DAILY
GK 14 NOV 2019
1.
SCO’s Heads of government council meet
2020
ü Secretary
General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation(SCO) Vladimir Norov, announced
that India would host the 19th council of
heads of government in 2020. The meeting will be organized in
New Delhi. This is the first time India will be hosting the meeting after its
admission into SCO as a member in 2017.
2.
President’s rule enforced in Maharashtra
ü President
Ram nath kovind approves Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari’s
recommendation on deadlock of govt formation.
ü Article
356 of the Constitution provides for the imposition of President’s Rule in a
state in “case of failure of the constitutional machinery in the state”.
3.
Ayodhya verdict: Disputed land allocated for
temple
ü Supreme
Court gave its final judgment on the
long disputed Ayodhya case to construct a Ram temple at
Ayodhya site in Uttar Pradesh. It has also directed the centre to allocate a
separate land of 5 acres for the Sunni Waqf Board for building
a Mosque.
ü The
5-member SC constitution bench, comprised of justices Sharad Arvind Bobde,
Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan, Abdul Nazeer and Ranjan Gogoi
(head).
4.
27th Conference of COCSSO
ü Conference
of Central and State Statistical Organizations (COCSSO) was
held in Kolkata, West Bengal.The theme of this conference was “Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs)”. Prof. Bimal K Roy, Chairman, National
statistical commission (NSC) inaugurated this conference.
5.
India-ASEAN Business Summit 2019
ü India-ASEAN
Business Summit 2019 based on the theme “Today,
Tomorrow, Together” held at LPS Auditorium in PHD House, New
Delhi.
6.
Brown to Green Report 2019
ü Among
the G20 nations, India was the only country close to the 1.5
degree celsius temperature rise pathway.80% of the
global greenhouse gas(GHG) emissions were from the G20
nations. It accounted for 85% of the global Gross Domestic Product(GDP).
7.
UNICEF’s Fighting for Breath report 2019
ü As
per ,“Fighting for Breath- A call to action on childhood pneumonia” released
by UNICEF and charity groups Save the Children & Every
Breath Counts Coalition , Pneumonia is one of the
leading killers of children in India, claiming more than 14 children under
the age of 5 years every hour in 2018.
ü Top
countries responsible for more than half of child pneumonia deaths includes
Nigeria (162,000), India (127,000), Pakistan (58,000).
8.
Arvind sawant resigns
ü Prakash
Javadekar has been given an additional charge of
the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises after
Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant stepped down from the post due to the consequences
between BJP & Shiv sena over government formation in Maharashtra.
9.
NASA renames Ultima thule to Arrokoth
ü NASA
has renamed a distant space rock Ultima
Thule, to Arrokoth. It is the farthest cosmic body ever visited by a
spacecraft, Arrokoth or “sky” is a name of the Native American Powhatan
language following a significant backlash over the old name’s Nazi connotations.
10. Sri
Lanka declared match fixing a crime
ü Sri
Lanka has become the first South Asian nation
to bring match-fixing cases to the category of crime as
its parliament passed a bill related to ‘Prevention of Offences Related to
Sports’.
11. World
Kindness Day-November 13 2019
