Mauritius's incumbent PM Pravind Jugnauth has sworn in for a 5-year term after the elections. He proposed a new cabinet of 23 members. Since attaining independence from Britain in 1968, Mauritius has become one of the most stable democracies in Africa.
Mauritius Capital-Port Louis, Currency- Mauritian Rupee.
Bangladesh President Md. Abdul Hamid is on a four-day visit to Nepal. He met Nepal's Minister for Foreign Affairs Pradeep Kumar Gyawali & they shared views on enhancing cooperation on matters of regional and global interests, including climate change.
President of Nepal-Bidya Devi Bhandari.
Modi will attend the 11th BRICS Summit in Brasilia that will begin on 14th Nov. BRICS Business Council meeting & BRICS Business Forum will take place on 13th Nov. They will discuss intra BRICS cooperation for the economic development of BRICS societies.
Theme-Economic growth & innovative future for BRICS economies.
Popular TV and broadcast content app JioTV has been conferred the award for IPTV Innovation at the World Communication Awards 2019, at a ceremony in London. Reliance Jio’s offerings were shortlisted under four categories at the World Communication Awards.
Panel of experts select winners in 25 categories in the awards.
Amazon announced Project Zero in India to ensure that customers receive authentic goods when shopping. It introduces additional proactive mechanisms & powerful tools to identify & remove counterfeits. Many Indian brands partnered with Amazon project test.
Amazon India head- Amit Agarwal.
SBI reports Growth forecast for FY20 to 5% from the earlier prediction of 6.1%. GDP growth slowed down further from 5.0% in Q1 to 4.2% in Q2 of FY20. India's GDP was already at the six-year lowest of 5.0% in Q1.SBI expect growth rate in FY21 to 6.2%.
SBI Chairman-Rajnish Kumar.
The income tax department has now allowed Aadhaar card holders to use the 12-digit biometric id number in lieu of PAN. But quoting incorrect Aadhar number might make pay a hefty fine of ₹10,000 as per the latest amendments to the Income Tax Act 1961.
The fine is not imposed by UIDAI but by the income tax dept.
Union Govt selected Maker Village Kochi as a partner for its iDEX programme facilitating the country’s largest hardware deep-tech incubator to create solutions for the armed services. The DIO under the Ministry of Defence chose Maker Village as a partner.
DIO- Defence Innovation Organisation.
Vijay Rupani launched online registration portal to facilitate setting up of new MSME units. Waiver from approval procedure to MSME units for first 3 years had been announced. Once declaration of intent is registered certificate is issued within minutes.
A woman entrepreneur got the first certificate through e-mail.
Indian tennis player Sumit Nagpal moved two places up in men's singles rankings & achieved his career-best 127th spot in the latest Association of Tennis Professional (ATP) rankings. Nagpal currently has 433 points while Rafael Nadal retained the top rank.
Rafael Nadal has 9,585 points.
World Kindness Day is an international observance on 13 November. It was introduced in 1998 by the World Kindness Movement, a coalition of nations' kindness NGOs formed in Tokyo. There are currently over 28 nations involved in The World Kindness Movement.
World Kindness Day highlights good deeds in the community.