Current Affairs for SSC CGL Pre 2017

We’ve decided to provide “CURRENT AFFAIRS” of last nine months (From June onward). These notes will help you in GS/GK section a lot. We wish you all the very best for your upcoming exam.

➤International Women’s Day -> 8th March

i. The theme of International Women’s Day (IWD) 2017 campaign is ‘Be Bold For Change’.

i. It is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.

➤SBI launches ‘Work from Home’ facility for employees

i. Country’s largest lender State Bank of India launched a new facility to enable its employees to ‘work from home’.

ii. The Board of the bank has recently approved the ‘Work from Home’ policy to enable its employees to work while at home using mobile devices to address any urgent requirement they may have, that prevents their traveling to work.

iii. The use of technology and services shall be monitored through carefully designed Management Information System (MIS) and dashboard to enable improvements and refinements.

➤CBSE introduces Exam Locator app to help students

i. The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has introduced a mobile application to help students appearing for class 10th and 12th examinations to locate their exam centres.
ii. The App named ‘Exam Locator’, will help students to quickly know the exam center on the basis of their roll number. According to the CBSE, a student can easily find the address, images and geolocation of the designated centre on the map.

➤Aishwarya Rai Bachchan wins best actress award

i. The actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan who played the character of Sarabjit Singh’s sister Dalbir Kaur, has won the Best Actress award for Sarabjit at the International Film Festival and Awards of Australia (IFFAA).

➤First time Mobile World Congress to be held in India

i. India to host its first mobile congress on 27 September 2017 with a special focus on reaching out to the South East Asian markets at Pragati Maidan, Delhi.This was announced by Rajan S Mathews, Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) Director General.

ii. The three-day event will be organized by GSM Association. All Indian mobile operators, Facebook, Huawei, Ericsson, Cisco etc are likely to participate in the mobile congress. This is the first time held in India after Barcelona(Spain) and Shanghai(China).

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