Indian Air Force Day observed on 08 October
October 8, 2020
- Indian Air Force Day is celebrated on 8th of October every year and this year of 2020 celebrates the 88th anniversary of Indian Air Force.
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Centre launched API integration between PM SVANidhi and SBI portal
October 8, 2020
- The Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs has launched an API integration between PM SVANidhi and SBI portal. This will facilitate the seamless flow of data between the PM SVANidhi Portal and SBI’s mudra Portal in a secure environment.
‘Startup India Showcase’ an online start-up platform launched by GOI
October 8, 2020
- ‘Startup India Showcase’ an online start-up platform launched by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT). The website will be handpicked by experts and will go through multiple screening and evaluation rounds and the listed firms will also be considered by the government and corporate buyers as potential suppliers of goods or services.
First ever Brand & Logo for Indian Cotton launched
October 8, 2020
- First ever Brand & Logo for Indian Cotton has been launched by the Union Minister of Textiles, Smriti Irani on the occasion of 2nd World Cotton Day through video conferencing.
- The brand name ‘Kasturi Cotton’ represents India cotton in the world cotton trade.
Jan Andolan campaign launched by PM Narendra Modi
October 8, 2020
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Jan Andolan which is a campaign for covid-19 appropriate behaviour with an aim to make people aware to maintain social distancing and wearing masks all the time while going outside.
Russia: Tsirkon hypersonic missile successfully test-fires
October 8, 2020
- Russia successfully test-fired a Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile in the Arctic. The missile covered a distance of 450 km with the maximum altitude of its trajectory at 28 km.
Axis Bank launched co-branded forex card in collaboration with Vistara
October 8, 2020
- Axis Bank launched a co-branded forex card named ‘Axis Bank Club Vistara Forex Card’ that will enable customers to travel to international destinations in a cashless and hassle-free manner in collaboration with Vistara.
India signed MoU with Japan for cooperation in AI, 5G, Critical Information Infrastructure
October 8, 2020
- India and Japan signed agreements of cooperation in Artificial Intelligence, 5G technology. The countries also agreed to give momentum to the supply chain initiative in the Indo-Pacific region.
Nobel Prize 2020 announced
October 8, 2020
- The Nobel Prize awarded by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.
List of Nobel Prize 2020 winners:
Physiology or Medicine:
- Harvey J. Alter(America), Charles M. Rice (America) and Michael Houghton (Britain) for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus.
Physics:
- Roger Penrose for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity.
- Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy.
Chemistry:
- Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing”.
Literature:
- Louise Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”.
M Rajeshwar Rao appointed as the RBI Deputy Governor
October 8, 2020
- The Centre has appointed M Rajeshwar Rao as the new deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India on 7th October 2020.
- Four Deputy governors of RBI are M. D. Patra, B. P. Kanungo. M. K. Jain and M Rajeshwar Rao.
J Venkatramu appointed MD and CEO of India Post Payments Bank
October 8, 2020
- J Venkatramu has been appointed the managing director and chief executive officer of India Post Payments Bank (IPPB). He will succeed Suresh Sethi.
Former CBI director Ashwani Kumar passes away
October 8, 2020
- Former Governor of Manipur and Nagaland, and ex-CBI Director, Ashwani Kumar passed away. He joined the Indian Police Force in 1973.
World Post Day is celebrated on 9 October
October 9, 2020
- To create awareness of the role of the postal sector in people’s and businesses’ everyday lives and its contribution to the social and economic development of countries, the United Nations celebrates World Post Day every year on 09th October.
Country’s First Ever Advanced Manufacturing Hub: AMHUB
October 9, 2020
- Country’s First Ever Advanced Manufacturing Hub to launch Country’s advanced manufacturing hub (AMHUB) in the Tamil Nadu with an aim to help the state in the sectors of solar energy, electronics, electric mobility and textiles.
‘MSME Prerana’ launched by FM as a business mentoring programme
October 9, 2020
- An online business mentoring programme for MSMEs by state-run Indian Bank named ‘MSME Prerana’ has been launched by the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
World Bank: India’s GDP to contract by 9.6% in FY-21
October 9, 2020
- The World Bank projected India’s GDP to contract by 9.6% this FY-21 in its latest report titled ‘South Asia Economic Focus’.
- The World Bank earlier in June had estimated the Indian economy to shrink by 3.2% in the current fiscal.
Meghalaya Govt & Israel agreed to set up ‘Centre of Excellence’
October 9, 2020
- 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 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
- 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
- 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.
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