13 Nov. 2015: Daily News Updates

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1. India's GSAT-15 communication satellite launched successfully by the European Ariane 5 VA-227 from Kourou in French Guyana in South America.

2. Abraham M Keita from Liberia won the 2015 International Children's Peace Prize.He was awarded for his extraordinary and peaceful fight for justice for child victims of physical or sexual violence, and for successfully campaigning for the Liberian parliament to adopt the Children’s Law.

3. India inked MoUs with six countries in the International Civil Aviation Negotiations.These countries are: Finland, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Sweden, Norway and Denmark, and Oman and Ethiopia.

4. Subir Gokarn appointed as IMF's Executive Director.

5. Defence Minister commissioned India’s Coast Guard offshore patrol vessel ‘Samarth’ at Vasco in Goa. It is Coast Guard’s largest OPV.

6. Annual Hundred Drums Wangala Festival begins in Meghalaya.