Current Affairs October 2015

RBI opens National Pension System as investment option for NRIs[30/10/2015]

India has allowed non-residents to invest in the National Pension Scheme to provide them an access to old-age income security. Reserve Bank of India on 29th Octiber 2015 allowed NRIs to subscribe to the pension scheme, which is governed and administered by the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority.

 

Sujan Chinoy is Indias new envoy to Japan[29/10/2015]

Senior diplomat Sujan R Chinoy has been appointed as India's Ambassador to Japan, succeeding Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa. Chinoy, a 1981-batch Indian Foreign Service officer, is currently serving as India'sAmbassador to Mexico.

 

Nepal elects first woman president Vidya Devi Bhandari [28/10/2015]

Vidya Devi Bhandari from the ruling CPN-UML was elected as Nepal's first woman President after she defeated her rival from Nepali Congress by more than 100 votes. Bhandari, 54, the Vice-president of CPN-UML and widow of late general secretary of the party Madan Bhandari, secured 327 votes against 214 votes of her rival Veteran Nepali Congress leader Kul Bahadur Gurung.

 

Deepika Kumari bags silver in Archery World Cup[27/10/2015]

Deepika Kumari bagged her fourth silver medal in five years at the ‘Archery World Cup Final’ after going down to Korea’s Choi Misun in Mexico City.

 

Abhishek Verma bags silver[26/10/2015]

Delhi boy Abhishek Verma bagged India’s first ever ‘Archery World Cup Final’ medal in the compound section when he won a silver after being pipped by Turkey’s Demir Elmaagcli in the summit clash here.

 

Women will soon pilot fighter aircraft of IAF[25/10/2015]

By June 2017, the first batch of women fighter pilots will be serving the Indian Air Force, the government announced on 24th October 2015, dramatically altering the male dominated combat frontiers of the country’s military.

 

Dr. Sekhar Basu took the charge as Chairman Atomic Energy Commission[23/10/2015]

Dr. Sekhar Basu took the charge as Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy. Dr. Basu, a renowned nuclear scientist, before taking over as Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission andSecretary Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, has been the Director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC). Earlier he worked as the Project Director of Nuclear Submarine Programme and later as the Chief Executive of the Nuclear Recycle Board in the same institute.

 

Satyarthi gets Harvard Humanitarian of the Year Award[17/10/2015]

Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi has been conferred with the Harvard University’s prestigious humanitarian award for this year, in recognition of his continuing contribution to the cause of child rights.

 

Arun Jaitley bags best FM of Asia award[13/10/2015]

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has been chosen as 'Finance Minister of the Year, Asia' by London-based publication Emerging Markets.

 

Angus Deaton wins 2015 Nobel Prize for Economics[12/10/2015]

British economist Angus Deaton won the 2015 economics Nobel Prize for "his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare".

 

Veteran KP Sharma Oli elected as Nepal PM[11/10/2015]

Nepal's parliament chose veteran politician KP Sharma Oli as the new prime minister, weeks after the quake-devastated country adopted a new constitution. Oli won 338 votes in a parliamentary ballot, defeating rival candidate Sushil Koirala who took 249, after he stepped down as premier as required by theconstitution adopted on September 24.

 

Tunisian group wins Nobel Peace Prize[10/10/2015]

The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize went to the National Dialogue Quartet in Tunisia. The prize was awarded to the group "for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011".

 

West Bengal to get Indias first dolphin reserve[10/10/2015]

Indias first community reserve to protect the endangered Gangetic river dolphins will come up in West Bengal. It would be set up in the Hooghly river and the methodology to develop the community reserve is being chalked out by a separate committee. According to a World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) factsheet, the Ganges River dolphin, or susu, inhabits the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna and Karnaphuli-Sangu river systems of Nepal, India, and Bangladesh.

 

Journalist wins literature Nobel[09/10/2015]

Svetlana Alexievich, a Belarusian journalist and prose writer, won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time".

 

DNA SCIENTISTS WIN NOBEL[08/10/2015]

Swedish Tomas Lindahl, American Paul Modrich and Turkish-born Aziz Sancar won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for "mechanistic studies of DNA repair."