Dear Readers, Here we have given the list of Important Weekly Current Affairs of 3rd week November 2019. Candidates those who are preparing for Upcoming IBPS Clerk 2019 and other competitive exams can make use of it.
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Current Affairs: Important Days
| Date |
Important days |
Theme |
| November 16 |
International Day for Tolerance |
– |
| November 16 |
National Press Day |
– |
| November 17 |
National Epilepsy Day |
– |
| November 17
(Third Sunday in November) |
World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims |
– |
| November 17 |
International Students’ Day |
– |
| November 19 |
International Men’s Day |
– |
| November 19 |
World Toilet Day |
Leaving No One Behind |
| November 20 |
Universal Children’s Day |
– |
| November 21
(third Thursday of November) |
World Philosophy Day |
– |
| November 21 |
World Television Day |
– |
| November 21 |
World Fisheries day |
Social Responsibility in the fisheries value chain |
Current Affairs: National
- Rajnath Singh inaugurated Sisseri Bridge, built by the Border Road Organisation (BRO) on Pasighat-Bomjir Highway in Arunachal Pradesh
- India had the second-highest number of deaths of children under the age of five in 2018 due to pneumonia
- Union Home Minister Amit Shah will inaugurate the National Tribal Festival “Aadi Mahotsav” in New Delhi
- Union Minister Smriti Irani along with Bill Gates launched the Bharatiya Poshan Krishi Kosh
| Ministry of Women and Child Development & Ministry of Textiles |
| Union Minister |
Smriti Zubin Irani |
| Constituency |
Amethi, Uttar Pradesh |
- Harsh Vardhan launched ‘SAANS’, a campaign aimed at reducing child mortality due to pneumonia
- Home Ministry launches Campaign with the UN Women to End Violence Against Women
| USEFUL INFO |
| Ministry of Home Affairs |
| Union Minister |
Amit Shah |
| Constituency |
Gandhinagar, Gujarat |
- Union Cabinet has approved setting up of the National Institute for Sowa-Rigpa in Leh as an autonomous organization
- Cabinet approves MoU between India and Finland for strengthening cooperation in the field of Tourism
- Prakash Javadekar inaugurates Film Bazaar on sidelines of golden jubilee edition of IFFI 2019
10.E-Cigarette bill banning production, import & sale of E- Cigarette & related products introduced in Lok Sabha
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Current Affairs: State
- Jharkhand celebrates the 19th State Formation day on 15 November 2019.
| USEFUL INFO |
| Jharkhand Capital |
Ranchi |
| Jharkhand CM |
Raghubar Das |
| Jharkhand Governor |
Draupadi Murmu |
- National Initiative for School Heads’ and Teachers’ Holistic Advancement (NISHTHA) was launched in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir
- Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal announced a scheme – Mukhyamantri Septic Tank Safai Yojana free septic tank cleaning service
| USEFUL INFO |
| Delhi Capital |
New Delhi |
| CM |
ArvindKejriwal |
| Governor |
Anil Bijal |
- Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has inaugurated North India’s first sugar mill which will produce ethanol direct from sugarcane
| USEFUL INFO |
| Uttar Pradesh Capital |
Lucknow |
| Uttar Pradesh CM |
Yogi Adithiyanath |
| Uttar Pradesh Governor |
Anandiben Patel |
- 4th India International Cherry Blossom Festival 2019 was organised in Shillong, Meghalaya
| USEFUL INFO |
| Meghalaya Capital |
Shillong |
| Meghalaya CM |
Conrad Sangma |
| Meghalaya Governor |
Tathagata Roy |
- Telangana got its first ‘child-friendly’ police station at Medipally in Hyderabad
| USEFUL INFO |
| Telangana Capital |
Hyderabad |
| Telangana CM |
Chandrasekhar Rao |
| Telangana Governor |
Tamilisai Soundararajan |
- Assam Cabinet has approved the Arundhati scheme to provide gold at free of cost to the brides
| USEFUL INFO |
| Assam Capital |
Dishpur |
| Assam CM |
Sarbananda Sonowal |
| Assam Governor |
Jagdish Mukhi |
- Kolkata Becomes First City to Install ‘Third Umpire’ RT-PCR Machines for Speedy Detection of Dengue
| USEFUL INFO |
| West Bengal Capital |
Kolkata |
| West Bengal CM |
Mamata Banerjee |
| West Bengal Governor |
Jagdeep Dhankhar |
- Visakhapatnam Police have launched first of its kind cybersecurity interactive robotic agent robot, CYBIRA to take complaints
| USEFUL INFO |
| Andhra Pradesh Capital |
Amaravathi |
| Andhra Pradesh CM |
Jagan Mohan Reddy |
| Andhra Pradesh Governor |
Biswabhusan Harichandan |
- First Hindi daily ‘Arun Bhoomi’ launched in Arunachal Pradesh
| USEFUL INFO |
| Arunachal Pradesh Capital |
Itanagar |
| Arunachal Pradesh CM |
Pema Khandu |
| Arunachal Pradesh Governor |
BD Mishra |
- Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal released the new Land Policy 2019 in Guwahati.
| USEFUL INFO |
| Assam Capital |
Dishpur |
| Assam CM |
Sarbananda Sonowal |
| Assam Governor |
Jagdish Mukhi |
Current Affairs: International
- 5th edition of the Dhaka International Folk Festival was inaugurated
| USEFUL INFO |
| Bangladesh Capital |
Dhaka |
| Bangladesh Currency |
Taka |
| Bangladesh Prime Minister |
Sheikh Hasina |
- Pakistan becomes first country to introduce new vaccine to combat typhoid
| USEFUL INFO |
| Pakistan’s Capital |
Islamabad |
| Pakistan Currency |
Rupee |
| Pakistan PM |
Imran Khan |
Current Affairs: Banking and Finance
- ADB has approved $575 million loan to Mumbai for boosting investment in renewable energy
- ADB and India Signed $91 million loan for Comprehensive Water Management in Karnataka
| USEFUL INFO |
| Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) |
| President |
Jin Liqun |
| Headquarters |
Beijing, China |
- ICICI Lombard has been partnering with Fino Payments Bank to offer sachet based insurance products
| USEFUL INFO |
| Fino Payments Bank |
| MD & CEO |
Rishi Gupta |
| Headquarters |
Navi Mumbai |
| ORGANISATION |
GDP RATE |
| 2019 – 20 (FY20) |
2020 – 21 (FY21) |
| National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) |
4.9% |
– |
| Moody’s |
5.6% |
– |
Current Affairs: Appointments
| Nita Ambani |
Honorary trustee of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Nilam Sawhney |
Chief Secretary of Andhra Pradesh |
| Gotabaya Rajapaksa |
President of Sri Lankan |
| Justice Akil Abdul hamid Kureshi |
Chief Justice of the High Court of Tripura |
| Dr Ravi Ranjan |
Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court |
| Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde |
47th Chief Justice of India |
| Lt Col Jyoti Sharma |
Army’s first female Judge Advocate General officer to be deployed on a foreign mission |
| Arsene Wenger |
FIFA’s Chief of global football development |
| Mahinda Rajapaksa |
New prime minister of Sri Lanka |
Current Affairs: Awards and Honours
| Tobacco Board of India |
Golden Leaf Award at Tab Expo 2019 event in Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Sridevi |
ANR National Award for 2018 |
| Rekha |
ANR National Award for 2019 |
| Sir David Attenborough |
Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for 2019 |
| Bajrang Punia
(Wrestler) |
Indian Personality of the Year Award (Sports) at the Indo Arab Leaders Summit & Awards 2019 in Dubai. |
| Mahant Gaurav Sharma
(Powerlifting) |
Visionary Leaders of the Year (Sports) award
at the Indo Arab Leaders Summit & Awards 2019 in Dubai |
| Divina Maloum (Cameroon)
Greta Thunberg (Sweden) |
Children’s Peace Prize, awarded by the Dutch KidsRight organisation |
| Susan Choi |
National Book Award for fiction for “Trust Exercise,” |
Current Affairs: Summit and Conference
- India to host the 8th International Conference on Agricultural Statistics in New Delhi
2. Regional Conference on “Replication of Good Governance Practices in Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh” begins in Jammu
- Shri Shripad Yesso Naik inaugurated two days “International Conference on Yoga for Heart care” at Mysuru, Karnataka
- 21st Annual Meeting of International Society of Addiction Medicine was held in New Delhi
- 2nd World Religious Leaders Summit begins in Baku, Azerbaijan
| USEFUL INFO |
| Azerbaijan Capital |
Baku |
| Azerbaijan Currency |
Azerbaijani manat |
| Azerbaijan President |
Ilham Aliyev |
- 9th World Engineering Education Forum will take place at ITC Grand Chola Hotel in Chennai, Tamil Nadu
7. International Principal’s Education Conference (IPEC) inaugurated at Nagpur
- India ASEAN InnoTech Summit 2019 held in Davao, Philippines
- 29th World Customs Organisation (WCO) Asia Pacific Regional Contact Points (RCP) meeting begins in Puducherry
- 2nd edition of South Asia Safety Summit held in New Delhi
- Three-day Global Bio-India Summit will begin in New Delhi.
- International Centre for Automotive Technology (ICAT) is organizing a NuGen Mobility Summit, 2019, at Manesar
Current Affairs: Science and Technology
- IIT-Guwahati scientists developed paper based sensor to check milk quality at home
- India has successfully conducted Surface-to-surface medium-range missile Agni-II trial test at Dr Abdul Kalam Island off Odisha coast
- Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOC) launched a special winter-grade diesel that remains unfrozen up to minus 33 degree Celsius for UT of Ladakh
Current Affairs: Ranking and Index
| Index |
India’s Rank |
Top |
Bottom |
Other Info |
| IMD World Talent Ranking |
59th |
Switzerland |
– |
based on the performance in three main categories — investment and development, appeal and readiness |
- According to a Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) study, Mumbai ranks the highest in the quality of tap water while Delhi ranked bottom of the list
- Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates regained his status as the world’s richest person for the first time in two years
- Microsoft’s India-born Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella has occupied the top spot in Fortune’s Businessperson of the Year 2019 list
- Bangalore emerged as India’s highest ranked city at no. 83 in global prosperity index
Current Affairs: MoU
- Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC) inks MoU with Karnataka tourism to market, run Golden Chariot train
Current Affairs: Books
| Author |
Book |
| Harish Bhat |
‘An Extreme Love for Coffee’ |
Current Affairs: Defence
- Qatar-India maiden bilateral maritime exercise ‘Za’ir-Al-Bahr’ (Roar of the sea) flagged off
| USEFUL INFO |
| Qatar Capital |
Doha |
| Qatar Currency |
Qatari riyal |
| Qatar Prime Minister |
Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani |
- Sudarshan Chakra Corps of the Indian Army conducted ‘Sindhu Sudarshan’ exercise in Rajasthan’s Barmer
- ISRO to launch Cartosat-3 and 13 commercial nano satellites on November 25
| USEFUL INFO |
| Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) |
| Chairman |
Kailasavadivoo Sivan |
| Headquarters |
Bengaluru |
4. Pakistan conducts test launch of nuclear-capable surface-to-surface ballistic missile ‘Shaheen-I’
| USEFUL INFO |
| Pakistan’s Capital |
Islamabad |
| Pakistan Currency |
Rupee |
| Pakistan PM |
Imran Khan |
- Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) delivered it 102nd warship, ICGS Amrit Kaur, to the Indian Coast Guard
| USEFUL INFO |
| Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) |
| GRSE Headquarters |
Kolkata |
| Chairman & CEO GRSE |
Rear Admiral VK Saxena, |
- NIA to host first counter-terrorism cooperation exercise for ‘Quad’ countries at the NIA headquarters in Delhi
Current Affairs: Sports
- 2019 World Kabaddi Cup will take place from December 1 to 9 and will be organised by the Punjab government
- International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has changed its name and will now be officially known as World Athletics
| USEFUL INFO |
| World Athletics |
| President |
Sebastian Coe |
| Headquarters |
Monaco |
- Spain’s all-time top scorer David Villa announced retirement from football
- India’s boxing ace, Laishram Sarita Devi, has been elected unopposed as a member of the first-ever international boxing body (AIBA) athletes’ commission
- Stefanos Tsitsipas beat Dominic Thiem to win the ATP World Tour Finals trophy held at O2 Arena in London
- South Korea’s Kim Joo Hyung has won the Panasonic Open held at the Classic Golf and Country Club in Gurugram, India
- Harmeet Desai defeated his compatriot Amalraj Anthony to win the gold medal in the ITTF Challenge Indonesia Open 2019
- Shooter Shreyasi Singh crowned National Champion in Women’s Trap
- Brazil to beat Mexico in the finals for 2-1, to win the 18th edition of the FIFA under 17 World Cup trophy held in Brasilia, Brazil
- Max Verstappen has won the Formula One Brazilian Grand Prix 2019.
- India captain Virat Kohli was, named People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India’s ‘Person of the Year for 2019’ for his animal advocacy efforts
- Bhubaneswar will host India’s home matches of the 2020 Hockey Pro League
- Manu Bhaker bags gold medal in ISSF World Cup Finals at Putian in China
