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1st November
Former Union Home
Secretary G. K. Pillai has been appointed as the Chairman of MCX-SX (MCX Stock Exchange Limited) on
1st November 2013.
Dr. Reddy’s
Laboratories reported its second quarter net profit 69.41% over the
corresponding period last year.
Dr. Reddy’s
Laboratories Ltd has won a case against New Delhi based Reddy Pharmaceutical limited relating to a trade mark dispute on 1st
November. The intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) has ordered the
registrar of trademarks to remove the registered trade mark “Reddy” of the
latter.
Konda Srivatva won the Asian Under -14 Tennis
Championships in boys final and Sama
Sathiwika Won Asian Under -14 Tennis Championships in girls final.
Seven years old Franzonia
entered the Guinness Book of World Records by memorizing the Pi value of 222 digits after the
decimal within a minute.
2nd November
Deepika Kumari and Jayanta Talukdar from Indian team won gold in 18th Asian Archery Championship Mixed Team defeating Choi Misun and Ku bonchan of Korea in final.
Laishram Bombayla Devi earned India the Bronze
medal in the Women’s individual event
of the 18th Asian Archery Championship defeating Joo Hyun Jung of
Korea.
India clinched the seven-match
series 3-2 over Australia. Man of the match and series is Rahul Sharma (209 Runs). This is the 3rd double century
in the history of One-Day Internationals
(ODI).
3rd November
Indian men officially confirmed their presence at the 2014 hockey World Cup.
Australia won the Oceania Cup on 3rd November.
D. Rajendra Babu, Kannada filmmaker and
Screenplay writer, died on 3rd November 2013.
Legendary Pakistani folk singer Reshma died in Lahore on 3rd November 2013. Reshma was known as Nightingale of the desert.
Former
Lok Sabha MP and Revenue Secretary Nitish
Sengupta died on 3rd November 2013. He was 80.
4th November
Yuki
Bhambri won the challenger tennis tournament in the final and defeated the top
seeded Bradley Klahn of the U.S in Traralgon, Australia.
Romanian
Simona Halep defeated Australian Samantha Stosur to clinch the season
ending tournament (Tennis) of Champions on 3rd November for her
sixth title of the season. Halep won $270,000 for her title and rose to No.11
in the new ranking.
Werder Bremen snatched a 3-2 win over
Hanover in the German Bundesliga on
3rd November (Football).
Books &
Authors:
“My Journey -Transforming Dreams into
Action” à A. P. J. Abdul
Kalam.
“Interventions -A Life of War and
Peace” à Kofi Annan with Nader Mousavizadeh.
“The Poorer Nations -A Possible History
of Global South” à Vijay Prashad
5th November
Crude Oil imports from Tehran to India have dropped by 40% this year. Iran had Some time ago conveyed to India its
opposition to the 100% Rupee Payment mechanism and had refused to ship oil
deliveries under this mechanism. It had said that it was going back to the 45%
rupee mechanism payment system and the balance had to be paid either in euro,
yen or ruble. One more reason for these declining imports is the failure to
make the oil insurance pool fund operational.
Axis Bank has tied up with FICO to use FICO Falcon Fraud Manager
Solution to enable detection and prevention of fraud in its consumer banking
portfolio, including credit and debit cards, ATM transactions and the merchant
acquiring business.
Cognizant Technology
Solutions announced
its third quarter ending 30th September 2013, reported a rise of 15%
in net profit.
United India Insurance
Company
(UIIC) has announced a 4% of rise in its net Profit for the half year ended 30th
September 2013.
India’s
Prestigious interplanetary mission to Mars
(PSLV-C25) launched on 5th November:
Polar
Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C25 is the first launch pad of the spaceport
(ISRO) at Sriharikota and put the
Mars Orbiter precisely into its earth-orbit about 44 minutes later. The
spacecraft first going into orbit around the earth signaled the start of its 300 day voyage to the red planet. If
everything goes well during this complex and challenging journey through deep
space, it will be put into the mars orbit on 24th September 2014.
Highlights of PSLV-C25: It was the longest PSLV mission at 44 minutes
and this was the silver jubilee lift
of PSLV.
6th November
Sunita Sharma is the new MD and CEO of LIC Housing Finance Ltd. She is the first woman MD and CEO of the
company.
Tri Pham is the new Chief Strategy
Officer (CSO) for Tata Communications.
Ashok Leyland has reported a net loss of
Rs. 25 Crore for the second quarter ended September 30, 2013.
Gross Direct tax collections reflect a growth of 11.58% during April-October 2013-14 over the same period last financial year.
A
two day international
Conference-cum-Exhibition on Agribusiness and Food Processing held on
the sidelines of World Agricultural Forum
Congress in Hyderabad. This is the 9th World Agricultural Forum
(WAF) congress and Agri-Tech trade fair.
Navy inducted Four Hawk
Mk-132 AJT aircrafts:
The
Navy inducted four Hawk Mk-132 Advanced
Jet Trainer aircraft (AJT) at INS Dega, the base of the Eastern Naval
Command, Visakhapatnam. The fourth generation AJT aircraft built by Hindustan
Aeronautics Limited and these were inducted by Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi in the
presence of Flag officer Commanding-in-chief, Eastern Naval Command, Vice Admiral Anil Chopra at the
ceremony at INS Dega.
SBI hiked its lending rates
and base rates by 20 basis points:
SBI
has hiked its lending rates by 20 basis points from 14.55% to 14.75% and also
hiked the base rate by 20 basis points from 9.80% to 10%. This hike will also
impact other retail loans such as home loans and auto loans.
Venezuela’s President announced that December 8th as Public Holiday:
Venezuela’s
government is honouring the Late Hugo Chavez with a public holiday of “Loyalty
and love to the supreme commander” of the South American Nation’s socialist
revolution. The government announced December
8th as public holiday in honour of the leader. This holiday
commemorates Chavez’s final public
appearance.
7th November
The
9th World Agricultural Forum
(WAF) congress and Agri-Tech trade fair held in Hyderabad and they
concluded with the promise of bringing back smile in the faces of formers
by making agricultural a sustainable and profitable profession.
James Bolgar, who is the former Prime
Minister of New Zealand, is the Chairman of the WAF advisory board.
Imomali Rakhmon is the President of Tajikistan. He won re-election by a landslide on 6th
November 2013, extending his 20 years long rule by another 7 years.
Reserve Bank of India has signed cooperation
agreement with central bank of Australia and New Zealand for exchange of
information.
Yogesh
Malik, CEO of Uninor, has quit the company due to personal reasons.
IT
services firm Tech Mahindra posted a
57.6% growth in consolidated net profit for the second quarter ended September
30, 2013.
Guntur’s
Kanishq defeated C. Rahul Yadav of
Hyderabad in the final to clinch boys
singles crown in AP state junior (Under-17) badminton championship. Ranga
Reddy’s Vrushali won the girls honours by defeating Vizag’s
Uttejitha in the final.
Anantapur win over Kadapa in the final of the AP sub junior girl’s hockey championship at Anantapur.
8th November
Telugu
Film actor Amanchi Venkata Subrahmanyam, popularly known as AVS, died on 8th November
2013. He was 56.
India and Kuwait held talks in the areas of
investment, trade and security, and joint ventures in the energy sector to take
their relationship beyond the present buyer-seller partnership on 8th
November.
Punjab National Bank (PNB) and Canara Bank raised its fixed deposit
rates by 0.50% points.
Tata
Motors reported 71% growth in the net profit of second quarter ended September
30, 2013 compared to previous year.
Indian bank reported its 38%
fall in net
profit of second quarter ended September 30, 2013.
Indian Oil Corporations (IOC) posted a steep 82.5% drop
in net profit of second quarter ended September 30, 2013.
India
successfully test fired nuclear Weapons-capable, surface to surface Agni-I missile for its full range of 700 Km from Wheeler Islands, off the
Odisha coast.
9th November
J&K Bank reported a 12.2% increase
in its net profit for second quarter of this fiscal year.
Indian women’s team Bags
silver in 3rd
Asian Championship Trophy after losing to host Japan at Kakamigahara, Japan. Japan won the gold. Malaysia won Bronze
defeated china.
Cristina Fernandez is the President of Argentine.
Cristina Fernandez is the President of Argentine.
10th November
The 19th Kolkata International Film Festival 2013 was inaugurated by Actor Amitabh Bachchan on 10th November 2013. This year’s Kolkata International Film Festival starts from 10th November 2013 and this will be scheduled for 8 days means upto 17th November 2013. This Kolkata International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Kolkata.
The 19th Kolkata International Film Festival 2013 was inaugurated by Actor Amitabh Bachchan on 10th November 2013. This year’s Kolkata International Film Festival starts from 10th November 2013 and this will be scheduled for 8 days means upto 17th November 2013. This Kolkata International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Kolkata.
Anantapur win over Kadapa in the final of the AP sub junior girl’s hockey championship at Anantapur.
Bangladesh’s
Mohammad Siddikar won the second Asian Tour title (50th
edition of the $1.25 million Hero Indian
Open golf Tournament).
MNREGS (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme)- Kerala (93%), Goa (79%), Tamil Nadu (74%), Rajasthan (69%) and Andhra Pradesh (58%)- accounted for a percentage of Women’s participation higher than the national average.
MNREGS (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme)- Kerala (93%), Goa (79%), Tamil Nadu (74%), Rajasthan (69%) and Andhra Pradesh (58%)- accounted for a percentage of Women’s participation higher than the national average.
11th November
Pakistan (Gold) won the men’s title in Asian
Champions Trophy Hokey defeated Japan
(Silver). Malaysia won Bronze
defeated China. India defeated Oman for 5th place.
India’s
Augustine Yesudas (100m) and S. Archana (100m) emerged the fastest
of the meet with the time of 10.61 and 12.06 respectivly. They were created new
records and they were clinched gold in boy’s and girl’s sections respectively
in 2nd South Asian junior
athletics.
The
Serbian Tennis Federation (FTS) announced that Davis Cup final will be played on hard surface. The Davis Cup final
will be held between Serbia and the Czech Republic in Belgrade.
Vijaya Bank reported net profit 10%
growth for the second quarter ended 30th September 2013 compared to
previous year.
Corporation Bank reported its second quarter
net profit declined sharply to Rs. 15.48 crore.
Honeywell announced the appointment of Jim Bujold as
President, Southeast Asia and Ananth Maheswari as president, Honeywell India.
12th November
Industrial output grew 2% in September.
Industrial output grew 2% in September.
The
U. S software giant Microsoft will
retire support services for its most widely used Operating system Windows XP. April 8, 2014, marks the
end of 12 years of free technical support, which Microsoft claims is the
longest extended for any software product and service.
Canara Bank reported a 5.29% decline in
net profit during the second quarter ended September 30, 2013.
R. K. Dubey is the chairman and
Managing Director of Canara Bank.
Sundaram
Infotech Solutions has won three ERP deals for undisclosed sum. The deals
comprise its fist government order in India, first onsite deal in the UAE, and
an IT consulting deal in Australia.
Novok Djokovic won the ATP world Tour Singles title and defeated Rafael Nadal in the final.
David Marrero and Fernando
Verdasco
won the ATP World Tour Doubles title defeated Bob and Mike Bryan.
Sprinter Archana
Suseentran and distance runner P. U.
Chitra completed a double by winning gold in the 200m and 3000m events in the second and final day of the 2nd South Asian Junior Athletics.
13th November
C. Veeresham, former principal of KU College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, has been selected for A. P. Scientist Award 2011. This award was sponsored by A. P State Council of Science and Technology.
13th November
C. Veeresham, former principal of KU College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, has been selected for A. P. Scientist Award 2011. This award was sponsored by A. P State Council of Science and Technology.
The 18th
International Children’s Film Festival of India will be held in Hyderabad from
14th – 20th November 2013.
Union
Cabinet approved the B.Sc
Community Health Course in State Universities. This was proposed by
government for the creation of a specialized cadre of health care workers for
rural areas.
State
Bank of India (SBI) reported its second quarter net profit
of Rs. 2,375 crore as on 30th September 2013 compared to previous
year.
Mahindra
and Mahindra reported a net profit of 10% growth for the
second quarter ended September 30, 2013 compared to previous year.
14th November
The 18th
International Children’s Film Festival of India inaugurated by Union Minister
of information and Broadcasting Manish
Tewari on 14th November
2013 in Hyderabad.
This November 14th is 124th
Birth Anniversary of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
Kenichi
Ito, a Japanese man runs on his hands and legs broke
his own Guinness World record for the 100m dash finished in 16.87 seconds (17.47
seconds in 2012).
World
Gold Council (WGC) said Domestic gold demand falls down in third quarter (July-September) by 32% because of Supply constraints and
high inflation.
Nihal
Sarin and Divya
Deshmukh won the National Under-9
chess championship in Chennai.
Mary
Ann Gomes won the International
Woman Grandmaster Open Chess Tournament with 8.5 Points.
15th November
15th November
Karur
Vysya Bank reported its second quarter net profit declined by
37.6% compared to previous year net
profit.
CII President’s Award
to Ratan Tata:
Tata Group Chairman Emeritus Ratan Tata received CII
President’s Award for his remarkable contribution to Industry and National
Building. The award was given by Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on 15th
November 2013.
16th November
INS
Vikramaditya was inducted into the Indian Navy after a
delay of more than 5 years at the chilly northern Russian Shipyard of sevmash,
at Severodvinsk.
Yuki
Bhambri won $ 10,000 ITF
men’s Futures Tennis Tournment and defeated Sriram Balaji in the final at
the DLTA Complex.
Kartikey
Gulshan Kumar and
Kanika Kanwal, both from Delhi won Boy’s and girl’s under-15 singles
titles of the 27th sub-
junior National Badminton Championship at Cuttack.
Private equity firm
Warburg Pincus announced that
Mr. Timothy Geithner would serve as
President and Managing director of the firm starting March 1, 2014. Mr.
Geithner is a former U. S. Treasury Secretary.
Farewell to Sachin Tendulkar:
Sachin Tendulkar careers last test
Series at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on 16th November 2013. He gave
a farewell speech and thanked many of those who had played an important role in
shaping his glorious career.
The announcement of
Bharat Ratna award, India’s Highest Civilian Award:
Government of India announced the India’s
highest civilian award for Cricketer Sachin
Tendulkar and also for Scientist C. N. R. Rao on 16th
November 2013. Sachin Tendulkar is
the first Sportsperson to be chosen for the honour. He retired from All forms
of Cricket on 16th November and he has a 24 years record breaking
career in cricket. C.N.R Rao is the
third Scientist to receive this prestigious award after C.V. Raman and Former
president A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.
17th November
Angelina Jolie receives honorary Oscar for her Humanitarian work at the Governors Awards ceremony in Hollywood.
17th November
Angelina Jolie receives honorary Oscar for her Humanitarian work at the Governors Awards ceremony in Hollywood.
Doris
Lessing, Nobel Prize winning author died. She was 94. “The Golden Notebook” and Dozens of other novels reflected her own
improbable journey across the former British empire.
Sachin
Tendulkar has ended his recording breaking 200-Test career by finishing 18th
in the ICC Player Rankings for test batsmen as he jumped five places in the
latest chart released on 17th November 2013.
Manipur won under-14 National Football title over
Maharashtra 3-1 in the final at the Kalyani Stadium on 17th November
2013. N. Dhurba Singh Scored a hat-trick.
Jamaican Sprinters Usain Bolt and Shelly Ann
Fraser Pryce won the male and female World
Athletes of the year for 2013 by the sport’s governing IAAF at a ceremony
in Monacco.
Mahesh
Mangaokar won the men’s open title
over Kush Kumar in the 70th CCI- western India Open squash Tournament
at the CCI Courts on 17th November.
The New President of Maldives
is:
Abdulla
Yaameen elected as the President of Maldives and He succeeded
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom who ruled the country for about three decades. Abdulla Yaameen won the election narrowly
with 3% votes higher than his rival.
Commonwealth Heads of
Government Meeting (CHOGM):
Commonwealth Summit (CHOGM) held in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Final day of CHOGM, the journalists
raising questions to Sri Lankan President on how much time he needed to
complete the probe into the allegations, for that the Sri Lankan President, Mahindra Rajapaksa said at press
conference “We need time, this can’t be done overnight. A process is already in
place”. Commonwealth Secretary General
Kamalesh Sharma said the
Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group was composed afresh at CHOGM 2013. India, Cyprus, Guyana, New
Zealand, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka and Tanzania will
be on CHAG for the next 2 years the communiqué said.
18th November
FIFA
World Cup 2022 will be held in Qatar.
Rafael
Nadal was confirmed as the World number one at the end of the 2013 season and Novak Djokovic was
in 2nd rank.
ICICI
launches Regulation S Bonds:
ICICI bank launched a U. S dollar denominated RegS benchmark bond sale
programme . Regulation S bonds are those offered to non-U. S residents and
qualified Institutional buyers (under an exception to U. S securies laws
enacted in 1990), and do not enjoy the small legal protection as other issues
do.
RBI
decided to provide liquidity support to MSEs:
Rs 5,000 crore liquidity support to Micro
and Small Enterprises (MSEs) through the Small Industrial Development Bank of
India (SIDBI) including incremental credit to medium enterprises to qualify as
priority sector lending.
19th November
19th November observed as
National Integration Day (Indira Gandhi Birthday).
President of India Pranab Mukherjee presented
Indira Gandhi National Service Scheme Best
University Award 2012-2013 to Mangalore
University, Karnataka.
International
Film Festival of India (IFFI):
This is the 44th edition of the
International Film Festival of India. This will be started from 20th
November 2013 in Goa. This is also 10th time the festival is being
hosted in Goa coincidentally. Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon will inaugurate the festival on 20th November.
First
Women bank in India:
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated
the first branch of Women commercial bank of India in Mumbai. Name of the bank
is “Bharatiya Mahila Bank” and it’s
CMD Usha Ananthasubramanian.
Indira
Gandhi Prize 2013:
Indira Gandhi memorial Trusted announced
that German Chancellor Angela Merkel will
be honoured with the Indira Gandhi Prize for peace, Disarmament and development
for 2013 for her exemplary leadership in Europe and the world during the financial
crisis and her stewardship of German economic growth.
20th November
Barcelona’s Argentine Star stricker Lionel Messi (Football) received Golden Shoe Award
on 20th November as the top league scorer in Europe for his 46 goals
in the 2012-2013 seasons. This is Messi’s
3rd Golden shoe award.
Indian Women’s hockey coach Inderjit Singh Gill was died in car
crash. He had been working with women’s and junior teams since 1999. He was 59.
Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd (MCX) had signed an agreement with China
based Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE)
to boost strategic co-operation.
European Union Prestigious Sakharov Human Rights
Prize 2013 to Malala
Yousafzai (16) for her crusade for the right of all children, the Prize was given by Martin Schulz, president of European
Parliament in Strasbourg, France.
Engineering
Excellence award 2013 was conferred on the Security Printing and Minting
Corporation of India Limited (SPMCIL).
IX
standard student makes history (Cricket):
Prithvi
Shaw, a IX standard student of Razvi Springfield High School created history
with a record of 546 score in first
round of the Mumbai School sports Association’s Harris Shield elite division match agaist St. Francis D’Assisi (Borivali).
Rohini (RH) 200 took to the sky to
commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Thumba Equatorial Rocket
Launching Station (TERLS) in Thiruvananthapuram on 21st November
2013.
Dhanush
missile
test fired successfully. Dhanush is the naval version of Surface to Surface
missile Prithvi, which can carry nuclear warheads. Dhanush can cover a distance
of 250Km and carry a 500Kg payload. These missile are produced by DRDO.
14 year old Aravind Chithambaram won the Chennai Open International Grandmaster tournament at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai.
24th November
Krishna Boys and Kurnool Girls won the Andhra Pradesh State Under-16 weightlifting competitions under PYKKA scheme at Kethanakonda on 24th November 2013. Krishna boys got 31 points and Kurnool girls got 23 points to top the table.
21st November
Indian Cricketer Virat Kohli reached 5000 run mark in ODIs in his 114 innings and He became fastest Batsman in ODIs when
he scored 86 against West Indies on 21st November 2013 in Kerala.
Cadila
Pharmaceuticals launched a new lung cancer drug, Mycidac-C.
The drug is priced at Rs. 40,000 for a 10 course injection, much cheaper
than the drugs manufactured.
22nd November
World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen won the 12th World Chess title and
defeated 5 times World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand in Chennai. The 22 year
old Norwegian Magnus Carlsen won the title after drew the 10th game
with Anand after 65 moves (6.5 – 3.5).
Former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court Justice Ajit Prakash Shah has taken
over as chairman of the 20th
Law commission of India.
Former Union Finance Secretary G. Ramachandran passed away. He was 86.
Aaron
Agnel D’Souza bagged the 200m freestyle Gold in 67th National
aquatics Championship at the Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Aquatic Complex in
Thiruvananthapuram.
Ramandeep
Singh became the highest paid Indian
Player in the Hockey India League (HIL) when he was snapped up for the
whopping $81,000 in the players closed bid.
23rd November
The 13 year old Manna Patel from Gujarat set a new national record in the 50m backstroke at the 67th
National aquatics championship in Thiruvananthapuram.
Krishna District’s T. Nagaraju and Prakasam’s
P. Yesu Babu won gold medals in the 50kg and 56kg categories respectively in
the state under-16 weightlifting competitions held at Kethanakonda in
Vijayawada.
Sriram
Balaji won $15,000 ITF men’s Future
tennis tournament and defeated third seeded Na jungwoong of Korea in the
final at the Arera club, Bhopal.
14 year old Aravind Chithambaram won the Chennai Open International Grandmaster tournament at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai.
24th November
Krishna Boys and Kurnool Girls won the Andhra Pradesh State Under-16 weightlifting competitions under PYKKA scheme at Kethanakonda on 24th November 2013. Krishna boys got 31 points and Kurnool girls got 23 points to top the table.
Nuclear deal between Iran with US, including
Five world Power countries:
The nuclear deal between Iran and P5+1 (the U.S,
the U. K, France, Russia, China and Germany) and They signed the agreement on
24th November 2013 in Geneva. It was chaired by the EU’s Foreign
Policy chief, Catherine Ashton, for whom the deal represents a personal
triumph. The six month life of the Geneva deal is intended to be used to
negotiate a comprehensive and permanent settlement that would allow Iran to
pursue a peaceful programme.
Madhya Pradesh polls will start on 25th
November 2013 in 53,946 polling stations to elect 230 MLAs to the 14th
Vidhan Sabha.
25th November
Bangladesh announced about 10th Jatiya Sangsad
– National Parliament polls and it will be held on 5th January 2014.
Former Manchester United defender Bill Foulkes, a survivor of the 1958
Munich air disaster, has died at the age of 81.
India won the commonwealth weightlifting championship at Penang, Malaysia
with Deepak Lather bagging one gold
and 2 silver medals in 50kg youth boys’ section on the opening day on 25th
November 2013.
The Punjab
and Sind Bank team won the 50th
Nehru senior hockey tournament in New Delhi on 25th November
2013.
India’s total leather exports reported a
rise of 15% during first half of the current fiscal year compared to last year.
A long waited international conference to
resolve the Syrian crisis will be held in Geneva on 22nd January
2014, to resolve some of the intractable problems besetting the region.
Pakistan inducted the first fleet of
indigenously developed strategic Unmanned
Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), named Burraq
and shahpar UAV systems into the
Pakistan Army and Pakistan Air Force.
26th November
India’s latest aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya left the Russia’s
Sevmash Shipyard, where it was rebuilt and it is setting to course for its
homeport at Karwar in Karnataka on 26th November 2013.
Beverages gaint Coca Cola elevated Indian
Born Atul Singh as the president of
its Asian Operations from 1st January 2014.
The Reserve Bank of India has clarified that
conversion of existing foreign bank branches into Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries in
India will not attract capital gains tax or stamp duty.
TCS said it had bagged a deal from Keler
Ltd., Hungary’s Central Securities Depository. Under this deal TCS will deploy
the market infrastructure solution of TCS BANCS for modernizing its technology
and set up its capability for T2S settlement.
India Bagged 36 medals (19 Gold, 11 Silver,
6 Bronze) in the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships at Penang, Malaysia.
27th November
Pakistan Prime Minister Muhammed Nawaz
Sharif promoted and appointed Lt. Gen.
Raheel Sharif as army chief of
Pakistan on 27th November 2013.
The President
of Pakistan approved the appointment of Justice Tassaduq Jillani as the
new chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Latvia’s
Prime Minister, Valdis Dombrovskis resigned on 27th November 2013,
in the wake of a supermarket roof cave-in that killed 54 people, just weeks
before the country enters the eurozone.
The sales of Personal Computers grew 8.4% in
third quarter of this fiscal compared to previous year.
India
won
the final ODI against West Indies at Kanpur on 27th November 2013.
India clinched nine more medals including six golds, to take its medals tatty to 48 on the third day of Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships at Penang, Malaysia.
28th November
Malala Yousafzai has been named as Britain’s most influential Asian by a weekly publication in London.
Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani teenager shot in head by Taliban for campaigning for girls education along with Kainat Riaz and Shazia Ramzan, who were shot and wounded in swat valley last year, were chosen for the Garavi Gujarat 2 (GG2) Hammer Award 2013 for their bravery.
28th November
Malala Yousafzai has been named as Britain’s most influential Asian by a weekly publication in London.
Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani teenager shot in head by Taliban for campaigning for girls education along with Kainat Riaz and Shazia Ramzan, who were shot and wounded in swat valley last year, were chosen for the Garavi Gujarat 2 (GG2) Hammer Award 2013 for their bravery.
Nilton
Santos, the galloping left back who was regular in Brazil’s World Cup winning
sides of 1958 and 1962, was died in Rio. He was 88.
Asian Champion Murali Kumar of Indian Navy won the Rs 3 lakh prize money Talwalkar
Classique bodybuilding championship on 28th November 2013 in Mumbai.
India won 87 medals in the Commonwealth youth and junior championships
(47 gold, 28 silver, 12 bronze). Youth Asian games champion R. Venkat Rahul (77kg) stole the show
with 6 gold medals. In senior men’s division S. Sathish Kumar (77kg) won 3 gold medals.
Commodity bourse Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX) has appointed former chief
information Commissioner Satyananda
Mishra as the Chairman of the Board. The Forward Markets Commission (FMC)
has given its approval for this appointment.
Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra wins vote as tension persist.
29th November
India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew in July-September 2013 at the rate of 4.8%.
29th November
India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew in July-September 2013 at the rate of 4.8%.
IL
& FS Transportation Networks Limited (ITNL) said it has
bagged a Rs. 427 crore order in Ukraine for rehabilitation and improvement of
the road stretch through a subsidiary in spain.
Lodha
Group, a real estate developer has signed contracts to buy the landmark MacDonald House in central London from Canadian
government for Rs. 3,120 crore.
Retail
inflation for industrial workers rose to 11.06% in October compared to previous month.
30th November
Indian Bank has revised interest rates on
FCNR (B) term deposits with effect from 1st December.
Power management company Eaton on 30th November announced
Syed Sajjadh Ali as managing
Director, India, Electoral Sector Asia Pacific.
National Champion R. Ramkumar won the $10,000 ITF men’s Future tennis tournament and
beat Lee Duck Hee of Korea in the final at the VIP’s Club in Raipur.
India won 117 medals (50 Gold, 39 silver, 21
Bronze) commonwealth youth, junior and senior championships in style.
Thidapa
Suwannapura won the seventh Women’s Indian
Open in style at the Delhi Golf Club and beat French woman Valentine Derrey
by three shots in the final.