current affairs october 2014

Devendra Fadnavis was taken oath as Maharashtra CM[31/10/2014]

Devendra Gangadharrao Fadnavis was taken oath as 27th Chief Minister of Maharashtra, the second youngest Chief Minister of the State.

Rashtriya Ekta Diwas[31/10/2014]

Govt. of India has declare birthday of Sardar Patel on his 139th birthday as Rashtriya Ekta Diwas. And celebrate this occasion through various activities mainly "Run For Unity".

Rajiv Mehrishi takes over as Secretry Department of Economic Affairs[31/10/2014]

Shri Rajiv Mehrishi, IAS took over as Secretary Department of Economic Affairs(DEA), Ministry of Finance, Government of India with effect from the afternoon of 30th October, 2014 and until further orders.

World Childrens Prize for Malala[30/10/2014]

Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate in history, won the World's Children's Prize on, after a global vote involving millions of children. "Millions of children have voted to award Malala this year's World's Children's Prize for the rights of the child". The award was created in 2000 and is part a worldwide educational programme in which children learn about global issues, democracy and their own rights.

Manohar Lal Khattar was sworn in as Chief Minister of Haryana[26/10/2014]

Manohar Lal Khattar was sworn in as Chief Minister of Haryana. 60-year-old Khattar, a first-time MLA from Karnal and a non-Jat leader was administered the oath along with nine ministers by Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki.

India wins another term at UNHRC[22/10/2014]

India received the most number of votes in the Asia-Pacific group of the U.N. Human Rights Council, winning a second consecutive two-year term at the world body. Official sources said this was a reflection of India’s standing in the world. India was a committed supporter of the U.N. human rights system and would continue to work towards strengthening of the Council.

N Gopalaswami appointed as Chairman of Kalakshetra Foundation Chennai[22/10/2014]

The Government has appointed Shri N Gopalaswami as Chairman of the Governing Board of the Kalakshetra Foundation in Chennai. In a notification issued on 21st October, 2014 by Ministry of Culture, Government of India, it is mentioned that Shri N Gopalaswami has been appointed as the Chairman for a term of 5 years from the date of publication of the notification. Shri Gopalaswami was former Chief Election Commissioner of India.

Arvind Subramanian is Chief Economic Adviser[17/10/2014]

The former IMF economist Arvind Subramanian is appointed as the Chief Economic Adviser and Rajasthan cadre IAS officer Rajiv Mehrishi is appointed as the finance secretary, the Narendra Modi government has brought in a new team to steer the economy, five months after it came to power.

Cruise missile Nirbhay test-fired [17/10/2014]

India’s indigenously developed nuclear capable sub-sonic cruise missile ‘Nirbhay’, which can strike targets more than 700 kms away, is test-fired from a test range at Chandipur in Odisha today.

ISRO successfully launches IRNSS 1C navigation satellite [16/10/2014]

ISRO today launched its third navigation satellite IRNSS 1C on board its PSLV rocket from here in the wee hours, moving closer to setting up its own navigation system on par with the GPS of the US. IRNSS 1C is part of the series of seven satellites Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to launch to put in place what is called the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System. Today's launch marked the first time that India has conducted four orbital launches in a year .

Narinder Batra elected unopposed as president[14/10/2014]

Narinder Batra was unopposed elected the president of Hockey India while Mushtaque Ahmad was elected secretary general as the national hockey federation elected its new office-bearers for a four-year term.

Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 2014[13/10/2014]

Jean Tirole of France, is one of the most influential economists. He has made important theoretical research contributions in a number of areas, but most of all he has clarified how to understand and regulate industries with a few powerful firms. #JeanTirole

IIMB prof Dr Pulak Ghosh appointed to UN Secretary Generals group[11/10/2014]

Dr Pulak Ghosh, Professor at the Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore, has been appointed as a member of the UN Secretary-General's Big Data Privacy Advisory Group. Ghosh, Professor, Quantitative Methods & Information Systems Area at IIMB, has been appointed as member of the Data Privacy Advisory Group of Global Pulse - the UN Secretary-General's Big Data innovation initiative, the institute said in a release on 11^th October 2014.

PM launches Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana[11/10/2014]

The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, today launched the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana, calling it a scheme that would open the door for good politics, and inviting all MPs to select a village to develop on a demand-driven, rather than a supply-driven model, with people's participation. The Prime Minister said that development in villages was often supply-oriented. The Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana, would however have three distinct features - it would be (a) demand driven (b) inspired by society (c) based on people's participation.

2014 Nobel Peace Prize[10/10/2014]

The Nobel Peace Prize 2014 was awarded jointly to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education".

2014 Nobel Prize in Literature[10/10/2014]

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2014 was awarded to Patrick Modiano "for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation".

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014[09/10/2014]

Americans Eric Betzig and William Moerner and German scientist Stefan W. Hell won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing new methods that let microscopes see finer details than they could before.

Nobel prize for Medicine and Physics[07/10/2014]

Isamu Akasaki (Japan), Hiroshi Amano (Japan), Shuji Nakamura (Japan) won the Nobel prize in Physics for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources.

John O´Keefe(UK), May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser (Norway) won the Nobel prize in Medicine for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain.

Thomas Kailath wins US National Medal of Science[04/10/2014]

Thomas Kailath, a Pune educated Indian-American engineering professor at Stanford University, is one of the recipients of the US National Medal of Science announced by President Barack Obama. Kailath is also a recipient of the Padma Bhushan, one of India's high civilian awards and is a member of major science and engineering academies in India.

PM Narendra Modi launches Swachh Bharat campaign[02/10/2014]

Wielding a broom, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 2nd October launched the 'Swachh Bharat' campaign, a cleanliness drive across India, on Gandhi Jayanti. More than 2,500 students from close to 50 government schools in Delhi took the 'Swachhta Shapath' along with Modi as he inaugurated his ambitious 'Swachh Bharat Abhiyan'.