Weekly Current Affairs Free PDF (1st to 8th October 2019)

Dear Readers, Here we have given the list of Important Weekly Current Affairs 1^st week of October 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. Ram Vilas Paswan launched the a mobile app ‘Consumer App’ to help consumers register complaints and get redressal within 60 days
2. SmritiIrani Inaugurated the India’s largest ‘Charkha’ made of waste plastic in Noida
3. Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) cards to continue as valid travel document till March 2020
4. Home Minister Amit Shah flagged off the Delhi-KatraVande Bharat Express from the New Delhi Railway Station
5. Air India has launched “NamaskarSewa” at Delhi airport to provide better services to the passengers

6. Government has launched a web portal, Prakash, to improve coal supply to power plants
7. Ministry of Tourism has launched Audio Guide facility App “Audio Odigos” for 12 sites of India
8. Union Minister of Textiles, SmritiIrani to represent India at World Cotton Day celebrations in Geneva
9. Government launches ‘Ganga Aamantran’ a month long exploratory open water rafting expedition
10. Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan launched a digital platform ‘eDantseva’ for oral health information
11. Government constituted a working group under the chairmanship of GuruprasadMohapatra to prepare contours of New Industrial Policy
12. NITI Aayog, UNDP and Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) launched Youth Co:Lab, a youth lab programme for entrepreneurs to accelerate innovation
13. Ministry of Tourism organises first of its kind Adventure Trekking Training course in Ladakh

Current Affairs: International

1. Madagascar is set to issue a postal stamp bearing the image of Mahatma Gandhi to celebrate his 150th birth anniversary

Current Affairs: State

1. Telangana has become one the fully electrified states in the country

2. Rajasthan government announced a ban on pan masala containing magnesium carbonate, nicotine, tobacco, mineral oil and flavoured ‘supari’ in the state

3. Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Singh Rawat launched an awareness campaign ‘Urjagiri’ to stop power theft

4. India’s first e-waste clinic to be set up in Bhopal,Madhya Pradesh

Current Affairs: Banking and Finance

1. RBI sets Ways and Means Advances (WMA) limit for Government at Rs. 35000crore for second half of FY 2019-20
2. India’s current account deficit (CAD) narrowed to $14.3 billion or 2% of GDP during April-June quarter
3. Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India has decided to reduce the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) by 25 basis points to 5.15% from 5.40% with immediate effect

4. State Bank of India becoming the first Indian bank to have a branch in the Australian state of Victoria

5. All public sector banks across all states to function from 10 am to 4 pm from October 1
6. Axis Bank has launched the ‘Express FD’ a digital Fixed Deposit product

7. Paisalo Digital has signed a co-origination loan agreement with Bank of Baroda to empower farmers, MSME segment and small businesses
8. S&P Global Ratings slashed India growth forecast for FY20 (2019-20) to 6.3% from 7.1%

Interest rate on Small Savings Scheme from October and December Quarter

Current Affairs: Appointments

Current Affairs: Resignation

Current Affairs: Awards and Honours

1. Sachin Tendulkar bagged the ‘Most Effective Swachhata Ambassador’ award at India Today Group’s fifth edition of the Safaigiri Awards

Current Affairs: Summit and Conference

1. 64th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference 2019 inaugurated in Uganda
2. Film Division in association with India Tourism will organise Gandhi Film Festival at JB Hall in Mumbai
3. Drone Innovators Network Summit-2019 was held in New Delhi

Current Affairs: Ranking

1. Jaipur, Jodhpur and Durgapura were the top three ranking railway stations among 720 stations in Cleanliness Survey Report
2. Singapore tops new ‘citizen-centric’ IMD Smart City Index 2019 (SCI)

Current Affairs: MOU

1. Aegon Life Insurance announced its tie-up with Paytm to offer comprehensive insurance products

2. National e Governance Division (NeGD) signed an MoU with The National Law Institute University (NLIU), Bhopal to implement an ‘Online Capacity Building Programme on Cyber Law
3. Bank of Baroda has signedMoU with Indian Army for customised services

4. India and Bangladesh signed aMoU for setting up a coastal surveillance system radar in Bangladesh

5. National Health Authority (NHA) has joined hands with Google for Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY)Implementation

Current Affairs: Science and Technology

1. A minor planet, between Mars and Jupiter, has been named after PanditJasraj, the doyen of Indian classical vocal music
2. ISRO to celebrate ‘World Space Week’ with 7 academic institutions in Karnataka

Current Affairs: Books

Current Affairs: Defence

1. Indo – Mongolian joint military training ‘Nomadic Elephant-XIV’ commenced in Bakloh, Himachal Pradesh
2. Indo Maldives joint Exercise Ekuverin –19 to be held at Aundh Military Station in Pune, Maharashtra

Current Affairs: Sports

1. Sumit Nagal has won the men’s singles title of ATP Challenger Tournament at Buenos Aires in Argentina
2. A. Bhavani Devi clinched the silver medal in the women’s sabre individual category in the Tournoi satellite competition (World level) at Ghent, Belgium
3. FIFA has banned former CONMEBOL president Eugenio Figueredo from all football activities for life after finding him guilty of bribery
4. India Women T20I captain Harmanpreet Kaur became the first Indian (male or female) to play 100 T20I matches
5. Maj AQ Khan won silver medal in 53rd Asian Body Building and Physique Sports Championship 2019 in Indonesia
6. Novak Djokovicbeats John Millman of Australia to win the Japan Open tournament
7. Dominic Thiem and Naomi Osaka wins China Open men and women single title respectively
8. India’s senior bridge team led by DipakPoddar has won a bronze medal at World Bridge Championships
9. Austria’s Christine Wolf won the Hero Women’s Indian Open at the DLF Golf and Country Club course in Gurugram