Current Affairs October 2014 The European country which has given recognition to the country of Palestine as promised by its new Prime Minister Stefan Lofven Sweden The four-day trilateral Coast Guard exercise among India, Maldives and Sri Lanka which was conducted off the Maldives coast was codenamed Dosti-XII The winged spaceship of Virgin Galactic designed to take tourists on excursions beyond Earths atmosphere which exploded during a test flight immediatly after being released from a carrier aircraft VSS Enterprise The new Chief Minister of Maharashtra who was sworn in by the Governor Shri C Vidyasagar Rao at a ceremony held in Wankhede Staium in Mumbai Shri Devendra Fadnavis The pollution response exercise organised by the Indian Coast Guard off the coast of Kovalam in Kerala for fine-tuning the Standard Operating Procedure of various departments so that they could effectively prevent pollutions at sea from reaching the shore was code named Pradushan - 01/14 The Orbital Sciences Corporations rocket which was to launch Cyngus cargo spacecraft carrying supplies to International Space Station and which blew up over the launch complex at Wallops Island Facility in Virginia, just six seconds after lift-off Antares The Indian billiards player who has become the first player ever to win World Billiards title in both formats thrice by defeating Englands Robert Hall in the IBSF World Billiards championship (timed format) Pankaj Advani The cyclone which arose in the Arabian Sea and threatened to hit the coast of Gujarat severely but finally weakened out causing no damage was named Cyclone Nilofar The former Indian cricketer who alongwith former Australian cricketer Steve Waugh has been inducted into the Bradman Hall of fame Sachin Tendulkar The first woman President of Brazil who has won a second term of presidency defeating her rival Aecio Neves Dilma Rousseff The Google executive, who created a new record in highest-altitude free fall jump by taking a jump from an altitude of 1,35,889.108 ft to which he was carried by a balloon manufactured by Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad (He hit a top velocity of 1,322 km/hr during a free fall that lasted four-and-a-half minutes.) Alan Eustace The Sri Lankan Buddhist revivalist and founding contributor of non-violent Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalism and Buddhism on whom a commemorative postage stamp was released by the President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee Anagarika Dharmapala The Indian golf player who has won the Macau Open overtaking Australian player Scott Hend Anirban Lahiri The new Chief Minister of Haryana who was sworn in by the Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki at a ceremony in Panchkula Manohar Lal Khattar The Zimbabwean tennis player pairing with whom Sania Mirza has won doubles title at the WTA Finals defeating Peng Shuai and Hsieh Su-Wei Cara Black The west African country which has been declared free of viral disease Ebola by the World Health Organisation, 42 days after the last case in the country Nigeria The Indian cricketer who has become the fastest cricketer in the world to score 20 centuries in ODIs by doing it in 133 innings, breaking Sachin Tendulkars earlier record (against West Indies at Dharamshala) Virat Kohli The US militarys robotic space plane that landed back at Vandenberg Air Force base in California ending a 22-month mission is named (The plance was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on December 11, 2012) X-37B (Orbital Test Vehicle) The campaign launched by UN Women to ensure greater participation of men in promoting women’s rights and gender equality and to end gender inequality by 2030 is named HeForShe The war led by United States against Islamic State jihadists, which began more than two months ago has been named Operation Inherent Resolve US-based economist and a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, who has appointed as the Chief Economic Advisor to the Govt of India (a post which was vacant since Dr. Raghuram Rajan became the Governor of RBI) Arvind Subramanian The Indian-born plant scientist who has been awarded the USD 250,000 2014 World Food Prize at the 2014 Borlaug Dialogue, currently being held in Des Moines, United States, for his contribution in increasing global wheat production Dr Sanjaya Rajaram The Indian police inspector from Jammu and Kashmir police currently deployed in the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), who has been awarded the International Female Police Peacekeeper Award 2014 Shakti Devi The Australian author who has been awarded the Man Booker Prize 2014 for his book The Narrow Road to the Deep North Richard Flangan The Android application launched by IRCTC to enable mobile users to search, book and cancel tickets at a click of button is named IRCTC Connect The typhoon which hit the coasts of Japanese islands on 13 Oct forcing cancellation of hundreds of flights and evacuation of lakhs of people is named Vongfong The boxing gold medal winner at the Asian Games 2014 who has been chosen as the Most Valuable Player of the India’s Incheon Asian Games campaign by contingent sponsors Samsung India Mary Kom The secretary-general of Hockey India who has been elected as its President for a four-year term replacing Ms Mariamma Koshy Narinder Batra The operation launched by the Indian Navy to carry out relief and rescue operations in areas affected by cyclone Hudhud has been code-named Operation Lehar The cyclone from Bay of Bengal which made landfall at Pudimadaka in Visakhapatnam on 12.10.14 killing 5 people in A.P. and Odisha is named (the name was given by Oman) Hudhud The tennis player who has won the 20th Fennesta National Tennis championship mens singles title defeating Siddarth Rawat in the final Vishnu Vardhan The tennis player who has won the 20th Fennesta National Tennis championship womens singles title beating Kamran Kaur in the finals Prerna Bhambri The semi-high speed train which is proposed to be launched between Agra and Delhi and expected to cover the distance in 105 minutes by running at 160 kmph is named Gatimaan Express The veteran journalist and author of book - The Man of the Moment : Narendra Modi, who passed away at the age on 93 on 09.10.14 M.V. Kamath The chairperson of Sangeet Natak Akademi and Central Board of Film Censors who has resigned from her post as the chairperson of Sangeet Natak Akademi Ms. Leela Samson The Indian cricket star who has figured at No. 5 position in Forbes list of Most Valuable Athlete Brands for the year 2014 Mahender Singh Dhoni The place at which worlds largest telescope being developed by India alongwith Japan, USA, Canada and China will be installed by 2022 Mt Mauna Kea, Hawaii The typhoon which hit the coast of Japan and in which 3 US airmen were swept away was named Phanfone The Russian tennis player who has won the China Open womens singles title defeating Czech player Petra Kvitova in the finals Maria Sharapova Serbian tennis player who has won the Chian Open mens singles title defeating Czech player Tomas Berdych in the finals Novak Djokovic The discoverer of sub-atomic particle tau lepton and recipient of Nobel Physics prize, 1995, who died at the age of 87 on 30.09.2014 Martin Lewis Perl Malayalam poet, social activist and recipient of Padma Shri (2006) and Saraswati Samman (2012) who has been chosen for Mathrubhumi Literary Award (Mathrubhumi Sahitya Puraskaram) for 2014. (She has also been awarded the Kerala Gandhi Award by K.Kelappan Smaraka Samithi) Sugatha Kumari The former two-term Norwegian Prime Minister who has taken over as the new Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Jens Stoltenberg The place in Uttar Pradesh where a head-on collission between Krishak Express and Lucknow Barauni Express has killed over 13 persons Gorakhpur The state in which the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has signed a memorandum of understanding to form a joint venture (JV) company for setting up Indias first offshore wind power project
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