UN's Food & Agriculture Organisation marked Oct 16 of every year as World Food Day in 1979. Day was launched to create awareness about food shortage & reviving food systems across globe. Theme: Grow, Nourish, Sustain. Together. Our actions are our future.
World Food Day 2020 also marks the 75th anniversary of FAO
GreenBase has signed an MoU with Tamil Nadu to set up an industrial and logistics park at Vadakkuppattu, Oragadaman at an investment of ₹750cr. Park envisages development of built-up area for companies planning to set up manufacturing & logistics units.
Capital: Chennai;
CM: Edappadi K. Palaniswami.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi released a commemorative coin of ₹75 denominations to mark the 75th Anniversary of Food and Agriculture Organization. PM also dedicate 17 recently developed bio-fortified varieties of 8 crops to the nation.
FAO HQs: Rome, Italy;
Founded: 16 October 1945.
Vishal V Sharma has been appointed as next permanent representative of India to United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. He has succeeded J. Ashraf. He will only be 3rd political appointee among Indian ambassadors around the world
UNESCO HQs: Paris, France;
Founded: 16 November 1945.
India's 1st Oscar winner Costume designer Bhanu Athaiya passed away. She won Oscar for her work in 1983 epic film "Gandhi" jointly with John Mollo. In 2012, Athaiya returned her Oscar to Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for safekeeping.
Athaiya won two National Awards -Lekin and Lagaan
To promote dairying & rural livelihoods National Dairy Development Board & Ladakh has signed an MOU for conducting benchmark survey. NDDB proposes to enumerate all households present in identified villages irrespective of their dairy animal holding status.
National Dairy Development Board HQs: Gujarat;
Founded: 1965.
Odisha launched ‘Sujal - Drink from Tap Mission’, to provide quality drinking water, fit for direct consumption from pipe to over 15 lakh people in 15 towns. In 1st phase, safe & purified tap water will be supplied to 12 pilot areas of Bhubaneswar & Puri.
Capital: Bhubaneswar;
Governor: Ganeshi Lal.
The Bank of Ghana has been presented with prestigious Central Bank of the Year Award by the Central Banking Awards Committee. Mark Carney (Governor of the Bank of England) has won the Governor of the year at the Central bank of the year award 2020.
Ghana's Capital: Accra;
Currency: Ghanaian cedi.
Renowned Malayalam poet & Jnanpith laureate Mahakavi Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri passed away. He was 94 years old. Recently, he was conferred with Jnanpith award, highest literary award in the country. The poet was also a social reformer, journalist.
He was honoured with Padmashri in 2017.
Seema Gupta, Director, Power Grid Corp, has been named winner of GOLD Stevie Award in LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT- BUSINESS category in 17th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business. Stevie Awards have been hailed as the world’s premier business awards.
Power Grid Corp of India Ltd, a PSU under the Ministry of Power.
Indian Bank has signed an MoU with Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs & SIDBI for payment of subsidy to street vendors under Centre's SVANidhi Scheme. PM SVANidhi was introduced to provide loans to vendors & hawkers, among others.
Indian Bank MD and CEO: Padmaja Chunduru.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted the National Security Guard (NSG) on its raising day. A central agency, the NSG is an elite counter-terrorist force which is used in exceptional circumstances. NSG personnel are referred to as The Black Cats.
The NSG was established in the wake of 1984 Operation Blue Star.
Pradeep Goorha authored his second book "Mr Prime Minister, We Shrank the Dragon". Book, though fiction is inspired by reality revolving around developing story on India’s northern borders along with neglected Pakistan’s illegal occupied territory.
Other Book: Survival Redux, historical fiction published in 2016
India will deliver INS Sindhuvir to Myanmar as part of defence cooperation. This will be 1st submarine of Myanmar Navy. It is in accordance with India's vision of SAGAR and in line with build capacities & self-reliance in neighbouring countries.
Capital: Naypyitaw;
Currency: Burmese kyat.
Arvind Kejriwal launched a campaign ‘Red light on, Gaadi off’ to tackle air pollution in the national capital. He urged people to switch off their vehicles while waiting on a traffic signal. On average a car spends 15-20 minutes at a red light every day.
In 1911, Delhi became the capital of India.
To promote the rural economy & to boost the sale of genuine products of Jammu & Kashmir, the JK Government signed an historic MoU with online store Flipkart to provide a platform for local artisans, craftsmen, weavers to reach customers across the globe.
For the first six months, Flipkart will not charge any fee.
Kerala CM virtually inaugurated the operations of 1st phase of International Institute of Advanced Virology at the life sciences park at Thonakkal, Thiruvananthapuram. State decided to establish a high-end research facility in virology in 2017.
Kerala Governor: Arif Mohammad Khan;
CM: Pinarayi Vijayan.
L-G Manoj Sinha, who is also chairman of Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board, launched ‘Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Mobile App’ for cave shrine devotees. Live darshan, aarti and online yatra registration will be available on the app, besides other facilities.
Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board was set up in August 1986.
John Richard Reid, former New Zealand and their oldest surviving Test player passed away at the age of 92. Reid made his debut for New Zealand against England in Manchester in 1949. He played 58 Test matches and scored 3,428 runs before retiring in 1965.
New Zealand Capital: Wellington;
PM: Jacinda Ardern.
Union Education Minister launched ‘KAPILA' Kalam Program for Intellectual Property Literacy & Awareness. Students pursuing education in higher educational institutions will get info. about correct system of application process for patenting their invention
Union Education Minister: Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank'.
To provide a single platform to integrate quality assurance across all its services, LSSC announced launch of Skill Certification Assessment for Leather Employees India app. Employment demand aggregation works through integration of ASEEM portal with SCALE
Minister of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship: M.N. Pandey