For the security of women and children in each and every district of Uttar Pradesh, UP Government has decided to establish anti-human trafficking Police Stations.
On 27th October Indian Army celebrated 74th Infantry Day in J&K to honour the supreme sacrifice of the gallant soldiers in fighting the Pakistani invaders, in Jammu and Kashmir, in 1947.
The World Day for Audiovisual Heritage is observed globally on 27 October every year with an aim to raise awareness of the significance and preservation risks of recorded sound and audiovisual documents.
The theme of the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2020: “Your Window to the World”.
India successfully carried out the final trial of the Nag anti-tank guided missile with a warhead. The missile has been developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
India is hosting the third India-US two plus two Ministerial Dialogue at Hyderabad House in New Delhi. The Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar are leading the Indian delegation.
Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister, Hardeep Singh Puri has launched the ‘e-Dharti GeoPortal’ to integrate legacy drawings such as maps and lease plans in the management information system and make its geographic information system (GIS)-enabled.
‘Direct Port Entry (DPE) facility’ of V.O. Chidambaranar Port Trust is inaugurated by the Union Minister of State for Shipping (I/C), Mansukh Mandaviya in Tamil Nadu.
Bangladesh’s government has launched a ‘no mask, no service’ policy in order to fight the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic in which no services will be provided to the people who will not be wearing masks.
In collaboration between the Ministry of Tribal Affairs (MoTA) and Art of Living (AoL), the Union Minister of Tribal Affairs, Arjun Munda has launched two Centers of Excellence (CoE) for Tribal Welfare.
HDFC Bank has appointed Sashidhar Jagdishan as its new MD & CEO. The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of HDFC Bank, Aditya Puri has stepped down.
On October 24, 2020 Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually launched 3 key projects in the state of Gujarat.
The newly launched projects include ‘Kisan Suryodaya Yojana’ which was recently announced by Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani.
The other two projects inaugurated by PM Modi included India’s biggest cardiac hospital, attached to the UN Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Centre at the City Hospital Campus in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, and Girnar hill ropeway in Junagarh.
In a first, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) spacecraft successfully touched an asteroid’s surface to collect dust and pebbles on October 20, 2020.
The Indian Council of Medical Research recently approved the covid-19 test called COVIRAP.It is a Diagnostic machine that was developed by the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. This kit gives close test results as produced by RT-PCR.