Current Affairs October 2020

Cabinet nod for reforms in natural gas marketing

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved ‘natural gas marketing reforms’ with an aim…

M Rajeshwar Rao appointed deputy governor of RBI

The government appointed RBI’s senior-most executive director M Rajeshwar Rao as the deputy governor of…

Coronavirus pandemic could push 150 million into extreme poverty

The World Bank reported that global extreme poverty is expected to rise for the first…

Centre appointed Dinesh Kumar Khara as SBI chairman

The central government has appointed SBI’s senior-most Managing Director Dinesh Kumar Khara as the chairman…

U.S.-French duo won Nobel Chemistry Prize for gene editing tool

Emmanuelle Charpentier of France and Jennifer Doudna of the U.S. on October 7 won the…

Public places cannot be occupied indefinitely

The Supreme Court has found the indefinite “occupation” of a public road by the Shaheen…

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020

Three Laureates share this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for their discoveries about one of…

Nobel Prize for Medicine for discovery of Hepatitis C virus

Americans Harvey J Alter and Charles M Rice, and British scientist Michael Houghton were chosen…

Centre to fix jurisdiction of river boards

According to Union Water Resources Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, the Centre will determine the jurisdictions…

MeitY approved 16 eligible applicants under the PLI Scheme

iPhone maker Apple's contract manufacturers Foxconn Hon Hai, Wistron and Pegatron, apart from Samsung and…