Current Affairs Update – 24th November, 2015

Hello and welcome to ExamPundit. Here are the Important Current Affairs of 24th November, 2015. These are important for the upcoming Banking and Insurance Exams.

• India and Singapore on 24 November 2015 signed 10 agreements
  on mutual co-operation. These include Defence, Civil Aviation, National
  Planning and cyber Security.
• The agreements were signed in presence of Prime Minster of
  Narendra Modi and Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Narendra Modi was
  on a two-day visit to Singapore (23 November to 24 November 2015).

• Joint Declaration on a Strategic Partnership: Seeks to
  elevate bilateral relations to a strategic partnership to deepen and broaden
  engagement in existing areas of cooperation. The Strategic Partnership is also
  a framework to contribute to greater regional stability and growth.
• Agreement concerning Defence Cooperation
• Agreement on the Extension of Loan of Artifacts to the Asian
  Civilisations Museum of Singapore Executive Programme on Cooperation in the
  Fields of the Arts, Heritage, Archives and Library for the Years 2015-2018
• Operationalisation of the Technical Agreement on Sharing
  White Shipping Information
• MoU on Cooperation in the area of Cyber Security
• MoU in Civil Aviation
• MoU on Cooperation in the Field of Planning
• MoU on Cooperation to Combat Illicit Trafficking in Narcotic
  Drugs, Psychotropic Substance and their Precursors
• MoU in Capacity Building in the Field of Urban Planning and
  Governance

• Facebook has expanded its controversial ‘Free Basics’
  initiative across the country to offer basic Internet access with its telecom
  partner Reliance Communications (RCom).
• Earlier called ‘Internet.Org’, Facebook had launched the
  initiative in India with RCom to offer free access to about 32 apps and
  websites in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Kerala
  and Goa.
• The number of such free apps and websites has now been
  increased to over 80.
• India has over eight lakh users under the Free Basics
  initiative.
• Free Basics, which aims to bring free Internet access to the
  developing world, has faced backlash, with activists alleging that it violates
  network neutrality, the idea that all online traffic should be treated equally.

• Private lender Axis Bank today said it has joined hands with
  Tata-SIA joint venture airline Vistara to launch a travel credit card next year
  under a strategic partnership.
• The co-branded travel credit card, to be unveiled early next
  year, will offer a host of privileges and benefits to the business and leisure
  travellers of Vistara, Axis Bank said in a release today.
• The country’s third full service airline after national
  carrier Air India and Naresh Goyal-promoted Jet Airways, Vistara last month for
  the first time breached the one lakh passengers mark since its launch in
  January this year.
• Vistara, is a joint venture between Tata Sons Limited and
  Singapore Airlines Limited (SIA) with Tata Sons holding the majority stake of
  51% in the company and SIA holding the remaining 49%.

• Noted Marathi actor Prashant Damle was on 23 November 2015
  selected for the Master Dinanath Mangeshkar Award. He will be conferred with
  the award by Lata Mangeshkar in April 2016 on the occasion of the death anniversary
  of Master Dinanath.
• He was chosen for the award for his outstanding contribution
  in the field of theatre, film and music.
• The announcement was made by Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar at
  the 100th show of Damle’s Marathi play Karti Kaljat Ghusli. Hridaynath was the
  chief guest for the 100th show of the the Marathi play.

• Kuldip Nayar, a veteran journalist, columnist and author was
  honoured with Ramnath Goenka Lifetime Achievement Award on 23 November 2015. He
  was awarded for his contribution to journalism.
• He was conferred with the award at the eighth edition of the
  prestigious Ramnath Goenka Excellence awards ceremony held in Delhi.
• The award for the years 2013 and 2014 was handed over by
  Information and Broadcasting minister Arun Jaitley, who also handed several
  awards in different categories to over 56 journalists for their exceptional
  reportage in print as well as broadcast media.

• Miners Shot Down, helmed by South African Indian-origin
  makers, has won the best documentary honour at the International Emmy Awards.
• Directed by Rehad Desai and produced by Anita Khanna, the
  documentary tells the story of the August 2012 strike at Marikana, a town in in
  the North West province of South Africa, through the eyes of the miners, which
  left 44 people dead and scores more injured when police opened fire.
• Through eye witness accounts and incisive interviews, the
  film details the source of the tensions between the workers and their employers
  as they started protesting the low wages paid by the company progressing to the
  aftermath of the killings.
• Desai was given a standing ovation from the audience at the
  ceremony, which took place in New York.
• The filmmakers said they welcome the accolades but are more
  concerned about creating greater awareness of the tragedy on which the
  documentary is based.

• The Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 23 November 2015
  announced the appointment of Michael Keating of United Kingdom as Special
  Representative for Somalia and Head of the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia
  (UNSOM).
• Keating will succeed Nicholas Kay, who will complete his
  assignment in December 2015. Kay was associated with UNSOM for over the past
  two and a half years.

• Rishi Gour was on 23 November 2015 appointed as Country
  President of Support services company Sodexo India On-site Services with effect
  from 1 September 2015.
• Gour joined Sodexo in 2011 and has since then worked towards
  the brand’s promise of delivering quality of life services to over 400
  corporate, education and healthcare clients. Prior to joining Sodexo, Gour was
  associated with WNS Global Services, Accenture and CITIL across various
  functional areas.
• He has a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT-Varanasi
  and a Post-Graduate degree in Management from IIM Ahmedabad.

• Dutchman Roger Van Gent was appointed as the strategic coach
  for the Indian men’s Hockey. He will be the strategic coach of the team till
  the 2016 Rio Olympics.
• His appointment to the post was announced on 7 November 2015
  by Hockey India.
• Gent, who joined the coaching staff for the Indian men’s
  hockey team, will assist High Performance director and chief coach Roelant
  Oltmans. He will assist Oltamas to work for Hero Hockey World League Final 2015
  and the 2016 Rio Olympics.

• Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) was in news in fourth week
  of November 2015. It came into news after the Paris terror attack on 13
  November 2015 in which about 130 people were killed and several were injured.
• OIR is the US military operation name for the intervention
  against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), including both the campaign
  in Iraq and the campaign in Syria. Effective 22 September 2015, III Corps is
  responsible for Combined Joint Task Force- Operation Inherent Resolve
  (CJTF-OIR).
• The anti-ISIS coalition is a coalition of 65-member nations.

• The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
  (UNISDR) on 23 November 2015 released the report titled The Human Cost of
  Weather Related Disasters. The report was compiled by UNISDR and the
  Belgian-based Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED).
• The report depicts that over the last 20 years, 90 percent
  of major disasters have been caused by 6457 recorded floods, storms, heatwaves,
  droughts and other weather-related events.
• It finds that the five countries hit by the highest number
  of disasters are the United States, China, India, Philippines and Indonesia.
• It demonstrates that since the first UN climate change
  conference (COP1) in 1995, 606000 lives have been lost and 4.1 billion people
  have been injured and left homeless as a result of weather-related disasters.

• The Dayton Peace Accord was in news on 21 November 2015 as
  the world commemorated 20th Anniversary of the Signing of the Dayton Peace
  Accords.
• The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also commended the
  efforts of the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the consolidation of
  peace and political stability and the socioeconomic progress achieved during
  the past 20 years.
• The Dayton Peace Accords were signed on 21 November 1995 at
  Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio to end the Bosnian war and laid
  the foundations for a sovereign Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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