• National Current Affairs
  • Economy & Business Current Affairs
  • International Current Affairs
  • Sports Current Affairs

National Current Affairs

  • Siachen area, world’s highest battlefield, now open to tourists: Defence Minister
  • Union Culture Minister Prahlad Singh Patel launches E-Portal, YouTube Channel of Centre for Cultural Resources and Training (CCRT)
  • UN World Food Programme (WFP) launches campaign ‘Feed Our Future’ against hunger and malnutrition in India
  • Nepali officers begin training on ‘Anti Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism’ in India at the National Academy of Customs, Indirect Taxes and Narcotics (NACIN), Bengaluru
  • AYUSH ministry signs MoU with the Defence ministry to provide traditional medicine services at the armed forces’ hospitals
  • Pakistan has unilaterally stopped postal services to and from India after August 27: Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad

BRIDGE IN LADAKH INAUGURATED

  • Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on October 21, 2019 inaugurated ‘Col Chewang Rinchen Setu’
  • The strategically important bridge is over Shyok river in Ladakh region.
  • The 430-meter-long bridge, built by Border Roads Organisation, connects Durbuk and Daulat Beg Oldie in Eastern Ladakh.

POLICE COMMEMORATION DAY

  • Police Commemoration Day observed on October 21, 2019.
  • The day is observed every year in memory of the policemen killed at Hot Springs in Ladakh by Chinese troops on this date in 1959.

Economy & Business Current Affairs

  • Govt rolls out 6th tranche of Sovereign Gold Bond (SGB) Scheme from October 21 to 25; fixes issue price at Rs 3835/gram
  • Govt launches BHIM 2.0 with new functionalities, additional language support
  • Members of US India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) led by Chairman John Chambers meets PM Modi in Delhi

International Current Affairs

  • Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces withdraw from border town of Ras al Ain

Sports Current Affairs

  • Raunak Sadhwani becomes India’s 65th chess Grandmaster at 13 years, nine months and 28 days
  • Andy Murray wins men’s singles title at European Open tennis in Antwerp

DENMARK OPEN BADMINTON WINNERS

  • Japan’s Kento Momota: men’s singles
  • Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara: women’s singles
  • Indonesia’s Marcus Fernaldi Gideon & Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo: men’s doubles
  • South Korea’s Baek Ha-na & Jung Kyung-eun: women’s doubles
  • Indonesia’s Praveen Jordan & Melati Daeva Oktavianti: mixed doubles