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Weekly factsheet for 8-14th October 2022

The following article is a compilation of all the news in short from  8th-14th October 2022. This article is for revision purpose. These news were discussed in detail in the General Awareness Quiz . Links are provided in the end. 

  • The Reserve Bank Of India(RBI) has released a concept note on the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). The CBDC is a digital form of currency notes issued by a central bank.
  • HDFC Life Insurance‘Insure India’ campaign
  • Aditya Birla Health Insurance Co. Limited (ABHICL), launched ‘Active Fit’
  • Ageas Federal Life Insurance (AFLI) announced that after Belgium-based Ageas Insurance International successfully acquired the 25% investment in the life insurance joint venture (JV) from IDBI Bank,
  • Jammu and Kashmir have inaugurated Bird Festival 2022 in Pahalgam in South Kashmir.
  • Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, or AFSPA, has been applied to 12 districts in Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh for an additional six months,
  • Ajay Mathur is the director general of ISA
  • Since its creation in 2006, World Migratory Bird Day has been commemorated twice a year. It is supposed to be celebrated on the second Saturday of May and the second Saturday of October.
  •  Dr. Amit Mallick, Inspector General of the NTCA in New Delhi,
  • NITI Aayog : Vice chairperson: Suman Berry
  • NITI Aayog CEO: Parameswaran Iyer
  • The Royal New Zealand navy and the Indian navy have signed a contract on the exchange of White Shipping Information Exchange.
  • About 56 million Indians may have plunged into extreme poverty in 2020 as a result of the pandemic, increasing the global tally by 71 million and making it the worst year for poverty reduction since World War II, according to fresh estimates by the World Bank.
  • The Union Government has appointed a three-member commissionheaded by former Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan, to consider the possibility of granting SC status to “new persons who have historically belonged to the Scheduled Castes’’
  • Novak Djokovic wins Astana Open: over Stefanos Tsitsipas | Novak Djokovic won his 90th career championship and fourth in 2022
  • US Trio of Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond, and Philip H. Dybvig received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences 2022 (Nobel Prize for Economics 2022) in Memory of Alfred Nobel  “for research on banking and financial crises.”
  • Mahendra Singh Dhoni has launched the made-in-India camera drone named ‘Droni’ with advanced features manufactured by Garuda Aerospace
  • Indian cricket star Smriti Mandhana:brand ambassador of lubricant manufacturer Gulf Oil India.
  • Education 4.0 Report” 2022, released by the World Economic Forum (WEF), the report explains how technology can address learning gaps and make education accessible to all.
  • Financing Platform Launched by  International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector investment arm of the World Bank, : to boost the private sector’s capacity to respond to the Global Food crisis and aid in food production in response to mounting food insecurity.
  • India men’s hockey team defender and vice-captain Harmanpreet Singh has been voted the FIH Player of the Year for the second year running.
  • Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter’s X-ray spectrometer ‘CLASS’ has mapped an abundance of sodium on the moon for the first time, as per the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
  • To create cybersecurity awareness among all employees, Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd. (IREDA) observed the “Cyber Jaagrukta Diwas”.
  • 4th Heli-India Summit 2022 with the theme ‘Helicopters for last Mile Connectivity’ at Sher-e-Kashmir International Conference Centre, Srinagar
  • Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) hosted Conference on B20 Indonesia Global Dialogue in partnership with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in New Delhi
  • Sustainable Mountain Development Summit-XI, (SMDS-XI) being held at Leh, Ladakh UT |theme for SMDS-XI is ‘Harnessing tourism for sustainable mountain development’.
  •  on the occasion of World Mental Health Day, Tele Mental Health Assistance and Networking Across States (Tele-MANAS) initiative of Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare was launched
  • Last rites of Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav  in Saifai, his native village in Etawah district, of Uttar Pradesh.
  • The Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD), in partnership with the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) and Ministry of Minority Affairs  organized “Betiyan Banein Kushal”
  • A Balasubramanian : chairman of the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI).
  • Prashant Kumar as the MD & CEO of Yes Bank for a period of 3 years
  • Shri Kishore Kumar Poludasu :MD and CEO of SBI General Insurance Company Limited
  • Sandeep Kumar Gupta :chairman and managing director of GAIL (India) Limited.
  • India’s ace cueist Pankaj Advani won his career’s 25th world title after clinching the World Billiards (150-Up) Championship
  • The National Security Guard (NSG) of India is hosting the Multinational Joint Anti-Terror Exercise (JATE) (SCO) Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) at NSG Manesar Garrison
  • India and Japan signed an MoU: Ayurveda
  • Smart Wire service: ICICI Bank has introduced Smart Wire service, a novel approach to make SWIFT-based inward remittances easier and faster for its customers.
  • World Arthritis day : 12 October
  • Cristiano Ronaldo reached another historic landmark in his extraordinary career by scoring his 700th club goal
  • 81st annual session of the Indian roads Congress in Lucknow
  • The International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 2022 is observed on the 13th of October.
  • Odisha  launched ‘Football for All’ in the state to take the culture of football to the grassroots.
  • Indore, Madhya Pradesh (MP) will become India’s first ‘Smart City’ with ‘Smart Addresses’ after implementing a fully digital addressing system.
  • Chhattisgarh Olympics at Balbir Singh Juneja Indoor Stadium in Raipur to promote sports in Chhattisgarh.
  • SBI Chairman inaugurated Next-Gen Contact Center: 
  • Home Minister Amit Shah unveils 14 feet high statue of Lok Nayak Jayprakash Narayan at Sitabdiara in Saran district, Bihar
  • Ashok Leyland has joined hands with researchers at the National Centre for Combustion Research and Development (NCCRD) for the development and commercialization of a ‘swirl mesh lean direct injection (LDI) system’ for developing hybrid electrical vehicles using turbine technology.
  • Prime Minister’s Development Initiative for North East Region (PM-DevINE) for the remaining four years of the 15th Finance Commission from 2022-23 to 2025-26: outlay of Rs.6,600 crore for the four year period from 2022-23 to 2025-26
  • INS Tarkash  participate in the seventh edition of IBSAMAR, a joint multinational maritime exercise among Indian, Brazilian and South African Navies 
  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Phase 1 of Modi Shaikshanik Sankul,  in Ahmedabad
  • Tiger and palm tree present in RBI emblem.
  • IMF  Board of Governors meets once a year at the IMF–World Bank Annual Meetings. Twenty-four of the governors serve on the International Monetary and Financial Committee, or IMFC, which advises the IMF’s Executive Board.
  •  International Monetary Fund made predictions that India’s global growth will drop from 6% in 2021 to 3.2 % in 2022 and 2.7 % in 2023.
  • Himachal Pradesh : ‘HIMCAD’, to provide irrigation facilities to farmers
  • Google is set to launch Play Points, a global rewards Programme for users in India.
  • Toyota Corolla Altis Flex-fuel car, which has been touted as first of its kind pilot project on Flexi-Fuel Strong Hybrid Electric Vehicles (FFV-SHEV) in India.
  • World Bank has extended an unconditional loan of $250 million to the Supporting Andhra’s Learning Transformation (SALT)
  • Hollywood Actor Tom Cruise, who is renowned for pulling off high-octane stunts in his projects, is taking things to the next level and may soon become the first actor to shoot in space.
  • South Indian Bank b an event ‘Onnichirikkam Oonjaladam’ and was accoladed with the World Book of Records award for ‘staging and swinging 101 Oonjals’
  • IDBI Bank said that it has agreed to cooperate with Vayana Network as its first fintech partner to provide end-to-end digitization services
  • Union Minister of AYUSH Sarbananda Sonowal inaugurated the Curtain Raiser for 9th World Ayurveda Congress (WAC) and Arogya Expo today at Panaji.
  • CERT-In in collaboration with Power-CSIRTs (Computer Security Incident Response Teams in Power sector), successfully designed & conducted the Cyber Security Exercise “PowerEX” for 193 invited Power Sector Utilities| theme :“Defending Cyber induced disruption in IT & OT infrastructure”
  • India began their ISSF World Championship campaign with a bronze in the women’s 25m pistol team junior competition in Cairo, Egypt
  • Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) was started on 1st January, 2013.

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