current affairs 23 November 2021 (In English)

AYUSH Minister Sarbananda Sonowal announced the expansion of NEIAFMR in Arunachal Pradesh.

• Union Minister for Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sarbananda Sonowal has announced the expansion of North Eastern Research Institute of Ayurveda and Folk Medicine (NEIAFMR) at Pasighat, Arunachal Pradesh by developing new infrastructure within the campus.
• This initiative is in line with the vision of developing AYUSH sector in the State and the entire North Eastern Region.
• The additional infrastructure development at NEIAFMR will require an investment of around Rs 53.72 crores.
• Under this, a new Ayurveda college with 30 seats and a new Ayurveda hospital with 60 beds will be established.
• For this, direct employment for 86 posts will be created.
• NEIAFMR is an autonomous National Institute under the Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India.

Russia successfully test-fires hypersonic cruise missile "Zircon".

• The Russian Navy successfully test-fired a Zircon hypersonic cruise missile from a frigate - the Admiral Gorshkov warship, which correctly hit a test target placed in Russian Arctic waters.
• Russia destroyed its own satellite in low-Earth orbit using an anti-satellite (ASAT) missile called Nudol, causing a cloud of space debris that could potentially be used by other orbiting satellites and Could destroy the International Space Station (ISS).

Jason Mott won the 2021 National Book Award for fiction.

• The 72nd edition of the National Book Awards was organized by the National Book Foundation as a virtual event.
• Jason Mott won the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction for his novel Hell of a Book, a fiction about the adventures of a black writer while traveling on a book tour.

MHA ranks Delhi’s Sadar Bazar police station as best police station.

• Delhi's Sadar Bazar Police Station has been ranked as the Best Police Station in India for the year 2021 by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
• The list of top 10 police stations in India is released annually by the Ministry of Home Affairs to rank the police stations in terms of services and facilities available in the police station.
• The performance of police stations was reviewed by the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD).

Geoff Allardyce appointed as permanent CEO of ICC.

• The International Cricket Council (ICC) has appointed Geoff Allardyce as the permanent CEO of the international cricket governing body.
• He served as the interim CEO for more than eight months.
• He replaces Manu Sawhney who officially resigned from his post in July 2021. Allardyce, a former Australian first-class cricketer and administrator, was the ICC General Manager of Cricket for eight years.
• He had previously played a similar role in Cricket Australia.