Current Affairs
Current Affairs Latest-18th May Current affairs
| 611ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
- 1958 World's first communication satellite launched
- 1892 The Nutcracker makes it debut in St. Petersburg, Russia
- 1966 Saturn's Moon, Epimetheus, discovered
NATIONAL NEWS
- Two separate trials of supersonic cruise missile BrahMos conducted, one each from land and air platforms near Balasore in Odisha
- CBI officer B. P. Raju wins ‘India Cyber Cop of the Year 2019’ award given by NASSCOM-DSCI
- Home Minister Amit Shah presides over the foundation stone laying ceremony of Bharat Vandana Park in New Delhi
ECONOMY NEWS
- TRAI extends six paise per minute IUC (interconnection usage charges) to other networks till Dec 31, 2020
- Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad launches National Broadband Mission; broadband access to be provided to all villages by 2022
- MSME Minister Nitin Gadkari launches sale of ‘Khadi Rumal’ (napkin),made by militancy-affected families of Kashmir
- Complaints to banking ombudsman rise by 19.75% to over 1.96 lakh during 2018-19: RBI
- Smartphone maker realme launches its financial services platform ‘realme Paysa’
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
- India ranks 112th (108th in previous ranking) among 153 countries WEF’s Global Gender Gap Report 2020; Iceland remains world’s most gender-neutral country
- 49 journalists murdered worldwide in 2019, lowest toll in 16 years: Reporters Without Borders
- China launches its second aircraft carrier ‘Shandong’ in South China Sea
- Pakistan’s former dictator General Pervez Musharraf sentenced to death in absentia in the high treason case for subverting the Constitution in 2007
- Bangladesh releases list of collaborators (known as Razakars) who helped Pakistan during the Liberation War of 1971
- Collins Dictionary names ‘climate strike’ as its word of the year, defining it as “a form of protest in which people absent
SPORTS NEWS
- Australia’s Ellyse Perry wins Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for the ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year
- England cricketer Ben Stokes named BBC Sports Personality of the Year
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