Current Affairs November 2021

Legendary player AB de Villiers announces retirement from all forms of cricket

Former South Africa captain AB de Villiers has announced his retirement from all forms of cricket on November 19, 2021. De Villiers had quit international cricket in May 2018, sending shockwaves around the cricket fraternity at the time, but had continued to play his trade in the Indian Premier League (IPL) and other T20 competitions […]

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Hema Malini and Prasoon Joshi conferred with Film Personalities of the Year at 52nd IFFI

Veteran actress Hema Malini and lyrics writer Prasoon Joshi have been conferred with the Indian Personality of the Year award for 2021. While Hema Malini is an actor-turned-politician, Prasoon Joshi is the chairman of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC). The 52nd edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) will be organised

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Veteran Punjabi Folk Singer Gurmeet Bawa Passes Away at 77

Renowned Punjabi folk singer Gurmeet Bawa has passed away following a prolonged illness. She was 77. The folk artist breathed her last at a city hospital here, said family friend Bhupinder Singh Sandhu. Gurmeet Bawa, the wife of Punjabi folk singer Kirpal Bawa, was best known for her long ‘hek’ (opening of a song while

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India Concludes with 7 medals at 2021 Asian Archery Championships in Dhaka

India has finished with 7 medals at the 2021 Asian Archery Championships. The 2021 Asian Archery Championships was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh from November 14, 2021, to November 19, 2021. The Indian archers bagged seven medals at the competition to occupy second place in the medal table. This included one gold, four silver and two bronze medals.

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Geoff Allardice appointed as Permanent CEO of the International Cricket Council

Geoff Allardice was appointed as the permanent CEO of the International Cricket Council (ICC) on November 21. Allardice held the position of ICC CEO on an interim basis since March this year. Allardice was serving as interim CEO for more than eight months. He replaces Manu Sawhney who officially resigned from his position in July 2021.

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INS Visakhapatnam commissioned into Indian Navy

The Indian Navy’s firepower got a major boost with the induction of INS Visakhapatnam, one of the four stealth guided-missile destroyer ships under Project 15B, at the Western Naval Command in Mumbai on November 21, 2021. This is the first of the four ‘Visakhapatnam’ class destroyers. It has been designed by the Indian Navy’s in-house

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AYUSH Minister Sarbananda Sonowal announces expansion of NEIAFMR in Arunachal Pradesh

The Union Minister of Ports, Shipping, and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal has announced the expansion of the North Eastern Institute of Ayurveda and Folk Medicine Research (NEIAFMR) in Pasighat, Arunachal Pradesh by developing new infrastructure within the campus. This is in continuation to the focused approach to develop the AYUSH sector in the entire northeast. Speaking at the

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SIDBI collaborated with Google for financial assistance to MSMEs

Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) has collaborated with Google to launch a $15 million financial assistance program for micro-enterprises. It is a one-of-a-kind program by SIDBI as a crisis response related to Covid-19 to reinvigorate the MSME sector Total corpus: $15 million or Rs 110 crore Target Group: Micro Enterprises with turnover up to Rs 5 crore Loan

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Narayan Rane launches Special Credit Linked Capital Subsidy Scheme

Union Minister for MSME, Narayan Rane has launched Special Credit Linked Capital Subsidy Scheme (SCLCSS) for the services sector at Guwahati. “The scheme will help in meeting the technology-related requirements of enterprises in the services sector and it has a provision of 25% capital subsidy for procurement of Plant & Machinery and service equipment’s through institutional credit to the SC-ST MSEs

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PM Modi inaugurates ‘InFinity Forum’ on 3rd December

PM Narendra Modi will inaugurate the 2-day thought leadership Forum on FinTech ‘InFinity Forum’ on 3rd December. The event is being hosted by International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) in collaboration with GIFT City and Bloomberg in virtual mode. Some of the key speakers in the event include Reliance Industries Chairman and MD Mukesh Ambani, SoftBank Chairman and CEO

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