English Current Affairs
National News
• Union Rural development ministry in partnership with state governments has completed the ranking of 50,000 gram Panchayat under Mission Antyodya
• India to link highway corridors to international trade points for Rs.25,000 crore which will be carried out for facilitating trade with Nepal, Bhutan Bangladesh and Myanmar.
• Indian Railway Flagged off India’s first air conditional sub-urban local train for Mumbai commuters between Berivali and churchgate on the Western Railway.
• PM Modi inaugurated the Botanical Garden Kalkaji section (of Magenta line) of Delhi Metro
• Bangalore becomes first city to get its own logo was launched at the Namma Bangalore Habba festival at vidhana soudha, in Bangalore.
• The centre has recognized Odisha as a “champion state” for recording the highest growth in exports during 2016-17
• The Uttar Pradesh government signed MoU with South Korea in the field of tourism, skill development, culture and farming
• To enhance standards of cleanliness on beaches the environment ministry has launched a pilot project ‘Blue flag’ for its clean up and development.
• Good Governance – 25th December.
It marks the birth anniversary of former PM Vajpayee
• Vice president(Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu) has inaugurated the centenary celebrations of Yoga institute in Mumbai
• Jairam Thakur will be Himachal Pradesh new CM.
International News
• An agreement was signed by Rosatom overseas and Sudan’s ministry of water Resources, Irrigation and Electricity in Khartoum, Sudan.
• Narendra Modi will be the first Indian PM in past 20 yrs to attend the annual meeting of World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland.
Banking and Finance
• Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh top contributors of the GST for first five months.
• Public sector banks “Non - Performing Assets (NPAs) of Indian public sector banks stood at Rs.7.34 lakh crore by end of Sep 2017.
Business
• Central public sector NHPC has proposed to set up 100-200 capacity solar projects in Odisha.
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