1. India’s COVID-19 vaccination coverage crosses 95 crore 82 lakh mark.
2. Northeast Frontier Railway has successfully completed the Electrification work of 649 Route Kilometer. Railway Ministry has said that this will now connect all major cities of the country with Guwahati on seamless Electric Traction. Indian Railways has embarked upon an ambitious plan of electrification of its complete Broad Gauge network by 2023-24.
3. NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Dr Rajiv Kumar today launched the NITI Aayog- United Nations Development Programme, UNDP Handbook on Sustainable Urban Plastic Waste Management in New Delhi.
4. PM Modi is set to launch first ever National Infrastructure Masterplan called “Pradhan Mantri Gati Shakti”. This masterplan will be launched on October 13, 2021.
5. Gati Shakti Scheme was launched with the aim of achieving three basic goals namely,
a. Seamless multimodal connectivity for facilitating easy movement of goods & people,
b. Improved prioritisation, optimal usage of resources, timely creation of capacities
c. Resolution of issues like disjointed planning, standardisation & clearances
6. Assam : A new master plan for Dibrugarh in Assam was unveiled on 12 Oct (Monday), which proposes to expand the area of the town and set up six satellite townships.
7. Delhi : The CBI has registered an FIR against Trimax IT Infrastructure and Services Ltd and its directors for allegedly cheating the State Bank of India-led consortium to the tune of over ₹ 862.06 crore between 2009 and 2017.
8. Kerala : Noted Malayalam film actor Nedumudi Venu died at a private hospital in Thiruvananthapuram on 11 Oct (Monday), while undergoing treatment for stomach related ailments, they said. He was 73.
9. Maharashtra : CBI conducts searches at premises of ex Maha Home Minister Anil Deshmukh.
Allegations against Deshmukh had surfaced after the removal of Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh.
10. Nagaland: Swarnim Vijay Mashaal’, or the victory flame that symbolises India’s victory over Pakistan in 1971 reached Nagaland capital Kohima from Dimapur on 11 Oct. It was received by Inspector General of Assam Rifles (North) Major General VPS Kaushik with full military honours and placed at Kohima Garrison War Memorial.
11. The leave of all Uttar Pradesh Police personnel has been cancelled till October 18 in view of the upcoming festivals and programmes scheduled by farmers’ body Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM).
12. Uttarakhand Transport Minister Yashpal Arya, his MLA son quit BJP, join Congress. They join the Congress in the presence of senior party leader Harish Rawat in New Delhi.
13. Punjab : Ahead of Punjab Assembly elections in 2022, Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal will be visiting Punjab’s Jalandhar today.
14. Telangana : Manchu Vishnu, actor and son of veteran Mohan Babu, scored a huge victory, 381-270, over his opponent Prakash Raj and was elected president of the Movie Artists Association (MAA) in the elections held on Sunday.
15. Justice Satish Chandra Sharma was on Monday sworn in as the Chief Justice of Telangana High Court.
16. The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is likely to reintroduce its One-Time Settlement (OTS) scheme on payment of property tax. It is ready to waive up to 90 per cent of accumulated arrears on property tax, provided taxpayers clear their entire dues until 2020–21 by just paying 10 per cent of interest on overall due.
17. The Telangana State Election Commission has planned to conduct a dry run of a “Mobile-Based e-voting system”. This system, if successful, will facilitate to vote using smartphones from home.
18. The Chinese Army has not agreed to the constructive suggestions given by the Indian Army to resolve the remaining friction points or areas along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and that is why the 13th round of talks concluded without any results, the Indian Army said in a statement .
19. Indian Army chief Gen MM Naravane to arrive in Sri Lanka on 12 Oct on a five-day goodwill visit at the invitation of his Sri Lankan counterpart Gen Shavendra Silva. During his visit, Gen Naravane is expected to call on President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who is the Commander-in-Chief of the Sri Lankan Armed Forces, and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa.
20. Nuclear-powered US aircraft carrier Carl Vinson will be the part of the second phase of the high-voltage Malabar exercise from October 12-15, featuring the navies of all four Quad countries — India, the US, Australia and Japan. The exercise will take place in the Bay of Bengal and it will feature a number of complex drills involving several frontline warships and other assets of the four navies.
21. The Indian Navy will deploy its frontline warships INS Ranvijay and INS Satpura, a submarine and a fleet of P8I long-range maritime patrol aircraft
22. The defence ministry has cleared deemed contracts worth Rs 65,000 cr for the seven Public Sector Units (PSUs) being carved out of the Ordnance Factory Board under a ‘grandfathering clause’, with the new entities set to be launched this week by PM Narendra Modi.
23. The new entities, which have been formed from 41 erstwhile OFB factories, will also get significant advance payments from the defence ministry, central armed police forces and state governments to help them move to a new corporatised structure.
24. A Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) and four Jawans were martyred on 12 Oct (Monday) during a fierce encounter between security forces and heavily armed terrorists in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir. According to official sources, a gunfight with terrorists in villages close to Dara Ki Gali (DKG) in Surankote area of Poonch district.
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