Daily Current Affairs Updates

According to Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri), India has become world’s fifth-largest military spender spending at $55.9 billion in 2016.

Rafael Nadal has once again won the Monte Carlo Masters for a record 10th time with a 6-1 6-3 victory over Albert Ramos-Vinolas.

Social activist Prafulla Samantra was announced one among six winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize for his “historic 12-year legal battle that affirmed the indigenous Dongria Kondh’s land rights and protected the Niyamgiri Hills from a massive, open-pit aluminum ore mine.”

Haryana emerged champion beating Kerala at the National Youth Athletics Meet. Kerala was at the top place for the last five years. Haryana emerged champions with 166.5 points. Kerala has finished as the runners-up.

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• Uttar Pradesh to establish 40 Yoga wellness centres
• One crore assets geotagged under GeoMGNREGA initiative
• India becomes World No.2 LPG importer

A freight train connecting Russia with China arrived in Ganzhou an inland city in Jiangxi province, carrying goods from Moscow.

Which multilateral organisation released the report Globalisation Backlash?

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Pakistan has leased the Gwadar Port to a company belonging to this country for 40 years

India has become world’s second largest LPG importer, a position that was previously occupied by Japan. China remains as the world’s top importer.

China has successfully docked its first cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-1 with the Tiangong-2 space lab. It is hailed as a major step towards China’s ambition of establishing a permanently manned space station by 2022.