Yak October 2017 Electrical Flow Affairs Highlights (One-Liners)

Friends, hither are the Major Current Affairs Highlights of October 2017. These one-liners comprehend all of import International, National, MOUs, Indexes, Banking, Technology, Books & Authors, Committees too Sports affairs of Oct calendar month (from 1st to 31st Oct 2017). We will  supply the pdf version yesteryear this evening, but nosotros advise you lot to write these on your ain thus that you lot wont forget them again. All the Best too Happy Reading :)

Oct 2017 Current Affairs Highlights (One-Liners) 

• 10th Oct 2017 is observed equally World Mental Health Day with the Theme 2017 : "Mental health inwards the workplace".
• 11th Oct 2017 was observed equally International Day of the Girl Child with the topic “The Power of the Adolescent Girl: Vision for 2030.”
  
• 12th Oct 2017 (2nd Th of October) was observed equally World Sight Day (WSD) with the topic "Make Vision Count".
• 13th Oct 2017 was observed equally International Day for Disaster Reduction with the topic "Sendai Seven".
• 14th Oct 2017 was observed equally World Standards Day / International standards twenty-four hours with the topic “Standards create cities smarter”.
• 14th South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation inwards Law (SAARCLAW) Conference was late held at Colombo, Sri Lanka along with 11th SAARC Chief Justices Conference.
• 15th Oct 2017 was observed equally Global Hand-washing Day with the theme  “Our hands, our hereafter !”.
• 15th Oct 2017 was observed equally International Day of Rural Women with the topic “Challenges too opportunities inwards climate-resilient agriculture for gender equality too the empowerment of rural women too girls”.
• 16th Oct 2017 was observed equally World Food Day with the topic "Change the hereafter of migration. Invest inwards nutrient safety too rural development."
• 16th Oct 2017 was observed equally World Spine Day with the topic “Your Back In Action”.
• 16-year-old Jeakson Thounaojam became the kickoff instrumentalist inwards history to score for Bharat inwards a FIFA World Cup.
• 17th Oct 2017 was observed equally the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty with the topic “Answering the Call of Oct 17 to halt poverty: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 path toward peaceful too inclusive societies”.
• 17-year-old paddler Manav Thakkar has larn the kickoff Indian to occupy the top spot on the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) World Junior Circuit standings.
• 1st BIMSTEC Disaster Management Exercise-2017 (DMEx-2017) was late held at New Delhi.
• 1st Edition of Association of Southeast Asian Nations Bharat Music Festival was late held at Purana Qila, New Delhi. Aim of this festival : To boost cultural influences with the peoples of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations fellow member states too India.
• 1st e'er Tri Services Joint Exercise betwixt Indian too Russian Armed Forces, INDRA-2017 was held inwards the Eastern Military District of Russian Federation from 19th to 29th of Oct 2017.
• 1st International Consumer Protection Conference on empowering consumers inwards novel markets for South, South East too East Asian Countries was late held inwards New Delhi from 26 to 27 Oct 2017.
• 1st Meeting of India-Australia Joint Steering Committee (JSC) was held inwards New Delhi.
• 1st Oct 2017 was observed equally the International Day of Older Persons with the Theme “Stepping into the Future : Tapping the Talents, Contributions too Participation of Older Persons inwards Society.”
• 1st-ever coming together of BIMSTEC Task Force on Traditional Medicine (BITFM) was held at Parvasi Bhartiya Kendra inwards New Delhi.
• 20th Oct 2017 was observed equally World Statistics Day with the topic "Better Data, Better Lives".
• 27th Oct 2017 was obserevd equally World Day for Audiovisual Heritage with the topic "Discover, recall too share".
• 2nd Ayurveda Day was observed on 17th Oct 2017 with the topic 'Run for Ayurveda'.
• 2nd Oct 2017 (1st Mon of October) was observed equally the World Habitat Day with the Theme "Housing Policies: Affordable Homes".
• 2nd Oct 2017 was observed equally the World Architecture Day with the Theme “Climate Change Action !”.
• 31st Oct 2017 was observed equally World Cities Day with the topic "Innovative Governance, Open Cities".
• 31st Oct 2017 was observed equally World Savings Day with the topic “Our hereafter starts with savings”.
• 3rd International Conference on Yoga was late held inwards New Delhi. Theme of this Conferee : “Yoga for Wellness”.
• 50 Indian peacekeepers stationed inwards South Sudan take hold been awarded the United Nations Medal for their professionalism too service inwards protecting civilians too edifice durable peace inwards the conflict-ridden country.
• 5th India-Sri Lanka articulation grooming exercise “Mitra Shakti 2017” was held Aundh Military Station inwards Pune, Maharshtra.  
• 5th Oct 2017 was observed equally the World Teachers' Day with the theme  “Teaching inwards Freedom, Empowering Teachers”.
• 70 novel Indian words, including Vada, Jugaad, Gulab Jamun, Bachcha, Bapu, too Dadagiri, were added to the Oxford English linguistic communication Dictionary inwards its September update.
• 7th Oct 2017 was obsereved equally World Day for Decent Work with Theme "End Corporate Greed: The World Needs a Pay Rise".
• 9th Oct 2017 was observed equally World Post Day with the topic "Innovation, Integration too Inclusion".
• A 6-foot-tall statue of Mahatma Gandhi was unveiled inwards Wales to grade his 148th nativity anniversary.
• A commission appointed yesteryear the Centre has submitted a draft Haj policy to Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Naqvi, proposing the abolishment of Haj subsidy. Head of this Commttee : Afzal Amanullah.
• A novel Bureau of Indian standards (BIS) Act 2016 which was notified on 22nd March, 2016, has been brought into forcefulness with number from twelfth October, 2017.
• A University Grants Commission's panel has suggested the authorities to take away give-and-take 'Muslim' from Aligarh Muslim University too 'Hindu' from Banaras Hindu University to reverberate their secular character.
• A US House of Representatives' panel has approved a legislation to supply $10 billion (₹65,000 crore) for the construction of President Donald Trump's wall along the US-Mexico border.
• According to a late released survey yesteryear ESPN magazine, Bharat coach Ravi Shastri is the World's Highest Paid Cricket Coach.
• According to the Indian Meteorological Department, Bengaluru inwards the electrical flow twelvemonth (2017) witnessed the highest rainfall inwards the recorded history of 115 years.  
• Aiming at combatting unrealistic trunk images, the French Republic has introduced a novel law mandating all photoshopped commercial photos to send a alert that they take hold been altered.
• Akshay Ruparelia, a 19-year-old Indian-origin youth, has larn i of UK's youngest millionaires after his online estate way concern was valued at £12 1000000 inwards simply over a year.  
• Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos has overtaken Bill Gates to larn the World's Richest Person with a internet worth of $91.6 billion.  
• An indigenously-built anti-submarine warfare stealth corvette INS Kiltan was commissioned into the Indian Navy yesteryear Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at the Naval Dockyard, Vishakhapatnam.
• As many equally 51 Pakistani Hindu migrant families that had been living inwards Chhattisgarh's Raipur for several years were granted Indian citizenship.
• Asia at i time has the close billionaires inwards the world, surpassing the US for the kickoff time.
• At the invitation of the Prime Minister Modi, the President of the European Council, Mr. Donald Franciszek Tusk too the President of the European Commission, Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker were on a ‘working’ see to New Delhi from 5- 7 October, 2017 to handle the 14th India-EU Summit. The 13th summit was held inwards Brussels inwards March xxx lastly year.
• Australia's close 100-year automotive manufacture ended after Holden, a unit of measurement of US carmaker General Motors, closed its works life to displace manufacturing to cheaper locations.
• Austria banned Islamic confront veils inwards populace places.
• Bangladesh has signed a $4.5-billion, 3rd line of credit understanding with Bharat for its infrastructure too social sector development.
• Barcelona captain Andrés Iniesta signed the club's kickoff lifetime contract, inwards a bargain that volition maintain him at the Catalan monastic tell for the residual of his career.  
• British boxer Anthony Joshua defended his WBA too IBF world heavyweight titles after defeating France's Carlos Takam inwards 10 rounds yesteryear a technical knockout.
• Burundi became the kickoff province to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC).
• China-based Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) has announced the regain of multiple pulsars, marker the kickoff confirmed finds from the world's largest radio telescope.
• China's National Space Administration has notified the United Nations that its 8.5-tonne infinite station, Tiangong-1, volition crash to the reason betwixt Oct 2017 too Apr 2018.
• China's top leadership is considering excavation a 1,000-km long tunnel, which if completed would live the world's longest yesteryear a huge margin, to divert the waters of the Brahmaputra from Tibet, before it enters Arunachal Pradesh.
• Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has inaugurated the Pratham-Shyok span inwards Leh, connecting the part to Karakoram inwards northeastern Ladakh.
• Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was on a see to Philippines to attend Southeast Asian Defence Ministers' meeting. This is her kickoff unusual see equally defense forcefulness minister.
• During the President Ram Nath Kovind's 1st visit, Bharat too the Republic of Republic of Djibouti take hold signed an understanding to constitute regular Foreign Office-level bilateral consultations betwixt both countries.
• E-commerce major eBay has acquired a 5.4% stake inwards Flipkart.
• Electric carmaker Tesla has reached an understanding with China, instead of India, to laid upwards its kickoff electrical auto mill exterior the US.
• Electric carmaker Tesla has reached an understanding with China, instead of India, to laid upwards its kickoff electrical auto mill exterior the US.
• Electric carmaker Tesla has signed a bargain with the Shanghai authorities to laid upwards its ain manufacturing facility inwards the city's free-trade zone inwards China.
• Electronic commerce too cloud computing fellowship Amazon is going to sell medicines online.
• England won 17th edition of FIFA U-17 World Cup yesteryear defeating Spain.
• External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj was on a two-day see to Bangladesh. During this see she co-chaired the Indo-Bangla articulation consultative commission coming together to review the bilateral relations too utter over ways to farther strengthen the ties.
• Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced that the authorities volition celebrate 'Anti-Black Money Day' on Nov 8th to grade i twelvemonth since the demonetisation announcement.
• For the kickoff time, Indian metropolis Kolkata has hosted 'PUN (Puppets Unite Neighbours) International Puppet Festival’ from 26th to 31st Oct 2017.
• Former world number i lawn tennis instrumentalist Maria Sharapova won her kickoff entitle since returning from a 15-month doping ban, clinching the Tianjin Open.
• French Defence Minister Florence Parly arrived inwards Bharat for a two-day see too was accorded with the Guard of Honour.
• Germany is going to bound the intake of refugees to 2 lakh annually, equally component subdivision of a bargain betwixt High German Chancellor Angela Merkel's political party too its coalition ally that has long demanded a cap on the intake.
• Government constituted a Ministerial panel headed yesteryear Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to oversee merger proposals of state-owned banks.
• Government has signed a Finance Contract with European Investment Bank (EIB) for lending of €300 1000000 for Bangalore Metro Rail Project Phase II Line R6.
• Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL), a populace sector stone oil fellowship became kickoff Indian stone oil fellowship to merchandise lubricants inwards Myanmar.
• Hong Kong is laid to larn the kickoff Asian metropolis to host the Gay Games, after it won the correct to host the Games inwards 2022, beating the likes of Mexico's Guadalajara too Washington DC.
• Housing 12.77 lakh of the total 33.69 lakh people authorised to send weapons all over Bharat (as of Dec 31, 2016) Uttar Pradesh tops the listing of states with active gun licenses. Jammu & Kashmir too Punjab stood at 2nd too 3rd positions with 3.69 lakh too 3.59 lakh active licenses.
• Iceland has larn the smallest province e'er to qualify for the lastly stage of the FIFA World Cup, after topping its qualifying group.
• In a kickoff inwards India, the Andhra Pradesh authorities is going to create Digital Prescriptions mandatory for the sale of medicines.
• In a first-of-its-kind initiative, Maharashtra authorities has tied upwards with online retail portal Amazon to sell woods create developed yesteryear Forest Development Corporation of Maharashtra.
• In an endeavor to halt Gender bias inwards women against women, the Ministry of Women too Child Development is project an online motion #IamThatWoman.
• In an elbow grease to halt a decade-long rift, the Palestinian political parties Hamas too Fatah take hold signed reconciliation deal.
• In it's 4th bi-monthly policy review, the Reserve Bank of Bharat (RBI) has kept the Repo charge per unit of measurement unchanged at 6%. In the lastly review policy inwards August, RBI reduced the repo charge per unit of measurement yesteryear 25 reason points to 6%.
• In wake of regular ceasefire violations yesteryear Pakistan, the Union Home Ministry has formed Study grouping to examine diverse problems faced yesteryear people residing close International Border (IB) too Line of Control (LOC) inwards Jammu too Kashmir. Head of this Study Group : Rina Mitra (Special Secretary inwards Home Ministry).
• India too Nippon signed Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) on Technical Intern Training Programme (TITP), aimed towards expanding bilateral cooperation betwixt both countries inwards the champaign of science development.
• India defeated Malaysia 2-1 inwards lastly of the Hockey Asia Cup inwards Dhaka, to win the tournament for the 3rd time.  
• India has larn the 2nd largest smartphone marketplace inwards the world after overtaking the United States. Bharat at i time stands behind China on the list.
• India imposed an anti-dumping duty on the import of approximately apartment steel products from China too the European Union to curb the influx of cheaper imports too assist local producers.
• India is with xiii nations which voted against a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution to denounce expiry penalization for consensual same-sex relations.
• India is going to host the 13th session of United Nations' global wild fauna summit on migratory species (CMS COP13) inwards 2020.
• India ranked 100th topographic point with 119 countries on Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2017 study released yesteryear Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
• India received kickoff e'er shipment of US unsmooth stone oil of 1.6 1000000 barrels, purchased yesteryear state-run Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) at Paradip Port inwards Odisha.
• India sent its first-ever consignment of wheat to Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan yesteryear bounding main through Iran's Chabahar Port, marker the inauguration of the merchandise route bypassing Pakistan.
• India volition larn the world's 3rd fastest growing aviation marketplace yesteryear 2036 after witnessing a growth from 141 1000000 passengers inwards 2016 to 478 1000000 passengers.
• India, Brazil too South Africa (IBSA) take hold signed the IBSA Trust Fund Agreement. This understanding seeks to struggle poverty inwards developing countries.
• India’s Anupama Ramachandran won World Open Under-16 Snooker Championship entitle inwards girls category held at Petrograd inwards Russia.  
• Indian Air Force celebrated its 85th anniversary on 8th Oct 2017.
• Indian Air Force's kickoff 3 women fighter pilots are laid to live commissioned yesteryear the halt of this year.
• Indian Army's 70th Infantry Day was observed on 27th Oct 2017 to commemorate supreme sacrifices made yesteryear Indian Army’s infantry against Islamic Republic of Pakistan inwards Jammu too Kashmir (J&K) inwards 1947.
• Indian banks' bad loans increased yesteryear 4.5% inwards vi months to hitting a tape ₹9.5 trillion ($145.56 billion) at the halt of June.
• Indian cricket instrumentalist Ashish Nehra (38) announced his retirement from all forms of cricket.
• Indian golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar won his 8th Asian Tour entitle at the Macao Open.
• Indian Naval Ships Satpura too Kadmatt participated inwards Passage Exercise (PASSEX) with Japanese Marine Self Defence Force (JMSDF) held at Sasebo, Japan.
• Indian shooter Heena Sidhu clinched a Gold medal inwards the women's 10m air pistol lawsuit at the Commonwealth Shooting Championships inwards Brisbane.
• Indian shooter Sangram Dahiya won a Silver medal inwards the lastly circular of the men's double trap at the ISSF Shooting World Cup Final.
• Indian shooters Heena Sidhu too Jitu Rai won Bharat its kickoff aureate medal of the ISSF Shooting World Cup inwards the 10-metre air pistol mixed squad event.  
• Indian shuttler Samiya Imad Farooqui clinched the Gold medal at the Under-15 women's singles contest after defeating Indonesia's Widjaja Stephani at the Asian Junior Championship at Yangon (Myanmar).
• Indian skipper Virat Kohli has larn the top run-scorer at the 200 ODI-mark, after taking the champaign against New Zealand inwards the kickoff ODI at Mumbai. 
• Indian adult woman cricketer Veda Krishnamurthy has larn solely the 3rd instrumentalist from Bharat to sign upwards for Women's Big Bash League after Harmanpreet Kaur too Smriti Mandhana.
• Indian women's cricket squad captain Mithali Raj is writing her autobiography, which volition release inwards 2018.
• India's Kidambi Srikanth clinched his minute consecutive Superseries entitle of the twelvemonth at the French Open, becoming the first-ever Indian shuttler to win 4 Superseries inwards a year. He had before won Republic of Indonesia Open, Australian Open too Kingdom of Denmark Open this year.
• India's largest telecom operator Bharti Airtel has agreed to a merger with Tata Group's consumer mobile business.
• Indonesian lawmakers tday approved a presidential decree banning civil organisations deemed to move against the country's secular province ideology.
• IndusInd Bank announced merger with microfinance lender Bhart Financial Inclusion (BFIL).  
• Iran has banned the export of fuel to Iraq's Kurdistan equally a retaliatory mensurate against the region's independence referendum.
• Italian luxury fashion create Gucci's CEO Marco Bizzarri has announced it volition move fur-free starting from its Spring/ Summer 2018 collection.
• Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni was on a see to India. With this, he has larn the kickoff politico at the post to see the Asian province inwards a decade. His see aimed at strengthening the bilateral political too economical relations betwixt the 2 countries.
• Japan has given initial approving to restart 2 reactors at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, the world's biggest nuclear mightiness plant, which was unopen downwards post the 2011 magnitude-9 earthquake.
• Jio Payments Bank volition get down it's operations inwards December. Jio Payments Bank is a 70:30 articulation venture betwixt Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries too the State Bank of Bharat (SBI).
• JK Rowling (author of the Harry Potter series), has been named Europe's highest paid celebrity of 2017 yesteryear Forbes.
• Karnataka authorities is going to launch 'Anila Bhagya' scheme inwards December, to supply gratuitous LPG connections to families living Below Poverty Line. Aim of Anila Bhagya Scheme : To supply create clean cooking fuel to cut back health hazards caused yesteryear the exercise of conventional fossil fuel.Madhya Pradesh is going to supply fiscal assistance of ₹2 lakh to widows who desire to remarry.
• Kavita Devi, a one-time weightlifter too South Asian Games aureate medalist, has larn the first-ever Indian adult woman to sign with the WWE.  
• Larsen too Toubro (L&T) handed over offshore patrol vessel (OPV) named “Vikram” to the Indian Coast Guard. It is India’s first-ever over offshore patrol vessel to live built inwards a individual shipyard.
• Late vocalizer Michael Jackson has been named the highest-earning dead celebrity for the fifth consecutive twelvemonth yesteryear Forbes.
• Madras High Court banned the exercise of pictures of living persons on "banners, signboards, flex boards across Tamil Nadu.
• Maharashtra became the minute province after Gujarat to cutting Value Added Tax (VAT) on petrol too diesel fuel bringing them downwards yesteryear ₹2 too ₹1 per litre .
• Maharashtra has used Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail machines for the kickoff fourth dimension inwards during municipal elections inwards Nanded.
• Mercedes' British driver Lewis Hamilton won his 4th Formula One entitle at United Mexican States Grand Prix 2017.
• Mercedes' British driver Lewis Hamilton won the US Grand Prix.
• Mercedes' British Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton won the Japanese Grand Prix 2017.
• Minister of State for External Affairs M J Akbar met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi too discussed ways to farther strengthen the bilateral relationship.
• Mumbai's Gamdevi Police Station, which was built inwards 1917, is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.
• Nicaragua signed the Paris climate agreement, leaving the US too Syrian Arab Republic equally the solely 2 countries out of the global pact.
• Pakistan won a topographic point on the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) yesteryear to a greater extent than than two-thirds vote equally the General Assembly elected xv countries to serve on the 47-member body.
• Patna Pirates defeated Gujarat Fortunegiants to win the fifth edition of Pro Kabaddi.
• Peru has larn the latest province to legalise marijuana for medicinal use. With this Republic of Peru became 6th province inwards Latin America to legalise cannabis. Uruguay was kickoff inwards 2013, allowing sales of cannabis whatsoever purpose, followed yesteryear Mexico, Argentina, Republic of Colombia too Chile.
• PM Narendra Modi inaugurated India's kickoff All Bharat Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA) inwards New Delhi on 17th Oct 2017 (Ayurveda Day).
• Pooja Kadian has became the kickoff e'er Indian sportsperson to win a Gold medal at the Wushu World Championship.  
• President Ram Nath Kovind embarked on a 4-day see to Republic of Djibouti too Ethiopia. This is his kickoff trip abroad since taking office. The see volition live the kickoff yesteryear an Indian President to Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia after thus President V V Giri's trip inwards 1972.
• President Ram Nath Kovind has appointed 5-member commission to examine sub-categorisation of Other Backward Classes (OBCs). Head of the Committee : G. Rohini (Retired Chief Justice of Delhi High Court)
• President Ram Nath Kovind has inaugurated the fifth edition of Bharat Water Week (IWW). Theme of fifth Bharat Water Week : “Water too Energy for Inclusive Growth”.
• President Ram Nath Kovind late launched  'Jivamritam' filtration system, spiritual leader Mata Amritanandamayi Math's ₹100-crore create clean H2O first for rural Bharat inwards Kerala's Kollam.
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced the setting upwards of India's kickoff marine law grooming institute at Gujarat's Devbhumi Dwarka district.  
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates India's kickoff curlicue on-roll off or 'Ro-Ro' ferry service betwixt Ghogha too Dahej. The 31-kilometre service, which costs ₹615 crore, volition cut back the 8 hour-distance betwixt Ghogha too Dahej to i hour.
• Private lender Kotak Mahindra Bank crossed ₹2 trillion inwards marketplace capitalisation for the kickoff time, after its stock surged to an all-time high. HDFC Bank is the close valued banking concern inwards Bharat with a marketplace capitalisation of ₹4.66 trillion.
• Racer Mahaveer Raghunathan shell nineteen European racers to larn the kickoff Indian to clinch the Boss GP Championship (Formula Class).  
• Rajasthan became kickoff province inwards the province to comprise science evolution programme inwards higher education.
• Rajasthan Government has introduced the Code of Criminal Procedure (Rajasthan Amendment) Bill, 2017 inwards the province assembly to protect both serving too one-time judges, magistrates too populace servants inwards province from existence investigated for on-duty activity without its prior sanction.
• Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu has constituted 5-member Search-cum-Selection commission to select candidate for post of editor-in-chief of Rajya Sabha TV (RSTV). Head of this Committee : Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Surya Prakash (Prasar Bharati Chairman).
• RBI Governor Urjit Patel has announced that India's economical growth volition pick upwards inwards the 3rd too 4th quarters to inwards a higher topographic point 7%.
• Real Madrid frontward Cristiano Ronaldo was named the Best FIFA Men's Player of the twelvemonth for the minute consecutive time, finishing ahead of Barcelona's Lionel Messi too PSG's Neymar Jr.
• Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani has topped Forbes Bharat Rich List for the 10th consecutive twelvemonth with a wealth of $38 billion.  
• Roger Federer defeated Juan Martin del Potro to win tape 8th entitle inwards his hometown Basel, which is his 7th entitle of 2017 too 95th of his career.  
• Russia too China were with ix nations suspended from weightlifting competitions for upwards to 12 months after the International Weightlifting Federation retested samples from Beijing 2008 too London 2012 Olympics.
• Russia has started delivering vi second-hand MiG-29 fighter jets worth over ₹4,500 crore to Serbia for free.
• Saudi Arabia has larn the world's kickoff province to grant citizenship to a Robot (Sophia).
• Saudi Arabia volition allow women to larn inwards sports stadiums starting 2018.
• Saudi Arabia's Sports Authority has officially banned Nightwear at sports venues across the country.  
• Shillong (Meghalaya) volition host its minute Cherry Blossom Festival betwixt Nov 8 too 11.
• Sri Lanka too Bharat signed 2 agreements for construction of 1,200 houses through fifty model villages inwards the isle nation, using Indian grant assistance of 600 1000000 rupees.
• Sri Lanka has signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bharat to build 1,200 houses inwards strategically located southern port metropolis of Hambantota.
• State Bank of Bharat (SBI), country’s largest bank, revises its one-year retail fixed deposit rates upwards to Rs 1 crore to 6.50 percent, downwards yesteryear 25 reason points (bps).
• State-run reinsurer General Insurance Corporation of Bharat (GIC Re) launched its Initial Public Offering (IPO), selling shares at ₹855-912 apiece to heighten ₹11,370 crore inwards the three-day offer.
• Switzerland's Roger Federer defeated world number i Rafael Nadal for the 4th fourth dimension inwards equally many matches this twelvemonth to claim his 6th entitle of 2017 too 94th overall at the Shanghai Masters.
• The 32 countries competing at the 2018 World Cup volition portion $400 1000000 (₹2,600 crore) inwards prize money.
• The Agricultural too Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) has taken upwards a programme for advertisement of due north eastern products inwards People's Republic of Bangladesh too Myanmar.
• The All Bharat Radio (AIR) has announced plans to expand its global operations too launch novel services inwards Japan, Germany, Canada too Maldives, with other countries.
• The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet has approved a novel scheme providing fiscal assist of ₹30,000 for newly-married couples belonging to backward classes.  
• The Andhra Pradesh authorities has entered into memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Mastercard to pave way for digital fiscal transactions inwards a secure environment.
• The authorised biography of Bollywood Actress Hema Malini titled "Beyond The Dream Girl" was released on her birthday 16th Oct 2017. The volume was written yesteryear eminent journalist Ram Kamal Mukherjee.
• The British metropolis of Oxford has revoked the 'Freedom of Oxford' honour awarded to Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi over her answer to the Rohingya crisis.
• The Cabinet approved signing of Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) betwixt Bharat too Nippon on establishing a liquid, flexible too global Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Market.
• The Catalan Parliament voted 70-10 inwards favour of a resolution to declare independence from Spain.  
• The Centre is planning to convey downwards the number of public-sector banks from 21 to 10-15 inwards the province yesteryear merging approximately of the banks.
• The Chandigarh management has approved a provision for the Transgender community inwards the metropolis to exercise a gender-neutral entitle 'Mx' inwards all forms too applications.  
• The deadline to link Aadhaar bill of fare to avail benefits of welfare schemes has been extended to March 31, 2018.
• The Delhi authorities volition start giving a vantage of ₹2,000 to people taking accident victims to hospitals from October-end.
• The Election Commission announced that the Assembly elections inwards Gujarat volition live held inwards 2 phases on Dec ix too 14.
• The Engineering Export Promotion Council (EEPC) of Bharat inked Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Punjab National Bank (PNB) to supply slow access to export finance for SMEs too merchant exporters of council.
• The Environment Ministry has passed orders cancelling the recognition of all circuses inwards Bharat that create wild animals perform tricks.
• The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA)  has suspended Islamic Republic of Pakistan Football Federation with immediate effect, next which the national too monastic tell teams volition non live allowed to choose component subdivision inwards international competitions till the recess is lifted.
• The FIFA U-17 World Cup has late kicked off. This is the first-ever FIFA tournament to live hosted inwards India.
• The Finance Ministry has announced that PAN too Aadhaar details volition non live mandatory for jewellery purchases inwards a higher topographic point ₹50,000.
• The Foreign Minister of Tunisia Khemaies Jhinaoui was on a 4 twenty-four hours see to India. During this visit, he volition live co-chairing the twelfth India-Tunisia Joint Commission Meeting along with Smt. Sushma Swaraj, External Affairs Minister of India.
• The Global Wildlife Programme (GWP) Conference was late held inwards New Delhi. Theme of GWP Conference 2017 : “Peoples’ participation inwards wild fauna conservation”.
• The Goods too Services Tax Network (GSTN) has launched excel-based offline facility to allow taxpayers to finalise their GSTR-3B forms on their ain computers before uploading it onto the portal inwards monastic tell to minimise chances of errors before uploading on portal.
• The Government has constituted a high-level commission for proper direction of H2O resources inwards North Eastern Region (NER). Head of this commission : Rajiv Kumar (Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog).
• The authorities has made Aadhaar mandatory for all post purpose deposits, PPF, the National Savings Certificate scheme, too Kisan Vikas Patra deposits.
• The authorities has made it mandatory for banks too fiscal institutions to compare the photocopy of officially valid identification documents with the originals, for the client's dealing inwards cash inwards a higher topographic point the prescribed limit.
• The authorities has reduced GST rates on 27 products too services too introduced a 0.1% GST charge per unit of measurement for merchant exporters, offering relief from the full-applicable GST rates on their procurements.
• The authorities is considering imposing a Cyber Security Cess on each online payment.
• The GST Council has constituted a Group of Ministers (GoM) to create the composition scheme to a greater extent than attractive too revisit the goods too services taxation rates on restaurants. Head of the GOM : Himanta Biswa Sarma (Assam Finance Minister).
• The GST Council has raised the threshold bound for Composition Scheme to ₹1 crore from the electrical flow ₹75 lakh to ease taxation filing for pocket-size traders.
• The Gujarat authorities cutting the Value Added Tax (VAT) on fuel yesteryear 4%, becoming the kickoff province to do so.
• The Gujarat High Court commuted the expiry judgement of xi convicts inwards the 2002 Godhra develop burning illustration to life imprisonment.
• The Indian chemical compound archery squad of Trisha Deb, Lily Chanu Paonam too Jyothi Surekha Vennam won Bharat a Silver medal at the World Archery Championships inwards United Mexican States City.
• The Indian junior men's hockey squad won Bronze at the 7th Sultan of Johor Cup yesteryear defeating hosts Malaysia 4-0 inwards the third-fourth topographic point classification match.
• The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has begun preparation for its minute lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2, inwards March side yesteryear side year, nearly a decade after its kickoff mission.
• The Indian women's cricket squad volition get down their ICC Women's Championship motion against South Africa inwards Feb 2018.
• The Indo Tibetan Border Police Force (ITBP) has celebrated its 56th Raising twenty-four hours on 24th Oct 2017.
• The International conference on “Dialogue of Civilizations – IV” was inaugurated yesteryear Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Culture Dr. Mahesh Sharma inwards New Delhi.
• The International Cricket Council (ICC) has approved the trial of four-day Test matches, which volition run through until the 2019 Cricket World Cup.
• The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has lowered India's growth projection to 6.7% inwards 2017, 0.5 percent points less than its previous 2 forecasts inwards Apr too July.
• The Jaipur too Srinagar Airports were ranked kickoff too minute respectively inwards ACI (Airports Council International)-ASQ (Airport Service Quality) Survey inwards the category of 2-5 1000000 passengers.
• The Nippon Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully launched Michibiki-4 satellite (QZSS-4) onboard of H-IIA rocket from Tanegashima Space Centre.
• The Karnataka authorities late launched the ₹302-crore Mathru Poorna scheme. Aim of this Scheme : To supply gratuitous mid-day meals to meaning too lactating women inwards rural areas.
• The Lahaul & Spiti district (Himachal Pradesh) has been named with the Top 10 regions to see side yesteryear side twelvemonth yesteryear Lonely Planet inwards its 'Best inwards Travel 2018' list.
• The Multi-Commodity Exchange of Bharat Ltd (MCX) launched India’s kickoff commodity options inwards Gold, giving stakeholders a novel laid of fiscal instruments to hedge their cost risks.
• The National Aeronautics too Space Administration (NASA) is offering people to send inwards their names aboard the InSight Mars lander, due to live launched inwards May 2018.
• The national upper-case missive of the alphabet Delhi was ranked 4th on the listing of the world's worst megacities, after Cairo, Karachi, too Kinshasa for sexual violence against women, a survey yesteryear the Thomson Reuters Foundation has revealed. Tokyo was named the safest metropolis for women.
• The National Centre for Combustion Research too Development (NCCRD),  worlds largest combustion interrogation centre which volition impart a major boost to the Indian scientific community was inaugurated at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
• The National Investment too Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) of Bharat has signed an investment understanding worth $1 billion with Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA).
• The Odisha authorities has decided to exempt fees for differently-abled students inwards authorities too government-aided institutions to encourage them for higher education.
• The Odisha government's Directorate of Treasuries too Inspection too the State Bank of Bharat (SBI) take hold signed an MOU for integration of SBI e-Pay with cyber treasury.
• The Polish Finance Ministry has announced that it volition withdraw the province from the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) precautionary Flexible Credit Line worth $9.2 billion.
• The Rajasthan Assembly passed a neb increasing Other Backward Classes (OBCs) reservation inwards the province from 21% to 26%.
• The Reserve Bank of Bharat (RBI) has announced a 10-member work forcefulness to review too determine the orbit of a Public Credit Registry (PCR). Head of the Task Force : YM Deosthalee (Ex-CMD of L&T Finance Holdings).
• The Reserve Bank of Bharat (RBI) has directed banks too non-bank entities to create their digital wallets/prepaid payment instruments (PPIs), interoperable through the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) inside vi months.
• The Reserve Bank of Bharat (RBI) has mandated e-commerce firms to settle seller payments inside 2 days from the appointment of intimation of completion of transaction.   
• The Reserve Bank of Bharat (RBI) imposed a penalization of ₹6 crore on Yes Bank too ₹2 crore on IDFC Bank for violating regulations issued yesteryear RBI.
• The Reserve Bank of Bharat (RBI) announced that interoperability with KYC compliant Prepaid Payment Instruments (PPIs) volition live implemented inside vi months.  
• The State Bank of Bharat (SBI) has slashed base of operations charge per unit of measurement on habitation loan yesteryear 0.05%. Bank of Baroda (BoB), Andhra Bank too Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) take hold also reduced the base of operations charge per unit of measurement on habitation loans yesteryear 0.35%, 0.15%, too 0.05%, respectively.
• The State Bank of Bharat (SBI) has waived off concern human relationship closing charges for all savings banking concern customers nether the status that their concern human relationship has existed for over a year.
• The State Bank of Bharat (SBI) signed understanding with Escorts Ltd, a leading tractor too construction equipment manufacturer based at Faridabad, Haryana, to finance farmers for buy of Escorts tractors.
• The Supreme Court has made it mandatory for the Indian Railways to maintain Oxygen Cylinders inwards all trains to assist passengers suffering from respiratory problems.
• The Supreme Court has ruled that "no limited or implied consent of the hubby is required for getting a pregnancy terminated".
• The Supreme Court late ruled that having sexual intercourse with married adult woman who is below xviii years of historic menses volition live considered equally rape.  
• The UK of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland metropolis of Oxford has announced plans to create the world's kickoff zero-emissions zone yesteryear banning all petrol too diesel fuel cars from its centre to curb pollution.
• The Union Cabinet has approved Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed betwixt Ministry of Railways, too Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy too Communications of Swiss Confederation on Technical Cooperation inwards Rail Sector.  
• The Union Cabinet has approved signing of Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) betwixt Bharat too Nippon on the Technical Intern Training Program (TITP).
• The Union Cabinet gave its approving to rename Gujarat's Kandla Port equally Deendayal Port after BJP ideologue Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya.
• The Union Government too World Bank take hold signed $200 1000000 Loan Agreement for Assam Agribusiness too Rural Transformation Project.
• The Union Government had launched SECURE Himalaya, a six-year projection to ensure conservation of locally too globally important biodiversity, Blue Planet too woods resources inwards high Himalayan ecosystem spread over 4 states viz. Himachal Pradesh, Jammu too Kashmir, Uttarakhand too Sikkim.
• The Union Government has announced Bank Recapitalisation Plan to infuse Rs. 2.11 lakh crore ( $32.4 billion) upper-case missive of the alphabet over side yesteryear side 2 years into Public Sector Banks (PSBs) too prioritised financing back upwards for MSMEs inwards fifty clusters.
• The Union Government has inked $65.5 1000000 loan understanding with Asian Development Bank (ADB) to move along interventions to banking concern check coastal erosion on the Western Coast inwards Karnataka.
• The Union Government has launched Sampoorna Bima Gram (SBG) Yojana too expanded coverage of Postal Life Insurance (PLI) inwards a bid to supply affordable life insurance services to people especially those living inwards rural areas.
• The Union Government has made exercise of Public Finance Management System (PFMS) mandatory for all primal schemes to ensure that benefits of authorities schemes attain the lastly mile.
• The Union Government inwards consultation with Reserve Bank of Bharat (RBI) has launched Sovereign Gold Bonds 2017-18 – Series-III. The applications for bond volition live accepted from Oct 09, 2017 to Dec 27, 2017.
• The Union Ministry of Tourism inwards collaboration with Other Union Ministries too State Governments has launched nationwide ‘Paryatan Parv’ to showcase cultural diverseness of province too reinforce the regulation of ‘Tourism for All’. Objective of Paryatan Parv : To pull focus on the benefits of tourism.
• The Union Ministry of Water Resources has approved projection to laid upwards Turtle sanctuary inwards Allahabad along with River Biodiversity Park at Sangam inwards Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh nether Namami Gange programme.
• The United Arab Emirates (UAE) began collecting novel "Sin Taxes" on tobacco products, unloosen energy drinks, too soft drinks. Sin Tax : a taxation on items such equally alcohol or tobacco.
• The USA has announced its withdrawal from The United Nations Educational, Scientific too Cultural Organization (UNESCO), for the minute fourth dimension inwards 33 years. Following United State's withdrawal from UNESCO citing "anti-Israel bias", Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has also announced that his province would also quit the United Nations heritage organisation.
• The US Federal Reserve fined banking giant HSBC $175 1000000 (₹1,142 crore) for "unsafe too unsound practices" inwards its unusual telephone commutation trading business.
• The US State Department has approved a sale of the THAAD missile defense forcefulness scheme worth over ₹98,000 crore ($15 billion) to Saudi Arabia.
• The Uttar Pradesh authorities has launched a majority spousal human relationship scheme titled ‘Mukhyamantri Samoohik Vivaah Yojana’. Under this scheme, province social welfare subdivision volition acquit the majority marriages too province authorities volition pass Rs 35,000 on each couple, also gifting them mobile phones too theater items.
• The World Bank has supported GST implementation inwards Bharat claiming that it volition take hold a 'hugely positive impact' on the country's economy.
• The World Health Organisation (WHO) cancelled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's appointment equally the body's goodwill ambassador to assist tackle non-communicable diseases such equally see attacks too asthma across Africa.
• The world's kickoff "Negative Emissions" works life that turns carbon dioxide into carbonate rocks has begun operations inwards Iceland.
• The world's kickoff hybrid electrical tram powered yesteryear hydrogen fuel cells has started running inwards China.
• To accelerate total immunization coverage to to a greater extent than than 90% yesteryear Dec 2018, the Union Ministry of Health too Family Welfare has launched Intensified Mission Indradhanush (IMI).
• To boost Skill Bharat Mission, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved 2 World Bank supported schemes. They are : SANKALP - Skills Acquisition too Knowledge Awareness for Livelihood Promotion too STRIVE - Skill Strengthening for Industrial Value Enhancement.
• To celebrate too promote women entrepreneurs too farmers inwards the organic sector from across India, the Ministry of Women too Child Development has hosted the 3rd annual ‘Women of Bharat Organic Festival’ from 1st Oct 2017 to 15th Oct 2017, inwards New Delhi.
• To chalk out hereafter route map for wild fauna conservation, the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests too Climate Change (MoEFCC) has unveiled the 3rd National Wildlife Action Plan for 2017-2031.
• To forbid wastage of funds, the Uttar Pradesh authorities is planning to cast a 'UP Muslim Waqf Board' yesteryear merging the split Shia too Sunni Waqf boards.
• To cut back route accidents, the Andhra Pradesh province authorities has introduced a 'No helmet, No petrol' dominion for two-wheeler riders.
• Transgenders volition at i time take hold the choice of identifying themselves equally the 3rd gender with the Railway Board modifying reservation forms to supply the choice 'T', also 'M' (Male) too 'F' (Female).
• US banking concern Wells Fargo has upgraded over 5,000 ATMs that allow customers to withdraw cash with a smartphone instead of debit or credit cards.
• US President Donald Trump has announced that he volition allow the release of classified documents relating to the assassination of one-time President John F Kennedy, who was shot dead piece visiting Dallas, Texas, inwards the twelvemonth 1963.
• US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was on his maiden official see to India. Note : Tillerson is on a five-nation see from 20th to 27th Oct 2017 including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Islamic Republic of Pakistan too Switzerland.
• US technology fellowship IBM has launched blockchain network for cross-border payments that enables transfer of money inwards close real-time.
• US-based researchers take hold developed a calculator safety scheme using heart's dimensions equally the identifier, which they depict equally safer, to a greater extent than effective alternative to passwords too other biometrics.
• Uttar Pradesh's Mughalsarai railway station has been renamed equally Deen Dayal Upadhyay (DDU) railway station inwards a bid to revive the legacy of Pandit Upadhyay, who was found dead close the station inwards 1968.
• Vanuatu, a South Pacific archipelago, has larn the kickoff acre to take hold Bitcoins equally payment for its 'investment citizenship' program.
• Virat Kohli became the fastest cricketer to consummate 9,000 ODI runs, achieving the feat inwards his 194th innings against New Zealand.
• With an objective to conserve too amend the environment, the Chhattisgarh Government has banned exercise of Chlorinated Plastic too Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) with immediate effect.  
• World number 133 Ukrainian lawn tennis instrumentalist Kateryna Bondarenko became the kickoff woman parent to win a WTA singles entitle since one-time instrumentalist Kim Clijsters won the 2011 Australian Open.
• World number i Castilian lawn tennis instrumentalist Rafael Nadal has defeated Australia's Nick Kyrgios to clinch the China Open, his career's 75th entitle too 6th of the year.
• WWE signed Shadia Bseiso, its kickoff woman mortal performer from an Arab nation.  
• Young Indian paddler Selena Selvakumar wins triple aureate medal at Arab Republic of Egypt Junior too Cadet Open Table Tennis Championship.

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