Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: October 23, 2023

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Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for October 23, 2023

The 6th Operation Ajay flight carrying 143 passengers lands in New Delhi; India hands over humanitarian aid for Palestine to Red Crescent in Egypt.
Bharat National Cyber Security Exercise (NCX) 2023 concludes.
Joint bilateral training exercise “Exercise Harimau Shakti 2023”, between Indian & Malaysian Army commenced today in Umroi Cantonment, India.
Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal will attend the Future Investment Initiative, FII in Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh.
The Indian Railways is running 283 special trains to provide traveling facilities to passengers during the festival season.

RBI opens dated securities to help Russia park its rupee surplus
Returns on the Public Provident Fund (PPF), frozen at 7.1% since 2020, should have been pegged at 7.51% for this quarter as per the formula-based rates regime: RBI.
DPIIT notifies Quality Control Orders for ‘Copper Products’ and ‘Drums and Tins’.

EU Global Tax Evasion Report 2024 has called for a global minimum tax on billionaires equal to 2% of their wealth.
South Korea, the U.S. and Japan carried out their first joint aerial drills.

Shubman Gill became the fastest batter to reach 2000 ODI runs, breaking Hashim Amla’s record.
Mohammed Shami’s five-wicket haul against New Zealand made him the first Indian to scalp two five-fors in the World Cup.
Rohit Sharma became the first Indian batter to smash 50 sixes in a calendar year in One-Day Internationals.