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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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Peace

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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

India 2019 expo

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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institutional strengthening.

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

and Road Forum (BRF)

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.