Latest Current Affairs

Actor Varun Dhawan will get a wax statue at Madame Tussauds Hong Kong, making him the youngest Indian actor to have his statue at the museum.

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has commissioned an indigenously-built anti-submarine warfare stealth corvette INS Kiltan into the Indian Navy at the Naval Dockyard in Visakhapatnam.

The government of India has appointed Mahesh Kumar Gupta and D K Gayen as the two new members in the Railway Board.

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-Hyderabad) has come out with a technology solution to the problem of GST calculation.

Richard Wilbur, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and translator died.

Former world number one tennis player Maria Sharapova won her first title since returning from a 15-month doping ban, clinching the Tianjin Open.

India’s first Olympic swimmer Shamsher Khan has passed away.

An illustrative book titled “Dreamnation: Uniting a Country with Handwritten Dreams” containing inspiring words of Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has been released.

FAO celebrates World Food Day each year on 16 October to commemorate the founding of the Organization in 1945.

Former President Pranab Mukherjee has released the third part of his memoir ‘The Coalition Years: 1996-2012’, speaking candidly about believing he could have been the Congress choice for the Prime Minister’s post.