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Binny Bansal resigns from PhonePe board. ‘International Gita Mahotsav’ will be organized from 8 November to 15 December 2024. At the same time, IPL mega auction will be held in Jeddah on 24-25 November.
Information about some major current affairs, which are important for students preparing for government jobs…
NATIONAL
1. Formation of BJP alliance in Maharashtra and Hemant Soren’s government in Jharkhand is certain: Trends for all 288 assembly seats of Maharashtra have come. Mahayuti alliance is leading on more than 200 seats. It is certain that BJP coalition government will be formed in the state. Congress-led Mahavikas Aghadi (MVA) is ahead in more than 50 seats. The Mahayuti includes BJP, Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde) and NCP (Ajit Pawar), while the Mahavikas Aghadi includes Congress, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray) and NCP (Sharad Pawar).
Voting was held for 288 assembly seats of Maharashtra in one phase on 20 November, for 81 assembly seats of Jharkhand in two phases on 13 November (first) and 20 November (second).
- According to the trends of Jharkhand Assembly elections, it is certain that Hemant Soren’s JMM will come back to power.
- During the counting of votes on 81 seats, according to the trends, JMM alliance has taken lead on 56 seats. This figure is 15 seats more than the majority of 41.
- BJP alliance is leading on 24 seats. Others are leading on 1 seat.
- In the 2019 assembly elections, JMM won 30, Congress 16 and RJD won one seat. There was an alliance of all three parties. Then JMM leader Hemant Soren became the Chief Minister. BJP had got 25 seats.
Award
2. PM Modi received ‘World Peace Award’ in America: Prime Minister Narendra Modi received the World Peace Prize in the US in his absence on November 22. Washington Adventist University and an organization Association of Indian American Minorities (AIAM) jointly named him ‘Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. awarded the World Peace Prize. This award has been given to Prime Minister Modi for his efforts for peace in the society and protecting the interests of minorities.
AIAM is a non-governmental organization whose aim is to create unity among the Indian American diaspora in America.
- Association of Indian American Minorities (AIAM), is a non-governmental organization.
- It was launched on Friday at Sligo Seventh-day Adventist Church in Maryland.
- The initiative aims to unite minority communities within the Indian American diaspora and work for their welfare.
- Jasdeep Singh has been appointed Founder and Chairman of AIAM.
- It also has a 7-member board of directors to encourage the minority community.
- The board directors are Baljinder Singh, Dr. Sukhpal Dhanoa (Sikh), Pawan Bezwada and Elisha Pulivarty (Christian), Deepak Thakkar (Hindu), Junaid Qazi (Muslim) and Indian weaver Nissim Rivben Shawl.
BUSINESS
3. Zomato will join BSE Sensex: Online food delivery company Zomato will be included in the BSE Sensex stocks on December 23. Zomato will replace JSW Steel among 30 Sensex stocks.
BSE’s subsidiary Asia Index Private Limited announced the restructuring of BSE’s index, in which it has been decided to include Zomato in BSE Sensex 30 and BSE Sensex 50.
- Zomato’s IPO came in July 2021.
- The stock has given multibagger returns to its shareholders since its listing on the stock exchange.
- Zomato’s IPO came at an issue price of Rs 76 and the stock closed at Rs 264.20 on Friday, November 22, 2024.
- During this period, the stock has given a return of 250 percent to the shareholders.
- The stock has given returns of 114 percent in the year 2024 and more than 300 percent in the last 3 years.
- Zomato will trade in Sensex 30 from December 23.
- The National Stock Exchange (NSE) has included Zomato in its Future & Options stocks.
- It is expected that Zomato may be included in NSE’s index Nifty 50 in the rebalancing of Nifty index in February 2025.
- Major additions to the index as part of the reshuffle in BSE Sensex 50 include Zomato, Jio Financial Services and Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd.
- On the other hand, HDFC Life Insurance, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited and LTI Mindtree are likely to drop out of the index.
4. Binny Bansal resigns from the board of PhonePe: Co-founder Binny Bansal has resigned from the board of e-commerce giant Flipkart’s payment company PhonePe on Friday (November 22). Binny Bansal has taken this decision about 10 months after stepping down from the board of Flipkart.
Binny Bansal had left Flipkart in January this year after launching his new venture Oppador, citing conflict of interest.
- Binny had been on the PhonePe board since 2016, when Flipkart Group acquired the payments firm.
- Meanwhile, PhonePe announced the appointment of Manish Sabharwal, vice chairman of TeamLease Services, as independent director and chairman of its audit committee.
- Sabharwal will oversee the company’s financial reporting, internal controls and risk management practices.
- The executive officer of TeamLease has previously served as an Independent Director on the Board of Reserve Bank of India i.e. RBI.
- He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Comptroller and Auditor General CAG.
- Apart from this, he is also a member of the Governing Board of National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER).
- This new appointment comes at a time when the fintech firm has returned to India from Singapore last year.
Event
5. 9th International Geeta Mahotsav will be celebrated in Kurukshetra: ‘International Geeta Mahotsav’ will be organized in Kurukshetra, Haryana from 28 November to 15 December 2024. This festival is being celebrated since 2016. Kurukshetra is the birthplace of ‘Shrimad Bhagavad Gita’.
In Chandigarh, on Friday, November 22, Chief Minister Naib Singh Saini issued an invitation letter for organizing the International Geeta Mahotsav in Kurukshetra.
- The main programs of this 18-day long International Geeta Mahotsav will run from December 5 to December 11, which will begin with Geeta Yagya and worship at Purushottampura Bagh of Brahmasarovar on December 5.
- This time, in view of the Indian Sanatan tradition, the chief service officers of the country’s major temples, monasteries, four Dhams, 12 Jyotirlingas, Shaktipeeths and religious places of mythological importance will gather on one platform.
- All of them will participate in the Saint Conference on 9th December. Will also participate in the symposium organized on December 10.
- This time, United Republic of Tanzania will be the partner country and Odisha will be the partner state in the International Gita Mahotsav.
- Tanzania was also a participating country in the International Surajkund Crafts Fair organized in the month of February this year.
- Delegations from Orissa and Tanzania will also come to participate in the International Gita Mahotsav.
- The sermon given by Lord Krishna to Arjuna just before the beginning of the Mahabharata war is famous by the name of Srimad Bhagavad Gita. It is a part of Bhishma Parva of Mahabharata.
- Geeta is in Sanskrit language and was composed by sage Vedavyas in the third millennium BC.
- It has 18 chapters and 700 verses.
- According to Indian tradition, Geeta has the same place as Upanishads and Dharmasutras.
Sport
6. IPL mega auction will be held in Jeddah on 24-25 November: Event Before IPL 2025, the IPL mega auction will take place on November 24 and 25 at the Abadi Al Johar Arena in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. In this, bids worth Rs 641.50 crore will be made on 577 players. 10 teams have to buy a total of 204 players. The auction will start on November 24 at 3 pm. Bidding will take place till 8 pm, the remaining players will start selling from 3 pm the next day.
The last auction was also in Dubai. Before that all the auctions were held in India only.
- The mega auction takes place once in 3 years, the last auction took place before the 2022 IPL.
- Teams can retain very few players in the mega auction. This time there was a limit of retaining 6 players.
- BCCI has been trying to host the mega auction abroad for the last few years to make it a global event.
- There are mini auctions between mega auctions, in which teams can retain more players. Only mini auctions were held for 2023 and 2024 IPL.
- This time a total of 1,574 players had registered for the auction.
- Of these, 577 players have been shortlisted by the IPL Governing Council.
- You can watch the auction on TV on ‘Star Sports Channel’ and online on ‘Jio Cinema’.
TODAY’S HISTORY
History of 23 November: On this day in 1937, India’s famous scientist Dr. Jagadish Chandra Bose died. Dr. Basu had deep knowledge of Physics, Biology, Botany and Archaeology. He was the first scientist who worked on the optics of radio and microwaves. He was the first scientist from India to receive an American patent. He also wrote science fiction and is considered the father of Bengali science fiction literature.
Dr. Jagadish Chandra Bose is considered the father of radio science.
- In 1936, the first issue of ‘Life’, a magazine with a distinct identity in photo journalism, was published.
- In 1983, the Commonwealth Summit was organized for the first time in India.
- In 2002, the G-20 meeting started in New Delhi.
- It was decided to shift the Miss World pageant proposed in Nigeria to London.
- In 2006, America lifted the ban on Russian jet manufacturing company Sukhoi.
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