Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: October 4, 2023
Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for October 4, 2023
INDIA
- The Delhi Police arrested the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of news portal NewsClick under UAPA.
- Toilet use has been declining in rural India since 2018-19: World Bank Paper.
- India and Bangladesh commenced the 11th edition of annual joint military exercise, SAMPRITI in Umroi, Meghalaya.
- Two-day Regional Conference on Good Governance begins at Jaipur. 2022 Award Winners under PM’s Awards for Excellence in Public Administration will be presented.
- Prime Minister dedicates First 800 MW Unit of Telangana Super Thermal Power Project of NTPC to the Nation
- Indian Railways releases its new All India Railway Time Table known as “Trains At A Glance (TAG)”.
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
- The World Bank retained India’s growth forecast at 6.3% for the year 2023-24.
- India’s manufacturing activity eased to a five-month low in September.
- India witnesses surge in overall coal production in September with over 67 million tonne production.
WORLD
- France’s Pierre Agostini, Hungarian-Austrian Ferenc Krausz and French-Swedish Anne L’Huillier won the Nobel Prize in physics for research using ultra-quick light flashes.
- Armenia’s Parliament votes to join the International Criminal Court, straining ties with ally Russia.
- Thailand’s Prime Minister launched a committee to amend the military-drafted constitution.
SPORTS
- Asian Games: Parul Chaudhary won the women’s 5000m race and Annu Rani struck gold with her season-best throw of 62.92m in Javelin.
- Asian Games: Tejashwin Shankar and Mohammed Afsal clinched silver medals in the men’s decathlon and 800m sprint respectively.
- Lovlina Borgohain reached the final at the Asian Games and gets qualified for Paris 2024.
- Sachin Tendulkar was announced as the Global Ambassador for the Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 by the International Cricket Council.
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