Current Affairs for various competitive examinations
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1-Bengaluru metro rail to connect the city with the international airport at Devanahalli to ferry thousands of air passengers daily by 2021.
2-US President Donald Trump has directed the US space agency NASA to send astronauts back to the moon and eventually Mars.
3-Croatia’s capital Zagreb was elected as the best Christmas market in Europe for the third year in a row.
4-Ukraine has released arrested Georgian ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili.
5-Apple has acquired music recognition app Shazam beating Snapchat and Spotify.
6-Google has beaten Facebook as top referral source for publishers
7-Prime Minister Narendra Modi flew by a seaplane from the Sabarmati river in Ahmedabad to Dharoi in Mehsana district on the last day of the election campaign in Gujarat.
8-West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has wished actor Rajinikanth on his 67th birthday.
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9- Indian film ‘The School Bag’ has won the Best Short Film award at the Vancouver Golden Panda International Film Festival.
10-Asha Sharma has taken oath as new Ghaziabad Mayor.
11-GCX- Global Cloud Xchange; vPoP- Virtual Point of Presence
12-Union Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Rathore has felicitated former Indian football team captain Gurdev Singh Gill.
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13-SRM Institute of Science and Technology, formerly known as SRM University won Quacquarelli Symonds, better known as QS award
14-President Vladimir Putin has allowed athletes to compete at 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea under the neutral status.
15-Actress Priyanka Chopra got Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice. She is a Unicef Goodwill Ambassador.
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