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*Current Affairs : <ol> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1.Gopichand P Hinduja, chairman of globe-spanning Hinduja Group, died in London at the age of 85, sources close to his family said.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2.Asserting that Paradip would soon emerge as the ‘gate way’ to eastern India, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Tuesday said the port town will have a greenfi eld airport, a cruise terminal and also become a hub of green hydrogen.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3.India’s richest 1 per cent expanded its wealth by 62 per cent between 2000 to 2023, according to a report commissioned by the South African Presidency of the G20.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4.Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voters’ list commenced in nine states and three Union territories.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5.Prof Nalini Pati, Australia head of the World Communicators Council (WCC) — a global initiative of the Public Relations Council of India (PRCI) — was felicitated at a ceremony held at Bhubaneswar Club recently.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6.The Bombay High Court Tuesday granted bail to a 65-year-old man arrested in connection with the July 2011 triple bomb blasts in the metropolis, taking note of the prolonged trial, the accused's old age and his ailments.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">7.The Kerala High Court here has ruled that if a Muslim man wants to register his second marriage under the Kerala Registration of Marriages (Common) Rules 2008, while his earlier one is still in existence, his first wife should also be heard on whether she is agreeable to it or not.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">8.The Supreme Court Tuesday reserved its verdict on whether uniform, nationwide criteria should be framed for determining seniority in the Higher Judicial Service (HJS) to address disparities in career progression for judges across states.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">9.Typhoon Kalmaegi has left at least 26 people dead in the Philippines, mostly in fl ooding set off by the storm, which barreled across the central part of the country on Tuesday, disaster response officials said. Floodwaters trapped scores of people on their roofs and submerged cars.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">10.Appellate tribunal NCLAT, Tuesday set aside a section of a Competition Commission of India (CCI) order that had banned WhatsApp from sharing data with Meta Platforms for advertising purposes for five years.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">11.The rupee recovered from the record low level and settled with a gain of 7 paise at 88.70 against the US dollar, Tuesday, boosted by a correction in global crude oil prices.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">12.The POCSO act is being misused in cases of marital discord and consensual relationships between adolescents, the Supreme Court said Tuesday while stressing the need to spread awareness in boys and men about its legal provisions</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">13.Delhi was ranked the sixth most polluted city in the country in October, behind neighbouring Ghaziabad and Noida, according to a study. Dharuhera in Haryana was ranked as the most</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">14.At least nine climbers, including two Nepalese guides, have been killed in two separate avalanches in Nepal, offi cials said Tuesday.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:20px;"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">15.The title-winning Indian stars expectedly dominated the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup Team of the Tournament with Smriti Mandhana, Jemimah Rodrigues and Deepti Sharma making it to the line-up announced Tuesday</span></span></p> </li> </ol>