Daily Current Affairs – 14 & 15 November 2021 | Gkseries
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Daily Current Affairs 14 & 15 November 2021
Fashion and lifestyle e-commerce platform Myntra have named Nandita Sinha as its Chief Executive Officer.
Ms. Sinha succeeds Amar Nagaram, who quit Myntra last month after leading the company as the CEO for nearly three years. She will join Myntra from group company Flipkart, where, as Vice President, Customer Growth and Marketing, she is currently leading the overall charter for marketing. Before joining Flipkart, she was the co-founder at MyBabyCart.com, an e-commerce site.
Myntra is a major Indian fashion e-commerce company headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
The Indian Railways has issued an order to discontinue the ‘special’ tag for mail and express trains and to revert to pre-pandemic ticket prices with immediate effect.
Since the coronavirus-triggered lockdown was eased, the Railways has only been running special trains. It started with long-distance trains and now even short-distance passenger services are being run as special trains with “slightly higher fares” to discourage people from avoidable travels.
Tokyo Olympics gold medal-winning javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, along with eleven other athletes, received the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna award from President Ram Nath Kovind at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi. He became the only second individual gold medalist from India at the Olympics and the first in athletics. The awards are given every year to recognize excellence in sports.
Former union minister and Congress leader Salman Khurshid, who recently launched his book on the Ayodhya verdict named “Sunrise over Ayodhya – Nationhood in our Times”. Book states about unity between Hindus & Muslims and about creating an awareness that the Supreme Court verdict on Ayodhya was a good one.
On 9 November 2019, the Supreme Court, in a unanimous verdict, cleared the way for the construction of a Ram temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya.
India’s retail inflation rate, measured by the Consumer Price Index or CPI, rose mildly in October to 4.48% year-on-year from 4.35% in September due to an uptick in food prices. The inflation was 7.61% in October last year. For the fourth month in a row, CPI has been below the Reserve Bank of India’s six percent margin. The RBI has projected the CPI inflation at 5.3 percent for 2021-22.
According to MoSPI data, inflation in the food basket rose to 0.85 percent in October, compared to 0.68 percent in the preceding month.
Defence Secretary Dr. Ajay Kumar released a book titled ‘FORCE IN STATECRAFT’, an edited volume by Commandant of National Defence College (NDC) Air Marshal Diptendu Choudhury and President’s Chair of Excellence at NDC Air Vice Marshal (Dr) Arjun Subramaniam (Retd) in New Delhi on November 13, 2021.
The book is a compilation of essays on topics including counter-insurgency operations, conflict in the North East, airpower, and nuclear posture which give conceptual understanding and facets of India’s national security. The contributors of the book are all stalwarts of the Armed Forces, who have vast operational experience and understanding of several important cornerstones of forces.
The Indian Railways has added Bhadrachalam in Telangana as one of the destinations in its Ramayana circuit of the pilgrim special train.
Union Minister for Culture G Kishan Reddy on Thursday (11 November) expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the inclusion of Bhadarchalam as one of the destinations in the Ramayana Circuit of the Pilgrim Special Train of the Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC).
The Ramayana Circuit Train will connect all the important locations across the country associated with the life of Lord Rama. The Ramayana Yatra special train was inaugurated from Delhi on November 7 and will return to Delhi on November 23 after 17 days journey. The request to add the holy temple of Bhadrachalam was made by Union Minister for Culture and Tourism Shri G. Kishan Reddy.
Pramod Chandra Mody has been appointed as the new secretary-general of Rajya Sabha, cutting short the tenure of the incumbent SG, P.P.K. Ramacharyulu, who had been appointed a little over two months ago.
Mr. Modi is a 1982-batch retired IRS officer and former chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT). He replaces P.P.K. Ramacharyulu, who was appointed to the post on September 01, 2021. Ramacharyulu has now been appointed as an adviser to the Rajya Sabha chairman.
Former Vice President of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) Anand Shankar Pandya. Pandya died on Wednesday night at his residence in Borli, Mumbai. He was over 99 years old. Pandya Ji was a prolific author and public intellectual. He wrote extensively on history, public policy, and spirituality.
A book titled “Nehru: The Debates that Defined India” has been released and is co-authored by Tripurdaman Singh and Adeel Hussain.
The book highlights India’s first and longest-serving Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and investigates the overlooked role of his contemporaries and opponents in shaping his political vision.
Spanish-German actor Daniel Bruhl has been named a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations World Food Programme WFP. The actor, known for his performances in movies like Rush, Good Bye Lenin, and Baron Zemo in Marvel Cinematic Universe, will help the humanitarian organizations in its mission to reach a world with Zero Hunger.
World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian organization aimed at ending hunger around the globe.
Children’s footwear brand Plaeto has announced the appointment of celebrated Indian cricketer Rahul Dravid as its brand ambassador and mentor.
Dravid, who is one of India’s most celebrated sportsmen, has been closely involved with Plaeto and its founding team, which consists of erstwhile top executives from Nike, Adidas, and Apple, since the idea stage of this pioneering Made-in-India footwear brand. Plaeto is India’s first D2C foot-health-focused footwear brand designed specifically for Indian children. Plaeto was founded in March 2020 by Ravi Kallayil, Sara Kilgore, and Pavan Kareti.