Dear Readers, Daily Current Affairs Hindi News Updates about the National and International events were listed here. Read Current Affairs Today here and stay updated with current news. Candidates those who are preparing for IBPS/SBI/PO/Clerk exam and all other competitive exams can use this and try the Current Affairs Quiz to test your knowledge level.
CURRENT AFFAIRS: DAYS
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
- The month of October is observed as the Breast Cancer Awareness Month every year. The annual campaign aims to raise awareness of the disease.
- It also helps to increase attention and support for awareness, early detection, and treatment as well as palliative care of this disease.
- World Health Organization (WHO) aims to promote breast cancer control programmes as part of national cancer control plans.
International Day of the Girl Child
- International Day of the Girl Child is celebrated annually on 11 October to highlight and draw attention towards the challenges that girls’ face.
- It is also necessary to focus on their human rights and empowerment.
| USEFUL INFO |
| Theme 2019 | “GirlForce: Unscripted and Unstoppable” |
CURRENT AFFAIRS: NATIONAL
HRD Minister inaugurates Pradhan Mantri innovative learning programme ‘DHRUV’ in Bengaluru
- Union Minister for Human Resources Development Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank launched ambitious DHRUVprogramme in the headquarter of Indian Space Research Organization in Bengaluru.
- DHRUV is a unique programme to identify talented students and mentor them in the centre of excellence for 14 days so that they can reach their full potential and work for the society.
- The students chosen under the programme will take part in workshop seminar and interact with experts on the issue of National concern like climate change agricultural production and technology.
CURRENT AFFAIRS: STATE
Goa Replaces Traditional “Dial 100” Service With “Dial 112”
- The Goa government launched ”112” as the new integrated emergency number for police, fire and medical emergencies replacing the traditional dial number ”100”.
- In the first phase, the dial ”112” service will cover only police department.
- Fire and medical services would be brought under the new dial number in the second phase. The service has been launched with the help of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs
CURRENT AFFAIRS: BANKING AND FINANCE
India Ratings lowers its FY20 GDP growth forecast to 6.1%
- India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) on Thursday revised its forecast of India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth in current financial year downward to 6.1 per cent following the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) estimating Q1 growth to be 5 per cent, much lower than Ind-Ra’s estimate of 5.7 per cent.
- This is Ind-Ra’s second downward revision. The agency revised its GDP growth estimate to 6.7 per cent from its earlier forecast of 7.3 per cent.
Moody’s cuts India’s GDP growth forecast to 5.8% for FY20
- Moody’s Investors Service lowered its 2019-20 growth forecast for India to 5.8% from 6.2% earlier, saying the economy was experiencing a pronounced slowdown partly due to long-lasting factors.
- For 2020-21, the growth is expected to pick up to 6.6 percent.
Kerala Bank Set To Be Formed As RBI Approves Merger Of State Cooperative Banks
- The Reserve Bank of India has approved merger of Kerala’s district cooperative banks with Kerala State Co-operative Bank, paving the way for the state government to set up its own bank.
- Thirteen district cooperative banks would be merged with Kerala State Cooperative Bank for forming the so-called Kerala Bank.
RBI rejects proposed merger of Lakshmi Vilas Bank with Indiabulls Housing Finance
- Lakshmi Vilas Bank Ltd the central bank has not approved its merger with Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd.
- In September, RBI had placed Lakshmi Vilas Bank under Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) due to high level of bad loans, lack of sufficient capital to manage risks and negative return on assets for two consecutive years.
CURRENT AFFAIRS: AWARDS AND HONOURS
Poland’s Olga Tokarczuk, Austria’s Peter Handke win Literature Nobels for 2018 and 2019
- Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk and Austrian author Peter Handke, two writers whose works are deeply intertwined in Europe’s religious, ethnic and social fault lines, won the 2018 and 2019 Nobel Prizes for literature.
- Peter Handke has been awarded “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience.”
- Olga Tokarczuk won the award “for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.”
CURRENT AFFAIRS: BOOKS AND AUTHOURS
Carpenters and Kings: Western Christianity and the Idea of India by Siddhartha Sarma
- Author Siddhartha Sarma Penned Book ‘Carpenters and Kings: Western Christianity and the Idea of India’.
- Carpenters and Kings is a tale of Christianity, and, equally, a glimpse of the India which has always existed: a multicultural land where every faith has found a home through the centuries.
CURRENT AFFAIRS: MOU
EESL, NIIF form joint venture to deploy smart meters across India
- Energy Efficiency Services (EESL) and National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) have entered into a joint venture for the deployment of smart meters across India.
- The new joint venture, named IntelliSmart Infrastructure will implement, finance and operate the smart meter roll-out programme of power distribution companies.
- This venture will support the ambitions of ongoing government programmes, such as UDAY and National Smart Grid Mission.
- The Central government plans to install 250 million smart meters in the next few years.
- EESL has been spearheading the smart meter deployment in India with the installation of over 625,000 smart meters. This partnership of NIIF and EESL will give a fillip to the smart meter ambition of the Government of India.
- IntelliSmart will support the efforts of the Indian power sector as it strives towards delivering dependable 24/7 service to end-consumers.
CURRENT AFFAIRS: SPORTS
Sprinter Nirmala Sheoran banned for 4 years, stripped of Asian titles
- Indian sprinter Nirmala Sheroen has been stripped off her two Asian Championships gold medals and banned for four years by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), which manages track and field doping cases.
- The AIU came out with the order to ban Nirmala for testing positive for the steroids drostanolone and metenolone at a competition back home in June 2018.
- The period of her ban will start from June 28, 2018. Her results from August 2016 to November 2018 were also disqualified.
- Nirmala had won gold medals in the 400m and 4x400m relay at the 2017 Asian Championships in India.
- She also ran in both the events at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.