DAILY GK: 27, 28 NOV 2020
1. BILATERAL Maritime Exercise
SIMBEX-20
• Indian Navy (IN) hosted the 27th edition
of India – Singapore Bilateral Maritime Exercise SIMBEX-20 from 23 to 25
November 2020 in Andaman Sea in a “non-contact, at sea only” Format amid
COVID-19.
• It is an Annual Exercise between IN and
Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN).
2. SONG DAM DRINKING WATER PROJECT
• The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest
and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has announced a Fund allocation of Rs. 1100 crore
towards the Construction of Song Dam Drinking Water Project in Dehradun,
Uttarakhand.
• This Project is aimed at providing 24
hours drinking water to the city of Dehradun and will help the revival of River
Rispana a Tributary of River Song.
3. NAFED’S HONEY FPO PROGRAMME
• Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Minister of
Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare virtually inaugurated the Honey Farmer
Producer Organizations (FPO) Programs of National Agricultural Cooperative
Marketing Federation of India Limited (NAFED) under the “Formation &
Promotion of 10,000 FPOs” Scheme in 5 States.
• The areas covered under the Honey FPO
programme are, Sundarbans in West Bengal, East Champaran in Bihar, Mathura in
Uttar Pradesh, Morena in Madhya Pradesh and Bharatpur in Rajasthan.
4. INDIA’S OFFICIAL ENTRY FOR
OSCARS 2021
• A Malayalam film “Jallikattu” directed by
Lijo Jose Pellissery, has been selected as India’s Official Entry for the
International Feature Film Category at the 93rd Academy Awards or 2021 Oscars.
• It was unanimously chosen from 27 entries
across Hindi, Marathi and other languages by the 14-Member Jury headed by Rahul
Rawail, Chairman, Jury Board, Film Federation of India (FFI).
5. NEW CHAIRMAN OF INTERNATIONAL
CRICKET COUNCIL
• The International Cricket Council (ICC)
has named New Zealand’s Greg Barclay as its New Independent Chairman to succeed
Shashank Manohar.
• He defeated Imran Khwaja in the Second
Round of voting.
6. TSIRKON HYPERSONIC CRUISE
MISSILE
• Russia successfully Test-Fired Tsirkon Hypersonic
Cruise Missile from Frigate Admiral Gorshkov of the Soviet Union from the White
Sea.
• It Successfully hit a Sea Target at a
distance of 450 km(Kilometres), at a speed of over Mach 8.
7. FOUNDER OF TCS PASSES AWAY
• Founder and first CEO of Tata Consultancy
Services (TCS) Faqir Chand Kohli, known as the Father of Indian Information
Technology (IT) Industries died at the age of 96.
• As the CEO of TCS he brought IBM to India
as part of Tata-IBM deal in 1991 for Hardware manufacturing. Mr. Kohli joined
Tata Electric company in 1951, later Founded TCS alongside J.R.D Tata and
become the Director of the company in 1970.
8. DIEGO MARADONA PASSES AWAY
• Former Argentina Football Player &
FIFA World Cup Winner, Diego Armando Maradona passed away at the age of 60 due
to heart attack in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• Under his captaincy, Argentina’s National
Football Team won the FIFA World Cup that held in Mexico against West Germany
in the year 1986.
9. BOOK ON THE LIFE OF GURU NANAK
DEV JI
• PM Narendra Modi released a book on the
life and ideals of Sri Guru Nanak Dev the founder of Sikhism, India’s fourth
largest religion.
• The book was written by Chandigarh based
writer Kirpal Singh and released on the presence of Minister of Minority
Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi.
10. 71ST CONSTITUTION DAY
• The Constitution day or Samvidhan Divas is
observed annually on November 26 since 2015 to mark the adoption of the Indian
Constitution by the Constituent Assembly on this day in 1949.
• The Constitution then came into force on
January 26, 1950.
• The year 2020 marked the 71st Constitution
Day.
11. RAJASTAN SIGNED LOU WITH UN WFP
• The United Nations (UN)’s World Food
Programme(WFP) signed a Letter of Understanding (LoU) with the Government of
Rajasthan for the proposed participation to achieve Food and Nutritional
Security Goals.
• The United Nations (UN)’s World Food
Programme(UNWFP) won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize.
12. BLOOMBERG BILLIONAIRES INDEX
• The Bloomberg Billionaires Index ranked
Elon Musk, Co-Founder & CEO of Tesla as the World’s 2nd Richest Person with
a total net worth of USD 140 Billion after surpassing Bill Gates(USD 129
Billion), co-founder of Microsoft.
• Elon Musk is also the CEO of Space
Exploration Technologies Corp.(SpaceX).
• Jeff Bezos is ranked in 1st position with
a net worth of USD 187 Billion.
• Mukesh Ambani, Chairman of Reliance
Industries Ltd(RIL) ranked in 10th position with a net worth of USD 74.4
Billion.
• The Bloomberg Billionaires Index is a Daily
Ranking of the World’s Richest People.
