Daily Current Affairs of 22 November 2017

1. India becomes second largest fish producing company.
2. Telangana government makes Telugu subjects compulsory from first standard to intermediate, including in the CBSE and ICSE schools.
3. Robert Mugabe has resigned as president of Zimbabwe.
4. Parab-2017, the annual cultural festival of Odisha’s Koraput district.
5. IISL, a NSE Group entity, launched Nifty SME Emerge Index, a new Nifty Index to measure the performance of SMEs.
6. Facebook Aims to Train 5 lakh Indians on Digital Skills by 2020. The two programmes - Facebook Digital Training and Facebook Startup Training Hubs - are being rolled out in India before any other country.
7. Brahmos, the world’s fastest supersonic cruise missile. it was successfully flight-tested first time from the Indian Air Force’s (IAF) frontline fighter aircraft Sukhoi-30MKI against a sea-based target in the Bay of Bengal.
8. Paytm has bought an undisclosed stake in Urja Money Pvt. Ltd, which evaluates creditworthiness of people seeking loans to buy two-wheelers. Paytm will use Urja’s proprietary CreditMate technology to create a loan management system in collaboration with lending partners.
9. Mswipe, a domestic maker of Point of Sale (PoS) terminals, has partnered MasterCard to digitize merchant acquisition and can now enable a shopkeeper anywhere in India to acquire a card swipe machine.
10. Ira Joshi was appointed as the Director General of Doordarshan News following the retirement of Veena Jain.
11. Andhra Bank has launched a new scheme for self-help groups (SHGs) to encourage entrepreneurship. The scheme, Pattabhi Sitaramayya — Self Business Group (PS-SBG), has been introduced to commemorate the 138th birth anniversary of its founder Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya, and the Silver Jubilee of the SHG-Bank linkage programme in the country.
12. The Cabinet has approved the setting up of the 15th Finance Commission which will assess the tax resources of the nation and suggest a formula for their devolution among states. Its recommendations will have to be in place before April 1, 2020, it takes 2 years for Finance Commission to give its recommendations.
13. Federation of Obstetric and Gynecological Societies of India (FOGSI) launched ‘Manyata’, a nationwide movement emphasizing the need for quality care for mothers during and immediately after childbirth.
14. US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to support the U.N. effort to "peacefully resolve" the nearly seven-year-long Syrian civil war.
15. China launched three remote sensing satellites Jilin-1 04, Jilin-1 05 and Jilin-1 06 from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in China’s northern Shanxi Province.

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