Nepal caps expenditure of its citizens

On 25 December 2018, Nepal imposed a monthly limit on the amount of Indian currency its citizen can spend in India. Nepali citizen wo...

Turkmenistan launches first messaging app

Turkmenistan launched its first messaging app on 24 December 2018. The name of the messaging app is ‘BizBarde’. The app will allow the...

Rs 100 coin in memory of Vajpayee launched

A commemorative coin worth Rs 100 in honour of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was launched on 24 December 2018. The coin fe...

‘Super-Earth’ in ‘Cassiopeia’ discovered

Researchers have discovered a new exotic planet outside the solar system in the constellation ‘Cassiopeia’. The planet has been named ‘...

SpaceX launches new GPS satellite

SpaceX successfully launched the US Air Force’s first Global Positioning System (GPS) III satellite, nicknamed ‘Vespucci’, on 23 Decembe...

Belgium tops FIFA rankings

Belgium ended the year at the top of the FIFA rankings for December released on 20 December 2018. They are one point ahead of the 2018 ...

Former Minister Captain Nishad passed away

Former Union Minister Captain Jai Narayan Prasad Nishad passed away on 24 December 2018. He had represented the Bihar’s Muzaffarpur pa...

Hamilton awarded Drivers’ Driver of the Year

On 22 December 2018, Lewis Hamilton won the ‘Drivers’ Driver of the Year’ award. For the first time, voting was done to determine the ...

National Consumer Day: 24 December

National Consumer Day is observed in India every year on 24 December. The theme for 2018 National Consumer Day is ‘Timely Disposal of C...

PM announces Sardar Patel Award

Prime Minister, Narendra Modi announced annual ‘Sardar Patel Award for National Integration’ on 22 December 2018. The award was annou...

India successfully test-fires Agni-IV missile

India successfully test-fired its nuclear-capable long-range ‘Agni-IV’ on 23 December 2018. It has a strike range of 4,000 km. The str...

PM to open Buddhist site museum at Lalitgiri

The ‘Buddhist site’ museum was inaugurated at Lalitgiri in Odisha on 24 December 2018. The site is one of the earliest Buddhist settl...

Bala Rafique won the ‘Maharashtra Kesari’

Wrestler Bala Rafique Shaikh won the ‘Maharashtra Kesari’ title on 23 December 2018. He defeated Abhijeet Katke of Pune in the final r...

World’s smallest tic-tac-toe game board made

Researchers from the California Institute of Technology have developed the world’s smallest tic-tac-toe game board by using dynamic DNA ...

Patrick to be acting Defence Secretary

US President Donald Trump appointed Patrick Shanahan as acting Defence Secretary on 23 December 2018. He will take the post from 1 Janu...

Mahesh & Yash clinch squash tournament titles

Squash players Mahesh Mangaonkar of Maharashtra and Yash Fadte of Goa clinched the men’s and under 19 boys titles respectively in the ‘C...

Railways bags Energy Conservation Awards

The Railways has bagged 17 awards at the ‘National Energy Conservation awards 2018′ on 14 December 2018. It participated in three cat...

Stamp to commemorate Paika rebellion released

On 24 December 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi released a stamp and a coin to commemorate the Paika rebellion of 1817 in Odisha. T...

Tsunami struck Indonesia’s Sunda Strait

Tsunami struck coastal towns of Indonesia’s Sunda Strait on 22 December 2018. It is thought undersea landslides from the Anak Krakatau ...

India lost $86 billion due to power distortion

World Bank published the new report titled ‘In the Dark: How Much Do Power Sector Distortions Cost South Asia’.  As per the report, di...