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 Goni had weakened slightly on

1. Super typhoon Goni landfalls impacting the central parts of the
into Philippines island nation to the South of Lipa
city and is forecast to soon emerge
into the South China Sea,
strengthen once again taking
advantage of the warm waters, and
likely move along a westward
course potentially threatening
Vietnam with an eventful landfall.
 Goni evoked memories of Typhoon
Haiyan in November 2013 that left
more than 7,300 people dead and
missing, entire flattened villages,
swept ships inland, and displaced
 At least 10 people died and three
more than five million in Central
others were missing after Typhoon
Philippines. India is more familiar
Goni, the world’s strongest
with a similar-sounding but away-
typhoon this year, barrelled
going super cyclone 'Gonu' in the
through the south of the
Arabian Sea in 2007.
Philippines’ main island of Luzon
 Cyclone/Hurricane/Typhoon
on November 01.
 Cyclone is the name of a revolving
 Super typhoon Goni hit the island
wind. These are the centers of the
province of Catanduanes at dawn
low pressure, around which the
with sustained winds of 225 km/hr
concentric, isobaric lines extend.
and gusts of 280 km/hr, equivalent
The pressure decreases from the
to a Category-5 hurricane, the
periphery to the center, resulting
strongest to be reported from any
in strong winds from the periphery
part of the world this year.
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 These winds rotate circularly due to
the influence of the Corialis force.
The direction of the cyclone in the
northern hemisphere is
anticlockwise and clockwise in the
southern hemisphere.
 There are two distinctions of a
cyclone depending on the region of
origin –
1) Tropical cyclone – These are storms,
which are intense and common in
the tropical region. They cause
abundant rainfall. They have a
diameter ranging from 50 to 1000
miles and a relatively low air
pressure area. They run at speeds
ranging from 20 to 30 miles per
hour. These include wind flows
ranging from 90 to 130 mph. They
are called Hurricane in the West
Indies and Typhoon in China Sea
and the Philippines and Tornado in
the US and Willie Willies in
Australia.
2) Extra tropical cyclone or Temperate
cyclones – It is a low-pressure
storm in the middle and high
latitudes. Its velocity varies from 20
to 30 mph and winds move spiral.
Often it causes snow and rain. They
extend more than tropical
cyclones; due to these cyclones we
receive winter rainfall that is called
“Mawath”.
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2. Former James Bond actor
Sean Connery dies at 90
 Sir Sean Connery, the Scottish actor
who rocketed to fame as James
Bond, has died at the age of 90. The
actor was the first to portray the
role on the big screen and
appeared in seven films as 007,
which included every film from Dr.
No to You Only Live Twice, plus
Diamonds Are Forever and Never
Say Never Again, between 1962 and
1983.
 The popular star went on to cement
his career with films such as
Marnie (1964), Murder on the
Orient Express (1974), The Man Who
Would Be King (1975), The Name of
the Rose (1986), Highlander (1986),
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
(1989), The Hunt for Red October
(1990), Dragonheart (1996), The
Rock (1996), and Finding Forrester
(2000).
 It was his performance as an Irish
cop in Brian De Palma’s The
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Untouchables that brought him an
Oscar. He also won two Bafta
awards and three Golden Globes in
his long and storied career. He was
knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in
2000.
 Born in the slums of Edinburgh,
Connery never completed his
education as he left school to work
as a labourer. Drafted into the
Royal Navy at the age of 17, he was
discharged in a few years due to a
medical reason. After a series of
odd jobs, he participated in the Mr.
Universe competition of 1950,
coming third.
3. Chris Gayle becomes first
to hit 1000 T20 sixes
 Chris Gayle achieved a new
milestone on Friday when he
became the first batsman to hit
1,000 sixes in T20 cricket history.
This came when he smashed the
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seventh of his eight sixes during his
belligerent 99 against Rajasthan
Royals in an Indian Premier League
match in Abu Dhabi.
 Gayle, 41, is way ahead of his
nearest competitor, fellow West
Indian and a Mumbai Indians'
player Kieron Pollard, who has hit
690 sixes in the T20 format and is
311 adrift of Gayle's 1,001.
 Not only this, Gayle has the most
runs (13572 *), most centuries (22),
most fifties (85), highest score in an
innings (175 not out), fastest
century (30 balls), most runs in a
calendar year (1665 in 2015) and
most man of the match (59) in T20.
 Most sixes in T20
 1001 - Chris Gayle*
 690 - Kieron Pollard
 485 - Brendon McCullum
 467 - Shane Watson
 447 - Andre Russell
 417 - AB de Villiers
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4. Harpreet Singh appointed India is more than double the

Alliance Air CEO global average, the data suggested.

5. Puducherry Lt Governor, CM greet

people on de jure Transfer Day

 Air India’s regional subsidiary

Alliance Air announced Harpreet
Singh as its chief executive officer,
making her the first woman to hold
the position in a scheduled
 Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry
passenger Indian carrier.
Kiran Bedi and Chief Minister V
 Singh currently holds the position
Narayanasamy on November 01
of Air India’s executive director
greeted the people of the Union
(flight safety). She will be replaced
Territory on the 58th anniversary of
on the post by Captain Nivedita
de jure Transfer Day.
Bhasin.
 Puducherry became free de facto
 Singh was the first woman pilot to
on August 16, 1954, in the wake of a
be selected by Air India in 1988.
referendum held in the Keezhur
However, she could not fly due to
village on October 18 that year.
health reasons. Singh has also
Majority of those who voted in the
headed the Indian Women Pilot
referendum wanted merger of the
Association.
then French establishments here
 According to data released by
merge with Indian Union.
International Society of Women
 A treaty of cession was inked
Airline Pilots in 2018, India has the
between the then French and
highest percentage of women
Indian governments and after its
airline pilots in India. The
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power took place on November 1,
1962.
 Puducherry, along with the
outlying regions, became a Union
Territory. All the Indian
legislations, including the
Representation of People''s Act,
were introduced in Puducherry
after the de jure transfer of power.
 Puducherry
 The territory of (Puducherry)
comprises the former French
establishment Puducherry,
Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam, which
lie scattered in South India.
Puducherry, the capital of the
territory was once the original
headquarters of the French in
India.
 It was under the French rule for 138
years and merged with the Indian
Union on 1st November 1954. The
French East India Company
established a settlement in 1668 at
Surat and another in 1674 at
Pondicherry (now Puducherry). The
company’s director, François
Martin, made Pondicherry the
capital of the French posts. Mahe
was founded in 1725, followed by
Yanam in 1731 and Karaikal in 1739.
 It is bounded on the east by the
Bay of Bengal and on the three
sides by Tamil Nadu. About 150 kms
south of Puducherry on the East
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Coast lies Karaikal. Mahe is
situated on the Malabar coast on
the Western Ghats surrounded by
Kerala. Yanam is situated adjoining
the East Godavari district of Andhra
Pradesh and is about 200 kms from
Visakhapatnam airport.
 The major languages spoken in the
areas are Tamil, Malayalam, and
Telugu. Tamil is predominant in the
southern settlements of
Puducherry and Karaikal;
Malayalam is predominant in
Mahe; and Telugu is spoken mainly
in Yanam.
 In 1947 the loges were given back
to independent India.
Chandernagore was finally
transferred in 1951. De facto
transfer of the four remaining
French possessions to the Union of
India took place on Nov. 1, 1954,
and de jure transfer was completed
on May 28, 1956. Instruments of
ratification were signed on Aug. 16,
1962, from which date Pondicherry,
consisting of the four enclaves,
became a union territory. The
territory formally took the name
Puducherry in 2006.
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6. 206th Session of Governing
Council of the IPU to be held
from 1st to 4th November
 The 206th Session of the Governing
Council of the Inter-Parliamentary
Union, IPU is being held from 1st to
4th November this year. It will be
an Extraordinary Virtual Session,
which is being organised in place of
a full-fledged in-person Statutory
Assembly of IPU due to the
outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic.
 The agenda of the Virtual Session
includes the election of the new
President of IPU through remote
electronic secret ballot since the
outgoing President of IPU Ms.
Gabriela Cuevas Barron (MP,
Mexico) had completed her term on
19th of this month. The term of the
new President of IPU will be from
2020 to 2023.
 There are four candidates in the
fray for the post of IPU President.
They are Duarte Pacheco from
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Portugal, Muhammad Sanjrani
from Pakistan, Akmal Saidov from
Uzbekistan and Salma Ataullahjan
from Canada.
 An Indian Parliamentary
Delegation led by Lok Sabha
Speaker Om Birla and consisting of
Lok Sabha MP Poonamben Maadam
and Rajya Sabha MP Swapan
Dasgupta will participate in the
Virtual Session and cast their votes.
 Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
 The IPU is the global organization
of national parliaments.it began in
1889 as a small group of
parliamentarians, dedicated to
promoting peace through
parliamentary diplomacy and
dialogue, has since grown into a
truly global organization of
national parliaments.
 Today, membership inches ever
closer to being universal, with 179
Member Parliaments ,13 Associate
Members, and increasing numbers
of parliamentarians from all over
the world involved in our work.
 Its slogan is “For democracy. For
everyone.”
 IPU promotes democratic
governance, institutions and
values, working with parliaments
and parliamentarians to articulate
and respond to the needs and
aspirations of the people.
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 IPU is financed primarily by its  In the 75kg category, Asian silver-

Members out of public funds. its winner Ashish Kumar also claimed
headquarters is in Geneva, a gold after his opponent,
Switzerland. It also have an office American Joseph Gerome Hiks,
in New York, United States of gave him a walkover due to injury.
America.  India was in with a chance of
fourth gold but Asian
7. Amit Panghal, Sanjeet Championships silver-medallist
wins gold in France Kavinder Singh Bisht fell 2-1 in the
75kg final to home favourite
Samuel Kistohurry. Olympian Shiva
Thapa (63kg), Sumit Sangwan
(81kg) and Satish Kumar (91kg)
won bronze earlier on Friday after
falling in the semi-finals.

8. New Zealand votes in favour

of legalising euthanasia

 World Championships silver-

medallist Amit Panghal made the
perfect return to competitive
boxing by winning gold at the
Alexis Vastine International Boxing
Tournament in Nantes, France. The
top-ranked 52kg boxer in the
world, Panghal beat American
Abraham Rene Perez 3-0 in the  New Zealand has voted to legalise
final. Amit Panghal has already euthanasia for terminally ill
secured his berth at the Tokyo patients following a referendum
Olympics. that was part of this month’s
 Fellow Indian boxer Sanjeet made general election, the country’s
it a second gold for India on the electoral commission announced.
day as he beat local boxer Soheb The referendum is binding and the
Boufai in the 91kg final.

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law is expected to come into effect
in November 2021.
 More than 65% of voters backed
the End of Life Choice Bill, which
allows assisted dying for people
with terminal illnesses subject to a
range of conditions and
safeguards, the preliminary results
showed. Nearly four lakh votes
have yet to be counted and the
final results will be released on
November 6.The Act was passed in
November 2019, but requires that it
gets at least 50 per cent of the
votes in the 2020 referendum to be
effective.
 Seales Case
 One of the most significant cases
that shaped the debate around
assisted suicide in New Zealand
was of a lawyer Lecretia Seales who
was diagnosed with brain cancer in
2011. After Seales’ options of
getting treated were exhausted,
she reviewed her end of life
alternatives and believed that she
wanted physician-assisted suicide.
 Her widower, Matt Vickers, who
maintained a blog, mentions that
Seales, “would have liked the
choice to receive physician-assisted
death, to bring about her demise
no sooner than the point that she
determined she had no quality of
life, and before she entered a long,
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pointless and wasteful period of
suffering prior to her death”.
 In March 2015, Seales and her
lawyers filed a statement of claim
with the High Court of New Zealand
arguing that her general physician
should not be prosecuted for
assisting her in her death and that
under the Bill of Rights Act of 1962,
she had the right to not be
subjected to “the unnecessary
suffering of a long, cruel death.”
 Seales died on June 5, 2015 and on
the same day the judgment of
Seales versus Attorney General was
made public, in which she was not
allowed to seek physician-assisted
dying. However, the judge made
several statements in support of
Seales’s wishes and the case
became a catalyst in bringing
politicians in the country to engage
with this topic.
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9. Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha
to be next Chief Information
Commissioner
 Former diplomat and Central
Information Commissioner
Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha is tipped
to be appointed as the country’s
next Chief Information
Commissioner (CIC).
 Sinha is a retired officer of the
Indian Foreign Service and has
previously served as India’s High
Commissioner to the United
Kingdom and to Sri Lanka. He was
appointed as a member of the
Central Information Commission in
January 2019.
 The appointment comes two
months after the position at the
top transparency watchdog fell
vacant. The government also
appointed journalist Uday
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Mahurkar as an Information
Commissioner.
 The decision was taken after an
October 24 meeting of the high-
powered selection panel headed by
Prime Minister Narendra Modi. As
many as 139 people had applied for
the post of CIC and 355 for the
posts of information
commissioners.
 Central Information Commission
 The Central Information
Commission has been constituted
with effect from 12-10-2005 under
the Right to Information Act, 2005.
The jurisdiction of the Commission
extends over all Central Public
Authorities. Under the provision of
Section-12 of RTI Act 2005 the
Central Government shall, by
notification in the Official Gazette,
constitute a body to be known as
the Central Information
Commission.
 The Commission has certain
powers and functions mentioned in
sections 18, 19, 20 and 25 of the RTI
Act, 2005.These broadly relate to
adjudication in second appeal for
giving information; direction for
record keeping, suo motu
disclosures receiving and enquiring
into a complaint on inability to file
RTI etc; imposition of penalties and
Monitoring and Reporting
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including preparation of an Annual
Report. The decisions of the
Commission are final and binding.
 The Central Information
Commission shall consist of the
Chief Information Commissioner
(CIC) and such number of Central
Information Commissioners not
exceeding 10 as may be deemed
necessary.
 Eligibility criteria and the process
of appointment of CIC/IC
 Section 12(3) of the RTI Act 2005
provides a provision of a
committee who will recommend
CIC and IC, this committee will
include -
i) The Prime Minister, who shall be the
Chairperson of the committee;
ii) The Leader of Opposition in the Lok
Sabha ; and
iii) A Union Cabinet Minister to be
nominated by the Prime Minister.
 Section 12(5) of the RTI Act 2005
provides that the Chief Information
Commissioner and Information
Commissioners shall be persons of
eminence in public life with wide
knowledge and experience in law,
science and technology, social
service, management, journalism,
mass media or administration and
governance.
 Section 12(6) of the RTI Act 2005
provides that Chief Information
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Commissioner or an Information
Commissioner shall not be a
Member of Parliament or Member
of the Legislature of any State or
Union Territory as the case may be
, or hold any other office of profit
or connected with any political
party or carrying on any business
or pursuing any profession.
10. Kerala best-governed, says
Public Affairs Centre report
 Kerala was adjudged the best-
governed state in the country while
Uttar Pradesh was at the last spot
in the large states category,
according to findings of the Public
Affairs Index-2020 report released
by a Bengaluru-based not-for-profit
organisation Public Affairs Centre.
 Bangaluru based not-for-profit
organisation, headed by former
Indian Space Research
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Organisation (ISRO) chairman K. analysed in the context of

Kasturirangan, said in its annual sustainable development defined
report that the States were ranked by the three pillars of equity,
on governance performance based growth and sustainability.
on a composite index in the context
of sustainable development.
 Four southern States — Kerala
(1.388 PAI Index point), Tamil Nadu
(0.912), Andhra Pradesh (0.531) and
Karnataka (0.468) stood in the first
four ranks in the large State
category in terms of governance.
Uttar Pradesh(-1.461), Odisha (-
1.201) and Bihar (-1.158 ) were at
the bottom of the ranking.
 In the small State category, Goa
ranked first with 1.745 points,
followed by Meghalaya (0.797) and
Himachal Pradesh (0.725). The
worst performers with negative
points were Manipur (-0.363), Delhi
(-0.289) and Uttarakhand (-0.277),
says the report.
 Chandigarh emerged at the top in
the category of Union Territories
with 1.05 PAI points, followed by
Puducherry (0.52) and
Lakshadweep (0.003). Dadar and
Nagar Haveli (-0.69), Andaman,
Jammu and Kashmir (-0.50) and
Nicobar (-0.30) were the worst
performers.
 Analyzing parameter
 According to the PAC, the
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1) Recently, Typhoon Goni has been d) Yanam

in the news, if we are calling Goni 6) Recently the 206th session of the
as Typhoon, it would have hit Governing Council of the Inter-
which of the following country? Parliamentary Union (IPU) is being
a) America held, the true statement regarding
b) Australia the Inter-Parliamentary Union is -
c) Philippines a) It was established in 1972.
d) Bangladesh b) It is a United Nations body.
2) Recently, famous Hollywood actor c) It is headquartered in
Sean Connery has passed away, for Switzerland.
which character was he famous? d) All statements are true.
a) Spider Man 7) Recently, which medal has been
b) Super Man won by Amit Panghal in the Alexis
c) James Bond Vastine International Boxing
d) Harry Potter Tournament?
3) Recently which player has made a a) Gold
world record by hitting a thousand b) Silver
sixes in T20 cricket? c) Bronze
a) Chris Gayle d) None of these
b) Shane Watson 8) Recently which country’s 65% of
c) Kieron Pollard people have voted and demanded
d) Rohit Sharma assisted euthanasia?
4) Recently who became the first a) America
woman CEO of Alliance Airlines? b) Luxembourg
a) Nivedita Bhasin c) France
b) Harpreet Singh d) New Zealand
c) Soumya Dwivedi 9) Recently, who has been
d) Preeti Arora recommended to appoint the Chief
5) Puducherry has celebrated its Information Commissioner by the
liberation day, which part of selection committee headed by
Puducherry shares border with the Prime Minister?
Andhra Pradesh? a) Bimal Julka
a) Puducherry b) Yashvardhan Sinha
b) Mahe c) Subhash Chandra
c) Karaikal d) Meenakshi Gupta

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10) Which state has topped the list in d) A, B and C

big states category in recently 13) Statement A: euthanasia is of two
released Public Affairs Index 2020? types active and passive.
a) Uttar Pradesh Statement B: In 2018, the Supreme
b) Kerala Court upheld active euthanasia.
c) Tamil Nadu Choose the true statements -
d) Andhra Pradesh a) A only
11) Statement A: In the recently b) B only
released Public Affairs Index 2020, c) A and B
Kerala has topped in the category d) Neither A nor B
of big states. 14) In the context of Inter
Statement B: Goa has topped in Parliamentary Union (IPU),
the category small states. consider the following statements
Choose the true statements - and select the false statements -
a) A only A) It was established in 1959.
b) B only B) Its headquarter is located in
c) A and B Paris, France.
d) Neither A nor B Code:
12) With reference to the Central a) A only
Information Commission, consider b) B only
the following statements and c) A and B
select the correct statements - d) Neither A nor B
A)Central Information Commission 15) Statement A: Mahe region of
has been constituted under Puducherry shares a border with
Section 12 of the RTI Act 2005. Kerala.
B) The commissioner or chief Statement B: Puducherry was
commissioner of the merged with India on 1 November
commission is selected by a 1954.
committee headed by the Prime Choose the true statements -
Minister. a) A only
C) It is a 3-member body. b) B only
Code: c) A and B
a) A and B d) Neither A nor B
b) B and C
c) A and C

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