Daily GK, GA Updates National, International 17th Oct 2014

Subject : Daily Updates For Banking environment and All Compitative Exams.

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Special Day on 17th October, 2014 : ‘International Day For The Eradication Of Poverty’ . (The theme for the day was Leave no one behind: think, decide and act together against extreme poverty).


National : 

• Modi launches labour reforms to make doing business in India simpler.
• India Successfully Test-Fires Nuclear Capable Cruise Missile Nirbhay. ( N-capable sub-sonic long-range cruise missile ‘Nirbhay,’ capable of striking targets more than 700 kms away, from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur in Balasore district of Odisha ).
• SC grants bail to Jayalalithaa on medical grounds .
• RBI inks MoU with Kenya's central bank for info exchange.
• Nabard sets up Rs 2,000 crore fund for mega food parks
• Cap of 3 free ATM transactions may apply in cities near metros
• Indian-born scientist Sanjaya Rajaram received World Food Prize 2014

International : 

• Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand, Spain and Venezuela elected as non-permanent members of UNSC.
• Pak accounts for 80 % of polio cases globally: WHO.