Current affairs of any month play an important role in every competition. The news of each month becomes important for every exam from UPSC to Banking exams. Questions related to current affairs are asked generally in every competitive examination. Here we are providing you with the crispy notes of English current affairs of November 2023.
- The domestic sailing of the first international cruise liner ‘Costa Serena’ was inaugurated in Mumbai.
- Narendra Modi inaugurates the second edition of ‘World Food India 2023’ at Bharat Mandapam New Delhi.
- Rajnath Singh inaugurates a Manufacturing Show based on the Theme – Make in India, Make for the World.
- Shekhar Kapur was made the head of the international jury panel of the 54th International Film Festival of India.
- India’s Aligarh Muslim University will launch its satellite SS AMU SAT. Objective – To achieve economic development in the poorest districts of India by using satellite.
- China has given consent to the world’s first passenger-flying taxi EH216-S.
- Indian Deep Narayan Nayak wins the Global Teacher 2023 Award.
- British Academy Book Award-2023 to Nandita Das for her book “Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire”
- Kerala has recently become the first state to set up hallmarking centres in all its districts.
- The sixth session of the ‘International Solar Alliance Assembly’ started recently in New Delhi.
- Recently, the world’s highest nuclear research reactor will be established in Bolivia.
- Sachin Tendulkar’s statue has recently been unveiled at Wankhede Stadium.
- Brazil has developed a new vaccine called Calis for treating cocaine addiction.
- Dinanath Rajput has recently been honoured with the ‘Rohini Nayyar Award’.
- Recently ‘Aadi Mahotsav’ was inaugurated in Ahmedabad.
- Bhutan has become the first country in the world to sterilize all stray dogs.
- Shaheen Shah Afridi has become the fastest bowler to take 100 wickets in an ODI cricket match.
- Richa Chadha has recently been honoured with the title of ‘Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres’ by the French government.
- Ritika Chadha is the first female wrestler in the country to become world champion in Under-23 wrestling held in Albania.
- Lionel Messi has been awarded the prestigious Ballon d’Or award for the year 2023, Messi won this award a record 8 times. Spain’s Aitana Bonamati was awarded the 2023 Women’s Ballon d’Award.
- Rohit Sharma has become the fifth Indian batsman to complete 18,000 runs in international cricket.
- The first global leaders’ summit on AI security was held in England.
- Hitesh Kumar S Makwana has been appointed as the new Surveyor General of India.
- Chile has become the 95th member country of the International Solar Alliance.
- Narendra Modi has been elected president of ‘Shri Somnath Trust’.
- National Medical Commission recently launched the “One Nation, One Registration Platform”.
- Hiralal Samaria has become the 12th Chief Information Commissioner of the country.
- T. Padmanabhan has recently been honoured with the Kerala Jyothi Award 2023.
- Recently the Prime Minister of Portugal ‘Antonio Costa’ has resigned from his post.
- 2+2 talks between America and India will be held in New Delhi in November 2023.
- Parumala Perunal festival is celebrated in Kerala.
- Recently the book ‘Scindia and 1857’ written by Rakesh Pathak was released.
- Recently the Goa High Court ordered to formation of a tiger reserve in Mahadev Wildlife Sanctuary.
- Recently, 8 lakh houses will be built for the homeless in Jharkhand under ‘Abua Awas Yojana’.
- Gujarat stood first in Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav and Meri Mati Mera Desh Abhiyan. The Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir stood first.
- RBI has recently been awarded the Changemaker of the Year Award 2023.
- The second edition of the mega event World Food India 2023 was held in New Delhi.
- Modi has announced the extension of the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana (PMGKAY) scheme till 2028. PMGKAY was started in 2020.
- Angelo Mathews has recently become the first batsman to be timed out in international cricket.
- Glenn Maxwell has become the fastest batsman to score a double century in ODI World Cup history. Maxwell scored this century against Afghanistan.
- Novak Djokovic wins ‘Paris Masters’ title in lawn tennis. He has also won the ATP title for the seventh time.
- The Punjab team won the title of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2023 for the first time.
- Tamil Nadu State Government has recently issued an order to implement ‘Project Dolphin’.
- India won the title of Women’s Hockey Asian Champions Trophy 2023, India defeated Japan 4-0 in the final. Women’s Hockey Asian Champions Trophy 2023 was inaugurated in Ranchi, Jharkhand.
- UP state government will conduct a ‘cow census’ recently.
- Kerala state recently received the Global Responsible Tourism Award 2023.
- Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has become the world’s longest-ruling female head of state.
- The Indian hockey team won the bronze medal in the Sultan of Johor Cup 2023. India has won this medal by defeating Pakistan. While Germany won the gold medal.
- The 37th National Games were organized in Goa, and the 38th National Games will be organized in Uttarakhand. Maharashtra state tops in 37th National Games.
- Recently the Indian Coast Guard’s combat ship has been decommissioned.
- India has recently successfully tested the short-range ballistic missile Pralay. ‘Pralaya’ is a missile with a range of 350-500 kilometres.
- Mundra Port has recently become the first port in India to handle 16.1 million tonnes of cargo.
- Manipur Home Ministry has declared the Meitei extremist organization as an illegal organization.
- Indian-origin Home Minister Suella Braverman was dismissed by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- China has recently launched the world’s fastest internet, whose speed is 1.2 terabytes.
- Pakistan captain Babar Azam has resigned from the captaincy of all formats.
- Recently, the biopic ‘800’ of former Sri Lankan cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan has been released.
- ‘India International Science Festival’ 2023 will be organized in Faridabad.
- Virat Kohli has made the record of scoring the most runs in a single World Cup edition. He scored 711 runs.
- Cricketer Virat Kohli broke Sachin Tendulkar’s record by scoring his 50th ODI century.
- Shiv Nadar (Chairman of HCL) is the No. 1 Philanthropist in the annual Edelgive Hurun India Philanthropy List 2023.
- A joint military exercise ‘Mitra Shakti-2023’ has been organized between India and Sri Lanka.
- Aina portal has been launched by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
- The 42nd World Medical and Health Games are being held in Colombia.
- Diana Edulji has become the first Indian woman cricketer to be inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame.
- Canada has recently won the title of ‘Billie Jean King Cup’ 2023.
- Uttarakhand has recently adopted the Uniform Civil Code. Ranjana Desai Committee is related to the Uniform Civil Code in Uttarakhand.
- India to host the second edition of ‘Voice of Global South Summit’.
- The world’s first chikungunya vaccine has been made by Ishik French biotech company Wellness (USA).
- According to WHO’s Global Tuberculosis Report 2023, India has the highest number of TB cases in the year 2022.
- Recently ICC suspended the Sri Lanka Cricket Board.
- World Tourism Market was organized by London.
- Rachin Ravindra and Hayley Matthews were recently named the ‘ICC Players of the Month’ for October 2023.
- Botanical Survey of India (BSE) discovered a new species of epiphytic plant Lisionotus in Arunachal Pradesh.
- Recently, Silent Conversations: From Margins to the Centre’s tribal art exhibition was organized in Delhi.
- Russia has officially pulled out of the European Armed Forces Treaty.
- ‘Hot Balloon Project’ has been started by Haryana.
- France has recently discovered white hydrogen.
- Australian female cricketer ‘Meg Lanning’ has announced her retirement from international cricket.
- The Loss and Damage fund is related to climate change.
- Recently the possibility of building the world’s tallest wooden tower in Australia was expressed. Its height is 191.2 meters.
- Recently ‘Bongosagar-23’ was organized between the navies of India and Bangladesh in the Northern Gulf.
- Indian Innovation S4S Technologies India Innovation was recently given the ‘Earthshot Award 2023’. Acción Andina, GRST, WildAid Marine Program, S4S Technologies, and Boomitra were announced as the 2023 winners of The Earthshot Prize.
- Sheetal Mahajan has become the first woman to skydive from 21,500 feet near Mount Everest.
- The “One Station One Product” initiative of Indian Railways is now operational at 1037 stations.
- Men’s U19 WC 2024 to be held in South Africa
- Recently Joseph Boakai won the presidential election of Liberia.
- Dr Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin has become the fourth Indian to be honoured with Pakistan’s highest civilian award.
- The famous ‘Ghol’ fish has been given the status of Gujarat state fish.
- The first Khelo India Para Games will be held in New Delhi.
- The world’s largest single-site solar power plant has been inaugurated in the UAE.
- A national education campaign named “New Education for New India” was recently launched in Odisa by President Draupadi Murmu.
- IIT Madras has unveiled India’s first incubator information platform for startups.
- UAE to host United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28)
- Recently, the saffron of Kashmir has been given the tag of Geographical Indication.
- Recently, freedom fighter N. Shankaraiah passed away, he was the founder of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).
- Recently, writer Salman Rushdie was honoured with the first ‘Lifetime Disturbing the Peace Award’.
- Recently, Indian Railways is going to start the ‘Bharat Gaurav Tourist Train’ in collaboration with IRCTC.
- Recently UP has won the award of best state in inland fisheries.
- Luke Frieden has recently become the new Prime Minister of the European country Luxembourg.
- Recently, a ‘monthly newsletter’ has been launched by the Supreme Court, which has been named Supreme Court Chronicle.
- Virat Kohli’s wax statue will be installed in the ‘Wax Museum’ of Jaipur.
- Recently, the exercise ‘Vajra Prahar’ was organized between India and the United Arab Emirates.
- Madhuri Dixit was recently honoured with a Special Recognition Award for her outstanding contribution to the Indian film industry.
- Veer Das has become the first Indian to win the International Emmy Award, this award has been given for Veer Das: Landing.
- Producer Michael Douglas will be honoured with the Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award at the closing ceremony of IFFI.
- Australia has recently won the World Cup 2023. Virat Kohli got the title of ‘Player of the Tournament’ in the ICC World Cup 2023. Travis Head was adjudged the best player of the match in the final of the Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023. Mohammed Shami became the highest wicket-taker in the ICC World Cup 2023 with 24 wickets, becoming the bowler to take 5 wickets 4 times in an ICC World Cup (ODI).
- Indian athlete Neeraj Chopra has recently been selected for the ‘World Athlete of the Year’ award.
- Recently, the Indian Army and Border Roads Organization completed the construction work of the ‘Bailey Bridge’ of Sikkim.
- Recently ‘World Toilet Day’ has been celebrated on 19th November.
- Manreet Sodhi Someshwar is the author of the recently discussed book ‘Kashmir-3: The Partition Trilogy’.
- ‘AIFF- FIFA Academy’ will be launched in Bhubaneswar on 21st November 2023.
- Hallucinate was declared Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year.
- Suresh Wadekar has been selected by the Maharashtra Government to give the Lata Mangeshkar Award 2023.
- Indian Navy recently launched its fourth anti-submarine warfare ship INS Amini.
- Midheli storm recently hit the coast of Bangladesh, Maldives has given the name to this storm.
- Fatima Bibi was the first woman judge of the Supreme Court who passed away recently.
- Kolkata Knight Riders have appointed Gautam Gambhir as their new ‘mentor’.
- Shennis Palacios of Nicaragua has recently won the 72nd Miss Universe 2023 title.
- Sourav Ganguly has been appointed as the ‘Brand Ambassador of Bengal’.
- Irish author Paul Lynch was awarded the Booker Prize 2023 in London for his novel ‘Prophet Song’.
- Javier Miley becomes the new President of Argentina.
- Anish Shah will become the new President of ‘The Federation of Indian Commerce and Industry (FICCI)’.
- Poland’s ‘Dictador’ company has appointed MIKA as the CEO of the world’s first AI Maman Orbit Robot.
- Salman Rushdie received the first ‘Lifetime Disturbing Peace Award’ in the year 2023.
- Punjab State Government has announced the launch of the ‘Free Flour Home Delivery Scheme’.
- Alok Sharma has become the new chief of ‘Special Protection Group’ (SPG).
- Kozhikode (Kerala) has been declared the first literary city of India by UNESCO.
- South Africa has won the title of ‘Rugby World Cup 2023’. South Africa won the World Cup for the fourth time by defeating New Zealand.
- Saudi Arabia will host the men’s 25th FIFA World Cup in 2034. Men’s FIFA World Cup 2026 – (Canada, Mexico and USA), Men’s FIFA World Cup 2030 – (Morocco, Portugal and Spain)
- The prestigious ‘Throne Room’ of the Raj Bhavan in Kolkata has been renamed as Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Unity Room.
- Indira Gandhi Peace Prize 2022 given to the Indian Trained Nurses Association and Indian Medical Association.
- Amol Muzumdar has been appointed as the new head coach of the ‘Indian women’s cricket team’.
- Karnataka State ‘Dr. Puneeth Rajkumar Hriday Jyoti Yojana has been started.
- An infuse mission has been launched by NASA to study the 20,000-year-old supernova remnant ‘Cygnus Loop’.
- Kerala tops the category of large states in the 5th ‘State Food Security Index 2022-2023’.
- Saab (Sweden) has become the first defence company to receive 100 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in India.
- Bihar has become the first state in India to release the ‘Caste Economic Survey’.
- Peking University (China) has topped the QS Asia University Rankings 2024. There are 7 Indian universities in the top 100 universities.
- In the year 2023, Perumal Murugan was awarded the prestigious ‘JCB Literary Award’ for the novel Fire Bird.
- A rights campaign for every child has started in Uttar Pradesh.
- American scientists have discovered a ‘kill switch’ cell to eliminate cancer cells.
- “Deepti Babuta” has become the first woman to win the Dhahan Award for Punjabi literature ‘Bhukh Ion Sah Lendi Hai’ (Hunger breathes like this).
- Indian Air Force’s ‘S-400 Air Defender’ missile system will be known as Sudarshan.
- The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare has launched India’s first ‘AI Solutions Platform’ for agricultural news monitoring named Krishi 24/7.
- The ‘Gelephu-Kokrajhar Railway Link’ project will be started between India and Bhutan.
- Jammu and Kashmir Police Department has become the first police department in India to launch ‘GPS Tracker Anklet’ to keep an eye on terrorism accuseds released on bail.
- ‘NISAR’ Earth observation satellite built by ISRO and NASA will be launched in 2024.
- Mike Johnson has been elected as the speaker of the ‘Chief Representative’ House.
- A. Sethumadhavan honoured with Ezhuthachan Award 2023
- The world’s oldest ‘Gunung Padang Pyramid’ was discovered in Indonesia.
- Bina Aggarwal was honoured with the ‘Kenneth Boulding Award’ in the year 2023.
- PM Kisan Bhai Yojana was started by the Ministry of Agriculture in the year 2023 to break the monopoly of traders.
- ‘Berinag Tea’ of Uttarakhand has been tagged.
- Indira Gandhi International Airport has launched the ‘Sunflower Programme’ for persons with invisible disabilities.
- Bharat Atta Initiative has been started by the Central Government to provide cheap flour to the common man.
- The disease of loneliness has been declared a serious global health threat by the World Health Organization in November 2023.
- India’s GDP has crossed 4 trillion dollars for the first time in November 2023.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi started ‘PM-Pivatiji Mission and Vikas Bharat Sankalp Yatra’ from Ulihatu (Jharkhand) on the birth anniversary of Lord Birsa Munda.
- Indian city Mumbai is ranked 4th in Prime Global City Researcher 2023.
- ‘Encore app’ has been launched by the Election Commission for candidates and election management.
- The US Army has successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile named ‘Minuteman III’.
- India will host the ‘World Telecommunications Standardization Assembly (WTSA-2024)’ in the year 2024.
- R Vaishali (Tamil Nadu) has become the first Indian female player to win the title of ‘FIDE Women’s Grand Swiss 2023’.
- A new regional administrative office of ‘The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)’ will be opened in UAE.
