Current Affairs-2019 October 9TH

The new Tejas Express will run in New Delhi-Lucknow route for six days a week. The fare for Lucknow to New Delhi Tejas Express will be Rs 1,125 for AC chair car and Rs 2,310 for executive chair car. Passengers of IRCTC’s Delhi-Lucknow Tejas Express will be compensated in case of delays, the Railway subsidiary said on Tuesday, announcing a first of its kind offer from any national carrier. An amount of Rs 100 will be paid in case the delay is for over an hour and Rs 250 for delays of over two hours, the IRCTC said ahead of the launch of its first train. This latest offer is in addition to the Rs 25-lakh free insurance that will be given to passengers of the train.

New Delhi: The government on Wednesday announced the highest ever 5 percentage points increase in dearness allowance (DA) which will bring cheers to 50 lakh central employees and 65 lakh pensioners ahead of Diwali.

CBI: Delhi court grants CBI 2 more months timeTime Where any expression of it occurs in any Rules, or any judgment, order or direction, and whenever the doing or not doing of anything at a certain time of the day or night or during a certain part of the day or night has an effect in law, that time is, unless it is otherwise specifically stated, held to be standard time as used in a particular country or state. (In Physics, time and Space never exist actually-“quantum entanglement”) to probe charges against Rakesh Asthana

RBI blocks Indiabulls Housing Finance, Lakshmi Vilas Bank’s merger

Chinese President Xi Jinping will be in IndiaIndia Bharat Varsha (Jambu Dvipa) is the name of this land mass. The people of this land are Sanatan Dharmin and they always defeated invaders. Indra (10000 yrs) was the oldest deified King of this land. Manu's jurisprudence enlitened this land. Vedas have been the civilizational literature of this land. Guiding principles of this land are : सत्यं वद । धर्मं चर । स्वाध्यायान्मा प्रमदः । Read more on October 11 and 12 for his second informal summit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the foreign ministries of India and China said on Wednesday in near simultaneous announcements about 50 hours before the visit begins.

Senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid said the departure of Rahul Gandhi has left a vacuum in the party. Weeks ahead of the assembly polls in Haryana and Maharashtra on October 21, Khurshid said Congress may not be able to win the elections or ensure its own future, as per a report by the Associated Press.

Bihar police drop sedition case against 49 personalities
Rafale engine manufacturer tells Rajnath: Don’t terrorise us on tax
Kerala Bank gets RBI approval, to begin services starting November 1
Over 15% MTech seats go vacant at IITs as GATE-based recruitment, admissions fail to synchronise
Sri Lanka sweeps Pakistan 3-0 in T20I series
Makers of lithium-ion battery win Nobel Prize in Chemistry

INTERNATIONAL

PAKISTAN: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Fazulr Rehman on Wednesday announced that his party’s anti-government ‘Azadi March’ to the capital will now take place on October 31 instead of October 27.

BILATERAL: Pakistan and China on Wednesday reaffirmed their resolve to further strengthen their bilateral strategic partnership, a joint statement issued after the conclusion of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s two-day visit to Beijing said.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Turkey launched airstrikes and fired artillery across its border into northeastern Syria on Wednesday to open a military operation aimed at flushing out an American-backed militia, Turkish and Syrian officials said.

US justice department announces arrest of alleged leaker of national security information.

Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden has for the first time called for Donald Trump to be impeached.Department announced arrest of Defense Intelligence Agency employee Henry Kyle Frese for allegedly leaking sensitive information

Trump’s impeachment : Speaking at a campaign event in New Hampshire on Wednesday, Biden, the former vice-president under Barack Obama, warned that Trump had committed impeachable acts.

Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed for outstanding work in fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicineMedicine Refers to the practices and procedures used for the prevention, treatment, or relief of symptoms of diseases or abnormal conditions. This term may also refer to a legal drug used for the same purpose., literature, economics, and the promotion of peacePeace εἰρήνη.

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded, with one half to James Peebles for his theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology, and the other half jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for discovering an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.

The international award in the Physiology or Medicine was jointly awarded to William G Kaelin Jr, Peter J Ratcliffe and Gregg L Semenza for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.