Current Affairs Day Wise- One Liners-October 8, 2017
1-NIA– National Investigation Agency; RDA– Resident Doctors’ Association: AHL– Australian Hockey League
2-Samiya Farooqui won gold in the U-15 women’s singles category at the Asia Badminton Junior Championships 2017, Yangon (Myanmar)
3- Anthrax outbreak has killed 107 hippos in Namibia.
4-Congress, AAP sought probe into BJP chief Amit Shah’s son Jay Amitbhai Shah in turnover of his firm
5-Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited his hometown Vadnagar in Gujarat. He paid a visit to his school, launched the ‘Intensified Mission
Indradhanush’.
6-Blockchain business conference will begin in Vizag from Monday
7-Indian golfer Ajeetesh Sandhu has bagged maiden title on Asian Tour at Yeangder Tournament Players Championship (TPC)
8-Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has offered prayers at the Lord Venkateswara temple at Tirumala in Tirupati.
9-Nigeria’s Super Eagles has qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup
10-NASA’s Mars Odyssey probe has captured the first image of moon Phobos
11- President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended greetings on the occasion of 85th Air Force Day.
12-Ghana’s capital Accra was rocked by huge gas station blasts
13-About 10 companies are all set to relocate their legal headquarters from Catalonia to other places in Spain over fears of a unilateral declaration of independence
14-Russia is all set to launch new military airfield in Kaliningrad
15-Turkish President is Recep Tayyip Erdogan
16-Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman visited the India-China border, taught Chinese soldiers how to greet with a ‘namaste’.
17-Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal defeated Australian Nick Kyrgios to clinch the China Open title for the second time in his career.
18- French tennis player Caroline Garcia defeated Romanian Simona Halep at the China Open final to earn her second title within eight days.
19- Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman visited Assam’s Tezpur as part of her maiden visit to the Eastern Command.
20-Actress Tamannaah Bhatia has participated in breast cancer awareness walk organized in Hyderabad.
21- Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will visit the US to participate in the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
22-‘India-Brazil Diplomatic Relations (1948 – 2017)’ book celebrating 70 years of India-Brazil ties released
23- Aryan Makhija of India has claimed gold in 1500 meter freestyle event organized at the Seagulls Winter Short Course Championship at Durban.
24- The former Chief Justice Tassaduq Jilani is likely to be an ad-hoc judge in Kulbhushan Jadhav case in the International Court of Justice.
25-National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) will get full constitutional status, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said.
26-Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha Andhra Pradesh unit president Vishnuvardhan Reddy has claimed that BJP would emerge strongly in AP by 2019