1) World Mental Health Day: 10 October
•The goal of World Mental Health Day is to increase awareness about mental health and the importance of mental health in the overall health of a person. It was started as an annual activity of the World Federation for Mental Health.
2) Nitin Gadkari Laid Foundation Stone For Rs1,224 Crore Highway Projects In UP
•The projects include widening and improvement of Ramjanaki Marg (NH-227A) from Ayodhya Cantt to Rampur (55 km) at a cost of Rs 315 crore, and 35 km from Rampur to Sikriganj at a cost of Rs 250 crore.
3) Mobile Health App ‘MedWatch’ Launched By Indian Air Force
•The app is conceived by the doctors of IAF and developed in-house by Directorate of Information Technology (DIT) with ZERO financial outlay. ‘MedWatch’ is the first mobile health app in the three Armed Services and was launched by Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa.
4) Clear Sky 2018: Ukraine Launches Air Exercises With NATO Countries
•Some 700 troops are taking part, half of them from NATO member countries including the United States, Britain, the Netherlands, Poland and Romania. The aim is to enhance regional capabilities to secure air sovereignty and promote peace and security through cooperation.
5) BPCL To Set Up Country's 1st Biofuel Plant In Odisha
•The proposed plant will see an investment of Rs 1000 crore, the foundation stone of which was laid. This is the first biofuel plant in the country where ethanol will be produced from rice straw. The refinery will have a capacity to produce three core litres of fuel grade ethanol per year by utilizing around two lakh tonnes of rice straw. Ethanol will be blended with petrol and used as fuel.
6) UNICEF, NASSCOM Sign MoU To Strengthen Child Rights
7) Government Reconstitutes Top Court-Powered Pollution Control Panel
•The other members of the 20-member re-constituted authority include Ajay Mathur, who is the Director General of The Energy Research Institute (TERI), Arunabha Ghosh, the Chief Executive Officer of the Centre for Energy Environment and Water, Navroz K. Dubash, the Senior Fellow for the Centre for Policy Research.
8) Jharkhand To Become Partner State At Goa International Film Festival
•This will allow Jharkhand to showcase its culture and favourable filmmaking incentives announced by the state government. It was decided to open the community radio station at every district of Jharkhand.
9) J P Nadda Inaugurates 2nd World Conference On Access To Medical Products
•At the function, Shri J P Nadda released the Position Paper and launched the Information Sharing Platform Gateway for South-East Asia Regulatory Network (SEARN) developed by Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, which will promote regulatory and health collaboration among the countries of the South-East Asia Region.
10) Japanese Passport Named World's Most Powerful, India 81st
•Japan has recently gained visa-free access to Myanmar, Japanese citizens now have visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 190 destinations around the world. The Indian passport has secured the 81st rank with visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 60 destinations.
•Top 3 on Henley Passport Index Power Ranking 2018:
1. Japan
2. Singapore
3. Germany, France, South Korea.
11) Nikki Haley Resigns As US Ambassador To United Nations
•Haley was appointed to the UN post in November 2016. Before she was named by Trump to her UN post, Haley was governor of South Carolina, the first woman to hold the post. She was re-elected in 2014.
12) Youth Olympic Games 2018: Manu Bhaker, 1st Indian Woman To Win Gold At YOG
•Bhaker achieved the feat after winning the women's 10m Air Pistol event with a score of 236.5 at 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Argentina's Buenos Aires. Weightlifter Jeremy Lalrinnunga became the first-ever Indian to bag Youth Olympics gold.
