Daily Current Affairs of 27 November 2017

1. November 26: National Milk Day.
2. Iran allows women to compete in sports.
3. South Africa’s Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters has won Miss Universe 2017 crown.
4. Gopi Thonakal first Indian man to win Asian Marathon Championship.
5. Nayantara Sahgal was presented a Lifetime Achievement Award at Times Lit Fest 2017.
6. Soumya Swaminathan is set to assume the charge of deputy director-general of the WHO in Geneva.
7. India and Finland joined hands to boost mutual ties in the areas of trade and investment, renewable energy and science and technology.
8. The third India-United Kingdom joint army training exercise ‘Ajeya Warrior’ will be conducted in Rajasthan.
9. IMMSAREX 2017: The International Multilateral Maritime Search and Rescue Exercise 2017 began in Cox Bazar, Bangladesh.
10. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has been awarded the Bronze Medal for its creative and informative display at the 37th India International Trade Fair 2017 being held at Pragati Maidan.
11. International Gita Mahotsav 2017 inaugurated by president Ram Nath Kovind in Kurukshetra, Haryana. The objective behind Mahotsav is to spread the message of Gita to world.
12. A unique Indian Armed Forces Memorial will be inaugurated at Villiers Guislain, right at the spot where the Indian cavalry had resisted a German counterattack in 1917 at Cambrai.
13. Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has been elected President of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis (IDSA).
14. Aiming to build a highly skilled tech workforce in India, Google partners with Pluralsight and Udacity to provide training in emerging technologies like Mobile and Web Development.
15. The Golden Temple has been awarded the ‘most visited place of the world’ by ‘World Book of Records’, a London-based organisation that catalogues and verifies world records.
16. Scientists have developed the world’s first artificial intelligence politician that can answer a person’s queries regarding local issues such as policies around housing, education etc.
17. The Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh chaired the 12th meeting of the Standing Committee of Inter-State Council (ISC) held in New Delhi. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the recommendations of the Punchhi Commission on Centre-state relations.
18. The Minister of Women and Child Development, Smt Maneka Sanjay Gandhi launched an intensive training program for Elected Women Representatives (EWRs) of Panchayati Raj Institutions and Master Trainers, in New Delhi.
19. New York based rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) kept its sovereign rating for India unchanged at ‘BBB-‘, with outlook for the nation as ‘stable’. BBB- rating is the lowest investment grade and just one notch above junk status. S&P stated that India’s sizable fiscal deficit, low per capita income and high government debt do not warrant a sovereign rating upgrade as of now.

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