ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

• 1964 Coup in Saudi Arabia
• 1938 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation established
• 1917 Balfour Declaration

NATIONAL

• Delhi Police and ITBP awarded Union Home Minister’s Special Operation Medal for 2019.
• Kanpur is the most polluted city in the world: Guinness World Records 2020
• Cyclone Maha batters Lakshadweep and Kerala coast
• Birth Anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel is celebrated as National Unity Day on October 31
• ISRO: Chandrayaan-2 orbiter detects Argon-40 on the lunar exosphere

ECONOMY

• BSE Sensex: 40,129.05 (+77),NSE Nifty: 11,877.45 (+33.35)
• India loses case filed by the US at the WTO against domestic export incentive schemes; WTO says these schemes are inconsistent with the international trade norms
• InterGlobe Aviation Ltd., which runs IndiGo, places an order for 300 A320neo family aircraft worth over $33 billion
• India among four nations with the most conducive environment for financial inclusion: The Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2019 Global Microscope on Financial Inclusion report
• MG Motor India opens its first digital studio — a showroom with no car on display — in Bengaluru

INTERNATIONAL

• World Cities Day celebrated on October 31 with its theme as ‘Changing the world: innovations and a better life for future generations’
• Twitter bans political advertisements to ‘curb misinformation’
• Pakistan violated its obligations under the Vienna Convention in Kulbhushan Jadhav case: ICJ President Judge Abduylqawi Yusuf
• Federal Reserve cuts US’ benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 1.50%-1.75%
• S. House of Representatives recognizes the killing of 1.5 mn Armenians by the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) in 1915-23 as ‘genocide’
• WhatsApp sues Israeli cyber-surveillance firm NSO Group for using its messaging service for spying

SPORTS

• Shiva Thapa (63kg) and Pooja Rani (75kg) clinch gold medals at Olympic Boxing Test event in Tokyo
• Switzerland’s Roger Federer wins men’s singles title at Swiss Indoor tennis at Basel
• Austria’s Dominic Thiem wins men’s singles title at Vienna ATP tennis
• Tiger Woods won Zozo Championship golf in Japan for his 82nd US PGA Tour victory, equalling the 54-year-old record held by Sam Snead