CURRENT GK
1.Sitharaman will take part in defense ministers meeting in Philippines :-
Given the aggressive attitude of China, India has hastened its diplomatic activities. Defense Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is going to Philippines on Monday in this regard, where he will meet the Defense Ministers of Southeast Asian countries. During this, the current nature of regional security will be discussed.
This is the first foreign visit of Defense Minister Sitharaman. Given the South China Sea and the Dolaam controversy, the visit of Indian Defense Minister is being considered as very important. Sources say that during the three-day tour, Sitharaman will meet with the counterpart of several East Asian countries.
The Defense Minister will also participate in ADMM-Plus (ASEAN Defense Minister’s Meeting) on October 23 and 24.
2.Border Security Force- BSF organizes Half Marathon for martyrs in New Delhi :-
Border Security Force-BSF organized Half Marathon for the martyrs in New Delhi on Sunday.
This event was done in the service of the nation to commemorate the immortal sacrifice and bravery of the soldiers of the Border Security Force.
Sports Minister Col Rajyavardhana Rathore flagged off the Half Marathon race from the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.
3.Government of Maharashtra decided to make the public accessible and accessible to the police :-
The Maharashtra government has decided to make the public accessible and accessible to the police. State police control rooms will be made state-of-the-art at a cost of four billion rupees.
Our correspondent has said that the objective of the new project is to reduce the action time of the police and to make the action methods effective by listening to calls in emergency time.
Following the improvement in this modern police control project, the time of exposure for an emergency will be eight minutes in the cities and 15 to 18 minutes in the rural area. Upgradation of the control area is part of the Dial 112 project.
The state government is transferring 112 as a number for all emergency in the beginning of next year. The state government is planning to acquire tracking system on emergency response vehicles , in order to monitor their operations.
4.Varun Patel and Rashma Patel, the key ally of Hardik Patel, were included in the BJP before the Gujarat assembly elections :-
Prior to the Legislative Assembly elections in Gujarat, Varun Patel, a key ally of Hardik Patel, and Reshma Patel, leader of Patidar Reservation Movement, have joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.
They joined the BJP after the meeting of the Parliamentary Board with Chief Minister Vijay Rupani , Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel and State BJP President Jitu Waghani yesterday. BJP president Amit Shah was also present in the meeting.
After joining BJP, Patidar leaders said that Hardik Patel has become an agent of Congress and he is using the movement to remove the current state government. A few hours earlier, Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee President Bharat Singh Solanki invited Hardik Patel to join his party.
Meanwhile , Gujarat Other Backward Classes Integration Forum convener, Ameesh Thakor, has announced to join the Congress.
Shri Thakore met Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi on Saturday with Congress General Secretary Ashok Gehlot in charge of the state and Bharat Singh Solanki, President of State Congress Committee in Gujarat.
5.Prime Minister will share his thoughts on October 29 in the program of mind with Akashwani :-
Prime Minister will share his views on October 29 in the matter of mind with Akashwani
Shri Modi today asked the people to share their thoughts and suggestions on the Narendra Modi app and the MGOV Open Forum in the tweet message.
You can record the name of the Prime Minister in Hindi or English by dialing toll free number 1XXX-XX-7800.
6.The Internet will reach village-village, 7.5 lakh public Wi-Fi will be installed by 2018 :-
The central government is planning to spread the network of Wi-Fi faster across the country . Under this scheme, 7.5 lakh public Wi-Fi will be started in the country by the end of next year. Its main objective is to provide high-speed Internet access to the people in the town area and rural areas.
Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundar Rajan said that high-speed Internet facility Reliance Jio, Airtel, Vodafone, Idea etc., with the help of private operators and BSNL. He said that this facility will lead to e-governance and digital development. Significantly, WiFi is the basic base for any digital infrastructure.
Public Wi-Fi facility is increasing at a slower rate than in other countries. In 2016, only 31 thousand public WiFi have been installed in the country. In comparison to this, if we look at other countries, there are 1.3 million in France, 9.8 million in the US and 56 lakh in public in the UK.
7.Amit Shah will launch on November 2, ‘Navin Karnataka Construction Transit Tour’ :-
BJP President Amit Shah will launch the 75-day ‘Navi Karnatak Construction Transit Yatra’ on 2 November. It will be led by party’s BS Yeddyurappa candidate in the state. It will highlight the shortcomings of the Congress government in the state.
The BJP will launch its campaign for the forthcoming assembly elections in Karnataka by this visit. On November 2, there will be six workers on every three booths from each of 27 thousand of South Karnataka’s Bike Grounds on the Bike Ground.
In this way 1.62 lakh workers will be gathered on that day. State party in-charge Murlidhar Rao said that the trip will pass through all 224 assembly constituencies of the state.
8.To remove excess cash from the bank, it will be necessary to show the original ID :-
Government has now made mandatory for banks and financial institutions to match the original ID along with the photocopy of each person who transact cash over a fixed limit, to prevent the use of fake and fraudulent copies. Or can be finished.
Let us tell you that under the Ministry of Finance, the Revenue Department has amended the Money Laundering Informer (Record Maintenance) rules by issuing a gazette notification.
According to the new rules, the reporting entity will have to match the officially valid document given on behalf of the customer with the original and its copy.
Money Laundering Act (PMLA) is the main legal framework for curbing money laundering and black money in the country.
9.Group Voice Call facility in next version of WTSAP :-
Messaging App Watersapp is going to offer voice calls to more than one billion users. This feature will be provided in the new beta version of Android. The Vatetinfo website, which is testing this new feature of WTSAP, gave this information on Sunday.
It is known that this facility is already available in Messenger of Facebook. For the past some time, speculations were being made that Wattsapp is also working on this feature. In the new update, the size of the app is small, and changing the phone number will allow all the people associated with the user to get this information.
In this, the Group Administrator will have the right to allow the other members to make changes to the group’s photo, name or other information. Also, the group creator can not be removed from the other admin group.
10.Indian Tourism Industry’s 2.5% Growth Capacity: Report :-
India’s tourism and tourism industry has the potential of growing by 2.5 percent. This is possible due to high budget allocation and low cost health facilities. This claim has been made in a report.
A joint study by Assocham and Yes Bank said that this industry has the capacity to grow by 2.5 percent, provided the government increased the budget allocation of 0.9 percent to 0.15 percent in the financial year 2018-19.
Also, in this study, developmental intervention has been proposed, including the development of tourism infrastructure and the development of tourism themes.
Tourism contribution in the country’s GDP was $ 208.9 billion in 2016, which is 9.6 per cent of GDP and it is estimated that by 2017 it will increase by 6.7 per cent and by 2017, its contribution to GDP will increase to 10.0 per cent.