24 October 2010
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan : PM of Turkey
- Earthquake hits districts near Van Lake, Turkey killing over 1000 lives
- 2nd meeting of Chief Election Commissioners (CECs) of SAARC nations : @ Alappuzha
- Electoral reforms discussed
- SY Quraishi : CEC of India
- Dasho Kunzang Wangdi : CEC of Bhutan
- Hamid Ali Mirza : CEC of Pakistan
- Neel Kanth Uprety : CEC of Nepal
- Alain Juppe : French Foreign Minister
- France will not bound to new NSG (Nuclear Suppliers Group) restriction on nuclear sales to India
- Hydraulic Fracking : method used to extract natural gas from wells
- Scientists report that it caused minor quakes in England
- Roshan Giri : Secretary General of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM)
- Bimal Gurung : President of GJM
- A bridge collapsed in Bijanbari, Darjeeling district, West Bengal due to weight of hundreds of people gathered on concluding day of a cultural event conducted by GJM
- Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck : King of Bhutan
- Jetsun Prema : Queen of Bhutan
- The couple visit India; 1st visit abroad after the royal-wedding
- Murli Manohar Joshi : Chairman of Public Accounts Committee (PAC)
- IBSA (India-Brazil-South Africa) proposed to establish a new global body within UN framework to oversee Global Internet Governance at a seminar Global Internet Governance in Rio-de-Janeiro
- Ajay Malhotra : Indian Ambassador to Russia
- Simplified visa rules for Indian travelling to Russia, came into force
- Ali Abdullah Saleh : First & Current President of Republic of Yemen
- Kurdish Fighters : Rebel group of Iraq
- More than 100 killed in flash floods in Myanmar
- NASA plans to put fuel filling stations in space for its distant journeys
- Project period 2012-2030; estimate $60b-$86b
- Rugby World Cup, @ Auckland : New Zealand bt France
- Stockholm Open Tennis : @ Stockholm
- Men's Doubles : Rohan Bopanna (Ind)/Aisam Qureshi (Pak) bt Marcelo Melo/Bruno Soares (Brazil)
- Men's Singles : Gael Monfils (France) bt Jarkko Nieminen (Finland)
- Kremlin Cup : @ Moscow
- Men's : Janko Tipsarevic (Serbia) bt Viktor Troicki (Serbia)
- Women's : Dominika Cibulkova (Slovakia) bt Kaia Kanepi (Estonia)
- Luxembourg Open : @ Luxembourg
- Women's : Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) bt Monica Niculescu (Romania)
- Marco Simoncelli : Italian Grand Prix Motorcycle racer of team Honda
- Died at an accident during Malaysian MotoGP, at Sepang International Circuit, Malaysia
- Swiss International Badminton Championship
- Women's Singles : PV Sindhu (Ind) bt Carola Bott (Germany)
- Women's Doubles : Pradnya Gadre/Prajakta Sawant (Ind) bt Laura Choinet/Audrey Fontaine (France)
- ROSAT (Rontgen Satellite) : defunct satellite of Germany was languishing in the dead orbit for over a decade
- Adm Stanley Dawson : Former Chief of Naval Staff of India; Passed Away
- Nusrat Bhutto : widow of former Pakistan PM Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto; Passed Away
- K Ramamurthy : Director of Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS)
- Allays fear of public on safety of nuclear power plants
- NABARD sets apart Rs.2000Cr warehousing funds under Rural Infrastructure Development Fund(RIDF) Tranche XVII
- Mallikarjun Kharge : Union Minister of Labour & Employment
- 1500 ITIs proposed across the country to tackle skilled labour shortage in the 12th Five-Year Plan
- AS Bhattacharya : CMD of Bank of Maharashtra
- Nagesh Pydah : CMD of Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC)
- Kadambi Narahari : CMD of SBI Cards
- OBC & SBI Cards launched co-branded Credit cards
- 1st co-branded cards with EMV chips (Europay, Mastercard, Visa), an industry standard providing enhanced security to its customers
- CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) signed an agreement with Abu Dhabi Ports Company to work in support of Khalifa Industrial Zone Abu Dhabi (Kizad)
- India asked SriLanka to reduce the $50 visa processing fee for its national & tourists from SAARC nations
- Mobile banking to be introduced for financial inclusion in villages to provide quality banking services at doorsteps
- Recent financial inclusion measures taken by RBI
- no-frills account
- a remittance product for electronic benefit transfer
- a pure savings product
- entrepreneurial cards such as General Credit Card & Kisan Credit Card
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