Current Affairs –October 2023

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03. Banking Awareness 20 09. Books & Authors 58

04. International 26 10. Indexes 60

05. Science & Technology 33 11. Important Days 62

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NATIONAL
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• India, Argentina signed a 'Social Security Agreement(SSA)' aimed at safeguarding the

legal rights of professionals in each other's domains.

• India and Italy signed a defence cooperation agreement to promote cooperation in

varied defence domains.

• Union Cabinet approves the country's three separate MoU’s with Papua New Guinea,
France, Trinidad and Tobago in the field of digital technologies.

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the 141st International Olympic
Committee, IOC Session in Mumbai.

• Competition Commission of India, CCI organizes 8th BRICS International Competition

Conference in New Delhi.
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• India and Sri Lanka resumes ferry service between Nagapattinam and Kankesanthurai
after forty years.

• Centre seeks inclusion of traditional medicine (Ayurveda and related systems) in the
11th revision of the World Health Organisation’s International Classification of Diseases
(ICD).

• India launched a major operation named ‘’Ajay’’ to evacuate its citizens who wish to
return from conflict-hit Israel.

• Operation Ajay: Two flights from Tel Aviv carrying a total of 471 Indians landed in the
national capital on October 15.

• India-UK 2 plus 2 Foreign and Defence Dialogue held in New Delhi.

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• Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates the third edition of the Global Maritime
India Summit 2023 via video conferencing in Mumbai.

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi Calls upon scientists to aim for Indian Space Station by
2035 and sending astronauts to Moon by 2040.

• Dhordo, a village located in the Kutch district of Gujarat, was bestowed with the title
'Best Tourism Village' by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO).

• Centre plans to earmark ₹30,000 crore to expand the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima
Yojana (PMFBY) portal into a comprehensive platform that will extend insurance
coverage beyond crops.

• Centre to roll out DNA, face matching systems at police stations across India.
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• Supreme Court of India allows surrogacy, strikes down rule banning use of donor
gametes.

• Law Commission presents roadmap on ‘One Nation, One Election’ before a high-level
committee headed by former President of India Ram Nath Kovind.

• Supreme Court said government authorities will have to pay ₹30 lakh as compensation
to the kin of those who die while cleaning sewers.

• Chief Justice headed Supreme Court Bench dismisses a woman’s petition seeking
permission to terminate her 26-week-long pregnancy.

• The Supreme Court of India had refused to tweak the Special Marriage Act to legalise
same-sex marriage.
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• Centre notifies the appointment of 17 judges across eight High Courts and the transfer
of 16 judges across several High Courts.

• Supreme Court will constitute a seven-judge Bench to consider the issue of validity of
passage of laws like the Aadhaar Act as Money Bill.

• Supreme Court refers electoral bonds case to 5-judge Constitution Bench.

• Election Commission: Assembly elections in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh,

Telangana and Mizoram would be held between November 7 and 30.

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the country’s first Regional Rapid Transit
System (RRTS), calling the Namo Bharat train.
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• A total of 26 crore Ayushman Cards have been created under Ayushman Bharat
Pradhan Mantri - Jan Arogya Yojana (AB- PMJAY) so far.

• Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani flagged off the bike expedition
"Yashaswini", in New Delhi.

• Indian Army to start phasing out Cheetah, Chetak helicopters from 2027.

• 90% of paint samples tested contain lead above permissible limits in India..

• A joint bilateral training exercise named 'Exercise Harimau Shakti 2023' of Indian and
Malaysian Armies was commenced in Meghalya's Umroi Cantonment.

• Indian Army Launches ‘Project Udbhav’ to Revive Ancient Statecraft and Military
Wisdom.
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• CBI conducts searches at 76 locations across multiple states regarding five separate
cases as part of its Operation Chakra-II to nab cyber criminals.

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches 511 Pramod Mahajan Grameen Kaushalya
Vikas Kendras in Maharashtra

• The Ayodhya Ram temple trust, known as the Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra,
receives a license to accept foreign donations under the Foreign Contribution Regulation
Act (FCRA).

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveils ‘Amrit Kaal Vision 2047’, the long-term blueprint
for the Indian maritime blue economy. It aims at enhancing port facilities, promoting
sustainable practices, and facilitating international collaboration.
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• Prasar Bharati OTT likely to become operational early next year.

• UGC plans to start credit courses on Indian culture and traditions in both UG and PG
programmes.

• Centre launches protocol to manage malnutrition in children at Anganwadi.

• 100-km smart fencing along Myanmar border in the pipeline to boost surveillance: Home
Ministry.

• A Special Campaign 3.0 began on October 2 with a focus on Swachhata and reducing
pendency in government offices with a saturation approach
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• Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces National Turmeric Board & Sammakka
Sarakka Tribal University for Telangana.

• Centre to commission impact study of UG, PG scholarships for SCs, OBCs, EBCs, DNTs.

• The Union Cabinet has increased the subsidy given on LPG cylinders under the Ujjwala
scheme to ₹300 from the current ₹200.

• Centre hikes contribution to complete stalled North Koel irrigation project spanning
Bihar and Jharkhand. It committed to contribute ₹1,836 crore against the ₹1,378 crore
approved in 2017.

• The third stealth destroyer of Project 15B Class Guided Missile Destroyer 'IMPHAL' was
handed over to the Indian Navy by The Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders
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• India & UAE Sign MoU to Boost Investment and Collaboration in Industry & Advanced
Technologies.

• From October 1, online gaming companies will charge 28% GST on full value of bets.

• Reliance Jio tests its satellite internet service, JioSpaceFiber, in four of the remotest
districts in India.

• Growth in India’s gross GST revenues slowed to a 27-month low of 10.2% in

September, from around 10.8% in the previous two months.

• Cooperation Minister Amit Mr. Shah said the newly established National Cooperative
for Exports Ltd. (NCEL) has bagged orders of ₹7,000 crore so far.

• GMR to acquire Malaysian partner’s 11% in Hyderabad airport for $100 mn.
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• According to a World Bank report, the Indian economy is projected to grow at 6.3% in
the current financial year.

• Pakistan's inflation rate rose to 31.4% year-on-year in September from 27.4% in

August.

• The National Investment and Infrastructure Fund Limited (NIIF) unveils a $600 million
(₹4,900 crore) India-Japan Fund.

• Reliance Brands to acquire majority ownership of Superdry IP for Indian territory.

• India and UAE Forge Historic Partnership for RuPay Domestic Card Scheme
Implementation.

• To curb evasion, EU report calls for 2% global wealth tax on billionaires.

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• India’s retail inflation eased from 6.83% in August to 5.02% in September.

• Wholesale price index (WPI) based inflation remains in negative for 6th consecutive
month at 0.26% in September

• Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) arm to invest ₹4,967 crore in Reliance Retail
Ventures for 0.59% stake.

• The IMF and World Bank gathered in Morocco for their first annual meetings on African
soil in 50 years.

• Corporate Affairs Ministry (MCA) formally extended till the end of October the tenure
of the 16-member Committee on Digital Competition Law (CDCL).

• India’s net direct tax collections grew 21.8% to ₹9.57 lakh crore by October 9.
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• Cabinet approves a ₹22,303 crore subsidy on P&K fertilisers for the current Rabi
season to ensure farmers.

• The Centre has approved royalty rates of 3% each for lithium and niobium and 1% for
Rare Earth Elements (REEs).

• RPG Group has announced the appointment of Anant Goenka to the position of Vice
Chairman.

• India’s industrial output surged at a 14-month high pace of 10.3% in August, from a
6% rise in July.

• Microsoft’s purchase of video game maker Activision Blizzard won final approval from
Britain’s competition watchdog.
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• India’s National Green Hydrogen Mission allots ₹1,906 crore across three Ministries.

• Ircon International Limited & RITES Ltd under the Ministry of Railways, were announced
as the 15th and 16th Navratna among Central Public Sector Enterprises.

• Centre introduces a special programme allowing an individual or entity to earn Green

Credit and trade it on a dedicated exchange.

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomes Google's India manufacturing plans in call
with Sundar Pichai.

• Qatar has agreed to supply British firm Shell with natural gas for 27 years.

• Arbitration tribunal asks West Bengal Government to pay 766 crore rupees to Tata
Motors
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• India to spend nearly ₹143 lakh crore on infrastructure between FY24 and FY30:
CRISIL.

• Coal India Limited (CIL) is planning to scale up production from its underground (UG)
mines to 100 Million Tons (MT) by 2030 through a slew of mass production technologies.

• Centre increases the MSP for all Rabi crops for 2024-25. The highest increase in MSP is
for lentils (masur) at ₹425 per quintal(new price: ₹6,425 per quintal).

• Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority, PFRDA makes 'penny drop'
verification mandatory for National Pension System,NPS fund withdrawal.

• India extends curbs on sugar exports to calm domestic prices.

• Ola Electric raises ₹3,200 crore from Temasek-led investors and State Bank of India.
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• India’s share of global growth to rise to 18% from the current 16% in 5 years: IMF.

• Google Inc. set a 2024 target to assemble its Pixel line of smartphones in India.

• India secured over 10 lakh crore investments within three days of the unveiling of the
Maritime Amritkaal Vision 2047.

• Tata Motors to acquire 27% stake in ‘Freight Tiger’ for ₹150 crore.

• Finnish telecom Nokia said it would cut up to 14,000 jobs in a new cost reduction effort.

• IT hardware licensing put on hold till September 2024.

• The United States government posted a $1.695 trillion budget deficit in fiscal 2023, a 23
percent jump from the prior year
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• RBI decides to include PM Vishwakarma under the Payments Infrastructure Development

Fund (PIDF) Scheme & extends the tenure of the scheme PIDF by another two years.

• RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said ₹3.43 lakh crore of ₹2,000 denomination notes
have come back to the system so far.

• In its attempts to further secure online transactions, the RBI proposes to allow banks to
directly “tokenise” debit or credit cards.

• Federal Bank, oldest private sector lender in Kerala, will completely stop funding for
thermal power projects by 2030.

• Canara Bank reported 43% year-on-year jump in its September ended quarter net
profit to ₹3,606 crore.
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• Shiv Bajrang Singh has assumed charge as the Executive Director of Indian Bank.

• Mahendra Dohare took charge as the Executive Director of the Central Bank of India.

• RBI directs Bank of Baroda (BoB) to suspend, with immediate effect, any further
onboarding of customers on its ‘bob World’ mobile application.

• Non-residents & foreign companies opening bank accounts in IFSC Gift City will not
have to furnish PAN and can instead file a declaration.

• Kotak Mahindra Bank will be focusing more on SME & mid-market segment in the South
by adding two-three markets every year.
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• The Board of Directors of AU Small Finance Bank & Fincare Small Finance Bank has
approved an all-stock merger of both its operations.

• Bajaj Finance to acquire 26% stake in fintech Pennant Technologies for ₹267.50 crore.

• RBI imposes a penalty or ₹12.19 crore on ICICI Bank & ₹3.95 crore on Kotak Mahindra
Bank for non-compliance of certain regulatory norms.

• Former Barclays banker Ashok Vaswani to head Kotak Mahindra Bank as MD and CEO.

• RBI imposes ₹2.5 Crore fine on L&T Finance for Non-Compliance.

• Union Bank of India reported second quarter net profit surged 90% to ₹3,511 crore.
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• HDFC Bank’s second quarter (Q2) standalone net profit grew 50.6% to ₹15,976 crore
over the same period last year on merger with its parent company.

• Bank of Maharashtra reports second quarter standalone net profit surged 71.90% to
₹920 crore as compared with ₹535 crore in the year-earlier period.

RBI Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy Highlights

• Policy repo rate unchanged at 6.50%.

• Standing deposit facility (SDF) rate remains at 6.25%.
• Marginal standing facility (MSF) rate and the Bank Rate at 6.75%.
• Real GDP growth for 2023-24 has been projected at 6.5%.
• CPI inflation has been projected at 5.4% for 2023-24.
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• HDFC Bank Unveils XpressWay Digital Platform for Swift Loans.

• RBI asks private banks to have at least 2 whole-time directors.

• Axis Bank Ltd. reports second quarter standalone net profit grew 10% to ₹5,864 crore
from ₹5,330 crore in the year earlier.

• Amid the growing concern of recession in Europe, the European Central Bank, announced to
keep its key interest rate unchanged at 4%.

• Punjab National Bank reports Q2 standalone net profit surged more than fourfold to
₹1,756 crore year-on-year on better asset quality and reduction in NPAs.

• State Bank of India ropes in MS Dhoni as brand ambassador.

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• Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Benny Gantz jointly
announced the formation of an emergency wartime government.

• Israel orders evacuation of 1.1 million people from northern Gaza, says U.N.

• In Bangladesh death toll from dengue infection rises to 1017.

• Death toll from strong earthquakes that shook western Afghanistan rises to 2,000.

• A populist pro-Moscow party led by former PM Robert Fico has won Slovakia’s
Parliamentary elections.

• EU reverses earlier announcement that it was ‘immediately’ suspending aid to

Palestinians.
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• Russia is defeated in its bid to regain a seat on the U.N.'s top human rights body
whereas Bulgaria and Albania were elected members of the UN Human Rights Council.

• China hosted the third Belt and Road Forum in Beijing from Oct. 17 to 18.

• India reiterates call for ‘sovereign, independent, viable state of Palestine’.

• Asian Development Bank agrees to provide $338 million to Bangladesh for

manufacturing vaccines against various diseases.

• Australians rejected greater rights for Indigenous citizens, thwarting plans to amend the
country’s 122-year-old constitution.

• Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan approves parliament’s decision to join the

International Criminal Court.
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• New Zealanders elected a new conservative government with National Party won 48
seats and right-wing ACT 11 seats, giving them 59 seats in the 122-seat parliament.

• Israel declares its northern border with Lebanon a closed military zone.

• UN aid chief says six months of war in Sudan has killed 9,000 people.

• Hong Kong court rules that gay couples get equal housing rights.

• Polish pro-EU opposition parties have won a parliamentary majority in a tight general
election.

• The UN Security Council fails to adopt a Brazil-led draft resolution that would have
called for humanitarian pauses in the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict after the U.S. vetoed
the text.
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• Canada had withdrawn 41 diplomats from India - fallout from a bitter row over the
killing of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil.

• Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva vetoes bill limiting Indigenous land claims.

• South Korea, the United States and Japan carried out their first joint aerial drills. The
exercise involved a U.S. nuclear-weapons-capable B-52 bomber.

• A special court in Pakistan convicts former PM Imran Khan and former foreign minister
Shah Mahmood Qureshi for leaking classified documents in the cipher case.

• Turkiye submits protocol for Sweden's admission into NATO to Parliament for ratification.
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• Bangladesh is building memorial to honour Indian heroes of 1971 war.

• India will resume visa services in Canada for certain categories that include Entry visa,
Business visa, Medical visa, and Conference visa.

• Iceland: tens of thousands of women on one-day strike to protest against gender

discrimination.

• Japan’s Supreme Court strikes down appeal requiring removal of reproductive organs to
officially change gender.

• Slovakia's new populist Prime Minister Robert Fico said that his government was stopping
military aid to Ukraine.
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• Eight former Indian Navy officers get death penalty in Qatar in an alleged case of
espionage.
• Pakistan is setting up deportation centres for migrants who are in the country illegally,
including an estimated 1.7 million Afghans.
• Over 200,000 minors are estimated to have been sexually abused in Spain by the Roman
Catholic clergy since 1940.
• U.S. President signed an executive order to enable wide-ranging regulation of artificial
intelligence (AI).Mr Biden’s order invokes the Defense Production Act.

• Cayman Islands removed from Financial Action Task Force FATF 'grey list’.
• Commerce & Industry Minister Piyush Goyal participates in G7 Trade Ministers Meeting in
Osaka, Japan.
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• NASA recently unveiled how it is planning to retire International Space Station (ISS). It
has disclosed the $1 billion plan to carry out the re-entry of ISS back to Earth.

• The WHO has recommended a new vaccine, R21/Matrix-M, for the prevention of
malaria in children.

• NASA's Psyche mission launched from Kennedy Space Center. The mission will study a
metal-rich asteroid with the same name.

• Spanish company PLD Space launched its reusable Miura-1 rocket from a site in
southwest Spain, carrying out Europe's first fully private rocket launch.

• The Aditya-L1 spacecraft, India's first solar mission, performed a 16-second trajectory
correction maneuver (TCM) to ensure that it stays on course for its intended destination.
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• ISRO successfully executed the Test Flight Abort Mission, for the Gaganyaan mission after
the first test flight was aborted due to a problem in the engine ignition.

• China is building the world's largest underwater telescope TRIDENT(Tropical Deep-sea

Neutrino Telescope) to hunt for elusive 'ghost particles’. It will search for the origins of
cosmic rays in momentary flashes of light beneath the ocean's surface.

• NASA readies to launch Roman telescope for humanity's farthest-ever peek into Milky
Way galaxy. For this, it will make use of its Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

• Researchers recently activated the world's smallest particle accelerator, called a

nanophotonic electron accelerator (NEA). The NEA is 54 million times smaller than a
traditional particle accelerator and is coin-sized.
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• Brazil scientists developed a vaccine named "Calixcoca" for cocaine addiction,

demonstrated positive results in animal trials.

• NASA launched a new sounding rocket to study a stellar event in the Cygnus Loop, which is
a supernova remnant that took place 20,000 years ago. The sounding rocket mission, was
named as the Integral Field Ultraviolet Spectroscope Experiment (INFUSE).

• The NASA Parker Solar Probe has become the fastest human-made object ever recorded
— again. The probe reached a blistering 394,736 mph/ (635,266 km/h) as it swooped
close to the sun's surface.
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• Mohamed Muizzu has won the Presidential election in Maldives after a second-round
run-off against incumbent Ibrahim Mohamed Solih.

• Daniel Noboa has become Ecuador’s youngest ever President at 35 after winning by a
margin of around five points over his rival, the leftist lawyer Luisa González.

• Malaysia has announced that its next and 17th king will be Sultan Ibrahim Sultan
Iskandar from the southern state of Johor. He will be installed on January 31 next year.

• The US House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out of the job.
The 216-to-210 vote marked the first time in history that the House removed its leader.

• The Republicans elected Representative Mike Johnson as House Speaker, elevating a

deeply conservative but lesser-known leader to the seat of U.S. power.
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• Actor Rajkummar Rao, whose portrayal of an official tasked with conducting polls in the
Naxal-affected areas of Chhattisgarh in the Hindi film “Newton” won accolades, will
be inducted as a National Icon by the Election Commission (EC).

• Telangana BJP leader Indra Sena Reddy Nallu has been appointed as the Governor of
Tripura. He is a BJP national executive member and he succeeds Satyadeo Narain Arya
as the Tripura Governor.

• Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das was appointed as the Governor of
Odisha. Mr. Das was the first non-tribal Chief Minister of Jharkhand from 2014 to
2019.

• Mukesh Ambani has raced ahead of Gautam Adani to become the richest Indian on a
list of wealthiest people in the country, as per the 360 ONE Wealth Hurun India Rich List
2023.
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• The International Cricket Council (ICC) has named India’s cricket legend Sachin
Tendulkar as the Global Ambassador for the Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023.

• MyGov CEO Akash Tripathi, a 1998 batch (IAS Officer), will take over as the chief of
the India Semiconductor Mission which spearheads the country’s $10-billion chip subsidy
scheme.

• Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan was on a four-day visit to India with an aim
to bolster bilateral relations. The presidential visit from Tanzania to India is taking place
after a span of more than eight years.

• K.N. Shanth Kumar, a seasoned media professional, was elected as the Chairman of the
Press Trust of India’s Board of Directors for a one-year term.

• Lieutenant General Raghu Srinivasan assumed the role of the 28th Director General
(DG) of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO).
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• Harpal Randhawa, an Indian billionaire and his son were among the six individuals
killed when their private plane crashed near a diamond mine in southwestern Zimbabwe
after experiencing a technical fault.

• Louise Glück, an American poet and essayist has died. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in
Literature. Her other awards include the Pulitzer Prize, National Humanities Medal,
National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Bollingen Prize.

• Former Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Manohar Singh Gill passed away. He served
as a Minister for Sports & Youth Affairs as well as Minister for Statistics & Programme
Implementation in the Manmohan Singh government. He was also a recipient of Padma
Vibhushan, the second highest civilian award.
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• Nobel peace laureate Martti Ahtisaari, who served as Finland's 10th president between
1994 and 2000, died. He was celebrated around the world for brokering peace in
conflict zones in Kosovo, Indonesia and Northern Ireland.

• Bishan Singh Bedi, one of India’s most iconic cricketers, passed away at the age of 77. A
left-arm spinner and former captain of the Indian cricket team, he played 67 Tests for
India, taking 266 wickets.

• China's former Premier Li Keqiang died of a heart attack aged 68. Li was premier and
head of China's cabinet under Xi for a decade until stepping down in March.

• One of Iran's most prominent film-makers, Dariush Mehrjui, was stabbed to death
alongside his wife at their home near Tehran.
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• Eminent climate change expert Professor Saleemul Huq passed away in Dhaka. He
was an expert in adaptation to climate change in the most vulnerable developing
countries and a lead author of the third, fourth and fifth assessment reports of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

• Actor Matthew Perry has died after apparently drowning in a hot tub. Perry was best
known for his longtime role as Chandler in the internationally successful U.S. television
sitcom "Friends" which ran for 10 seasons from 1994 to 2004.

• Anant Nath, editor of 'The Caravan', was elected the president of the Editors Guild of
India. Mr. Nath, who was the general secretary, succeeded Seema Mustafa as
president.
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• Indian shooting duo of Sarabjot Singh & Divya Subbaraju secures silver medal in the
mixed 10m air rifle pistol team event at the ongoing Asian Games in Hangzhou.

• Asian Games: Rohan Bopanna-Rutuja Bhosale Win Mixed Doubles Gold In Tennis.

• Indian women’s hockey team edged past Japan 2-1 and claimed a bronze at the Asian
Games.

• India surpassed the 100-medal mark for the first time at the Asian Games in Hangzhou,
China. Its 107 medals including 28 gold, 38 silver, and 41 bronze.

• The baton for the next Asian Games has been passed on to Nagoya, Japan for 2026.
The closing ceremony of the 19th Asian Games concluded at the Hangzhou Olympics
Stadium in China.
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• India’s Ayush Shetty secured a bronze medal at the BWF World Junior Championships
that concluded at Spokane, USA.

• World Athletics nominates Neeraj Chopra for the Men's Athlete of the Year award
2023. World Athletics has confirmed a list of 11 nominees.

• Shubman Gill was named ICC ‘Men’s Player of the Month’ for September. Sri Lanka’s
Chamari Athapaththu took the honours for women.

• International Olympic Committee approves cricket along with baseball-softball, flag

football, lacrosse (sixes) and squash to feature in the 2028 Olympics to be held in Los
Angeles Games.
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• 2023 ICC World Cup : New Zealand beats England by 9 wickets in the inaugural
match at the Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad.

• In ICC Men’s World Cup Cricket, India beat Australia by 6 wickets in their first game of
World Cup 2023 to start their campaign on a winning note.

• Pakistan chased down 345 runs in the ODI World Cup 2023 match against Sri Lanka
to break the record for the highest successful run chase in World Cups.

• In the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup, India has thrashed Pakistan by 7 wickets at
Ahmedabad.

• ICC Men's Cricket World Cup: Afghanistan defeated defending Champions England.
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• Members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have urged the incumbent
President Thomas Bach to stay on in his role after he completes his 12-year term in
2025.

• ICC Men's Cricket World Cup: Netherlands beats South Africa by 38 runs.

• Sports Ministry approves list of 303 sportspersons for participation in Asian Para
Games in China.

• In Qatar Masters, Karthikeyan Murali, became the third Indian player to beat the
world's number one player, Magnus Carlsen in classical chess.
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• The fourth Asian Para Games officially commenced in Hangzhou, China. It was held till
October 28.

• Shubman Gill bettered Hashim Amla’s record to become the fastest batsman to reach
2,000 runs in ODI cricket. Gill achieved the milestone in 38 innings, two better than
South Africa’s Amla.

• In the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup, Afghanistan beat Pakistan by 8 wickets at MA
Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the 37th National Games in Margao.
The National Games are being held in Goa for the first time.
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• Asian Para Games Hangzhou: India's medal tally reaches all all-time high of 94
comprising 24 gold, 27 silver and 43 bronze.

• South Africa edged 14-man New Zealand 12-11 in a compelling arm-wrestle of a Rugby
World Cup final and win the Webb Ellis Cup for a record fourth time.

• Red Bull's Max Verstappen took a dominant victory in the Mexico City Grand Prix to break
his own record for wins in a single Formula 1 season.

• India beat England by 100 runs to win their sixth consecutive match in ICC Men's Cricket
World Cup.
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• FIFA bans ousted former Spanish soccer federation president Luis Rubiales from the sport
for three years for misconduct at the Women’s World Cup final where he forcibly kissed a
player on the lips at the trophy ceremony.

• Afghanistan cruised to a 7-wicket win against Sri Lanka at the ongoing 2023 World Cup.

• Unnati Hooda beat Samiya Imad Farooqui to capture the women's singles title at the Abu
Dhabi Masters 2023.

• CM Hemant Soren unveils Mascot and trophy for Asian Women's Hockey Championship in
Ranchi
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Nobel Prize winners

• Katalin Kariko & Drew Weissman, won the Nobel Medicine Prize for work on messenger
RNA (mRNA) technology that paved the way for groundbreaking Covid-19 vaccines.
• Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier for
their work in “experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the
study of electron dynamics in matter.”
• The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the year 2023 was awarded to three scientists Moungi
G Bawendi, Louis E Brus, and Alexei Ekimov for their discovery and synthesis of quantum
dots.
• Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi was chosen by the Royal Swedish Academy for the
coveted 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran.

• Norwegian author Jon Fosse wins Nobel Prize 2023 in Literature.

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• Professor Claudia Goldin of Harvard University was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics
2023 for her comprehensive research on women's contribution to the labour market.

• Renowned author & philanthropist Sudha Murty, was conferred with the Global Indian Award
by the Canada India Foundation.

• Indian-origin professor Dr Joyeeta Gupta receives the Spinoza Prize, the highest distinction
in Dutch science for her work in the field of climate change.

• Heman Bekele, a ninth grader from Virginia, was named "America’s Top Young Scientist"
after he invented a $.50 bar of soap to treat skin cancer. He won the prestigious award
from 3M and Discovery Education, considered one of the country's top middle school science
competitions.
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• Teenage Indian-American inventor Gitanjali Rao was honoured by U.S. First Lady Jill
Biden, along with 14 other young women leaders, for leading a change and shaping a
brighter future in their communities across the nation.

• Hollywood actor and producer Michael Douglas will receive the prestigious Satyajit Ray
Lifetime Achievement Award at the 54th International Film Festival of India (IFFI).

• Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman whose death in police custody
sparked a wave of women’s rights protests in Iran, has been awarded the European
Union’s top human rights prize Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.

• Nita Ambani receives 2023 Global Leadership Award for philanthropy from US-India
Strategic Partnership Forum, USISPF.
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• Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud was bestowed with the prestigious ‘Award
for Global Leadership‘ by the Harvard Law School.

• Two Indian American scientists, Ashok Gadgil and Subra Suresh, were awarded the
National Medal of Technology and Innovation, which is the highest honour for
technological achievement in the United States.

• The “Union Home Minister’s Special Operation Medal” for this year has been awarded
for four Special Operations. Several officers and personnel from CRPF, NIA, NCB and
different States, and organizations have been selected for the award.

• Noted author and activist Sivasankari was honoured with the prestigious Saraswati
Samman for the year 2022 for her memoir written in Tamil, Surya Vamsam.
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Ballon d’Or 2023: List of all the winners

• Ballon d’Or- Lionel Messi (Inter Miami, Argentina)
• Ballon d’Or Feminin- Aitana Bonmatí (FC Barcelona Femení, Spain)
• Kopa Trophy for the best male U-21 player-Jude Bellingham (Real Madrid, England)
• Yachine Trophy for the best male goalkeeper- Emiliano Martínez (Astona Villa,
Argentina)
• Gerd Müller Trophy for the highest-scoring male striker- Erling Haaland (Manchester
City, Norway)
• Socrates Award to acknowledge humanitarian work- Vinicius Junior (Real Madrid, Brazil)
• Club of the Year(Male): Manchester City
• Club of the Year(Female): FC Barcelona
BOOKS & AUTHORS
Books & Authors
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• The Book of Life: My Dance with Buddha for Success-Vivek Agnihotri

• The Reverse Swing: Colonialism to Cooperation-Ashok Tandon

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• India ranked 111 out of a total of 125 countries in the Global Hunger Index (GHI)
2023. Afghanistan, Haiti and 12 sub-Saharan countries perform worse than India on the
GHI.
• India slips to 45th position on the Global Pension Index 2023. Netherlands took the top
spot, while Argentina was ranked last.

• According to Ookla Speedtest Global Index 2023 report, India was placed at 47th
position in the Speedtest Global Index.

• Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) was ranked as the world’s most
punctual airport for the past three consecutive months in the ‘On-Time Performance
Monthly Report’ published by data analytics firm Cirium.

• The tallest statue of Dr BR Ambedkar, the principal architect of India's Constitution,

outside India was formally inaugurated in a Maryland suburb of the US capital.
IMPORTANT DAYS
Important Days
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• October 1-International Coffee Day

• October 1-World Vegetarian Day
• October 1- International Music Day

• October 2- Gandhi Jayanti

• October 2- International Day of Non-Violence
• October 2-World Habitat Day(the first Monday of October of every year)
• October 5-World Teachers’ Day
• October 7-World Cotton Day
• October 8- Indian Air Force Day
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• October 9- World Post Office Day

• October 10-World Mental Health Day
• October 11- International Girl Child Day
• October 13- UN International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction

• October 13-World Egg Day

• October 14-World Standard Day
• October 15-International Day of Rural Women
• October 15-Global Handwashing Day
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• October 16-World Food Day

• October 17-International Poverty Eradication Day
• October 20-World Statistics Day
• October 24-United Nations Day
• October 24-World Polio Day
• October 29- World Stroke Day
• October 30- World Thrift Day
• October 31- Ekta Diwas (National Unity Day)
• October 31-Halloween Day
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