DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS: 19 NOV 2015 (Free GK Quiz)
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1. WORLD
TOILET DAY OBSERVED ON 19 NOVEMBER
i. World Toilet Day was observed on 19
November across the world.
ii. The theme of the world toilet day
was Sanitation and Nutrition.
iii. The main aim of the world toilet
day is to raise awareness among the people in the world who don’t have access
to a toilet.
iv. Indian government launched the
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan on 2 October 2014 to clean india and government is
planning to spend 134000 crore rupees by 2019 to construct 11 crore 11 lakh
toilets.
2. GLOBAL
TERRORISM INDEX 2015 RELEASED BY INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMICS AND PEACE
i. Institute for Economics and Peace
released Global Terrorism Index 2015.
ii. It is a summary of the impact of
terrorism in 162 countries regarding lives lost, injuries, property damage and
number of incidents.
iii. According to this report deaths
from terrorism increased 80 percent in 2014 to the highest level ever.
iv. Iraq topped in list of terrorism
and India was ranked sixth in the list.
v. Global Terrorism Index was launched by the Institute for Economics
& Peace,it ranks countries by the impact of terrorist.
3.’ EK
KADAM UNNATI KI AUR’ INITIATIVE LAUNCHED BY INTEL FROM TELANGANA
i. Intel India launched Ek Kadam Unnati
Ki Aur initiative from Nadimpalle village in Mahabubnagar district of
Telangana.
ii. The main of the programme is to
promote digitalization in rural India.
iii. It will be implemented in 10 states
across the country.
4.
JUSTICE T. S. THAKUR APPOINTED AS THE NEW CHIEF JUSTICE OF INDIA
i. The President has appointed Justice
Tirath Singh Thakur as the Chief Justice of India.
ii. President appoints new chief
justice by exercising the powers given
under article 124 of the Constitution of India,
iii. Justice Thakur is the 43rd Chief
Justice of India.
5. UNION
CABINET APPROVED GERMAN AS ADDITIONAL FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN KENDRIYA VIDYALAYAS
i. Union Cabinet gave its approval for
German as additional foreign language in Kendriya Vidyalayas.
ii. German language will now be taught
as an additional foreign language in KVs.
iii. It was agreed to support the
respective programmes and efforts in India and Germany to broaden knowledge of
each other’s languages in accordance with the National Policy of each country.
6. WADA
SUSPENDS RUSSIAN ANTI-DOPING AGENCY
i. World Anti-Doping Agency has
suspended Russia's anti-doping agency.
ii. The decision had been taken after
Russian anti doping agency had been implicated in the scandal and was accused
of destroying samples requested for analysis by WADA.
iii. World Anti-Doping Agency is a
foundation created through a collective initiative led by the International
Olympic Committee established on 1999 in
Lausanne, Switzerland, to fight against drugs in sports.
7. INDIAN
CYCLISTS WON FIVE MEDALS IN TRACK ASIA CUP
i. Indian cyclists won five medals on
the opening day of the Track Asia Cup in new delhi.
ii. The cyclists won one gold medal,
three silver medals and one bronze medal in Track asia cup.
iii. Anu Chutia grabbed a silver medal
in the 500m race in the junior women category
iv. Deborah grabbed a silver medal in
new national record time of 35.77 seconds.
v. Junior women team of Anu Chutia and
Rajesh Nayana won a gold medal in Team Sprint event.
vi. The women elite team of Deborah and
Kezia Vargheese grabbed silver in Team Sprint.
vii. The trio of Emerson, Arkaprava
Baul and Ranjith Singh grabbed one bronze in Team Sprint event in junior men
category.
