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World vegetarian day: 1st October

World vegetarian day is celebrated annually on Oct 1. It is celebrated to create awareness about benefits of a vegetarian lifestyle & encourage others to make the switch. The Day was founded in 1977 by the NAVS & endorsed by Int. Vegetarian Union in 1978.

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International Vegetarian UnionFounded: 1908

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International Day of Older Persons: 1st October

International Day of Older Persons is observed on October 1 every year. In 1990, the United Nations designated Oct 1 as the International Day of Older Persons to focus on the well-being and special needs of the elderly people.

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Theme -"Pandemics:Do They Change How We Address Age and Ageing?"

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India successfully test-fires BrahMos supersonic cruise missile

India successfully test-fired BrahMos supersonic cruise missile with several indigenous features. Test firing was carried out by DRDO from Balasore, Odisha. BrahMos features indigenous Booster & Airframe Section along with other Made in India sub-systems.

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BrahMos is a surface-to-surface supersonic cruise missile.

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Social Justice and Empowerment Minister launches Ambedkar Social Innovation & Incubation Mission

Thaawarchand Gehlot launched the Ambedkar Social Innovation and Incubation Mission under Venture Capital Fund for SCs, with a view to promoting innovation and enterprise among SC students studying in higher educational institutions.

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Aim: To provide concessional finance to SC entrepreneurs

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Indian Bank unveils IB-eNote facility

Public sector Indian Bank has unveiled its IB-eNote facility, aimed at providing a paperless working environment and to improve the turnaround time considerably. The initiative is expected to save costs on paper, printing and other administrative expenses.

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IB also launched Ind Guru, e-learning platform for its employees

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SBI Card has joined hands with American Express to offer premium benefits, services

SBI Card has joined hands with Amex to offer global benefits and exclusive privileges for consumers in India. Under this agreement, SBI Card's top-end products SBI Card ELITE and SBI Card PRIME will be available on American Express’s global network.

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MD & CEO, SBI Card: Ashwini Kumar Tewari

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ISRO to launch its Venus mission in 2025, France to take part

ISRO is scheduled to launch its Venus mission in 2025 & France will participate in it. VIRAL instrument co-developed with Roscosmos and LATMOS atmospheres, environments and space observations laboratory attached toCNRS has been selected by ISRO.

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VIRAL: Venus Infrared Atmospheric Gases Linker

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Warburg Pincus to acquire 30% stake in Home First Finance

Warburg Pincus will acquire about 30% stake in Home First Finance Co (HFFC), Mumbai-based affordable housing finance company. Warburg will invest Rs.800cr in HFFC. Existing investors True North Capital & Bessemer Ventures will sell part of their stake.

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HFFC was set up in 2010 by Jerry Rao and PS Jayakumar.

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KC Sivasankar, illustrator of famous Vikram and Vetala series passes away

KC Sivasankar who had contributed over 5 decades in creating cartoons, passed away. He primarily contributed to the magazine, Chandamama. Sankar is the artist behind the signature painting of the Vikram & Vetala series.

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Mag. Chandamama, A.K.A. Ambulimama was published in 12 dialects.

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Science and Technology Minister launches CSIR technologies for rural development

Dr. Harsh Vardhan has launched CSIR technologies for rural development. This is a joint initiative of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Unnat Bharat Abhiyan, Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, and Vijnana Bharti (VIBHA).

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The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Founded: 1942

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6 public sector banks excluded from Second Schedule of RBI Act

The RBI has excluded 6 PSBs from the Second Schedule of the RBI Act following their merger with other banks. The six banks are Syndicate Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC), United Bank of India, Andhra Bank, Corporation Bank, and Allahabad Bank.

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Scheduled Comm. Bank: Bank mentioned in 2nd Schedule of RBI Act

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Bengal Peerless ropes in former cricket captain Sourav Ganguly as brand ambassador

Bengal Peerless Housing has roped in Sourav Ganguly as brand ambassador. The former national cricket team captain & current president of the BCCI, Ganguly will primarily lead the campaign of the company's residential project Avidipta II on EM Bypass.

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WB CM: Mamata Banerjee;
Governor: Jagdeep Dhankhar.

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NITI Aayog, Embassy of Netherlands ink pact to support decarbonization & energy transition agenda

NITI Aayog & the Netherlands have signed a Statement of Intent to support decarbonization & energy transition agenda for accommodating cleaner & more energy.

SoI seeks to create a platform that enables a comprehensive collaboration among stakeholders.

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The Netherlands, Capital: Amsterdam;
Currency: Euro

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IDBI Bank becomes first bank to enable document embedding feature on SFMS

IDBI has become 1st lender to enable document embedding feature on SFMS managed by Indian Financial Tech. & Allied Services. To further digitise financial transactions & to secure financial comm. system, IFTAS has introduced the feature of doc. embedding.

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IFTAS is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of India.

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UN Biodiversity Summit: India to restore 26mn hectares of deforested land by 2030

Addressing the UN summit on Biodiversity, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said that India aims to restore 26 million hectares of degraded and deforested land, and achieve land-degradation neutrality by 2030

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UN HQs: New York, US
Founded: 24 Oct. 1945

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RBI fixes Centre's WMA limit at Rs 1.25 lakh crore for second half of FY 2020-21

RBI set the ways and means advances limit at Rs 1.25 lakh cr. for the Union govt for 2nd half of the fiscal year. WMAs are temporary advances given by the RBI to the government to tide over any mismatch in receipts and payments.

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Interest rate on WMA= repo rate;
On O/D it is 2% above repo rate

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124th Birth Anniversary of Jana Neta Hijam Irawat celebrated across Manipur

In Manipur 124th Birth Anniversary of Jana Neta Hijam Irawat was celebrated across the State & various parts of N.E. India. Hijam Irawat was born in 1896 & was a revolutionary social activist who fought against the social evils of society.

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Manipur, Capital: Imphal
Governor: Najma Heptulla

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Assam CM presents Anundoram Borooah Award 2020

Assam CM presented the Anundoram Borooah Award 2020 to students who secured 75% or above in matriculation examination in Guwahati. Anundoram Borooah Awards which was started in 2005, has become one of the flagships schemes of the government

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Capital: Dispur;
CM: Sarbananda Sonowal

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Google removes 17 Android apps infected with Joker malware

Google has removed 17 apps that were infected with Joker malware from Play Store. Joker, a malicious software which can steal user data, device info & sign up users for premium services without consent. They were mostly scanner, messaging & editing apps.

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Google Founders: Larry Page, Sergey Brin;
Founded: 1998