UN General Assembly declared the International Day in December 2013, as a follow-up to the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on nuclear disarmament held in New York to seek deeper engagement on nuclear disarmament matters.
Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, signed in 1970.
4th edition of India - Japan Maritime bilateral exercise JIMEX, which is conducted biennially between the Indian Navy and Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) is being held in the North Arabian Sea in a ‘non-contact at-sea-only format’.
‘JIMEX’ series of exercises commenced in January 2012.
Singer-actor SP Balasubrahmanyam passed away following coronavirus complications. He was 74. Over 5 decades, he won 6 National Film Awards for Best Male Playback Singer & 25 Nandi Awards. He won Padma Shri in 2001 Padma Bhushan in 2011.
He held a Guinness World record for singing over 40,000 songs.
Under the Mukhyamantri Kisan Kalyan Yojna, Samman Nidhi of Rs 4000 will be given by the state government in 2 equal installments to the beneficiary farmers of PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana. Every farmer will now get a total of Rs 10000 per year.
MP CM: Shivraj Chauhan; Governor: Anandiben Patel.
Minister of State for Home G. Kishan Reddy inaugurated the new ‘Cable Stayed Bridge’ constructed across Durgam Cheruvu Lake along with four-lane elevated corridor connecting it with Jubilee Hills in Hyderabad.
Telangana CM: KCR Rao; Governor: T Soundarajan.
Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora said the elections will take place in 3 phases starting from the 28th of next month. The counting will take place on the 10th of November for the 243-member Bihar assembly polls.
Candidates to have option to deposit a security amount online.
Union government held a webinar with officials of the Cambodian Army to boost defence cooperation as part of a series of webinars being organised with friendly foreign countries in order to boost Indian defence exports & achieve the Defence export targets
Cambodia Capital: Phnom Penh; Currency: Cambodian riel
National Education Policy 2020 has mentioned the establishment of an Academic Bank of Credit to digitally store the academic credits or marks & grades earned from various educational institutes so that the grades earned in the previous yrs can be awarded.
Min. of Edu. organised a 2-week programme -- Shiksha Parv.
ADB has approved a $300 mn (₹2,200 crore) loan to finance inclusive water supply & sanitation infrastructure and services in secondary towns of Rajasthan to build citywide access for improved water supply service for about 5.7 lakh people.
ADB HQ: Philippines; Rajasthan Governor: Kalraj Mishra.
Under the 'Paryatan Sanjeevani Scheme', loan between ₹1 lakh & ₹20 lakh will be extended to interested local youths to take up new initiatives so that the tourism sector gets a fresh lease of life. The advances will be provided for a period of 5 years.
Assam CM: Sarbananda Sonowal; Governor: Jagdish Mukhi.
Magawa, the HeroRAT is an African giant pouched rat was awarded a gold medal for his gallantry contribution in detecting land mines in Cambodia. For the first time a rat has won a British charity’s top civilian award for animal bravery.
He has been detecting landmines for the past 5 years.
India national team goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu & Women's team midfielder Sanju were awarded the AIFF (All India Football Federation) Men's Footballer of the Year Award & the AIFF Women’s Footballer of the Year Award respectively for 2019-20 season.
1st goalkeeper to win the AIFF prize was Subrata Paul in 2009.
Star & Disney India’s managing director K Madhavan has been elected as the new president of Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF). He will succeed NP Singh of Sony Pictures. Prasar Bharti’s CEO Shashi S. Vempati has been elected as the treasurer of IBF.
IBF is a not-for-profit industry association.
National Medical Commission (NMC), in place of the Medical Council of India (MCI), for development & regulation of all aspects of medical education/profession, has been constituted. Dr Suresh Chandra Sharma appointed as President for 3 years period.
NMC to have a Chairman, 10 ex-officio & 22 part-time members.
The Italian Stefano Domenicali will be F1 president with Chase Carey, who led the revamping of the sport following the 2017 ouster of former supremo Bernie Ecclestone, moving to the position of non-executive chairman.
Domenicali is chairman & CEO of Italian sportscar Lamborghini.