Daily Current Affairs Updates

The World’s largest festival of light, music and ideas, Vivid Sydney has entered into Guinness World Book of Records.

Switzerland has ratified automatic exchange of financial account information with India and 40 other countries. This will facilitate Switzerland to share information about suspected black money with India and other 40 nations.

Who became the first Indian woman to be elected as judge of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS)? 

China's first X-ray Space Satellite that was launched recently

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• 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).