Current Affairs (09 Jan 2018)

One Liners (09 Jan 2018)

▪ France would be conferring its highest order of merit, the 'Legion of Honour', on legendary film and theatre actor - Soumitra Chattopadhyay

▪ This World Champion powerlifter recently passed away in a road accident - Saksham Yadav

▪ This country is going to extend its state of emergency for the sixth time - Turkey

▪ The Supreme Court ordered a stay on this HC’s order that overturned the 2014 government regulation that packets of tobacco products must carry pictorial warning covering 85 per cent of the packaging space - Karnataka HC

▪ This supercomputer, nation’s first and fastest was inaugurated by Union Minister of Earth Sciences Harsh Vardhan on 8 January - Pratyush

▪ This state government has banned the use of electronic cigarettes - Bihar

▪ The output of this crop is expected to touch an all time high of 100 million tonnes in 2017-18 – wheat

▪ This state has topped the logistics index chart released by the Union Ministry for Commerce & Industry – Gujarat

▪ This nation sealed a 4-0 win in the ashes series by winning the final test by an innings and 123 runs -  Australia

▪ British Prime Minister Theresa May has appointed this Minister as the new Northern Ireland minister after James Brokenshire resigned due to ill health – Karen Bradley

▪ This nation has warned the world of a possible withdrawal of the US from the 2015 nuclear deal – Iran

▪ India has signed the bilateral annual Haj 2018 Agreement with this nation - Saudi Arabia

▪ First All India Whips Conference, in the very first year of general elections to the First Lok Sabha was held at – Indore

▪ The Central Leather Research Institute (CLRI) is located in – Tamil Nadu