Current Affairs Oct 6 and Oct 7, 2016.

1. UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has announced that Paris agreement will come into force on 4th of November.

India signed the deal on 2nd of October on Gandhi Jayanti. India was the 62nd country to ratify the deal.  The Paris Agreement on climate change will enter into force on November 4.  It has been ratified by 72 countries accounting for more than 56 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.  China and US the world 2 biggest polluters signed the deal just before the G20 china summit.  The Paris agreement sets an aim ideally for a maximum rise in global temperatures of 1.5C.  The next step of the meet is the marrakesh meet when country meet for the first time after the Paris Deal in Nov 2016  The much-anticipated Paris Agreement is the third international document on addressing climate change.  Before it was the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and 1997 Kyoto Protocol. 2. India's latest communication satellite GSAT-18 was on Oct 6, 2016 successfully launched from the spaceport of Kourou in French Guiana.  The launch was originally scheduled for Wednesday, but deferred by 24 hours owing to unfavorable weather conditions.  GSAT-18, built by the ISRO, aims at providing telecommunications services for the country by strengthening ISRO's current fleet of 14 operational telecommunication satellites.  Weighing over three thousand kilograms at lift-off, GSAT-18 carries 48 communication transponders to provide services in Normal C-band, Upper Extended C-band and Ku-bands of the frequency spectrum 3. The Hurricane Matthew has left over 572 people dead in Haiti. Hurricane Matthew has been pounding different parts of the Bahamas.  It has now made a landfall on the US coast of Florida. An emergency has been declared in Florida state. Highways in Florida and neighboring states clogged up with people streaming inland to escape the storm. It has been described as the Caribbean's worst storm in nearly a decade. Initial helicopter observations found a number of severely damaged houses, major farmland destruction and intense flooding, in Haiti.  4. Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who is on a visit to the western border districts of Jaisalmer and Barmer in Rajasthan, said that the Home Ministry plans to seal the Indo-Pakistan border by end of year 2018. 5. The annual India Economic Summit began in New Delhi on Oct 6, 2016. Visiting Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe attended the Opening Plenary session of the Economic Summit along with Commerce and Industry minister Nirmala Sitharaman.  With over 500 business and political leaders, including top policymakers and CEOs, are participating in the two-day summit. The special focus is on 'Fostering an Inclusive India through Digital Transformation'. Sri Lanka to further expand FTA with India and other agreements to be signed are economic and technology by the end of this year. 6. A high-level technical team began inspection of the dams in the Cauvery basin today. The team is being headed by G S Jha, chairman of the central water commission.  The team would visit the Thailuru, Somanahalli and Madarahalli catchment areas in Maddur, around 80 kilometres away from Bengaluru.  The team has also a scheduled visit to the Krishna Raja Sagara dam at 6.30 pm on Friday.  The team is visiting these areas following a directive from the Supreme Court.  The Supreme Court had earlier this week directed Karnataka to release 2,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu from October 7 to 18.  Representatives from Tamil Nadu, Kerela, Pudducherry besides Karnataka are also accompanying the technical team.  The team will also visit Mettur dam in Tamil Nadu. The team has been accorded high-level security on their visit to the Cauvery basin.  7. Colombian government negotiators have resumed talks with the FARC rebel group to try to resurrect the peace deal following its rejection in Sunday's referendum. The two sides are back in the Cuban capital, Havana, after Colombians voted narrowly against the agreement. All sides in Colombia want an end to more than 50 years of fighting.  However opponents of the government have insisted on a re-negotiation of part of the peace deal. The peace agreement was reached after four years of formal talks in the Cuban capital, Havana, between government and FARC negotiators. The President of Colombia  Juan Manuel Santos  was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Oct 7, 2016 for pursuing a deal to end 52 years of conflict with a leftist rebel group, the longest-running war in the Americas, just five days Juan Mannuel Santos after Colombians   rejected the agreement in a shocking referendum result. The decision to give the prize to the Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, may revive hopes for the agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, with whom the country has been waging the last major guerrilla struggle in Latin America. 8.  A trio of French, British and Dutch scientists won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for developing molecular machines, the world's smallest machines that may one day act as artificial muscles to power tiny robots or even prosthetic limbs.  The scientists have developed molecules with controllable movements, which can perform a task when energy is added.  9. The Coal Ministry which was in the dock during UPA Rule over allegations of coal block allocation scam is now presenting an example of transparency. .  Moving ahead with the goal of e-governance, the Coal Ministry will become the first Department which would go fully paperless from 16th of October.  With the help of Software developed by NIC.   10. Professional mountaineer Arjun Vajpai summited Cho Oyu, the 6th highest mountain, on Tuesday to become the youngest in the world to climb the 27,000 feet peak. The 23-year-old reached the summit before dawn along with his sherpas and another expedition member after leaving from Camp 3 after midnight. With the Cho Oyu summit, Arjun has climbed five of the 14 highest mountains in the world that tower over 8,000 metres and holds the world record for the youngest summiteer on Mount Lhotse, Mount Manaslu and Mount Makalu. 11. India will take on South Africa in the 2nd match of the Under 17 BRICS Cup in Goa on Oct 7, 2016. Earlier India lost the opening tie to Russia by a solitary goal. 12. Kabaddi World Cup to be commenced on Oct 7, 2016 in Ahmadabad, Gujarat.  International Kabaddi Federation chief Deoraj Chaturvedi said that 12 out of 32 Kabaddi playing countries will participate in the fortnight-long tournament, which will be concluding on October 22. 12 participating teams are India, USA , England, Australia, Iran, Poland, Thailand, Bangladesh, South Korea, Japan, Argentina, and Kenya. Pakistan has been debarred from the upcoming 12-nation Kabaddi World Cup in India amidst escalating tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbours. Iran will take on newcomer to replace Pakistan.  SHARING IS CARING :)