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SBI PO / CLERK
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SBI PO/CLERK 2019 CAPSULE (JANUARY – JUNE 2019)
INDEX
TOPIC Page No
BANKING & FINANCIAL AWARENESS 2
LIST OF INDEXES BY VARIOUS ORGANISATIONS 7
GDP FORECAST OF INDIA BY VARIOUS ORGANISATION 8
RANKINGS / REPORTS BY VARIOUS ORGANISATIONS 8
LIST OF VARIOUS COMMITTEE & ITS HEAD 11
LOAN SANCTIONED BY NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BANKS TO INDIA 12
PENALITY IMPOSED BY RBI TO VARIOUS BANKS IN INDIA 13
LIST OF ACQUISTION & MERGER TOOK PLACE FROM JAN – JUNE 2019 13
APPS/SCHEMES/FACILITY LAUNCHED BY VARIOUS BANKS/ORGANISATIONS/COMPANY 13
NATIONAL NEWS 15
STATE NEWS 20
IIT’S IN NEWS 26
NATIONAL SUMMITS 26
INTERNATIONAL NEWS 30
INTERNATIONAL SUMMITS 34
LIST OF AGREEMENTS/MOU’S SIGNED BY INDIA WITH VARIOUS COUNTRIES 37
APPOINTMENTS / RESIGNATION /RETIREMENT / BRAND AMBASSADORS 38
AWARDS & HONOURS 41
BOOKS & AUTHORS 48
SPORTS NEWS 48
IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE DAY 57
OBITUARY 60
CABINET MINISTERS 2019 / LIST OF MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE)/ LIST OF
MINISTERS OF STATE
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INTERIM BUDGET 2019-20 62
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BANKING & FINANCIAL AWARENESS
RBI IN NEWS
➢ Second Bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement, 2019-20 Resolution
of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) Reserve Bank of India. For the third
time in a row, the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) Monetary Policy
Committee (MPC) cut interest rates by 25 basis points, as was widely
expected. On the basis of an assessment of the current and evolving
macroeconomic situation, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) at its
meeting decided to
Policy Repo Rate 5.75%
Reverse Repo Rate 5.50 %
Marginal Standing Facility Rate 6.0%
Bank Rate 6.0%
CRR 4 %
SLR 19%
➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has initiated two surveys
namely, Industrial Outlook Survey (IOS), and Services and
Infrastructure Outlook Survey (SIOS).
➢ Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has launched Survey on Retail Payment
Habits of Individuals (SRPHi). Sigma Research & Consulting Pvt Ltd
has been engaged by RBI to conduct the fieldwork of the survey.
➢ Shri Shaktikanta Das, Governor, Reserve Bank of India chaired a
meeting of the sub-committee of the 18th Financial Stability and
Development Council (FSDC) in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The sub-
committee also deliberated on interlinking of various regulatory databases
and National Strategy for Financial Inclusion (NSFI).
➢ RBI offers relief to MSMEs allows restructuring of debt up to Rs.25 crore.
The aggregate exposure, including non-fund-based facilities of banks and
NBFCs, to a borrower should not exceed 25 crore rupees as on January 1,
2019. The restructuring will be implemented by 31st of March 2020.
➢ After almost six months of the ban, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has
allowed Paytm Payments Bank to restart opening new accounts for its
consumers.
➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issued a notification for all
authorised non-bank Prepaid Payment Instrument (PPI) Issuers in
order to limit the liability of Customers in unauthorised electronic
payment transactions in Prepaid Payment Instruments
(PPIs) comprising mobile wallets, prepaid payments cards, and paper
vouchers such as Sodexo.
➢ The Reserve Bank of India has allowed tokenization of debit, credit
and prepaid card transactions to enhance the safety of the digital
payment’s ecosystem in the country.
➢ RBI has decided to conduct purchase of government securities under Open
Market Operations (OMOs) in February for an aggregate amount of
Rs.375 billion.
➢ The ESAF small finance bank has got RBI (Reserve Bank of India)
approval to operate as a scheduled bank.
➢ The Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB), Nepal’s central monetary authority,
wrote to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to legalize Indian currency
notes of denominations higher than Rs.100 in Nepal like Rs.200, Rs.500 and
Rs.2,000.
➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is likely to transfer an interim dividend
of up to Rs 30,000 crore to Rs 40,000 crore ($4.32 billion-$5.8 billion) to
the government by March.
➢ The Reserve Bank of India announced that it will inject 10,000 crore
rupees into the system to increase liquidity through Open Market
Operations (OMOs). The offers have been instructed to be submitted in
electronic format on the RBI Core Banking Solution (E-Kuber) system.
➢ The Reserve Bank of India eased out the operational curbs on three
banks, Bank of India (BoI), Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) and Oriental
Bank of Commerce (OBC) and also allowed them to have an exit from the
Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) framework fully.
➢ The Reserve Bank of India raised the limit of collateral-free
agricultural loans to Rs. 1.6 lakh from the current Rs. 1 lakh with a view
to help small and marginal farmers.
➢ The Reserve Bank of India decided to raise the criteria for 'bulk
deposits' for banks to Rs 2 crore from the current Rs 1 crore, to provide
more operational freedom to lenders to raise funds.
➢ RBI restructuring package for small businesses will help recast Rs 1
lakh crore of loans to 7 lakh MSME account holders. This scheme must be
implemented by every bank before March 2020.
➢ The Reserve Bank of India and the Bank of Japan formalised the USD
75- billion swap agreement, which would act as a cushion against any
sharp swings in the local currency whenever the international financial
markets turn volatile.
➢ The Reserve Bank of India removed Allahabad Bank, Corporation
Bank and Dhanlaxmi Bank out of the prompt corrective action (PCA)
framework allowing them to resume their normal lending activities subject
to certain conditions and continuous monitoring.
➢ The Reserve Bank has imposed monetary penalty of two million rupees
each on HDFC Bank, IDBI Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank for non-
compliance of various Know Your Customer/ Anti-Money Laundering norms.
➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will transfer interim dividend to the
central government for the half-year 28,000 crore rupees.
➢ Reserve Bank of India (RBI) withdrew the 20% limit on investments by
FPIs in corporate bonds of an entity with a view to encourage more foreign
investments.
➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) approved the merger of DBS Bank
Ltd.’s Indian business unit with its wholly owned local subsidiary. DBS
Bank’s unit will merge with DBS Bank India with effect from 1st March
2019.
➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Bank of Japan have signed a
bilateral swap arrangement (BSA) for an amount up to $75 billion.
➢ RBI announced the modified revised framework for Trade Credit Policy
norms for imports of capital and non-capital goods by raising the trade
credit limit to $150 million under the automatic route.
➢ The Reserve Bank of India notified a 2% interest subvention or
Subsidy for short-term crop loans during 2018-19 and 2019-20.
➢ The Reserve Bank of India has eased business guidelines for white
label ATMs by allowing companies that manage these machines to source
cash directly from the central bank.
➢ The government has doubled the income tax exemption
limit for gratuity to Rs 20 lakh from the existing Rs 10 lakh. Gratuity law
applies to all employees who work in an organization where there are 10 or
more employees in a year.
➢ In accordance with a circular issued by the Reserve Bank of India
Markets regulator, SEBI withdrew the 20 per cent limit on investments
by Foreign Portfolio Investors in corporate bonds of an entity. In June
2018, SEBI had mandated that no Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) shall
have an exposure of more than 20% of its corporate bond portfolio to
a single corporate.
➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the new series of visually
impaired friendly coins in the denominations of Re.1, Rs.2, Rs.5, Rs.10
and Rs.20 through the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in terms of the RBI
Act at an event held in New Delhi. It was designed by the National
Institute of Design. New Rs 20 coin is in polygon shape of 12 edges
with a design of grains denoting the agricultural dominance of the
country. The ‘Lion Capital of Ashoka Pillar’ is minted on the face of new
20-rupee coin with ‘Satyamev Jayate’ inscribed below it.
➢ The Reserve Bank of India announced to infuse long term liquidity
worth $5 billion into the system through Foreign Exchange swap
arrangement with banks for 3 years that is capable of injecting around Rs.
35,000 crores into the system.
➢ The RBI named State Bank of India (SBI), ICICI Bank and HDFC
Bank as Domestic Systemically Important Banks (D-SIBs), which in
other words mean banks that are too big to fail.
➢ The Reserve Bank of India has prohibited India’s largest
mortgage lender HDFC from owning more than the regulatory limit
in Bandhan Bank. HDFC can hold 9.9% in the bank which is the maximum
a non-banking finance company can own in a private bank.
➢ Reserve Bank of India maintained that there is no dilution in its stand
regarding February 12 circular on stressed assets recognition and
resolution. The circular directed lenders to refer any loan account over
Rs.2,000 crore under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) if it
is not resolved within 180 days of default.
➢ Reserve Bank of India received a huge response for introducing a $5-
billion swap facility for the banks to facilitate permanent liquidity support.
➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in consultation with the government
of India has set the limits for Ways and Means Advances (WMA) for the
first half of the financial year 2019-20 (April 2019 to September 2019)
at Rs.75000 crore.
➢ RBI has altered the LCR (Liquidity Coverage Ratio) norms to offer an
additional 2% window to lenders. The central bank has brought in this
alteration in order to improve the cash position of banks by harmonising
liquidity requirements and giving away extra money to lenders.
➢ The Reserve Bank set the average base rate to be charged from
borrowers by Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) and Micro-
Finance Institutions (MFIs) at 9.21% for the first quarter of the next
fiscal (From April 2019).
➢ The Reserve Bank of India will inject long-term liquidity worth 5 billion
US Dollars into the banking system through a dollar-rupee buy-sell swap
for a tenure of three years.
➢ The amalgamation of Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank into the Bank of
Baroda (BoB) has come into effect on April 1st, 2019 and all branches of
the former two will function as branches of BoB. The merged entity would
also receive Rs.5,042 crore fund infusion from the government. Post the
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merger, Bank of Baroda has become the third largest bank in the
country after State Bank of India (SBI) and HDFC Bank.
➢ Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has come out with guidelines for banks to set
up new currency chests, which include a minimum area of 1,500 square
feet for the strong room.
➢ Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) has partnered with M1Xchange Trade
Receivables Discounting System (TReDS) platform for MSME bill
discounting.
➢ Reserve Bank of India (RBI) plans to buy Rs.25,000 crore worth of bonds
in two instalments from the secondary market in May. The first such open
market operations (OMO) for the fiscal year 2019-20, amounting to Rs
12,500 crore, will happen on 2nd May 2019.
➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will soon release new banknotes in the
Mahatma Gandhi (New) Series of Rs.20. The base colour of the note is
greenish yellow and bear the signature of Shaktikanta Das (RBI Governor).
The new denomination is 63 mm x 129 mm has the motif of the Ellora
Caves on the reverse.
➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has given 12 years to Life
Insurance Corp to reduce its stake in IDBI Bank.
➢ The central bank has released draft 'Enabling Framework for
Regulatory Sandbox', proposed that fintech start-ups could set up
regulatory sandbox or live testing of innovative products.
➢ Based on the recommendation of second Narasimham Committee, the
Reserve Bank has divested its entire stake in National Housing Bank
(NHB) and the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
(NABARD).
➢ In a move to tackle fund diversion, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has
proposed sterner rules on opening and running of current accounts of
corporate borrowers.
➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released draft guidelines on liquidity
risk management framework for non-banking financial companies
(NBFCs) and core investment companies (CICs) with an aim to help them
deal with severe liquidity problems and prevent re-occurrence of IL&FS
type of debt crisis.
➢ Reserve Bank of India announced that it will allow large modern
currency chests to increase the service charges on cash deposited
by non-chest bank branches from the existing rate of Rs. 5 per packet
of 100 pieces to a higher rate subject to a maximum of Rs. 8 per
packet.
➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has increased the eligibility cap on
home loans extended by regional rural banks and small finance banks to Rs.
35 lakh in metropolitan areas and Rs. 25 lakh in other centres, provided
the overall cost of the dwelling unit in the metropolitan centres and other
centres does not exceed Rs. 45 lakh and Rs. 30 lakh.
➢ The Reserve Bank of India said that it has imposed penalties on Five
Prepaid Payment Instrument (PPI) issuers, for violation of regulatory
norms. Namely, Western Union Financial Services Inc, MoneyGram Payment
Systems Inc, Vodafone m-pesa, PhonePe and Y-Cash Software Solutions.
➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced that the time-window for
using the Real Time Gross Settlement System (RTGS) for customer
transactions will be extended from 4:30 pm to 6 pm on all working days.
It will be effective from June 1, 2019.
➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a monetary penalty of
Rs. 1 crore on Nainital Bank for its failure to fully automate the Non-
Performing Asset (NPA) identification process, despite specific directions
issued in this regard.
➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released its statement on ‘Payment
and Settlement Systems in India: Vision 2019–2021’, which outlined
the measures that the central bank will undertake to foster innovation,
cybersecurity, financial inclusion, customer protection, and competition.
➢ Sri Lanka Central Bank announced that the Reserve Bank of India
(RBI) has agreed to provide $400 million under a swap arrangement to
boost the island nation’s reserves.
➢ Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued a new framework for resolution of
bad loans, offering a 30-day gap for stress recognition. Lenders may
recognize incipient stress in loan accounts, immediately on default, by
classifying such assets as special mention accounts (SMA).
➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has waived off all transaction’s
charges in NEFT and RTGS to encourage digital transfer of funds. RBI has
advised banks to pass on the benefits to their customers with effect from
1st July 2019.
➢ Reserve Bank of India (RBl) permitted banks to accept Aadhaar number
(Offline verification) for Know Your Customer (KYC) verification with the
consent of the customers.
➢ Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has released a report on “Benchmarking
India’s Payment Systems”. It is necessary to gauge India’s progress vis-
à-vis payment systems and instruments in major countries and give further
impetus to the planned efforts for deepening the digitization of payments.
➢ As per RBI press release, India’s foreign exchange reserves increased by
USD 1.994 billion to 419.992 billion USD (till 24th May 2019).
➢ According to the RBI reports, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) injected total
liquidity of Rs 2.98 lakh crore in the market in 2018-19.
➢ According to the Reserve Bank data released, bank credit rose 13.24
percent to Rs 97.67 lakh crore for the fortnight to March 29, while
deposits grew by 10.03 percent to Rs 125.72 lakh crore during the same
period.
➢ The Reserve Bank of India said reinsurance brokers have been
permitted to open non-interest-bearing foreign currency accounts
with banks for undertaking transactions.
➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said Exim Bank has provided soft loans
of USD 266.60 million to Rwanda for various projects.
SBI IN NEWS
➢ The Maharashtra Chief Minister’s Office in Mumbai announced that SBI
along with other banks agreed to provide finance for Nagpur-Mumbai
‘Samruddhi Corridor’ expressway project.
➢ NTPC has signed a term loan agreement for Rs.5,000 crore with State
Bank of India.
➢ The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) has organized
workshop on “Committee of Creditors: An Institution of Public Faith”
in Mumbai. It was jointly organized with the State Bank of India (SBI) and
the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA).
➢ SBI savings account rates and the interest rate on a few loans will
now change as and when RBI changes its repo rate. State Bank of India
(SBI) has linked its interest rate on savings account with a balance
above 1 lakh and short-term loans to Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) repo
rate, effective 1 May 2019.
➢ Paisalo Digital signed the first co-origination loan agreement with
State Bank of India, the first agreement of its kind in the country that
State Bank of India has signed.
➢ State Bank of India (SBI) has re-priced home loans up to Rs 30 lakh
by 10 basis points. Accordingly, the interest rate on housing loans of such
size will now be in the range of 8.6 to 8.9 per cent.
➢ SBI Card raised Rs.700 crore from several financial institutions including
its parent State Bank of India (SBI) in the second half of FY19 as it aims
to grow above the industry average.
➢ The State Bank of India (SBI) has announced a strategic partnership
with the FMCG arm of The Art of Living Sri Sri Tattva.
➢ The country’s largest lender SBI signed a pact with the third largest
Bank in the world by capital size Bank of China (BoC) to boost business
opportunities.
OTHER BANKING & FINANCIAL AWARENESS
➢ Nitin Gadkari has announced that the government has allowed
an Iranian bank Pasargad Bank to open a branch in Mumbai within
the next three months. Alongside, India’s UCO Bank will open a branch in
Iran.
➢ Country’s largest car maker Maruti will phase out diesel cars from its line-
up from April 2020.
➢ The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India organised an Insolvency
and Bankruptcy Awareness Programme at Vadodara, Gujarat.
➢ Social media giant Facebook announced that it will create an independent
Institute for Ethics in Artificial intelligence (AI) with an initial investment
of $7.5 million over a period of five years.
➢ New Huawei smartphones are set to lose access to some Google apps
like YouTube and Maps and the next version of Android to be launched later
this year.
➢ India’s largest and fastest growing consumer lending technology company
ZestMoney, partnered with Digit Insurance to offer EMI insurance to
the company’s five million customers.
➢ BSNL has partnered with French company Be-Bound to offer data
connectivity through SMS in areas where there is no Internet connectivity or
signal breaks.
➢ Finance Minister Arun Jaitley raised the annual turnover for availing
composition scheme to Rs 1.5 crore from Rs 1 crore effective from April 1,
2019 to provide relief to small businesses under Goods and Services (GST)
regime. The Goods and Services (GST) exemption limit has been doubled
to Rs. 40 lakh annual turnover and Rs 20 lakh for north eastern states.
➢ Markets regulator SEBI has allowed custodial services in the
commodity derivatives market which would enable participation of
institutional investors, including mutual funds, in the segment.
➢ Private sector lender IDFC Bank said its name has been changed
to IDFC First Bank Ltd.
➢ HDFC Standard Life Insurance renamed itself to HDFC Life
Insurance, following the receipt of relevant approvals from regulatory
authorities.
➢ Private sector insurer Bharti AXA Life Insurance started
delivering policies and renewal premium receipt to customers via
instant messaging platform WhatsApp as a part of its alternative service
option to the policy holders.
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➢ ICICI Bank, in a first-of-its-kind programme, signed a Memorandum
of Understanding (MoU) with Small Business FinCredit India Pvt. Ltd.
(SBFC), a systemically important Non-Banking Finance Company for
entrepreneurs, to jointly provide credit worth up to Rs 1
crore to MSMEs for a tenure of 15 years.
➢ The ministry of finance announced that the government has cut import
duties on crude and refined palm oil from Southeast Asian countries or
ASEAN countries.
➢ IIT Bombay and 7 public sector oil companies inked a memorandum of
understanding (MoU) for setting up Centre of Excellence in Oil, Gas and
Energy. The MoU was signed by heads of Indian Oil Corp (IOC), Oil and
Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), GAIL India Ltd, Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd
(BPCL), Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL), Oil India Ltd and
Engineers India Ltd.
➢ Dell has collaborated with UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of
Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) and Ignus
for its first-of-its-kind hackathon with an aim to create a platform where
teachers, school representatives and a cross-sectional group expert related
to education can interact with each other.
➢ The government has amalgamated three Regional Rural Banks -Punjab
Gramin Bank, Malwa Gramin Bank and Sutlej Gramin Bank into a
single RRB with effect from January 1.
➢ Indian Highways Management Company Ltd. (IHMCL), a company
promoted by NHAI, has signed MOUs with state-run Oil Marketing
Companies (IOCL, BPC, and HPC). It will ensure availability of FASTags
at petroleum outlets across India.
➢ State-run lender UCO bank, formerly United Commercial Bank,
announced that Government of India has infused Rs 3076 crore of capital
into it by the way of preferential allotment.
➢ Punjab National Bank has signed a MoU with Indian Army on the
Defence Salary Package.
➢ The Maharashtra state govt. has partnered with private sector lender
YES Bank to onboard Fair Price Shops (FPS) as Business Correspondent
Agents.
➢ The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has signed
an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Invest India coinciding
with Platinum Jubilee Annual Function of ICAI at New Delhi under the aegis
of the Committee for Export of CA Services & WTO of ICAI.
➢ Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) and Indian Oil
Corporation Limited (IOCL) signed a Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) for jointly developing infrastructure for fuels, lubricating oil, LPG,
Natural Gas and any other related fuel and gas for meeting the requirement
of National Waterways.
➢ Two regional rural banks (RRB) — Pallavan Grama Bank and Pandyan
Grama Bank — will be amalgamated into a single RRB in Tamil Nadu named
Tamil Nadu Grama Bank. It will be effective from April 1. Pallavan Grama
Bank is sponsored by Indian Bank and Pandyan Grama Bank is sponsored
by the Indian Overseas Bank.
➢ The infusion into the equity market comes following a pull-out of 5,264
crore rupees by Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPI) in January.
➢ Zimbabwe started to trade its new currency ‘the RTGS dollar’ after the
central bank announced measures to try and resolve a chronic monetary
crisis.
➢ Foreign direct investment into India has declined 11 percent to
$22.66 billion during April-September period of the current fiscal, according
to ministry of commerce and industry data.
➢ Industry and Internal trade secretary Ramesh Abhishek notified that
government will form a small working group to have a watch over the matter
of angel tax profiled by start-ups.
➢ The Government e Marketplace (GeM), the national public
procurement platform of Ministry of Commerce and Industries, and
Competition Commission of India (CCI) have signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) to enable a fair and competitive environment in the e-
Marketplace.
➢ Britannia Industries will replace Hindustan Petroleum Corporation
(HPCL) in the National Stock Exchange Fifty (NIFTY) 50 index.
➢ The Employees' Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) announced a
hike of 0.1% in the interest rate on employees' provident fund (PF) deposits
for FY 2018-19 from 8.55% to 8.65%.
➢ A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between IIFL Home
Finance and the Maharashtra government for building affordable houses
through credit-linked subsidy scheme (CLSS) under Pradhan Mantri Awas
Yojana (PMAY).
➢ State-run Bank of Baroda has tied up with Germany's KfW
Development Bank for funding of USD 113 million to refinance solar
projects. The tie-up is part of an Indo-German Solar Energy Partnership
signed in 2015.
➢ The Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme 2018-19 (Series 6) has been opened
and continue till 8th Feb 2019. The issue price of the Bond during this
subion period will be three thousand three hundred twenty-six rupees
per gram with the settlement date of 1st of February.
➢ As per data released by the ministry of statistics and Programme
Implementation, Retail inflation decline at 2.05% in January.
➢ The GST Council slashed tax rates on under-construction housing
properties from 12% to 5%.
➢ SEBI board with a view to making more cost-effective trade in Indian
stock market approved lowering of fees charged from brokers, stock
exchange and the companies seeking to get listed. SEBI also decided to
reduce fees payable by the issuers for one refiling, which is done within
one year of validity of observation letter. The fees payable to brokers
is reduced by 33.33% from Rs.15 per crore of transactions to
Rs.10. In case of agri-commodity derivative transactions, the fee would be
reduced sharply by 93.33% from Rs.15 to just Re.1.
➢ The National Health Authority (NHA), which is the apex body
responsible for implementation of Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri
Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) has signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) with Uber– a ride-hailing app to provide free
healthcare services to Uber drivers.
➢ The government has given a nod to the IDBI Bank to handle import and
export transactions with Iran. This has been done to boost the trade
between India and Iran amidst US sanctions on Iran.
➢ Life Insurance Corporation Housing Finance Ltd (LICHFL) partnered
with India Mortgage Guarantee Corporation (IMGC) to offer home
buyers enhanced loan eligibility and easy loans and it will now be in a position
to offer extended loan tenure for borrowers till the age of 75 years.
➢ National Housing Bank proposes stricter regulations for Housing Finance
Companies. Increasing the Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) of these
companies from 12%to 15%, in a phased manner by 31st March 2022. This
will be accomplished by increasing the minimum CAR to 13% by 31st March
2020, 14 % by 31st March 2021 and 15 % by 2022. Bringing down the public
borrowings to 12 times of the Net Owned Fund (NOF) from the
existing 16 times, by March 2022.
➢ The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) has signed a
Cooperation Agreement with the International Finance Corporation
(IFC), a member of the World Bank Group (WBG). It will enable IFC to assist
IBBI to further build the capacity of insolvency professionals, and insolvency
professional agencies for the purposes of the Code. The Cooperation
Agreement envisages technical assistance up to June 30, 2021, by the IFC
to IBBI.
➢ A report by ICRA (formerly known as Investment Information and Credit
Rating Agency of India Limited) has stated that Small finance banks
(SFBS) are expected to witness a growth rate of 25-30% over the
medium-term if they arrange an additional external capital in the range of Rs
4,000-6,000 crore till FY23.
➢ The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) in the official
gazette notification, the Aadhaar (Pricing of Aadhaar Authentication
Services) Regulations 2019 put forth that business organisations
using Aadhaar services will now have to pay Rs 20 for each customer
verification and 50 paise for authentication of each transaction carried
out by the entities.
➢ The National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) collaborates with
Google Arts and Culture for largest interactive online exhibition on
inventions and discoveries.
➢ Industry lobby CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) has released a
‘Suggested Election Manifesto’ for political parties to achieve an average
growth rate of 8 percent per annum in the next five years.
➢ Punjab National Bank has sanctioned loans worth Rs 689 crore to
1600 MSMEs under Prime Minister Narendra Modi ’59-minute’ initiative.
The loans have been sanctioned through psbloanin59minutes.com
portal as part of its effort to promote micro, small, and medium
enterprises. Under the Mudra Yojana Scheme, the bank has offered
loans to over 2.69 lakh small entrepreneurs till February 2019.
➢ The Ahmedabad bench of the National Company Law Tribunal
(NCLT) has approved the Rs 42,000-crore resolution plan submitted
by ArcelorMittal for the debt-ridden Essar Steel Ltd.
➢ World Health Organization released a Global Influenza Strategy for
2019-2030 aimed at protecting people in all countries from the threat
of influenza, one of the world’s greatest public health challenges.
➢ Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS) has teamed up with NASSCOM
Foundation, to launch a centre of excellence in Bengaluru for training
differently abled persons.
➢ Bank of India (BoI) has raised Rs.660.80 crore by issuing shares to
employees under Employee Share Purchase Scheme (ESPS).
➢ A credit firm CRIF Highmark has collaborated with CreditVidya– data
analytics firm, to enable lenders to provide credit to new borrowers or those
who are underserved.
➢ India’s first digital insurer, AU Small Finance Bank Ltd. announced its
partnership with a new age insurtech company, Acko General Insurance
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Limited and is now able to provide customized insurance products to its
customers.
➢ Corporation Bank celebrated its 114th Foundation Day (12th March
2019) at various centres of the bank across the nation and
undertook 114 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities to
mark the day.
➢ IDBI Bank has been categorised as a “Private Sector Lender” following
acquisition of majority stake by Life Insurance Corporation. In January
2019, LIC completed the process of picking up a controlling 51% stake in
the nearly crippled IDBI Bank.
➢ ICICI Lombard partners with Mobikwik to provide cyber-insurance
cover which aims to provide protection against unauthorised and fraudulent
transactions online, across bank accounts, debit and credit cards and
mobile wallets. The service will be available through an app at Rs. 99 per
month along with an insured sum of Rs. 50000.
➢ Microsoft India has partnered with the Ministry of Housing and Urban
Affairs (MoHUA) to deploy Microsoft’s Project Sangam (cloud-hosted,
mobile-first community learning platform) to prepare functionaries and
officers crosswise over India on Swachh Bharat e-Learning Portal.
➢ Hyundai Motor Group and Kia Motors Corporation announced a
strategic partnership to invest 300 million dollars (about Rs 2,000 crore)
in ride-hailing platform Ola for providing smart mobility solutions.
➢ WhatsApp announced that it has tied up with NASSCOM Foundation, to
tackle the challenge of misinformation.
➢ The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) signed a
memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Securities and Exchange
Board of India (SEBI) for effective implementation of the new
bankruptcy law under IBC, 2016.
➢ Karur Vysya Bank announced that it has raised Rs.487 crore through
Basel-III compliant bonds for funding its growth plans.
➢ The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur will
adopt Amazon Web Services (AWS) Educate programme to help students
gain cloud computing skills including hands-on experience in Artificial
Intelligence (AI).
➢ The Jammu and Kashmir Bank has proposed to sell its stake in PNB
Metlife India to private equity player Oman India Joint Investment
Fund II for Rs. 185 crores.
➢ Google’s instant messaging mobile app “Allo” finally shutting down. It
uses phone numbers as identifiers, and allows users to exchange
messages, files, voice notes and images.
➢ A Pune-based IT firm is developing software for the World’s Largest
Ground-Based Telescope “Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT)”, likely to
come up in Hawaii, USA. The telescope is being constructed jointly by
India, US, China, Japan and Canada. India is building the telescope’s
complex optical structure, called the Segment Support Assembly (SSA).
➢ US-based e-commerce platform eBay has partnered with Google to
offer Google Pay as a form of payment option in its new “managed
payments” plan to enhance customer experience tailored to their personal
preferences.
➢ Apple Partners with Goldman Sachs Group Inc to launch the Apple
Card credit card for iPhones. The card is tied to Apple Pay, a service that
allows people to load banking information and pay in store or use it for
purchases online.
➢ Public sector lender Bank of Baroda has signed
an MoU with agriculture services companies to develop an agriculture
digital platform, Baroda Kisan, which will provide solutions for agricultural
requirements.
➢ ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund launched ICICI Prudential Bharat
Consumption Scheme to get advantage from the Indian consumption
market, which is considered as one of the fastest growing consumption
markets globally. Nifty India Consumption Index is the benchmark for
the Scheme.
➢ Infosys, a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting,
and Roland-Garros Grand Slam tennis tournament, also called
the French Open, announced a three-year strategic technology partnership
to re-imagine the tennis experience for the fans and the players
globally.
➢ A wholly owned Subsidiary of National Stock Exchange of India,
NSEIT decided to acquire a global cyber security
company Aujas Networks for an undisclosed sum.
➢ Government outreached its disinvestment target of Rs 80,000 crore
for the current financial year (2018-19) by Rs 5,000 crore. The
disinvestment target has been fixed at Rs 90,000 crore for the next
financial year (i.e. FY 2020).
➢ The government has decided to infuse a capital of 5,042 crore
rupees into state-owned Bank of Baroda ahead of its merger with two
other public sector lenders Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank, with Bank of
Baroda which would be effective from 1st April 2019.
➢ Interest Rates on small-saving schemes including Public Provident
Fund (PPF) and National Savings Certificate (NSC) have been
kept unchanged by the Government for the April-June quarter of the
financial year 2019-20.
➢ Manappuram Finance, a Non-banking finance company withdrew a
release which had issued earlier regarding securing Rs 695
crore debt funding from NABARD.
➢ GAIL India Ltd joined hand with Bharat Heavy Electricals
Ltd (BHEL) to cooperate in the development of solar power projects.
➢ Government infused a capital of Rs.205 crore into the state-owned Bank
of Maharashtra in lieu of preferential allotment of shares. After the Capital
infusion, the shareholding of government in Bank of Maharashtra has
increased to 87.74 %.
➢ Reliance Nippon Life Asset Management (RNAM) joined hands
with Google to enable the customers of Reliance Mutual Fund to carry
out voice-based financial transactions.
➢ Kotak Mahindra Bank becomes first lender to charge customers for UPI
transactions starting 1st of May 2019 by charging Rs.2.50 per transaction
for an amount value below or equal to Rs.1,000, and Rs.5 per transaction
will be levied for a payment value above Rs.1,000.
➢ Tata Power and Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) signed a
memorandum of understanding to set up integrated customer
services and optimise value for customers.
➢ WhatsApp has launched an India-focused fact-checking feature to
combat fake news and rumours starting with the run-up to the Lok Sabha
elections.
➢ India has signed an agreement with National Bank for Agriculture and
Rural Development Consultancy Service (NABCONS) for setting up
India-Africa Institute of Agriculture and Rural Development (IAIARD)
in Malawi.
➢ One97 Communications-owned Paytm Money has got approval from
the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to start offering
a stock broking service such as the ability to trade in equities and cash
segments, derivatives, and Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) among other
exchange-traded products.
➢ Micromax co-founder Rahul Sharma has announced his incursion into
smart mobility with the launching of an AI (Artificial intelligence)
enabled electric motorcycle. This launch is expected to hit the roads by
June this year.
➢ National Thermal Power Corporation (State-run power giant) has
inked a term-loan agreement with Canara Bank to raise Rs.2,000 crore,
which would be used to part finance its capital expenditure.
➢ The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has reduced the
transaction fees up to Rs.1,000 by 60% for promoting the adoption of
Unified Payments Interface (UPI). For UPI transactions up to Rs.1,000,
the charge has been cut to 10 paise from 25 paise, and for
transactions above Rs.1,000 has been retained at 50 paise.
➢ The Union government has announced that the deadline for the linking of
Aadhaar with PAN has been extended to 30th September 2019 from 31st
March 2019.
➢ In order to safeguard domestic players against cheap
shipments, Department of Revenue, Government of India has imposed
anti-dumping duty up to USD 1559 (Rs.1,07,844) per tonne on the
import of certain solar cell components (Ethylene Vinyl Acetate Sheet for
Solar Module) from China, Malaysia, Saudia Arabia and Thailand for
a period of 5 years.
➢ Total Gross GST revenue collected in the month of March, 2019 has
crossed the Rupees One Lakh Crore mark as it has recorded the collection
of Rs.1,06,577 crore of which CGST is Rs.20,353
crore, SGST is Rs.27,520 crore, IGST is Rs.50,418 crore (including Rs.
23,521crore collected on imports) and Cess is Rs. 8,286 crore (including
Rs. 891crore collected on imports).
➢ The foreign partner of SBI Life Insurance, BNP Paribas Cardif has sold
5 crore shares of the company for Rs 2,889 crore to increase its public
shareholding to 25% of its paid-up equity share capital on or before October
2, 2020. This sale has not undertaken as per the methods prescribed by
SEBI for achieving the Minimum Public Shareholding (MPS) Threshold.
➢ Karnataka Bank has signed a pact with Bharti Axa Life Insurance
Company Ltd to distribute the latter’s life insurance products to provide
insurance solutions to the customers of Karnataka Bank.
➢ BSE (earlier called Bombay Stock
Exchange) and INX (India International Exchange) are the first Indian
exchanges to sign MoU (Memorandum of
Understanding) with MOEX (Moscow Exchange) in order to allow
capital formation platform and connect investor community and companies
in both India and Russia.
➢ Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has received the In-Flight
Connectivity license from the Department of Telecommunications (DoT)
for enabling in-flight and maritime connectivity (IFMC) within Indian
airspace.
➢ A new seller-funding programme named “Amazon Wings” has been
launched by Amazon India in partnership with Mumbai based Ketto, a
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crowd-funding platform to help the small businesses and entrepreneurs
to raise funds through latter.
➢ Under “Category II Alternate Investment Fund” (AIF), for the first
time SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) has approved an
“airport’ specific fund”. The name of the fund is “Taking Off To the
Future Airport Fund“. It can raise a capital amounting to 1.5$bn (Rs.
10,000 crore).
➢ The Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology
(IDRBT), an arm of Reserve Bank of India, has launched a 5G Use Cases
Lab for banking and financial sector.
➢ Tata Power and Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) signed a
memorandum of understanding to set up integrated customer
services and optimise value for customers.
➢ Emirates Islamic has announced the launch of Chat Banking services for
customers via WhatsApp, marking a global first in the Islamic banking
sector. It has become the World’s 1st bank in the Islamic banking sector to
give such facility. It was supported by Infobip.
➢ The government has retained the interest rate for General Provident
Fund (GPF) and other related schemes at 8 per cent for the April-June
quarter.
➢ RBL Bank has partnered with credit profiler CreditVidya to improve
the lender's customer experience.
➢ Tata Consultancy Services has partnered with Google Cloud to build
industry-specific cloud solutions.
➢ Microsoft India and Tata Trusts have signed an agreement to jointly
work for the development of handloom clusters in the Eastern and
North-Eastern parts of the country in order to build a digitally inclusive
society.
➢ State-run companies will have 12 months to monetise non-core assets
identified by a ministerial panel headed by the finance minister, failing
which the finance ministry may restrict budgetary allocations to the
CPSEs.
➢ Cholamandalam MS General Insurance Company Limited has been
certified with ISO 31000. ISO 31000:2018 is an international risk
management standard.
➢ SREI Equipment Finance (SEFL) has entered into an alliance with Bank
of Baroda to offer joint loans for infrastructure equipment under a co-
lending arrangement.
➢ Airtel Payments Bank announced it has teamed up with Bharti AXA
General Insurance for a two-wheeler insurance product offering.
➢ In ‘Profit Attribution to Permanent Establishment (PE) in India’
report, the CBDT (Central Board of Direct Taxes) Committee stated that
MNCs that are suffering global losses or a global profit margin of less
than 2% and have their operations in India will be considered to have
made a profit of 2% of Indian revenue and will be taxed accordingly.
➢ Life insurer’s premium income grew 11% in FY19 over 2018 and non-
life insurance firms witnessed a 13% rise in their total premium income
to Rs 1.70 lakh crore in the financial year ended March 2019.
➢ Reliance retail has become the first Indian retail company to clock
more than Rs.1 lakh crore in annual revenues.
➢ Indiabulls General Insurance, a subsidiary of Indiabulls Integrated
Services, said it has received preliminary approval from regulator IRDAI
to foray into non-life business.
➢ Google and Apple have removed the Chinese internet firm Byte dance’s
social media app TikTok in India from the Play Store and App Store.
➢ BSE, India’s largest stock exchange has entered a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) with Network Intelligence, a global cybersecurity
services provider & CERT-IN empanelled vendor to provide cybersecurity
services to its members in line with the cybersecurity framework set
by SEBI.
➢ Shares of IndusInd Bank gained 2% after ET Now reported that the
National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) granted approval for IndusInd
Bank and Bharat Financial Inclusion Ltd merger.
➢ Markets regulator SEBI has reduced the minimum subscription
requirement as well as defined trading lots for Real Estate Investment
Trusts (REITs) and Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs). REITs
have to offer their units in lots worth at least Rs.50,000 in initial and
follow on public offers. The minimum value of a single lot should be Rs.1
lakh in the case of InvITs. Further, leverage limit for InvITs has been
increased to 70 per cent from current 49 per cent.
➢ SEBI has reduced the minimum required level for clearing
corporations operating in international financial services centre (IFSC).
They should have at least Rs 100 crore net worth from three years of
commencing operations. This net worth requirement in the form of liquid
assets has been brought down from the earlier Rs 300 crore.
➢ Kotak Mahindra Bank has announced the launch of an industry-first debit
card-based authentication solution on NPCI’s e-Mandate API platform.
➢ BuyUcoin, which is the second oldest Cryptocurrency Exchange in
India, has announced the launch of a new and unique platform for
wholesale cryptocurrency trading which allows its users to trade on a
large scale with low price fluctuations.
➢ Public sector BEML (Bharat Earth Movers Limited), has signed a
memorandum of understanding (MoU) for financing earth moving and
construction equipment manufactured by BEML with Syndicate Bank.
➢ Exporters’ body Federation of Indian Export Organisations
(FIEO) has inked an agreement with Mumbai-based Prin. L N Welingkar
Institute of Management Development and Research to support
startups engaged in the export sector.
➢ State-owned Allahabad Bank the government has increased its
authorised capital by Rs.5,000 crore to Rs.8,000 crore.
➢ India’s largest IT services company Tata Consultancy Services
(TCS) has helped modernize a network of more than 1.5 lakh post
offices in the country, making this the largest distributed e-postal
network in the world.
➢ Wirecard, digital financial technology provider, announced an expanded
partnership with RBL Bank to promote financial inclusion in India.
➢ In a bid to enable financial inclusion and ease of buying for the Indian
masses, Aegon Life Insurance, pioneer of digital insurance in India
and MobiKwik, India’s leading FinTech Company have joined hands to
launch a Rs.20 smart digital insurance product.
➢ FSS has launched FSS Voice Commerce, a real-time voice banking
platform that offers customers, meaningful, contextual and personalized
banking interactions.
➢ According to ACI Worldwide, Canara Bank has successfully rolled out
major new functionality to support EMV card acquiring across its ATM
network and Aadhaar Authentication.
➢ Emirates Islamic Bank has announced the launch of Chat Banking
services for customers via WhatsApp, marking a global first in the Islamic
banking sector.
➢ The union Government has retained the interest rate to 8% for General
Provident Fund (GPF), Contributory Provident Fund and other related
schemes for the first quarter of current financial year.
➢ Google has partnered with bullion refiner to allow Google Pay users to buy
and sell gold through the app named MMTC-PAMP India.
➢ The Goods and Services Tax (GST) collection scaled an all-time high of
over last month was 1.13 lakh crore rupees.
➢ The National Association of Software and Services Companies
(NASSCOM) has entered a strategic partnership with GE Healthcare. The
objective is to bring digital healthcare solutions to the market.
NASSCOM has announced this partnership through its Centre of
Excellence-Internet of Things (CoE-IoT).
➢ Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) partnered with Google on the
occasion of World Telecom Day. The main objective is to expand BSNL Wifi
footprint in the country.
➢ PayPal India launched its popular OneTouch experience in India using
Google Smart Lock. The integration with Google Smart Lock will offer
a hassle-free payment procedure as well as maintain security to
prevent fraud.
➢ Bharti Airtel and HDFC Life Insurance have tied up to offer life cover
for customers who get a prepaid recharge done.
➢ Paytm has tied up with Citi to launch a credit card, called the Paytm First
Card. The new Paytm credit card is touted to offer one percent "Universal
Unlimited Cashback" to customers along with no restrictions on earning
categories.
➢ Paytm has launched a recurring payment (auto pay) service for
merchants that are working on a digital subscription model.
➢ Public service broadcaster Doordarshan has launched a souvenir
store on online shopping website Amazon India. The idea is to establish
an even stronger relationship with viewers.
➢ The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development
(NABARD) announced an Rs. 700-crore venture capital fund for equity
investments in agriculture and rural-focused startups.
➢ Housing finance major HDFC Limited has partnered with India Mortgage
Guarantee Corporation (IMGC) to offer a mortgage-guaranteed home loan
product.
➢ ICICI Bank, announced the launch of a co-branded multi-currency card
with online travel booking portal Goibibo.
➢ As a part of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), LIC Housing Finance
Ltd (LIC HFL) in association with Lok Bharti Education Society has
unveiled a skilling centre named “UDYAM” in Bangalore, which will provide
skill development training to marginalized youth in the sectors of
BFSI, Retail and IT/ITES.
➢ Markets regulator the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)
has barred leading stock exchange NSE from accessing the securities
market for a period of six months in the much-awaited order on the
co-location case.
➢ New York-based investment and financial services major Goldman
Sachs have pumped in $250 million to construct one of its largest global
workspaces in Bengaluru.
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➢ City-based Bandhan Bank plans to open 16 more
branches by June following the approval received from the Reserve Bank
of India in2018-19 to open 64 new branches.
➢ SREI Equipment Finance tied up with Oriental Bank of Commerce to
offer loans for the purchase of equipment under a co-lending arrangement.
➢ Standard Chartered launched Trade A1 Engine in partnership with IBM
Standard Chartered in partnership with IBM has launched the Trade A1
Engine which will automate the high-risk process of trade documentation.
➢ The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) approved the resolution
plan of Tata Steel to acquire debt-ridden Bhushan Energy Ltd. for
about Rs. 800 crore on 30 May.
➢ The National Small Industries Corporation Limited (NSIC) signed a
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of Micro, Small
and Medium Enterprises (MSME) for the year 2018-19.
➢ Huawei Technologies Co. overtook Apple Inc. to claim the No. 2 spot
in smartphones in the first quarter, moving a step closer to its avowed
ambition of displacing Samsung at the top of the market.
➢ The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has launched the Action Plan for
Healthy Oceans and Sustainable Blue Economies for the Asia and
Pacific region at the 52nd Annual Meeting of ADB’s Board of Governors
in Fiji.
➢ With a view to facilitate fundraising by startups, the Department for
Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade has proposed relaxing the
income tax laws pertaining to sale of residential properties and carrying
forward of losses. The relaxation laws are part of the ‘Startup India Vision
2024’ that’s been prepared by the DPIIT.
➢ India's largest telecom operator Vodafone Idea Ltd announced a five-
year multi-million-dollar IT outsourcing deal with tech giant IBM.
The collaboration will contribute to Vodafone Idea’s merger synergy
objectives by decreasing its IT related costs.
➢ In a first in recent history of tax filings, income tax e-filings in FY2019
have dropped by more than 6. 6 lakh, a trend that analysts said was
surprising as tax base was expected to increase post demonetisation.
➢ The country's foreign exchange reserves soared by USD 4. 368 billion to
USD 418. 515 billion in the week to April 26, helped by the second dollar-
rupee swap auction, RBI data showed.
➢ Standard Life has successfully divested 1. 78 per cent of its stake in
HDFC Life Insurance to raise Rs 1, 404 crore.
➢ Max Life Insurance Co Ltd has notified that it will commemorate the 6th
day of each month as ‘Protection Day’. The objective of this initiative
was to raise awareness on financial protection.
➢ The external debt of state-owned electricity distribution companies
(discoms) is set to increase to pre-UDAY levels of Rs. 2. 6 lakh crore
by the end of this fiscal, a note by credit ratings agency CRISIL.
➢ Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based HR solutions provider Talocity would
provide Yes Bank its AI-supported "touchless" technology for the
bank's hiring process and Human Resource (HR) operations, Talocity.
➢ Bank credit grew by 13. 2% in financial year 2018-19 as compared to
10. 3% in the previous financial year, mainly aided by loans to services and
retail sector.
➢ Facebook has selected London as the center to develop WhatsApp’s
drive into the mobile payments industry. The messaging service will ramp
up hiring, taking on 100 new software engineers for its payment’s
platform. Most of the hires will be based in London, with additional roles in
Dublin.
➢ Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) has put
together a pilot scheme to extend financial assistance of up to Rs. 10
crore to new-age fintech Non-Banking Finance Companies (NBFCs)
engaged in financing small businesses and other income-generating
activities.
➢ IT services firm Tech Mahindra and French digital content publishing firm
Rakuten Aquafadas signed an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) to
collaborate on building enhanced customer experience offerings.
➢ Japanese technology giant Sony has revealed it will stop selling its
smartphones in several countries including India.
➢ Yamaha Corporation of Japan opened its first factory in India for musical
instruments with a view to make it an export hub.
➢ Drug firm Merck Ltd has been renamed as Procter & Gamble Health Ltd.
➢ Rating agency ICRA, downgraded the long-term ratings of IDFC First
Bank after the lender posted weak results. The rating agency has
downgraded the private sector lender’s non-convertible debentures worth
over Rs.38,000 crore to AA stable from AA+ stable.
➢ IDBI Bank sold insurance policies worth Rs 160 crore in March 2019
after a partnership with Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC).
➢ According to a Reuters report, Facebook registered a new company
named Libra Networks in Geneva, Switzerland.
➢ The GST revenue collection has crossed one lakh crore rupees in May
2019.
➢ According to the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal
Trade (DPIIT), Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the services sector grew
in 2018-19 at 36.5% (USD 9.15 billion). It also showed FDI equity inflows
into India declined 1% to $44.4 billion in the year to 31 March.
➢ GST Council has decided to introduce a new GST return system to
facilitate taxpayers. There are three main components to the new return –
one main return (FORM GST RET-1) and two annexures (FORM GST ANX-1
and FORM GST ANX-2).
➢ Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI) partnered with IDFC FIRST
Bank to provide financing solutions for vehicles across the country.
➢ Facebook plans to launch its cryptocurrency by the first quarter of
2020. The company is expected to reveal more details about the currency
before testing begins later in 2019. The currency, which is being referred to
internally as “GlobalCoin”.
➢ Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Multilateral Investment
Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance arm of the World
Bank Group, have agreed to expand Development Finance in Asia and Pacific
to increase the flow of private sector investment.
➢ Karur Vysya Bank Ltd (KVB) partnered with Centrum Wealth
Management Ltd (Centrum) to form private limited Joint Venture UV to
provide wealth management services to its clients.
➢ National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) data showed that India
has 20.6 health workers per 10,000 people. This is less than the World
Health Organization’s (WHO) minimum overreach of 22.8 per 10,000
people.
➢ ICICI Bank launched a centre in Bengaluru to provide business
solutions exclusively to start-ups and MSME sector.
➢ Ashok Leyland partnered with Suryoday Small Finance Bank for vehicle
loans.The two partners have signed an initial agreement to enter a strategic
financing partnership for three years.
➢ Bank of Baroda (BoB) has declared Dighi Port chairman and managing
director Vijay Goverdhandas Kalantri and his son Vishal Kalantri as wilful
defaulters for owing close to Rs 3,334 crore to a consortium of 16 banks in
the country that include BoB, while Bank of India is the lead lender.
➢ SEBI signed MoU with MCA to facilitate the sharing of data and
information for regulatory purposes.
➢ The V.O. Chidambaranar Port Trust, Tuticorin and Central
Warehousing Corporation (CWC) have signed an MoU for facilitating
Direct Port Entry (DPE) of e-sealed factory stuffed export container to the
port under ‘Ease of Doing Business’.
➢ Centre has reduced the employer’s and employee’s contribution under the
Employees’ State Insurance (ESI) Act. It will be effective from July 1.
The Ministry of Labour and Employment has reduced the total contribution
towards ESI from 6.5% of an employee’s wages to 4%. For the employer’s
it reduced from 4.7% to 3.25% and the employee’s contribution lowered
to 0.75% of wages from 1.75%.
➢ Adani-led Adani Group has got its approvals from the Queensland state
government, Australia for the Carmichael coal mine project in Australia.
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‘Trends in
International
Arms Transfers-
2018
Stockholm
International
Peace
Research
Institute
(SIPRI)
Saudi
Arabia
2nd
Highest Number of
Impacted Species
PLOS Biology Malaysia 16th
Most Liveable City Mercer’s
annual Quality
of Living
Survey 2019
Vienna 143rd
(Hyderabad
and Pune)
Climate Vulnerabil
ity Index 2019
Department
of Science and
Technology
Assam -
Most Valuable
Indian Brands of
2019
Brand
consultancy
firm Interbran
d
Tata -
World’s Most
Expensive Cities
Economist
Intelligence
Unit (EIU)
survey
Singapore,
Paris and
Hong Kong
Bengaluru
(5th), Chennai
(7th) and New
Delhi (8th)
World Happiness
Report 2019
United Nations Finland 140th
Global Energy
Transition Index
2019
World
Economic
Forum (WEF)
Sweden 76th
World Airport
Traffic-
2018 Rankings
Airports
Council
International
(ACI)
Hartsfield–
Jackson
Atlanta
Internation
al Airport
(US)
12th Indira
Gandhi
International
Airport (IGIA)
World’s Best
Aviation Hub
Skytrax World
Airport Awards
Singapore’s
Changi
Airport
59th Indira
Gandhi
International
(IGI) Airport
2019 Index of
Cancer
Preparedness
(ICP)
Economist
Intelligence
Unit (EIU)
Australia 19th
Global Press
Freedom Index
2019
Reporters
Without
Borders
analysis
Norway 140th
Startup Ecosystem
Ranking for 2019
StartupBlink USA 17th
Top 10 Best
Airports of 2019
AirHelp Hamad
Internation
al Airport,
Qatar
(DOH)
8th Rajiv
Gandhi
International
Airport, India
(HYD)
World’s Most
Competitive
Economy 2019
IMD World
Competitivene
ss Rankings
Singapore 43rd
World’s Biggest
Military Spender
2018
Stockholm
International
Peace
Research
Institute
(SIPRI)
USA 4th
KidsRight Index
2019
KidsRights
Foundation
Iceland 117th
Sustainable
Development
Goals Gender
Index 2019
UK-based
Equal
Measures
2030
Denmark 95th
Global Peace
Index 2019
Institute for
Economics &
Peace
Iceland 141st
Confidence Board
Global Consumer
Confidence Survey
Nielsen
Holdings
India 1st
Childhood Index
Global Childhood
Report 2019
'Save the
Children', a
United
Kingdom
based org
Singapore 113th
GDP FORECAST OF INDIA BY VARIOUS ORGANISATION
ORGANISATION FY 2018-
19
FY 2019-
20
FY 2020-
21
Economic Advisory Council
of Prime Minister (EAC-
PM)
7 -7.5% - -
Central Statistics Office
(CSO)
7.2% - -
World Bank 7.3% 7.5% 7.5%
CRISIL - 7.3 % -
Fitch 6.8% 7 % 7.1%
Confederation of Indian
Industry (CII)
- 7.5% -
World Economic Situation
and Prospects (WESP)
7.2% 7% 7.1%
International Monetary
Fund
- 7.3% 7.5%
Moody’s 7.3% 7.3% -
Asian Development
Outlook
7.0% 7.2 % 7.3%
The Economist Intelligence
Unit (EIU)
- 7.2% -
India Ratings & Research - 7.3% -
United Nations report 7.0% 7.1% -
FICCI 6.8% 7.1% 7.2%
OECD 7.25% 7.5% -
DBS - 6.8% -
RANKING/REPORTS BY VARIOUS ORGANISATIONS
➢ According to a report by global consultancy firm PwC, India is likely
to surpass the United Kingdom in the world’s largest economy
rankings in 2019, to become the world’s fifth largest economy.
➢ According to the Reserve Bank of India’s Report on Trend and
Progress of Banking in India 2017-18, India witnessed a jumped of 159 per
cent to almost Rs.110 crore, from Rs.42.3 crore in 2017-18.
➢ The World Economic Forum released its 14th edition of
annual Global Risk Report 2019 ahead of the World Economic Forum’s
Annual Meeting in Davos.
➢ Standard Chartered released its long term forecast which states
that India will surpass the U.S to become the world’s second largest
economy by 2030 while China will be at First Position.
➢ As per CRISIL report, Bihar state has been ranked the top state in terms
of GSDP (Gross State Domestic Product) growth in financial year 2017-18.
➢ China’s National Bureau of Statistics announced that its official
economic growth came in at 6.6 percent in 2018 — the slowest pace
since 1990.The world’s 2nd biggest economy was grappling with the effects
of the current trade war with the US and declining exports.
➢ As per the ‘SBI Ecowrap’ report, the government should opt for
the unconditional cash transfer to farmers to alleviate agrarian
distress rather than Universal Basic Income (UBI) scheme. It will
need to provide cash support in the range of Rs 10,000-12,000 per
annum to make it completely cash neutral and the annual cost of such a
scheme is Rs.1.2 lakh crore per annum.
➢ According to the National Sample Survey Office’s (NSSO’s) periodic
labor force survey (PLFS) India’s unemployment rate hit a 45 year high of
6.1% in 2017-18.
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➢ Think tanks and Civil Societies Programme by Lauder Institute declared
Observer Research Foundation (ORF) as top think tank under Best
New Idea or Paradigm developed by Think tank category.
➢ Singapore is once again the most liveable location for Asian expatriates,
having claimed the top spot every year since ECA’s liveability rankings began
in 2005. Singapore is followed Australia’s Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide in
the second position.
➢ Stripe, a San Francisco-based online payment processing firm that
analyses Companies that released the survey for the 2019, which placed
India in the 11th position for its extensive growth and overseas
expansion. In the world doing business online, Singapore and Hong
Kong made its lead to the top position.
➢ Jio Saavn– an India-based global audio and music that it scored the 1st
rank among Indian companies and 28th rank globally in the 2019 list of
“50 Most Innovative Companies”.
➢ Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani and also richest person
in Asia, topped the Hurun India Philanthropy list with donation amount
of 437 crores.
➢ Reliance Industries' 61-year-old Chairman Mukesh Ambani is the
world's eighth-richest person with a net worth of $54 billion, as per
Hurun Global Rich List 2019.
➢ The unemployment rate in India rose to 7.2% in February 2019, the
highest since September 2016, and up from 5.9% in February 2018,
according to data compiled by the Centre for Monitoring Indian
Economy (CMIE).
➢ According to the Delta ranking report released by NITI
Aayog, Assam’s Hailakandi has become the top aspirational district
among the 112 aspirational districts of the country. Hailakandi in Assam has
made a giant leap from 52nd position to no. 1 position on the basis of its
performance during November-December 2018 and January 2019.
➢ According to the Forbes list of the ultrawealthy, Mukesh Ambani,
chairman of Reliance Industries, secured 13th place. Jeff
Bezos remains the world’s richest person with a wealth of $131 billion.
Secondly, Bill Gates ranks second with wealth worth $96.5 billion and
Warren Buffett in 3rd position.
➢ As per the National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey (NARSS),
96.5% of the rural Indian households have access to toilets and they use
it. It also re-confirmed the Open Defecation Free (ODF) status
of 90.7% of villages. 95.4% of the villages surveyed found to
have minimal litter and minimal stagnant water.
➢ Gurugram in the National Capital Region (NCR) emerged as the
most polluted region in the world in 2018 as per 2018 World Air
Quality Report. Bangladesh became the most polluted country closely
followed by Pakistan and India while Iceland, Finland, Australia, Estonia and
Sweden were among the least polluted countries.
➢ NITI Aayog’s list of aspirational districts for the period of December
2018-January 2019 has been topped by 3 districts of
Jharkhand- Chatra, Sahibganj, and Hazaribagh. These districts are also
said to have performed well in ‘health and nutrition’ parameters.
➢ According to a “Knight Frank Prime International Residential Index
(PIRI 100)” Report, Mumbai, the capital of Maharashtra and the
financial capital of India, has become the 16th most expensive prime
residential market in the world and is the only Indian city to feature in the
global top 20 list of expensive prime residential markets recorded in The
Wealth Report 2019.
➢ Reliance Industries Chairman, Mukesh Ambani, jumped six positions to
rank 13th on Forbes World’s Billionaires list with USD 50
billion wealth. The list was topped by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and family
with USD 131 billion wealth followed by Bill Gates (USD 96.5
bn) and Warren Buffet (USD 82.5 bn).
➢ Kylie Jenner was declared by Forbes magazine as the youngest
ever self-made billionaire.
➢ According to the finance ministry report, the GST collection in the month
of February stood at 97 thousand 247 crore rupees. However, the
collection in previous month was over one lakh crore rupees.
➢ The GVK-led Mumbai International Airport Limited has been
awarded the Best Airport by Size and Region in over 40 million passenger
categories by the Airport Council International (ACI) World. This was
in recognition of excellence in customer experience in the Asia-Pacific region.
➢ According to BCG-IBA Report on EASE (Enhanced Access and Service
Excellence) Reforms index released by Union Minister of Finance &
Corporate Affairs, Punjab National Bank (PNB) which is fraud hit bank,
secured the top spot among all public sector banks in the implementation
of ‘Reforms agenda’. PNB which topped the list with a score of 78.4 out of
100 in the EASE-index was followed by BoB (77.8), SBI (74.6) and
Oriental Bank of Commerce (69).
➢ India and 10-member ASEAN are among the fastest growing
economies in the world with even faster growth rates for e-commerce and
digital trade sectors, according to a new report titled ‘India and ASEAN:
Co-creating the Future’ by industry body FICCI and consulting major
KPMG. By 2021, global e-commerce sales are expected to reach 4.5
trillion dollars, up from 1.3 trillion dollars in 2014. The e-commerce market
in India is estimated to reach 5 billion dollars by 2025 while the ASEAN
is estimated to reach a volume of 90 billion dollars.
➢ India’s data consumption is expected to grow at a Compounded
Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of about 72.6 percent to 10,96,58,793
million MB by 2022, according to the ASSOCHAM-PwC study.
➢ Total liabilities of the government increased to 83.40 lakh crore at
the end of the December 2018 quarter from Rs.82.03 lakh crore in the
previous quarter of the current fiscal by Finance Ministry.
➢ India’s most valued lender HDFC Bank Ltd crossed the Rs.6 trillion
market capitalization for the first time, making it only the country’s third
firm to achieve the milestone after Tata Consultancy Services and
Reliance Industries.
➢ According to latest report by World Gold Council (WGC), India is 11th
largest gold reserve, with the current holding pegged at 607 tonnes. India
is, however, world’s largest consumer of gold. World Gold Council is the
market development organization for the gold industry.
➢ The interim outlook report by OECD predicts the growth rate of word
economy would grow 3.3% for 2019 and 3.4% for 2020, which
is 0.2% and 0.1% lesser respectively as compared to the November 2018
forecasts.
➢ As per Monster Salary Index (MSI) Survey, a high Gender Pay Gap
(GPG) is observed in India, as women earn 19% less than men, where
men earn Rs 242.49 and women earn Rs 196.3, that is Rs 46.19 lesser
than men. The gap in 2018 was 20% and has narrowed by
only 1% in 2019.
➢ According to a survey by Transparency International, Assam tops in
the ranking of best practices followed by states in budget formulation. Assam
was followed by Andhra Pradesh and Odisha while Meghalaya, Manipur,
and Punjab were figured at lower positions.
➢ Bernard Arnault, the chairman of Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE
(LVMH) has overtaken Warren Buffett, the chairman of Berkshire
Hathaway to become the third-richest person of the world, on the
Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
➢ India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) predicted that the dependence
of Scheduled commercial banks on bulk deposits shall witness an increase if
credit growth is higher than deposit growth. The system level credit
growth of 12.9% year-on-year continues to be greater than 9.3%
deposit growth and thus banks are keen on harnessing more deposits.
➢ The internet user base in India has exceeded 500 million mark and
is likely to reach 627 million by end 2019, according to a newly released
Kantar IMRB ICUBE report.
➢ Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli and former captain Mahendra
Singh Dhoni are among the 8 Indian cricketers in the 2019’s ESPN World
Fame 100 list, an annual list of the most famous athletes on the planet.
Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo is at the top spot, followed by
basketball player LeBron James and FC Barcelona captain Lionel Messi.
➢ The United Nation Environment Program (UNEP) has released
the sixth edition of the Global Environment Outlook
(2019) titled ‘Healthy Planet, Healthy People’.
➢ Asia’s richest man and Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh
Ambani topped Forbes’ the World’s Richest Sports Team Owners
2019 list. With a total net worth of about $50 billion, Mukesh Ambani
topped the list. Ambani is followed by former CEO of Microsoft, Steve
Ballmer who is worth $41.2 billion and owns the NBA team Los Angeles
Clippers.
➢ As per European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO)
report, counterfeit and pirated goods amounted to 3.3% of global trade.
➢ According to the ratings firm ICRA, fresh NPAs in the banking sector in
FY'20 are expected to 1.9 to 2.4%. ICRA expects gross NPAs of the banking
sector to 8.3 lakh crore or 7.9 per cent for March 2020, as compared to
estimated 9.2 per cent as of March 2019.
➢ According to an EEPC India-Deloitte strategy paper, India can achieve
a three-fold “aspirational” increase in its engineering export to reach
USD 200 billion by 2025, if concerted efforts are made by
the government and Industry to develop a conducive ecosystem and
ensuring inputs at competitive prices.
➢ India registered the highest growth of 27% among countries in patent
applications in 2018 with the World Intellectual Property Organization
(WIPO). India filed 2013 international patent applications during the year.
➢ In accordance with the International Energy Agency (IEA) Global
Energy & CO2 status report, India’s energy demand has surpassed the
global demand growth in 2018. India’s primary demand increased 4% in
2018 in comparison to energy consumption worldwide grew by 2.3%. This
accounts for 11 per cent of global demand growth.
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➢ In accordance with the 2018 global Multidimensional Poverty Index
(MPI), India’s poverty rate has shown a drastic decrease in 10 years, from
55% to 28%. The index has shown that, in the years between 2005-06
and 2015-16, 271 million people are moved out of poverty in India.
➢ A recent report titled ‘Mind the Gap – the state of employment in
India’ by Oxfam India, an international non-profit organisation has found
that the gender wage gap in India is highest among Asian nations,
women are paid 34 percent less compared to men for performing the same
job and with same qualifications, also the Women’s labour force
participation in India is the lowest in the world.
➢ Dhanbad, the coal capital of India scored 95.3 percent and become
the number one city in terms of highest 4G availability in India by the
report name ‘OpenSignal’s hottest city for 4G Availability’.
➢ Current Account Deficit (CAD) of India has widened to 2.5% of
GDP in the 3rd quarter of the current fiscal year primarily on account of a
higher trade deficit though the foreign exchange reserves which continued
to soar.
➢ Tripura has been ranked at second place in India, in terms of child
marriages among girls between the age of 15 and 19 years, according to
a report released by the National Family Health Survey (NFHS), Young
Lives – an international study on childhood poverty. The survey has been
coordinated by the team of University of Oxford.
➢ Shanghai claimed that it has become first district in the world using
both 5G coverage and broadband gigabit network.
➢ According to a recent Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) report
titled ‘Asian Development Outlook 2019: Strengthening Disaster
Resilience’, around 26 trillion dollars from 2016 to 2030, or 1.7 trillion
dollars investment needed per year to build disaster-resilient
infrastructure in Asia.
➢ India is likely to install 7 GW of wind capacity by 2022 against the 60-
GW target set by the government, Fitch Solutions Macro Research has
said in a report.
➢ National Ranking of Higher Institutes was released by the Ministry of
Human Resources Development in New Delhi. Indian Institute of
Technology Madras topped the rankings while the Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore bagged the second rank followed by IIT Delhi.
➢ India’s Asset Management Companies (AMCs) own assets under
management (AUM) worth Rs.24.46 trillion, according to data released by
the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI), a mutual fund industry
lobby, for the January-March period.
➢ India's steel demand is likely to grow by over 7 percent in 2019 and
2020, driven by sectors like construction, capital goods and railways, as
per the Indian Steel Association.
➢ India’s population grew at an average annual rate of 1.2 per cent
between 2010 and 2019 to 1.36 billion, more than double the annual
growth rate of China, according to a report by the United Nations
Population Fund.
➢ The air quality in Varanasi, is ranked third on the WHO’s list of 15
most polluted cities and the situation is “deteriorating” as its MP has
focused on beautification and infrastructure, a Delhi-based environment
body claimed. Faridabad in Haryana is in 2nd position after Kanpur as per
the Air Quality in India 2014-2019' report.
➢ As per the first edition of Forbes World’s Best Bank survey, HDFC
Bank has been recognized as number 1 bank by customers in
India. Forbes partnered with market research firm Statista to measure
the best banks in 23 countries. ICICI Bank took the second spot and DBS
bank grabbed the third position, followed by Kotak Mahindra Bank
and IDFC Bank which are at the fourth and fifth spot.
➢ The Hong Kong city’s equity market has overtaken Japan to be the
world’s third largest in value, behind only the U.S. and mainland China, Hong
Kong courtesy of a rebound in stocks after their worst year since 2011,
according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
➢ World Health Organization (WHO) has raised alarm over a 300 percent
increase in the case of measles globally in the first quarter of 2019
compared with last year.
➢ The United Nations owes India USD 38 million, the highest it has to
pay to any country, for the peacekeeping operations as of March 2019, UN
Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said as he voiced concern over
the world body's deteriorating financial health.
➢ The TIME magazine in its list of 100 most influential people of 2019
has included two Indian women lawyers - Menaka Guruswamy (9th) and
Arundhati Katju (9th), who spearheaded the legal challenge to strike down
Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code.
➢ According to Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) report, business sentiments on
the country’s financial and macroeconomic conditions continue to decline in
the second quarter of 2019 as compared to the second quarter in 2018. D&B
Composite Business Optimism Index conclude 78.4 scores during Q2
2019 as compared to 85.0 during Q2 2018, a decline of 7.7%.
➢ The India’s pharmaceutical exports rose by 11 per cent to USD 19.2
billion in 2018-19, mainly driven by higher demand in regions such as
North America and Europe, as per a commerce ministry data.
➢ Global warming has caused the Indian economy to be 31
percent smaller than it would otherwise have been, according to
a Stanford study which shows how earth’s temperature changes have
increased inequalities.
➢ A panel named by India’s central bank to study its capital structure is
likely to identify excess reserves of up to Rs. 3 lakh crore ($43 billion), or
1.5 percent of gross domestic product, according to Bank of America
Merrill Lynch.
➢ The Reserve Bank of India is the first central bank in the Asia-Pacific
region to begin an explicit interest rate easing cycle buoyed by benign food
inflation and easier global financial condition, Fitch Ratings said. Fitch has
also estimated India to grow at 6.8% in current fiscal and 7.1% in the
next year.
➢ According to the Times of India Report, Reliance Jio has become the
second-largest telecom company in the country. Jio overtaken Bharti Airtel
in terms of customer base and now trails only Vodafone Idea.
➢ London emerged as the top choice for Indian investors ahead of other
cities such as Dubai and Singapore, with investments by Indian companies
in the British capital reaching an all-time high last year, according to a new
analysis. The UK emerged as the topmost country to attract Indian FDI
with 52 projects, ahead of the US (51) and the UAE (32), in 2018.
➢ Andhra Pradesh IT minister Nara Lokesh, BJP MP Poonam Mahajan and
Xiaomi India head Manu Kumar Jain are among the 6 Indians featuring in
the list of Young Global Leaders, according to the World Economic
Forum (WEF).
➢ The “100 Most Influential People in Climate Policy” list is comprised
of seven Indian names including Union Ministers Piyush Goyal and Dr
Harsh Vardhan, who took important measures to combat climate change.
The list is prepared by Apolitical, a peer to peer learning platform for
governments.
➢ The government's FAME-II plan for electric mobility stands to reduce
64% of the anticipated road-based energy demand by 2030 and 37% of
carbon emissions by then, according to CII. The tentative aim is to have
30% electric vehicles by 2030.
➢ The Geological Survey of India (GSI) in its report notified that the
highest graphite reserves of India, that is, around 35% of India’s total
Graphite reserves are found in Arunachal Pradesh.
➢ According to the 8th edition of Global Drug Survey (GDS) 2019,
Indians are seeking help more than any other countries to reduce their
alcohol intake.
➢ A new report by industry body FICCI says that strong economic growth
coupled with rapid emergence of India on the global horizon is poised
to drive the growth of MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences and
exhibitions) tourism at a much faster rate. In 2018, MICE tourism in India
was pegged at Rs. 25, 000 crore with 8 per cent growth year-on-year,
said the report titled 'India Inbound Tourism: Unlocking the
Opportunity'.
➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the second most followed politician
in the world on social media after former US President Barack Obama,
according to a report.
➢ The US government has released first of its kind “Global Health
Security Strategy”. The objective is to prevent, detect and respond to
threats from infectious diseases occurring naturally or accidently.
➢ India and China top a list of countries where illegal sand mining has
become a major environmental problem, according to a report named ‘Sand
and Sustainability: finding new solutions for environmental
governance of global sand resources’ released by the United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP).
➢ Indian actress Dia Mirza and Alibaba chief Jack Ma are among the 17
global public figures appointed by UN Secretary-General Antonio
Guterres as the new advocates to drive action and solidify global political
will for the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
➢ India had more deaths among children under five than any other
country in 2015, with large disparities in the child mortality rate between
richer and poorer states, a Lancet study has found.
➢ On the Mint Globetrotter Index, the “others" category comprises seven
cities across Africa, West Asia and the Indian Ocean. Among the seven cities,
Victoria, the capital of Seychelles, is the most expensive with an index value
of 192 and a rank of 28. Dubai is way costlier than Delhi and ranks 24 on
the overall cost index.
➢ The Hurun Research Institute released the Hurun India Art List 2019, a
ranking of the top 50 Indian artists alive, based on the sales of their
works at public auctions from April 2018 to March 2019.
➢ With investments estimated at about USD 2. 7 billion across sectors, the
Netherlands has emerged as the third largest foreign direct investor
in India during 2017-18. Mauritius and Singapore are the top two
countries for FDI in India during 2017-18.
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➢ SpiceJet became fourth Indian airline to have a 100 aircraft in its fleet.
➢ According to the Reserve Bank of India’s weekly statistical
supplement, the overall forex reserves rose to $420. 055 billion from
$418. 687 billion.
➢ Under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) higher than the
recoveries made through other mechanisms, the recovery rate is twice
the liquidation value of the all the 94 cases resolved in the year 2018-
19.
➢ The Asia-Pacific region is expected to grow at 5. 7% in 2019. According
to the bank’s Asian Development Outlook 2019 report released in April,
developing Asia which comprises 45 nations ranging from China to Tuvalu is
projected to grow by 5. 7% in 2019. However, the growth outlook for
developing Asia is expected to moderate to 5. 6 % in 2020.
➢ India’s IT conglomerate Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has become
most valued firm in India in terms of market capitalization (market-cap)
followed by RIL, HDFC Bank, Hindustan Unilever and ITC.
➢ According to the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
data, Retail inflation rose 2.92% marginally in April this year.
➢ Dell emerged as the most trusted brand in India in 2019, according to
the report of TRA Report 2019. LIC and Amazon ranked on third and fourth
spots.
➢ United Nations report said that India is set to overtake China as the most
populous country by 2027. India will have almost 1.64 billion inhabitants
by 2050. South Asia’s opportunity to reap the demographic dividend will
peak by 2047.
➢ According to Forbes magazine’s 2019 list of billionaires, The Abu Dhabi-
based Keralite tycoon (worth 4.7 billion dollars) has been ranked the
richest expat in UAE.
➢ Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), India’s top oil and gas producer, has
toppled Indian Oil Corp (IOC) to regain the crown of being the country’s
most profitable public sector company. Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC)
reported a 34% jump in its 2018- 19 fiscal net profit to Rs.26,716 crore.
➢ Mumbai ranked first in the study, ‘Traffic Index-2018’, by location
technology specialist TomTom, with a congestion level of 65 per cent New
Delhi ranked fourth with a congestion of 58 per cent.
➢ According to Forbes Report, Rapper Jay-Z hip-hop artist to become a
billionaire.
➢ Google tech Behemoth invented three new features- bus travel times
from live traffic in 10 of the largest cities in India. The travel plan of Indian
users is predicted by transit time while traveling on buses.
➢ Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Trends Report said that the global
internet users have touched 3.8 billion which is more than half of the
world’s population. China was found to have the largest internet user base
at 21%. The internet users in India are 12%, and the United States are 8%.
➢ India’s rank as a source country for FDI dropped one place to the 10th
position as it was overtaken by Spain. Investment in India rose by 6% to
USD 42 billion. According to the United Nations Conference on Trade
and Development (UNCTAD) World Investment Report 2019, India
received foreign direct investments (FDI) worth USD 42 billion in 2018.
➢ According to the Randstad Employer Brand Research (REBR) 2019
reported that Amazon India, the E-commerce giant, is the most attractive
employer brand in the country.
➢ The Second Edition of the United States Green Building Council’s
(USGBC) list of India’s top 10 states is released. The states which have
maximum number of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
certified green buildings are listed below. Maharashtra bagged the top slot
with 334 LEED-certified green buildings. It is followed by Karnataka and
Tamil Nadu with the rankings 232 and 157 buildings respectively.
➢ According to the report, FDI inflows have increased by 3.5% to $54
billion. India attracted over 77% of the total foreign direct investments
ultimately landed up to the South Asian region.
➢ Ministry of Commerce reported that India’s trade deficit expanded
to a six-month high of $15.4 billion in May, with import growth
outpacing export growth following a 37% jump in gold imports. Exports grew
3.93% in the month of May, while imports rose 4.31%.
➢ Microsoft has reached a valuation of one trillion dollars for the first
time after posting an increase in profits. It makes the software giant only
the third publicly traded company in history to reach the threshold after
Apple and Amazon passed it in 2018.
➢ US retail giant Amazon has moved past hi-tech titans Apple and Google
to become the world's most valuable brand. According to the 2019 BrandZ
Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands rankings, Amazon online retailer
set its brand value quintuple in the past five years to reach $315.5billion.
➢ USD 1.7 trillion needed per year to build disaster-resilient infrastructure
in Asia: ADB report
➢ PSBloansin59minutes.com has become the largest fintech online
lending platform, as quoted by a report from Credit Suisse. The portal was
launched in November 2018 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It
provides loans amounting up to Rs 1 crore to micro, small and medium
enterprises (MSMEs) in just 59 minutes.
➢ HDFC Mutual Fund has surpassed ICICI Prudential MF to regain top
position after two years as the largest asset management company
(AMC).
➢ After acquiring majority stake in REC Ltd (formerly Rural Electrification
Corporation Limited), centre backed Power Finance Corporation (PFC)
has become the India’s second largest Govt-owned Financial Firm after
State Bank of India (SBI), based on market capitalization. PFC has bought
the 52.63% controlling stake in REC through Rs 14,500 crore deal with
Union government.
➢ The Indian economy has lost its spot as the world’s fastest-growing
economy to China. A Reuters survey of economists said that India
registered 6.3% annual growth in the January-March quarter, its slowest
pace in six quarters. China recorded a growth of 6.4% in the March Quarter.
➢ Forbes magazine has named Rihanna as the world’s richest female
musician. Her worth is estimated at $600m (£472m) which includes
revenues made from her fashion and beauty lines in addition to those from
her music career.
➢ The industry body Sa-Dhan reported that the Indian microfinance sector
is expected to register a more than 30% year-on-year growth to
Rs.90,000 crore in 2018-19. The total gross loan portfolio (GLP) for the
sector stood at Rs.68,789 crore in 2017-18.
➢ Private lender YES Bank Ltd has slipped three notches to 10th spot, in
terms of market valuation, for the first time, as its shares slumped over
30% in the last four sessions after the bank reported a surprise net loss in
its March quarter earnings.
➢ President Ramnath Kovind declared the 4th edition of National
Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF India Rankings 2019) in New
Delhi.
Here the List:
Categories Names of Institution
Overall Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras
University Indian Institute of Science (IIS) Bangalore
Law National Law School of India University,
Bengaluru
Architecture Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
Kharagpur
Medical All India Institute of Medical Sciences
(AIIMS) New Delhi
Engineering Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras
College Miranda House, Delhi
Management Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Pharmacy Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi
LIST OF VARIOUS COMMITTEE & ITS HEAD
COMMITTEE HEAD PURPOSE
Maharashtra State Finance
Minister, Sudhir
Mungantiwar
To suggest whether a uniform tax rate
should be imposed on lotteries or the
current differential tax rate system be
continued.
IIT- Hyderabad chairman B V
R Mohan Reddy
All India Council for Technical
Education (AICTE) to stop setting up
new engineering colleges from 2020 and
review the creation of new capacity
every two years after that.
M.P. Bezbarauah For implementation of Clause VI of
the Assam Accord
Former SEBI chairman U K
Sinha
To suggest long-term solutions for
the economic and financial
sustainability of the MSME sector
Former SEBI chairman U K
Sinha
Constituted by the Insolvency and
Bankruptcy board of India (IBBI) to
study the concept of ‘Group
Insolvency’ and suggest a suitable
framework
Dr. Sankar De In order to strengthen SEBI’s research
function and enhance its linkage to
policy making.
Aadhaar architect Nandan
Nilekani
To suggest measures to strengthen
the safety and security of digital
payments in the country
Harsh Vardhan To review the existing state
of mortgage securitisation in
India and suggest measures to deepen
it on Development of Housing Finance
Securitisation Market
T. N. Manoharan To suggest policy and regulatory
interventions required for the
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development of a secondary market
in corporate loans, including loan
transaction platform for stressed assets.
Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha Under the Central Electricity
Authority (CEA) to explore prepaid
payments by state electricity
distribution companies to power
plants.
Nitin Patel To boost the real estate sector under
the GST regime
Dr Jitendra Nagpal A task force to look into the issues of
suicides of the students in Jawahar
Navodaya Vidyalayas.
P. Balram To review UGC quality mandate
relating to promotion of Research and to
review the existing M.Phil/ Ph.D
Regulations.
Umesh Sinha On digital media and campaigning
during last 48 hours before polls under
provisions of Section 126 of the
Representation of the People Act.
Sanjeev Sharma To look into the matter of taxation-
related pain points and cut down the
number of tax litigations.
Dr. Anil Kakodkar To make Strategies to Reduce Crude
Oil Imports.
Surjit Bhalla Advisory group has suggested issuance
of Elephant Bonds wherein people
declaring undisclosed income.
NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh
Kant,
Suggested the development of a
National Project Management Policy
Framework for the effective execution
of public sector and public-private
partnership infrastructure projects.
Usha Thorat To examine issues related to offshore
rupee markets and recommend policy
measures
Jasmine Shah To “reform higher education” in the
capital
Dr Alok Srivastava To framing of a proper and
structured scheme for providing of
insurance cover to
the advocates and to suggest
modalities for the implementation of
such a scheme
Amitabh Kant National Mission on
Transformative Mobility and
Battery Storage, which is being set up
to promote clean and sustainable
mobility initiatives in the country.
Dr. A. R. Sihag For monitoring, sanctioning and
implementation of projects under the
Rs.10,000-crore Faster Adoption
and Manufacturing of Electric
Vehicles in India (FAME-II)
programme, aimed at incentivising
clean mobility.
BP Sharma To “revisit the criteria” for
determining the “creamy layer” for
OBCs which was laid down in 1993.
LOAN SANCTIONED BY NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
BANKS TO INDIA
NAME OF
THE BANK
COUNTRY/STA
TES
LOAN
AMOUN
T
PURPOSE
Asian
Developmen
t Bank
India USD 50
million
To expand the
Renewable Energy
Capacity in India
Asian
Developmen
t Bank
India USD 3
billion
Sovereign loans
Asian
Developmen
t Bank
India USD
750
million
To electrify railway
tracks in India
Asian
Developmen
t Bank
India $26
Million
To provide additional
financing for improving
drainage infrastructure
in Dibrugarh town of
Assam under the
ongoing Assam Urban
Infrastructure Invest
ment Program.
Asian
Developmen
t Bank
India USD
926
Million
To operationalize two
lines for the Mumbai
Metro Rail System.
It is the Single Largest
Infrastructure
Project Loan
Asian
Developmen
t Bank
Chhattisgarh $350
million
Road Improvement
Project
Asian
Developmen
t Bank
Tripura Rs.165
0 crore
Infrastructure
Development of
seven district
Asian
Infrastructu
re
Investment
Bank
Andhra Pradesh USD
455
million
To finance the Andhra
Pradesh Rural Roads
Project
World Bank India $250-
million
loan
For the National Rural
Economic
Transformation
Project (NRETP) to
help women in rural
households develop
viable enterprises for
farm and non-farm
products.
World Bank Tamil Nadu $287
million
For the improvement of
Tamil Nadu Health
System Reform
Programme
(TNHSRP).
World Bank Pakistan $518
million
For reforms to enhance
tax revenues and
reduce compliance
cost to provide better
services to the public.
World Bank
(Internation
al Bank for
Reconstructi
on and
Developmen
t (IBRD))
India (Karnataka,
Kerala, Madhya
Pradesh, Odisha,
Tamil Nadu and
Uttarakhand)
$137
Million
For the Dam
Rehabilitation and
Improvement Project
(DRIP).
World Bank India USD
25.2
Million
For Chhattisgarh
Public Financial
Management and
Accountability
Program.
World Bank India USD 96
Million
For Additional Financing
for Uttarakhand
Disaster Recovery
Project.
World Bank Andhra Pradesh Rs.
2200
crores
($328-
million
)
For implementation of
the AP Health
Systems
Strengthening
Project (APHSSP)
World Bank Rajasthan $250
million
For Phase 2 of
Rajasthan State
Highways
Development Project.
World Bank Jharkhand $147
million
To provide basic
services to the people
and management of
urban local bodies
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World Bank Kerala $ 250
million
For Kerala Resilient
Programme
World Bank Uttarakhand $ 31.58
million
For Uttarakhand
Public Financial
Management
Strengthening
Project.
Korea Exim
Bank
Andhra Pradesh Rs.4,10
0 crore
For Visakhapatnam
Metro Rail project
PENALITY IMPOSED BY RBI TO VARIOUS BANKS IN INDIA
BANK NAME
PENALITY REASONS
Bank of
Maharashtra
Rs.1-crore For non-compliance of
Know Your Customer
(KYC) guidelines and
fraud-classification
norms
Andhra Bank 1 crore rupees For non-compliance
with various directions
issued by RBI
Axis Bank Rs.2.2 crore For violating the
guidelines in regulatory
compliance & detection
and impounding of
counterfeit notes.
UCO Bank Rs.2 crore For violating the
guidelines in regulatory
compliance
Syndicate Bank Rs.1 crore For violating the
guidelines in regulatory
compliance
State Bank of India Rs.1 crore
Rs.1 crore
For violating the norms
under Section 47 A of
the Banking Regulation
Act
For delaying the
implementation of the
daily reconciliation of
Swift transaction.
Oriental Bank of
Commerce
Rs.1.5 crore For Violation of Various
Banking Norms
Punjab National
Bank
Rs.1 crore
Rs.2 crore
For Violation of Various
Banking Norms
Violation of Compliance
with regulatory
directions regarding
SWIFT operations
Bank of India Rs.1 crore For Violation of Various
Banking Norms
Karnataka Bank Rs.4 Crore For non-compliance of
directions on Swift
messaging software
Union Bank Rs.3 Crore For non-compliance of
directions on Swift
messaging software
Dena Bank Rs.2 Crore For non-compliance of
directions on Swift
messaging software
IDBI Bank Rs.1 Crore For non-compliance of
directions on Swift
messaging software
UP Postal Primary
Co-operative Bank
Rs.1 lakh For violation of norms
regarding shifting of its
branch
Kotak Mahindra
Bank
Rs.2 crores For the non-state
lender’s failure to
adhere to the
regulator’s diktat on
promoter shareholding.
HDFC Bank Rs.1 crore For violating know
your customer (KYC)
and anti-money
laundering (AML)
norms
LIST OF ACQUISTION & MERGER TOOK PLACE FROM JAN –
JUNE 2019
COMPANY ACQUIRED/MERGER AIM/KEY POINT
Gruh Finance
(Housing arm of
HDFC Ltd)
Bandhan Bank For acquiring up to 9.9
per cent stake in
Bandhan Bank
Reliance
Industries
India’s largest cable
operators – DEN
Networks and Hathway
Cable & Datacom
For high speed
broadband network
under JioGigaFiber
Asian
Development
Bank
Annapurna Finance Bought 14% stake in
micro-financier for
Rs.137 crore
Facebook GrokStyle To enable users’ shop
better using Artificial
Intelligence (AI)
capabilities
ICICI Bank Kisan Finance To acquire 9.9% stake
in the non-banking
finance company
(NBFC)
Lakshmi Vilas
Bank
Indiabulls Housing
Finance (IBH)
It help Indiabulls get
access to low-cost
stable funds and entry
into banking. By
allotting 4.99% of its
shares
Larsen & Toubro Mindtree To acquire up to
66.15% stake
Infosys Starter NV It will buy 75% stake
in Starter NV
Reliance Jio
Digital
Haptik Acquired a
chatbot making
startup firm for Rs.700
Crore.
Wipro Consumer
Care and
Lighting (WCCL)
Splash Corporation For an undisclosed
amount to enter the
country which has a
consumer base of
around 100 million.
Bharti Airtel Hughes Communications
India
To create a stronger
no. 1 in the space, in a
bid to increase scale,
improve operational
efficiencies and target
new customers in
areas such as in-flight
connectivity.
Microsoft ElectionGuard To help countries
ensure secure and
verifiable voting
Reliance Brands Hamleys To acquire 100%
shares of centuries-old
British toy retailer for
£68 million.
Wipro US-based International
Techne Group
It will be acquired for
$45 million.
BANCASSURANCE DEALS
➢ State-owned Allahabad Bank- SBI Life Insurance - To sell the policies
of the insurer from over all branches of Allahabad bank.
➢ Syndicate Bank - SBI Life Insurance - To offer a comprehensive
financial planning solution to its customers.
➢ IDBI Bank - Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) - To
offer LIC’s insurance products at its branches.
➢ United Bank of India - HDFC Life Insurance Company - To take
advantage of HDFC Life’s expertise in life insurance products, distribution
and customer service.
APPS/SCHEMES/FACILITY LAUNCHED BY VARIOUS
BANKS/ORGANISATIONS/COMPANY
1. Central Banks of the UAE and Saudi Arabia – Aber (Common Digital
Currency)
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2. Microsoft India - Project ReWeave - A new e-commerce platform re-
weave.in for handloom weavers.
3. Jana Small Finance Bank - Auto-Sweep facility - To auto sweep-in
and sweep-out the idle funds in the current account to Sweep Fixed Deposit
and earn high interest.
4. SBI Card and Etihad Airways - To launch a travel specific Visa credit
card for members and Indian travellers.
5. Ujjivan Small Finance Bank - ‘Kisan Suvidha loan’ - For small and
marginal farmers (loans to individuals with an amount ranging from Rs.
60000 to Rs. 2 Lakh to fulfil the customized needs of the mass market
segment).
6. Fino Payments bank and Suryoday Small Finance Bank - Offer
Sweep Account Facility.
7. HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company - Trip Protector
insurance policy, a pioneering policy – It will safeguard travellers
financially against the cost of cancellation levied by Hotels or Airlines.
8. Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) - “Micro Bachat” - Available for
standard healthy lives only in the age group of 18-55 years without
undergoing any medical examination coverage up to Rs 2 lakh.
9. World Bank, UN Women, and Small Industries Development Bank
of India (SIDBI) - A new social impact bonds exclusively for women, called
Women’s Livelihood Bonds (WLBs), with an initial corpus of Rs.300
crore.
10. ICICI Lombard - AnyTimeLoan.in (ATL) - To provide insurance
cover for its lenders and borrowers.
11. State Bank of India (74% stake) and Hitachi Payment Services Pvt
Ltd (26%) - SBI Payment Services Pvt Ltd (SBIPSPL), in Mumbai - For
establishing a digital payments platform for India and other countries in
the region.
12. Development Credit Bank (DCB) Bank - Open Banking Platform -
Towards creating a collaborative
ecosystem with enterprises, fintech’s and app developers, and
enhancing customer-service delivery.
13. IFFCO Tokio General Insurance - ‘Bank Locker Protector Policy’ -
To protect the contents of a bank locker such as jewellery, title documents,
and other valuables.
14. Under World Bank funded project named Agri-business and Rural
Transformation (APART) - Rice Knowledge Bank (Assam) - To magnify
knowledge on rice production technologies and techniques, best production
practices and state agriculture facts.
15. Google India – Bolo - Focuses on improving the reading and
comprehension skills of students, especially the ones in rural areas.
16. Google India - Ok Google - Ability to unlock your phone with Voice
Match.
17. Bank of Baroda - First public sector banks to launch a Crèche/child
day-care facility for children of its employees at Mumbai.
18. State Bank of India - Doorstep Banking Service - For senior
citizens over 70 years of age and differently-abled customers. Cost for
availing these services would be Rs.100 for each financial
transaction and Rs.60 for each non-financial transaction.
19. Aviva Life Insurance – WINGS - To empower women workforce.
20. State Bank of India (SBI) - YONO Cash (You Only Need One) -
Customers can withdraw money from ATMs without using a card.
21. Xiaomi - Mi Pay - A UPI (Unified Payments Interface) Based mobile
payment service in India to send money from one bank account to another.
22. Intain Fintech – eMulya – It will facilitate secure, efficient and
trustworthy asset securitization transactions for Non-Banking Financial
Companies (NBFCs) in India.
23. Google – Stadia - Unveiled a video-game streaming platform.
24. Google – Anthos - Lets users run applications from anywhere.
25. Bajaj Finserv - campaign #BijliOnEMI - wherein customers buying
air-conditioners on EMI can avail an Insta Credit loan in their Bajaj Finserv
Wallet which they can use to pay their electricity bills on EMI.
26. Bharti Airtel and the FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) - My Circle
- Aimed at aiding women in event of distress or an emergency situation, by
sending an SOS alert.
27. IDBI Bank - NRI-Insta-Online - Account-opening process for NRIs
residing in Financial Action Task Force (FATF) member countries.
28. Bajaj Allianz General Insurance and Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance -
Launched their first product 'Total Health Secure Goal' – It is designed
to take care of customers' health and life goals, through one comprehensive
insurance policy.
29. SBI General Insurance - CyRUSS (Cyber Risk Underwriting and
Solution Suite) - To protect businesses from financial and reputational losses
due to cyber-attacks.
30. State Bank of India - Country’s first ‘Green Car Loan’ (Electric
Vehicle) - To encourage customers to buy electric vehicles.
31. Canara Bank and its life insurance partner Canara HSBC Oriental
Bank of Commerce Life Insurance - ’Webassurance’ – It will be able to
service the protection needs of its younger and net-savvy customers.
32. ICICI Bank - Insta Auto Loan – It will provide existing customers final
sanction letters instantly.
33. State-owned telecom firm BSNL - 'Bharat Fibre' - First operator to start
optical fibre-based high-speed broadband service in Pulwama.
34. HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company - Mosquito Disease
Protection Policy – It will cover an individual against common mosquito-
borne diseases like Dengue Fever.
35. HDFC Capital Advisors - HDFC Affordable Real Estate and
Technology Programme (HeART) – It will provide a platform to real
estate technology companies with innovative products.
36. Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) - ‘Bank on Wheels’ – Mobile Van Facility
will enable the public, especially senior citizens, conveniently get door-step
banking facility available at identified locations of the lead districts.
37. Microsoft - Azure Blockchain Service – It would simplify the
formation, management and governance so that businesses can focus on
workflow logic and application development.
38. BharatPe - UPI Bahi Khata - India’s first Fintech (Financial
technology) start-up enabling payments via interoperable UPI (Unified
Payments Interface) QR (Quick Response) codes.
39. Bombay Stock Exchange - BSE StAR MF - To enable more
participation and help mutual fund distributors process transactions faster.
40. Corporation Bank - Corp SME Suvidha – It has been designed as part
of the bank’s efforts to provide the best products to the MSME sector.
41. Karnataka Bank - KBL SB Salary (SB Salary Executive, SB Salary
Prime, and SB Salary Classic) - To cater the financial needs of the ‘employer-
employee ecosystem’. With do not have the minimum balance criteria.
42. L&T Finance - Sabse Khaas Loan - For two-wheeler customers.
43. Max Life Insurance Company - ‘My Protection Quotient’ (MyPQ) -
To ensuring financial protection in the country.
44. FundzBazar - Selfie Wala KYC - It is applicable for the first-time
mutual fund investors.
45. Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Aix-Marseille
University researchers at ISM – AntBot - First walking robot (2.3kg
weight) to have navigational capabilities without GPS or mapping.
46. Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry - mobile app Mashoka5 - for
booking of Bungalow number -5, Ashoka Road in New Delhi.
47. AYUSH Ministry - e-AUSHADHI portal - for online licensing of
Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Homoeopathy drugs and related matters at
New Delhi.
48. Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation Ministry – Swayatt - To
promote MSMEs, women and young entrepreneurs through e-
transactions on the Government e-Marketplace (GeM).
49. Law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad - Nyaya Bandhu - A tele-law
mobile application that is integrated with a dashboard and an application.
50. Union Minister Piyush Goyal - Rail Drishti Dashboard - An online
portal containing information related to passenger and freight trains and
links to live feeds of IRCTC kitchens.
51. Union minister Prakash Javadekar - SHREYAS (‘Scheme for Higher
Education Youth in Apprenticeship and Skills’) - For providing industry
apprenticeship opportunities to fresh graduates through the National
Apprenticeship Promotional Scheme (NAPS) in New Delhi.
52. Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar - Operation Digital Board -
To leverage technology in order to boost quality education in the country.
53. Union Minister Piyush Goyal - ‘Online Platform for Display and Booking’
- Vacant Berths after chart preparation in www.irctc.co.in.
54. Indian Space Research Organisation - Yuva VIgyani Karyakram/
Catch them young/Yuvika 2019 - A “Young Scientist Programme” for the
School Children to be studying in the ninth standard.
55. Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) in collaboration with BEL
and Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) with the
support of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), National Payment
Corporation of India (NPCI) and State Bank of India (SBI) - SWAGAT - the
Automatic Fare Collection Gating System – It is compliant with the
National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) ecosystem for hassle-free
commute across India.
56. Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Puri - e-Dharti app -
All the three modules - Conversion, Substitution and Mutation related to
properties have been made online.
57. Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) – A document named UNNATEE
(Unlocking NATional Energy Efficiency potential) - Aims at improving
the energy efficiency in India.
58. Election Commission - ‘Observer App’ - Through which the Electoral
Observers can submit the relevant document and material to Election
Commission directly.
59. Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) - ‘Shiksha Vani’ -
To publicize crucial information to students and parents in a timely manner.
60. Election Commission of India - “Voter Turnout” - For the voters
across the country to see the real time availability of voter turnout during
the election season in the country.
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61. Department of Biotechnology (DBT) - ‘MANAV: Human Atlas
Initiative’ - A project for mapping every tissue of the human body to help
better understand the roles of tissues and cells linked to various diseases. It
is a collaborated project between Indian Institute of Science, Education
and Research (IISER) Pune, Persistent Systems and the National
Centre for Cell Science (NCCS).
62. AYUSH Ministry - ‘Yoga Locator’ - To enable people to locate yoga
events and centres providing training and instructors.
63. L&T Financial Services (LTFS) - “Digital Sakhi” - An educational
programme aimed at digital financial inclusion of rural women, was launched
in 20 villages of Villupuram district in Tamil Nadu.
64. Central Government - Veer Parivar App - To assist to the families of
the martyred CRPF personnel with regard to issuance of ex gratia,
pensionary benefits.
65. Government of India – eCollabDDS - To provide a real time
collaborative environment to visualize medical and dental images (digitized
X-Ray images or DICOM data) for Patient diagnosis and treatment planning
from remote locations.
66. Ministry of HRD and National Council of Educational Research and
Training - e-Pathshala - It provides access to digital textbooks for all
classes, graded learning materials.
67. NIC, Government of India - Bhu-Naksha - To facilitate the
management of digitized cadastral maps.
68. Ministry of Human Resource Development – ShaGun - To capture
and showcase innovations and progress in Elementary Education sector of
India by continuous monitoring of the flagship scheme - Sarva Shiksha
Abhiyan (SSA).
NATIONAL NEWS
➢ The Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs headed by Minister of State
Hardeep S. Puri, extended the Credit-Linked Subsidy Scheme
(CLSS) for Middle Income Group (MIG) Scheme by another 12 months till
March 31, 2020.
➢ The Ministry of Textiles, Government of India had launched a Yarn Bank
Scheme. Under the scheme, an interest-free corpus funds up to
Rs.2.00 crore would be provided to the Special Purpose Vehicle
(SPV)/Consortium formed by power loom waivers.
➢ According to the provisional figures of Direct Tax collections 2018, the
gross collections are at Rs.8.74 lakh crore.
➢ Exports of jute diversified products have risen since 2014 by 24%.
➢ The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) loan subsidy for middle-
income group has been extended till 31st March 2020.
➢ India DST Department of Science and Technology along with
Doordarshan has launched the two-science communication initiative ‘DD
Science’ and ‘India Science’.
➢ Giriraj Singh, Minister of Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprises (MSME) informed the parliament that the MSME ministry has
established an Export Promotion Cell with an aim to create a
sustainable ecosystem for entire MSME development.
➢ The government gave out the 6-crore free cooking gas (LPG) connection
as the scheme to make available cleaner fuel in every household kitchen
under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY).
➢ The North Central Railway (NCR) has launched a mobile application
named Rail Kumbh Seva Mobile App to help people navigate through
Prayagraj city during Kumbh Mela.
➢ The Ministry of Road Transport & Highways has launched a portal
named Bhoomi Rashi to fully digitize and automate the entire process of
land acquisition.
➢ The Centre has released around Rs 185 crore since financial year 2015-
2016 to bridge the gap between literacy levels of tribal girls and the
general female population.
➢ The Indian Parliament passed the National Council for Teacher
Education (Amendment) Bill, 2018, following the approval of the Rajya
Sabha. The Bill seeks to amend the National Council for Teacher Education
(NCTE) Act, 1993.
➢ Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister, Hardeep Singh Puri, launched
the ‘Swachh Survekshan 2019’, the fourth edition of the annual
nationwide cleanliness survey of urban India in New Delhi.
➢ The Minister of State for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Shri Parshottam
Rupala informed that the Government had launched a Global
Environment Facility (GEF) assisted project namely, “Green – Ag:
Transforming Indian Agriculture for global environment benefits and
the conservation of critical biodiversity and forest landscapes” in
collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) during
September, 2018. The project was launched in high-conservation-value
landscapes of five States namely (i) Madhya Pradesh: Chambal Landscape,
(ii) Mizoram: Dampa Landscape, (iii) Odisha: Similipal Landscape, (iv)
Rajasthan: Desert National Park Landscape and v) Uttarakhand: Corbett-
Rajaji Landscape.
➢ The Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Prakash
Javadekar has announced to increase 5000 seats in Jawahar Navodaya
Vidyalaya (JNV) for the Academic Year 2019-20.
➢ According to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman
Dr K Sivan statement, the Union Government has allocated 10,900 crore
rupees for the development of 40 satellite launch vehicles in the next four
years.
➢ The Lok Sabha passed “The DNA Technology (Use and Application)
Regulation Bill, 2019” by voice vote after a brief discussion.
➢ The Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India,
has launched an online campaign, ‘#www: Web- Wonder Women’ to
recognize the exceptional women who have been driving positive agenda of
social change via social media. The partners of the campaign
are: Breakthrough and Twitter India.
➢ Union Cabinet has approved Scheduled Tribe (ST) status to six
communities of Assam.
➢ The food businesses need to comply with new packaging regulations
that bar use of recycled plastics and newspapers to wrap food articles by 1st
July 2019.
➢ According to the Ministry of Civil Aviation, islands in Andaman will
soon be connected by seaplanes that can land on or take-off from the
water. Under the Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik (UDAN) scheme the
government has approved flight operations on13 water aerodrome routes in
order to facilitate it.
➢ Delhi Metro became the first ever project in the country to receive power
generated from a waste-to-energy plant. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation
(DMRC) receiving 2 MW power from a 12 MW capacity waste-to-energy plant
set up in Ghazipur.
➢ IRSDC entered into a tripartite agreement with SNCF and AFD. The
agreement provides in-kind grant financing up to EUR 7,00,000, through
SNCF-hubs and connexions.
➢ After nearly 16 years of exploring the cosmos in infrared light, NASA’s
Spitzer Space Telescope will be switched off permanently on Jan. 30,
2020.
➢ Tech Mahindra announced its biggest defence order worth over Rs 300
crore with the Indian Navy. As part of the ‘Armed Forces Secure Access
Card’ (AFSAC) Project, Tech Mahindra will implement RFID (Radio
Frequency Identification) based Access Control System across all naval
bases and ships.
➢ Directorate General of Training (DGT) joined hands with IT networking
major Cisco and global consulting firm Accenture to skill youngsters for the
digital economy.
➢ Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has cleared the proposal to
purchase 10 lakh hand grenades for Indian Army under ‘Make in India’
programme.
➢ Indian low-cost carrier SpiceJet received “The International Air
Transport Association (IATA) Membership” becoming the first among
the Indian low-cost carriers. SpiceJet is the fifth member of IATA from
India.
➢ Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy has announcement to ban the
production, sale and use of single-use plastic products in the Union Territory
from 1st March,2019.
➢ IRCTC- Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation, the
Railways’ subsidiary, will offer insurance of up to INR 50 lakh for
free for air passengers who book their tickets through its portal. IRCTC
has tied up with Bharti-Axa for the offer. IRCTC has tied up
with Galileo, a computer reservation system, for powering the flight
search engine.
➢ The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) and the Central Public Works
Department (CPWD) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on
cooperation in building energy efficiency for five years.
➢ The Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Dr. Harsh
Vardhan launched National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) in New
Delhi.
➢ Ravi Shankar Inaugurates NIC Command & Control Centre at National
Informatics Centre (NIC), New Delhi
➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi released a commemorative coin of Rs. 350
in the national capital to mark the birth anniversary celebrations of Guru
Gobind Singh Jee.
➢ The United States Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy
Centre (GIPC) launched an innovation initiative at the Raisina Dialogue in
New Delhi. The initiative, titled “Fair Value for Innovation”, will examine
economic underpinnings.
➢ The President of India, Shri. Ram Nath Kovind gave his assent to
the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education
(Amendment) Act, 2019.It was passed by the Parliament on 3rdJanuary,
2019.
➢ Nashik in Maharashtra will be the site of the country’s second defence
innovation hub after Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu.
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➢ Rajnath Singh, the Union Home Minister has approved the report of Task
Force created by Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to identify areas for use
of Space Technology in improving Border Management.
➢ ‘Saksham 2019’, an annual high intensity one-month long people-centric
mega campaign of Petroleum Conservation Research
Association (PCRA) was launched by the Ministry of Petroleum and
Natural Gas.
➢ Two Commemorative coins in the denomination of Rs 100 and Rs
5 were released to mark the 102nd Birth Anniversary of late Tamil Nadu
Chief Minister M.G. Ramachandran.
➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a ‘Pravasi Teerth Darshan
Yojana’ under which a group of Indian diasporas will be taken on a
government sponsored tour of religious places in India twice a year.
➢ Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba commissioned the new Naval Air
Base ‘INS Kohassa’ at Diglipur in Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
➢ The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra
Modi approved the creation of the National Bench of the Goods and
Services Tax Appellate Tribunal (GSTAT) to ensure better resolution of
GST-related disputes. The National Bench would be set up in New Delhi.
➢ Nitin Gadkari, Minister for Road Transport & Highways, Shipping and
Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation laid foundation
stone for six Namami Ganga project in Agra and Mathura.
➢ India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C44) has successfully
injected Microsat-R (Imaging Satellite) and Kalamsat-V2 satellites into
their designated orbits.
➢ Cabinet has approved the landmark amendment to Article 280 of the
Constitution to increase powers of Autonomous Councils in Sixth Schedule
areas of North East.
➢ The Supreme Court said it will be taking an “in-chamber” decision on
the listing of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of Article
35-A, which provides special rights and privileges to permanent residents
of Jammu and Kashmir.
➢ Bharat Fritz Werner Ltd (BFW), a Bengaluru-based machining solution
provider, has partnered with Universal Robots, a Danish robot maker and
a leader in collaborative robots, to co-create robots for MSME sector.
➢ Government approved Setting up of Three Naval air Squadrons in
Gujarat and Tamil Nadu. This Decision is taken to enrich the Indian Navy’s
Overall Strength.
➢ Veer Savarkar International Airport in Port Blair has been declared
as an authorized Immigration Check post for entry into/exit from India
with valid travel documents for all classes of passengers.
➢ The Indian Navy inducted two Fast Interceptor Craft
(FIC) at Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu, to boost coastal security. The
vessels were acquired for Sagar Prahari Bal, a unit of the Navy.
➢ Airports Authority of India (AAI) has imposed a ban on single-use
plastic items at its 129 airports across the country.
➢ The Union Cabinet has approved 10% reservation in direct recruitments
and for admission in higher educational institutions for the economically
backward section in the general category, under Constitution (One
Hundred and Twenty-Fourth Amendment) Bill 2019. Articles 15 and
16 of the Constitution will have to be amended.
➢ The Ministry of information and broadcasting has announced a 25%
hike in existing advertisement rates for print media with immediate effect.
➢ An agreement for Renukaji Dam Multipurpose Project has signed
among the six states, namely Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh,
Delhi, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand.
➢ The Union government will set up 460 ‘Eklavya Model Residential
Schools’ across the country. It would spend about Rs.25,000 crore
towards the initiative of these schools.
➢ Ministry of Defence has launched a mobile app ‘RDP India 2019’ with
the intent of making available the highlights of the Republic Day event in
New Delhi.
➢ The HRD Ministry has signed an agreement with Organization for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for India’s
Participation in Programme for International Student Assessment
(PISA) 2021.
➢ Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) renamed as
Department of promotion of Industry and Internal Trade. The newly
named department is under Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
➢ Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi dedicated the National Salt
Satyagraha Memorial at Dandi in Navsari district, Gujarat to the nation on
Mahatma Gandhi’s death anniversary.
➢ The Government reduced the import duty on parts and components of
electric vehicles to 10-15 percent from 15-30 per cent in order to
promote domestic assembling of electric vehicles.
➢ The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the
Credit Linked Capital Subsidy and Technology Up-gradation Scheme (CLCS-
TUS) with a total outlay of Rs. 2900 crore.
➢ Scientists have developed an artificial pancreas smartphone iAPS app that
will help in regulating blood sugar levels in diabetes patients.
➢ Under the Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-Dhan scheme, workers of
the unorganized sector will receive a minimum assured pension of three
thousand rupees per month after attaining the age of 60 years.
➢ Minister of Railways and Coal, Shri Piyush Goyal launched the
International Energy Agency’s (IEA) “The Future of Rail” report which
analyses the current and future importance of rail around the world in New
Delhi.
➢ Women entrepreneurs have set up around 1.38 lakhs MSME (Micro,
small and Medium Enterprises) projects under Prime Minister’s
Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) scheme since inception.
➢ The Union Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA) launched
the Shehri Samridhi Utsav, an initiative that aims to extend the outreach
of Deendayal Antyodaya Mission – National Urban Livelihoods
Mission (DAY-NULM) to the most vulnerable.
➢ The “Darwaza Band- Part 2” campaign was launched by Swachh
Bharat Mission Grameen focuses on sustaining the open defecation free
status of villages across the country. The campaign launched by the
Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation in Mumbai in the presence
of actor Amitabh Bachchan.
➢ The Union Government has increased the Minimum Support Price (MSP)
of sugar for the year 2018-19 from Rs. 29 to Rs. 31 per Kilogram.
➢ PM Narendra Modi flagged off the World’s First Electric Engine
converted from diesel locomotive at the Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW)
in Varanasi.
➢ A Pre-Departure Orientation Training (PDOT) programme under
Pravasi Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PKVY) has been launched by Government
to orient potential migrant workers with regard to culture. It has been
administered by the Ministry of External Affairs in alliance with the
Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE).
➢ Indian Coast Guard and the Airport Authority of India signed a
Memorandum of Understanding at Coast Guard Regional Headquarters in
Port Blair for coordination in the aeronautical and maritime search and
rescue operations.
➢ The state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) stated that it
has unveiled a Human Space Flight Centre at the ISRO headquarters in
Bengaluru. The ISRO aims to send humans to space by December 2021
through its Gaganyaan mission.
➢ World’s largest cashless health insurance scheme “the Pradhan Mantri
Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY)”, popularly known as the Ayushman Bharat
launched PM-JAY app on Google play store to access scheme details in New
Delhi.
➢ Delhi Government launched ‘Zero Fatality Corridor’ project under its
annual road safety action plan to reduce the number of road accidents on
the outer ring road stretch between Burari and Bhalaswa Chowk.
➢ President Ram Nath Kovind unveiled the life size portrait of former Prime
Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at the Central Hall of Parliament.
➢ The International Labour Organization (ILO) centenary
celebrations have been inaugurated by the Union Minister of Labour and
Employment, Santosh Kumar Gangwar at V.V. Giri National Labour
Institute in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
➢ Surging Silk, Mega Event by Ministry of Textiles and Central Silk Board
was held in New Delhi. The event was organized with a motive to highlight
the growth of silk industry in India.
➢ Nagaland became the first state in the Northeast and second in the
country after Himachal Pradesh to launch a pan-India single-number
emergency mobile application which will have a special women safety feature
for immediate assistance from police and volunteers. Persons in distress can
dial a pan-India number: 112.
➢ The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, has approved the launch of Kisan Urja Suraksha evam
Utthaan Mahabhiyan (KUSUM) with a central aid of Rs.34,422 crore to
provide financial and water security to farmers. The scheme aims to
provide water security to farmers through harnessing solar energy capacities
of 25.75 gigawatt (GW) by 2022.
➢ The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC)
signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of
British Columbia (UBC), Canada for next 10 years to explore opportunities
for collaborations in the field of Forestry Science.
➢ Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a new park which houses
the replicas of Seven Wonders of the World at Sarai Kale Khan. The park,
which is called the 'Waste to Wonder Park', was built by the South Delhi
Municipal Corporation (SDMC).
➢ “VIVID-Vision Insight and Voices as India goes Digital”- the
District Informatics Officer (DIO) meet, was organised by National
Informatics Centre (NIC). It also released the Digital India Compendium
and launched Digidhan Mitra Chatbot and Technology incubation and
development of entrepreneurs (TIDE 2.0) scheme.
➢ PM Narendra Modi dedicated a new National War Memorial, situated
in the India Gate complex in New Delhi, to the nation.
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➢ Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Ashwini Kumar Choubey
in the presence of Amitabh Bachchan, the goodwill ambassador for
hepatitis, WHO South-East Asia Region, launched the “National Action
Plan – Viral Hepatitis” in Mumbai.
➢ The 3rd edition of the 3-day festival “Words in the Garden” based on
the life and ideology of Mahatma Gandhi was held at India International
Centre (IIC), New Delhi.
➢ The 6-day long music and dance festival ‘Sopan 2019’ to encourage
young artists to take up traditional art took place in New Delhi. It was
organised by Sahitya Kala Parishad and the New Delhi government, in
partnership with New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC).
➢ Union Minister KJ Alphons has said that the country's tourism sector
fetched 234 billion US Dollar revenue last year, registering a growth of over
19%. He made the announcement at the 2nd ASEAN-India Youth
Summit in Guwahati. The country is ranked third in the tourism sector,
according to the 2018 report of the World Travel and Tourism Council
(WTTC).
➢ Indian Railways has created history under ‘Make in India’ initiative, by
converting a diesel locomotive into electric locomotive for the first time in
the world.
➢ Around 35 thousand farmers in the country received payments of three
hundred crore rupees through e-payment facility of e-NAM platform.
➢ The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved
Broadcasting Infrastructure and Network Development scheme of
Prasar Bharti.
➢ According to Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma, Taj Mahal has revealed the
top revenue-generating monuments in the country between 2015 and 2018.
➢ The Union Cabinet has approved the proposal for Extension of tenure
beyond 31st of March 2019 for three years of National Commission
for Safai Karmacharis (NCSK).
➢ The Union Home Ministry banned the J&K outfit Tehreek-ul Mujahideen
(TuM) under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).
➢ Jual Oram has launched ‘Minimum Support Price’ (MSP) for Minor Forest
Produce and Value Addition Component of Van Dhan Scheme in New
Delhi.
➢ Rail Minister announces a new Zone of Indian Railways named South
Coast Railway (SCoR) which consists of the Hyderabad, Secunderabad and
Nanded divisions.
➢ Edition of Indian Sign Language (ISL) Dictionary was launched by
Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment, Thaawarchand Gehlot in New
Delhi. The Dictionary was developed by Indian Sign Language Research
and Training Centre (ISLRTC) and it included 6 thousand words under
different categories such as legal, academic, technical, medical and everyday
terms.
➢ India’s food processing ministry is working on a new scheme “Gram
Samridhi Yojana”, to bolster the unorganised food processing
sector concentrated in rural areas. The scheme will be run in Uttar
Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Punjab for a 5-year
period in the initial phase and thereafter in other states of the country.
World Bank will be giving Rs.1,500 crore, Rs.1,000 crore will be borne by
the Centre while state governments will put in Rs.500 crore.
➢ Union Minister of Textiles, Smriti Zubin Irani, launched
a comprehensive scheme for Development of Knitting and Knitwear
Sector under PowerTex India in New Delhi. Apart from financial incentives,
the two key elements are Yarn Bank Scheme - provide an interest-free
corpus fund of a maximum of up to Rs.2 crore per yarn bank to a Special
Purpose Vehicle (SPV) and financial assistance for the solar energy
scheme. The Scheme with an outlay of Rs. 487.07 crores.
➢ The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi has approved the “Pradhan Mantri JI-VAN (Jaiv
Indhan- Vatavaran Anukool fasal awashesh Nivaran) Yojana” for
providing financial support to Integrated Bioethanol Projects using
lignocellulosic biomass and other renewable feedstock. The JI-VAN Yojana
will be supported with total financial outlay of Rs 1969.50 crore for the
period from 2018-19 to 2023-24.
➢ Union Minister for Science & Technology, Earth Sciences and Environment,
Forest and Climate Change, Harsh Vardhan launched an anthem “Plastic
Waste-Free India’” which has been composed and produced by Pandit
Deendayal Upadhyaya Smriti Manch (PDUSM) – a non-profit
organisation which works in the field of social and environmental issues. The
anthem has been launched in seven languages - Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati,
Tamil, Telegu, Malayalam and Kannada. It is an initiative which aims to
turn India into a plastic-free nation by 2022.
➢ The government Introduced a Transport and Marketing Assistance
(TMA) scheme for providing financial assistance for transport and
marketing of agriculture products with a view to boosting export of
farm commodities to certain countries in Europe and North America.
➢ The Minister of State for Culture (Independent charge) and Environment,
Forest and Climate Change, Dr. Mahesh Sharma inaugurated ‘Azaadi ke
Diwane’ museum at Red Fort, New Delhi which is created by
Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
➢ NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) and Adobe had signed
a Statement of Intent (SOI) to collectively drive the charter of developing
creative skills and spreading digital literacy across all Atal Tinkering Labs
(ATL) in India.
➢ “Van Dhan”, a scheme for Minimum Support Price (MSP) for Minor
Forest Produce (MFP) and Development of Value Chain of MFPs was
launched by TRIFED (Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development
Federation of India) under Ministry of Tribal Affairs at a National
Workshop in New Delhi.
➢ A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between
the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and Council of
Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in order to collaborate in the
area of food and agriculture, at ICAR Headquarters, Krishi Bhawan, New
Delhi.
➢ Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities
(DEPwD), Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has organized a
national conference on “Deendayal Disabled Rehabilitation Scheme” at
Dr. Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi.
➢ Government has decided to extend the ban on the Students Islamic
Movement of India (SIMI) which involved in various terror acts in the
country for a period of 5 years.
➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared ‘April 2019–March 2020’ as
Construction-Technology year and the use of advanced technology to
meet the increasing demand of housing in the country caused by rapid
urbanization got stressed.
➢ President Ram Nath Kovind has given his approval for an Ordinance which
allows voluntary use of Aadhaar as ID proof for opening bank accounts
and obtaining mobile SIM.
➢ In order to identify seismically hazardous zones and encourage mapping
activities, the Geological Survey of India (GSI) launched 22 permanent
Global Positioning System (GPS) stations across India, which is a part
of its objective to establish and maintain a network of continuously
operating 35 permanent GPS stations in a phased manner. It has been
set up and remaining 13 will be operational by March 2020.
➢ A commute-planning app “ONE Delhi” was launched by Kailash Gahlot,
Transport Minister of Delhi to allow users to plan their travel efficiently
across government transport facilities. “One Delhi” is an upgraded version
of PoochhO, which was launched in 2014.It was developed by Delhi
Integrated Multi-Modal Transit System (DIMTS).
➢ The Union Cabinet has approved the proposal for setting up of a Centre
for Disability Sports at Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh, to be registered under
the Societies Registration Act, 1860.
➢ As part of GHTC-India, an Expo-cum-Conference named Construction
Technology India - 2019 (CTI-2019) was organized at Vigyan Bhawan,
New Delhi. It was inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi.
➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi was inaugurated the Phase-1 of the 6.5
km long Ahmedabad Metro train. The 6.5 km long stretch that connects
Vastral Gam to Apparel Park, will also include other two stations- Nirant
Crossroads and Rabari Colony.
➢ The second line of Mumbai monorail from Wadala to Gadge Maharaj
Chowk (Mahalaxmi) was opened to commuters by the Metropolitan Region
Development Authority (MMRDA).
➢ The Centre has banned the Jamat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir
(JIJK) for five years under anti-terror law on grounds (Unlawful Activities
(Prevention) Act, 1967).
➢ The foundation stone for the ‘National Institute of Mental Health
Rehabilitation’ (NIMHR), the first-of-its-kind institute in India, was
laid down by Shakuntala D. Gamlin, Secretary, Department of
Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD), Ministry of Social Justice
and Empowerment at Sherpur Village along Bhopal-Sehore highway,
District Sehore, Madhya Pradesh. The Central Government approved
an outlay of Rs 180 crore for the project for an initial period of three years.
➢ The Women and Child Development Ministry and the Skill
Development and Entrepreneurship Ministry entered into an agreement
to provide skills training and employment to women. The agreement
was signed in the presence of WCD Minister Maneka Gandhi and Skill
Development Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
➢ The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India
(IRDAI) and National Health Authority (NHA) have formed a joint
working group (JWG) in order to suggest ways for more effective
implementation of the Centre’s Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan
Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY).
➢ The president of French space agency CNES (Centre national d’études
spatiales), Jean-Yves Le Gall and K Sivan, Chairman of the Indian
Space Research Organisation (ISRO), signed an agreement in
Bengaluru, to implement the short-term plan for the French-
Indian programme to develop a space-based maritime surveillance
system.
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➢ The Centre formed National Mission on Transformative Mobility and
Battery Storage to finalize the framework for a Phased Manufacturing
Program (PMP). The main aim of the framework is localising the
production of Electric Vehicles (EV) and its components within the
country and boost the adoption of clean energy vehicles.
➢ Minister of State (I/C) for Housing and Urban Affairs, Hardeep S Puri, has
inaugurated the state-of-the-art India Urban Observatory and Video
Wall at New Delhi. The India Urban Observatory will plug into the sources
of data from cities, both from real-time and archival sources.
➢ Information and Broadcasting Secretary Amit Khare has released
“Reference Annuals - India 2019 and Bharat 2019” in New Delhi.
➢ The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the
investment sanction for construction of 624 Megawatt Kiru Hydro Electric
Project in Jammu & Kashmir.
➢ The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has slapped a fine of Rs.500 crore
on German global auto giant for damaging the environment using “cheat
device” in its diesel cars in India Volkswagen. A bench headed by NGT
Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel directed the German global auto
giant to deposit the amount within two months.
➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the ‘Noida City Centre-Noida
Electronic City section’ of the Delhi Metro's Blue Line.
➢ Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has decided to ground
Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft with immediate effect. It was also decided that
India will not allow Boeing Co's 737 MAX aircraft to enter or transit its
airspace after 1030 GMT.
➢ The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, has laid the foundation stone of
Integrated Command and Control Centres at five North Eastern Smart
Cities, through video conference from New Delhi.
➢ National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) which is an
independent regulator under the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, has
reduced the prices of 390 non-scheduled cancer medicines which will
result in annual saving of around Rs 800 crore for patients.
The revised prices have come into effect from 8th March 2019.
➢ The Government approved the establishment of two new benches
of National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), at Amaravati in Andhra
Pradesh and Indore in Madhya Pradesh in view of the increasing
caseload, especially under the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code 2016.
➢ Union Labour Ministry decided to double the income tax exemption to
Rs.20 lakh from the existing Rs.10 lakh for gratuity.
➢ e Pulse Polio programme was launched by the President of India, Ram
Nath Kovind. The launch took place by administering polio drops to children
below five years at the Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi on the eve
of National Immunisation Day which was observed on 10th March 2019.
➢ Union Environment Minister, Dr. Harsh Vardhan released the India
Cooling Action Plan (ICAP) aimed at reducing emissions and providing
thermal comfort to citizens in New Delhi.
➢ National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) Limited received
an approval from Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) for
acquisition of Lanco’s 500 MW Teesta hydro-electric power project at
the cost of Rs 907 crore in Sikkim.
➢ Suresh Prabhu, The Union Minister of Commerce and Industry
launched GI (Geographical Indication) website and tutorial video on
IPR (Intellectual property Rights) in New Delhi.
➢ For the first time ever, a team of Indian astronomers has discovered some
sources in the universe that emit radio waves in a totally new
mechanism, by using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT)
which is located at Khodad in Junnar, 80 kms away from Pune.
➢ The Indian Sundarban was accorded with the status of ‘Wetland of
International Importance’ in the Ramsar Convention. Indian Sundarban
which is also a UNESCO (The United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization) world heritage site, is home to the Royal
Bengal Tiger.
➢ The Election Commission of India (ECI) informed the three-judge
bench headed by Ranjan Gogoi, the Chief Justice of India that exclusion of
names from draft NRC (National Register of Citizens) in Assam will not
affect the voting rights of persons in the upcoming elections provided that
their name features in the electoral rolls.
➢ Experts from the University of Birmingham and policy makers and
researchers from India announced a collaboration to jointly develop
strategies to resolve health, social and economic issues linked to air
pollution in Delhi.
➢ Following the advice of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, at
least 12 states in India have banned Electronic Nicotine Delivery
Systems (ENDS). Punjab, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Bihar, Uttar
Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry
and Jharkhand have taken steps to ban the use of ENDS.
➢ Third edition of Namaste Thailand festival, organised by the Royal
Thai Embassy with an aim to strengthen bilateral ties and increase cultural
exchange between India and Thailand, began at Select Citywalk in New
Delhi.
➢ The Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a ‘Main Bhi Chowkidar’
campaign calling everyone who was fighting corruption, social evils
and working hard for the progress of India, as watchmen in New
Delhi.
➢ Indian low-cost carrier SpiceJet received “The International Air
Transport Association (IATA) Membership” becoming the first among
the Indian low-cost carriers. SpiceJet is the fifth member of IATA from
India.
➢ Indian Railways Integral Coach Factory (ICF) has surpassed the top
Chinese manufacturers after creating a 40% record increase in its
production. With this, Indian Railway’s oldest and premier coach
manufacturing unit becomes the single largest rail coach manufacturer
in the world.
➢ Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has cleared the proposal to
purchase 10 lakh hand grenades for Indian Army under ‘Make in India’
programme.
➢ The Indian Navy’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Training Facility
(NBCTF) was inaugurated by Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sunil Lanba at
INS Shivaji in Lonavala. The training facility has been named ABHEDYA.
➢ The Indian Air Force has formally inducted four US-made
Chinook heavy-lift helicopters (CH 47 F(I)) at Chandigarh’s Air Force
Station 12 Wing. The first batch of four helicopters has been delivered on
schedule and the last batch is to be delivered by March 2020.
➢ Indian Space Research Organisation will launch 29 satellites including
the primary payload EMISAT, on the first of April. EMISAT has been
developed for monitoring radar network by India. EMISAT, weighing
436 kg, is intended for electromagnetic spectrum measurement. Polar
Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C45 will take off from Satish Dhawan
Space Centre in Sriharikota.
➢ PM Modi announced that India has entered its name as an elite space
power. An Anti-Satellite Weapon (A-SAT) successfully targeted a live
satellite on a low earth orbit. The name of this mission was ‘Mission
Shakti’. After the US, Russia, and China, India is the fourth country to
acquire this space capability.
➢ Indian Army has flagged off its first Mountaineering Expedition to Mt
Makalu (8485m) as part of its objective of summiting all challenging
peaks above 8000M.
➢ Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) has recorded cargo
movement of more than 200 million metric tonnes (MMT) at nine ports
along the east and west coasts, becoming the first Indian port operator
to achieve the milestone.
➢ Union Cabinet chaired by Narendra Modi approved the extension of
the Biomedical Research Career Programme and Wellcome Trust
(WT)/DBT India Alliance beyond its initial 10-year term (2008-09 to
2018-29) to a new five-year phase (2019-20 to 2023-24).
➢ The Ministry of Health has notified New Drugs and Clinical Trials
Rules, 2019 for the approval of new drugs and conduct of clinical trials in
the country.
➢ Interactive session was held between India and ambassadors & High
Commissioners of European and Oceania Countries in New Delhi.
➢ The commerce ministry has unveiled a blockchain-based coffee e-
marketplace which will facilitate farmers to integrate with markets to get
aware of fair prices for the commodity.
➢ University Grants Commission (UGC) has prohibited imparting
distance degree programmes in agriculture.
➢ Indian Statistical Institute has presented its report on the sample size
of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slip counting to the Chief
Election Commissioner Sunil Arora.
➢ Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE) became the first
shipyard in the country to deliver 100 warships. Its 100th warship landing
craft utility (LCU) L-56 was recently handed over to Indian Navy.
➢ Indian Army builds the longest suspension bridge over Indus river
in Leh, Ladakh. Built in a record time of 40 days ‘Maitri Bridge’ (260-
feet) is longest Suspension Bridge over Indus River.
➢ The Ministry of Home Affairs has constituted Unlawful Activities
(Prevention) Tribunal, to determine the sufficient cause to ban Jamaat-
e-Islami, and Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) faction. It
will be headed by Justice Chander Shekhar of the Delhi High Court.
➢ The Union Cabinet has given its approval to create one post as Deputy
Comptroller and Auditor General in the Office of the Comptroller and
Auditor General of India.
➢ The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has approved the
merger of Tata Teleservices with Bharti Airtel Ltd.
➢ In a major boost to India’s firepower, country’s first
indigenously designed and developed Dhanush Artillery Gun was
inducted in the Indian Army during a ceremony held at Ordnance Factory in
Jabalpur, MP.
➢ The Indian Navy and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
(CSIR) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to undertake joint
research and development of advanced technologies for the Indian Navy.
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➢ High-level discussion on “Fiscal Relations across levels of
Government” was held by 15th Finance Commission under the
chairmanship of Shri N. K. Singh in New Delhi.
➢ Under the ambitious Project75-India, the Indian Navy desires to build
6 standard diesel-electric submarines which are under-construction at the
Mazagon Dockyards Limited. This would incur an overall cost of
Rs.50,000 crore.
➢ The National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) and global
private infrastructure operator ROADIS (owned by Public Sector Pension
Investment board abbreviated as PSP investment) have jointly set up a
platform for investing up to $2 billion in road projects in India.
➢ State-owned telecom service provider Bharatiya Sanchar Nigam
Limited (BSNL) has received a license from the Department of
Telecommunications to provide Internet and mobile services on flights.
India has got a new “In-Flight and Maritime Connectivity” (IFMC)
license.
➢ The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has entered into 18
APAs (Advance Pricing Agreements) inclusive of 03 Bilateral
APAs (BAPAs) during the month of March 2019.
➢ RailWire Wi-Fi by RailTel is now live at 1600 railway stations across the
country, with Santacruz railway station in Mumbai becoming the 1600th
station to become a RailWire Wi-Fi zone, the Western Railway.
➢ The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) and the
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have joined hands to map,
validate and protect smaller wetlands in the coastal belt of the
country.
➢ India successfully test fired ‘Nirbhay’, the 1,000 km strike range sub-
sonic cruise missile, off the coast of Odisha.
➢ The Indo-Pacific Wing will integrate the Indian Ocean Rim Association
(IORA), ASEAN region and the Quad. The Ministry of External Affairs has
set up an Indo-Pacific Wing in the foreign office.
➢ Chief of Army Staff General Bipin Rawat commissioned the Indian Coast
Guard Ship Veera at a ceremony held at Naval Jetty at the dockyard in
Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
➢ The Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral ‘Sunil Lanba’ has inaugurated the
maiden ‘state-of-the-art’ Virtual Reality Centre (VRC) at the Directorate of
Naval Design, New Delhi.
➢ The Union Cabinet has approved the continuation of the GSLV Phase - 4
programmes consisting of five GSLV flights during the period from 2021
to 2024.
➢ Ministry of Home Affairs has issued orders to suspend the LoC trade
in Jammu & Kashmir.
➢ Twenty states and Union territories have so far joined a pan-India
network of single emergency helpline number '112' on which immediate
assistance can be sought by anyone in distress.
➢ The steering committee has mandated that only companies that meet
the 50% localisation threshold will be eligible for the incentives that
will be available under the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid
and Electric Vehicles (FAME-II) scheme to boost electric mobility as well
as the ‘Make in India’ initiative.
➢ The Ministry of AYUSH inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
with Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi
for cooperation in research and education in areas of traditional systems of
medicine and its integration with modern science.
➢ The newly built Coast Guard vessel ICGS C-441 will be commissioned into
the service at Vizhinjam Harbour, Kerala.
➢ The CBSE students, from 2020, will be allowed to use magnifying
glasses and portable video magnifiers during the Class X final
examination.
➢ The total deposits in bank accounts opened under the Jan Dhan scheme,
which was launched about five years ago by the Modi-government, are set
to cross Rs.1 lakh crore soon.
➢ The Commerce and Industry Ministry has proposed a host of measures
such as tax incentives to promote budding entrepreneurs as part of the
‘Startup India Vision 2024’.
➢ The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), through a
notification, has hiked the basic customs duty (BCD) on wheat to 40
percent from 30 percent to curb imports and protect the domestic industry.
➢ The Supreme Court bench headed by Justice L Nageswara Rao has
ordered the Reserve Bank of India to disclose its annual inspection reports
of banks, along with the list of wilful defaulters and information related to
them under the Right to Information Act.
➢ The Indian Navy has launched guided missile destroyer ‘Imphal’ at
Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
➢ Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE) Ltd. has signed a
contract with defence ministry to build eight Anti-Submarine Warfare
Shallow Watercrafts (ASWSWCs) for Indian Navy at the cost of Rs. 6311.
30 crore.
➢ Cyclone “Fani” is one of the biggest and fiercest cyclonic storm over
the east coast in nearly two decades with a maximum wind speed of 240-
250 kmph.
➢ The Environment Ministry has reportedly constituted a committee to
implement the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP). The objective is
to reduce the PM (particulate matter) 2. 5 and PM 10 concentration by
20% to 30% in at least 102 cities by 2024. The committee will be headed
by the Secretary, Union Environment Ministry. The headquarters of the
committee will be in New Delhi.
➢ Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) and Automotive Research
Association of India (ARAI), an autonomous body affiliated to the Ministry
of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises have signed a MoU for
cooperation on various projects related to e-mobility.
➢ The union government plans to introduce artificial intelligence
system in the MCA 21 portal as it seeks to make the compliance process
easier as well as ensure routine enforcement activities are done round-the-
clock on autopilot basis.
➢ The Indian Air Force (IAF) Chief Air Chief Marshal B. S.
Dhanoa visits Air Force Station in Bhisiana and Sarsawa to pay
homage to the air warriors who made supreme sacrifice during Operation
Safed Sagar at Kargil.
➢ Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa led a four aircraft, MiG-21 'Missing Man'
formation flypast at Air Force Station Bhisiana in Bhatinda, Punjab.
➢ According to the Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR), nearly half
of the newly elected Lok Sabha members have criminal charges
against them, a 26% increase as compared to 2014.
➢ India’s fastest train ‘Vande Bharata Express’ completed 1 Lakh
kilometres without missing a single trip from New Delhi to Varanasi. The
indigenously built high-speed train was manufactured by the Integral
Coach Factory in Chennai.
➢ Defence Research and Defence Organisation (DRDO) successfully
flight tested a 500 kg class Inertial Guided Bomb from a Su-30 MKI
aircraft at the Pokhran test range in Rajasthan.
➢ The Dredging Corporation of India Limited (DCIL) has signed a MoU
with Water & Power Consultancy Services (WAPCOS) Limited, a mini-
ratna PSU under Ministry of Water Resources, River Development, and
Ganga Rejuvenation.
➢ The Home Ministry has cancelled the registration of Bengaluru-
based NGO Infosys Foundation for alleged violation of norms in receiving
foreign grants.
➢ The Delhi High Court has ruled that the United Nations is not a State
under Article 12 of the Constitution of India and is not amenable to its
jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution. Background of the
case.
➢ The CBIC has introduced a weightage points system for appointing
persons on compassionate ground, based on criteria such as family income,
dependents and remaining service period of the deceased.
➢ In order to commemorate the 750th birth anniversary of Sri Vedanta
Desikan, Vice President, M. Venkaiah Naidu unveiled a postage stamp
in New Delhi. The stamp has been released by Indian postal department.
➢ Last year, the Indian government had announced green number
plates for all electric vehicles wherein the private electric vehicles will get
white lettering on a green background and commercial EVs will yellow
lettering.
➢ To nab tax evaders and reduce black money generation, the income
tax department CBDT and Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN)
signed an agreement to facilitate exchange of data between the two.
➢ SIPRI has set up a new initiative aiming to establish the annual
number of violent deaths worldwide.
➢ The Commerce Ministry has recommended an anti-dumping duty of
USD 1, 633. 17 per tonne on Saccharin, a kind of sweetener, from
Indonesia to guard domestic manufacturers from cheap imports from the
Southeast Asian country.
➢ Indian Navy's frontline missile destroyer INS Ranjit was decommissioned
at Naval Dock in Visakhapatnam on May 6. The mighty destroyer served
Indian Navy for 36 years.
➢ The Indian Navy has launched the Scorpene-class submarine Vela,
the fourth of six underwater warships being built in India with French
collaboration, with an aim to boost Indian capability to defend and secure
the strategic sea lanes in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
➢ Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE) held a ‘Chintan
Baithak’ with the stakeholders of Renewable Energy sector in New Delhi.
➢ In a bid to evaluate the environmental performance of existing
schools across India, GRIHA Council released a rating tool ‘GRIHA for
Existing Day Schools’. It was founded by TERI (The Energy and
Resources Institute) with an active aid from the Ministry of New and
Renewable Energy.
➢ Direct Tax collections fell short by Rs. 82, 000 crore at 11. 18 crore
during 2018-19 with lower corporate tax collections emerging as one of
the reasons for the lower mop.
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➢ The last captive white tiger named Bajirao at the Sanjay Gandhi National
Park in Mumbai died at the age of 18 years.
➢ Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) has distributed more
than one lakh bee-boxes among farmers and unemployed youths across
the country in less than two years under its 'Honey Mission' initiative.
➢ Petroleum Conservation Research Association (PCRA), Ministry of
Petroleum & Natural Gas, Government of India and World’s Third Largest
Tractor manufacturer by volumes and TAFE (Tractors and Farm Equipment
Limited) signed a MoU to aid conservation of resources across the
country.
➢ Electronics City Industrial Township Authority (ELCITA) in
collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), inaugurated a foot
over bridge connecting the east and west phases of Electronics City.
➢ The first Apache Helicopter AH-64E (I) (Apache Guardian helicopter) was
formally handed over to the Indian Air Force at Boeing production facility
in Mesa, Arizona, USA.
➢ Indian Space Research Organization ISRO has successfully launched
its earth observation satellite RISAT-2B from Satish Dhawan Space Centre
Sriharikota. It will be lifted off by the workhorse rocket PSLV-C46 in its 48th
flight.
➢ The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
successfully conducted the flight test of 'Abhyas', a High-Speed Expendable
Aerial Target (HEAT), which offers a realistic threat scenario for practice of
weapon systems. The flight test was conducted at the Interim Test Range,
Chandipur, in Odisha.
➢ The central government has extended the ban on the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for five years with immediate effect, a
notification issued by the Union Home ministry.
➢ National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), HCL Foundation and
Indian National Trust for Art and Culture Heritage (INTACH) signed
tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for Plantation of Rudraksha
Trees in Uttarakhand under the ‘Namami Gange’ Programme.
➢ The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) had started
online writing of Annual Performance Appraisal Report (APARs) in
SPARROW (Smart Performance Appraisal Report Recording Online Window)
for Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officers in Customs and Central Excise
in 2016-17.
➢ The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation
(CTBTO) has offered India an "Observer" status and access to
International Monitoring System (IMS) data. CTBTO’s headquarters is
in Vienna, Austria.
➢ The Union Government has asked state transport departments to ensure
that all battery-operated vehicles (both existing and new) have number
plates in Green.
➢ National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) has developed the world’s
first complete parent-wise genome assembly called
“NDDB_ABRO_Murrah” of riverine buffaloes.
➢ Indian Navy has achieved a significant milestone in enhancing its Anti-
Air Warfare Capability with the maiden cooperative engagement firing of the
Medium Range Surface to Air Missile (MRSAM).
➢ According to tentative data released by the Election Commission (EC), in
2019 Lok Sabha elections clocked a record turnout of 67.11%.
➢ Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has
successfully test-fired an indigenously developed 500 kg class guided
bomb from a Sukhoi combat jet at Pokhran in Rajasthan.
➢ The National Health Authority (NHA) have signed an MoU under the
Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) to
National Cancer Grid (NCG). Indu Bhushan is a CEO of Ayushman
Bharat PM-JAY and the National Health Authority.
➢ As per the Agricultural Ministry, food grains production for the
agricultural year 2018-19 has been estimated at over 283 million
tonnes.
➢ Preparations for 7th Economic Census are underway in New Delhi. The
output of the census will be released in January 2020. Economic Census is
the complete count of all economic establishment located within the
geographical boundary of the country.
➢ Delhi government has announced its plan to subsidize travel in public
transport for women commuters in the Capital.
➢ The Union government has reduced the rate of the contribution made by
employees and employers under the Employees' State Insurance
(ESI) Act from 6.5% to 4%.
➢ Culture Minister Prahalad Singh Patel has inaugurated the exhibition titled
‘Unknown Masterpieces of Himachal Folk Art’ in New Delhi.
➢ The annual ‘Mela Kheer Bhawani’ was celebrated with religious fervour
and gaiety at Tulmulla area of Kashmir.
➢ Cyclone over East-Central Arabian sea has intensified into a Very Severe
Cyclonic Storm “VAYU”.
➢ Union Cabinet has approved the Aadhaar and Other Laws
(Amendment) Bill 2019. This will enable UIDAI to have a more robust
mechanism to serve the public interest and restrain the misuse of Aadhar.
➢ The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved
the extension of President’s rule for another six months in Jammu and
Kashmir.
➢ Chandrani Murmu has become the youngest Member of Parliament (MP)
to the 17th Lok Sabha.
➢ The Indian Air Force (IAF)has signed an agreement with the Indian
Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for crew selection and training for
the prestigious Gangayaan, the country’s maiden manned mission.
➢ Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has
proposed to set up a National Data Warehouse with an aim to
leveraging big data analytical tools.
➢ The Union Cabinet approved the two Medical Bills, Indian Medical
Council (Amendment Bill), 2019, and the Homoeopathy Central
Council (Amendment Bill), 2019. Both the bills had lapsed in the 16th
Lok Sabha session. The Bills will be reintroduced in the upcoming Parliament
session.
➢ The Union Cabinet has cleared the New Delhi International Arbitration
Centre (NDIAC) Bill, 2019, which provides for setting up of an
independent and autonomous body for institutional arbitration.
➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved major changes in the Prime
Minister's scholarship scheme under the National Defence Fund. It has
enhanced rates of scholarship from 2000 rupees per month to 2500 rupees
per month for boys and from 2250 rupees per month to 3000 rupees per
month for girls. The Ministry of Home Affairs will be the nodal Ministry.
➢ The Union government has notified its decision to extend the benefit of
six thousand rupees per year to eligible farmers under the PM-KISAN
scheme.
➢ External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has flagged off the first batch of
Kailash Mansarovar Yatra -2019 in New Delhi.
➢ International Centre for Automotive Technology (ICAT) has released
India’s first Type Approval Certificate (TAC) for Bharat Stage – VI norms.
From 1st April 2020, Bharat Stage (BS)- VI norms are the automotive
emission norms to be implemented to curb
➢ The Union Government has decided to raise the import limit on ‘Tur Dal’
to four lakh tonnes for private traders till October 2019.
➢ National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has conducted a
basic training programme at the Deendayal Port Trust in Kandla, Gujarat.
➢ Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) has instituted the first
edition of Antarashtriya Yoga Diwas Media Samman (AYDMS), from 2019 to
mark the contribution of media in spreading the message of Yoga.
➢ Union Minister for Tribal Affairs Arjun Munda has launched the “e-
governance initiatives for ST Welfare schemes”. As per the
“SabkaSaath, SabkaVikas and SabkaVishwas”, these e-governance
initiatives will serve their purpose of the betterment of tribal communities
across the nation.
➢ India has successfully conducted the maiden flight test of its indigenously
developed fired Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle (HSTDV)
off in Odisha Coast.
➢ The newly inducted Union Cabinet approved a new scheme which assures
minimum monthly pension of Rs.3,000 per month to small shopkeepers,
retail traders and the self-employed people after attaining the age of 60
years.
➢ Indian Railways received an order for 25 more energy efficient retrofit
electrical locomotives from the public sector Bharat Heavy Electricals
Limited (BHEL).
➢ The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has found a suitable
window to launch India’s second spacecraft to the moon Chandrayaan-2.
ISRO sources have confirmed that GSLV Mark-III will launch.
➢ The Defense ministry has approved the procurement of 10 Kamov Ka-
31 Airborne Early Warning and Control helicopters for the Indian Navy.
➢ India successfully test fired the short-range Quick Reaction Surface-to-
Air Missile (QRSAM) from a test range along the coast of Odisha.
➢ The 125-year-old Old High Court Building in Nagpur, Maharashtra,
and two Mughal-era monuments in Agra — Haveli of Agha Khan and
Hathi Khana — are among the six monuments declared protected and of
national importance by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in
2018.
➢ Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has launched a series of development
projects worth Rs.2900 Crores for Agra city.
➢ Indian Navy commenced largest ever coastal defence exercise SEA
VIGIL in Indian Coast. It covered 7516.6km Indian Coastline and Exclusive
Economic Zone (EEZ) of India.
STATE NEWS
ANDHRA PRADESH
➢ Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu launched the Prana Raksha
(‘NCBN app’) web application developed by the Chittoor police at
Kuppam, Andhra Pradesh. The app has been designed to save the lives of
road accident victims and reach out to women in distress.
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➢ Harsimrat Kaur Badal - Union Minister of Food Processing Industries
commissioned Godavari Mega Aqua Food Park at Tundurru Village in
Bhimavaram Mandal, West Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh through
video conferencing. It will be the first Mega Aqua Food Park operationalised
exclusively for fish and marine products processing in the state of Andhra
Pradesh.
➢ Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has announced a
scheme for farmers named Annadata Sukhibhava scheme. Under this
scheme an amount of Rs 9,000 will be given to the farmers having land
less than 5 acres and above 5 acres Rs. 10,000 will be given. This will be in
addition to the Rs 6,000 announced by the Central government.
➢ Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal announced a new railway zone
for Andhra Pradesh, that is the Southern Coast Railway and it will be
headquartered in Visakhapatnam at the cost of Rs.205 crores. It will be
the 18th zone in the country. It will comprise the
existing Guntakal, Guntur and Vijayawada divisions.
➢ A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between HP Inc.
India (Hewlett-Packard) and Andhra Pradesh Innovation Society
(APIS) and Andhra Pradesh Economic Development
Board (APEDB) for constructing a Center of Excellence (CoE) for
additive manufacturing powered by HP’s 3D printing technology.
➢ National Green Tribunal (NGT) has slapped an interim penalty of Rs
100 crore on the Andhra Pradesh government for inaction to prevent illegal
sand mining in the state.
➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated to the nation the 1.33 million
metric ton capacity Visakhapatnam Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR)
facility at Guntur in Andhra Pradesh.
➢ Andhra Pradesh MedTech Zone (AMTZ) has organized a one-day
workshop on Organ Bio Printing at the Kalam Convention Center, AMTZ
Campus in Visakhapatnam.
➢ Indian Coast Guard Ship (ICGS) ‘Vigraha’ decommissioned at
Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
➢ Anthill Ventures, which helps start-ups scale up, has tied up with the
Andhra Pradesh government to offer A-Scale, its market access
programme to start-ups in the State.
➢ Andhra Pradesh government will provide 100 units free power to the
Most Backward Classes (MBCs).
➢ India’s First District cooling system will come up in Amravati, capital
of the Andhra Pradesh. The agreement between the National Central
Cooling Company (Tabreed) for the District Cooling System at Amaravati.
ARUNACHAL PRADESH
➢ The Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurated
the 426.60 m long Pre-Stressed Concrete Box Girder type Diffo bridge
over Diffo river on Roing – Koronu- Paya road in Arunachal Pradesh.
➢ Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu inaugurated India’s
longest 300-meter single- lane steel cable suspension bridge over Siang
River in Upper Siang district of state bordering China. The suspension bridge,
also known as Byorung Bridge was built at a cost of Rs 4,843 crore.
➢ Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister, Pema Khandu declared Pakke
Paga Hornbill Festival (PPHF) as the “State Festival” during a
valedictory ceremony of the fourth edition of the festival at Seijosa in East
Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh.
➢ Arunachal Pradesh’s East Siang District has achieved 100%
electrification under the Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana-
Saubhagya Scheme.
➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a dedicated 24x7 Satellite
channel, ‘DD Arunprabha’ for Arunachal Pradesh during his visit to
Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Tripura
➢ Arunachal Pradesh’s Nyishi tribe celebrated its Boori Boot Yollo
festival (52nd) to welcome spring and a successful harvest.
➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the strategically
important Sela Tunnel Project in Arunachal Pradesh.
ASSAM
➢ Assam Govt has hiked the parental income limit from 1 Lakh to 2
Lakhs to waive admission fees for students taking admission up to Post
Graduate level.
➢ The Assam Government will provide a subsidy of 1.7 lakh rupees for the
admission in the North East Skill Centre. The Centre has got the support
from Singapore's IITEES.
➢ The Northeast Railway sector (Guwahati, Assam) has launched a
dedicated woman squad ‘JYOTI BAHINI’ to enhance security of women in
railway station and trains.
➢ Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal launched the PRANAM
(Parents Responsibility and Norms for Accountability and
Monitoring) Commission, a panel set up to look after the issues
concerning a Bill brought in for protection of parents of state
government employees.
➢ BOLD-QIT which is Border Electronically Dominated QRT
Interception Technique was inaugurated by Home Minister Rajnath
Singh on 61 km India-Bangladesh border in Dhubri, Assam to deal with
the problem of border safeguarding in the areas where border fences can’t
be constructed due to Brahmaputra river.
➢ India’s First Oil Museum will come up in Guwahati, Assam. It will be
named as KB Malaviya National Oil Museum. KB Malaviya is called the
father of India’s hydrocardon industry.
➢ Assam Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Mukesh Sahu launched the ‘i-help’
initiative at a meeting held at the Election Department, Janata Bhawan
in Guwahati. The ‘i-help’ initiative to promote digital electoral literacy
in Assam.
➢ Chief Electoral Officer of Assam Mukesh Sahu launched a new initiative
called ‘Enajori’ at Janata Bhawan, Dispur in Guwahati for persons with
disabilities with an aim that ‘No Voter to be Left behind’.
➢ A Mobile App named ‘Sankalp’ has been developed by the Assam’s
Bongaigaon district administration team with the help of NIC
(National Informatics Centre) to encourage the first-time voters.
➢ The Supreme Court has banned all mining activities along the ‘Kaziranga
National Park’ and catchment area of rivers originating in Karbi Anglong
Hills, Assam.
➢ Assam celebrates major agricultural events as the festival of Bihu.
➢ Assam government will set up a Skill University at the cost of 850 crore
rupees at Darrang district. Mission Director of Assam Skill Development
Mission, AP Tiwari said that the proposed institution will be known as Skill
City.
➢ Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani has launched the Integrated Large
Scale Eri Farming under North East Region Textile Promotion Scheme
(NERTPS) in Itanagar.
➢ The Guwahati Railway Station has become the first ever railway
station in the Indian Railways to get an ISO certification from
the National Green Tribunal (NGT) for providing passenger amenities in a
clean and green environment.
BIHAR
➢ The Bihar State Cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has
approved the proposal to punish sons and daughters, who abandon their
elderly parents, with jail term. The approval was announced on 11 June.
➢ Governor of Bihar Lalji Tandon and Union Agriculture Minister Radha
Mohan Singh jointly inaugurated the three -day Krishi Kumbh in
Motihari.
➢ Bihar has become the first state in the country to have raised a special
dog squad to detect liquor consignment.
➢ The Bihar State government has announced to waive off 50% of the
total taxes levied on the purchase and running of battery-propelled e-
rickshaws. The announcement was made by the deputy chief minister of
state Sushil Kumar Modi.
➢ The Bihar Government has announced a universal old age pension scheme
called Mukhyamantri Vridhajan Pension Yojana (MVPY), covers all
individuals who are above 60 years of age. The beneficiaries would be
provided with a sum of Rs. 400 as monthly pension.
➢
CHHATTISGARH
➢ The Chhattisgarh police for the first time has inducted women
commandos in the District Reserve Guard, its frontline anti-Naxal force.
GOA
➢ Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways, Shipping, Water Resources,
River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Shri Nitin Gadkari will
inaugurate the newly built, 5.1 km long, four-lane, cable stayed bridge “Atal
Setu” over river Mandovi in Goa.
➢ The Deen Dayal Veterinary University in Uttar Pradesh proposed to set
up the first goat fertility lab in the state under Rastriya Krashi Vikas Yojna
at the cost of Rs.22 crore.
➢ Drinking alcohol or cooking in public on Goa's beaches will now attract
a fine of Rs 2,000 or imprisonment for up to three months.
GUJARAT
➢ Gujarat topped the country with annual fish production of 7.8 lakh tonnes,
followed by Tamil Nadu (7.02 lakh tonnes) and Kerala (6.43 lakh tonnes)
according to the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI).
➢ Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani inaugurated India’s first
Dinosaur-Museum-cum-Park in the Mahisagar district. It is set to give
visitors a Jurassic Park kind of feel.
➢ State Government of Gujarat put into effect the legislation that
proposed to amend the ‘Gujarat Shops and Establishments (Regulation
of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 2019’ which came into
force from May 1, 2019. The bill allows shops across the state to function
24 hours.
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➢ Gujarat Government has announced that the benefits of 10 per cent
quota for Economically Weaker sections of general category in
educational institutions and government jobs will be applicable from
midnight tonight.
➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched ‘One Nation, One Card’ Model
from Ahmedabad, Gujarat for seamless travel through different metros
and other transport systems. The Union Ministry of Housing and Urban
Affairs introduced the ‘National Common Mobility Card’ (NCMC) to
enable seamless travel by different metros and other transport systems
across the country besides retail shopping and purchases.
➢ A mobile application ‘Conquer Exam, Be a Warrior’ to cope with exam
related stress and anxiety for students and their parents has been
developed by Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar, Gujarat,
(IIPHG) in collaboration with National Mental Health Program,
Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Gujarat.
➢ The Gujarat health department has issued an Orange Alert for two-
days as the temperatures are likely to touch 44 degrees.
➢ Union home minister Rajnath Singh and LG Anil Baijal inaugurated a
state-of-the-art National Cyber Forensic Lab (NCFL) and the Delhi
Police's cybercrime unit 'CyPAD' at Dwarka, Sector 16C. It is the first
cybercrime awareness and detection centre in India.
➢ Gujarat becomes First State to implement 10% quota to Economically
Weaker Section.
HARYANA
➢ Haryana Chief Electoral Officer Rajeev Ranjan has inaugurated India’s
first-of-its-kind ‘Voter Park’ in Gurugram, Haryana.
➢ The Punjab and Haryana High Court has accorded the status of “legal
person or entity” to animals in Haryana.
➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated and laid foundation stones for
six projects in Haryana, including a National Cancer Institute (NIC) at
Badhsa in Jhajjar district, which is also India’s Largest Cancer Hospital and
Shri Krishna Ayush University at Kurukshetra, in Haryana.
➢ The Haryana government has launched a mobile application named
Shiksha Setu to provide students information on attendance, fee, online
admission and scholarships of all government colleges of the state.
➢ Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has announced to name all the
Child Care Institutes being run in the state as 'Jagannath Ashrams.'
➢ Tashiganag village in Himachal Pradesh named World's Highest
Polling Station with 15,256 feet.
HIMACHAL PRADESH
➢ Union Minister for Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal
inaugurated Cremica Mega Food Park Pvt Ltd in Village Singhain, Una
District of Himachal Pradesh. This is the first Mega Food Park
operationalized in the State of Himachal Pradesh.
➢ A bill was passed in the Himachal Pradesh assembly to make Sanskrit
the second official language of the state.
➢ Under its diversification programme, FCI Aravali Gypsum and Minerals
India Limited (FAGMIL) has taken up a project to establish a 4th white
cement plant in the country near village NohraDhar in Sirmour district,
Himachal Pradesh, at a project cost of approximately Rs. 605 crores.
➢ Tashigang, a Himachal Pradesh village at an altitude of 15,256 feet, is
now the highest polling station in the world.
➢ The Meteorological Department has issued a yellow weather warning
for rain in Himachal Pradesh.
➢ The Himachal Pradesh government made it mandatory for trekkers to
carry a GPS device to tackle any exigency on 18 June 2019.
➢ The Minister of State for Railways Manoj Sinha has inaugurated the
newly built broad-gauge railway line between Amb Andora and Daulatpur
in Una district, Himachal Pradesh.
JAMMU & KASHMIR
➢ Nitin Gadkari to inaugurate first inter-state bridge Kerrian Gandyal
Bridge in Jammu and Kashmir. It was built at a cost of Rs.150 crore in
a span of three and a half years linking areas of Katthua district with
Punjab.
➢ Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik gave his assent
to Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill 2014. The bill
will grant reservation to people belonging to the Pahari community for
government jobs.
➢ The Jammu & Kashmir Government declared Ladakh as the third
administrative division of the state. The division will comprise Leh and
Kargil districts, with Leh as the division’s headquarters.
➢ The Jammu and Kashmir administration headed by Governor Sathya
Pal Malik, in its new “Reintegration Policy” draft, has proposed a
monthly stipend of Rs 6,000, jobs and rehabilitation measures, for militants,
who wish to give up arms.
➢ PD. Tshering, Chief Postmaster General, Jammu & Kashmir Circle,
released a ‘Special Stamp Cover on Ice Stupa’ by the Department of Post,
Government of India during a function organised at the Ice Stupa site
at Gangles in Leh.
➢ Central Government banned Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front
(JKLF) under the provisions of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act
(UAPA), 1967 as an unlawful association.
➢ The longest suspension bridge (260-foot) over the Indus River at
Choglamsar village opened to the public in Leh, Jammu & Kashmir. The
bridge has been named 'Maitri Bridge', symbolising the excellent civil-
military relations existing in the Leh Ladakh region. It was achieved by
Indian Army in just 40 days.
➢ An Android-based application named “Sahulat” was launched to facilitate
and to encourage the elder voters for participating in the elections in Jammu
and Kashmir’s Rajouri district.
➢ The Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) state Govt. has unveiled Healthcare
Investment Policy-2019. Accordingly, 30% subsidy on capital
investment will be provided for setting up of multi-speciality Hospitals,
Super Specialty Hospitals, Medical Colleges, Nursing Colleges and
Paramedical Colleges.
➢ The Jammu and Kashmir Bank is now under the purview of Right to
Information Act and Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) guidelines.
The decision was taken by the Board of Directors of the Jammu and Kashmir
Bank.
➢ The Prime Minister also dedicated to the nation the 220 KiloVolt Srinagar-
Alusteng -Drass - Kargil Leh transmission system.
➢ The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for AYUSH Shri Shripad
Yesso Naik and Union Minister of State in Prime Minister's Office (PMO) Dr.
Jitendra Singh has laid the foundation stone of Institute of High-Altitude
Medicinal Plants (IHAMP) at Bhaderwah in District Doda in J&K. The
estimated cost of this prestigious project is Rs. 100 crores.
JHARKHAND
➢ Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das has inaugurated the 50 crore
rupees Haj House in Ranchi.
➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of revival of North
Koel (Mandal Dam) project at Palamu, Jharkhand.
➢ The Jharkhand government banned the Popular Front of India (PFI) in
the State to curb its anti-national activities and for links with terror outfits
like the IS.
➢ The main event of International Day of Yoga 2019 (21st June)
celebrations will be held in Ranchi, Jharkhand.
KARANATAKA
➢ Minister of State in Department of Space Dr. Jitendra Singh inaugurated
the 1st batch of UNNATI programme of Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
➢ The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman K. Siva has
announced setting up of Human Space Flight Centre in Bengaluru,
Karnataka.
➢ Karantaka government has launched “Jala Amrutha”, will be major
water conservation scheme that will focus on drought-proofing
measures, including protection and rejuvenation of water bodies. The
Karnataka has announced the year 2019 as ‘Jalavarsha (year of water)’.
➢ Arecanut, known as supari or betel nut, made its entry in the list of
agricultural produce for the first time with the Geographical Indication
(GI) tag for ‘Sirsi Supari’. It is from Uttara Kannada district of
Karnataka.
➢ In order to avoid fluctuation in yarn prices, Ministry of Textiles has
started Yarn bank, a first of its kind in Karnataka, to help thousands of
weavers at the Mysore Powerloom Silk Manufacturers Cooperative Society
by ensuring steady supply of silk yarn and zari.
➢ The Brahmakalashothsava festival 2019 has started in Karnataka.
This is a 6-day festival celebrated annually in the ancient Chandkuru Sri
Durga Parameshwari Temple situated in Polali, Dakshina Kannada
district in Karnataka.
➢ Amasebailu, a small village situated on the left bank of Haldi river in
Udupi. It is the first village in Karnataka to have 100% solar-powered
houses.
➢ Karnataka government has launched ‘Pink Sarathi’ vehicles that are
procured by the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC).
➢ Bengaluru based Semiconductor Company “SIGNALCHIP” unveiled
India’s first Indigenous Semiconductor Chips for 4G /LTE and 5G NR
MODEMs at an event in New Delhi which was addressed by the Secretary,
Telecom, Mrs Aruna Sundararajan.
➢ The Internet of Things (IoT) India Congress (4th), an event which will
see digital technology leaders converge to discuss and explore business
opportunities in mainstreaming IoT, will be held in Bengaluru on August
22-23,2019.
➢ Mangaluru City Police has launched an all-women police patrol unit in
the city. An all-women police patrol unit, also named ‘Rani Abbakka
Force’, was also launched by the Udupi district police recently.
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➢ India's first Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence established by the
European Union was inaugurated at the Department of European Studies
(DES) at Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Karnataka by Ambassador
of the European Union (EU) to India and Bhutan, Tomasz Kozlowski.
KERALA
➢ The Kerala State Cabinet decided to recommend the Governor to
promulgate an Ordinance amending the Kerala Pravasi Welfare Act. The
Act aims at providing a regular income for Non-Resident Keralites
(NoRKs) returning home.
➢ Around 30 lakh Kerala women stood shoulder to shoulder to form Vanitha
Mathil (women’s wall). The wall stretched from Kasaragod in the north to
Thiruvananthapuram in the south for about 620 Kms.
➢ The Union Government issued its nod for setting up the Centre for
Classical Language at the Thunchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University
in Tirur, Kerala.
➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated to the nation an integrated
refinery expansion complex of the public sector Bharat Petroleum
Corporation in Kochi, Kerala.
➢ Kerala’s Governor P. Sathasivam in his address to the state assembly
announced Kerala government will soon launch a ‘Pravasi Dividend
Pension Scheme’ to provide regular pension to Non-Resident Keralites.
This scheme is a part of welfare measures towards Pravasi Malayalis.
➢ Kerala has become the first State to set up a Price Monitoring and
Research Unit (PMRU). This unit will track violation of prices of essential
drugs and medical devices under the Drugs Price Control Order (DPCO).
➢ Kochi hosted the first investor conference ASCEND 2019 to showcase
industry friendly initiatives. The Kerala State Industrial Development
Corporation (KSIDC) has conducted the conference in Kochi.
➢ Union Minister for Tourism K.J. Alphons inaugurated the project
‘Development of Eco Circuit: Pathanamthitta – Gavi – Vagamon –
Thekkady’ under the Swadesh Darshan scheme of Ministry of Tourism at
Vagamon, Kerala.
➢ Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan inducted India's first humanoid
robot gendered female named KP-BOT, into the Kerala Police force at the
rank of Sub-Inspector (SI).
➢ The traditional and handmade product Marayoor Jaggery from Idukki
district of Kerala received the Geographical Indication (GI) tag from the
Central Government.
➢ Kerala became the first state to tap into masala bond market by listing
the Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB)’s masala
bond worth of USD 312 million (Rs 2, 150 crore) in London Stock
Exchange (LSE)’s International Securities Market (ISM).
➢ The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) signed a power purchase
agreement with Kochi-based GJ Eco Power Pvt. Ltd. to establish Waste-
to-Energy (WtE) plants across the State. GJ Eco Power Pvt. Ltd. has been
implementing the project at the Brahmapuram solid waste treatment plant.
➢ The opening of the famed Thrissur Pooram festival was attended by
more than 10, 000 people after an order disallowing a 54-year-old tusker
Thechikottukavu Ramachandran.
➢ The state has awarded the work to the Uralungal Labour Contract
Cooperative Society and it has started working on the ambitious project
called E-Vidhan to enable the state to go completely paperless
legislature.
➢ India’s largest startup ecosystem inaugurated in Kerala. The
Integrated Startup Complex under the Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM)
includes the ultra-modern facilities of Maker Village that promotes hardware
startups.
➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated to the nation the 13-km Kollam
bypass of National Highway 66, a project that took more than four
decades to complete.
➢ Operation Olympics, an expert programme to train athletes in 11
disciplines has commenced in Kerala.
MADHYA PRADESH
➢ Government of Madhya Pradesh, Kamal Nath, banned the purchase of
new vehicles and air conditioners (ACs) by the government
departments due to huge debt of the state.
➢ Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath has launched Jai Kisan Rin
Mukti Yojana for Rs.50,000-crore farm debt-waiver scheme named.
➢ The Madhya Pradesh government launched its flagship scheme
‘Mukhyamantri Yuva Swabhiman Yojana’ to provide employment for
youth. It was launched by the Chief Minister Kamal Nath.
➢ The Madhya Pradesh state Government has decided to include the
ancient tribal language ‘Gondi’, in tribal districts of the state.
➢ The Madhya Pradesh government issued an ordinance raising reservation
for Other Backward Classes (OBC) to 27% from the present 14%, which
was made by the Law and Legal Affairs Minister PC Sharma.
➢ The Centre has approved a proposal to change the name of a village in
Madhya Pradesh from 'Durjanpur' to 'Shivdham'.
➢ The architectural heritage of Orchha town in Madhya Pradesh added to
the Tentative List of UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites. The architectural
heritage of Orchha town depicts a unique style of the Bundela dynasty.
➢ Bancha in Betul district is the first village in India to have zero wooden
stoves and almost no use for LPG cylinders with all its 75 houses relying on
solar-powered stoves to meet their cooking needs.
➢ India's first crematorium for cows will soon be built in Bhopal,
informed by Mayor Alok Sharma.
MAHARASHTRA
➢ Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi launched the Country’s
First National Museum of Indian Cinema in Mumbai, Maharashtra
that seeks to portray over a century-old journey of movies in India.
➢ The Maharashtra government has set up a committee to review various
schemes implemented for the welfare of tribals in the state. The 17-
member committee headed by former MLA and Shramjeevi Sanghatna
president Vivek Pandit.
➢ The Kala Ghoda festival, India’s largest multi-cultural street festival
begins in Mumbai.
➢ The state government of Maharashtra launched a special scheme to curb
infant deaths. The government started distributing baby-care kits to the
children born in primary health centres and government hospitals.
➢ Union Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu launched the Hirkani
Maharashtrachi scheme to provide a platform for women’s Self-Help
Groups (SHGs) and the District Business Plan Competition to boost
entrepreneurship in Maharashtra.
➢ Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis unveiled the State’s new
5 year industrial policy which will be effective from 1st April, 2019.
➢ Maharashtra government with National Disaster Management Authority
(NDMA) has conducted a two-day national workshop on Preparedness,
Mitigation and Management of Heat Wave in Nagpur.
➢ Maharashtra Cabinet cleared a 29-kilometre metro line for Thane. It
will be implemented by the Maha Metro on behalf of the Thane Municipal
Corporation.
➢ The first HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) treatment centre
and holistic clinic for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ)
by Humsafar trust in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
➢ Maharashtra government launched a special scheme ‘Atal Aahar
Yojna’ for construction workers in the state which will provide good
quality food at a highly subsidised rate.
➢ The second joint logistics node of tri-services has become operational
at naval base in Mumbai, Maharashtra to enhance interoperability,
improve maintenance of military assets and provide logistical support to all
the defence services.
➢ Mining and metals major Vedanta Ltd has been declared the final bidder
for two copper mining blocks in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur district. The
blocks, located in Thanewasna and Dubarpeth.
➢ Maharashtra Day is celebrated every year on 1st May to mark the Maratha
speaking region that was founded on 1st May 1960.
➢ The National Institute of Open Schooling Ministry of Human
Resources Development and National Health Mission of Public Health
Department of Government of Maharashtra signed a Memorandum of
Understanding in Mumbai, focused at offering Vocational programmes to the
Health Service Providers of Providers of National Health Mission (NHM)
through National Institute of Open Schooling.
➢ Captain Aarohi Pandit, a 23-year-old pilot from Mumbai created
history by becoming the first woman in the world to cross the Atlantic
Ocean solo in a Light Sports Aircraft (LSA). She achieved the record by
landing her aircraft at Iqaluit Airport in Canada.
➢ Elephanta festival of art and culture held in Mumbai. They are a
collection of cave temples predominantly dedicated to Lord Shiv.
➢ Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Department of
Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities organized the 2nd regional
conference at Nehru Centre, Mumbai, on a scheme titled ‘Deendayal
Disabled Rehabilitation Scheme (DDRS)’.
➢ Air India’s First ever Flight Simulator known as ‘Boeing 747-200’ was
exhibited in Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai.
➢ A hyper-local connectivity app called “Bhonga” has been developed
by Mumbai-based Company Linkus Infratech, to connect users to their
neighbourhood people in the city even without an Internet connection.
“Bhonga” is a Marathi word which means megaphone or loudspeaker.
➢ India’s first foreign interactive and Exotic World Park was
inaugurated in Mumbai. Bird lovers are up for a treat with this interactive
bird park in Mumbai.
➢ The second World Orange Festival has begun in Nagpur. The festival,
while offering its famed oranges to the world, will also showcase and brand
the exquisite fruit in order to boost its export.
➢ PM Modi launched the four-laning of Solapur-Osmanabad section of
NH-211, underground sewerage system and three sewage treatment
plants.
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MANIPUR
➢ Imphal West district of Manipur namely Phayeng Village has
become India’s first carbon-positive settlement.
MEGHALAYA
➢ In Meghalaya, the Geological Survey of India (GSI) North Eastern
Region (NER) installed two geological display boards at Meghalaya’s two
important geological sites namely Mawmluh cave and Therriaghat,
Sobhar in East Khasi Hill District. The stalagmite in Mawmluh cave has been
tagged as Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP).
➢ Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma launched a new project to
boost medicinal and aromatic plants cultivation named “Aroma Mission”.
➢ National Green Tribunal (NGT) has imposed a fine of Rs.100 crore on
Meghalaya government for its failure to curb illegal coal mining in the
state.
➢ The government of Meghalaya has decided to rename the Dikkibandi
stadium in Tura after P A Sangma.
➢ 28th edition of the annual ‘Caving in the Abode of the Clouds
Expedition’, a five-member team of cavers of Meghalaya Adventurers’
Association (MAA) has discovered India’s deepest shaft at Krem Um
Ladaw. It has 105 m deep shaft entrance passage.
MIZORAM
➢ Mizoram Assembly passed a new bill named Mizoram Maintenance of
Household Registers Bill, 2019 with an objective to detect foreigners
illegally residing in Mizoram, who takes away the benefits of the citizen
of Mizoram.
➢ The Mizoram Government issued an order to ban the import of pigs and
piglets, because there is a possibility of outbreak of Porcine Reproductive
and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS).
➢ The Mizoram Cabinet has approved the proposed Mizoram Liquor
Prohibition Bill, 2019 in the state.
NAGALAND
➢ The Union Home Ministry has approved the changing of name of the Old
Mangkhi village in Tuensang of Nagaland to Mungankhun village.
➢ The 75th anniversary of the Battle of Kohima was observed by the
Nagaland government on April 4th, 2019 with representatives from the
UK and Japan. Theme: ‘Remembrance, Reconciliation and Rebirth’.
➢ Entire state of Nagaland has declared ‘disturbed area’ under AFSPA -
Armed Forces (Special Powers) Acts.
➢ Nagaland Chief Minister Mr Neiphiu Rio has inaugurated the state’s first
Astro Turf Football Pitch at Indira Gandhi Stadium in Kohima.
ODISHA
➢ Odisha Chief Minister, Shri Naveen Patnaik announced the extension of
free health services under Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana (BSKY) to all
medical colleges and hospitals of Odisha from 1st February 2019.
➢ The Odisha state Government has announced “Jiban Sampark” project
for the welfare of the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups at the annual
Adivasi Mela-2019 in association with UNICEF.
➢ Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched the Ujjwala
Sanitary Napkin initiative in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
➢ Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik launches Krushak Assistance for
Livelihood and Income Augmentation (KALIA) Naveen Patnaik
launched Rs 10,000 crore Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income
Augmentation (KALIA) scheme named Chhatravritti Yojana in Keonjhar
district.
➢ Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik announced in a video conference
on “Ama Gaon, Ama Bikash” a hike of Rs 200 per month in the social
security pension under Madhu Babu Pension Yojana (MBPY).
➢ The Odisha chief minister also distributed financial assistance of Rs.
3,000 each to six lakh women self-help groups as part of the state
government’s efforts to digitally empower women. Interest-free loans of up
to Rs.3 lakhs for six lakh Women Self-Help Groups (WSHGs).
➢ The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi dedicated to the Nation Multi-
Modal Logistics Park (MMLP), at Jharsugudaand, Odisha at a cost of
Rs.100 Crores.
➢ The Odisha government as part of its initiatives to empower women,
launched the ‘Khushi’ scheme to provide free sanitary napkins to
schoolgirls across the state at the cost of INR 466 crore in a period of 5
years.
➢ In a first-of-its-kind initiative, the Odisha government has launched a
boat ambulance service to ferry patients to hospitals in remote areas.
The total project cost Rs 5.40 crore. The ambulance service can be availed
by dialling ‘108’.
➢ Naveen Patnaik-led state cabinet gave its nod to the Odisha State Film
Policy-2019. The state government decided to provide subsidy up to Rs
2.5 crore to filmmakers of English, Hindi or other language films.
➢ Union Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas and Skill Development &
Entrepreneurship, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, inaugurated the first-ever,
Nua Odisha – Dharmapada Samvaad – Skill Saathi Youth Conclave at
Rail Auditorium in Bhubaneswar which was aired live across 427 locations in
Odisha.
➢ Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched the scheme ‘Mukhya
Mantri Karigar Sahayata’ for financial assistance to craftsmen under the
nodal department Directorate of handicrafts. The of the scheme is the.
Craftsmen with 10 years of experience and having annual income
below Rs.1 lakh are eligible to get an assistance of Rs.800 per month.
For craftsmen above 80 years of age would get Rs.1000 per
month allowance for those has the same experience and annual income as
above.
➢ Kandhamal Haldi (turmeric), Odisha’s locally grown turmeric in
its Kandhamal district has received the Geographical Indications (GI)
tag from Intellectual Property India. It is organically grown by tribals.
PUNJAB
➢ Punjab State government plans to ban online delivery of food without
hygiene rating as per the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India
(FSSAI) guidelines.
➢ Punjab Govt. has discussed to Prepare Water Management Plan with
Israel Group to tackle declining ground water in Punjab.
➢ The Punjab state government will regularize over 5100 teachers with
full pay scale next month. 'Sikhya Providers' and "volunteer teachers"
will get a pay hike of Rs.1,500 from next month.
➢ Punjab government approved a rural development scheme “Smart
Village Campaign” worth Rs 384.40 crore to build village infrastructure
and provide essential amenities.
➢ The Punjab state Government has declared the endangered Indus
River dolphin as the state aquatic animal.
➢ The Check post in Gurdaspur district of Punjab will be authorized
immigration checkpoint to exit and entry for visiting Kartarpur Sahib
Gurdwara in Pakistan Dera Baba Nanak land Check post.
RAJASTHAN
➢ Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani inaugurated the ‘Titanwala
Museum’ which showcases the Chhipa community’s art of traditional
hand-block printing at Bagru, Rajasthan.
➢ The Rajasthan state government passed a Backward Classes
Amendment Bill, 2019 to provide 5% quota in jobs and educational
institutions to ‘Gurjars’ and four other communities.
➢ Defence Research and Development Organisation
(DRDO) successfully test fired indigenously developed, low weight, fire and
forget Man-Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile (MPATGM) for
the second time in the Pokhran ranges of Rajasthan desert. The
indigenously developed Guided Pinaka is expected to boost the artillery’s
ability to achieve precision hits.
➢ Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot announced the banned on the
sale of e-cigarettes in Rajasthan.
➢ The Rajasthan government has increased the annual financial
assistance under the ‘Aapki Beti’ scheme It provides annual financial
assistance to the schoolgirl (class 1 to 8) in the state living under Below
Poverty Line (BPL) and whose mother or father or both have died. As per
the revised scheme, girls will get an amount of Rs 2,100 instead of Rs
1,100. Similarly, for girls (in class 9 to 12), financial aid has been increased
to Rs 2,500 from Rs 1,500.
SIKKIM
➢ Sikkim, though being a smallest state have set an initiative to
introduce UBI in the entire nation.
➢ Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling has launched a scheme One
Family One Job in Gangtok. Sikkim has become the first state in the
country to carry out such a programme for the people entitling them to state
government employee benefits.
TAMIL NADU
➢ Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has launched a series of projects as
a part of the Tamil Nadu Defence Industrial Corridor in Tiruchirppalli.
➢ A drainage-cleaning robot named Bandicoot, has been introduced for
the first time in India at the Kumbakonam city corporation as part of
efforts to rid of manual scavenging at the cost of Rs 18 lakh in Chennai,
Tamil Nadu.
➢ Coal Minister Piyush Goyal dedicated to the nation a 1,000-megawatt
(MW) thermal power project of Neyveli Tamil Nadu Power Ltd
(NTPL) at Thoothukudi and a 150-MW solar power
projects of Neyveli Lignite Corporation India
Limited (NLCIL) at Ramanathapuram and Virudhunagar districts
in Tamil Nadu.
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➢ Erode turmeric (Tamil Nadu) finally got a Geographical Indication
(GI) tag from the Geographical Indication Registry after an eight-year-long
process.
➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for All India
Institutes of Medical Sciences, (AIIMS) at Madurai.
➢ Actor Vijay Sethupathi launched the mobile App ‘DigiCop’ of city police
department at the Commissioner’s office. Using the App, people can track
the status of stolen two-wheelers and cell phones.
➢ Chennai Central railway station has been renamed by the Tamil Nadu
State Government as Puratchi Thalaivar Dr MG Ramachandran Central
Railway Station after its late Chief Minister and founder of the Chennai’s
ruling govt All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), Dr.
MG Ramachandran.
➢ International Day for Biological Diversity tree ambulance was
inaugurated in Chennai, Tamil Nadu by Vice President of India, Venkaiah
Naidu.
TELANGANA
➢ Ola signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government
of Telangana, to support the government’s efforts towards strengthening
the traffic infrastructure in the city.
➢ Telangana government has launched a digital business networking portal
for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises MSMEs – Telangana
State GlobalLinker (ts-msme.globallinker.com).
➢ Telangana has secured the first rank for the second year in a row in
the e-Learning training programme of Department of Personal and
Training (DoPT), Government of India. The training is being imparted to
achieve the goal of “training for all”.
➢ The Nizamabad Lok Sabha constituency, where polling is underway
along with 16 other constituencies in Telangana, may make it the Guinness
World Records for the maximum number of Electronic Voting
Machines (EVMs).
➢ Indian archaeologists recently unearthed a life-sized stucco
sculpture from a Buddhist site at Phanigiri in Suryapet, Telangana.
➢ Telangana released a draft block chain policy to set up country’s
first ‘Block chain District’ in Hyderabad.
➢ Telangana government has announced to increase the assistance under
its flagship ‘Rythu Bandhu scheme’ for 2019-20 from Rs.4000 to
Rs.5000.
➢ MNJ Institute of Oncology and Regional Cancer Centre has become
the first State-run hospital in Telangana to enter into Guinness Book of
World Records.
➢ Secunderabad Railway Station, in Hyderabad, became the first
railway station of South-Central Railway (SCR) zone to hoist a huge
tricolour on a 100-foot tall pole.
➢ A full-fledged B-Tech programme in Artificial Intelligence would be
introduced by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad,
from the coming academic year.
➢ The Telangana state government has decided to form a 'State Tiger
Protection Force' to save the Big Cat population in the State.
➢ The Telangana state government has announced to create two more
districts named Narayanpet and Mulugu. Now the number of districts in
the State is 33.
➢ Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has inaugurated a regional unit of
National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Hyderabad.
➢ India’s first private sector unit for manufacturing Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles (UAV) was inaugurated at Adani Aerospace Park in Hyderabad,
Telangana.
TRIPURA
➢ The government of Tripura announced ‘Notun Disha’ (New Direction)
for assessing the academic level of students in classes III-VIII and then
improving their current level. It was launched by state Education Minister
Ratan Lal Nath.
➢ The Tripura government has unveiled an official logo for the state’s
tea to popularise the beverage and to promote the potentiality of tourism.
The logo features Tripura’s iconic landmark, the “Neermahal” which is the
largest and one-of-its-kind water palace in India.
➢ Union Minister of State for Food Processing Industries Sadhvi Niranjan
Jyoti inaugurated Sikaria Mega Food Park Pvt Ltd at Village Tulakona in
Agartala.
UTTARAKHAND
➢ The Centre has decided to set up a National Law University in
Uttarakhand.
➢ Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat launched a helpline
for quick redressal of public complaints. People can call on the helpline
number “1905” to lodge their complaints.
➢ At SRT Campus in Uttarakhand's Tehri, a cloud observatory system
has been set up that could soon forecast news about cloud bursting which
in turn would help in minimising damage.
➢ After a delay of over 11 years, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra
Singh Rawat has laid the foundation stone for the Dehradun-Musssoorie
ropeway project which is considered to be a tourist novelty.
➢ Mukhyamantri Anchal Amrit Yojana was launched in Dehradun by
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat. The scheme aims
to provide 100 ml milk twice a week, free of cost, to 2.5 lakh children at
20,000 Anganwadi Kendra’s of Uttarakhand.
UTTAR PRADESH
➢ PepsiCo India will invest nearly Rs.500 crore to build a food
manufacturing plant in Uttar Pradesh. It will invest $2.1 bn in India by
2022, which is part of the $5.5 bn it had promised in November 2013.
➢ Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath unveiled a 7-foot tall
statue of Lord Rama at the Shodh Sansthan museum in Ayodhya on 7
June.
➢ Chaukhandi Stupa, an ancient Buddhist site located in Sarnath, Uttar
Pradesh, has been declared as a Monument and protected area of national
importance by Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
➢ The Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) is constructing a road
using plastic waste for the first time ever. The road is constructed from
Gomti Nagar Police Station to Indian Institute of Management (IIM) under a
pilot project by LDA in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. The LDA has followed
guidelines of the Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) in road
construction.
➢ The Uttar Pradesh state Govt. has hiked old-age pension in the age
group 60 to 79 years by rupees 100 monthly.
➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Varanasi and Ghazipur in Uttar
Pradesh. He dedicated the 6th International Rice Research Institute
(IRRI), South Asia Regional Center (ISARC) to the nation in Varanasi.
➢ The Union Home Ministry (MHA) approved the Uttar Pradesh government’s
proposal to rename Allahabad as Prayagraj.
➢ UP government announced to give a monthly pension of Rs.500 to
the destitute women in Varanasi.
➢ Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath flagged off the direct bus
services from Prayagraj to Katra.
➢ Uttar Pradesh became the third state after Jharkhand and Gujarat to
approve the 10 per cent reservation for economically backward among
upper castes in jobs and educational institutions.
➢ The Uttar Pradesh state Govt. has announced phenomenal increase in
the wages of Anganwadi workers, Mini Anganwadi workers, Sahayikas and
Prantiya Raksha Dal members. There will an increase of Rs. 1500 in the
present honorarium of Anganwadi workers, Mini Anganwadi (Rs. 1250),
Sahayikas (Rs.750) increase in their present monthly salary.
➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Pradhan Mantri Kisan
Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh.
➢ The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi attended the 50th Raising Day
celebrations of Central Industrial Security Forces (CISF) in
Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh.
➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Amethi in Uttar Pradesh to
address a public meeting and lay the foundation stone of an Ordnance
factory unit in Amethi.
➢ Union Minister of State (IC) for AYUSH Shri Shripad Yesso Naik laid
foundation stone for National Institute of Unani Medicine (NIUM) at
Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh in the august presence of Union Minister of
State for External Affairs General V. K. Singh.
➢ INDUS FOOD-II with the theme of 'World Food Supermarket' has been
started at Greater Noida to integrate Indian farmers and agricultural
products with global value chains.
➢ Supercomputer named 'PARAM Shivay' of 833 teraflop capacity is built
for Rs.32.5 crore, at IIT-Banaras Hindu University (BHU). It will include 1
peta byte secondary storage.
WEST BENGAL
➢ West Bengal Education Minister, Partha Chatterjee has unveiled a web
portal, “Banglar Shiksha” (banglarshiksha.gov.in), to provide real-time
data on state-run and aided schools.
➢ West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee launched a new scheme
called Yuvashree Plan II or Yuvashree Arpan under which 50,000
youths will receive financial assistance of Rs 1 lakh for setting up their own
business initiatives. Youngsters passing out of Industrial training
institute (ITI) or other polytechnic institute will be eligible to get financial
support from the micro, small and medium enterprises
(MSME) department.
➢ The 158th birth anniversary of Rabindra Nath Tagore is being
celebrated all over West Bengal.
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➢ The West Bengal government announced two welfare initiatives for
farmers. Both initiatives, which are part of the ‘Krishi Krishak Bondhu’
scheme came into effect from January 1,2019.
➢ The West Bengal state Government has announced to extend the
retirement age of College-university professors from 62 to 65 years and
Vice-Chancellors from 65 to 70 years.
➢ Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated Railway electrification of
294-km long Andal-Sainthia-Pakur-Malda and Khana-Sainthia sections
in West Bengal.
➢ International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) decided
to set up a World Heritage Centre housing ‘spiritual camps’ in45 countries,
one of which is to be set up in Mayapur in West Bengal. The estimated
cost of this project is 3000 crores.
➢ Union Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma inaugurated India's first
'fulldome3D Digital Theatre' at the Science City- Kolkata.
➢ A regional conference on ‘Deendayal Disabled Rehabilitation Scheme
(DDRS)’ was organised in Kolkata, West Bengal.
➢ The West Bengal State government has set up a separate Directorate
to deal with the cases of tax evasions.
➢ The Indian Navy's first full-fledged Services Selection Board (SSB)
was inaugurated by Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba at Diamond Harbour
near Kolkata.
IIT’S IN NEWS
➢ Engineers from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT
Bombay) have developed a microprocessor called AJIT. It can be used inside
a set-top box, as a control panel for automation systems, in a traffic light
controller or even robotic systems.
➢ Indian Institute of Technology Madras has partnered
with ESPNcricinfo to launch Superstats which is a next level artificial
intelligence to analyse cricket statistics through machine learning and
forecast. Superstats is developed by a team headed by the IIT Madras
research scholars Raghunathan Rengaswamy, Mahesh
Panchagnula along with the ESPN team.
➢ IIT Guwahati, Mandi, and Indian Institute of Science
Bengaluru, Department of Science (DST) have joined hands with
the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) to develop
a climate change vulnerability assessment for the Indian Himalayan region
using a common framework called as the National Mission for Sustaining
the Himalayan Ecosystem (NMSHE).
➢ Under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), India’s 1st state-
of-the-art 1.3 PetaFlop High-Performance Computing facility and
data center ecosystem will set up at IIT Kharagpur. IIT Kharagpur signed
a MoU with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-
DAC).
➢ The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Ropar, has developed
an app Roshni that would help the Visually Impaired to
recognise currency notes. It is often difficult for the visually impaired
people to identify the denomination of the currency note.
➢ An app to detect fake currency has been developed by group of six
students from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT
Kharagpur. The app has been demonstrated at Nationwide competition
Smart India Hackathon 2019.
➢ Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee has signed an MoU
with The Indian Space Research Organisation of the Department of
Space (ISRO) to develop Space Technology Cells at IIT
Roorkee, Uttarakhand.
➢ Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Delhi has developed an Artificial
Intelligence-based electronic hardware system to detect malaria,
tuberculosis, an intestinal parasite, and cervical cancer in milliseconds.
➢ The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) with IIT - Delhi to collaborate in the field
of standardisation and conformity assessment. The MoU was signed by IIT
Delhi Professor V Ramgopal Rao and Director General of BIS Surina
Rajan.
➢ Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Government of India and
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) have inked MoU for
setting up a Centre of Excellence for Waste to Wealth Technologies
in India as a commemoration of 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi
on 2 October 2019.
➢ Common Service Centre’s (CSC) e-Governance Services India Limited,
a special purpose vehicle under the Ministry of Electronics & IT, said it
has tied up with Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Kanpur to upscale
‘Unnat Bharat Abhiyan’.
➢ Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati signed an MoU with
the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to set up an IITG-ISRO
Space Technology Cell (STC) at the institute where Assam Governor
Jagdish Mukhi inaugurated a new academic complex and research and
development building.
NATIONAL SUMMITS
Summit Key points/Theme Held in
106th Indian Science
Congress (ISC)-2019
Theme: ‘Future India:
Science and Technology’
Jalandhar, Punjab
Women’s Science
Congress
It is a part of the 106th
Indian Science Congress
Jalandhar, Punjab
5th Regional Centre
of National Institute
of Public Cooperation
and Child
Development
(NIPCCD)
NIPCCD is a premier
organisation devoted to
promotion of voluntary
action, research, training,
and documentation in the
overall domain of women
and children development.
Mohali, Punjab
29th Indian Paint
Conference – 2019
Theme: ‘Paints Pe Charcha
– Naye Aayaam’
Agra, Uttar
Pradesh
15th edition of
Pravasi Bhartiya
Divas
The theme of PBD 2019 is
"Role of Indian Diaspora in
building a New India.”
Varanasi, Uttar
Pradesh
Gandhian
Resurgence Summit
This Summit is being
organised by the
Parmarath Niketan, the
Harijan Sevak Sangh and
the Global Interfaith WASH
Alliance.
Prayagraj, Uttar
Pradesh
National Cardiology
Conference 2019
Organised by Dept of
Cardiology in which leading
national and international
experts from Europe, USA,
Japan, Singapore South
Korea, Indonesia and
Australia
Lucknow, Uttar
Pradesh
8th- edition of Home
Expo India-2019
The exhibition has been
organized by the Export
Promotion Council for
Handicrafts
Greater Noida,
Uttar Pradesh
India Steel 2019 –
Exhibition and
Conference
The event provides an
opportunity for all the
stakeholders to deliberate
and identify ways to
contribute towards building
a robust roadmap for the
further growth of the steel
sector.
Mumbai,
Maharashtra
10th edition of the
India Rubber Expo –
2019
To improve productivity of
the sector enabling India’s
efforts to become a 5
trillion-dollar economy.
Mumbai,
Maharashtra
Global Aviation
Summit 2019
The theme of summit is
‘Flying for all’.
It will be organized by the
Ministry of Civil Aviation
(MoCA) in collaboration
with FICCI
Mumbai,
Maharashtra
25th Partnership
summit 2019
Theme: New India Rising to
Global Occasions
Mumbai,
Maharashtra
9th International
Micro irrigation
conference
Theme: “Micro Irrigation
and Modern Agriculture”.
Aurangabad,
Maharashtra
67th Annual Armed
Forces Medical
Conference
It was organised under the
supervision of Surg Vice
Admiral Ravi Kalra was
inaugurated by Lt Gen Bipin
Puri, Director General,
Armed Forces Medical
Services.
Pune, Maharashtra
Kala Ghoda Arts
Festival
The theme of KGAF 2019 is
Retrospection
Mumbai,
Maharashtra
Intersessional
Meeting of Kimberley
Process (KP)
It was organized by the
Union Ministry of
Commerce & Industry,
Government of India; and
co-organised by Gem &
Jewellery Export Promotion
Council (GJEPC).
Mumbai,
Maharashtra
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8th World Corporate
Social Responsibility
Congress
The theme of the year 2019
is ‘Sustainable
Development Goals
(SDGs)’. Dr. Soumitro
Chakraborty won ‘CEO of
the year’ award.
Mumbai,
Maharashtra.
Second Edition of
World Count festival
2019
The Festival was hosted by
the award -winning
screenwriter, author and
columnist Advita Kala.
Pune, Maharashtra
SWIFT India and
South Asia
Conference
Theme: Digitisation in
transition: The future of
innovation and cyber
security
Mumbai,
Maharashtra
Regional Maritime
Safety Conference
2019
To discuss maritime safety
in the India-ASEAN sub-
region, safeguarding our
shores and promoting
maritime trade.
Mumbai,
Maharashtra
Conference on the
VISION ZERO
Ministry of Labour and
Employment inaugurated
and its relevance to
Occupational Safety and
Health
Mumbai,
Maharashtra
9th Vibrant Gujarat
Global Investors
Summit 2019
Global Trade Show has
been organized as a part of
this summit.
Theme: “Youth Connect
2019: Shaping A New India
- The Story of Billion
Dreams”.
Gandhinagar,
Gujarat
Festival of Innovation
and
Entrepreneurship
(FINE)
National Innovation
Foundation in association
with the Department of
Science and Technology.
First prize in Veterinary,
Herbal medication for
coccidiosis was presented
to Periyasami Ramasami of
Salem, Tamil Nadu.
Gandhinagar,
Gujarat
9-day long
International Kite
Festival
It marks
the Uttarayan or Makar
Sankranti, the day when
winter season starts
changing to summer and
farmers welcome the
approaching harvest
season, at Sabarmati River.
Ahmedabad,
Gujarat
Indian Panorama
Film Festival
The festival is being
organized by the
Directorate of Film
Festivals, Ministry of
Information and
Broadcasting.
New Delhi, India
4th Edition of Raisina
Dialogue
Theme: “A World Reorder:
New Geometries; Fluid
Partnerships; Uncertain
Outcomes”.
New Delhi, India
1st ‘National
Consultation on Child
Protection’
The objectives of the
meeting are to follow up on
the exercise of monitoring
of the CCIs by States/UTs,
to deliberate upon various
aspects of child protection.
New Delhi, India
32nd Meeting of GST
Council
The limit of Annual
Turnover in the preceding
Financial Year for availing
Composition Scheme for
Goods shall be increased
to Rs 1.5 crore.
New Delhi, India
National Youth
Parliament Festival
2019
It is inaugurated by
Minister of Youth Affairs
and Sports, Col
Rajyavardhan Rathore
New Delhi, India
25th International
conference and
exhibition on
terrestrial and
Theme: “Next Gen
Broadcasting in the IT
World”
New Delhi, India
satellite
broadcasting, BES
EXPO 2019
27th World Book Fair This year’s theme is ‘Books
for Readers with Special
Needs’ and Sharjah is the
‘guest of honours’ country.
New Delhi, India
25th ‘BES EXPO 2019’ The Information and
Broadcasting Ministry is
considering bringing a new
Integrated Broadcast Policy
for the growing
broadcasting sector in
India.
New Delhi
6th meeting of
Mission Steering
Group of National
Health Mission (NHM)
To provide essential drugs
free of cost in public health
facilities and to set up IT-
backed systems for drug
procurement and quality
assurance.
New Delhi, India
Second Conference
of State AYUSH and
Health Ministers
conference
It was inaugurated by the
Minister of State for AYUSH
(Independent Charge) and
Health & Family Welfare
Shripad Yesso Naik.
New Delhi, India
2019 Asia LPG
summit
It will focus on ‘LPG –
Energy for Life.
New Delhi, India
2nd National
Conference of Micro
Missions of National
Police Mission
It was Organized by Bureau
of Police Research and
Development, BPRD
New Delhi, India
First Annual
Conference of Its
Media Units
It was Inaugurated by I & B
ministry to discuss on
emerging areas of
communication paradigm.
New Delhi, India
3rd Indo-German
Environment Forum
Theme: "Cleaner Air,
Greener Economy:"
New Delhi, India
One Health India
Conference 2019
The main objective of the
conference was to
formulate a roadmap for
the response,
preparedness, and
management of current
regional, national and
global health challenges
using a One Health
collaborative approach.
New Delhi, India
National Conference
on Logistics Policy:
Context, Issues &
The Way Forward
Minister of Commerce &
Industry Suresh Prabhu
has launched the SAFAR
Mobile App which will help
to gauge the actual issues
faced by transporters on
the road.
New Delhi, India
33rd GST Council
meeting
Union Finance Minister,
Shri Arun Jaitley chaired
this meeting. GST shall be
levied at effective GST rate
of 5% without Input Tax
Credit (ITC) on residential
properties outside
affordable segment.
GST shall be levied at
effective GST of 1%
without ITC on affordable
housing properties. The
new rate will come into
force from 1st of April,
2019.
New Delhi, India
Rising India Summit
2019
Theme: ‘Beyond Politics:
Defining National Priorities’
New Delhi, India
International
conference on 8th
century Himalayan
sage Guru
Padmasambhava
This conference was
organised by the Centre for
Escalation of Peace (CEP)
and was titled ‘Life and
Legacy of Guru
Padmasambhava’
New Delhi, India
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5th India-Bangladesh
Joint Consultative
Committee Meeting
The last Joint Consultative
Committee Meeting
between the two countries
was held in October 2017
at Dhaka.
New Delhi, India
Parmanu Tech 2019-
Nuclear Energy
Conference
To discuss the issues
related to Nuclear Energy
and Radiation
Technologies.
New Delhi, India
2 - day National
Conference on Unani
Medicine
The conference witnessed
exchange of MoU for
scientific collaboration in
Unani Medicine between
CCRUM and Jamia
Hamdard, New Delhi.
New Delhi, India
CREDAI’s Event
‘YouthCon-19’
YouthCon is the annual
Youth Conclave of CREDAI,
held to bring together the
future of the real estate
Industry in India.
New Delhi, India
1st Human Rights
Conference 2019 -
LAWASIA
Theme: “State Power,
Business and Human
Rights: Contemporary
Challenges”.
New Delhi, India
4th India-ASEAN
Expo Summit
The Summit is a platform
for the policy makers,
industry captains and
business leaders to come
together and forge a
common vision for India
and ASEAN’s mutual
growth and progress.
New Delhi, India
14th Agricultural
Science Congress
Theme: “Innovations for
Agricultural
Transformation”
New Delhi, India
‘4th Global Digital
Health Partnership
Summit’
It is being hosted by the
Ministry of Health and
Family Welfare in
collaboration with the
World Health Organization
(WHO) and the Global
Digital Health Partnership
(GDHP).
New Delhi, India
‘Aviation Conclave
2019’
Theme: “Flying for All” New Delhi, India
20th India-Italy Joint
Commission for
Economic
Cooperation (JCEC)
This was co-chaired by the
Union Minister of
Commerce and Industry,
Suresh Prabhu and the
Deputy Minister of
Economic Development,
Mr. Michele Geraci.
New Delhi, India
World Sustainable
Development
Summit (WSDS)
2019
Theme: 'Attaining the 2030
Agenda: Delivering on Our
Promise'.
New Delhi, India
International Digital
Health Symposium
Minister of State for Health
and Family Welfare, Smt.
Anupriya Patel,
inaugurated this event.
New Delhi, India
Meeting of
the National Security
Council
It was set up by the Atal
Bihari Vajpayee
government in 1998, with
Brajesh Mishra as the first
National Security Advisor
(NSA).
New Delhi, India
Expo-cum
Conference on
Construction
Technology India
2019 (CTI-2019)
The project of one
thousand housing unit will
be built in 6 state that
are Gujarat, Jharkhand,
Madhya Pradesh, Tamil
Nadu, Tripura and Uttar
Pradesh.
New Delhi, India
14th CII-EXIM Bank
Conclave
Organised by Ministry of
Commerce & Industry on
India-Africa Project
Partnerships, in association
with Confederation of
New Delhi, India
Indian Industry and EXIM
Bank of India.
India-Africa bilateral trade
volume to USD 150 billion
in the next few years.
34th edition of
Aahar- the
International Food
and Hospitality Fair
It is organized by India
Trade Promotion
Organization (ITPO)
New Delhi, India
First ever Space
Dialogue of India and
Japan
To enhance cooperation
between the space
agencies of both the
nations
New Delhi, India
2nd edition of Indo-
Pacific Regional
Dialogue (IPRD) –
2019
To provide a platform for
substantive and insightful
discussions pertaining to
the geopolitical
developments affecting the
maritime domain of the
Indo-Pacific
New Delhi, India
34th meeting of the
Goods and Services
Tax Council
The tax rate for
under construction flats
slashed to 5% and
affordable homes to 1% by
the GST Council.
New Delhi, India
First workshop on
development of
the India Energy
Modelling Forum
(IEMF)
The NITI Aayog and
the United States Agency
for International
Development
(USAID) organized the
event.
New Delhi, India
International
Workshop on
Disaster Resilient
Infrastructure
(IWDRI)
It was organised by
National Disaster
Management Authority
(NDMA) in collaboration
with United Nations Office
for Disaster Risk Reduction
(UNISDR), and in
partnership with the Global
Commission on Adaptation,
United Nations
Development Programme
and the World Bank
New Delhi, India
3rd Indo-Japan
Workshop
on Disaster Risk
Reduction (DRR)
Government of India and
Government of Japan
organized the event
New Delhi, India
FinTech Conclave It has been organized
by NITI Aayog. The
Conclave was inaugurated
by RBI Governor
Shaktikanta Das.
New Delhi, India
Biannual Army
Commanders’
Conference
To ensure due diligence,
decisions are taken through
collegiate system
comprising Army
Commanders & Senior
Officers.
New Delhi, India
4th Resilient Cities
Asia-Pacific Congress
2019
It is organised by the
International Council for
Local Environmental
Initiatives (ICLEI) and co-
hosted by South Delhi
Municipal Corporation
New Delhi, India
Naval Commanders
Conference
The themes of 'Functional
Reorganisation of Indian
Navy towards improving
Operational Efficiency' and
'Optimal Manning' will form
the core of discussions
towards finalising long term
road map for the Indian
Navy.
New Delhi, India
World Trade
Organisation (WTO)
ministerial meeting
of developing
countries
Twelfth Ministerial
Conference of the WTO to
be held in Kazakhstan in
June 2020.
New Delhi, India
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Fifth Smart Cities
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The expo was organized by
India Trade Promotion
Organization (ITPO).
New Delhi, India
12th Capacity Building
workshop
The cooperation with the
Regional Cooperation
Agreement on Combating
Piracy and Armed Robbery
against Ships in Asia
(ReCAAP) Information
Sharing Centre (‘SC) in
New Delhi.
New Delhi, India
First Annual
Conference of Media
Units
The Information and
Broadcasting Ministry has
organized this event
New Delhi, India
Third edition of
Namaste Thailand
festival
Organised by the Royal
Thai Embassy with an aim
to strengthen bilateral ties
and increase cultural
exchange between India
and Thailand
New Delhi, India
2nd Meeting of India-
Italy Joint Working
Group on Counter
Terrorism
To deepen bilateral
cooperation for countering
terrorism and transnational
crimes through regular
exchange of information,
mutual capacity building
efforts, sharing of best
practices and mutual legal
assistance.
New Delhi, India
Conference on Future
of Indian Banking
NITI Aayog is co-hosting a
conference on “The Future
of Indian Banking” with the
Foundation for Economic
Growth and Welfare
(EGROW Foundation).
CSOI,
Chanakyapuri,
Delhi
National Convention
of War Decorated
India
- Chandimandir,
Haryana
NuGen Mobility
Summit, 2019
Organized by International
Centre for Automotive
Technology (ICAT)
Manesar, NCR,
Haryana
33rd Surajkund
International Crafts
Mela
This year Maharashtra is
the theme state and
Thailand is the Partner
Nation.
Faridabad,
Haryana
4th Agri leadership
Summit 2019
Theme: “Entrepreneurship
& Agri Business; Agri Allied
– A Promising Sector and
Agri Service- Direct
Marketing”.
Ganaur, Sonipat
district, Haryana
Global Skill Summit
2019
Theme: ‘Skilling Youth,
Enabling Youth’. It was
under the #MOMEMTUM
JHARKHAND campaign.
Ranchi, Jharkhand
40th International
Annual Desert
Festival
It will exhibit rich cultural
heritage of the state and
attract thousands of
tourists from all over the
world to the Golden City.
Jaisalmer,
Rajasthan
10th National
Science Film Festival
of India (NSFFl)
Foster, strengthen and
create scientific temper
through films that
popularise science,
technology, innovations,
energy, environment,
medicine and emerging
sciences, agriculture and
traditional knowledge.
Agartala, Tripura
16th edition BioAsia
2019
Theme: ‘Life Sciences 4.0 –
Disrupt the Disruption’.
HICC, Hyderabad,
Telangana
Agri-Vision 2019
conference on
envisioning Agro-
solutions for smart
and Sustainable
Agriculture
The objective of the
conference is to bring all
the stakeholders of
Agriculture production
together and create
business opportunities.
Hyderabad,
Telangana
4th edition of
International
Theme of India Pharma
2019 is ‘Enabling Quality
Bangalore,
Karnataka
Conference on
Pharmaceutical &
Medical Device sector
Affordable Healthcare’ and
that of India Medical Device
2019 is ‘Med-Tech India:
Gearing up for Ayushman
Bharat’
12th Aero-India-2019
The tagline for Aero India
2019 is “The Runway to a
Billion Opportunities”.
Bangalore,
Karnataka
Second ASEAN-India
Youth Summit
For strengthening the
multilateral relations of the
region.
Guwahati, Assam
Challachitram
National Film Festival
Theme: 'Our Heritage, Our
Pride'.
Guwahati, Assam
Madhya Dakshini
Festival 2019
South Central Zone
Cultural Centre (SCZCC) of
Ministry of Culture,
Government of India has
organized this event
Guwahati, Assam
2 Day Global
Investors Summit
The state government
would soon unveil e-vehicle
policy to give a boost to
electric vehicles
manufacturing in the state.
It is inaugurated by
Defence Minister Nirmala
Sitharaman.
Chennai, Tamil
Nadu
37th edition of ‘ICT
Academy Bridge
2019’ conference
Theme: “Fostering India for
Industry 4.0”
Tamil Nadu, India
Second World
Integrated Medicine
Forum 2019
This forum will strengthen
regulatory framework
worldwide, to assure that
the users of Homoeopathy
could have wider access to
quality-assured
homeopathic medicines.
Goa, India
2nd World Integrated
Medicine Forum 2019
The organizers of the forum
are the Central Council for
Research in Homeopathy,
under the Ministry of
AYUSH.
Goa
IBSA (India, Brazil &
South Africa)
Sherpas’ Meeting and
9th IBSA Trilateral
Ministerial Meeting
Secretary (Economic
Relations) in Ministry of
External Affairs, Shri T.S.
Tirumurti led the Indian
delegation.
Cochin, Kerala
Meeting of the
Regional Heads of
Customs
Administration of
Asia Pacific Region of
the World Customs
Organisation (WCO)
It was organised by Central
Board of Indirect Taxes and
Customs (CBIC)
Kochi, Kerala
Twelveth Regional
Standards Conclave
It was organized by the
Confederation of Indian
Industry (CII) in
collaboration with the
Department of Commerce,
Government of India, the
MSME Department of the
Government of Odisha, the
Bureau of Indian Standards
(BIS), National
Accreditation Board of
Certification Bodies
(NABCB), the Export
Inspection Council (EIC),
and Centre for Research in
International Trade (CRIT).
Bhubaneswar,
Odisha
5th International
Dam Safety
Conference–2019
It is a joint initiative of the
Government of India,
Government of Odisha and
the World Bank under aegis
of the ongoing World Bank
assisted Dam
Rehabilitation and
Improvement Project
Bhubaneswar,
Odisha
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS
➢ Pakistan Government has decided to launch Panda Bonds to raise
loans from Chinese capital markets. Panda bonds are Chinese renminbi-
denominated bonds from a non-Chinese issuer, sold in the People’s
Republic of China.
➢ Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is breaking off diplomatic
relations with the United States and is giving embassy personnel 72 hours
to get out of the country.
➢ Turkmenistan has launched its first messaging app named
“BizBarde”.
➢ A 33-year-old man Colin O’ Brady from the United States become
the first person to complete a solo trek across Antarctica without any
assistance.
➢ President of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev announced 2019 as
the ‘Year of Active Investment and Social Development’ in the
backdrop of proposed investments from India to boost the economy of the
Central Asian country, in his annual address to the Parliament.
➢ The United states of America (USA) and Israel officially quit
the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO) amid concerns that the organization fosters anti-Israel bias.
➢ Egypt President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has opened West Asia's largest
cathedral in its New Administrative Capital (45 kilometres east of
Cairo).
➢ Qatar has withdrawn its membership from Organization of the
Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
➢ The largest Picasso exhibition ever held in China.
➢ The main camera of Hubble Space Telescope on board NASA's Space
Telescope has been shut down after it encountered a hardware problem.
➢ France will introduce its own tax on large internet and technology
companies from January 1. France has been pushing hard for a new so-
called “GAFA tax” — named after Google, Apple, Facebook and
Amazon -to ensure the global giants pay a fair share of taxes on their
massive business operations in Europe.
➢ The Government of Japan planned to invest an amount of 205.784
billion Yenequal to Rs 13000 crores to complete new projects in different
states of India’s North- Eastern region.
➢ World’s first television channel dedicated to human rights was
launched in London by the International Observatory of Human Rights
(IOHR).
➢ US president has signed the ‘Asia Reassurance Initiative Act’. The
law aims at countering the encroaching influence and growing
threat from China, and to reinvigorate U.S. leadership in Asia.
➢ Air India is resuming its services after 25 years from New Delhi to the
holy city of Najaf, Iraq.
➢ Setting a first-of-its-kind record, Indian mountaineer 30-year-old
Arunima Sinha became the first female amputee to climb Mount
Vinson, the highest peak of Antarctica.
➢ Japan launched the Epsilon – 4 rockets carrying 7 satellites developed
by private sector companies and Universities from the Uchinoura Space
Center in Kagoshima.
➢ The Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro has been named as the World
Capital of Architecture for 2020 by the UN Educational, Scientific, and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
➢ Iranian council known as the Expediency Council approved an anti-
money laundering bill to ease trade. This bill will be in line with the
standards set by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF).
➢ Palestine took over the chairmanship of the Group of 77 from Arab
Republic of Egypt.
➢ Airports Authority of India (AAI) signed MoU with Society for
Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering and Research
(SAMEER) for joint research programs in the field of Communication
Navigation and Surveillance (CNS).
➢ Shanghai is now home to the world’s longest 3D-printed concrete
bridge, produced by a team from the Tsinghua University School of
Architecture in Beijing.
➢ The Pakistan government declared sugarcane juice as the “national
drink” of the country.
➢ The Pakistan countries has abolished the long-standing facility of visa
on arrival for Afghan nationals.
➢ Israel successfully tested the Arrow 3 missile system from Central
Israel, it is done in collaboration with American Missile Defense Agency.
➢ Five nations Belgium, Dominican Republic, Germany, Indonesia
and South Africa assumed the charge as the Non-Permanent Members of
the United Nations Security Council (UNSC).
➢ China landing a vehicle on the far side of the moon for the first time in
history.
➢ The union Government has launched the Sino-Indian Digital
Collaboration Plaza (SIDCOP) to bring Indian IT companies and Chinese
enterprises closer to each other on a single AI enabled platform.
➢ South Africa President was the Chief Guest at the Republic Day Parade
2019 - Cyril Ramaphosa.
➢ The Oxford Dictionaries has announced the Hindi Word of the Year
2018 as Nari Shakti.
➢ A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Ministry
of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) and
University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada for next 10 years in New
Delhi. It will help in exchange of students, researchers and faculty,
developing research projects, livelihood opportunities and augment income
of the forest based communities.
➢ Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) announced entering into
agreements worth $93 million for providing Naval Medium Range
Surface-to-Air Missile (MRSAM) systems to India.
➢ Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has opened a new centre in
partnership with the UN to fight climate change and boost sustainable
development in Africa.
➢ In order to save Iran from the US (United States) sanctions, Project
INSTEX (Instrument in Support of Trade Exercises) was launched by the
governments of United Kingdom, France and Germany.
➢ The United States of America pulls out of Intermediate-Range
Nuclear Forces treaty with Russia.
➢ UNESCO launched 2019 as The International Year of the Periodic
Table of Chemical Elements in Paris.
➢ Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)'s 40th communication
satellite GSAT-31 was successfully launched by European launch services
provider- Arianespace rocket from the European spaceport in French
Guiana.
➢ Sahapedia in partnership with UNESCO organized the second edition
of India Heritage Walk Festival (IHWF) 2019.
➢ Women in the Hungary country with four children or more will be
exempted for life from paying income tax.
➢ Thailand named the tiny, eye-catching, colourful fin plumaged Siamese
fighting fish as its aquatic animal with an aim to boost the conservation
and breeding of the same.
➢ The Union Government has announced the Great Indian Bustard (GIB)
as the mascot for the 13th Conference of Parties (COP) of the UN
Convention on the conservation of migratory species (CMS) to be held in
Gujarat next year.
➢ INS Trikand, the frontline warship of the Indian Navy, participated in a
multi-national training exercise ‘CUTCLASS EXPRESS 2019’.
➢ Abu Dhabi has included Hindi as the third official language used in its
courts, alongside Arabic and English, as part of a move designed to
improve access to justice.
➢ The country formerly known as the Republic of Macedonia officially
changed its name to the Republic of North Macedonia on paper ending a
decades-long dispute that should pave the way for NATO membership.
➢ Macedonia formally signed an agreement to join NATO (the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization) to become the 30th member of the US-led
alliance.
➢ Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani unveiled the first Iranian made semi-
heavy submarine named ‘Fateh’ (‘Conqueror’ in Persian), capable of being
fitted with missiles, as per the reporting on Iran’s state TV.
➢ UAE leaders has announced the construction of the ‘Church of Saint
Francis’ and ‘Mosque of Grand Imam Ahmad AI- Tayyeb’ in Abu Dhabi.
➢ A small brown rat which lived on a tiny island off northern Australia is
the world's first mammal known to have become extinct due to human-
induced climate change.
➢ China's state-run news agency, Xinhua unveiled the “world's first
female AI news anchor" to read alongside its male AI news presenters.
➢ The world’s busiest airport for international customer numbers for the fifth
consecutive year with annual traffic for 2018 named as Dubai
International Airport (DXB).
➢ India has raised the basic customs duty to 200% on all goods imported
from Pakistan with immediate effect. India withdraw the Most Favoured
Nation (MFN) status in the aftermath of the Pulwama terror attack.
➢ Month-long ‘festival of India’ organized by the Indian Embassy and
Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre begins in Kathmandu, Nepal.
➢ In a bid to reduce energy demand and provide emergency backup
power to trains in Japan, Tesla has claimed to develop its largest power
storage system in Asia. It was launched in partnership with Kintetsu, a
railway operator in Japan’s Osaka.
➢ China launched the first of its new-generation data relay satellites
“Tianlian II-01” into orbit that will provide data relay,
measurement, and control services for its manned spacecraft.
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➢ Japan has unveiled the name for its new imperial era, set to begin on
1 May, will be ‘Reiwa’, signifying order and harmony.
➢ South Korea launches the World’s First Fully-Fledged 5G mobile
networks, a transformational leap that already has superpowers sparring
for control of an innovation that could potentially change the day-to-day lives
of billions of people.
➢ Australia is conducting 7 nation Indian Ocean military
exercise along with Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam,
Indonesia and Singapore. Australia sent 4 Naval Ships and one military
aircraft along with 1000 security personnel making it one the biggest military
exercise.
➢ Nepal successfully launched its first satellite “NepaliSat-1” into space
from Virginia in the United States. It weighs 1.3 kilograms, making it a
small satellite with limited capability.
➢ Indonesia has released a special commemorative stamp on the
theme of Ramayana to mark the 70th anniversary of the establishment
of its diplomatic ties with India.
➢ The UAE Cabinet has adopted the National Artificial Intelligence
Strategy 2031 at the Presidential Palace in Abu Dhabi. According to Sheikh
Mohammed bin Rashid, The UAE is moving ahead with its vision and
aspirations through a well-defined plan for the UAE Centennial 2071.
➢ India and the US have structured the first reliable communication
link between the Indian Navy & US Central as well as Pacific Naval
Commands under the COMCASA pact at New Delhi, India.
➢ India has signed an agreement with National Bank for Agriculture
and Rural Development Consultancy Service (NABCONS) for setting
up India-Africa Institute of Agriculture and Rural
Development (IAIARD) in Malawi to enhance capacity in the areas of
agro-financing and entrepreneurship development for African countries.
➢ The First Global Multi-Stakeholder Conference on Synergies is
summoned by (UN DESA) the UN Department of Economic and Social
Affairs and the (UN FCCC) United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change between the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
and the Paris Agreement on climate change, was held in Copenhagen,
Denmark. It was hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
the Ministry of Energy, Utilities and Climate.
➢ At an estimated cost of $2.6 billion, the United States has approved the
sale of 24 multi-mission Lockheed Martin-built MH-60 “Romeo”
Seahawk helicopters to India.
➢ The United States Navy has signed an agreement with Oman to use
the southern Omani ports which will allow American ships and warplanes
to take advantage of Omani ports and airports.
➢ Amid heightened tensions with Pakistan, the Narendra Modi
government has cleared the procurement of 464 T-90 tanks from Russia
in a deal worth over Rs 13,500 crore.
➢ Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has launched its first
commercial drone delivery service through its Wing subsidiary. It had
launched its first air delivery service in North Canberra, Australia.
➢ The British government has published an “online harms white
paper” which is open for public consultation (till July) focuses to make
online social media platforms responsible to safeguard users, especially
children.
➢ Sri Lanka’s first satellite ‘Raavana-1’ was launched into space from
NASA’s Flight Facility on Virginia’s east shore. ‘Raavana 1’ weights
around 1.05 kg and the lifespan of the satellite is around one and a half
years.
➢ Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has decided to ban the two
fundamentalist terror networks namely National Thawheed Jamath
(NJT) & Jamathei Milathu Ibrahim (JMI).
➢ India and Sweden have launched a joint programme that will work
towards addressing a range of challenges around smart cities and
clean technologies among others.
➢ India is joining hands with Japan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
to implement two projects in Africa. India will build a cancer hospital in
Kenya in collaboration with Japan and will to set up an Information and
Communications Technology (ICT) Centre in Ethiopia in partnership with
the UAE.
➢ UAE Govt has announced granting long-term visas for the top 100
start-ups shaping the fourth industrial revolution.
➢ The United Nations has described Cyclone Idai as one of the deadliest
storms on record in the southern hemisphere.
➢ The first-ever blackhole to be pictured has been named “Powehi”.
"Powehi", the name bestowed upon the first black hole pictured ever, is
sourced from the Hawaiian word "Kumulipo", a primordial chant describing
the creation of the universe.
➢ The World's Largest Aircraft took off over the Mojave Desert in
California the first flight for the carbon-composite plane built by
Stratolaunch Systems Corp.
➢ China has successfully tested the World's First Armed Amphibious
Drone Boat named ‘Marine Lizard’ and guided by China’s BeiDou
Navigation Satellite System which could be used in land and sea assault
operations, has been successfully tested by China.
➢ Tech giant Google is all set to exhibit itself as AI first company in front
of the world by opening new research centres across the globe such as in
Tokyo, Zurich, New York, and Paris. Following this idea, the company
has opened its first centre in Africa in Ghana capital city, Accra.
➢ Two Indian Navy ships will participate in an international maritime
parade off the coast of Qingdao in China next week, marking the 70th
anniversary of founding of the Chinese Navy. Indian Navy ships - INS
Kolkata and INS Shakti.
➢ Over 300 Days, Christina Koch will Set a New Record for Longest
Space Flight by A Woman.
➢ The Attorney General William Barr of US has released 448 pages
redacted version of Robert Mueller’s “Report on the Investigation into
Russian Interference in the 2016 Election” which claims that the special
counsel found no evidence of Russian meddling in US election in 2016.
➢ The Asian Tea Alliance (ATA), a union of five tea-growing and
consuming countries, was launched in Guizhou in China, according to
industry sources.
➢ Saudi Arabia has issued a formal order increasing the Haj quota of
India to two lakhs from one lakh seventy five-thousand. This is the
third hike in three consecutive years.
➢ The world’s first malaria vaccine has been rolled out in Malawi to
protect 360,000 children under two in Malawi, Kenya and Ghana in Sub-
Saharan Africa from the mosquito-borne disease that causes 435,000 people
global deaths each year.
➢ The government has extended the ban on import of milk and its
products, including chocolates, from China till laboratories at ports for
testing presence of toxic chemical melamine are upgraded.
➢ Central Asia's biggest and resource-rich Kazakhstan has set up
Coordinating Council for attracting foreign investments including from India.
➢ Iran's President Hassan Rouhani announced that he and visiting
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan agreed to set up a joint border
"reaction force" to counter terrorism to combat the attacks by militant
groups on both sides their frontier.
➢ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he intends to name
a new settlement in the Golan Heights after US President Donald
Trump to honour his recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the strategic
plateau.
➢ The UAE’s flag carrier Etihad Airways has become the first airline in
the Gulf region to operate a flight without any single-use plastics on
board, in a bid to raise awareness about pollution on Earth Day. Etihad
Airways has pledged to reduce single-use plastic usage by 80% across the
entire organization by the end of 2022.
➢ India’s decision to skip the Belt and Road Forum (BRF) may have led to
the exclusion of the Bangladesh- China- India- Myanmar (BCIM)
Economic corridor from the list of projects covered by the China-led Belt
and Road Initiative (BRI) umbrella.
➢ Kim Jong-un (North Korean leader) and Vladimir Putin (Russian
President) meet for their first summit talks in the Pacific port city of
Vladivostok.
➢ The 14th edition of the annual Sino-Indian border trade opens at
Nathu La, which is the frontier post at Sino-Indian border in Sikkim.
➢ Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh also called as Jamaat-ul-
Mujahideen India or Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Hindustan declared as a banned
terrorist organization by the government, the Home Ministry. All its
manifestations have been inserted in the First Schedule to the Unlawful
Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.
➢ Saudi Arabia lifted export ban on fruits and vegetables from Kerala. In
June 2018, the ban was imposed due to the outbreak of Nipah virus.
➢ The U. K. government has passed an amendment, the Offensive
Weapons Bill, by which Sikhs in the country will be allowed to carry
kirpans and use it during religious and cultural functions.
➢ The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) said its response to any "misadventure
by the adversary" would be stronger than before as it decided to mark its
retaliatory action on February 27 against the Indian air strikes on the
Balakot militant camp as “Operation Swift Retort”.
➢ Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a “sovereign internet”
bill that will allow Russian authorities to isolate the country’s internet to
expand the Government Control of the Internet.
➢ India delivered the first pair of Mi-24 attack helicopters as a
replacement to the Afghan Air Force.
➢ India for the first time will host and participate in a major army
competition involving eight countries, including China and Russia, in
Jaisalmer, Rajasthan.
➢ Japan has started testing its fastest-ever bullet train ALFA-X version of
the Shinkansen train began three years, capable of reaching 400
kilometres per hour (249 mph).
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➢ India has extended 1 billion- dollar Line of Credit to Mongolia to set
up it’s first-ever grass-root refinery at Sainshand in Dornogobi Province.
➢ The Saudi government has approved for the first time a scheme that
gives permanent residency to certain expatriates, allowing them to
own real estate in the kingdom and reside with their families without a Saudi
sponsor. This new system is named as the “Privileged Iqama”.
➢ The UK parliament became the first national legislative body in the
world to declare a climate change "emergency". The historic move closely
follows Extinction Rebellion protests that blocked traffic in key parts of
central London for a week in April.
➢ A Nepali teenager Bandana danced continuously for 126 hours to set
a Guinness World Records on 'Longest Dancing Marathon by an
Individual', a feat previously holds by an Indian.
➢ India and Bangladesh will co-produce a film on the life and works of
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and a documentary on
Bangladesh Liberation War.
➢ Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) in its World Health
Assembly held in Geneva, had for the first time recognized ‘burn out’ as a
medical condition in its International Classification of Diseases
(ICD).
➢ The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared Algeria and
Argentina as malaria-free countries.
➢ To create a new chapter in India-China cooperation in the new era of
digital transition, 2019 Sino-India IT and DT Industry Cooperation
Forum was held on 27th May in Guiyang, China.
➢ The Malaysian government said that hundreds of tonnes of imported
plastic waste will be shipped back to where it came from insisting that the
country did not want to be a global dumping ground.
➢ The US government has removed India from its monitoring list for
currency manipulation, clearing doubts over India’s foreign exchange
policies including undervaluation of currencies to gain export advantages.
➢ World’s largest telecom equipment maker Huawei filed a motion in a US
court to declare National Defense Authorization Act
(NDAA) as “unconstitutional”.
➢ The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), NASA’s first mission
to demonstrate a planetary defense technique will get one chance to hit its
target, the small moonlet asteroid is 150 m tall which orbiting a larger body
in the binary asteroid system Didymos. DART slams into its target –
Didymos B – in September 2022.
➢ A two-day interaction was organised by the Commerce Ministry and
Indian High Commissions and embassies of eleven African countries
to strengthen the India-Africa trade ties.
➢ Bilateral trade between India and the United States in goods and
services grew 12. 6 per cent from USD 126 billion in 2017 to USD 142
billion in 2018.
➢ WHO (World Health organization) collaborated with the International
Food and Beverage Alliance (IFBA) to eliminate industrially produced
trans-fat (iTFA) from food supply worldwide by 2023.
➢ The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announces the approval of
“Dengvaxia”, the first vaccine approved for the prevention of dengue
disease caused by all dengue virus serotypes (1, 2, 3 and 4) in people ages
9 through 16 who have laboratory-confirmed previous dengue infection and
who live in endemic areas.
➢ Mr Sedat Onal, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey visited
India from 07-09 May 2019.
➢ The Islamic State terror group has claimed to have established a new
"province" in India, the first of its kind announcement that came after
clashes between militants and security forces in Kashmir on May 10. The
Arabic name of the new branch is "Wilayah of Hind" (India Province),
the dreaded terror outfit, (also known as ISIS and ISIL).
➢ China has launched two new Type 052D guided-missile destroyers
as it continues its push to upgrade its naval power. The two new warships
were launched at the Dalian shipyard in northeast China.
➢ Recently, the Australian flight carrier, Qantas has operated world’s
first zero waste commercial flight named QF739 from Sydney to
Adelaide which disposed all waste through compost, reuse or recycle.
➢ Konkan Railways Corporation Ltd has signed a contract agreement
with Nepal's Department of Railways to supply two 1600 HP DEMU
train sets. These trains will be used to operationalise railway link between
Jayanagar in India and Kurtha in Nepal.
➢ India has been unanimously chosen as co-chair of the Consultative
Group (CG) of Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery
(GFDRR) for the fiscal year 2020.
➢ Sri Lanka, Japan, and India signed an agreement to jointly develop the
East Container Terminal at the Colombo Port on 28th May. The joint
initiative is estimated to cost between $500 million and $700 million. As
per the agreement, Sri Lanka Port Authority (SLPA) will hold 51% majority
stake in the port development while Japan and India will have combined
stake of 49 percent.
➢ China rejected U. S. Ambassador Terry Branstad’s call to Beijing to
engage in substantive dialogue with the Dalai Lama.
➢ Russia launched the world’s largest nuclear-powered icebreaker
‘Ural’ at the Baltic Shipyard in St Petersburg in order to improve its
ability to tap the Arctic’s commercial potential.
➢ US Space Agency announced that the National Aeronautics and Space
Organization (NASA) is set for its Mission to Moon “Artemis” which is to
be achieved by 2024. Earlier, its goal to achieve this feat was by 2028.
After the Mission to Moon “Artemis”, NASA is planning to reach Mars by
2033.
➢ A Nepalese Sherpa climber Kami Rita has scaled Mount Everest for a
23rd time, breaking his own record for the most successful ascents of the
world's highest peak.
➢ India joined France, New Zealand, Canada and several other countries
on in launching a major initiative in Paris to combat terrorism and
extremism online and secure the internet. The initiative, 'Christchurch
call to action', was named after the New Zealand city where 51 people
were killed in an attack on mosques.
➢ Taiwan’s legislature voted to legalize same-sex marriage, a first in
Asia and a boost for LGBT rights activists who had championed the cause
for two decades.
➢ US President Donald Trump has outlined plans for a new US
immigration system that replaces the existing green cards with 'Build
America' visa and substantially hikes the quota for young and highly skilled
workers from 12 to 57 per cent, a move likely to benefit thousands of
Indian professionals.
➢ Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone signed an agreement to develop
and operate a container terminal at Yangon Port in Myanmar.
➢ According to a report by the Open Observatory of Network
Interference (OONI), China has started blocking all language editions of
Wikipedia last month.
➢ US President Donald Trump became first foreign leader at Japan’s
Imperial Palace where he made history becoming the first world leader to
meet with the new emperor of Japan “Emperor Naruhito”. Emperor
Naruhito ascended to the throne on May 1, opening what is called the era of
“Reiwa” or “beautiful harmony.
➢ United States Air Force (USAF) has successfully conducted the test of a
laser weapons system called the Self-Protect High Energy Laser
Demonstrator (SHiELD) in New Mexico.
➢ The 8th edition of the Indo-Myanmar Coordinated Patrol (IMCOR)
is being held in Andaman & Nicobar Command. Under the program,
Myanmar ships UMS King TabinShweHtee (773) and UMS Inlay (OPV-54) are
participating in the coordinated patrol (CORPAT) along with Indian Naval
Ship Saryu.
➢ External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj attended the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization meeting of Council of Foreign Ministers in
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
➢ Pakistan successfully test-fired surface-to-surface medium-range guided
ballistic missile Shaheen-II. It is a two-stage rocket with a diameter of 1.4
m, length of 17.5 m, the weight of 25 tons and a range of 1500-2000 km.
➢ UAE’s Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship (ICA) has issued
the first Golden Residence Permit in Abu Dhabi. Indian billionaire M. A,
Yousouf Ali was given the Golden card under the Scheme in UAE.
➢ A volcano on the Indonesian island of Bali erupted “Mount Agung”.
➢ Russia launches the first Arctic train service “Zarengold”. The first tourist
train travelling through Russia's Arctic region and on to Norway set off
from St. Petersburg station (Russia) with 91 passengers aboard for the
inaugural trial journey.
➢ Insurance Regulatory & Development Authority of India (IRDAI)
has increased the third party (TP) motor insurance premium for small and
medium private cars in the range of 12- 12.5% for 2019-20.
➢ United Arab Emirates (UAE) has adopted the ‘National Strategy for
Wellbeing 2031’ during its meeting at the Presidential Palace in Abu
Dhabi.
➢ The United Arab Emirates has reaffirmed their joint commitment to fight
against terrorism and violent extremism in all its forms with Germany.
➢ Europe’s Highest Volcano Mount Etna, in southern Italy, erupted with
burst into life, spewed ash, fire, and spitting molten lava high into the sky.
➢ Russia has rejected an Iranian request to buy S-400 missile defence
systems, concerned that the sale would stoke more tension in the Middle
East.
➢ Pakistan has approved a fund of 2,000 crore Pakistani rupees (₹930
crore) to help boost its stock market. Pakistan’s stock market has been one
of the world’s worst performing over the past two years.
➢ India, US, Japan, and Australia came together to support ASEAN-led
architecture mechanism for a rule-based order to promote the free, open,
prosperous and inclusive indo-pacific region in a meeting held at Bangkok,
Thailand.
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➢ Mahindra Susten, the private equity division of Mahindra Group, has
partnered with Mitsui & Co. Ltd, of Japan. The aim is to jointly develop and
operate distributed solar power generation projects in India.
➢ To mark the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Embassy
in Saudi organized ‘Gandhi Cycle Rally for Peace’ in association with the
Diplomatic Quarter Authority and Saudi Cycling Federation.
➢ The union government notified an agreement with the Marshall Islands
a country of volcanic islands and coral atolls in the Pacific Ocean, for the
exchange of banking and company information for tax purposes. It comes
under tax evasion and tax avoidance. It is called as Tax Information
Exchange Agreement (TIEA).
➢ India has partnered with Portugal to set up a National Maritime
Heritage Museum at Lothal in Gujarat.
➢ The African Union’s Peace and Security Council has suspended Sudan
as there is no civilian rule established in the country.
➢ Mount Sinabung volcano erupted in Sumatra Island of western
Indonesia. A huge column of ash was blasted and spread 7 km high to
southeast and south of crater.
➢ National Center for Good Governance (NCGG) signed an MOU with
Maldives Civil Services Commission building of 1000 Maldives civil
servants for the next 5 years.
➢ Canada ban single-use plastics from the year 2021. Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau planned to ban plastic bottles, straws and plastic bags
clogging the world’s oceans.
➢ Imports from Pakistan to India has declined by 92% to $2.84 million
in March 2019. This is after the imposition of 200% customs duties on all
products following Pulwama terror attack.
➢ Turkey announced that it will not back down from its decision to buy
Russian S-400 missile defence systems despite U.S.’s ultimatum. This has
created tension between Ankara and Washington, the NATO allies.
➢ Scientists from National Geographic Society and Tribhuvan
University installed have installed two highest weather stations in the
world in an expedition to Mount Everest that wrapped up in June 2019.
➢ India designated as the Guest of Honour at the 33rd Feria Internacional
del Libro de Guadalajara (Guadalajara International Book Fair) in Mexico,
the National Book Trust.
➢ India extended USD 15 million assistance to Nigeria for organizing the
African Union (AU) summit scheduled to be held in Niamey.
➢ Ireland decided to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles by
2030 as part of a major strategy to protect the environment. It is one among
the 180 measures of the Irish government published in the ‘Climate Action
Plan’.
➢ NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the National Science
Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) discovered
‘cannonball’ pulsar hurtling through space. It speeds nearly 2.5 million
miles per hour which is as fast as it could travel the distance between Earth
and the Moon in just 6 minutes.
➢ India and the African Union has signed an agreement to establish an
India-Africa health sciences collaborative platform.
➢ Norway’s capital Oslo will become the world’s first city to
install wireless induction-based fast-charging systems for electric
taxis, in a bid to make a zero-emission cab system by as early
as 2023.This allows for charging up to 75 kilowatts. Norway wants all new
cars to be zero emission by 2025 whereas other nations, like Britain and
France, have similar goals for 2040.
➢ Norway set a new world record by selling 31% of electric cars in 2018.
It is set to end the sale of the fossil-fuelled car by 2025.
➢ Italy’s new Earth-observation satellite named PRISMA (Precursore
Iperspettrale della Missione Applicativa) has been launched from the Guiana
Space Centre by 98 foot (30 meters) tall Vega rocket. PRISMA is
an electro-optical instrument, which is designed to take medium
resolution photos to give information about environmental monitoring,
natural resources, pollution and crop health.
➢ US President Donald Trump formally recognised Israeli
sovereignty over the Israel-occupied Golan Heights, reversing decades of
United States policy and told the visiting Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin
Netanyahu, that Israel has an absolute right to self-defence.
➢ The World’s Largest E-Waste Recycling Facility has opened in Dubai,
UAE. It will process Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE),
IT asset disposition (ITAD), refrigerant gas and specialised waste.
➢ The Israeli cave explorers discovered the world’s longest cave
named Malham near the Dead sea, beating the record-holder in Iran. The
cave is spread in an area of 10 kilometers (6.25 miles) and it runs through
the Israel’s largest mountain, Mount Sodom and spills out to the southwest
corner of the adjacent Dead Sea.
➢ The Indian English word ‘chuddies’ recognized as official English word by
the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The word is one of the new 650
entries announced by the OED.
➢ The Pentagon, the headquarters of the United States Department of
Defence has notified that it has authorized to shift US $1 billion from a
military personnel account to establish a new wall of 57 mile and 18-
foot-high fence at the southern U.S. Mexico border.
➢ The Security Council of UN has passed the new Resolution
2462 which is intended to crack down on the financing of terrorist groups
and ordering members to enforce laws against terror financing.
➢ The European Parliament has banned the single-use plastic cutlery,
cotton buds, straws and stirrers that despoils beaches and pollutes oceans.
➢ Tesla has developed its ‘largest power storage system in
Asia’ at Osaka train station in Japan to reduce energy demand and
provide emergency backup power to trains in Japan.
➢ China’s Shanghai claimed to have the World’s First District with 5g
Coverage and a broadband gigabit network. It has conducted trial runs of
the 5G network in Shanghai’s Hongkou district.
➢ The UN Security Council has unanimously passed the first-ever
resolution ordering members to enforce laws against terror
financing.
➢ Microsoft developed a storage device in partnership with the University
of Washington that can translate digital information into DNA.
➢ Italy has signed a non-binding protocol with China to take part in
Beijing's new Silk Road of transport and trade links stretching from Asia to
Italy.
➢ Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena handed over a proposal
seeking to declare the “Theravada Tripitaka” as a UNESCO World
Heritage.
➢ Highlighting the close maritime proximity between India and
Indonesia, Indian Coast Guard Ship ‘Vijit’ became the first-ever Coast
Guard ship to visit Sabang, Indonesia.
➢ The Ministry of Human Resource Development
(MHRD), Government of India, signed a MoU with the Afghanistan
Government to collaborate on Digital Education Initiatives. One of the
main objectives of the MOU is to facilitate students and faculty from
Afghanistan to enroll and learn from the courses offered on SWAYAM, which
will expose them to latest technology courses and also upskill them in areas
of their interest.
➢ India and Pakistan have agreed to work together to operationalize
the Kartarpur corridor which makes it easier for the Indian pilgrims to visit
Gurdwara Darbar Sahib at Kartarpur in Pakistan. After Kartarpur
Corridor, now Government of Pakistan has given its consent to the proposal
of opening Sharada Peeth Corridor for Hindu pilgrims to visit Sharada
Peeth located in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK).
➢ European Union expanded the blacklist by 10 Countries adding the
United Arab Emirates, Barbados and the Marshall Island. The list had
previously included five countries and now it became 15 countries.
➢ The first shipment under the United Nations ‘Transports
Internationaux Routiers’ (TIR) convention arrived
in India from Afghanistan through Iran’s Chabahar Port.
➢ Cyclone Idai hit the Mozambique city of Beira and caused heavy rain
and landfall at the port city. ‘Cyclone’ has affected more than 1.5 million
people in the three southern African countries Mozambique,
Zimbabwe and Malawi.
➢ 3 astronauts, Nick Hague and Christina Koch from US and Alexey
Ovchinin from Russia had arrived successfully at the International Space
Station (ISS) on Russian Soyuz spacecraft which was launched
from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome.
➢ Metropolitan Clearing Corporation of India Ltd (MCCIL) has become
the first clearing corporation in India to receive recognition as a Third-
Country Central Counterparty (TC-CCP) by Bank of England for offering
various clearing services to UK-based entities. It has been granted under
United Kingdom’s Temporary Recognition Regime (TRR).
➢ The 33rd edition of the India-Indonesia Coordinated Patrol (Ind-
Indo Corpat) was started at Port Blair, Andaman & Nicobar Islands in
order to enhance interoperability and strengthen existing bonds of friendship
between India and Indonesia. The closing ceremony will be held at
Belawan, Indonesia.
➢ Maldives finance ministry has signed an agreement with
India’s Export-Import bank (EXIM) for line of credit (LOC) of 800 million
US dollars to finance the new government’s infrastructure projects.
The EXIM Bank loans come with a 1.75 percent interest rate and a 15-
year repayment period after five years of moratorium.
➢ Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) signed a loan agreement on
behalf of the government of USD 83.11 million to Congo for
financing three solar photovoltaic power projects in the central African
country, with a total capacity of 35 megawatts in the three provinces
— Karawa, Mbandaka, and Lusambo.
➢ Directorate General of Mines Safety (DGMS) signed Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) with Safety in Mines, Testing and Research
Station (SIMTARS), Australia for cooperation in occupational safety.
➢ Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi
will jointly inaugurate four projects in Bangladesh, including the supply
of 1,100 buses and trucks to Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation
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(BRTC), e-plaques for supply of buses and trucks, inauguration of 36
community clinics, 11 water treatment plants, and extension of National
Knowledge Network to Bangladesh. The National Knowledge Network will
connect scholars and research institutes in Bangladesh, to India and
the world.
➢ Kane Tanaka from Fukuoka, Japan, has been officially confirmed as the
oldest person living at 116 years 66 days old as of 9 March 2019.
➢ In a meeting between Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and his
Saudi counterpart and the chairman of Saudi Aramco, Khalid A Al-Falih,
in New Delhi, it was decided that India and Saudi Arabia will revive and
expedite the implementation of USD 44 billion West Coast refinery project
in Maharashtra, in which Saudi Aramco will be holding a considerable
stake. Capital: Riyadh; Currency: Saudi riyal
➢ United States issued a pre-emptive warning to Iran on against
pursuing three planned space rocket launches that it said would violate a UN
Security Council resolution because they use ballistic missile technology.
➢ ONGC Videsh (OVL) the overseas arm of ONGC, with Petrodorado South
America has made its second oil discovery in Colombia.
➢ ISRO is building a “strategic asset” in Bhutan with this station, we can
keep an eye on China and its movements.
➢ The government has cut import duties on crude and refined palm oil from
Southeast Asian countries. India imports 60%— 15.5 million tonnes
annually — of its edible oil requirements, largely from Malaysia, Indonesia,
Argentina, and Ukraine.
➢ A law named Asia Reassurance Initiative Act (ARIA) was passed by
Donald Trump on December 31st, 2018 according to which $1.5 billion will
be funded by America to its Asian partners in the next 5 years.
➢ India has proposed setting up of an ‘India-Central Asia Development
Group’ at the maiden India-Central Asia dialogue in Samarkand, Uzbekistan
attended by India’s Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj.
➢ The Union Cabinet approved amendments on currency swap arrangements
under which a standby facility of USD 400 million for SAARC member
countries will be incorporated. The member countries of SAARC
(Headquarter: Kathmandu, Nepal) are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan,
India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
➢ Russian Railways Logistics Joint Stock Company (RZD) and Container
Corporation of India (CONCOR), the largest rail container transport
operator in India, signed the MoU for providing logistics services on INTSC
(International North-South Transport Corridor).
➢ The United Nations owes India $38 million, the highest it has to pay
to any country for the peacekeeping operations as of March 2019.
➢ India entered into a deal with Russia for leasing of a nuclear –
powered attack submarine for Indian Navy worth USD 3 billion for a
period of 10 years. Under the pact, Russia will deliver Chakra III, an
Akula class submarine to the Indian Navy by 2025. Capital: Moscow;
Currency: Russian ruble.
➢ China lifted its broadband communication system by launching a Long
March – 3B carrier rocket with ‘ChinaSat 6C’ into a geostationary orbit
in Sichuan province.
➢ The Marshall Islands is planning to release a digital currency called
“SOV” (Sovereign) in 2019, however, the launch date of the currency has
not been decided.
➢ The Asian Business Leadership Forum (ABLF), a global leadership
platform in partnership with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) ‘s Federal
Government has decided to give further momentum to India-UAE ties.
2019 has been declared as UAE’s Year of Tolerance by the UAE
Government to underline the commitment to make compassion, inclusion
and acceptance a part of everyday life.
➢ Pakistan elected as deputy chairman of the general body of
the Parliamentary Union of the OIC member States (PUIC) in Rabat,
Morocco. PUIC conference also adopted two resolutions presented by
Pakistan related to Kashmir. Capital: Islamabad; Currency: Pakistani
rupee.
➢ The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) had
banned Russia in November 2015 because of evidence of state-sponsored
doping and have decided to maintain it until samples and data
from Moscow’s former anti-doping laboratory are made available.
➢ Japanese government decided to provide Rs.22 lakhs ($31,800) for
the Rabindra Bharati Museum in Kolkata, West Bengal in order to
establish deeper and stronger historical and cultural ties with India. Capital:
Tokyo; Currency: Japanese yen
➢ A new coin that features the Crimea or Kerch Strait Bridge has been
released by Russia’s central bank, to mark Crimea’s reunification with
Russia.
➢ India has provided a financial support worth USD 250 million
to Nepal, to reconstruct infrastructure in fields of housing, education, health
and cultural heritage, which had been ruined by the earthquake that took
place on April 2015. Capital: Kathmandu; Currency: Nepalese rupee.
➢ India has signed a deal with a Russian firm to manufacture 7.5 lakh
AK-203 rifles, the latest derivative of the AK-47 rifles. The AK-203 rifles
will be produced at the Indian Ordnance Factory at Amethi’s Korwa.
The new rifles will replace the indigenous INSAS rifles in the Army, Air
Force and Navy.
➢ UAE based company will release 12 bank notes of zero value which
is the first ever limited-edition commemorative series to mark the
150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Dubai based Indian artist
Akbar Saheb has designed these special notes.
➢ North Korea – United States Hanoi Summit has abruptly concluded
in Hanoi, Vietnam with no joint agreement after Kim insisted all US
sanctions to be lifted on his country.
➢ Malaysia became a member of the International Criminal Court
(ICC), the world’s only permanent war crimes court which aims to prosecute
the worst abuses when national courts are unable or unwilling.
➢ President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree suspending Russia's
participation in a key Cold War-era nuclear arms-control agreement
with the United States.
➢ Pacific Trade Pact takes off with tariffs among six countries
(Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Mexico, and Singapore) that
together amount to more than 13 percent of global gross domestic product
(GDP) – a total of $10 trillion across much of the Asia-Pacic region.
Members of TPP are Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore,
Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, Peru, and Chile.
➢ Samsung Electronics led the largest number of patents related to self-
driving cars in Europe, far above traditional automobile manufacturers.
➢ NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft broke a record after successfully entering
into orbit around the asteroid (a stone) Bennu – the smallest cosmic
object ever to be orbited by a spacecraft.
INTERNATIONAL SUMMITS
Summit Key points/theme Held in
48th World Economic
Forum Annual Meet
Theme: ‘Globalization
4.0: Shaping a Global
Architecture in the Age
of the Fourth Industrial
Revolution’
Davos, Switzerland
6th Session of the
biennial Global
Platform for (DDR)
Disaster Risk Reduction
(GP2019)
Theme: Resilience
Dividend: Towards
Sustainable and
Inclusive Societies
Geneva, Switzerland
14th meeting of the
Conference of the
Parties to the Basel
Convention (BC COP-
14), the 9th meeting of
the Conference of the
Parties to the
Rotterdam Convention
(RC COP-9) and the 9th
meeting of the
Conference of the
Parties to the
Stockholm Convention
(SC COP-9)
Theme: “Clean Planet,
Healthy People: Sound
Management of
Chemicals and Waste”
Geneva, Switzerland
4th Edition of Arab
Economic and Social
Development Summit
To make a joint
statement on a 29-item
agenda that ranges
from discussions on an
Arab free trade zone
and the economic effect
of Syrian refugees on
host countries.
Beirut, Lebanon
7th ASEAN-India
Tourism Ministers
meeting
Union Tourism Minister
K. J. Alphons, co-
chaired the 7th Meeting
of Tourism Ministers of
ASEAN-India with
Minister of Culture,
Sports and Tourism of
Viet Nam, Mr. Nguyen
Ngoc Thien.
Ha Long City, Viet
Nam
First India-Central Asia
Dialogue
Aims at taking forward
the bilateral relations
which have
strengthened following
the Prime Minister
Narendra Modi’s visit to
all the five Central Asian
nations – Kazakhstan,
Samarkand,
Uzbekistan
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Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, and
Uzbekistan – in 2015
and the EAM’s tour
across the region in
August 2018.
34th Meeting of the
Shanghai Cooperation
Organisations (SCOs)
Regional Anti-Terrorist
Structure (RATS)
A joint exercise ‘Sary –
Arka – Antiterror 2019’
will be held as decided
by the RATS in the
session.
Tashkent,
Uzbekistan
First India-Central Asia
Dialogue
Aims at taking forward
the bilateral relations
which have
strengthened following
the Prime Minister
Narendra Modi’s visit to
all the five Central Asian
nations – Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, and
Uzbekistan – in 2015
and the EAM’s tour
across the region in
August 2018.
Samarkand,
Uzbekistan
World Government
Summit
It provides a unique
platform to showcase
and exchange best
practices and smart
solutions to the
challenges that nations
face.
Dubai, UAE
Organization of Islamic
Cooperation (OIC)
foreign ministers meet
This is the first time that
a leader of the non-
Muslim country has
been invited India to
the OIC conference.
Abu Dhabi, UAE
World’s foremost
Artificial Intelligence
(AI) Summit
To empower global
dialogue on the future
of government,
business and society
United Arab
Emirates (UAE)
29th edition of the Abu
Dhabi International
Book Fair (ADIBF)
India has been
nominated as the
“Guest of Honour”
country at the Book Fair
in Abu Dhabi.
Abu Dhabi, UAE
46th session of the
Council of Foreign
Ministers of the
Organisation of Islamic
Co-operation (OIC)
Sushma Swaraj
attended the inaugural
session of the
Organisation of Islamic
Co-operation meeting in
Abu Dhabi where she
was welcomed as a
“guest of honour”.
Abu Dhabi, UAE
55th Munich Security
Conference (MSC)
It brings together
leaders and security
experts from across the
world
Munich, Germany
69th Berlin
International Film
Festival (Berlinale)
2019
Director European Film
Market (EFM) Matthijis
Wouter Knol has
inaugurated the Indian
Pavilion in the event
Berlin, Germany
13th PETROTECH 2019 The ‘PETROTECH-2019’
is being organized
under the aegis of the
Ministry of Petroleum &
Natural Gas,
Government of India.
Greater Noida, Uttar
Pradesh
2nd meeting India-
Nepal Trade Treaty
To deliberate upon
various bilateral issues
and non-tariff barriers
in bilateral trade
Pokhara, Nepal
5th Asia Pacific
Broadcasting Union
(ABU) Media Summit
on Climate Action and
Disaster Preparedness.
Theme: Media Solutions
for Sustainable Future:
Saving Lives, Building
Resilient Communities.
Kathmandu, Nepal
Nepal-India Franchise
Investment Expo and
Conclave
Focuses on building the
relations between India
and Nepal through
entrepreneurship
development.
Kathmandu, Nepal
7th Foreign Office
consultations between
India and Italy
To further facilitate
their growth, including
through strengthening
the existing institutional
mechanisms.
New Delhi, India
4th Meeting of India-
Ukraine Working Group
on Trade and Economic
Cooperation (IU-
WGTEC)
Discussed bilateral
trade featuring the
importance of exports
and imports between
the 2 countries.
New Delhi, India
Third round of Foreign
Office Consultations
between India and
Botswana
The Indian side was led
by Dr. Neena Malhotra,
Joint Secretary (East &
Southern Africa). To
review the entire gamut
of bilateral relations,
including political,
economic, commercial,
defence, consular and
international
cooperation
New Delhi, India
14th session of the
Conference of Parties
(COP-14) of the United
Nations Convention to
Combat Desertification
(UNCCD)
The Union Minister also
launched a flagship
project on enhancing
capacity on forest
landscape restoration
(FLR) and Bonn
Challenge in India,
through a pilot phase of
3.5 years implemented
in the States of
Haryana, Madhya
Pradesh, Maharashtra,
Nagaland and
Karnataka.
New Delhi, India
Taiwan Expo 2019 Theme: "Connect
Taiwan, Connect the
world"
New Delhi, India
First Global Conference
on Synergies
First-ever global
coalition on clean and
efficient cooling was
between the 2030
Agenda and Paris
Agreement.
Copenhagen,
Denmark
17th World Economic
Forum (WEF) in the
Middle East and North
Africa (MENA) 2019
Forum was themed on
three major visions:
generating job
opportunities,
empowering Arab
women and promoting
the most intriguing
start-ups.
Amman, Jordan
World’s foremost
Artificial Intelligence
(AI) Summit
To empower global
dialogue on the future
of government,
business and society
United Arab
Emirates (UAE)
29th edition of the Abu
Dhabi International
Book Fair (ADIBF)
India has been
nominated as the
“Guest of Honour”
country at the Book Fair
in Abu Dhabi.
Abu Dhabi, UAE
G20 leaders' summit This will be the first G20
meeting in the Arab
world and the 15th
meeting of the G20
(Group of Twenty).
Riyadh, Saudi
Arabia
14th summit of the
Organisation of Islamic
Cooperation (OIC)
To address ‘current
issues in Muslim world’
and ‘recent
developments in a
number of OIC member
states.
Mecca, Saudi Arabia
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Second Edition of Belt
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Theme: “Belt and Road
Cooperation: Shaping a
Brighter Shared Future”
Beijing, China
7th China International
Technology Fair
(CSITF)
A national-level
professional fair
focused on international
technology trade.
Shanghai, China
Conference of Dialogue
on Asian Civilizations
It is organized by the
National Radio and
Television
Administration of the
People’s Republic of
China.
Theme of the Forum:
Asian Values for the
World
Theme of this event:
“Exchanges and Mutual
Learning among Asian
Civilizations and a
Community with a
Shared Future”.
Beijing, China
16th Shanghai Co-
operation Organisation
(SCO) Defence
Ministers' conclave
To further boost
defence and security
cooperation among the
member countries in
the wake of evolving
security challenges in
the region
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
2020 high-level
conference of United
Nations General
Assembly (UNGA)
Theme: “Scaling up
ocean action based on
science and innovation
for the implementation
of Goal 14: stocktaking,
partnerships and
solutions”.
Lisbon, Portugal
16th Ministerial
Meeting of Asia
Cooperation Dialogue
(ACD)
Theme: "Partners in
Progress”
Doha, Qatar
11th Meeting of Joint
Working Group on
Counterterrorism
To further deepen
counter-terrorism co-
operation through
regular exchange of
information and sharing
of best practices on
countering extremism
and radicalization.
Canberra, Australia
G7’s (Group of Seven)
Environment Ministers
meeting
Britain, Canada, France,
Germany, Italy, Japan
and the United States
gathered for a 2-day
meeting
Metz, France
11th Arctic Council
Ministerial Meeting
India re-elected as
Observer of the Arctic
Council
Rovaniemi, Finland
First session of the UN-
Habitat Assembly
Theme is: “Innovation
for Better Quality of Life
in Cities and
Communities”. The
Sub-theme
as: “Accelerated
implementation of the
New Urban Agenda
towards the
achievement of the
Sustainable
Development Goals”.
Nairobi, Kenya
International
Conference against
Anti-Semitism in
memory of the
Holocaust
It is the conference
against Anti-Semitism.
Malmo, Southern
Sweden
Second Urban 20 (U20)
Mayors Summit
It realize and promote a
free and open, inclusive
and sustainable,
human-centred future
society.
Tokyo, Japan
G-20 Finance Ministers
and Central Bank
governors
To improve
communication and
transparency with other
external stakeholders,
to increase
understanding of the
FSB’s work and
facilitate greater input
from a wide array of
stakeholders.
Fukuoka, Japan
G20 Ministerial
meeting on Trade and
Digital Economy
To discuss how
economies of G20
countries can promote
trade and investment
and maximize benefits
from development of
digital economy and
technologies.
Tsukuba, Japan
16th Asia Media
Summit
Theme: Media
Digitisation with a focus
on developing markets.
Siem Reap,
Cambodia
7th Regional
Comprehensive
Economic Partnership
(RCEP) Intersessional
Ministerial Meeting
It was headed by
Chutima
Bunyapraphasara,
Acting Minister of
Commerce of Thailand.
Siem Reap,
Cambodia
The 48th DG
conference
It was held between
India’s Border Security
Force (BSF) and the
Border Guard
Bangladesh (BGB)
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Langkawi International
Maritime Aero Expo
(LIMA) 2019
Indian Air force for the
first time is participating
in the relationship
between the services.
INS Kadmatt & Tejas
took part in it.
Langkawi, Malaysia
16th meeting of the
U.S.-India Counter
terrorism Joint Working
Group and the Second
session of the U.S.-
India Designations
Dialogue
To discuss
counterterrorism
cooperation between
the two countries,
resolving to continue
close coordination on
this important element
of the bilateral
relationship.
Washington, DC, US
7th India – US Defence
Technology and Trade
Initiative (DTII)
Focused on encouraging
the United States and
Indian industry to work
together
Washington DC,
United States
Ninth Round of
the India-US Strategic
Security Dialogue
To strengthen bilateral
security and civil
nuclear cooperation,
including the
establishment of six
U.S. nuclear power
plants in India
Washington DC,
United States
First BRICS Sherpa
meeting
The Indian delegation
was led by Secretary in
the Ministry of External
Affairs T S Tirumurti.
Curitiba, Brazil
4th Round of Free
Trade Agreement (FTA)
talks between India
and Peru.
To enhance the two-
way commerce between
India and Peru.
Lima, Peru
4th session of United
Nations Environment
Assembly (UNEA)
Theme: “Innovative
solutions for
environmental
challenges and
sustainable production
and consumption”.
Nairobi, Kenya
First ever High-Level
Dialogue on Indo-
Pacific Cooperation
(HLD-IPC)
Theme: “Towards a
Peaceful, Prosperous,
and Inclusive Region”.
Jakarta, Indonesia
2nd Global Disability
Summit
From India a delegation
headed by Union
Minister for Social
Buenos Aires,
Argentina
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Justice and
Empowerment
Thaawarchand Gehlot,
will be participating in
Summit.
LIST OF AGREEMENTS/MOU’S SIGNED BY INDIA WITH VARIOUS COUNTRIES
Country Prime Minister Key Areas Capital/Currency
Australia Scott Morrison
To collaborate with SIMTARS (Safety in Mines,
Testing and Research Station) for
implementation of risk-based safety
management system, providing training and
modernising R&D laboratory of DGMS
(Directorate General of Mines Safety)
Canberra/ Australian Dollar
Morocco Saadeddine Othmani On cooperation in the area of Cyber Security Rabat/ Moroccan dirham
Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremsinghe To provide modern infrastructural facilities to
Swami Vipulananda Institute of Aesthetic
Studies of Eastern University in Batticaloa
district of Sri Lanka.
To increase cooperation in security and defence
spheres in several areas, including regional
security, curbing drug smuggling and human
trafficking.
Colombo, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
/Rupee
Mongolia Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh In the field of art and culture & to strengthen
Embassy of Mongolia and International
Chamber of Media and Entertainment Industry
(ICMEI).
Ulaanbaatar/ Mongolian tögrög
Uzbekistan Abdulla Aripov Long Term Contract with for Supply of Uranium
ore concentrates to widen its source base for
the nuclear fuel.
Tashkent/ Uzbekistani som
Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani (President) For 26 projects worth 9.5 million dollars in the
field of infrastructure, public services such as
health clinics and governance-related projects.
Kabul/ Afghan Afghani
Japan Shinzō Abe Dr. C.S. Mohapatra, Additional Secretary,
Department of Economic affairs, Government
of India and Mr. Katsuo Matsumoto, Chief
Representative, Japan International
Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed the Loan
Agreement under Japan’s Official Development
Assistance Loan Program.
Tokyo/Yen
Maldives Ibrahim Mohamed Solih
(President)
On the facilitation of visa arrangements.
On maritime and defence, radar system.
Provide a liberal visa policy for Maldivians
seeking medical treatment as well as education
and business opportunities in India. Under the
new visa agreement, Maldivian businessmen
and tourists can stay in India without a visa for
90 days.
Male/ Maldivian Rufiyaa
Kuwait Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad
Al-Sabah
For cooperation on the Recruitment of
Domestic Workers.
Kuwait City/ Dinar
Poland Andrzej Duda (President) To foster relations in the field of coal mining
and clean coal technologies.
Warsaw/ Polish Zloty
USA Donald Trump (President) To discuss trades and e-com rules.
To the Statement of Guiding Principles
(SGP) on triangular cooperation for global
development.
For the exchange of country-by-country (CBC)
reports to check the tax evasions of
Multinational Companies.
Washington, D.C./Dollar
Sri Lanka Ranil Wickramasinghe To establish a business centre for ICT
incubators in Jaffna through grant of 25 crore
Sri Lankan rupees from India.
Colombo, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte /
Rupee
Norway
Erna Solberg
Establishing the India-Norway Marine Pollution
Initiative together with the Norwegian ministry
of Foreign Affairs.
Oslo/ Norwegian krone
Saudi Arabia Salman bin Abdulaziz Al
Saud
It will invest 100 billion dollars in India in range
of areas including energy, refining,
petrochemicals, infrastructure, agriculture and
manufacturing sectors
Riyadh /Saudi riyal
Chile Sebastián Piñera (President) In the fields of mining, culture and
empowerment of persons with disabilities.
President also visited Pablo Neruda Museum at
Santiago in Chile.
Santiago/ Peso
Netherlands Mark Rutte Bilateral cooperation in various fields, including
political, economic and cultural ties
Amsterdam/ Euro
China Xi Jinping (President) For the export of Indian chilli meal to China Beijing/Renminbi
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United Kingdom Theresa May To increase their collaboration in the fields of
Indo-Pacific cooperation, climate change,
disaster resilience, development in third world
countries amongst other areas
London/ Pound sterling
Myanmar Win Myint Strengthen Ties Acting Robust Against
Insurgent Groups
Naypyitaw/ Burmese kyat
Costa Rica Carlos Alvarado Quesada
(President)
On waiving visa requirements for Diplomatic
and Official passport holders and the signing of
the Letter of Intent to collaborate in the field of
Biotechnology
San Jose/ Costa Rican colon
Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah For exchange of Information and Assistance in
Collection with respect to taxes in order to curb
tax evasion and tax avoidance in New Delhi
Bandar Seri Begawan/Brunei dollar
Sweden Stefan Löfven
To cooperate in the field of various issues,
including AMR (Anti-microbial Resistance),
communicable diseases and public health.
India would join the “Alliance of Champions”, a
creation between many countries globally to
face and to fight AMR.
Stockholm/ Swedish krona
APPOINTMENTS (JAN – JUNE)
NATIONAL
DESIGNATION CURRENT
New Chairman of Railway Board Vinoth Kumar Yadav
Director General (Investigation) of National
Human Rights Commission
Prabhat Singh
New President of the Alliance for Media
Freedom (AFMF)
Narasimhan Ram
Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi
Executive Chairman of National Legal
Services Authority (NALSA)
Justice AK Sikri
Secretary of the Competition Commission
of India (CCI)
P K Singh
Director General & Chairman of Ordnance
Factories (DGOF)
Saurabh Kumar
Director General of the (DG) Sashastra
Seema Bal (SSB)
Kumar Rajesh Chandra
Secretary General (15th) of National
Human Rights Commission
Jaideep Govind
Chairman of BARC India Punit Goenka
Director General of NCC (DGNCC) Lt Gen Rajeev Chopra
General Manager of Integral Coach Factory Rahul Jain
New Chairman of National Book Trust
(NBT)
Govind Prasad Sharma
Director of Central Bureau of Investigation Rishi Kumar Shukla
Election Commissioner of India Sushil Chandra
New Chairman of the Central Board of
Direct Taxes (CBDT)
Pramod Chandra Mody
New Chairman of India Electronics and
Semiconductor Association (IESA)
Jitendra Chaddah
Chairman of the Export Promotion Council
for Handicrafts (EPCH)
Ravinder Kumar Passi
52nd Controller General of Defence
Accounts
Rajendra Kumar Nayak
Secretary General of ASSOCHAM Uday Kumar Varma
President of Confederation of Indian
Industry (CII) for the period of 2019-20
Vikram Kirloskar
Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) of
National Buildings Construction
Corporation (NBCC)
Shiv Das Meena
General Secretary of All India Federation of
PTI Employees’ Unions (AIFPTIEU)
M S Yadav
Chairperson of the News Broadcasting
Standards Authority (NBSA)
Justice A. K. Sikri
National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval
Judicial Member of the National Consumer
Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC)
Justice V K Jain
Member of Office and Secrecy in UPSC Dr. T.C.A Anant
Director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Ajit Kumar Mohanty
Secretary of Ministry of Road Transport and
Highways (MoRTH)
Sanjeev Ranjan
Chancellor of Central University of Gujarat Hasmukh Adhia
New chairman of the Agricultural Scientific
Recruitment Board (ASRB)
Aditya Kumar Misra
Chairman of the National Commission for
Backward Classes
Bhagwan Lal Sahni
Director-General of the National Archives
of India
P Venkata Ramesh Babu
Secretary-General of the Medical Council of
India
Rakesh Kumar Vats
Chair the Cabinet Committee on
Parliamentary Affairs
Defence Minister Rajnath
Singh
Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of
Training Command
Air Marshal SK Ghotia VSM
Chief of India Meteorological Department
(IMD)
Mrutyunjay Mohapatra
Pro Tem speaker of 17th Lok Sabha Dr Virendra Kumar
Leader of Rajya Sabha Thawarchand Gehlot
Cabinet Secretary Pradeep Kumar Sinha
New Finance Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg
First Head of Country's First Tri-services
Special Operations Division Commander
Major General A K Dhingra
First IAF woman pilot Flight Lieutenant Mohana
Singh
First Indian Women Flight Engineer of the
Indian Air Force (IAF)
Hina Jaiswal
Next Navy Chief of India Vice Admiral Karambir
Singh
Chief Minister of Sikkim Prem Singh Tamang
Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh Pema Khandu
Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Y S Jaganmohan Reddy
11th Chief Minister of Goa Pramod Sawant
New Governor of Assam Jagdish Mukhi
First Chairman of the newly
constituted Lokayukta in Mizoram
C Lalsawta
First Lokayukta of Nagaland Justice Uma Nath Singh
First Lokayukta of Odisha Ex chief Justice of Gauhati
HC Ajit Singh
First Day-Time Indian Woman Fighter Pilot
of IAF
Flight Lieutenant Bhawana
Kanth
1st Chief Justice of Telangana HC Justice T B N
Radhakrishnan
New Chief Justice of Bombay High Court Justice Pradeep Nandrajog
New Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court Justice Thottathil
Bhaskaran Nair
Radhakrishnan
First Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High
Court
Justice Vikram Nath
Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh High Court P. R. Ramachandra Menon
Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court Justice Abhay Shreeniwas
Oka
Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court Justice Shripathi Ravindra
Chief Justice of Meghalaya High Court Justice Ajay Kumar Mittal
Chief Justice of Delhi High Court Justice Dhirubhai
Naranbhai Patel
17th Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla
Joined as a member of the 15th Finance
Commission
Ajay Narayan Jha
24th Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) Vice Admiral Karambir
Singh
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India’s First Anti-Corruption Ombudsman
or Lokpal
Pinaki Chandra Ghose
Principal Advisor to MRTCs (Mass Rapid
Transit Corporation) in J&K
E Sreedharan
Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of
the disinvestment bound Pawan Hans
Limited
Usha Padhee
First Woman Vice–Chancellor of Jamia
Millia Islamia University (JMI).
Professor Najma Akhtar
INTERNATIONAL
DESIGNATION CURRENT
President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro (2nd Term)
New President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro
President of Madagascar Andry Rajoelina
New President of Congo Felix Tshisekedi
New President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele
President of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari
New President of Senegal Macky Sall
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky
New President of Panama Laurentino Cortizo
New President of North Macedonia Stevo Pendarovski
President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa
Re-Elected President of Malawi Peter Mutharika
Re-Elected President of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari
President of Indonesia Joko Widodo
New President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
1st Female President of Slovakia Zuzana Caputova
Re-elected President of Comoros Azali Assoumani
New Prime Minister Palestinian Economist Dr. Mohammed
Shtayyeh
First Female Prime Minister of Estonia Kaja Kallas
Prime Minister of Thailand Prayuth Chan-ocha
New Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu
New Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison
Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea James Marape
New Prime Minister of Haiti Jean Michel Lapin
New Prime Minister of Finland Antti Rinne
Prime Minister of Sudan Mohamed Tahir Ayala
New Prime Minister of Burkina Faso Joseph Marie Dabiré
Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina (3rd)
Prime Minister of Taiwan Su Tseng-chang
Malaysia’s New King Sultan Abdullah
Next Ambassador of India to the Republic
of Argentina
Dinesh Bhatia
India’s new ambassador to China Vikram Misri
Next Ambassador of India to the Royal
Kingdom of Bhutan
Ruchira Kamboj
Nepal’s ambassador to India Former Law Minister
Nilambar Acharya
Next Ambassador of India to the Republic
of Marshall Islands
Sanjay Kumar Verma
India’s Next High Commissioner to
Seychelles
Former Army chief Dalbir
Singh Suhag
Next Ambassador of India to the Republic
of Lebanon
Suhel Ajaz Khan
Next Ambassador of India to the Hashemite
Kingdom of Jordan
Anwar Haleem
Next Ambassador of India to Bosnia &
Herzegovina
Kumar Tuhin
Next High Commissioner of India to the
Republic of Nauru
Ms. Padmaja
Next Ambassador of India to the Republic
of Senegal
Godavarthi Venkata
Srinivas
Next Ambassador of India to the State of
Eritrea
Subhash Chand
India’s next Ambassador to Vietnam Pranay Kumar Verma
India’s New Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Dr. Ausaf Sayeed
Next Ambassador of India to Mexico Manpreet Vohra
Next Ambassador of India to the Republic
of El Salvador
B. S. Mubarak
Next Ambassador of India to the Republic
of Armenia
Kishan Dan Dewal
Next Ambassador of India to the Republic
of Uzbekistan
Shri Santosh Jha
Next India’s Ambassador to Kingdom of
Morocco
Shambhu S Kumaran
Next India’s Ambassador to Benin Abhay Thakur
China has appointed new envoy to India Sun Weidong
India's envoy to Colombia Sanjiv Ranjan
U.K.’s Special Envoy on Media Freedom Amal Clooney
Saudi Arabia’s First Female Ambassador to
United States
Reema bint Bandar
Next US ambassador to United Nations Kelly Knight Craft
Next High Commissioner of India to
the Republic of Malawi
Anurag Bhushan
Next High Commissioner of India to the
Republic of Fiji
Ms. Padmaja
India's Next High Commissioner to South
Africa
Seasoned diplomat Jaideep
Sarkar
High Commissioner of India to the Republic
of Cameroon
Rakesh Malhotra
High Commissioner of India to the
Cooperative Republic of Guyana
Dr. K. J. Srinivasa
First Indian to Head Global Solar Council,
USA
Pranav R Mehta
Director of South Africa’s Nelson Mandela
School of Public Governance
Professor Faizel Ismail
Regional Director of World Health
Organization (WHO) South-East Asia
Poonam Khetrapal Singh
New Chairman of African Union Egypt's President Abdel
Fattah El Sisi
First Hindu woman in Pakistan appointed as
Civil Judge
Justice Suman Kumari
Investigation Head for Myanmar by UN Nicholas Koumjian
First African American female mayor in
Chicago
Lori Lightfoot
First Indian Women in 359 years to join
Royal Society
Gagandeep Kang
Re-Elected to International Narcotics
Control Board
India's Jagjit Pavadia
Supreme Court of Fiji’s Non-Resident Panel Justice Madan Bhimrao
Lokur
Vice-President of Geneva-based
International Motorcycle Manufacturers
Association (IMMA)
Bajaj Auto ED Rakesh
Sharma
New President of the United Nations
General Assembly
Professor Tijjani
Mohammad Bande
Head of UN Peacekeeping Operation in
South Sudan
Lieutenant General
Shailesh Tinaikar
Nominated as the Maldives’ Parliamentary
Speaker
Mohamed Nasheed
Appointed Member of Commonwealth
Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal, London
Former SC Judge K S
Radhakrishnan
Top Military Officer of the 29-nation NATO
military alliance
US Air Force General Tod D.
Wolters
Deputy Executive Director of the United
Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the
Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) for
Resource Management, Sustainability and
Partnerships
Anita Bhatia
External Auditor of the World Health
Organization (WHO)
CAG Rajiv Mehrishi
Chief Scientist of the World Health
Organisation (WHO)
Soumya Swaminathan
President of the 74th session of the UN
General Assembly (UNGA)
Tijjani Muhammad-Bande
Elected to the board of the International Air
Transport Association (IATA)
Ajay Singh
First Indian American Woman to Preside
Over Us House
Pramila Jayapal
International member of American
Philosophical Society (APS)
Famous Writer Romila
Thapar
New Executive Director of the United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Inger Andersen of Denmark
Pakistan’s Director General of Inter-
Services Intelligence (DG-ISI)
Lieutenant General Faiz
Hameed
New Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Asif Saeed Khosa
Pakistan’s appointed as High Commissioner
to India
Mueenul Haq
First Female Senator of Pakistan from the
Hindu Dalit community
Krishna Kumari Kohli
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Fort Bend County Judge in Texas Indian American K P
George
Next President of the 74th session UN
General Assembly
Tijjani Muhammad-Bande
BANKING & FINANCE
DESIGNATION CURRENT
CEO of Corporation Bank P V Bharathi
MD & CEO of Indian Overseas Bank Karnam Sekar
MD and CEO of Canara Bank R A Sankara Narayanan
Non-executive chairman of Bank of Baroda Hasmukh Adhia
Executive Director of Syndicate Bank Nageshwara Rao
Executive Director of Bank of Baroda Murali Ramaswami
New Executive Directors of Punjab National
Bank (PNB)
Rajesh Kumar Yaduvanshi
& Agyey Kumar Azad
MD & CEO of Axis Bank Amitabh Chaudhry
Non-executive Part time Chairman of the
Axis Bank
Dr.Sanjiv Misra
MD & CEO of IDFC First Bank V Vaidyanathan
MD & CEO of YES Bank Ravneet Singh Gill
Additional Director on the board of Yes
Bank
R. Gandhi
Managing Director of Lakshmi Vilas Bank Parthasarathi Mukherjee
MD & CEO of ICICI Bank Sandeep Bakshi
Chief Operations Officer (COO) of RBL Bank Pankaj Sharma
Chairman cum Managing Director (MD) of
the J&K Bank
R K Chhibber
Non-Executive Independent Chairman of
Karur Vysya Bank
N S Srinath
Part-Time Chairman of Federal Bank Dilip Sadarangani
MD of Life Insurance Corporation of India &
Non-Executive Chairman of IDBI Bank
Hemant Bhargava
Managing Directors of LIC India Vipin Anand, T.C Suseel
Kumar & Hemant Bhargava
CEO of LIC Mutual Fund Dinesh Pangtey
Chairman of Life Insurance Corporation of
India (LIC)
M R Kumar
CEO of the Citi India business Ashu Khullar
Kotak Mahindra Bank’s Whole-Time
Directors
KVS Manian and Gaurang
Shah
Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan Pakistani economist Dr
Reza Baqir
Deutsche Bank’s India Head Kaushik Shaparia
Board of Directors in Paytm Payments Bank Sairee Chahal
Managing Director and Chief Executive
Officer of Ujjivan Small Finance Bank
Nitin Chugh
Independent Director of Ujjivan Small
Finance Bank
Sachin Bansal
CEO of World Bank Kristalina Georgieva
First Woman Chief Economist of IMF Gita Gopinath (India -
born)
Chief/President of World Bank David Malpass
Chairman of NASSCOM for 2019-20 Keshav Murugesh
New President of International Chamber of
Commerce (ICC) India
Vikramjit Singh Sahney
Managing Director (MD) and Chairman of
ITC Ltd
Sanjiv Puri
New Secretary General of the General
Insurance Council (GIC)
M N Sarma
New Managing Director of Twitter India Manish Maheshwari
New Vice President & MD of Facebook India Ajit Mohan
CEO of PayU India Anirban Mukherjee
First Independent Woman Director to BSE
Board
M Jayshree Vyas
India Policy Head of Gates Foundation Sanjay Ubale
Head of Marketing for India and South Asia
- VISA
Sujatha V Kumar
Chief Risk Officer of Indiabulls Housing
Finance Ltd
Naveen Uppal
Executive Director of Indian Oil Corporation
Ltd for Tamil Nadu and Puducherry
P Jayadevan
SPORTS
DESIGNATION CURRENT
New Executive Chairman of ICC Manu Sawhney
CEO of International Cricket Council (ICC) Manu Sawhney
President of IWF named as Chef de
Mission for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Birendra Prasad Baishya
Women’s Boxing team Coach Mohammed Ali Qamar
Vice-President of the Asian Hockey
Federation (AHF)
Mushtaque Ahmad
First Ombudsman in Board of Control for
Cricket in India (BCCI)
Former Judge DK Jain
President of Wrestling Federation of India
(WFI)
Brijbhushan Sharan Singh
Assistant coach of Australia's men's team
for the 50-over World Cup in England
Former Australian captain
Ricky Ponting
First Indian to be appointed Head of
International Hockey Federation (FIH)
Health and Safety Committee
Col (Dr) Bibhu Kalyan Nayak
General Secretary of the Asian Governing
Body of Judo
Mukesh Kumar
First Indian to be elected as a member of
FIFA Executive Council
Praful Patel
Re-elected Asian Football Chief Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim
Al Khalifa
Men's National Team Chief Coach till the
end of 2020
Former Australian field
hockey player
Graham Reid
First-Ever Woman Referee of ICC India's GS Lakshmi
First Non-British President of Marylebone
Cricket Club
Sri Lankan cricketer Kumar
Sangakkara
New Technical Director for the Indian
Football Team
Romania's player Isac Doru
President of Badminton Asia Anton Aditya Subowo
First overseas player from India to join
Hampshire
Ajinkya Rahane
Head of Indian Women Hockey Squad for
FIH Series Finals
Rani Rampal
President of Badminton Asia Anton Aditya Subowo
Electoral Officer for the BCCI’s Annual
General Meeting
N. Gopalaswami
New Head Coach of the Indian
Men’s Basketball Team
Veselin Matic
Head coach of the ‘Malta national cricket
team’
Rajkumar Sharma
Re-elected president of Basketball
Federation of India (BFI)
K. Govindaraj
Advisor of Delhi Capitals (formerly known
as Delhi Daredevils) for the upcoming
edition of Vivo Indian Premier League
(IPL)
Former India captain Sourav
Ganguly
Mediator for resolving various
disputes related to cricket administration
in the country
Senior Advocate P S
Narasimha
Chairman of Coordination Committee for
2022 Asian Games
Indian Sports Administrator
Randhir Singh
Re-appointed Chairman of ICC
(International Cricket Council) Cricket
Committee
Anil Kumble
President of the Olympic Council of Asia
(OCA)
Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-
Sabah
Ethics Officer of the Indian cricket board
on an BCCI’s ad-hoc basis
BCCI Ombudsman Justice D
K Jain
RESIGNATION
❖ Pentagon Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defence (US) - Kevin
Sweeney
❖ Chairman of the National Stock Exchange of India Ltd (NSE) - Ashok
Chawla
❖ Malaysia’s King - Muhammad V
❖ Head Coach of the Indian Football Team - Stephen Constantine
❖ Odisha Agriculture Minister - Pradeep Maharathy
❖ Tamil Nadu Youth Welfare and Sports Development Minister -
Balakrishna Reddy
❖ Greece Defence Minister - Panos Kammenos
❖ International Boxing Federation (AIBA) President - Gafur Rahimov
❖ Founder of Jet Airways (India) Ltd - Naresh Goyal
❖ India’s doubles badminton coach - Tan Kim Her (Malaysia)
❖ Mizoram Governor - Kummanam Rajasekharan
❖ Finland’s Prime Minister - Juha Sipila
❖ Bajaj Finserv’s Chairman and Non-Executive Director - Rahul Bajaj
❖ Political Party ‘Jammu and Kashmir Peoples’ Movement’(JKPM) - Civil
Servant Shah Faesal
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❖ Google India MD - Rajan Anandan
❖ Algeria President - Abdelaziz Bouteflika
❖ Prime Minister of Mali – Maiga
❖ Jet Airways - Nasim Zaidi
❖ Wipro President - Shaji Farooq
❖ Uber Asia Pacific Head - Amit Jain
❖ Union Steel Minister - Chaudhry Birendra Singh
❖ Mali’s Prime Minister - Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga
❖ Pakistan's Finance Minister - Asad Umar
❖ President of Archery Association of India (AAI) - B. V. P. Rao
❖ Paytm President - Bhushan Patil
❖ British Prime Minister - Theresa May
❖ Papua New Guinea Prime Minister - Peter O'Neill
❖ Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has resigned from assembly
constituency Bijepur. He had contested assembly elections from Hinjili and
Bijepur constituencies and won both the seats.
RETIREMENT
❖ South African All-rounder - Cricketer Albie Morkel
❖ Former South Africa All-rounder - Johan Botha
❖ Squash legend - Nicol David
❖ West Indies batsman - Chris Gayle
❖ South Korean National Football Team: Ki Sung-Yueng
❖ American Professional Wrestler - Stephanie Nicole Garcia-
Colace aka Nikki Bella
❖ Sri Lanka Cricketer - Lasith Malinga
❖ Australian Footballer - Tim Cahill
❖ Argentina Football striker - Gonzalo Higuain
❖ James DeGale - British Boxer
❖ South African cricket team’s leg-spinner - Imran Tahir
❖ Second Senior-Most Judge of the Supreme Court - Justice Arjan Kumar
Sikri
❖ South Africa Cricketer - JP Duminy
❖ Kazakhstan President - Nursultan Nazarbayev
❖ WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) Hall of Famer - Kurt Angle
❖ Former India and Punjab Pacer -Vikram Raj Vir Singh
❖ Malaysian badminton star- Lee Chong Wei
❖ Executive Chairman of Wipro (30th July) - Azim Premji
❖ Indian cricketer - Yuvraj Singh
❖ Former Australian skipper - Greg Chappell
❖ Barcelona Midfielder - Xavi Hernandez
❖ Professional Footballer - Yaya Toure
❖ Germany’s double Olympic Biathlon Champion - Laura Dahlmeier
❖ Cancer-hit Badminton Star - Lee Chong Wei
❖ Spain Footballer - Fernando Torres
❖ Former England Opening Batsman - Marcus Trescothick
BRAND AMBASSADOR
❖ Commonwealth of Learning Goodwill Ambassador - Karthyayani Amma
(Kerala)
❖ Event ambassador for the 16th Tata Mumbai Marathon - M C Mary Kom
❖ Rajasthan Royals (IPL 2019) - Australia spin legend Shane Warne
❖ Swasth Immunised India – Actor Kareena Kapoor Khan
❖ PolicyX.com - Cricketer Virender Sehwag
❖ PhonePe - Bollywood Actor Aamir Khan
❖ Morris Garages (MG Motors) for its India operation - Actor Benedict
Cumberbatch
❖ Ambassador of Karnataka Lok Sabha Elections 2019 - Paralympic High
Jumper, Girish Gowda
❖ Aeronutrix’s Fast & Up Rope - Indian Test Cricketer Mayank Agarwal
❖ Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)’s ‘Share Her Journey’ campaign
- Assam filmmaker Rima Das
❖ Goodwill Ambassadors of the Election Commission in Maharashtra -
Transgender social activist Gauri Sawant
❖ United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s Goodwill Ambassador
- Indian-American Padma Lakshmi
❖ Brand Ambassador of Jammu And Kashmir Election Department - Sana
Dua (Femina Miss India 2017 Runner Up)
❖ Bus ticketing platform redBus - Mahendra Singh Dhoni
❖ Goodwill Ambassador of Street Child Cricket World Cup 2019 - Mithali
Raj
❖ Corporate Ambassador of Dubai based ‘RAKEZ’ - Former Cricketer Ravi
Shastri
❖ Brand Ambassador of Indo-American Arts Council (IAAC) - Michelin-
star chef Vikas Khanna
❖ Emami Limited ‘Navratna’ - Varun Dhawan
❖ BharatPe - Bollywood Actor Salman Khan
❖ Myntra – Virat Kohli, Anushka Sharma
❖ V- Nourish - Shah Rukh Khan
❖ To promote Yoga in Goa - Namrata Menon
EXERCISES
❖ “African Lion 2019” – Morocco and the US - Southern Morocco.
❖ The 3rd edition of AUSINDEX 19 - India-Australia -Vishakhapatnam.
❖ Al Nagah III 2019 - Indian and Royal Army of Oman (RAO) - HQ Jabel
Regiment, Nizwa, Oman.
❖ Sampriti-VIII - India-Bangladesh - Tangail, Bangladesh
❖ AFINDEX-19 – India – Africa – Pune, Maharashtra
❖ Mitra shakti-VI – India -Sri Lanka - Diyatalawa Parade, Sri Lanka
❖ TROPEX 19 (Theatre Level Operational Readiness Exercise) -
Largest War Game of the Indian Navy - Kochi, Kerala
❖ The US military forces and the Indian National Security Guard
(NSG) is conducting joint exercises in Hyderabad. The US forces are from
the 1st Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group stationed out of Okinawa in
Japan.
❖ Mainamati Maitree Exercise 2019 - India and Bangladesh – Tripura
❖ “Foal Eagle 2019” and “Key Resolve” - United States and South
Korea
❖ 33rd edition CORPAT- India–Indonesia - Port Blair
❖ 2nd ‘IMBEX 2018-19 - India-Myanmar bilateral army exercise -
Chandimandir Military Station at Chandigarh.
❖ IAFTX 2019 - Indian Africa Field Training Exercise – Pune
❖ Exercise Topchi – Indian Army – Nashik
❖ Vayu Shakti – Indian Air Force - Pokhran, Rajasthan
❖ Exercise Rahat (Joint Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief
Exercise) - Jaipur, Rajasthan
❖ The five-day multinational maritime exercise 'AMAN-19', in which 46
nations are taking part, commenced near the coastal city of Karachi with the
slogan “Together for Peace”.
❖ ‘Bold Kurukshetra–2019’ - India and Singapore - To develop military
technology in Jhansi.
❖ Indian Navy undertook the second edition of the bilateral maritime
exercise between Indian Navy and Vietnam Peoples’ Navy at/ off Cam
Ranh Bay, Vietnam.
❖ The Sri Lanka Army have organized biggest ever military ‘Exercise -
Western Shield’ with the largest ever contingent of Infantrymen is
scheduled to begin on 1 July 2019 with the support of other service
Regiments, Navy and Air Force troops.
❖ Varuna 19 - Indo-French joint naval exercise – Goa Coast
❖ 25th edition of SIMBEX - Singapore-India Maritime Bilateral
Exercise - Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal.
❖ Operation Sunrise 2 – India & Myanmar – In their Borders.
❖ Garuda VI – India & France – France
❖ "Pacific Vanguard" drill - United States, Japan, South Korea, and
Australia - Guam
❖ All Indian armed forces comprising Indian Army, Indian Navy and Indian
Air Force hold joint exercise “Bull Strike” at Teressa Island in Andaman
and Nicobar.
AWARDS & HONOURS
AWARDS WINNERS
3 Indian-origin women scientists
awarded in 60 Superstars of STEM
(Science, Technology, Engineering
& Mathematics) list by Australian
government
Onisha Patel, Devika Kamath
and Asha Rao
National Nritya Shiromani Award
2019
US-based Kathak dancer Anindita
Neogy Anaam
Received Honorary Membership of
the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG)
Virat Kohli and coach Ravi
Shastri (for their contribution to
the sport of cricket)
ICSIs Lifetime Achievement
Award for ‘Translating Excellence
in Corporate Governance into
Reality’
Godrej Group Chairman Adi Godrej
Golden Globe 2019 Bohemian Rhapsody for best
motion picture drama
12th Shankar Vaidya Shree Award
2018
Dr. Rajan Deshpande
Team awarded for Legion of
Honour
French Football Team
National Geospatial Award for
Excellence -2017 (Lifetime
Achievement Award) by the Indian
Society for Remote Sensing
IIT Roorkee professor Jayanta
Kumar Ghosh (for his
contribution towards the
development of geospatial science
and applications)
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Rosa Park Trailblazer award 2019 Indian American philanthropist and
entrepreneur Gurinder Singh
Khalsa
Two Gold Medals at the World
Memory Championships held in
Hong Kong
Dhruv Manoj (“names and faces”
and “random words” disciplines)
‘Woman’s Voice Award’ at the
Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival
(AKLF)
US-based Indian poet Ranjani
Murali
First-ever Philip Kotler Presidential
award
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Sheikh Saud International Prize for
Materials Research 2018
Bharat Ratna CNR Rao
Kabi Samrat Upendra Bhanja
National Award 2018
Prof. Manoj Das (for Lifetime
Achievement in literature)
&
Noted Folk dance Guru
Nabaghana Parida (Dakshin
Odisha Loksanakruti Samman
2018)
By Indian Council for Child Welfare
(ICCW) for receiving National
Bravery Award 2018
Wahengbam Lamnganba Singh
Lifetime Achievement Award by
the Mantralaya and Vidhimandal
Vartahar Sangh of Maharashtra
Journalist Dinu Randive
Honoured by Bimal Roy Memorial
and Film Society
Asha Parekh and Farooque
Shaikhat
‘Exhibitor of the Year Award’ at
106th Indian Science Congress in
Punjab
Defence Research and
Development Organisation
(DRDO) Pavilion
Gandhi Peace Prize for 2018 WHO Goodwill ambassador Yohei
Sasakawa
2019 Japan Prize Dr. Rattan Lal (for his
contributions in “Biological
Production, Ecology”)
Dr. Yoshio Okamoto (for his
contributions in “Materials and
Production” field)
Won Prestigious Laureus World
Comeback of the Year Award 2018
Indian female wrestler Vinesh
Phogat
Three Indian expats From UAE Win
Prestigious Pravasi Bharatiya
Samman Award
Girish Pant, Surender Singh
Kandhari and Dr Zulekha Daud
Won Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda
Prabandhan Puraskar 2019
8th Battalion of National
Disaster Response Force
Republic Day Journalism Award
2019
Veteran Journalist and Former
Editor Dhirendra Nath
Chakraborty.
Romain Rolland Book Prize 2019 Tamil translation of Andrei
Makine’s “La vie d’un homme
inconnu” (The Life of an
Unknown Man) at the Jaipur
Literature Festival. The book was
translated by S R Kichenamourty.
Sushila Devi Literature Award
2019
Namita Gokhale for her novel
“Things to Leave Behind”
Gandhi Peace Prize 2018 Yohei Sasakawa
Railway zone has bagged the
number one position for
cleanliness in all the 17 railway
zones in the country
Southern Railway Zone
Sansad Ratna Award 2019 under
Jury Committee Special Award
category
Anurag Thakur
Saraswati Samman 2017 Noted Gujarati poet Sitanshu
Yashashchandra for his poet
Vakhar
Ashok Chakra 2019 Lance Naik Nazir Ahmad Wani
Bharat Ratna 2019 Pranab Mukherjee (Former
President), Nanaji Deshmukh
(Bharatiya Jana Sangh Leader) and
Bhupen Hazarika (Singer)
India's only port to get listed
among the top 30 global container
ports as per the latest Lloyds
Report.
Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust
(JNPT)
Best Miniratna PSU (public sector
undertaking) in strategic
performance (Financial Category)
Numaligarh Refinery Limited’
(NRL)
Assam Government has given the
Republic Day Journalism Award
2019
Veteran Journalist Dhirendra Nath
Chakraborty
France’s Highest Civilian Honour
(Légion d'Honneur)
92-year-old priest Francois
Laborde
Aegis Graham Bell Award 2018 YES BANK as winner in “Innovation
in Data Science” category for their
industry-first project “Yes EEE
(Engage Enrich Excel)”.
K.Veeramani Award for Social
Justice 2018
P.S. Krishnan (former Secretary,
Government of India)
Lifetime Achievement Award by
the Academy of Canadian Cinema
and Television.
Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa
Mehta
EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2018 CEO and Managing director of
Eicher Motors, Siddhartha Lal
National Youth Parliament Festival
2019 Awards
Shweta Umre from Maharashtra
(First position), Anjanakshi M.S
from Karnataka (Second position),
Mamta Kumari from Bihar (Third
position)
“Saubhagya Award” under Pradhan
Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana
The Central Zone Power
Distribution Company (CZPDC),
Bhopal and West Zone Power
Distribution Company (WZPDC),
Indore
Israel's prestigious Dan David Prize
2019
Noted Indian historian Sanjay
Subrahmanyam
National e-Governance Award
2019
Railway's ticket booking mobile
application - IRCTC Rail Connect
mobile app and the Chhattisgarh
government's 'Khanij online' and
14 other such IT projects have been
chosen for National e-Governance
Awards 2019.
META Lifetime Achievement Award
2019
Eminent Indian playwright Mahesh
Elkunchwar
Lifetime Achievement award at the
FMSCI annual awards
G.R. Karthikeyan, Father of
India’s first Formula One driver
Narain Karthikeyan.
Raghul Rangasamy Upcoming
Motorsports Person of the Year.
Asian Hockey Federation’s Player
of the Year 2018
Indian skipper Manpreet Singh
Women team's striker Lalremsiami
- Rising Player of the Year 2018
First Indian woman to receive
Future of Nature award 2019
Divya Karnad for her work on
marine conservation. She is the
second Indian to receive this award
after Dr. Charudutt Mishra.
Top Employers Institute as global
Top Employer for the third year in
a row.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
First Ever Football Ratna award Sunil Chhetri
Laureus Sport for Good award Yuwa, a Jharkhand-based NGO
Winner under the Miniratna
Category by Ministry of Micro,
Small and Medium Enterprises
(MSME) in its campaign
National Film Development
Corporation of India (NFDC) to
felicitate CPSEs in recognition for
their work in promoting SC/ST
entrepreneurs.
Australian Cricket Awards 2019 Off-spinner Nathan Lyon - Test
player of the year.
Glenn Maxwell and Marcus
Stoinis - T20I and ODI Player of
the year respectively.
The inaugural women’s T20I Player
of the year - Alyssa Healy.
Won Seoul Peace Prize in South
Korea
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
ICT Icon awards 2019 Shankar S, Film Director,
Producer, Writer.
Arun Alagappan, Executive
Director, Cholamandalam.
R. Dinesh, Managing Director, TVS
Logistics Services Limited (for their
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contribution to the growth of
extensive use of new technology)
Prestigious Award of Appreciation
by Ashwini Kumar Choubey,
Honourable Minister of State for
Health & Family Welfare
Rajiv Nath (for his contribution to
the Global Public Healthcare sector
in New Delhi)
Award of excellence for ‘Best in
Show’ during the Closing Bell
Ceremony at New York Times
Travel Show 2019 (NYTTS 2019)
India
Honored with the ‘Freedom of the
City of London’
State Bank of India’s UK chief
Sanjiv Chadha
61st annual Grammy Awards in
New York
Childish Gambino’s “This Is
America” won four awards and
Gaga’s “Shallow,” from the movie
“A Star Is Born,” won two awards.
Film has won seven honours in
British Academy Film Awards
(BAFTA)- 2019 in London
The Favourite
Best Director from PETA for ‘A Star
Is Born’
Bradley Cooper
Honored for the Lifetime
Achievement at the Taj Mahal
Palace, Mumbai
Men’s Sportsman of the Year
(Cricket) category
Women’s Sportswoman of the Year
(Cricket) award
Badminton legend Prakash
Padukone
India Skipper Virat Kohli and pacer
Jasprit Bumrah as joint winners
Smriti Mandhana
First Indian-origin woman
honoured with a Blue Plaque at
Noor Inayat Khan
Honoured with knighthood for his
services to cricket. by Elizabeth II
Alastair Cook
Best Bank Award by the Tamil
Nadu government for successfully
meeting the needs of women’s
self-help groups (SHGs).
Indian Bank
World’s Most Ethical Companies by
the Ethisphere Institute
Private steel Major Tata Steel
American Institute of Aeronautics
and Astronautics (AIAA) as the co-
winner of the 2019 Missile Systems
Award.
Dr G Satheesh Reddy & another
co-winner is Rondell J. Wilson
Conferred with the prestigious
‘Sarvashreshtha Suraksha
Puraskar’ (Bronze trophy) by
National Safety Council of India
(NSCI) for the year 2018.
Parijat Industries
First Indian-origin woman to be
honoured with a Blue Plaque at 4
Taviton Street in Bloomsbury,
London (her former home).
British Indian World War II spy
Noor Inayat Khan
Conferred with ‘Non-Life Insurer of
the Year Award 2019′
Bharti AXA General Insurance
‘Green Era Award for
Sustainability’ at Lisbon in
Portugal.
TVS Motor
SKOCH Award2019 Odisha State Disaster
Management Authority
(OSDMA) for its remarkable
achievements in the field of disaster
management.
National STEM (Science,
Technology, Engineering and
Math) Education Award 2019
Kavya Kopparapu
first Atal Behari Vajpayee Lifetime
Award at the 37th Agartala Book
Fair in Agartala, Tripura
Thanga Darlong
Honoured with Pritzker
Architecture Prize 2019.
Japanese architect Arata Isozaki,
Airport Service Quality (ASQ)
award for being the best airport in
size and region (2-5 million
passengers in Asia-Pacific) for the
year 2018 by the Airports Council
International.
Biju Patnaik International
Airport (BPIA) in Bhubaneswar
Golden Peacock Innovative Product
Award 2019
ACKO General Insurance for their
contextual micro insurance product
– “Ola Ride Insurance”.
Chameli Devi Jain Award for an
Outstanding Woman Journalist for
the year 2018.
Priyanka Dubey
First Prize in the category of TV
Cinema Spot at the prestigious
international Golden City Gate
Tourism Awards 2019.
Ministry of Tourism
‘Yashwantrao Chavan National
Award 2018’
Former RBI Governor Raghuram
Rajan
First recipient of the 'Bhagwan
Mahavir Ahimsa Puraskar'
Indian Air Force Wing Commander
Abhinandan Varthaman
Harry Hatry Award for Performance
Management by the American
Society for Public Administration
(ASPA) and the Center for
Accountability and Performance
(CAP).
Prajapati Trivedi
Honoured with the Social
Enterprise Network (SEN)
sustainability award for education
by Young Presidents Organisation
Sona Yukti
Prestigious Kusumagraj Rashtriya
Sahitya Puruskar 2019
Famous Novelist and Film
Director, Ved Rahi
Commonwealth Youth Award for
the Asian region
Social entrepreneur Padmanaban
Gopalan
Best airport in the category of over
“40 million passengers per annum
(MPPA)” in Asia Pacific by Airports
Council International (ACI) in the
Airport Service Quality (ASQ)
Programme for 2018.
Indira Gandhi International
(IGI) airport
Honoured with issuing a new 50
pence piece by Royal Mint
Stephen Hawking
2019 Templeton Prize Brazilian physicist and astronomer
Marcelo Gleiser
Two Indian oil companies has been
awarded the exploration rights
for Abu Dhabi’s Onshore Block 1.
Bharat Petroleum Corporation
Limited, and Indian Oil
Corporation Limited
Conferred with the
prestigious Global Teacher Prize
for 2019
Maths and Physics Teacher Peter
Tabichi,
Honoured with Croatia’s Highest
Civilian Award — the Grand Order
of the King of Tomislav
President Ram Nath Kovind
Awarded the prestigious Bodley
Medal, the highest honour granted
by the University of Oxford’s
world-famous Bodleian Libraries
Amartya Sen
2018 Turing Award winners by
ACM (Association for Computing
Machinery)
Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun
and Yoshua Bengio
Honoured with the Martha Farrell
award for Excellence in Women’s
Empowerment 2019
Manu Gulati
Gold Rating Award by Indian Green
Building Council (IGBC)
Vijayawada Railway station
Got global recognition by a Geneva
based non-profit firm Programme
for Endorsement of Forest
Certification (PEFC).
Forest certification
scheme ‘Certification Standard
for Sustainable Forest
Management (SFM)’ developed
by the Network for Certification and
Conservation of Forest (NCCF)
Conferred with the prestigious
Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award
2019
Dr. Rajendra Kumar Joshi
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2019 Peabody Career Achievement
honour during the 78th Annual
Peabody Awards Ceremony
Veteran actor Rita Moreno
Telangana Sports Journalist
Association (TSJA) Award 2019
Saina Nehwal as sportsperson of
the year, Pullella Gopichand as
Coach of the Year and PV
Sindhu as Outstanding Performer
in women’s section. Badminton
Association of
Telangana received Association
of the Year award.
Indian was selected among 16
persons selected by Yale University
as the 2019 World Fellows
Social entrepreneur Neha
Upadhyaya
Prestigious Windham-Campbell
Prize
Journalist & author Raghu Karnad
for his debut book, ‘Farthest
Field: An Indian Story of the
Second World War
Bestowed with the Best Domestic
Water Purifier Award 2018-19 for
its RO+UV+UF technology at the
Water Digest Water Awards
organized at The Lalit, New Delhi
Kent RO Systems Pvt. Ltd.
First Woman to win the Abel Prize
for mathematics
Professor Karen Uhlenbeck
Vyas Samman 2018 Hindi writer Leeladhar Jagudi
Hans-Kilian Award 2019 Indian psychologist
professor Ashis Nandy
Second edition of Business Line
Changemaker of the Year award
Union Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley
First Prize of DD Mahila Kisan
Award for 2018-19
Swati Shingade of Pune
‘Nari Shakti Puraskar’ Award 2019 Kathak dancer Seema Mehta
Won the prize of $1 million (6.9
crore) for his performance on the
American reality show ‘The World’s
Best’
Lydian Nadhaswaram
22nd Gollapudi Srinivas National
Award for his debut film Tamil ‘96’
Cinematographer-turned-director C
Prem Kumar
2019 Templeton Prize Brazilian physicist and astronomer
Marcelo Gleiser
Pravasi Bhartiya Samman Award
2019
NRI scientist Dr Rajendra Joshi
Honoured with the Order of
Ikhamanga in the Silver Division
by South Africa President
Ex-South Africa all-rounder
Jacques Kallis
Awarded by the Tamil Nadu Sports
Journalists’ Association (TNSJA)
and the India Cements
Sportsperson of the Year Award:
Ace table tennis player A Sharath
Kamal
TNSJA Lifetime Achievement
awardees: Vijay Amritraj (Indian
tennis player), V V Kumar (former
India leg-spinner), R
Gnanasekaran (Asian Games gold
medallist (200m). Coach of the
year: R B Ramesh (chess coach)
TNSJA Team of the year 2018-19:
Tamil Nadu Women’s Football
team.
TNSJA Young Achiever of the year
2018-19: P M Tabitha (athlete)
TNSJA Young Achiever of the year
2018-19: D.Gukesh (world’s
second youngest Grand Master).
Honoured with the prestigious
Master Deenanath Mangeshkar
Award 2019
National Award-winning filmmaker
Madhur Bhandarkar, Popular
Scriptwriter Salim Khan and
yesteryears dancing Diva Helen;
Classical dancer Sucheta Bhide-
Chapekar (music & art category)
IPI’s 71st World Press Freedom
Hero by International Press
Institute (IPI)
Dawn Assistant Editor Cyril
Almeida
National Intellectual Property
Award for 2019
Benny Antony
First Inductee of Comic-On
Museum’s Character Hall of Fame
Batman (It is a fictional character
of DC Comics)
Felicitated by the Asian Tour with a
Special Achievement Award for his
contributions to Asian Golf.
Hero MotoCorp – Chairman, Dr.
Pawan Munjal
Won the Prestigious John Dirks
Canada Gairdner Global Health
Award 2019
Vikram Patel
Honoured with the prestigious
Zayed Medal by UAE
PM Narendra Modi
‘Global Slag Company of The Year’
Award 2019
Tata Steel
Honoured with Presidential Award
of Maharshi Badrayan Vyas
Samman 2019
Dr. Gyanaditya Shakya
Felicitated with the coveted 'Public
Water Agency of the Year' award at
the Global Water Summit in
London.
Namami Gange
Next Billion Edtech Prize 2019 India's education technology
startup 'Dost Education'. And
also, Ubongo (Tanzania) and
PraxiLabs (Egypt) startups won the
prize
New Zealand Prime Minister's Sir
Edmund Hillary Fellowship for
2019.
Rio Paralympics silver medallist
Deepa Malik (First Indian Woman)
Freedom of the City of London
Award 2019
GIC India Chief Alice G. Vaidyan
Best Athletic Coach in Asia 2019 Indonesian Eni Nuraeni
Conferred with Lifetime
Achievement Award during 4th APJ
Abdul Kalam Innovation Conclave
at Chandigarh University, Mohali.
Dr A K Singh
UNESCO/Guillermo Cano Press
Freedom Prize 2019
Journalists Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa
Lone (Myanmar)
2019 Citi Journalistic Excellence
Awards
Mint's Teena Thacker
World Press Photo of the Year 2019 Veteran Getty photographer John
Moore
World Press Photo Story of the
Year Award 2019
Dutch-Swedish photographer
Pieter Ten Hoopen
Celent Model Bank 2019 Award in
the category of Financial Inclusion,
for 'Redesigning Lending to Reach
Small Businesses'
Fincare Small Finance Bank
Honoured in the 2019 list of new
fellows of the UK's Royal Society
Prominent scientist and
businessman Yusuf Hamied
Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi
Awards 2019
Five writers, Dr Chaman Ahuja
(Urdu), Dr Om Prakash Vasishta
(Punjabi), Professor Tejwant
Singh Gill (English), Dr Prasoon
Prasad (Hindi) and Professor
Virender Kumar Alankar
(Sanskrit) were given the award of
recognition for their lifelong
contribution in the field of literature.
Won the Best Cinematography
Award at the Beijing International
Film Festival, China.
Malayalam film Bhayanakam
(Fear) directed by Jayaraj
National Intellectual Property
Award 2019
The Intellectual Property Rights
Cell (IPR Cell) of Kerala
Agricultural University (KAU)
Inducted into the prestigious
Cleveland International Hall of
fame 2019
An Indian American scientist and
social activist Prof Sree Sreenath.
Along with five other inductees - Dr
Akram Boutros, Ingrida Bublys,
Paul Burik, Richard Fleischman, and
Marilyn Madigan.
“Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant
Award” for the year 2018-19 for
his book “Samvidhan Kavya”
(Constitution of India in Poetic
form).
Sunil Kumar Gautam, Special
Commissioner of Police
(Operations)
Swacchta Pakhwada Awards-2019 All India Radio, Publication
Division and Children’s Film
Society of India
Honoured with “D. Litt in
Astrology” (Doctor of
Indian Astrologer Dr. Sohini
Sastri
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Letters) by National American
University, USA
Conferred with an honorary
doctorate in Philanthropy by
the University of Law, London.
Eminent Bollywood actor Shah
Rukh Khan
Russia awarded its highest state
honour 'Order of St Andrew the
Apostle'
Narendra Modi for promoting the
bilateral special and privileged
strategic partnership
Saraswati Samman, 2018
K Siva Reddy his collection of
poetry titled Pakkaki Ottigilite
Prestigious 'AIMA Managing India
Award 2019 for outstanding PSU of
the year
Indian Oil Corporation (IOC)
Honoured with the Dr Babasaheb
Ambedkar Nobel Award by
International Human Rights
Council
Sudhanshu Kumar
West Bengal’s projects have won
the United Nations World Summit
on the Information Society (WSIS)
awards 2019
Utkarsh Bangla & Sabooj Sathi
Only Indian institute to feature in
QS EMBA Rankings 2019
IIM Bangalore
Calcutta Sports Journalists’ Club
Award 2019
Sportsperson of the Year - Jhulan
Goswami
Lifetime Achievement Awards -
Sukumar Samajpati (former India
winger) and Sambaran Banerjee
(Bengal’s Ranji Trophy winning
captain)
Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize
2019
Rana Dasgupta for his 2010 novel
‘Solo’
Professional Footballers’
Association (PFA) Players’ Player of
the Year Award for 2018-19
Liverpool’s Virgil Van Dijk
Goldman Environmental Prize
2019
Bayarjargal Agvaantseren
(Mongolia), Alfred Brownell
(Liberia), Ana Colovic Lesoska
(North Macedonia), Alberto
Curamil (Chile), Jacqueline
Evans (Cook Islands), Linda
Garcia (USA)
Conferred with France’s Highest
Civilian Award “Knight of the
Legion of Honour”
Former ISRO chief A. S. Kiran
Kumar
2019 John F Kennedy Profile in
Courage Award
Nancy Pelosi
2019 Dr. Lee Jong-wook Memorial
Prize for Public Health
Professor Balram Bhargava
Nine Dots Prize 2019 Mumbai-based Writer Annie
Zaidi (Title: ‘Bread, Cement,
Cactus’)
Conferred With ‘Lifetime
Recognition Award’ By the
Confederation of Horticulture
Association of India
Professor N. Kumar
Airport gets International Status as
per sub-rule (b) of rule 3 of the
Passport (Entry into India) Rules,
1950 by the Central Government
Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar Airport of
Indore, Madhya Pradesh
Felicitated by the Council of
European Chambers of Commerce
(CEUCC) in India
Actor Anil Kapoor
2019 McCain Institute Award for
Courage and Leadership
IPS officer Chhaya Sharma
Honoured with a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame
Actress Anne Hathaway
PC Chandra Purashkaar 2019 Padma Bhushan Dr. Devi Prasad
Shetty
ACJ Award for Investigative
Journalism 2018
Journalist Nileena MS
Israel Honour with a plaque on
Ammunition Hill Wall of Honour
Lt. Gen. (retd) Jack Farj Rafael
(JFR) Jacob
2019 V K Krishna Menon award G D 'Robert' Govender (an
Indian-origin journalist in South
Africa)
US President Donald Trump
bestowed with the Presidential
Medal of Freedom
Tiger Woods
‘Order of St. George’ Award 2019 Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
‘Global Asian of the Year 2018-19’
Award for Contribution to Women’s
Healthcare Ecosystem
Bengaluru based doctor Hema
Divakar
Won “United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals (UNSDG) 10
Most Influential People in
Healthcare Award” in Geneva,
Switzerland
Acharya Balkrishna
2019 Swansea University
International Dylan Thomas Prize
Sri Lankan writer Guy
Gunaratne
United Nations Office for Disaster
Risk Reduction (UNDRR) conferred
Sasakawa Award 2019 for Disaster
Risk Reduction with the theme of
“Building Inclusive and Resilient
Societies”.
Dr. Pramod Kumar Mishra
First Non-British President of
Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)
Kumar Sangakkara
Thailand's King has been crowned
with a Golden-Tiered Headpiece
Maha Vajiralongkorn
Fourth Edition of the annual India
Golf Industry Association (GIA)
awards at the Delhi Golf Club
Gaganjeet Bhullar -'Outstanding
Achievement as a player' award
category
2019 Footballer of the Year award
by Manchester City star
Raheem Sterling (Men), Parris
(Women)
Man Booker International Prize for
"Celestial Bodies”
Jokha Alharthi
Japan’s second highest national
award in its 2019 Spring Imperial
Decorations as the “Order of the
Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star”.
Former Indian foreign secretary
Shyam Saran
Indian peacekeeper Police Officer
will be honored with a prestigious
UN medal 2019
Jitender Kumar – For courage and
sacrifice in the line of duty
Acknowledged as the most viewed
stand-up comedian in India and
abroad by the World book of
Records London.
Kapil Sharma
Seventh Edition of the Joan Miró
Prize 2019
Artist Nalini Malani
Six Indian-origin students won the
prestigious Scripps National
Spelling Bee 2019
Rishik Gandhasri, Saketh
Sundar, Shruthika Padhy,
Sohum Sukhatankar, Abhijay
Kodali, Rohan Raja, Christopher
Serrao and Erin Howard were
named as co-champions. Each will
receive the full winner's prize of
50,000 US Dollar in cash.
Conferred with “Orden Mexicana
del Aguila Azteca” (Order of the
Aztec Eagle), the highest civilian
award of Mexico given to
foreigners
Former President of India Pratibha
Patil
Global Leadership Awards 2019 by
USA
Google's CEO Sundar Pichai and
Nasdaq President Adena
Friedman
Conferred with the Maldives'
highest honour "Rule of Nishan
Izzuddeen”
Narendra Modi
India's Automobile major has won
the Gold Award in South Africa
Mahindra
Jnanpith Award 2018 Noted English writer Amitav
Ghosh
'World's Most Punctual Airline' for
the second consecutive year by
Flightstats’
Sri Lankan Airlines
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)
will confer the distinguished alumni
award to the two Union Ministers
Nirmala Sitharaman &
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
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Eight-Year-Old Indian Girl
Honoured in UAE For Green Efforts
Ms. Tony
Honoured with Humanitarian
Award By UNICEF
Indian actress Priyanka Chopra
Conferred with Manas Order of the
First Degree, the highest national
award in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Chinese President Xi Jinping
BBC World Service Global
Champion Award 2019
Akshaya Patra
Femina Miss India World 2019 Title Suman Rao
‘Save Water Hero Award’ 2019 Social Activist Makarand Tilloo
2019 Commonwealth Secretary-
General’s Innovation for
Sustainable Development Award in
London
Indian engineer Nitesh Kumar
Jangir
Laureus Sports Awards 2019:
The Laureus World Sports Awards 2019 were announced at the Laureus
Awards Ceremony in Monaco.
Category Winner Country
Sportsman of the Year (Tennis) Novak Djokovic Serbia
Sportswoman of the Year
(Gymnastics) Simone Biles USA
Team of the Year (Football) France’s Football
Team France
Comeback of the Year (Golf) Tiger Woods USA
Breakthrough of the Year
(Tennis) Naomi Osaka Japan
Action Sportsperson of the Year
(Snowboarding) Chloe Kim USA
Lifetime Achievement Award
(Football (Manager)) Arsene Wenger France
Spirit of Sport Award (Skiing) Lindsey Vonn USA
Exceptional Achievement Award
(Running) Eliud Kipchoge Kenya
Sporting Moment of the Year
(Mountain Climbing) Xia Boyu China
Sport for Good Award (Football) Jharkhand based
NGO – Yuwa India
‘SWACHH SURVEKHSHAN AWARDS 2019’
Swachh Survekhshan-2019 Awards were presented by President
Ram Nath Kovind in New Delhi.
Here the Some Important List of Winners
➢ Top 3 India's Cleanest City – Indore (Madhya Pradesh), Ambikapur
(Chhattisgarh), Mysuru (Karnataka)
➢ Cleanest Big City >10 Lakh - Ahmedabad (Gujarat)
➢ Cleanest Medium City 3 - 10 Lakh – Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh)
➢ Cleanest Small City 1 - 3 Lakh - New Delhi Municipal Council
➢ Cleanest Capital/UT City - Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh)
➢ Best Performing State - No.1 – Chhattisgarh
➢ India's Cleanest Cantonment - No.1- Delhi Cantonment Board
➢ Best Ganga Town - No.1 From 57 Ganga Towns participating in SS-2019
only DO - Gauchar (Uttarakhand)
President Kovind confers Padma awards 2019:
President Ram Nath Kovind has conferred the Padma awards
2019 on prominent personalities at a civil investiture ceremony in
Rashtrapati Bhawan.
Padma Bhushan Awards 2019
Name Field
Mohanlal Malayalam Actor
Pravin Gordhan South African Politician
Jhon Chambers Former Cisco Head
Hukumdev Narayan Yadav, Kariya Munda
and Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa
Parliamentarians
KuldipNayar Journalist (late)
Shri Sankaralingam Nambi Narayanan Science & Engineering
Padma Shri Awards 2019
Name Field
HarikaDronavalli Chess player
Sharat Kamal Table Tennis player
Bhagirati Devi and Muktaben Dagli Social Workers
Prabhudeva Actor
Shankar Mahadevan Music Director
S Jaishankar Former civil servant
Rajkumari Devi and Babaulal Dahiya Agriculturist
Dilip Chakravarty Archaeologist
MammenChandy Hematologist
Gallantry Awards 2019:
The Gallantry Awards and Distinguished Service Decorations were
conferred by President Ram Nath Kovind at the Defence Investiture
Ceremony, held at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi.
Here the winner list:
AWARD WINNER
Kirti Chakras
Constable Pradip Kumar Panda of CRPF
(posthumously)
Kirti Chakras
Sepoy Vijay Kumar of Indian Army
(posthumously)
‘Uttam Yudh Seva
Medal’
Lieutenant General Anil Kumar Bhatt
Shaurya Chakra Irfan Ramzan Sheikh
64th Film fare Awards 2019:
The 64th Filmfare Awards ceremony, presented by The Times Group,
honoured the best Indian Hindi-language films of 2018 held in
Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Here the Winners List:
Category Winner
Best Film Raazi
Best Director Meghna Gulzar (Raazi)
Best Actor in a Leading Role (Male) Ranbir Kapoor (Sanju)
Best Actor in a Leading Role
(Female) Alia Bhatt (Raazi)
Best Actor in Supporting Role
(Male)
Gajarj Rao (Badhaai Ho), Vicky
Kaushal (Sanju)
Best Actor in Supporting Role
(Female) Surekha Sikhri (Badhaai Ho)
Best Male Debut Ishaan Khatter (Beyond the Clouds)
Best Female Debut Sara Ali Khan (Kedarnath)
Best Music Album Sanjay Leela Bhansali (Padmaavat)
Best Lyricist Gulzar- "Ae Watan" (Raazi)
Best Playback Singer (Male) Arijit Singh – "Ae Watan" (Raazi)
Best Playback Singer (Female) Shreya Ghoshal – "Ghoomar"
(Padmaavat)
➢ Lalit Kala Akademi (LKA) announced 15 winners of the 60th Annual
Academy Awards scheduled at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA)
and Sir JJ School of Art in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Here the Winners List:
Name State
Tabassum Khan Bihar
Veenita Sadguru
Chendvankar Goa
Hiren Kumar Chotu Bhai Patel Gujarat
Jayesh K.K Kerala
Hemant Rao Madhya Pradesh
Vasudeo Taranath Kamath Maharashtra
Jitendra Suresh Sutar Maharashtra
Douglas Maryan John Maharashtra
Sachin Kashinath Chaudhari Maharashtra
Chandan Kumar Samal Odisha
Jaya Jena Odisha
Gouri Vemula Telangana
Rashmi Singh Uttar Pradesh
Sunil Kumar Viswakarma Uttar Pradesh
Pratap Chandra Chakraborty West Bengal
The Hindu Prize 2018: Fiction and Non-Fiction and The Hindu Young
World Good Books Awards
The Hindu Prize 2018 was announced in the Hindu Litfest 2018 held in
Chennai.
✓ Neelum Saran Gour wins the The Hindu Prize 2018 – FICTION for
the book ‘Requiem in Raga Janki’.
✓ Manoranjan Byapari wins The Hindu Prize 2018 – NON-
FICTION for the book ‘Interrogating My Chandal Life’.
✓ Vinayak Varma wins Best Picture Book: Story for ‘Angry Akku’
✓ Rajiv Eipe wins Best Picture Book: Illustration for ‘Ammachi’s
Amazing Machines’
✓ Venita Coelho wins Best Picture Book: Fiction for ‘Boy No 32’
✓ Mamta Nainy wins Best Picture Book: Non-Fiction for ‘A Brush
with Indian Art’.
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ICC AWARDS 2018:
The ICC Awards are a set of sports awards for cricket. The awards
recognise and honour the best international cricket players of the previous
12 months. The awards have been institutionalised by International Cricket
Council since 2004. Between 2011 and 2014 the awards were known, for
sponsorship reasons, as the LG ICC Awards.
Winners of 2018
➢ Cricketer of the Year: Virat Kohli (India)
➢ Test Player of the Year: Virat Kohl (India)
➢ ODI Player of the Year: Virat Kohli (India)
➢ Twenty20 International Performance of the Year: Aaron
Finch (Australia)
➢ Emerging Player of the Year: Rishabh Pant (India)
➢ Associate Player of the Year: Calum MacLeod (Scotland)
➢ Umpire of the Year: Kumar Dharmasena (Sri Lanka)
➢ Women's Cricketer of the Year: Smriti Mandhana (India)
➢ Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year: Smriti Mandhana (India)
➢ Women's T20I Cricketer of the Year: Alyssa Healy (Australia)
➢ Women's Emerging Cricketer of the Year: Sophie Ecclestone
➢ Spirit of Cricket: Kane Williamson (New Zealand)
➢ Fan's Moment of the Year: India win U19 World Cup
➢ ICC Test Team of the Year: Tom Latham (NZ), Dimuth
Karunaratne (SL), Virat Kohli (Ind, captain), Kane Williamson (NZ), Henry
Nicholls (NZ), Rishabh Pant (Ind, wicket-keeper), Jason
Holder (WI), Nathan Lyon (Aus), Jasprit Bumrah (Ind), Kagiso
Rabada (SA), Mohammad Abbas (Pak)
➢ ICC ODI Team of the Year: Rohit Sharma (Ind), Jonny Bairstow (Eng),
Virat Kohli (Ind, captain), Joe Root (Eng), Ross Taylor (NZ), Jos
Buttler (Eng,
wicketkeeper), BenStokes (Eng), MustafizurRahman (Ban), Kuldeep
Yadav (Ind), Rashid Khan (Afg), Jasprit Bumrah (Ind)
2019 Pulitzer Prize Awards:
➢ The 2019 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board for
work during the 2018 calendar year.
➢ The Washington Post won two prizes, as The New York Times; The
Wall Street Journal won one; and the Sun-Sentinel won its second
Pulitzer for Public Service.
Here the List of Winners:
JOURNALISM
Public service: Staff of the South Florida Sun Sentinel
Feature writing: Hannah Dreier of ProPublica
Commentary: Tony Messenger of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Criticism: Carlos Lozada of The Washington Post
Editorial writing: Brent Staples of the New York Times
Editorial cartooning: Darrin Bell, a freelance cartoonist
Special citation: Staff of the Capital Gazette
BOOKS, DRAMA AND MUSIC
Fiction: “The Overstory” by Richard Powers
Drama: “Fairview” by Jackie Sibblies Drury
History: “Frederick Douglass” by David W. Blight
Biography or autobiography: “The New Negro” by Jeffrey C. Stewart
Poetry: “Be With” by Forrest Gander
General nonfiction: “Amity and Prosperity” by Eliza Griswold
Music: “p r i s m” by Ellen Reid
Special citation: Aretha Franklin
LSE names a professorship after economist Amartya Sen:
➢ The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has
announced the creation of the Amartya Sen Chair in Inequality Studies,
named in honour of the India-born economist, philosopher and Nobel
laureate, who was Professor of Economics at LSE from 1971-82.
Chhetri adjudged 'Best Sportsperson' by Calcutta Sports Journalists'
Club:
➢ India football captain Sunil Chhetri was adjudged the country's 'Best
Sportsperson of the Year' by the Calcutta Sports Journalists' Club.
➢ Lifetime Achievement award: Former Davis Cup coach Akhtar Ali,
former India opener Arun Lal and Aroon Ghosh member of the 1962 Asian
Games gold medal winning football team.
➢ Bengal pacer Ishan Porel (Junior Sportsperson of the Year), Mohun
Bagan's Shilton Paul (Footballer of the Year), East Bengal's Mahmoud Al-
Amna (Best Foreign Footballer)
➢ Best cricketer: Abhimanyu Easwaran
➢ Best Hockey Player: Suprajit Rakshit
➢ Best Athlete (men): Safiqul Mondol
➢ Best Athlete (women): Bhairabi Roy
➢ Best Badminton Player: Ankit Mondal
➢ Best Chess Player: Koustav Chatterjee
➢ Best Swimmer: Sayani Ghosh
➢ Best TT player: Ayhika Mukharjee
➢ Best Tennis Player: Yubarani Banerjee
➢ Best Shooter: Mehuli Ghosh
➢ Best Basketball Player: Madhu Kumari
➢ Best Volleyball Player: Nayanika Biswas
➢ ESPN Multi-Sport awards 2018:
ESPN (originally an initialism for Entertainment and Sports Programming
Network) is a U.S.-based pay television sports channel owned by ESPN Inc.
ESPN Multi-Sport awards 2018 recognised achievements across 11
categories. Winners of the Award are
CATEGORY WON BY
Female sportsperson of the
year
P.V. Sindhu (Badminton)
Male sportsperson of the year Neeraj Chopra (Javelin)
Comeback of the Year Saina Nehwal (Shuttle)
Coach of the Year Jaspal Rana (Shooting)
Emerging Sportsperson of the
Year
Saurabh Chaudhary (Shooting)
Team of the Year Women’s team (Table Tennis)
Match of the Year Amit Panghal vs Hasanboy Dusmatov
(Boxing)
Differently abled athlete of the
Year
Ekta Bhyan (Para-Athletics)
Lifetime Achievement Award Pradip Kumar Banerjee (Football)
Moment of the Year Women’s 4x400m Relay
CEAT Cricket Rating Awards 2019:
➢ India captain Virat Kohli bagged the International Cricketer and
Batsman of the Year award during the CEAT Cricket Rating (CCR)
International Awards 2019 in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
➢ International Bowler of the Year 2019 - Jasprit Bumrah
➢ Junior Cricketer of the Year 2019 - Yashasvi Jaiswal
➢ Outstanding Performance of the Year 2019 - Kuldeep Yadav
➢ Domestic Cricketer of the Year 2019 - Ashutosh Aman
➢ CCR International Lifetime Achievement Award 2019 - Mohinder
Amarnath
➢ International Test Cricketer of the Year 2019 – Cheteshwar Pujara
➢ International ODI Cricketer of the Year 2019 – Rohit Sharma
➢ International T20 Player of the Year 2019 - Aaron Finch
➢ International T20 Bowler of the Year 2019 - Rashid Khan
➢ International Women Cricketer of the Year 2019 – Smriti Mandhana
IPL AWARDS 2019: Complete List
Man of the Match (Final) Jasprit Bumrah (MI)
Orange Cap (Most Runs) David Warner (SH) 692 runs
Purple Cap (Most Wickets) Imran Tahir (CSK)- 26 wickets
Emerging Player (future star of
International Cricket)
Shubman Gill (KKR)
Stylish Player KL Rahul (KXIP)
Perfect Catch Kieron Pollard (MI)
Super Striker Andre Russell (KKR)
Most Valuable Player (earning more
points in the whole season)
Andre Russell (KKR)
Fair play Award (best spirit of the
game throughout the season)
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Gamechanger of the Match Rahul Chahar (Mumbai Indians)
➢ The 72nd Cannes Film Festival begins in Cannes, France. Mexican
filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu has been named the Jury
President. American film director Jim Jarmusch's ensemble zombie comedy
film “The Dead Don't Die” will serve as the opening film of the festival.
And “The Specials” will serve as the closing film in the festival. The Indian
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Delegation led by I&B Secretary Shri Amit Khare met Film Commissioners
of participating countries at Cannes Film Festival. Israel proposes India to
be the focus country in Jerusalem Film Festival, 2020.
GUINNESS RECORDS
➢ Megha Engineering Infrastructure Limited (MEIL) of Telangana has
found a place in the Limca Book of National Records and Asia Book of
Records for completing a power substation in seven months.
➢ A Guinness World Record in Yoga was set by more than a thousand
people who performed the Virabathrasan or the Warrior II Pose for 3
minutes, in Sun Yat Sen Memorial Park, Hong Kong.
➢ An Official of Guinness Book of World Records, UK presented a
certificate to Lakshyaraj Singh Mewar for the largest collection of clothes
for donation after he donated more than 3 lakh clothing items in Udaipur.
➢ CISF - The Central Industrial Security Force created the Guinness
World Record for 'longest single line bicycle parade (moving)' in
Noida, to mark the 50 years of the paramilitary force.
➢ India achieved a Guinness World Records of ‘largest laundry lesson’ with
the participation of 400 young Indian men. The event was a part of
#sharetheload campaign. The event was initiated by Ariel India.
➢ Around 5000 women of Konyak community performed at the local
ground of Mon town, in their attempt to enter Guinness World Record
for ‘Largest Traditional Konyak Dance display’.
➢ The Polavaram irrigation project in Andhra Pradesh created
two Guinness World Records for ‘pouring the highest amount of
concrete’ and ‘largest continuous concrete pour in 24 hours’. The
Polavaram irrigation project is located in West Godavari district of
Andhra Pradesh.
BOOKS & AUTHORS
We Are Displaced - Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai
A Crusade Against Corruption - Manohar Manoj
Let’s Talk on Air: Conversations with Radio Presenters - Rakesh Anand
Bakshi
The Fate of Butterflies - Nayantara Sahgal
Designing Destiny: The Heartfulness Way - Kamlesh Patel
Every Vote Counts - Navin Chawla
Indian Fiscal Federalism - Dr. Y. V. Reddy
Lessons Life Taught Me, Unknowingly - Autobiography of veteran
Bollywood actor Anupam Kher
My Life, My Mission - Autobiography of Yoga guru Baba Ramdev and co-
authored with senior journalist Uday Mahurkar.
Function of Data Sovereignty: The Pursuit of Supremacy - -Vinit Goenka
No Presents Please - Jayant Kaikini
India Positive - Chetan Bhagat
Simplicity & Wisdom - Dinesh Shahra
Khooni Vaisakhi - Nanak Singh (Jallianwala Bagh survivor)
Quality, Accreditation & Ranking - Dr. H Chaturvedi
Mann Ki Baat – A Social Revolution on Radio - Authored by - BlueKraft
Digital Foundation
Moving On, Moving Forward: A year in Office - Vice President M.
Venkaiah Naidu
Undaunted: Saving the Idea of India - P Chidambaram (former Finance
Minister)
Changing India - Former PM Manmohan Singh
Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From
- Tony Joseph
Blue Water Ahoy! - Vice Admiral Anup Singh
Radio Kashmir in Times of Peace & War - Dr Rajesh Bhat
The Great Disappointment: How Narendra Modi Squandered a
Unique Opportunity to Transform the Indian Economy’ - Salman
Anees Soz
The Third Pillar — How Markets and the State leave the Community
Behind - Raghuram Rajan
Saffron Swords - Manoshi Sinha Rawal
Kundan: Saigal’s Life & Music - Sharad Dutt
Politics of Jugaad: The Coalition Handbook - Journalist Saba Naqvi
Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun - Guillermo del Toro
Shiksha: A Journey - Manish Sisodia
Quichotte - Novelist Salman Rushdie
Game Changer – Auto Biography of Pakistan’s former captain and star all-
rounder Shahid Afridi and it is co-authored by Journalist Wajahat S Khan.
Darkness to light - Former American professional basketball player, Lamar
Odom
Voyage to Antarctica - Felix Bast
Story of Consciousness - Govind Bhattacharjee
An Autobiography of Moon - Ramesh Shishu
Shambhu Nath De - The discovery of cholera toxins - MS Murthy
Cricket World Cup: The Indian Challenge - Ashis Ray
281 and Beyond – Auto Biography of Cricketer VVS Laxman
No Spin - Auto Biography of Cricketer Shane Warne
Gandhi: The years that changed the world (1914-1948) -
Ramachandra Guha
Warlight, The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
Winning Like Sourav: Think & Succeed Like Ganguly - Abhirup
Bhattacharya
Smart Cities Unbundle - Dr. Samir Sharma
A Century is Not Enough - Autobiography of Sourav Ganguly
Imperfect – Auto Biography of Sanjay Manjrekar (cricketer-turned-
commentator)
Yoga and Mindfulness - Mansi Gulati
The Rule Breakers - Preeti Shenoy
Atal Ji Ne Kaha - Brijendra Rehi
Straight Talk - Abhishek Manu Singhvi
Calling Sehmat - Harinder S. Sikka
SPORTS NEWS
Khelo India Youth Games 2019
• Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG), formerly Khelo India School Games
(KISG), meaning Play India Youth Games, held annually in January or
February, are the national level multidisciplinary grassroot games in India
held for two categories, namely under-17 years school students and
under-21 college students.
History
➢ On 31 January 2018, Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, declared open the
inaugural Khelo India School Games at the opening ceremony based on
Guru–shishya tradition held at Indira Gandhi Arena. From the 2019 events,
Khelo India School Games were renamed to Khelo India Youth Games.
➢ The first edition of the event was kicked off in New Delhi.
➢ The second edition of the event was kicked off in Shree Shiv Chhatrapati
Sports Complex, a sports complex situated in Belawadi, Pune,
Maharashtra. The theme of the Games revolved around ‘kheloge toh
khiloge’ (if you play, you will prosper).
Overall Winners
➢ Maharashtra won the overall trophy with a total of 228 medals (85
gold, 62 silver and 81 bronze). 2nd Haryana -178 medals (62 gold, 56 silver
and 60 bronze) while 3rd Delhi -136 medals (48 gold, 37 silver and 51
bronze).
➢ Individually, Karnataka swimmer Srihari Nataraj (16-year-old’s timing of
26.16 secs in 50m backstroke) became the most medals winner by
competing in seven events in the U-21 category and winning all of them.
➢ Ten-year-old Abhinav Shaw became the youngest gold medalist in
shooting.
Static
Sports Authority of India
• Headquarters: Delhi; Director General: Neelam Kapoor
2019 Australian Open
➢ The 2019 Australian Open was a Grand Slam tennis tournament that
took place at Melbourne Park. It was the 107th edition of the Australian
Open, the 51st in the Open Era, and the first Grand Slam of the year.
• Men's Singles: Serbia Novak Djokovic
• Women's Singles: Japan Naomi Osaka
• Men's Doubles: France Pierre-Hugues Herbert / France Nicolas
Mahut
• Women's Doubles: Australia Samantha Stosur / China Zhang Shuai
• Mixed Doubles: Czech Republic Barbora Krejčíková / United States
Rajeev Ram
Indonesia Masters 2019
The Indonesia Masters 2019 Title took place at the Istora Senayan
in Jakarta, Indonesia.
CATEGORY WON BY
Women’s Singles
title
Indian ace Badminton player, Saina Nehwal
Men’s singles title Anders Antonsen of Denmark
Men’s Doubles Indonesia Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin
Sanjaya sukamuljo
Women’s Doubles Ayaka Takahashi and Misaki Matsutomo of Japan
Title Mixed
Doubles
Chinese mixed doubles pair of Zheng Siwei and
Huang Yaqiong
Premier Badminton League title 2019
➢ Bengaluru Raptors have won their first ever Premier Badminton
League title.
Award Winners:
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• Best Comeback of the Tie – Sameer Verma
• Attacking Player of the Tie – Kidambi Srikanth
• Indian Oil Indian Player of the Tie – Kidambi Srikanth
• Smartest Player of the Tie – Sameer Verma
• Attacking Player of the League – Mathias Christiansen
• Emerging Player of the League – Anders Antonsen
• Indian Oil Indian Player of the League – Sameer Verma
• Vodafone Smartest Player of the League – Kidambi Srikanth
Qatar Open Title 2019
The Qatar Open Title 2019, currently known as the Qatar ExxonMobil Open
for sponsorship reasons, is a professional tennis tournament played on
outdoor hard courts held in Doha, Qatar.
Men's Singles: Spain Roberto Bautista Agut
Men's Doubles: Belgium David Goffin & France Pierre-Hugues Herbert
Qatar Ladies Open 2019
The Qatar Ladies Open, known as the Qatar Total Open for sponsorship
reasons, is a women's tennis tournament held in Doha, Qatar.
Women's Singles:Belgium Elise Mertens
Women's Doubles: Chinese Taipei Chan Hao-Ching & Chinese
Taipei Latisha Chan
YONEX-SUNRISE India Open 2019
The 2019 India Open, officially the YONEX-SUNRISE India Open 2019,
was a badminton tournament which took place at K. D. Jadhav Indoor Hall
in New Delhi, India.
Winners List:
Men's Singles: Denmark Viktor Axelsen
Women's Singles:Thailand Ratchanok Intanon
Men's Doubles: Chinese Taipei Lee Yang & Chinese Taipei Wang Chi-lin
Women's Doubles: Indonesia Greysia Polii & Indonesia Apriyani
Rahayu
Mixed Doubles: China Wang Yilü & China Huang Dongping
57th International Wrestling Tournament 2019
57th International Wrestling Tournament ‘Dan Kolov – Nikola
Petrov’ conducted in Ruse, Bulgaria.
WINNER CATEGORY MEDAL
Bajrang Punia Men’s freestyle 65 kg GOLD
Pooja Dhanda Women’s freestyle 59 kg GOLD
Sakshi Malik Women’s 65 kg SILVER
Sandeep Tomar Men’s 61kg SILVER
Vinesh Phogat Women’s 53kg SILVER
Dubai Tennis Championship 2019
Dubai Tennis Championship 2019 commonly known as Dubai Duty
Free Tennis Championship concluded in Dubai, UAE. It was the 27th
edition of men and 19th edition of women.
➢ Men’s Singles – Roger Federer (Switzerland)
➢ Women’s Singles - Belinda Bencic (Switzerland)
➢ Men’s Doubles title - Rajeev Ram (USA) and Joe Salisbury (UK)
➢ Women’s Doubles title - Hsieh Su-wei (China) and Barbora
Strycova (Czech Republic).
Mexican Open 2019
Mexican open which is a part of 2019 ATP (Association of Tennis
Professionals) World Tour and 2019 WTA (Women’s Tennis
Association) Tour, was held at the Princess Mundo Imperial in
Mexico.
➢ Men’s Singles - Nick Kyrgios (Australia)
➢ Women’s Singles - Wang Yafan (China)
➢ Men’s Doubles - Alexander Zverev (Germany) and Mischa Zverev
(Germany)
➢ Women’s Doubles - Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) and Zheng Saisai
(China)
The 2019 SAFF (South Asian Football Federation) Women's
Championship (5th edition) was held in Biratnagar, Nepal. India won
the tournament by defeating Nepal in the final.
➢ Top scorer(s): India Indumathi Kathiresan, Nepal Sabitra Bhandari (4
goals each)
➢ Best player(s): India Dangmei Grace
➢ Fair Play Award: Bangladesh
2019 All England Open
The 2019 All England Open, officially YONEX All England Open
Badminton Championships 2019 was a BWF World Tour 1000 event which
took place at Arena Birmingham in England.
Category Winners
Men’s Singles Kento Momota (Japan)
Women’s Singles Chen Yufei (China)
Men’s Doubles Mohammad Ahsan (Indonesia) & Hendra
Setiawan (Indonesia)
Women’s Doubles Chen Qingchen (China) & Jia Yifan (China)
Mixed Doubles Zheng Siwei (China) & Huang Yaqiong
(China)
38th GeeBee Boxing Tournament 2019
The 38th GeeBee Boxing Tournament was held at Helsinki,
Finland. The Indian medal winners from the tournament are listed below:
Name Category Medal
Kavinder Singh Bisht 56kg Gold
Shiva Thapa 60kg Silver
Mohammed Hussamuddin 56kg Silver
Govind Sahani 49kg Silver
Dinesh Dagar 69kg Silver
Sumit Sangwan 91kg Bronze
Saching Siwach 52 kg Bronze
Naveen Kumar +91kg Bronze
Indian Wells Masters 2019
Professional tennis tournament Indian Wells Masters 2019 also known
as BNP Paribas Open held in California, United States. It was the 44th
edition of the men's event and 31st of the women's event.
Here the winner list:
Swiss Open 2019:
The 2019 Swiss Open, officially the YONEX Swiss Open 2019 was a
badminton tournament which took place at St. Jakobshalle in Basel,
Switzerland.
Here the winner list:
Category Winner
Men’s Singles Shi Yuqi (China)
Women’s Singles Chen Yufei (China)
Men’s Doubles Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Rian Ardianto
(Indonesia)
Women’s Doubles Chang Ye-na and Jung Kyung-eun (South
Korea)
Mixed Doubles Bay-Smidt and Rikke Soby Hansen (Denmark)
2019 Asian Youth Athletics Championships
➢ The Third edition of 2019 Asian Youth Athletics Championships was
continental athletics competition for Asian athletes aged 15 to 17. It was
held at the Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground in Hong Kong. It was
Organised by the Hong Kong Amateur Athletic Association.
➢ India secured second position in the overall medals tally with 26
medals including 8 gold, 9 silver and 9 bronze medals.
➢ China topped the championship with 31 medals including 12 gold, 11
silver and 8 bronze. Japan ranked third in the Championship with 20
medals.
India at the 2019 Asian Youth Athletics Championships:
MEN:
Event Gold Silver Bronze
400 metres Abdul Razak
Cheramkulangara
Rasheed (IND)
- -
Medley relay India - -
200 metres - Shanmuga
Srinivas
Nalubothu
-
800 metres - Mathesh Babu Sumit Kharab
3000 metres - Amit Jangir
1500 metres - - Ajay
Category Winner
Men’s Singles Dominic Thiem (Austria)
Women’s Singles Bianca Andreescu (Canada)
Men’s Doubles Nikola Mektic (Croatia) and Horacio Zeballo
(Argentina)
Women’s Doubles Elise Mertens (Belgium) and Aryna Sabalenka
(Belarus)
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2000 metres
steeplechase
- Atul Kumar
Bhimsingbhai
Gamit
-
10,000 m walk Vishvendra Singh - Paramjeet
Singh Bisht
Pole vault - - Deepak
Yadav
Triple jump - - Vishal Mor
Shot put - Amandeep
Singh Dhaliwal
-
Hammer throw Vipin Kumar - -
Decathlon Usaid Khan - Ali Ansari
WOMEN:
Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres Avantika
Santosh Narale
- -
200 metres - Avantika Santosh
Narale
Deepthi
Jeevanji
800 metres - Pooja -
1500 metres - - Chanthini
Chandran
100 metres
hurdles
Thabitha Philip
Maheswaran
- -
Medley relay - Deepthi Jeevanji
Avantika Santosh
Narale
Sandra Ajimon
Shiny
Priya
Habbthanahally
Mohan
-
Long Jump Thabitha Philip
Maheswaran
- Ambrikha
Narzary
Hammer
throw
- Harshita Sherawat -
2019 Lingshui China Masters
The 2019 Lingshui China Masters was a badminton tournament
which took place at Agile Stadium in China. This was the first Super 100
Tournament of the 2019 BWF World Tour.
Here the Winners List
Category Winners
Men’s Singles Weng Hongyang (China)
Women Singles Kim Ga-eun (South Korea)
Men’s Doubles Lee Jhe-huei and Yang Po-hsuan
(Chinese Taipei)
Women’s Doubles Baek Ha-na and Kim Hye-rin (South
Korea)
Mixed Doubles Tang Chun Man and Ng Tsz Yau (Hong
Kong)
MIAMI OPEN 2019
The 2019 Miami Open (also known as 2019 Miami Open presented by Itaú)
was a professional men and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor
hard courts in Miami Gardens, Florida, United States.
Here the Winners List:
Event Winner
Men’s Singles Roger Federer (Switzerland)
Women’s Singles Ashleigh Barty (Australia)
Men’s Doubles Bob Bryan & Mike Bryan (USA)
Women’s Doubles Elise Mertens (Belgium) & Aryna Sabalenka
(Belarus)
Asian Airgun Championships 2019
Indian shooters continued their dominance claiming five gold medals on
the final day of the Asian Airgun Championships to sign off with a total
of 25 medals in Taoyuan, Taipei. India finished with 16 gold, 5 silver,
and 4 bronze medals.
Here the List of Indian Winners:
Event Gold Silver Bronze
10m Air Rifle
Women Junior
Individual
Shreya Agrawal
10m Air Rifle
Men Junior
Individual
Yash Vardhan
10m Air Rifle
Men Junior
Keval
Prajapati
10m Air Rifle
Men Individual
Divyansh Singh
Panwar
10m Air Rifle
Men Junior
Aishwarya
Pratap Singh
Tomar
10m Air Rifle
Men Team
Divyansh Singh
Panwar, Ravi Kumar,
Deepak Kumar
10m Air Pistol
Men Team
Saurabh
Chaudhary, Ravinder
Singh & Abhishek
Verma
10m Air Rifle
Women
Individual
Elavenil Valarivan
10m Air Pistol
Men
Abhishek
Verma
10m Air Rifle
Women Team
Elavenil Valarivan,
Apurvi Chandela,
Meghana Sajjanar
10m Air Pistol
Women Team
Manu Bhaker,
Paramanthanam
Shri Nivetha,
Anuradha
10m Air Pistol
Women
Individual
Manu Bhaker
10m Air Pistol
Mixed Team
Manu Bhaker &
Saurabh Chaudhary
10m Air Pistol
Women Junior
Team
Esha Singh,
Harshada
Nithave,
Devanshi
Dhama
10m Air Rifle
Men Junior
Team
Yash Vardhan,
Aishwary Pratap
Singh Tomar, Keval
Jashvantbhai
Prajapati
10m Air Pistol
Men Junior
Individual
Sarabjot Singh
10m Air Rifle
Mixed Team
Elavenil
Valarivan,
Ravi Kumar
10m Air Pistol
Men Junior
Team
Sarabjot Singh,
Arjun Singh Cheema,
Vijayveer Sidhu
10m Air Rifle
Women Junior
Team
C Kavi Rakshna,
Shreya Agrawal,
Mehuli Ghosh
10m Air Rifle
Mixed Team
Junior
Mehuli
Ghosh, Keval
Jashvantbhai
Prajapati
10m Air Pistol
Women Junior
Individual
Esha Singh
10m Air Rifle
Women Junior
Mehuli Ghosh
10m Air Pistol
Mixed Team
Junior
Esha Singh,
Vijayveer Sidhu
10m Air Rifle
Mixed Team
Junior
Shreya Agrawal,
Yash Vardhan
10m Air Pistol
Men Junior
Vijayveer Sidhu
2019 Malaysia Open
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➢ The 2019 Malaysia Open, officially the CELCOM AXIATA Malaysia
Open 2019, is a badminton tournament which takes place at Axiata Arena
in Malaysia from 2 to 7 April 2019 and has a total purse of $700,000.
Champions
• Men’s Singles: Lin Dan (China)
• Women’s Singles: Tai Tzu-ying (China)
• Men’s Doubles: Li Junhui (China) & Liu Yuchen (China)
• Women’s Doubles: Chen Qingchen (China) & Jia Yifan (China)
• Mixed Doubles: Zheng Siwei (China) & Huang Yaqiong (China)
2019 Singapore Open (Badminton)
The 2019 Singapore Open, was a badminton tournament which took place
at Singapore Indoor Stadium in Singapore.
Here the Winners List
➢ Men's Singles: Kento Momota (Japan)
➢ Women's Singles: Tai Tzu-ying (China)
➢ Men's Doubles: Takeshi Kamura (Japan) & Keigo Sonoda (Japan)
➢ Women's Doubles: Mayu Matsumoto (Japan) & Wakana Nagahara
(Japan)
➢ Mixed Doubles: Dechapol Puavaranukroh (Thailand) & Sapsiree
Taerattanachai (Thailand)
2019 Asian Athletics Championships
➢ The 2019 Asian Athletics Championships was the 23rd edition of
the Asian Athletics Championships. It was held at the Khalifa
International Stadium in Doha, Qatar. During the closing ceremony of
the 22nd Asian Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar India.
➢ Bahrain topped the medal tally (11- Gold; 7-Silver; 4-Bronze; Total –
22 Medals). India finished fourth in the medal tally (3- Gold; 7-Silver; 7-
Bronze; Total – 17 Medals)
India at the 2019 Asian Athletics Championships
MEN
EVENT GOLD SILVER BRONZE
1500 metres – Ajay Kumar
Saroj
–
10,000 metres – – Gavit Murli
Kumar
400 metres
hurdles
– – Jabir Madari
Palliyalil
3000 metres
steeplechase
– Avinash
Sable
–
Shot put Tejinder Pal
Singh Toor
– –
Javelin throw – Shivpal
Singh
–
WOMEN
EVENT GOLD SILVER BRONZE
200 metres – – Dutee Chand
400 metres – – M. R.
Poovamma
800 metres Gomathi
Marimuthu
– –
1500 metres P. U. Chitra – –
5000 metres – – Parul Chaudhary
10,000 metres – – Sanjivani
Jadhav
400 metres
hurdles
– – Sarita
Gayakwad
4×400 metres
relay
– Prachi
M. R.
Poovamma
Sarita
Gayakwad
V. K. Vismaya
–
Javelin throw – Annu Rani –
Heptathlon – Swapna Barman –
MIXED
EVENT GOLD SILVER BRONZE
4×400 metres relay – Mohammad Anas
M. R. Poovamma
Vismaya
Velluvakoroth
Arokia Rajiv
–
➢ The 2019 Badminton Asia Championships, is a badminton
tournament which took place at Wuhan Sports Center Gymnasium in China.
The 2019 Badminton Asia Championships was the 39th edition of the
Badminton Asia Championships. This tournament was hosted by the
Chinese Badminton Association.
Here is the complete list of winners of 2019 Badminton Asia
Championships:
Event Winner
Men’s singles Kento Momota (Japan)
Women’s singles Akane Yamaguchi (Japan)
Men’s doubles Hiroyuki Endo and Yuta Watanabe (Japan)
Women’s doubles Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan (China)
Mixed doubles Wang Yilü and Huang Dongping (China)
Asian Wrestling Championship 2019
➢ The 2019 Asian Wrestling Championships was held in Xi’an, China.
➢ India won 16 medals which include 1 gold, 3 silver and 4 bronze by men’s
freestyle wrestlers, 3 silver and 1 bronze by men’s Greco-Roman
wrestlers and 4 bronze won by women’s freestyle wrestlers.
➢ India ranked 8th place in the tournament and the first three countries
ranked in the tournament were Iran followed by China and Japan.
Here the Indian Winners List
Event / Category Name Medal
Men’s Freestyle/65-kg Bajrang Punia Gold
Men’s Freestyle/74-kg Amit Kumar Dhankar Silver
Men’s Freestyle/79-kg Parveen Rana Silver
Men’s Freestyle/92-kg Vicky Chahar Silver
Men’s Greco-Roman/77-kg Gurpreet Singh Silver
Men’s Greco-Roman/82-kg Harpreet Singh Silver
Men’s Greco-Roman/87-kg Sunil Kumar Silver
Men’s Freestyle/61-kg Rahul Aware Bronze
Men’s Freestyle/86-kg Deepak Punia Bronze
Men’s Freestyle/97-kg Satyawart Kadian Bronze
Men’s Freestyle/125-kg Sumit Malik Bronze
Men’s Greco-Roman/60-kg Gyanender Dahiya Bronze
Women’s Freestyle/53-kg Vinesh Phogat Bronze
Women’s Freestyle/59-kg Manju Kumari Bronze
Women’s Freestyle/62-kg Sakshi Malik Bronze
Women’s Freestyle/68-kg Divya Kakran Bronze
67th Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell 2019
➢ The 2019 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell (also known as the Torneo
Godó) was a men’s tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It
was the 67th edition of the event and part of the ATP World Tour 500
series of the 2019 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Real Club de Tenis
Barcelona in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
Winner List
➢ Singles: Austria Dominic Thiem
➢ Doubles: Colombia Juan Sebastián Cabal / Colombia Robert Farah
Asian Boxing Championship 2019
The Asian Boxing Championship 2019 was held in Huamark Indoor Stadium
in Bangkok, Thailand.
Category Name Medal
52-kg Amit Panghal Gold
81-kg Pooja Rani Gold
64-kg Simranjit Kaur Silver
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56-kg Kavinder Singh Bisht Silver
49-kg Deepak Singh Silver
75-kg Ashish Chaudhary Silver
51-kg Nikhat Zareen Bronze
54-kg Manisha Moun Bronze
57-kg Sonia Chahal Bronze
60-kg Sarita Devi Bronze
60-kg Shiva Thapa Bronze
69-kg Ashish Bronze
+91-kg Satish Kumar Bronze
XXXVI Feliks Stamm International Boxing Tournament
Indian boxers finished with a rich haul of six medals which includes 2 gold,
1 silver and 3 bronze medals at the XXXVI Feliks Stamm International
Boxing Tournament 2019 in Warsaw, Poland.
Here the list of Indian Winners:
Event/ Category Name Medal
Fly (52-kg) Gaurav Solanki Gold
Light (60-kg) Manish Kaushik Gold
Bantam (56-kg) Mohammed
Hussamuddin
Silver
Light Welter (64-kg) Ankit Khatana Bronze
Welter (69-kg) Mandeep Jangra Bronze
Heavy (91-kg) Sanjeet Bronze
Madrid Open 2019:
➢ The 2019 Madrid Open (sponsored by Mutua) is a professional tennis
tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Park Manzanares in
Madrid, Spain from 3 May–12 May 2019.
Here the Winners List:
➢ Men's Singles: Serbia Novak Djokovic
➢ Women's Singles: Netherlands Kiki Bertens
➢ Men's Doubles: Netherlands Jean-Julien Rojer / Romania Horia
Tecău
➢ Women's Doubles: Chinese Taipei Hsieh Su-wei / Czech Republic
Barbora Strýcová
Mumbai beat Chennai by one run to win record 4th IPL title:
➢ Mumbai Indians became IPL champions for the fourth time after
defeating Chennai Super Kings by one run in a thrilling final in
Hyderabad.
➢ Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni became the most successful
wicketkeeper in the history of IPL by taking his dismissals tally to 132,
surpassing his India teammate Dinesh Karthik.
➢ Player of the series: Andre Russell (KKR) (510 runs and 11 wickets)
➢ Most runs: David Warner (SRH) (692)
➢ Most wickets : Imran Tahir (CSK) (26)
2019 IAAF World Relays Highlights:
➢ The 2019 IAAF World Relays was held in Yokohama, Japan from May
11 to May 12, 2019. Two new events were established for 2019, both mixed
events: the 2 × 2 × 400 m relay and the shuttle hurdles relay.
➢ The 2 x 2 x 400 m mixed relay event has replaced 4 x 800 m relay which
featured in the previous events.
➢ Indian men’s 4 x 400 m relay and women’s 4 x 400 m relay teams
finished at 17th.
➢ The Indian mixed 4 x 400 m relay team finished at 15th.
➢ The top 10 finishers in the IAAF World Relays 2019 in men’s and women’s
4×400 m relays event and top 12 finishers in mixed 4×400 m relays event
have qualified for the IAAF World Athletics Championship which will
going to held in Doha, Qatar from September 28 to October 6, 2019.
Here the Winner List:
Category Winner
Men’s 4×100 m relay Brazil
Men’s 4×200 m relay US
Men’s 4×400 m relay Trinidad and Tobago
Women’s 4x100m relay US
Women’s 4×200 m relay France
Women’s 4×400 m relay Poland
Mixed 4×400 m relay US
Mixed 2x2x400 m relay US
Mixed Shuttle Hurdles relay US
Result of Italian Open 2019:
• Men’s Singles: Spain Rafael Nadal
• Women’s Singles: Czech Republic Karolína Plíšková
• Men’s Doubles: Colombia Juan Sebastián Cabal / Colombia Robert Farah
• Women’s Doubles: Belarus Victoria Azarenka / Australia Ashleigh Barty
ISSF World Cup 3 2019:
➢ International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup 3 was
held in Munich, Germany. India won 5 gold medal and a silver medal
totalling 6 medals and topped the medal tally. China won two gold, two
silver, and five bronze medals and placed second in the medal tally. Next
tournament ISSF World Cup 4 is set to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
➢ Saurabh Chaudhary won a gold medal in 10 metre air pistol and broke
down his own world record of 245 by shooting 246. 3 points in the final.
Asian Games champion Rahi Sarnobat and Manu Bhaker clinch sixth
and seventh Olympic quota place in shooting for 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Here the Winner List:
NAME CATEGORY MEDAL
Saurabh Chaudhary
(World Record) 10 Metre Air Pistol Gold
Apurvi Chandela 10 Metre Air Rifle Gold
Rahi Sarnobat 25 Metre Pistol Gold
Divyansh Singh Panwar
& Anjum Moudgil
10 Metre Air Rifle (Mixed
Team) Gold
Saurabh Chaudhary &
Manu Bhaker
10 Metre Air Pistol (Mixed
Team) Gold
Apurvi Chandela &
Deepak Kumar (sport
shooter)
10 Metre Air Rifle (Mixed
Team) Silver
2019 French Open
➢ The 2019 French Open was a Grand Slam tennis tournament played on
outdoor clay courts. It was held at the Stade Roland Garros in Paris,
France.
➢ Here the Winner List:
➢ Men's Singles: Spain Rafael Nadal
➢ Women's Singles: Australia Ashleigh Barty
➢ Men's Doubles: Germany Kevin Krawietz & Germany Andreas Mies
➢ Women's Doubles: Hungary Tímea Babos & France Kristina Mladenovic
➢ Mixed Doubles: Chinese Taipei Latisha Chan & Croatia Ivan Dodig
China claimed four gold medals at 2019 ITTF World Tour Hong Kong
Open, Queen Elizabeth Stadium, Hong Kong.
➢ Women’s Singles: Wang Yidi
➢ Men’s Singles: Lin Gaoyuan
➢ Men’s Doubles: Liang Jingkun and Lin Gaoyuan
➢ Women’s Doubles: Chen Ke and Mu Zi
ISSF Rifle/Pistol World Cup 2019: India finishes top of medal tally
with four medals
❖ India drew blank on the final day but still topped the chart for
the second consecutive ISSF World Cup, third time in two years, by
bagging three gold and a silver at the Beijing edition of the
Rifle/Pistol event.
❖ India topped the medals tally ahead of hosts China (2 gold, 2 silver, 1
bronze), who won five medals in total.
❖ Anjum Moudgil and young Divyansh Singh Panwar – Gold in the
10m Air Rifle Mixed Team competition.
❖ Teenaged pair of Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary- Gold in the
10m Air Pistol Mixed Team Pistol event.
❖ Abhishek Verma – Gold in men’s 10m Air Pistol event.
❖ Divyansh – Won India’s first individual medal by clinching a
silver in the men’s 10m Air Rifle.
India Bags 57 Medals at India Open International Tournament:
❖ India bags a total of 57 medals including 12 Gold, 18 Silver and 27
Bronze at India Open International Boxing tournament in Guwahati.
❖ MC Mary Kom, Shiva Thapa, L Sarita Devi, and Naman Tanwar won
gold in their respective finals.
❖ This was Mary’s second gold in the tournament, having won in 48 kg last
year in the capital.
❖ On the other hand, Deepak defeated Govind Kumar in 49 kg final while
in 52 kg category- Amit Panghal defeated Sachin.
World Archery Championships 2019:
❖ The Indian men’s recurve team bagged a Silver Medal at Den Bosch
in The Netherlands.
❖ Women's compound team Raj Kaur, Muskan Kirar, Jyothi Surekha
Vennam bagged a Bronze Medal.
❖ Women’s Compound individual event Jyothi Surekha Vennam
bagged a Bronze Medal.
GRAND PRIX WINNERS OF 2019
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NAME OF THE GRAND PRIX WINNER
Australian Grand Prix Mercede’s Valtteri Bottas (Finland)
Azerbaijan Grand Prix Mercede’s Valtteri Bottas (Finland)
Bahrain Grand Prix Mercede’s Lewis Hamilton (British)
Canadian Grand Prix Mercede’s Lewis Hamilton (British)
Chinese Grand Prix Mercede’s Lewis Hamilton (British)
French Grand Prix Mercede’s Lewis Hamilton (British)
Monaco Grand Prix Mercede’s Lewis Hamilton (British)
Spanish Grand Prix Mercede’s Lewis Hamilton (British)
Austrian Grand Prix Red Bull’s Max Verstappen (Belgium)
➢ Australian cities Sydney and Brisbane have been announced as the first
two host locations for the newest team event in men’s tennis from
January 2020.
➢ India defeated Australia in the third ODI at Melbourne Cricket Ground
(MCG) to win the ODI series and became the first Visiting team to win
bilateral series across the three formats against Australia in Australian soil.
➢ Virat Kohli has become the first Indian as well as the first Asian captain
to win a Test series in Australia. Cheteshwar Pujara was declared man of
the match as well as man-of-the-series.
➢ Indian pace trio of Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Shami and Jasprit
Bumrah broke the 34-year record of highest test wickets in a calendar year
to become the most successful pace trio with 131 wickets in 2018.
➢ Mohammed Shami has become the fastest Indian bowler to claim 100
ODI wickets.
➢ Indian men's hockey coach was removed from the position - Harendra
Singh
➢ World Championship bronze medallist Assam’s Lovlina
Borgohain claimed the gold medal in 69 kg
category while Haryana boxer Manisha Moun had to settle with silver in
54 kg category at the Women’s National Boxing Championships held
at the JSW Sports’ Inspire Institute of Sports Vijayanagara, Karnataka.
➢ The 80th National Table Tennis Championship began at Jawaharlal
Nehru Indoor Stadium in Cuttack.
➢ India’s Ankita Raina has won the International Tennis
Federation’s 25,000-dollar Women’s tournament in Singapore by
defeating the top seed World No. 122, Arantxa Rus of the Netherlands.
➢ India’s wicket keeper Rishabh Pant became the first Indian wicket keeper
batsman to score a century in Test against Australia on Australian soil after
hitting 159 runs on the 2nd day of 4th Test Match at Sydney, Australia.
➢ Switzerland’s Roger Federer and Belinda Bencic captured
the Hopman Cup title for a second year which was held in Perth, Western
Australia, edging Germany’s Alexander Zverev and Angelique Kerber.
➢ 25 years old Indian fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah finishes 2018 as
the highest international wicket-taker of 2018 with 78 wickets after
taking 9 wickets in the 3rd Test Match against Australia held in Melbourne
Cricket Ground, Australia.
➢ The Brisbane International 2019 was played on outdoor hard courts
in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Kei Nishikori won his first ATP
title since Memphis in 2016 with a dominating final set to beat Daniil
Medvedev 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 in the Brisbane International final.
Pliskova improved her record in Brisbane to 13-2 and joined Victoria
Azarenka (2009, 2016) and Serena Williams (2013-14) as the third
woman to win the tournament twice.
➢ Egypt and Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has been named African
Footballer of the Year for the second time in a row. He received the
award at a ceremony in Senegal. Houston Dash and South Africa
forward Thembi Kgatlana was named Women’s Player of the Year.
➢ The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced USA Cricket as
its 105th member. Headquarter: Dubai, UAE.
➢ 36 years old boxer, M C Mary Kom attained the first position in the latest
ranking released by the International Boxing Association (AIBA) in the
Light Fly 45-48 kilograms category with 1700 points.
➢ The seasoned Mahendra Singh Dhoni became the fifth player to score
ten thousand runs for India in One-day International Cricket, adding
another feather to his illustrious cap. Previously achieved the feat, which
include Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid and Virat
Kohli.
➢ Mohammed Shami succeeded the Indian record holder by Irfan
Pathan to become the fastest Indian bowler to claim 100 ODI wickets.
➢ Danish player Anders Antonsen won his first ever Indonesia Masters
after defeating world number one Kento Momota of Japan to claim the
2019 title.
➢ Australian T20 cricket team “Brisbane Heat” won their maiden Women’s
Big Bash League (WBBL) title by defeating Sydney Sixers in the final by three
wickets at Drummoyne Oval in Sydney, Australia.
➢ Lady Head constable Himachal Pradesh Police Rani won a Gold medal in
the Senior National Women's Judo Championship 78 kg category at
Visakhapatnam.
➢ Egypt will host the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations between 15th June and
13th July 2019.
➢ Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan won maiden ATP tour Tennis title at
the Tata Open Maharashtra in Pune.
➢ Indian cricketers Hardik Pandya and K L Rahul were suspended pending
an inquiry into their comments on women during a TV show.
➢ Tata Mumbai Marathon in Mumbai. Men’s Winner: Cosmas Lagat (Kenya),
Women’s Winner: Worknesh Alemu (Ethiopia).
➢ The first National Level Sports Meet for the students of Eklavya Model
Residential Schools (EMRS) was held at Hyderabad, Telangana.
➢ D Gukesh has become 2nd youngest Grand Master in the world. Ukraine’s
Sergey Karjakin remains the youngest-ever GM, having achieved the feat at
the age of 12 years and seven months in 2002.
➢ Asian Cup gold medallist Shakil Ahmed has set up a world record in indoor
rowing by completing one lakh metres in above 40 years category in Kolkata.
➢ India’s Mountaineer Satyarup becomes world’s youngest mountaineer
to climb 7 peaks, 7 volcano summits.
➢ French sailor JeanLuc Van Den Heede has won the round-the-world
yacht race after 212 days alone at sea without modern instruments.
➢ The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced fixtures for the ICC
T20 World Cup 2020 Men’s and Women’s event in Australia in 2020.
➢ India's Kartik Sharma has won the New South Wales men's Amateur
Golf Championship in Australia.
➢ Indian cricketer Ambati Rayudu has been suspended from bowling in
International Cricket by the International Cricket Council (ICC).
➢ The International Cricket Council (ICC) signed a five-year global
partnership deal with beverage manufacturer Coca-Cola Company. The
deal is reportedly worth Rs.300 crore.
➢ World champion Indian weightlifter Saikhom Mirabai Chanu notched
up a gold medal at the EGAT Cup in Thailand. Jeremy Lalrinnunga has
won the silver in men's 67-kilogram category. Deni (Indonesia) total lifted
303 kilograms and won Gold medal. Ruben Katoatau (Kiribati) took the
bronze with a total lift of 285 kilograms.
➢ Indian women's team ODI skipper Mithali Raj became the first female
cricketer to feature in 200 One-Day Internationals (ODI), during the
third ODI against New Zealand at Seddon Park, Hamilton.
➢ Golfer Vani Kapoor has become the first Indian to grab Australian
Ladies PGA Tour (LPGA) card after securing 12th Rank tied with three
others in the first ever qualifying tournament at the Ballarat Golf Club in
Australia.
➢ INS Dronacharya team won the Regetta trophy in the Area Pulling
Regatta Kochi 2019 of the (SNC Southern Naval Command) held in Kochi.
➢ Indian paddler G Sathiyan achieved a new career rank of 28 in the
world rankings. Manika Batra became the first female from India to
be enlisted in top 50 list, she made herself in rank 47.
➢ Haryana Hammers defeated defending champions Punjab Royals by 6-
3 in the summit clash at the Gautam Buddha University indoor stadium,
Greater Noida in Uttar Pradesh to claim the fourth edition of the Pro
Wrestling League (PWL).
➢ India’s Smriti Mandhana attained top in the ICC ODI rankings for
batswomen, she grab first position after the match against New Zealand,
whereas Ellyse Perry followed her in the second position and Indian ODI
skipper Mithali Raj in fifth position.
➢ Former Pakistan women's cricket team skipper Sana Mir became the
first Asian woman cricketer to play hundred T20 international matches.
➢ Rohit Sharma (Indian Cricket Team Vice-Captain) became the 14th
Indian Cricketer to play 200 One Day International (ODIs) in the fourth
Match against New Zealand held at Hamilton, New Zealand.
➢ Rohit Sharma has become the highest run scorer in the Twenty20
International history.
➢ Indian squash player Ramit Tandon defeated Egyptian Mohamed El
Sherbini in the finals to win the Seattle Open, a PSA challenger squash
Tour event held in USA.
➢ Vidarbha won the Irani Cup 2018-19. Player of the Match: Akshay
Karnewar (Vidarbha).
➢ Jamie Chadwick from Bath, England made history by becoming the first
female driver to win the MRF challenge title after scoring a triple win in
the final round in Chennai.
➢ The 83rd edition of the Senior National Badminton Championship has
begun in Guwahati. This is the first time the Nationals is returning to the
North-East since Guwahati last hosted it in 2010.
➢ The world’s one and only fire engine with original Shrewsbury and Challiner
solid tyres preserved at National Rail Museum (New Delhi) won the
“Statesman Challenger” trophy in the statesman 53rd edition Vintage
car rally.
➢ Meghalaya's state animal Clouded Leopard will be the mascot for the
National Games 2022 coinciding with the 50th year of the creation of the
state.
➢ Sports Authority of India won 9th Hockey India Senior Women
National Championship (B Division) held in Hisar, Haryana. They
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defeated Hockey Chandigarh by 4-1 in the final. The event concluded at
Kollam Hockey Stadium, Kerala.
➢ Railway Sports Promotion Board lifted the 9th Senior National Men's
Hockey Championship crown at Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh.
➢ India's young paddlers clinching four medals (1-gold, 2- silver and 1-
bronze) at the Bahrain Junior and Cadet Open Table Tennis tournament in
Manama, Bahra
➢ Russia’s Daniil Medvedev has achieved his fourth ATP title after a
triumph against finalist Hungary’s Morton Fucsovics in the Finale of Sofia
Open 2019.
➢ Qatar won the AFC Asian Cup 2019 crown in Abu Dhabi.
➢ A 22-year old men’s indoor world record in 1,500 metres was broken by
Samuel Tefera, an Ethiopian teenager. He broke the record at the
Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix by finishing the race in 3 minutes, 31.04
seconds.
➢ International Cricket Council (ICC) banned UAE coach Irfan Ansari for a
period of 10 years, from all forms of Cricket as he was found guilty of
making a “corrupt approach” to Pakistan captain Sarfaraz Ahmed in 2017.
➢ Chris Gayle toppled Shahid Afridi to top the list of most international
sixes during the 1st ODI between West Indies and England at the
Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados.
➢ The 16-year-old Indian Shooter Saurabh Chaudhary claimed gold
medal in the men's 10m air pistol event with a world record score of
245.0 in the final at the season-opening International Shooting Sport
Federation (ISSF) event. In addition, he sealed a berth for the 2020
Tokyo Olympics.
➢ The International Olympic Committee (IOC) suspended all Indian
applications to host future events and urged international sports
federations not to stage competitions in the country after two Pakistanis
were denied visas to compete in New Delhi.
➢ Former Sri Lankan Cricket Captain Sanath Jayasuriya has been banned
from Cricket for two years, after he failed to co-operate in a corruption
investigation.
➢ Afghanistan broke Australia's record for the highest Twenty20 cricket
total as they posted 278 runs from their 20 overs in the second T20I against
Ireland at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Dehradun,
Uttarakhand.
➢ Sri Lanka entered the record books and scripted history by becoming
the first Asian team to win a Test series in South Africa.
➢ In Chess, Indian Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta lifted the Cannes
International Open trophy. He took an easy draw with Pier Luigi Basso of
Italy in the ninth and final round.
➢ Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary clinched the gold medal with
483.4 points in the 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team event at the ISSF World
Cup in New Delhi.
➢ Vidarbha won the Ranji Trophy 2018-19 edition (85th season) at the
Vidarbha Cricket Association in Nagpur.
➢ Apurvi Chandela has won the gold medal in the women's 10-metre air
rifle event at the Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi.
➢ Corentin Moutet (France) won the Chennai Open ATP Challenger
tennis singles tournament in Chennai.
➢ Indian Prajnesh Gunneswaran has made it to the top-100 of Men's
Singles Tennis rankings.
➢ West Indies cricketer Chris Gayle became the first player in the
world to hit 500 sixes the 14th batsman and second from the Caribbean
after Brian Lara, to reach the milestone of 10,000 ODI runs, after scoring
162 off 97 balls against England in the fourth ODI at the National Cricket
Stadium in St George’s, Grenada.
➢ National champion Deepak Singh (49kg) was the lone Indian boxer to
notch up a gold by defeating Jaafar Naseri, while five others
claimed silver medals in the Makran Cup in Chabahar, Iran.
➢ Swiss Tennis legend Roger Federer has claimed the 100th ATP
title of his career with after beating 20-year-old Greek Stefanos
Tsitsipas 6-4, 6-4 in the final of the Dubai Tennis Championships. The 20-
time grand slam champion is the second man, after American Jimmy
Connors to claim 100 titles.
➢ Shashank Shekhar won the 10 kilometre race of Nepal’s Chief of
Army Staff (COAS) Open Marathon and Run for Fun which was held in
Nepal’s Capital- Kathmandu.
➢ Chris Gayle, West Indies opener has signed off his last One Day
International in the West Indies with a record half century against England
at the Darren Sammy National Cricket Stadium in Saint Lucia.
➢ Vivo Indian Premier League (IPL) 2019’s official partner, TATA
Motors, will promote its newly-launched SUV, Harrier, as its lead brand at
the event and showcase the SUV by means of the IPL platform. The highest
batting strike rate will win the Harrier Super Striker Award in every
match and for the season.
➢ Olympic Council of Asia decided to invite Oceania Nations to compete
in 2022 Asian Games for the first time after a meeting held in Bangkok.
➢ The International Cricket Council (ICC) has banned former Zimbabwe
Cricket director Enock Ikope for a period of 10 years for breaching 3 ICC’s
anti-corruption codes.
➢ Kudo International Federation India (KIFI) has been provisionally
recognised as National Sport Federation by the Ministry of Youth Affairs
and Sports.
➢ Manpreet Singh was named captain of the 18-member Indian hockey
team to play in the upcoming 28th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup.
➢ Tamil Nadu’s 16-year-old P Iniyan defeated Ukraine’s 37-year-
old Grandmaster Sergey Fedorchuk in Noisiel Open chess
tournament in France to become India’s 61st Grandmaster. Iniyan
crossed the mandatory 2500-mark in ELO ratings with the win to achieve
the feat.
➢ Indian gymnast Dipa Karmakar was selected as Barbie role model &
was presented with a one-of-a-kind doll by Barbie as the company
celebrates its 60th anniversary. She was part of the ‘Shero’ program
launched in 2015 by the company.
➢ Mumbai sailor Upamanyu Dutta bagged the bronze medal in the
Laser Standard race for men in the Laser Asian Sailing which concluded
in Singapore. Nethra Kumanan of Chennai achieved a creditable 4th
position in the Laser Radial event for women.
➢ Special Olympics World Games 2019 has made history by welcoming
a record-breaking 200 nations ahead of the Games. It is being held
in West Asia for the first time.
➢ Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has granted provisional
recognition to All India Carrom Federation (AICF) as National Sport
Federation with immediate in order to facilitate the participation of Indian
Athletes in the forthcoming National/International competitions.
➢ AIBA (International Boxing Association) Technical & Competition
Rules Commission and AIBA medical Commission has proposed certain
changes in the rules after the Executive Committee Meetings in Moscow in
October 2018 and Istanbul in February 2019.
➢ England defeated India in the 3rd and final Women’s Twenty20
International in Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati, Assam.
➢ China’s 2016 Olympic champion, Liu Hong, broke the world record in
the 50 km race walk, finishing in 3 hours, 59 minutes and 15 seconds
(3:59:15), at the Chinese Race Walk Grand Prix in Huangshan, to
become the first woman to break the 4-hour barrier in the event.
➢ Argentina and Colombia are poised to co-host the 2020 Copa America
after South America’s ruling body CONMEBOL once again ruled out a US
proposal to host the tournament. CONMEBOL’s ruling council met in Miami
to discuss the issue ahead of a FIFA Council meeting in the city.
➢ Australia beat India by 35 runs to win their first bilateral One Day
International (ODI) series against India since 2016. It was India’s 1st
ODI series defeat at home since 2015. M S Dhoni became the 4th Indian
batsman to reach 13,000. Virat Kohli created record by smashing 40th
ODI hundred. Player of the Series: Usman Khawaja.
➢ Five Indians have been appointed as members of various Technical
Committees of Asian Gymnastics Union for a four-year term from 2019 to
2022. The five Indians are Deepak Kabra (Men’s Artistic Gymnastics),
Akshata Shete (Rhythmic Gymnastics), Makarand Joshi (Aerobic
Gymnastics), Sumith MR (Acrobatic Gymnastics) and Narayan Shashi
(Gymnastics for All).
➢ Spanish football club Real Madrid has re-appointed Zinedine Zidane as
its coach till 2022.
➢ The All India Football Federation confirmed that India will be hosting
the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in 2020, three years after hosting
the U-17 Men’s World Cup. The 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup was
held in Uruguay.
➢ Karnataka defeated Maharashtra to win their maiden Syed Mushtaq
Ali Trophy at the Holkar Cricket Stadium in Indore.
➢ Eighteen-year-old Diksha Dagar became the second Indian to win an
event on Ladies European Tour after clinching South African Women’s
Open in Cape Town. Aditi Ashok was the first Indian to win this title.
➢ 29-year-old Indian athlete K.T. Irfan from Kerala has qualified for
the Tokyo Olympics as he finished fourth in the men’s 20-kilometer
category at the Asian Race-Walking Championships in Nomi, Japan.
➢ Bengaluru FC clinched their maiden Indian Super League title as
Rahul Bheke found a championship-winning header in the dying minutes of
the final against FC Goa, in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
➢ The Board of Control For Cricket In India (BCCI) announced the
sports gaming platform Dream11 as the official partner for VIVO Indian
Premier League (IPL) to boost the digital gaming.
➢ The United World Wrestling (UWW) has taken away the Junior Asian
Wrestling Championship from India and asked all its affiliated federations
to stop dealing with the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) due to the
country’s diplomatic tension with Pakistan.
➢ Afghanistan defeated Ireland by 7 wickets to win their first ever Test
Match in Dehradun, Uttrakhand. Rahmat Shah was awarded the Player
of the Match.
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➢ Former India hockey captain Sardar Singh along with 13 Indian Olympic
Association (IOA) members, have been named in various Standing
Committees of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) at its 38th General
Assembly which held in Bangkok.
➢ The T10 cricket League is set to be played in Zayed Cricket Stadium
of Abu Dhabi for the next five years, starting from 2019 season. The first
match in the T10 League will be held on 23rd October 2019.
➢ The 15th Special Olympics World Summer Games 2019 for athletes
with Intellectual disabilities held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates with
motto “Meet the Determined”. The event saw the participation of 190
countries. The next Special Olympic Games are set to take place
in Sweden in 2021.
➢ India has lost the hosting rights of two international tennis tournaments
viz. Junior Davis Cup and Fed Cup which were scheduled to be held in RK
Khanna stadium, New Delhi in April. Now both events will be held
in Bangkok, Thailand.
➢ Dipa Karmakar qualifies for vault finals in Artistic Gymnastics World
Cup at Baku in Azerbaijan.
➢ The Supreme Court has set aside the life ban imposed on cricketer
Sreesanth by BCCI over his involvement in the 2013 IPL spot fixing
scandal.
➢ Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) paid over Rs.11 crore (1.6 million US
dollars) as compensation to BCCI after losing case in ICC's Dispute
Resolution Committee.
➢ The 2019 season of the T10 Cricket Match signed to be held in the
Zayed Cricket Stadium, Abu Dhabi for the next five years. The first
match in the T10 League will be held on 23rd October 2019.
➢ The 15th Special Olympics World Summer Games 2019 for athletes
with Intellectual disabilities held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
India wins 368 medals at the Special Olympics World Summer Games
including 85 gold, 154 silver and 129 bronze. Jitendra Pawal won a
gold medal in the 200m race.
➢ 35 years old Badminton player Joachim
Persson of Denmark was banned for 18 months by the Badminton
World Federation for match-fixing. He was ordered to pay $4,500.
➢ World football governing body FIFA has imposed a lifetime ban on 72
years old, former Ecuadorian Football Federation (FEF)
President, Luis Chiriboga. He has also fined with million swiss
francs ($1.01 million).
➢ Suresh Raina etched his name in the history books of the Indian
Premier League with the Chennai Super Kings batsman becoming the first
batsman to score 5000 IPL runs.
➢ Indian paddler Archana Kamath clinched a silver medal in the under-
21 women’s singles section of the Seamaster ITTF Challenge Plus
2019 Oman Open Table Tennis Tournament, at Muscat. G Sathyan won a
bronze medal in the tournament.
➢ Paralympic torch was unveiled by the Tokyo Organising
Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) which will
take place between 13th and 25th August 2020 to represent the Torch Relay.
The torch is made from the same recycled aluminum and is modelled after
the Japanese cherry blossom or “Sakura”. The colour of the torch
is “Sakura Pink”.
➢ FIFA (The Federation Internationale de Football Association)
World Cup 2022 security agreement aimed at building a strategic
partnership for the preparation of the world cup and management of the
security of event, signed between Qatar and France.
➢ Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary have won a Gold medal in
the 10-meter Air Pistol Mixed team event in Shooting at the 12th Asian
Airgun Championship at Taoyuan in Taipei.
➢ India clinched South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Women’s
Championship 2019 by defeating Nepal for 3-1 in Biratnagar,
Nepal. It was for the fifth time in a row that India won the championship.
Indian Midfielder Indumathi Kathiresan and Nepali forward player
Sabitra Bhandari became the top scorers in the match with four
goals each.
➢ The 2nd edition of Badminton Asia Mixed Team
Championships aka Tong Yun Kai Cup 2019 was held in Queen Elizabeth
Stadium, Hong Kong. China has grabbed the championship by defeating
Japan with 3-2.
➢ International Olympics Committee (IOC) gave provisional green light
for the inclusion of Breakdancing in the Paris Olympics 2024. Surfing,
Skateboarding and sport climbing also got approval for provisional
inclusion in Summer Olympics 2024 from IOC.
➢ The Unique Mixed Teams Hopman Cup (Tennis tournament) in Perth has
been replaced by the ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) World
Team Cup after 31 years.
➢ India was defeated by the South Korea in the penalty shootout of the
final 28th edition of Sultan Azlan Shah Cup 2019 was held at Azlan Shah
Stadium in Ipoh, Malaysia.
➢ For the 4th consecutive time, the Northern Command based
in Udhampur has won the 15th edition of General J J Singh Air
Weapon Championship in Mhow, Madhya Pradesh.
➢ Saurav Ghosal became the first Indian male squash player to enter
the top 10 in the latest PSA – Professional Squash Association world
rankings. Indian women squash players Joshna Chinappa and Dipika
Pallikal had earlier reached top 10 in the world rankings.
➢ India has retained ICC Test Championship mace for the third year in
a row after finishing at the top of ICC Test team rankings on the cut-off date
of April 1. It has also won the purse of USD 1 million.
➢ In the latest release of FIFA (The Federation Internationale de
Football Association) world football rankings, Belgium has edged the
World Cup winners France to retain at the first rank with 1737 points. The
Indian Football Team gained two places in the new FIFA rankings 101st
position.
➢ Sam Curran has become the youngest player to take a hat-trick in
the Indian Premier League (IPL) match 2019.
➢ The Kho-Kho Federation of India (KKFI) in collaboration with Burman
has launched a franchise-based league for the sport named “Ultimate
KhoKho”. The league will be held either in September or October this year.
➢ The International Cricket Council (ICC) has sought closer working
relations with the Interpol to widen the scope of its fight against corruption
in the sport.
➢ India has lost to South Korea in the final of Sultan Azlan Shah
Hockey tournament at Ipoh in Malaysia. South Korea lifted the title,
defeating India in a shootout 4-2.
➢ 73-year-old Israeli Isaak Hayik set a new world record as the Oldest
Person to play in a Professional Soccer Match.
➢ Indian captain Virat Kohli was named the ‘Leading Cricketer in the
World’ for the third time in a row in this year’s edition of the Wisden
Cricketers’ Almanack, the publication. Smriti Mandhana was the
‘Leading Cricketer in the women’s game’.
➢ The All India Tennis Association (AITA) has signed an MoU with
Serbian Tennis Federation (STF) to train Indian junior players under
world renowned Serbian coaches, at the RK Khanna Stadium, New
Delhi.
➢ Golfer Tiger Woods clinched his Fifth Masters and 15th major title at
Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia.
➢ Christian Garin became the first Chilean to win an ATP Tour title in 10
years when he beat Norway’s Casper Ruud at the U.S. Men’s Clay Court
Championship in Houston.
➢ In tennis, continuing his good run, India's Prajnesh Gunneswaran
achieved a career-high ranking of 80 in the latest ATP rankings released.
➢ India’s Harsheel Dani, a former junior national champion, defeated Mads
Christophersen of Denmark, World No 149, to clinch the 20th Victor Dutch
International Badminton title in Wateringen, Netherlands.
➢ Meena Kumari Maisnam clinched the gold medal in the 54 kg
category at the Boxing World Cup in Cologne, Germany. Sakshi (57kg)
and Pwilao Basumatary (64kg) lost their final bouts and had to settle for
silver while Pinki Rani (51kg) and Parveen (60kg) won bronze as India
finished with five medals.
➢ Ethiopian athletes Gelete Burka (women’s race) and Abrha Milaw
(men’s race) won the 43rd edition of the Paris Marathon.
➢ Former Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) president Jose Maria
Marin has been banned for life from all football activities by FIFA.
➢ FC Goa nicknamed as ‘The Gaurs’ emerged as champions of the 2019
Super Cup as they pipped Chennaiyin FC 2-1 in a tense affair at the Kalinga
Stadium in Bhubaneswar. 19-year-old Goa Goalkeeper Mohammad
Nawaz has been named as Hero of the Match.
➢ ICC Cricket for Good, in partnership with UNICEF, announced ‘One Day
for Children’ bringing together cricket’s one billion fans to help build a
better world for every child.
➢ The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has imposed a hefty fine
of one lakh seventy-six thousand Euros (170,000 Euros) on Pakistan
Hockey Federation (PHF) for not honouring the Pro League commitments.
➢ Indian Women’s Hockey team won the FIH (Fédération Internationale
de Hockey) Women's Series Finals Hiroshima 2019 after defeating the host
Japan held at the Hiroshima Hockey Stadium, Japan. Rani Rampal,
Indian Team Captain was the Best Player of the tournament and Gurjit Kaur
emerged as the Top Scorer.
➢ India's Bajrang Punia has regained the World Number One spot in
the men's 65-kilogram freestyle category rankings. The rankings were
released by United World Wrestling.
➢ Former Olympic and three-time world champion Asbel Kiprop of
Kenya was banned for four years for testing positive for the blood-
boosting drug EPO.
➢ Services won their 6th Santosh Trophy Football Tournament title
over Punjab at the Guru Nanak Stadium in Ludhiana.
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➢ The 31-year-old Fabio Fognini defeated Dusan Lajovic, in Rolex
Monte-Carlo Masters final to capture the biggest title of his career and
make history as the first Italian to claim a Masters 1000 championship.
➢ World No.1 Bajrang Punia (65kg) won India’s first gold medal at
the Asian Wrestling Championships 2019 in Xi’an, China. Praveen
Rana had to settle for silver in the 79kg category after he lost
to Bahman Mohammad Teymouri of Iran. Satyavrat Kadian, on the
other hand, bagged a bronze medal in the 97kg category.
➢ India’s Divyansh Singh Panwar has secured the country’s fourth
Olympic quota place in shooting by winning a silver in 10m air rifle
event in the ISSF World Cup in Beijing, China.
➢ United States Cricket Team beat Hong Kong by 84 runs in the WCL
Division 2 to attain one-day International (ODI) status.
➢ French official Stephanie Frappart will become the first woman to
referee a Ligue 1 match and will take charge of Amiens Vs Strasbourg.
➢ Australia’s Claire Polosak will create history as the first woman
umpire ever to stand in a men’s One-Day International when she takes
the field in the final of the ICC World Cricket League Division 2.
➢ Petra Kvitova has become the first player to win two WTA singles
titles this year after beating Anett Kontaveit in the Stuttgart’s Porsche
Tennis Grand Prix final.
➢ Bajrang Punia is set to become the first wrestler from India to fight
at the iconic Madison Square Garden in New York.
➢ Arjuna awardee and star Indian golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar won the
outstanding achievement as a player award at the fourth edition of the
annual India Golf Industry Association (GIA) awards at the Delhi
Golf Club, New Delhi.
➢ Indian marathon runner, Nitendra Singh Rawat finished 27th in 2
hours 15 minutes and 59 seconds in the men’s Elite race of
prestigious Virgin Money London Marathon 2019 at London.
➢ Raheem Sterling has been named the 2019 footballer of the year by
the Football Writers’ Association (FWA). The Manchester City and
England forward topped the poll of the 400-strong FWA membership as
a clear winner, with 62 percent of the votes.
➢ The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) along with Sky Running
Association of India organized the National Sky Running
Championship at Auli, Uttarakhand.
➢ India's ace cueist Pankaj Advani won the inaugural Asian Snooker Tour
title. Advani beat Nezhad in the final.
➢ India’s ace cueist Pankaj Advani won the 35th men’s Asian snooker
championship in Doha, Qatar. He defeated Thai’s Thanawat
Tirapongpaiboon.
➢ Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli overtook Suresh Raina to
become the leading run-scorer in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
➢ Asian champion shot putter Manpreet Kaur has been banned for four
years by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) for flunking four dope
tests in 2017.
➢ Chennai Super Kings' medium pacer Deepak Chahar has become the
bowler with the most number of dot balls (20) in an innings in the history
of the Indian Premier League (IPL).
➢ India cricketers were fined 20 lakh rupees each by the BCCI ombudsman
Justice D.K. Jain for their sexist comments on a popular TV chat show
Hardik Pandya & K.L. Rahul.
➢ The Asian Weightlifting Championships 2019 held in Ningbo, China.
➢ India bagged one gold and two silver medals at the Asian Boxing
Championships in Bangkok.
➢ Liverpool’s centre back Van Dijk was named Player of the Year by
England’s Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA). Arsenal’s Dutch
forward Vivianne Miedema (22-years) claimed the women’s Player of the
Year award.
➢ According to the latest rankings released by International Shooting
Sport Federation (ISSF), world cup gold medallist, Apurvi Chandela
became the world number one in women’s 10m Air Rifle category with 1,
926 rating points.
➢ Yosuke Asaji won the Asia-Pacific Diamond Golf Cup 2019 by one
shot at the Sobu Country Club.
➢ The 8th edition Asian Youth Women Handball Championship 2019
will be held in Jaipur from August 21 to 30. This is the first time Jaipur will
host this prestigious tournament.
➢ ICC (International Cricket Council) has launched the “criiio campaign”
on the eve of the Men’s World Cup 2019.
➢ World number one Bajrang Punia has become the first Indian to win
gold at the Ali Aliev wrestling tournament after defeating Viktor Rassadin of
Russia in the 65 kg freestyle in Kapiisk.
➢ The world body governing cricket, ICC unveiled an expanded men's
Twenty20 International team rankings with 80 teams. India with
260 points have dropped three places to fifth in the latest list. The ICC
T20 World Cup champions of 2009, Pakistan have consolidated their top
position with 286 points. The next three teams are South Africa (262),
England (261) and Australia (261).
➢ Serbia’s Dragan Mihailovic will take over as head coach of the Indian
Men’s Volleyball team by the Volleyball Federation of India (VFI) and will
be joined by Pryemyslaw Gaszyoski (Poland) and Valadimir Radosevic
(Serbia) as the team’s physio and physiotherapist respectively.
➢ Archery Association of India named its senior vice president Sunil
Sharma in accordance with Article 24 of AAI Constitution (as approved
by the Supreme Court on 4th December 2017) as its acting president to start
the election process. Sunil Sharma was preceded by BVP Rao.
➢ Saurav Ghosal (men’s title) and Joshna Chinappa (women’s title)
rewrote India's squash history when the duo emerged champions in the
Asian Individual Squash Championship in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
➢ Anmol Jain and Esha Singh won the mixed air pistol team bronze medal
in the Grand Prix of Liberation International Shooting Competition in
Czech Republic.
➢ Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) announced
two new award categories to promote women's football across the globe.
The two new award categories are off Women's Goalkeeper of the year
and a Women's Team of the year.
➢ Former cricketers Sourav Ganguly and Sanjay Manjrekar along with
cricket writer and commentator Harsha Bhogle have been named in the
International Cricket Council’s (ICC) commentary panel for the upcoming
World Cup, beginning May 30 in England and Wales.
➢ The Asian Football Confederation announced that for the first time an
all-female referee team will take charge of a Men’s Continental Club Cup
Clash. Japanese referee Yoshimi Yamashita and assistants Makoto
Bozono and Naomi Teshirogi.
➢ West Indies player John Campbell and Shai Hope created the history by
making first-ever 350 plus run opening stand after sharing 365 runs for
the 1st wicket against Ireland. The venue of the match was Clontarf
Cricket Club Ground, Dublin, Ireland.
➢ Amul has been announced as the principal sponsor of the Afghanistan
cricket team for the upcoming World Cup, slated to be held in England
and Wales from May 30.
➢ India's Ganemat Sekhon returned the joint third-best score in the
Women's Skeet event at this year's third International Shooting Sport
Federation (ISSF) World Cup Shotgun Stage 2 in Changwon, Korea.
➢ Former Croatia international and manager Igor Stimac will be appointed
as the Indian men’s team coach after the All India Football Federation’s
(AIFF) technical committee recommended him for the post.
➢ The world’s first exclusive women’s cricket magazine ‘Criczone” was
released with Indian team vice-captain Smriti Mandhana featuring as the
cover story.
➢ Pakistan off-spinner Sana Mir has become the most successful
women’s ODI spinner in history after she took her 147th wicket, highest
ever by any spinner in One-day International (ODI) cricket.
➢ India’s Rahil Gangjee finished tied 39th while Viraj Madappa faltered
on the final day and ended tied 53rd at the Asia-Pacific Diamond Cup in
Japan.
➢ Rafael Nadal Claimed the Italian Open 2019 Title:
➢ Rafael Nadal has won a record 34th ATP Masters 1000 title by
defeating Novak Djokovic in the Italian Open final 2019. This is his ninth
Rome title.
➢ Nadal dominated in a 6-0, 4-6, 6-1 win broke a tie with his longtime rival
Djokovic. For his victory, Nadal received 1, 000 ATP Ranking points and
earned Rs. 7. 5 crore. Djokovic produced an error-strewn performance in
his 54th meeting with Nadal.
➢ American golfer Brooks Koepka set a record in the lowest 36-hole
score in Major golf history and seized a record seven-stroke lead after two
rounds of the US PGA Championship. Brooks Koepka now holds the 18,
36 and 72-hole scoring records for the US PGA Championship.
➢ Mumbai-based racer Jehan Daruvala took his maiden win in the 2019
Formula 3 championship in Barcelona.
➢ The Squash Rackets Federation of India (SRFI) announced a tie-up
with HCL with an aim to improve the health of the sport in the country.
➢ Manchester City defeated Brighton by 4-1 at the Amex Stadium,
UK in Premier League title match. Manchester City became the first team
to retain the title in last 10 years since Manchester United had done
the same in 2009.
➢ The Committee of Administrators (CoA) announced that the much-awaited
elections for a new body of the Board of Control for Cricket in
India (BCCI) will be held on October 22.
➢ Senior Bangladesh cricketer Shakib Al Hasan jumped to the top of the
latest MRF Tyres ICC ODI rankings for all-rounders, which doesn’t
feature a single Indian in the top-10 chart.
➢ Bayern Munich clinched German Cup 2019. Bayern Munich
defeated RB Leipzig in Olympiastadion, Berlin.
➢ China won the badminton world mixed-team championship, 16th edition
of Sudirman Cup 2019 in Nanning, China.
➢ Croatia’s Ivo Karlovic became the oldest man to win a match at the
French Open 2019 for 46 years on 28th May.
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➢ Asian youth champion Dr. Rohini Rau to lead all women Indian team
for the J80 World Championship to be staged in Bilbao, Spain, from
July 13 to 20.
➢ Chelsea clinched the UEFA Europa League 2019 Cup. It scored four
goals in a devastating second-half display to beat Arsenal 4-1 on 29 May at
the Baku Olympic Stadium in Azerbaijan.
➢ Recently, Korea Football Association (KFA) had withdrawn their bid
to host Asian Cup 2023 which leave the sole other bidders China with a
free run to become hosts.
➢ Rajasthan Royals leg-spinner Shreyas Gopal had claimed the hat-trick in
the Indian Premier League (IPL)- 2019.
➢ Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) has decided to bid for the 2024
edition (take part-32 teams) of the biennial World Team
Championships.
➢ South Korea has abandoned its bid to stage Asian Cup Football
tournament 2023. The Korea Football Association (KFA) had pulled out to
strategically focus on a joint bid with North Korea to host the Women's
World Cup in the same year.
➢ The World Body Governing Badminton (BFA) has launched two new
formats of the game namely ‘Air Badminton’ and ‘Triples’.
➢ India's Mahesh Mangaonkar triumphed for the second time in the
Sekisui Open in Kriens, Switzerland.
➢ Indian shooter Manu Bhaker secured India its seventh Olympic quota with
a fourth-place finish in the women's 10-meter air pistol event of the ISSF
World Cup in Munich, Germany.
➢ Pakistan will host the 15th edition of the 2020 Asia Cup cricket
tournament (in September 2020). ACC also reaffirmed its stand to
include cricket in the 2022 Asian Games scheduled in Hangzhou, China.
➢ Liverpool breezed past Tottenham at Madrid to win the Champions
League Football for the Sixth Time.
➢ Sunil Chhetri has become the Most Capped India player by surpassing
Bhaichung Bhutia's 107 international matches.
➢ China will stage the 2023 Asian Cup football after South Korea, Thailand
and Indonesia dropped their bids. This year's Asian Cup in the UAE was
expanded to 24 nations for the first time with Qatar winning the final 3-1
against Japan.
➢ The Indian Junior Women's Hockey Team clinched the Cantor
Fitzgerald U21 International 4-Nations title in Dublin, Ireland.
➢ The 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup (8th edition) started in France.
➢ Gymnastics Federation of India (GFI) has announced the Indian team
for the Senior Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships to be held in
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
➢ Indian men's archery team secured the Olympic quota for the 2020
Tokyo Games.
➢ ICC has entered into content partnerships with global social media
platforms Facebook, YouTube and Twitter to cater to the huge interest
from fans in this event.
➢ Under-20 Eurasian Athletics Championships held at Almaty,
Kazakhstan, Indian juniors bagged 5 gold and 3 silver medals.
➢ Sidharth Rawat won his title in the $25,000 ITF men’s Futures tennis
tournament. Last year he won with Manish Sureshkumar for doubles.
➢ Viswanathan Anand defeat against world champion Magnus Carlsen of
Norway in the Armageddon game at the Altibox Norway Chess Tournament.
➢ International Hockey Federation (IHF) conducted Men's Hockey Series.
The Final match is played at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar. Japan
defeated Mexico by a goal 3 - 1.
➢ The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the
international governing body for the sport of athletics, changed its name
from IAAF to World Athletics.
➢ United States won the biggest-ever victory in FIFA Women’s World Cup.
They defeated Thailand in Group-F match at Reims in France.
➢ Peter Gilchrist won the 2019 Pacific International Billiards
Championship at the Yarraville Club in Melbourne, Australia.
➢ Indian cricketer Virat Kohli is the only Indian in the Forbes list of
world’s highest-paid athletes. The list is topped by Barcelona and
Argentina football superstar Lionel Messi.
➢ Australia will be one of the two guest nations at the 2020 Copa
America. Qatar will also return to 2020 tournament, which will be co-
hosted by Argentina and Colombia. Qatar and Japan are the guest nations
in 2019 Copa, which started on June 15 in Brazil. This year’s Copa America
broadcast to a record 178 countries.
➢ Belgium remained to top the overall FIFA world rankings, followed
by France, Brazil, England, and Portugal. The Indian men’s football team
remained static at the 101st position in the latest FIFA rankings.
➢ England captain Eoin Morgan set the world record for most sixes (17)
in a One Day International (ODI). He achieved this record during his 71-ball
148-run knock against Afghanistan in World Cup on 18 June 2019.
➢ Afghanistan leg-spinner Rashid Khan is the most expensive bowler in
World Cup history. He is the world’s No.3 ODI bowler. He played Sunrisers
Hyderabad in Indian Premier League.
➢ Joshna Chinappa wins record 17th National Title in Squash after
outplaying Tamil Nadu's Sunayna Kuruvilla in the final.
➢ Asian champion PU Chitra (Palakkeezhil Unnikrishnan Chithra) of India
won a gold medal in women’s 1500m at Folksam Grand Prix 2019 held
in Sollentuna, Sweden.
➢ Indian Gymnast, Pranati Nayak aged 23 won bronze medal in vault event
at the 8th edition of Senior Asian Artistic Championships in Buyant
Ukhaa Sport Palace, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
➢ The 20-time Grand Slam champion, Roger Federer of Switzerland
defeated David Goffin (Belgium) to win the 27th edition of the Halle Open
2019 (also known as Noventi Open 2019) at the Gerry Weber Stadion
in Halle, Germany.
➢ The International Olympic Committee (IOC) inaugurated its 145
million Swiss francs ($145 million) new headquarters named Olympic
House in a ceremony held at the lakeside grounds of Olympic House in
Lausanne, Switzerland.
➢ The 26-member squad of Indian women’s Rugby team created a
historic first international 15s rugby match win at Southern Plains
Sports Field in Manila, Philippines.
➢ Sofia Kenin of the United States won the 4th edition of Mallorca Open
Title 2019 against Belinda Bencic of Switzerland held at Santa Ponsa Tennis
Club in Mallorca, Spain.
➢ 22-year-old Girish A. Koushik of Mysore, Karnataka became India’s
63rd Grandmaster (GM) at the 37th Balaton International Chess
Festival in Hungary. He became the third Grandmaster from Karnataka,
after Thejkumar M S and Stany G A.
➢ International Olympic Committee (IOC) suspended the Olympic
status from the International Boxing Association (AIBA) and took over
the responsibilities of the qualifying and final tournaments for the 2020
Tokyo Games. AIBA has debts of about $17 million and it may be bankrupt
in the near future.
➢ In the final round of voting at the 134th session of the International
Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne, Switzerland, Italy’s Milan and
Cortina d’Ampezzo won the right to host the 2026 Winter Olympics.
➢ In the finals of the St Peters Youth Centre Open Hockey Tournament
for 2019 held in Mumbai, teams of Central Railway (Women) and Union
Bank of India (Men) emerged as champions. Olympian Preeti Yadav was
named as the Best player of the Tournament.
➢ The Sports Authority of India's (SAI) Mission Olympic Cell has
included four archers namely Archers Tarundeep Rai, Atanu Das, Pravin
Jadhav and Atul Verma in Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) for
the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
➢ India's junior Boxing women's team was won best team trophy in 5th
Black Forest Cup held in Villingen, Schwenningen, Germany. The team
won 7 medals, including 5 gold. Tamanna (48kg), Anju, Neha, H. Ambeshori
Devi (57kg), and Preeti Dahiya (60kg) won gold medals out of the 13-
member Indian squad.
IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE DAY
Important Day Observed/
Celebrated
Theme of 2019
Defence Research and
Development
Organisation (DRDO)
Day
January 1st -
World Braille Day January 4th -
NRI Day or Pravasi
Bharatiya Divas
January 9th "Role of Indian Diaspora
in building a New India".
World Hindi Day January 10th -
26th Army Air Defence
Day
January 10th -
Indian Army Day (71st) January 15th -
National Youth Day January 12th -
14th Raising Day of
National Disaster
Response Force (NDRF)
January 19th -
47th Statehood Day of
Manipur, Meghalaya,
and Tripura
January 21st -
National Girl Child Day January 24th “Empowering Girls for a
Brighter Tomorrow”.
International Day of
Education
January 24th “Education: A Key Driver
for Inclusion and
Empowerment”
69th foundation day of
Uttar Pradesh
January 24th -
9th National Voters Day January 25th “No Voter to be Left
Behind”
India’s Republic Day January 26th -
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International Customs
Day
January 26th -
International Holocaust
Remembrance Day
January 27th “Holocaust
Remembrance: Demand
and Defend Your Human
Rights”.
World Leprosy
Eradication Day
January 27th (Last
Sunday of
January)
-
Martyrs Day January 30th -
World Wetlands Day February 2nd ” Wetlands and Climate
Change”
World Cancer Day February 4th “I Am and I Will”
International Day of
Zero Tolerance for
Female Genital
Mutilation
February 6th #EndGFM
National Cleft Day February 8th -
National Deworming
Day
February 8th -
World Pulses Day February 10th -
World day of the Sick February 11th -
International Day of
Women and Girls in
Science
February 11th "Investment in Women
and Girls in Science for
Inclusive Green Growth"
National Productivity
Day
February 12th “Circular Economy for
Productivity and
Sustainability”
International Darwin
Day
February 12th -
World Radio Day February 13th “Dialogue, Tolerance
and Peace”
World Day of Social
Justice
February 20th “If You Want Peace &
Development, Work for
Social Justice”
International Mother
Language Day
February 21st “Indigenous languages
matter for development,
peace building and
reconciliation”
World Thinking Day February 22nd ‘Leadership’
Central Excise day February 24th -
World NGO Day 2019 February 27th -
National Science Day February 28th "Science for people and
people for science"
World Civil Defence Day March 1st “Children’s safety, our
responsibility”.
Zero Discrimination Day March 1st “Act to change laws that
Discriminate”.
43rd Civil Accounts Day
by The Indian Civil
Accounts Service (ICAS)
March 1st -
World Hearing Day March 3rd “Check your Hearing”.
World Wildlife Day March 3rd ‘Life below water: for
people and planet’
National Safety Day March 4th “Cultivate and Sustain a
safety culture for
building nation”.
National Security Day March 4th -
World Day of the Fight
Against Sexual
Exploitation
March 4th -
Janaushadhi Diwas March 7th -
International Women's
Day
March 8th 'Think Equal, Build
Smart, Innovate for
Change'.
National Immunisation
Day
March 10th -
50th Raising Day of
Central Industrial
Security Forces (CISF)
March 10th -
34th Inception day of
National Crime Records
Bureau (NCRB)
March 11th -
India Smart Utility Week
2019
March 12th to
March 16th 2019
-
Dandi March Day March 12th -
World Kidney Day 2nd Thursday of
March - (14th
March 2019)
“Kidney Health for
Everyone Everywhere”
World Consumer Rights
Day
March 15th “Trusted Smart
Products”.
World Sleep Day 2019 March 15th ‘Healthy Sleep, Healthy
Aging’.
National Vaccination
Day
March 16th -
Ordinance Factories Day
2019
March 18th -
Global Recycling Day
2019
March 18th “Recycling into the
Future”.
International Day of
Happiness
March 20th ‘Happier Together’
World Sparrow Day March 20th “I Love Sparrows”.
International Day of
Forests
March 21st “Forests and Education –
Learn to Love Forests”.
International Day for
the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination
March 21st “Mitigating and
countering rising
nationalist populism and
extreme supremacist
ideologies”.
World Down Syndrome
Day
March 21st Focus on this year -
“Leave no one behind”
World Poetry Day by
United Nations
Educational, Scientific
and Cultural
Organization
(UNESCO).
March 21st -
Bihar Diwas or Bihar
Day (107th Foundation
Day)
March 22nd -
World Water Day March 22nd “Leaving no one behind”
88th Shaheed Diwas or
Martyr’s Day
March 23rd -
World Meteorological
Day
March 23rd “The Sun, the Earth and
the Weather”
World Tuberculosis (TB)
Day
March 24th ‘It’s time’
International Day for
Achievers
March 24th -
International Day for
the Right to the Truth
Concerning Gross
Human Rights Violations
and for the Dignity of
Victims
March 24th -
International Day of
Remembrance of the
Victims of Slavery and
the Transatlantic Slave
Trade
March 25th “Remember Slavery:
The Power of the Arts for
Justice”.
International Day of
Solidarity with Detained
and Missing Staff
Members
March 25th -
World Purple day or
Epilepsy Awareness Day
March 26th -
World Theatre Day March 27th -
Prevention of Blindness
Week
April 1st -7th -
84th Foundation Day of
Odisha or Utkal Divas
April 1st -
World Autism
Awareness Day
April 2nd “Assistive Technologies,
Active Participation”
International Mine
Awareness Day
April 4th
“United nations
promotes SDGs –Safe
Ground –Safe Home”
National Maritime Day April 5th “Indian Ocean- An
Ocean of Opportunity”
United Nations’ (UN)
International day of
Sport for Development
and Peace (IDSDP)
April 6th -
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World Health Day April 7th “Universal health
Coverage: Everyone,
Everywhere”
National Handloom
week
April 7th - 14th -
World Allergy Week
2019
April 7th -13th “The Global Problem of
Food Allergy”
International Romani
Day
April 8th -
54th Valour Day of
Central Reserve Police
Force (CRPF)
April 9th -
National Safe
Motherhood Day
(NSMD)
April 11th “Midwives for Mothers”
World Aviation and
Cosmonautics Day
April 12th -
International Day of
Human Space Flight
April 12th -
Centenary of Jallianwala
Bagh Massacre
April 13th -
World Haemophilia Day April 17th ‘Outreach and
Identification’
World Heritage Day or
International Day for
Monuments and Sites
April 18th “Rural Landscapes”
World Liver Day April 19th 'Love Your Liver and Live
Longer’
UN Chinese Language
Day
April 20th
World Creativity and
Innovation Day
April 21st -
National Civil Service
Day
April 21st -
World Earth Day April 22nd 'Protect our Species'
World Book and
Copyright Day
April 23rd -
United Nations English
Language Day
April 23rd
International Day of
Multilateralism and
Diplomacy for Peace
April 24th -
National Panchayati Raj
Day
April 24th -
World Malaria Day April 25th “Zero malaria starts with
me”
World Immunization
Week
April 24th – 30th ‘Protected Together:
Vaccines Work!’
World Intellectual
Property Day
April 26th “Reach for Gold: IP and
Sports”
World Veterinary Day April 27th ‘Value of Vaccination’.
World Day for Safety
and Health at Work
April 28th “Safety and Health and
the Future of Work”
International Dance Day April 29th “Dance and Spirituality”
International Jazz Day April 30th -
International Labour
Day or Workers day
May 1st “Sustainable Pension for
all: The Role of Social
Partners”.
World Password Day 1st Thursday of
May
-
60th Foundation Day of
Gujarat
May 1st -
World Tuna Day May 2nd -
World Press Freedom
Day
May 3rd “Media for Democracy:
Journalism and Elections
in Times of
Disinformation”
National Space Day First Friday of May -
Coal Miners Day May 4th -
International
Firefighters’ Day
May 4th -
World Laughter Day May 5th (First
Sunday of May)
-
World Athletics Day May 7th -
World Asthma Day May 7th “STOP for asthma”
World Red Cross Day May 8th ‘#Love’
World Thalassemia Day May 8th “Universal access to
quality thalassaemia
healthcare services:
Building bridges with
and for patients”
Victory Day on Soviet
Union
May 9th -
5th United Nations
Global Road Safety
Week
May 6th to 12th “Leadership for road
safety”.
World Migratory Bird
Day
May 11th ‘Protect Birds: Be the
Solution to Plastic
Pollution’.
National Technology
Day
May 11th -
International Nurses
Day
May 12th ‘Nurses – A Voice to
Lead – Health for All’.
Mother’s Day Second Sunday of
May (May 12th)
-
International Day of
Families
May 15th "Families and Climate
Action: Focus on
SDG13"
Sri Lanka’s Vesak Week May 15th to 21st -
National Dengue Day May 16th
World
Telecommunication and
Information Society Day
May 17th
“Bridging the
standardization gap”
World AIDS Vaccine Day May 18th
-
World Bee Day May 20th -
World Metrology Day May 20th ‘The International
System of Units –
Fundamentally better’.
National Anti-Terrorism
Day
May 21st -
World Day for Cultural
Diversity for Dialogue
and Development
May 21st -
International Day of
Biological Diversity
May 22nd ” Our Biodiversity, Our
Food, Our Health”
International Day to End
Obstetric Fistula
May 23rd -
19th World Turtle Day May 23rd -
International
Commonwealth Day
May 24th -
World Thyroid Day May 25th -
International Missing
Children’s Day
May 25th -
Amnesty International
Day
May 28th -
World Hunger Day May 28th #SustainabilityIs
International Day of UN
Peacekeepers
May 29th “Protecting Civilians,
Protecting Peace”
World Digestive Health
Day
May 29th “Early Diagnosis and
Treatment of GI Cancer”
International Everest
Day
May 29th -
World Multiple Sclerosis
Day
May 30th -
Goa Statehood Day May 30th -
World No Tobacco Day May 31st “Tobacco and Lung
Health”
Swachhta Pakhwada June 1 – 15th -
World Milk Day June 1st "Drink Milk: Today &
Everyday”
Global Day of Parents June 1st -
fifth formation day of
Telangana
June 2nd -
World Bicycle Day
(WBD) by UN
June 3rd -
Financial Literacy Week June 3rd to 9th “Farmers and how they
benefit by being a part
of the formal banking
system'.
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International Day of
Innocent Children
Victims of Aggression
June 4th -
World Environment Day
(WED)
June 5th " Beat Air Pollution "
Maharana Pratap
Jayanti (479th birth)
June 6th -
World Food Safety Day
(WFSD)
June 7th " Food Safety,
Everyone's Business"
World Oceans Day
(WOD)
June 8th "Gender and Oceans"
World Day Against Child
Labour
June 12th “Children shouldn’t work
in fields, but on
dreams!”
International Albinism
Awareness Day
June 13th ‘Still Standing Strong’
World Blood Donor Day June 14th ‘Blood Donation and
Universal Access to Safe
Blood Transfusion’
World Day to Combat
Desertification and
Drought
June 17th “Let’s grow the future
together”
Autistic Pride Day June 18th
World Sickle Cell Day June 19th
World Refugee Day June 20th #StepWithRefugees
International Day of
Yoga
June 21st ” Yoga for Heart” (India)
“Yoga for Climate
Action” (UN)
World Music Day June 21st “Music at the
intersections”
World Hydrography day June 21st “Hydrographic
information driving
marine knowledge”.
International Widows
Day
June 23rd
United Nations Public
Service Day
June 23rd ‘Achieving the
Sustainable
Development Goals
through effective
Delivery of Services,
Innovative
Transformation, and
Accountable
Institutions’.
International Olympic
Day
June 23rd
Day of the Seafarer June 25th “Get on board with
gender equality”
International Day
against Drug Abuse and
Illicit Trafficking
June 26th “Health for Justice.
Justice for Health”.
BIMSTEC Day June 26th -
International MSME Day June 27th
13th Statistics Day June 29th “Sustainable
Development Goals”.
International Asteroid
Day
June 30th -
International Day of
Parliamentarism
June 30th -
Indian Army to commemorate 2019 as ‘Year of next of kin’:
➢ The Indian Army is commemorating this year as the ‘Year of Next of
Kin’ and plans to reach out to the next of kin of battle casualties, ex-
servicemen and serving soldiers to inform them of entitled financial benefits,
welfare schemes and help resolve pension related problems.
OBITUARY
1. Raghbir Singh Bhola - Former India hockey player
2. Michel Legrand - Oscar-winning French composer
3. Atin Bandyopadhyay - Sahitya Akademi award winning Bengali writer
4. Russell Baker - Pulitzer Prize winning writer
5. Kader Khan - Veteran actor-writer
6. C H Lokanath - Veteran Kannada actor
7. Dibyendu Palit - Renowned Bengali writer
8. Mary Oliver - Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
9. Masazo Nonaka - World’s Oldest Man
10. Ramakant Achrekar - Sachin Tendulkar's childhood coach cricket coach
11. Lenin Rajendran - Noted Malayalam director & screenwriter
12. Gopinath Kochattil - Senior Journalist
13. Krishna Sobti - Legendary Hindi writer
14. George Fernandes - Former Defence Minister
15. Pratik Choudhury - Bengali singer
16. Namvar Singh - Noted Hindi Author
17. W.E.B. Griffin - 'Badge of Honor' military novelist
18. John Dingell - U.S. Congressman
19. Ramesh Bhatkar - Veteran Marathi actor
20. Hiten Bhaya - Former Planning Commission
21. Mahesh Anand - Noted Bollywood Actor
22. Manfred Eigen - German Scientist & Noble Prize Winner
23. Andrea Levy - British Author
24. Vishnu Wagh - Eminent writer & ex-Goa deputy speaker
25. S Rajendran – Politician
26. Rabindra Adhikari - Nepal’s Tourism and Civil Aviation Minister
27. Zhores Alferov - Russian physicist and Nobel laureate
28. Bill Playle - Former New Zealand batsman
29. André Previn - American-German Legendary composer and pianist
30. V. Dhananjaya Kumar - Former Union Minister of Civil Aviation and
Tourism in 1996.
31. Bharat Mohan Adhikari - Former Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal
32. Jerry Merryman – Inventor of the World’s First Pocket Calculator (USA)
33. King Kong Bundy (Christopher Pallies) - Professional WWE wrestler
34. Kelly Catlin - American Professional Racing Cyclist
35. Daniel Rudisha - Kenyan Sprint Athlete
36. Virendra Kataria - Former Puducherry Lieutenant Governor
37. Charlie Whiting - FIA Formula One director
38. Sir John Richardson - British Art Historian and Picasso Biographer
39. Manohar Parrikar - Goa Chief Minister and Former Defence Minister
40. Alan Krueger - Former White House Economist and Princeton University
Professor
41. Satya Brata Sinha - Former Supreme Court Judge
42. Chinmoy Roy - Veteran Bengali Actor
43. Dick Dale (King of the Surf Guitar) - American Rock Guitarist
44. Captain Mohan Narayan Rao Samant - The 1971 India-Pakistan war
hero of Indian Navy
45. Vinjamuri Anasuya Devi - Kala Prapoorna awardee
46. Scott Walker- Legendary Singer-Songwriter
47. Ashita - Malayalam Writer and Poet
48. Bruce Yardley - Former Australian Spinner
49. Valery Bykovsky - Russian Cosmonaut
50. Haku Shah - Renowned Indian artist
51. L V Sharada Rao - Veteran Kannada actress
52. Shahnaz Rahmatullah - Renowned South Asian Singer
53. Nazi Adolf Eichmann - Israeli spymaster of Rafi Eitan
54. Prafulla Rajguru - Veteran journalist
55. HS D’Lima - Mumbai Activist
56. R Kanagaraj - AIADMK MLA from Sulur constituency
57. J. Mahendran - Noted film director
58. Kartik Chandra Rath - Eminent Theatre Organiser and Playwright
59. Sydney Brenner - Biologist won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine
60. Kartik Chandra Rath - Veteran Dramatist, Theatre Organiser
61. Viharidas Gopaldas Patel - Noted Economist and ‘Father of
Entrepreneurship Movement
62. Prafulla Rajguru - Veteran Journalist and Academician
63. J. Mahendran - Noted film director
64. Kartik Chandra Rath - Eminent theatre organiser and playwright
65. Sydney Brenner - Nobel Prize Winner - Medicine
66. Arie Irawan - Golfer
67. Elriesa Theunissen-Fourie - Former Women’s World Cup cricketer
68. Navtej Hundal - Actor
69. JK Ritheesh - Actor and former MP
70. Dr SK Shivakumar - Renowned Space Scientist of ISRO
71. Pradeep Choubey - Renowned Hindi poet
72. Garcia - Peru's Ex-president
73. Con de Lange - Cricketer
74. Patrick Rousseau - Former President of Cricket West Indies
75. Jerrie Cobb - NASA's first female astronaut
76. Amar Paul - Legendary Folk Singer
77. HK K Khan - Former Chief Secretary of Gujarat
78. Subbiah Muthiah - Renowned Journalist-writer
79. Rama Sengupta Paul - Veteran Lady Mountaineer of India
80. Negasso Gidada - Former Ethiopian President
81. Mark Medoff - Writer
82. Pungam Kannan - Former Indian Footballer
83. K M Mani - Former Kerala Finance Minister
84. Nadja Regin - Serbian Actor
85. Bibi Andersson - Sweden Actor
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86. Terry Rawlings - British Film & Sound Editor
87. Peter Mayhew – US Actor
88. Damon Jerome Keith - US Judge and Civil Rights Icon
89. V. Viswanatha Menon - Former Finance Minister of Kerala
90. Master Hirannaiah - Veteran Kannada Actor and Political Satirist
91. Maramraju Satyanarayana Rao - Noted writer, academician
92. Subhashan Reddy - Former Chief Justice of Madras and Kerala High
Courts
93. Duti Krushna Panda - Veteran CPI leader and former MP
94. Derek Sippy - Former Billiards Player
95. Seymour Nurse - Former West Indies batsman
96. Baidyanath Mishra - Renowned Economist
97. Dr NR Madhava Menon - Father of Modern Legal Education in India
98. Mrinal Mukherjee - Renowned Bengali TV and Film Actor
99. Prof Kirpal Singh - First chronicler of Partition
100. YC Deveshwar – ITC
101. Hiralal Yadav - Bhojpuri Singer & Padma Shri Awardee
102. MB Balakrishnan - Ace Tamil Nadu Swimmer and South Asian
Games Gold-Medallist
103. Bob Hawke - Australia’s 23rd Prime Minister
104. Kadavoor Sivadasan - Former Kerala Minister
105. M. Pei - Architect who designed Louvre Pyramid
106. Rallapalli Venkata Narasimha Rao - Veteran Telugu Actor
107. Vijaya Mulay - Filmmaker and Film Historian
108. Kalpana Dash - Odisha’s First Woman Mountaineer
109. Dr.Negasso Gidada - Former Ethiopian President
110. Thoppil Mohamed Meeran -Noted novelist and Sahitya Akademi
awardee
111. Niki Lauda - Austrians former Formula One driver
112. Murray Gell-Mann - Nobel laureate and American physicist
113. Brij Mohan Khaitan - Veteran industrialist
114. Queen Harish - World fame dancer
115. Ruma Guha Thakurta - Bengali singer-actress
116. Prakash Pant - Finance Minister of Uttarakhand
117. Lennart Johansson - Former President of UEFA
118. Girish Karnad - Noted actor, dramatist and Jnanpith awardee
119. Crazy Mohan - Popular Tamil playwright and theatre & film
comedian
120. R V Janakiraman - Former Puducherry chief minister
121. Rajanath Singh ‘Surya’ - Veteran journalist and former Rajya
Sabha MP
122. Pazhavila Ramesan - Poet and lyricist
123. Dinyar Contractor - Veteran comedian, film and theatre actor
124. Malcolm John Rebennack - Grammy-winning musician
125. Mohamed Morsy - Former Egyptian President
LIST OF CABINET MINISTERS 2019
Portfolio
(Department)
Minister Name Constituency
Prime Minister and
Ministry of Personnel,
Public Grievances and
Pensions; Department of
Atomic Energy;
Department of Space;
and All-important policy
issues; and All other
portfolios not allocated to
any Minister.
Narendra Modi Varanasi, Uttar
Pradesh
Ministry of Home Affairs Amit Shah Gandhinagar, Gujarat
Ministry of Defence Rajnath Singh Lucknow, Uttar
Pradesh
Minister of External
Affairs
Subrahmanyam
Jaishankar
Not Contested in Lok
Sabha Election 2019
Minister of Finance; and
Minister of Corporate
Affairs
Nirmala Sitharaman Karnataka, Rajya
Sabha
Minister of Road
Transport and Highways;
and Minister of Micro,
Small and Medium
Enterprises
Nitin Jairam Gadkari Nagpur, Maharashtra
Minister of Chemicals
and Fertilizers
D.V. Sadananda
Gowda
Bangalore North,
Karnataka
Minister of Health and
Family Welfare; Minister
of Science and
Technology; and Minister
of Earth Sciences
Dr. Harsh Vardhan Chandni Chowk, Delhi
Minister of Consumer
Affairs, Food and Public
Distribution
Ramvilas Paswan Not Contested in Lok
Sabha Election 2019
Minister of Law and
Justice; Minister of
Communications; and
Minister of Electronics
and Information
Technology
Ravi Shankar Prasad Patna Sahib, Bihar
Ministry of Minority
Affairs
Mukhtar Abbas
Naqvi
Jharkhand, Rajya
Sabha
Minister of Parliamentary
Affairs; Minister of Coal;
and Minister of Mines
Prahlad Joshi Dharwad, Karnataka
Minister of Skill
Development and
Entrepreneurship
Mahendra Nath
Pandey
Chandauli, Uttar
Pradesh
Ministry of Heavy
Industries and Public
Enterprises
Arvind Ganpat
Sawant
Mumbai South,
Maharashtra
Minister of Food
Processing Industries
Harsimrat Kaur
Badal
Bathinda, Punjab
Minister of Agriculture
and Farmers Welfare;
Minister of Rural
Development; and
Minister of Panchayati
Raj
Narendra Singh
Tomar
Morena, Madhya
Pradesh
Ministry of Tribal Affairs Arjun Munda Khunti, Jharkhand
Minister of Animal
Husbandry, Dairying and
Fisheries
Giriraj Singh Begusarai, Bihar
Minister of Women and
Child Development; and
Minister of Textiles
Smriti Zubin Irani Amethi, Uttar Pradesh
Minister of Human
Resource Development
Ramesh Pokhriyal
‘Nishank’
Haridwar,
Uttarakhand
Minister of Social Justice
and Empowerment
Thaawar Chand
Gehlot
Madhya Pradesh,
Rajya Sabha
Minister of Environment,
Forest and Climate
Change; and Minister of
Information and
Broadcasting
Prakash Javadekar Maharashtra, Rajya
Sabha
Minister of Petroleum
and Natural Gas; and
Minister of Steel
Dharmendra
Pradhan
Madhya Pradesh,
Rajya Sabha
Minister of Railways; and
Minister of Commerce
and Industry
Piyush Goyal Maharashtra, Rajya
Sabha
Minister of Jal Shakti Gajendra Singh
Shekhawat
Jodhpur, Rajasthan
LIST OF MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE)
Portfolio Minister Name Constituency
Ministry of Labour and
Employment
Santosh Kumar
Gangwar
Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh)
Ministry of Statistics and
Programme
Implementation; and
Ministry of Planning
Rao Inderjit Singh Gurugram (Gurgaon),
Haryana
Ministry of Ayurveda,
Yoga and Naturopathy,
Unani, Siddha and
Homoeopathy (AYUSH)
and Ministry of Defence.
Shripad Yesso
Naik
North Goa, Goa
Ministry of Development
of North Eastern Region,
Prime Minister’s Office;
Ministry of Personnel,
Public Grievances and
Pensions; Department of
Atomic Energy;
Department of Space
Dr. Jitendra Singh Udhampur, Jammu and
Kashmir
Ministry of Youth Affairs
and Sports; and the
Kiren Rijiju Arunachal West,
ArunachaL Pradesh
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Ministry of Minority
Affairs
Ministry of Culture; and
Ministry of Tourism
Prahalad Singh
Patel
Damoh, Madhya
Pradesh
Ministry of Power;
Ministry of New and
Renewable Energy; and
Ministry of Skill
Development and
Entrepreneurship
Raj Kumar Singh Arrah, Bihar
Ministry of Housing and
Urban Affairs; Ministry of
Civil Aviation; and
Ministry of Commerce
and Industry
Hardeep Singh
Puri
Bihar (Lost in Lok
Shaba Election 2019)
Ministry of Shipping; and
Ministry of Chemicals and
Fertilizers
Mansukh L.
Mandaviya
Palitana, Gujarat
(Rajya Shaba)
LIST OF MINISTERS OF STATE
Portfolio Minister Name Constituency
Ministry of Steel. Faggansingh
Kulaste
Mandla, Madhya
Pradesh
Ministry of Health and
Family Welfare.
Ashwini Kumar
Choubey
Buxar, Bihar
Ministry of Parliamentary
Affairs; and
Ministry of Heavy
Industries and Public
Enterprises.
Arjun Ram
Meghwal
Bikaner, Rajasthan
Ministry of Road
Transport and Highways.
General (Retd.) V.
K. Singh
Ghaziabad, Uttar
Pradesh
Ministry of Social Justice
and Empowerment.
Krishan Pal Faridabad, Haryana
Ministry of Consumer
Affairs, Food and Public
Distribution.
Danve Raosaheb
Dadarao
Jalna, Maharashtra
Ministry of Home Affairs G. Kishan Reddy Secunderabad,
Telangana
Ministry of Agriculture
and Farmers Welfare.
Parshottam
Rupala
Gujarat (Rajya Sabha)
Ministry of Social Justice
and Empowerment.
Ramdas Athawale Maharashtra (Rajya
Sabha)
Ministry of Rural
Development.
Sadhvi Niranjan
Jyoti
Fatehpur, Uttar
Pradesh
Ministry of Environment,
Forest and Climate
Change.
Babul Supriyo Asansol, West Bengal
Ministry of Animal
Husbandry, Dairying and
Fisheries.
Sanjeev Kumar
Balyan
Muzaffarnagar, Uttar
Pradesh
Ministry of Human
Resource Development;
Ministry of
Communications; and
Ministry of Electronics
and Information
Technology.
Dhotre Sanjay
Shamrao
Akola, Maharashtra
Ministry of Finance; and
Ministry of Corporate
Affairs.
Anurag Singh
Thakur
Hamipur, Uttar Pradesh
Ministry of Railways. Angadi Suresh
Channabasappa
Belgaum, Karnataka
Ministry of Home Affairs. Nityanand Rai Ujiapur, Bihar
Ministry of Jal Shakti; and
Ministry of Social Justice
and Empowerment.
Rattan Lal Kataria Ambala, Haryana
Ministry of External
Affairs; and Ministry of
Parliamentary Affairs.
V. Muraleedharan Vadakara, Kerala
Ministry of Tribal Affairs. Renuka Singh
Saruta
Surguja, Chhattisgarh
Ministry of Commerce
and Industry.
Som Parkash Hoshiarpur, Punjab
Ministry of Food
Processing Industries.
Rameswar Teli Dibrugarh, Assam
Ministry of Micro, Small
and Medium Enterprises;
Pratap Chandra
Sarangi
Balasore, Odisha
and Ministry of Animal
Husbandry, Dairying and
Fisheries.
Ministry of Agriculture
and Farmers Welfare.
Kailash Choudhary Barmer, Rajasthan
Ministry of Women and
Child Development.
Sushri Debasree
Chaudhuri
Rajganj, West Bengal
INTERIM BUDGET 2019-20
Finance Minister Piyush Goyal presented the Interim Budget 2019-20 on
February 1, 2019. It was the last Budget of the Modi Government before the
2019 Lok Sabha elections.
This year, the government presented the Interim Budget, also known as
‘Vote on Account’ as it is close to the end of its term. An interim budget is
usually passed by the Lok Sabha without discussion.
As per the Interim Budget or Vote on Account, the government seeks the
approval of Parliament to meet its expenditure for the first four months
(January-April) of the fiscal year with no changes in the taxation structure,
until a new government takes over and presents a full Budget of the year
in July 2019.
HIGHLIGHTS OF INTERIM BUDGET 2019-20
State of the Economy:
➢ India has now become the 6th largest economy in the world.
➢ Inflation has been brought down to 4.1 percent; average inflation stands
at 4.6 percent.
➢ The fiscal deficit has been brought down to 3.1 percent. The current
account deficit (CAD), against a high of 5.6% six years ago, is likely to be
only 2.5% of GDP this year.
➢ In last 5 years (2014-2018), India witnessed structural reforms by
introducing Goods & Services Tax (GST) and other taxation reforms.
➢ India attracted maximum Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in 2018-19,
amounting to USD 239 billion. This has been possible through rapid
liberalisation of FDI policy.
‘New India’ by 2022:
➢ ‘New India’ by 2022, when we celebrate 75 years of India’s independence:
an India which is clean and healthy, house with universal access to toilets,
water and electricity.
➢ Farmers’ income would have doubled; youth and women would get ample
opportunities to fulfil their dreams; an India free from terrorism,
communalism, casteism, corruption and nepotism.
Banking Reforms:
➢ A number of measures have been undertaken for clean banking in recent
years such as through the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC). Re-
capitalisation of PSU banks was done.
➢ The 4Rs approach of recognition, resolution, re-capitalisation and
reforms has been followed.
Steps against corruption:
➢ India saw a corruption-free government in recent years through measures
such as transparency in operations. The government conducted the
transparent auction of natural resources such as coal and spectrum.
➢ Transparency was achieved through Real Estate (Regulation and
Development) Act, 2016 (RERA), Benami Transactions (Prohibition)
Act, 1988 and Fugitive Economic Offenders Act.
Cleanliness:
➢ As a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary in October 2019,
the NDA Government launched a holistic programme ‘Swacch Bharat
Mission’ in 2014. The programme has been converted into a movement.
➢ Under the mission, 98% rural sanitation coverage has been achieved.
➢ 5.45 lakh villages have been declared Open Defecation Free (ODF).
Poor and backward classes:
➢ 10% reservation in educational institutions and Government services for
poors. In these institutions, around 25% extra seats (approximately 2
lakh) will be provided so that, there is no shortfall of presently
available/reserved seats for any class.
➢ Rs.60,000 crore was allocated for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural
Employment Gurantee Act (MGNREGA)
➢ Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) is being allocated
19,000 crore in BE 2019-20 as against 15,500 crore in RE 2018-19 Yojana
for construction of more rural roads.
➢ During the period 2014-18, a total number of 1.53 crore houses have
been built under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana.
➢ By March 2019, every household will have electricity under the
Saubhagya Yojana.
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➢ The Aspirational Districts Programme is providing targeted development to
the 115 most backward districts of the country.
Health Sector:
➢ India has launched the world's largest healthcare programme, Ayushman
Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana to provide medical
treatment for 50 crore people. As many as 10 lakh people have been
benefitted so far under the scheme.
➢ Many poor people are able to get affordable medicines through the Jan
Aushadhi Kendra.
➢ There are 21 All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) functioning
currently in India. Of these 21, 14 AIIMS were set up under the present
government. The 22nd AIIMS will come up in Haryana.
Agriculture:
➢ Government undertook various initiatives to boost farmers’ income. It
ensured that the Minimum Support Price (MSP) is at least 50 percent of
the produce and introduced pro-farmers policy.
➢ Rs.750 crore was allocated for the Rashtriya Gokul Mission.
➢ It was announced to set up the ‘Rashtriya Kamdhenu Aayog’ for
production and productivity of cows.
➢ A separate ‘Department of Fisheries’ will be created to boost the
fisheries sector.
➢ Under the Kisan Credit Card scheme (KCC), 2% interest subversion
will be given for farmers pursuing animal husbandry. Further, in case of
timely repayment of loan, they will also get an additional 3% interest
subvention.
➢ In case of farmers, affected by severe natural calamities, will be provided
the benefit of interest subvention of 2% and prompt repayment incentive
of 3% for the entire period on timely repayment of their loans.
Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN):
➢ Under this Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi programme,
vulnerable landholding farmer families, having cultivable land upto 2
hectares, will be provided direct income support at the rate of Rs.6,000
per year.
➢ This income support will be transferred directly into the bank accounts of
beneficiary farmers, in three equal instalments of Rs.2,000 each. This
programme will be funded by Government of India.
➢ The complete expenditure of Rs.75000 crore for the scheme will borne
by the Union Government. Over 12 crore farmer families will be benefitted
under the scheme. It will be implemented with effect from December 2018
and the first instalment for the period upto 31st March 2019.
➢ The budget has allocated Rs.95000 crore for the agriculture sector
(Rs.75000 for this scheme + 20000 crore as per revised estimate of current
year).
Labour and Workers Dignity:
➢ The Seventh Pay Commission recommendations were implemented
swiftly.
➢ The membership of Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO)
has gone up by 2 crore in five years, reflecting formalisation of the
economy and job creations.
➢ In the event of death of a labourer during service, the amount to be paid
by EPFO has been increased from Rs.2.5 lakh to Rs.6 lakh.
➢ During the last five years the minimum wages of labourers of the all
categories have been increased by 42%, which is the highest ever.
➢ The New Pension Scheme (NPS) has been liberalised.
➢ The minimum pension was also increased to Rs.1,000.
➢ Keeping the contribution of the employee at 10%, we have increased the
Government contribution by 4% making it 14%.
➢ Maximum ceiling of the bonus given to the labourers has been increased
from Rs.3,500 to Rs.7,000 per month and the maximum ceiling of the pay
has been increased from Rs.10,000 to Rs.21,000 per month.
➢ The ceiling of payment of gratuity has been enhanced from Rs.10 lakhs
to Rs.20 lakhs.
➢ The Employee's State Insurance (ESI) cover limit has been increased to
Rs.21,000 from Rs.15,000 per month.
'Pradhan Mantri Shram-Yogi Maandhan':
➢ Considering that half of the GDP comes from the unorganised sector,
Finance Minister has announced the launch of the mega pension scheme for
the unorganised sector workers with income of less than Rs.15,000.
➢ Under the scheme, the workers will be able to earn Rs.3,000 after
attaining the age of 60 years. An unorganised sector worker joining
pension yojana at the age of 29 years will have to contribute only Rs.100
per month till the age of 60 years. A worker joining the pension yojana at
18 years, will have to contribute as little as Rs.55 per month only.
➢ The budget allocates the expenditure of Rs.500 crore for the scheme.
Forming a Welfare Development Board:
➢ A Welfare Development Board will be created for nomadic and semi-
nomadic community. A Committee under NITI Aayog will be formed to
identify these committees. The Board shall ensure that special strategies are
designed and implemented to serve these hard-to-reach communities.
Women’s development to women led development:
➢ The government stood up to into manifesto and provided the promised
clean fuel for cooking to deliver 8 crore free LPG connections under the
Ujjwala Yojana. The government has already given 6 crore free LPG
connection.
➢ More than 70 percent of beneficiaries of Pradhan Mantri Mudra
Yojana are women.
➢ Amongst many measures, benefits of Maternity leave of 26 weeks and
Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana for pregnant women have
provided financial support to women while empowering them to participate
in work.
Youth Development:
➢ India is amongst the most youthful nations in the world. Through Pradhan
Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana, over 1 crore youth are being trained to help
them earn a livelihood.
➢ With job seekers becoming job creators, India has become the world’s
second largest start-up hub.
➢ The 16.53 crore loans have been disbursed under Pradhan Mantri Mudra
Yojana and Rs.7.23 lakh crore have been disbursed through the scheme.
➢ In order to take the benefits of Artificial Intelligence and related
technologies to the people, a National Programme on 'Artificial
Intelligence' has been envisaged by our Government. Nine priority areas
have been identified. A National Artificial Intelligence portal will also be
developed soon.
MSME sector:
➢ A scheme of sanctioning loans upto Rs.1 crore in 59 minutes has been
launched.
➢ GST-registered SME units will get 2% interest rebate on incremental
loan of 1 Crore.
➢ The requirement of sourcing from SMEs by Government enterprises has
been increased to 25%. Of this, the material to the extent of at least 3%
will be sourced from women owned SMEs.
➢ MSMEs can now sell their products on the Government eMarketplace
(GeM), a one-stop-shop to facilitate online procurement of common use
goods. Transactions of over Rs.17,500 crore have taken place, resulting in
average savings of 25-28%. The GeM platform is now being extended to
all CPSEs.
➢ Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), which will now be
renamed as the Department for Promotion of Industries and Internal
Trade. The department functions under the Ministry of Commerce and
Industry, Government of India.
Strengthening Defence and National Security:
➢ The Defence Budget will cross Rs.3 lakh crore for the first time in 2019-
20.
➢ The government has already disbursed Rs.35000 crore under One Rank
One Pension (OROP).
➢ The Government also announced substantial hike in the Military
Service Pay (MSP) of all service personnel and special allowances given to
Naval and Air Force personnel deployed in high risk duties.
Infrastructure Sector:
➢ Due to 'UDAAN Scheme', ordinary citizens are also travelling by air now.
India now has more than 100 operational airports with the inauguration of
the Pakyong airport in Sikkim.
➢ India is the fastest highway developer in the world with 27 kms of
highways built each day. Projects stuck for decades like the Eastern
Peripheral Highway around Delhi or the Bogibeel rail-cum-road bridge
in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh have been completed.
➢ Under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, construction of rural
roads has been tripled. Around 15.8 lakh out of a total Rs.17.84 lakh
habitations have been connected with pucca roads under PMGSY. PMGSY
allocated Rs.19,000 crore in 2019-20
➢ The flagship programme of Sagarmala along the coastal areas of the
country will develop ports for faster handling of import and export cargo.
➢ For the first time, container freight movement has started on inland
waterways from Kolkata to Varanasi.
Railway Sector:
➢ The Indian Railways has experienced the safest year in its history. All
unmanned level crossings on broad gauge network have been completely
eliminated.
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➢ The introduction of the first indigenously developed "Vande Bharat
Express" will give the Indian passengers world class experience with speed,
service and safety.
➢ The capital support from the budget for railways is proposed at Rs.64,587
crore in 2019-20 (BE). The railways’ overall capital expenditure programme
is of Rs.1,58, 658 crore.
➢ The Operating Ratio is expected to improve from 98.4% in 2017-18 to
96.2% in 2018-19 (RE) and further to 95% in 2019-20 (BE).
➢ The people of North East have also received significant benefits of
infrastructure development. Arunachal Pradesh came on the air map
recently and Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram have come on India’s rail
map for the first time. The allocation for the North Eastern Areas is being
proposed to be increased by 21 percent to Rs.58,166 crore in 2019-20
over 2018-19.
Digital India Revolution:
➢ India is now leading the world in consumption of mobile data.
➢ The monthly consumption of mobile data increased by 50% in the last
five years.
➢ The Government will make 1 lakh villages into Digital Villages over
next five years.
➢ The cost of data and calling in India is possibly the lowest in the world.
More than 3 lakh service centres employ over 12 lakh people today under
the Digital India push.
➢ Jan Dhan-Aadhaar-Mobile (JAM) and Direct Benefit Transfer have
been game changers.
➢ Under Make in India, mobile and parts manufacturing companies have
increased from 2 to more than 268 providing huge job opportunities.
Entertainment:
➢ To promote entertainment industry, Single window clearance for film
shootings is being extended to Indian film makers. Earlier, it was available
only for foreign film makers only.
➢ It will also introduce anti-camcording provisions in the Cinematograph
Act to control the menace of piracy.
Simplification of Direct Tax System to benefit Tax-payers:
➢ Due to Direct Tax System, the tax collections increased significantly from
Rs.6.38 Lakh crore in 2013-14 to almost Rs.12 lakh crore this year. The
number of returns filed have also increased from Rs.3.79 crore to Rs.6.85
crore showing 80% growth in tax base. Last year, 99.54% of the
income-tax returns were accepted as they were filed.
➢ All returns will be processed in twenty-four hours and refunds issued
simultaneously. The entire process will be done in the back-end so that a
tax payer need not interact with an official, thus, reducing time.
➢ It increased the basic exemption limit from Rs.2 lakh to Rs.2.5 Lakh and
gave tax rebate so that no tax was payable by persons having income up
to Rs.3 lakh. It also reduced the tax rate from 10% to 5% for the tax
slab of Rs.2.5 lakh to Rs.5 lakh.
➢ Deduction of savings under section 80C was increased from Rs.1 lakh
to Rs.1.5 lakh. Deduction of interest for self-occupied house property
was raised from Rs.1.5 lakh to Rs.2 lakh.
➢ Threshold limit for presumptive taxation of small and start-ups business
was raised from Rs.1 crore to Rs.2 crore. The benefit of presumptive
taxation was extended for the first time to small professionals fixing
threshold limit at Rs.50 lakh. In order to promote a less cash economy, the
presumptive profit rate has been reduced from 8% to 6%.
➢ The tax rate for companies with turnover of up to Rs.250 crore, covering
almost 99% of the companies, was reduced to 25% which was also
applicable to new manufacturing companies without any turnover limits.
GST Reform for benefit to consumers and businesses:
➢ Cinema goers who were subjected to multiple taxes up to 50 percent are
mostly paying much lower tax at 12 percent now. Most items of daily use
of the poor and middle class are now in the 0% or 5% tax slab.
➢ Exemptions from GST for small businesses has been doubled from Rs.20
lakh to Rs.40 lakh. Similarly, small service providers with turnover upto
Rs.50 lakhs can now opt for composition scheme and pay GST at 6%
instead of 18%.
➢ Businesses comprising over 90% of GST payers will be allowed to file
quarterly return soon.
➢ The government abolished the duties on 36 capital goods. Indian
Customs is introducing full digitization.
➢ The average monthly tax collection in the current year is Rs.97,100 crore
per month as compared to Rs.89,700 crore per month in the first year. The
State revenues are improving with guaranteed 14% annual revenue increase
for the first five years.
Demonetisation and Drive against Black Money:
➢ Demonetisation, have brought undisclosed income of about Rs.1,30,000
crore to tax, led to seizure and attachment of assets worth approximately
Rs.50,000 crore, and compelled holders of large cash currency to disclose
their source of earnings.
Vision for the next Decade:
➢ Poised to become a Five Trillion Dollar Economy in the next five years
and aspire to become a Ten Trillion Dollar Economy in the next 8 years
thereafter.
Vision for Ten Most Important Dimensions in 2030
1. To build physical as well as social infrastructure for a ten Trillion
Dollar economy and to provide ease of living.
2. To create a Digital India reaching every sector of the economy, every
corner of the country and impacting the life of all Indians.
3. Making India a pollution free nation with green Mother Earth and
blue skies.
4. Expanding rural industrialisation using modern digital technologies
to generate massive employment.
5. Vision for India of 2030 is Clean Rivers, with safe drinking water to all
Indians, sustaining and nourishing life and efficient use of water in irrigation
using micro-irrigation techniques.
6. India’s long coastline has the potential of becoming the strength of
the economy, particularly through exploitation of the Blue Economy, to
ensure better standards and quality of life for a large number of people living
in the coastal areas.
7. Our space programme – Gaganyaan, India becoming the launch-pad
of satellites for the World and placing an Indian astronaut into space by 2022
reflect this dimension of our vision.
8. Making India self-sufficient in food, exporting to the world to meet
their food needs and producing food in the most organic way.
9. Aiming at healthy society with an environment of health assurance and
the support of necessary health infrastructure.
10. Our Vision can be delivered by Team India - our employees working
together with the elected Government, transforming India into a Minimum
Government Maximum Governance nation.
Fiscal Expenditure:
➢ The Interim Budget pegs the Fiscal Deficit at 3.4 percent.
➢ Total expenditure rises from revised estimates Rs.24,57,235 crore in 2018-
19 to Rs.27,84,200 crore in 2019-20, a rise of Rs.3,26,965 crore.
➢ Capital Expenditure for 2019-20 is estimated to be Rs.3,36,292 crore.
➢ Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) are proposed were allocated with
Rs.3,27,679 crore in 2019-20 as against Rs.3,04,849 crore in 2018-19
revised estimates.
➢ Allocation for Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) is being
increased from Rs.23,357 crore in 2018-19 revised estimates to Rs.27,584
crore in 2019-20.
➢ The allocation of Rs.56,619 crore made in BE of 2018-19 for Scheduled
Caste, further increased to Rs.62,474 crore in RE is proposed to be
enhanced to Rs.76,801 crore in BE for 2019-20, an increase of 35.6% over
BE of 2018-19. For the Scheduled Tribes also, proposed allocation in 2019-
20 BE is Rs.50,086 crore as against Rs.39,135 crore in BE 2018-19, an
increase of 28%.
➢ Allocation for National Education Mission is being increased from Rs.32,334
crore in 2018-19 revised estimates to Rs.38,572 crore in 2019-20.
Tax proposals:
➢ Individual tax payers with taxable income of up to Rs.5 lakh will get full
tax rebate from now on. Those earning Rs.6.5 lakh will not have to pay tax,
if they invested in specified savings such as PF, PPF, etc. However, the tax
slabs will remain unchanged.
➢ The Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) on fixed deposits and postal deposits
will be exempted for interest earned up to Rs.40,000 from Rs.10,000
currently. Further, the TDS threshold for deduction of tax on rent is proposed
to be increased from Rs.1,80,000 to Rs.2,40,000 for providing relief to
small taxpayers.
➢ For salaried persons, Standard Deduction is being raised from the
current Rs.40,000 to Rs.50,000.
➢ The benefit of capital gains under section 54 of the Income Tax Act of up
to Rs.2 crore will be increased to investment on two residential houses. This
benefit can be availed only once in a lifetime.
➢ The benefit of the section 80IBA of Income Tax Act,1961 will be
extended for one more year for availing of the affordable housing i.e. to the
housing projects approved till 31st March 2020.