Weekly Top 20 Current Affairs(7 Nov.-15 Nov)

1. Vietnam’s capital city Hanoi will host the 2019 Asian Games.
2. Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has bagged the prestigious 'Greentech Environment Gold Award' for the ninth consecutive year for achievements in the field of eco-friendly steel making.
3. Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, visited the India from November 4th to 9th, during his visit India and Canada signed several agreements including Civil Nuclear Deal, Social Security Agreement, a Memorandum of Understanding for Cooperation in Information Technology and electronics and an agreement to boost bilateral cooperation in Defense Science and Technology.
4. Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai arrived to India on 9th November 2012 on a four-day visit.
5. Ragala Venkat Rahul won three gold medals to help India increase their medals tally to seven on the second day of the 14th Asian Youth (Boys & Girls) Weightlifting Championships at Yangon, Myanmar on 9th November 2012.Competing in the 77kg weight category, Rahul secured the yellow metals in snatch, clean and jerk and overall with a total lift of 280 kgs.
6. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon declared November 10 as ‘Malala Day’.
7. American CIA Director David Petraeus resigned on 10th November 2012 due illegal affair with Broadwell that was proved by the FBI in investigation.
8. Indian-origin CEO of Datawind, the maker of India’s low-cost tablet Aakash, Suneet Singh Tuli and Massachusettes Institute of Technology professor Anant Agarwal named by Forbes magazine among the 15 “classroom revolutionaries” who are using innovative technologies to reinvent education for students and teachers globally.
9. Defence Research and Development Organisation and York University, Canada signed a memorandum of understanding for doing collaborative defence research in the areas of advanced materials, nanotechnology, life sciences, bio-informatics, chemical and biological defence, sensors, and others.
10. Mahatma Gandhi grandson Shanti Gandhi elected to a State Assembly in the United States from Kansas’s 52nd Assembly District as a Republican Party candidate during the general elections held on 6 November 2012.
11. President Pranab Mukherjee launches the Akash-2 tablet on the occasion of World Education Day in New Delhi on 11th November 2012.
12. Freedom fighter and former Andhra Pradesh minister Ch V P Murthy Raju passed away in West Godavari district on 12th November 2012.Raju had been MLA for six terms and served as a minister when late P V Narasimha Rao was Chief Minister.
13. India and Afghanistan signed four agreements to cooperate in areas of social welfare, fertilizer, coal mining and youth affairs on 12th November 2012.
14. Dr Chavan has won the WISE Prize, which has been likened to a “Nobel prize for education”.The award, announced on 13 November,2012 at the WISE summit in Qatar, recognises his education work in the slums of Mumbai.
15. Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh In New Delhi on 14 November,2012 during his 6 day visit to India.She then visited Shantivan to pay tribute to Jawaharlal Nehru.Later in the day, she will deliver the Nehru Memorial Lecture on the occasion of the former PM’s birth anniversary.
16. A 76-carat flawless diamond from India’s famous Golconda mines broke world record by fetching a whooping 16.9 million euros (Rs 1,18,16,98,700) at an auction in Geneva on 14 November 2012.
17. According to the WHO report India is the world No. 1 in Diabetic patients. By the end of 2009 world having the 34.7 crore Diabetic patients but India having the highest number of 5.8 crore Diabetic patients. India followed by China(4.3 crore),America(2.6 crore), Russia(one crore) and Brazil(76 lakhs) countries.
18. A team of mechanical engineering and materials scientists from Rice University and MIT has created special nanomaterials that were able to stop bullets in the lab. The type of material, called a structured polymer composite, can actually self-assemble into alternating glassy and rubbery layers.
19. Olympics bronze medallist Saina Nehwal retained her third place in the Badminton World Federation (BWF) women’s rankings released on Friday.
20. YES Bank, India’s fourth largest private sector Bank, has been awarded the "Golden Peacock Global Award" for Sustainability-2012 at the London Global Convention and Golden Peacock Awards presentation held in London.