Days in Focus
Economy
- The Bengaluru-headquartered bank which got the status of a Scheduled Bank from RBI - Jana Small Finance Bank Ltd.
International
- English Actor who will be felicitated with the Charlie Chaplin Award at the 2019 Britannia Awards on October 25 in Los Angeles (US) - Steve Coogan.
National
- Foundation date for the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Union Territories of Ladakh - October 31, 2019.
- Best Feature Film Award at the 66th National film awards - Gujarati film Hellaro.
- Best Hindi Film Award at the 66th National film awards - Andhaadun.
- Campaign by the Department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of HRD to promote water conservation activities for School Students - ‘Samagra Shiksha-Jal Suraksha’.
- The first underwater train in India will be operational under - Kolkata's Hooghly River (part of the Kolkata Metro Line 2).
- The 3rd International Electric Vehicle (EV) Conclave was organised in - Manesar, Gurugram.
Persons in News
- Winner of the ‘SRISTI-Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award (GYTI) 2019’ - Nalinee Suryawanshi (researcher at CSIR-NCL, Pune).
State Current Affairs
- State that launched the ‘Small Savings Incentive Scheme’ for 2019 on 8 August 2019, which will be run under the notation “AQ” series - Odisha.
Science and Technology
- World's smallest stent with features that are 40 times smaller than any produced to date (measuring less than 100 micrometres in diameter), created by Scientists from - Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland.
General Knowledge
- A Union Territory (UT) is administrated by the - President (through an Administrator).
- Administrators of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Delhi and Puducherry are designated as - Lieutenant Governors.
- Those UTs which has a legislative assembly and council of ministers - National Capital Territory of Delhi and Union Territory of Puducherry.
- Scheduled Banks in India refer to those banks which have been included in the ______ Schedule of Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 - Second.
- India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA) was launched in – 2012.
- International Centre for Automotive Technology (ICAT) in India - Established in: 2006; Located in: Manesar, Haryana.
