Current Affairs

Find 'settings' easily with Facebook bookmarks menu facelift

  •  Facebook has refreshed its Bookmarks menu to let users navigate, access and make changes to their privacy settings easily. The updates will be rolled out globally over the next two weeks.

  • Users can now access various Facebook settings, including Account Settings, Privacy Shortcuts, News Feed Preferences, Activity Log, Payments Settings and access to Help & Support, with lesser number of mouse clicks.



WhatsApp now allows you to re-download accidentally deleted photos and videos on Android

  • WhatsApp has added a new feature allowing its users on Android to re-download media files that they accidentally deleted from their smartphones.

  • This means that if you removed any images, GIFs, videos, audio files, audio recordings or even a document from the internal storage of your smartphone, WhatsApp will allow you to re-download them again from its servers.


Dharmendra To Be Honoured With Raj Kapoor Lifetime Achievement Award

  • Veteran actor Dharmendra has been chosen for Maharashtra government's Raj Kapoor Lifetime Achievement Award and director Rajkumar Hirani will get the Raj Kapoor Special Contributions Award.

  • Maharashtra Education and Cultural Affairs Minister Vinod Tawde made the announcement via social media earlier today. 


Royals set for 'Brexit charm offensive' at Commonwealth leaders meeting

  • The Royal Family will take a leading role in Britain's Brexit charm offensive as the leaders of the Commonwealth arrive in London this week.

  • This year it is the UK's turn to host the 53 leaders for the biannual Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, known as CHOGM.

  • It is anticipated the UK government will aim to use it to leverage future trade deals when Britain leaves the EU.


UN launches initiative to improve road safety worldwide

  • Speaking at the UN General Assembly where the launch was announced, Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed highlighted the opportunities offered by the UN Road Safety Trust Fund.

  • “We have a chance to save the lives of millions of people around the world, and to prevent injuries, suffering and the loss of opportunity associated with road accidents,” she said, urging all stakeholders to contribute to the Trust Fund and to step up their efforts to achieve global road safety targets.


Commonwealth Games 2018: India’s medals tally

The list of India’s medal winners at the Gold Coast games


Gold (26)
Saina Nehwal clinched women’s singles gold in badminton.

Boxer Vikas Krishan wins gold in 75kg category at Commonwealth Games.

Manika Batra wins gold in table tennis women's singles, becoming the first Indian woman to do so.

Vinesh Phogat wins gold in women’s wrestling freestyle 50 kg Nordic event.

Neeraj Chopra became the first Indian javelin thrower to claim a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games.

In the 52kg Boxing event Gaurav Solanki won gold.

In wrestling, Sumit Malik claimed the gold medal in the men’s freestyle 125 kg.

Sanjeev Rajput won gold in 50m Rifle 3 Position shooting event.

M.C. Mary Kom won 45-48 kg category boxing event, claiming gold in her debut Commonwealth Games.

Bajrang Punia won the gold medal in freestyle 65kg wrestling.

Tejaswini Sawant won the 50m rifle position event

15-year-old Anish Bhanwala bagged gold in men's 25m rapid fire pistol.

In men's freestyle 74kg wrestling, double Olympic-medallist Sushil Kumar won gold.

Rahul Aware added another gold medal to India's tally, winning in the Men's Freestyle 57kg wrestling event.

In the double trap women shooting, India's Shreyasi Singh won gold.

Shooter Heena Sidhu won gold in 25m pistol event to give India its 11th gold medal in the Games.

The Indian mixed team badminton claimed gold for the first time in the Games' history.

In the 10m men's air pistol event, India's Jitu Rai won gold. This is his second Commonwealth gold.

In the women's table tennis event, the Indian team won its first ever Commonwealth gold medal.

In 10m women's air pistol, Manu Bhaker won gold and added sixth gold for India at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Weightlifter Punam Yadav became the third woman to win gold for India, coming out on top in the women's 69 kg category at the CWG 2018.

Weightlifter Venkat Rahul Ragala became the fourth Indian to claim a gold medal in the men's 85 kg category.

Weightlifter Satish Kumar Sivalingam won India's third gold in the men’s 77kg category.

Weightlifter Sanjita Chanu landed India its second gold medal, winning the top spot in the women’s 53kg category.

Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu was the first gold medal winner for India, on the opening day, in the women's 48 kg category.

Indian men’s table tennis team wins gold beating Nigeria 3-0. Read more

Silver (20)
P.V. Sindhu picked up the women’s singles silver medal in badminton playing against Saina Nehwal.

Kidambi Srikanth settled for badminton silver.

Dipika Pallikal Karthik and Joshna Chinappa settle for silver in women’s doubles squash.

In mixed doubles squash, Dipika Pallikal and Saurav Ghosal claim silver.

Boxer Manish Kaushik won silver in the Men's 60 kg category.

India’s Amit Panghal won silver after losing a very close bout in the Boxing Men’s 46-49kg Final.

Manika Batra and Mouma Das fought hard before going down against defending champions Feng Tianwei and Yu Mengyu to settle for a silver medal in the women’s doubles, a first ever for India in the Commonwealth Games.

Anjum Moudgil bagged silver in the women’s 50m rifle 3 positions event.

Wrestler Pooja Dhanda made a late push in the women’s 57kg final bout to win silver.

Wrestler Mausam Khatri failed to make use of his wealth of experience as he settled for a silver medal in men’s freestyle 97 kg event.

Seema Punia came up with a best effort of 60.41m in the women's discus throw, which she did in her opening attempt to win her fourth successive CWG medal

Mehuli Ghosh won silver in the 10m women's air rifle event.

In the 105 category weightlifting for men, Pradeep Singh won the silver.

In 10m women's air pistol, Heena Sidhu won the silver and added second silver for India at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Weightlifter P. Gururaja opened India’s medal account on the first competition day, claiming a silver in the men’s 56kg category.

Tejaswini Sawant won a silver medal in 50m prone finals in shooting.

Wrestler Babita Kumari won silver in 53kg event.

Bronze (20)
Manika Batra and G. Sathiyan claimed mixed doubles bronze in table tennis.

Sharath Kamal claimed bronze in table tennis Men's Singles.

Harmeet Desai and Sanil Shankar Shetty bagged bronze in the men’s doubles Table Tennis competition.

Ashwini Ponnappa and Sikki Reddy win bronze at women's doubles badminton.

In wrestling, Somveer claims bronze in Men's Freestyle 86 kg.

In wrestling, Sakshi Malik claimed bronze in the Women's Freestyle 62 kg.

Naman Tanwar won bronze in the boxing Men's 91 kg

Manoj Kumar won bronze in the boxing Men's 69 kg.

Hussamuddin Mohammed won bronze in the boxing Men's 56 kg.

Divya Kakran won bronze medal in the women’s freestyle 68 kg by outplaying Bangladesh’s Sherin Sultana 4-0.

In the women's discus throw, Navjeet Dhillon grabbed the bronze with her final throw of 57.43m

In women's freestyle 76kg wrestling event, Kiran bagged a bronze medal.

Delhi-born Ankur Mittal claimed the bronze in men's double trap shooting event.

Om Mitharval won bronze in the 50m men's pistol event and in the 10m men's air pistol event.

India's Apurvi Chandela won bronze in the 10m women's air rifle event.

One more medal for weightlifting, Vikas Thakur added a shade of bronze to Indian weightlifters’ golden run at the Commonwealth Games, claiming the third position in the 94kg category by equalling his personal best.

Ravi Kumar settles for bronze in men’s 10m air rifle event at 21st Commonwealth Games.

Teenager Deepak Lather from Haryana became the youngest Indian weightlifter to claim a Commonwealth Games medal, clinching a bronze in the men’s 69kg category.

Sachin Chaudhary did the country proud by bagging a bronze medal in the men’s heavyweight category in para powerlifting of the XXI Commonwealth Games.



India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2018 will be held from October 25

  • The Department of Telecommunications (DoT), Government of India has announced the schedule for IMC 2018. The country is going to host its second India Mobile Congress (IMC) between October 25-27 at the national capital, Communications Minister Manoj Sinha said on Friday.

  • After hosting the first edition of IMC successfully in 2017, the DoT is all set for this year’s mobile and technology event. The IMC 2018 event will resemble the Mobile World Congress and will see the presence of big players from mobile and telecom industry.


Commonwealth Games 2018: Neeraj Chopra collects first CWG javelin gold for India with season's best throw

  • Gold Coast, Australia: Neeraj Chopra on Saturday became the first Indian javelin thrower to claim a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games (CWG), pulling off a season's best effort of 86.47m in the final at Gold Coast.

  • The 20-year-old former junior world champion had made the final after achieving the qualifying mark in his very first throw on Friday, and he was leaps ahead of the field on Saturday with his very first throw


CWG 2018: MC Mary Kom becomes 1st Indian woman boxer to win gold

  • The legend of M C Mary Kom (48kg) grew larger as she added the Commonwealth Games gold to her packed medal cabinet, thrashing Northern Ireland's Kristina O'Hara in the final here on Saturday.

  • The 35-year-old five-time world champion and Olympic bronze-medallist was competing in her debut Commonwealth Games, also perhaps her last, and made it a memorable one with yet another dominating performance to claim an unanimous verdict of 5-0.


Commonwealth Games 2018: 15-year-old Anish Bhanwala wins gold, creates history

  • Indian shooter Anish Bhanwala, aged 15, created history by becoming the country’s youngest ever gold medal winner in the Commonwealth Games.

  • Anish achieved the feat when he stormed his way into the gold medal with a Games record in the men’s 25m rapid fire pistol event at the Belmont Shooting Centre.

  • The Haryana boy shot down the CWG record in the final with a score of 30 including four series of 5 each.