Current affairs update for today :-
Business and Economy
- Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of social website i.e. Facebook is on two days visit of India and met with Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. India is the 2nd biggest market of Facebook while the first one is United States of America.
Deaths
- Madhav Vittal Kamath, the famous journalist died. He was the former Chairman of Prasar Bharti Board.
Awards
- Stefan W. Hell, William E. Moernre and Eric Betzig won Noble Prize for Chemistry.
- Patrick Modiano of France won Noble Prize of Literature. He also won Goncourt Prize of France in the year 1978.
Politics
- On 08th October 2014, Indian Air Force celebrated its 82nd Air Force Day. On this occasion, Sachin Tendulkar honoured with Group Captain and became the first non-aviation background person to honoured with this title.
- Pashmina Promotion Programme (P-3) launched by the Government of India to promote the living standard of poor nomads of Ladakh region. Pashmina internationally known as Cashmere which is luxury fibre.
- The service namely Global Infrastructure Facility launched by World Bank to tackle the massive infrastructure.
- Senate Elections suspended in Liberia due to the fatal Ebola Virus. Till now, almost 1800 persons died due to Ebola Virus.
