Current Affairs- Today’s Headlines: October 8, 2023
Here are Today’s News Headlines by GK Today for October 8, 2023
INDIA
- India and Saudi Arabia sign MoU in Electrical Interconnections, Green / Clean Hydrogen and Supply Chains.
- Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) has committed to work with India to expand Travel for LiFE initiative across Asia Pacific region.
- Ministry of Culture Organizes Curtain Raiser and logo launch event for IAADB- India Art Architecture Design Biennale.
- Study: 19 Gangetic River dolphins had been rescued from the irrigation canals of the Ganga-Ghagra basin in Uttar Pradesh between 2013 and 2020.
- UGC to train over 1,000 teachers to teach Indian knowledge systems from degree level.
- ISRO plans Gaganyaan unmanned flight tests, gears for the Flight Test Vehicle Abort Mission-1 (TV-D1).
- Rajasthan ordered a caste-based survey, similar to the survey done in Bihar.
ECONOMY & CORPORATE
- GST Council affirms 28% tax on online betting from October 1; lowered the tax rates on certain millet-based products.
- Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has appointed a total of twelve general managers as executive directors in various Public Sector Banks.
WORLD
- World Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day is celebrated annually on October 8th.
- Palestinian Islamist group Hamas launched the biggest attack on Israel in years, killing at least 200 people claiming it had taken dozens of hostages.
- Two 6.3 magnitude earthquakes killed dozens of people in western Afghanistan.
SPORTS
- Asian Games: Satwik-Chirag become first India’s first ever Asiad gold medallists in badminton.
- Asian Games: Men’s kabaddi team wins a dramatic final to clinch gold; Indian Cricket Team wins gold.
- Jyothi Surekha Vennam and Ojas Pravin Deotale won gold medals in the women’s and men’s individual compound events.
- The Indian men’s and women’s Chess teams claimed the silver at the Hagzhou Asian Games.