Top Best Current Affairs 18 October 2020

The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is observed on October 17 every year by the united nations.

Chabahar Port is a seaport in Chabahar located in south eastern Iran, on the Gulf of Oman.

The Raksha Mantri Trophy for the year 2019 has been awarded to the Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS)' Command Hospitals.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recently released the Global Tuberculosis Report, 2020. The report Highlights the impact of COVID-19 on Tuberculosis (TB) related deaths. It says that COVID-19 might increase the TB deaths by 0.2 to 0.4 million worldwide.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security. It was founded in October 1945.

To improve public health in India and combat negative nutritional trends to fight lifestyle diseases, FSSAI launched 'The Eat Right Movement'

Uttar Pradesh government launched a 6-month long women empowerment programme 'Mission Shakti' on October 17, 2020. The initiative was launched in order to raise awareness and tackle crime against women in the state.

BepiColombo was launched on the Ariane 5 rocket and will arrive Mercury in 2025. This spacecraft mission has been launched to explore and study the mercury. The spacecraft would be studying the characterisation of magnetosphere and the external and surface magnetic field of the mercury.