9 October 2022 : Latest Current Affairs 9th October
Important Current Affairs 9th October 2022
In this article, we will discuss all the Current Affairs of 9th October about national, international, banking, finance, sports, awards, and many others. So if you are interested to know about the latest 9th October 2022 current affairs then read this article till the end.
Current Affairs of 9th October – National News
1. Cheetah Task Force established by Environment Ministry
◉ A task group has been established by the Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change to oversee the introduction of cheetahs in Madhya Pradesh’s Kuno National Park.
◉ The task team was established to assess results and keep tabs on the cheetah’s health, maintenance of the quarantine, and overall area protection.
◉ Amit Mallick, Inspector General, NTCA, New Delhi, Vishnu Priya, Scientist, Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, Abhilash Khandekar, Member MP SBWL, Bhopal, and Subhoranjan Sen, APCCF- Wildlife – Member Convener are among the task force’s members. Alok Kumar, Retd. Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife) & Chief Wildlife Warden, Madhya Pradesh.
2. The AIIMS in Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh, was opened by PM Modi.
◉ The All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) in Kothipura, Himachal Pradesh’s Bilaspur district, was opened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
◉ A total of 247 acres will be used to construct this institution, which would cost 1471 crore rupees.
◉ Additionally, PM Modi dedicated and laid the cornerstone for construction projects totaling more than Rs 3,650 crore.
3. State-run NTPC and GE Gas Power announced an agreement to use hydrogen in gas turbines. In order to test the viability of co-firing hydrogen and natural gas in GE’s 9E gas turbines installed at NTPC’s Kawas combined-cycle gas power plant in Gujarat, the company and GE Gas Power signed a memorandum of understanding.
◉ Together, the two businesses will investigate strategies to lower CO2 emissions from the Kawas gas power plant and expand their implementation across all of NTPC’s installed units in India.
◉ Four GE 9E gas turbines running in combined-cycle mode supply the power for NTPC’s Kawas gas power station, which has an installed capacity of 645 megawatts (MW).
4. Aatmanirbhar Gujarat Schemes 2022 for Industries were introduced in Gujarat.
◉ Bhupendra Patel, the chief minister of Gujarat, has introduced an incentive program for businesses in an effort to bring in Rs 12.5 lakh crore in investments over the next ten years.
◉ For MSMEs, Large, and Mega industrial units, this program will continue to be in effect.
◉ The “Aatmanirbhar Gujarat Schemes 2022 for Assistance to Industries” have been unveiled by him.
◉ To provide jobs for almost 15 lakh young people, the government hopes to attract investments worth Rs 12.5 lakh crore.
5. The government increased the credit guarantee cap for the airline industry.
◉ The Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS) has been altered by the Department of Financial Services (DFS) for the aviation industry.
◉ The department increased the cheaper loan limit under the scheme from Rs 400 crores to Rs 1,500 crores.
◉ The action aims to provide the aviation industry with the necessary collateral-free liquidity at fair interest rates.
6. The Chhattisgarh Olympic opening ceremony is led by Bhupesh Baghel.
◉ The Chhattisgarh Olympics were launched by Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel of the state.
◉ In the state, the event will be held from 6 October 2022 to 6 January 2023.
◉ The Olympics feature 14 different traditional sports in both team and individual competitions.
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Banking
7. RBI introduced the DAKSH sophisticated supervisory monitoring system.
◉ Shaktikanta Das, governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has introduced the DAKSH “SupTech” program.
◉ The bank’s sophisticated supervisory monitoring system, which is supposed to strengthen the supervisory processes, will be this application.
◉ With the aim of further enhancing the compliance culture in Supervised Entities (SEs), such as Banks and NBFCs, RBI will monitor compliance needs in a more concentrated manner through DAKSH, a web-based end-to-end workflow platform.
8. The World Bank downgraded India’s growth projection for 2022–2023 from 7.5% to 6.5%.
◉ The World Bank has lowered its prediction for India’s GDP growth for 2022–2023 from 7.5% to 6.5% while issuing a warning that the economic outlook will be hampered by the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and global monetary tightening.
◉ The World Bank has now updated its estimate of India’s GDP growth for FY23 three times. It has reduced its estimate of India’s FY23 GDP growth to 7.5% in June. It had reduced the projection from 8.7% to 8% earlier in April.
9. WTO lowers its prediction for world trade in 2023 to 1%
◉ The International Commerce Organization (WTO) predicts that due to global uncertainties, the growth of world trade will dramatically decelerate to 1 percent in 2023 from the prior forecast of 3.4 percent.
◉ In addition, the WTO forecasts a 3.5 percent increase in global commerce this year as opposed to the April estimate of a 3 percent increase.
◉ For 2022–2023 and 2023, the WTO has set a range of trade growth increase of 2.8%–4.9% and -2.8%–4.6%.
Appointments News
10. Yes Bank has named Prashant Kumar as its new MD and CEO.
◉ Prashant Kumar has been given permission by the Reserve Bank of India to continue serving as the MD and CEO of YES Bank for an additional three years.
◉ The private sector lender’s shareholders must approve the appointment before it can be made.
◉ He was chosen to be the bank’s CEO when a group of lenders bailed out YES Bank in March 2020.
Awards News
11. Award winners for FIH Goalkeeper of the Year were Savita Punia and PR Sreejesh.
◉ Indian goalkeepers PR Sreejesh and Savita Punia have been chosen as the FIH Men’s and Women’s Goalkeeper of the Year 2021–2022, according to the International Hockey Federation (FIH).
◉ Since the award’s debut in 2014, Savita Punia, the captain of the Indian women’s hockey team, has become just the third athlete to win it two years in a row.
◉ While seasoned goalkeeper PR Sreejesh has become just the second player to receive the honor twice in a row.
12. French author Annie Ernaux was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature.
◉ The boldness and clinical precision with which Annie Ernaux explores the origins, estrangements, and societal restrictions of human memory earned her the Nobel Prize in Literature 2022.
◉ The Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden bestows the literary Nobel Prize.
◉ Abdulrazak Gurnah, a Tanzanian novelist, received the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for his unflinching and sympathetic exploration of colonialism’s legacy and the plight of migrants in the chasm between cultures and continents.
◉ Sully Prudhomme of France received the first Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901.
Important day
13. World Cotton Day is on October 7th.
◉ On October 7, the world observes World Cotton Day.
◉ One of the world’s top producers of cotton in India.
◉ The World Trade Organization launched World Cotton Day on October 7, 2019, at the initiative of Cotton-4 (Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, and Mali).
Creating a better future for cotton is the theme for 2022.
14. Indian Air Force Day is on October 8.
◉ The day of the Indian Air Force is celebrated annually on October 8.
◉ The Indian Air Force is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year (IAF).
◉ The day and its commemoration are a source of pride for Indians and ignite a patriotic fervour among the populace for the Indian Armed Forces’ air force.
◉ On October 8, 1932, the former British Empire created the IAF. It was established to support the Royal Air Force of the UK, particularly against Japan in World War II.
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