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Current Affairs - October 2014

TNPSC Current Affairs October 2014
Miscellaneous 
  • India's First Olive oil refinery was inaugurated at lukransar in Rajasthan. The oil produced in this refinery will be marketed under the brand name of 'Raj Olive oil'.
  • Patna Stampede
    • 33 people have been killed in a stampede at Gandhi maidhan in Patna during the Dasera celebration.
  • Rajasthan Govt imposed restrictions for joining government jobs 
    • The tobacco users are barred to appear certain exams,
    • The candidates having more than two children and those who have a second wife or husband without legally separated from the first will also be barred.
  • Awards
  • Nobel Prize
    • Medicine
      • British-American researcher John O'Keefe and a Norwegian couple, Edvard Moser and May-Britt Moser have been awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery of Brain's GPS System, which helps us to navigate to different places.
    • Physics
      • Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura have been awarded Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing blue light-emitting diodes.
    • Chemistry
      • `Eric Betzig and William Moerner and Stefan Hell won the Nobel prize in Chemistry for finding the ways to make the microscope more powerful.
    • Peace
      • Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousufzai won the nobel peace prize.
    • Economics
      • Jean Tirole won the nobel prize in economics for his research on market power and regulation
    • Literature
      • Patrick Modiano won the nobel prize in literature
  • Indian Actor Shah Rukh Khan has been awarded the Global Diversity Award 2014 by the British parliament.
  • Sanjaya Rajaram has been awarded the World Food prize.
  • Malala Yousufzai has been awarded the 2014 Liberty medal.
  • Books in News:
    • I Shall Not Hear The Nightingale - by Khushwant Singh [A contest to rename this book has been announced recently]
    • I am Malala: the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban - by Malala Yousafzai [This book is to be translated into four India languages like Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam and Marathi]
    • The Narrow Road to the Deep North - by Richard Flanagan Australian writer [won the Man booker prize 2014]
    • Final Test: Exit Sachin Tendulkar - by Dilip D’Souza [about the final test macth of Sachin Tentulkar at wankhade stadium]
    • Untold Story of the Indian Public Sector - by UD Choubey
  • Important Days
    • October 11th - International Day of the Girl Child.
    • October 15th - Global hand washing Day
    • October 16th - World Food Day
    • October 17th - International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
    • October 20th - World Osteoporosis Day
    • October 31st - National Unity Day (Ekta Diwas)
  • Kazhuperumbakkam
    • A village near Puducherry which has banned bursting of crackers several years before to protect the fruit bats in their locality.
  • Important Appointments
    • Surya Prakash - was appointed as the new chairman of Prasar Bharti Board.
  • Operation Neptune Spear
    • A Military Operation (2011), in which Osama Bin Laden was killed. 
Polity
  • Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana
    • A scheme launched by PM recently, in which each MP will adopt 3 villages in their constituency and develop physical and institutional infrastructure by 2019. 
  • NDA government has planned to transfer the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) from the Labour ministry to Health ministry and merged with the Universal Health Assurance Mission (UHAM).
  • Important Appointments
    • Manohar Lal Khattar - appointed as the 21st Chief Minister of Haryana.
    • Devendra Fadnavis - appointed as the new Chief Minister of Maharashtra.
    • Sandeep Saxena to be appointed as the new Chief Election commissioner of Tamil nadu succeeding Praveen Kumar.
  • Section 66-A (b) of the IT Act
    • A hyderabad law student was arrested following his Facebook post on Hudhud cyclone under the section 66-A (b) of the IT Act and Section 153 of IPC.
Economy
  • RBI's Monetary Policy released on September 30th 2014
    • CRR - 4 % [Unchanged]
    • Repo Rate - 8% [Unchanged]
    • Inflation target by January 2015 - 8 %
    • Inflation target by January 2016 - 6 %
  • Global Hunger Index (GHI)
    • India Ranks 55th position in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2014 which was recently published by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
  • India ranks 142nd in the latest World bank's 'Ease of doing Business report'.
  • Important Appointments
    • Arvind Subramanium - appointed as the new chief economic adviser.
    • Rajiv Mehrishi - appointed as the new finance secretary.
  • Universal Account Number
    • A scheme launched by PM Modi which allows the PF account portability throughout India.
  • An All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) - Delhi
    • AIIA is India's First AIIMS like medical institute for Ayurveda to be inaugurated very soon at Jasola in Delhi.
  • Vishwanathan committee
    • Vishwanathan committee was constituted by the finance ministry to suggest bankruptcy code for small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
    • It will be headed by T. K.Vishwanathan 
World
  • US Pivot to Asia doctrine (Obama's rebalancing strategy)
    • It envisages on deeper cooperation with Asian countries in military and economic fields. 
  • Important Appointments
    • Khaled Bahah - selected as the new Prime Minister of Yemen
    • Joko Widodo - become the new President of Indonesia.
  • Canadian parliament was attacked by a terrorist, later he was shot down by the soldiers.
  • Asian Infrastructure Investment bank (AIIB)
    • India signed MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) for the setting up of the AIIB.
    • The head quarters of AIIB is in Beijing.
  • Vietnam PM's India Visit
    • Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung to sign important MoU in the field of Defence and Oil exploration.
  • The 10th World Islamic Economic Forum was held in Dubai.
Sports
  • Asian Games
    • Varsha Gautam and Aishwarya Nedunchezhiyan won the bronze medal in Sailing, thus becoming the first indian women to win in this category at the Asian games.
  • Dutch Open Grand Prix Badminton tournament  
    • Ajay Jayaram (India) defeated Ihsan Maulana Mustofa (Indonesia) in the final to win the title.
Environment 
  • Hudhud cyclone
    • Hudhud cyclone is expected to hit the coastal areas between vishakapatnam (Andhra pradesh) and Gopalpur (Odisha) with estimated wind speed of 170 - 200 kmph.
    • It originated from a low pressure area over the Andaman Sea.
    • The name 'Hudhud' was suggested by the country Oman and it means the bird hoopoe.
  • Typhoon Vongfong 
    • Typhoon Vongfong attacked Japan with wind speed upto 180 kmph.
  • Hurricane Gonzalo
    • Hurricane Gonzalo attacked Bermuda with wind speed about 180 kmph.
  • WHO declared Nigeria an African nation as EBOLA Free nation recently.
  • Cyclone Nilofar 
    • Cyclone Nilofar is expected to attack the coast of Gujarat.
Science and Tech
  • Windows 10
    • Microsoft, the software giant released the latest OS version named Windows 10. 
  • Antrix Corporation
    • It is the commercial arm of ISRO, which was given the Miniratna status in 2008.
    • It commercializes the space products to customers across the world.
  • Dongfeng-31B
    • China test fired its Dongfeng-31B, a 10,000 Km long range missile.
    • Capable of delivering multiple nuclear war head.
  • World's Largest Telescope
    • World's largest 30 meter telescope to be constructed in Hawaiian island by five countries (India, US, Japan, China and Canada) in a joint collaboration at a cost of 1.4 Billion USD.
  • Kerala State has decided to provide high speed internet connections to all panchayats. It might become the first state to provide such high speed connections to panchayats. 
  • Parikshit
    • It is a nano satellite to be constructed by the students of MIT (Manipal Institute of Technology) which will be launched by the ISRO.
    • The main objective of the Parishit satellite is to study the urban heat islands.
  • Himadri - India's Station in arctic. 
  • Full Mobile Number Portability
    • Department of Telecommunication (DoT) sets March 2015 as target to implement full Mobile number portability.
    • Full MNP allows users to switch from one telecom circle to any other telecom circle within the country.
  • IRNSS - 1C
    • IRNSS - 1C, third of the IRNSS series was successfully placed in its orbit by the PSLV C26
  • GSLV Mark III - Planned to be launched in the December Month.
  • Nirbhay
    • A long range subsonic cruise missile which was test fired successfully from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur in Odisha.
    • Range 1000 - 1500 km
    • Developed by DRDO.

5 comments:

  1. Pls issue current affairs in tamil

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  2. how to do download current affairs as pdf file from janaury month 2014

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    1. Sorry... we did not upload the jan, feb, march 2014 current affairs in this website

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  3. Sir, these current affair materials are enough for tnpsc group 1...

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