Hindu current affairs

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 The Hindu current affairs
1)India won the opening match of the three-match series by 53 runs to take a 1-0 lead against New Zealand.India recorded their first win against them in six matches in T20Is
First match played in feroz shah kotla stadium ,New Delhi .

# Rohit has become the second Indian batsman to complete 1,000 runs in a winning cause in T20Is .Virat Kohli has First Indian with amassed 1322 runs at an average of 69.57 in 34 matches, including 13 fifties, in a winning cause.
#Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan were involved in a stand of 158 for the first wicket — India’s highest partnership for any wicket in Twenty20 Internationals.
The 38-year-old pacer Ashish Nehra bid adieu to competitive cricket after the first T20 International against New Zealand in front of his home crowd at the Feroz Shah Kotla last night.
2)India slipped 21 places on the World Economic Forums ;(WEF) Global Gender Gap index to a lowly 108, behind neighbours China(100th) and Bangladesh(47th),primarily due to less participation of women in the economy and low wages.
At the top of the Global Gender Gap Index is Iceland. The country has closed nearly 88% of its gap. Norway (2nd), Finland (3rd), Rwanda (4) and Sweden (5).
The WEF started measuring global gender index from 2006.

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        23rd Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC in Bonn, commencing on November 6.
4)ONGC(Oil and Natural Gas Corporation) was looking to complete the acquisition of HPCL by the end of financial year 2017-18.
5)Google announced the opening of its first Google Cloud Platform region in Mumbai.
with this ,India region going live, enterprises will be able to take advantage of the high speeds, low latency and performance benefits uniquely offered by Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services.
6) 
The Bhutan king jigme khesar Namgyel wangchuk ,queen and their son , are on four day visit to india.  In this visit bhutan king meet with PM modi , president Ram Nath Kovind and also external affair minister sushma swaraj . 

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