15 exam-relevant headlines, written simply. Read the bold fact in each — that's what exams ask.
The ICC Men's T20 World Cup ran in Australia from October 16 to November 13, 2022. Virat Kohli played an unbeaten 82 against Pakistan at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and finished the tournament as its highest run-scorer with 296 runs.
India's 5G telecom services went live on October 1, 2022, starting in 13 selected cities ahead of a nationwide rollout.
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Sweden's Svante Paabo for his discoveries on the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.
Alain Aspect (France), John Clauser (US) and Anton Zeilinger (Austria) shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments with entangled photons that established the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneered quantum information science.
Carolyn Bertozzi (US), Morten Meldal (Denmark) and Barry Sharpless (US) won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry. It was Sharpless's second Nobel.
French writer Annie Ernaux won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, cited for the courage and clinical acuity with which she explores personal memory and collective restraints.
The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize went to Ales Bialiatski of Belarus, the Russian organisation Memorial and Ukraine's Centre for Civil Liberties for their civil-society efforts defending citizen rights and documenting abuses of power.
Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig (all US) won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for research on banks and financial crises.
Chief Justice U. U. Lalit recommended Justice D. Y. Chandrachud as his successor before retiring on November 8, 2022 - setting up the 50th CJI.
Mallikarjun Kharge defeated Shashi Tharoor to become Congress president on October 19, 2022 - the party's first non-Gandhi president in 24 years.
On October 22, 2022 ISRO's LVM3 rocket flew its first commercial mission, LVM3-M2, injecting 36 OneWeb satellites into low Earth orbit from Sriharikota.
Rishi Sunak took office as Britain's Prime Minister on October 25, 2022, appointed by King Charles III - the first British Asian to hold the office and, at 42, the youngest PM since 1812. He succeeded Liz Truss, who had announced her resignation on October 20.
On October 27, 2022 the BCCI announced equal match fees for India's men and women cricketers across all three formats.
The colonial-era 'Jhulto Pul' suspension bridge over the Machchhu river at Morbi, Gujarat collapsed on the evening of October 30, 2022, killing at least 141 people. It had reopened just five days earlier after renovation.
Rashtriya Ekta Diwas (National Unity Day) was observed on October 31, marking Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's birth anniversary. Observed since 2014, it honours Patel's role in India's political integration.
From exactly the headlines above. If you read the month, you should score 8+.
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