ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• 1984 Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan First American Woman to walk in Space
• 2000 100th Mission of NASA’s Space Shuttle Program
• 1899 Second Boer War Begins

ECONOMY

• Kaveri Seeds to adopt GMS technology for hybrid cotton seeds
• Indian buyers slash Malaysian palm oil purchases fearing duty hike: Traders
• India’s wholesale inflation eased to 0.33% in September, its lowest in more than three years led by lower inflation in fuel and manufactured goods.

DEFENSE

• Ever since the abrogation of article 370 on August 5, there has been significant improvement in all the violence parameters in Kashmir," Lt Gen Singh told reporters here.
• Amid drone sightings, security forces cleared to shoot down UAV on the international border
• India calls for cooperation between FATF, UN to combat terror financing

ENVIRONMENT

• Prehistoric humans ate bone marrow like canned soup 400,000 years ago
• Almost 400 all-time high temperatures were set in the northern hemisphere over the summer, according to an analysis of temperature records.
• Central heating boilers 'put climate change goals at risk'

WORLD

• Trump says acting Homeland Security Secretary McAleenan is stepping down
• One man dies as wind-driven Los Angeles wildfire forces 100,000 to flee

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

• The first UN agency to accept Palestine as its full member in October 2011 is UNESCO.
• National Dairy Research Institute is located in Karnal.
• The office of the UN General Institute Assembly is in New York.