Current Affairs of October 2020

  1. BSE joined hands with YES Bank to empower SMEs.
  2. GoI appointed P.D. Vaghela as new chairman of TRAI.
  3. Indian Bank launched Green-Tech Initiative IB-eNote .
  4. India plans to build 100 bedded Cancer Hospital and 22,000-seater Cricket Stadium in Maldives.
  5. SS Deswal has been appointed as the Director General (additional charge) of National Security Guard (NSG).
  6. Narendra Modi inaugurated Atal tunnel– World’s longest high-altitude tunnel
  7. The flood situation due to Brahmaputra river keeps affecting more than 40 lakh residents in Assam.
  8. SBI appointed Charanjit Attra as CFO.
  9. Harvey J. Alter (America) , Charles M. Rice (America) , Michael Houghton (Britain) has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020
  10. Piyush Goyal inaugurated renaming of Naugarh railway station to Siddharthnagar.
  11. India is to launch constellation of maritime surveillance satellites with France.
  12. Goa is the first ‘Har Ghar Jal‘ state by providing tap water connections in rural areas.
  13. Mukesh Ambani has topped the Forbes India Rich List 2020
  14. Srikant Datar named as second Indian-descent dean of Harvard Business School.
  15. -9.5% projected GDP of India in FY21 as per RBI’s Monetary Policy Committee(MPC) meeting(October 2020).
  16. Aava Murto assumed the post of prime minister of Finland for 1 day on occasion of UN International Day of Girl Child on 11th October,2020
  17. Delhi government approved tree transplantation policy.
  18. Russia approved 2nd coronavirus vaccine EpiVacCorona.
  19. The Government of Odisha and Indian Rugby Football Union (IRFU) signed an agreement to sponsor the Indian national rugby teams for the next three years, till 2023.
  20. Gujarat government has announced to set up the world’s biggest Zinc Smelter project.
  21. Delhi government launched ‘Red Light On, Gaadi Off’ initiative.
  22. Israeli Parliament agreed for Peace deal with UAE.
  23. Strengthening Teaching-Learning and Results for States (STARS) project would be implemented as a new Centrally Sponsored Scheme under the Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education (MoE).
  24. Uttar Pradesh government launched a 6-month long women empowerment programme ‘Mission Shakti‘ on October 17, 2020.
  25. Yashvardhan K. Sinha appointed as new Chief Information Commissioner
  26. European Commission signed new Implementing Arrangement to enhance scientific cooperation with ICSSR.

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