[CA] INS Kiltan

INS Kiltan (P30), third Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) stealth corvettes built under Project 28 (Kamorta Class) was commissioned into the Indian Navy at Visakhapatnam

• The ship gets her name from old INS Kiltan (P79), a Petya class ASW ship that served the nation for 18 years before being decommissioned in June 1987.
• Named after the coral island belonging to the Lakshadweep group of islands in India, the ship has a total complement of 15 officers and 180 sailors.
• The sleek and magnificent ship spans 109 meters in length, 14 meters in breadth with a displacement of 3,300 tonnes and can rightfully be regarded as one of the most potent Anti Submarine Warships to have been constructed in India.

Project 28

·        Anti – Submarine Warfare Corvettes

·        Started in 2003

·        To built 4 submarines indigenously

Project 28
#	Submarines	Year Commissioned	Docked at
1	INS Kamorta	2014	Visakhapatnam
2	INS Kadmatt	2016
3	INS Kiltan	2017
4	INS Kavaratti	Under Construction

[CA] World Food Day 2017 & World Food Prize 2017

October 16

• World Food Day
• Theme: "Invest in Food Security and Rural Development"

World Food Prize 2017 was won by Dr. Akinwumi Adesina (Nigeria) for innovation in funding and financing of African agriculture

[CA] 86th birth anniversary of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam

Oct 15, 2017: 86th Birth anniversary of former President, Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam.

·        Children who arrived at Rashtrapati Bhavan from Rameswaram by the bus ‘Dr Kalam Sandesh Vahini Vision 2020’ called on the President,Mr. Ram Nath Kovind

·        The Kalam Sandesh Vahini was launched by House of Kalam and Chinmaya University.

·        The Vahini depicts various incidents from Dr Kalam’s life as well as key highlights of India’s scientific achievements, with an aim to educate and inspire the masses.

·        It was flagged off by Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi from Rameswaram on July 27, 2017, during the inauguration ceremony of Dr Kalam’s memorial.

·        The Vahini has travelled from Rameswaram, through various states, to finally arrive at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.

[CA] International Railway Equipment Exhibition-2017

International Railway Equipment Exhibition-2017 (IREE-2017) was held in New Delhi (Oct 11 - 13, 2017).

·        IREE is India's largest international event for the Railway Sector.

·        Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML),a Public Sector Company under the Ministry of Defence and the premier manufacturer of rail products participated in the event

·        BEML is the Nation’s first Rail coach manufacturing Company. Rail products manufactured by the Company for Indian Railways include Overhead Inspection Car, Postal Vans, AC/DC Electric Multiple Units, Stainless Steel EMUs, Utility vehicle, Track Laying Equipment Board Gauge Railbus, Treasury Vans, Spoil Disposal Unit etc.

·        BEML is the only Indian Company manufacturing State-of-the-Art Metro Cars and holds the Market share of about 50% in Metro segment competing with Global Players and is the sole supplier to Bangalore and Jaipur Metro Corporations.

[CA] International India Science Festival 2017

3rd International India Science Festival 2017 in Chennai

From Oct 13-16, 2017

Theme "Science for New India"

[CA/Polity] List of Governors of all Indian States & UTs

State/UT	Governors
Andhra Pradesh	Mr. Biswabhusan Harichandan
Arunachal Pradesh	Mr. B. D. Misra
Assam	Mr. Jagdish Mukhi
Bihar	Mr. Phagu Chauhan
Chhattisgarh	Ms. Anusuiya Uikey
Goa	Mr. Satya Pal Malik
Gujarat	Mr. Acharya Devvrat
Haryana	Mr. Satyadev Narayan Arya
Himachal Pradesh	Mr. Bandaru Dattatreya
Jharkhand	Ms. Draupadi Murmu
Karnataka	Mr. Vajubhai Vala
Kerala	Mr. Arif Mohammad Khan
Madhya Pradesh	Mr. Lalji Tandon
Maharashtra	Mr. Bhagat Singh Koshyari
Manipur	Ms. Najma Heptullah
Meghalaya	Mr. Tathagata Roy
Mizoram	Mr. P. S. Sreedharan Pillai
Nagaland	Mr. R. N. Ravi
Odisha	Mr. Ganeshi Lal
Punjab	Mr. V. P. Singh Badnore
Rajasthan	Mr. Kalraj Mishra
Sikkim	Mr. Ganga Prasad
Tamil Nadu	Mr. Banwarilal Purohit
Telangana	Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan
Tripura	Mr. Ramesh Bais
Uttar Pradesh	Ms. Anandiben Patel
Uttarakhand	Ms. Baby Rani Maurya
West Bengal	Mr. Jagdeep Dhankhar
Union Territories
Andaman & Nicobar Is*	Mr. Devendra Kumar Joshi
Chandigarh**	Mr. V. P. Singh Badnore
Dadra and Nagar Haveli **	Mr. Praful Khoda Patel
Damanand Diu**	Mr. Praful Khoda Patel
Delhi*	Mr. Anil Baijal
Lakshadweep**	Mr. Dineshwar Sharma
Puducherry*	Ms. Kiran Bedi
Jammu & Kashmir*	Mr. G. C. Murmu
Ladakah*	Mr. R. K. Mathur
* --> Lieutenant Governors; **--> Administrators
All the above info are updated on Nov 29, 2019

Women Governors (7)

Ms. Anusuiya Uikey  (Chhattisgarh) Ms. Draupadi Murmu (Jharkhand) Ms. Najma Heptullah (Manipur) Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan (Telangana) Ms. Anandiben Patel (Uttar Pradesh) Ms. Baby Rani Maurya (Uttarakhand) Ms. Kiran Bedi (Puducherry)* * à Union Territory

[CA] New head for UNESCO

Ms. Audrey Azoulay (Former Culture Minister of France) is elected as the new Director-General of the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)

[CA] Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration for 2015-16

 Carnatic vocalist T.M. Krishna will be conferred with the Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration for 2015-16

·        The singer, who won the Ramon Magsaysay award for bringing “social inclusiveness in culture” in 2016, will be presented with the honour by Congress president Sonia Gandhi on October 31, Indira Gandhi’s death anniversary.

·        Award is given for his services in promoting and preserving national integration in the country,

·        The Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration was instituted in 1985 by the Congress in its centenary year. The award is conferred on October 31 for promoting national integration, understanding and fellowship among different communities and cultures of India.

·        The earlier recipients include spiritual leader Swami Ranganathananda, freedom fighter Aruna Asaf Ali, the Bharat Scouts and Guides, bureaucrat P.N. Haksar, singer M.S. Subbulakshmi, former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi (posthumously) and former presidents A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and Shankar Dayal Sharma (posthumously), Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust (Indore, Madhya Pradesh), musician A.R. Rahman, Ramakrishna Mission Ashram, Narainpur, Chhattisgarh (jointly), poet Gulzar, scientist M.S. Swaminathan and activist P.V. Rajagopal, besides filmmaker Shyam Benegal and lyricist Javed Akhtar.

[CA] Indians who won Nobel Prizes

#	Year	Laureates	Subject	Origin
	1902	Ronald Ross	Medicine	Foreign citizens born in India
	1907	Rudyard Kipling	Literature
1	1913	Rabindranath Tagore	Literature	Citizen of India
2	1930	C V Raman	Physics	Citizen of India
3	1968	Hargobind Khorana	Medicine	Foreign citizen of Indian origin
4	1979	Mother Teresa	Peace	Foreign born citizen of India
5	1983	Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar	Physics	Indian-born American citizen
6	1998	Amartya Sen	Economics	Citizen of India
7	2001	V S Naipaul	Literature	Indian descendant of UK
8	2009	Venkatraman Ramakrishnan	Chemistry	Indian born American Citizen
9	2014	Kailash Satyarti	Peace	Citizen of India