Daily Current Affairs and GK | 2 and 3 October 2024

Topic: Important Days

1. Gandhi Jayanti 2024: 2 October

• Every year on October 2, Gandhi Jayanti is celebrated.
• This year this day is the 155th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
• International Day of Non-Violence is observed on 2 October to commemorate the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi.
• On 15 June 2007, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2 October as the International Day of Non-Violence.
• Mahatma Gandhi:
• Mahatma Gandhi, Father of the Nation, was a lawyer, political ethicist, activist, and writer.
• His full name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
• He was born in Porbandar, Gujarat on 2nd October 1869.
• He was an ardent follower of Satyagraha and Ahimsa.
• His notable works: Hind Swaraj, My Experiments with Truth, Harijan (Gujarati Newspaper), Young India (English Newspaper)
• He founded the Harijan Sevak Sangh in 1932.
• Times Magazine named Mahatma Gandhi as the Man of the Year in 1930.

Topic: National Appointment

2. A.K. Saxena took over the additional charge of the post of CMD in RINL.

• On September 30, 2024, MOIL CMD Shri Ajit Kumar Saxena assumed additional charge of CMD of RINL, the corporate entity of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant.

• Saxena is presently the Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of MOIL, a public sector undertaking under the Ministry of Steel.
• RINL CMD Atul Bhatt is on personal leave from September 9 to November 30, which is also the date of his retirement.
• Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL) is a steel manufacturing company under the Ministry of Steel.
• It owns and operates a 7.5 million tonne capacity plant at Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.