Yak October 2018 Electrical Flow Affairs Of Import Highlights (One-Liners)

Friends, hither are the Major Current Affairs Highlights of October 2018. These one-liners comprehend all of import International, National, MOUs, Indexes, Banking, Technology, Books & Authors, Committees together with Sports affairs of Oct calendar month (from 1st to 31st Oct 2018). You volition acquire pdf version of this listing past times this evening. All the Best together with Happy Reading :)

Oct 2018 Current Affairs Highlights (One-Liners) 

• Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's memorial inward Gujarat's Narmada district. Called the Statue of Unity, the bronze sculpture is the world's tallest statue mensuration 600 feet (182m) together with overshadows China's Spring Temple Buddha (153m) together with USA's Statue of Liberty (93m).
• 7th Oct 2018 was observed equally World Day for Decent Work amongst the theme  “Change the Rules”.
  
• 10th Oct 2018 was observed equally World Mental Health Day amongst the theme "young people together with mental health inward a changing world".
• 11th Oct 2018 was observed equally the International Day of the Girl Child amongst the theme ‘With Her: H5N1 Skilled Girl Force’.
• 11th Oct 2018 was observed equally World Obesity Day amongst the theme  "End Weight Stigma".
• 12th Association of Southeast Asian Nations Defence Ministers Meeting (ADMM) together with 5th ADMM-Plus were held during 19th together with 20th Oct 2018 at Singapore. Republic of Republic of India was represented past times Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
• 12th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit was held inward Brussels, Belgium. Republic of Republic of India was represented past times M. Venkaiah Naidu (Vice President). Theme of twelfth ASEM Summit 2018 : ‘Global Partners for Global Challenges’.  
• 12th Oct 2018 was observed equally World Egg Day amongst the theme  “Protein for Life”.
• 13th Convention of Central Information Commission was held inward New Delhi.
• 13th Oct 2018 (second saturday of October) was observed equally World Migratory Bird Day amongst the theme "Unifying our Voices for Bird Conservation".
• 13th Oct 2018 was observed equally International Day for Disaster Reduction amongst the theme "Reducing the economical loss of disasters".
• 14th Oct 2018 was observed equally World Standards Day / International standards twenty-four hours amongst the theme  “Innovation Nation”.
• 15th Oct 2018 was observed equally the Global Hand-washing Day amongst theme  “Clean hands - a recipe for health”.
• 15th Oct 2018 was observed equally the International Day of Rural Women amongst the theme “Sustainable infrastructure, services together with social protection for gender equality together with the empowerment of rural women together with girls”.
• 16 year-old Indian shooter Manu Bhaker clinched gilded medal inward the 10m air pistol trial inward Buenos Aires, Argentina. With this medal, Manu became firstly Indian shooter to take hold won gilded inward the Youth Games.
• 16th Oct 2018 was observed equally World Food Day amongst the theme “Our Actions Are Our Future. H5N1 #Zero Hunger World By 2030 Is Possible”.
• 16th Oct 2018 was observed equally World Food Day amongst the theme “Our Actions Are Our Future. H5N1 #Zero Hunger World By 2030 Is Possible”.
• 16th Oct 2018 was observed equally World Spine Day amongst the theme “Love Your Spine!”.
• 16th Oct 2018 was observed equally World Spine Day amongst the theme “Love Your Spine!”.
• 17th Oct 2018 was observed equally the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty amongst the theme “Coming together amongst those furthest behind to build an inclusive world of universal abide by for human rights together with dignity”.
• 18 years together with 339 days old Prithvi Shaw became the youngest Indian to win the Man of the Series accolade inward Test cricket history.
• 18 years together with 339 days old Prithvi Shaw became the youngest Indian to win the Man of the Series accolade inward Test cricket history.
• 1st high-level coming together on bilateral safety cooperation betwixt Republic of Republic of India together with Red China was held inward New Delhi. This coming together was co-chaired past times Rajnath Singh (Union Home Minister) along amongst Zhao Kezhi (State Councilor together with Minister of Public Security of the People's Republic of China).
• 1st articulation military machine exercise betwixt Republic of Republic of India together with Nippon titled “Dharma Guardian”  volition live held at the Army’s Counter-Insurgency Warfare School at Vairengte (Mizoram) from 1st to 14th November  2018. Aim of Dharma Guardian 2018 : Developing usual understanding together with abide by betwixt militaries of both countries, equally also facilitate inward tracking worldwide phenomenon of terrorism.
• 1st Oct 2018 was observed equally International Day of Older Persons amongst the theme “Celebrating Older Human Rights Champions.”
• 21 countries inward Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) adopted Delhi Declaration on Renewable Energy inward Indian Ocean Region. It was adopted at 2nd IORA Renewable Energy Ministerial Meeting held at 2nd Global Re-Invest India-ISA Partnership Renewable Energy Investor’s Meet & Expo inward Greater Noida.
• 22nd National Level Meeting betwixt Republic of Republic of India together with Myanmar was held inward October, 2018. During the coming together both sides agreed to pick out activity against insurgent groups operating within their territories.
• 24th Oct 2018 ws observed equally World Polio Day amongst the theme “End Polio Now”.
• 27th Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2018) was held inward Gandhinagar, Gujarat. Aim of FEC 2018 : To provide forum for give-and-take of key physics together with engineering scientific discipline issues equally good equally innovative concepts of direct relevance to the work of nuclear fusion (reaction that powers Lord's Day together with stars) equally a source of energy.
• 27th Oct 2018 is observed equally World Day for Audiovisual Heritage amongst the theme “Your Story is Moving”.
• 2nd edition of Republic of Republic of India Mobile Congress (IMC-2018) was concluded  at New Delhi. Theme of IMC 2018 : “New Digital Horizons. Connect. Create. Innovate”.
• 31st Oct 2018 was observed equally World Cities Day amongst the theme "Building Sustainable together with Resilient Cities".
• 32nd edition of India-Indonesia coordinated patrol (IND-INDO CORPAT) was held inward Belawan, Indonesia. Under it, ships together with aircraft from both countries volition undertake patrolling on respective sides of 236 nautical miles long International Maritime Boundary Line.
• 36th National Games volition live held inward Goa inward March - Apr 2019.
• 46th edition of world’s largest IHGF-Delhi Fair was held at Republic of Republic of India Expo Centre & Mart, Greater Noida. This fair was inaugurated past times Union Minister of State (MoS) for Textiles Ajay Tamta. It was organized past times Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts (EPCH).
• 4th Republic of Republic of India International Science Festival 2018 (IISF 2018) was of late held at Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh). Theme of IISF 2018 : “Science for Transformation“.
• 5th Oct 2018 was observed equally World Teachers' Day amongst the theme “The correct to didactics way the correct to a qualified teacher”.
• 6th edition of IBSAMAR, a articulation multi–national maritime exercise betwixt Indian, Brazilian together with South African Navies was of late held at Simons Town, South Africa. IBSAMAR - India-Brazil-South Africa Maritime.
• 6th coming together of National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) was of late held at New Delhi. The coming together was chaired past times Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
• 6th RCEP Inter-sessional Ministerial Meeting (IMM) was of late held at Singapore. The Ministers from xvi RCEP countries met inward Singapore to beak over a modern, comprehensive together with mutually beneficial economical partnership understanding amid Association of Southeast Asian Nations together with ASEAN's FTA partners. Republic of Republic of India was represented past times : C. R. Chaudhary (Minister of State for Commerce & Industry together with Consumer Affairs, Food together with Public Distribution).
• 7th coming together of Education Ministers of Member States of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) was held inward Astana (Kazakhstan).
• 9th Oct 2018 was observed equally World Post Day amongst the theme  “Imagine you lot are a alphabetic character travelling through time. What message make you lot wishing to convey to your readers ?”.
• A People's Republic of Bangladesh courtroom sentenced one-time Prime Minister Khaleda Zia to 7 years inward jail on corruption charges.
• A volume titled “Feisty At Fifty” authored past times Sudha Menon has been of late released.
• A Chinese companionship tested the 'world's largest' cargo drone Feihong-98 (FH-98) which is said to send a payload of 1.5 tonnes (1,500kg). The FH-98 has a maximum takeoff weight of 5.25 tonnes (5,250 kg) together with maximum gain of 1,200 km.
• A novel Supreme Court bench has been formed to listen the pleas inward Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute. Head of the Bench : Ranjan Gogoi (Chief Justice of India)
• A South Korean courtroom sentenced one-time President Lee Myung-bak to xv years inward prison theatre for corruption.
• A squad of scientists has developed a novel font titled "Sans Forgetica". It is the firstly font that tin aid boost memory. 
• Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) closed its 51 branches across Earth (out of its approx 1900 branches) equally component of cost-cutting measures, equally firstly such mensurate initiated past times whatever PSB.
• Bharti Airtel acquired artificial tidings (AI) service provider AuthMe ID Services.
• Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) became firstly Indian stock telephone substitution to launch commodity derivative contracts, amongst launch of contracts inward pop commodities similar gilded (1kg) together with silverish (30kg). SEBI of late allowed BSE together with NSE to launch commodity derivatives trading nether unified telephone substitution regime wherein stock exchanges volition live allowed to offering trading inward commodities derivatives.
• IRDA approved micro-insurance policies (sum assured of 50000 or less) disbursal through point-of-sales (PoS), to promote insurance coverage amid economically vulnerable sections.
• Aadhaar-issuing say-so UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) has asked digital wallets together with registrars of usual funds to halt authentication using the 12-digit unique identification number. This comes after Supreme Court inward September termed Aadhaar authentication past times individual companies equally "unconstitutional".
• According to International Air Transport Association (IATA)'s 20- twelvemonth air rider forecast report, Republic of Republic of India volition live amid the top iii aviation markets past times the twelvemonth 2024. Note : Republic of Republic of India is currently at seventh seat inward Global Aviation market.
• According to the Asian Economic Integration Report 2018 past times the Asian Development Bank, most of the outbound migrants were from Republic of Republic of India inward 2017, followed past times Red China together with Bangladesh. The study also reveals that the outward migration inward Asia has outpaced inward migration.
• After foraying into Republic of Republic of India amongst its firstly shop inward Hyderabad, Swedish article of furniture giant IKEA is going to opened upward its 2nd shop inward Bombay after this year. IKEA volition invest nearly ₹3,000 crore inward the side past times side iii years to opened upward iii warehouses inward Mumbai, Bengaluru together with Delhi.
• After Republic of Republic of India signed an over $5-billion bargain to purchase Russia's S-400 aerial-defence system, Red China has announced it volition sell 48 high-end military machine drones to its "all-weather ally" Pakistan. The ii countries volition also manufacture the Wing Loong II Unmanned Aerial Vehicle inward the future. Note : Red China is the largest supplier of weapon systems to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Army.
• After scoring 87 runs together with taking 10 wickets inward Asia Cup, Afghanistan's 20-year-old cricketer Rashid Khan has go the top-ranked all-rounder inward ODI cricket, equally per the latest ICC rankings. Rashid is the top-ranked T20I bowler equally well.
• Akash Malik, the 15-year-old boy of a cotton fiber farmer, won India's maiden silverish medal inward Archery at the Youth Olympics.  
• All-rounder Dwayne Bravo (35), who won World T20 inward 2012 together with 2016 amongst Windies, has announced his retirement from international cricket. He made his international debut inward an ODI against England inward 2004.
• American astronomers take hold discovered a novel extremely distant object, spotted 2.5 times further beyond Pluto from the Lord's Day inward 2015. Nicknamed 'The Goblin', the dwarf planet has a 40,000-year orbit amongst the closest distance to Lord's Day at 65 astronomical units (AU) together with farthest at 2,300 AU.
• American multinational engineering scientific discipline companionship Apple Inc topped the listing of World's Most Valuable Companies 2018. Software giant Microsoft has reclaimed its spot equally the world's 2nd most valuable companionship past times overtaking e-commerce giant Amazon.
• American multinational engineering scientific discipline companionship Google has added back upward for thirteen novel languages including Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, Punjabi, Standard Arabic together with Vietnamese on the photographic television camera mode of its Google Translate app.
• American multinational engineering scientific discipline companionship Google has announced that it is going to unopen downwardly it's social network platform Google+ for consumer work over the side past times side 10 months after a põrnikas exposed the personal information of upward to 5 lakh users.  
• American online social media together with social networking service companionship Facebook is  testing 'Unsend' characteristic for chats on Messenger. This characteristic would allow users to delete sent messages.
• Amid domestic opposition to the practice, Malaysia's cabinet has agreed to abolish the expiry penalty. Capital penalization inward Malaysia is currently mandatory for murder, kidnapping, possession of firearms together with drug trafficking, amid other crimes.
• An ATM for deposit together with withdrawal of money for cryptocurrencies has been installed inward Kemp Fort Mall (Bengaluru) past times virtual currency telephone substitution Unocoin. Users tin deposit money to purchase currencies similar Bitcoin together with Ethereum using an OTP received on their registered numbers. [Note : It was closed downwardly within a calendar week of its installation due to legal issues].
• Arsenal's one-time World Cup-winning French instrumentalist Thierry Henry has been named the caput coach of French social club AS Monaco, where Henry played from 1993 to 1999.  
• As component of the one8 collection amongst PUMA, Indian Cricketer Virat Kohli has designed his really firstly sneaker. Incorporating elements of cricket together with available inward 2 neutral colours - white together with black, the sneakers take hold a simplistic together with minimalistic design, which is a reflection of Kohli's personal style.
• Assam's uppercase Guwahati volition live connected amongst the uppercase cities of 6 South Asian countries past times the cease of December.
• Austria has announced that it is withdrawing from the United Nations' (UN) Global Compact for Safe, Orderly together with Regular Migration Agreement which is due to live formally approved inward Dec inward Morocco.
• Bangladesh abolished a controversial quota scheme for civil service jobs that had been the target of major street protests that paralysed parts of the Earth before this year.
• Bangladesh approved controversial Digital Security Bill, 2018, past times enacting it equally a law. This neb deals amongst cyber crimes, including spreading content that hurts religious sentiments or is negative propaganda against the Liberation War together with Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (founding manlike mortal parent of the People's Republic of Bangladesh). Illegal activities inward e-transactions together with spreading defamatory information are also covered nether the law.
• Bihar Deputy CM Sushil Modi released a 200-page volume titled 'Lalu-Leela', which documents alleged illegal dealings past times RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav together with his household unit of measurement members.  It is a compilation of documents distributed to mediapersons past times Modi inward the past times i twelvemonth on acquisitions of properties made allegedly past times Lalu together with his family.
• Britain's Prince Harry together with his married adult woman Meghan arrived inward Republic of the Fiji Islands for the 1st regal see to the South Pacific land since a military machine coup inward 2006.
• Canada has go the 2nd Earth to legalise possession together with work of recreational cannabis. The 1st Earth inward the world to allow the sale of cannabis for recreational work is Uruguay .
• Canada has stripped Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary citizenship inward response to crimes committed against the Rohingya minority.  
• Chelsea legend together with ex-England captain John Terry has retired from football game at the historic flow of 37 after beingness without a social club since leaving Championship side Aston Villa this summer.
• China together with Islamic Republic of Pakistan volition inward Nov launch a Bus service through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) nether the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. The motorcoach service plans to boost the friendly relations betwixt the ii countries.
• China eased the ban on the trading of tiger bones together with rhinoceros horns, allowing it for scientific, medical, educational together with cultural use.
• China has launched a game demonstrate to learn immature people nigh President Xi Jinping. The five-episode demonstrate has been titled equally 'Studying Xi inward the New Era'.
• China is going to build the country's 1st permanent aerodrome inward the South Pole which volition provide logistical back upward to the scientists' question there. The aerodrome volition decrease the exposure fourth dimension of researchers inward the polar surround equally good equally medical assist time.
• China launched its Centispace-1-s1 satellite, on a Kuaizhou-1A low-cost solid-fuel carrier rocket.2nd World Conference on Access to Medical Products: Achieving the SDGs 2030 held inward New Delhi.Assam Government go firstly Indian province to offering a Wage Compensation Scheme for important women working inward tea gardens of state. INR 12000 volition live given to important women inward 4 instalments - 2000 inward 1st trimester, 4000 inward 2nd trimester, 3000 for institutional delivery together with 3000 for registration of child's birth. Women volition also acquire motherhood leaves, ranging 3 months before delivery to 3 months after delivery.Indian postal services honoured Udaipur-based non-profit scheme Narayan Seva Sansthan, past times launching their rs 5 postal stamps.Madhya Pradesh Government announced creation of Niwari equally its 52nd district, carved out of Tikamgarh district. It volition include tehsils of Niwari, Orchha together with Prithvipur.Lewis Hamilton (UK) won the Japanese Grand Prix on seventh Oct 2018.
• China’s firstly home-grown amphibious aircraft AG600 (code-named Kunlong) successfully carried out its firstly take-off together with landing on water. In this maiden flight, the seaplane took off from Zhanghe Reservoir inward Jingmen, Hubei’s province together with stayed airborne for nigh xv minutes. It is claimed to live world’s largest amphibious aircraft.
• Chinaman bowler Kuldeep Yadav has go the 1st-ever Indian spinner to pick out a five-wicket haul inward all iii formats inward international cricket.
• China's Chengdu is going to launch an illumination satellite, 8 times brighter than the Moon, inward 2020.
• Congress MP Shashi Tharoor  announced his latest volume titled 'The Paradoxical Prime Minister', describing it equally to a greater extent than than simply a 400-page exercise inward "floccinaucinihilipilification" on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Meaning of 'floccinaucinihilipilification' : the activity or habit of estimating something equally worthless.
• Deborah Herold won gilded inward elite women’s forty kilometre contest at Saksham Pedal Delhi, India’s Premier Cyclothon. Shreedhar Savanur won gilded medal inward men’s fifty kilometres.Sport Commonwealth of Australia Hall of Fame announced cricketing groovy Richie Benaud, who died inward Apr 2015, equally 40th Legend of Australian Sport. He is tertiary cricketer behind Sir Donald Bradman together with Keith Miller to live given Legend status.
• Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was on a 3 twenty-four hours see to France. During this visit, she held wide-ranging talks amongst her French counterpart Florence Parly on ways to deepen strategic cooperation betwixt the ii countries together with also deliberate on major regional together with global issues of usual interests.
• Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was on a 3-day see to Astana, Kazakhstan. She visited Republic of Kazakhstan at the invitation of Minister of Defence of the Republic of Republic of Kazakhstan Mr. Nurlan Yermekbayev. During the visit, she met her Kazakh counterpart together with Minister of Defence together with Aerospace Industry Mr. Beibut Atamkulov.  
• Delhi authorities has launched Chief Minister’s Urban Leaders Fellowship Programme that seeks to attract immature leaders across the Earth to piece of work amongst it on addressing some of the most pressing urban challenges.  This programme was announced past times Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia. Aim of this programme : To provide unique chance to immature leaders across Republic of Republic of India to piece of work within the Delhi authorities to address some of the most pressing urban challenges inward India.
• Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT) is going to shape novel authorities inward Bhutan. This is the 1st fourth dimension inward Bhutan’s decade old parliamentary republic that a novel political party has been chosen to shape the government.
• Elon Musk-led SpaceX has successfully launched together with landed its Falcon nine rocket on a reason base of operations inward West Coast, California for the firstly time. The launch, which marked the 62nd flying of the vehicle, carried Argentina's SAOCOM 1A commercial satellite which was deployed nigh 12 minutes after liftoff.
• Following an 18-year drive past times women's groups, Commonwealth of Australia has decided to scrap a 10% taxation on tampons together with sanitary pads.
• For the 1st fourth dimension inward the world, Scientists are planning a mission to explore the deepest parts of the v oceans. The project, 'Five Deeps Expedition', volition work a two-person arts and crafts designed to withstand intense pressures about nine km below the surface.
• For the firstly fourth dimension ever, Indian festival Diwali volition live celebrated at Canada's iconic Niagara Falls this year. It is beingness organised past times the Indo-Canadian Arts Council (ICAC) amongst back upward from the Niagara Parks Commission.
• Former England women's cricket squad bowler Eileen Ash, the oldest living Test cricketer, turned 107 years old.
• German chancellor Angela Merkel has announced that she volition stair downwardly from the seat inward 2021, next recent election setbacks. She also said she would non seek re-election equally leader of the centre-right CDU political party inward December. She has held the mail since 2000.
• Google has launched its novel cloud storage subscription programme Google One inward India. The novel service volition offering storage plans ranging from 100GB to 30TB across its products including Google Drive together with Google Photos.
• Government has inked $110 meg loan understanding amongst Asian Development Bank (ADB) to upgrade all-weather rural roads inward Madhya Pradesh nether Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY).  
• Government’s premier retrieve tank NITI Aayog has inked understanding amongst Microsoft Republic of Republic of India to deploy Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies to address challenges inward agriculture together with healthcare together with promote adoption of local linguistic communication computing amid others.  
• Great Britain lifted the 2018 Sultan of Johor Cup (Hockey) inward Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Britain defeated Republic of Republic of India 3-2 inward the final.
• Haryana Government launched an Anti-Terrorist Force (ATF) ‘Kavach, to bargain amongst safety challenges. For this, Haryana constabulary recruits volition live trained past times National Security Guard (NSG).
• Haryana authorities notified that all bureaucrats inward the province volition live charged ₹1000 for non-official journeys upward to 1,000 km every calendar month together with the amount volition live deducted from their salaries. All ministers take hold been exempted from the hike.
• Hungary imposed a ban on unsmooth sleeping inward populace spaces equally its law on homelessness came into force.
• In a bid to narrow the electrical flow trouble concern human relationship deficit, the government  raised the basic customs duty on several electronic items together with communication devices. Customs duty on items similar smart watches together with Voice over Internet Protocol equipment, amid others has been hiked to upward to 20%. Note : Last month, the authorities raised import taxation on nineteen items, including ACs together with refrigerators.
• In a bid to foreclose cheating at exam centres, Rajasthan authorities is considering a ban on social messaging apps similar WhatsApp about exam centres.
• In a first-of-its-kind move, Uttar Pradesh authorities has announced that Man-Animal conflicts volition at nowadays live considered a 'State Declared Disaster'. Now onwards, ₹5 lakh volition live given within 24 hours to the household unit of measurement if its fellow member is killed past times a wild animal.
• In a of late held referendum, Republic of Ireland voted to take away the offence of blasphemy from the constitution, amongst 64.85% of the voters supporting the move.
• India also signed $240 meg loan understanding amongst ADB for West Bengal Drinking Water Sector Improvement Project to provide prophylactic drinking H2O to people inward iii districts of West Bengal.
• India together with Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed a US $150 meg loan understanding for establishing India’s firstly Global Skills Park green inward Bhopal.
• India together with Republic of Azerbaijan take hold signed protocol on merchandise together with economic, scientific discipline together with engineering scientific discipline cooperation.
• India together with Red China inked their 1st-ever internal safety cooperation understanding aimed at strengthening assistance inward counter-terrorism, organised crimes together with telephone substitution of information.
• India together with Italia agreed to expand bilateral cooperation inward areas of defence, merchandise together with infrastructure together with condemned those providing prophylactic havens to terror groups.
• India together with Nippon signed a $75 billion bilateral currency swap understanding inward Tokyo. "The understanding should aid convey greater stability to unusual telephone substitution together with uppercase markets inward India," a disceptation said.
• India together with Myanmar inked MoU for appointment of individual port operator for Operation together with Maintenance (O&M) of Sittwe Port, Paletwa Inland Water Terminal together with associated facilities included inward Kaladan Multi Model Transit Transport Project.
• India together with Islamic Republic of Pakistan take hold been declared equally articulation winners of the Asian Hockey Champions Trophy 2018 after the lastly was forfeited due to heavy pelting inward Oman's Muscat Malaysia's Faizal Saari was the top scorer of the tournament amongst 8 Goals.  
• India together with US take hold agreed to elevate their bilateral ‘Cope India’ Air Exercise to trilateral format past times including Japan. The side past times side edition of this exercise is scheduled to live held inward Dec 2018 for which lastly planning conference to finalise its modalities volition held inward Kalaikunda, West Bengal.
• India captain Virat Kohli has go the fastest batsman to score 10,000 runs inward the history of ODI cricket.
• India defeated Sri Lanka to win their 6th Under-19 Asia Cup Cricket title.International Cricket Council released updated version of the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) System along amongst the novel ICC Code of Conduct together with ICC Playing Conditions. These came into trial from xxx September, amongst an ODI betwixt South Africa together with Zimbabwe.Manipur won 24th Senior Women’s National football game championships inward Cuttack (Odisha). Manipur secured their 19th entitle win after beating Odisha.
• India elected to the United Nations' top human rights torso for a flow of iii years starting fourth dimension Jan 1, 2019. The 193-member United Nations General Assembly held elections for novel members to the United Nations Human Rights Council. Note : Republic of Republic of India got 188 votes inward the Asia-Pacific category, the highest number of votes amid all candidates.
• India has launched massive humanitarian functioning Samudra Maitri to provide assistance to earthquake together with seismic sea wave victims inward Indonesia. Under this operation, Republic of Republic of India has dispatched ii aircrafts (C-130J, C-17) together with iii naval ships (INS Tir, INS Sujatha, INS Shardul) carrying relief stuff together with personnel to the country.
• India has lost i spot to rank equally the ninth most valuable land create inward the world, according to UK-based consultancy Brand Finance's Nation Brands 2018 report. USA topped the listing amongst a 23 per cent growth inward create value (TO $25,899 billion from $21,055 billion). Red China came inward 2nd amongst a 25 per cent growth inward create value (to $12,779 billion from $10,209 billion).
• India has signed a $777-million bargain (₹5,683 crore) amongst State of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to obtain Barak 8 long-range Surface-to-air Defence Missiles together with Missile Defence Systems for 7 Indian Navy ships. State-owned Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) volition live IAI's Indian manufacturing partner.
• India has signed a $950-million bargain amongst Russian Federation to purchase ii Admiral Grigorovich-class guided-missile frigates for service inward the Navy.
• India has signed an over $5-billion bargain to purchase Russia's S-400 aerial-defense system.
• India is going to host the 1st India-United States tri-services exercise inward 2019. This exercise volition include all services of both countries together with talks are on to include special forces. Important Note : US is the 2nd Earth after Russian Federation amongst whom Republic of Republic of India conducts tri-services exercise.
• India is going to host the 4th edition of Global Partners' Forum during twelfth together with 13th Dec 2018 inward New Delhi.
• India took over the podium claiming all the medals inward the Men's high bound T42/63 trial at the Asian Para Games 2018 inward Indonesia. Defending champion Sharad Kumar won the Gold medal piece Varun Bhati together with Thangavelu Mariyappan picked upward Silver together with Bronze respectively.
• India, Islamic Republic of Iran together with Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan held their 1st Trilateral meeting. In this meeting, they discussed the evolution of Chabahar port project.
• India, who had won the Under-19 World Cup inward Feb this year, defeated Sri Lanka to win the Under-19 Asia Cup for a record-extending 6th time. This is the 4th fourth dimension that Republic of Republic of India defeated Sri Lanka inward the lastly to win the tournament.
• India’s together with Asia’s 1st Dolphin question centre titled National Dolphin Research Centre (NDRC) is going to live gear upward on the banks of the Ganga river inward Patna University campus inward Patna (Bihar).
• India’s firstly e'er National Environment Survey (NES) volition live kicked off inward January, 2019 to map surround information of 55 districts across 24 states together with 3 Union Territories. The NES volition rank all districts on their environmental performance together with document their best light-green practices based on diverse environmental parameters.
• India’s Keerthana Pandian won girls’ entitle inward IBSF World Under-16 Snooker Championships, inward St Petersburg (Russia).
• India’s longest river span amongst total length of 19.3 kilometers volition live built on Brahmaputra river (Assam). At present, India’s largest river span is Dhola-Sadia bridge, its length is 9.15 kilometers.
• India’s Squash instrumentalist Vikram Malhotra won inward Texas Open Squash Championship (USA), defeating Daniel Mekbib of Czech Republic.
• Indian banking companionship IDFC Bank, has proposed to modify its cite to 'IDFC First Bank Ltd' equally it is inward the procedure of amalgamating non-banking fiscal companionship Capital First amongst itself.
• Indian cricketer together with one-time Republic of Republic of India national under-19 cricket squad captain Prithvi Shaw has go the youngest Indian to score a century on Test debut, achieving the feat aged eighteen years together with 329 days against Windies inward Rajkot .
• Indian e-commerce payment scheme together with digital wallet company, Paytm has forayed into the Japanese marketplace for the firstly fourth dimension amongst its wallet service 'PayPay'. The service, which is a articulation venture amongst SoftBank together with Yahoo Japan, enables users to transfer money from a banking concern trouble concern human relationship to their PayPay wallet together with create payments amongst it.
• Indian information technology industry’s apex torso National Association of Software together with Services Companies (NASSCOM) has launched its Centre of Excellence for the Internet of Things (CoE – IoT) at Gurugram, Haryana.
• Indian multinational information engineering scientific discipline service, TCS has displaced Accenture equally the world's largest pure-play information technology theatre servicing BFSI Sector. [BFSI - Banking, Financial Services together with Insurance (BFSI)].
• Indian Navy  inducted its 1st Deep Submergence Rescue Vessel (DSRV). DSRV tin live used to rescue downed or disaster-struck submarines inward sea. Important Note : Currently, US, China, Russian Federation together with a few other countries take hold the capabilities to deploy DSRVs.
• Indian dyad of Meghana Reddy together with Tasnim Mir won Under-15 girls doubles entitle inward Badminton Asia Junior Under-17 together with Under-15 championships, at Mandalay (Myanmar). Republic of Republic of India won total 5 medals inward championships - 1 gilded together with 4 bronze.
• Indian para-athlete Sandeep Chaudhary smashed the world tape inward the javelin throw trial to clinch Gold medal at the Asian Para Games inward Jakarta, Indonesia.
• Indian Railways has started the piece of work to build Bilaspur-Manali-Leh railway line, which volition live the world's highest rail network at 5,360 metres to a higher seat the sea level. The 465-km railway line volition take hold xxx stations together with is estimated to terms ₹83,360 crore.
• Indian seamer Praveen Kumar ended his 11-year-long cricket career past times announcing his retirement from the sport.
• Indian shooter Saurabh Chaudhary won the Men's 10m Air Pistol trial to pocketbook India's 2nd shooting together with overall tertiary Gold medal at 2018 Youth Olympic Games inward Argentina's Buenos Aires.  
• Indian sport shooter Manu Bhaker bagged a Silver medal after her Gold medal goal inward 10m air pistol trial at Youth Olympics inward Buenos Aires. With this, she became exclusively the 2nd Indian after judoka Tababi Devi Thangjam to win ii medals at the Youth Olympics.
• Indian wrestler Bajrang Punia won the Silver medal at the World Championships. With this, he became the 1st Indian to take hold ii World Wrestling Championship medals.
• India's largest lender State Bank of Republic of Republic of India (SBI) together with payments solution provider Hitachi Payment Services Republic of Republic of India entered into an understanding to shape a Joint Venture for establishing a bill of fare credence together with digital payment platform.
• India's largest lender State Bank of Republic of Republic of India (SBI) has asked users to register mobile numbers amongst the banking concern past times 1st Dec 2018. Failing which their access to Internet banking accounts may live blocked.
• India's largest lender State Bank of Republic of Republic of India (SBI) has reduced the cash withdrawal limits on its Classic together with Maestro debit cards from ₹40,000 to ₹20,000 per twenty-four hours amongst trial from Oct 31.
• India's Pooja Dhanda won a Bronze medal inward the women’s freestyle 57kg weight shape inward Wrestling World Championships held at Budapest, Hungary. She defeated Norway's Grace Bullen.
• India's Rio Paralympics medallist Deepa Malik bagged her 2nd medal equally she clinched a bronze medal inward the women's F51/52/53 discus throw trial at the Asian Para Games .  
• India's Sourav Kothari defeated Peter Gilchrist of Singapore to clinch the 2018 WBL World Billiards Championship entitle inward England .
• India's merchandise deficit for the calendar month of September striking its lowest bird inward v months at $13.98 billion. This comes despite rising crude oil imports past times India, the world's third-biggest unsmooth crude oil importer.
• India's merchandise deficit for the calendar month of September striking its lowest bird inward v months at $13.98 billion. The merchandise deficit refers to the amount past times which the terms of a country's imports exceeds the value of its exports.
• International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced that, Republic of Republic of India volition go the world’s 3rd largest aviation marketplace about 2024 surpassing the United Kingdom. Republic of Republic of India is at present, the world’s seventh largest aviation market.
• Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte was on a day-long maiden see to India. The highlight of the see is his participation at the 24th edition of the India-Italy Technology Summit which is beingness organised past times the Department of Science together with Technology (DST) inward partnership amongst the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
• Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) together with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries   launched the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) 1st locally made satellite KhalifaSat into orbit. The Japanese rocket also carried an IBUKI-2 greenhouse gas observation satellite for Japan.
• Japan joined articulation exercise ‘Kamandag’(venom) amongst the US together with Filipino troops inward Philippines for firstly fourth dimension since World War II. Its firstly fourth dimension Japanese armoured military machine vehicles were used on unusual soil since 1945.
• Japan's passport has been named the most powerful inward the world, overtaking Singapore, according to the of late released Henley Passport Index 2018. Singapore is at nowadays at the 2nd seat inward the Index.  Germany, Republic of Korea together with French Republic jointly stood at the 3rd spot. Denmark, Finland, Italy, Sweden together with Kingdom of Spain all came inward joint-4th. US together with the Britain are at the 5th seat of the index. The Indian passport has secured the 81st rank inward the Index.
• Kerala authorities owned fiscal institution, Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB) has announced that it is going to number Masala bonds worth Rs. 5,000 crore to mobilise funds for diverse evolution works.
• Malaysia’s Cabinet chaired past times Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has agreed to abolish expiry penalty for all crimes together with halt pending executions.
• Manipur claimed victory inward the lastly of the 24th Senior Women’s National Football Championships, past times defeating hosts Odisha inward the finals held at Barabati Stadium inward Cuttack, Odisha.
• Members of the European Parliament take hold voted inward favour of a proposal to ban single-use plastics inward a bid to curb marine pollution. The proposal called for a consummate ban on plastic cutlery, cotton fiber buds, gulp stirrers together with a reduction inward the work of nutrient together with gulp containers similar plastic cups. The ban is probable to pick out trial past times 2021.
• Mercedes' British driver Lewis Hamilton won his 5th Formula 1 world entitle after finishing 4th at the Mexican Grand Prix.
• NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has successfully completed flyby of Venus at distance of nigh 2,415 kilometres during its firstly gravity assist from planet.
• NASA's Parker Solar Probe became the closest human-made object to the Sun, surpassing the closest approach of 42.72 meg kilometres laid past times German-American Helios 2 spacecraft inward Apr 1976.
• North together with Republic of Korea take hold agreed to laid about reconnecting rail together with route links that take hold been cutting since the 1950-53 Korean War. Later this month, the ii countries volition beak over plans to co-host the 2032 Olympic Games.
• Pakistan has successfully test-fired Ghauri ballistic missile capable of carrying both conventional together with nuclear warheads upward to a distance of 1,300 kilometres. The launch was conducted past times Army Strategic Forces Command together with was aimed at testing the operational together with technical readiness.
• Pakistan's Minister of Information together with Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry announced that the Earth is going to send a Pakistani astronaut to infinite for the firstly fourth dimension inward 2022. An understanding inward this regard has been signed betwixt Pakistan's infinite agency SUPARCO (Space together with Upper Atmosphere Research Commission) together with a Chinese company.
• Pakistan's Supreme Court reintroduced the ban on airing Indian movies together with TV shows on local channels, overturning an before verdict past times the Lahore High Court (LHC).
• Portuguese professional person footballer Cristiano Ronaldo became the 1st instrumentalist to score 400 goals across the top-five European football game leagues after getting on the scoresheet inward his side's correspond against Genoa .  
• President Ram Nath Kovind has given assent to Karnataka Good Samaritan together with Medical Professional (Protection together with Regulation during Emergency Situations) Bill, 2016. This law volition ensure that goodness samaritans are non harassed inward whatever vogue together with aspect upward whatever criminal or civil liability piece helping accident victims. With this, Karnataka became firstly province give legal protection to goodness Samaritans who aid accidents victims amongst emergency medical tending within golden hour.
• President Ram Nath Kovind was on a 3-day see to Tajikistan. During this visit, he held talks amongst the top leadership of the Earth to strengthen India's ties amongst the Central Asian country.  
• President Shavkat Mirziyoyev of the Republic of Uzbekistan was on a see to India. This is his firstly official province visit. During this visit, he met the President together with Prime Minister of India, equally good equally Indian authorities officials, together with discussed diverse issues of usual benefit.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has unveiled a 64-foot-tall statue of peasant leader Sir Chhotu Ram at his native hamlet Sampla in  Rohtak district  of Haryana. The statue has been sculpted past times renowned sculptor together with Padma Bhushan-recipient Ram Vanji Sutar.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated 1st Assembly of International Solar Alliance (ISA) inward New Delhi. The same trial also marked inauguration of 2nd Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) Renewable Energy Ministerial Meeting together with 2nd Global RE-Invest (Renewable Energy Investors’ Meet together with Expo).
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated together with dedicated to the land a newly-refurbished National Police Memorial together with a newly-built Police Museum inward Delhi. H5N1 30-foot-tall together with 238-tonne heavy dark granite sculpture honouring the slain troopers together with a wall of valour bearing the names of over 34,800 martyred personnel were also unveiled during the event.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the maiden Uttarakhand Investors Summit inward Dehradun. Leading industrial houses take hold participated inward the two-day trial which volition explore investment opportunities inward the state.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to come across Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 Summit inward Argentine Republic inward November. This volition live their 4th coming together this twelvemonth after the Wuhan summit together with Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit inward China, together with BRICS summit inward South Africa.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on a 3 twenty-four hours see to Japan. During this visit, modi attended the 13th Annual India-Japan Bilateral Summit. Focus areas of 13th Republic of Republic of India Nippon Bilateral Summit : To boost cooperation inward the Indo-Pacific region, send out articulation infrastructure projects inward tertiary countries together with enhancing defence ties, including launch of talks for a logistic back upward pact betwixt the ii navies.
• Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh was on a 3-day see to Israel. Aim of this see : To strengthen cooperation amongst the land inward key sectors similar dairy, agriculture, together with horticulture.
• Queensland voted inward favour of a neb to legalise Abortion. With this it became the 5th Australian province to make so.
• RBI allowed state-owned crude oil companies to borrow long-term working uppercase from overseas (relaxing policy on borrowing upward to 10 billion USD). RBI has allowed state-owned crude oil companies to get upward ECB (External Commercial Borrowings) of minimum maturity of 3 or 5 years.
• RBI approved proposal of Kerala authorities for the formation of Kerala Bank, decided past times special task forcefulness headed past times M S Sriram. Bank volition live formed past times consolidating State Cooperative Bank together with fourteen district cooperatives, amongst internet deposit amount of INR 65000 Crores. Unification volition live completed past times March 2019.
• Realtors torso National Real Estate Development Council (NAREDCO) has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) amongst Ministry of Housing together with Urban Affairs to provide science grooming together with jobs inward construction sector for 2.5 lakh pitiable people.
• Russia has successfully sent an unmanned Soyuz rocket into infinite weeks after a failed launch endangered the lives of ii astronauts. The mission deployed a satellite into the depression reason orbit, ranging betwixt or hence 240 km together with 900 km.
• Russian chemic asset companionship PhosAgro has signed a bargain to provide 2 meg tonnes of fertiliser worth $1 billion to Indian Potash during 2019-2021.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin was on a 2 twenty-four hours see to India. The see was focussed on the ii countries signing a $5-billion bargain for Republic of Republic of India to procure Russia's most advanced S-400 long-range surface-to-air missile defence system.
• Saudi Arabia has agreed to provide $3 billion inward unusual currency back upward for a twelvemonth to Islamic Republic of Pakistan to aid address the country's residue of payment crisis.
• Saudi Arabia has announced a grant of $200 meg to Republic of Yemen to aid stabilise the country's economic scheme together with growth the value of the Yemeni rial. Note : The Yemeni rial has lost nearly one-half its value this twelvemonth amid the ongoing civil war.
• Shahi Litchi from Bihar has received Geographical Indication (GI) tag from Chennai based Geographical Indication Registry together with Intellectual Property India.
• Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe  arrived inward Republic of Republic of India on a three-day visit. Aim of this see : To boost ties inward a gain of areas, including trade, investment together with maritime security.
• Steel manufacturing giant Tata Steel was named equally an official partner for the prestigious Men's hockey World Cup 2018 to live held hither from 285th Nov to 16th Dec 2018.
• Suraj Panwar won India's firstly medal inward Athletics at the Youth Olympic Games 2018 after claiming the Silver medal inward the Men's 5000m race walk trial .
• Swiss digital engineering scientific discipline companionship ABB announced it's investing $150 meg to build a novel mill inward Shanghai, China, where robots volition create robots. The 75,000-square-foot mill volition make robots for Red China equally good equally for export elsewhere inward Asia.
• Telugu is the fastest growing linguistic communication inward the US, a study past times US-based Centre for Immigration Studies claimed.
• Thangjam Tababi Devi became India’s firstly judo medallist at the Olympic level.
• The 2018 World Wrestling Championships held at Budapest (Hungary). This is the 15th edition of the Championships.
• The 2nd Global Renewable Energy Investment Meeting together with Expo for the twelvemonth 2018 (REINVEST- 2018) was held at Noida. This coming together was organised past times the Ministry of New together with Renewable Energy from 3rd to 5th Oct 2018.
• The 6 fellow member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of Republic of Republic of India (RBI) inward its 4th bi-monthly policy statement  kept the Repo charge per unit of measurement unchanged at 6.50% after hiking it past times 25 bps ii times inward a row.
• The 6th RCEP Inter-sessional Ministerial Meeting (IMM) was held at Singapore. Republic of Republic of India was represented past times C. R. Chaudhary (Minister of State for Commerce & Industry together with Consumer Affairs, Food together with Public Distribution).
• The All Republic of Republic of India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is going to institute India’s firstly AICTE Training And Learning (ATAL) Academy inward Jaipur (Rajasthan).
• The Arunachal Pradesh authorities has launched ii farmer welfare schemes. They are : CMSKY (Chief Minister's Sashakt Kisan Yojana) together with CMKSY (Chief Ministers Krishi Samuh Yojana).
• The Bihar authorities prohibited all principal secretaries together with constabulary officials from carrying jail cellphone phones to "high-level" meetings.
• The Central Government launched a novel scheme titled IMPRESS, to promote question inward Social Sciences. IMPRESS : Impactful Policy Research inward Social Sciences.
• The Central Information Commission (CIC)  brought Indian cricket governing torso BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket inward India) nether the RTI (Right to Information) Act. The committee also directed BCCI to position online together with offline mechanisms inward seat within xv days to have RTI queries.
• The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC)  has announced that the Vigilance Awareness Week 2018 volition live observed from 29th Oct to 3rd Nov 2018. Theme of Vigilance Awareness Week 2018 : “Eradicate Corruption-Build a New Republic of Republic of India (भ्रष्टाचार मिटाओ- नया भारत बनाओ)”. The committee observes the Vigilance Awareness Week every twelvemonth during the calendar week inward which the birthday of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (31st October) falls.
• The Civil Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu announced that passengers tin presently work facial recognition biometrics to displace into airports nether the government's DigiYatra initiative, which volition go operational past times Feb 2019.
• The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) together with the United Nations Environment has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development.
• The Delhi Cabinet approved authorities jobs for sportspersons from the metropolis who excel inward their respective fields.
• The Druzhba 2018 (Friendship 2018) articulation bilateral military machine exercise betwixt Islamic Republic of Pakistan together with Russian special forces has begun inward Pakistan. Note : “Druzba” is Russian word, which way “friendship”.  
• The European together with Japanese infinite agencies take hold launched a 7-year mission to Mercury titled BepiColombo. The mission comprises ii satellites launched together: the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) together with Mio (Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter, MMO).
• The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has announced that it is going to get upward the prize money for the Women's World Cup from $15 meg to $30 meg starting amongst side past times side year's edition inward France. President of FIFA : Gianni Infantino.
• The authorities has constituted a Group of Ministers (GoM) to strengthen the legal framework to bargain amongst together with foreclose sexual harassment at workplace. Head of this GoM : Rajnath Singh (Home Minister).
• The authorities hiked the involvement charge per unit of measurement for General Provident Fund (GPF) together with other related schemes past times forty bps to 8% for the October-December quarter. The novel involvement charge per unit of measurement would apply on provident funds of employees of key government, Railways together with defence forces.
• The authorities is going to auction over 100 Mineral blocks past times March 2019. Jharkhand volition auction the highest number of blocks at 20, followed past times Rajasthan at 16.
• The authorities is going to sell upward to 9% stake inward Coal Republic of Republic of India on Oct 31 together with Nov 1, which is expected to fetch nearly ₹14,900 crore to the exchequer.
• The authorities is probing the Competition Act 2002 to banking concern check if the large discounts offered past times online retailers similar Amazon, Flipkart promote competition. In this regard, the authorities has appointed 10-member panel. Head of this Panel : Injeti Srinivas (corporate affairs secretary).
• The authorities of india has notified the sale of electoral bond past times the State Bank of Republic of Republic of India (SBI) through its 29 authorized branches from 1st to tenth Nov 2018. An Electoral Bond is simply similar a promissory annotation that volition live payable to bearer on need together with complimentary of interest.
• The government  appointed a parliamentary panel to examine the functioning of the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), its coverage together with recovery of arrears. Head of this Panel : Kirit Somaiya (BJP MP)
• The Hindi Version of the Biography of Uttar Pradesh (UP) Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath titled 'Yoddha Yogi: Yogi Adityanath Ki Jeevan Yatra', was of late released. The volume is written past times Pravin Kumar, Deputy Resident Editor, Times of India, Lucknow.
• The Home Ministry  announced that a foreign-origin husband of whatever Indian national or an Overseas Citizen of Republic of Republic of India (OCI) cardholder is at nowadays eligible for obtaining the OCI card. The OCI bill of fare allows people multiple entry, multi-purpose together with life-long visa for visiting the country.
• The Indian Air Force (IAF) has successfully undertaken series of flying trials of Astra Beyond Visual Range Air-to-Air Missile (BVR-AAM) from September 26 to Oct 3, 2018.
• The Indian together with Chinese armies are going to resume their annual bilateral military machine exercise 'Hand-in-Hand' inward Dec 2018. The lastly 'Hand-in-Hand' exercise took seat inward Pune inward the twelvemonth 2016.
• The Indian Council of Forestry Research together with Education (ICFRE), Dehradun has signed ii Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) amongst Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) together with Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS) to launch a programme titled ‘Prakriti’ to provide platform for schoolhouse children to larn practical skills towards sustainable work of resources.
• The Indian cricket squad trounce the Windies to register their 100th Test win at home, becoming the 4th cricketing land to gain the landmark figure inward Test cricket history.
• The Indian government's flagship Ayushman Bharat health insurance scheme has crossed the one-lakh beneficiary grade within a calendar month of its launch on September 23.  The scheme's existent behave on at the population bird volition demonstrate inward one-two years, Ayushman Bharat CEO Indu Bhushan said.
• The Indian Navy began the tertiary edition of JIMEX, a 9-day bilateral maritime exercise amongst Japan, after a gap of v years. Aim of JIMEX : Improving understanding together with imbibing the best practices of each other.
• The Indian railways announced its programme to build world’s highest railway line titled Bilaspur-Manali-Leh Line. The projected terms to build the 465 km line volition live Rs 83,360 crore.
• The Indian Railways announced that it has decided to refer to its cleaning staff equally 'housekeeping staff' instead of 'safaiwalas'.
• The Indian Railways has decided to install the Loco Cab Voice Recording (LCVR) devices (also known equally Black Boxes) inward the prepare engines to facilitate investigators trying to seat the have of accidents together with assess crew performance. The dark box is currently used inward Aircrafts.
• The Indian Railways has decided to install the Loco Cab Voice Recording (LCVR) devices (also known equally Black Boxes) inward the prepare engines to facilitate investigators trying to seat the have of accidents together with assess crew performance. The dark box is currently used inward Aircrafts.
• The Indian rupee plunged 21 paise to striking a fresh lifetime depression of 74.27 against the US dollar.
• The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully conducted a essay for the prophylactic together with precise landing of Vikram, the lander aboard Chandrayaan-2 for India's 2nd Moon mission. The essay was meant to assess the performance of navigational, guidance together with command scheme of the Moon lander.
• The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) amongst Central University of Jammu (CUJ), for setting upward of Satish Dhawan Center for Space Science inward the University.  It volition live firstly of its sort institute coming upward inward Jammu together with Kashmir.
• The Indian Under-18 Men’s together with Womens Hockey teams won Silver Medals at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games held at Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• The Indian Under-18 Men’s together with Womens Hockey teams won Silver Medals at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games held at Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• The Indo Tibetan Border Police Force (ITBP) celebrated its 57th Raising twenty-four hours on 24th Oct 2018. The forcefulness was raised on 24th Oct inward 1962.
• The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has acquired the software companionship Red Hat inward a $34 billion cash together with debt deal, marker its biggest e'er acquisition till date. Red Hat volition live a distinct unit of measurement within IBM’s Hybrid Cloud team.
• The International Conference on Status together with Protection of Coral Reefs (STAPCOR – 2018) was conculed  at Bangaram Island, Union Territory of Lakshadweep.Theme of STAPCOR 2018 : “Reef for Life”.
• The International Court of Justice has ordered the US to elevator sanctions on Islamic Republic of Iran which are linked to humanitarian goods together with civil aviation. Islamic Republic of Iran claims the US sanctions violate terms of a treaty it signed amongst the Earth inward 1955.
• The International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasted a growth charge per unit of measurement of 7.3% for Republic of Republic of India inward the twelvemonth 2018 together with 7.4% inward 2019.
• The articulation military machine exercise betwixt United Arab Emirates (UAE) together with US (US) titled Iron Magic nineteen kicked off nigh Dubai. The two-week military machine exercise is component of series of articulation military machine exercises held throughout the twelvemonth betwixt UAE armed forces together with armed forces of other countries.
• The Keylong station inward Himachal Pradesh volition live the 1st railway network to live within a tunnel.
• The Madras Institute Of Technology (MIT) has announced plans to create a $1-billion college for Artificial Intelligence (AI) focusing on "responsible together with ethical" uses of the technology.
• The Madras Institute Of Technology (MIT) has announced plans to create a $1-billion college for Artificial Intelligence (AI) focusing on "responsible together with ethical" uses of the technology.
• The maiden articulation exercise of Coast Guards of Republic of Republic of India together with Vietnam “Sahyog HOP TAC -2018” was held inward the Bay of Bengal off the Chennai coast, Tamil Nadu. Aim of Sahyog HOP TAC -2018 : Strengthening the working bird human relationship betwixt coast guards of both navies.
• The Ministry of Finance has imposed anti-dumping duties of upward to $185.51 per tonne for 5  years on for sure Chinese steel products. The duties take hold been imposed to guard domestic manufacture against inexpensive imports of directly length bars together with rods of alloy steel.
• The National Aeronautics together with Space Administration (NASA) has announced that the 1st  crewed essay flying past times a SpaceX rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) is expected to pick out seat inward June 2019. It volition live the firstly manned US launch to the ISS since the infinite shuttle's retirement inward 2011.  
• The National Aeronautics together with Space Administration (NASA) retired its 1st planet-hunting mission equally the Kepler Space Telescope ran out of fuel. Launched inward March 2009 into an Earth-trailing heliocentric orbit, Kepler discovered over 2,600 planets together with surveyed over 5,00,000 stars.
• The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has allowed the authorities to pick out command of Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) past times replacing all its board members.
• The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), which has served equally a "watchdog of democracy" together with been component of some landmark cases inward which its intervention had important impact, has completed 25 years on twelfth Oct 2018. The committee was established on twelfth Oct 1993 nether the Protection of the Human Rights (PHR) Act, 1993.
• The Netherlands has issued its 1st gender-neutral passport to 57-year-old Leonne Zeegers.
• The Odisha authorities along amongst the Department of Sports together with Youth Services,  launched the official mascot of the 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup named 'Olly', at the Puri beach. The mascot aims to get upward awareness nigh the conservation of the Olive Ridley turtle.
• The Prime Minister of Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed appointed novel 20-member cabinet comprising a tape 50% Women. This cabinet comprises the country's 1st woman mortal Defence Minister Aisha Mohammed.
• The Punjab authorities launched 3 android mobile applications aimed at checking crop residue burning together with creating awareness nigh its ill-effects. They are : i-Khet Machine, e-PEHaL together with e-Prevent.
• The Railway Protection Force (RPF) has announced that presently passengers on board trains volition live able to file a 'zero FIR' through an app which volition live right away investigated past times the force. Zero FIR way that an FIR tin live filed inward whatever constabulary station.
• The reduction inward cash withdrawal bound to ₹20,000 from ₹40,000 past times State Bank of Republic of Republic of India on its Classic together with Maestro debit cards came into effect. According to SBI, this displace volition aid inward checking frauds together with promote digital transactions.
• The Reliance Health Insurance (subsidiary of Reliance Capital) received lastly approving from IRDAI for its novel health insurance business. Ravi Viswanath has been appointed equally CEO of novel health insurance company.SBI halved ATM withdrawal bound from 40000 to 20000 per day, for debit cards of ‘Classic’ together with ‘ Maestro’ platforms. It aims to trim back number of fraudulent transactions together with promote cashless transactions.
• The Reserve Bank of Republic of Republic of India (RBI) allowed Fino Payments Bank (one of India's firstly payments banks) to opened upward novel accounts after it submitted a compliance report. Fino payments banking concern has been barred past times the key banking concern from adding novel customers since the cease of May because an RBI audit revealed that some Fino accounts had deposits inward excess of the stipulated amount of ₹1 lakh.
• The Reserve Bank of Republic of Republic of India (RBI) announced that it would inject ₹36,000 crore liquidity into the scheme through purchase of authorities bonds inward Oct amid fears of a potential credit crunch.
• The Reserve Bank of Republic of Republic of India (RBI) issued lastly guidelines aimed at promoting money transfer betwixt e-wallets together with digital transactions. These novel guidelines volition allow transfer of funds betwixt unlike mobile wallets. The rules volition allow mobile wallets to number cards inward partnership amongst bill of fare networks similar Mastercard together with Visa.
• The Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board  approved enhancement of complimentary accident insurance comprehend for pilgrims visiting the shrine to ₹5 lakh equally good complimentary handling to trauma victims from nearby areas.
• The Small Industries Development Bank of Republic of Republic of India (SIDBI) has launched a national bird entrepreneurship awareness drive titled Udyam Abhilasha. It would create together with strengthen cadre of to a greater extent than than 800 trainers to provide entrepreneurship grooming to the aspiring youths, encouraging them to displace into the admired segment of entrepreneurs.
• The Supreme Court has banned the sale together with registration of Bharat Stage IV vehicles from 1st Apr 2020. The apex courtroom added that exclusively vehicles compliant amongst the Bharat Stage VI emission standards tin live sold from then.
• The UNICEF together with the WHO reiterated India's status equally a polio-free Earth after some oral polio vaccine vials were found contaminated amongst the type-2 polio virus lastly month. Republic of Republic of India has a high routine immunisation coverage together with hence the jeopardy of children getting vaccine-derived polio virus was "minimal", said the ii global organisations inward a articulation statement.
• The Union Cabinet has approved establishment of National Council for Vocational Education together with Training (NCVET). It volition live gear upward past times merging existing regulatory institutions inward the skills infinite – National Council for Vocational Training (NCVT) together with National Skill Development Agency (NSDA).
• The Union Government has decided to comprehend damages to crops inward wild beast attacks nether Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojna inward select districts on an experimental basis. In this regard, Government has amended provisions of crop insurance scheme inward consultation amongst diverse stakeholders after review of its working for the lastly ii years. CEO of Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) :  Ashish Kumar Bhutani.
• The Union Home Ministry has advised the Chandigarh management to exempt Sikh women, including non-turbaned, from wearing helmets piece riding two-wheelers.
• The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development has launched a novel scheme titled SPARC, which aims to meliorate the question ecosystem of India’s higher educational institutions past times facilitating academic together with question collaborations betwixt Indian Institutions together with the best institutions inward the world. SPARC : Scheme for Promotion of Academic together with Research Collaboration.
• The Union Ministry of Road Transport & Highways has launched Youth Road Safety Learners Licence programme inward New Delhi. It is first-of-its-kind grooming programme inward India. This programme volition aid Government to accomplish its target of reducing route accidents past times 50% past times 2020.
• The Union Ministry of Road Transport & Highways has launched Youth Road Safety Learners Licence programme inward New Delhi. This first-of-its-kind grooming programme volition aid Government to accomplish its target of reducing route accidents past times 50% past times 2020.
• The United Nation's World Statistics Day is celebrated at an interval of every v years on 20th October. This twenty-four hours was started inward the twelvemonth 2010.
• The US Air Force's unmanned infinite airplane X-37B has completed 400 days inward Earth's orbit equally component of its 5th secretive mission. The aircraft is orbiting at a superlative of about 320 km together with is powered past times solar cells amongst lithium-ion batteries.
• The 'W Series', an All-female Formula One-like driving competition, to encourage woman mortal drivers towards Formula One racing volition start side past times side year.
• The World Economic Forum (WEF) has announced its novel Centre for Fourth Industrial Revolution inward Republic of Republic of India (Maharashtra). It volition live 4th pump inward chain-ones equally component of WEF’s global network along amongst San Francisco (US), Tokyo (Japan) together with Beijing (China) are already functioning.
• The world’s largest aerodrome terminal “under i roof” amongst a capacity to serve ninety meg passengers has been officially opened inward Istanbul.
• The world’s longest sea-crossing opened inward southern China. The 55-kilometre (34-mile) crossing, connects Hong Kong, Macau together with mainland China.
• To make goodness the 25 lakh pitiable people who were left out of the National Food Security Act (NFSA), the Odisha Government has launched State Food Security Scheme (SFSS). The beneficiaries of the SFSS volition acquire inexpensive rice at the terms of Re 1 equally availed past times the people covered nether the NFSA. Each pitiable human being volition acquire 5 kg of rice per calendar month equally per the provision of the National Food Security Act, 2013.
• To commemorate Mahatma Gandhi's nascency anniversary, PM Narendra Modi released a rendition of Gandhiji's favourite bhajan 'Vaishnav Jan To' past times artists from 124 nations. The video of the vocal features voices of singers from forty countries, amongst curt clips of the world's part they represent.
• To commemorate the 150th nascency anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi together with honour of his service to humanity, the Union Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has launched Republic of Republic of India for Humanity initiative. It volition characteristic year-long series of artificial limb fitment camps inward a number of countries spanning globe.
• To enable information technology professionals together with organisations to convey together their efforts towards social causes together with service to society on i platform, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a 'Main Nahin Hum' portal together with app. The portal, based on the theme 'Self4Society', is expected to generate wider participation of interested people motivated to piece of work for the make goodness of society.
• To aid its users response diverse queries, the Indian Railway Catering together with Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) has launched an Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered chatbot named Ask Disha. It has gone alive on IRCTC’s next-gen e ticketing website together with presently volition live integrated on the IRCTC Rail Connect Android app. DISHA - Digital Interaction to Seek Help Anytime.
• To provide fiscal assistance to the children of construction workers for their technical didactics inward the state, the Odisha Government has launched a novel scheme titled ‘Nirman Kusuma’ programme'. The scheme was launched past times Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik inward Bhubaneshwar .
• To provide health information to users, including first-aid together with other health together with nutritional topics, the Indian Air Force (IAF) has launched a mobile health app tot;ed ‘MedWatch’. It is firstly of its sort mobile health app built past times whatever of the iii armed forces.
• To sensitize people nigh eating prophylactic nutrient together with live healthy, the Union Government has launched a national drive titled ‘Swasth Bharat Yatra’. Under this campaign, a pan-India bike rally is beingness organized to create consumer awareness nigh eating prophylactic together with nutritious nutrient for becoming healthy together with combating nutrient adulteration.
• 'Train 18', Indian Railways' 1st -ever engineless prepare that travels at 160 kmph, began trials. It tin cutting downwardly move fourth dimension past times about 15% compared to Shatabdi together with has sliding doors which opened upward exclusively after the prepare stops.
• Union Cabinet has approved Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) betwixt Republic of Republic of India together with Republic of Finland on Environmental Cooperation.
• Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi unfurled India's highest tricolour installed on the terrace of whatever edifice at Haj House, Mumbai. Measuring 20x30 feet, the flag is erected at a superlative of 20 metres on the top of the building.
• Union Ministry of Environment, Forests together with Climate Change (MoEFCC) has reconstituted Supreme Court-empowered Environment Pollution (Prevention together with Control) Authority (EPCA). This comes after tenure of the lastly EPCA expired on Oct 3, 2018. Chairman of reconstituted EPCA : Bhure Lal (Former IAS officer).
• Union Ministry of Environment, Forests together with Climate Change (MoEFCC) has launched a drive titled Harit Diwali-Swasth Diwali. Aim of Harit Diwali-Swasth Diwali Campaign  : To trim back adverse environmental conditions particularly pollution inward the Earth after mail Diwali celebrations due to excessive bursting of crackers which contributes significantly to air together with dissonance pollution.
• Union Women together with Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi announced that Declaration of criminal tape has been made mandatory for those applying for an Indian visa. The conclusion was made based on "complaints of series kid sexual abuse offenders managing to see India". "
• United States together with Kingdom of Morocco take hold launched GCTF Terrorist Travel Initiative nether auspices of Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF). The initiatory brings together stakeholders to portion expertise on developing together with implementing effective counterterrorism watchlisting together with screening tools.
• US President Donald Trump announced that the Earth is going to withdraw from the Cold War-era Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty amongst Russia. The treaty required elimination of short-range together with intermediate-range nuclear together with conventional missiles past times both countries.
• US President Donald Trump has turned downwardly India's invitation to live the main invitee at side past times side year's Republic Day parade.
• US-based ride-hailing startup Uber is going to launch its drone-based nutrient delivery service titled 'UberExpress'  past times 2021.
• Uttar Pradesh Cabinet led past times CM Yogi Adityanath has approved the proposal to rename Allahabad. From at nowadays onwards, Allahabad volition live called Prayagraj.
• Uttar Pradesh Cabinet led past times CM Yogi Adityanath has approved the proposal to rename Allahabad equally 'Prayagraj'.
• Uttar Pradesh was perceived equally the most corrupt province inward Republic of Republic of India according to a survey titled Republic of Republic of India Corruption Survey 2018. This survey was conducted past times the Transparency International Republic of Republic of India inward xv states together with Union Territories. According to this survey, Gujarat, Kerala together with Andhra Pradesh named equally the to the lowest degree corrupt states. Uttar Pradesh, Punjab together with Tamil Nadu named equally the most corrupt states.
• Venezuela announced that it is abandoning the US dollar, amongst all time to come transactions on the Venezuelan telephone substitution marketplace to live made inward euro.
• Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu released the Biography of belatedly Industrialist, Dr. Anumolu Ramakrishna titled ‘Building a Legacy’. This volume has been authored past times V. Pattabhi Ram together with R. Mohan.
• Weightlifter Jeremy Lalrinnunga has go India's first-ever gilded medallist inward the history of Youth Olympics.
• World number ii Caroline Wozniacki won her 30th WTA singles entitle amongst victory over Latvia’s Anastasija Sevastova inward the Red China Open 2018 lastly inward Beijing.
• World's firstly robot citizen Sophia has been granted the world's firstly robot visa for a world tour on behalf of her Hong Kong-based developer Hanson Robotics.  
• Yes Bank has appointed US-based advisory theatre Korn Ferry to assist the bank's 'Search together with Selection Committee' inward finding a successor to MD together with CEO Rana Kapoor. The Reserve Bank of Republic of Republic of India (RBI) had denied a three-year extension to Kapoor together with asked him to stair downwardly past times Jan 31 side past times side year.

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