1. India and Tunisia agreed to jointly combat terrorism and extremism while ramping up cooperation in the field of security.
2. Michael Jackson topped the Forbes lit of top-earning dead celebrities for the fifth straight year with $75 million
3. King of Bhutan, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck has arrived in New Delhi on a four day visit to India.
4. The Joint Indo-Russia Tri-Services Exercise INDRA-2017 was successfully conducted at Vladivostok in Russia
Theme INDRA 2017 - 'Preparation and conduct of operations by a joint force for suppression of International Terror Activity at the rate of a host country under UN mandate'
5.
World Vegan Day is celebrated on November 1.
6. India has appointed
Ajay Bisaria as the next
high commissioner to Pakistan.
7. A 45 member contingent of the
Indian Air Force had left for
Israel to participate in exercise
'Blue Flag-17'
8.
Indian Air Force is participating with the
C-130J special operations aircraft along with commandos, in Blue Flag-17.
9. President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated the
Global Clubfoot Conference organised by the CURE India in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in
New Delhi.
10
. India-US Ocean dialogue began at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-National Institute of Oceanography in
Goa, which is being hosted by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs.
11. The ninth edition of
CMS Vatavaran - an international film festival on environment and wildlife has begun in
New Delhi.
Theme:
Conservation 4 Water
12.
Assam government has signed a MoUs and terms of reference with
Singapore for skilling youth of the state.
13.
Indiana, a state in US and
Karnataka have signed an agreement to establish sister-state ties for cooperation in economic, educational and cultural fields.
14. A fourteen day joint training exercise
'PRABAL DOSTYK - 2017' between
Indian Army and
Kazakhstan Army commenced in
Himachal Pradesh.
15.
Odisha Skill Development Authority, OSDA and
Singapore based ITE Education Services, ITEES signed a MoU for skill development in the state.
16. President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated the
21st World Congress of Mental Health, which is being organised by the World Federation for Mental Health in partnership with Caring Foundation and other institutions in
New Delhi.
17.
Shri Rajesh Vaishnaw has been appointed as the next high commissioner of India to the
Republic of Malwa.
18. With more than 1.5 million book titles and 1650 publishing houses from 60 countries,
Sharjah International Book fair opened with a theme
'A World in My Book'.
19. UNESCO announced
Sharjah as the
'World Book Capital 2019'
20.
Kenneth Juster is nominated as the next
US ambassador to India.
21. Bilateral dialogue between
India and Armenia is conducted on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technological, Cultural and Educational Cooperation, when
President of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan visited India.
22. A new species of orangutan
'Pongo tapanuliensis', the world's most endangered great ape, was discovered in Sumatra island of
Indonesia.
23.
Indian Naval Ships Tir & Sujatha and the
Indian Coast Guard Ship Sarathi arrived at the
Colombo port on a goodwill and training visit.
24. The government of
Thailand hosted the
7th Asian Ministerial Energy Roundtable (AMER7) which is co-hosted by
United Arab Emirates. Theme AMER7:
'Global Energy Markets in Transition; From Vision to Action'
25.
China unveiled Asia's largest artificial island building ship, named-
Tian Kun Hao
26.
World Tsunami Awareness Day - November 5. Theme 2017:
'Reduce the Number of Affected People'.
27. The
Goa government signed a trilateral MoU with the department of Bio-technology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India and Nobel Media, Sweden to hold the
'Nobel Prize Series - India 2018 (Science impacts life).
28.
Air New Zealand has been named
Airline of the year for 2018.
29. A two day International conference on
'Ramayan Circuit and Mithila-Awadh Relations' was organised at
Janakpur.
30. The minister of state youth affairs and sports
Col. Rajyavardhan Rathore went to
Egypt to attend the
World Youth Forum at Sharam El Shiekh, inaugurated by the president of
Egypt Mr. Abdelfateh El Sisi.
31.
Indians working in
Brazil will soon get social security cover by retirement fund body
EPFO.
32. The
first Heli Expo India and
International Helicopter Conclave 2017 was inaugurated in
New Delhi by Uttarakhand tourism minister Mr. Satpal Maharaja. Theme:
'Enchancing Connectivity'.
33. A new round of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
COP23 talks started in
Bonn, Germany.
34. Belgium's king
Philippe and Queen
Mathilde had arrived in
New Delhi on a seven day visit to Iindia.
35.
China has made disrespecting the national anthem a criminal offence, punishable by up to three years in prison.
36.
China has launched two
BeiDou-3 satellites into space through a single carrier rocket.
37.
China will host the
4th World Internet Conference from 3 to 5 Dec in the river town of Wuzhen.
38.
India ranked
19th in terms of number of names out of 180 countries, as per the global investigation
'The Paradise Papers' released by the
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
39.
The India Pavilion at conference of Parties
COP23 was inaugurated by the Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change,
Dr. Harsha Vardhan at Bonn in Germany.
40.
India's theme for COP23 is '
Conserving Now, Preserving Future.'
41. The seventh edition of the
India, Bangladesh Joint Military Combat exercise
'Sampriti-7' begins in
Mizoram and Meghalaya.
42. New member of International Solar Alliance -
Guinea
43. Indian short film
'The School Bag' has won the best short film award at the
South Asian Film Festival of Montreal.
44.
Twitter officially expands its character count from
140 to 280.
45.
Bengaluru is the
best host among 45 cities worldwide according to a report from the
Economic Intelligence Unit.
46. Prince of Wales,
Charles Philip Arthur visited India.
47. The
European Union Election Observation Mission was officially launched to monitor the general and provincial polls in
Nepal.
48. The new service,
Bandhan Express is the second cross-border train between the two neighbouring countries,
India and Bangladesh, that runs between
Kokata and Khulna.
49. The
world's most visited city by international travelers , according to Euromonitor International is
Hong Kong.
50.
India has been
re-elected as the member of the
UNECO's executive board, at the 39th session of the General Conference of the UNESCO in
Paris, France.
51. The
Noradic-Baltic embassies will host the first ever youth film festival of the European nations in
Delhi.
52. The agreement signed between
New Delhi and Seoul, for strengthening cooperation in the fields of e-governance transportation and climate change and smart city is
'Establishment of Friendship City Relationship'.
53.
Natalie Portman has been awarded I
srael's 2018 Genesis Prize.
54.
International day for preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict - November 6.
55.
Typhoon Damrey hit
Vietnam and caused devastation.
56. The Indian Consolate in
Bengaluru launched the
Israel Centre at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore to mark 25 years of India-Israel Partnerhip.
57.
Nepal opens the bridge on the
Kaligandaki river at Jomsom area in Mustang dt, which was built by
India' help.
58. Scientists have detected dust belts around
Proxima Centauri, a finding that indicates the presence of an elaborate planetary system hosted by the closest star to the solar system.
59.
Chennai is the third Indian city on the list of 64 cities from 44 countries that have been designated as
UNESCO creative cities.
60. Astronomers have discovered the most ancient spiral galaxy in the universe which they believe existed 11 billion years ago, named
A1689B11.
61.
Eric Vuillard's Novel
L'ordre du jour(Agenda) won the
Goncourt Prize 2017.
62.
International Energy Agency Ministerial meeting was held in
Paris, France. Energy Security, Clean energy technology and government industry dialogue on investment and digitisation were the key focus areas for this meeting.
63.
Ravinder Singh Bhalla has become the
first ever Sikh Mayor of New Jersy's Hoboken city.
64.
Bengaluru has been named as the best city among 45 cities for the
confidence of its business ability to go digital.
65. A 3-day
Organic World Congress 2017 is being organised at
India Expo Centre in
Greater Noida.
