Current Affairs, November 2022
30th November, Current Affairs:
• President Droupadi Murmu gave away
the National Sports and Adventure Awards 2022 at Rashtrapati Bhawan. She
presented the Dronacharya award to wrestling coach Raj Singh, boxing coach
Mohammad Ali Qamar, Para shooting coach Suma Siddharth Shirur and wrestling
coach Sujeet Maan.
• India's economy grew by 6.3 per cent in the second
quarter of the current fiscal, official data released showed today.
29th November, Current Affairs:
• The legendary P.T. Usha is set to
become the first woman president of Indian Olympic Association (IOA) as she
emerged as the lone candidate for the top post for the December 10
elections.
• Vistara airlines will be merged with Tata-owned Air India by
March 2024, the company announced today.
• The Reserve Bank of India
announced the launch of the first pilot for the retail digital Rupee on Ist
December 2022. The first phase will begin with four banks including State
Bank of India, ICICI Bank, Yes Bank and IDFC First Bank in four cities
across the country.
27th November, Current Affairs:
• President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah Al
Sisi will be the Chief Guest at Republic Day celebrations on 26th January
next year.
• The National Cadet Corps (NCC) is celebrating 74th
anniversary of its Raising Day today.
26th November, Current Affairs:
• Constitution Day also known as
'Samvidhan Divas' is observed today.
• The Indian Space Research
Organisation's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) today successfully
launched nine satellites, including eight nanosatellites, into space from
the first launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh's
Sriharikota.
• Telangana will have the first Integrated Rocket Design,
Manufacturing, and Testing Facility of the country in Hyderabad by Skyroot
Aerospace.
25th November, Current Affairs:
• Cristiano Ronaldo became the first
man to score at five World Cups after opening the scoring in Portugal's
World Cup clash with Ghana.
• Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim
was sworn in as the country's new Prime Minister.
• The Sangeet Natak
Akademi has announced a one-time Sangeet Natak Akademi Amrit Award under
Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav. A total of 86 artists from the field of the
Performing Arts in India were selected for this award.
21st November, Current Affairs:
• The Indian Panorama at the
International Film Festival of India in Goa opened today.
• Indian table
tennis player Manika Batra clinched the bronze medal at the ongoing
ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup tournament in Bangkok, Thailand to becoming the first
Indian female paddler to win a medal at the event.
• Tamil Nadu scripted
List A world record as they score of 506 for the loss of two wickets in
their Vijay Hazare 2022 match against Arunachal Pradesh at the M.Chinnaswamy
Stadium in Bangalore. Narayan Jagadeesan scores 277 off only 141 balls in
the match to registered highest-ever List A score by a batsman. Tamil Nadu
batter broke the previous record held by Alistair Brown, who smashed 268 for
Surrey against Glamorgan back in 2002.
• At least 56 people were killed
and 700 injured as an earthquake of 5.6 magnitude struck Indonesia's Cianjur
town in West Java.
• Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev secured a
second term after winning 81.31% of the vote in the Presidential election.
20th November, Current Affairs:
• Arun Goel has been appointed as an
Election Commissioner. Arun Goel is a retired IAS officer of the 1985 batch.
He will join Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and Election
Commissioner Anup Chandra Pandey in the poll panel.
• The Winter Session
of Parliament will commence on the 7th of next month and continue till the
29th of December.
• The 2022 FIFA World Cup starts from today in Qatar.
The tournament features 32 teams across eight groups with the top two in
each progressing to the knockout stage.
19th November, Current Affairs:
• Skyroot Aerospace has successfully
launched India's first privately made rocket Vikram-S to space. The launch
vehicle lifted-off with three payloads from the sounding rocket complex at
the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.
• Prime Minister Narendra
Modi inaugurates Donyi Polo Airport at Itanagar in Arunachal Pradesh.
16th November, Current Affairs:
• India was handed over the Presidency
of the G20 at the closing session of the G20 Summit in Bali today. India
will officially assume the G20 presidency from 1st of next month.
• The
US space agency NASA launched its Artemis 1 mission from Kennedy Space
Centre, Florida. Artemis is the most powerful rocket ever designed by NASA.
• National Press Day being observed today.
15th November, Current Affairs:
• The global population is projected
to reach eight billion today, according to the ‘World Population Prospects
2022’ report that was released on account of World Population Day. As per
the report, India is projected to surpass China as the world’s most populous
country in 2023.
• Table Tennis player Sharath Kamal Achanta has been
chosen for Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award. Arjuna Awards will be given
to 25 sportspersons.
14th November, Current Affairs:
• Children's Day celebration takes
place across country today.
• World Diabetes Day is celebrated today.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi embarked on a three-day visit to Indonesia to
attend the 17th G20 Summit in Bali.
• In Slovenia, Natasa Pirc Musar has
been elected the country’s first female President after beating her
conservative rival in the second round of elections.
13th November, Current Affairs:
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi
dedicates Ramagundam Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited to nation.
• In T20
world cup cricket, England created history by winning their second T-20
world cup title defeating Pakistan by five wickets at the Melbourne Cricket
ground today. England are now the first team ever to hold the 50-over World
Cup and the T20 World Cup titles together. England left-arm pacer Sam Curran
was named the player of the tournament.
12th November, Current Affairs:
• The single phase polling concluded
today for the 68-member Himachal Pradesh Assembly with a voter turnout 65.75
recorded till 5:00 pm.
• The International Cricket Council (ICC) board
unanimously re-elected Greg Barclay as the Independent Chair of the apex
cricket body for a second two-year term.
9th November, Current Affairs:
• Justice DY Chandrachud took oath as
the 50th Chief Justice of India (CJI). He will have a tenure of two years at
the Supreme Court. He was administered the oath of office by President
Droupadi Murmu at a ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhavan.
• Aruna Miller
scripted history by becoming the first Indian-American politician to win the
race of Lieutenant Governor in the state of Maryland.
8th November, Current Affairs:
• Guru Nanak Jayanti or Gurpurab is
being celebrated with religious fervour across India and the world today.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday unveiled the logo, theme and
website of India’s G20 Presidency through video conferencing. India will
assume G20 Presidency from the 1st of December.
7th November, Current Affairs:
• A majority of a five-judge bench of
the Supreme Court today upheld the validity of the 103rd Amendment of the
Constitution which provides 10% reservation for Economically Weaker Sections
(EWS) in admissions and government jobs.
• Indian batter Suryakumar
Yadav on Sunday became the first Indian player to score 1,000 T20
International runs in a calendar year.
• National Cancer Awareness Day is
being observed today.
4th November, Current Affairs:
• The Election Commission of India has
announced two-phase Assembly Elections in Gujarat. The first phase of
elections for 89 Assembly seats will be held on 1st of December while the
second phase for 93 seats will take place on 5th of December.
• Former
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party and its allies have secured
an emphatic victory in Israel's general elections.
2nd November, Current Affairs:
• Defence Research & Development
Organisation (DRDO) conducted a successful maiden flight-test of Phase-II
Ballistic Missile Defence, BMD interceptor AD-1 missile from APJ Abdul Kalam
Island off the coast of Odisha.
• Virat Kohli became the leading
run-getter in the history of ICC T20 World Cup, when he reached a personal
score of 16 against Bangladesh in India's Group 2 encounter in Adelaide. He
went past the record of former Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene, who had
scored 1016 runs in 31 innings. Kohli was playing his 25th innings in the
history of the tournament.
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