Current Affairs Shorts 18-12-2016



  • India were crowned junior Hockey World champions after defeating Belgium 2-1 in the final in Lucknow



  • Vijender Singh beats Francis Cheka by TKO to retain WBO Asia Pacific title



  • President of Kyrgyzstan, Almazbek Sharshenovich Atambayev has arrived in Delhi this afternoon on a four day state visit to India.



  • The Himachal Pradesh has achieved 100 percent Aadhar saturation on the basis of population of year 2015. With this, Himachal Pradesh has become the sixth State/UT in the Country.



  • Asia Pacific countries that account for over 55% of global urban population have resolved to adopt ‘Urban Plus’ approach taking urban planning and development beyond city limits to prevent unmanageable and unsustainable urban expansion.



  • Department of Telecom will launch a portal 'Tarang Sanchar' that will help users get checked the radiation level of mobile towers and transmitters across the country in a month.



  • Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs, ArunJaitley and Minister of State for Communications (Independent charge) and Minster of State for Railways ManojSinha today jointly launched State Bank MobiCash Mobile Wallet, a product by SBI and BSNL.



  • Lt Gen BipinRawat was named India’s next army chief on Saturday, as the government abandoned a three-decades-old tradition of elevating senior-most officers as military chiefs.



  • The government today appointed Anil Dhasmana as the new Research & Analysis Wing (R&AW) chief and Rajiv Jain as the Intelligence Bureau (IB).



  • Here’s another achievement in Priyanka Chopra’s kitty. She has now made it up to the list of IMDb’s most popular celebrities’ list.
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