Sunday 20 December 2015

World This Week: 23 November-29 November 2015

23 November 2015
• Joint Statement on enhanced Malaysia-India Strategic Partnership released
• Japan conducted its first dedicated commercial satellite launch
• Mauricio Macri won the Presidential election of Argentina
• UNISDR released the report titled The Human Cost of Weather Related Disasters
• Michael Keating appointed as Special Representative for Somalia and Head of UNSOM

24 November 2015
• India-Singapore signed 10 agreements on mutual co-operation
• World Robot Olympiad, 2015 held in Doha; 2016 session to be held in Delhi

25 November 2015
• ICC appointed four female umpires for ICC Women’s World Twenty20 Qualifier
• 2015 likely to be the warmest year on record: WMO
• Noted Indian-Origin Businessman Banwari Lal Mittal died
• International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women observed

26 November 2015
• Operation Inherent Resolve to tackle ISIS
• South Asian Annual Disaster Management Exercise 2015 concluded
• Eminent Japanese historian Noboru Karashima passed away

27 November 2015
• Australia, New Zealand to play the historic first day-night Test at Adelaide Oval
• Patricia Scotland appointed as Secretary General of Commonwealth of Nations
• India-Israel co-developed LRSAM missile successfully flight-tested

28 November 2015
• Tyson Fury defeated Wladimir Klitschko to become world heavyweight champion

29 November 2015
• PV Sindhu won Macau Open Grand Prix Gold Badminton tournament for 3rd consecutive time
• ICC suspended West Indies spinner Sunil Narine for illegal bowling action
• Great Britain won the Davis Cup for the first time since 1936

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