Important Day
Defence
- The Indian Army’s division at Jammu and Kashmir organized a ‘Veer Kutumb Rally’ in - Tanda, Akhnoor.
Economy
- Only Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPI) located in countries of this group can deal in Participatory notes, according to new rules from SEBI - FATF (Financial Action Task Force).
International
- India has got the first set of bank account details of its nationals from - Switzerland Federal Tax Administration (SFTA).
National
- The first-ever India International Cooperative Trade Fair 2019 will be held in - New Delhi (from 11 October).
- New portal regarding Oral Health which developed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare - E-Dantseva.
Persons in News
- Winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Medicine – Peter Radcliffe (Britain) and William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza (US).
- Winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics - James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (for their work in understanding how the universe has evolved, and the Earth’s place in it).
- Senior Indian Forest Service officer who has been selected for the prestigious Asia Environmental Enforcement Award by the United Nations Environment Programme - Ramesh Pandey.
Sports
- Winner of the Men’s single Tennis event at the 2019 Japan Open - Novak Djokovic.
- India’s rank in the latest ICC women's ODI rankings, published on 7 October - Second.
- First position in the latest ICC women's ODI rankings, published on 7 October - Australia.
Science
- A Smart-Engineer, an AI-assisted engineering system design tool for Electric Vehicle (EV) is unveiled by - IIT Guwahati researchers.
General Knowledge
- Indian Air Force was founded in - 1932 (08 October).
- National Oral Health Programme was launched in India in - 2014.
- Nobel Prize was first awarded in – 1901.
- Only three women who have been awarded Nobel Prize in Physics - Marie Curie (1903), Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1963) and Donna Strickland (2018).
- The Nobel Peace Prize is presented by - Norwegian Nobel Committee.
