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1) World Kindness Day: 13 November
•World Kindness Day was first introduced in 1998 by The World Kindness Movement, an organisation formed at a 1997 Tokyo conference by the like-minded kindness organisations from around the world. In 2019, the organization was registered as an official NGO under Swiss law. There are currently over 28 nations involved in The World Kindness Movement which is not affiliated with any religion or political movement.
2) Chief Justice’s office comes under RTI, rules Supreme Court
3) 39th India International Trade Fair 2019
4) Swachh-Nirmal Tat Abhiyaan
•The Objective of Swachh-Nirmal Tat Abhiyaan to strive to make coastal areas across the country clean and to create awareness amongst citizens about the importance of coastal ecosystems so as to save marine creatures from plastic waste, industrial effluents and other harmful substances.
5) Sishu Suraksha APP to be launched in Assam
6) Dr Harsh Vardhan inaugurates exhibition of Technologies in Food Processing
7) Pravind Jugnauth sworn in as Mauritius PM
8) Iran discovers new oil field with 53 Bn barrels of reserves
9) India to host 19th council of heads of government of SCO 2020
•The SCO is a China-led eight-member economic and security bloc in which India and Pakistan were admitted as full members in 2017. Its founding members included China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The latest Summit of heads of government was held in Tashkent in November 2019. It was proposed in Tashkent Summit that India would take the initiative to hold the 2020 meetings of the Heads of Government.
10) Mohammad Imran appointed Bangladesh High Commissioner to India
11) SBI’s economic research team revised India’s FY20 GDP forecast to 5%
12) FICCI signed MoU with Singapore Fintech Association
13) Air Chief to inaugurate ISAM Conference in Bengaluru