LEGEND MAGAZINE (OCTOBER- 2018) Current Affairs and Quiz, English, Banking Awareness, Simplification Exclusively prepared for RACE students Issue: 14 | Page : 48 | Topic : Legend of October | Price: Not for Sale LEGEND OF OCTOBER 2018 MAGAZINE - INDEX S. NUMBER TOPICS PAGE NUMBER 1 NATIONAL AFFAIRS 1 2 STATES IN NEWS 4 3 INTERNATIONAL NEWS 7 4 BANKING AND BUSINESS 10 5 APPOINTMENTS 14 6 AWARDS & HONOURS 15 8 SPORTS 16 9 IMPORTANT DAYS / OBITUARY 19 & 20 10 CURRENT AFFAIRS QUIZ 20 11 ENGLISH VOCABULARY 26 12 BANKING AWARENESS 37 13 SIMPLIFICATION 44 CURRENT AFFAIRS BCCI work status, to raise their voice against sexual NATIONAL AFFAIRS • President: C. K. Khanna harassment at workplace. • Headquarters: Mumbai PM Narendra Modi inaugurates first President Of India Inaugurates assembly of International Solar Alliance: PM Modi Launches 'Main Nahi Hum' Portal International Arya Mahasammelan-2018: ➢ The Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi has In New Delhi: ➢ The President inaugurated the International inaugurated the first Assembly of the ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch Arya Mahasammelan-2018 in New Delhi. International Solar Alliance at Vigyan the 'Main Nahin Hum' portal and mobile ➢ Mahasammelan discussed on the issues such Bhawan in the presence of the United application. as prevention of superstition, modernization, Nations’ Secretary General Antonio ➢ He will also interact with IT and electronic women empowerment, tribal welfare, and Guterres. manufacturing professionals across India via management of natural calamities. ➢ The same event also marked the inauguration video-conference. ➢ The president discussed about Swami of the second IORA Renewable Energy ➢ The portal, which works on the theme Dayanand Saraswati. He took effective measures Ministerial Meeting, and the 2nd Global RE- 'Self4Society', will enable IT professionals and for educational and social reform especially for Invest. A short film on the “Journey of organisations to bring together their efforts women empowerment and eradication of Renewable Energy in India” and another film towards social causes on one platform. untouchability. on Student Initiative on Solar Lamp were ➢ The portal is expected to help catalyse greater ➢ The 200th birth anniversary of Swami screened on the occasion. collaboration towards the service of the weaker Dayanand Saraswati will be celebrated in ➢ International Solar Alliance (ISA) is an alliance sections of society, especially by leveraging the 2024. of 121 solar resource rich countries, lying benefits of technology. fully or partially between the Tropics of Cancer 5th National Summit on Public Health Care: and Capricorn. Centre constitutes GoM to look into sexual ➢ The 5th National Summit on Good and ➢ ISA was jointly launched by the Prime harassment of women at workplace: Replicable Practices and Innovations in Public Minister Narendra Modi, and President of ➢ The Centre has constituted a Group of Health Care Systems in India began at France, Francois Hollande on November 30, Ministers (GoM) to examine the existing legal Kaziranga in Assam. 2015 in Paris on the side-lines of the 21st and institutional frameworks for dealing with ➢ The objective of the summit is to share and Conference of Parties (CoP 21) to the United matters of sexual harassment of women at learn the good practices being implemented by Nations Framework Convention on Climate the workplace. several states and organizations for the Change. ➢ The GoM will be headed by Home Minister betterment of the health sector. Rajnath Singh. Road Transport and Highways ➢ The Summit will be inaugurated by Assam BCCI comes under RTI Act: Minister Nitin Gadkari, Defence Minister Nirmala chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal, and Union ➢ The Board of Control for Cricketin India Sitharaman and Women and Child Development Minister of Health & Family Welfare J P Nadda at (BCCI) is covered under the RTI Act and Minister Maneka Gandhi will be the members of Borgos Resort, Kaziranga in Golaghat district answerable to the people of the country under the group. of Assam. its mechanism. ➢ Within three months of its constitution, the ➢ The status, nature and functional PM Modi to unveil world’s tallest statue: GoM will examine the existing provisions for the characteristics of the BCCIfulfil required ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi will unveil the safety of women and recommend further conditions of Section 2(h) of the RTI Act, bronze statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel at measures. 2005. Kevadia in Narmada district, on the 143rd ➢ The Women and Child Development Ministry ➢ Section 2(h) of the Act defines criteria under birth anniversary of Sardar Patel. has launched an Electronic Complaints Box “She which a body can be declared as public authority ➢ At 182 metres, the ‘Statue of Unity’, facing Box” that enables women, irrespective of their under the RTI Act. the Sardar Sarovar Dam, is nearly double the Chennai | Puducherry | Madurai | Trichy | Salem | Coimbatore | 7601808080 / 9043303030 www.RACEInstitute.in Erode | Namakkal |Tanjore| Tirunelveli | Trivandrum | Ernakulam|Bengaluru | Chandigarh |LEGEND MAGAZINE | OCTOBER - 2018| 2 height of the Statue of Liberty in New York and ➢ The railway ministry in collaboration ➢ The missile is capable of carrying 500 to 1, taller than the Spring Temple of Buddha in with Google has launched rail heritage 000 kilogramme of warheads and is trusted by China, which had held the record at 153 metres. digitisation project. liquid propulsion twin engines. The state-of-the- ➢ The Statue of Unity, set up under the Sardar ➢ The project is a first of its kind to showcase art missile uses advanced inertial guidance Vallabhbhai Patel Rashtriya Ekta Trust, has been country’s rail heritage to national and system with manoeuvring trajectory to hit its constructed at a cost of ₹2, 989 crore (approx international audience in an online story- target. $407 million) in less than four years. telling platform. ➢ Built by engineering major Larsen & Toubro ➢ India Railways has a history of more than 165 Indian Railways Signed Agreements with Ltd, the statue will be treated as the largest years and has a rich heritage that includes the Government of Russian Federation: memorial to the ‘Iron Man of India’. Imperial and the princely railways. ➢ A memorandum of cooperation (MoC) was ➢ Digitization of rail heritage provides signed between the Ministry of Railways and NMCG Partnered with TSAF for “Mission opportunity to contextualize artifact and other joint-stock company Russian Railways on the Gange”: heritage assets with the stories thus becoming sidelines of the India-Russia Summit. ➢ The National Mission for Clean Ganga more meaningful to next generation. ➢ It includes the implementation of a speed- (NMCG) has partnered with Tata Steel Civil aviation Ministry releases the policy of upgradation project in the Nagpur-Secunderabad Adventure Foundation (TSAF) to launch a Digi Yatra: section, setting up of a single traffic-control month-long rafting expedition of a team of 40 ➢ The Union Minister of Commerce and centre for managing mixed traffic at the local members. It will be led by the first Indian Industry and Civil Aviation, Shri Suresh level, best practices in freight cargo operations, woman to scale Mount Everest Ms. Bachendri Prabhu has released the policy on biometric development of multi-modal terminals and Pal. based digital processing of passengers at exchange of the best technologies used by the ➢ The expedition will start from Haridwar airports called “Digi Yatra”. two countries. traversing a distance of around 1500 km ➢ The Digi Yatra Central Platform will be ➢ The cooperation agreement was signed by encompassing 8 major towns including Bijnor, operational by end of February, 2019. Railway Board Chairman Ashwani Lohani Farrukhabad, Kanpur, Allahabad, Varanasi and ➢ Bangalore & Hyderabad International and Oleg Belozerov, Chief Executive Officer Buxar. It will conclude in Patna, Bihar. Airports will be ready with pilot implementation and Chairman of Russian Railways. by end of February, 2019. Union Cabinet approves creation of smart CII inks pact with UN Environment: railway stations: Indian Railways plans to roll out Project ➢ The Confederation of Indian Industry ➢ The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Utkrisht: (CII) on has signed a memorandum of Shri Narendra Modi has approved the ➢ Railways have plans to develop 640 Utkrisht understanding (MoU) with the UN Environment redevelopment of Railway Stations. rakes as part of upgradation of its mail/express for coherent implementation of the ➢ It will be completed by Indian Railway trains in the next two years at a cost of Rs 4 environmental dimension of sustainable Stations Development Corporation Limited billion. development. (IRSDC) as Nodal Agency and main Project ➢ Developed as 'green rakes' (consisting of 20 ➢ Mr Erik Solheim, Executive Director, UN Development Agency, for longer lease tenure of or 22 coaches) at Eastern Railways' Liluah Environment, and Mr Chandrajit Banerjee, upto 99 years. workshop, they cost Rs 600, 000 each. Director-General, Confederation of Indian ➢ The program will help provide state-of-the-art ➢ The rakes have also been given a new colour Industry, signed an MoU at CII’s headquarters in amenities to the passengers, generate additional scheme on the exterior beige and maroon. Delhi. revenue and be overall cost neutral to the ➢ All coaches of this rake are fitted with ➢ The major activity planned under the Railway Ministry. energyefficient LED tube lights, panel of LED agreement includes