Daily Current Affairs of 30 December 2017

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Here is the Current Affairs of 30th December 2017. Current Affairs is the very important section to score high in the mains exams of the various government exams like BANK, SSC, INSURANCE, RAILWAY, UPSC, GPSC and many more. So read daily current affairs and score high in the examination and increase your chance to be selected.


 


  1. Lok Sabha approved a bill to hike cess on luxury vehicles from 15% to 25% with a view to enhance funds to compensate states for revenue loss following the rollout of GST.
  2. Dabur India inaugurated a skill development centre for women, as part of the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility campaign.
  3. 78th session of the Indian History Congress begun in Kolkata, West Bengal.
  4. George Weah, former football star, has been elected as Liberia's president.
  5. Nirmala Sitharaman has launched a start-up incubation centre called the Centre for Entrepreneurship Opportunities and Learning (CEOL) in Mangaluru, Karnataka.
  6. Sushma Swaraj and her Jordanian counterpart Ayman Al Safadi held a bilateral meeting in New Delhi.
  7. KKR & Co has become the first foreign investor to fully own an asset reconstruction company (ARC) in India as it received approval from the Reserve Bank of India.
  8. The world’s largest human genome research project of 100,000 people was launched by China.
  9. Public sector IDBI Bank has received the capital infusion of Rs 2,729 crore from the government of India. The help includes re-capitalisation bonds, budgetary support, and equity dilution.
  10. SpaceX’s biggest rocket till date, the Falcon Heavy, has been raised on the Cape Canaveral launchpad for the first time.
  11. ISRO would launch 31 satellites, including India’s Cartosat-2 series earth observation space craft, in a single mission on January 10.
  12. The project on ‘Climate Resilience Building among Farmers through Crop Residue Management’ is under the National Adaptation Fund for Climate Change.
  13. Ace Indian marksman Jitu Rai won the men’s 50m pistol national title with a new national record score of 233 at the 61st National Shooting Championship in Thiruvananthapuram.

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