Historic Global Greenhouse gas emission Agreement signed in Kigali

WHO releases Global Tuberculosis Report 2016

Russia & Turkey agree to intensify military, intelligence contacts

France becomes first country to ban plastic cups and plates

WHO declares Region of the Americas as Measles free

Cuba, Russia sign Agreement on Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation

Typhoon Megi Hits Taiwan

Colombia, FARC sign Historic Pact ending 52-years Civil War

UNSC approves resolution for global implementation CTBT to ban nuclear weapons tests

193 countries sign declaration to stamp out drug-resistant infections

Russia to lease another nuclear-powered submarine to India

BRICS to set up credit rating agency

India, Russia sign 16 agreements across diverse sectors

Global hunger index 2016

Pakistan announces postponement of 19th SAARC Summit in Islamabad

IGI becomes Asia-Pacifics first carbon neutral airport

India will not attend SAARC Summit in Islamabad MEA

India, US Joint Military Training Exercise Yudh Abhyas 2016 concludes

India, Russia begin joint military exercise in Vladivostok

India, France ink deal for 36 Rafale fighter jets

Union Govt proposes 4 GST slabs

2nd Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav

PM launches National SC/ST hub and Zero Defect Zero Effect scheme

Ashok Leyland launches first India-made electric bus

Union Govt launches satellite-based illegal Mining Detection System

PM Narendra Modi inaugurates Shaurya Smarak in Bhopal

22 MPs from smaller parties, independents in Rajya Sabha recognised as a consolidated

bloc

Cabinet approves setting up of IIM Jammu

Draft National Water Framework Bill, 2016 suggests basin-level management

Himansh, Indias remote, high-altitude station opens in Himalayas

Union Government extends anti-dumping duty on certain Chinese products

Women can also be prosecuted under domestic violence law-SC

Indias first international arbitration centre inaugurated in Mumbai

India-Pakistan border to be sealed completely by 2018

Government integrates 250 mandis in 10 states with e-agriculture market in 1st phase

Union Government approves Rs.114 crore worth projects under HRIDAY Scheme

Cabinet approves amendments to HIV and AIDS (Prevention and Control) Bill, 2014

Election Commission of India collaborates with Facebook to register young voters

Union Govt launches Indian Bridge Management System

PM Narendra Modi inaugurates India Sanitation conference in New Delhi

Indian Army carries out surgical strikes on terror launch pads across LoC

Union Cabinet gives approves Varistha Pension Bima Yojana, 2003 and 2014

Shaheed Bhagat Singhs 109th birth anniversary observed across India

Union Govt decides to suspend talks on Indus Waters Treaty

CSIR celebrates its platinum jubilee

Govt appoints ICICI Prudential AMC to manage new CPSE ETF

Union Govt to launch Mission Parivar Vikas for improved family planning services

Nation worlds largest solar power plant in TN

Govt merges Railway Budget with Union Budget

Indira Awas Yojana Renamed After Prime Minister

Irom Sharmila announces formation of political party named PRJA

Telangana Govt creates 21 new districts

MP to launch Lalima Abhiyan to make state free from anaemia

Jharkhand becomes first state to implement DBT in Kerosene

Delhi Police launches Mobile App for senior citizens

Gurgaon officially renamed Gurugram

Telangana ties up with ISRO for bandwidth to telecast coaching programmes

Agriculture Minister inaugurates Krishi Unnati Mela in Mathura

TN government for Thaaliku Thangam scheme under marriage assistance programme

Delhis Race Course Road renamed as Lok Kalyan Marg

8th BRICS Summit concludes in Goa

First BRICS Trade Fair and Exhibition held in Delhi

4th BRICS Science, Technology and Innovation Ministerial Meeting held at Jaipur

India to host 2016 Asian Ministerial Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction

President Pranab Mukherjee inaugurates World Sustainable Development Summit

Robert De Niro to be honoured with Chaplin Award

R.A. Mashelkar conferred award by Centre for Organisation Development

Bob Dylan wins 2016 Nobel prize in literature

Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank awarded by Ugandan govt for his literary work

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos

Three win Nobel chemistry prize for molecular machines

Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage, British born J Fraser Stoddart and Dutch scientist Bernard
Feringa

Thouless, Haldane & Kosterlitz win the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics

Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi

Murga wins first prize at Swachh Bharat Short Film Festival

The Hindu wins reader engagement awards

Syrian aid group White Helmets wins Right Livelihood Award

Novak Djokovic retains top spot in ATP rankings

Andy Murray defeats Grigor Dimitrov to win China Open

Kieren Dsouza becomes the first Indian to complete Worlds toughest race, Spartathlon

Rani becomes 1st Indian woman to cross 60m in javelin

India wins historic 500th Test by 197 runs against NZ

Japan to host 2026 Asian Games Olympic Council of Asia

Anup Kumar to lead India in Kabaddi World Cup

Rosneft-led consortium buys Indias Essar Oil for $13 billion

In the First, Bank deposits cross Rs 100 lakh crore

India now the 12th largest holder of US govt bonds

Forex reserves touch record high of $372 billion

IMF revises Indias economic growth upwards to 7.6% for FY17 and 18

Flipkart becomes 1st e-commerce in India to cross 100 million customers

India completes nuclear triad by commissioning INS Arihant

China successfully launches its longest ever manned mission to space

IISER researchers use human hair to produce cheaper cathodes for solar cells

ISRO successfully launches GSAT-18 from Kourou in French Guiana

New species of pika named Ochotona sikimaria discovered in Sikkim

Worlds first three-parent baby born in Mexico

ISRO successfully launches 8 satellites into two different orbits

Indian Air Force successfully test fires long range air-to-air MICA missile

Sun Pharma signs deal with ICGEB to develop Indias first dengue vaccine

Researchers produce carbon from sugarcane waste for use in batteries

Geeta Phogat appointed DSP in Haryana Police

Sanjay Singh appointed Member Secretary, Law Commission

Abdelilah Bekirane elected as Prime minister of Morocco

Antonio Guterres appointed UN Secretary-General

Renu Pall appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Austria

Obama nominates ambassador to Cuba

Jim Yong Kim re-appointed as World Bank President

Sachin, Amitabh in new Swachh Bharat campaign

Visa CEO Charles Scharf to resign

Usain Bolt to retire after the 2017 World Championships

British Olympics icon Jessica Ennis-Hill announces retirement from athletics

Jawhar Sircar resigns as CEO of Prasar Bharati Corporation

Govt removes Sushil Muhnot as CMD of Bank of Maharashtra

Ritu Rani retires from international hockey

King of Thailand dies

Dario Fo, Nobel-winning playwright, dies aged 90

Style icon Parmeshwar Godrej passes away at 70

Oscar-winning Polish film director Wajda dies aged 90

Former boxing champion Aaron Pryor dies at 60

Shimon Peres, former Israeli president, dies aged 93

Golf legend Arnold Palmer passes away

Oscar-winning writer and director dies at 71

India, Singapore sign three agreements

Signed MoUs are:

1. Signed MoUs are:MoU in the field of Industrial Property Cooperation

2. MoU on collaboration in the field of Technical and Vocational Education and Training
(between National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and ITEES Singapore).

3. MoU on collaboration in the field of Technical and Vocational Education and Training
(between Government of Assam and ITEES Singapore).

Abu Dhabi Crown Prince to be Chief Guest on 2017 Republic Day

Mizorams Pachuau declared Indias oldest working journalist

Bathukamma Event Enters Guinness Book of World Records

Worlds largest radio telescope built in China

Visaranai to take a shot at Oscar nomination

Brazil opens Latin Americas first elephant sanctuary

Powerful typhoon Chaba to hit Japan

Venkaiah Naidu releases book titled Modis Midas Touch in Foreign Policy

Arundhati Roys next novel to be out in 2017

President, PM launch VPs book titled Citizen and Society

Saraswati River existed: KS Valdiya committee

BCCI president Anurag Thakur part of powerful ICC sub-committee

Finance Ministry constitutes committee to consolidate regulation of pension products

17 October: International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

16 October: World Food Day

International Day of Rural Women: October 15

World Student Day: October 15

World Standards Day: 14 October

International Day for Disaster Reduction: October 13

First World Tsunami Awareness Day to be observed on Nov 5

International Day of the Girl Child : 11 October

World Mental Health Day: 10 October

World Post Day: 9th October

Indian Air Force Day: 8 October

5 October: World Teachers Day

410 October: World Space Week

3 October: World Habitat Day

International day for non violence: 2nd October

1 October: International Day of Older Persons

International Translation Day: 30 September

World Maritime Day: 29 September

World Heart Day: 29 September

World Rabies Day: 28th September

World Tourism Day: 27 September

21 September: International Day of Peace