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TRISHUL DEFENCE ACADEMY

PREFACE

This is our special edition on Current Affairs Magazine for various events covering the whole month of November, issued
st
in the 1 week of December.

The first section is dedicated for Topic Wise Current Affairs with short description, to provide information about all major
happening in this month.

Topic Wise Current Affairs in Short

NATIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS

Dhawan-1: Skyroot test - fires India’s first privately India to develop jet engines for aircrafts with foreign
built cryogenic rocket engine collaboration
Skyroot Aerospae demonstrated the upper stage of its
Vikram-2
launch Presently, the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas is
vehicle. integrated with
The an imported
cryogenic engine.
rocket For this,
engine is indigenous
100 per
engines will
cent 3D
printed soon be
and 100 percent made in India. developed.
It has been named after Satish Dhawan, who was the third Such indigenous engines will also be used to power
chairman of ISRO. He pioneered the development of Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA).
advanced launch capabilities of India.
The Vikram Rocket has been named after pioneering
Project Kaveri
Vikram Sarabhai, who kickstarted the ambitious space
The Project Kaveri was sanctioned by Cabinet Committee on
program in India. He also conducted advanced nuclear
research. Security (CCS) in 1989. The project ran for 30 years with an
The rocket uses a combination of Liquid Natural Gas, expenditure of Rs 2035.56 crore. Under the project, 3217
which is more than 90 per cent methane. Liquid Natural hours of engine testing was conducted. It also completed
Gas is used in combination with Liquid Oxygen. In altitude tests and Flying Test Bed (FTB) trials.
Combined form, it is called as “Methalox”, which form a On Abhidhamma Day 2021, Kushinagar gets Intl. Airport.
cryogenic rocket fuel.
The combination provides for high performance and is
having low cost. The fuel is environmentally friendly. Thus,
Purvanchal Expressway
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday inaugurated the
leading this fuel is dubbed as “Fuel of the future” by the
Skyroot Aerospace engineers. 341 km Purvanchal Expressway in Uttar Pradesh after landing
on the highway airstrip in an IAF C-130 Hercules plane.
The six-lane wide highway starts from Chandsarai village in
Dairy Shakahar Yojana the district of
Amit Shah launches Dairy Sahakar scheme inGujarat Lucknow located
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on 1 November 2021 on the Lucknow-
launched the Dairy Sahakarscheme at Gujarat's Anand Sultanpur road and
with the overall objectives of doubling the farmers' ends at Haidaria
incomeand Atmanirbhar Bharat.He also addressed Amul's village on National
75th foundationday in Anand.He also inaugurated 4.18 Highway 31 in
kilometres long elevated corridor from Gota Flyover to Ghazipur district,
Science City Box in Ahmedabad city of Gujarat. which is around 18 km from the UP-Bihar border. It may be
noted that the expressway can be expanded to eight-lane in
the future.

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Vaccine: Merriam-Webster's 2021 word of the year India, Maldives, Sri Lanka hold first-ever Colombo
Merriam-Webster has declared vaccine as its Security Conclave
2021 word of the year. At Merriam-Webster, lookups for The ships and
'vaccine'increased 601 percent over 2020, when the aircraft of the
first U.S. shot was administered in New York in December Indian Navy,
2020. Merriam-Webster’s 2020 word of the year was Maldives
“pandemic” National
Defence Force,
'Har Ghar Dastak’ and Sri Lanka
'Har Ghar Dastak' nationwide vaccination campaign begins Navy
participated in
the first-ever Colombo Security Conclave (CSC) Focused
Operation, along with the Maldives and Sri Lankan navies. It
was held to enhance maritime security in the Indian Ocean
region, along with Sri Lanka and the Maldives.
The two-day conclave was held from 27-28 November 2021.

COP26 Climate Change Summit held in Glasgow

• The Centre has launched a mega vaccination campaign-
'Har Ghar Dastak' with a view to speed up Covid-19
in Scotland, UK
COP26 Climate
vaccination drive, from 1 November 2021.
Change Summit held
• Under the campaign, healthcare workers in all the states
on 31 October 2021
will visit door-to-door to vaccinate people eligible for
in Glasgow,
second dose and also those who have not taken the first
Scotland, UK. PM
dose.
Modi will also
• More than 106 crore 34 lakh vaccine doses have been
participate in it. The
administered so far.
conference of the
parties (COP), is an annual summit under the United Nations
Home Minister launches Ayushmaan Bharat healthcare
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
scheme
The UNFCCC is a global agreement signed in
• On 2 November 2021, the Union Home Minister Amit
Shah launched the 'Ayushman Bharat CAPF' 1992, between 197 countries to prevent dangerous human
healthcare interference with the climate system.
scheme for the India aims for net-zero emissions by 2070.
personnel of
Central Armed Union Education Minister launches Bhasha
PoliceForces
(CAPFs) on a Sangam initiative for schools
pan-India Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on 1
basis. November 2021 launched Bhasha Sangam initiative for
• He handed schools, Bhasha Sangam mobile app and Ek Bharat Shreshtha
over ‘Ayushmaan CAPF’ Scheme health cards to the Bharat Mobile Quiz.
Director General, National Security Guard, It aims to teach basic sentences of everyday usage in 22
NSG for distribution to NSG personnel.
Indian languages.

'Novavax'
'Novavax' gets first emergency use authorization for its Smart Anti-Airfield
covid vaccine.
Weapon (SAAW)
It will be manufactured by SII and marked under the brand
name COVOVAX. Smart anti-airfield
Novavax and Serum Institute of India (SII) has announced weapon successfully
that their Covid vaccine has got emergency use flight tested by India
authorization from Indonesia.  DRDO and the Indian
Air Force on 3 Nov'21
jointly conducted two flight tests of an indigenously
developed smart anti-airfield weapon in Jaisalmer.
 2 different configurations of the weapon based on satellite
navigation and electro-optical sensors have been successfully
tested.

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 DEFENCE
36th Raising Day Motto: सर्वत्र सर्ोत्तम सुरक्षा Light Combat Helicopter
(Sanskrit) Omnipresent omnipotent security Prime Minister Narendra
Aviation Corps of
Modi handed over
Indian Army celebrated
indigenously developed light
36th Raising Day: 1
November combat helicopter (LCH) to
• The Aviation Corps of the Indian Air Force in Jhansi
Indian Army celebrated today.
its 36th Raising Day on
1 November 2021. Vice Admiral R Hari Kumar to be next Chief of Naval
• Lieutenant General
AK Suri, Director Staff
General and Colonel Commandant of Army Aviation Corps The government has
laid a wreath at National War Memorial and paid homage appointed Vice
to the brave hearts on the occasion. Admiral R. Hari
• The Army Aviation Corps was raised on 1st November Kumar as the next
1986 as a separate Corps and it is one of the youngest Chief of the Naval
Corps of the Army. Staff. He is presently
the Flag Officer
Cyber security conference Commandingin-Chief
14th Cyber security conference 'c0c0n' being held from Western Naval Command.
10-13 November Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin The present Navy Chief Admiral Karambir Singh is retiring
Rawat inaugurated the 14th edition of 'c0c0n' on 10 from service on 30 November 2021.
Nov 2021.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh formally commissioned Vice Admiral Krishna Swaminathan
the first Vice Admiral Krishna Swaminathan assumes charge as
stealth-guided Chief of Staff of Western Naval Command.
missile
destroyer
ship of S-400 Triumf
Project 15B, Russia has started supplying the S-400 Triumf air defence
systems to India, the first unit of which will be deployed near
INS
the western
Visakhapatnam into the Indian Navy at the Naval front. India had
Dockyard in Mumbai. INS Visakhapatnam has been signed a USD 5
constructed using indigenous steel DMR 249A and is billion deal with
amongst the largest destroyers constructed in India with Russia to buy
an overall length of 163m and displacement of over 7,400 five units of the
S-400 air
tons.
defence missile
systems.
INS Vela
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On 24 November, INS Vela, the fourth Scorpene-class
submarine was commissioned into the Indian Navy,
presence of Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Karambir Singh,
at the naval dockyard in Mumbai. INS Vela (S24) is the
fourth submarine of the first batch of six Kalvari-class
submarines for the Indian Navy. It is a diesel-electric
attack submarine based on the Scorpène class, designed
by French naval defence and energy group DCNS and
manufactured by Mazagon Dock Limited, an Indian
shipyard in Mumbai.

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 Awards and Prizes
Vir Chakra for Group Captain
Padma awards
Varthaman Abhinandan Padma Awards presented by President on 8 November - •
Varthaman Abhinanadan who shot down a Pakistan F-16 Kangana Ranaut, Adnan Sami, Karan Johar, Ekta Kapoor,
fighter jet in Suresh Wadkar are some of the recipients who have been
the honoured with Padma Shri.
aftermath • Arun Jaitley, Mary Kom, Sushma Swaraj, George Fernandes
of the are among those who have been honoured with Padma
Pulwama Vibhushan.
terror • PV Sindhu, Venu Srinivasan, Jagdish Sheth, Tsering Landol,
attack of Anand Mahindra, are among those who have been honoured
February with Padma Bhushan.
2019, was
today
awarded the Vir Chakra by President Ram Nath Kovind at
National Sports Awards 2021
a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan. The Ministry of Youth Affairs Sports announced the names of
the 12 sportspersons who will be awarded the Major Dhyan
 Ashoke Chakra Shri Babu Ram, ASi, J&K Police Chand Khel Ratna Award for the year 2021. A total of 35
(Posthumous) sportspersons will receive the Arjuna Awards for outstanding
 Kirti Chakra Sapper Prakash Jadhav, ENGRS performance in sports.
(Posthumous) Olympic gold medalist Neeraj Chopra
Shri Altaf Hussain Bhat, Constable, J&K Police
Wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya
(Posthumous)
Boxer: Lovlina Borgohain and Indian men’s hockey team
 Also, Major Vibhuti Shankar Dhoundiyal and Naib
Subedar Sombir were posthumously awarded Goalkeeper: PR Sreejesh
Shaurya Chakra. Para Shooter: Avani Lekhara
 Col. B. Santosh Babu(Posthumous), Maha Vir Chakra. Para Athlete: Sumit Antil
 Sub. Sanjiv Sumar(Posthumous), Kirti Chakra. Para-Badminton: Pramod Bhagat and Krishna Nagar
 Naib Sub. Nuduram Soren (Posthumous) Vir Chakra. Para Shooter: Manish Narwal
 Hav. K Palani, (Posthumous) Vir Chakra. Cricketer: Mithali Raj
 Naik Deepak Singh, (Posthumous) Vir Chakra. Footballer: Sunil Chhetri
 Sepoy Gurtej Singh, (Posthumous) Vir Chakra.
Indian men’s hockey team captain Manprit Singh are the 12
Brooker Prize sportspersons who will be honoured with the Khel Ratna the
Damon Galgut wins 2021 Booker Prize for his novel 'The National Sports Awards 2021. Sunil Chhetri becomes the first
Promise' South African author Damon Galgut has won footballer to be conferred with the Major Dhyan Chand Khel
the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel The Ratna Award.
Promise. He won
the award in his
third appearance Indira Gandhi
on the shortlist Peace Prize 2021
after making the Pratham NGO has been
cut in 2003 and awarded with the
2010. He follows Indira Gandhi Peace
in the footsteps Prize 2021 for its work
of other South on expanding the
African winners Nadine Gordimer and JM Coetzee, and is scope for education in
the first winner from the country since 1999. India.

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 Books & Authors

Salman Khurshid comes up with new book 'Sunrise over

Ayodhya' Veteran Vice President M.
Congress leader Venkaiah Naidu has
Salman Khurshid released the book
has come up with ‘Srimadramayanam’ in
his new book
Hyderabad. It has
titled 'Sunrise over
Ayodhya'. The been written by
book is on the Sasikiranacharya. It is
Supreme Court verdict on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri about the leadership, good governance, and rule of law of
Masjid dispute. The book launch event was held on 10 Lord Rama. He also underlined the need to popularize
November 2021. Through this book, Salman Khurshid literary works and poetic works of various Indian languages
explores how the greatest opportunity that the judgment among the youth.
offers is a reaffirmation of India as a secular society.

Days & Events

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On 26 November
Constitution Day also
National Education Day known as 'Samvidhan
th Divas', is celebrated.
On 11 November, National Education Day is observed to
commemorate the birth anniversary of independent
India's first education minister Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.
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National Ayurveda Day is observed on 2 November. On 26 November
Ayurveda is an integral aspect of healthcare system of National Milk day is
India. It holds recognition as traditional medicine system celebrated today. This
by World Health Organization (WHO). time, the day also marks
Union Ministry of AYUSH started observing Dhanvantari the 100th Birth
Jayanti (also called as anniversary of Dr. Kurien.
Dhanteras) as Ayurveda day
in 2016.
The day was started being
celebrated with the
objective of nationalising
the ayurvedic system of
medicine and make it
global.
Theme of the day
In the year 2021, the day was observed under the theme
“Ayurveda for Poshana (Nutrition)”.

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 SPORTS
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president and
Squash star Saurav former India captain Sourav Ganguly has been appointed as
Ghosal made history the chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC)
as he became the Cricket Committee.
first Indian to win
the Malaysian Open .
Championships after
beating Miguel
Rodriguez in the
men's singles final. Indian Table Tennis player
Manika Batra won a
BCCI appoints Rahul Dravid bronze medal in the WTT
as head coach of Indian Contender tournament in
men's team Former captain Lasko after getting
Rahul Dravid has been defeated by Wang Yidi in
appointed as the head coach the semi-finals.
of the Indian men's cricket
team by the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India).
Dravid was working as the head of the National Cricket
Academy. He has been appointed for a period of two
years till the 2023 50-over World Cup in India

Miscellanious

1. The 52nd edition of the International Film
Festival of India (IFFI), Asia's oldest and
India's biggest film festival has started in
Goa.
4. Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced
the removal of the three farm laws that are at
the heart of massive farmer protests across
the country for over a year.

2. Gurpurab is observed today on the occasion
of Guru Nanak Dev birth anniversary.
5. The number of fully vaccinated individuals
against COVID-19 has surpassed the partially
vaccinated eligible population for the first
time in India.

3. On 16th November, First Audit Diwas is

6. India women's team opening batter Smriti
observed today. Prime Minister Narendra
Mandhana became the first Indian player to
Modi address an event today to mark the score a century in the Women's Big Bash
first Audit Diwas at the CAG office. League. Mandhana, who plays for the Sydney
Thunder, stayed unbeaten on 114.

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