Important Current Affairs 15th October 2019

NATIONAL Affairs

1-         PM Modi holds talks with King of the Netherlands Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima in New Delhi.

2-         India and Netherlands launch 2nd phase of LOTUS-HR (Local Treatment of Urban Sewage Streams for Healthy Reuse) project in Delhi.

3-         Nirmala Sitharaman ask the firms to clear dues of MSME

a)         “The corporate affairs ministry has a complete list of companies, which have stated that they owe MSMEs nearly Rs 40,000 crore. We are taking a two-pronged approach so that before Diwali, MSMEs will get the dues,” Sitharaman said.

4-         Govt plans to train women across villages to combat water crisis.

a)         Women in villages across 256 water-scarce districts will receive training to ensure clean water supplies, Smriti Irani, the federal minister for women & child development, said in Mumbai Tuesday. The program will be expanded to cover all of India’s 750,000 villages, Irani said.

                                      INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

1-WTO gives US final authorisation to impose tariffs on EU products in retaliation for illegal subsidies given to Airbus.

2-US imposes sanctions, tells Turkey to stop Syria invasion.

3-Jay Chen CEO of  Huawei want to tie up with Reliance Jio. India is still thinking on this 5G ecosystem in the country.

4-Sino-Pak axis plans to sell arms to Nigeria and Myanmar