Current Affairs Update – 25th October, 2016

Hello and welcome to exampundit . Here are the Important Current Affairs of 25 October, 2016. These are important for the upcoming IBPS PO VI Mains, IBPS Clerk VI Mains, IBPS RRB Mains and NICL and IPPB Mains 2016.

• The Union Government on 24
  October 2016 issued a notification amending rule 23 of the Conduct of Elections
  Rules, 1961. The amendment enables service voters, including armed forces
  personnel, to cast their vote in elections through e-postal ballot.
• With this, the service voters,
  including personnel from armed forces, can now download the blank post ballot
  sent to them electronically, mark their preference and post the filled-up
  ballot back to their respective returning officers.
• This will cut short the delay
  experienced in the present system of two-way transmission of ballot paper by
  the postal services.
• The technical team of the
  Election Commission has developed a system whereby a blank postal ballot could
  be electronically transmitted to the voter.
• Voters entitled to postal ballot,
  such as service voters, can download the postal ballot and print the blank
  postal ballot.
• After marking his vote in the
  blank postal ballot, the same would be returned to the concerned Returning
  Officer by post as in the present system of postal ballot.

• World Development Information Day
  was observed on 24 October 2016. The day is annually observed to draw attention
  of world public opinion to development problems and the need to strengthen
  international cooperation to solve them.
• The General Assembly in 1972
  instituted World Development Information Day via resolution 3038 (XXVII). The
  Assembly decided that the date for the Day should coincide in principle with
  United Nations Day, 24 October, which was also the date of the adoption, in
  1970, of the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations
  Development Decade.
• The Assembly felt that improving
  the dissemination of information and the mobilization of public opinion,
  particularly among young people, would lead to greater awareness of the
  problems of development, thus, promoting efforts in the sphere of international
  cooperation for development.

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• Disarmament Week is an annual
  event that is observed from 24 October to 30 October in various parts of the
  world. The annual observation of the Week starts on the anniversary of the
  founding of the United Nations, which is observed as the United Nations Day.
• On the occasion, the United
  Nations invites states to highlight the danger of the arms race, propagate the
  need for its cessation and increase public understanding of the urgent tasks of
  disarmament.
• The week was established by the
  General Assembly in 1978 through resolution S-10/2. In 1995, the General
  Assembly invited governments, as well as NGOs, to continue taking an active
  part in Disarmament Week (resolution 50/72 B, 12 December 1995).
• It invited the Secretary-General
  to continue using United Nations information entities as widely as possible, to
  promote a better understanding among the public of disarmament problems, and
  the aims of the Week.

• Comedian Bill Murray on 23
  October 2016 was honoured with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humour. He was
  presented with the award at the ceremony organised at the Kennedy Center
  Concert Hall in Washington DC.
• Murray was awarded the 19th Mark
  Twain Prize for making an impact on U.S. society similar to Mark Twain’s.
• The Mark Twain Prize for American
  Humour is an American award for humour awarded by the John F. Kennedy Center
  for the Performing Arts.

• G Balakrishna in October 2016 won
  the Mr Asia title at the 5th Phil-Asia bodybuilding championships in the
  Philippines. 25-year-old Balakrishna is a Bengaluru-based water tanker driver.
• In 2013, he won Mr Universe
  Under-24 junior contest in Germany
• In 2014, he won Mr Universe title
  in the same category at the world championship in Athens
• As per reports, he is known as
  the Arnold Schwarzenegger of Whitefield

• North Korea’s women’s U-17 team
  on 21 October 2016 won the 2016 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup. The North Koreans
  defeated Japan in penalty kicks to grab the title.
• This is North Korea’s second U-17
  Women’s World Cup title. The country won the first ever U-17 Women’s World Cup
  in 2008.
• The 2016 FIFA U-17 Women’s World
  Cup was held in Jordan from 30 September to 21 October 2016.

• Portugal’s Renato Sanches on 24
  October 2016 was awarded the 2016 European Golden Boy award.
• Sanches will be handed a trophy
  at a Monte Carlo ceremony. He defeated Manchester United’s Marcus Rashford,
  Bayern’s Kingsley Coman and AC Milan goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma to bag the
  prize.
• Sanches was selected following a
  vote by journalists from 30 newspapers across Europe to name the best player in
  2016 under the age of 21.

• India-born Rajeev Misra in the
  third week of October 2016 was appointed the SoftBank Vision Fund, constituted
  by Japanese telecom and Internet major Softbank Corp.
• The SoftBank Vision Fund intends
  to make investments in the technology sector globally. It is managed in the
  United Kingdom by a subsidiary of the Saudi Binladin Group (SBG). It is
  reportedly one of the world’s largest of its kind and will be operated from
  London.

• Tiangong-2, the experimental
  space lab of China, on 23 October 2016 successfully launched a micro-satellite,
  Banxing-2 (the word means Companion Satellite). The micro-satellite is roughly
  the size of a desktop printer.
• At present, Tiangong-2 is
  orbiting the Earth with two astronauts on board.

• Peace activist Tom Hayden, whose
  radical views were at the forefront of the anti-Vietnam War movement in the
  1960s, passed away on 23 October 2016 following a prolonged illness in Santa
  Monica, California. He was 76.
• He was a stalwart of America’s
  New Left who served 18 years in California’s State Legislature and gained a
  dash of Hollywood glamour by marrying actress Jane Fonda.

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