NATIONAL
UPDATES:
1. IPS Rakesh Asthana appointed CBI
Special Director: Senior IPS officer (1984-batch: Gujarat cadre) has
been appointed as the special director of the Central Bureau of Investigation
(CBI). Earlier, Asthana had been serving in the Central Bureau of Investigation
as Additional Director. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is the
domestic security agency of India, overseen by the Ministry of Personnel,
Public Grievances and Pensions of the Federal government headed by a Cabinet
Minister who reports directly to the Prime Minister.
2. Japan's ruling coalition
wins overwhelming victory in general election: Japan's ruling coalition has won an overwhelming
victory in yesterday's general election. The Liberal Democratic Party
(LDP) and Komeito party won more than
two-thirds of the Lower House seats. The LDP, led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe,
secured 283 seats, one less than before the election but far more than a simple
majority of 233. Komeito won 29, bringing the total of seats held by the ruling
camp to 312.
3. TRAI recommends 40% carbon
emission reduction in telecom network by 2022-23: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
(TRAI) has recommended 40% carbon emission reduction in telecom network by
2022-23. The target for reduction in carbon emission be set as 30% by year
2019-20 taking base year as 2011-12 and 40% by the year 2022-23. The report of
carbon footprint of telecom operators should be submitted annually within 45
days after March of every year. The targets should be reviewed in the year
2022-23.
INTERNATIONAL UPDATES:
1. United Nations Day
is observed on 24th October, 2017: The United Nations Day is being observed globally on
24th October to make people aware of the aims and achievements of the United
Nations Organization. In 1948, the United Nations General Assembly declared 24
October, the anniversary of the Charter of the United Nations. United Nations
Day is part of United Nations Week (runs from 20 to 26 October).In 1971, the
United Nations General Assembly had declared 24th October as the United Nations
Day by adopting Resolution 2782.
2. Bangladesh
- India deal
for Gas and Oil:
The Bangladesh Petroleum Corp. (BPC) and Numaligarh Refinery Ltd (NRL) has
signed long-term sales and purchase agreement to import gas oil to meet the
country’s energy demand. BPC will take up to 250,000 tonnes of gas oil each
year from NRL for the first three years of the deal to the BPC’s northern fuel
depot via a 131-km (79 mile) pipeline, which will be built by India.
OTHER UPDATES:
SPORTS:
1. Jitu Rai & Heena
Sidhu
strike gold in air pistol mixed team event: Commonwealth and Asian Games gold-medallist Jeetu
Rai and Heena Sidhu have won the gold medal of the ISSF World Cup Final in New
Delhi, in the 10m air pistol mixed team event. Rai and Sidhu picked up their
third gold together in the mixed team event. The mixed team competitions were
organised as test events in the World Cups this year and will be making their
Olympic debut in the Tokyo 2020 Games. France secured the silver medal and
China settled for the bronze medal.
2. Best
FIFA Men's Player- Cristiano Ronaldo: The four-time Ballon d'Or
winner Cristiano Ronaldo claimed the Best FIFA Men's Player award (second
straight year) at the 2017 award ceremony in London. Real Madrid's Portugal
striker helped Real to a Champions League-La Liga double in 2016-17. Lieke
Martens of Barcelona and the Netherlands won best
female player, Zinedine Zidane (Real Madrid) was named best
men's coach and Sarina Wiegman (Netherlands) the best female coach. Arsenal's Olivier Giroud received the Puskas award for
the best goal of 2017 for his 'scorpion kick' against Crystal Palace in
January. Celtic won the fan award after they honoured the club's 1967 'Lisbon
Lions' with a stunning 360-degree card display on the 50th anniversary of their
historic European Cup win.
3. Brazil
and Spain have joined England and Mali in the semi-finals of the Under-17 FIFA
World Cup Football being held in India: Brazil will face England in Guwahati, with Spain
taking on Mali in Mumbai on 25th of this month. The Final is slated to take
place on 29th Oct 2017 (Saturday) in Kolkata.
BANKING/
FINANCE:
1. India
Post Payments Bank (IPPB) appoints Suresh Sethi as its MD & CEO: Suresh Sethi was former MD of Vodafone
M-Pesa Ltd. IPPB has appointed him as its Managing Director (MD)and chief
executive officer (CEO). He takes over from AP Singh who had held the post in
the interim since January 2017. IPPB plans to leverage the unparalleled reach
of the India Post network to achieve a pan-India roll out of 650 branches by
early next year. The India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) has been incorporated as a
public-sector company under the Department of Posts with 100% GOI equity. India
Post has about 1,54,000 post offices, of them 90% are in rural areas. After
State Bank of India, India Post has the largest deposits valued at Rs. 6 lakh
crores.
