Daily Current Affairs Updates

• India re-elected to ECOSOC
• Government makes Aadhaar Mandatory for Opening Bank Accounts
• RBI: India’s Current Account Deficit narrowed in 2016-17

According to Reserve Bank of India (RBI), India’s current account deficit (CAD) narrowed during 2016-17 fiscal owing to a contraction in the country’s trade deficit.

Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who is hailed as the father of German unification has passed away.

According to NASA, May 2017 was the second hottest month in a span of 137 years when modern record-keeping of average global temperatures had commenced.

The government has made Aadhaar mandatory for opening bank accounts as well as for carrying out financial transactions above of Rs 50,000.

India has won its re-election to the UN’s principal organ on economic, social and environmental issues for another three-year term. India was one among the 18 nations to win election to the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

In the Global Innovation Index 2017, co-authored by Cornell University, INSEAD and World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), India has moved up 6 places to reach 60th place among 130 countries emerging as the top-ranked economy in Central and South Asia. This is the 10th edition of the Global Innovation Index 2017 (GII).

Former Chief Justice of India Prafullachandra Natwarlal Bhagwati who is considered as a pioneer of Judicial Activism has passed away. Justice Bhagwati was 95 years old.

The Nalanda University signed MoU with which country for academic linkages and collaborations?

Third generation "fire and forget" anti-tank missile that was recently test-fired by DRDO

हाल ही में ‘वन डॉग पॉलिसी’ कहाँ पर लागू की गई है?

• India-South Korea sign Agreements to Push Infrastructure Development and Bilateral Trade
• China launches its First X-ray Space Telescope
• UN General Assembly Approves Creation of New UN Office of Counter Terrorism