Important Weekly Current Affairs PDF Download (8th to 15th August 2019)

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Current Affairs: Important Days

Current Affairs: National

1. Government has sanctioned 5,595 electric buses in 64 cities under second phase of FAME India scheme
2. Government to issue special postage stamp to commemorate golden jubilee of IFFI
3. Union Environment minister PrakashJavadekar launched a website ‘unccdcop14india.gov.in for COP14
4. Bar Council of India has imposed a three-year moratorium on opening of new law colleges
5. Union Minister Shri Prakash Javadekar released Doordarshan’s patriotic song Watan in New Delhi
6. Khadi and Village Industry Commission (KVIC) launched a new programme “Leather Mission” on World Tribal Day

7. India’s first clinical ecotoxicology facility inaugurated at AIIMS, Delhi
8. Housing & Urban minister HardeepPuri launched SwachhSurvekshan 2020

9. Target to provide skill development to 10 lakh youth under SAMARTH scheme
10. Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat launched the ‘Swachh Survekshan Grameen 2019’

11. Union Minister PiyushGoyal inducted first batch of Commandos for Railway Security (CORAS)
12. Railway Protection Force launched “Operation Number Plate” across Indian Railways

Current Affairs: International

1. India and Bangladesh have agreed to set up a Joint Technical committee for optimum utilisation of Ganges water

2. India in US list of major illegal drug producing, transit countries

3. South Korea has decided to remove Japan from preferred trade list

4. Newly-Discovered Kajin Sara lake in Manang district of Nepal likely to become World’s Highest

5. India has contributed $1mn to the United Nations Special Purpose Trust Fund for the Resident Coordinator System.

Current Affairs: State

1. Rajasthan has become the second state after Manipur to pass bills against mob lynching and honour killing
2. 3^rd edition of ScooNews Global Educators Fest (SGEF) will be held in Udaipur, Rajasthan

3. Andhra Pradesh government set to launch ‘Navodayam’ scheme for MSME loan restructuring

4. Delhi government has planned to install 11,000 free Wi-Fi hotspots offering 15 GB data per month

5. ‘VriksharopanMahakumbh’ launched with target to plant 22 crore saplings in Uttar Pradesh

6. Haryana government to roll out MukhyaMantriParivarSamridhiYojana from Aug 21

7. Jharkhand government launched direct money transfer scheme ‘MukhyaMantriKrishiAshirwadYojana’for small farmers

8. 15-km long national flag unfurled in Raipur, Chhattisgarh

9. Gogabeellake has been declared as the Bihar’s first ‘Community Reserve’

10. Karnataka has launched the E-Step initiative to empower student start-up

11. Kolkata to get world’s first museum on ChaitanyaMahaprabhu

12. ‘Panchamirtham’ of Palani temple in Tamil Nadu gets GI tag
13. Ranipet and Tirupattur to become new districts of Tamil Nadu

14. Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik Inaugurates Naval Tata Hockey Academyat the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar
15. Madhya Pradesh government waives off loans taken by tribals from unofficial sources

Current Affairs: Banking and Finance

1. SBI has reduced home loan rates by 15 basis points across all tenors from August 10

2. SBI Life Insurance and Indian Bank ink Bancassurance pact
3. Indian Bank inks pact with Cholamandalam MS General Insurance for bancassurance
4. Aditya Birla Sun Life Insurance (ABSLI) inks Bancassurance pact with Indian Bank for the distribution of life insurance products

5. RBI to set up central payment fraud registry for tracking frauds in payment systems
6. RBI has decided to allow round-the-clock fund transfers through NEFT from December
7. RBI asks banks not to count failed transactions, balance enquiry as free ATM transaction

8. Life Insurance Corporation of India has launched new term insurance plan called ‘Jeevan Amar’

9. National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) projects India’s GDP growth at 6.2% in 2019-20
10. Jana Small Finance Bank Ltdhas got the status of a Scheduled Bank

11. Bank of Maharashtra and IDBI Bank have cut their marginal cost of funds based lending rate (MCLR) across select tenors by 10 basis points (bps) and 5-15 bps, respectively.

12. DBS Bank India has tied up with Social Alpha to incubate social entrepreneurs

13. RBL Bank launched India’s first health-focused credit card with healthcare platform Practo

14. Aadhaar-enabled payment system (AePS) have crossed 200 million transactions in July
15. ADB to provide $200 million for all-weather rural road project in 34 districts of Maharashtra

16. Aditya Birla Health Insurance and Axis Bank ink bancassurance pact

17. Bank of Baroda (BoB) has linked its home loan product to RBI’s repo rate

18. HDFC Bank CEO Aditya Puribecome highest paid banker in India with a monthly basic salary of Rs 89 lakh in FY19

Current Affairs: Business

1. Australian Super and Ontario Teachers’ to invest $2 bn in India’s National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF)
2. Business-to-business payments startup EnKash launched the corporate credit card called ‘Freedom Card’ for SMEs
3. Air India introduced a ‘Discover India’ scheme valid for sale and travel up to March 31, 2020.
4. Reliance Jio and Microsoft partnered to accelerate digital transformation in India
5. Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies Co unveiled its own operating system Harmony OS
6. OYO has partnered ACKO General Insurance to offer complimentary insurance cover up to ₹10 lakh
7. Ola acqui-hired Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence start-upPikup.ai

Current Affairs: Appointments

Current Affairs: Awards and Honours

1. NITI Aayog has collaborated with WhatsApp for Women Transforming India (WTI) Awards 2019

66th National Film Awards

• The 66th National Film awards were announced by Rahul Rawail, head of the Jury for feature films. The national film awards are given in 31 categories.
• An Award for film friendly state has been instituted this year. Uttarakhand won this year

Current Affairs: Summit and Conference

1. 3rd International Electric Vehicle (EV) Conclave was held in Manesar, Gurugram

2. Jammu and Kashmir to host 3-day Global Investors Summit in Srinagar

Current Affairs: Ranking

1. Manipur has topped the rankings in Breastfeeding and Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices in the country

2. West Bengal topped the list of states for GDP growth rate recording 12.58% during 2018-19

Current Affairs: MOU

1. India and 45 other United Nations members signed the Singapore Convention on Mediation to help stabilise trade ties
2. World Archery suspended the Archery Association of India (AAI) for breaching its guidelines

3. India and Russia to boost ties to achieve $30 bn in bilateral trade by 2025

4. The Naval Air Enclave (NAE) in Kochi and Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) have signedMoU for air operations

Current Affairs: Science and Technology

1. Iran has unveiled three new precision-guided missilesnamed “Yasin”, “Balaban,” and “Qaem”

Current Affairs: Books

Current Affairs: Defence

1. India to participate with Pakistan, China in Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) exercise ‘Tsentr (Centre) 2019’ In Russia next month
2. India secures 1st position in first phase of 5th ‘International Army Scout Masters Competition’in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan
3. The Army has launched “Mission Reach Out” in Jammu to ensure basic necessities and essential services are available in the region
4. GRSE launches its 5th fast patrol vessel named ‘ICGS KanaklataBarua’ for Indian Coast Guard
5. Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF)Ship ‘JS Sazanami’ Visits Kochi

Current Affairs: Sports

1. Former Uruguay captain Diego forlan announces retirement from football
2. Mary Kom and Lovlina Borgohain selected for world boxing Championship
3. Serena Williams topped the Forbes annual list of best-paid female athlete for a fourth consecutive year
4. South Africa’s Colin Ackermann becomes the first bowler to get 7 wickets in T-20
5. South Africa batsman Hashim Amla has announced his retirement from all formats of international cricket
6. Mary Kom and Bhaichung Bhutia included in 12-member selection panel for national sports awards
7. India’s top wrestlers BajrangPunia wins gold at Tbilisi Grand Prix
8. Surya Shekhar Ganguly won the Belt and Road China Hunan International chess tournament at Tongguanyao
9. Aishwarya Pissay (Bangalore) became the first Indian to claim a world title in motorsports
10. Vinesh Phogat settles for silver after she lost to N Malisheva of Russia in the 53kg final of the Medved event in Minsk, Belarus.
11. Women’s Twenty20 cricket, beach volleyball and Para-table tennis have been included in the 2022 Commonwealth Game
12. Netherlands’ most-capped player Wesley Sneijder announced his retirement from football
13. Wimbledon 2019 champion Novak Djokovic remains to be at the top of the ATP rankings
14. India’s U-19 cricket team defeated Bangladesh in finals and clinched the Under-19 Tri-Series 2019 Title
15. Cricket Australia has launched new transgender inclusive policy
16. India defeated England by 36 runs to win Physical Disability World Series 2019
17. Simone Bilesbecoming the first woman to land a ‘triple-double’ in competition

Latest International Cricket Council Test rankings

• 1 Test Team – India
• India topped the ICC Test team rankings while New Zealand is placed 2nd and South Africa is in 3rd position
• 1 Test Batsman – ViratKohli (India Captain)
• 1 Test Bowler – Pat Cummins (Australia)
• 1 Test all-rounders – Jason Holder (West Indies)

Rogers Cup/Canadian Open 2019

• 2019 Rogers Cup/ Canadian Open presented by National Bank was held from August 5-11, 2019. The Men’s tournament was held at IGA Stadium, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Women’s tournament was held at Aviva Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Hyderabad Open Badminton 2019

• The Hyderabad Open (Badminton) 2019, officially known as IDBI Federal Life Insurance Hyderabad Open 2019, was held at G.M.C. Balayogi SATS Indoor Stadium in Hyderabad, India.

Chennai Lions beat Dabang Delhi to win the Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT) title

Current Affairs: Obituaries