Current Affairs - October 16, 2019 Current Affairs

Anoop Kumar Mendiratta has been appointed as the new Law Secretary in the Union Law Ministry.

Kais Saied is elected as the new President of Tunisia.

The 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships was held in Stuttgart, Germany from 4 October to 13 October 2019.

World Students' Day is observed on A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's birthday, 15th October. In 2010 the United Nations declared 15th October "World Students' Day".

The Asian Development Bank and the Government of India signed a $190 million loan to upgrade 754 kilometres of state highways and major district roads (MDRs) to two-lane or intermediate-lane standards that will benefit about 26 million people in 14 districts of Rajasthan. The signatories to the Tranche 2 loan agreement for the Rajasthan State Highway Investment Programme were Shri Sameer Kumar Khare, Additional Secretary (Fund Bank and ADB), Department of Economic Affairs in the Ministry of Finance, on behalf of the Government of India, and Mr Kenichi Yokoyama, Country Director of ADB’s India Resident Mission, who signed for ADB. The Tranche 1 loan of $220 million under the Programme, signed in July 2017, upgraded about 1,000 km of state roads.

Indian shuttler Priyanshu Rajawat wins the men's singles title at the Bahrain International Series Badminton at Isa Town, Bahrain.

India and Netherlands launch 2nd phase of LOTUS-HR (Local Treatment of Urban Sewage Streams for Healthy Reuse) project in Delhi.

Chairperson: Shashank Manohar, Headquarters: Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge has become the 1st athlete to run sub 2-hour marathon with an unofficial time of 1 hr 59 min 40.2 sec.

Russia topped the tournament with six medals, followed by China with a medal tally of 5.

The International Day of Rural Women is commemorated every year by the United Nations on 15th October.

The 2019 Booker Prize was jointly won by Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo.

New Delhi : The third India Energy Forum by CERAWeek has been organised in association with the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas from October 13 to 15.

White Cane Safety Day is observed on 15 October in the United States every year. The day aims to celebrate the success achieved by the blind and visually impaired people.

Andhra Pradesh State government launched YSR Rythu Bharosa-PM Kisaan, the flagship farmer assistance scheme. The scheme was launched by the AP Chief Minister Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy.

Centre is to launch Vigyan Jyoti, a program to help girl students inculcate interest in areas like Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).

Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue at Kala Ghoda, Gloria Church in Byculla, and Flora Fountain, three-city landmarks, of Mumbai won the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation for the year 2019.

Bilateral naval exercise between the Indian Navy and the Bangladesh Navy is being held at Visakhapatnam.

The first National Hindi Science writers conference 2019 started in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.