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- A high-level committee for social sciences of NCERT has recommended replacing the name ‘India’ with ‘Bharat’ in textbooks and introducing ‘classical History’ instead of ancient History in the curriculum.
- Air Vice Marshal Sadhna S Nair was promoted as Air Marshal and she becomes the second woman medical officer in the history of IAF to achieve this rank.
- Air Marshal Padma Bandopadhyay made history as the first woman to ascend to the rank of Air Marshal in the Indian Air Force.
- The Indian and Malaysian armies have commenced “Exercise Harimau Shakti 2023.”
- Mumbai was the second most polluted city among 109 places tracked by IQAir, a Swiss technology company measuring air quality in real-time.
- India’s first Nano DAP plant was inaugurated in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
- The Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare (DoPPW) hosted the Anubhav Awards 2023 Ceremony at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi.
- The National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) has conducted the 2nd Edition of the National Cyber Security Exercise 'Bharat NCX 2023.'
- A national hackathon named “Vimarsh-2023” was launched to identifying innovative tools to ensure the secure utilization of 5G technology by law enforcement agencies during sensitive operations.
- The Drums and Tins (Quality Control) Order 2023, and the Copper Products (Quality Control) Order 2023, notified to prohibit the production, sale, import and stocking of certain items unless they bear the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) mark.
- The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), gave node to including the Jamrani Dam Multipurpose Project of Uttarakhand under the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana-Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (PMKSY-AIBP).
- Competition Commission of India (CCI) has become a member of the steering group of the International Competition Network (ICN).
- The Indian Oil Corporation has achieved a significant milestone by producing specialized “reference” petrol and diesel for the first time in India.
- The cyclonic storm Hamoon over coastal Bangladesh weakened into deep depression over southeast Bangladesh & adjoining Mizoram.
- To augment the training infrastructure of special forces and combat free-fallers, the Army’s Special Forces Training School (SFTS) at Bakloh, Himachal Pradesh, has setup the Army’s first Vertical Wind Tunnel (VWT).
- Sri Lanka announced that travellers from seven countries – India, China, Russia, Malaysia, Japan, Indonesia and Thailand can now have a visa-free entry to Sri Lanka.
- The government of Saudia Arabia hosted the Middle East and North Africa Climate Week 2023 in the city of Riyadh from 8-12 October, 2023.
- Rohit Sharma completed 50 ODI sixes in 2023 and becoming first Indian to smash 50 sixes in ODI cricket in a calendar year.
South Africa’s AB de Villiers (58 sixes in 2015) holds the record of hitting highest number of sixes in ODIs in a calendar year.
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