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Current Affairs of 14 November

1. Cameron meets Modi, says ties with India UK’s priority
British Prime Minister David Cameron, who met
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit in Brisbane on Friday, said that relations with New Delhi are a top foreign policy priority for his country.
 Prime Minister Modi, who arrived in Brisbane to attend the G—20 Summit, earlier in the day visited the Queensland University of Technology. He is later scheduled to meet his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe.
After attending the G-20 Summit in Brisbane, Prime Minister Modi is scheduled to travel to Sydney, where he will attend a community reception and address the Indian Diaspora.
The Prime Minister will then travel to Canberra and address the special joint sitting of the Australian Parliament on November 18. He is also to address a community event in Melbourne before travelling to Fiji.


2. Children’s Day observed across India on 14 November India on 14 November 2014 celebrated Children’s Day 
(known as Bal Diwas in Hindi). The day is observed to increase the awareness of people towards the rights, care and education of children.
Children’s day in India is observed annually on the birthday of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India. The day is observed on Nehru’s birthday to showcase his love for children and he is also regarded as Chacha Nehru for children.


3. Ratan Tata invests in Urban Ladder
 Ratan Tata, Chairman Emeritus, Tata Sons, has made a personal investment in online furniture company Urban Ladder.
Tata has also invested in Snapdeal and Bluestone.
The investment comes four months after the company raised Series B funding from Steadview Capital and existing investors SAIF Partners and Kalaari Capital, Urban Ladder said in a statement on Friday.
“Tata understands the furniture space very well, specially our focus on product design since he has a lot of knowledge of the subject. His inputs and guidance will be very valuable for us,” Ashish Goel, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Urban Ladder said.

4. Republican Mitch McConnell elected as the Majority Leader of US Senate
Mitch McConnell was on 13 November 2014 elected as the Majority Leader of the 100-member US Senate. He is originally known by the name Addison Mitchell McConnell, Jr.
He became the Majority leader after he was unanimously re-elected by the Republicans. Republican Party gained majority in the mid-term elections held for the US Senate on 4 November 2014.

5. Philae successfully plants thermometer on comet

 The European Space Agency (ESA) said its Philae lander is doing well and has succeeded in planting a thermometer in the comet where it touched down this week.
The agency said on Friday that scientists have received a steady stream of data from the lander, which on Wednesday became the first spacecraft to touch down on a comet. However, their job is complicated by the fact that Philae landed next to a cliff that is blocking sunlight from its solar panels.
Planting a thermometer in the surface was Philae’s first so-called “mechanical operation” but ESA said it will hold off on any more for now. The lander’s primary battery only has power for another day or so and scientists are contemplating realigning it so that the solar panels can charge the craft.

6. Islamic State announces its own currency Islamic dinar
 The Islamic State group said its leader has ordered that the organisation start minting gold, silver and copper coins for its own currency the Islamic dinar.
A website affiliated with the militant group said late on Thursday that its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has instructed his followers to start minting the coins to “change the tyrannical monetary system” modelled on Western economies that “enslaved Muslims.”
The posting said the order was approved by the group’s Shura Council, an advisory board.

7. Milky Way black hole producing mysterious particles: NASA
 The giant black hole at the centre of the Milky Way may be producing the mysterious high-energy neutrinos, NASA scientists have found.
If confirmed, this would be the first time that scientists have traced neutrinos back to a black hole.
Neutrinos are tiny particles that carry no charge and interact very weakly with electrons and protons.
Unlike light or charged particles, neutrinos can emerge from deep within their cosmic sources and travel across the universe without being absorbed by intervening matter or, in the case of charged particles, deflected by magnetic fields.
The Earth is constantly bombarded with neutrinos from the sun. However, neutrinos from beyond the solar system can be millions or billions of times more energetic.
Scientists have long been searching for the origin of ultra-high energy and very high-energy neutrinos.

8. Veteran sports scribe Chandrasekhar P Sant passed away
Veteran sports scribe and President of the Sports Journalists Association of Mumbai Chandrasekhar P Sant died on 13 November 2014 following a massive heart attack. He was 61.

9. Facebook launched video creation tool Say Thanks
Social networking website Facebook on 13 November 2014 launched personalised video creation tool, Say Thanks.
Through this tool, users of the site can put their personalised video cards combining present themes and their own posts and photos.
The tool allows users to make shareable, customized videos to post on their friend’s timelines. There is no limit to how many personalized videos a user can create and share.

10. Disclose Mudgal panel findings on Srinivasan, Meiyappan, says Supreme Court
 The Supreme Court on Friday said that findings of Justice Mudgal committee report on non-cricketers should be disclosed.
The apex court also directed that reports regarding N Srinivasan, Gurunath Meiyappan, Raj Kundra and Sundar Raman should be disclosed.
The Annual General Meeting of BCCI for holding elections has been postponed, the cricket body told Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court ordered that names of players who have been indicted in the Mudgal Committee report should not be disclosed.
The apex court also ordered that the copy of the report be provided to BCCI, Srinivasan and other non-players.

11. India’s GDP to grow at 6.3% in 2015: Morgan Stanley
 India would have the fastest economic expansion among Asian countries and its gross domestic product is expected to grow by 6.3 per cent in 2015, according to Morgan Stanley forecasts of global economies.
The Indian rupee’s exchange rate to dollar would be at Rs. 62.2 by end of next year compared to Rs. 62 in the current quarter (Q4 this year), according to a presentation made at the Morgan Stanley’s Annual Asia Pacific Summit held here from November 12-14 said.
It is seen at Rs. 62.5 in the first two quarters of next year and Rs. 62.3 in the third quarter of next year.
Comparative to other Asian GDP growths, India would have the fastest economic expansion, it said. India’s gross domestic product is expected to grow by 6.3 per cent in 2015, up from 5.3 this year, it said.
1. Cameron meets Modi, says ties with India UK’s priority
British Prime Minister David Cameron, who met
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit in Brisbane on Friday, said that relations with New Delhi are a top foreign policy priority for his country.
 Prime Minister Modi, who arrived in Brisbane to attend the G—20 Summit, earlier in the day visited the Queensland University of Technology. He is later scheduled to meet his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe.
After attending the G-20 Summit in Brisbane, Prime Minister Modi is scheduled to travel to Sydney, where he will attend a community reception and address the Indian Diaspora.
The Prime Minister will then travel to Canberra and address the special joint sitting of the Australian Parliament on November 18. He is also to address a community event in Melbourne before travelling to Fiji.


2. Children’s Day observed across India on 14 November India on 14 November 2014 celebrated Children’s Day 
(known as Bal Diwas in Hindi). The day is observed to increase the awareness of people towards the rights, care and education of children.
Children’s day in India is observed annually on the birthday of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India. The day is observed on Nehru’s birthday to showcase his love for children and he is also regarded as Chacha Nehru for children.


3. Ratan Tata invests in Urban Ladder
 Ratan Tata, Chairman Emeritus, Tata Sons, has made a personal investment in online furniture company Urban Ladder.
Tata has also invested in Snapdeal and Bluestone.
The investment comes four months after the company raised Series B funding from Steadview Capital and existing investors SAIF Partners and Kalaari Capital, Urban Ladder said in a statement on Friday.
“Tata understands the furniture space very well, specially our focus on product design since he has a lot of knowledge of the subject. His inputs and guidance will be very valuable for us,” Ashish Goel, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Urban Ladder said.

4. Republican Mitch McConnell elected as the Majority Leader of US Senate
Mitch McConnell was on 13 November 2014 elected as the Majority Leader of the 100-member US Senate. He is originally known by the name Addison Mitchell McConnell, Jr.
He became the Majority leader after he was unanimously re-elected by the Republicans. Republican Party gained majority in the mid-term elections held for the US Senate on 4 November 2014.

5. Philae successfully plants thermometer on comet

 The European Space Agency (ESA) said its Philae lander is doing well and has succeeded in planting a thermometer in the comet where it touched down this week.
The agency said on Friday that scientists have received a steady stream of data from the lander, which on Wednesday became the first spacecraft to touch down on a comet. However, their job is complicated by the fact that Philae landed next to a cliff that is blocking sunlight from its solar panels.
Planting a thermometer in the surface was Philae’s first so-called “mechanical operation” but ESA said it will hold off on any more for now. The lander’s primary battery only has power for another day or so and scientists are contemplating realigning it so that the solar panels can charge the craft.

6. Islamic State announces its own currency Islamic dinar
 The Islamic State group said its leader has ordered that the organisation start minting gold, silver and copper coins for its own currency the Islamic dinar.
A website affiliated with the militant group said late on Thursday that its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has instructed his followers to start minting the coins to “change the tyrannical monetary system” modelled on Western economies that “enslaved Muslims.”
The posting said the order was approved by the group’s Shura Council, an advisory board.

7. Milky Way black hole producing mysterious particles: NASA
 The giant black hole at the centre of the Milky Way may be producing the mysterious high-energy neutrinos, NASA scientists have found.
If confirmed, this would be the first time that scientists have traced neutrinos back to a black hole.
Neutrinos are tiny particles that carry no charge and interact very weakly with electrons and protons.
Unlike light or charged particles, neutrinos can emerge from deep within their cosmic sources and travel across the universe without being absorbed by intervening matter or, in the case of charged particles, deflected by magnetic fields.
The Earth is constantly bombarded with neutrinos from the sun. However, neutrinos from beyond the solar system can be millions or billions of times more energetic.
Scientists have long been searching for the origin of ultra-high energy and very high-energy neutrinos.

8. Veteran sports scribe Chandrasekhar P Sant passed away
Veteran sports scribe and President of the Sports Journalists Association of Mumbai Chandrasekhar P Sant died on 13 November 2014 following a massive heart attack. He was 61.

9. Facebook launched video creation tool Say Thanks
Social networking website Facebook on 13 November 2014 launched personalised video creation tool, Say Thanks.
Through this tool, users of the site can put their personalised video cards combining present themes and their own posts and photos.
The tool allows users to make shareable, customized videos to post on their friend’s timelines. There is no limit to how many personalized videos a user can create and share.

10. Disclose Mudgal panel findings on Srinivasan, Meiyappan, says Supreme Court
 The Supreme Court on Friday said that findings of Justice Mudgal committee report on non-cricketers should be disclosed.
The apex court also directed that reports regarding N Srinivasan, Gurunath Meiyappan, Raj Kundra and Sundar Raman should be disclosed.
The Annual General Meeting of BCCI for holding elections has been postponed, the cricket body told Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court ordered that names of players who have been indicted in the Mudgal Committee report should not be disclosed.
The apex court also ordered that the copy of the report be provided to BCCI, Srinivasan and other non-players.

11. India’s GDP to grow at 6.3% in 2015: Morgan Stanley
 India would have the fastest economic expansion among Asian countries and its gross domestic product is expected to grow by 6.3 per cent in 2015, according to Morgan Stanley forecasts of global economies.
The Indian rupee’s exchange rate to dollar would be at Rs. 62.2 by end of next year compared to Rs. 62 in the current quarter (Q4 this year), according to a presentation made at the Morgan Stanley’s Annual Asia Pacific Summit held here from November 12-14 said.
It is seen at Rs. 62.5 in the first two quarters of next year and Rs. 62.3 in the third quarter of next year.
Comparative to other Asian GDP growths, India would have the fastest economic expansion, it said. India’s gross domestic product is expected to grow by 6.3 per cent in 2015, up from 5.3 this year, it said.

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