Top GKToday’s News Headlines- 14 November 2019
Here are the top News Headlines of 14 November 2019 for all competitive examinations of India.
National Current Affairs
- Office of Chief Justice of India is public authority, falls under Right to Information Act, says Supreme Court
- SC upholds disqualification of 17 rebel Cong-JD(S) MLAs in Karnataka by the Speaker on July 23 but allows them to fight bypolls
- LCA Tejas’ naval variant makes successful night-time arrested landing at SBTF (Shore Based Test Facility) in Goa
- Justice Muhammad Raffiq takes charge as Chief Justice of Meghalaya High Court
- Ajay Kumar Mittal who is now the Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court
- India gets USD 43 million from Green Climate Fund to boost climate resilience in 3 coastal states of AP, Maharashtra and Odisha
- Rs 2 lakh fine, imprisonment for those found guilty of hoarding sand in Andhra Pradesh
IITF
- 39th India International Trade Fair (IITF) being held at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi from November 14 to 27
- Theme: ‘Ease of Doing Business’
- This year the status of ‘Partner Country’ has been accorded to Afghanistan
- South Korea will be the Focus Country
- Bihar and Jharkhand will be the focus states.
Economy & Business Current Affairs
- Retail price-based consumer inflation spikes to 16-month high of 4.62% in October
- BHIM UPI goes global; QR code-based payments demonstrated at Singapore FinTech Festival
- India’s Ravi Prakash wins USD 25,000 BRICS-Young Innovator Prize for inventing an affordable indigenous milk chilling unit
- Godrej Locks to observe 3rd Home Safety Day on November 15
International Current Affairs
- BRICS Summit being held in Brasilia on November 13-14; theme: ‘BRICS: Economic Growth for an Innovative Future’
- New Zealand’s Parliament votes in favour of a bill to legalize euthanasia; referendum to be held in 2020 for it to go into effect
- Reliance Foundation Chairperson Nita Ambani elected to the board of Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
- India pledges USD 5 million in 2020 to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
- Hollywood veteran Robert De wins Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Life Achievement Award