The winner of the Asian Hockey Champions Trophy for men is - India

The winner of the 2016 Mexican Grand Prix is - Lewis Hamilton

The Rashtriya Ekta Diwas is observed annually to commemorate the birth anniversary of
- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

The state that recently became Indias open defecation free state is - Himachal Pradesh

The first Indian state to be declared Open Defecation Free is - Sikkim

Indo-Nepal joint military exercise Surya Kiran recently commenced at Saljhandi in Nepal. It is the
- 10th edition of the exercise

The theme of the 2016 Rashtriya Ekta Diwas that was observed recently is - Integration of India

Digital exhibition that was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 141st birth anniversary
of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel is - Uniting India: Sardar Patel
The initiative that was launched by PM Modi on 31 October 2016 to promote greater awareness
among people of various States about one another, hence promoting the spirit of Unity in Diversity is
Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat
The Real Estate (Regulation and Development) (General) Rules, 2016 notified for Union
Territories (UTs) will be applicable in these five UTs - Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh,
Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, and Lakshadweep
The state that celebrated 51st year of its making as Golden Jubilee (Swarna Jyanti) across the
state is Haryana
India and Palestine signed a Memorandum of Understanding for setting up of Palestine-India
Techo Park in - Ramallah
He was adjudged as the Man of the Match of the fifth ODI series played between India and New
Zealand Amit Mishra
The 92-year-old Indian Navy veteran who won a gold medal in a 5000-metres race walk at the
World Masters Athletics Championships being held in Perth is - Commodore V Sriramulu (Retd)

Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) chief who has resigned is - Iyad Madani

The Indian Revenue Service officer who took over as the Chairman of the Central Board of Direct
Taxes is - Sushil Chandra

Arnab Goswami in November 2016 resigned as the Editor-in-Chief of - Times Now

First woman chief minister of Goa who died recently - Shashikala Kakodkar

State declared as Indias third Open Defecation Free (ODF) state - Kerala

International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists is observed globally on - 2
November
The Central Vigilance Commission declared the week beginning from 31 October as the
Vigilance Awareness Week. 31 October is - Birthday of Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel

The state that topped the Agricultural Marketing & Farm Friendly Reforms Index is -Maharashtra

The first ever Agricultural Marketing & Farm Friendly Reforms Index was launched by - NITI
Aayog
The South Korean directors who will be honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the
upcoming 47th International Film Festival of India is - Im Kwon-taek

The Twitter India Head who resigned recently is - Rishi Jaitly

The all-time World Cup top-scorer who announced his retirement from football on 1 November
2016 is - Miroslav Klose
The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) in October 2016 asked the public sector banks to
share their reports relating to all loan frauds involving funds over - One crore rupees
The state that topped the list of state-wise Ease of Doing Business rankings that was released by
Union Government is Andhra Pradesh
The Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment Act, 2016 formulated to curb black money
came into effect on - 1 November 2016

The state that declared all 14 districts as drought-hit is Kerala

India

recently

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recently- Kerala
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As per a recent ruling of Supreme Court, false declaration of what information could lead to
annulment of a candidates election-

EducationalQualification
Theme of the 2016 Vigilance Awareness WeekPublic

participation

in

promoting

integrity

and

eradicating

Corruption

India and Bangladesh will conduct a joint military training exercise at Tangail, Dhaka from 5 to 18
November 2016 is
- SAMPRITI
Russia invited India to join in developing next-generation nuclear reactors and participate in its fast
reactor
research
project,
known
as
- MBIR
(Russian
acronym)
Organisation that released Freedom of the Press 2016 report is - Freedom House
Railway Ministry appointed him as the brand ambassador of Swachh Rail Mission - Bindeshwar
Pathak
He won the mens singles title of the Bahrain International Challenge badminton tournament
PratulJoshi
Saur Sujala Yojana was recently launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in - Chhattisgarh
Kolkata-born Sarabjit Singh Marwah recently became the first Sikh to be appointed to the Senate of
- Canada
Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently presented the Ramnath Goenka Awards. The awards are
given in the field of
- Journalism
M N Sharma, who passed away recently, was the first chief architect of - Chandigarh
Name of the designer of the FIFA World Cup Trophy, who passed away recently, is - Silvio
Gazzaniga
Person appointed as the new Ambassador of India to the Republic of Lebanon- Sanjiv Arora
Padma Shri singer and composer of Sri Lanka who passed away recently- Pandit Amaradeva

 Four Tier Tax Structure created by GST council in November 2016 under the Goods and Services
Tax5,

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18

and

28percent

Company that tied-up with Archaelogical Survey of India for virtual tour of monuments- Google
Person who resigned as Managing Director of Southeast Asia, India, Middle East and North Africa
(MENA) region of TwitterParminderSingh
For the first time, Mizo History in Hindi language titled, "An Introductory Brief History of Mizo
Tribes"
was
released
by
- the
Chief
Minister
Lal
Thanhawla
The Article of the European Union treaty that cant be revoked by government without Parliaments
approval to process the BREXIT is
Article50
Union Government has decided to launch a clean energy equity fund of - 2 billion US dollar
The state that has decided to converting 42 state-of-the-art cyber crime labs into cyber police
stations
Maharashtra
The news channel that was asked by inter-ministerial committee to be taken off air for 24 hours on
10 November 2016 is
NDTV
The Indian actor who will be honoured by the upcoming Dubai International Film Festival with a
Lifetime Achievement Award is
- Rekha
The Government of India will be hosting the Conference of Parties for the first time ever.
It will be the

SeventhEditionoftheconference

 As per the Paris Agreement on Climate Change that officially entered into force recently, the
amount to be raised by the developed countries annually to finance climate change mitigation
projects by 2020 is100billionUSdollars
The International Forum on Adopting an ICT Perspective to Education and Learning recently
started in
- NewDelhi
Indias first titanium project recently started its test production in - Odisha
Largest ever space telescope that is expected to be launched by NASA in 2018JamesWebbSpaceTelescope
Former Jammu and Kashmir Deputy Chief Minister who passed away recently- Mangat Ram
Sharma
RBI recently directed all the banks to dispense more banknotes through ATMs of which
denomination- 100rupeesnotes

Person

appointed

as

CEO

of

the

World

Bank- Kristalina

Georgieva

Theme of the World Tsunami Awareness Day- Effective Education and Evacuation Drills
Theme for the Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2016 that was observed from 31
October to 5 November 2016- Media and Information Literacy: New Paradigms for Intercultural
Dialogue
Bank that launched home loan overdraft facility for salaried customers- ICICI Bank
Person appointed as the Prime Minister of South Korea recently- Kim Byong-joon

NASA

recently

completed

the

construction

of- James

Webb

Space

Telescope

International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict is
observed globally on6November
The theme of the World Tsunami Awareness Day is - Effective Education and Evacuation Drills

Asias

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located
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launched

by- Punjab

Ministry that recently signed MoU with LinkedIn to create jobs for studentsMinistryofHumanResourceDevelopment
Indian Railways recently set the target to achieve 100 percent de-carbonisation with 90 percent
electrification by- 2021