Current Affairs 1-15th November 2014 1.Yahoo acquired video advertising service Bright roll. 2.KC Reddy appointed as United Nations probe panel on Gaza. 3.World kindness day-13th Nov 4.Facebook launched Say Thanks a personalised video creation tool. 5. 5 top cricketers appointed as ambassador for ICC cricket Worldcup- Virat Kohli,Shane Watson,Kumar Sangakkara,Mitchel Johnson and Brendon McCullum 6.New chairperson of NACWC (national authority for chemical weapon convention)- GS sandhum 7.According to world malnutrition index the percentage of children who died from malnutrition is- 17.8% 8.National education day-11th Nov to commemorate birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (1st education minister of India) 9.1st state to have bank accounts for all families under PMJDY scheme- Kerala 10.Johnson & Johnson pvt ltd acquired electrolyte drink brand ORSL 11.Earth Heroes award- Darjeeling zoo Or Padmaja Naidu Himalayan zoological Park (W.bengal) Indias 1st zoo to get this award 12.Most powerful woman in business in India by fortune magazine- Arundhati Bhattacharya 13.World science day-10th Nov Theme-Quality science education- ensuring a sustainable future for all 14.Jeevan Pramaan-Digitallife certificate for pensioners has been launched. It will benefit over crores of pensioners in the country. 15.Worlds tallest hybrid wind generator turbine located in- Kutch (Gujrat) (height-120m) 16.Indias 1st automatic freight train designed for transportation of finished cars- AutolinxSM 17.New chief minister of Goa- Laxmikant Parsekar 18.European goldenboot award 2013-14- Christiano Ronaldo 20.1st Finance minister of Telangana- Etela Rajendra 21.Axis bank signed pact with NongHyup Bank (S.Korea) to improve co-operation in treasury. 22.Asia Pacific Economic Summit (APEC) will be held in Beijing (China). 23.Author of the book Dark star-The lonliness of being Rajesh khanna- Gautam Chintamani 24.National Cancer Awareness day-7th Nov 25.Global NCAP urged which car to be withdrawn from the Indian market- Datsun Go 26.Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Earth Hero award-Erach Bharucha (environment educationist) 27.Burgerking patnered with e-bay to launch its burgers online. 28.Only Banking body to be recognised as a Global growth company(GGC) 2014 by World Economic Forum- RBL Bank (Ratnakar Bank.ltd) Head Quarter-Kolhapur (Maharastra) 29.International day for preventing exploitation of environment in war and armed conflict-6th Nov 30.No.1 in Forbes list of most powerful people in the world-Vladimir Putin (Narendra Modi is placed at 15th in the above list) 31.New chairperson of CBDT-Anita Kapur 32.New Horizon in Physics prize 2014- Shiraz Naval Minwalla 33.1st woman chief of CERN-Fabiola Gianotti (Italian Physicist) 34.1st listed Indian company to have 75% share holdings by FIIs-HDFC 35.World Trade centre opened its new tower for business after 9/11 terrorist attack- Conde Nast 36.Union Ministry of MSME and ILO signed MoU to promote the Make In India initiative. 37.India-Saudi Arabia joined hands to co-operate in Hydrocarbon sector. 38.New financial services secretary Hasmukh Adhia 39.International day to end impunity for crimes against journalist-2nd Nov 40.India-Srilanka joint military exercise name-Mithra Shakti 41.A new planet named PH3c is discovered by the astronomers of Yale university and University of oxford. It is located around 2300 lightyear from earth. 42.India Economic summit held in New delhi under the theme- Redefining Public-Private co-operation for a new begining 43.The grand Cordon of the Paulowina flowers (Japanese award)- Manmohan Singh (former PM) 44.International Counter-Piracy Conference- Dubai 45.New chairman of National Institute of Public finance and Policy (NIPFP)- Vijay Kelkar 46.President of Indian Council for cultural relations-Lokesh Chandra 47. 2 Indian scientists were awraded by the Marconi Society-Joseph Paulraj (for his contribution in developing wireless technology to transfer data at high speed) and Himanshu Asna
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