CURRENT AFFAIRS (14:11:2014)

1. International Cricket Council
appoints five cricketers as its
ambassadors for the 'World Cup
2015' to be held in Australia and
New Zealand.
- These are: Virat Kohli, Kumar
Sangakkara, Shane Watson,
Mitchell Johnson and Brendon
McCullum.
2. Rohit Sharma becomes the
highest scorer in an ODI inning
with a mammoth score of 264
against Sri Lanka.
- He now is the only cricketer to
smash two double centuries in
ODIs - the previous being 209
against Australia at Bangalore in
November 2013.
- Other double centurion in ODI:
Sachin Tendulkar (200) and
Virender Sehwag (219)
3. Grant of Indian citizenship to
minority community nationals of
Pakistan and Afghanistan is made
easy.
- Everyone who entered India
prior to December 31, 2009, can
now apply for Indian Citizenship
offline as well.
- Earlier only online applications
with passports was needed to
apply for this.
- Moreover, the children of these
parents - born in any of the two
country and without passport -
can also apply for the grant of
Indian Citizenship after
regularization of their stay in
India.
- These children will have to
register with the Foreigners
Registration Office (FRO) of the
concerned district for the
regularization.
4. India-China joint training
exercise 'Hand in Hand 2014' to
begin at Pune from November 16.
- Its the 4th edition of this joint
training exercise between the
two giants and second in India
after 2nd edition at Belgaum in
2008.
- China has hosted the inaugural
drill in 2007 and 3rd one in 2013.
5. Maharashtra plans to launch a
Rs 4,000 crore satellite imaging
project to map all land in the
state.
- The entire state land data will be
computerized and available
online.
- It will also curb corruption at
lower level where bribes have to
be paid for getting the
documents.
6. India pulls ahead of China as
the largest gold consumer in the
world.
- Indian bought 225.1 tonnes of
gold jewelery, coins and bars in
the third quarter of fiscal year as
compared to 182.7 tonnes of
China.