Current Affairs update for Banking Exam December 2024
🟢Deep Kalra, founder and chairman of MakeMyTrip India Pvt. Ltd,appointed as chairperson of The World Travel and Tourism Council, India Initiative (WTTCII) for 2024-25
🟢Bhajan Lal Sharma to be the new CM of Rajasthan
🟢Mohan Yadav will take oath as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
🟢Retail inflation rises to 5.55% in November
🟢10 Non performing assets (NPAs) of over ₹11,617 crore were transferred to the National Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd between January-November. NARCL has recovered ₹16.64 crore as of Nov. 30.
🟢“Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition 2023: Statistics and Trends”
report by- Food and Agriculture Organization,United Nations
key findings:
⭐️More than 74% of Indians could not afford a healthy diet in 2021, the .In 2020, the percentage was 76.2.
⭐️16.6% of the country’s population was undernourished.
⭐️31.7% of children in India under the age of five showed stunted growth.
⭐️18.7% of children under five are prone to wasting(low weight for height)
⭐️2.8% of children below five were overweight, another health risk
⭐️53% of women aged between 15 to 49 in India had anaemia, which was the largest prevalence rate in the region in 2019
⭐️1.6% of adults in the country were obese.
⭐️On exclusive breastfeeding among infants in the age group of 05 months, India had improved the prevalence with a percentage of 63.7%, which is higher than the world prevalence of 47.7%.
⭐️India had the highest prevalence of low birth weight in the region (27.4%),
🟢Designer Manish Malhotra designed new uniforms for Air India’s cockpit and cabin crew.The rollout of these new
uniforms will commence with the debut of Air India’s first Airbus A350.
🟢Cryptocurrency platform CoinSwitch has unveiled "PeepalCo," a new umbrella br and to house all its busines s segments, as it plans to expand into a wealthtech platform.
🟢Poonawalla Housing Finance is now renamed as "Grihum Housing Finance"
🟢The Indian Air Force (IAF) to rename itself as the Indian Air and Space Force or IASF.
🟢After the historic success of its Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission, Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) is planning to send Indian astronauts for the first time on the moon by 2040.
🟢South Korea’s Mirae Asset Securities announced on Tuesday the acquisition of India’s retail-focused brokerage Sharekhan for 487 billion won (~3,000 crore) from the French bank BNP Paribas.
🟢India Vietnam joint military exercise VINBAX-2023 kicks off in Hanoi.This year marks its 4th edition.
🟢IAF to deploy first Tejas Mark 1A aircraft squadron near Pakistan border at the Nal airbase from where it can take care of the western adversary.
🟢GreenH has signed a pact with Medha to build a hydrogen production, refuelling station that will provide fuel to India's first Hydrogen train
🟢Tata Power & Indian Oil signed MoU to deploy fast and ultra-fast EV charging points across India