Current Affairs (Daily Dose):
1. India will host a global summit to eliminate the illicit trade of tobacco products in which around 180 countries delegates will participate. The summit is scheduled from November 7th to 12th at the Indian Exposition Mart in Noida. This will be the 7th session of the Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control .
2. The Odisha government has decided to recruit transgender persons as jail warders as per the directive of the Supreme Court. A letter to this effect has been sent to the Odisha Subordinate Staff Selection Commission to take necessary steps in this regard. First time the state government will mention the third gender as a separate category in any of the recruitment process.
3. Indian-American Professor Emeritus of Linguistics Braj B Kachru (84- year) has passed away in Urbana. He was a Jubilee Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
4. ICICI Bank has announced 0.05% reduction in its marginal cost of funds based lending rate (MCLR). The overnight Marginal Cost of Funds based Lending Rate (MCLR) will be 8.90% under the revised rate structure which is effective from today. The one-year MCLR has moved down to 9.10%.
5. Senior IAS officer of West Bengal cadre Bhaskar Khulbe (1983-batch) has been appointed as secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Appointments Committee of Cabinet has approved his appointment. Earlier, He was Additional Secretary in Prime Minister’s Office. He will look after work related to Cabinet Secretariat and thrust areas of the government.
6. World No.1 men’s singles tennis player Novak Djokovic has won fourth Rogers Cup championship. NADA disciplinary panel exonerated him from charges of violating anti-doping rules of NADA.
7. Former Maoist rebel chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal (61-year) also known as Prachanda has been elected as the new Prime Minister (24th) of Nepal. Earlier, Prime Minister K P Oli resigned on July 24, triggering a political turmoil in Nepal. According to Speaker Onsari Gharti, he won 363 votes out of the 573 cast in the 595-member parliament.
8. Technocrat Anant Maheshwari has been appointed as the President of Microsoft India. He will succeed Bhaskar Pramanik as the head of Microsoft in India. He will join Microsoft India in September 2016 and will take over operations of the company from January 2017.
9. The Egyptian- born Nobel-winning scientist Ahmed Zewail (70-year) has passed away in the United States. He won the Nobel Chemistry Prize in 1999 for his pioneering work in femtochemistry, the study of chemical reactions in ultra-short time scales. He was the first Arab Scientist to win the Nobel Prize.
10. World number four Swiss tennis player Stan Wawrinka to quit the Rio Olympic Game. Double Grand Slam winner Wawrinka won a gold medal in men’s doubles with Federer at Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
1. India will host a global summit to eliminate the illicit trade of tobacco products in which around 180 countries delegates will participate. The summit is scheduled from November 7th to 12th at the Indian Exposition Mart in Noida. This will be the 7th session of the Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control .
2. The Odisha government has decided to recruit transgender persons as jail warders as per the directive of the Supreme Court. A letter to this effect has been sent to the Odisha Subordinate Staff Selection Commission to take necessary steps in this regard. First time the state government will mention the third gender as a separate category in any of the recruitment process.
3. Indian-American Professor Emeritus of Linguistics Braj B Kachru (84- year) has passed away in Urbana. He was a Jubilee Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
4. ICICI Bank has announced 0.05% reduction in its marginal cost of funds based lending rate (MCLR). The overnight Marginal Cost of Funds based Lending Rate (MCLR) will be 8.90% under the revised rate structure which is effective from today. The one-year MCLR has moved down to 9.10%.
5. Senior IAS officer of West Bengal cadre Bhaskar Khulbe (1983-batch) has been appointed as secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Appointments Committee of Cabinet has approved his appointment. Earlier, He was Additional Secretary in Prime Minister’s Office. He will look after work related to Cabinet Secretariat and thrust areas of the government.
6. World No.1 men’s singles tennis player Novak Djokovic has won fourth Rogers Cup championship. NADA disciplinary panel exonerated him from charges of violating anti-doping rules of NADA.
7. Former Maoist rebel chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal (61-year) also known as Prachanda has been elected as the new Prime Minister (24th) of Nepal. Earlier, Prime Minister K P Oli resigned on July 24, triggering a political turmoil in Nepal. According to Speaker Onsari Gharti, he won 363 votes out of the 573 cast in the 595-member parliament.
8. Technocrat Anant Maheshwari has been appointed as the President of Microsoft India. He will succeed Bhaskar Pramanik as the head of Microsoft in India. He will join Microsoft India in September 2016 and will take over operations of the company from January 2017.
9. The Egyptian- born Nobel-winning scientist Ahmed Zewail (70-year) has passed away in the United States. He won the Nobel Chemistry Prize in 1999 for his pioneering work in femtochemistry, the study of chemical reactions in ultra-short time scales. He was the first Arab Scientist to win the Nobel Prize.
10. World number four Swiss tennis player Stan Wawrinka to quit the Rio Olympic Game. Double Grand Slam winner Wawrinka won a gold medal in men’s doubles with Federer at Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
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