RRB English Current Affairs 21st October 2018

INDIAN AFFAIRS

1. India has imposed anti-dumping duties of up to51 US dollars per tonnefor 5 years on some varieties of Chinese steel to protect domestic players from cheap imports from China.
2. Kerala became the firststate in the country to have 100% penetration of LPG in public sector oil companies.
3. Assam celebrated its3^rd Bihu festival known as the ‘Kati Bihu’ festival across the state.

INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

4. 8th European Congress on SMEs held in Kotawice, Poland
5. Canada Becomes 2^ndCountry To Legalize Recreational Cannabis
6. Global IT spending to grow 3.2% in 2019: Gartner

BANKING & FINANCE

7. India’s 1st Cryptocurrency ATM Installed in Bengaluru: Unocoin

BUSINESS & ECONOMY

8. Air India gets equity infusion of Rs 1,000 crore from NSSF : Government
9. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Ltd,has became the world’s largestpure-play information technology (IT) and consulting firm servicing mega banks and insurers.
10. Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) formed a panel to examine claims in installments.
11. ‘NCR RASTA’ and ‘Yatri RASTA’ :  2 apps for its employees & passengers launched by North Central Railways
12. Kamal Hassan inaugurated a mobile app called Roudramfor women safety at the Sri Sairam Engineering College.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

15. Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania awards 4th annual Carnot Prize 2018 to Union Minister Piyush Goyal
16. Prasar BhartiCEO Shashi Shekhar Vempati distributed Rajbhasha awards to Prasar Bharti employees in New Delhi.
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18. Arshdeep Singhwon the 2018 Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year (Asia) Award for his photograph ‘Pipe Owls’, at the Natural History Museum, London.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

17. BepiColombo: ESA spacecraft to Mercury in a first-of-its-kind mission

SPORTS

18. Mexican boxer Canelo Álvarezhas signed the richest contract in the history of sports, which is a 5-year deal worth $365 million (over Rs 2,680 crore) with streaming service DAZN.

OBITUARY

19. Former Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhandchief minister Narayan Dutt Tiwari died of a cardiac arrest in