The 83rd Air Force Day 2015 was on 8 October 2015 observed across India.
The
book titled The Courage to Act - A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath
authored by Ben S. Bernanke was released.
Book
titled The Clintons' War on Women authored by Roger Stone and Robert Morrow.
1. Utkal Alumina
International Limited (UAIL), a unit of Aditya Birla Group, has launched a
unique project 'Project Saksham' for the welfare of communities living
in the vicinity of its project area in Odisha.
2. Indian cyclist
Deborah Herold in the first week of October 2015 bagged one gold, three silver
and one bronze medal at the 2015 Taiwan Cup held at the Hsin Chu Velodrome,
Hsin-Chu city in Taiwan.
3. Sergey Karjakin of Russia
has won 2015 World Cup Chess Championship held at Baku, Azerbaijan. He is also the World’s youngest Chess Grandmaster
at the age young of 12 years and 7 months.
4. International
Monetary Fund (IMF) released the Global Financial Stability Report
October 2015 entitled
Vulnerabilities,
Legacies, and Policy Challenges-Risks Rotating to Emerging Markets.
5. Tomas Lindahl (United Kingdom), Paul Modrich (US)
and Aziz Sancar (US) have jointly won 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
6. INS Astradharani was
commissioned into Indian Navy at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
7. Union Cabinet has approved
the Protocol amending the Double Taxation Avoidance Convention
(DTAC) India-Israel and Double Taxation Avoidance Convention (DTAC)
between India-Vietnam.
8. Cabinet Committee on
Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved World Bank assisted National Watershed
Management Project- Neeranchal.
9. Union Cabinet gives nod to
3 new AIIMS at Nagpur (Maharashtra),
Manglagiri (Andhra Pradesh) and Kalyani in West Bengal.
10. United
Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) projected that India’s
gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to grow at 7.5 per cent in 2015.
11. National Green Tribunal
(NGT) has directed all commercial vehicles entering Delhi to pay environmental
compensation charge in addition to the toll tax.
12. Ellen
Kullman, chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of DuPont, an American
chemical company, announced retirement from her positions.
13. Nualgi, an Indian
company with entirely Indian technology in the field of nano biotechnology won
the Popular Choice Awards at the Climate CoLab of Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT), Cambridge.
14. Department
of Biotechnology (DBT) tied-up with US firm Prakash Lab to provide the Prakash
Lab’s low cost paper folding-microscope, the Foldscope to students in India.
15. Russia
on 4 October 2015 won the Women’s European Volleyball Championship title. This
was the 19th title for Russia. Medal Tally - Gold: Russia, Silver: Netherlands & Bronze: Serbia
16. Hoesung Lee of South
Korea has been elected Chairman of Inter-governmental Panel for Climate Change
(IPCC).
IPCC Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland.
17. Infosys
veteran Ashok Vemuri resigned from his position of Chief Executive Officer
(CEO) of iGATE Corporation.
18. Union
Cabinet on 7 October 2015 approved the construction of National War Memorial
and a National War Museum at Princess Park near India Gate, Delhi in memory of
all Indian soldiers who have made the supreme sacrifice for the country
post-independence.
19. Pravasi
Bharatiya Divas (PBD) Conference 2016 will be held in New Delhi from 8 January
to 10 January 2016.Union Government also announced that it will
organise the 9th Regional Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas (RPBD) at Los Angeles
California, USA on the 14 November and 15 November 2015.
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