Indian Navy participated in Maiden Trilateral Exercise with Mozambique and Tanzania. Indian Navy is represented by the guided missile frigate, INS Tarkash, a Chetak helicopter, and MARCOS (Special Forces).
This exercise came soon after the Gandhinagar Declaration which was adopted in the recently concluded India-Africa Defence Dialogue in Gandhinagar.
Election Commission will host a two-day international conference beginning 31st of October in New Delhi on the theme ‘Role, Framework & Capacity of Election Management Bodies’. The conference will be inaugurated by Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar. The concluding session will be chaired by Election Commissioner Anup Chandra Pandey.
ECI was established on 25th January 1950.
Twenty years after first winning the Brazilian presidency, the leftist Luiz In cio Lula da Silva defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in an extremely tight election that marks an about-face for the country after four years of far-right politics.
Da Silva’s inauguration is scheduled to take place on January 1, 2023. He last served as president from 2003-2010.
The government officially notified changes to Information Technology Rules of 2021, paving the way for the setting up of one or more centrally appointed grievance appellate committees (GACs).
The Centre would establish one or more GACs within 3 months from the date of commencement of the IT (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2022.
GACs shall consist of one chairperson and two whole-time members appointed by the govt.
Rashtriya Ekta Diwas or National Unity Day is celebrated on 31 October every year and it also marks the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. The National Unity Day was celebrated for the first time in 2014.
Sardar Patel was the first Deputy PM of India and also the first Home Minister of India.
West Bengal has bagged the prestigious SKOCH award in the women and child development category for its popular 'Lakshmir Bhandar' scheme.
Instituted in 2003, SKOCH Award is given to best of governance, inclusive growth, excellence in technology and applications, change management, corporate leadership, corporate governance, citizen services delivery, capacity building etc.
India's Ministry of Defence is the world's biggest employer with 2.92 million people, which includes combined active service personnel, reservists and civilian staff, according to a report in 'Statista'.
A close second to the Indian Defence Ministry is the US Department of Defense which employs 2.91 million people.
Statista is Germany-based private org that provides data and statistics abt world issues.
Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer Dr. Rajesh Ranjan has been appointed as the next Indian Ambassador to the West African nation of Cote d’Ivoire. Rajesh Ranjan is presently working as High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Botswana.
Yamoussoukro is the capital of Cote d’Ivoire.
The number of people forcibly displaced from their homes due to persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations and events seriously disturbing public order globally surged to 103 million in the first half of 2022, meaning that one in 77 people on Earth is forcibly displaced, according to the latest report from UNHCR.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is headquartered in Geneva.
The Prime Minister laid the foundation stone of C-295MW transport aircraft manufacturing project at Vadodara, Gujarat. It will be India's first transport aircraft manufacturing project worth around 22,000 crore rupees. C-295MW transport aircrafts will be manufactured in India by private companies, Airbus Defence and TATA consortium.
India ll be 12th such country which have capabilities of transport aircraft manufacturing
Former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman K Sivan, Karnataka Digital Economy Mission (KDEM) chairman BV Naidu and 65 others will be honoured at the 2022 Rajyotsava Awards on November 1.
The list of 67 awardees, as well as 10 organisations that will be awarded, was released by the Department of Kannada and Culture.
Defending champion Spain beat Colombia 1-0 to win the 2022 U-17 Women’s World Cup at the D. Y. Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai. Nigeria stood at the third spot.
Tata Trusts has inducted Cyrus Mistry's cousin Mehli Mistry as a trustee on board of Sir Ratan Tata Trust and Sir Dorabji Tata Trust.
The inclusion takes place even as Tata Trusts announced the retirement of its first professional CEO Srinath Narasimhan, 60, who was appointed in 2020.
Dharmendra Pradhan, on behalf of the Ministry of Education signed the MoU with FIFA President, Gianni Infantino and President, All India Football Federation, Kalyan Chaubey on behalf of respective organizations.
‘Football4Schools’ aims to empower 25 million young boys and girls in India through sports-integrated learning.
According to the report, 21.4 Lakh TB cases notified in India in 2021, 18% higher than 2020. Over 22 crore people screened for TB in 2021 across the country for early detection and treatment of TB.
Under the new initiative Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyan, more than 40,000 Nikshay Mitra supporting over 10.45 Lakh TB patients all over the country.
India aims to eliminate TB by 2025 - five years ahead of the global target.
Employee benefits insurtech Healthysure has partnered ManipalCigna Health Insurance to launch India’s first flexi top-up insurance which allows employees to personalize and upgrade their corporate health insurance plans. By paying a nominal add-on premium, employees can upgrade their cover, which can even be continued in a personal capacity post-employment.
In an attempt to bridge pay parity between India’s male and female international cricketers, the match fee for both will be same as India moves into a new era of gender equality in cricket.
As a result, the women cricketers will be paid Rs. 15 lakh, Rs. 6 lakh and Rs. 3 lakh, respectively, for Test, ODI and T20Is, respectively.
BCCI president: Roger Binny.
The 31st of October is celebrated as World Cities Day. The aim is to promote the international community’s interest in global urbanization, enhance cooperation among countries and cities in meeting opportunities and addressing challenges of urbanization, and contribute to sustainable urban development. The overall World Cities Day theme is Better City, Better Life.
The theme for 2022 is 'Act Local to Go Global'.