OCTOBER-2019 JNANAGANGOTHRI Monthly Current Affairs WWW.IASJNANA.COM 1 OCTOBER-2019 JNANAGANGOTHRI Monthly Current Affairs the JSS Academy of Higher Education and State Research at Varuna village. 1. Mysuru Dasara festival inaugurated in On the third day on October 12, Mr.Kovind Karnataka will visit Swami Vivekananda Yoga The ten-day Mysuru Dasara festival was Anusandhana Sansthana in Bengaluru after a inaugurated by Kannada novelist Dr. S L breakfast meeting with Chief Justice and Bhyrappa by offering floral tributes to the Judges of Karnataka High Court and also idol of Goddess Chamundeshwari atop paying a visit to the house of former Union Chamundi Hill. Chief Minister B S Minister Late H N Ananth Kumar. Yediyurappa and other dignitaries were present on this occasion. 3. Autorickshaw owners in AP to get Rs 10,000 The festival will be marked by cultural as grant programmes, sports events, wrestling The Andhra Pradesh Government launched a competition, film and food festival, book welfare scheme- YSR Vahana Mitra - under exhibition, flower shows. The festivities will which the owner-driver of an auto-rickshaw, or culminate with the grand elephant procession taxicab, gets Rs 10,000 grant per annum. on Vijayadashmi day. More than 1.73 lakh auto owner-drivers would benefit from this scheme and only 2,000 or so applications had been rejected. The The cultural capital of Karnataka and city of Government had allocated Rs 400 crore for it. palaces is decked up for the world-famous Dasara festivities. The illuminated palaces, 4. 63rd Dhammachakra Pravartan Din to be fountains, flower decorations and the display celebrated Nagpur of tradition and heritage are drawing crowds in In Maharashtra, 63rd Dhammachakra large numbers from across the world. The birth Pravartan Din will be celebrated on Oct 8th at centenary celebration of the erstwhile ruler of Deekshabhoomi in Nagpur. Buddhist followers Mysore Jayachamaraja Wadiyar is included in from the different parts of the country and the Dasara festival this year. Badminton world abroad are reaching at the venue to pay champion P V Sindhu will launch the Dasara homage to the Architect of Indian Constitution sports events. Ranu Mandal, whose singing Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar at Deekshabhoomi. capabilities were discovered by a video at the Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Smarak Samiti Kolkata Railway Station will be honored on along with District Administration and Nagpur the occasion. Municipal Corporation are organizing this mega event. 2. President Kovind to pay 3-day visit to Karnataka 5. Manjamma Jogati first Transgender to President Ramnath Kovind will pay a three- head an academy in Karnataka day visit to Karnataka. He will visit the Manjamma Jogati, renowned practitioner Mysuru Palace and inaugurate the Centenary of Jogati Nritya, who has been appointed celebration of the erstwhile ruler of Mysore, as the chairperson of Karnataka Janapada Late Jayachamaraja Wadiyar on October 10th. Academy, is the first transwoman to head a Next day the President will pay obeisance at cultural academy in Karnataka. Ms. Nanjangud Srikanteshwara temple and offer Manjamma had earlier served as a member prayers at Sree Chamundeshwari temple atop of the academy. Chamundi hills in the morning. On the same Jogati Nritya is ritual folk dance performed day later, he will lay the foundation stone for by a group of women, generally tradeswomen called jogappas. WWW.IASJNANA.COM 2 OCTOBER-2019 JNANAGANGOTHRI Monthly Current Affairs government advocate from 1973 to 1977. 6. Karnataka tops first ever India Innovation Mr. Venkatachala was appointed as Additional Index launched by NITI Aayog Judge of the High Court on November 28, The first-ever India Innovation Index was 1977, and made a Permanent Judge on launched by NITI Aayog in New Delhi in September 8, 1978. He also functioned as the order to promote competitiveness among the head of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) states. Tribunal under the Unlawful Activities Karnataka has emerged the topper among (Prevention) Act, 1967, during 1990. major states. Tamil Nadu is second and He was appointed the Acting Chief Justice of Maharashtra is on the third position followed the High Court in May 1992. by Telangana, Haryana, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, He was elevated as a judge of the Supreme West Bengal, Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh. Court on July 1, 1992, and retired in July Jharkhand finished last in the list of 17 major 1995. He was Lokayukta from July 3, 2001, to states. Among the North-Eastern states, July 2, 2006. Sikkim and among Union Territories Delhi has occupied the top spot. 7. Former Karnataka Lokayukta N. National Venkatachala passes away 1.DRDO test-fires BrahMos supersonic cruise N. Venkatachala, former judge of the Supreme missile Court and former Lokayukta of Karnataka, Defence Research and Development passes away. He was 89. Organization, DRDO, successfully test-fired a Mr. Venkatachala was known for bringing to land-attack version of BrahMos supersonic light the existence of Karnataka‘s autonomous cruise missile off the coast of Odisha from the anti-corruption wing as the Lokayukta by Integrated Test Range in Chandipur. conducting raids on public servants and The missile, with a strike range of 290km, can disclosing their names and particulars of be fired from land as well as sea-based seized assets, besides allowing the media to platforms.It has been fitted with increased show video footage of his raids on public indigenous equipment and is a version used by institutions such as hospitals on complaints the Army. related to poor public service. On 11 March, 2017, the first extended version Born on July 3, 1930, at Mittur village in of the missile was successfully tested. It had a Mulbagal taluk of Kolar district in a farming strike range of 450 kilometres. family, he obtained his B.Sc. degree and B.L. degree from Mysore University. He enrolled as 2.KS Dhatwalia appointed PIB's Principal DG an advocate in the then High Court of Mysore Senior Indian Information Service officer, KS (now Karnataka) on November 16, 1955, and Dhatwalia, has been appointed as the Principal practiced law in the High Court and its Director General of Press Information Bureau. subordinate courts at Bengaluru in civil, Mr. Dhatwalia, who will succeed Sitanshu criminal and constitutional matters. Kar, will be the 28th Principal Spokesperson He was a part-time Reader in Mercantile Law of the government. He will continue to hold from 1958 to 1970 besides being a Legal the additional charge of Director General, Adviser to the University of Agricultural Indian Institute of Mass Communication.KS Sciences, Hebbal, from 1963 to 1973 and to Dhatwalia has worked in key positions in Bangalore University from 1970 to 1973. He various Media Units of the Ministry of was the High Court‘s government pleader Information and Broadcasting. from 1968 to 1973 and High Court‘s WWW.IASJNANA.COM 3 OCTOBER-2019 JNANAGANGOTHRI Monthly Current Affairs Principal Director General, News Services Pune, received the award at a programme held Division of All India Radio, Ira Joshi has been at the M P Birla Planetarium. given additional charge of Publications Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awardee dwelt on Division. open questions about the Universe, which have Satyendra Prakash, Director General, Bureau not yet been fully resolved. of Outreach and Communication, has been Padmanabhan, a visiting faculty to several given additional charge of Press Registrar, institutes in the US and the UK, has RNI. contributed to the fields of general relativity, gravitation and cosmology, it said. 3.Rajnath Singh launches website of DefEXpo The M P Birla Memorial Award comprises a Defense Minister Rajnath Singh launched the citation, trophy and a cheque for Rs 2,51,000. website of 11th edition of DefEXpo, to be held The award was introduced in 1993 in in Lucknow from 5th to 8th February next recognition to the excellence in research in year. The Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Science and website, www.defexpo.gov.in provides online related areas. services to exhibitors, besides hosting informative content about the product profile 6.NITI Aayog's Education Index of Defence Public Sector Undertakings and Government Niti Aayog's School Education Ordnance Factories. Quality Index (SEQI) released showed a huge The website enables exhibitors to register and disparity in the performance of the States in book space online as per their requirements on school education across the country. Kerala first-come-first-serve basis, make online bagged the top spot with 76.6 per cent and payments, book conference halls and venues while Uttar Pradesh with 36.4 per cent scored for Business-to-Business meetings. Exhibitors the lowest for 2016-17. can avail early bird discounts by booking Among the small States, Manipur (68.8 per space on the website before 31st of next cent) emerged as the top performer while month. Arunachal Pradesh (24.6 per cent) came last in the category. 4.Veteran actor Viju Khote passes away The index was developed to evaluate the Veteran actor Viju Khote, passed away in performance of States and Union Territories Mumbai. He was 78. He had acted in more (UTs) in the school education sector. than 300 Hindi and Marathi films. He gained Rajasthan bagged the second position among fame for his character Kaliya in the the large States with 72 per cent, followed by blockbuster film Sholay. Khote was popular Karnataka with 70 per cent and Andhra for his comedy roles in many films including Pradesh-69 per cent respectively. Andaz Apna Apna, Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak. The overall performance of the States was His role in TV serial Jaban Sambhal Ke also measured using two parameters- outcomes and gained popularity. governance process aiding outcomes. Scores of the outcomes category were 5.Scientist Thanu Padmanabhan gets M P Birla primarily driven by learning outcomes.