International Current Affairs-November,2011
Obama
bumped Chinese President Hu Jintao from the No. 1 spot on the magazine’s
annual rankings to the third place with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir
Putin taking the second position.
— Nov 03, Hindustan Times
Pakistan on
Friday said it is not taking any “U-turn” on normalising trade relations
with India and granting the MFN status is a part of that process.
— Nov 04, Hindustan Times
An asteroid
larger than an aircraft carrier will dart between the Earth and Moon on
Tuesday. It will be the closest encounter by such a huge space rock in
35 years.
— Nov 06, Hindustan Times
Former Pakistan
president Pervez Musharraf has said that the country’s nuclear weapons
are very hard targets and can never be attacked by the United States.
— Nov 07, Hindustan Times
Former Libyan
dictator Col Muammar Gaddafi scavenged for food and fled from one
abandoned house to another during his desperate final days in his
hometown of Sirte, one of his top security officials has revealed.
— Nov 08, Hindustan Times
The head of the
International Monetary Fund warned on Wednesday that Europe’s debt
crisis risked plunging the global economy into a “lost decade” and said
it was up to rich nations to shoulder the burden of restoring growth and
confidence.
— Nov 09, Hindustan Times
Ahead of the
two important summits in the Asia Pacific region in the next 10 days,
the White House made it intentions clear that US will continue to be a
strong power in the region and work with key regional partners in this
regard. Manmohan, Obama to meet in Bali
— Nov 10, Hindustan Times
China’s
campaign to stifle dissenters such as artist Ai Weiwei through secret
detentions could come cloaked in a thicker veneer of legality if
proposed crime law changes go through, a prominent rights advocacy group
said on Thursday.
— Nov 11, Hindustan Times
Two Russians
and an American on Monday blasted off for the International Space
Station (ISS) on a Russian rocket from Russia’s Baikonur cosmodrome in
Kazakhstan, an AFP correspondent said.
— Nov 14, Hindustan Times
British Prime
Minister David Cameron has reportedly impersonated the Australian Prime
Minister Julia Gillard during his annual foreign policy speech in
London.
— Nov 15, Hindustan Times
A salvo of
missiles fired by US drones destroyed a Pakistani Taliban base today,
killing up to 18 militants in Pakistan’s tribal badlands on the Afghan
border, officials said.
— Nov 16, Hindustan Times
Julian
Assange’s mother has joined protesters in Australia’s capital demanding
the government oppose a possible U.S. extradition of her son in a
WikiLeaks investigation.
— Nov 17, Hindustan Times
US President
Barack Obama said today there were “flickers of progress” towards
democratic reform in Myanmar and opened the door to a new US
relationship with the long-isolated country.
— Nov 18, Hindustan Times
The
Inter-Services Intelligence agency “conclusively authenticated” the
delivery of a secret memorandum purportedly sent by Pakistan’s civilian
leadership to the former US military chief before army chief Gen Ashfaq
Parvez Kayani raised the matter with President Asif Ali Zardari.
— Nov 19, Hindustan Times
If Pakistan’s
telecom regulator has its way, millions of mobile phone users may be
unable to send text messages with “offensive” and “obscene” words like
crap, damn, hobo, flatulence, gay, lesbian and slime from Monday.
— Nov 20, Hindustan Times
Officials say
satellite surveillance has shown a recent increase in activity at an
Iranian site suspected of secret work on nuclear weapons.
— Nov 21, Hindustan Times
The Indian
rupee depreciated by 35 paise to a lifetime low of Rs 52.50 per US
dollar in early trade on the Interbank Foreign Exchange on Tuesday on
sustained demand for the American currency from banks and importers.
Dollar gains against other currencies overseas also put pressure on the
Indian rupee.
— Nov 22, Hindustan Times
Authorities say
a small plane has crashed in eastern Indonesia, killing the Spanish
pilot and leaving his co-pilot in critical condition.
— Nov 23, Hindustan Times
Arguing that
the UN Security Council is no longer reflective of contemporary reality,
India has said this poses the “most important challenge” to global
peace and security as well as conflict prevention.
— Nov 24, Hindustan Times
No scaling down of military operations against Taliban, says US
— Nov 29, Times of India
A German
federal court was to rule today whether a Muslim pupil has the right to
pray according to Islamic rites in school, capping a more than two-year
legal battle
— Nov 30, Hindustan Times
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