Current Affairs: 25 to 31 October 2019

Current Affairs: Important Days

Date Important days Theme October 25 National Ayurveda Day -

World Day for Audiovisual “Engage the Past Through October 27 Heritage Sound and Images”

October 28 International Animation Day -

October 30 World Thrift Day () -

October 31 National Unity Day -

Changing the world: October 31 World Cities Day innovations and better life for future generations

Current Affairs: National 1. Indian Railways has launched ‘one touch ATVM’ at 42 suburban stations of Central Railway for fast ticketing

2. Government sets up panel under the chairmanship of K VijayRaghavan to resolve dispute between MeitY and Niti Aayog over AI mission 3. IRDAI forms panel under the chairmanship of S. Sadagopan to vet proposals for innovations

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IRDAI- Regulatory and Development Authority of India

Chairperson Subhash Chandra Khuntia

IRDAI Headquarters Hyderabad

4. Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan has released the 14thNational Health Profile (NHP) 2019 Current Affairs: International 1. Prime Minister has launched the RuPay card in Saudi Arabia

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Saudi Arabia Capital Riyadh

Saudi Arabia Currency Saudi riyal

Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman Al Saud

2. California’s declared a state-wide emergency over wildfires

3. Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) 2019 inaugurated to the public at the Sharjah Expo Centre Current Affairs: State

1. Uttar Pradesh government changes Emergency service number from 100 to 'Dial 112

2. Uttar Pradesh CM launched Mukhya Mantri Kanya Sumangala Yojana on the occasion of Dhanteras

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Uttar Pradesh Capital Lucknow

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adithiyanath

Uttar Pradesh Governor

3. Andhra Pradesh government has launched an online portal SMARTPORT

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Andhra Pradesh Capital Amaravathi

Andhra Pradesh CM Jaganmohan Reddy

Andhra Pradesh Governor

4. The first-ever Ladakh Literature Festival (LLF) is scheduled from 29th to 31st October 5. government inked Letter of Understanding (LoU) for 'drink from tap mission' with UNICEF 6. Odisha CM Patnaik launched a social service initiative 'Odisha Mo Parivar' aimed at encouraging

environment protection, blood donation and the welfare of Odias in distress.

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Odisha Capital Bhubaneswar

Odisha CM

Odisha Governor 7. Gandhinagar district of has become the first Kerosene-free district of the state Gujarat Capital Gandhinagar

Gujarat CM

Gujarat Governor Acharya Dev Vrat

8. Kerala tourism to be differently-abled friendly by 2021

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Kerala Capital Thiruvananthapuram

Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan

Kerala Governor

9. 7th edition of the Tawang Festival began in Arunachal Pradesh

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Arunachal Pradesh Capital Itanagar

Arunachal Pradesh CM

Arunachal Pradesh Governor BD Mishra

Current Affairs: Banking and Finance

1. The Central Government, Odisha and the World Bank signed a loan agreement worth $165 million to support smallholder farmers in the state

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World Bank

Headquarters Washington, D.C., United States

President David Malpass

2. The Vijaya Bank Heritage Museum was inaugurated old headquarters of Vijaya Bank,

Bangalore.

3. Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) in association with Universal Sompo General Insurance Co Ltd. has launched an upgraded health care plus insurance policy

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Indian Overseas Bank CEO Shri Karnam Sekar

Indian Overseas Bank Headquarters Chennai

Indian Overseas Bank Tagline Good people to grow with 4. World Bank to continue with $6 billion Annual lending support to India

World Bank

Headquarters Washington, D.C., United States

President David Malpass

5. RBI has imposed a penalty of Rs 35 lakh on Tamilnad Mercantile Bank (TMB) for violating

norms on frauds classification and notification

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TMB CEO K V Rama Moorthy

TMB Headquarters Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu

TMB Tagline Be a step ahead of life

GDP RATE ORGANISATION 2019 – 20 (FY20) 2020 – 21 (FY21) Fitch Ratings 5.5% 6.2%

Current Affairs: Business

1. Reliance Industries (RIL) has decided to set up a digital platform subsidiary with investment of

Rs. 1.08 lakh crore

2. Twitter to ban all political advertisements on the platform globally Current Affairs: Appointments

Arvind Singh Chairman of Airports Authority of India

Chairman National Highways Authority of Sukhbir Singh Sandhu India

B Srinivas MD National Horticulture Board

Chairman & MD of India Tourism Ganji Kamala V Rao Development Corporation (ITDC) Ltd.

Chairman & MD of National Small Vijayendra Industries Corporation Ltd

Pramod Kumar Tiwari Director General of the Bureau of Indian Standards Amit Yadav DG, Directorate General of Foreign Trade

Manohar Lal Khattar Chief Minister of Dushyant Chautala Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana

Alberto Fernandez President of Argentina

Mokgweetsi Masisi President of Botswana

Evo Morales President of Bolivia

Sophie Wilmes Prime minister of Belgium

Sharad Arvind Bobde Next Chief Justice of India (47th CJI )

P S Sreedharan Pillai New Mizoram Governor

Satya Pal Malik New Goa Governor

Lieutenant Governors of Jammu and Girish Chandra Murmu Kashmir

Radha Krishna Mathur Lieutenant Governors of Ladakh

Birender Singh Yadav India's next Ambassador to Iraq

Muktesh Kumar Pardeshi India's next High Commissioner to Samoa

Director-General of the International Atomic Rafael Grossi Energy Agency (IAEA) Current Affairs: Resignation

Saad Hariri Lebanon Prime Minister

Current Affairs: Awards and Honours

Udyog Rattan Award– 2019 by the ‘Institute of Economic

Shri. Thakur Anup Singh Studies’ for his exceptional work in transforming the Indian ( Marg ERP Ltd’s Chairman & industry landscape how MSMEs can accelerate their MD) business using technology

Ilham Tohti ‘Sakharov Prize’ (European Union’s highest human rights

( Economist) prize) for his work defending China's Uighur minority

Jasprit Bumrah Smriti Mandhana Fakhar Zaman ( Pakistan)

Dimuth Karunaratne ( Sri Wisden Almanack Cricketer of the Year award Lanka) Rashid Khan ( Afghanistan)

Gundappa Viswanath & Lala Amarnath Inducted into the Wisden India Hall of Fame

Cricket Country: The Untold

History of the First All India Wisden India Book of the Year

Team by Prashant Kidambi

DigiDhan Mission Fin-tech Award 2018-2019 for 'Innovation BharatPe in Digital Payments through Emerging Technology'

28th Vyas Samman for the year 2018 for his poetry Leeladhar Jagoori ( Hindi collection- Jitne Log Utne Prem ( Award money of Rs. 4

writer) lakh along with a citation) 1. Lucknow -based City Montessori School (CMS) has won the Guinness World Record for becoming the 'world's largest school' in terms of strength of students

2. Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja claims new speed record for summiting the world’s 14 highest peaks in just seven months 3. Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) to hosts 2nd Assembly of International Solar

Alliance (ISA) in New Delhi

Current Affairs: Summit and Conference

1. New Delhi to host first “Global Bio-India 2019” summit from 21st – 23rd November 2. 28th BASIC Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change to be held in Beijing, China. 3. Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) ministerial meeting to be held in Abu Dhabi

Current Affairs: Ranking

Index India’s Rank Top Least Other info It is a project of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the Johns

Global Health Security 57th / 195 US (83.5) Equatorial Hopkins University

Index Guinea Center for Health Security, with research by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)

1. Microsoft founder Bill Gates overtakes Amazon entrepreneur Jeff Bezos as the world's richest person 2. Three Indian-origin CEOs, Shantanu Narayen (6th), Ajay Banga (7th) and Satya Nadella (9th) are among the world's top 10 best-performing CEO, featured in a list compiled by the Harvard Business Review (HBR). Current Affairs: Science and Technology

1. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US have developed a new technology to capture carbon dioxide from air Current Affairs: Books

Author Book

Romesh Gunesekera Suncatcher (Sri Lankan author)

Current Affairs: Defence 1) India is planning to enhance its mobile network in the eastern-most regions of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Arunachal Pradesh 2) Indian and French armies will conduct joint counter-terrorism drills under 'Exercise Shakti-2019' in the

Mahajan field firing range in Rajasthan

3) Philippine Army plans to buy India’s BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile to strengthen its coastal security

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Philippines Capital Manila

Philippines Currency Philippine peso

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte Current Affairs: Sports 1. The Indian football team slipped two places to 106 in the latest FIFA rankings 2. China to host expanded 24-team FIFA Club World Cup in 2021

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FIFA Headquarters Zurich, Switzerland

FIFA President Gianni Infantino

3. Karnataka was crowned the 2019-20 Vijay Hazare Trophy

4. Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) has won the Formula One, Mexican Grand Prix 2019 5. International Cricket Council (ICC)has banned Bangladeshi cricketer Shakib Al Hasan from all

cricket for two years

6. Tiger Woods secured a record-equalling 82nd PGA Tour crown after he won the Zozo Championship in Japan 7. The BCCI has asked manufacturer SG to deliver 72 pink balls by next week for India's first-ever day night Test, to be held at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata

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Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)

BCCI Headquarters Mumbai

BCCI President Sourav Ganguly

Current Affairs: Obituaries

Person Field Dilip Parikh Former Gujarat chief minister V. Nanammal Yoga exponent