Latest Current Affairs

Former skipper Ravi Shastri has been named as the new coach of the Indian cricket team.

The board of TATA SIA Airlines Ltd, which owns and operates the full-service airline Vistara, has appointed former SilkAir head Leslie Thng as Vistara’s new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective from October 2017.

The government has merged the urban development and housing and urban poverty alleviation ministries.

Scientists have created miniature versions of the ringed planet Saturn.

Indian Railways Organization for Alternate Fuel (IROAF) won the Golden Peacock Award for Eco Innovation for the year 2017.

The famous blue-bordered sari of Mother Teresa, who has been canonized as Saint Teresa of Calcutta by the Vatican, has been recognized as an Intellectual Property of the Missionaries of Charity.

Rio Olympics silver medallist P V Sindhu was bestowed with the ‘Sportsperson of the Year’ award during the ‘Maruti Suzuki Sportsperson of the Year’ Charity Gala Awards.

The World Heritage Committee on 10 July 2017 decided to remove Gelati Monastery of Georgia from the List of World Heritage in Danger.

The next tranche of sovereign gold bond (SGB) scheme was launched by the Government.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has amended its earlier order asking banks to initiate bankruptcy proceedings against 12 companies which have outstanding loans amounting to over Rs 5,000 crore as on March 2016.