Daily Current Affairs : 3rd November 2013 ____________________________________ 1. Festival of Lights, Diwali celebrated across the nation. The festival marks the triumph of good over evil, of righteousness over treachery, of truth over falsehood, and of light over darkness. 2. Legendary Pakistani folk singer Reshma passed away in Lahore, Pakistan on 3 November 2013 after a long battle with throat cancer. She is known for her popular songs such as Lambi Judai and Dama Dam Mast Kalandar. She is survived by a son and a daughter. 3. Kannur declared First Zero Landless District in the Country. Announcing this in New Delhi, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh urged all states to emulate the example of Kerala in distribution of land. 4. China on 31 October 2013 opened a new highway that links Medog to Zhamog-located near the border with Arunachal Pradesh. 5. The Union Health and Family Welfare Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad released the 7th edition of Indian Pharmacopoeia 2014 – a book of Drug Standards at the Nirman Bhawan on 4 November 2013. 6. Nitish Sengupta, the former Lok Sabha and Revenue Secretary died on 3 November 2013 due to the cardiac arrest. 7. Bangladesh became the First South Asian Country to Approve Commercial Cultivation of Bt Brinjal. 8. India and Vietnam signed a treaty on transfer of sentenced prisoners in the jails in the two countries. 9. Jignesh Shah, founder, vice-chairman and a Director of Multi-Commodity Exchange (MCX), resigned from the board on 31 October 2013. 10. Russia and Japan on 2 November 2013 held their first joint Defence and Foreign Ministers meeting and agreed to expand their defense and security cooperation. 11. Countdown for Indias maiden mission to Mars began at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. During the countdown, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) - a giant 45-metre rocket - will be fuelled and its health checked. 12. The None Of The Above (NOTA) option that will be exercised for the first time in the country, will be printed in Pink colour on the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and ballot papers in the forthcoming Assembly polls in five states. 13. Virat Kohli became the number one batsman in One-day cricket after a superb batting show against Australia in the just-concluded series, in which he scored 344 runs. 14. Rohit Sharma, the Indian batsman on 2 November 2013 became the third cricketer in the world to score a double hundred in an ODI match. 15. Indian mens hockey team on 3 November 2013 officially qualified for the Rabobank Hockey World Cup 2014.
Posted on: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 06:37:42 +0000
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