One Liners of the Day, 20 November 2019

Important Day

• Theme for World Toilet Day 2019 (19 November) - Leaving No One Behind.
• International Men's Day - 19 November.

International 

• Largest producer of Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) or Sponge Iron (30.36MT) in the world - India.
• The 29th Regional Contact Points (RCP) meeting of Asia Pacific (A/P) region of the World Customs Organization (WCO) held at - Puducherry.
• First place in the 2019 IMD World Talent Ranking - Switzerland.
• The 2019 World Science Forum will take place between 20 and 23 November in - Budapest, Hungary.

National

• India’s rank in the 2019 IMD World Talent Ranking – 59th.
• Winner of the 2019 UNESCO Sultan Qaboos Prize for environmental conservation - Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bengaluru.
• This State tourism department and stakeholders were awarded the Best Emerging Green Tourist Destination Award by Travel & Leisure magazine - Arunachal Pradesh.
• The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Government of India today signed a $91 million loan to modernize the Vijayanagara Channel irrigation systems in - Karnataka.
• The International Principal’s Education Conference (IPEC) inaugurated on 19 November at – Nagpur, Maharashtra.
• The ‘2019 World Conference on Access to Medical Products Achieving the SDGs 2030’ inaugurated on 19 November in – Delhi.
• Next Census is in – 2021 (during 9-28 February).
• The second Edition of “ISA – Steel Conclave 2019” will organise on 21st – 22nd November in - New Delhi.

Persons in News

• The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has conferred a Lifetime Achievement Award to - Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (Biocon chairperson).
• New director of the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific at UN Development Programme (UNDP) - Kanni Wignaraja (Sri Lanka).
• New director of UNDP's Bureau for Policy and Programme Support - Haoliang Xu (China).

Sports

• The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Airbnb announced an agreement to support the Olympic Movement through to - 2028.

State Current Affairs

• This state government planned to create a dedicated new department of foreign cooperation - Haryana.

Science

• ISRO’s PSLV-C47 mission - Cartosat-3.

General Knowledge

• First and the only female Prime Minister of India (1966-1977) - Indira Gandhi (Born: 19 November 1917).
• Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) - Founded: 1944 (26 January); Headquarters: New Delhi.
• Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) - Founded: 1948; Headquarters: New Delhi.
• World Customs Organization (WCO) - Founded: 1952 (26 January); Headquarters: Brussels, Belgium.