Daily Current Affairs of 6 and 7 November 2017


  1. Indian women hockey team wins the women Asia cup 2017.
  2. Indian women hockey team qualifies for the Hockey World Cup 2018.
  3. Rs 10, 000 Crore Mou was signed between the Government of India (GoI) and Patanjali at the World Food India 2017.
  4. India has pledged an additional amount of USD 100 million towards the UN partnership fund, scaling up its support to sustainable development projects across the developing world.
  5. Sarbananda Sonowal, Chief Minister Assam launched 647 schemes for development of the world's largest river island Majuli.
  6. Telangana govt will soon start supplying 24-hour “quality” & uninterrupted power on an experimental basis to the farm sector across the entire state.
  7. The annual ‘Balijatra’ festival was inaugurated by Health and Law Minister Pratap Jena at Gadagadia ghat in Odisha on the banks of river Mahanadi.
  8. ICICI Bank announced the launch of India's first voice-based international remittance service to enable non-resident Indians (NRIs) to send money to any bank in India.
  9. Sampriti-7, a joint military exercise between India and Bangladesh begins.
  10. Saudi Prince Mansur bin Muqrin, deputy governor of Asir, died in a helicopter crash near the border with Yemen.
  11. India conducted a flight test of its indigenously designed and developed long-range sub-sonic cruise missile ‘Nirbhay’. It can carry warheads of up to 300 kg from a test range at Chandipur along the Odisha coast.
  12. China has launched two BeiDou-3 satellites into space through a single carrier rocket.
  13. China has made disrespecting the national anthem a criminal offence, punishable by up to three years in prison.
  14. The Israeli Consulate in Bengaluru launched the Israel Centre at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) to mark 25 years of India-Israel partnership.
  15. International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has released ‘The Paradise Papers’, a global investigation that reveals offshore activities of some of the worlds most powerful people & companies. Among 180 countries represented in the data, India ranks 19th in terms of number of names. It is the largest ever black money data leak with more than 700 Indian names figure in the leaked data.


 

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