1. European Investment
Bank (EIB) has signed a Finance agreement with Indian Government for lending of
€300 million for Bangalore Metro Rail Project Phase II Line R6. The
objective of project is to bring in quantum improvement in transportation
sector in city in tandem with Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation
(BMTC) and other modes of urban transport. It aims to ensure modern transport
facility for the commuters.
2. President of India Ram Nath Kovind and
his Ethiopian counterpart Mulatu Teshome have signed
agreements on trade, communication and media to boost bilateral ties
at Addis Ababa in Ethiopia.
3. Banwarilal Purohit was sworn in
as 25th Governor of Tamil Nadu on 6th Oct
2017.
4. 2017 Nobel Prize in
literature - Kazuo Ishiguro (62) was selected by the Swedish Academy . He is
Japanese-born English novelist. The award was given for his works that are of
great emotional force which uncovers the abyss beneath our illusory sense of
connection with the world. He had received four Man Booker Prize nominations and won it in
1989 for his novel ‘The Remains of the Day’. His latest book, The Buried Giant,
was published in 2015.
5. Scientists for
first time have captured images of Snow Leopard at Thembang
village’s Community Conserved Area (CCA) in West Kameng district of Arunachal
Pradesh using camera trap. The camera trap study was
conducted by World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF-India) in collaboration with
Arunachal Pradesh Environment and Forest Department to focus on unexplored snow
leopard habitats.
6. 2017 Nobel
Peace Prize- Norwegian Nobel Committee has selected
Geneva-based International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) for
its decade-long campaign to get rid the world of atomic bomb and for its work
to draw attention to catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of
nuclear weapons and its ground-breaking efforts to achieve treaty-based
prohibition of such weapons.
7. 21-member Committee
on corporate governance headed by banker Uday Kotak was constituted by SEBI in
June 2017 has submitted its report to the Securities and Exchange Board of
India (SEBI). It has recommended major overhaul of corporate governance
norms for listed firms. The recommendations are Separation of the roles,
Minimum board strength, Independent Directors, Shareholder meeting and cash
flow statement, Credit ratings, Minimum remuneration, Risk management and IT
committee:
8. The Central Board
of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has signed two more advance pricing agreements (APAs) in
September 2017 with Indian taxpayers in order to reduce litigation by
providing certainty in transfer pricing.
9. ‘Cbas Zika test’ has approved by
United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for detecting Zika
virus in donated blood. It is first of kind test approved by FDA for
detecting Zika virus in donated blood.
10. The First Meeting
of India-Australia Joint Steering Committee (JSC) was
held in New Delhi. During JSC meeting both countries discussed
scope for cooperation in counter-terrorism and checking extremism and
radicalization besides steps to checking extremism and radicalization besides
steps to check illegal financial transactions and counterfeiting and
cybercrimes.
11. Scientists from US
have developed a smart bandage which is the first bandage that is capable of
dose-dependent drug release and can be used to heal chronic wounds or
battlefield injuries.
12. A study group was
formed by the Union Home Ministry headed by Rina Mitra, Special Secretary
in Home Ministry to examine various problems faced by people residing near
International Border (IB) and Line of Control (LOC) in Jammu and Kashmir in
wake of regular ceasefire violations by Pakistan.
13. PM Modi has inaugurated
Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA) at Gandhinagar,
Gujarat. PMGDISHA aims at imparting digital literacy to citizens in rural
areas free of cost by March 2019, making it one of the largest digital literacy
programmes in the world.
14. Visiting Advanced
Joint Research (VAJRA) Faculty Scheme under the Union Ministry of Science and Technology
has received 260 applications from foreign scientists of whom
70 will be shortlisted. The scheme is meant to attract top international talent
to country’s research and development (R&D) ecosystem. The applicants will
be screened now and the shortlisted scientists will begin work by December
2017.
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