India Current Affiars October, 2011, General Awareness October, 2011

• Health Insurance portability came into force; INS Shakti commissioned.
• Rajasthan launch free medicine scheme.
• The draft national policy on Electronics, 2011 unveiled; India Switzerland inled deal to exchange related info.
• Afghan President on India visit: signed strategic pact; Moody’s cut SBI ratings.
• World cheapest tablet ‘Akash’ at Rs 2276 launched.
• RBI eases norms on Small money transfers.
• The draft national policy on information Technology 2011 unveiled.
• Govt. simplifies law for removing DD, AIR heads.
• UP Chief Minister launch projects worth Rs 6,035 crore; Mumbai Indians win CLT 20 title in Cricket.
• The draft National Telecom Policy 2011 unveiled; Eminent Ghazal singer Jagjit Singh passed away.
• India ranked 67th in Global Hunger Index among 81 countries with worst figures.
• J and K Interlocutors submitted their final report; PSLV launched four satellites.
• Union Cabinet Cleared digitization of cable TV services; Centre announced Rs 900-crore package for exporters.
• India announced $500 million line of credit for Mayan mar.
• IIL tourists broke Kashmir Valley’s 25-yr record.
• Ritu Kumar to represent India at UN’s maiden run of the world fashion week.
• CBI said the release of the accused would hamper investigations into the transfer of Reliance Telecom shares in Swan Telecom to Mauritius-based Delphi.
• Anti-cancer Drug Letrozole banned.
• Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will travel across the Tin Bigha Corridor through India on Wednesday linking two Bangladeshi enclaves Dahagram and Angarpota in Indian territory.
• India first formula one circuit at Greater Noida (UP) unveiled.
• Taking a dig at Kiran Bedi over allegations that she charged her hosts full fare on air tickets while availing discount, law minister Salman Khurshid today said unlike Team Anna he cannot pass “ex-parte” judgements on people.
• CBI Court charged Raja, Kani, 15 others with criminal breach of trust.
• The Human Development Index in the country rose by 21%, says a report while cautioning that health, nutrition and sanitation remained the key challenges for the country.
• Simplified Russian Visa rules for Indians.
• A Delhi court today found prima facie evidence against all the 17 accused including former telecom minister A Raja and DMK MP Kanimozhi and corporate honchos to frame charges against them in the 2G spectrum allocation scam case for varying roles.
• South Africa ditched India, favouring rich nations on climate issue.
• Pakistan’s military forced an Indian Army helicopter to land for violating Pakistani airspace on Sunday and detained four Indian Army officers, the army said.
• India made a clean sweep against England (5-0); : RBI raised repo rate from 8.25 to 8.5 percent.
• Days after 100-year-old Fauja Singh of Indian-origin became the oldest person to complete a marathon, a 102-year-old Dalit woman in Tamil Nadu has put on another display of centenarian vigour, winning a local body election.
• India defeat in three Nation’s Hockey Tournament.
• Mukesh Ambani becomes richest Indian billionaire in Forbes Richest list.
• Renowned Hindi novelist Pt.shree Lal Shukla passed away.
• BCCI stands firm, rejects revised sports bill.

International Current Affairs October, 2011, General Awareness October, 2011

• Denmark became first country in world to impose Fat Tax on foods such as butter and oil.
• Afghan rocked at first musicial festival in 3 decades.
• Three immune pioneers shared Medicine Nobel.
• Three shared physics Nobel for Universe insights.
• US President Obama unveiled Jobs plan; Israeli got Chemistry Nobel for Crystals.
• Steve Jobs, 56, iconic cofounder of Apple, passed away; Swedish poet won Nobel for Literature.
• 1 Arab, 2 Liberian women shared peace Nobel.
• 111 person including 13 ethnic Indians charged in the biggest credit card scam in US History.
• NATO pounded strategic city of Sirte, Libya as assault nears end.
• 2 of US won Economics Nobel in Microeconomics.
• Egypt Dy PM quit over Coptic killings.
• Myanmar began releasing 6,300 convicts in its latest liberalizing move.
• Bhutan’s King Jigme Khesar married Jetsun Pema.
• Italian Pm Silvio Berlusconi won a crucial confidence vote in Parliament.
• Demonstrators of 951 cities in 82 countries across the world rallied to accuse bankers and politicians of wrecking economics.
• Pope Benedict declare a “year of faith”, starting on October 11, 2012.
• Jordan’s king name Intl court of Justice Judge Awn Khasawneh as PM.
• The Buddh International Circuit was today unveiled amid much fanfare ahead of the widely-anticipated inaugural Indian Grand Prix and was described as “one of the best in the world” by the country’s first F1 driver Narain Karthikeyan.
• Israel traded 1927 prisoners for one soldier in Hamas captivity.
• A first group of 200 French soldiers was due to leave Afghanistan on Wednesday as part of an early troop withdrawal announced in July by President Nicolas Sarkozy.
• Julian Balnes won Man Booker for “The sense of the ending”.
• Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi died of wounds suffered in his capture near his hometown of Sirte today, a senior NTC military official told Reuters. National Transitional Council official Abdel Majid Mlegta told Reuters earlier that Gaddafi was captured and wounded in both legs at dawn on Thursday as he tried to flee in a convoy which NATO warplanes attacked
• Revolution killed Muammar Gaddafi, dictator of Libya for 42 years.
• Muammar Gaddafi was fatally wounded by a bullet in his intestines following his capture, according to a doctor who examined his body, amid conflicting accounts of how the fugitive former Libyan leader met his end.
• Pak won two-year non-permanent seat in UN Security Council.
• US authorities have approved the transfer of 435 Indian students of the Tri-Valley University to other institutions, indicating some progress in addressing the plight of nearly 1,800 Indian students affected by its closure.
• Inert German satellite Rosat hit to the ground.
• The Pakistani Taliban have threatened to attack installations of Shell Pakistan and the state-run Pakistan State Oil if the two firms do not pay a total of Rs 400 million within 20 days as extortion money, a media report said today.
• Tunisia voted in first Free Polls; Libya declared itself Liberated.
• As many as 1,000 people were feared killed on Sunday when a powerful earthquake hit southeast Turkey, destroying dozens of buildings and trapping some victims alive under rubble.
• US pulled out envoy from Syria.
• UK House rejected referendum on EU membership.
• US industrialist of Indian origin, Rajat Gupta arrested in Insider Trading Scam.
• IBM named Virginia Rometty the first female CEO in the company’s 100-years history.
• Britain rewrites rules for Royal line of Succession.
• Qantas Airways grounded its global fleet indefinitely and locked out workers.