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.

 


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