Current Affairs (25 Dec 17)

Daily Headlines (25 Dec 17)

- ⭐ Jairam Thakur will be Himachal Pradesh’s new CM

- Vice President inaugurates Centenary Celebrations of Yoga Institute in Mumbai

- ⭐ BCCI Appoints Saba Karim as General Manager

- Govt Mint Launches First Home-Grown High Purity Gold Reference Standard

- ⭐ US President Signs $1.5 Trillion Tax Overhaul Law

- Boxer Vijender Singh retains WBO Oriental and Asia Pacific Super Middleweight titles

- Sushil Becomes PWL's Most Expensive Wrestler at Rs.55 lakh

- Lt Gen B S Sahrawat takes over as Director-General of NCC

- M Subbarayudu appointed as Next Ambassador of India to the Republic of Peru

- NAAC director Prof Dhirendra Pal Singh is new UGC chairman

▪ The two-day Regional Conference on Good Governance and Replication of Best Practices concluded in –  Guwahati 

▪ India’s first AC local to enter service on the eve of Christmas in -  Mumbai  

▪ State to develop Guru Circuit connecting Religious destinations of Sikhs –  Bihar 

▪State to host the 7th edition of the India International Coffee Festival (IICF-2018) -  Karnataka 

▪ The death toll due to a tropical storm that triggered floods and landslides in –  Philippines 

▪ World's largest amphibious aircraft makes maiden flight in -  China 

▪ Indian Celebrity has once again topped the Forbes' annual list of the highest-earning entertainers in the country –  Salman Khan 

▪ He has been appointed as the new Ambassador of India to the Republic of Peru-  M Subbarayudu 

▪ Bengali Singer Passed Away -  Jatileswar Mukhopadhyay 

▪ He has retained WBO Oriental and Asia Pacific Super Middleweight titles –  Vijender Singh 

▪ BCCI appointed him as a General Manager –  Saba Karim 

▪ The Parvati Arga Bird Sanctuary (PABS) is located in  Uttar Pradesh  

▪ The National Farmer’s Day (NFD), popularly known as Kisan Diwas, is celebrated every year in India on  December 23   

▪ appointed as Officiating Chief of National Green Tribunal - Justice UD Salvi   

▪ This city will host Commonwealth Games in 2022 - Birmingham  

▪ Exercise conducted by Indian Army's Southern Command in Rajasthan -  Hamesha Vijayee 

▪ This state decided to beautify and upgrade the 187-year-old Babughat -  West Bengal 

▪This Indian city was ranked 7th in most expensive office locations list as per JLL India Report 2017 –  Delhi 

▪ Union Government recently gave environmental clearance for Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme in –  Telangana  

▪ This state’s government has approved the setting up of ‘cow protection committees -   Uttar Pradesh 

▪ The Lok Sabha passed this bill amending regulations governing compensation amount payable for acquisition of immovable property by the central government for defence and security purposes - The Requisitioning and Acquisition of Immovable Property (Amendment) Bill, 2017 

▪ India has signed a MoU with this nation to develop Rakhine state, to enable safe return of Rohingya Muslims -  Myanmar 

▪ He resigned as the Chairperson of National Green Tribunal on 19 December 2017 -  Justice Swatanter  Kumar 

▪ Indian army conducted a major exercise called 'Hamesha Vijayee' in this state -  Rajasthan 

▪ This nation announced its intention of hosting a meeting of WTO member nations in Feb 2018 to garner support for issues like food security -  India 

▪ The Indian navy conducted bilateral military exercise ‘Naseem-Al-Bahr’ with this nation’s naval force – Oman 

▪ India has signed a financial agreement for a skill strengthening project with this International financial institution -  World Bank