RRB English Current Affairs 31st October 2018

INDIAN AFFAIRS

1. Union Minister Smt Harsimrat Kaur Badal inaugurated Gujarat’s first Mega Food Park in Surat
2. Train 18: India’s first engineless train set for trials
3. Defence Research and Development Organization,DRDO organized a day-long conference on Innovation in Cyberspace, Cyber Security – Challenges and Innovations,held in DRDO Bhawan,NewDelhi.
4. 3-day India Mobile Congress held at Aerocity, New Delhi. Theme for this year was: “ New Digital Horizons. Connect. Create. Innovate.” .
5. India’s first container movement on inland waterways to move 16 PEPSICO containers from Kolkata to Varanasi
6. Chief Minister Vijay Rupanilaunched the “Ro-Pax” (roll on/off-passenger) ferry service connecting Ghogha in Saurashtra and Dahej in south Gujarat.
7. Punjaband central government joined hands to stop stubble burning and took up responsibilities educate farmers against it through various departments.

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

8. World’s largest airport ‘under one roof’ opened in Istanbul, Turkey

BANKING & FINANCE

9. SBI, Hitachi Payments formed joint venture for digital payment platform

BUSINESS & ECONOMY

10. India topped as Asia’s most investment savvy economy: Standard Chartered
11. Whatsapppartnered with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) to train small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and entrepreneurs on using the messaging platform.

APPOINTMENTS & RESIGNS

12. Michael D Higginswas re-elected as Irish president for the 2^nd term.

ACQUISITIONS & MERGERS

13. IBM acquired software company Red Hat for $34 billion

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

14. Rocket carrying 1st UAE-made satellite launched from Japan
15. First Franco-Chinese satellitewas launched into orbit to study ocean surface winds and waves, aboard a Long March 2C carrier rocket, from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in Gobi Desert, China.
16. Researchers from the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa have developed the world’s first bio-brick grown from human urine.

SPORTS

17. Roger Federerwon his 99th career ATP Tour title in the Swiss Indoors final in Basel, Switzerland.
18. Asian Hockey Champions Trophy (Men’s Hockey): India & Pakistan declared joint winners,Akashdeep Singh best player of the tournament
19. 2018 (ITTF) International Table Tennis Federation Challenge Belgium Open, was held in De Haan, Belgium.
20. Kenyan distance runner Abraham Kiptumwon the men’s race at the Valencia Half Marathon in Spain with a new world best time of 58 mins 18 sec for the half-marathon.
21. Spanish rider Maverick Viñaleswon the Australian MotoGP in Australia.

OBITUARY

22. Urdu writer Qazi Abdussattar passes away