Weekly Current Affairs November: Week V

Banking and Financial Awareness

Axis Bank has launched instant international payment services using the block chain technology solution from Ripple.
Payments Bank 'Paytm Payments Bank' was formally launched by the Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) warned some co-operative societies against the use of word "Bank" in their names.
Bank of Baroda launches digital Supply Chain Finance solution.

Snehlata Shrivastava has become the first woman secretary general of the Lok Sabha.
IAS officer Pradeep Singh Kharola has been appointed as the Chairman and Managing Director of Air India.
Former Planning Commission Member NK Singh has been appointed as chairman of 15th Finance Commission.
Shaktikanta Das, former secretary of Department of Economic Affairs (DEA), has been appointed as India's G20 Sherpa.
Dia Mirza has been appointed UN Environment's Goodwill Ambassador for India.

Harmandir Sahib or Golden Temple of Amritsar has been awarded as the most visited place of the world.

World AIDS Day is celebrated on 1 December every year since 1988.
The first one-rupee note was printed in India on November 30, 1917, with the photo of King George

India and Italy have signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for enhanced cooperation in health sector.
India, Greece sign MoU for Air Services Agreement.
India to Help Mauritius on Digital Locker.

India has been ranked at 68th spot on the Global Entrepreneurship Index of 2018.

Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters from South Africa has won the title of Miss Universe 2017.
‘Ayodhya Mahotsav’ will be staged in Seoul and Gimhe cities of South Korea next year.
Karen Pierce has become the UK's first ever female ambassador to the UN.
FIFA have unveiled the official poster for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
Khaled el-Balshy an Egyptian rights campaigner has won the Nelson Mandela award for individual activism for 2017.
Australian state, Victoria, became the first in the country to legalise assisted dying, or euthanasia, with lawmakers voting to allow terminally ill patients the right to request a lethal drug to end their lives from June 2019.
Preet Didbal has become the first Sikh woman Mayor in the United States.
7th World Military Games to be Held at Wuhan in China.
Valtteri Bottas won the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Gopi Thonakal became the first Indian man to win 16th edition of Asian Marathon Championship.
Indian table tennis player G. Sathiyan grabbed the gold medal after defeating Japan’s Kazuhiro Yoshimura in the men’s singles final of the 2017 ITTF Challenge Spanish Open in Almeria.
48th International Film Festival of India 2017 concluded in Goa.
The Supreme Court will place a portrait of a woman lawyer in one of its libraries for the first time in the 67-year history of India’s top court.
The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) conducted the Regional Level Marine Oil Pollution Response Exercise named ‘Clean Sea-2017’ at sea off Port Blair, Andaman.
Two-day Korea Tourism Festival 2017 opens in Gurugram,Haryana.
Delhi to host International Geological Congress (IGC) in 2020.

The first ever artificial intelligence politician called SAM has been developed by the scientists.
India Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is ready to launch its first mission on sun with the Aditya-L1 mission.
Mitra, a made-in-India robot, greeted Ivanka Trump, US President Donald Trump’s daughter and advisor, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit held in Hyderabad.

The state government of Punjab has notified the 'Punjab Goods Carriages (Regulation and Prevention of Cartelization Rules), 2017', barring goods carriage operators from forming cartels in the state.
Assam government would celebrate Lachit Divas at various state capitals in the country from next year to promote the ideals of Lachit Borphukan -- the legendary general of Assam history.
Maharashtra is the “most corrupt state” for the third year in a row according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data.
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched the ‘Fish Pond Yojana’ to increase fish production in Bhubaneswar.

Gopi Thonakal became the first Indian man to win 16th edition of Asian Marathon Championship.
Indian table tennis player G. Sathiyan grabbed the gold medal after defeating Japan’s Kazuhiro Yoshimura in the men’s singles final of the 2017 ITTF Challenge Spanish Open in Almeria.
Indian Sports Honours 2017 was organised in Mumbai.
Official logo and mascot of Hockey Men's World Cup 2018 was unveiled by Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at Kalinga Stadium.
India’s Saikhom Mirabai Chanu won gold medal at World Weightlifting Championships held in Anaheim, United States.