Uttar Pradesh government has secured the first rank in the central government’s one of the most ambitious schemes.The PM Atmanirbhar Nidhi Scheme(SVANidhi Scheme).The state has ranked first in all the categories Applications, Sanctions, and Disbursements of the loans
under the scheme.

 The Union Minister of Science and Technology, Harsh Vardhan has launched the ‘SERB – POWER’ schemes which aim to encourage and support emerging as well as eminent women researchers to undertake R&D activities in frontier areas of science and engineering.

Another highlight of the festival was a conversation with chef Vikas Khanna, recipient of the “Pride of India Award”.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal launched the ‘Green Delhi’ App to increase citizen participation in Delhi’s fight against pollution and ensure timely action against pollution sources in the city.

Microsoft has collaborated with the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) to impart digital skills to more than one lakh underserved women in India over the next 10 months.

The second meeting of the India-Central Asia Dialogue was held virtually, under the chairmanship of the External Affairs Minister of India Dr S Jaishankar.

Private sector lender RBL Bank said the Reserve Bank of India has granted its approval to Maple Group to acquire up to a 9.99 percent stake in the bank.

The Central Government has once again extended the term of Justice (retd) Bansi Lal Bhat as the acting Chairperson of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT).

World’s 1st scientoon book entitled “Bye Bye Corona”, was released by Anandiben Patel, Governor, Uttar Pradesh.

India hosted the 19th Meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Ministers of Foreign Economy and Foreign Trade. It was chaired by Commerce and Industries Minister Piyush Goyal
During the meeting, the First-ever SCO Startup Forum was also launched. Startups from all the SCO countries participated with great enthusiasm in the forum which is a flagship initiative under India’s chairmanship.

Using data from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) Airborne Telescope, researchers scanned thelunar surface at a more precise wavelength than had been used before — six microns instead of three. This allowed them to distinguish the spectral fingerprint of molecular water.

In India, the Rashtriya Ekta Diwas is observed every year on October 31 since 2014, to commemorate the birth anniversary of the Iron Man of India, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. 2020 marks the 145th anniversary of the great leader.

India and Mexico held their 8th Joint Commission Meeting virtually on October 29, 2020. The meeting was co-chaired by the Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar and Mexico’s Foreign Affairs Minister Marcelo Ebrard. During the meeting, the two nations reviewed their bilateral cooperation in several areas including agriculture, trade, investment, education and health.

IndusInd Bank has become the first bank in India to go live on the new ‘Account Aggregator Framework’ of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

The United Kingdom(UK) has entered into a strategic partnership to develop India’s GIFT City. GIFT – Gujarat International Finance Tec-City is India’s first international financial services centre. It is located in Gandhinagar of Gujarat.

An Indian organisation that leverages tourism and technology to help remote communities access solar energy has won a prestigious UN award for its efforts to combat climate change amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Global Himalayan Expedition (GHE) is among the winners of the 2020 UN Global Climate Action Award. GHE is one of the world’s first organisations using tourism and technology to bring solar energy to remote communities.

Merchant payment platform BharatPe said it has introduced digital gold product on its platform for merchants in association with Safegold.
Safegold is a digital platform that allows customers to buy, sell and take delivery of 24k physical gold, at low ticket sizes, around the clock.

The US economy has registered a record growth of 33 percent in the third quarter of the current Fiscal Year, the fastest pace amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This shows that the nation has finally started to pull itself back together.

Daniel Menaker, an award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction and a longtime editor at The New Yorker and Random House who worked with Alice Munro, Salman Rushdie, Colum McCann and many others, passed away.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is interacting with the beneficiaries of Pradhan Mantri Street Vendor’s Atmanirbhar Nidhi Yojana (PM SVANidhi Scheme) from Uttar Pradesh today via video conferencing. Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh is also present on the occasion. PM also virtually distributed loans to nearly 3 lakh vendors under the scheme.

In June, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs had launched this scheme which gives special micro-credit facilities to provide an affordable loan of up to Rs 10,000 to more than 50 lakh street vendors, who had their businesses operational on or before 24 March. The scheme is valid until March 2022.

Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated the 4th India Energy Forum by CERAWeek through video conference and delivered the inaugural address. The event was held from October 26-28, 2020.

Keshubhai Savdasbhai Patel, former Chief Minister of Gujarat, has passed away following sudden cardiac arrest. He was 92.

According to a joint statement issued after a strategic dialogue between India and the US, the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite (NISAR) is expected to be launched by 2022 as India and the U.S. have decided to share Space Situational Awareness Information, which will catalyse efforts to create the conditions for a safe and sustainable space environment.

The Indian Army has developed a simple messaging application called the Secure Application for the Internet (SAI). The application will support end-to-end secure voice, text and video calling services for the Android platform over the internet.

Every year the ​International Internet Day is celebrated globally on October 29

Private-sector lender CSB Bank, formerly Catholic Syrian Bank, said that it has entered into a partnership with non-banking finance company, IIFL Finance (IIFL) for sourcing and managing retail gold loan assets.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will be launching earth observation satellite EOS-01 as primary satellite and 9 customer satellites aboard PSLV-C49 on November 7, 2020.

Ministry of Science & Technology says Dr. Satish Mishra gets this award for research work on Malaria Parasite’s Life Cycle, which is a complex process involving two hosts and three invasive stages.

The National Academy of Medical Sciences (India) has selected the Principal Scientist, Division of Molecular Parasitology and Immunology, (CSIR-CDRI)-Lucknow, Dr Satish Mishra for “Dr.Tulsi Das Chugh Award 2020”.

India’s largest commercial bank, State Bank of India (SBI) has signed a loan agreement worth USD 1 billion with  Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC).