CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 23rd NOVEMBER 2022

CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 23^rd NOVEMBER 2022

1. Union Minister Jitendra Singh will inaugurate the 25^th National Conference on e-Governance (NCeG) in Jammu and Kashmir on 26 November.
2. The 13th edition of bilateral exercise between the Indian and the Royal Oman navies, Naseem Al Bahr-2022, commenced off the coast of Oman on 20 November, 2022.
3. New Zealand’s voting age has been ruled discriminatory by the country’s highest court. The case was brought by advocacy group make it 16 in 2020, in a bid to lower the voting age from 18 to 16.
4. Karnataka came at the top position while comparing the total installed capacity of grid-interactive renewable power of all the states of the country.
5. Danish Manzoor Bhat, originally hailing from Kashmir Valley, was honoured with Jaipur Foot USA’s first Global Humanitarian Award at a ceremony held at the Consulate General of India in New York.
6. Dr Angraj Khillan, a paediatrician of Indian descent, was recognised with the prestigious 2023 Victorian Australian of the Year award for his work providing healthcare education to the state of Victoria’s culturally diverse community, the City of Melbourne, Australia.
7. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has inaugurated the UNESCO-India-Africa Hackathon 2022 at the Gautam Buddha University in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
8. Russia has become India’s biggest fertilizer supplier for the first time.
9. Karnataka Vikas Grameena Bank (KVGB) has received a national award from the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) for significant enrolment under Atal Pension Yojana (APY).
10. The Anamalai Tiger Reserve (ATR) has launched ‘jumbo trails’ at Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, a programme aimed to educate visitors to the tiger reserve about elephants, the flora, and fauna of ATR and the aboriginal tribes who live in the hills.
11. Real11 has announced the appointment of Indian Cricketer, Kuldeep Yadav as its brand ambassador.
12. The first batch of students from Tamil Nadu who are visiting Kashi under the one-month-long Kashi Tamil Sangamam program reached Prayagraj on 21 November, 2022.
13. Union Tourism Minister G Kishan Reddy inaugurated the ‘Manipur Sangai Festival 2022’ at the Sangai Ethnic Park, Moirang Khunou in Bishnupur district on 21 November, 2022.
14. Babu Mani, who was an integral part of the Indian football team in the 1980s, passed away after a prolonged battle with liver-related issues.
15. Union Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Shri Giriraj inaugurated the ‘SARAS AAJEEVIKA MELA, 2022’ at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.
16. The seventh edition of the Handbook of Statistics on Indian States, 2021-22 is released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
17. India’s first dog to be deployed for tracking down poachers, Zorba has passed away of old age in Guwahati.