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15th October 

1. *NAVRATRI* begins today on October 15 with Shailputri (one of the nine forms of the goddess) puja and ends on October 24 with Durga Visarjan and Dussehra celebrations

*NAVRATRI* : Navratri is an auspicious Hindu observance for nine days that is dedicated to Goddess Durga. During this time, devotees worship the nine different forms of Goddess Shakti. Navratri begins on ‘Pratipada’ (1st day) during the ‘Shukla Paksha’ (the waxing phase of moon) and continues till the ‘Navami’ (9th day) of the Hindu month of ‘Ashwin’. The celebrations of Navratri are observed with great zeal and dedication in all parts of the country.

2. Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar hosted lunch for delegates of participating nations on the occasion of the Ninth G20 Parliamentary Speakers’ Summit (P20) at Yashobhoomi in New Delhi on Saturday.

3. PM Modi inaugurated the 141st International Olympic Committee Session in Mumbai on Saturday evening.

4. Government has officially declared 23rd of August of every year as National Space Day to commemorate the success of Chandrayaan-3 Mission, with the landing of Vikram lander and deployment of Pragyaan Rover on lunar surface.

5. Road Transport and Highways Ministry has taken up a campaign for Vivad se Vishwas II to settle all eligible claims. This was agreed upon in a High-Level meeting led by Union Minister Nitin Gadkari with the National Highway Builders Federation (NHBF) to resolve their issues.

6. Union Health Minister Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya inaugurated Nagaland’s first Medical College - Nagaland Institute of Medical Sciences and Research ( NIMSR), at Phreibagei in Kohima.

7. Union Minister for fisheries Parshottam Rupala began the tenth phase of Sagar Parikrama from Chennai yesterday. 

8. India’s ambitious Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC) project, at a cost of Rs 51,000 crore, has reached a significant milestone. This development comes after a successful trial run of the first freight train over the 401-kilometer-long New Sahnewal (Punjab) to New Khurja (Uttar Pradesh) section of the EDFC. The entire 1337-kilometer EDFC is now declared operational. 

9. The ruling Mizo National Front (MNF) and the Hmar People’s Conference (HPC) Party (Reformation) have decided to work together for the success of the MNF candidates in the forthcoming election due in November. 

10. HARYANA CM Manohar Lal said that classrooms of the state's Government Model Culture Primary Schools will be converted into smart classrooms by the end of 2023. He said that out of 7,400 of these schools, 4,035 smart classrooms have already been made and the remaining will be completed soon.

11. The Meteorological Department yellow alert issued in seven districts of Kerala. They are Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha, Kottayam, Ernakulam and Idukki - on yellow alert.

12. UNESCO World Heritage Site Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve (KNPTR), famous for its one-horned rhino, is reopening after monsoon season, on October 15, to give an all-new wholesome tourism experience to visitors.

13. In MAHARASHTRA: An activist Monoj Jarange, who has brought back the Maratha quota issue to the centre stage in Maharashtra, on Saturday threatened to intensify his agitation after October 24 if the government fails to provide reservation to the community in jobs and education.

14. In TELANGANA: Bharat Rashtra Samithi supremo and Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao sprang a surprise when he had announced that he would be contesting from two seats in the assembly polls to be held on November 30.

Gajwel assembly constituency in Siddipet & in Kamareddy constituency. 

15. Air India has extended the suspension of its scheduled flights to and from Tel Aviv till October 18, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and militant group Hamas.

16. The Election Commission of India (ECI) has appointed Sandeep Shandilya, a senior IPS officer holding the rank of Additional Director General of Police, as the New Police Commissioner of Hyderabad.

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*LEGAL REPORT* 

#Chief Justice of India:

Shri Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud

#Minister Of Law & Justice : Arjun Ram Meghwal

#International Court Of Justice Prz. : Joan Donoghue

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1. CBI conducted raids in various parts of West Bengal on allegations of passport forgery Saturday. Apart from Kolkata's Ruby, Salt Lake, CBI's search operation has also started in Howrah. 

2. The Women and Juvenile Crime Prevention Wing of the Maharashtra Police Department has informed that 68.93 per cent of the kidnapped girls and 63.10 per cent of the missing women have been recovered this year till May 2023.

3. Punjab Police claimed to have busted a Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terror module and thwarted a possible terrorist attack in the border state.

The operation was conducted by the Punjab Police’s State Special Operation Cell (SSOC) in collaboration with central agencies. The police also recovered from their possession two IEDs, as many hand grenades, one .30 bore pistol with two magazines, 24 cartridges. 

4. The Delhi Director General (Prisons) has submitted a proposal on conjugal visitation rights of prisoners to the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP government for its consideration, the Delhi High Court has been told.

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*FINANCE* 

#Minister: Nirmala Sitharaman.

#Commerce & Industry : Piyush Goyal

#RBI Gvrnr: Shaktikanta Das

#President of the World Bank : 

Ajay Banga

#IMF MD: 

Kristalina Georgieva

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 *USD* ₹ 83.28

💷 *GBP* ₹ 100.97

€ *Euro* : ₹ 87.55

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*GDP rate (2023 )* : 6.5%

( $3.75 trillion)

India is the fifth largest economy in the world.

*Inflation rate* : 7.4%

*Population* : 141.81 cr 

(17.7% of the total world population).

*Unemployment* : 7.8% 

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1. ICICI Bank has introduced 'iFinance,' a feature that enables customers to streamline and manage their savings and current accounts from various banks in a single, user-friendly platform. Siddhartha Mishra, the Head of Digital Channels at ICICI Bank said. 

2. India’s largest integrated energy conglomerate, NTPC Limited, has achieved a remarkable distinction by being named one of the “World’s Best Employers 2023” in the Forbes World’s Best Employers list, which was officially unveiled on October 10, 2023. *NTPC’s Global Ranking* : 261st position among the top 700 companies globally. 

3. Commerce and Industry Minister, Piyush Goyal released a Compendium of PM Gati Shakti in New Delhi to mark the completion of two years of PM GatiShakti. 

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*ENTERTAINMENT NEWS*

#Chairman of The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) : 

R Madhavan

#Chairman of Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC): Prasoon Joshi

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1. A music video based on a Garba song penned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was released on Saturday, ahead of Navratri festivities.. 

Titled Garbo, the song voiced by singer Dhvani Bhanushali and composed by Tanishk Bagchi was released under the banner of Jjust Music, a music label founded by actor-producer Jackky Bhagnani. 

2. Renowned Hollywood actor Michael Douglas is set to receive the prestigious Satyajit Ray Excellence in Film Lifetime Award at the 54th International Film Festival to be held in Goa.

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*DEFENCE* 

#Supreme Commander of Armed Forces: The President

#Def Minister: Rajnath Singh

#Def Minister of State :

Ajay Bhatt

#Union Home : Amit Shah

#National Security Advisor : Ajit Doval

# Chief of Defence Staff: 

Gen Anil Chauhan, PVSM UYSM AVSM SM VSM

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1. Recently the Indian Army won a gold medal at the Cambrian Patrol Competition 2023 International Military Exercise in Wales, UK. A team from 3/5 Gorkha Rifles (Frontier Force) represented the Indian Army at the prestigious Cambrian Patrol Exercise in Wales

2. INS Sagardhwani, an oceanographic research vessel of Naval Physical & Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL) of DRDO, embarked on a two-month long Sagar Maitri (SM) Mission-4 from South Jetty, Southern Naval Command (SNC), Kochi on 11 Oct 2023.

3. Army Commanders’ Conference is scheduled to be held from 16th to 20th October in New Delhi. The apex-level biannual event is an institutional platform for deliberations at the conceptual level, facilitating important policy decisions for the Indian Army.

4. Indian Coast Guard Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC), Mumbai, the Maritime search and rescue coordinator on the Indian Western Coast evacuated a Chinese crew on board a Panama-flagged vessel MT Hua Wei 8 on Saturday due to severe medical conditions.

Sagar Maitri is a novel initiative of DRDO that supports the broad objective of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi’s policy declaration ‘Security and Growth for All in the Region (SAGAR)’ to promote closer cooperation in socio-economic aspects as well as more significant scientific interaction, especially in ocean research among Indian Ocean Rim (IOR) countries. 

5. Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) General Anil Chauhan has said that the national Security strategy of India is evolving to suit the character of modern warfare.

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✈ *INTERNATIONAL NEWS* 

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#External affairs Minister: S Jaishankar

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1. *OPERATION AJAY* , The second flight carrying 235 Indian nationals from Tel Aviv, Israel reached Delhi airport under 'Operation Ajay' on Saturday, the returning Indian citizens expressed their gratitude and thanked the Indian government. 

2. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will co-chair the 18th meeting of the India-Vietnam Joint Commission on Economic, Trade, Scientific, and Technological Cooperation with his Vietnamese counterpart as will visit 🇻🇳Vietnam from 15 Oct to 20 Oct. 

3. Indian company ImmunoACT, backed by drug maker Laurus Labs, has received approval from the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) for its CAR-T cell therapy NexCAR19. The therapy is the first of its kind to be developed in India and will be used to treat certain types of blood cancers. ImmunoACT intends to make the drug available to partner hospitals as soon as possible. 

NexCAR19 is an indigenously developed CD19-targeted CAR-T cell therapy. It is the first-of-its-kind, made-in-India product and is a major stride in advanced cell-and-gene therapies. NexCAR19 is the culmination of a collaborative effort across a decade, between the IIT- Bombay, and Tata Memorial Centre (TMC).

4. The launch of passenger ferry service between Tamil Nadu's Nagapattinam and Sri Lanka's Kankesanthurai is "truly a big step" for people-to-people contacts between India and Sri Lanka, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said. 

5. G20 Parliamentary Speakers’ Summit, P20 concluded in New Delhi on Saturday. India handed over the P20 Presidency to the Parliament of Brazil after successfully concluding the Ninth P20 Presidency.

6. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla registered protest against bringing proposal in European Parliament on India's internal issues. He held a bilateral discussion with the Vice President of the European Parliament Nicola Beer on the sidelines of the G20 Parliamentary Speakers’ Summit on Saturday.

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🌎 *WORLD NEWS* 🌍

UNO Gen. Secy : António Guterres. 

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1. Two crucial polls opened in the Oceania region on Saturday (October 14) in which Australians began voting on a referendum for Indigenous rights. 

(a) Australia decisively rejected a proposal to recognise Indigenous people in the constitution on Saturday. Australians had to vote in the referendum, on the question of whether to alter the constitution to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people through the creation of an Indigenous advisory body, the "Voice to Parliament".

(b) Australians had to vote "Yes" or "No" in the referendum, the first in almost a quarter of a century, on the question of whether to alter the constitution to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people through the creation of an Indigenous advisory body, the "Voice to Parliament".

(c) They voting on whether their nation's constitution should be amended to enshrine a mechanism for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to advise parliament on policies that affect their lives.

2. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formed an emergency unity government, receiving support from opposition leader Benny Gantz to manage the ongoing conflict with Hamas. 

3. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has said it has killed a commander in Hamas's commando forces Abu Murad who led one of the attacks on southern Israel communities last week. 

4. Documents have revealed that the terrorist group Hamas had created detailed plans to target elementary schools and a youth centre in the Israeli kibbutz of Kfar Sa'ad, to "kill as many people as possible," hold hostages and quickly take them into the Gaza Strip, NBC News reported. 

5. The World Bank has warned that Pakistan is at a tipping point on poverty with 40 per cent of its population below the poverty line. 

6. More than 12000 fake Pakistani passports have been recovered from Afghan nations by Saudi Arabian authorities. 

7. The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) suspended Manang Airline's Air Operator Certificate (AOC) on Saturday. The decision came after Manang airlines reported two aviation accidents within three months. 

8. Taliban in Afghanistan has refused to accept aid from Pakistan for earthquake victims, Pakistan-based The Express Tribune newspaper reported.Afghanistan was struck by a 6.3 magnitude earthquake last Saturday, leaving at least 1,000 people dead and affecting many villages.

9. Famous poet Louise Gluck, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020, has passed away at the age of 80.

10. ‘Ring of fire’ solar eclipse as observed across America.

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🚣🚴🏇🏊 *SPORTS* 

#Minister: Anurag Singh Thakur

#BCCI president: 

Roger Binny 

#Hockey India President:

Dilip Tirkey

#16th President of the Indian Olympic Association : P. T. Usha

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*ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP 2023* 

India vs Pakistan, 12th Match

India won by 7 wkts

PAK - 191 (42.5)

IND - 192/3 (30.3)

CRR: 6.30

Player of the Match

Jasprit Bumrah

Rohit Sharma 63-ball 86-run.

(b) 13th Match

England vs Afghanistan, 

starts at Oct 15, 08:30 GMT

2. Chief Minister of Jharkhand, Hemant Soren, unveiled the mascot for the upcoming Women's Asian Champions Trophy 2023. 'Juhi,' the mascot, takes inspiration from the beloved elephant at Betla National Park.

The seventh edition of the coveted tournament which is scheduled to be held from 27th October to 5th November 2023. Defending Champions Japan, runners-up Korea, China, Malaysia, Thailand and hosts India are expected to participate in the tournament.

3. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) recently has accepted the recommendation to include T20 cricket into the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Olympics. 

4. World Athletics has nominated Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra for the 2023 Men's Athlete of the Year award.

5. PM Modi inaugurates 141st session of International Olympic Committee in Mumbai; Says, India is eager to organise Olympics in the country.

6. PM Modi congratulated Raunak Sadhwani on his victory at the FIDE World Junior Rapid Chess Championship 2023

7. Former England cricket team captain Alastair Cook, has officially announced his retirement from the sport.

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*MANIPUR* : IMPHAL

Before was

Manipur Kingdom

Admission to union

15 Oct 1949

As union territory: 1956

As state: 1972 

District : 16 

*Governor* : Anusuiya Uikey

*CM* : N. Biren Singh (BJP) 

State Symbols

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Bird : Nongin 

Fish : Pengba 

Flower : Shirul Lily 

Tree : Unigthou 

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*In Bharat there are 28 states and 8 Union territories.* 

Population of Bharat: 

142 cr (2023) 

*President of Bharat* , 

Smt Droupadi Murmu

*Vice President* 

Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar 

*Prime Minister* : Shri Narendra Modi

*Speaker Lok Sabha* :

Shri Om Birla (BJP) 

*Rajyasabha Seats* : 245 (233 Elected + 12 Nominated)

*Loksabha* : 550 members (530 States + 20 Union Territories) 

*Chief Election Commissioner:* 

Shri Rajiv Kumar

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🇮🇳 *FACTS ABOUT BHARATH* 🇮🇳 

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*MYSORE, KARNATAKA* 

Mysore was ruled by the demon-king Mahishasura, he was a buffalo-headed monster. Hence, came the name of this place - Mahishuru, the city of demon Mahisha. The demon was killed by the Goddess Chamundeshwari, whose temple is situated atop the Chamundi Hills. Mahishuru later became Mahisuru and finally came to be called Maisuru, its present name in the Kannada language. The anglicised form of the name is Mysore. 

Mysore, previously known as Mysuru, is the third largest and second most populated city of Karnataka. Situated right at the foot of Chamundi Hills, Mysore was once the capital of the Kingdom of Mysore.

the celebration of Dussehra in the city of Mysore in Karnataka is rather royal and majestic. The entire city gets decked for the 10-day celebration of Dasara, which is popularly known as Nada Habba in Mysore. 

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*😀Thought of the day* 

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I BELIEVE, and therefore anything is possible. 

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*LEARN Sanskrit*🙏🏻 

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Best of luck* “Shumbham Bhavatu!” (शुभम् भवतु!), or “Haardik Shubheccha!” (हार्दिक शुभेच्छा!). 

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🤔 *HOW IT WORKS* ⁉ ======================= 

*How Does Laser Cutting Work?* -* 

When cutting stainless steel or aluminum, the laser beam simply melts the material, and high pressure nitrogen is used to blow the molten metal out of the kerf. On a CNC laser cutter, the laser cutting head is moved over the metal plate in the shape of the desired part, thus cutting the part out of the plate. 

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💁🏻‍♂‍ *GK TODAY* 

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*15 October - World Students’ Day*

World Students’ Day is observed on 15 October annually to mark the birth anniversary of A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. This day honours and pays respect to him and his efforts in the field of science and technology and also the role of the teacher that he played throughout his scientific and political careers.

Moon/Distance to Earth

384,400 km

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*BORN TODAY* 🐣💐 

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*Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen* Abdul Kalam ( 15 October 1931 – 27 July 2015) was an aerospace scientist who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007.

He was born and raised in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu and studied physics and aerospace engineering.

He also played a pivotal organisational, technical, and political role in India's Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998, the first since the original nuclear test by India in 1974.Kalam was elected as the 11th President of India in 2002 with the support of both the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the then-opposition Indian National Congress.

He was Widely referred to as the "People's President", 

While delivering a lecture at the Indian Institute of Management Shillong, Kalam collapsed and died from an apparent cardiac arrest on 27 July 2015, aged 83. 

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🙏🏻 *IDIOMS & PHRASES* 

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*Make one’s blood boil** 

To make someone extremely angry

*Eg* : It makes my blood boil when I hear about people abusing their pets. 

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*ANTONYMS** 

*Instill* × Eradicate

*SYNONYMS** 

*Instill* : Inculcate 

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