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CURRENT AFFAIRS FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY 2018

1.) The Arunachal Pradesh becomes the second state after Sikkim to be declared as Open Defecation Free State in Northeast. 2.) The Union Government appointed renowned scientist K. Sivan as the chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation.(ISRO) to replace of A.S. Kiran Kumar. 3.) Senior advocate Indu Malhotra becomes the first woman lawyer from India to be directly elected to the post of judge in the Supreme Court. 4.) India renamed the Teen Murti Chowk, a war memorial as Teen Murti Haifa Chowk as a symbolic gesture of friendship with Israel. 5.) Indian captain Virat Kohli was named by the International Cricket Council (ICC) Cricketer of the Year for 2017. 6.) Former Gujrat chief minister Anandiben Patel appointed as the next Madya Pradesh Governor. 7.) Irrfan Khan won the Best Actor and Vidya Balan received the Best Actress award in the Filmfare Awards 2018. The movie "Hindi Medium" received the Best Film awards. 8.) Om Prakash Rawat appointed as the new Chief Elec...

CURRENT AFFAIRS FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER 2017

1. Infosys appointed Salil S Parekh as the company's executive officer and Managing director. 2. Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli became the first international captain to hit three successive hundreds in a three-test series. 3. UNESCO named Kumbh Mela in the representative list of Intangible Culture Heritage of Humanity. 4. BJP wins Gujrat Assembly election by winning 99 seats out of 182 seats. BJP also wins the Himachal Pradesh Assembly election by winning 44 seats out of  68 total seats. 5. Germany named as the " Team of the Year" for 2017 by FIFA. 6. Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand beat world No 1 Magnus Carlsen to win the World Rapid Chess Championship title. 7. BJP MLA Jairam Thakur sworn in as the 14th Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh. 8. Vijay Rupani was sworn in as the 16th Chief Minister of the Gujrat along with 19 other ministers. 9. Bollywood actor Salman Khan tops the list of 100 Indian celebs which is based on the earning...

CURRENT AFFAIRS FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER 2017

1. Miss India Manushi Chhillar has won the Miss World beauty pageant for the year 2017 in Sanya, China. 2. The Ambani family, led by brother Mukesh Ambani and Anil Ambani, is the richest Asian families with a net worth of $44.8 billion. The family has claimed the top slot in Forbes list of top 50 richest Asian families. 3. Aditi Ashok has become the first golfer from India to qualify for LPGA Golf Tour. 4. HS Prannoy and Saina Nehwal win the 82nd Senior National Badminton Championship in Nagpur, Maharashtra. 5. Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully test- fires India's first Indigenous subsonic cruise missile Nirbhay which can be deployed from multiple platforms. 6. India Women's Team beats China by 5-4 to wins the Asia Cup Hockey after 13 years. 7. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the metro rail in Hyderabad on 28th November. 8. Mary Kom wins the gold medal at Asian Boxing Championships for 5th times at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam....

CURRENT AFFAIRS FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2017

1.) International Day of Non- violence celebrated on 2nd October, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. 2.) The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne for their detection of gravitational waves.  3.)Rajnish Kumar is appointed as the new chairman of SBI. He has replaced Arundhati Bhattacharya on 7th October 2017.  4.) Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to US-born professor Richard H. Thaler for his contributions to behavioural economics. 5.) Anupam Kher takes over as the new chief of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII). 6.) World Food was observed on 16 October. 7.) Cristiano Ronaldo crowned as the best male footballer in the world at the FIFA Best Football Award. 8.) Writer and lyricist Javed Akhtar conferred with the Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar Award for 2017. 9.) Virat Kohli Became the sixth Indian to complete 9000 ODI runs during the third game against New Zealand...

Current Affairs For the Month of July 2017

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CURRENT AFFAIRS FOR THE MONTH OF JULY 2017 1.) The Goods and Service Tax (GST) is implemented in India from 1st July 2017. 2.) Germany won the Confederations Cup after defeating Chile by 1-0 in the final. 3.) Ravi Shastri appointed as the main coach of Indian Cricket Team. 4.) Indian Women Cricketer Mithali Raj Surpassed Charlotte Edwards of England to become the highest run-getter. 5.) Spain's Garbine Muguruza won her first Wimbledon title after defeating Venus Williams by 7-5 6-0. 6.) Alia Bhatt and Shahid Kapoor won the Best Actor Award for Udta Punjab in IIFA awards. 7.) Ram Nath Kovind has been elected as India's 14th President. 8.) Delhi Metro has been declared the 'World's First Green Metro'. 9.) The 18th Anniversary of Kargil Vijay Diwas celebrated on 26th July. 10.) World's smallest spacecraft the 'Sprites'- 3.5cm x3.5cm miniature satellites weighing four grams each has successfully launched into orbit by Indian rocket Polar ...

Current Affairs For the Month of August 2017

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CURRENT AFFAIRS FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST 2017 1.) NDA candidate M Venkaiah Naidu elected as India's 13th Vice President. 2.)The 75th anniversary of the Quit India Movement was observed across the country on 9th August 2017. 3.) Devender Singh becomes 1st Indian to qualify for Javelin Finals at World Athletics Championship. 4.) Famous Lyricist Prasoon Joshi appointed as the chairman of Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC). 5.) 71st Independence Day was celebrated in India on 15th August. 6.) Justice Dipak Misra sworn in as the 45th Chief Justice of India. 7.)Sushma Swaraj inaugurated first Videsh Bhawan in Mumbai on 28th August 2017. 8.) National Sports Day was celebrated on the birth anniversary of Dhyan Chand on 29th August 2017. 9.)Economist Dr Rajiv Kumar named as the new Vice Chairman of NITI Aayog. 10.) The Sports Ministry announced the awards- The Dronacharya Award will be awarded to Late Dr R Gandhi ( Athletics), Heera Nand Kataria ( Kabaddi), G.S.S.V....

Current Affairs for the Month of September 2017

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1.)  Sunil Arora appointed as the Election Commissioner of India. 2.) Kenneth Juster will be the new US Ambassador to India. 3.)  Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman flagged off the all-women team of the 'Navika Sagar Parikrama' in Panaji Goa. This is the first- ever Indian circumnavigation of the globe by an all-women crew. 4.) India's first advanced Homoeopathy Virology lab is inaugurated in Kolkata.  5.) The International Olympic Committee formally announced that the 2024 Summer Olympic will be held in Paris, while Los Angeles will be hosting the 2028 Summer Olympic Games.  6.) Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe lay the foundation of India's first bullet train project in Ahmadabad.  7.) PV Sindhu beat world champion Nozomi Okuhara of Japan by 22-20, 11-21, 20-18 to win the women's singles title at the Korea Open Superseries.  She is the first Indian to win the Korea Open.  8.) Prime Minister ...