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- Himachal Pradesh’s Durgesh Aranya Zoological Park’ is set to become India’s first Zoo with IGBC certification. It is located in the Bankhandi area of Kangra’s Dehra assembly constituency.
- Typhoon Kong-rey hits Taiwan’s East coast, the largest storm to hit the island since 1996.
- The Theme for the Vigilance Awareness Week 2024, which is being observed from October 28 to November 3, 2024, is “Culture of Integrity for Nation’s Prosperity.”
- Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a Museum of Valour in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh, honouring Major Ralengnao ‘Bob’ Khathing, the visionary Naga officer from Manipur whose bold expedition in 1951 firmly integrated Tawang into India.
- According to the WHO’s Global Tuberculosis Report, which was recently released, India has seen a 17.7 percent decline in tuberculosis incidence. The number of cases has decreased from 237 per lakh population in 2015 to 195 cases in 2023. This decline is more than twice the global average of 8.3 percent.
- An international team of scientists led by the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad, has discovered an exoplanet Identified as TOI-6651b, the sub-Saturn class planet outside our solar system that is five times bigger and 60 times heavier than the Earth.
- Recently a team of scientists at the Institute of Nano Science and Technology (INST) has developed a novel ink with enhanced security features to stop counterfeiting in currency, certificates, branded goods and medicine.