Daily Current Affairs of 1 November 2017

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Here is the Daily Current Affairs of 1 November 2017.
  1. 31st October: Rashtriya Ekta Diwas (National Unity Day).
  2. The government set up a ministerial panel, led by finance minister Arun Jaitley, to consider and oversee mergers among the country’s 21 state-run banks. Members of the panel on PSU bank consolidation include railway and coal minister Piyush Goyal, and defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
  3. Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, King of Bhutan has arrived in New Delhi on a four-day visit to India. Thimphu is the capital of Bhutan.
  4. Vikram Singh is the private secretary of president Ram Nath Kovind.
  5. Vikas Seth, CEO of the Bharti AXA Life Insurance.
  6. T V Narendran as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Tata Steel.
  7. West Bengal decided to provide a 15 acre land to the All India Football Federation on lease for Rs 1 to help set up the National Centre of Excellence.
  8. Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment, Ramdas Athawale launched the Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Jan Aushadhi Pariyojana in Mumbai.
  9. India topped the list of seven countries, accounting for 64 percent of the 10.4 million new tuberculosis (TB) cases worldwide in 2016, according to a new report by the World Health Organisation. Geneva, Switzerland is the headquarters of WHO
  10. Michael Jackson is atop the Forbes list of top-earning dead celebrities for the fifth straight year, with $75 million (all figures in US).
  11. India and Tunisia agreed to jointly combat terrorism and extremism while ramping up cooperation in the field of security. Beji Caid Essebsi jas is the President and Tunis is the capital of Tunisia.
  12. State Bank of India announced sanction of credit facilities amounting to Rs2,317 crore to corporates for financing Grid Connected Rooftop Solar projects.
  13. India enter into the top 100 in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business rankings. The World Bank’s ‘Doing Business 2018 — Reforming to Create Jobs’ report ranks 190 countries on the basis of a combined score on 10 parameters. Jim Yong Kim is the President and Washington, D.C. is the headquarters of World Bank.
  14. Lifetime monthly pension of Rs 10,000 for 'Hindi Satyagrahis' and those from the state who were jailed during the Emergency are announced by government of Haryana. Kaptan Singh Solanki is the Governor and Manohar Lal is the CM of Haryana.
  15. Rajasthan’s Chief Electoral Officer Ashwini Bhagat launched the Election Commission’s web-based project, ERO-Net.
  16. Ace Indian shooter Heena Sindhu has bagged gold in women’s 10m Air Pistol event at Commonwealth Shooting Championships in Brisbane, Australia.
  17. Indian table tennis player Diya Chitale won a silver medal in the girls’ doubles category of the 2017 ITTF World Cadet Challenge, in Suva, Fiji.

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