Current Afffair April
Current Afffair April
Current Afffair April
Banking Awareness
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April 1 – April 30 , 2019
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CURRENT AFFAIRS
• United Nations’ (UN) International day of Sport for Development and Peace (IDSDP) =
6th April
• 54th Valour Day of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) = 9th April
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• International Day of Human Space Flight = 12th April
• World Heritage Day or International Day for Monuments and Sites = 18th April
✓ Theme = 'Rural Landscapes'
• Good Friday also known as Holy Friday or Black Friday = 19th April
• World Book Day or World Book and Copyright Day = 23rd April
✓ Slogan = “Read – you are in Sharjah”
• World Day for Animals in Laboratories also known as World Lab Animal Day = 24th April
✓ The adjoining week is known as “World Week for Animals in Laboratories”(WWAIL)
which is observed from April 21-28
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• International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace = 24th April
• World Day for Safety and Health at Work (WDSHW) = 28th April
✓ Theme = “Safety and Health and the Future of Work”
• General secretary of the newly formed, All India Federation of PTI Employees’
Unions (AIFPTIEU) = M S Yadav
• Vice Chief of Indian Air Force = Air Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria
✓ Air Marshal Anil Khosla = Retires
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• Former Chief Election Commissioner of India (ECI), and ex-civil aviation secretary =
Nasim Zaidi has resigned from the post of non-executive and non-independent director of Jet
Airways
• Bengali New Year also known as Pahela Baishakh was celebrated in West Bengal on =
15th April
• 1st Indian female scientist to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in
the UK fellowship's 358-year-history = Gagandeep Kang
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• Brand ambassador of Fantasy 11, Gaming startup = Murali Kartik
• 1st Woman Chairman & Managing Director of Pawan Hans Ltd = Usha Padhee
• “Sahulat” = Mobile App = launched to facilitate and to encourage the elder voters for
participating in the elections in = Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district
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✓ “#Modi Again: Why Modi is right for India, An Ex-Communist’s Manifesto” authored by
= Aabhas Maldahiyar = states the reasons about how Narendra Modi is right for India
• World’s first district with 5G coverage and a broadband gigabit network = China’s
Shanghai
• 'First' Indian Shipyard To Deliver 100 Warships = Garden Reach Ship Builders and
Engineers Ltd (GRSE)
• ‘Sankalp’ = A Mobile App = 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
• EMISAT- a Defence Intelligence Satellite has been launched by = Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) in its 47th Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) mission, along with 28
other customer satellites, onboard the advanced PSLV-C45 Rocket
✓ PSLV C45 was launched from ISRO's Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota
✓ ISRO HQ = Bengaluru
✓ Established in = 1969
✓ ISRO Director = K. Sivan
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• Kandhamal Haldi (turmeric) = Received the Geographical Indications (GI) tag from
Intellectual Property India
✓ It is Odisha’s locally grown turmeric in its Kandhamal district
• India + Chile = 3 MoUs = In the fields of mining, culture andempowerment of persons with
disabilities
• State of Global Air 2019 report = over 1.2 million people died in India due to air pollution in
2017
• Indian Army Builds Longest Suspension Bridge = ‘Matiri Bridge’ = Over River Indus In =
Leh-Ladakh
✓ The 260-feet long suspension bridge was built by the combat engineers belonging to
the Sahas aur Yogyata regiment of Indian Army’s Fire & Fury Corps
• John drinks Canada Gairdner Global Health award with prize money of $100,000 by
The Gairdner Foundation won by = Vikram patel, a psychiatrist and professor of global
health at Harvard Medical school
• NuGen Mobility Summit, 2019 will be held at = Manesar, NCR = from 27th to 29th
November 2019
✓ Will be organized by = International Centre for Automotive Technology (ICAT)
• Global Report on Food Crises 2019 = Around 113 million people across 53 countries faced
severe huger in 2018
✓ The report prepared by 15 leading global and regional organizations was led by UN
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP)
and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
✓ It was released by Food Security Information Network(FSIN).
• Zayed Medal won by = PM Narendra Modi = For giving a "big boost' to bilateral strategic
ties
✓ Given by = UAE
✓ President of the UAE = Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
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✓ UAE = Abu Dhabi = Dirham
• Prestigious John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award 2019 won by = Vikram
Patel
• United States has approved the sale of 24 multi-mission Lockheed Martin-built MH-60
‘Romeo’ Seahawk helicopters to India = At a cost of $2.6 billion
• Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) + Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-D) = MoU =
to collaborate in the field of standardisation and conformity assessment
✓ Director General of BIS = Surina Rajan
✓ Formation = 1 April 1987
✓ BIS is the National Standard Body of India established under the BIS Act 2016
✓ HQ = New Delhi
• 7th Foreign Office consultations between India and Italy were held in = New Delhi
✓ Italy = Rome = Euro
• BSE & India International Exchange (India INX) + Moscow Exchange (MOEX) = MoU =
To connect investor community and companies in both countries besides allowing a capital
formation platform
✓ BSE MD & CEO = Ashishkumar Chauhan
✓ MOEX CEO = Alexander Afanasiev
• Indian Astrologer Dr. Sohini Sastri = Honoured with “D. Litt in Astrology” (Doctor of
Letters) by = National American University, USA at an event held in Mumbai at Classique
Club
✓ For her immense knowledge and contribution towards Astrology
• Shah Rukh Khan was conferred with an honorary doctorate in Philanthropy by the
= University of Law, London
• Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court = Justice Thottathil Bhaskaran Nair Radhakrishnan
✓ Replaced = Biswanath Somadde
• National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) + ROADIS (owned by Public Sector
Pension Investment board abbreviated as PSP investment) = jointly set up a platform for
investing up to $2 billion in road projects in India
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• ‘Global Slag Company of the Year’ Award won by = Tata Steel = at the 14th Global Slag
Conference and Exhibition 2019
✓ Held in = Aachen, Germany
✓ Chairman of TATA Steels = Mr Ratan Naval Tata
• ‘Jashn-e-Ittihaad’ = A music and poetry festival = held at the Jamia Milia Islamia central
university in = New Delhi
✓ To spread awareness about unity amongst the youth
• 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
• Presidential Award of Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman 2019 with prize money of INR
1,00,000 and a certificate won by = Dr. Gyanaditya Shakya
• 1st ever railway station in the Indian Railways to get an ISO (International Organisation
for Standardisation) certification from the National Green Tribunal (NGT) = Guwahati
Railway Station
• 3-day National Cardiology Conference 2019 has been started at = Sanjay Gandhi Post
Graduate Institute of medical sciences in = Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
• India’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
Chief of Army Staff of Indian Army = General Bipin Rawat
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• India + Singapore = Joint Military Exercise ‘Bold Kurukshetra–2019’ = participate in a
exercise in Babina Cantonment in Jhansi
• 1st city in the world to implement a Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) for 24×7 hours a
week, inside which vehicles will have to meet tough emissions standards = London
• 1st Chief Justice of new Andhra Pradesh High Court at Amaravati = Justice Vikram Nath
• Emami Limited has named Varun Dhawan as = Navratna Cool brand ambassador
• 1st city in the world to implement a 24-hour, seven day a week Ultra Low Emission
Zone (ULEZ) = London (capital city of the UK)
✓ Prime Minister of UK = Theresa May
• National Green Tribunal (NGT) has imposed a penalty of Rs 100 crore on the = Andhra
Pradesh government = For illegal sand mining in the state
• 1st commercial drone delivery businesses in Australia has been launched by = Google
parent Alphabet
✓ Google parent Alphabet has beaten Amazon
• ‘CRPF Veer Parivar’ app has been launched by = President Ram Nath Kovind = For
families of CRPF personnel killed in the line of duty
• 17th Middle East and North Africa (MENA) World Economic Forum Held in = Jordan
✓ World Economic Forum HQ = Geneva, Switzerland
Chairman = Mr. Klaus Schwab
• ‘Public Water Agency of the Year’ award by Global Water Intelligence at the Global
Water Summit won by = National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) or Namami Gange
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✓ Held in = London
• “Next Billion Edtech Prize 2019” won by = ‘Dost Education’, which is India’s education
technology startup
✓ For its ability to empower parents to take charge of their child’s early education
✓ The prize ‘The Next Billion Edtech Prize 2019’ is run by UK-based Varkey Foundation
• A new state of matter which can be solid and liquid at the same time = has been
discovered by scientists of the = University of Edinburgh
✓ This distinct state of matter named as the “chain-melted state”
• Astronomers have taken the first-ever image of a black hole = which is located in a
distant galaxy = 'Messier 87' (M87)
✓ Captured by = 'Event Horizon Telescope'
• Government Retains Interest Rate For General Provident Fund at = 8% for the first
quarter of the current financial year
• Saraswati Samman, 2018 given to = K Siva Reddy = with a cash prize of 15 lakh rupees for
his collection of poetry titled ‘Pakkaki Ottigilite’
• According to ‘Political Leaders Position and Action on Air Quality in India 2014-2019’
report, released by Climate Trends = Kanpur (in Uttar Pradesh) is the most polluted city in
the world and is positioned 1 on the list
✓ 2nd = Faridabad, Haryana
✓ 3rd = Varanasi, UP
✓ 6th = Delhi
• “Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle” – the highest state decoration of Russia Given to
= Prime Minister Narendra Modi
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✓ It is for exceptional services in promoting special and privileged strategic partnership
between the two countries
✓ This is the 7th international award that PM Modi has been honoured with
• Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Nobel Award by International Human Rights Council at Hotel
Sea Princess Juhu Mumbai won by = Sudhanshu Kumar, the founder of Digital Sukoon
• World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) awards of the United Nations (UN)
won by = “Utkarsh Bangla” (Skill training of the youth) and “Sabooj Sathi” (cycles for
students) = The schemes under the West Bengal government
• Guest of Honour country at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, ADIBF 2019 = India
✓ Announced by = UAE
✓ Director of ADIBF = Abdullah Majed Al Ali
✓ UAE = Abu Dhabi = Dirham
• SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy = The most powerful operational rocket in the world has launched
its first commercial mission from = Florida
• 'AIMA Managing India Award 2019 for outstanding PSU of the year' Won by = Indian Oil
Corporation (IOC)
✓ Chairman, Indian Oil = Sanjiv Singh
• 21st ASEAN-India Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) was held at = New Delhi
✓ To improve the connectivity and strengthen the cooperation in the maritime sector
between Indian and the ASEAN countries
• 1st women vice-chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia University (JMI) = Professor Najma
Akhtar
• India’s first-of-its-kind ‘Voter Park’ has been Inaugurated in = Vikas Sadan building
complex, Gurugram
✓ Inaugurated by = Haryana Chief Electoral Officer = Rajeev Ranjan
✓ To raise voter awareness by instructing people about the electoral process
• World Press Photo award 2019 won by = An image of a little girl crying, titled “Crying Girl
on the Border”, as she and her mother have been taken into custody by US border officials in
Texas
✓ Veteran Getty photographer John Moore took the picture in the Rio Grande Valley on
12th June 2018
• Lifetime Achievement Award 2019 For Contributions In Life Sciences, Aerospace and
Aeronautics won by = Dr A K Singh
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✓ Award won During 4th APJ Abdul Kalam Innovation Conclave at Chandigarh
University, Mohali
• India’s first exotic Bird Park ‘EsselWorld Bird Park’ = Launched by = EsselWorld Leisure
Pvt. Ltd., the family entertainment arm of the $6-billion Essel Group in Mumbai
• Guest of Honour Country at Abu Dhabi International Book Fair (ADIBF) 2019 = India
✓ UAE selected India as the Guest of Honour country at the Abu Dhabi International
Book Fair, ADIBF 2019, to attract a significant increase in the number of visitors with
various events and activities
• UNESCO/Guillermo Cano Press Freedom Prize 2019 won by = Reuters journalists, Kyaw
Soe Oo and Wa Lone
✓ For recognizing their commitment, courage and resistance to freedom of expression.
• World’s longest railway station name by an alphabet = Chennai Central Railway station in
Tamil Nadu or Puratchi Thalaivar Dr. M.G. Ramachandran Central Railway Station
• Tata Trusts + Microsoft India = MoU = for jointly rejuvenating the handloom clusters in the
eastern and north-eastern parts of India in order to build a digitally-inclusive society
• “Marine Lizard” = world’s first armed amphibious drone boat = which is guided by
China’s BeiDou Navigation Satellite System has been successfully tested by China
• “Roc” = world’s largest airplane a Strato launch’s behemoth = made its first test flight in
California, over the Mojave Desert
• 'My Circle' app has been launched by = Bharti Airtel and the FICCI Ladies
Organisation (FLO, the women business wing of apex trade body FICCI)
✓ It is Women’s Safety App to empower women in the event of any distress or panic
situation
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• Project “Kannamma “ = Initiative by Rotary Club of Madras North
✓ To provide biodegradable sanitary napkins under the brand name, “Aavaram” to the girl
students in government schools of = Tamil Nadu
• India has successfully test-fired first indigenously designed and developed long-range
sub-sonic cruise missile = 'Nirbhay' = from a test range in = Odisha
• 8th edition of Home Expo India 2019 = opened at India Expo Centre and Mart, Greater
Noida
✓ The three-day exhibition has been organized by the Export Promotion Council for
Handicrafts (EPCH)
• 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
✓ Called the “Amartya Sen Chair in Inequality Studies,” = its holder will also serve as
Director of the LSE International Inequalities Institute = which facilitates
interdisciplinary work on subjects related to inequality
• ‘Veera’ = Indian Coast Guard vessel Veera = commissioned by General Bipin Rawat, Chief
of Army Staff = in a ceremony organised at Eastern Naval Command in Vishakhapatnam,
Andhra Pradesh
• Name of a village in Madhya Pradesh has been changed from = ‘Durjanpur‘ to ‘Shivdham’
• Pulitzer Prizes for their separate investigations of President Donald Trump and his
family won by = The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal
✓ The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online
journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.
✓ Complete list of 2019 Pulitzer Prize winners:
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Public service Staff of the South Florida Sun Sentinel
Carlos Lozada of The Washington
Criticism
Post
Editorial writing Brent Staples of the New York Times
Fiction “The Overstory” by Richard Powers
Drama “Fairview” by Jackie Sibblies Drury
“Frederick Douglass” by David W.
History
Blight
“The New Negro” by Jeffrey C.
Biography or autobiography
Stewart
Poetry “Be With” by Forrest Gander
“Amity and Prosperity” by Eliza
General nonfiction
Griswold
Music “p r i s m” by Ellen Reid
Special Citation Aretha Franklin
• US Department of Interior inducted its very first Indian = Delhi-based Sanjay Kumar, CEO
of Geospatial Media and Communications and Secretary General of World Geospatial
Industry Council (WGIC) = To its prestigious National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC)
• NASA has awarded 3 teams of Indian students = in its 25th Annual Human Exploration
Rover challenge 2019 at = the US Space and Rocket Centre in = Huntsville, Alabama
✓ “AIAA Neil Armstrong Best Design Award” won by = Team from KIET Group of
Institutions in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
✓ “STEM Engagement Award” won by = Team from Lovely Professional University in
Phagwara, Punjab
✓ “Frank Joe Sexton Memorial Pit Crew Award” won by = The Mukesh Patel School of
Technology Management and Engineering, Mumbai, Maharashtra
• 2nd edition of the bilateral maritime exercise = between the Indian Navy and Vietnam
Peoples’ Navy, (IN – VPN BILAT EX) Held at/ off Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam
• Nepal and Sri Lanka Launches Its First Satellite From USA =
✓ Nepal successfully launched its first satellite NepaliSat-1 into space
✓ The satellite developed by the Nepalese scientists was launched from Virginia in the
United States
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✓ Sri Lanka's first satellite 'Raavana-1' was also launched into space, marking Sri
Lanka's entry into the global space age
• NASA astronaut = Christina Koch is going to have her mission on the International
Space Station (ISS) extended to 328 days = which would set a record for the longest single
spaceflight by a woman
• UN medals of honour for their dedicated service and sacrifice won by = 150 Indian
peacekeepers serving with the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS)
• UK Royal Society honour won by = Padma Bhushan awardee Yusuf Hamied, who is the
chairman of Cipla pharmaceutical company
• India + France = To conduct their largest ever naval exercise 'Varuna' Off Goa Coast
• Asian Tea Alliance (ATA), a union of five tea-growing and consuming countries, was
opened in = Guizhou, China
✓ To boost tea trade, cultural and technical exchanges as well as the global promotion of
tea
• Indian Navy will participate in = International Fleet Review (IFR) = that is scheduled to
take place in Qingdao, China = As part of 70th Anniversary celebrations of People's Liberation
Army Navy (PLA Navy)
• India’s first retail company to cross the Rs.1 lakh crore annual revenue = Reliance
Industries
• A Guided Missile Destroyer ‘INS Imphal’ has been launched by = Navy Chief Admiral Sunil
Lamba at = Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) in Mumbai
✓ This ship is designed by the Indian Navy’s Directorate of Naval Designs, New Delhi.
• Union territories and Twenty states have joined in a pan-India network of single
emergency helpline number ‘112’= Implemented by central government’s Nirbhaya Fund(
2012 Delhi gangrape case)
✓ To get immediate assistance to the people who are in trouble
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• ‘Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant Award‘ = for 2018-19 by the Bureau of Police Research and
Development (BPR&D) = under the Ministry of Home Affairs, for his book titled ‘Samvidhan
Kavya‘ won by = Sunil Kumar Gautam, Special Commissioner of Police (Operations)
• Chief of former Judo Federation of India was re-elected as general secretary of Judo
Union = Mukesh Kumar
• India’s Haj Quota has been increased by = about 25,000, raising the number to = 2
lakh from 1.75 lakh by Saudi Arabia
• Global Startup Ecosystem Ranking for 2019 released by StartupBlink = India Ranks 17th
✓ China was ranked 27th. Bangalore, New Delhi, and Mumbai were the top cities in the
Indian startup ecosystem
✓ 1st = USA
✓ 2nd = UK
✓ 3rd = Canada
• Beijing International Film Festival = Malayalam film Bhayanakam (Fear) which was directed
by Jayaraj won the best cinematography award
• Ministry of Ayush + Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) = MoU = For
cooperation in the field of research and education of traditional system of medicines and its
integration with modern science
• National Intellectual Property Award 2019 won by = Intellectual Property Rights Cell (IPR
Cell) of Kerala Agricultural University (KAU)
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Best Book Award in Hindi (Novel) - Shashi Prabha
Best Book Award (Poetry) - Amarjeet Amar
Best story - Pragya Sharda
Best children’s literature – Anita Surbhi
Best Translation – Jang Bahadur Goyal
Best children’s literature (Punjabi) - Daljit Kaur Saini
Best Book Award in Punjabi (Novel) - Narender Pal Singh Komal
Best Book Award in Punjabi (Poetry) - Subhash Sharma
Best Translation in Punjabi - Arvinder Johal
Best Book Award in Urdu (Poetry) - Professor S S Bhatti
• Swacchta Pakhwada Award 2019 won by = Three organizations All India Radio, Publication
Division and Children’s Film Society of India
• World's First Floating Nuclear Power Plant has been successfully tested by = Russia
✓ Stated by = Akademik Lomonosov, a subsidiary of Rosatom nuclear corporation
✓ Russia = Moscow = ruble
• World’s first malaria vaccine = RTS, S is also known as Mosquirix = launched in Malawi
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced = He will name a new
community in the Golan Heights after = US President Donald Trump = who officially
recognised the disputed area as Israeli territory
• Guest of Honour country at 29th Abu Dhabi International Book Fair 2019 = India
✓ 29th edition of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair (ADIBF) started and will conclude
on 30th April at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre.
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• Kazakhstan has set up = Coordinating Council = For attracting foreign investments
including from India.
✓ The meeting identified the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) as a Unified
Center for the coordination of work on investment and promotion of the investment
image of Kazakhstan
✓ Kazakhstan PM = Askar Mamin
✓ Kazakhstan = Nur-Sultan = Tenge
• National Intellectual Property Award, 2019 in the category of Top Individual for Patents
and Commercialization won by = Dr. Benny Antony
• IPI’s (International Press Institute) World Press Freedom Hero award in 2019 won by =
Dawn editor and Columnist Cyril Almeida from Pakistan
✓ For his “critical” and “tenacious coverage” of the civil-military relations in Pakistan
• 5th Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) Media Summit on Climate Action and
Disaster Preparedness was held in = Kathmandu, Nepal
✓ Theme = “Media Solutions for Sustainable Future: Saving Lives, Building Resilient
Communities”
• Quikr has acquired = Bengaluru-based secondhand goods marketplace = Zefo, for INR
200 Crore
✓ To strengthen the sales of its pre-owned goods business
• ‘Malaria Elimination Research Alliance (MERA) India has been launched by = The Indian
Council of Medical Research
✓ It is a conglomeration of partners working on malaria control in order to eliminate the
disease from India by 2030
• Zoologists at Trinity College Dublin have discovered two new bird species = named as
the Wakatobi white-eye and the Wangi-Wangi white-eye = in the Wakatobi Archipelago of
Sulawesi, Indonesia
✓ Details of their discovery were published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean
Society
✓ Indonesia = Jakarta = rupiah
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• First Major Airline in the Gulf region To Fly Plastic-Free = Etihad Airways, UAE based
flag carrier
✓ UAE = Abu Dhabi = Dirham
• 2nd edition of Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2019 = British Indian novelist Rana
Dasgupta
✓ For his 2010 novel “Solo”, deals with a tale of estrangement and the ultimate failure of
material existence.
• Indian Air Force Arjan Singh Memorial International hockey tournament = at the Astro
Turf Hockey Ground at Air Force in = Chandigarh = Won by = Integrated Coach Factory (ICF),
Chennai
✓ Defeated = South Central Railway, Hyderabad
• ‘SAECKs‘ (The Sexual Assault Evidence Collection Kits) or ‘rape investigation kits’ =
has been distributed by = Union Ministry of Home Affairs among states and union territories
✓ To collect blood and semen samples for carrying out immediate effective medico-legal
investigations on sexual assault cases
• According to Akamai Technologies Report = India ranked as the 2nd-most targeted nation
by hackers in 2018 = with more than 120 crore account takeover attacks
✓ 1st = US
✓ 3rd = Canada
• ‘Compassionate Kid’ award 2019 by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals(PETA)
India won by = Mizoram Derek C Lalchhanhima (6 year old boy) = who saved life of a
chicken he accidentally ran over
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✓ PETA HQ = Norfolk, Virginia, United States
✓ President = Ingrid Newkirk
• UN’s International Labour Organization announced = Qatar will abolish its exit visa
system for all foreign workers = by the end of 2019
✓ The country was committed to labour reform following an Amnesty international report
that the 2022 World Cup host was failing to stop widespread labour abuse
• Government has hiked the customs duty on wheat to = 40% from 30%
✓ To curb imports and protect the domestic industry
• 5th Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) Media Summit = on Climate Action & Disaster
Preparedness was held at = Kathmandu, Nepal
✓ Theme = “Media Solutions for Sustainable Future: Saving Lives, Building Resilient
Communities”
• Ikhamanga Award 2019 in the Silver Division won by = Ex-South Africa all-
rounder Jacques Kallis
✓ South Africa President = Cyril Ramaphosa
• 2nd edition of Belt and Road Forum (BRF) was held in = Beijing, China
✓ Theme = “Belt and Road Cooperation: Shaping a Brighter Shared Future”
• Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un = met face-to-face for thefirst
time and vowed to seek closer ties
✓ The meeting was held at = Russia’s Pacific port city of Vladivostok
• INS Kolkata and INS Shakti arrived at Busan, South Korea = To participate in ADMM-
PLUS (ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting)
• Defence Ministry has awarded a contract of worth Rs 6,311 crore to = Garden Reach
Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited (GRSE)
✓ To build eight anti-submarine warfare shallow watercraft (ASWSWC) for the Indian
Navy
✓ GRSE Headquarters = Kolkata
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BANKING & ECONOMY NEWS
• MD and CEO of ICICI Securities = Vijay Chandok
✓ ICICI Bank Headquarters = Mumbai
✓ Tagline = Hum Hain Na!
• Bank of Baroda has become the third largest bank in the country = The amalgamation
of Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank into the Bank of Baroda (BoB)has come into effect and all
branches of the former two will function as branches of BoB
• Reliance Nippon Life Asset Management (RNAM) + Google = To enable the customers of
Reliance Mutual Fund to carry out voice-based financial transactions
• Rajan Anandan = vice president for Google India and South East Asia, and essentially
heading Google in India = Resigned
✓ Interim responsibility = Vikas Agnihotri
• Tata Power + Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) = MoU = To set up integrated customer
services and optimize value for customers
• First Lender To Charge For UPI transactions starting 1st of May 2019 = Kotak Mahindra
Bank (Kotak)
✓ For each Kotak Bank account, the first 30 UPI fund transfers will be free, after which a
charge will be levied on all fund transfers from the bank account
✓ The bank will charge 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
• Government infused a capital of Rs. 205 crore into the state owned = Bank of
Maharashtra
✓ After the Capital infusion, the shareholding of government in Bank of Maharashtra has
increased to 87.74 % from 87.01%
✓ HQ = Pune, Maharashtra
✓ MD & CEO = A.S. Rajeev
✓ Tagline = One Family One Bank
• India + National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development Consultancy Service
(NABCONS) = Agreement = 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
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• Asian Development Bank downgraded economic growth forecasts for India and
Southeast Asia for 2019 = gross domestic product in India will probably increase by 7.2 % in
2019, down from a December forecast of 7.6%. Southeast Asia’s growth estimate was
lowered by 0.2 percentage point to 4.9%
✓ ADB HQ = Manila, Philippines
✓ President = Takehiko Nakao
• Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in consultation with the government of India = sets Limits
For Ways and Means Advances = for the first half of the financial year 2019-20 (April 2019 to
September 2019) at Rs 75000 crore
• Chatbot Making Startup Haptik was acquired by Reliance Jio Digital for = Rs.700 Crore
• RBI has tweaked Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) norms = To provide an additional 2%
window to lenders
✓ RBI 25th Governor = Shaktikant Das
✓ RBI HQ = Mumbai
✓ Foundation = 1 April 1935
• Bharatiya Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has received a licence from = Department of
Telecommunications
✓ To provide Internet and mobile services on flights
✓ Founded on = 1 October, 2000
✓ HQ = New Delhi
✓ MD & Chairman = Anupam Shrivastava
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• India + National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development Consultancy Service
(NABCONS) = MoU = For setting up the India-Africa Institute of Agriculture and Rural
Development (IAIARD) in Malawi, a landlocked country in southeastern Africa
✓ Malawi = Lilongwe = Kwacha
• Karnataka Bank + Bharti AXA Life Insurance Company = MoU = to distribute the life
insurance products
✓ Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Karnataka Bank = Mahabaleshwara
MS
✓ HQ = Mangalore
• Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has given approval to = Paytm Money =
to start offering broking services
• Rating agency Fitch retained India's sovereign rating at 'BBB-' = the lowest investment
grade, with a stable outlook for the 13th straight year
✓ Fitch expects growth of 6.8% in current fiscal 19-20 and 7.1% in the next fiscal 20-21
✓ Fitch Headquarters = New York
✓ Founded = 1914
✓ CEO = Paul Taylor
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• Acc. To World Bank, India’s GDP growth is expected to accelerate moderately to = 7.5%
= in Fiscal Year 19-20
✓ HQ = Washington DC, USA
✓ Established in = 1944
✓ World Bank President = David Malpass
• 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
✓ NPCI HQ = Mumbai
✓ COO = Praveena Rai
✓ Formation = 2008
• As per the World Bank Report = India retained its position as the world's top recipient
of remittances = With its diaspora sending a whopping USD 79 billion back home in 2018
✓ 2nd = China
✓ Report Title = 'World Bank's Migration and Development Brief'
• 17th edition of World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North
Africa (MENA) was held at = Dead Sea,Jordan
✓ It is the 10th meeting in Jordan and 17th meeting in the MENA region
• Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) + HDFC Bank = Agreement = To spread more awareness
about the benefits of listing startups as well as to strengthen BSE startup platform
✓ BSE HQ = Mumbai, Maharashtra
✓ Chairman = S Ravi
✓ HDFC HQ = Mumbai
✓ CEO = Aditya Puri
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• According to data released by the Association of Mutual Funds in India (Amfi) = India’s
asset management companies (AMCs) own assets under management (AUM) worth Rs24.46
trillion
✓ HDFC Asset Management Co. Ltd has claimed the top spot with an average AUM of
Rs3.42 trillion
• International Monetary Fund (IMF) cut its economic growth forecasts for India = by 20
basis points (bps) each from its January predictions to = 7.3% for FY20 and 7.5% for the next
fiscal
✓ IMF HQ = Washington DC, USA
✓ MD of IMF = Christine Lagarde
• World’s 1st Islamic Bank To Launch Banking Via WhatsAp = Emirates Islamic
✓ Emirates Islamic is part of Emirates NBD Group, is one of the fastest growing banks in
the UAE.
✓ Emirates Islamic Bank was established in = 2004
• Google has launched a new open platform = ‘Anthos’ = To run and manage apps from
anywhere
✓ It lets users run applications on the public cloud or on existing on-premise hardware
investments
✓ Google Hq = California
✓ CEO = Sundar Pichai
✓ Founders = Larry page, Sergey Brin
✓ Foundation = 1998, California
• State Bank of India + PAISALO Digital Limited = signed the first co-origination loan
agreement
✓ To Introduce a platform for the last mile customer, the loan ticket is designed at Rs
10,000 to 2 lakh
• RBL Bank + CreditVidya = Partnership = To enhance the lender’s customer experience (by
offering them relevant credit products) and construct customised offerings for over 15 lakh
customers
• According to Forbes World's Best Bank survey = HDFC Bank has been identified
as number 1 bank by customers in India
✓ 2nd = ICICI Bank
✓ 11th = SBI
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✓ 2nd = China
✓ 4th = Japan
• Google Pay + Bullion refiner MMTC-PAMP India = Partnership = To initiate buying and
selling of gold through the app to make Google Pay more useful for Indian customers
• PayU, Digital payments security and payment facilitator has acquired = Wibmo, a US-
based financial technology for USD 70 million
✓ To assist the company scale-up its business
• SBI General Insurance has launched its new product = cyber defence insurance
✓ To protect businesses from financial and reputational losses due to cyber attacks
• New Chairman of Export Promotion Council for Handicraft (EPCH) = Ravinder Kumar
Passi
• Google has launched its first African artificial Intelligence (AI) laboratory in = Accra,
capital city of Ghana = to tackle Africa’s challenges
• India has became a net importer of steel = in the fiscal year 2018-2019 that ended on 31
March for the first time in 3 years = As the 25% import duty on steel products imposed by the
US diverted supplementary supplies to India
• Asian Development Bank (ADB) agreed to provide a total of USD 3.88 billion in
sovereign loans to = India in 2018 =
✓ Which is the highest ever loan amount since sovereign operations began in the country
in 1986
• 5G Use Cases Lab for banking and financial sector has been launched by = Institute for
Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT),an arm of Reserve Bank of India
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• Celent Model Bank 2019 Award in the category of Financial Inclusion, for 'Redesigning
Lending to Reach Small Businesses' won by = Fincare Small Finance Bank (SFB)
✓ MD & CEO of Fincare Small Finance Bank = Mr. Rajeev Yadav
✓ HQ = Bengaluru , Karnataka
✓ Tagline = ‘a new era in smartbanking begins’
✓ Launched in = 2017
• India’s first comprehensive financial services app to integrate with Unified Payment
Interface (UPI) = ETMONEY
✓ ETMONEY HQ = Gurugram, Haryana
✓ CEO = Mukesh P Kalra
• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issued Rs. 50 denomination banknotes in = Mahatma
Gandhi (New) Series that bore = Shri Shaktikanta Das’ (Governor of RBI) signature
✓ The dimension of the Rs. 50 banknote is = 66 mm x 135 mm
✓ On the reverse side, the note has a ‘Swachh Bharat‘ logo printed on it with its slogan
• First Public Sector Bank In India To Meet RBI’s EMV Mandate = Canara Bank
• International Monetary Fund (IMF) + World Bank = together launched a private blockchain
with a pseudo-token.
✓ The new token, called “Learning Coin” and only accessible within the IMF and World
Bank
✓ It has a purpose to teach relevant individuals within the organizations about blockchain
✓ World Bank President = David Malpass
✓ World Bank HQ = Washington DC, USA
✓ Established in = 1944
✓ IMF HQ = Washington DC, USA
✓ MD of IMF = Christine Lagarde
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✓ Trade Receivables Discounting System (TreDS) is a digital platform to assist MSMEs
to get their bills financed at a competitive rate through a vendue where multiple
registered financiers can participate
✓ Bank of Maharashtra HQ = Pune
✓ CEO = A. S. Rajeev
✓ Foundation = 1935
• Resilient Cities Asia-Pacific (RCAP) 2019 Congress Held in = New Delhi, India
✓ Organized by = ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability
✓ Hosted by = South Delhi Municipal Corporation
• Bank of Baroda + Srei Equipment Finance Ltd = Collaboration = To offer joint loans for
infrastructure equipment under a new agreement
✓ Sourcing of loans will be facilitated through iQuippo, which is a Kanoria Foundation
initiative
✓ Bank of Baroda HQ = Vadodara
✓ CEO = P S Jayakumar
✓ Tagline = India's International Bank
• CRISIL Ltd, a diversified global analytics company = will transfer its rating business to its
proposed new wholly-owned subsidiary
✓ CRISIL full form = Credit Rating Information Services of India Limited
• Time 100 Most Influential People 2019 list has been released =
✓ Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani and public-interest litigators Arundhati
Katju and Menaka Guruswamy = who spearheaded a historic legal battle for LGBTQ
rights in India = are the Indian names that appeared in the list
• Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released a 14 page draft document named = “Enabling
Framework for Regulatory Sandbox”
✓ In this RBI proposes that Fintech start-ups can set up regulatory sandbox or live-testing
of innovative products and services in segments such as digital KYC, retail
payments and data analytics among others in the financial sector.
✓ The concept of Regulatory Sandbox (RS) was proposed by a committee headed by
RBI Executive Director Sudarshan Sen
• Exim Bank gives loans worth = 267$ million = For projects in Rwanda
Rwanda = Kigali = franc
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• Airtel Payments Bank + Bharti AXA General Insurance = Joined hands =
✓ For a two-wheeler insurance product offering which is available on MyAirtel App and at
over 40,000 Airtel Payments Bank points across India
• According to the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) data
= 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
• Bajaj Allianz General Insurance + Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance = Partnership = To launch
their 1st product titled ‘Total Health Secure Goal’
• Syndicate Bank + BEML Limited (Bharat Earth Movers Limited) = Signed an agreement =
for financing Earth Moving and Construction Equipment which is manufactured by BEML
• New Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Indian Overseas
Bank = Karnam Sekar
• Canara Bank + Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance = launched
’Webassurance’
✓ To enable its customers to purchase life insurance in a convenient and hassle-free way
✓ Canara Bank HQ = Bangalore
✓ Canara Bank Chairman = Shri. T.N. Manoharan
✓ MD & CEO = R A Sankara Narayanan
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• 1st central bank in the Asia-Pacific region (APAC) to begin an interest rate easing cycle
floated by benign food inflation and easier global financial condition = Reserve Bank of
India (RBI)
• 1st Destination Bank to launch debit card based e-mandates On NPCI’s (National
Payments Corporation of India) E-Mandate (electronic mandate) API(Application
Program Interface) Platform = Kotak Mahindra Bank
• United Nations + European Union (EU) = signed a joint framework aimed at strengthening
partnership in counter-terrorism efforts
✓ UN Secretary-General = António Guterres of Portugal
✓ Established on = 24th October 1945
✓ HQ = New York, United States
• According to Fitch Solutions Macro Research report = India is probably going to install
54.7GW of wind capacity by = 2022
• National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) approved merger of = private sector lender =
IndusInd Bank with Bharat Financial Inclusion (BFIL) = a microfinance company
✓ IndusInd Bank HQ = Mumbai
✓ CEO = Romesh Sobti
✓ Tagline = We Make You Feel Richer
• India’s first ‘Green Car Loan’ (Electric Vehicle) to encourage customers to buy electric
vehicles has been launched by = State Bank of India (SBI)
✓ The new scheme ‘Green Car Loan’ will offer loan at 20 basis points lower than the
interest rate on the existing car loan schemes
• Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has divested its entire stake held in National Housing
Bank (NHB), and National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) to the
government For INR 1,470 crore = which now holds 100% in these entities
• Markets regulator SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) has reduced the =
minimum subscription requirement as well as defined trading lots for Real Estate Investment
Trusts (REITs) and Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs)
✓ SEBI has also increased the leverage limit for InvITs from 49% to 70%
✓ While making an initial public offer and follow-on offer, the minimum subscription
shall not be less than Rs 1 lakh for InvITs and Rs 50,000 for REITs
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✓ Currently, in the case of a REIT issue, the minimum subscription from any investor in
an initial offer and follow-on public offer is not less than Rs 2 lakh, while the same is Rs
10 lakh in case of InvIT
• Microsoft has reached a valuation of = $1 trillion = for the first time = after a jump in stock
valuation that followed a qualitative-laden third fiscal quarter
✓ It has again taken over Apple as the world’s most valuable company
To boost business growth by providing customers with a single point of contact for the
business security lifecycle – from detection to repairment
• Max Bupa, India’s health insurance company + HDFC Bank = Collaboration = launched
‘AnyTimeHealth (ATH) machines
✓ The machine is an automated, web-based model that permits customers to avail health
assessment, namely, Body Mass Index’, ‘Blood Pressure’, ‘Body Type & Fat
percentage’, ‘Muscle percentage’, ‘Bone Mass’, ‘Body Temperature’ and buy health
policy dynamically without incorporation of any kind of conventional manual efforts
• United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) India + NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission
(AIM) = Signed a Letter of Intent (LOI)
✓ To provide an open platform to promote participation, skill and empowerment among
young children across different communities
• Reserve Bank of India will shortly issue = ₹ 20 denomination banknotes in the Mahatma
Gandhi (New) Series = bearing the signature of Shri Shaktikanta Das, Governor, Reserve
Bank of India
✓ The new denomination has the motif of Ellora Caves on the reverse, depicting the
country's cultural heritage.
✓ The base colour of the note is Greenish Yellow. The dimension of the banknote will
be 63 mm x 129 mm
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• Insurance Regulatory & Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has set up a = 13
member committee under = IRDAI Executive Director Suresh Mathur
✓ To review the regulatory framework on microinsurance & recommend measures to
increase the demand for such products
✓ HQ = Hyderabad
✓ IRDAI Chairman = Subhash Chandra Khuntia
• India’s GDP growth projection for 2019-20 lowered to = 7.3 % by India Ratings and
Research, a Fitch Group company
• 1st company in the domestic non-life insurance industry has collaborated with web
aggregator = Wishfin Insurance = To sell 2-wheeler policies via social media messaging
platform, WhatsApp = Bharti AXA General Insurance
• According to new data think tank Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
(SIPRI) = India was the world’s fourth biggest military spender in 2018 behind the United
States, China, and Saudi Arabia
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SPORTS NEWS
• International Cricket Council (ICC) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) = Manu Sawhney
✓ ICC HQ = Dubai, United Arab Emirates
✓ Chairperson = Shashank Manohar
• India Open 2019 or YONEX-SUNRISE India Open 2019 = Held at K. D. Jadhav Indoor Hall
in New Delhi, India
✓ Men’s Singles won by = Viktor Axelsen(Denmark) (Defeated = Srikanth Kidambi
(India))
✓ Women’s Singles won by = Ratchanok Intanon(Thailand) (Defeated = He Bingjiao
(China))
• Miami Open = Held at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida
✓ Men’s Singles won by = Roger Federer (Switzerland) (defeated = John Isner (United
States))
✓ Women’s Singles won by = Ashleigh Barty (Australia) (defeated = Karolina Pliskova
(Czech Republic))
• ICC Test Championship mace for the third year won by = India
• Asian Tour with a “Special Achievement Award” won by = Hero MotoCorp Chairman, Dr.
Pawan Munjal
✓ For his contributions to Asian Golf, at the concluding ceremony of Hero Indian Open
Golf tournament, held at Gurugram, Haryana
• First Indian male squash player to enter the top 10 in latest Professional Squash
Association (PSA) world rankings = Saurav Ghosal
• Asian Tour with a Special Achievement Award for his contributions to Asian Golf won
by = Dr. Pawan Munjal, Chairman, Hero MotoCorp
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✓ With 1219 total ranking points, the Indian team lies 18th among the Asian
countries while Iran has topped it
• World’s oldest person to play in a professional soccer match = 73-year-old Israeli Isaak
Hayik set a new world record
✓ He played a match for FC Ironi Or Yehuda against FC Maccabi Ramat Gan
• Malaysia Open 2019 or CELCOM AXIATA Malaysia Open 2019 Held in = Malaysia =
✓ Men's Singles won by = Lin Dan of China (Defeated = Chen Long of China )
✓ Women's singles won by = Tai Tzu-ying of Chinese Taipei (Defeated = Japan's Akane
Yamaguchi)
• Wisden Almanack's 'Leading Cricketer of the Year' for the third straight time = Team
India captain Virat Kohli
✓ Leading female cricketer of the year 2019 = Smriti Mandhana
✓ Leading Twenty20 Cricketer for the second successive time = Rashid Khan
• Best Athletic Coach In Asia 2019 named by Asian Athletic Association (AAA) = Eni
Nuraeni of Indonesia
• New Zealand Prime Minister’s Sir Edmund Hillary Fellowship for 2019 won by = Deepa
Malik, Rio Paralympics silver medalist
• All India Tennis Association (AITA) + Serbian Tennis Federation (STF) = Collaboration =
To train Indian junior players under world renowned Serbian coaches, at the RK Khanna
Stadium, New Delhi
• MCC (the Marylebone Cricket Club) gives the honour of ‘Honorary Life Members’ to =
Pakistan’s Inzamam-ul-Haq and South Africa’s Mark Boucher
✓ For their exemplary achievements in the field of cricket
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• 1st Indian to be appointed Chair of International Hockey Federation (FIH) Health and
Safety Committee = Bibhu Kalyan Nayak of Odisha
• 43rd edition of the Paris Marathon won by = Ethiopian athletes Gelete Burka (women’s
race) and Abrha Milaw (men’s race)
• Chinese Grand Prix for a record sixth time won by = Lewis Hamilton = Formula One’s
1,000th world championship race
• Goodwill Ambassador of Indian team for the Street Child Cricket World Cup 2019 =
Mithali Dorai Raj
• Goodwill Ambassador Of Team India At The Street Child Cricket World Cup = Indian
women's cricket team captain Mithali Raj
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• World Wrestling Rankings 2019 =
✓ 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
• 6th Santosh Trophy Football Tournament title won by = Services at Guru Nanak
Stadium in Ludhiana, Punjab
✓ The Services football team represents the Indian defense services in the Santosh
Trophy
• First Italian to win an ATP Masters 1000 title = Italy’s Fabio Fognini
✓ This event held every year at the Monte Carlo Country Club in France
• All India Football Federation (AIFF) new technical director = Romanian football
manager,DoruIsac
✓ AIFF President = Praful Patel
• United States Cricket Team won their first one-day international status = with a third
straight victory at the World Cricket League Division Two event in = Namibia.
✓ The Americans defeated Hong Kong by 84 runs
• 1st female referee, who will take charge of a Ligue 1 Conforama match in French
football history = Stephanie Frappart
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✓ Shooters Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary took the top spot in the 10 metres Air
Pistol Mixed Team event
✓ Anjum Moudgil and Divyansh Singh Panwar won gold in the 10 metres Air Rifle Mixed
Team event
✓ ISSF = International Shooting Sport Federation
✓ ISSF HQ = Munich, Germany
• 1st overseas player from India to represent Hampshire = Indian cricketer, Ajinkya
Madhukar Rahane
✓ He will replace Aiden Kyle Markram, who will join South Africa’s World Cup Team
• 1st woman umpire to stand in a men’s ODI in the final match of ICC World Cricket
League 2 = Australia’s Claire Polosak
• 23rd edition of the Asian Athletics Championships 2019 = Held at Khalifa International
Stadium in Doha, Qatar
✓ Bahrain topped the medal tally with 11 Golds followed by China (9 Gold) and Japan (5
Gold)
✓ India clinched the 4th spot with 17 total medals including 3 Gold
• Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2019 won by = Mercedes' Finnish driver Valtteri Bottas
• 1st Indian wrestler to fight at New York’s iconic Madison Square Garden = 25 years old
Indian wrestler Bajrang Punia
• Sportsperson of the Year Award 2019 = at the annual awards and scholarships function
organised by = the Tamil Nadu Sports Journalists’ Association (TNSJA) and the India
Cements in Chennai won by = Sharath Kamal, Ace table tennis player
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• Virgin Money London Marathon 2019 Held at London,UK = Indian marathon runner,
Nitendra Singh Rawat finished 27th in 2 hours 15 minutes and 59 seconds
• Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) Players' Player of the Year for the 2018-19
season =
✓ PFA Player's Player of the Year = Virgil van Dyjk, Liverpool and Vivianne Miedema,
Arsenal
✓ PFA Young Player of the Year = Raheem Sterling, Manchester City and Georgia
Stanway, Manchester City
✓ PFA Special Achievement Award = Steph Houhgton: Former England and WBA
• 4th edition of the annual India Golf Industry Association (GIA) awards at the Delhi Golf
Club = Arjuna awardee and star Indian golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar won the outstanding
achievement as a player award
• 1st Indian to break into the world’s top 25 of the latest International Table Tennis
Federation (ITTF) Rankings = Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (26 years old India’s Table Tennis
player)
• Football Writers’ Association (FWA) Footballer of the Year 2019 = Raheem Sterling
• Asian Wrestling Championship 2019 held at Xi’an, China = India Finishes With 16 Medals
(1 Gold, 3 Silver & 4 Bronze)
✓ Topped by = Iran
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✓ Only Bajrang Punia won the gold medal after defeating Kazakhstan’s Sayatbek
Okassov by 12-7 in 65kg men’s freestyle
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• Kartik Chandra Rath (Passed Away) = Veteran dramatist, theatre organiser and Economics
teacher
• Dilip Sarkar (Passed Away) = Senior Tripura Bhartiya Janta Party leader and five-time MLA
• Silamboli Su. Chellappan (Passed away) = Veteran Tamil Scholar and orator
• Dr. Viharidas Gopaldas Patel (Passed away) = An eminent economist and father of
entrepreneurship movement in India
• Elriesa Theunissen-Fourie (Passed away) = South Africa Women’s World Cup cricketer
• Holkhomang Haokip (Passed Away) = Veteran politician and former minister of Manipur
• Karingozhakkal Mani Mani (Passed Away) = Veteran Kerala politician and former state
finance minister
• Drupad Borgohain (Passed away) = Veteran communist leader and former parliamentarian
• Dr.Daniel Babu Paul (Passed away) = Writer, Orator and Former Kerala Additional Chief
Secretary
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• JK Ritheesh (Passed Away) = Actor and former Member of Parliament (MP)
of Ramanathapuram
• Alan Garcia (Passed Away) = Peru’s former president = shot himself in his bedroom at his
home in Lima
• Patrick Rousseau (Passed Away) = Former president of West Indies cricket Board (WICB)
• Con de Lange (Passed Away) = Scotland all-rounder, he was a slow left-armer and middle-
order batsman
• H K Khan (Passed Away) = Veteran IAS officer and former Chief Secretary of Gujarat
• ChaudharyVidyasagar (Passed Away) = Former Himachal Pradesh minister and senior BJP
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