Current Affairs

 

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OCTOBER - 27

• Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister, Hardeep Singh Puri has launched the ‘e-Dharti Geo Portal’ to integrate legacy drawings such as maps and lease plans in the management information system and make its geographic information system (GIS)-enabled.

• The Vigilance Awareness Week 2020, is being celebrated from 27 October to 2 November 2020.

• Indian-origin Wavel Ramkalawan has been elected as the President of Seychelles.

• The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) alliance, plans to build a headquarters for space operations at its airbase in Ramstein in Germany, to counter a rising Russian and Chinese threat.

• Alpha Condé, the  incumbent  president of  Guinea and leader of Rally of the Guinean People    ( RPG) party won the 3rd the term as the President of Guinea by winning the 2020 presidential elections.

• Federation of Indian Fantasy Sports (FIFS) has announced the appointment of Bimal Julka as its Chairman.

• Haryana is the best State in Anemia Mukt Bharat (AMB) Index with 46.7 among 29 states in the country. Further, in the year 2019-20, the state had achieved 93 per cent of immunization. The Anemia Mukt Bharat, an initiative of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and UNICEF, has been launched to reduce the prevalence of Anemia all over India.

• South Korea based electronics conglomerate, Samsung Electronics has topped the list of ‘World’s Best Employer 2020′ published by Forbes’. Amazon, IBM, Microsoft and LG are among the top 5 in the list respectively.

• The World Day for Audiovisual Heritage is observed globally on 27 October every year. The theme for 2020 is : “Your Window to the World”.