CURRENT AFFAIRS 13 NOVEMBER 2024

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By EXAM JOB EXPERT Published: November 13, 2024

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National Indian Pudding Day

Indian pudding was an innovation of the English settlers when they came to the new world and encountered corn. Expanding on their previous favorite, hasty pudding, they created this dish to fill a need from the old world. The conversion was so successful Indian Pudding became a thing of its own, and has since taken a place in the traditional foods of the new world. National Indian Pudding Day celebrates this long history.

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Food prices spur inflation to 6.2%

A 10.9% spike in food prices lifted India’s retail inflation to a 14-month high of 6.2% in October, from 5.5% in September, with prices of vegetables and edible oils escalating at a sharp pace not seen in recent years.
October’s price rise pace marked a breach of the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) upper tolerance limit for inflation, with rural India facing a sharper uptick of 6.7%, while urban consumers encountered an inflation of 5.6%, scotching any hopes of an interest rate cut from the RBI in its December monetary policy review.
Rural food prices were 10.7% higher, while food inflation in urban India was even higher at 11.1% this October, with prices rising nationally at the fastest clip since July 2023.

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Shah targets Soren govt. over ‘graft’ in second phase poll constituencies

Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president J.P. Nadda on Tuesday slammed the Hemant Soren-led government in Jharkhand over alleged corruption and coal smuggling. Mr. Shah said if the BJP is voted to power, the corrupt would be “hanged upside down”.
The two leaders addressed two rallies each separately in constituencies which will vote in the second phase of the Assembly election on November 20. Mr. Shah campaigned in Jharia, where BJP’s Ragini Singh is pitted against her sister-in-law Purnima Niraj Singh of the Congress.
Attacking the State government, Mr. Shah said, “Crores of rupees have been seized from Congress and JMM [Jharkhand Mukti Morcha] leaders here. E

Gap widens between Maharashtra’s richest and poorest districts

Over the past decade, the richest districts of Maharashtra have grown even richer at a much faster rate than the poorest districts. A key factor behind this is the hastened transition in these districts to the services sector. On the other hand, a considerable portion of the economies in the poorer districts remains dependent on agriculture. Moreover, an analysis of voting patterns in the 2024 general elections across these economic divisions shows that a larger proportion of voters in richer districts favoured the NDA, while the INDIA bloc held significant sway in poorer districts. This becomes significant as the State votes in Assembly elections on November 20.
For the purpose of this analysis, districts in Maharashtra were divided into five economic groups — very poor, poor, middling, rich, and very rich — based on their per capita Net District Domestic Product (NDDP) at current prices in 2022-23.

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DRDO carries out maiden test of long range cruise missile

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Tuesday conducted the maiden flight-test of a Long Range Land Attack Cruise Missile (LRLACM), with a range of 1,000 km, from the Integrated Test Range, Chandipur off the coast of Odisha from a mobile articulated launcher. This is a new variant of Nirbhay LRLACM with improved features, officials confirmed.
The Defence Acquisition Council had approved procurement of the LRLACM in July 2020.
The missile has been developed by the Aeronautical Development Establishment, Bengaluru.

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Air India completes merger procedure with Vistara

Air India said on Tuesday that it has completed its integration and legal merger with Vistara, a day after the latter flew for the last time. This follows the integration of Air India Express and the erstwhile AirAsia India achieved last month to form the low-cost arm of the airline, that will complement the Air India-Vistara combined entity. “The merger completes the consolidation and restructuring phase of the Air India Group’s post-privatisation transformation journey,” said Campbell Wilson, MD & CEO of Air India.