{"id":1094,"date":"2026-09-09T05:22:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T05:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/current-affairs-notes-on-november-11-17-html\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T05:22:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T05:22:05","slug":"current-affairs-notes-on-november-11-17-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/current-affairs-notes-on-november-11-17-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Current affairs notes on November 11-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body-4210850716707178440\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #e06666;\">1.National Education Day on\u00a0November 11, the birth<br \/>\nanniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad\u00a0to honor his contributions to<br \/>\neducation in India. He served as\u00a0the first Minister of Education of<br \/>\nindependent India. Azad was awarded\u00a0Bharat Ratna in 1992\u00a0for his contributions<br \/>\ntowards the field of education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #e06666;\">2. India is likely to press Biden Administration for early<br \/>\nrestoration of\u00a0the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) trade privilege\u00a0for<br \/>\nIndia. It is\u00a0a U.S. trade program\u00a0designed\u00a0to promote economic<br \/>\ngrowth in the developing world by providing preferential duty-free entry\u00a0for<br \/>\nup to 4,800 products from 129 designated beneficiary countries and territories.<br \/>\nThe objective of GSP was to give development support to poor countries by<br \/>\npromoting exports from them into the developed countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #e06666;\">3. Jharkhand government has passed a resolution to send the<br \/>\nCentre a letter to\u00a0recognise Sarna religion and include it as a separate<br \/>\ncode in the Census of 2021. It is believed that 50 lakhs tribal in the entire<br \/>\ncountry put their religion as \u2018Sarna\u2019 in the 2011 census, although it was not a<br \/>\ncode.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #e06666;\">4. The government has brought\u00a0\u201cOver the Top\u201d (OTT)<br \/>\nplatforms or video streaming service providers\u00a0under\u00a0the ambit of<br \/>\nMinistry of Information and Broadcasting. This will give the government control<br \/>\nover the OTT platforms, which were unregulated till now. Currently,\u00a0there<br \/>\nis no law or autonomous body governing digital content. An \u201cover-the-top\u201d media<br \/>\nservice is any online content provider that offers streaming media as a<br \/>\nstandalone product.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #e06666;\">5. Madhya Pradesh\u2019s Panna National Park\u00a0has been<br \/>\ndeclared\u00a0a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. The UNESCO\u2019s recognition cited\u00a0PTR<br \/>\nas a critical tiger habitat.The idea of\u00a0the biosphere reserve\u00a0was<br \/>\ninitiated by\u00a0UNESCO in 1974 under the MAB\u00a0with the objective of<br \/>\nobtaining international cooperation for the conservation of the biospheres. Launched<br \/>\nin\u00a01971,\u00a0UNESCO\u2019s Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB)\u00a0is\u00a0an<br \/>\nIntergovernmental Scientific Programme\u00a0that aims to establish a scientific<br \/>\nbasis for the improvement of relationships between people and their<br \/>\nenvironments. The\u00a0first of India\u2019s reserves to make it to UNESCO\u2019s list<br \/>\nwas Tamil Nadu\u2019s Niligiri Biosphere Reserve in 2000. Ken-Betwa river<br \/>\ninterlinking project\u00a0will be located within the tiger reserve.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #e06666;\">6. India has made significant progress in its vaccination<br \/>\ncoverage to prevent child pneumonia and diarrhoea deaths. India has also<br \/>\ncompleted\u00a0the \u201c100-day agenda\u201d \u2014\u00a0an unprecedented national scale-up<br \/>\nof rotavirus vaccine. This landmark vaccine expansion will help protect 26<br \/>\nmillion children born each year against life-threatening cases of rotavirus<br \/>\ndiarrhoea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #e06666;\">7. India and ASEAN countries said they would explore ways to<br \/>\nincrease trade between them despite India\u2019s exit from\u00a0the 15-nation<br \/>\nRegional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement. The Regional<br \/>\nComprehensive Economic Partnership is a free trade agreement\u00a0originally<br \/>\ndevised to consist of 16 countries\u00a0across the Asia-Pacific region. The<br \/>\npact looks to drop tariffs and duties between the members so that goods and<br \/>\nservices can flow freely between them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #e06666;\">8. Indian Navy\u2019s\u00a0fifth Kalvari-class Diesel Electric<br \/>\nattack submarine INS Vagir\u00a0was launched recently at Mazgaon Dock in<br \/>\nMumbai. This class of submarines have\u00a0Diesel Electric transmission systems\u00a0and<br \/>\nthese are primarily attack submarines or\u00a0\u2018hunter-killer\u2019\u00a0type which<br \/>\nmeans they are designed to target and sink adversary naval vessels.They can be<br \/>\nused\u00a0in anti-warship and anti-submarine operations, intelligence gathering<br \/>\nand surveillance and naval mine laying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #e06666;\">9. 2018 report on \u201cVital statistics of India based on the<br \/>\nCivil Registration System\u201d: The report was published recently by\u00a0the<br \/>\nRegistrar-General of India.\u00a0It throws light on Sex Ratios of various<br \/>\nstates in the country. State with best Sex Ratio:\u00a0Arunachal Pradesh<br \/>\n(1084). Worst: Manipur (757).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #e06666;\">10. The\u00a0European Space Agency (ESA)\u00a0has formally<br \/>\nadopted\u00a0Ariel. Ariel (Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet<br \/>\nLarge-survey)\u00a0will be launched in 2029. Ariel is the\u00a0first mission of<br \/>\nits kind dedicated to measuring the chemical composition and thermal structures<br \/>\nof hundreds of exoplanets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #e06666;\">11. PM Narendra Modi unveils `Statue of Peace` in\u00a0Rajasthan.<br \/>\nTo mark\u00a0the 151st Birth Anniversary celebrations of Jainacharya Shree<br \/>\nVijay Vallabh Surishwer Ji Maharaj.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #e06666;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #e06666;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #e06666;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #e06666;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #e06666;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #e06666;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #e06666;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #e06666;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #e06666;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #e06666;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #e06666;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #e06666;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #e06666;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #e06666;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/currentaffairscircle.blogspot.com\/2020\/12\/current-affairs-notes-on-november-11-17.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.National Education Day on\u00a0November 11, the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad\u00a0to honor his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}