Current Affairs

India wins 8th South Asian Judo Championship

  • Keeping the unbeaten streak Indian women white washed the championship by beating host Nepal by 5-0 in the final of team events. Indian men also won team championship. They defeated Pakistan by 3-2 in the final.
  • Earlier Indian women grabbed all 7 gold medals in the individual category while men bagged 3 gold and 3 bronze medals. India topped the medal tally winning 10 Gold and 3 Bronze medals in the individual category. Host Nepal remained second and Pakistan got third place.  
  • A total 102 players from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka participated in the 3 day championship.


India highest recipient of remittances at $69 billion, says World Bank

  • Washington/New Delhi: India retained the top position as recipient of remittances with its diaspora sending about USD 69 billion back home last year, the World Bank said today.
  • Remittances to India picked up sharply by 9.9 per cent, reversing the previous year's dip, but were still short of USD 70.4 billion received in 2014.



Jailed Egyptian photographer wins UN press freedom prize

  • PARIS: Detained Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid, widely known as Shawkan, will be awarded UNESCO's World Press Freedom Prize, the United Nations' cultural body said on Monday 
  • Shawkan was arrested in August 2013 as he covered deadly clashes in Cairo between security forces and supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.
  • He is one of 700 defendants facing charges of killing police and vandalising property during the clashes.





Your Gmail Account Maybe Sending Out Spam Messages To Random Email Address, Google Fixing Issue

  • We all know that Gmail is pretty rock solid when it comes to filtering out spam emails from our inbox. But once in a blue moon, even the best among us falter.
  • That's exactly the case for a number of Gmail users, who've reported being flooded by ads being sent from their Gmail inbox to other users -- without their knowledge, of course.


Telegram founder Pavel Durov takes centre stage in the fight for privacy in Russia

  • A lot has changed in the days since a Russian court ruled to block Telegram messenger  from the country after the company refused to provide access to the private conversations of its users to the government.
  • The request for encryption keys came almost a year after the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor), the telecom watchdog in Russia asked the app to join its official register.


UNESCO organises World Book and Copyright Day today

  • World Book Day or World Book and Copyright Day is celebrated every year on April 23.
  • It is also known as International Day of the Book or World Book Days.
  • The World Book and Copyright Day is being organized by the UNESCO to promote reading, publishing and copyright.



World's oldest person dies in Japan aged 117

  • A great-great-great grandmother who was the world's oldest person has died at the age of 117.
  • Nabi Tajima, who was born on 4 August 1900, died in hospital in the town of Kikai in southern Japan on Saturday, officials said.
  • She became the world's oldest person in September after the death of Violet Brown, of Jamaica, who was also aged 117.


TCS becomes first Indian company to breach $100 billion market capitalisation

  • TCS created history on Monday by becoming the first Indian company to reach the $100 billion market capitalisation (m-cap) mark
  • At 10.30 am, the market value of the company stood at Rs 6,79,332.81 crore ( $102.6 billion)


Death Penalty for Child Rapists Updates: President Kovind Signs Ordinance To Provide Strict Punishment

  • NEW DELHI:  Today, President Ram Nath Kovind has signed the executive order to pave way for providing stringent punishment, including death penalty, for those convicted of raping girls below the age of 12 years.
  • The Union Cabinet on Saturday at a Cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the ordinance and was waiting for the President's approval.
  • The changes were cleared by the government amid nationwide anger triggered by gory details of the gang rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua.


North Korea 'halts missile and nuclear tests', says Kim Jong-un

  • North Korean leader Kim Jong-un says he has suspended all missile tests and will shut down a nuclear test site.
  • "From 21 April, North Korea will stop nuclear tests and launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles," the country's state news agency said
  • Mr Kim said further tests were unnecessary because Pyongyang's nuclear capabilities had been "verified".