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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

World Bank: India’s GDP to contract by 9.6% in FY-21

October 9, 2020
World Bank
  • 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.

‘MSME Prerana’ launched by FM as a business mentoring programme

October 9, 2020
Nirmala Sitharaman
  • An online business mentoring programme for MSMEs by state-run Indian Bank named ‘MSME Prerana’ has been launched by the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

Country’s First Ever Advanced Manufacturing Hub: AMHUB

October 9, 2020
thermal plant
  • 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.

World Post Day is celebrated on 9 October

October 9, 2020
World Post Day
  • 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.

Former CBI director Ashwani Kumar passes away

October 8, 2020
Ashwani Kumar
  • Former Governor of Manipur and Nagaland, and ex-CBI Director, Ashwani Kumar passed away. He joined the Indian Police Force in 1973.

J Venkatramu appointed MD and CEO of India Post Payments Bank

October 8, 2020
India Post Payments Bank
  • J Venkatramu has been appointed the managing director and chief executive officer of India Post Payments Bank (IPPB). He will succeed Suresh Sethi.

M Rajeshwar Rao appointed as the RBI Deputy Governor

October 8, 2020
M Rajeshwar Rao
  • 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.

Nobel Prize 2020 announced

October 8, 2020
Nobel Prize 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”.

India signed MoU with Japan for cooperation in AI, 5G, Critical Information Infrastructure

October 8, 2020
Indo-Japan
  • 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.

Axis Bank launched co-branded forex card in collaboration with Vistara

October 8, 2020
Axis Bank
  • 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.

Russia: Tsirkon hypersonic missile successfully test-fires

October 8, 2020
Tsirkon hypersonic missile
  • 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.

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