CURRENT AFFAIRS FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2019- CLASSES- IV & V

1.) National Unity day, also known as Rashtriya Ekta Diwas was celebrated in India on 31st October in the honours of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
2.)  Radha Krishna Mathur was formally sworn in as first-ever Lieutenant Governor of newly carved Union Territory of Ladakh.
3.) Indian Administrative Service officers Girish Chandra Murmu has been appointed as Lt. Governor of Jammu-Kashmir and R K Mathur as Lt. Governor of Ladakh. Mr P.S. Sreedharan Pillai has been appointed the new Governor of Mizoram. The incumbent Governor of the Jammu and Kashmir Satya Pal Malik has been moved to Goa.
4.) Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde appointed as the 47th Chief Justice of India.
5.) Former Indian Cricket captain Sourav Ganguly elected the new President of Board of Control for Cricket in India, BCCI.
 6.) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become the most-followed world leader on Instagram with over 30 million followers.
 7.) India women T20I captain Harmanpreet Kaur became the most capped Indian in the shortest format of the game with 100th T20I match.
8.)  This year we celebrated Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary on 2nd October.
9.) This year we celebrated  Former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri's 115th birth anniversary on 2nd October also.
10.)  Businessman Mukesh Ambani continues to be the richest person in India according to business magazine Forbes.
11.)  MC Mary Kom settled for a bronze medal in the World Women's Boxing Championships after losing to Turkey's Busenaz Cakiroglu in the semifinal bout at Ulan Ude in Russia.
12.)  The BJP's Manoharlal Khattar took oath as the Chief Minister of Haryana for a second term.
13.)  Home Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the highest bridge in India named after the “Lion of Ladakh” Col Chewang Rinchen. It stands at 14,650 feet across the Shyok river.

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