Latest Current Affairs

The Indian National Congress announced that Rahul Gandhi has been elected as its new President, taking over from his mother Sonia Gandhi.

The ASEAN India Connectivity Summit (AICS) began in New Delhi on 11 December 2017.

A unit of China Three Gorges Corp. is building a 1 billion yuan ($151 million) floating solar power plant, the world’s biggest, in the nation’s eastern province of Anhui.

The US, South Korea and Japan started joint exercises on 11 December to track missiles from North Korea.

Lalji Singh, a pioneer of DNA fingerprinting technology in India and former Vice-Chancellor of Benares Hindu University, BHU (2011 to 2014), passed away at the age of 70.

Foreign Ministers of Russia, India, and China (RIC) are holding a trilateral meeting in New Delhi.

Senior IAS officer Pradeep Singh Kharola took charge as the Chairman and Managing Director of Air India.

India defeated Germany 2-1 in the Hockey World League Final to grab the bronze medal at the event, in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

International Mountain Day was observed across the world on 11 December 2017 with the theme ‘Mountains under pressure: climate, hunger and migration’.

Post merger of its 5 associates, SBI has changed names & IFSC codes of nearly 1,300 of its branches.