Daily NEWS/Currents.. 18th NOV. 1. Indian Railways and Republic of Korea Sign MoU on Technical Cooperation in the Rail Sector. 2. Vision S&T 2020: A road ahead towards self-reliance and technological independence in the 21st Century. 3. UIDAI : the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has generated over 2 crore Aadhaar numbers in Bihar out of a total population of 10.41 crore (as per Census 2011). The UIDAI has, till date, issued over 70.8 crore Aadhaar numbers. Nine States/UTs including Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala, Delhi and Himachal Pradesh have crossed 90 percent Aadhaar coverage, while a further seven States/UTs have Aadhaar coverage of between 75 and 90 percent. 4. Rajiv Mehrishi: Finance Secretary and Secretary,, Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), Ministry of Finance, Government of India has been appointed as India’s Alternate Governor on the Board of Governors of the Asian Development Bank, Manila, Philippines. He replaced the former Finance Secretary Shri Arvind Mayaram. 5. CS Verma: Chairman of SAIL is conferred on the IIM-JRD Tata Award for Excellence 2014 in Corporate leadership in Metallurgical Industries. 6. Michel Kafando: is chosen as the Interim President of Burkina Faso till the national election scheduled in November 2015. . 7. Boxing India - national governing body of the game - readmitted into the international fold by the International Boxing Association. The body - erstwhile known as Indian Amateur Boxing Federation - was provisionally suspended for alleged manipulation in the election held in December 2012. 8. Klaus Iohannis elected as Romanian President. He first president with foreign (German) origin. He will replace the incumbent President Traian Basescu. 9. G20 summits: Turkey will play host to the next G20 summit (2015) while the 2016 Summit by China. 10. Wi-Fi services in Connaught Place: New Delhi Municipal Council launched Public Wi-Fi services in Connaught Place 4.5 Square kilometer inner and outer circle of the area, the business hub of New Delhi in consonance with Prime Minister Narendra Modis Digital India project. 11. Baba Ramdev has been provided with a Z-category security by the central government taking into account his vulnerability to attacks from his opponents. This decision has been taken by the home ministry after receiving inputs from security agencies and increased perception of threat to Ramdev. 12. Aditya:the first satellite which will be placed 1.5 million km away from the earth, at the Langrangian point of the Sun-Earth system aimed at studying the sun in 2017 by ISRO. 13. Gunjan Sarma: The Assam government has presented the First State Bravery Award to Gunjan Sarma in Guwahati for the first ever bravery award for showing exemplary courage in saving lives of 10 children from her school who was taken hostage by a gunman on December 4, 2013. 14. TSR Subramanian Committee Submits Report: it was constituted to review the processes, laws and Acts of the Ministry. 15. Extra Cover: (a) 17th Nov: Lala Lajpat Rai Death anniversary, He was the founder of Punjab National Bank apart from great Indian freedom fighter. Happy Reading.... blog: moinsheikh.wordpress/2014/11/18/daily-newscurrents-27/
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:30:01 +0000
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