1) PM
Modi meets world leaders on sidelines of G20: Prime Minister Narendra Modi
on 15 November 2014 carried on with his hectic international diplomacy holding
parleys with world leaders, including US President Barack Obama, over bilateral
meetings and informal discussions on the fifth day of his whirlwind
three-nation 10-day tour. More meetings are on the anvil during the remaining
days in Australia and Fiji, where he will be making a day-long visit.
3) Farhan
selected UN Women’s first male Goodwill Ambassador: Bollywood
actor-director Farhan Akhtar has become the first man in UN Women’s history to
be appointed its Goodwill Ambassador for South Asia. In his new role, the
40-year-old actor will serve as an advocate for UN Women’s newly-launched
HeForShe initiative for gender equality and women’s empowerment. UN Women’s
other Goodwill Ambassadors include British actor Emma Watson, Academy Award
winner Nicole Kidman and Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol of Thailand.
4) Children's
film fest began in New Delhi: Finance minister Arun Jaitley inaugurated the
National Children's Film Festival (NCFF) at Siri Fort Auditorium in New Delhi.
It is organized by the Children's Film Society of India (CFSI). The three-day
festival aims at showing children's films which are either made or shot in
India. The festival, that has been organised by CFSI every alternate year, will
conclude on Sunday. The central theme of this year's NCFF has been declared as
Swachhta and keeping this in mind, there will also be a workshop on how to make
the best stuff out of waste products.
5) Ratan
Tata inducted on board of the INTERPOL Foundation: Tata Sons Chairman
Emeritus Ratan Tata was inducted on the board of Interpol Foundation to
contribute to two new global initiatives aimed at combating organised crime and
terrorist activities by the international police organisation.
6) DD
National to be relaunched as 'Desh Ka Apna Channel': In a bid to attract
more viewers, public broadcaster Doordarshan is relaunching its national
channel as "Desh ka Apna channel" with a slew of new programming.
Apart from new programmes, the channel will be repackaged in new colours -
purple and pink. "We want that Doordarshan be the preferred channel of the
people. So from November 17, a repackaged channel with fresh content will be
beamed to viewers across the country," an official said.
7) Union
Ministry of HRD decided to use Sanskrit as 3rd language in KVs : Union
Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) has decided to use Sanskrit as a
third language in schools of Kendriya Vidyalaya (KVs) in place of German
language. The decision to discontinue German was taken after the meeting of
Board of Governors of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) on 27 October 2014.
The meeting was headed by Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani.
8) Dhanush
missile successfully test-fired: India has successfully test-fired its
nuclear-capable Dhanush ballistic missile from a naval ship off the Odisha
coast on Friday night. The surface-to-surface Dhanush, a naval variant of
India's indigenously-developed 'Prithvi' missile, was test fired from a ship in
the Bay of Bengal at around 7.40 PM by the Strategic Force Command (SFC) of the
defence force. "The missile launch was part of an exercise by the armed
forces and the missile reached the designated target with high precision,"
Director of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) M V K V Prasad said.
9) Government
launched modified DBTL scheme in 54 districts: For the benefit of lakhs of
households, the Central government has launched a modified Direct Benefit
Transfer of LPG (DBTL) scheme in 54 districts in 11 states starting November
15, 2014 whereby LPG consumers who have not yet availed the benefit will be
able to get cash subsidy amount transferred into their accounts to buy
Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinders at market price. This scheme will be
implemented in the rest of India on January 1, 2015.
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