1. International Day for
Disaster Reduction(13th Cotober). It's objective is to raise
awareness of how people are taking action to reduce their risk to disasters.
The theme of the day this year is "Living with Disability and
Disasters". Persons
living with disabilities are among the most excluded in the society and their
plight is magnified when a disaster strikes. This year, the focus is on some
one billion people around the world who live with some form of disability.
2. World Standards Day(14th October).It is
celebrated internationally each year on October 14. This year's theme is
“International standards ensure positive change”. International
standards represent the consensus view of the world’s leading experts in industry sectors ranging from energy utilities
and energy efficiency to transportation, management systems, climate change,
healthcare, safety and information and communication technology (ICT).
3. Eugene F. Fama, Robert J.
Shiller and Lars Peter Hansen shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
for their research on how the market prices of assets such as
stocks move. The three laureates, all Americans,
“laid the foundation for the current understanding of asset prices,” the Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences, which selects the
winner, said today in Stockholm.
4. The head of the United Nations named “Sigrid Kaag” to lead
the UN's joint mission with the chemical weapons watchdog tasked with
eliminating Syria's
arsenal. The UN Security Council, which is set to vote on Kaag's nomination
Wednesday, has formally approved a first joint mission with the Nobel Peace
Prize-winning (OPCW)
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. Kaag
is charged with overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile
by 30th June, in line with a resolution passed by the Security Council last
month.
5. Gold loan company Muthoot Finance Ltd has been bestowed with
Golden Peacock Award for ‘HR Excellence
for 2013’ at a function in
London. Baroness
Verma, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Energy and Climate,
Government of United Kingdom, presented the award to George M. Jacob, Director,
Muthoot Group.
6. ING
Vysya Bank has entered into a business tie-up with Indian Railways’ IRCTC to
offer online train ticketing services to its customers. This facility enables ING Vysya Bank’s
customers to book train tickets using ING Net Banking or ING debit cards. Over 1 lakh tickets were booked during
the first month of the launch, the bank said in a statement.
7. National Housing Bank (NHB) has
joined hands with UK Government's Department for International Development
(DFID) to launch an affordable housing project that will operate in eight
low-income States. This is the
first time that NHB has come up with a project that caters to specified States,
said R.V. Verma, Chairman & Managing Director of NHB here today. The
project will operate in the eight States of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha,
Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal,
Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand.
8.
Private sector insurer Birla Sun Life Insurance (BSLI) today launched a
participating traditional plan, BSLI Savings Plan, with guaranteed additions
for the first five years of the policy term. The plan is a
savings-cum-insurance option that aims to provide secured growth to savings and
comprehensive financial protection from the risk of unfortunate death. BSLI is a joint venture between the Aditya
Birla Group and Sun Life Financial Inc, a leading international financial
services organisation from Canada.
9. ONGC Videsh Ltd, the overseas arm of state-owned Oil and
Natural Gas Corp, has won two onland oil blocks in Myanmar, strengthening its presence
in the south-east Asian nation. OVL, which has stakes in
the A-1 and A-3 gas discovery blocks and three other offshore acreages in
Myanmar, was last week awarded two oil and gas exploration blocks in that
country's Onshore Blocks Second Bidding Round - 2013. The firm got Blocks B-2
(Zebyutaung-Nandaw) and EP-3 (Thegon-Shwegu), according to the list of winners
released by Myanmar's
Energy Ministry.
10. Retail
inflation rose marginally to 9.84 per cent in September, mainly due to a hike
in food prices, particularly of vegetables. Retail
inflation measured in terms of consumer price index (CPI) was at 9.52 per cent
in August. Retail inflation for rural and urban areas in September stood at
9.71 per cent and 9.93 per cent, respectively. The same was 8.93 per cent and
10.32 per cent (revised figures) in August. For CPI inflation, price data are
collected from select towns by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO)
and from select villages by the Department of Posts.
11. Former Union minister, freedom fighter and environmentalist
Mohan Dharia, who quit the Indira Gandhi government against imposition of
Emergency, died here today of chronic kidney failure.
He was 89. A recipient of Padma Vibhushan, the
highest Padma award, in 2005, Dharia retired from active politics in 1982 and
formed “Vanrai”, an organisation dedicated to the cause of conservation and
social forestry. Interestingly,even though a bitter critic of Indira Gandhi,
Dharia was conferred the prestigious Indira Gandhi Award for National
Integration in 2011, by Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
12. The Indian tennis pair Sanam Singh and Vijayant Malik on 12
October 2013 won the doubles title in the 15000 US dollars ITF Men's Futures
Tennis Tournament at the Jake Hess Tennis Stadium in Houston, USA.
In the final match, they defeated fourth seeded pair of Evan King (USA) and
Costin Paval (Romania)
in two sets 7-6 (5), 6-4.
13. Varun Arora, a young innovator from India on 10
October 2013 selected for United Nations 10 Young Innovators Competition
2013. Varun Arora is
among 10 people from around the world selected for a prestigious United Nations
award in recognition of their work as entrepreneurs and use of technology to
change the world. Varun Arora
awarded for his creation Open Curriculum, an
online platform for local educational material for standard, primary and
secondary schooling.
14. Many
People Killed and Several Injured near a Temple
in Madhya Pradesh. Approximately, 115
people were feared killed and over 100 injured in a stampede on 13 October 2013
near a temple at Ratangarh in Madhya Pradesh's Datia district. The stampede was caused by rumours
that a bridge they were crossing was about to collapse.
15. Indian Wrestler
Satyavrat on 12 October 2013 won the 9th Roustam-E-International Indian Style
wrestling title at Vivekanand Sports Stadium, Katra after he defeated wrestler
Mykhalio Datsemko of Ukrain in the final bout. Wrestler Satyavart was awarded
Silver Gurj, Patta and cash prize of one lakh rupees and the runner up got cash
of 50000 rupees.
Do You Like This? Please take 5 seconds to share with your firends.
