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Important Current Affairs 14th November 2019

Food ATMs Come Up In Odisha To Feed Poor

• YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh has launched the ‘Nadu-Nedu’ programme which aims at transforming government schools into vibrant and competitive institutions.

UP govt launches e-Ganna app, web portal

• Uttar Pradesh government has launched a web portal and a mobile application named e-Ganna App, for sugarcane farmers of the state.

Sishu Suraksha App launched in Assam

• Assam State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (ASCPCR) has launched a mobile app named ‘Sishu Suraksha’ for the protection of rights of children of Assam.

Retail inflation jumps to 16-month high of 4.62% in October on higher food prices; reduces RBI's headroom for rate cut

• India’s retail inflation in October rose to 4.62%, breaching the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) medium-term target of 4% for the first time in 15 months.

• However, core inflation, which reflects demand in the economy, fell sharply due to weak economic conditions.

Brazil President, Jair Bolsonaro to be the Cheif Guest at Republic Day 2020

• Prime Minister Modi invited the President of Brazil, Mr. Jair Messias Bolsonaro to be the Chief Guest at the Republic Day 2020. The Brazilian President has accepted the invitation with pleasure.

• Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi met H.E. Mr. Jair Messias Bolsonaro, President of Brazil on the sidelines of the 11th BRICS summit at Brasilia on 13 November 2019.

Moody’s revises India GDP forecast to 5.6 % in 2019

• Moody’s Investors Service has revised its GDP growth rate prediction for India for Calender Year 2019 to 5.6% from its earlier prediction of 5.8%.

• India’s GDP growth rate prediction for 2020 as per Moody’s- 6.6%.

• India’s GDP growth rate prediction for 2021 as per Moody’s- 6.7%.

• The rates have been released in the Global Macro Outlook for 2020-21 by Moody’s.

NCDEX ties up with NSE Indices to launch AGRIDEX, India's first agri index

• National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) has partnered with NSE Indices Limited and launched  India’s first agri index — ‘NCDEX Agridex’, for easy reference to price variations in agricultural commodities.

• The AGRIDEX tracks and replicates the performance of the ten most liquid commodities traded on the NCDEX’s platform.

World Diabetes Day : November 14, 2019

• World Diabetes Day is observed every year on November 14.

• World Diabetes Day was launched in 1991 by the IDF and the World Health Organization (WHO) in response to the rapid rise of diabetes around the world.

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