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Current Affairs 2015 – November Pocket PDF

Indian Affairs

• Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation Mahesh Sharma released the Draft Aviation Policy 2015 5/20 rule, Reduce the value added tax and MRO will be zero

• India, Sri Lanka bilateral naval exercise SLINEX 15 in Sri Lanka - October 27 to November 1 • Indian Railways launches Vikalp scheme for waitlisted passengers on November 1 -Delhi-Lucknow and Delhi-

Jammu routes. • J & K CM Mufti Mohammad Sayeed ordered to constitution of a committee to suggest rentals for Wakf

property in J&K • Punjab government signed MoU with a consortium of Beta Renewables, Novozymes and CVC India

Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd Rs. 950 crore • Kerala Cultural Affairs minister KC Joseph announced Malayalam Language Act at Formation Day • India, Indonesia ink pacts on energy, culture exchange - Vice President M. Hamid Ansari and Indonesian

counterpart Jusuf Kala. • External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Norwegian counterpart Borge Brende, co-chaired a bilateral

conference on trade and investments to explore pioneer opportunities. • Delhi Metro has become the first metro service in the country to be certified with International Organisation for

Standardisation (ISO) • Ministry of Human Resource Development constituted TSR Subramanian committee(4 members) to draft New

Education Policy. • Odisha Government imposes 7- month ban on fishing to protect Olive Ridley sea turtles. • First International Film Festival for the persons with disabilities to be held in Delhi on December 1. • Union Tribal Affairs Minister Shri Jual Oram inaugurated National Tribal Crafts MelaAadishilp at Dilli

Haat in New Delhi • Mysuru MP Pratap Simha inaugurated the country’s first visually challenged friendly station in Karnataka. • Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurates 7th Nuclear Energy Conclave in New Delhi

Theme : “Creating conditions for rapid capacity addition on nuclear power in India.” • Maharashtra Government approves APJ Abdul Kalam Amrut Yojna for Pregnant and Lactating women - 10

crore - 16 districts • Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) is set to become the first WHO Collaborating Centre in the South-

East Asia Region annaounced by Shri J P Nadda. • Centre imposed the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 and deploy the Army and paramilitary forces in

insurgency-hit Garo Hills - Meghalaya High Court • Union Cabinet given its nod to Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojna (UDAY) approved a scheme to ease the

financial crunch facing power distribution companies or discoms Gov take 75 percent and 25 percent discoms.

• PM launches Indian gold coin(5g/10g) & bullion bearing national emblem Ashok Chakra and Mahatma Gandhi’s image.

• Union Cabinet gives nod to MoU on Tourism with Colombia -Ministry of Tourism of India(Mahesh Sharma,Minister of State, Ministry of Tourism) and the Ministry of Trade Industry and Tourism of Colombia

• NGT bans age-old agricultural practice of straw burning in Northern States - Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh Imposition of 2,500 to 15,000 rupees fine

• Supreme court announced that the 2005 amendment in Hindu law- Daughters cannot inherit ancestral property if father died before 2005.

• Varanasi selected for Microsoft’s experimental Internet pilot project - Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella • CCEA approved the increase in the MSP for rabi crops of 2015-16 season to be marketed in 2016-17 announced

by Power Minister Piyush Goyal. • President Pranab Mukherjee launched the Impacting Research Innovation and Technology (Imprint) India a

joint initiative of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc). • 17 MoUs for Academia Industry Linkages signed between NIPERs and Pharma Industry

NIPER private pharma industry subject of the MoU Hyderabad (11 mous) and NIPER CPSE subject of

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the MoU mohali (6 mous) • Union Cabinet gives nod to MoU between India and Belgium in the field of energy • Cabinet approves double taxation treaty between India and Turkmenistan • PM Inaugurated Delhi Economics Conclave 2015 in Delhi

Theme: Realizing India’s JAM (Jan-Dhan Aadhar Mobile) Vision • Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India(RGI) released data of Census 2011 on Highest Educational

Level • Primary(major share of 32.6%), Primary (25.2%), Middle (15.7%), Matric (11.1%), Higher Secondary

(8.6%) and Graduate above (4.5%) • PM announces Rs. 80,000 cr package for all-round development of J&K at Srinagar’s Sher-i-Kashmir Cricket

Stadium. • Gov has decided to impose 0.5%Swachh Bharat Cess on all serviceswith effect from November 15, 2015 by

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley • Minister of Railways Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu inaugurates ‘International Summit on Energy Efficient

Technologies in Railways’ Theme: Energy Efficiency Trends and Technologies in Railways

• Dr T K Viswanathan Committee on Bankruptcy Law Reforms submitted its report Recommend to set up insolvency Regulator and insolvency adjudicating authority

• 21st INCOFYRA(International Conference on ‘Frontiers in Yoga Research and its Applications) to be organised in Bengaluru in 2016 by PM Modi Theme: Yoga in Integrated Healthcare Systems.

• Allahabad High Court has administered that born out of rape has right over assaulter’s property • Railway minister Suresh Prabhu given the nod to foreign direct investment (FDI) projects to set up state-of-the

art diesel and electric locomotive manufacturing plants in Bihar . Between Marhora and Madhepura and it’s Outlay is Rs 40,000 crore - GE and Alstom .

• Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh inaugurated the Asia’s foremost Information Security Conference Ground Zero Summit 2015 Theme : Digital India Securing Digital India

• Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje launched the Rajasthan Agro-Processing and Agri-Marketing Promotion Policy-2015 – 112MoUs.

• India and China signed two agreements after talks between Vice President Hamid Ansari and Chinese counterpart Li Yuanchao.

• Gov issued the notification regarding implementation of ‘One Rank One Pension’ in respect of Defence Forces personnel. Arrears will be paid in four equal half yearly instalments - Rs 500 Crore.

• Tamil Nadu Registrar of Societies has cancelled the registration of environment group Greenpeace India. • Government notifies norms for making AAIB(Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau) independent body • FIPB clears 4 FDI proposals worth Rs 384.45 Cr headed by Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das • Bihar Assembly elections the Grand Alliance of Nitish Kumar surpassed the BJP led NDA (National

Democratic Alliance) in all regions of Bihar with vote share of 41.9% and become the CM of Bihar for the third time.

• India to grow at 7.2% in FY-16 as per interim economic outlook report of Paris based Think Tank Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

• $273 million loan agreement inked between Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Gov of India (GOI) For the improvement of rural roads in the States of Assam, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and

West Bengal. • Centre approves Rs 2100 crore for Karnataka(Rs.1,540 crore), Gujarat(Rs.562 crore) under NDRF(National

Disaster Relief Fund) • International Indigenous Terra Madre 2015 or Slow Food festival started in Shillong and Theme song: Ko Mei

Ramew The coffee table book ‘Meghalaya: Sifting Through the Clouds’ was released by the CM of Meghalaya

and Phrang Roy • GOI eased Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) norms for 15 sectors which includes defence, broadcasting - Rs.5,

000 crore • New Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal established a two-member committee to

investigate alleged irregularities in Delhi and District Cricket Association • Kerala is organising Nation’s first “Global Conference on Gender Equality” in Kovalam.




Theme – Gender, Governance and Inclusion • Finance Minister has extended the tenure of the high level committee to interact with trade and industry on

taxation policies by one year • 11 concords signed by India in “International Civil Aviation Negotiation(ICAN) in Antalya, Turkey

MoU with 6 countries and Agreed Minutes with 3 countries and Record of Discussions with 2 countries.

• Haryana Gauvansh Sanrakshan and Gausamvardhan Bill given approved by Pranab Mukherjee – export and sale of cows.

• Kerala government is going to set up a Nation’s first university in Kozhikode district • Union Minister of Women and Child Development Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi and the Union Minister of

Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Radha Mohan Singh inaugurated the first Women of India Exhibition at Dilli Haat, INA in New Delhi Theme – Women and organic Products

• Annual Hundred Drums Wangala Festival begun at Asanang near Tura town in Meghalaya. • Union Health Minister JP Nadda formed a committee to evaluate the Indian Medical Association’s five-point

demands. • President of India Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the 35th India International Trade Fair (IITF 2015) 2015

in New Delhi • Jammu and Kashmir would get its first handicrafts museum in Srinagar. • Seakeeping and Manoeuvring Basin(SMB) and Torpedo Defence System “Maareech” to Nation by Defence

Minister Manohar Parrikar • India’s food industry to be worth $65 bn by 201-report of IIM-Calcutta and Academic Foundation, Indian Food

industry Expected to grow 11% annually to reach $65.4 billion US spend 9%, Brazil spends 17% and China spends 25%.

• J&K Govt to implement National Food Safety Act -Rs 80 lakh Shri Zulfkar Rs 1 crore for the construction of Gujjar hostel at Baramulla

• Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar launched Gyps Vulture Reintroduction Programme at Pinjore. • Swachh Bharat cess on PAN card for income tax purposes become costlier(0.5% tax)

New Cost : Rs 107, Rs.989(Outside India),Previous Cost : Rs 106, Rs. 985(Outside India) • PM Narendra Singh Modi was on three days visit to UK from 12 Nov to 14 Nov

India, UK PMs attend CEO Forum NaMo unveiled a statue of 12th-century philosopher-statesman Basaveshwara on the south bank of the

Thames and with Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis inaugurated B R Ambedkar memorial in London.

27 deals worth 9.2 billion pounds ($14 billion) have been signed between India and UK • 81 cities in five states (Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odisha and Mizoram) will invest Rs. 5,748

crore to enhance water supply and sewerage connections under AMRUT - Venkaiah Naidu. • Punjab Govt’s notified cashless health insurance scheme, mandatory for all govt employees and pensioners Punjab Government employees and Pensioner Health Insurance Scheme (PGIPHIS) – 3lakhs

• Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare J P Nadda instigated the Affordable Medicines and Reliable Implants for Treatment (AMRIT) outlet at AIIMs - HLL Lifecare Ltd (HLL)

• National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K) declared as terrorist organisation. • Asia Leader’s Meeting-Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia held in in New Delhi Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) 2015-2030.

• Union Minister of Food Processing Industries Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal laid foundation stone of the first Mega Food Park in Lakkampally village in Nizamabad

• National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013 implemented in 14 of the 30 districts of Odisha • AMRUT plan worth Rs 242 crore for water logging problem in Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Odisha and

Mizoram propose to invest Rs 242 crore – 25 cities. • India's food safety authority has appealed the nationwide ban on Maggi • AP Gov decided to waive loans taken by over 25,000 weavers-more than Rs 110 crore - CM N Chandra Babu

Naidu . • The deadline for making 52.5 lakh people digitally literate under National Digital Literacy Mission by a year

to 2016(before 2017) – App NDLM-MyKartavya • Kerala gov will organise International Skill Summit Nypunyam 2016’ and Skill Fiesta announced by Minister

for Labour and Skills Shibu Baby John.




• Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar announced to set up a committee to conduct a detailed study on the issue of forest ownership in Northeast region

• 3 member committee set up by CM Arvind Kejriwal to investigate financial irregularities by the Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA)- head Chetan B. Sanghi.

• PM Narendra Modi approved the signing of the Tripartite Agreement among India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA) - Alleviation of Poverty and Hunger.

• Cabinet given its nod for second extension to the Indian Development and Economic Assistance Scheme (IDEAS) for Lines of Credit (LOC) to African and other countries for another five years - US $ 589.34 mn.

• Delhi announced to host the first International Qawwali Festival 2016 – ‘Taali Ho’. • Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved the interest subvention (subsidy) interest

equalisation scheme - Rs.2,500 crore-Rs.2,700 crore • PM Narendra Modi approved the proposal for setting up the National Resource Facility for Bio-medical

Research (NARF) by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) - Rs. 338.58 crores. • Ex post facto MoU between India and Germany on Security Cooperation Air Services Agreement between India and New Zealand

• Afghanistan to collaborate with India for Skill Development - Afghanistan Deputy Foreign Minister Mr. Hekmat Khalil Karzai and Union Minister for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Rajiv Pratap Rudy

• India-Russia Joint Army Exercise 7th edition “INDRA-2015” culminated -Mahajan Field Firing Ranges, Bikaner.

• Technology Acquisition and Development Fund (TADF) under National Manufacturing Policy launched by Minister of State for Commerce & Industry Mrs. Nirmala Sitharaman .

• Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved the railways projects worth about Rs. 8,000 crore in Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Bihar.

• Minimum train fare increased from Rs 5 to Rs 10 • 50 of the 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh were declared drought-hit by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav - 53.50%. • Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has approved the Delhi Jan Lokpal Bill, 2015 - Prevention of Corruption Act,

1988. • Resurgent Rajasthan Partnership Summit in Jaipur to attract investment from private sectors in the state - 295

MoUs - Rs 3.3 lakh crore. • 63rd meeting of the CABE chaired by Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani, Haryana Education Minister Ram

Bilas Sharma appointed as the member of Sub-Committee of Central Advisory Board of Education. • During Swachh Delhi campaign programme organized by Minister of Urban Development Shri M. Venkaiah

Naidu announced Rs.3, 250 cr special assistance. • Haryana Govt chaired by CM Manohar Lal Khattar announced the launch of a campaign to free Haryana of

tuberculosis (TB). • French President Francois Hollande will be the chief guest at the Republic Day parade. • Railway Minister Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu inaugurated 210 kms long Lumding-Silchar broad gauge section

(Assam). • Governing Council of NIIF(National Investment and Infrastructure Fund) constituted under the chairmanship of

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. • First time World Indology Conference(Study of Indian history, literature, philosophy, and culture) in

collaboration with Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR). ICCR Distinguished Indologist Award to Prof. Heinrich Freiherr Von Stietencron(Germany)

• India hosted the First South Asian Annual Disaster Management Exercise (SAADMEx-2015) by the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) in Delhi

• Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry constituted a 13-member expert committee exclusively on Sanskrit - headed by N Gopalaswami.

• Tripura start supplying power to Bangladesh from Bijoy Dibosh – Dec 16 - Bijoy Dibosh or Victory Day . • NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Arvind Panagariya engage in a dialogue with China's Development Research

Centre. • Completion of rural connectivity through all- weather roads under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak

Yojana(PMGSY) by three years from 2022 to 2019 - 60:40 - Rs 5,000 crore. • Delhi Assembly passed the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) (Delhi Amendment) Bill, 2015 - section 176(1)

of the CrPC Act, 1973. • World Congress on Disaster Management concluded with the adoption of ‘Visakhapatnam Declaration -




national disaster mitigation fund. • 10 New Schemes for Disabled Persons under the National Trust announced by Union Minister for Social Justice

& Empowerment Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot - Sugamya Bharat Abhiyan • MoU inked to set up Railway Chair on Sustainable Mobility at TERI(The Energy and Resources Institute)

University • Kerala gov organised “Orange Day” campaign to mark the international day for elimination of violence against

women stipulated by the UN General Assembly. • Maharashtra gov to launch an accident insurance scheme for farmers named after Gopinath Munde, for farmers

- Rs two lakh for each Swachcha Maharashtra Kosh’ or ‘Clean Maharashtra Fund’ - improving cleanliness levels.

• Telangana Gov declared 231 out of 443 rural mandals in the State as drought-affected and sought an immediate assistance of Rs.1,000 crore by CM K. Chandrasekhar.

• Kerala cabinet formed the district-level regulatory authorities to fix the prices of food items in hotels except hotels in star and heritage categories

• Winter session of Parliament has been started from November 26 ,Parliament will go paperless from this session – 14 new bills.

• IRCTC ties up with Food Panda widens Food on Track in New Delhi railway station- www.ecatering.irctc.co.in or SMS to 139.

• Jaipur Metro Rail Corporation (JMRC) is the first in the country to let only women staffs. • Ministry of Urban Development approved an investment of Rs. 3, 120 cr for enhancing water supply, sewerage

network services, storm water drains, non-motorised transport and availability of public spaces in 102 cities, under AMRUT. Haryana, Chattisgarh, Telangana, Kerala and West Bengal

• Chhattisgarh gov included seven more tehsils in ‘drought-hit‘ category by Disaster Management Minister Premprakash

• Bihar CM Nitish Kumar announced a ban on sale of alcohol in the state from April 1, 2016. • 13th World Robot Olympiad to be Held in Delhi in November, 2016 by Minister of State (Independent charge)

for Culture and Tourism Dr. Mahesh Sharma 12th World Robot Olympiad-2015 held in Doha, Qatar

Elementary category Team India Storm Divers(Ahmadabad) 1st Rank India Thunder Divers(Ahmadabad) 2nd Rank

Open category Team India Shadow Bots(Delhi) 2nd Rank Path Finders(Delhi) 8th Rank

• Delhi Assembly passes Delhi Right of Citizen to Time Bound Delivery of Services Amendment Bill, 2015

under Delhi (Right of Citizen to Time Bound Delivery of Services) Act, 2011. • AP gov announced to adopt the A.P. Port Policy 2015 - cargo, diversity of locations, increasing strategic depth

of hinterland. • India re-elected to the Council of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) under Category “B” . • The Notes worth Rs 5,536 cr were exchanged between Mr. S. Selvakumar, Joint Secretary, Department of

Economic Affairs, Government of India and Mr.Yutaka Kikuta for Chennai and Ahmedabad Metro projects • Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) Signs 11 more Unilateral Advance Pricing Agreements (APAS) - seven

(7) of these APAs have rollback provisions contained in them, the other four (4)are Agreements for future five years

• Lok Sabha adopted a resolution affirming commitment to the principles and ideals of the Constitution and resolve to uphold and maintain its sanctity and supremacy.

• National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) approved a pilot project submitted by National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Nagpur - 11.80 crore

• Govt advanced the date for implementation of the roll out of Bharat Stage (BS) stage V and VI norms for four-wheelers by 3 years.

• National Green Tribunal (NGT) sought a report into illegal felling of trees in the eco-sensitive zone around the Tajmahal by December 16 - Swatanter Kumar .

• “E-District project” instigated by Delhi Govt to offer services online, launched by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Project nickname – Guiding Light


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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

• India world’s 7th most valued “Nation Brand”report by Brand Finance USD2.10 billion Top 5 Countries : US, China, Germany, UK and Japan

• India(Dr. Harsh Vardhan) and Russia(Mr. Dmitry Livanov) Agree to Strengthen Collaboration in the Area of Information and Communication Technology.

• Minister for Science, Technology and Earth Science, Dr. Harsh Vardhan and the South African Minister for Science, Technology Ms. Naledi Pandor agree to Strengthen Collaboration in Key areas Health Sciences and Biotechnology, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Green

Chemistry and the Mega project in the area of “HIV Vaccine Research Collaboration(US $ 1 million)” • Singapore ranked first in world’s healthiest countries list and India secured 103rd Rank(22.17%). Top Healthy countries:Singapore , Italy and Australia.

• Special forces of the US and Nepalese armies launched a month-long joint military training Balance Nail 16-01 in Nepal’s mountainous regions.

• Justice and Development Party (AKP) of Turkey won 2015 Parliamentary Election of Turkey. • Punjabi became Canada’s third most common language in Parliament of Canada • China Launches the C919 Joins the Big Jet Club - first Chinese-built 158-seat • Nepal receives first consignment of petrol from China through Rasuwagadhi trading point - 73.5 metric tonnes

of petrol • India ranks 99 on Global Prosperity Index 2015 China (52), Sri Lanka (61), Thailand (48), Nepal (89) and Bangladesh (103)

• Maldives President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom announced an Emergency in the state for 30 days. • Taiwan and China to hold historic meet for the first time • Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou will meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Singapore • PM Narendra Modi ranks 9th in 2015 Forbes’ World’s Most Powerful Person Top 3 Persond : Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Barack

Obama Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani (36th) and Steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal (Indian-origin, 55th)

• UN General Assembly’s (UNGA) Disarmament Committee adopted a draft resolution submitted by Japan It failed to secure endorsement of US, Britain, France

• Hindi largest spoken Indian language in US by Census Bureau of US - 6.5 lakh people. • UK (David Cameron)signed 3 billion pounds in trade deals with Kazakhstan (Nursultan Nazarbayev) • France will deploy its aircraft carrier to support operations against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq by

President Francois Hollande. • India(7.5 per cent) positioned more favourably for future than China by WEF report China at 28, whereas Brazil at 75

• UNHCR released study titled I am Here, I belong on Need to End Childhood Statelessness Launch Campaign to End Statelessness by 2024 reporting that in every 10 minutes

• Venezuela withdraws USD 460mn from International Monetary Fund(IMF) in its third such operation this year. • SBI’s Arundhati Bhattacharya remains the most powerful businesswomen in India ICICI Bank's Chanda Kochhar(2nd) and Shikha Sharma of Axis Bank(3rd).

• India cultural week ‘International Arts Festival’ inaugurated in Shanghai first time-Ambassador Ashok K Kantha .

• Sierra Leone declared as Ebola-free by the World Health Organisation(WHO) • Chinese President Xi Jinping and PM Lee Hsien Loong endorsed the promotion of negotiations to upgrade the

China-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (CSFTA). • China’s National Marine Environment Forecasting Centre and Australia’s Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems

Cooperative Research Centre ink deal to share info on Antarctica condition. • Independent commission(IC) headed by Richard W. Pound submitted its report to World Anti-Doping Agency

(WADA)- “Top Secret Doping: How Russia makes its Winners”. • India Ranks 106th Among 145 Nations on the Charities Aid Foundation’s World Giving Index. • THE Top 100 World University Ranking Stanford University (1st), California Institute of Technology (2nd) & Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(3rd) and IISc made its entry at 99th spot. • Amazon’s first appearance in 2015 Thomson Reuters top 100 innovators list




• Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi won the Myanmar elections • World’s top 50 business leaders by Fortune - Indian-origin CEOs viz MasterCard’s Ajay Banga(5th),

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and Cognizant’s Francisco D’Souza. Top 3 : Mark Parker(Nike), Mark Zuckerberg(Facebook),Andrew Wilson(Electronic Arts)

• World Energy Outlook 2015 released by International Energy Agency (IEA)- India – Oil world’s largest coal importer

• GOI signed a MoU with Republic of Korea (RoK) to enhance bilateral air service cooperation. • Tata Consultancy Services to offer internships to 1,000 UK graduates between 2016 and 2020 – 1000 mew

internship. • Pakistan and China kicked off the $46 billion China- Pakistan economic corridor (CPEC) project. • 2015 Valletta Summit on Migration held in Valletta, Malta. EU launched an emergency fund for Africa - $2 billion to combat the poverty and conflict driving

migration. • French President Francois Hollande declared state of emergency after a series of terror attacks. • India (Nitin Gadkari)and Bangladesh(Shafiq Alam Mehdi) signed Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to

operationalize the Agreement on Coastal Shipping. • 4 Indian cities namely Wayanad (Kerala), Rishikesh (Uttarakhand), Amritsar (Punjab)

and Jaisalmer (Rajasthan) featured in the top 100 list of high quality services in hotels hotel search website trivago.

• India, Brazil signed MoU - National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) and EMBRAPA for raising cattle & buffalo yields for agricultural research corporation.

• China-India Yoga College started classes in China’s Kunming city - Yunnan Minzu (Nationalities) University • India(PM Narendra Modi) announced the cessation of a “Civil Nuclear Deal” for buying uranium from

Australia(PM Malcolm Turnbull) at the G-20 Summit in Antalya, Turkey. • India among the least honest countries along with China, Japan and South Korea -Study of UEA - Norfolk-

based University of East Anglia. • G-20 Antalya summit held in Antalya, Turkey - 2016 at Hangzhou in China 10-point proposal on tackling global terrorism and international movement of “foreign terrorist fighters

• India(Rajiv Mehrishi) and Bangladesh(Dr Md Mozammel Haque Khan) agreed to share militant information. • India and China arbitrated to bilateral defence ties and maintain peace and tranquillity at the Line of Actual

Control(LAC) • Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year 2015 emoji known as Face with Tears of Joy • Brazil have declared a state of emergency for 180 days in more than 200 towns affected by a deadly mining

waste spill - Samarco pledged to pay USD 260 million. • France(Francois Hollande) launched fresh air raids on Islamic State stronghold in Syria - 10

Rafale and Mirage 2000 fighters • 23rd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)held in Manila, Philippines-21 countries. Theme – “Building Inclusive Economies, Building a Better World: A Vision for an Asia-Pacific

Community” • 2 Indian-origin businessmen ranked by Forbes magazine among the richest entrepreneurs in America Top 3 : 1. Mark Zuckerberg(Fb), 2. Dustin Moskovitz(Fb), 3. Jan Koum(whatsapp)

• PM Narendra Modi given its ex-post facto approval for signing MoU between India and Vietnam - Cooperation in the field of Animal Health.

• Gov extended the currency swap facility for SAARC members-RBI offers the facility of varying sizes not exceeding $2 billion.

• A Chinese state-owned company Nucleoelectrica will finance and build two nuclear power plants in Argentina cost $15 billion

• India ranked 6th out of 162 nations most affected by terrorism in 2014 - 3rd edition of the Global Terrorism Index 2015 (GTI).

• Global gender index - India mounted to 108th position(0.664) Top 3 :Iceland, Norway and Finland

• BioGenesis – Global cancer summit 2015 held at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru Theme – Frontiers in oncology: genetics, diagnostics and therapeutic

• UNSC unanimously approved the French-sponsored resolution 2249 (2015) to redouble and coordinate action to prevent further attacks by ISIS.

• Chinese navy conducted naval drills in the South China Sea- President Xi Jinping




• Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and Interior Minister Guo Shengkun agreed to form a Ministerial-level mechanism to boost security cooperation.

• Russia signed 2 agreements to finance and build Egypt’s first nuclear power plant at Dabaa on the Mediterranean coast - Four 1,200 MW reactors.

• World Health Organization (WHO) launched the first World Antibiotic Awareness Week from 16 November to 22 November, 2015. Theme – Antibiotics: Handle with Care

• China is offering $10 billion in infrastructure loans to Southeast Asian countries. • India Ranks 4th among World’s Most Vacation- Expedia‘s “2015 Vacation Deprivation UAE-1st followed by Malaysia and Singapore

• President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita declared State of emergency in the Mali due to terrorist attack in Bamako. • Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena inaugurated the Mahatma Gandhi International Centre (MGIC)

in Matale - Indian High Commissioner Y. K. Sinha. • Conservative opposition candidate Mauricio Macri won Argentina's presidential election ending 12 years of

leftist rule. • United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) released the report titled ‘The Human Cost of

Weather Related Disasters’ 5 countries hit by the highest number of disasters US China , India, Philippines and Indonesia.

• Indo-Pak border in Jaisalmer district, Rajasthan has been lit with solar power - around Rs 6.5 crore - Solar Energy Corporation of India(SECI).

• Sri Lanka PM Ranil Wickremesinghe said that won’t allow any country to set up naval base on its territory at the 6th annual Galle Dialogue in Galle.

• Modi visit to Malaysia & Singapore 2015 PM Narendra Modi unveils Swami Vivekananda’s statue in Malaysia India & Malaysia signed 3 MoUs - Cultural Exchange Programme, Project Delivery and Monitoring and

Cyber Security. MoU signed on Performance Management Delivery Unit (PEMANDU) Assistance of $1 million to India-Students Trust Fund 13th India – ASEAN Summit,Theme – Our People, Our Community, Our Vision The 10th East Asia Summit (EAS) was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Theme – Our People, Our

Community, Our Vision visit to Singapore signed 10 agreements- defence relations, economic and cultural cooperation, skills

development, capacity building.Indian Diaspora, and expertise in urban development • India top 10 in Corporate Responsibility reporting: KPMG - Survey of Corporate Responsibility Reporting

2015. • UNICEF released a report titled "Unless We Act Now" detailing how millions of children worldwide are at risk

from climate change. • Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi declared a nationwide state of emergency-target of jihadist violence since

the 2011 revolution. • 4th meeting of the India-US Defense Technology and Trade Initiative (DTTI) held at the Pentagon - India, US

make progress on jet engine, aircraft carrier cooperation • 2015 to be the warmest year on record – World Meteorological Organization (WMO) because of climate

cycle El Nino. • Air Pollution causes millions of death in Asia – UN Report, in Air quality India was ranked 174 out of 178

countries. • China’s navy involved in anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden-its first joint drill with NATO ship. • Albania and India signed an agreement on the removal of visa requirements for diplomatic and service passport

holders. • 24th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Malta - India joins UK, Australia to help poor nations

combat climate change - $ 2.5 million. • Saudi Arabia allowed women to vote and contest in municipal elections for the first time - 979 women. • Russia imposes economic sanctions against Turkey since Turkey shot down a Russian jet. • International Monetary Fund agreed to add the Chinese yuan to its reserves basket in the biggest shake-up




BANKING & FINANCE

• RBI fixes gold bonds issue price at Rs 2,684 per gram Minimum limit : 2 grams, Maximum limit : 500 grams, interest – 2.75%.

• China’s top legislature ratified the $100 bn Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) agreement. • RBI imposes Rs 1 crore penalty on Dhanlaxmi Bank for non-adherence to KYC (know your customer) and anti-

money laundering guidelines. • RBI includes Bandhan Bank in second schedule list, eligible for loans from the central bank

Industrial Bank of Korea and Korea Exchange Bank Co Ltdhave been included in the second schedule.

• RBI granted state co-operative banks (StCBs) and district central co-operative banks (DCCBs) to bestow internet banking with “view only” facility.

• China and Pakistan have improved collaboration implement of banking service protocol through PoK - USD 46 billion Sino

• NBD partnership deal with SBI to help NRI customers to carry out their remittances • Gov is working on a detailed plan to tackle bad loans at public sector banks • World Bank approved loan to Pakistan for energy sector reform- $500 million • HDFC & YES Bank to list bonds on London Stock Exchange(LSE). • Nation’s first low-income state infrastructure equity partnership or Neev fund launched by PM Narendra Modi

in UK • Troika has been inked with Centre, Andhra Pradesh and World Bank. worth $75 million (Rs.500 crore) credit

deal for the Andhra Pradesh Rural Inclusive Growth Project “egg bowl of Asia” rural project. • Govt approves six FDI proposals worth Rs. 1,810 crore

IIFL Holdings, Agile Electric Sub Assembly, Sharekhan Ltd, SeQuent Scientific and US-based Monsoon Capital for investment Alternative Investment Trust (AIF).

• RBI has allowed RRBs to launch online transaction through internet banking - minimum Rs 100 crore networth • Asian Development Bank (ADB) finance to India-Bangladesh electricity network with $120 million loan. • Kotak Mahindra General Insurance Company (Kotak General Insurance) received approval of the Insurance

Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) to commence business as an insurance company. • Axis Bank opened a representative office in Dhaka,Bangladesh by Axis Bank group executive by P Mukherjee. • IDBI Bank become the first commercial state-owned bank to raise $350 million via selling green bonds. • Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange

Commission (BSEC) signed a MoU on bilateral cooperation and technical assistance. • Axis Bank joined hands with Tata-SIA joint venture airline Vistara to launch travel credit card. • Govt extends National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) has extended 45 days usage condition to 90

Days(RuPay Card) • Gov decided to provide slew of tax incentives including exemption from excise and custom duties on all raw

materials and parts used for making vessels. • RBI defer issue date of Sovereign Gold Bond - 8 years with exit option from 5th year to be exercised on the

interest payment dates. • Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp. Ltd (HSBC) will close its private banking business in India. • Indian banks’ overseas arms see 11.3% rise in credit – RBI based on the branches or subsidiaries of Indian

banks operating abroad and foreign banks operating in India. • RBI permitted the Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPI) to buy fully or partly defaulted bonds in the repayment of

principal on maturity. • HDFC Bank launched ‘sonic branding’ or a musical logo it will spend over Rs 30 crore to promote the new

brand positioning. • RBI granted in-principle approval to NPCI to function as the central unit for Bharat Bill Payment Systems • Union Bank of India tied up with Maharashtra for over-the-counter (OTC) collection of taxes and receipts. • Canara Bank tie up with the Navodhan Charitable Foundation in its efforts for timely detection of cancer – CSR

drive. • Union gov appointed a panel to interview candidates for the post of Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of

India. • World Bank launched a $500 million market-based scheme designed to help developing countries pay for

emission reductions and combat climate change • State Bank of Travancore (SBT) launched a ‘Housing for All (Urban): Mission 2022’ to provide affordable




housing to families belonging to the economically weaker sections/low-income groups in the urban centres - Rs. 3 lakh .

BUSINESS

• Amazon.com Inc is set to open its first physical book store in Seattle University Village. • National Collateral Management Services (NCML) signed an agreement with South Africa’s largest agri-

business company (AFGRI) to cooperate in different areas. • Nestle India ties up with Snapdeal to start Maggie sale • Gov initiated the process of 5% stake sale in Container Corporation of India (CONCOR) - Rs. 1,300 crore. • Cerebra Integrated Technologies Ltd (Cerebra) has signed an MoU with US-based Echostreams Innovative

Solutions for storage servers. • GAIL tops among PSUs in Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index(CDLI) released by Carbon Disclosure Project

(CDP). • Watch maker Titan Co and global information technology major HP joined hands to offer a range of smart

watches. • Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved 10% disinvestment in Coal India, 3rd government stake sale

- Rs.20,000 crore. • Intel India announced the launch of ‘Ek Kadam Unnati Ki Aur’ - aimed at working with the government to

create the blueprint - in Nadimpallevillage of Mahabubnagar district of Telangana. • Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs(CCEA) decided to pay a production-linked subsidy of Rs 4.50

per quintal directly to cane farmers-Rs 1,147 crore. • Tata Steel commissions first phase of Kalinganagar plant in Odisha - largest single-location greenfield steel

project- 1,00,000 crore. • Dumping duty imposed on carbon black imports from China($ 397.10 per tonne), Russia($ 36.17 per tonne) for

5 years. • Airports Authority of India (AAI) signed MoU with infrastructure giant IL&FS Global Financial Services to

help it spread its wings overseas. • FMCG firm Emami has roped in Bollywood actress Parineeti Chopra to endorse its new skincare product. • Global marketing research firm Nielsen launched India's first digital advertisement measurement system to find

out the return on investment. • Tata Sons Chairman Emeritus Ratan Tata invested an undisclosed amount in Singapore-based big data company

Crayon Data. • Competition Commission of India(CCI) slapped penalties totalling Rs. 258 crore on Jet Airways,

IndiGo and SpiceJet for cartelization in fixing fuel surcharge for transporting cargo. • Australian High Commissioner, Patrick Suckling entered the Australia-India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement

into force.

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

• All India Radio (AIR)’s programme on child labour bagged the first prize at the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) Prizes 2015.

• Famous film, television and stage actor Vikram Gokhale (67) felicitated with the prestigious Vishnudas Bhave Award.

• Priyamanasam the third Sanskrit feature film-India selected to open at the 46th edition of the 10-day International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa.

• Bhilai Steel Plant and Rallis India were awarded the 21st CII-EXIM Bank award for Business Excellence for 2015.

• Santoor maestro Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma honoured with the Aditya Vikram Birla Kala Shikhar Award for lifetime achievement.

• A puncture-proof tyre technology invented by Sameer Panda from Odisha state bag Nasa award for finding solution to tyre bursts.

• Indian Origin community campaigner Muna Chauhan in the UK bestowed with ‘Point of Light’ by British PM David Cameron.

• American GLAMOUR’s Women of the Year awards conferred Reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner with Transgender Champion award.




• Manipal University won two prestigious FICCI Higher Education Awards 2015 at the Indo – Africa summit in New Delhi.

• 2015 International Children’s Peace Prize conferred on Abraham M. Keita from Liberia • Shri Pranab Mukherjee presented the National Child Awards for Exceptional Achievement 2015

Rajiv Gandhi Manav Seva Award: Moji Jini(AP), Smt Vaijayanti M. Chougala(Karanataka) and Santhosh. G. Thomas(Thiruvananthapuram)

• 5 Indian tech startups bestowed by 3rd edition of the Next Big Idea Contest. Lightmetrics Technologies Private Limited, Packal, Neuron and Swift File Transfer and Survelytics.

• United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) conferred Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Shri Kiren Rijiju with Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Champion for the Asia Region.

• Syria based journalist Zaina Erhaim awarded with Reporters without Borders Prize in France for her defence of press freedom.

• President Pranab Mukherjee presented the Indira Gandhi National Service Scheme Awards for the year 2014-15 to individuals, universities and volunteers.

2015 Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace conferred on UNHCR • Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami won Denmark’s top literary award the Hans Christian Andersen Prize. • Tennis champion Ashok Amritraj awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of East London. • Uttar Pradesh entered into the Guinness Book of World Records for planting the most number of saplings in one

day. • The film “The Assassin” by the veteran Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien clinched five awards, at

the 52nd Golden Horse Awards. • 43rd Annual American Music Award in Los Angeles - Swift emerged as the winner by bagging 3 top prizes—

song of the year for “Blank Space”. • 8th edition of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards was held in New Delhi - 29 winners from

2013 and 27 from 2014. • Noted Marathi actor Prashant Damle conferred with Master Dinanath Mangeshkar Award for his outstanding

contribution in the field of theatre, film and music. • Noted scholar and “Maha Sahasravadhani” Garikapati Narasimha Rao chosen for the 12th Lok Nayak

Foundation Award. • Rohini Mohan journalist with The Economic Times bagged the Shakti Bhatt First Book prize 2015 for her book

‘ The Seasons of Trouble’. • Eminent physicist and Padma Bhushan awardee Trilochan Pradhan conferred with the “Kalinga Samman 2014”

for popularising science . • Indian-origin South African freedom fighter Ahmed Kathrada awarded the Freedom of the City of Cape Town. • Marathi film “Katyar Kaljat Ghusali” and Bengali film “Cinemawala” are among the 12 films shortlisted for

prestigious 2015 UNESCO Fellini Medal. • President Pranab Mukherjee presented President’s Standard to two Indian Air Force (IAF) squadrons based in

Hasimara, West Bengal. • Power Pavilion of Ministry of Power won Gold Award at the India International Trade fair (IITF) -2015. • Indian-origin author Priya Parmar’s historical novel “Vanessa and Her Sister” included in the New York Times’

100 Notable Books of 2015. • CVRDE scientist V Balaguru bags DRDO's Scientist of the Year Award 2013 by Defence Minister Manohar

Parrikar.

APPOINTMENTS

• Housing.com appoints Nikhil Rungta as chief marketing officer(CMO). • Bhushan Kumar Bansal appointed as the sixth member of the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC). • Air Marshal Virender Mohan Khanna take the responsibilities of Air Officer-in-charge Maintenance (AOM). • RBI appointed Deepak Singhal as the Executive Director - replaced K K Vohra . • Captain Krishna Swaminathan take charge as the Second Commanding officer of INS Vikramaditya

succeeding Captain Suraj Berry. • Federal Bank appointed Shalini Warrier as Chief Operating Officer(COO). • Anil Kumar Jha takes over as Chairman-cum-Managing Director of Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd. • Indian Premier League(IPL) Chief Operating Officer (COO) Sundar Raman has resigned from his position. • Manpreet Vohra appointed as India’s Ambassador to strategically important Afghanistan, succeeding Amar




Sinha. • Tata Motors has roped in soccer superstar Lionel Messi as global brand ambassador. • Justice Tirath Singh Thakur will take over as successor of Chief Justice of India H L Dattu. • Suresh N Patel appointed as managing director Hyderabad based Andhra Bank . • R K Takkar appointed as head of the Kolkata-based UCO Ban. • J K Garg has been named as the MD of Corporation Bank. • Mahesh Kumar Jain has been elevated as the MD and CEO of Indian Bank • Repco Home Finance approves reappointment of MD R Varadarajan. • Flipkart named Google executive Chatterjee Sr Vice President • Ravikumar Sreedharan appointed as MD of Unisys Corporation India • Maldives Parliament arrested the country’s vice president Ahmed Adeeb Abdul Ghafoor over his involvement

in a blast on a speedboat carrying the country’s president. • Justin Trudeau sworn in as 23rd Prime Minister of Canada • Tamil Nadu Uniformed Services Recruitment Board (TNUSRB) is to hire the country’s first transgender police

officer - Prithika Yashini • Navtej Singh Sarna an Indian Foreign Service officer will be India’s next high commissioner to UK. • Romania’s Prime Minister Victor Ponta resigned after being charged for forgery, tax evasion, and money

laundering as part of a far-reaching anti-corruption • Oxford University Press (OUP) India has appointed V Sivaramakrishnan as the Managing Director including

the responsibilities including Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal succeeding RanjanKaul. • Zubin Karkaria appointed global chief executive officer of travel and visa services company Kuoni. • Drug maker Cipla appointed Naina Lal Kidwai as an independent director on its board. • N Srinivasan was dethroned as ICC Chairman- President Shashank Manohar • Iran appoints first Woman Ambassador Marzieh Afkham since the 1979 Islamic revolution • Indian-American Ashok Mago appointed as a member of Board of Regents of the University of North Texas in

the US by Texas Governor Greg Abbott. • RBI Governor Dr. Raghuram Rajan appointed as Vice Chairman on BIS(Bank for International Settlements)

Board. • Chief Justice of Delhi High Court Ajit Prakash Shah designated as the ethics officer (ombudsman) at Board of

Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). • Jayant Krishna appointed as interim CEO of National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). • Italian diplomat Filippo Grandi designated as the new UN refugee chief. • Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL) appointed I S Jha as its Chairman and Managing Director. • Former RBI Deputy Governor Subir Gokarn appointed as an Executive Director on the board of

the International Monetary Fund (IMF). • Gov appointed Singapore-based lawyer Christopher Thomas as its arbitrator for resolving the Rs 10,247 crore

tax dispute with London-listed Cairn Energy. • Deutsche Bank appointed James McMurdo a former Goldman Sachs executive as its head of corporate

and investment banking for the Asia Pacific region.

• Indian-origin barrister Kalyani Kaul sworn-in as Circuit Judge in the UK • Actor Satish Shah, film critic Bhawana Somaaya and TV producer Bijendra Pal Singh of “CID” fame to the

FTII society as members of Film and Television Institute of India Society. • Vinay Nambiar appointed SpiceJet’s UAE country head • Nokia appointed Sandeep Girotra Head of India(planned combination of Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent) • India’s largest alcoholic beverages company United Spirits has appointed Sanjeev Churiwala as its chief

financial officer. • Former high-profile spokesperson of the External Affairs Ministry Syed Akbaruddin appointed as India’s

Permanent Representative to the UN, succeedor of Asoke Mukerji. • ICICI Bank's head of corporate banking division Zarine Daruwala quit the Mumbai based lender to join UK

base Standard Chartered as its India CEO. • Professor Hrushikesh Senapaty joined as director of National Council of Educational Research and

Training (NCERT). • Former Indian Premier League(IPL) Chief Operating Officer Sundar Raman will join the Reliance Industries

Limited (RIL) as its Chief Operating Officer. • President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee appointed Justice Tirath Singh Thakur as 43rd Chief Justice of India –




Supreme Court , succeedor of H.L. Dattu. • Prithvi Raj Singh of Jal Bhagirathi Foundation elected to Board of Governors of World Water Council (WWC). • Senior diplomat Vijay Keshav Gokhale appointed as the Ambassador to China to replace Ashok Kantha. • Volleyball Federation of India(VFI) President Chaudhary Avadhesh Kumar elected as Executive Vice-President

of Asian Volleyball Confederation. • First time, Indian-born American citizen Swati Dandekar nominated as Executive Director to Asian

Development Bank US President Barack Obama • Former teacher Kassim Majaliwa Sworn in as Tanzania’s new president, succeedor of Mizengo Pinda. • Padma Bhushan awardee Yusuf Hamied as one of the members of a high-level panel on health technology

innovation by UN chief Ban Ki-moon • Harshavardhan Neotia Chairman of Ambuja Neotia group has been elected as president of industry body FICCI,

succeedor of Jyotsna Suri. • DTH service provider Dish TV appointed Arun Kumar Kapoor as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO). • Nitish Kumar sworn in as Bihar Chief Minister for a fifth time. • Drug firm Strides Shasun Ltd has appointed S Abhaya Kumar as the Executive Director of the company. • Support services company Sodexo appointed Rishi Gour as country president of India. • Michael Keating appointed as Special Representative for Somalia and Head of the United Nations Assistance

Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) announced by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. • Justice M R Calla, retired judge of the Rajasthan and Gujarat high courts appointed as the President of

Association of Retired Judges of Supreme Court and High Courts of India. • Former long jump champion Anju Bobby George designated as the chairperson of Target Olympic Podium

Scheme (TOPS). • Indian-origin Antonio Costa sworn in as the new prime minister of Portugal. • SREI Infrastructure Finance vice-chairman Sunil Kanoria assumed charge as president of industry body

Assocham. • App Ola appointed Infosys veteran Rajiv Bansal as its chief financial officer. • International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) president Sebastian Coe quit his role as a brand

ambassador for Nike. • Aishath Bisam appointed as first woman Prosecutor General of Maldives. • India’s ODI cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni bagged his first endorsement deal outside the country -

brand ambassador of Dubai-based company Grand Midwest Group. • Shri Pankaj Saran,currently High Commissioner of lndia to Bangladesh appointed as the next Ambassador of

lndia to the Russian Federation. • Sushil Kumar Singhal presently Ambassador of India to Republic of Angola,concurrently accredited as the

Ambassador of India to the Republic of Equatorial Guinea. • Anil Wadhwa, currently secretary (east) in the External Affairs Ministry named India’s new ambassador to

Italy, succeedor of Basant K Gupta. • First lady Patricia Janet Scotland was elected as the 6thSecretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations,

succeedor of Kamalesh Sharma • Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) Chairman Yellapragada Sudershan Rao resigned • Harsh Vardhan Shringla currently Ambassador of lndia to Thailand appointed as the next High Commissioner of

lndia to the Republic of Bangladesh. • Hinduja Global Solutions Ltd (HGS) roped Asia’s No. 2 golfer Anirban Lahiri as its brand ambassador. • Som Subroto (55), an Indian banker appointed as head of Dubai-based Mashreq's retail banking group,

succeedor of Farhad Irani. • Syed Ali Shah Geelani was elected as life-time chairman of the Hurriyat faction. • Anil Khanna, re-elected vice-president of the world tennis body ITF, was re-elected as the Asian Tennis

Federation (ATF). • Lt Gen Ashok Ambre took over as the new chief of Army's 9 Corps (Rising Star Corps). • Mahesh Gupta appointed as PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PHDCCI) President. He succeeds Alok

Shriram. • Indian banker Som Subroto has been appointed as head of Dubai-based Mashreq's retail banking group.




ACQUISITION AND MERGERS

• Anil Ambani-led Reliance Communications Ltd (R-Com) is merging with telecom business of MTS brand - worth Rs.4,500 crore.

• Boeing, Tata Group announce aerospace JV in India to manufacture aero structures • Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) through its subsidiary Adani Kattupalli Port acquired

the Kattupalli Port in Tamil Nadu from L&T. • Google acquired New York based Fly Labs responsible for apps like Flt, Tempo, Crop, and Clips in the iOS

App Store. • Naresh Goyal-promoted Jet Airways acquire 75 fuel-efficient 737 MAX 8 aircraft from US plane maker

Boeing - $110 million each. • Alibaba Group Holding Ltd acquired China’s Youtubr Youku Tudou Inc for about $3.67 billion. • Indiabulls Housing Finance to acquire 39.76 per cent stake in the UKs OakNorth Bank for USD 100 million. • Online taxi-booking company Ola has acquired Geotagg-Rs 120-150 crore. • Talwalkars Better Value Fitness Ltd (TBVF) entered into an agreement to acquire strategic stake 51% in

Inshape Health and Fitnez Private Ltd (IHPL) • Agrochemical major UPL Ltd announced merger of the group's seed firm Advanta to provide all agri-solutions

- 48.44 per cent - 181.83 million • Portea Medical,home healthcare company acquired speciality pharmaceutical distributor MedybizPharma. • Apollo Tyres acquired German tyre distribution major Reifencom GmbH for 45.6 million euros (around Rs 301

crore). • American hotel chain Marriott International acquire rival hotel company Starwood Hotels & Resorts at $12.2

billion. • US drugs giant Pfizer Inc signed a deal to buy Ireland based Allergan for $ 160 bn. • Payment gateway services platform NumberMall acquires Delhi-based BankSmarts Solutions

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

• Supersonic cruise missile BrahMos with a strike-range of over 290 kms test-fired from Indian Navy’s newest ship INS Kochi.

• Environment Ministry Launches New Website on National Clean Development Mechanism Authority - http://www.ncdmaindia.gov.in

• 15th vessel in the series of 20 Fast Patrol Vessel, ICGS Arinjay delivered by the Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) to the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) at Okha, Gujarat.

• Civil communications satellite ChinaSat 2C launched by China - driven by the Long March-3B(China) carrier rocket.

• Australian scientists identified a critical molecular ‘feedback loop‘ to target neuroblastoma cancer – Drug CBL01371

• Army successfully test fired the 300-km-range Brahmos supersonic land attack cruise missile at Pokhran test range in Rajasthan.

• Google is working with the government on a pilot project for providing internet connectivity by using large balloons.

• Ballistic missile Agni-IV test-fired as part of user trial with strike range of 4,000 km from a test complex off Odisha coast - Dr A P J Abdul Kalam(Wheeler) Island launch complex.

• Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar inaugurate the 2 initiative system for Indian army. A highly encrypted Cloud system of the Indian Army and Digital Army

• CISF launched a new mobile application ‘m-Power‘ was launched by CISF Director General Surender Singh • A team at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) discovered an extremely rare galaxy J021659-

044920 of gigantic size by using the world’s largest radio telescope operating at low frequencies. • GSAT 15, Nation’s latest communications satellite instigated successfully by the European Ariane 5 VA-227

launch Vehicle from the spaceport of Kourou in French Guiana in South America. • Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar commissioned the Coast Guard’s latest and largest offshore patrol vessel,

Samarth at Vasco Da Gama, Goa. • Asia’s largest red light districts Sonagachi in Kolkata roll out AIDS preventive medicine from Dec in

Sonagachi - Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis.




• Oldest known stars discovered at the heart of Milky Way - SMSS J181609.62 -333218.7 • SBI to launch mobile wallet ”Batua” for feature phone users to existing as well as non-SBI customers. • Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Shri Prakash Javadekar has launched a new

website in Pune on Climate Change - www.justclimateaction.org • EkStep launched by Nandan and Rohini Nilekani to address learning challenges in the primary education space,

first app Annual Status of Education Report(ASER) • Ola launched its mobile wallet Ola Money for mobile recharges, transfers • SIC Global launches Stockal, India’s first mobile-based platform for global investments - platform ‘Stockal’. • Defence Minister Shri Manohar Parrikar dedicated the Boeing P 8 I (Poseidon Eight India) Long Range

Maritime Patrol aircraft to the nation. • Greenpeace India, an environmental NGO has recently launched an app Clean Air Nation App: Alert! Against

deadly air • Navy Chief Admiral R K Dhowan commissioned the former Shipwright School (SWC) and premier training

establishment of the Indian Navy as INS Vishwakarma at the Eastern Naval Command (ENC) in Visakhapatnam.

• Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das introduced ‘Mobile Governance’ as the state marked its statehood day. • Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated “e-lala” an e-commerce portal of Confederation

of All India Traders (CAIT). • Growing flowers first in 'Veggie growth system' will provide knowledge on cultivating plants in space - Veggie

growth system. • 46th edition of the Biannual Top500 list of supercomputers crowned the China’s Tianhe-2 supercomputer. • Russia successfully launched the first satellite EKS Kosmos-2510 for its newest early warning system EKS at

the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, located in Northern Russia • Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting launches International Film Festival India (IFFI) 2015 official

Mobile App in Panaji. • Alphabet revamped Google+ online social network focused on people’s interests and tuned for smartphones or

tablets. • China is conducted tests on its largest and most powerful rocket the Long March 5 at the Wenchang Satellite

Launch Centre by Liu Tongjie . • Gov to set up separate portal to support innovative products Under Department of Electronics and IT (DeitY) by

Communications and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. • An indigenously-developed Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) of the Indian Army crashed

near Pokhran in Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan. • Income Tax Department is developing a mobile app for taxpayers to help them file their returns, online tax-

filing company, ClearTax.in • India test-fired supersonic interceptor missilecapable of destroying any incoming ballistic missile from a test

range off Odisha coast. • Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) collaboration with Intel launched a new Centre of Excellence (CoE)

for Internet of Things (IoT) in Hyderabad. • New app eSeniorCare aimed at enhancing the physical health, vitality and brain fitness of older people . • India successfully test fired Dhanush missile - one of its nuclear-capable ballistic missiles from a naval ship off

the coast of Odisha. • Japan successfully launches its first commercial satellite H-IIA from Tanegashima Space Center in southwest

Japan. • India successfully test-fired it’s indigenously developed nuclear capable Prithvi-II missile, strike range of 350

km from launch complex-3 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur. • Ministrer of External Affairs (MEA) Smt. Sushma Swaraj launched the “Bharat Ko Janiye” an online quiz

program for the Indian Diaspora. • India successfully test-fired the indigenously built nuclear-capable Agni-I missile from the Abdul Kalam Island

off the Odisha. • China successfully launched a remote sensing satellite Yaogan – 29 was carried by a Long March – 4C rocket ,

focus on experiments on survey of land, crop yields and disaster relief. • India-Israel co-developed LRSAM(Long Range Surface-to-Air Missile) aka Barak 8 missile was successfully

flight-tested for the first time from an Israeli Naval Platform. • Public Works Department (PWD) of AAP gov launched “PWD Swachch Delhi” app for keeping its 1260 km of

roads, street lights, schools, hospitals and housing societies.


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• Indian Coast Guard (ICG) commissioned an interceptor boat at the Karaikal port to enhance its shallow water by Speaker of the Puducherry Assembly Sabapathy

ENVIRONMENT

• Tropical Cyclone Chapala slammed into Yemen and causing heavy flooding and damage in coastal region of the war afflicted country.

• Cyclone Megh slammed on Yemen’s Socotra island the second rare tropical storm to hit the Arabian Peninsula country.

• First exclusive hospital for elephants established in Assam at the Kaziranga National Park. • Magnitude 7.0 quake hits off southern coast of Japan – USGS • New species of duck-billed dinosaur in US that roamed the Earth about 79 million years ago by a professor

at Montana State University . • Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) identified 778 new species of fauna in the last five years announced by former

director of the organization K Venkataraman. • The famous Dudhwa National Park (DNP), situated at Indo-Nepal border, opened with hundreds of tourists

from across the country witnessing jungle safari. • American engineers developed a new material that could transform seawater into drinking water by filtering

through extremely small holes called nanopores. • Five new species of wasps have been discovered in parts of India by researchers Veenakumari Kamalanathan,

Prashanth Mohanraj and F.R. Khan - adikeshavus. • A 1,111 carat high quality diamond discovered at a mine in Botswana • A new species of tree frog Ghatixalus magnus was discovered and another species of bush frog was

rediscovered in the Western Ghats. • China joint venture with Korea to build the world's largest animal cloning factory in Tianjing China is set to

save thousands of animals from extinction - 31.3 million dollar . • US scientists found a new way to resist malaria- they have bred a genetically modified (GM) mosquito that can

resist malaria infection - gene editing method called Crispr • India emits only 3.96% of global carbon dioxide emission – Mospi report

SPORTS

• Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis sealed the Year-End WTA No. 1 doubles ranking by Dubai Duty Free. • New Zealand won the third Rugby World Cup after beating Australia, 2019 – Japan. • 16th national women boxing championship in Assam

Nikhat Zareen defeated Vanlal Duati from Mizoram to won Gold Medal • Nico Erik Rosberg from Germany won the 2015 Mexican Gand Prix title of Formula One (F1) in Mexico City. • Roger Federer won 2015 Swiss Indoors Basel Title of Tennis in Switzerland - 7th Title. • 69th senior National Aquatic Championships at Rajkot

Mana Patel of Gujarat and Maharashtra’s Virdhawal Khadeemerged as the best swimmers in Women’s category and men’s category.

Overall Team Championship in Swimming State Point Karnataka 233 points(28 medals) Maharashtra 232 points Railways 188 points

Overall Team Championship in Diving Services 32 points Railways 32 points

• Kuwait’s gov decided to terminate its agreement with the Olympic Council of Asia. • Gurpreet Singh Sandhu created history by becoming the first Indian footballer to play for a first

division European club. • Indian Boxer Shiva Thapa(3rd Indian) attained No.2 spot in World Rankings(56Kg)

6th – Vikas(75kg), 7th- Satish Kumar(+91kg boxers), 13th - L Devendro Singh(49kg) 18th - Sumit




Sangwan (81kg), 37th-Gaurav Bidhuri (52kg) and 58th -Mandeep Jangra(69kg) • Michelle Payne,first female rider won the A$6.2 million ($4.44 million) Melbourne Cup in Australia.

First - Michelle Payne, Second - French horse Max Dynamite, Third - New Zealand horse Criterion. • Former captain of Pakistan cricket team Shoaib Malik(33) announced his Test retirement from Test Cricket

after the 3 day’s play of the third Test against England in Sharjah. • 2015 Paragliding World Cup at Billing launch site in Bir.

Julien Wirtz-1st , Vidic Jurij of Slovenia-2nd and Torsten Siegel of Germany-3rd • Ace shooter Jitu Rai won India’s first senior medal at the 13th Asian Shooting Championship in Kuwait.

10m air rifle junior men’s event Gold Xuechao Qian of China Silver Akhil Sheoran of India Bronze Prashant of India Team silver Akhil, Prashant and Pratik Borse of India Team bronze Satyajeet Kandhol, Gajendra Rai and Babu Mithiliesh of India

Junior Women’s 50m Rifle Prone Event Gold Fatemeh Karamzadeh of Iran Silver N Gayathri of India Bronze Najmeh Khidmati of Iran Team Silver Gayathri, Srinithi Venkatesh and Sonika

• Ravichandran Ashwin became the fastest Indian bowler to reach 150 Test wicket(100th on Indian soil). • Deepika Kumari and Jayanta Talukdar clinched the bronze in the Recurve Mixed team after beating Chian 5-3

at the Asian Archery Championships in Bangkok, Thailand • Vidarbha opener Wasim Jaffer became the first cricketer in Ranji Trophy history to notch up 10000 runs on

day two of their Group A match against Bengal at the Jadavpur University. • WWE LIVE will hold two live events in New Delhi at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium on January 15 and 16.

• 25th All India G V Mavalankar Shooting Championship Team Medals Army shooters 10 gold, 8 silver and 9 bronze medals National Cadet Corps (NCC) 8 gold, 10 silver and 6 bronze medals Haryana 6gold, 7 silver and 5 bronze medals.

• BCCI announces monetary benefits for former players

Cricketers who retired before December 31, 1993 and have played more than 25 matches will get Rs. 50,000 per month.

• 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup – 1st Nigeria, 2nd – Mali, 3rd – Belgium, 4th – Mexico. • 13th Asian Shooting Championship - HeenaSidhu clinched gold medal in the 10m air pistol women’s event in

Kuwait. Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1. South Korea 16 17 13 46 2. India 14 9 9 32 3. China 13 10 9 32

• World football governing body FIFA give the rights to India to host U-17 World Cup hosting rights. • Indian Railways won 32nd edition of Indian Oil Surjit Hockey tournament for the first time at Olympian Surjit

Hockey Stadium in Jalandhar (Punjab). • Latest ODI rankings

1-Australia, 2 – India, 3-South Africa,4- New Zealand, 5-Sri Lanka,6-England, 7-Bangladesh and 8-Pakistan.

• The Board of Control for Cricket in India excluded Barabati stadium in Cuttack from the list of newly declared Test venues.

• Pakistan’s veteran batsman Younis Khan (37) announced his retirement from one-day international cricket after match with England.

• India beat Guam by a solitary goal in 2018 World Cup qualifiers and qualify for the 2019 Asian Cup. • Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports Affairs plans to reconstitute the TOP Identification Committee with senior

sportspersons of repute – 12 disciplines. • Indian ace shuttler Saina Nehwal won her women’s singlesafter defeated Olympic champion Li Xuerui in the




final of China Open Super Series Premier at the Haixia Olympic Sports Center. • Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc bowled at a speed of 160.4 kmph and delivered one of the fastest

deliveries in International cricket – added to 160 club Members : • Manipur to get exclusive Sports University announced by the Union Minister of State • Nico Rosberg beat Lewis Hamilton to win the Brazilian Grand Prix, Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel-third position. • ATP World Tour Finals 2015 in London

Singles : Serbia’s Novak Djokovic defeated Switzerland’s Roger Federer . Doubles : Netherland’s Jean-Julien Rojer and Romania’s Horia Tecau defeated India’s Rohan

Bopanna and Romania’s Florin Mergea. • India won 8th Junior Men's Asia Cup hockey after defeating Pakistan in Malaysia. • State run power generation company NTPC was named as the official partner for the Hockey World

League(HWL) Final to be held in Raipur. • 2015 BWF world junior championship in Lima, Peru

List of winners in different categories Category Winner Country Boys’ Singles Lu Chia-hung Chinese Taipei Girls’ Singles Goh Jin Wei Malaysia Boys’ doubles He Jiting and Zheng Siwei China Girls’ doubles Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan China

• Australia fast bowler Mitchell Johnson retires from international cricket • FIFA banned Nepal's football chief Ganesh Thapa for 10 years and the president of the Laos federation for two

years for bribery. • IAAF provisionally suspended Russia from World Track and Field Events according to the World Anti-Doping

Agency commission report. • Czech Republic(4th) defended their Fed Cup title victory over Russia • India finished at 3rd position with 11 medals including 3 gold, 3 silver and 5 bronze in the Track Asia Cup

cycling tournament at the IGI Sports Complex, New Delhi Korea – 1st ,Uzbekistan – 2nd

• Srishti Pandey clinched the second Indiana All India FIDE Rating Chess tournament at Dr Hedgewar Smarak Samiti Hall, Reshimbagh, Nagpur.

• Aditi Chauhan become the first Indian woman to won Women in Football Award at the third Asian Football Awards in London.

• Wicketkeeper Jos Buttler has smashed his own record for all of England’s quickest ODI hundreds with a record breaking century which led to 84-run win over Pakistan in a final one-day international held in Dubai.

• Pankaj Advani won IBSF World Snooker Championship for record 15 times after battling his Chinese opponent Zhua Xintong at Hurghada in Egypt.

• Roger Van Gent appointed as strategic coach for the Indian mens team for the Hockey World League Finals next years Rio Olympics by the Hockey India.

• International Tennis Federation (ITF sign up one of the world’s top online betting companies to sponsor its flagship Davis Cup and Fed Cup events.

• IAAF named American decathlete Ashton Eaton and Ethiopian middle-distance runner Genzebe Dibaba as World Athletes of the Year.

• Australia and New Zealand have created history by playing first day-night Test match at the Adelaide Oval Cricket Stadium with a pink Kookaburra ball.

• ICC appointed four female umpires for ICC Women’s World Twenty20 Qualifier New Zealander Kathleen, Australia’s Claire Polosak, England’s Sue Redfern and West Indies’

Jacqueline Williams • PV Sindhu won women’s singles title at the $120,000 Macau Open Grand Prix Gold after defeating Japan’s

Minatsu Mitani. • Tyson Fury clinched third World heavyweight champion titles after beating Wladimir Klitschko in 12 rounds of

boxing at the Esprit-Arena. • Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (BBIN) Friendship Motor Car Rally(19days) was flagged off

from Silchar, Assam.. • India defeated Bangladesh to win Under-19 Tri-Series cricket title by 7 wickets. • German Formula 1 driver Nico Rosberg(14th championship title of F1and 6th title in 2015) won for the




Mercedes team the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix or Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Yas Island • Birhanu Legese from Ethiopia and Cynthia Limo from Kenya have won the 2015 Delhi Half Marathon in men’s

and women’s categories. • Great Britain won the Davis Cup for the first time in 79 years since the Davis Cup World Group started in 1981

in Ghent- Team Czech Republic. • West Indies off spinner Sunil Narine was suspended from international cricket by the International Cricket

Council(ICC)

OBITUARY

• Professor and renowned archaeologist Virendra Nath Misra passed away • Hero MotoCorp patriarch and Doyen of Indian two-wheeler industry Brijmohan Lall Munjal passes away • CPM veteran and Former West Bengal Assembly Speaker Hashim Abdul Halim passed away. • American actor Al Molinaro best known for playing for the TV series “Happy Days” passed away. • Academy Award-winning British actor and screen writer Colin Welland passed away. • Former Janata Dal MLA Gurcharan Chabbra on hunger-strike passes away • Former England captain and MCC president Tom Graveney passed away. • Former Indian Ambassador to Nepal Bimal Prasad passes away • French intellectual Rene Girard and the new Darwin passed away. • Air Chief Marshal and former Chief of Air Staff Om PrakashMehra passed away • Former General Manager of United News of India(UNI) Virender Mohan(75) passed away • Former general secretary of Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) Choudhry Harpal Singh passed away. • Former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt who guided West Germany through economic turbulence and Cold War

tension in the 1970s and early 1980s passed away. • American musician Allen Toussaint known for songs l “Working In The Coalmine” and “Southern Nights”

passed away. • Actor Warren Mitchell passed away. • Noted Children’s Book Writer Kamala Laxman, wife of iconic cartoonist and creator of the Common Man R.K.

Laxman passes away . • Noted Tamil devotional singer Pithukuli Murugadas passed away. • Former chief of the country’s external intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) K. Shankaran

Nair passed away. • Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Ashok Singhal passed away. • Eminent neurosurgeon and secretary general of Indian Red Cross Society Satya Paul Agarwal passed away. • Former All Blacks player Jonah Lomu who revolutionised wing play to become rugby union’s first global

superstar passed away • Eminent bureaucrat and former Gujarat Governor RK Trivedi passed away • Senior Tata Football Academy coach and former international footballer P Vijay Kumar passed away. • Former South Korean President Kim Young-sam who ended decades of military rule passed away. • Noted labour economist Dr. T.S. Papola passed away • Long standing football administrator TR Govindrajan passed away. • Famous Hindi Writer, columnist and journalist Mahip Singh passed away. • Noted litterateur and former chairman of Rajasthan Brijbhasha Academy,Professor Surendra Upadhyay passed

away. • An active social worker Khekiho Zhimomi(69) a Rajya Sabha member of Nagaland People’s Front passed

away. • Nepal’s noted Indian-origin businessman Banwari Lal Mittal passed away • Longtime soap opera actor David Canary, best known for his role as twin brothers on “All My Children” passed

away. • Australian football icon Joe Marston who was the first Australian to play in an FA Cup final passed away.




BOOKS & AUTHORS

• ‘Interlinking of Indian Rivers’ authored by Radha Kant Bharati • From Fishing Hamlet to Red Planet, Editor of the book is P V Manoranjan Rao

released by ISRO to commemorate second anniversary of Mars Orbiter Spacecraft launched. • The President of India and the Governance of Higher Education Institutions’ authored by C Raj Kumar (O.P.

Jindal Global University) • ‘Rebooting India: Realising a billion aspirations’ authored by Nandan Nilekani and Viral Shah. • ‘What Happened to Netaji?’ authored by former journalist AnujDhar • Prem aur Shanti ka Marg authored by Dadi Janaki • I know How to Live, I know How to Die authored by Mr. Neville Hodgkinson and • Dadi Janaki : A Century of Service authored by Ms. Liz Hodgkinson

IMPORTANT DAYS

Nov 2, 2015 : International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists Nov 6, 2015 : International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict,

National Legal Services Day Nov 10, 2015 : World Science Day for Peace and Development Nov 11, 2015 : National education day Nov 12, 2015 : Public Service Broadcasting Day, World Pneumonia Day Nov 13, 2015 : World Kindness Day Nov 14, 2015 : World Diabetes Day, Children’s Day – Bal Divas Nov 15, 2015 : World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims Nov 16, 2015 : International Day for Tolerance, National Press Day Nov 19, 2015 : World Toilet Day. Nov 20, 2015 : Universal Children's Day, world philosophy day Nov 21, 2015 : World television day Nov 25, 2015 : International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women Nov 26, 2015 : First National Constitution Day, National Milk Day Nov 29, 2015 : International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

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