CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 17th OCTOBER 2022

CURRENT AFFAIRS OF 17^th OCTOBER 2022

1. International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is observed on the 17^th of October, 2022. International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2022 theme, “Dignity for All in Practice”.
2. Every year, October 17 is celebrated as World Trauma Day. The day was created in New Delhi, India, in 2011.
3. India will host the 90^th General Assembly of the International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL) from 18^th to 21^st of October, in New Delhi.
4. The Indian Army has signed historic MoU with 11 Banks for providing banking facilities to Agniveers on enrolment.
5. Indian’s men’s air rifle team clinched a gold medal on 16^th October, 2022 at the ongoing ISSF World Championship in Cairo, Egypt.
6. Union Minister for Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw on 16^th October, 2022 inaugurated India’s First Aluminum Freight Rake at Bhubaneswar Railway Station in Odisha.
7. Apoorva Srivastava, a diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service, has been appointed as India’s next Ambassador to the Slovak Republic.
8. Union Minister of State for Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying Dr. L Murugan has recently said that India stands third in the world in terms of fish production.
9. The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated Phase 1 of Modi Shaikshanik Sankul, an educational complex for needy students in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
10. Odisha Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik launched a web portal ‘Single Window Application Atrocity Compensation Assistance and Relief’ (SAACAR) for end-to-end processing of atrocity cases registered in various police stations.
11. Union Home Minister Amit Shah on 16^th October, 2022 launched an MBBS course in Hindi for the first time in the country in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
12. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on 16^th October, 2022 launched the National Education Policy-2020 for the academic session 2022-23 in higher education in Dehradun, Uttarakhand.
13. Indian Naval Academy, Ezhimala will conduct Indian Navy Sailing Championship 2022 at Marakkar Watermanship Training Centre in Kerala from 18^th October, 2022.
14. The third World Kuchipudi Natyotsavam was organized for three days in Vijayawada. The World Kuchipudi Natyotsavam starts on 14^th October, 2022.
15. Prime Minister Narendra Modi to dedicate 75 Digital Banking Units (DBUs) to the nation on 16 October, 2022.