Important Weekly Current Affairs PDF Download (1st to 7th August 2019)

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Current Affairs: Important Days

Current Affairs: National

1. Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched Atal Community Innovation Centre (ACIC) in New Delhi
2. Culture and Tourism Minister Prahlad Singh Patel on flagged off a mobile library bus service in Delhi

3. 10 historic monuments to be open from sunrise till 9 p.m
4. India and UK have launched a joint initiative named Innovating for Clean Air (IfCA) in Bengaluru

5. Government to set up JV firm ‘Khanij Bidesh India Ltd’ (KABIL) to ensure strategic minerals supply
6. Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) has set up a task force on Employment under the chairmanship of NITI Aayog member Bibek Debroy
7. Union home minister Amit Shah will head a panel of ministers to combat mob lynchings in the country
8. One Nation-One Ration Card scheme launched on a pilot basis in 4 states (Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat)
9. Government launched vernacular Agro Advisory App ‘Meghdoot’ for farmers
10. Government revokes Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir, bifurcates state into two UTs
11. Centre has approved the Rs. 4,900 crore project for interlinking of Kosi and Mechi rivers of Bihar
12. President Kovind has given his assent to The Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India, AERA (Amendment) Bill- 2019
13. Rajya Sabha has passed Consumer Protection Bill 2019

Current Affairs: International

1. The US Treasury has officially labeled China a “currency manipulator”

Current Affairs: State

1. Maharashtra government decides to waive off exam fees for class 10^th and 12^th students hailing from drought-affected districts of the state
2. World’s first hyperloop transportation system to come up at Maharashtra

3. West Bengal Government has launched an awareness campaign ‘Save Green, Stay Clean’ in Kolkata for preserving the greenery and keeping the environment clean.
4. Kolkata to get India’s first underwater Metro below the riverbed of the Hooghly River

5. Noida got its first ‘Pink Toilet’ dedicated to women with facilities for sanitary napkins and baby care.

6. Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani has launched the ‘Vhali Dikri Yojna’ for the welfare of girl child

7. Mohali traffic police have launched 3-D Smart Traffic Signal devised by the students of a Chandigarh university

Current Affairs: Banking and Finance

1. India received the highest-ever FDI inflow of $64.37 billion during the fiscal ended March 2019
2. CRISIL cuts India’s GDP growth to 6.9% from 7.1% for FY20 (2019-20)

3. Postal department decides to convert India Post Payments Bank to a small finance bank (SFB)
4. Growth of eight core industries dropped to 0.2 per cent in June
5. SBI Shanghai becomes 1st Indian bank to link up with China payment system

6. National Housing Bank to provide liquidity infusion facility of Rs. 10,000 crore to HFCs

7. RBI allows Bank of China to offer regular banking services in India
8. Third bi-monthly monetary policy statement 2019-20

Reserve Bank of India cuts repo rate by 35 basis points to 5.40 %

9. RBI has imposed a fine of Rs. 50 lakh on Punjab National Bank for delay in flagging the fraud

10. Microsoft and Publicis Sapient have partnered with Anglo-Gulf Trade Bank (AGTB) to launch the world’s first end-to-end digital trade finance bank

11. Sovereign Gold Bonds (Series III )2019-20 will be opened on August 05-09, 2019
12. Clearcorp to launch forex trading platform for bank customers

Current Affairs: Business

1. Bharti Airtel will shut down its 3G network across India’s 22 telecom circles by March 2020
2. Flipkart launches ‘Samarth’ to empower Indian artisans, weavers and craftsmen
3. Apple in partnership with Goldman Sachs has started the issue of its Credit Card that is named “Apple Card”.
4. India’s Reliance industries to buy majority stake in Google-backed Fynd for $42.3 million

Current Affairs: Appointments

Current Affairs: Awards and Honours

Current Affairs: Ranking

1. India has been ranked as the 46th highest risk country in the world in the Water Stress Index 2019
2. India has slipped to 7th position in in the World Bank’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP)ranking

Current Affairs: MoU

1. India has extended $500,000 assistance to Gambia for skill development and cottage industry projects

Current Affairs: Science and Technology

1. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) laid the foundation stone for the Space Situational Awareness Control Centre in Bengaluru
2. Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully test-fired Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air Missile (QRSAM) from a test range in Odisha

Current Affairs: Summit and Conference

1. The 45th WorldSkills Competition will be held at the KAZAN EXPO International Exhibition Centre in Kazan, Russia

2. 22nd National Conference on e-Governance 2019 to be held at Shillong, Meghalaya

3. Bangkok hosts 52nd edition of ASEAN Foreign Ministers meeting

4. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to lead delegation in 4th South Asian Speaker’s Summit in Maldives

5. Conference on good governance to be held in Jaipur in November

Current Affairs: Defence

1. India has signed a deal worth around Rs 1,500 crore to acquire R-27 air-to-air missiles from Russia

Current Affairs: Books

Current Affairs: Sports

1. Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar wins gold in Men’s Rifle 3 Positions (3P) at Sardar Sajjan Singh Sethi memorial shooting in New Delhi
2. Tinjit Dhanota and Esha Singh won the Men’s and Women’s 10 metres Air Pistol gold medal at Sardar Sajjan Singh Sethi memorial shooting in New Delhi
3. Pakistan’s 34-year-old pacer Wahab Riaz is set to retire from Test cricket
4. Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes driver) has won the Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix 2019
5. Vinesh Phogat has win the gold in women’s 53kg category at Poland Open wrestling tournament in Warsaw
6. Dwayne Johnson, popularly known as ‘The Rock’, has officially announced his retirement from WWE
7. Former New Zealand all-rounder Daniel Vettori’s jersey number 11 has been retired
8. South Africa bowler Dale Steyn has announced his retirement from Test cricket
9. Franky Zapata crossed the English Channel on Jet powered hoverboard on 2nd Try

Current Affairs: Obituaries

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