International Current Affairs – October 2022

  • 5th Assembly of International Solar Alliance’s to be held in New Delhi
  • An Ethiopian government team and Tigray forces are going to have peace talks in South Africa.
  • EU approved adoption of world’s first single charger rule
  • United Nations group committed 2050 goal of net-zero emissions from air travel
  • India signed a historic trade agreement with Australia, the India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (Ind- Aus ECTA).
  • PM Modi addressed UN World Geospatial International Congress
  • Europe scrambling to cope with the energy crisis as winter approaches
  • Tom Cruise became first actor to film in outer space
  • Israel and Lebanon agreed to ‘historic agreement’ on the maritime dispute
  • Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index: India ranked 123rd, topped by Norway
  • Wildlife populations declined 69% since 1970: WWF report
  • Global Hunger Index 2022; India ranked 107th out of 121 countries
  • French author Annie Ernaux won Nobel Prize 2022 in Literature
  • Ales Bialiatski, Russia’s Memorial and Ukraine’s CCL won Nobel Prize 2022 in Peace
  • Savita Punia & PR Sreejesh won FIH Goalkeeper of the Year awards
  • Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond, Philip Dybvig won Nobel Prize 2022 in Economics
  • Smriti Mandhana appointed as India ambassador for Gulf Oil
  • India offers a nuanced response to changing tides of the Ukraine war
  • Kishore Poludasu appointed as the MD & CEO of SBI General Insurance
  • Alexander Van der Bellen re-elected as President of Austria
  • Roger Binny set to replace Sourav Ganguly as BCCI president
  • Ananth Narayan Gopalakrishnan takes charge as whole-time member at Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)
  • Centre appointed Pankaj Mithal as Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court, PB Varale as Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court and AM Magrey as Chief Justice of J&K and Ladakh High Court
  • Odisha MP Aparajita Sarangi elected to Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) panel
  • Abdul Latif Rashid elected as President of Iraq
  • Partha Satpathy appointed as new ambassador to Bosnia & Herzegovina
  • Global Innovation Index 2022: India climbs to 40th rank, Switzerland Tops
  • Kazakhstan changes capital’s name from Nur-Sultan back to Astana
  • ajneet Kohli appointed as CEO of Britannia Industries
  • Vinayak Godse appointed as new CEO of Data Security Council of India
  • Lalit Bhasin elected new Indian American Chambers of Commerce (IACC) national president
  • S Bharathan appointed as Director-refineries at HPCL
  • Ajay Bhadoo appointed as Deputy Election Commissioner
  • N S Rajan appointed as Chairman of Advertising Standards Council of India
  • Arunachal Governor B D Mishra given additional charge of Meghalaya
  • Sandeep Kumar Gupta appointed Chairman of Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL)
  • ISRO Scientist Anil Kumar appointed as the Vice President of International Astronautical Federation (IAF)
  • Sujoy Lal Thaosen appointed as CRPF Director General
  • India to host 90th General Assembly of INTERPOL in New Delhi
  • India lifted 415 million out of poverty in 15 years: UN report
  • 22nd World Blockchain Summit concludes in Dubai
  • Global Youth Climate Summit begins in Bangladesh
  • 14th edition of World Spice Congress organized in Maharashtra
  • Interpol launched first global police metaverse at Delhi conference
  • Diwali to be a public school holiday in New York City from 2023
  • 14th Tribal Youth Exchange Programme held in New Delhi
  • CFS Global Pension Index 2022: India ranked 41st; topped by Iceland
  • India suffered income loss of 5.4% of GDP due to heatwave: Report
  • Financial Action Task Force (FATF) removed Pakistan from ‘Grey List’ after four years
  • India ranked 3rd in list of centi-millionaires, topped by USA
  • Apoorva Srivastava appointed as India’s Ambassador to Slovak Republic
  • Sourav Ganguly appointed as brand ambassador of Bandhan Bank
  • Infosys president Ravi Kumar S resigned
  • Justice D Y Chandrachud appointed as 50th Chief Justice of India
  • Ulf Kristersson elected as new PM of Sweden
  • Atanu Chakraborty appointed as Chairman of Yubi
  • Deependra Singh Rathore appointed as Interim CEO of Paytm Payments Bank
  • Bharati Das appointed as new Controller General of Accounts
  • Pradeep Kharola appointed as CMD of India Trade Promotion Organization
  • UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman resigned from her post
  • Sanjay Malhotra appointed as new Revenue Secretary
  • Liz Truss resigned as UK Prime Minister after 45 days
  • Indian origin Rishi Sunak elected as new PM of UK
  • P. Ashwini appointed as United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Special Rapporteur
  • Jaxay Shah appointed as new Chairman of Quality Council of India
  • Sankarasubramanian named Principal Scientist of Aditya-L1 mission
  • Sandeep Bakhshi reappointed as MD and CEO of ICICI bank
  • C S Rajan appointed as Additional and Independent Director of Kotak Mahindra Bank
  • Sri Lanka’s Shehan Karunatilaka won Booker Prize 2022
  • Barbara Metcalf conferred Sir Syed Excellence Award for 2022
  • Puneeth Rajkumar to be posthumously given Karnataka Ratna award
  • Financial Action Task Force (FATF) added Myanmar to list of high-risk countries
  • Anna May Wong becomes first Asian American to appear on US currency
  • Vienna to host INTERPOL General Assembly in 2023
  • China launched Covid-19 vaccine inhaled through mouth
  • Fiji to host 12th World Hindi Conference in 2023
  • Xiaomi shuts financial services business in India
  • 1st ASEAN-India Start-up Festival 2022 inaugurated in Indonesia
  • Shefali Juneja elected as chairperson of Air Transport Committee of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
  • Jay Y Lee appointed as Executive Chairman of Samsung Electronic
  • Rajesh Ranjan appointed as next Ambassador of India to Cote d’Ivoire
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