India will set up 12 hi-tech parks in Bangladesh

India will set up 12 hi-tech parks in Bangladesh

India will set up 12 hi-tech parks in Bangladesh at a cost of $193 million.

these hi-tech parks will provide training to 30,000 youth of Bangladesh as skilled IT professionals.

The IT and hi-tech parks will be built in Khulna, Barisal, Rangpur, Natore, Chittagong, Comilla, Cox's Bazar, Mymensingh, Jamalpur, Gopalganj, Dhaka and Sylhet under the project 'Establishing IT Park/High-Tech Park at District Level

WATEC Israel 2019

WATEC Israel 2019

 WATEC 2019, Israel’s largest water conference, will be focusing this year oninnovation in the water industry and new Israeli technology in this field.

The conference aimed to get updates on technologies related to water management.

The focus of WATEC 2019​ is “Water Stewardship and Innovation – driving global leadership in the responsible planning management, and protection of water”

ISRO launched satellite Cartosat-3

ISRO launched satellite Cartosat-3


PSLV C47 carrying Cartosat-3 was launched on 27 November 2019 at 03:58 UTC using XL variant of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle from the second launch pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre into a sun synchronous orbit of 509 kilometers.

Thirteen commercial ride-sharing 3U cubesats including twelve SuperDoves (Flock 4p)  by Planet Labs and one Meshbed by Analytical Space of United States were also put in orbit using the same launch vehicle

Cartosat-3 is an advanced Indian Earth Observation satellite built and developed by ISRO, which will replace the IRS series.

It has a panchromatic resolution of 0.25 metres making it the imaging satellite with highest resolution and Mx of 1 metre with a high quality resolution which is a major improvement from the previous payloads in the Cartosat series.

Potential uses include weather mapping, cartography or army defence, and strategic applications

Rafael Nadal won sixth Davis Cup title

Rafael Nadal won sixth Davis Cup title

In tennis, world number one Rafael Nadal has clinched sixth Davis Cup title for Spain after beating Denis Shapovalov of Canada in front of a jubilant home crowd in Madrid.

Nadal defeated Shapovalov 6-3, 7-6 (9-7) to clinch Spain’s 2-0 win against Canada.

Roberto Bautista Agut put Nadal in position to clinch the trophy with a 7-6, 6-3 win against Felix Auger-Aliassime in the opener.

The world number one has won all eight of his rubbers this week to help Spain to a first title since 2011.

In 2010 Nadal won three majors, but the 33-year-old will likely look back on 2019 as an extraordinary year as he won the French Open and the US Open, made the Australian Open final and also reached the Wimbledon semifinals.

Eliud Kipchoge and Dalilah Muhammad named athletes of the year

Eliud Kipchoge and Dalilah Muhammad named athletes of the year

Eliud Kipchoge and Dalilah Muhammad have been named World Athletics' male and female athletes of the year.

Kenya's Kipchoge, 35, won the London Marathon for a fourth time in April before becoming the first athlete to run a marathon in under two hours.

He covered the 26.2 miles (42.2km) in one hour 59 minutes 40 seconds in the Ineos 1:59 Challenge in October.

Dalilah  Muhammad, 29, won World Championship 400m hurdles gold in Doha having twice broken the world record this year.

Dalilah  Muhammad,  won the Olympic title at Rio 2016

Eliud  Kipchoge, won the male athlete of the year award for the second consecutive year

Ethiopia's world 5,000m silver medallist Selemon Barega was named male rising star while Ukraine's Yaroslava Mahuchikh, who won high jump silver with a world Under-20 record of 2.04m in Doha, won the female award.

Global Prosperity Index

Global Prosperity Index

 The first-ever Prosperity & Inclusion City Seal and Awards (PICSA) Index, released in the Basque Country capital of Bilbao in northern Spain

it is designed to showcase not only the quantity of economic growth of a city but also its quality and distribution across populations.

Bilbao, the host city of the new index, is ranked at 20.

Switzerland’s Zurich topped the index with an overall score of 78.2.

Zurich, as the number one, scores strongly across all measures, particularly on quality of life, work, housing, leisure, safety, and education with the Swiss higher education system attaining an especially high score.

Top three countries

    Zurich (Switzerland)   
    Vienna  (Austria)   
    Copenhagen (Denmark)   

Ocean Dance Festival 2019

Ocean Dance Festival 2019

The four day long Ocean Dance Festival 2019 kicked off in Cox Bazar of Bangladesh on Friday.

Ocean Dance Festival is the largest international dance festival of Bangladesh in which more than 200 dancers, choreographers and scholars from 15 countries are participating.

The theme of this year's festival is 'Bridging the distance' or Durotter Shetubandhan.

The dances performed at the event will show the idea of bridging the cultural and economic distances.

The festival is being organised by the Nrityajog which is the Bangladesh wing of World Dance Alliance (WDA).

festival aims to expand cultural tourism in Bangladesh.

 It also features seminars and discussion apart from the dance performances by the artists.

Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year 2019 is “Climate emergency”

Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year 2019 is “Climate emergency”

Oxford Dictionaries defines "climate emergency" as "a situation in which urgent action is required to reduce or halt climate change and avoid potentially irreversible environmental damage resulting from it."

 the term in 2019 rose 10,796 percent from the previous year.

"Climate emergency" was selected from a shortlist of other phrases about climate, including "climate crisis," "climate action," "extinction," and "eco-anxiety."

The Oxford English Dictionary is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press.

Originally published: 1 February 1884

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Original language: English

Editor: James Murray

Country: United Kingdom

World Philosophy Day

World Philosophy Day

The world philosophy day is being observed on the 21st of November in the year 2019

World Philosophy Day is an international day proclaimed by UNESCO to be celebrated every 3rd Thursday of November.

It was first celebrated on 21 November 2002.

By celebrating World Philosophy Day each year, on the third Thursday of November, UNESCO underlines the enduring value of philosophy for the development of human thought, for each culture and for each individual.

World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) day

World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) day

World COPD Day is organized by the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) in collaboration with health care professionals and COPD patient groups throughout the world.

 Its aim is to raise awareness about chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and improve COPD care throughout the world

The first World COPD Day was held in 2002.

The 2019 theme for World COPD Day will be “All Together to End COPD.”

World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims

World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims

The World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims takes place on the third Sunday in November every year as the appropriate acknowledgment of victims of road traffic crashes and their families.

It was started by the British road crash victim charity, RoadPeace, in 1993 and was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2005.

 in 2005 the United Nations General Assembly invited all nations to observe the day 'as the appropriate acknowledgment of victims of road traffic crashes and their families'

2019 Theme: –  ‘Life is not a car part’.

Stefanos Tsitsipas defeated Dominic Thiem to win ATP Finals title

Stefanos Tsitsipas defeated Dominic Thiem to win ATP Finals title

Greek tennis player Stefanos Tsitsipas has won the ATP Finals on Sunday beating Austria's Dominic Thiem 6-7, 6-2, 7-6.

This was the debut of Tsisipas in ATP Finals.

The match, which was held at the O2 Arena in London, lasted for 2 hours and 36 minutes.

Tsitsipas had qualified for the finals after defeating six-time champion Roger Federer in the semi-finals on Saturday.

2019 Brazilian Grand Prix

2019 Brazilian Grand Prix

The 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix  was a Formula One motor race that was held on 17 November 2019 at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace in São Paulo, Brazil.

The race was the penultimate round of the 2019 Formula One World Championship and marked the forty-eighth running of the Brazilian Grand Prix and the forty-seventh time that the race has been run as a World Championship event since the inaugural season in 1950.

Max Verstappen won Brazilian Grand Prix

India will host the 8th edition of ICAS in New Delhi

India will host the 8th edition of ICAS   in New Delhi

India will host the 8th edition of ICAS   for the first time in New Delhi

The 8th edition of the international conference on Agricultural Statistics  is to be organised from November 18-21 2019 in New Delhi

The Chief guest of the event will be Bill Gates   co-founder of Microsoft Corporation

Theme:  2019   “Statistics for Transformation of Agriculture to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”.

2019 Fed Cup

2019 Fed Cup

The 2019 Fed Cup is the 57th edition of the most important tournament between national teams in women's tennis.

France  claimed their first Fed Cup title in 16 years with a 3-2 win on Sunday over hosts Australia.

Most no of titles in fed cup is held by the United States of America(USA) with 18 titles in total

Fed Cup is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federation. The competition was known as the Federation Cup until 1995.

Indian wins BRICS-Young Innovator Prize

Indian wins BRICS-Young Innovator Prize

Ravi Prakash, an Indian scholar has won the 25,000 US Dollar BRICS-Young Innovator Prize for inventing an affordable indigenous milk chilling unit for smaller and marginal rural dairy farmers.

Prakash, PhD scholar of ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), Bengaluru, was a part of 21-member delegation sent to Brazil by the Department of Science and Technology for the 4th BRICS-Young Scientist Forum (YSF), 2019.

this technology can be used for chilling milk from the point of production by bringing down the temperature of raw milk from 37°C to 7°C within 30 minutes. It uses nano-fluid based phase change materials.


the creation of a BRICS YSF gathered unanimous support and endorsement by the BRICS Science, Technology and Innovation Ministers in Brasilia, in March 2015.

Second Ebola vaccine will be offered to around 50,000 people in Congo

Second Ebola vaccine will  be offered to around 50,000 people in Congo

A second Ebola vaccine is to be offered to around 50,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as part of a major clinical trial.

The vaccine will be used alongside a one-dose vaccine made by Merck, which has already been given to around 250,000 people.

Merck's jab has now been approved by the World Health Organization. The European Commission has also approved the vaccine.

More than 2,100 people have died in DR Congo, in the second-largest Ebola outbreak on record.

The vaccine, which requires two doses given 56 days apart, will be available to adults and children over one, living in two areas of the DR Congo city of Goma.

World Para Athletics Championships

World Para Athletics Championships

The 2019 World Para Athletics Championships is an ongoing Paralympic track and field meet organized by the World Para Athletics subcommittee of the International Paralympic Committee.

 It is being held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on 7–15 November, 2019.

It is the 9th edition of the event, formerly known as the IPC Athletics World Championship prior to 2017.

The 2019 World Para Athletics Championships serves as a qualifier for all track and field events for the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Dhaka Global Dialogue Starts

Dhaka Global Dialogue Starts

 Bangladesh inaugurated the first edition of the three day long Dhaka Global Dialogue.

A large number of scholars, policy makers, strategic experts, law makers and industry leaders and  professionals of various fields are participating in the event.

The three day long programme is being jointly organised by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) and the Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS). 

Over 150 delegates from 50 countries  are participating in the conference to discuss some of the most pressing global imperatives in the context of the Indo-pacific region.

Brazil hosting its 2nd BRICS summit from 13th to 14th November

Brazil hosting its 2nd BRICS summit from 13th to 14th November

Brazil is hosting 2019 BRICS summit, this time in capital Brasilia from 13th to 14th November.

BRICS brings together five major economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa having 23 percent of the global GDP and around 17 percent of the share in world trade.

It started off primarily with an economic aspect but has now actually diversified into the political, security issues, socio-economic issues, and also people-to-people connections.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will reach Brasilia in the early morning of 13th Nov.

2019 edition of BRICS will be its 11th summit, happening every year since its inception.

Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth won in the election

Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth won  in the election

In Mauritius, Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth claimed victory in the election

Pravind Kumar Jugnauth MP Esq. is a Mauritian politician who is the Prime Minister of Mauritius since 2017, and also holds another portfolio as Minister of Finance.

Mauritius, an Indian Ocean island nation, is known for its beaches, lagoons and reefs.

Capital: Port Louis
Currency: Mauritian rupee

India will host 2023 Men's Hockey World Cup

India will host 2023 Men's Hockey World Cup

India will host the 2023 Men's Hockey World Cup from 13th to 29th of January.

Making this announcement today, the International Hockey Federation (FIH) said India will play host to the men's tournament while Spain and the Netherlands have been named as the co-hosts of the 2022 Women's World Cup scheduled to be held from 1st to 22nd of July.

The decisions were made during FIH's Executive Board Meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland today.

The FIH further said that the venues of both the men's and women's World Cups will be announced by the host nations at a later date.

Rafael Nadal secures No 1 spot for eighth time in his career

Rafael Nadal secures No 1 spot for eighth time in his career

Rafael Nadal is back to the world No. 1 for the eighth time in his career in the ATP rankings released today. The Spaniard goes up one place to overtake Novak Djokovic even though the Serb sealed his fifth Paris Masters title on Sunday with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Canadian Denis Shapovalov.

Nadal, whose last stint at the top ended a year ago on November 4, 2018, withdrew from his semifinal against Shapovalov in Paris. Djokovic slips down the rankings because he loses the points that he won a year ago in London when Nadal was absent.

2-day BIMSTEC Conclave will be held in Visakhapatnam

2-day BIMSTEC Conclave will be held in Visakhapatnam

The two-day BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal initiative multi-sector technical and economic cooperation) Conclave will be held on 7th and 8th November at Visakhapatnam.

Vizag port trust is hosting the conclave first time ever since the formation of BIMSTECH in 1997. Seven-member countries that includes Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Srilanka, Thailand, Nepal, Bhutan are participating in the conference.

The thrust would be to discuss and share experiences in increasing productivity, availing investment opportunities, development of free trade zones, development of tourism and measures required for safety and security.

Ease of doing business, sharing of expertise, and emulation of best practices would be few among the delibrations.

Lewis Hamilton won sixth F1 World Championship at United States Grand Prix

Lewis Hamilton won sixth F1 World Championship at United States Grand Prix

Lewis Hamilton sealed his sixth world drivers' title with second place in the United States Grand Prix.

He becomes the second most successful Formula 1 driver of all time, one championship behind Michael Schumacher.

Hamilton's sixth title has also moved him clear of the legendary Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio.

Hamilton has secured the championship with 10 victories out of the 19 races held so far this season, with two remaining in Brazil and Abu Dhabi.

Biggest US-Bangladesh Navy exercise starts in Chattogram

Biggest US-Bangladesh Navy exercise starts in Chattogram

The second phase of the biggest US- Bangladesh Navy exercise named 'Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT)- 2019' started in Chattogram .

The exercise provides an opportunity to gain a better understanding of the operational activities of the Navies of two countries and to get acquainted with advanced technology through various theoretical and practical training.

The second phase of the exercise is being conducted from 4 to 7 November with different subject-based training and exercise.
 

Lakshya Sen wins SaarLorLux Open badminton tournament in Germany

Lakshya Sen wins SaarLorLux Open badminton tournament in Germany

India's Lakshya Sen has won the SaarLorLux Open badminton tournament at Saarbrücken in Germany.

He defeated Sen Weng Hong Yang of China in an exciting final last night.

World number 51 Lakshya took 59 minutes to overcome Weng in the summit clash.

he had entered the final beating Kiran George in an all-Indian semifinal.

South Africa defeat England to lift Rugby World Cup

South Africa defeat England to lift Rugby World Cup

South Africa lifted the Rugby World Cup a record-equalling third time, after a convincing 32-12 victory over England on Friday.

Twenty-two points by Handre Pollard and second-half tries from wingers Makazole Mapimpi and Cheslin Kolbe ensured a comfortable win for the Springboks at the International Stadium Yokohama in Japan.

Madrid will host COP 25 in December

Madrid will host COP 25 in December

The Spanish capital city of Madrid will host the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 25) from 2 to 13 December.

The decision was taken following Chile's stepping down as host for the event due to the ongoing street protests in the South American country.

This was confirmed by the executive secretary for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Patricia Espinosa in a tweet posted yesterday.     

The decision came just a day after the acting Spanish government issued a communique on Thursday indicating Spain would be willing to host the conference. 

The annual Conference of the Parties (COP) summit is a key event which allows representatives from around 200 nations to monitor and discuss the current situation of the world's warming climate.  

US House of Representatives passed resolution to proceed with impeachment inquiry against Prez Trump

US House of Representatives passed resolution to proceed with impeachment inquiry against Prez Trump


The US House of Representatives has passed a resolution to formally proceed with the Democrat-led impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.

The resolution sets the stage for the next phase of investigation into a whistleblower's complaint which alleges that the US President attempted to pressure Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 presidential elections by investigating the family of his potential political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden.

The vote, 232-196, was largely along party lines. No Republican supported the resolution, while Independent Justin Amash of Michigan, who left the Republican party earlier this year, voted in favour.

This was the first formal vote on the new impeachment process by the House of Representatives after Speaker Nancy Pelosi had backed the need for an inquiry against the US President last month.