18 November 2013 – Daily Current Affairs
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1) Who became the 6th President of Maldives after he scored a decisive electoral win in the second phase of Presidential election held on 16 November, 2013? - Abdulla Yameen (Yameen, the half-brother of former autocratic ruler Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and a candidate of Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM), clinched an unexpected victory in the presidential run-off held on 16 November by receiving 51.39% of the votes over opposition leader and former president Mohammed Nasheed who garnered 48.61% of the votes. Nasheed was winner of the first phase of elctions and many analysts were predicting a final win for him. Abdulla Yameen was on 17 November, 2013 sworn in as the sixth President of the Maldives by Chief Justice Ahmad Faiz, ending nearly two years of political turmoil that threatened to isolate the country internationally)
2) Which country would host the next Commonwealth summit in 2015, after it was unanimously chosen as the host during the concluding ceremony of Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2013 at Colombo, Sri Lanka on 17 November, 2013? – Malta (Mauritius was to stage the biennial gathering in 2015 but Prime Minister Navin Chandra Ramgoolam said just ahead of the Colombo summit that it no longer wanted to host the event, citing Sri Lanka’s human rights record)
3) Who was announced as the winner of the inaugural Centenary Award for the Indian Film Personality of the Year 2013, which was constituted recently by the Union Govt. to mark the 100 years of Indian Cinema? – Waheeda Rehman, veteran Hindi film actress (This award will be presented at the 44th International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa on 20 November, 2013. The award carries a cash prize of Rs. 10 lakh and a citation)
