Daily Current Affairs of 1 January 2018
Hello Friends,
Here is the Current Affairs of 1st January 2018. 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.
Here is the Current Affairs of 1st January 2018. 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.
- India hosting 10 Asean Leaders on Republic Day 2018.
- Odisha police is all set to go digital from January 1, 2018 with computerisation of police station work under the Criminal Tracking and Networking System.
- The Haryana government would soon open an academy for training labourers engaged in construction work so that they could get better employment opportunities.
- Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has laid foundation stones for more than 100 projects worth Rs 700 crore in Nalanda district as part of his state-wide “Vikas Samiksha Yatra”.
- Tamil Nadu Superstar Rajinikanth has announced his political debut. He will launch his own party which will contest for all 234 constituencies in next assembly polls in the state.
- Punjab National Bank has announced raising interest rates by up to 1.25% on domestic term deposits of up to Rs. 10 crore for different tenures, effective from Jan 1, 2018.
- Nepal has banned solo climbers from scaling its mountains, including Mount Everest, in a bid to reduce accidents.
- Arunachal Pradesh has been declared open defecation free. Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, and Haryana were declared open defecation free states in October 2017.
- Telangana government constituted State Finance Commission with former minister G Rajesham Goud as its chairman.
- Allahabad Bank has entered into an agreement with state-run National e-Governance Services Limited (NeSL) for utilizing the latter’s Information Utility Services envisaged under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016.
- GAIL India has placed orders for another 400-km of the pipeline of the ambitious PM Urja Ganga natural gas pipeline project that will take the fuel to eastern India.
- To counter farm distress, Haryana government has launched Bhavantar Bharpai scheme (or the price deficit compensation scheme for vegetables).
- Vineet Chowdhary, a 1982 batch IAS officer of Himachal cadre, has been appointed as the chief secretary of the Himachal government.
- China has successfully tested its 1st photovoltaic highway based on home-grown technology, in it’s eastern Shandong province.
-
IAS officer N C Goel has been appointed as the new Chief Secretary of Rajasthan.
- Cryptocurrency ‘Ripple’ has surpassed ethereal as the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. Ripple had a market cap of $86.3 billion, surpassing ethereum’s $73 billion.
- Grand Master Viswanathan Anand continued his excellent run by bagging a bronze in the World Blitz Chess Championship at Riyadh, Saudi.
- Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo has won the Best Player of the Year accolade at the Globe Soccer Awards.
- Israel has filed notice to withdraw from the UNESCO alongside the United States.
Comments
Post a Comment