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Meghalaya Govt & Israel agreed to set up ‘Centre of Excellence’

October 9, 2020
India and Israel
  • Meghalaya government has entered into a partnership with Israel with an aim to establish a one of a kind Centre of Excellence(CoE) on high-value vegetables in the state that will improve and promote the livelihoods of farmers.

Amazon India partnered with IRCTC to start online train ticket bookings

October 9, 2020
amazon and railways
  • Amazon India has partnered with ‘Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation’ (IRCTC), to provide its customers with the facility to book reserved train tickets on Amazon.

Nobel Prize in Literature, 2020

October 9, 2020
Nobel Prize in Literature
  • The first female poet to win the Nobel Prize in Literature since Wislawa Szymborska in 1996 is Louise Gluck for her poetry. Other women who have received the prize in the literature category were all writers and not poets.

Other winners of 2020 Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 2020 was awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A Doudna for “Development of a method for Genome Editing”.
  • The Nobel Prize, 2020 for Physics has been awarded to Andrea M Ghez, Roger Penrose and Reinhard Genzel for their research on black holes. They discovered the existence of a supergiant black hole in the centre of Milky Way.
  • The Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology has been jointly awarded to Harvey J Alter, Charles M Rice and Michael Houhgton. The prize was awarded for the discovery of Hepatitis C.

2020 Nobel Prize in Peace announced

October 9, 2020
Nobel Prize 2020
  • The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020 to the World Food Programme (WFP) which is the world’s largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger and promoting food security.

Poet Nityananda Nayak to receive Sarala Puraskar

October 9, 2020
Sarala Puraskar
  • Nityanand Nayak will be conferred the prestigious Sarala Puraskar for his poetry work ‘Setebelaku Nathiba’ which was published in 2017. The poet will be felicitated with a cash award of `5 lakh and a citation.
  • For the contribution to fields of music and art, Ranjit Kumar Nag and Shyamsundar Pattanaik will be felicitated.

AMFI re-elected Nilesh Shah as its Chairman

October 9, 2020
Nilesh Shah
  • Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI) has re-elected Nilesh Shah as its Chairman. He was earlier elected as the Chairman for 2019 – 2020.

Bishr al-Khasawneh appointed as the new PM of Jordan

October 9, 2020
Bishr al-Khasawneh
  • Bishr al-Khasawneh has been appointed as the new Prime Minister of Jordan. His appointment was approved by the King of Jordan, Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein.

India’s First Anti-Radiation Missile named Rudram 1 successfully tested

October 9, 2020
Rudram 1
  • India’s First Anti-Radiation Missile named Rudram 1 successfully tested. This Missile is Developed by DRDO and it is a new generation anti-radiation missile.

A well-known scientist & a Nobel Prize winner Mario Molina passes away

October 9, 2020
Mario Molina
  • A well-known scientist & a Nobel Prize winner Mario Molina passed away recently.
  • He shared the 1995 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Frank Sherwood Rowland of the United States (US) and Paul Crutzen of the Netherlands for their 1970 research on the damage to the Ozone layer.

Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan passes away

October 9, 2020
Ram Vilas Paswan
  • Union minister of consumer affairs, food and public distribution, Ram Vilas Paswan passed away. He was born on 5 July 1946.

10th October is observed as National Postal Day

October 10, 2020
National Postal Day
  • 10 October, as an extension of World Post Day, which is celebrated on 9 October. The Day aims to commemorate the role played by the Indian postal department for the past 150 years.

Piyush Goyal has been assigned the additional charge of Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

October 10, 2020
Piyush Goyal
  • The Union Minister Piyush Goyal has been assigned the additional charge of Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution in addition to his existing portfolios, following the death of union minister Ram Vilas Paswan.

Mukhya Mantri Saur Swarojgar Yojana launched by the Uttarakhand govt.

October 10, 2020
Mukhya Mantri Saur Swarojgar Yojana
  • Mukhyamantri Saur Swarojgar Yojana launched in Dehradun by the Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat with an aim to promote self-employment of the youth and also promote production of green energy.

Jagananna Vidya Kanuka Scheme launched by Andhra Pradesh Govt

October 10, 2020
Jagananna Vidya Kanuka Scheme
  • Jagan Anna Vidya kanuka scheme under which the state government will provide school kits to 43.32 to lakh government school students has been launched by the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.

Goa became the first state in India to provide 100% tap water connections

October 10, 2020
Tap
  • The Ministry of Jal Shakti announced that Goa has become the first state in India to provide 100% tap water connections in rural areas.

To extend credit support, NABARD & SBI signs 3 MoU

October 10, 2020
NABARD
  • To extend credit support for various NABARD projects, it has inked three Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with State Bank of India (SBI).

UP government sign agreement with Zurich Airport for Jewar Airport

October 10, 2020
Airplane
  • For designing, building and operating Noida International Airport at Jewar for a period of 40 years, the Uttar Pradesh government has signed a concession agreement with representatives of Zurich Airport International.

Mukesh Ambani tops the Forbes India Rich List 2020

October 10, 2020
Mukesh Ambani
  • The Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) Chairman Mukesh Ambani, has topped the Forbes India Rich list for 2020.
  • Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani, with a net worth of $25.2 billion got the 2nd position. Tech tycoon Shiv Nadar acquired the third spot with a net worth of $20.4 billion.

6 months extension given to CMD of J&K Bank, R.K. Chhibber

October 10, 2020
R.K. Chhibber
  • Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has extended the term of Rajesh Kumar (R.K.) Chhibber as Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Jammu & Kashmir Bank for another 6 months, effective from October 10, 2020.

First woman chief justice of Kerala KK Usha passes away

October 10, 2020
KK Usha
  • Former Chief Justice of the Kerala High Court, Justice KK Usha, passed away. She served as a judge from 1991 to 2000.
  • Justice Usha became the first woman to join the High Court Judiciary from the Bar and became a Chief Justice.

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