1995 World Conference on Women in Beijing, countries unanimously adopted Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action. Beijing Declaration is 1st to specifically call out girls’ rights. On Dec 19 2011, UN declared Oct.11 as International Day of Girl Child.
2020 Theme: My Voice, Our Equal Future.
PM will launch physical distribution of Property Cards to transform rural India. SVAMITVA is a Central Sector Scheme of Ministry of Panchayati Raj that aims to provide record of rights to village household owners in rural areas & issue Property Cards.
SVAMITVA Scheme was launched in April 2020.
Fleet Award Function 2020 was organised to mark successful culmination of Operational Cycle of Eastern Fleet of the Indian Navy at Visakhapatnam. Best Ship were awarded to INS Sahyadri amongst Capital ships & INS Kora amongst Corvettes ships.
INS Airavat & Kiltan jointly bagged ‘Best Spirited Ship’
19-year-old Iga Swiatek became 1st Polish player to win a Grand Slam singles title when she beat American Sofia Kenin in the French Open final. She is the youngest winner since Monica Seles lifted the Suzanne Lenglen Cup in 1992.
French Open is the only Grand Slam tournament to use clay courts
Amit Banerjee assumed charge as the Director (Rail and Metro Business) and Member on the Board of BEML Limited. A graduate in Mechanical Engineering from IIT (BHU), Varanasi, Banerjee had joined BEML as an assistant engineer in 1984.
BEML Ltd was established in May 1964.
Veteran film-maker B. Vijaya Reddy of the Kannada film industry passed away. He is most remembered for his collaboration with Dr. Rajkumar to deliver some of his super-hit films. He has directed several films including Naa Ninna Bidalare, Auto Raja, Deva.
His debut film was Rangamahal Rahasya.
BharatPe has announced the launch of its high impact TV campaign starring ‘Team BharatPe’ with 11 Cricket stars as its brand ambassadors. Campaign communicates the message ‘Hum Hai Team BharatPe – Jo Desh Ke Har Dukandaar Ke Saath Hai Khade’.
BharatPe Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder: Ashneer Grover.
The members of the Kyrgyzstan parliament unanimously approved the appointment of Sadyr Japarov as new the Prime Minister of the country. This comes amid a political crisis in the nation after the parliamentary elections were declared invalid.
Capital: Bishkek;
Currency: Kyrgyzstani som.
Taking 2017 as the base year when India was the seventh-largest economy, the Lancet paper said India will move up to become the fourth-largest economy behind the US, China, Japan by 2030 and subsequently will overtake Japan in 2050.
India is currently the 5th largest economy in the world.
Union Minister Piyush Goyal has been assigned additional charge of Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, following demise of Ram Vilas Paswan. He is currently serving as Minister of Railways & Minister of Commerce and Industry.
MoS Ministry of Consumer Affairs: Raosaheb Patil Danve.
CSIR & KPIT successfully ran trials of India’s 1st Hydrogen Fuel Cell prototype car running on indigenously developed fuel cell stack. Fuel cell is low temperature PEM type Fuel Cell that operates at 65-75 °C, which is suitable for vehicular applications.
Council of Scientific & Industrial Research established: 1942
Young Indian player Nihal Sarin emerged winner in Chess.com’s 2020 Junior Speed Online Chess Championship, beating Russia’s Alexey Sarana in final. It enabled him to qualify for 2020 Speed Chess Championship Final which will feature world’s best players.
Chess is believed to be derived from the Indian game chaturanga.
Argentina has approved HB4 drought-resistant GMO wheat by biotechnology firm Bioceres, making it 1st nation in world to approve a strain of GMO wheat. Argentina said HB4 tech provides seeds that are more tolerant to drought & minimize production losses.
Capital: Buenos Aires;
Currency: Argentine peso.
The Delhi government has launched a "first-of-its kind" tree transplantation policy to prevent felling of trees due to development works in the national capital. Under it trees won't be cut for development projects but will be uprooted and placed elsewhere
CM: Arvind Kejriwal;
L-G: Anil Baijal.