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1.China’s Tianhe-2 supercomputer has emerged as the world’s most powerful supercomputer system for the sixth consecutive time.
2.Board of Control for Cricket in India president Shanshank Manohar will be the new Chairman of International Cricket Council.
3.Nigeria on won the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup. In the finals Nigeria defeated Mali with 2-0 score. India will host the bi-annual championship in 2017.
4.Dr. Raghuram Rajan, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, was appointed as the Vice-Chairman of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
5.Wasim Haffer who is opener of Vidarbha has became first ever cricketer in Ranji Trophy history to score 10000 runs.
6.Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on 9 November 2015 launched Army Cloud, Software Defined Data Centre and Digi-Locker facilities for the Indian Army at the Army Headquarters in New Delhi.
7.The former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court Ajit Prakash Shah has been designated as the ethics officer (ombudsman) at Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for 1 year tenure.
8.Santoor maestro Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma on 7 November 2015 was honoured with the Aditya Vikram Birla Kala Shikhar Award for lifetime achievement. He is also the recipient of the Padma Shri and the Padma Vibhushan.
9.Pakistan veteran Younus Khan retired from one-day internationals after match with England held on November 11th 2015.
10.The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore ranks in the world’s top 100 universities for engineering and technology.
11.Former RBI Deputy Governor Subir Gokarn was appointed as an Executive Director on the board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
12.India’s coast Guard Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) ‘Samarth’ was commissioned by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on 10 November, 2015 at Vasco in Goa.
13.An international team of scientists who discovered the first oceanic microplate in the Indian Ocean has found that Himalayas were born about 47 million years ago when India and Eurasia initially smashed into each other.
14.India and the UK on 12 November 2015 announced commercial deals worth 9 billion pounds in London.
15.A head of the Paris climate summit, India and UK have agreed on a comprehensive package of collaboration on energy and climate change which includes commercial deals worth 3.2 billion pounds.
16.India’s first Low Income State Infrastructure Equity Partnership (the Neev Fund) was launched on 13 November, 2015 by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in UK.
17.12th Asia-Europe Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (ASEM FMM12) took place in Luxemburg on 5-6 November 2015. The ASEM FMM 12 was held under the theme Working Together for a Sustainable and Secure Future.
18.Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the recently acquired Ambedkar memorial by Maharashtra Government at King Henry’s Road in London, United Kingdom.
19.INS Vishwakarma, the erstwhile Shipwright School (SWS) and a premier training establishment of the Indian Navy has been commissioned by Admiral RK Dhowan, Chief of the Naval Staff at Visakhapatnam.
20.President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated 35th edition of India International Trade Fair (IITF) at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi.
21.Mercedes driver Nico Roseberg from Germany has won the 2015 Brazilian Grand prix title of Formula One race. He defeated Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes to grab the trophy.
22.Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare launched the Affordable Medicines and Reliable Implants for Treatment (AMRIT) pharmacy outlet at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi.
23.The G-20 Summit held in Antalya, Turkey, on 15-16 November 2015. The 2015 G-20 Antalya summit was the tenth meeting of the G-20 heads of government.
24.Syed Akbaruddin was appointed as the next Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations.
25.Veteran Bollywood actor Saeed Jaffrey (86) passed away on 15th November 2015 in London.
26.Odisha Government has started implementation of National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013 in 14 of the 30 districts of the state in first phase covering 26.33 lakh families.
27.Australian fast bowler Mitchell Johnson has announced his retirement from all forms of international cricket after conclusion to the second Test match against New Zealand at WACA.
28.Senior diplomat Vijay Keshav Gokhale has been appointed as India’s Ambassador to China.
29.The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was on 19 November chosen for the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2015.
30.27th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) leaders summit held in Kaula Lumpur, Malaysia on 22 November, 2015. This summit was chaired by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.
31.The second World Congress on Disaster Management (WCDM) has started in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
32.Senior JDU leader Nitish Kumar was sworn-in as Chief Minister of Bihar for the fifth time.
33.The 13th ASEAN-India summit was held on 21 November, 2015 in Kaula Lumpur, Malaysia.
34.A 13 member expert committee headed by former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) N. Gopalaswami has been constituted by the Union Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry exclusively on Sanskrit promotion.
35.Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal has won silver medal at 2015 China Open Super series Premier Badminton Tournament in women’s singles category. Chinese shuttler Xuerui Li on 15 November 2015 won the 700000 US dollar Women’s Singles final of China Open.
36.Ace Indian Cueist Pankaj Advani won the IBSF World Snooker Championship. In the final held on 21 November, 2015 he defeated China’s Xingtong by 8-6 score.
37.23rd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders Summit was held at Manila, Philippines from 18 November to 19 November 2015. The summit was chaired by Philippines President Benigno S. Aquino III. The theme of the Summit was Building Inclusive Economies, Building a Better World.
38.India has successfully test fired it’s indigenously developed supersonic interceptor missile which is capable of destroying any incoming ballistic missile, from a test range off Odisha Coast. The interceptor named as Advanced Air Defence (AAD) missile, is a 7.5 metre long single stage solid rocket propelled guided missile equipped with a navigation system, a hi-tech computer and an electro-mechanical activator.
39.Reserve Bank of India has allowed strong regional rural banks (RRBs) to launch online transaction through internet banking. Profitable RRBs with minimum Rs.100 crore net worth and better asset quality will be allowed to offer this service. Banks with capital adequacy ratio over 10% will be allowed to introduce the online transaction services. Weak banks will be allowed to offer internet services without online transaction facilities.
40.Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been named among the top 50 global business leaders by Fortune Magazine. Three Indians are placed in the list of Fortune. Mater Card’s CEO Ajay Banga is ranked at fifth position, Cognizant’s CEO Fernandez D’Souza at 16th place and Microsoft’s Nadella is ranked at the 47th place. Nike’s Mike Parker topped the list followed by Facebook’s Mark Zukerberg at second place.
41.National League for Democracy (NLD) party lead by Aung San Suu Kyi has won Myanmar’s landmark election and claimed a staggering majority in parliament, ending half a century of dominance by the military and providing the symbol of a decades-old democracy movement with a mandate to rule.
42.Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairperson of India’s largest bank SBI, remains the most powerful woman in the Indian business sector in the list of Fortune India. ICICI Bank’s Chanda Kochhar and Shikha Sharma of Axis Bank follow Bhattacharya at the second and third place.
1.China’s Tianhe-2 supercomputer has emerged as the world’s most powerful supercomputer system for the sixth consecutive time.
2.Board of Control for Cricket in India president Shanshank Manohar will be the new Chairman of International Cricket Council.
3.Nigeria on won the 2015 FIFA U-17 World Cup. In the finals Nigeria defeated Mali with 2-0 score. India will host the bi-annual championship in 2017.
4.Dr. Raghuram Rajan, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, was appointed as the Vice-Chairman of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
5.Wasim Haffer who is opener of Vidarbha has became first ever cricketer in Ranji Trophy history to score 10000 runs.
6.Union Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on 9 November 2015 launched Army Cloud, Software Defined Data Centre and Digi-Locker facilities for the Indian Army at the Army Headquarters in New Delhi.
7.The former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court Ajit Prakash Shah has been designated as the ethics officer (ombudsman) at Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for 1 year tenure.
8.Santoor maestro Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma on 7 November 2015 was honoured with the Aditya Vikram Birla Kala Shikhar Award for lifetime achievement. He is also the recipient of the Padma Shri and the Padma Vibhushan.
9.Pakistan veteran Younus Khan retired from one-day internationals after match with England held on November 11th 2015.
10.The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore ranks in the world’s top 100 universities for engineering and technology.
11.Former RBI Deputy Governor Subir Gokarn was appointed as an Executive Director on the board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
12.India’s coast Guard Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) ‘Samarth’ was commissioned by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on 10 November, 2015 at Vasco in Goa.
13.An international team of scientists who discovered the first oceanic microplate in the Indian Ocean has found that Himalayas were born about 47 million years ago when India and Eurasia initially smashed into each other.
14.India and the UK on 12 November 2015 announced commercial deals worth 9 billion pounds in London.
15.A head of the Paris climate summit, India and UK have agreed on a comprehensive package of collaboration on energy and climate change which includes commercial deals worth 3.2 billion pounds.
16.India’s first Low Income State Infrastructure Equity Partnership (the Neev Fund) was launched on 13 November, 2015 by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in UK.
17.12th Asia-Europe Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (ASEM FMM12) took place in Luxemburg on 5-6 November 2015. The ASEM FMM 12 was held under the theme Working Together for a Sustainable and Secure Future.
18.Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the recently acquired Ambedkar memorial by Maharashtra Government at King Henry’s Road in London, United Kingdom.
19.INS Vishwakarma, the erstwhile Shipwright School (SWS) and a premier training establishment of the Indian Navy has been commissioned by Admiral RK Dhowan, Chief of the Naval Staff at Visakhapatnam.
20.President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated 35th edition of India International Trade Fair (IITF) at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi.
21.Mercedes driver Nico Roseberg from Germany has won the 2015 Brazilian Grand prix title of Formula One race. He defeated Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes to grab the trophy.
22.Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare launched the Affordable Medicines and Reliable Implants for Treatment (AMRIT) pharmacy outlet at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi.
23.The G-20 Summit held in Antalya, Turkey, on 15-16 November 2015. The 2015 G-20 Antalya summit was the tenth meeting of the G-20 heads of government.
24.Syed Akbaruddin was appointed as the next Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations.
25.Veteran Bollywood actor Saeed Jaffrey (86) passed away on 15th November 2015 in London.
26.Odisha Government has started implementation of National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013 in 14 of the 30 districts of the state in first phase covering 26.33 lakh families.
27.Australian fast bowler Mitchell Johnson has announced his retirement from all forms of international cricket after conclusion to the second Test match against New Zealand at WACA.
28.Senior diplomat Vijay Keshav Gokhale has been appointed as India’s Ambassador to China.
29.The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was on 19 November chosen for the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2015.
30.27th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) leaders summit held in Kaula Lumpur, Malaysia on 22 November, 2015. This summit was chaired by Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.
31.The second World Congress on Disaster Management (WCDM) has started in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
32.Senior JDU leader Nitish Kumar was sworn-in as Chief Minister of Bihar for the fifth time.
33.The 13th ASEAN-India summit was held on 21 November, 2015 in Kaula Lumpur, Malaysia.
34.A 13 member expert committee headed by former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) N. Gopalaswami has been constituted by the Union Human Resource Development (HRD) ministry exclusively on Sanskrit promotion.
35.Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal has won silver medal at 2015 China Open Super series Premier Badminton Tournament in women’s singles category. Chinese shuttler Xuerui Li on 15 November 2015 won the 700000 US dollar Women’s Singles final of China Open.
36.Ace Indian Cueist Pankaj Advani won the IBSF World Snooker Championship. In the final held on 21 November, 2015 he defeated China’s Xingtong by 8-6 score.
37.23rd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders Summit was held at Manila, Philippines from 18 November to 19 November 2015. The summit was chaired by Philippines President Benigno S. Aquino III. The theme of the Summit was Building Inclusive Economies, Building a Better World.
38.India has successfully test fired it’s indigenously developed supersonic interceptor missile which is capable of destroying any incoming ballistic missile, from a test range off Odisha Coast. The interceptor named as Advanced Air Defence (AAD) missile, is a 7.5 metre long single stage solid rocket propelled guided missile equipped with a navigation system, a hi-tech computer and an electro-mechanical activator.
39.Reserve Bank of India has allowed strong regional rural banks (RRBs) to launch online transaction through internet banking. Profitable RRBs with minimum Rs.100 crore net worth and better asset quality will be allowed to offer this service. Banks with capital adequacy ratio over 10% will be allowed to introduce the online transaction services. Weak banks will be allowed to offer internet services without online transaction facilities.
40.Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been named among the top 50 global business leaders by Fortune Magazine. Three Indians are placed in the list of Fortune. Mater Card’s CEO Ajay Banga is ranked at fifth position, Cognizant’s CEO Fernandez D’Souza at 16th place and Microsoft’s Nadella is ranked at the 47th place. Nike’s Mike Parker topped the list followed by Facebook’s Mark Zukerberg at second place.
41.National League for Democracy (NLD) party lead by Aung San Suu Kyi has won Myanmar’s landmark election and claimed a staggering majority in parliament, ending half a century of dominance by the military and providing the symbol of a decades-old democracy movement with a mandate to rule.
42.Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairperson of India’s largest bank SBI, remains the most powerful woman in the Indian business sector in the list of Fortune India. ICICI Bank’s Chanda Kochhar and Shikha Sharma of Axis Bank follow Bhattacharya at the second and third place.
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