Current Affairs - November 2015

TNPSC Current Affairs November 2015
Miscellaneous 

• Important Days
• November 14th - Children's Day (Jawaharlal Nehru's Birth anniversary)
• November 19th - National Integration Day (Indira Gandhi's Birth Anniversary)
• November 25th - International Meatless Day
• November 26th - National Constitution day, National Milk Day, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women .

• Important Persons in News
• Kolipaka Gattaiah - India's tallest man (from Telangana) died recently.
• A. S Ponnammal - Seven time MLA of TN assembly passed away recently.
• Awards
• Chithiraputhiran Kannan - deputy chief engineer (Chennai Metro Rail), selected for the Green Apple Award for Environmental Best practises 2015 which will be presented at the House of parliament, UK.
• Kuldip Nair - Ramnath Goenka Lifetime Achievement Award 2013-2014.
• Prashant Damle - Master Dinanath Mangeshkar Award 2016.
• Important Books
• Lust for Lalbaug (Marathi) - by Vishwas Patil
• All the World is a Stage - by T T Srinath
• The 19th International Children Film festival 2015 to be held in Hyderabad.
• Binge-watch : 2015 Word of the year
• The word 'Binge-watch', meaning watching a large number of Television programs continuosly is selected by  the Collins dictionary as the 2015 World of the year.
• Ambedkar house in London
• The house in which Ambedkar stayed was bought by Maharashtra Government for 31 Crore Rupee.
• Indian govt has planned to set up a library in its ground floor.
• The first floor will be rented to Indian Students who are going there for higher studies.
• My Stamp
• It is launched by Indian postal department recently in which customers can make their own selfie into a stamp of Rs.5 denominations.
• The application cost is Rs.300.
• My Brick My Amaravati
• It is a compaign launched in Andhra Pradesh which broke the guiness record by raising donations from 1,43,740 individuals within 24 hours.
• Samvat - Hindu New Year
• Jan 22, 2016 - Delhi government has planned to celebrate the Car free day.

Polity

• Sandeep Saxena
• Appointed as the deputy Election commissioner.
• Before his appointment as deputy election commissioner he served as the chief electoral officer of Tamil Nadu.
• Hashim Abdul Halim
• He is the former speaker of West bengal legislative assembly who died recently.
• He holds the record of longest serving Assembly speaker by serving 29 years as speaker.

Economy

• PM Narendra Modi introduced 3 Gold Schemes
1. Gold Monetisation Scheme
2. Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme
3. Gold coin and Bullion Scheme
• Gold Monetisation Scheme
• Under this scheme  depositor can deposit their gold of 995 fineness and get interest.
• Minimum Deposit amount: 30 grams of gold of 995 purity.
• No maximum Limit
• Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme
• The tenure of the  Bond scheme is 8 years
• Minimum bond value: 2 Grams
• Maximum bond value: 500 grams per person per financial year.
• Gold coin and Bullion Scheme
• Government will issue gold coins with Ashok Chakra Symbol and additional security features.
• Vistusa
• US based company agreed to buy 53 % stake  in Polaris Consulting and Services.
• Chitra Ramkrishna - MD and CEO of NSE
• Ashishkumar Chauhan - CEO of BSE

Science and Technology

• Xingzhe No 1
• It is a chinese robot which made world record by walking 134 km in 54 hrs without stopping for recharging.
• It broke the previous record held by Ranger, an US Robot.
• BrahMos 
• Recently test fired from warship, INS kochi.
• It is India's supersonic cruise missile.
• Speed:2.8 mach.
• Varanasi
• Microsoft selected Varanasi for experimental internet pilot project.
• Agni IV Test fired from Wheeler Island Successfully
• Agni IV is a nuclear capable Ballistic missile.
• Surface to surface missile
• Range: 4000 Km
• GSAT-15
• It is launched by the Ariane VA-227 launch vehicle from Kourou in French Guiana in South America.
• Ariane VA-227 is launched by Arianespace, a European launch space company.
• Bharatvani
• It is an online portal to be launched by the UGC.
• It is expected to be the world's largest internet language site in the world.

Environment and Health

• Some Important Alien Plant Species in Tamil Nadu and their Scientific Names
1. Seemai Karuvelam [Prosopis Juliflora]
2. Kadal Palai or Neyveli Kaatu Ammanakku [Ipomea Carnea]
3. Muttai Paasi [Salvinia Molesta]
4. Water Hyacinth [Eichahornia Crassipes]
5. Mookuthuthi Poo or Star weed or white top or white cap or carrot weed [Parthenium]
• New species of frogs found in Western ghats
1. Ghatixalus Magnus - A species of Tree frog
2. Raorchestes Flaviventris - a species of bush frog.
• Bharat Stage Norms Implementation - advanced
• The central government has advanced the date of implementation of the BS norms.
• BS-V to be implemented from April 2019 (as against April 2022)
• BS-IV to be implemented from April 2021 (as against April 2024)
• Sishu Aloy
• It is a initiative launched by West Bengal Govt for early childhood care and education.
• Uttar Pradesh - Guiness Record
• The Uttar Pradesh government made a Guinness record by planting 10 lakh trees in a single day within 8 hours.
• Bihar govt planned to ban the sale of liquor from April 1, 2016.

World

• A321 - Russian Aeroplane crashed
• Russian Aeroplane A321 crashed during its journey from Egypt to Russia over the Sinai Peninsula.
• All 217 passengers were killed.
• Leonardo Dicaprio
• Hollywood actor, who was named the United Nations messenger of peace on climate change.
• Indian Vice President, Hamid Ansari visited Indonesia on an official tour.
• APEC 2015
• Asia Pacific Economic cooperation forum meeting 2015 to be held in Manila (Philippines).
• India has an observer status in this forum since 2011.
• Australia abolished the honorary titles 'knight' and 'dames'.
• Li yuanchao - Chinese Vice President who visited India recently.
• Ahmed Adeeb - Malives Vice President who was impeached recently.
• Sheikh Kasina - Prime Minister of  Bangladesh.
• Vivekananda Statue
• PM Narendra Modi unveiled 12 feet vivekananda statue in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia).
• The Indian cultural centre in Kuala Lumpur to be named after freedom fighter Subash Chandra bose.
• Lee Hsien Loong - PM of Singapore
• Sukhoi Su-24
• Russian fighter fet which was shot down by the Turkisk fighter jet F-16 near the Turkey-Syria Border.
• Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2015
• The CHOGM 2015 summit was held in Malta (Europe).
• The next GHOGM summit will be held in 2018 in United kingdom.

Sports

• BNP Paribas WTA Singapore 2015
• Women's doubles
• Martina Hingis (Swiss) and Sania Mirza pair won the title.
• Cricket All Stars 2015
• It is a Twenty 20 Cricket series between the former Cricket players from all over the world.
• The first match was held in New york, USA.
• Younis Khan
• Pakistan Cricketer announced his retirement from the One Day international matches.
• Macau open Grand Prix Gold Badminton 2015
• P V Sindhu (India) won the title by defeating Minatsu Mitani (Japan) in the final.

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