In this article, we have updated all-important National Current Affairs in 2018 between January 2018 to December 2018 on monthly basis. The events are compiled from newspapers (The Hindu, TOI, IE & ET), magazines, and various online resources.
December 2018
- Review petition of NJAC dismissed. 425
- GSAT-11 satellite to be launched.. 427
- Govt to collect fingerprint data. 428
- India now has a witness protection programme. 429
- Agriculture Export Policy 2018. 432
- NM-ICPS approved.. 434
- Amendment of the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial Act, 1951 approved.. 437
- New chief economic advisor. 438
- Telangana pulls back quota plea. 440
- 1st International Conference on SWM… 442
- First Indian state to have 4 international airports. 444
- Agni-5 successfully test-fired. 445
- Sebi to relax OFS framework. 447
- New RBI governor. 450
- SC bars disclosure of identity of rape victims. 451
- Partners Forum 2018. 453
- Complete electrification under Saubhagya. 454
- DSRV inducted.. 456
- Tribunal for Manipur insurgent groups. 457
- KCR takes oath as Telangana CM… 459
- NMDP Council to be set up.. 460
- No irregularities in purchase of Rafale jets. 462
- New CM of Mizoram… 463
- First military flight by Bio-Fuel. 464
- IFMC rules 2018. 466
- Strategy for New India @ 75. 467
- India in RSF report. 470
- Swachh Survekshan 2018
- Baseline Report of the SDG India Index
- NABCB Accreditation in Asia- Pacific Region
- IFC-IOR inaugurated.
- Draft IT rules issued for public consultation
- First in country
- Bogibeel bridge inaugurates
- Andhra Pradesh gets nod for separate HC
- Second Delta Ranking of the Aspirational Districts
- 100 Smart Cities Selected in 4 Rounds
- Drone Olympics’ announced
- India’s new land warfare doctrine
- Renames 3 Andaman and Nicobar islands
- Mrinal Sen passes away
November 2018
- ‘Statue of Unity’ dedicates to the nation
- India ranking in GPI
- India’s First Justice City
- Viraat to become a commercial hub
- India’s N-triad
- Women of India Organic Festival 2018
- India in GTSI 2018
- First induction of artillery guns
- TN gets SEBI nod
- India’s first container vessel
- Training programme for CBRN
- Draft of IWTCS
- Awards of NITI Aayog’s AIM and UNICEF
- Himalayan State Regional Council Constituted
- GSAT-29 Successfully launched
- Govt mulls grant for maternity leave
- Mother Cauvery statue
- Maharashtra approves quota on Tamil Nadu model
- Western Peripheral Expressway
- India closer to malaria-free tag
- Vacation Deprivation Report 2018
- ACROSS and NFAR approved
- Allied and Healthcare Council of India
- Mary Kom wins historic gold
- UN selects Noida in SDG cities initiative
- Capacity Building Programme for Urban Water Management
- NDMA conducts a training programme for CBRN
- High-End Skill Development Centre
- Ethanol extraction allows for blending from foodgrains
- A new division for startups
- Parl panel to take stock of IL&FS Group
October 2018
- ‘Operation Samudra Maitri’ launched
- 46th Chief Justice of India
- India’s first deportation
- GI Tag for Alphonso
- Delhi’s Statehood verdict
- IndiaSkills 2018 concludes
- SGB Scheme FY19 launched
- No innovative universities in India
- India wins seat to UN Human Rights Council
- AB merged with SS scheme in WB
- IITs dominate Indian University Rankings
- Allahabad named ‘Prayagraj’
- PPP guidelines for district hospitals
- India’s first railway station inside tunnel
- National Police Memorial dedicates to the Nation
- SC order on use and sale of firecrackers
- GoM set up to look into sexual harassment
- Web portal of SPARC launched
- Sustainable Sanitation Kicked off
- Kerala’s flood report
- India’s first inland waterways shipment
- India’s intangible heritage inventory
September 2018
- Law panel supports for simultaneous polls
- Consultation paper on common code
- India Post Payments Bank launched
- MOVE Cyclathon
- First ground base at the North Pole
- F-16 fighter jet will produce in India
- Only 16% Nirbhaya Fund utilised
- India Ranks 19th In ‘Theft Rankings’ Regarding Nuclear Materials Security
- UST Global campus to host SHEROES summit
- Sikkim to be on the aviation map
- ABVP rues delay in new education policy
- IMA moots mandatory cadaver organ donation, ads by doctors
- Bengaluru will host Aero India in February 2019
- INSA cuts funds for awardees
- Supreme Court won’t stay SC/ST Act changes
- Rafale deal: National security at risk?
- Aadhaar software not hacked: UIDAI
- PM Modi announces the launch of ‘Swachhata Hi Seva Movement’
- India’s first missile tracking ship is readying for sea trials
- Criminal politicians: 25 States, UTs did not respond to Supreme Court orders
- India among nations with ‘no or little enforcement’ against foreign bribery: Report
- CIC wants the break-up of how MPLADS funds are utilised
- First Indian State to set up cyber varsity
- NRC: Tribunal questions process of identifying foreigners
- National Registry of Sexual Offenders
- Rationalisation of CSS schemes
- Now Live-in partners can adopt a child
- The launch of Ayushman Bharat scheme from Jharkhand
- First airport in the Himalayan State
- DISC Deadline Gets Extended
- FGM refers to the constitution bench
- ISA, IORA and REINVEST meet
- AP tops in ‘Ease of Living Index’
- National tourism awards 2016-17
- Parakarm Parv 2018
August 2018
- Startup India Yatra
- Re-structuring of ASRB approved
- Shutdown over Article 35A
- Violating norms in Boeing P-8I
- M Karunanidhi passes away
- GII- 2018 launched in India
- Govt approves water aerodromes
- Bru repatriation deferred
- VS Naipaul dies at 85
- Swachh Survekshan 2019
- New CSS for promoting Pharmacovigilance
- The first project under the SDS
- Permanent commissioning of women in armed forces
- The UK returns 12th century Buddha statue
- 11th World Hindi Conference
- NOTA voting option can’t be permitted in RS
- Kerala to get cyclone warning centre
- Policy for thalassemia patients
- IBC 2018 inaugurated
- 5 Thematic area in Himalayan Region
- India’s first biofuel flight
- Govt plans steps on women safety
- Healing touch to Siachen soldiers
- India’s first biofuel flight maiden voyage
- India gets its first LED cinema screen
- SC orders re-verification of NRC
- Six States sign MoU for Lakhwar dam
July 2018
- 37th UNESCO Heritage Site
- AFSPA extended in Nagaland
- WAPCOS celebrates foundation day
- SC deadline for final NRC draft
- India’s First Global Mobility Summit
- Renaming of Agartala airport
- First BS-VI engine certificate
- First ever ‘India Tourism Mart’
- Six institutes get ‘Eminence’ tag
- No interim order on SC/STs promotions
- Adultery law is under consideration
- 4th National Conclave on Mines & Minerals
- President nominates four members to Rajya Sabha
- 12th-century coins dug up in Bastar
- 21 nuclear reactors under implementation
- Nuclear missile tracking ship
- UN report on HIV infections
- SPC programme launched
- Public Affairs Index 2018
- Swachh Survekshan Grameen launched
- India’s first UMS
- New Nuclear Power Plants
- Data protection report submitted
- “Mission Satyanishtha” launched
- ‘Made-in-India’ multi-fuel war tank
- National Viral Hepatitis Control Program
- Major cities to get missile shields
- UN’s E-Government index 2018
June 2018
- First ever adventure tourism guidelines
- Agreement on Financing for PMGSY
- India’s coastline now extends
- India’s First Advanced Forensic Lab
- Strategy on AI released
- SC clears decks for reservation in promotion
- Geo-Intelligence Asia – 2018
- Global Peace Index 2018
- QS Rankings 2019
- Govt opens a lateral entry
- India to have its 1st police museum
- “Rail Madad” launched
- New Swachh Iconic Places launched
- Rani Rashmoni inducted
May 2018
- Disaster Risk Reduction database
- ‘Vijay Prahar’ exercise
- DST celebrates its foundation day
- 75 National Resource Centres notified
- NWIC launched
- ‘World’s first’ women’s special train
- First Apex Conference of Smart Cities
- TRIFED goes digital
- Frozen Semen Station under RGM
- Buddhist tourism circuit to more states
- National Wind-solar Hybrid Policy
- Draft Cauvery scheme submitted in SC
- SC justifies its verdict on SC/ST Act
- IP Nani launched
- SC approves draft Cauvery Management Scheme
- “AYUSH” finds a place in the English Language
- Kishanganga hydropower project inaugurated
- Zojila project in Leh inaugurated
- Historic Circumnavigation completed
- UGC (Online Courses) Regulations, 2018 approved
- Curtain Raiser of SURYA KIRAN-XIII
- EPE inaugurated
- Eastern Peripheral Expressway (EPE)
- No fly-by-night operator will be allowed
- Web portal ‘Praapti’ launched
- Notice by Mahanadi Water Disputes Tribunal
April 2018
- TN files contempt against Cauvery issue
- Only Indian city in top 10 tech hubs’ list
- Govt questions SC order on SC/ST Act
- Article 370 is not temporary
- Exercise Gaganshakti-2018
- India at CWG 2018
- India’s most powerful locomotive
- Satyagraha se Swachhagraha
- Delhi airport debuts in world’s top 20 busiest
- DRDO at DefExpo 2018
- ‘EoI’ for first offshore wind energy
- e-FRRO scheme launched
- Gaganshakti-2018 concluded
- 10th Defexpo-2018
- First ‘LED street light district’
- Districts removed from Maoist-hit areas.
- Mecca Masjid blast verdict.
- World Heritage Day 2018.
- States ranks on nutrition..
- First Smart City becomes fully Renewable Energy.
- India top in remittances in 2017.
- AFSPA removed from Meghalaya.
- Restructured NBM approved.
- First license for Liquid Chlorine.
- First-ever Mock Exercise on Bio-Disasters.
- Tejas carries out successful test firing of BVR missile.
March 2018
- Cabinet ups guarantee to NAFED
- Conference on ‘World Rare Disease Day’
- World’s largest solar park inaugurated
- XPL-18 Concludes
- Bengaluru to get Fund from Nirbhaya Fund
- DefExpo 2018
- ICH in UNESCO’s List
- Sukhad Yatra App launched
- National Nutrition Mission launched
- SC allows passive euthanasia
- No provision for states having a flag
- 4 cities shortlisted for IDY
- India’s first coastal policing academy
- Rare signed photo of Gandhi auctioned
- India is world’s largest arms importer
- Drug QOL-2C developed
- Award for E-office
- 105th Indian Science Congress
- Ram Sethu will not be damaged
- Basmati fails to get GI tag
- Made-in-India train replace Shatabdi
- 7TH Women Science Congress Inaugurated
- World’s First Trusted Digital Repository
- Smart India Hackathon 2018
- Strategy on RE Initiated
- First Indian Sign Language Dictionary
- Drug Law Enforcement
- INS Ganga decommissioned
- Notice to Cambridge Analytica
- India pledges to help Palestine refugees
- ‘Print Biennale India 2018’ inaugurated
- World’s oldest city goes ‘wireless’
- Ranking of ‘aspirational’ districts.
- Remove ‘bridge course’ get nod
February 2018
- SC adopts roster system
- IIT-IIT launched
- The electoral bond under judicial scanner
- Adult woman free to choose the place of living
- Asia University Rankings 2018
- J&K to get new Act after 114 years
- India in global IP index
- New Affiliation Norms for ITIs
- International Conference on Unani Medicine
- Only Indian city among world’s top richest
- Railways launches ‘whistleblower’ portal
- First ever Highway Capacity Manual
- ‘Paschim Lehar’ begins
- LTCG will not impact NPS
- India’s defence budget in world’s top 5
- Cauvery dispute verdict
- BRO builds a strategic road
- The international Theatre Olympics
- Languages heading for extinction
- PILs in SC for population control
- Home Ministry sets deadline for Cyber labs
- Global Digital Health Partnership Summit
- National Conference on “Agriculture-2022”
- 13-digit for M2M services
- Marks of Prelims exam can’t be made public: SC
- First tranche of electoral bonds on sale
- First ever govt to rank medical college
- SC order spells relief for jute industry
- Sustainable Biofuels 2018
- Viral Load test for PLHIV launched.
- 21st National Conference on e-Governance
- Hetero launches HIV treatment drug in India.
- J-K panel suggestion.
January 2018
- Free conversion of PIO cards to OCI stopped
- The rollout of cleanliness survey
- World’s biggest sand sculpture
- Rajya Sabha made a history
- Asia’s longest tunnel road
- ‘Operation Alert’ launched
- First in Cyclone Ockhi
- Can women be punished for adultery
- Courts cannot assume the role of legal protector: SC
- India’s ‘first coffee’ brews GI tag
- e-Sansad and e-Vidhan projects
- SC revises the earlier order
- New SIT sets up for anti-Sikh riots
- Nirbhik, Nirghat decommissioned
- 7-member team for Judge’s rift
- Teen Murti Chowk renamed
- Bengal joins Swachh contest
- Centre scraps Haj subsidy. 378
- 15% universities allow to offer online degrees
- Govt plans liveability index of 116 cities
- Nine cities under SCM
- National Urban Policy
- Inclusive Development index 2018
- First time in NFHS
- India’s first civil plane in the sky
- ‘Bharat Parv’ as part of Republic Day 2018
- Army gifts T-55 battle tank
- India marks 69th Republic Day
- Key tableaux themes this year
- Hindi word of 2017
- First Nepal player in IPL
- NLU report
- Asia’s largest drip irrigation project
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