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Current Affairs OCTOBER-2013

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The Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel won the Indian Grand Prix organized at the

Buddh International Circuit in Noida, India.Registering his third successive

victory in the Indian Grand Prix he left behind four former world champions

Fernando Alonso, Kimi Raikkonen, Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button.

Indias star Squash player Dipika Pallikal clinched the Macau Open title held at

Macau, China. Dipika vanquished former World No.1 Rachel Grinham of

Australia.

The Board of Cricket Control of India (BCCI) awarded Star Private Ltd and ESPN

with the cricket sponsorship rights for all international series and the domestic

tournaments in India for the year 2013-14 at the base price of Rs 2 crore per

fixture. The right was previously with telecom giant Airtel.

India vanquished Malaysia to clinch Under-21 Sultan of Johor Cup hockey

tournament. It was a maiden title victory for India. Below is the roll of honour for

the tournament:

Banking

The Finance Ministry has finalized the Rs.14, 000 crore capital infusion plan for

public sector banks to strengthen their capital base, and promised another share

in the fourth quarter of the current fiscal. The capital infusion would ensure that

banks had 8% Tier-1 capital by the end of the current fiscal year.

S&P BSE Sensex crossed 21,000 level for first time since November 2010. The

benchmark is also Asias best performing indexon 24 oct 2013

As per Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, a person (whose

cheque has bounced) shall without prejudice to any other provision of this act, bepunished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with

fine which may extend to twice the amount of the cheque, or with both..

trading in the interest rate futures began in India on August 31, 2009.

In a bid to speedily recover Non-Performing Assets (NPA), the IDBI Bank has

launched a campaign named Own Your NPA.

Socio economic

The Ministry of Overseas Indian Affair launched a scheme named Mahatma

Gandhi Pravasi Suraksha Yojana in Dubai. The scheme is a pension and life

insurance fund scheme for blue-collar Indian workers in UAE. A 17-member expert panel headed by Prof. Ravi Chopra has been constituted by

the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to investigate whether

the environmental degradation caused by hydro-electric projects on Alaknanda

and Bhagirathi rivers led to Uttarakhand floods.

The President of India Pranab Mukherjee gave his assent to the Uttarakhand

Lokayukta Bill. With this the Uttarakhand Lokayukta Bill became an Act.

Global Slavery Index published by the Australia-based Walk Free Foundation,

ranked India first in terms of number of modern day slaves in the world.

As per the 2013 Threatened Bird list by the International Union for

Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Great Indian Bustard is listed under the


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category of Critically Endangered birds.The Great Indian Bustard (Scientific

name: Ardeotis nigriceps)was once widely spotted across 11 Indian states,

but now only less than 250 birds are left all across India.

Pakistani teen activist Malala Yousafzai, who survived bullet-injury inflicted by

the Taliban for championing girls education has won the European Unions (EU)

Sakharov Human Rights Prize 2013. Past winners of the Sakharov Prize include

South African anti apartheid hero Nelson Mandela and former UN secretarygeneral Kofi Annan.

International Day of the Girl Child was observed globally on October 11, 2013 to

recognize the girls rights and the unique challenges girls face around the world.

The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has launched two new consumer

empowering initiatives. These are:

1. Sale of 5 kg LPG cylinders at market price

2.

Inter-Company LPG Portability scheme

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved the Rashtriya

Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA), a Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) for

reforming the state higher education system.+ India signed an agreement for credit of $ 51 million (equivalent) from IFAD for

the Jharkhand Tribal Empowerment Livelihood Project (JTLEP). JTELP would

continue till September 2021.

The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition,

Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2013 which seeks to replace the archaic land

acquisition law dating back to 1894 has become law with President Pranab

Mukherjee giving assent to it.

As per United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF) report on the global Infant

Mortality rate (IMR) declined from 61 deaths in 1990 to 37 deaths in 2011. Annual

infant deaths decreased from 8.4 million in 1990 to 5 million in 2011. India has more IMR than the global average, it has shown a minor decline in IMR

in 2012 compared to 2011. It decreased from 44 deaths for every 1000 live births

in 2011 to 42 deaths for every 1000 live in 2012.

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare named former Indian cricket team

captain Rahul Dravid as the brand ambassador for its National Tobacco Control

Campaign.

President Pranab Mukherjee has given his assent to the Parliament (Prevention

of Disqualification) Amendment Bill, 2013 which amends Parliament (Prevention

of Disqualification) Act, 1959.

Himachal Pradesh has become the second state after Haryana to introduce

Centres National Vocational Education Qualitative Framework ( NVQF) Scheme.

Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers - Government of India approved for

establishing a Plastic Park at Siju Village, Kujanga Tehsil of Jagatsinghpur

District in Odisha.

President of India Pranab Mukherjee issued State of Karnataka (Special

Responsibility of Governor for Karnataka-Hyderabad Region) Order, 2013,

allowing the Karnataka Governor to set up a separate development board for the

Hyderabad-Karnataka region under Article 371 J of the Constitution. The region

includes Gulbarga, Bidar, Raichur, Koppal, Yadgir and Bellary districts. The

order has come into effect with immediate effect.


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The Union Cabinet has given nod to the proposal to establish a Central Armed

Police Forces Institute of Medical Sciences (CAPFIMS), along with a 500-bed

General Hospital, a 300-bed Super Specialty Hospital, a Nursing College and a

School of Paramedics. The Institute shall be registered as a Society under the

Societies Registration Act, 1860 and shall have a Governing Body and a

Governing Council, under the Ministry of Home Affairs.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approvedimplementation of the National Mission on Oilseeds and Oil Palm (NMOOP)

during the 12th Plan Period and has allocated Rs 3,507 crore for the purpose.

Science & Technology

Scientists have discovered the most distant galaxy yet which is located at about 30

billion light-years away. It was detected using the Hubble Space Telescope. The

distant galaxy has been named z8_GND_5296.

The Railway Board announced that the Indian Railways decided to increase the

speed of the superfast trains to 160-200 kmph.

Researchers from Zurich (Switzerland) have revealed the worlds first walking,

talking bionic man called Frank, short for Frankenstein.

Indias largest 84-meter tall Air Traffic Control (ATC) tower of India was

inaugurated outside the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai. It is

spread over an area of 2800 square meter area and is also equipped with state-of-

the-art technology such as electronic flight strips that can reduce the workload of

controllers and enhance safety and capacity of the airport.

India successfully test-fired its indigenously built nuclear-capable Prithvi-II

missile with a strike range of 350km from a test range at Chandipur, Odisha. A plant that produces both tomatoes and potatoes was launched in the UK

market. The plant named The TomTato has been developed by the horticultural

mail order company Thompson & Morgan.

Awards

Myanmars pro-democracy activist and parliamentarian Aung San Suu Kyi finally

collected the EU democracy prize that had been awarded 23 years ago while she

was under house arrest. The Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought, named after

Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, has been awarded annually by the European

Parliament since1988. New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has been selected for the inaugural

Genesis Prizean award popularly dubbed the Jewish Nobel Prize given by the

Government of Israel.

Prabodh Chandra Dey ( Manna Dey) (94) passed away.

Legendary vocalist Lata Mangeshkar was presented the first national Yash

Chopra Memorial Award by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting as a

mark of tribute to the legendary filmmaker Yash Chopra on the eve of his first

death anniversary.


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New Zealand author Ms Eleanor Catton became the youngest winner of the Man

Booker Prize for fiction. She claimed the award for her novel The

Luminaries.The Luminaries is the longest book ever to win the Booker Prize .

American Economist Eugene Fama won the Nobel prize for economics for

developing new methods to study trends in asset markets.

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) won the Nobel

Peace Prize 2013 for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons. Karan Thapar, well-known television journalist, has been honored with the

International Press Institute (IPI) India Award for Excellence in Journalism.

Famous agricultural scientist MS Swaminathan has been selected for the Indira

Gandhi Award for National Integration for the year 2012.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2013 will be shared by Michael Levitt, a British

and US citizen, US-Austrian Martin Karplus and US-Israeli Arieh Warshel.

The Nobel committee has announced the winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize for

Physiology or Medicine. The Prize has been awarded to three scientists, James E.

Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Sudhof, all based in the USA for

working out how biological cells organize and transport the many molecules they

need to function.

The Nobel Prize in physics has been announced to be given to physicists Francois

Englert of Belgium and Peter Higgs of Britain for their theoretical discoveries on

how subatomic particles acquire mass.

Indian social activist Anna Hazare has been honored with the inaugural Allard

Prize for International Integrity conferred by the University of British Columbias

Faculty of Law at a function held in Vancouver, Canada.

Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan was awarded with the Deutsche

Bank Prize for Financial Economics 2013. The award has been given in

recognition to his academic contributions in macro economics research which

influenced financial and macro-economic policies around the globe. Miss Philippines Megan Young was crowned Miss World 2013 at a pageant held at

Indonesias resort island of Bali amid tight security due to threats of attack from

Muslim conservatives.

Ponds Femina Miss India World 2013 Navneet Kaur Dhillon won the Multimedia

Award at the Miss World 2013 held in Bali, Indonesia.

The selection panel appointed Film Federation of India (FFI) has chosen

filmmaker Gyan Correas Gujarati film The Good Road as Indias entry for the

best foreign film category at the Academy Awards 2013.

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