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Miscellaneous News
Obituary News

National News

Piyush Goyal launched India’s 1st Digital Food Museum in Tamil Nadu

Union Minister, Piyush Goyal virtually launched India’s first Digital Food Museum in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu. It is a 1,860-sqft museum co-developed by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) and Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museums, Bengaluru (Karnataka) with an estimated outlay of Rs 1.1 crore.
The museum is the first one-of-its-kind effort to depict India’s food story from the beginning to India becoming the largest food gain exporter in the country.
This museum showcases the Indian food evolution from nomadic hunter-gatherers into settled agriculture producers. The measures of the government will make the country top the list of largest agricultural exporters in the world.
The museum will showcase the history of people from being foragers to producers, the story of the first harvest, the rise of villages and the preparation of demand days. The museum will display the grains of India and explain the food culture in different parts of the world.

India’s first fisheries business incubator launched in Gurugram

The first-of-its-kind, dedicated fisheries business incubator has been inaugurated in Gurugram of Haryana to nurture fisheries start-ups under real market-led conditions.
The incubator is known as LINAC- NCDC Fisheries Business Incubation Centre (LlFlC). It was inaugurated by the Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Shri Parshottam Rupala.
The centre has been established at a cost of Rs. 3.23 crore under the central flagship Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY).
The National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) is the implementing agency for the LIFIC.
The first batch of ten incubators from four states (Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra) have already been identified.

States News

PM Modi launched ‘Ration Aapke Gram’ scheme & ‘Sickle Cell Mission’ in MP

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated a series of tribal welfare programs on his visit to Madhya Pradesh.
PM Modi launched Madhya Pradesh’s ‘Ration Aapke Gram’ scheme and a welfare scheme named ‘Sickle Cell Mission’. He also laid the foundation stone for the construction of 50 new Eklavya Model Residential Schools across India.
The Government of India decided to observe 15 November every year as ‘Tribal Pride Day’ or ‘Tribal Pride Day’ from 2021 onwards.
Modi referred to his long association with the tribal society. He was all praised for the richness of their spiritual and cultural life and said that every cultural aspect of tribal including songs and dances carries a life lesson and they have so much to teach.

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Madhya Pradesh Capital: Bhopal;
Madhya Pradesh Governor: Mangubhai C. Patel;
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister: Shivraj Singh Chouhan.

Maharashtra government to appoint Salman Khan as Covid vaccination ambassador

Bollywood actor Salman Khan is to be the Kovid-Vaccine Ambassador of Maharashtra.
According to Maharashtra Public Health Minister Rajesh Tope, there is hesitation among Muslim-majority communities to get the anti-coronavirus vaccine, and the government will seek the help of Bollywood actor Salman Khan to get people vaccinated.
Maharashtra is leading in terms of the number of vaccine shots administered, but in some areas the pace of vaccination is low.

Business News

Paytm Money launched AI-powered ‘Voice Trading’

Paytm Money, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Paytm, has launched ‘Voice Trading’, powered by artificial intelligence (AI). It will allow users to place a trade or get information about stocks via single voice command.
This voice command feature uses neural networks and natural language processing (NLP) to allow instant processing. This service has been launched in line with Paytm Money’sefforts to offer next-gen and AI-driven tech to elevate user experience.

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Paytm Money Founded: 20 September 2017;
Paytm Money Headquarter: Bengaluru, Karnataka;
Paytm Money CEO: Varun Sridhar.

Awards News

Malayalam writer M. Mukundan’s ‘Delhi: A soliloquy’ wins 2021 JCB Prize for Literature

The novel titled “Delhi: A Soliloki” written by Malayalam author M Mukundan has won the 2021 JCB Award for Literature.
Originally written in Malayalam, the book was translated into English by Fatima E.V. and nandakumari
The JCB Award for Literature was instituted in 2018. It is the most expensive Indian award for writing.
The prize carries a cash prize of Rs 25 lakh for author and Rs 10 lakh for translator.
It honours distinguished work of fiction by an Indian writer working in English or translated fiction by an Indian writer.

Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur confers SAI Institutional Awards

The Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports, Shri Anurag Thakur presented the first ever SAI Institutional Awards to 246 athletes and coaches in New Delhi.
During the ceremony at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, a total of 162 athletes and 84 coaches have been conferred with the Outstanding Award and Best Award category for their performance in National and International competitions, with a total cash prize of Rs 85.02 lakh.
The awards have been given for the exceptional performance of the SAI athletes and coaches at national and international competitions from 2016 under the various sports promotion schemes. The inaugural awards have been granted to the deserving candidates for the years of 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20.

Sports News

VVS Laxman named as new head of National Cricket Academy (NCA)

Former Indian international cricketer VVS Laxman has been named as the next head of the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
He is expected to assume the new role ahead of the BCCI’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) to be held in Kolkata on 4 December 2021.
Laxman will replace Rahul Dravid, who has been appointed as the national men’s head coach of Team India.

Important Days

World COPD Day 2021: 17 November (Third Wednesday of November)

World COPD Day is observed on Third Wednesday of November every year to raise awareness about chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and improve COPD care throughout the world.
The World COPD Day 2021 falls on November 17, 2021.
The 2021 theme is Healthy Lungs – Never More Important.
The day is organized by the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) in collaboration with health care professionals and COPD patient groups throughout the world.
The first World COPD Day was held in 2002.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a lung disease that block airflow and make it difficult to breathe.

National Epilepsy Day : 17 November

In India, every year 17 November is celebrated as National Epilepsy Day by the Epilepsy Foundation to create awareness about epilepsy.
Epilepsy is a chronic disorder of the brain characterized by recurrent ‘seizures’ or ‘fits’.
The month of November is observed as ‘National Epilepsy Awareness Month’.

4th Naturopathy Day is celebrated on 18 November

The National Naturopathy Day is observed in India on 18 November every year, to promote positive mental and physical health through drugless system of medicine, called as Naturopathy.
The day was declared by the Ministry of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy), Government of India, on November 18, 2018.
It was on this day in 1945, when Mahatma Gandhi became life time Chairman of the All India Nature Cure Foundation Trust and signed the deed with the object of making the benefits of Nature Cure available to all classes of people.

World Philosophy Day 2021: 18 November

World Philosophy Day is celebrated on the Third Thursday of November each year. In 2021, the day falls on 18 November.
World Philosophy Day 2021 opens the discussion on the different interactions of human beings with their social, cultural, geographical and political environment, with the underlying objective of better understanding the contribution of philosophy in our contemporary societies and the challenges they face, pandemic in particular.
World Philosophy Day was introduced in 2002 by UNESCO. In 2005 the UNESCO General Conference proclaimed that World Philosophy Day would be celebrated every third Thursday of November.

Miscellaneous News

Centre approves new Rajya Sainik Board for Ladakh

The Centre has approved a new Rajya Sainik Board (RSB) for Ladakh. The Board will be an effective link between the Centre and the Ladakh Administration.
Rajya Sainik Board will play an advisory role on the matters relating to the ex-servicemen, war widows, widows and non-combatants, including serving soldiers and their dependents.
Zila Sainik welfare offices of Leh and Kargil will function under the newly constituted Rajya Sainik Board.
The Board provide access to the welfare schemes under the Raksha Mantri Ex-servicemen Welfare Fund and welfare and resettlement of ex-servicemen.
Approximately Sixty thousand retired and serving army personnel would get benefit from the establishment of the Rajya Sainik Board in Ladakh.
Ladakh Scouts Regiment Center will avail maximum benefit from the welfare schemes extended through the Rajya Sainik Board.

Obituary News

Eminent Hindi writer Mannu Bhandari passes away at 90

Noted Hindi writer Mannu Bhandari has passed away. She was 90 years old.
Bhandari was the wife of the late Rajendra Yadav, the noted Hindi fiction writer, who is often credited with Bhandari as the forerunner of the Hindi literary movement ‘Nai Kahani’.
Some of Bhandari’s famous works are Aapka Bunty, Mahabhoj and Yahi Sach Hai.
His novel Yahi Sach Hai was adapted into a film titled ‘Rajnigandha’ in 1974.

World Famous Legendary Author Wilbur Smith Passes Away at 88

Internationally acclaimed Zambian-born South African author Wilbur Smith has passed away. He was 88 years old.
The global bestselling author has written 49 novels and sold over 140 million copies in over 30 languages worldwide.
He rose to fame in 1964 with his first novel, When the Lion Feeds, which turned into a film with 15 sequels.
Smith published his autobiography “On Leopard Rock” in 2018.

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