NATIONAL

National Health Accounts Estimates released

• Secretary of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare Rajesh Bhushan has released findings of National Health Accounts (NHA) Estimates for India for 2017-18.
• This is the fifth consecutive NHA report produced by National Health Accounts Technical Secretariat (NHATS) in 2014 by the Union Health Ministry.
• The findings showed that Government expenditure has increased from 3.78% to 5.12% between 2013-14 and 2017-18.
• In per capita terms, the government health expenditure has increased from Rs 1,042 to Rs.1,753 between 2013-14 to 2017-18. The share of primary healthcare in the health expenditure has increased from 51.1% in 2013-14 to 54.7% in 2017-18.
• The primary and secondary care accounts for more than 80% of the current Government health expenditure.
• Total health expenditure has increased  from 6% in 2013-14 to 9 % in 2017-18. The findings also depict that the foreign aid for health declined to 0.5%.

Highest railway pier bridge under construction

• Indian Railways is constructing the worlds highest pier bridge in Manipur, as a part of 110 km long new Jiribam-Imphal broad gauge railway line.
• The pier bridge is being constructed at a height of 141 metres running at a length of 703 metres.
• The bridge is constructed over the river Barak, which is the largest river of Manipur.

GI tag requested for Honey

• The Marthandam Beekepers Co-operative Society Ltd has applied for seeking Geographical Indication tag for Marathandam Honey.
• Geographical Indication Registration of Products of the Tamil Nadu Government Sanjai Gandhi has Filed the application on behalf of the Co-operative society.
• The honey is being produced in Kakulam and Vilavancode taluks of Kanniyakumari district, which produces 6lakh kg of honey every year.
• The honey produced by the society has been granted AGMARK A grade by the government of India.

INTERNATIONAL

Booster shots to adults in UK

• Amid the spread of Omicron variant, the government of United Kingdom has allowed adults whose age is above 18 for getting booster shots.
• This move was backed by the scientific advisory board to react quickly for the surge in variant of concern.

Sweden’s PM elected again

• Magdalena Andersson was re elected as the Prime minister of Sweden again after she resigned due to budgetary deficit, and set to form a oneparty minority government.

• She is the first women prime minister of Sweden.

New CEO to Twitter

• Parag Agarwal, an Indian Orgin was appointed as the new chief executive officer of social media giant Twitter.
• He is set to replace Jack Dorsey, who was the CEO of twitter.

BANKING, FINANCE AND ECONOMICS

Net direct tax revenue grew for the fiscal year

• Minister of State For Finance Pankaj Chaudry has announced that the net direct tax collection rose nearly 68% during the period of April to November which is more than Rs 6.92 lakh crore.
• The Net Direct Tax Collection figures for the fiscal year 2021-22 stood at Rs 6,92,833.6 crores showing a growth of 67.93% and 27.29% over the net collection figures for the corresponding period FY2020-21 and FY 2019-20.
• The gross direct tax collection as of November stood at over Rs 8.15 lakh crore, a 48.11 growth over the collections in the corresponding period in last fiscal.

RBI approved LIC to raise its stake

• The Reserve bank of India has approved to increase Life Insurance Corporation’s stake holding capacity in the private sector lender Kotak Mahindra Bank to 9.99%.

SPORTS

Satwik-Chirag advances to Finals

• Satwiksairaj Ranki Reddy and Chirag Shetty has been qualified for the Badminton World Federation finals in the doubles men badminton.
• They defeated the Japanese pair Akira Koga and Taichi Saito to enter into the finals.

MISCELLANEOUS

• Nov 30^th is observed as the National Computer Security Day.
• Nov 30^th is observed as the Guru Nanak Dev Ji Jayanti, to mark the birth anniversary of first Sikh Guru, Guru Nanak.