Weekly Current Affairs - 2nd Week November 2024

8th - 14th November 2024

CURRENT AFFAIRS

11/15/20243 min read

  1. President Draupadi Murmu addressed the Vigilance Awareness Week celebrations of the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) on

8 November in New Delhi

  1. The first match of the four-match T20 cricket series between India and South Africa was played on

8 November at Kingsmead in Durban

  1. America's newly elected President Donald Trump has appointed Susie Wiles, who played an important role in his election campaign, as

The White House Chief of Staff

  1. Union External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar addressed the '8th Round Table' of the ASEAN-India Think Tank Network in

Singapore on 8 November

  1. The 'Second Annual Festival of Indian Military Heritage' started in

New Delhi from 8 November

Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan inaugurated the festival along with the chiefs of the three armies

  1. The '83rd Annual Conference' of the Indian Road Congress is starting from

8 November in Raipur, Chhattisgarh

Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari inaugurated the conference

  1. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has doubled the fine for

Stubble burning

  1. According to the Central Government, by the end of October this year, the import of 'Urad Dal' from Brazil has increased

from 4,102 tonnes to more than 22 thousand tonnes

  1. The Australian Government has announced legislation to restrict social media use for

Children under the age of 16

  1. Indian chess player Arjun Erigaisi has secured second place in the FIDE World Chess Rankings after his brilliant third round win against Alexei Saran in the

Chennai Grand Masters on 7 November

  1. The 'World University Shooting Championship' has started from

9 November at Dr. Karni Singh Range in New Delhi

  1. Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan inaugurated the second annual edition of the 'Indian Military Heritage Festival' in

New Delhi on 8 November

  1. Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari inaugurated the 83rd Annual Session of the

'Indian Road Congress' in Raipur on 8 November

  1. Recently, the National Institute of Ocean Technology, Ministry of Earth Sciences has established a 'Ballast Water Purification Technology Testing Facility' at the

NIOT beach at Pamanji and Vagaru villages, Tirupati District, Andhra Pradesh

  1. India's largest integrated power company, 'NTPC Limited' celebrated its 50th Foundation Day on

8 November

  1. Justice Sanjiv Khanna took oath as the 51st Chief Justice of the country on

11 November

President Draupadi Murmu administered the oath of office and secrecy to him this morning at a special ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan

  1. The United Nations’ 29th Annual Climate Change Conference began on 11 November in

Baku, Azerbaijan

  1. Recently, Pakistan has issued visas to 3 thousand Indian Sikh pilgrims on the occasion of

Prakash Parv of Guru Nanak Dev Ji

The 554th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev Ji is on 15 November

  1. The Thailand government has given a big honour to famous Bollywood actor 'Sonu Sood' by choosing him as the brand ambassador of

Thailand Tourism

  1. The 'Women's Asian Hockey Champions Trophy' started from

11 November in Rajgir, Bihar

  1. Renowned Indian musicians 'Ricky Kej' and 'Anushka Shankar' have been nominated for the

67th Grammy Awards

  1. President 'Draupadi Murmu' will be on a three-day visit to the Union Territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu from

12 November

  1. The 55th edition of the 'International Film Festival of India' -IFFI will begin in Goa from

November 20

  1. The new Prime Minister of the Japan is

Shigeru Ishiba (The leader of the Liberal Democratic Party)

  1. India's Anahat Singh won the women's singles event at the NSW Open 2024 squash tournament in Sydney on

11 November

  1. Union Education Minister 'Dharmendra Pradhan' inaugurated the two-day National Workshop on Higher and Technical Education with Secretaries of States and Union Territories on

12 November

  1. Recently, the first 'Space Exercise-2024' of the Defence Space Agency-DSA has started in

New Delhi

The aim of the three-day space exercise is to increase the understanding of space-based assets and services

  1. In the first phase of 'Jharkhand Assembly Elections', voting was held on 43 seats in 15 districts on

13 November

  1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of AIIMS in Darbhanga, Bihar on

13 November

After Patna, this is the second AIIMS in the state

  1. Voting for the assembly elections in Maharashtra will be held in a single phase on

20 November

  1. The Central Government has extended the tenure of Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri till

14 July 2026

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has approved the extension of service

  1. Defence Research and Development Organisation-DRDO on 12 November conducted the first flight test of a long-range 'Land Attack Cruise Missile' from a mobile articulated launcher from the Integrated Test Range,

Chandipur, Odisha

  1. The Home Ministry has approved the creation of the first women battalion of the

Central Industrial Security Force – CISF

This decision has been taken with the aim of empowering women and increasing their role in national security

  1. The next 'Pravasi Bharatiya Divas' convention will be held in

Bhubaneswar, Odisha from January 8-10, 2025

  1. Law and Justice Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal has released a book titled 'Maa-Mother' in

New Delhi

The book has been written by 'Dr. Devendra Kumar Dhodavat', Additional Secretary to the Governor of Kerala

  1. World Radiography Day is celebrated across the world on

8 November

  1. National Legal Service Day is celebrated every year on

9 November in India

  1. National Education Day is celebrated every year on

11 November in India

  1. World Pneumonia Day 2024 is celebrated all over the world on

12 November

  1. World Kindness Day is celebrated all over the world on

13 November