📅  17 November 2023 Current Affairs
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✔️ World Philosophy Day or Vishwa Darshan Diwas is celebrated every year on the third Thursday of November, this time it is being celebrated on 16 November.

✔️ International Tolerance Day is celebrated every year on 16 November.

✔️ National Press Day is celebrated across the country every year on 16 November.

✔️ World Philosophy Day is celebrated every third Thursday of November from 16th November 2023

✔️ “13th Hockey India Senior Men National Championship” will start from 17th November in Chennai.

✔️ After Charbagh, now Gomti Nagar station will get its own rail coach restaurant

✔️ Manreet Sodhi Someshwar has written the book "Kashmir: Book 3 of the Partition Trilogy"

✔️ Famous writer Salman Rushdie receives 'Lifetime Disturbing the Peace Award' from Vaclav Havel Center

✔️ In India vs New Zealand match, Mohammed Shami became the fastest player to take 50 wickets in ODI World Cup.

✔️ CBDT Chairman inaugurates GST and Customs Pavilion at 42nd IITF, CBDT Chairman Nitin Gupta

✔️ Delhi International Airport launches Sunflower initiative to facilitate people with hidden disabilities

✔️ Indian Army's Trishakti Corps personnel with the assistance of BRO complete Bailey Bridge over Teesta River at Chungthang, North Sikkim

✔️ INS Sumedha is on an extended range operational deployment and is currently operating in the Atlantic Ocean along the west coast of Africa

✔️ Rohit Sharma became the first batsman to hit 50 or more sixes in the World Cup and broke Chris Gayle's record of hitting 49 sixes.

✔️ CITIIS 2.0 aims to advance climate action through promoting a circular economy with a focus on integrated waste management

✔️ INS Sumedha is on an extended range operational deployment and is currently operating in the Atlantic Ocean along the west coast of Africa

✔️ The ninth edition of India-Sri Lanka joint military exercise “Exercise Mitra Shakti-2023” began today at Aundh, Pune, the exercise is being conducted from 16 to 29 November 2023

✔️ A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on “Enhancing the Innovation Ecosystem through Innovation Handshake” was signed under the framework of the India-US Commercial Dialogue between the two countries in San Francisco on 14 November 2023.

✔️ Hardeep Singh Puri, Hon'ble Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Housing & Urban Affairs inaugurated the 3rd Hockey India Senior Women's Inter Department National Championship 2023 and Tournament Trophy at Shivaji Stadium

✔️ Varanasi-based Alaknanda Cruises, under the direction of Vikas Malviya, is set to introduce two solar-powered 'mini-cruise' ships on the Saryu River in Ayodhya, with operations to begin ahead of the scheduled inauguration of the Ram temple in January 2024
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Q1 - Which river is called the mourning of India ??
- Karmnasha

Q2 - Which river is called mourning of Bihar ??
- Kosi

Q3 - Which river is called the mourning of Bengal ??
- Damodar

Q4 - Which river is called the mourning of Assam ??
- Brahmaputra

Q5 - Which river is called the mourning of Orissa ??
- Brahmani

Q6 - Which river is called the mourning of Jharkhand ??
- Damodar

Q7 - Which river is called the mourning of China ??
- Hong ho

Q8 - is called 'Tel River' ??
- Niger

Q9 - Is Yellow River called ??
- Hong ho

Q10 - Is Kali/Mahakali called ??
- To the Sharda River

Q11- is the largest river in the world ??
- Neel (6650 km)

Q12 - is the largest river in India ??
- The River Ganges

Q13 - is the smallest river in the world ??
- D River (America)

Q14 - Which river is in the world, the river in which fish is not found?
- Jordan River

Q15 - Which is the largest river in the world based on the volume of water ??
- Amazon River

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✍️ Governor General Knowledge Quiz 🖋

● How much is the tenure of the governor 5 years
● Who can dissolve the state government 🖋 President on the recommendation of the Governor
● The power of the executive of a state lies in ☞ Governor

● Who appoint governor ☞ President

● The provision of removing which person is not in the Constitution ☞ Governor

● Governor's salary-allowance comes from which fund

● Who is the constitutional head of the state government ☞ Governor

● Whom does the Governor give his resignation to the President

● Who conducts the state under President's rule ☞ Governor

● Who remains in his post according to the President's wish ☞ Governor

● What is the minimum age for the post of governor ☞ 35 years

● The governor can appoint how many Anglo-Indians in the Assembly ☞ ☞ one

● Who was the first woman governor of India ☞ Sarojini Naidu

● 'Governor is like a bird residing in a gold cage'

● No money bill is passed in the state assembly without whose permission ☞ Governor

● The ordinance issued by the Governor is approved by

● Who can dissolve the state government ☞ Governor

● What is the main role of the governor ☞ The link between the center and the opinion

● Who makes the governor of a state sworn in ☞ Chief Justice of that state

● Apart from President's rule in which state Governor's rule can also be implemented ☞ Jammu and Kashmir

● In which state of India became the first woman governor. Uttar Pradesh

● According to the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir, the Governor's rule can be spent in the state for the maximum time in the state ☞ 6 months

● When was the post of 'Sadar-e-Riyasat' of Jammu and Kashmir changed to Governor ☞ 1965

● Who appoints the Chief Minister of the state ☞ Governor

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☑️ All competitive exams - Important Questions

Question 1. Who has written the national anthem of India?
Answer - Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Question 2. Who first called Mahatma Gandhi the Father of the Nation?
Answer - Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose

Question 3. Which is our national almanac?
Answer - Shaka Samvat

Question 4. What is the duration of the national anthem?
Answer - 52 seconds

Question 5. Who discovered radioactivity?
Answer - Henry Bakel

Question 6. Paes maker is related to which part of the body?
Answer - Heart

Question 7. Which gland of human body is called 'Master Granth'?
Answer - Piyush Granthi

Question 8. Which is the most pure form of carbon?
Answer - Diamond

Question 9. Who invented X-rays?
Answer - Rantjan

Question 10. Which metal was first used by humans?
Answer - Copper

Question 11. What does the astronaut look to the external sky?
Answer - Black

Question 12. Who invented binoculars?
Answer - Galileo Galilee

Question 13. What is the name of Mahatma Gandhi's tomb in Delhi?
Answer - Rajghat

Question 14. Where did the first rail in India run?
Answer - From Bombay (present Mumbai) to police station

Question 15. For the first time in India, the metro rail service was started in which city?
Answer - Kolkata

Question 16. In which sun started the rail in India?
Answer - 1853

Question 17. Who was the first Indian astronaut?
Answer - Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma, in 1984

Question 18. Who was the first woman Chief Minister of India?
Answer - Mrs. Sucheta Kripalani

Question 19. Who was the first Chief Minister of Haryana?
Answer - Pt. Bhagwat Dayal Sharma

Question 20. When was the United Nations established?
Answer - 24 October 1945

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