ONE LINER OF THE DAY 11th NOVEMBER 2018.

1.National Education Day is celebrated in India on November 11.The day is celebrated as a mark of respect to Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.He was a freedom fighter and independent India’s first Education Minister (served from 1947 to 1958).He was an eminent scholar of Urdu, Persian and Arabic.He was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1992.

2.‘International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict’ is observed on 6 November.

3.World Science Day for Peace and Development is observed on 10 November.

4.The West Bengal government will observe ‘Rosogolla Day’ on 14 November.

5.The prestigious 2018 IPI India Award for excellence in journalism has been given to Namrata Ahuja of ‘The Week’ magazine.,

6.Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated a war memorial in France to pay tribute to thousands of Indian soldiers who died in the World War I.The memorial is the first-of-its-kind built by India in France.Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu is in Paris to represent India at the Armistice of World War I centenary commemoration.

7.Peter Dhillon, a Canadian Sikh farmer, has been inducted into the Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame.He has joined the company of great Canadians who have made their mark in agriculture and agro-food business.

8.Officials from Australia, India, Japan and the United States will hold the third ‘Quadrilateral’ or Quad meeting in Singapore on 14 November 2018.The meeting will be held on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit.The meeting will focus on infrastructure projects, maritime security cooperation and discuss regional challenges including development.

9.The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide US$13 million loan to Energy Efficiency Services (EESL) to promote efficient energy usage in India.The loan amount will be provided by the Global Environment Facility (GEF).The grant, to be administered by ADB, is tied to the USD 200 million ADB-financed Demand-Side Energy Efficiency Sector Project.

10.The Finance Ministry has rearranged the Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSE) Exchange Traded Fund (ETF).It has included in the basket the scrips of four State-owned companies NTPC, SJVN, NLC and NBCC.The Ministry has removed GAIL, Engineers India Ltd. (EIL) and Container Corporation of India in the ETF basket.