Important Weekly Current Affairs PDF Download (8th to 14th September 2019)

Dear Readers, Here we have given the list of Important Weekly Current Affairs 2nd 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. Government constitutes task force headed by Atanu Chakraborty to identify infrastructure projects worth Rs 100 lakh crore
2. Project for the welfare of Children of Construction Workers ‘Bal Basera’ inaugurated at AIIMS Rishikesh
3. PM Modi, Nepal PM to jointly inaugurate Motihari-Amlekhganj cross border petroleum Pipeline
4. PM Modi launched National Animal Disease Control Programme (NADCP)in Mathura,Uttar Pradesh
5. PM Modihas inaugurated India’s second Multi-Modal Terminal built at Sahibganj in Jharkhand

6. Government announces target,of degraded land rehabilitate by 2030, revised from 21 million hectares to 26 million hectares
7. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launches Swachhata Hi Seva (SHS) 2019at Mathura
8. PM Modi launched ‘Pradhan Mantri Kisan Maan Dhan Yojana’ in Jharkhand
9. Government to develop 3 Indian Institute of Skills (IIS) at Mumbai, Ahmedabad, and Kanpur
10. National Green Tribunal (NGT) has set up a committee to stop illegal groundwater extraction

11. Centre to set up 12,500 Ayush Health and Wellness Centres across the country
12. Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has launched the maritime communication services in Mumbai
13. India has become a member of the Global Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Research and Development (R&D) Hubs

Current Affairs: International

1. India has announced a humanitarian assistance of USD 1 mn to help people in The Bahamas

2. India Pavilion inaugurated at 44th Toronto International Film Festival
3. Typhoon Faxai has hit Tokyo, Japan

4. Vietnam has inaugurated Southeast Asia’s largest solar power farm

5. UK government has announced 2 year post study work visa for all foreign studentsfrom the academic year 2020-21

6. Sri Lanka flagged off ‘Make In India’ train Pulathisi Express from Colombo Fort Railway station

7. Thailand becomes the first country in Asia to roll out plain cigarette packaging

Current Affairs: State

1. India’s first ‘water-grid’ costing Rs 3,50,000 crore will come in the parched Marathwada region of Maharashtra

2. Visakhapatnam railway station sets up ‘fun zone’ for kids

3. UNESCO and Rajasthan government join hands to promote state’s intangible cultural heritage
4. Rajasthan government has launched ‘Jan Soochna’ a public information portal

5. Kerala to set up the country’s first International Women’s Trade Centre (iWTC)

6. Gurugram traffic police have tied up with Google maps for traffic updates
7. Haryana CM launched two insurance schemes ‘Mukhyamantri Vyapari Samuhik Niji Durghatna Beema Yojana’ and ‘Mukhyamantri Vyapari Kshatipurti Beema Yojana’

8. GeM and Punjab Government sign MoU for Setting up Project Management Unit

9. Madhya Pradesh government’s Happiness Department is planning to set up a Time Bank

10. Tamil Nadu’s Srivilliputtur ‘Palkova’ set to get Geographical Indications Tag

11. Uttarakhand CM Rawathas launched ‘MukhyaMantri Dal PoshitYojana’ to provide 2kgs of pulses at subsidised rates every month to the ration card holders in the state

12. Arunachal Pradesh CM PemaKhandu dedicated the Dikshi Hydroelectric Project to the people of the state

Current Affairs: Banking and Finance

1. RBI to launch mobile app for visually impaired to identify banknotes
2. RBI increased loan exposure limit of banks to a single NBFC (excluding gold loan companies) from 15% to 20%
3. RBI has reduced the risk weight requirement for consumer loans to 100%from 125%

4. India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) has rolled out Aadhaar enabled payment system (AePS) services

5. India & ADB sign $200 million loan to improve rural connectivity in 34 districts of Maharashtra

6. IDBI to launch co-branded credit card with Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC)

7. World Bank will provide Rs 3,000 crore funds to finance mini and mega food parks across the country

Current Affairs: Appointments

1. Karnataka Bank chief Mahabaleshwara MS has been inducted into Indian Banks’ Association committee member

Current Affairs: Resignation

Current Affairs: Awards and Honours

1. 23-Year Old AnupriyaLakra becomes first woman pilot from Odisha’s Maoist-hit region

Current Affairs: Ranking

1. Eritrea topped the list of the 10 most censored countries in a report released by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

2. University of Oxford of United Kingdom has topped the ‘Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020’
3. Gujarat has retained its first position in the country in the ‘Logistics Ease Across Different States’ (LEADS) report 2019

Current Affairs: MOU

1. NITI Aayog joins hands with McKinsey for first digital capability centre(DCC)in New Delhi

2. Indian Railways signs MoU with Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) for facilitation of green initiatives

Current Affairs: Science and Technology

1. Samsung unveiled two apps ‘Good Vibes’ and ‘Relumino’ to provide communication tools to the deaf-blind and people with low vision in the country

Current Affairs: Summit and Conference

1. Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to participate 8th Asian Ministerial Energy Round-tablein Dubai
2. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to Visit Maldives for 4^thIndian Ocean Conference

3. India will host the 6th India-China Strategic Economic Dialogue in New Delhi
4. International conference Augmenting Nature by Green Affordable New-habitat (ANGAN) focussed on energy efficiency begins in New Delhi
5. The India’s first-ever helicopter summit.
6. Ministry of Civil Aviation organised the First helicopter summit in Dehradun

7. India Participated in 84th Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) in Greece

8. National Conference on Crop Residue Management was held for the farmers from the states of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh & Delhi
9. 24th World Energy Congress is being held in Abu Dhabi, UAE

10. National Conference on ‘Criminal Activities and Radicalization in Jails: Vulnerability of Inmates and Jail Staff and their Protection’ organized by BPR&D
11. 22nd Session of United Nations Committee on Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) Held in Geneva

Current Affairs: Defence

1. Indo-Lanka maritime fleet exercise – SLINEX 2019 to be held at Visakhapatnam
2. DRDO successfully flight-tested indigenously-developed Man Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile (MPATGM) system
3. DRDO has handed over the second ‘Netra’ Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AEW&CS) system to the Indian Air Force (IAF)

4. India’s 2nd Scorpene-class submarine INS Khanderi set to be commissioned into the Navy
5. India signs with Russian company to modernise radar missile systems on P-15 class ships
6. Indo-Thailand Joint Military Exercise ‘Maitree – 2019’ held at Umroi, Meghalaya

Current Affairs: Books

Current Affairs: Sports

1. Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) has won Formula 1, Italian Grand Prix 2019
2. Bianca Andreescu clinched US Open Women’s singles title
3. India Red beat India Green to clinch Duleep Trophy title
4. Rafael Nadal beats Russia’s Daniil Medvedev to win US Open men’s final title
5. Mo Farah and Brigid Kosgei wins 2019 Great North Run event men’s and woman’s title respectively
6. The 8th edition of Ladakh Marathon concluded in Leh
7. Brazilian tennis player Diego Matos has been banned for life for match fixing
8. Hero MotoCorp MD Pawan Munjal Inducted Into 2019 Asia Pacific Golf Hall of Fame
9. Sports Ministry has de-recognised the Paralympic Committee of Indiafor sports code violation
10. National Basketball Association (NBA) has appointed Rajesh Sethi managing director of its India business
11. Megan Schutt scripted history by becoming the only woman cricketer from Australia to claim a hat-trick in One Day Internationals

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Current Affairs: Obituaries