Daily Current Affairs of 29 October 2017

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Daily Current Affairs of 29 October 2017.
  • India and France have agreed to strengthen bilateral defence cooperation as a key Pillar of strategic partnership between the two countries. The joint Naval exercise named the VARUNA is scheduled in early 2018 between the two countries. 
  • Virat Kohli became the sixth Indian to complete 9000 ODI runs. Kohli has broken de Villiers' record of the the fastest cricketer to reach the milestone, with the South African batsman taking 205 innings. Kohli had recently surpassed Australian great Ricky Ponting in the list of most ODI hundreds with his 31st ton. Rs 7,000 crore for construction of permanent campuses of six new Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) across the country approved by Union Cabinet.
  • The Karnataka Government announced the signing of an MoU with Microsoft Corporation India Private Limited with an intention to empower smallholder farmers with technology-oriented solutions that will help them increase income.
  • India and Sri Lanka signed two agreements for construction of 1,200 houses through 50 model villages in Sri Lanka.
  • Piyush Goyal launched railway’s first set of solar plants with a total capacity of 5 megawatt peak installed on the roof tops of Hazrat Nizamuddin, New Delhi, Anand Vihar and Delhi railway stations.
  • Karnataka cabinet approved a policy which seeks to provide legal protection to transgender community and thereby safeguard them from social and sexual exploitation.
  • Veteran actor Sharmila Tagore has received the Lifetime Achievement Award.
  • The Uttar Pradesh government issued an order notifying Vrindavan and Barsana towns in Mathura district as “pavitra teerth sthals (sacred pilgrimage sites)”. No meat and liquor shops will be allowed in these towns anymore. Yogi Adityanath is the CM and Ram Naik is the Governor of UP.
  • Sangram Dahiya won a silver in the ISSF World Cup Final, in New Delhi.
  • Patna Pirates win third time Pro Kabbadi Season 5. Pardeep, who had scored 76 points in three playoffs, helped Patna come from behind and thump Gujarat Fortunegiants 55-38 in the summit clash of Pro Kabaddi season 5.
  • England win the 2017 FIFA U17 World Cup for the very first time after a 5-2 win over European U17 champions Spain.
  • The world’s first hybrid electric tram powered by hydrogen fuel cells has started running in China.
  • Rasiklal Dhariwal, an industrialist popularly known as the ‘gutkha baron’, died due to parotid gland cancer, at Ruby Hall Clinic, in Pune.

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