Current Affairs- 13th November 2022

INDIA

• PM Modi inaugurates Ramagundam Fertilizers & Chemicals Ltd in Telangana
• PM inaugurates onshore facilities of ONGC’s U-field in the KG (Krishna Godavari) basin block in AP
• Public Service Broadcasting Day is celebrated on Nov 12
• National Legal Services Authority observes Legal Services Day on Nov 9
• UGC notifies new regulations on Ph.D. degrees; students completing 4-year undergraduate courses eligible for direct admission
• Rajasthani writers Madhu Kankariya (2021), and Madhav Hada (2022) awarded Bihari Puraskar in Udaipur
• Himachal Pradesh Assembly polls: 98% voter turnout at the world’s highest polling booth (15,256 ft) in Lahaul & Spiti district
• 7th edition of Indo-French air exercise Garuda VII culminates in Jodhpur
• Padma Shri awardee mathematician R. L. Kashyap dies at 84

ECONOMY & CORPORATE

• MSCI includes 6 Indian stocks in its index

WORLD

• India, Cambodia sign four MoUs in areas of culture, wildlife, and health following meeting between Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar and Cambodia’s PM Hun Sen in the capital Phnom Penh
• The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) agrees in principle to admit East Timor as the group’s 11th member at the summit in Phnom Penh
• 9th ASEAN-India Summit organized in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Indian delegation led by Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar
• World Pneumonia Day was observed on Nov 12
• Father of modern election science, Sir David Butler, dies at 98 in the UK; co-invented the swingometer, a graphics device used to show the shift of votes from one party to another
• China launches cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-5 for its Tiangong space station
• The fifth edition of Paris Peace Forum held; theme: “Riding out the multicrisis”

SPORTS

• Asian Boxing Championships in Amman, Jordan: India returns with 12 medals: 4 gold, 2 silver, and 6 bronze
• Greg Barclay of New Zealand re-elected as ICC (International Cricket Council) Chairman for a two-year term