Business & International:
- China announced to ends its “onechild policy” to counter the ageing workforce issues allowing all couples to have two children.
- Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli of Communist Party of Nepal was elected as the new Prime Minister of Nepal.
- India is set to be the G20 Chair in 2018.
- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas raised the Palestinian flag at the United Nations for the first time on 30th September 2015.
- Retail major Future Group on 9th October 2015 entered into a partnership with Baba Ramdev-promoted Patanjali Ayurved.
- Hoesung Lee has been elected on 6th October 2015 as the head of the Inter-governmental Panel for Climate Change.
- Maruti Suzuki Chairman RC Bhargava has been honoured with the lifetime achievement award at the Forbes India Leadership Awards (FILA), 2015 on 1st October 2015.
- According to a World Bank report, India now ranks 130 out of 189 countries in the ease of doing business, moving up 12 places from last year.
- Western Digital, a maker of hard drives for businesses and personal computers, is buying SanDisk in a cash-and-stock deal worth about $19 billion as it looks to extend its reach in the storage industry.
- PC maker Dell Inc will acquire EMC Corporation for about USD 67 billion to create the “world’s largest privately controlled, integrated technology company”.
- Samardeep Subandh has been appointed as new CMO of Flipkart.
National:
- The Union Government approved the induction of women fighter pilots in Indian Air Force (IAF).
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of Amaravati, the new capital city of Andhra Pradesh.
- President Pranab Mukherjee concluded three-nation visit to Jordan, Palestine and Israel.
- Supreme Court fivejudge constitution bench headed by Justice JS Khehar declared National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC)
- Bank of Baroda has become the second bank after HDFC Bank to join the Chillr payment platform which enables peer-to-peer payment through a mobile application.
Persons in News:
- Bidya Devi Bhandari elected as the first woman President of Nepal.
- Jack Dorsey appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Twitter.
- Raif Badawi was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, the European Union’s top human rights award.
- Sam Pitroda’s autobiography Dreaming Big- My Journey to Connect India released in October 2015.
- A city-based NRI journalist Mihir Bose has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement award by the Asian Cricket Awards in a ceremony at Lord’s Ground.
- Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri’s book ‘Neither a Hawk nor a Dove,’ has been launched on 12th October 2015 at Nehru Centre, Mumbai.
- In October 2015, A two-time Oscar-winning composer, R. Rahman has been named the Cultural Ambassador for Seychelles.
- M K Surana will be the new Chairman and Managing Director of Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL).
Award:
- Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet has won the Nobel Peace Prize 2015 for its contribution to the building of democracy in Tunisia.
- Svetlana Alexievich of Belarus has won the Nobel Prize for Literature for her polyphonic writings.
- Sweden’s Tomas Lindahl, American Paul Modrich and Turkishborn Aziz Sancar won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for work on mapping how cells repair damaged DNA.
- The 2015 Nobel Prize in physics awarded to Takaaki Kajita of Japan and Arthur McDonald (Canada) for their work on neutrino oscillations.
- William Campbell (Ireland), Satoshi Omura (Japan) and Youyou Tu (China) have jointly won the 2015 Nobel medicine prize for their work against parasitic diseases.
- Jamaican novelist Marlon James has won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction for “A Brief History of Seven Killings“.
- Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe awarded the 2015 Confucius Peace Prize in China.
- Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi has been conferred with Harvard University’s prestigious humanitarian award for this year.
- Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh.
- Music Director A R Rehman was chosen for the 2015 Hridaynath Mangeshkar
- Right Livelihood Awards also called as “alternative Nobels”, 2015 was given to Human rights and global crisis activists from Canada, Italy, Uganda, and the Marshall Islands in October 2015.
Sports:
- Lewis Hamilton wins the 2015 Formula One United States Grand Prix
- Indian archer Abhishek Verma becomes the first Indian to wins silver medal in the Archery World Cup Final.
- Ajay Jayaram wins the 2015 Dutch Open Men’s Singles badminton title after defeating Estonia’s Raul Must by 2112 2118.
- Indian shuttler PV Sindhu was defeated by Li Xuerui in the 2015 Denmark badminton open women’s singles final.
- Sania MirzaMartina Hingis wins the China Open title by 67 (9), 61, 108 victory over Chinese Taipean pair of HaoChing Chan and YungJan Chan.
- Indian Pace bowler Zaheer Khan announced his retirement from international cricket. Zaheer Khan has picked up 311 wickets in 92 Tests and 282 wickets in 200 ODIs.
- Indian batsman Virender Sehwag retired from all forms of international Cricket and IPL. He had played 104 test matches and 251 ODI for India.
- Heena Sindhu wins a gold medal in women’s 10-metre air pistol event in Asian Air Gun Championship.
- Anil Kumble, the former India captain, was on 20th October 2015 roped in as the brand ambassador of Champions Tennis League (CTL).
- Vijay Kumar Malhotra is appointed as the new Chairman of All India Sports Council.
Important Days in October:
- 1st October: International Oldmen’s Day
- 2nd October: Mahatma Gandhi’s Birth Day (International Non-Violence Day)
- 2nd October: Birthday of Lal Bahadur Shastri
- 4th October: World Animal Welfare Day
- 5th October: World Teacher’s Day
- 6th October: World Wild animal Day
- 8th October: Indian Air Force Day
- 16th October: World Food Day
- 24th October: United Nation (UN) Day
- 31st October: Death Anniversary of Indira Gandhi
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