The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018 is awarded to the Polish author Olga Tokarczuk & for the year 2019 is awarded to the Austrian author Peter Handke. Literature Nobel prize was suspended in 2018 after a sexual assault scandal.
Olga Tokarczuk won the Man Booker International Prize last year.
Moody's cuts India's GDP growth to 5.8 % in the fiscal year ending in March 2020, from 6.8 % in 2018. This is lowest projection after the RBI cut the GDP growth to 6.1 % earlier this month. It also predicts deficit of 3.7 % of GDP in fiscal 2019.
Moody’s is an American business and financial services company.
Private companies from India and China signed more than 120 MoUs for export of various products from India. Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold second India-China Informal Summit in Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu on October 11-12.
Chinese entrepreneurs will carry out trade promotion activities.
2-day long National Hindi Science writers conference will start in Lucknow with an aim to promote use of Hindi and other Vernacular languages for Science writing. More than 1000 science writers from across the country will take part in the conference.
A website www.vigyanlekhan.com has been prepared for the event.
Piyush Goyal will attend the 9th Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Intersessional Ministerial meeting beginning on October 12 at Bangkok. This will be the last Ministerial before the 3rd Leaders Summit to be held on next month in Bangkok.
28th round of negotiations at the expert level was held recently
Dr Harsh Vardhan launched Surakshit Matritva Aashwasan-SUMAN, an initiative in New Delhi. The initiative was launched during the 13th Conference of Central Council of Health and Family Welfare. It provides a positive birth experience to mother & infant.
It aims at assuring quality health care at no cost.
Singapore will become the first country to ban advertisements for the unhealthiest sugary drinks, as its latest move to combat rising diabetes rates. “Less healthy" products must display labels grading their nutritional and sugar content.
It will continue to explore the possibility of sugar tax or ban.
Noted saxophone exponent Kadri Gopalnath passed away at the age of 69. He was the first Carnatic musician to be invited in the BBC Promenade concert in the Royal Albert Hall at London. Mangalore & Bangalore universities had conferred him doctorates.
He is a Padmashree awardee.
Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy launched “YSR Kanti Velugu” programme intended to screen the school children for vision defects and to provide treatment free of cost. Programme will have two phases and will be completed by 2020.
Private & Govt school students will be included.
RBI has given the final approval for the merger of district co-operative banks in Kerala. The combined entity will be called as ‘Kerala Bank'. District co-operative banks will be amalgamated with Kerala State Co-operative Bank to form the Kerala Bank.
Under the arrangement 13 DCBs will be merged.
Citroen announced partnership with Kotak Mahindra Prime to provide auto financing & enable mobility solutions. Partnership will offer innovative finance solutions & value-added products to customers and customised credit solutions to dealers in India.
Citroen is a French automobile manufacturer company.
Since 2012, 11 October has been marked as the International Girl Child Day by UN. Its main objective is women empowerment. In the world Conference on women that took place in 1995 countries adopted the Beijing Declaration & Platform for Action.
2019 theme is “Girl Force: Unscripted and Unstoppable”