Current Affairs - October 4, 2019 Current Affairs

Union Home Minister Amit Shah flagged off the Delhi-Katra Vande Bharat Express from New Delhi Railway Station to Katra.

Rajasthan bans certain categories of pan masala. Rajasthan has become the third State to ban 'Pan Masala/Gutka' after Maharashtra and Bihar.

The Dongfeng-41 is a Chinese solid-fuelled road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile.

Rao will replace Sunil Mehta in PNB, which is currently under a process of three-way amalgamation with Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) and United Bank of India. KOLKATA: Punjab National Bank will go into merger under the stewardship of SS Mallikarjuna Rao, who has been appointed as the new chief executive of the bank.

On 150th birthday of mahatma Gandhi Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh launched 'Mukhyamantri Suposhan Abhiyan' to eradicate malnutrition among women and children.

On October 4, 2019, the newly renamed 'Sarbat Da Bhala Express' was flagged off at New Delhi Railway station. It was previously called Lohian Khas-New Delhi Intercity Express

Eminent economist Surjit S Bhalla was appointed as the Executive Director for India on the board of the International Monetary Fund.

On the occasion of the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, a postage stamp bearing the photograph of Gandhiji has been issued in France. French postal service company La Poste has released this stamp. Similar stamps were issued on Gandhi Jayanti in many countries of the world - Uzbekistan, Turkey, Palestine and other countries.

The UK High Court has rejected Pakistan's claim for a fund as in 1948 lay with the 7th Nizam of Hydrabad.

Drone Innovators Network Summit-2019 is being held in New Delhi. Organised by the World Economic Forum under the aegis of the Ministry of Civil Aviation.

Railways have been conducting third party audit and cleanliness ranking of 720 major stations, Jaipur railways station was found on top.

Mahindra & Mahindra on Tuesday formed a joint venture (JV) with Ford Motor Company after buying a 51 per cent stake in the Indian unit of the US auto major.

The International Day of Non-Violence is observed on 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi.

Bank of Baroda has signed a MoU with the Indian Army under which the bank would offer customized services along with a host of facilities to account holders.

MNS(Military Nursing Service) is the only all women corps in the Armed Forces. It came into being on March 28, 1888 with the arrival of first batch of 10 qualified British Nurses in Bombay (now Mumbai), to organise nursing in Military hospitals in India.

Tbilisi formerly known as Tiflis, is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Kura River with a population of roughly 1.5 million inhabitants.

Ecuador has decided to leave the membership of the OPEC group. This decision of Ecuador will be effective from January 1, 2020.

World Space Week, October 4-10 annually, is the largest space event on Earth. More than 5,000 events in over 80 countries celebrated the theme "The Moon: Gateway to the Stars" this year.

The schilling (German: Schilling) was the currency of Austria from 1925 to 1938 and from 1945 to 1999, and the circulating currency until 2002. The euro was introduced at a fixed parity of €1 = 13.7603 schilling to replace it. The schilling was divided into 100 groschen.

Prakash-(Power Rail Koyla Availability through Supply Harmony) portal will help in mapping coal stock in mines as well as monitor the movement of railway rakes and the availability of coal in power plants for stakeholders.

SS Mallikarjuna Rao is appointed as the new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Punjab National Bank.

Telangana has become one the fully electrified states in the country after providing electricity to over 5 lakh 15 thousand households.

Azizbek Ashurov's work has made him the 2019 winner of the UN Refugee Agency's Nansen Refugee Award.

Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, today inaugurated the 'Arogya Manthan', a 2-day national workshop organised by National Health Authority (NHA) to mark the first year anniversary of Ayushman Bharat PMJAY, which was launched on 23rd September last year at Ranchi by the Hon. Prime Minister.

The World Economic Forum's 33rd India Economic Summit is to be held from 3-4 October in New Delhi with the theme Strengthening South Asia, Impacting the World.

Indian Oil Research and Development Centre has constructed a 0.85 km of road with different concentrations of plastic waste at Faridabad. The move by Indian Oil aims to utilize single-use plastic waste.

Digital Exhibition on Mahatma Gandhi titled "Digital Gandhi Gyan-Vigyan" inaugurated by Shri Kiren Rijiju flags off Fit India Plog Run at Indira Gandhi Stadium New Delhi.

Shanti Raghavan and Dipesh Sutariya of "EnAble India" were Thursday awarded the 10th Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award, 2019, for building an ecosystem of skilling, employment and entrepreneurship for persons with disabilities (PwDs).

Kapil Dev resigned from BCCI's 3-member Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC), after Shantha Rangaswamy tendered her resignation.

Chandrayaan-2's Orbiter Payload CLASS has claimed to found 'charged particles' on the Moon. According to the information released by ISRO, the solar air flow from the Sun to the Moon's orbit was recorded.

Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar bagged the 'Most Effective Swachhata Ambassador' award. President Ram Nath Kovind presented the award to him.