12th JUNE 2025 ENGLISH TNPSC CURRENT AFFAIRS PDF TNPSC SHOUTERS
Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad
- The plane, which took off from Ahmedabad airport in Gujarat for London at exactly 1.38 pm today, takes off in a few seconds. The plane, which cannot fly up, staggers towards the ground for the next 20 seconds and crashes into the building of a medical college and explodes.
- It is understood that the pilot announced a 'May Day' to the control room due to a technical fault as soon as the plane started flying. While there were 242 people on board the plane, including the flight crew, more than 200 bodies have been recovered so far. Only one person has been recovered with injuries and has been admitted to the hospital for treatment.
- Compared to May 2024, the inflation rate for May 2025 is 2.82% based on the All India Consumer Price Index on a year-on-year basis. Inflation fell by 34 basis points in May 2025 compared to April 2025. This is the lowest inflation rate since February 2019.
- Compared to May 2024, the food inflation rate for May 2025 was 0.99%. Compared to April 2025, the food inflation rate in May 2025 has declined by 79 basis points. The significant decline in inflation and food inflation in May 2025 is mainly due to the decline in inflation in vegetables, pulses, fruits, meat, cereals, sugar, eggs, etc.
- Rural food inflation remained unchanged at 2.59% in May 2025, compared to 2.59% in April 2025. Urban inflation was 3.36% in April 2025, but it declined to 3.07% in May 2025. Food inflation declined to 0.96% in May 2025 from 1.64% in April 2025.
- Housing inflation rate was 3.16% in May 2025, as against 3.06% in April 2025. Urban and rural education inflation rate was 4.12% in May 2025, as against 4.13% in April 2025. Rural and urban health inflation rate was 4.34% in May 2025, as against 4.25% in April 2025.
- The rural and urban transport and communication inflation rate for May 2025 was 3.85%. It was 3.67% in April 2025. The rural and urban fuel and electricity tariff inflation rate for May 2025 was 2.78%. It was 2.92% in April 2025.
- The Government has approved the procurement of a total of 54,166 metric tonnes of pulses under the Price Support Scheme in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat for the summer cropping season 2025–26.
- The government has also approved the procurement of 50,750 MT of groundnut in Uttar Pradesh for the summer crop season 2025-26 under this scheme.
- During the meeting, keeping in view the welfare of the farmers of the state, the Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan, has approved the extension of the procurement period in Andhra Pradesh by 15 days upto 26.06.25.
- In order to encourage farmers, reduce the country's dependence on imports and improve the production of domestic pulses, the government has approved the procurement of tur, urad dal and lentil upto 100 percent of the production of the respective state under the procurement price support scheme for the procurement year 2024-25.
- Further, the Union Government announced in the Union Budget 2025 that this initiative will continue for another four years till 2028–29. The Union Government is implementing an integrated scheme called the Prime Minister’s Farmers Income Protection Scheme. It comprises a Price Support Scheme, a Price Deficit Correction Scheme, a Market Intervention Scheme and a Fund for Stable Prices.
- The main objective of this initiative is to ensure stable and remunerative prices for the produce of farmers. Through this, it aims to protect their income and protect their livelihood against market fluctuations.
- The Procurement Price Support Scheme is implemented to provide remunerative prices to farmers when the market prices of pulses, oilseeds and copra notified during the harvest season fall below the notified minimum support price.
