Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: October 14, 2022

October 14, 2022

Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for October 14, 2022

INDIA

– SC pronounces 1:1 split verdict on ruling of Karnataka HC that upheld ‘hijab ban’ in educational institutions; Chief Justice to assign case to a larger bench

– PM flags of new Vande Bharat Express from Amb Andaura in Una district of Himachal Pradesh to New Delhi

– Himachal Pradesh: PM inaugurates Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in Una

– Himachal Pradesh: PM launches Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)-III in Chamba

– Defence Minister Rajnath Singh addresses 4th Defence Attachés Conference being held in New Delhi on Oct 13-14

– President Murmu flags off first Kolkata-Agartala express train from Tripura, is extension of Guwahati-Kolkata-Guwahati train

– Assam: President Droupadi Murmu inaugurates ‘PARAM KAMRUPA’ Supercomputer facility at IIT Guwahati

– Indian Navy conducts offshore security exercise ‘Prasthan’ in Krishna Godavari Basin Offshore Development Area (ODA)

– All-India Conference of Law Ministers and Law Secretaries being organised by the Ministry of Law and Justice from October 14 to 16 at Ekta Nagar, Gujarat

– CERT-In (Indian Computer Emergency Response Team) and Power-CSIRTs (Computer Security Incident Response Teams in Power sector) jointly conduct Cyber Security Exercise “PowerEX-2022”

– Adarsh Swaika appointed India’s next Ambassador to Kuwait; Avtar Singh to Guinea

ECONOMY & CORPORATE

– India is a bright spot on the dark horizon, says IMF MD Kristalina Georgieva

– India’s direct benefit transfer scheme is a logistical marvel, says IMF official Paola Mauro

– India will have a difficult task as G-20 chair, says IMF chief economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas

– Finance Minister addresses Johns Hopkins University in Washington on the topic “Technology, Finance, and Governance: The Multiplier Effect”.

– Govt accords infrastructure status to data centres with over 5 MW capacity

– 15 states among achievers in logistics performance index 2022: LEADS (Logistics Ease Across Different States) 2022 report of Commerce and Industry Ministry

– Indian Railways to operate freight version of Vande Bharat trains; call them “Freight EMU”

– Govt removes criteria for CPSEs to improve share price over sectoral index

– Packaged parathas, unlike chapatis (5%), to attract 18% GST, says GAAAR (Gujarat Appellate Authority for Advance Ruling)

– Lavender cultivation bringing Purple Revolution in J&K, says Union Minister Jitendra Singh

– PSU MTNL gets shareholders’ nod to raise Rs 17,571 crore via bonds, borrow Rs 35,000 crore from banks

WORLD

– UN General Assembly adopt resolution condemning annexation of four Ukrainian regions by Russia in 143-5 vote; India among 35 countries that abstained

– Wildlife populations across the globe declined by 69% between 1970 and 2018: WWF’s Living Planet Report (LPR) 2022

– 6th Summit of CICA (Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia) held in Astana, Kazakhstan

– Global economy “dangerously close” to recession: World Bank President David Malpass

– US in ‘decisive decade’ in competition with China: NSA Jake Sullivan

– International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction observed on Oct 13