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Creative City… Chennai India's Chennai has been included in the list of 64

Creative cities list, chosen by the UNESCO. In total 64 cities

from 44 countries have been designated as UNESCO Creative

Cities. They join a Network at the frontline of UNESCO's efforts to foster

innovation and creativity as key drivers for a more sustainable and inclusive urban

development. The UNESCO Creative Cities Network now counts a total of 180 cities in

72 countries. Chennai has been listed in

UNESCO's Creative Cities Network for its contribution to music.

Chennai is the third Indian city on the list of UNESCO

Creative Cities after Jaipur and Varanasi.

India

re-elected to UNESCO

Executive Board

India is re-elected a member of the

UNESCO's executive board, its top

decision-making body. The election was

held at the 39th session of the General

Conference of the UNESCO in Paris, France.

The General Conference consists of the

representatives of the States Members

of the organization.

Each country has one vote.

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NationalNationalIndian short film ‘The School Bag’wins award in Montreal: Indian shortfilm ‘The School Bag’, which tells astory based in Pakistan, has won the

BestShortFilmAward atthe SouthAsianFilm

Festival of Montreal (SAFFM). Themovie’s plot is based in Peshawar andtells a story about the relationshipbetween a mother and her seven-year-old son who wants a new school bagon his birthday, but fate hassomething else in store for him. Thefilm recreates events that happened in

Peshawar in December 2014 whenterrorists mowed down hundreds ofschoolchildren.

India’s 2nd Technology andInnovation Support Centre to comeup soon in Chennai : UnionGovernment of India inked anagreement with Chennai’s AnnaUniversity in order to establish India’ssecond Technology and InnovationSupport Center (TISC). This would bedone under the World IntellectualProperty Organization’s (WIPO) TISCprogram.

The main objective of the TISC is tostimulate a dynamic, vibrant andbalanced Intellectual Property Rights

(IPRs)system inIndia tofostercreativityandinnovation,

thereby promoting entrepreneurshipand enhancing social, economic andcultural development by establishinga network of TISCs in India. India’sfirst Technology and Innovation

InternationalInternationalIndian names appeared in paradisepapers leak: Almost eighteen monthsafter Panama Papers leak, anothermassive trove of secret financial datahas been leaked by the InternationalConsortium of InvestigativeJournalists (ICIJ). The financial dataon how big corporates and ultra-richindividuals moved money to and from19 tax havens to evade taxes wasinitially obtained by Germannewspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung. Theleak, called the Paradise Papers,contains 13.4 million documents fromtwo leading firms in offshore finance.India ranks 19th out of 180 countriesin terms of the number of names inthe offshore data leak. A total of 714Indians have been named.

Indians in the list: Indians who figurein Paradise Papers include Bollywoodstar Amitabh Bachchan, defaulterbusinessman Vijay Mallya, corporatelobbyist Niira Radia, film star SanjayDutt’s wife Dilnashin, now known asManyata, Union minister Jayant Sinhaand Rajya Sabha MP R K Sinha.

India formed Multi-agency group:Government has ordered a probe intocases of Paradise Papers by the Multi-Agency Group (MAG) which is alsoprobing the Panama Papers leak. Thereconstituted MAG headed by theChairman of Central Board of DirectTaxes (CBDT) will have representativesfrom ED, RBI and FinancialIntelligence Unit.

UK to exit EU on Mar 29, 2019 at11pm: The UK will leave the European

Union onM a r c h29,2019 at11 pm(localtime),British

Prime Minister Theresa Mayannounced. UK had conducted areferendum in June 2016, whether tocontinue in EU or not. Majority peoplevoted in favour of BREXIT, then Britondecided to invoke Lisbon Article 50 toexit European Union. At present inEuropean Union, total number ofmembers are 28, If UK exists, it comesdown to 27.

BilateralBilateralKolkata-Khulna train service flaggedoff: A new passenger train servicebetween Kolkata and Bangladesh’ssouthwestern industrial city of Khulnawas on 9th November flagged off by

Support Center (TISC) is at PatentInformation Centre, Punjab, under theWorld Intellectual PropertyOrganization’s (WIPO) TISCprogram.

Cabinet approves appointment ofSecond National Judicial PayCommission : The Union Cabinetchaired by the Prime MinisterNarendra Modi has approvedappointment of Second NationalJudicial Pay Commission (SNJPC) forSubordinate Judiciary in the country.

The Commission is to be headed byJustice (Retd.J P.Venkatrama Reddi,former Judge of Supreme Court ofIndia. Shri R. Basant, a former Judgeof the Kerala High Court is a Memberof the Commission. The Commissionwill make its recommendations to theState Governments preferably withina period of 18 months.

It will examine the present structureof emoluments and conditions ofservice of Judicial Officers in the Statesand UTs. The recommendations of theCommission will help in promotingefficiency in Judicial Administration.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, hisBangladesh counterpart SheikhHasina and the West Bengal chiefminister. The three leaders launchedthe train through video conference.

They also inaugurated railway bridgesover rivers Meghna and Titas on themain Chittagong to Dhaka trunk railline in Bangladesh.

The fully air-conditioned weeklypassenger train service ‘BandhanExpress’ will run every Thursday fromboth Kolkata and Khulna.

Railway passenger and freight servicesbetween India and the erstwhile EastPakistan, which had continued afterIndependence and formation ofPakistan in 1947, were snappedduring the 1965 war.

India has extended soft loans worthUSD eight billion to Bangladesh fordifferent development projects, whichincluded the two bridges that wereinaugurated on 9th November.

Cabinet nod DTA pact with HongKong: The Union Cabinet on the 10th,November approved an agreementbetween India and the Hong KongSpecial Administrative Region(HKSAR) of China for the Avoidance ofDouble Taxation and the Preventionof FiscalEvasionwithrespect totaxes onincome.

This isexpected to augment flow ofinvestment, technology and personnelfrom India to HKSAR and vice versa,prevent double taxation and providefor exchange of information.

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EconomyEconomyIndia to contribute $100 million toUN development fund: India haspledged an additional 100 million USDollar towards the UN partnershipfund, significantly scaling up itssupport to sustainable developmentprojects across the developingworld. This contribution would be inaddition to India’s contribution of10.582 million US dollar to variousother UN programmes. 

Tax rate on daily use items reducedto 18% from 28%: Tax rates on over200 items, ranging from chewing gumto chocolates, to beauty products, wigsand wrist watches, were on 10 th

November cut to provide relief toconsumers and businesses amideconomic slowdown.

As many as 178 items of daily use wereshifted from the top tax bracket of 28per cent to 18 per cent, while a uniform5 per cent tax was prescribed for allrestaurants, both AC and non-AC,Finance Minister Arun Jaitley saidafter the GST Council meeting.

Currently, 12 per cent GST on food billis levied in non-AC restaurants and18 per cent in air-conditioned ones.

The all-powerful GST Council prunedthe list of items in the top 28 per centGoods and Services Tax (GST) slab tojust 50 from current 228. So, onlyluxury goods are now only in highesttax bracket and items of daily use areshifted to 18 per cent.

PM’s council sets out roadmap forskill development, job creation: TheEconomic Advisory Council to thePrime Minister in its second meetinglaid out a roadmap for stepping upskill development, job creation;enhanced resource investment in thesocial sector, including for health andeducation, and boosting infrastructurefinancing. The head of the council isBibekDebroy,MemberNITIA a y o g .Thecounci lmet onthe 10th, November. The Council is alsoevolving the design of linking economicgrowth indicators with socialindicators for last mile connectivity.

Approval for National DrinkingWater: The Cabinet gave its approvalon continuing and restructuringNational Rural Drinking WaterProgramme (NRDWP) to make itoutcome-based, competitive and bettermonitored with increased focus onsustainability of schemes to ensuregood quality service delivery to therural population.

Creation of a National Testing Agency(NTA) was also approved by theCabinet as an autonomous and self-sustained premier testing organizationto conduct entrance examinations forhigher educational institutions. TheNTA will be chaired by an eminenteducationist appointed by MHRD.MHA forms two new divisions tocheck radicalisation, cyber fraud:The Union home ministry now has twonew divisions to exclusively deal withemerging security challenges such asradicalisation and cyber crime. Thededicated wings, to be called thecounter-terrorism and counter-radicalisation (CTCR) division andcyber and information security (CIS)division have been created as part ofan administrative rejig of the ministrythat also includes merger of some ofits existing divisions.

While the CTCR wing, which isbasically modified version of the homeministry’s internal security-II (IS-II)division, will focus on tracking andassessing the online reach of globalterrorist outfits like the Islamic Stateand devising strategies to counter theirpropaganda, the cyber securitydivision will monitor online crimes andthreats, including cyber fraudand hacking, and suggest ways tominimise and fight them.

Science & TechnologyScience & TechnologyIndia successfully tests its firstnuclear-capable cruise missile: Indiaon the 7 th, November 2017,successfully fl ight-tested itsindigenous Nirbhay (the fearless) land-attackcruisemissile,whichcand e l i v e rn u c l e a rwarheadsto a strike range of 1,000-km.

The sub-sonic missile, designed tocarry a 300-kg nuclear warhead, hadfailed during its first test in March2013. Though the second test inOctober 2014 was a partial success,the third and fourth tests in October2015 and December 2016 also flopped,leading to talk that the project mayhave to be scrapped.

EnvironmentEnvironmentAir Pollution reached alarm level inDelhi: Air pollution in Delhi reachedseveral levels forcing theimplementation of stringent emissioncontrol measures and healthprecautions including the closure ofprimaryschools. A combination ofsmoke from stubble burning inPunjab and Haryana and moistureturned Delhi in to gas chamber.According to the central pollutioncontrol board, the air quality index was448 making it severe –worst category.The National Green Tribunal hasissued a slew of directions to deal withthe situation in Delhi, includingbanning construction and

industrialactivitiesand entryof trucks,whilelambastingthe Delhigovernment

and civic bodies over the worsening airquality in Delhi and neighbouringstates.

Centre formed Panel: The UnionEnvironment Ministry on the 9 th,November, 2017 set up a seven-member committee to monitor short-term and long-term measures beingimplemented to combat air pollutionin the national capital where airpollutants have touched calamitouslevels in the past few days. TheMinistry held a high-level meeting withall regulators and decided to requestrespective State Governments to fullyimplement the Graded ResponseAction Plan (GRAP). Among theGraded Response Action Plan (GRAP)are control of road and constructiondust, garbage burning, control ofpower plants and industrial emissions,entry of vehicles and several otherrelated factors.

Committee will be headed byEnvironment Secretary CK Mishra.Secretaries of Science and Technologyand Biotechnology Department will bethe members of the panel beside DelhiChief Secretary, Additional SecretaryNiti Aayog, Chairman of CentralPollution Control Board andrepresentative of Vidhi Centre for LegalPolicy.

UN Climate summit in Germany: The23rd meeting of the Conference of Parties(COP) of the United Nations FrameworkConvention on Climate Change(UNFCCC) began in Bonn. Indiaconsiders climate change a “majorthreat” and will play a “constructive” rolein combating it, Environment MinisterHarsh Vardhan on the 7th, November,2017 said at the UN climate summitwhich kicked off in Bonn, Germany, onthe 7th, November, 2017 under theshadow of the recent US pullout fromthe historic Paris Agreement. In thesummit, India called for early time-boundratification of second commitment periodof the Kyoto Protocol.

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CONCORD: AGREEMENT OFTHE SUBJECT AND THE VERB

Most of the grammatical errorsoccur when the verb does notagree with the subject.

Often, by what is called the‘Error of Proximity’, the verbis made to agree in number andperson with the subject near itinstead of with its propersubject.

Examples:

1. The cattle is grazing in thefield. (wrong)

The cattle are grazing in thefield. (right)

2. A large number of people isgoing to see this exhibition.(wrong)

A large number of people aregoing to see this exhibition.(right)

In the first example, the subjectof ‘is’ is cattle. Cattle is alwaysplural. Hence its verb shouldalso be plural.

In the second example, thesubject of ‘is’ is people; not ‘alarge number’. The verb ‘is’should agree with ‘people’ andnot ‘a large number’. Since‘people’ is plural the verbshould also be plural.

A verb should agree with itsproper subject in number andperson.

1. Singular and Plural

When the subject in a sentencerefers to one person or a thing,it is said to be a singularsubject. When the subject issingular it takes a singularverb.

Examples:

A boy is mischievous.

A girl is timid.

A child likes to play with toys.

A cat loves comfort.

Bare form of the verbs endingwith ‘s’ are singular. (acts, bats,eats, looks, sleeps, works,comes, sings, dances, wears,etc.)

Bare form of the verbs which donot end with ‘s’ are plural.(act,bat, eat, sleep, work, come,sing, dance, sleep, work, etc.)

Examples:

He who works well, eats welland sleeps well.

(sing’sub’ and sing’verbs)

Those who work well, eat welland sleep well.

(plu’sub’ and plu’verbs)

2. The pronouns ‘I’ and ‘you’ arealways treated as pluralsubjects.

Therefore they always takeplural verbs.

Examples:

I play games every evening.

I read news papers everymorning.

You play games very well andevery one likes you.

You help everybody, thereforeyou are very popular.

3. When the subject in a sentencerefers to more than one personor thing, it is said to be a pluralsubject.

Examples:

Children like to play with toys.

The boys are playing cricket.

4. Indefinite pronouns such asanyone, everyone, everybody,nobody, someone, no one,nobody, etc, are always singularand therefore they always takesingular verbs.

Examples:

Anyone can do this.

Everyone has gone to themarriage celebration.

Someone has stolen my purse.

No one has done the homeworkso far.

Nobody is willing to attend themeeting.

Some of the singular subjectswith their plural forms:

Singular Plural One many

One of the many of the

Each both

Someone some people

No one several

Any one a few

Anybody people

Examples:

One of the students is missing.

Many students are absenttoday.

Each of the sisters is regular tothe class.

One of my friends has won alottery.

Everyone is invited to the party.

5. Words such as some, any, none,and all may be either singularor plural.

Examples:

Some of my friends have come.(plural)

Some of the food is spoiled.(singular)

Have any of your friends beeninvited for the party? (plural)

Has any of the parcels beendispatched? (singular)

None of his friends have cometo the party. (plural)

All these dresses are new.(plural)

All the money is spent on thesedresses. (singular)

6. Compound Subjects

When two subjects are joined bythe conjunction , the subject is

considered to be plural. Thesesubjects are called compoundsubjects.

They always take a plural verb.

Examples:

Shalini and Malini are sisters.

Cool drinks and ice-creamshave been served to the guests.

Cats and dogs always dependon man for their food.

7. Phrases like ‘together with’,‘as well as’ and ‘along with’are not the same as theconjunction ‘and’. The phrasesintroduced by ‘as well as’ or‘along with’ modify the earlierword but it does not make thesubject a compound subject.Hence they agree with theirproper subjects..

Examples:

The Prime Minister as well asthe Defence Minister is visitingthe army camp.

The Governor along with theChief Minister is attending theIndependence day celebrations.

The farmer along with his cattleis drowned in the recent floods.

8. The pronouns ‘neither’ and‘either’ are singular andrequire singular verbs eventhough they seem to bereferring to two things.

Examples:

Neither of the workers is good.

Neither of the men is capable ofdoing this job.

Either of the dresses fits mewell.

Either of the men can do thisjob.

However, in formal writing,‘neither’ and ‘either’sometimes take a plural verbwhen these pronouns arefollowed by a prepositionalphrase beginning with ‘of’.

This particular usage appearsmostly in interrogativeconstructions.

Examples:

Have either of you done thehomework properly?

Are either of you taking thisseriously?

9. The words ‘there’ and ‘here’are not subjects. In sentencesstarting with

‘there’ and ‘here’ the subjectsfollow the verbs but still theydetermine the verbs.

Examples:

There are two pens in yourpouch.

pl ’Verb pl ’sub’

There is only one pen in mypouch.

Sing ’Verb’ sing ’sub’

Here is the bus that goesto Bangalore.

sing ’verb sing ’sub’

Here are the books that youare looking for.

Pl ‘verb’ pl ‘sub’

In the above sentences thoughthe subjects are following theverbs, they are determiningthem.

Though, sometimes, the verb isfar detached from the subject,it still agrees with its subject.

Examples:

a. The soldier, who has beentaken as a prisoner along withother soldiers of the samebattalion, is taken to a prisonin Lahore.

b. The pilot, who resisted thehijackers along with two otherhostesses, has been killed bythe hijackers in the plane.

10. Words such as spectacles,glasses, pants, scissors,trousers, etc, are regarded asplural and therefore alwaystake plural verbs.

Examples:

My spectacles are broken.

My new trousers are missing.

My pants are stained with Holifestive colours.

Scissors are dangerous in thehands of a child.

However, if these words arepreceded by the phrase ‘pairof’, the word ‘pair’ becomes thesubject and takes a singularverb.

Examples:

A new pair of trousers is foundin the dustbin.

A pair of spectacles wascompounded for me yesterday.

A pair of shorts is cheaper thana pair of pants.

11. Some nouns end in ‘s’ andappear to be plural but theyare really singular and requiresingular verbs.

Examples:

Measles is an infectiousdisease.

No news is good news.

12. Phrases like ‘half of’, ‘a pairof’, ‘a percentage of’, ‘amajority of’, etc, aresometimes singular andsometimes plural dependingof the meaning.

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Examples:

One-third of the jobs arereserved for women.

Plural ’sub’ plural ’verb

One-third of the Germanpopulation was lost in theSecond World War.

Sing ’sub’ sing ’verb

A large part of the army isplaced at the border.

Sing ‘sub’ sing ’verb

Fifty percent of the population isin favour of the new educationpolicy

Sing’ sub’ sing’ verb

1. If a compound subject consistsof one negative and one positivesubject and one is plural andthe other is singular, the verbshould agree with the positivesubject.

Examples:

It is the students not theprincipal who elect theirleaders.

Plural sub’ plural verb

It was the minister not themembers who has raised theissue.

Sing’ sub’ sing’ verb

2. The indefinite pronoun ‘none’can be either singular or pluraland can take a singular orplural verb.

Examples:

None of the students havecome to the class. (none isplural)

None of the computers isworking. (none is singular)

3. ‘Each’ is always followed by aprepositional phrase ending inplural but ‘each’ is singular andalways takes a singular verb.

Examples:

Each of the horses is ready forthe race.

Each of our teachers is readyto work with the students in thecamp.

4. If a sentence has two subjectsone of which is singular and theother is plural, the verb agreeswith the nearest noun.

Examples:

Either the chairman or themembers are to be heldresponsible for the corruption.

Either the trade unions or themanagement is responsible forthe loss of the company.

17. Use of ‘Do’ and ‘does’.

‘Do’ is used for plural subjectand ‘does’ is used for singularsubject in the present tense.But both of them take ‘did’ inthe past tense.

Examples:

Do you agree with me?

No, I don’t.

Does he like coffee?

No, he doesn’t.

Did the minister agree to theproposal?

No, he didn’t.

Did the members of theassembly agree with theminister?

No, they didn’t?

Exercise on The Agreement ofThe Verb With The Subject

In each of the fol lowingquestions, a sentence/ a part ofthe sentence is printed in bold.Four alternatives are given tothe bold part at (a), (b) and (c)which wil l improve thesentence. Choose the correctalternative corresponding to it.In case no improvement isneeded, choose (d),i.e., Noimprovement.

1. To take pay and then not to dowork is dishonest.

(a) are dishonest.

(b) were dishonest.

(c) might be dishonest.

(d) No improvement

2. The cost of all these articles hasrisen.

(a) articles have risen.

(b) articles had risen.

(c) articles will risen.

(d) No improvement

3. The jury are divided in theiropinions.

(a) The jury is divided in theiropinions.

(b) The jury are divided in itsopinions.

(c) The jury will be divided in itsopinions.

(d) No improvement

4. That night every one of the boat’screw are down with fever.

(a) is down with fever

(b) were down with fever

(c) was down with fever

(d) No improvement

5. One or the other of thosefellows has stolen the watch.

(a) those fellows have stolen thewatch.

(b) those fellows were stolen thewatch.

(c) those fellows was stolen thewatch.

(d) No improvement

6. The strain of all the difficultiesand vexations and anxietieswere more than he couldbear.

(a) anxieties was more than hecould bear.

(b) anxieties is more than hecould bear.

(c) anxieties had been more thanhe could bear.

(d) No improvement

7. No news is good news.

(a) No news are good news.

(b) No news were good news.

(c) No news was be good news.

(d) No improvement

8. The accountant and thecashier has absconded.

(a) the cashier have absconded.

(b) the cashier is absconded.

(c) the cashier were absconded.

(d) No improvement

9. I have a black and white sheepand they are very dear to me.

(a) sheep and they were

(b) sheep and it is

(c) sheep and it was

(d) No improvement

10. The Three Musketeers werewritten by Dumas.

(a) The Three Musketeers waswritten by Dumas.

(b) The Three Musketeers havebeen written down byDumas.

(c) The Three Musketeers wroteDumas.

(d) No improvement

11. Each of the boys havereceived a prize, isn’t it?

(a) Each of the boys has receiveda prize, isn’t it?

(b) Each of the boys has receiveda prize, hasn’t he?

(c) Each of the boys werereceived a prize, weren’t they?

(d) No improvement

12. Bacon and eggs are thewholesome breakfast of anEnglish man.

(a) Bacon and eggs were thewholesome breakfast

(b) Bacon and eggs is thewholesome breakfast

(c) Bacon and eggs be thewholesome breakfast

(d) No improvement

13. The C M along with thesecretaries are going toattend the meeting.

(a) secretaries is going to attendthe meeting.

(b) secretaries are going in toattend the meeting.

(c) secretaries are to attend themeeting.

(d) No improvement

14. Evereyday your cattle isgrazing in my field.

(a) grazing in my field.

(b) are grazing in my field.

(c) graze in my field.

(d) No improvement

15. Two thirds of the city isaffected by malaria.

(a) Two thirds of the city areaffected by malaria.

(b) Two thirds of the city’s isaffected by malaria.

(c) Two thirds of the city wereaffected by malaria.

(d) No improvement

16. All the questions in this bookare highly complicated.

(a) this book is highlycomplicated.

(b) this book were highlycomplicated.

(c) this book highly complicated.

(d) No improvement

17. Neither Leela, nor Vanaja, noreven the twin girls is presentin the class.

(a) will be present in the class.

(b) are present in the class.

(c) present in the class.

(d) No improvement

18. I am a fool to say that, isn’tit?

(a) amn’t I ?

(b) amn’t it?

(c) aren’t I ?

(d) No improvement

19. Your problems haven’t beenredressed, haven’t been?

(a) haven’t they?

(b) have they been?

(c) haven’t been they?

(d) No improvement

20. Either the manager or theworkers is creating theproblem.

(a) workers are creating theproblem.

(b) workers have been creatingthe problem.

(c) workers created creating theproblem.

(d) No improvement

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TELANGANATELANGANARegistration responsibilities toTehsildars: The state Government hasdecided to give Registrationresponsabilities to Tahsildars. Thegovernment wants to continue 141

ANDHRA PRADESHANDHRA PRADESHAP Science Congress in Vizag:According to State Minister GhantaChakrapani, the Government hasdecided to allocate Rs 4 cr for thedevelopment of Science andTechnology in the state. On November7th, the Andhra Pradesh Academy ofScience Congress summit was held inVizag.

Rs 369 crore released for state: Inorder to fill the Revenue deficit, UnionGovernment has released Rs 369 crore

to Andhra Pradesh. On therecommendation of 14 th FinanceCommission in India 9 states havereceived deficit amount, as a part ofit. AP has also got the amount.

Coasta Merina in Amaravathi:Andhra Pradesh Government hasdecided to establish a large touristcentre in Venkata Palem, near to StateCapital Amaravathi. Shippingindustry, training centre, light house,Food Courts, Beach Volley ball courtsetc… will be established here. TheGovernment named it as the CoastaMarina.

Petro Institute in Vizag: The stategovernment has allocated 201.8 acresfor Indian Institute of Petroleum andEnergy. The Institute is to come up inVangalli village of Visakhapatnamdistrict.

Special fund for Polavaram: Forimmediate requirements of Polavaram,a fund with Rs 150 crore was created

byStateGovt. Thisfund willbemonitoredby

Superintendent of Polavaram andimmediate requirements of project willbe met by using this amount.

Sub-Registrar of fices and 443Tahsildars in the state will get theadditional responsibil ity ofRegistration. The responsibility ofregistration of Lands (Mutation) afterpurchasing , earlier was with RDO,now state has decided it to give toTahsildars.

Telangana Government will waiveweavers : Telangana has waived theloans of Weavers. 2467 weavercommunities will get benefit from thisdecision. Loans up to Rs 1 lakhborrowed from nationalised banks andDistrict Cooperative Central Banks(DCCBs)  from June 1, 2014. to March31, 2017 are waived.

Oggu Katha artiste Chukka Sattaiahpasses away: Oggu Katha performer,who brought national recognition tothe traditional Telangana folk art and

in the processearned aSangeet NatakAkademi Awardand a Ph.D(honoris causa),

ChukkaSattaiah passed away at hisnative Manikyapuram village inLingala Ghanpur in the Janagaondistrict on the 9th, November, 2017.

Free 24 hour power supply tofarmers: Telangana Government hasdecided to supply 24 hours powersupply for farmers, it will beimplemented from March-April 2018,but this was launched on experimentalbasis from 6th November onwards.

GI Tag for Pochampalli Ikkat Saries:Ikkat Sarees of Pochampally has got

Geographical Identification fromIndian Patent office. The articles or theagricultural products exclusive to ageographical area will be given thepatent rights. Apart from Ikkat sareesof Pochampally, this indication wasgiven to- Tulapanji Rice and Gobindbogh rice (West Bengal), ChakesinghShawl (Nagaland), BanginapallyMango and Etikoppaka toys and Durgirock statues.

Logistics Park in Rangareddydistrict: The state government hasmade proposals to establish a modelplastic park in 200 acres inChandanvelly, of Sahbadh Mandal,Rangareddy district. All the PlasticIndustries in Hyderabad will be shiftedto Plastic Park. Greel Plastic park in100 acres in Mankhal-Tummaluru isalso under plan

NCR Corporation and ResearchCentre in Hyderabad: ATM Machinesmanufacturer, NCR Corporation,Omni Channels Solutions havedecided to launch State of the artResearch and Development Centre inHyderabad. This will be their firstcentre, out side USA.

Sama Phanindra as State ChiefInnovation Officer: The co-founder ofRed Bus Sama Phanindra has beenappointed as the Chief Innovation CellOfficer. It helps for startup companiesin Telangana at ground level.

Gurajada Culture Award to SP Balu:

Legend singer SP Bala Subraha-manyam has beenchosen for theGurajada Cultureaward. OnNovember 30th,

the award will be presented to him.

Telugu Dishes on Stamps: The PostalDepartment has decided to releasestamps on 24 Indian dishes. FourDishes belong to Telugu States.Tirumala Laddu, Idly-Dosha, Pongaland also famous Hyderabad Biryaniare also included in the list. In Persianlanguage, Biryani means fried onion

Life time achievement award forBrahmanandam: Popular comedyactor, Brahmandam, has beenconferred Life time achievement awardby DelhiTeluguUniversity.OtherActors whogotPrathibhaAwards are Murali Mohan, TanikellaBarani, and Sai Kumar.

Science Forensic Labs in all districts:The state Government has decided toestablish 18 Forensic Labs in Urbanplaces in the state. Each will cost Rs1.5 crore, and in state Rs 27 croreamount is need to establish these labs.

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SportsSportsIndian women’s hockey team liftsAsia Cup title: India won the Asia Cup

to securequalificationin nextyear’s hockeyWorld Cup.In the finalmatch India

defeated China on the 5th November.The 2017 Women’s Hockey AsiaCup was the ninth Hockey AsiaCup for women. It was held from 28

October to 5 November 2017 in Japan.The 2018 Women’s Hockey WorldCup will be the 14th edition ofthe Women’s Hockey World Cup. It isscheduled to be held from 21 July to5 August 2018, in London.

India triumph in series against NewZealand: India beat New Zealand bysix runs in the ThiruvananthapuramT20 to win the three-match series2-1. In the series, first match was wonby India and the second one by NewZealand. Jasprit Bumrah was declaredthe Man of the Match and also Man ofthe series.

Mary Kom wins: Mary Kom won herfifth goldmedal in48 kgcategoryinAsianWomen’sBoxing

Championships at Ho Chi Minh Cityin Vietnam on the 8th, November.

H.S. Prannoy, Saina Nehwal winnational titles: H.S. Prannoy defeatedKidambi Srikanth in final to claim themen’s singles title at the 82nd SeniorNational Championship in Nagpur on8th November. Saina Nahwal clinchesthe women’s singles title beatingP.V.Sindhu in straight sets at the 82nd

Senior National Championship inNagpur.

Hasmukh Adhia: The appointmentscommittee of the cabinet on 6 th

November named revenue secretaryHasmukhAdhia asthe newfinancesecretary.Adhia, a1981batch IAS(Indian Administrative Service) officerof Gujarat cadre.

Amitabh Kant: NITI Aayog  CEO Amitabh Kant has replaced SubhashChandra Garg, secretary in thedepartment of economic affairs, on theboard of the National HighwaysAuthority of India (NHAI).

Sanjeev Kaushik: Sanjeev Kaushik, aKerala cadre IAS officer, has beenappointed as SEBI whole-time Member.

AwardsAwardsDhaliwal: Dr MS Dhaliwal, AdditionalDirector of Research (Horticulture andFood Science), Punjab AgriculturalUniversity (PAU), has been honouredwith ‘Dr Kirti Singh Gold Medal -2017’by the Horticultural Society of India forhis contributions to the vegetablescience.

1. Context: Union Government ofIndia inked an agreement withChennai’s Anna University in orderto establish India’s secondTechnology and InnovationSupport Center (TISC).The Department of Industrial Policyand Promotion (DIPP), Ministry ofCommerce & Industry, Govt. ofIndia, has signed an Institutionalagreement with Anna University toestablish India’s secondTechnology and InnovationSupport Center (TISC) at the Centrefor Intellectual Property Rights(CIPR), Anna University, Chennai,under the World IntellectualProperty Organization’s (WIPO)TISC program.  WIPO’s Technologyand Innovation Support Center(TISC) program provides innovatorsin developing countries with accessto locally based, high qualitytechnology information and relatedservices, helping them to exploit

their innovative potential and tocreate, protect, and manage theirIntellectual Property Rights (IPRs). 

2. Context: The Union Cabinet on10 th November approved anagreement between India and theHong Kong Special AdministrativeRegion (HKSAR) of China for theavoidance of Double Taxation andthe Prevention of Fiscal Evasionwith respect to taxes on income.

Double Taxation AvoidanceAgreement (DTAA) also referred asTax Treaty is a bilateral economicagreement between two nationsthat aims to avoid or eliminatedouble taxation of the same incomein two countries.

3. India’s Chennai has been includedin the list of 64 Creative cities list,chosen by the UNESCO. In total 64cities from 44 countries have beendesignated as UNESCO CreativeCities.

The United Nations Educational,Scientif ic and CulturalOrganization is responsible for

coordinating internationalcooperation in education, science,culture and communication. Itstrengthens the ties betweennations and socie ties, andmobilizes the wider public so thateach child and citizen will get thebenefit. Its head quarters is inParis, France. It was establishedon 16th November, 1945.

4. Context: In the Conference ofParties Summit, India called forearly time-bound ratification ofsecond commitment period of theKyoto Protocol.

The Kyoto Protocol was anagreement negotiated by manycountries in December 1997 andcame into force with Russia’sratification on February 16, 2005.The reason for the lengthy timespan between the terms ofagreement being settled upon andthe protocol being engaged was dueto terms of Kyoto requiring at least55 parties to ratify the agreementand for the total of those parties

emissions to be at least 55% ofglobal production of greenhousegases. The protocol was developedunder the UNFCCC, the UnitedNations Framework Convention onClimate Change.

5. Context: The GST Council hasdecided to reduce GST slab rates.Now the council has decided tokeep only 50 luxury goods in the28% slab.In order to implement GST,Constitutional Amendment Bill wasintroduced in the Parliament andpassed by Parliament of India. Sincethen the GST council and beennotified bringing into existence theConstitutional body to decide issuesrelating to GST. As per Article 279A(1) of the amended Constitution, theGST Council has to be constitutedby the President within 60 days ofthe commencement of Article 279A.As per Article 279A of the amendedConstitution, the GST Councilwhich will be a joint forum of theCentre and the States.

November 5th: US President DonaldTrump began a visit to Asia on landingin Japan to underscore UScommitment to a region that his

administration is increasingly referringto as the “Indo-Pacific”— somethingChina is watching with increasingweariness.

November 6th: India bagged 16 medalsincluding four gold at the ongoingCommon wealth ShootingChampionships in Gold Coast, Australia.

November 7th: India successfullyflight-tested its indigenous Nirbhay(the fearless) land-attack cruisemissile, which can deliver nuclearwarheads to a strike range of 1,000-km, after a string of failures sinceMarch 2013.

November 8th: Mary Kom won her fifthgold medal in 48 kg category in AsianWomen’s Boxing Championships at HoChi Minh City in Vietnam.

November 9th: A new passenger trainservice between Kolkata andBangladesh’s southwestern industrialcity of Khulna was flagged off by PrimeMinister Narendra Modi, hisBangladesh counterpart SheikhHasina and the West Bengal chiefminister. The three leaders launchedthe train through video conference

November 10th: The Union Cabinetchaired by the Prime MinisterNarendra Modi has approvedappointment of Second NationalJudicial Pay Commission (SNJPC) forSubordinate Judiciary in the country

November 11th: US President DonaldTrump and Russian President VladimirPutin informally met on the sidelinesof a regional economic summit inVietnam and agreed to an extensivestatement on the conflict in Syria.

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- Karishma Maddela - Asst. Enforcement Officer

- Patil Anil Kumar Reddy, Deputy Jailer (A.P)

- Tulasi Chowdary, Tax Asst. CBDT

- R. Obul Reddy, Income Tax Inspector