Daily Current Affairs of 26th and 27th January 2018

Hello Aspirants,
Here is the Current Affairs of 26th and 27th 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.



1.) Himachal CM Jai Ram Thakur launched the women’s safety appShakti’.
2.) Usha Ananthasubramanian, MD and CEO, Allahabad Bank, has been elected the first woman chairman of Indian Banks’ Association.
3.) According to the Central govt “Payments Banks & Small Finance Banks” will offer social security scheme Atal Pension Yojana (APY) to their subscribers.
4.) The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet has approved ‘one district, one product’ scheme to promote products indigenous to every district.
5.) Secretary, Ministry of Women and Child Development, Shri Rakesh Srivastava launched the Management Information System (MIS) portal for Anganwadi Services Training Programme in New Delhi. The URL is http://icds-trg.nic.in.
6.) India’s first floating market is now open in Kolkata’s Patuli area in West Bengal.
7.) India has announced that it will host an informal WTO Ministerial gathering in March this year. The meeting would be held in New Delhi on March 19-20 to discuss the way forward for the global trade organisation.
8.) India and Vietnam signed a MoU to enhance cooperation in the field of information and broadcasting.
9.) External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj inaugurated the Bharat-ASEAN Maitri Park in the national capital.
10.) Indian Railways has launched a one-of-its-kind touch-screen kiosk as a single-point inquiry station at New Delhi railway station.
11.) The hungarian-french pairing of Timea Babos & Kristina Mladenovic have won the Australian Open women’s doubles title.
12.) Shri Rajesh Agarwal, presently Counsellor, High Commission of India, Port Moresby has been appointed as the next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Niger.
13.) Priyanka Chopra become a brand ambassador of Harman International, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co.
14.) Rachel Morrison, became the first woman to receive an Oscar nomination for cinematography. She was nominated for her work on Dee Rees’ Mudbound for Netflix.
15.) National Small Industries Corporation signed an MoU with SME Corporation Malaysia for exchange of information and cooperation.

Comments