1) EU and Canada sign CETA-Comprehensive
Economic and Trade Agreement
for removed
import duties
2) Kerala becomes Third
open defecation free state after Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim
3) Centre notifies rules for Real Estate Act for
five UTs- The Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli,
Daman and Diu, and Lakshadweep.
According to rules developer will be required to
refund or pay compensation to the allotters with an interest rate of SBI's
highest Marginal Cost of Lending Rate plus two per cent in case of delay in
project. It stipulates that such payment to the allotters be made within 45
days of it becoming due.
4) Banks to report frauds of Rs 1 crore and above
to CVC-Central Vigilance Commission
5) PM Narendra Modi launches 'Saur Sujala Yojana'
in Chhattisgarh. provide solar powered irrigation pumps to farmers at a subsidized
price.
6) Dhoni most valued athlete among Indians,
Federer globally: Forbes Fab 40
Dhoni’s brand value reduced from $21 million in
2015 to $11 million this year,
Swiss tennis legend Roger Federer toppled, golf
great Tiger Woods as the most valued athlete globally. With a brand value of
$36 million
7) CRISIL, ICRA and CARE are the major Credit Rating agencies
CRISIL-Credit
Rating & information services of India Limited
ICRA-International
Credit Rating Agency
CARE-Credit
Analysis and Research Limited
CIBIL-Credit Information Bureau of India limited
8) October 30 observed ‘Rashtriya Ekta Diwas’ (National Unity Day)
birth of Vallabhbhai Patel.
Also death anniversary of former Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi
9) Ease of Doing Business:
its published World Bank
A.P. Telangana (Both Jointly) ,
Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Jharkhand, Rajasthan,
Uttarakhand, Maharashtra
10) Maharashtra
tops NITI Aayog’s Agri marketing index
for implementation of agricultural reforms and
offers the best environment for doing agri-business
Gujarat, Rajasthan and
Madhya Pradesh
November 1 to be
observed as No Tobacco Day in Punjab
11) Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act, 1988
will be renamed as the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment Act, 2016
12) Sania Mirza retains
World Number One ranking in Women's Doubles
for 2nd consecutive year
13) 47th international
film festival of India (IFFI) to be held in Goa in November 20 to 29.
14) The value of mutual fund equity portfolio in
listed firms stood Rs.4.94 lakh crore compared to Rs.4.75 lakh crore
15) The International Conference on Climate
Change, Water, Agriculture and Food Security (ICCCWAFS-2016) held at Hyderabad
16) Tata Group Veteran S. Ramadorai’s resignation
as the chairman of the National Skill Development Agency (NSDA) and National
Skill Development Corporation (NSDC)
17) Imja Tsho is the glacial lake located at an
altitude of 5,010 metres (16,437 feet) near south of Mount Everest (Nepal)
18) Chengdu J-20 newly
developed stealth fighter by China
19) “Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat” occasion of
birth anniversary of Sardar Patel that aims to promote unity amongst
countrymen.
20) Students Islamic Movement of India, (SIMI)
21) Bombay Commodity
Exchange Limited (BCEL) first commodity exchange to lose recognition from
SEBI
22) Himachal Pradesh became
country’s second Open Defecation Free (ODF) state after Sikkim (Both Rural
& Urban Areas)
23) India won the 2016 Asian Champions Trophy
(Men’s) against Pakistan.
24) 22nd Session
of Conference of Parties (COP22) to
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) started from Marrakech, Morocco
COPs are also known as United
Nations Climate Change Conferences and are held annually since 1995. The
first COP was held in Berlin in 1995.
25) Kanu Ramdas Gandhi grandson of Mahatma Gandhi
and a former NASA scientist passed away in
Surat.
26) RBI allowed banks to issue Masala Bond.
27) A 4-tier GST tax structure of 5, 12, 18 and 28% declared
lower rates for essential items and the highest
for luxury and de-merits goods
Goods and Services Tax (GST) will start from 1
April 2017.
Now 30-31% tax levied in VAT
Primary enrolment started in
Sikkim & Puducherry
28) Bindeshwar Pathak, the founder of Sulabh International chosen as the Brand
Ambassador of Swachh Rail Mission (SRM)
29) James Webb Space
Telescope newly built telescope by U.S. space agency National
Aeronautics and Space Administration- NASA that will be the successor of Hubble Telescope
30) ‘Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan’
(PMSMA) newly launched central scheme for pregnant women
31) Indian women’s hockey team won Asian Champions
Trophy Hockey title by defeating China. held at Singapore
32) Tamil Nadu became
the last state to implement the Food Security Act
33) C-17 Globemaster its largest military
transport aircraft which landed high-altitude place Mechuka (6200 Feet) in
Arunachal Pradesh. Payload capacity is 77, 520 kg.
34) Iraq Air Force Club (Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya)
defeated India’s Bengaluru FC at Doha (Qatar)
35) Andhra Pradesh emerged as the most energy
efficient state in the country in World Bank’s ‘India’s State Level Energy
Efficiency Implementation Readiness’ Report. followed by Rajasthan (41.89),
Karnataka (39.34) and Maharashtra (39.29).
36) Latvia first country of the Baltic Sea region join
China’s ambitious ‘One Belt, One Road’ (OBOR) initiative
that focuses on connectivity and cooperation among countries primarily between
China and the rest of Eurasia.
37) Maharashtra is
the first state in the country to have a cyber police station in each district
38) Vice President of India, M. Hamid Ansari released
book ‘An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India’ authored by Dr. Shashi
Tharoor.
39) ‘Lost’ Chandrabhaga river found in Odisha
40) 7th Session of the
Conference of Parties (COP7) to World Health
Organization, WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) held at
Greater Noida.
India will preside the eighth edition of the
Conference of Parties (COP) to WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
(FCTC) which will be held in Switzerland's Geneva
in 2018.
Health Secretary CK Mishra has been chosen as the
President of the COP Bureau, for the next two years, after a unanimous decision
by the COP7 Plenary session.
41) First ever World
Tsunami Awareness Day observed November 5
42) Children's Day
& World Diabetes day observed 14
November
43) Fortune magazine named Mark Zuckerberg Business
Person of the Year
44) Republican Donald Trump elected 45th President
of United States received 279 (45.5% Vote) vote while Hillary Clinton Got 228 (47.7% Vote) Vote. He is also oldest
president of USA (70 years)
He takes oath on January
20. if that day falls Sunday (He takes Private Oath) then again he will
take Public oath on Monday
45) Rs 500, Rs 1000 notes invalid from November
8,2016
46) India’s first LNG-powered
bus rolls out in Kerala
47) China launches pulsar
navigation satellite
48) Narinder Batra has become the first Indian to
be elected the President of the International Hockey
49) India and Japan signed
a landmark civil nuclear agreement.
India became the first-ever country that has not
signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to
have such a deal with Japan.
50) City Union Bank India’s first banking robot
‘Lakshmi’ was launched Kumbakonam (Tamil Nadu) HO of Bank
It can answer queries pertaining to account
balance, interest rates on home loans, fixed deposits, etc. Sensitive financial
information like account details are displayed discreetly on the robot’s screen
and not voiced
51) Christchurch city of New Zealand was
struck by a 7.8 intensity earthquake
52) The Supreme Court asked the Punjab Government
to share the water of Satluj-Yamuna Link Canal to Haryana
53) Pramila Jayapal First Indian-American woman to
be elected to the U.S. House of Representative
54) India is the third
largest oil importer in the world. After US & China
55) Russia announced that
it will withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) HO-The Hague,
Netherlands
56) International
Solar Alliance-ISA initiative by Prime Minister Modi and French President Francois Hollande at the COP21 in Paris during December 2015
It is an alliance of 121 solar resource rich
countries lying fully or partially between the tropic of Cancer and tropic of
Capricorn and will have its headquarters in India.
57) Company of women CRPF was designated to fight
against Left-wing extremism (Naxalites) at Jharkhand.
58) 1947, Toll-Free
number of Aadhaar by Unique Identification Data Authority of India (UIDAI)’s
59) Rustom-II indigenously
developed UAV-Unmanned Air Vehicle that was
tested by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
60) Maharashtra became first state of India
declared fly ash Policy.
61) constituted a task force to oversee the
process of calibration of 500 & 1000 Rs Currency note under S.S. Mundra (Deputy Governor of the RBI)
62) Pakistan’s Gwadar
Port is part of China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)
63) Meng Hongwei became
the first-ever Chinese to be elected as the head of International
Criminal Police Organization (ICPO) or INTERPOL, the global police co-operation agency
64) Olympic silver medallist P.V. Sindhu clinched
the first-ever China Open Super Series against Sun Yu of China
65) UP-100 is the newly launched state-wide
centralised emergency response system of Uttar Pradesh.
66) Justice Jagdish
Singh Khehar appointed Chairman of the National Legal Services Authority
(NALSA)
NALSA has been constituted under the Legal
Services Authorities Act, 1987, to provide free legal services to weaker
sections of society. It also organises Lok Adalats for amicable settlement of
disputes.
67) India’s first-of-its-kind genetic garden of
naturally occurring salt-tolerant plants (halophytes)
has been established at the coastal town of Vedaranyam in Tamil Nadu.
68) Moon came close to Earth after 1948
69) Meghalaya became the first state to start
India's first Cherry Blossom Festival, which
is widely celebrated in Japan.
70) Chhattisgarh has become the first state to
adopt a resolution welcoming the demonetization of high-value currency notes.
71) HDFC Bank's Aditya Puri ranked 36th in
Fortune's top business men list
Facebook's Mark Zuckerburg topped the list by the
US magazine.
72) World Internet
Conference 2016 concludes in Wuzhen, China
73) Pradhanmantri Grameen Awas Yojna to provide 3
crore affordable housing units across country in 2022
74) Universal
Children's Day is observed on November 20 (from 1954 by UNGA)
75) World’s first Bollywood theme park opens in
Dubai
76) Agra-Lucknow Expressway India’s
longest expressway comprising of 6-lane 306 kilometre also landing for Fighter
aircraft
77) ‘INS Chennai’ third
indigenously designed guided missile destroyer belonging to the ‘Kolkata class’
& project 15. built at the Mazagon Dock
Shipbuilders Ltd in Mumbai.
The first ship of the ‘Kolkata class’, named ‘INS Kolkata’, was commissioned on 16 August 2014,
followed by ‘INS Kochi’ which was
commissioned on 30 September 2015.
78) The 47th International Film Festival of India
(IFFI) was inaugurated in Goa by S. P.
Balasubrahmanyam
‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ was conferred to
South Korean film director and writer Im Kwon Taek.
79) India and
Switzerland signed a historic agreement for automatic sharing of
information of Swiss bank accounts of Indians
80) India became
associate member of European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) its world’s largest nuclear and particle
physics laboratory
81) India successfully conducts test-fire of
nuclear capable Prithvi-II missile
82) Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
gets International peace prize
83) NASA launches ‘next generation’ weather
satellite, Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R (GOES-R). It was
launched by Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
84) Shaikh Abdullah
Bin Zayed Al Nahyan UAE Minister of Foreign Affairs and International
Cooperation was awarded the prestigious Mother
Teresa International Award by the Mumbai-based NGO Harmony Foundation.
85) Airtel Payments
Bank Ltd. became India’s first operational payments
bank from Rajasthan
Bank accounts can be opened by customers without
documents using Aadhaar based e-KYC. The subscriber’s mobile number would
function as a bank account number and transfer from Airtel to Airtel phone
numbers would be free.
Customers will be offered an interest rate of
7.25% on deposits in savings account, higher than the 4-6% commercial banks are
offering.
Kotak Mahindra Bank holds 19.9% in it.
86) First Indian
Origin Nikki Haley, the South Carolina Governor, was chosen for U.S.
Ambassador to the United Nations by U.S. President Donald
Trump
87) Captain Radhika
Menon India’s first female Merchant Navy captain awarded International Maritime Organisation (IMO’s) Certificate
of Commendation for Exceptional Bravery at Sea. She
thus became world’s first woman to receive this prestigious award.
88) Pankaj Patel (Zydus Cadila Health Care) was
elected as the new President of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce &
Industry (FICCI)
89) 1% richest Indians own 58.4% country’s wealth
90) China is the world’s largest rice importer.
91) Anil Ambani lead Reliance Broadcast Network
Ltd (RBNL) sell its 49% stake in its radio broadcast business (Big
FM-92.7) to Zee
Media Corp. Ltd
Big FM that reaches out to 45 cities, 1,200 towns
and over 200 million people. Big FM was launched in 2006.
92) Antonio Costa (Portuguese
Prime Minister) will be the Chief Guest at the 14th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) Convention to be held in Bengaluru from 7
January to 9 January 2017 in Bengaluru.
93) Fidel Castro,
former President (1976 to 2008) and Prime Minister (1959 to 1976) of Cuba,
passed away
94) Prof. George Yeo (Singapore)
appointed as Chancellor of Nalanda University
95) AirSewa portal and mobile app launched by the
Civil Aviation Ministry
96) China launches Tianlian I-04 satellite from
the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in Sichuan province of Southwest China launched
by March-3C carrier rocket.
97) Yudhvir Singh
Malik has appointed as the Chairman of National Highways Authority of
India (NHAI).
Monosodium glutamate (MSG)
and lead
98) Garo Tribal celebrate Wangala
harvest festival in Meghalaya
99) Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, Princess of Thailand,
was conferred with the first World Sanskrit Award.
100) Nico Rosberg (Germany) Mercedes team won Formula
1 World
101) Harminder Mintoo chief Khalistan Liberation Front (KLF) fled with five
prisoners, from Nabha jail in Patiala
district
102) 13th edition of the World Robot Olympiad held
at Greater Noida
103) Goa to
become India’s first cashless state from 31 December 2016.
104) Argentina
win their first ever tennis Davis cup after defeating Croatia
105) Pakistan Appoints Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa as Army Chief of Staff
106) PM Narendra Modi flagged off the Humsafar train between Gorakhpur and Delhi`s Anand
Vihar terminus from Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh.
New features, including LED screen display,
vending machines for tea, coffee and milk, hot, refrigerated pantry and ports
for charging electronic devices such as mobiles and laptops.
107) Pradhan Mantri
Garib Kalyan Yojana, 2016scheme associated with declaration of black
money
Tax rate is 50% and
25% of the declared income will be locked in for
four years.
108) Amitabh Kant (CEO,
NITI Aayog) constituted a committee to form a strategy to expedite the process
of transforming India into a cashless economy.
109) ‘Daughter’ (Iran) won the Golden Peacock award at the 47th International
Film Festival of India (IFFI) at Goa
110) Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI)
Set up two Committee.
1) Nine-member
advisory committee headed by educationist Mohandas
Pai.
2) corporate insolvency and liquidation is chaired
by noted banker Uday Kotak.
111) Upma Chowdhary First ever woman appointed the
new Director of Mussoorie-based Lal Bahadur
Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA)
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