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RBI/ BANKING/ BUSINESS NEWS THIS MONTH Nov 1: Foreign lenders' wholly owned subsidiaries in India will receive near-national treatment, the Reserve Bank of India

(RBI) assured. The RBI aims to systemically turn foreign banks into wholly-owned subsidiaries.

Nov 1: The RBI in its Macroeconomic and Monetary Developments Second Quarter Review 2013-14 said that markets in India face domestic uncertainties arsing from prolonged slowdown, falling corporate earnings and rising leverage, besides

risks of political uncertainties associated with the electoral cycle.

Nov 1: According to NABARD, Eastern and North Eastern states, which are battling with acute storage deficit, will get a priority in fund allocation for building warehouses.

Nov 6: RBI permitted the Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of the foreign banks to acquire the domestic private sector banks. RBI also permitted the banks to set up branches anywhere in the country.

Nov 9: The RBI has allowed third party payment for the export and import transactions. Nov 13: Reserve Bank has said the CAD in 2013-14 will be USD 56 billion-- much lower than the quantum projected

earlier-- and there is no fundamental reason for rupee depreciation.

Nov 15: State Bank of India plans to raise tier-II capital in the range of about Rs 5,000 crore before March. Nov 19: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated the first branch of Bharatiya Mahila Bank in Mumbai.

Imp: Dr. Singh also simultaneously inaugurated branches of the bank in Chennai, Bangalore, Guwahati, Kolkata, Lucknow

and Ahmedabad.

Nov 20: The RBI opened a Rs 5000 crore refinance window for MSME sector, for a period of one year to ease the liquidity. Nov 20: The RBI directed Public Sector Banks to provide loans to women self-help groups (SHGs) at 7 per cent per annum

to avail the benefit of interest rate subvention scheme under the Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana-Aajeevika

(SGSY) scheme. Nov 21: The RBI is planning to reduce banks' requirement of investing in government securities (G-Secs) in a calibrated

way. This will help to ensure the flow of credit to productive sectors of the economy.

Nov 23: RBI declared that the dollar swap window would be closed on November 30; however, banks which will get firm commitment from international financial institutions will be able to continue availing the special incentive till December 31,

2013.

Nov 24: The Reserve Bank of India said that it will launch CPI-indexed bonds aimed at protecting the savings of retail investors from the impact of price rise by the end of next month.

Nov 26: RBI widened the definition of infrastructure lending including hotels with project costing more thanRs. 200 crore as well as convention centres with project worth Rs. 300 crore.

Nov 27: RBI has confirmed its decision to grant self-regulatory status to associations of non-banking financial firms that deal in microfinance.

Nov 27: Banks might adopt Aadhaar as additional authentication or move to EMV (Euro pay MasterCard Visa) chip and pin technology to ensure security in card-based payment transactions, RBI suggested.

Nov 27: RBI directed the banks to charge customers for the transaction SMS alerts on the basis of usage, instead of imposing a fixed fee.

Nov 27: Tata Sons Ltd has withdrawn its application for a new bank licence, according to the Reserve Bank of India. Nov 28: State Bank of Travancore and SBI General Insurance jointly launched an affordable health insurance plan for SBT

customers.

Nov 29: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on 28 November 2013 relaxed norms for participation of Non-Banking Finance Companies (NBFCs) in the insurance joint ventures by allowing them to hold more than 50 percent in such companies.


NATION THIS MONTH Nov 1: India developed a new tactical surface-to-surface missile Pragati which has a range between 60-170 km.

Imp: The Pragati missile is based on the Prahaar missile and it has been developed by the DRDO for the Army.

Nov 2: Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh declared Kannur in Kerala as the first zero-landless district in the country.

Nov 5: India's first mission to Mars blasted off successfully, completing the first stage of an 11-month journey that could see New Delhi's low-cost space programme win Asia's race to the Red Planet. The Mars Orbiter Mission is known as

"Mangalyaan".

Nov 5: The 12th edition of Pravasi Bhartiya Divas will be held in New Delhi from 7th to 9th of January 2014. Imp: The theme of the convention is -Engaging Diaspora - Connecting across Generations- with a special focus on the

younger generation. The 11th edition of Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) was held at Kochi, Kerala from 7th to 9th of

January 2013.

Nov 7: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Manish Tewari has announced the launch of the 44th International Film Festival of India to he held in Goa later this month.

Nov 7: Indian Navy inducted the fourth generation advanced jet trainer aircraft Hawk 132.

Nov 8: India successfully test-fired its indigenously developed nuclear-capable Agni-I ballistic missile with a strike range of 700 km

Nov 8: The third largest public sector lender by branches Central Bank of India has opened a representative office in Hong Kong.

Nov 9: The Supreme Court stayed the Gauhati High court verdict declaring the CBI as "unconstitutional"

Nov 9: The 7th India-Republic of Korea Joint Commission Meeting was held in New Delhi.

Nov 9: The 19th edition of the Kolkata International Film Festival was inaugurated.

Nov 14: World Bank and the ADB, have assured a financial assistance of USD 313 million to Odisha government for restoration and rehabilitation activities in cyclone Phailin hit areas.

Nov 14: Britain PM David Cameron visited India.

Nov 14: Defence Minister A.K. Antony will induct the long-delayed aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya, designed to boost Indias maritime capabilities, at a shipyard in Russia. Imp: INS Vikramaditya is a Kiev class aircraft carrier which was commissioned by Russian Navy in 1987 under the name

Baku.

Nov 16: India successfully test-fired the advanced version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from the Pokhran test firing range in Rajasthan.

Nov 17: Rapid Metro-India's First Private Metro service started operation from Gurgaon, Haryana

Nov 19: Australia will support Indias membership of the Nuclear Supplier Group.

Nov 23: India successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable Dhanush ballistic missile from a naval ship off Odisha coast.

Nov 23: The North East Business summit held at Dibrugarh in Assam. Imp: The summit was jointly organized by the Indian Chambers of Commerce and the DoNER Ministry in Dibrugarh from 22 to 24 November 2013.

Nov 23: The Cyclonic storm Helen struck Andhra Pradesh coast near Machilipatnam.

Nov 26: Largest general insurer New India Assurance has come up with a combination product for lower income groups that will have life, medical and accident covers among others.

Nov 26: CBI pressed for maximum punishment of death for dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, a day after they were convicted of killing their daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj five-and-a-half years ago.

Nov 26: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi laid the foundation stone of a new railway line in his Parliamentary constituency Amethi.

Nov 26: The Meghalaya government has sought Rs 50 thousand crore as award from the 14th Finance Commission.

Nov 27: President Pranab Mukherjee will arrive in Nagaland on November 30 to inaugurate the 10-day Hornbill Festival and take part in the 50th anniversary celebration of statehood of Nagaland.

Nov 27: Punjab is starting its newly amended Atta-Dal Scheme from coming December in the state.

Nov 28: Bureau International des Expositions voted in favour of Dubai to be the host city for the World Trade Fair or EXPO 2020.

Nov 28: The TRAI released the tariff structure and guidelines for mobile banking services, a step that would help rural customers who do not have access to banks and financial services.

Nov 29: The Assam Pavilion was adjudged First for Excellence in display amongst State Governments and Union Territory Pavilions and was given the award of Gold Medal in the India International Trade Fair 2013 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.

Nov 29: Google setup an election portal in India, the largest democracy of the world.


INDIAN ECONOMY THIS MONTH Nov 5: Bharti Airtel entered into an agreement with the Warid Group to acquire its Congo operations with the objective

of strengthening its stronghold in the African market.

Nov 11: Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal launched a cashless health care scheme, Bhagat Puran Singh Sehat Beema Yojna, for BPL families, which would provide free medical services of up to Rs 30,000 per annum.

Nov 14: The headline inflation number, the wholesale price index or WPI, has increased to 7 per cent in October from 6.46 per cent in September.

Nov 24: India has donated 2,500 metric tonnes of wheat worth USD 2 million as food assistance to the troubled Gulf state of Yemen.

Nov 28: To curb the growing menace of insider trading activities in the stock market, regulator SEBI will come up with a new set of norms within next ten days.

Nov 28: Assocham has pegged the country's growth at 5.4 per cent for the period on improved agricultural output. Imp: Countrys Growth ascertained by various organizations: RBI: 5 per cent IMF: 3.75 per cent

World Bank: 4.7 per cent

WORLD ECONOMY THIS MONTH Nov 20: IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, issued a Rs 1,000 crore (approximately $160 million) global Indian

rupee bond of three years maturity.

Imp: The maturity date of the bond is December 3, 2016, and it carries a coupon of 7.75 per cent.

MoUs/ AGREEMENTS SIGNED THIS MONTH Nov 1: India and Vietnam signed a treaty for transfer of sentenced prisoners languishing in jails in the two countries. The

MoU was signed between Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde and Vietnam Minister of Public Security Tran Dai Quang.

Nov 1: India and Australia held the third round of negotiations to finalise a civil nuclear agreement that could enable the sale of Australian uranium to India, in Delhi during the week beginning November 25.

Nov 2: India and Cuba signed an MoU for cooperation between Prasar Bharati (PB) and Cuban Radio and Television Institute (ICRT) as part of strengthening the friendly relations between the two countries.

Nov 5: India and China held a 10-day joint military drill on counterterrorism the first such exercise held between the neighbours in five years.

Nov 6: US and India have launched the third India-US-Africa triangular agricultural training programme at the National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE).

Nov 9: India and Japan decided to further strengthen their cooperation in the maritime sector as a part of the overall robust bilateral relations.

Nov 11: India and South Korea discussed ways to add strategic and economic content to bilateral ties in the key areas including security, trade and investments.

Nov 11: Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency signed a roadmap agreement to allow inspectors broader access to nuclear sites.

Nov 13: India's public broadcaster Prasar Bharati and Radio-Television of Slovenia signed an MoU to develop and strengthen mutual friendly relations through an increased cooperation in the field of broadcasting.

Nov 15: Max Bupa Health Insurance has entered into a bancassurance tie-up with Deutsche Bank. Nov 20: Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) and the Peoples Republic of China-based Dalian Commodity Exchange

(DCE) have signed a memorandum of understanding to boost co-operation.

Nov 20: India and Russsia will also hold a Joint Air Force Level exercise for the first time in 2014. Nov 21: India and Vietnam signed eight agreements in areas of defence and security, oil exploration, civil aviation and

scientific research.

Nov 22: The Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS) has signed an MoU with Brookings India, one of South Asias leading think tanks.

Imp: They would work collaboratively on areas such as international trade and economics, India-China comparative studies,

international relations and Indias energy security options. Nov 22: India and the European Union have inked an agreement to facilitate development and non-discriminatory

enforcement of competition laws. Nov 26: YES BANK, Indias fourth largest private sector bank, signed a multi-year deal with the Hockey India League

(HIL) commencing with the 2014 season.

Nov 26: India and Malaysia signed an MoU to strengthen co-operation in public administration and governance as part of the efforts to enhance their strategic partnership.


GLOBE-TROT THIS MONTH Nov 1: Six major central banks in the world made currency swap arrangements permanent (earlier it was temporary) as

a prudent liquidity backstop in case of future global financial strains. Names of Six major central banks are:

1. The Bank of Japan

2. U.S. Federal Reserve

3. European Central Bank

4. Bank of England

5. central bank of Canada

6. central bank of Switzerland

Nov 1: As per the latest Ease of Doing Business rankings of 189 economies released by the World Bank, India has fallen three spot to 134th rank. In terms of starting a business India has been positioned lower at 179th. As per the list the top performing nations are: 1. Singapore

2. Hong Kong 3. New Zealand

4. United States

5. Denmark

Nov 1: Turkey to inaugurate Bosphorus rail tunnel that links Europe and Asia, for the first time. Imp: Japan Bank for International Cooperation was the main financier contributing 735 million euros ($1 billion) to the

project.

Nov 2: Global outrage against recent revelations of mass surveillance by the U.S. government, which sparked discussions for a review of global surveillance guidelines, has led the Brazilian government to reach out to the Indian government for

support for its proposal to host a one-off global summit, scheduled for early May 2014.

Imp: The External Affairs Ministry did not confirm if India has decided to support the Brazilian effort. However, if it does, it

will be at the risk of defending criticism against CMS-related surveillance, while agreeing to attack the Americans on PRISM.

Nov 2: Russia and Japan held their first joint Defence and Foreign Ministers meeting and agreed to expand their defense and security cooperation.

Imp: With this agreement, Russia became the third country in the world to establish the two-plus-two mechanism of

bilateral interaction at the ministerial level with Japan after US and Australia. On the other side, Japan became the first

Asian country to have the arrangement with Russia.

Nov 5: Bangladesh approved the commercial cultivation of transgenic Bt brinjal becoming the first country in South Asia to cultivate the genetically modified food crop.

Nov 5: US software company Microsoft recently developed a new cost-effective sign language translator that converts signs into spoken and written language - and vice versa.

Nov 5: Pakistan successfully test-fired Hatf IX (Nasr) missile, a surface-to-surface missile with a range of 60 km. Nov 6: Swedish Embassy celebrates 100 years of Tagores Nobel Prize. Nov 7: Russia launched the Olympic torch into space, as part of the flames journey ahead of the Sochi Winter Olympics. Nov 8: US, Israel lose UNESCO voting right. Nov 8: Jordan will replace Saudi Arabia on the Security Council for a two-year term starting in January after the Saudis'

unprecedented rejection of the seat hours after they were elected

Nov 11: The memoir written by Teen Pakistani activist Malala Yousufzai was banned from all private schools in Pakistan.

Nov 11: The Regional Pravasi Bhartiya Divas was officially launched in Sydney, Australia. Nov 13: Russia successfully launched the Proton-M rocket carrying a defense satellite, Raduga-1M from its Baikonur

cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Nov 17: Malta, a Southern European country was unanimously chosen as the host of the next Commonwealth summit in 2015. Imp: This is second time for Malta to host the Commonwealth summit. Before this, Malta hosted a Commonwealth Summit

in 2005. Nov 22: India and France will lead a 10- nation global project to study the impact of melting of polar ice caps on climatic

conditions of these countries.

Imp: The ten member countries include the US, UK, Japan, Brazil, South Africa and Germany. Nov 23: ADB plans to set up an Asia Pacific Infrastructure Fund to cater to the infrastructure financing needs of countries in

the region.

Nov 24: A two day long Global Islamic Economic Summit, GIES was held in Dubai. Nov 24: Germanys aviation company e- Volo successfully tested the first helicopter which is noiseless and emission-free

named- Volocopter.


Nov 26: An interim agreement has been reached between six world powers and Iran that calls on Tehran to limit its nuclear activities in return for sanctions relief from international trade and financial sanctions.

Nov 26: Ban Ki Moon, the UN Secretary General announced the Geneva-II peace conference (The international conference is aimed at a democratic political transition in Syria) is to be held on 22 January 2014.

Nov 27: A host of private investors from GCC countries, including a royal family from the UAE have planned to set up the first full-fledged Islamic bank in the euro zone. Imp: The Eurisbank will come up in Luxembourg during the last quarter of 2014.

Nov 27: PM Nawaz Sharif appointed Lt Gen Raheel Sharif as Pakistans new Army Chief and Lt Gen Rashid Mehmood as Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee.

Nov 27: Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif launched the construction of the country's biggest Nuclear power project. Imp: The nuclear power plant is to be built with Chinese technical assistance on the Arabian Sea coast.

Nov 28: IMF chief Christine Lagarde will next month pay her first visit to Myanmar. Nov 29: The Italian Senate expelled ex- Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi from Parliament over his tax fraud conviction.

APPOINTMENTS/ RESIGNATIONS THIS MONTH Nov 1: MCX Stock Exchange (MCX-SX) has appointed Gopal Krishna Pillai IAS (Retd.) as Chairman and Thomas

Mathew T as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors

Nov 1: Microsoft appointed Gurdeep Singh Pall as the corporate vice president of Skype, a popular and free international voiceover and messaging service and Lync communications product. He will replace the Mark Gillett.

Nov 5: Bill de Blasio was elected New York City's first Democratic mayor in two decades. Nov 7: Yogesh Malik resigned as the Chief Executive Officer of Uninor, Norwegian telecom giant Telenors India unit. Nov 6: S Jaishankar, currently India's Ambassador to China will replace Nirupama Rao, Indian envoy to the US, as she

bid farewell to her career of diplomacy.

Nov 6: LIC Housing Finance Ltd has appointed Sunita Sharma as Managing Director and CEO with effect from November 5, 2013.

Nov 6: Jammu and Kashmir Bank has reappointed Mushtaq Ahmad as its Chairman and CEO for a period of another three years.

Nov 6: Central Election Commission (CEC) of Tajikistan declared that Imomali Rakhmon was re-elected as the President of Tajikistan.

Nov 7: The government appointed Prem Narain as the Secretary of Overseas Indian Affairs Ministry in place of Rajiv Mehrishi, who is now new Fertilisers Secretary.

Nov 9: Parvinder Sohi Behuria, a Senior IRS officer was appointed as the Secretary General of National Human Rights Commission

Nov 13: The Union Government appointed Usha Ananthasubramanian as the chairperson and managing director of public sector Bharatiya Mahila Bank, the first womens bank.

Nov 13: Retired bureaucrat Krishna Mohan Sahni was appointed Chairman of the National Multi-Commodity Exchange of India Ltd.

Nov 14: Paras Ajmera, Director of Multi-Commodity Exchange (MCX) resigned from the board. Nov 14: The Chairman of Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority, Yogesh Agarwal resigned from the

post of Chairman.

Nov 15: Maldives President Mohamed Waheed stepped down as President as the country prepared to hold the second round of the Presidential election.

Nov 15: Siddhartha Birla, founder and Chairman of Xpro India Ltd, and Chairman Digjam Ltd, will be the next President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

Imp: Presently Ms. Naina Lal Kidwai is the President of FICCI.

Nov 17: Abdulla Yameen has been sworn in as the 6th President of the Maldives. Nov 19: Ratan Tata has returned as a board member of East West Centre, a prominent American think tank. Nov 21: The All India Football Federation re-appointed its General Secretary Kushal Das for a second term of another

three years.

Nov 22: Justice Ajit Prakash Shah took over as the new Chairman of the 20th Law Commission of India. Imp: Justice Shah succeeds Justice D. K. Jain

Nov 22: Eminent Scientist and Bharat Ratna awardee Prof CNR Rao has become the first Indian scientist to be elected as honorary foreign member of Chinese Academy of Science

Nov 24: Justice Ajay Manikrao Khanwilkar was sworn in as the 22nd Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh by Governor Ram Naresh Yadav.

Nov 28: Standard & Poor's named Citigroup's Neeraj Sahai as president, succeeding Douglas Peterson. Nov 28: The Latvian Prime Minister, Valdis Dombrovskis announced his resignation. Nov 29: Indian Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar appointed as UNICEF's first brand ambassador for South Asia.


AWARDS/HONOURS/WORLD TITLES THIS MONTH Nov 2: Indian actress Tillotama Shome's performance as a girl who is raised as a boy in Qissa won her the best actress title

in the New Horizons Competition of the seventh Abu Dhabi Film Festival (ADFF). She shares the title with Norwegian actress Julia Wildschutt.

Nov 2: IRCON International Limited was selected as the top infrastructure company under the category construction infrastructure development - mid at the Dun and Bradstreet Infra Awards 2013 for delivering exemplary performance by Dun

& Bradstreet (D&B).

Nov 8: Martha Dodray, a polio worker from Bihar has been honoured with a prestigious UN Foundation award for her work in protecting children from the disease.

Nov 9: Gabriela Isler from Venezuela won Miss Universe 2013. Nov 11: The V.C. Padmanabhan Memorial Award 2013 for Ecology and Environment Conservation was presented to

eminent ecologist and environmental scientist Madhav Gadgil in Thrissur.

Nov 14: Sachin Tendulkar named Time magazines Person of the Moment. Nov 14: Professor Mushirul Hasan, the former Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia was conferred with the Jawaharlal

Nehru Fellowship by the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund. Nov 15: Shiraz Naval Minwalla, Professor of Physics in TIFR, Mumbai selected for the 2014 New Horizons in Physics

Prize.

Nov 16: Burra Gautham Sidharth, Director, B.M. Birla Science Centre, has been chosen for the 2013 award given by the Institute for Theoretical Physics and Advanced Mathematics Einstein-Galilei (IFM), Italy.

Nov 17: Waheeda Rehman will be conferred with the inaugural Centenary Award for the Indian Film Personality of the Year 2013 at the 44th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa.

Nov 18: The Jamaican sprinters, Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce were crowned the male and female World Athletes of the Year, 2013.

Nov 19: German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel has been nominated for Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for the year 2013.

Nov 19: Nirupama Rao, the former Indian Ambassador to the US, has been named as the Meera and Vikram Gandhi Fellow with the Brown-India initiative at the Watson Institute for International Studies.

Nov 20: US President Barack Obama has nominated Indian-American Vivek Murthy for the post of Surgeon General. Nov 20: Anjolie Ela Menon, a contemporary artist was awarded with Dayawati Modi Award for Art and Culture and

Education by Dayawati Foundation

Nov 20: Engineering Excellence Award 2013 was conferred on the Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited.

Nov 21: Malala Yousafzai received the EU's prestigious Sakharov human rights prize. Nov 21: The 18th International Children's Film Festival concluded in Hyderabad.

Imp: A Dutch Film named Kauwboy, directed by Boudewijn Koole won the Golden Elephant Award for best film in the

'International Live Action' category. The film is about a 10 year old boy and a bird.

Nov 22: Three Indians are among the six authors who have been shortlisted for the $50,000 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2014.

Nov 22: T.V. Ramachandran, Resident Director Regulatory Affairs at Vodafone India has been bestowed an honorary fellowship of the Institution of Engineering and Technology

Nov 24: Mexico will award its 2013 International Prize for Equality and Non-Discrimination to Malala Yousafzai. Nov 27: National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) received the EEPC (Engineering Export Promotion Council,

Eastern Region)s Gold Trophy. Nov 27: Priti Patel, an Indian Origin British MP has been honoured with the prestigious Asian Trader Editors Award.

SPORTS NEWS THIS MONTH o Nov 1: India's men's compound Archery team won a gold medal in the 18th Asian Archery competition held at Chinese

Taipei. Abhishek Verma, Ratan Singh, Sandeep Kumar forming the compound team defeated the Korean trio of Lihong Min,

Yong Hee Choi and Jongho Kim 233-231 to win the gold.

Imp: 18th Asian Archery Championships 2013 was organized by Asian Archery Federation (AAF) in Taipei (TPE) from

29 October to 2 November 2013.

o Nov 2: Indian men's hockey team officially qualified for the Rabobank Hockey World Cup 2014. Imp: The Rabobank Hockey World Cup will be held from 31 May to 15 June 2014 at The Hague, Netherland. The India

men's team finished sixth at the Rabobank HWL Semi Final in Rotterdam and that was enough to confirm their participation

in the tournament.

o Nov 2: Tunisia has been suspended from next years Davis Cup after it ordered one of its national players to withdraw from a tournament rather than face an Israeli player.

o Nov 3: Formula 1 racing driver, Sebastian Vettel won the Abu Dhabi Formula 1 Grand Prix at the Yas Marina circuit, Abu Dhabi.


o Nov 3: Novak Djokovic of Serbia won the BNP Paribas Masters Tennis tournament at Paris, France. o Nov 5: British Paralympic powerlifter Ali Jawad won gold at the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Asian Open

Championships with a world-record lift.

o Nov 8: The International Hockey Federation, FIH has selected India to host the men's World Cup, which is planned for December 2018.

Imp: England has been selected as host of the 2018 women's World Cup. Hockey's World Cup is held every four years and is second only to the Olympics in significance.

o Nov 9: India's Ravichandran Ashwin has jumped to the numero uno position in the Reliance ICC Player Rankings for Test all-rounders.

o Nov 11: Woman shooter Heena Sidhu created history by becoming the first pistol exponent from India to win a gold medal at the ISSF World Cup finals in Munich, Germany.

o Nov 14: A postage stamp honouring Sachin Tendulkar was released before the start of the maestro's 200th Test match at the Wankhede Stadium.

o Nov 17: Sebastian Vettel of Red Bulls team won United States Grand Prix. o Nov 18: Legendary Sachin Tendulkar has ended his record-breaking 200-Test career by finishing 18th in the ICC Player

Rankings for Test batsmen

o Nov 21: Uruguay became the last team to qualify for the 2014 World Cup. o Nov 21: Hockey India appointed the former Olympic gold-medallist V Baskaran as Coach of the Senior Men Hockey

Team.

Imp: Baskaran will work under the recently appointed Chief Coach Terence Walsh.

o Nov 21: The long-serving Gurbax Singh Sandhu was retained as the national coach of the men's Indian boxing team till the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

o Nov 22: Indian Cricketer Virat Kohli became the fastest batsman to score 5000 runs in one-day internationals. o Nov 23: Magnus Carlsen defeated the previous world champion Viswanathan Anand in World Chess Championship. o Nov 23: World No. 1 womens tennis player Serena Williams was named WTA Player of the Year. o Nov 24: Formula one racing driver Sebastian Vettel won the F1 Brazilian Grand Prix 2013. o Nov 24: Jason Day, Australian Golfer won the Golf world cup at The Royal Melbourne Golf Club in Melbourne. o Nov 26: India's Deepak Lathore won a Gold and two Silver medals in the Boys' 50 kilogramme category of the

Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships o Nov 27: The 4th World Cup Kabaddi, circle style, will be held in Punjab from November 30 to December 14th 2013. o Nov 28: Nepal and the UAE have qualified for the ICC T20 World cup which will be held in Bangladesh next year. o Nov 28: Rafael Nadal was named the greatest Spanish sports star in history by readers of Spanish sports daily. o Nov 28: Cristiano Ronaldo's match-winning goals for Portugal in World Cup playoff matches against Sweden lifted his

country to No. 5 in the monthly FIFA rankings.

EULOGIES THIS MONTH

Nov 3: Renowned Pakistani folk singer Reshma, who was suffering from throat cancer for a long time, died in Lahore. Nov 7: Tarla Dalal, one of the first celebrity chefs of India as well as prolific cookbook writer died on 6 November 2013

due to heart attack in Mumbai.

Nov 21: India's senior women's hockey team coach Inderjit Singh Gill passed away in a fatal road accident in Punjab. Nov 21: Frederick Sanger, a British biochemist who is the only person to win Nobel Prize two times for Chemistry died. Nov 27: Sarah Teelow, the world champion water skier of Australia died. Nov 29: Noted Dalit writer Omprakash Valmiki passed away at Dehradun, Uttarakhand.

SCIETIFIC DISCOVERIES THIS MONTH Nov 1: Scientists discovered a new planet called Kepler 78b which has a similar mass and density to that of Earth. Nov 14: NASA released a natural-color image of Saturn from space, the first in which Saturn, its moons and rings, and

Earth, Venus and Mars, all are visible.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS THIS MONTH Nov 5: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan will deliver this year's Penguin Lecture, which has featured some of the world's most

respected leaders, thinkers and writers over the years.

Nov 5: Sikkim has been named as the best region to visit in 2014 by Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2014. Imp: In terms of countries, Brazil topped the list of best destinations to visit in 2014. Antarctica and Scotland were also

named in the top three.

Nov 6: India has more number of billionaires than France, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland and Hong Kong and is home to the sixth largest group of super rich population in the world, says a report.

Nov 8: Typhoon Haiyan battered the central Philippines.


Nov 15: Internet giant Google and investment firm KKR will invest $400 million in six solar plants in California and Arizona.

Nov 15: Lenovo launched Yoga Tablet. Nov 15: India ranks second in the list of countries that approached Google with requests, seeking information on users. Nov 16: German carmaker Volkswagen is the worlds top private-sector investor in research and development (R&D),

followed by South Korean electronics giant Samsung, according to EU data. Nov 17: The system, called CanSAR- The worlds largest cancer database containing 1.7 billion experimental results

has been launched, with an aim to discover future treatments for the deadly disease.

Nov 26: India has spurted ahead of China and the US as the most attractive investment destination, a survey by global professional services firm Ernst & Young (EY) said.

Imp: The top three investing countries into India are the US, France and Japan.

Nov 26: BJPs Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is among Time magazines shortlisted candidates for its Person of the Year title.

Nov 28: Hollywood actress Michelle Yeoh will attend the closing ceremony of the 44th edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) to be held on November 30.

RECURRING TERMS IN NEWSPAPER THIS MONTH Central bank liquidity swap: Central bank liquidity swap/Currency is a type of currency swap used by a country's central

bank to provide liquidity of its currency to another country's central bank.

Currency Swap: A currency swap is a foreign-exchange agreement between two institutions /Countries to exchange aspects (namely the principal an interest payments) of a loan in one currency for equivalent aspects of an equal in net present value

loan in another currency.

The Zero Landless programme in Kerala: The prestigious Zero Landless programme of the United Democratic Front was flagged off by Congress president Sonia Gandhi in October 2013. The Zero Landless programme envisages distribution of

three cents of land each to 243928 families identified across the State.

PRISM (surveillance programme): PRISM is a clandestine mass electronic surveillance data mining program known to have been operated by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) since 2007. The Prism program collects stored

Internet communications based on demands made to Internet companies such as Google Inc. under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to turn over any data that match court-approved search terms. The NSA can use these Prism

requests to target communications that were encrypted when they traveled across the Internet backbone, to focus on stored

data that telecommunication filtering systems discarded earlier, and to get data that is easier to handle, among other things.

Pravasi Bharatiya Divas: PBD is celebrated on 9th January every yearto mark the contribution of Overseas Indian community in the development of India. January 9 was chosen as the day to celebrate this occasion since it was on this day

in 1915 that Mahatma Gandhi the greatest Pravasi, returned to India from South Africa, led Indias freedom struggle and changed the lives of Indians forever.

Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana-Aajeevika: SGSY is an initiative by the government to provide sustainable income to poor people living in rural areas of the country.

Interest Rate Subvention: Interest Rate Subvention is a subsidy of interest given by Government to certain sectors like Textiles, Agriculture etc. For eg. Textile Company borrows from Bank at 10 percent and Government gives subvention of 2

percent. Hence net bank takes interest from textiles companies 8 percent. Other sectors have to pay 10 percent to the bank.

20th Law Commission of India: The 20th Law Commission of India was constituted with the Order of the Government of India with effect from 1 September 2012. It has a three-year term ending on 31st August, 2015.

ABBREVIATIONS THIS MONTH

FATF: Financial Action Task Force IAEA: International Atomic Energy Agency CAD: Current Account Deficit RTV-SLO: Radio-Television of Slovenia NMCE: National Multi-Commodity Exchange of India Ltd MTNL: Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited PFRDA: Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority WOS: Wholly Owned Subsidiaries PSBs: Public Sector Banks TRAI: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India


BOOKS AND AUTHORS THIS MONTH

The Union Health and Family Welfare Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad released the 7th edition of Indian Pharmacopoeia 2014 a book of Drug Standards.

The book entitled Birth of Cinema written by N. Gopal Krishna was released at ICFFI media centre by a Journalist T. Udayawarluon.

IMPORTANT DAYS THIS MONTH

November 1: World Vegan Day November 5: World Interact Day November 8: World Radiographer Day November 9: World Freedom Day November 10: The World Science Day for Peace and Development November 12: World Pneumonia Day November 14: World Diabetes Day November 16: International Day for Tolerance November 17: International Students Day November 19: World Toilet Day/ International Mens Day/ National Integration Day November 20: Universal Childrens Day/ Africa Industrialization Day November 21: World Fisheries Day November 22: World Television Day November 25: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women November 26: Constitution Day (India) 3rd Sunday of November: World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims

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