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Today Current Affairs For Competitive Exams - Current Affairs 14th November 2021
Today Current Affairs For Competitive Exams - Current Affairs 14th November 2021
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and Industry Piyush Goyal on14 Nov'21 in Watanabe re-elected as International Gymnastics
New Delhi. Federation President
The Fair focuses on the theme "Aatmanirbhar
Bharat". Morinari Watanabe has been re-elected to a
Bihar is the Partner State, while Uttar Pradesh new three-year term as President of the
and Jharkhand are the Focus States. International Gymnastics Federation (FIG).
Overseas participation is from Afghanistan, Watanabe was first elected FIG President in
Bangladesh, Bahrain, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Sri 2016 for a four-year term.
Lanka, UAE, Tunisia, and Turkey. That was extended by one year when the
coronavirus pandemic caused the Tokyo
Indian Air Force contingent participates in Dubai Air Olympics to be postponed.
Show His new term is three years so the next
elections coincide with the 2024 Olympics in
An aircraft contingent of the Indian Air Force
Paris.
(IAF), including its Sarang and Suryakiran
aerobatics team, is participating in the Dubai Akshay Karnewar becomes first bowler to concede
Air Show. zero runs
It is being held from November 14 to
November 18, 2021. Akshay Karnewar has become the first bowler
The IAF has been invited by the UAE in men's T20 cricket to concede zero runs
government to perform along with some of the from his full quota of overs.
best aerobatics and display teams in the He achieved this feat of bowling four maiden
world, including the Russian Knights, and the overs during the Round 4 Plate match against
UAE’s Al Fursan. Manipur in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy
2021-22 at the ACA Stadium in Vijaywada.
Punjab:1st to have the facility of tissue culture- Karnewar finished with impressive figures of
based certification four overs, four maidens, and two wickets (4-
4-0-2).
The Punjab Cabinet has approved the ‘Punjab
Tissue Culture Based Seed Potato Rules- CBSE launches Veer Gatha project in schools
2021’ to develop Punjab as a standard potato
seed centre. The Central Board of Secondary Education
It has become the first state in India to have (CBSE) has launched the ‘Veer Gatha
the facility of tissue culture-based certification. Project’ for students from grades 3-12.
The Cabinet also approved to introduce the It has been launched in order to
‘Punjab Horticulture Nursery Bill-2021’ in commemorate the valiance and courage of
Vidhan Sabha Session by amending ‘Punjab the armed force officers and personnel.
Fruit Nursery Act-1961’. As part of the project, the students can frame
different projects on gallantry award winners
Author Bhaskar Chattopadhyay comes up with new and the best project will be awarded by the
book on Satyajit Ray Ministry of Defence.
Author Bhaskar Chattopadhyay has come up Hardeep Singh Puri unveils statue of Rani Lakshmi
with a new book titled “The Cinema of Satyajit Bai
Ray”, published by Westland.
A new book on the works of legendary Union Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs
filmmaker Satyajit Ray revisits each one of his and Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep
39 feature films, shorts and documentaries to Singh Puri unveiled the statue of Rani
investigate their cinematic and social context. Lakshmi Bai at the Maharani Lakshmi Bai
college for Women, Bhiwani Rohilla in Hisar
It claims to be an encyclopaedic coverage of
(Haryana), on 11 Nov'21.
Ray’s cinema.
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He also dedicated the Commerce Block of the My11Circle, the fantasy cricket platform of
college in the name of the great educationist, Games24x7 has announced cricketer
teacher, and founding father of the college, Mohammed Siraj as its new brand
Ashok Mittal. ambassador.
Siraj plays for the Indian team and represents
RBI removes restrictions on Diners Club
Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL.
International
Siraj joins a group of other brand
The Reserve Bank of India has removed ambassadors of My11Circle including, Saurav
restrictions, with immediate effect, imposed Ganguly, Ajinkya Rahane, batsman VVS
on Diners Club International regarding Laxman and actor Ranveer Singh.
onboarding of fresh domestic customers onto
Vietnam re-elected to UN International Law
its card network.
Commission
In April 2021, the RBI had imposed
restrictions on it from onboarding new Vietnamese Ambassador Nguyen Hong Thao
domestic customers onto its card network was re-elected to the International Law
from May 1, 2021. Commission (ILC) for the 2023-2027 tenure
Diners Club International is a direct banking on Nov 12, 2021.
and payment services company. He received 145 out of 191 votes, ranking
fourth among 11 candidates from Asia-Pacific.
President Kovind addresses 51st Conference of
The ILC is an independent body of the UN,
Governors
and specialises in developing and codifying
President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime international law, and reporting to the UN
Minister Narendra Modi on 11 Nov'21 General Assembly’s Legal Committee.
attended the Conference of Governors and
Arunachal Pradesh Cabinet adopts declaration on
Lieutenant Governors at Rashtrapati Bhawan
climate change
in Delhi.
The conference was attended by the The Arunachal Pradesh Cabinet on 13
Governors and Lieutenant Governors from all November 2021 adopted the ‘Pakke
states and UTs across the country. Declaration’.
It was the fourth one to be presided over by The declaration envisages a multi-sectoral
President Ram Nath Kovind. approach towards low emission and climate-
The last conference was held in 2019. resilient development through five broad
themes.
Falguni Nayar becomes India's wealthiest self-made
The themes include environment, forest, and
female
climate change; health and well-being of all;
Nykaa founder Falguni Nayar has become sustainable and adaptive living; and
India's seventh woman billionaire and the livelihoods and opportunities.
wealthiest self-made billionaire. Children's Day: 14 November
The market cap of the beauty and fashion
retailer hit an overall valuation of 1 trillion Children’s Day is celebrated across the
rupees ($13.5 billion). country on November 14.
Nykaa, India's first unicorn startup headed by The day marks the birth anniversary of Pandit
a woman, was founded by Falguni Nayar in Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of
2012, selling beauty and personal care India.
products. 14 November 2021 marked his 132nd birth
anniversay
Mohammed Siraj named brand ambassador of
My11Circle
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Prior to his death, India celebrated Children’s Law Minister Kiren Rijiju launches citizens’ Tele-Law
Day on November 20, the day observed as mobile app
World Children’s Day by the United Nations.
Union Minister of Law and Justice Kiren
World Diabetes Day: 14 November Rijiju launched the Citizen’s Tele-Law mobile
app on 13 November 2021.
World Diabetes Day is observed every year
This app would connect the beneficiaries
on 14 November.
directly with panel lawyers offering legal
The day provides an opportunity to raise
advice and consultation.
awareness of diabetes as a global public
He has also announced the expansion of
health issue.
Tele-Law in 75,000 Gram Panchayats
Globally, in 2019, 463 million people had
covering all states and UTs as a part of the 75
diabetes and if estimates are to be believed,
years of India’s Independence celebrations.
by 2030, diabetes will affect 578 million and
by 2045. Indian astronomers develop methodology to
Access to Diabetes Care is the theme understand the exoplanets
for 2021-23.
Indian astronomers have developed an
3 Indian metros feature in the top 10 world's most algorithm that can increase the accuracy of
polluted cities data from exoplanets by reducing the
contamination by the Earth’s atmosphere.
According to IQAir, a Switzerland-based
This algorithm, called the critical noise
climate group that is also a technology partner
treatment algorithm, can help to study the
of the United Nations Environmental
environment of exoplanets with better
Program(UNEP) has listed Delhi, Mumbai,
precision.
and Kolkata in the top ten most polluted cities
It was developed by astronomers from the
of the world.
Indian Institute of Astrophysics.
While Delhi tops the list with an AQI of 460,
Kolkata ranks sixth and Mumbai fourth in
the list.
Lahore, in Pakistan, is ranked second.
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