Current Affairs (16 Dec 17)

Daily Headlines (16 Dec 17)

• ⭐ Exercise Ekuverin 2017: India-Maldives bilateral military exercise held in Belagavi

•  National Workshop on Role of Sakhi One Stop Centres held in New Delhi

•  4th India-Australia-Japan Trilateral Dialogue held in New Delhi

• ⭐ The Eleventh World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference (MC11) took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina

•  The Union Cabinet cleared the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2017, or the Triple Talaq bill

  

• ⭐ The Indian diaspora is the largest in the world, with over 15 million migrants from India living abroad, according to the World Migration Report 2018

• ⭐ In the latest list released by Forbes, Michael Jordan has been named as the highest-paid athletes of all tim

• ⭐ Google Opens 1st Machine Learning Research Lab in Asia with ‘Google AI China Center’

• ⭐ The State Bank of India has introduced a loyalty program for its valued customers. This program is called as State Bank Rewardz

• ⭐ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed Rs 3 crore penalty on IndusInd Bank for breaching rules on income classification norms.

• ⭐ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed certain restrictions on Corporation Bank on carrying out banking activities as its share of bad loans rose sharply. The RBI has triggered prompt corrective action (PCA)

•  Jitesh Singh Deo from Lucknow was declared the winner of the 2017 Mr. India pageant 

• ⭐ World youth champion Sachin Siwach was named the Asian Boxing Confederation’s best youth boxer of the year 2017