Todays top 50: (Current Affairs Of OCT) 1. Union Government on 30 October 2014 announced to amend the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013 and to include the Leader of Opposition. 2. Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) candidate Devendra Gangadharrao Fadnavis was on sworn-in as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra. 3. China overtook US to become the world’s largest economy in PPP terms. 4. Cargo rocket Antares of NASA carrying supplies to ISS exploded after launch. 5. Protestors on 30 October 2014 set ablaze Parliament of Burkina Faso against vote to allow President another term. 6. Sweden became the first European Union country to recognize the State of Palestine. 7. Government announced 5 lakh rupees compensation to kin of 1984 Sikh riots victims. 8. Gujarat Chief Minister laid foundation stone of the Statue of Unity - the worlds tallest statue of iron man of India Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. 9. Pankaj Advani won IBSF World Billiards Championship in Bangalore. 10. Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami chief Matiur Rahman Nizami sentenced to death for war crimes. 11. Rashtriya Ekta Diwas was observed on 31 October to commemorate the 139th birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. 12. D J Pandiyan appointed as new chief secretary of Gujarat. 13. Deeper integration for peace, prosperity chosen as the theme for 18th SAARC Summit. 14. The novel Half Girlfriend authored by Chetan Bhagat was released on 1 October 2014. 15. An endangered species Flying Squirrel was captured by the forest department officials at Jharkhand. 16. India re-elected to UN Economic and Social Council .Taiwan banned its government officials from higher studies in mainland China for national security reasons. 17. Vice President of Zambia Guy Scott appointed as Acting President .The General Assembly of Association of Asian Election Authorities (AAEA) on elected Election Commission of India (ECI) as Chair of the organisation for the next two years. 18. Union Government submitted a list of 627 Indians holding black money abroad in a sealed cover. 19. SunEdison signed MoU with Rajasthan Government to set up 5000MW solar projects. 20. President of Zambia Michael Sata was died in London. 21. India-Saudi Arabia agreed to cooperate in hydrocarbon sector. 22. Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs on launched Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana (VKY) for welfare of Tribal people. 23. Malala Yousafzai, Indira Ranamagar and John Wood won the 2014 World’s Children Prize on at a ceremony in Mariestad near Stockholm. 24. The Kamarajar Port Ltd (KPL) on announced to set up a Free Trade and Warehousing Zone (FTWZ) on 100 acres, adjacent to its premises. 25. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Galway Kinnell died. 26. Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced TB-Mission 2020 to eliminate Tuberculosis (TB) from India. 27. The Festival of India, year-long festival was inaugurated in Tokyo, Japan. 28. 51 countries signed agreement to automatically swap tax information beginning in 2017 to crackdown on tax evasion. 29. Sachin Tendulkar and Steve Waugh entered Bradman Hall of Fame at a gala dinner held at the historic Sydney Cricket Ground. 30. Richest man of Japan Masayoshi Son announced his biggest ever investment in India. 31. Harvard Business Review (HBR), in the issue of November 2014, named CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos as best-performing CEO in the world. 32. Sir Nicholas Winton was honoured Czech Republic’s Order of the White Lion at the age of 105 by the President of Czech, Milos Zeman. 33. Japanese telecom giant Softbank on announced to invest 627 million US dollar in Snapdeal. 34. India with 20 other countries set up Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). 35. World Polio Day (OCT 24) observed across the world was observed to create awareness about the hazards of the crippling disease. 36. Prasar Bharati CEO Jawhar Sircar was elected Vice-President (VP) of Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) in Macau. 37. ING Vysya Bank CEO Shailendra Bhandari resigned. 38. Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan was recently in news as he was summoned by a US Federal Court in Los Angeles. 39. International Internet Day was observed globally on 29 October 2014 to mark the anniversary of the first usage of the Internet to send a message electronically in 1969. 40. Surya Prakash was appointed as the Chairman of Prasar Bharti Board for a term of three years. 41. India and Vietnam on signed seven Memoranda of Understandings in New Delhi. 42. Biography of Muhammad Iqbal titled Iqbal: The Life of a Poet, Philosopher and Politician released. 43. India on announced to modernise defence forces of Vietnam. 44. Emaar MGF Land Limited on tied up with PayU India for providing an online payment facility to its customers. 45. Sudhir Maheshwari announced to resign from ArcelorMittal. 46. Sandeep Saxena appointed as the new Chief Electoral Officer of Tamil Nadu. 47. President Pranab Mukherjee released a commemorative postage stamp on Sri Lankan Buddhist monk Anagarika Dharmapala. 48. Union MoD cleared the deal worth 8000 crore rupees to buy anti tank missiles from Israel. 49. Serena Williams won the Singles title of BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore 2014. 50. UK and the US ended combat operations in Hemland province of Afghanistan. #Cva
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 05:28:45 +0000
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