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OCTOBER CURRENT AFFAIRS the two cities from four hours to 45 minutes, once ➢ Prime Minister was speaking at a 'Swachh completed and will also decongest . Bharat Diwas' programme in Ahmedabad on

➢ As much as 8,346 crore is likely to be spent the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. NATIONAL NEWS on the project, which was signed in March, 2016. ➢ Mr Modi said, the Centre plans to spend 3 lakh

crore rupees on the ambitious "Jal Jivan PM addresses Arogya Manthan marking one Raksha Mantri Excellence Awards for Mission" aimed at water conservation. year of Ayushman Bharat; employees of Defence Accounts Department ➢ Prime Minister also released Launches a new mobile application for was given on its annual day. commemorative 150 rupees coins to mark the Ayushman Bharat ➢ Defence Accounts Department, one of the occasion ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi will preside over oldest Departments under Government of , Nationwide “Paryatan Parv 2019” to the valedictory function of Arogya Manthan in is going to celebrate its annual day on October 1. promote tourism to be inaugurated in New a two-day event organized by the ➢ Rajnath Singh will be Chief Guest at the Delhi National Health Authority to mark the completion celebrations, which will take place at Manekshaw ➢ The nationwide Paryatan Parv, 2019 to of one year of Ayushman Bharat, Pradhan Centre in Delhi Cantt. Shripad Naik will be the promote tourism to be inaugurated in New Delhi. Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY). Guest of Honour. ➢ The aim is to propagate the message of ➢ Mr Modi will launch a new mobile PM addresses the 56th Convocation of Dekho Apna Desh to encourage people to visit application of Ayushman Bharat and Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. tourist destinations of the country and also spread Ayushman Bharat Start-Up Grand Challenge ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the the message of Tourism for All. Saal Ek - Ayushman Anek and also release a 56th Convocation of the Indian Institute of ➢ The parv was jointly inaugurated by commemorative stamp. Ayushman Bharath was Technology, Madras. Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash launched on September 2018. ➢ Addressing the gathering Prime Minister said, Javadekar, Petroleum Minister Dharmendra ➢ The purpose of Arogya Manthan is to provide “In front of me is both a mini-India and the spirit Pradhan and Tourism Minister Prahalad a platform to meet all important stakeholders of of New India. There is energy, vibrancy and Singh Patel at Rajpath lawns in New Delhi. PM-JAY and discuss challenges faced in the positivity. Mahatma's 150th Birth Anniversary was implementation of the scheme in the past year. ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi concluded his celebrated on Oct 2 ➢ It also aims to forge a new understanding address by adding that education and learning is ➢ October 2 is celebrated as Gandhi Jayanti to and create pathways towards improving a continuous process. mark the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. implementation. Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina inaugurated 3 ➢ One of the biggest political figures in India's Govt issues notification for minimum bilateral projects via video link and struggle for independence in 1947, Gandhi was stipend payable to trade apprentices exchange MOUs. the man behind the Satyagraha movement and ➢ The Government has issued a notification ➢ Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina the civil disobedience, based on non-violence. regarding minimum stipend payable to trade arrived in New Delhi on a four day visit to ➢ This year marks the 150th birth anniversary apprentices. India. She will be attending the India Economic of Mahatma Gandhi. ➢ Minister of Skill Development and Summit of the World Economic Forum in Nation remembers former Prime Minister Lal Entrepreneurship, Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey Delhi. Bahadur Shastri on his birth anniversary@ announced at the State Ministers’ Conference on ➢ This is the first visit of Prime Minister Sheikh ➢ The Nation also remembers Former Prime Skill Development in New Delhi. Hasina after assuming office for the third Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on his birth ➢ He said a minimum stipend will be given based consecutive term and in the second term of Prime anniversary. on one's qualification and it will be in the range of Minister Narendra Modi. ➢ President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M five thousand to nine thousand rupees per ➢ During the visit Sheikh Hasina will hold Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi month from now onwards. bilateral talks with Prime Minister Narendra visited Vijay Ghat, the samadhi of Shastriji in the ➢ He further said that employers having four or Modi and call on President Ram Nath Kovind. national capital and offered floral tributes. more workers are eligible to engage apprentices. ➢ The two Prime Ministers will jointly inaugurate ➢ Lal Bahadur Shastri National Memorial Trust The minister stressed the need to create a new 3 bilateral projects via video link and exchange will organise a programme of devotional and structure of Kaushal Vikas Mitra from State to MOUs. patriotic songs by noted singer Sapna Bhatnagar village level. Amit Shah flagged off the Delhi-Katra Vande on the 115th birth anniversary of the former 6th Edition of International Conference Bharat Express from the New Delhi Railway Prime Minister. MASCRADE 2019 Organised by FICCI in New Station Delhi ➢ Union Home Minister Amit Shah flagged off NSA Doval and Saudi Crown Prince ➢ The 6th edition of International Conference the Delhi-Katra from Mohammad Bin Salman held bilateral Mascrade 2019 (Movement against the New Delhi Railway Station and said it was a relations in several areas FILE PIC: PTI Smuggling and Counterfeit Trade) was held "big gift" for Jammu and Kashmir's development. ➢ National Security Advisor Ajit Doval held on 26-27, September 2019 in New Delhi. ➢ The high-speed train will bring down the travel detailed discussions with Saudi Crown Prince ➢ The event was organised by FICCI CASCADE time between Delhi and Katra, the last station on Mohammed Bin Salman on bilateral, regional (Committee Against Smuggling and way to the Vaishno Devi temple, to 8 hours and international issues. Counterfeiting Activities Destroying the from the current twelve hours. ➢ Mr Doval is on a two-day visit to the Kingdom, Economy), a dedicated forum of FICCI. ➢ The first commercial run of the train will be a statement by the Indian Embassy in Saudi ➢ The theme for MASCRADE 2019 was on 5th of this month and booking of tickets is now Arabia said the two sides also reviewed the strong ‘Containing Counterfeiting, Smuggling and open on the IRCTC website. and fraternal ties, besides discussed exploring Piracy: A Winning Strategy’. ➢ The first Vande Bharat Express was stared ways and means to further strengthen and Nitin Gadkari inaugurated Dasna-Hapur between Delhi to Varanasi in February this year. consolidate the bilateral relations in several section of the expressway. PM Modi emphazised to eradicate single-use areas. ➢ The 14-lane Delhi-Meerut Expressway will plastic by 2022 on 'Swachh Bharat Diwas' ➢ Saudi Arabia and India are set to establish a be ready in the next six months, road transport @ Strategic Partnership Council which will be co- and highways minister Nitin Gadkari said while ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called upon chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and inaugurating the Dasna-Hapur section of the people to eradicate single-use plastic from the Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman expressway. country by 2022. Governor gives assent to Jammu and ➢ The much awaited 82 km Delhi-Meerut ➢ Mr Modi said, plastic is a major threat to Kashmir National Law University Bill (FILE Expressway will reduce the commuting between environment and we have to achieve the goal to PIC) eradicate single-use plastic from the country. ______7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. 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➢ Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal UP CM Yogi Adityanath flags off India’s first ➢ Indian Oil Corporation built 850 metres of Malik has given assent to the Jammu and ‘private’ train. road using 16 metric tonnes of single-use Kashmir National Law University Bill thereby ➢ Chief Minister Yogi plastic waste in bitumen concrete, and has invited paving way for the establishment of a National Adityanath flagged off the country's first ‘expression of interest’ from various parties and Law University in Jammu and Kashmir. corporate run train Lucknow-Delhi Tejas aggregators to consistently supply commercial ➢ Enactment of the Jammu and Kashmir Express. The flagging off function was held at quantities of such waste. National Law University Act will pave way for the Lucknow Junction. ➢ The move by Indian Oil aims to utilize single- setting up of a National Law University in Jammu ➢ is a more premium version of use plastic waste. and Kashmir. the category of air-conditioned ➢ About the road: For the construction of the Four crore rupees worth of black money chair cars. A whopping Rs 25 lakh free road, around 16 million tonnes of waste plastic seized since declaration of insurance will be provided for each and every from single-use carry bags and packaging film Assembly Elections: DGIT (Investigation) passenger. waste were used. ➢ The Directorate General of Income Tax Union Home Minister Amit Shah arrived (Investigation) is working 24*7 to curb the use of 17 Chinese hand grenades recovered from Aizawl to inaugurate North East Handloom black money and cash inducement in the on- J&K’s Poonch district and Handicraft Exhibition @ going Assembly Elections in the state, said AIR PICS ➢ Union Home Minister Amit Shah will arrive in Director General of Income Tax (Investigation), ➢ In Jammu and Kashmir Army and police Aizawl on a day-long tour to Mizoram. Shri Nitin Gupta in . recovered 17 Chinese hand grenades from ➢ Mr Shah will inaugurate the North East ➢ Addressing a press conference in Mumbai the Khara Gali area in Loran block of border district Handloom and Handicraft Exhibition at Director General said that illegal cash worth 4 of Poonch in Jammu Division. Government Mizoram High School field at crore rupees approx. has been seized by the ➢ SSP Poonch Rames Kumar Angral told that Zarkawt in Aizawl. Department, since the declaration of Model Code on specific information Army and Police launched ➢ Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga and of Conduct by the Election Commission of India, joint search operation and recovered these Union Minister of State for DoNER Dr. Jitendra on September 21, 2019. grenades from a hideout which was later Singh will be present on this occasion. Thaawarchand Gehlot flags off ‘Walkthan’ destroyed. ➢ This first-ever three-day North-East for Senior Citizens to mark International Dwarka-Najafgarh corridor was Handloom and Handicraft Exhibition is fully Day of Older Persons inaugurated by Housing and Urban Affairs funded by the North Eastern Council and hosted ➢ Union Minister for Social Justice & Minister Hardeep Singh Puri by Mizoram government. Empowerment Thaawarchand Gehlot flagged ➢ Delhi Metro's Dwarka-Najafgarh corridor Cabinet approves new strategic off a “Walkthan” for older persons and senior will be opened for service. disinvestment process expediting citizens to mark the International Day of Older ➢ Over four kilometre long, the Grey Line will privatization of selected PSUs Persons at Commonwealth Games Village connect urban village area of Najafgarh to the ➢ The Cabinet has approved a new process of Stadium, near Akshardham Mandir. rapid transit network. strategic disinvestment with a view to expediting ➢ The Walkthan was organised by the National ➢ The corridor consists of three stations privatization of selected PSUs. Institute of Social Defence (NISD) under Ministry Dwarka, Nangli and Najafgarh. ➢ The Cabinet approved the new policy under of Social Justice & Empowerment in collaboration ➢ The corridor will be inaugurated by Housing which the Department of Investment and with Confederation of Senior Citizens Association and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri Public Asset Management, DIPAM under the of Delhi. and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Ministry of Finance has been made the nodal Students of Lucknow simultaneously read ➢ With the opening of this section, the Delhi department for the strategic stake sale. literature of Gandhi to create a world record Metro network will expand to 377 km with 274 ➢ DIPAM and NITI Aayog will now jointly in Lucknow. stations including the Noida-Greater Noida Aqua identify PSUs for strategic disinvestment. The ➢ In Uttar Pradesh, A unique initiative by Line. decision has been taken with a view to Governor Anandiben Patel brought together Assam govt will make its state free from streamlining and speeding up the process. around 10 lakh students to read literature of arsenic & fluoride in next 2 years@ ➢ Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had Gandhi to create a world record in Lucknow. ➢ Assam government has said that it will make announced about increasing the divestment ➢ To set a new world record more than 10 lakh the state free from arsenic and fluoride in the target from 90 thousand crore rupees to 1.05 students from schools and colleges of Lucknow next 2 years. lakh crore rupees for the current fiscal year. simultaneously read books for 45 minutes as part ➢ Public Health Engineering Minister Rihon Chhattisgarh HC stays congress govt of ‘Padhe Lucknow, Badhe Lucknow’ Daimari said that some areas in 23 districts are decision to enhance reservation for OBCs to campaign initiated by Governor Anandiben Patel. affected by arsenic while fluoride found in some 27% has become the third state after places of 12 districts. hcourg.gov.in Maharashtra and to ban pan masala ➢ The Minister has said that steps are being ➢ Chhattisgarh High Court has stayed the ➢ The Rajasthan government announced a ban taken to make those areas free from arsenic and Congress government decision to enhance on pan masala containing magnesium carbonate, fluoride. reservation for OBCs to 27% that took the nicotine, tobacco, mineral oil and flavoured overall reservation quota to 82% in the state. 'supari' in the state. India Gets Its First-ever Floating Basketball ➢ The division bench of Chief Justice P R ➢ "All such products will now be banned in the Court In Mumbai Ramachandra Menon and Justice Parth state under the Food Safety Act. This is an ➢ The National Basketball Association has Prateem Sahu stayed the reservation order after important decision taken to curb addiction among brought the first-ever floating basketball court to hearing a bunch of petitions filed by Ved youth," India. Prakash Singh Thakur, Kunal Shukla and ➢ Production, storage, distribution and sale of ➢ This was installed in the Arabian Sea near the others, challenging enhancing the reservation to these products will not be allowed in the state. Bandra-Worli Sealink accompanied by the NBA 82%. ➢ Rajasthan has become the third state legend Jason Williams, some sports J&K govt proposes to set up centres of after Maharashtra and Bihar to announce such a enthusiasts were seen enjoying the floating excellence for floriculture move, according to a release in Jaipur. court. ➢ Jammu and Kashmir Government is proposing Piyush Goyal flagged off 'Sarbat Da Bhala ➢ The NBA India Games 2019 has been to set up centres of excellence for floriculture, one Express' train in New Delhi GRAB prepared to feature the Sacramento Kings and each in Jammu and Kashmir division, to train and ➢ Union Ministers Piyush Goyal, Harsh Indiana Pacers, who will play two pre-season guide growers in floriculture, production of bulbs Vardhan and Harsimrat Kaur Badal flagged off games on October 4 and 5 at the Dome, NSCI, and cut flowers, perfumery and propagation of 'Sarbat Da Bhala Express' train at New Delhi SVP Stadium. aromatic and medicinal plants. railway station. ➢ The Government will provide 30 lakh rupees ➢ The renamed New Delhi- National Basketball Association: each to the two agricultural universities of the Intercity Express will ply from New Delhi to Founded on: June 6, 1946 State for training and capacity building of Lohian Khas via holy city Sultanpur Lodhi. Countries: United States (29 teams), Canada (1 floriculture farmers. ➢ The request to rename the train was made by team) PM pays tributes to freedom fighter Shyamji Mrs Badal on the occasion of the 550th Parkash Headquarters: New York City Krishna Varma on his 162nd birth Purb. anniversaryFILE PIC ➢ Speaking on the occasion, Dr Harsh Vardhan Indian Oil builds a road to tackle plastic ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tributes to said, several trains have been started by the menace freedom fighter Shyamji Krishna Varma on his government to facilitate people but this train will 162nd birth anniversary. have blessings of Guru Nanak ji.

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➢ Shyamji Krishna Varma founded the Indian ➢ It was held from October 2-6, 2019 under the ➢ Squadron Leader Khanna and three other IAF Home Rule Society, India House and The Indian theme ‘Compassion through Poetry’. personnel were killed in January 1990 in Kashmir Sociologist in London. He was born on this day in ➢ He said, poetry can serve as a powerful allegedly by JKLF founder Yasin Malik. 1857 at Mandvi in Gujarat. catalyst that could hasten the process of social Dharmendra Pradhan to visit Mongolia for Union Consumer Affairs Minister Shri Ram transformation. Mongol Refinery project. Vilas Paswan showcases Bullet Resistant India, Bangladesh sign MoU for setting up Jackets made under PM Modi’s‘Make in Coastal Surveillance Radar System in ➢ Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas India’ initiative BangladeshPIB Dharmendra Pradhan will pay a three-day visit ➢ Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and ➢ India and Bangladesh have signed an MoU to Mongolia. Public Distribution Shri Ram Vilas Paswan that will enable Delhi to set up coastal ➢ The Minister will participate in the opening showcased the Bullet Resistant Jackets being surveillance system radar in Bangladesh. ceremony of infrastructure that Mongolia has made under the ‘Make in India’ initiative of ➢ The two countries signed seven agreements already constructed for the Indian funded, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. in New Delhi after talks between Prime Minister Mongol Refinery project. ➢ The Jackets have been made using standard Narendra Modi and his Bangladesh counterpart ➢ The Mongol Refinery project is (IS 17051: 2018) set by the Bureau of India Sheikh Hasina. being developed under a line of credit of 1.236 Standard (BIS) which was notified in December, ➢ The coastal surveillance system will pave way billion US dollars 2018. for Indo-Bangladesh White Shipping India to shift to BS VI vehicular emission ➢ India has now joined selected League of Agreement in future. This will be useful amid norms by April Nations such as US, UK & Germany to have its growing terror threats via seas. ➢ The has ruled that no own standard for Bullet Resistant Jackets. ➢ Other agreements signed by the two countries Bharat Stage IV vehicle shall be sold across the ➢ The Minister said that these jackets are light include MoU for Standard Operating Procedure on country with effect from April 1, 2020. weight weighing between 5 kilograms to 10 the use of Chattogram and Mongla Ports and ➢ Instead, the Bharat Stage VI (or BS-VI) kilograms depending on the threat level and are MoU on withdrawal of 1.82 cusecs of water emission norm would come into force from April of the best quality in the world. from Feni River by India for drinking water 1, 2020 across the country. ➢ Talking about the prices of the jackets it was supply scheme for Sabroom town in Tripura. ➢ A three-judge bench ruled that the need of the informed that these jackets range from Rs. hour was to move to a cleaner fuel. In 2016, the 70,000 to 80,000 which is considerably lesser Former PMC Bank chairman Waryam Singh Centre announced that the country would skip the than the price of the jackets which were being arrested in connection with the alleged BS-V norms altogether and adopt BS-VI norms by procured earlier. 4,355 crore rupees scam 2020. Prakash Javadekar announced that the 50th ➢ The Economic Offences Wing of Mumbai Police Revenue Secretary inaugurates National e- IFFI 2019 to be held in Goa has arrested Waryam Singh, former chairman Assessment CentrePIB ➢ The 50th International Film Festival of of and Maharashtra Cooperative ➢ Revenue Secretary Ajay Bhushan Pandey India, IFFI 2019, will be held from November (PMC) Bank, in connection with the alleged inaugurated National E-Assessment Centre 20-28 in Goa. Over 200 best films from 76 4,355 crore rupees scam at the bank. and Regional E-Assessment Centers. countries, 26 feature films and 15 non-feature ➢ This is a fourth arrest in the case. In another ➢ The National E-Assessment Center is situated films in the Indian Panorama section will be development, former managing director of the in Delhi while Regional E-Assessment Centers screened at the film festival. bank, Joy Thomas, has been remanded to police are in Mumbai, Chennai, , Ahmedabad, ➢ This was announced by Information and custody till 17th of October. Pune, Bangalore, Delhi and . Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar in Supreme Court ruled that the road traffic ➢ The centres have been established to New Delhi. The Minister said in a first, films with offences can be prosecuted under the Indian implement the faceless assessment system for audio deion will be screened for the visually Penal Code alsoPTI Income Tax Return. impaired. ➢ Supreme Court has ruled that road traffic ➢ The establishment of such centres is aimed ➢ Mr Javadekar said Dadasaheb Phalke offences can be prosecuted under the Motor at eliminating the interface between Assessing Award winner 's Vehicles Act as well as the Indian Penal Code Officer and Assessee to ensure greater outstanding contribution to cinema will be (IPC). transparency and accountability in the system. honoured ➢ The apex court also set aside a Guwahati High Defence Minister Rajnath Singh to visit ➢ This year, the Feature Film Jury was headed Court order to prosecute offenders of road France to hold the Annual Defence Dialogue by acclaimed filmmaker and screenwriter accidents under motor vehicle act only. @ Priyadarshan. ➢ The punishment for offenders of motor vehicle ➢ Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will leave for ➢ The Jury has chosen Gujarati film HELLARO accidents under the IPC is stricter compared to France on a two-day visit. as the Opening Feature Film of Indian Panorama, the Motor Vehicles Act. ➢ Mr Singh will meet French President 2019. The Non-Feature Jury selected the film ➢ A bench comprising Justices Indu Malhotra Emmanuel Macron. Later, the Minister will Nooreh as the Opening non-feature film of Indian and Justice Sanjiv Khanna said the sentence participate in the Rafale fighter aircraft handing Panorama. imposed by courts should be commensurate with over ceremony at Merignac along with French Nirmala Sitharaman to inaugurate National the seriousness of the offence and should have a Minister of Armed Forces, Florence Parly. e-Assessment Centre (NeAC) in New DelhiB deterring effect on wrongdoers. ➢ The Minister is also scheduled to hold the ➢ Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will Annual Defence Dialogue with the French inaugurate National e-Assessment Centre CSIR develops green crackers keeping in Minister of Armed Forces. (NeAC) in New Delhi. view pollution and health hazardsPTI ➢ He will address the CEOs of the French ➢ The setting up of (NeAC) of the Income Tax ➢ The Council of Scientific and Industrial Defence industry during which he is likely to urge Department is a momentous step towards larger Research (CSIR) has come up with new and them to participate in “Make in India” and the objectives of better taxpayer service, reduction improved formulations in the manufacture of DefExpo to be held in Lucknow in February next of grievances in line with the Prime Minister’s sound-emitting crackers and other fireworks year. vision of Digital India and promotion of ease of keeping in view the pollution hazard and health ➢ doing business. risks. Defence minister Rajnath Singh approves 4- ➢ There would be no physical interface between ➢ Health and Family Welfare Minister Harsh fold increase to families of battle casualties taxpayers and tax officers. Vardhan displayed some of the popular products ➢ Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has ➢ Under the new system, taxpayers have like flower pots, pencils, chakkar and sparklers, approved a four-fold hike in assistance to the next received notices on their registered emails as well developed by CSIR, at a press conference in New of kin for all categories of battle casualties from as on registered accounts on the web portal Delhi Rs 2 lakh to Rs 8 lakh. , with ➢ Dr. Rakesh Kumar, Director, said CSIR has ➢ The amount will be granted under the Army real-time by way of SMS on their registered developed new formulations for reduced emission Battle Casualties Welfare Fund (ABCWF). mobile number, specifying the issues for which light and sound emitting crackers with a 30 per ➢ "Earlier, there was a provision of financial their cases have been selected for scrutiny. cent reduction in particulate matter using assistance of Rs 2 lakh to the battle casualties Vice President attended the 39th World Potassium Nitrate as an oxidant. which are fatal, 60 per cent and above disability, Congress of Poets Squadron Leader Ravi Khanna added to battle casualties invalided out due to disability ➢ Vice President inaugurated the valedictory National War MemorialFILPHOTO and Rs 1 lakh to disability less than 60 per cent. ceremony of 39th World Congress of Poets at ➢ The name of Squadron Leader Ravi Khanna, ➢ It was in addition to liberalised family pension, Kalinga Institute of Industrial who was killed by JKLF terrorists in 1990, has financial assistance from Army Group Insurance, Technology (KIIT) University, , been added to the National War Memorial after Army Welfare Fund and ex-gratia amount. The Odisha. it was approved by the Indian Air Force.

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ABCWF was instituted in July 2017 and was Samaritan for taking the accident victims to a Speaker of Sierra Leone Parliament Chernor implemented with effect from April 2016. hospital. Bundu as well as country's Foreign Minister 63rd Dhammachakra Pravartan Din was First Rafale jet to be received by Defence Nabeela Farida Tunia. celebrated in NagpurIR PIC Minister Rajnath Singh in French port city of Second Informal Summit between PM Modi, ➢ In Maharashtra, 63rd Dhammachakra BordeauxFILE PHOTO Chinese Prez Xi Jinping to be held in Pravartan Din will be celebrated at TamilnaduFILE Deekshabhoomi in . ➢ Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will meet ➢ Mamallapuram in Tamil Nadu is getting ➢ Buddhist followers from the different parts of French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris decked up for the second informal meeting the country and abroad are reaching at the venue and receive the first of the 36 Rafale aircraft in between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and to pay homage to the Architect of Indian the French port city of Bordeaux. China’s President Xi Jinping. Constitution Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar at ➢ His visit to France is aimed at expanding the ➢ After the success of first informal meeting Deekshabhoomi. existing strategic partnership between both the between the two leaders in Wuhan in April Army's biggest mountain combat exercise countries. 2018, this meet has raised the expectations of 'Him Vijay' begins in Arunachal Pradesh ➢ India had ordered 36 Rafale fighter jets exploring new possibilities. ➢ The Indian Army’s biggest ever mountain from France in a deal worth 59,000 crore ➢ The old seaport town of Mahabalipuram, combat exercise in Arunachal Pradesh ahead of rupees in September 2016. While the formal now known as Mamallapuram, is a UNESCO China President Xi Jinping’s visit to India this handover ceremony takes place this week, the World Heritage site and the meeting between month is reported to have irked Beijing, which first batch of four Rafale jets will fly to their home the two leaders can open the doors for exploring considers large parts of Arunachal Pradesh as part base in India by May 2020. All 36 jets are the historical and cultural connection between of South Tibet. expected to arrive in India by September 2022. Mamallapuram and China. ➢ ‘Him Vijay’ is the first ever such drill that the India International Cooperative Trade Fair military is holding in the northeastern state. to be held in New Delhi. Pradhan Mantri Innovation Learning Three battle groups, each comprising 4,000 Programme ‘DHRUV’ starts at ISRO in soldiers, are participating in the exercise at a ➢ A three-day India International Bengaluru@ height of 14,000 feet – 100 kms away from the Cooperative Trade Fair will be held in New Line of Actual Control (LAC). Delhi. ➢ The ambitious Pradhan Mantri Innovation ➢ The key focus of the exercise is to test ➢ The first-ever such fair is aimed at promoting Learning Programme DHRUV will kick start at mobility, communication and coordination of fast- cooperative to cooperative trade within India and ISRO in Bengaluru and conclude on 24th of this moving troops in difficult terrain. abroad leading to enhanced rural and farm month at IIT, Delhi. HRD minister lays foundation stone for IIM prosperity. ➢ Sixty brightest and talented students from campus in @ ➢ Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar Science, Mathematics and Performing Arts have ➢ Union Human Resource Development Minister representatives from over 150 cooperative been chosen for the programme. Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank laid the foundation societies and 35 countries including, Australia, ➢ It aims to further sharpen innovative stone of the campus of the Indian Institute of Japan, China, Brazil, US, UK, Germany and Iran imagination, skills and knowledge of the students Management in Amritsar's Manawala. are going to participate in the fair. who are expected to contribute to bringing ➢ He said the allocation of 350 crore rupees ➢ The event will offer a huge opportunity for the solutions to socio-economic, political and has been sanctioned for the first phase of the industry and business houses from India and environmental issues in the country. construction while an additional amount of 250 abroad to build an alliance, business networking, MP Tourism Board to organize City Walk crore rupees would be allocated for the project. product sourcing and interact with primary Festival in 11 cities ➢ The IIM campus would come up on 60,000 sq producers of a wide range of products and service rism.mp.gov.in metres and have state-of-the-art facilities in the providers. ➢ In a unique way to promote tourism, Madhya library, academic block and hostels, said ➢ This will be India's first and the largest Pradesh Tourism Board will organize a month Pokhriyal. international cooperatives trade fair long City Walk Festival in 11 cities from October IAF celebrates its 87th anniversary on promising to usher in a new era of cooperative 12 to till November 10. Local, national and October 8 excellence. international tourists of all age groups will ➢ The Indian Air Force, IAF, is celebrating its participate in the festival. 87th anniversary. The IAF was founded on Thailand FM arrives in New Delhi to boost ➢ In this festival, the tourists will be acquainted October 8, 1932. bilateral relations. with the rich heritage, natural beauty, glorious ➢ A grand function was held at the Air Force ➢ Thailand Foreign Minister, Don Pramudwinai history, traditions and ancient heritage of the Station Hindan near to celebrate the arrived in New Delhi on a three-day visit to India Madhya Pradesh. The event will also provide day. A scintillating air display by various aircraft with an aim to boost bilateral relations. employment opportunities to local people. was the hallmark of the Air Force Day Parade- ➢ Mr. Pramudwinai will hold a meeting with ➢ The City Walk Festival will be organized in cum-Investiture Ceremony. External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar. Bhopal, Indore, Ujjain, Gwalior, Panna, Vidisha, ➢ The display commenced with flag bearing ➢ The visiting dignitary is also scheduled to Khajuraho, Chanderi, Jabalpur, Burhanpur skydivers of the famous AKASH GANGA Team attend the 8th Joint Commission Meeting and Orchha. dropping out of an AN-32 aircraft in their colourful between India and Thailand. Several Garbage Cafe' in Chhattisgarh's Ambikapur canopies. agreements are also likely to be signed following to provide free meal in exchange of plastic ➢ The Chiefs of the three Services visited the the Meeting. wasteAIR National War Memorial in New Delhi on the Indian PIC Force Day .Air Chief Marshal, R K S Bhadauria, V Prez visits Comoros & Sierra Leone will ➢ The first-of-its-kind 'Garbage Cafe' Army Chief Bipin Rawat and Chief of Naval Staff, hold a detailed bilateral meeting with commenced in Ambikapur city of Admiral Karambir Singh paid tributes at the country's President Azali Assoumani. Chhattisgarh. The café is being run by the memorial. FILPIC Ambikapur municipal corporation. Delhi CM launches Farishte Dilli Ke initiative ➢ Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu will ➢ In this unique Cafe', poor people and rag for citizens who take accident victims to embark on a five-day visit to Comoros and pickers will get free food in exchange for one hospitals. Sierra Leone .It will be the first high-level visit kilogram of plastic, while breakfast will be ➢ Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal from India to the two African countries. provided if half a kilogram of plastic is brought to launched Farishte Dilli Ke’, a new initiative ➢ Mr. Naidu will reach in Moroni, the capital of the cafe. aimed at felicitating citizens who take Comoros and will hold a detailed bilateral meeting ➢ The cafe inaugurated by Health Minister of accident victims to hospitals. with country's President Azali Assoumani. Chhattisgarh T. S. Singh Deo said that this is a ➢ The government will bear all the expenses ➢ A number of MoUs and agreements are very unique and innovative step towards related to a road accident. At the launch of the expected to be signed during the visit. New Delhi cleanliness to mark the 150th birth anniversary initiative, Kejriwal said more than 3,000 lives has extended concessional lines of credit of 41.6 of Mahatma Gandhi. have been saved during the trial run of this million US Dollars for setting up an 18 MW project in the past one and a half years. power plant in Moroni. Leh: SC judge inaugurates first govt ➢ Farishte Dilli Ke’ scheme was launched in ➢ The bilateral trade is modest and reached operated day care for senior Citizens February 2017, by the state government as a 47.11 million US Dollars in 2018-19. ➢ Supreme Court Judge, Justice S. Abdul pilot project. ➢ On the second leg of his visit, Mr. Naidu will Nazeer, inaugurated the first government- ➢ Under the scheme, the government provides arrive in Free Town, Sierra Leone; he will have sponsored and operated Day Care-cum- a reward of Rs 2,000 and a certificate to a good a detailed bilateral meeting with country's Recreation Centre for senior citizens in Leh President Julius Maada Wonie Bio and will meet

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Hyderabad, Indore, Mumbai, Pune, Shillong and ➢ It will be one-stop-shop for entertainment, ➢ The ministry of Women and Child Trivandrum. medical services and legal aid for the aged people Development (WCD) in association with the Bill ➢ The new institutes will be set up for advanced of the region. & Melinda Gates Foundation and Deendayal skill training of candidates in media and PM Modi pays tribute to on Research Institute is developing a POSHAN atlas entertainment sector and to further develop his birth anniversary under POSHAN abhiyan, government's multi- skilling eco-system for training candidates for the ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi has paid tribute ministerial convergence mission with the vision to international market. to veteran social worker and RSS leader Nanaji ensure attainment of malnutrition free India by Air India becomes first airline in world to Deshmukh on his birth anniversary. 2022. use Taxibot on A-320 aircraftScreen Grab ➢ Mr Modi said, Nanaji dedicated his entire life Prez Kovind, PM Modi extend ceremonial ➢ Air India has become the first airline in the for the welfare of farmers and rural masses, his welcome to Netherlands King Willem- world to use a Taxibot on an A-320 aircraft with contributions to the nation-building will always Alexander, Queen Maxima passengers on board. inspire the people. ➢ Taxibot is a robot-used aircraft tractor for ➢ Mr Modi also paid tribute to Lok Nayak Jai ➢ President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime taxiing an aircraft from parking bay to runway Prakash Narayan on his birth anniversary. Minister Narendra Modi extended a ceremonial and vice-versa. Air India Chairman and Managing Piyush Goyal to attend 9th RCEP welcome to the King of Netherlands Willem- Director Ashwani Lohani flagged off flight Intersessional Ministerial Meeting in Alexander and Queen Maxima. AI665 and it was carried to runway using Taxibot ThailandPic Tweeted By @AIR ➢ Their five-day state visit to India will focus on at Terminal 3 of the Delhi Airport - to Mumbai. ➢ Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal will attend areas such as water technology and maritime It is a pilot-controlled semi-robotic towbar-less the 9th Regional Comprehensive Economic development, healthcare, sustainable agriculture, aircraft tractor used as alternate taxiing Partnership, RCEP Intersessional Ministerial social initiatives and cultural heritage and to equipment. meeting beginning at Bangkok in Thailand. further build on the strong Indo-Dutch strategic ➢ Mr Lohani said it is the first such usage on any ➢ This will be the last Ministerial before the 3rd partnership. Airbus aircraft worldwide.Taxibots will be used for Leaders Summit to be held on 4th of next month ➢ They also met External Affairs Minister S departing flights only. in Bangkok. Jaishankar. Earlier, King Willem-Alexander and MoS External Affairs V Muraleedharan on a ➢ During the two day meeting, Mr Goyal will also Queen Maxima paid homage at the Samadhi of 2-day official visit to UAER hold a series of bilateral meetings with his Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat. ➢ Minister of State for External Affairs V counterparts from Japan, Singapore, China, Muraleedharan will be on a two day official visit Australia and New Zealand during the Bangkok India to have first-ever Olympic Hospitality to UAE. Ministerial. House during Tokyo Game ➢ Besides the bilateral meeting, the Minister is First National Science writers expected to participate in the ministerial level conference begins in LucknowPic t ➢ India will have its first-ever Olympic meeting of the Abu Dhabi Dialogue (ADD) The Hospitality House in Tokyo during the Summer Minister is also scheduled to participate in the ➢ In Uttar Pradesh, the first 2-day long Games next year. Indian Community function being held in National Hindi Science writers conference will ➢ The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and Sharjah. start in Lucknow with an aim to release science JSW Group announced a partnership to build the ➢ The Abu Dhabi Dialogue (ADD) was writing from the clutches of English and to facility. established in 2008 as a forum for dialogue and promote use of Hindi and other Vernacular ➢ Many of the Olympic participating countries cooperation between Asian countries of labour languages. have their own hospitality houses during the origin and destination. ➢ More than one thousand science writers from Games but this will be the first time India will be India Ministerial Dialogue held at Third India across the country are expected to take part in having one to showcase its culture and heritage. Energy Forum by CERAWeek; India will lead this conference which is aimed to bring all Hindi ➢ The official India House logo was unveiled by global energy transition, and vernacular language science writers at one Sports Minister Kiren Rijiu in the presence of ➢ India Ministerial Dialogue was held at platform and to promote Hindi in the field of IOA President Narinder Batra and Secretary third India Energy Forum by CERAWeek here in science writing. General Rajeev Mehta. which Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of ➢ A dedicated President Kovind to embark on week-long Petroleum and Natural Gas and Steel, Shri website WWW.VIGYANLEKHAN.COM has been visit to Philippines, Japan@ Piyush Goyal, Minister of Railways and prepared for this event. Commerce & Industry, Shri Pralhad Joshi, Biplab Kumar Deb inaugurates ‘AngiKaar’ ➢ President Ram Nath Kovind will embark on Minister of Coal, Mines and Parliamentary campaign@ a week-long visit to the Philippines and Affairs, and Shri R.K. Singh, Minister of State ➢ In Tripura, Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb Japan.Mr Kovind will attend the Enthronement (I/C) of Power and New & Renewable inaugurated the ‘AngiKaar’ campaign for the Ceremony of the Emperor of Japan, His Majesty Energy state in a formal function held at the city’s town Naruhito. ➢ He said “Hon’ble Prime Minister has given us hall, ➢ The President is visiting the Philippines at the a target to transform the Indian economy to a 5 ➢ He said, with the state’s target of making 26 invitation of his Philippines counterpart Rodrigo trillion dollar in the next five years. We are lakh Ayushman Bharat cards by March 2020, Roa Duterte. making concerted efforts and taking all necessary at least 71 percent of Tripura’s population will be ➢ The state visit is taking place on the occasion steps to make this a reality. Energy sector will be benefited under the health scheme. of 70 years of establishment of diplomatic fuelling India’s journey towards this stated goal ➢ The objective of the ‘AngiKaar’ campaign is relations between the two countries. of a 5 trillion dollar economy. to bring the beneficiaries of Pradhan Mantri ➢ On the second leg of the tour, Mr Kovind will Railways to be 'net zero' carbon emitter by Awas Yojana Urban (PMAY-U) under one fold visit Japan on the 21st of this month. Along with 2030, says Piyush Goyal of other central government implemented participating in a community event, the President ➢ Railway minister Piyush Goyal said that the scheme. will visit a Buddhist temple and plant a sapling is going to become a net zero- Kiren Rijiju addresses India Sports Summit from the sacred Bodhi Tree in Gaya to highlight carbon emitter by 2030, given that the current in New Delhi; stresses on need for building India and Japan's historical and cultural action plan has proposed 100% electrification a sports culture@ linkages based on Buddhism. of the rail network, besides introducing renewable ➢ Union Minister for Sports Kiren Rijiju has said ➢ The visit to the two countries reaffirms India’s strategies. He added that the electrification in that if every Indian starts paying attention to commitment to strengthen its bilateral ties based 2017-18 has increased seven times. sports, every sport will become an industry. on traditional bonds of friendship and mutual ➢ The minister also said that the railways would Addressing India Sports Summit in New Delhi. understanding. procure around 100,000 additional wagons over ➢ Mr Rijiju stressed on the need for building a the next five years, of which half of the wagon sports culture, creating opportunities for the Union Minister Mahendra Nath Pandey requirement will be by Coal India Limited. youth, partnerships between Ministries and unveils plans to set up 14 Authorized World corporates to leverage the potential of 10 billion Skills India Training Centres. Government imposes ban on tricolour dollar fitness industry. ➢ Union Skill Development and import POSHAN atlas to map local crops, food Entrepreneurship Minister Mahendra Nath Pandey ➢ The government has banned the import of grains for tackling malnutrition unveiled plans to set up 14 Authorized World National Flag from across the border by ➢ In a bid to tackle malnutrition, government is Skills India Training Centres across 9 cities for amending the import policy. The move by the developing an Atlas to map the crops and food media and entertainment sector. Ministry of Commerce and Industry Government grains grown in different regions of the country aimed to support khadi artisans. Ban on import of

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National Flag is because the importers are opportunities for the youth and the recent policy that nuclear energy is what we can claim to be violating import policy norms by importing decisions will further boost its growth. totally indigenous. machine-made flags. ➢ Mr Modi said, the government is also planning ➢ The Theme of the Conclave is “Economics of ➢ According to the specifications under Part 1, to pump in over 100 lakh crore rupees in Nuclear Power- Innovation towards Safer & Section 1.2 of Flag Code of India, 2002, the infrastructure projects. Prime Minister said, the Cost Effective Technologies National Flag of India must be made of hand-spun nature of employment is changing and skill Satya Pal Malik inaugurates J&K Bazar for and handwoven wool, cotton, silk khadi bunting. upgradation is the key. promoting J&K specific products @ ➢ The ban on the import of the National Flag will G Kishan Reddy inaugurates 20th All India ➢ Satya Pal Malik has inaugurated J&K Bazar, help Khadi and Village Industries Conference of Directors of Fingerprint a retail showroom of authentic Jammu Kashmir Commission (KVIC). KVIC reported that the Bureaus being organised by NCRB Handicrafts, Handlooms, Silk, Agro-based sale of the National Flag was going down. The ➢ The Minister of State for Home, Shri G. products and Restaurant serving Authentic Khadi had sold National Flags for Rs.3.69 crore Kishan Reddy inaugurated the 20th All India Kashmiri Cuisine at J&K House in New Delhi. in the year 2017-18. This has registered a Conference of Directors of Fingerprint ➢ The newly constructed state-of-the-art decline of more than 14% to Rs.3.16 crore in Bureaus, being organised by NCRB, (National showroom is for promoting J&K specific products 2018-19. Crime Records Bureau). of handicrafts and authentic cuisine. The Shirui Lily Festival inaugurated in Manipur ➢ The conference was attended among others project has been completed over a short period of ➢ Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) by Director, NCRB, Shri Ram Phal Pawar, Joint time. for Tourism and Culture Prahlad Singh Patel Secretary (Women Safety) MHA Smt. Punya Salila DNA Technology Regulation Bill referred to inaugurated Shirui Lily Festival, 2019 at Shirui Srivastava and senior police officers from central parliamentary standing committee Vangayan Ground of Ukhrul in Manipur. police organisations/ States/UTs. ➢ The DNA Technology Regulation Bill that ➢ Mr Patel along with State Chief Minister N. ➢ Around 80 Fingerprint experts/delegates from seeks to control the use of DNA technology for Biren Singh inaugurated the Strength of Unity across the country attended the inaugural establishing the identity of a person, has been Statue as a mark of opening the third edition of function. The importance of fingerprints in crime referred to a Parliamentary Standing Committee the four-day state festival. investigation in the efforts of NCRB in rolling out for examination. Textiles Secretary Inaugurates IHGF-Delhi the National Automated Fingerprint ➢ The bill has been referred to the Standing Fair at Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh. Identification System (NAFIS). Committee on Science and Technology, Environment and Forests by Rajya Sabha ➢ Delhi Textiles Secretary, Ravi Capoor, Interpol to hold general assembly in India in Chairman M Venkiah Naidu. inaugurated the 48th edition of the Indian 2022Tweeted by AIR ➢ The bill that seeks to control the use and Handicrafts and Gifts Fair (IHGF) at the India ➢ India will host the 91st Interpol General application of the DNA technology for establishing Expo Centre & Mart at Greater Noida, Uttar Assembly in 2022 after a proposal received the the identity of certain categories of persons, Pradesh. overwhelming support of member countries at including offenders, victims, suspects and under- ➢ He further said that with the skills of Indian this year's congregation at Santinago in Chile. trials, was passed by the Lok Sabha in July this artisans and the crafts heritage of India the ➢ A proposal in this regard was given to Interpol year. The bill provides for the establishment of handicrafts industry has the potential to achieve Secretary General Jurgen Stock by Union DNA data banks at the national and regional greater growth for not only the sector but for the Home Minister Amit Shah when the two met in levels. artisans and the exporters and increase the New Delhi during Mr Stock's official visit. Amit Shah paid tribute to martyred police handicrafts exports of India to Rs. 100,000 crore ➢ The 91st Interpol General Assembly in India personnel on Police Commemoration Day from the exiting Rs. 26,590 crore. in the year 2022 will be held as part of ➢ Home Minister Amit Shah said the country is 5th edition of World Coffee Conference celebrations of the 75th anniversary of Indian moving ahead on the path of progress as police comes to India for the first time Independence. personnel are doing their duty with responsibility. ➢ International Coffee Organization (ICO) ➢ Rishi Kumar Shukla, the director of the CBI ➢ He said, be it border security, fighting against under the aegis of United Nations is organizing its represents Interpol in India as the country's terrorism and Naxalism, the police have a pivotal 5th Edition of World Coffee Conference to be national central bureau, moved the proposal in role in maintaining peace and law and order in the held at Bengaluru from September 7th to the ongoing 88th general assembly in Santiago country, after paying tribute to martyred police 9th 2020. The Ministry of Commerce & Industry, following which it was put to vote. personnel, on the occasion of Police Government of India will host the 3-day event ➢ Interpol in Lyon, France, is an international Commemoration Day at National Police Memorial. themed, ‘Sustainability Through police cooperation organisation with 194 ➢ The Police Commemoration Day is observed Consumption’ that will celebrate all things of member states and 100 years of experience of on this day every year in memory of the coffee in an immersive experience. international cooperation in policing. policemen martyred at Hot Springs in Ladakh by ➢ WCC 2020 will address the challenges that Rajnath Singh allows girls admission in Chinese troops on 21st October, 1959. farmers across the world are battling with such as Sainik Schools AYUSH Minister inaugurated Ayurveda climate change, increasing cost of production and ➢ Defence Ministry allows admitting of girl Palliative Care Unit at base Hospital falling prices and will focus on economic, students in Sainik School Chhingchhip in ➢ Minister of State (Independent Charge) for agriculture, commercial, environmental, social & Mizoram. AYUSH and Defence Shripad Yesso Naik cultural impact of Coffee. ➢ "The decision is in line with the objective of inaugurated Ayurveda Palliative Care Unit at Five-day youth festival ‘Sangam 2019’ the government towards greater inclusiveness, Palliative Care Centre, base Hospital, Delhi Cantt, concluded in Jammu gender equality, enabling greater participation of New Delhi. ➢ The 5-day Youth Festival ‘SANGAM 2019’ women in Armed Forces and strengthening the ➢ On this occasion, a Memorandum of organized by Jammu University concluded with motto of ''Beti Bachao Beti Padhao'', Understanding (MoU) was also signed between the multi-dimensional cultural bonanza and propagated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi," Ministry of AYUSH and Ministry of Defence distribution of prizes among the winners and said a defence ministry statement. for the Integration of AYUSH under the health participants on the final day of the mega event, ➢ There are 33 Sainik Schools across the establishments of Directorate General of Armed here. country. Sainik School had opened admission to Forces Medical Services (DGAFMS). ➢ The SANGAM 2019, with the tag line of ‘Let’s girl students in 2017, with the induction of six Dr Harsh Vardhan shares PM Modi's vision Build Our Nation’ was organized by Bhadarwah girls, in accordance with the pilot project for inclusive health at G20 Okayama Health Campus in collaboration with Rastryia Rifles undertaken by the Central government. Ministers' Conference based at Bhadarwah, to promote everlasting Dr Jitendra Singh inaugurates 11th Nuclear ➢ India has highlighted Prime Minister peace and prosperity in the Chenab Valley and to Energy Conclave Narendra Modi's vision of 'Sab Ka Saath - Sab also give youth a platform and exposure to ➢ The Union Minister of State for Development Ka Vikas - Sab Ka Vishwas' for inclusive health showcase their skills in different fields. of North Eastern Region (I/C), MoS PMO, along with scheme -- Ayushman Bharat, at the India on course to be 5 trillion economy by Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic on-going two-day G20 Okayama Health 2024: PM Modi Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh at the Ministers' Conference in Japan. ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asserted inauguration of 11th Nuclear Energy ➢ Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Harsh that his government is on course to make India Conclave, said that we have been able to fulfil Vardhan, who represented India at the a five-trillion dollar economy in the next five the vision of Homi Bhabha. The Government has conference in Okayama City, also highlighted Mr years despite apprehensions being expressed by diversified the applications of nuclear energy in Modi's vision of FIT India Movement and Eat experts and the opposition. various social fields. Right campaigns. ➢ It is the government's resolve to make India ➢ The Chairman, Nuclear Energy Group, India ➢ The deliberations of the G20 Health Ministers a 5 trillion dollar economy by 2024. Prime Energy Forum and Chancellor Homi Bhabha focused on four major global health issues like Minister said, Indian economy is full of National Institute, Dr. Srikumar Banerjee said the achievement of Universal Health Coverage,

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This service will health risks and health security management sign the Agreement on Kartarpur Sahib operate on the newly Gauge converted Jaipur - including Anti-Microbial Resistance and its Corridor but termed Pakistan's continuous Ringus section. containment. insistence on levying a service fee of USD 20 per Govt. to set up 1 lakh digital villages in next ➢ Dr Vardhan said that New Delhi is on the path pilgrim per visit to the Gurudwara Kartarpur few years: Prasady @ to Universal Health Coverage and will contribute Sahib as a matter of disappointment. ➢ Union Minister of Electronics and Information effectively in sustaining UHC at the global level. ➢ It also said that in view of the long-pending Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad said that the ➢ On Response to population ageing, Dr. demand of the pilgrims to have visa-free access government will set up one lakh digital villages Vardhan, during his intervention, shared India’s to Gurudwara Kartarpur Sahib and in the interest in the country in the next few years at the MeitY vision for its projected 20 per cent elderly of operationalization of the corridor in time before Start-Up Summit 2019 in New Delhi, Mr population by 2050. the 550th Birth Anniversary of Guru Nanak. Prasad appealed to the concerned stakeholders to Smriti Irani visits Amethi, participates in ➢ Pakistan has been once again urged to patronize and mentor these digital villages in their 'Gandhi Sankalp Padyatray reconsider its insistence to levy service fee on own way. He said these villages will be the ➢ Union Minister for Textiles and Women & pilgrims. It said India will be ready to amend the centres for promoting entrepreneurship. Child Development Smriti Jubin Irani took Agreement accordingly at any time. ➢ The Minister also stressed on the need for part in various programmes including ‘Gandhi Govt employees of Jammu and Kashmir, digital mapping of all enterprise and Sankalp Padyatra' in Amethi, Uttar Pradesh. Ladakh to get salaries as per 7th Pay entrepreneurship happening in the far corner of ➢ Ms Irani participated in programmes on Commission the country. cleanliness, plantation and maintaining a healthy ➢ The Central Government has approved the ➢ Mr Prasad also launched MeitY Starting Hub- environment. Benefits of government's welfare proposal of payment of Seventh Central Pay MSH and BHIM 2.0 and Indian Software Product schemes including Ayushmaan Bharat, Commission allowances to the government Registry. Swachh Bharat Mission, Kisaan Samman employees of Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh. Yojana are reaching to the people. ➢ The two new Union Territories will come into 8,000-Year-Old, World's Oldest Pearl Will Be ➢ The Union Minister also planted a sapling at existence from 31st of this month. Parliament, on Displayed In An Exhibition In Abu Dhabi Jagdishpur and led a sanitation campaign at 5th of August this year, approved a resolution ➢ The world’s oldest pearl has been found by railway station Nihalgarh on Lucknow - abrogating special status to Jammu & Kashmir archaeologists, who say that it is the world’s Varanasi route. under Article 370 of the Constitution and a bill for oldest which is 8,000-years-old. It will be Rajnath Singh to inaugurate Col. Chewang splitting the state into two Union Territories. displayed in Abu Dhabi, according to the Rinchen Setu in Ladakh ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the authorities. The authorities also said that the ➢ Defence Minister Rajnath Singh left for nation on 8th of August this year and announced oldest pearl is the proof that “the objects were Ladakh .He will attend the inaugural ceremony that all the financial facilities being given to the traded since Neolithic times”. of Col. Chewang Rinchen Setu which has been employees of other Union Territories as per the ➢ During excavations, the natural pearl was constructed at an altitude of 14,650 feet in the recommendations of 7th CPC, will soon be found in the floor of a room at Marawah Island, forward area of Ladakh region. This bridge has extended to the employees of UT of Jammu and which is off the capital of the United Arab been built by the Border Roads Organisation Kashmir and UT of Ladakh. The move will benefit Emirates, which is also the earliest structure in (BRO). 4.5 Lakh Government employees who are the country. "The layers from which the pearl ➢ This Bridge is built on the strategically working in Jammu & Kashmir. came have been carbon dated to 5800-5600 important road Durbuk Shyok Daulat Beg Oldie Heads of 91 Foreign Missions visit Golden BC, during the Neolithic period," in sub sector north in eastern Ladakh. Temple@ Indian Railways instal most advanced ➢ The Bridge , which is 1400 feet span, is ➢ The delegation of the Heads of 91 Foreign Electronic Interlocking System on Grand constructed by the Border Road Organization. Missions in India reached at Amritsar to pay Chord route ➢ Chewang Rinchan who was one of the highly obeisance at Shri Har Mandir Sahib in connection ➢ Indian Railways has installed the most decorated officer in the Indian Army from Ladakh to celebrations of 550th Prakash Purab of Shri advanced Electronic Interlocking System on and he was awarded the Maha Vir Chakara twice. Guru Nanak Dev Ji. the Grand Chord route. The measure is PM Modi congratulates Indonesia's Prez on ➢ They were welcomed at Shri Guru Ram Das expected to help Indian Railways speed up trains commencement of his 2nd term in office Airport, Rajasansi by Punjab Cabinet Minister and achieve the objective of reducing the travel E PIC Sukhbinder Singh Sarkaria. time between Delhi and to about 12 hours ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ➢ The visit has been organized by the Indian from the existing 17 to 19 hours. congratulated Indonesia's President Joko Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) in ➢ Grand Chord is part of the Howrah-Gaya- Widodo on the commencement of his second collaboration with the State Government of Delhi line and Howrah--Mumbai line. It term in office. Punjab and the Shiromani Gurudwara acts as a link between in ➢ Mr Modi said he is confident that under Joko Parbandhak Committee. Union Minister Hardeep and Pt. Deen Dayal Upadhyay Junction, Uttar Widodo's dynamic leadership, India-Indonesia Singh Puri and ICCR President Dr. Vinay Pradesh, and covers a stretch of 450 kilometres friendship and comprehensive strategic Sahasrabuddhe are accompanying the Heads of falling in North . partnership will deepen further. Missions. ➢ The new Electronic system has replaced Govt Attempt to Build the World's Biggest PV Sindhu, Deepika Padukone support PM outdated 65-year old mechanical signalling Facial Recognition System Sparks Privacy Modi's 'Bharat Ki Laxmi' movement system at Tundla Junction in Uttar Pradesh on Fears ➢ During the 'Mann Ki Baat' Programme Prime the route. ➢ In an ambitious plan to curb soaring crime Minister Narendra Modi had urged people to IAF fires two BrahMos missiles at Trak rates, the government is in the works of building highlight the achievements of daughters by using Island in Andaman Nicobar the world’s largest facial recognition system – a #BharatKiLaxmi on social media. He had said ➢ Two BrahMos surface to surface missiles centralized database – accessible to police across daughters are regarded as Laxmi in Indian culture were fired by Indian Air Force at Trak Island in all states of the country that would match images and asked people to organize programmes to the Andaman Nicobar group of islands. The from the network of CCTV cameras against a felicitate daughters in villages, towns and cities. twin firings have been carried out as a part of the database encompassing criminal records. ➢ India's badminton star PV Sindhu has routine operational training. ➢ Authorities in many states, including Andhra supported Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharat ➢ Indian Air Force said, the missile engaged the Pradesh and Punjab, had adopted the facial Ki Laxmi movement. Ms Sindhu and Actress designated mock targets close to 300 recognition technology in 2018 to fight crime. Deepika Padukone through a video appealed Kilometres away. A direct hit on the target was ➢ This new facial recognition pattern will play a people to honour daughters who have made a achieved in both cases. “very vital role in improving outcomes” of solving mark with their achievements in various fields for ➢ The firing of the missiles has enhanced Air crime cases and help in “detect crime the public good. force capability to engage the grounds targets patterns” while also aid in crime prevention, will with pinpoint accuracy from a mobile platform. also enable the police to initiate searches based Piyush Goyal launches Jaipur-Sikar- DEMU First India-Bangladesh Stakeholders' meet on photos uploaded from newspapers, images in Passenger Service emphasises on better trade and connectivity the public domain and even give access to artist ➢ Minister of Railways and Commerce & ➢ Bangladesh Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi sketches of suspects. Industry, Piyush Goyal inaugurated 79603/04 has said that Bangladesh and North East India ➢ It would recognize faces on closed-circuit Jaipur-Sikar-JaipurDEMU (6 days a week) could benefit from improved physical connectivity cameras and "generate alerts if a blacklist match Service between Jaipur and Sikar through Video- and people-to-people contact. Participating in the is found," conferencing today. India-Bangladesh stakeholders' meeting in India to sign Agreement on Kartarpur Asks ➢ Member of Parliament from Sikar Shri Guwahati, Mr Munshi said better connectivity Pak to consider waiving fee on pilgrims: PTI SumedhanandaSaraswati participated in the would enhance consumers' welfare through

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Principles in 2020 and the 60th anniversary of ➢ After landing in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia the establishment of the Movement in 2021. meet Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud, Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers’ ➢ The Summit will focus on a whole gamut of Energy Minister, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Welfare Shri Narendra Singh Tomar contemporary issues such as Terrorism, threats Saud, the new Foreign Affairs Minister of Saudi inaugurated the Fertilizer Application to peace and security, UN reform, climate change, Arabia. Awareness Program at Pusa in New Delhi. sustainable development, economic governance ➢ Prime minister will hold bilateral discussions and south-south cooperation. with King Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud. In ➢ In order to disseminate knowledge to farmers ➢ India is one of the founding members of the his departure statement, Prime Minister Narendra on optimum usage of fertilizer nutrients based on Non-Aligned Movement which was established in Modi had said that defence, security, trade, various parameters to sustain agricultural 1961 with 29 members. It has since grown to 120 culture, education and people-to-people contacts productivity and to make farmers aware of new members to become one of the largest are the important areas of bilateral cooperation developments in the field of fertilizer usage and groupings of nation-states. with Saudi Arabia. management, the Union Minister for Agriculture Indian Army to conduct 2019 “Sindhu ➢ The Future Investment Initiative and Farmers’ Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar Sudarshan” exercise 2019 in Rajasthan (FII)Forum also called the Davos of the along with Union Minister for Chemical and deserts Desert, hopes to attract potential investors to Fertilizers D. V. SadanandaGowda jointly ➢ The Indian Army (IA) is to conduct exercise India. At least 12 Agreements are likely to be inaugurated the bi-annual Fertilizer Application codenamed “Sindhu Sudarshan” for the year signed during the visit covering areas like civil Awareness Program at Pusa in New Delhi. 2019 in the deserts of Rajasthan from aviation, security-related matters, defence, ➢ The event is organised jointly by both the November 29 to December 4, 2019. infrastructure & non-renewable energy sector. Ministries before Kharif and Rabi season each ➢ The aim of this exercise is to evaluate the ➢ Prime Minister will also launch the RuPay year with the help of State Governments. capability of the defence services in an integrated Card during this visit. The Rupay card is expected air-land battle. to benefit not only the large Indian community Vice President’s visits Azerbaijan to President Kovind to visit Rajgir for Golden but also Hajj and Umrah pilgrims. Saudi Arabia participate in the 18th NAM Summit Jubilee celebration of Vishwa Shanti Stupa@ is the third country in the West Asia where ➢ President Ram Nath Kovind will visit Rajgir RuPay will be launched. ➢ Vice President Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu will in Bihar to inaugurate day long golden jubilee India-France joint Army exercise to begin lead the Indian delegation at the 18th Summit celebrations of Vishwa Shanti Stupa (World from Oct 31Pic tweeted by of Heads of State and Government of the Non- Peace Pagoda) in Rajgir. ➢ The bilateral 'Exercise SHAKTI' between the Aligned Movement (NAM) to be held in Baku, ➢ More than 300 Buddhist monks, devotees and armies of India and France will be conducted Azerbaijan on 25-26 October, 2019. eminent personalities from Japan, Thailand, from 31st October to 13th November 2019 at ➢ The theme for the Summit is "Upholding Srilanka, Bhutan, Nepal, US and other countries Foreign Training Node in Mahajan Field Firing the Bandung Principles to ensure concerted have arrived to take part in the function the Ranges, Rajasthan. and adequate response to the challenges of Vishwa Shanti Stupa has completed 50 years of ➢ The joint exercise will focus on counter contemporary world”. Vice President will its establishment. terrorism operations in semi-desert terrain. deliver India’s National Statement during the ➢ Situated on Ratnagiri hillock, this iconic ➢ The exercise aims at enhancing plenary meeting of the NAM Summit. He is also structure was constructed by Japanese Buddhist understanding, cooperation and interoperability expected to hold bilateral meetings with his monk popularly known as Fujii Guruji in 1969. between the two armies. counterparts from other NAM member countries Tamil Nadu may get six new medical Lucknow school bags Guinness World on the sidelines of the Summit. colleges by 2020 Record title for having 55,547 students President Kovind lays foundation stone for ➢ The number of government medical colleges ➢ Lucknow-based school has won the Guinness Sri Sathya Sai Sanathana Samskruti Project in Tamil Nadu will soon increase from 24 to 30, World Record for becoming the 'world's largest in Japan as the Union Health Ministry has granted approval school' in terms of strength of students. ➢ President Ram Nath Kovind laid the to start six more medical colleges in the State ➢ City Montessori School (CMS) has won the foundation stone for Sri Sathya Sai Sanathana with 150 MBBS seats in each of them. global award for having 55,547 students in Samskruti Project at Sai no Sato, Kakegawa, ➢ “The Centre has given approval for the new 2019-20, as stated by CMS founder, Jagdish Japan. medical colleges under the Pradhan Mantri Gandhi. ➢ Sai no Sato will be developed as a temple on Swasthya Suraksha Yojana (PMSSY) scheme. ➢ Currently, the CMS has 18 branches the lines of Akshardham and Swaminarayan ➢ As per the scheme, six government district and approximately 56,000 students all over Temple to promote Indian traditional culture. headquarters’ hospitals, in Ramanathapuram, the city. The President also attended a banquet hosted in Virudhunagar, Nilgiris, Dindigul, Tirupur and 'Dial 112': UP Changes Police Emergency his honour by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Namakkal, will be upgraded as medical college Number 100, Integrates Additional Fire, Japan. hospitals.” Ambulance Services EAM Jaishankar meets his Iranian ➢ “While the Centre will sanction 60 per cent of ➢ The Uttar Pradesh government has changed counterpart on sidelines of NAM Ministerial the total expenditure for the facilities, the State its emergency response number 100 to 112, Meeting will contribute the remaining, 40 per cent. With integrating with it additional services such as fire, ➢ External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met the approval, the number of MBBS seats in ambulance and state disaster relief. his Iranian counterpart, Javad Zarif on the Government medical colleges is likely to go up ➢ The new integrated emergency response sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement from 3,350 to 4,250. Tamil Nadu has the hotline was launched by UP Chief Minister Yogi Ministerial Meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan. The highest number of government MBBS seats in the Adityanath two leaders discussed issues of mutual and country,”. ➢ Officials have, however, said the emergency regional interest. They earlier met on the Air India depicts 'Ik Onkar' on tail to mark response service numbers currently in place, sidelines of UN General Assembly Session in 550th birth anniversary of Sri Guru Nanak including fire (101) and ambulance (102,108), September. DevAIR will continue to work till “112” becomes popular ➢ Mr. Jaishankar also met Afghanistan's ➢ In a unique gesture to mark 550th birth enough. National Security Advisor Hamdullah Mohib, anniversary of Sri Guru Nanak Dev ji, Air India ➢ Speaking on the occasion of the launch, his Malaysian counterpart Saifuddin Abdullah has depicted Sikh religious symbol 'Ik Onkar' on Adityanath imposed his faith in technology as and Myanmar's Minister for International the tail of one of its aircraft. means of “winning the trust of the people.” He Cooperation U Kyaw Tin ➢ The flight is set to fly from Amritsar to explained that the aim for introducing a holistic M. Venkaiah Naidu to lead Indian delegation Stansted in the United Kingdom on Air India will emergency number is to reduce the response at 18th Non-Aligned Movement Summit fly its aircraft thrice a week on the Mumbai- time in providing “immediate assistance to people ➢ Vice President, M. Venkaiah Naidu will lead Amritsar-Stansted route. in emergency situations.” the Indian delegation at the 18th Summit of ➢ Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh Heads of State and Government of the Non- hailed the Air India's initiative and said that it is Pakistan to issue tourist visas to non-Indian Aligned Movement (NAM) to be held at Baku, heartwarming. Sikhs for Kartarpur visit Azerbaijan on 25th to 26th of this month.

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➢ The Pakistan government will issue tourist ➢ The important decision was taken at a Cabinet self-defence, ahead of fresh nuclear talks with the visas to non-Indian Sikhs visiting the meeting that also adopted a New Land Policy, United States. Kartarpur corridor and other gurdwaras in the which will give three bighas of agricultural land ➢ The new type of SLBM, called Pukguksong- country during the 550th birth anniversary to landless indegenous people and half a bigha 3, was "fired in vertical mode" in the waters off celebrations of Guru Nanak Dev. for constructing a house. the eastern city of Wonsan confirming an ➢ Under the Kartarpur Corridor agreement ➢ A communique from the Chief Minister assessment by South Korea's military that the between India and Pakistan, pilgrims coming from Sarbananda Sonowal's public relations cell missile was launched on a lofted trajectory. India for one day would not require visa but they stated that those having more than two children can only visit Gurudwara Baba Guru Nanak. will not be considered for government jobs with However, those coming from other countries will effect from January 1, 2021 as per the small US widens trade war with tariffs on Airbus need a visa and be free to visit other religious family norm. planes, French cheese, Scotch whisky places. AIR PICS ➢ The Pakistan government will issue tourist INTERNATIONAL NEWS ➢ The United States has said it would enact visas to (non-Indian) Sikhs coming from Europe, Brahmos supersonic cruise missile with 10% tariffs on European-made Airbus planes Canada and America for their visit to the major indigenous systems test-fired and 25% duties on French wine, Scotch, Irish Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, Kartarpur. successfully whiskies and cheese from across the continent as ➢ India and Pakistan signed the historic ➢ Brahmos supersonic cruise missile featuring punishment for illegal EU aircraft subsidies. Kartarpur corridor agreement on October 24. Indian propulsion system, airframe, power supply ➢ The announcement came after the World Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate and other major indigenous components, was Trade Organization gave Washington a green the Indian side of the corridor on 9th November. successfully test-fired. light to impose tariffs on 7.5 billion dollars Chenani Nashari Tunnel renamed after Dr ➢ "The missile was successfully test-fired at worth of EU goods annually in the long-running Syama Prasad Mookerjee 10.20 am today from Chandipur in Odisha for case, a move that could ignite a tit-for-tat ➢ Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways its full range of 290-km during the launch jointly transatlantic trade war. and MSME Shri Nitin Gadkari and Shri Jitendra conducted by DRDO and BrahMos Aerospace," ➢ The US target list for EU tariffs, set to take Singh, MoS (I/C) Development of North Eastern Palestine issues commemorative stamp to effect on Oct. 18, includes large Airbus planes Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Public Grievances & honour Gandhi on 150th birth anniversary made in France, Britain, Germany and Spain for Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space announced ➢ Palestine has released a commemorative 10% tariffs. renaming of Chenani Nashri Tunnel on NH 44 postage stamp on Mahatma Gandhi, honouring in Jammu & Kashmir as Dr Syama Prasad his legacy and values, to mark the 150 birth Curtain raiser Indo Maldives joint Ex Mookerjee Tunnel in an event in New Delhi. anniversary of the world leader. Ekuverin – 19 at Aundh Mil Stn, Pune ➢ This 9 km tunnel is the longest such state of ➢ Palestinian Authority's Minister of ➢ Tenth edition of the Joint Military Exercise art tunnel in the country, connecting Udhampur Telecommunication and Information Technology Ekuverin between the Indian Army and the to Ramban in Jammu. Constructed at a cost of Rs Ishaaq Seder released the stamp in Ramallah. Maldives National Defence Force will be 2500 crore, it cuts down 31 km of travel distance US stops imports of goods from five organised from 07 to 20 October 2019 at Aundh and reduces the travel time between the two countries for suspected forced labour Military Station in Pune, Maharashtra. points by about two hours, in addition to AIR PICS ➢ The Indian Army and the Maldives National substantial saving in fuel cost. ➢ The United States has announced that it is Defence Forces have been conducting Exercise stopping imports from five countries for Ekuverin meaning ‘Friends’ in the Dhivehi New Delhi to Host First “Global Bio-India suspected forced labour. language since 2009. The 14 days Joint Exercise 2019” Summit ➢ The US Customs and Border Protection held alternatively in India and Maldives. ➢ The Global Bio-India 2019, one of the (CBP) department said that it has ordered ➢ The focus of the exercise will be on sharing of largest biotechnology stakeholders conglomerate immediate detention of goods coming from best practices and acquainting each other with will be held for the first time in India at New Delhi. companies based in Brazil, China, Malaysia, the operating procedures being followed while ➢ The Union Minister for Science & Technology, Congo, and Zimbabwe at US ports of entry for undertaking counter insurgency and counter- Earth Sciences and Health & Family Welfare, Dr. further investigation. terrorism operations. Harsh Vardhan said“India for the first time is PM Modi, Mauritian counterpart jointly Ecuador to leave OPEC in 2020 due to fiscal hosting a mega event for the biotech community inaugurate projectsPIB problems – ministry to attract investments, showcase our indigenous ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Mauritian ➢ Ecuador will withdraw from the 14-nation strengths and more importantly fuel the hopes Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth jointly Organization of the Petroleum Exporting and aspirations of the indigenous talent pool”. inaugurated two landmark projects in Mauritius. Countries (OPEC) from January 1, 2020 Indian Army to conduct exercise ‘Sindhu These are Phase-1 of the Metro Express and a because of fiscal problems, the country’s energy Sudarshan’ in the deserts of Rajasthan new ENT Hospital. ministry said on Tuesday. ➢ Indian Army to conduct exercise codenamed ➢ Mr Modi said, both these projects will serve ➢ The Andean nation is attempting to increase as ‘Sindhu Sudarshan’ in the deserts of the people of Mauritius and they are symbols of its production of crude oil in a bid to raise more Rajasthan from 29 November to 4 December India’s strong commitment to the development of income and has on multiple occasions not 2019. More than 40,000 troops will be the Island nation. compiled with the output quota fixed by OPEC. participating in an all-arms battle array of Send All-Party Delegation Led by Manmohan ➢ The country will continue to support efforts to Divisions and Brigades carrying out offensive Singh for Kartarpur Ceremony: Singhvi Tells stabilize the world oil market, the ministry said in operations in deserts. Modi Govt a statement. ➢ The military exercise will witness Indian Army ➢ Ecuador rejoined the organization in 2007, assessing operational efficiency of Strike Corps to ➢ Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood after withdrawing in 1992. fight in desert terrain as well as Indian Air Force Qureshi said that his country has decided to Indo-Mongolian Joint Exercise Nomadic (IAF) to provide intimate support in terms of invite to attend the inaugural Elephant 2019 th destruction of targets and airlifting troops. ceremony of the Kartarpur Corridor. ➢ 14 edition of Indo – Mongolian joint military Govt plans 'Indradhanush 2.0' for ➢ The corridor will connect Darbar Sahib in training, Exercise Nomadic Elephant-XIV, being recapitalisation of public sector banks Kartarpur in Pakistan with the Dera Baba Nanak conducted over a period of 14 days, will ➢ Government plans to come out with shrine in Gurdaspur district of Punjab, and commence from 05 Oct 2019. 'Indradhanush 2.0', a comprehensive plan for facilitate visa-free movement of Indian pilgrims, ➢ The exercise will be conducted from 05 Oct 19 recapitalisation of public sector lenders, with a who will only have to obtain a permit to visit the to 18 Oct 19 at Bakloh. Nomadic Elephant-XIV is view to make sure they remain solvent and fully revered Kartarpur Sahib. aimed at training troops in counter insurgency comply with the global capital adequacy norms, ➢ Pakistan is scheduled to open the Kartarpur &counter terrorism operations under United Basel-III 'Indradhanush 2.0' will be finalised Corridor for Indian Sikh pilgrims on November 9, Nations mandate. after completion of the Asset Quality Review days ahead of the 550th birth anniversary of ➢ The Joint Exercise will enhance defence co- (AQR) by the Reserve Bank, which is likely to be first Sikh guru Baba Nanak on November 12 operation and military relations between the two completed by March-end. nations. Assam: Starting 2021, no govt jobs for those North Korea says it successfully tested new Mahatma Gandhi figures on postage stamp with more than two kids submarine-launched ballistic missile issued in France ➢ A postage stamp bearing the image of ➢ The Assam Cabinet decided that no ➢ North Korea had successfully test-fired a new Mahatma Gandhi was issued by Franch postal government jobs will be given to persons having submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) from service company La Poste to commemorate the more than two children after January 1, 2021. the sea to contain external threats and bolster 150th birth anniversary of the Mahatma. ______7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute.in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 10 |LEGEND MAGAZINE | OCTOBER - 2019|

➢ Similar postage stamps were issued in ➢ The company announced its Uber Copter offer ➢ Imran won the title in the recent list of the Uzbekistan, Turkey, Palestine and other countries saying flights to and from Lower Manhattan will most persuasive Muslims in the world issued by around the globe on Gandhi Jayanti become available to all Uber users on Oct. 7. Uber the Centre. PM Modi Met Minister for Finance of made the feature available to its premium ➢ Pakistan Prime Minister Imran has also Singapore Heng Swee Keat members in June. become the sixth most popular world leader ➢ The roughly eight-minute flight will cost on Twitter, boasting 10.5 million followers on ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed between $200 and $225 per person and include the social media platform. happiness at growing investment and trade ground transportation on either side of the trip. ➢ The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre relations between India and Singapore. Scotland becomes first UK country to ban (RISSC) is an autonomous research entity with ➢ Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for smacking the Royal Aal Al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Finance of Singapore Heng Swee Keat, who Thought in Jordan. called on him in New Delhi, Mr Modi said, the ➢ Scotland has become the first country in Singapore will ban ads for sugary drinks in launch of RuPay Card and BHIM app in the UK to make it a criminal offence for parents bid to tackle diabetes Singapore has greatly enhanced the ease of to smack their children. The ban on all physical ➢ Singapore will become the first country in financial transactions. punishment was backed overwhelmingly by 84 the world to ban advertisements for the most ➢ He also noted the successful organization of votes to 29 by the Scottish Parliament. unhealthy sugary drinks. The health ministry the second Joint Hackathon in Chennai with ➢ The move will give children in Scotland the called the ban its latest move to combat rising the participation of Singaporean students. same protection from assault as adults when it diabetes rates. ➢ The Prime Minister said, all these comes into force. Parents and carers are currently ➢ It said, products deemed "less healthy" developments symbolizes the close community, allowed to use "reasonable" physical force to must now display labels grading their nutritional business and innovation partnership between the discipline their children. and sugar content. Additionally, those considered two countries. ➢ The smacking ban bill was introduced by to be most unhealthy will be banned from ➢ Mr Modi also expressed his appreciation for Scottish Greens MSP John Finnie, a former appearing in ads across all media platforms, the participation of Singapore Prime Minister Lee police officer, who won the support of the SNP, including broadcast, print and online channels. Hsien Loong on the special event to Labour and Lib Dems as well as his own party and ➢ The move aims to reduce the influence of commemorate the 150th Birth Anniversary of many children's charities. such advertisements on consumer preferences. Mahatma Gandhi at the United Nations in New India, Mexico agree to work together on Prez Xi Jinping second Chinese leader to York last month. multilateral issuesIR PICS visit Mamallapuram after Zhou EnlaiPTI INS Tarkash arrives at Reunion Island in ➢ The fifth round of Foreign Office ➢ The visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to France Consultations between India and Mexico were Mamallapuram near Chennai renews the memory ➢ As part of Indian Navy's overseas deployment held in New Delhi. of the people of a nearby village to the visit by to Africa, Europe and Russia, Indian Naval Ship ➢ The Indian side was led by Secretary (East) the erstwhile Premier of China, Zhou Enlai, in Tarkash arrived at St Denis, Reunion Island, Vijay Thakur Singh and Mexican side was led by December 1956. France. Deputy Minister of External Affairs of Mexico ➢ The village known as Kuzhipanthandalam, ➢ The ship is a potent frontline frigate of the Julian Ventura Valero. some 15 kilometres off Mamallapuram, has Indian Navy equipped with a versatile range of ➢ The two sides reviewed the entire gamut of witnessed the Chinese leader inaugurating a weapons and sensors. bilateral cooperation, including political, trade newly-built health centre. ➢ The ship is part of the Indian Navy's Western and economic cooperation. ➢ Mr Xi Jinping would be the second leader to Fleet and under the Operational Command of Flag ➢ Both sides underscored the need to hold a visit Mamallapuram, after Mr Zhou, reviving Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Naval regular dialogue in these areas through the the traditional links between the ancient port Command, based at Mumbai. established bilateral mechanisms. town of India and China. Goa Maritime Conclave– 2019 Inaugurated WTO to host first World Cotton Day Sri Lanka: Jaffna international airport to ➢ The Goa Maritime Conclave (GMC)-2019 celebrations in GenevaWTO commence its operations was inaugurated by the National Security Advisor, ➢ World Trade Organisation, WTO will host the ➢ In Sri Lanka, the Jaffna international Shri Ajit Kumar Doval, at Goa on 4th October first World Cotton Day (WCD) celebrations in airport, located in Tamil-majority North and built 2019. Geneva. with Indian assistance, will commence its ➢ It focuses areas which would pose both ➢ Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani is operations President Maithripala Sirisena and opportunities and challenges for the future and representing India in the five-day event of World Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe along hoped that engagements during the GMC would Cotton Day being observed at Geneva beginning with other dignitaries are scheduled to grace the help build up on the opportunities and overcome today. The plenary session will be attended by inaugural event. challenges. heads of states, heads of international ➢ The airport has been developed afresh and ➢ The 31st edition of the Naval War College organisations and executives from the private runway length has been extended from 950 to Journal was also released by the NSA on the sector. 1400 metres to facilitate ATR 72 Aircraft carrying occasion. ➢ A sculpture of Mahatma Gandhi made out 70 passengers. Sri Lankan government is also ➢ The theme for the conclave is “Common of cotton will be displayed to commemorate the planning to develop Batticalao airport in eastern Maritime Priorities in IOR and need for 150th birth anniversary of the Father of the province to improve connectivity. Regional Maritime Strategy”. Nation. Pak on verge of strong action by FATF; likely Global Firepower ranked India in the fourth Southeast Asia’s net economy to top $100 to be put in 'Dark Grey' listTweeted @ position in its military firepower index — billion this year ➢ Pakistan is on the verge of strong action by behind the US, Russia and China. the international terror financing watchdog FATF ➢ India’s military is placed fourth on a global ➢ Southeast Asia’s internet economy is on track and the country may be put in the 'Dark Grey' index that has ranked 133 countries on the basis to exceed $100 billion this year before tripling list. Officials attending the on-going plenary of of their global military prowess, trailing behind by 2025, becoming one of the world’s fastest- the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in only the US, Russia and China in that order. growing arenas for online commerce according Paris said, as per indications, Pakistan will be ➢ India’s western neighbour Pakistan ranks to a research report by Google, Temasek isolated by all members for not doing enough. 13 on the Global Firepower (GFP) list 2017. Holdings and Bain & Co. Sources said, Pakistan given its inadequate ➢ In South Asia, according to GFP 2019, India ➢ Total of 6 countries namely Indonesia, performance and has managed to pass in only 6 topped the list with 4thposition, Pakistan 15th, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand of the 27 items. Bangladesh 45, Afghanistan 74th, Sri Lanka 19th, and Vietnam were surveyed. ➢ According to FATF rules, there is one essential Nepal 120th and Bhutan 137th in the GFP Index ➢ Indonesia’s internet economy is the largest in stage between 'Grey' and 'Black' lists, referred 2018. the region, estimated at $40 billion in 2019, is to as 'Dark Grey'. An official said, Dark Grey ➢ The top 5 countries in GFP 2019 are: United expected to reach $133 billion mark by 2025. means issuance of a strong warning, so that the States, Russia, China, India and France. Vietnam’s internet economy is forecast to reach country concerned gets one last chance to Uber makes JFK airport helicopter taxis $12 billion in 2019 and up to $43 billion in 2025. improve. available to all users Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan declared ‘Muslim Man of the Year’ Union Culture Minister Shri Prahlad Singh ➢ Ride-hailing company Uber Technologies ➢ Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has Patel participates in BRICS Culture Inc is taking to the air in New York City where been declared as Muslim Man of the Year Ministers’ Meet at Curitiba, Brazil users with a little cash to spare will soon be able 2020 by Jordan’s Royal Islamic Strategic ➢ Union Minister of State for Culture and to book helicopter flights to John F. Kennedy Studies Centre. Tourism Prahlad Singh Patel participated in International airport through their apps.

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BRICS Culture Ministers' meeting held in ➢ Ahead of the ninth India-US Defence Canada Elections 2019: Trudeau's Liberal Curitiba, Brazil. Technologies and Trade Initiative or DTTI group Party wins but loses majorityScreen Grab ➢ Mr Patel asserted that BRICS for India is a meeting in New Delhi, the bilateral defence trade ➢ Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal valuable forum for consultation, coordination and between the two countries is expected to reach Party held onto power in a nail-biter of a cooperation on contemporary global issues of $18 billion by year end. Canadian General Election, Television mutual interest. ➢ Undersecretary of Defence for Acquisition and projections declared the Liberals winners or Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives in Sustainment Ellen M Lord said the US is leading in 157 of the nation's 338 electoral UAEIR P committed to strengthen its partnership with districts, versus 121 for his main rival Andrew ➢ Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in India while furthering military-to-military Scheer and the Conservatives, after polling UAE, to what is being termed as a ‘historic visit’, relationships and cooperation. stations across six time zones closed. to a warm welcome. Finance Minister led the Indian delegation at ➢ The Bloc Quebecois came back from a ➢ Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank ruinous 2015 election result, tapping into Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Governors meetings lingering Quebec nationalism to take 32 seats, Commander of the UAE Armed Forces received ➢ Union Minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs, while the New Democratic Party (NDP) won 25 him at the Presidential Airport. This is Putin’s first Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, led the Indian seats, according to projections. visit to the UAE after 2007. delegation at G20 Finance Ministers and ➢ ➢ The two leaders later witnessed the signing of Central Bank Governors as well as the BRICS Israel President to give Blue and White party several agreements including trade and Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors next chance to form new govt@ investment, and sustainability and meetings held in Washington D.C. ➢ Israel's President Reuven Rivlin has said that environment, intending to develop strategic ➢ The focus of discussions in the G20 he would give Blue and White party leader Benny partnerships between the UAE and Russia and a Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Gantz the next chance to form a new memoranda of understanding between the UAE Meeting was on the current challenges to the government. and Russia. global economy and possible responses to ➢ Rivlin is expected to formally announce his ➢ At a delegation-level meeting at the Qasr Al mitigate them. She gave a clarion call for decision within 72 hours. Gantz will have 28 days Watan or the Presidential Palace, Mr Putin said concerted action in the face of global slowdown. to form a government. The statement came after bilateral relations between Russian and the UAE ➢ Smt. Sitharaman indicated that India has long-standing Prime Minister Benjamin are developing in a friendly and constructive reduced the Corporate tax from 30% to 22% Netanyahu informed the President of his inability atmosphere. thereby making India one of the lowest corporate to form a new government. His attempts to form Duke and Duchess of Cambridge William, tax imposing countries in the world. She also a coalition government with Gantz's party failed Kate Middleton arrive on five-day visit arrive highlighted that the emerging market economies, repeatedly. at Pakistan’s national monument in particular, face the challenge of achieving ➢ Any lawmaker with a majority of at least 61 ➢ The Duke of Cambridge has proved the economic growth and inclusive development members would be able to form a government in exception to that rule on the first full day of his while pursuing sustainable financing. 120 member assembly. trip to Pakistan, when he arrived for a reception Sri Lanka removed from FATF's Grey List Tunisia election: Kais Saied to become hosted in his honour wearing traditional Pakistani ➢ Sri Lanka has been removed from the president clothing. Financial Action Task Force (FATF) list of ➢ Retired academic Kais Saied is set to become ➢ To complete the tribute to their host country, countries at risk for money laundering. Tunisia's next president after a landslide victor. the couple were ferried to the steps of the ➢ Minister of Finance Mangala Samaraweera ➢ The electoral commission announced that the Pakistan national monument in a brightly painted, said in a statement that FATF in Paris informed former law professor, 61, secured 73% of votes three-wheeler rickshaw. the removal of Sri Lanka's name from the blacklist in the run-off election. ➢ The reception held by the British High commending the new measures taken by the ➢ He was up against media mogul Nabil Commission followed a day spent going back to country on financial security. Karoui, 56, who had campaigned from prison school, visiting a conservation project where ➢ Sri Lanka was first included in the blacklist in after being arrested on charges of money camera traps help monitor endangered leopards, 2011. By 2012, Sri Lanka was listed in the list as laundering and tax fraud. and catching up with an old family friend Imran a dangerous country with no commitment to the Brazil says it will no longer require visas Khan. financial security plan. from Chinese, Indian citizens India halved its poverty rate since 1990s: ➢ The government together with the Central World Bank Bank and other financial institutions, has taken ➢ Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said the ➢ India has halved its poverty rate since the several measures since 2016 to ensure the South American nation will drop its requirement 1990s and achieved a seven plus growth rate over financial security of the country. As a result, Sri that visiting Chinese and Indian tourists or the last 15 years, the World Bank said on October Lanka has declared a cooperating state in 2016 business people obtain visas. 15. and the FATF put Sri Lanka on a grey list from ➢ Bolsonaro, a far-right politician, came to ➢ India’s rapidly growing economy needs November 2017. power at the beginning of the year and has made investment in infrastructure, an estimated 8.8 Japan's Emperor Naruhito completes his it a policy to reduce visa requirements from a percent of GDP or $343 billion a year until ascension to throne number of developed countries. But the 2030, it said. Second, sustained growth will also ➢ Japan's new Emperor Naruhito completed announcement, made during an official visit to need to accelerate inclusion, especially to create his ascension to the ancient Chrysanthemum China, is the first he has made expanding that more and better jobs. While an estimated 13 throne in a solemn, ritual-bound ceremony policy to the developing world. million people enter the working age population performed before hundreds of dignitaries in the ➢ Earlier this year, the Brazilian government each year, only three million new jobs are being Imperial Palace. ended visa requirements for tourists and business generated on an annual basis, the financial ➢ Mr Naruhito officially assumed his duties as people from the United States, Canada, Japan institution said. emperor on May 1, the day after his father and Australia. Those countries, however, have ➢ The World Bank said a particular challenge lies became the first Japanese monarch to abdica two not in return dropped their visa requirements for in India’s declining female labour force centuries. Brazilian citizens. participation, which at 27% is among the PM Modi to visit Saudi Arabia will also attend lowest in the world despite overcoming gender the third edition of the Future Investment BANKING & BUSINESS ECONOMY gaps in education. Initiative (FII) RBI announces contests to promote Next year's G7 summit to take place in US ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit innovations, ideas in payment@RBI Prez Trump's Florida golf club Riyadh, Saudi Arabia later this month for a ➢ Reserve Bank of India has announced two ➢ Next year's G7 summit will take place in one bilateral visit. He will also attend the third contests to promote innovations and ideas in the of US President Donald Trump's Florida golf edition of the Future Investment Initiative payment and settlement systems. clubs. This was informed by the President's (FII), an annual investment forum being held on ➢ Shortlisted participants will get an opportunity acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney Mr Trump October 29-31, 2019, under the theme - What to present their ideas before a jury of eminent had previously suggested hosting the summit at Is Next for Global Business’. persons while outstanding innovators will be one of his own golf clubs, drawing immediate ➢ This would be Narendra Modi’s second visit to awarded prizes and citations. criticism that he is profiteering from his the Gulf nation. Being organised by Saudi Arabia’s ➢ The contest will be organised through presidency. Public Investment Fund, this is a high-level Institute for Development and Research in ➢ Mr Mulvaney also told that climate change will platform to engage with Saudi decision-makers Banking Technology (IDRBT), Hyderabad. not be on the agenda of next year's G7 summit. and global business representatives. The meet RBI cuts repo rate by 25 basis points India-US Bilateral Defence Trade to Reach comes at a crucial time when India is still trying ➢ Reserve Bank of India has today cut the repo $18 Billion This Year to get its message across on the issue of Kashmir. rate by 25 basis points, from 5.40% to 5.15%. ______7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute.in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 12 |LEGEND MAGAZINE | OCTOBER - 2019|

➢ Reverse repo rate has been adjusted to ➢ Digilocker aims to eliminate the use of ➢ Reserve Bank has enhanced the withdrawal 4.90% and bank rate at 5.40 %, accordingly. physical documents and enables sharing of limit for the account holder of Punjab and ➢ Announcing its fourth bimonthly monetary verified electronic documents. Maharashtra Cooperative Bank or PMC Bank to policy for current fiscal, RBI has revised the GDP ➢ The third product, the new mobile app, 40 thousand rupees from 25 thousand outlook for 2019-20 to 6.1%, from 6.9% in integrates four existing apps of the bank - UCO rupees. This is the third time, RBI has raised the previous Monetary Policy committee meet. Mbanking, UCO UPI, UCO Mpassbook and withdrawal limit since its clamp down on PMC ➢ For 2020-21, RBI has revised the GDP UCO Secure- in a single interface, the statement Bank last month. outlook to 7.2%. added. ➢ RBI said, after reviewing the bank's liquidity RBI to announce bi-monthly monetary position and its ability to pay its depositors, it has policy for current fiscal Axis Bank launches short-term online decided to further enhance the limit. ➢ Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will announce its fixed deposits ➢ Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said fourth bi-monthly policy for the current fiscal. ➢ Axis Bank, India’s third-largest private sector that she is closely monitoring the developments ➢ There is widespread expectation that RBI’s bank, announced the launch of ‘Express FD’, a at PMC Bank, and the RBI governor has assured Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) headed by digital fixed deposit (FD) product that allows a to protect customers' interest. Governor Shaktikanta Das will slash benchmark customer to open an FD account in three ➢ The bank had come on regulatory radar after interest rate to give a fillip to the economy. minutes through the digital mode without Housing Development & Infrastructure Ltd (HDIL) Two HDIL directors arrested in PMC Bank opening a savings account with the bank. and its directors failed to repay a Rs 4355 crore scamFIIC ➢ ‘Express FD’ offers attractive interest rates, putting the bank under liquidity stress. The ➢ The Economic Offences Wing of Mumbai police zero issuance fees and no penalty on pre- regulator had capped deposit withdrawals first at has arrested two directors of the Housing mature withdrawal of up to 25% of the Rs 1,000, which was subsequently increased to Development Infrastructure Limited (HDIL) amount, the bank said. Rs 10,000 and Rs 25,000. for their alleged involvement in the Punjab and ➢ A customer can open an Express FD account WTO gives nod to US to impose trade Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank scam. by investing a minimum Rs 5,000 up to Rs sanctions on EU goods worth 7.5 bn USD ➢ Rakesh Wadhawan and his son Sarang 90,000, for tenure of 6 to 12 months. ➢ The World Trade Organization, WTO, has Wadhawan, accused of loan default were Bandhan Bank, Gruh Finance to merge on formally given the go-ahead for the United States arrested after detailed interrogation. October 17 to impose trade sanctions on up to 7.5 billion ➢ Properties worth 3,500 crore rupees of HDIL ➢ Kolkata-based Bandhan Bank and dollars worth of European Union goods. This have also been frozen. Ahmedabad-based Gruh Finance said that all the follows a ruling that European planemaker Airbus SBI, Bank of Baroda Limit Cash Withdrawals regulatory hurdles have been overcome for their received illegal subsidies. from Micro-ATMs of Other Banks: Report merger, with the National Company Law ➢ The move by the WTO's dispute settlement ➢ State Bank of India (SBI) and Bank of Tribunal (NCLT) clearing the scheme of body was largely a formality after the long- Baroda (BoB) have limited the number of cash amalgamation. awaited ruling by a WTO arbitration panel on the withdrawals for customers using micro-ATMs of ➢ The scheme has been approved by NCLT's 2nd of this month. other banks to just up to four times a month. Kolkata and Ahmedabad benches. October 17 ➢ Micro ATMs are the handheld point of sale has been fixed as the record date following the Govt to achieve 10% blending percentage of terminals used to disburse cash in remote effectiveness of scheme for determining ethanol in petrol by 2022, to boost farm locations where bank branches cannot reach. shareholders of the merged entity. economy says Petroleum MinisterAIR P Through micro-ATMs, banks can remotely SBI lowers lending rates by ten basis points ➢ India is expected to get 58 billion dollar connect to their core banking system and help for term deposits under 1 lakh investment in the exploration and production customers undertake basic financial transactions. ➢ State Bank of India has lowered its lending sector by 2023. This was stated by Petroleum ➢ Bank of Baroda has modified its rules to allow rates by ten basis points across all tenors. It Minister Dharmendra Pradhan while addressing customers to just do four transactions a month in has also revised their savings rate by 25 basis a gathering at India Energy Forum in New Delhi. case he/she uses the micro-ATM terminal of points for term deposits under one lakh. ➢ The Minister also informed that, an estimated another bank, while SBI has limited it to just ➢ The new Marginal Cost Of Funds-Based investment of 60 billion dollar is underway for one. However, SBI account holders who are not Lending (MCLR) rate will be effective while the augmenting gas infrastructure. Mr. Pradhan part of the government’s direct benefit transfer revision in savings bank deposits rates will be appealed Finance Minister Nirmala Sithraman scheme are allowed to do five such transactions a from 1st November. to consider including petroleum products under month ➢ SBI, which controls a fifth of the system, has GST regime. SBI also slashed its retail term deposits 10 basis ➢ Mr Pradhan expressed hope that natural gas Headquarters: Mumbai points and bulk term deposits rates by 30 and aviation turbine fuel will be brought under the Chairman: Rajnish Kumar basis points for one-year to less than two-years Goods and Services Tax regime initially. Mr Tagline: The Banker to Every Indian; With you effective 10th October. Pradhan said that the Government is pushing to all the way; Pure Banking Nothing Else; The Fintech start-up Shubh Loans gets NBFC achieve 10 per cent blending percentage of Nation banks on us. licence from RBI ethanol in petrol by 2022, which in turn will BoB ➢ Fintech start-up Shubh Loans said it has boost farm economy. Headquarters: Vadodara, Gujarat received a licence from the Reserve Bank of India Tag line: India’s International Bank to set up a non-banking financial company. Bangladesh becomes 2nd fastest growing CEO & MD: P S Jayakumar ➢ Shubh Loans receives NBFC licence through economy in South Asia: World Bank RBI does away with single-use plastic subsidiary Ekagrata of its parent company ➢ Bangladesh has become the second-fastest products Datasigns Technologies. growing economy in South Asia after Bhutan. ➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has ➢ Shubh Loans says it has already raised series World Bank in its report 'South Asia Economic decided to impose a ban on single-use plastic. The A2 funding of Rs34 crore from Omidyar Network Focus, Making (De) Centralization Work' released announcement was made by RBI Governor India. says that GDP growth rate of the country is Shaktikanta Das on 5 October. Shubh Loans: projected to moderate to 7.2 per cent this fiscal ➢ There were reports of a nationwide ban on Headquarters: Bengaluru, Karnataka year and 7.3 per cent in 2020 in Bangladesh. single-use plastic products from October 2, CEO & Founder: Monish Anand ➢ The report points out that its economy is likely Mahatma Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary, was PayPal pulls out of Facebook's Libra to maintain growth above 7 per cent, supported the starting point of a mass movement to remove cryptocurrency by a robust macroeconomic framework, political single-use plastic, to achieve the target by 2022. ➢ PayPal has become the first company to stability, and strong public investments. Uco Bank announces launch of 3 new digital drop out of Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency, ➢ Bangladesh has reduced the current account products as the embattled project continues to face queries deficit due to rising export and remittances which ➢ Uco Bank, which recently became the regional from regulators around the world. was above dollar 15.5 billion in 2018. bank for the east, launched three new digital ➢ Libra is technically an association backed by RBI issues guidelines on 'on tap' products in Kolkata. 28 – now 27 – multinational companies and authorisation on payment systemsFile Pic: ➢ The new products launched by the bank's nonprofits, although Facebook takes the lead, and PTI managing director and CEO, A K Goel, were a Facebook subsidiary, Calibra, is intended to be ➢ Reserve Bank has issued guidelines on ‘on UCash, Digilocker and an app. the main way consumers will interact with the tap' authorisation of payment systems, including ➢ UCash enables customers to withdraw money project. Each of the companies involved had to minimum net worth criteria for different players, from ATMs through mobile banking without using pledge $10m (£8m) into a common pot to join. with an aim to encourage innovation and debit card, a statement issued by the bank. RBI raises withdrawal limit to Rs 40,000 for competition. PMC bank account holders

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➢ In a circular, the RBI said it has been decided ➢ The Department of Animal Husbandry and highways which will benefit about 26 million to offer on-tap authorisation for Bharat Bill Dairying released the 20th Livestock Census - people in 14 districts of Rajasthan. Payment Operating Unit (BBPOU), Trade 2019.As per the livestock census, the share of ➢ The agreement was signed between Sameer Receivables Discounting System (TReDS) cattle is around 36 per cent, goat is over 27 per Kumar Khare, Additional Secretary, Department and White Label ATMs (WLAs). cent, buffaloes is over 20 per cent, sheep of Economic Affairs in the Ministry of Finance and ➢ For entities desirous to function, operate, or around 14 per cent and pigs around two per cent. Mr Kenichi Yokoyama, Country Director of provide platforms for BBPOU, the RBI said they ➢ The cow population is over 145 million, ADB’s India Resident Mission. should have a 100 crore rupees net worth and increasing by 18 per cent over the previous SBI to now charge processing fees on home should be maintained at all times. census. Among the states, West Bengal loans, top-ups ➢ In case of TReDS, the minimum paid up reported the highest increase of over in 23 per equity capital should be 25 crore rupees. The cent livestock population, followed by Telangana, ➢ After reducing deposit rates for its minimum net worth for entities desirous of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh. customers, State Bank of India has now decided entering the WLA segment should be 100 crore BSE joins hands with FICCI to boost MSME to charge processing fees for home loans, rupees. sector top-up plans and loans to corporates and real SBI re-enters top-10 most valued firms list; ➢ To enhance MSME and startup environment, estate companies. replaces Bajaj Finance leading stock exchange BSE in association with ➢ The bank will now charge around 0.4 per ➢ State Bank of India re-entered the elite club FICCI organised a brainstorming session to cent processing fee in the range of Rs 10,000- of top-10 most valued domestic firms by market identify gaps in the existing policies and make Rs 30,000 for individual borrowers, the daily valuation after a gap of two weeks. suggestions for robust policies. quoted sources as saying, adding the bank would ➢ The bank had on October 1 lost its spot to ➢ Besides, the session was organised to charge Rs 5,000 from builders. Bajaj Finance in the coveted club of top-10 most promote Udyam Saathi and Udyam Sakhi Post Office Double money guaranteed Turn valued domestic companies. initiatives to foster the micro, small and medium Rs 50,000 to Rs 1 lakh in 113 months ➢ Bajaj Finance had replaced SBI as the 10th enterprises (MSMEs) sector. ➢ The Indian post office near you is probably the most valued firm then. Bombay Stock Exchange only place that can guarantee to double your Reserve Bank of India (RBI) stopped Headquarters: Mumbai Maharashtra money. Printing of Rs 2,000 notes to Curb black MD and CEO: Ashishkumar Chauhan ➢ The investments in stocks and mutual funds money Southeast Asia’s net economy to top $100 can also double the money, probably in less ➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has billion this year time; risks associated with them keep small and announced that it has stopped the printing vulnerable investors away. of Rs.2,000 currency notes. ➢ Southeast Asia’s internet economy is on track ➢ The investment in the Small Savings Scheme ➢ The Central Bank also revealed that not even to exceed $100 billion this year before tripling enjoys a sovereign guarantee the money a single Rs.2,000 note had been printed in the by 2025, becoming one of the world’s fastest- deposited in small savings. current financial year, FY 2019-20. growing arenas for online commerce according ➢ Currently if you invest Rs 50,000 in KVP, it ➢ In the financial year 2016-17, the RBI to a research report by Google, Temasek will mature and double in 113 months, or 9 printed 3,542.991 million notes. In the Holdings and Bain & Co. years and 5 months. The minimum amount one financial year 2017-18, the RBI reduced the ➢ Total of 6 countries namely Indonesia, can invest in KVP is Rs 1000 and thereon in printing of the Rs.2000 currency notes Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand multiples of Rs 1000. to 111.507 million note. and Vietnam were surveyed. ➢ There is no upper limit of investment. The ➢ In the financial year 2018-19, the central ➢ Indonesia’s internet economy is the largest in interest rate on KVP is 7.6 percent. This is higher bank printed 46.690 million notes. No the region, estimated at $40 billion in 2019, is than the interest rates offered on 10-year FDs by Rs.2000 currency notes were printed in the expected to reach $133 billion mark by 2025. SBI and HDFC Bank. financial year 2019-20. Vietnam’s internet economy is forecast to reach ➢ SBI is currently offering 10-year FD at 6.25 $12 billion in 2019 and up to $43 billion in 2025. percent while this rate in HDFC Bank is 6.9 SBI launches contactless mobile payment Industrial output declines by 1.1% in percent. facility for credit card holders August RBI raises withdrawal limit to Rs 40,000 for ➢ The SBI Card on Wednesday launched 'SBI ➢ Industrial output declined by 1.1 per cent in PMC bank account holders Card Pay', a payment feature based on Host August due to poor performance by Card Emulation (HCE) technology for faster, manufacturing, power generation and mining ➢ Reserve Bank has enhanced the withdrawal convenient and more secure card payments using sectors. limit for the account holder of Punjab and mobile phones. ➢ The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) Maharashtra Cooperative Bank or PMC Bank to ➢ "SBI Card Pay is aimed at redefining the had expanded by 4.8 per cent in August 2018. 40 thousand rupees from 25 thousand payments experience for our customers. Using ➢ The overall IIP growth during April-August rupees. This is the third time, RBI has raised the cutting-edge technologies such as HCE. period was 2.4 per cent, down from 5.3 per cent withdrawal limit since its clamp down on PMC STPI to invest Rs 40 crore to set up startup in the corresponding period of the last fiscal. Bank last month. facility in Goa ➢ RBI said, after reviewing the bank's liquidity ➢ The Goa government’s Information World Bank says India is fast-growing position and its ability to pay its depositors, it has Technology Corporation signed an MoU with economy with lot of potential despite being decided to further enhance the limit. the Software Technology Park of India to set hit by recent global slowdown ➢ Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said up a start-up centre in the coastal state at the www.worldbank.org that she is closely monitoring the developments Vibrant Goa Global Expo and Summit 2019. ➢ World Bank's Chief Economist for South Asia at PMC Bank, and the RBI governor has assured ➢ As per the MoU, 14,000 square metres land is Hans Timmer has said that India is a fast- to protect customers' interest. given to the STPI to initiate a start-up centre growing economy with lot of potential despite ➢ The bank had come on regulatory radar after which will be a boost to the IT industry in Goa. being hit by the recent global slowdown. Housing Development & Infrastructure Ltd (HDIL) Italy to introduce web tax on digital giants ➢ Mr Timmer said, the World Bank in its and its directors failed to repay a Rs 4355 crore from 2020 estimates has found that 80 per cent of the putting the bank under liquidity stress. The ➢ Italy approved a new tax on digital slowdown in India could be coming from the regulator had capped deposit withdrawals first at companies, including U.S. tech giants, as part of international causes. In its latest edition of the Rs 1,000, which was subsequently increased to its 2020 draft budget a move that could draw South Asia Economic Focus, the World Bank said Rs 10,000 and Rs 25,000 threats of retaliation from Washington. that India's growth rate is projected to fall to 6 Govt to achieve 10% blending percentage of ➢ The levy, due to be introduced from next year, per cent this fiscal. However, it said the country ethanol in petrol by 2022, to boost farm will oblige companies such as Facebook, Google was expected to gradually recover to 6.9 per economy says Petroleum Minister and Amazon, to pay a 3% levy on internet cent in 2021 and 7.2 per cent in 2022. transactions, according to a text of the draft India, ADB sign 190 million dollar loan ➢ India is expected to get 58 billion dollar budget. The Italian scheme is expected to yield agreement for improving road connectivity investment in the exploration and production about 600 million euros ($662 million) a in RajasthanPIB sector by 2023. This was stated by Petroleum year. ➢ India and Asian Development Bank, ADB have Minister Dharmendra Pradhan while addressing India's livestock population increases to signed 190 million dollar loan agreement for a gathering at India Energy Forum in New Delhi. over 535 millionAIR P improving road connectivity in Rajasthan. ➢ The Minister also informed that, an estimated ➢ India's livestock population has increased to ➢ Finance Ministry said, the agreement was investment of 60 billion dollar is underway for over 535 million showing an increase of 4.6 per signed to upgrade 754 kilometres of state augmenting gas infrastructure. Mr. Pradhan cent over Livestock Census-2012. appealed Finance Minister Nirmala Sithraman

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Mr birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. in the presence of Universal Sompo General Pradhan said that the Government is pushing to ➢ MMTC Chairman Ved Prakash said that Insurance, Chairman, O N Singh here recently. achieve 10 per cent blending percentage of despite the global slowdown, MMTC witnessed a ICICI Bank crosses 3 trillion market cap for ethanol in petrol by 2022, which in turn will record selling of gold. MMTC is geared up to cater the first time boost farm economy. to the city's festive season demand of gold and Bangladesh becomes 2nd fastest growing silver with a brand new edition of its festival of ➢ Shares of ICICI Bank Ltd crossed the Rs 3 economy in South Asia: World Bank Gold Exhibition-cum-sale. trillion market capitalisation for the first time ➢ Bangladesh has become the second-fastest Government hikes minimum support price of making it the country's fourth lender to achieve growing economy in South Asia after Bhutan. Rabi crops for 2020-21PI this milestone. World Bank in its report 'South Asia Economic ➢ The Union Cabinet has decided to hike ➢ ICICI Bank's stock has gained 6.6%, while Focus, Making (De) Centralization Work' released Minimum Support Price, MSP, for Rabi crops for year-to-date it has advanced 28%. says that GDP growth rate of the country is marketing season 2020-21. ➢ HDFC Bank remains India's most valued bank projected to moderate to 7.2 per cent this fiscal ➢ Information and Broadcasting Minister with market cap of ₹6.70 trillion followed by year and 7.3 per cent in 2020 in Bangladesh. Prakash Javadekar said, MSP of wheat has Kotak Mahindra Bank with Rs 3.02 trillion. SBI re-enters top-10 most valued firms list; been increased by 85 rupees per quintal to Tata Sons board Okays Rs 6,500 cr equity replaces Bajaj Finance 1,925 rupees per quintal. infusion in Tata Motors ➢ State Bank of India re-entered the elite club ➢ While MSP of Gram has been increased by ➢ Tata Motors Ltd on Friday said its board has of top-10 most valued domestic firms by market 255 rupees, barley 85 rupees, mustard oil 225 approved an equity infusion of Rs 6,500 crore valuation after a gap of two weeks. rupees and sunflower 270 rupees per quintal. from its promoter Tata Sons Pvt. Ltd. Tata Motors ➢ The bank had on October 1 lost its spot to Javadekar said, the move will help increase will allot ordinary shares and warrants to the Bajaj Finance in the coveted club of top-10 most farmers' income. promoter in return, subject to shareholder valued domestic companies. BSNL, MTNL to be merged as part of a 56,000 approval. ➢ Bajaj Finance had replaced SBI as the 10th crore rescue plan ➢ The board also approved raising Rs.3,500 most valued firm then. crore via external commercial borrowing, which ➢ The 56,000 crore merger and revival plan will be used to refinance its existing debt. RIL becomes first company to hit Rs 9 lakh for Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and crore in m-cap on BSE Mahanagar Telecom Nigam Ltd (MTNL) was AGREEMENTS AND MOUS approved by the Union cabinet. MTNL operates in National e Governance Division (NeGD), ➢ Oil-to-telecom major Reliance Industries Delhi and Mumbai, and BSNL in the rest of India. Ministry of Electronics and Information (RIL) became the first company in India to hit ➢ The turnaround plan would include Technology (MeitY) signed an MoU with The the market capitalisation of Rs 9 lakh crore. RIL the allotment of spectrum for fourth-generation National Law Institute University (NLIU), was also the first company to reach Rs 8 lakh or 4G services at 2016 prices to the two Bhopal crore mark in August last year. companies with the costs borne by the ➢ National eGovernance Division (NeGD), ➢ The market-cap of Mukesh Ambani-led government and issue of sovereign bonds worth Ministry of Electronics and Information Company stood at Rs 9.03 lakh crore when the 15,000 crore to be serviced by the two Technology (MeitY) & The National Law Institute stock traded at Rs 1,428, up 2 per cent at 10.45 companies. University (NLIU), Bhopal have signed a MoU at hours (IST) September quarter earnings due later ➢ In addition, assets worth 38,000 crore will New Delhi to implement an ‘Online Capacity in the day. This rise in share price helped the be monetised over the next four years and Building Programme on Cyber Law, Crime company. a voluntary retirement scheme (VRS) will be Investigation and Digital Forensics through NeGD Adani partners UAE's Adnoc, Germany's introduced to cut employee costs. Learning Management System (LMS)’. BASF for $4 billion chemical venture Govt accords 'Maharatna' status to ➢ The goal of this programme is to enable Police Hindustan Petroleum, Power Grid Corp Officers, State Cyber Cells, Law Enforcement ➢ Billionaire Gautam Adani-run Adani Group ➢ The government accorded 'Maharatna' Agencies, Prosecutors and Judicial Officers to has forged a partnership with UAE's oil firm status to state-owned Hindustan Petroleum acquire the requisite skills to deal with Cyber Adnoc, German chemical giant BASF and and Power Grid Corporation, thus giving them Forensics cases efficiently & effectively as per the Austria's Borealis to study the feasibility of greater operational and financial autonomy. Indian Cyber Law while adopting global best setting up a USD 4 billion chemical complex at ➢ Two separate orders to this effect were issued practices, standards and guidelines. Mundra in Gujarat by 2024. by the Department of Public Enterprises, under Indian Army signs MoU with Bank of Baroda ➢ The four firms have signed a memorandum of the Ministry of Heavy Industry and Public for banking services understanding (MoU) to "engage in a joint Enterprises. ➢ Indian Army and Bank of Baroda, the 2nd feasibility study to further evaluate a ➢ The grant of Maharatna status to the PSUs will largest Public Sector bank, have entered in a collaboration for establishment of a chemical impart enhanced powers to their Boards to take Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). complex in Mundra, Gujarat,". financial decisions. ➢ This MoU lays down the basis on which ➢ In January this year, Adani Group had World Bank Group President David Malpass banking services would be provided by Bank of announced plans to set up a Rs 16,000 crore calls on PM Narendra Modi Baroda to serving and retired personnel of the chemical factory at Mundra in partnership with ➢ The President of the World Bank Group Indian Army. BASF. David Malpass called on Prime Minister ➢ The ceremony was chaired by Lieutenant Adani awards $68.30 mn contract to Narendra Modi in New Delhi. Mr Malpass is on a General Ashwani Kumar, Adjutant General. Australian rail firm to support thermal coal four-day visit to India. He delivered the keynote ➢ Some salient features of this MoU include Free mine address on the role of the financial sector in Personal Accident Insurance (Death & Permanent ➢ India's Adani Enterprises has awarded a development at the fifth edition of the NITI Total Disability) cover of Rs 30 lakhs, Free Air contract to an Australian rail company as the Aayog Lecture series in New Delhi. Accident Insurance (AAI) cover of Rs 15 lakhs to conglomerate steps up infrastructure spending to Indian Overseas Bank unveils health Rs 50 lakhs and overdraft facility upto three support its new thermal coal mine in insurance policy with Universal Sompo times of monthly net salary. The features are Queensland State. ➢ Public sector Indian Overseas Bank unveiled also applicable for pensioners of Indian army upto ➢ The A$100 million ($68.30 million) an healthcare insurance policy through online the age of 70 yrs. contract was awarded to privately held Martinus platform in association with Universal Sompo Indian Army signs MoU with Bank of Baroda Rail, based in the regional city of Rockhampton. General Insurance Company Ltd. for banking services ➢ Adani Mining Chief Executive Lucas Dow said ➢ The policy offered on real time basis to ➢ Indian Army and Bank of Baroda, the 2nd more than A$450 million worth of contracts had customers at the branches of Indian Overseas largest Public Sector bank, have entered in a already been awarded on the Carmichael Bank through integration of technology of the two Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). Project, the majority to regional Queensland institutions. ➢ This MoU lays down the basis on which areas. ➢ The co-branded healthcare policy designed by banking services would be provided by Bank of MMTC offers discount on India Gold Coin to Universal Sompo General Insurance is Baroda to serving and retired personnel of the mark 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma offered with a sum insured from Rs.50,000 Indian Army. Gandhi to 15 lakh, The one of its kind family floater ➢ The ceremony was chaired by Lieutenant mmtclimited.com policy where the premium is charged as per the General Ashwani Kumar, Adjutant General. ______7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute.in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 15 |LEGEND MAGAZINE | OCTOBER - 2019|

➢ Some salient features of this MoU include Free ➢ FASTag is a simple to use, reloadable tag Private Sector. With this, for the first time the Personal Accident Insurance (Death & Permanent which enables automatic deduction of toll charges Ministry of Defence has offered complex Military Total Disability) cover of Rs 30 lakhs, Free Air and lets vehicle pass through toll plaza without equipment to be designed, developed and Accident Insurance (AAI) cover of Rs 15 lakhs to stopping for cash transaction. manufactured by the Indian private industry. Rs 50 lakhs and overdraft facility upto three ➢ India, South Korea look to boost business, times of monthly net salary. The features are India, Bangladesh sign MoU for setting up defence ties also applicable for pensioners of Indian army upto Coastal Surveillance Radar System in ➢ New Delhi India and South Korea are the age of 70 yrs. Bangladesh looking to boost their business and defence ties Shri Rajnath Singh reaffirms Government’s ➢ India and Bangladesh have signed an MoU through two upcoming meetings, including a aim to achieve $26 billion Indian defence that will enable Delhi to set up a coastal “Strategic Economic Dialogue” this week that industry by 2025 surveillance system radar in Bangladesh. will serve as the umbrella for all economic ➢ Shri Rajnath Singh has called for an increased ➢ The two countries signed seven agreements cooperation. and active participation of the private sector in in New Delhi after talks between Prime Minister ➢ People familiar with developments said defence manufacturing to achieve the Narendra Modi and his Bangladesh counterpart Amitabh Kant, CEO of NITI Aayog, the Indian Government’s target of making the Indian Sheikh Hasina. government’s policy think tank, and Lee Ho- defence industry worth $26 billion by 2025. ➢ Both Prime Ministers welcomed the initiatives seung, advisor on economic affairs to the ➢ He was addressing the captains of industry at for the development of closer Maritime Security South Korean president, will lead the dialogue in the 22nd India International Security Expo, Partnership and establishment of Coastal Delhi on October 24. 2019. Surveillance Radar System in Bangladesh. ➢ By the yearend, the two sides are expected to ➢ Shri Rajnath Singh reaffirmed the ➢ The coastal surveillance system will pave way hold their first official-level “2+2” dialogue Government’s aim of inclusive growth and making for Indo-Bangladesh White Shipping between their defence and foreign ministries. The India a $5 trillion economy by 2025, adding that Agreement in future. This will be useful amid two initiatives dovetail with India’s “Act East” the defence sector will play a pivotal role in growing terror threats via seas. policy and South Korea’s “New Southern Policy” achieving this goal. ➢ Other agreements signed by the two countries and are aimed at giving fresh impetus to India - Bangladesh Business forum meets in include MoU for Standard Operating Procedure on economic and security ties. New Delhi the use of Chattogram and Mongla Ports and India and the US signed pact on Science and ➢ India and Bangladesh are not competitors but MoU on withdrawal of 1.82 cusecs of water Technology collaborators in making both countries from Feni River by India for drinking water prosperous and ensuring a better future for their supply scheme for Sabroom town in Tripura. ➢ India, US close to inking industrial security people said the Union Minister of Commerce & DRDO signs 30 agreements on Technology pact, will unlock key defence technology sharing. Industry and Railways, Piyush Goyal at the India Transfer ➢ PM Narendra Modi led Union Cabinet approved - Bangladesh Business Forum held in New ➢ Defence Research and Development the proposal for Agreement on Science & Delhi. Organisation (DRDO) has signed 30 licensing Technology Cooperation between India and ➢ On this occasion two Governments to agreements for Transfer of Technology (ToT) the US. Business (G2B) MoUs were signed between with 16 Indian companies, including three start- ➢ Under the agreement, both sides agreed to Start up Bangladesh and Tech Mahindra and ups, at Vibrant Goa Global Expo and Summit strengthen bilateral relations by a significant Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority and Adani 2019, which is being held at Goa University, convergence of mutual interests in science and Ports and SEZs. Taleigao, Goa. technology. Seminars and meeting will be held to ➢ The DRDO develops technologies for the deepen Science and Technology Cooperation. India, Sierra Leone sign six agreements Armed Forces and has been carrying out ToT of including 30 mn dollar line of credit for rice these technologies to the defence industry for end GOVERNMENT SCHEMES cultivation use of the Armed Forces. AP govt to give self-employed auto and taxi ➢ India and Sierra Leone signed six ➢ Indian Armed Forces are procuring ready-to- drivers annual incentive of Rs. 10,000 under agreements including extending a credit line of eat meals, survival ration and emergency flying ‘YSR Vaahana Mitra’ scheme 30 million US Dollars for rice cultivation. Vice ration products from companies which have President Venkaiah Naidu and Sierra Leone acquired ToT from DRDO. ➢ The YSR Congress Party (YSRCP)-run Andhra President Julius Maada Bio committed to further Pradesh government announced that it will give a strengthening bilateral relations. Dr Harsh Vardhan co-chairs 1st Joint cash incentive of Rs.10, 000 to car and auto ➢ The two sides agreed that the United Nations Committee Meeting under 2nd Memorandum drivers every year in the state. need to be reformed to reflect the realities of of Cooperation signed on healthcare, in ➢ The ‘YSR Vahana Mitra’ scheme will be today and address current global challenges. Tokyo launched on 4 October and self-employed auto ➢ Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister for Health and taxi drivers will be eligible under it. st Nepal signs rail, road link deals with China and Family Welfare co-chaired the 1 Joint ➢ The decision to start the scheme was based during Xi visit Committee Meeting (JCM) in Tokyo along with on chief minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s ➢ Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to help Dr. Hiroto Izumi, Special Advisor to Prime and “The motto of ‘YSR Vahana Mitra’ is that nd Nepal realise its dream of becoming a “land- Minister under the 2 Memorandum of the amount could be useful for the drivers to linked" country, The two countries signed a Cooperation (MOC) signed on Healthcare and repair, vehicle fitness, insurance expenses,” preliminary pact on a long-awaited rail link Wellness in October 2018 during the visit of Prime Hardeep Singh Puri launches Swachhata Hi connecting the Tibetan capital Lhasa to Nepal’s Minister Shri Narendra Modi to Japan in context Seva India Plog Run@ capital Kathmandu as well as 19 other of Ayushman Bharat of India and Asia Health ➢ Minister of Housing & Urban Affairs Hardeep agreements, during Xi’s visit. and Well-Being Initiative (AHWIN) of Japan. Singh Puri launched Swachhata Hi Seva India ➢ He said a feasibility study of the trans- ➢ The Joint Committee reviewed the status of Plog Run in New Delhi to commemorate the Himalayan railway link would begin soon and a ongoing activities under the MOC and noted with 150th birth anniversary of the Mahatma Gandhi. more reliable facility with easier connectivity satisfaction the progress on these activities which ➢ The objective was to spread awareness on the between the two countries would be established. are meant to promote mutual benefit for the harmful effects of plastic waste and enlist citizens ➢ He said China will provide assistance to the peoples of both the countries. support to eliminate. tune of 56 billion (Nepalese) rupees over the DAC approves procurement of indigenous CBDT launches unique document next two years to help Nepal’s development equipment worth over Rs 3,300 cr for armed identification number for taxpayers programmes. forces ➢ Marching forward towards 'Digital India', the IHMCL, GSTN to ink pact to link FASTag with ➢ The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) GST e-way bill system has accorded approval for Capital Procurement implemented a computer-generated Document for the Defence forces amounting to over 3,300 Identification Number (DIN) which will ensure ➢ The Indian Highways Management Company crore rupees of indigenously designed and greater transparency and accountability in tax Ltd (IHMCL) and Goods and Services Tax developed equipment. Maintaining its impetus on administration. Network (GSTN) will sign a memorandum of the Make in India initiative, the DAC accorded ➢ The DIN system, which becomes operative understanding for integration of FASTag with GST approval for three projects to be indigenously from 1 October 2019, will apply to all kind of e-way bill system. designed, developed and manufactured by the communications from the income tax ➢ The memorandum of understanding (MoU) Indian industry. department, whether it is related to assessment, will be inked at the 'One Nation, One FASTag' ➢ The projects will be progressed under the appeals, investigation, penalty, and rectification conference, which will be inaugurated by Road Make-II Category and will provide a boost to among other things. Transport and Highway Minister Nitin Gadkari. indigenous research and development in the ______7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. 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Nitin Gadkari launches cow dung soaps, ➢ The Cabinet has also approved relaxation of Indian Railways launches 09 ‘Sewa Service’ bamboo bottles the mandatory requirement of Aadhaar- Trains ➢ Union Minister Nitin Gadkari launched soaps seeded data as a pre-condition for release of ➢ Indian Railways launches 09 ‘Sewa Service’ made of cow dung and bamboo water bottles funds to the beneficiaries under the PM-Kisan Trains to connect smaller towns around major manufactured by Khadi and Village Industries scheme. The relaxation will be till 30th cities. Commission. November this year. The scheme provides ➢ These services were launched by the Minister ➢ The minister said he is a proponent of organic income support of 6,000 rupees per year to of Railways and Commerce & Industry, Shri farming and its benefits at a function ahead of the landholding families, subject to certain Piyush Goyal along with Minister for Health and Gandhi Jayanti. exclusions. Family Welfare, Science and Technology and Govt launches portal for monitoring coal Mylan working with DCGI to launch new TB Earth Sciences, Dr. Harsh Vardhan and Minister supply to power plants drug in India of Petroleum & Natural Gas and Steel, Shri ➢ Power Minister RK Singh and Coal, Mines and Dharmendra Pradhan, from New Delhi by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi ➢ Multinational pharmaceutical company Mylan inaugurating Delhi-Shamli passenger train. have jointly launched PRAKASH - Power Rail is working with Drug Controller General of ➢ These Sewa trains will provide connectivity to Koyla Availability through Supply India (DCGI) to launch pretomanid, a medicine the far-flung areas where stoppages of premiere Harmony- portal in New Delhi. used to treat drug- resistant tuberculosis (TB). trains were not possible. ➢ The portal aims at bringing better ➢ Non-profit drug developer TB Alliance and coordination for coal supplies among all Mylan NV had in April announced a global Dr. Jitendra Singh hails Ayushman Bharat- stakeholders. collaboration to make the experimental drug PMJAY as unique health scheme ➢ This is an important step in ensuring adequate pretomanid for cure of pulmonary tuberculosis. ➢ Minister of State in Prime Minister’s Office Dr. availability and optimum utilization of coal at Food Safety Mitra scheme launched on the Jitendra Singh has hailed the Ayushman thermal power plants. The portal is designed to World Food Day Bharat - Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana help in mapping and monitoring entire coal supply ➢ Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare as a unique and successful health insurance chain for power plants. Dr Harsh Vardhan launched Food Safety Mitra scheme at the Asia Health-2019 conference in Dr Harsh Vardhan launches FSSAI’s ‘Trans- Scheme, Eat Right Jacket and Eat Right New Delhi. Fat Free’ logo; gives a boost to “Eat Right Jhola. Addressing a gathering in New Delhi he ➢ Over 50 lakh people have been benefited India” Movement said, Eat Right India and Fit India Campaign from this scheme and the government is taking ➢ Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health can prove to be a big success with the right health-care protection to a new and Family Welfare launched the “Trans Fat strategy and implementation. aspirational level. He said, it is the world’s Free” logo of Food Safety & Standards ➢ Food Safety and Standards Authority of India largest government funded health-care Authority of India (FSSAI), at the 8th (FSSAI) has introduced scheme of Food Safety programme targeting more than 50 crore International Chefs’ Conference (ICC VII). Mitra (FSM) through which it plans to engage beneficiaries. ➢ “The ‘Eat Right India’ movement of FSSAI motivated individuals with the food safety Mastercard ambassador MS Dhoni launches takes inspiration from the vision of the Hon. Prime ecosystem at ground level. ‘Team Cashless India’ to push digital Minister Shri Narendra Modi of giving to the ➢ A FSM is an individual professional certified by payments people of this country a ‘New India’ by 2022 FSSAI who assists in compliances related to FSS ➢ Payment technology major Mastercard and that includes health, social security and nutrition. Act, Rules & Regulations with three avatars- its brand ambassador MS Dhoni kicked-off ➢ The Union Health Minister said that “Trans fats Digital Mitra, Trainer Mitra and Hygiene ‘Team Cashless India’ campaign to bring more are the worst type of fats with known health risks. Mitra depending upon their respective roles and merchants and customers on board with an aim Dr Harsh Vardhan released a slogan ‘Chefs 4 responsibilities. to boost digital payments in India. Trans Fat Free’, under which more than 1,000 ➢ During the event, the Minister also launched ➢ The campaign - Team Cashless India - brings chefs from different parts of the country took a Eat Right Jhola which is a reusable, washable consumers and merchants to forefront of the pledge to use trans-fat free oils in their recipes and bio-degradable bag. Eat Right Smart digital payments dialogue, Mastercard said. and work towards their elimination from the diets Jacket has been introduced to giving an identity ➢ It encourages all Indians to nominate one or of Indian populace at large. to FSSAI staff to ensure transparent inspection. It more merchants who currently do not accept ➢ India is committed to eliminating it from the is embedded with an RFID tag and QR code. It is digital payments. food supply and is progressing towards its linked to software to capture entry of inspection ➢ Mastercard will work together with objective of trans fat elimination by 2022; a year staff into premise for monitoring. Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT), ahead of the global target by WHO. Govt launches app for filing consumer acquirer banks and finance technology companies Dr Harsh Vardhan launches eDantseva complaints to support nominated merchants to deploy digital website and mobile application, a big step in ➢ The government launched a mobile app to payments acceptance infrastructure. digital health help consumers register complaints easily and get Govt to bring all medical devices under ➢ Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health redressal within 60 days. CDSCO lens to improve safety & quality and Family Welfare launched the eDantseva ➢ The complaints which are simple in nature will ➢ The government plans to bring all medical website and mobile application, the first ever be resolved within 15 days, while complicated devices, including implants and contraceptives, national digital platform on oral health ones will be redressed in 60 days, it said. under the lens of the Central Drugs and Standard information and knowledge dissemination, ➢ The 'Consumer App' is available for free in Control Organisation so as to improve their safety ➢ This marks an important milestone as e- two languages including English and Hindi. It and quality. DantSeva will reach out to more than one billion can be downloaded on Android and iOS platforms ➢ Once finalised, the import, manufacture and people with one click in the form of a dedicated Facebook launches second phase of digital sale of all medical devices will need to be certified website and mobile application. literacy project for tribal girls by the Central Drugs Standard Control ➢ The Union Health Minister also released the ➢ Facebook is extending a programme aimed Organisation (CDSCO). Manufacturers will also Braille booklet and Voice over on Oral Health at inspiring, guiding and encouraging tribal girls have to seek licences from the Drug Controller Education for the visually impaired from across India to become village-level digital General of India (DCGI). individuals, along with the oral health posters young leaders for their communities for a second ➢ The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said for pregnant women and children. phase with a partnership with the ministry of it plans to define all medical devices, which were Cabinet doubles honorarium for Asha Tribal Affairs Called GOAL (Going Online as earlier not under the purview of the apex drug workers; to open 40,000 wellness centres Leaders), the programme was launched in March controller, as drugs under the Drugs and under Ayushman Bharat Scheme this year and connects underprivileged young Cosmetics Act effective December 1. women from tribal areas with senior expert NCERT course to be implemented in Class ➢ Union Cabinet has doubled honorarium for ten mentors in the areas of business, fashion and arts ninth and tenth in all govt schools in Madhya lakh ASHA workers from the existing 1000 to learn digital and life. PradeshFile Pic rupees to 2000 rupees per month. ➢ Union Minister of Tribal Affairs Shri Arjun ➢ In Madhya Pradesh, NCERT course will be ➢ Mr. Javadekar said the government will open Munda launched the Van Dhan Internship implemented in Class ninth and tenth 40,000 wellness centres across the country Programme. It was organized by the Tribal standard in all government schools of the this year under Ayushman Bharat Scheme. Cooperative Marketing Development state from the next academic session. ➢ The government also announced five per Federation of India (TRIFED) under the cent Dearness Allowance (DA) for Central Ministry of Tribal Affairs. The program will help ➢ School Education Minister Dr Prabhuram Government employees and pensioners. Mr the tribal population to become self-reliant and Chaudhary said that in order to improve the Javadekar said, it will benefit 50 lakh Central entrepreneurs. standard of education in government schools, Government employees and 65 lakh pensioners. Parents-Teachers Association meetings will be

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(MRPL) have announced a ➢ North Western Railway followed by South East of transfer of teachers as per their convenience special drive to support women entrepreneurs in Central Railway and East Central Railway are the has been started online. the country. Labelled as La Eve (meaning The top three railway zones. TechSagar, national repository of India’s Woman) Jaipur cleanest railway station in India, cyber tech capabilities launched ➢ This initiative aims to identify innovative, Jodhpur ranks as 2nd best: SurveyFILE PIC ➢ The National Cyber Security Coordinator's promising women founded start-ups to provide a ➢ Under Swachh Rail, Swacch Bharat office in partnership with Data Security Council comprehensive start-up support programme. cleanliness assessment 2019, Jaipur Junction (DSCI) of India launched TechSagar – a has top the tally among 720 stations covered all platform to discover India’s technological Govt plans 'Indradhanush 2.0' for over the country. capability through a portal. recapitalisation of public sector banks ➢ Jodhpur bagged second place where sub ➢ The portal will list business and research ➢ Government plans to come out with urban station of Jaipur Durgapura has been entities from the IT industry, startups, academia, 'Indradhanush 2.0', a comprehensive plan for places third. and individual researchers. recapitalisation of public sector lenders, with a ➢ As India aspires to become a trillion dollar view to make sure they remain solvent and fully Karnataka tops first ever India Innovation digital economy, the repository will facilitate new comply with the global capital adequacy norms, Index launched by NITI Aayog opportunities for businesses and academia to Basel-III 'Indradhanush 2.0' will be finalised ➢ The first-ever India Innovation Index was collaborate, connect and innovate in future. after completion of the Asset Quality Review launched by NITI Aayog in New Delhi in order ➢ Launched by Lt. Gen (Dr) Rajesh Pant, (AQR) by the Reserve Bank, which is likely to be to promote competitiveness among the states. National Cyber Security Coordinator of India, completed by March-end. ➢ Karnataka has emerged the topper among TechSagar is a consolidated and comprehensive Social welfare initiative ‘Odisha-Mo Parivar’ major states. Tamil Nadu is second and repository of India’s cyber tech capabilities which launched by Naveen Patnaik Maharashtra is on the third position followed by provides actionable insights about capabilities of ➢ Chief Minister and BJD supremo Naveen Telangana, , , Uttar Pradesh, West the Indian Industry. Patnaik launched ‘Odisha-Mo Parivar’, a social Bengal, Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh. CCI approves infrastructure development service initiative of the party aimed at finished last in the list of 17 major states. worth 25000 crores for Arunachal Pradesh encouraging environment protection, blood ➢ Among the North-Eastern states, Sikkim ➢ The Cabinet Committee for Infrastructure donation and the welfare of Odias in distress. and among Union Territories Delhi has occupied (CCI) met for the second time under the ➢ The Chief Minister said under the programme, the top spot. Chairmanship of Chief Minister Pema Khandu party leaders will dedicate themselves to protect ➢ The aim of innovation index is to move states and approved proposals worth Rs 25000 crore the environment and undertake extensive from competitive populism to competitive good for infrastructure development in the state. planting of trees, and create awareness among governance ➢ The approved proposal is for taking up capital the public. Naveen appointed former Mumbai works pertaining to various departments across Police Commissioner and BJD leader Arup NITI Aayog the state. Patnaik as convenor of the programme for its Chairman: Narendra Modi ➢ The State has decided to introduce ten electric implementation. Chief Executive Officer: Amitabh Kant buses between Itanagar and Naharlagun on a ➢ The programme will focus on three major Vice Chairman: Dr Rajiv Kumar pilot basis in partnership with NTPC. areas - environment, health care services and Panchayati Raj Minister to confer National Railways to implement Rs 18,000-crore assistance to poor and deprived people. Under Panchayat Awards 2019Pic tweeted by AI project to run trains at 160 kmph the programme, the BJD will undertake massive ➢ Minister of Panchayati Raj Narendra Singh ➢ The Indian Railways will implement a Rs plantation drive by creating awareness among Tomar will confer the National Panchayat Awards 18,000-crore project to operate trains at a people about environment protection. 2019 at a function in New Delhi. The Awards will speed of 160 kmph on the busy Delhi-Mumbai Yogi Adityanath launches Mukhya Mantri be given to awardee Panchayats and States in and Delhi-Kolkata routes by upgrading Kanya Sumangala Yojana various categories. infrastructure, Railway Board Chairman VK ➢ Mukhya Mantri Kanya Sumangala Yojana ➢ As many as 246 awards will be given out of Yadav. was launched in Uttar Pradesh by Chief Minister which 195 awards will be given in Deen Dayal ➢ Once the project begins, it will take at least Yogi Adityanath. Upadhyay Panchayat Sashaktikaran Puraskar four years to complete, he said after inaugurating ➢ The programme aims at empowering the girl category and six states will be awarded in e- the International Rail Conference-2019 and child for which an amount of 15 thousand Panchayat Puraskar category. the 13th International Railway Equipment rupees will be provided to every family in which ➢ The awards are given to the best performing Exhibition. The events have been organised by a girl child takes birth. Panchayats in recognition of their good work at the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in different levels including the delivery of services association with the Railways at Aerocity here. RANKING AND INDEX and sanitation. ➢ The Indian Railways's target is to operate high Kerala Tops Niti Aayog's School Education Alice Walton of the Walmart dynasty topped speed trains in two categories -- at 160 kmph on Quality Index in List of 20 States, UP at the as the richest woman in the world in the the Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Kolkata routes, and Bottom 2019 edition of the Forbes 400 list up to 320 kmph under the ongoing bullet train ➢ Kerala has emerged on top among 20 large ➢ Forbes released its 2019 edition of the project between Mumbai-Ahmedabad states in terms of quality of school education, Forbes 400 list that ranks the wealthiest people Prakash Javadekar launches first national followed by Rajasthan and Karnataka. in America. protocol to enumerate snow leopard ➢ The report, titled 'The Success of Our Schools- ➢ Alice Walton of the Walmart dynasty topped population in India School Education Quality Index' (SEQI) and as the richest woman in the world. She has a net ➢ Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate jointly released by the Niti Aayog, Ministry of worth of $51.4 billion. Change launched the first national protocol to Human Resource Development and the World ➢ The Waltons are the wealthiest family dynasty enumerate the snow leopard population in the Bank. in the US. To make it into the list, the individuals country on the occasion of International Snow ➢ While the most-populous Uttar Pradesh was need a minimum net worth of $2.1 billion. Leopard Day. The Day is celebrated on ranked at the bottom position during 2016-17, ➢ Julia Koch stood second with a net worth of October 23 every year to protect and conserve according to a report released by the Niti Aayog. $41 billion and MacKenzie Bezos stood 3rd with the snow leopards. ➢ The overall performance score for the large a net worth of $41 billion. ➢ At the Inaugural session of the 4th steering states ranged from 76.6 per cent for Kerala to India slips 10 places on global committee meeting of the Global Snow Leopard 36.4 per cent for Uttar Pradesh. competitiveness index; Singapore on top and Ecosystem Protection Program in Delhi, Cleanliness survey: Jaipur, Jodhpur, He expressed happiness that 2,967 tigers reside Durgapura emerge top three ranking railway ➢ India has moved down 10 places to rank in India, which is 77 per cent of the world tiger station 68th on an annual global competitiveness population. ➢ Three railway stations in Rajasthan bagged index, largely due to improvements witnessed by ➢ Snow leopards play a critical role in their top honours in the railways' cleanliness survey several other economies, while Singapore has ecosystem as top predators. 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➢ India, which was ranked 58th in the annual India Slips to 102nd Place on Global Hunger the other hand, registered the highest total rate Global Competitiveness Index 2018 compiled by Index, Pakistan, Nepal Far Better at Feeding of crime against women. Geneva-based World Economic Forum (WEF), is their Citizens ➢ Delhi lived up to its reputation of being the among the worst-performing BRICS nations along ➢ India has been classified as a country with city with the highest number of crimes against with Brazil (ranked even lower than India at 71st ‘serious’ levels of hunger according to this year’s women. Lucknow topped the charts with the this year). Global Hunger Index (GHI), slipping from highest total rate of crime. Top 5 countries of the list: 95th rank in 2010 to 102nd in 2019. The ➢ India registered a 6.16% rise in crimes 1) Singapore country with the severest problem of hunger at against women in 2017 when compared to 2016. 2) The US rank 117 is the Central African Republic. With 5,562 cases, the highest number of rape 3) Hong Kong SAR ➢ The annual report says among the 117 incidents were registered in Madhya Pradesh. 4) Netherlands countries ranked, 47 countries are in ‘serious’ and ➢ The list reported Assam as Most Unsafe 5) Switzerland ‘alarming’ hunger levels and one in ‘critically State and Lucknow as Most Unsafe City. The alarming’. lowest rate of crimes committed against women Forbes India Rich List 2019: Mukesh Ambani ➢ India’s dismal performance on hunger is was recorded in Nagaland. Seven women faced retains top position for 12th straight year; directly linked to the high levels of child crimes for every one lakh of them. It is followed Adani leaps eight spots to 2nd rank undernourishment. Neighbouring countries like by Sikkim with 17 cases and Mizoram with 25 ➢ Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) Chairman Nepal (73rd), Sri Lanka (66th), Bangladesh cases. Mukesh Ambani has once again bagged the (88th), Myanmar (69th) and Pakistan number one spot with $51.4 billion net worth (94th), although all in the ‘serious’ hunger IIT Bombay tops QS India university on Forbes' list of richest Indians for the year category are better at feeding its citizens than rankings 2020 2019. India, according to this index. China (25th) has ➢ The Indian Institute of Technology ➢ Infrastructure tycoon Gautam Adani came a moved to a ‘low’ severity category and Sri Lanka Bombay (IITB) has topped the Quacquarelli close second as he jumped 8 spots on the list with is in the ‘moderate’ severity. Symonds (QS) India University Rankings 2020 a net worth of $15.7 billion. released. Six other IITs have also made it to the ➢ This is the 12th consecutive year that India ranked 82nd in the 2019 World Giving list of top 10 institutes. Ambani has topped the list despite being a Index (WGI) ➢ Bengaluru’s Indian Institute of Science has 'challenging year' for the Indian economy, ➢ India ranked 82nd in the 2019 World been ranked second followed by the IITs in Delhi, according to the American business magazine. Giving Index (WGI).The survey ranking was Madras, Kharagpur, Kanpur, Roorkee, and India jumps to 7th spot in Brand Finance released by the Charities Aid Foundation Guwahati. Nation ranking (CAF), an international organization. ➢ The University of Hyderabad (8) and the ➢ India jumped two levels to 7th position in ➢ It aims to promote giving to transform lives University of Delhi (7) are the only two central the Brand Finance Nation ranking of 2019 and communities across the World. varsities among the top 10 institutes. Last year, despite the reduction in the overall economic ➢ As per the WGI report, India showed the University of Delhi was ranked 7 and the growth due to slowdown in the manufacturing and that 34% of people helped a University of Hyderabad 8. construction sectors. stranger, 24% donated money, Global Wealth Report 2019: Global wealth ➢ Last year, Canada was at the 7th position and 19% volunteered or donated their time. rises by 2.6% driven by US & China, despite which has dropped to 8th position. South Korea, ➢ USA topped the WGI 2019 list. It is followed trade tensions which was at the 10th position last year, has by Myanmar, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, ➢ Credit Suisse Research Institute publishes managed to jump a level up to reach the 9th Canada, UK, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia. Nepal its tenth edition of the Global Wealth Report, the position. ranked 53, and Pakistan ranked 69. most comprehensive and up-to-date source of ➢ Italy, which was at 8th position last year, ➢ The bottom three countries on the list are information on global household wealth. slipped to the 10th, while the US, China and Yemen, Greece, and China. ➢ Global wealth grew during the past year by Germany continued to be the top three nations, Charities Aid Foundation (CAF): 2.6% to USD 360tn and wealth per adult respectively even in 2019. Founded: UK, 1974 reached a new record high of USD 70,850, 1.2% ➢ Japan and the UK swapped positions with Headquarters: Kent, UK above the level of mid-2018. US, China and the former jumping to 4th, while the latter falling CAF is a registered UK charity. It promotes Europe contributed the most towards global to 5th position as against its ranking last year. general donation to charities. wealth growth with USD 3.8tn, USD 1.9tn and Mumbai 12th wealthiest city in the world, With 21 unicorns, India third on list of USD 1.1tn respectively. New York number one with 65 billionaires billion-dollar tech start-ups; US, China lead Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates overtook Jeff ➢ Mumbai is the 12th richest city in the world ➢ India, with 21 unicorns, stands a distant Bezos to once again become the world’s with a total wealth of $960 billion, according to third to China and the US in the inaugural Hurun richest person. a report by New World Health. Global Unicorn List 2019, a ranking of the ➢ Amazon chief Jeff Bezos is no longer the ➢ It is the only Indian city to feature in the top world’s billion-dollar tech start-ups compiled by wealthiest man on the planet, according to 20 list of wealthiest cities in the world. the China-based Hurun Research Institute. reports. That privilege now belongs to Microsoft ➢ Delhi is on 22nd position and second Indian ➢ China, with 206 unicorns and the US, with founder Bill Gates, 63, who has retaken his city after Mumbai on the wealth intelligence firm's 203, dominate the list with over 80% of the place as the man with the most money on the 'The Wealthiest Cities Worldwide in 2019' list. world’s known unicorns, despite representing planet. Bangalore is on 26th spot while Hyderabad only half of the world’s GDP and a quarter of the ➢ Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos lost the came last at 28. world’s population. title as the world’s richest man to Bill Gates, after losing nearly $7 billion in stock value leaving his Tata Consultancy Services most outstanding Hailakandi becomes the first district in net worth to $103.9 billion. company Assam to introduce a digital system ➢ Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is currently ➢ Tata Consultancy Services most ➢ Hailakandi has become the first district in worth $105.7 billion. outstanding company in India's IT services Assam to introduce a digital system and the state sector in Asiamoney's 2019 in Asia's government employees will need to file their SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY outstanding companies poll. leave applications online. Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT- World Bank cuts India's growth projection ➢ The government employees working under M) has developed Eye in the Sky, an to 6% the district administration can proceed on leave Artificial Intelligence (AI) only after getting a digital approval as henceforth ➢ A team of engineering students from Centre ➢ After a broad-based deceleration in the initial no leave application on paper will be accepted; For Innovation (CFI) Indian Institute of quarters of this fiscal year, India's growth rate District Deputy Commissioner Keerthi Jalli Technology Madras (IIT-M) have is projected to fall to 6%. inaugurated the new online leave module at her developed Eye in the Sky, an Artificial ➢ In 2018-19, the growth rate of the country office. Each employee has been allotted a login ID Intelligence (AI) and Computer vision-based stood at 6.9%, However, the bank in its latest and password to apply for leave in the 'Manav technology. edition of the South Asia Economic Focus said Sampada' website. ➢ It is used for disaster management and aid the country was expected to gradually recover to Delhi Lives Up to Its Reputation, Registers services. The technology utilizes drones with 6.9% in 2021 and 7.2% in 2022 as it assumed Highest Number of Crimes Against Women swarm intelligence for collecting data and that the monetary stance would remain ➢ Uttar Pradesh topped the list of states with analyzing it in real-time. accommodative, given benign price dynamics. most number of crimes against women, according ➢ The technology aims to develop an end-to- ➢ In 2018-19, it stood at 6.8%, down from to the annual report of the National Crime end solution to identify accurate and critical 7.2% in the 2017-18 financial year. Records Bureau (NCRB) for 2017. Assam, on

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Hemaltha were present on the completing human space exploration. flashes in Earth's atmosphere has begun its work occasion. on the International Space Station (ISS). ➢ The postal stamp has been brought out under AWARDS AND RECOGNITION: ➢ It has already collected its first data, the ‘Corporate My Stamp’ scheme of India K Siva Reddy to to be conferred the Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics of Posts. prestigious Saraswati Samman, 2018 Lomonosov Moscow State University (SINP ➢ A one-time award instituted to commemorate ➢ Telugu poet K Siva Reddy is to be conferred MSU). NIN’s centenary called the ‘ICMR-NIN- the prestigious Saraswati Samman, 2018, for ➢ The telescope was delivered to the ISS aboard Centenary Award’ was also conferred on C. his collection of poems titled Pakkaki Ottigilite the unmanned Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft back in Gopalan, the legendary nutrition scientist who (Turning Aside While Lying Down). August. passed away at the age of 101 on October 3. ➢ The award, instituted by the KK Birla ➢ The telescope was created by SINP MSU staff, "Biodiversity Hotspot": 6 New Lizard Foundation, is given annually for an outstanding MSU physics students and their Italian colleagues Species Discovered In Western Ghats literary work written in any official Indian from the Tor Vergata University as part of the ➢ Six new lizard species of ''Dravidogecko'' language and published during the preceding 10 JEM-EUSO international collaboration. family have been identified in the Western years. Giant Meat-Eating Dinosaur Which Lived 145 Ghats by a group of scientists, who claim this to ➢ It is the highest recognition in the field of Million Years Ago Discovered in Thailand be a significant development as only one species Indian literature and carries a cash purse of Rs 15 ➢ A new species of predatory dinosaur that was of the genus was known so far. lakh, apart from a citation and a plaque. four times bigger than a velociraptor and lived ➢ ''Dravidogecko anamallensis'' evolved President Kovind to confer Vayoshreshtha around 145 million years ago has been unearthed around 58 million years ago when the Indian sub- Samman-2019FILE PIC in Thailand. continent was separated from the African land, ➢ President Ram Nath Kovind will confer the ➢ The 26 feet long dinosaur is an early member Pune-based Foundation for Biodiversity Vayoshreshtha Samman-2019 on the eminent of a widespread group of dinosaurs called Conservation's director Varad Giri, who was also senior citizens and institutions in recognition of Carcharodontosaurids. Carcharodontosaurids part of the research team. their services towards the cause of the elderly included some of the largest land predators ever IIT Kharagpur graduate develops device to persons. known: Giganotosaurus, Mapusaurus, curb air pollution ➢ The award will be given a function in New Carcharodontosaurus, and Tyrannotitan. Delhi. The Vayoshreshtha Samman is a Scheme ➢ The findings were published in the scientific ➢ An IIT Kharagpur graduate Debayan Saha, of awards instituted by the Social Justice journal PLOS One. The remains included skull, invented a device called "PM 2.5" which he and Empowerment Ministry and gradually backbone and hip fossils that came from belonged claimed when fitted near the silencer pipe in upgraded to the status of National Awards for to four individuals of the new species, dubbed vehicles will curb air pollution. One car fitted with institutions involved in rendering distinguished Siamraptor suwati. the device can neutralise the pollution emitted service for the cause of elderly persons. ➢ The fossilised remains were found in the Thai from 10 cars in its vicinity. ➢ These awards are presented as part of the province of Nakhon Ratchasima and were ➢ "The technology developed by us uses a celebration of the International Day of Older analysed by Palaeontologists Duangsuda combination of electric energy and wave energy Persons on 1st October. Chokchaloemwong of the Nakhon Ratchasima to influence the pollutants like PM 2.5 such that Rajabhat University. they act like magnet attracting other particulate M Venkaiah Naidu presents Most Eminent International Astronomical Union names pollutants from the ambient atmosphere to get Senior Citizen Award to K Parasaran asteroid after Pandit attached to it. ➢ Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu presented ➢ The International Astronomical Union German Scientists have discovered the Most Eminent Senior Citizen Award to legal (IAU) has named an asteroid, discovered in world’s fastest ant which runs at speeds luminary and former Attorney General K. 2006, after Indian classical singer Pandit Jasraj. equivalent of 360mph in humans. Parasaran at a function in New Delhi. ➢ The asteroid, or more formally known as a ➢ German Scientists have discovered the ➢ Mr Parasaran was honoured with the award on minor planet, is located between Mars and world’s fastest ant which runs at speeds the occasion of the Elder’s Day celebration of Age Jupiter, and was discovered on November 11, equivalent of 360mph in humans. Care India, an organization working for the 2006, by the Catalina Sky Survey, whose ➢ The Saharan silver ant – named after where welfare of the elderly. telescopes are based in Arizona in the United it lives – can put in 50 strides a second, covering States. a distance of nearly a metre (85.5cm). To put this gets most effective First-of-Its-Kind Satellite Servicing in perspective Usain Bolt does four strides a Swachhata Ambassador Award Spacecraft Launches on Russian Rocket second. ➢ President Ram Nath Kovind presented the ➢ The robotic Mission Extension Vehicle-1 ➢ The ants scavenge the corpses of other most effective Swachchta Ambassador award (MEV-1) launched atop a Russian Proton creatures during the hottest part of the day where to cricketer Sachin Tendulkar on the occasion of rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in temperatures can reach 60C. 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Kazakhstan. In Odisha’s first robotic restaurant, two ➢ Addressing the India Today Safaigiri ➢ MEV-1, which was built by Virginia-based humanoids to serve customers Summit in New Delhi, he said, in the past five Company Northrop Grumman, launched along ➢ A restaurant in Bhubaneswar opened its years, the sanitation drive launched in the with the Eutelsat 5 West B communications doors to customers claiming to be the first eatery country had truly become a mass movement. satellite. If all goes according to plan, both in eastern India where two indigenously England’s Ben Stokes wins Players’ Player of spacecraft will deploy into a supersynchronous developed robots will serve customers. the Year at Professional Cricketers’ transfer orbit about 16 hours after liftoff. ➢ ‘Champa’ and ‘Chameli’, the two Association awards NASA launches satellite Icon to explore humanoid robots rolled on the floor of the ➢ England all-rounder Ben Stokes has been space “Robo Chef” restaurant in Chandrasekharpur voted Players’ Player of the Year at the ➢ NASA launched a satellite to explore the area of Bhubaneswar served food to the waiting Professional Cricketers’ Association awards. mysterious, dynamic region where air meets customers. ➢ The 28-year-old then repeated his heroics space. The satellite - called Icon, short for ➢ After serving them food, the two robots even with a superb match-winning 135 not out in the Ionospheric Connection Explorer- rocketed chimed “Apana mane khushi to” (Are you third Ashes Test against Australia. into orbit following a two-year delay. happy), a phrase popularised by chief minister Azizbek Ashurov, a lawyer, has been ➢ It was dropped from a plane flying over the Naveen Patnaik during his 2019 election selected as the 2019 winner of the UN Atlantic off the Florida coast. Five seconds after campaign. Refugee Agency’s Nansen Refugee Award. the satellite's release, the attached Pegasus NASA's All-Women Spacewalk Makes ➢ Azizbek Ashurov, a lawyer, whose work rocket ignited, sending Icon on its way. A NASA History: "One Giant Leap For Womankind" has supported the efforts of the Kyrgyz Republic satellite launched Gold, last year, is also studying ➢ Two NASA astronauts, Christina Koch and in becoming the first country in the world to end the upper atmosphere, but from much higher up. Jessica Meir, set history by performing an all- statelessness, has been selected as the 2019 NIN postal stamp to commemorate its female spacewalk. winner of the UN Refugee Agency’s Nansen centenary celebrations ➢ Christina Koch and Jessica Meir space-walked Refugee Award. ➢ Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare outside the International Space Station ➢ The prestigious annual prize honours Harsh Vardhan released a postal stamp to individuals, groups and organizations who go to ______7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute.in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 20 |LEGEND MAGAZINE | OCTOBER - 2019| extraordinary lengths to protect refugees, investigation and intelligence gathering on UNESCO honours conservation of 3 Mumbai displaced and stateless people around the world. poachers. icons Scientist trio from UK, US bags Nobel ➢ Pandey will receive the award on November Medicine Prize for research on how cells 13 at the United Nations Conference Centre in ➢ This is a moment of pride for Mumbai and sense oxygen Bangkok. India, as three landmarks from the city - Flora Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Polish Fountain, Gloria Church at Byculla and ➢ US researchers William Kaelin and Gregg writer Olga Tokarczuk for 2018 and to Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue at Kala Godha Semenza and Britain's Peter Ratcliffe shared Austrian author Peter Handke for 2019 - have won the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for the Nobel Medicine Prize for discoveries on how Cultural Heritage Conservation this year!. cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability, ➢ The 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature has been ➢ Conservation architect Vikas Dilwari and his the Nobel Assembly said. announced along with the 2018 Prize. The team who restored Flora Fountain, received the ➢ "They established the basis for our Swedish Academy said, Austrian author Peter award under the category ‘Honourable understanding of how oxygen levels affect cellular Handke has won the 2019 Prize while Polish Mention.’ metabolism and physiological function," the jury writer Olga Tokarczuk has received the 2018 ➢ The Jewish Synagogue restored by Abha said. Prize. Narain Lambah was given the ‘Award of Merit’ ➢ Their research has "paved the way for ➢ Handke was honoured for an influential work and Gloria Church restored by David Cardoz promising new strategies to fight anemia, cancer that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the and Ainsley Lewis received the same award. and many other diseases." periphery and the specificity of human ➢ The three will share the Nobel Prize sum of experience. His notable works include "Short GoAir bags ‘Best Airline’ award at Andaman nine million Swedish kronor (about USD Letter, Long Farewell" and "A Sorrow Tourism Award 2019 914,000). Beyond Dreams". ➢ GoAir has received the ‘Best Airline’ award ➢ They will receive their prize from King Carl ➢ Tokarczu first novel, "The Journey of the by Andaman Tourism Award - 2019 in its first XVI Gustaf at a formal ceremony in Stockholm People of the Book," was released in 1993.She edition for its leadership in attaining on-time on December 10, the anniversary of the 1896 has also won the Booker International Prize performance for 12 consecutive months. death of scientist Alfred Nobel who created the for her 2007 novel "Flights". ➢ Andaman Tourism Award was organised at prizes in his last will and testament. ➢ Tokarczuk becomes just the 15th woman to Port Blair in association with the tourism Nobel Prize in physics for three scientists for have won the prestigious distinction, out of 116 ministry and Andaman Association of Tour their discoveries in cosmologyTweeted literature laureates honoured since Operators. 1901.Tokarczuk and Handke each take home a ➢ Andaman Association of Tour Operators ➢ Nobel Prize 2019 for Physics has been cheque worth nine million kronor, or 912,000 President M Vinod and actor R Sarath Kumar announced. Three scientists, James Peebles, US dollars. presented the award to General Manager - Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz have won the Nobel Peace Prize: Ethiopia PM Abiy Ahmed Airports Sarvesh Tiwari and Airport Manager, Port Prize for their contribution to the understanding wins Blair Aman Kohli of GoAir. of the evolution of the universe and earth's ➢ The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize has been Jennifer Aniston to receive People's Icon place in the cosmos. awarded to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Award 2019 ➢ One half of the award was given to James who made peace last year with bitter foe Eritrea. ➢ Jennifer Aniston the actress-producer is set Peebles for theoretical discoveries in physical ➢ He was awarded the prize for his efforts to to receive the People`s Icon Award at the 2019 cosmology and the other half jointly to Michel "achieve peace and international cooperation". People`s Choice Awards. Mayor and Didier Queloz for the discovery of an ➢ Mr Abiy's peace deal with Eritrea ended a 20- ➢ The actress would be the second-ever exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star. year military stalemate following their 1998-2000 recipient of the title and will receive the honour at ➢ They will share a 9-million kronor cash border war. the 2019 People`s Choice award. Last year, award, a gold medal and a diploma. The ➢ He was named as the winner of the 100th Melissa McCarthy accepted the trophy for the laureates will receive them at a ceremony in Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, where he will inaugural award. The `Morning Show` star is best Stockholm on December 10. receive the award in December. known for her performance in `Friends`. ➢ It is worth some nine million Swedish crowns YES BANK WINS DIGITAL PAYMENTS Chemistry Nobel Prize 2019 goes to (about £730,000; $900,000). AWARD AT MEITY STARTUP SUMMIT 2019 Goodenough, Whittingham, Yoshino for Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, Wife ➢ YES BANK, India’s fourth largest private development of lithium-ion batteries Esther Duflo Win Nobel Prize For Economics sector bank, won the DigiDhan Mission Digital ➢ Three scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize P Payments Award 2018-19 for ‘Overall in Chemistry for their contributions to the ➢ The 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics has Performance in Digital Payments’ at the MeitY development of lithium-ion batteries, which been jointly won by Indian-American Abhijit Startup Summit 2019 held in Delhi. have reshaped energy storage and transformed Banerjee, his wife, Esther Duflo, and Michael ➢ The award was presented by Chief Guest, cars, mobile phones and many other devices in an Kremer of the United States for their Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister of Communication, increasingly portable and electronic world. experimental approach to alleviating global Electronics & IT and Law & Justice. ➢ The prize went to John B. Goodenough of poverty. Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee gets life the University of Texas; M. Stanley ➢ The President, the Vice President and the membership of Mohun Bagan Athletic Club Whittingham of the State University of New York Prime Minister have extended their ➢ The Mohun Bagan Athletic Club conferred at Binghamton; and Akira Yoshino of Asahi congratulations to Abhijeet Banerjee, Esther life membership to Nobel laureate Abhijit Kasei Corporation and Meijo University in Japan. Duflo and Michael Kremer on winning the Nobel Banerjee. Goodenough, at 97, becomes the oldest Prize in Economics for their experimental ➢ Srinjoy Bose, honorary club assistant general winner of a Nobel prize. approach to alleviating global poverty. secretary, and other club officials met the ➢ President Ram Nath Kovind said their economist at his paternal residence here and PepsiCo India wins US award for saving research has helped economists better conferred him with the life membership of more than 17 billion litres of water understand how to fight poverty in India and the Mohun Bagan Athletic Club. world. ➢ The United States named PepsiCo India for E.U.’s Sakharov human rights prize awarded the 2019 Secretary of State's Award for Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo to jailed Uighur intellectual, probably Corporate Excellence (ACE), recognising its jointly win Booker Prize y angering China efforts to save more than 17 billion litres of ➢ Margaret Atwood and Bernardine ➢ The European Union awarded its highest water through community water programs and Evaristo have jointly won the 2019 Booker human rights prize to the imprisoned Uighur positively impacting 60,000 community Prize after judges flout the rules by declaring a intellectual Ilham Tohti in a move that members. ACE was established in 1999. tie. British Indian novelist Salman Rushdie's pointedly rebuked China’s treatment of the IFS officer Ramesh Pandey selected for Asia tragicomic 'Quichotte' was among the six books Muslim ethnic minority and may draw a reprisal Environmental Enforcement Award by UNEP shortlisted for the prize. from Beijing. ➢ Senior Indian Forest Service officer Ramesh ➢ The Booker rules say the prize must not be ➢ Tohti, an economist who advocated greater Pandey has been selected for the prestigious divided, but the judges insisted they could not autonomy for the Uighurs of Xinjiang in western Asia Environmental Enforcement Award by separate Atwood's - 'The Testament' and 'Girl, China, was sentenced to life imprisonment in the United Nations Environment Programme. Woman, Other' by Evaristo, who is the first 2014 on separatism charges. He had spent years ➢ The 1996-batch IFS officer, posted as Chief black woman to win the prestigious award since criticizing Chinese government restrictions and Conservator Forests in Lucknow and Secretary, its creation in 1969. crackdowns on Uighur culture and calling for UP State Bio-diversity Board, is known for his

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Renowned kidney transplant surgeon- Dr. Prasar Bharati CEO gives away Rajbhasha World Steel Sajjan Jindal Hargovind Laxmishanker Trivedi AwardsAIR NEWS Association vice 5. Grammy awardee, Drummer - Ginger Baker ➢ Prasar Bharati CEO, Shashi Shekhar chairman Vempati gave away Rajbhasha Awards to the Director-General of Anup Kumar Singh BOOKS AND AUTHORS winners of Hindi Pakhwada competition held at National Security The Unquiet River: A biography of the Prasar Bharati secretariat. Guard (NSG). Brahmaputra ➢ The theme of the competition was Plastic Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey ➢ A book titled The Unquiet River: A Free India and Cleanliness drive. Department of biography of the Brahmaputra by BharatPe wins Innovation in Digital Investment and historian Arupjyoti Saikia is to be released in Payments Award at MeitY Start-up Summit Public Asset the month of November 2019. The book was in Delhi. Management published by Oxford University Press (OUP). ➢ BharatPe, India's largest merchant fin-tech Chairman of Staff Braj Raj Sharma The book reimagines the layered history of Assam company has won the DigiDhan Mission Fin- Selection with the river at the centre. tech Award 2018-2019 for 'Innovation in Commission Dark Feel, Eerie Cities: New Hindi Cinema in Digital Payments through Emerging Power Secretary. Sanjeev Nandan Sahai Neoliberal India Technology' at the MeitY Start-up Summit 2019 ➢ The book titled Dark Feel, Eerie Cities: New held in Delhi. CEO of Unique Pankaj Kumar Hindi Cinema in Neoliberal India, written by ➢ The award was presented by Chief Guest, Ravi Identification Sarunas Paunksnis, was released on 18 Shankar Prasad, Minister of Communication, Authority of India October 2019. Oxford University Press published Electronics & IT and Law & Justice. Minority Affairs Pramod Kumar Das the book. Sadin-Pratidin’s Lifetime Achievement Secretary Bridgital Nation Award to Homen Borgohain Next Ambassador of Godavarthi Venkata ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the ➢ The Sixth Sadin-Pratidin Achievers Award India to Republic of Srinivas book titled Bridgital Nation in New Delhi on 20 was presented at a function at Sriamanta Guinea Bissau October. He presented the first copy of the to Sankardeva Kalakshetra in the presence of Governor of Goa Satya Pal Malik . The book was written by N several social leaders drawing from different Policy advisor in the Ashok Malik Chandrasekaran, Chairman of Tata Sons, and spheres of the State’s social spectrum. Ministry of External Ms. Roopa Purushottam, Chief Economist & ➢ The Sadin-Pratidin group award is conferred Affairs Head of Policy Advocacy of Tata Sons. on persons who have excelled in their chosen area Honorary Life Graeme Smith of activities ranging from literature to corporate, Member of the IMPORTANT DAYS and from culture to sports. 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October World Mental Suicide October World ➢ Harmanpreet Kaur, India's captain in the 10 Health Day Prevention 24 Development shortest format became the first Indian October International Girl Girl force – Information Day cricketer to play 100 Twenty20 11 Child Day Unscripted and October United Nations Internationals (T20Is) as she took the field unstoppable 24 Day against South Africa in Surat. October World Obesity October World Polio Day Stories of ➢ Harmanpreet Kaur achieved this milestone 11 Day 24 Progress: Past before MS Dhoni and Rohit Sharma, who have October World Sight Day Vision First and present for played 98 T20Is for India. 11 World Polio ➢ Harmanpreet Kaur made her debut against October World Arthritis Time2Work Day. England in Taunton back in June 2009. The all- 12 Day October Ayurveda Day rounder has taken 27 wickets and scored 2,003 October World Egg Day Eat your egg 25 runs at an average of 28.61 so far in T20Is. 12 today and October World Engage the ICC women's ODI rankings: India maintains every day 27 Audiovisual Day Past Through second position October World Migratory Protect birds – for Heritage Sound and ➢ In the latest ICC women's ODI rankings, 12 Bird Day Be the solution Images India maintained their second position but to plastic increased the points lead over third-placed pollution October World Thrift Day England. October World Calamity Reduce 30 ➢ The ICC ranking released said, the Indian 13 Control Day (UN) disaster October Rashtriya Ekta women's team is now three points ahead of England. India now has 125 points against or UN damage to 31 Diwas England’s 122. International Day critical or National Unity for infrastructure Day ➢ In the T20 International ranking, India Natural Disaster and disruption October World Savings was placed at the fifth position. Reduction of basic 31 Day Surender Singh creates three world records at World Powerlifting C’ ship services ➢ Surender Singh of India created three world October World Standards Video records at the ongoing World Powerlifting 14 Day Standards SPORTS NEWS Championship in Berlin, Germany. 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October World White ➢ It is the 23-year-old's first 100m global medal Tennis: Novak Djokovic clinches Japan Open 15 Cane Day outdoors with the 200m to follow, where she is a title (guiding the strong contender for gold. ➢ World number one Novak Djokovic clinched blind) ➢ Jamaica's Fraser-Pryce, 32, powered to 10.71 the Japan Open tennis title today defeating October World Students seconds in Doha for her eighth world title while Australian qualifier John Millman 6-3, 6-2 in 15 Day Asher-Smith's 10.83 is a new British record. straight sets. 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Future. Radha Yadav (3 for 23) bowled brilliantly and ➢ This is Simone Biles' 21st medal at the October International Acting restricted South Africa to 98/8 in 20 overs. championships. With this title, she became the 17 Poverty together to Chasing a modest target skipper Harmanpreet most decorated women's gymnast in history. She Eradication Day empower Kaur slammed 34 not out off 32 balls as the defeated Russia's Svetlana Khorkina to win the children, their Women in Blue won in 17.1 overs. title. families and India Women vs South Africa Women: communities Maj AQ Khan Won Silver Medal in 53rd Asian Mithali Raj First Woman Cricketer To Play to end Body Building and Physique Sports International Cricket for over Two Decade poverty. Championship 2019, Indonesia. ➢ Mithali Raj completed 20 years in the October World Trauma international cricket, becoming the first-ever 17 Day ➢ Maj Abdul Quadir Khan of the Corps of woman cricketer player to achieve this feat. October National Signals brought laurels to India by winning a ➢ Mithali Raj achieved the milestone when she rd 20 Solidarity Day Silver Medal at the prestigious 53 Asian Body stepped on the field during the first One-day October National Better Data, Building and Physique Sports Championship held International (ODI) against South Africa at the 20 Statistics Day Better Lives at Batam, Indonesia Reliance Stadium in Vadodara. ➢ His prowess in the sport took a dramatic turn October World National Open Athletics Championships: while at 1 Signals Training Centre at Jabalpur 20 Osteoporosis Day Annu Rani Wins Javelin Throw Gold where he benefited immensely from the excellent October Police ➢ Annu Rani bagged the gold medal in the training infrastructure and accomplished coaches. 21 Commemoration women's javelin throw event at the 59th

Day National Open Athletics Championships. Harmanpreet Kaur Becomes First Indian To October Mole Day ➢ Annu, who set the national record at 62.43m Play 100 Twenty20 Internationals 23 to enter the women's javelin throw final at the World Championships in Doha earlier this month,

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Praveen Kumar becomes first Indian man to national record with a time of 11.22 seconds Army Wife Achieves Individual Guinness win gold at Wushu World Championships@ during the semi-finals at the National Open World Records ➢ Praveen Kumar became the first Indian man Athletics Championships in Ranchi. ➢ Kiran Uniyal, w/o a serving Colonel of Indian to win a Wushu World Championships gold, ➢ The previous national record was 11.26 Army has created Individual Guinness World beating Russel Diaz of Philippines in the 48kg seconds, held jointly by Dutee and Rachita Mistry. Records for “The most full contact knee category in Shanghai. The Indian saw off his With the time Dutee Chand also bettered her strikes in three minutes (one leg) (female), 263 Filipino opponent 2-1 in the men's Sanda event of personal best time. by 0.04 seconds, that she strikes” & “The most full contact knee strikes the 15th World Wushu Championships. registered at the Asian Athletics Championships alternate legs in one minute(female),120 ➢ Among other Indians in the fray, Poonam back in April this year. strikes”. The earlier records were of 177 strikes (women's 75kg) and Sanathoi Devi (women's Kenya's Kipchoge becomes first athlete to and 102 in female category respectively. 52kg) secured silver medals while Vikrant Baliyan run sub two-hour marathon ➢ The objective of both her records were to bagged the bronze in the men's 60kg category. ➢ Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge made history, promote martial arts for girls and women World Military Games: Anandan busting the mythical two-hour barrier for the safety and self-defence. While creating the record Gunasekaran opens India’s account, wins marathon on a specially prepared course in a for the most full contact knee strikes for three two gold medals huge Vienna park. minutes, she surpassed the existing male ➢ Para-athlete Anandan Gunasekaran won ➢ With an unofficial time of 1hr 59min category record of 226 knee strikes. two golds in the disabled men’s 100m and 400m 40.2sec, the Olympic champion became the first World Record: Mumbai's Yashasvi Jaiswal, IT1 events to open India’s medal count at the 7th ever to run a marathon in under two hours in the youngest cricketer to score 200 in One Day CISM World Military Games. Prater park with the course readied to make it as cricketPTI ➢ Gunasekaran clocked 12 seconds to win the even as possible. ➢ Mumbai teenager Yashasvi Jaiswal ed 100m, India’s first medal in the ongoing Games. ➢ The 34-year-old already holds the men's history as he became the youngest cricketer in Peru’s Casas Jose was second in 12.65s and world record for the distance with a time of 2hr the world to score a double century in One Day Fajardo Pardo Teodicelo of Colombia took bronze 01min 39sec, which he set in the flat Berlin cricket. His is the ninth instance of an Indian in 12.72s. marathon on September 16, 2018. scoring a List A double-ton. Jasprit Bumrah, Smriti Mandhana win India finish with 4 medals at World Women's ➢ Playing in his debut Vijay Hazare season, the Wisden India Almanack 'Cricketer of the Boxing Championships 17-year-old scored 203 off 154 balls against Year' award Jharkhand at Alur, Karnataka. His score ➢ Premier speedster Jasprit Bumrah and ➢ Debutant Manju Rani (48kg) was the lone comprised 12 sixes and 17 fours. batswoman Smriti Mandhana are the two Indian Indian to enter the final, while six-time champion Ayonika Paul won silver in the 10m air rifle names among the five winners of the prestigious M C (51kg) and two others signed off at the All India Railway Rifle Shooting Wisden India Almanack Cricketer of the Year with bronze medals in the World Women's Boxing Championship at Balewadi stadium award. Championships. Commonwealth Games’ silver medalist, Ayonika ➢ The other winners from Asia are Pakistan’s ➢ Mary Kom got third and defeated 1-4 to Paul, representing Central Railway, shot to the Fakhar Zaman, Sri Lanka’s Dimuth second seed Cakiroglu, who is the reigning second position in the individual 10m Air Rifle Karunaratne and Afghanistan Rashid Khan. European Championships and European Games event at the 54th All India Railway Rifle ➢ Cricket Country: The Untold History of the gold-medallist. Shooting Championship at the Balewadi Sports First All India Team by Prashant Kidambi has ➢ Complex .Born and brought up in Mumbai; been adjudged the Wisden India Book of the Year. Coco Gauff trounces Andrea Petkovic to Ayonika has trained under Austrian coach, Mithun's hat-trick helps Karnataka lift Vijay reach 1st career WTA Final Thomas Farnik. Hazare Trophy ➢ American teenager Coco Gauff has become Andy Murray won the men's singles title at ➢ Karnataka win 2019-20 Vijay Hazare the youngest player to enter to reach a WTA final the European Open 2019 Trophy by 60 runs (VJD method) held in since Czech Republic's Nicole Vaidisova. ➢ Andy Murray won the men's singles title at Bengaluru. ➢ Coco Gauff progressed to her maiden WTA the European Open 2019.He defeated ➢ Karnataka won their 4th Vijay Hazare final as she eased past Germany's Andrea Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka by scoring 3-6, 6- Trophy title with a dominant display against Petkovic 6-4 6-4 at the Linz Open. 4, 6-4. This is his 1st ATP title since March 2017. Tamil Nadu. ➢ The 15-year-old Gauff became the youngest ➢ The European Open is a men's Association of Piyush Goyal congratulates Prithvi Sekhar player to reach a WTA final since Czech Republic's Tennis Professionals (ATP) Tour 250 for winning gold at World Deaf Tennis Nicole Vaidisova won the Tashkent Open in 2004. tournaments. It was held in Antwerp, Belgium. Championship Raunak Sadhwani, 13, set to become India’s ➢ Union Minister of Railways Piyush Goyal India vs South Africa: Virat Kohli 5th Indian 65th Grand Master congratulated Prithvi Sekhar for winning a gold to score 250 in a Test innings ➢ Raunak Sadhwani,teen from Nagpur, who had medal at the World Deaf Tennis a training stint with former world champion Championship which was held in Turkey. ➢ Virat Kohli became only the fifth Indian Vladimir Kramnik is all set to become India’s ➢ Sekhar defeated Jaroslav Smedek of the batsman to score 250 in a Test innings after 65th Chess Grandmaster. Czech Republic 6-4, 6-3 to clinched the gold Virender Sehwag, Karun Nair, VVS Laxman, and ➢ The Indian has a round to go at the FIDE medal. Rahul Dravid on the second day of the second chess.com Grand Swiss 2019 and technically Test match against South Africa at the Mumbai needs his opponents to show up for the next OCTOBER LEGEND QUIZ Cricket Association Stadium in Pune. rounds so that he earns the third and final GM Q.1) Which state has emerged on top among 20 ➢ Virat Kohli, who has already scripted his name norm. large states in terms of quality of school in record books when he scored a record seventh Canadian Denis Shapovalov wins first ATP education, in a report, titled 'The Success of Our double hundred of his career, became the first title at Stockholm Open Schools-School Education Quality Index' (SEQI)? Indian captain to score 250 plus in a single Test a) Rajasthan b) Karnataka inning. ➢ The fourth-seeded Shapovalov, of Richmond c) Kerala d) Puducherry Priyanshu Rajawat claims men's singles title Hill, captured the Stockholm Open with a 6-4, 6- e) Jharkhand at Bahrain International Series R 4 win over Serbian Filip Krajinovic. Q.2) Air Chief Marshal ______took over as the ➢ Indian shuttler Priyanshu Rajawat claimed ➢ The Canadian was ranked No. 34 in the 26th Chief of the Air Staff at Air Headquarters the men's singles title at the Bahrain world prior but will crack the top-30 with this (Vayu Bhawan). International Series Badminton at Isa Town. result for the first time. a) BS Dhanoa ➢ Seventeen year old Rajawat beat top-seed Rohit Sharma becomes 3rd Indian batsman b) Rajendra Menon Jason Anthony Ho-Shue from Canada in the finals to reach top 10 in all formats@ImRo45 c) Subroto Mukherjee 16-21, 21-7, 21-12 in the summit clash. ➢ Rohit Sharma has become the third Indian d) Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria ➢ Top-seeded Indian mixed double pair of Juhi batsman to reach the top 10 in all three formats e) Anil Kumar Dewangan and Venkat Gaurav Prasad also after a memorable series against South Africa in Q.3) ______government has announced that finished at the top. They defeated Thailand's which he donned the new role of Test opener. it will give a cash incentive of Rs.10,000 to car Pannawat Theerapanitnun and Kanyanat

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Entrepreneurship ______has announced a commemorative postage stamp on Mahatma a) Telangana b) West Bengal minimum stipend of five thousand to nine Gandhi, honouring his legacy and values, to mark c) Assam d) Meghalaya thousand rupees per month will be given based the 150 birth anniversary of the world leader. e) Andhra Pradesh on one's qualification under Apprenticeship Act, a) Israel b) Australia Q.4) Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood a) Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank c) Palestine d) South Africa Qureshi said that his country has decided to invite b) Mahendra Nath Pandey e) Canada _____to attend the inaugural ceremony of the c) Kiren Riiju Q.27) As per the Appointments Committee of the Kartarpur Corridor. d) Sadanadha Gowda Cabinet (ACC), Government of India (GoI), a) Amit Shah b) Rajnath Singh e) Rajnath Singh ______has been appointed as the new c) Venkaiah Naidu d) Manmohan Singh Q.16) Prime Minister called upon people to Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of NBCC e) Ram Nath Govind eradicate single-use plastic from the country (National Buildings Construction Corporation) Q.5) The International Astronomical Union (IAU) by______at 'Swachh Bharat Diwas' Limited till September 30, 2023. has named an asteroid, discovered in 2006, after programme held in Ahmedabad a) Anoop Kumar Mittal Pandit Jasraj. Who is he? a) 2021 b) 2030 b) Pramod Chandra Mody a) Dancer b) Singer c) 2024 d) 2035 c) Subir Gokarn c) Social Activist d) Author e) 2022 d) Shanta Rangaswamy e) Film Director Q.17) Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina e) P K Gupta Q.6) Brahmos supersonic cruise missile was will be attending the India World Economic Forum Q.28) Name the mobile app_____ launched by successfully test-fired from Chandipur in Odisha Summit to be held in____ the government to help consumers register with the strike range of_____ a) Mumbai b) Uttar Pradesh complaints easily and get redressal within 60 a) 300 km b) 250km c) Ahmedabad d) New Delhi days. c) 480km d) 290km e) Chennai a) Customer App b) Consumer App e) 350km Q.18) Union Minister for Home affairs c) Redressal App d) PDS App Q.7) World Heart Day is observed every year on ______flagged off the Delhi-Katra Vande e) None of these 29th September, What is the Theme? Bharat Express, the first Vande Bharat Express Q.29) ______has been appointed the new a) Light Your Heart, Empower Your Life stared between Delhi to Varanasi from the New Managing Director of Punjab National Bank, the b) Share the power Delhi Railway Station. country's second largest public sector bank, who c) Heart Choices NOT Hard Choices a) Rajnath Singh b) Narendra Modi was the Managing Director & CEO of Allahabad d) One World, One Heart, One Home c) Amit shah d) Ram Nath Govind Bank. e) My Heart, Your Heart e) Piyush Goyal a) Amitabh Chaudhry Q.8) Which of the following has signed a Q.19) The nationwide Paryatan Parv, 2019 was b) P.S. Jayakumar Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Bank jointly inaugurated by Information and c) S S Mallaikarjuna Rao of Baroda, the 2nd largest Public Sector bank, to Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar, d) Aditya Puri serve the retired personnel? Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to e) A.S.Rajeev a) Indian Army promote______sector Q.30) Who recently quit the Board of Control for b) Indian Railways a) Railways b) Tourism Cricket in India (BCCI) Cricket Advisory c) Indian Air Force c) Agriculture d) Coal and mining Committee? d) Central Reserve Police Force e) Fisheries a) Kapil Dev b) Rahul Dravid e) Border Security Force Q.20) Which cricketer has been presented with c) Rahul Johri d) Sourav Ganguly Q.9) Reserve Bank of India has announced the most effective Swachchta Ambassador award e) None of these contests to promote innovations and ideas in the by President Ram Nath Kovind? Q.31) Under Swachh Rail, Swacch Bharat payment and settlement systems through a) Virat Koli b) MS Dhoni cleanliness assessment 2019,______Junction Institute for Development and Research in c) Rohit Sharma d) Sachin Tendulkar has top the tally among 720 stations covered all Banking Technology (IDRBT) headquartered e) Prithvi Shaw over the country. in______Q.21) Minister of Housing & Urban Affairs a) Ahmedabad b) Varanasi a) Chennai b) Hyderabad ______has launched Swachhata Hi Seva c) Jaipur d) Surat c) New Delhi d) Kolkata India Plog Run in New Delhi to commemorate the e) Hyderabad e) Mumbai 150th birth anniversary of the Mahatma Gandhi. Q.32) Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Q.10) Annu Rani has become the first Indian to a) Hardeep Singh Puri Mauritian counterpart jointly inaugurated two qualify for Women's Javelin Throw Final at World b) Dharmendra Pradhan landmark projects Metro Express and a new ENT Athletics Championships held in______c) Piyush Goyal Hospital in Mauritius. Who is the Prime Minister of a) Beijing b) Doha d) Gajendra Singh Shekhawat Mauritius? c) Tokyo d) Zurich e) Suresh Prabhu a) Seetanah Lutchmeenaraidoo e) Moscow Q.22) The Directorate General of Income Tax b) Navin Ramgoolam Q.11) The Reserve Bank of India has superseded (Investigation) said that illegal cash worth 4 crore c) Barlen Vyapoory the Board of Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative rupees approx. has been seized during ______d) Ibrahim Mohamed Solih Bank Limited, Mumbai and appointed ______as Assembly Elections e) Pravind Jugnauth the bank's administrator with all powers of the a) Haryana b) Chhattisgarh Q.33) Tenth edition of the Joint Military Exercise board. c) Maharashtra d) Bihar Ekuverin will be held between the Indian Army a) Waryam Singh b) K. K. Sharma e) Tamil Nadu and the ______National Defence Force at c) Chandra Pal Singh Yadav Q.23) Who implemented a computer-generated Aundh Military Station in Pune, Maharashtra. d) Ram Babu shandilya Document Identification Number (DIN) which will a) Singapore b) Japan e) Jai bhagwan bhoria ensure greater transparency and accountability in c) Maldives d) China Q.12) International Day for the Elderly person tax administration. e) Mauritius was observed on______? a) ITR b) CBIC Q.34) Which government has launched the Mo a) 24th September b) 2nd October c) CBSE d) UIDAI Sarkar or My Government initiative that aims at c) 29th September d) 1st October e) CBDT making governance more people-centric and to e) 30 October Q.24) ______set a new world record of seek feedback on the kind services they received? Q.13) Who among the following won gold in the more than 10 lakh students from schools and a) West Bengal b) Odisha 100m event in the 13th World Athletics colleges simultaneously read books for 45 c) Maharashtra d) Assam Championships 2019? minutes as part of ‘Padhe Lucknow, Badhe e) Goa a) Allyson Felix b) Marie-Josee Ta Lou Lucknow’ campaign. Q.35) The Ministry of Electronics and Information c) Fraser-Pryce d) Asher-Smith a) Arunachal Pradesh b) Uttar Pradesh Technology (MeitY) celebrated the 150th birth e) Wilson Singh c) Meghalaya d) Puducherry anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and observed the Q.14) In which Prime Minister Narendra Modi e) Kerala week as ‘Swachhta Hi Seva’, Who is the Minister launched the Ayushman Bharath scheme? Q.25) How many railway stations in Rajasthan for Electronics and Information Technology? a) 2017 b) 2019 bagged top honours in the railway’s cleanliness a) Piyush Goyal c) 2018 d) 2014 survey unveiled by Minister Piyush Goyal ? b) Suresh Prabhu e) 2016 a) 3 b) 6 c) 4 d) 2 e) 5 c) Ravi Shankar Prasad d) Nirmala Sitharaman

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RACEInstitute.in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 25 |LEGEND MAGAZINE | OCTOBER - 2019| e) Ram Vilas Paswan of their global military prowess, which country Q.60) Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tributes Q.36) Reserve Bank of India has cut the repo rate topped the list? to freedom fighter ______on his 162nd birth by 25 basis points, to _____% a) Russia b) China anniversary. a) 5.25 b) 5.35 c) USA d) France a) Lal Bahadur Shasri b) Mahatma Gandhi c) 5.20 d) 5.15 e) Sri Lanka c) Ambedkar d) Shyamji Krishna e) 5.40 Q.49) UCO Bank, recently became the regional Varma Q.37) Food Minister Ram Vilas Paswan kick- bank for the east, launched three new digital e) Jawaharlal Nehru started the inter-state portability of ration card to products UCash, Digilocker and an app Where is Q.61) The 39th World Congress of Poets based on implement 'One Nation, One Ration Card' across its headquarters? the theme, “Compassion through Poetry” was the country by June 1, 2020, between Telangana a) Chennai b) Mumbai held in______and Andhra Pradesh as well as Maharashtra and c) New Delhi d) Haryana a) New Delhi b) Hyderabad ______e) Kolkata c) Odisha d) Bihar a) Gujarat b) Haryana Q.50) Who has been appointed as the MD and e) Jharkhand c) Punjab d) Rajasthan CEO of Tata Communications? Q.62) India and Bangladesh will enable Delhi to e) Tripura a) Amur S Lakshminarayanan set up coastal surveillance system radar. How Q.38) Maj Abdul Quadir Khan won Silver Medal at b) Alice Walton many MoUs were signed between both the the prestigious 53rd Asian Body Building and c) Rajesh Gopinathan countries? Physique Sports Championship held at Batam d) T. V. Narendran a) Two b) Seven in______e) Natarajan Chandrasekaran c) Five d) Two a) China b) Indonesia Q.51) Which Country topped the IMD smart city e) Three c) Malaysia d) Thailand index for performing superbly in providing high Q.63) Green crackers developed by ______was e) India quality infrastructure, while at the same time displayed by the Health and Family Welfare Q.39) Which country will withdraw from the 14- adopting technologies in an efficient way? Minister Harsh Vardhan keeping in view the nation Organization of the Petroleum Exporting a) Norway b) Denmark pollution hazard and health risks. Countries (OPEC) from January 1, 2020 because c) Singapore d) Japan a) CMBD b) IIT of fiscal problems? e) Finland c) Agriculture University d) CSIR a) USA b) Israel Q.52) What is the theme of the World Space Week e) Department of Safety and Standards c) Ecuador d) Maldives as it celebrates the 50th anniversary of Q.64) Wildlife Week is celebrated in India e) Singapore humankind’s first step on the Moon on 20 July from 2nd to 8th October every year. What is the Q.40) Nomadic Elephant-XIV a joint military 1969. theme for 2019? training exercise will be held between India and a) Space Unites the World a) Life Below Water: For People And Planet Which country? b) The Moon: Gateway to the Stars b) Listen to the young voices a) Nepal b) USA c) Our Planet, Our Space, Our Time c) The future of wildlife is in our hands c) Japan d) Mongolia d) "Exploring New Worlds in Space" d) Protect and Preserve Big Cats e) Thailand e) Space Technology and Development e) Forest and Wildlife Q.41) Who won the Players’ Player of the Year at Q.53) Who achieved the milestone before MS Q.65) ______become the first country to ban Professional Cricketers’ Association awards at the Dhoni and Rohit Sharma, who have played 98 smacking as it is a criminal offence for parents to Professional Cricketers’ Association? T20Is for India and becomes first Indian to play smack their children. a) John Archer b) Williams Russell 100 Twenty20? a) Australia b) Canada c) Ben Stokes d) John Arlott a) Smriti Mandhana c) USA d) UK e) Eoin Morgan b) Harmanpreet Kaur e) China Q.42) State Bank of India (SBI) limited the c) Mithali Raj Q.66) Name the Indian- Origin number of cash withdrawals for customers using d) Anuja Patil Portuguese______who has been appointed micro-ATMs of other banks to just up to ______a e) Taniya Bhatia as the Prime Minister of Portugal month. Q.54) Who topped the richest woman in the world a) Aleksandr Martynov b) Henry Puna a) 4 b) 3 c) 5 d) 1 e) 2 in the 2019 edition of the Forbes 400 list? c) Timothy Harris d) Antonio Costa Q.43) RBI has revised the GDP outlook for a) Mackenzie Bezos b) Julia Koch e) Mark Rutte October 2019-20 to _____% from 6.9% during c) Jacqueline Mars d) Alice Walton Q.67) Name the English drummer and the the Monetary Policy committee meet. e) Susanne Klatten Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner who a) 6.2% b) 6.1% Q.55) Bandhan Bank and Gruh Finance are going died recently? c) 6% d) 5.75% to be merged by the National Company Law a) Travis Barker e) 6.4% Tribunal (NCLT). Gruh Finance is the affordable b) Edward Ginger Baker Q.44) Which company constructed a 0.85 km of housing finance arm of which private lender? c) Cindy Blackman road with plastic waste at Faridabad? a) ICICI b) HDFC d) Larry Mullen Jr. a) ONGC b) Indian Oil c) Axis d) IndusInd e) None of these c) Bharat Petroleum d) Reliance Petroleum e) Federal Q.68) Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare e) None of these Q.56) The Goa Maritime Conclave (GMC)-2019 launched the______website and mobile Q.45) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi was inaugurated by ______? application, the first ever national digital platform Adityanath flagged off ______the country's first a) Ajit Doval b) Rajnath Singh on oral health information and knowledge corporate run train between Lucknow-Delhi. c) Narendra Modi d) Bipin Rawat dissemination a) Shatabdi Express e) Ram Nath Govind a) eVidhaan b) eHealthseva b) Q.57) Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food c) eNivaaran d) eDantseva c) Ajanta Express and Public ______showcased the Bullet e) eBraillesev d) Teja Express Resistant Jackets made under the ‘Make in India’ Q.69) Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas e) Express initiative of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. ______was on a three-day visit to Mongolia Q.46) Who has been selected for the UN Refugee a) Suresh Prabhu b) Hasmit Kaur Badal and he will participate in the opening ceremony of Agency’s Nansen Refugee Award 2019? c) Sadhanada Gowda d) Piyush Goyal Mongol Refinery project. a) Zannah Mustapha b) Evan Atar Adaha e) Ram Vilas Paswan a) Suresh Prabhu b) Piyush Goyal c) Edward Kennedy d) Azizbek Ashurov Q.58) Which High Court has stayed the Congress c) Amit Shah d) Ananth Kumar e) Aqeela Asifi government decision to enhance reservation for e) Dharmendra Pradhan Q.47) Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare OBCs to 27% that took the overall reservation Q.70) The Supreme Court of India has ruled that Dr Harsh Vardhan launched ______logo of quota to 82% in the state. no Bharat Stage IV vehicle shall be sold across Food Safety & Standards Authority of India a) Chhattisgarh b) Maharashtra the country with effect from April 1, 2020 Instead, (FSSAI), at the 8th International Chefs’ c) Bihar d) Jammu Kashmir the ______emission norm would come into Conference (ICC VII). e) Telangana force from April 1, 2020 across the country. a) Stay Fit and Healthy b) Trans Fat Free Q.59) This first-ever three-day North-East a) BS V b) BS VII c) Eat Right India d) Yoga For Fitness Handloom and Handicraft Exhibition was held in? c) BS III d) BS VI e) Chefs for fat free a) Assam b) Tripura e) BS VIII Q.48) India’s military is placed fourth on a global c) Meghalaya d) Mizoram Q.71) Who inaugurated the National E- index that has ranked 133 countries on the basis e) Arunachal Pradesh Assessment Centre and Regional E-Assessment

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Center to implement the faceless assessment Q.83) Who clinched a record by winning the 21st a non-banking financial company. Who is CEO system for Income Tax Return? gold medal at the world championship held in and Founder of Shubh Loans? a) Nirmala Sitharaman Stuttgart, Germany? a) Polali Jayarama Bhat b) Monish Anand b) Ajay Bhusan Pandey a) Endri Karina b) Katrina Demanov c) Dr. N. Kamakodi d) Murali M. Natrajan c) Rajnath Singh c) Maria Vardanian d) Sunisa Lee e) Shyam Srinivasan d) Harsh vardhan e) Simone Biles Q.96) Union Minister for Health and Family e) None of these Q.84) Where was the 5th round of Foreign Office Welfare launched______initiative during the Q.72) The Indian Army’s biggest ever mountain Consultations between India and Mexico held? 13th Conference of Central Council of Health and combat military exercise Him Vijay was held in? a) Leon, Mexico b) New Delhi, India Family Welfare in New Delhi. a) Arunachal Pradesh b) Meghalaya c) Ahmedabad, India d) Tijuana, Mexico a) AROGYA b) SHUBHA c) Odhisa d) Vishakapatnam e) None of these c) SUMAN d) THARAN e) Assam Q.85) World Post Day is observed every year on e) UNNAT Q.73) Surender Singh of India created three October 9 by the Universal Postal Union (UPU), Q.97) Goa government launched ______as world records at the World Powerlifting which was established in ______the new integrated emergency number for police, Championship held in______a) 1894 b) 1872 fire and medical emergencies replacing the a) Russia b) Germany c) 1857 d) 1950 traditional dial number ‘100’. c) France d) UK e) 1874 a) 101 b) 112 c) 119 d) 102 e) 115 e) Poland Q.86) India celebrated ______anniversary of Q.98) Name the Cafe launched by the Q.74) William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza Indian Air Force Day on 8th October 2019? Chhattisgarh government for the poor people and and______won the Nobel Prize for medicine a) 56 b) 72 c) 87 d) 91 e) 65 rag pickers who will get free food in exchange for for their discoveries on how cells sense and adapt Q.87) Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the one kilogram of plastic? to oxygen availability. 'At Home' Reception of the Indian Air Force, IAF, a) Tasty Food Cafe b) Food Cafe a) Tasuku Honjo b) James P. Allison in New Delhi and a commemorative stamp was c) Garbage Cafe c) Peter Ratcliffe d) Greta Thunberg released on ______Marshal of Indian Air Force d) Food for Garbage Café e) None of these e) Edward Thomas a) S. K. Kaul b) Surinder Mehra Q.99) The government has announced Q.75) Who won the Japan open title by defeating c) Shashindra Pal Tyagi d) ______percent hike of Dearness Allowance the Australian qualifier John Millman? e) Pratap Chandra Lal (DA) from the existing 12% for Central a) Roger Federer b) Rafael Nadal Q.88) In Which state Justice S. Abdul Nazeer Government employees and pensioners. c) Andy Murray d) Jimmy Connors inaugurated the first government-sponsored and a) 7 b) 4 c) 5 d) 8 e) 10 e) Novak Djokovic operated Day Care-cum-Recreation Centre for Q.100) Which minister was on a five-day visit to Q.76) What is the rank of India in the annual senior citizens? Comoros and Sierra Leone. Which will be the first Global Competitiveness Index 2019? a) Chhattisgarh b) Jammu Kashmir high-level visit from India to the two African a) 56 b) 68 c) 36 d) 45 e) 54 c) Maharashtra d) New Delhi countries? Q.77) Justice Lingappa Narayana Swamy was e) Punjab a) Rajnath Singh b) Amit Shah sworn in as the Chief Justice of the Himachal Q.89) Who has been declared as Muslim Man of c) Dharmendra Pradhan d) Narendra Modi Pradesh High Court. Who is the present Governor the Year 2020 by Jordan’s Royal Islamic Strategic e) Venkaiah Naidu of Himachal Pradesh? Studies Centre? Q.101) The first-ever woman cricketer player to a) Satyadev Narayan Arya a) Asad Umar b) Mamnoon Hussain complete 20 years in the international cricket is? b) Satya Pal Malik c) Aitzaz Ahsan a) Harmanpreet Kaur b) Mithali Raj c) Bandaru Dattatreya d) Shah Mehmood Qureshi c) Smriti Mandhana d) Deepti Sharma d) Tathagata Roy e) Imran Khan e) Punam Yadav e) Pema Kandu Q.90) The government launched a device Q.102) The 9th Regional Comprehensive Q.78) ______won the 2019 Secretary of (GEMINI) that will help provide information Economic Partnership, RCEP Intersessional State's Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE), related to disaster warnings. GEMINI stands for? Ministerial meeting was held in______recognising its efforts to save more than 17 billion a) Gagan Enabled Mariner’s Instrument for a) Singapore b) France litres of water through community water Navigation and Information c) Thailand d) India programs. b) Gagan Enabled Monitoring Instrument for e) China a) AIR India Navigation and Information Q.103) Who inaugurated the Angikaar campaign b) Tata Communications c) Geo-earth Monitoring Instrument for to bring the beneficiaries of Pradhan Mantri Awas c) Larsen and Toubro Navigation and Information Yojana Urban (PMAY-U) under one fold of other d) Reliance Industries d) Geographic Envision Monitoring Instrument for central government implemented scheme. e) PepsiCo India Navigation and Information a) Nitish Kumar Q.79) Nobel Prize for Physics 2019 was won by e) None of these b) Tathagata Roy James Peebles and Michel Mayor and _____ for Q.91) A team of students from ______c) Pramod Pandurang Sawant their contribution to the understanding of the institute have developed Eye in the Sky, an d) Biplab Kumar Deb evolution of the universe and earth's place in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Computer vision- e) Ashok Gehlot cosmos? based technology which is used for disaster Q.104) The ministry of Women and Child a) John B. Goodenough b) Akira Yoshino management and aid services. Development (WCD) developed POSHAN atlas c) Stanley Whittingham d) Didier Queloz a) IBM Bengaluru b) CSIR under POSHAN abhiyan to map the crops and food e) Greta Thunberg c) IIT Kanpur d) TATA Institute grains grown in different regions of the country. Q.80) Which international organisation will host e) IIT Madras Who is the minister for WCD? the first World Cotton Day (WCD) celebrations to Q.92) World Mental Health Day is observed on? a) Sadanandha Gowda b) Smriti Irani implement the importance of cotton as a global a) October 20 b) October 9 c) Hasmirat Kaur Badal d) Ram Vilas Paswan commodity. c) October 10 d) November 6 e) Ananth Kumar a) WHO b) WTO e) July 15 Q.105) Name the app launched by Shri Hardeep c) UNESCO d) WMO Q.93) Indian Forest Service Officer Ramesh S Puri, Minister of State (I/c) for Housing & Urban e) UNICEF Pandey has been selected for the prestigious Asia Affairs Which is aimed to encourage Public Q.81) Chinese President Xi Jinping will be on a Environmental Enforcement Award by the engagement in planting trees and other such two-day visit to India for the Second Informal ______Organisation Green drives. Summit to be held at ______a) UNESCO b) UNCTD a) Medwatch b) mSecure a) Chennai b) Goa c) WTO d) UNEP c) mHariyali d) Dishari c) New Delhi d) Hyderabad e) UNGA e) Arpana e) Kolkata Q.94)Who has become the first company to drop Q.106) National Fertilizers Limited presented Q.82) The Centre has given its green nod for out of Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency, as the dividend of over 28 Crore Rupees to the developing a commercial airport in______, embattled project continues to face queries from Government of India for the year 2018-19.Who is entailing an investment of about Rs 1,400 crore, regulators around the world? the minister for Chemical and Fertilizers? to be developed by Mundra International Airport a) Twitter b) Patym a) Ananth Kumar Pvt Ltd. c) PayPal d) Google Pay b) Sadanandha Gowda a) Gujarat b) Assam e) Airtel c) Smriti Irani c) Jharkhand d) Uttar Pradesh Q.95) Fintech start-up Shubh Loans has received d) Narendra Singh Tomar e) Tripura a licence from the Reserve Bank of India to set up e) Ananth Geete

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Q.107) Who won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Q.120) India and Japan will hold a joint military b) Nirmala Sitharaman Literature for his influential work with linguistic exercise DHARMA GUARDIAN on counter- c) Ravi Shankar Prasad ingenuity has explored the periphery and the terrorism was held in? d) Praful Patel specificity of human experience? a) Osaka b) Tokyo e) Dharmendra Pradhan a) Olga Tokarczuk b) William G. Kaelin c) Meghalaya d) Arunachal Pradesh Q.133) WTO, dispute settlement body has c) Akira Yoshino d) Peter Handke e) Mizoram formally given the go-ahead for the United States e) Jim Peebles Q.121) Who retains top position for 12th straight to impose trade sanctions on up to ____ million Q.108) The 26 feet long Giant Meat-Eating year in the Forbes India Rich list 2019? Worth of European Union goods. Dinosaur which lived 145 million years ago called a) Ratan Tata b) Mukesh Ambani a) 6.2 b) 7.6 Carcharodontosaurids was discovered in which c) d) Indra Nooyi c) 8.5 d) 5.8 country? e) Anil Ambani e) 7.5 a) Australia b) China Q.122) Which bank planned to charge processing Q.134) Which country has become the second- c) Canada d) Japan fees on home loans, top-ups plans and loans to fastest growing economy in South Asia according e) Thailand corporates and real estate companies? to a report released by World Bank? Q.109) International Day of the Girl child was a) HDFC b) ICICI a) Nepal b) Sri Lanka observed every year on___? c) SBI d) UCO c) Bangladesh d) India a) October 11 b) September 9 e) KVB e) Japan c) October 10 d) November 12 Q.123) Which government has taken the initiative Q.135) Which country is to set up a high-level e) October 7 to set up a Kanyashree University to ensure that group to tackle India's trade deficit? Q.110) Who has been appointed as the new Chief girls study in schools and delay their marriages a) Bhutan b) China marketing officer of Yes Bank? until the age of 18 years. c) Japan d) South Korea a) Anita Pai b) Rana Kapoor a) Haryana b) Kerala e) United States c) Swetha Jain c) Punjab d) West Bengal Q.136) India and Sierra Leone signed MoUs d) Archana Sundarajan e) Jasneet Bachal e) Goa including extending a credit line of 30 million US Q.111) Which aerospace company launched the Q.124) Which institute launches Long-Delayed Dollars for rice cultivation .Who is the president robotic Mission Extension Vehicle1 (MEV-1)? ICON Space Weather Satellite to Study Earth's of Sierra Leone? a) Boeing Company Ionosphere? a) Sooronbay Jeenbekov b) Xi Jinping b) Lockheed Martin Corporation a) National Aeronautics and Space c) Francisco Guterres d) Reuven Rivlin c) Northrop Grumman Corporation Administration e) Julius Maada Bio d) General Dynamics Corporation b) Indian Space Research Organisation Q.137) The ______and Goods and Services Tax e) Space Dynamics Company c) Chinese Academy of Sciences Network (GSTN) will sign a memorandum of Q.112) What is the theme for 2019 International d) French National Centre for Scientific Research understanding for integration of FASTag with GST Day of the Girl Child? e) None of these e-way bill system. a) The Power of Adolescent Girl: Vision for 2030 Q.125) What is the Theme for the World Migratory a) Niti Aayog b) CGST b) Empower Girls: Before, during and after crises Bird Day observed on October 12th? c) Indian Army d) IHMCL c) Women and developing nation a) Birds: Fly with different colors e) Railways d) Girl Force: Unscripted and Unstoppable b) Protect Birds: Environment need to be saved Q.138) Who became the youngest American e) With Her: A Skilled Girl Force c) Protect Birds: Be the Solution to Plastic woman to win the WTA title by winning Linz Open Q.113) Who bagged the gold medal in the Pollution 2019? women's javelin throw event at the 59th National d) Protect Birds: save the country a) Danielle Rose b) Jennifer Capriati Open Athletics Championships.? e) Save Birds and Save water c) Alison Riske d) Coco Gauff a) Deepa Malik b) Anjali Jain Q.126) What is the Rank of India in the Brand e) Barbora Krejcikova c) Punam Yadav d) Geeta Singh Finance Nation Ranking 2019? Q.139) World Standards Day was observed on e) Annu Rani a) 5th b) 12th c) 7th d) 10th e) 4th 14th October. What is the Theme? Q.114) World Obesity day was observed Q.127) A pioneer in Saxophone also conferred a) Standards Build Trust on______? with Sangeetha Nataka Academy Award, died b) International Standards – Creating confidence a) October 11 b) October 12 recently. Who is he? globally c) September 6 d) November 12 a) Zakir Hussain c) Less waste, better results – Standards increase e) October 9 b) Sumanth Swaminathan efficiency Q.115) The India Sports Summit was held c) Ravi Shankar d) Video Standards create a global stage in______? d) Kadri Gopalnath e) None of these a) Chandigarh b) Assam e) Krishnamurthy Q.140) Which department has launched the c) New Delhi d) Jaipur Q.128) India and Asian Development Bank, ADB website and mobile application L2Pro India [Learn e) Ranchi have signed _____ loan agreement for improving to Protect, Secure and Maximize Your Innovation] Q.116) The 59th National Open Athletics road connectivity in Rajasthan. on Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs). Championship was held in? a) 190 b) 240 c) 130 d) 150 e) 220 a) Income Tax a) Kerala b) Mizoram Q.129) The minimum amount one can invest in b) DPIIT c) Bengaluru d) Ranchi KVP (Kisan Vikas Patra) is ______c) Information Technology e) Hyderabad a) 2000 b) 1000 d) Science and Technology Q.117) Which country has become first in the c) 500 d) 3000 e) Agriculture world to ban advertisements for sugary drinks to e) 150 Q.141) When is the International Day for Rural tackle diabetes Q.130) Who secures record by clinching the Women Celebrated? a) Norway b) India eighth world medal in Boxers list ? a) October12 b) October14 c) Japan d) Singapore a) Bajrang Punia c) October 13 d) October 15 e) Canada b) Mohammed Ali Qamar e) October 16 Q.118) Which country to host the 2019 First c) Pu Zoramthanga Q.142) Name the project______launched by Global DXB Challenge, a large gathering to d) Deepa Malik Union Minister Harsh Vardhan which aims to encourage creative young minds in the fields of e) Mary Kom demonstrate a holistic waste-water management robotics and artificial intelligence. Q.131) Union Minister of State for Culture and approach that will produce clean water which can a) France b) Dubai Tourism Prahlad Singh Patel participated in the be reused for various purposes. c) Singapore d) India BRICS Culture Ministers meeting which was held a) Recycle ST b) LOTUS-HR e) China in ______? c) CLEAN d) SAVE WATER Q.119) A three day long festival ______was a) St Petersburg b) Rio de Janerio e) Urban Sewage celebrated in Bangladesh capital Dhaka to c) Sao Paul d) Buenos Aries Q.143) With which country China has signed an observe the 129th death anniversary of Baul saint e) Curitiba Mou for connectivity of Road and Railway Project? Fakir Lalon Shah. Q.132) Union Minister of Telecom ______a) India b) Bhutan a) Bahu b) Baul announced that spectrum auction will be done c) Bangladesh d) Nepal c) Lossong d) Wangala within the current financial year day as the e) Sri Lanka e) Ziro government has given permission to companies Q.144) Retail inflation spiked to ____ per cent in for 5G trials. September this year mainly due to higher prices a) Piyush Goyal of food items.

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Q.171) Which day is observed as the World Q.146) Which government will set-up 50 Public a) Toni Morrison b) Mary Angeline Mathematics day 2019? Call Offices (PCOs) in each district of in order to c) Alice Walker d) Margaret Atwood a) October 16 b) October 17 provide free of cost calling facilities to the general e) Flora Fountain c) October 15 d) October 16 public. Q.160) White cane day is observed on which day? e) October 19 a) Uttar Pradesh b) New Delhi a) October 15 b) October 12 Q.172) What is the rank of India in the in the c) Bihar c) October 16 d) October 17 2019 World Giving Index (WGI).The survey d) Jammu and Kashmire) Haryana e) October 13 ranking was released by the Charities Aid Q.147) Railway minister Piyush Goyal announced Q.161) The 5-day Youth Festival ‘SANGAM 2019’ Foundation (CAF), an international organization. that the Indian Railways is going to become a net was organized by______university in a) 76th b) 82nd c) 95th d) 53rd e) 66th zero-carbon emitter by ______year Bhadarwah Campus in collaboration with Rastryia Q.173) The 48th edition of the Indian Handicrafts a) 2025 b) 2030 Rifles based at Bhadarwah, to promote and Gifts Fair (IHGF) was held at the India Expo c) 2021 d) 2022 everlasting peace and prosperity in the state. Centre & Mart at______e) 2023 a) Kolkata b) Madras a) Greater Noida b) Shillong Q.148) Which state launches the Rythu Bharosa c) Bihar d) Assam c) Hyderabad d) New Delhi a welfare scheme under which financial e) Jammu e) Chennai assistance will be provided to the farmers of the Q.162) International Coffee Organization (ICO) Q.174) Name the Youngest Player in the World state? under the aegis of United Nations is organizing its who score double century in one day cricket? a) West Bengal b) Telangana _____ Edition of World Coffee Conference to be a) Hasan Raza c) Chhattisgarh d) Bihar held at Bengaluru? b) Saravana Kumar e) Andhra Pradesh a) Fifth b) Sixth c) Sanjay Singh Q.149) Who has been appointed as the new c) Twelfth d) Second d) Vijay Kumar Agarwal president of BCCI? e) Fourth e) Yashasvi Jaiswal a) Shashank Manohar b) Manu shawney Q.163) The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has Q.175) Payment technology major MasterCard c) Sourav Ganguly d) Rahul Dravid announced that it has stopped the printing of Rs. started the ‘Team Cashless India’ campaign to e) Kapil Dev ______currency notes. bring more merchants and customers on board Q.150) What is the Rank of India in the Global a) 500 b) 2000 with an aim to boost digital payments in India. Hunger Index 2019? c) 1000 d) 20 Who is the Brand Ambassador of Master Card? a) 102 b) 95 c) 72 d) 89 e) 117 e) 50 a) Virat Koli b) Sachin Tendulkar Q.151) Which Airlines bagged the Best Airline Q.164) ______in partnership with ministry c) M S Dhoni d) Priyanka Chopra award by the Andaman Tourism award 2019? of Tribal Affairs has launched the programme e) AR Rahman a) Air India b) Indigo Called GOAL (Going Online as Leaders), for young Q.176) Which district in Assam has become the c) Spice Jet d) Qatar Airways women from tribal areas to become self-reliant first district to introduce Online digital e) GoAir and entrepreneurs. technology? Q.152) Which country Ranked lowest in the a) TCS b) Google a) Hailakandi b) Boitamari Global Hunger Index 2019 with the severest c) Facebook d) Microsoft c) Barpeta d) Darrang problem of hunger at rank 117? e) Amazon e) Goalpara a) Pakistan b) Syria Q.165) Name the mobile app ______the Q.177) ‘ICMR-NIN-Centenary Award’ was c) Myanmar d) Nepal Maharashtra State government has launched to conferred to the legendary nutrition scientist who e) Central African Republic minimize the loss of life by making roads safe for passed away recently. Who is he? Q.153) What is the Theme of World Food Day driving? a) Vikram Sharma b) Dr. Sanjeev Kumar 2019 which is being celebrated on 16th October? a) Safe Driving Maharashtra c) C. Gopalan d) Suresh Jain a) Social Protection and Agriculture: Breaking the b) Road-Seva Maharashtra e) Prahlad Singh Cycle of Rural Poverty c) Road safety Maharashtra Q.178) The BETI BACHAO, BETI PADHAO scheme b) Change the future of migration. Invest in food d) MRADMS Maharashtra was launched in which state to empower women security and rural development. e) e-RServ Maharashtra who belong to remote and far-flung areas of c) Our Actions Are Our Future. Healthy Diets Q.166) Who is the President of NASSCOM? Rajouri district. for A #ZeroHunger World a) Balkrishan Goenka b) Ajith Kumar a) Assam b) Manipur d) Working together for an international alliance c) Praful Patel d) Debjani Ghosh c) West Bengal d) Jammu Kashmir against hunger e) Amitabh Kant e) Odisha e) None of these Q.167) Who has been appointed as the new Q.179) _____ has become the first state in the Q.154) Which Company was named the overall controller General of Accounts? country to provide maternity benefits in the most outstanding company in India's IT services a) Keshav R Murugesh b) Rishad Premji private educational sector. sector in Asia money’s 2019 outstanding c) J.P.S. Chawla d) Mahendra Kumar a) Bihar b) Jharkhand companies poll? e) Ireena Vittal c) Kerala d) Tamil Nadu a) Reliance Ltd b) Infosys Q.168) Which Country topped the list of the World e) Goa c) CTS d) Wipro Giving Index ( WGI) 2019? Q.180) Name the contactless mobile Payment e) TCS a) China b) USA facility____ launched by SBI for faster, Q.155) Which TB drug is only the third new anti- c) Ireland d) Japan convenient and more secure card payments using TB drug to get approval in more than 40 years e) Australia mobile phones. from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)? Q.169) What is the theme for the 2019 a) SBI Wave card b) SBI Mobile card a) Rifampin b) Pretomanid International Day for the Eradication of Poverty? c) SBI Host Card d) SBI Pay c) Isoniazid d) Ethambutol a) Poverty- A condition to be overcome through e) SBI Card Pay e) Ampicillin education Q.181) Who has been appointed as the World Q.156) World Bank forecasts India's GDP forecast b) Acting together to empower children, Steel Association Vice-Chairman? for 2019-20 from 7% to ______? their families, and communities to end a) Dinesh Raj b) Vikram Sharma a) 6% b) 5.75% poverty c) Sajjan Jindal d) Anoop Kumar c) 6.75% d) 7.2% c) Poverty: A hinderance to the mental and e) Gopalan e) 6.9% physical growth of a person, Remove it away Q.182) Which country to introduce a 3% web tax Q.157) Under the YSR Rythu Bharosa PM-Kisaan d) Poverty is not a curse; it is just a condition and on digital giants from 2020? scheme, 54 lakh farmers of Andhra Pradesh will can be removed completely! a) USA b) Italy get ______over three installments. e) Poverty and Children: Primary steps to be c) Canada d) Brazil a) 6,500 b) 7,200 taken e) Russia

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Q.183) Which IIT student has invented a device Q.198) The bilateral defence trade between India Cooperation (MOC), which was signed on called "PM 2.5” to Curb Air pollution? and US is expected to reach ______billion Healthcare and Wellness by PM Modi, was held in? a) IIT Guwahati b) IIT Madras a) 12 b) 18 c) 20 d) 15 e) 11 a) Bengaluru b) Hyderabad c) IIT Kanpur d) IIT Kharagpur Q.199) The G20 Finance Ministers and the Central c) Tokyo d) Beijing e) IIT Bombay Bank Governors meetings will be held in e) New Delhi Q.184) Which state tops the Innovation Index ______? Q.212) Who has been appointed as the Director 2019 launched by the NITI Aayog? a) UK b) USA General of National Security Guard (NSG)? a) Himachal Pradesh b) Tamil Nadu c) Japan d) Brazil a) H. T. Sangliana b) Gopika Jahagirdar c) Kerala d) Telangana e) China c) Vinod Chaubey e) Maharashtra Q.200) What is the Theme for the 11th Nuclear d) Anup Kumar Singh e) Vinod Zutshi Q.185) The Goa government’s Information Energy Conclave? Q.213) Where was the 40th meetings of the Technology Corporation signed an MoU with the a) Nuclear and Atomic Energy - To build an International Monetary and Financial Committee Software Technology Park of India to invest effective solution to the Changing World (IMFC) of International Monetary Fund (IMF) _____ crore to set up a start-up centre in the b) Nuclear Energy and developing nations held? coastal state at the Vibrant Goa Global Expo and c) Atomic and Nuclear Energy - A lead to the a) New York b) Tokyo Summit 2019. newer and safer technologies c) Washington DC d) Geneva a) 35 b) 40 c) 60 d) 75 e) 20 d) Nuclear Energy for sustainable growth e) Paris Q.186) Which state has reported highest number e) Economics of Nuclear Power - Innovation Q.214) In which state the NCERT course to be of Livestock population in India? towards Safer & Cost-effective Technologies implemented in class of ninth and tenth standard a) Kerala b) Andhra Pradesh Q.201) Which country will host the 91 Interpol in all government schools? c) Uttar Pradesh d) West Bengal General Assembly in 2022? a) Madhya Pradesh b) Odisha e) Jammu Kashmir a) France b) Germany c) Jammu Kashmir d) West Bengal Q.187) Asia-Health 2019 conference was held in? c) Argentina d) Japan e) Maharashtra a) Rajasthan b) Goa e) India Q.215) Who has been appointed as the head of c) New Delhi d) Chennai Q.202) How many member states are there in the the European Central Bank (ECB)? e) Hyderabad UNGA (United Nations General Assembly?) a) Gita Gopinath Q.188) The first Robotic restaurant with two a) 203 b) 196 c) 194 d) 200 e) 102 b) Kristalina Georgieva humanoids to serve customers is opened Q.203) Who is the President of the United Nations c) David Malpass in______? Human Rights Council (UNHRC)? d) Sanjeev Kumar a) Odisha b) West Bengal a) Tedros Adhanom e) Christine Lagarde c) Goa d) Assam b) María Fernanda Espinosa Q.216) Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will attend e) Punjab c) Tijjani Muhammad-Bande the inaugural ceremony of Col. Chewang Rinchen Q.189) What is the abbreviation for NCRB? d) Coly Seck Setu bridge which has been constructed a) National Crime Register Board e) Gita Gopalan at______? b) National Crime Records Bureau Q.204) The government plans to bring all medical a) Ludhiana b) Leh c) National Criminal Bureau devices, including implants and contraceptives, c) Ladak d) Jammu Kashmir d) National Crime Registry Board under the lens of ______? e) Mohali e) None of these a) CDRI b) CDSCO Q.217) Who has been appointed as the special Q.190) Which Country got its approval from c) CBDT d) CRBT observer for Haryana Assembly elections? UNGA to be added as a member of the UN Human e) CSOD a) Sunil Arora b) Vinod Zutshi Rights Council (UNHRC)? Q.205) Who was conferred with the Most Eminent c) Sukumar Sen d) Anoop Kumar a) Iraq b) India senior citizen award by the Vice president? e) Nazim Zaidi c) Syria d) Venezuela a) Shri Prem Singh Q.218) Who has won silver medal in 10 air rifle e) Ecuador b) Shri Chhajuram Sharma the All India Railway Rifle Shooting Q.191) The 11th Nuclear Energy Conclave was c) Shri K.Parasaran Championship? held in______? d) Vinod Zutshi a) Thomas Farnik b) Apurvi Chandela a) Mumbai b) New Delhi e) N Chandrasekaran c) Anjali Bhagwat d) Heena Sindhu c) Visakhapatnam d) Goa Q.206) Union Minister for Textiles and Women & e) Ayonika Paul e) Chennai Child Development Smriti Irani took part in Q.219) The third edition of the Future Investment Q.192) How many agreements were signed by ‘Gandhi Sankalp Padyatra' held in? Initiative (FII), an annual investment event was DRDO on Technology transfer? a) Varanasi b) Amethi held in______? a) 25 b) 30 c) 12 d) 16 e) 21 c) Lucknow d) Mathura a) New Delhi b) China Q.193) Which State Government has tied up with e) Agra c) Brazil d) South Korea an (artificial and human intelligence)-powered Q.207) Who is the president of Indonesia? e) Saudi Arabia tech firm, to detect and prevent the spread of a) Azali Assoumani b) Adama Barrow Q.220) The World’s oldest pearl has been found fake news? c) John Joseph Magufuli d) Joko Widodo by archaeologists of Which Country? a) Haryana b) Kerala e) Rodrigo Roa Duterte a) China b) USA c) Chandigarh d) Maharashtra Q.208) Which country has been removed from c) UAE d) Japan e) Odisha the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) list of e) India Q.194) The second edition of defence military countries at risk for money laundering. Q.221) Union Minister of Electronics and exercise DANX was conducted by? a) Sri Lanka b) USA Information Technology said that the government a) Puducherry b) Kerala c) India d) UK will set up ______digital villages in the c) New Delhi d) Chandigarh e) Indonesia country? e) Andaman and Nicobar Q.209) The Public sector Metals and Minerals a) Two Lakh b) Five Lakh Q.195) Which Company became the first in India Trading Corporation of India (MMTC) is offering a c) Seven Lakh d) One Lakh to hit the market capitalisation of Rs 9 lakh crore three per cent discount on the India Gold Coin. e) Ten Lakh ? Who is the Chairman of MMTC? Q.222) According to the National Crime Records a) Reliance Industries b) TCS a) Roopa Purushottam b) Harit Nagpal Bureau's (NCRB) list of states with the most c) Infosys d) Wipro c) Aman Gupta d) Ved Prakash number of crimes against women, which State is e) Tata Communications e) Mangala Samaraweera recorded as the safest State in India? Q.196) Where did the Ministry of Defence conduct Q.210) The United Nations has launched which a) Delhi b) Uttar Pradesh a pilot project for the admission of girl children in campaign in India to eradicate hunger? c) Assam d) Mizoram Sainik School Chhingchhip 2 years ago? a) No to Hunger e) Nagaland a) Mizoram b) Manipur b) Stop Malnutrition Q.223) What is the service fee that will be c) Assam d) Bihar c) United against hunger charged by Pakistan per pilgrims to Kartarpur e) Arunachal Pradesh d) Feed our Future Sahib? Q.197) Who is the President of the Confederation e) Feed the Poor a) USD 20 b) USD 12 of Indian Industry (CII)? Q.211) Union Minister for Health and Family c) USD 15 d) USD 50 a) B.T.V. Narendran b) Sathish Kumar Welfare co-chaired the 1st Joint Committee e) USD 13 c) Chandrajit Banerjee d) Vikram Kirloskar Meeting (JCM) under the 2nd Memorandum of Q.224) Ministry of Defence approved ______e) Chandrasekar Capital Procurement of third-generation Anti-

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Tank Guided Missiles and discrete Electronic Q.237) Name the actress cum Q.249)The Indian Army (IA) is to conduct Firing Warfare system for the use of armed forces. producer______who was best known for exercise codenamed ______will be held in a) 5800 b) 3300 her performance in ‘Friends’ chosen for the Rajasthan for the year 2019 c) 2800 d) 7500 People’s Icon Award 2019 a) Dhastak b) Alert e) 6200 a) Jennifer Aniston b) Melissa McCarthy c) Sudarshan d) INDRA Q.225) India signed an MoU for the Kartarpur c) Alice Watson d) Vladimir Kramnik e) Sindhu Sudarshan corridor with which country? e) James Philips Q.250) Which state has decided that no a) Pakistan b) Nepal Q.238) Who has been appointed as the new CEO government jobs will be given to persons having c) Bangladesh d) China of UIDAI? more than two children after January 1, 2021? e) Bhutan a) Pramod Kumar Das b) Sanjeev Gupta a) Tripura b) Assam Q.226) Which state topped the list of states with c) Pankaj Kumar c) Haryana d) Maharashtra most number of crimes against women, according d) Tuhin Kanta Pandey e) Braj Raj Sharma e) Nagaland to the annual report of the National Crime Q.239) The six new Lizard species of Q.251) What is the Rank of India in the Doing Records Bureau (NCRB) for 2017? ______family have been identified in the Business Report (DBR, 2020) report released by a) Nagaland b) Delhi Western Ghats the World Bank ? c) Sikkim d) Uttar Pradesh a) Prognathodon b) Dravidogecko a) 67 b) 77c) 63 d) 75e) 80 e) Madhya Pradesh c) Aigialosauridae d) Iguanids Q.252) Who has been appointed as the secretary Q.227) What is the theme of Davos of the Desert e) Varanus rainerguentheri to the president as a policy advisor in the Ministry Forum where Prime Minister Narendra Modi will Q.240) Who has become the India’s 65th Chess of External Affairs? participate? Grandmaster who was mentored by world a) Varun Bhatia b) Dinesh Sharma a) Global Business and Smart Technology champion Vladimir Kramnik? c) Anup Kumar d) Pradeep Singha b) What is Next for Global Business a) Filip Krajinovic b) Shapovalov e) Ashok Malik c) World Business and trade investment c) Rahul Jain d) Raunak Sadhwani Q.253) Nedumangad block panchayat in d) Trade Welfare for Global Business e) Anjul Sharma ______has won the prestigious Deen Dayal e) Trade for Future Growth Q.241) The Indian Railways will implement a Rs Upadhyay Panchayat Sashaktikaran Puraskar for Q.228) Who is the Chairman of Rajya Sabah? 18,000-crore project to operate trains at a speed 2019. a) Ram Nath Govind b) Narendra Modi of 160 kmph on the busy Delhi-Mumbai and a) Kerala b) Tamil Nadu c) Venkaiah Naidu d) Rajnath Singh Delhi-Kolkata routes. Who is the chairman of c) Bihar d) Gujarat e) Piyush Goyal Railway Board? e) Hyderabad Q.229) Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked a) VK Yadav b) AK Mittal Q.254) India ranks ahead of Bangladesh and people to highlight the achievements of c) Sharad Kumar d) Ashwani Lohani Pakistan with mean fixed broadband speed rising daughters by using ______movement on e) T.K. Suresh by ____ per cent rising to a whopping 87.9% social media. Q.242) Who has been appointed as the secretary during Q2-Q3 2019? a) Laxmi ki Saath b) Bharath ki Ladki of the Department of investment and public asset a) 12.6 per cent b) 16.5 per cent c) Lakhsmi aaye d) Bharath ki Laxmi management (DIPAM)? c) 19.25 per cent d) 21.50 per cent e) None of these a) Neeraj Kumar Gupta e) 31.26 per cent Q.230) Heads of 91 Foreign Missions in India b) Jairam Prateep Singh Q.255) Every year International Snow Leopard reached at Golden Temple in ______to pay c) Tuhin Kanta Pandey Day is celebrated on ______to protect and obeisance at Shri Har Mandir Sahib in connection d) Anil Kumar Khachi conserve the snow leopards? to celebrations of 550th Prakash Purab of Shri e) Pankaj Kumar a) October 23 b) October 24 Guru Nanak Dev Ji. Q.243) International Rail Conference-2019 was c) October 25 d) October 14 a) Patiala b) Varanasi held in India which was organised e) October 12 c) Amritsar d) Agra by______? Q.256) Who won gold at the 48 Kg category in e) Lucknow a) All-India Railwaymen's Federation new (AIRF) Wushu World Championships 2019? Q.231) Who won the European Open b) Indian Railways a) Kiran Singh b) Amit Kumar Saroha Championship title 2019? c) Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) c) Praveen Kumar d) Sushil Kumar a) Novak Djokovic b) Stan Wawrinka d) Railway Ministry e) Russel Diaz c) Roger Federer d) Andy Murray e) None of these Q.257)______and Mangalore Refineries and e) John Millman Q.244) The Cabinet Committee for Infrastructure Petrochemicals Ltd. (MRPL) have announced a Q.232) Which country unveiled Smart Dragon and (CCI) under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister special drive to support women entrepreneurs in Tenglong, the commercial carrier rockets? Pema Khandu approved proposals worth Rs the country named La Eve (meaning The Woman) a) China b) Japan ______crore for infrastructure development in a) IIM Kozhikode b) IIT Madras c) Russia d) Pakistan the state. c) IBM Bangalore d) IIT Kanpur e) South Korea a) 18000 b) 25000 e) IIM Hyderabad Q.233) Where did the European Open c) 30000 d) 10000 Q.258) World Polio day was observed on? Championship 2019 held ? e) 45000 a) October 22 b) October 31 a) China b) Germany Q.245) Who was sworn in as the Prime Minister c) October 23 d) October 24 c) Belgium d) France of Canada in the Canadian General Election 2019? e) October 25 e) USA a) Justin Trudeau b) Bloc Quebecois Q.259) The 4th steering committee meeting of Q.234) Who has been appointed as the next c) Reuven Rivlin d) Beny Gantz the Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem ambassador of India to Republic of Cabo Verde? e) Benjamin Netanyahu Protection Program was held in ______? a) Vinay Kumar Q.246) The 18th NAM summit was held a) Himachal Pradesh b) Assam b) Srikumar Menon in______? c) Manipur d) Arunachal Pradesh c) Navdeep Suri a) Azerbaijan b) Qatar e) New Delhi d) Gautam Bambawale c) India d) Malaysia Q.260) The United Nations was established on e) Godavarthi Venkata Srinivas e) Uzbekistan which year? Q.235) Which Institute has been ranked second Q.247) Who is the Union minister for Agriculture a) 1972 b) 1947 in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) India and Panchayatraj? c) 1945 d) 1965 University Rankings 2020? a) Prakash Javdekar b) Arjun Munda e) 1984 a) IIT Bombay c) Piyush Goyal d) Narendra Singh Q.261) Who has become the third Indian batsman b) IIT Delhi Tomar to reach the top 10 in all three formats in the ICC c) IISC e) Sadananda Gowda Test Player Rankings? d) University of Hyderabad Q.248) External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met a) Virat Koli b) MS Dhoni e) University of Delhi his Iranian counterpart, ______on the sidelines c) Rohit Sharma d) K.L Rahul Q.236) Which bank has won the DigiDhan Mission of the Non-Aligned Movement Ministerial Meeting e) Shikhar Dhawan Digital Payments Award 2018-19 for ‘Overall (NAM) summit Q.262) Para-athlete ______has won two golds Performance in Digital Payments’ at the MeitY a) Abdulaziz Kamilov b) Darell Leiking. in the disabled men’s 100m and 400m IT1 events Startup Summit 2019? c) Zhong Shan at the 7th CISM World Military Games. a) IDBI b) SBI d) Abdul Razak Dawood e) Javad Zarif a) Fajardo Pardo Teodicelo c) HDFC d) YES b) Vikrant Baliyan e) Karnataka Bank c) Anandan Gunasekaran

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Haryana for a second consecutive term? Q.289) Which two countries has signed a) Dr. b) Naaz Joshi a) Devendra Fadnavis agreements worth Rs 2400 crore to boost trade c) Priyam Chatterjee b) Dushyant Chautala ties in the field rubber, construction material, d) Homen Borgohain e) Ruhan Rajput c) Birender Singh Yadav food and beverages, logistics? Q.265) Who has been appointed as the CEO of d) Manohar Lal Khattar a) India and Cambodia Prasar Bharathi? e) P.S. Sreedharan Pillai b) Thailand and India a) Shashi Shekhar Vempati Q.278) Which newspaper recently announced to c) Philippines and India b) Surya Prakash c) Rahul Sharma stop its print venture and go digital completely? d) India and Vietnam d) Anil Mittal e) Abhijit Kumar a) Daily News & Analysis e) None of these Q.266) National Unity day was observed b) The Statesman Q.290) Which city will hold the 50th edition of on______? c) The Millennium Post World Economic Forum Annual meeting for 2020? a) October 25 b) October 15 d) Business Today a) Helsinki, Finland c) October 31 d) October 29 e) The Hindu b) Copenhagen, Denmark e) October 2 Q.279) World day for Audiovisual Heritage was c) Stockholm, Sweden Q.267) Who is the Union Minister for Jal Shakti? observed on 27th of October every year. What is d) Davos-Klosters, Switzerland a) Suresh Prabhu the theme? e) None of these b) Narendra Singh Tomar a) Your Story is Moving Q.291) 64th Commonwealth Parliamentary c) Sadananda Gowda d) Smriti Irani b) Engage the Past Through Sound and conference for 2019 held which city? e) Gajendra Singh Shekhawat Images a) Beijing China b) Kampala, Uganda Q.268) The book titled Ten Studies in Kashmir: c) Integrity - A way of life c) New York, US d) London, UK History and Politics was written by? d) Discover, remember and share e) Tokyo, Japan a) Ravindhran b) Amitav Ghosh e) Experience the Joy Q.292) Who among the following persons has c) Javed Ali d) K N Pandit Q.280) Who won the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2019- been appointed as the new administrator of PMC e) Arundhati Roy 2020 for the Fourth time? (Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative) bank by Q.269) Who has been appointed as the new a) Tamil Nadu b) Kerala RBI? Chairman of Airports Authority of India? c) Jharkhand d) Karnataka a) Jai Bhagawan Bhoria a) Sukhbir Singh Sandhu b) Arvind Singh e) Maharashtra b) Sumit Nagal c) Ashwani Lohani d) Surya Prakash Q.281) Who has become the wealthiest man in c) Yamuna Krishnan e) A.K. Mittal the world with the net worth of $105.7 billion? d) Jayant Narlikar Q.270) According to the Global Wealth Report a) Bill Gates b) Jeff Bezos e) Sulabha K.Kulakarni released by credit Suisse research institute Global c) Jack Ma d) Mark Zuckerberg Q.293) Which Indian Company has won the 2019 wealth grew by ______percent to USD 360tn e) None of these Deming Prize for Total Quality Management? a) 3.2 percent b) 1.5 percent Q.282) Who has been appointed as India’s next a) Infosys b) Reliance c) 2.6 percent d) 1.6 percent ambassador to Samoa? c) Elgi Equipments d) Wipro e) 1.8 percent a) Muktesh Kumar Pardeshi e) None of these Q.271) In which state six more medical colleges b) Birender Singh Yadav Q.294) Who has been appointed as the 47th Chief will be constructed increasing the number of c) Dushyant Chautala Justice of India? government medical colleges 24 to 30, under the d) Vikram Misri a) Justice NV Ramana b) Justice AK Mishra Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana e) R K Mathur c) Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde (PMSSY) scheme. Q.283) Cricket Country: The Untold History of the d) Justice RF Nariman a) Kerala b) Hyderabad First All India Team a book written by______e) Justice Ranjan Gogoi c) Assam d) West Bengal has won the Wisden India Book of the Year award. Q.295) Sathya Pal Malik has been appointed as e) Tamil Nadu a) Jaroslav Smedek b) Prashant Kidambi the new governor of which state? Q.272) The fourth Ayurveda Day is set to be c) John Arlott d) Stephen Chalke a) Meghalaya b) Jammu Kashmir organised on October 25 at National Institute of e) Amitav Ghosh c) Rajasthan d) Goa Ayurveda (NIA) in Jaipur, Rajasthan. It is Q.284) Who has been appointed as the new e) Kerala observed on______every year? Governor of Mizoram? Q.296) The 7th edition of Tawang festival was a) October 25 b) October 12 a) Satya Pal Malik celebrated in which state? c) October 26 d) October 31 b) Girish Chandra Murmu a) Tripura b) Meghalaya e) October 15 c) P.S. Sreedharan Pillai c) Assam d) Himachal Pradesh Q.273) Which state government has changed its d) Arup Patnaik e) Arunachal Pradesh emergency response number from the existing e) Muktesh Kumar Pardeshi Q.297) Who has been appointed as the first 100 to 112? Q.285) Who won gold medal at the World Deaf Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh? a) Odisha b) Bihar Tennis Championship which was held in Turkey? a) Mridula Sinha c) Assam d) Uttar Pradesh a) Prithvi Sekhar b) Fakhar Zaman b) PS Sreedharan Pillai e) Telangana c) Jafreen Shaik c) Girish Chandra Murmu Q.274) World Bank president ______called on d) Surrender Singh Yadav e) Rashid Khan d) Radha Krishna Mathur Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address the role Q.286) Name the joint Military exercise______e) Kalraj Misra of the financial sector in development at the fifth held between India and France that focus on Q.298) Which cricketer is set to face an edition of the NITI Aayog Lecture series in New counter terrorism operations which was held in international ban for not reporting a bookie Delhi. Rajasthan? approach on all cricket for two years? a) Jim Yong Kim b) Jin Liqun a) SURYA SHAKTI b) KHANJAR a) Faf Du Plessis b) Shakib Al Hasan c) David Malpass d) Christine Lagarde c) KHAN QUEST d) SAMPRITI c) Steve Smith d) Jonny Bairstow e) Audrey Azoulay e) SHAKTI e) Mashrafe Bin Mortaza Q.275) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Q.287) The European Union highest human rights Q.299) Which among the following became the Adityanath has Launched Mukhya Mantri Kanya prize named Sakharov Prize was given to first kerosene-free district of Gujarat? Sumangala Yojana in a move to empower girl ______? a) Jamnagar b) Junagadh child for which an amount of ______rupees a) Vikram Sharma c) Porbandar d) Gandhinagar will be provided to every family in which a girl b) Oleg Sentsov e) Ahmedabad child takes birth. c) Ilham Tohti Q.300) World Statistics day was observed on? a) 12000 b) 11000 d) Syama Prasad Mookerjee a) October 12 b) October 17 c) 16000 d) 10000 e) David Sassoli c) October 21 d) October 23

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Example : "the helmet has been reinforced with a Synonyms : permeate ENGLISH VOCABULARY double layer of cork" Antonyms : boldness 13) indeed Example : "her work is infused with an anger born 1) cited Meaning : used to emphasize a statement or of pain and oppression" Meaning : refer to (a passage, book, or author) response confirming something already 26) recompense as evidence for or justification of an argument or suggested. Meaning : make amends to (someone) for loss statement, especially in a scholarly work. Synonyms : truly or harm suffered; compensate. Synonyms : allege Antonyms : conversely Synonyms : reward Antonyms : conceal Example : "it was not expected to last long, and Antonyms : take Example : "authors who are highly regarded by indeed it took less than three weeks" Example : "offenders should recompense their their peers tend to be cited" 14) reclusive victims" 2) tussle Meaning : avoiding the company of other people; 27) citadel Meaning : a vigorous struggle or scuffle, typically solitary. Meaning : a fortress, typically one on high in order to obtain or achieve something.(n) Synonyms : secluded ground above a city. Synonyms : struggle Antonyms : outgoing Tamil Meaning : Antonyms : consensus Example : "he led a reclusive life" Synonyms : fortress Example : "there was a tussle for the ball" 15) endeared Antonyms : shack 3) clutch Meaning : cause to be loved or liked. Example : "the garrison withdrew into the citadel" Meaning : a tight grasp.(n) Synonyms : dear 28) chunk Synonyms : grasp Antonyms : outcast Meaning : a thick, solid piece of something. Antonyms : abandon Example : "Flora's spirit and character endeared Synonyms : lump Example : "she made a clutch at his body" her to everyone who met her" Antonyms : morsel 4) bearing 16) eminence Example : "huge chunks of masonry littered the Meaning : a person's way of standing or Meaning : fame or acknowledged superiority street" moving(n). within a particular sphere. 29) conceding Synonyms : carriage Synonyms : prominence Meaning : admit or agree that something is true Antonyms : irrelevance Antonyms : inferiority after first denying or resisting it. Example : "a man of precise military bearing" Example : "her eminence in cinematography" Synonyms : allow 5) perceptions 17) disputed Antonyms : deny Meaning : the ability to see, hear, or become Meaning : argue about (something). Example : "I had to concede that I'd overreacted" aware of something through the senses. Synonyms : argued 30) minuscule Synonyms : notions Antonyms : accepted Meaning : extremely small; tiny. Antonyms : ignorances Example : "the point has been much disputed" Synonyms : diminutive Example : "the normal limits to human 18) breach Antonyms : huge perception" Meaning : an act of breaking or failing to observe Example : "a minuscule fragment of DNA" 6) thaw a law, agreement, or code of conduct.(n) 31) embrace Meaning : become liquid or soft as a result of Synonyms : break Meaning : hold (someone) closely in one's arms, warming up. Antonyms : bridge especially as a sign of affection.(v) Synonyms : melt Example : "a breach of confidence" Synonyms : squeeze Antonyms : freeze 19) wilderness Antonyms : exclude Example : "the river thawed and barges of food Meaning : a neglected or abandoned area.(n) Example : "Aunt Sophie embraced her warmly" began to reach the capital" Synonyms : desert 32) intangible 7) hammered Antonyms : region Meaning : unable to be touched; not having Meaning : hit or beat (something) repeatedly Example : "the garden had become a wilderness physical presence. with a hammer or similar object.(v) of weeds and bushes" Synonyms : unsubstantial Synonyms : forged 20) contest Antonyms : tangible Antonyms : sober Meaning : engage in competition to attain (a Example : "the moonlight made things seem Example : "he hammered the tack in" position of power). intangible" 8) contentious Synonyms : struggle 33) distress Meaning : causing or likely to cause an Antonyms : collaborate Meaning : extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain.(n) argument; controversial(adj). Example : "she declared her intention to contest Synonyms : anguish Synonyms : combative the presidency" Antonyms : comfort Antonyms : pacifist 21) creditable Example : "to his distress he saw that she was Example : "a contentious issue" Meaning : (of a performance, effort, or action) trembling" 9) controversial deserving public acknowledgement and praise but 34) solace Meaning : giving rise or likely to give rise to not necessarily outstanding or successful. Meaning : comfort or consolation in a time of controversy or public disagreement. Synonyms : estimable great distress or sadness(n). Synonyms : disputable Antonyms : outrageous Synonyms : comfort Antonyms : agreeable Example : "a very creditable 2–4 defeat" Antonyms : anguish Example : "years of wrangling over a 22) revival Example : "she sought solace in her religion" controversial bypass" Meaning : an improvement in the condition, 35) led 10) resolved strength, or fortunes of someone or Meaning : cause (a person or animal) to go with Meaning : firmly determined to do something. something(n). one by holding them by the hand, a halter, a rope, Synonyms : determined Synonyms : renewal etc. while moving forward. Antonyms : undecided Antonyms : suppression Synonyms : directed Example : "Constance was resolved not to cry" Example : "a revival in the fortunes of the party" Antonyms : prevent 11) scrambled 23) gauged Example : "she emerged leading a bay horse" Meaning : make one's way quickly or awkwardly Meaning : estimate or determine the amount, 36) fortunes up a steep gradient or over rough ground by using level, or volume of. Meaning : chance or luck as an arbitrary force one's hands as well as one's feet."we scrambled Synonyms : assessed affecting human affairs. over the damp boulders"(v) Antonyms : estimated Synonyms : fates Synonyms : jumbled Example : "astronomers can gauge the star's Antonyms : losses Antonyms : goodish intrinsic brightness"

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Example : "some malicious act of fortune keeps Meaning : the likely course of a medical Synonyms : decision them separate" condition(n). Antonyms : accusation 37) vacillations Synonyms : diagnosis Example : "the jury returned a verdict of not Meaning : the inability to decide between Antonyms : measurement guilty" different opinions or actions; indecision.(n) Example : "the disease has a poor prognosis" 62) opportune Synonyms : hesitations 50) consumption Meaning : (of a time) especially convenient or Antonyms : insistences Meaning : the action of using up a resource. appropriate for a particular action or event(adj). Example : "the First Minister's vacillation over the Synonyms : expenditure Synonyms : auspicious affair" Antonyms : construction Antonyms : inappropriate 38) introspect Example : "industrialized countries should reduce Example : "he couldn't have arrived at a less Meaning : examine one's own thoughts or their energy consumption" opportune moment" feelings. 51) retained 63) prudence Synonyms : ponder Meaning : continue to have (something); keep Meaning : the quality of being prudent; Example : "what they don't do is introspect much possession of. cautiousness(n). about the reasons for their plight" Synonyms : received Synonyms : austerity 39) contributed Antonyms : extroverted Antonyms : ignorance Meaning : give (something, especially money) in Example : "Labour retained the seat" Example : "we need to exercise prudence in such order to help achieve or provide something. 52) opted important matters" Synonyms : give Meaning : make a choice from a range of 64) Progressive Antonyms : neglect possibilities(v). Meaning : happening or developing gradually or Example : "taxpayers had contributed £141.8 Synonyms : decide in stages(adj). million towards the cost of local services" Antonyms : dislike Synonyms : continuous 40) despite Example : "consumers will opt for low-priced Antonyms : intermittent Meaning : without being affected by; in spite of. goods" Example : "a progressive decline in popularity" Synonyms : in spite of 53) stance 65) meddling Antonyms : exalt Meaning : the way in which someone stands, Meaning : interfere in something that is not one's Example : "he remains a great leader despite age especially when deliberately adopted (as in concern(v). and infirmity" cricket, golf, and other sports); a person's Synonyms : interrupting 41) prompted posture. Antonyms : careless Meaning : (of an event or fact) cause or bring Synonyms : attitude Example : "I don't want him meddling in our about (an action or feeling)(v). Antonyms : unsteadiness affairs" Synonyms : efficient Example : "she altered her stance, resting all her 66) owning Antonyms : delayed weight on one leg" Meaning : have (something) as one's own; Example : "the violence prompted a wave of 54) remit possess.(v) refugees to flee the country" Meaning : cancel or refrain from exacting or Synonyms : boast 42) tumbled inflicting (a debt or punishment)(v). Antonyms : abandon Meaning : fall suddenly, clumsily, or Synonyms : consign Example : "his father owns a restaurant" headlong(v). Antonyms : keep 67) bid Synonyms : slip Example : "the excess of the sentence over 12 Meaning : offer (a certain price) for something, Antonyms : ascend months was remitted" especially at an auction(v). Example : "she pitched forward, tumbling down 55) wary Synonyms : offer the remaining stairs" Meaning : feeling or showing caution about Antonyms : denial 43) retail possible dangers or problems. Example : "a consortium of dealers bid a world Meaning : the sale of goods to the public in Synonyms : attentive record price for a snuff box" relatively small quantities for use or consumption Antonyms : careless 68) assertion rather than for resale(n) Example : "dogs which have been mistreated Meaning : a confident and forceful statement of Synonyms : peddle often remain very wary of strangers" fact or belief(n). Antonyms : acquire 56) reckons Synonyms : affirmation Example : "the retail trade" Meaning : be of the opinion(v). Antonyms : desertion 44) foresees Synonyms : surmise Example : "his assertion that his father had Meaning : be aware of beforehand; predict. Antonyms : abandon deserted the family" Synonyms : discern Example : "he reckons that the army should pull 69) sovereignty Antonyms : neglect out entirely" Meaning : the authority of a state to govern itself Example : "we did not foresee any difficulties" 57) perishable or another state. 45) enduring Meaning : (especially of food) likely to decay or Synonyms : dominance Meaning : lasting over a period of time; go bad quickly(adj). Antonyms : submission durable(adj). Synonyms : decaying Example : "national sovereignty" Synonyms : abiding Antonyms : endurance 70) predictably Antonyms : temporary Example : "the storage of perishable foods" Meaning : in a way that can be predicted; as Example : "he formed a number of enduring 58) escalate expected. relationships with women" Meaning : increase rapidly(v). Synonyms : probably 46) hover Synonyms : expand Antonyms : erratically Meaning : remain in one place in the air.(v) Antonyms : decline Example : "so far the markets have behaved Synonyms : drift Example : "the price of tickets escalated" predictably" Antonyms : lie 59) marred 71) dispute Example : "Army helicopters hovered overhead" Meaning : impair the quality or appearance of; Meaning : a disagreement or argument(n). 47) bolstered spoil.(V) Synonyms : conflict Meaning : support or strengthen(v). Synonyms : harm Antonyms : accord Synonyms : buoy Antonyms : assist Example : "a territorial dispute between the two Antonyms : decrease Example : "violence marred a number of New countries" Example : "the fall in interest rates is starting to Year celebrations" 72) delicate bolster confidence" 60) elevated Meaning : very fine in texture or structure; of 48) cited Meaning : situated or placed higher than the intricate workmanship or quality(adj). Meaning : refer to (a passage, book, or author) surrounding area(adj). Synonyms : delicious as evidence for or justification of an argument or Synonyms : exalted Antonyms : callous statement, especially in a scholarly work(v). Antonyms : depressed Example : "a delicate lace shawl" Synonyms : indicate Example : "this hotel has an elevated position 73) precarious Antonyms : conceal above the village" Meaning : dependent on chance; uncertain(adj). Example : "authors who are highly regarded by 61) Verdict Synonyms : hazardous their peers tend to be cited" Meaning : a decision on an issue of fact in a civil Antonyms : strong 49) prognosis or criminal case or an inquest.(n)

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Example : "he made a precarious living as a Example : "they should be remunerated fairly for Meaning : having or showing eagerness or painter" their work" enthusiasm.(adj) 74) sought 86) tunnels Synonyms : anxious Meaning : attempt to find (something). Meaning : dig or force a passage underground or Antonyms : apathetic Synonyms : desired through something.(v) Example : "a keen gardener" Antonyms : unwanted Synonyms : channel 99) teetering Example : "they came here to seek shelter from Antonyms : bridges Meaning : move or balance unsteadily; sway biting winter winds" Example : "he tunnelled under the fence" back and forth. 75) leverage 87) incumbent Synonyms : falter Meaning : the exertion of force by means of a Meaning : necessary for (someone) as a duty or Antonyms : stabilize lever. responsibility.(adj) Example : "she teetered after him in her high- Synonyms : clout Synonyms : necessary heeled sandals" Antonyms : weakness Antonyms : unnecessary 100) slump Example : "my spade hit something solid that Example : "the government realized that it was Meaning : sit, lean, or fall heavily and limply.(v) wouldn't respond to leverage" incumbent on them to act" Synonyms : collapse 76) alleged 88) rescue Antonyms : increase Meaning : said, without proof, to have taken Meaning : save (someone) from a dangerous or Example : "she slumped against the cushions" place or to have a specified illegal or undesirable difficult situation(v). 101) convening quality. Synonyms : delivery Meaning : come or bring together for a meeting Synonyms : supposed Antonyms : failure or activity; assemble.(v) Antonyms : confirmed Example : "firemen rescued a man trapped in the Synonyms : gather Example : "the alleged conspirators" river" Antonyms : disperse 77) diplomatic 89) adequate Example : "he had convened a secret meeting of Meaning : of or concerning diplomacy. Meaning : satisfactory or acceptable in quality or military personnel" Synonyms : considerate quantity.(adj) 102) interpreted Antonyms : impolite Synonyms : capable Meaning : explain the meaning of (information Example : "diplomatic relations with Britain were Antonyms : inappropriate or actions). broken" Example : "this office is perfectly adequate for my Synonyms : explained 78) overt needs" Example : "the evidence is difficult to interpret" Meaning : done or shown openly; plainly 90) kin 103) brewing apparent. Meaning : one's family and relations. Meaning : make (beer) by soaking, boiling, and Synonyms : manifest Synonyms : affinity fermentation. Antonyms : covert Antonyms : unrelated Synonyms : boil Example : "an overt act of aggression" Example : "many elderly people have no kin to Antonyms : dehydrate 79) clout turn to for assistance" Example : "within five years the company will Meaning : a heavy blow with the hand or a hard 91) rigour brew as much beer in China as in Australia" object.(n) Meaning : the quality of being extremely 104) contributing Synonyms : influence thorough and careful.(n) Meaning : give (something, especially money) in Antonyms : failure Synonyms : harshness order to help achieve or provide something(v). Example : "a clout round the ear" Antonyms : agility Synonyms : commit 80) rivalries Example : "his analysis is lacking in rigour" Antonyms : hold Meaning : competition for the same objective or 92) extraction Example : "taxpayers had contributed £141.8 for superiority in the same field(n). Meaning : the action of extracting something, million towards the cost of local services" Synonyms : contests especially using effort or force(n). 105) panic Antonyms : cooperations Synonyms : eradication Meaning : sudden uncontrollable fear or anxiety, Example : "there always has been intense rivalry Antonyms : addition often causing wildly unthinking behaviour.(n) between the clubs" Example : "mineral extraction" Tamil Meaning : 81) trapping 93) flawed Synonyms : confusion Meaning : trick or deceive (someone) into doing Meaning : having or characterized by a Antonyms : bravery something contrary to their interests or fundamental weakness or imperfection.(adj) Example : "she hit him in panic" intentions. Synonyms : erroneous 106) indices Synonyms : ambush Antonyms : accurate Meaning : in a book or set of books) an Antonyms : blessing Example : "a fatally flawed strategy" alphabetical list of names, subjects, etc. with Example : "I hoped to trap him into an admission" 94) incorporating reference to the pages on which they are 82) unscrupulous Meaning : take in or contain (something) as part mentioned. Meaning : having or showing no moral of a whole; include(v). Synonyms : ratio principles; not honest or fair. Synonyms : absorb Example : "clear cross references supplemented Synonyms : dishonest Antonyms : disperse by a thorough index Antonyms : moral Example : "he has incorporated in his proposals a 107) uptrend Example : "unscrupulous landlords might be number of measures" Meaning : an upward tendency, especially a rise tempted to harass existing tenants" 95) displaced in economic value. 83) exploiting Meaning : take over the place, position, or role Synonyms : rise Meaning : make full use of and derive benefit of.(v) Antonyms : decline from (a resource).(v) Synonyms : deranged Example : "the uptrend in sales and profits is Synonyms : using Antonyms : reinstated expected to be sustained in the October-March Antonyms : wasting Example : "he believes that books may be period" Example : "500 companies sprang up to exploit displaced by the electronic word" 108) despite this new technology" 96) remiss Meaning : without being affected by; in spite of. 84) desperate Meaning : lacking care or attention to duty; Synonyms : against Meaning : feeling or showing a hopeless sense negligent. Example : "he remains a great leader despite age that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to Synonyms : derelict and infirmity" deal with.(adj) Antonyms : careful 109) comfortably Synonyms : daring Example : "it would be very remiss of me not to Meaning : in a physically relaxed way that is free Antonyms : afraid pass on that information" from constraint.(adv) Example : "a desperate sadness enveloped Ruth" 97) massive Synonyms : easily 85) remunerative Meaning : large and heavy or solid.(adj) Antonyms : insufficiently Meaning : pay (someone) for services rendered Synonyms : colossal Example : "he lounges comfortably in an or work done.(v) Antonyms : common armchair" Synonyms : accord Example : "a massive rampart of stone" 110) midst Antonyms : deny 98) keen Meaning : the middle part or point.(n) Synonyms : bosom

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Antonyms : exterior Example : "she showed a prospective buyer 136) throes Example : "he left his flat in the midst of a around the house" Meaning : intense or violent pain and struggle, rainstorm" 124) reaped especially accompanying birth, death, or great 111) gauge Meaning : harvest the crop from (a piece of change. Meaning : estimate or determine the amount, land).(v) Synonyms : agony level, or volume of.(v) Synonyms : pick Antonyms : comfort Synonyms : indicator Antonyms : sow Example : "he convulsed in his death throes" Antonyms : extreme Example : "farmers agreed to continue reaping 137) controversy Example : "astronomers can gauge the star's the land by traditional means" Meaning : prolonged public disagreement or intrinsic brightness" 125) stakes heated discussion. 112) colloquially Meaning : support (a plant) with a stake or Synonyms : bickering Meaning : (of language) used in ordinary or stakes.(v) Antonyms : harmony familiar conversation; not formal or literary. Synonyms : share Example : "the design of the building has caused Synonyms : vernacular Antonyms : defund controversy" Antonyms : formal Example : "the gladioli were staked in gaudy 138) tussle Example : "colloquial and everyday language" ranks" Meaning : a vigorous struggle or scuffle, typically 113) gradual 126) enabled in order to obtain or achieve something. Meaning : taking place or progressing slowly or Meaning : give (someone) the authority or Synonyms : brawl by degrees.(adj) means to do something; make it possible for.(v) Antonyms : agreement Synonyms : creeping Synonyms : permit Example : "there was a tussle for the ball" Antonyms : intermittent Antonyms : prevent 139) susceptibility Example : "the gradual introduction of new Example : "the evidence would enable us to arrive Meaning : the state or fact of being likely or liable methods" at firm conclusions" to be influenced or harmed by a particular thing. 114) struggled 127) squeeze Synonyms : awareness Meaning : make forceful or violent efforts to get Meaning : firmly press (something soft or Antonyms : insensitivity free of restraint or constriction.(v) yielding), typically with one's fingers.(v) Example : "lack of exercise increases Synonyms : cope Synonyms : permit susceptibility to disease" Antonyms : forget Antonyms : prevent 140) perception Example : "before she could struggle, he lifted her Example : "Kate squeezed his hand Meaning : the ability to see, hear, or become up" affectionately" aware of something through the senses. 115) derail 128) persuaded Synonyms : approach Meaning : obstruct (a process) by diverting it Meaning : induce (someone) to do something Antonyms : concrete from its intended course. through reasoning or argument.(v) Example : "the normal limits to human Synonyms : crash Synonyms : induce perception" Antonyms : aid Antonyms : unsell 141) appalling Example : "the plot is seen by some as an attempt Example : "it wasn't easy, but I persuaded him to Meaning : causing shock or dismay; horrific. to derail the negotiations" do the right thing" Synonyms : alarming 116) robust 129) contest Antonyms : beautiful Meaning : strong and healthy; vigorous. Meaning : engage in competition to attain (a Example : "the cat suffered appalling injuries Synonyms : booming position of power).(v) during the attack" Antonyms : fragile Synonyms : friction 142) inmates Example : "the Caplan family are a robust lot" Antonyms : harmony Meaning : a person living in an institution such 117) insisted Example : "she declared her intention to contest as a prison or hospital. Meaning : demand something forcefully, not the presidency" Synonyms : convict accepting refusal.(v) 130) denies Example : "inmates of the Louisiana State Synonyms : assert Meaning : state that one refuses to admit the Penitentiary" Antonyms : abandon truth or existence of. 143) appeal Example : "she insisted on carrying her own bag" Synonyms : repudiate Meaning : make a serious, urgent, or heartfelt 118) mandate Antonyms : espouse request.(v) Meaning : an official order or commission to do Example : "both firms deny any responsibility for Synonyms : claim something.(n) the tragedy" Antonyms : answer Synonyms : decree 131) despite Example : "police are appealing for information Antonyms : breach Meaning : contemptuous treatment or about the incident" Example : "a mandate to seek the release of behaviour; outrage. 144) intention political prisoners" Synonyms : contempt Meaning : a thing intended; an aim or plan. 119) era Antonyms : tolerance Synonyms : hope Meaning : a long and distinct period of history(n) Example : "the despite done by him to the holy Antonyms : discouragement Synonyms : generation relics" Example : "she was full of good intentions" Example : "his death marked the end of an era" 132) deployed 120) normalised Meaning : bring into effective action. 145) fleeing Meaning : bring or return to a normal or standard Synonyms : redistribute Meaning : run away from a place or situation of condition or state.(v) Example : "small states can often deploy danger. Synonyms : assign resources more freely" Synonyms : depart Antonyms : disorder 133) tactics Antonyms : arrive Example : "the two countries normalized Meaning : an action or strategy carefully planned Example : "to escape the fighting, his family fled diplomatic relations in 1995" to achieve a specific end(n). from their village" 121) intractable Synonyms : technique 146) consortium Meaning : hard to control or deal with. Example : "the minority attempted to control the Meaning : the right of association and Synonyms : ungovernable Council by a delaying tactic" companionship with one's husband or wife. Antonyms : obliging 134) extradition Synonyms : conference Example : "intractable economic problems" Meaning : the action of extraditing a person Antonyms : separation 122) reconcile accused or convicted of a crime.(n) Example : "the amount awarded for loss of Meaning : restore friendly relations between.(v) Synonyms : refoulement consortium must be included" Synonyms : accommodate Example : "they fought to prevent his extradition 147) defunct Antonyms : confuse to the US" Meaning : no longer existing or functioning. Example : "the king and the archbishop were 135) fugitive Synonyms : obsolete publicly reconciled" Meaning : a person who has escaped from Antonyms : alive 123) prospective captivity or is in hiding. Example : "the now defunct Somerset & Dorset Meaning : expected or expecting to be the Synonyms : elusive railway line" specified thing in the future. Antonyms : enduring 348) portray Synonyms : view Example : "fugitives from justice"

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Meaning : depict (someone or something) in a Example : "once you contact the card protection Antonyms : fail work of art or literature. scheme your liability for any loss ends" Example : "the referee deserves a pat on the Synonyms : depict 161) implement back" Antonyms : confuse Meaning : a tool, utensil, or other piece of 173) minutiae Example : "the ineffectual Oxbridge dons equipment that is used for a particular Meaning : the small, precise, or trivial details of portrayed by Evelyn Waugh" purpose(n). something. 149) victim Synonyms : achieve Synonyms : incidental Antonyms : ignore Antonyms : generality Meaning : a person harmed, injured, or killed as Example : "garden implements" Example : "the minutiae of everyday life" a result of a crime, accident, or other event or 174) efficacy action. 162) trials Meaning : the ability to produce a desired or Synonyms : casualty Meaning : a formal examination of evidence by intended result.(v) Antonyms : criminal a judge, typically before a jury, in order to decide Synonyms : competence Example : "victims of domestic violence" guilt in a case of criminal or civil proceedings. Antonyms : inadequacy 150) verdict Synonyms : effort Example : "there is little information on the Meaning : a decision on an issue of fact in a civil Antonyms : abstention efficacy of this treatment" or criminal case or an inquest. Example : "the newspaper accounts of the trial" 175) competent Synonyms : award 163) intimidation Meaning : having the necessary ability, Antonyms : accusation Meaning : the action of intimidating someone, or knowledge, or skill to do something Example : "the jury returned a verdict of not the state of being intimidated. successfully(adj). guilty" Synonyms : coercion Synonyms : adequate 151) reinforces Antonyms : encourage Antonyms : impotent Meaning : strengthen or support (an object or Example : "the intimidation of witnesses and Example : "a highly competent surgeon" substance), especially with additional material. jurors" 176) proximate Synonyms : bolster 164) undue Meaning : nearly accurate; approximate. Antonyms : diminish Meaning : unwarranted or inappropriate because Synonyms : direct Example : "the helmet has been reinforced with a excessive or disproportionate(adj). Antonyms : distant double layer of cork" Synonyms : extreme Example : "he would try to change her speech 152) predicament Antonyms : appropriate into proximate ladylikeness Meaning : a difficult, unpleasant, or Example : "this figure did not give rise to undue 177) testimony embarrassing situation. concern" Meaning : a formal written or spoken statement, Synonyms : deadlock 165) abysmal especially one given in a court of law.(n) Antonyms : advantage Meaning : extremely bad; appalling. Synonyms : affidavit Example : "the club's financial predicament" Synonyms : complete Antonyms : denial 153) beset Antonyms : low Example : "the testimony of an eyewitness" Meaning : (of a problem or difficulty) trouble Example : "the quality of her work is abysmal" 178) concealing (someone or something) persistently. 166) convictions Meaning : not allow to be seen; hide. Synonyms : embarrass Meaning : a firmly held belief or opinion. Synonyms : obscure Antonyms : explain Synonyms : feeling Antonyms : disregard Example : "the social problems that beset the UK" Antonyms : distrust Example : "a line of sand dunes concealed the 154) aviation Example : "she takes pride in stating her political distant sea" Meaning : the flying or operating of aircraft. convictions" 179) vulnerable Synonyms : navigation 167) hostile Meaning : exposed to the possibility of being Example : "the aviation industry" Meaning : showing or feeling opposition or attacked or harmed, either physically or 155) profligate dislike; unfriendly. emotionally.(adj) Meaning : recklessly extravagant or wasteful in Synonyms : adverse Synonyms : accessible the use of resources. Antonyms : agreeable Antonyms : protected Synonyms : promiscuous Example : "a hostile audience" Example : "we were in a vulnerable position" Antonyms : moral 168) acquittals 180) pose Example : "profligate consumers of energy” Meaning : a judgement or verdict that a person Meaning : present or constitute (a problem or 156) disbursement is not guilty of the crime with which they have danger)(v). Meaning : the payment of money from a fund. been charged(n). Synonyms : posture Synonyms : spending Synonyms : absolution Antonyms : reality Antonyms : deposit Antonyms : retention Example : "the sheer number of visitors is posing Example : "they established a committee to Example : "the trial resulted in an acquittal" a threat to the area" supervise the disbursement of aid" 169) tardy 181) tottering 157) subsequent Meaning : delaying or delayed beyond the right Meaning : move in a feeble or unsteady way. Meaning : coming after something in time; or expected time; late. Synonyms : suspect following.(adj) Synonyms : belated Antonyms : strong Synonyms : consecutive Antonyms : early Example : "a hunched figure tottering down the Antonyms : preceding Example : "please forgive this tardy reply" path" Example : "the theory was developed subsequent 170) gratifying 182) Paradoxically to the earthquake of 1906" Meaning : give (someone) pleasure or Meaning : in a seemingly absurd or self- 158) disbursement satisfaction(v). contradictory way.(adv) Meaning : the payment of money from a fund. Synonyms : enchant Synonyms : incongruously Synonyms : expenditure Antonyms : depress Antonyms : logically Antonyms : deposit Example : "she was gratified to see the shock in Example : "the strength of capitalism is, Example : "they established a committee to Jim's eyes" paradoxically, also its weakness" supervise the disbursement of aid" 171) proactive 183) swept 159) laundering Meaning : (of a person or action) creating or Meaning : clean (an area) by brushing away dirt Meaning : wash and iron (clothes or linen). controlling a situation rather than just responding or litter. Synonyms : rinse to it after it has happened(adj). Synonyms : broom Antonyms : dirty Synonyms : aggressive Antonyms : dirty Example : "he wasn't used to laundering his own Antonyms : idle Example : "I've swept the floor" bed linen" Example : "employers must take a proactive 184) escalated 160) Liabilities approach to equal pay" Meaning : increase rapidly. Meaning : the state of being legally responsible 172) deserves Synonyms : heighten for something. Meaning : do something or have or show Antonyms : decrease Synonyms : obligation qualities worthy of (a reaction which rewards or Example : "the price of tickets escalated" Antonyms : asset punishes as appropriate(v). 185) deferred Synonyms : earn

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Meaning : put off (an action or event) to a later Synonyms : conflict time; postpone(v). Antonyms : harmony √ √ Synonyms : delayed Example : "five Hurricanes were shot down in Q.15) 6 + 2 + √43 + √31 + √19 + √36 =? Antonyms : advanced combat" Example : "they deferred the decision until 198) rallying a) 6 b) 3 c) 9 February" Meaning : having the effect of calling people to d) 2 e) 4 186) levy action.(adj) 2 Q.16) (√5 − 2) − √9 = −√20+? −√49 Meaning : impose (a tax, fee, or fine). Synonyms : assemble Synonyms : excise Antonyms : disenchant a) 13 − √5 b) 13 − 3√2 c)13 − 2√5 Antonyms : displace Example : "a rallying cry" d) √13 − 2√3 e) None of these 3 2 2 2 ? Example : "a tax of two per cent was levied on all 199) Conversely Q.17) (3 × 4) ÷ (9 × 16) × (64 × 27) × 12 = 12 cargoes" Meaning : introducing a statement or idea which a) 4 b) 9 c) 6 187) induce reverses one that has just been made or referred d) 7 e) 11 Q.18) (2 % 0푓 6500) × (1 1 표푓 84) + 2841 =? +2014 Meaning : succeed in persuading or leading to. 5 3 (someone) to do something.(v) Synonyms : contrarily a) 3793 b) 3649 c) 3749 Synonyms : convince Example : "he would have preferred his wife not d) 3639 e) 3739 Antonyms : destroy to work, although conversely he was also proud Q.19) 72 × √196 + 389.28 + 2902.43 =? +421.42 Example : "the pickets induced many workers to of what she did" a) 4109.30 b) 3556.29 c) 3290.22 stay away" 200) prospects d) 3109.29 e) 3212.38 188) reinstating Meaning : the possibility or likelihood of some Q.20) 12 × 13 + 219 ÷ 3 + √841 − 12% 표푓 560 =? Meaning : restore (someone or something) to future event occurring.(n) a) 178.5 b) 119.4 c) 190.8 their former position or state(v). Synonyms : expectation d) 178.9 e) 180.9 Synonyms : renew Antonyms : impossibility Q.21) √1 × 1 ÷ 25 = ? Antonyms : destroy Example : "there was no prospect of a 4 49 121 Example : "the union threatened strike action if reconciliation" a) 11 b) 11 c)11 Owen was not reinstated" 35 70 65 d) 4 e) 11 189) intended 35 45 SIMPLIFICATION: 3.5 4.2 8 4.1 Meaning : the person one intends to marry; Q.22) 13 × 169 × 4 ÷ 2 = ? D.1-250) What will come in place of 16 11.5 11.9 one's fiancé or fiancée(n). a) 13 b) 16 c)26 question mark in the following questions: Synonyms : contracted d) 136 e) 2611.5 Q.1) 5.6 ÷ 0.7 + 20% 표푓 420 + 2.5 × 2.4 =? Antonyms : unfixed Q.23) 20% of 225 + 22.5% of 200 = ?of 450 a) 86 b) 90 c) 84 Example : "she used to be my intended" a) 10% b) 15% c) 25% d) 98 e) 96 d) 20% e) 35% 190) reinforce 80.25 79.2 581.25 Q.2) ( ) + ( ) + ( ) = 1989 +? 3 4 7 Meaning : strengthen or support (an object or 0.03 0.9 0.75 Q.24) 표푓 표푓 표푓 425 = ? 7 9 5 a) 1560 b) 1544 c) 2645 substance), especially with additional a) 133.33 b) 111.33 c) 333.33 d) 3163 e) 1549 material(v). d) 123.33 e) 113.33 Synonyms : bolster Q.3) 50% 표푓 1200 + 30% 표푓 480 + 1800 5 Q.25) + 770 = 645 + ? Antonyms : diminish 49% 표푓 표푓 1400 =? 24 7 a) 170 b) 200 c) 210 Example : "the helmet has been reinforced with a a) 1241 b) 1416 c) 1412 d) 190 e) 185 double layer of cork" d) 1234 e) 1254 Q.26) ? = 145% 표푓 280 + 1 1 표푓 24 − 20% 표푓 150 191) shone Q.4) 120 × 630 × 8 × (? ) = 11200 3 Meaning : (of the sun or another source of light) 100 72 54 a) 432 b) 428 c) 430 a) 7200 b) 6400 c) 8100 give out a bright light(v). d) 408 e) None of these d) 6300 e) 7500 Synonyms : gleam Q.27) ? = 434 × 25 ÷ 35 − 128 ÷ 22 + √324 Q.5) 15 1 + 60% 표푓 400 − 5 1 = (? ) + 5 Antonyms : darken 3 6 18 18 a) 278 b) 296 c) 292’’ Example : "the sun shone through the window" a) 54 b) 55 c) 50 d) 312 e) 288 192) concessions d) 67 e) 60 Q.28) ? = 4 × 819 + 7 × 104 − 3 × 520 + 4 × 198 9 13 10 11 Q.6) 44% of 850 + 60% of 1025=? + 35% of Meaning : a thing that is granted, especially in a) 336 b) 424 c) 344 1880 response to demands.(n) d) 418 e) 396 Synonyms : privilege a) 331 b) 421 c) 298 ? Q.29) = 425 ÷ 25 ÷ 17 × 24 Antonyms : denial d) 357 e) 341 11 a) 255 b) 258 c) 264 Example : "the government was unwilling to Q.7) ? =15+26+19×75-2185÷23+178 d) 222 e) None of these make any further concessions" a) 1498 b) 1599 c) 1627 2 2 193) constrained d) 1549 e) 1613 Q.30) ? = 69 + 13 × 3 ÷ √289 × 34 − 26 120 × 16−9× 30 Meaning : compel or force (someone) to follow a Q.8) =? a) 412 b) 423 c) 457 130 × 7+5 × 38 d) 407 e) None of these particular course of action(v). a) 2.8 b) 1.5 c) 1.9 Q.31) 1860 + 123 + (? ) = (2.6 × 5)2 Synonyms : strained d) 2.1 e) 1.2 15 15.375 9 4 2 Antonyms : freed ( )÷( )×( ) a) 36 b) 37 c) 47 3 3 3 Q.9) 3 4 2 × 2.5 =? Example : "children are constrained to work in the ( )÷[( )표푓 ( )] d) 17 e) 15 9 3 3 3 way the book dictates" a) 4 b) 8 c) 10 Q.32) 131 × 4 + 143 × 3 + (? ) = (8 × 1.375) 194) radar d) 15 e) 6 a) 478 b) 248 c) 568 Meaning : a person's capacity for intuitive Q.10) ? = 2 1 + 3 2 − 4 3 + 2 2 d) 378 e) 380 perception; a special sensitivity for factors, 5 10 5 3 Q.33) 1310+123+510×2+1+320= (?)×2+ 424+ a) 2 5 b) 3 7 c)3 9 trends, etc. 14 15 14 31 × 3+3.5×2 4 Synonyms : sonar d) 2 e) None of these a) 2250 b) 1365 c) 1525 15 Example : "keep your radar tuned to changes at Q.11) 20% 표푓 500 + 60% 표푓 240 + 30% 표푓 360 =? d) 1125 e) 1105 3 work" a) 288 b) 256 c) 352 Q.34) [14% 표푓 645 + 28% 표푓 340] × 2 − (? ) = 7 195) concern d) 289 e) 320 a) 28 b) 29 c) 18 1 1 Meaning : make (someone) anxious or worried. − −2 −3 − ? d) 10 e) 12 Q.12) (343) 3 × (49) × (√49) × (2401) 4 = 7 Synonyms : involvement Q.35) 4.44+444.404+404.44+40.4044 =(?)+ a) -9 b) -7 c) -8 Antonyms : fun 44.04+ 400.404+4.24+5.0044 d) -6 e) -10 Example : "the roof of the barn concerns me a) 456 b) 480 c) 420 Q.13) 2 × 5 × 9 × (? ) = 90 because eventually it will fall in" 3 7 11 d) 440 e) 340 196) pitted a) 121 b) 221 c) 251 Q.36) ? = 45% of 180 + 33% of 200 − 12% of 350 + Meaning : having a hollow or indentation on the d) 231 e) 211 23% of 400 surface(adj). Q.14) √6.25 ×√49×63 × 216 =? a) 185 b) 197 c) 188 √1296×12×72 d) 213 e) 208 Synonyms : contend a) 10.25 b) 10.75 c) 11.25 Antonyms : agree Q.37) (122 × 42 ÷ 12 + 72 ÷ 36 × 25) ÷ 3 =? +24 d) 12.50 e) 11.75 Example : "his jowled and pitted face" a) 142 b) 135 c) 120 197) combat d) 145 e) None of these Meaning : fighting between armed forces.(n) Q.38) ? = (122 + 44 − 82) ÷ 3√64 × 62 − 112 + 28

______7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute.in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 38 |LEGEND MAGAZINE | OCTOBER - 2019| a) 1203 b) 1017 c) 1066 d) 54 e) 48 d) 32 e) 18 d) 1023 e) None of these Q.62) 45% of 3500 + 40% of 2400 = x2 +35 Q.87) 54% 표푓 950 + 98% 표푓 900 − 65% 표푓 640 + Q.39) ? = √324 × √256 ÷ 3√216 × 3√512 a) 51 b) 52 c) 53 34% 표푓 650 =? a) 284 b) 312 c) 384 d) 55 e) 50 a) 1200 b) 1150 c) 2130 d) 288 e) 326 Q.63) √4761 + ∛9261 - √7569 = x2 -1 d) 3200 e)2950 2 3 Q.40) ? = 2 2 − 3 5 + 5 1 + 4 3 a) 3 b) 4 c) 5 Q.88) √2304 × √729 + 651 − 1005 =? 3 6 4 8 d) 2 e) 6 a) 67 b) 89 c) 78 a) 7 17 b) 9 1 c)6 3 60 20 20 Q.64) 15% of 2560 + 34 × 48 = 8x d) 87 e) 96 11 d) 8 e) None of these 2 2 2 2 24 a) 272 b) 324 c) 252 Q.89) 13 − 12 − 5 + 14 − 230 =? Q.41)238.5 + 282 ÷ 3√512 − 156.3 =? +22.2 d) 221 e) 232 a) -13 b) 28 c) -34 a) 123 b) 158 c) 168 Q.65) 272.72 + 34.34 + 5.252 + 4737.3 + d) 34 e) 28 ( 1024÷ 256×12) d) 193 e) 201 0.388= x Q.90) √ √ =? 4 Q.42) 24 × 86 + 98 − 188 ÷ 4 =? a) 5049 b) 5048 c) 5051 a) 9 b) 16 c) 4 a) 2115 b) 3129 c) 1090 d) 5050 e) 5052 684 d) 6 e) 12 d) 3901 e) 2091 Q.66) 11% of 2400 + + √625 = x% of 25 19 Q.91) (0.81)2 ÷ (0.729)3 × (0.9)2 = (0.9)?−3 Q.43) 24% of 5460+15% of 9995+287=? a) 1300 b) 1500 c) 2400 a) 3 b) 6 c) 7 a) 3908.53 b) 3095.54 c) 3096.65 d) 2600 e) None of these d) 0 e) 4 d) 3920.23 e) 3298.32 Q.67) 450 + 750 + 200 + 40% of 3000 = 13x Q.92) 34.5% of 1800 + 12.4% of 1500 = (? )3 + 78 Q.44) 87932+49230-39239+3292-9281- a) 300 b) 400 c) 500 a) 3 b) 5 c) 7 23123+12=? d) 200 e) 350 d) 8 e) 9 a) 68879 b) 48920 c) 67053 4500 Q.68) 428 + 237 + 339 + 197+ = x + 789 Q.93) √152 × 12 ÷ (9) − 125 + 21 =? d) 68823 e) 68738 36 78×184×33 a) 537 b) 598 c) 542 a) 13 b) 14 c) 17 Q.45) 2 3 =? √529× √2197 d) 582 e) 524 d) 18 e) 15 a) 1783 b) 2189 c) 1893 Q.69) 65% of 1800-45% of 2400 = x + 80 Q.94) 2 1 – 1 1 = ? + 1 1 – 1 9 8 16 32 64 d) 1839 e) 1584 a) 20 b) 30 c) 10 11 1 1 11x−42÷343×49 a) 1 b) 1 c)1 Q.46) = 2 d) 25 e) None of these 64 8 32 13×48÷78 d) 2 3 e) 1 1 a) 8 b) 1 c) 0.5 Q.70) 1200+1400+1600 + 2500 + 2300 = x+ 8 4 d) 2 e) 3 (√1521)×100 Q.95) 65% 표푓 √3136 × 5 = ? + 154 Q.47) 36% of 1800÷15% of 720-480% of a) 4900 b) 5100 c) 5400 a) 14 b) 7 c) 21 260÷80% of 2390=x÷2 d) 5700 e) 6100 d) 28 e) 35 2 1 1 a) 1 b) 4 c) 2 (26) 2 2 Q.96) 7.2 × 5.6 ÷ 11.2 + 10.8 표푓 − = ? Q.71) √ × (? ) = (15 + 10 ) 18 10 4 d) 8 e) 6 a) 4.1 b) 3.2 c) 5.6 2 2 3 a) 25 b) 24 c) 39 Q.48) 6 × 44 ÷ 4 × 2 ÷ 33 = x + 120 ÷ 8 d) 7.1 e) 3.3 d) 34 e) 30 a) 29 b) 19 c) 10 Q.97) 150% 표푓 2.4 + 250% 표푓 4.4 − Q.72) 30% 표푓 2540 + (? )% 표푓 15000 = (170.25 × 8) d) 13 e) 9 75% 표푓 3.6 푖푠 푒푞푢푎푙 푡표 50% 표푓 ? 3 1 3 7 a) 12 b) 10 c) 4 Q.49) 3 − 8 + 6 = x + a) 23.8 b) 25.3 c) 30.6 4 3 5 20 d) 6 e) 8 4 1 2 d) 63.4 e) 17.2 a) 2 b) 2 c)1 Q.73) 2434+4324+3423-434+42-434=(?) 7 3 3 Q.98) 1.1 × 32 + 3.3 × 16 + 1.1 × 20 푖푠 푒푞푢푎푙 푡표 ? × d) 1 1 e) None of these a) 7235 b) 5560 c) 5235 5 55. d) 8955 e) 9355 Q.50) 푥 = 12 × 484 ÷ 66 + 232 − √729 ÷ 32 a) 4 b) 3 c) 2 Q.74) 3.213+231.23-64.324+42.354=(?)+0.473 a) 529 b) 620 c) 537 d) 5 e) 6 a) 260 b) 212 c) 124 d) 614 e) None of these Q.99) 62 + 80% 표푓 80 푖푠 푒푞푢푎푙 푡표 √? 2 d) 224 e) 230 Q.51) √67.24 + √7.84 + √(? ) = (32 × 0.375) a) 100 b) 10000 c) 10 Q.75) 5 1 + 11 1 + 8 3 − 1 2 = (? ) a) 9 b) 4 c) 2 2 3 5 3 d) 1 e) None of these. 23 29 a) 21 b) 21 c) 22 1 4 27 10 ? d) 1 e) 16 29 30 Q.100) × × × = 203.2 3 9 8 15 24 Q.52) (3.125 × 5) − (2 × 6.225) = d) 23 23 e) None of these (?)2 30 a) 8 b) 6 c) 7 a) 1 b) 2 c) 4 Q.76) 4×8+3×2×5+2+3=(?)2+3 d) 5 e) 2 ( ) d) 6 e) 8 a) 10 b) 12 c) 9 Q.101) √15876 × √ ? = (0.75 × 8)2 Q.53) 13 × 21 × 0.5 + 0.5 + 169 = [(2.1 × 7) + 0.3] × d) 8 e) 6 21 6 a) 1926 b) 1629 c) 1296 (? ) Q.77) 323 + 667 + (? ) = 72 17 23 d) 1962 e) 1269 a) 22.8 b) 20.4 c) 26.2 a) 10 b) 16 c) 9 Q.102) 64% 표푓 1250 + (? )% 표푓 650 = (30)2 − (3)2 d) 18.1 e) 18.4 d) 4 e) 1 a) 8 b) 10 c) 12 810 24.25 2 Q.54) × = (? ) 2 16.2 12.125 Q.78) (64% of 1300) ÷8 - 4= (?) d) 14 e) 16 a) 18 b) 12 c) 10 a) 14 b) 12 c) 10 Q.103) 32.5+42.5+1.25+7.25= (?)+ (3×4.5) d) 16 e) 14 d) 9 e) 8 a) 82 b) 80 c) 79 2 2 Q.55) 16 − (1.6 × 5) + 13 = (? ) × 3 + (9) Q.79) 486 + 254 − 360 + (? ) = 73 + 40 d) 60 e) 70 a) 19 b) 40 c) 50 a) 5 b) 7 c) 3 Q.104) 12.12 × 4 + 6.565 × 8 = (? )2 + 1 d) 60 e) 62 d) 4 e) 2 a) 100 b) 101 c) 102 Q.56) 50% of 240+25% of 360+40% of 400+x% Q.80) [(5 ÷ 2) × 8]2 ÷ 42 = (? ) × 2.5 d) 10 e) 110 of 200=410 a) 10 b) 12 c) 13 Q.105) 172 + 3 × (? ) = 262 − 18 a) 20 b) 10 c) 15 d) 16 e) 20 a) 133 b) 124 c) 123 d) 25 e) 24 Q.81) 24 ÷ 4 × 15 + 189.5 =? +2 1 ÷ 5 d) 113 e) 112 27 9 2 4 √841 64 338 (?) Q.57) × × = (? ) a) 221.5 b) 198.4 c) 222.7 Q.106) [(0.32 × 25) + (0.08 × 150)]2 = 116 169 √1024 2 a) 2 b) 1 c) 16 d) 217.5 e) 238.8 a) 800 b) 802 c) 700 d) 32 e) 8 Q.82) 23% 표푓 678 + 15% 표푓 √1024 × 225 =?2+ 2.94 d) 600 e) 850 1 0.125 0.216 −( ) a) 18 b) 16 c) 5 5609 8439 2 Q.58) × × (0.1296) 2 = (? ) Q.107) × = (? ) × (19.4 × 15.8) √0.25 √0.36 d) 15 e) 21 71 87 1 2 1 a) 25 b) 5 c) 50 a) b) c) Q.83) 38329+34287-2112-322+412=?+2311 2 5 4 d) 100 e) 10 d) 3 e) 3 a) 62183 b) 78382 c) 68901 5 4 Q.108) 13.5% 표푓 1200 + (0.28 × 25) = √(? ) 2 4 17 285 d) 72398 e) 68283 Q.59) × × × = (? ) a) 13 b) 196 c) 169 3 5 19 272 Q.84) 57 ÷ 3 × 16 + 2 4 % 표푓 6500 =? a) – 1 b) 1 c) 2 5 d) 64 e) 28561 2 a) 530 b) 445 c) 486 3 d) 0.5 e) 2.5 Q.109) 300 × 1.35 + 420 × 1.75 + (? ) = (1.375 × 8) d) 587 e) 409 Q.60) 234 + 2454 + 351 + 136.34 + 461.35 − 36.69 = a) 190 b) 193 c) 191 Q.85) 2 6 × 3 2 × 2 1 =? (? )2 7 11 5 d) 192 e) 198 a) 50 b) 3600 c) 36 a) 35 b) 20 c) 24 Q.110) 94 + 347 + 236 + 392 - (?) = 37 + 3728 d) 216 e) 60 d) 42 e) 20 - 3181 Q.86) 27 × 24 × 20 × 15 ÷ 5 =? a) 472 b) 482 c) 490 Q.61) 11x+ 25×340 + 24% of 300 = 9001 16 81 9 6 36 d) 475 e) 485 a) 42 b) 39 c) 45 a) 27 b) 20 c) 16 ______7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute.in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 39 |LEGEND MAGAZINE | OCTOBER - 2019|

Q.111) 128 ÷ 16 × 64 − 324 =?2+ 124 Q.135) 288 ÷ 4 − 20 × 2 + 32 = 2? Q.158) 429 + 55 + 66 − 30 =? −50 + 33 − 13 33 a) 9 b) -8 c) 7 a) 6 b) 4 c) 3 a) 135 b) 136 c) 134 d) -11 e) 5 d) 2 e) None of these d) 124 e) None of these Q.112) 324 ÷ 2 × 9.5 + 13.25 =? Q.136) 426 × 6 − 1556 =? +524 10000 500 100 1500 5000 120 √ Q.159) × × × × × =? a) 97.75 b) 78.45 c) 98.75 a) 276 b) 476 c) 436 50 200 250 60 1000 100 a) 30000 b) 70000 c) 80000 d) 89.85 e) 85.95 d) 566 e) None of these d) 50000 e) None of these Q.113) 26 × 12 + 3 3 표푓 840 − 667.5 =? Q.137) 20% 표푓 800 + 30% 표푓 500 − 280 =? 4 a) 40 b) 20 c) 30 Q.160) 500 × 22 + 600 × 20 + 300 × 4 − 1000 × 4 − a)2398.9 b) 3920.5 c) 2190.4 200 × 10 =? d) 25 e) None of these d) 2794.5 e) 1990.4 a) 18200 b) 19200 c) 18300 3 Q.138) 33000 ÷ 1100 × 500 ÷ 20 =? −20 × 20 Q.114)√289 × 841 + √125 =?× 3 d) 19300 e) None of these a) 1150 b) 1700 c) 1650 a) 156 b) 192 c) 166 1 1 23 36 3 d) 1850 e) None of these Q.161) 4 × 4 ÷ 20 × 1 × 1 × 푥 = 16 d) 210 e) 225 9 2 16 111 4 4 Q.139) 30% 표푓 √676 × 10 + 376 =? a) 11 b) 9 c) 10 Q.115) 15% 표푓 980 − 1 % 표푓 1600 + 846 =? 5 a) 454 b) 555 c) 544 d) 8 e) 12 a) 897.5 b) 964.2 c) 967.3 d) 354 e) None of these Q.162) 1 7 + 2 5 + 3 1 − 5 1 = 3 × 푥3 8 4 8 4 8 d) 789.9 e) 893.4 ? Q.140) (50 × 14 × 3) ÷ 25 + 55 = 3 + 24 + 34 a) 2 b) 3 c) 4 Q.116) 1728.97 + 165.43 − 243.24 − 864.54 =? −11.26 a) 4 b) 5 c) 6 d) 5 e) 6 a)779.7 b) 876.97 c) 799.78 d) 3 e) None of these Q.163) 5 표푓 2 표푓 3 6 표푓 1 5 표푓 푥 = 2452 d) 698.98 e) 797.88 Q.141) 20% of 200+40% of 120+65% of 3400- 11 17 15 17 a) 10450 b) 10241 c) 10330 Q.117) 846.64 + √729% 표푓 8610 − 22.34 =? 26% of 2700=? d) 10660 e) None of these a) 3149 b) 3419 c) 3459 a) 1346 b) 1596 c) 3575 Q.164) 2 1 ÷ 1 5 ÷ 36 + 푥 = 4 d) 3248 e) 3388 d) 2346 e) 3256 5 6 15 2 2 Q.118) √1089×√2116÷ √529 =? Q.142) a) 3.5 b) 4 c) 3 3 1331×2 √ d) 2 e) 2.5 a) 2.5 b) 5 c) 3 244.35+542.54+257.52+5753.46+859+78.658- 735.528=? Q.165) (128 ÷ 8) × (1 1 + 4 4) + 44 × 13 × 112 = 2푥 d) 6.4 e) 11 5 5 1456 a) 6500 b) 6800 c) 7200 Q.119) 588 ÷ 12 ÷ 3 1 × 15 =? a) 43 b) 92 c) 70 2 d) 7000 e) 8600 d) 40 e) None of these a) 311 b) 310 c) 215 √225 √441 Q.143) × × √푥 = 1 Q.166) 256 = 푥2 − 224 + 180 ÷ 12 d) 210 e) 223 21 √6.25 √ 1 Q.120) 20% 표푓 652 + 15% 표푓 622 + 432 = 푥 + 172 a) 36 b) 6 c) a) 25 b) 225 c) 15 36 a) 2890.2 b) 2981.6 c) 3198.9 1 d) 625 e) None of these d) 216 e) 210 176 5 221 d) 3019.4 e) 2938.5 6 Q.167) × ÷ × = 푥 0.375 0.18 1 9 15 8 60 17 (?) Q.144) × × (? )2 = Q.121) = (12 × 4.5 + 34 × 3.5) − 11 × 12 √0.0625 0.75 25 a) 48268 b) 48048 c) 48008 3.5 a) 3 b) 2 c)0 d) 48028 e) None of these a) 132.5 b) 126.5 c) 143.5 5 Q.168) 2 × ( 1 ) % of 2400 − ( 3 ) % of 1000 = x d) 155.5 e) None of these d) 1 e) −1 16 15 1 3 2 1 − − Q.122) ? = 135 × 12 ÷ of 216 + 25% of 280 2 5 5 a) 10 b) 3 c) 5 6 Q.145)1 4 2 × (31 × 2) = (? ) − − a) 145 b) 115 c) 125 5 5 7 d) 1 e) None of these a) 35 b) 28 c) 36 2 d) 160 e) 120 Q.169) 25% of 360 + 15% of 220 – 140 × – 20 = x d) 40 e) 25 7 Q.123) ? = 122 ÷ 22 × 15 − 32 + 141 a) 53 b) 73 c) 63 0.45 √0.1024 1 Q.146) × = (? )2 a) 576 b) 712 c) 656 √0.1296 √6.25 d) 68 e) None of these d) 672 e) 632 a) 2.56 b) (0.16)2 c) (1.6)2 Q.170) 105 × 1335 ÷ √225 = x + √169 Q.124) ? = 144 × 372 ÷ 30 × 10 d) 0.16 e) 0.016 a) 9342 b) 9332 c) 9164 8 12 18 108 1 3 2 4 1 1 a) 31 b) 48 c) 106 Q.147) (2 − − ) ÷ ( − + ) × (1 − ) = (? ) d) 9316 e) None of these 2 4 3 5 5 3 d) 76 e) 93 a) 2.5 b) 3.5 c) 3.5 Q.171) 256 + √529 − 15 × 12 =? +72 45 7 Q.125) ? = 117 ÷ √169 × × d) 7.5 e) 2.5 a) 34 b) 56 c) 72 5 √81 d) 48 e) 27 a) 75 b) 84 c) 56 Q.148) 20% of 240+54% of 20-20% of 360=(?)- Q.172) 1 × 987 + 15%표푓 940+? = 267 d) 69 e) 63 15 3 Q.126) ? = 7 × 372 + 4 of 104 − 5 of 204 a) 1.8 b) 2.4 c) 5.6 a) 203 b) 213 c) -203 12 13 17 d) 2.8 e) 1.2 d) -222 e) -237 a) 193 b) 211 c) 189 Q.149) 2 × 4 × 6 × 15 × (? ) = 96 Q.173) 345 + 543 + 453 + 354 =? d) 175 e) 195 3 5 7 19 a) 1659 b) 1695 c) 1879 Q.127) 15% of 280 + 18% of 450 − 20% of 150 = a) 234 b) 254 c) 266 d) 1873 e) 1768 ? −24% of 200 d) 276 e) 289 4 6 14 33 Q.174) 1854.5 + 984.75 + 1171.23−? = 565.48 a) 121 b) 141 c) 182 Q.150) × × × × 120 = (? ) 7 11 15 72 a) 3545 b) 3354 c) 3544 d) 153 e) 167 a) 15 b) 18 c) 21 d) 3445 e) 3454 Q.128) ? = 15 × 3 1 + 18 × 4 4 + 12 × 2 1 d) 16 e) 12 12 5 9 4 Q.175) 12 ÷ 4 × 24 + √1764 =?× 4 Q.151) 2 × 1000 + 10 × 200 × 500 + 3000 + 2000 =? a) 1760 b) 1860 c) 1880 5 2 a) 25.5 b) 32.4 c) 28.5 d) 1920 e) 1800 a) 505400 b) 605440 c) 505300 d) 29.7 e) 43.6 152 Q.129) ? = 42√25 − + 88 ÷ √121 d) 500400 e) None of these ( ) √25 Q.176) √552 + (8 × 3) + 346 + 432 + 246 + ? = Q.152) 2 3 + 3 2 + 4 1 − 5 2 =? a) 58 b) 35 c) 43 5 3 10 5 1089 d) 49 e) 53 a) 4 29 b) 5 30 c)3 29 a) 35 b) 32 c) 41 30 39 30 Q.130) ? = 4 3 + 3 7 − 6 3 + 8 1 − 2 5 d) 38 e) 25 8 12 4 2 6 d) 3 e) None of these 0.05 102 156 1 1 a) 7 1 b) 6 1 c)−7 1 Q.153)0.05 × 0.2 + × 17 × 15 =? Q.177) × + √9 − = (? ) 8 8 8 0.25 17 13 81 81 d) 6 7 e) None of these a) 51.01 b) 61.01 c) 52.01 a) 72 b) 75 c) 70 8 1 d) 53.02 e) None of these d) 65 e) 76 Q.131) 250 ÷ 5 × 4 ÷ 2 + (1000 ÷ (50 × 10)) =? 2 Q.154)30 % 표푓 2000 × 150 % 표푓 2000 × 100% 표푓 10 = 2 2 1 9×3 15 a)101 b) 151 c) 201 Q.178) 1 ÷ 3 + √(3 − ) + = (? ) ? −200 + 300 5 5 289 289 17 d) 121 e) None of these a) 17999000 b) 17999900 c) 17990000 a) 4 b) 5 c) 2 Q.132)(32 + 10 + 8 + 4 − 2 − 2) × 1 (10 × 30 + 50 × 3 d) 18900000 e) None of these d) 3 e) 1 6) =? Q.155)3 표푓 1000 + 3 표푓 1000 − 5 표푓 500 =? − 11 표푓 500 Q.179) 133.242 + 1314.24 + 144.21 + 244.35 + 5 2 4 2 a) 10050 b) 10000 c) 10500 a) 3225 b) 4225 c) 2245 1413.53 − 0.572 = (? ) d) 20000 e) None of these d) 2345 e) None of these a) 3249 b) 2455 c) 3246 1 1 6 3 Q.133)( + 3 + 5 − 2 ) × 100 =? 2 2 2 2 2 2 d) 4326 e) 3454 2 4 5 5 Q.156) 13 − 10 + 21 + 9 − 2 − 4 =? √676 √1024 a) 725 b) 745 c) 735 a) 571 b) 582 c) 600 Q.180) × × (6 × 3) + 1431 + 34 = (? ) 36 √169 d) 785 e) None of these d) 636 e) None of these a) 1498 b) 1232 c) 1499 2 2 Q.134) √576 × √144 + √324 − √400 =? Q.157) 12 + 13 − 1 =? − 45 + 133 d) 1525 e) None of these 24 13 15 19 a) 276 b) 296 c) 235 2 2 2 2 a) 15 b) 14 c) 24 Q.181) 12 × + √14884 + (? ) = (6.5 × 2) d) 286 e) None of these 18 d) 22 c) None of these a) 41 b) 39 c) 21

______7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute.in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 40 |LEGEND MAGAZINE | OCTOBER - 2019| d) 31 e) 11 SIMPLIFICATION 2 Q.182) 12 × 12.5 + 18 × (? ) = (19 + 1) + (16.25 × 4) Answer Key: a) 16.5 b) 18.5 c) 17.5 1. (d) 2. (e) 3. (d) 4. (a) 5. (c) 6. (a) 7. (d) 8. (b) d) 12.5 e) 10.5 9. (c) 10. (b) 11. (c) 12. (a) 13. (d) 14. (c) 15. Q.183) 221 × 567 − (? ) = 182 21 17 (b) 16. (c) 17. (d) 18. (e) 19. (b) 20. (c) 21. (b) a) 37 b) 18 c) 9 22. (c) 23. (d) 24. (e) 25. (b) 26. (d) 27. (b) 28. d) 3 e) 27 (a) 29. (c) 30. (d) 31. (b) 32. (d) 33. (d) 34. (a) Q.184) 2.334 + 54.24 + 45.24 − (? ) = 8.23 + 21.32 + 35. (d) 36. (b) 37. (b) 38. (d) 39. (c) 40. (d) 41. 10.45 + 0.814 (b) 42. (a) 43. (c) 44. (d) 45. (e) 46. (d) 47. (b) a) 82 b) 62 c) 61 48. (e) 49. (c) 50. (d) 51. (d) 52. (e) 53. (b) 54. d) 16 e) 59 (c) 55. (d) 56. (a) 57. (b) 58. (c) 59. (d) 60. (e) Q.185) 3√4913 + (23.324 + 4324.24 + 313.3 − 0.864) = 61. (b) 62. (e) 63. (d) 64. (c) 65. (d) 66. (a) 67. (? ) (d) 68. (a) 69. (c) 70. (b) 71. (a) 72. (c) 73. (e) a) 4698 b) 4688 c) 4378 74. (b) 75. (d) 76. (d) 77. (e) 78. (c) 79. (c) 80. d) 4677 e) 4489 (a) 81. (d) 82. (d) 83. (e) 84. (c) 85. (b) 86. (b) Q.186) 21.12+1221.21-21.21+12.21+21.01=? 87. (a) 88. (c) 89. (c) 90. (d) 91. (d) 92. (e) 93. a) 1245.34 b) 1254.34 c) 1134.76 (b) 94. (a) 95. (d) 96. (a) 97. (a) 98. (c) 99. (b) d) 1142.43 e) None of these 100. (a) 101. (c) 102. (d) 103. (e) 104. (d) 105. Q.187) √3249 − √2209+? = 3√1000 (c) 106. (a) 107. (b) 108. (e) 109. (c) 110. (e) a) 10 b) 90 c) 5 111. (b) 112. (c) 113. (d) 114. (c) 115. (b) 116. d) 0 e) 17 (e) 117. (a) 118. (c) 119. (d) 120. (b) 121. (c) 1 2 122. (b) 123. (d) 124. (a) 125. (e) 126. (c) 127. Q.188) ( % 표푓 2400) × 표푓 725 =? −12% 표푓 25 4 5 (b) 128. (b) 129. (c) 130. (d) 131. (a) 132. (b) a) 1765 b) 1868 c) 1439 133. (c) 134. (d) 135. (a) 136. (b) 137. (c) 138. d) 1743 e) None of these (b) 139. (a) 140. (a) 141. (b) 142. (d) 143. (c) Q.189) (81)3× 98 ÷ (729)3 = 9? 144. (d) 145. (a) 146. (b) 147. (d) 148. (a) 149. a) 5 b) 0 c) 12 (c) 150. (d) 151. (a) 152. (a) 153. (a) 154. (b) d) 7 e) None of these 155. (b) 156. (a) 157. (b) 158. (c) 159. (a) 160. Q.190) 1.2 × 1.3 × 1.4 × 1.5 ×? = 39.312 (a) 161. (d) 162. (a) 163. (e) 164. (a) 165. (c) a) 13 b) 22 c) 12 166. (c) 167. (b) 168. (d) 169. (c) 170. (b) 171. d) 27 e) None of these 3 3 (e) 172. (c) 173. (b) 174. (d) 175. (c) 176. (c) Q.191) 625 +375 = 푥 6252−625×375+3752 177. (b) 178. (d) 179. (a) 180. (e) 181. (d) 182. a) 1000 b) 1024 c) 1225 (c) 183. (e) 184. (c) 185. (d) 186. (b) 187. (d) d) 1331 e) None of these 188. (d) 189. (a) 190. (c) 191. (a) 192. (e) 193. Q.192) 4096 × 8푥 = 84 × 83 ÷ 512 (d) 194. (a) 195. (b) 196. (e) 197. (b) 198. (a) a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 199. (c) 200. (a) d) 4 e) None of these Q.193) 1 = 1푥 a) 0 b) 1 c) 2 d) Can’t be determined e) None of these Q.194) 0.125% 표푓 800 + 0.2% 표푓 500 + 0.375% 표푓 1000 + 0.25 = 푥2 0.50 a) 2.5 b) 3.5 c) 4.5 d) 5.5 e) 8 Q.195) 0.25 × 25 − 1 + 6.75 + 22 + 32 = 푥2 a) 6 b) 5 c) 7 d) 8 e) 9 3 3 Q.196) √1728 + √3375 = −√푥 + 62 + 42 a) 525 b) 630 c) 635 d) 640 e) None of these Q.197) 30% 표푓 350 + 15% 표푓 200 + 3 × 100 + 0.5 × 5 0.25 50 + 29 = 푥 a) 208 b) 324 c) 432 d) 542 e) None of these Q.198) 0.12 + 0.18 + 0.22-0.10 + 0.11 + 0.07 + 0.15 + 0.25 = √푥 a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4 e) None of these Q.199) 3푥 × 33 = 243 × 27 × 315 a) 17 b) 18 c) 20 d) 19 e) None of these [(1024+36)2−(1024−36)2] Q.200) = 푥 1024×36 a) 4 b) 5 c) 8 d) 7 e) None of these

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