Current Affairs 24 April 2017 by Edusafar

HIGHLIGHT OF LATEST CURRENT AFFAIRS

-> Union Cabinet approves Air Services Agreement between India and Georgia

-> Raman Roy is new NASSCOMchairman for 2017 - 2018

-> SASEC Finance Ministers meeting in New Delhi

-> Union Minister Nitin Gadkari announces Rs. 40,000 Crore Expressway Project In Northeast

-> Government Officially Launches BS-IV Grade Fuel Across India after BS-III ban

-> Jhargram as Bengal's 22nd district

-> RBI keeps repo rate unchanged at 6.25% for first half of 2017-18

-> Punjab Kings XI players inaugurate toilet at school for Swachh Bharat campaign

-> Under new regime, foreign tourists with e-visa can stay up to 2 months

-> Indian Government sets up 'National Board for Electric Mobility' in a bid to promote electric mobility

-> RBI appoints Smt. Malvika Sinha as New Executive Director

-> RBI keeps repo rate unchanged at 6.25% for first half of 2017-18-> Shri B.P. Kanungo appointed as RBI Deputy Governor

-> Kotak Mahindra Bank has launched the '811 banking app' to double its customer

-> Japan Officially Recognises Bitcoin as Currency

-> SBI merged with its 4 associate banks and the Bharatiya Mahila Bank - So create one of the top 50 banks in the world

-> 'Karnataka Bank' and 'SBI Card' launches co-branded credit cards

-> Interest rates on small savings deposits including PPF cut by 0.1%

-> Sima Kamil - First woman to head major Pakistani bank

-> Unnati Credit Card launched by SBI to spread credit inclusion

-> Raman Roy is new NASSCOMchairman for 2017 - 2018

-> RBI appoints Smt. Malvika Sinha as New Executive Director

-> Geetha Johri - Gujarat's first woman police chief, DGP

-> Lenin Moreno elected President of Ecuador

-> Serbia elects Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic as president

-> India’s first ever transsexual police Sub-Inspector - Prithika Yashini

-> FIFA banned former president of the Guatemala football federation 'Brayan Jimenez' for life

-> Dhoni as the CEO of an oil company for a day

-> Rajiv Kumar Chander appointed as Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to UN

-> Shri B.P. Kanungo appointed as RBI Deputy Governor

In current affairs there are two words,

1.current means recent, day to day life and

2. Affairs means events or issues. Currentand affairs come together to give an interesting name to a subject of study.

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