www.study4u.in: Weekly Current Affairs November 2018 (Week-I)

Banking and Financial Awareness:

●Kirloskar group received licence from the Reserve Bank to launch a non-banking finance company (NBFC), Kirloskar Capital.
●for establishing a card acceptance and digital payment platform, State Bank of India (SBI) and payments solution provider Hitachi Payment Services India has entered into an agreement to form a joint venture.

●HDFC Bank had announced that the RBI had approved the re-appointment of Aditya Puri as MD and CEO of the bank for another two years.
●Jair Bolsonaro has won Brazil’s presidential election.

●Indian Air Force has organised a two-day seminar on ‘Emerging Trends in Aviation Engineering and Logistics’ (AVIAMAT-2018) at Air Force Auditorium, Subroto Park, New Delhi.
●Harvard University Honoured Malala Yousafzai by Gleitsman Award .
●Miss Grand International 2018 title 6th edition won by Miss Paraguay Clara Sosa as the beauty pageant in Yangon, Myanmar.
●Simona Halep placed her name as first recipient of the Chris Evert Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) World No.1 Trophy by winning the match.
●India jumped 23 positions in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Index 2019, now ranked 77 out of 190 countries in 2018.

●National Unity Day - 31st October.
●The Vigilance Awareness Week - from 29th October to 3 November, theme ‘Eradicate Corruption – Build A New India’.

●First WHO Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health took place at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
●2-day seminar on ‘Emerging Trends in Aviation Engineering and Logistics’ (AVIAMAT-2018) organised by Indian Air Forceat Air Force Auditorium, Subroto Park, New Delhi.
●To deepen bilateral strategic cooperation on IP policy, first ever India-US Dialogue on Intellectual Property has been launched in Delhi
●Netherlands has been added as the new Partner Country 25th DST – CII Technology Summit to be organized in 2019.
●PM Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe attended the 13th Annual Summit between India and Japan in Tokyo .

●To support sustainable marine and fisheries projects, Seychelles launched the world’s first Sovereign Blue Bond.
●Istanbul has officially opened the world’s largest airport terminal “under one roof” with a capacity to serve 90 million passengers .

●Railway Board Chairman AshwaniLohaniunveiled India’s first engine-less train, “Train 18”, developed by the Integral Coach Factory (ICF).
●PM Narendra Modi inaugurated SardarVallabhbhai Patel’s memorial, called the Statue of Unity on the leader’s 143rd birth anniversary in Gujarat’s Narmada district.
●Cochin Shipyard in Kerala has become the India’s largest Dry Dock .
●Assam has begun the 5th National Summit on Good and Replicable Practices and Innovations in Public Health Care Systems at Kaziranga .
●According to global airlines’ body International Air Transport Association (IATA), India will become the world’s third largest aviation market around 2024 surpassing the UK.
●No Bharat Stage-IV vehicle shall be sold across the country with effect from April 1, 2020 by Supreme court latest amendment.
●To strengthen educational and cultural cooperation, and to support the knowledge ambitions and economic growth of the state, Arunachal Pradesh signed an MoU with the British Council.
●Four MoUs have been signed between Israeli institutions and Punjab government to address issues of farmers and depleting groundwater level in the state.
●India and Bangladesh jointly signed agreements for enhancing inland and coastal waterways connectivity between the two countries for trade and cruise movements.

●India and Japan began their first-ever joint military exercise ‘Dharma Guardian- 2018’ at a jungle warfare school in Mizoram’s Vairengte with a focus on strengthening counter-terror cooperation.
●India has signed a $950 million contract with Russia for two upgraded Krivak III-class stealth frigates.

●MC Mary Kom has been named as the brand ambassador of the 10th edition of the Women’s World Championship in New Delhi.
●Qatar will host the 23rd edition of the World Corporate Games 2019.
●Tata Steel was announced as an official partner of the men’s hockey World Cup 2018.
●Roger Federer won his 99th career title by winning the Basel Open for the ninth time in his career.
●19-time world champion Pankaj Advani has won the second leg of the Asian Snooker Tour in Jinan, China.
●Ayhika Mukherjee, an Indian table tennis player has won a silver medal in the under-21 women’s singles category of the ITTF Challenge Belgium Open.
●Indian golfer Khalin Joshi clinched the Panasonic Open India title at the Delhi Golf Club, with this win, he became the seventh Indian to win the Panasonic Open India title.
●India and Pakistan were declared joint winners of the Asian Champions Trophyin Men’s Hockey at Muscat in Oman.
●Sourav Kothari Clinches 2018 WBL World Billiards Championship.
●In women’s freestyle 57kg weight class, Pooja Dhanda won a bronze medal in Budapest, Hungary.