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1) Madhya Pradesh CM renames Habibganj Railway station after Rani Kamalapati before PM Modi’s arrival in the state.
A) She was the last Hindu queen of Bhopal.
B) She was an 18th century Gond Queen believed to be the widow of Gond ruler Nizam Shah.
C) Station was built in 1905 and was named Shahpur.
2) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurates Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor (UPDIC) in Lucknow.
A) It is the first operationalised private sector defence manufacturing facility.
B) It is planned across 6 nodes namely Lucknow, Kanpur, Jhansi, Agra, Aligarh and Chitrakoot.
C) It is an aspirational project that intends to reduce foreign dependence on the Indian Aerospace and Defence Sector.
3) Rahibai Popere popularly known as Seed mother among the winners of this year’s Padma Shri.
A) Her Padma Shri is a recognition of her work that has helped save hundreds of mandrakes at village level.
B) Landraces refer to naturally occurring variants of commonly cultivated crops.
C) She is from Akole Taluka of Ahmednagar, Maharashtra.
4) World Diabetes day observed on November 14.
A) Theme: “Access to Diabetes Care – If Not Now, When?”
B) It is celebrated to mark the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting.
5) The Karnataka Cabinet renamed the Mumbai-Karnataka region as Kittur Karnataka.
A) It recently also renamed the Hyderabad Karnataka Region as Kalyana Karnataka.
B) Pro Kannada organisations in the state had long raised the demand to rename the region that had been under the erstwhile Bombay Presidency before Independence.
C) The name Kittur comes after a historical taluk in north Karnataka’s Belagavi district that was ruled by Rani Chennamma.
6) NASA launched the agency’s first planetary defense test mission named the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART).
A) Aim is to test newly developed technology that would allow a spacecraft to crash into an asteroid and change its course.
B) Spacecraft will be launched on a Space x Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
C) Target of the spacecraft is a small moonlet called Dimorphous.
7) Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine programme launched in the state of Karnataka.
A) It was launched under universal immunisation programme on occasion of World Pneumonia Day
B) Aim is to spread awareness and reduce pneumonia induced mortality and morbidity among children.
C) Pneumococcal is the name of a group of diseases caused by bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae.
