Current Affairs - November 12, 2022 Current Affairs

A report by Morgan Stanley has forecast that India will surpass Japan and Germany and become the third-largest economy by 2027.

Jharkhand Assembly has passed a bill to raise the total reservation offered to different categories to 77 percent.

Skyroot Aerospace is set to lift off the country's first privately developed rocket into space. The Prarambh mission is expected to launch in the second week of November on a demonstration flight with the Vikram-S launch vehicle.

India has been named the host country for the 2023 IBA Women's World Boxing Championship. An MoU was also signed between the International Boxing Association (IBA) and the Boxing Federation of India (BFI).

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said the kingdom would contribute USD 2.5 billion to the 'Middle East Green Initiative' over the next ten years, and host its headquarters.

The Gandhi Peace Foundation has announced the award of its prestigious Kuldip Nayar Patrakarita Samman for 2022 to The Wire's senior editor Arfa Khanum Sherwani.

PM Gati Shakti Multimodal Waterways Summit will be held in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.

The Government of Tamil Nadu has declared an area in the reserve forests of Krishnagiri and Dharmapuri as the Cauvery South Wildlife Sanctuary.

National Education Day is celebrated every year in India on November 11 to commemorate the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.

India is one of the leading producers of millet in the world with an estimated share of 41 per cent of the global production.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off South India's first Vande Bharat Express train from KSR Bangalore city railway station. The train departed for Chennai Central amid loud cheers.

IIT Bombay has been placed at 40th rank this year. It is the top-ranking institution in India. IIT-B is followed by IIT Delhi (46), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore (52) and IIT Madras (59). In the top 10, five universities are from China.

The Sundarbans mangrove forest, one of the largest such forests in the world (140,000 ha), lies on the delta of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers on the Bay of Bengal.

Kerala becomes the first state in India to launch uniform gold prices based on the bank rate. The decision to introduce a uniform price on 916 purity 22-carat gold has been taken at a meeting between officials of Malabar Gold and Diamonds.

Forbes unveiled its 2022 Asia's Power Businesswomen list, honouring 20 outstanding women in business across the Asia-Pacific region. Soma Mondal, the chairperson of Steel Authority of India Ltd, Namita Thapar, executive director at India business of Emcure Pharma, and Ghazal Alagh, co-founder and chief innovation officer of Honasa Consumer, are on the list.

Justice Dhananjaya Yeshwant (DY) Chandrachud took oath as the 50th Chief Justice of India (CJI).

The Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) announced Infrastructure Resilience Accelerator Fund (IRAF), a CDRI Multi-Partner Trust Fund.

This year's theme for World Science Day for Peace and Development is "Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development".

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has launched the logo of Purple Fest at a function held in Manohar Parrikar Memorial Hall of Sanjay Centre for Education, Porvorim.

India's first national repository for life science data, the Indian Biological Data Centre (IBDC) has been established in Faridabad, Haryana.