11 December 2022 Current Affairs  by WestBengalJob.in

1) Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao formally launched the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) in Hyderabad.

➨The Election Commission of India (ECI) approved the change of name of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) as Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS).

Telangana :-

➨CM - Kalvakuntla Chandrashekhar Rao
Governor - Tamilisai Soundararajan
➨KBR National Park
➨Amrabad Tiger Reserve
➨Kawal Tiger Reserve
➨ Pakhal Lake And Wildlife Sanctuary
➨Pocharam Dam And Wildlife Sanctuary
➨Mahavir Harina Vanasthali National Park
➨Mana Ooru Mana Badi program
➨Palle Pragati and pattana Pragati scheme
➨Bathukamma Saree scheme

2) Mansi Gulati, the Founder of Manasvani, released her book "Miracles of Face Yoga".

➨The book "Miracles of Face Yoga" is a comprehensive work on face yoga written in lucid and simple language which can be easily understood by beginners.

3) Union Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda introduced the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Bills for Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Himachal Pradesh.

4) Chairman of Tata Sons, N Chandrasekaran has been appointed as the chair of B20 India which represents the entire G20 business community.
➨ He will lead the business agenda during India's G20 Presidency.

5) Indian Navy ships Kochi, Kavaratti and Sumedha arrived in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh to participate in the maiden International Fleet Review (IFR) being conducted by the Bangladesh Navy (BN).

6) Time magazine has named Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy 2022’s "Person of the Year" for his courage in the face of Russia’s invasion and for inspiring Ukrainians to remain steadfast and resist Russia’s full-scale invasion.

7) Meghna Ahlawat has been elected president of the Table Tennis Federation of India.
➨ Former stalwart Kamlesh Mehta has been elected secretary general.

8) According to 'India Inequality Report 2022: Digital Divide' released by the NGO, India fares the worst with the widest gender gap of 40.4 per cent in the Asia-Pacific.
➨Indian women are 15 per cent less likely to own a mobile phone and 33 per cent less likely to use mobile internet services than men.

9) Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) Researchers have developed an ‘Ocean Wave Energy Converter’ that can generate electricity from sea waves.

10) India ranked 69 in the world's strongest passport list, while UAE ranked first in the rating of passports for 2022.

➨ UAE was followed by Germany, Sweden, Finland, Luxembourg, Spain and France.

11) The Government of India has extended the PM Street Vendor's AtmaNirbhar Nidhi (PM SVANidhi) Scheme beyond March, 2022.

➨"SVANidhi Se Samriddhi" was launched in January 2021 to map the socio-economic profile of the PM SVANidhi beneficiaries and their families.

12) An Indian-origin teacher Veena Nair in Australia has received the 2022 Prime Minister's Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching in secondary schools.

13) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has signed a Currency Swap Agreement with the Maldives Monetary Authority (MMA) under the SAARC Currency Swap Framework.

Reserve Bank of India:-

➨Headquarters:- Mumbai, Maharashtra, 
➨Established:- 1 April 1935, 1934 Act.
➨Hilton Young Commission
➨ First Governor - Sir Osborne Smith
➨ First Indian Governor - Chintaman Dwarkanath Deshmukh
➨Present Governor:- Shaktikanta Das

14) Union Minister Anurag Thakur inaugurated India's first Drone Skill Training Conference in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
➨He also flagged off Garuda Aerospace's Drone Yatra, 'Operation 777'.

Tamil Nadu :-

➨ CM - M K Stalin
➨ Guindy National Park
➨ Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park
➨Sathyamangalam tiger reserve (STR)
➨Mudumalai National Park
➨Mukurthi National Park
➨ Indira Gandhi (Anamalai) National Park
➨Kalakkad Mundanthurai tiger reserve (KMTR)
➨ Meendum Manjappai Scheme
➨ Naan Mudhalvan scheme
➨ Chief minister's breakfast scheme
➨ Ennum Ezhuthum scheme