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Nov 21, 2015

[CA] October 2015 Current Affairs: What to Study?

What to Study in October 2015 Current Affairs?

Economics

Sin Tax
What is Sin Tax?
Doing Business Report 2016
Released by _______
India’s rank; top three
Why India is scoring much low?
Compare India’s rank with other countries in BRICS
TPP
Trans Pacific Partnership
R V Easwar Committee
Anjali Baijal Committee
IDFC Bank
Financial Inclusion Fund
Gold Monetisation Scheme 2015
E – Sahyog
V20 Group
Trade and Development Report 2015
Global Financial Stability Report 2015

Awards

2015 Nobel Prize
2015 Alternative Nobel Prize
Man Booker Prize 2015
2015 Confucius Prize

Defence

APJ Abdul Kalam Missile Complex
Exercise MALABAR 2015
Exercise SLINEX 2015
Exercise CORPAT 2015
INS Astradharini
Extreme Altitude Research Centre



Days

World Polio Day
Global Iodine Deficiency Disorders Prevention Day
World Statistics Day
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
World Food Day
International Day of the Girl Child
World Postal Day
World Egg Day
Air Force Day
National Anti – Drug Addiction Day
International Day of Non – Violence
International Day of Older Persons
World Vegetarian Day


India’s Bilateral Issues

India & Bangladesh: Agartala – Dhaka bus service
India & Germany: 18 MoUs
India & Israel: 10 MoUs; Pranab Mukherjee – first Indian President to visit Israel
India & Jordan: 6 MoUs
Palestine: Road in Ramallah is named after India as Sharia – e – Al – Hind (India Road)
Jordan: Street is named after Mahatma Gandhi
Malaysia: Green City Project at Garhmukhteshwar in Uttar Pradesh
India – Africa Summit 2015; @ New Delhi; next summit in 2020

Schemes

Neeranchal Project
Aim of this project
Which organisation going to assist this project?
States that is going to be benefitted from this



 Sports

First World Indigenous Games
FIFA issues
Chess: Sergey Karjakin won FIDE World Chess Cup 2015
F1 Race: Lewis Hamilton won Russian and US GP 2015
Shweta Rathore: first Indian female body builder to win silver medal in Asian Bodybuilding Championship
World Cup Archery: Abhishek Verma and Deepika Kumari won Silver medals
Badminton: Ajay Jayaram won Dutch Open 2015

India

·        SC strikes down NJAC Bill
·        National Civil Aviation Policy
·        Tarun Khanna Panel
·        Upamanyu Hazarika Commission
·        Indian women facing inequality at all stages of life cycle: UNO
·        Pedana Fabric
·        Central Victim Compensation Fund
·        National Blood Policy, 2002
·        Lighthouse Tourism
·        Mission Indradhanush
·        National Sagarmala Apex Committee
·        National War Memorial and a National War Museum at New Delhi
·        Kaladan Multi Modal Transit Transport Project
·        Article 370 is beyond amendment, repeal or abrogation: J&K High Court

States
·        Amaravti – new Capital of Andhra Pradesh
·        E – Pragati project in Andhra Pradesh
·        Sanskrit University for SCs in Haryana
·        Operation Valsalya in Kerala
·        Mission Abbas in Odisha
·        Amo Doli Programme in Odisha




Tamil Nadu
·        Leads in MSME: ASSOCHAM
·        Rameswaram in AMRUT Scheme
·        Methane Exploration suspended
·        Banned drug Ketoprofen
·        Avvaiyar Award 2015
·        India’s first offshore windmill
·        Trichy Corporation won Skoch Award for effective solid waste management

 World
·        Operation Sophia by European Union
·        Trident Juncture by NATO
·        Canada’s new Prime Minister, Mr. Justin Trudeau; Liberal Party; second youngest PM in Canada
·        China abandoned its ‘One Child Policy’
·        Jimmy Morales is new President of Guatemala
·        Hurricane Patricia in Mexico
·        Iran Parliament approves Vienna Agreement
·        Bidhya Devi Bhandari – first woman President of Nepal
·        UNO: 4 non – permanent members (Egypt, Japan, Senegal, Ukraine and Uruguay)


Others
v Portugal – first European country to sign the MoU on establishment of Nalanda University
v ISIS destroys Arch of Triumph in Palmyra
v Pruthvi: a tiny chip; white – space technology
v IBM’s first global cloud data centre in India (at Chennai; it is IBM’s 42nd data centre globally but first in India)
v Keytruda: approved by US; treatment for lung cancer
v Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference 2015
v 70th anniversary of UNO
v International Religious Freedom Report 2014




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