Introduction
Current Affairs means the important, recent and ongoing national and international events that shape the world — new governments, treaties, awards, sporting results, economic milestones, scientific breakthroughs, appointments and obituaries. In Bangladeshi competitive exams (BCS Preliminary, Bank recruitment, and IT-officer posts) a large, high-scoring block of "General Knowledge" is built from current affairs. Unlike static GK (rivers, dates of 1971, constitution articles) which never changes, current affairs is time-sensitive — the "correct" answer depends on when the exam is held. This lesson teaches you two things at once:
- A reliable method to collect, organise and revise current affairs so you are never caught off guard.
- A core stock of durable recent facts (roughly mid-2024 through 2025) that repeatedly appear in exams, presented in exam-ready tables.
Important note on dating: Current affairs decays. Every fact below carries the period it belongs to. Before your exam, you MUST refresh the "last 6 months" window (awards just announced, latest appointments, newest summit host) from an up-to-date monthly current-affairs digest. Treat this lesson as the framework plus a verified baseline, not a substitute for last-week's news.
Learning objectives
By the end of this lesson you will be able to:
- Distinguish static GK from dynamic current affairs and know which sources feed each.
- Build a month-by-month current-affairs note system and a spaced-revision routine.
- Recall the 2024–2025 Nobel Prizes and the logic of who won what and why.
- Identify major international awards (Booker, Oscars, Ballon d'Or) and sports champions (World Cups, Olympics) with their editions and hosts.
- List Bangladesh national current affairs — the interim government, LDC graduation, mega-projects, census — that examiners love.
- Recognise important national and international days and their themes.
- Answer MCQ-style current-affairs questions using elimination and cross-checking, and avoid the classic traps (edition confusion, host vs winner, "first" claims).