Daily Current Affairs Updates

The US Trade Representative’s (USTR) office has once again placed India on the ‘priority watch’ list in this year’s Special 301 report despite the country rolling out National IPR Policy last year.

Poland has assured its support for India’s bid for membership in the elite Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) and a permanent seat in the expanded UN Security Council.

The Home Ministry has planned to raise an all-woman India Reserve Battalion (IRB) in Jammu and Kashmir.

The country’s first electric taxi trial in the country would be launched in Nagpur from May 24.

Who of the following was recently appointed as the Director General of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police?

Who is the winner of the Miss Teen Universe 2017 crown?

• IOC to build new oil terminal at Motihari to supply fuel to Nepal
• Bhubaneswar: First Indian city to win Pierre L’enfant Awards-2017
• UNESCO to screen Indian short film as part of World Press Freedom Day celebrations

Bhubaneswar has become the first Indian city to win Pierre L’enfant International Planning excellence award-2017 instituted by the American Planning Association (APA).

The Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has planned to build a new oil terminal at Motihari in Bihar to supply fuel to Nepal via the planned pipeline up to Amlekganj in Nepal.

Recently, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft completed its final close flyby of Saturn’s moon Titan and has now started its final set of 22 orbits before plunging into Saturn on September 15, 2017, and thus completing its 20-year long journey.

Veteran actor and politician Vinod Khanna has expired at the age of 70. He was said to be suffering from cancer. Khanna is married twice and is survived by four children.

US President Donald Trump has introduced biggest tax reform plan in the history of United States.