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Table of Contents
NATIONAL NEWS ..................................................................................................................................... 2
STATE NEWS .......................................................................................................................................... 27
AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT ............................................................................................ 34
DEFENCE NEWS ...................................................................................................................................... 36
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING .................................................................................................. 40
INTERNATIONAL NEWS .......................................................................................................................... 42
REPORTS AND INDICES ........................................................................................................................... 48
BANKING AND ECONOMY ...................................................................................................................... 64
GDP FORECASTS..................................................................................................................................... 82
APPOINTMENTS ..................................................................................................................................... 83
IMPORTANT DAYS ................................................................................................................................. 89
AWARDS ................................................................................................................................................ 96
SPORTS .................................................................................................................................................104
MISCELLANEOUS ...................................................................................................................................108
QUESTIONS ...........................................................................................................................................109

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NATIONAL NEWS
1. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has visited the Cairo West Airbase, Egypt (the Gateway to
Africa).
● Both countries also signed an MOU on Defence Cooperation.

2. Ministry of Road Transport has introduced additional safety provisions in the battery
safety standards which will come into effect from October 1, 2022.
● The MoRTH had constituted an expert committee, chaired by Tata Narsingh Rao to
recommend additional safety requirements in the existing battery safety standards notified
under Central Motor Vehicles Rule (CMVR) 1989.

3. The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) and the Embassy of
the Netherlands have established the Fast Track Mechanism (FTM) for faster resolution of
investment cases of Dutch companies operating in India.
● Invest India is the executing body of the FTM.
● It will strengthen and assist bilateral efforts to increase mutual investment activities, as well
as support and develop business cooperation between companies in both countries.
● In 2021-22, bilateral trade between the countries amounted to USD 17 billion.

4. Union Cabinet was apprised about the progress under National Health Mission during 2020-
21.
● Expenditure involved - Rs. 27,989.00 Cr (Central Share)
Targets under NHM by 2025 Progress
Reduce Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) to 90 103 (SRS 2017-19) per one lakh live births
from 113
Reduce IMR to 23 from 32 28 (as per SRS 2020)
Reduce U5MR to 23 from 36 32 (as per SRS 2020)
Sustain TFR to 2.1 2.0 (as per SRS 2020)
Reduce prevalence of Leprosy to <1/10000 -
population and incidence to zero in all districts

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Annual Malaria Incidence to be <1/1000
Reduce household out-of-pocket expenditure
on total health care expenditure
Ending the TB epidemic by 2025 from the
country
In the year 2020, malaria cases and deaths
have declined by 46.28% and 18.18%,
respectively.
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The incidence of TB per 1,00,000 population
has been reduced from 234 in 2012 to 193 in
2019.
The mortality due to TB per 1,00,000
populations; reduced from 42 in 2012 to 33 in
2019.

● Progress on other parameters -

o LaQshya (Labour room Quality improvement Initiative): 202 Labour Rooms & 141
Maternity Operation Theatres are State LaQshya certified and 64 Labour Rooms &
47 Maternity Operation Theatres are National LaQshya certified.
o Malaria: The total number of malaria cases and deaths reported in 2020 were
1,81,831 and 63 respectively
o Kala-Azar: Elimination target of < 1 Kala Azar case per 10,000 population, increased
from 74.2% in 2014 to 97.5% in 2020-21
o Lymphatic Filariasis: In 2020-21, among 272 LF endemic districts, 98 districts have
successfully cleared 1 Transmission Assessment Survey (TAS-1) and stopped MDA
and these districts are under Post MDA surveillance.
o Dengue: National target was to sustain a case fatality rate (CFR) <1 per cent. In
2020, it has been sustained at 0.1% as it was in 2019.

5. India has partnered with California state of the USA for research and innovation in the field of
zero-emission vehicles (ZEV).
● California aims to become 100% ZEV by 2035.
● A new India-ZEV Research Centre was developed as part of a collaboration with the
University of California's Davis Institute of Transportation Studies.

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6. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has laid the foundation stone of the World’s First CNG
Terminal and of the brownfield port at Bhavnagar, Gujarat.
● The foundation stone of projects worth over ₹5200 crores were laid in Bhavnagar.
● Gujarat was the first state in the country to get an LNG terminal and now the state has
three LNG terminals.
● PM has inaugurated the regional science centre in Bhavnagar.

7. Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises has organized a National SC-ST Hub
Conclave at Ahmedabad, Gujarat to spread awareness about the National SC-ST Hub
(NSSH) Scheme and other Schemes of the Ministry.
● Ministry of MSME has launched the National Scheduled Caste Scheduled Tribe Hub
(NSSH) scheme.
● It is aimed at capacity enhancement and promoting entrepreneurship culture amongst the
SC-ST population for enhancing their participation in public procurement.

8. Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the new and upgraded version of the Vande Bharat
Express which will run from Gandhinagar in Gujarat to Mumbai in Maharashtra.
● This is the third Vande Bharat Express in the country – after New Delhi-Varanasi and New
Delhi-Katra Vande Bharat Express, and comes with several additional features to
enhance passenger comfort as well as safety.

9. Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has laid the foundation stone and dedicated various
projects worth more than Rs 3400 crores in Surat.
● He launched the Phase-I of road infrastructure works and the main entrance of Diamond
Research and Mercantile (DREAM) City.
● The Prime Minister also inaugurated the Khoj Museum at the Science Centre in Surat.

10. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has launched a multi-phase Operation GARUDA to
dismantle drug networks with international linkages.
● Operation GARUDA seeks to target drug networks with international footprints for action
against handlers, operatives, production zones and support elements.

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11. The 6th edition of India Mobile Congress 2022 was organized by the Telecom Department
and the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi.
● Theme - “New digital Universe”
● The 5G telephony service was rolled out by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 13 cities
initially.
● These include Delhi, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Gandhinagar,
Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow, Pune, Jamnagar and Gurugram.
● Bharati Airtel has become the first company to launch 5G services in India. It has
launched this services in Delhi, Mumbai, Varanasi, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad,
Nagpur and Siliguri.

12. National Green Tribunal has directed the state government of Odisha to revive the
Sukapaika River, a distributary of Mahanadi River, within 6 months.

13. UNESCO has released the "Handmade for the 21st Century: Safeguarding Traditional Indian
Textile" list of 50 exclusive and iconic heritage textile crafts of India.
● Toda embroidery and Sungadi from Tamil Nadu,
● Himroo weaves from Hyderabad and,
● Bandha tie and dye weaving from Sambalpur in Odisha
● Ilkal and Lambadi or Banjara embroidery from Karnataka
● Sikalnayakanpet Kalamkari from Thanjavur
● Kunbi weaves from Goa,
● Mashru weaves and Patola from Gujarat, Himroo from Maharashtra
● Garad-Koirial from West Bengal

14. Swachch Survekshan-Urban 2022 results have been announced by the Ministry of Housing
and Urban Affairs.
Categories Criteria Winners

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Cities with 1-10

Lac Population

National Ranking

Cities with more

than 10 Lac
Population

States With Less

Than 100 Urban
Local Bodies
(ULBs)

States’ Ranking
States With More
Than 100 Urban
Local Bodies
(ULBs)

Population Less
Than 1 Lac

Ganga Town Population Less

Than 1 Lac

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Cantonment
Board

• Prerak DAUUR Samman Category Rankings -

Categories

• Swachch Survekshan-Grameen 2022 results have been announced by the Ministry of

Jal Shakti’s Department of Drinking Water & Sanitation (DDWS).

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15. University Grants Commission has announced that the higher educational institutions
(HEIs) across the country will now be allowed to create up to 25% supernumerary seats for
foreign students and will have to adopt a transparent admission process for them.

16. Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF), a body under the Department of
Telecommunications, has officially launched Telecom Technology Development Fund
(TTDF) Scheme.
• Purpose - to fund R&D in rural-specific communication technology applications and form
synergies among academia, start-ups, research institutes, and the industry to build and
develop the telecom ecosystem
• The scheme is aligned with the new phase of Amrit Kaal, i.e., Jan Anusandhaan.

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17. Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has launched the Swachh Bharat Campaign from
October 1-31.
• Union Minister Jitendra Singh has also launched Special Swachhta Campaign 2.0 to
reduce pendency in the government departments.

18. Ministry of Education has launched the YUVA 2.0 (Young, Upcoming and Versatile
Authors) scheme for mentoring young authors and to train young and budding authors below
the age of 30 to promote reading, writing, and book culture in the country, and project India and
Indian writings globally.
• The theme of the YUVA 2.0 is ‘Democracy (institutions, events, people, constitutional
values past, present, future)’.
• YUVA 2.0 is a part of India@75 Project.
• The National Book Trust is the implementing agency of this scheme. It will publish the
books prepared under the scheme.
• The books will be translated into other Indian languages ensuring the exchange of culture
and literature, thereby promoting ‘Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat’.

19. University Grants Commission has established the post of Professor of Practice to hire
experts from various sectors, who have experience of 15 years of service.
• A professor of practice can be anyone with a background in a diverse range of areas from
technology, science, social sciences, media, literature, armed forces, law, fine arts, etc.

20. According to a study by the Jal Shakti Ministry, 8% of the rural households in the country
receive water only once a week, while about 74% of them receive it all seven days.
• About 4% of households receive water for 5-6 days in a week and 14% receive at least 3-4
days in a week in India.

21. Fit India Freedom Run 3.0 took place at the Major Dhyanchand National Stadium in New
Delhi from October 2-31.
• The third edition was jointly launched with a Fit India Plog Run by Union Minister of Law
and Justice, Shri Kiren Rijiju and Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Shri Anurag
Singh Thakur.
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22. ISRO has confirmed the loss of connection with the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) aka
Mangalyaan.
• It was launched in 2013 on the PSLV C-25.

23. Railway Protection Force has launched a month-long campaign named Operation
SAMSAR (Samajik Sarokar) in the month of September.

24. Digital India Conference of State IT Ministers was held at New Delhi.
• Rs 26,000 crore has been approved to install new 25,000 towers in the next 500 days.

25. Chief Election Commissioner of India Rajiv Kumar has launched the radio series “Matdata
Junction”.
• Matdata Junction is a year-long voter awareness programme launched jointly by the
Election Commission of India (ECI) and the All India Radio (AIR).
• This radio series has a total of 52 episodes. It will be broadcasted in 23 languages,
including Hindi, English and other regional languages.

26. National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences (NIMHANS) and HelpAge India
are jointly implementing Sarthak to ensure mental well-being of elderly.
• Sarthak is a community-based initiative which will provide nurses, healthcare workers and
volunteers with training on geriatric (senior citizens) mental health.

27. President Smt. Droupadi Murmu has launched herSTART, an initiative of Gujarat
University Startup and Entrepreneurship Council (GUSEC), for supporting women-led
startups in scaling up.
• The platform will help in connecting women startups with various government and private
enterprises.

28. The central government has set up two advisory committees to resolve the challenges in the
steel industry to achieve the target of 300 million tonnes of production capacity by 2030.

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29. India's first 4.20-MW wind turbine generator, a single unit with the largest generation
capacity, has been installed in Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu.
• It was established Brazilian company WEG Industries Pvt Ltd.

30. Indian Railways has announced to become a net-carbon emission-free industry by 2030 to
contribute to India’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC).
• One of the most vital transportation emissions mitigation strategies agreed to by the
Government of India was increasing the share of Indian Railways in the movement of
freight from the current ~35-36% to 45% by 2030.

31. Directorate General of Training (DGT), under the Ministry of Skill Development and
Entrepreneurship, has launched the Bharatskills Forum, a new feature to allow sharing of
books, notes, videos, a question bank, etc. for skill learners.
• This facility shall act as a digital warehouse for the skilling community by allowing sharing of
contents in various forms like handwritten trainers’ or trainees’ notes, PDFs, scanned
copies, or recorded videos in any language.
• The forum has been launched on the Bharatskills platform. The Bharatskills platform was
launched in 2019 for providing skills concerning Industrial Training Institutes (ITI)
ecosystems.

32. Union Minister for Power and New and Renewable Energy RK Singh has unveiled the
curtain raiser to the 5th Assembly of the International Solar Alliance in New Delhi from
October 17-20, 2022.
• India holds the office of the President of the ISA Assembly.
• The International Solar Alliance is an international organisation with 109 member and
signatory countries.
• ISA aims to attract investment of up to $1 trillion in solar energy by 2030.

33. The central govt has constituted a nine-member Task Force for monitoring Cheetah
introduction in Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh and other suitable designated areas.
• The nine-member task force will include Principal Secretaries, Forests and Tourism of
Madhya Pradesh (Ashok Barnwal), and the Inspector General of NTCA (Dr Amit Mallick).

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34. India’s Chandrayaan-2 has mapped the abundance of sodium on Moon for the very first time
using its large area X-ray spectrometer, CLASS.
• The research was published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
• CLASS was built at ISRO’s UR Rao Satellite Centre in Bengaluru.

35. NASSCOM Foundation and American Express have partnered to train and upskill 700
women graduates through an employment-linked training project named ‘Women
Empowerment Through Technology’.
• Under this project, both entities are working with two training partners - FUEL (Friends
Union for Energizing Lives) and RCED (Regional Centre for Entrepreneurship) to impart
women with technology-based skill development and entrepreneurship training.
• The training will be provided on various technical courses including cloud and data
analytics, blockchain, Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

36. Modhera village in Gujarat has been declared as India’s first 24x7 solar-powered village.
• Modhera is famous for a centuries-old Sun temple built during the Chalukya.
• PM Modi will inaugurate various development projects worth more than ₹14,600 crores in
Gujarat.

37. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has inaugurated the new Indian High Commission
Chancery in Wellington (capital in New Zealand).

38. Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) is organizing Pradhan Mantri
National Apprenticeship Melas (PMNAM) on October 10, 2022, across 280 locations in 28
states and UTs under the Skill India Mission.

39. EAM S Jaishankar has launched "Modi@20: Dreams Meet Delivery" book in Auckland,
New Zealand.
• External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar participated in the Kiwi Indian Hall of Fame
Awards 2022 in Auckland.
• EAM S Jaishankar hosted the 13th Foreign Ministers’ Framework Dialogue with his
Australian counterpart Penny Wong in Canberra.

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40. Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has launched the Tele Mental Health
Assistance and Networking Across States (Tele-MANAS) initiative at the National
Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru.
• Government of India announced National Tele Mental Health Programme (NTMHP) in
the Union Budget 2022-23.
• Purpose of Tele-MANAS – to provide free tele-mental health services all over the country
round the clock, particularly catering to people in remote or under-served areas
• The programme includes a network of 23 tele-mental health centres of excellence, with
NIMHANS being the nodal centre and the International Institute of Information
Technology-Bangalore (IIITB) for providing technology support.
• IIT-Bengaluru and National Health Systems Resource Centre (NHRSC) will provide the
technical support.
• The Union Government aims to open at least one Tele-MANAS Cell in each State/UT.
• A toll-free, 24/7 helpline number (14416) has been set up across the country allowing
callers to select the language of choice for availing services. Service is also accessible at 1-
800-91-4416.
• Hon’ble Governor of Karnataka – Sh. Thawar Chand Gehlot
• Minister for Health & Family Welfare and Medical Education of Karnataka & Vice-President
of NIMHANS - Dr K. Sudhakar

41. Sustainable Mountain Development Summit-XI (SMDS-XI) is being held at Leh, Ladakh UT
from 10-12 October 2022.
• Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Shri Bhupender Yadav
attended the inaugural session of the summit.
• Theme – ‘Harnessing tourism for sustainable mountain development’
• Purpose – to reduce the negative impacts of tourism while harnessing its positive
contributions to building climate and socio-ecological resilience and sustainability

42. The office of the Development Commissioner (Handicrafts) under the Ministry of Textiles
has launched an Indian handicraft portal through which all eligible artisans can apply online
for marketing events to support the artisans in selling their produce.
• The online process will provide an equal, fair, and transparent opportunity to all artisans.

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43. Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) hosted Conference on
B20 Indonesia Global Dialogue in partnership with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in
New Delhi.
• Business 20 (B20), formed in 2010, is the official G20 dialogue forum with the global
business community to spur economic growth and development.
• Dialogues were held on (i)Trade & Investment (ii) Energy, Sustainability & Climate (iii)
Digitisation and (iv) Finance and Infrastructure.
• G-20 is a group of 19 Countries + EU, together representing around 85% of global GDP,
75% of global trade, and 60% of the world’s population.
• The dialogue will pave the way to the B20 final summit that will take place on 13-14
November 2022 at Indonesia.

44. The 2nd edition of the UN World Geo Spatial International Congress was organised in
Hyderabad, Telangana by the Department of Science and Technology and United Nations
Committee of Experts on Geo Spatial Information Management.
• Theme- Geo-Enabling the Global Village: No One Should Be Left Behind
• The UN Economics and Social Council (ECOSOC) created the Committee of Experts
on Global Geo Spatial Information Management in 2011. The committee operates under
the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
• The first edition of the UN World Geo Spatial information Congress was held in 2018 in
China.

45. Union Home Minister Amit Shah has unveiled a 15-feet high statue of late socialist icon
Jayaprakash Narayan (politician of Janata Party) at his ancestral village of Sitab Diara in
Saran district of Bihar on the occasion of his 120th birth anniversary.
• The Dream of Revolution: A Biography of Jayaprakash Narayan is authored by Dr
Bimal Prasad and Sujata Prasad.

46. Tipu Express, a train running between Bengaluru and Mysuru, has been renamed as the
‘Wodeyar Express’ by the railway ministry.

47. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the Mahakal Lok corridor at Mahakaleshwar
temple in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh.
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• The corridor is part of the first phase of the Rs 850 crore Mahakaleshwar Temple
Corridor Development Project.
• It is one of the largest corridors (900-metre-long) in the country. It spreads around the old
Rudrasagar Lake.
• The Mahakal Path contains 108 stambhs (pillars) which depict Anand Tandav Swaroop
(Dance form) of Lord Shiva.

48. Union Cabinet has approved Prime Minister’s Development Initiative for North East
Region (PM-DevINE) scheme for the remaining four years of the 15th Finance Commission
from 2022-23 to 2025-26.
• PM-DevINE is a Central Sector Scheme with 100% Central funding.
• It will be implemented by the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region
(DoNER).
• Budget – Rs.6,600 crore
• Purpose –
(a) Fund infrastructure convergently, in the spirit of PM Gati Shakti;
(b) Support social development projects based on felt needs of the NER;
(c) Enable livelihood activities for youth and women;
(d) Fill the development gaps in various sectors.

49. Tamil Nadu government notified India's first Kaduvur slender loris sanctuary in the
country, covering 11,806 hectares in Karur and Dindigul districts.
• The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List categorizes
Slender loris as an endangered animal.
• These endangered primates are listed under Schedule I of the Wildlife (Protection) Act of
India, 1972.

50. Union Government has formed a 3-member Commission of Inquiry, headed by former
Chief Justice of India, Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, to examine the issue of whether Scheduled
Caste (SC) status can be accorded to Dalits who have converted to religions other than
Sikhism or Buddhism over the years.

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51. National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) has launched the
Responsible AI Hub and resource kit to ensure the responsible adoption of AI at scale.
• Partners of NASSCOM in this initiative – Fractal Analytics, Microsoft, Deloitte, Tata
Consultancy Services and IBM Research
• The resource kit comprises sector-agnostic tools and guidance to enable the business to
leverage AI by prioritising user trust and safety.

52. The 16th edition of FICCI HEAL (annual health conference) has been organized at FICCI
premise in New Delhi from October 10-12, 2022.
• Theme – Healthcare Transformation: Driving India’s Economic Growth

53. Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh has launched ‘Maa Bharati Ke Sapoot’ (MBKS) website
for enabling citizens to contribute for the Armed Forces Battle Casualties Welfare Fund.
• AFBCWF is a Tri service fund, utilised for grant of immediate financial assistance of ex-
gratia, to the Next of Kin and dependents of Battle Casualties.

54. Union Cabinet has approved amendments to the Multi State Cooperative Societies Act
(MSCS). The Act was last amended in 2002.
• The amendments make the functioning of the board of such cooperatives transparent —
registration becomes simpler and seats can be reserved for women, scheduled caste and
scheduled tribe candidates in coop boards.
• Also, a Cooperative Election Authority can be formed to conduct free, fair and timely
elections to coops.
• There are around 100 multi-state cooperative diaries and 70 multi-state cooperative banks.
The Bill will incorporate provisions of the 97th Constitutional Amendment.

55. Central Government has formed a four-member panel of experts, chaired by Dr Y K Gupta
(Vice Chairperson, Standing National Committee on Medicines).
• Purpose - to examine the details and adverse event reports received from the WHO on the
deaths of 66 children in The Gambia being linked potentially to the four made-in-India
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• The cough syrups are Promethazine Oral Solution BP, KOFEXNALIN Baby Cough Syrup,
MaKOFF Baby Cough Syrup and MaGrip n Cold Syrup, manufactured by Maiden
Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Sonepat.

56. Computer Emergency Response Team India (CERT-In), in collaboration with Power-
Computer Security Incident Response Team, have conducted the "PowerEx" cyber
security exercise for 193 power sector companies.
• Theme - Defending Cyber-Induced Disruption in IT and OT Infrastructure

57. Central government has accorded infrastructure status to data centres with more than 5
megawatts capacity of data processing.
• This decision was announced in the union budget for 2022 to 23.

58. Ministry of Textile has signed a cooperation agreement with United Nations Environment
Program on "mainstreaming sustainability and circularity in the textiles sector".
• Under the agreement, both parties will promote sustainable practices in the textile and
apparel sector to minimise the negative environmental impacts of the industry.

59. Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has authorised Google Cloud
to use cloud technology to address challenging issues for governmental organisations.
• Competitors of Google, including Microsoft, IBM, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and
Oracle, have already been given the approval by MeitY to acquire and launch digital
transformation projects.

60. President of India, Smt. Droupadi Murmu has inaugurated ‘PARAM KAMRUPA’
Supercomputer facility at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.
• The Param Kamrupa, one of its kind supercomputer in the North East region, was installed
under the National Supercomputing Mission.

61. Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has laid the foundation stone of Bulk Drug Park and the
Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) at Una, Himachal Pradesh.
• The central govt has given the approval to establish three bulk drug parks at Una district-
Himachal Pradesh, Bharuch district-Gujarat, and Godavari District-Andhra Pradesh.
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• The parks are being established under the “Promotion of Bulk Drug Parks”.
• Launched in 2020 by the Ministry of Chemical and Fertilisers, the scheme aims to
establish 3 bulk drug parks at a cost of Rs 3000 crores (to be borne by the govt).
• PM has also launched the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana-III to upgrade 3,000 km of
rural roads in the state.
• Vande Bharat Express train from Una to Delhi has also been started.

62. The 11th volume of the Report of the Official Language Committee, headed by Home
Minister Amit Shah, has been submitted to President Droupadi Murmu in September.
• The report mandated the use of Hindi as the official language in the Hindi-Speaking states.
• The non-Hindi speaking states will have to translate their High Court judgements in Hindi
for the use of other Hindi-speaking states.
• The Committee has made around 100 recommendations, including that Hindi should be the
medium of instruction in IITs, IIMs, and central universities in the Hindi-speaking states.

63. The Indian government is considering a proposal from Sri Lanka to export a number of gaurs
(Indian Bisons) to revive the population of Gavaras that have been extinct on the island since
the end of the 17th century.
• If the project is cleared, it would be the first such agreement between India and Sri Lanka,
and part of a global trend of “wildlife or zoological diplomacy”

64. The PM Kisan Samman Sammelan 2022 will be organized in the Indian Agricultural
Research Institute, New Delhi on October 17.
• On this occasion, Shri Modi will release Rs. 16,000 Crores under the PM-KISAN scheme as
the 12th instalment through Direct Benefit Transfer.
• The government has so far transferred ₹Rs 25 trillion through DBT under the PM-KISAN
scheme.
• Prime Minister will inaugurate 600 PM Kisan Samruddhi Kendras (PM-KSK) of the
Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers.
• Prime Minister will launch Indian Edge, an international weekly fertilizer e-magazine during
the event.
• PM launched Bharat Urea Bags under the single brand name ‘Bharat’.

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65. 38th meeting of the Council of the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organisation (RATS SCO) was organized by India in its capacity as the chair
of SCO-RATS in New Delhi.
• The member states also agreed to organize and conduct a joint border operation with the
forces called as ‘Solidarity 2023’ which will be organized by China.
• India has handed over the chairmanship of the SCO-RATS to Kazakhstan.
• India has taken over the Presidency of SCO from Uzbekistan for 2023.

66. Minister of Power R.K Singh has inaugurated the National Conference of Power and
Renewable Energy Ministers of State/ UTs in Udaipur, Rajasthan.

67. India is hosting the 90th General Assembly of the International Criminal Police
Organization (INTERPOL) in New Delhi.
• India is one of the oldest members of Interpol and joined the organization in 1949.
• The 91st edition of Interpol will be organized in Vienna, Austria.
• Interpol unveiled its first-ever Metaverse specifically designed for law enforcement
worldwide.
o Function – It allows registered users to tour a virtual facsimile of the INTERPOL
General Secretariat headquarters in Lyon, France without any geographical or
physical boundaries, interact with other officers via their avatars, and even take
immersive training courses in forensic investigation and other policing capabilities

68. The Central government has created exclusive benches to deal with cases above ₹100 crore
at Debts Recovery Tribunals (DRTs) in Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi to get more focus on
high-value cases.
• At present, 39 Debts Recovery Tribunals (DRTs) and 5 Debts Recovery Appellate
Tribunals (DRATs) are functioning across the country.

69. Central Record Keeping Agencies (CRAs) of the Pension Fund Regulatory and
Development Authority (PFRDA) have become Digi Locker Partner Organizations to
provide Subscriber Centric Online Services.

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70. Union Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology and Skill Development &
Entrepreneurship, Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar has flagged off India’s first SemiconIndia
FutureDesign roadshow in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
• Gujarati Industrialists & HNIs have pledged Rs 1500 Crore for catalysing the Gujarat’s
startup ecosystem.

71. Union Minister Jitendar Singh has launched an integrated portal - www.ipension.nic.in - for
ensuring “ease of living” for the central government pensioners.
• The portal has been developed in collaboration with the State Bank of India.
• Bhavishya 9.0 version was also launched. Bhavishya, the portal for pension payment and
tracking system, is being integrated with pension seva portal of SBI to provide all
information and services at one place with single login.
• ‘Bhavishya’ platform was made mandatory for all central government departments since
January 1, 2017.
• The Anubhav portal was launched by Department of Pension & Pensioners’ Welfare in
2015 to provide an opportunity for retiring government employee to share their experience
of working in the government and give suggestions for improvement in governance.

72. Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri inaugurated Asia's largest
Compressed Bio Gas (CBG) plant in Lehragaga, in Punjab's Sangrur.
• The plant has been commissioned with a foreign direct investment of approximately Rs.
220 crores by Verbio AG, one of Germany's leading bio-energy companies.

73. Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has started the distribution of PMJAY-MA Yojana
Ayushman cards in Gujarat.
• ‘Mukhyamantri Amrutam (MA)’ scheme was launched in 2012 to shield poor citizens
from the huge costs of medical treatment and illness.
• In the year 2014, ‘MA’ Yojana was extended to cover families with an annual income limit of
Rs. 4 lakhs. The scheme was further extended to several other groups as well and later
renamed as Mukhyamantri Amrutam Vatsalya (MAV) Yojana.
• With the launch of the AB-PMJAY, Gujarat integrated MA / MAV Yojana with the AB-PM-
JAY scheme in 2019 with the name PMJAY-MA Yojana and the beneficiaries under
MA/MAV and AB-PMJAY became eligible for co-branded PMJAY-MA cards.
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Other launches -
• The Prime Minister laid the foundation stone and dedicated projects worth around Rs. 5860
crores in Rajkot, Gujarat.
• The Prime Minister also inaugurated the India Urban Housing Conclave 2022 in Rajkot.
• Over 1100 houses were constructed under the Light House Project.
• Other projects being dedicated by the Prime Minister include a water supply project: Morbi-
Bulk pipeline project from Brahmani-2 Dam to Narmada Canal Pumping Station, a regional
Science Centre, flyover bridges and other projects related to road connectivity.

74. The 14th edition of the World Spice Congress will be organized by the Spices Board of
India, under the aegis of the Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry, in Mumbai,
Maharashtra from February 16 to 18, 2023.
• Theme - “Vision 2030: SPICES (Sustainability – Productivity – Innovation – Collaboration –
Excellence and Safety)”

75. India and France have re-elected as President and Co-President of the International Solar
Alliance (ISA) at the fifth general assembly of the body in New Delhi.
• India will host a High-Level Conference on New Technologies for Clean Energy
Transition on 19 October 2022 at Hotel Ashok, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi.
• The ISA Assembly approved the Solar Facility, a payment guarantee mechanism which is
expected to stimulate investments into solar through two financial components: Solar
Payment Guarantee Fund and Solar Insurance Fund.
• This facility will crowdsource investments from various donors across the globe and
proposed projects in Africa will be able to purchase payment guarantees or partial
insurance premium from these funds.
• The ISA Assembly also approved the SolarX Grand Challenge, which is planned to focus
on innovation and start-ups, particularly decentralized solar energy applications that
contribute to livelihoods, such as agriculture, health, and small-scale industrial applications.

76. Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar has created an
accelerator fund of Rs 500 crore for Agri-Startups.
• It was launched at the Agri Startup Conference in New Delhi.
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• A network will be set up under the Agriculture Ministry to help and support the Agri
Startups and, for overall planning a steering committee will be set up under the
Chairmanship of the agriculture minister.
• An executive committee will be set up under Secretary, Agriculture and Secretary,
Department of Agriculture Research and Education to take decisions on issues related to
Agri Startups.
• A separate division will be created in the Ministry for such startups under the
chairmanship of Joint Secretary.

77. A total of 307 antiquities will be returned to India by USA.

78. The Confederation of Indian Industry has partnered with Indian Oil Corporation to launch
'Vayu Amrit' project, a crop residue management initiative, in Punjab's Sangrur.
• Sangrur will be transformed into a model district for zero crop residue burning.

79. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced the 'Fourth Positive Indigenisation List' of
101 items during the opening ceremony of DefExpo 2022 in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
• The MoD had earlier promulgated 'First, Second and Third Positive Indigenisation Lists',
comprising 310 items on August 21, 2020, May 31, 2021 and April 07, 2022 respectively.

80. Indian Embassy in Seoul, South Korea organized its much sought-after annual flagship
cultural program ‘SARANG – The Festival of India in Republic of Korea’.
• SARANG in Korean means ‘love’ and for Indians it refers to ‘diversity representing different
colours of India’.
• Since its inception in 2015, SARANG festival has emerged as a prominent Indian cultural
festival, introducing India's rich and diverse cultural heritage.

81. ISRO has announced to launch Chandrayaan-3 in June 2023 on GSLV Launch Vehicle Mark-
3.

82. Central government has approved construction of an iconic cable stayed-cum-suspension

bridge across Krishna river connecting Telangana and Andhra Pradesh and passing
through the Nallamala forest range.
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• The bridge across the Krishna river would be second of its kind in the world and first in
India.

83. US International Development Finance Corporation’s (US government's lending

institutions) CEO Scott Nathan has visited India.
• USDFC has provided $35 million to Creditaccess Grameen (NBFC-MFI) to help women
entrepreneurs.
• The US government's Development Finance Corporation (DFC) also signed an agreement
for a USD 10 million loan guarantee for Punjab Renewable Energy Systems, which will
help fund the construction of seven biomass plants.

84. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres have launched
Mission LiFE, a global plan of action aimed at saving the planet from the disastrous
consequences of climate change.
• The launch comes ahead of next month's mega UN climate meet in Egypt.
• The action plan - a list of ideas on lifestyle changes that can be taken up as climate-friendly
behaviour - along with the logo and tagline for Mission LiFE (Lifestyle for Environment)
were jointly launched by Modi and Guterres.
• Mission LiFE will strengthen the concept of a pro-people planet following a three-pronged
strategy for changing people's collective approach towards sustainability.

85. Union Education and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship Shri Dharmendra Pradhan
launched the National Curriculum Framework for Foundational Stage and the pilot project
of Balvatika 49 Kendriya Vidyalayas across the country.
• The new 5+3+3+4 curricular structure integrates Early Childhood Care and Education
for all children of ages 3 to 8.
• Balvatika Classes for students in the age groups of 3+, 4+ and 5+ years of age is being
introduced in a set of 49 Kendriya Vidyalayas.
• Since more than 85% of a child’s cumulative brain development occurs prior to the age of 6,
providing appropriate care to stimulate their brain and support their physical and emotional
development is essential for every child.

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• All these engagements are aimed at achieving the three developmental goals of
maintaining good health and well-being, becoming effective communicators, and becoming
involved learners.

86. “KASHI TAMIL SANGAMAM” will be held from 16th Nov to 19th Dec 2022 in Varanasi
(Kashi) under the overall framework and spirit of “Ek Bharat, Shrestha Bharat”.
• Shri Dharmendra Pradhan also launched the website for registering for “KASHI TAMIL
SANGAMAM”.

87. India Government Mint in Kolkata (a Unit of SPMCIL) has launched a Souvenir Coin on the
theme of T20 World Cup.
• The coin is of 40 Grams, 44 Mm Diameter with 999 silver purity.

Knowledge Nuggets –
• Coinage Act, 2011 – The Central Govt has the sole right of minting coins of up to Rs
1000.
• The coins are circulated by RBI across the country, under the RBI Act of 1934.
• There are only four coin-minting presses of the govt, which are located at Mumbai,
Alipore (Kolkata), Saifabad (Hyderabad), Cherlapally (Hyderabad) and NOIDA (UP).
• Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India Limited (SPMCIL), a wholly owned
Schedule ‘A’ Miniratna Category-I company, was incorporated in 2006. It manages the
coin minting and currency printing presses.

88. Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi launched Rozgar Mela – the recruitment drive for 10 lakh
personnel. During the ceremony, appointment letters were handed over to 75,000 newly
inducted appointees.
• The Rozgar Mela is organized under the PM Kaushal Vikas Yojana.
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89. Nihonshu is an alcoholic beverage also known as Japanese sake. The Embassy of Japan
in New Delhi is seeking a Geographical Indication (GI) tag for nihonshu from India.
• It is the first time, a product from Japan has filed for a GI tag at the Geographical Indication
Registry in Chennai.
• Nihonshu – an integral part of Japan’s culture and lifestyle – is made from fermenting rice.
• GI tag is given under the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and
Protection) Act, 1999.

90. Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr Mansukh Mandaviya inaugurated an
Advanced Bi-Plane Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at DY Patil Medical College,
Hospital and Research Centre in Navi Mumbai.
• The lab is set up by Wipro GE Healthcare.
• It is South Asia's first state-of-the-art, most advanced model of Cath Lab. It is equipped with
an IGS- 6 (Image-Guided Surgery) facility.
Knowledge Nuggets –
• India is the first country in the South Asian region to conduct a Vitropsy.

91. Indian Institute of Technology-Madras and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
researchers have collaborated to study the interactions between microbes in the
International Space Station (ISS).

92. Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi and UN Secretary-General Mr Antonio Guterres have
launched the Mission LiFE at the Statue of Unity, Ekta Nagar, Kevadia, Gujarat.
• Mission LiFE (Lifestyle for Environment) aims to increase the awareness of people about
the climate and planet to bring a behavioural change in their lifestyle.

93. Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has granted license to Jeypore Airport to
carry out commercial flight operations under the regional connectivity scheme-UDAN.

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94. Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer Welfare has set up two committees — one for
nationwide implementation of technology-based crop yield estimation and the other for
standardisation and improvement of weather data infrastructure.
• Both the committees will be chaired by the Director of Mahalanobis National Crop
Forecast Centre (MNCFC) i.e., Dr C. S. Murthy.

95. Two new beaches from Lakshadweep – Minicoy Thundi Beach and Kadmat Beach – have
received the Blue Flag certification.
• Now, India has a total of 12 beaches with Blue Flag certification.

96. India is planning to expand its regional satellite navigation system i.e., Navigation with
Indian Constellation (NaVIC) to increase its use in the civilian sector and also by ships and
aircraft travelling far from the country's borders.
• The NaVIC uses seven satellites to provide real-time positioning and timing services in
India and an area extending up to 1,500 km from the country's borders.
• At present, some of the seven satellites of NaVIC have failed. Therefore, ISRO has sought
govt’s approval to launch 12 satellites to expand the system and improve its coverage.
• The information was delivered by ISRO Chairman S Somanath at the India Space
Congress organised by the SatCom Industry Association in New Delhi on the theme of
‘Leveraging Space to Power Next-Gen Communication & Businesses’.

97. India is hosting a special meeting of the United Nations Security Council’s Counter
Terrorism Committee (CTC) Mumbai and Delhi on October 28 and 29, 2022, respectively.
• Theme – ‘Countering the use of new and emerging technologies for terrorist purposes’
Knowledge Nuggets –
• This will be the first meeting of the UNSC-CTC in India since its establishment in 2001.
The Permanent Representative of India to the UN serves as the Chair of the CTC for
2022.

98. 7th ASEAN-India Ministerial Meeting (AIMMAF) on Agriculture and Forestry was held
virtually.

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• Co-chairs – Agriculture Ministers from India (Narendra Singh Tomar), Brunei Darussalam,
Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and
Vietnam
• The Medium-Term Action Plan of ASEAN-India Cooperation (2021-2025) was reviewed.

99. The two-day Chintan Shivir (reflection camp) of the home ministers of states will be held at
Surajkund in Haryana from 27th & 28th October, 2022.

100. Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has granted Goa’s Mopa airport the
aerodrome license to enable it to commence flight operations.

STATE NEWS
1. Andaman and Nicobar Islands became India's first state/UT to achieve a 100% coverage of
precautionary dose of Covid-19.

2. Haryana will develop the world's largest jungle safari park (spread over 10,000-acre) in the
Aravalli range in Gurugram and Nuh districts.

3. Kerala's new draft industrial policy has been launched at attracting investments, promoting
employment generation, and fostering entrepreneurship.
● The new policy focuses on the State's traditional sectors as well as the sunrise sectors
including Artificial Intelligence, hi-tech farming, value-added rubber products, medical
equipment, biotechnology, graphene, electric vehicles, and robotics.
● Incentives – 10% investment subsidy on fixed capital for non-MSMEs, subject to a
maximum of ₹10 crore and 100% State GST reimbursement for capital investment for five
years for non-MSMEs.
● Annually, the government will subsidise 50% of the stipend for 1,000 apprentices, subject to
a maximum of Rs 5,000 per apprentice for six months. Another major incentive will be the
100% electricity duty exemption for MSMEs for five years.

4. Andhra Pradesh has launched a new scheme named YSR Kalyanamasthu and YSR Tofa.

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● Purpose- to stop child marriages and school dropouts as the minimum eligibility to enroll in
the scheme is 18 years of age for girls and 21 years for boys
● This scheme will provide financial assistance to the beneficiaries.

5. Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel has launched the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Industrial
Parks (MGRIP) scheme to develop ‘gauthans’ (cow shelters) as rural industrial parks for
livelihood generation.
• The state government has already set up gauthans in over 8,000 villages under its flagship
scheme Suraji Gaon Yojana (village good governance scheme).
• Cow dung procurement is being carried out in these gauthans at ₹2 per kilogram under
Godhan Nyaya Yojana and the dung is being used to prepare vermi-compost.

6. Punjab Legislative Assembly has passed the Punjab State Vigilance Commission
(Repeal) Bill, 2022 to dissolve the state vigilance commission.
• The main function of the commission was to inquire into complaints against public servants
under the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988, and Prevention of Corruption
(Amendment) Act, 2018.

7. Himachal Pradesh has launched the “Satya Nishtha” app for the state police force.

8. Union Home Minister Amit Shah has recognized the Pahari community as the Scheduled
Tribe in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K).

9. Pullumpara village panchayat in the Thiruvananthapuram district, Kerala has become the
first totally digitally literate panchayat in the country.

10. Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel has launched the ‘Aatmanirbhar Gujarat Scheme for
Assistance to Industries' to bolster the manufacturing sector in the state.
• The scheme will provide incentives to the manufacturing units.

11. The Haryana government has signed an MOU with Dubai for cooperation in various
economic activities such as investments in the state.

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12. Rajasthan govt has launched a new post-matric scholarship mobile application and
revamped other online portals of Mukhyamantri Anuprati Coaching Scheme, Palanhar
Yojana, and Mukhyamantri Kanyadan Yojana.
• Apart from this, the e-portal for the Hostel scheme, Pradhan Mantri Adarsh Gram Yojana,
Silicosis Grant Scheme, Residential School, and Vidya Sambal Yojana have been
launched.
• The state has also organized a workshop, in collaboration with UNICEF, for showcasing the
ways for effective implementation of social security schemes through e-governance portals.
Scheme Purpose
Mukhyamantri Anuprati Coaching Scheme To provide free coaching for competitive
exams to SC/ST/OBC/Minority students
Palanhar Yojana To ensure the upbringing of orphan children
under their relatives’ care
Mukhyamantri Kanyadan Yojana To provide financial assistance to the poor
families for the marriage of their daughters
Silicosis Grant Scheme To provide financial assistance to the patients
of Silicosis
Vidya Sambal Yojana To appoint guest faculty in schools, colleges
etc. for ensuring the completion of syllabus

• The 13th edition of the Rajasthan International Folk Festival will be organized at
Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur for 5 days.

13. Maharashtra government has announced to rename the Osmanabad city in central
Maharashtra as `Dharashiv’.
• The state govt will also rename its Aurangabad city as Sambhajinagar.

14. Jammu and Kashmir has celebrated its first-ever Bird Festival at Pahalgam in Anantnag
district, south Kashmir.
• Other festival of J&K - Bahu Mela (Hindu festival in Bahu Fort in Jammu), Tulip Festival at
Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden in Srinagar, Shikara Festival at Dal Lake
• J&K Accession Day – 27 October 1947

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• J&K Reorganization Act – 9 August 2019

15. Tamil Nadu has inaugurated first of its kind liquified compressed natural gas station in
Ranipet district.

16. Delhi government has launched 'Delhi e-monitoring' app to monitor the ongoing and
upcoming development projects across the union territory.

17. Odisha Government, in partnership with FIFA, has launched the Football For All Initiative to
promote football among the school children.
• FIFA is sponsoring this initiative in partnership with Kalinga Institute of Industrial
Technology and Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences.
• Under this initiative, footballs will be distributed among the school children.

18. Eknath Shinde faction of Shivsena has named itself as Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena.
• Election Commission of India has also allotted the poll symbol of ‘two swords and a
shield’ to this new party.

19. Coal India Ltd and Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd have signed an MOU for
setting up 1190 MW solar power plant in Bikaner.

20. Himachal Pradesh government has launched the HIMCAD scheme for faster implementation
of Har Khet Ko Pani component of Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY).
• This scheme will provide end-to-end connectivity of farmers' fields for better water
conservation, crop diversification and integrated farming.

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21. An Ethiopian delegation led by the country’s Agricultural Minister Dr Meles Mekonen Yimer
has visited Andhra Pradesh to study the first-of-its kind Rythu Bharosa Kendras (RBKs),
which have been set up by the Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government.
• The Ethiopian delegation will visit several RBKs and understand how they function.
• Ethiopia and Andhra Pradesh govt have signed an MOU to provide training to Ethiopian
officials on operation of RBKs, and share knowledge about the farming systems in the
state.
• The RBKs (set up for the first time in the country) are single-window service centres for
farmers that have been set up across the state of Andhra Pradesh.
• RBKs sell pre-tested quality seeds, certified fertilisers and animal feed.
• Farmers can purchase or hire farm equipment, and even sell their produce at the prevailing
MSP in the RBKs.

22. World Bank has extended an unconditional loan of $250 million to the Supporting
Andhra’s Learning Transformation (SALT) project.
• SALT aims to transform the state’s school education system by strengthening the quality of
foundational learning by improving teacher professional development, classroom-based
assessments and early childhood education.
• Leadership For Equity has been selected as a technical partner for SALT.
• The project was launched in 2021 for a period of 5 years.

23. Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio has launched the first of its kind, Chief Minister's
Health Insurance Scheme (CMHIS)
• The Oriental Insurance Company Limited will be the insurance partner of the govt.

24. Rajmata Vijayaraje Scindia Airport is being developed in Gwalior city, Madhya Pradesh.

25. Assam celebrated the Kati Bihu festival. The festival is also known as Kongali Bihu.
• Bihu is the most important festival of Assam. It is celebrated three times.
• Rongali' or 'Bohag Bihu' is observed in April, 'Kongali' or 'Kati Bihu' is observed in October,
and 'Bhogali' or 'Magh Bihu' is observed in January.

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26. Madhya Pradesh Wildlife Board has approved a new tiger reserve named Durgavati Tiger
Reserve.
• This new reserve will be home for the tigers of Panna Tiger Reserve (PTR), one-fourth of
which will get submerged due to the linking of the Ken-Betwa rivers.
• It will be the fourth tiger reserve of Uttar Pradesh.
• At present, a total of 56 tiger reserves are there in India (including Durgavati).
• New Tiger Reserves of 2022 - Guru Ghasidas National Park and Tamor Pingla Wildlife
Sanctuary (Chhattisgarh); Sunabeda (Odisha), and Male Mahedeshwara Hills (Karnataka)

27. Tech Mahindra has signed an MOU with the Gujarat government to build cutting-edge digital
engineering services in the state to provide employment to the people.
• UAE-based billionaire Yussuf Ali's Lulu Group International will set up India’s biggest
shopping mall at Ahmedabad at a cost of Rs 3000 crores.

28. Assam has launched the “Trees Outside Forests in India” (TOFI) programme, in
collaboration with US Agency for International Development (USAID) to expand tree
coverage outside the traditional forest areas in the north-eastern state.
• It aims to promote agroforestry in the state, in partnership with private players.

29. Tamil Nadu government has launched a State-Level Committee for Vulture Conservation
(SLCVC) for coordination within the government for the implementation of the Action Plan for
Vulture Conservation (APVC) 2020-2025.
• The committee will be headed by the principal chief conservator of forests of the state.

30. Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has launched the 'Kunjapp', a mobile application to
prevent cyber-crimes against children in the state.

31. Karnataka Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot has given his assent to the ordinance seeking
to increase the reservation for the Scheduled Castes from 15% to 17% and the Scheduled
Tribes from 3% to 7% in the state.

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32. Delhi L-G Vinay Kumar Saxena has launched the ‘Strengthening & Augmentation of
Municipal Revenue for Infrastructure Development in Delhi (SAMRIDDHI)’ scheme to
provide a major relief to property owners across the national capital.
• Under the scheme, people will have to pay the principal amount of the current and pending
past five years for residential properties, and six years for commercial properties.
• Benefit - waiver on entire penalty and interest

33. Maharashtra became the first state in India to develop a website-based Migration Tracking
System (MTS) application to track the movement of migrant workers through individual
unique identity numbers.
• Purpose - to ensure the continuity of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) for
migrant beneficiaries, such as children under the age of 18, lactating mothers, and pregnant
women who are registered with Anganwadi centres

34. Rajasthan government has signed an MOU with Jakson Green, a clean energy subsidiary of
the Jakson Group, to set up a 0.36-million-ton green hydrogen and green ammonia plant at
the cost of Rs 22,400 crore in the state.
• Jakson Group is a solar energy company in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
• Jakson Green will set up the 3,65,000 tons per annum green hydrogen and green ammonia
plant along with an integrated hybrid renewable power complex in a phased manner.

35. Meghalaya govt has signed an MOU with the North Eastern Electric Power Corporation
Limited (NEEPCO), a CPSE under Ministry of Power, for ensuring a speedy development of
hydro projects in the state.

36. Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has launched a common credit portal named ‘SAFAL'
(Simplified Application for Agricultural Loans) for the welfare of farmers.
• The facility will enable farmers and Agri-entrepreneurs to access more than 300 term loan
products of over 40 banks.

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AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT

1. The Department of Agriculture, Farmers Welfare and the National Agricultural
Cooperative Marketing Federation of India has signed an MOU to promote millets towards
the celebration of the international year of millets in 2023.
• India celebrated the National Year of Millets in 2018.

2. Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) has organised the ‘Kisan Sampark Yatra’
during September 27-29 in the rice growing region of Haryana and Punjab to obtain farmers’
feedback on the three newly released IARI Basmati varieties.
• The IARI had distributed 1 kg per acre seeds of the newly developed disease resistant
Basmati rice to farmers during the Krishi Vigya Mela held at Pusa, New Delhi earlier this
year for cultivation.

3. India has emerged as the world's largest producer and consumer of sugar and its second-
largest exporter in the sugar season (October-September) 2021-22.

4. Department of Food and Public Distribution, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and
Public Distribution (Minister: Piyush Goyal) has extended the timeline for disbursement of
loans under the “Scheme for extending financial assistance to sugar mills for
enhancement and augmentation of ethanol production capacity” till March 31, 2023.
• The scheme was first notified in 2018 to facilitate entrepreneurs to complete their projects.
• The ministry has asked the beneficiaries of the scheme to complete the projects within two
and a half years from the date of disbursement of the first instalment of loan from the bank.
• Currently, interest subvention at 6% per annum or 50% of the rate of interest charged by
banks, whichever is lower, is available to sugar mills for five years, including a one-year
moratorium.
• Ethanol production capacities are required to be enhanced to about 1,016 crore litres
per annum to achieve a 20% blending target by 2025.

5. According to the Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA), India's sugar production is
projected to be 36.5 million tonnes in the 2022-23 marketing season (October-September).
• The increase would be equivalent to 2% compared to the year-ago period.
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• Sugar output in Uttar Pradesh is estimated to be 12.3 million tonnes, Maharashtra at 15

million tonnes and Karnataka at 7 million tonnes during the 2022-23 season.
• Since the target of 12% blending is expected to be achieved, sugar diversion towards the
production of ethanol is estimated to be higher by 32% at 45 lakh tonnes in the current
season as against 34 lakh tonnes during the 2021-22 season.
• A total of about 545 crore litres of ethanol would be required and supplied during the
current season.

6. Central Govt has increased the Minimum Support Price for six rabi crops, which are lentil
(Masur), wheat, barley, gram, rapeseed/mustard and safflower for the 2023-24 marketing
season.

7. Australia has approved the commercial cultivation of the genetically modified Indian
mustard species called ‘Brassica juncea’ for herbicide tolerance.
• It is the first time a genetically modified variety of Indian mustard has received commercial
approval anywhere in the world.
• So far, the canola (Brassica napus) is perhaps the only genetically modified mustard variety
that has been cleared for commercial application.

8. The Central Govt has officially restricted the use of the widely used herbicide named
glyphosate, fearing risk to human and animal health.
• From now, glyphosate will be applied only through pest control operators (PCOs).

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• The herbicide is applied on the leaves to kill both broadleaf plants and grasses.

9. Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare has released the 3rd Advance Estimates of
the area and production of various horticultural crops for the year 2021-22.
• The total horticulture production is estimated to be 342.33 million tonnes in the year
2021-22, showing an increase of about 7.73 million tonnes (an increase of 2.3%) over the
year 2020-21 (final).

• Total fruit production in 2020-21 - 107.24 million tonnes

• Total vegetable production in 2020-21 - 204.84 million tonnes

DEFENCE NEWS
1. India has signed an agreement with Armenia to export missiles, rockets and ammunition,
including indigenous Pinaka multi-barrel rocket launchers, to the latter.
● Background – recent clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan

2. Indian Air force has commissioned its MIG-21 squadron named 'Swordarms' based in
Jammu and Kashmir.
● This squadron has been replaced by the MIG-29 squadron.
● Currently, the Indian Air force has three mig 21 squadrons.

3. The seven defence PSUs, which were carved out from the erstwhile ordnance factory board,
have projected a sales target of Rs 17000 crores for 2022-23.
● The seven new DPSUs are -
o Munitions India Limited (MIL);

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o Armoured Vehicles Nigam Limited (AVANI);

o Advanced Weapons and Equipment India Limited (AWE India);
o Troop Comforts Limited (TCL) (Troop Comfort Items);
o Yantra India Limited (YIL);
o India Optel Limited (IOL) and,
o Gliders India Limited (GIL)

4. Indian Navy has signed an agreement on White Shipping Information Exchange with the
Royal New Zealand Navy to promote greater transparency in the Maritime Domain.
• The white shipping information refers to the exchange of prior information on the movement
and identity of commercial non-military merchant vessels.

5. The first batch of indigenously-developed Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) named

"Prachand" has been inducted into the Indian Air Force at its Jodhpur Air Force Station.
• It has been manufactured by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL).

6. Ministry of Defence has renamed Faizabad Cantt. as Ayodhya Cantt.

7. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has performed 'Shastra Puja' (worship of weapons) on the
occasion of Vijaya Dashami at a military base in Uttarakhand's Auli Military Station.

8. DRDO has tested three remotely unmanned, weaponised boats at Bhama Askhed Dam in
Pune, Maharashtra.
• The boats were developed by Sagar Defence Engineering.

9. Indian Army's northern command has inducted Kalyani M4, an indigenous all-terrain high
mobility combat troop carrier with armour and mine protection, in Jammu and Kashmir.
• Kalyani M4 has been produced by Kalyani Group's Bharat Forge.

10. INS Tarkash has reached Port Gqeberha (also known as Port Elizabeth), South Africa to
participate in the 7th edition of IBSAMAR, a joint multinational maritime exercise among
Indian, Brazilian and South African Navies.

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• The Indian Navy is represented by the Teg class guided missile frigate, INS Tarkash, a
Chetak helicopter and the personnel from the Marine Commando Force (MARCOS).

11. Eastern Naval Command of the Indian Navy has conducted an offshore security exercise
named 'Prasthan' in the Krishna Godavari Basin Offshore Development Area (ODA) in
Andhra Pradesh.

12. On the 103rd birthday of late Lt Gen PS Bhagat, ex-Colonel Commandant of the Bombay
Sappers and SIKH LI Regiment, the Indian Army has dedicated a Chair of Excellence in his
memory at the United Service Institution of India (USI), New Delhi.

13. The Rosoboronexport (Aerospace and defense company of Russia) will offer its Sprut-SDM1
Light Amphibious Combat Vehicle to Indian Army.
• The Indian Army has recently started Project Zorawar to procure lightweight tanks to
enable faster mobilization and deployment in high-altitude conflict zones.
• At present, Indian Army has heavy tanks like T-72 and T-90.
• The Sprut can be transferred by military cargo planes, landing ships, or by parachuting with
a crew. The tank has a range of 500 kilometres without refuelling.

14. The 12th edition of the biennial DefExpo is organized at Mahatma Mandir Convention and
Exhibition Centre in Gandhinagar, Gujarat on the theme of ‘Path to Pride’.
• For the first time, states and union territories will be setting up pavilions during the event.
• At the exhibition, the 2nd edition of the India-Africa Defence Dialogue will be organized,
which will witness the participation of defence ministers of various African countries.
o Theme of India-Africa Defence Dialogue – Adopting a Strategy for Synergizing
and Strengthening Defence and Security Cooperation
• India-Africa Security Fellowship Program was launched to give opportunities for African
scholars to conduct research on defence and security aspects in India.
• The indigenous Basic Trainer Aircraft HTT-40, manufactured by Hindustan Aeronautics
Limited, will be unveiled during the DefExpo.
• The “Invest for Defence” platform has been launched to encourage investments in the
defence sector.

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15. BrahMos Aerospace has signed its first export deal of $375 million with the Philippines for
the sale of BrahMos nuclear capable supersonic cruise missiles.
• BrahMos’s export potential is worth $5 billion by 2025.
• BrahMos is a joint venture between India (50.5% stake) and Russia (49.5% stake).

16. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has laid the foundation stone for a new air base at Deesa in
Banaskantha district of north Gujarat near the India-Pakistan border.
• The air base, after its completion, will reduce the long pending strategic gap of 355 Kms
between the Air Force station in Bhuj and Uttarlai.

17. India and US navies organized the 2nd edition of the Indo-US Tri-Services Amphibious
HADR Exercise, named Tiger Triumph, at Vishakhapatnam.
• The exercise aims to consolidate interoperability and validate procedures for conducting
amphibious HADR operations in the aftermath of a natural calamity.
• HADR – Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief
Knowledge Nuggets –
• India–US Joint Military Exercise: Yudh Abhyas (army), Vajra Prahar (special forces),
Cope India (Air Force)
• Multilateral exercises: Malabar Exercise (Quadrilateral naval exercise of India, USA,
Japan and Australia); Red Flag (US’ multilateral air exercise)

18. ‘Agni Prime’ new generation ballistic missile was successfully test-fired off the coast of
Odisha from the APJ Abdul Kalam Island.
• Agni Prime is a new generation advanced variant of the Agni class of missiles with a range
capability between 1,000 and 2,000 km.

19. The Technology Development and Acceleration Cell of the Naval Innovation
Indigenisation Organisation (NIIO) under the Indian Navy and the Drone Federation of
India have partnered for promoting indigenous development, manufacturing and testing of a
drone, counter-drone, and associated technologies for the Navy.
• The Drone Federation of India is a non-government, not-for-profit, industry-led body.

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20. Indian and the US militaries will conduct the "Yudh Abhyas" exercise at Auli in
Uttarakhand, just 100 km from the Line of Actual Control (LAC), between November 15 and
December 2.

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
1. Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Ministry of External Affairs, has signed an
MOU with Google to ease searching the Internet in Sanskrit and provided 1 lakh commonly
used sentences in the language with their English and Hindi translations to Google.

2. Small farmer agri-business Consortium and Bayer's crop science limited (HQ-Germany)
have signed an MOU to form and promote 50 farmer producer organizations.

3. All India Institute of Ayurveda, Delhi has signed an MOU with the National Institute of
Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan for capacity development,
technological cooperation, and research in the field of Ayurveda.

4. Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), the National Standards Body of India has signed an
MoU with Testing, Inspection, Certification Council, India.
• Purpose - to promote and harmonise the implementation of standards and quality, safety
and sustainability practices in laboratories

5. NMDC (based in Hyderabad) has signed an MOU with the RailTel Corporation of India for
receiving the information and communication technology (ICT).

6. National Highways & Infrastructure Development Corporation Ltd (NHIDCL) has signed
an MOU with CSIR-CRRI, IIT Roorkee, IIT Kanpur and NSDC during the current year 2022-
23.
• NHIDCL, a central public sector enterprise under the Ministry of Road Transport and
Highways, has signed an MOU with the IIT-Patna for cooperation in innovative solutions for
highways construction.

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7. Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME) has signed an MOU with DAY-National
Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) to enable financial access for the growth of 10 lakh women
entrepreneurs over 3 years.

8. Garuda Aerospace and Lockheed Martin Canada CDL Systems have signed an MOU to
integrate Garuda Aerospace’s Made-In-India drones with Lockheed Martin Canada CDL
Systems’ advanced Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) software solutions for defence and
commercial purposes.

9. National Health Authority (NHA) and National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and
Healthcare Providers (NABH) have signed an MOU to expedite the implementation of
Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM).
• Purpose - to collaborate in the areas of capacity building, dissemination of information,
promotion of QCI (NABH) accreditation and ABDM standards, technical support, and
stakeholder advocacy

10. NTPC Limited has signed an MOU with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited, Japan and its
subsidiary Mitsubishi Power India Private Limited.
• Purpose - to demonstrate the feasibility for hydrogen co-firing blended with natural gas in
MHI 701D gas turbines installed at NTPC Auraiya gas power plant in Uttar Pradesh
• The total installed capacity of the Auraiya gas power plant is 663 MW with four gas turbines
operating in combined cycle mode.

11. Navratna defence PSU Bharat Electronics Ltd has signed an MOU with US-based Triton
Electric Vehicle for manufacturing Hydrogen fuel cells with technology transfer from the
latter to meet the requirements of the Indian market and mutually agreed export markets.

12. NLC India Ltd has signed an MOU with National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE) for
strategic collaboration in developing onshore and offshore wind power projects in India.
• NIWE is an autonomous R&D institution under the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
(MNRE).

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INTERNATIONAL NEWS
1. Central Govt, World Bank, and Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) will
launch a $1 billion fund to provide guarantees against loan default to lenders financing the
purchase of electric two- and three-wheelers.
● The entities will initially set up a $300 million “first loss risk sharing instrument”.

2. Iran has launched a space tug capable of shifting satellites between orbits.

3. International Finance Corporation has launched a new $6 billion financing facility to

strengthen the private sector’s ability to respond to the crisis and help support food production.
• This financing will be provided through the new Global Food Security Platform to support
sustainable production and delivery of food stocks to countries affected by food instability.
• The $6 billion fund will be used to support private sector companies along the food value
chain by leveraging IFC’s sectoral expertise in agribusiness, manufacturing, infrastructure,
and technology, as well as the financial sector and trade finance.

4. UN General Assembly’s 77th session was organized on the theme of “A watershed

moment: transformative solutions to interlocking challenges”.
• International Finance Facility for Education was launched with initial funding of $2
billion. The facility will expand to $10 billion by 2030.
• 4th India-CARICOM (Caribbean Community and Common Market) Foreign Ministers’
meeting was also organized on the sidelines of the UNGA.
• India-CELAC (Community of Latin American and the Caribbean States) Quartet Meeting
was also held on the sidelines of UNGA in New York.

5. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has unveiled the latest prototype of Optimus – a humanoid robot.

6. An international team of researchers has found new evidence for the possible existence of
liquid water beneath the south polar ice cap of Mars.
• The results are published in the journal Nature Astronomy.
• The University of Cambridge led this research.

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7. The European Parliament has approved new rules to introduce the world’s first single
charging port in the European Union for mobile phones, tablets and cameras by 2024.
• It aims to minimize e-waste and empower customers to make more sustainable choices.

8. Ministerial dialogue of the US-India Strategic Clean Energy Partnership (USISCEP) will be
held in the United States from October 7 to 11 this year.
• The Ministerial Dialogue will be co-chaired by Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas
and Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri and US Secretary of Energy Jennifer
Granholm.

Outcomes of the Dialogue –

• A new Energy Storage Task Force has been set up to accelerate the transition to
renewable energy. It will also help India in achieving the NDC of 50% renewable energy in
total energy production.
• An MOU was signed to reduce methane emissions in the city gas distribution sector in
India.
• Under the US-India Partnership to Advance Clean Energy Research (PACE-R), both
countries are working on developing technologies for carbon capture, smart grid
implementation, and energy storage capacities.

About the US-India Strategic Clean Energy Partnership (USISCEP) –

• The USISCEP was launched based on the US-India Climate and Clean Energy Agenda
Partnership 2030, which was launched by US President Joe Biden and Indian PM
Narendra Modi at the Leaders’ Summit on Climate Change in April 2021.
• The USISCEP focuses on 5 pillars – responsible oil and gas pillar, power and energy
efficiency pillar, renewable energy pillar, sustainable growth pillar and emerging fuels and
technologies pillar.

9. 8th G20 Parliamentary Speaker’s Summit was held in Jakarta, Indonesia.

• The Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla attended the summit.
• The parliaments of the G-20 countries are organised as P-20. It accounts for 80% of global
GDP and 75% of global trade. It also accounts for two-thirds of the world’s population.

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10. Samantha Cristoforetti (Italy) has taken over as the head of the International Space
Station.
• She is a European Space Agency astronaut.

11. Kerch Bridge/Crimean Bridge has collapsed due to a fuel tank explosion.

12. Historians in Egypt are currently demanding the return of the Rosetta Stone from the British
Museum.
• The Rosetta Stone is a large stone slab that dates back to 196 BC.

13. Kyrgyzstan has called off military exercise named Indestructible Brotherhood-2022.
• The Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) was conducting this exercise in the
Central Asian country from October 10 to 14.
• CSTO is a 6-member security alliance among Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan,
Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.

CSTO -
• Entered into force in 1994
• Founding Members - Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
• Current Members – Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Belarus
• The Organization received an Observer status in the UN General Assembly in 2004.
• Collective Security Council is the apex body, consisting heads of the govt of member
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• Article 4 of the treaty – “If one of the States Parties is subjected to aggression by any state
or group of states, then this will be considered as aggression against all States Parties to
this Treaty.”
• CSTO is a security alliance. It also works against drug smuggling, illegal migration, border
infiltration etc. It also works for increasing military cooperation and assisting disaster relief
work.

14. Russia has launched its Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying the GLONASS-K navigation system
from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia.
• GLONASS-K is a navigation satellite intended as a part of the Russian GLONASS radio-
based satellite navigation system.

15. The annual meetings of the IMF-World Bank and G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank
Governor (FMCBG) will be held from October 11 to October 16 in New York.

16. NASA has announced to launch Dragonfly Rotorcraft on Titan -the largest moon of Saturn
- in 2027.
• It is expected to land on the Selk crater region on Titan in 2034.
• It will be the first flying machine to be launched by humans in the outer solar system.
• It would research on the composition of Titan.

17. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has organised 'Steadfast Noon' nuclear
exercise in Belgium.
• The exercise witnessed the participation of fighter jets capable of carrying nuclear
warheads and other such weapons. However, there will not be any live bombing.
• 14 out of the 30 members of NATO participated in the exercise, which is expected to be
held a thousand km away from Russia.
• Finland and Sweden have not yet joined NATO.

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18. China has launched its first space-based solar telescope named Advanced Space-based
Solar Observatory (ASO-S), nicknamed Kuafu-1, aboard the Long March-2D carrier rocket
from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.
• ASO-S is China’s first full-scale satellite dedicated to researching the Sun.
• It is the world’s first solar telescope capable of simultaneously monitoring both solar flares
and coronal mass ejections.
• India is planning to launch a similar solar mission in 2023 called Aditya-L1 to research the
solar atmosphere.

19. UN General Assembly of 193-member has elected Algeria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Chile,
Costa Rica, Georgia, Germany, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Morocco, Romania, South Africa,
Sudan, and Vietnam to serve for a period of three years at the Geneva-based UN Human
Rights Council, starting in January 2023.

20. The World Economic Forum announced the addition of 11 factories and industrial sites,
including three from India, to its Global Lighthouse Network.
• From India, the additions are pharma major Cipla's Indore facility, Dr Reddy's
Laboratories' Hyderabad facility and the Mondelez facility in Sri City have been added.
• Hindustan Unilever Ltd.’s Davada factory has joined the WEF’s Sustainability Lighthouse
initiative.

21. Israel and Lebanon have signed a historic agreement to resolve the maritime border dispute,
which is mediated by the US.

22. UNDP has partnered with an integrated grain commerce platform named Arya.ag and Friends
of Women's World Banking India (FWWB India) for agri-value chain intervention, enterprise
promotion and skilling in the agriculture sector.
• UNDP is implementing Project Excel in Jamnagar and Dwaraka Devbhumi districts of
Gujarat to improve the incomes of 10,000 farmer households through enterprise promotion,
agri-value chain interventions, skilling, employment and social protection.
• This partnership aims to create a group of community resource persons for mentoring and
supporting entrepreneurs and promoting individual and group enterprises by December
2023.
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23. 6th Summit of the Conference of Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia
(CICA) was held in Astana (Kazakhstan) on 12-13 October 2022.
• India was represented by Minister of State for External Affairs Smt. Meenakashi Lekhi.

24. The 6th East Asia Summit Education Minister’s Meeting was held in Hanoi, Vietnam. India
participated in the meeting.

25. Anna May Wong, a Chinese-American movie star in Hollywood, is set to become the first
Asian-American to feature in US currency.

26. Pakistan and China have decided to launch three new corridors, besides the China-Pakistan
Economic Corridor (CPEC), which are -
• China-Pakistan Green Corridor (CPGC) - focusing on agriculture
• China-Pakistan Health Corridor (CPHC) - focusing on medical health
• China-Pakistan Digital Corridor (CPDC) - focusing on IT

27. Minister of State for External Affairs V. Muraleedharan has participated in the ‘Dakar
International Forum on Peace and Security in Africa’ in Senegal.

28. New Zealand has passed the Plain Language Act to ensure the use of easy and
understandable English in official documents for the benefit of common people.

29. Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has removed Pakistan from its “Countries with
Strategic Deficiencies” list (also known as the “grey list”) on October 21, 2022.
• Myanmar has been blacklisted by FATF and Pakistan has been removed from the grey
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• The decision was taken at the 1st plenary meeting of FATF at its headquarters in Paris,
under the Presidency of T Raja Kumar (of Singapore).

Knowledge Nuggets –
• The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is an inter-governmental body for monitoring
global money laundering and terrorist financing.
• FATF was set up in 1989.

30. 7th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Asian Infrastructure Investment
Bank (AIIB) was hosted virtually on the theme of “Sustainable Infrastructure Toward a
Connected World”.
• Union Minister of Finance & Corporate Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman gave her opinions
on the Roundtable Discussion on the theme “Financing Infrastructure in a Crisis-Prone
World”.

31. The second edition of G20 Health Ministers Meeting was held in Bali, Indonesia.

REPORTS AND INDICES

1. 15th Global Innovation Index 2022 has been released by the Geneva-based World
Intellectual Property Organization.

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● Total – 132 countries

● Top – Switzerland (score 64.6)

● India’s rank – 40th (score 36.6)

● Bottom – Guinea (score 11.6)

● Parameters -
o Science and innovation investments
o Technological progress
o Technology adoption
o Socioeconomic impact

2. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has released the
“Trade and Development Report 2022”.
• GDP forecasts -

3. World Bank has released the “Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2022: Correcting Course”
report to assess the COVID pandemic’s impact on poverty in developing countries.

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• The pandemic pushed over 719 million people (9.3% of the global population) were living
in extreme poverty.
• The poverty alleviation efforts have been overturned by the pandemic.
• Extreme poverty is defined as the number of people living on less than $2.15 per day.

4. World Economic Forum (WEF) has released the ‘Education 4.0 Report’, in collaboration
with United Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) and YuWaah (Generation
Unlimited India).
• According to this report, the school-to-work (S2W) transition process is facing many hurdles
in India.
o School-to-work (S2W) transition refers to the process of making students job-ready
in a rapidly evolving employment landscape.
• India has more than 60 million secondary and higher secondary students, but 85% of
schools are yet to implement vocational courses as part of their curriculum.
• The Education 4.0 India initiative was launched in May 2020 and has convened over 40
partners from the education technology, government, academic and start-up communities.
o The initiative focuses on how the fourth industrial revolution technologies can
enhance learning and reduce inequalities in access to education among children in
India.

5. UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization released the “Global Forest Sector Outlook
2050” report at the 26th Session of the Food and Agriculture Organization Committee on
Forestry in Rome (its headquarters).
• Consumption of primary processed wood products is expected to increase to 3.1 billion
cubic metres (BCM) by 2050 from 2.2 BCM in 2020.
• There are 45 million ha agroforestry and 7 million ha rubber plantations across the globe,
which can be further increased during agricultural expansion for food production.
• The forest sector expects the forests will create 1 million jobs.

6. Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index (CRII) has been released by Oxfam

International and Development Finance International (DFI).
• Parameters – public services (health, education, and social protection), taxation and
workers' rights
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• Total – 161 countries

• Top – Norway
• India’s rank – 123rd (129th in 2020)
• India's health spending is 3.64% of total spending, lowest out of all BRICS and
neighbouring countries.

7. Worldwide Fund for Nature has released the 14th edition of "Living Planet Report 2022".
• According to the report, 69% of the wildlife population of mammals, birds, amphibians,
reptiles, and fishes has declined on average since 1970.
• Latin America and the Caribbean region have experienced the greatest decline of 94%.
• Freshwater species' population has decreased by 83% globally.
• Mangroves continue to disappear at a rate of 0.13% annually due to human activities.
• The report is based on the Living Planet Index released by the Zoological Society of
London.

8. The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI) has organised a seminar on "Understanding
Lead Poisoning Prevalence in India" in New Delhi, in collaboration with Pure Earth (an
international non-profit organisation).
• NITI Aayog and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have released
"Assessment of Lead Impact on Human and India's Response" report in July 2022.
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• According to the report, India accounts for the World's Highest Health and Economic
Burden due to lead poisoning.
• 26% of the global deaths caused by lead exposure take place in India annually. Besides,
50% of children have elevated blood lead levels globally.
• 23 states in India have higher blood lead levels than the average of 5 microgram per
decilitre and 4.9 microgram per decilitre for children less than 2 years old.
• Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, and Andhra Pradesh
account for the highest average blood Lead levels i.e., more than 7 microgram per decilitre.
• 40% of India population with poor health indicators resides in these States.
• Annually, India loses $236 billion in GDP, (5% of the total GDP), due to lead poisoning in
children.

9. TIMES World University Ranking 2023 has been released.

• Total -1799 universities across 104 countries and regions
• Top - University of Oxford, followed by Harvard University at 2nd position, University of
Cambridge and Stanford University at 3rd position
• India - IISc-Bangalore in 251-300, followed by JSS Academy of Higher Education and
Research in Mysore and Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management Sciences
Himachal Pradesh in 351-400

10. Ministry of Commerce and Industry has released the Logistics Ease Across Different
States (LEADS) Report 2022.
• The LEADS is an indigenous data-driven index to assess logistics infrastructure, services,
and human resources across all 36 States and UTs.
• States have been now classified under four categories viz coastal states, hinterland/
landlocked states, north-eastern states, and Union Territories.
• Parameters – Infrastructure (4 sub-indicators), Services (7 sub-indicators), and Operating
& Regulatory Environment (4 sub-indicators)
• Three performance categories -

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11. Concern Worldwide and Welt Hunger Hilfe have released the Global Hunger Index 2022.
• Total – 121 countries
• Top -

• Bottom rankers -

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• Global average score -

• Parameters -

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12. Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2022 has been released by the UN Development
Program and Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative.
• Title - Unpacking deprivation bundles to reduce multidimensional poverty
• Any household earning below $1.90 per day is considered poor.

Global Scenario –
• Across 111 countries, 1.2 billion people—19.1% of the total global population—live in
acute multidimensional poverty. Half of these people (593 million) are children under
age 18.
• Poorest regions - Sub-Saharan Africa (nearly 579 million), followed by South Asia (385
million)

India’s Case –
Good News
• India - 415 million people exited poverty
between 2005/06 and 2019/21
• India’s MPI Score - 0.069
Bad News
• The 2019/2021 data show that about
16.4% of India’s population lives in
poverty. An additional 18.7% is
classified as vulnerable to
multidimensional poverty.
• India is the only country in South Asia
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• The poorest states reduced poverty the
fastest, and deprivations in all indicators
fell significantly among poor people
• Poverty among children fell faster in
absolute terms, although India still has
the highest number of poor children
in the world (97 million, or 21.8% of
children ages 0–17 in India)
• India has achieved the Sustainable
Development Goal target 1.2.
• SDG 1 – No Poverty; Targets –
• India’s comparison with other South-Asian countries –
prevalent among female-headed
households (19.7%) than among male-
headed households (15.9%).
• The intensity of deprivation in India,
which is the average deprivation score
among people living in multidimensional
poverty, is 42%.
• India has by far the largest number of
poor people worldwide (228.9 million),
followed by Nigeria (96.7 million
projected in 2020)
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About the Report –

• The Covid-19 pandemic has pushed the reduction in poverty level back to 10 years. The
data after Covid-19 pandemic has not been taken into consideration.

13. National Statistical Office (NSO) has released a report on value of output from
agriculture, forestry and fishing sectors.
• Andhra Pradesh has registered more than 90% growth in nine years to 2019-20, the
highest among all the states, with ₹2 lakh crore approx. combined gross value output
(GVO) in the agriculture, forestry and fishing sectors.
• Andhra Pradesh recorded 92.4% growth in GVO of the agriculture, forestry and fishing
sectors but its growth in crops (agri and commercial both) was 48%.
• Madhya Pradesh was the top State in recording the highest 56.7% growth in only crops
(agri and commercial both) in 2019-20.
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• Kerala is the only state to have recorded negative growth of over 10%.
• The GVO was higher than the growth at the national level in as many as 10 States,
including Tripura and Mizoram and two union territories — Lakshadweep and Daman and
Diu.
• The all-India GVO in agri- and allied sectors was 30.6% up at Rs 24 lakh crore approx. in
2019-20 against ₹19 lakh crore in 2011-12.

14. Bengaluru-based think-tank Public Affairs Centre (PAC) has released the 7th edition of the
Public Affairs Index in 2022.
• The states are divided into large (18 states) and small (10 states) categories. UTs were
not counted in this index.
• Parameters - social, economic, and political justice
Category Rank States
1st Haryana (score 0.6948)
2nd Tamil Nadu
3rd Kerala
.
.
Large State 6th Karnataka (score 0.6216)
.
.
.
16th Maharashtra
17th West Bengal
18th Jharkhand
1st Sikkim (score of 0.5715)
Small State 2nd Himachal Pradesh
3rd Uttarakhand

15. The Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations Environment Programme, World
Organisation for Animal Health, and the World Health Organization (WHO) have released
the One Health Joint Plan of Action (2022-2026).

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• Concept of One Health – Human, Animal, and Environment health is interconnected

16. The Global Pension Index survey (MCGPI) has been released by Mercer, CFA Institute,
and Monash Centre for Financial Studies.
• Total – 44 (~ 65% of the world’s population)
• Top - Iceland, followed by Netherlands, and Thailand
• India’s rank - 41st (score 44.4)
o India’s score parameter-wise – adequacy (37.6), sustainability (40.7), and integrity
(60.4)
• Bottom - Thailand
• Parameters - adequacy, sustainability, and integrity
• Portugal was added for the first time in this index.

17. World Economic Forum, in collaboration with Adani Group and Centre for Fourth
Industrial Revolution-India, has released a report titled “Using Technology to Improve a
Billion Livelihoods” report.
• As per this report, drones can help in the modernization of agriculture and can increase the
GDP by 1-1.5%, along with the generation of at least 5 lakh new jobs.
• The digital tech-based agriculture's value/worth can increase to $65 billion by 2025.

18. US-based Freedom House has released its annual Freedom in the World report for 2022.
• The index is divided into three parts, which are the Global Freedom index, Internet
Freedom index, and Democracy index.
Global Freedom Index -
• Total – 210 countries
• Top – Norway, Finland, and Sweden (score 100)

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• India’s rank – 66th (partly free)

o The parameter-wise rank of India is Political Liberty (33) and Civil Liberties
(33).
• Bottom – Syria, Tibet (region), and South Sudan
• Parameters – Political and Civil Liberties
Internet Freedom Index -
• Total – 70 countries
• Top – Iceland
• India’s rank – 51st
o Obstacles to Access -13th
o Limit on Content - 21st
o Violation of User Rights – 17th
• Bottom – China
• Parameters – Obstacles to Access, Limit on Content, and Violation of User Rights
Democracy scores –
• Total – 29
• Top – Estonia (consolidated democracy)
• India – Not ranked
• Bottom – Turkmenistan (authoritarian)

19. Climate Transparency has released the “Climate Transparency Report 2022”.
• The analysis covers adaptation, mitigation and finance, with 20 detailed country profiles of
all G20 members and a summary of key findings. In 2022, the report especially highlights
the link between the climate emergency and energy crisis.
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• India related facts –

• Over 1.7 million people die in India every year due to stroke, heart disease, lung cancer and
chronic respiratory diseases as a result of outdoor air pollution. This is the highest death
rate in the G20.

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20. UNICEF has released “The coldest year of the rest of their lives” report for the first time.
• As per the report, around 559 million children are exposed to high heatwave frequency.
• Around 624 million children are exposed to one of three other high heat measures - high
heatwave duration, high heatwave severity or extremely high temperatures.
• By 2050, virtually every child on earth – over 2 billion children – is forecast to face more
frequent heatwaves, regardless of whether the world achieves a ‘low greenhouse gas
emission scenario’ with an estimated 1.7 degrees of warming in 2050 or a ‘very high
greenhouse gas emission scenario’ with an estimated 2.4 degrees of warming in 2050.

21. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has released the
2022 NDC synthesis report ahead of the COP 27 in Egypt in November 2022.
• The report assesses the performance of countries towards achieving the targets under the
Nationally Determined Contributions.

22. International Energy Agency (IEA) has released its World Energy Outlook 2022.
• In this decade, the energy demand is likely to rise 3% annually due to urbanisation and
industrialisation.
• Renewable energy meets more than 60% of the growth in demand for power and accounts
for 35% of the electricity mix by 2030 -- solar PV alone accounts for more than 15%.

23. United Nations Environment Programme has released the “Emissions Gap Report 2022:
The Closing Window”.
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• At 2.4 tCO2e (tonne carbon dioxide equivalent), India’s per capita greenhouse gas
emissions were far below the world average of 6.3 tCO2e in 2020.

24. Stanford University Rankings 2022 has been released. Around 50 experts from Pune have
featured in the list containing top 2% scientists around the world.
• Dr Thanu Padmanabhan, the late theoretical physicist from Inter-University Centre for
Astronomy and Astrophysics, has earned the top rank in India.
• Dr Sundeep Salvi, director of Pulmocare Research and Education (PURE) Foundation, is
ranked 50th.

BANKING AND ECONOMY

1. Bombay Stock Exchange has received the final approval from SEBI for introducing the
Electronic Gold Receipt (EGR) on its platform.
● Purpose – The EGR platform will lead to greater assurance in the quality of gold supplied,
efficient price discovery, and transparency in transacting.
● Participants – EGRs will cater to all market participants, which means that buyers and
sellers on the exchange will include individual investors, as well as commercial participants
along the value chain like importers, banks, refiners, bullion traders, jewellery
manufacturers, and retailers

2. DBS Bank India has partnered with HDFC ERGO and Atradius to provide Trade Credit
Insurance solution to Tata Metaliks, a pioneer in manufacturing pig iron and DI pipes in
India.
● Purpose – to enable corporates to transfer the risk of their account receivables onto an
insurer while getting financing against those insured receivables from a bank

3. GODI India has manufactured India's first ever 3000F high-power supercapacitors at their
Hyderabad facility for Electric Vehicle (EV) and Renewable Energy Storage System (ESS)
applications.

4. The Central Govt has announced to borrow Rs 5.92 lakh crore in the second half of FY23,
which is ₹10,000 crores lower than intended.

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● The second-half borrowing will include the first-ever green bonds, worth ₹16,000 crores.
● The government has budgeted a fiscal deficit of 6.4% of GDP in FY23.
● The Centre will also issue treasury bills worth Rs 22,000 crore every week in the third
quarter of FY23, amounting to the borrowing of Rs 2.86 lakh crore.

5. Ministry of Finance announced interest rates on small saving schemes for Q3 of 2022-23.
Category Interest Rates
Kisan Vikas Patra 7%
Senior Citizen Saving Scheme 7.6%
National Saving Certificate 6.8%
Public Provident Fund Scheme 7.1%
Sukanya Samriddhi Scheme 7.6%

6. RBI’s Monetary Policy Committee (September 2022) meeting update –

● Policy Rates -

7. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to implement card tokenisation from October 1 to
protect customers from cyber fraud.
● It is a common practice that payment platforms store card details at their end citing the
convenience of the customer and only ask for CVV number and OTP for making payments.

8. Karnataka bank has opened its analytical centre of excellence in Bengaluru to progress in
artificial intelligence and other emerging technology.

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9. Paytm Mall has become the first platform to go live on the open network for digital
commerce (ONDC) Beta version in Bangalore.

10. Adani green energy limited has commissioned the world's largest wind-solar power
project of 600 megawatt capacity at Jaisalmer, Rajasthan.

11. OneWeb has partnered with ISRO for launching OneWeb’s 36 Gen 1 low-earth orbit (LEO)
satellites aboard ISRO’s GSLV-Mk III.

12. RBI has categorised 16 large financial entities as upper-layer NBFCs.

• The 16 NBFCs in the list are
LIC Housing Finance Bajaj Finance Shriram Transport Tata Sons
Finance Company
L & T Finance Cholamandalam Indiabulls Housing Piramal Capital &
Investment and Finance Housing Finance
Finance Company
Shanghvi Finance Mahindra & Mahindra PNB Housing Finance Tata Capital Financial
Financial Services Services
Aditya Birla Finance HDB Financial Muthoot Finance Bajaj Housing
Services Finance
• As per the RBI’s framework, there are four categories of NBFCs - Base Layer (NBFC-BL),
Middle Layer (NBFC-ML), Upper Layer (NBFC-UL) and Top Layer (NBFC-TL).

13. Britannia has acquired 51% stake in Kenya's Kenafric Biscuits (KBL).
• Britannia has also taken over the Catalyst Britania Brands (CBBL).

14. Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has increased its shareholding in Dr Reddy's
Laboratories from 5.6% to 7.7%.

15. JSW Cement has raised Rs 400 crore from MUFG Bank India as its first sustainability-
linked loan.

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16. HDFC Life has launched the 'Insure India' campaign to educate Indians on the benefits of life
insurance.

17. Aditya Birla Health Insurance Co. Ltd. has launched 'Activ Fit' - a comprehensive health
insurance plan for young and healthy adults.

18. ICICI Bank UK PLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of ICICI Bank Ltd, has launched
‘HomeVantage Current Account’ (HVCA) for Indian students aspiring to study in the UK.
• It is specially designed to meet every student’s banking needs in the UK. The account
comes with a VISA debit card which can be used anywhere in the world.

19. National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has sanctioned Rs
221.99 crore to strengthen school infrastructure in rural schools in Punjab.

20. SIDBI and Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) have signed an MoU to create the SIDBI -D&B
Sustainability Perception Index (SIDBI – D&B SPeX).
• The survey will capture the sentiment of businesses on various business parameters to
provide valuable insights into the adoption of an ESG framework.

21. Exim Bank has extended a line of credit of USD 100 million to the Maldives for financing
developmental projects.
• Projects being funded through the LOCs include Greater Male' Connectivity Project, Water
and Sewerage Projects, Addu Development Project, International Cricket Stadium Project,
Defence projects, Gulhifalhu Port Project, Hanimaadhoo Airport Project, Gan Airport
Project, Fisheries Project, Road Construction Project and Sports Infrastructure.

22. SBI Foundation has launched the 4th phase of the ‘SBI Gram Seva’ program for adopting
30 remote villages across Aspirational Districts in six states (Haryana, Gujarat,
Maharashtra, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal).
• Launched in 2017, the program emphasizes on the holistic development of villages by
active intervention in areas like education, healthcare, livelihoods, and infrastructure.
• The program has so far adopted 100 villages across 16 States in 3 phases.

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23. Alphabet Inc's Google will set up its first cloud region in Greece to give a boost to the
country's efforts to become a world cloud computing hub.

24. Adani Enterprises, the flagship company of the Adani Group, has created Adani Disruptive
Ventures (ADVL), and Alwar Alluvial Resources (AARL).
• Purpose - to collaborate with businesses and entrepreneurs that are looking to create
solutions through disruptive technology, and help them scale up their ventures

25. National Payments Corporation of India and Central Bank of Oman has signed an MoU to
launch the Rupay debit card in Oman.

26. Karnataka Bank has launched a special campaign 'KBL Utsav 2022-23' for home loans, car
loans and gold loans from October 1 to 31 to cater to the demands of customers during the
festival season.

27. Amazon has announced the setting up of its first solar plant of 420 MW in India.

28. The Ministry of Finance has expanded the scope of the Emergency Credit Line Guarantee
Scheme (ECLGS) to enhance the maximum loan under the scheme.
• The loan limit under the scheme has been raised to ₹1,500 crores from ₹400 crores for the
civil aviation sector.

29. ICICI Bank has launched ‘Smart Wire’ online solution to help its customers carry out SWIFT-
based inward remittances in a faster and hassle-free manner.
• The facility allows both NRIs and resident customers to undertake inward remittance
transactions in an online and paperless way.

30. Unity Small Finance Bank has launched a special FD scheme named Shagun 501 on the
occasion of Dussehra and Diwali.
• The FD scheme offers a 7.90% interest rate for 501 days.

31. IDBI Bank has launched several digital solutions such as ONDC Sellers App to enable
merchants on-board onto the Open Network Digital Commerce (ONDC) platform.
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• IDBI Bank has also launched DigiKCC platform for digitization of the Kisan Credit Card
(KCC) loan process to make it more convenient for borrowers.
• IDBI Bank has upgraded its mobile banking app, GO Mobile+ for the benefit of its senior
citizen customers by introducing door-step banking under the ‘Naman’ page of the app.

32. HDFC Bank has partnered with Mintoak Innovations India to launch the SmartHub Vyapar
Merchant app, a payments and banking solution for small and medium-sized businesses.
• The app will enable merchants to accept interoperable payments across multiple payment
modes which include Cards, UPI and QR codes.

33. RBI has asked Credit Information Companies to designate an internal ombudsman (IO) by
April 1, 2023 too enhance the effectiveness of its grievance redressal systems.
• Currently, there are four CICs — Credit Information Bureau (India) Ltd (CIBIL), Equifax
Credit Information Services Pvt Ltd, Experian Credit Information Company of India Pvt Ltd
and CRIF High Mark Credit Information Services Pvt Ltd. – in India.

34. RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das has launched a new 'SupTech' initiative called DAKSH to
make the supervisory processes more robust.
• This application will act as the bank's advanced supervisory monitoring system, which will
help in improving the compliance culture in Supervised Entities (SEs) like Banks, NBFCs,
etc.

35. Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce
and Industry, has launched Credit Guarantee Scheme for Startups (CGS(CGSS) for
providing credit guarantees to loans extended by Scheduled Commercial Banks, NBFC and
SEBI registered Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs).
• Purpose - to provide credit guarantee up to a specified limit against loans extended by
Member Institutions (MIs) to finance eligible borrowers viz. Startups
• If the sanctioned loan amount is up to Rs 3 crores, the credit guarantee would be 80%. For
the amount of up to Rs 3-5 crores, the guarantee cover would be 75%, and 65% for the
loan between Rs 5-10 crores per borrower.
• The umbrella-based guarantee cover will provide a guarantee to Venture Debt Funds
(VDF) registered under AIF.
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• The extent of umbrella-based cover will be the actual losses or up to a maximum of 5%

of Pooled Investment on which cover is being taken from the fund in eligible startups,
whichever is lower, subject to a maximum of Rs.10 crore per borrower.

36. Central Government and LIC have announced the sale of a total of 60.72% stake in the IDBI
Bank.
• The government and LIC hold a 94.72% stake together in IDBI Bank.
• LIC holds 49.24% and govt holds a 45.48% stake in IDBI Bank. The remaining stake is held
by the public shareholders.

37. South Indian Bank has organized an event 'Onnichirikkam Oonjaladam' and was accoladed
with the World Book of Records award for 'staging and swinging 101 Oonjals'.
• South Indian Bank had yesterday for the first time organized a first-of-its-kind category
event 'Staging and Swinging 101 Oonjals' simultaneously at a single venue in Kochi.
• An Oonjal is a sturdy rectangular plank suspended by iron link chains hooked to the ceiling
of a hall or balcony.

38. NewSpace India limited, a CPSE under Department of Space, has signed an agreement with
OneWeb for launching the OneWeb LEO broadband communication satellite on the GSLV
Launch Vehicle Mark 3 (GSLV MK-III) - ISRO's heaviest launcher.

39. Life Insurance Corporation of India has reduced its stake in United Nilgiri Tea to 7.6%.

40. State Bank of India has unveiled its Next-Gen Contact Centre Service to provide enhanced
services and a good experience to customers.
• Customers can avail various services related to accounts ATM cards check book,
emergency services etc. through this service.

41. National Payment Corporation of India has launched the ‘NPCI Partner Program’ to
collaborate with the technology service providers, application service providers, and other
similar entities to explore new technological solutions.

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42. IDBI Bank has signed an MOU with Vayana Network for digitising the supply chain
financing and increasing its reach in India.
• Supply chain financing is a form of financial transaction wherein a third party (like a bank or
a lending institution) provides immediate liquidity to the suppliers on behalf of the customer
on the basis of the invoice.

43. Bombay Stock Exchange has got approval from SEBI for the social stock exchange as a
separate segment.
• Social enterprises (SEs) eligible to participate in the SSE will be entities, non-profit
organisations (NPOs) and for-profit social enterprises. Under the new rules, SSE will be a
separate segment of the existing stock exchanges.

44. RBI has cancelled the licence of Pune-based Seva Vikas Cooperative Bank due to its
insufficient capital.
• RBI has imposed a penalty of Rs 48 lakhs on Kerala State Cooperative Bank for its non-
compliance with the section 56 of the Banking Regulation Act of 1949.
• Section 56 applies to the cooperative societies.

45. Daksh Unmanned Systems Private Limited (a Chennai based students startup) has
developed India's First Petrol Operated Drone named as 'DH-Agrigator' for agriculture
use.
• The Daksh startup is also planning to set up its manufacturing unit at Ambattur in Chennai.

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• Madras Institute of Technology’s Aerospace Department has offered the research and
development support to the Daksh startup.
• Anna University is providing drone pilot training courses to the students who have
passed class 10th.

46. Mahendra Singh Dhoni has launched an indigenous camera drone named as 'Droni' during
the Global Drone Expo in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
• The drone has been manufactured by Garuda Aerospace Private Limited.
• MS Dhoni is the brand ambassador of the Garuda Aerospace.
• Garuda Aerospace has also developed the 'Kisan drone', a battery powered drone, to
spread pesticides on a land area of 30 acres per day for the agriculture use.

47. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has released the
Crypto Assets Reporting Framework (CARF), which calls for the reporting of the crypto data.
• The framework provides a definition of the crypto assets, crypto entities, and crypto
data that needs to be reported.
• Entities -The framework mandates the crypto asset firms (including crypto exchanges and
intermediaries like brokers) to report to the country in which they operate.
• Assets- The framework defines crypto assets as any assets that are held and transferred in
a decentralized manner without the involvement of traditional financial intermediaries. The
crypto assets include crypto derivatives, stable coins, and non-fungible tokens. The
framework does not include Central Bank digital currency and cryptography entities.
• Data- exchanges between crypto assets and Fiat currency, exchanges between one or
more types of crypto assets, use of crypto as a currency of exchange.

48. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced that managing directors (MDs) and chief
executive officers (CEOs) of asset reconstruction companies (ARCs) cannot have more
than 3 terms in office, with each term not exceeding five years.
• In addition, the retirement age of CEOs will be 70 years.
• Requirement of net-owned funds (NOFs) for ARCs has been increased to Rs 300 crore,
from the existing requirement of Rs 100 crore in a phased manner.
• NOF has been increased to Rs 200 crore by March 2024 and to Rs 300 crore by March
2026.
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49. RBI has modified and consolidated guidelines for banks on unhedged foreign currency
exposures of any entity to prevent losses due to heightened volatility in the forex market.
• The RBI has, from time to time, issued several guidelines, instructions and directives to the
banks on Unhedged Foreign Currency Exposure (UFCE) of the entities, which have
borrowed from banks.
• These instructions shall come into force from January 1, 2023.

50. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has allowed standalone primary dealers (SPD) to offer all
foreign exchange market-making facilities to users to provide broader facilities to customers
for currency risk management.
• At present, Standalone Primary Dealers (SPDs) are permitted to undertake foreign currency
business for limited purposes. Currently, there are seven SPDs and 14 bank primary
dealers in the country.
• SPDs will also be permitted to take up trading and self-clearing membership with Sebi-
approved stock exchanges and clearing corporations for undertaking proprietary
transactions in equity and equity derivatives market.

51. Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari launched Toyota’s first of its kind
pilot project on Flexi-Fuel Strong Hybrid Electric Vehicles in India.
• These vehicles will run on 100% petrol as well as 20% to 100% blended ethanol and
electric power.

52. Leading depository NSDL has acquired a 5.6% stake in the Union government's Open
Network for Digital Commerce for Rs 10 crore.

53. Tata Consultancy Service has enhanced its QuartzTM Solution to support banks in
implementing Central Bank Digital Currency.

54. JSW Steel has joined the UN Global Compact Network (the world's largest corporate
sustainability initiative).

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• Launched in 2000, the UNGC network aims to align companies’ strategies and operations
with universal principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, and take
actions that advance societal goals.

55. Dvara E-Dairy Solutions Pvt Ltd has launched ‘Dvara Surabhi Loan’, a digital loan facility,
in partnership with Jana Small Finance Bank, to finance the small dairy farmers in Tamil
Nadu and Karnataka.
• The Dvara Surabhi Loan is a tailored loan product for dairy farmers towards cattle purchase
and maintenance.

56. RBL Bank and BookMyShow have partnered to launch a new credit card, ‘Play’, to provide
attractive offers on movie ticket booking.

57. NPCI International Payments Ltd has partnered with Worldline to launch UPI services in
Europe.

58. National Securities Depository Limited has acquired a 5.6% stake in Open Network for
Digital Commerce for Rs 10 crores.

59. State Bank of India has surpassed the Rs 6 trillion benchmark in Assets Under
Management (AUM) in the home loan segment.

60. Paytm has partnered with the Jana Small Finance Bank to deploy Electronic Data Capture
machines at the point-of-sale terminals in merchants’ shops.
• The machine will capture the card data of customers for easy digital payments.

61. Adani Data Networks has received a licence from the Department of Telecommunications,
Ministry of Communications, for providing telecom network services in 6 circles.
• The states are Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, and Mumbai.

62. Coal India Limited has signed three MOUs with Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, and
Indian Oil Corporation Limited, and GAIL India limited for setting up surface coal
gasification projects.
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• Call gasification is the method of transforming coal and water into syngas, which is a
mixture of carbon monoxide, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapour. Call
gasification is done to generate electricity.
• Call gasification is considered cleaner than coal because in this process some of the
pollutants involved in coal are removed.

63. IRDAI has approved the acquisition of Exide Life Insurance by HDFC Life Insurance.

64. SEBI has re-constituted its Commodity Derivatives Advisory Panel to examine issues
related to contract designs and new products in the segment as well as advises on matters
related to delivery mechanism and warehouses.
• Chair - Ashok Dalwani (IAS)

65. SEBI has restructured its Advisory Committees on Alternative Investment Policy, chaired
by Infosys co-founder N R Narayana Murthy, to impact further development of the Alternative
Investment Fund (AIF) space.

66. PM Narendra Modi has launched 75 Digital Banking Units (DBUs) in 75 districts across the
country.
• The World Bank has said that India has become a leader in ensuring social security through
digitization.

67. Hindalco has launched India’s first all-aluminium freight rail rakes to modernise freight
transportation and enable large carbon savings for Indian Railways at Bhubaneswar railway
station, Odisha.
• The freight sector in India is expected to grow at more than 7% CAGR to 15 billion
tonnes by 2050.

68. DCB Bank has relaunched its DCB Suraksha Fixed Deposit for a fixed tenor of 3 years at an
interest rate of 7.10% p.a.

69. Indian Army has signed an MoU with 11 banks for providing banking facilities to
Agniveers after their enrolment.
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• 11 Banks are State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, Bank of Baroda, IDBI Bank, ICICI
Bank, HDFC Bank, Axis Bank, Yes Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, IDFC First Bank and
Bandhan Bank.

70. State Bank of India (SBI) has set up its first premium dedicated branch for start-ups at
Koramangala in Bengaluru to facilitate and support start-up companies in the city.
• The branch has also entered into MOUs with the government of Karnataka initiatives like
the Karnataka Innovation and Technology Society (KITS) and Karnataka Digital
Economy Mission (KDEM) to support the entire start-up ecosystem in the state of
Karnataka.

71. According to IMF’s World Economic Outlook report, India is likely to become the third-
biggest economy behind the US and China by FY28, two years earlier than initially expected.
• India will overtake Germany and Japan.
• India will overtake the UK this year to become the 5th biggest economy.

72. SBI General Insurance has partnered with Gupshup, a leader in conversational engagement,
to offer a new insurance policy, renew an existing one, intimate claims and more, through
WhatsApp.

73. Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services has partnered with India Post Payments Bank
(IPPB) to further enhance credit access to a larger customer base.
• As a part of this alliance, India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) will provide cash EMI deposit
facility to existing MMFSL Customers at Post Offices.

74. Life Insurance Corporation of India has launched Dhan Varsha, a new life insurance plan.
• LIC’s Dhan Varsha is a non-linked, non-participating, individual, savings, single premium
life insurance plan which offers a combination of protection and savings.
• Sum Assured on Death” for both options is defined as under:
o Option 1: 1.25 times of Tabular Premium for the chosen Basic Sum Assured
o Option 2: 10 times of Tabular Premium for the chosen Basic Sum Assured

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75. Karnataka Bank has launched a term deposit scheme -- ‘KBL Centenary Deposit Scheme’ -
- with effect from October 17.
• This deposit will be for a period of 555 days with an interest rate of 7.20%. The rate of
interest will be 7.60% for senior citizens.

76. Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari, has announced that
National Highways Infra Trust (NHAI InvIT) bonds will provide a return of 8.05% each year.
• Launched in 2019, the National Highways Infra Trust is an infrastructure investment trust,
which aims to provide funding for the government’s National Monetisation Pipeline.
• It was established under the Indian Trusts Act of 1882, and the SEBI (Security and
Exchange Board of India) regulations.
• The Trust aims to raise an additional investment of Rs 3,800 crore through bonds, which
will be listed on BSE and NSE platforms.

77. Adani Group has agreed to acquire Air Works, one of India’s major centres for the
maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) of aircraft, for Rs 400 crores to expand its presence
in the aviation business.

78. Ericsson and Nokia will sign a multi-year supply contract with Reliance Jio’s 5G network for
supplying 5G network equipment to the country’s largest carrier.

79. Fintech firm Cygnet has received in-principle approval from the Reserve Bank of India
(RBI) to operate as a non-banking financial company (NBFC) account aggregator.

80. Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has partnered with the CASHe
to offer a Travel Now Pay Later (TNPL) payment option on its travel app, IRCTC Rail
Connect.

81. HDFC Securities, a leading stock brokerage firm, has opened its first-ever women-only
Digital Centre (DC) in Bengaluru.
• The centre, staffed with a team of women, will serve both male and female investors.
• The centre will cater to customers from Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and
Telangana.
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82. Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSP) has signed an MOU with Greenko Group for
supplying 1,000 MW of power from green electricity sources.
• Greenko will supply clean power for JSP's steel manufacturing operations at Angul, Odisha,
mainly to meet the plant's existing and incremental power demand.

83. According to the World Steel Association (WSA), the global steel demand will reduce by
2.3% in 2022 due to increasing inflation and high interest rates.
• Global recovery in steel demand next year is still expected, mainly due to a rise in
infrastructure spending, but the growth will be 1% instead of 2.2% as forecast earlier this
year.
• Steel demand in China, which accounts for 51% of global consumption, is forecast to drop
by 4% in 2022 and be flat next year.

84. Dell Technologies and NTT have built a green data centre for fintech major PhonePe using
liquid immersion technology - a first in India – at Navi Mumbai.
• This is also PhonePe's first green data centre in India which will help the fintech reduce
its carbon emissions and meet sustainability goals.
• PhonePe has invested Rs 200 million for setting up data centres in India.

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85. India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) and Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH) have
partnered to focus their efforts on enhancing the reach of financial solutions to large sections of
society across India and enabling frictionless finance to a billion Indians.

86. IDBI Bank has launched a special fixed deposit scheme called "Amrit Mahotsav FD" with a
555-day maturity period (w.e.f. October 21, 2022) with an interest rate of 6.9%.

87. NPCI Bharat BillPay Ltd. (NBBL), the wholly-owned subsidiary of National Payments
Corporation of India (NPCI), has partnered with Kotak Mahindra Bank to introduce its credit
cards on the Bharat BillPay platform.
• Through this integration, Kotak customers will now be able to make their credit card bill
payments through Bharat BillPay.
• Kotak Mahindra Bank has become the first private bank to go live in the credit card
category on Bharat BillPay ecosystem.

88. GIFT IFSC has collaborated with the Fintech Association of Japan (FAJ) to promote fintech
innovation and a fintech accelerator for encouraging, promoting and supporting fintech
startups.

89. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) fined Google with Rs 936.44 crore penalty for
its abusive Play Store policies.

90. Top export destinations for India in 2022 (according to Ministry of Commerce and Industry)-
• 1st - US
• 2nd - UAE
• 3rd - Netherlands
• China and Bangladesh are lagging behind in this list.

91. The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) has modified the
equity allocation standards for Tier I and Tier II National Pension System (NPS)
accounts.

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• According to the new rules, private sector subscribers can continue to allocate up to 75% of
their funds to equity under active choice in a Tier-I account even after turning 51 years of
age.
• It has also been decided to allow option to allocate 100% of subscriber’s contribution in
Asset Class E (Equity) in Tier-II (optional account) under active choice without any
conditions of tapering.
Note: You can watch this video to understand the entire scheme in a comprehensive way -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1I5n1LMQk4

92. SAP India, in collaboration with Amazon Web Services, has launched SAP Industry
Knowledge Exchange for accelerating India’s journey to ‘Amrit Kaal,’ and driving the country’s
inclusive digital transformation with sustainable development.
• The exchange will bring together enterprises, consulting firms, and academia across 25
industries.

93. Novartis AG (Swiss-American multinational pharmaceutical corporation) has signed a

voluntary agreement licence with generic drugmakers in seven middle-income nations to
produce the leukemia treatment drug named as Nilotinib.
• This is the first time a voluntary license has been granted for a patented cancer drug as part
of a public health initiative.
• The oral drug, nilotinib, is used to treat chronic myeloid leukemia and may be made in
Egypt, Guatemala, Indonesia, Morocco, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Tunisia.

94. Nomura Singapore has divested 1.52% stake in private sector lender CSB Bank for over Rs
61 crore through an open market transaction.

95. Greenko Group of India has signed a contract with Singapore's Keppel Infrastructure to
export green energy to the company.
• Both companies will work towards a 250,000 tonne per annum contract to be supplied to
Keppel's new 600Mw power plant in Singapore.

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96. The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has launched Bima
Sugam—an online portal that will house all companies selling life and non-life insurance on a
single platform.
• The portal is scheduled to go live from 1 January 2023.

97. According to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry’s data, Russia has become India’s 7th
largest trading partner from its 25th position last year.

98. Indian Bank has launched several digital initiatives under “Project WAVE” (World of Advance
Virtual Experience) to enhance the customer experience through integrated services on its
digital platform.
• Indian Bank has tied-up with Universal Sompo General Insurance for providing online
two- and four-wheeler and health insurance through its mobile banking app IndOASIS.
• Indian Bank has partnered with Rupeek Capital Pvt Ltd, an asset-backed digital lending
fintech platform, to offer jewel loans at customers’ doorsteps under the co-lending
arrangement.

99. India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) operating under the Department of Posts has launched a
Group Accident Insurance Plan with an accidental death coverage of Rs 10 lakh.

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• The India Post in partnership with TATA AIG and Bajaj Allianz General Insurance
companies will offer the insurance plan at a premium of Rs 399 or Rs 396 per annum.
• The insurance plan will offer around 10 major benefits for the applicant including permanent
total or permanent partial disability coverage of Rs 10 lakh, an option to cover accidental
medical expenses up to Rs 60,000 and transportation benefits for the family members
travelling to see the accident victim.
• The bank has also extended the e-OD (Overdraft) facility against Term Deposits opened
at branches by individual customers which were previously offered for e-deposits only.

100. PHD Chamber of Commerce & Industry and Greenstat Hydrogen India have tied up for
setting up a Centre of Excellence for Green Hydrogen in New Delhi.
• The centre will provide training and workshops to promote green hydrogen and green
ammonia.

GDP FORECASTS
1. World Trade Organization has forecasted the GDP growth rates.

2. World Bank has reduced India's GDP forecast for 2022-23 to 6.5% in its South Asia
Economic Focus report.
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• GDP for 2023-24 – 7%

• GDP for 2024-25 – 6.1%

3. Nomura (a Japanese brokerage firm) has forecasted a 7% GDP growth rate for India in
FY23.
• FY24 GDP forecast - 5.2%
• CPI inflation forecast for FY23- 6.8% (above the RBI's estimate of 6.7%)
• CPI inflation forecast for FY24 - 5.3%
• Fiscal deficit target of the central government for FY23 - 6.4%

4. International Monetary Fund (IMF) has released the World Economic Outlook-October
2022 report.

APPOINTMENTS
1. Senior Advocate R Venkataramani has been appointed as the new Attorney General for
India for a period of three years.

2. Hero MotoCorp, the world's largest manufacturer of motorcycles and scooters, has
announced the appointment of Indian superstar, Ram Charan as the new brand
ambassador.

3. Sunil Barthwal has been appointed as the secretary of the department of commerce.

4. AK Anil Kumar has been appointed as the vice president of the international astronautical
federation.
● The announcement was made during its Annual Conference International Astronautical
Congress (IAC) 2022 held in Paris.

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● Founded in 1951, the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) is the world’s leading
space advocacy body with 433 members in 72 countries.
● Kumar is currently serving as the Associate Director, ISTRAC, Bengaluru.

● Saudi Arabia's Mishaal Aishemimry has become the first Saudi woman to be appointed as
the vice president of this organisation.

5. Central Govt has appointed Ajay Kumar Srivastava as the MD and CEO of the Indian
Overseas Bank (IOB) for a period of three years with effect from January 1, 2023.

6. Lalit Bhasin (lawyer) has been appointed as the national president of Indian American
Chambers of Commerce (IACC).

7. Senior bureaucrat Ajay Bhadoo has been appointed as the Deputy Election Commissioner.
• Akash Tripathi has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of MyGov,
Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology.

8. IPS officer Anish Dayal Singh has been appointed as the new director general of Indo-
Tibetan Border Police (ITBP).

9. Boltt Games Pvt. Ltd owned Fire-Boltt brand has appointed actor Kiara Advani as its new
brand ambassador.

10. BD Mishra has been appointed as the new governor of Meghalaya.

• He has been serving as the Arunachal Pradesh governor since 2017 and was given the
additional charge of neighbouring Meghalaya.

11. Kishore Kumar Poludasu has been appointed as the new MD and CEO of SBI General
Insurance.

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12. Sujoy Lal Thaosen has been appointed as the 37th Director General of the Central Reserve
Police Force (CRPF).
• CRPF’s motto - "tejsvi navdhitmastu" (meaning "Let Brilliance Emerge out of our
Endeavours")

13. Mohit Bhatia has been appointed as the new CEO of Bank of India Investment Managers
Pvt Ltd.

14. Walkaroo (clothes brand) has appointed Ajay Devgn as its brand ambassador.

15. A Balasubramanian (MD & CEO of Aditya Birla Sun Life Mutual Fund) has been re-elected as
the Chairperson of the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI).

16. Gulf Oil Lubricants has appointed Smriti Mandhana as the brand ambassador.

17. RBI has approved the appointment of Prashant Kumar as MD and CEO of Yes Bank for
three years with effect from October 6, 2022.

18. Omara Dates (a healthy snacks brand) has appointed Amitabh Bachchan as the brand
ambassador for the 'pyaar bhi, khayaal bhi' campaign.

19. Vinayak Godse has been appointed as the new CEO of Data Security Council of India.
• Godse is also the head of the National Centre of Excellence for Cyber Security
Technology and Entrepreneurship, a joint venture of Data Security Council of India
and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
• The Data Security Council of India is a not for profit organisation setup by NASSCOM for
data protection in India.

20. Ananth Narayan Gopalkrishnan has been appointed as the Whole Time Member of SEBI.

21. Justice Dhananjay Yashwant Chandrachud has become the 50th Chief Justice of India in
November 2022.
• He will retire in November 2024.
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22. Hormuzd Masani has been re-appointed as the Treasurer of the International Audit
Bureaux of Certification (IFABC) for the term 2022-2024.
• He has also been appointed as the President of the Asia Pacific Audit Bureaux of
Certification (APABC).
• Masani is the Secretary General of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, India.
• ABC India is the founder member of the International Federation of Audit Bureaux of
Certification (established in 1948).

23. Bandhan Bank has appointed Sourav Ganguly as its brand ambassador.

24. JP Morgan (based in New York) has appointed Kaustubh Kulkarni as the head of the India
unit of JP Morgan.
• Navin Wadhwani has been appointed as the head of its India Investment Banking business.

25. Yubi (formerly CredAvenue), a fintech platform, has appointed Atanu Chakraborty as its
Chairman.
• Chakraborty is also currently the chairman of the board of HDFC Bank.

26. GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals (GSK India) has appointed Bhushan Akshikar as its MD
for a period of four years starting from December 1, 2022.

27. Conservative leader Ulf Kristersson (from Moderate Party) has become Sweden’s Prime
Minister.
• He is backed by the far-right Swedish Democrats.

28. Roger Binny has been appointed as the 36th President of the Board of Control for Cricket
in India (BCCI) by replacing Sourav Ganguly.
• BCCI was established in 1928. It is based in Mumbai.

29. Software services exporter Cognizant has appointed former Infosys president Ravi Kumar as
the President of Cognizant Americas.

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30. Arun Bansal has been appointed as the chief executive officer of Adani Airport Holdings
Ltd, an arm of Adani Enterprises Ltd.

31. Sushil Wadhwani, an Indian-origin investment expert, is among four financial specialists
appointed to the UK Economic Advisory Council by UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt to act as
a consultative forum to the government.

32. World Bank has appointed Michel Lino as the Neutral Expert and Sean Murphy as the
Chairman of the Court of Arbitration for resolving the disputes of India and Pakistan on the
Indus Water Treaty (1960).
• World Bank is a signatory of this treaty. The treaty facilitates information sharing
regarding the rivers.
• India and Pakistan are at loggerheads over the sharing of the technical design features of
Kishenganga and Ratle hydroelectric power plants.
• Kishanganga Power station is located on Kishanganga River, a tributary of river Jhelum in
Bandipora District of Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir.
• Ratle Hydroelectric Project is being developed on the Chenab River in J&K.

Water Sharing under the Treaty -

• Under the Indus Water Treaty (IWT), all the waters of the eastern rivers—Sutlej, Beas, and
Ravi—amounting to around 33 million acres feet (MAF) annually is allocated to India for
unrestricted use.
• The waters of western rivers—Indus, Jhelum, and Chenab—amounting to around 135 MAF
annually have been assigned largely to Pakistan.

33. Mallikarjun Kharge has been elected as the new president of the Congress party.

34. Senior ICAS officer Bharati Das has been appointed as the new Controller General of
Accounts.
• Das is the 27th CGA, the principal advisor on accounting matters to the Union government.

35. The appointments committee of the cabinet has appointed Sanjay Malhotra as Revenue
Secretary.
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36. Dr Sankarasubramanian K. (a senior solar scientist at the U R Rao Satellite Centre,

Bengaluru) has been appointed as Principal Scientist of the Aditya-L1 (first observatory-
class space-based solar mission of India).
• Aditya L-1 is expected to be launched in 2023 on a PSLV-XL rocket.

37. K.P. Ashwini (a Dalit scholar) become the first Indian and first Asian to be appointed as an
independent expert on racism and related intolerance at the UN Human Rights Council.
• The 47-member UN human rights body is based in Geneva.

38. Rishi Sunak has become the new PM of UK.

• Liz Truss resigned from the office of PM just 45 days after assuming the responsibility.

39. Fire-Boltt has appointed Vijay Deverakonda as its new brand ambassador.

40. Jaxay Shah (founder chairman of Savvy Group and former chairman of CREDAI) has been
appointed as the chairperson of the Quality Council of India (QCI) for three years.

41. Former Civil Aviation Secretary Pradeep Singh Kharola has been named as the Chairman
and Managing Director of the India Trade Promotion Organization (ITPO).
• The ITPO, the Commerce and Industry Ministry's premier trade promotion enterprise,
manages the nation's world-class exhibition complex Pragati Maidan in the national capital.

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• The G-20 summit will be held next year at the Pragati Maidan, which is being redeveloped
as the cutting-edge International Exhibition-cum-Convention Centre (IECC).

42. United States has appointed Elizabeth Jones to serve as Chargé d’Affaires in the US
Embassy in New Delhi.

43. Sandeep Bakhshi has been reappointed as the MD and CEO of ICICI Bank for a period of 3
years.

44. Dr Shefali Juneja has become the first Indian to be appointed as the chairperson of the Air
Transport Committee (ATC) of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a
specialized agency of the United Nations.
• The ATC is the advisory body of the Council on air transport matters as specified in the
Convention and on any other issues affecting air transport referred to it by the Council or on
its behalf by the President.

45. Indian Banks' Association (IBA), an industry body consisting of all the banks including
foreign lenders with branches in India, has elected A K Goel (MD of PNB) as its chairman.
• Formed in 1946 with 22 members, IBA now has 237 members and associates, according to
its website.

46. Central government has appointed Sangeeta Verma as the acting chairperson of the
Competition Commission of India (CCI).

IMPORTANT DAYS
1. September 29 - International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste; Theme - Stop Food
Loss and Waste. For the People. For the Planet.

2. September 30 - International Translation Day; Theme - "A World without Barriers"

3. October 1-
● National Pension System Divas

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● Insolvency and bankruptcy board of India day (6th edition)

○ IBBI was established on October 1st, 2016.
● International older persons day; theme-resilience of older persons in a changing world
○ 2021-30 - international decade of healthy ageing
● International coffee day
● World vegetarian day
○ October 1st to November 1st world vegetarian awareness month
○ November 1-world vegan day
● National Voluntary Blood Donation Day (Raktdaan Amrit Mahotsav - Sep 17 to Oct 01)

4. October 2 – Gandhi Jayanti / International Day of Non-Violence

5. October 3 – World Habitat Day (1st Monday of October); Theme - "Mind the Gap. Leave No
One and Place Behind"

6. October 4 – World Animal Day; Theme – Shared Planet

7. October 5 – World Teacher’s Day; Theme – The transformation of education begins with
teachers

8. October 6 - World Cerebral Palsy Day; Theme - to embrace diversity and to help create a
more accessible future for everyone

9. October 7 – World Cotton Day; Theme - Weaving a better future for cotton

10. October 8 – Indian Air Force Day (90th edition in Chandigarh); Theme – IAF: Transforming the
Future
• Air Force has got a new combat uniform on this day in Chandigarh.
• Central Govt has also approved the creation of the Weapon Systems (WS) branch within
the IAF for the unification of all weapon system operators under one entity.
• Chief of Air Staff Air - Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari

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• World Migratory Bird Day (2nd Saturday of May and October); Theme – to Focus on Light
Pollution; Slogan – Dim the Lights for Birds at Night
• World Hospice and Palliative Care Day; Theme- Healing Hearts and Community

11. October 9 –
• Indian Foreign Services Day (IFS established on 9 October 1946)
• World Post Day (Universal Postal Union set up on October 9 1874 in Bern, Switzerland);
Theme - "Post for Planet"
o October 9-13 – National Postal Week; Theme - Post for Planet, moving a step
ahead
§ October 10 – Financial Inclusion Day
§ October 11 – Philately Day
§ October 12 – Mails and Parcel Day
§ October 13 – Antyodaya Diwas

12. October 10 –
• World Mental Health Day; Theme - 'Make mental health & well-being for all a global priority'
• World Day Against Death Penalty

13. October 11 – International Day of the Girl Child; Theme - "Our time is now—our rights, our
future"
• National Conference on Skilling in Non-Traditional Livelihood (NTL) for Girls titled
‘Betiyan Bane Kushal’ was organized under the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao scheme.

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14. October 12 - World Arthritis Day; Theme - It’s in your hand, take action

15. October 13- International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction; Theme - Early Warning
• Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction was released by the UN Office
for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) on this day.
• “Global Status of Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems — Target G” report was also
released by UNDRR, in partnership with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
o The report is based on the Sendai Framework Monitor (SFM) – an online tool to
monitor the progress made by countries towards achieving the goals of the Sendai
Framework (2015-2030).
o According to the report, 50% of the countries do not have access to the early
warning systems.
o The Framework has 7 global targets.

o Progress made by countries as per the Sendai Framework Monitor -

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• October 13- World Sight Day; Theme- Love Your Eyes

16. October 14 - World Standards Day; Theme - Shared Vision for a Better World

17. October 15 -
• World Students Day; Theme - “The Transformation of Education Begins with Teachers”
• International Day of Rural Women; Theme - Rural Women, key for a World Free from
Hunger and Poverty
o October 15 - ‘Mahila Kisan Diwas’ in India; Theme - Millets: Empowering Women
and Providing Nutritional Security
o 2023 – ‘International Year of Millets’
o The “Evidence-based Gender Inequality in Agriculture and Food Systems in India”
book was also released on this occasion.
• Global Handwashing Day; Theme - Unite for Universal Hand Hygiene

18. October 16 - World Food Day 2022; Theme - Leave NO ONE behind

19. October 17 –
• World Trauma Day
• International Day for the Eradication of Poverty; Theme - Dignity for All in Practice
o UN Decades for Eradication of Poverty –

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§ First United Nations Decade for the eradication of poverty (1997-2006)

§ Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008-2017)
§ Third United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2018-2027)
o SDG 1 – No Poverty; Targets under SDG 1

20. October 20 –
• World Osteoporosis Day; Theme – Step Up for Bone
• World Statistics Day; Theme – Data for Sustainable Development

21. October 21 –
• Global Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD) Prevention Day or World Iodine Deficiency Day
• Police Commemoration Day in India

22. October 22 – International Stuttering Awareness Day

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23. October 23 – Ayurveda Day; Theme – Har Din Har Ghar Ayurveda

24. October 24 -
• World Development Information Day
• United Nations Day
• World Polio Day; Theme - “World Polio Day 2022 and Beyond: A healthier future for
mothers and children”
• 61st Raising Day of Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force (motto of ITBP - Valour,
determination, devotion to duty)

25. October 26 - World Sustainability Day (4th Wednesday of October)

26. October 27 -
• ‘Shaurya Diwas’ (commemorates the 75th year of air landed operations of Indian Army at
Budgam Airport in 1947, which ensured the first civil-military victory of Independent India)
• Infantry Day of Indian Army (76th edition)
• World Day for Audio-Visual Heritage

27. October 2-8 – National Wildlife Week (68th edition)

28. October 4-10 – World Space Week; Theme – Space and Sustainability

29. October 12-20 – Bone and Joint Action Week

30. October 23-29 – International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week (10th edition); Theme - Say no
to lead poisoning

31. October 24-30 -

• Disarmament Week; Theme - Disarmament: Securing Humanity's Future
• Global Media and Information Literacy Week; Theme - Nurturing trust: A Media and
Information Literacy Imperative

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AWARDS
1. Srishti Bakshi, marketer-turned-women’s-rights-activist, has been conferred with the
‘Changemaker’ award at the UN SDG Action Awards for “confronting gender-based violence
and advocating for safe access to public spaces”.
● The award is given in three other categories -
Category Winner
Inspire ‘The Masungi Story’ in Philippines
Connect CyprusInno in Cyprus
Mobilise ‘SUPvivors say NO MORE’ in Ecuador

2. ‘IIFL Wealth Hurun India 40 & Under Self-Made Rich List 2022’ -
● First - Nikhil Kamath (cofounder of Zerodha) with a net worth of Rs 17,500 crore
● Second - Bhavish Aggarwal (founder of Ola) with a net worth of Rs 11,700 crore
● Third - Divyank Turakhia (founder of Media.net) with a net worth of Rs 11,200 crore

3. Gazeta Wyborcza (Polish newspaper) has won the Golden Pen of Freedom by World
Association of News Publishers.

4. Power finance corporation (a CPSU) and Valley for Words (an NPO) have conferred the
PFC-VoW book awards for Indian writings in English and Hindi.
● This is the sixth edition of this award, India's independent literary award.

Categories Winners

English fiction The odd book of baby names by Anees

Salim

English non-fiction Tagore and Gandhi: walking alone walking

together by Rudrangshu Mukherjee

Hindi fiction Khela by Neelakshi Singh

Hindi non-fiction Jeeite Ji Allahabad bye Mamta Kaliya

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5. Cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar has been conferred with the SJFI medal, the highest award
given by the Sports Journalist Federation of India (SJFI).

6. Dr Vivek Lall of Indian-origin has been honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award by
US President Joe Biden with the citation of 'With Grateful Recognition'.
• Vivek Lall is an American scientist who is the CEO of General Atomics.

7. Dr Madhav Hada has won the 32nd Bihari Puraskar for his 2015 literary criticism book
‘Pachrang Chola Pahar Sakhi Ri’ by the KK Birla Foundation.
• The Bihari Puraskar – named after famous Hindi poet Bihari – is one of the three literary
awards instituted by the foundation in 1991.

8. Vedanta founder Anil Agarwal has won the Global Indian Award worth $50,000 by the
Canada-India Foundation at its 15th annual Global Indian Award.

9. JK Tyre & Industries Chairman Raghupati Singhania has won the PHD Chamber of
Commerce and Industry’s (PHDCCI’s) prestigious lifetime achievement award for 2022.
• The award was given by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla at the chamber’s 117th annual
session.

10. The India Expo Centre and Mart in Greater Noida was adjudged the best convention centre
by the Union Ministry of Tourism.
• The award was conferred during the National Tourism Awards 2022.

11. Former German chancellor Angela Merkel has won the United Nations refugee agency’s
prestigious Nansen Refugee Award, receiving praise for her determination to protect asylum
seekers while in office.
• The Nansen award, granted annually, was created in 1954 in honour of the first UN High
Commissioner for Refugees, Norwegian Arctic explorer and humanitarian Fridtjof Nansen,
to mark outstanding work on behalf of refugees.

12. Teenager Mumtaz Khan has been named the FIH Rising Star of the Year 2021-22 in the
women’s category.
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• France’s Timothée Clément was named the FIH Rising Star of the Year 2021-22 in the
men’s category.
• India's Savita Punia and PR Sreejesh were named the FIH Goalkeepers of the Year
2021-22.

13. Nobel Prizes 2022 -

Prize Category Winner Result
Physics Alain Aspect (French), For experiments with
John F. Clauser entangled photons,
(American) and Anton establishing the violation
Zeilinger (Austrian) of Bell inequalities and
pioneering quantum
information science
Chemistry Carolyn R. Bertozzi For the development of
(American), Morten click chemistry and bio-
Meldal (Denmark), and K. orthogonal chemistry
Barry Sharpless
(American)
Medicine or Physiology Svante Paabo (Swedish For his extraordinary
geneticist; Director, Max discovery which proved
Planck Institute for modern humans share
Evolutionary DNA with extinct relatives
Anthropology, Germany) Neanderthals and
Denisovans
Literature Annie Ernaux (France) -
Peace Ales Bialiatski (Belarus), For making efforts to
Center for Civil Liberties protect human freedom
(Ukraine), Memorial
(Human Rights
Organization in Russia)

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Economics Ben Bernanke, Douglas For researching the role

Diamond and Philip of banks in the economy,
Dybvig (all American) particularly during
financial crises, as well as
how to regulate financial
markets

14. SASTRA Ramanujan Prize has been conferred upon Yunqing Tang (an Assistant Professor
at the University of California).
• Reason - for her works in arithmetic and geometry of modular curves and Shimura varieties

15. French author Annie Ernaux has won the Nobel Peace Prize in Literature 2022.
• Nobel Peace Prize is given in Oslo, Norway. All the other prizes are given in Stockholm.

16. India Expo Centre and Mart in Greater Noida was adjudged the best convention centre by
the Union Ministry of Tourism during the National Tourism Awards 2022.

17. Harmanpreet Kaur has become the ICC Player of the Month for September 2022 in
women's category.
• Pakistani wicketkeeper Mohammed Rizwan has won the ICC Player of the Month
Award for September 2022 in men's category.

18. Mondelez India’s factory in the Sri City in Tirupati district has bagged the World Economic
Forum’s fourth Advanced Industrial Revolution (4IR) ‘Digital Lighthouse award’.
• Founded in 2016, the factory is among the first FMCG plants in India to receive an award
for ‘digital excellence’ driven by advanced technologies and sustainable practices.
• World Economic Forum has established the “Global Lighthouse Network”, in
collaboration with McKinsey & Company, of manufacturing companies, which are using
advanced fourth-industrial revolution technologies.
• To date, 114 Lighthouses have been identified from different industry sectors, including 10
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19. Hyderabad has won the prestigious 'World Green City Award 2022' in the category Living
Green for Economic Recovery and Inclusive Growth.
• The award was given at the International Association of Horticulture Producers (AIPH)
2022 World Green Cities Awards, which was organised in Jeju, South Korea.
• Winners in other categories -
Living Green for Biodiversity Colombia
Living Green for Climate Change Mexico
Living Green for Health and Wellbeing Brazil
Living Green for Water Canada
Living Green for Social Cohesion France

20. Ballon d’Or 2022 awards –

Category Winner
Men’s Ballon d'Or Karim Benzema (France, Real Madrid)
Women's Ballon d'Or Alexia Putellas (Spain, FC Barcelona)
Yashin Trophy Thibaut Courtois (Belgium, Real Madrid)
Kopa Trophy Gavi (Spain, FC Barcelona)
Gerd Müller award Robert Lewandowski (Poland, Bayern
Munich/FC Barcelona)
Socrates Prize Sadio Mané (Senegal, Liverpool/Bayern
Munich)
Club of the Year Manchester City (England)

21. Shehan Karunatilaka has won the Booker Prize 2022 for his “The Seven Moons of Maali
Almeida” novel.
• He is the 2nd Sri Lankan to win this prize. Michael Ondaatje was the first Sri Lankan to win
the prize for “The English Patient” in 1992.

22. European parliament has awarded the people of Ukraine its annual Sakharov prize for
freedom of thought to honour their fight against Russia’s invasion.

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• The prize, named after the late Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, has been awarded
annually since 1988 to individuals and organisations defending human rights and
fundamental freedoms.

23. 36th edition of National Games 2022 was held across six cities, Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar,
Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot and Bhavnagar, in Gujarat.

24. American historian and internationally acclaimed scholar of South Asian history and Islam,
Barbara D Metcalf has received the Sir Syed Excellence International Award for 2022.
• The annual award is given by the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) on its founder Sir Syed
Ahmad Khan’s birth anniversary. This year, AMU is marking the 205th anniversary of Sir
Syed.
• Sir Syed Ahmad Khan (1817-1898) was one of the foremost social and political reformers of
modern India.

25. Forbes India’s 100 Richest list has been released.

• 1st rank - Gautam Adani; US$150 billion
• 2nd rank - Mukesh Ambani; $88 billion

26. EdelGive Hurun India Philanthropy List 2022 –

• 1st rank – Shiv Nadar (donation of Rs 1161 crore)
• 2nd rank – Azim Premji (donation of Rs 484 crore)

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27. Karnataka Bank has won the National Digital Transformation Awards ‘DX 2022 Awards’ in
three categories viz. ‘KBL HR NxT - Employee Engagement’, ‘KBL Operations NxT -
Operational Excellence’ and ‘KBL Customer NxT - Customer Experience’.
• The award is conferred by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for Best Practice in
Digital Transformation under BFSI segment in recognition of the “Innovative Excellence”.

28. Ministry of Commerce and Industry has conferred the 'Most Popular GI' award 2022.
• Winners -
Category Product State
Food Haleem (a popular dish mostly Hyderabad
consumed during Ramzan)
Agriculture Kandhamal Haldi (famous for Odisha
its healing properties)
Handicraft Thanjavur Art Plate Tamil Nadu
Manufactured goods Mysore Sandal Soap Karnataka
Natural Chuna Balua Patthar Uttar Pradesh

29. Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh presented Raksha Mantri’s Awards for Excellence in
defence and aerospace sector for the year 2021-22 during the 12th DefExpo in
Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
• A total of 22 awards were given under various categories viz. Indigenisation/Import
substitution, Innovation/ Technological Breakthrough and Exports.
• Of these 22 awards, 13 were bagged by private industries and the remaining by the
DPSUs/PSUs.
• These awards were equitably given to enterprises of various sizes, i.e., large, medium,
small and start-up enterprises in order to provide a level playing field.
• The aerospace and defence sector, at present, is an industry of about Rs 80,000 crores, in
which the contribution of the private sector has increased to about Rs 17,000 crores.

30. HCL founder Shiv Nadar has been honoured by the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum
(USISPF), a bilateral non-profit, with its Lifetime Achievement Award 2022 for his
contribution to the technology industry and philanthropy.

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Knowledge Nuggets –
• US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) is an independent not-for-profit
institution dedicated to strengthening the US-India partnership in Washington D.C. and
New Delhi.
• Aim – It aims to strengthen the economic and commercial ties between the two countries
through policy advocacy.
• Established – 2017
• Current President and CEO – Mukesh Aghi

31. Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs has announced awards under the Pradhan Mantri
Awas Yojana-Urban for the year 2021.
• Recently, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has organized the Indian Housing
Conclave in Rajkot, which is a continuation in the series of Global Housing Technology
Challenge-India (GHTC-India) and Indian Housing Technology Mela (IHTM).
Category Winner
Best Performing States Rank 1st - Uttar Pradesh
Rank 2nd - Madhya Pradesh
Rank 3rd - Tamil Nadu
Best State for implementation of the Credit Rank 1st - Gujarat
Linked Subsidy Scheme (CLSS)
Best Performing State in north-eastern and Rank 1st - Tripura
hilly States category

32. National Industrial Security Academy (NISA), Hakimpet, Telangana has bagged the Union
Home Minister’s Trophy for the Best Police Training Institution for Training of Gazetted
Officers for the year 2020-21.

33. IIT-Madras has won the National Intellectual Property Award for 2021 and 2022 from the
Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce and
Industry.

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SPORTS
1. 36th National Games will be held at Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad, Gujarat from
September 29 to October 12.
● Mascot – Savaj
● Theme – Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat
● The two new UTs – Ladakh and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu – will make
their debut at the National Games in 2022.

2. Jharkhand’s St. Patrick’s School has won the U-17 Girl’s Subroto Cup (football)
tournament at the Ambedkar Stadium in Delhi.

3. FIFA has released a three-episode series on Indian football team captain Sunil Chhetri’s life
and career.

4. USA has beaten China to win FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup 2022 in Australia.

5. Sergio Pérez (Mexican motorsports racing driver) has won the Singapore Grand Prix
Formula 1 2022.

6. Kenya's Amos Kipruto and Ethiopia’s Yalemzerf Yehualaw have won the 2022 London
Marathon in men’s and women’s categories.

7. Korean Open 2022 (tennis tournament) – Men’s Singles: Yoshihito Nishioka (Japan);
Women’s Singles: Ekaterina Alexandrova (Russai)

8. Saudi Arabia has hosted the 2029 Asian Winter Games at a Ski Resort under the Neom
project.

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9. Tel Aviv Watergen Open (Men’s tennis tournament) winner – Men’s Singles: Novak
Djokovic (Serbia)

10. All India Football Federation (AIFF) has signed an MOU with the South Asian Football
Federation (SAFF) for promoting football activities in India.

11. Shooting has returned and Golf will make its debut in the 2026 Commonwealth Games to be
held in Australia.

12. Pankaj Advani has won the 2022 IBSF World Billiards Championship in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia.
• It is Advani’s 25th world gold medal.

13. Ostrava Open 2022 (Women's Tennis Association’s tournament) has been won by Barbora
Krejčíková (Czech Republic) in Ostrava, Czech Republic.

14. Max Verstappen (Belgian-Dutch motorsports racing driver) has won the Japanese Grand Prix
Formula One race.

15. Novak Djokovic (Serbia) has won the Astana Open Tennis tournament.

16. Magnus Carlsen has won Julius Baer Generation Cup (an online chess tournament).

17. Kenyan runners Benson Kipruto and Ruth Chepngetich have won the Bank of America
Chicago Marathon in men’s and women’s categories respectively.

18. Rashmi Kumari and Sandeep Dive have won in the 8th World Carrom Championship in
Langkawi, Malaysia.
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19. S. Shrikrishna of India became the new World 6-Red Snooker Champion in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia.

20. Laver Cup 2022 (tennis tournament) has been won by Team World (captain Björn Borg,
Swedish player).

21. UNICEF and International Cricket Council will also launch `Criiio 4 Good`, a cricket for
development curriculum, giving girls and boys the opportunity to learn gender-based life
skills essential for gender equity.

22. At the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Championships in Shotgun,
India finished fifth with one gold, one silver and two bronze medals in Osijek, Croatia.

23. India's men's air rifle team has won a gold medal at the ongoing ISSF World
Championship in Cairo, Egypt.

24. India won the Women’s Asia Cup (Cricket) by defeating Sri Lanka by 8 wickets in the final
match in Sylhet, Bangladesh.
• A total of 8 tournaments have been conducted. Out of which, India has won 7.

25. Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports will set up India's first-ever dietary supplements
testing facility at the National Forensic Science University in Ahmedabad to stop doping in
sports.

26. Chala Regasa of Ethiopia and Irine Cheptai of Kenya won the men’s and women’s elite races
respectively at the Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon in New Delhi.

27. Manish Sureshkumar and Vaidehi Chaudhari has clinched the men’s and women’s singles
titles respectively at the Fenesta Open National Tennis Championship.

28. Devin Haney (US) has become the Lightweight Boxing World Champion by defeating
Australia’s George Kambosos in Melbourne.
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29. Qatar will host the 2023 AFC (Asian Football Confederation) Asia Cup. It will be the 3rd time
for Qatar to host this tournament, which also makes it the first country in the world to do so.
• Qatar has hosted the tournament in 1988 and 2011.
• AFC is held once in 4 years. For 2027, India and Saudi Arabia have presented bids.

30. Indian Grandmaster D. Gukesh has become the youngest player to defeat Magnus Carlsen
in the ninth round of the preliminary phase of Aimchess Rapid online chess tournament.

31. Jyothi Yarraji has become India’s fastest women’s 100m hurdler at the 61st National
Open Athletics Championship in Bengaluru, organized by the Athletics Federation of India.

32. FIFA has released a mascot named Tazuni (penguin) for the FIFA Women’s World Cup
2023, which will be held in New Zealand and Australia.
• The name Tazuni is a fusion of the Tasman sea, the home of penguins and Unity, which is
the key value of the event.

33. 5th Khelo India Youth Games-2022 will be held in 8 cities of Madhya Pradesh, i.e., Bhopal,
Indore, Ujjain, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Mandla, Maheshwar and Balaghat from January 31 to
February 11, 2023.
• The traditional sport of Madhya Pradesh – Mallakhamb – has been included in the games.

34. Break Dance has been included as a sport in Paris Olympics 2024.

35. Max Verstappen (Belgian-Dutch) has won the US Grand Prix 2022.

36. Magnus Carlsen has won the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour 2022.
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37. Denmark Open (badminton) tournament 2022 - Men’s singles - Shi Yuqi (China); Women’s
singles - HE Bing Jiao (China)

38. India won the silver medal in the Women’s 25m Pistol Team event and a bronze medal in
Men’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions at the ISSF World Championship in Cairo, Egypt.
• In total, India has won 12 gold, nine silver, and 13 bronze medals.

MISCELLANEOUS
1. “Ambedkar: A Life” book has been authored by Shashi Tharoor.

2. India’s Pakistan Conundrum: Managing a Complex Relationship” book has been authored
by Sharat Sabharwal.

3. “The Last Heroes: Footsoldiers of Indian Freedom” book has been authored by
Palagummi Sainath.

4. “Against All Odds: The IT Story of India” book has been authored by Kris Gopalakrishnan,
N. Dayasindhu, and Krishnan Narayanan.

5. Leopards have been sighted in Delhi’s Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary for the first time since
1940.

6. Hurricane Ian hit Florida, US.

• Hurricane Julia hit Nicaragua.

7. Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik has released the "Pandemic Descriptions and Odisha's
Lessons in Governance" book authored by Dr Amar Patnaik.

8. IMF MD Kristalina Georgieva has said that India is a bright spot on the dark horizon, due to
its rapid economic growth, especially during these difficult times.
• The IMF has praised India’s direct benefit transfer scheme as a logistical marvel.

9. Dr Dilip Mahalanabis (inventor of oral rehydration solution) has passed away in Kolkata.
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10. “The Philosophy of Modern Song” book has been authored by Bob Dylan.

11. IRS officer Sahil Seth has launched his book ‘A confused mind story’.
• The first copy of this book is presented to Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya.

12. Recently, a specie of beetle has been named after tennis player Novak Djokovic by Serbian
scientists.

13. ‘Jeevitham, Niyamam, Nilapadukal’ is the autobiography of senior Congress leader Adv C
K Sreedharan.

14. Veteran music composer Sapan Sengupta has passed away.

15. National award recipient director of Bengali films, Pinaki Chaudhuri, died.

16. Former RBI Governor Dr Bimal Jalan has authored “From dependence to SelfReliance:
Mapping India's Rise as a Global Superpower” book.

17. “The Corbett Papers: Biographical, Legal, & Contextual Material on the Life & Career of
Jim Corbett of Kumaon” book has been edited by Akshay Shah and Stephen Alter.

QUESTIONS
Q.1) With which country has DPIIT established [a] Surat
the Fast Track Mechanism (FTM) for faster [b] Ahmedabad
resolution of investment cases of foreign [c] Gandhinagar
companies operating in India? [d] Vadodara
[a] Netherlands [e] Bhavnagar
[b] Denmark
[c] Germany Q.3) Which agency is implementing the
[d] United Kingdom Operation GARUDA?
[e] France [a] CBI
[b] ICGS
Q.2) Where was the National SC-ST Hub [c] NIA
Conclave organized? [d] NCB
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[e] CBDT 17,500 crore. He is the founder of which

company?
Q.4) Which state will develop the world's largest [a] Zerodha
jungle safari park? [b] Grofers
[a] Haryana [c] Ola
[b] Madhya Pradesh [d] Media.net
[c] Gujarat [e] Zomato
[d] Maharashtra
[e] Tamil Nadu Q.10) Who has been appointed as the brand
ambassador of the Hero MotoCorp?
Q.5) Who has been appointed as the new [a] Arjun Rampal
Attorney General for India? [b] Abhishek Bachchan
[a] Sharad Arvind Bobde [c] Hritik Roshan
[b] N Nariman [d] Ram Charan
[c] U U Lalit [e] Deepika Padukone
[d] Ramesh Chandra Lahoti
[e] R Venkataramani Q.11) In October 2022, the 6th edition of India
Mobile Congress 2022 was organized by the
Q.6) Who has been conferred with the Telecom Department and the Cellular Operators
‘Changemaker’ award at the UN SDG Action Association of India (COAI) at Pragati Maidan in
Awards? New Delhi. During the event, Prime Minister
[a] Srishti Bakshi Narendra Modi rolled out the 5G telephony
[b] Sukriti Likhi service in ___ cities on a pilot mode?
[c] Altamas Kabir [a] 13
[d] Sanjeev Shrivastava [b] 27
[e] Pallavi Agarwal [c] 20
[d] 15
Q.7) What is the venue of the 36th National [e] 16
Games?
[a] Hyderabad Q.12) Sukapaika River is the distributary of which
[b] New Delhi river?
[c] Patiala [a] Tapi
[d] Ahmedabad [b] Narmada
[e] Surat [c] Cauvery
[d] Mahanadi
Q.8) Who is the author of “Ambedkar: A Life” [e] Godavari
book?
[a] Nihar Mukherjee Q.13) Bandha tie and dye weaving craft belong to
[b] Vina Mazumdar which state?
[c] Meenakshi Lekhi [a] Odisha
[d] Shashi Tharoor [b] Maharashtra
[e] N. P. Nayar [c] Jharkhand
[d] Rajasthan
Q.9) Nikhil Kamath has secured the first rank in [e] Chhattisgarh
the ‘IIFL Wealth Hurun India 40 & Under Self-
Made Rich List 2022’ with a net worth of Rs

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Q.14) Which city has topped in the Swachch Q.19) Which has become the first platform to go
Survekshan-Urban 2022 in the category of cities live on the open network for digital commerce
with population between 1-10 lac? (ONDC) Beta version in Bangalore?
[a] Tirupati [a] Razorpay
[b] Mysore [b] Klarna
[c] Kolkata [c] Pine Labs
[d] Surat [d] Stripe
[e] Ahmedabad [e] Paytm Mall

Q.15) Which state has topped in the larger state Q.20) When is the international coffee day
category of Swachch Survekshan-Grameen celebrated?
2022? [a] October 23
[a] Telangana [b] October 1
[b] Uttar Pradesh [c] October 19
[c] Kerala [d] October 4
[d] Gujarat [e] October 10
[e] Madhya Pradesh
Q.21) Which state has launched the “Satya
Q.16) Which state has performed best in the Nishtha” app for the state police force?
Swachchta Hi Seva 2022 Campaign? [a] Himachal Pradesh
[a] Karnataka [b] Uttar Pradesh
[b] Telangana [c] Bihar
[c] Tamil Nadu [d] Uttarakhand
[d] Kerala [e] Haryana
[e] Andhra Pradesh
Q.22) Which has become the first totally digitally
Q.17) Small farmer agri-business Consortium and literate panchayat of India?
Bayer's crop science limited have signed an MOU [a] Kalpa village panchayat
to form and promote 50 farmer producer [b] Khajjiar village panchayat
organizations. Which country does the latter [c] Pullumpara village panchayat
headquartered in? [d] Ziro
[a] Denmark [e] Zuluk
[b] France
[c] USA Q.23) What is the total outlay of International
[d] Canada Finance Corporation’s financing facility for
[e] Germany supporting food production?
[a] $20 billion
Q.18) Which bank has opened its analytical [b] $18 billion
centre of excellence in Bengaluru to progress in [c] $6 billion
artificial intelligence and other emerging [d] $12 billion
technology? [e] $15 billion
[a] Canara Bank
[b] Karur Vysya Bank Q.24) Which insurance company has launched
[c] Dhanlaxmi Bank the 'Insure India' campaign to educate Indians on
[d] Karnataka bank the benefits of life insurance?
[e] Bandhan Bank [a] ICICI Prudential Life
[b] Pramerica Life
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[c] Edelweiss Tokio Life [b] 1907

[d] Exide Life [c] 1987
[e] HDFC Life [d] 1999
[e] 2003
Q.25) Which bank has launched ‘HomeVantage
Current Account’ (HVCA) facility? Q.30) Who has been named the FIH Rising Star
[a] ICICI Bank of the Year 2021-22 in the women’s category?
[b] HDFC Bank [a] Susanna Tapani
[c] Bank of Baroda [b] Mumtaz Khan
[d] Axis Bank [c] Emerance Maschmeyer
[e] State Bank of India [d] Hilary Knight
[e] Angelina Goncharenko
Q.26) Recently, SBI Foundation has launched the
4th phase of the ‘SBI Gram Seva’ program for Q.31) Directorate General of Training (DGT),
adopting 30 remote villages across Aspirational under the Ministry of Skill Development and
Districts in six states (Haryana, Gujarat, Entrepreneurship, has launched the Bharatskills
Maharashtra, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, and West Forum, a new feature to allow sharing of books,
Bengal). When was the program launched? notes, videos, a question bank, etc. for skill
[a] 2017 learners. The forum has been launched on the
[b] 2016 Bharatskills platform. When was the Bharatskills
[c] 2018 platform launched?
[d] 2013 [a] 2017
[e] 2019 [b] 2021
[c] 2020
Q.27) In which country has Google established its [d] 2019
first cloud region? [e] 2018
[a] Greece
[b] Israel Q.32) Which edition of the Assembly of the
[c] France International Solar Alliance will be organized in
[d] United Kingdom New Delhi from October 17-20?
[e] Poland [a] Second
[b] Third
Q.28) Who has been appointed as the new [c] Fifth
governor of Meghalaya? [d] Fourth
[a] BD Mishra [e] Seventh
[b] Biswa Bhusan Harichandan
[c] Anusuiya Uikey Q.33) Ministerial dialogue of the US-India
[d] Bandaru Dattatraya Strategic Clean Energy Partnership (USISCEP)
[e] Kambhampati Haribabu will be held in the United States from October 7 to
11 this year. The Ministerial Dialogue will be co-
Q.29) Former German chancellor Angela Merkel chaired by Union Minister of Petroleum and
has won the United Nations refugee agency’s Natural Gas and Housing and Urban Affairs
prestigious Nansen Refugee Award, receiving Hardeep Singh Puri and US Secretary of Energy
praise for her determination to protect asylum Jennifer Granholm. The USISCEP was launched
seekers while in office. In which year was the based on the US-India Climate and Clean Energy
award instituted? Agenda Partnership 2030. In which year was the
[a] 1954
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US-India Climate and Clean Energy Agenda [b] Equifax Credit Information Services Pvt Ltd
Partnership 2030 launched by India and US? [c] PSIF Credit Information Services Pvt Ltd
[a] 2021 [d] Experian Credit Information Company of India
[b] 2019 Pvt Ltd
[c] 2015 [e] CRIF High Mark Credit Information Services
[d] 2013 Pvt Ltd
[e] 2017
Q.39) Recently, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das
Q.34) What is the total corpus under the has launched a new 'SupTech' initiative to make
Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme the supervisory processes more robust. This
(ECLGS) for the civil aviation sector? application will act as the bank's advanced
[a] ₹1,500 crores supervisory monitoring system, which will help in
[b] ₹1,900 crores improving the compliance culture in Supervised
[c] ₹2,000 crores Entities (SEs) like Banks, NBFCs, etc. Identify the
[d] ₹500 crores name of the application.
[e] ₹800 crores [a] Daksh
[b] Sugam
Q.35) Which bank has launched ‘Smart Wire’ [c] Uplaksh
online solution to help its customers carry out [d] Nigah
SWIFT-based inward remittances in a faster and [e] Karmi
hassle-free manner?
[a] HDFC Bank Q.40) Who has won the SASTRA Ramanujan
[b] Bank of Baroda Prize 2022?
[c] State Bank of India [a] Yunqing Tang
[d] ICICI Bank [b] Adam Harper
[e] Canara Bank [c] Shai Evra
[d] Will Sawin
Q.36) Which bank has launched a special FD [e] Mayra Twain
scheme named Shagun 501 on the occasion of
Dussehra and Diwali? Q.41) Indian Army's northern command has
[a] Equitas Small Finance Bank inducted Kalyani M4, an indigenous all-terrain
[b] Unity Small Finance Bank high mobility combat troop carrier with armour
[c] Airtel Payments Bank and mine protection, in Jammu and Kashmir.
[d] State Bank of India Which company of the Kalyani Group has
[e] Fino Payments Bank manufactured the carrier?
[a] Bharat Forge
Q.37) Which bank has launched the ONDC [b] Kalyani Forge
Sellers App? [c] Automotive Axles
[a] Bank of India [d] Kalyani Global
[b] IDBI Bank [e] Kalyani Maxion Wheels
[c] Central Bank of India
[d] Indian Overseas Bank Q.42) How many women are targeted by
[e] Indian Bank NASSCOM Foundation and American Express
under their ‘Women Empowerment Through
Q.38) Which of the following is not a credit Technology’ project?
information company operating in India? [a] 1000
[a] Credit Information Bureau (India) Ltd [b] 5000
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[c] 2000 [d] Himachal Pradesh

[d] 700 [e] Punjab
[e] 500
Q.48) Recently, the All-India Institute of
Q.43) Which state is running the Palanhar Ayurveda, Delhi has signed an MOU with the
Yojana? National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science
[a] Rajasthan and Technology for capacity development,
[b] Odisha technological cooperation, and research in the
[c] West Bengal field of Ayurveda. Which country does the latter
[d] Gujarat belong to?
[e] Uttar Pradesh [a] USA
[b] Japan
Q.44) Samantha Cristoforetti has taken over as [c] Republic of Korea
the head of the International Space Station. She [d] Hong Kong, SAR
is a European Space Agency astronaut. Which [e] France
country does she belong to?
[a] Italy Q.49) Recently, Nobel Prize in Economics has
[b] Portugal been given to Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond
[c] Poland and Philip Dybvig (all American) for 2022. When
[d] Germany was the Nobel Prize in Economics given for the
[e] Greece first time?
[a] 1901
Q.45) Recently, World Economic Forum (WEF) [b] 1896
has released the ‘Education 4.0 Report’, in [c] 1833
collaboration with United Nations Children’s [d] 1969
Education Fund (UNICEF) and YuWaah [e] 2000
(Generation Unlimited India). When was
Education 4.0 India initiative launched? Q.50) Taman Peninsula of Krasnodar Krai in
[a] 2017 Russia and the Kerch Peninsula are connected
[b] 2020 by the Kerch Bridge, which has got damaged
[c] 2018 recently. The bridge used to connect two different
[d] 2015 countries which are _____ and ______?
[e] 2013 [a] Singapore and Indonesia
[b] Japan and Philippines
Q.46) What is the theme of the International Day [c] Taiwan and Japan
of the Girl Child 2022? [d] Bulgaria and Turkey
[a] Digital generation [e] Russia and Ukraine
[b] My voice, our equal future
[c] GirlForce: Unscripted and unstoppable Q.51) The 2nd edition of the UN World Geo-
[d] With Her: A Skilled Girl Force Spatial International Congress was organized in
[e] Our time is now—our rights, our future Hyderabad, Telangana by the Department of
Science and Technology and the United Nations
Q.47) Where is the Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Committee of Experts on Geo-Spatial Information
Garden located? Management. The first edition of the UN World
[a] J&K Geo-Spatial information Congress was held in
[b] Ladakh 2018 in China. When was the Committee of
[c] Uttarakhand
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Experts on Geo-Spatial Information [b] SBI

Management? [c] HDFC Bank
[a] 2016 [d] Axis Bank
[b] 2015 [e] BOB
[c] 2014
[d] 2011 Q.57) Which bank has signed an MOU with
[e] 2013 Vayana Network for digitising the supply chain
financing and increasing its reach in India?
Q.52) Where is the 15-feet high statue of late [a] Bank of India
socialist icon Jayaprakash Narayan (politician of [b] ICICI Bank
Janata Party) established? [c] Canara Bank
[a] Uttar Pradesh [d] Bank of Baroda
[b] Gujarat [e] IDBI Bank
[c] Bihar
[d] Tamil Nadu Q.58) Which company has developed India's First
[e] Odisha Petrol Operated Drone named as 'DH-Agrigator'?
[a] Agnikul
Q.53) Which state has launched the Football for [b] Daksh
All Initiative to promote football, in partnership [c] Skyroot
with FIFA, among school children? [d] Dhruva
[a] Punjab [e] Pixxel
[b] Odisha
[c] Haryana Q.59) Mahendra Singh Dhoni has launched an
[d] Telangana indigenous camera drone named 'Droni' during
[e] Madhya Pradesh the Global Drone Expo in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Which company has manufactured the drone?
Q.54) By which year will the Dragonfly Rotorcraft [a] Paras Aerospace
land on Titan? [b] Throttle Aerospace
[a] 2030 [c] Redwing Labs
[b] 2031 [d] UrbanMatrix Technologies
[c] 2029 [e] Garuda Aerospace
[d] 2034
[e] 2027 Q.60) Which organization has released the
Crypto Assets Reporting Framework (CARF)?
Q.55) What is the name of the nuclear exercise to [a] OECD
be organized by the North Atlantic Treaty [b] World Bank
Organization (NATO)? [c] International Monetary Fund
[a] Steadfast Noon [d] World Economic Forum
[b] Pitch Black [e] G20
[c] Desert Knight
[d] Shantir Ogroshena Q.61) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has
[e] Winged Raider inaugurated the Mahakal Lok corridor at
Mahakaleshwar temple in Ujjain, Madhya
Q.56) Which bank has unveiled its Next-Gen Pradesh. It is one of the largest corridors (900-
Contact Centre Service to provide enhanced metre-long) in the country. It will be developed in
services and a good experience to customers? the surrounding of the _____ lake?
[a] UBI [a] Rudrasagar Lake
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[b] Pulicat Lake [b] 23rd

[c] Bhimtal Lake [c] 18th
[d] Kolleru Lake [d] 20th
[e] Gurudongmar Lake [e] 12th

Q.62) Union Cabinet has approved Prime Q.66) Kuafu is the Advanced Space-based Solar
Minister’s Development Initiative for North East Observatory of which country?
Region (PM-DevINE) scheme for the remaining [a] China
four years of the 15th Finance Commission from [b] Japan
2022-23 to 2025-26. It will be implemented by the [c] France
Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region [d] Canada
(DoNER), with a budgetary outlay of Rs.6,600 [e] Russia
crore. How much is the Centre’s share in the total
expenditure of the scheme for North-East States? Q.67) What is India’s rank in the Commitment to
[a] 60% Reducing Inequality Index in 2022 and 2020
[b] 90% (respectively)?
[c] 80% [a] 123rd, 129th
[d] 100% [b] 135th, 130th
[e] 75% [c] 107th, 112nd
[d] 118th, 130th
Q.63) Recently, the Tamil Nadu government [e] 143rd, 157th
notified Kaduvur slender loris sanctuary, covering
11,806 hectares in Karur and Dindigul districts. Q.68) Who has been appointed as the President
The International Union for the Conservation of of the Asia Pacific Audit Bureaux of Certification
Nature (IUCN) Red List categorizes Slender loris (APABC)?
as an endangered animal. Under which schedule [a] Avon Kumar Sharma
of the Wildlife (Protection) Act of India, 1972 are [b] Hormuzd Masani
the endangered animals given protection? [c] Vedveer Arya
[a] Schedule IX [d] Eddie Lalrinliana Khawlhring
[b] Schedule XII [e] Geeta Chhabra
[c] Schedule I
[d] Schedule IV Q.69) Where did the 8th World Carrom
[e] Schedule V Championship take place?
[a] Malaysia
Q.64) Which of the following companies is not a [b] Singapore
partner of NASSCOM in its Responsible AI Hub [c] Thailand
and resource kit initiative? [d] Japan
[a] Fractal Analytics [e] Philippines
[b] Tata Consultancy Services
[c] Microsoft Q.70) Who has become the new World 6-Red
[d] Adobe Snooker Champion in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia?
[e] Deloitte [a] Rajesh Sharma
[b] PK Saini
Q.65) Which edition of the FICCI HEAL (annual [c] Somnath Ghosh
health conference) has been organized at the [d] S. Shrikrishna
FICCI premise in New Delhi? [e] Dinesh Kumar
[a] 16th
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Q.71) Computer Emergency Response Team [e] Andhra Pradesh

India (CERT-In), in collaboration with Power-
Computer Security Incident Response Team, has Q.75) Which multilateral agency has extended an
conducted the "PowerEx" cyber security exercise unconditional loan of $250 million to Supporting
for power companies. How many power utilities Andhra’s Learning Transformation (SALT)
participated in this exercise? project?
[a] 245 [a] Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
[b] 188 [b] Asian Development Bank
[c] 201 [c] International Monetary Fund
[d] 193 [d] World Bank
[e] 150 [e] US Agency for International Development

Q.72) Where is the ‘PARAM KAMRUPA’ Q.76) Which naval ship has reached Port
supercomputer facility established? Gqeberha (also known as Port Elizabeth), South
[a] IIT-Bombay Africa to participate in the 7th edition of
[b] IIT-Guwahati IBSAMAR, a joint multinational maritime exercise
[c] IIT-Kanpur among Indian, Brazilian and South African
[d] IIT-Delhi Navies?
[e] IIT-Roorkee [a] INS Tabar
[b] INS Satpura
Q.73) Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has [c] INS Sahyadri
laid the foundation stone of Bulk Drug Park and [d] INS Kesari
the Indian Institute of Information Technology [e] INS Tarkash
(IIIT) at Una, Himachal Pradesh. The central govt
has given the approval to establish three bulk Q.77) Eastern Naval Command of the Indian
drug parks in Una district-Himachal Pradesh, Navy has conducted an offshore security exercise
Bharuch district-Gujarat, and Godavari District- named 'Prasthan' in the Krishna Godavari Basin
Andhra Pradesh. Launched in 2020 by the Offshore Development Area. In which state is the
Ministry of Chemical and Fertilizers, the scheme area located?
aims to establish 3 bulk drug parks at a cost of Rs [a] Maharashtra
3000 crores. What will be the state’s share in the [b] Andhra Pradesh
total cost of parks’ establishment? [c] Karnataka
[a] 80% [d] Only A and B
[b] 0% [e] Only B
[c] 60%
[d] 50% Q.78) UNDP has partnered with an integrated
[e] 40% grain commerce platform named Arya.ag and
Friends of Women's World Banking India (FWWB
Q.74) In which state has the Ethiopian delegation, India) for agri-value chain intervention, enterprise
led by the country’s Agricultural Minister Dr Meles promotion and skilling in the agriculture sector. In
Mekonen Yimer, visited and signed an MOU for which state is the Project Excel implemented by
adopting the single-window service centres for UNDP?
farmers of the state in Ethiopia? [a] Gujarat
[a] Odisha [b] Odisha
[b] Guajrat [c] Andhra Pradesh
[c] Madhya Pradesh [d] Himachal Pradesh
[d] Maharashtra [e] Maharashtra
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border operation with the forces called ‘Solidarity

Q.79) Recently, the Ministry of Commerce and 2023’. Where will the exercise be conducted?
Industry released the Logistics Ease Across [a] Kazakhstan
Different States (LEADS) Report 2022. The [b] Kyrgyzstan
LEADS is an indigenous data-driven index to [c] Iran
assess logistics infrastructure, services, and [d] Tajikistan
human resources across all 36 States and UTs. [e] China
The index is prepared on the three parameters,
which are Infrastructure, Services, and Operating Q.83) Where was the National Conference of
& Regulatory Environment. How many sub- Power and Renewable Energy Ministers of State/
indicators are involved in the infrastructure UTs organized?
parameter? [a] Udaipur
[a] Four [b] Ekta Nagar
[b] Eleven [c] Sri City
[c] Ten [d] Indore
[d] Twelve [e] Jaipur
[e] Five
Q.84) Which North-East state has launched the
Q.80) Mondelez India’s factory bagged the World Chief Minister's Health Insurance Scheme
Economic Forum’s fourth Advanced Industrial (CMHIS) in October 2022, with Oriental Insurance
Revolution (4IR) ‘Digital Lighthouse award’. Company Limited as its insurance partner?
Founded in 2016, the factory is among the first [a] Nagaland
FMCG plants in India to receive an award for [b] Assam
‘digital excellence’ driven by advanced [c] Meghalaya
technologies and sustainable practices. Where is [d] Mizoram
the factory located? [e] Arunachal Pradesh
[a] Sri City
[b] Bengaluru Q.85) What is the Global Average Score in the
[c] Mysuru Global Hunger Index 2022?
[d] Visakhapatnam [a] 18.2
[e] Vijayawada [b] 23.4
[c] 10.4
Q.81) Which Island nation has requested India to [d] 15.7
export a number of gaurs (Indian Bisons) to [e] 30.7
revive the population of Gavaras in that nation?
[a] Maldives Q.86) What is the theme of International Day of
[b] Indonesia Rural Women 2022?
[c] Madagascar [a] Rural Women Cultivating Good Food for All
[d] Sri Lanka [b] Rural women confront the global cost-of-living
[e] Mauritius crisis
[c] Rural women confront the global cost-of-living
Q.82) 38th meeting of the Council of the Regional crisis
Anti-Terrorist Structure of the Shanghai [d] Rural women confront the global cost-of-living
Cooperation Organisation (RATS SCO) was crisis
organized by India in its capacity as the chair of [e] Rural Women, key for a World Free from
SCO-RATS in New Delhi. The member states Hunger and Poverty
also agreed to organize and conduct a joint
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Q.87) When is the World Students Day [e] 22

celebrated?
[a] October 15 Q.92) Where will the Durgavati Tiger Reserve be
[b] October 10 developed?
[c] October 9 [a] Uttar Pradesh
[d] October 10 [b] Chhattisgarh
[e] October 23 [c] Jharkhand
[d] Madhya Pradesh
Q.88) Which country has won the prestigious [e] Gujarat
'World Green City Award 2022' in the category
Living Green for Economic Recovery and Q.93) How much MSP has been decided for
Inclusive Growth wheat for rabi marketing season of 2023-24?
[a] Gambia [a] Rs 2125 per quintal
[b] Brazil [b] Rs 1011 per quintal
[c] India [c] Rs 4500 per quintal
[d] Argentine [d] Rs 2300 per quintal
[e] Columbia [e] Rs 1611 per quintal

Q.89) Where will India's first-ever dietary Q.94) Which of the following statements aptly
supplements testing facility be set up? describes Project Zorawar of the Indian Army?
[a] Gwalior [a] It aims to procure multi-purpose light transport
[b] Vishakhapatnam aircraft to carry goods from one place to another
[c] Indore in a quick manner
[d] Ahmedabad [b] it aims to procure lightweight tanks to enable
[e] Hyderabad faster mobilization and deployment in high-
altitude conflict zones
Q.90) India won the Women’s Asia Cup (Cricket) [c] It aims to modernise the armed forces by
by defeating Sri Lanka in the final match in procuring man-portable anti-tank and anti-aircraft
Sylhet, Bangladesh by an advantage of ___ missiles
wickets? [d] It aims to strengthen the SAR operations of
[a] 8 Indian Navy and Coast Guard by procuring light
[b] 4 passenger aircrafts
[c] 5 [e] It aims to modernize the Indian Coast Guard
[d] 9 services with high-tech diesel engine corvettes
[e] 7
Q.95) What is the theme of the DefExpo 2022?
Q.91) The Central government has created [a] Boosting indigenous production of defence
exclusive benches to deal with cases above ₹100 goods
crores at Debts Recovery Tribunals (DRTs) in [b] Showcasing India's capabilities in Land, Naval
Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi to get more focus on and Security Systems
high-value cases. How many Debts Recovery [c] India: The Emerging Defence Manufacturing
Tribunals (DRTs) are operational in India in Hub
October 2022? [d] March towards Atmanirbhar Defence
[a] 39 [e] Path to Pride
[b] 48
[c] 52 Q.96) What is the score of Haryana – the top-
[d] 62 ranked – in the Public Affairs Index 2022?
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[a] 0.8809 [c] Karnataka Bank

[b] 0.2256 [d] Bank of Baroda
[c] 0.3425 [e] Citi Bank
[d] 0.6948
[e] 0.6789 Q.102) Recently, Union Minister of Petroleum and
Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri inaugurated
Q.97) Which multilateral organization is a Asia's largest Compressed Bio Gas (CBG) plant
signatory to the Indus Water Treaty, 1960? in Lehragaga, in Punjab's Sangrur. This plant has
[a] UN been developed with the financial assistance of
[b] IMF Verbio AG, which is a leading bio-energy
[c] WB company in ____?
[d] ADB [a] Switzerland
[e] MIGA [b] Sweden
[c] Denmark
Q.98) Who has won the Ballon d’Or 2022 awards [d] Netherlands
in women’s category? [e] Germany
[a] Alex Morgan
[b] Christine Sinclair Q.103) Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has
[c] Sam Kerr started the distribution of PMJAY-MA Yojana
[d] Alexia Putellas Ayushman cards in Gujarat. ‘Mukhyamantri
[e] Lucy Bronze Amrutam (MA)’ scheme was launched to shield
poor citizens from the huge costs of medical
Q.99) Who is the author of 2022 Booker Prize- treatment and illness. When was the scheme
winning novel “The Seven Moons of Maali launched?
Almeida”? [a] 2012
[a] David Grossman [b] 2018
[b] Amos Oz [c] 2013
[c] Zeruya Shalev [d] 2015
[d] Sayed Kashua [e] 2010
[e] Shehan Karunatilaka
Q.104) What is the venue of the 14th edition of
Q.100) Who has authored ‘A confused mind story’ the World Spice Congress?
book? [a] Copenhagen
[a] Naveen Kumar Jain [b] Prague
[b] Rajesh Ranjan [c] Florence
[c] R Sreenivas [d] Lyon
[d] Sahil Seth [e] Mumbai
[e] Dharmendra Kumar Singh
Q.105) Recently, India and France have re-
Q.101) Recently, Union Minister Jitendra Singh elected as President and Co-President of the
has launched an integrated portal - International Solar Alliance (ISA) at the fifth
www.ipension.nic.in - for ensuring “ease of living” general assembly of the body in New Delhi. The
for the central government pensioners. Which ISA Assembly approved the Solar Facility, a
bank has co-developed the portal with the payment guarantee mechanism, which is
Ministry? expected to stimulate investments into solar
[a] Kotak Mahindra Bank projects. This facility will crowdsource
[b] State Bank of India investments from various donors across the globe
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and proposed projects in Africa will be able to Q.110) Who has been elected as the new
purchase payment guarantees or partial president of the Congress party?
insurance premium from these funds. This facility [a] A K Antony
is divided into how many components? [b] Priyanka Gandhi
[a] Two [c] Ahmed Patel
[b] Five [d] Mallikarjun Kharge
[c] Eight [e] Ashok Gehlot
[d] Seven
[e] Four Q.111) Where have the Confederation of Indian
Industry and the Indian Oil Corporation launched
Q.106) What is the total corpus of the accelerator the 'Vayu Amrit' project?
fund launched by the Union Minister for [a] Haryana
Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh [b] Madhya Pradesh
Tomar for the agri-startups? [c] Punjab
[a] Rs 100 crore [d] Rajasthan
[b] Rs 200 crore [e] Uttar Pradesh
[c] Rs 500 crore
[d] Rs 300 crore Q.112) How many Positive Indigenisation Lists
[e] Rs 120 crore have been released by the Ministry of Defence as
of October 22, 2022?
Q.107) What is India’s score in the Global [a] Four
Pension Index survey 2022? [b] Three
[a] 23.5 [c] Two
[b] 88.9 [d] Seven
[c] 57.6 [e] Five
[d] 44.4
[e] 24.8 Q.113) In which state is the Deesa air base being
developed?
Q.108) With which company has IRCTC [a] Punjab
collaborated to provide Travel Now Pay Later [b] Gujarat
(TNPL) payment option on its travel app, IRCTC [c] Andhra Pradesh
Rail Connect? [d] Kerala
[a] MoneyTap [e] Karnataka
[b] CASHe
[c] Instamojo Q.114) What is India’s rank in the Internet
[d] Pine Labs Freedom subindex of Freedom in the World report
[e] ZestMoney for 2022?
[a] 51st
Q.109) Who has been appointed as the 27th [b] 87th
Controller General of Accounts? [c] 34th
[a] D K Rai [d] 103rd
[b] S.B. Naithani [e] 21st
[c] Muthuthevar Kannan
[d] Naveen Kumar Jain Q.115) According to the World Steel Association
[e] Bharati Das (WSA), global steel demand will reduce by 2.3%
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interest rates. Which of the following country is

the major consumer of steel? Q.120) Barbara D Metcalf has received the Sir
[a] Russia Syed Excellence International Award for 2022.
[b] Brazil Which country does she belong to?
[c] US [a] Austria
[d] India [b] USA
[e] China [c] Hungary
[d] Italy
Q.116) Recently, the people of Ukraine won the [e] Poland
Sakharov prize for freedom of thought. Which
international agency gives this award? Q.121) Nihonshu is the alcoholic beverage of
[a] European Union which country?
[b] UN Human Rights Commission [a] South Korea
[c] Concern Worldwide [b] Japan
[d] Amnesty International [c] USA
[e] USAID [d] Australia
[e] Hong Kong SAR
Q.117) Which of the following stock brokerage
firm opened its first-ever women-only Digital Q.122) Where is South Asia's first state-of-the-art,
Centre (DC) in Bengaluru in October 2022? most Advanced Bi-Plane Cardiac Catheterization
[a] Kotak Securities Laboratory established?
[b] HDFC Securities [a] DY Patil Medical College
[c] ICICI Direct [b] Stanley Medical College
[d] Groww [c] Dayanand Medical College & Hospital
[e] Upstox [d] Rajiv Gandhi Medical College
[e] Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences
Q.118) Recently, Dr Sankarasubramanian K. has
been appointed as Principal Scientist of the Q.123) Which state has launched the 'Kunjapp', a
Aditya-L1 (the first observatory-class space- mobile application to prevent cyber-crimes
based solar mission of India). Along with this job against children in the state?
position, Sankarasubramanian K. continues to be [a] Kerala
a senior solar scientist at _____? [b] Karnataka
[a] National Atmospheric Research Laboratory [c] Punjab
[b] U R Rao Satellite Centre [d] Maharashtra
[c] Satish Dhawan Space Centre [e] Telangana
[d] Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre
[e] National Remote Sensing Centre Q.124) Which state has launched the
SAMRIDDHI scheme to provide a major relief to
Q.119) Who has become the first Indian and first property owners?
Asian to be appointed as an independent expert [a] Punjab
on racism and related intolerance at the UN [b] Gujarat
Human Rights Council? [c] Rajasthan
[a] Prabhat Kumar Tripathi [d] Delhi
[b] Radha Sridharan [e] Jammu & Kashmir
[c] Pankaj Agarwal
[d] K.P. Ashwini Q.125) Which state has launched India’s first
[e] Vinod G. Khandare migrant tracking system?
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[a] Kerala [b] October 14-20

[b] Maharashtra [c] October 24-30
[c] Uttar Pradesh [d] October 20-27
[d] Gujarat [e] October 8-15
[e] Odisha
Q.131) Who is the author of “From dependence to
Q.126) Recently, India and US navies organized SelfReliance: Mapping India's Rise as a Global
the 2nd edition of the Indo-US Tri-Services Superpower” book?
Amphibious HADR Exercise, named Tiger [a] Mahesh Kumar Jain
Triumph, at Vishakhapatnam. Which of the [b] M.D. Patra
following exercises is not conducted by India and [c] Revathy Iyer
the US? [d] Rajeshwar Rao
[a] Malabar [e] Bimal Jalan
[b] Yudh Abhyas
[c] Vajra Prahar Q.132) Who has won the US Grand Prix 2022?
[d] Red Flag [a] Jimmie Johnson
[e] Ajeya Warrior [b] Jeff Gordon
[c] Mick Schumacher
Q.127) In October 2022, ‘Agni Prime’ new [d] Heikki Kovalainen
generation ballistic missile was successfully test- [e] Max Verstappen
fired off the coast of Odisha from the APJ Abdul
Kalam Island. What is the range of this new Q.133) Who has won the Meltwater Champions
generation advanced variant of the Agni missile? Chess Tour 2022?
[a] 5000-10000 km [a] Fabiano Caruana
[b] 800-1000 km [b] Hikaru Nakamura
[c] 1000-2000 km [c] Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
[d] 5000-7000 km [d] Viswanathan Anand
[e] 2000-8000 km [e] Magnus Carlsen

Q.128) Who has been appointed as the Chargé Q.134) Which country has won the Denmark
d’Affaires in the US Embassy in New Delhi? Open (badminton) tournament 2022?
[a] Elizabeth Jones [a] China
[b] Mark Kelly [b] Japan
[c] Tom Cotton [c] Thailand
[d] Dianne Feinstein [d] Malaysia
[e] John Boozman [e] Philippines

Q.129) When is the World Polio Day observed? Q.135) Which is the best performing state under
[a] October 24 the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban for the
[b] October 8 year 2021?
[c] October 23 [a] Uttar Pradesh
[d] October 19 [b] Tripura
[e] October 16 [c] Odisha
[d] Andhra Pradesh
Q.130) When is the UN Disarmament Week [e] Maharashtra
celebrated?
[a] October 10-17
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Q.136) Which edition of the International Lead Q.141) Where was the Chintan Shivir (reflection
Poisoning Prevention Week was observed in camp) organized?
2022? [a] Chennai
[a] 17th [b] Surajkund
[b] 23rd [c] Kochi
[c] 10th [d] Mysuru
[d] 20th [e] Pune
[e] 18th
Q.142) Which state has launched a common
Q.137) On which day is the World Sustainability credit portal named ‘SAFAL' (Simplified
Day observed? Application for Agricultural Loans) for the welfare
[a] Second Thursday of May of farmers?
[b] Fourth Friday of April [a] Odisha
[c] Third Saturday of November [b] West Bengal
[d] Fourth Wednesday of October [c] Telangana
[e] Second Monday of February [d] Uttar Pradesh
[e] Madhya Pradesh
Q.138) Sandeep Bakhshi is the MD and CEO of
which bank? Q.143) How much is the total foodgrain
[a] Kotak Mahindra Bank production target under the 3rd Advance
[b] Canara Bank Estimates of the area and production of various
[c] IDBI Bank horticultural crops for the year 2021-22?
[d] Axis Bank [a] 342.33 MT
[e] ICICI Bank [b] 302.78 MT
[c] 247.08 MT
Q.139) Recently, Novartis AG (Swiss-American [d] 178.97 MT
multinational pharmaceutical corporation) has [e] 164.09 MT
signed a voluntary agreement licence with
generic drugmakers in _____ middle-income Q.144) What is the venue of "Yudh Abhyas"
nations to produce the leukemia treatment drug 2022?
named as Nilotinib. [a] Anjaw
[a] Twelve [b] Musai
[b] Ten [c] Kibithu
[c] Seven [d] Auli
[d] Five [e] Kaho
[e] Fourteen
Q.145) India Post Payments Bank (IPPB)
Q.140) Which IIT has collaborated with NASA Jet operating under the Department of Posts has
Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) researchers to study launched a Group Accident Insurance Plan. What
the interactions between microbes in the is the amount of accidental death coverage in this
International Space Station (ISS)? plan?
[a] Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur [a] Rs 50 lakh
[b] Indian Institute of Technology-Ropar [b] Rs 10 lakh
[c] Indian Institute of Technology-Madras [c] Rs 20 lakh
[d] Indian Institute of Technology-Kolkata [d] Rs 15 lakh
[e] Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi [e] Rs 30 lakh

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Q.146) The Insurance Regulatory and [d] 4th

Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has [e] 3rd
launched Bima Sugam—an online portal that will
house all companies selling life and non-life Q.151) Which of the following statement is/are
insurance on a single platform. When will this correct about the YUVA 2.0 scheme?
platform go live? [a] The theme of the YUVA 2.0 scheme is
[a] 1 April 2023 Democracy.
[b] 1 November 2023 [b] The scheme aims to mentor writers who are
[c] 1 April 2024 40 years of age.
[d] 1 January 2023 [c] The National Book Trust is the implementing
[e] 1 May 2024 agency of this scheme.
[d] Both A and B
Q.147) Which bank has partnered with Rupeek [e] Both A and C
Capital Pvt Ltd, an asset-backed digital lending
fintech platform, to offer jewel loans at customers’ Q.152) Which state has launched the Mahatma
doorsteps under the co-lending arrangement? Gandhi Rural Industrial Parks (MGRIP) scheme to
[a] Bank of Baroda develop ‘gauthans’ (cow shelters) as rural
[b] HDFC Bank industrial parks for livelihood generation?
[c] Karur Vyasa Bank [a] Chhattisgarh
[d] Indian Bank [b] West Bengal
[e] Bank of India [c] Madhya Pradesh
[d] Uttar Pradesh
Q.148) Which IIT has won the National [e] Uttarakhand
Intellectual Property Award for 2021 and 2022?
[a] IIT-Delhi Q.153) With which country has India signed a
[b] IIT-Ropar white shipping pact?
[c] IIT-Kharagpur [a] Australia
[d] IIT-Madras [b] USA
[e] IIT-Bombay [c] Madagascar
[d] Mauritius
Q.149) Which edition of the Annual Meeting of the [e] New Zealand
Board of Governors of the Asian Infrastructure
Investment Bank (AIIB) was hosted virtually on Q.154) Who was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize
the theme of “Sustainable Infrastructure Toward a in Medicine?
Connected World” in 2022? [a] Svante Paabo
[a] Tenth [b] Syukuro Manabe
[b] Eighth [c] Klaus Hasselmann
[c] Seventh [d] Giorgio Parisi
[d] Fifth [e] Ardem Patapoutian
[e] Twelfth
Q.155) Who is the author of “India’s Pakistan
Q.150) What is Russia’s position as the trading Conundrum: Managing a Complex Relationship”
partner of India as per the Ministry of Commerce book?
and Industry’s data? [a] Prabhat Kumar Tripathi
[a] 7th [b] Radha Sridharan
[b] 10th [c] Manish Tripathi
[c] 5th [d] Sharat Sabharwal
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[e] Rakesh Mittal [b] Andy Murray

[c] Andre Agassi
Q.156) How many tele-mental health centres of [d] Novak Djokovic
excellence will be established under the Tele [e] Stefanos Tsitsipas
Mental Health Assistance and Networking Across
States (Tele-MANAS) initiative? Q.161) What is India’s score in the Global
[a] 33 Multidimensional Poverty Index 2022?
[b] 15 [a] 0.069
[c] 23 [b] 0.078
[d] 20 [c] 0.110
[e] 12 [d] 0.103
[e] 0.123
Q.157) Where was the Sustainable Mountain
Development Summit-XI held? Q.162) Which state has topped in NSO’s report
[a] Himachal Pradesh on value of output from agriculture, forestry and
[b] Ladakh fishing sectors?
[c] Gujarat [a] Andhra Pradesh
[d] Sikkim [b] Gujarat
[e] Arunachal Pradesh [c] Odisha
[d] Maharashtra
Q.158) Recently, Department for Promotion of [e] Telangana
Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) hosted
Conference on B20 Indonesia Global Dialogue in Q.163) Where has SBI set up its first premium
partnership with Confederation of Indian Industry dedicated branch for start-ups?
(CII) in New Delhi. The dialogue will pave the way [a] Gwalior
to the B20 final summit that will take place on 13- [b] Bengaluru
14 November 2022 at Indonesia. B20 is the [c] Hyderabad
official G20 dialogue forum with the global [d] Ahmedabad
business community to spur economic growth and [e] Mumbai
development. When was this forum launched?
[a] 2010 Q.164) What is the theme of International Day for
[b] 2000 the Eradication of Poverty 2022?
[c] 2013 [a] Building Forward Together: Ending Persistent
[d] 2014 Poverty, Respecting all People and our Planet
[e] 2012 [b] Dignity for All in Practice: The commitments
we make together for social justice, peace, and
Q.159) When is the World Day Against Death the planet
Penalty observed? [c] Acting together to empower children, their
[a] October 27 families, and communities to end poverty
[b] October 10 [d] Coming together with those furthest behind to
[c] October 15 build an inclusive world of universal respect for
[d] October 22 human rights and dignity
[e] October 3 [e] The importance of the values of dignity,
solidarity and voice underscored in the Call to
Q.160) Who has won the Astana Open Tennis Action to fight to end poverty everywhere
tournament?
[a] Daniil Medvedev
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Q.165) Qatar has been chosen for hosting the [b] Seven
2023 AFC (Asian Football Confederation) Asia [c] Five
Cup. For how many has Qatar hosted the AFC [d] Four
Asia Cup prior to 2023? [e] Eight
[a] Two

1 A 51 D 101 B 151 E
2 B 52 C 102 E 152 A
3 A 53 B 103 A 153 E
4 A 54 D 104 E 154 A
5 E 55 A 105 A 155 D
6 A 56 B 106 C 156 C
7 D 57 E 107 D 157 B
8 D 58 B 108 B 158 A
9 A 59 E 109 E 159 B
10 D 60 A 110 D 160 D
11 A 61 A 111 C 161 A
12 D 62 D 112 A 162 A
13 A 63 C 113 B 163 B
14 A 64 D 114 A 164 B
15 A 65 A 115 E 165 A
16 A 66 A 116 A
17 E 67 A 117 B
18 D 68 B 118 B
19 E 69 A 119 D
20 B 70 D 120 B
21 A 71 D 121 B
22 C 72 B 122 A
23 C 73 B 123 A
24 E 74 E 124 D
25 A 75 D 125 B
26 A 76 E 126 E
27 A 77 E 127 C
28 A 78 A 128 A
29 A 79 A 129 A
30 B 80 A 130 C
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32 C 82 E 132 E
33 A 83 A 133 E
34 A 84 A 134 A
35 D 85 A 135 A
36 B 86 E 136 C
37 B 87 A 137 D
38 C 88 C 138 E
39 A 89 D 139 C
40 A 90 A 140 C
41 A 91 A 141 B
42 D 92 D 142 A
43 A 93 A 143 A
44 A 94 B 144 D
45 B 95 E 145 B
46 E 96 D 146 D
47 A 97 C 147 D
48 B 98 D 148 D
49 D 99 E 149 C
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