• Indian American scientist Dr. Vivek Lall was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at Ritossa Family Summits in Dubai.

• General Atomics CE Dr Vivek Lall received a Lifetime Achievement Award in Dubai for his "outstanding vision, dedication and success.

• A Jakarta-born Indian origin scientist, Dr Lall is known for this extraordinary role in strengthening India-US Defence trade and brokered some "top deals" between the two countries.

• IT major, Wipro has announced the launch of ‘Begin Again’ program for the women professionals.

• The program is for those who had a break in their career for a duration of six months to one year or more for jobs based in India.

• The initiative enables talented women to explore career opportunities that will harness their potential and allow them to get back on track with the present demands of the industry.

• Under the initiative women can relaunch their career post a break – be it for a sabbatical, motherhood, elderly care, travel, passion, or any other personal reasons.

• Indian Army’s Team of 4/5 Gorkha Rifles (Frontier Force) that represented India in the ‘2021 Cambrian Patrol Exercise’ has won Gold medal. The exercise was organised by the United Kingdom (UK) Army between 13th – 15th October 2021 at Brecon, Wales, UK.

• Exercise Cambrian Patrol is an annual international military exercise conducted to test the ultimate human endurance, thus it is sometimes referred to as the ‘Olympics of Military Patrolling’.

• The Gold Medal was presented to the Indian team by General Sir Mark Carleton-Smith, the Chief of General Staff of the British Army.

• The prestigious exercise saw the participation of 96 teams including top Special Forces & Regiments from 17 international teams.

• Ministry of Steel, GoI signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Russian ministry of energy for collaboration in the mining and steel sectors, with special focus on coking coal.

• The move is part of India’s National Steel Policy 2017 under which the country is aiming to reach 300 million tonne steel production by 2030

• The MoU between the two countries signed in Moscow envisages implementation of joint projects and commercial activities in coking coal, including long-term supplies of high-quality coking coal to India, development of coking coal deposits and logistics development, sharing of experience in coking coal production management, technologies of mining, beneficiation and processing as well as training, said the steel ministry in its release.

• The MoU has come at a time when India’s non-power industries (aluminium, cement and secondary producers of steel) are facing severe thermal coal shortage issues.

• Coking coal and thermal coal, however, have different applications and do not overlap.

• Currently, India imports its coking coal largely from Australia, which places the domestic steel industry at the receiving end in terms of pricing power.

• Diversification of supplies could be of some advantage in terms of pricing for domestic steel consumers, said officials.

• Capital markets regulator SEBI has constituted a four-member high powered advisory committee on settlement orders and compounding of offences.

• The committee will be chaired by Vijay C Daga, retired judge of High Court of Bombay.

• The panel will work as per the Settlement Proceedings Regulations, 2018 specified by the regulator.

• Under the settlement mechanism, an alleged wrongdoer can settle a pending case with the regulator without admission or denial of guilt by paying a settlement fee.

• The settlement mechanism is a tool for ensuring speedy and efficient resolution of disputes.

• The other members of the panel include PK Malhotra, the former law secretary in the Ministry of Law & Justice, PR Ramesh, ex-Chairman of Deloitte Haskins & Sells LLP and DN Raval, Partner at Raval&Raval Associates.

• Punjab CM Charanjit Channi launched 'Mera Ghar Mere Naam' scheme to confer proprietary rights on the people living in the houses within the 'Lal Lakir' of villages and the cities.

• The scheme would give much needed succour to people, especially the needy and underprivileged.

• Earlier this scheme was launched only for the residents of villages, but now it is being extended to the eligible residents of the cities within the 'Lal Lakir'.

• The beneficiaries will be given time of 15 days to file their objections and in case no reply is received from them, the property card will be issued which will serve the purpose of registry against which they can avail loans from the banks or even sell their properties.

• Union government has renamed the Andaman and Nicobar Islands' 'Mount Harriet' as 'Mount Manipur'.

• This was done in honour of Manipur's Maharaja Kulchandra Dhwaj Singh and 22 other freedom fighters were imprisoned here.

• 'Mount Harriet National Park' renamed as 'Mount Manipur National Park’.

• Manipur was the only state that had implemented its own constitution. Though Manipur was under British occupation for a long time, the Freedom Fighters of Manipur always fought the British tooth and nail in battle.

• Manipuri war hero Yuvraj Tikendrajit and General Thangal were publicly hanged at Fida in Imphal.

• After that Maharaja Kulchandra Dhwaja Singh and 22 freedom fighters were sent to Kala Pani and they were kept in Mount Harriet Island.

• A Russian actress and a film director returned to Earth after spending 12 days on the International Space Station (ISS) shooting scenes for the first movie in orbit.

• Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos along with actress Yulia Peresild and producer-director Klim Shipenko departed the ISS in their Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft.

• The filmmakers had blasted off from the Russia-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan earlier this month, travelling to the ISS with veteran cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov to film scenes for "The Challenge".

• The Russian crew will beat a Hollywood project announced last year by "Mission Impossible" star Tom Cruise together with NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX.

• Indonesia lifted the Thomas Cup trophy for the first time since 2002 after sweeping past defending champions China 3-0 in the final in Aarhus, Denmark.

• Indonesia is the most successful nation in the history of the team championship of men's badminton with 14 titles.

• China settled for silver while Japan and hosts Denmark shared the bronze.

• South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Championship 2021 was held in Male, Maldives.

• India clinched the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Championship for eighth time defeating Nepal 3-0 in Male.

• Sunil Chhetri scored in the 49th minute of the match, which put him level with Lionel Messi on 80 international goals.

• This is the Indian football team's first title triumph under head coach Igor Stimac.

• Stimac also became the third foreign coach after Jiri Pesek (1993) and Stephen Constantine (2015) to clinch the title with the Indian team.