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

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

Current Affairs: Important Days

Current Affairs: National

1. Minister of State for Tribal Affairs, Smt. Renuka Singh will launch the “Go Tribal Campaign” by Tribes India
2. ‘One nation one ration card’ scheme from July 1, 2020
3. Union Minister for Jal Shakti Gajendra Singh Shekhawat launched the Jal Shakti Abhiyan in Delhi
4. National Register of Citizens (NRC) deadline extended by 1 month to July 31 in Assam
5. UGC launched STRIDE scheme with view to boost research culture in universities
6. Government constituted a high-powered committee of chief ministers headed by Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis to ‘transform Indian agriculture’
7. The UIDAI has operationalised the first ‘Aadhaar Seva Kendra’ in Delhi and Vijayawada
8. India’s first Design Development Center ‘Fashionova’ was launched in Surat, Gujarat
9. Indian Railway Finance Corporation (IRFC) has raised Rs 2,120 crore via issuance of 15 years bonds through book building process
10. South Central Railway has commissioned the longest electrified tunnel, measuring 6.6 Kms between Cherlopalli and Rapuru stations

Current Affairs: Cabinet Approval

1. Cabinet approves MoU between India and Maldives in the field of Health
2. Union Cabinet has approved MoU between India and Maldives for the establishment of passenger and cargo services by sea

3. MoU between India and Morocco for developing, promoting and strengthening mutual cooperation between the judiciaries of the two countries

4. Approved the proposal for leasing out of three airports viz. Ahmedabad, Lucknow and Mangaluru of AAI through Public Private Partnership (PPP) to the Adani Enterprises Ltd

Current Affairs: International

1. Stores at the Dubai Airport will accept Indian Rupees of various denominations
2. The IMF approved a USD 6 billion loan over a period of three years for Pakistan

3. India-assisted IT-biotech park inaugurated in Cote d’Ivoire
4. The world’s first ever floating farm has been built in Rotterdam in the Netherlands

Current Affairs: State

1. Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel inaugurated ‘Jan Choupal’ programme in Raipur

2. Jagannath RathYatra begins in Puri, Odisha

3. Haryana government has launched ‘Meri Fasal Mera Byora’ portal for farmers

4. Operation Khumaar has launched in J&K to make 312 panchayats tobacco-free in J&K

5. Walled City of Jaipur makes it to the UNESCO World Heritage list

Current Affairs: Banking and Finance

1. Government reduces interest rates of Small Saving Schemes by 10 bps
2. America based Investment Bank, Morgan Stanley has predicted the GDP growth rate for India at 6.2% in 2019 and 7.1% in 2020.
3. Economic Survey projects GDP to grow at 7 per cent in 2019-20
4. RBI to set up a working group headed by Tapan Ray to review the regulatory and supervisory framework for core investment companies (CICs)

5. Karnataka Bank has launched a web tool named VASOOL SO-Ft for digitalising NPA recovery process

6. Punjab & Sind Bank has set up the Centralized MSME & Retail Group (Cen-MARG) for credit facilities

7. YES Bank has acquired a 9.47 per cent stake in Eveready Industries India

8. ICICI Bank has tied up with non-banking financial company Indo Star Capital for vehicle financing

9. Indus Ind Bank Ltd. has picked up a 2.58 percent stake in microfinance firm Satin Creditcare Network Ltd

Current Affairs: Business

1. Airtel becomes first telco to shut down 3G network
2. Delhi Airport becomes first airport to Operationalise Transshipment Hub Centre
3. Reliance Jio has launched a new digital literacy programme Jio Digital Udaan in partnership with Facebook

Current Affairs: Appointments

Current Affairs: Awards and Honours

Current Affairs: Ranking

1. Maharashtra ranks first in NITI Aayog’s ease of doing farm business
2. Switzerland has dethroned Singapore as the best place for expats to work and live

Current Affairs: MOU

1. India and Indonesia set an ambitious USD 50 billion target for bilateral trade by 2025
2. India has signed Rs. 200-crore deal with Russia to acquire ‘Strum Ataka’ anti-tank missile
3. India has pledged to contribute 5 million US Dollars in 2019 to the UN Palestine refugee agency
4. AYUSH ministry inks MoU with MeitY for digitisation of the AYUSH sector
5. SBI inks MoU with National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) to boost capital availability for infrastructure projects

Current Affairs: Summit and Conference

1. India International Cooperatives Trade Fair (IICTF) to be Held in New Delhi
2. India will host 3rd International Sunflower Seed and Oil Conference (ISSOC) 2019 in Mumbai

Current Affairs: Defence

1. Abu Dhabi to host first International Security Alliance joint security exercise ISALEX19

Current Affairs: Books

Current Affairs: Sports

1. Red Bulls’ Max Verstappen wins Austrian Grand Prix
2. Veer Chotrani won the Asian junior Individual squash championship in the U-19 category
3. Karolina Pliskova beat Angelique Kerber to Win 2nd Eastbourne International Title
4. ITBP Deputy Inspector General of Police Aparna Kumar has become the first civil servant to scale Mount Denali, the highest peak in North America
5. Indian pro boxer Vaibhav Yadav wins WBC Asia silver welterweight champion
6. The 2019 Indian National Rally Championship kicked off with South India Rally in Chennai
7. Odisha set to host the 21st Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship at the Jawaharlal Indoor Stadium in Cuttack
8. Indian cricketer Ambati Rayudu has announced his retirement from all forms of cricket
9. Pakistan beat India to lift IBSF Snooker World Team Cup in Qatar
10. Hima Das has bagged the women’s 200 m gold at the Poznan Athletics Grand Prix 2019
11. Shot putter Tajinder Pal Singh Toor bagged a bronze in the Poznan Athletics Grand Prix in Poland
12. Former Bayern Munich and Netherlands forward Arjen Robben has announced his retirement from football

Current Affairs: Obituaries