INDIAN AFFAIRS
- Microsoft India & NITI Aayogsigned a MOU to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to address challenges in agriculture and healthcare.
- India and Sri Lankasigned 2 Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) for construction of 1200
- India-Azerbaijan signed protocol on trade and economic, science and technology cooperation was held in New Delhi.
- United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)and the World Health Organization (WHO) announced India’s status as a polio-free
- Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, released an Analytical Report of the National Health Profile-2018.
- Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion(DIPP) developed a new online portal for Industrial Entrepreneurs’ Memorandum (IEM) and Industrial Licence (IL).
- Haryanalaunched first-of-its-kind National Autism Intervention Research Centre at Fortis Memorial Research Institute in
- West BengalGovernment announced to give a compensation of 210 crore rupees to farmers who had incurred loss due to hailstorm this year.
- India’s first agri and food business online learning platform was launched at the SR Innovation Exchange (SRiX) Campus, Warangal in Telangana.
- Assam bill on retrenching up to 300 employees sans govt approval gets presidential assent
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
- “The Indian Ocean: Defining our Future” Conferencewas held for 2 days till October 12, 2018 held at Temple Trees, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
- India and Chinalaunched their first joint programme for Afghanistan to train its diplomats.
- World Bankannounced funding of up to $1 billion to the Government of Indonesia for relief and reconstruction efforts in the disaster-affected areas of Lombok and Sulawesi.
- Stanford Universityhas been named the World’s Most Innovative University for the fourth consecutive year in Reuters’ ranking of World’s Most Innovative Universities.
BANKING & FINANCE
- 9-member group headed by Zaware to study issues at IL&FS: ICAI
BUSINESS & ECONOMY
- OYOannounced its partnership with payments platform
AWARDS & RECOGNITION
- Sikkim won the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) Future Policy GoldAwardfor its achievement in becoming the world’s first totally organic agriculture state.
- Novelist Maryse Condéhas been announced as the winner of the New Academy prize in literature.
APPOINTMENTS & RESIGNS
- Suchitra Duraiwas appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Thailand.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
- Scientists have developed what may be the world’s fastest camera: T-CUP
SPORTS
- Japan all set to host 2019 World Relays
- Sandesh Jhinganwas appointed as the captain of Indian football team for the international friendly match against Chinaheld in Suzhou, China
- 18-year-old Prithvi Shawbecame the youngest Indian to score a hundred on Test debut against West Indies in Rajkot, Gujarat.
- Mick Schumacher, son of Formula One legend Michael Schumacher, won the 2018 Formula Three (F3) European titlein Hockenheim, Germany.
BOOKS & AUTHORS
- Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modireleased a book named ‘Lalu-Leela’, at an event in Patna.
IMPORTANT DAYS
- International Day of Rural Women – 15 October