Current affairs, Ekta Kapoor becomes the first Indian woman to win an Emmy Award, Messi’s jersey will be auctioned for 10 million dollars | Ekta Kapoor becomes first Indian woman to win Emmy Award, Messi jersey to be auctioned for $10 million

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Union Minister for Tourism, Culture and North Eastern Region Development G. Kishan Reddy inaugurated this program.

• The International Tourism Mart provides an opportunity for North East stakeholders to engage with both domestic and international markets.
• In this event, business meetings will also be held with stakeholders or domestic and international buyers before the local response.
• During this time single use plastic will not be used, paperless system will be adopted and tree plantation drive will be conducted.
• Previous editions of Tourism Mart have been organized in Guwahati, Tawang, Shillong, Gangtok, Agartala, Imphal, Kohima and Aizawl.
• Shillong is hosting this event for the second time since its inception.
• Around 100 delegates including domestic and international will participate in this event.

Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur has inaugurated the function.

• Anurag Thakur said that the growth of media and entertainment industry in India is 20% annually.
• At the 54th IFFI, Madhuri Dixit was honored with a special honor for her contribution to Indian cinema.
• This time 250 films will be screened at IFFI.
• British film ‘Scissor Dust’ is the first film to be screened.
• Hollywood actor-producer Michael Douglas will be given ‘Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award’.

At the 51st International Emmy Awards, this award was given to Ekta Kapoor for her significant contribution to the world of arts and entertainment.

• Ekta Kapoor is the first Indian woman to win an Emmy Award.
• Veer Das won an Emmy Award for the comedy film ‘Veer Das: Landing’.
• Famous Hollywood actor Martin Freeman won the best actor award for the film ‘Responder’.
• Hollywood actress Karla Soje won the best actress award for the Spanish film ‘La Qaeda Dive’.
• ‘The Empress’ won the International Emmy Award for Best Drama Series.

Messi’s FIFA World Cup 2022 final jersey is expected to fetch 83 crores.

• In the FIFA Football World Cup 2022 held in Qatar, Argentina won the title by defeating France in a penalty shootout in the final.
• Messi is the only footballer to score in all the matches played in a single season of the World Cup.
• Ahead of the auction, an exhibition of jerseys is being held at Sotheby’s headquarters in New York from November 30 to December 14.
• Earlier, Maradona’s jersey was sold for 74.14 crores in the 2022 auction.
• It was the most expensive bikini jersey of any football player.
• Diego Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ goal-scoring jersey and football were also auctioned by Sotheby’s.

36-year-old Shakib Al Hasan is the captain of the Bangladesh cricket team.

• Shakib made his debut in international cricket in the year 2007, and played the first match against India.
• He has so far scored 14 centuries in different formats and taken 753 wickets.
• Shakib has been surrounded by controversies many times in his 16-year cricket career, in 2019, the ICC banned him for 2 years.
• Earlier, Bangladeshi cricketer Mashrafe Mortaza started his political journey in the year 2018.
• Mashrafe Mortaza contested the election from the Awami League Party, and was elected MLA.

Deputy Governor Manoj Sinha flagged off Gnanodaya Express ‘College on Wheels’ from Katra Railway Station in Reasi District.

• ‘College on Wheels’ has been organized in line with the objectives of the National Education Policy-2020.
• Its aim is to promote a culture of skill development to play the role of the country’s youth employment provider.
• College on Wheels’ has a library which has books available for all students.
• In this train, students will also be able to give their own project and presentation.

Dr. Badrinath was ill for a long time, due to which he died on 21 November.

• Dr. Badrinath obtained his graduation degree from Madras Medical College and post graduation from America.
• He was awarded Padma Shri in 1983 and Padma Bhushan in 1999.
• Dr. Badrinath founded Shankar Netralaya in Chennai in 1978.
• About 1200 patients visit the Eye Clinic daily, and more than 100 eye surgeries are performed daily.
• Dr. S. S. Badrinath was born on 24 February 1940 in Triplicane, Chennai.

In the year 1925, a scientist named Philo Taylor Farnsworth invented the first electronic TV.

• In the year 2021, famous Punjabi singer Gurmeet Bawa passed away at the age of 77.
• In the year 2005, Ratnasiri Wickramanayake became the President of Sri Lanka for the second time.
• In 1999, China launched its first unmanned spacecraft ‘Shenzhou’.
• Indian scientist Sir Chandrasekhar Venkata Raman passed away in 1970.
• The Indian space program began in 1963 with the launch of the first rocket from Kerala’s Thumba region.
• In the year 1962, China announced a ceasefire in the India-China border dispute.
• In the year 1947, the Government of India issued its first postage stamp, on which the slogan ‘Jai Hind’ and tricolor were made.
• Anandi Bane Patel, the first woman Chief Minister of Gujarat was born in the year 1941.
• Mulayam Singh Yadav, founder of Samajwadi Party and former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, was born in the year 1939.
• Sinkardar Lodhi II, the ruler of Delhi, died in the year 1517.