Current affairs update for today :-
Politics
- Taiwan banned its government officials from higher studies in China.
- Guy Scott, Vice-President of Zambia appointed as Acting President of Zambia due to the death of President of Zambia.
- The State Government of Rajasthan signed an agreement with SunEdison to set up 5000MW Solar projects in the State.
- Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana launched by the Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs for the development of tribal people.
- On 27th October 2014, the Festival of India inaugurated in Japan.
- TB-Mission 2020 launched by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to eliminate the disease Tuberculosis generally known as TB.
Awards
- Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan won World’s Children Prize for the year 2014. The prize firstly started in the year 2000 by World’s Children’s Prize Foundation.
Deaths
- Galway Kinnell, the Pulitzer Prize winner, died. He was won the Pulitzer Prize in the year 1983.