DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 15 NOVEMBER 2020

DAILY CURRENT AFFAIRS 15 NOVEMBER 2020

1. Children’s Day, every year is celebrated on November 14 across India. Also known as Bal Diwas.

14 November of each year marks the celebration of World Diabetes Day.

Theme 2020 : “The Nurse and Diabetes”.

2.India gets it’s first Sandalwood museum. This first of a kind museum has been set by the Mysuru Forest Divison at the Sandalwood Depot in Aranya Bhavan, Mysuru, Karnataka.

3. India’s largest power producer and a public sector undertaking (PSU) under the Ministry of Power, NTPC Limited has successfully developed geo-polymer coarse aggregate from fly ash.

4. A teenager in Bangladesh has won the International Children’s Peace Prize for his efforts to educate young people about cyberbullying.

5.The 7-year-old Abhijita Gupta has been recognized as the world’s youngest author by the International Book of Records, while the Asia Book of Records has conferred on her title of the ‘Grandmaster in Writing.’ According to the India Book of Records, she is the youngest author to write poetry and prose. Her book titled ‘Happiness All Around’ is an anthology of short stories and poems with illustrations acclaimed globally.

6. 5,84,572 diyas lit in Ayodhya, making Guinness world record for ‘largest display of oil lamps’.

7. (QRSAM) system achieved a major milestone when it directly hit a pilotless target aircraft (PTA) at medium range and medium altitude .

8.Ecological Sciences (CES), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), after extensive sampling across peninsular India, have discovered new species of vine snakes in the region.