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- “Magnificent Journey: Times and Tales of Democracy” shot between 2006 and 2016 across the length and breadth of north India is planned to be screened in film festivals, universities and in civil society forums in India and abroad.
- It was shot by Economics Nobel Prize winner Abhijit Banerjee and Ranu Ghosh, a cinematographer.
- Union Minister of Communications and Electronics & Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad unveiled a series of new initiatives by Ministry of Electronics & Information (MeitY) in the first MeitY Start-up Summit held at New Delhi.
- The first National Hindi Science writers conference was held at Lucknow by Uttar Pradesh government with an aim to promote use of Hindi and other Vernacular languages in science writing.
- The President of India addressed a gathering at 50th anniversary of 1969 built “Vishwa Shanti Stupa” (World Peace Pagoda) in Rajgir, Bihar and spread the message of peace and awareness about teachings of Lord Buddha.
- The Union Minister for Health Harsh Vardhan has released the “Guidelines for Evaluation of Nano pharmaceuticals in India”.
- The Guidelines are developed by Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science and Technology, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO), Ministry of Health.
- Just days before the U.K. is formally due to leave the European Union (EU) on October 31, the EU has agreed that it will accept the U.K.’s request for a Brexit ‘flextension’ (flexible extension) until 31 January 2020.
- US President Donald Trump has announced the death of Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi during an overnight raid led by US military forces in Syria.
- Baghdadi, who was believed to have been born in Iraq in 1971, proclaimed himself Caliph of the Islamic State in 2013.
- Caribbean cricket team Papua New Guinea defeated Kenya and secured their maiden qualification to 2020 T20 World Cup to be held in Australia.
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