Current Affairs Update – 21st November, 2015

• Rajasthan Government on 20 November 2015 signed 295 MoUs
  attracting about 3.3 lakh crore rupees investment during the Resurgent
  Partnership Summit 2015. With this, a task force will be formed to get the
  projects implemented in a time-bound manner.

• It aims to provide around 239694 lakh jobs in the state.
• The Energy sector got MoUs worth 190000 crore rupees
  followed by Petroleum with 77657 crore rupees worth MoUs.
• Infrastructure got MoUs worth 17038 crore rupees while
  Manufacturing sector of the state fetched MoUs worth 11760 crore rupees.
• Roads and Highways fetched 10000 crore rupees MoUs.

• French President Francois Hollande will be the chief guest
  at the Republic Day parade of January 26, 2016. Though official sources are yet
  to confirm this information, Julien Bouissou, the South Asia correspondent of
  French daily La Monde has tweeted the same. He later on clarified that his
  information was based on the French sources.
• The visit of Mr. Hollande to New Delhi for the mega pageant
  of January 26 will be symbolic and send a message of a worldwide solidarity
  among the democratic countries against terrorism of the IS which staged the
  November 13 attacks in Paris.
• France is going to host the COP 21, Paris Climate
  Conference, summit in Paris starting from November 30. French ambassador
  Francoise Richier told the media in Delhi earlier this week that the climate
  conference, though overshadowed by the terror attacks will go ahead as planned
  but for some changes about the peripheral events planned for the summit. Prime
  Minister Narendra Modi is expected to attend the COP21 brainstorming in Paris,
  said official sources earlier this week.

• Rajasthan and South Australia on 20 November 2015 signed the
  historic Sister-State Agreement to boost export and investment opportunities
  between the two states.
• The agreement was signed by South Australia Trade and
  Investment Trade Minister Martin Hamilton-Smith and Rajasthan Chief Minister
  Vasundhara Raje in Rajasthan.

• The sister-state relationship between South Australia and
  Rajasthan is based on a two-way exchange of research, policy and technical
  capabilities.
• The agreement provides partnership opportunities across key
  sectors where South Australian business will offer services and product
  support.

• Jharkhand celebrated its state day at the India International
  Trade Fair in New Delhi on Saturday. Amid a host of traditional and cultural
  activities showcasing the art and dance forms of different regions of
  Jharkhand, some 200 people visited the event.
• Inaugurating the event, which was also attended by Chief Secretary
  Rajiv Gauba, Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das said: “Jharkhand this time
  is the partner State of IITF, 2015, and it is a real pride for us.” Das also
  visited the stalls at the Jharkhand pavilion and praised the arrangements.

• Yusuf Hamied, non-executive chairman of Indian pharma
  company Cipla, has been named by UN chief Ban Ki-moon to a high-level panel on
  health technology innovation and access. The panel is tasjed with escalating
  investments in research and development for diseases where financial returns
  are not guaranteed.
• Hamied will be part of the 16-member panel that will be
  co-chaired by former President of Switzerland Ruth Dreifuss and former
  President of Botswana Festus Mogae.
• The UN said Hamied has led efforts to treat and eradicate
  AIDS and other diseases in the developing world, and to give patients
  life-saving medicines regardless of their ability to pay.
• He offered the world’s first affordable AIDS medicine at the
  unprecedented cost of $1 per day in 2001.

• Harshavardhan Neotia, Chairman of Ambuja Neotia group, was
  on 20 November 2015 elected as the President of industry body Federation of
  Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) for the year 2016.
• Neotia will succeed the current FICCI President Jyotsna
  Suri, Chairperson and Managing Director of Bharat Hotels Ltd, during the
  chamber’s AGM in December 2015.

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