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November Hindu Review 2014
November Hindu Review 2014
This GK Capsule has been prepared by Career Power Institute Delhi (Formerly Known as Bank Power). This has been
prepared on the basis of news and events appeared in The Hindu Newspaper in the month of November 2014.
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New Ministers
(1) Manohar Parrikar - Defence Ministry
(2) Suresh Prabhu - Railways Ministry
(3) Jagat Prakash Nadda - Health Ministry
(4) Chaudhary Birender Singh - Rural
Development Minister
(5) Bandaru Dattatreya Labour
(6) Rajiv Pratap Rudy - Skill Development
(7) Dr. Mahesh Sharma Tourism
Sutirtha Bhattacharya will be the new Chairman
and Managing Director of Coal India Limited.
Bollywood Actor Farhan Akhtar was appointed
as UN Women Goodwill Ambassador for South
Asia. Farhan is the first male ever to be chosen
as a Goodwill Ambassador in the organizations
history.
Former Indian Police Service Officer K C Reddy
was appointed as the member of United Nations
probe panel on Gaza.
The Union Government appointed GS Sandhu as
Chairman of National Chemical Weapon
Convention.
Senior IRS officer Anita Kapur was appointed as
the new chairperson of the Central Board of
Direct Taxes.
The Italian physicist Fabiola Gianotti was
appointed as first woman chief of CERN particle
physics research centre.
Rajiv Mehrishi took charge as Union Finance
Secretary under the Union Ministry of Finance.
He succeeded Arvind Mayaram.
Former Indian cricket captain Dilip Vengsarkar
received the prestigious BCCI-instituted Colonel
C K Nayudu Lifetime achievement award.
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pensioners Jeevan Pramaan that will allow selfcertification and benefit over a crore pensioners
in the country.
135. Eleven women died and 34 were reported
critical after undergoing faulty sterilisation
surgeries at a government-organised family
planning camp in Bilaspur district of
Chhattisgarh.
136. The members of Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation (APEC) members have agreed to
initiate the formation of a free trade area in the
Asia-Pacific a vision steered by China, which
competes with the Trans-Pacific Partnership
(TPP) initiative of the United States.
137. The Islamic State terrorist organisation plans to
introduce its own currency and bring back solid
gold and silver coins.
138. Microsoft has unveiled a cheaper smartphone,
costing about 110 euro ($135), as it eyes
emerging and other low-cost markets for
growth. The new model is the first Lumia
smartphone under Microsofts own brand name.
139. China and the United States have agreed on a
timetable to limit emission of greenhouse gases.
The breakthrough was achieved during talks
between visiting U.S. President Barack Obama
and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping. In a joint
announcement, the U.S. agreed to reduce by
2025 its emission of greenhouse gases by 26 per
cent to 28 per cent below its 2005 level.
140. Indias second mission to Mars could be
launched between 2018 and 2020.
141. E. Sreedharan has been appointed as oneman committee by the Ministry of Railways to
suggest a proper system and procedure to
ensure proper accountability and transparency
at the level of General Manager and other
functionaries for taking all commercial
decisions.
142. The Foreign Investment Promotion Board
(FIPB) cleared the long-pending proposal of
HDFC Bank to hike foreign holding in the bank to
74 per cent.
143. Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan was
shortlisted for candidates for BRICS New
Development Bank president.
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