World Diabetes Day (WDD) was created in 1991 by International Diabetes Foundation(IDF) and the World Health Organization in response to growing concerns about the escalating health threat posed by diabetes.
It is marked every year on 14 November, the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting, who co-discovered insulin along with Charles Best in 1922.
The theme for World Diabetes Day 2021-23 is Access to Diabetes Care – If Not Now, When?.
The facility at Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor (UPDIC) in Lucknow, run by Aellroy Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of PTC industries, will manufacture parts for Aircraft Engines, Helicopter Engines, Structural parts for aircrafts, Drones and UAV, Submarines, Ultra-Light Artillery Guns, Space Launch Vehicles and Strategy Systems etc.
Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award: Neeraj Chopra (Athletics), Ravi Kumar(Wrestling), Lovlina Borgohain (Boxing), P R Sreejesh (Hockey), Avani Lekhara (Para Shooting), Sumit Antil (Para Athletics), Pramod Bhagat (Para Badminton), Krishna Nagar (Para Badminton), Manish Narwal (Para Shooting), Mithali Raj (Cricket), Sunil Chhetri (Football), Manpreet Singh (Hockey).
Khel Ratna award carries a cash prize purse of Rs 25 lakh, a medal a scroll of honour.
India this year honoured 35 Arjuna awardees and a total of 10 coaches were conferred with the Dronacharya awards this year. Some Arjuna awardees include Shikhar Dhawan, CA Bhavani Devi(Fencing), Olympic bronze-winning men's hockey team and other medal winners from Paralympic Games.
Arjuna award carries a prize money of Rs 15 lakh, a bronze statue and a scroll of honour.
Standard Chartered Securities (India) Limited (SCSI) has named Rajeev Srivastava as the new chief executive officer.
Prior to this appointment, Srivastava was associated with HDFC Securities as the head of products and business development functions of the organization.
India- Sri Lanka Parliamentary Friendship Association for the 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka was established at the Parliament complex in the presence of Speaker of Parliament, Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana.High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay was also present.
The association existed in the past & is being revived for the current Parliament,elected in August 2020.
Minister Chambal Rajapaksa was elected as the President of the Association.
Four students and two teachers from IIT Bombay have won a grant of US$250,000 (approximately ₹1.85 crore) for the new-age technology at the Sustainable Innovation Forum at COP-26 in Glasgow.
They won the prize for developing a technology that can remove carbon from the atmosphere and turn them into salts.
XPRIZE Foundation is a part of the Elon Musk Foundation
South Korea demonstrated a system for controlling urban air mobility vehicles (UAM) which it hopes will serve as taxis between major airports and downtown Seoul as soon as 2025, cutting travel time by two-thirds.
A pilot flew a two-seat model made by Germany's Volocopter at Seoul's Gimpo Airport to test and demonstrate its control and coordination.
Former president of South Africa, Frederik Willem (FW) de Klerk, passed away recently. He won praise worldwide for his role in scrapping apartheid and shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Mandela in 1993.
The following year Mandela won South Africa's first multi-racial elections with his African National Congress (ANC).
India and France carry out three biennial training exercises namely, Exercise GARUDA with Indian Airforce, Exercise VARUNA with Indian Navy and Exercise SHAKTI with Indian Army.
The 6th Edition of the biennial training exercise “EX SHAKTI 2021” is being conducted from 15 to 26 November 2021 in Frejus, France.
Exercise SHAKTI will focus on Counter-Terrorism operations in semi-urban terrain.
Maharashtra government signed an MoU with the Indian arm of the USA-based Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) to support adoption of EVs in Maharashtra.
The MoU was signed in Glasgow amid the ongoing COP26 summit.
Maharashtra’s new draft Electric Vehicle (EV) Policy 2021 aims to bring at least 146,000 new battery-operated electric vehicles (BEVs) on state roads by 2025.
Maharashtra:
CM: Uddhav Thackeray;
Governor: Bhagat Singh Koshyari
The new book examines whether India can use the next 25 years, when it will reach the hundredth year of independence, to not only restructure its economy but rejuvenate its democratic energy and unshackle its potential to become a genuinely developed economy by 2047.
The TVS Motor company has become the first Indian two-wheeler and three-wheeler manufacturer to be a part of UN Global Compact, a voluntary initiative based on CEO commitments to implement universal sustainability principles.
TVS Motor Company will now support the principles of the United Nations Global Compact on human rights, labour, environment, and anti-corruption.
United Nations Global Compact is the world’s largest sustainability initiative.
Through this pact, AIMA MSME will assist BSE in evaluating MSMEs and startups for listing on the exchange's SME platform while also sensitising its investor network for investing in listed MSMEs.
The two entities will host joint roadshows and events across the country to raise awareness among micro,small & medium enterprises for listing on the exchange's SME segment.
BSE launched its SME platform in March 2012.
BharatPe will be rolling out this MSP to its 7.5 million+ existing merchant partners and extend this to new merchants who join it.
It plans to create an equity pool structure worth upto $100 mn for MSP to be allotted to eligible merchants over the course of the next 4 years. The company is aiming that the MSP pool will be worth close to $ 1bn by the time it goes public.
BharatPe(estd 2018):
HQ: New Delhi;
Co-founders:Ashneer Grover and Shashvnat Nakrani.
The card will be offered free of charge to customers and will be fully digital keeping in line with the growing demand for digital payments across online and brick and mortar stores.
Customers will now be able to get up to Rs 2 lakhs of their MobiKwik wallet balance mirrored on the MobiKwik RuPay Prepaid Card.
The app was launched as part of of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav celebrations, celebrated by the Department of Justice from 8 to 14 November. The app would connect the beneficiaries directly with panel lawyers offering legal advice and consultation
Tata Projects Limited has received an order for a 400kV double circuit transmission line project valued at around $120 million from the Power Grid Company of Bangladesh Limited.
This 120-km project from Barapukuria to Bogura has been secured on a turnkey basis. It will be executed in 30 months & the funding will be by EXIM Bank India under the Indian Line of Credit.
On 9 November 2019, the Supreme Court, in a unanimous verdict, cleared the way for the construction of a Ram temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya.
Through this book, Salman Khurshid explores how the greatest opportunity that the judgment offers is a reaffirmation of India as a secular society.
Plaeto, a footwear brand for children, has roped in Rahul Dravid as its brand ambassador and mentor. The brand has announced the partnership along with a campaign featuring Dravid.
The Wangala Festival is observed and celebrated with enthusiasm and zeal in Meghalaya. It is one of the most significant and important festivals of the Garo tribe that also attracts a lot of tourists during this time.
The festival is celebrated in honour of the Sun God Saljong and marks the end of the long harvest season.
This year the festival began on November 12.
Also known as the 100 drum festival, it has been celebrated since the year 1976.
