Top news of the day: Bhupendra Patel sworn in as 18th Chief Minister of Gujarat; retail inflation fell below 6% mark for first time this calendar year in November, and more
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Bhupendra Patel sworn in as 18th Chief Minister of Gujarat, PM Modi attends ceremony
Bhupendra Patel was sworn as the 18th Chief Minister of Gujarat in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Kanubhai Desai, Raghavji Patel, Rushikesh Patel, Balwantsinh Rajput, Kuvarji Bavalia, Mulubhai Bera, Kuber Dindor and Bhanuben Babaria took oath as Cabinet Ministers. Parshottam Solanki, Bachubhai Khabad, Mukesh Patel, Praful Pansheriya, Bhikhusinh Parmar and Kunvarji Halpati took oath as Minister of State. Harsh Sanghavi and Jagdish Panchal take oath as MoS with independent charge.
Retail inflation falls below 6% mark for first time in 2022
India’s retail inflation fell below the 6% mark for the first time this calendar year in November, cooling to 5.88% from 6.77% in October, with food price inflation faced by consumers easing to 4.67% from over 7% in October. Rural retail inflation, however, stayed high at 6.09%. India’s industrial output contracted by a sharp 4% in October, the second time in three months that production levels have contracted year-on-year, led by a significant 5.6% drop in manufacturing output and minimal growth recorded in electricity generation. Industrial output had grown nearly 3.5% in September, as per revised numbers.
Several Army soldiers injured in clashes with Chinese PLA on Dec. 9, first incident of its kind after Galwan
Several Indian Army soldiers were injured in a clash with the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) at Yangtse, Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh on December 9, multiple sources told The Hindu. Confirming that the incident has occurred, a defence official with knowledge of the matter, without giving the specifics, said that the injuries on the “Chinese side were much higher than on the Indian side.”
SC takes serious note of ‘scurrilous’ allegations made by petitioner-advocate in forcible religious conversions case
While residents are worried over deaths due to diarrhoea in Vijayawada, officials still grapple to find the root cause. Contaminated drinking water supplied by VMC officials is the reason, insist people in the affected areas, but officials insist that efforts are on to identify the disease and that those with symptoms other than diarrhoea too are visiting the health camps.