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- India’s first training and performance programme of KHON Ramlila is going to be organised by the Culture Department of Uttar Pradesh, in collaboration with the Thailand government. KHON Ramlila is a masked form of Ramlila art of Thailand and is included in UNESCO’s list of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
KHON Ramlila - Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera declared a state of emergency in the capital Santiago, as the city of 6 million descended into chaos amid riots that left a downtown building engulfed in flames and its metro system shuttered. Protesters were enraged by recent fare hikes on public transportation. Chile is one of Latin America’s wealthiest nations.
- The 18th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan from 25th to 26th October, 2019. Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina will attend the summit. Founded in 1961, the NAM was based on the Bandung Principles that were adopted at the Belgrade Summit (an Afro-Asian Conference) in 1955.
- Sri Lanka has been removed from the ‘Grey List’ of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which refers to a jurisdiction with strategic Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) deficiencies. Sri Lanka was first to be included in the FATF’s blacklist in 2011 as a dangerous country with no commitment to a financial security plan in 2012. From November 2017, Sri Lanka was put on its grey list. Established in 1989, FATF is a Paris-based international terror financing watchdog.
- The 91st Interpol General Assembly will be hosted by India in 2022 as a part of the celebrations of the 75th anniversary of Indian Independence. It was announced at the 2019’s congregation held at Santiago in Chile on 19th October, 2019. Earlier, India had hosted the Interpol General Assembly in 1997. Interpol is an International Criminal Police Organization. Headquartered in Lyon, France, it was founded in 1923 as the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC).
- Ekuverin-2019, a joint military exercise between the Indian Army and the Maldives National Defence Force was held from 7th to 20th October 2019 in Pune, Maharashtra. Being conducted since 2009, the 14-day joint military exercise is held alternatively in India and Maldives. It aims to enhance inter-operability between the forces of the two countries for carrying out counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism operations in a semi-urban environment under the United Nations (UN) mandate.
- President Ram Nath Kovind addressed the 4th India-ASEAN Business summit and the India-Philippines Business Conclave that was organized on 19th October, 2019 in Manila, Philippines. The ASEAN-India trade increased by 19% in 2018 reaching 96.79 billion USD. India targets to increase the trade to 200 billion USD by 2022.
- India Myanmar Naval Exercise (IMNEX) 2019, the 2nd edition of the Indo-Myanmar joint naval exercise, is being organised from 19th to 22nd October on-board INS Ranvijay in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. This year’s edition includes increased scope and complexity and is a testimony of growing maritime cooperation between the two navies. The exercise would be conducted in two phases – Harbour phase and Sea Phase. The first edition of the exercise was held in 2018.
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