the last major hurdle on the way to enacting a law aimed at protecting women's rights.  Activists say that Hindu women have been

India-Russia Joint Military Exercise Indra-2016 Begins in disproportionately targeted for abduction, forced Vladivostok conversions and rape because their marriages were never The eighth edition of officially recognised and therefore not provable in court. India-Russia Joint  Hindus make up approximately 1.6 percent of Pakistan's Military Exercise Muslim-majority population, but have not had any legal ‘INDRA-2016’ has mechanisms to register their marriages since independence begun in the from Britain in 1947. Ussiriysk District in Vladivostok, Russia. World Tourism Day: 27 September  Main focus of The World Tourism this edition of the Day (WTD) is being joint exercise is observed annually on on ‘Counter-Terrorism Operations in semi mountainous 27th September to and jungle terrain under United Nations Mandate’. raise awareness about  To achieve interoperability in joint operations, troops from the importance of both sides would acquaint themselves with the respective tourism. approach to such operations. A comprehensive training  Theme for the World Tourism Day is - "Tourism for all programme spanning eleven days has been drawn up for promoting universal accessibility’. the purpose.  The United Nations World Tourism Organization has been  250 soldiers of the KUMAON Regiment led by Brigadier celebrating World Tourism Day on September 27 since Sukrit Chadah, are representing the Indian Contingent and 1980. the Russian army is being represented by 250 soldiers  The day is celebrated as World Tourism Day to raise from the 59th Motorized Infantry Brigade. awareness on the role of tourism within the international  Indra series of bilateral exercises is one of the major community and to demonstrate how it affects social, bilateral defence cooperation initiatives between India and cultural, political and economic values worldwide. Russia since 2003. Four SAARC member including India decided to boycott the Lopamudra Raut, the second runner-up at Miss United Summit in Islamabad Continents 2016 Four SAARC member Jeslyn Santos from Philippines won the title of Miss United countries, namely India, Continents 2016 whereas India's Lopamudra Raut bagged Afghanistan, Bangladesh second runner-up spot at Miss United Continents 2016 at a and Bhutan, decided to grand ceremony held on 25th September, 2016 at Crystal boycott the 19th SAARC Palace Guayaquil, Ecuador. Summit to be hosted by  The competition saw 32 participants from the 4 continents Pakistan. The summit is of America, Asia, Europe and Africa, giving a stiff scheduled to be held in competition. Islamabad from 9 to 10 November 2016.  As per rules, the summit is postponed if any head of state India moves to 39th spot in Global Competitiveness Report or government decided not to participate in the summit. World Economic Forum (WEF) released the Global  Nepal is the current chair of SAARC. Competitiveness Report (GCR) 2016-2017. The report assesses the competitiveness landscape of 138 economies. World Rabies Day: 28th September  India has jumped 16 places in the GCI report to occupy the World Rabies Day has observed on 28 September 2016. 39th spot. In 2015-16 GCI report, India was placed at 55th  The theme for the World Rabies Day - Educate. Vaccinate. position as compared to 71st rank in 2014-15 report. Eliminate.  Top 10 countries in ranking are Switzerland, Singapore,  The day is annually celebrated to raise awareness about United States, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, United rabies prevention and to highlight progress in defeating the Kingdom, Japan, Hong Kong (SAR), and Finland disease. respectively. World Maritime Day: 29 September Pakistan assembly passes marriage bill protecting Hindu The World Maritime Day is observed across the world on 29 women’s rights September to highlight the importance of shipping safety, Pakistan's lower house of parliament has passed a landmark bill maritime security and the marine environment. giving its small Hindu minority the right to register marriages,  2016 Theme is “Shipping: indispensable to the world”.

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 The theme focuses on the critical link between shipping  It’s almost 2.5 times the Nigerian number of Poor people and global society. It also raises awareness of the which is 8.6 Crore. Nigeria Finished second in terms of relevance of the role of IMO as the global regulatory body number of people below poverty line. for international shipping. Abu Dhabi Crown Prince to be 2017 Republic Day chief guest WHO declares Region of the Americas as Measles free The crown prince of Abu The World Health Organisation (WHO) on 27 September 2016 Dhabi, Sheikh Mohammed declared the Region of the Americas as Measles free. bin Zayed Al Nahyan will  The declaration came during the 55th Directing Council of be chief guest for the the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Republic Day celebrations Organization (PAHO/WHO). in January.  With this, the Americas became the first in the world to  Mohammed have eliminated measles, a viral disease that can cause bin Zayed said, "Our severe health problems, including pneumonia, blindness, strong relations are deeply rooted in history; our strategic brain swelling and even death. cooperation has increased, driven by our mutual aspirations to develop it." Cuba and Russia sign agreement on Peaceful Nuclear  The Republic Day chief guest in 2016 was French Cooperation president Francois Hollande. Rosatom, Russian state nuclear agency, and Cuba's Ministry of Science on 27 September 2016 signed an agreement on International day of Older Persons: 1st October cooperation in the field of peaceful atomic energy use. Every year 1st October is observed as International day of  The deal was signed on the sidelines of the International Older Persons. Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference in  The significance of Day is to raise awareness about issues Vienna. affecting the elderly and to appreciate the contributions  The deal lays the basis for further Russian-Cuban that older people make to society. cooperation in different fields of peaceful atomic energy  This year, the theme is "Take a Stand Against Ageism.". use, from agriculture to training nuclear specialists. International day for non violence: 2nd October Pakistan postpones SAARC summit The 8th International Day of Non-Violence was observed Pakistan has officially postponed the 19th SAARC Summit to on 2nd October. be held in November in Islamad.  The day that falls on October 2 has been declared  Pakistan's decision to postpone the SAARC meet has unanimously by the General Assembly of the United come in the wake of five South Asian countries, including Nations in 2007,in the memory of Mahatma Gandhi. India, expressing their inability to participate in the  The day is being celebrated against terrorism and violence summit. since 2008.  India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka had already pulled out of the SAARC summit indirectly India, Singapore sign three agreements blaming Pakistan for creating an environment which is not India and Singapore have right for the successful holding of the meet. signed three agreements (MoUs) in the fields of US & Vietnam navies begin 7th annual NEA in Da Nang skill development The US and Vietnamese navies have begun the 7th annual and IPR to boost bilateral Naval Engagement Activity NEA, Vietnam 2016 at Tien Sa relations between them. Port in Da Nang.  These agreements  The exercise will focus on non-combatant events and Code were signed in New Delhi during Singapore Prime for Unplanned Encounters at Sea and search and rescue Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s official state visit to India. scenarios.  Signed MoUs are  MoU in the field of Industrial Property Cooperation: It India home to highest number of poors, Naijria second: World was signed between Department of Industrial Policy & Bank Promotion (DIPP) and Intellectual Property Office (IPO), A recent World Bank report said that in the 2013, the highest Singapore number of people living below poverty line were in India.  MoU on collaboration in the field of Technical and  It was said in a report titled ‘Poverty and share Prosperity’. Vocational Education and Training: It was National Skill  The report says,’ India is a country where most number of Development Corporation (NSDC) and ITEES Singapore. people are living below the international standard of $1.90  MoU on collaboration in the field of Technical and per day. Number of people living below poverty line is Vocational Education and Training: It was signed between calculated to be 22.4 Crore. Government of Assam and ITEES Singapore.

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France becomes first country to ban plastic cups and plates the name of honour and the other to punish rapists by use of France has become the first country in the world to ban modern technology of DNA testing in probes involving rape disposable plastic cups and plates. cases.  The country has passed a law in September 2016 that will  The two bills are titled as, Criminal law amendment go into effect in January 2020. The law will require all (offences in the name or on the pretext of honour) bill, disposable tableware to be made from 50% biologically- 2016 and Anti-rape (criminal laws amendment) bill, 2016. sourced materials that can be composted at home. That  The anti-honour killing bill states, relatives of the victim number will rise to 60% by January of 2025. will be able to pardon the killer if he/she is awarded capital  The measure is an addition to France's Energy Transition punishment; however, the culprit will have to face for Green Growth Act, a wide-reaching law adopted in mandatory life sentence (25 years). 2015 with the aim of mitigating the impact of climate change. World Post Day: 9th October In July 2016, France imposed a total ban on the World Post Day is celebrated each year on 9 October, the distribution of lightweight plastic bags at supermarket anniversary of the establishment of the Universal Postal Union checkouts. in 1874 in the Swiss Capital, Bern.  As per the French Association of Health and  The theme for this year 2016 is Innovation, Integration and Environment, ASEF One hundred and fifty single-use Inclusion. cups are thrown away every second in France, which counts to 4.73 billion per year. World Mental Health Day: 10 October World Mental Health Day is observed annually on 10 October. World Teachers’ Day: 5 October  This year theme is ‘Psychological First Aid’. The World Teachers’ Day (WTD) 2016 is being observed  The day is annually observed with an aim to raise across the world on 5th October. awareness about mental health issues around the world and  The theme for the World Teachers’ Day 2016 is Valuing mobilising efforts in support of mental health. Teachers, Improving their Status. International Day of the Girl Child: 11 October Three agreements between India and Switzerland International Day of the Girl is observed annually on 11 The Union Home October; it is also called the Day of the Girl. Minister Shri Rajnath Singh  The theme for this year's International Day of the Girl (11 met the visiting Minister for October) is "Girls' Progress = Goals' Progress: What Justice and Police of Swiss Counts for Girls". Confederation,  On December 19, 2011, United Nations General Assembly Ms. Simonetta Sommaruga. adopted Resolution 66/170 to declare October 11 as the  On the occasion, the two International Day of the Girl Child, to recognize girls’ sides signed three agreements including rights and the unique challenges girls face around the  Mutual Visa Exemption Agreement for Holders of world. Diplomatic Passports,  The International Day of the Girl Child focuses attention  Technical Arrangements on Identification and Return of on the need to address the challenges girls face and to Illegal Migrants and Arrangement for Dependent Person promote girls’ empowerment and the fulfillment of their of Diplomatic, Consular, human rights.  Technical and Administrative Staff of Diplomatic and Consular Mission to Perform Gainful Employment. Russia & Turkey agree to intensify military, intelligence contacts US lifts economic sanctions on Myanmar The Russian and Turkish The U.S. on 7 October 2016 lifted sanctions against Myanmar leaders have agreed to that have been in place for nearly two decades. intensify military and  The Treasury Department stated that the economic and intelligence contacts after financial sanctions administered by the Department of the a meeting in Istanbul, Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control were no Turkey. longer in effect.  After his meeting  The Government of Myanmar was under economic with Turkish sanctions by the US Treasury Department. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, they have agreed on the need for aid Pakistan passes long-awaited anti-honour killing and anti-rape to get to the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. legislations  The two countries have also signed a deal to construct two Pakistan Parliament in a joint sitting on 6 October 2016 pipelines to send Russian gas under the Black Sea to unanimously passed two bills, one seeking to curb murders in Turkey.

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India-Indonesia Bilateral Maritime Exercise Commence at  The Maldives has been under international scrutiny over Belawan, Indonesia its crackdown on opposition leaders, especially over the India and Indonesia has kicked off their bilateral Maritime jailing of the most senior members of the main parties, exercise at Belawan, Indonesia. It aims for Cooperation in the including former President Mohamed Nasheed. field of Maritime security.  Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of  In a demonstration of India's commitment to its ties with 52 member states that were mostly territories of the former Indonesia and to the maritime security in the Indian Ocean British Empire Region, Indian Naval Ship Karmuk, an indigenously built missile corvette, based under the Andaman and Nicobar List of most unsafe countries in the world released Command, alongwith a Dornier Maritime Patrol Aircraft, Global Travel and Tourism is participating in the 28th India-Indonesia Coordinated Report released by the Patrol and Second Bilateral Maritime Exercise World Economic Forum on  It is scheduled from 10-27 Oct 16 in the Andaman Sea. 14th October 2016 ranked India 13th while Pakistan the Global hunger index 2016 4th most unsafe country in India ranked 97th out of the world. 118 countries on the  Nigeria was ranked as the most unsafe country with a score International Food Policy of 2.65. Research Institute’s  Finland (6.7) is followed by Qatar (6.61) as the safest (IFPRI) Global Hunger countries in the world. Index (GHI) in 2016, behind Nepal, Sri Lanka, World Standards Day: 14 October Bangladesh, among World Standards Day is observed annually on 14 October. others.  The theme for World Standards Day 2016 is “Standards  It was positioned at 80 out of 104 countries the previous Build Trust". year.  The aim of World Standards Day is to raise awareness  Besides, the country was still rated with ‘serious’ hunger among regulators, industry and consumers as to the levels in the 2016 Index. importance of standardization to the global economy.  Overall, the Central African Republic, Chad, and Zambia fared the worst while Argentina fared the best among the World Student Day: October 15 countries included in the study. October 15th, Dr. Abdul Kalam's birthday is observed as World Student Day by United Nations Organization annually. International Day for Disaster Reduction: October 13  In India, he is highly respected as a scientist and as a great International Day for Disaster Reduction is observed annually personality. on 13 October.  He was the 11th President of India.  This year theme is Live to Tell: Raising Awareness, Reducing Mortality. India, Brazil ink 4 MoUs in Goa  Initially, in a meeting of UNGA, it was decided to observe India and Brazil signed the day on every second Wednesday, but in a proposal in four Memoranda of 2009, it was decided to observe the day on 13th October. Understanding (MoUs) on investment India donates Rs. 9.3 million to Mandela Foundation cooperation and India has donated Rs. 9.3 million to the Nelson Mandela facilitation treaty, on Foundation to help it in its welfare work for the people of South cattle genomics and Africa. assisted reproductive  Announcing the donation at the offices of the Foundation technologies, on genetic resources, agriculture, animal here, Indian High Commissioner Ruchi Ghanashyam said husbandry, natural resources and fisheries and on the donation was a direct result of the recent visit by Prime pharmaceutical products regulation. Minister Narendra Modi.  PM Modi invited Brazilian companies to invest in India.  The Nelson Mandela Foundation was established in 1999 Brazilian President Michel Temer was here to attend after the then President Nelson Mandela stepped down as BRICS Summit. the President of South Africa.  Brazil is among the most important economic partners of India in Latin America. Maldives leaves Commonwealth after warnings over democracy MoU between India and Hungary on water management Maldives has announced its decision to leave the saying it was The Union Cabinet under the Chairmanship of Prime Minister treated unjustly and unfairly by the Commonwealth. Shri Narendra Modi has given its approval for signing of a

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Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and  The joint exercise, compliments the Hand in Hand series Hungary on cooperation in the field of water management. of the India -China joint exercises and the effort of both  First MoU , particularly is on river basin management/ the nations to enhance cooperation and maintain peace and integrated water resources management, efficiency in tranquility along the border areas of India and China. water supply and irrigation technology innovation and flood & drought management while the other one is on India, Myanmar signed 3 MoUs including Cooperation in the cooperation between international affairs councils. field of Power Sector India and Myanmar signed three agreements to boost the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty: October 17 bilateral relations between the two nations. Keeping in view the The United Nations' International Day for the Eradication of sensitivity of each other’s strategic interests, the two nations Poverty is observed on October 17 each year since 1993. also agreed for close security coordination in border areas.  This year's theme is ‘moving from humiliation and  The MoUs were inked in New Delhi after delegation level exclusion to participation: Ending poverty in all its talks with the visiting State Counsellor of Myanmar Aung forms’. San Suu Kyi.  MoUs Signed: World Food Day 2016 – October 16 2016  MoU for designing an academic and professional building The World Food Day—a day to heighten public awareness programme for insurance industry of Myanmar. about the interconnection of agriculture, food security and  MoU on Cooperation in the field of Power Sector world hunger was observed on 16th October.  MoU on Banking Supervision between RBI and Central  This year’s theme is “Climate is changing. Food and Bank of Myanmar. agriculture must too.” United Nations Day: 24 October BRICS to set up credit rating agency 24 October is celebrated as United Nations Day since 1948.  This year's UN Day will be used to highlight concrete actions people can take to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.  UN is headquartered in New York and currently it has 193 members.

Indo-Sri Lanka Joint Military Exercise Mitra Shakti 2016 The five-nation group of emerging economies BRICS has begins in Ambepussa, Sri Lanka agreed to set up an independent BRICS Rating Agency in its The fourth edition of the India-Sri Lanka Joint Military efforts to challenge western hegemony in the world of finance. Exercise ‘MITRA SHAKTI 2016’ is being conducted at  It was announced during the 8th BRICS summit held in Ambepussa, Sri Lanka from 24 October to 06 November 2016. Goa, India. BRICS comprises five emerging economies —  The Indian Contingent is represented by a platoon from the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. RAJPUTANA RIFLES Regiment and the Sri Lankan Army will be represented by a platoon from the Sinha Second Joint tactical Exercise held by Indian and Chinese army Regiment. in Ladakh  Indian military will conduct exercises with several As part of the ongoing initiative to enhance interaction and SAARC countries. Under which the Indian Army will cooperation between India and China, under the provisions of exercise with Nepal and Bangladesh. Border Defense Cooperation Agreement, 2013, the Indian and  Exercise with Nepal is termed as ‘SURYAKIRAN’. The Chinese armies held Second Joint Exercise “Sino India military exercises with neighboring Bangladesh will be Cooperation 2016” today, as a sequel to the first Joint Exercise conducted between 5 -18 November. held on 06 Feb 2016 in the area of Border Personnel Meeting Hut at Chushul Garrison of Eastern Ladakh, along with India up 21 places in WEF gender gap report: WEF Chinese troops of Moldo Garrison. India has climbed 21 spots to rank 87th on the World  During the day long exercise on Humanitarian Aid and Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2016. Disaster Relief (HADR) a fictitious situation of  With this jump in ranking, India has now overtaken China earthquake striking an Indian Border village was painted. which is ranked 99th out of 144 countries. Thereafter joint teams carried out rescue operations,  Iceland tops the latest rankings followed by evacuation and rendering of medical assistance. Finland, Norway and Sweden. The World Economic

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India, New Zealand Sign Three Agreements India and New Zealand signed three GST council sets exemption threshold for tax at Rs.20 lakh agreements in the areas The Goods & Services of double taxation Tax (GST) Council has avoidance, food decided that businesses security and sports to in the north-eastern and carry forward the ties hill states with annual between both sides. turnover below Rs.10  The agreements were signed in the presence of Prime lakh would be out of Minister Narendra Modi and his New Zealand counterpart the GST net, while the John Key after the delegation-level talks. threshold for the

exemption in the rest of India would be an annual turnover of Disarmament Week observed Rs.20 lakh. Disarmament Week is an annual event that is observed from 24  States would have sole jurisdiction over assessees October to 30 October in various parts of the world. The annual (currently in the Value Added Tax (VAT) net at present) observation of the Week starts on the anniversary of the having a turnover of Rs.1.5 crore or less, while the founding of the United Nations, which is observed as administrative control of businesses with a turnover the United Nations Day. exceeding that limit would be jointly with the central and  On the occasion, the United Nations invites states to state governments, Mr. Jaitley said. highlight the danger of the arms race, propagate the need  The Council also decided that the existing 11 lakh service for its cessation and increase public understanding of the tax assessees will continue to be under the jurisdiction of urgent tasks of disarmament. the Centre.

Singapore Navy Ship Reaches Vishakhapatnam For Joint Childhood cancer awareness exhibition at Taj Mahal from Exercise Sept. 25 A Singapore Navy ship, RSS Formidable, a multi-role stealth A first-of-its-kind exhibition on childhood cancer awareness frigate reached Vishakhapatnam to participate in a joint naval began in the premises of the Taj Mahal, authorities said. exercise 'SIMBEX-16' with India.  As many as 1,500 children are expected to participate in  RSS Formidable is first in six multi role secret frigates and the three-day exhibition, which is a part of the 'Go Gold it’s a part of 185 Squadron in Changi. India-Taj Goes Gold and UP Goes Gold' campaign of non-

government organisation (NGO) 'CanKids, Kidscan', India ranks 133rd in Commonwealth youth index National Society for Change for Childhood Cancer in India has ranked India. very poorly at 133  Uttar Pradesh (UP) Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has in a new Global also extended his support to the campaign. Youth

Development Index 2nd SAARC Anti-Terrorism Mechanism held in New Delhi compiled by the The second Commonwealth meeting of the Secretariat on the High Level countries' prospects Group of for young people in employment, education, health, civic and Eminent political spheres. Experts to  India ranked 133rd in the index covering 183 nations, strengthen the below neighbouring countries like Nepal (77), Bhutan (69) SAARC Anti- and Sri Lanka (31) and trailing behind the South Asian Terrorism average. Mechanism was held in New Delhi.  The top 10 countries on the index are largely from Europe  Delegations from all eight SAARC (South Asian - Germany (1), Denmark (2), Switzerland (4), United Association for Regional Cooperation) member countries Kingdom (5), Netherlands (6), Austria (7), Luxembourg participated in the conference. (8), Portugal (9) - with Australia (3) and Japan (10) as the  SAARC members are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, two exceptions. India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

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Rajasthan replaces 5 lakh streetlights with LED bulbs  Swachh Bharat Week is being celebrated from 25th Rajasthan becomes the first state to adopt Centre's Street September to 2nd October. Lighting National Programme (SLNP) in all its urban local bodies (ULB). Almost 5 lakh conventional streetlights have Cabinet approves implementation of the Project SAKSHAM been replaced with LED streetlights across the state. The Cabinet Committee  The project has been funded by Energy Efficiency on Economic Affairs, Services Limited (EESL), a public energy services chaired by the Prime company under the administration of Union ministry of Minister Shri Narendra power at no cost to the state. Modi has approved ‘Project SAKSHAM’, a Five Indian cities in the top 100 Mastercard Global New Indirect Tax Destinations Cities Index Network (Systems Five Indian cities have made it to the top 100 destination cities Integration) of the for 2016. Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi and Pune are the Central Board of Excise Indiancities in the list. and Customs (CBEC).  The study is based on data from IATA, National Tourism  The total project cost involved is Rs.2256 crore which will Boards, IMF and other organisations. be incurred over a period of seven years.  Bangkok has emerged as the leading destination city going  It will help in implementation of Goods and Services Tax by the international overnight visitor arrivals. (GST).  It will help in extension of the Indian Customs Single ISRO launches SCATSAT-1 mission Window Interface for Facilitating Trade (SWIFT). This was one of the longest and most complex missions  It will help in other taxpayer-friendly initiatives under undertaken by ISRO. The main satellite was SCATSAT-1 that Digital India and Ease of Doing Business of Central Board will enhance the study of ocean and weather conditions. of Excise and Customs.  The 37th Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle or PSLV took off  The implementation strategy for the project will be to successfully from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh with ensure readiness of CBEC's IT systems by April, 1, 2017, weather SCATSAT and satellites of five other countries. when GST is to be introduced.  This Launch vehicle carried eight satellites - three from  All Taxpayers/lmporters/Exporters/Dealers under various India, three from Algeria, and one each from Canada and indirect tax laws administered by CBEC- presently about the US. 36 lakhs, likely to go up to over 65 lakhs after introduction  The rocket's main cargo was the 371 kg SCATSAT-1 for of GST. ocean and weather related studies. It is meant for weather forecasting, along with detection and tracking of cyclones. Telangana ties up with ISRO for bandwidth to telecast coaching programmes Agriculture Minister inaugurates Krishi Unnati Mela in The Telangana Government has signed an agreement with the Mathura Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to get bandwidth Agriculture Minister to telecast Mana TV programmes. Radha Mohan  It will be beneficial for the students getting free education Singh has inaugurated and living in the remote areas. 4- days Pandit Deen  To start with, the TV channel will air coaching Dayal Upadhyay Krishi programmes for students appearing for various Unnati Mela – 2016 in competitive examinations to get government jobs. Mathura.  The Agriculture 2016 BRICS Labour & Employment Ministerial Meet held in Minister has also laid the foundation stone of first Gokul New Delhi Gram Project in Mathura. The 2016 BRICS Labour  He also presents Antyodaya Krishi Puruskars to 22 & Employment Ministerial farmers for their contribution in the agriculture sector at Meet was held in New the birth place of Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay in Mathura. Delhi from September 27- 28, 2016 to deliberate on Govt sets target of toilets in every household by 2019: Tomar issues including job Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation Narendra Tomar creation and social has set a target of toilets in every household by 2019. security for workers.  According to Tomar 23 districts are now totally free from  The two day meeting saw the participation of the five open defecation. major emerging BRICS economies viz. Brazil, Russia,  Toilets have been made in every household in 85,000 India, China and South Africa. villages of the country.

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 The meeting had dedicated sessions on employment  On the occasion of the International Day of Older Persons, generation, social security, inclusive development and the app ‘Delhi Police Senior Citizen’ was launched by formalization. Delhi Lt Governor Najeeb Jung.  It will serve as an aid to the elderly in times of distress or PMUY launched at Srinagar in case of medical emergencies. Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) was launched in Srinagar for the state of Jammu & Kashmir by Chief Minister Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis declares Nagpur first of J&K, Ms Mehbooba Mufti along with Minister of State (I/C) digital district of India for Petroleum & Natural Gas, Shri Dharmendra. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis declared Nagpur as the first  Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana, which was launched by digital district of India. the Prime Minister on 1st May 2016 at Ballia (Uttar  At a function in Mumbai, he said all 29,000 Pradesh), is a scheme to provide clean cooking fuel to the gram panchayats across Maharashtra would be digitally women belonging to the ‘Below Poverty Line’ (BPL) transformed by December 2018. households across the country.  Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) aims to provide Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar resigns LPG connections to 5 Crore BPL households by 2019. Prasar Bharti CEO Jawhar Sircar resigned. His term was to end in February next year. Indira Gandhi International achieved carbon neutral status  An UPA appointee and an expert of cullture, Sircar is also The Delhi International Airport Limited announced that a writer who has a regular column in some newspapers. the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) has become  Sircar has served as secretary of the Ministry of Culture the first airport in the Asia-Pacific region to achieve carbon for over three years from 2008 to 2012 after which he was neutral status. posted at Prasar Bharati.  The announcement on the carbon neutral status was made by Airports Council International (ACI) during the Airport GSAT-18 launched successfully on board Ariane- Carbon Accreditation certificate presentation ceremony 5 from Kourou held in Montreal, Canada India's latest communication satellite GSAT-18 was successfully launched by Arunachal CM flags off all-women Mt Gorichen expedition a heavy duty rocket Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu flagged off of Arianespace from the an all-women Mt Gorichen expedition here. spaceport of Kourou in  This will be the first all women team attempting to summit French Guiana. the second highest peak of the state, which is considered  GSAT-18, built by as a technical peak and only seasoned climbers can make the Indian Space it to the top (6,488 m).  Anshu Jansempa, who climbed Mt Everest twice, will lead Research Organisation (ISRO), aims at providing the team of ten members. telecommunications services for the country by strengthening ISRO's current fleet of 14 operational Jharkhand becomes first state to implement Direct Benefit telecommunication satellites. Transfer in Kerosene Jharkhand on 1 October Cabinet approves MoU between India and European Union on 2016 became India’s water cooperation first state to implement The Union Cabinet under the Chairmanship of Prime Direct Benefit Transfer Minister Shri Narendra Modi has given its approval for the (DBT) in Kerosene. signing of MoU between India and European Union in the field  The scheme is being of water resources. implemented in four  The MoU envisages strengthening the technological, identified districts scientific and management capabilities of India and the of the State European Union in the field of water management on the basis of equality, reciprocity and mutual benefit. namely Chatra, Hazaribagh, Khunti and Jamtara.

 This initiative is aimed at rationalising subsidy and Nitin Gadkari launches Indian Bridge Management System plugging the leakages. To make sure that the bridges across India remains safe, the

Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways and Delhi Police launches mobile app for senior citizens Shipping Nitin Gadkari on 4 October 2016 launched the Indian Delhi Police launched a mobile application for senior citizens Bridge Management System (IBMS) in New Delhi. to enable them to reach out to the police quickly in emergency  IBMS is being developed to create an inventory of all situations. bridges in the country and rate their structural condition so

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that timely repair and rehabilitation work can be carried  On the occasion, the President presented the Sustainable out based on the criticality of the structure. Development Leadership Award to Shri Pawan Kumar  IBMS is the largest platform in the world owned by a Chamling, Chief Minister of Sikkim. single owner, with database that could exceed one lakh fifty thousand bridge structures. New Solar Powered Guard Van of Goods Train flagged off  So far one lakh and fifteen thousand bridges have Minister of Railways Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu inspected been intventorized, of which eighty five thousands are and flagged off the newly manufactured Guard Van of Goods culverts and the rest are bridges. (Freight) Train at Delhi  At the time of creation, each bridge was assigned with a Safdarjung Railway unique identification number or National Identity Number Station. based on the state, RTO zone and whether it is situated on  The newly a National Highway, State Highway or is a district road. manufactured Guard Van of Goods Train Union Finance Ministry sets up Public Debt Management Cell (8 wheeled) has been Union Finance Ministry equipped for the first has constituted a Public time with Solar Debt Management Cell powered Light, Fan, Mobile Charging Point along with the (PDMC). facility of Zero discharge Bio Toilet.  The cell was created to streamline 84th Air Force Day observed across India government The Air Force Day 2016 was on 8 October 2016 observed borrowings and better across India. This is the 84th celebration of the Day that began cash management with the overall objective of deepening in 1932. bond markets.  The Air Force Day was officially celebrated for the first  The Joint Secretary (Budget), Department of Economic time on 8 October in the year 1932 as an auxiliary air force Affairs, Ministry of Finance would be the overall in- of Indian Empire. charge of the ODMC. IGIA's T3 becomes first Platinum rated green airport terminal Union Cabinet approves setting up of India's first Medipark in building in India Tamil Nadu Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) announced on 6 The Union Cabinet approved setting up of a Medical Devices October 2016 that the Manufacturing Park (Medipark) Terminal 3 of Indira at Chengalpattu, Kanchipuram District, Tamil Nadu through a Gandhi International special purpose Vehicle. Airport (IGIA) achieved  For this purpose, HLL Lifecare Ltd, a Mini Ratna PSU Platinum rating from under Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, will Indian Green Building sub-lease 330.10 acres of land at Chengalpattu. Council (IGBC). The shareholding of HLL in the project will be above 50  The plaque and percent. certificate for the achievement was handed over by IGBC  The Medipark project will boost the local manufacturing to Douglas Webster, COO-DIAL and Roy Sebastian, VP- of hi-end products at a significantly lower cost, resulting Project and Engineering, during the 14th Green Building in affordable healthcare delivery to a large section of Congress, 2016 organized by IGBC in Mumbai. people.  With this, the state-of-the-art Terminal 3 of IGIA has  It will contribute to the development of medical devices become the first Platinum rated green terminal building and technology sector and allied disciplines in the country. under Green Existing Building O&M Rating System by IGBC. This is another significant environmental President inaugurated the first edition of the World Sustainable achievement by IGIA, after being accredited as the first Development Summit Carbon Neutral airport in Asia Pacific recently by Airports The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee inaugurated the Council International (ACI). first edition of the World Sustainable Development Summit on  The Indian Green Building Council, part of the the theme ‘Beyond 2015: People, Planet and Progress’ Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), was formed in organized by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in 2001. New Delhi.  Speaking on the occasion, the President said that the threat Arjun Vajpai scales Mt. Cho Oyu of climate change is real and immediate. It concerns the Arjun Vajpai, a 23-year-old professional mountaineer from whole world as its ill-effects are all-pervasive. Noida, became the youngest in the world to scale the Mount

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Cho Oyu, the 6th highest mountain peak in the world at 8,188  The MCIA will be governed by a 17-member governing metres above sea level. council.  With this, he has become youngest to climb 5 peaks above  The Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration (MCIA) 8000 metre. will initially be located at Express Towers.

Union Power Minister assures electricity for all by May 2017 Bathukamma Event Enters Guinness Book of World Records Union Power Minister The Telangana government organised the traditional state Piyush Goyal assured festival of 'Bathukamma' on at the Lal Bahadur stadium in that India would have Hyderabad. 100 per cent  The event, attended by about ten thousand women, found electrification for all by a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. May 1, 2017.  The Telangana government has declared 'Bathukamma' as  He also launched a state festival. the Urban Jyoti Abhiyaan Mobile Telangana redraws its map by adding 21 new districts (Urja) app, developed by the state-run Power Finance Telangana on 11 October Corporation, to enhance consumer connect with the urban 2016, had redrawn its power distribution sector. map by creating 21 new districts. With these, the Rs.114 cr approved for HRIDAY projects total number of districts The Union Ministry of Urban Development has approved of the youngest state of projects worth Rs.114 crore under HRIDAY scheme for India went up to 31. improving infrastructure facilities around core heritage sites in  Telangana, which five cities. came into existence on 2 June 2014 as the 29th State of  These five cities are: Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh), Amritsar India, started out with 10 districts. (Punjab), Dwaraka (Gujarat), Puri (Odisha) and Warangal  Besides, the state government also created 25 new revenue (Telangana). divisions, 125 new mandals, four new police commissionerates, 23 new police subdivisions, 28 new India to host conference on Disaster Risk Reduction circles and 91 police stations. India will host the Asian Ministerial Conference MP to launch 'Lalima Abhiyan' to make state free from for Disaster Risk anaemia Reduction (AMCDRR) With an aim to make Madhya Pradesh anaemia-free, the state next month. government has decided to launch a scheme-'Lalima Abhiyan'-  The three-day that will be effective from November 1. conference, to be  Under the campaign, free iron folic acid tablets will be held from provided in aaganwadis', academic institutions and November 3, is being organised in collaboration with the hospitals. UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) First World Tsunami Awareness Day to be celebrated at Doordarshan, IGNOU sign agreement for telecast of Gyan AMCDRR Darshan channels The First World Tsunami Awareness Day will be celebrated on Doordarshan and Indira November 5, 2016. To commemorate the occasion, an event Gandhi National Open will be organised with Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) University (IGNOU) have Champions at the Asian Ministerial Conference for Disaster entered into an agreement Risk Reduction (AMCDRR) 2016. for transmission of four  The Conference is being organised from November 3-5, Gyan Darshan educational 2016 at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi by the Government channels. of India in collaboration with the United Nations Office  Gyan Darshan ran successfully till June 2, 2014, but was for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR). shut down by ISRO to facilitate its migration from INSAT 3C to GSAT-10. First BRICS Trade Fair and Exhibition begins in Delhi The first BRICS Trade Fair and Exhibition began in the India’s first international arbitration centre inaugrated by national capital, ahead of the BRICS political summit in Goa. Devendra Fadnavis  The fair is a platform for respective BRICS countries, Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis inaugurated India’s first Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa to exhibit centre for international arbitration in Mumbai.

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state-of-the-art technologies and advances made in of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), industrial development. Janpath, New Delhi.  The theme of the fair - BRICS- cooperation for innovation.  The festival was inaugurated by Shri Rajnath Singh, Union  Haryana is the state partner of the fair. Minister for Home Affairs in the presence of Dr Mahesh Sharma, Minister of State (I/C) for Culture and Tourism Kabaddi WC venue is India's 1st convertible stadium and Shri Padamanabha Acharya. The Arena by Trans Stadia in Ahmedabad, venue of the  The inaugural day witnessed fusion performances from ongoing Kabaddi World Cup, is India's first convertible 400 artists, highlighting different dance forms including stadium. folk and tribal, accompanied with glorious aerial acts.  The Rs. 550 crore project converts an outdoor stadium into  The celebrated festival will continue to connect people an indoor arena in 6 minutes at a touch of a button. with India’s rich culture till 24th October, 2016.  Cabinet approves setting up of IIM Jammu PM Narendra Modi inaugurates Shaurya Smarak in Bhopal  The Union Cabinet has approved the setting up of an PM Narendra Modi unveiled the war memorial ‘Shaurya Indian Institute of Management school in Jammu among Smarak’ in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. other approvals that were cleared.  The 'Shaurya Smarak' was constructed by the state  The announcement of the establishment of an IIM in government in honour of those who laid down their lives Jammu comes as part of PM Narendra Modi’s for the country. development package for Jammu and Kashmir.  Participants of the event were Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and CCEA approves revision of ethanol prices for supply to Public the three Service chiefs. Sector Oil Marketing Companies Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved Union Government has launched Mining Surveillance System the mechanism for revision of ethanol price for supply to The mines ministry came Public Sector Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) to carry out out with mining the Ethanol Blended Petrol (EBP) Programme. surveillance system  The administered price of ethanol for the Programme will (MSS), a pan-India be 39 rupees per litre for the next sugar season from 1 surveillance network December 2016 to 30 November 2017. using latest satellite technology, to check BRICS summit concluded with adoption of Goa-declaration illegal mining. The eighth  MSS is a satellite- BRICS (Brazil, based monitoring system, which aims to check illegal Russia, India, mining activity through automatic remote-sensing China and detection technology. South Africa)  The Indian Bureau of Mines, on behalf of the mines summit was ministry, has developed MSS, in co-ordination with the held from 15 to Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Applications and Geo- 16 October informatics (BISAG), Gandhinagar, and the Ministry of 2016 in Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY). Benaulim city of Goa, India. It was held under the theme Building Responsive, Inclusive and Collective Solutions. Ashok Leyland launches first India-made electric bus  The summit was attended by the Prime Minister Narendra Hinduja Group flagship Ashok Leyland today launched - Modi, Brazilian President Michel Temer, Russian Circuit - the first “Made in India” electric bus. President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping  The bus with a minimum seating capacity of 35 to a and South African President Jacob Zuma. maximum of 65 can run up to 120 kilometres on a single  At the end of the summit, Goa Declaration was released recharge under standard test conditions. by the leaders saying it is the responsibility of all states to prevent terrorist actions from their territories. In the 109 PM Narendra Modi inaugurates three mega hydro projects in point Declaration, the leaders called upon all nations to Himachal Pradesh adopt a comprehensive approach in combating terrorism. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated three hydro- electric projects (HEPs) with a generating capacity of 1,752 Rajnath Singh inaugurates 10 days long ‘Rashtriya Sanskriti MW in Himachal Pradesh. Mahotsav - 2016’  These three hydro-electric projects are: Continuing its endeavour to promote India’s Heritage, Ministry  Koldam HEP: It is 4×200 MW capacity project executed of Culture has organised 10 days long diversified cultural by National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC). carnival ‘Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav - 2016’ at the premises

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 Parbati HEP: It is Stage-III project with a capacity of 540  The 315-tonne INS Tahiyu is the sixth WJFAC Car MW of National Hydropower Corporation (NHPC). Nicobar Class vessel to be commissioned and allotted to  Rampur HEP: It is 412 MW capacity project of Sutlej Jal the Eastern Fleet of the Navy. Vidyut Nigam (SJVN). Maharashtra govt launches 'Kaushalya Setu' skill-development PM Modi launches National SC/ST hub in Ludhiana programme For the welfare of SC/ST Maharashtra government launched 'Kaushalya Setu', entrepreneurs, Prime (SETU - Self-Employment and Talent Utilisation) its skill Minister Narendra Modi development programme for students on 19th October 2016 in launched national SC/ST Mumbai. (Schedule Castes/Schedule  It will create around 7.5 Lac employments. Tribes) hub in Ludhiana. He  Under the Kaushalya Setu initiative, students of also launched the Zero Maharashtra State Board of Secondary & Higher Defect, Zero Effect (ZED) Secondary Education, who fail to clear Class X or SSC scheme for Micro, Small exam, would be accommodated in the skill development and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). courses, so that they do not lose a year.  Besides, he also gave away national awards to MSME entrepreneurs. He distributed 500 spinning wheels EC hosts first ever International Conference on Voter (spinning wheels) to women of weaker sections of Punjab Education to make them able to earn their livelihood. The Election Commission of India hosted the first ever  National SC/ST hub has been set up under Prime International Conference on Voter Education in New Delhi. Minister's Employment Generation scheme to provide The three day (from 19 to 21 October, 2016) conference was support to entrepreneurs from the SC/ST community. The inaugurated by the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Dr hub was started with an initial outlay of 490 crore rupees. Nasim Zaidi  Zero Defect, Zero Effect (ZED) scheme denotes high  The topic of the first of its kind conference is Voter quality manufacturing with a minimal negative impact on Education for Inclusive, Informed and Ethical environment. Participation. Kashmiri Red Stag to be declared as 'Critically Endangered'  It has been organized with an aim to share best practices, As the Kashmir Stag initiatives and policies of voter education by election popularly known as management bodies. Hangul is on the verge of  27 countries and 5 international organizations are extinction, the participatedg in it. International Union for  Ambitious VoICE.NET project, a Global Knowledge Conservation of Nature is Network on voter education was also launched in the all set to declare it a Conference. ‘critically endangered’ species to protect this beautiful animal from disappearing from PM Narendra Modi announces India's first Railway University the earth. in Vadodara  Hangul has been hunted over centuries and its habitat Prime Minister Narendra destroyed, leading to its wild population shrinking to 150. Modi inaugurated the integrated terminal India completes nuclear triad by commissioning INS Arihant building of Vadodara's India has completed its nuclear triad by inducting the first Harni Airport on 22nd endogenously built strategic nuclear submarine INS Arihant October 2016. into service.  He also announced to  With this, India becomes sixth country to have a nuclear set up nation’s first triad i.e. capable of delivering nuclear weapons by aircraft, railway University here. ballistic missiles and submarine launched missiles.  He also attended a programme to distribute artificial limbs  Other countries having nuclear triad are Russia, United and other implements to more than 8000 'Divyangs' States, Britain, France and China. (disabled persons) in the city.

INS Tihayu Joins the Indian Navy Aviation scheme UDAN(Ude Desh Ka Aam Naagrik) takes off Water Jet Fast Attack Craft (WJFAC) INS Tihayu was The Centre unveiled a regional connectivity scheme, known as commissioned into the Indian Navy by the Flag-Officer- UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik), with flights priced at Commanding-in-Chief of the Eastern Naval Command Vice- Rs.2,500 for one hour of flying time to and from regional Admiral H.C.S. Bisht. airports.

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 Under the scheme, airlines will be offered a slew of sops  Khattar, who completed two years in office, also said that at smaller airports such as waiver of landing and parking the outgoing year (2016) was dedicated to Pt. Deendayal charges. Upadhyaya.  Besides, Khattar also said that the state government would INS Viraat, World's Oldest Aircraft Carrier, Retires From make some announcements on 31 October and Prime Navy Minister Narendra Modi would also launch a host of INS Viraat, the world's oldest aircraft carrier, was accorded a schemes on 1 November at Gurugram. grand send-off from the port in Kochi, after over five decades of its service to the Navy. PM Narendra Modi inaugurates first National Tribal Carnival  The ship, which underwent a decommissioning refit, is Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the first National being towed back by three tugs to Mumbai for the Tribal Carnival in New Delhi to promote a sense of decommissioning ceremony on 29th October. inclusiveness among the tribals.  The final journey of the carrier began with Navy officials  The main purpose of this four-day carnival is to promote a led by the Chief of Staff, Southern Naval Command, Rear sense of inclusiveness among the tribals. Admiral Nadkarni bidding farewell to the carrier at  It will also showcase and promote various facets of tribal Ernakulam Wharf of Cochin Port Trust. culture on a large scale.  It was commissioned in Indian Navy in 1987.  In this carnival around 1,600 tribal artists and around 8,000 tribal delegates from across the country are taking PM launches #Sandesh2Soldiers campaign part. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched a campaign through which people can send their Diwali greetings and Justice Reddy committee on One Rank One Pension submits messages to the soldiers to boost their morale. report  The messages can be sent under the #Sandesh2Soldiers The one-man judicial campaign on the Narendra Modi App, through MyGov.in, committee on One Rank and also through All India Radio. One Pension submitted its report to the Defence President inaugurates Sardar Patel Heart Institute at Minister Shri Manohar Ankleshwar Parrikar. President Pranav Mukherjee has inaugurated the Sardar Patel  The Central Heart Institute at Ankleshwar in Gujarat. Government had  He also unveiled the statue of Sardar Patel situated in the appointed the institute premises and delivered an address at the institute. committee under the Chairmanship of Justice L Narasimha Reddy retired PM launches 7 schemes worth Rs 5000 cr in Varanasi Chief Justice of Patna High Court. PM Modi has announced several schemes in Varanasi worth around an investment of 5,000 Crore rupees. National Ayurveda Day being observed  The schemes launched includes "Urja Ganga". The National Ayurveda Day is being observed on 28 October  Expansion of Diesel Locomotive Works, the dedication of 2016. The Ministry of AYUSH is organizing a day-long 765/400 KV GIS Varanasi Power Sub-station. national seminar on Prevention and Control of Diabetes  Inauguration of Varanasi Postal Region. through Ayurveda in New Delhi.  Inaugurated second line and electrification of Allahabad-  The Ministry also launched Mission Madhumeha through Varanasi rail line and setting up of perishable cargo centre Ayurveda on this occasion. It will be implemented at Rajatalab Railway Station. throughout the country through a specially designed  He also handed over LPG connections to select Ujjwala National Treatment Protocol for effective management of beneficiaries. Diabetes through Ayurveda.  Released a commemorative postage stamp on Varanasi City. Union Cabinet approves the establishment of National Academic Depository Haryana to observe 2017 as Garib Kalyan Varsh The Union Cabinet on 27 October 2016 gave its green signal Haryana Government has decided to observe 2017 as for establishment and operationalisation of a National the “Garib Kalyan Varsh”. The announcement was made by Academic Depository (NAD). Chief Minister Manohar Lal.  The National Academic Depository aims at bringing  During the observation period of Garib Kalyan Varsh, the another dimension and enhancement of the vision of government would lay emphasis on welfare of poor people Digital India. and generating employment opportunities for the youth.  It will be established in next three months and will be operationalised simultaneously.

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Himachal Pradesh becomes India’s second open defecation  A back-of-the-envelope calculation by an expert put the free state valuation at about $20 million (Rs 27 crore). The State of Himachal Pradesh Union Cabinet approves Winding up of Hindustan Diamond was declared Open Company Private Limited Defecation Free The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs gave its approval (ODF), making it the for initiating the process of winding up of Hindustan Diamond second State in the Company Private Limited (HDCPL). country (after  HDCPL is 50:50 joint venture of the Union Government Sikkim) to achieve the feat. and De Beers Centenary Mauritius Limited (DBCML).  With this, Himachal Pradesh has successfully achieved a  The HDCPL was incorporated under the Companies Act, total rural sanitation coverage of 100% in the State, with 1956 in 1978. The company was established with an all 12 out of 12 districts in the State being both, declared objective to supply rough diamonds to diamond as well as verified, as ODF. processing industry in India, particularly to small and medium diamond jewellery exporters. Vigilance Awareness week commences from 31st October 2016 IOCL, GAIL sign MoU for taking equity stake in Dhamra The Central Vigilance Commission, as part of its efforts to LNG terminal promote probity in public life and to achieve a corruption free Indian Oil Corporation and GAIL (India) signed an MoU with society, observes Vigilance Awareness Week every year. Dhamra LNG Terminal (DLTPL) for taking equity in the 5  The observance of the Vigilance Awareness Week has MMTPA capacity LNG Receiving, Storage and Regasification commenced from 31st October 2016, with pledge taking Terminal, being put up at Dhamra Port, Odisha. by public servants in the Ministries/Departments/Central  The agreement was signed in New Delhi in the presence Public Sector Enterprises/Public Sector Banks and all of Minister of State (I/C) for Petroleum and Natural Gas other Organizations. Sh Dharmendra Pradhan.  “Public participation in promoting integrity and  As per the MoU, DLTPL shall be an equal Joint Venture eradicating Corruption” has been chosen as the theme for of Indian Oil and GAIL on one hand and Adani Group on Vigilance Awareness Week this year by the Commission. the other.  Indian Oil and GAIL would acquire 39% and 11% equity NITI Aayog launches the first ever Agricultural Marketing & respectively in DLTPL, with the balance 50% being held Farm Friendly Reforms Index by Adani group. The Index is named as “Agricultural Marketing and Farmer  Going forward, Indian Oil and Adani group will each Friendly Reforms Index” and it has a score which can have divest 1% of their respective stake to a credible financial minimum value “0” implying no reforms and maximum value institution which will then have 2% stake in the terminal. “100” implying complete reforms in the selected areas.  The state of Maharashtra achieved first rank in Wipro acquires Chinese FMCG brand implementation of various reforms. The state has Wipro consumer care and implemented most of the marketing reforms and it offers lighting's Singapore arm has best environment for doing agribusiness among all the acquired a Chinese FMCG states and UTs. company Zhongshan Ma Er  Gujarat ranks second with a score of 71.5 out of 100, Daily Products Ltd in an all closely followed by Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. cash deal for an undisclosed amount.  Zhongshan Ma Er brand portfolio includes personal care brands Enear, Zici, and Vcnic, comprising bath & shower products, and fabric care brands Pahnli and Sunew.

Apple quietly acquires Hyderabad based AI startup Tuplejump Apple quietly acquired a little-known Hyderabad-based startup Andhra Bank ties up with Cigna TTK, Reliance General a few months ago for an undisclosed amount and while little is Insurance known about what Tuplejump does, the word is that this is part Andhra Bank has entered into corporate agency agreements of the Cupertino-based giant's exploration into artificial with Cigna TTK Company Ltd, and Reliance General intelligence. Insurance Company Ltd for providing health and general  Known in the trade as an acqui-hire, nearly all of insurance respectively, to its customers. Tuplejump's 16 employees are in the process of becoming  The two separate agreements were signed in presence of Apple staffers. Andhra Bank Executive Director S K Kalra, MD and CEO

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of Cigna TTK Health Insurance Sandeep Patel and CEO  Google controls a majority market share in India in search, of Reliance General Insurance Rakesh Jain, among others. email and on smartphones through is Android operating system. Govt appoints ICICI Prudential AMC to manage new CPSE  It also has a significant presence in offering enterprise ETF applications such as mail and other services, but lags The Department behind Microsoft and Amazon in its cloud business. of Investment and Public Asset Kotak Mahindra Bank acquires BSS Microfinance Management, Kotak Mahindra Bank, the country’s Ministry of fourth largest private sector lender, has Finance has appointed ICICI Prudential Asset Management acquired BSS Microfinance in an all- Company Ltd as the asset management company for the cash deal for Rs 139.2 crore. creation and launch of a new Exchange Traded Fund (ETF).  The bank said with this, it has  The new ETF will comprise of shares of listed CPSEs and entered the microfinance space other corporates. ICICI Prudential AMC is India’s largest that has been growing at a rapid asset manager. pace.  This acquisition will Chandigarh Administration, French Development Agency sign allow Kotak to tap the lower end of the customer base and MoUs will also help the bank in meeting the priority sector Chandigarh Administration and French Development Agency lending (PSL) targets, as BSS’ loans book qualifies (AFD) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoUs) on for PSL. Chandigarh Smart City Project and 'Technical Cooperation' in the field of Sustainable Urban Mobility. Government decides to raise EPFO investment in ETF  The MoUs were signed by K K Jindal, Secretary The Government has decided to raise the Employees Provident Transport, Chandigarh Administration and Minister Fund (EPF) investment in Exchange Traded Funds from Counsellor, Embassy of France in India, Jean Marc present 5 per cent to 10 per cent. FENET and Director French Development Agency,  Announcing this Shri Bandaru Dattatreya, the Minister of Nicolas Fornage. State(IC) for Labour and Employment said that the decision has been taken considering the good returns Centre sacks Bank of Maharashtra’s Muhnot in ETF investment. In an unprecedented move, the Centre sacked Sushil Muhnot,  Accordingly, for the last one year, the EPFO has invested chairman and managing director of Pune-based Bank of 6,577 crore in ETF for the financial year 2015-16. This Maharashtra, four days short of his scheduled retirement. investment has yielded a good return of 13.24 per cent.  Mr. Muhnot was scheduled to retire on September 30.  The new chief executive officer Mr. RP Marathe, who was SBI opens branch in Yangon after 53 years an executive director with Bank of India, took charge. State Bank of India (SBI), the country’s Google launches instant messaging mobile app Allo largest lender, Google has launched expanded its overseas its latest mobile chat footprint by entering application “Allo” Myanmar, opening a along with Google branch Yangon after Assistant. 53 years, the former capital and the largest city of that country.  Allo can be used  With the opening of this branch, SBI has extended (its) in online global presence to 37 countries through 198 offices. conversations with friends. RBI announces 4th Bi-monthly Policy Statement  The messaging app is similar features to most other The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut the short-term lending messaging applications available for Android and the rate, or repo rate, by 25 basis points to 6.25 per cent from 6.50 iPhone. per cent earlier.  This was the first exercise by the monetary policy Google to set up data centre in India by 2017 committee (MPC), chaired by Governor Urjit Patel. Google will set up its first India data centre in Mumbai by  The central bank has maintained status quo on cash reserve 2017, hoping to take on global incumbents such as Microsoft ratio (CRR), which stands at 4 per cent while statutory and Amazon, who have a presence in the country, and allow liquidity ratio (SLR) remained unchanged at 20.75 per local customers to host their applications on the internet. cent.

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 The marginal Standing Facility (MSF) rate, meanwhile, and above will receive a reminder in their News Feed to has been adjusted to 6.75 per cent from 7 per cent earlier. register to vote. New RBI Rates are:  Repo Rate: 6.25% Indian Pharma companies rank 19th in Biopharmaceutical  Reverse Repo rate: 5.75% Competitiveness & Investment (BCI) Survey  Cash Reserve Ratio: 4% Indian pharmaceutical companies have ranked low at 19th  Marginal Standing Facility Rate: 6.75% position with an overall score of 59 out of 100 among in the  Bank Rate: 7% Biopharmaceutical Competitiveness & Investment (BCI)  Statutory Liquidity Ratio: 20.75% Survey.  Inflation: 6%  The survey of 28 countries was commissioned by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America IMF revises India's growth to 7.6% for FY17 and FY18 and executed by the Pugatch Consilium. The International Monetary Fund  It was third edition of survey. (IMF) raised projections for India’s economic growth by 0.2 percentage Union Government to invest Rs 15000 crore to increase points to 7.6 per cent for 2016-17 and Panipat oil refinery capacity 2017-18. The Union Government has decided to invest 15,000 crore  It, however, retained global rupees to increase the capacity of Panipat refinery in Haryana economic growth at 3.1 per cent to 25 Million Tonnes from existing 15 Million Tonnes. It was for 2016 and 3.4 per cent for 2017. announced by Union Minister of State (MoS) for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan at a function in Panipat. Oil India Limited signs Memorandum of Understanding with  Besides, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) will also set up bio- University of Houston ethanol plant in Panipat with a cost of 500 crore to generate Oil India alternative fuel from agricultural residue which would Limited (OIL), boost agriculture sector. an Upstream  The expansion of Panipat refinery will help raise Oil & Gas specifications of fuel quality from BS-IV to BS-VI to meet PSU, with future demand. It will also create employment intent of augmenting its reserves base opportunities for the people and also help in raising quality and maximising recovery from its aging oilfields, has entered of fuel in the country by the year 2020. into a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Houston(USA), one of the leading universities on oil and gas Standard Chartered Bank forms tie-up with Uber of the world. Foreign lender Standard Chartered Bank has announced a tie-  The MoU was signed in presence up with Uber under which its credit cardholders, across six of Sh. Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of State (I/C), countries, will get a cash-back of up to 25 per cent for hailing Petroleum & Natural Gas in New Delhi. cabs from the app.  The MoU, amongst others, is focused to collaborate in the  In India, the cardholders will get a 20 per cent cash-back fields of Improved Oil Recovery & Enhanced Oil on all Uber rides, subject to a cash—back cap of Rs. 600 Recovery for production enhancement from matured per month. fields, seismic interpretation &  Additionally, first-time Uber users will get a discount of reservoir characterisation studies, improvement of drilling Rs.50 for the first three rides. and well intervention practices and unconventional hydrocarbon studies. ICICI Bank first Indian lender to execute Blockchain transaction EC collaborates with Facebook to register young voters ICICI Bank has become the In a first-of-its-kind initiative in the country, social networking first Indian lender to site Facebook is partnering with the Election Commission of complete a banking India in five states (Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, transaction using Goa, Manipur and Uttarakhand) going to polls next year to run Blockchain technology. a voter registration drive aimed at encouraging youth to  This remittance participate in the democratic exercise. transaction has been  With over 155 million people in India on Facebook, the completed in 'Register to vote' button is designed to encourage citizens partnership with across these five states to exercise their vote in the Emirates NBD, a lender from the West Asia. upcoming elections.  Blockchain technology simplifies the process and  From October 6 to 9, Facebook users in Uttar Pradesh, drastically reduces duration of the transaction to few Punjab, Goa, Manipur and Uttarakhand who are 18 years minutes.

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Cabinet approves pact between EXIM Bank, NDB  The first outlines the sale of 49% to Petrol Complex, a unit Union Cabinet approved a pact between Export-Import Bank of Rosneft. of India and BRICS-promoted New Development Bank, along with other development financial institutions of member MakeMyTrip acquires rival travel portal ibibo nations, with an aim to strengthen trade and economic ties. Online travel company  The New Development Bank (NDB) aims to mobilize MakeMyTrip has resources for development projects in BRICS, emerging announced to acquire economies and developing countries. rival portal ibibo group.  However, the Bank of Maharashtra renews tie-up with United India amount of the deal Insurance was undisclosed. State-run Bank of Maharashtra has renewed its corporate  Founder Deep agency tie-up with United India Insurance Company. Kalra will remain Group CEO and Executive Chairman of  Customers can buy the entire gamut of UIIC products at MakeMyTrip. Founder and CEO of ibibo Group, Ashish any of the 1,896 branches of the bank across the country. Kashyap, will join MakeMyTrip’s executive team as a Co- founder. In the First, Bank deposits cross Rs 100 lakh crore According to the data released by the RBI ,India’ banking Government grants BP PlC licence to set up petrol pumps in system reported total deposits of Rs 100 lakh crore for the first India time ever in September month of this year. The Government has formally granted a license to British  With demand deposits crossing Rs10 lakh crore and time Petroleum ‘Petroleum industry company’, Europe's third- deposits crossing the Rs 90 lakh crore mark, the month biggest oil company, to set up 3,500 petrol pumps in India. saw the highest-ever monthly rise of Rs 5.32 lakh crore —  The company has its headquarters in London, England. more than the total deposits in the banking sector 20 years  India currently has about 56,190 petrol pumps, with public back. sector firms operating a majority of them.  Banks’ deposits grew at a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 12.88% in the last five years, they had RBI asks banks to replace 17.5 lakh debit cards grown at a CAGR of 19.9% in the previous five years. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has asked banks to replace debit cards whose security is suspected to have been Market capitalization : Infosys loses fifth spot to ONGC compromised after being used in some automated teller Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Ltd (ONGC) beat India’s second machines (ATMs). largest software exporter Infosys Ltd to become the fifth most  The total debit card base in the country was 697 million as valuable company in India by market capitalization. of July 2016.  TCS is India’s most valuable company with a market  Banks such as State Bank of India (SBI), HDFC Bank and capitalization of Rs 4.66 trillion, followed by Reliance Bank of Baroda have already started replacing the cards. Industries Ltd, HDFC Bank Ltd and ITC Ltd at Rs3.49 SBI, the country’s largest lender, has started the process of trillion, Rs3.21 trillion and Rs2.90 trillion, respectively, replacing 0.6 million debit cards. data showed. India-Russia sign agreement to produce Ka-226T helicopters Russia to lease another nuclear-powered submarine to India jointly Russia has quietly signed an agreement with India to lease out India and Russia formally inked the agreement to create a joint a second Russian Akula-2 class nuclear-powered submarine to venture to produce Ka-226T helicopters in India. the Indian Navy a cost of Two billion dollars.  Under the agreement, the joint Russian-Indian enterprise  The attack submarine will arrive in Indian waters in 2020- created by Russian Helicopters, JSC Rosoboronexport and 21. India's HAL must arrange for the localization of  The lease agreement was signed between PM Narendra production and supply of 200 light multi role Ka-226T Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin during the helicopters for nine years. BRICS Summit in Goa.

Essar Oil inks Rs 86,100 cr deal to sell 98% stake to Rosneft SBI declares Silchar as its 5th zone in North East Essar Group sealed a $13- The State Bank of India (SBI) has declared Silchar as its 5th billion (Rs 86,100 crore) deal zone in North East after Guwahati, Shillong, Dibrugarh and to sell 98% stake in its Jorhat. flagship 20 million tonnes per  Earlier, Silchar was under Guwahati zone and it was tough annum refinery to a on the part of the bank to address the complaints and issues consortium led by Russia’s of the customers with such a difficult terrain. state-owned energy giant Rosneft.

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 The bank has 736 branches across North East together with the market regulator, the Securities and Exchange with 3,000 ATMs and 3,000 customer service points for Board of India - SEBI. customer facilitation. 2,000 notes will be in circulation soon Railways, Urban Development Ministries sign MoU to Banknotes of the denomination of Rs.2,000 will be in redevelop stations under smart city plans circulation.The Reserve Bank of India has The Ministry of Urban Development and the Ministry of very nearly completed preparations for introducing this new Railways signed a MoU under which railway stations and high-value currency. adjoining areas will be redeveloped on smart city lines for  The notes have already been printed and their despatch enhancing passenger amenities, easy access to stations, from the currency printing press in Mysore has enabling optimal utilization of land at railway stations. commenced.  Initially, 10 stations are chosen for redevelopment. These cities are Sarai Rohilla (Delhi), Bhubaneshwar, Lucknow, Aditya Birla Group to invest Rs. 20,000 cr in Madhya Pradesh Varanasi, Jaipur, Kota, Thane, Margao(Goa), Tirupati and Puducherry.

Wipro acquires US firm Appirio IT-major Wipro has acquired US-based consultancy firm Appirio, a services Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla pledged firm with a large an investment of Rs. 20,000 offshore firm that  crore for the state in sectors like retail, telecom and helps corporates cement. implement cloud  Addressing the Madhya Pradesh Global Investors Summit, applications such as SalesForce, said reports. Birla said the state is among the top markets for Idea  Appirio was founded by Chris Barbin, Mike O'Brien, Cellular, which has already invested nearly Rs. 7,000 crore Glenn Weistein and Narinder Singh in 2006. over two decades.  The nearly decade-old firm had revenues of $200 million in 2015. NABARD sanctions Rs. 19,702 crore loan to National Water Development Agency RBI decides to allow FDI up to 100% in other financial The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development services (NABARD) has sanctioned loan worth Rs. 19,702 crore to The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) decided to allow foreign National Water Development Agency (NWDA). investment up to 100 per cent under the automatic route in  The loan will be provided through NABARD’s Long Term ‘other financial services’. Irrigation Fund (LTIF) for 50 irrigation projects from 11  However, sectors such as insurance, which already have States. pre-defined FDI limit (49 per cent in insurance), will  This loan will be part of the Central share of assistance to continue to follow that. State Governments.  Other financial services’ will include activities which are regulated by any financial sector regulator, including the India, Algeria mull fertilizer Joint Venture Reserve Bank of India, the Securities and Exchange Board India’s plan for a joint venture arrangement with Algeria for a of India, the Insurance Regulatory and Development multi-billion dollar fertilizer plant located in the North African Authority of India, Pension Fund Regulatory and country seemed to have been initiated on following a meeting Development Authority, National Housing Bank. between Algerian Minister for Industry and Mining and the Indian Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilizers Mansukh HSBC to wind up P-note business in India L. Mandavia. HSBC is planning to wind up participatory notes (P-notes)  India’s bilateral trade with Algeria currently stands at $1.5 operations in India, as tightening of regulatory framework has billion a year with the trade balance in Algeria's favour made the business unviable. given India's import of oil and gas. India seeks 49 per cent  HSBC is among the top five issuers of P-notes, or offshore share in Algerian phosphate block having 6-billion tonne derivative instruments, in India with a market share of capacity. more than 6 per cent at the end of last financial year.  Participatory Notes commonly known as P-Notes are Finance Ministry announces fresh tranche of gold bonds instruments issued by registered foreign institutional The Finance Ministry announced the sixth tranche of sovereign investors (FII) to overseas investors, who wish to invest in gold bonds. The duration of the bond will be for a period of the Indian stock markets without registering themselves

18 WiFiStudy.com eight years with exit option from the fifth year to be exercised  When it comes to trading across borders, the ranking has on the interest payment dates. moved up one place to 143, and in enforcing contracts the  A person is allowed to invest a minimum of 1 gm while a rise is of six spots to 172nd position. maximum of 500 gm gold in a financial year.  However, with respect to starting a business, the ranking has slipped four places to 155th spot and in the case of World Bank pledges $2b aid to Bangladesh to tackle climate dealing with construction permits by one rank to 185th. change  As per the report, India's ranking in terms of protecting minority investors dropped to 13th place from 10th position last year.  With regard to getting credit, the ranking has fallen by two places to 44.

Flipkart CFO Sanjay Baweja quits

The World Bank has pledged 2 billion US dollars aid to Bangladesh to tackle climate change.  The Bank's president Jim Yong Kim said that Bangladesh is extremely vulnerable to climate change accounting for Flipkart chief financial officer Sanjay Baweja has quit the almost 70% of all storm surges in the world. company, just under two years of joining India's largest e- commerce marketplace. Andhra Pradesh, Singapore's MAS pact for financial services  Baweja had joined Flipkart in November 2014 from Tata Andhra Pradesh government has signed an agreement with the Communications where he was serving as the Global Monetary Authority of Singapore to promote innovation in CFO. financial services in their respective markets.  He's also had stints at Bharti Airtel, Xerox, ModiCorp and  Under the FinTech Cooperation Agreement, MAS and the has over three decades of work experience. state government will explore joint innovation projects on technologies such as digital payments and block-chain, MMTC ties up with major banks to retail gold coins collaborate on development of education programmes and Public sector major MMTC (Metals and Minerals Trading curricula on financial technologies. Corporation of India) has joined hands with seven banks including HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and Andhra Bank to retail Microsoft Launches Cybersecurity Engagement Centre in gold coins with a new buyback option. India  Besides its own outlets across the country, MMTC has tied Microsoft has launched its first cybersecurity engagement up with Indian Overseas Bank, Vijaya Bank, Federal center in India in the heart of Delhi, which will help the Bank, YES Bank, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and Andhra government and the private sector organisations to deal with Bank to sell gold coins in denominations of 5 gm and 10 cyber attacks. gm coin and 20 gm bar.  An initiative like this is especially important at a time  MMTC has also announced a transparent buyback of gold when India is dealing with large-scale cyber attacks on coins made of recycled gold. four leading banks' debit cards that have affected as many as 3.2 million customers.

Ease of doing business: India ranks 130 out of 190 countries India is ranked 130 out of 190 countries in World Bank Group’s annual report on the ease of doing business, ‘Doing Madhusudan Sahoo is bankruptcy board chief Business 2017: Equal Opportunity for All’. Madhusudan Sahoo was appointed as chairperson of  Last year India was ranked 131st. Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India.  New Zealand topped the World Bank ranking for ease of  Sahoo is presently member of Competition Commission doing business, followed by Singapore, Denmark, Hong of India. Kong, South Korea, Norway, UK, US, Sweden, and  The Appointments Committee of Cabinet has approved his former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. appointment to the post for five years, an order issued by  India has improved its ranking with respect to various Department of Personnel and Training said. areas. In terms of getting electricity, the country's position has jumped to 26th spot from 51st place last year.

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Venkat elected ABC chairman Anurag Srivastava appoints Ambassador of India to the The Director of Eenadu I, Venkat was unanimously elected as Republic of Djibouti chairman of Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) for the year Anurag Srivastava (IFS: 1999), presently Ambassador of India 2016-17. to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, has been  He is also the chairman of Media Research Users Council concurrently accredited as the Ambassador of India to the (MRUC) and Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF). Republic of Djibouti, with residence in Addis Ababa.  Debabrata Mukherjee, vice-president, Marketing and  Djibouti officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a country Commercial, India and South West Asia, Coca Cola India located in the Horn of Africa. Its Capital is city Djibouti Pvt. Ltd., representing Advertisers category on the Council City and currency is Franc. was unanimously elected as the Deputy Chairman of the Bureau. Vijay Kelkar elected president of Indian Statistical Institute

Arun Goyal appointed Additional Secretary in GST Council Senior IAS officer Arun Goyal has been appointed as Additional Secretary in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council.  The Council, headed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, is mandated to decide on tax rate, exempted goods and the threshold limit.  The Appointments Committee of Cabinet has approved Former petroleum secretary Vijay Kelkar has been elected Goyal's appointment against the newly created post, an president of the prestigious Indian Statistical Institute (ISI). order issued by Department of Personnel and Training  Kelkar succeeded former RBI governor C Rangarajan. said.  He was elected at the general body meeting of the institute,  Goyal, a 1985 batch IAS officer of Union Territory cadre, which functions under the Ministry of Statistics and is at present working as Additional Secretary, Project Programme Implementation. Monitoring Group, Cabinet Secretariat. Yashvardhan Sinha appointed India's High Commissioner to Sanjiv Singh is new Chairman of IOC UK Sanjiv Singh will be the new Chairman of Indian Oil Senior IFS officer Yashvardhan Kumar Sinha was on Tuesday Corporation Ltd, the nation’s largest company. appointed as India's High Commissioner to the UK succeeding  Singh was selected for the top job after government head Navtej Sarna. hunters Public Enterprise Selection Board (PESB)  Sinha, an Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer of the 1981 interviewed eight candidates. batch, is currently serving as India's High Commissioner  Singh, who has been Director of Refineries at IOC since to Sri Lanka. July 1, 2014, will replace B Ashok on his superannuation  Sarna has been appointed as India's Ambassador to the US. at end of May 2017. Veerappa Moily-led parliamentary panel to examine merger of Ajay Singh elected BFI president budgets

The parliamentary committee headed by the Congress MP M Veerappa Moily, has been constituted to review the all budgetary reforms.  Besides the budget, the committee will also review the The Chairman and Managing Director (MD) of Spicejet disinvestment policy, the banking sector in India, RBI’s Airlines Ajay Singh has elected as the new president of the emerging role and its framework. Boxing Federation of India(BFI).  Maharashtra’s Jay Kowli was elected the Secretary Obama nominates ambassador to Cuba General while Assam’s Hemant Kumar Kalita was elected US President Barack Obama said he is nominating the first Treasurer. U.S. ambassador to Cuba in more than 50 years.  Ajay Singh got 49 votes against the 15 that his rival Rohit  The nominee, Jeffrey DeLaurentis, has been the most Jain (Delhi) polled in the election which had observers senior U.S. official in Havana since the summer of 2014. from the International Boxing Association (AIBA) and the  He is currently the chargé d’affaires at the embassy and Sports Ministry to monitor the proceedings. lives in the ambassador’s residence in Havana.

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IPS officer OP Singh taking over as the new Director General Costantini appointed as Indian TT team chief coach of CISF The Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) re- appointed Italian Massimo Costantini as the national team chief coach for a two-year period.  "All the players know him well and have a very good understanding with him. His earlier service was satisfactory" said Dhanraj Choudhary, secretary general of TTFI. IPS officer O P Singh took over as the new Director General of  He will take charge on Ctober1. His tenure will be up to CISF, a paramilitary force. September 30, 2018.  Singh, a 1983-batch officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre, was serving as the Director General of National Disaster Arundhati Bhattacharya Gets Year-Long Extension Response Force (NDRF). as SBI Chief  His tenure is till January 2020. Government has given one-year extension to SBI chief Arundhati Bhattacharya amid the lender's R Subramania Kumar appointed Executive Director of Indian consolidation with its associate banks. Overseas Bank  Earlier this year, the Cabinet gave its nod for merger of The Union Government on 29 September 2016 appointed R State Bank of India (SBI), its associate lenders Subramania Kumar as Executive Director (ED) of state-owned and Bharatiya Mahila Bank (BMB) that would make the Indian Overseas Bank. state-owned lender a global-sized bank.  Kumar is currently serving as the Executive Director of  SBI has five associate lenders — State Bank Indian Bank. of Bikaner and Jaipur, State Bank of Travancore, State  Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) is a major public sector bank Bank of Patiala, State Bank of Mysore and State Bank of based in Chennai. Hyderabad.

Riyadh Mathew is new PTI Chairman Somesh Sharma is INS President Somesh Sharma of Rashtradoot Saptahik was elected as president of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) on Friday for 2016-17. He succeeds P V Chandran of Grehalakshmi of Mathrubhumi Group.  Akila Urankar of Business Standard was elected as the new deputy president of INS at its annual general body meeting. K Balaji of The Hindu Weekly has been elected vice-president while Sharad Saxena of Hindustan Times Riyadh Mathew, Director of Malayala Manorama, is the new treasurer. and Viveck Goenka, Chairman and Managing Director of  V Shankaran will continue to be the secretary general. Indian Express , were unanimously elected Chairman and Vice-Chairman respectively of PTI. Rajeev Sharma takes over as Power Finance CMD  Mr. Mathew, who is Senior Assistant Editor and member of the Manorama management, succeeds Hormusji N. Cama, Director of Bombay Samachar. Mr. Goenka succeeds Mr. Mathew as Vice-Chairman.

Shakti Sinha to head Nehru Memorial Museum and Library Retired IAS officer Shakti Sinha was appointed as the Director of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML). His appointment was approved by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC).  Sinha, who served in the Prime Minister's Office during Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s tenure, was also Director in India Foundation, a think tank aligned to the RSS. Rajeev Sharma has taken over as the Chairman and Managing  The post of Director of NMML was vacant since the Director of state-run Power Finance Corporation (PFC) with resignation of its previous Director Mahesh Rangarajan in effect. the year 2015.  Sharma succeeds M K Goel who retired on September 30, 2016 on attaining the age of superannuation.

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 Prior to joining PFC, Sharma was the CMD of Rural  It is a massive initiative envisaged for a garbage-free and Electrification Corporation (REC). clean state.  Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan informed the Kersti Kaljulaid elected as first female President of Estonia state Assembly that the veteran singer had given his Kersti Kaljulaid was elected as the President of Estonia by the consent to be associated with the project. parliament.  With this, Kaljulaid will become Estonia’s first female Sushil Chandra appointed CBDT Chairman president. The Government has appointed Indian Revenue Service  Kaljulaid won vote 81-0, with 20 members absent or officer Sushil Chandra as the next chairman of the Central abstaining. Board of Direct Taxes.  Estonia  “The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has  Capital:Tallin approved the appointment of Shri Sushil Chandra, IRS  Currency: Euro (IT: 1980),” said an official statement.  He will take over from the S Sivakumar appointed as full time member of 21st Law current CBDT Chairperson Rani Singh Nair, who will Commission of India retire on October 31. Chandra is currently posted as Member, CBDT.

Mohan Reddy appointed Hon. Consul of Germany

The Union Government has appointed S. Sivakumar as a full- time Member of the 21st Law Commission of India (LCI). He is the professor at the Indian Law Institute (ILI) in New Delhi.  He hails from Kerala and has authored several books on law.  Former Supreme Court (SC) judge Germany has appointed former Nasscom Chairman B V Justice Balbir Singh Chauhan is Chairman of the R Mohan Reddy as an Honourary Consul of that country in commission. Hyderabad. Mohan Reddy will be the Consul for Germany  The first commission was constituted in 1955 and since in Telangana and Hyderabad. then various commissions were re-constituted every three  Mohan Reddy, who is also the Executive Chairman years. of Cyient Ltd, said that there was a need for collaboration between the two countries in science and technology and R Ravindra concurrently accredited Ambassador to Guinea in vocational training. R. Ravindra (IFS: 1999) has been concurrently accredited as the Ambassador of India to the Republic of Guinea, with Portugal's Antonio Guterres set to be UN secretary general residence in Abidjan (Cote d’Ivoire).  Presently he is serving as Ambassador of India to the Republic of Cote d’Ivoire. He will now serve as the ambassador for the both countries.

Roopa ganguly nominated for rajya sabha Actress and BJP leader Roopa Ganguly has been nominated to fill the post in Rajya Sabha vacated by cricketer turned politician Navjot Singh Sidhu, who resigned earlier this year.  She had portrayed the epic role of ‘Draupadi’ in TV Serial

;Mahabharata.’ She has became the state president Former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres is poised of Mahila Morcha few months ago. to be the next United Nations Secretary-General.  It is expected to be formally recommended to the 193- Yesudas to be brand ambassador of ‘Haritha Keralam’ project member General Assembly for election by the Security CPI(M)-led LDF government has roped in Council, diplomats said. eminent Carnatic vocalist and playback singer K J Yesudas as  He will replace current Secretary General Baan Ki Moon, the brand ambassador of its whose tenure is ending in early 2017. ambitious ‘Haritha Keralam’ (Green Kerala) project.

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J&K Bank appoints Parvez Ahmed as Chairman & CEO on 10 October 2016. This will be his second term as Prime Jammu and Kashmir Bank appointed Parvez Ahmed as Minister of Morocco. Chairman and CEO of the bank.  Mohammed VI, the king of Morocco, made the  He has been appointed chairman for a period of three announcement after Benkirane's PJD party emerged with years, Jammu and Kashmir Bank said in a statement. the most number of seats in the 395-seat lower house of  He replaces Mustaq Ahmad who completed his term on parliament. October 5.  Benkirane and the PJD will now reach out to other parties to form a coalition government, because the multi-party Gautam Lahiri elected PCI president system in the kingdom makes it impossible for any Senior journalist Gautam Lahiri was elected president of the political party to win an absolute majority. Press Club of India, while Vinay Kumar was elected its secretary general. The election was held on October 1. Renu Pall appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Austria  According to the results for the press club elections, Former Indian Foreign Service officer Ms. Renu Pall has been Manoranjan Bharti was elected as vice-president; Jomy appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Austria. Thomas was elected the joint secretary of the PCI while  Austria is a German-speaking country in Central Europe, Arun Kumar Joshi was elected treasurer. characterized by mountain villages and baroque architecture. Luo Zhaohui, China’s new ambassador to India Govt appoints G Mahalingam as Sebi whole-time member The government has appointed Reserve Bank's Executive Director G Mahalingam as a Whole-Time Member of markets regulator Sebi.  Apart from the Chairman, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) can have three Whole-Time Members (WTMs).

China's President Xi Jinping appointed Luo Zhaohui, a senior Bank of Baroda signs brand endorsement with Sindhu, diplomat with previous assignments in Pakistan and Canada, as Srikanth China’s new ambassador to India. Public lender Bank of Baroda sealed a principal sponsorship  He will take over from former Chinese ambassador to contract with badminton Olympians P V Sindhu and K India Le Yucheng who left New Delhi in April. Srikanth.  “The three-year deal with the two players was agreed in- PV Sindhu now brand ambassador of Vizag Steel principle before they represented and made India proud on the international stage at the Rio 2016 Olympics,” the bank said in a statement.  Bank of Baroda logo will now appear on the centre chest of the two athletes’ playing jerseys in international and domestic tournaments under the aegis of Badminton World Federation Events (BWF) and Badminton Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL), the corporate entity of Association of India-sanctioned events, respectively. Vizag Steel, has roped in top ranked Indian Badminton Player PV Sindhu as its brand ambassador. Amrit Lugun concurrently accredited as the Ambassador of  Sindhu, currently amongst the top 10 ranked players in the India to the State of Eritrea world, is the first Indian female athlete to win the Olympic Amrit Lugun, presently Ambassador of India to the Republic silver medal at the Rio Olympics and she is also the first of the Sudan, has been concurrently accredited as the athlete to win back-to-back medals at the World Ambassador of India to the State of Eritrea, with residence in Badminton Championships. Khartoum (Sudan).  Eritrea officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Morocco: Abdelilah Bekirane appointed for another term as Horn of Africa. Its capital at Asmara and Currency is PM Nakfa.

Softbank names Rajeev Misra as head of $100 billion tech fund Japanese telecom and internet major Softbank Corp has named India born Rajeev Misra as head of its ambitious $100 billion fund which will invest in technology companies across the

Abdelilah Bekirane, leader of Morocco's Islamic Justice and world. Development Party, was appointed as country's Prime Minister

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 Misra joined Softbank Group in 2014 as head of strategic negotiate multilateral arms control and disarmament finance and also works with SoftBank Internet and Media agreements. Inc, which Nikesh Arora headed as CEO. Sanjay Singh appointed Member Secretary, Law Commission Ajay Kumar Bhalla appointed as Director General of Foreign Former legislative secretary Sanjay Singh has been appointed Trade as Member Secretary, Law Commission of India.  President Pranab Mukherjee has appointed Singh to the post for a period upto August 31, 2018, an official order said.  Singh, a retired officer of Indian Legal Service, was in August 2014, appointed as legislative secretary.

Saina Nehwal appointed member of IOC's Athletes' Senior IAS officer Ajay Kumar Bhalla was appointed as the Commission Director General of Foreign Trade (DGFT). He succeeds Anup Wadhawan, who was appointed as Additional Secretary in the commerce ministry.  Bhalla, a 1984 batch IAS officer of Assam-Meghalaya cadre, is presently an Additional Secretary in the Commerce Ministry.

Valvoline ropes in Virat Kohli as brand ambassador In a rare honour for an Indian sportsperson, star shuttler Saina Nehwal has been appointed as a member of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Athletes' Commission.  Saina has received a letter to the effect from the IOC President Thomas Bach.  The Athletes' Commission is chaired by Angela Ruggiero and it comprises nine vice presidents and 10 other Valvoline Cummins India has signed up India Test captain members. Virat Kohli as its ambassador.  As part of the association, Kohli will be the face of BCCI president Anurag Thakur part of powerful ICC sub- Valvoline engine oils and lubricants range. committee

Navdeep Singh Suri is India's New Envoy to UAE

Senior diplomat Navdeep Singh Suri was appointed BCCI president Anurag Thakur has taken charge as the Ambassador to United Arab Emirates, a strategically important member of the ICC’s powerful Finance and Commercial nation country which is a major supplier of oil to India and is Affairs committee. home to around 2.6 million-strong Indians.  Anurag Singh Thakur is a member of Lok Sabha from  Mr Suri, a 1983 batch Indian Foreign Service official, is Hamirpur in Himachal Pradesh. expected to take up the assignment shortly, the External

Affairs Ministry said. S.P Yadav elected new President of Urology Society of India  He is currently serving as Indian High Commissioner in S P Yadav has been elected as the new President of the North Canberra. Zone of Urology Society of India.

 His tenure would begin from October 2017 for a period of Amandeep Singh appointed as the next Ambassador of India to one year. the UN Conference  The announcement was made at the conclusion of a 3-day Former IAS officer Amandeep Singh Gill was appointed as the annual conference held under the auspices of the Agra next Ambassador/PR of India to the UN Conference on Urology Association from 16 October to 18 October 2016. Disarmament, Geneva.

 The Conference on Disarmament (CD) is a forum

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Environmentalist Rajendra Shende unanimously elected to UN  Rewati Chetri who hails from Assam, is now in the last leg expert panel of the mega event. One hundred and ninety-seven countries have unanimously approved Indias nomination of Rajendra Shende as a senior International Hockey Federation appoints Jason McCracken as expert to the United Nations Environment Programmes new CEO Technology and Economic Assessment Panel of the Montreal The International Hockey Federation has appointed New Protocol — the most successful global treaty aimed at Zealand's Jason McCracken as its Chief Executive Officer. protecting the ozone layer.  McCracken will be leaving his role as Head of Insurance  Shende, a former UN diplomat on global environmental and Investment Risk at banking group ANZ to take on his treaties and presently Chairman of the TERRE Policy new post at FIH's headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland. Centre, was seconded by the US, Brazil, Kyrgyzstan,  He will replace Kelly Fairweather, who is leaving for the Georgia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Moldova, International Tennis Federation after six years in the role. Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan.  The Technology and Economic Assessment Panel is the Sunil Bharti Mittal elected as GSMA Chairman UNEP’s overarching body of that assesses emerging alternative technologies in five main industrial sectors that safeguard the ozone layer and climate system.  It provides the cost benefit analysis and policy relevant information for the countries to take transformative decisions towards sustainable development.

Visa CEO Charles Scharf resigned The San Francisco-based payments network Visa’s CEO Bharti Enterprises Founder and Chairman Sunil Mittal has Charles Scharf had resigned from his post on October 18, 2016. been elected as GSMA (Global System Mobile Association)  The company named Alfred Kelly Jr, a former president Chairman for a two-year period from January 2017 through of American Express Co and a current Visa board member, December 2018. as CEO.  Current GSMA Chairman Jon Fredrik Baksaas will step down from the Board at the end of 2016. Geeta Phogat appointed DSP in Haryana Police  Mittal, who is the first Indian to be elected as Chairman of Haryana Government has appointed international woman global telecom industry board, will oversee the strategic wrestler Geeta Phogat as a Deputy Superintendent of Police direction of the organisation, which represents nearly 800 (DSP) in Haryana Police. of the world’s mobile operators, as well as more than 300  A proposal of the Home Department was approved at a companies in the broader mobile ecosystem. meeting of the state cabinet presided over by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar. Gavaskar appointed ‘Stroke Ambassador’

Ratan Tata replaces Cyrus Mistry as Tata Sons chairman

Former Indian Cricketer Sunil Gavaskar has been named as ‘Stroke Ambassador of India’.  The Indian Stroke Association which is hosting the World In one of the biggest upheaval in the corporate sector, the Tata Stroke Congress (WSC) along with World Stroke Sons Board has appointed Ratan Tata as the interim chairman Organization (WSO) made this announcement. of the group, replacing Cyrus Mistry.  Stroke is a leading cause of disability and death  The decision was taken at a Board meeting. worldwide.  Mistry has resigned from his post as chairman.  Gavaskar is happy to be “The Stroke Ambassador for India” to create awareness that strokes are treatable. Rewati Chetri appointed Visit Japan Ambassador  World Stroke day is observed on 29th October in every Miss International India 2016, Rewati Chetri, India’s face at year. This is the first time that India is hosting the WSC Miss International 2016 in Tokyo Japan, has been officially meeting. appointed as `Visit Japan Ambassador’ by the Commissioner of Japan Tourism Agency, Ministry of Tourism, Land & Infrastructure and Transport of the Japanese Government.

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Dr. Ajay M. Gondane appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to Australia

 2016 Right Livelihood Award Announced The 2016 Right Livelihood awards were announced by the Stockholm-based Right Livelihood Award Foundation.  The winners for 2016 are:  Syria Civil Defence (the white helmets) Dr. Ajay M. Gondane has been appointed as the next High  Egyptian feminist activist Mozn Hassan and the Nazra Commissioner of India to Australia. (Feminist Studies)  Currently he is working as the Additional Secretary  Svetlana Gannushkina from Russia (Political) in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).  Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet  He has previously served as High Commissioner to Papua  The Right Livelihood Award is an international award to New Guinea and as Deputy Consul General of India in "honour and support those offering practical and New York. exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today. Salim Gangadharan appointed non-executive chairman of  These awards are also called alternative Noble awards. South Indian Bank Former Reserve Bank of India chief general manager Salim Visaranai to take a shot at Oscar nomination Gangadharan is appointed as the next non-executive chairman Visaranai, the Tamil docu-drama crime thriller, has been of South Indian Bank. chosen India’s official entry to Best Foreign Language Film  Gangadharan will replace Amitabha Guha will resign on category at the 89th Academy Awards to be held in 2017. November 1, 2016.  The national award-winning film, directed by Vetrimaran,  He has been independent director in the bank since and produced by actor Dhanush’s Wunderbar Films, January 2014 and he retired from RBI as principal chief documents four migrant workers who suffer police general manager. brutality and corruption after being jailed on false charges.  Part of the film is based on true events recorded in novel Karnal Singh appointed as chief of Enforcement Directorate Lock Up, written by M. Chandrakumar, an autorickshaw driver from Coimbatore.

First Jesse Owens Award goes posthumously to Muhammad Ali

Senior IPS officer Karnal Singh on 25 Oct 2016 was appointed the chief of Enforcement Directorate(ED), the agency entrusted with probing money laundering cases. The first Jesse Owens Olympic Spirit Award will recognize the  The appointments committee of the cabinet has approved late Muhammad Ali. the appointment of Singh as director, Enforcement  The Owens Award was started this year, the 80th Directorate (ED) till August 31, 2017, ie the date of his anniversary of Owens’ four-gold-medal performance at superannuation. the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, and is to be presented

annually to recognize people who have served as an World Bank appoints Kristalina Georgieva as chief executive inspiration in society. Kristalina Georgieva, a former head of EU humanitarian affairs  Owens’ granddaughter, Marlene Dortch, will present the and vice-president of the European commission, has been award. appointed chief executive of the World Bank.

 The Bulgarian, who recently lost out in the race to become Uttam Singh to be honoured with 'Lata Mangeshkar Award' UN secretary general, will report to the bank’s president, Veteran music director and violinist Uttam Singh was named Jim Yong Kim. for the 2016 Lata Mangeshkar Award for Lifetime  Although the title of CEO is newly created, Georgieva will Achievement of the Maharashtra Government. effectively replace Sri Mulyani Indrawati, formerly the  The award carries a citation, a trophy and 500000 rupees bank’s managing director and chief operating officer, who in cash. was appointed Indonesian finance minister in July.

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 The Lata Mangeshkar Award is a national-level award Queen Udaymati and is located in the north Gujarat instituted to honour works in the field of music. The state district of Patan. Government of Maharashtra started this award in 1984.  It was added as part of the UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 2014. Telugu writer Prof Kalakaluri Enoch conferred 29th Moortidevi Award 'Murga' wins first prize at Swachh Bharat Short Film Festival Noted Telugu writer Prof. Kalakaluri Enoch was on 29 September 2016 conferred with 29th Moortidevi Award of Bharatiya Jnanpith for the year 2015 at function in New Delhi. The award was given for his novel Ananta Jeevanam.  The novel was thought-provoking and contemplative as it depicted the struggle of the weak, the downtrodden and the common man of Rayalaseema.  This is the first time a Telugu writer was selected for the Young filmmaker Katyayan Shivpuri, from Maharashtra, won award. the first prize at the Swachh Bharat Short Film Festival for his  Books written in English and all Indian languages are work "Murga". considered for the Prize, which comprises a cash award of  Minister of Information and Broadcasting, four lakhs rupees, a Saraswati statue and a citation plaque. M Venkaiah Naidu awarded Katyayan with a certificate and a cash prize of Rs 10 lakhs. Tirupati Airport Awarded “Best Tourist Friendly Airport”  Vani Tripathi, filmmaker Gitanjali Rao, Airports Authority of India’s Tirupati Airport has been and Prahlad Kakar served as the jury to select the best 20 awarded as “Best Tourist Friendly Airport” under the category short films. for “State Annual Excellence Awards for the year 2015-16” by Andhra Pradesh Tourism. Japan's Ohsumi wins Nobel Prize in medicine  The award was presented on the eve of World Tourism Day by the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Shri Nara Chandra Babu Naidu at Bhawani Islands, Vijayawada.  The State Annual Tourism Excellence Awards under various segments of Travel and Tourism Industry are awarded by Department of Tourism, Government of

Andhra Pradesh for maintaining excellent Customer Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan won the Nobel Medicine Prize for friendly relations with tourists and passengers, coinciding his work on autophagy -- a process whereby cells "eat with World Tourism Day Celebrations. themselves" -- which when disrupted can cause Parkinson's and diabetes. Gangtok conferred Cleanest Tourist Destination honour  Autophagy is a fundamental process in cell physiology The Union Ministry of Tourism has conferred Gangtok, capital with major implications for human health and disease. The of Sikkim, the ‘Cleanest Tourist Destination’. process is essential for the orderly degradation and  Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 30 handed recycling of damaged cell parts and its failure is believed over the award in New Delhi. The award was received by to be responsible for ageing and cell damage. the Commissioner of Gangtok Municipal Corporation.  Ohsumi, 71, received a PhD from the University of Tokyo  Chandigarh and Mysore were awarded as ‘Clean Cities in in 1974. He is currently a professor at the Tokyo Institute million plus population category’. of Technology.  Urban Development and Ministry of Drinking Water and  He is 23rd Japanese to win a Nobel and 6th Japanese to win Sanitation responsible for implementing the it for Medicine. The prize comes with eight million flagship programme, Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban Swedish kronor (around $936,000 or 834,000 euros). and Gramin), had organised a workshop at Vigyan Bhawan, in New Delhi. Indian-origin teen wins Google Science Fair prize A 16-year-old Indian-origin South African Gujarat world heritage site: Rani Ki Vav bags ‘Cleanest Iconic teen Kiara Nirghin has won a $50,000 scholarship, the grand Place’ award prize at the annual Google Science Fair for her work using Gujarat’s 900-year-old World Heritage Site Rani ki Vav bag orange peel to develop a cheaper “super-absorbent material” an award for the “Cleanest Iconic Place”. that helps soil retain water.  The monument was felicitated at the conference,  Kiara Nirghin submitted her project titled ‘No More inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Thirsty Crops’ which was aimed at tackling the severe  The Rani ki Vav (the Queen’s Stepwell) was built as a drought plaguing South Africa. memorial to a king in the year 1063 by  The Google Science Fair is a programme for budding scientists between the ages of 13 to 18, who are invited to

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solve the world’s biggest challenges using science and The International Astronautical Federation's renowned space technology. scientist U.R. Rao has been inducted into its Hall of Fame for his contribution to development of India's space technology. British trio win Nobel Prize in Physics  Rao, 84, is the Chairman of the space agency's Physical The study of “strange states” of matter earned British scientists Research Laboratory at Ahmedabad in Gujarat. David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz the 2016 Nobel Prize for Physics. Nobel Peace Prize for Colombia's Juan Manuel Santos  The trio, all based in the US working in the highly- specialised mathematics field of “topology”, studied unusual phases or states of matter.  Thouless won half of the eight million Swedish kronor (around $931,000) prize, while Haldane and Kosterlitz share the other half.

France confers knighthood on elephant researcher Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize for FARC agreement. 376 People were nominated this year for the prize.  Santos has promised to revive the peace plan even though Colombians, in a referendum, narrowly rejected the accord. Many voters believed it was too lenient on the FARC guerrillas.  Last year, the award was given to the Tunisian organisation ‘National Dialogue Quartet’. Film-maker and elephant researcher Prajna Chowta has been appointed Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite (Knight in Nobel Prize in Economics 2016 awarded to Oliver Hart and the National Order of Merit), one of the highest Bengt Holmstrom civilian recognitions of the French government. The official ceremony is expected to be held later this year in Bengaluru.  Ms. Chowta is the founder of Aane Mane Foundation, which has been researching and conserving wild Asian elephants.  She has also authored the Elephant Code Book on captive elephant management as well as the French book Enfant d’Elephant (Elephant’s Child) in 2014, British-born Oliver Hart and Finland-born Bengt Holmstrom which is based on the sketches of tribals and their won the 2016 Nobel Economics Prize for their contributions to relationship with elephants. contract theory, helping the understanding of issues like the performance-based pay for top executives. Tiny machines win chemistry Nobel Prize  Hart is economics professor at Harvard University while Chemists Jean-Pierre Sauvage of France, Scotland's Sir J. Holmstrom is professor of economics and management at Fraser Stoddart and Dutch Bernard L. Feringa won the Nobel the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prize in Chemistry for their work on molecular machines.  The economics prize, officially called the Sveriges  The winning paper was entitled "For the design and Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of synthesis of molecular machines". Alfred Nobel, was established in 1968.  Molecular machines are tiny molecules, a thousand times thinner than a strand of hair, with controllable movements, Chandigarh International Airports limited (CHIAL) won IBC which can perform a task when energy is added. award

Nayanjot Lahiri bags prize for book on Ashoka Professor Nayanjot Lahiri (History) at the Ashoka University has been awarded the 2016 John F. Richards Prize for her book Ashoka in Ancient India  The Richards Prize is awarded annually by the American Historical Association (AHA) to the best book in South Asian history. Chandigarh International Airports Limited (CHIAL), a Joint IAF inducts renowned space scientist UR Rao in Hall of Fame Venture Company of Airports Authority of India and States of Punjab and Haryana, has been conferred with IBC award and Trophy for excellence in built environment in infrastructure

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Sir Ian McKellen honoured at UK Theatre Awards

The Mizoram government's Information and Public Relations department and the Mizoram Journalists' Association (MJA) declared Lalbiakthanga Pachuau, the editor of 'Zoram Tlangau', a Mizo language daily, as the "oldest working journalist in the country".  The 90-year-old soldier-turned-journalist started editing his own newspaper in 1970 and was elected the president Veteran actor Ian McKellen was honoured at the UK Theatre of MJA for three terms. Awards on for his individual contributions to British theatre.  McKellen was honoured with the Outstanding C Radhakrishnan selected for Mathrubhumi Literary award Contribution to British Theatre prize.  The 77-year-old actor is best known for his roles in the "X- Men" and "Lord of the Rings" film franchises.

Bob Dylan wins 2016 Nobel prize in literature The American lyricist, musician and activist has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition". Eminent writer C Radhakrishnan has been selected for the  He is the first songwriter to win this prestigious award. Mathrubhumi Literary Award in recognition of his contribution  With this award to Dylan, the Nobel prizes for the year to the field of literature. come to a close.  The award carries a cash prize of ₹ 2 lakh, a citation and a statuette. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank awarded by Ugandan govt for his  Radhakrishnan was selected by a panel chaired by novelist literary work M Mukundan with Sethu and Sarah Joseph being the other Former Uttarakhand chief minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank members of the jury, Mathrubhumi Managing Director M has been conferred with a prestigious award by the Ugandan P Veerendra Kumar and Managing Editor P V Chandran government for promoting human values through his literature. said in a statement.  Nishank, who is currently a BJP MP from Haridwar, has  Recipient of several honours, including the Literary authored a number of books and anthologies. Academy of India, Kerala Literary Academy, Radhakrishnan has proved his mettle in various capacities R.A. Mashelkar conferred award by Centre for Organisation as novelist, short story writer, cine director, teacher and Development media personnel. R. A. Mashelkar, former Director-General of CSIR, has been conferred the V Krishnamurthy Award for excellence by the Sonam Kapoor awarded ET Panache's 'Trendsetter Awards Hyderabad-based Centre for Organisation Development. 2016'  The former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh and Bollywood Actress Sonam Kapoor has been bestowed upon Governor of Tamil Nadu, K Rosaiah, presented the award with the 2016 ET Panache Trendsetter Award in Mumbai, at a function in Hyderabad. Maharashtra.  The award recognizes the efforts of entrepreneurs, Indian-origin scientist bags young scientist award in US innovators, newsmakers and athletes whose stories inspire Kirtiraj Kundlik Gaikwad, an Indian scientist with the millions and whose services transform lives. Department of Packaging, has been awarded the prestigious IAFP Young scientist scholarship award for his research work Robert De Niro to Receive Chaplin Award on "development of novel oxygen absorbing package in the The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced Robert De field of active packaging for oxygen sensitive food products". Niro as the recipient of the 44th Chaplin Award.

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 He is also the high-profile co-founder of the Tribeca Film  Sanches was selected following a vote by journalists from Festival, launched in the wake of 9/11 in an effort to boost 30 newspapers across Europe to name the best player in the economic prospects of lower Manhattan. 2016 under the age of 21.  De Niro will be presented with the award at an award gala on 8 May 2017. 54 personalities selected for Yash Bharti Awards 2016 The Uttar Pradesh government has declared the list of Yash State Bank of Patiala gets special award for excellence in Bharati awardees 2016. 54 personalities have been selected for MSME lending the coveted award for the year 2016-17. State Bank of Patiala has been conferred "Special Award for  The award is given by the Uttar Pradesh Government for Excellence in MSME lending" for its performance in lending excellence in literature, fine arts, folk and classical music to the MSME sector during the year 2013-14 and 2014-15 with and sports. a growth of Rs 2597 crore (annualized 23%) and Rs 994 crore  Some of the prominent names: Bollywood actor (annualized 7.10%) respectively, covering the entire range of Naseeruddin Shah, PayTM CEO Vijay Shekhar, services. Paralympic athlete Varun Kumar, Qawwali singers Aftab  S A Ramesh Rangan, Managing Director and Devendra and Hashim (Sabri Brothers), Film director Saurabh Kumar, General Manager, State Bank of Patiala received Shukla. the award on behalf of the Bank in the National Award Function held at Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), U.S. author Paul Beatty wins Man Booker Prize Ludhiana wherein the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, was the chief guest.

International Prize in Statistics awarded to Sir David Cox Noted British statistician Sir David Cox on 19 October 2016 was named the inaugural recipient of the International Prize in Statistics.  He is honoured for Survival Analysis Model Applied in Paul Beatty has became the first US author to win the Man Medicine, Science, and Engineering. Booker Prize for his novel "The Sellout". With this, he has become first American to win this prestigious prize. Indian Army team wins gold medal in gruelling Cambrian  The jury behind the world's most prestigious English- Patrol exercise language literary award said the novel was a "shocking and unexpectedly funny" portrayal of Beatty's native Los Angeles, using satire to explore racial equality in a fictional neighbourhood.  The winner of the Man Booker receives £52,500, ($64,100, 59,000 euros).  The Man Booker was launched in 1969 and has awarded A team from the Indian Army's Gorkha Rifles has won a gold writers including Iris Murdoch and Salman Rushdie. medal at one of the most gruelling exercises in the world.  This Prize is different from Man Booker International  Team 2/8 Gorkha was awarded a gold medal in Exercise Prize, which was awarded this year to Han Kang of South Cambrian Patrol organized by the British Army. Korea.

AIIMS, Ganga Ram doctors chosen for Dr. B C Roy award World Bank award for Almatti dam Two doctors Randeep Guleria (Head of Pulmonology- Almatti dam, one of the largest reservoirs in Karnataka, was SGRH)) and CS Yadav (All India Institute of Medical chosen for the World Bank’s Award of Excellence for best Sciences-AIIMS) have been selected for the prestigious Dr. BC utilisation of funds for renovation to enhance the strength of Roy Award for excellence in the field of medicine. the dam.  Chairman of Board of Management at SGRH DS Rana and  The World Bank had granted Rs.72 crore to the Krishna Arvind Kumar have also been chosen for the coveted Bhagya Jal Nigam Limited to prevent seepage which could award. damage the dam.  The Bidhan Chandra Roy Award was instituted in 1976 in the memory of renowned physician and freedom fighter SCOPE Meritorious Awards to CPSEs Announced BC Roy by Medical Council of India. Jury for the SCOPE Meritorious Awards has announced the names of the Award Winners. The Awardees for the SCOPE Portugal's Renato Sanches wins 2016 European Golden Boy Meritorious Awards 2014-15 are as under: Award  SCOPE Meritorious Award for Environmental Excellence Portugal’s Renato Sanches on 24 October 2016 was awarded & Sustainable Development: Hindustan Petroleum the 2016 European Golden Boy award. Corporation Limited.

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 SCOPE Meritorious Award for Corporate Governance: 47th international film festival of India to be held in Goa in Power Finance Corporation , Hindustan Aeronautics November Limited & WAPCOS Limited. Seven Marathi films — including four feature and three non-  Jury has announced to present ths award to 10 PSUs. feature films — have made the cut to be screened at the Indian Panorama of the 47th International Film Festival of India Antoine Griezmann named best player in La Liga (IFFI) in Goa from November 20 to 29.  The blockbusters like Sultan, National-award winning Baahubali and Airlift will be screened at the upcoming 47th International Film Festival of India.

Sania Mirza-Barbora Strycova crowned women’s doubles champions at Pan Pacific Open Antoine Griezmann has been named as the best player in La Liga at an awards ceremony in Valencia. He defeated Lionel Messi and Christiano Ronaldo in the race.  Atletico also had Diego Simeone win the best coach award.  Barcelona Striker Luis Suarez was awarded best non- European player. India’s Sania Mirza and her partner Barbora Strycova  Barcelona’s Lionel Messi was selected as the best forward. from Czech Republic produced a straight sets win

over China’s Chen Liang and Zhaoxuan Yang 6-1, 6-1 in the G Balakrishna won Mr Asia title final to win the women’s doubles titles at Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo.  Playing their third tournament together, Sania and Strycova have earlier won the Cincinnati Open last month by beating Martina Hingis and Coco Vandeweghe in the final.  The current tournament in Tokyo is Sania’s 40th doubles G Balakrishna has won the Mr Asia title at a recently concluded title win and third in Tokyo. She had earlier won the same 5th Phil-Asia bodybuilding championships in the Philippines. title with Cara Black twice.  The 25-year-old is known as the “Arnold Schwarzenegger of Whitefield”. Alexander Zverev stuns Stan Wawrinka to claim St Petersburg  He won the Mr Universe Under-24 junior contest in 2013 Open title in Germany.

Nadia Murad and Lamiya Aji Bashar wins 2016 Sakharov Prize Two Yazidi women, Nadia Murad Basee and Lamiya Aji Bashar, who escaped sexual enslavement by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in Iraq, have won Europe's top human rights award, the Sakharov prize. Germany’s 19-year-old Alexander Zverev won his first tour  The announcement of the year's joint laureates was made title, beating U.S. Open champion Stan Wawrinka in a tight following a decision by European Parliament on 27 battle in the St. Petersburg Open final. October 2016.  Zverev took the first set before Wawrinka responded to  Basee and Bashar were among thousands of Yazidi girls draw level. The German was a break down in the decider, and women abducted by ISIS militants and forced into but fought back to win 6-2, 3-6, 7-5. sexual slavery in 2014. But, both survived and now campaign for the Yazidi community. Japan to host 2026 Asian Games: Olympic Council of Asia  It is awarded annually awarded in memory of Andrei Japan’s Aichi prefecture and its capital city Nagoya were Sakharov, a Soviet scientist and dissident. confirmed as co-hosts of the 2026 Asian Games, adding yet  The prize is accompanied by an award of 50000 Euro. In another major event to the country’s bulging international 2015, the prize was awarded to Raif Badawi. sports calendar.

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 The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) formally endorsed India beat Bangladesh to lift U-18 Asia Cup hockey the bid after Aichi Prefecture governor Hideaki Ohumra and Nagoya city mayor Takashi Kawamura presented their joint offering to the OCA General Assembly in Danang, which is currently hosting the fifth Asian Beach Games.  Held every four years, the 2018 Asian Games have already been awarded to the Indonesian cities of Jakarta and Palembang while the 2022 edition will be held in the Chinese city of Hangzhou. The Indian men’s hockey team lifted the 4th U-18 Asia R Ashwin becomes fastest Indian to take 200 Test wickets Cup after defeating hosts Bangladesh 5-4 in a pulsating summit clash in Dhaka.  The young Indians held their nerves in the dying moments of the nail-biting finale as they exacted revenge for a 4-5 loss to the hosts in the tournament opener.  This is the second time that India has lifted the prestigious trophy after winning it in 2001.

Indian Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has become the Daniel Ricciardo wins F1 Malaysian Grand Prix fastest Indian and second overall fastest to take 200 wickets in Daniel Ricciardo has claimed maiden Formula One Malaysian his 37th Test. Grand Prix win.  Ashwin trapped New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson in  Max Verstappen and Nico Rosberg finished second and front to get to the 200th wicket. third respectively.  Leg-spinner Clarrie Grimmett (Australia) got to the 200 of  Malaysian Grand Prix is a part of World Championship. wickets faster than Ashwin in 36 Tests.  It is being organised at Sepang Circuit since 1999.  He left behind the likes of Dennis Lillee (Australia) and Waqar Younis (Pakistan) who took 38 Tests to get to 200 Kieren Dsouza becomes the first Indian to complete World's wickets. toughest race, Spartathlon

Velavan wins Asian junior squash title India’s Velavan Senthilkumar rallied from two games down to beat Mohammad Al Sarraj of Jordan 12-14, 9-11, 11-6, 11-8, 11-7 in the final to emerge the u-19 boys’ champion in the Asian junior individual squash championship.  Velavan is the second Indian to win the title after Ravi Dixit, who won it in 2010.

 Also, Tushar Shahani won the boys’ u-17 silver and Yash Bengaluru's Kieren Dsouza has become the first Indian to Fadte, a u-15 bronze. complete the Spartathlon, widely described as the "world's toughest race". Sathiyan Gnanasekaran wins Belgium Open  The 23-year old completed the 246.6 km distance in the Sathiyan Gnanasekaran has become only the second Indian 2016 edition, in 33 hours, one minute and 38 seconds. table tennis player to win an ITTF event as he clinched the  The Spartathlon is an annual run between Athens and men's singles title of the Belgium Open. Sparta in Greece, with a reported success rate of 50%.  Sathiyan won his first pro title by defeating local player Nuytinck Cedric India's Gaganjeet Bhullar wins Korea Open  Achanta Sharath Kamal was the first Indian to win an India’s Ganganjeet Bhullar ended a long trophy drought with a ITTF event in 2012. one-stroke victory at the Shinhan Donghae Open in South Korea for his sixth title on the Asian Tour. Indian women’s kabaddi team wins gold in Asian Beach  The 28-year-old carded a final round four-under-par 67 for Games a tournament total of 15-under 269 at the Bear’s India bagged their first gold medal at the 5th Asian Beach Best Cheongna Golf Club in Incheon. Games with the women’s beach kabaddi in Danang, Vietnam.  Tour rookie Scott Vincent (69) of Zimbabwe and  Indian beat Thailand 41-31 in a hard-fought summit clash local favourite Kim Tae-woo (71) finished a stroke at Bien Dong Park. behind.  India has so far won six medals ( 1 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze) in the Games.

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BRICS U-17 football tournament begins in Goa Andy Murray wins 2016 China Open Men's Singles Andy Murray won the 2016 China Open Men's Singles title at the National Tennis Center in Beijing, China.  World Number two Murray defeated Grigor Dimitrov by 6–4, 7–6.  The China Open is an annual professional tennis tournament held in Beijing, China.

The first edition of the BRICS Under-17 Football tournament Agnieszka Radwanska wins 2016 China Open Women's begins in Goa. Singles  The tournament featuring Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) has been organised on the occasion of the 8th BRICS summit that will be held in Goa on the 15th of this month.  The inaugural match will be played between Brazil and

China. Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska won the 2016 China Open Women's Singles at the National Tennis Center in Beijing, Shooter Jitu Rai bags silver at World Cup in Italy China.  Radwanska defeated Johanna Konta 6-4, 6-2 to grab the title.

Virat Kohli presented with ICC Test Championship mace

Indian shooter Jitu Rai clinched a silver medal in the 50 meter pistol event of the ISSF World Cup Final at Bologna, Italy.  Jitu, 29, shot a score of 188.8 to finish behind China's Wei Pang at 190.6. Italy's Giuseppe Giordano settled for the Indian captain Virat Kohli was presented with the ICC Test bronze. Championship mace for leading his team to the top of the Test

Team Rankings. Kabaddi World Cup kicks off in Ahmedabad  The mace was presented by former India captain and ICC The 2016 Kabaddi World Cup kicked off in the presence of Cricket Hall of Famer Sunil Gavaskar at a ceremony captains of the 12 competing nations, including hosts India. following the conclusion of the third and final Test against  Besides the hosts, the US, England, Australia, Iran, New Zealand in Indore after the home team completed a Poland, Thailand, Bangladesh, South Korea, Japan, 3-0 whitewash. Argentina and Kenya will vie for the top honours.

 South Korea beat India by 34-32 in opening game. Indian shooter Jitu Rai named 'Champion of Champions' by

ISSF Sprinter Srabani Nanda wins Ekalabya Award Ace shooter Jitu Rai has been awarded the 'Champion of Champions' title for pistol shooting in 2016 by the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF).  The army man beat Serbia's Damir Mikec, 29.6 to 28.3 in the Champions Trophy 10m Air Pistol final held at the TSN Shooting Range in Bologna, Italy.  Jitu was also awarded a cash reward of $5,587 (5000 euros) along with the title.

Sprinter Srabani Nanda has bagged the 24th Ekalabya Award Nico Rosberg won the Japanese Grand Prix for the year 2016 in recognition of her sporting excellence. Nico Rosberg of Germany and Mercedes GP won the Japan  Srabani won gold in 200m, silver in 100m and 4x100m Grand Prix at Suzuka Circuit. relay in 12th South Asian Games held in Guwahati in  Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton finished February. the GP second and third respectively.  She had also won bronze in 100m and 4x100m relay in Asian Grand Prix Athletics in Thailand in June 2015.

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R Ashwin regains No. 1 spot in Test rankings records as well as the record being a part of the 4X100m Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin reclaimed the number one relay. spot in Test rankings for bowlers following a career-best match haul of 13 for 140 in the third Test against New Zealand in Sourabh Varma wins men’s singles title at Chinese Indore. Taipei Open  Ashwin, who was named man of the series after he Sourabh Varma clinched the men’s singles title at the Chinese finished with 27 wickets in a 3-0 sweep by India, now has Taipei Open after defeating Malaysia’s Daren Liew in the 220 wickets, the most by any bowler after 39 Tests. summit clash of the $55,000 Grand Prix tournament in Taipei.  Ashwin has joined a select band to have touched a rating  He won the game with the scoreline reading 12-10 12-10 of 900 points since 2000, the others being Muttiah 3-3. The 23-year-old from Madhya Pradesh rallied to grab Muralitharan, Glenn McGrath, Vernon Philander, Dale the first two games. Steyn and Shaun Pollock. Indian boxer Neeraj Goyat retains WBC Asia welterweight Mark Webber announces retirement from racing title

Indian boxer Neeraj Goyat outpunched Australia’s Ben Kite to retain the WBC welterweight Asia title. The Formula-F1 driver from Australia Mark Webber will retire  The 24-year-old prevailed 120-110, 119-109, 115-113 in a from professional racing at the end of this year in Bahrain. unanimous decision for the gruelling 12-round contest  Webber won the World Endurance against his 26-year-old rival. Championship (WEC) title in 2015. FIFA gives nod to Kochi, Navi Mumbai for U-17 World Cup Brazil lifted Inaugural BRICS U–17 Football Tournament Football’s world governing body FIFA has ratified Kochi and Championship Navi Mumbai as a venue for the Under-17 World Cup to be Brazil has lifted the 1st BRICS U-17 Football Tournament held in India next year. 2016 held at Goa. In the Finals they defeated South Africa 5-1.  Kochi became the first Indian city to be officially declared  Earlier in the match for the 3 rd place between Russia and as one of the venues for hosting the U-17 World Cup after China, Russia defeated China 2-1. it received a green signal from a high-level delegation of  Ten-day BRICS tournament was held in Goa. football's world body.

India becomes first team to play 900 ODIs FIFA unveils mascot for 2018 World Cup Russia have unveiled their mascot for the 2018 World Cup – Zabivaka the wolf.  The wolf’s name, according to FIFA means “the one who scores”.  It received 53 per cent of the more than one million votes cast in a poll, beating a tiger (27 percent) and a cat (20 When India walked out to the middle for the first match of the percent). five-match series against New Zealand, it was the 900th time the team took field in the format. No side has played more India beat Iran 38-29 to win 2016 Kabaddi World Cup ODIs than India.  India played its first ever ODI in 1974 against England at Leeds which ended in a victory for the hosts.

Usian Bolt to retire after the 2017 World Championships Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt will be running his last race at June's Racers Grand Prix before taking retirement from competition two months later.  Bolt is widely considered as the greatest sprinter of all- time and is the first man to hold both the 100m and 200m

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A brilliant second half performance saw India stage a The team of Indian Roller Skaters claimed their first ever memorable comeback as they beat Iran 38-29 in the title clash International medal in the sport. to lift the 2016 Kabaddi World Cup in Ahmedabad.  Vikram Ingale, Nikhilesh Tabhane and Dhanush Babu  India has also beat Iran in last two WC finals and Asian have won India’s first ever senior international roller games. skating medal, by securing the bronze medal in the 3000m  Ajay Thakur was the star performer claiming 12 points in team relay event in Lishui, People's Republic of China. the final.

North Korea won 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup

57. Playwright Reoti Saran Sharma passes away

North Korea won the 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup after defeating Japan on penalties in the final of the tournament.  North Korea, who were the champions of the tournament's maiden edition in 2008, became the first team to win the tournament twice.  Spain's Lorena Navarro was awarded the Golden Shoe for scoring eight goals in the tournament. Eminent Hindi and Urdu writer Reoti Saran Sharma (92-year) passed away in New Delhi. Lewis Hamilton wins 2016 United States Grand Prix  He was conferred with Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton on 23 October 2016 won the 2007 for his contribution to theatre. 2016 United States Grand Prix. The race was held at the Circuit  Sharma was awarded Sahitya Kala Parishad and Ghalib of the Americas, Austin, Texas, United States. Award.  Nico Rosberg finished second while Red Bull Racing- TAG Heuer’s Daniel Ricciardo finished third in the race. US golf legend Arnold Palmer dies at 87

Punjab wins NCC National Games

US golfer Arnold Palmer, viewed as one of the greatest players in the sport's history, has died at the age of 87. The United States Golf Association reported.

Punjab Directorate on 27 October 2016 won the 2016 National  The United States Golf Association also confirmed his Cadet Corp (NCC) National Games. death in a tweet calling him "golf's greatest ambassador".  Subhash Bhamre, Minister of State for Defence, presented  During a long career he won more than 90 tournaments trophies to the winners at the closing ceremony at Delhi worldwide, including seven majors. Cantonment. FCAT chairman Mahajan dies India Wins Its First Ever International Medal in Roller Skating Former Delhi High Court judge S K Mahahan, who was at Asian Championships serving as the chairman of Film Certification Appllate Tribunal (FCAT), died.  He was cremated at the at Lodhi road crematorium, where many legal luminaries including judges and dignitaries including Minister of State of Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathore were present.

Israel's former President Shimon Peres passes away Israeli ex-president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres died. He was 93.

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 Peres served twice as prime minister and also as president,  Pryor built a 39-1 record with 35 knockouts during his a mostly ceremonial role, from 2007 to 2014. career.  He won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in  His biggest moments in the ring were his two junior negotiating the Oslo Accords. welterweight victories over Arguello.

Former Australian cricketer Max Walker passes away Oscar-winning Polish film director Wajda dies aged 90 Former Australian cricketer Max Walker has passed away in Melbourne. He was 68.  His awkward and unorthodox bowling action earned him the nickname ‘Tangles’.  Walker played 34 Tests between 1972 and ‘77, taking 138 wickets at an average of 27.47, including six five-wicket hauls.

Renowned Bangla writer Syed Shamsul Haq passes away One of Poland’s most famous film directors, Andrzej Wajda, has died at the age of 90.  His one of his best-known releases, 1957’s “Canal”, showed the struggle of the Polish underground army in the Warsaw uprising.  He was awarded Oscar Lifetime award in 2000. Syed Shamsul Haq, one of Bangladesh’s best known writers passed away 27 September 2016 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He Thailand king Bhumibol Adulyadej passes away was 81 and was suffering from lung cancer. Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest-  Mr. Haq’s literary life and career spread across genres and reigning monarch, has died after 70 years as head of state. was known for equal mastery over novels, poetry, essays  He was seen as a stabilising figure in a country hit by and plays. cycles of political turmoil and multiple coups.  He was born on 27 December 1935 in Kurigram in then  Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn will be the new Bengal Presidency of British India. monarch, the prime minister has said.

Noted artist Yusuf Arakkal passes away Italian playwright and Nobel Literature Prize winner Dario Fo Noted contemporary artist Yusuf Arakkal passed away on 4 passes away October 2016 in Bengaluru, Karnataka. He was 71. Italian playwright and actor Dario Fo, who won the Nobel prize  He was born in Kerala in 1945 and got his Diploma for literature in 1997, has died at the age of 90, Prime Minister from Karnataka Painting council. Matteo Renzi announced.  Left-winger Fo, one of the leading figures in 20th century Freedom fighter Ramesh Kulkarni passed away farce and political theatre, was best known for his works Freedom fighter and Congress leader Ramesh Kulkarni passed "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" and "Can't Pay, Won't away here following a brief illness. He was 89. Pay".  Kulkarni (87) is survived by a son and two daughters.  He started taking part in the country's freedom movement Renowned writer and litterateur Dayanand Anant passed away since his school days. at 88  In 1942, he smuggled pamphlets relating to the freedom movement in a tea kettle and was apprehended by the police at Dadar in Mumbai.

Manipur theatre legend Kanhailal passed away Manipur-based theatre legend Heisnam Kanhailal passed away on 6 October 2016 following a brief illness in Imphal. He was 75.  He was awarded Padma Bhushan in 2016 for his contribution in theatre and Sangeeta Natak Academy award in 1985. Renowned writer and litterateur from Uttarakhand, Dayanand Anant, passed away at his residence in Bhowali near Nainital. Former boxing champion Aaron Pryor dies at 60 He was 88. Former junior welterweight boxing champion, and one-half of  He was one of the most prominent writers of Uttarakhand one of the most electrifying fights of all time, Aaron Pryor, has who penned two short story books, three novels, five TV died after a long fight with heart disease. dramas and many comics and satires.

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Rwanda's last king, Kigeli V, dies aged 80  Mittal was awarded in Mumbai on 136th Dada Saheb Falke Jayanti for his excellent contribution to Punjabi Cinema.

First Woman to conquer Mount Everest has passed away aged 77

Kigeli V Ndahindurwa (80), the last king of Rwanda, has recently passed away in the United States.  He ruled the east African nation for less than a year in 1959 before being forced into exile after clashing with the

Belgian colonial power. First Woman to conquer Mount Everest Junko Tabei passed away in Tokyo. The Japanese mountaineer was 77 years old. South African struggle icon Mewa Ramgobin passes away  She conquered the Everest in 1975 at an age of 35. By South African struggle icon Mewa Ramgobin (83-year) has 1992, she'd conquered the Seven Summits. passed away at Cape Town.  Ramgobin was married to Ela Gandhi, a human rights Tom Hayden, famed anti-Vietnam war activist, dies at 76 activist and Mahatma Gandhi’s granddaughter. Tom Hayden, a 1960s anti-war activist and one of the era's  He was among the first supporters of the Release Mandela most prominent, counter-culture radicals who went on to serve campaign. in the California state assembly and senate, has died aged 76.  Ramgobin’s commitment to the Gandhian cause saw him  Hayden died in Santa Monica, California, after a long establish a Gandhi museum and library, organizing the illness. Annual Gandhi Lecture and educate people from different race groups on Gandhian philosophies. Carlos Alberto, Brazil's 1970 World Cup hero, passes away aged 72 Qatar: Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani passes away Carlos Alberto, who scored one of the greatest goals in World Cup history while captaining Brazil to glory in the 1970 final against Italy, has died aged 72 following a heart attack.  The classy defender played for Fluminense, Santos, Flamengo and New York Cosmos and earned the nickname 'The Captain' for his leadership qualities.

Former Uruguayan president Jorge Batlle passes away Former Uruguayan president Jorge Batlle passed away after Former Qatari Emir Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani suffering a head injury from a fall on October 14 in the city of passed away aged 84, the Emiri Diwan announced. Tacuarembó.  He ruled Qatar from 1972 until 1995.  President of Uruguay between 2000 and 2005, Batlle  Qatar will observe three days of mourning, the Emiri emerged as one of the key figures of national political life, Diwan said. culminating in his leadership during the country’s most  Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani was the grandfather recent economic crisis. of the current leader of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. Legendary Kashmiri singer Raj Begum dies

Mehar Mittal, legend of comedy in Punjabi movies, passes away

Celebrated Kashmiri singer Raj Begum passed away in Veteran Punjabi actor Mehar Mittal, who acquired legendary Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir. She was 89. status with his comic roles, passed away at a hospital in Mount  She was also referred to as the Nightingale of Kashmir. Abu, Rajasthan, on 22nd October 2016 after prolonged illness.  She was awarded Padma Shri in 2002.  He was to turn 81 on October 24, 2016.

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 She was bestowed with State award by Jammu and  The book is authored by Ambassador Surendra Kumar. Kashmir government in 2009.  The book draws round the progress and the indelible  She was honoured with the Sangeet Akademi award in imprint on the conduct of India’s Foreign Policy by the 2013. Prime Minister Modi in the last two and a half years.

Goa’s first woman CM Shashikala Kakodkar passes away Book on Virat Kohli launched

Goa’s first woman chief minister Shashikala Kakodar passed away after a brief illness. She was 81.  Kakodkar was the daughter of Goa’s first chief minister A book penning the life of India's Test skipper Virat Kohli has Dayanand Bandodkar. Following her father’s death in been launched in the presence of several high-profile cricketing 1973, Kakodkar was sworn in as the chief minister. personalities.  A prominent leader of the Maharashtrwadi Gomantak  The book, named "Driven: The Virat Kohli Story" has Party, she was known as ‘Tai’. been written by senior journalist Vijay Lokapally and published by Bloomsbury India.  Kohli and his coach Raj Kumar Sharma were present on the occasion. Among the other luminaries present were Virender Sehwag, Kapil Dev, Anil Kumble, Ravi Shastri, Ashish Nehra, Ajay Jadeja, Karthik Murali, Hari Gidwani and Anjum Chopra.

Venkaiah Naidu releases book titled Modi’s Midas Touch in Foreign Policy

M. Venkaiah Naidu, Minister for Information and Broadcasting, released the book titled Modi’s Midas Touch in Foreign Policy.

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(C) Journalist Current Affairs Question (D) Musician (E) None of these 1. What is the name of Joint Military Exercise between 9. Jeslyn Santos who won the title of Miss United India and Russia? Continents 2016, is from which country? (A) Indra (A) Columbia (B) Astra (B) Philippines (C) Surya Kiran (C) Venezuela (D) Garud Shakti (D) Germany (E) None of these (E) None of these 2. The Cabinet Committee has given its approval for 10. Which of the following was second runner-up at Miss winding up of which company recently? United Continents 2016? (A) Hindustan Copper Limited (A) Lopamudra Raut (B) Hindustan Diamond Company Private Limited (B) Urvashi Rautela (C) Hindustan Zinc Limited (C) Koyal Rana (D) Hindustan metals Private Limited (D) Diya Sharma (E) None of these (E) None of these 3. Which company has acquired Chinese FMCG Company 11. Childhood cancer awareness exhibition was recently held Zhongshan Ma Er Daily Products Ltd? at which of the following monuments? (A) Infosys (A) Lal Quila (B) Cognizant (B) Jantar Mantar (C) Dabur (C) Amar Jawan (D) Wipro (D) Taj Mahal (E) None of these (E) None of these 4. Which bank has tied up with Cigna TTK Company Ltd 12. Which city has hosted 2nd SAARC Anti-Terrorism and Reliance General Insurance Company Ltd for Mechanism? providing health and general insurance respectively, to its (A) Chennai customers? (B) Gandhinagar (A) UCO Bank (C) Mumbai (B) Andhra Bank (D) New Delhi (C) Syndicate Bank (E) None of these (D) Allahabad Bank 13. Which has become the first state to adopt Centre's Street (E) None of these Lighting National Programme in all its urban local 5. Who has been appointed as chairperson of Bankruptcy bodies? Board of India? (A) Gujarat (A) Madhusudan Sahoo (B) Andhra Pradesh (B) Aniket Dave (C) Rajasthan (C) Sadashiv Yadav (D) Punjab (D) Venkat (E) None of these (E) None of these 14. Which AMC has been appointed for the creation and 6. Who has been elected as chairman of Audit Bureau of launch of a new Exchange Traded Fund? Circulation? (A) ICICI Prudential (A) Madhusudan Sahoo (B) Reliance AMC (B) Aniket Dave (C) Mahindra AMC (C) Sadashiv Yadav (D) LIC AMC (D) Venkat (E) None of these (E) None of these 15. Which city has signed a memorandum of understanding 7. Which of the following is known as alternative Noble (MoUs) on Smart City Project with French Development award? agency? (A) Right Livelihood Award (A) Jaipur (B) Confucius Award (B) Nagpur (C) PEN Pinter award (C) Chandigarh (D) Sakharov Award (D) Coimbatore (E) None of these (E) None of these 8. Reoti Saran Sharma died recently. Who he was? 16. Who has been appointed as additional Secretary in GST (A) Writer Council? (B) Singer (A) Harsh Goyal

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(B) Vijay Goyal (D) Anurag Srivastav (C) Ashish Goyal (E) None of these (D) Arun Goyal 25. Who has been appointed as India’s ambassador to the (E) None of these Republic of Djibouti? 17. Who has been appointed as new Chairman of Indian Oil (A) Ajay Singh Corporation Ltd? (B) Hemant Kumar (A) Sanjay Singh (C) Yash Dixit (B) Anil Biswal (D) Anurag Srivastav (C) B Ashok (E) None of these (D) Sanjiv Singh 26. Which of the following has won St Petersburg Open (E) None of these tennis title 2016? 18. Which is India’s official entry to Best Foreign Language (A) Novak Djokovich Film category at the 89th Academy Awards? (B) Stan Wawrinka (A) Court (C) Alexander Zverev (B) Visaranai (D) Andy Murray (C) Parched (E) None of these (D) Sunrise 27. Which country will host 2018 Asian Games? (E) None of these (A) Indonesia 19. Who has been honoured with First Jesse Owens Award? (B) China (A) Mike Tyson (C) Japan (B) Floyd Mayweather (D) South Korea (C) Muhammad Ali (E) None of these (D) George Foreman 28. Which bowler has took fastest 200 test wickets? (E) None of these (A) Clarrie Grimmett 20. Arnold Palmer died recently. He was related to which (B) R Ashwin sport? (C) Waqar Younis (A) Hockey (D) Dennis Lillee (B) Golf (E) None of these (C) Boxing 29. Which of the following has won Asian under 19 squash (D) Tennis title? (E) None of these (A) Ajay Mehta 21. Pan Pacific Open tennis tournament was recently held in (B) Tushar Shahani which city? (C) Yash Fadte (A) Toronto (D) Velavan Senthilkumar (B) Madrid (E) None of these (C) Beijing 30. What is India’s rank in Global Competitiveness Report (D) Tokyo 2016? (E) None of these (A) 39 22. Which city is hosting Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay (B) 44 Krishi Unnati Mela – 2016? (C) 55 (A) Chandigarh (D) 71 (B) Mathura (E) None of these (C) Lucknow 31. Which company has launched messaging app ‘Allo’? (D) Pune (A) Facebook (E) None of these (B) Microsoft 23. Sushil Muhnot was recently sacked as the CMD of which (C) Google bank? (D) Blackberry (A) Bank of India (E) None of these (B) Bank of Maharashtra 32. Who has been elected as president of Indian Statistical (C) Bank of Baroda Institute? (D) Punjab National Bank (A) C Rangrajan (E) None of these (B) Vijay Kelkar 24. Who has been appointed as the president of the Boxing (C) Raghuram Rajan Federation of India? (D) Y V Reddy (A) Ajay Singh (E) None of these (B) Hemant Kumar 33. Who has been appointed as India's High Commissioner (C) Yash Dixit to UK?

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(A) Navtej Sarna (D) Uttam Singh (B) Arun Singh (E) None of these (C) S Jayshankar 42. Max Walker passed away recently. He was the former (D) Yashvardhan Sinha Cricketer of which country? (E) None of these (A) England 34. Who has been appointed head of parliamentary panel to (B) Australia examine merger of budgets? (C) South Africa (A) Arun Jaitely (D) West Indies (B) M Veerappa Moily (E) None of these (C) Salman Khushid 43. Which is the first country in the world to have eliminated (D) Kapil Sibbal measles? (E) None of these (A) America 35. Shimon Peres passed away recently. He was the former (B) Spain President of which country? (C) Japan (A) Israel (D) Germany (B) Palestine (E) None of these (C) Philippines 44. Which country has recently signed agreement on (D) Malaysia Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation with Russia? (E) None of these (A) Canada 36. Which country has the current chair of SAARC? (B) Pakistan (A) India (C) Cuba (B) Pakistan (D) France (C) Bangladesh (E) None of these (D) Nepal 45. Which city has hosted 2016 BRICS Labour & (E) None of these Employment Ministerial Meeting? 37. Project SAKSHAM is related to which of the following? (A) Bengaluru (A) Disabled Persons (B) New Delhi (B) Minorities (C) Mumbai (C) Indirected Taxes (D) Chennai (D) Drinking Water (E) None of these (E) None of these 46. How many LPG connections will be provided to BPL 38. Which state has signed an agreement with the Indian households by 2019 Under Prime Minister Ujjawal Space Research Organisation to get bandwidth to telecast Yojna? programmes? (A) 8 Crore (A) Tamilnadu (B) 7 Crore (B) Andhra Pradesh (C) 6 Crore (C) Karnataka (D) 5 Crore (D) Telangana (E) None of these (E) None of these 47. Who has been appointed as Executive Director of Indian 39. Recently, U.S. has appointed its first ambassador to Overseas Bank? which country in more than 50 years? (A) Rajan Moorthy (A) Israel (B) R Subramania Kumar (B) Cuba (C) V Damodaran (C) Philippines (D) K Subramaniam (D) Palestine (E) None of these (E) None of these 48. Who has been awarded with 29th Moortidevi Award? 40. Who has been appointed new Director General of CISF? (A) Om Thanavi (A) OP Singh (B) Padma Sachdev (B) KP Singh (C) Vishvanath Tripathi (C) VP Singh (D) Kalakaluri Enoch (D) VK Singh (E) None of these (E) None of these 49. Which Airport has been awarded as “Best Tourist 41. Which of the following will be honoured with 'Lata Friendly Airport” under the category for “State Annual Mangeshkar Award' 2016? Excellence Awards for the year 2015-16” by Andhra (A) Sonu Nigam Pradesh Tourism? (B) Pankaj Udhas (A) Tirupati Airport (C) Sameer Anjaan (B) Vijaywara Airport

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(C) Hyderabad Airport (E) None of these (D) Karim Nagar Airport 58. Highest number of poors are living in which country, (E) None of these according to World Bank? 50. Syed Shamsul Haq passed away recently. Who he was? (A) China (A) Singer (B) South Africa (B) Musician (C) India (C) Journalist (D) Nigeria (D) Writer (E) None of these (E) None of these 59. Who will be the chief guest on the occasion of India’s republic day 2017? 51. SAARC Summit which was postponed recently, was to (A) Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan be held in which city? (B) Tamim bin Al Hamad (A) Islamabad (C) Francois Hollande (B) Lahore (D) Vladimir Putin (C) Karachi (E) None of these (D) Multan 60. Employees Provident Fund (EPF) investment in (E) None of these Exchange Traded Funds has been increased to__ 52. Which is the first airport in the Asia-Pacific region to (A) 5% achieve carbon neutral status? (B) 10% (A) IGI Airport, Delhi (C) 12% (B) Mumbai Airport (D) 15% (C) Kochi Airport (E) None of these (D) Chennai Airport 61. Who has been elected as president of the Indian (E) None of these Newspaper Society? 53. In which city, Google will set up its first India data (A) Somesh Sharma centre? (B) PV Chandran (A) Bengaluru (C) K Balaji (B) New Delhi (D) V Shankran (C) Mumbai (E) None of these (D) Chennai 62. Who has been appointed as the Chairman and Managing (E) None of these Director of Power Finance Corporation? 54. Which bank has acquired BSS Microfinance? (A) M K Goel (A) Axis Bank (B) Rajiv Sharma (B) Kotak Mahindra Bank (C) Pawan Goel (C) Yes Bank (D) Ajay Kumar (D) HDFC Bank (E) None of these (E) None of these 63. Which has been honored as Cleanest Tourist Destination? 55. Who has been appointed as the Chairman of Press Trust (A) Gangtok of India? (B) Jaipur (A) Vivek Goenka (C) Goa (B) Hormusji Kama (D) Ahmedabad (C) Shakti Sinha (E) None of these (D) Riyadh Mathew 64. Which has been honored as ‘Cleanest Iconic Place’? (E) None of these (A) Rani ki Vav 56. Who has been appointed as Indian Table Tennis team (B) Tajmahal chief coach? (C) Hawamahal (A) Terry Walce (D) Jantar Mahal (B) Massimo Costantini (E) None of these (C) George Nuerer 65. Which film has won first prize at Swachh Bharat Short (D) Sharat Kamal Film Festival? (E) None of these (A) Visarnai 57. Which team has won Under-18 Asia Cup hockey (B) Murga tournament 2016? (C) Court (A) India (D) Nanha Doot (B) Bangladesh (E) None of these (C) Malaysia 66. Who is the first Indian to complete the Spartathlon? (D) Pakistan (A) Nishant Sen

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(B) Kieren Dsouza (E) None of these (C) Senthil Kumar 75. Who has won Korea Open Golf tournament? (D) Arnav Kumar (A) Gaganjeet Bhullar (E) None of these (B) Anirban Lahiri 67. Which country organises Spartathlon? (C) SP Chourasia (A) Spain (D) Jeev Milkha Singh (B) Kenya (E) None of these (C) France 76. Which country has signed three agreements (MoUs) in (D) Greece the fields of skill development with India recently? (E) None of these (A) Myanmar 68. Which is the first state to implement Direct Benefit (B) Vietnam Transfer in Kerosene? (C) Singapore (A) Gujarat (D) Japan (B) Kerala (E) None of these (C) Haryana 77. What is the current Marginal Standing Facility Rate? (D) Jharkhand (A) 5.75% (E) None of these (B) 6.75% 69. Which of the following has been declared as the first (C) 20.75% digital district of India? (D) 7% (A) Kozhikode (E) None of these (B) Nagpur 78. According to IMF, what is India’s expected economic (C) Pune growth for 2016-17 and 2017-18? (D) Karim Nagar (A) 7.4% (E) None of these (B) 7.7% 70. Which Indian bank has recently opened its branch in (C) 7.6% Myanmar? (D) 7.8% (A) ICICI Bank (E) None of these (B) HDFC Bank 79. Who has been nominated to Rajya Sabha in place of (C) State Bank of India Navjot Singh Sidhu? (D) Bank of Baroda (A) Gulzar (E) None of these (B) Roopa Ganguly 71. Which country has elected Kersti Kaljulaid as its first (C) Mohammad Azharuddin female President? (D) Laxmi Ratan Shukla (A) Thailand (E) None of these (B) Finland 80. Who has been appointed as brand ambassador of ‘Haritha (C) Estonia Keralam’ project? (D) Indonesia (A) Yesudas (E) None of these (B) Vishal Dadlani 72. Which of the following has been appointed as a full-time (C) Sachin Tendulkar Member of the 21st Law Commission of India recently? (D) Agam Kumar (A) S Sivakumar (E) None of these (B) Narayan Sharma 81. Which of the following is not a winner of 2016 Nobel (C) Vivek Debroy Prize for Physics? (D) Amit Sahni (A) David Thouless (E) None of these (B) Duncan Haldane 73. Who is the Chairman of 21st Law Commission of India? (C) Michael Kosterlitz (A) HL Dattu (D) Yoshinori Ohsumi (B) TS Thakur (E) None of these (C) Balbir Singh Chauhan 82. Which has become the first country in the world to ban (D) RM Lodha disposable plastic cups and plates? (E) None of these (A) Germany 74. Which of the following has won Nobel Prize 2016 in (B) Russia medicine? (C) Japan (A) William C. Campbell (D) France (B) Satoshi Omura (E) None of these (C) Tu Youyou 83. World Teachers’ Day is observed on which date? (D) Yoshinori Ohsumi (A) 3 October

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(B) 4 October (D) Goa (C) 5 October (E) None of these (D) 6 October 92. Which country has recently signed three agreements with (E) None of these India on Visa and arrival? 84. Communication satellite GSAT-18 was launched from (A) Germany which place? (B) Singapore (A) Sri Harikota (C) Switzerland (B) Houston (D) Sweden (C) Chandipur (E) None of these (D) French Guiana 93. India’s first Medical Devices Manufacturing Park (E) None of these (Medipark) will be set up in which state? 85. Recently, Oil India Limited signed a Memorandum of (A) Tamilnadu Understanding with which University? (B) Kerala (A) University of North Dakota (C) Uttarakhand (B) University of California (D) Karnataka (C) University of Houston (E) None of these (D) University of Oxford 94. Which organisation has organised first World Sustainable (E) None of these Development Summit? 86. Who has been appointed as new chairperson of the (A) DRDO Central Board of Direct Taxes? (B) TERI (A) Rani Singh Nair (C) Prasar Bharti (B) Sushil Chandra (D) ISRO (C) Atulesh Jindal (E) None of these (D) Avinash Kumar 95. Which of the following has been awarded with (E) None of these Sustainable Development Leadership award? 87. Who has been appointed as Honourary Consul of (A) Akhilesh Yadav Germany in Hyderabad? (B) TR Zeliang (A) Mohan Reddy (C) Pawan Kumar Chamling (B) Shankar Sharma (D) Laxmikant Parsekar (C) Rajiv Reddy (E) None of these (D) Alok Kumar 96. Which company has partenered with the Election (E) None of these Commission of India to register young voters? 88. Antonio Guterres, Who will be the next United Nations (A) Google Secretary-General, is from which country? (B) Facebook (A) USA (C) Flipkart (B) Canada (D) Microsoft (C) Germany (E) None of these (D) Portugal 97. Who has been appointed as Chairman and CEO of (E) None of these Jammu & Kashmir Bank? 89. Which of the following is not a winner of 2016 Nobel (A) Mushtaq Ahmad Prize for Chemistry? (B) Sohail Ahmed (A) Jean-Pierre Sauvage (C) Farooq Ahmad (B) J. Fraser Stoddart (D) Parvez Ahmed (C) Bernard L. Feringa (E) None of these (D) David Thouless 98. Which of the following has been inducted into IMF Hall (E) None of these of Fame? 90. Who has won 2016 John F. Richards Prize? (A) AS Kiran Kumar (A) Nayantara Lahiri (B) Selvin Christofer (B) Nivedita Lahiri (C) Mrinal Shah (C) Nayanjot Lahiri (D) UR Rao (D) Niharika Lahiri (E) None of these (E) None of these 99. Which of the following has won a silver medal in the 50 91. Which city is hosting BRICS Under-17 Football meter pistol event of the ISSF World Cup recently? tournament? (A) Vijay Kumar (A) New Delhi (B) Jitu Rai (B) Bengaluru (C) Gagan Narang (C) Mumbai (D) Sanjeev Rajput

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(E) None of these 108. How many teams are participating in the Kabaddi World 100. Who is the author of the book titled ‘Modi’s Midas Cup, which is being played in Ahmedabad? Touch in Foreign Policy’? (A) 8 (A) Surendra Kumar (B) 10 (B) Ravindra Kumar (C) 12 (C) Rajendra Kumar (D) 14 (D) Virendra Kumar (E) None of these (E) None of these 109. Heisnam Kanhailal passed away recently. He was related to which field? 101. The U.S. has recently lifted economic sanctions against (A) Theatre which country? (B) Writing (A) Cuba (C) Politics (B) Philippines (D) Journalism (C) Israel (E) None of these (D) Myanmar 110. Which country will host the conference on Disaster Risk (E) None of these Reduction in November 2016 ? 102. Which country has recently passed anti-honour killing (A) China and anti-rape legislations? (B) India (A) Pakistan (C) England (B) Afghanistan (D) Germany (C) Syria (E) Sri Lanka (D) China 111. Which state government has declared 'Bathukamma' as a (E) None of these state festival ? 103. Indian Air Force Day is observed on which date? (A) Andhra Pradesh (A) 6 October (B) Tamilnadhu (B) 7 October (C) Telangana (C) 5 October (D) Meghalaya (D) 8 October (E) Arunachal Pradesh (E) None of these 112. Which rank has been obtained by Indian pharmaceutical 104. Which airport’s building has become first Platinum rated companies in the Biopharmaceutical Competitiveness & green airport terminal building in India? Investment (BCI) Survey ? (A) IGI Delhi (A) 21 (B) Kochi Airport (B) 53 (C) Mumbai Airport (C) 36 (D) Chennai Airport (D) 19 (E) None of these (E) 13 105. Who has become the youngest in the world to climb the 113. Which player has been appointed brand ambassador of Mount Cho Oyu? vizag steel ? (A) Ronald Naar (A) PV Sindhu (B) Abhilekh Singh (B) Saina Nehwal (C) Manish Gehlot (C) Sania Mirza (D) Arjun Vajpai (D) Virat Kholi (E) None of these (E) Rohit Sharma 106. Who has been elected as president of the Press Club of 114. Which player has won the 2016 China Open Men's India? Singles title ? (A) Vinay Kumar (A) Novak Djokovic (B) Gautam Lahiri (B) Rafael Nadal (C) Jomi Thomas (C) Andy Murray (D) Arun Kumar Joshi (D) Roger Federer (E) None of these (E) Stan Wawrinka 107. Juan Manuel Santos who has won the 2016 Nobel Peace 115. Which player has been bagged the 24th Ekalabya Award Prize, is the President of which country? for the year 2016 in recognition of her sporting (A) Portugal excellence? (B) Tunisia (A) Joshna Chinappa (C) Ghana (B) Jwala Gutta (D) Colombia (C) Jhulan Goswami (E) None of these (D) Krishna Poonia

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(E) Srabani Nanda (A) Austria 116. World post Day is observed on which date ? (B) Australia (A) 8 October (C) Fiji (B) 9 October (D) Baharain (C) 10 October (E) None of these (D) 7 October 125. Nobel Prize for Economics was established in which (E) 6 October year? 117. Doordarshan and which University have entered into an (A) 1930 agreement for transmission of four Gyan Darshan (B) 1948 educational channels ? (C) 1968 (A) IGNOU (D) 1976 (B) DU (E) None of these (C) BHU 126. What is the other name used for Economics Nobel prize? (D) JNU (A) Confucious Prize (E) VMOU (B) Sveriges Riksbank Prize 118. Who is China’s new ambassador to India ? (C) Right livelihood award (A) Luo Zhaohui (D) Pinter Prize (B) Le Yucheng (E) None of these (C) Xi Jinping 127. Which Airport has been conferred with IBC award 2014- (D) Li Keqiang 15 and Trophy for excellence in built environment in (E) Wang Yi infrastructure projects for New Integrated Terminal 119. Which edition of India-Indonesia Maritime exercise has Building? been commenced recently at Belawan, Indonesia? (A) Mumbai Airport (A) 25th (B) IGI Airport (B) 26th (C) Chennai Airport (C) 27th (D) Chandigarh Airport (D) 28th (E) None of these (E) None of these 128. Which of the following has won Japanese Grand Prix? 120. What is the new number of districts in Telangana? (A) Nico Roseberg (A) 27 (B) Max Verstappen (B) 29 (C) Lewis Hamilton (C) 31 (D) Fernando Peres (D) 33 (E) None of these (E) None of these 129. Aaron Pryor died recently. He was associated with which 121. Which state will launch 'Lalima Abhiyan' to make state sport? free from anaemia? (A) Hockey (A) Telangana (B) Boxing (B) Gujarat (C) Tennis (C) Rajasthan (D) Golf (D) Madhya Pradesh (E) None of these (E) None of these 130. What amount has been donated recently by India to 122. What amount will be invested by central government to Mandela Foundation? increase Panipat oil refinery capacity? (A) 10.5 Million Rupees (A) 10,000 Crore (B) 8.7 Million Rupees (B) 15,000 Crore (C) 9.8 Million Rupees (C) 20,000 Crore (D) 9.3 Million Rupees (D) 25,000 Crore (E) None of these (E) None of these 131. Which of the following has been appointed as a Whole- 123. Abdelilah Bekirane has been appointed for another term Time Member of SEBI? as Prime Minister of which country? (A) G Mahalingam (A) Portugal (B) P Subramanium (B) Morocco (C) Nachiket Mor (C) Mexico (D) Raghav Chandra (D) Ghana (E) None of these (E) None of these 132. Which bank has appointed P V Sindhu and K Srikanth as 124. Renu Pall has been appointed as the next Ambassador of its brand ambassadors? India to which country? (A) ICICI Bank

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(B) Punjab National Bank (D) 5 November (C) Axis Bank (E) None of these (D) Bank of Baroda 141. India's first convertible stadium is in which city? (E) None of these (A) Hyderabad 133. Who has won 2016 Nobel prize in literature? (B) Mumbai (A) Angus Deaton (C) Pune (B) Bob Dylan (D) Ahmedabad (C) Ma Yun (E) None of these (D) Manuel Santos 142. Which is the first Indian bank to complete transaction (E) None of these using Blockchain technology? 134. Recently, who has been conferred with a prestigious (A) HDFC Bank award by the Ugandan government for promoting human (B) ICICI Bank values through his literature? (C) SBI (A) Pawan Chamling (D) Bank of Baroda (B) Nabam Tuki (E) None of these (C) Virbhadra Singh 143. Which country has recently left the Commonwealth? (D) Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank (A) Maldives (E) None of these (B) Sri Lanka 135. Bhumibol Adulyadej passed away recently. He was the (C) Pakistan king of which country? (D) Bangladesh (A) Bhutan (E) None of these (B) Nepal 144. According to Global Travel and Tourism Report released (C) Thailand by the World Economic Forum, which is the most unsafe (D) Egypt country in the world? (E) None of these (A) Syria 136. Playwright and actor Dario Fo died recently. He was (B) Nigeria from which country? (C) Pakistan (A) Spain (D) Egypt (B) Russia (E) None of these (C) France 145. According to Global Travel and Tourism Report released (D) Italy by the World Economic Forum, which is the safest (E) None of these country in the world? 137. Which bank has recently renewed its corporate agency (A) Argentina tie-up with United India Insurance Company? (B) Finland (A) SBI (C) Qatar (B) Allahabad Bank (D) UAE (C) Bank of Maharashtra (E) None of these (D) Bank of India 146. Who has been appointed as the Ambassador of India to (E) None of these the State of Eritrea? 138. What is India’s rank in Global hunger index 2016? (A) Amrit Lugun (A) 80 (B) Renu Dutta (B) 97 (C) Sanjay Bansal (C) 104 (D) Ajit Yadav (D) 90 (E) None of these (E) None of these 147. Who has been appointed as Director General of Foreign 139. According to Global hunger index 2016,which country Trade? has the least rate of hunger? (A) Rakesh Mohan (A) Zambia (B) Nitesh Shukla (B) China (C) Ajay Kumar Bhalla (C) Argentina (D) Mohan Kumar Chaturvedi (D) Chad (E) None of these (E) None of these 148. Which of the following has been awarded with V 140. First World Tsunami Awareness Day will be celebrated Krishnamurthy Award 2016? on which date? (A) R. A. Mashelkar (A) 25 October (B) UR Rao (B) 26 November (C) Ananth Shekatkar (C) 9 December (D) Paras Shinghal

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(E) None of these (A) Mizoram 149. Mark Webber, who has announced his retirement from (B) Manipur Racing recently, is from which country? (C) Assam (A) USA (D) Tripura (B) Austria (E) None of these (C) Australia 158. Which team has won inaugural BRICS U–17 football (D) Ireland tournament? (E) None of these (A) Russia 150. Dayanand Anant passed away recently. Who he was? (B) China (A) Singer (C) Brazil (B) Journalist (D) South Africa (C) Politician (E) None of these (D) Writer 159. Which is the first cricket team to play 900 One Day (E) None of these International matches? 151. World Student Day is observed on 15 October in the (A) Australia memory of_ (B) Pakistan (A) APJ Abdul Kalam (C) England (B) M Visvesvaraya (D) India (C) Albert Einstein (E) None of these (D) Swami Vivekanand 160. International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is (E) None of these observed on which date? 152. Which edition of BRICS Summit was concluded in Goa (A) 15 October recently? (B) 16 October (A) 6th (C) 17 October (B) 7th (D) 18 October (C) 8th (E) None of these (D) 9th 161. Which company has launched first India-made electric (E) None of these bus? 153. ‘Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav - 2016’ was recently (A) Tata inaugurated in which city? (B) Eicher (A) New Delhi (C) Ashok Leyland (B) Bhopal (D) Volvo (C) Jaipur (E) None of these (D) Lucknow 162. Who has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India (E) None of these to the UN Conference on Disarmament? 154. Shaurya Smarak was recently inaugurated in which city? (A) Amandeep Singh (A) New Delhi (B) Yashvardhan Sinha (B) Bhopal (C) Navtej Sarna (C) Jaipur (D) Navdeep Singh Suri (D) Lucknow (E) None of these (E) None of these 163. Recently, who has been appointed as Member Secretary 155. Which is India’s most valuable company in terms of of Law Commission of India? market capitalization? (A) Sanjay Singh (A) Reliance (B) Ajay Singh (B) ONGC (C) Sanjiv Singh (C) HDFC Bank (D) Raghav Singh (D) TCS (E) None of these (E) None of these 164. Which of the following has been appointed as a member 156. Who has been appointed as the brand ambassador of of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Athletes' Valvoline? Commission? (A) Sachin Tendulkar (A) Abhinav Bindra (B) Virat Kohli (B) Sushil Kumar (C) PV Sindhu (C) PV Sindhu (D) Rohit Sharma (D) Saina Nehwal (E) None of these (E) None of these 157. Lalbiakthanga Pachuau, who has been declared India's 165. Who has been selected for Mathrubhumi Literary award oldest working journalist, is from which state? 2016?

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(A) C Radhakrishnan 173. Second Joint tactical Exercise between Indian and (B) Kamal Kishor Goenka Chinese army was held at which place? (C) Sarla Sen (A) Ladakh (D) Padma Sachdev (B) Bikaner (E) None of these (C) Pune 166. Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated (D) Hyderabad three hydro-electric projects in which state? (E) None of these (A) Gujarat 174. Recently, The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has asked (B) Uttar Pradesh banks to replace how many debit cards? (C) Himachal Pradesh (A) 17.5 Lac (D) Tamilnadu (B) 19.7 Lac (E) None of these (C) 13.8 Lac 167. Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched (D) 6.5 Lac national SC/ST (Schedule Castes/Schedule Tribes) hub (E) None of these and Zero Defect, Zero Effect (ZED) scheme in which 175. Who has been elected as new President of Urology city? Society of India? (A) Shimla (A) KP Goyal (B) Ludhiana (B) SP Yadav (C) Gandhinagar (C) S Ramachandran (D) Kanpur (D) V Patnaik (E) None of these (E) None of these 168. Which of the following will be declared as 'Critically 176. Which of the following has been elected to UN Endangered' species? expert panel on environment? (A) Kashmiri Red Stag, Hangul (A) Rakesh Sharma (B) The Great Hornbill, Ammu (B) Devendra Singh (C) Tiger (C) Rajendra Pachauri (D) Reindeer (D) Rajendra Shende (E) None of these (E) None of these 169. Which company has announced to acquire travel portal 177. Which of the following was recently appointed as a ibibo? Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) in Haryana (A) MakeMyTrip Police? (B) Yatra.com (A) Sakshi Malik (C) Cleartrip (B) Vinesh Phogat (D) Flipkart (C) Geeta Phogat (E) None of these (D) Babita Phogat 170. Which company has got a licence to set up petrol pumps (E) None of these in India? 178. Which bank has recently got special award for excellence (A) US Petroleum in MSME lending? (B) UAE Petroleum (A) State Bank of Mysore (C) Russian Petroleum (B) State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur (D) British Petroleum (C) State Bank of Travancore (E) None of these (D) State Bank of Patiala 171. Which of the following has become a member of ICC (E) None of these sub-committee? 179. Who has been awarded with first International Prize in (A) Mustafa Kamaal Statistics? (B) Anurag Thakur (A) David Cox (C) Lalit Modi (B) Ray Monroe (D) Sharad Pawar (C) David Obuya (E) None of these (D) Steven Siemens 172. Kigeli V passed away recently. He was the king of which (E) None of these country? 180. Who is the author of the book titled "Driven: The Virat (A) Thailand Kohli Story"? (B) Belgium (A) Disha Sharma (C) Rwanda (B) Bharti Pradhan (D) Ghana (C) Boria Majumdar (E) None of these (D) Vijay Lokapally (E) None of these

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181. Which state has launched 'Kaushalya Setu' initiative? (C) Vadodara (A) Maharashtra (D) New Delhi (B) Gujarat (E) None of these (C) Uttar Pradesh 190. What is the name of Aviation scheme launched recently (D) Madhya Pradesh for air connectivity? (E) None of these (A) UDAN 182. First International Conference on Voter Education was (B) Nai UDAN held in which city? (C) Manjil (A) Mumbai (D) Pankh (B) Patna (E) None of these (C) Ahmedabad 191. Which is the World's Oldest Aircraft Carrier? (D) New Delhi (A) INS VIRAAT (E) None of these (B) HMS Herms 183. Who is the present Chief Election Commissioner of (C) Nimitz India? (D) INS Saryu (A) TS Thakur (E) None of these (B) Harishankar Bhrahmbhatt 192. INS VIRAAT was commissioned in Indian Navy in (C) Nasim Zaidi which year? (D) HL Dattu (A) 1959 (E) None of these (B) 1964 184. Which is the 5th zone of SBI in North East? (C) 1974 (A) Guwahati (D) 1987 (B) Shillong (E) None of these (C) Silchar 193. Sardar Patel Heart Institute was recently inaugurated in (D) Dibrugarh which city? (E) None of these (A) Vadodara 185. How many railway stations will be redeveloped in first (B) Rajkot phase under smart city plans? (C) Ankleshwar (A) 12 (D) Gandhi Nagar (B) 10 (E) None of these (C) 16 194. RBI has announced to circulate banknotes of which (D) 14 denomination soon? (E) None of these (A) 1500 186. Which company has acquired the US firm Appirio? (B) 2000 (A) Wipro (C) 5000 (B) Infosys (D) 10,000 (C) Cognizant (E) None of these (D) Microsoft 195. Aditya Birla Group has announced to invest Rs. 20,000 (E) None of these crore in which state recently? 187. What is the new FDI limit in ‘other financial services’ (A) Gujarat through automatic route? (B) Uttar Pradesh (A) 49% (C) Madhya Pradesh (B) 51% (D) Rajasthan (C) 74% (E) None of these (D) 100% 196. Which country is going to make a fertilizer Joint Venture (E) None of these with India? 188. Which is the first Indian city to be declared as one of the (A) Armenia venues for hosting the U-17 World Cup 2017? (B) Algeria (A) Mumbai (C) Nigeria (B) Lucknow (D) Albania (C) Kochi (E) None of these (D) Kolkata 197. World Bank has sanctioned a 2 Billion Dollar aid to (E) None of these which country to tackle climate change? 189. India's first Railway University will be set up in which (A) Pakistan city? (B) India (A) Surat (C) Nepal (B) Ahmedabad (D) Bangladesh

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(E) None of these (B) Koyal Rana 198. What is the name of the mascot for 2018 FIFA World (C) Payal Saha Cup? (D) Ketaki Sharma (A) Shera (E) None of these (B) Ammu 207. Which regiment of Indian Army has won a gold medal in (C) Zabivaka gruelling Cambrian Patrol exercise? (D) Zuzuka (A) Rajputana Rifles (E) None of these (B) Jat Regiment 199. Which team has won 2016 Kabaddi World Cup? (C) Sikh Regiment (A) India (D) Gorkha Rifles (B) Iran (E) None of these (C) South Korea 208. Dr. B C Roy award is given in which field? (D) England (A) Medical (E) None of these (B) Arts 200. Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani passed away (C) Journalism recently. He was from which country? (D) Sports (A) Qatar (E) None of these (B) UAE 209. Tom Hayden passed away recently. He was from which (C) Oman country? (D) Iran (A) Vietnam (E) None of these (B) America 201. United Nations Day is observed on which date? (C) France (A) 22 October (D) England (B) 25 October (E) None of these (C) 23 October 210. What is the name of Joint Military Exercise between (D)24 October India and Sri Lanka? (E) None of these (A) Surya Kiran 202. How many countries are members of United Nations? (B) Mitra Shakti (A) 197 (C) Hand in Hand (B) 195 (D) Garud Shakti (C) 193 (E) None of these (D) 187 211. What is India’s rank in ‘Ease of Doing Business Index (E) None of these 2016’? 203. Which state has signed a pact with Singapore for (A) 131 financial services? (B) 130 (A) Andhra Pradesh (C) 141 (B) Gujarat (D) 143 (C) Himachal Pradesh (E) None of these (D) Uttarakhand 212. Which organization releases ‘Ease of Doing Business (E) None of these Index’? 204. Which company has launched a cyber security (A) World Bank engagement center in Delhi? (B) World Economic Forum (A) Google (C) World Trade Organisation (B) Microsoft (D) International Monetary Fund (C) Apple (E) None of these (D) Yahoo 213. Sanjay Baweja has recently resigned from the CFO post (E) None of these from which company? 205. Who has been appointed as interim chairman of the Tata (A) Amazon group? (B) Snapdeal (A) Indra Nooyi (C) Shopclues (B) Palonji Mistry (D) Flipkart (C) Ratan Tata (E) None of these (D) Cyrus Mistry 214. Renato Sanches, who has won 2016 European Golden (E) None of these Boy Award, is from which country? 206. Who has been appointed as ‘Visit Japan’ Brand (A) France Ambassador? (B) Brazil (A) Rewati Chetri (C) Spain

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(D) Portugal (A) Mumbai (E) None of these (B) Ludhiana 215. Yash Bharati awards are related to which state? (C) New Delhi (A) Maharashtra (D) Hyderabad (B) Madhya Pradesh (E) None of these (C) Uttar Pradesh 224. Who has been appointed as new CEO of International (D) Gujarat Hockey Federation? (E) None of these (A) Jason McCracken 216. Which of the following has won Man Booker Prize (B) Tery Walce 2016? (C) Arthur Kenning (A) Marlon James (D) Tom Watling (B) Paul Beatty (E) None of these (C) Richard Flanagan 225. Who has been awarded as best player in La Liga? (D) Han Kang (A) Lionel Messi (E) None of these (B) Christiano Ronaldo 217. Which dam has been chosen for the World Bank’s Award (C) Luis Suarez of Excellence? (D) Antoine Griezmann (A) Rana Sagar Dam (E) None of these (B) Bhakhra Nangal Dam 226. Who has won Mr Asia title 2016? (C) Salem Dam (A) Rohit Khandelwal (D) Almatti Dam (B) G Balakrishna (E) None of these (C) Amit Chaturvedi 218. Carlos Alberto passed away recently. He was a (D) Kamal Kaushik Footballer from which country? (E) None of these (A) France 227. Who is the head of committee on One Rank One (B) Brazil Pension? (C) Italy (A) L Narasimha Reddy (D) Switzerland (B) YV Reddy (E) None of these (C) Madhukar Gupta 219. Which country has topped in World Economic Forum's (D) RV Bansal Global Gender Gap Report 2016? (E) None of these (A) Iceland 228. Indian Gold Coins are not available in which of the (B) Finland following denomination? (C) Norway (A) 5 gm (D) Sweden (B) 10 gm (E) None of these (C) 15 gm 220. What is India’s rank in World Economic Forum's Global (D) 20 gm Gender Gap Report 2016? (E) None of these (A) 108 229. Who has been appointed as the chairman of Global (B) 130 System Mobile Association? (C) 91 (A) Ratan Tata (D) 87 (B) Cyrus Mistry (E) None of these (C) Laxmi Niwas Mittal 221. Who is the Prime Minister of New Zealand? (D) Sunil Bharti Mittal (A) Justin Trudeau (E) None of these (B) John Key 230. Who has been appointed as the ‘Stroke Ambassador of (C) Theresa May India’? (D) Michel Temer (A) Kapil Dev (E) None of these (B) Sunil Gavaskar 222. Which event is observed from 24 October to 30 October? (C) Sachin Tendulkar (A) Earth Week (D) Rahul Dravid (B) Energy Week (E) None of these (C) Water Week 231. Who has been appointed as the next High Commissioner (D) Disarmament Week of India to Australia? (E) None of these (A) Yash Sinha 223. First National Tribal Carnival was inaugurated recently (B) Kiran Deb in which city? (C) Ajay M. Gondane

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(D) Rajiv Desai (B) Kerala (E) None of these (C) Sikkim 232. Who has been appointed as non-executive chairman of (D) Andhra Pradesh South Indian Bank? (E) None of these (A) Salim Gangadharan 240. Which of the following event was started from 31st (B) Amitabha Guha October? (C) C Karthikeyan (A) Unity Week (D) Anil Biswas (B) Cleanliness Week (E) None of these (C) Vigilance Awareness Week 233. Who has been appointed as chief of Enforcement (D) Disarmament Week Directorate? (E) None of these (A) Rajat Shah 241. Which state has been ranked first in Agricultural (B) Karnal Singh Marketing & Farm Friendly Reforms Index? (C) Sanjay Singh (A) Gujarat (D) Pramod Kumar (B) Maharashtra (E) None of these (C) Rajasthan 234. Which of the following confers Sakharov prize? (D) Madhya Pradesh (A) United Nations (E) None of these (B) United Kingdom 242. Kristalina Georgieva has been appointed as chief (C) European Parliament executive officer of which organisation? (D) African Union (A) UNESCO (E) None of these (B) WTO 235. What is the name of Joint Naval Exercise between India (C) UNICEF and Singapore? (D) World Bank (A) SIMPEX (E) None of these (B) SIMBEX 243. 47th international film festival of India will be held in (C) SIMPLEX which city? (D) SYNTAX (A) Mumbai (E) None of these (B) New Delhi 236. What is India’s rank in Commonwealth youth index (C) Goa 2016? (D) Chennai (A) 131 (E) None of these (B) 130 244. Which team has won NCC National Games 2016? (C) 133 (A) Maharashtra (D) 132 (B) Kerala (E) None of these (C) Punjab 237. Which country has topped in Commonwealth youth (D) Assam index? (E) None of these (A) Austria 245. Which team has won Its First Ever International Medal in (B) Denmark Roller Skating at Asian Championships? (C) Portugal (A) China (D) Germany (B) India (E) None of these (C) Bangladesh 238. National Ayurveda Day is observed on which date? (D) Sri Lanka (A) 28 October (E) None of these (B) 29 October (C) 30 October (D) 31 October (E) None of these

239. Which is India’s second open defecation free state? (A) Himachal Pradesh

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