Weekly Current Affairs

Important Weekly Current Affairs PDF Download (01st to 07th June 2019)

Dear Readers, Here we have given the list of Important Weekly Current Affairs 1stweek of June2019. Candidates those who are preparing for Upcoming LIC AAO and SBI PO/Clerk 2019and other competitive exams can make use of it.

Current Affairs: Important Days

Date Important days Theme
June 1 World Milk Day “Drink Milk: Today & Everyday”
June 1 Global Day of Parents “Honor Your Parents!”
June 3 World Bicycle Day
June 4 International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
June 5 World Environment Day Beat Air Pollution
June 7 World Food Safety Day “Food Safety, everyone’s business!”
June 3 – 7 Financial Literacy Week “Farmers”

Current Affairs: National

  1. Government has extended the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sammaan Yojana to all farmers
  2. India’s unemployment rate stood at 6.1% in FY18
  3. AYUSH Ministry launched Yoga locator app to locate yoga centres and instructors
  4. Elephanta festival of art and culture begins in Mumbai

5. LIC has revised the rule to increase maternity leave to 15 months

  1. PM Modi forms two Cabinet panels under his chairmanship to boost growth, jobs
  2. Culture Minister Prahalad Singh Patel will inaugurate the exhibition titled Unknown Masterpieces of Himachal Folk Art in New Delhi

Current Affairs: International

  1. Puerto Williams in Chile becomes world’s southernmost city
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Chile Capital Santiago
Chile Currency Chilean peso
Chile President Sebastián Piñera

Current Affairs: State

  1. Tripura to host 10th National Science Film Festival of India in 2020
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Tripura Capital Agartala
Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb
Tripura Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki
  1. Telangana celebrates state formation dayon June 2
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Telangana Capital Hyderabad
Telangana Chief Minister Chandrasekhar Rao
Telangana Governor ESL Narashiman
  1. Assam government hikes parental income limit under fee waiver scheme
  2. Assam government to provide subsidy of Rs 1.7 lakh for admission in North East Skill Centre
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Assam Capital Dispur
Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal
Assam Governor Jagdish Mukhi
  1. Rajasthan government increases financial aid given to girls under ‘Aapki Beti’ scheme
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Rajasthan Capital Jaipur
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot
Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh

6. Telangana Government issues guidelines to enhance ‘Rythu Bandhu’ amount from Rs. 4,000 to Rs. 5,000 per acre per season

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Telangana Capital Hyderabad
Telangana Chief Minister Chandrasekhar Rao
Telangana Governor ESL Narashiman
  1. The Punjab and Haryana High Court declares all animals in Haryana to be ‘legal persons’
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Haryana Capital Chandigarh
Haryana Chief Minister Manoharlal Kathar
Haryana Governor Satyadev Narayan Arya
  1. Madhya Pradesh Cabinet has passed a resolution to increase reservation quota for OBCs to 27 %
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Madhya Pradesh Capital Bhopal
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath
Madhya Pradesh Governor Anandiben patel
  1. Gujarat has launched India’s first trading programme to combat particulate air pollution
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Gujarat Capital Gandhinagar
Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani
Gujarat Governor Om Prakash Kohli
  1. Delhi Metro becomes India’s first project to receive power from waste-to-energy

Current Affairs: Banking and Finance

  1. Government has decided to issue Sovereign Gold Bonds for 2019-20 starting from June 2019 to September 2019
  2. RBI extends relaxed norms for NBFC loan securitisation till December 31
  3. RBI enters top-10 list of gold holders with 52.3-tonne purchase in FY19
  4. Second Bi-Monthly monetary policy:
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RBI Headquarters Mumbai
RBI Governor Shaktikant Das
RBI Deputy Governor BP Kanungo, N S Vishwanathan, Viral Acharya and Mahesh Kumar Jain
Repo Rate 5.75%
Reverse Repo Rate 5.50%
MSF Rate 6.00%
Bank Rate 6.00%
CRR 4%
SLR 19.00%
  1. Nilekani panel suggests 24×7 RTGS, NEFT, elimination of all charges
  2. World Bank retains India’s growth rate forecast for FY19-20 at 7.5%
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World Bank Headquarters Washington, D.C., United States
World Bank President David Malpass
  1. Tamil Nadu Health System reform programme gets $287 mn loan from World Bank
  2. IRDAI hikes third party insurance on small, medium cars by 12-12.5%
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IRDAI Chairperson Subhash Chandra Khuntia
IRDAI Headquarters Hyderabad

Current Affairs: Business

  1. ONGC overtakes IOC as most profitable PSU after profits jump by 34% in FY19
  2. Dell has emerged as the most trusted brand in India in 2019
  3. Razorpay has launched digital payment support for 100 currencies

Current Affairs: Appointments

Namrata Menonas Brand ambassador to promote yoga in Goa
Satish Chandra Verma New Advocate General of Chhattisgarh
MN Sarma Secretary General of General Insurance Council
AjitDoval National Security Adviser 2nd term
Sachin Bansal Independent director of Ujjivan Small Finance Bank
Mrutyunjay Mohapatra Chief of Indian Meteorological Department
Rakesh Makhija Chairman of Axis Bank
P Jayadevan IOCL executive director for TN, Pondy
Anita Bhatia Deputy Executive Director of  UN
Ajay Singh (SpiceJet chief) International Air Transportation Association  (IATA)board
Nayib Bukele President of El Salvador
Anton Aditya Subowo Re-elected as President of Badminton Asia
Rajiv Mehrishi External Auditor for WHO
Gianni Infantino FIFA president
Tijjani Muhammad-Bande UNGA President

Current Affairs: Resignation

AzimPremji Executive Chairman of Wipro

Current Affairs: Awards and Honours

1. Pratibha Patil (Former Indian President) “Orden Mexicana del Aguila Azteca” (Order of the Aztec Eagle)

Mexico’s highest civilian honour

2. Sheela J C Daniel Award (Kerala government’s highest honour for outstanding contribution to Malayalam cinema)
3. Sundar Pichai and Nasdaq president Adena Friedman Global Leadership Awards 2019by business advocacy group USIBC
4. Tayari Jones £30,000 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel An American Marriage
5. M.A. Yusuffali UAE Permanent Residency ‘Golden Card’
  1. World Health Organization has selected the Rajasthan government’s Medical & Health Department fortobacco control
  2. Jay-Z has been named the world’s first billionaire rapper in a new Forbes cover story

Current Affairs: Ranking

Index India’s Rank Top Least Based on
Global gender equality index

95/129

Denmark

  1. According to World Traffic Index Traffic flow in Mumbai is the worst in the world

Current Affairs: MOU

  1. IIT Guwahati signs MoU with ISRO to set up space technology centre in the Northeast
  2. Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI) has partnered with IDFC FIRST Bank to provide financing solutions
  3. Ashok Leyland ties up with Suryoday Small Finance Bank for vehicle loans
  4. Indian Oil, BPCL, HPCL to form Joint Venture for Kandla-Gorakhpur LPG pipeline project

Current Affairs: Summit and Conference

  1. 14th Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit held in Mecca
  2. Global Entrepreneurship Summit kicks off in The Hague
  3. The 2nd edition of the Global Disability Summit will be held at Buenos Aires, Argentina

Current Affairs: Defence

  1. Flight Lieutenant Mohana Singh becomes first woman pilot to fly Hawk fighter jet
  2. Army’s training exercise “Kharga Prahar” concluded in Punjab
  3. Supersonic cruise missile BrahMos was test fired from the Integrated Test Range in Odisha
  4. India-France to hold mega air Exercise “Garuda VI” in July

Current Affairs: Sports

  1. Chelsea beat Arsenal in Europa League final
  2. Liverpool beat Tottenham Hotspur to win Champions League trophy

3. Sidharth Rawat wins maiden ITF men’s Futures singles title

4. Andy Ruiz Jr. becomes the heavyweight world champion

5. Danilo Petrucciwins Italian Grand Prix

  1. Sunil Chhetri becomes India’s most capped international player

Current Affairs: Obituaries

Person Field
B.M. Khaitan Veteran industrialist
Jose Antonio Reyes Spanish footballer
Ruma GuhaThakurta Actor-singer
Jaspal Inder Singh Kalra (Jiggs Kalra) Celebrated chef and culinary revivalist  (‘Czar of Indian Cuisine’)
Dinyar Contractor Veteran Bollywood actor
Lennart Johansson Former UEFA president
Prakash Pant Uttarakhand finance minister

 

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