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                                                                Current Affairs

NOVEMBER - 20

• Comptroller & Auditor General of India Girish Chandra Murmu has been elected as theExternal Auditor of Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU)Geneva for three years.

• Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij has been administered a trial dose of Covaxin at a hospital in Ambala.

• With many COVID-19 vaccine candidate trials reaching their final stages, Indian airlines and airports are gearing up to handle the distribution of the temperature sensitive vaccines. 

• British writer Douglas Stuart has been awarded with the UK's Booker Prize 2020 for his debut novel 'Shuggie Bain'. 

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bhutanese counterpart Lotay Tshering launched the RuPay Card Phase- II virtually on November 20, 2020 in Bhutan. 

• India Took77th Place In Global Bribery Risk Matrix Of TRACE   In 2019 , India ranked 78th with 48 points. By 2020, India will perform better than China, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal.

• Karnataka has announced that it will declassify 6.64 billion hectares (nearly 67%) of the state’s 994,000 hectares of forest and hand it over to the tax bureau.