Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: October 27, 2023
Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for October 27, 2023
INDIA
- Eight former Indian Navy personnel, who had been employed by a company in Doha, were handed the death penalty by a local court in Qatar.
- Supreme Court allows surrogacy and strikes down rule banning use of donor gametes.
- After the successful Test Vehicle-D1 (TV-D1) mission, ISRO has lined up more test missions in the months ahead for the Gaganyaan programme.
- Study: Population of peafowls has increased exponentially across Tamil Nadu in the last five to 10 years.
- REC’s subsidiary RECPDCL hands over Special Purpose Vehicle formed for the construction of ‘Ramgarh II Transmission Limited’ transmission project, to Power Grid Corporation of India.
- Ministry of Tourism participates in International Travel Exhibitions Asia, Singapore.
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
- NASSCOM: U.S.’s new visa rule could boost local hiring.
- European Central Bank broke the longest streak of interest rate hikes in its 25-year history.
- Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare has been released first Advance Estimates of production of major Kharif crops for 2023-24.
WORLD
- Pakistan is setting up deportation centres for migrants who are in the country illegally, including an estimated 1.7 million Afghans.
- Slovakia’s new populist Prime Minister Robert Fico announces halt of military aid to Ukraine.
SPORTS
- Cricket: Sri Lanka scored its fifth consecutive win over England in the ODI World Cup.
- Badminton: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty exits from the French Open.