Current Affairs : October 22

1. Russia has proposed that the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) members develop a strategy of multilateral economic cooperation. The BRICS countries together account for around 3 billion people, and a combined gross domestic product (GDP) of over $16 trillion.

2. Aung San Suu Kyi collected on Tuesday the EU democracy prize that had been awarded 23 years ago while she was under house arrest. Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's Nobel Peace Prize laureate and long-time political prisoner, finally collects the European Union's 1990 Sakharov Prize for human rights

3. The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project’s first reactor was synchronised with the Southern regional electricity grid on Tuesday.The first 1,000-megawatt (MWe) unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project was synchronised with the southern regional electricity grid in the early hours of Tuesday.

4. Jamaica's athletes, including sprint star Usain Bolt, could be banned from major events like the Olympics due to the island's handling of recent drug scandals, according to Tuesday's Daily Telegraph.

5. The world's most wanted woman, Samantha Lewthwaite, dubbed the "White Widow", wrote a poem telling of her "love" for Osama Bin Laden. She was present in Nairobi at the time of the attack by the Somali Islamist group al-Shabaab.

6. US-based sports website has placed India's prolific batsman Cheteshwar Pujara in its latest list of potentially good top ten investment options in sports.

7. India will launch its first interplanetary probe, Mars orbiter spacecraft, at 2.36pm on November 5 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, Isro said on Tuesday.

8. PM is in Beijing. India, China to sign landmark pact on border cooperation.

9. BlackBerry said that it has begun to roll out its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service to users of Android and iPhone devices.

10. Hurricane Raymond swirls off Mexico, hits Acapulco with more rain.