Top GKToday’s News Headlines – 8 OCTOBER 2019

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Here are the top News Headlines of 8 October 2019 for all competitive examinations of India.

Healthy Ministry launches eDantseva website and mobile app for oral health information
Indian Forest Service officer Ramesh Pandey wins UNEP’s Asia Environmental Enforcement Award
India launches e-VidyaBharti tele-education and e-ArogyaBharti tele-medicine project for African countries

National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) is organising ‘Ganga Aamantran Abhiyan’ river rafting expedition on Ganga from October 10 to November 11
The Abhiyan would comprise of members primarily from the Indian Armed Forces.
The Abhiyan will start at Devprayag and culminate at Ganga Sagar covering the entire 2500 km stretch of Ganga River

E-Assessment Centers launched to implement the faceless assessment system for Income Tax Returns
India gets first tranche of Swiss bank account details under Automatic Exchange of Information (AEOI) framework
Vedanta wins Golden Peacock GLOBAL award of Institute of Directors, Delhi for excellence in Corporate Governance

World Habitat Day celebrated on October 7 (first Monday in October) with its theme as ‘Frontier Technologies as an innovative tool to transform waste to wealth’
World Trade Organisation (WTO) hosts the first World Cotton Day celebrations in Geneva on October 7
William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza of US, Britain’s Peter Ratcliffe win 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for discoveries on how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability
Socialist Party of Portugal’s incumbent PM Antonio Costa wins general election
Anumula Gitesh Sarma appointed India’s High Commissioner to Australia

IAAF World Athletics Championships concludes
United States tops medals tally with 29 medals (14 gold, 11 silver and 4 bronze)
In men’s 1,500m, Timothy Cheruiyot of Kenya won gold in 3 min, 29.26 sec
In men’s 10,000m, Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei won gold in 26 min 48.36 sec
In men’s 4x400m, US quartet of Fred Kerley, Michael Cherry, Wil London and Rai Benjamin won gold in 2 min 56.69 sec
In men’s Javelin throw, Anderson Peters of Grenada won with a throw of 86.89m
In women’s 100m hurdles, Nia Ali (USA) won gold in 12.34 sec
In women’s 4x100m, Jamaica’s quartet of Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Shericka Jackson, Natalliah Whyte and Jonielle Smith won gold in 41.44 sec
– In women’s 4x400m, US quartet of Phyllis Francis, Dalilah Muhammad, Sydney McLaughlin and Wadeline Jonathas won gold in 3 min 18.92 sec
In women’s triple jump, Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela won gold in 15.37 metres
In women’s long jump, Malaika Mihambo of Germany won gold in 7.30 metres

Austria’s Christine Wolf wins the Hero Women’s Indian Open at the DLF Golf and Country Club course in Gurugram
Thailand’s Suradit Yongcharoenchai wins Mercuries Taiwan Masters golf tournament at Tamsui in Chinese Taipei