Top GKToday’s News Headlines- 1 November 2019

Here are the top News Headlines of 1 November 2019 for all competitive examinations of India.

National Current Affairs

• Birth Anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel celebrated as National Unity Day on October 31
• Delhi Police and ITBP awarded Union Home Minister’s Special Operation Medal for 2019.
• Excavation by ASI in Gottiprolu (AP) indicate it as a Trade Centre of Early Historic Period
• Bamboo Technology Parks to be set up in the two new UTs of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh
• Over 80% adolescents in India suffer from hidden hunger says UNICEF’s report, ‘Adolescents, Diets and Nutrition: Growing Well in a Changing World’
• Eritrea and Saint Kitts & Nevis ink International Solar Alliance’s (ISA) Framework Agreement; membership rises to 83
• ICCR to organised three-day ‘Takhat Darshan Yatra’ for Sikh youths from 10 nations in November
• Kendriya Vidyalaya Sansthan (KVS) organising ‘Ek Bharat Shreshth Bharat Parv’ at India Gate from Oct 31 to Nov 3
• Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi among winners of Mother Teresa Memorial Awards 2019 of Harmony Foundation
• ISRO: Chandrayaan-2 orbiter detects Argon-40 on lunar exosphere
• Kanpur is the most polluted city in the world: Guinness World Records 2020
• Gurudas Dasgupta, Communist Party of India (CPI) leader and former parliamentarian, dies in Kolkata at 83
• Film producer Champak Jain passes away
• Veteran Telugu actor Geetanjali dies in Hyderabad at 72
• Cyclone Maha batters Lakshadweep and Kerala coast

National Health Profile (NHP)

• The Central Bureau of Health Intelligence’s (CBHI) National Health Profile (NHP) 2019 released.
• Sex ratio (number of females per 1,000 males) in the country has improved from 933 in 2001 to 943 in 2011.
• In rural areas the sex ratio has increased from 946 to 949.
• In urban areas the sex ratio has increased from 900 to 929
• Kerala has recorded the highest sex ratio in respect of total population (1,084), rural population (1,078) and urban (1,091)
• Birth rate reduced from 25.8 in 2000 to 20.4 in 2016
• Death rate declined from 8.5 to 6.4 per 1,000 population over the same period

Jio MAMI 21st Mumbai International Film Festival

• Deepika Padukone is the Chairperson of the trust
• Golden Gateway Award in the International Competition section won by Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska’s ‘Honeyland’
• Golden Gateway Award in the Indian Gold section won by ‘Eeb Allay Ooo!’ directed by Prateek Vats

Economy & Business Current Affairs

• BSE Sensex: 40,129.05 (+77), NSE Nifty: 11,877.45 (+33.35)
• India loses case filed by the US at the WTO against domestic export incentive schemes; WTO says these schemes are inconsistent with the international trade norms
• InterGlobe Aviation Ltd., which runs IndiGo, places an order for 300 A320neo family aircraft worth over $33 billion
• India among four nations with most conducive environment for financial inclusion: The Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2019 Global Microscope on Financial Inclusion report
• MG Motor India opens its first digital studio — a showroom with no car on display — in Bengaluru

CORE SECTOR GROWTH

• Output of eight core infrastructure industries contracted by 5.2% in September
• During the April-September period, the growth of core industries slowed to 1.3%, against 5.5% in the year-earlier period

International Current Affairs

• World Cities Day celebrated on October 31 with its theme as ‘Changing the world: innovations and better life for future generations’
• Twitter bans political advertisements to ‘curb misinformation’
• Pakistan violated its obligations under the Vienna Convention in Kulbhushan Jadhav case: ICJ President Judge Abduylqawi Yusuf
• Federal Reserve cuts US’ benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 1.50%-1.75%
• S. House of Representatives recognises killing of 1.5 mn Armenians by Ottoman Empire (Turkey) in 1915-23 as ‘genocide’
• WhatsApp sues Israeli cyber-surveillance firm NSO Group for using its messaging service for spying

UNESCO CREATIVE CITIES

• 66 cities around the world have been designated as UNESCO Creative Cities by the Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay
• Cities were selected for their tangible contribution to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals through innovative thinking and action.
• Hyderabad (Gastronomy) and Mumbai (Film) are the two cities selected from India

Sports Current Affairs

• Shiva Thapa (63kg) and Pooja Rani (75kg) clinch gold medals at Olympic Boxing Test event in Tokyo
• Switzerland’s Roger Federer wins men’s singles title at Swiss Indoor tennis at Basel
• Austria’s Dominic Thiem wins men’s singles title at Vienna ATP tennis
• Tiger Woods won Zozo Championship golf in Japan for his 82nd US PGA Tour victory, equalling the 54-year-old record held by Sam Snead