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PM Modi inaugurates Global Investors’ Meet in Himachal, pushes for investment

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the two-day Himachal Global Investors Meet in Dharamshala and made a pitch for investment and self employment.

• “Earlier, investors’ summit like these used to happen in just few cities in the country. The situation has changed today. Every state today is competing to attract business and investment,” he said at the event held in Dharamshala.

• The prime minister said that the rise in competition among states will help Indian industry grow at the global level.

ADB to give $451 mn for Chennai-Kanyakumari Industrial Corridor power links

• The Asian Development Bank said it will provide a $451 million (about Rs 3,200 crore) loan to strengthen power connectivity between the southern and northern parts of the Chennai-Kanyakumari Industrial Corridor (CKIC) in Tamil Nadu.

• The total cost of the project is $653.5 million, of which the government will provide $202.5 million, the Manila- headquartered multilateral agency said in a release.

• The estimated completion date is the end of 2024.

• ADB has been assisting in developing CKIC, which covers 23 of the state’s 32 districts and 70 per cent of the state population.

Odisha government signs pact with Tata Strive, Tech Mahindra for skill upgradation

• The Odisha state government signed agreements with Tata Strive and Tech Mahindra to add new dimensions in skilling and employability of the youth.

• The agreement between Directorate of Technical Education and Training and Tata Strive is aimed at imparting life skills to the students of all 49 government Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) in the state.

• The pact between Tech Mahindra and the Biju Patnaik University of Technology will see setting up of a centre for excellence in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

• It will work on the proof of concept for real-life business problems to keep up with the market demand and enhance employability of engineering students.

• Tech Mahindra and the Odisha Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation will also set up international business processing outsourcing (BPO) operations for Fortune 500 customers.

Sports

Asian Shooting Championships: Manu Bhaker Shoots Gold After Deepak Kumar Bags Olympic Quota

• Deepak Kumar secured India’s 10th Olympic quota in shooting while Manu Bhaker claimed the women’s 10m air pistol gold medal in the 14th Asian Championship.

• Deepak won bronze medal in men’s 10m air rifle on the opening day of the championship.

• China’s Qian wang and Ranxin Jiang won the silver and bronze respectively in Bhaker’s event.

• The Indian trio claimed the team bronze with a total of 1731, behind Korea and China respectively.

International

China is world’s worst abuser of internet freedom: Freedom on Net 2019 report

• China was ranked as the world’s worst abuser of internet freedom for the fourth consecutive year and Pakistan was declared as ‘not free’ in terms of internet freedom status for the ninth consecutive year in the Freedom on the Net (FoTN) report 2019.

• The Freedom on the Net report 2019 titled ‘The Crisis of Social Media’ was released by an international internet watchdog, the Freedom House on November 5, 2019. The report recorded an overall decline in global internet freedom status between July 2018 and May 2019.

• India was given an overall score of 55 in the report and the internet freedom status in the country was reported to be ‘partly free’.

Appointment

Arvind Singh takes over as Airport Authority of India Chairman

• Arvind Singh, a 1988-batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre took charge as the chairman of the Airports Authority of India (AAI).

• Singh replaces Anuj Aggarwal, who had earlier been with the additional charge of AAI chairman

• The AAI, which comes under the Ministry of Civil Aviation, owns and manages more than 100 airports across the country.

• Prior to this appointment, Singh was the additional chief secretary (Energy) of Maharashtra government.

• He also worked as chairman and managing director of Maharashtra State Power Generation Company Limited and Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Company Limited.

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