Top GKToday’s News Headlines- 23 November 2019

Here are the top News Headlines of 23 November 2019 for all competitive examinations of India.

National Current Affairs

  • Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ holds talks with Australian counterpart Dan Tehan in Delhi
  • India and China to jointly hold 70 celebratory activities in 2020 to mark 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties
  • J&K achieves highest road length in country under PMGSY (Pradhan Mantri Grameen Sadak Yojana) in 2019, 11,400 km construction completed so far
  • Nilkanth Khadilkar, the editor of Marathi newspaper Navakal, dies at 85 in Mumbai

SNRR ACCOUNTS

  • The RBI has expanded the scope of Special Non-Resident Rupee (SNRR) Accounts
  • Non-residents permitted to open such accounts for rupee denominated overseas borrowings, trade credit and trade invoicing for popularising cross-border transactions in the domestic currency.

DHFL crisis

  • The Reserve Bank has constituted a three-member panel to advise the administrator of DHFL
  • IDFC First Bank’s Non-Executive Chairman Rajiv Lall, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance’s MD & CEO N. S. Kannan, and AMFI’s Chief Executive N S Venkatesh would be part of the panel
  • Indian Overseas Bank’s ex-MD R. Subramaniakumar was appointed as the administrator
  • Earlier, RBI superseded DHFL’s board and placed the company under an administrator in the wake of governance issues and defaults.

Economy & Business Current Affairs

  • India’s foreign exchange reserves at a fresh lifetime high of USD 448.249 billion in the week to November 15
  • CBDT Chairman P.C. Mody inaugurates Web Portal for exchange of information on Income Tax
  • Muthoot Finance Ltd to acquire IDBI Mutual Fund
  • Tourism Ministry organising ‘International Tourism Mart’ at Imphal from November 23 to 25
  • Karnataka: Kalaburagi Airport starts operations with flight to Bengaluru
  • National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) directed to issue free FASTags at toll booths until Dec 1
  • Wipro Chairman Azim Premji receives MMA Amalgamations Business Leadership Award 2019 in Chennai
  • Amazon launches Echo Flex smart speaker at Rs. 2999

ASIA PACIFIC SCREEN AWARDS

  • Manoj Bajpayee won the award for Best Actor for his role in ‘Bhonsle’ directed by Devashish Makhija
  • Ridham Janve won the Young Cinema Award for his directorial debut film ‘The Gold-Laden Sheep and the Sacred Mountain’.

International Current Affairs

  • Four Indian-origin lawmakers among 36 ministers inducted into Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s new Cabinet; includes Harjit Sajjan as Defence Minister

SCO S&T MEETING

  • The 5th Meeting of SCO Member States’ Heads of Ministries and Departments of Science and Technology held in Moscow
  • Secretary, DSIR (Department for Scientific & Industrial Research) & DG, CSIR, Dr. Shekhar C. Mande, led the Indian delegation.
  • India will host the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Forum of Young Scientists and Innovators in 2020.

Sports Current Affairs

  • Wriddhiman Saha becomes fifth Indian wicket-keeper to affect 100 dismissals in test cricket after M. S. Dhoni, Syed Kirmani, Kiran More and Nayan Mongia

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