WEEKLY CURRENT AFFAIRS 17TH TO 23RD NOVEMBER 2025

National Press Day - 16th November 

1) The Blue Trail Opens The 56th International Film Festival Of India.

2) MORE FROM LESS FOR MORE Book Launched At Pune.

3) India' Ranked 96 Out of 180 Countries In Corruption Perceptions Index 2024

( Denmark -1st, Finland -2nd ) 

4) Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal Has Presented The Sons Of The Soils Award.

5) FORMER Indian Badminton Star Saina Nehwal Has Been Joins As The Miss Universe 2025 Judging Panel.

6) The Indian Army Successfully Concluded The Purvi Prachand Exercise At Arunachal Pradesh.

7) Mahit Sandhu Wins Silver And Komal Waghmare Wins Bronze Women's air Rifle EVENT. At Deaf Olympics Tokyo 

* Dhanush Srikanth Wons Gold & Mohammed M Vania Wins Silver ( Air Rifle EVENT) 

8) Disability Right Activist And Author Alice Wong Passed Away.

9) Vice President C P RADHAKRISHNAN Has Presented The Manorama Newsmaker Award To Union Minister for Tourism Suresh Gopi.

10) Anuj And Ian Wins BWF Zambia International MIXED Double Final.

11) ISRO SUCCESSFULLY Conducted The NO - GPS Mars Drone Challenge.

12) The First Copy Of English - To Telugu And TELUGU - Telugu Ramoji Dictionary 

13) India' Ranked 151 In World Press Freedom INDEX 2025 

14) 23 Years Old Mitva Chaudhary Win Gold In Women's Epee Individual At 36th Senior National Fencing Championships in New Delhi.

15) Bollywood Actress Sonali Kulkarni Has Inaugurated The Dr Narendra Dabholkar Lokvidyapeeth.

16) FINAL ORBIT Book Author - Chris Hadfield 

17) IIT Indore Scientists Have Developed A New Cryogenic Optical fibres Sensor For Space Mission In Collaboration With ISRO 

18) Indian' Shuttler Swetaparna Panda Honoured With Prestigious EKLAVYA PURASHKAR 2025

19) India's Indigenous KAAL BHAIRAV Drone Won A Silver Medal At The 23rd International Exhibition Of Innovation In Zagreb, Croatia.

20) Payas Jain Clinched Men's Single At UTT National Ranking TT Championship.

* Swasthika Ghosh In Women's Single

21) Falcons -9 Launched The Sentinel -6B 

World Day For Prevention Of Child Sexual Exploitation - 18TH NOVEMBER 

1) JALLIANWALA BAGH KI KARAHEIN Book Author - Rajwanti Mann 

2) VK Damodaran, Kerala Sahitya Parishad Founder And Environmentalist Passed Away.

3) The 10th Edition Of International Gita Festival Held At Kurukshetra, Haryana.

4) The Master Of Unfinished Things Book Author - Geet Chaturvedi 

5) Goa Became The First State To 100% Cyber Fraud Response System.

6)! Odisha Host The 10th Edition Of The Film Preservation And Restoration Workshop India 

7) France Launched The Moyenne Portee Renove ( ASMPA-R) Nuclear Carried Air To Surface Cruise Missile.

8) Government Of Karnataka Has Launched The KEO: a State Developed AI Ready Personal Computer To Bridge The State's Digital Access Gap.

9) AGASTA WINS THE 15th Anjani Mashelkar Prize 

10) Maharshtra Became The First State in The Country To Participate in Nuclear Based Power Generation. 

( Maharashtra State Power  Generation Company Limited MAHAGENCO) Signed MoU with Nuclear Power Corporation Of India Limited ( NPCIL)

11) Odisha playback Singer Humane Sagar passed away.

12) India Wins 10 MedalS Including 6 Gold, 3 Silver And 1 Bronze At Asian Archery Championships 2025.

13) ColoNox, The First Advanced Wound Dressing For Dietetic Foot Ulcer Launched By DEPARTMENT OF ATOMIC ENERGY (DAE ) 

14) Payu Received RBI Approval To Operate As Online, Offline And Cross Border Payment Aggregator.

15) Hollywood Actor Tom Cruise Has Honoured With Academy Award 

16) Bezzecchi Wins Valencia Grand Prix 

17) Chris Eubanks Announced Retirement From International Tennis.

18) Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya And DRDO Signed An Agreement For Smart Technology.

19) ALEXANDER Decroo Has Been Appointed As The UNDP Administrator 

20) Gurpreet Singh Clinched Silver in Men's 25 m Pistol Event At ISSF WORLD CUP Egypt 

21) Siddhant Bhatia, The Sound Of Kumbha Has Nominated For Grammy.

22) Physics Walla Has Been Listed In NSE IPO 

23) Ireland, Switzerland Have Been Partner Country For Hornbill Festival 2025

1) The Ministry Of TRIBAL Affairs & IISC CeNSE Have Launched India's First Programme To Train Tribal Students And Faculty in Semiconductor Manufacturing.

2) Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) Has Keel For The 2nd Multi Purpose Vessel - ( YARD 21002) 

3) DAE Developed CERTIFIED Reference Material (CRM) Ferrocarbonatite ( BARC - B1401) Released By Ajit Kumar Mohanty 

4) India Wins 13 MedalS Including 3 Gold, 6 Silver And 4 Bronze Medals At ISSF WORLD CUP EGYPT 

5) Union Minister Prahlad Joshi Has Inaugurated The SMART EXIM WAREHOUSE 

6) Union Minister Prahlad Joshi Has Inaugurated The ASHA - Anna Sahayata Holistic AI Solution 

( Beneficiaries Engage With The Public Distribution System) 

* DEVELOPED By Wadhwani Foundation Using Bhasini Multilingual AI Infrastructure 

7) Former MLA Of ARUNACHAL PRADESH Shri Punji Maraji Passed Away.

8) RESERCHERS From Western Thailand Have Discovered a New Spider Species With Rare Split identity. 

( SPECIES Name - DAMARCHUS INAZUMA ) 

9) Indian Coast Guard Has Seized 3 Bangladeshi Boats 

10) INS VIKRAMADITYA Completed 12 Years.

11) POWERGRID Has Win The Green Apple Environment Award 2025 

12) President Droupadi Murmu Has Presented The 6th NATIONAL WATER AWARD 2025 

- Maharashtra Gets First Position In The Best State Category 

13) IIT BOMBAY DEVELOPED World's First Micro Sensor Explosive Detector.

14) Dr Mrutunjay Mahapatra, DG OF Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) Received The Sir Gilbert Walker Award From INDIAN Meteorological Society ( IMS)

15) Neeraj Agarwal Has Been Appointed As The Indian Ambassador To Mauritinia.

16) India Re- Elected To Codex Executive Committee At CAC 48.

17) Tul Bahadur Kandel Has Been Appointed As The Secretary Of National Assembly in Nepal.

18) Union Minister Piyush Goyal Has Launched The Trade Intelligence And Analytics Portal.

19) Pixxel Has Been Honoured WITH The Earth Observation And Geospatial Excellence Awards 

20) Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal Has Sentences Former Prime Minister Shiekh Hasina To Death.

21) Japan's Sakurajima Volcano Erupted.

22) NSE India Has CONFERRED WITH Two Gold At Tata Institute Of Social Science ( TISS) 

23) Berhampur Forest Circle Has gets First Rank in 6th National Water Award 

24) Government Of India Has Launched The YUVA  AI FOR ALL Free National AI Learning Courses.

25) Telengana Government Has CONFERRED Mohammed Lateef Khan Received Maulana Abul Kalam Azad National Award 2025.

26) V Srinivas Takes Charges As Rajasthan New Chief Secretary.

27) Parasocial Word - Declared As The Word Of The Year By Cambridge Dictionary.

28) Himachal Pradesh Celebrate Raulene Festival 

29) Change s - 6 Mission DISCOVERED Iron Oxide CRYSTAL on Moon 

30) Slender Billed Curlew Officially Declared As Extinct.

31) Oscar Piastri Has Been Honoured WITH Australia Prestigious DON Award ( He Win 9th Time Australian F1 Grand Prix) 

32) US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP Designate Saudi Arabia as Major Non NATO Ally.

33) BHARAT, HINDUTVA And RSS Book Author - Diganta Chakraborty 

34) TANZANIA President Appointed Her Daughter Wanu Hafid Ameir As Its Country Deputy Minister For Education And Science & Technology.

35) India Wins 3 Medals At ITTF World Para Challengers TT 

* Bhavinaben Patel ( WS -4-5) 

* Sonalben Patel (WS -3) 

* Bhavina)/ Subham ( XD-7-10) 

36) Ministry Of SYAS Launched ASMITA Mobile Application 

37) HELIOPHYSICS Word Has Been Added To Merriam Webster Dictionary.

1) Tara Prasad Wins Bronze in Skating At Senior Woman Category Skate Celjie 2025, Slovenia.

2) India And Panama Signed On 5 MoUs To Implement Quick Impact Projects ( QIP) 

3) Dr Adarsh Swaika Has Appointed As The INDIAN AMBASSADOR To Somalia.

4) Tenneco Clean Air India Limited Gets IPO In NSE 

5) Indian National Trust For Art And Cultural Heritage ( INTACH) Launched Landmark Project - GAJA -LOK 

( Exploring The CULTURAL And Ecological Legacy Of The Asian Elephant) 

6) Austria And Malta As Country Partner Of Hornbill Festival.

7) Bigul, A Wind Instrument Of Meerut Uttar Pradesh Gets The GI Tag.

8) Mushfiqure Rahim Became The First Bangladeshi To Play 100 Test Matches For His Country.

( Also He Scored Century On His 100th Test Matches)

9) Kushagra Singh Rajawat Wins Bronze in 50m Rifle Prone At Deaf Olympics Tokyo 

10) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Along With Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu Have Unveiled The Commemorate Coin Of Rs 100 On Sri Satya Sai Birth Anniversary.

11) Bhubaneswar, Odisha to Host The Odisha Pharma Summit 2025 On 16th December.

12) Russia Unveiled Its Stealth Fighter SU-75 Checkmate At Dubai international Air show 2025.

13) IIT Guwahati Developed Gelator Material To Detect Fuel Adulteration Tackle Oil Spils.

14) Kiran Mazumder Shaw, Founder And Chairperson Of Biocon Group Has Been Ranked India's Most Generous Women Philanthropist By Edelgive Hurun India Philanthropy list 2025.

15) Dr. Shachi Singh, BOTANY Section, BHU University Has Received Woman Scientist Medal By Indian Botanical Society (IBS) 

16) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Launched SUKANYA SAMRUDHHI Yojana For 20,000 Girls From Sri Satya Sai District.

17) Bengaluru To Host The 64th ANNUAL Conference Of Indian Society Of Aerospace Medicine.

18) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Inaugurates The South India Natural Farming Summit 2025 

( The Summit Aims To Showcase The Natural Farming Practice Propagate By The Late Organic FARMER Nammalvar To The World) 

19) Neeraj Phogat Clinched Bronze in Women's 65 Kg Category Boxing At World Boxing Cup Finals 

20) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) And EDGE Group SIGNED MoU At Dubai International Air Show To Offer Their Products To Customers Worldwide.

21) External affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar Has Inaugurated The Consulate General Of India in Yekaterinburg And Kazan, 

22) India Post Unveiled The First Revamped Gen -Z Themed Campus Post Office CAMPUS At IIT Delhi Campus.

23) Mark Great Batch Has Been Appointed As The New Zealand. Cricket Team Head Coach.

24) Sandip Pradhan Has Been Appointed As The SEBI Whole Time Member.

25) Australian Foreign Affairs Minister WONG Arrived India.

26) Afganistan INDUSTRY And Commerce Minister Alhaj Nooruddin Azizi Has Arrived India.

27) ISRO Has Successfully Tested The boot Strap Mode Start Test Of CE 20 Cryogenic Engines For LVM3 Rocket.

1) The Physical Research Laboratory ( PRL) 1.2 m Telescope At Mount Abu, Located At An Altitude Of 1680 meter Near Gurusikhar, Observatory That Is Used For Astronomical Research, Observed The Interstellar Comet 3I/ ATLAS 

2) Zimbabwe & Namibia Set To Host The Under 19 World Cup 2026

3) Roger Federer Will Be Inducted Into The International Tennis Hall Of Fame 2026.

4) The Indian Army Has Inducted The New Coat Combat ( Digital Print) in January 2025

5) Azista Has Been Honoured WITH Manufacturing And Production Excellence For Advancing India's Satellite Production 

6) Mahit Sandhu Wins Silver In Women's 50 meter Rifle Prone At Deaf Olympics 

7) Ministry Of Jal Shakti Launched The Hamara Sauchalya Hamara Bhavishya Campaign On World Toilet Day 2025.

8) Golfer Diksha Dagar Wins Gold In Deaf Olympics.

9) India Recorded It's HIGHEST Ever Defence Production Of 1 Lakh 54 Thousand Crores in 2024/25.

( 1,27,434 Crores in 2023/24) 

* Defence Exports During 2024/25 - 23,622 Crores 

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10) National Education Policy 2020 

11) HAL & L & T Have Built India's First Industry Made PSLV ROCKET Set To Launch The OceanSat Satellite in 2026.

12) Abhinav Deswal And Patanjali Prasanth Dhumal Wins Gold in 10 m Air Pistol Mixed Team At Deaf Olympics.

13) IIT Bombay iGEM Has Secured Silver Medal At Paris Competition.

14) Kushagra Ranawat Wins Bronze In 50m. Rifle Prone Men in Deaf Olympics.

15) Abhinav Deswal Wins Silver in Men's Air Pistol Event At deaf Olympics.

16) Dhanush Srikanth Wins Gold In Men's Air Rifle EVENT At Deaf Olympics.

17) Komal M Waghmare Wins Bronze in Women's Air Rifle 

18) Mohammed M Vania Wins Silver in Men's Air Rifle

19) India Host The 2nd Regional Open Digital Health Summit ( RODHS) 2025

20) Bjp Candidate Jay Dholakia Take Oath As MLA for Nuapada District, Odisha.

21) Art Of Living Has Honoured With Best CIVIL Society Award At 6th National Water Award 2025

22) Paradip Port Authority (Odisha) Has Been Recognised As The 12th International SAMUDRA MANTHAN Award 2025 Held At Mumbai 

23) Steel Ministry Introduce The SARAL SIMS ( To Make Steel Import Registration Easier For Small Importers And Export Linked Imports)

24) IRS Rakesh Gupta Has Been Appointed As The DGIT/ CVO At CBDT.

25) DRDO And Directorate General Armament ( DGA)! France Inked Technical Agreement To Deepen Collaboration In Defence.

26) PROFESOR Larry Dwyer, University Of Technology Sydney Received The UN Tourism Highest Honour ULYSSES Prize 2025 

World Fisheries Day - 21st November 

THEME 2025 - India's Blue Transformation : Strengthening Value Addition In Sea Food Exports 

1) 13 New Frog Species Have Been Discovered in This Year In North East States.

2) Kanpur Based MKU Has Unveiled Its Netro Aksian Thermal Core With Multi Platform Adaptability ( Upto 8X Digital Zoom)

3) New Delhi To Host The 4th Edition Of INDIAN Navy's Innovation And indigenisation Organisation ( NIIO) Seminar 

4) Novelist Rabih Alameddine, Poet Patricia Smith Wins National Book AWARD.

5) India Wins 2 MedalS in WTT STAR Contender, Muscat 

- Manush Shah & Divya Wins Bronze in XD 

- Manush Shah  & Manav Thakkar ( MD) 

6) INDIAN AIRFORCE Set To Host The First Edition Of International Squash Championships 2025 (24-28th November At New Delhi) 

7) Education Minister (former , Andhra Pradesh) Chukka Ramayya Passed Away.

8) Arun Yogiraj Received The Bharatiya Sanskriti Kala PURASKAR.

9) India Finishes With 20 MedalS Including 9 Gold, 6 Silver And 5 Bronze At World Boxing Championship 2025 

10) Pranavi URS Became The First INDIAN WOMAN To Win A Pro Golf EVENT in Both Events.

11) India And Israel Have SIGNED The Terms Of Reference To Initiate Negotiation For Making Free Trade Agreements in Tel Aviv. 

12) Government e Marketplace And UN Women Signed MoU To Boost Participation Of WOMEN Entrepreneurs in Public Procurement.

13) IIT Bombay Received The QUESTEL IP Excellence Award.

14) Gold Medalist Shooter Shreyasi Singh Has Became The Youngest Minister In Bihar 

15) Neeraj Mittal Appointed As The Petroleum And Natural Gas Secretary.

16) Mount Semeru Volcano In Indonesia Erupted.

17) Assam Postal Circle Has Unveiled A Picture Postcard Of Late Singer Zubeen Garg 

18) Dr K Radhakrishnan Has Been Appointed As The Chairperson Of The Board Of Governor Of IIT Bombay.

19) India Ranked 9th In Global Climate Risk Index 2026

20) Guwahati, Assam Host The First Ever Test Match, ( 30th Test Venue in India')

21) India Hands Over The Modular Bridge To Nepal.

22) AUSTRALIAN Fast Bowler Mitchel Starc Completed 100 Ashes Test WICKETS.

23) IAF Tejas Aircraft Has Been Crashes In DUBAI Air Show 2025 

- Pilot Naman Sayal Died During The Accident 

24) The Four Labour Codes Have Been Brought Into Effect By Government.

25) India Achieved A Historic Rise In Food grains Production in 2024/25 ( 357.73 Million tonnes)

26) Johannesburg, South Africa Host the G20 

27) 1993 BATCH IAS OFFICER Sunil Paliwal Has Been Appointed As The Chairman Of inland Waterways Authority Of India' 

28) OMC ( ODISHA) Wins Five Kalinga Safety Excellence Awards 2025 For Safety Performance 

29) Paschal Donohoe Has Been Appointed As The Managing Director And Chief Knowledge Officer Of The World Bank.

30) Bangladesh Joins 5th MEMBER Of Colombo Security. 

1) RBI, EUROPEAN Central Bank Have Agree To Start For UPI - TIPS Link.

2) During Dubai Air Show Tejas Aircraft Crashed, It Was The 2nd Incident Recently After 2024 Jaislamer 

3) Indian Blind Woman Cricket Team Has Wins The Inaugural Blind Woman T20i World Cup After Beating Nepal in The Final 2025 

4) Lakshya Sen Wins The Men's Single Title At Australian Open 2025 

5) Velanati Chief Gonka II Inscription Has Found, At Kasi Viswanath Temple, Andhra Pradesh.

( It Is WRITTEN in Sanskrit And Telugu) 

( Dated in Saka 1083, Pushya 1161 CE).

6) India Is The 2nd Largest Producer Of Rice 25.27% Of Global) 

7) Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh Hosts The International Conference Of Chief Justice.

8) Ornella Vanoni, An Italian Singer Passed Away At The Age Of 91.

9) Uttarkhand Chief Minister Pushakar Singh Dhami Has Released The Book - Political History ( Of Uttarakhand) 

AUTHOR - Jai Singh Rawat 

10) Mahit Sandhu Wins 4 MedalS Including 2 Gold And 2 Silver in Tokyo Dead Olympics.-

- 50m 3Position ( Gold) 

- 10m Rifle Mixed Team (Gold) 

- 10m Air Rifle ( Silver) 

- 50m. Rifle Prone ( Silver) 

11) Judoka Simran Wins Bronze At Hong Kong SENIOR Asia Cup 2025 

12) Prime Minister Narendra Modi Proposed Few Initiative At G20! SUMMIT 2025, South Africa 

- Traditional Knowledge 

- Clean Energy 

- Knowledge Repository 

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13) WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS Book Author - Vijay Lokpali 

14) Punjabi Singer Harman Sidhu Passed Away.

15) PT USHA, Pullela Gopichand Honoured With Lifetime achievement Awards 2025 At FICCI 

16) A D PRAJWAL DEV And Sidhant Bantia Wins The Men's Double Title At M15 Bhubaneswar.

* S D PRAJWAL Dev Wins The Men's Single Title at M15 BHUBANESWAR 

17) Australia And Turkiye To Host The COP 31 

18) ABHINAV Deswal Wins Gold In Men's 25 meter Pistol Event At Deaf Olympics.

19) Indian Navy Ship INS SAHYADRI Participate in The Bilateral Naval Exercise AUS INDEX 2025 ( With Australia Royal Navy Ship HMAS Ballarat)

20) NIT ROURKELA And IIT Patna Secured The Patent For BHU - Manchitra ( India's First Real-time Land Mapping Drone System )