Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 23 to 30 November 2021

Weekly One Liner Current Affairs 23 to 30 November 2021

Everyone knows how crucial the General Awareness/ Current Affairs portion is in every exam, whether it’s for SBI PO, SBI Clerk, IBPS PO, IBPS Clerk, LIC, SSC, Railway, or any other government exam. As a result, for every future exam which includes a GA section, we will give weekly one-liner current affairs.
Weekly one-liner current affairs condenses the most important news from the previous week into a single line and is required reading for all exams. To keep you up to date, we’ve included the weekly one-liner current affairs below.

National News

• Indore’s Patalpani Railway Station renamed after Tribal Icon Tantya Bhil
• Home Minister Amit Shah laid foundation stone for ‘Rani Gaidinliu Tribal Freedom Fighters Museum’ in Manipur
• NITI Aayog launched SDG Urban Index 2021-22; Shimla topped the Index
• Nirmala Sitharaman launched Tejasvini & Hausala schemes and Shikhar & Shikara Schemes in J&K
• PM Modi laid the foundation stone of Noida International Airport in Jewar, UP
• Madhya Pradesh will create first cyber tehsil of India
• Cabinet extended PM Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana (PMGKAY) till March 2022
• MakeMyTrip tied up with Civil Aviation Ministry to promote Regional Air Connectivity through UDAN Scheme
• Cherry Blossom Festival 2021 celebrated in Shillong, Meghalaya
• Madhya Pradesh CM launched “Urja Saksharta Abhiyan” & 3 solar power projects of 1500-MW capacity
• UNICEF & Odisha Water Resource Department signed LoA for water management
• National Apprenticeship Training Scheme (NATS) extended for 5 years
• NITI Aayog’s Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) 2021: Bihar, Jharkhand, UP poorest states in India
• Rajnath Singh inaugurated 5th World Congress on Disaster Management
• 1st ever Aharbal Festival held in J&K to promote tourism
• Kantar’s BrandZ India report 2021: Amazon, Asian Paints, Tata Tea topped India’s Most Purposeful Brand Rankings
• Varanasi became 1st Indian city to start Ropeway Service as a Mode of Public Transport
• Indian Railways constructing World’s Tallest Railway Pier Bridge in Manipur
• 7th India International Science Festival 2021 will be held in Goa
• Kerala Tourism launched STREET project for experiential tourism

International News

• El Salvador announced to build world’s first ‘Bitcoin City’
• US, Australia and UK signed key deal in Nuclear Submarine Alliance
• Nicolae Ciuca nominated as the New PM of Romania
• India & Nepal signed an MoU on Reciprocal Recognition of Covid Vaccination Certificate
• GoI & ADB signed USD 300 million loans to improve access to healthcare in urban areas
• GoI, Andhra Pradesh signed an MoU worth $250 million loan with World Bank to improve quality of learning
• VP Venkaiah Naidu represented India at the 13th ASEM Summit
• Germany announced 2 billion Euro to aid India’s fight against climate change
• Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid reappointed as Prime Minister of Kuwait
• WHO named new COVID-19 Strain 1.1.529 as ‘Omicron’
• Jitendra Singh virtually chaired the 9th BRICS Science & Technology Ministers Meeting
• Petr Fiala appointed new Prime Minister of Czech Republic
• S Jaishankar attended 20th Summit of SCO Council of Heads of Government

Banking and Financial

• Economic Advisory Council to PM projected India’s GDP growth at 0-7.5% in FY23
• SBI projected India’s GDP for FY22 at 3%-9.6%
• RBI revealed a Draft Scheme for amalgamation of PMC Bank with Unity Small Finance Bank
• SBI signed an MoU with Pondicherry Co-op Milk Producers’ Union Ltd to offer loan to Dairy Farmers
• ICICI Bank launched ‘Trade Emerge’ online platform for Exporters and Importers
• Goldman Sachs projected India’s GDP growth at 1% in FY22
• Equitas SFB partnered with HDFC Bank to offer co-branded credit cards
• JP Morgan Chase named world’s most systemically important bank: Financial Stability Board
• NPCI Bharat BillPay onboarded Tata Power on ClickPay platform to facilitate automated electricity bill payments
• CCI approved FedEx India to acquire a stake in Delhivery
• BOB Financial Solutions partnered with NPCI for RuPay credit cards
• ADB approved USD 1.5 bn loan to India for COVID-19 vaccine procurement
• Government changed the base year for Wage Rate Index (WRI) from 1963-65 to 2016
• Moody’s projected India’s GDP growth in FY22 at 3% and FY23 at 7.9%
• Union Bank of India entered into a co-lending partnership with CGCL to finance MSMEs
• Government formed ‘Central Vista Oversight Committee’ to expedite pace of project; headed by Ratan P Watal
• RBI imposed monetary penalty of 1 crore on State Bank of India
• YES Bank partnered With Amazon Pay, AWS for UPI services
• Bajaj Allianz General Insurance tied up with TropoGo for Drone Insurance
• ESAF Small Finance Bank launched Electric Vehicle Loan Scheme ‘Go Green’
• HSBC India launched India’s 1st Credit Card made from Recycled PVC Plastic
• Indian Oil, BPCL & HPCL launched Model Retail Outlet Scheme and Darpan@petrolpump
• RBI imposed 1 crore penalty on Union Bank of India
• RBI raised higher cap on promoter stake at 26% in private banks
• RBI approved LIC to increase its stake in Kotak Mahindra Bank up to 9.99%

Appointment and Resignation

• Abdalla Hamdok reappointed as Sudan’s PM
• Sourav Ganguly appointed as brand ambassador for Century LED’s Magik range
• Praveen Sinha elected as delegate for Asia on the executive committee of the INTERPOL
• Rajnish Kumar appointed as an Independent non-executive Director on the Board of Hero MotoCorp
• Harshwanti Bisht became first woman president of Indian Mountaineering Foundation
• UAE’s Ahmed Naser Al-Raisi elected as President of INTERPOL
• Vivek Johri appointed as Chairman of Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC)
• Parag Agrawal appointed the new CEO of Twitter

Awards

• Doordarshan and All India Radio won at UNESCO-ABU Peace Media Awards 2021
• Andhra Pradesh won Best Marine State Award for 2021-22
• Anita Desai awarded Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award
• Delhi’s Sadar Bazar Police Station ranked best-performing police station in India
• President presented Vir Chakra, Kirti Chakra and Shaurya Chakra
• S K Sohan Roy became 1st Indian to be honoured with Knighthood of Parte Guelfa
• 49th International Emmy Awards 2021 announced READ MORE…
• 6th BRICS Film Festival Awards 2021 announced; Indian actor Dhanush won Best Actor (Male) for his role in ‘Asuran’.
• 52nd International film festival of India concluded in Goa
• Lionel Messi won Men’s Ballon d’Or for the seventh time

Defence

• INS Visakhapatnam commissioned into Indian Navy
• India, Maldives & Sri Lanka conducted biennial trilateral exercise ‘Dosti’
• 37th India-Indonesia CORPAT exercise held in Indian Ocean
• Indian Navy commissioned 4th Scorpene-class submarine INS Vela in Mumbai
• IAF commissioned 2 Mirage 2000 Fighters from France at Gwalior Air Base

Science

• Jitendra Singh launched India’s 1st Virtual Science Lab for children under CSIR Jigyasa programme
• NASA launched world’s 1st DART mission to crash spacecraft into asteroid on SpaceX Rocket
• Skyroot Aerospace test-fired India’s 1st Privately Built Cryogenic Rocket Engine “Dhawan-1”

Sports

• 2025 Asian Youth Para Games will be hosted by Tashkent, Uzbekistan
• Tamil Nadu won Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy 2021-22 by defeating Karnataka
• Alexander Zverev has won 2021 ATP Finals title at Turin, Italy
• Saurav Ghosal won the Malaysian Open squash championship 2021

Book and Author

• Abhijit Banerjee authored a book titled “Cooking to Save your Life”
• Ban Ki-moon authored his autobiography titled “Resolved: Uniting Nations in a Divided World”
• A Book titled “Conversations: India’s Leading Art Historian Engages with 101 themes, and More” authored by BN Goswamy
• Maroof Raza authored a book titled “Contested Lands: India, China and the Boundary Dispute”
• A book titled “Bangladesh Liberation@50 Years: ‘Bijoy’ with Synergy, India-Pakistan War 1971” released
• A book titled “Indian Innings: The Journey of Indian Cricket from 1947” authored by Ayaz Memon
• Venkaiah Naidu released a Book “‘Democracy, Politics and Governance’ authored by A Surya Prakash

Important day

• 21 November: World Fisheries Day
• 24 November: Lachit Divas
• 25 November: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women (Theme 2021: “Orange the World: End Violence against Women Now!”)
• 26 November: Constitution Day of India
• 26 November: National Milk Day
• 27 November: National Organ Donation Day
• International Day for Women in Maritime will be observed on May 18 every year
• 29 November: International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
• 28 November: NCC 73rd Raising Day
• 30 November: Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare

Obituary

• Former South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan passed away
• Sahitya Akademi Award Winning Poet Sananta Tanty passed away
• Veteran Broadway composer & lyricist Stephen Sondheim passed away
• National Award-winning Choreographer Shiva Shankar Master passed away

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