The International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict is an international day observed annually on November 6. On 5 November 2001, the UN General Assembly declared 6 November of each year as the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict (A/RES/56/4).
Former captain Rahul Dravid has been appointed as the head coach of the Indian men’s cricket team by the BCCI. Recently, he applied for the job formally, after the BCCI invited applications, and his appointment was a foregone conclusion. The former right-handed batsman has been appointed for a period of two years till the 2023
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South African writer Damon Galgut has been awarded the prestigious 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction on November 3, 2021. He’s the winner of the 2021 award for The Promise, a mordant, realist look at the Swarts family, white descendants of Boer settlers during the aftermath of apartheid in the latter half of the 20th century. The
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China sent an Earth science satellite into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern Shanxi Province. The satellite was launched via Long March-6 carrier rocket on November 05, 2021. Guangmu is the world’s first Earth-science satellite dedicated to serving the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda.
Yahoo Inc. said it plans to pull out of China, citing an “increasingly challenging business and legal environment.” The company said in a statement that its services will no longer be accessible from mainland China as of November 1.With this Yahoo has ended its 22-year presence in the Chinese market. This means that services like
The first open air rooftop drive-in movie theatre in India has been inaugurated at Jio World Drive mall of Reliance Industries in Mumbai, Maharashtra on November 05, 2021. The drive-in theatre will be operated and managed by the multiplex chain PVR Ltd. The theatre has been launched in partnership with the Reliance Retail and multiplex
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Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi visited Kedarnath in Uttarakhand on Friday, November 05, 2021 to inaugurate key infrastructure projects related to the redevelopment of Kedarnath. He was addressing a large gathering of teerth-purohits and devotees at the Kedarnath temple after unveiling a 12-foot statue of Adi Guru Shankaracharya at the seer’s rebuilt samadhi. The Prime Minister also
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Niti Aayog and the World Bank are working together to facilitate a program for faster and easier financing of electric vehicles (EV) after high-street banks seemed lukewarm due to a small resale market, higher default probabilities, and significant upfront costs. NITI Aayog and World Bank are setting up a $300-million ‘first loss risk sharing instrument’, with the State Bank of India (SBI) as its
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Mysore-born CS Venkatakrishnan has replaced Jes Staley as Barclays CEO after the latter stepped down. Jes Staley stepped down from Barclays, which is Britain’s third-biggest bank by market value, after a probe into his relationship with financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. As chief risk officer, Venkatakrishnan put in place processes that proved instrumental in
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Hyderabad-based vaccine maker Bharat Biotech received a shot in the arm as the World Health Organisation (WHO) granted approval to India’s first indigenous Covid vaccine– Covaxin– for emergency use listing (EUL) 18 years and above. This marks a major victory for India’s journey in vaccination against Covid-19. Covaxin is a vaccine, completely ‘made in India’, by Hyderabad-based
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