Current Affairs 2013-2014 of 16-11-2013 To 20-11-2013 Current Affairs News Of November 2013 For All Bank Exams
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November 2013 Current Affairs For Bank Exams ,UPSC,SSC,Railawy Jobs,Airindia And Other Competitive Exams
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16-11-2013 To 10-20-2013
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16th November 2013 Current Affairs For Bank Exams,UPSC,SSC,FCI..etc
- INS Vikramaditya was inducted into the Indian Navy after a delay of more than 5 years at the chilly northern Russian Shipyard of sevmash, at Severodvinsk.
- Yuki Bhambri won $ 10,000 ITF men’s Futures Tennis Tournmentand defeated Sriram Balaji in the final at the DLTA Complex.
- Kartikey Gulshan Kumar and Kanika Kanwal, both from Delhi won Boy’s and girl’s under-15 singles titles of the 27th sub- junior National Badminton Championship at Cuttack.
- Private equity firm Warburg Pincus announced that Mr. Timothy Geithner would serve as President and Managing director of the firm starting March 1, 2014. Mr. Geithner is a former U. S. Treasury Secretary.
- Farewell to Sachin Tendulkar:
- Sachin Tendulkar careers last test Series at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on 16th November 2013. He gave a farewell speech and thanked many of those who had played an important role in shaping his glorious career.
- The announcement of Bharat Ratna award, India’s Highest Civilian Award:
- Government of India announced the India’s highest civilian award forCricketer Sachin Tendulkar and also for Scientist C. N. R. Rao on 16thNovember 2013. Sachin Tendulkar is the first Sportsperson to be chosen for the honour. He retired from All forms of Cricket on 16th November and he has a 24 years record breaking career in cricket. C.N.R Rao is the third Scientist to receive this prestigious award after C.V. Raman and Former president A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.
17th November 2013 Current Affairs For Bank Exams,UPSC,SSC,FCI..etc
- Angelina Jolie receives honorary Oscar for her Humanitarian work at the Governors Awards ceremony in Hollywood.
- Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize winning author died. She was 94. “The Golden Notebook” and Dozens of other novels reflected her own improbable journey across the former British empire.
- Sachin Tendulkar has ended his recording breaking 200-Test career by finishing 18th in the ICC Player Rankings for test batsmen as he jumped five places in the latest chart released on 17th November 2013.
- Manipur won under-14 National Football title over Maharashtra 3-1 in the final at the Kalyani Stadium on 17th November 2013. N. Dhurba Singh Scored a hat-trick.
- Jamaican Sprinters Usain Bolt and Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce won the male and female World Athletes of the year for 2013 by the sport’s governing IAAF at a ceremony in Monacco.
- Mahesh Mangaokar won the men’s open title over Kush Kumar in the70th CCI- western India Open squash Tournament at the CCI Courts on 17thNovember.
- The New President of Maldives is:
- Abdulla Yaameen elected as the President of Maldives and He succeeded Maumoon Abdul Gayoom who ruled the country for about three decades.Abdulla Yaameen won the election narrowly with 3% votes higher than his rival.
- Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM):
- Commonwealth Summit (CHOGM) held in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Final day of CHOGM, the journalists raising questions to Sri Lankan President on how much time he needed to complete the probe into the allegations, for that the Sri Lankan President, Mahindra Rajapaksa said at press conference “We need time, this can’t be done overnight. A process is already in place”.Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma said the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group was composed afresh at CHOGM 2013. India, Cyprus, Guyana, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka and Tanzania will be on CHAG for the next 2 years the communiqué said.
18th 2013 Current Affairs For Bank Exams,UPSC,SSC,FCI..etc
- FIFA World Cup 2022 will be held in Qatar.
- Rafael Nadal was confirmed as the World number one at the end of the 2013 season and Novak Djokovic was in 2nd rank.
- ICICI launches Regulation S Bonds:
- ICICI bank launched a U. S dollar denominated RegS benchmark bond sale programme . Regulation S bonds are those offered to non-U. S residents and qualified Institutional buyers (under an exception to U. S securies laws enacted in 1990), and do not enjoy the small legal protection as other issues do.
- RBI decided to provide liquidity support to MSEs:
- Rs 5,000 crore liquidity support to Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) through the Small Industrial Development Bank of India (SIDBI) including incremental credit to medium enterprises to qualify as priority sector lending.
19th November 2013 Current Affairs
- 19th November observed as National Integration Day (Indira Gandhi Birthday).
- President of India Pranab Mukherjee presented Indira Gandhi National Service Scheme Best University Award 2012-2013 to Mangalore University, Karnataka.
- International Film Festival of India (IFFI):
- This is the 44th edition of the International Film Festival of India. This will be started from 20th November 2013 in Goa. This is also 10th time the festival is being hosted in Goa coincidentally. Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon will inaugurate the festival on 20th November.
First Women bank in India:
- Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated the first branch of Women commercial bank of India in Mumbai. Name of the bank is “Bharatiya Mahila Bank” and it’s CMD Usha Ananthasubramanian.
- Indira Gandhi Prize 2013:
- Indira Gandhi memorial Trusted announced that German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be honoured with the Indira Gandhi Prize for peace, Disarmament and development for 2013 for her exemplary leadership in Europe and the world during the financial crisis and her stewardship of German economic growth.
20th November 2013 Current Affairs
- Barcelona’s Argentine Star stricker Lionel Messi (Football) receivedGolden Shoe Award on 20th November as the top league scorer in Europe for his 46 goals in the 2012-2013 seasons. This is Messi’s 3rd Golden shoe award.
- Indian Women’s hockey coach Inderjit Singh Gill was died in car crash. He had been working with women’s and junior teams since 1999. He was 59.
- Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd (MCX) had signed an agreement with China based Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) to boost strategic co-operation.
- European Union Prestigious Sakharov Human Rights Prize 2013 to Malala Yousafzai (16) for her crusade for the right of all children, the Prize wasgiven by Martin Schulz, president of European Parliament in Strasbourg, France.
- Engineering Excellence award 2013 was conferred on the Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited (SPMCIL).
- IX standard student makes history (Cricket):
- Prithvi Shaw, a IX standard student of Razvi Springfield High School created history with a record of 546 score in first round of the Mumbai School sports Association’s Harris Shield elite division match agaist St. Francis D’Assisi (Borivali).
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