CURRENT AFFAIRS FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2017
1.) International Day of Non- violence celebrated on 2nd October, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. 2.) The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne for their detection of gravitational waves. 3.)Rajnish Kumar is appointed as the new chairman of SBI. He has replaced Arundhati Bhattacharya on 7th October 2017. 4.) Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to US-born professor Richard H. Thaler for his contributions to behavioural economics. 5.) Anupam Kher takes over as the new chief of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII). 6.) World Food was observed on 16 October. 7.) Cristiano Ronaldo crowned as the best male footballer in the world at the FIFA Best Football Award. 8.) Writer and lyricist Javed Akhtar conferred with the Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar Award for 2017. 9.) Virat Kohli Became the sixth Indian to complete 9000 ODI runs during the third game against New Zealand in Kanpur. He is a