism table-top exercise.

• The latest airport been inaugurated in Karnataka under the UDAN scheme.

• Rajat Bhargava has been appointed as the head of the committee to attract more investments in Petroleum, Chemicals and Petrochemical Investment Regions (PCPIR) in the country.

• 'SHIKHAR SE PUKAR' is a short documentary film on Water Conservation released by Union Minister of Jal Shakti.


• The 4-day Northeast festival to highlight the heritage of the Northeast states will be held in Varanasi.

• Climate Emergency is the word of the year 2019 as declared by the Oxford Dictionary.

• Mrinal Kanti Das has been appointed as Special Police Observer for Jharkhand assembly polls by the Election Comission.

• The OECD in its recent economic outlook has cut global growth rate from 3% to 2.9% in 2020.

• Microsoft launches ‘K-12 Education Transformation Framework’ to facilitate digital transformation of schools in India.

• IIM Indore has inked an MoU with Lal Bahadur Shastri Academy National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), Mussoorie for various training programs.

• Indian journalist Neha Dixit recipients of International Press Freedom Award 2019 awarded by Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

• Global Terrorism Index 2019 which ranks 163 countries according to impact of terrorism has been launched by Institute for Economics & Peace.

• Shivangi has become the First woman pilot of Indian Navy to join operations from December 2nd 2019.

• US has approved a sale of $1 billion dollars of naval guns to India.

• Shaukat Kaifi was a famous Actor. She was the mother of Shabana Azmi.

• The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is observed annually on November 25th.

• Anita Anand has become the first Hindu to be appointed as a cabinet minister in Canada.

• Digital Gurukul has become India’s first institute to offer blockchain powered certificates to students.

• The two day G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting was held recently in Nagoya, Japan.

• India ranked 8th spot according to World Health Organization’s study of physical activity among adolescents.

• Theme of 11th Agrovision: India’s Premier Agri Summit being held in Nagpur, Maharashtra is Smart Technologies for Sustainable Development.

• The two-day Conference of Governors and Lt. Governors held in New Delhi.

• Chitharesh Natesan is associated with Bodybuilding.

• Indian Army has dedicated Goodwill Park to celebrated Soldier Lt. Naib Subedar Chuni Lal.

• The 3rd Military Literature Festival will be held in Chandigarh.

• Indian boxer Vijender Singh has claimed his 12th successive professional win by defeating Commonwealth champion Charles Adamu.

• 5th Australia-India Education Council meeting be held in New Delhi.


• The World’s biggest Islamic Congregation, the ‘Aalmi Tablighi Ijtima’ will be held in Bhopal.

• Jammu & Kashmir has achieved the highest road length being constructed under Pradhan Mantri Grameen Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) in 2019.

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