1.Donbass’ has won the coveted ‘Golden Peacock Award’ at the 49th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) on 28 November 2018.The Award carries a cash prize of Rs 40 lakhs to be shared equally between the Producer and the Director, Trophy, and the citation.‘Donbass’ is the official submission of Ukraine for the ‘Best Foreign Language Film’ category at the 91st Academy Awards in 2019.
2.The President of India appointed Arvind Saxena as the Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC).The term of his appointment will be till 7 August 2020 when he attains the age of 65 years or till further orders.
3.The first Global Conference on the ‘Sustainable Blue Economy’ was held on 28 November 2018 in Nairobi, Kenya.The conference was organised by Kenya.Canada and Japan were co-hosts of the conference.The conference committed to protect ocean and coastal resources, help them regenerate, and to ensure they remain viable for the present and future generations.
4.Union Minister of State (IC) for Power and Renewable Energy, RK Singh said that 8 States have achieved 100% saturation in household electrification under the Saubhagya scheme.The 8 states are Madhya Pradesh, Tripura, Bihar, J&K, Mizoram, Sikkim, Telangana and West Bengal.Saubhagya scheme’s objective is to provide access to electricity to all the remaining households in the country.
5.The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has launched an initiative called ‘Bhasha Sangam’.‘Bhasha Sangam’ is a programme for schools and educational institutions to provide multilingual exposure to students in Indian languages.The initiative was launched under ‘Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat’ on 22 November 2018 and will continue till the 21 December 2018.
6.The Indian Navy and the Royal Navy of United Kingdom began the exercise ‘Konkan-2018’ at Goa on 28 November 2018.The bilateral exercise provides a platform for the two Navies to periodically exercise at sea and in harbour, so as to build interoperability and share best practices.The Royal Navy was represented by HMS Dragon and the Indian Navy was represented by INS Kolkata.
7.The two-day ‘Global Aviation Summit’ will be held in Mumbai in January 2019.The summit will be organised by the Ministry of Civil Aviation and the Airport Authority of India (AAI) in collaboration with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI).The theme of the summit is ‘Flying for all – especially for the next 6 billion’.
8.The ‘Lancet Countdown 2018 on Health and Climate Change’ report was published on 29 November 2018.The report was authored by people from 27 organisations including the WHO and the World Bank.The report said that globally each person was exposed to an additional 1.4 days of heat wave between 2000 and 2017.India experienced an additional 40 million heat wave exposure cases in 2016.
9.The first ever India-Indonesia Business Forum (IIBF) will be held on 29 November 2018 at Port Blair in Andaman and Nicobar Islands.The forum aims to facilitate the commercial and people-to-people linkages between the Andaman and Nicobar Islands with Aceh and North Sumatra Provinces of Indonesia.The 1st Business Forum was held in Indonesia in July 2018.
10.CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology (CSIR-IMTECH) will establish a ‘High End Skill Development Centre’ in Chandigarh.It will establish the centre in partnership with Merck, a leading German Science and Technology company.The centre will help accelerate healthcare research and train Indian students and researchers in latest life science technologies and make them industry ready.
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