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October 18 , 2018 2158 days 843 0
  • Microsoft Corporation’s co-founder Paul Allen died at the age of 65.
  • HMD Global has appointed Bollywood actress Alia Bhatt as the 'face of Nokia phones' in India.
    • HMD Global, designs and sells phones under the Nokia brand.
  • Germany headquartered digital consumer lending platform Kreditech has received a licence from the Reserve Bank of India to operate as a Non-Banking Finance Company (NBFC) in India.
  • After resignation of Chanda Kochhar, RBI has approved Sandeep Bakshi's appointment as Managing Director and CEO of ICICI Bank for three years.
  • Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman dedicated a DRDO website themed ‘The Kalam Vision – Dare to Dream’ to former president and ‘Missile Man’ Dr APJ Abdul Kalam on his 87th birth anniversary (15th October 2018).
  • Virat Kohli overtook Pakistan captain Misbah ul Haq to become the highest scoring Test captain from Asia.
  • After Switzerland, India has also signed an agreement with Liechtenstein for Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information to access information related to black money deposited in the banks.
  • The governments of Germany and the UK, with support from the World Bank launched a new Global Risk Financing Facility (GRiF) to support vulnerable countries to climate and disaster shocks.

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