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KNOWLEDGE °360Children’s Day: A Day to Commemorate Birth Anniversary of Chacha Nehru

Genius Kidz Newsletter of October, Released on November 1, 2018

Children’s Day is celebrated all over India on 14th of November to commemorate the birth anniversary of first Indian Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Jawaharlal Nehru, who was fondly called ‘Chacha Nehru’ or ‘Chachaji’ or ‘Uncle Nehru’. He was known for his love for children. This day is celebrated as a tribute to Nehru who gave emphasis to the significance of giving love and affection to children and considered them as the bright future of India.

Keen on the development and education of children in the country, Pandit Nehru oversaw the establishment of some of the most prominent educational institutions in India. His vision for the development of youth played a major role in the setting up of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, or AIIMS and the Indian Institutes of Technology. He even initiated the establishment of the Indian Institutes of Management.

Jawaharlal Nehru was born in a wealthy Kashmiri Brahmin family in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. His father, Motilal Nehru was a renowned advocate and also an influential political activist. With time, Nehru emerged as a popular and influential nationalist leader, particularly in Northern India. He was elected as the president of the Allahabad municipal corporation in 1920.

As prime minister of independent India, Nehru had initiated socio-economic policies of the idealistic socialist kind. Nehru was also a prolific writer and orator. He authored books like ‘The Discovery of India’ and ‘Glimpses of the World History’.

Children’s Day is celebrated all over the country with lot of joy and great enthusiasm. Many government departments, corporate institutions and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) organise various programmes, competitions and events for the children. Special television and radio programmes are aired for children on this day. For children, this is a day of joy, freedom and to engage in fun.

The history of Children’s Day reminds us that childhood is precious and despite all the new influences in a child’s life, their first innocent years are our gift to them as we protect and cherish them. The values and the strength they develop in these innocent years will form the foundation not only of their future but also that of the nation, too!

“The children of today will make the India of tomorrow. The way

we bring them up will determine the future of

the country”.Happy Children’s Day!

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NATIONAL AFFAIRS y October 1, 2018: Kolkata gets India’s first flood

forecasting warning system (FFEWS). The system will reduce economic loss and impacts on livelihood and improve flood awareness and safety at community level.

y October 2, 2018: Mumbai’s Marine Drive gets eco-friendly public toilet at a cost of Rs 90 lakh. Designed to go with Marine Drive’s art deco architecture, the toilet has been constructed under the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative by the Jindal Group and Samatech. It has been handed over to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for maintenance.

y October 3, 2018: In a first, an ancient circular lake created by a meteorite strike in Maharashtra and a hexagonal mosaic of basaltic rocks in an island off Udupi are poised to become global geoparks, under a Geological Survey of India (GSI) plan. Lonar Lake in Maharashtra and St. Mary’s Island and Malpe beach in coastal Karnataka are the GSI’s candidates for UNESCO Global Geopark Network status.

y October 4, 2018: Travellers will soon be able to enter airports in the country with facial recognition biometric under the government’s Digi Yatra initiative.Civil Aviation Minister Suresh Prabhu said the initiative would be “forward-looking and futuristic” and would be launched soon.

Suresh Prabhu announces the introduction of facial recognition biometric system at airports

y October 5, 2018: Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani launched a digital platform for state government’s mass outreach drive Ekta Yatra. The state-wide Yatra will cover near about 10,000 villages between October and November.

y October 6, 2018: Exza Infosystems, a Pune-based firm, has announced the launch of ‘ADvantage’ a digital

advertisement solution platform, that would connect advertisers directly to digital satellite television viewers to showcase their products and services in Telangana.

y October 7, 2018: Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) to set up country’s first biofuel plant at Bargarh district in Odisha. It will complete commissioning of its second generation (2G) ethanol bio-refinery at Baulsingha village in Bargarh district by 2020.

y October 8, 2018: The Indian Air Force (IAF) has launched a mobile health app named MedWatch to provide health information to the users, including first-aid and other health and nutritional topics. The app was launched on the occasion of IAF’s 85th anniversary and was conceived by the doctors of IAF and developed in-house by Directorate of Information Technology (DIT) “with Zero financial outlay”.

y October 9, 2018: Karnataka’s Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has developed an in-house app for its health inspectors and medical officers. The app will help the health department officials to levy fines on those found to be using banned plastic items.

y October 11, 2018: The Punjab government launched three android mobile applications aimed at checking crop residue burning and creating awareness about its ill-effects. Named i-Khet Machine, e-PEHaL and e-Prevent, they would help farmers access agriculture machinery, monitor tree plantation and access prompt and accurate information about incidents of crop residue burning, respectively.

Punjab government launches Android mobile applications for farmers

y October 14, 2018: Train passengers can soon file ‘Zero FIRs’ during travel. It can be done through a mobile app and it will be registered as ‘Zero FIR, and immediately investigated by the RPF.


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y October 14, 2018: Pilgrims visiting Vaishno Devi shrine to get free Rs. five lakh insurance cover. The Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board (SMVDSB) has approved enhancement of free accident insurance besides free treatment to trauma victims from nearby areas.

y October 15, 2018: India becomes second largest solar market; installs 4.9 GW in H1. Adani remains the largest project developer in terms of total cumulative installations.There are around 70 large-scale project developers with a pipeline of 5 MW or more in India. ReNew Power had the largest project pipeline.

y October 16, 2018: The Centre launched a pollution forecast system that can alert about the likelihood of extreme pollution events and dust storms three days in advance. The system was unveiled by the Union Environment Minister Harsh Vardhan.

y October 17, 2018: Uttar Pradesh Cabinet approves renaming of Allahabad to Prayagraj. The plan to rename Allahabad was announced by UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath during his visit to the city.

Allahabad renamed as Prayagraj

y October 18, 2018: Union Government launches Swastha Bharat Yatra campaign to create awareness about Food Safety. The campaign is launched by Central Government association with the State Government and it is led by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI).

y October 19, 2018: Kerala is set to become the first smoke-free State in the country with public sector oil companies eyeing 100% LPG penetration here. The revenue department has imposed the duty based on the recommendations of the Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR).

y October 20, 2018: India’s longest river bridge will be built across the Brahmaputra, connecting Dhubri in Assam To Phulbari in Meghalaya, by 2026-27. It will be

a 19.3 km, a four-lane bridge that will cut road travel by 203 km. The new bridge will complete the missing link of NH127B from Assam to Meghalaya.

y October 21, 2018: Prime Minister, Narendra Modi inaugurates National Police Memorial (NPM) in New Delhi on the occasion of National Police Commemoration Day. The memorial has been created to recognise supreme sacrifices made by police personnel since independence.

Narendra Modi inaugurates National Police Memorial (NPM) in New Delhi

y October 22, 2018: Tea Board of India is planning to launch an app aimed at guiding small growers, whose share in total tea production is increasing. The proposed name of the app is Chai Sahay (tea help). The main objective is to establish better two-way communication, that is, between the manufacturer and customers.

y October 23, 2018: The Prime Minister launched a portal and app, ‘Main Nahin Hum’, which will enable IT professionals and organisations to bring their efforts towards social causes and service to society on one single platform.

y October 25, 2018: The Minister of Human Resource Development, Shri Prakash Javadekar launched the web portal of the Scheme “Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC)” in New Delhi.

y October 26, 2018: Mumbai’s METRO INOX has become South Mumbai’s largest cinema and India’s First Rooftop Solar Powered Cinema. It has launched two INSIGNIA screens which are 100% solar powered. It has become the first multiplex in India to join the solar revolution.

y October 26, 2018: The Centre, the Ministry of Human Resource Development, launched two schemes,


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Impactful Policy Research in Social Sciences (IMPRESS) and Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC). The aim is to promote higher education research in India.

y October 27, 2018: The Haryana Government has introduced ‘Pashu Sanjeevni Sewa’ scheme to provide free of cost health care services to livestock in the state through mobile veterinary clinics.

y October 29, 2018: Union Minister for Food Processing Industries Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal inaugurated the first Mega Food Park in Gujarat. It is located at Village Shah and Vasravi, Taluka Mangrol, District Surat. A 2nd

Mega Food Park has been sanctioned by the Ministry in Mehsana District of Gujarat. This Mega Food Park has been set up in 70.15 acres of land at a cost of Rs. 117.87 crore.

y October 30, 2018: India’s first engineless, self-propelled train, the Train-18 trainset has been unveiled. It will be the first semi-high speed train to offer a comfortable inter-city ride. The swanky 16-coach prototype will travel at 160 kmph and is expected to cut travel time by 15 per cent compared to the Shatabdi Express trains, which it will eventually replace. The “Make in India” train has been manufactured by the Integral Coach Factory (ICF) in Chennai at the cost of Rs. 100 crore.

y October 31, 2018: Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s memorial on the leader’s 143rd birth anniversary in Gujarat’s Narmada district called the Statue of Unity, the bronze sculpture is the world’s tallest statue measuring 600 feet (182m) and overshadows China’s Spring Temple Buddha (153m) and USA’s Statue of Liberty (93m).

Narendra Modi unveils Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s Statue of Unity

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS y October 2, 2018: World Health Organization (WHO)

launched the first global guidelines on sanitation and health even as it pitched for higher investments and policy shifts to achieve the goal of universal sanitation coverage by 2032.

y October 3, 2018: Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on became the first person to be stripped of the honorary Canadian citizenship for her role in gross human rights violations against the Rohingya people.

y October 4, 2018: Senior diplomat Sanjay Verma has been appointed as India’s Ambassador to Spain.

y October 6, 2018: Ukraine launches its first solar plant in the abandoned area around the former nuclear power station.

y October 10, 2018: From January 1 2019, Indian tourists travelling to Bhutan via road will need either a voter ID or a valid passport to enter the country, while the accompany-ing children can also travel with a birth certificate.

y October 11, 2018: Sikkim has become the pioneer in organic farming. This achievement has made it world’s first totally organic agriculture State in India. UNFAO has shortlisted Sikkim for the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Future Policy Award.

y October 11, 2018: The Pakistan Army appointed Lt. Gen. Asim Munir as the new chief of Pakistan’s powerful spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).

Lt. Gen. Asim Munir

y October 12, 2018: Sikkim has won the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) Future Policy Gold Award for its achievement in becoming the world’s first totally organic agriculture state.

y October 19, 2018: India will host the fourth edition of Global Partners’ Forum in New Delhi. The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health will unite


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over 100 countries’ representatives to discuss issues, strategies and solutions to women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health.

y October 22, 2018: Cameroon’s President Paul Biya has won a seventh term in office in polls marred by low turnout and voter intimidation.

y October 23, 2018: China opened the world’s longest sea-crossing bridge and tunnel, linking the financial centre of Hong Kong, the gambling hub of Macau and western reaches of the Pearl River Delta at the heart of southern China’s economic boom.

AWARDS y October 2, 2018: American scientist Arthur Ashkin,

French engineer Gérard Mourou and Canadian professor Donna Strickland have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work in the field of laser physics.

y October 3, 2018: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been presented with United Nations’ highest environmental honour ‘Champions of the Earth’ in Delhi by UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

Narendra Modi presented with United Nations’ highest environmental honour `Champions of the Earth’

y October 12, 2018: Prema Gopalan, founder of Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP), has won the Social Entrepreneur of the Year (SEOY) India Award 2018.

y October 15, 2018: National Award winning music director Mohammed Zahur Khayyam Hashmi, famous as ‘Khayyam’, has been named for this year’s Hridaynath Award for Lifetime Achievement.

y October 17, 2018: Author Anna Burns has won the Man Booker Prize for her novel ‘Milkman’, becoming the first author from Northern Ireland to win the most prestigious English-language literary award.

y October 19, 2018: Arshdeep Singh, 10, is among the winners of the 2018 Wildlife Photographer of the Year award in the 10-years-and-under category for his photograph ‘Pipe Owls’, which is of two spotted owlets nested inside a pipe.

y October 20, 2018: Union Minister Piyush Goyal received the prestigious Carnot Prize from the Ivy League University of Pennsylvania in recognition of his work for rural electrification while he held the power and renewable energy portfolios.

y October 24, 2018: A girl from the industrial city of Haryana, Panipat, has won the title of Miss Deaf Asia 2018 at the 18th edition of Miss and Mister Deaf World - Europe - Asia Beauty Pageant 2018 held at Prague.

y October 24, 2018: Agricultural scientist M.S. Swaminathan received the first World Agriculture Prize instituted by the Indian Council of Food and Agriculture (ICFA) in New Delhi.

y October 29, 2018: Roopam Sharma, a 23-year old Indian scientist, won the World Health Summit Startup award, 2018 for his invention, Manovue – the world’s first intelligent personal assisting system for the visually impaired.

y October 29, 2018: Miss Paraguay Clara Sosa won the Miss Grand International 2018 title at the 6th edition of the beauty pageant in Yangon, Myanmar. Clara Sosa succeeds Miss Grand International 2017 Maria Jose Lora of Peru.

SPORTS y October 7, 2018: India’s Keerthana Pandian has won

the girls’ title in the IBSF World Under-16 Snooker Championships.

y October 9, 2018: Sixteen-year-old shooter Manu Bhaker has become the first-ever Indian woman to win gold at Youth Olympics.

Manu Bhaker


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y October 10, 2018: India won three more gold on the third day of competitions at the Para Asian Games 2018 in Jakarta, Indonesia. India maintains its eighth spot.

y October 11, 2018: India’s Sharad Kumar smashed two records as he won a second successive gold in the Asian Para Games on Thursday. The 26-year-old world championships silver-medallist bettered the Asian as well as the Games record with a jump of 1.90m to claim the top honours.

y October 15, 2018: Japan Association of Athletics Federations announced to be the host of the 2019 edition of 4th International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Relays.

y October 27, 2018: Simona Halep has become the first recipient of the Chris Evert Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) World No.1 Trophy, named after WTA’s first-ever world number one, Chris Evert.

y October 29, 2018: Roger Federer won his ninth Swiss Indoors crown on Sunday after beating Romanian qualifier Marius Copil in the final.

BUSINESS y October 2, 2018: On the occasion of Birth Anniversa-

ry of Mahatma Gandhi Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), had launched a National Level En-trepreneurship Awareness Campaign, Udyam Abhilas-ha in 115 Aspirational Districts identified by NITI Aayog in 28 States and reaching to around 15,000 youth.

y October 3, 2018: World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), which represents nearly 45,000 listed companies, has appointed NSE’s Managing Director and CEO Vikram Limaye as the chairman of its working group committee.

y October 4, 2018: The Indian Government and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed $240 million loans for providing safe and sustainable drinking water to about 1.65 million people in three districts of the state of West Bengal affected by arsenic, fluoride, and salinity.

y October 13, 2018: World Bank released the Human Capital Index (HCI) as part of the World Development Report 2019. Broader theme of the World Development Report (WDR) this year is “The Changing Nature of Work”.

y October 15, 2018: Online financial services marketplace ‘BankBazaar’ has been appointed former RBI Deputy Governor S S Mundra as an advisor to the company.

y October 17, 2018: India has been ranked as the 58th most competitive economy on the World Economic Forum’s global competitiveness index for 2018. The WEF said, India’s rank rose by five places from 2017, the largest gain among G20 economies.

India becomes 58th most competitive economy on the World Economic Forum’s global competitiveness index

y October 22, 2018: Paytm has launched a QR-based smartphone payment settlement service in Japan in collaboration with SoftBank and Yahoo Japan Corporation. Paytm had formed a joint venture called ‘PayPay’ corporation with SoftBank and Yahoo Japan.

y October 22, 2018: State Bank of India is the first bank to introduce wealth business services for its customers. The wealth hub was launched by SBI Chairman Rajnish Kumar.

y October 23, 2018: PNB Metlife, a Life insurer, unveiled an app named ‘Khushi’. The app is an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered customer service.

y October 28, 2018: IDFC Bank proposed to change its name to ‘IDFC First Bank Ltd’ in the wake of its amalgamation with the non-banking financial company Capital First. The decision was taken during the meeting of the Board of Directors of IDFC Bank.

SCIENCE y October 3, 2018: The Hayabusa2 probe launched the

French-German Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout, or MASCOT, toward the Ryugu asteroid’s surface.

y October 5, 2018: NASA has announced the first crewed flight by Space X rocket to the International Space Station (ISS). It is expected to happen somewhere in June 2019. It is going to be the first manned US launch since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011.

y October 11, 2018: Astronomers witness birth of binary star system for the first time. The observations of the scientists, from the California Institute of Technology and Carnegie Science Institute, were published in the journal Science.


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y October 14, 2018: California Institute of Technology and Quebec University scientists have made the world’s fastest camera dubbed ‘T-CUP’ which can take pictures at 10 trillion frames per second and even film light moving in slow motion.

y October 23, 2018: Portrait painted (and signed) by artificial intelligence goes up for auction at Christie’s in New York and could fetch $10,000.

y October 27, 2018: Russia has successfully launched a Soyuz rocket for the first time since the failure of a similar rocket aborted a manned take-off to the International Space Station (ISS).

Russia launches Soyuz rocket

OBITUARY y October 1, 2018: Krishna Raj Kapoor, wife of legendary

actor Raj Kapoor dies at 87 after cardiac arrest.

Krishna Raj Kapoor

y October 15, 2018: Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies of cancer at age 65.

y October 18, 2018: Former Uttarakhand chief minister ND Tiwari dies on his 93rd birthday.

y October 21, 2018: Man who foiled Nazi nuclear plan dies aged 99.

y October 27, 2018: Former Delhi Chief Minister Madan Lal Khurana Dies At 82.

IMPORTANT DAYS

y November 07: National Cancer Awareness Day

y November 11: National Education Day

y November 21: World Television Day

y November 25: International Day for the Elimina-

tion of Violence against Women

y November 26: Constitution Day

HISTORICAL DAYS

y 6th November, 1860: Abraham Lincoln elected

President of the United States.

y 6th November, 1904: Mahatma Gandhi arrested in

South Africa for leading miners’ march.

y 9th November, 1921: Albert Einstein is awarded

the Nobel Prize in Physics.

y 10th November, 1990: Chandra Shekhar became

India’s eighth prime minister.

y 15th November, 1949: Nathuram Godse, assassin

of Mahatma Gandhi, was hanged.

y 17th November, 1800: The first session of Congress

is held in the United States Capitol building.

y 22nd November, 1963: John F. Kennedy, the

youngest person to become a U.S. president, is

assassinated in Dallas, Texas as his motorcade

travelled through the city.

y 24th November, 1859: Charles Darwin publishes

his theory on evolution “On the Origin of the

Species”, sparking great controversy.

y 26th November, 1949: The Constitution of India

was adopted.

y 30th November, 1782: The United Stated and

Great Britain sign a peace treaty in Paris, formally

ending the Revolutionary War.


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