1. India is fast approaching 100 crore COVID 19 vaccine doses milestone; Over 99 crore 12 lakh Covid vaccine doses administered so far
2. PM Modi interacted with the CEOs and Experts of the global oil and gas sector through video conferencing on 20 Oct.
3. CBSE’s first term board exams for class 10 will begin from November 30, while the exams for class 12 are scheduled from December 1.
4. Andhra Pradesh: YS Sharmila, sister of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, on Wednesday began her 4,000 km padayatra in Telangana covering 90 assembly constituencies out of the total 119 in the state. Sharmila recently launched the YSR Telangana Party in the state.
5. J&K : Union Minister Piyush Goyal, during his two-day visit to Pahalgam district in Kashmir, inaugurated a 250 mm Seer Water Supply Scheme. Minister also inaugurated 250mm Seer Water supply scheme, on the occasion. This project will benefit around 10000 people. Completion of the project will be done under the ambit of Jal Jeevan Mission within three months.
6. As the counter-insurgency operation in the forest belt of Jammu and Kashmir’s twin border districts of Poonch and Rajouri entered the ninth day on Tuesday, public announcements were made in Mendhar asking local residents to stay indoors for their safety. Security forces launched a cordon and search operation in Dragad area of Shopian district following information about presence of militants.
7. Two unidentified militants were killed in an encounter with security forces in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday.
8. The NIA is likely to take over cases related to the killing of minority community members, including those of two teachers and a pharmacy owner, who were among 11 civilians shot dead in targeted attacks by terrorists in different parts of Kashmir this month.
9. Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday said a total of 39 people had lost their lives and 217 houses had been destroyed completely in the devastating landslides and flash floods that had occurred in the south-central districts of the state recently.
10. Madhya Pradesh: Mukhya Mantri Ration Aapke Dwar Scheme will be implemented to benefit the poor tribal families by state govt. The scheme is going to benefit tribal families of around 7511 villages in 74 development blocks of 16 districts.
11. Tamil Nadu: The opposition AIADMK on Wednesday petitioned the Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi seeking action on the ruling DMK for its alleged irregularities in the recently held civic body elections in nine districts of the State.
12 . Telangana: CM K. Chandrashekar Rao in his first reaction opined that the Election Commission of India had “crossed its limits” in halting the Dalit Bandhu scheme in Huzurabad Assembly constituency citing the October 30 byelection.
13. Telangana: CM K. Chandrashekar Rao announced that the enovated Yadadri temple complex would be inaugurated on March 28, 2022, with the conduct of the ‘Mahakumbha Samprokshana’.
14. Bollywood : A special court here on Wednesday denied bail to Aryan Khan, the son of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, observing that ‘on the face of it’, he was indulging in “illicit drug activities on a regular basis”. His WhatsApp chats also showed, prima facie, that he was in touch with drug peddlers, the court noted.
16. VV Patil, special judge for the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act cases, rejected the bail pleas of Aryan Khan, his friend Arbaaz Merchant (26) and fashion model Munmun Dhamecha (28).
17. Army inducts upgraded L70 anti-aircraft guns in forward areas along LAC in Arunachal Pradesh sector in addition to its existing M-777 howitzers and Swedish Bofors guns.
18. Defence Ministry red-flags a year’s delay in ‘Mango Project’ by CPWD : The defence ministry has red-flagged a year’s delay by the Central Public Works Department in completing a building for manufacture of anti-tank ammunition, a prestigious project undertaken with Russian collaboration and meant to be showcased during India@75 celebrations.
19. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on 19 Oct visited Israel’s Ovda Airbase to meet the Indian contingent participating in the biennial Blue Flag exercise involving Air Force missions from eight countries, that aims to share knowledge and combat experience to improve operational capabilities.
A total of 85 Indian Air Force (IAF) personnel are taking part in the exercises along with five upgraded Mirage 2000 fighter aircraft. _The Blue Flag drill is a bi-annual exercise designed to strengthen Israel’s military cooperation internationally._
20. Pakistan’s military said its navy detected and blocked an Indian submarine from entering the country’s territorial waters in the Arabian Sea over the weekend. Pakistan’s military provided no further details and there was no immediate comment from India.
21. Police Commemoration Day will be observed today. The day is observed on 21st October every year to honor the loyalty and supreme sacrifice of police personnel for the nation. It was on this day in 1959 when the Central Reserve Police Force, CRPF scripted a saga of valor and sacrifice in the inaccessible, inhospitable terrain of Hot Springs in Ladakh. A patrol party of twenty personnel of CRPF and Intelligence Bureau had gone to search for a missing reconnaissance party when it was ambushed by the Chinese Army.
22. The Indian Navy, under the Indian Armed Forces, has released Indian Navy SSR AA Sailor Notification 2021 inviting online applications from eligible and interested Indian nationals (unmarried male) for filling Two Thousand and Five Hundred (2,500) vacancies to the post of Sailors (Artificer Apprentice and Senior Secondary Recruits) in Indian Navy through direct recruitment to be posted across Indian Navy units in India on a fulltime basis. The online registration on joinindiannavy.gov.in started on October 16, 2021 and ends on October 25, 2021.
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