1st Oct

Sothuparai dam, TN

Mamta Banerjees book - Kutsa Pakhha [Those Who Slander]

2nd Oct

Mary Kom defeated Kazakhstans Zhaina Shekerbekova in Asian games.

Bathukamma (festival of flowers) spring festival of goddess gori, Performed by the women of Telangana

Roller-skating championship being held in Reus in Spain

Former two-term Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg - NATOs Secretary-General

Dunhuang Caves in China

NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission, targeted to launch in 2020

NASAs Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN)

Attappady hills, Kinnakkara and Ooradam hills Kerala

Mount Sharp, a layered mountain in Mars

3rd Oct

NA

4th Oct

Vidyarambham Ritual is observed on Vijayadashami day mainly in Kerala and Karnataka, where children are formally introduced to music, dance, languages and other folk arts. It involves a ceremony of initiation into the characters of the syllabary.

The U.S.-India TPF (Trade Policy Forum) is the principal trade dialogue body having 5 groups

1) Agriculture, 2) Investment, 3) Innovation and creativity, 4) Services, and 5) Tariff and non-tariff barriers.

Phenol is a basic organic chemical used in manufacturing of antiseptics, industrial paints and cosmetics.

Way Kambas national park in Lampung, South Sumatra (Indonesia)

Jean-Paul Sartre refused to receive Nobel Prize on October 22, 1964.

Green Walks rock festival (Keelakuyilkudi) Madurai

Nine Emperor Gods Festival in Ampang, in the suburbs of Kuala Lumpur.

Vovinam is a Vietnamese martial art.

AUGUST 19 was Earth Overshoot Day

5th October

Mina Valley, Saudi Arabia

Kaaba, the black cubical structure inside the Grand Mosque at Haj

ihram or two-piece seamless white garment

Tughlaq , Girish Karnads iconic play written in 1964

A 36-year-old Swede has become the worlds first woman to give birth after receiving a womb transplant.

Alpine World Ski Championship scheduled to be held in St. Moritz in Switzerland, in February 2017.

6th October

The then ruler of Tonk Nawab Ibrahim Ali Khan IV started the tradition of sacrificing camels in 1864.

Indian Forests Act, 1927

Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972

Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974

Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980

Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981

Environment (Protection) Act, 1986

Shah Rukh Khan has been honored with Global Diversity Award 2014 by British parliament.

7th October

NA

8th October

Chonburi's annual buffalo race festival, east of Bangkok.

Michael Bloomberg was granted an honorary knighthood from Britain.Nobel Prize in physics for inventing blue light-emitting diodes

Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura

FDI cap in defence has risen from 26 per cent to 49 per cent.

TMT (Thirty Meter Telescope), will be constructed near the summit of the Mauna Kea volcano on Hawaii Island.

Countries involved India, Japan, the U.S., China and Canada.

9th October

Nobel Prize for Chemistry

Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner

They proved wrong that an optical microscope could never yield a resolution better than 0.2 micrometres.

Battambang (a dreamy, peaceful city in Cambodia) is known for the Sankae River.

10th October

Malala, Kailash Satyarthi win Nobel Peace PrizeKailash Satyarthi, the child rights activist from India, and Malala Yousufzai, the activist for girls education in Pakistan

Past Indian Nobel winners

YearNameField

1913Rabindranath TagoreLiterature

1930C.V. RamanPhysics

1968Hargobind KhoranaMedicine

1979Mother TeresaPeace

1983Subrahmanyam ChandrasekharPhysics

1998Amartya SenEconomics

2014Kailash SatyarthiPeace

Kerala martial art form Kalarippu

Gotipua is a traditional dance form in the state of Orissa

Tribes - Murias, Gonds and Santhals (Orissa)

Panika weavers of Kotpad and Baster in the Odisha-Chattisgarh border are Kabirs followers.

South Korean logical writing system Hangeul

King Sejong invented Hangeul in the 1440s. It replaced a system based on Chinese characters.

11th October

Around the world, municipalities have created innovative ways to tackle their very local situations Bangkok with waste management, Kampala with urban farming, London with congestion tax, Madrid and Barcelona with controlled pedestrianisation, Copenhagen with cycling tracks, Singapore with prohibitive litter fines.

Chhattisgarhs Chitrakote Falls

12th October

Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY) on Jayaprakash Narayans birth anniversary

Amur River that separates Russia and China

13th October

Swat Valley of Pakistan

14th October

French economist Jean Tirole won the Nobel Prize for economics for research on market power and regulation.

15th October

Gadhimai festival in Nepal

16th October

Khasi tribe of Meghalaya

World White Cane Day 15th October

Vulture numbers fell due to the drug diclofenac

Agroforestry - Promotes productive cropping environments, Prevents deforestation, Protects watersheds and Enables agricultural land to withstand extreme weather events

Tree-based systems provide tree products and tree services.

Tree products - fruit, fodder, fuel, fiber, fertilizer and timber; These add to food and nutritional security, income generation and insurance against crop failure.

Tree Services - soil and water conservation, nutrient recycling, carbon storage and biodiversity preservation.

Agroforestry can provide employment to rural and urban populations through production, industrial application and value addition ventures.

Agroforestry can augment energy capacity through biomass, biodiesel, biochar and biogas production.

Wood Based Industries (WBI) has played an important role in the promotion of agroforestry and economy in Punjab, Haryana, and western U.P and in Uttarakhand.

17th October

Labor Overhaul PM launches 5 schemes

1) SHRAM Suvidha Portal Allots Labor Identification Number to 6 Lakh firms. Also allows e filing of compliance reports.

The 4 main features of this Portal are:

Unique labour identification number (LIN) will be allotted to Units to facilitate online registration.

Filing of self-certified and simplified Single Online Return by the industry.

Mandatory uploading of inspection Reports within 72 hours by the Labour inspectors.

Timely redressal of grievances

2) Random Inspection Scheme Computerized system to select units for selectionReports to be uploaded within 72 hours of Inspection

The four features of the inspection scheme are:

Serious matters are to be covered under the mandatory inspection list.

There will be provision of Emergency List for inspection of serious cases in specific circumstances.

3) Universal Account Number 4.17 crore employees to be given Portable PF Accounts4) Apprentice Protsahan Yojna Govt. to reimburse 50% of stipend paid to apprentices during first 2 years of training.

Making the legal framework friendly to both, industry and youth.

Enhancing the rate of stipend and indexing it to minimum wages of semi skilled workers.

5) Revamped Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna - Smart cards of unorganized sector workers to be seeded with 2 more social security schemes.

October 15, 1994 - Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-D2) placed an Indian Remote-sensing Satellite into orbit.

October 16, 2014 - PSLV-C26 lobbed the 1,425 kg Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS-1C) satellite into its orbit.

Sanjaya Rajaram - has been awarded the World Food Prize in recognition of his significant contributions to global wheat production.

Sri Thirukkareesanadhar Temple, in Kalavai (TN)

18th October

Caspian Tern is the largest tern in the world.

Hoskote Lake Bangalore

19th October

Sunday / NA

20th October

B.K. Somashekhara Commission of Inquiry report into the 2008 church attacks in Mangalore.

The determinants of malnutrition are

Agriculture, health, Womens empowerment including maternal and child care practices, Ensuring sanitation, enabling safe drinking water, and Activating social protection programmes and nutrition education Economic growth

Malnutrition can be reduced by Enhancing womens health, Promoting gender equality and ensuring the empowerment of women including female educationGender equality Well-being of children

Biofortication is one way of having access to micronutrients.

naturally biofortified crops such as sweet potato, moringa (drumsticks), bread fruit and various berries which are rich in micronutrients such as iron, zinc, vitamin A and vitamin C.

Strengthening of social protection programmes like ICDS, PDS, mid-day meal schemes and MGNREGA are needed to achieve nutrition security.

Chahbahar Port is located along the Makran coast in the Gulf of Oman.

Chahbahar is in close proximity to the Strait of Hormuz.

21st October

NA

22nd October

Anti-HIV drugs - ZLN tablets (a combination of Zido-vudine, Lamivudine, Nevirapine)

Gajendragad, the epicentre of weaving in Karnataka

June 21 - International Day of Yoga

23rd October

NA

24th October

Deepor Beel, a large natural wetland Assam

25th October

Ziro Festival of Music in Arunachal Pradesh

To draft the National Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) policy - The panel, to be chaired by retired Justice Prabha Sridevan

Turkmenistans giant Galkynysh gas field

Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) natural gas pipeline

26th October

The Darjeeling Zoo, the highest altitude zoological garden in India

27th October

NA

28th October

Theyyam season & Pathamudayam rituals Malabar, Kerala

Munak Canal Haryana

29th October

Chhota Shigri glacier in the Pir Panjal range in Spiti valley, Himachal Pradesh

Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana (VKY), aimed at improving the infrastructure and human development indices of the tribal population.