Current affairs
- The 35th death anniversary of former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was observed on October 31, 2019. Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her own bodyguards on October 31, 1984 for launching Operation Blue Star.
- Twitter has decided to ban all political advertising from its platform. This was announced by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey who tweeted saying that political message reach should be earned, not bought.
- Saudi Arabia is the third Gulf state to witness the launch of the RuPay card, during the visit of PM Narendra Modi.
- The BCCI Ethics Officer D K Jain has asked National Cricket Academy head Rahul Dravid to appear in person for the second time, on November 12 for further clarifications on the conflict of interest allegations leveled against him.
- Pavan Kapoor recently took charge as the Indian Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Kapoor succeeds Navdeep Singh Suri, who retired in September 2019. Kapoor is a 1990 batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer.
- The 35th ASEAN Summit began in Bangkok on October 31, 2019 and will continue till November 4, 2019. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be attending the summit on November 3-4, 2019.
- As per the ZDNet report, around 1.3 million debit and credit cards are up for sale on the on Joker’s Stash, one of the card shops on the dark web. The dump was founded by the researchers of the Singapore-based Group-IB on October 28, 2019.
- The first day-night Test between India and Bangladesh will be played at the Eden Gardens Stadium in Kolkata from 22 November. Another feature of this match is that it will be played with a pink colored ball.
- The government of Chile has canceled hosting of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25) and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit due to anti-government protests in the country.
- Gurudas Dasgupta, veteran CPI leader passed away in Kolkata on October 31, 2019. He was 83. The parliamentarian was suffering from heart and kidney-related ailments.
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