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October 16 , 2019 1856 days 1113 0
  • Tamilnadu Assembly speaker P. Dhanabal participated and addressed the 64th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference held at Uganda.
  • The 6th edition of Writers and Artists International Film Festival organised by Tamil Nadu Progressive Writers and Artists Association will be held at Thiruvannamalai.
  • As part of National Postal Week celebrations, Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal conferred Dak Sewa Awards – 2019 on eight employees of TN Postal Circle.
    • A booklet on the awards was also released by him to mark 50 years of World Post Day.
  • The Vice Chancellor of Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University, Dr Sudha Seshayyan, has been nominated as the Member - Medical Advisory Council (MAC) under the National Medical Commission by Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit.
    • Through MAC, states put forth their concerns related to the medical education and other issues before the Commission.
  • The Rajasthan state government extended the unemployment allowance to transgenders who would now get Rs 3,500 per month as given to women under the scheme.
    • Transgenders, who are graduates, would be eligible for the benefit.
  • For the first time, a new eel-loach species has been discovered in a subterranean environment in Kerala. It has been named Pangio Bhujia.
    • Eels are native of fast-flowing streams of south and south-east Asia, Indonesia and the North-Eastern parts of India
  • Ecuador, one of the smallest members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has announced that it will leave the 14-nation bloc from January 1, 2020 due to fiscal problems.
  • The International Monetary Fund (IMF) slashed its economic growth forecast for India to 6.1% for the current fiscal from its July projection of 7%. It cited weaker than expected outlook for ‘domestic demand’.

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