@@@@@Important News@@@@@ **1**. Veteran classical vocalist Pandit Jasraj was conferred with the Sumitra Charat Ram Award 2014 for Lifetime Achievement. **2**. Neha Gupta was awarded with the prestigious International Children’s Peace Prize 2014. **3**. The Indian Space Research Organisation was chosen for the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2014. **4**. Radio Kashmir Jammu won prestigious Gandhian Philosophy and Public Service Broadcasting award 2014 for its programme Jeevan Rekha. **5**. President Pranab Mukherjee conferred the 49th Jnanpith Award on eminent Hindi poet Kedarnath Singh. **6**. The Darjeeling Zoo or the Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park was selected for the prestigious International Award The Earth Heroes Award 2014. **7**. The Hockey India chief Narinder Batra was awarded the prestigious Presidents Award by the International Hockey Federation at Morocco. **8**. Former Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh received the Japan’s top national award The Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers 2014. **9**. The US President Barack Obama will be the Chief Guest at 66th India’s Republic Day celebrations 2015. He will be the first US President to attend the Republic Day Parade of India. **10**. Supreme Court directed CBI Director Ranjit Sinha to withdraw himself from 2G case and asked CBI chief not to interfere in the ongoing 2G probe. **11**. Neel Mukherjee was in news because his book Lives of Others was shortlisted for Costa Book Awards. **12**. Rampal Singh Jatin was in news because he was arrested by Haryana Police on 19 November 2014 from his fortified Satlok Ashram in Hisar of Haryana. **13**. Union Government nominated Dr. Hasmukh Adhia as a Director on the Central Board of Directors of the Reserve Bank of India. **14**. US Navy SEAL commando Robert O’Neill who shot Osama bin Laden at his Pakistan hideout in Abbottobad on 2 May 2011 revealed his identity. **15**. Indian-American Nikki Haley won second term as South Carolina Governor. **16**. Mallikarjun Kharge, a leader of Congress in Lok Sabha was inducted into the three-member Chief Information Commissioner selection committee. **17**. Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited to Fiji. He is the first Indian Prime Minister to visit the Pacific countries after Indira Gandhi who visited in 1981. **18**. Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Australia as part of G-20 summit and bilateral summit with Australia. He became the first Indian Prime Minister to address the Australian Parliament. He also addressed the Indian diasporas in Australia. **19**. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh visited Israel to discuss bilateral issues including strengthening security ties and fight against terror. **20**. President Pranab Mukherjee visited Bhutan. During his visit, the two countries signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Nalanda University. **21**. Oscar award winner Mike Nichols died. **22**. Legendary Kathak danseuse Sitara Devi died. **23**. Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister Murli Deora died after a prolonged illness. **24**. Mathematician Alexander Grothendieck died in France. **25**. Goa Chief Minister Manohar Gopalkrishna Prabhu Parrikar resigned to take up the post of Defence minister in the Union Cabinet. **26**. Baiji in Iraq was in news because Iraqi authorities claimed that Government forces have recaptured the strategic northern town of Baiji from Islamic State for Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 09:44:56 +0000
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