November 2022 : Current Affairs

Launch of Vikram-S rocket

Developed by Skyroot Aerospace, Hyderabad

Category: Small lift launch vehicle

Launch date: 18.11.2022

Launched from: Sriharikota

Type of rocket: Suborbital

Payloads were carried for Space Kidz, BazoomQ and N-Space Tech

Skyroot Aerospace is the first Indian private company to develop rockets.

The mission was titled Prarambh.

Awardees in 53rd IFFI:

• Spanish film ‘I Have Electric Dreams’ directed by Valentina Maurel winning the prestigious ‘Golden Peacock’ for the best film of the festival.
• Vahid Mobasseri, lead actor of ‘No End’, was honoured with Silver Peacock for Best Actor (Male)
• Daniela Marin Navarro, lead Actor of Best Film ‘I Have Electric Dreams’ is honoured with Silver Peacock for Best Actor (Female).
• Iranian writer and director Nader Saeivar gets Silver Peacock for Best Director for No End,
• Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz bagged Special Jury Award for ‘When the Waves are Gone’.
• Award for Best Debut Feature Film of a Director has been snatched by Asimina Proedrou for Behind The Haystack and Praveen Kandregula has received Special Mention for ‘Cinema Bandi’.
• Celebrated Spanish film Director Carlos Saura was honoured with the prestigious Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement award.
• Actor Producer Chiranjeevi Konidela was conferred with the IFFI Indian Film Personality of the Year Award for 2022.

ICC Men's T20 World Cup

Hosts: Australia

From 16 October to 13 November 2022

Number of teams: 16 (Australia, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, England, India, Namibia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies, Ireland, UAE, Netherlands and Zimbabwe

Winners: England

Runners-up: Pakistan

Player of the series: Sam Curran (England)

Most runs: Virat Kohli (296 runs)

Most wickets: Wanindu Hasaranga (15 wickets)

Final match venue: Melbourne

Player of the final match: Sam Curran

Virat Kohli became the first cricketer to score 4000 runs in T20Is

Network Readiness Index 2011

Climate Change Performance Index 2023: Key Highlights:

• In the overall standings, no country ranked first, second or third on the index. Denmark, with a score of 79.61, ranked fourth, followed by Sweden with 73.28 points. India scored 67.35 points.
• India’s ranking in categories: In GHGs, it ranked 9 , Renewable Energy (24 ), and Energy Use (9 ), and on Climate Policy (8 ).
• It should be noted that India ranked at top in the grouping of top 10 emitters. It is followed by Germany and Japan at 2 and 3 positions of this grouping.
• The worst performers in the overall ranking are Iran, Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan. They are particularly weak in renewables and heavily reliant on oil.
• Saudi Arabia is the country with the highest per capita GHG emissions among the G20 nations.

National Sports Awards 2022

a) Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2022

b) Arjuna Awards for outstanding performance in Sports and Games 2022

c) Dronacharya Award for outstanding coaches in Sports and Games 2022

A. Regular Category:

B. Lifetime Category:

d) Dhyan Chand Award for Lifetime achievement in Sports and Games 2022

e) Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar 2022

f) Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy 2022:

• Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar

Important Days in November 2022