India October 2010

India October 2010

Indian Current Affairs and Events in the month of October, 2010:

1. Recently Mozambique President Armando Emilio Guebuza visited India. During his visit India signed three agreements besides agreeing upon a credit line of $ 500 million for infrastructure projects in Mozambique.

2. President Pratibha Devisingh Patil presented the prestigious Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration Academia and Management to Aruna Roy on October 1, 2010. Aruna Roy is a social and political activist.

3. Indian Academy of Cerebral Palsy, an academic body of doctors and rehabilitation professionals from across the country decided to observe October 3, as the National Cerebral Palsy Day to highlight the growing cerebral palsy-a brain disorder which affects mostly children becoming the commonest cause of childhood disability in India.

4. K.Vijay Kumar who was Director of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy. Hyderabad has been appointed the new Director General of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) headquartered in New Delhi.

5. Sachin Tendulkar emerged winner at the LG ICC (International Cricket Council) Award on October 6, 2010 after winning the Sir Garfield Sobers Cricketer of the Year Award and LG Peoples’ Choice Award for the year 2010.

6. Eminent writer, historian and columnist Khushwant Singh has been conferred the Sahitya Akademi Fellow- ship-an honour reserved for the immortals of literature.

7. Bharat Diamond Bourse (BDB) the world’s largest diamond bourse was inaugurated on October 17, 2010 in Mumbai with the primary objective of establishing necessary infrastructure facilities for promotion of export of diamonds.

8. With Badminton Star Saina Nehwal snatching a three-game victory over Malaysia’s Mew Choo Wong India took second position by grabbing 38 gold medals (in total 101 medals) ahead of England which got 37 gold medals.

9. In a recent report ‘Commonwealth or Common Hunger’ prepared by an NGO ‘Save the Children’. India among the commonwealth Nations is on the top in underweight children with seven million under five severely malnourished.

10. Indradhanush-a joint exercise by the Indian Air Force (IAF) and the Royal Air Force (RAF) of the United Kingdom was organised in October 2010 at the Kalaikunda Air Force Station in West Bengal’s Paschim Medinipur district.

11. Rustom I – India’s medium altitude and long endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) developed by the Bangalore-based Aeronautical Development Establishment was successfully test-flown in Bangalore on October 16, 2010.

12. In a report by the National AIDS Control Programme (NACO) on its ”Response to the HIV Epidemic in India”, it has been revealed that the people living with HIV have declined from 2.73 million to 2.27 million between 2002 and 2008. The HIV prevalence has declined from 0.45% in 2002 to 0.29% in 2008.