Subject : Monthly wise Current Affairs - October 2014 Current Affairs .
This is Month of October Month’s Current Affairs, General Knowledge, General Awareness For Banks, PSC, SSC, Railways and most stately competative examinations : Download in PDF
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This is Month of October Month’s Current Affairs, General Knowledge, General Awareness For Banks, PSC, SSC, Railways and most stately competative examinations : Download in PDF
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- India’s Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzay Won Nobel Peace Prize 2014.
- Union Cabinet Approves Ahmedabad Metro Rail Project
- Election Commission Announced Dates Of Elections In Jharkhand, Jammu and Kashmir in 5 Phases and Counting on Dec 23.
- India signed the Minamata Convention on Mercury
- Union Minister Harsh Vardhan Announced India’s “TB-Mission 2020”
- AP likely to get World Bank funds to promote Buddhist tourism circuit.
- Gujarat Govt Sets Up Special Purpose Vehicle to Promote Vadodara As State’s Cultural Capital .
- Chennai Among Top 10 Cities In The World To Visit In 2015
- India promises $4 million aid for rebuilding Gaza
- India set to become USD 2 trillion economy this year: IMF
- Union Home Ministry drafted a new counter-Naxal doctrine
- BJP emerged as the largest party in the 2014 Assembly Elections of Maharashtra
- Devendra Fadnavis took oath as the first BJP Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
- BJP won the Assembly Elections of Haryana; secured majority for the first time
- Manohar Lal Khattar takes over as new Haryana CM.
- PM Modi flags off Run for Unity on Sardar Patel's birth anniversary, ‘Rashtriya Ekta Diwas’ To Be Observed On Sardar Patel’s Birth Anniversary.
- 350 national highways to have electronic toll plazas by December
- MP to celebrate 2015 as Tourism Year
- Union Cabinet approved inter-governmental MoU to upgrade Chabahar port of Iran
- Amitabh Bachchan summoned by US court for instigating violence during 1984 riots
- SunEdison signed MoU with Rajasthan Government to set up 5000MW solar projects.
- Black money: I-T probe to be completed by March 2015
- Prez Mukherjee to award best performers among CPSEs on Nov 5
- Five-yr-old Indian is the youngest to reach Everest Base Camp
- Batra elected unopposed as HI president, Ahmed is gen-secy
- Govt orders merger of NSEL with its holding company FTIL.
- India wins UNHRC UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) from 2015-17 re-election; PM expresses joy .
- The activities under ‘e-Mandate’ include collection of mandate, and scanning and uploading of scanned image to NPCI (National Payments Corporation of India).
- New Chief of staff for Southern Naval Command - Rear Admiral Atul Kumar Jain
- Stamp on Sri lankan Buddhist monk Dharmapala released
- Confocal Microscope with 3-D Feature Launched In New Delhi.
- India’s first national policy on mental health launched.
- Jammu & Kashmir Minister Sham Lal Sharma Resigned
- Leela Samson resigned as Sangeet Natak Akademi chairperson
- New Cyclonic storm Named " Hudhud ".
- UN owe India $110 mn for peacekeeping operations
- Gujarat govt to promote Vadodara as state's cultural capital.
- PM announces interim assistance of Rs 1000 crore for AP.
- PM announces Rs.745 crore for Kashmir's damaged homes, hospitals
- Finance Ministry allocates Rs 520 crore to NABARD.
- Railways' Revenue earnings up by over 12 per cent.
- Bandhan Bank appoints FIS Intl to develop core banking tool.
- Union MNRE signed MoU for setting up first-ever Offshore Wind Power Project in India.
- German Ambassador lauds PM; extends support to Ganga mission .
- India, Finland to ink pacts in energy, education & other areas
- SEBI bars DLF, chairman KP Singh, 5 others from markets for 3 yearsPrime Minister launches Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana
- India likely to have 600 million broadband users by 2020: Ericsson.
- ISRO's PSLV-C26 to be launched on Oct 16.
- Govt plans to raise near $800 million through ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) by March
- Finance Minister may amend RBI Act for appointing 5th Deputy Gov, COO
- Cognizant acquires digital marketing firm Cadient.
- Nokia to shut down its Chennai factory from Nov. 1
- Half of tatkal tickets on 80 trains to be costlier, as Premium Tatkal Tickets in Railways.
- Government Allows E-rickshaws (special purpose battery operated vehicle) To Ply On Roads.
- Union Commerce Ministry cancelled approvals of nine SEZs Mahatma Gandhi's book “My Experiments with Truth” now in Kashmiri, Punjabi.
- India Successfully Test-Fires Nuclear Capable Cruise Missile Nirbhay. ( N-capable sub-sonic long-range cruise missile ‘Nirbhay,’ capable of striking targets more than 700 kms away, from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur in Balasore district of Odisha ).
- SC grants bail to Jayalalithaa on medical grounds .
- RBI inks MoU with Kenya's central bank for info exchange.
- Cap of 3 free ATM transactions may apply in cities near metros
- Sachin Tendulkar Adopts PutamRajuKandrika Village in Gudur (Mandal) , Nellore(District), Andhra Pradesh.
- Abhishek Bachchan, Sunidhi to promote Swachh Bharat in Maharashtra.
- Jairam Ramesh designated as the head of Future Earth Engagement Committee
- ISRO Successfully Launched India’s Third Navigation Satellite IRNSS-1B, (PSLV-C26) rocket from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh on 16 October 2014
- IndiGo - India’s largest domestic airline by market share, has signed an agreement to buy 250 Airbus aircraft ahead of its plans to launch an initial public offering (IPO) next year.
- India Ready to Launch IRNSS 1C on board Indian Space Research Organisation’s (Isro) PSLV C26 rocket from the spaceport here at 1.32 am on Thursday.
- Rajasthan becomes first state to start olive refinery
- India Expo 2014 begins in Dubai
- Full mobile number portability by March 31 : TRAI .
- The Vice President of India M Hamid Ansari on 14 October 2014 released a book entitled Untold Story of the Indian Public Sector authored by Dr UD Choubey, the Director General of SCOPE (Standing Conference of Public Enterprises).
- Union Government has launched ‘Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana’ (VKY) for welfare of Tribals.
- Union Government Launched ‘Pashmina Promotion Programme P3’.
- Union Government Launched Website for ‘Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana’.
- Election Commission Launched Video Game Titled ‘Get Set Vote’.
- PM Launched ‘Deendayal Upadhyay Shramev Jayate Karyakram’.
- PM Launches to connect people over radio with Program, ‘Mann Ki Baat’.
- PM launches ‘Pt Deendayal Upadhyay Shramev Jayate programme’ to ensure labour reforms.
- PM Launches ‘Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana’.
- PM Launches and dedicated ‘Shram Suvidha’ portal to create a conducive environment.
- Union Minister Jitendra Singh Launched ‘Jammu Kashmir Arogya Gram Yojana’.
- Union Ministry of S&T Launched A Joint Indo-Canadian Science Programme.
- SEBI bars DLF, chairman KP Singh, 5 others from markets for 3 years Prime Minister launches Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana
- Rajasthan Govt Launched ‘Janani Shishu Suraksha Yojana (JSSY)’ to get free treatment to infants till age one.
- Services sector FDI dips 9% to $1.08 bn in April-Aug
- Core Sector grows 5.8 % in August
- World Bank estimates 5.6% growth for current fiscal
- Industrial production growth slows to 5-month low of 0.4% in August.
- India to grow 5.6% this year, 6.4 % in 2015: IMF
- Indian economy to grow at 5.5 percent in current fiscal, estimates ESCAP (Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific).
- Indian economy to grow 6.4% in 2015-16: World Bank
- Retail inflation slips to 6.46 % in this year
- JP Morgan cut India 2014-15 growth forecast to 5.1 percent from 5.3 percent
- Patrick Modiano Won 2014 Nobel Prize In Literature "For the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation".
- Two Americans, One German Win Chemistry Nobel Americans Eric Betzig and William Moerner and German scientist Stefan Hell have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for "the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy."
- Frenchman Tirole wins Nobel economics prize
- Nobel Prize in physics was given for Invention of blue LEDs . This Award was Given for 3 Professors Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura.
- Nobel prize For Medicine For Discovering "INNER GPS" that Helps the Brain Navigate.
- British-American researcher John O'Keefe, Norwegian couple, Edvard Moser and May-Britt Moser share the award.
- Powerful typhoon Vongfong struck Japan
- Sweden became the first European Union country to recognize the State of Palestine
- Amazon and Future Groups signed deal to jointly sell goods online.
- World Bank Group Launched New Global Infrastructure Facility.
- Georgetown University appoints Pratima Dharm as first Hindu priest.
- China test fires 10,000-km range nuclear missile Dongfeng-31B.
- ‘Deeper Integration For Peace and Prosperity’ Is 18th SAARC Summit Theme.
- UK and Ireland inked single visa deal
- British aid worker Alan Henning beheaded by ISIS militants.
- New York Times issued Apology for Racist Cartoon on India's Mars Mission
- Australian fighter jets to join military action against Islamic States militants in Iraq
- Former News of the World editor Ian Edmondson admits to phone hacking.
- Google social network site–Orkut closed
- Japan's "bullet train" turns 50.
- Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand, Spain and Venezuela elected as non-permanent members of UNSC.
- Pak accounts for 80 % of polio cases globally: WHO.
- Afghanistan signed Bilateral Security Agreement with the US
- Microsoft unveils Windows 10 Operating System.
- Harbin Ice Festival celebrated in Hong Kong.
- Mark Zuckerberg donates $25 mn to US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention for the fight against the Ebola virus disease.
- Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Chief Motiur Rahman Nizami sentenced to death for war crimes
- South African Tourism Launched Gandhi-Inspired Tourist Attraction Project
- Egypt Signed Contracts with Six International Firms To Dredge New Suez Canal
- International Edition of “Encyclopaedia of Hinduism” Released.
- Canberra Ranked ‘Best Place to live’ By OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development).
- Japan Launches Next-generation Weather Satellite Himawari-8 .
- China Launched Experimental Spacecraft Chang'e-5 to Fly Around Moon
- WHO declares Nigeria free of Ebola.
- Venezuela, Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand and Spain were elected as non-permanent members of United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
- Alan Eustace Broke the World Altitude Record For Highest Free-Fall Parachute Jump
- Britain to host today first regional Pravasi Bharatiya Divas
- Hurricane Gonzalo struck Bermuda.
- 10th World Islamic Economic Forum gets underway in Dubai
- Switzerland top destination for expats
- Maggie Smith receives royal honour from Queen Elizabeth.
- Asian Games INDIA Medals Tally 57 Medals : 11 Gold, 10 Sliver, 36 Bronze Medals.
- Chennai Super Kings Won Over Kolkatta Knight Riders in Champions League 2014.
- GGSS School of Hisar won the U-17 Girls title of 55th Subroto Cup Football tournament
- India to host first leg of Asia Cup Archery Tournament in Delhi in January 2015
- MS Dhoni becomes ISL team Chennaiyin FC co-owner.
- Novak Djokovic beats Tomas Berdych to win fifth China Open
- Sharapova beat Kvitova to claim China Open titles
- 18-time Olympic swim champion from USA Phelps banned for six months, no 2015 Olympics.
- Oliver Wilson win first European golf title
- World Junior Chess Championship begins in Pune.
- Serena Williams wins WTA Finals title
- Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri won Venetian Macau Golf Open
- South Africa tops ICC ODI rankings; India slips to 3rd position
- Australia Occupies No.1 Place in ICC ODI Ranking, India slips to 6th position
- Roger Federer wins Shanghai Masters, He defeated Frenchman Gilles Simon.
- Sania-Cara pair clinches WTA Finals doubles title
- Ajay Jayaram won Dutch Open Grand Prix badminton tournament
- Mary Kom voted as India's Most Valuable Player in Asian Games 2014.
- Pankaj Advani won IBSF World Billiards Championship - 12th Title.
- Ajay Jayaram Won Dutch Open Grand Prix 2014.
- Sahil Doshi won 2014 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge
- Dhoni buys Ranchi franchise of Hockey India League.
- Lewis Hamilton Won Russian F1 Grand Prix.
- Lewis Hamilton Won Japanese F1 Grand Prix
- Marin Cilic Won Kremlin Cup.
- Bhaichung Bhutia Inducted To AFC’s (Asian Footaball Confederation’s)Hall of Fame
- ICC awarded global broadcast rights from 2015 to 2023 to Star India and Star Middle East.
- India juniors retain Sultan of Johor Cup title britain 2-0.
- Walsh stays as India coach with a fresh contract.
- Blade Runner Oscar Pistorius sentenced to five-year jail term for killing girlfriend.
- BCCI suspends bilateral tours with WI.
- AIBA suspends boxer Sarita Devi for protesting at Asiad.
- Major Drug Firm CIPLA ready to set up a unit in Iran.
- Japanese telecom giant SoftBank to invest $627 million in Snapdeal.
- WhatsApp founders own nearly $9b in Facebook stock.
- Emaar MGF Land Limited tied up with PayU India for its online payment service.
- Cipla Medpro signed collaboration pact with Teva for selling drugs in South Africa
- Obama, Modi establish Contact Group to expedite Indo-US nuke deal implementation
- India Myanmar Service (IMS) Container service was launched by Shipping Corporation of India Limited (SCI).
- India, US agree to cooperate on future explorations of Mars
- US to help India develop three smart cities.
- India, Finland to ink pacts in energy, education & other areas
- India, Nepal sign power trade agreement
- IRCON - Indian Public Sector Company restored rail network in Jaffna, Srilanka.
- Vietnamese PM arrives in Gaya on two-day visit to India
- EU doubles assistance to combat Ebola to 1 bn euros
- Indian-Origin Singaporean Poet K.T.M Iqbal awarded 'Cultural Medallion' , Which was Singapore Highest Award in Cultural. President Tony Tan Keng Yam Presented.
- India offers USD 300mn credit line to Vietnam for trade
- Indo-American Vanita Gupta to Head the Civil Rights Division of US Justice Department.
- India and UK signed MoU on Cultural Cooperation.
- India-Norway signed 13 agreements to promote bilateral relations.
- India, Vietnam decide to step up security, defence ties
- Raghuram Rajan conferred Euromoney's Central Bank Governor of Year Award
- Anoop Jain wins prestigious global citizen award.
- Ashwika Kapur won 2014 Panda Award for her film on a Kakapo parrot.
- J&K Police Inspector 'Shakti Devi' was Awarded the United Nations International Female Police Peace Keeper Award- 2014.
- Tamil Poet Iqbal Named For Singapore’s Highest Cultural Award
- Lyricist Sameer honoured with Kishore Kumar Award for 2012-13.
- Ashwika Kapur Won 2014 Panda Award
- Pune-educated Stanford Professor Won US National Medal of Science
- Indian-American student Sahil Doshi, wins innovation award.
- Indian-born scientist Sanjaya Rajaram received World Food Prize 2014.
- Australian author Richard Flanagan won 2014 Man Booker Prize.
- Malala won 2014 World’s Children prize
- Malala Yousafzai conferred 2014 Liberty Medal.
- Leah Kalanguka crowned as Miss Uganda 2014.
- Denis Mukwege Won EU Sakharov Human Rights Prize 2014
- UK announced first ever Dadabhai Naoroji Awards.
- Bette Dam written "A Man and a Motorcycle, How Hamid Karzai Came to Power".
- “Syntheism: Creating God in The Internet Age” Book Released
- ‘Untold Story of Indian Public Sector’ Book authored by Dr UD Choubey, the Director General of SCOPE (Standing Conference of Public Enterprises) Released
- Final Test: Exit Sachin Tendulkar authored by Dilip D’Souza released
- Karur Vysya Bank gets IDRBT award.
- Exim Bank extends $7.76 mn line of credit to Cuban Bank.
- Nabard sets up Rs 2,000 crore fund for mega food parks
- Kotak Mahindra Bank launched Facebook-based funds transfer platform KayPay
- Bank of India to open branch in Vietnam
- Japan’s SoftBank To Invest USD 10 billion In India
- World Bank Group Launched New Global Infrastructure Facility
- Corporation Bank launches ‘e-Mandate’ service e-Mandate' activities.
- SBI launches mPassBook facility on its smartphone application
- China launches AIIB Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB ) to rival World Bank.
- Joko Widodo is the new Indonesian President .
- Dilma Rousseff elected as Brazilian President .
- Khaled Bahah new Prime Minister of Yemen.
- Mayank Ashar appointed as MD and CEO of Cairn India
- Anita M Singh appointed as Chief of Staff of NSD in US Justice Department
- Surya Prakash appointed as Chairman of Prasar Bharti Board
- ING Vysya Bank CEO Shailendra Bhandari resigned
- Gautam Roy was New MD For Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd.(CPCL).
- Rajiv – appointed New Central Vigilance Commissioner (CVC).
- Abhinav Bindra Elected Chairman of ISSF (International Shooting Sport Federation’s) Athletes Committee.
- Aamir Khan Appointed As UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
- Kalpana Morparia Appointed As First Woman Director Of HUL (Hindustan Unilever Limited).
- Rahul Keshav Patwardhan Appointed As New CEO of NIIT Limited
- Justice GS Singhvi Appointed As Chairman of COMPAT (Chairman of the Competition Appellate Tribunal).
- Murali Lanka Is Wal-Mart India’s New CEO
- Sandeep Saxena Appointed As Tamil Nadu Chief Electoral Officer
- Mayank Ashar Is new MD & CEO of Cairn India
- Pratima Dharm Appointed As The First Hindu Priest At Georgetown University
- Japan Trade Minister Yuko Obuchi Resigned
- P S N Rao Appointed As Chairman Of Delhi Urban Art Commission
- Rajiv Mehrishi Appointed As New Finance Secretary
- Arvind Subramanian appointed new Chief Economic Advisor
- Maharashtra BJP legislator Govind M Rathod died.
- Telugu writer Turaga Janaki Rani died.
- Noted German Author Siegfried Lenz Died
- SS Rajendran, veteran Tamil actor, passes away
- South African footballer Senzo Meyiwa died
- American actress Elizabeth Pena passed away
- Veteran journalist M V Kamath passes away (He was awarded Padma Bhushan for his contributions to Indian journalism in 2004).
- Veteran Tamil Actor SS Rajendran Died
- Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Galway Kinnell Died
- British actress and presenter Lynda Bellingham died
- Fashion designer Oscar de la Renta died
- Zambian President Michael Sata dies in London
- Noted freedom fighter Jagdish Sharan Pande died
- Former Union Carbide chief Warren Anderson, wanted in Bhopal gas tragedy, dies.
- Union Government constituted Vishwanathan committee to provide Bankruptcy code for SMEs
- Govt appoints committee to assess compensation for coal blocks - CVC Pratyush Sinha .
- India slips 13 spots to 114 in World Economic Forum gender gap index
- Global Hunger Index Report 2014 released: India Ranked at 55th Position
- India world’s 4th largest steel maker at 62.41 MT in Jan-Sept (China, Japan and the US.) .
- India ranked 15 on political empowerment sub index
- India ranks 18th on list of most desirable places to work : Boston Consulting Group.
- India ranks 142 in latest "Ease of Doing Business" report: World Bank
- India has 2nd largest proportion of highly paid expatriates
- 4th October - World Animal Day Observed Across The World.
- 5th October - World Teachers’ Day 2014 Observed Across The World.
- 06th October - World Habitat Day Observed Across The World on 6th Oct.
- 07th October - Rapid Action Force Celebrates 22nd Anniversary on 7th Oct.
- 08th October - Indian Air Force Celebrates Air Force Day on 8th Oct.
- 09th October - World Post Day Observed Across The World on 9th Oct.
- 10th October - World Mental Health Day Observed Across The World on 10 October 2014.
- 11th October - Third International Day of the Girl Child observed across the world
- 15th October - Global Handwashing Day observed across the world.
- 17th October - ‘International Day For The Eradication Of Poverty’ . (The theme for the day was Leave no one behind: think, decide and act together against extreme poverty).
- 21st October - Global Iodine Deficiency Disorders Prevention Day on 21st Oct 2014
- 22nd October - International Stammering Awareness Day Observed Across The World.
- 27th October - 68th Infantry Day.
- 27th October - World Day For Audiovisual Heritage was Observed Across The World, with the theme Archives at Risk: Much more to do
- 29th October - International Internet Day Observed Globally On 29 October
- 31st October - First Rashtriya Ekta Diwas.
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