Current Affairs - October 27, 2019 Current Affairs

The Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) has conducted Whole Genome Sequencing of 1,008 Indians from different populations across the country.

The 50th International Film Festival of India scheduled to be held from 20th to 28th November at Goa for Peacock Award-winning films of the past 49 years.

Shri Pramod Kumar Das assumed charge as Secretary, Ministry of Minority Affairs.

Britain's Natural History Museum names blind and wingless beetle after Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg.

Karnataka was crowned the 2019-20 Vijay Hazare Champions as they beat Tamil Nadu by nine wickets in the Vijay Hazare Trophy at Bengaluru.

Radha Krishna Mathur appointed as the first Lt Governor of Ladakh.

Birender Singh Yadav appointed as India's next Ambassador to Iraq, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).

ICICI Bank Ltd crossed the 3 trillion market capitalization for the making it the country's fourth lender to achieve this milestone.

Microsoft Co-Founder Bill Gates overtook Jeff Bezos to become world's richest man.

Odisha inked a Letter of Understanding (LOU) on a drink from tap mission with the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF).

Jan Soochna Portal-2019 is the public information portal launched by Rajasthan.

The Central Government would grant 75 percent subsidies for food processing industries in the North-Eastern states.

As per the relaxed norms of government for setting up petrol pumps, the retailers must set up 5% of the total outlets in rural areas within five years.

The Vijaya Bank Heritage Museum has been inaugurated at the headquarters of the erstwhile Vijaya Bank in Bengaluru.

Girish Chandra Murmu appointed as the first Lt Governor of Jammu and Kashmir.

NASA will send a golf cart-sized robot to the moon in 2022 to search for deposits of water below the surface. The VIPER robot will drive for miles (km) on the dusty lunar surface to get a closer look.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said that the South American nation will drop its requirement that visiting Chinese and Indian tourists or businesspeople obtain visas.

The Future Investment Initiative (FII) Forum was held in Riyadh. The Prime Minister will be attending the third session of the Future Investment Initiative (FII) Forum in Riyadh.

Former interlocutor for Jammu and Kashmir Dineshwar Sharma has been appointed as the new administrator of Lakshadweep by President Ram Nath Kovind. A 1976-batch retired IPS officer of Kerala cadre, Sharma served as chief of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) from 2015 to 2017. He was appointed as the interlocutor for Jammu and Kashmir in 2017 during the first term of the Narendra Modi-led government.