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Daily Current Affairs of 2nd October 2018

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International Affairs

Today (2nd October) is International Day of Non-Violence, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi.
- In January 2004, Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi had taken a proposal for an International Day of Non-Violence.
- On 15 June 2007 the United Nations General Assembly voted to establish 2nd October as the International Day of Non-Violence.

National Current Affairs

The Nation pays homage to the Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi on his 149th Birth anniversary today.
Nation pays homage to former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on his 114th Birth anniversary today.
- Shastri served as prime minister from June 9, 1964, until his sudden death in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on January 11, 1966.
- He successfully led the nation during the 22-day war with Pakistan in 1965.
- He gave the slogan of 'Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan', which led to a rare display of unity in the country during India-Pakistan war.

Awards & Honors

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded for inventions in laser physics with one half to Arthur Ashkin and the other half to Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland.
- Ashkin was awarded "for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems".
- Mourou and Strickland were awarded "for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses".
Bollywood Actor-director Pankaj Kapur was honoured with 'Icons of Indian Cinema' Award at the closing ceremony of the 9th edition of Jagran Film Festival .
- Varun Dhawan received 'Best Actor' for the film, October, Zoya Hussain won 'Best Actress' award for her impressive performance in Mukkabaaz.
- Victor's History was honored as the Best Foreign Feature Film and Village Rockstars as the 'Best Indian Feature Film'.
Badminton player and Olympian P V Sindhu is the only sportsperson featuring in the Forbes India's maiden 'tycoons of tomorrow' list of 22 young achievers in the fields of business, acting and sports.
- Other prominent names in the list are Karan Adani, chief executive of Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone; Anant Goenka, group executive director of Indian Express; Ashni Biyani, managing director of Future Consumer; and the Birla scion Ananya Birla, founder of Svatantra Microfinance, co-founder, CuroCarte and co-founder of Mpower.

Banking, Business & Economic Affairs

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) today announced that it would inject ₹36,000 crore liquidity into the system through purchase of government bonds in October amid fears of a potential credit crunch.
- The central bank's move comes after the government recently announced that it will cut gross borrowings by ₹70,000 crore in the second half of the current fiscal.
India's largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) has reduced the cash withdrawal limits on its Classic and Maestro debit cards from ₹40,000 to ₹20,000 per day with effect from October 31.

New Appointments

India-born Harvard University professor Gita Gopinath has been appointed as the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
- She is going to replace Maurice Obstfeld, who is going to retire in December 2018.
Former Facebook VP of News Feed Adam Mosseri has been appointed the new head of Instagram following the resignation of Instagram Co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger last week.
Jayant Mammen Mathew, Executive Editor of Malayala Manorama, was today elected as the President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS), an apex body of India's print media industry.
- He was elected to the top post for the year 2018-19.
- He is going to replace Akila Urankar of Business Standard.
Senior diplomat Vikram Misri has been appointed as India’s next ambassador to China.'
- He will replace Gautam Bambawale.
- Misri, a 1989-batch India Foreign Service (IFS) officer, is presently serving as Indian envoy in Myanmar.

Sports Current Affairs

The Central Information Commission (CIC) today brought Indian cricket governing body BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) under the RTI (Right to Information) Act.
- The commission also directed BCCI to put online and offline mechanisms in place within 15 days to receive RTI queries.

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