Important Weekly Current Affairs PDF Download (24th to 31st August 2019)

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Current Affairs: Important Days

Current Affairs: National

1. Indian Railways to ban single-use plastics from October 2
2. Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan inaugurated FSSAI’s National Food Laboratory (NFL) in Ghaziabad

3. Union Textiles Minister SmritiIrani has inaugurated Project SU.RE (Sustainable Resolution) In Mumbai

4. The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has constituted Advisory Board for Banking Frauds (ABBF) headed by T M Bhasin

5. PM Modi has announced to celebrate September as a month of nutrition
6. Actor Shah Rukh Khan launched heritage postal stamp of Bandra station on the completion of 150 years of the railway station.
7. Delhi’s Iconic Feroz Shah Kotla to be renamed as ArunJaitley Stadium
8. Human Resource Development Ministry launches National Digital Library of India
9. HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal launches integrated web portal for school education ‘Shagun’

10. Government launched “Janaushadhi Sugam” Mobile app for locating outlets and searching Generic medicines
11. Cabinet approves 100 % FDI in coal mining, contract manufacturing, and 26 % in digital media
12. ShriPrahlad Singh Patel launched an integrated NOC online Application Processing System (NOAPS) a single window clearing system

13. India has become the first country in the world to issue Biometric Seafarer Identity Document (BSID)
14. Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated the first fleet of eco-friendly electric buses in Ahmedabad, Gujarat

15. Government launched Angikaar Campaign & E-Course on Vulnerability Atlas
16. Government gives Rs. 47,000 crore to 27 states to boost green cover
17. Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has launched a civil aviation jobs portal

18. CBDT has constituted a five-member special cell to address grievances of start-ups with relation to angel tax and other tax-related issues

19. Air India to ban single-use plastic from October 2

20. Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated the Aqua Aquaria India 2019 in Hyderabad
21. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the 26th Mela of Ladakhi-Kisan-Jawan-VigyanMela in Leh

Current Affairs: International

1. Saudi Arabia allows women to travel abroad without permission from male guardian
2. Iran unveiled its new home-grown air defence system called Bavar-373

3. Iceland honoured the passing of Okjokull, its first glacier lost to climate change

4. Indonesia has chosen the eastern edge of jungle-clad Borneo island for its new capital

5. Russia launched the world’s first floating nuclear reactor in Arctic

Current Affairs: State

1. Karnataka’s Gulbarga tur dal gets Geographical Indication tag
2. Karnataka Government categorised Nicotine as Class A poison

3. A National Centre for Avian Ecotoxicology was inaugurated in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
4. India’s first of its kind FinTech centre of excellence comes up in Chennai

5. Maharashtra’s Tribal Development Department launched an academic programme ‘Super 50’ for young tribal students aspiring to be doctors and engineers

6. Telangana government launches DEET app to connect job seekers and employers
7. Telangana government launched T-Haazaru app to monitor attendance in govt schools

8. Tamil Nadu Education Department has launched an exclusive 24-hour television channel “Kalvi Tholaik katchi” for the school students
9. Tamil Nadu’s Dindigul locks and Kandangisarees have received GI tags

10. Delhi chief minister ArvindKejriwal announced ‘Water Arrears Waiver Scheme’
11. Delhi government announces campaign against vector-borne diseases named ‘10 Hafte, 10 Baje, 10 Minute — HarRavivar, dengue par war’

Current Affairs: Banking and Finance

1. General insurance company Digit Insurance signed Bancassurance pact with Karur Vysya Bank

2. DBS was named ‘World’s Best Bank’ by Euromoney magazine

3. Moody’s cuts India’s GDP growth target to 6.2% for 2019
4. Bandhan Bank has launched co-branded credit card with Standard Chartered

5. Central Board of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) approved the transfer of Rs 1,76,051 crore to the Government of India
6. RBI increases time allowed for converting minimum KYC PPI into full KYC PPI from 18 months to 24 months

7. Canara Bank has launched the OTP facility for ATM withdrawals over Rs 10,000

8. SIDBI has partnered with Incuspaze to open coworking space for MSMEs and start-ups

9. Ficci survey pegs India’s GDP growth rate at 6.9% for 2019-20 (FY20)
10. India Ratings has lowered the country’s growth forecast to 6.7 per cent for FY’20
11. According to KPMG’s report ‘Fintech in India – Powering Mobile Payments, Digital Payments growing in India at 12.7% compound annual growth rate (CAGR)
12. Indian Bank has opened its first MSME Centralised Processing Centre in Chennai

13. According to National Statistics Office (NSO), India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew 5 % in the April-June 2019
14. Global research firm Nomura has lowered its growth projections for India for the year 2020 to 6.9 %

Current Affairs: Business

1. Alphalogic Techsys Limited to be the first company to be listed on BSE Startup Platform

Current Affairs: Appointments

Current Affairs: Resignation

Current Affairs: Awards and Honours

1. Mobile app that connect old-age homes and orphanages, called Maitri, win tech prize in US developed by Class 12 students of Amity International School in Noida

Current Affairs: Summit and Conference

1. President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated the first World Youth conference on kindness in New Delhi
2. National Conference on Siddha Varmam-2019 inaugurated in Chennai, Tamil Nadu

3. The 2019 Indo Pacific Chiefs of Defence (CHOD) Conference will be held in Bangkok, Thailand

4. The 45th G7 summit was held in Biarritz, France
5. 7th Community Radio Sammelan to be held in Delhi
6. Fourth edition of Internet of Things India Congress 2019 held in Bengaluru
7. The 12th India Security Summit was held in New Delhi

Current Affairs: Ranking

1. Gujarat ranked first in NITI Aayog’scomposite water management index (CWMI) 2.0

2. Scarlett Johansson has topped the “Forbes” list of the highest-paid actresses for the second time
3. ‘Statue of Unity’ and Mumbai’s Soho House among Time’s 100 greatest places in the world
4. Singer Taylor Swift topped the Forbes’ list of top 10 highest-paid women in music for the year
5. Mumbai has been ranked as the 45th, while Delhi stood at the 52nd safest city on the Safe Cities Index (SCI) a report by Economist Intelligence Unit
6. According to “Global Happiness Survey” from market research firm Ipsos, Indian has been ranked 9th on the happiness index among 28 global markets

Current Affairs: MOU

1. Tata Realty & Housing and Indian Army signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to provide quality housing to army personnel
2. Common Service Centre SPV signed a pact with the Panchayati Raj Ministry to digitise gram panchayats across country
3. World’s first space-based automatic identification system (AIS) will be built and operated jointly by India and France

4. Karnataka signs MoU with AAI for development of Kalaburagi airport

5. Assam signs MoU with NHPC to develop 2 GW Subansiri Lower Hydro Project

6. TikTok has partnered with the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) to train students on online safety
7. Government e Marketplace (GeM)signs pact with SIDBI to facilitate business of MSMEs, SHG’s

8. BSE has signed a MoU with Steel Users Federation of India (SUFI) to launch trading in steel futures

9. IIT Guwahati signs MoU with RD Grow Green India for safer drinking water
10. Health Ministry has signed a MoU with Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence to explore AI based solutions in combating TB

11. Mastercard, RBL Bank and Samsung India have announced the launch of Samsung Pay for RBL Bank’s credit card holders

Current Affairs: Science and Technology

1. Russia has successfully carried out the launch of its first humanoid robot named ‘Fedor’ in space.

2. Intel Corp has launched its first artificial intelligence chip named Springhill

3. Microsoft India announced the “Digital Governance Tech Tour” programme to train 5,000 government employees in AI and Cloud Computing
4. Indian Institute of Petroleum sets up plant to turn plastic waste into diesel

5. Maruti Suzuki launched ‘Service On Wheels’ Doorstep Car Service programme
6. Mobile App ‘Ind Tokyo’ launched to help Paralympians to look up accessible places in Tokyo

Current Affairs: Books

Current Affairs: Defence

1. The air forces of China and Pakistan began joint exercise ‘Shaheen-VIII’ in China
2. Shaliza Dhami is first woman Air force officer to become flight commander
3. International Aviation and Space Show (MAKS) 2019 held in Russia

4. Pakistan has test-fired surface to surface ballistic missile Ghaznavi

5. IMD hands over Kochi Cyclone Detection Radar (CDR) building to Indian Navy

Current Affairs: Sports

1. PV Sindhu beats Nozomi Okuhara to win a gold medal in the World Championships 2019.
2. Gokulam Kerala defeated Mohun Bagan to win their maiden Durand Cup finals at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata
3. Suzuki Ecstar rider Alex Rins won the MotoGP Grand Prix of Britain
4. Komalika Bari (Jharkhand) won gold medal in women’s cadet recurve category in the World Archery Youth Championships in Madrid
5. Chennai City FC announced a strategic partnership with Germany’s uhlsport to develop grassroot football in Tamil Nadu and across India
6. Sumit Nagal became the first Indian to win a set against Roger Federer
7. Ashish Kasodekar has become the first Indian to complete the 555 kms long ”La Ultra The High” marathon in Ladakh
8. The Indian Team finished 13th among 63 countries in the overall standings at the World Skills International Competition 2019 in Kazan, Russia
9. India’s Elavenil Valarivan claims maiden World Cup gold medal in Rio de Janerio
10. 25th Senior Women’s National Football Championship to be held in Arunachal Pradesh
11. Sri Lanka spinner Ajantha Mendis has announced his retirement from all forms of the game
12. Indian sprinter V K Vismaya clinched the gold medal in the women 400m run at Josef Seckr Memorial (MJS) in Brno, Czech Republic
13. Abhishek Verma won the gold medal in the men’s 10m air pistol event of the World Cup in Rio
14. Aswatha Narayana wins first gold for India at World Skills event in Russia

Current Affairs: Obituaries