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.

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