12th NOVEMBER 2023 CURRENT AFFAIRS TNPSC EXAM PORTAL IN TAMIL & ENGLISH PDF

ICC suspended Sri Lankan cricket team

• 12th NOVEMBER 2023 CURRENT AFFAIRS TNPSC EXAM PORTAL IN TAMIL & ENGLISH PDF: The International Cricket Council (ICC) regulates the game of cricket worldwide. From the basic rule of a country’s cricket team, to the individual rule of an individual cricketer, the seed of the ICC can exist. 
• A team must be a full member or associate member of the ICC to play international cricket. Under the terms defined in the ICC, the ICC approves the decisions taken by those countries. 
• Violation of the ICC’s rules may result in the country losing its ICC membership license as a reward. The Sri Lankan Cricket Board is currently facing a problem due to this violation of the rules. 
• The Sri Lankan team has been facing a series of defeats in the current World Cup cricket series due to their poor performance. Unable to accept this, the Sri Lankan government jumped directly into the fray and dissolved the Sri Lankan Cricket Board and temporarily set up a 7-member committee to manage it. 
• As the committee was set up outside the rules without consulting the ICC, the ICC immediately ordered the Sri Lankan Cricket Board to be stripped of its membership license for violating the ICC membership rules.

• 12th NOVEMBER 2023 CURRENT AFFAIRS TNPSC EXAM PORTAL IN TAMIL & ENGLISH PDF: The International Cricket Council (ICC) selects one player of the month every month. Accordingly, India’s Jasprit Bumrah, South Africa’s Quinton de Kock and New Zealand’s Rachin Ravindra were shortlisted for the October Player of the Month.
• In this case, Rachin Ravindra has won the best player award for October. In the current World Cup cricket series, Rachin Ravindra, who is playing aggressively, has scored 3 centuries in his debut series.
• Also, West Indies’ Hayley Mathews, Bangladesh’s Nahida Akter and New Zealand’s Amelia Kerr have been shortlisted for the ICC Player of the Month for October. Hayley Mathews of West Indies won the Player of the Year award.

• 12th NOVEMBER 2023 CURRENT AFFAIRS TNPSC EXAM PORTAL IN TAMIL & ENGLISH PDF: Annual Naval Education Society (NES) Conference – 2023 was held on 09th and 10th November 2023 at Porbandar, Gujarat with its headquarters. Vice Admiral Mr. Krishna Swaminathan, Vice President, Commodore Mr. G. Rambabu, and administrators of naval schools across the country participated in the conference. 
• Implementation of the National Education Policy 2020 was discussed in the Executive Committee, Management Advisory Committee and Education Advisory Committee meetings held as part of the conference. 
• For the first time, representatives of Naval Kindergartens from various Naval Stations also participated in the conference.

DAY IN HISTORY TODAY

• 12th NOVEMBER 2023 CURRENT AFFAIRS TNPSC EXAM PORTAL IN TAMIL & ENGLISH PDF: In 1920, baseball got its first “czar” as Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was elected commissioner of the American and National Leagues.
• In 1936, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opened as President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressed a telegraph key in Washington, D.C. and gave the green light to traffic.
• In 1942, the World War II naval Battle of Guadalcanal began. (The Allies would win a major victory over Japanese forces.)
• In 1948, former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and several other World War II Japanese leaders were sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunal.
• In 1970, the Bhola cyclone struck East Pakistan; it is believed that as many as a half million people were killed.
• 12th NOVEMBER 2023 CURRENT AFFAIRS TNPSC EXAM PORTAL IN TAMIL & ENGLISH PDF: In 1975, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas retired because of failing health, ending a record 36-year term.
• In 1982, Yuri V. Andropov succeeded the late Leonid I. Brezhnev as leader of the U.S.S.R. with his election as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party’s Central Committee.
• In 1996, a Saudi jetliner collided shortly after takeoff from New Delhi, India, with a cargo plane, killing 349 people.
• In 2001, American Airlines Flight 587, headed to the Dominican Republic, crashed after takeoff from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 people on board and five people on the ground.
• In 2009, Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder in the Fort Hood, Texas, shooting rampage. (Hasan, who was left paralyzed from the abdomen down when police shot him during the Nov. 5, 2009, attack, was later convicted and sentenced to death, but has not yet been executed. )
• In 2012, the United States was re-elected to another three-year term on the U.N. Human Rights Council in the only contested election for the organization’s top human rights body.
• 12th NOVEMBER 2023 CURRENT AFFAIRS TNPSC EXAM PORTAL IN TAMIL & ENGLISH PDF: In 2017, President Donald Trump exchanged taunts with North Korea’s leader, tweeting, “Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me ‘old,’ when I would NEVER call him ‘short and fat?‘”
• In 2018, Stan Lee, the Marvel Comics writer and publisher who revolutionized the comic book and developed superhero characters that made billions for Hollywood, died at age 95.
• In 2019, Venice saw its worst flooding in more than 50 years, with the water reaching 6.14 feet above average sea level; damage was estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
• In 2020, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, a broad coalition of top government and industry officials, rejected President Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud, saying that the election was “the most secure in American history.”
• 12th NOVEMBER 2023 CURRENT AFFAIRS TNPSC EXAM PORTAL IN TAMIL & ENGLISH PDF: In 2021, a judge in Los Angeles ended the conservatorship that had controlled the life and money of pop star Britney Spears for nearly 14 years.

IMPORTANT DAYS

November 12 – Diwali

November 12 – WORLD PNEUMONIA DAY 2023