1. Japan to Fund mass rapid transit systems in Gujrat, Haryana
Funds from a Japanese government loan will soon be utilised for the first time in the $100 billion, Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) project. So far, the mega-project was being developed only with the Indian government financial assistance.
The DMIC spans six states (Uttar Pradesh, Delhi National Capital Region, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra). It uses 'the 1,500-km-long, high-capacity western Dedicated Railway Freight Corridor (DFC) as the backbone' and aims to be 'a global manufacturing and investment destination'.
The JICA is the Japanese governmental agency in charge of implementation of Japan's Official Development Assistance (ODA) - with the man objective of promoting economic development and welfare in developing countries.
2. Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) Arvind Subramanian who had planned to return to the U.S. after his three years tenure ended on October 16, has been persuaded by the government to stay back for another year.
3. Leader of Swaraj Abhiyan - Yogendra Yadav.
4. Eminent scientist and Bharat Ratna recipient C.N.R. Rao has received an internationally recognised honour, the prestigious Von Hippel Award for Materials Research, stated a release from the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru.
5. Union Minister for Micro, small and Medium Enterprises - Giriraj Singh.
6. India is third in the world in the number of nuclear reactors being installed, at six while China is leading at 20, the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2017, released this month, shows.
7. Scientists have unearthed blue coloured fossiled dinosaur egg shells from the Chinese province of Jiangxi.
8. Scientists studying frogs in Brazil's Atlantic forest have found that tiny pumpkin toadlets (Brachycephalus spp) lack inner ear structures. The lack of hearing apparatus and auditory sensors suggests that these species are unable to perceive their own cells. So these diurnal, brightly coloured toads use other visual aids like movement of vocal cord, mouth-gaping and arm waving for calling.
9. An investigational therapy using a modified poliovirus to attack cancer timours appears to unleash the body's own capacity to fight maligancies by activating an inflammation process that counters the ability of cancer cells to evade the immune system.
10. A team of U.S. and German researchers have discovered that immune ells called neutrophils deliver a regulatory molecule known as microRNA inti the lung tissue to help protect against harmful inflammation.
11. What is 'Monstrous Moonshine'?
This refers to a 1979 paper in mathematics by John Conway and Simon P. Norton. The paper described a surprising connection between a massive algebaric object known as the 'monster group and the j-function, a key object in number theory. In 2015, a group of mathematicians presented proof of the umbral moonshine conjecture, which revealed 23 other moonshine, or mysterious connections between the dimensions of symmetry groups and coefficients of special functions. They can be used to solve problems of elliptic curves, or in non-mathematics teach, surface that are shaped like a doughnut.
12. Zhang Shuai Wins Ghangzhou Open.
13. Five-time world champion and Olympic bronze- medalist M.C Mary Kom has become the first Indian ton be picked as the international Boxing Association's (AIBA) representative for the IOC Athletes Forum scheduled in November.
14. NASA asteroid mission receives a gravitational kick from earth.
An unnamed NASA spacecraft travelling to a distant asteroid, veered towards earth on Friday, for a gravitational slingshot man-oeuvre that will better aim it towards the sun-orbiting space rock, Bennu, The U.S. space agency said.
The gravity boost take place about halfway through the (two-year journey of the spacecraft, known as OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource identification, and Security - Regolith Explorer).
15. Google has launched a feature that allow users to contribute to movie and television reviews within search result. This feature is available only in India currently.
16. Books And Authors:
The people Next Door: The Curious History of India's Relations with Pakistan - T.C.A. Raghavan
Touched by God: How We Won the Mexico '86 World Cup - Diego Armando Maradona and Daniel Arcucci
From Chanakya to Modi: The Evolution of india's Foreign Policy - Aparna Pande
Dear World: A Syrian Girl's Story of War and Plea foe Peace - Banna Alabed
Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change - Ellen Pao
Devi: The Goddesses of India - John Stratton Hawley and Donna Marie Wulff
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine - Anne Applebaum
India Now and in Translation - Edited by Atul K. Thakur
A Bonsai Tree An Autobiography - Narendra Luther
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