Weekly Current Affairs (Beepedia) 9th-15th November 2023

RBI, Banking and Economy

• FY24 sovereign green bonds for investments by NRI added to FAR list

• India's outward FDI falls 12.14% to $1.88 bn in October: RBI data

SEBI and FINANCIAL AWARENESS

• UBS upgrades India's FY24 real GDP growth estimate marginally to 6.3%

NABARD & AGRICULTURE

• India’s SEA sign MoU with Brazil’s ABIOVE for soyabean oil imports

NATIONAL

• Union Finance Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurates the first Global Conference on Cooperation in Enforcement Matters (GCCEM) in New Delhi

• REC signs MoU with RailTel, to Finance Infrastructure Projects in Telecom, IT and Railway Signalling

• Ministry of Information and Broadcasting approves Comprehensive “Digital Advertisement Policy, 2023”

INTERNATIONAL

• GoI and ADB sign $400 million loan to support urban services by creating high quality urban infrastructure, improving service delivery, and promoting efficient governance systems

• India & Netherlands signs MoI for cooperation on medical product regulation & enhance quality of medical products at Hague in Netherlands

STATES

• Kerala forms Organic Farming Mission to boost agriculture

• Maharashtra State cabinet approves state's first export promotion policy designed to boost exports

• Bihar cabinet approves quota hike to 75%

REPORTS AND INDEXES

• QS Asia University Rankings 2024

• India ranked 5th for green skill intensity in 2022: TeamLease report

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• IBM, AWS set up innovation lab in Bengaluru

• Japan gets a new island after undersea volcano erupts

• New species of wasp discovered in Kerala

DEFENCE

• INDIA & BANGLADESH NAVIES UNDERTAKE CORPAT & EX-BONGOSAGAR

• Armed forces contract more long endurance drones from Israel under emergency procurement

• THE INDO-PACIFIC REGIONAL DIALOGUE 2023 (IPRD-2023)

EVENTS

• Rajnath Singh to attend 10th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus in Jakarta

• CJI Chandrachud inaugurates ‘Mitti Cafe’ run by specially-abled staff on SC premises

• New Delhi to host 33rd Conference on World Animal Health

AWARDS AND REWARDS

• 19th Kalakar Puraskar Award Conferred on Singer/Composer Apolinaris D’souza

• India to be added to U.K. safe states list

• Grammy Awards 2024

SPORTS

• Serena Williams named fashion icon by the Council of Fashion Designers of America

• ICC Suspends Sri Lanka Cricket Board Over Alleged Government Interference

• Virat Kohli breaks Sachin Tendulkar’s record for most runs in an ODI World Cup