{"id":1438,"date":"2026-09-11T04:07:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T04:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/current-affairs-notes-on-october-06-10-html\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T04:07:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T04:07:01","slug":"current-affairs-notes-on-october-06-10-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/current-affairs-notes-on-october-06-10-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Current affairs notes on October 06-10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body-6259158730941842737\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">1.The initiative under\u00a0PM Street Vendor\u2019s AtmaNirbhar<br \/>\nNidhi or PM SVANidhi Scheme\u00a0will help these vendors grow their business<br \/>\nwhich was severely hit and are still struggling due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It<br \/>\nis a special micro-credit facility plan to provide affordable loan of up to<br \/>\n\u20b910,000 to more than 50 lakh street vendors, who had their businesses<br \/>\noperational on or before 24 March 2020.Small Industries Development Bank of<br \/>\nIndia\u00a0is the technical partner for implementation of this scheme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">2. The Supreme Court recently asked the Centre and the<br \/>\nReserve Bank of India about the steps taken to implement\u00a0the K.V. Kamath<br \/>\nCommittee report on recommendations to bail out sectors affected by the<br \/>\nCOVID-19 pandemic. In August this year, RBI set up a committee headed by K.V.<br \/>\nKamath on restructuring ofcorporate <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>loans impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">3. Americans Harvey J Alter and Charles M Rice, and British<br \/>\nscientist Michael Houghton have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or<br \/>\nPhysiology for the discovery of\u00a0the hepatitis C virus. Hepatitis C is\u00a0a<br \/>\nliver disease.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">4. Yuddh Pradushan Ke Virudh: Launched by\u00a0Delhi<br \/>\nGovernment. It is an anti-pollution campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">5. India has successfully flight-tested its indigenously<br \/>\ndeveloped Supersonic Missile Assisted Release of Torpedo (SMART) from a test<br \/>\nrange off Odisha coast. SMART is a missile assisted release of lightweight<br \/>\nanti-submarine torpedo system for anti-submarine warfare (ASW) operations far<br \/>\nbeyond torpedo range.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">6. The United Nations designated the first Monday of October<br \/>\nof every year as World Habitat Day to reflect on the state of our towns and<br \/>\ncities, and on the basic right of all to adequate shelter. 2020 Theme: Housing<br \/>\nFor All \u2014 A Better Urban Future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">7. 2020 Nobel Prize in physics\u00a0has been awarded to<br \/>\nRoger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for furthering the\u00a0understanding<br \/>\nof black holes. A black hole is formed when stars collapse and can be defined<br \/>\nas\u00a0a space in the universe with an escape velocity so strong that even<br \/>\nlight cannot escape it. Awarded by\u00a0the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">8. 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded for\u00a0CRISPR\/Cas9<br \/>\n\u2018Genetic Scissors\u2019. Emmanuelle Charpentier and American Jennifer Doudna share<br \/>\nthe prize for developing the\u00a0CRISPR\/Cas9 tool\u00a0to edit the DNA of<br \/>\nanimals, plants and microorganisms with precision. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">9. National Air Quality Index: Launched in\u00a02014\u00a0with<br \/>\noutline\u00a0\u2018One Number \u2013 One Color -One Description\u2019. The measurement of air<br \/>\nquality is based on eight pollutants,\u00a0namely: Particulate Matter (PM10),<br \/>\nParticulate Matter (PM2.5), Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2), Sulphur Dioxide (SO2),<br \/>\nCarbon Monoxide (CO), Ozone (O3), Ammonia (NH3), and Lead (Pb). <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">10. The Centre has appointed RBI\u2019s senior-most Executive<br \/>\nDirector M. Rajeshwar Rao as Deputy Governor. As per the RBI Act-1934, the<br \/>\ncentral bank should have\u00a0four deputy governors \u2014\u00a0two from within the<br \/>\nranks, one commercial banker and another an economist to head the monetary<br \/>\npolicy department. RBI established on:1935.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">11. New Development Bank has approved infrastructure<br \/>\nprojects worth 741 million dollars in India. It is a multilateral development<br \/>\nbank\u00a0operated by the BRICS states\u00a0(Brazil, Russia, India, China and<br \/>\nSouth Africa). Headquartered\u00a0in Shanghai, China. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">12. Union Cabinet has approved the Ratification of\u00a0seven<br \/>\nchemicals\u00a0listed under\u00a0the Stockholm Convention\u00a0on Persistent<br \/>\nOrganic Pollutants (POPs). Signed in 2001 and\u00a0effective from May<br \/>\n2004\u00a0(Ninety days after the ratification by at least 50 signatory states) aims<br \/>\nto\u00a0eliminate or restrict\u00a0the production and use of\u00a0persistent<br \/>\norganic pollutants (POPs). <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">13. American poet Louise Gluck has won the 2020 Nobel<br \/>\nLiterature Prize. Presented by- Swedish Academy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">14. October 8 is celebrated as the Air Force Day. Army Day<br \/>\nis celebrated on\u00a015 January,\u00a0Navy Day is celebrated on 4 December.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">15. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has said it will conduct<br \/>\non-tap targeted long-term repo operations (TLTRO) for an amount of Rs 1 lakh<br \/>\ncrore to ensure comfortable liquidity conditions in the system. The LTRO is a<br \/>\ntool under which the central bank provides one-year to three-year money to<br \/>\nbanks at the prevailing repo rate, accepting government securities with<br \/>\nmatching or higher tenure as the collateral.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">16. The\u00a0United Nations\u2019 World Food Programme<br \/>\n(WFP)\u00a0has won the Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger<br \/>\naround the world and improve conditions for peace in areas affected by<br \/>\nconflict. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">17. Rudram Anti-Radiation Missile: Successfully test-fired<br \/>\nrecently from a Sukhoi-30 fighter aircraft. The missile has been developed<br \/>\nby\u00a0the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). It is\u00a0the<br \/>\nfirst indigenous air-to-ground missile\u00a0developed by the DRDO, after the<br \/>\nsupersonic BrahMos, which has been developed jointly with Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">18. RBI has decided to rationalise risk weightage on housing<br \/>\nloans. Risk weight refers to the capital banks keep aside as provisioning to<br \/>\ncover any loan defaults.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">19. Gujarat govt. bans garba during Navaratri. It is a<br \/>\nfamous folk dance of Gujarat. Garba refers to \u201cGarba deep\u201d which is an earthen<br \/>\npot with holes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/currentaffairscircle.blogspot.com\/2020\/10\/current-affairs-notes-on-october-06-10.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.The initiative under\u00a0PM Street Vendor\u2019s AtmaNirbhar Nidhi or PM SVANidhi Scheme\u00a0will help these vendors grow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}