October 2014 Current Affairs: In this chapter, information has been given about the latest current affairs based on India and the world in the month of October 2014 from the point of view of upcoming competitive examinations. Here you can find various fields of India and the world like: Appointments, Resignations, Sports and Sportsmen, Politics, Awards and Honors, Important Days, Deaths, Reports, Business, Planning, Politics, Education, Books and Authors, Economy, Accidents, Science, Technology You can get general knowledge about important current affairs related to geography, records, settlement, convention and entertainment etc.

31 October 2014 | Sports Current Affairs
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC) is going to host an exciting the National Open Athletics Championships in New Delhi. The sport event will be held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium from Nov 2-5. To take part in the 54th edition of this championship near about 1,000 entries have been sent.
30 October 2014 | Miscellaneous Current Affairs
Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off a rally named ‘Run for Unity’ from Vijay Chowk at 8.15am today to celebrate 139th birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, whom was regarded by the PM as true ‘architect of modern India’. The rally ended at Rajpath’s India Gate.October 31 is from now on be regarded as 'Rashtriya Ekta Diwas'
29 October 2014 | Miscellaneous Current Affairs
During 45th Union World Conference on Lung Health in Spain’s Barcelona Union Health Minister of India Harsh Vardhan said that e-cigarettes are equally harmful as normal tobacco cigarettes and the former also make children fall for it and thereby get addicted to nicotine at an early age.
28 October 2014 | Business Current Affairs
World Bank’s 2014 'Ease of Doing Business' Report was published recently. It shows India ranks at a dismal 142 position, accumulating 52.78 points, in a list of 189 countries. It slipped 2 positions from last year’s 140th rank, accumulating 53.97 points. However, the report did not consider the recent slew of reform measures undertaken by Narendra Modi government.
27 October 2014 | Business Current Affairs
Japan’s SoftBank Corp has become the biggest investor of Snapdeal, the New Delhi based eCommerce portal. To gain from the rapidly expanding online ecommerce market space of India, SoftBank Corp has bought stake to the extent of $627 million.
26 October 2014 | Sports Current Affairs
Sania Mirza along with Cara Black of Zimbabwe won WTA Finals in Singapore. The Indian-Zimbabwe duo beat doubles partners China’s Peng Shuai and Taiwan's Hsieh Su-wei in straight set – 6-1, 6-0. They wrapped up the final within one hour. Mirza dedicated the title to India and thanked her fans for the support. The only Indian who won this title before Sania was Vijay Amritraj in the year 1977.?
25 October 2014 | Appointments Current Affairs
Haryana will have its new non-Jat chief minister today. Bharatiya Janata Party's Karnal MLA Manohar Lal Khattar will take oath as Haryana's chief minister in the swearing-in ceremony that will take place in Panchkula at HUDA ground in Sector 5. The state for the past three consecutive terms has been ruled by a jat leader. It is after 15 years that Haryana will have a non-Jat chief minister.
24 October 2014 | Schems Current Affairs
A scheme named 'Aapka School Aapke Gaon' for the students residing along the international border in Jammu and Kashmir has been launched by the Jammu and Kashmir government. The scheme is expected to fulfill the academic loss bore by these students during Pakistani firing.
23 October 2014 | Business Current Affairs
Foreign investors seem to be responding positively to Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in India’ campaign and Gujarat is becoming one of the biggest beneficiaries of this call. Some of the big investments that flew in to Gujarat, the home state of Indian PM, include greenfield factory of Abbott in Gujarat’s Jhagadia (amounting to Rs 450 crore investment and employment scope for 400 workers), inauguration of Rs 1,000 crore chemical manufacturing plant of BASF (German company) in Dahej, etc.
22 October 2014 | Business Current Affairs
Indians have become tech savvy for sure and the number is growing at an accelerated rate. In a recent global survey on gadget use in different countries, India emerged as the country having highest number of owners having smartphones. 95 per cent of the tech-savvy Indians regarded smartphones as ‘critically important’ in their lives. Moreover, India ranks 2nd in the list of Google Glass owners.
21 October 2014 | Politics Current Affairs
BJP's in-charge for Maharashtra’s assembly election, Om Thakur, has dismissed speculations that Nitin Gadkari may become the Maharashtra Chief Minister. Thakur specifically said that candidate for CM’s post will be decided from the existing MLAs only. However, the decision of CM and government formation will be taken after Diwali.
20 October 2014 | Appointments Current Affairs
Manohar Lal Khattar, MLA from Karnal assembly constituency, has been selected as their unanimous leader by all the elected Bharatiya Janata Party MLAs of Haryana, in the presence of Central observers. The 60-year-old RSS veteran is considered to be close to both Narendra Modi and Amit Shah. 
19 October 2014 | Politics Current Affairs
Narendra Modi is scheduled to attend Brisbane’s G20 leaders' Summit during November 15-16, 2014. After this he will also address the gallery of Australian leaders and MPs in Federal Parliament of Australia. Sources reveal that he is expected to deliver his speech in Hindi. Chinese president Xi Jinping and British PM David Cameron will also address the special joint sitting.
18 October 2014 | Entertainment Current Affairs
Bollywood actress Sharmila Tagore, her son and actor Saif Ali Khan and many others have been issued by the Election Commission (EC) for organizing a marriage party in Gurgaon without taking prior permission for the same. They organized a marriage anniversary party of Saif Ali Khan with Kareena Kapoor at their palace in Pataudi.
17 October 2014 | Person Current Affairs
Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar adopted a village Putramrajuvari Kandriga in Nellore district under the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana. Sachin Tendulkar met Prime Minister Narendra Modi a day before and expressed his desire to adopt a village. As per official report the village has 150 families and it is expected that Sachin will visit the village around November 16.
16 October 2014 | Science Current Affairs
India today test fired indigenously developed ‘Nirbhay, the sub-sonic nuclear capable cruise missile at a place near Chandipur. This missile is capable of hitting target that is situated over 700 kms away. Ground officials have reported that the test fire was done at around 10.03am from Integrated Test Range’s launch pad 3. Firing was done through a mobile launcher.
15 October 2014 | Business Current Affairs
Indian Prime Minister launched labour reform to achieve his dream of making India a successful manufacturing hub. The reform is expected to ease the process of doing business in India.
14 October 2014 | Appointments Current Affairs
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has appointed ex-Google executive Jai Mani as lead product manager to manage its products in India. The company has made its position in the India smartphone market with two low budget smartphones MI3 and RedMi 1s. Xiaomi's global vice president, Hugo Barra who is also an ex-executive of Google announced the appointment.
13 October 2014 | Business Current Affairs
During September 2014, Wholesale Price Index fell to 2.38 percent. In August 2014, WPI was 3.74 percent. The main reasons behind this fall are decrease in prices of crude prices globally, low demand for industrial products, and slow down in increase of food articles. Since October 2009, it is the lowest WPI.
12 October 2014 | Awards Current Affairs
The winning amount of $50,000 in Dutch Open Grand Prix is won by 27-year old badminton player Ajay Jayaram. He defeated Ihsan Maulana Mustofa of Indonesia at Topsportcentrum Almere. The final scores was 10-11, 11-6, 11-7, 1-11, 11-9.
11 October 2014 | Business Current Affairs
Isha and Akash, twins of billionaire Mukesh Ambani has made their way to Reliance Industries Limited (RIL). Isha is now the part of the board of Reliance Jio Infocomm, her twin brother Akash has joined the Reliance Retail board. Isha has done her graduation from the Yale University with majors in psychology and South Asian studies in 2013.
10 October 2014 | Awards Current Affairs
Indian children's rights activist Kailash Satyarthi has been awarded the Nobel Peace Price 2014. He dedicated his award to the nation and children in slavery. As per media reports, he said that this award is an honour not only to him but to the entire nation and children whose voices were always unheard.
9 October 2014 | Social Current Affairs
Satya Nadella, the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, found himself in a soup as negative reactions poured in through Twitter regarding one of his comments where he said that women employees who don’t ask for a raise from their employers would be duly recognised for their good work in the long run. He made this comment with Microsoft board member and President of Harvey Mudd College, Maria M. Klawe,Phoenix’s Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Microsoft CEO has apologised for his comment.
8 October 2014 | Person Current Affairs
On the list of Forbes’ most valuable sportspersons of the world, Indian Cricket Captain M S Dhoni has figured at fifth position. In the year 2014, his brand value stands at USD 20 million, around USD 1 million less than last year. The top four sportsperson in the list are LeBron James, Tiger Woods, Roger Federer, and Rafael Nadal chronologically.
7 October 2014 | Sports Current Affairs
Sports Minister K. Acham Naidu has declared his plans of developing Visakhapatnam as Andhra Pradesh’s sports hub. Andhra Pradesh lost its sports complex in Hyderabad to Telangana after bifurcation. While a tribal sports academy is planned to be set up in Araku, sports school at the cost of Rs. 50 crore will be set up at Vetajangalapalem.
6 October 2014 | Business Current Affairs
Flipkart announced that they grossed more than Rs 600 crore or $100 million sales in just ten hours time during the October 6 Big Billion Day offer. However, many users slammed this effort as nothing but marketing gimmick that resulted in record clicks of one billion.
5 October 2014 | Sports Current Affairs
The non-profit venture GoSports Foundation is organising a two-day (October 6-7) development programme in the Bangalore unit of Sports Authority of India (SAI) for India’s 30 most advanced young shooters in association with Abhinav Bindra Foundation.
4 October 2014 | Agreements Current Affairs
6,000 MW thermal power plant will be set up in Telangana by Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL). BHEL chairman and managing director B. Prasad Rao and Telangana State Power Generation Corporation (TS GENCO) chairman and managing director. D. Prabhakar Rao signed a MoU.
3 October 2014 | Business Current Affairs
The chief executive of the world's largest e-commerce site Amazon, Jeffrey P Bezos called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Amazon has already confirmed the investment of USD 2 billion in India. Amazon which is in the process of evaluating the location wanted to set up a data centre in India to unwind the multi-billion cloud possibilities.
2 October 2014 | Sports Current Affairs
Penultimate day at Incheon Asian Games 2014 saw winning of two gold medals for India in the game of Kabaddi. Both men’s and women’s Kabaddi teams of India struck Gold by beating their Iranian counterparts. While Indian men’s team beat Iran 27-25, women’s team beat Iranians by 31-21. India has been winning Gold in this category since 1990, the year when Kabaddi was introduced in the list of games in Asiads.
1 October 2014 | Indian Current Affairs
Indian Prime Minister launched Swachh Bharat campaign on October 2 with the vision of realising Mahatma Gandhi’s dream of a clean India. PM first offered respect to Gandhi Memorial at Rajghat in the morning. He then went to Valmiki Colony and cleaned the street, kick-starting the campaign. Some celebrities have been asked by Narendra Modi personally to become part of the initiative so that pace of the campaign accelerates. Modi pledged to make Clean India campaign a success in the coming 5 years.

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