Current Affairs One-liners — 29 November 2024
Daily news by your exam, state and topic — each with a short summary, key facts and MCQs.
Fri, 29 Nov 2024
- On 29 November 2024 in New Delhi, the National Statistics Office estimated India's real GDP growth for July–September 2024 (Q2 of 2024-25) at 5.4%, down from 8.1% a year earlier.
- On 29 November 2024, the Ministry of Mines said the Nayakkarpatti Tungsten Block in Tamil Nadu, auctioned with Hindustan Zinc Ltd as preferred bidder, will follow all environmental and heritage safeguards.
- On 29 November 2024, the Ministry of Women and Child Development told the Lok Sabha that its Empowered Committee had approved MEA proposals for nine One Stop Centres for Indian women facing distress abroad.
- On 29 November 2024 in New Delhi, DoNER Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia held the curtain raiser for the first-ever Ashtalakshmi Mahotsav, to be held at Bharat Mandapam from 6 to 8 December 2024, and unveiled its mascot 'Purvi'.
- On 29 November 2024 in New Delhi, the Government of India and the Asian Development Bank signed a $98 million loan for 'Building India's Clean Plant Programme' to give horticulture farmers certified disease-free planting material.
- On 29 November 2024, the Indian Navy announced that, acting on Sri Lanka Navy inputs, it intercepted two Sri Lankan fishing boats in the Arabian Sea and seized about 500 kg of crystal meth.
- On 29 November 2024, the Commerce and Industry Ministry reported that the Index of Eight Core Industries rose 3.1% (provisional) in October 2024 over October 2023.
- On 29 November 2024 in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated the 59th All India Conference of DGsP/IGsP and released the MHA book 'Ranking of Police Stations 2024'.
- On 29 November 2024, the Indian Coast Guard conducted the sea phase of the 11th National Maritime Search and Rescue Exercise (SAREX-2024) off the Kochi coast, Kerala.
- On 29 November 2024, the National Centre for Good Governance concluded its first two-week capacity building programme for 30 senior civil servants from nine Southeast Asian and Indian Ocean Region countries, held in Mussoorie and New Delhi.
- On 29 November 2024, the two-day 48th meeting of the National Committee of Archivists concluded at Ekta Nagar (Kevadiya), Gujarat — only the second NCA meeting held in Gujarat.
- On 29 November 2024, the 18th NCB International Conference on Cement, Concrete and Building Materials concluded at Yashobhoomi, New Delhi, with the release of a Bharatiya Nirdeshak Dravya (Indian Certified Reference Material) for gypsum.