1.Minister of Human Resource Development Prakash Javadekar launched the web portal of two schemes on 25 October 2018.‘Impactful Policy Research in Social Sciences’ (IMPRESS) and ‘Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration’ (SPARC) were the two schemes of whose portal were launched.The objective of IMPRESS is to identify and fund research proposals in social sciences.
2.Unnayan Banka’ has won the Commonwealth Association for Public Administration and Management’s (CAPAM) international innovation award for 2018.It is an online and offline education project started in Banka, Bihar.CAPAM is an organisation that promotes good governance and knowledge exchange amongst governments from Commonwealth countries.
3.Wrestler Pooja Dhanda won a bronze medal at World Wrestling Championship 2018 in Budapest, Hungary.She won a silver medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.Pooja is only the fourth Indian woman to win a World Championship medal.
4.Fertiliser major IFFCO announced that it has been ranked as the biggest cooperative in the world by ‘Word Cooperative Monitor’ report 2018.The International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) and the European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (Euricse) publish the world cooperative monitor report.The report was based on the ratio of turnover over GDP per capita.
5.Roopam Sharma, a 23-year old Indian scientist, won the World Health Summit Startup award, 2018.He won for his invention, Manovue – the world’s first intelligent personal assisting system for the visually impaired.He is the youngest person to be recognized as one of the top innovators under 35 by the MIT Tech Review in 2016.
6.The 2018 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage is celebrated on October 27.Its theme is “Your Story is Moving”.The General Conference of UNESCO approved the commemoration of a World Day for Audiovisual Heritage in 2005 as a mechanism to raise general awareness of the need to preserve and safeguard important audiovisual material for future generations.
7.Pakistan’s human rights activist and lawyer Asma Jahangir has been posthumously awarded the UN Prize along with three other winners.Rebeca Gyumi of Tanzania, Brazil’s first indigenous lawyer Joenia Wapichana and Ireland’s human rights organisation Front Line Defenders are the other winners of the prize.The Prize is an honorary award given for outstanding achievement in human rights.
8.The Reserve Bank said it will inject Rs 40,000 crore into the system in November through the purchase of government securities.The central bank had already injected Rs 36,000 crore into the system in October.An open market operation (OMO) is an activity by a central bank to give (or take) liquidity in its currency to (or from) a bank or a group of banks.
9.JP Nadda, Minister for Health and Family Welfare addressed the ‘Second Plenary Session of ‘2nd International Conference on Primary Health Care towards UHC & SDGs’, at Astana, Kazakhstan.The conference aims to renew the commitment to primary health care to achieve universal health coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals.Mr Nadda spoke on the theme “The Future of Primary Health Care”.
10.IDFC Bank proposed to change its name to ‘IDFC First Bank Ltd’ in the wake of its amalgamation with the non-banking financial company Capital First.The decision was taken during the meeting of the Board of Directors of IDFC Bank.The proposal now needs the approval of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
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