27th November, 2013

• The Supreme Court has formed a 10-member sexual harassment committee on the lines of Vishakha judgement. Announcing the decision at a function organised in Supreme Court, CJI P Sathasivam informed that the Committee will comprise of seven women members including Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai, who will head the panel. The Supreme Court Gender Sensitization and Internal Complaints Committee (GSICC) as it will be called have two external members as nominee of CJI, namely G Mohan Gopal and Bharti Ali.

• Railway Minister Mallikarjun Kharge has appointed the former Railway Board chairman, Vivek Sahai, as his adviser.

• Rural connectively in Rajasthan is likely to get better with the World Bank recently approving a $160 million credit for the Rajasthan Road Sector Modernization Project to support the government of Rajasthan improve rural connectivity, enhance road safety and strengthen the road sector management capacity of the state.

• Archaeologists have unearthed the earliest ever ‘Buddhist shrine’ at Buddha’s birthplace in Nepal, which suggests the sage, may have lived in the 6th century BC, two centuries earlier than thought. 

• Monica Gill, a 24-year-old clinical affairs associate, has won the Miss India USA 2013 crown.

• A top Indian-American executive, Neeraj Sahai, at Citigroup has been appointed president of Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, the world's largest ratings firm.

          26th November, 2013

• In Haryana, biomass project of 9.9 MW has been set up in Mahendragarh district with a total cost of Rs.60 crore and a similar project of 9.5 MW in Bhiwani district is at its final stage of completion.
• BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is among Time magazine's shortlisted candidates for its 'Person of the Year' title and has emerged as an early favourite among the readers in an online poll.

• As part of its annual mission to ensure the safe mid-sea sojourn of breeding Olive Ridley sea turtles in Gahirmatha marine sanctuary area of Odisha, the Coast Guard has launched ‘Operation Oliver’. 
• India has donated 2,500 metric tonnes of wheat worth USD 2 million as food assistance to the troubled Gulf state of Yemen.

• Pakistan has inducted the first fleet of indigenously developed Strategic Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), named Burraq and Shahpar UAV Systems, into the Pakistan Army and Pakistan Air Force.

• The United Nations has declared 2014 as the international year of family farming so as to support the farmers achieve food security and eradicate global poverty.
• Norway’s Magnus Carlsen, the newly-crowned World chess champion, received a cheque for Rs. 9.9 crore from the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Ms. J. Jayalalithaa. 

          25th November, 2013

• Former Delhi High Court Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah has been appointed as the new chairman of the 20th Law Commission of India.

• After 'Phailin', 'Helen', Andhra braces up for cyclone 'Lehar' After being hit by cyclones 'Phailin' and 'Helen', Andhra Pradesh is likely to be at the receiving end of another cyclone, 'Lehar', by November 28, 2013. 'Lehar' lay centered, about 230 km east-southeast of Port Blair over the Andaman Sea and is expected to cross Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
• The US and Pakistan have agreed to enhance cooperation in areas of mutual strategic interest, including counter-terrorism and maritime security, as part of their commitment to strong defense ties. 

• Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel wrapped up the Formula One season by winning the Brazilian Grand Prix and becoming the first driver to take nine successive victories in a single year. The sport's youngest quadruple world champion, still only 26 years old, also matched fellow-German Michael Schumacher's 2004 record of 13 wins in a season.