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Daily Current Affairs 24 November 2021
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on 22 November 2021 laid a foundation stone of Rani Gaidinliu Tribal Freedom Fighters Museum at City Convention Center in Manipur through video conferencing.
The museum will be set up at Luangkao village in the Tamenglong district of Manipur, which is the birthplace of freedom fighter Rani Gaidinliu. The project has been sanctioned by the Ministry of Tribal Affairs at an estimated amount of Rs 15 crore.
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Maharashtra minister Vinod Tawde was appointed as the party’s national general secretary. He is a prominent Maratha leader and has served in several organizational positions in Maharashtra. He has a base in Konkan and Mumbai.
Apart from this, Rituraj Sinha and Asha Lakhra have been made National Secretary of BJP. BJP also appointed two new spokespersons Bharti Ghosh and Shehzad Poonawalla.
President of BJP: J. P. Nadda.
Private sector lender ICICI Bank has announced the launch of an online platform, Trade Emerge, to offer digital banking and value-added services to exporters and importers across India. This is aimed to make cross border trade hassle-free and convenient, as it eliminates the need for companies to coordinate with multiple touchpoints.
The list of banking services offered includes current/saving account offerings, comprehensive trade services (Letter of Credit, Bank Guarantee, Trade Credit, etc.), digital solutions like Corporate Internet Banking and Trade Online, state-of-the-art foreign exchange solutions, payment & collection solutions, and credit cards.
The exporters and importers who are not customers of ICICI Bank can also avail the benefit of this platform.
Navies of India and Indonesia are undertaking the 37th edition of India-Indonesia Coordinated Partrol (CORPAT) along the International Maritime Boundary Line on November 23-24.
The aim is to bolster the maritime cooperation between the two navies and forge strong bonds of friendship across the Indo Pacific.
The indigenously built Indian Naval Ship (INS) Khanjar and Dornier Maritime Patrol Aircraft is participating in the CORPAT). Khanjar. From Indonesia, Indonesian Naval Ship KRI Sultan Thaha Syaifuddin, (376) is participating.
India and Indonesia have been carrying out Coordinated Patrols (CORPAT) along the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) twice in a year since 2002. CORPAT is held twice in a year to ensure safety and security in the region for commercial shipping, international trade and conduct of legitimate maritime activities.
Pratham, the NGO working to expand the scope for education in India, has been awarded the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for this year, the Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust.
Pratham is among India’s largest NGOs working to improve education quality for underprivileged children across the world.
“The 2021 price is awarded to Pratham for its pioneering work of over more than a quarter century in seeking to ensure that every child has access to quality education, for its innovative use of digital technology to deliver education, for its programmes to provide skills to young adults, for its regular evaluation of the quality of education, and for its timely response in enabling children to learn during the COVID-19 related school closures”.
The traditional Odia festival Boita Bandana was celebrated throughout Odisha on November 19, 2021 with fervor.The festival is commemorated on Kartika Purnima, or the full moon day of the Kartika month as per Hindu calendar.
The glory of Odisha’s (erstwhile Kalinga) maritime heritage is acknowledged by the ‘Boita Bandana’ ritual on the day Kartika Purnima. Boita Bandana literally means ‘sanctifying of boats’.
People across the State celebrate the day by floating tiny banana, paper or thermocol boats with diyas, betel leaves, crackers, fruits and coins in the nearest water bodies. The festival is marked to celebrate the glorious maritime history of the state (since it was known as Kalinga) and ancient tradesmen and mariners (known as sadhabas) who traveled on boitas to trade with distant island nations that share borders with the Bay of Bengal like Indonesia, Java, Sumatra and Bali.
The Government of India, Government of Andhra Pradesh and the World Bank on 18th November 2021 signed the legal agreements for $250 million for a project which aims to improve quality of learning for over 50 lakh students in the state of Andhra Pradesh.
Over 50 lakh students from all grades and stages of school education will benefit from the project, titled “Supporting Andhra’s Learning Transformation Project”.
Goldman Sachs on November 23 forecast India’s GDP to grow to 9.1% year-on-year in 2022 from 8% in 2021, following a sharp contraction of 7% in 2020, driven by consumption. Earlier this was estimated at 11.1 percent.
Goldman Sachs pegged the economy to grow at 8 percent in Calendar Year 2021 and 9.1 percent in Calendar Year 2022.
The 49th International Emmy Awards ceremony took place on November 22, 2021 at Casa Cipriani in New York City, recognizing excellence in television programs produced and aired originally outside the U.S., and non-English language US primetime program between the dates of January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020.
From India, Nawazuddin Siddiqui was nominated for Best Actor for his performance in Serious Men, Sushmita Sen-led Aarya was nominated for Best Drama and comedian Vir Das was nominated for Best Comedy.
However, India could not register a win in any of the above categories. Till date the only Indian show to bag an Emmy is Delhi Crime which won Best Drama in 2020.
List of Winners of 2021 International Emmy Awards
- Best Actor – David Tennant for Des (UK)
- Best Actress – Hayley Squires for Adult Material (UK)
- Best Drama Series – Tehran (Israel)
- Best Comedy Series – Call My Agent Season 4 (France)
- Best Documentary – Hope Frozen: A Quest To Live Twice (Thailand)
- Best Telenovela – The Song Of Glory (China)
- Best TV Movie / Mini-Series – Atlantic Crossing (Norway)
- Best Arts Programming – Kubrick By Kubrick (France)
- Best Short-Form Series – INSiDE (New Zealand)
- Best Non-Scripted Entertainment – The Masked Singer (UK)
- Best Non-English Language U.S. Primetime Program – 21st Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards (USA)
Syed Akbaruddin, the former India’s Permanent Representative to the UN has come out with a book titled ‘India Vs UK: The Story of an Unprecedented Diplomatic Win’.
The book features the behind-the-scenes details on India’s victory against the United Kingdom in the elections to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 2017. The 2017 election was called ‘second war of Independence’ in the words of then foreign minister Sushma Swaraj.
Every year, November 24 is celebrated as Martyrdom Day of Guru Tegh Bahadur, the ninth Guru of Sikhs, of the Sikh religion. The day is celebrated as Shaheedi Divas of Guru Tegh Bahadur across the country.
It was on this in 1675, Guru Tegh Bahadur sacrificed his life to protect religion, human values, ideals and principles. The martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur is remembered as Shaheedi Divas every year.
In Assam, Lachit Divas (Lachit Day) is celebrated every year on November 24. The day marks the birth anniversary of the legendary Ahom army general Lachit Borphukan. It also commemorates the heroism of Lachit Borphukan. In 2017, the celebration of Lachit Divas was held for the first time.
Chao Lachit was an army general (Borphukan) from Assam, who was the commander at the Battle of Saraighat, which was fought in 1671 between the Mughals and the Ahom Kingdom on the Brahmaputra river at Saraighat, now in Guwahati to curb the expansion of the Mughal Empire in Assam. He played his heroic role in the battle to drive away from the Mughal forces under the command of Ram Singh to take over the kingdom.
