DAILY GK 19 NOV 2025
1.
3RD INTERNATIONAL AYURVEDA
CONFERENCE
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Dinesh Bhatia,
Ambassador of India to Brazil, inaugurated the 3rd International
Ayurveda Conference, jointly organized
by the Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre (SVCC) and Conayur Sao Paulo (Conselho Nacional de Ayurveda), held in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Brazil
is the first South American country to recognize Ayurveda.
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The 2025 edition was held
under the theme titled “Diversity
and Inclusion in Ayurveda: Caring for Everybody and Every Being”.
2.
QS WORLD UNIVERSITY
RANKINGS SUSTAINABILITY 2026
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Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), global
higher education experts, released the 4th edition
of ‘QS
World University Rankings: Sustainability (2026)’.
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Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi (IIT-D) in
New Delhi has emerged as India’s best performing institution
for the 2nd consecutive year, securing 205th position globally with an overall score
of 83.1
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This year, no Indian
Institution featured among the world’s top 200 sustainable universities.
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Lund University (Sweden) topped the 2026 global sustainability rankings for the first time
since the index began in 2023, followed by the University of Toronto (Canada) and University College London(UK) in
2nd and 3rd positions, respectively.
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USA with 240 institutions
has emerged as the most represented
country on the list, followed by China (163), the UK (109), India (103) and
France (76).
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This year, a total of 103 Indian
institutions (including 26 new entries) featured on the list, making it the
world’s 4th most
represented country in the rankings.
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Out of 103 Indian universities featured in this year’s edition, 32 have improved their ranking, 15 retained
their previous year ranking, and 30 have dropped.
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IIT Roorkee(Uttarakhand) secured the 352nd position followed by IIT Banaras Hindu University(BHU),
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh(UP) at 672nd
and IIT Hyderabad(Telangana) at 792nd
3.
INDIA RE-ELECTED TO
CODEX EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
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India has been unanimously re-elected
to the Executive Committee of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CCEXEC)
for the Asia Region during the 48th
Session of the CodexAlimentarius Commission (CAC48), held
FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy.
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With this re-election,
India’s term of representation for the
Asia Region has been extended until the conclusion of CAC50 in 2027.
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Codex Alimentarius Commission
(CAC) is an international body established
jointly by FAO and World Health Organisation (WHO).
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The body is mainly
responsible for all matters related to implementation of the joint FAO/WHO food
standards programme.
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Members- 189 (including 188 member countries and The European Union)
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Established in- 1963.
4.
CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY
NAMES ‘PARASOCIAL’ AS 2025 WORD OF THE YEAR
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The Cambridge
Dictionary has announced ‘parasocial’ as
its Word of the Year 2025, highlighting the
growing global trend of one-sided
emotional connections people form with celebrities, influencers, fictional
characters, and Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots.
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Parasocial is an adjective that describes a connection someone feels with a celebrity
they do not know, a character in a
book, film, or Television(TV) series, or an AI character.
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The term, originally coined
in 1956 by sociologists Donald Horton
and Richard Wohl.
5.
TOP 100 MOST VALUABLE INDIAN
BRANDS 2025
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Kantar Group, world’s
leading marketing data and analytics business, released ‘Kantar Brandz’s Top
100 Most Valuable Indian Brands 2025’ report.
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HDFC Bank Limited, India’s
largest private sector bank, has emerged as
India’s most valuable brand, registering 18% Year-on-Year (Y-o-Y) growth to USD
44.99 billion, replacing Tata
Consultancy Services (TCS) which slipped to 2nd position, with a total valuation of
USD 44.23 billion.
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Airtel (USD
41.1 billion) and Infosys (USD 25.54 billion) ranked at 3rd and 4th positions
respectively.
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As per the report, the
combined value of India’s 100 most valuable brands reached USD 523.5
billion (accounting nearly 13%
of country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
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Zomato, Online
Food company, continued to be the fastest-rising
brand for the second consecutive year, jumping 10 places to 21st spot and
approximately doubling its brand value to USD 6 billion.
6.
SAUDI ARABIA IS
DESIGNATED AS MAJOR NON-NATO ALLY
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USA President Donald Trump designated Saudi Arabia as
a major non-North AtlanticTreaty Organization (NATO) ally
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With this designation, Saudi Arabia became the 20th country to
receive major non-NATO ally status.
7.
PSLV SET TO
LAUNCH OCEANSAT SATELLITE IN 2026
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Dr. V. Narayanan,
Chairman, Indian Space Research
Organization (ISRO) announced the
launch of the Oceansat Satellite into orbit by the first commercially built Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)-PSLV
N1 rocket in 2026 at the 7th India Manufacturing Show (IMS) 2025 held in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
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In
2022, ISRO under the commercialisation initiative led
by New Space India Ltd (NSIL) signed a
contract with the HAL and L&T consortium for the end-to-end production of
five PSLV-XL rockets.
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Earlier, PSLV was wholly manufactured by ISRO.
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PSLV is
a four-stage launch vehicle with alternating solid and liquid propulsion and
includes six extended strap-on boosters characteristics of the PSLV-XL variant,
giving it higher lift capacity.
8.
NASA, SPACEX LAUNCHES
‘SENTINEL-6B’ SATELLITE
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‘Copernicus Sentinel-6B’, an
earth observation satellite, jointly
developed by American space agency i.e. National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) and European partners, was
successfully launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket from
Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in CaliforniaUSA
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Sentinel‑6B,
together with its twin Sentinel‑6 Michael Freilich,
will collect data covering about 90% of
the Earth’s oceans, with the objective of measuring global sea levels,
atmospheric temperature, and humidity.
