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Hall, ffr osbash . Je Michael R Michael We US) and eries ov Young (All ar trolling “for their disc on . of molecular ythm" adian rh mechanismsc c the cir CONTENTS Features Page No. Noble Awards 1 Classmate Academy International 2 National 2 Powered by IITians Economy 3 CGL contents Science & Technology 3 FRO/FBO Practice Paper 4 SSC CHSL AD Telangana 6 Andhra Pradesh 6 Sports 7 Telugu Telugu Persons in News 7 RRB English SI English Do You Know ? 8 By Classmate Academy The Weekly The AIIA, which will function under following heavy rain that caused flash the ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and floods in Mandakini river. Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and India signs pact to send interns Homoeopathy or AYUSH, aims to offer to Japan for training quality patient care and become a research hub in generating scientific India has signed a memorandum of information about quality, safety, and cooperation (MoC) with Japan to send efficacy of ayurvedic products. youngsters there as technical interns for on-the-job training for a period of Foundation for reconstruction three to five projects in Kedarpuri years. The MoC Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the on Technical th 20 October laid the foundation stone Intern Training for a slew of reconstruction projects Programme in Kedarpuri, including renovation of (TITP) was signed by Skill National Adi Guru Shankaracharya’s tomb which was devastated in the flash Development Minister PM Modi inaugurates AIIMS-like floods. Dharmendra Pradhan and institute for ayurveda in Delhi Japanese Minister of Prime Minister NarendraModi on 17th The area surrounding the Health, Labour and Welfare with October inaugurated the first ever Kedarnath temple was destroyed in Katsunobu Kato at Tokyo on the 17th 200-bed ayurveda hospital on the June 2013 after the Chorabari Glacier October. India is the third country lines of All India Institute of Medical lake breached its embankment with which Japan has signed the Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi. MoC. for promoting international A three-member federal judicial cooperation among these countries. review board headed by Justice Ejaz The IBSA Trust Fund brings together Afzal Khan of the Supreme Court said that the government did not require the three emerging economies of India, Brazil and South Africa to the extension of detention of Saeed and his four accomplices. Charges of combat poverty in other developing countries. Each country contributes terrorism have not been included in the new order. USD 1 million annually to this fund which is managed by the UN European Union Ministers Approve Development Programme’s (UNDP) New Sanctions on North Korea Special Unit for South-South The European Union imposed fresh Cooperation. sanctions on North Korea on 17th Pakistan Drops Terrorism Charges October as part of international against Hafiz Saeed efforts to punish the regime for its The Pakistan government has nuclear and ballistic weapons International withdrawn terrorism charges against programmes. Foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg signed on a India, Brazil, South Africa sign Mumbai attack mastermind and JuD new package of measures, including IBSA Trust Fund agreement chief Hafiz Saeed, paving the way for his release. a ban on investments in North Korea India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA) and on EU exports of oil to Pyongyang. On January 31, Saeed and his four have signed the IBSA Trust Fund aides were detained by the Punjab They added the Korean People’s Army Agreement that seeks to fight poverty government for 90 days under the and Pyongyang’s armed forces in developing countries.The preventative detention of the Anti- ministry to the sanctions blacklist, agreement was signed by Minister of Terrorism Act meaning any assets they hold in the State for External Affairs V K 1997. They have EU will be frozen.They also tightened Singh who led the Indian side at the been under curbs on North Korean workers in the 8th IBSA trilateral Ministerial house arrest EU to try and stop money being sent Commission Meeting in Durban. It is since then. home that could be used for the an international tripartite grouping weapons programmes. nd October 15 th: According to Islamabad to issue a visa to a October 22 : Japan’s prime Pakistani child for medical treatment International Monetary Fund Chief minister, Shinzo Abe, has secured a in Christine Lagarde, the Indian strong mandate from Japan India. The economy was on a “very solid track”. voters. His party crushed untested child’s Due to implementation of GST and opposition parties in general father had Demonitization, the growth rate of election. requested India is less but still in comfortable Mrs position. Swaraj to October 16 th: The Abu Dhabi grant Investment Authority on 16th October medical visa for treatment of Abdullah, saying became the first institutional investor in the National Investment he needed post-liver transplant evaluation in India. and Infrastructure Fund’s Master Fund, with an investment of $1 th October 20 : Prime Minister billion. NarendraModi laid the foundation th stone for a slew of reconstruction October 17 : Prime Minister NarendraModi inaugurated the first projects in Kedarpuri, including ever 200-bed ayurveda hospital on the renovation of Adi Guru Shankaracharya’s tomb which was lines of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi. devastated in the flash floods st October 18th: India and Japan on October: 21 : th The Reserve 18 October agreed to explore joint cooperation in the areas of sourcing, Bank of India has clarified swapping and optimisation of liquefied natural gas sources in that Aadhaar the global market and commercial linkage with exploitation of methane hydrates. bank accounts is mandatory. The RBI clarification October 19 th: External Affairs followed a reply to a Right to Minister Sushma Swaraj has directed Information (RTI) application. the Indian High Commission in 2 23 - 29 October, 2017 By Classmate Academy The Weekly Earlier this month one of the three and several of his senior cabinet shale gas blocks that it held was sold colleagues in New Delhi on the Siang at a price of 126 Million Dollars which single multi-purpose river valley was 1/3rd of its original cost. project which would replace the earlier proposed Siang Stage I and NIIF gets first investor Stage II projects.