Today's Event – 12th October 2021

• 539 BC – The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon, ending the Babylonian empire. (Julian calendar)

• 1279 – The Nichiren Sh?sh? branch of Buddhism is founded in Japan

• 1406 – Chen Yanxiang, the only person from Indonesia known to have visited dynastic Korea, reaches Seoul after having set out from Java four months before

• 1492 – Christopher Columbus's first expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas

• 1654 – The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people.

• 1692 – The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Province of Massachusetts Bay Governor William Phips.

• 1773 – America's first insane asylum opens.

• 1792 – The first celebration of Columbus Day is held in New York City.

• 1793 – The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

• 1798 – Flemish and Luxembourgish peasants launch the rebellion against French rule known as the Peasants' War.

• 1799 – Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute.

• 1810 – The citizens of Munich hold the first Oktoberfest.

• 1822 – Pedro I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor.

• 1849 – The city of Manizales, Colombia, is founded by 'The Expedition of the 20'.

• 1856 – An M 7.7–8.3 earthquake off the Greek island of Crete cause major damage as far as Egypt and Malta

• 1871 – The British in India enact the Criminal Tribes Act, naming many local communities "Criminal Tribes".

• 1890 – Uddevalla Suffrage Association is formed.

• 1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools.

• 1901 – President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.

• 1918 – A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Minnesota.

• 1928 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Boston Children's Hospital.

• 1933 – The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.

• 1945 – The Lao Issara took control of Laos' government and reaffirmed the country's independence

• 1959 – At the national congress of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance in Peru, a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party who later form APRA Rebelde.

• 1960 – Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at the United Nations to protest a Philippine assertion.

• 1960 – Japan Socialist Party leader Inejiro Asanuma is stabbed to death during a live Television broadcast.

• 1962 – The Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities. There was at least U.S. $230 million in damages and 46 people died.

• 1963 – After nearly 23 years of imprisonment, Reverend Walter Ciszek, a Jesuit missionary, was released from the Soviet Union.

• 1964 – The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew, and the first flight without pressure suits.

• 1968 – Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain.

• 1971 – The 2,500 year celebration of the Persian Empire begins.

• 1979 – Typhoon Tip becomes the largest and most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded.

• 1983 – Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from the Lockheed Corporation, and is sentenced to four years in jail.

• 1984 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army fail to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. The bomb kills five people and wounds 31.

• 1988 – Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down execution-style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.

• 1994 – The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus.

• 1997 – The Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria kills 43 people at a fake roadblock.

• 1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, dies five days after he was beaten outside of Laramie.

• 1999 – Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.

• 1999 – The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia.

• 2000 – The USS Cole, a US Navy destroyer, is badly damaged by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.

• 2002 – Terrorists detonate bombs in the Sari Club in Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300.

• 2005 – The second Chinese human spaceflight, Shenzhou 6, is launched, carrying two cosmonauts in orbit for five days.

• 2010 – The Finnish Yle TV2 channel's Ajankohtainen kakkonen current affairs program featured controversial Homoilta episode (literally "gay night"),which led to the resignation of almost 50,000 Finns from the Evangelical Lutheran Church

• 2017 – The United States announces its decision to withdraw from UNESCO. Israel immediately follows.

• 2018 – Princess Eugenie marries Jack Brooksbank at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.

• 2019 – Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya becomes the first person to run a marathon in less than two hours with a time of 1:59:40 in Vienna

National Events- 

•  Across 32 species of seabirds sampled from around the globe, an international team from 18 institutions in seven countries found that up to 52 per cent of the birds not only ate plastic, but also accumulated the plastic’s chemical components in their bodies.

•  The CBI has registered a case against a private company Trimax IT Infrastructure & Services Ltd (TIISL),Surya Prakash Madrecha and others for allegedly cheating SBI and other consortium member banks to the tune of `862.06 crore during the period 2009 to 2017.

•  The Sikh community of Bahraich and relatives of a farmer killed in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence have demanded that the victim's village be named after him.

•  As the "Maharashtra bandh" called by the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) protest against the Lakhimpur Kheri incident evoked a good response across the State on Monday, the ruling alliance partners and the Opposition BJP exchanged barbs over the “success” of the bandh.

• Maharashtra’s former Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’ banker wife Amruta Fadnavis stirred up a hornet’s nest in the state political circles through a controversial tweet, wondering whether “extortion” was continuing in the state or not. Taking an “indirect” dig at the Shiv Sena, Amruta – known for controversial statements and tweets – wondered: “Will someone tell me if the extortion is continuing or has stopped (on the bandh day)?”

International Events- 

• A US-based economist won the Nobel prize in economics Monday for pioneering research that transformed widely held ideas about the labor force, showing how an increase in the minimum wage doesn’t hinder hiring and immigrants do not lower pay for native-born workers. Two others shared the award for creating a way to study these types of societal issues. Canadian-born David Card of the University of California, Berkeley, was awarded half of the prize for his research on how the minimum wage, immigration  and education affect the labor market. The other half was shared by Joshua Angrist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Dutch-born Guido Imbens from Stanford University for their framework for studying issues that can’t rely on traditional scientific methods.

• Kathmandu: Eight people were killed on the spot when the jeep they were travelling in fell 100 metres from a high-altitude trekking spot in Nepal’s Kaski District on Monday, officials said 

• Beijing: At least 13 people were killed and one person was missing when a bus carrying 51 passengers plunged into the Hutuo river in North China’s Hebei province on Monday, according to a media report.

• A car bomb exploded in a northern Syrian town controlled by Turkey-backed Syrian Opposition fighters on Monday, killing at least four people, rescue workers and a war monitor said. The bomb exploded in a market in the town of Afrin in Aleppo province. Volunteers with the Syrian Civil Defence, rescuers who operate in opposition areas, said the death toll would likely rise. 

• A 35-year-old Pakistani journalist was killed in an attack claimed to have been carried out by the banned Balochistan Liberation Army in the country’s restive Balochistan province, media reports said on Monday. Shahid Zehri, who has been associated with Metro 1 News, was travelling in a car in the town of Hub in the province when he was attacked.

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Sports-

• Former Australia all-rounder Tom Moody is expected to apply for the high profile job of Indian cricket team’s next head coach for a fourth time, following the conclusion of the upcoming T20 World Cup, according to a media report. 

•  Mahendra Singh Dhoni walks the talk when he speaks about having an uncluttered mind while doing the finishing job for Chennai Super Kings, something he did with elan on Sunday against Delhi Capitals to take his team to the record ninth IPL final.

•  Glenn Maxwell, teammate Dan Christian and his pregnant partner Jorgia Dunn were subjected to online abuse after their IPL team Royal Challengers Bangalore's ouster from the ongoing edition of the lucrative league.

•  The Indian men’s badminton team blanked lower-ranked Netherlands 5-0 in its opening Group C tie to make a winning start at the Thomas Cup Final here.

• Virat Kohli's tenure as captain of Royal Challengers Bangalore may have ended without an IPL triumph but the franchise will nonetheless "celebrate" his contributions over the years, said the team's pacer Harshal Patel.

Awards and honours-

•  162 girl toppers awarded smartphones on Girl Child Day

Technology-

•  Facebook is reportedly planning to expanding the Live Audio rooms feature to a global audience. Now apart from public figures and creators, Facebook is making the feature -- a Clubhouse competitor -- available to groups as well, reports The Verge.

•  Elon Musk on Monday said Tesla has finally started rolling out its Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta 10.2 software.

•  Facebook-owned Instagram would soon roll out two new tools to safeguard teenagers from harmful content, after whistleblower Frances Haugen testified last week before the US Congress that Instagram can have a negative effect on the mental health of teenagers.

•  Microsoft on Monday announced that Windows 11 users can now start using Chat from Microsoft Teams on Windows. Chat from Microsoft Teams will be pinned to the Taskbar at Windows 11 startup.

• HCL Technologies on Monday said it has expanded its strategic partnership with Google Cloud to jointly launch healthcare and life sciences solutions for customers.

Economy – 

•  Ratings agency Icra on Monday revised downwards by 300 basis points the growth forecast for the auto components industry for the ongoing fiscal year citing the impact of semiconductor shortage on domestic vehicle manufacturers as well as on exports revenues.

•  The economy is poised to achieve 10.25 per cent GDP growth in FY 2021-22 on the back of effective Government policies, Reserve Bank's accommodative policy stance and improved business sentiments, industry body PHDCCI said on Monday.

•  After swinging over 200 points in the opening session, the 30-share Sensex was trading 34.62 points or 0.06 per cent lower at 60,101.16. Similarly, the Nifty slipped 2.45 points or 0.01 per cent to 17,943.50.

•  The Finance Ministry on Monday said it has released Rs 9,871 crore of revenue deficit grant to 17 States. The States which will receive money from the grant as recommended by the 15th Finance Commission are Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand and West Bengal.

• The rupee slid by 37 paise to close at a 15-month low of 75.36 against the US dollar on Monday as crude oil zoomed towards seven-year high and the greenback hardened in the overseas markets.

Environment –

•  3.6 magnitude earthquake hits Gulbarga (Karnataka)

Local –

• Mumbai University gets A++ ratings till 2028 

• Edible oil prices in Karnataka are rising rapidly 

•  Fire breaks out in at Vodafone mobile tower in Nabana (West Bengal)

•  1 crore beneficiaries in Rajasthan yet to receive 1st dose of covid vaccine

• Allahabad High Court has stated that Rs.450 per month is a form of forced labour

GK – 

The State Election Commission of which state is set to conduct India’s first dry run for “Voting through smart phone”?

[A] Andhra Pradesh
[B] Telangana
[C] Karnataka
[D] Kerala

The Exercise Malabar is associated with which Armed force of India?

[A] Indian Army
[B] Indian Navy
[C] Indian Coast Guard
[D] National Security Guard

Sunil Chhetri, who was in the news recently, is associated with which sports?

[A] Cricket
[B] Football
[C] Volleyball
[D] Kabaddi

Which International Forum has recognized access to a clean and healthy environment as a fundamental right?

[A] UNFCCC
[B] UNESCO
[C] WHO
[D] UN Human Rights Council

What is the proposed financial outlay for the PM Gati Shakti Master Plan?

[A] Rs. 100 crore
[B] Rs. 1 lakh crore
[C] Rs. 10 lakh crore
[D] Rs. 100 lakh crore

Today's Event – 11th October 2021

• 1142 – A peace treaty ends the Jin–Song wars.

• 1311 – The peerage and clergy restrict the authority of English kings with the Ordinances of 1311.

• 1614 – The New Netherland Company applies to the States General of the Netherlands for exclusive trading rights in what is now the northeastern United States.

• 1634 – The Burchardi flood kills around 15,000 in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany.

• 1649 – Cromwell's New Model Army sacks Wexford, killing over 2,000 Irish Confederate troops and 1,500 civilians.

• 1767 – Surveying for the Mason–Dixon line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.

• 1797 – The Royal Navy decisively defeats the Batavian Navy at Camperdown during the French Revolutionary Wars.

• 1811 – The Juliana begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry in New York harbor.

• 1840 – The Maronite leader Bashir Shihab II surrenders to the Ottoman Empire and later is sent to Malta in exile.

• 1852 – The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.

• 1862 – American Civil War: Confederate troops conduct a raid on Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

• 1865 – Hundreds of black men and women march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.

• 1890 – In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.

• 1899 – The Second Boer War erupts in South Africa between the British-ruled Cape Colony, and the Boer-ruled Transvaal and Orange Free State.

• 1906 – San Francisco sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering segregated schools for Japanese students.

• 1910 – Piloted by Arch Hoxsey, Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane

• 1937 – The Duke and Duchess of Windsor tour Nazi Germany for 12 days and meet Adolf Hitler on the 22nd.

• 1941 – Beginning of the National Liberation War of Macedonia.

• 1944 – The Tuvan People's Republic is annexed by the Soviet Union.

• 1950 – CBS's field-sequential color system for television is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

• 1954 – In accord with the 1954 Geneva Conference, French troops complete their withdrawal from North Vietnam.

• 1958 – NASA launches Pioneer 1, its first space probe, although it fails to achieve a stable orbit.

• 1961 – 1st Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement held in Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia, resulting in the establishment of the Non-Aligned Movement.

• 1962 – The Second Vatican Council becomes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.

• 1968 – NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission.

• 1976 – George Washington is posthumously promoted to the grade of General of the Armies.

• 1984 – Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.

• 1984 – Aeroflot Flight 3352 crashes into maintenance vehicles upon landing in Omsk, Russia, killing 178.

• 1962 – The Second Vatican Council becomes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.

• 1968 – NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission.

• 1976 – George Washington is posthumously promoted to the grade of General of the Armies.

• 1984 – Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.

• 1984 – Aeroflot Flight 3352 crashes into maintenance vehicles upon landing in Omsk, Russia, killing 178.

National Events- 

•  A 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her cousin in Jaipur, police said on Sunday. Manish (23) has been booked on the basis of a complaint lodged by the girl's family members, Galta Gate police station SHO Satish Kumar said.

• A class 10 student died by suicide in Bulandshahr after she was allegedly molested by a classmate and being threatened by his relatives, police said on Sunday. The 15-year-old girl was found hanging from the ceiling on Saturday. 

•  Twenty-year-old Aditi Maheshwari from Rajasthan recently became the British High Commissioner to India for a day. Ms Maheshwari, who is pursuing her Bachelor's in Physical Science from Delhi University's Miranda House College, won the 'High Commissioner for the Day' contest organised annually since 2017 

•  Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's newly-floated energy firm has made its first acquisition, buying REC Solar for $771 million, the company said on Sunday. 

• The disclosure of files provided by India’s second army chief General Sir Roy Bucher to Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) about Jammu and Kashmir related to the period of 1947-49, which may throw light on Accession, is in “national interest”, the Central Information Commission has observed in an order. 

International Events- 

•  Taiwan's president on Sunday vowed to defend the island from China's rising pressure for reunification, after a week of unprecedented tensions with Beijing.  Speaking at the island's National Day celebrations, a rare show of Taiwanese defense capabilities in the annual parade underlined Tsai Ing-wen's promise to resist Chinese military threats. 

• Abdul Qadeer Khan, the disgraced atomic scientist known as the 'father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb' under the clandestine enrichment programme and infamous for his controversial role in nuclear proliferation, died here on Sunday after a brief illness. He was 85. 

• Germany's lame-duck chancellor, Angela Merkel, received a warm welcome Sunday as she paid a final official visit to Israel, but differences quickly emerged between the close allies on the key issues of Iran's nuclear program and the establishment of a Palestinian state. 

• Spanish authorities said on Sunday that the  country has started a new evacuation operation to extract more Afghans  and their families left behind following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. 

• A plane carrying a group of parachute jumpers crashed after takeoff in the Russian region of Tatarstan early on Sunday, killing 16 people and injuring six, the Emergencies Ministry said.

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Sports-

•  The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) on Sunday named the strongest available squad for the 2021-22 Ashes with wicketkeeper and vice-captain Jos Buttler joining captain Joe Root in committing to the tour of Australia, starting in November. 

•  The Indian women’s team committed batting harakiri despite a fine half century from opener Smriti Mandhana to lose the third and final T20 International by 14 runs as Australia clinched the multi-format series by 11-5 margin.

•  Delhi Capitals head coach Ricky Ponting was awestruck by Mahendra Singh Dhoni's cool demeanour under pressure, describing the legendary Chennai Super Kings skipper as one of the greatest finishers of the game.

• Brazil star Neymar says next year’s World Cup in Qatar could be the last of his career. 

• Ace shuttler Saina Nehwal was forced to retire midway through her opening match but India’s young brigade produced a clinical display to notch up a fine 3-2 win over Spain and make a winning start to their campaign at the Uber Cup Final here on Sunday.

Technology-

•  Microsoft on Monday announced that Windows 11 users can now start using Chat from Microsoft Teams on Windows. Chat from Microsoft Teams will be pinned to the Taskbar at Windows 11 startup. 

• According to a report by WABetainfo, the feature will soon be rolled out in a future update of WhatsApp beta for iOS and Android. 

•  Elon Musk has announced that Tesla Gigafactory in Germany will start rolling out first vehicles by the end of 2021.

•  Google is not really making custom code for Apple platforms but is rather “now invested in the long tail of UX details that really make products feel great on Apple

Economy – 

•  The Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM),which oversees the disinvestment policy, is now planning to cede management control over a dozen public sector enterprises in the next six months.

•  Telecom Secretary K Rajaraman has asked State-owned telecom research and development organisation C-DoT to start working on 6G and other futuristic technologies in order to catch up with the global market in time, a statement said on Sunday.

• Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has embarked on a week-long US trip to attend the annual meet of the World Bank and IMF as well as G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG) meeting. During the official visit to the US, Sitharaman is expected to meet US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.  

•  After opening over 100 points lower, the 30-share Sensex recovered the losses and gained 100.22 points or 0.17 per cent to trade higher at 60,159.28. Similarly, the Nifty rose 52.05 points or 0.29 per cent to 17,947.25.

• Automobile retailers are staring at huge losses this festive season as manufacturers struggle with vehicle dispatches to dealerships amid the ongoing semiconductor shortage crisis, according to a top FADA official.

Local –

•  Situation in Delhi critical due to shortage of coal

•  2k cases of covid 19 registered in Maharashtra

•  5 more children died in Agra due to fever

•  Orissa has recorded 652 cases of covid-19 in the last 24 hours

• Monsoon clears from most parts of Madhya Pradesh

GK – 

What is the theme of the ‘World Post Day’ 2021?

[A] Innovate to recover
[B] Post to Connect
[C] Communication during Covid
[D] Post across the World

Guru Ghasidas National Park and Tamor Pingla Wildlife Sanctuary, which were seen in the news recently, are located in which state?

[A] West Bengal
[B] Odisha
[C] Chhattisgarh
[D] Bihar

Deep Space Atomic Clock, which was seen in the news recently, is associated with which space agency?

[A] ISRO
[B] NASA
[C] Virgin Galactic
[D] SpaceX

What is the name of the application launched by the Union Shipping Ministry to promote transparency in port-related information?

[A] AtmaNirbhar Port
[B] MyPort
[C] Bharat Port
[D] Port in Hand

Mette Frederiksen, who visited India recently, is the Prime Minister of which country?

[A] Finland
[B] Denmark
[C] France
[D] Australia

Today's Event – 10th October 2021

• 1631 – Thirty Years' War: An army of the Electorate of Saxony seizes Prague.

• 1760 – In a treaty with the Dutch colonial authorities, the Ndyuka people of Suriname – descended from escaped slaves – gain territorial autonomy.

• 1780 – The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000–30,000 in the Caribbean.

• 1814 – War of 1812: The United States Revenue Marine attempts to defend the cutter Eagle from the Royal Navy.

• 1845 – In Annapolis, Maryland, the Naval School (later the United States Naval Academy) opens with 50 students.

• 1846 – Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune, is discovered by English astronomer William Lassell.

• 1868 – The Ten Years' War begins against Spanish rule in Cuba.

• 1903 – The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women.

• 1911 – The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang Uprising begins against the Chinese monarchy.

• 1913 – U.S. President Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, completing major construction on the Panama Canal.

• 1918 – RMS Leinster is torpedoed and sunk by UB-123, killing 564, the worst-ever on the Irish Sea.

• 1920 – The Carinthian plebiscite determines that the larger part of the Duchy of Carinthia should remain part of Austria.

• 1928 – Chiang Kai-shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.

• 1933 – A United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, the first such proven case in the history of commercial aviation.

• 1935 – In Greece, a coup d'état ends the Second Hellenic Republic.

• 1938 – Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.

• 1945 – The Double Tenth Agreement is signed by the Communist Party and the Kuomintang about the future of China.

• 1954 – The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sultanate of Muscat, Neil Innes, sends a signal to the Sultanate's forces, accompanied with oil explorers, to penetrate Fahud, marking the beginning of Jebel Akhdar War between the Imamate of Oman and the Sultanate of Muscat

• 1957 – U.S. President Eisenhower apologizes to Ghanaian finance minister Gbedemah after he is refused service in a Delaware restaurant.

• 1957 – The Windscale fire results in Britain's worst nuclear accident.

• 1963 – France cedes control of the Bizerte naval base to Tunisia.

• 1963 – The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty comes into effect.

• 1964 – The Tokyo Summer Olympics opening ceremony is the first to be relayed live by satellites.

• 1967 – The Outer Space Treaty comes into force.

• 1970 – Fiji becomes independent.

• 1970 – Canada's October Crisis escalates when Quebec's vice-premier is kidnapped by members of the FLQ.

• 1973 – U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with evasion of federal income tax.

• 1975 – Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.

• 1979 – The Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant began operations in Eurajoki, Satakunta, Finland

• 1980 – The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front is founded in El Salvador.

• 1985 – US Navy aircraft intercept an Egyptian airliner carrying the perpetrators of the Achille Lauro hijacking, and force it to land in Italy.

• 2007 – Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor becomes the first Malaysian in space on board Soyuz TMA-11

• 2009 – Armenia and Turkey sign the Zurich Protocols, intended to normalize relations. However, they are never ratified by either side.

• 2010 – The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.

• 2015 – Twin bomb blasts in the Turkish capital Ankara kill 109 and injure 500+.

• 2018 – Hurricane Michael makes landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane. It kills 57 people in the United States, 45 in Florida, and causes an estimated $25.1 billion in damage.

National Events- 

•  In a move to check skyrocketing edible oils prices ahead of the festive seasons— Dussehra and Diwali—the Government has imposed stock limits on edible oil till March 31, 2022. “All Edible Oils and oilseeds put together for a period upto 31st March, 2022.

•  The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday conducted searches at multiple locations in different States in the case of 2,998 kg drugs seizure at Mundra Port, Gujarat. The agency conducted searches in Chennai, Coimbatore and Vijaywada at the premises of the accused /suspects.

•  Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to visit his constituency Varanasi on October 25 and announce a series of development projects in the region before ‘Deepawali’ festival.

•  Despite reports of Pakistani terror seminary Haqqania University addressing an online session in December 2020 at Darul Uloom Deoband, Saharanpur, the security agencies are yet to launch an enquiry to ascertain the radical outfit’s reach and possible threats due to the outfit’s activities in India.

• Despite the demand for his removal by BJP MPs, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor will continue to chair the parliamentary panel on information technology.

International Events- 

•  Chinese leader Xi Jinping said on Saturday that a “peaceful” reunification of Taiwan with China’s mainland was in Beijing’s interests, despite ratcheted up military threats against the self-governing island.

• The US has condemned in the strongest terms the suicide attack on worshippers at a mosque in Afghanistan in which at least 46 people were killed, saying the Afghan people deserve a “future free of terror”. 

•  A new lava flow belched Saturday from the La Palma volcano, threatening to spread more destruction on the Atlantic Ocean island, where over 1,000 buildings have already been engulfed or badly damaged by streams of molten rock.

•  A fortnight after the first in-person meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden here, the White House has said that the focus of the Indo-US bilateral relations is now on continuing to move forward on a range of issues, including economy, national security and getting the pandemic under control.

• China and the US held a virtual meeting on Saturday regarding the two countries’ fraught trade relationship, after a lengthy break in negotiations.

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Sports-

• Indian shooters Anish Bhanwala, Adarsh SIngh and Vijayveer Sidhu combined to win the gold medal in the men's 25m rapid fire pistol team event as the country ended the ISSF Junior World Championship on top of the standings here.

• Chennai Super Kings' old guards with an uncanny knack of owning the big stage at right moments, will start as favourites against a solid Delhi Capitals line-up led by 'young pretender' Rishabh Pant in what promises to be an exciting first IPL Qualifier here on Sunday.

• Delhi Capitals Head Coach Ricky Ponting reckons that despite beating Chennai Super Kings twice in the group stages, playoff games will be completely different. He also said that their tournament really begins now. Delhi will meet Chennai in Qualifier 1 on Sunday in Dubai.

• India's senior chairman of selectors Chetan Sharma had said that Hardik Pandya would be bowling in IPL but Indian vice-captain and MI skipper Rohit Sharma is expecting the all-rounder to start bowling from "next week" even though he won't like to put a timeline on the subject.

• Defending champions Mumbai Indians skipper Rohit Sharma said their "collective failure as a group" in the second leg of IPL led to their early exit from the tournament.

Technology-

•  Tech giant Apple has ceased code signing for iOS 15, effectively blocking users from downgrading to the now out-of-date operating system. The stoppage comes after Apple halted signing for iOS 14.8 and leaves the recently released iOS 15.0.1 as the only upgrade option, AppleInsider reported.

•  Redmi is likely to announce the K50 series of smartphones by February next year and now a new report has claimed that the handset will come with a 120Hz AMOLED display, and a 108MP main camera

•  Increasing vaccination and decreasing infection rates across several European countries have helped the Travel app category hit strong year-over-year growth rates in Q2 2021, with downloads up 104 per cent.

•  US-NOBEL-PRIZE-PEACE-Philippine Nobel winner Ressa calls Facebook 'biased against facts'

• Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the company's Cyberquad will be the safest all-terrain vehicle (ATV) in the world.

Economy – 

•  Mumbai on Saturday became the first metro city in the country to see diesel prices cross the Rs 100 per litre mark after fuel prices were hiked again. 

•  The Indian job market maintained its record-breaking run for the third consecutive month in a row, clocking 57 per cent year-on-year growth in September, according to the latest Naukri JobSpeak report.

• Reliance New Energy Solar Ltd (RNESL),a wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL),has announced acquisition of 100 per cent shareholding of REC Solar Holdings AS (REC Group) from China National Bluestar (Group) Co Ltd, for an Enterprise Value of $771 million. 

•  The executive board of the International Monetary Fund said late Friday that it is seeking more “clarifying details” in its investigation into allegations that the head of the IMF pressured staff at the World Bank to change business rankings for China in an effort to placate that country.

• Reducing cost of electric vehicles (EV) as well as increase in subsidies along with the newer model are expected to increase electric two-wheeler's (e-2W) penetration.

Local –

•  Over 46k vaccines administered in Delhi

•  Kolkata police on high alert after receiving terror threats

•  Chennai lost 33 police stations out of its jurisdiction

•  Telangana has reported 162 cases of covid and 1 death

• 40% of houses in UP are breeding grounds for mosquitoes in Gujarat

GK – 

India unveiled a ‘National Action Plan for Dog Mediated Rabies Elimination’(NAPRE),to eliminate rabies by which year?

[A] 2025
[B] 2027
[C] 2030
[D] 2032

Sweet Revolution, NBHM scheme is associated with which product?

[A] Sugarcane
[B] Honey
[C] Fruits
[D] Palm

Which Union Ministry has launched the ‘Ease of Logistics’ portal?

[A] Ministry of MSME
[B] Ministry of Commerce and Industry
[C] Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
[D] Ministry of Animal Husbandry and Dairying

Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE),which received 2021 Right Livelihood Award, is based in which state/UT?

[A] Hyderabad
[B] Delhi
[C] Chennai
[D] Gandhi Nagar

The Cabinet approved the continuation of the National Export Insurance Account (NEIA) scheme till which year?

[A] 2022-23
[B] 2023-24
[C] 2024-25
[D] 2025-26

Today's Event – 9th October 2021

• 1410 – The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock.

• 1446 – The Hangul alphabet is published in Korea.

• 1604 – Kepler's Supernova is the most recent supernova to be observed within the Milky Way.

• 1701 – The Collegiate School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale University) is chartered in Old Saybrook.

• 1804 – Hobart, capital of Tasmania, is founded.

• 1806 – Prussia begins the War of the Fourth Coalition against France.

• 1825 – Restauration arrives in New York Harbor from Norway, the first organized immigration from Norway to the United States.

• 1831 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first head of state of independent Greece, is assassinated.

• 1834 – Opening of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.

• 1847 – Slavery is abolished in the Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy.

• 1874 – The Universal Postal Union is created by the Treaty of Bern.

• 1900 – The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.

• 1911 – An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Chinese monarchy.

• 1919 – The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series, resulting in the Black Sox Scandal.

• 1936 – Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.

• 1937 – Murder of 9 Catholic priests in Zhengding, China, who protected the local population from the advancing Japanese army.

• 1941 – A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.

• 1942 – Australia's Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1942 receives royal assent.

• 1950 – The Goyang Geumjeong Cave massacre in Korea begins.

• 1962 – Uganda becomes an independent Commonwealth realm.

• 1967 – A day after his capture, Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.

• 1969 – In Chicago, the National Guard is called in as demonstrations continue over the trial of the "Chicago Eight".

• 1970 – The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.

• 1980 – Pope John Paul II greets the Dalai Lama during a private audience in Vatican City.

• 1981 – President François Mitterrand abolishes capital punishment in France.

• 1984 – The popular railway-themed TV show Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends, based on The Railway Series by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry, is first premiered on ITV.

• 1986 – The Phantom of the Opera, eventually the second longest running musical in London, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre.

• 1986 – Fox Broadcasting Company (FBC) launches as the "fourth" US television network

• 2006 – North Korea conducts its first nuclear test.

• 2009 – First lunar impact of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.

• 2012 – Pakistani Taliban attempt to assassinate outspoken schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai.

• 2016 – The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army launches its first attack on Myanmar security forces along the Bangladesh–Myanmar border.

• 2019 – Turkey begins its military offensive in north-eastern Syria.

National Events- 

•  Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath once again hit out at Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav. Speaking at an event organised by a news channel in Gorakhpur on Friday, Yogi took a jibe at the estranged relationship between Akhilesh Yadav and his uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav.

•  Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav demanded resignation of Union Minister of State for Home, Ajay Mishra Teni, for his alleged involvement in violence in Lakhimpur Kheri where nine people, including four farmers, were killed.

•  To make a symbolic protest against the statement of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra made a surprise visit to a Dalit hamlet in Lucknow on Friday and took up broom to clean the locality.

•  Delhi’ still may be some distance away for Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-- who is being projected by her party Trinamool Congress as a strong contender for the Prime Minister’s post opposite Narendra Modi--but her admirers have already started projecting her as a Goddess so to say.

• With disagreement brewing between the ruling allies months ahead of the elections to the 60-seat Manipur Assembly, hectic political and administrative activities have begun in the BJP-ruled State with both political parties and Election Commission readying themselves for the electoral battle.

International Events- 

•  International Criminal Court judges decided on Friday to ask the United Nations Secretary-General for information on who represents Afghanistan at international bodies following the Taliban’s sweep to power in August.

•  Russia’s daily coronavirus death toll hit a new record on Friday amid the country’s sluggish vaccination rate and the Government’s reluctance to tighten restrictions. Russia’s state coronavirus task force reported 936 new deaths on Friday, the highest daily number since the start of the pandemic.

•   Journalists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their fight for freedom of expression in countries where reporters have faced persistent attacks, harassment and even murder. “

•  Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba on Friday expanded his Cabinet by inducting 17 Ministers and two Ministers of State from the five-party ruling alliance, three months after he assumed office. With this, the Government’s strength has now reached 25, including 22 Ministers and three Ministers of State.

• A former Taliban commander, who had kidnapped an American journalist and kept him captive in Pakistan for several months before he managed to escape over a decade ago, has been charged in a superseding indictment with killing US troops in 2008.

Job alerts-

• Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration & Research (AMD) Jobs for Security Guard, Driver, Upper Division Clerk (UDC),Technician B, Scientific Assistant B and other posts. Last date  24 October 2021

• Indian Army Jobs for TES and other posts. Last date 8 November 2021

• SBI SO Jobs for Specialist Officer and other posts. Last date 18 October 2021

• Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) Jobs for  Data Processing Assistant, Private Secretary, Senior Grade, Junior Time Scale (JTS) Grade, Youth Officer. and other posts. Last date 28 October 2021

•  Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) Jobs for and other posts. Last date 22 October 2021 

Sports-

•  Former sports minister Kiren Rijiju on Saturday said that there are a few federations in India that are not working properly and they need to be pulled up for the betterment of the sports.

•  India's senior chairman of selectors Chetan Sharma had said that Hardik Pandya would be bowling in IPL but Indian vice-captain and MI skipper Rohit Sharma is expecting the all-rounder to start bowling from "next week" even though he won't like to put a timeline on the subject.

•  Royal Challengers Bangalore's latest star Kona Bharat said that his senior partner Glenn Maxwell had complete faith that the Andhra wicketkeeper-batter could finish off the last IPL league game against Delhi Capitals, which he did with a last-ball six.

•  Local collegian, Alwin Sundar (AS Motorsports),grabbed the pole position in the Novice (Stock 165cc) category as the third round of the MMSC fmsci Indian National Motorcycle Racing Championship 2021 commenced at the MMRT, here on Friday in fair weather conditions.

• Indian golfer Shubhankar Sharma carded a solid 4-under 67, laced with five birdies, in the opening round to be tied 21st at the ACCIONA Open de Espana here. 

Technology-

•  realme, which is set to release its GT Neo 2 smartphone both in India and Europe, now plans to release another device from the GT lineup that will be powered by a customised version of MediaTek Dimensity 1200 chipset.

•  Chipmaker AMD has published information about a pair of bugs that can reduce performance for Ryzen processors running Windows 11 by as much as 15 per cent.

•  Apple has been rolling out the Apple TV app to many different platforms, including smart TVs as well as third-party streaming devices, and now the tech giant has started rolling out a scaled down "Apple TV+" app for select 2016 and 2017 LG smart TVs.

•  E-commerce platforms, including social commerce and grocery players, have clocked $2.7 billion (more than Rs 20,000 crore) in the first four days of the festive week sale that started on October 2, new data showed on Saturday.

• Samsung has announced that it will start producing customers' first 3nm-based chip designs in the first half of 2022, while its second generation of 3nm is expected in 2023.

Economy – 

•  Mumbai on Saturday became the first metro city in the country to see diesel prices cross the Rs 100 per litre mark after fuel prices were hiked again.

•  The Reserve Bank of India expectedly kept interest rates unchanged at a record low on Friday but signalled the start of tapering pandemic-era stimulus measures on economic recovery taking roots.

•  The RBI’s decision to keep interest rates unchanged while continuing its accommodative stance is a prudent step in view of the uneven path of recovery momentum, India Inc said on Friday.

•  The Sensex soared past the 60,000-level while the Nifty finished at an all-time high on Friday after the Reserve Bank kept the key interest rates unchanged but maintained its accommodative stance to bolster economic recovery. 

• Air India’s sale to the Tata Group marks a new dawn for the airline, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Friday as he hoped that the carrier would continue to bring people closer through successful operations.

Local –

•  The Delhi Police has arrested two people and seized over 420 kg illegal firecrackers when the duo was transporting it in a vehicle in north Delhi's Sadar Bazaar area.

•  A single bench of Justice Rajesh Kumar of Jharkhand High Court granted bail to Sunil Tiwari in a sexual exploitation case where a girl working as a housemaid accused him of sexual exploitation.

•  A two-day review meeting of the managers of all the branches under its Bhopal zone under the guidance of SSP Rai, Area General Manager, Bhubaneswar was held of Indian Bank, review meeting was organized in Indore on October 7 and in Bhopal on October 8.

•  The Delhi Government has directed all private schools to ensure that their teaching and non-teaching staff are not allowed to attend school if they have not received the first dose of Covid-19, and treat their absence as being 'on leave', according to officials.

• Even as daily Covid-19 cases are fluctuating in Odisha, the State Government on Friday said next three months would be crucial in preventing spread of virus. Health Director Bijay Mohapatra said October, November and December are very important and people should avoid crowded places and unnecessary travels.

GK – 

High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People, was officially launched in which year?

[A] 1984
[B] 1992
[C] 2000
[D] 2021

When is the ‘Indian Air Force Day’ celebrated every year?

[A] October 2
[B] October 4
[C] October 5
[D] October 8

After RBI’s October Monetary Policy Committee Meeting, what is the Repo rate?

[A] 4.5 %
[B] 4.25%
[C] 4.00%
[D] 3.75%

Which central armed police force of India secures the Nepal and Bhutan borders?

[A] Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB)
[B] ITBP
[C] CRPF
[D] Assam Rifles

Vallilath Madhathil Madhavan Nair, who passed away recently, is associated with which profession?

[A] Sports
[B] Business
[C] Bureaucracy
[D] Politics

Today's Event – 8TH October 2021

• 314 – Constantine I defeats Roman Emperor Licinius, who loses his European territories

• 1480 – The Great Stand on the Ugra River puts an end to Tartar rule over Moscow

• 1573 – End of the Spanish siege of Alkmaar, the first Dutch victory in the Eighty Years' War.

• 1645 – Jeanne Mance opens the first lay hospital in North America.

• 1813 – The Treaty of Ried is signed between Bavaria and Austria.

• 1821 – The Peruvian Navy is established during the War of Independence.

• 1829 – Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials.

• 1856 – The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident.

• 1862 – American Civil War: The Confederate invasion of Kentucky is halted at the Battle of Perryville.

• 1871 – Slash-and-burn land management, months of drought, and the passage of a strong cold front cause the Peshtigo Fire, the Great Chicago Fire and the Great Michigan Fires to break out

• 1912 – The First Balkan War begins when Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire.

• 1921 – KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.

• 1952 – The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.

• 1956 – The New York Yankees's Don Larsen pitches the only perfect game in a World Series.

• 1962 – Der Spiegel publishes an article disclosing the sorry state of the Bundeswehr, and is soon accused of treason.

• 1967 – Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.

• 1969 – The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago.

• 1970 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in literature.

• 1973 – Yom Kippur War: Israel loses more than 150 tanks in a failed attack on Egyptian-occupied positions.

• 1973 – Spyros Markezinis begins his 48-day term as prime minister in an abortive attempt to lead Greece to parliamentary rule.

• 1974 – Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.

• 1978 – Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 275.97 knots at Blowering Dam, Australia.

• 1982 – Poland bans Solidarity and all other trade unions.

• 1982 – After its London premiere, Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.

• 1990 – First Intifada: Israeli police kill 17 Palestinians and wound over 100 near the Dome of the Rock.

• 1991 – Upon the expiration of the Brioni Agreement, Croatia and Slovenia sever all official relations with Yugoslavia.

• 2001 – A twin engine Cessna and a Scandinavian Airlines System jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy, killing 118 people.

• 2001 – U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.

• 2005 – The 7.6 Mw? Kashmir earthquake leaves 86,000–87,351 people dead, 69,000–75,266 injured, and 2.8 million homeless.

• 2014 – Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the United States to be diagnosed with Ebola, dies.

• 2019 – About 200 Extinction Rebellion activists block the gates of Leinster House (parliament) in the Republic of Ireland

National Events- 

•  Criticising the proposed changes to the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980, CPI(M) leader Brinda Karat on Thursday said it will end up privatizing forests and forest resources.

•  The Congress-led UDF opposition on Thursday demanded a comprehensive programme, involving international experts, to end the increasing incidents of man-animal conflict in forest fringe areas of Kerala and protect the lives and livelihood of people.

• Bengal BJP continued to suffer organizationally with more leaders continuing to quit the party --- senior saffron leader and former MLA Sabyasachi Dutta being the latest of the lot. Dutta, a former Mayor of Rajarhat-Bidhannagar Corporation on Thursday returned to the Trinamool Congress. 

•  Four days after winning the by-elections by a record margin of 58,832 votes Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday was sworn in as a regular Member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly by Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar.

• Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday demanded a probe by a sitting judge of the Supreme Court or a High Court into the Lakhimpur Kheri violence and said Union Minister Ajay Kumar Mishra, whose son is among those booked, should resign to ensure an impartial probe.

International Events- 

•  The shift of Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence chief Lt Gen Faiz Hameed to Peshawar Corps in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa could be aimed at posting a trusted Taliban official in the region which hosts Pashtuns in significant numbers and effectively manage the evolving Afghan situation as also control the Government in Kabul.

•  Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Thursday an agreement has been reached with Republicans to extend the Government’s borrowing authority into December, temporarily averting a debt crisis.

•  A powerful 5.9-magnitude earthquake jolted a mountainous part of Pakistan’s Balochistan province early on Thursday, resulting in the collapse of a coal mine and several mud houses that left at least 22 people dead and over 300 others injured, officials said.

•  America’s “humiliating” troop withdrawal from Afghanistan resulting in the Pakistan-backed Taliban capturing power in Kabul has created an “extremely dangerous” situation in South Asia where India could suffer a cycle of sectarian violence similar to the one seen in the Middle East, a former US NSA has said during a key Congressional hearing.

• UK-based Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, whose experience of crossing continents and cultures has fed his novels about the impact of migration on individuals and societies, won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday.

Job alerts-

• VSSC Jobs for apprentice and other posts. Last date 8th October 2021

• APPSC Jobs for assistant engineer and other posts. Last date 11th November 2021

• APSC Jobs for research assistant and other posts. Last date 3rd November 2021

• JK Bank Jobs for recovery agent and other posts. Last date 25th October 2021

• Delhi University Jobs for professor and other posts. Last date 20th October 2021

Sports-

•  Kolkata Knight Riders' swashbuckling injured all-rounder Andre Russell is likely to be available for the play-offs stage of the Indian Premier League (IPL) beginning on Sunday, the team's chief mentor David Hussey said.

•  Kolkata Knight Riders produced a clinical performance to beat Rajasthan Royals by a massive 86-run margin and take a huge step towards securing their play-off berth in the Indian Premier League here on Thursday.

•  India will have to wait for its first woman world champion in wrestling as teenager Anshu Malik settled for a silver medal after losing her 57kg final to 2016 Olympic champion Helen Lousie Marouli here on Thursday. Coming into the match after becoming India's first-ever woman finalist at the World Championship, the 19-year old began in an aggressive fashion with positive intent. She led 1-0 at the breather but the bout changed in dramatic fashion in the second.

•  KL Rahul saved his best for the last as his unbeaten 98 off 42 balls, which for a change was full-on intent quotient, helped Punjab Kings crush Chennai Super Kings by six wickets in an inconsequential IPL encounter on Thursday. Chasing 135 for victory, the Punjab team stormed to victory in 13 overs as the CSK skipper MS Dhoni could not find answers to stop Rahul's onslaught.

• Punjab Kings beat Chennai Super Kings by six wickets in the Indian Premier League here on Thursday.

Awards and honours-

•  Chief of Air Staff citation to be given to 3 air force units

Technology-

•  With festive sales set to bring record revenues for the commerce platforms, smartphones worth $16.9 billion are expected to be sold during the October-December festive quarter, new data showed on Friday.

•  Google has made Android 12 open-source earlier this week and now, the company has said it is focused on helping organisations achieve the right balance between protecting employee privacy and equipping IT with necessary security and controls.

•  Microsoft has acquired productivity platform Ally.io to help improve employe experience by aligning their work to the companys strategic mission and core priorities.

•  Social networking giant Facebook has announced new mental health resources, tools and programming across its apps, ahead of the World Mental Health Day 

• Through the IPO, the company plans to offer shares aggregating to Rs 1,900 crore. Out of the total, Rs 1,500 crore will be mopped up through fresh issue of shares.

Economy – 

•  The Centre on Thursday released Rs 40,000 crore to States and UTs to compensate for the shortfall in GST revenues, taking the total amount released as loan so far this fiscal year to Rs 1.15 lakh crore.

•  Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday said he has asked US-based Tesla several times to manufacture its iconic electric vehicles in India, while assuring that all support will be provided by the government to the company. 

•  The 30-share Sensex was trading 223.79 points or 0.37 per cent higher at 59,901.62. Similarly, the Nifty rose 77.75 points or 0.44 per cent to 17,868.10.

•  The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday retained the FY22 projection for real GDP growth at 9.5 per cent.

• India's GDP is expected to grow at 9.1 per cent in 2021-22 as economic recovery, post the second wave of the pandemic, seems to be holding ground, Ficci said on Thursday.

Environment –

•  Monsoons starting to withdraw from western Rajasthan

Local –

•  Only vaccinated employees allowed in government offices in Delhi

•  KSRTC to operate from 13th October 2021 with 1k buses in Karnataka

•  4k cops to be on the streets of Kolkata from Tritya

•  IIT Madras study finds heavy metals and drugs in Kaveri River 

• Puja organisers in Orissa planning to live puja activities

GK – 

“SVAMITVA” scheme is implemented by which Union Ministry?

[A] Ministry of Agriculture
[B] Ministry of Rural Development
[C] Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
[D] Ministry of Panchayat Raj

“MITRA” scheme announced in Budget 2021-22 is associated with which sector?

[A] Defence
[B] Textile
[C] Automobile
[D] Medicine

The Indian dish “Mihidana” which is a GI tagged product, belongs to which state?

[A] West Bengal
[B] Rajasthan
[C] Haryana
[D] Punjab

Where was the Business Summit on the National Mission on Edible Oil – Oil Palm for North East held recently?

[A] Guwahati
[B] Agartala
[C] Itanagar
[D] Gangtok

Which state / UT has approved to issue a unique health card to “each and every citizen” under its Health Information Management System (HIMS) project?

[A] Tamil Nadu
[B] Telangana
[C] Delhi
[D] Puducherry

Today's Event – 7th October 2021

• 3761 BC – The epoch reference date epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar

• 1477 – Uppsala University is inaugurated after receiving its corporate rights from Pope Sixtus IV in February the same year.

• 1571 – The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Ottoman Navy suffers its first defeat.

• 1691 – The charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued

• 1763 – King George III issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing Indigenous lands in North America north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlements.

• 1800 – French corsair Robert Surcouf, commander of the 18-gun ship La Confiance, captures the British 38-gun Kent.

• 1826 – The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.

• 1868 – Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.

• 1912 – The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.

• 1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.

• 1919 – KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.

• 1924 – Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes prime minister of Greece for a short period of time.

• 1933 – Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of five French airlines.

• 1949 – The communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.

• 1950 – Mother Teresa establishes the Missionaries of Charity.

• 1958 – The 1958 Pakistani coup d'état inaugurates a prolonged period of military rule.

• 1958 – The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.

• 1959 – The Soviet probe Luna 3 transmits the first-ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.

• 1963 – President Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

• 1977 – The Fourth Soviet Constitution is adopted.

• 1985 – Four men from the Palestine Liberation Front hijack the MS Achille Lauro off the coast of Egypt.

• 1987 – Sikh nationalists declare the independence of Khalistan from India; it is not internationally recognized.

• 1988 – A hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice near Alaska; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales.

• 1996 – Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.

• 1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming. He died five days later.

• 2001 – The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.

• 2002 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-112 to continue assembly of the International Space Station.

• 2008 – Asteroid 2008 TC3 impacts the Earth over Sudan, the first time an asteroid impact is detected prior to its entry into earth's atmosphere.

• 2016 – In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, the death toll rises to over 800

National Events- 

•  Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) chief Shivpal Singh Yadav has said that his party is not willing to wait indefinitely for an alliance with the Samajwadi Party led by his nephew Akhilesh Yadav.

•  With the Lakhimpur police yet to initiate any action against prime accused Ashish Mishra, son of Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra Rs Teni’, Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait on Wednesday threatened to launch a big agitation in the country if the people guilty in the October 3 violence were not arrested in next six days.

•  In a sharp attack on Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati, Rajya Sabha member Brij Lal questioned her silence on the Lakhimpur incident where a Dalit man lost his life.

•  In an interesting development, BJP MLA from Tripura Ashis Das after offering puja at Kalighat temple and shaving head as an "act of atonement" for being associated with "a communal party", announced that he is leaving the party. 

• A private hospital in Uttar Pradesh’s Firozabad has been sealed after visuals of over 30 fever patients, lying on pavement with intravenous drip bottles tacked to the sidewall of a flyover of a busy national highway, went viral on social media.

International Events- 

•  French lawmakers have unanimously backed proposed legislation that would ban so-called conversion therapy and authorize jail time and fines for practitioners who use the scientifically discredited practice to attempt to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of LGBTQ people.

•  With record numbers of military flights near Taiwan over the last week, China has been showing a new intensity and military sophistication as it steps up its harassment of the island it claims as its own and asserts its territorial ambitions in the region.

•  In a surprise military shake-up, the Pakistan Army on Wednesday announced that the powerful spy agency ISI chief Lt Gen Faiz Hameed has been appointed as Peshawar Corps Commander - a crucial position in view of the Taliban’s takeover of neighbouring Afghanistan.

•  The Taliban leadership has launched a major operation to search and eliminate the presence of ISIS- Khorasan, after a bomb attack near a mosque in Kabul last week claiming lives.

• In a recent interview, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan revealed that his leadership is in contact with the Pakistani Taliban and is working towards persuading them to lay down arms.

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Sports-

•  India is a pacer short heading into the T20 World Cup this month, feels former chairman of selectors MSK Prasad, who is also a bit concerned about all-rounder Hardik Pandya not bowling in the ongoing IPL.

•  The Joe Root-led England team has agreed to tour Australia for the Ashes, a leading daily has reported, ending weeks of speculation on their participation in the AUD 200 million series owing to a slew of COVID-19 restrictions in Australia.

•  Back into the side after missing the ODIs and one-off Test match Down Under, India's T20I captain Harmanpreet Kaur on Wednesday vowed to go all out against Australia in the three-match series, saying they need to win it at all cost. 

•  Australia captain Meg Lanning won the toss and opted to bowl in the first women's T20 International match against India here on Thursday. Tahlia McGrath and Hannah Darlington were handed T20I debuts for Australia.

• Star Australia batsman David Warner may be woefully out of form and hasn't played any international match in the shortest format for over a year but his opener's slot in the upcoming T20 World Cup is not under any doubt, limited-over captain Aaron Finch said on Wednesday.

Awards and honours-

•  Chhattisgarh High Court awarded Silver Award for better dissemination and implementation of e-courts project by NIC

Technology-

•  Samsung Electronics on Thursday unveiled programmes of its technology conference later this month as the South Korean tech giant prepares to introduce its latest solutions to boost consumer experience. Samsung Developer Conference (SDC) will take place online on October 26. 

•  Apple has rolled out the third beta of iOS 15.1 for the developers and the update has added new camera features that the company promised.

•  Twitter Inc said on Wednesday it has agreed to sell mobile ad company MoPub to AppLovin Corp for $1.05 billion in cash

•  Amazon.com Inc's live streaming e-sports platform Twitch said on Wednesday it was hit by a data breach, without providing further details.

• Amazon.com Inc has been accused of violating Colorado state law by failing to pay warehouse workers for time spent undergoing COVID-19 screenings

Economy – 

•  Indian markets were caught in a global selloff on Wednesday as hardening crude oil prices and supply chain bottlenecks stoked fears of rising inflation crimping economic recovery around the world.  A depreciating rupee, which plunged 54 paise against the US dollar, added to the woes.

•  Saudi Arabia’s oil company Aramco reached a $2 trillion valuation as it hit near record levels Wednesday during trading hours. Its market cap value puts Aramco just behind Microsoft and Apple as the world’s most valuable company.

•  Cooking gas LPG price on Wednesday was hiked by Rs 15 per cylinder while petrol and diesel rates saw their steepest increase in recent weeks, pushing prices to all-time high levels across the country.

• The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a productivity-linked bonus equivalent to 78 days’ wage to eligible non-gazetted Railway employees, Union Minister Anurag Thakur said. The bonus for the financial year 2020-21 will benefit about 11.56 lakh non-gazetted Railway employees, he said. 

• The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the setting up of 7 Mega Integrated Textile Region and Apparel parks with a total outlay of ru`4,445 crore for five years to position India strongly on the global textiles map. 

Environment –

•  Rainfall to occur on the day of Ashtami in Kollata

•  Lack of rainfall raises humidity in Madhya Pradesh

Local –

•  2 people held in Delhi court shootout

•  13 districts in Karnataka recorded zero deaths

•  Vaccination to continue in Durga Puja in West Bengal except for Ashtami

•  13 more dengue cases reported in Gujarat

• 41 Covid cases and 2 deaths recorded in Andhra Pradesh

GK – 

When is the Mental Health Awareness Campaign Week observed by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare? 

[October 5 to October 10, 2021]

“Ponte di Ferro”, which has collapsed recently, is situated in which country?

[Italy]

What are ‘Pandora Papers’ which is seen in the news recently?

[Documents revealing undisclosed wealth and tax avoidance]

Who is the MD of National Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd. (NARCL)?

[PM Nair]

“Azadi@75 – New Urban India” – the Urban conclave was inaugurated in which city?

[Lucknow]

Today's Event – 6th October 2021

• 404 – Byzantine Empress Eudoxia dies from the miscarriage of her seventh pregnancy.

• 1539 – Spain's DeSoto expedition takes over the Apalachee capital of Anhaica for their winter quarters.

• 1600 – Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance, beginning the Baroque period.

• 1683 – Immigrant families found Germantown, Pennsylvania in the first major immigration of German people to America.

• 1789 – French Revolution: King Louis XVI is forced to change his residence from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace.

• 1849 – The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.

• 1854 – In England, the Great Fire of Newcastle and Gateshead leads to 53 deaths and hundreds injured.

• 1884 – The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.

• 1898 – Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music.

• 1903 – The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.

• 1908 – The Bosnian crisis erupts when Austria-Hungary formally annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.

• 1910 – Eleftherios Venizelos is elected prime minister of Greece the first of seven times.

• 1923 – The Turkish National Movement enters Constantinople.

• 1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.

• 1973 – Egypt and Syria launch coordinated attacks against Israel, beginning the Yom Kippur War.

• 1976 – Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 is destroyed by two bombs, placed onboard by an anti-Castro militant group.

• 1976 – Premier Hua Guofeng arrests the Gang of Four, ending the Cultural Revolution in China.

• 1976 – Dozens are killed by the Thai army in the Thammasat University massacre.

• 1977 – The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.

• 1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.

• 1981 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is murdered by Islamic extremists.

• 1985 – Police constable Keith Blakelock is murdered as riots erupt in the Broadwater Farm suburb of London.

• 1987 – Fiji becomes a republic.

• 1995 – The first planet orbiting another sun, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered.

• 2007 – Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth.

• 2010 – Instagram, a mainstream photo-sharing application, is founded.

National Events- 

• Assuring necessary disciplinary action against the guilty in the alleged rape case of an IAF officer in Coimbatore recently, IAF Chief V R Chaudhari on Tuesday said no ‘two-finger test’ was conducted on the woman. She had alleged a fellow IAF officer had molested her. 

•  In a bid to ensure access to menstrual hygiene for adolescent girls and young women, the Andhra Pradesh Government has launched a program under which branded sanitary napkins will be provided free of cost to girl students of Government educational institutions.

•  Ahead of the by-election, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday sharply attacked RJD chief Lalu Prasad. He said that Lalu Prasad used to do election campaigns from jail in the past.

•  Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Tuesday urged the Centre to enhance the reservation quota of Scheduled Castes and also undertake a caste census. Speaking in the Assembly, he demanded that the Centre should increase the SC quota beyond the existing 15 percent in view of changing dynamics.

• The covid-19 standing committee of the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI) will submit its scientific recommendations on the vaccine rollout for children to the National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for Covid-19 (NEGVEC) in the next few days.

International Events- 

•  Israeli archaeologists have found a rare ancient toilet in Jerusalem dating back more than 2,700 years when private bathrooms were a luxury in the holy city, authorities said Tuesday.

•  French President Emmanuel Macron and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Tuesday to explore potential cooperation in the Indo-Pacific and other areas as the Biden administration moved to repair damage caused to relations by excluding France from a new security initiative.

•  The Biden administration on Monday reversed a ban on abortion referrals by family planning clinics, lifting a Trump-era restriction as political and legal battles over abortion grow sharper from Texas to the US Supreme Court.

• A major French report released Tuesday found that an estimated 330,000 children were victims of sex abuse within France's Catholic Church over the past 70 years, in France's first major reckoning with the devastating phenomenon. 

• Declaring that America’s commitment to Taiwan was "rock-solid", the US has told China that it will continue to watch very closely the "provocative" and "destabilizing" Chinese military activities near the self-ruled island.

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Sports-

•  Rajasthan Royals' director of cricket Kumar Sangakkara blamed his team for the heavy defeat at the hands of Mumbai Indians in the IPL here, saying the fault did not lie with toss or pitch. 

•  Jimmy Neesham and Nathan Coulter-Nile bowled exceptionally well to keep Mumbai Indians alive and kicking as they outclassed Rajasthan Royals by eight wickets in a low-scoring Indian Premier League match, here on Tuesday.

•  World Chess Champion and World No 1 Magnus Carsen added one more feather to his cap when he won the two-week Meltwater Champions Chess Tour that ended on October 4.

•  India on Tuesday pulled out of next year’s Birmingham Commonwealth Games’ hockey competition, citing COVID-19 concerns and UK’s discriminatory quarantine rules for travelers from the country, a day after England’s withdrawal from the junior men’s World Cup in Bhubaneswar over similar reasons.

• Pacers Nathan Coulter-Nile and James Neesham shared seven wickets between them to help Mumbai Indians restrict Rajasthan Royals to a below-par 90 for nine in their crucial Indian Premier League match here on Tuesday.

Technology-

•  The US-based search engine giant Google has announced that it will be holding a Pixel Fall event on October 19 to unveil new Pixel 6 and Pro smartphones.

•  Google Photos is getting one of the most awaited features. The photo and video gallery app is finally getting the ability to edit the time and date of media saved in it.

•  Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is likely to turn in its best quarterly profit in three years and record revenue, on rising memory chip prices and brisk sales

•  Messaging app Telegram gained over 70 million new users during Monday's Facebook outage, its founder Pavel Durov said on Tuesday

• Google has announced that it will auto-enable 2-step verification (2SV) for an additional 150 million accounts by the end of this year.

Economy – 

•  The 30-share Sensex was trading 131.76 points or 0.22 percent higher at 59,876.64. Similarly, the Nifty rose 46.75 points or 0.26 percent to 17,869.05.

•  International rating agency Moody's on Tuesday upgraded India's rating outlook to 'stable' from 'negative', saying a recovery is underway in Asia's third-largest economy and growth this fiscal will surpass the pre-pandemic rate.

•  GST systems will periodically check the status of monthly returns filed and taxes paid by businesses since August and block generation of e-way bills in case of non-compliance, GSTN has said. GST Network, the company that handles the technology backbone for goods and services tax, said the blocking of the electronic waybill generation facility has now resumed on the e-way bill portal for all the taxpayers.

•  Investors have gained over Rs5.17 lakh crore in two days of equity rally, with the market capitalisation of BSE-listed companies surging to an all-time high on Tuesday.

• ICRA Ratings on Tuesday said the outlook for the Indian road logistics sector continues to remain stable, supported by improved economic recovery in September quarter, increased pace of vaccination and decline in fresh Covid-19 cases from June onwards.

Local –

•  Dargas and mosques reopened in Mumbai on Tuesday

•  Only 500 people were allowed to attend the Mysuru Dasara finale in Karnataka

•  Kolkata Metro planning to change the timings of train arrival and departures

•  Tamil Nadu registered 1449 covid cases and 16 deaths

• A 62-year-old man killed his estranged wife in a suicide bomb attack in Mizoram 

Person in News – 

• Veteran actor Arvind Trivedi passed away 

GK – 

“Lokapriya Gopinath Bordoloi Award for National Integration and National Contribution” is awarded by which state?

[A] Maharashtra
[B] Odisha
[C] Assam
[D] Tamil Nadu

Piramal Capital & Housing Finance Limited has recently reverse merged with which debt-ridden company?

[A] Lakshmi Vilas Bank Ltd
[B] DHL
[C] Kingfisher Airlines
[D] Yes Bank

What is the name of the cyclone that hit Oman and is the offspring of the cyclone Gulab?

[A] Shaheen
[B] Fakit
[C] Gulmuhar
[D] Tez

Which organization publishes the “Model Lists of Essential Medicines”?

[A] AIIMS
[B] IMA
[C] WHO
[D] FAO

‘DAY NRLM’ scheme is implemented by which ministry?

[A] Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs
[B] Ministry of Agriculture
[C] Ministry of Women and Child Development
[D] Ministry of Rural Development

Today's Event – 5th October 2021

• 1607 – Assassins sent by the Pope attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist Paolo Sarpi.

• 1789 – French Revolution: The Women's March on Versailles effectively terminates royal authority.

• 1838 – The Killough massacre in east Texas sees eighteen Texian settlers either killed or kidnapped.

• 1869 – The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region in Canada.

• 1869 – The Eastman tunnel, in Minnesota, United States, collapses during construction, causing a landslide that nearly destroys St. Anthony Falls.

• 1877 – The Nez Perce War in the northwestern United States comes to an end.

• 1905 – The Wright brothers pilot the Wright Flyer III in a new world record flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes.

• 1910 – In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.

• 1911 – The Kowloon–Canton Railway commences service.

• 1921 – The World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio.

• 1930 – British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage killing 48 people.

• 1936 – The Jarrow March sets off for London.

• 1938 – In Nazi Germany, Jews' passports are invalidated.

• 1943 – Ninety-eight American POWs are executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.

• 1944 – The Provisional Government of the French Republic enfranchises women.

• 1945 – A six-month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of the Warner Brothers studio.

• 1947 – President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address 

• 1962 – The first of the James Bond film series, based on the novels by Ian Fleming, Dr. No, is released in Britain 

• 1963 – The United States suspends the Commercial Import Program in response to repression of the Buddhist majority by the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem. 

• 1966 – A reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station near Detroit suffers a partial meltdown.

• 1968 – A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry is violently suppressed by police.

• 1970 – The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.

• 1970 – The British Trade Commissioner is kidnapped by members of the FLQ, triggering the October Crisis in Canada.

• 1974 – Bombs planted by the PIRA in pubs in Guildford kill four British soldiers and one civilian.

• 1982 – Tylenol products are recalled after bottles in Chicago laced with cyanide cause seven deaths.

• 1984 – Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space.

• 1986 – Mordechai Vanunu's story in The Sunday Times reveals Israel's secret nuclear weapons.

• 1990 – After 150 years The Herald newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.

• 1991 – An Indonesian Air Force C-130 crash kills 135 people.

• 1999 – The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people

• 2011 – In the Mekong River massacre, two Chinese cargo boats are hijacked and 13 crew members murdered.

National Events- 

•  18k covid cases and 263 deaths recorded in India in the last 24 hours

•  The National Investigation Agency filed a supplementary chargesheet against two terrorists of the Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen (TuM),including a Pakistan-based handler, in a special court here on Monday in a case related to smuggling of arms, ammunition and narcotics into Jammu and Kashmir, an agency spokesperson said.

•  The Centre on Monday said that 70 per cent of India’s adult population has been administered the first dose of Covid-19 vaccine. “Strong Nation, Rapid Vaccination: India has administered the first dose of #COVID19 vaccine on 70% of the population.

•  Unitech Group’s former promoter Sanjay Chandra’s wife Preeti Chandra and his father Ramesh Chandra were arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on Monday in connection with a money laundering case, officials told India Today.

• The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) headquarters here has directed all its formations across the country to ensure that all the personnel wear the CRPF disruptive pattern uniform on every Friday.

International Events- 

•  South and North Korea restored their direct communication lines on Monday, raising hopes for the resumption of stalled dialogue amid a deadlock in denuclearization talks.

•  Taliban forces raided an Islamic State affiliate’s hideout in the Afghan capital and killed several insurgents, hours after a deadly bombing outside a mosque in Kabul, the Taliban said Monday.

•  A small private plane carrying six passengers and a crew of two crashed Sunday into a vacant, two-story office building in a Milan suburb, and Italian news reports said all aboard perished. 

•  Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been sworn in for a second five-year term running a country in the grip of a nearly year-long war.

• Japan’s parliament on Monday elected Fumio Kishida, a former moderate turned hawk, as prime minister. He’ll face an economy battered by the pandemic, security threats from China and North Korea and leadership of a political party whose popularity is sagging ahead of a fast-approaching crucial national election.

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Sports-

•  Delhi Capitals senior off spinner Ravichandran Ashwin lavished praise on Shimron Hetmyer, saying that the swash-buckling West Indian has done well for the team this year and his efforts are recognised in the dressing room. 

•  India's white-ball vice-captain and batting mainstay Rohit Sharma has no idea about the status of last month's abandoned fifth Test against England in Manchester but he is quite clear in his mind that his team "won" the hard-fought series 2-1.

•  FIFA has offered direct encouragement for footballers to get vaccinated. The first clear statement of its kind from world football's governing body came as players were flying to countries for men's World Cup qualifiers.

•  Rennes scored just before and after the break to beat Paris Saint-Germain 2-0 and hand the runaway league leader its first defeat of the season.

• Shimron Hetmyer kept his nerves and played some fine shots under pressure to guide Delhi Capitals to a three-wicket win over Chennai Super Kings in a battle for top-two finish in the Indian Premier League here on Monday.

Awards and honours-

• Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries into how the human body perceives temperature and touch, revelations that could lead to new ways of treating pain or even heart disease. Americans David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian separately identified receptors in the skin as part of their work in the field of somatosensation, which explores the ability of specialized organs such as eyes, ears and skin to see, hear and feel. Julius used capsaicin, the active component in chili peppers, to help pinpoint the nerve sensors that respond to heat, while Patapoutian found pressure-sensitive sensors in cells that respond to mechanical stimulation, the committee said.

Technology-

• Microsoft on Tuesday announced that Windows 11 is now available through a free upgrade on eligible Windows 10 PCs and on new PCs pre-installed with Windows 11 worldwide. 

• Tesla ordered to pay 130 million dollars to former black employee over racism

•  NFT sales surge to 10.7 billion dollars in Q3

•  Mark Zuckerberg faces loss of 6 billion dollars due to Facebook and other company apps server crash

• Blue Origin is girding up for another space flight. And this time, it would be carrying Star Trek’s Captain Kirk William Shatner into space

Economy – 

•  India's services sector activity continued to expand in September, supported by favourable underlying demand amid the easing of COVID-19 restrictions, but lost some momentum from August's 18-month high level, a monthly survey said on Tuesday.

•  The Indian rupee tumbled 19 paise to end at its weakest level in over six weeks of 74.31 against the US dollar on Monday as a stronger greenback against key rivals and rising crude oil prices weighed on investor sentiment.

•  Markets regulator Sebi on Monday proposed a minimum price band of 5 per cent for public issues through book built process and sub-categorisation of non-institutional investors.  Sebi has invited comments on its proposals in a consultation paper for review of price band and book building framework for public issues. 

•  Investors’ wealth grew by Rs  3,10,851.75 crore on Monday as markets made a comeback after falling for four days. The 30-share BSE benchmark jumped 533.74 points or 0.91 per cent to 59,299.32.

• After slumping to 59,127.04 in the opening session, the 30-share Sensex was trading 102.49 points or 0.17 per cent lower at 59,196.83. Similarly, the Nifty fell 28.60 points or 0.16 per cent to 17,662.65.

Environment –

• Rainfall to withdraw from Madhya Pradesh 

•  Rainfall in Bangalore causes flooding of roads

Local –

•  Delhi government again sends the proposal of doorstep delivery scheme for ration to lieutenant governor Anil Baijal. (ANI)

•  After making traditional dress compulsory at Kateel Durgaparameshwari Temple and Polali Rajarajeshwari Temple in Dakshina Kannada district, the Karnataka State Dharmik Parishat has plans to implement similar code in all 216 ‘A’ grade temples under the Hindu religious institutions and charitable endowment department in the state.

•  Giant screens to be required in Kolkata during Durga Puja 

•  Bombay Municipal Corporation informs High Court they are not expecting any third wave of covid-19

• 3 children dead and 4k bed ridden in Agra (Uttar Pradesh) due to dengue

GK –

Which institution publishes the Global Financial Stability Report semi-annually?

[A] World Bank
[B] IMF
[C] ADB
[D] New Development Bank

Who has become the first Indian Woman cricketer to score a century in Australia?

[A] Smriti Mandhana
[B] Mithali Raj
[C] Shafali Verma
[D] Punam Raut

Manu Bhaker, who was seen in the news recently, is associated with which sports?

[A] Running
[B] Swimming
[C] Wrestling
[D] Shooting

Edayur and Kuttiattoor, which were in news recently, belongs to which state?

[A] Andhra Pradesh
[B] Tamil Nadu
[C] Kerala
[D] Karnataka

In which year UPI was launched by the NPCI in India?

[A] 2010
[B] 2013
[C] 2016
[D] 2018

Today's Event – 4th October 2021

• 1302 – The Byzantine–Venetian War comes to an end.

• 1511 – Formation of the Holy League of Aragon, the Papal States and Venice against France.

• 1535 – The Coverdale Bible is printed, with translations into English by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.

• 1582 – The Gregorian Calendar is introduced by Pope Gregory XIII.

• 1597 – Governor Gonzalo Méndez de Canço begins to suppress a native uprising against his rule in what is now the state of Georgia.

• 1795 – Napoleon first rises to prominence by suppressing counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention.

• 1824 – Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.

• 1830 – The Belgian Revolution takes legal form when the provisional government secedes from the Netherlands.

• 1853 – The Crimean War begins when the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.

• 1876 – The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas opens as the first public college in Texas.

• 1883 – First run of the Orient Express.

• 1883 – First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.

• 1895 – Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.

• 1920 – The Mannerheim League for Child Welfare, a Finnish non-governmental organization, was founded on the initiative of Sophie Mannerheim. 

• 1925 – S2, a Finnish Sokol class torpedo boat, was sank during a fierce storm near the coast of Pori in the Gulf of Bothnia, taking with the whole crew of 53. 

• 1927 – Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.

• 1936 – The British Union of Fascists and various anti-fascist organizations violently clash in the Battle of Cable Street.

• 1941 – Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.

• 1957 – Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.

• 1958 – The current constitution of France is adopted.

• 1965 – Pope Paul VI begins the first papal visit to the Americas.

• 1966 – Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.

• 1983 – Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468 km/h) at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.

• 1985 – The Free Software Foundation is founded.

• 1991 – The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.

• 1997 – The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs in North Carolina

• 2003 – The Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Israel kills twenty-one Israelis, both Jews and Arabs.

• 2004 – SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.

• 2006 – WikiLeaks is launched.

• 2010 – The Ajka plant accident in Hungary releases a million cubic metres of liquid alumina sludge, killing nine, injuring 122, and severely contaminating two major rivers.

• 2017 – Joint Nigerian-American Special Forces are ambushed by Islamic State militants outside the village of Tongo Tongo.

National Events- 

•  Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday hit out at the Government over alleged Chinese incursions in Ladakh and Uttarakhand.  He also took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi using his 56-inch chest  remark that he made at rallies in the run up to the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

•  Vice President of India M. Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday called upon the private sector to come forward and partner with the State Governments to provide modern cancer treatment facilities in the rural areas. 

•  PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday welcomed the Centre's decision to start the Beat the Retreat ceremony at Suchetgarh on the Indo-Pak border, saying it will give a fillip to tourism and also improve cross-border ties.

•  Narcotics with Pakistani markings worth Rs 20-25 crore have been recovered by the alert troops of the Indian Army in the Uri sector of North Kashmir's Baramulla district.

• A sum of Rs 15.30 crore has been deposited in the bank accounts of 306 children orphaned by Covid-19 in 24 districts of Maharashtra, State Women and Child Development Minister Yashomati Thakur said on Sunday. 

International Events- 

•  North Korea has warned the UN Security Council against criticizing the isolated country’s missile program, in a statement Sunday that included unspecified threats against the international body

•  Despite having the highest vaccination rates in the country, there are constant reminders for most New England states of just how vicious the delta variant of Covid-19 is. Hospitals across the region are seeing full intensive care units and staff shortages are starting to affect care. Public officials are pleading with the unvaccinated to get the shots. Health care workers are coping with pent-up demand for other kinds of care that had been delayed by the pandemic.

• Algeria has refused permission for France to fly military planes in its airspace and announced the recall of its ambassador from Paris in the wake of what it said were “inadmissible” comments attributed to French President Emmanuel Macron. 

•  With Brazil’s presidential election one year away, tens of thousands of demonstrators marched on Saturday in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and dozens of other cities around the country to protest President Jair Bolsonaro and call for his impeachment over his Government’s handling of the pandemic.

•  A Chinese think-tank has said that the Taliban face a series of severe challenges, including those relating to unity and ability to establish an open and inclusive government, calling for a close cooperation between “all-weather” allies China and Pakistan to persuade the Afghan militant group to implement its commitments.

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Sports-

• Liverpool and Manchester City ended match in 2-2 draw in the Premier League 

•  Young Shubman Gill hit a fine half century after an impressive display by the bowlers to guide Kolkata Knight Riders to a six-wicket win over Sunrisres Hyderabad and keep their IPL play-offs hopes alive here on Sunday.

•  New Zealand batsman Devon Conway feels defeating India in their home conditions will be would be a bigger challenge than beating them in the World Test Championship final.

•  Seven-time National Drag Champion Hemanth Mudappa of Mantra Racing stormed to a National record, improving his own mark with a triumphant double gold in the ribbon events in the second round of the Indian National Drag Racing Championship here on Sunday.

• Glenn Maxwell smashed 57 and then Yuzvendra Chahal spun a web around Punjab Kings as they once again bungled a chase allowing Royal Challengers Bangalore book a play-off berth with a six-run victory in an IPL game on Sunday.

Technology-

•  A Facebook Inc whistleblower on Sunday accused the social media giant of repeatedly prioritizing profit over clamping down on hate speech and misinformation

•  Festive sales are now live for everyone on Amazon and Flipkart. In the sale, buyers can get deals on a range of products including clothing, smartphones, laptops

• Xiaomi Diwali with Mi sale is now live. The sale offers up to Rs 19,000 off on Xiaomi branded smartphones, smart bands, laptops, smart TVs and other devices. 

•  Taiwanese tech giant ASUS has started recruiting testers for the Zenfone 8's Android 12 beta update, which will come with ASUS' ZenUI 8 custom Android skin.

• Samsung's flagship affordable smartphone Galaxy S20 FE 5G has emerged as the 'biggest deal of the year' during the Great Indian Festival 2021, e-commerce giant Amazon said on Monday.

Economy – 

•  After the crude oil surge, global gas prices are expected to soar this year, putting consumers in India at the risk of inflated CNG and PNG rates.

•  The next few meetings of the GST Council would take the country’s new indirect tax regime closer to the goal of providing a transparent tax system with minimal exemptions and fewer rates. Sources working on the GST rate rational said that a three-rate tax structure may become a reality early

•  Amid rising global commodity prices and the need to contain inflation at home, the Reserve Bank is likely to maintain status quo on interest rates for the eighth time in row in its upcoming bi-monthly monetary policy review later in the week, according to experts.

•  State-run power giant NTPC has drawna Rs 15,000 crore divestment plan which includes a listing of its arms NTPC Renewable Energy, North Eastern Electric Power Corporation and NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam, a source said.

• Adani Green Energy Ltd (AGEL) on Monday said it has completed the acquisition of SB Energy India for USD 3.5 billion (Rs 26,000 crore).

Environment –

• A cyclone approached the coast of Oman on Sunday, lashing the sultanate with high winds and rain as a child was killed in floodwaters. 

GK – 

What percent of India’s exports is contributed by MSMEs, approximately?

[A] 30
[B] 40
[C] 50
[D] 60

‘Clean India Programme’ has been inaugurated from which state?

[A] Bihar
[B] Uttar Pradesh
[C] Gujarat
[D] West Bengal

Hwasong-8, which was seen in the news recently, is a new hypersonic missile tested by which country?

[A] China
[B] Japan
[C] Israel
[D] North Korea

Who took charge as the Chief Hydrographer to the Government of India?

[A] Adhir Arora
[B] Vinay Badhwar
[C] Gaurav Arya
[D] R K Mathur

SAGE and SACRED, which were seen in the news, are new portals associated with which segment of the population?

[A] Old Age People
[B] Children
[C] Women
[D] Trans Gender People

Today's Event – 3rd October 2021

• 2457 BC – Gaecheonjeol, Hwanung (??) purportedly descended from heaven. South Korea's National Foundation Day.

• 52 BC – Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and battle of Alesia.

• 42 BC – Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight a decisive battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius.

• 1863 – The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.

• 1919 – Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin player to appear in a World Series.

• 1929 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed Yugoslavia by King Alexander I.

• 1930 – The German Socialist Labour Party in Poland – Left is founded.

• 1932 – Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.

• 1949 – WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.

• 1952 – The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.

• 1957 – The California State Superior Court rules that the book Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.

• 1962 – Project Mercury: Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight.

• 1963 – A violent coup in Honduras begins two decades of military rule.

• 1985 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight.

• 1986 – TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada, is officially opened.

• 1990 – The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany.

• 1991 – Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

• 2008 – The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.

• 2009 – Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join together in the Turkic Council.

• 2017 – King Felipe VI of Spain makes a special televised speech on the Catalan independence referendum crisis.

National Events- 

•  Three women were arrested for allegedly operating a sex racket and offering an 11-year-old girl to customers for a sum of Rs 40,000, police in Nagpur in Maharashtra said on Saturday.

•  An additional inspector posted in Kotwali Nagar here has been suspended from service after an investigation found he had allegedly tortured a businessman in custody over a check bounce case, officials said on Saturday.

•  Even as the State administration is going ahead with  series of measures to bring Kerala back to normal life by lifting the last vestiges of the lockdown slapped during the Covid-19 pandemic, the pandemic is not showing any signs of coming down while the death toll keeps on increasing 

•  To promote border tourism, Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha inaugurated the retreat ceremony at the Octroi post in the Suchetgarh area along the International border with Pakistan on Saturday.

• For the first time in many months, active Covid-19 cases in Andhra Pradesh came down to the 10,000 mark as the state reported 865 fresh positives and 1,424 recoveries in 24 hours ending 9 am on Saturday.

International Events- 

•  Almost 200 military tanker personnel will be deployed from Monday to provide temporary support to address the long queues at petrol stations across the UK due to supply shortages, the government announced on Saturday.

•  Dubai’s Expo 2020 on Saturday offered conflicting figures for how many workers had been killed on-site during construction of the massive world’s fair, first saying five and then later three.

•  Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said his government is in talks with some groups of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) for “reconciliation” with the help of the Taliban in Afghanistan. The TTP, commonly known as the Pakistani Taliban, is a banned militant group based along the Afghan-Pakistan border.

•  The United States reached its latest heart-breaking pandemic milestone on Friday, eclipsing 7,00,000 deaths from Covid-19 just as the surge from the delta variant is starting to slow down and give overwhelmed hospitals some relief.

• A major crackdown in western Libya resulted in the detention of 4,000 migrants, including hundreds of women and children, officials said Saturday. The UN said initial reports were that at least one person was killed and 15 others injured in the crackdown.

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Sports-

•  Defending champions China marched into the finals of the Sudirman Cup 2021 with a 3-0 clean sweep win over South Korea in Vantaa in Finland on Saturday.  The win also mark China's 14th consecutive final appearance in the badminton mixed team competition.

•  Indian shooters claimed the gold medal in the women's skeet team event and the bronze in the men's team finals of the ISSF Junior World Championship here.