Current Affairs

Madhya Pradesh's Chief Minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched 'My MP Rojgar Portal' to provide jobs opportunities to the youths based on their educational qualification, skill sets, and interest. The motive of this portal would be to ensure the availability of the suitable candidates to the employers as per the need of their business. The portal is designed by the Madhya Pradesh Skill Development and Employment Generation Board under youth empowerment mission. 

JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy will be sworn-in as the new Chief Minister of Karnataka today. The state of Karnataka is set to witness the second oath ceremony after BJP's BS Yeddyurappa resigned from his chief ministerial post on Saturday right before the floor test in the state assembly. 

The security forces have been put on high alert as Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be coming to Jammu and Kashmir to inaugurate the 330 MW Kishanganga hydroelectric power project and lay foundation stone for the semi-ring road project. He will also reveal a plaque to mark the commencement of work on the Zojila Tunnel.

The Railway Ministry declared Chandrapur and Ballarpur railway stations in the Chandrapur district of Maharashtra as the most beautiful railway stations in the country on Thursday. Both these stations will be awarded by the Railway Ministry.

Ola and Uber's drivers have planned to go on an indefinite strike from Monday across major cities including Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune etc. as the drivers have claimed that they are not being able to cover the costs due to falling business. The strike has been called by the transport wing of Maharashtra Navnirnam Sena.

Prime Minister Modi is going to address the second India-Korea Business Summit in New Delhi on Tuesday. The theme of the summit is “India-Korea: Scaling up the Special Strategic Relationship through Trade and Investments”. The third (India) and fourth (Korea) largest economies in Asia will be carrying two-way trade of nearly 17 billion dollars.The Business Summit will be also be addressed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu, Minister of Electronics and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad, and Top Officials of Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

India successfully tested a formidable supersonic cruise missile BrahMos on Thursday at 8:42 AM. The test was conducted from Pokhran test range in Rajasthan. Defence Minister Nirmala Sithraman congratulated the Armed Forces, Defence Research and Development Organization and Defence Industry for their successful attempt. 

PM Modi is going to deliver the inaugural address at the 105th session of the Indian Science Congress at Manipur University in Imphal, Manipur, on Friday. The five day Science Congress event is an annual congregation and will be attended by science professionals from across the globe. The theme of Indian Science Congress 2018 is “Reaching the Unreached through Science and Technology.”

The team of Kings XI Punjab marked a remarkable win by 15-runs against SunRisers Hyderabad in yesterday's match in Mohali. All credit goes to Chris Gayle for scoring 104-runs off 63-balls leading to the victory of its team by 15-runs. It was Gayle’s sixth century in the overall IPL seasons. After this match, Chris Gayle became the first player who has scored a century in the IPL 2018.

Including 26 gold medals in its medal tally, India has earned the third position in the Commonwealth Games 2018 held in Gold Coast, Australia. With a total of 66 medals, it has surpassed its medal tally of Glagow Commonwealth Games 2014 by 2 medals. On the final day of the Games, Saina Nehwal claimed her victory by winning a gold medal in an all-Indian final of women's singles in badminton against P V Sindhu, who won a silver medal. Joshna Chinappa and Dipika Pallikal won a  silver medal in the finals of the women's doubles in squash. The phenomenal Indian shuttler, Kidambi Srikanth also won a silver medal in the finals of the men's singles. Table tennis player, Manika Batra created history by winning the first ever women's singles table tennis gold for India. India is really proud of its 200-strong athletics, who  performed brilliantly throughout the tournament and ranked it on the third position. The total medal count of India comes to 66 with a total of 26 gold medals, 20 silver medals and 20 bronze medals. 

Anish Bhanwala has succeeded in getting India's 16th gold medal on Friday. He became the youngest gold medalist from India at the Games. Anish shot a total score of 30 to win the finals. He faced tough competition from 20-year-old Australian shooter, Sergei Evglevski and 28-year-old Sam Gowin of England. But he kept himself focused through all the eight rounds to finally, emerge on the top.

Around 8.30 percent of the students who took the class 12 board exams have failed to make it through with flying colours. According to media reports, an estimated 91,818 students were placed in the Compartment.  Meanwhile, this year, 2,914 differently-abled students had registered for the board exams. Of these, 2482 students passed the exams.

The Central Board of Secondary Education has declared the class 12th results. The results were declared on the CBSE website cbseresults.nic.in or cbse.nic.in this afternoon. This year the pass percentage stood at 83.01 percent, which is an increase from 82.02 percent of last year. The highest pass percentage was recorded by Trivandrum, which stood at 97.32 percent. Chennai stood second with 93.87 percent and Delhi third with 89 percent. Girls secured a pass percentage of 88.31 percent as compared to boys who could manage 78.99 percent. With the class 12th results out, the class 10 results are expected to be declared within two days.

The two underground stretches of the Chennai Metro have finally opened after six of construction. Both the stretches were inaugurated by Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri from Chennai Egmore Metro Rail station today. These two new stretches are Nehru Park to Chennai Central and Saidapet to AG-DMS.