Current Affairs Updates

GK Update for January 2021

Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman has presented Economic Survey 2020-21 in the Parliament on 29 January 2021.

GK Update for December 2020

The Union environment minister, Prakash Javadekar has released a report titled the 'Status of Leopard in India 2018'. The States of Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, and Maharashtra recorded the highest leopard estimates at 3,421, 1,783, and 1,690 respectively.

GK Update for November 2020

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has inaugurated the 3rd Blobal Renewable Energy Investment Meeting and Expo (RE-Invest 2020) through video conferencing. The summit is organised by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. The theme for RE-Invest 2020 is "innovations for Sustainable Energy Transition".

GK Update for October 2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated the Atal Tunnel. Atal Tunnel is the world's longest highway tunnel. Atal tunnel has been built, by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO), under the Rohtang Pass in the eastern Pir Panjal Range of the Himalayas on the Leh-Manali Highway in Himachal Pradesh.

GK Update for September 2020

Legendary singer S.P. Balasubramaniam has passed away.

GK Update for August 2020

The title sponsorship rights of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 has been bagged by the fantasy gaming start-up "Dream 11". The fantasy gaming start-up has bagged the title sponsorship rights for Rs 222 crore.

GK Update for July 2020

India has successfully conducted flight tests of its indigenously developed anti-tank guided missile 'Dhruvastra'. Dhruvastra' is an anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) which has been developed by the DRDO.

GK Update for June 2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Garib KalyanRojgar Abhiyaan, a Rs. 50,000 crore dedicated programme to create jobs for millions of migrant workers who returned home during the coronavirus-induced lockdown across the country

GK Update for May 2020

The moratorium period has also been extended by 3 months till August 31. Earlier, the Reserve Bank of India had announced a three-month moratorium on all term loans outstanding as on March 1, 2020.

GK Update for April 2020

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) has developed a high-pressure ventilator called VITAL(Ventilator Intervention Technology Accessible Locally) to treat COVID-19 patients

GK Update for March 2020

Department of Science and Technology (DST) has set up a COVID-19 Task Force for mapping of technologies from Research and Development labs, academic institutions, start-ups and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.

GK Update for February 2020

Forest Man of India Jadav Payeng will be awarded Swami Vivekananda Karmayogi Award 2020 in New Delhi.

GK Update for January 2020

Indian Space agency Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has unveiled 'Vyommitra' or "friend in the sky" a half-humanoid robot for Gaganyaan Space Mission.