Current Affairs October 2017

1. Current Affairs
October 1
Anirudh Reddy

2. India

3. border crossing
points with
Myanmar,
Bangladesh
 immigration check
posts
 Mizoram
 Bangladesh -
Kawrpuichhuah land
check post
 Myanmar - Zorinpui
land check post

4.  Chicken neck/ Siliguri
corridor
 Kaladan multi—modal
project

5. ‘Swachh Iconic Place’ in India
 Madurai’s Meenakshi Temple

6. foundation stone for inland waterway in
AP
 Krishna River between Muktyala and Vijayawada - National Waterway-4
 transportation of cement and construction material for the new capital city
Amaravati
 111 National Waterways (NWs) in India
 106 added in 2016

8. Flipkart Unveils MarQ
 in-house brand in the large appliances category
 microwave ovens
 televisions, washing machines, air conditioners, and sound bars would be launched

9. panel on corporate governance
 Uday Kotak
 Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)
 submitted its recommendations
 Separate Roles of Chairperson and MD/CEO
 Strengthening Role of Directors
 Women Independent Director
 Audit of Subsidiary companies

10. most valuable nation brand
 India has ranked as 8th
 Brand Finance’s Nation Brands 2017 report
 US/ China/ Germany

11. five more States declared Open Defecation
Free-cites and towns
 Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand and Haryana
 Sikkim – 1st state to be declared ODF
 Himachal Pradesh and Kerala

12. International Day of the Girl Child
 October 11
 Theme of 2017 is “EmPOWER Girls: Before, during and after crises”.
 Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Week from 9th to 14th October, 2017.

13. SANKALP & STRIVE - new skill
development schemes
 Skills Acquisition and Knowledge Awareness for Livelihood Promotion (SANKALP)
 Skill Strengthening for Industrial Value Enhancement (STRIVE)

14. Rajasthan State assembly
 first in India to call attention and adjournment motions and proposals online from
legislators.
 adjournment motion is to draw the attention of Lok Sabha to a recent matter of
urgent public importance- only in Lok Sabha
 Calling attention is a motion introduced by a member to call the attention of a
minister to a matter of urgent public importance – both houses

15. Awards
 National award for senior citizens - Gurbax Singh Sandhu - Indian boxing coach -
was India’s longest-serving men’s national coach, for two decades
 Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration,
Academics and Management for 2017 - Dr.Bindeshwar Pathak:
 Dr.Bindeshwar Pathak is the founder of Sulabh International

16. Indira Gandhi Award for National
Integration
 Singer T M Krishna for 2015-2016
 worked to break down caste-barriers in the society

17. World Students Day – October 15, 2017
 APJ Abdul Kalam’s birthday

18. Miscellaneous
 Rajghat gets Mahatma’s statue for the first time - sculptor Mr. Ram Sutar
 India receives first-ever shipment of US crude oil at Paradip port
 International Day of Non-Violence – October 2
 1st community toilet for third gender inaugurated in Bhopal
 Justice G.Rohini commission to Examine Sub Categorization of OBCs
 Snow Leopard Photographed First Time in Arunachal Pradesh
 first Aadhaar-enabled airport - Bengaluru airport - Kempegowda International
Airport (KIA)

19. World

20. Nobel Prize 2017
Field winners work
Economics Richard Thaler behavioral economics
Physics Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish
and Kip S. Thorne
LIGO,gravitational waves
Literature Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day
Peace International Campaign to
Abolish Nuclear Weapons
(ICAN)
Chemistry cryo-electron microscopy
Medicine circadian rhythm

21.  Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine and Literature are
awarded in Stockholm, Sweden
 Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway
 Norwegian Nobel Committee selects the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize
 The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel,
which was established in 1968

22. Indian Citizen Work
Rabindranath Tagore (1913) Literature
C.V.Raman (1930) Physics ( Raman Effect)
Mother Teresa ( 1979) Peace
Amartya Sen (1998) Economics
Kailash Satyarthi ( 2014) Peace
Indian Origin Work
Har Gobind Khorana Medicine (Protein Synthesis)
Subramanyan Chandrasekhar Physics ( Evolution of stars)
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Chemistry ( Ribosome)

23. Indian Linkages – born in India/ Indian
Ancestry/ residents when received
Laureate Work Link
Ronald Ross (1902) Medicine(Malaria) Born in India
Rudyard Kipling (1907) Literature Born in India
Dalai Lama 14th Peace Resident
V.S.Naipaul Literature Indian Ancestry

24. SS Athenia
 the first British ship to be sunk during the Second World
 sunk by German submarine in 1939
 found on the sea bed off the coast of Ireland

25. BRICS-themed subway train debuts in
China
 Chinese carriage is red and displays icons such as the Great Wall and Tian’anmen
Square
 Russian carriage shows off the country’s ballet and matryoshka dolls
 Brazilian carriage is green and decorated with images of footballs and football stars
 South African carriage displays pictures of diamonds.
 The Indian carriage depicts elephants and yoga.

26. 14th India-EU summit held in New Delhi
 European Union – political and economic union of 28 member states in Europe

27. Global Hunger Index
 describes the state of hunger situation on regional, national and global level
 by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
 India ranked at 100th
 Central African Republic
 20% of Indian children under the age of five have lower weight in relation to their
height and about 33% are too short in relation to their age
 Among Asian countries India’s score is the third worst, only better than Pakistan
and Afghanistan

28. Safe Cities Index 2017
 Economist Intelligence Unit owned by ‘The Economist Group’
 Delhi and Mumbai have ranked 43rd and 45th respectively out of 60.
 Tokyo/Singapore/Osaka
 60th Karachi

29. US and Israel withdraw from UNESCO
 anti-Israel bias
 US had already withheld its funding for UNESCO since 2011, when the body
admitted Palestine as a full member

30. Vanuatu - first nation to accept Bitcoin in
Exchange for citizenship
 citizenship programme of Vanuatu costs USD 200000 - 35 Bitcoins.

31. Technology & science

32. World’s first Blockchain technology based
smartphone
 smartphone ‘BitVault’
 Gurugram-based VVDN Technologies

33. World Space Week – October 4 -10
 October 4th 1957 Sputnik 1 was launched
 October 10th 1967 signing of The Outer Space Treaty

34. Nvidia’s new Pegasus AI computer
 designed to drive autonomous taxis
 create a new class of vehicles that can operate without a driver
 that are fully autonomous vehicles without steering wheels, pedals or mirrors

35. new bacterium from a lime quarry in
Karnataka
 Can be source of antibiotics for several diseases including malaria
 named as Allostreptomyces indica YIM 75704T

36. World’s largest combustion research
centre
 National Centre for Combustion Research and Development (NCCRD) at
 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras

37. Environment

38. world’s first ‘negative emissions’ power
plant
 started operating in Iceland
 eliminates more carbon dioxide (CO2) than it produces
 Climeworks’ patented air filter captures the carbon dioxide (CO2) from ambient air
 heat from geothermal power plant heats up the filter which results in the extraction
of pure CO2
 Extracted CO2 is then bound to water and is sent 700 meters deep into the
ground, where it reacts with basaltic bedrock and forms a permanent solid mineral

39. One Planet Academy
 environment education portal for students and teachers
 By WWF-India, in partnership with Capgemini
 World Wide Fund for Nature
 Headquarters – Gland, Switzerland

40. PEOPLE IN NEWS

41. Anna Politkovskaya Award 2017
 jointly to Gauri Lankesh posthumously, and to a Pakistani activist Gulalai Ismaial
 Awarded by Reach All Women (RAW) in War
 Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian journalist was killed in 2006

42. Chairman of Film and Television Institute
of India (FTII)
 Anupam Kher

43. Audrey Azoulay
 UNESCO’s new Director-General
 Previous Position – Minister of Culture in France

44.  Dr Soumya Swaminathan appointed WHO’s deputy director general
 Rajnish Kumar named as next SBI Chairman
 An Insignificant Man: Documentary on Arvind Kejriwal
 The Coalition Years 1996-2012: Pranab Mukherjee’s political autobiography - The
Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years’, ‘The Turbulent Years: 1980-1996

45. SPORTS

46. Laver Cup 2017
 First time
 Prague, Czech Republic
 Team Europe defeated Team World
 men’s tennis tournament

47. 2017 World Solar Challenge
 the solar car race
 3,000 kms from Northern Australian city of Darwin to southern city of Adelaide
 First edition of World Solar Challenge took place in 1987

48. ‘yo-yo’ endurance test
 BCCI has made it mandatory for cricketers to pass the test
 to make India Cricket team one of the fittest side

49.  Iceland has qualified to participate in FIFA World Cup 2018 - became the smallest
country ever to qualify for the FIFA World Cup - population of about 3,50,000

50. DEFENCE

51. Mitra Shakti 2017
 India-Sri Lanka Joint Army Exercise- Pune

52. ‘ARPAN Version 3.0’ software
 for the Defence Security Corps
 timely processing of postings, promotions, release of salary, publication of
personal occurrences and processing of pension

53.  ‘world’s biggest & most powerful’ nuclear icebreaker Ship - named Sibir (Siberia) -
Russia