Konark Corps of Indian Army has launched a 1971 kilometres cycling expedition in Gujarat and Rajasthan to commemorate the commencement of the Golden Jubilee Victory Celebrations of Indian Armed Forces in the Indo-Pak War of 1971.

Russia successfully test-fired a Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile in the Arctic.

Infrastructure major Larsen and Toubro (L&T) has bagged an order worth over Rs 7,000 crore to construct a part of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail (MAHSR), also known as the Bullet Train Project.

The Bowring and Lady Curzon Medical College and Research Institute in Bengaluru have been named after former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

India will host the 19th meeting of the SCO Council of Heads of Government in virtual format on 30 November 2020.It will be the first time that a Summit-level Meeting will be held under the Chairmanship of India, since it gained full -membership of the organization in 2017.The Hon’ble Vice President of India Shri Venkaiah Naidu will be the chair of the Summit.

Private lender YES Bank launched an ‘SMS Pay’ functionality on POS terminals, which would allow merchants to accept contactless and remote payments from their customers. Yes Bank has collaborated with French payment services company Worldline to launch the new facility.

British character actor Weightlifter David Prowse, best known for playing ‘Darth Vader’ in the original Star Wars trilogy, has passed away following short illness. He was 85.

Cambridge Dictionary has named ‘quarantine’ as Word of the Year 2020. The word has been named the word of the year based on data that showed that it was one of the most highly searched words on the Cambridge Dictionary this year.

The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has recently launched a portal that will enable transgender persons to apply online for certification of their self-perceived gender identity.
Transgender persons can upload declaration of their gender identity, which will be the basis for their identity certificates to be issued by the district magistrate. The Minister opened ‘Garima Greh: A Shelter Home for Transgender Persons’ in Gujarat. The Ministry will open such homes in all states.

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi chaired the 33rd PRAGATI meeting on 25 November 2020 to review multiple projects, grievances and programmes. PRAGATI stands for Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched ‘Har Ghar Nal Yojana’ in the state of Uttar Pradesh. The scheme aims to provide piped water supply to over 4.1 million people in the two districts of Sonbhadra and Mirzapur.
The outlay of the project is Rs 5,555 crore. The scheme will also benefit over 3,000 villages to access piped water supply.

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi is set to visit his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi on 30 November 2020. PM will dedicate to the nation the six-lane widening project of the Handia (Prayagraj) – Rajatalab (Varanasi) section of National Highway 19.

A Letter of Understanding (LoU) has been signed between the Rajasthan government and United Nation”s World Food Programme (WFP) for proposed participation to achieve food and nutritional security goals.

The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi released a book on the life and ideals of Sri Guru Nanak Dev ji on 25 November 2020..The book has been penned by Kirpal Singh Ji, who is based in Chandigarh. Guru Nanak, also referred to as Baba Nanak, was the founder of Sikhism and is the first of the ten Sikh Gurus.

The Inventivepreneur Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ICCI) and HDFC Bank have inked an MoU to support MSMEs/SMEs and Start-ups financially.ICCI is the biggest platform operating to support entrepreneurship globally.

New Delhi: Marking the occasion of 3 years of UMANG, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology, Communications and Law & Justice Ravi Shankar Prasad has launched the international version of the UMANG App

The Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance, 2020 (Hindi: Uttar Pradesh Vidhi Virudh Dharm Samparivartan Pratishad Adyadesh, 2020), unofficially referred to as the ‘love jihad law’ by most of the media, is a law enacted by the Government of Uttar Pradesh, India, on 24 November 2020.

India’s External Affairs Minister Dr, S. Jaishankar is currently on a three-nation tour. While he has already visited Bahrain and UAE and met top leaders of the nations, his third visit will be to Seychelles on November 27-28, 2020. Jaishankar is scheduled to meet the newly elected President of Seychelles Wavel Ramkalawan and present greetings on behalf of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

IT Industry pioneer Faqir Chand Kohli passed away due to a heart attack on November 26, 2020 at his residence. He is known to have led the inception of the global tech behemoth TCS, thereby sowing the seed of India’s IT industry.

As a part of the celebrations, SEBI has launched an initiative called ‘Securities Market Trainers’ (SMARTs) program, to enhance investor education and awareness.

The Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Shri Prakash Javadekar virtually launched the web portal “India Climate Change Knowledge Portal” on 27 November 2020. The portal comprise of eight major components

Australian-American lawyer, investment banker, and economist James Wolfensohn, who served as the President of the World Bank for 10 years, has passes away. He was 86. Wolfensohn had served as the ninth president of the World Bank Group from 1995 to 2005.

The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has given its in-principle approval for the merger of Bharti AXA General Insurance with ICICI Lombard.

The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has approved the construction of the Song Dam Drinking Water Project worth Rs 1100 crore in Dehradun.

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated the 3rd Global Renewable Energy Investment Meeting and Expo (RE-Invest 2020) on 26 November 2020 through video conferencing. The summit is organised by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.The theme for RE-Invest 2020 is ‘Innovations for Sustainable Energy Transition’.

Bottom line: China’s robotic Chang’e 5 mission launched from the Wenchang Space Launch Center of China’s Hainan province, rising into the sky atop a Long March 5 rocket at about 3:30 p.m. EST (20:30 UTC) on November 23, 2020.

Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has launched Sahakar Pragya, the 45 new training modules developed by the National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC).
The modules will impart training to primary cooperative societies in rural areas of the country. The National Cooperative Development Corporation is a statutory Corporation, under the aegis of Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare.

RE-INVEST (Renewable Energy Investors Meet & Expo) is organised by the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), to promote investment in renewable energy.
The 3rd edition of the Meet is scheduled to be held from November 26 to 28, 2020 with the theme of ‘Innovations for Sustainable Energy Transition’. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the virtual meeting. The first two editions were held in 2015 and 2018.

The Indian government on November 26, 2020, decided to extend the ban on the scheduled international commercial passenger services till December 31, 2020, because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.