PM inaugurated the Summit RAISE 2020 - Responsible AI for Social Empowerment 2020. MeitY & NITI Aayog are co-organizing the Virtual Summit on AI from 5th to 9th Oct. Summit will discuss cross-sector subjects like Leveraging AI for Pandemic Preparedness.
National Institution for Transforming India was formed in 2015
Railway Minister virtually inaugurated Phoolbagan Station of Kolkata's East-West Metro corridor, & flagged off 1st train from there to Salt Lake Sector-V. Entire stretch of corridor, connecting Sector-V & Howrah Maidan, is likely to be completed by 2021.
WB CM: Mamata Banerjee;
Governor: Jagdeep Dhankhar.
PM paid rich tributes to revolutionary freedom fighter Shyamji Krishna Varma. He was born in 1857 & had set up revolutionary centre in 'India House', London. He propagated cause of India's independence through the journal called 'The Indian Sociologist'.
He was the founder of the Indian Home Rule Society.
Held annually on 5 Oct. since 1994, World Teachers’ Day provides occasion to celebrate teaching profession & draw attention to the voices of teachers. UNESCO’s World Teachers’ Day is co-convened in alliance with UNICEF, ILO & Education International.
2020 Theme"Teachers: Leading in crisis, reimagining the future".
In 1985 UN designated 1st Monday of Oct. every year as World Habitat Day. Idea is to reflect the state of our towns & cities and basic right to adequate shelter. Intended to remind the world of its collective responsibility for future of human habitat.
2020 Theme: Housing For All - A Better Urban Future.
Former minister of the Government of Odisha, Pradeep Kumar Maharathi, a veteran BJD leader passed away. He was 65. A 7-time MLA, Mr Maharathi had been representing the Pipili assembly constituency of the state.
Odisha's Capital: Bhubaneswar
Governor: Ganeshi Lal
Ravi Santhanam, CMO HDFC Bank has been recognized in the Forbes list of 'The World's Most Influential CMOs'. Ranked at No. 39, he is the only CMO of an Indian company to be featured in the illustrious list which includes marketing heads of Apple, BMW, etc.
HDFC Bank: India's Most Valuable Brand for 7 consecutive yrs.
Indian Bank has introduced Kisan credit card loan scheme for fishermen in Tamil Nadu. Under this KCC loans of up to ₹2lakh as working capital with low-interest rate will be provided. A RUPAY KCC would be issued for loan provided under Centre's MUDRA scheme
Indian Bank HQs: Chennai
CEO: Padmaja Chunduru
WB CM launched Pathashree Abhijan, a road repair scheme, where more than 7,000 stretches of roads across the state will be repaired. WB has collated a list of roads that will be repaired after people reached out through the 'Didi Ke Bolo' initiative.
WB CM launched ‘Didi Ke Bolo’ to address public grievances.
Assam CM Sarbananda Sonowal launched a portal ‘Kritagyata’. It is the first portal of its kind among all the states in the country that has been designed to bring inexpediency in the disposal of pensions to the retired government employees.
Portal has been created in line with ‘Bhabhisya’ portal of GoI.
Union Minister of State DoNER, MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy & Space, Dr. Jitendra Singh released a Coffee Table Book on "Discovering the Heritage of Assam", with a foreword by Amitabh Bachchan and published by Penguin.
The book is authored by Padampani Bora.
The Indo-American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) has presented the lifetime achievement and Global Excellence award to business icon Ratan Tata at a closed-door meeting, owing to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis as part of its recent global leadership awards.
R. Tata received Padma Bhushan in 2000 &Padma Vibhushan in 2008.
Veteran social activist Pushpa Bhave passed away due to prolonged illness. She was 81. She has been associated with Rashtra Seva Dal & democratic movements. She was also an academician and an intellectual, who fought for the rights of common citizens.
Maharashtra's Capital: Mumbai
Governor: Bhagat Singh Koshyari.
Rajasthan has launched a month-long mass awareness campaign on COVID 19. The campaign will run till 31 of October as part of the statewide mass movement against Corona. The state will distribute 1crore masks to protect the public from COVID infection.
Capital: Jaipur;
CM: Ashok Gehlot;
Governor: Kalraj Mishra.
FM will chair 42nd GST Council meeting through video conferencing. The meeting will be attended by MoS for Finance & Finance Ministers of States & UTs. In last meeting, Centre had given 2 borrowing options to States to meet GST compensation requirement.
GST Council has been constituted under Article 279A.
EC has appointed Ms. Madhu Mahajan& B. R Balakrishnan as Special Expenditure Observers for the General Election of Bihar, 2020. They will ensure stringent & effective enforcement action based on intelligence inputs & complaints received through C-VIGIL.
The Election Commission of India was formed on 25 January 1950.
Gujarat has decided to provide subsidised food grain to additional 10 lakh families under the National Food Security Act. With this, all NFSA benefits will be available to 50 lakh poor citizens. Beneficiaries will get 5kg food grains per month.
Gujarat's Capital: Gandhinagar;
Governor: Acharya Devvrat
Haryana CM digitally launched Gram Darshan, a platform making the accessibility of data of 6,197 Gram Panchayats of the state online. Details of completed, ongoing & required development projects of every village in Haryana will be digitally available.
Haryana CM: Manohar Lal Khattar;
Governor: Satyadev Narayan Arya
IIT Madras Researchers are working with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S, to develop a novel framework for high volume usage of by-products in structural materials. This will be a major step forward towards a sustainable future.
IITs are governed by the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961.