CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 13th OCTOBER 2022

CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 13^th OCTOBER 2022

1. ‘World Sight Day’ is celebrated every year on the second Thursday of October. In 2022, it is being observed on 13^th October. Theme: ‘Love Your Eyes’.
2. October 13 is designated as International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction with a focus on encouraging a global culture or risk awareness and catastrophe preparedness.
3. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the fourth Vande Bharat Express train in Himachal Pradesh’s Una district on 13 October, 2022. The train will be operating between Delhi and Himachal Pradesh.
4. Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated Phase I of the Mahakal Lok Project to the nation at Shri Mahakal Lok in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, in October 2022.
5. Meghalaya government on 10^th October, 2022 (World Mental Health Day) announced the state’s first-ever draft of ‘The State Mental Health and Social Care Policy’.
6. President Droupadi Murmu will be on a three-day visit to Tripura and Assam beginning 12^th October, 2022.
7. INS Tarkash has participated in the 7^th IBSAMAR, a joint multinational maritime exercise among Indian, Brazilian and South African Navies from 10-12 October, 2022.
8. India hosted the 6^th meeting of the India-Norway Joint Working Group on Higher Education on 11 October, 2022 in New Delhi.
9. All India Institute of Medical Sciences, AIIMS New Delhi is developing an Artificial Intelligence enabled device named Colposcope.
10. Union Minister of Youth and Sports, Anurag Singh Thakur launched the World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) Athlete Biological Passport Symposium – 2022 in New Delhi on 12 October, 2022.
11. The Indian Navy conducted a security exercise, called ‘Prasthan’, in the Offshore Development Area (ODA) off Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh on 12^th October, 2022.
12. Lok Sabha member from Bhubaneswar, Aparajita Sarangi has been elected as a member to the executive committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).
13.  The 36^th National Games concluded on 12^th October, 2022 with a concluded ceremony at Surat, Gujarat chaired by Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar.
14. Union Minister and National Chairman of the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA) Jitendra Singh on 12^th October, 2022 approved 111 new members of IIPA.
15. Discus thrower Kamalpreet Kaur has been banned for three years by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for using prohibited substance Stanozolol.
16. China successfully launched its first comprehensive space-based solar telescope called the Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S) on 9^th October, 2022.