Important Weekly Current Affairs PDF Download (16th to 23rd August 2019)

Dear Readers, Here we have given the list of Important Weekly Current Affairs 3^rd week of August 2019. Candidates those who are preparing for Upcoming LIC ADO and SBI PO/Clerk 2019 and other competitive exams can make use of it.

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Current Affairs: Important Days

Current Affairs: National

1. CBDT to attach Documentation Identification Number (DIN) to each communication from Oct 1

2. Air India become the first Indian airline to fly over the North Pole

3. India has got its first National Essential Diagnostics List (NEDL) finalised by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)

4. All Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) personnel will now retire at a uniform age of 60 years
5. Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) launched new scheme ‘Scientific and Useful Profound Research Advancement (SUPRA) for high quality research funding
6. HRD Ministry launched the National Initiative for School Heads’ and Teachers’ Holistic Advancements (NISHTHA) to train over 42 lakh teachers

7. Railways’ second double-decker Uday Express will run between Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada
8. Centre has launched San-Sadhan Hackathon for Divyang accessible toilets
9. Committee formed to advise government on ‘Fit India Movement’under the chairmanship of sports minister KirenRijiju
10. Government to launch an e-commerce portal called ‘Bharatcraft’to help SMEs
11. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh approved a Committee to review the Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) to strengthen ‘Make in India’

Current Affairs: International

1.Ban imposed on unauthorized drone flying in Dhaka, Bangladesh

2. Japan surpassed China in June as the top holder of US Treasuries

Current Affairs: State

1. Andhra CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy launched Village Volunteers System

2. Nagaland State Police Department got its first Laboratory-cum-Training Centre for Prevention of Cyber Crime Prevention against Women and Children (CCPAWC)

3. President Ram NathKovind inaugurated an underground Bunker Museum at Raj Bhavan Mumbai.

4. Nine-day national tribal festival, AadiMahotsav, begins at Leh in Ladakh

5. Lucknow city’s iconic Hazratganj Chauraha has been renamed as the ‘Atal Chowk’, in honour of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee

6. Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel announced the formation of ‘Lemru Elephant Reserve’ in Chattisgarh

7. Manipur CM has launched the “School Fagadaba” (Make education bettter) scheme to improve school infrastructure and overall education quality

8. Gujarat to get country’s first Chemical Engineering & Technology Institute

9. Punjab government launched health insurance scheme ‘Sarbat Sehat Bima Yojna

10. Karnataka ranks the best among states for setting up a rooftop solar project, according to the Attractiveness Index (SARAL) released by Minster of New and Renewable Energy and Power R K Singh

11. Haryana government increasedthe income limit for BPL family to Rs 15000 per month

Current Affairs: Banking and Finance

1. Denmark’s ‘Jyske Bank’ has launched the world’s first negative interest rate home loan
2. Axis Bank ex-chief Dharmesh Mehta along with investors to acquire 100% stake in IDFC Securities
3. Government has removed debenture reserve requirement (DRR) for HFCs, NBFCs, listed firms
4. NPCI and Japan Credit Bureau (JCB) International have launched a new credit card – RuPay JCB Global Cards in Mumbai

5. BookMyForex partners with YES Bank to launch Forex Card on Visa network

6. RBI has been decided to extend the operating hours of RTGS from 7:00 am instead of 8 am

Current Affairs: Business

1. Government relaxes norms for shares with differential voting rights
2. Amazon India opens its largest campus in the world in Hyderabad

Current Affairs: Appointments

Current Affairs: Awards and Honours

1. Mumbai Youth ChinmayPrabhu solves 9 Pyraminxe (pyramid-shaped rubik’s cube) puzzles in underwater, creates new Guinness World Record
2. PrasarBharati will introduce 2 awards namely ‘Neelum Sharma Tejaswini award’ & ‘AchyutanandaSahoo Award’ in honor of Neelum Sharma

Current Affairs: Summit and Conference

1. Annual exhibition Construction Architecture & Interior (CAI) EXPO 2019 begins in Hyderabad
2. 28th BASIC Ministerial Meeting 2019 on Climate Change held in Sao Paulo, Brazil

3. HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ inaugurates two-day international conference on teacher education by NCTE in New Delhi
4. Sheikh Hasina and SaniaMirza to co-chair World Economic Forum’s India Economic Summit

Current Affairs: Ranking

1. Dwayne Johnson leads Forbes list of highest-paid actors

Current Affairs: MOU

1.   PM Modi launches RuPay card in Bhutanand signed 10 MoUs to infuse new energy in India-Bhutan ties

2. Wipro ties up with IISc Bengaluru for innovative solutions in AI, robotics, 5G
3. India provides Rs 233 crore financial aid to Nepal for infrastructure projects
4. Acko General Insurance has partnered with ZestMoneyto offer credit insurance

Current Affairs: Science and Technology

1. India’s first private space museum inaugurated in Hyderabad
2. IIT-Madras researchers have developed a multimodal robotic system Called ‘GraspMan,’ with good grasping, manipulation and locomotion abilities

Current Affairs: Books

Current Affairs: Defence

1. Indian Army has won the 5th International Army Scout Masters competition held at Jaisalmer Military Station in Rajasthan
2. Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) handed over the design of Mobile Metallic Ramp (MMR) to the Indian Army

Current Affairs: Sports

1. ViratKohli become the first batsman to score 20,000 international runs in a decade
2. BCCI has agreed to come under the ambit of the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA)

3. Deepak Punia becomes India’s first Junior Wrestling World Championin 18 years
4. Liverpool to beat Chelsea 5-4 on penalties to win the UEFA Super Cup in Istanbul
5. India win gold at Under -12 Asian Tennis Team championship in Kazakhstan
6. Hima Das and Mohammad Anas have won a gold each in 300m races at the Athleticky Mitink Reiter event in Czech Republic
7. Uganda beat Zambia in Victoria Rugby Cup game at the Kyadondo ground in Kampala
8. Assistant Inspector General AshishKapoor clinches two gold medals at World Police and Fire Games (WPFG) 2019 held at Chengdu in China.
9. Kreishh Gurbaxani won the Bombay Gymkhana Youth Snooker Open
10. Russia’s Daniil Medvedev of and Madison Keys of the US won the men’s and women’s singles titles of the Cincinnati Masters respectively
11. Australia’s batsman Marnus Labuschagne has become the first cricketer in the world to be a ‘concussion substitute’ in test cricket
12. England football player Ashley Cole announced his retirement from football
13. Mumbai to host prestigious World Youth Chess Championship 2019
14. ViratKohli retains top spot in the latest ICC Test rankings
15. Former Australia pacer Mitchell Johnson has been elected as an honorary member of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)
16. BCCI awards title sponsorship rights to Paytm for five more years
17. Para swimmer Satendra Singh Lohia from Madhya Pradesh has become the first Asian swimmer to cross the Catalina Channel of America.
18. Indian Sports Minister KirenRijiju and BhaichungBhutia Flag-off ‘OP-Blue Freedom’ a nation-wide adaptive scuba diving programme

Current Affairs: Obituaries

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