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Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Current Affairs-November 30, 2022

 

INDIA

– Indian Air Force conducting Annual Joint Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) Exercise ‘Samanvay 2022’ from Nov 28 to 30 at Air Force Station Agra

– Former IAS officer Preeti Sudan appointed UPSC Member


International Jaguar Day celebrated on Nov 29 at National Zoological Park, New Delhi

– Rajasthan Governor Kalraj Mishra returns private university Bills passed by state assembly

ECONOMY & CORPORATE

– Pilot project for retail participation in CBDC (central bank digital currency) to start from Dec 1 in four cities and with four banks: RBI

– Govt lifts ban on exports of organic non-basmati rice

– iNCOVACC, world’s first intranasal vaccine by Bharat Biotech, gets approval from CDSCO (Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation)

– 7th edition of Global Technology Summit being held in New Delhi from Nov 29 to Dec 1; is India’s annual flagship event on Geotechnology and is co-hosted by the Ministry of External Affairs and Carnegie India

– Tata Group announces merger of Air India with Vistara; Singapore Airlines to get 25% stake

– YouTube removed 1.7 mn videos in India in July-Sept, most in world

– GroupM Media’s CEO Prashanth Kumar elected president of AAAI (Advertising Agencies Association of India)

WORLD

– International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People observed on Nov 29

– UN panel recommends Australia’s Great Barrier Reef should be listed as ‘world heritage site in danger’

– US: Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, world’s largest active volcano, erupts for first time in 40 years

– Italy: Seven killed by landslide on Ischia Island