Current Affairs 24th October 2015
o Strict laws against homosexuality have come into effect in the conservative
Indonesian province of Aceh.
The law, passed in 2014 but only now being enforced, has faced opposition by rights groups.
The law, passed in 2014 but only now being enforced, has faced opposition by rights groups.
o "IMPRINT", a single window
funding clearance mechanism will be
launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Pranab
Mukherjee next month.
It will be backed with a Rs 1,000-crore to get Indian
technical institutions to conduct original research in areas where the country
is heavily dependent on foreign technology.
o RBI allows banks to fix their own interest rates on gold deposit
scheme.
o The Government has exempted the banking
correspondents from service tax for opening savings account under Pradhan
Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY).
o Japan has offered financial support besides technology for India's
ambitious rail project, in a bid to surpass competition from China and
other countries keen to be part in the 1st bullet train project in India, Japan
has offered to finance Mumbai-Ahmedabad high speed rail corridor estimated
to cost about 90,000 crore rupees ($15 billion) at an interest rate of less
than one per cent.
o 23rd October was Ipod Day.
o On this day in 2001, apple released the first
I-Pod capable of storing 1,000 songs | The Ipod came with a 5 GB hard
drive
o Prime Minister Narendra Modi has laid the
foundation stone of Shri Venkateswara Mobile and Electronics Manufacturing
Hub at Tirupathi, Andhra Pradesh.
o This is India's first mobile manufacturing
electronics cluster.
o Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe was
honored with Confucius Peace Prize 2015, for supposedly “injecting fresh
energy” into the global quest for harmony.
o This prize is also known as China's Nobel
peace prize.
o Paragliding World Cup begins at Bir Billing in Himachal Pradesh on
23rd October 2015
o 123 pilots from 35 countries have been
competing in this event.
o This is for the first time that India is
hosting the Paragliding World Cup .
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Himachal Pradesh was
chosen to host the World Cup after it successfully conducted the paragliding pre-World
Cup-2013.
- UN completed 70 years of its establishment on 24 October 2015. United Nations (UN), the global intergovernmental organization, was established as the lead organization to promote international peace and cooperation on 24 October 1945.
- Department of Heavy Industry released the draft
of a National Policy on Capital Goods on 23 October 2015. This is the first
time that a policy on Capital Goods is being framed.
Primary objective of National Policy on Capital Goods - To unlock the potential for capital goods sector and establish India as a global manufacturing powerhouse
- Sam Pitroda (full name Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda) is often known as the person who heralded the telecom revolution in India. His autobiography ‘Dreaming Big: My Journey to Connect India‘ was launched on 22 October 2015 by Mukesh Ambani.
- The foundation stone for Andhra Pradesh’s new capital Amaravati was laid on 22 October 2015 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This new capital city is being modeled after Singapore
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