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1 November 2016

1) Odisha government has launched Madhubabu Aain Sahayata Sibir’ (MASS) scheme to provide legal assistance to deprived sections of the society at the grassroots level.

2) Kerala has become the third Open Defecation Free state in the country after Sikkim and Himachal Pradesh under the Swacch Bharat Abhiyan.

3) Maharashtra has been ranked first state in the country in 2016 Agricultural Marketing and Farmer Friendly Reforms Index.

4) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday visited Chhattisgarh to inaugurate the 16th foundation day celebrations of the state, which was carved out of Madhya Pradesh.

2 November 2016

1) Senior Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer Sushil Chandra took over as chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT).

2) State-run NHPC has announced commissioning of a 50 MW wind power project in Rajasthan.

3) India has ranked very poorly at 133 in a new Global Youth Development Index compiled by the Commonwealth Secretariat on the countries' prospects for young people in employment, education, health, civic and political spheres.

4) Kristalina Georgieva, a former head of EU humanitarian affairs and vice-president of the European commission, has been appointed chief executiveof the World Bank.

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3 November 2016

1) India has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Palestine for setting up of Palestine-India Techo Park at Ramallah in Palestine.

2) Ministry of Railways on 02nd November appointed Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, the founder of Sulabh International, as a Brand Ambassador for Swachh Rail Mission.

3) ICICI Bank has launched a credit facility against home loans for salaried customers.

4) In a bid to boost ties with India, the Australian government on 02nd November 2016 has announced 19 grants worth $6,30,000 dollars for several projects in the field of education, science, sports, arts and culture.

5) Palpreet Singh, winner of National Finals of ACG-NBA Jump, India's first national basketball talent search program, was selected 11th in the fourth Round of the NBA D-League Draft held in New York.

6) Researchers from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Thiruvananthapuram have developed a compound named gelator to scoop out marine oil spills.

7) Indian shuttler Pratul Joshi has won the Bahrain International Challenge badminton tournament in the men’s singles category. It was his maiden international title.

4 November 2016

1) The Union Government has imposed anti-dumping duty on imports of steel wire rods from China to protect domestic manufacturers from cheap in-bound shipments.



2) Indian actor Rekha will be honored by the upcoming Dubai International Film Festival with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

3) Renowned South Korean director Im Kwon Taek will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the upcoming 47th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa.

4) Researchers from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Thiruvananthapuram have developed a compound named gelator to scoop out marine oil spills.

5) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has presented the Ramnath Goenka Awardsfor Excellence in Journalism at a function in New Delhi.

6) Leading global professional network LinkedIn has signed an agreement with the human resource development ministry to create more job opportunities for Indian students.

5 November 2016

1) The Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation has inked MoU with Common Services Centre (CSC), a SPV of Ministry of Information Technology for enabling online submission of applications under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban).

2) An Indian Foreign Service (IFS) Sanjiv Arora has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Lebanon by Ministry of External Affairs (MEA). Lebanon, officially known as the Lebanese Republic, is a sovereign state in Western Asia

3) The Union Government has announced that the National Food Security Act (NFSA), 2013 which envisages supply of subsidised foodgrains has been implemented across the country.


NOVEMBER Month 2016 CURRENT AFFAIRS NEWS IN English-WWW.ONLINEXM.COM4) Paris climate change agreement, the first ever deal involving all the

world's nations in the battle against global warming, came into force on04th November.

5) South Korea's presidential office on 03 November 2016 named a new prime minister and finance minister. Kim Byong-joon, a senior former presidential secretary is expected to replace Hwang Kyo-ahn as prime minister.

6 November 2016

1) Minister of Railways Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu has inaugurated the International Conference on Decarbonisation of Indian Railways – Mission Electrification in New Delhi on November 3, 2016.

2) 7) 7th Session of the Conference of Parties (COP7) to World Health Organization, WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) will be held from november 7th to 12th of this month at Greater Noida.

3) Maharashtra has become the first state in the country to have a cyber-police station in each district to take on cyber criminals.

4) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has completed the construction of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)after more than 20 years of work.

7 November 2016

1) The Reserve Bank has appointed M Rajeshwar Rao as Executive Director (ED) following G Mahalingam’s voluntary retirement from the central bank.



2) India improved its ranking by one spot in a global index of business optimism, with policy reforms and Goods and Services tax (GST) expected to become a reality soon, says a survey.

3) The 7th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP7) to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) started in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh.

8 November 2016

1) World first hydrogen-powered and zero-emission passenger train named asCoradia iLint was unveiled in Germany.

2) Vice President of India, M. Hamid Ansari released book ‘An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India’ authored by Dr. Shashi Tharoor.

3) Scientists from Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur) claimed to have found evidence confirming the existence of a mythical Indian river, Chandrabhaga.

4) The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has launched ‘Startup Mentorship Circle’, a unique platform to help in connecting start-ups with the global marketplace.



5) Henri Kontinen and John Peers have won the ATP World Tour Masters Doubles title at the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris.

6) Czech Republic’s Petra Kvitova on 6 November 2016 won the 2016 WTA Elite Singles Trophy. She defeated Ukrainian Elina Svitolina 6-4, 6-2 to grab the title at Zhuhai, China.

9 November 2016

1) The Union Government has announced that Rs. 500, Rs. 1,000 notes will cease to be legal tender. It was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a surprise address to nation.

2) The Union Government has announced that Rs. 500, Rs. 1,000 notes will cease to be legal tender. It was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a surprise address to nation.

3) The latest Grant Thornton International Business Report for the July-September quarter has placed India 2nd on the global scale for business optimism.

4) The British government has announced that, 4 rupee-denominated bonds worth of 600 million pounds are expected to be listed in London in the next three months.

5) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued the Clarifications on hedging for External Commercial Borrowings (ECB). The Clarifications were issued under section 10(4) and 11(1) of the Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999.

6) BJP Vice President Avinash Rai Khanna is all set to be appointed as a member of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) with a high-level selection panel headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi clearing his name.



10 November 2016

1) The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has extended the Armed ForcesSpecial Powers Act (AFSPA) in three districts of Arunachal Pradesh.

2) The Union Cabinet has approved India-Japan Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for advancement of academic research in the field ofEarth Sciences

3) Syrian freelance journalist Hadi Abdullah was awarded with ‘Reporters without Borders (RSF)-TV5 Monde prize’ on November 8, 2016 for reporting from some of the most hazardous places in Syria’s five years old war.

4) Billionaire-turned-politician Donald Trump has been elected the 45th President of the United States.

5) India’s first eco-friendly liquefied natural gas (LNG)-driven bus was launched in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

6) The 9th Annual Meeting of International Regulatory Cooperation for Herbal Medicines (IRCH) was inaugurated in New Delhi.

7) Scientists have detected the presence of water on Psyche, the largest metallic asteroid in our solar system.

8) Bank of Baroda has appointed Ratnesh Kumar as Managing Director and CEO of its wholly-owned investment banking subsidiary, BoB Capital Markets Ltd.

11 November 2016



1) The first International Agro biodiversity Congress (IAC) held in new Delhi has adopted New Delhi Declaration on Agro biodiversity Management.

2) The Union Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship has launched of Pradhan Mantri Yuva Yojana (PMYY) to scale up an ecosystem of entrepreneurship for youngsters.

3) Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat on November 10 conferred the Uttarakhand Ratna award on his arch rival and former chief minister Narayan Dutt Tiwari on the occasion of the state's 17th foundation day.

4) The two -day BRICS Communication Minister’s Second meeting chaired by Minister of State for Communication Manoj Sinha began in Bangalore.

5) The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has launched Healthy India Initiative magazine and No More Tension mobile App.

12 November 2016

1) China has launched a navigation satellite, which will conduct in-orbit experiments using pulsar detectors to demonstrate new technologies.

2) California’s Attorney General Kamala Harris (51) created history by becoming the first India-American to win the US Senate (upper chamber) seat from the state.

3) After years of negotiations, India and Japan have signed a bilateral Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement on 11 November, 2016. With this, India has become the first non-NPT country with which Japan has signed a Civil Nuclear Agreement.

4) Former world number one Roger Federer won the Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award at the ATP awards on Thursday, for the 12th time in


NOVEMBER Month 2016 CURRENT AFFAIRS NEWS IN English-WWW.ONLINEXM.COMhis career. The award is given to players who display the "spirit of the sport" on the court.

13 November 2016

1) The Competition Commission of India (CCI) was selected as the host the 2018 International Competition Network (ICN) in New Delhi in March–April2018.

2) Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar on November 10th inaugurated the world’s largest digital national building initiative “Smart India Hackathon 2017” by handing over a torch to technology students.

3) The 2016 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum’s Leaders Summit will be held in Lima, Peru from November 19 to 20, 2016. The theme of the summit is “Quality Growth and Human Development” and the official logo is the architecture of the ancient city of Caral.

14 November 2016

1) The India-China Joint Training Exercise "Hand in Hand 2016" is scheduled to be held in Pune from November 15-27. This would mark the 6th annual joint training exercise between the Indian Army and the People's LiberationArmy of China.

2) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a three-year $12 billion loan program for Egypt, the largest such package to a Middle East nation

3) The World Diabetes Day is observed across the world on 14 November. Thetheme for the year is "Eyes on Diabetes".

4) Forward Vandana Katariya will captain Indian senior women's hockey team in the Test Series against Australia to be played at Melbourne from November 23 to November 30.



5) Narinder Batra has become the first Indian to be elected the President of the International Hockey Federation.

6) Australia will host the 2018 Invictus Games for wounded military personnel, Britain's Prince Harry announced.

15 November 2016

1) Employees State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) has launched ‘Kahin Bhi-Kabhi Bhi’ medical facilities for its beneficiaries of Delhi. Kahin Bhi means any dispensary/Hospital and Kabhi Bhi means anytime.

2) Fortune magazine has named the co-founder and CEO of the biggest social networking site Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg as Business Person of the Year,2016.

3) The 36th edition of India International Trade Fair (IITF) has started at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. It will be held from 14th to 18th November 2016.

4) Federal Bank, India's major commercial bank in the private sector has received Reserve Bank of India (RBI)'s permission to open its first international branch at the Dubai International Financial Centre.

5) Aditi Ashok is an Indian professional golfer who has scripted history on November 13th as she became the first Indian woman to win a Ladies European Tour title by clinching the Hero Women’s Indian Open.

6) Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the International Conference and Exhibition on Sugarcane Value Chain – Vision 2025 Sugar in Pune, Maharashtra.

7) Lyricist-writer Gulzar will be honoured with 2016 Tata Literature Live! Poet Laureate Award. The award will be presented to Gulzar, an Oscar and Grammy Award winner, at the inaugural of the festival on November 17.



8) An Indian-origin man from South Africa was awarded the Global Citizen Award for his "innovative and visionary" contribution to the global community.

16 November 2016

1) Indian golfer SSP Chawrasia clinched the $1 million (Rs. 6.8 cr.) Resorts World Manila Masters in the Philippines, his first ever Asian Tour title outside India.

2) Meghalaya on 14th November became the first state to start India's first Cherry Blossom Festival, which is widely celebrated in Japan.

3) Facebook’s Connectivity Lab has set a world record transmitting at nearly 20 Gbps for 13.2 kilometers using Milli Meter Wave (MMW) technology.

4) The Supermoon was observed after the moon was closest to the Earth at 356,509 km. This is for the first time moon came closest to Earth since 1948.

5) Private sector lender YES Bank has appointed Amresh Acharya as Group President and Head of Global Indian Banking.

6) International Master Padmini Rout has won the 2016 National Women Premier Chess Championship.

7) Hollywood actor Jackie Chan received his little gold statuette, an honorary Oscar for his decades of work in film on November 13th at the annual Governors Awards.

17 November 2016

1) The Union Ministry of Minority Affairs for the first time had inaugurated Hunar Haat (Skill Haat) at India International Trade Fair (2016) at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi.



2) The Defence Research and Development Organisation has successfully tested its unmanned combat aerial vehicle, Rustom-2.

3) Netherlands-based doctors have performed the first-ever brain implant on a 58-year-old woman paralysed by Lou Gehrig's disease, enabling her to communicate in day-to-day life via a speech computer.

4) Cyrus Mistry was voted out as chairman on 15th November by the board of the Tata Global Beverages. Harish Bhat, a non-executive director, has been appointed the chairman of the company.

5) Maharashtra became the first state in the country to adopt the Fly Ash Utilization Policy. It was approved by state cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.

18 November 2016

1) President Pranab Mukherjee launched the National Student Startup Policy (NSSP) to promote technology-driven student start-ups.

2) pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif inaugurated a trade route linking the south- western Gwadar port to Kashgar city in China as part of $46 billion projects to jumpstart economic growth in the South Asian country.

3) Oxford Dictionaries has declared "post-truth" to be its international word of the year.

4) The Unique Identification Authority of India has launched a revamped version of its toll-free helpline number 1947.

19 November 2016

1) United State president-elect Donald Trump has named Michael Flynn, an ex-army general as his National security adviser.



2) The Indian Navy on 18th November formally inducted four types of indigenously developed sonars that will boost its underwater surveillance capability.

3) The COP22 to the UNFCC, 12th session of COP of Parties to Kyoto Protocol (CMP 12), and first session of COP of Parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA

1) were held in Marrakech, Morocco.

20 November 2016

1) BBC World Service will launch 11 new language services as part of its biggest expansion “since the 1940s”, due to the funding boost. The newlanguages will be Afaan Oromo, Amharic, Gujarati, Igbo, Korean, Marathi, Pidgin, Punjabi, Telugu, Tigrinya, and Yoruba.

2) Times Internet, the digital arm of The Times of India group appointed former Twitter India head Rishi Jaitly as the chief executive officer (CEO) of Times Global Partners, a group initiative that supports the launch and expansion of emerging global digital companies in India.

21 November 2016

1) Telangana government has joined hands with Mumbai based IDFC Bank to enable cashless transactions and to solve the change problem.

2) The 47th International Film Festival of India (IFFI), considered to be Asia's oldest film festival, began in Goa on Nov 20, 2016.



3) Spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar was honoured with an International peace prize for his efforts in ensuring world peace.

4) Britain's Andy Murray clinched the 2016 ATP World Tour Finals title, after defeating Serbia's Novak Djokovic 6-3, 6-4 in the final in London on 20th November.

5) Olympic silver medalist P.V. Sindhu clinched her maiden Super Series Premier title after edging out Sun Yu of China in the finals of the USD 700,000 China Open badminton tournament in Fuzhou, China.

6) Bollywood Parks, Dubai has opened with fanfare, fireworks, dance, music and simulator 4D shows based on hit Hindi-language movies.

22 November 2016

1) The State Bank of Mauritius (SBM) Group has appointed Siby Sebastian as Chief Executive for its India operations. The SBM Group operates four branches in Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Ramachandrapuram.

2) India has been elected as the vice chair for 2018 and chair for 2019 of the Kimberly Process Certificate Scheme (KPCS).

3) Shaikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan was awarded the prestigious Mother Teresa International Award by the Mumbai-based NGO Harmony Foundation.

4) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the Pradhan Mantri Gramin Awas Yojana (PMAY-G), flagship housing for all scheme in Agra, Uttar Pradesh.



5) Captain Radhika Menon on 21 November 2016 was bestowed with the 2016 International Maritime Organization (IMO) Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea at IMO Headquarters in London, United Kingdom.

6) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has proposed the opening of “Islamic window” in conventional banks for “gradual” introduction of Sharia-compliant or interest-free banking in the country.

7) Thailand’s Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn was presented with the first ‘World Sanskrit Award’ for her exemplary contribution for the promotion of the language for the year 2015.

23 November 2016

1) Ace Indian Golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar has won the US $ 300,000 BANK BRI-JCB Indonesia Open for the second time in his career.

2) Pankaj R Patel, chairman & managing director of Cadila Healthcare Ltd (Zydus Cadila) has been elected as the new President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) for the year 2017.

3) India became an associate member of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the world’s largest nuclear and particle physics laboratory.

4) INS Chennai, a Kolkata-class stealth Guided missile destroyer ship was commissioned into Indian Navy’s combat fleet by Defence minister Manohar Parrikar in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

5) India’s longest express way connecting Agra and Lucknow was inaugurated by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav at Bangarmau in Unnao district of UP.

24 November 2016



1) The government has appointed Yudhvir Singh Malik as the Chairman of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).

2) The International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) has awarded ace shooter, Jitu Rai, the 'Champion of Champions' title for pistol shooting in 2016.

3) India and Switzerland have signed a Joint Declaration for implementation of Automatic Exchange of Information (AEOI) in respect of accounts of Indians held abroad.

4) In a big step towards fighting black money stashed overseas, Switzerland has agreed to automatic sharing of information with India on Swiss bank accounts of Indians as of September 2018 and onwards.

5) Senior journalist Akshaya Mukul has been awarded the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize for his book "Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India".

25 November 2016

1) The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved opening of one Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) in each of the 62 uncovered districts.

2) Airtel Payments Bank Ltd, a subsidiary of the country’s largest telecom operator Bharti Airtel, has rolled out a pilot of its banking services in Rajasthan. The banking service is aimed at testing systems and processes before a full-scale pan-Indian is launched.

3) Basketball stars Michael Jordan, actor Robert De Niro and music legend Bruce Springsteen were among the 21 people honoured with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

4) Indian Journalist Malini Subramaniam has been conferred with the International Press Freedom Award for her reporting from Chhattisgarh's Naxal-infested Bastar area.



5) The 13th World Robot Olympiad will be held in India for the first time ever. It will be organized jointly by NCSM under the aegis of Ministry of Culture and India STEM Foundation (ISF) from 25 November to 27 November 2016 at the India Expo Mart, Greater Noida.

26 November 2016

1) US President-elect Donald Trump has chosen South Carolina's Indian-American Governor Nikki Haley as US ambassador to the United Nations (UN).

2) India has been ranked 138th in the 2016 ICT Development Index out of a total of 175 countries. In 2015, India ranked 135th position.

3) Celebrated Indian boxer M C Mary Kom is all set to add another honour to her glittering career when she receives ‘the Legends Award' from the International Boxing Association (AIBA) on its 70th anniversary on December 20.

4) Australia’s former women’s captain Karen Rolton has been inducted into the ICC’s Hall of Fame on November 24, 2016 at a ceremony during the dinner break on the opening Karen Rolton day of the third day/night Test between Australia and South Africa.

27 November 2016

1) The upgraded Jaguar DARIN III twin-seat aircraft on 24 November 2016 received the Initial Operation Clearance (IOC).

2) China has successfully launched the Tianlian I-04 satellite from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in Sichuan province of Southwest China.

3) Australia’s former women’s captain Karen Rolton has been inducted into the ICC’s Hall of Fame on November 24, 2016 at a ceremony during the dinner break on the opening Karen Rolton day of the third day/night Test between Australia and South Africa.



28 November 2016

1) Lt. Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa was appointed Pakistan’s new army chief (or Chief of Army Staff, COAS).

2)In Badminton, Rio Olympics silver medal list PV Sindhu has lost in the Final of the Hong Kong Open Super Series tournament.

3) Indian golfer Aditi Ashok has won the inaugural Qatar Ladies Open in Doha. With this, she recorded her second straight victory on the Ladies European Tour.

4) The Union Ministry of Civil Aviation launched AirSewa website and app to track flights, register complaints to offer people a convenient and hassle-free air travel experience.

5) Sachin Singh became only the third Indian boxer to win a gold medal at the Youth World Championships after registering a 5-0 unanimous win over Cuba's Jorge Grinan in St. Petersburg, Russia on Saturday.

29 November 2016

1) Akodara village in Sabarkantha district of Gujarat has earned the coveted tag of becoming India’s first digital village in India.

2) Iranian film “Daughter” has won the coveted Golden Peacock award at the 47th International Film Festival of India (IFFI).

3) Argentina defeated Croatia to win their first ever maiden Davis Cup tennis title in Zagreb, Croatia on November 28, 2016.



30 November 2016

1) Former Hockey player Mariamma Koshy on 25 November 2016 took chargeof Hockey India as its president with immediate effect.

2) The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) has set up two high-level advisory committees to gather inputs from experts, including on service providers and corporate liquidation.

3) The International Film Festival of India (IFFI) has nominated eight movies for this year’s International Council for Film, Television (ICFT) and Audio-visual Communication UNESCO Gandhi Medal.


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