Current Affairs (11 Jan 2018)

Daily Headlines (11 Jan 2018)

- K. Sivan appointed as new chairman of ISRO

- Aditya wins Kolkata Open Snooker meet

- Bhopal railway station 1st to get sanitary napkin dispenser

- Saudi Arabia increases India’s Haj quota by 5,000

- Rajasthan to digitise all historical records

- World Bank projects growth rate of 7.3% for India in 2018

- PhonePe inks pact with mobile wallet firm FreeCharge

- IndusInd Bank to roll out battery-powered payment cards

- Paytm sets up investment and wealth management unit for its user

- Rajiv Bindal elected as speaker of 13th Himachal Pradesh legislative assembly

- JK Tyre appoints Rajiv Prasad as head of India operations

- Lt. Gen. Y V K Mohan takes over as Commander of 9 Corps

- Trump named world’s most oppressive leader on press freedom

- Matunga Railway station enters Limca Book of Records for having all-women staff

- Aanchal Thakur becomes first Indian to win an international medal in skiing

- Bahrain to host first-ever ‘Baby Olympics

- Cuba, Russia to take part in India Open boxing

▪ Person appointed as the Chairman of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development - Sunny Verghese

▪ Creator of iconic Old Munk rum who died recently at the age of 88 - Kapil Mohan

▪ Cricket player banned recently for five months for failing dope test - Yusuf Pathan

▪ Indian railway station that entered the Limca Book of Records for having all-woman staff – Matunga

▪ US approved the sale of anti-ballistic missile worth USD 133 million to – Japan

▪ World Bank recently projected India’s growth rate of 2018 at - 7.3 per cent

▪ First Indian to win an international medal in skiing at Alpine Ejder 3200 Cup - Aanchal Thakur

▪ India’s first city to have a common mobility card for rides on public buses and the metro – Delhi

▪ Bollywood personality who became the official brand ambassador of Sikkim - AR Rahman

▪ World Hindi Day (WHD) is observed every year on -  10 January

▪ Global Economic Prospects (GEP) is brought out by this multilateral institution – World Bank

▪ In this year Indian iconic brand Old Munk rum was launched – 1954 (19 December)

▪ The Chief Executive Officer of Unilever is – Paul Polman

▪ Matunga is a railway station of this zone – Central Railway

▪ The Governor of Tamil Nadu is – Banwarilal Purohi