Current Affairs

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October - 08

• The appointment of Mohit Bhatia as CEO of Bank of India Investment Managers Private Ltd (Bank of India Mutual Funds) has been made public.

• About 56 million Indians may have plunged into extreme poverty in 2020 as a result of the pandemic, increasing the global tally by 71 million and making it the worst year for poverty reduction since World War II, according to fresh estimates by the World Bank.

• The Royal New Zealand navy and the Indian navy have signed a contract on the exchange of White Shipping Information Exchange.

• The World Bank  cut its 2022-23 (FY23) real gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast for India to 6.5%, from an earlier estimate of 7.5%.

• Ales Bialiatski, a human rights defender from Belarus who is now incarcerated, Memorial, a Russian human rights organisation, and Center for Civil Liberties, a Ukrainian human rights organisation, have all been jointly given this year’s Nobel Peace Prize 2022.

• October 7 is celebrated each year as World Cotton Day. The theme for 2022’s of World Cotton Day is “Weaving a better future for cotton,”