Current Affairs 16th November 2017

Current Affairs 16th November 2017

NATIONAL

• India’s first Tribal Entrepreneurship Summit held in Chhattisgarh
• Rashtriya Bal Kalyan Award presented to Super-30 founder
• UPSC sets 7-day time limit to report mistakes in exam papers
• Tamil Nadu government starts free coaching for competitive exams like NEET
• Kamal Haasan, Rajini to get Andra Pradesh government’s NTR National Film Award
• Supreme Court directs Maharashtra government to pay ₹100 crore to restore two rivers
• Telangana to have 24*7 power supply for all consumers by January 2018

INTERNATIONAL

• Saudi Arabia recognises yoga as sports activity
• Japan to relax visa norms for Indians from January 1
• China has launched the world’s first all-electric ship

BANKING & ECONOMY

• Finance Ministry asks public sector banks to submit fund-raising roadmap in a month
• Switzerland has highest wealth per adult at Rs.3.5 crore

SCIENCE

• World’s first drug with digital tracking approved in US
• Switzerland Researchers engineer non-immune cells to kill cancer cells
• Italy has failed to qualify for the FIFA World Cup for the first time

OBITUARY

• Veteran actress Shyama passed away

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