‘Memorable Points ‘Who has been appointed the neve Director-General of NDRF? = Atul Karwal =” Atul Karwal, a 1988 batch IPS officer of Gujarat cadre was on November 9,2021 appointed Director-General of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) by the Central government. Prior to be appointed as DG of NDRF, Mr Karwal was director cof Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy. The Secretariat of the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet confirmed the appointment of Karwal asthe Director-General of NDRF by temporarily upgrading the post to the level of DG for a period of twa years. Senior IPS officer Sheel Vardhan has been appointed as the new Director-General of the Central Industrial Security Force (CIS) ‘Who has been appointed as Director.General of Narcotics Control Bureaus (NCB) ? ~ Satya Narayan Pradhan 12 Satya Narayan Pradhan, a Jharkhand cadre 1988-batch TPS officer, was appointed as Director-General of Narcoties Control Bureass (NCB) by the Centre government on November 10, 2(21 on a deputation bass tll the date of his superannuation on ‘August 31,2024, or until further orders. Pradhan was currently holding additional charge of NCB chief despite holding the responsiblity of Director General of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF). Buta day earlier, Atul Karwal became DG ‘of NRF, ‘Who assumes charge asthe Chairperson of NCLAT? = Justice (Retd.) Ashok Bhushan ‘Former Supreme Court judge Justice Ashok Bhushan on November 8, 2021 assumed charge as the chairperson of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) which has got a permanent head after a gap of almost 20 months following the retirement ofits frst Chairperson Justice J. Mukhopadhaya, ustce Bhushan had reticed from the Supreme Court on July 4, this year where he had led the bench that was monitoring the COVID-19 management and relief throughout the pandemic days. NCLAT has been constituted under Section 410 of the Companies Act, 2013 for hearing appeals against the orders of the National Company Law ‘Tribunal (NCLI). Which eninch 1 Cities Network (UCN) by UNESCO? Stina Srinagar, the summer capital of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir joined the coveted list of UNESCO Creative Cities Network as UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay on November & 2021 announced the inclusion of 49 cities including Srinagar worldwide in the UNESCO's Creative Cities Network (UCCN) list in 2021. Srinagar joins other Indian ilies as Chennai and Varanasi - UNESCO Cities of music: Jaipue - UNESCO city of crafts and folk arts; Mumbai - UNESCO tity of film and Hyderabad ~ UNESCO City of gastronomy. Now the number of such cities has reached 295 in the world, ‘The UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) is a project of UNESCO launched in 2004 to promote cooperation among cities which recognized creativity as a major factor in their urban development. India launches the 41st scientific expedition ta, = Antarctica 3 } "= Tndia on Novemebr 15, 2021 launched the 41st scientific expedition to Antarctica with the artival of the First Batch comprisirig 23 scientists and support staff of its contingent at thetadien Antarctic sation Maite, Four more batches are ‘expected to land in Antarctica by mid January 2022, using the DROMLAN facility. The 4st expedition has two major programs. The first program encompasses geological exploration of the Amery ice shelf at Bharati station. This will help ‘explore the link between India and Antarctica in the past. The second program involves reconnaissance surveys and preparatory work for deilling of 500 meters of ice core near Maiti Indian Naw INS Visakhapatnam which =s led = INS Visakhapatnam was commissioned into the Indian Navy on November 21, 2021 at the Western Naval Command in “Mumbai in presence of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, the then Chief oF the Nava Staff Admiral Karambir Singh and other senior defence officers. It isthe frst stealth guided-miseile destroyer of the € 35,000 crore Project 15B under which a total of four such warships are being built. Designed by the Indian Navy's in-house organisation, the Directorate of Naval Design, and constructed by Mazagon Dock Limited, INS Visakhapatnam has the capability of embarking two integrated helicopters and is equipped with an array of weapons and sensors, which include supersonic surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles, medium and short-range guns, anti-submarine rockets and advanced electronic warfare and communication suits + BQ Indian Navy commissions its fourth Scorpene-class submarine under the Kalvari-class submarine Project-75 named = INS Vela je The Indian Navy on November 25, 2021 commissioned India's fourth Scorpene-class submarine INS Vela at the naval dockyard in Mumbai, in presence of the then Chief of naval staff Admiral Karambir Singh. INS Vela, the fourth of the six submarines inducted in the Indian Navy under the Kalvari-class submarine Project-75, has been built by Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd in collaboration with M/s Naval Group of France. It is named after a decommissioned submarine Vela, which served the Navy from 1973 to 2010. Three submarines under Project 75 - INS Kalvari, INS Khanderi, INS Karanj ~ have already been commissioned. These Scorpene submarines have advanced stealth features and are also equipped with, both long range guided torpedoes as well as anti-ship missiles, «7—Andhra Pradesh was named the best marine state in the country by the Central government on th Occasion of world Fisheries Day on November 21-20at hile Telangana was adjudged best performer in inland fisheries in ia as the awards in various fisheries sector categories were announced for 2021 by Union Minister for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Parshottam Rupala in Bhubaneswar. Balasore in Odisha was named the best marine district, and Balaghat in Madhya Pradesh received the award forthe best district in iland fisheries. The award for the best hilly and Northeastern state in the sector was given to Tripura. Bongaigaon in Assam received the award inthis category for being the best district. PD/January/2022/41A) iit sy nage a taxitsin nu A/F Taio ist grass conservatory Tunded ater the Central Government's CAMPA scheme, was inaugurated Raniket in Awe nd ter 2 rl wanna ewe Tees ces rng Uti at Rett Ae 9 ai i pr ccna i co ev gsi ca far ee eri 7 Nn ord are nba day ing ov emma elm fe rn ape vain or ete een cine Meee regen [[INTERNATIONAL Which Indian has been elected to the UN Int 1e Asia-Pacific group ? Bimal Patel Pacific group for the election with 163 votes in his support in the UN General Assembly out of 192 members present and voting on November 12 2021 The Asia-Pacific group included candidates from China, South Korea and Japan. India topped the group with 163 votes for Patel, followed by 162 votes for Thailand, 154 for Japan, 145 for Vietnam. Professor Patel, Vice-Chancellor, Rashtriya Raksha University and Member of National Security Advisory Board of India, has been & lected to the ILC for a five-year term starting January 1, 223. i Dd RET AOU NSE gen nal A a ra Cahn wd ans alo ie Wald natn Organ (W150) Dice Gene ede Gye al UN Gea Otioe Disa Geral Tas Vatoaye were Renae wth the Nara Gage! temaonal Acad er November 2 dug eh Global Bae Keres Liked Se World hes sCOVETTO“ Re tours wee angel by one acyl eater wm 2 cutenaiy of Aotbapn Peds Ena Alen Te Need Gage arvana Neend oe chelate THe soasd Subcoue Gag PL Meson pnt SaCsal Cony Sod'y pam santas prt sa (aes wn eaeey he vata tien Gert pcan emg spec ee =i The Unled Stats of Ameren USAT ot NovenDePTO-2TET Rcrie Th Toit member of the Intemational Solar AT (054), an inter-governmental organisation loomed BY-MRTd France to accelerate the global adoption of solar povver. The Gear eae cas Ja ay, ea nure arts CUED a Chagos al Ooo a eta mn ea Sale are ang in concent WIR on oe Osu He A a Ninemaoe CORT The ESV lay Hae tcedns fea nsaing nce gaon snd native Roaning tutor tects Eueetmeecaame Which word hasbeen chossnas Ward ofthe Year 2021 by the Oxford Dictionary? ve t= The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) in Nayeraher. 2001 declaredVax’ as the word of the year for 2021 due tots frequent ‘usage throughout the year as medical breakthroughs happened around the world. The word Vax is defined as, ‘a colloquialism meaning either vaccine or vaccination as a noun and vaccinate as a verb.” Vax is used as a short form for vaccines and means a substance put into a person's body to prevent him from getting a disease, Vax and vaxx are both go accepted spellings but the form with one x is more common, id etry ence he Get agers en gnc al Al ast COVID'NT FP Teiuin on Novamas L 2D becane the Rat county TNE WOT WT FppPOVE The COVID-1 anvil oa pil tly deraopel aieced Ment Co lor sal Maple Biaespestie UKs hadicncr and Healea Produce Replay. cy dled ilonpette 6 Ou Waren Be dnc COVIDI9 heh whovae ato SeEed rat dean avers esate appro sth for tnoral evel weament fe COVID-9 andthe fitter a COVID.19 dr Les a ART stands for = Double Aceuid Redirection Test NASA, the US space agency, launched the first of ts kind DART Mission (also known as Double Asteroid Redirection Test) fon November 24, 2021, aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California to deliberately smash a spacecraft into an asteroid. DART Mission is the world’s first mission to test asteroid-deflecting technology. It is expected to crash into the moonlet Dimorphos at 15,000 mph (24,100 km/h) during the fall of 2022 between September 26 ‘and October 1 to deflect the asteroid by a fraction. The goal is to slightly alter the trajectory of Dimorphos, a ‘moonlet” ‘around 525 feet wide that circles a much larger asteroid called Didymos. (© Which country successfully launches Gaofen-11 (03) satellite ? = China *© China launched its 3rd Gaofen 11 reconnaissance satellite on November 19, 2021, on board its Long March 4B rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, Shara in northern China. The launch marked the 397th mission for the Long March series cartier rockets. The Gaofen 11 (03) satellite with an optical resolution comparable to top US spy satellites is an addition to China's set of classified satellites. A yho has been honoured with Ballon d'Or (Men) this year? t Ligne! Mess ‘Argentina's football great Lionel Messi clinched his record 7th Ballon d'Or award ou November 29, 2021 by securing the highest 613 points to beat Poland striker Robert Lewandowski who got 580 points in the award fray. Mess led Argentina to the Copa America ttle in July this year after losing in four major intemational finals. Awarded by France Football ‘magazine, the Ballon d’Or has been given out to men every year since 1986. Alexia Putellas became the third winner of the women's award for an outstanding season with Barcelona and Spain. The only previous women's award winners are Norway striker Ada Hegerberg in 2018, and US forward Megan Rapinoe in 2019. the PD/January/2022/42