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India improved its ranking on the World Bank's 'ease of doing business' report for the second straight year, jumping 23 places to the 77th position on the back of reforms related to insolvency, taxation and other areas. New Zealand tops the list of 190 countries in ease of doing business, followed by Singapore, Denmark, and Hong Kong.

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America's IBM has acquired software company Red Hat in a $34 billion cash and debt deal, marking its biggest ever acquisition till date. Founded 25 years ago, Red Hat was valued at about $20.5 billion at the end of trading.

The open source, enterprise software maker will become a unit of IBM's Hybrid Cloud division, with Red Hat CEO

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World number one Simona Halep has become the first recipient of the Chris Evert Women's Tennis Association (WTA) World No.1 Trophy, named after WTA's first-ever world number one, Chris Evert.

Chris Evert. The 27-year-old had lifted her maiden Grand Slam title at the Roland Garros and claimed the WTA Year-End world number one singles award for the second consecutive year.

Daily Important Current affairs of October 25 2018 include:

• West Indies All-rounder Dwayne Bravo has announced his retirement from international cricket.
• TCS is the only Indian Firm among top 10 to get Foreign Labour Certification for the H-1B visas for 2018 fiscal. This data has been released by US Department of Labour (DOL). 
• 2018 Seoul Peace Prize has been awarded to PM Narendra Modi.

Daily important current affairs for October 24 2018 include:

• Nasscom has signed an agreement with Hiroshima for ‘Japan-India IT Corridor’ in Hiroshima, Japan. 
• ‘Iron Magic 19’, a joint military exercise between UAE and USA has started in the Arabian Gulf.
• Paul Biya has won the 7th term as President of Cameroon.

Daily important current affairs of October 23 2018:

Kimi Raikkonen (nicknamed “Iceman”), a Finnish racing driver currently driving in Formula One for Scuderia Ferrari has won the United States Grand Prix.

Daily important current affairs of October 22 2018

• Marc Marquez
• won the MotoGP world champion in the Japanese MotoGP.
•  is a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and one of the most successful motorcycle racers of all time. 
• has seven Grand Prix world championships to his name – five of which are in the premier MotoGP class.

Daily important current affairs of October 21 2018

On 31st October, PM Narendra Modi will be unveiling the Statue of Unity on the birth anniversary of Sardar Patel. The world’s tallest statue,(182-meter) has been completed by 3,400 labourers and 250 engineers at Sadhu Bet island on Narmada River in Gujarat.

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Canelo Alvarez signed the biggest athlete deal in the history of sports, a $365 million contract for his next five years of fights.

Alvarez signed the deal with DAZN, a new sports streaming service that has signed some of the biggest names in boxing since HBO's recent announcement that it was leaving the sport.

The deal begins with Alvarez's fight against England's Rocky Fielding (27-1, 15 KOs), on December 15th at Madison Square Garden.