Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: October 23, 2023
Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for October 23, 2023
INDIA
- 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.
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
- 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’.
WORLD
- 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.
SPORTS
- 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.