Current Affairs (14 Dec 17)

Daily Headlines (14 Dec 17)

- The second UN World Tourism Organization/UNESCO World Conference on Tourism and Culture was held in Muscat,

-  India will host the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) at Mumbai in June 2018

- The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) approved its first loan to China,  to reduce its dependence on coal

- The Asian Development Bank (ADB) lowered India’s GDP forecast for the current fiscal by 0.3% to 6.7 %

- Rajasthan has become the first state in the country to launch free email addresses in Hindi (in Devanagari script)

- Buddhist monk Dhammapiya from Tripura has been elected as the new secretary general of the International Buddhist Confederation

- India has become the first-ever team to register 300+ totals 100 times in ODIs, after posting 392/4 against Sri Lanka in Mohali.

- Indian Golfer Shubhankar Sharma claimed his maiden European Tour victory in the Joburg Open, in South Africa

- India Ranks 100 in global prosperity index, Norway Topped the list.

- Saurabh Chaudhary has qualified Youth olympics game in Japan.

-  J&K govt has launche Saubhagya, sahaj bijli har ghar yojana scheme

• This submarine is the first indigenously built Scorpene-class submarine to be commissioned into the Indian navy - INS Kalvari

• The National Energy Conservation Day is celebrated on this day - 14 December

• This bollywood actor, writer and director, passed away on 14 December after being in coma for over a year - Neeraj Vora

• These two nations met recently to overcome the World War II legacy that soured relations between them - Ukraine and Poland

• This Indian cricketer became the first-ever batsman to score 3 double centuries in ODIs - Rohit Sharma

• This Indian actor was honoured with the 2017 Mother Teresa Memorial Award - Priyanka Chopra

• United Nations ‘World Economic Situation and Prospects 2018’ report forecasted GDP growth for India for 2018 at - 7.2 per cent

• Person appointed as the Executive Director of Reserve Bank of India recently - Uma Shankar

• This sports activity was referred to the five-judge Constitution bench for determining whether it is cultural right within Article 29 of the Constitution - Jallikattu

• Indian conferred with the inaugural Diwali "Power of One" award of the UN - Laxmi puri

• India was ranked at this position in terms of mobile internet speed in the Speedtest Global Index released by Ookla - 109

• Feminism was named as the word of the year 2017 by - Merriam-Webster