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Important days

National pays homage to Mahatma Gandhi on his 151st birth anniversary and Former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on his 116th birth anniversary

October 4th observed as World animal day

October 5th observed as World Habitat day (Theme- Housing for all- A better urban future)

“Satellites improves life” is the theme of world space week 2020

Indian air force celebrates its 88th anniversary

13th October celebrated as International day for Disaster Risk Reduction

15th October celebrated as World Students day (India’s 11th President Dr. A.P.J Kalam’s birth anniversary)

16th October celebrated as World Food day (Theme- Grow, nourish, sustain. Together our actions are our future)

21st October observed the Police commemoration day

22nd October Ashfaqulla khan the Revolutionary freedom fighter 120th Birth anniversary

27th October to 2nd November will be observed the vigilance Awareness week (Theme- satark Bharat,Samriddh Bharat (Vigilant India, Prosperous India))

31st October celebrated as Rashtriya Ekta Diwas (National Unity Day) tribute to Iron man Sardar Patel on his birth Anniversary

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Government schemes

Mission Sahakar 22 which aims to double farmer’s income by 2022

West Bengal launches “Pathashree Abhiyan” scheme to repair 7000 roads in state

Centre government has extended 50% subsidy on transportation of fruits and vegetable through Kisan Rail Trains

Punjab government’s “Ghar Ghar Rozgar” scheme facilitated employment

Parshottam Rupala (Minister of state for Agriculture) launched “Ayushman Sahakar” scheme to help cooperative contribution to creation of healthcare infrastructure in the country

Maharashtra is first state to cap mask rate, cheapest be sold at Rs 3, N-95 for Rs 19

Gujarat government changes name of daytime electricity scheme Dinkar yojana to Kisan sarvodaya yojana

Indian government launches 'e-Dharti Geo portal'

Airports Authority of India (AAI) to develop at least 100 airports, waterdromes and heliports by 2024 under UDAN scheme

India’s ranking in deferent reports

India Happiness report 2020 Mizorma most happy state, Uttarakhand and Odisha at the bottom

Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh winner of the Swachh Bharat award 2020 (Samudayik Shouchalaya Abhiyan category)

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Haryana and Telangana winner of the Swachh Bharat award 2020 (Gndagi mukth bharat mision category)

India’s rank 129th in recently released CRI Index by Oxfam International (Norway top place and South Sudan last places)

India’s rank 58th in the 2020 global ranking by the Passport index (New Zealand & Japan top places)

India was ranked 94th among 107 countries on the Global hunger index 2020

Life expectancy in India has increased from 59.6 years in 1990 to 70.8 years in 2019

India 4th rank in Asia Power index for 2020

Haryana 1st position Anemia mukt Bharat Index in country

Uttar Pradesh secure 1st rank in disbursing loans under PM Atmanibhar Nidhi Scheme (PM SVANidhi)

Summits & confererence

Saudi Arabia host to the Virtual G-20 leader’s summit

42nd GST council meeting through video conferencing in New Delhi

Prime Minister Modi to inaugurate Artificial Intelligence (AI) “RAISE 2020” Summit

Foreign Ministers of all four quad countries India, Australia, Japan & US to meet in Tokyo

12th BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) summit under the chairmanship of Russia that held on 17th November 2020

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The World Economic forum (WEF) it will hold its Annual meeting 2021 in Lucerne Burgenstock, Switzerland

India hosted the virtually summit of Minister of Justice of Shanghai cooperation Organization

Saudi Arabia host country for Y20 Global Summit 2020

Lok sabha speaker Om Birla led Indian delegation to attend 6th BRICS parliamentary Forum

India to host the 3rd India-US 2+2 ministerial dialogues on October in Delhi

Atal Innovation mission (AIM) launches India-Australia circular Economic Hackathon

National Affairs

CBI Court acquitted all 32 accused in the Babri Masjid demolition case

Arjun Munda (Tribal affairs minister) to launch largest market of tribal products “Tribes India E-marketplace”

PM Narendra Modi to inaugurate “Atal Tunnel” world’s longest highway tunnel (9.02km long) at Rohtang in Himachal Pradesh

South Eastern Railway launches a project “Operation My Saheli” to boost the security of women passengers in trains during Journey

ISLRTC and NCERT to sign MOU to convert educational materials into Indian sign Language

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B777 special purpose VVIP aircraft Air India will be used to fly President, Vice President and Prime Minister

The ministry of Housing and urban affairs has entered into MOU with “Swiggy” one leading food delivery platform

“Dalle Khursani” the famous chilli based Sikkim state got GI Tag

Paytm launched an Android mini app store for Indian developers

India’s first five overpass or “Animal Bridge” will be constructed on Delhi – Mumbai expressway

South central zone of the Railway presented “Man of the month” safety award awarded

India’s 8 Beaches get “Blue Flag” certification (Blue Flag beaches are considered cleanest beaches in the world)

PM Narendra Modi releases Rs 100 coin to celebrates the birth centenary of Rajmata Vijaya Raje Scindia

National Authority of ship recycling will be set up in Gandhinagar, Gujarat

Government of India lift ban on export of alcohol-based Sanitizers in dispenser pump

“Meri Saheli” initiative launched by the Indian Railways

The poll spending limit for candidates contesting Lok Sabha and Assembly election has been increased by 10%

India has banned the sale of natural gas & coal-bed methane to self

India’s first khadi fabric footwear launched by KVIC (Khadi & village industries commission)

LIC launches new deferred annuity plan “New Jeevan Shanti”

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Government allows all overseas citizens of India (OCI) and Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) card holders to visit India for any purpose, except on Tourist visa

New Delhi is the 2nd regional drug repository of national medical plant board inaugurated

“Parinam majusha” is the digital academic repository of CBSE (Central board of secondary education

Railway launches “Meri Saheli” initiative for security for women passengers

K Chandrasekhar Rao (CM of Telangana) has launched the “Dharani” portal for land and property registration

State Affairs

“Corona intensive community survey campaign” launched by Chhattisgarh

Maharashtra becomes first state to regulate prices of masks

Uttar Pradesh CM inaugurates state’s biggest oxygen plant aid medical supplies amid Covid-19 crisis

India’s first advanced manufacturing hub (AMHUB) to be set up in Tamil Nadu

Gujarat state government has order to reduce 25% reduction in school fees in Private school

Goa has become the “Har Ghar Jal state” in the country by providing tap water connection to every rural household

Tamil Nadu government to set up India’s first advanced manufacturing hub

Goa government has tied up with Indian Post

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Haryana government will launch mobile water testing laboratory

Nitin Gadkari to initiate simultaneous blasting for Zojila Tunnel in Jammu and Kashmir

Uttar Pradesh launches “hath dhona, roke corona” on global hand washing day

National Authority of ship recycling will be set up in Gandhinagar, Gujarat

Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurates operations of International Institute of Advance Virology

N S Tomar (Food processing industries minister) virtually inaugurates the India “International Food and Agri week”

Uttar Pradesh launches “Mission Shakti” campaign to tackle crime against women

Heeng will now be cultivated in India for first time in cold-dry Himachal district

Nitin Gadkari to lay foundation stone for country’s first-ever multi-model logistic park in Assam

Maharashtra is first state to cap mask rate, cheapest be sold at Rs 3, N-95 for Rs 19

Chief Justice Gita Mittal inaugurates Jammu & Kashmir’s first family court in Srinagar

Sonowal (CM of ASSAM) lays foundation of Assam Agar International Trade center in Golaghat

My Amber app launched by Vodafone Idea and NASSCOM for women safety

Kerala ordered appointment of women as home guards in the fire and rescue service for the first time in history

Maharashtra has becomes the 3rd state to crub the power of CBI (other two are Rajasthan & west Bengal)

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Tamil Nadu passes order for 7.5% quota to government school student clearing NEET

Prime Minister Modi to inaugurate Arogya Van and Arogya Kutir at Kevadia in Gujarat

Andhra Pradesh launches “Vittana Grama (seed village) programme

Prime Minister Modi inaugurated the Sardar patel zoological park in Kevadia, Gujarat

Arvind Kejriwal launches “Green Delhi” app to redress pollution complaints

International Affairs

NITI Aayog and Embassy of the Netherlands sign MOU on “Decarbonization and Energy transition agenda”

Maldives first country in the world which will have its own Hospitality loyalty hospital

France has announced a gradual ban on the use of wild animal in the circus

Madagascar country’s Indian embassy became the first embassy to use solar power

UN outline 2030 goals to save planet’s biodiversity

India and Myanmar have agreed to work towards the operationalization of the sittwe port in the Rakhine state in the first quarter of 2021

United Nation concerned at Turkish move to open up Cypriot Beach

China formally joins World Health Organization(WHO) led COVAX initiative on COVID-19 vaccine

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Sadyr Hamilton has become the new prime minister of Kyrgyzstan

Russian-US trio of astronauts launches to the ISS (International Space Station)

India gets re-elected as President of International solar Alliance (France as co- president)

'Five Eyes' nations, India and Japan renew demand for backdoor access (US, Australia, Canada, Japan and New Zealand)

Pakistan, China, Russia wins seats on United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)

World Health Organization (WHO) Chief Tedros Adhanom appreciated India’s Aarogya setu App

India bans import of Air conditioners

Microsoft has tied up with AICTE to empower student and Teachers

Government of India extend 40% discount on cargo movement between India and chabahar port in IRAN

France appoints first envoy for Indo-Pacific, to focus on cooperation with INDIA

India has collaborated with Netherland in E-health sector

Honduras becomes 50th nation to ratify UN nuclear ban Treaty

Dubai,UAE country’s Palm fountain in my declared world’s largest fountain

Harvansh rai Bachchan Indian personality a square named in the city of Poland

Wilton Gregory (Former Belleville bishop) named as first African American cardinal

Germany NATO plans to set up new space centre

Japan to achieve zero carbon emissions by 2050 (world’s 3rd largest economy & 5th largest emitter of carbon dioxide

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Feni Bridge to connect Sabroom in Tripura to Ramgarh in Bangladesh

Anzar Mustaeen Ali a 6 year old from Bangladesh won a special prize of USD 1000 for his artwork in the global art competition organized by the Indian council of cultural relation

China is building the world’s highest –altitude cloud computing data centre in Tibet

Economy

Google India launches campaign to drive demand for small businesses

Mongolia has formally acceded to the Asia-pacific trade agreement (APTA)

NABARD (National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development) launches sanitation literacy campaign in Karnataka

Vision group submits report on creating FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) cluster, to transform Hubballi-Dharwad (Karnataka)

Amazon launched a new “Fulfillment centre” in Tamil Nadu

Punjab National Bank (PNB) launches financial inclusion, literacy initiative “Gram sampark abhiyan”

Indian Bank’s kisan credit card loan for Tamil Nadu fishermen

Andhra Pradesh has became the 1st state in the country to successfully undertake Ease of doing business reform

API (application programming interface) integration between PM SVANidhi (prime minister street vendor’s atmanirbhar nidhi) and SBI portal launched

BRICS bank approves fund for Delhi-Meerut rapid rail, Mumbai metro (Project worth 741 Million dollars in India)

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According to the World Bank, India’s GDP growth is expected to contract by 9.6% in financial years 2020-21

Current Repo rate 4%

Current Reverse Repo rate 3.35%

TCS (Tata consultancy service) the most valuable IT (Information Technology) company globally

RBI’s decision to discontinue automatic caution-listing

Reliance Jio first mobile service provider which cross 400 million customers mark in India

Recent world Economic outlook report, IMF (International Monetary Fund) predicted World growth -4.4 % in 2020 (Gita Gopinath, the Chief economist of the IMF said)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi to release Rs 75 commemorative coin to mark FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) 75th anniversary

India provides $1 million for Palestinian refugees

Indian bank MOU with Housing ministry, SIDBI for street vendors

RBI announces first Open Market Operation in state bonds

State bank of India (SBI) had been authorized to sell and encash Electoral bond

India’s agriculture export rise by 14.8% during first five months of current fiscal

RBI conduct first-ever Open Market Operations (OMO) purchase of state government security worth Rs 10,000 crore

RBI announces on Tap Targeted Long-Term Repo Operations

BSE (stock exchange) signs MOU with ICCI (Inventivepreneur chamber of commerce and industries) to support SMEs (Small & medium enterprises), start- ups in listing copyright© www.campusreconnect.com Page 12

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Government bans exports of onion seeds

Finance ministry extends IT exemption under LTC (Leave travel concession) vouches to Non-central government employees

Books & Author

Jitendra Singh launched the book “Discovering the heritage of Assam” written By Padampani Bora

The book “Unfinished” is the memoir of Priyanka Chopra

Priyanka Talesara authored the book titled “The Return of the lost Civilizations”

Dr Balasaheb Vikhe Patil authored the book titled “Deh vechwa karani”

Dr Pradeep Srivastava world’s first scientoon book, authored the book titled “Bye Bye Corona”

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Appointments

Shekhar Kapur appointed as a new president of FTII (Film and Television Institute of India) society and its governing council

RBI appoints its director D K Kashyap on board of Dhanlaxmi bank for 2 years

Apurva Chandra appointed as a new Secretary in Ministry of Labour and Employment

Rinki Sethi appointed as a chief information security officer

M A Ganapathy appointed as a Director General of BCAS

Dinesh Kumar Khara appointed as a new chairman of State Bank of India (SBI)

M A Ganapathy appointed as director general of Civil Aviation Security

J Venkatramu appointed as a MD and CEO of Indian post payments bank

M Rajeshwar Rao appointed as a deputy governor of RBI

Piyush Goyal got additional charge of Union minister for consumer affairs, Food and public distribution

M Rajeshwar appointed as the RBI deputy governor

Rajkiran Rai G is appointed as the chairman of IBA (Indian Bank Association)

Sashidhar Jagdishan appointed as a new MD & CEO of HDFC bank

Vishal V Sharma appointed as a next permanent representative of India to UNESCO’S permanent delegation of India

Shayara Bano anti-Triple Talaq activist appointed as a vice president of Uttarkhand state women’s commission

Yashvardhan Sinha appointed as a new chief information commissioner of India

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Defence

In first, Rajnath singh launches “IDEX4Fauji” to encourage innovation among soldiers

DRDO successfully test fires “Brahmos” surface-to-surface cruise missile

Economic Explosive Limited a first private sector, Defence ministry places order for 10 lakh hand Grenades

The 2nd edition of India and Bangladesh navy bilateral exercise “Bongosagar” is scheduled to commence in Northern Bay of Bengal

Air Marshal RJ Duckworth took over Air officer in charge personnel at Air headquarters Vayu Bhawan

India successfully Test-fires new version of nuclear capable “Shaurya Missile”

Indian coast guard offshore patrol vessel “Vigraha” launched to enhance coastal security

India successfully test-fired it’s Indigenous “Rudram” Anti- radiation missile from a sukhoi-30 fighter aircraft off the east coast

Indian Navy ships Sahyadri and Kora adjudged best ships in Fleet award function 2020

“Suraksha-Kavach” joint Anti Terrorist Exercise by Army and police

India to deliver Kilo class submarine INS Sindhuvir to Myanmar Navy

Indian Air Force (IAF) Hospital in bengaluru wins the Raksha Mantri Trophy for the best command hospital forn2019

BrahMos missile test-fired from destroyer INS Chennai in Arabian Sea

SLINEX-20 India and Sri Lanka begin 8th edition of bilateral maritime exercise schedulded off Trincomalee, Sri Lanka

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Prithvi-2 missile, capable of cable of carrying nukes, blasts off from Odisha in user trial (Surface- Surface missile)

Indigenously built Anti-submarine warfare (ASW) Corvette “Kavaatti” to be commissioned at Visakhapatnam

India and US plan to sign a significant pact, the BECA (Basic exchange and cooperation agreement, for geo-spatial cooperation

Indian Army launches Indigenous mobile application SAI (secure application for the internet), similar to WhatsApp and Telegram

India procured 11,000 cold weather clothing system from USA Armed force

Important Committees

Government of India have appointed economist Jayant R Varma, Shashank Bhide and Ashima Goyal as the new members of monetary policy committee (MPC)

Science and Technology

ISRO to launch mission “Shukrayaan-1” to Venus in 2025,France to join as well

China to launch world’s first asteroid mining robot into space in November 2020

NASA launches kalpana Chawla Cygnus spacecraft to International Space Station

India successfully test SMART (supersonic missile assisted release of torpedo) system for Anti-submarine from Wheeler Island off the coast of Odisha

NVIDIA Announces India’s fastest HPC-AI supercomputer PARAM Siddhi-AI

IBM will set up a centre of excellence for artificial intelligence in India in Partnership with government e-marketplace

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Amazon web service, NITI Aayog launch frontier Technological Cloud innovation centre

Nokia to build Moon’s first mobile network for NASA

Microsoft, Elon musk’s SpaceX join hands to woo space customers

JIO Indian company has partnered with Qualcomm to develop a 5G RAN (Radio Access Network)

My Amber app launched by Vodafone Idea and NASSCOM for women safety

NASA’s SOFIA discovers water on sunlit surface of moon

List of all winners

Sonu Sood has been awarded the SDG special Humanitarian action award

Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel & Andrea Ghez wins Nobel Prize 2020 in Physics field for work on Black hole discovery

Sambath Subbaiah’s photo won wildlife photographer of the year award in the Birds behavior category

Harvey J Alter (Americans), Charles M Rice (Americans) and Michel Houghton (British) share Nobel Prize 2020 for Physiology or Medicine for Discovery of Hepatitis C virus

Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel & Andrea Ghez wins Nobel Prize 2020 in Physics field for work on Black hole discovery

American poet Louise Gluck has won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature

World Food Programme has won the Nobel peace prize 2020

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The Ministry of Road Transport & Highway has awarded a total of 322 projects in a length of 12,413 km under Bhartmala Prriyojana till August 2020

Minti Agarwal has become the first women to receive Yudh seva medal

American Paul Milgrom & Robert W ilson jointly win 2020 Nobel Prize in Economics

Emmanuelle Charprntier and Jennifer A Doudna shares Nobel Prize 2020 for Chemistry for the Development of method for genome editing

Army Chief M. M. Naravane to visit Nepal to receive honorary rank of “General of the Nepal army” by the Nepal president

Mrs Seema Gupta director operations Power Grid wins 2020 stevie awards for women in Business

Aishwarya Sridhar becomes first Indian woman win wildlife photographer of the year award her photo title “Light of Passion”

Ali Akbar (Film director & cultural activist) has been selected for the 8th Saraswathi award instituted by Sanathana dharma vedi Tirur

India-made Mangdechhu Hydroelectric project in Bhutan wins Brunel Medal 2020 top UK engineers body award

Nityanand Nayak (odia poet),will be conferred the prestigious Sarla puraskar 2020 for his poetry work “setebelaku Nathiba”

Rajesh goenka director, RP tech India bags the prestigious Global CMO leadership award 2020

Art & Culture

The Jammu & Kashmir police are organizing a 3-day “Jashn-E-dal festival” at the Dal Lake

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Reports/survey

Department of Fertilizers ranked 3rd among 65 ministries/departments in Implementing central scheme

99% of the Indian cities under urban local bodies have become “Open Defecation Free” (ODF)

Zerodha’s Nithin and Nikhil Kamath top IIFL Wealth Hurun India 40 & under self-made rich list 2020

India currently 3rd largest startup ecosystems in the world

As per a report at least half of the India’s 1.3 billion people are likely to have been infected with the new coronavirous by February 2021

India has highest TB burden across the globe at 26% as per WHO (World Health organization) report

Slight improvement in Delhi’s air quality as AQI (Air quality index) drops to 208 (201 to 300 is consider poor, 301 to 400 very poor, 401 to 500 severe)

One in six children lives in extreme poverty as per UNICEF &World Bank recently published “Global estimate of children in monetary poverty”

“The world’s women 2020: Trends & statistics” was released by United Nations (UN)

Uttar Pradesh secure 1st rank in disbursing loans under PM Atmanibhar Nidhi Scheme (PM SVANidhi)

131ST is the position of India the global internet speed ranking among 138 countries (1st place South Korea)

Doing business in India report,2020 released by UK India business Council (UKIBC)

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Sports

Visnu Shivaraj Pandian won the 10m (meter) air rifle event of the International online shooting championship

Ons Jabeur first Arab women who reached the fourth round of the French open

Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegai smashes the 10000m world record in a time of 26 minutes 11.00 seconds

Rafael Nadal beats djokovic to win 13TH French open and equals Federer’s grand slam record

Nihal Sarin wins junior speed online chess championship

Mladenovic and Babos retain French Open 2020 Women’s double title

Japan PM Yoshihide Suga vows to do all it takes to organize Tokyo Olympic in 2021

Rohit Sharma is new brand ambassador of Vega

Nozomi Okuhara clinched the Denmark open title

Sports minister Kiren Rijiju to launch 200km ITBP “Fit India walkathon” in Rajasthan

Lewis Hamilton overtakes Schumacher with record 92nd F1 win

Rohit Sharma has been roped in as the brand ambassador of Dr. Trust healthcare firm

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Obituary

Kuwait Emir Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al sabah passed away at 91

Minister of consumer affairs, food and public disribution Ram Vilas Paswan passed way days after surgery

India’s famous Eminent Kuchipudi dancer Shobha Naidu passed away at 64 in Hyderabad

Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri Malayalam poet and Gandhian passed away

Bhanu Athaiya India’s first ever Oscar winner and costume designer passed away at age of 91

Metropolitan Joseph Mar Thoma the spiritual head of the Mathoma Christian community Passed Away

Dr. Vijayalakshmi Ramanan wing commander (Retd) first women IAF officer passed away at 96 in Bengaluru

Mahesh Kanodia (film musician, former MP) passed away at 83

K.S.Subramanian a former director of the Asian development bank and founder trustee of the national Agro foundation (NAF) passed away