Weekly Current Affairs - 2nd Week November 2024
8th - 14th November 2024
CURRENT AFFAIRS
11/15/20243 min read
President Draupadi Murmu addressed the Vigilance Awareness Week celebrations of the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) on
● 8 November in New Delhi
The first match of the four-match T20 cricket series between India and South Africa was played on
● 8 November at Kingsmead in Durban
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
Union External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar addressed the '8th Round Table' of the ASEAN-India Think Tank Network in
● Singapore on 8 November
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
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
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has doubled the fine for
● Stubble burning
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
The Australian Government has announced legislation to restrict social media use for
● Children under the age of 16
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
The 'World University Shooting Championship' has started from
● 9 November at Dr. Karni Singh Range in New Delhi
Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan inaugurated the second annual edition of the 'Indian Military Heritage Festival' in
● New Delhi on 8 November
Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari inaugurated the 83rd Annual Session of the
● 'Indian Road Congress' in Raipur on 8 November
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
India's largest integrated power company, 'NTPC Limited' celebrated its 50th Foundation Day on
● 8 November
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
The United Nations’ 29th Annual Climate Change Conference began on 11 November in
● Baku, Azerbaijan
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
The Thailand government has given a big honour to famous Bollywood actor 'Sonu Sood' by choosing him as the brand ambassador of
● Thailand Tourism
The 'Women's Asian Hockey Champions Trophy' started from
● 11 November in Rajgir, Bihar
Renowned Indian musicians 'Ricky Kej' and 'Anushka Shankar' have been nominated for the
● 67th Grammy Awards
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
The 55th edition of the 'International Film Festival of India' -IFFI will begin in Goa from
● November 20
The new Prime Minister of the Japan is
● Shigeru Ishiba (The leader of the Liberal Democratic Party)
India's Anahat Singh won the women's singles event at the NSW Open 2024 squash tournament in Sydney on
● 11 November
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
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
In the first phase of 'Jharkhand Assembly Elections', voting was held on 43 seats in 15 districts on
● 13 November
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
Voting for the assembly elections in Maharashtra will be held in a single phase on
● 20 November
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
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
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
The next 'Pravasi Bharatiya Divas' convention will be held in
● Bhubaneswar, Odisha from January 8-10, 2025
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
World Radiography Day is celebrated across the world on
● 8 November
National Legal Service Day is celebrated every year on
● 9 November in India
National Education Day is celebrated every year on
● 11 November in India
World Pneumonia Day 2024 is celebrated all over the world on
● 12 November
World Kindness Day is celebrated all over the world on
● 13 November