Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: November 17, 2021

– Guinness World Records recognises achievement of BRO (Border Roads Organisation) for constructing world’s highest motorable road at 19,024 feet at Umlingla Pass in Ladakh

– Union Minister for Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Giriraj Singh inaugurates ‘Bhumi Samvaad’ – National Workshop on Digital India Land Record Modernisation Programme (DILRMP)

– India, Singapore and Thailand holding SITMEX naval exercise in Andaman Sea

– UP: PM inaugurates 341-km Purvanchal Expressway that links Lucknow with Ghazipur

– The Hindu awarded the Project SIREN Award for Newspapers 2021 for responsible reporting on suicide

– National Press Day celebrated on Nov 16, marks establishment of the Press Council of India (PCI) in 1966

– UN appoints Shombi Sharp of US as its Resident Coordinator in India

– Pakistan allows India to send wheat as hunger grips Afghanistan

– Reserve Bank withdraws over 100 redundant circulars following recommendations made by the Regulations Review Authority

– First Audit Diwas celebrated at CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General) premises in New Delhi on Nov 16

– Fitch affirms ‘BBB-’ rating for India, forecasts FY22 GDP growth at 8.7%

– US President Joe Biden and his Chinese President Xi Jinping hold virtual summit

– International Day for Tolerance observed by UN on Nov 16

– Bangladesh writer Hasan Azizul Haque passes away at 82