Daily Current Affairs of 11 and 12 November 2017

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  1. The Union Cabinet has approved the creation of a National Testing Agency (NTA) to conduct entrance examinations for higher educational institutions. Its creation will relieve CBSE which conducts exams like the NEET and AICTE of the burden of conducting entrance tests.
  2. RBI has decided not to pursue a proposal for introduction of Islamic banking in the country.
  3. Delhi govt has called off the odd-even scheme.
  4. Shri Kiren Rijiju, the Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, has inaugurated the ‘India Disaster Response Summit’ in New Delhi. The summit focuses on how best to leverage social media platforms to 'prepare, respond and recover' for, during and after a disaster. The summit was organised jointly by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and Facebook.
  5. Home loan limit for central government employees raised to Rs.25 lakh from Rs.7.50 lakh.
  6. Mumbai will host the 34th annual conference of the Asian Bankers Association.
  7. Air India has received a loan worth of ₹1,500 crore from Bank of India to meet urgent working capital needs.
  8. Haryana is the first state in India to treat Hepatitis-C Patients with Oral Medicin. Manohar Lal Khattar is the CM and Kaptan Singh Solanki is the governor of Haryana.
  9. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has been named as the recipient of the Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice, 2017.
  10. Federal Bank has obtained RBI approval to open representative offices at Kuwait and Singapore.
  11. Mahendra Singh Dhoni has inaugurated his first global cricket academy in the bustling metropolis of Dubai.
  12. Twitter has more than doubled its count for users’ display names from 20 to 50 characters.

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