Current Affairs- 12th November 2022
INDIA
- Prime Minister inaugurates Terminal 2 of Kempegowda International Airport at Bengaluru
- Prime Minister unveils 108-feet-long bronze statue of Sri Nadaprabhu Kempegowda in Bengaluru
- President Droupadi Murmu launches various education-related projects in Bhubaneswar
- National Education Day is celebrated on Nov 11, theme: “Changing Course, Transforming Education”
- Jharkhand assembly passes bill to raise reservations for categories to 77%
- SC orders release of 6 convicts in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case; was assassinated on May 21, 1991, at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu
- TV actor Siddhaanth Suryavanshi, who starred in ‘Kusum’ and ‘Kasauti Zindagi Ki’, dies at 46
- Prime Minister flags off south India’s first Vande Bharat Express from Bengaluru; which connects Mysuru and Chennai via Bengaluru
- Prime Minister flags off the ‘Bharat Gaurav Kashi Darshan’ train from Bengaluru covering Varanasi, Ayodhya, and Prayagraj
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
- India’s foreign exchange reserves decline from USD 1.087 billion to USD 529.994 billion for the week ended November 4
- US Department of Treasury removes India from its Currency Monitoring List
- Moody’s slashes India’s GDP growth forecast for 2022 by 0.7% to 7%
- Industrial production grows 3.1% in September
- Power and New & Renewable Energy Minister R. K. Singh launches Green Energy Open Access Portal
- Prime Minister Gati Shakti Multimodal Waterways Summit 2022 is being held in Varanasi on Nov 11-12
- 9th Ministerial meeting of the India-US Economic and Financial Partnership held in New Delhi
WORLD
- Russia claims all troops withdrawn from Ukraine’s southern Kherson region
- Maldives: 7 Indians among 10 killed in the fire in capital Male: Indian High Commission
SPORTS
- Asian Boxing Championships: Lovlina, Parveen, Saweety and Alifiya win gold; Minakshi signs off with silver
