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Sports:
1) World Athletes of
the year 2013 : The Jamaican sprinters, Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann
Fraser-Pryce were crowned the male and female World Athletes of the Year.
2) Sebastian Vettel won
F1 Brazilian Grand Prix 2013.
3) Sebastian Vettel won
the United States Grand Prix for record 8th successive victory.
4) Indian weightlifter, Deepak
Lathore won Gold and two Silver medals in the Boys' 50 Kg category of the
Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships at Penang, Malaysia.
5) Novak Djokovic won
Barclays ATP World Tour Final after defeating Rafael Nadal.
6) India to host Men's Hockey World Cup in 2018
7) Novak Djokovic of
Serbia won the BNP Paribas
Masters Tennis tournament at Paris,
France. In the
title clash, Novak Djokovic defeated defending champion David Ferrer.
Obituaries:
1) Legendary Pakistani Folk Singer Reshma Passed Away in Lahore
Miscellaneous:
1) RBI Directed Public Sector Banks to give loans to women
SHGs at 7 percent.
2) Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson,
Sonia Gandhi Jointly inaugurated India’s first all-women bank, Bharatiya
Mahila Bank in Mumbai.
3) Prof CNR Rao Elected to Chinese Academy
of Science. He is first Indian to be elected to this prestigious Chinese Academy of Science (CAS)
4) India’s
1st Synthetic Rubber Plant inaugurated in Panipat, Haryana.
5) Dubai
to host World Trade Fair or World Expo 2020.
6) Constitution Day was observed across India on 26 November .
7) India
on 23 November 2013 successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable Dhanush
ballistic missile from a naval ship off Odisha coast.
8) The 44th International Film Festival of India (IFFI)
began at Panaji in Goa.
9) 33rd India International Trade Fair opened at New Delhi.
10) The 12th edition of Pravasi Bhartiya Divas will be held
in New Delhi
from 7th to 9th of January 2014.
11) Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) held its 13th
Council of Ministers meeting in Perth,
Australia.
12) India's
premier space agency, ISRO, successfully launched its historic mission to Mars
from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, about 100km from Chennai.
It was India’s
first mission to the red planet.
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