Top Best Current Affairs 13 October 2020

Musician Eddie Van Halen, the Guitar virtuoso whose blinding speed, control and innovation propelled his band Van Halen into one of hard rock's biggest groups and became elevated to status of rock god, has died .He was 65.

During the 56th meeting of Standing Scientific Research Committee of the Ministry, Anil Jain, Secretary of Coal ministry launched a website to disseminate and promote Research and Development(R&D) activities in the coal sector. The website was developed by Central Mines Planning and Design Institute Limited (CMPDI),R&D arm of Coal India Limited (CIL). The website also promote science and technology research in the coal and lignite sector. Pralhad Joshi is the present coal minister of India.

In a first of its kind measure, the Reserve Bank of India will buy bonds issued by state government i.e. State Development Loans(SDL) in the current financial year as a special case via secondary market open market operations, to ensure they don't face rising interest costs amid high borrowings. The decision regarding this measure has been taken to ensure that financial conditions don't tighten and to improve Liquidity Adjustment Facility (LAF) along with T-bills, dated government securities and oil bonds.

GBS Sidhu, a former special secretary of Research and Analysis Wing(R&AW), India's external intelligence agency authored a book titled " The Khalistan Conspiracy: A Former R&AW Officer Unravels the Path to 1984" that portrays the first person accounts on the facts and the roles of senior politicians in the creation and sustenance of Khalistan movement. The book published by Harper Collins will be released on 24th October 2020. He published "Sikkim Dawn of Democracy: Truth Behind the Merger with India " in 2018.

As part of the United Nations International Day of Girl Child (11th October,2020). 16 year old Aava Murto assumed the post of Finland's Prime Minister for one day on 7th October,2020 to raise awareness about gender equality. It was done as part of " Girl Takeover" Program. Murto hails from the small village of Vaaksy in Southern Finland. The Prime Minister of Finland is Sanna Marin, Capital city is Gelsinki and Currency is Euro respectively.

Chandrakant Kavelekar, Deputy Chief Minister and Agriculture Minister of Goa in the press conference organized at Krishi Bhavan at Tonca with Postmaster General Vinod Kumar, stated that the state government has tied up with India Posts to enrol 11,000 farmers in the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme. Through this tie up the postman will be utilized to benefit farmer. This is India's 1st such initiative and a unique drive.

The 6 member 25th Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting of Reserve Bank of India(RBI) was held from October 7-9,2020 which was headed by RBI Governor Shaktikant Das.During the meeting it was projected that the economy will contract by 9.5%in 2020-2021 amid COVID -19 with risks tilted to the downside : (-)9.8% in Q2/2020-21, (-)5.6% in the third quarter, and 0.5% in the fourth quarter.

Gujarat State Fertilizers and Chemicals India Ltd(GSFC) launched an Indigenous variety of Calcium Nitrate and Boronated Calcium Nitrate. Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers, Mansukh L Mandaviya launched the product virtually. Calcium nitrate is a water soluble fertilizers in agriculture, and also in wastewater treatment. The indigenous variety will provide a cheaper alternative to the farmer community in India.