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CONTENTS Page No.
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Topics 02
List of Minister-Ministries and Constituency 03
International Organizations Present Heads & HQs 03
Indian Organizations Present Heads & HQs 04
States – Present Governor - CM 04
Banks – Present Heads, HQs and Taglines 05
Important Country - Currency - Capital 06
People in NEWS 07
Sports Related Person in News (October 2017) 08
Places in NEWS
Important Abbreviations

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List of Minister-Ministries Involved in October Month Current Affairs

Name Portfolios Constituency
JagatPrakashNadda Union Minister for Health & Family welfare Himachal Pradesh,
RajyaSabha
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Union Minister of Minority Affairs Uttar Pradesh, RajyaSabha
Smriti Zubin Irani Union Minister for Textiles Gujarat, RajyaSabha
Uma Bharti Union Minister for Drinking Water and Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh
Sanitation
Rajnath Singh Union Minister for Home Affairs Lucknow, RajyaSabha
Dharmendra Pradhan Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Bihar, RajyaSabha

Nirmala Sitharaman Union Defence Minister Karnataka, RajyaSabha
Arun Jaitley Union Finance Minister of India Gujarat, RajyaSabha
Prakash Javadekar Union Human Resource Development Minister Madhya Pradesh, RajyaSabha
Piyush Goyal Union Minister for Railways Maharashtra, RajyaSabha
Nitin Gadkari Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nagpur (Maharashtra)
& Minister of Water Resources, River
Maneka Sanjay Gandhi Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Pilibhit (Uttar Pradesh)
Rajyavardhan Singh Minister for Women and Child Development Jaipur, Rajasthan
Rathore Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the
Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports; and North Goa
Shripad Yasso Naik Minister of State in the Ministry of Information
and Broadcasting. (Independent Charge).
Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the
Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy,
Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH)
(Independent Charge).

International Organizations Involved in October Month Current Affairs

International Organisation Head Head Quarters
Magic bricks CEO - SudhirPai Noida
Master card CEO - Ajay Banga New York, United States
LinkedIn CEO - Jeff Weiner California, United States
UNESCO Director-General - Audrey Paris, France
Azoulay
Google CEO– Sundar Pitchai Mountain View, California,
United States
EIB - European Investment Bank President - Werner Hoyer Luxembourg

Samsung Chairman - Lee Kun-hee South Korea
LG Chairman & CEO - Koo Bon- Seoul, South Korea
moo
Microsoft CEO - SatyaNadella Redmond, Washington,
United States
ICC CEO - Dave Richardson Dubai
FIFA – FédérationInternationale de Football Gianni Infantino Zürich, Switzerland

Association

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Indian Organizations Involved in October Month Current Affairs

Indian Organisation Head Head Quarters
NITI Aayog Chairman – NarendraModi New Delhi
Unique Identification Authority of India CEO - Dr. Ajay BhushanPandey New Delhi
(UIDAI)
GIC Re CMD - Alice Vaidyan Mumbai
Reliance Industries Limited CEO - MukeshAmbani Navi Mumbai
HPCL - Hindustan Petroleum Chairman & MD - M K Surana Mumbai
IRCTC (Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Chairman & MD - M. P. Mall New Delhi
Corporation)
GHIAL - GMR Hyderabad International CEO - SGK Kishore New Delhi
Airport Ltd Bengaluru
MAHB - Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad MD - MohdBadlishamGhazali New Delhi
National Highways Authority of India Chairman - Shri Deepak Kumar
Flipkart CEO - Kalyan Krishnamurthy Bengaluru,
AAI - Airports Authority of India Chairman - Karnataka
Dr.GuruprasadMohapatra Mumbai
ISRO Chairman - A. S. Kiran Kumar

BCCI President: VinodRai

List of States Involved in October Month Current Affairs

State CM Governor
Andhra Pradesh Chandrababu Naidu EkkaduSrinivasan Lakshmi Narasimhan
Arunachal Pradesh Prema Khandu B D Mishra
Assam Sarbananda Sonowal Prof. JagdishMukhi
Bihar Nitish Kumar Satya Pal Malik
Gujarat Vijay Rupani Om PrakashKohli
Himachal Pradesh Virbhadra Singh AcharyaDevVrat
Karnataka Siddaramaiah VajubhaiRudabhaiVala
Kerala PinarayiVijayan P Sathasivam
Maharashtra DevendraFadnavis VidyasagarRao
Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chouhan Om PrakashKohli
Punjab Amarinder Singh V. P. Singh Badnore
Rajasthan VasundharaRajeScindia Kalyan Singh
Tamil Nadu K. Palanisamy BanwarilalPurohit
Telangana K. ChandrashekarRao EkkaduSrinivasan Lakshmi Narasimhan
Uttarakhand Trivendra Singh Rawat Krishna Kant Paul
Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath Ram Naik
Goa ManoharParrikar MridulaSinha
Odisha Naveen Patnaik SenayangbaChubatoshiJamir
Meghalaya MukulSangma Ganga Prasad

Union Territary CM Governor
Puducherry V. Narayanasamy KiranBedi
New Delhi ArvindKejriwal Anil Baijal

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Banks Involved in October Month Current Affairs

Bank Tag Line Headquarters CEO/Chairman
RBI – Reserve Bank Mumbai Governor - Urjit Patel
of India Chairman - Rajnish Kumar
SBI With you all the way, Mumbai
Pure Banking CEO - AdityaPuri
HSBC Nothing Else, The London, United MD & CEO - ChandaKochhar
Nation‟s banks on us. Kingdom Chairman – Harsh Kumar Bhanwala
HDFC The world's local Mumbai CMD - Shri Mohammad Mustafa
bank. MD& CEO - Mahesh Kumar Jain
ICICI We understand your Mumbai MD and CEO - R A
world. Sankaranarayanan
NABARD Hum Hai Na, Mumbai
SIDBI KhyalApka. Lucknow
IDBI Mumbai
Banking For All,
Vijaya Bank “AaoSocheinBada”. Bengaluru
A friend you can
bank on

Important Countries Involved in October Month Current Affairs

Country Capital Currency Prime Minister President
United States of Washington D.C US Dollar - Donald Trump
America
Vanuatu Port Vila Vanuatu vatu CharlotSalwai CharlotSalwai
Ghana Accra Ghanaian cedi Kwame Nkrumah Nana Akufo-Addo
Austria Vienna Euro - Alexander Van der
Bellen
Myanmar Naypyidaw Burmese kyat Aung San SuuKyi HtinKyaw
Bangladesh Dhaka Bangladeshi Sheikh Hasina Abdul Hamid
Taka
China Beijing Renminbi - Xi Jinping
(Yuan)
United Kingdom London Pound Sterling Theresa May David Cameron
Nepalese Rupee SherBahadurDeuba Bidhya Devi
Nepal Kathmandu Bhandari
Justin Trudeau -
Canada Ottawa Canadian dollar Dmitry Medvedev Vladimir Putin
Russia Moscow Russian Ruble RanilWickremesinghe MaithripalaSirisena
Sri Lanka Colombo, Sri Sri Lankan
JayawardenepuraKotte Rupee - Michel Temer
Brazil Brasília Brazilian real Angela Merkel
Germany Berlin Euro Frank-Walter
Steinmeier -
Japan Tokyo Yen Shinzō Abe -
Pound Sterling Theresa May Emmanuel Macron
United Kingdom London Euro Édouard Philippe

France Paris

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Italy Rome Euro Paolo Gentiloni -
South Korea Seoul South Korean Lee Nak-yeon Moon Jae-in
Won
Israel Jerusalem Israeli new Benjamin Netanyahu ReuvenRivlin
shekel
Saudi Arabia Riyadh Saudi riyal Salman bin Abdulaziz -
Al Saud
Qatar Doha Qatari riyal Abdullah bin Nasser Michelle Bachelet
bin Khalifa Al Thani Marcelo Rebelo de
Chile Santiago Chilean peso - Sousa
Portugal Lisbon Euro António Costa Ismaïl Omar Guelleh

Djibouti Djibouti Djiboutian franc AbdoulkaderKamil -
Mohamed
New Zealand Wellington New Zealand JacindaArdern
Dollar
India New Delhi Indian Rupee NarendraModi Ram NathKovind
Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong Carrie Lam -
Dollar
Burundi Bujumbura Burundian franc - Pierre Nkurunziza
Ethiopia Addis Ababa Ethiopian Birr HailemariamDesalegn HailemariamDesalegn
Indonesia Jakarta Indonesian - JokoWidodo
rupiah
Denmark Copenhagen Danish krone Lars Løkke -
Rasmussen NajibRazak
Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Malaysian -
ringgit
Iceland Reykjavík Icelandic króna BjarniBenediktsson Guðni Th.
Jóhannesson
Netherland Amsterdam Euro Mark Rutte -
Bulgaria Sofia Bulgarian lev BoykoBorissov Rumen Radev
Argentina Buenos Aires Argentine Peso - Mauricio Macri

Persons in News (October 2017):

 NITI Aayog Vice Chairman – Rajiv Kumar
 Present President of India – Ram NathKovind
 Present Vice President of India – Venkaiah Naidu
 1st President of India – Dr. Rajendra Prasad
 Pranab Kumar Mukherjee is served as the 13th President of India from 2012 until 2017.
 Pranab Mukherjee's first stint as the Finance minister of India was during the Indira Gandhi government

in 1982.
 India International Science Festival has inaugurated by Dr Harsh Vardhan.
 Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) - Rajiv Mehrishi
 Rajiv Mehrishi was the former Union home secretary of India
 Chairman of IIT-M - Pawan Kumar Goenka
 Y SujanaChowdaryis present Minister of State for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences.

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 CEO and MD of Tata AIA Life - Naveen Tahilyani
 Managing Director & Group CEO of GIFT City - Ajay Pandey
 Director of M3M Group - PankajBansal
 ShriAnanta Narayan Nanda Secretary is the Director General Postal Services.
 Sushil Chandra is the present chairperson of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT).
 Managing Director for India of NBA is YannickColaco
 Co-founder and CEO of Yatra.com - DhruvShringi
 Founder and CEO of OYO - RiteshAgarwal
 Executive Director and CEO of Reliance Commercial Finance - DevangMody
 Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of IREDA - KS Popli
 CEO of NIIF (National Investment and Infrastructure Fund) - Sujoy Bose
 Chairman & Managing Director of NRDC - H Purushotham
 Prof. B.B. Lal is a Padma Bhushan awardee on „Harappan Civilization‟, which introduced the earliest

civilization of South Asia to the scholars working on other ancient civilizations.
 Admiral Sunil Lanba is present Navy chief.
 Present Chief of Naval Staff of Indian Navy - Sunil Lanba

Sports Related Person in News (October 2017)

Badminton

 Kidambi Srikanth has recently (June 2017) won Australia Open Super Series title.
Cricket:

 Michael Gatting is an English former Cricketer.
 Suzie Bates is a New Zealand woman Cricketer.
 Kumar Dharmasena is a Sri Lankan cricket umpire and former international cricketer, who played Tests

and ODIs for Sri Lanka.
 Ashish Nehra has picked up 235 wickets across all three international formats so far
 Kohli had recently surpassed Australian great Ricky Ponting in the list of most ODI hundreds with his

31st ton.
 Kohli has broken de Villiers' record of the the fastest cricketer to reach the milestone, with the South

African batsman taking 205 innings.
Golf

 Bhullar is also the 2012 champion in Macau.
Sailing :

 Robert Scheidt claimed bronze in London in 2012 and finished fourth in Rio 2016.
Tennis:

 Rafael Nadal is a Spanish professional tennis player, currently ranked World Number 1 in men's singles
 Roger Federer has also won a record eighth Wimbledon title & became the tournament‟s oldest

champion with a straight-sets victory over Marin Cilic. Federer claimed his 19th Grand Slam title in
Wimbledon title 2017.

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 Maria Sharapova is a Russian professional tennis player
Wrestling:

 Kavita Devi also has the distinction of being the first Indian woman to compete in a WWE ring, as she
was a featured participant in the Mae Young Classic women‟s tournament.

 Rafael Nadal – Spanish Professional Tennis Player
Shooting:

 JituRai is a Commonwealth and Asian Games gold medallist.
 HinaSidhu is also a Commonwealth Games gold-winner.
 JituRai and HeenaSidhu have won the gold in 10m mixed air pistol on the opening day.
 Amanpreet Singh clinched a bronze medal in the final of men's 50m pistol.

Here is the list of top 10 athletes with highest brand value:
 1. Roger Federer $37.2m
 2. LeBron James $33.4m
 3. Usain Bolt $27m
 4. Cristiano Ronaldo $21.5m
 5. Phil Mickelson $19.6m
 6. Tiger Woods $16.6m
 7. ViratKohli $14.5m
 8. Rory McIlroy $13.6m
 9. Lionel Messi $13.5m
 10. Steph Curry $13.4m

Places in News (October 2017):

 Periyar National Park, also known as Periyar Tiger Reserve, is in the mountainous Western Ghats of
Kerala.

 The 1st IISF was held at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) New Delhi in December, 2015.
 Vanuatu is a South Pacific Ocean nation made up of roughly 80 islands that stretch 1,300 kilometres
 Paradip Port – Odisha
 Karnatakais the largest producer of coffee in India.
 Headquarters of SAARC - Kathmandu, Nepal
 Pakistani city Karachi has been ranked the least safe city in the list.
 Headquarters of UNFPA is located in - New York, US
 Headquarters of International Criminal Court (ICC) - Hague, Netherlands
 Naval Dockyard Visakhapatnam, is situated in Andhra Pradesh.
 NBA Headquarters in - New York City, USA
 Macau is a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China
 2017 Asia Cup Hockey tournament held in - Dhaka, Bangladesh
 This is the first FIFA tournament hosted by India.
 The final will be held at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata on 28 October 2017.

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 21st FIFA World Cup will be held in 2018 in Russia.
 This is the first time when Iceland and Panama will be participants.
 The 2019 FC Asian Cup will be held in the United Arab Emirates.
 Paljor Stadium, also known as Palzor Stadium is an association football stadium located in Gangtok,

Sikkim.
 MohunBagan is a football club based in Kolkata, West Bengal.
 Junior and Cadet Table Tennis Open 2017 – Egypt
 Wushu World Championship 2017 – Russia

Winners of 2016 Nobel Prize in respective fields are as follows-

 Physiology or Medicine- Yoshinori Ohsumi,

 Physics- J. Michael Kosterlitz, Duncan Haldane, David J. Thouless,

 Chemistry- Fraser Stoddart, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Ben Feringa,

 Literature- Bob Dylan,

 Peace- Juan Manuel Santos,

 Economic Sciences- Oliver Hart, BengtHolmstrom.

Obituary:

 Former Union minister and socialist leader- PurushottamLalKaushik
 Veteran director - Kundan Shah
 Veteran and one of India‟s eminent historian- Satish Chandra
 India's first Olympic swimmer - Shamsher Khan
 Shamsher Khan took part in the 1962 war against China and the 1971 war against Pakistan.
 Roy Dotrice - Veteran British Actor
 I V Sasi - Veteran Malayalam director
 Girija Devi - Eminent classical singer and Padma Vibhushan awardee
 PunathilKunjabdulla - Renowned Malayalam writer

Important Abbreviations in NEWS (October 2017): 8

 DEMU - Diesel Electric Multiple Unit
 ISRO - Indian Space Research Organization
 GPS - global positioning system
 GIS - geographical information systems
 IMI - Intensified Mission Indradhanush
 GSAICL - Gujarat State Aviation Infrastructure Company Ltd
 SCHIS - Senior Citizen Health Insurance Scheme
 RSBY -RashtriyaSwasthyaBimaYojna
 CAP - Cricket Association of Puducherry

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 CoA - Committee of Administrators
 CAG - Comptroller and Auditor General of India
 NCCRD - National Centre for Combustion Research and Development
 AIIA - All India Institute of Ayurveda
 NCR - National Capital Region
 TTX - Table Top Exercise
 FTX - Field Training Exercise
 AAR - After Action Review
 SAATHI - Sustainable and Accelerated Adoption of efficient Textile technologies to Help small

Industries
 EESL - Energy Efficiency Services Limited
 PMKK - PradhanMantriKaushal Kendra
 NDMC - New Delhi Municipal Council
 LAF - liquidity adjustment facility
 RRR - Reverse Repo Rate
 MSF - Marginal Standing Facility
 GVA - Gross Value Added
 HSBC - Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
 NABARD - National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
 SIDBI - Small Industries Development Bank of India
 FMCBG - Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors
 SSBG - Strong, Sustainable, and Balanced Growth
 IISF - India International Science Festival
 VIC - Vanuatu Information Center
 GIFT - Gujarat International Finance Tec-City
 STQC - Standardisation, Testing and Quality Certification
 GIC Re - General Insurance Corp of India
 IPO - initial public offer
 IBM - International Business Machines Corporation
 CBDT - Central Board of Direct Taxes
 GSTN - Goods and Services Tax Network
 HMSI - Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India
 SIAM - Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers
 RIL - Reliance Industries Ltd
 IFSC - International Financial Services Centre
 GFCI - Global Financial Centres Index
 CITES - Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
 ASSP - Association of SAARC Speakers and Parliamentarians
 GHI - Global Hunger Index
 IFPRI - International Food Policy Research Institute
 HPCL - Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
 OMC - Oil Marketing Company

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 CII - Confederation of Indian Industry
 DST - Department of Science and Technology
 UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund
 ILO - International LabourOrganisation
 CSRI - Credit Suisse Research Institute's
 ICC - International Criminal Court
 FTII - Film and Television Institute of India
 GCMMF - Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation
 IHV - Institute for Human Virology
 CII - Confederation of Indian Industry
 EDII - Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India
 Exim - Export-Import Bank of India
 EIB - India and European Investment Bank
 IREDA - Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd
 VDDS -Vizag Digital DhanSankalp
 AWS - Amazon Web Services
 ADIA - Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
 NRDC - National Research Development Corporation
 EBTC - European Business Technology Centre
 BPC - Bangladesh Petroleum Corp
 NRL - Numaligarh Refinery Ltd
 GHIAL - GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd
 MAHB - Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad
 MTPB - Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board
 ASI - Archaeological Survey of India
 EAC-PM - Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister
 PMIS - Project Monitoring Information System
 CISC - Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee
 IMBL - International Maritime Boundary Line
 VCNS - Vice Chief of Naval Staff
 CIWA - Central Institution for Women in Agriculture
 ICAR - IndianCouncil of Agricultural Research
 NBA - National Basketball Association
 SAR - Special Administrative Region
 UEFA - Union of European Football Associations
 PFF - Pakistan Football Federation
 ISSF - International Shooting Sports Federation
 UGC - University Grants Commission

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