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

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

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Current Affairs: Important Days

Current Affairs: National

1. September month to be celebrated as ‘Rashtriya Poshan Maah’
2. VP Venkaiah Naidu inaugurates India’s longest electrified rail tunnel in Andhra Pradesh

3. Election Commission launched Electors Verification Programme (EVP) across the country
4. KVIC launched ‘Terracotta Grinder’ at Varanasi to re-use wasted pottery

5. Prakash Javadekar unveiled the new logo, certificate design of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC)
6. Information and Broadcasting Ministry decides to discontinue single-use plasticinside the official premises of the units under it

7. Cultural event ‘Namaste pacific’ held in New Delhi
8. Harsh Vardhan inaugurates 72nd Session of WHO Regional Committee of South-East Asia meet

9. Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGA) gets India’s tallest ATC Tower
10. India to contribute USD 22 mn to Global Fund for AIDS, TB, malaria (GFTAM) for 2020-22
11. Tinsukia Junction in Assam becomes India’s 4000th railway station to get free public WiFi
12. Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine in Jammu and Kashmir has been adjudged as the ‘Best Swachh Iconic place’ in the country in the ‘Swachh Iconic Places’ list
13. Rs 125 crore allotted to IIT- Kharagpur for Centre’s Sophisticated Analytical and Technical Help Institute (SATHI) initiative
14. Food and Consumer Affairs Ministry has decided to ban single-use plastic from Sep 15

15. Government has launched the updated Credit linked Capital Subsidy Scheme (CLCSS) for MSMEs

Current Affairs: International

1. Nepal inaugurates educational institution built with India’s assistance

2. The 3rd India-Australia Cyber Policy Dialogue 2019 was held in New Delhi

3. WHO South-East Asia Region sets 2023 target to eliminate measles, rubella

Current Affairs: State

1. Centre approves Gorewada International Zoo in Nagpur, Maharashtra
2. PM Modiinaugurated the Mumbai Metro’s first coach built under ‘Make in India’

3. Meghalaya CM Conrad K Sangma has launched ‘walk to work’ Fit India campaign in the state

4. Haryana government waives Rs. 4,750 crore interest, penalty on crop loans

5. One nation-one ration card scheme was implemented on a pilot basis in the Odisha capital
6. Nuakhai is a festival to celebrate newly harvested food by the farmers in Odisha

7. Uttar Pradesh Police has launched a ‘C-Plan’ app to aid Community Policing

8. Delhi to include OBC, General category students in Jai Bheem Mukhyamantri Yojana to enhance financial assistance from Rs. 40,000 to Rs. one lakh for coaching for various competitive exams.

9. Gujarat government and Delaware State of America signed MoU for sister state

Current Affairs: Banking and Finance

1. World Bank to fund pro-poor tourism development projects worth $57 mnto top tourist hotspots of Agra and Braj-Mathura regions in Uttar Pradesh

2. DBS lowers India’s GDP growth to 6.2% for FY20

3. ECL Finance, a subsidiary of Edelweiss Financial Services and Central Bank of India partner to co-lend to MSMEs
4. IRDAIsets up panel headed by Atul Sahai to revisit 3-yr old trade credit insurance guidelines

5. ESIC signs Agreement with SBI for payments to ESIC beneficiaries on Real Time Basis

6. ICICI Bank deploys ‘robotic arms’ to count currency notes

7. GST Revenue collection in August stands at Rs. 98,202 crore
8. Cabinet approves Rs 9,300 crore capital infusion in IDBI Bank

9. The RBI has made it mandatory for banks to link retail loans with external benchmarks from October 1

10. Crisil cuts India’s GDP forecast to 6.3% FY20 (2019 – 2020)
11. Rating agency CARE cuts India’s GDP growth to 6.4-6.5% for FY20
12. Standard Chartered Banklaunched its “DigiSmart”credit card

13. NDB to provide Rs 6,000 crore loan to Andhra Pradesh for social infrastructure projects

14. Centre to infuse Rs. 12,000 crore in three state general insurance firms

Current Affairs: Appointments

Current Affairs: Awards and Honours

1. HRD Ministry has awarded the status of Institute of Eminence to the IIT-Madras, the IIT-Kharagpur, Delhi University, Benares Hindu University and the University of Hyderabad

Current Affairs: Ranking

Current Affairs: MOU

1. IIT Kharagpur has collaborated with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop National Artificial Intelligence resource platform
2. Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and Google tie up to Build for Digital India

3. Multi Commodity Exchange of India (MCX) signs MoU with Zhengzhou Comm Exchange

4. Wipro bags $300-million deal from ICICI Bank to provide a comprehensive suite of services
5. India and South Korea signed two MoUs to boost defence cooperation

Current Affairs: Summit and Conference

1. The Election Commission of India to host the 4th General Assembly of Association of World Election Bodies (A-WEB) at Bengaluru

2. COP14 to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification begins in Greater Noida
3. A 3-day International Snacks Festival 2019 was inaugurated in Hyderabad, Telangana

4. One day Joint India – New Development Bank (NDB) Workshop held in New Delhi

5. CBI’s 1st national conference on cyber crime investigation inaugurated in New Delhi

Current Affairs: Defence

1. The Indian Air Force inducted eight US-made Apache AH-64E attack helicopters at the Pathankot airbase
2. 15th Indo-US Joint Military Exercise YudhAbhyas 2019 to be held in Washington
3. Iranian Army unveiled a new homegrown jet-propelled drone, named KIAN, with pinpoint accuracy

4. ASEAN-US Maritime Exercise Begins in Thailand

5. India-Thailand Coordinated Patrol (Indo-Thai CORPAT) between the navies of the two countries held in Thailand

Current Affairs: Science and technology

1. India to join developed nations in ocean studies with ‘Samudrayaan’ project
2. Asia’s first 5th Generation – Virtual Reality based Advanced Driver Training Simulator Centre was launched at Chennai

Current Affairs: Books

Current Affairs: Sports

1. Ferrari racer Charles Leclerc beat Lewis Hamilton to win the Belgian Grand Prix
2. India’s Sasikumar Mukund ended runner-up in both singles and doubles at ATP Challenger Tour, in Baotou, China.
3. Tejinderpal Singh Toor wins silver medal in shot put at Czech Republic athletic meet
4. 36th National Games to be held in Goa in October-November 2020
5. The India Under-15 team beats Nepal to won the SAFF U-15 Championship 2019 title held in Kalyani Stadium, West Bengal
6. Former India women’s team skipper Mithali Raj announced retirement from T20 Internationals
7. Nadubhagam Chundan, the snake boat of Pallathuruthy Boat Club, lifted the 67th Nehru Trophy in Alappuzha
8. Steve Smith dethroned India captain ViratKohli to reclaim the No.1 spot in ICC Test rankings
9. Manu Bhaker-Saurabh Chaudhary win gold as India finish on top in ISSF World Cup
10. FIFA unveiled the official emblem for Qatar World Cup 2022

11. Zimbabwe captain Hamilton Masakadza announced retirement from international cricket
12. Misbah-ul-Haq named as Pakistan men’s cricket head coach and chief selector
13. Indian cricketer Rohit Sharma has launched ‘Rohit4Rhinos’ campaign to save Rhinos in India
14. Anupama Swain wins bronze in World Martial Arts Mastership‘Jiu-Jitsu 2019’at Chungju in South Korea
15. Bob Carter appointed as head coach of New Zealand women’s cricket team
16. The 2019 World Wrestling Championships will be held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan

17. Afghanistan test cricket captain Rashid Khanbecoming the youngest test cricket captain

Current Affairs: Obituaries