1.🪙✨ Dhanteras 2025: Investing in Gold, Silver & Precious Metals
📌 Key Highlights:
📆 Occasion: Dhanteras, part of Diwali celebrations
🏠 Tradition: Buying gold and silver coins, jewellery for wealth & prosperity
💰 Investment Purpose: Long-term wealth accumulation, hedge against inflation
📈 Gold Returns: ~14% CAGR over last 15 years
🏛️ Silver Returns: Good long-term gains, more price fluctuations than gold
🧑🤝🧑 Social & Cultural Value: Symbol of security, family prestige, and status
🌍 Indian Holdings: ~25,000 tonnes of gold, mostly jewellery, the largest private holders in the world
2. 📚🌍 77th Frankfurt Book Fair, 2025
📌 Key Highlights:
🗓️ Dates: 15–19 October 2025
🌍 Location: Western Germany
📖 Significance: World’s largest book trade fair
✨ Brings together authors, publishers, and readers from around the globe
3. ⛳🏆 Tommy Fleetwood Wins DP World India Championship 2025
📌 Key Highlights:
🇮🇳 Location: Delhi Golf Club, India
🥇 Winner: Tommy Fleetwood
📅 Event: Inaugural DP World India Championship
🎯 Final Score: 21-under par, 65 in final round
🥈 Runner-up: Keita Nakajima (19-under par, 69 in final round)
⭐ Fleetwood is first-ever winner of this championship
4. 🐎🏅 Legendary Indian Horse Trainer S. Padmanabhan Passes Away
📌 Key Highlights:
🕯️ Passed Away: Sunday, Bengaluru, aged 71
🎖️ Career Start: 1981, licensed by Madras Race Club
🏇 Training Base: Chennai → Bangalore Turf Club 🔹 🏆 Total Winners: 1,000+ horses
🏁 Classic Wins: 113
🥇 Graded Race Wins: Nearly 200
🐴 Notable Horses: Desert God, In The Spotlight, Hall of Famer
🏅 Indian Derby Wins: 3 (2012, 2016, 2017)
🏆 Indian Turf Invitation Cup Wins: 5
5: 🐦🧪 Kaziranga Bird Survey – 2025
📌 Key Highlights:
📍 Kaziranga National Park & Tiger Reserve (Assam)
🐦 146 bird species recorded in latest survey
🔍 Survey also covered Laokhowa Wildlife Sanctuary
👀 A total of 1,919 birds (individuals) were counted
🌍 Included both resident + migratory birds
6. 🌕🔭 Space Science – Chandrayaan-2 Discovery
📌 Key Highlights:
🇮🇳 Chandrayaan-2 orbiter made a first-ever observation on the Moon
☀️ The Sun released a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) — a huge burst of particles
🌕 When this hit the Moon, the lunar exosphere (very thin atmosphere) on the dayside showed a big increase in pressure
🛰️ This was observed by CHACE-2 (Chandra’s Atmospheric Composition Explorer-2) payload on the orbiter
7. 📊🌐 UN World Statistics Day
📌 Key Highlights:
📅 Observed every 5 years on 20 October
🎯 Purpose: Highlight the importance of statistics in decision-making, policy, and development
🌍 Focus: How data helps governments, businesses, and communities make informed choices
✅ Encourages accurate, reliable, and timely statistics worldwide
🟦 Static Info
🏢 Organiser: United Nations (UN)
🌍 First Observed: 20 October 2010
📌 Theme 2025: Promoting data-driven decisions for sustainable development
8.⚓🚢 Kandla Port’s Shipbuilding Cluster Plan
📌 Key Highlights:
🏗️ Deendayal Port Authority (DPA) plans to convert 2,000+ acres of coastal land into a shipbuilding hub
🚢 Initially aimed at VLCCs (very large crude carriers), but tender was scrapped due to low industry interest
⚓ Now focusing on Panamax (65,000-80,000 DWT) and Handymax (40,000-60,000 DWT) vessels 🇮🇳 India 21-10-2025 Bookmark
9. Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Yatra Commemoration
📌 Key Highlights:
⭐ Telangana CM A. Revanth Reddy inaugurated the Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Yatra Commemoration at Charminar
🏅 He presented the Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Award to Salman Khurshid
👨👩👧👦 Salman Khurshid’s association with the Gandhi family spans three generations
❓ MCQ
Q) Who received the Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Award recently in Telangana?
