Top 10 Current Affairs of 16th-22nd October 2013:- *********** 16 October 2013 - 1. World Food Day celebrated on 16 October every year across the world since 1981.The Theme of the World Food Day 2013 is Sustainable Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition. 2. Eleanor Catton won the 2013 Man Booker prize for English fiction on Tuesday for her novel The Luminaries and became the youngest winner in the awards 45-year history. The 28-year-old New Zealand novelist won the award. 3. The Railways today appointed acting Chairman of the Railway Board Arunendra Kumar as the head of the Board. 4. The World Bank has revised downwards India’s economic growth forecast for the current fiscal to 4.7 per cent. 5. The 2013 Global Hunger Index (GHI), released on 14 October 2013 by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). India has moved from 65 to 63 in the Global Hunger Index, making a marginal improvement since 2012, but continues to suffering far behind other emerging economies. 6. Justice M B Shah Commission, appointed to probe illegal mining across the country, has submitted its third and final report which is mainly on the menace in Goa. 7. A powerful typhoon Wipha on 16 October 2013 caused landslides and flooding on Izu Oshima Island, South of Tokyo. 8. Tilonia was one of the first to start the concept of craft bazaars way back in 1975.Tilonia Bazaar is back with a bang after a break in Bangalore, bringing along its riot of colours and patch-worked fabrics. 9. Former India pacer Ajit Agarkar retired from all forms of cricket, bringing down the curtain on a 16-year first class career during which he played 26 Tests and 191 ODIs, besides leading Mumbai to their 40th Ranji Trophy title last season. 10. In a major boost for India and other countries seeking details on suspected black money stashed in Swiss banks, Switzerland has agreed to exchange of information and mutual administrative assistance in tax matters with overseas authorities. 17 October 2013 - 1. The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty was observed on 17 October 2013 to promote people’s awareness of the need to eradicate poverty and destitution worldwide, particularly in developing countries. 2. The Union cabinet of India approved on 17 October 2013 the appointment of a three-member supervisory committee headed by a representative of the Central Water Commission on construction of Babhli Barrage issue.The Babhli project / barrage is a controversial reservoir project being constructed by Maharashtra state across the river Godavari. 3. Hilary Clinton was awarded the first founders’ award from the Elton John AIDS Foundation in New York on 15 October 2013 for her work to help HIV/AIDS victims. 4. Union Minister for Rural Development Jairam Ramesh today released the book Walking With Giants — a lesson in modern Indian history a memoir written by former Finance Secretary G. Ramachandran. 5. Top English Premier League side Liverpool on 16 October 2013 launched a residential football academy in Pune in partnership with city-based DSK Shivajians FC. 6. The government of Canada announced honorary Canadian citizenship for Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yousafzai. 7. Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize on 10 October 2013 for literature. She was the first Canadian woman to take the Nobel Prize since its launch in 1901. 8. Sein Win, a renowned journalist in Myanmar who championed press freedom and endured three stints in prison as he chronicled several decades of his country’s turbulent history, died on Thursday at 91. 9. Thirty-seven per cent of Western Ghats declared as ecologically sensitive area includes reserve forests, national parks and wildlife sanctuaries which are already protected. 10. Russia has proposed a nuclear deal with Iran, involving the lifting of sanctions if Tehran agrees to put all its atomic installations under international supervision. 18 October 2013 - 1. The Reserve Bank will shortly issue Rs 10 denomination banknotes with rupee symbol bearing the signature of new governor Raghuram Rajan. 2. Union Government of India appointed on 17 October 2013 Gireesh B. Pradhan, former Secretary of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, as the Chairperson of the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC). 3. Saudi Arabia has rejected a rotating seat at the Security Council, as a mark of protest against the perceived inaction by the world body against Syria. 4. Manipur Defeated Haryana to Lift 54th Subroto Cup Football Tournament. The Subroto Cup Football Tournament is primarily an inter-school football tournament in India, which is named after Indian Air Force Air Marshal Subroto Mukerjee. 5. Aditya Mehta re-wrote cuesport history by becoming the first-ever Indian to reach the final of a professional snooker tournament as he overcame World No.5 Stephen Maguire from Scotland 4-3 in the semi-final of the Indian Open on Friday. 6. As the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda is being celebrated, many are not even aware of his stenographer Josiah Goodwin, who played a key role in immortalizing his lectures and preachings. 7. The World Bank has praised Indias evacuation of nearly 10 lakh people in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, which ensured minimal loss of human lives, before the cyclone Phailin made landfall and attributed it to its years of disaster management preparedness. 8. Hollywood superstar Hugh Jackman has been chosen over a Bollywood star as the brand ambassador of Indian mobile handset brand Micromax. 9. Under the new discovery dubbed as Li-Fi, a light bulb with embedded microchips can produce data rates as fast as 150 megabits per second. Chinese scientists have successfully developed a new cheaper way of getting connected to internet by using signals sent through light bulbs instead of radio frequencies. 10. Sarojini Varadappan, the renowned social worker died on 17 October 2013 in Chennai following a brief illness. 19 October 2013 - 1. The Reserve Bank of India today launched the new Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system for large-value funds transfer. The Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system is a large-value funds transfer system which banks use to settle inter-bank transfers for their own accounts as well as for their customers. 2. According to a Nabard (National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development) report, though the SHG-BLP (self-help group-bank linkage programme) is a step towards bringing the ‘unbanked’ poor into the mainstream banking channel, its formal acceptance as a financial inclusion channel by the central bank is still awaited. An SHG is a homogeneous group, comprising 15-20 members (mostly women), where members first pool in their savings and give out small loans to needy members. 3. IT bellwether Infosys Ltd Friday announced it has won the Corporate Sustainability Stewardship award for efficient management of energy, waste and water resources in its production processes and operations. 4. Pacer Pradeep Sangwan was on Saturday slapped with an 18-month ban from cricket after being found guilty of consuming a banned anabolic steroid by the BCCI’s Anti-Doping Tribunal. 5. Ding Junhui of China won the 2013 Indian Open Snooker title with a 5-0 victory over Aditya Mehta of India in New Delhi on 18 October 2013. 6. Eminent Telugu writer and Gyanpeeth award recipient, Dr. Ravuri Bharadwaja passed away in Hyderabad on 18 October 2013. He was 86. 7. The 2nd International Tourism Mart(ITM) has begun in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh. The three-day event from 18th-20th October, 2013. 8. Renowned music director K Raghavan, who brought originality and local flavour to Malayalam cinema music, in a career spanning over five decades, died in a hospital on Saturday. 9.Facebook becomes Google advertising ally. Google-owned online ad-placing service DoubleClick on Friday announced that the way has been cleared to include space at Facebook. 10.The largest Air Traffic Control (ATC) tower of India was inaugurated outside the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai on 18 October 2013. 20 October 2013 - 1. Indias top squash player Dipika Pallikal upstaged former World No.1 Rachael Grinham of Australia to win the Macau Open on Sunday, the seventh Womens Squash Association (WSA) title of her career. 2. Indias plans to wrap up a quick nuclear deal with Russia on the setting up of two new units at Kudankulam have received a jolt with a commercial agreement on it unlikely to be signed tomorrow. 3. World Osteoporosis Day is observed annually on 20 October. The day marks the launch of a year-long campaign dedicated to raising global awareness of the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis. 4. Legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar has been conferred with the first Yash Chopra Memorial Award. 5. Israel has allowed 899 Indian Jews from Manipur and Mizoram, the members of the lost Bnei Menashe tribe, to immigrate to the Jewish state. 6. Four Indians led by ICICI Bank CEO Chanda Kochhar have made to Fortune magazines global list of top-50 women business leaders, while PepsiCo chief Indra Nooyi has been ranked second in a similar list for the US. 7. JPMorgan Chase & Co has reached a tentative $13 billion deal with the US justice department and other government agencies to settle investigations into bad mortgage loans the bank sold to investors before the financial crisis, a source familiar with the talks said on Saturday. 8. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Italy and Portugal on Saturday to protest against budget cuts and the social cost of the economic crisis, amid concern over possible clashes in Rome. 9. India’s first rubber park yet to achieve tensile strength. Nearly a decade after it was commissioned, Rubber Park India Limited at Irapuram — which claims to be the first industrial park in the world exclusively for rubber-based units — still looks a work in progress. 10. Reserve bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan on Saturday said the new real time gross settlement (RTGS) system for fund transfers will improve the efficiency of the country’s financial markets. 21 October 2013 - 1. Action has been initiated on making the Communal Violence Bill a law to protect minorities from targeted attacks, home minister Sushilkumar Shinde said, but was not sure if it will be tabled in the winter session of Parliament. 2. The French-owned energy company EDF is to build Britain’s first new nuclear power plant in 20 years, the British government said on Monday. 3. India will launch its ambitious pension scheme, the Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Suraksha Yojana for over five million overseas workers in Dubai next week. 4. Convicted Congress leader Rashid Masood today became the first MP to lose his seat after the Supreme Court struck down a provision that protects a convicted lawmaker from disqualification on the ground of pendency of appeal in higher courts. 5. North Zone and South Zone were declared joint winners of the Duleep Trophy this year after the fifth days play of the final match was also called off without a ball being bowled in Kochi on Monday. 6. Keeping in view next year’s Global Investors Meet in the State, the Congress government, headed by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, has decided to bring out a new industrial policy to attract investment in various sectors of the economy and in tier II cities.The industrial promotional policy (2009-14) comes to an end on March 31, 2014 7.Spain’s Rafael Nadal remained top in the men’s tennis rankings issued on Monday by the ATP, while Frenchman Richard Gasquet boosted his chances of making the season-ender in London 8. Indian tennis ace Sania Mirza has broken back into the top 10 of the world womens doubles by gaining two spots to ninth place in the latest WTA Team Rankings issued on Monday. 9. Israel on Monday recognized New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg as the first ever recipient of the $1 million Genesis Prize, an award popularly dubbed the “Jewish Nobel Prize.” 10. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Monday he had summoned the U.S. ambassador over allegations that the US National Security Agency monitored millions of French telephone calls between December 2012 and January 2013. 22 October 2013 - 1. Russia has proposed that the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) members develop a strategy of multilateral economic cooperation. The BRICS countries together account for around 3 billion people, and a combined gross domestic product (GDP) of over $16 trillion. 2. Aung San Suu Kyi collected on Tuesday the EU democracy prize that had been awarded 23 years ago while she was under house arrest. Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmars Nobel Peace Prize laureate and long-time political prisoner, finally collects the European Unions 1990 Sakharov Prize for human rights 3. The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project’s first reactor was synchronised with the Southern regional electricity grid on Tuesday.The first 1,000-megawatt (MWe) unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project was synchronised with the southern regional electricity grid in the early hours of Tuesday. 4. Jamaicas athletes, including sprint star Usain Bolt, could be banned from major events like the Olympics due to the islands handling of recent drug scandals, according to Tuesdays Daily Telegraph. 5. The worlds most wanted woman, Samantha Lewthwaite, dubbed the White Widow, wrote a poem telling of her love for Osama Bin Laden. She was present in Nairobi at the time of the attack by the Somali Islamist group al-Shabaab. 6. US-based sports website has placed Indias prolific batsman Cheteshwar Pujara in its latest list of potentially good top ten investment options in sports. 7. India will launch its first interplanetary probe, Mars orbiter spacecraft, at 2.36pm on November 5 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, Isro said on Tuesday. 8. PM is in Beijing. India, China to sign landmark pact on border cooperation. 9. BlackBerry said that it has begun to roll out its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service to users of Android and iPhone devices. 10. Hurricane Raymond swirls off Mexico, hits Acapulco with more rain.
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