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• Former India captain Sourav Ganguly has been formally elected unopposed as the new Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president.
• Ganguly is likely to serve only 9 months as BCCI president as the "Cooling Off" period clause in the new BCCI constitution makes it mandatory for board officials to step down after 6 years in office.

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• China will host the inaugural edition of the expanded 24-team Club World Cup, FIFA president Gianni Infantino said, hailing it as a "historic decision".
• FIFA's choice underlines China's growing clout in football and could be a precursor to the country eventually hosting the World Cup proper.
• It will mean many of the biggest club teams -- including eight from Europe -- descending on China in June-July 2021.
• The current Club World Cup features seven teams including the holders of the UEFA Champions League. Qatar will host the competition this year and in 2020.

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• The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) released its 2017 data for crime in India on October 21.
• The data that was supposed to be published under the new sub-heads of mob lynching, murder by influential people, killing ordered by khap panchayats and murder committed for religious reasons.
• Uttar Pradesh has been listed as the most unsafe for women, with the state registering the maximum number of cases – over 56,000 – of crimes against women in 2017.
• This comes at a time when a debate rages regarding the law and order situation in the state. Madhya Pradesh, meanwhile, has been ranked as the 'rape capital' of India

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• India has marginally improved its ranking to 32nd position in terms of providing pension and retirement benefits to citizens compared to last year, according to the Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index (MMGPI) 2019.
• The country’s score in the Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index (MMGPI) 2019 rose to 45.8 from 44.6 last year. The MMGPI, which covers 37 countries, is based on how they fare on providing pension and retirement benefits to citizens across different income groups.
• India stood at 32nd position in 2019 out of 37 countries, while it was ranked at 33rd place in 2018 out of 34 countries in the list.
• India’s index value increased largely due to the improvement in all three sub-indices of adequacy, sustainability and integrity.

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• National Police Commemoration Day is observed every year on October 21 to remember remembering the brave policemen who sacrificed their lives while discharging their duties. Rich tributes are paid to the martyrs on this day.
• On October 21, 1959, twenty Indian soldiers were attacked by the Chinese troops in Ladakh. This altercation between the troops led to the death of ten policemen. Seven of the others who were also imprisoned and managed to escape from the Chinese troops.
• On November 28, 1959, the Chinese troops handed over the dead bodies of the martyred policemen to India.
• Their cremation was held with full Police honours at the Hot springs in Ladakh. Ever since the incident, October 21 is celebrated as Police Commemoration Day in remembrance of the martyrs.

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• Ilham Tohti is a renowned Uighur activist who recently announced as a winner of Sakharov Prize of European Union.
• He is a human rights defender and advocate of China's Uighur minority. He has been working for over two decades to foster dialogues between Chinese People and Uighur Muslims.
• He was sentenced to life in prison in September 2014 for his activism. Experts believe that he is a voice of moderation and settlement in spite of what he has suffered.

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• Satya Pal Malik was appointed as the governor of Goa.
• He was first appointed governor of Bihar in September 2017 and later shifted to Jammu and Kashmir last year in August.

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• BJP’s Kerala president P S Sreedharan Pillai has been appointed as the new governor of Mizoram.
• Assam governor Jagdish Mukhi has been holding the additional charge of Mizoram.

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• Deepika Padukone and PV Sindhu have collaborated for a promotional video for PM Narendra Modi's Bharat Ki Laxmi movement.
• Deepika and PV Sindhu are seen telling their stories and encouraging people to nominate women who have contributed to the society and made name for themselves.
• Bharat Ki Laxmi movement is a campaign to honour Indian women who have made a mark with their achievements in various fields for public good.

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• The National Cyber Security Coordinator's office in partnership with Data Security Council (DSCI) of India launched TechSagar – a platform to discover India’s technological capability through a portal.
• The portal will list business and research entities from the IT industry, startups, academia, and individual researchers.
• TechSagar is a consolidated and comprehensive repository of India’s cyber tech capabilities which provides actionable insights about capabilities of the Indian Industry, academia and research across 25 technology areas like internet of things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), blockchain, cloud & virtualisation, robotics & automation, ar/vr, wireless & networking, and more.

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• Delhi will be the first city in Asia, and ninth globally, where the US-based company will launch Transit. The taxi aggregator firm had launched the service in Boston in the US, Nice in France, among others.
• Under the service, when riders enter a destination, they’ll see ‘Public Transport’ as an option alongside ‘UberGO’, ‘Premier’ and ‘UberPool’.

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• Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said that Brazil will drop its requirement that visiting Chinese and Indian tourists or businesspeople obtain visas.
• Bolsonaro, a far-right politician, came to power at the beginning of the year and has made it a policy to reduce visa requirements from a number of developed countries. But the announcement, made during an official visit to China, is the first he has made expanding that policy to the developing world.
• Earlier this year, the Brazilian government ended visa requirements for tourists and businesspeople from the United States, Canada, Japan and Australia. Those countries, however, have not in return dropped their visa requirements for Brazilian citizens.

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• The United Nations (UN) World Food Program (WFP) has joined hands with Bollywood in India to create awareness and take steps against hunger and malnutrition in India. UNWFP has launched the 'Feed Our Future' campaign in association with the help of Bollywood. T
• he ad campaign ‘Feed our Future’ has launched in collaboration with UFO Movies which is India’s one of the largest in-cinema advertising platform. UNWFP believes that this ad campaign will help them to spread the message of zero hunger among Indians.
• The United Nations World Food Program (UNWFP) is the world's largest humanitarian organization that works to save lives and help to give assistance in emergencies through sustainable development.
• In India, WFP has been working for more than 50 years in partnership with the government to achieve food and nutritional security.