Current Affairs : October 10

1. Sachin Tendulkar is to retire from Tests; 200th against West Indies to be his last. Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar has announced his retirement from Test Cricket.

2. Canadian Alice Munro, 82 yrs old, is awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature "master of the contemporary story".

3. Eminent agricultural scientist M S Swaminathan, known as the father of Green Revolution, will be conferred the Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration, it was announced today.

4. Chief Justice of India P Sathasivam has constituted a new bench to hear all cases pertaining to 2G scam. Justice G S Singhvi, who has been hearing for the last three years on irregularities in the allocation of spectrum, expressed his desire to be relieved in view of his retirement in December.

5. Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan appeared in public for the first time since his release after being abducted from his hotel earlier in the day. The Prime Minister was freed from captivity just hours after gunmen abducted him on Thursday at dawn from the hotel where he resides in the capital, Tripoli, according to the state news agency.

6. Pakistan's teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, shot by the Taliban for fighting girls' rights to education, was today awarded the European Parliament's prestigious Sakharov human rights prize.

7. Sri Lanka’s cabinet was expanded today with the inclusion of nine new Deputy Ministers, including former star batsman and Chairman of the Selection Committee, Sanath Jayasuriya.

8. In Jakarta, the first meeting of the India-Indonesia CEO's forum is being held today on the sidelines of the Prime Minister's visit. The forum was established in 2011 following the visit of the Indonesian President Yudhoyono to India.

9.Cyclone "Phailin" which was to make landfall two days from now, possibly near Gopalpur in Odisha and in north Andhra Pradesh, intensified into a severe cyclonic storm on Thursday travelling slightly northwest and lying about 800km from Paradip in Odisha.

10. The U. S. Federal Reserve is going to exit the list of top power institutions in the country where the top position has never been held by a woman.