Current Affairs - November 19, 2020 Current Affairs

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Nand Kishore Yadav is likely to be the Bihar Assembly speaker after Janata Dal (United) (JDU) member Speaker Vijay Kumar Chaudhary was chosen to join Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Cabinet.

Equitas Small Finance Bank appoints Smriti Mandhana as brand ambassador. Equitas Small Finance Bank has launched a women-centred product 'Eva'.

HDFC Bank Ltd. launch the "Mooh Band Rakho," campaign to increase awareness on cyber frauds and preventing them. The Bank will be conducting 1,000 workshops in the next 4 months across the country.

MobiKwik has partnered with card network American Express (Amex) to launch its first prepaid payments card with flexible credit limit.

The UK government announced the first principal partners for the UN climate conference, COP26, scheduled for November 1-12, 2021 in Glasgow, UK.

Chandrawati, former lieutenant governor (LG) of Pondicherry , died during her treatment at the PGIMS Rohtak on Sunday. The first woman parliamentarian of Haryana, who had defeated stalwart Bansi Lal in Lok Sabha polls in 1977, was 92.

The National Naturopathy Day is observed in India on 18 November every year, to promote positive mental and physical health through a drugless system of Naturopathy.

Financepeer, an education fee financing company that aims to enable affordable and quality education accessible to the masses, has roped in Rohit Sharma as their Brand Ambassador.

Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh launched the Oil Palm Project, as an alternative to replace Jhum and poppy cultivations in the state.

The NDA won the state election last week with a wafer-thin majority and got 125 of Bihar's 243 assembly seats. Nitish Kumar has taken oath for a fourth straight term as Bihar Chief Minister. Among 14 ministers who followed were the BJP's Tarkishore Prasad and Renu Devi -- his two new deputies.

The book 'Reporting India: My Seventy-Year Journey as a Journalist' by veteran journalist Prem Prakash, says that Nehru had ignored the modernization of India's armed forces at the outset of his term in office.

Navneet Munot has been appointed as managing director and chief executive officer of HDFC Asset Management Co. Ltd, .

In Maharashtra, the first solar power-enabled Textile Mill in Asia is coming up in Parbhani district. The project, once functional, will provide jobs to many women in the district.

The Coastal Security Police conceptualized the app and developed it for the Department of Fisheries. It was launched by the Karnataka's Minister for Fisheries, Inland Transport Department.

On the close of the 73rd World Health Assembly, WHO will mark this historic announcement and officially launch the elimination strategy. The moment has arrived for an ambitious, inclusive strategy to accelerate eliminating cervical cancer as a public health problem.

Banking regulator the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has named Senapathy (Kris) Gopalakrishnan, co-founder and former co-Chairman, Infosys, as the first Chairperson of the Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH).

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is launched on NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi .

The top 10 cities for 2021 in the world are - 1. London, 2. New York, 3. Paris, 4. Moscow, 5. Tokyo, 6. Dubai, 7. Singapore, 8. Barcelona, 9. Los Angeles. Delhi is ranked 62 on the list, as per the Indian Express report.

Emerald won the prestigious JNA award as Manufacturer of the year 2020. The JNA Awards program is one of the most prestigious awards program in the jewellery and gemstone trade that honors companies who uphold innovation, excellence in the jewellery industry.

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