Current Affairs



  • Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa resigned from his post.
  • 16-year-old Shivangi Pathak has become the youngest woman in India to climb Mt. Everest from Nepal.
  • The US Senate has appointed Gina Haspell as the first woman director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
  • Which state has launched the 'State Start-Up Ranking Framework' recently? -Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP).
  • Guwahati : India's first solar powered railway station.
  • Switzerland is hosting the 71st World Health Assembly (WHA-2018).
  • Lionel Messi (footballer) has won the 2018 European Golden Shoe.
  • Nicolas Maduro is the newly elected President of Venezuela.
  • China recently launched the Queqiao relay satellite to study of the Moon.
  • The deadly Nipah virus has been detected in Kerala state.
  • Olga Tokarczuk has won the prestigious 2018 Man Booker International Prize for fiction.
  • C K Prasad has been appointed the new chairman of the Press Council of India (PCI)?
  • The 2018 World Turtle Day (WTD) is observed on May 23.
  • Bill Gold passed away recently. He was a well known Graphic Designer.
  • Philip Roth who died recently was a renowned Author.
  • New Delhi is hosting the ASEAN India Film Festival 2018.
  • Cambodia hosted the 5th India-CLMV Business Conclave 2018.
  • India’s was 44th rank in the 2018 IMD’s competitiveness ranking.
  • European Union's has brought into effect a new data protection rule. 
  • Indonesia has passed a tougher anti-terror law.
  • Ganeshi Lal  has been appointed as the new Governor of Odisha.
  • The 9th edition of ‘Rashtriya Sanskriti Mahotsav’ has started in Uttarakhand.
  • According to RSA Fraud Report, India is the most targeted for phishing.
  • MobiKwik is the first industry player to offer UPI access to a huge base of three million merchants on its app.
  •  Sushil Chandra is the chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT).
  • Chief Justice Nasirul Mulk was appointed as the interim Prime Minister of Pakistan.
  • Queen Maxima is the queen of the Kingdom of Netherlands.
  • Alan LaVern Bean was the fourth man to walk on the Moon & died.
  • Paris  will the OECD Forum meet for 2018 be held.
  • Russia has conducted the world's longest surface-to-air missile test.
  • Mountain ranges have been discovered Antarctica  continent. 
  • Amar Devulapalli has been elected as the new President of Indian Journalists Union (IJU).
  • Dehradun to host the main event of 4th International Yoga Day celebrations (IDY-2018).
  • Haryana government has constituted a state Animal Welfare Board.
  • Kamaljit S. Bawa has become the first Indian to be honoured with the Linnean Medal in Botany.