Dear Readers, Here we have given the list of Important Weekly Current Affairs of Nov 01st to 07th Nov 2022. Candidates those who are preparing for Upcoming SBI Clerk 2022 and other competitive exams can make use of it.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: IMPORTANT DAYS

• Vigilance Awareness Week is being held this year from October 31 to November 6, 2022, with the theme "Corruption-free India for a Developed Nation."
• Every year, World Vegan Day is celebrated on November 1.
• All Souls' Day 2022 is observed on the 2nd of November 2022.
• World Tsunami Awareness Day 2022 is observed on the 5th of November 2022.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: NATIONAL NEWS

• The foreign minister announced that India will contribute half a million dollars to the UN's efforts to combat international terrorism when new and developing technologies used by terrorist organizations are posing fresh threats to governments worldwide.
• The second Rashtriya Adarsh Veda Vidyalaya (RAVV) in India was opened by the Union Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan in Puri.
• The Union government plans to launch the second phase of a dedicated program to develop solar parks across the country that will aim to plug loopholes and overcome slow progress.
• Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of the C-295 transport aircraft manufacturing plant, in Vadodara, Gujarat.
• The events of Reliance Industries Limited's (RIL) Q2 FY 2022–2023 earnings call were posted on the metaverse.
• Health Minister Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya will inaugurate India Chem 2022 at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi.
• The Supreme Court reiterated its ban on the "two-finger test" in rape cases, warning that those who use such tests will be found guilty of misconduct.
• Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, announced the establishment of an Electronics Manufacturing Cluster in the Maharashtra town of Ranjangaon.
• The Income Tax Department took part in the Special Campaign for Swachhata, a month-long initiative of the Indian government that runs until October 31st, 2022.
• On the occasion of the poet Subramania Bharati's birth anniversary, the committee has suggested that December 11 be observed as "Bharatiya Bhasha Diwas" or "Bharatiya Bhasha Utsav."
• The Collins Dictionary has selected the word "permacrisis" as its word of the year.
• Three of Tata Steel's production sites in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, have achieved ResponsibleSteel accreditation.
• The largest-ever coal mine auction, consisting of 141 mines, was started by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
• Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi delivered a video address at the Global Investors Meet, Invest Karnataka's inaugural event.
• Mangarh Dham in Rajasthan's Banswara District has been designated as a National Monument by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi.
• The first meeting of the National Natural Farming Mission committee was presided over by Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar at Krishi Bhawan.
• The Ministry of Jal Shakti will hold two different sessions of Ganga Utsav- The River Festivals 2022 on November 4th, 2022 at the Major Dhyan Chand Stadium in New Delhi.
• According to the CMIE figures, the unemployment rate increased to 7.77% in October from a four-year low of 6.43% in September.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: INTERNATIONAL NEWS

• The 1st ASEAN-India Start-up Festival (AISF) was inaugurated by Srivari Chandrashekhar, Secretary of, the Department of Science and Technology in Bogor, Indonesia.
• India has entered into a collaboration with the US state of California for research and innovation in the field of zero-emission vehicles to boost the development of its nascent Electrical Vehicle (EV) industry and address climate risks through the California-India ZEV Policy program.
• The United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Adaptation Gap Report 2022 titled “Too Little, Too Slow: Climate adaptation failure puts world at risk”, report has pointed out that global efforts in adaptation planning, its financing and implementation are not keeping pace with the growing risks.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: STATE NEWS

• Gujarati New Year, Vikram Sanvat 2079, or Bestu Varsh was celebrated with traditional zeal and fervour by the Gujarati community across the globe.
• The Union ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MoEFCC) has given its nod to set up Terai Elephant Reserve (TER) under Project Elephant in the Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh (UP).
• The Meghalaya government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises (CGFTMSE) to help facilitate the flow of credit to Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSME) borrowers.
• Jammu and Kashmir, Lieutenant Governor Shri Manoj Sinha inaugurated a three-week-long cultural festival  “Jashn-e-Kashmir”- New Kashmir New Hope, celebrating tradition, culture, and heritage at Srinagar.
• The Kerala govt has launched a ‘women-friendly tourism’ project, an initiative of the State Responsible Tourism Mission (RT Mission).
• The Gujarat government has achieved 100% tap water connections in rural areas under the Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM).

• Fisheries Minister Tage Taki announced that a fish museum, the first of its kind in the Northeast region (NER), would soon be built in Arunachal Pradesh. 

• The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has approved the Greenfield Electronics Manufacturing Cluster (EMC) with a project cost of Rs 492.85 crores to be set up in Ranjangaon Phase III, near Pune in Maharashtra.
• Union Home Minister Shri Amit Shah laid the foundation stone of the Orbital Rail Corridor Project in Faridabad, Haryana. 
• Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Shri Yogi Adityanath inaugurated North India’s first hyper-scale data center Yotta D1, built at the cost of Rs 5,000 crore and spread over an area of 3,00,000 square feet at the upcoming Data Centre Park in Greater Noida.
• Haryana Chief Minister Shri Manohar Lal Khattar launched the “CM dashboard”, a unique IT platform having real-time data of all the departments.
• Goa Chief Minister Shri Pramod Sawant launched the logo of Purple Fest at a function held in Manohar Parrikar Memorial Hall of Sanjay Centre for Education, Porvorim, Goa.
• Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched the state government's flagship 'Ladli Laxmi 2.0' financial assistance scheme to encourage girls to pursue higher education and make them independent.
• Meghalaya Chief Minister (CM) Shri Conrad Sangma has launched the Citizen Engagement and Communication Programme at Tura, West Garo Hills district of
• 106-year-old Shyam Saran Negi, the first voter of Independent India, exercised his right to franchise for the 34th time for the Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections through a postal ballot at his residence in the Kinnaur district.

• Vadodara, Gujarat became the second Indian city to issue a municipal bond with assistance from the United States Treasury Department’s Office of Technical Assistance.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: BUSINESS NEWS

• Malabar Gold and Diamonds, a major retailer of jewelry in India, is the first jeweler to import 25 kg of gold as part of the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between India and the UAE.
• Elon Musk announced that the Twitter Blue Tick service will cost USD 8 per month, which is approximately Rs 660.
• Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM) transactions increased by 7.7 per cent in October to 730 crores using the Unified Payments Interface BHIM-UPI (7.3 Billion).
• The gross GST revenue collected for October 2022 totalled Rs 1,51,718 crore, making it the second-highest monthly collection in history, according to the ministry of finance.
• The Center announced a doubling of the fertilizer subsidy to Rs 2.15 trillion from the planned level for FY23 to protect farmers from the high price increases.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: BANKING AND ECONOMY

• Employee benefits insurance technology Healthysure has partnered ManipalCigna Health Insurance to launch India’s first Flexi top-up insurance which allows employees to personalize and upgrade their corporate health insurance plans.
• Tata AIA Life Insurance Company Limited (Tata AIA) has tied up with Medix, a global company in medical management solutions, to offer consumers access to a local and global network of accredited medical specialists during serious illnesses.
• Leading stock exchange BSE Limited has completed India’s first successful creation, transaction, and settlement of electronic gold receipts (EGRs).
• BSE Technologies Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), launched the Know Your Customer Registration Agency (KYC KRA), which maintains KYC records of investors in an electronic form. 
• India's capital market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) approved the government's proposal to convert dues of over $1.92 billion by telecom operator Vodafone Idea to equity.
• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has commenced India's first Digital Rupee pilot project to implement the central bank digital currency (CBDC) or digital rupee in the wholesale segment.
• HDFC ERGO launched a technology-backed farm yield insurance policy for farmers, a first-of-its-kind insurance solution, where a satellite-based index will be used to provide localized farm-level coverage.
• The Capital and Commodity markets regulator Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) reduced the face value of debt security and non-convertible redeemable preference shares issued on a private placement basis to Rs 1 lakh from the current Rs 10 lakh will be applicable from 1 January 2023.
• The Government of India (GoI) presented USD 2.5 million (the second tranche of a total contribution of US$ 5 million for the Financial Year 2022-2023) to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), to support Palestinian refugees.
• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) imposed a monetary penalty of Rs 5 lakh on LIC Housing Finance Ltd for non-compliance with certain provisions of the National Housing Bank (NHB).
• Zaggle, a profitable SaaS FinTech company and a pioneer in digitizing business spending, has collaborated with National Payments Corp. of India (NPCI) to issue contactless credit cards on the RuPay network.
• South Indian Bank has launched a foreign outward remittance service through the ‘SIB Mirror+’ mobile banking application.
• The Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has raised its stake in Capri Global Capital Limited (CGCL), a non-banking financial company (NBFC) by 2% over the last few months at an investment of ₹257.37 crores.
• The  Bank of India (BoI) launched a special fixed deposit scheme Star Super Triple Seven Fixed Deposit which will offer a 7.25% rate of interest (7.75% for senior citizens) on a deposit for 777 days.
• Aegon Life Insurance Company has launched a traditional insurance policy iGuarantee Max Savings Plan that offers savings and life cover.
• Aviva Life Insurance company has launched the Aviva Protection Plus, a Non-Linked Non-Participating Individual Life Insurance Savings Plan. 
• The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) extended the deadline for implementation of the Rs 25 crore-threshold rule for direct Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) transactions with asset management companies to May 1, 2023.
• The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) in collaboration with India’s two largest stock exchanges the National Stock Exchange and the Bombay Stock Exchange is developing a system to mitigate the risk of cyber attacks.
• Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC Limited, a subsidiary of Aditya Birla Capital Limited and an investment manager to Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund, has launched SAHYOG, an initiative to empower its support staff and their families.
• Bank of Baroda, one of India’s leading banks, and Visa, the global leader in digital payments, launched two new premium Debit Cards for Bank of Baroda customers, bob World Opulence – a super-premium Visa Infinite Debit Card (Metal Edition) & bob World Sapphire – a Visa Signature Debit Card
• Credit card issuers saw significant erosion of their card base during the July-September 2022 quarter as the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) norms mandated the deactivation of cards that have been inactive for a year.
• The leading public sector lender Bank of Baroda (BoB) launched the “Baroda Tiranga Plus Deposit Scheme", with higher standard interest rates of up to 7.50% p.a. for 399 days which includes 0.50% p.a. for senior citizens and 0.25% for non-callable deposits.
• Aditya Birla Health Insurance Co. Limited. (ABHICL), the health insurance subsidiary of Aditya Birla Capital Limited (ABCL), a leading non-bank financial services conglomerate announced its bancassurance partnership with IDFC FIRST Bank, a new-age bank, for the distribution of health insurance products through the Bank’s state-of-the-art digital platform and its wide distribution network.
• Niva Bupa Health Insurance Company Limited (formerly known as Max Bupa Health Insurance Company), has partnered with IDFC First Bank to provide best-in-class health insurance solutions to the bank’s customers.
• Aditya Birla Sun Life Insurance (ABSLI) partnered with Karza Technologies (part of Perfios Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd.) and a few other technology vendors to launch end-to-end onboarding journeys of customers on the WhatsApp platform. 
• Fintech firm Chqbook teamed up with National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) Payments Bank to open a zero-balance digital checking account for small business owners.
• Bayer, Rabo Partnerships, and Mastercard have come together to launch a scalable program to advance the digitization of the Indian agricultural finance ecosystem.
• India Post Payments Bank (IPPB), conducted India’s First Floating Financial Literacy Camp with an initiative called ‘Niveshak Didi’ to promote Financial Literacy ‘By the women, for the women, in Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir (J&K).
• Asian Development Bank (ADB) has announced that it would fund the farm efficiency initiative of Smartchem Technologies Limited (STL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Deepak Fertilisers And Petrochemicals Corporation Limited (DFPCL), through a $30 million loan facility with a tenor of 5 years.

• Unity Small Finance Bank Limited (Unity Bank) has launched Shagun 366, a 1 year, 1 day fixed deposit, promising retail customers an alluring return of 7.80% p.a., while senior citizens will earn 8.30% p.a. for a 366-day tenure.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: AWARDS AND HONOURS

• Infibeam Avenues Limited (IAL), which operates CCAvenue, has received in-principle approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to operate as a payment aggregator (PA).
• Former ISRO Chairman K Sivan, as well as actors Dattanna, Avinash, and Sihi Kahi Chandru, are among the 67 people who will receive the Rajyotsava Award this year from the Karnataka government.
• The Lakshmir Bhandar program of the West Bengali government won the SKOCH award for women and child development.
• Former US Senator Edward M Kennedy was posthumously awarded the prestigious 'Friends of Liberation War honour by Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Dhaka for his contribution to Bangladesh's liberation.
• For the year 2022, 63 police officers from Maharashtra, Delhi, Punjab, Telangana, Jammu, and Kashmir have been awarded the 'Union Home Minister's Special Operation Medal.'
• The Karnataka government presented the late actor with the Karnataka Ratna award.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: APPOINTMENTS & RESIGNATIONS

• Spiritual leader Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (Amma) has been appointed the Chair of the country's Civil 20 (C20), an official engagement group of the Group of 20 (G20), by the union government.

• Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, Dr. Rajesh Ranjan has been appointed as the next Indian Ambassador to the West African nation of Cote d'Ivoire or Ivory Coast.
• Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been elected as the new president of Brazil.
• The Board of Directors of Samsung Electronics approved the appointment of Jay Y. Lee as Executive Chairman of the company.
• The Indian Council of Agricultural Research -Sugarcane Breeding Institute (ICAR - SBI) in Coimbatore has appointed Dr. G. Hemaprabha as the first-ever woman director in its 111-year existence.

• Mr Vetsa Rama Krishna Gupta has taken over the additional charge of Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL).
• Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) has appointed Vishal Kapoor as its chief executive officer (CEO).
• The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has appointed two women officers from its cadre as Inspectors General (IG) of its specialized anti-riots unit RAF and the Bihar Sector, Annie Abraham has been appointed as the IG of the blue duangree donning Rapid Action Force (RAF) while Seema Dhundia has been posted as the IG of the Bihar Sector.
• Industry body Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) announced Subhrakant Panda as its president-elect (2022-23), who is currently serving as FICCI's Senior Vice President.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: MOUS AND AGREEMENT

• 451 Memoranda of Understanding, Transfer of Technology agreements, and product launches took place during the Bandhan ceremony of the 12th DefExpo in Gandhinagar, Gujarat
• A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between FIFA and the All India Football Federation for the "Football4Schools" initiative in India by Union Minister of Education, Skill Development, and Entrepreneurship Shri Dharmendra Pradhan.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: DEFENCE NEWS

• The 12th edition of the prestigious Biennial Defence Exhibition - DefExpo 2022 - India’s flagship exhibition on Land, Naval, and Homeland Security systems held in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, to give impetus to the defense sector.
• Indian Air Force (IAF) and French Air and Space Force (FASF) are participating in a bilateral exercise, named 'Garuda VIl', from 26 October to 12 November 2022 at Air Force Station Jodhpur, Rajasthan.

• The first edition of the India-Mozambique-Tanzania Trilateral Exercise (IMT TRILAT), a joint maritime exercise between Indian, Mozambique, and Tanzania navies commenced at Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania from 27th Oct 2022 to 29th Oct 2022.

• Royal Australian Navy ships HMAS Adelaide and HMAS Anzac arrived in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh (AP) for Exercise ‘Indo-Pacific Endeavour’ (IPE) 2022 with the Indian Navy.
• Defense Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) conducted a successful maiden flight test of Phase-II Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) interceptor AD-1 missile with a large kill altitude bracket from APJ Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha.

• The Indian Army has registered the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) of its new design and camouflage pattern uniform & the new digital pattern combat uniform for Army soldiers was unveiled on Army Day on January 15, 2022.
• Indian Army has approved project sanction orders for five Make -2 projects providing Impetus to Atma Nirbhaarta.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

• Media groups Sony and Zee have voluntarily agreed to sell three Hindi channels Big Magic, Zee Action, and Zee Classic to address possible anti-competition concerns arising out of their proposed mega-merger deal.

• China has launched the space lab module named Mengtian or "Dreaming of the Heavens", taking the construction of the country's space station Tiangong into the final stage.
• An international team of astronomers announced the discovery of a 1.5 kilometre- (0.9 mile) wide asteroid, named 2022 AP7 whose orbit crosses that of Earth, creating a small chance far in the future of a catastrophic collision.
• The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully conducted the qualification test of the Cryogenic Engine for the Gaganyaan program for 720 seconds at ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC), Mahendragiri in Tamil Nadu.

• Radar Imaging Satellite (RISAT-2) launched by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) in 2009, made an uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere at the predicted impact point in the Indian Ocean near Jakarta, Indonesia.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: ACQUISITION AND MERGERS

• Tech giant Google has acquired Alter, an artificial intelligence (AI) avatar startup that was working on using AI to generate avatars for social media users and brands to express their virtual identity

CURRENT AFFAIRS: RANKING & INDEX

• In the 2022 edition of the S&P Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) rankings, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), 'Maharatna' and a Fortune Global 500 Company, once again achieved the 1 rank in the Indian oil and gas sector for its sustainability performance.
• According to the UNHCR in Geneva, 103 million people were forcibly uprooted from their homes in the first half of 2022 as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights abuses, and other situations that seriously disturbed public order.
• The Performance Grading Index (PGI) for 2020–21, a thorough review of the school education system in all 50 states and the Union Territories, was released by the Ministry of Education.
• According to a recent study, when compared to other APAC nations, India has the largest gender wealth gap (64%) at present.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: BOOKS AND AUTHORS

• The new multilingual book "De la Nucléarisation de l'Asie"(Nuclearization of Asia) by French author Rene Naba is available in both French and English

CURRENT AFFAIRS: SPORTS NEWS

• Akanksha Vyavahare, a weightlifter from Maharashtra, set three new national records in the 40kg weight category at the Khelo India National Ranking Women's Weightlifting Tournament.

• In Badminton, the Indian pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty bagged the biggest title of their career, claiming the French Open Super 750 crown with a straight-game decimation of Chinese Taipei's Lu Ching Yao and Yang Po Han in the men's doubles final in Paris.

• Defending champions Spain defeated Colombia in the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup final.
• The Indian junior men's hockey team defeated Australia 5-4 in a shootout at the Taman Daya Hockey Stadium in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, to win the Sultan of Johor Cup 2022.
• Red Bull driver Max Verstappen won the Mexican Grand Prix 2022 for a record-breaking 14th victory of the season.
• Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty of India won the French Open Super 2022 badminton tournament men's doubles title in Paris after defeating Chinese Taipei's Lu Ching Yao and Yang Po Han in straight games 21-13, 21-19.
• Kerala will host the Track Asia Cup Cycling Tournament in 2022.
• Virat Kohli has hit form and is collecting fifties in the ongoing ICC T20 World Cup.

CURRENT AFFAIRS: OBITUARIES

• An eminent artist from Assam, Neel Pawan Baruah passed away at the age of 86 in Gauhati Medical College & Hospital, Assam.
• The former Managing Director of Tata Steel Jamshed J Irani who was also famously known as the ‘Steel Man of India’ passed away at the age of 86 in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand.
• Noted women's rights and micro-finance activist, lawyer, and Padma Bhushan recipient Ela Bhatt passed away at the age of 89 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
• Eminent art critic and scholar in fine arts Vijayakumar Menon Passed away at the age of 76.

• Arunachal Pradesh legislator Jambey Tashi passed away at the age of 48 in Guwahati, Assam.