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Assam government merges SEBA and AHSEC: Merger into single board The Assam Cabinet on Thursday, November 16 approved the merger of two school education boards i.e. Board of Secondary Education of Assam (SEBA) and Assam Higher Secondary Education Council (AHSEC) into a single board. The merger has been approved.

There has been a change in Morgan Stanley Capital International i.e. MSCI India Index. Nine companies including IndusInd Bank, Suzlon Energy and One 97 Communications have been added to this index. This will be effective from November 30, 2023.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has tightened the rules related to personal loans. Personal loan will become expensive due to increase in risk weight by 25 percent by RBI. Along with banks, the biggest impact of this decision will be visible on NBFCs.

Solution: Recently, Dr. Mathavaraj S. of ISRO's Rao Satellite Center has become the first recipient of the Manohar Parrikar Young Scientist Award. The award carries a cash prize of Rs 5 lakh, which is currently the highest cash award in science and technology, and a citation. He designed the powered descent trajectory of Chandrayaan-3 mission. This award was instituted by the Government of Goa.

Solution: India recently hosted the second ‘Voices of the Global South Summit’ (VOGSS) in virtual format. The first summit was held on 12–13 January 2023. The term ‘Global South’ was first used in 1969 by Carl Ogleski, a leftist American writer and political activist, gaining popularity in the following decades.

Solution: Recently the Cambridge Dictionary team chose hallucinate as their word of the year 2023 because it believed that the new meaning is at the core of why people are talking about AI. The Cambridge Dictionary added new AI-related definitions to the dictionary, including large language models (or LLMs), generative AI (or GenAI), and GPT. Many existing words, such as hallucination, have taken on additional AI-related meanings this year.

Solution: In 2022, an estimated 11 lakh children in India will miss the crucial first dose of measles vaccine. According to the CDC-WHO report, India is among 37 countries that saw large or disruptive outbreaks in 2022, with around 40,967 measles cases recorded. This puts India among the 10 countries with the highest number of children who did not receive the first vaccine.

Solution: Scientists have detected a faint green glow in the Martian night sky that can be seen with our human eyes. The European Space Agency (ESA)'s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter mission orbiting Mars observed the Martian night sky filled with light across the optical spectrum. According to scientists, the light in the polar regions is so bright that human explorers are likely to see it if the night sky is free of clouds.

Team India's big defeat at the hands of Australia in the final of ICC ODI World Cup 2023 was very disappointing for its fans. Australia won the title by defeating Team India by six wickets in this match.

Highlights San Salvador: Nicaragua's Shennis Palacios has been chosen Miss Universe for the year 2023 in the beauty pageant competition held in San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador. Shennis Palacios was crowned Miss Universe and Antonia Porsild of Thailand was the runner-up in the pageant.