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November 2019 • Madhuri Vijay has won the JCB Prize for

Literature 2019 for her debut novel ‘The Far • Amazon has introduced ‘Project Zero’ in India, in Field’. a bid to ensure that customers receive authentic • Wrestler Pooja Gehlot claimed the second silver goods when shopping on Amazon. medal for India in the finals of UWW Under-23 • The World Congress on Rural and Agricultural World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Finance (WCRAF) was held in . • The Spanish capital city of Madrid will be hosting • BRICS Trade Ministers Meet was held in the world’s annual climate conference, called Brasilia, Brazil. COP-25 (Conference of the Parties). • Sri Lanka has become the first South Asian • The Shanghai Cooperation Organization Joint nation to criminalize several offences related to Exercise on Urban Earthquake Search and match-fixing. Rescue- ‘SCOJtEx-2019’ held in New Delhi. • India will be hosting the 19th Council of Heads of • The Kanpur city held the title for the world’s most Government of the Shanghai Cooperation polluted city in the latest edition of Guinness Organization in 2020. World Records. • Justice Sanjay Karol has been sworn in as • India conducted its first ever military exercise the 43rd Chief Justice of High Court. with Uzbekistan titled “Dustlik 2019”. • The Kung Fu Nuns of the Drukpa Order received • IIIT-Hyderabad have created the first- Asia Society’s prestigious Game Changer Award ever Indian Brain Atlas referred to as IBA 100. in New York. • As per 2019 Open Doors Report on International • Gujarat government has given its approval to a Educational Exchange” report India is the 2nd Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) terminal facility largest source of foreign students to the US. The at Bhavnagar port. This would be the world’s first first largest source is . CNG port terminal. • The 8th International Conference on Agricultural • Wildlife biologist K. Ullas Karanth was awarded Statistics (ICAS-VIII) was held in New Delhi. the Wildlife Conservation Society’s George • Indian paddler Harmeet Desai won men’s Schaller Lifetime Award in Wildlife Conservation singles title at International Table Tennis Science. Federation (ITTF) Challenge Indonesia Open • Former Chief Election Commissioner TN 2019. Seshan passed away. • The World Day of Remembrance for Road • The 19th Indian Ocean Rim Association COM Traffic Victims was observed on 17 November (Council of Ministers) meeting was held in Abu 2019. Dhabi, UAE. • Sudarsan Pattnaik becomes the first Indian to • The Navies of India and Indonesia are holding win the Italian Golden Sand Art Award, 2019. bilateral naval exercise called ‘Samudra Shakti’ • International Conference on Yoga held in in Bay of Bengal. Mysuru. • The NASSCOM report on Indian Tech Start-Up • The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Ecosystem said that India continues to the third conducts first ever National Agro Chemicals largest start-up ecosystem after China and US. Congress in New Delhi. • Government of India announced the • The 4th edition of India International Cherry establishment of `25,000 crore fund for home Blossom Festival, 2019 was celebrated in buyers whose money is stuck in stalled projects. Shillong, Meghalaya. • Rajasthan Patrika group chairman Gulab Kothari • Union Ministry for Health and Family won Raja Roy Award by Press Welfare (MoHFW) launched SAANS: ‘Social Council of India (PCI). Awareness and Action to Neutralise • IIT-Madras has launched India’s first Pneumonia Successfully’ campaign to reduce indigenously designed standing wheelchair child mortality due to pneumonia. named as ‘Arise’. • Darjeeling Green Tea & White Tea received • First BIMSTEC Ports Conclave held at Geographical Indication Tag. Visakhapatnam. • Pakistan becomes the first country to introduce • International Conference on Soil and Water WHO approved typhoid vaccine. Resources Management held in New Delhi. • India conducted its first night trial of AGNI II • The 5th India International Science Festival missile successfully. (IISF) is held in . • The Water Quality Report was released by the • The Union Ministry of Skill Development & Union Minister of Consumer Affairs Shri Ram Entrepreneurship (MSDE) has launched the Vilas Paswan. Mumbai ranked first, and Delhi Skills Build platform in collaboration with IBM. was at the bottom of tap water quality ranking.

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• Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh • The Brazilian football team defeated the football inaugurated the Sisseri River Bridge at Lower team of Mexico to win the 18th edition of the FIFA Dibang Valley in East Siang District of Arunachal under 17 World Cup trophy held in Brasilia, Pradesh. Brazil. • The European Investment Bank will stop funding • Sudhir Mital and Shantikumar Singh were oil and coal projects at the end of 2021. elected as president and general secretary • National Initiative for School Heads’ and respectively, of the Gymnastics Federation of Teachers’ Holistic Advancement India (GFI). (NISHTHA) was launched in Union Territory of • Lieutenant Colonel Jyoti Sharma has been Jammu and Kashmir. appointed as Indian Army’s first female Judge • Every year 14 November is observed as World Advocate General officer to be deployed on a Diabetes Day (WDD). foreign mission. • World Heritage Week is celebrated by UNESCO • ICICI Lombard partnered with Fino Payments between November 19, 2019 and November 25, Bank to offer non-life insurance solutions to its customers. 2019. • The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has • United Nations’ new report on Pneumonia stated been conferred with two awards- Last Mile that India has the second largest deaths of Connectivity and Green Metro project – An children under the age of five due to Pneumonia. Initiative for Sustainable and Viable Urban Nigeria is the first country. Transport’ at the 12th Urban Mobility India • Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will be Chief Conference and Expo 2019 held in Lucknow. Guest at India’s Republic Day celebrations on • The International Institute of Management 26 January 2020. Development’s (IMD) World Talent Ranking • Renowned mathematician Vashishtha Narayan (WTR) report for the year 2019 was released. Singh, who was known as India’s Einstein, India was ranked 59th. The list was topped by passed away. Switzerland. • Nita Ambani has been named the Honorary • The Home Ministry in collaboration with the UN Trustee of ’s the Metropolitan Women flagged off an awareness campaign Museum of Art, the largest U.S. art museum. To End Violence Against Women. As part of the • International Union for Conservation of Nature campaign, people would be made aware about organized the 7th Regional Conservation Forum India’s single emergency helpline 112. st in Islamabad, Pakistan. • 1 Indo-Qatari joint Naval Exercise called Za’ir- • India’s Prakash has won the BRICS-Young Al-Bahr was held in , . Innovator Prize for inventing an affordable • India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV- indigenous milk chilling unit for smaller and C47 will launch Cartosat-3 and 13 commercial nanosatellites into Sun Synchronous orbit from marginal rural dairy farmers. Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, • Justice Muhammad Raffiq was sworn in as th Sriharikota. 8 Chief Justice of Meghalaya High Court. • South Korea's Kim Joo Hyung has won the Panasonic Open held at the Classic Golf and October 2019 Country Club in Gurugram, India. • Renowned Rabindra Sangeet exponent from • The 28th Vyas Samman for the year 2018 was Bangladesh Rezwana Choudhury Bannya has conferred on noted Hindi poet and writer conferred the ICCR distinguished alumni award Leeladhar Jagoori for his poetry collection ‘Jitne in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Log Utne Prem’. • Laishram Sarita Devi (Manipur) is among the • The 5th International Conference on Road Tech 6 boxers from 5 continents who were elected as (Sustainable Roads and Highways) was held in members of AIBA Athletes Commission. New Delhi. • According to the International Monetary Fund • The second assembly of International Solar (IMF), Guyana to be the fastest growing country Alliance (ISA) was hosted by India. in the world next year at 86%. • National Health Authority signed a Statement of • UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) has Intent (SoI) with Google to collaborate and released a 28-page booklet called “From strengthen the implementation of Ayushman uttapam to sprouted dal parantha”. It explains Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana that nutritious food prepared at less than (PMJAY). 20 rupees will help in dealing with problems like • NITI Aayog released India Innovation Index underweight, obesity and anaemia in children. 2019. Karnataka was ranked the most innovative • Indian wrestler Bajrang Punia has been state in major Indian states category. conferred the Indian Personality of the Year • World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a Award (Sports) at the Indo Arab Leaders Summit cinema advertisement campaign ‘Feed Our Future’. & Awards 2019 in Dubai.

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• National Highway No. 703AA in Punjab renamed • Christine Lagarde appointed as the new chief of as “Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji Marg.” the European Central Bank. • India’s longest Tunnel Chenani- Nashri on NH • SS Mallikarjuna Rao was appointed as the 44, in Jammu and Kashmir was named after Dr Managing Director (MD)and Chief Executive of Shyama Prasad Mukherjee. the Punjab National Bank (PNB). • Air India became the first airline in the world to • The government has appointed economist Surjit use a Taxibot on a A320 aircraft with passengers Bhalla as the executive director of the on board. International Monetary Fund. • India’s first private train Tejas Express runs • The European Parliament has awarded the between Delhi and Lucknow. Sakharov Prize to Uighur intellectual Ilham Tohti • UAE announced the establishment of the (China). Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial • Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo have Intelligence (MBZUAI) in Abu Dhabi. This is the jointly won the 2019 Man Booker Prize. first graduate-level, research-based AI university • Ramesh Pandey has been selected for the in the world. prestigious Asia Environmental Enforcement • India will host the 91st Interpol General Assembly Award by the United Nations Environment in 2022. Programme. • The 2nd “India-China Informal Summit” between • Karnataka has won the 2019-20 Vijay Hazare Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China’s Trophy. President Xi Jinping was held at Mamallapuram, • Great Britain defeated India in the 9th edition of Tamil Nadu. the Sultan of Johor Cup 2019 hockey title. • In the 2019 Global Hunger Index (GHI) India was • Jamaican sprint legend Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce ranked 102nd out of 117 qualifying countries. won gold medal in the 100 m race of 2019 IAAF • Life Insurance Council has launched a media World Championships held in Doha. campaign ‘Sabse Pehle Life Insurance’. • Nirmala Sitharaman released a commemorative • approved a new tax on digital companies, coin on Paramahansa Yogananda to mark his as part of its 2020 draft budget. Now companies 125th birth anniversary. must pay a 3% levy on internet transactions. • The Philippines army is Interested in acquiring • Mastercard, along with cricketer Mahendra Indian-manufactured Brahmos missile in order to Singh Dhoni, launched a nationwide initiative strengthen its coastal defences. ‘Team Cashless India’ to accelerate the • The joint military exercise of India and acceptance and adoption of digital payments. titles Shakti 2019 was held in Rajasthan. • Maharatna status has been granted by the • The state government of has signed a Government to state-owned Hindustan Letter of Understanding (LoU) with UNICEF to Petroleum Corporation Limited and Power Grid provide safe drinking water to every household Corporation of India Limited. in the state. • The World Bank has released Ease of Doing • The 29th ministerial meet of BASIC countries business Ranking. In this India has been ranked was held at Beijing. The BASIC countries include at 63rd. New Zealand and Somalia retained their Brazil, South Africa, India and China. 1st and 190th spot respectively. • Gandhinagar becomes first district in Gujarat to • As per the WEF’s released report, India was become kerosene-free. Chandigarh became the ranked 68th on an annual global competitiveness first city in India to become kerosene free. index which was topped by . • Indian tourists will be now be exempted from • United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has visas to enter Brazil for tourism or business become the first UN organization to hold and purposes. The exemption is also available for make transactions in cryptocurrency. Chinese tourists. • Rafael Mariano Grossi of Argentina has been • The Government of Odisha and the World Bank elected as the new Director-General of the have signed 165 million USD loan agreement to International Atomic Energy Agency. strengthen smallholder farmers. The aim of the • The Union Government has appointed Girish loan is to implement “Integrated Irrigation Project Chandra Murmu and Radha Krishna Mathur as for Climate Resilient Agriculture”. the first Lieutenant (Lt) Governors of Jammu and • The Global Bio-India summit held for the first Kashmir (J&K) and Ladakh respectively. time in India. • Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde was appointed as • India signed the Agreement with Pakistan for the the 47th Chief Justice of India. operationalization of the Kartarpur Sahib • The Government of India appointed Pankaj Corridor at Zero Point, International Boundary. Kumar as the new CEO of the Unique • Praveen Kumar has become the first Indian man Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). to win a gold medal at Wushu World • Sourav Ganguly takes over as the 39th President Championships. of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). • Actor Deepika Padukone and Shuttler PV • SBI chairman Rajnish Kumar has been Sindhu has been named as the ambassadors for appointed as the new chairman of Indian Banks’ ‘Bharat Ki Laxmi’ movement. Association.

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• United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) • The GoI signed a 190 million USD loan with the has launched its cinema ad campaign ‘Feed Our Asian Development Bank (ADB) to upgrade road Future’ against hunger and malnutrition in India. transport in the state of Rajasthan. • The Assam Cabinet decided that no • AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships Government jobs will be provided to persons 2019 was hosted by Ulan-Ude, . India’s with more than 2 children after 1 January 2021. Debutant Manju Rani (48 kg) scripted history as • The highest bridge in India named after the “Lion she became the first Indian woman boxer in 18 of Ladakh” Col Chewang Rinchen was years to enter the finals of Women’s World inaugurated in Ladakh. Boxing Championship in her maiden • The Vice President Shri Venkaiah Naidu appearance. presented the “Most Eminent Senior Citizen • Vajra Prahar, an India-US Joint Military Award” to former Attorney General of India Shri Exercise, 2019 was conducted in Seattle. K Parasaran. • India and participated in military exercise • ‘Bridgital Nation: Solving Technology’s People called Dharma Guardian-2019 in Mizoram. Problem’ authored by N Chandrasekaran and • Dubai hosted the 2019 First Global DXB Roopa Purushothaman. Challenge which is a large gathering for creative • The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit was young minds in the fields of robotics and artificial held in Baku, Azerbaijan. intelligence. • India will be hosting the 91st Interpol General • Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu was Assembly in 2022. The 88th Interpol General given ‘The Order of the Green Crescent’, the Assembly 2019 was held in Santiago, Chile. highest Civilian Honour of Comoros, in Moroni • Indian Army and the Maldives National Defence (Comoros capital). Force participated in a Joint Military Exercise • Environmentalist Chandi Prasad Bhatt was called ‘Ekuverin’ in Pune, . awarded Indira Gandhi Award for National • The India, Naval Exercise called Integration for the years 2017 and 2018. IMNEX-2019 was held in Visakhapatnam. • National Postal Week was celebrated from • The 2019 Military World Games (also known as 9 October to 15 October 2019. Olympic Games for military) held in Wuhan, • Saudi Arabia allowed women to serve in Armed China. Forces. • Reliance Industries (RIL) has become the first • Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership company in India to hit the market capitalization (RCEP) Intersessional Ministerial meeting was (m-cap) of `9 lakh crore. held in Bangkok, Thailand. • Anup Kumar Singh appointed as the new • The First Ever India International Cooperatives Director-General of National Security Guard Trade Fair (IICTF) held in New Delhi. (NSG). • Union Ministry of Skill Development and • Sajjan Jindal, has been appointed as the Vice- Entrepreneurship (MSDE) signed a contract with Chairman of World Steel Association IIM- Bangalore for introducing a two-year (Worldsteel). fellowship programme called ‘ • Indian Air Force participated in a bilateral joint National Fellowship (MGNF) programme’. exercise with Royal Air Force of (RAFO), • The Government of India launched the GEMINI dubbed as EX-EASTERN BRIDGE-V at Masirah (Gagan Enabled Mariner’s Instrument for Air Force Base in Oman. Navigation and Information) device that will • Barcelona FC captain Leonel Messi won the provide information related to disaster warning. Golden Shoe for the 2018-19 season. • Indian Army begins its first mountain combat • The Indian Air Force will be carrying out a joint exercise ‘Him Vijay’ in Arunachal Pradesh. military exercise called ‘Shinyuu Maitri’ with • 14th edition of Indo–Mongolian joint military Japanese Air Self Defence Force. training called Exercise Nomadic Elephant-XIV • The United Nations declared Dr. APJ Abdul commenced in Himachal Pradesh. Kalam birthday, October 15, as World Students • Sachin Tendulkar was awarded “The most Day. effective Swachhata Ambassador”. • IMF’s World Economic Outlook, 2019 projected • The armies of Nepal and the United States India’s growth as 6.1% in 2019 and 7% in 2020. jointly conducted military exercise, named • The US Government has imposed sanctions Shanti Prayas-2 or Peace Initiatives. against the Turkish ministries for their military actions in Northern Syria. Nobel Prize: • Kais Saied is elected as the President of Tunisia. • Physiology or Medicine - William G. Kaelin • As per the report released by World Bank on (USA), Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe (UK), Gregg L. ‘South Asia Economic Focus, making (De) Semenza (USA) Centralization Work’, Bangladesh has become • Physics - James Peebles (Canada), Michel the second-fastest growing economy in South Mayor (Switzerland), Didier Queloz Asia after Bhutan. (Switzerland). • BRICS Culture Ministers’ meeting 2019 was held • Chemistry - John B. Goodenough ( -He in Brazil. is the oldest person to get the Nobel prize)

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M. Stanley Whittingham (United Kingdom), Akira • A MoU was inked between DRDO and Central Yoshino (Japan). University of Jammu for the establishment of • Literature 2018 - Olga Tokarczuk (Poland) Kalam Centre for Science and Technology • Literature 2019 - Peter Handke (Austria) (KCST) at the university. • Peace - Abiy Ahmed Ali (Ethiopia). • ‘Tikki Mausi’ mascot: unveiled by Odisha Economics – Abhijit Banerjee (India), Esther govternment and UNICEF to spread awareness Duflo (France), Michael Kremer (USA). about nutrition of children and women.

• The SAARC Council of Ministers meeting 2019 September 2019 was held in New York. th • The 9 India-China Financial dialogue was held

• Delhi High Court Chief Justice Rajendra Menon in New Delhi. appointed as the next chairman of Armed Forces • Bangladesh lifts ban on Hilsa fish export to India. Tribunal (AFT). • First India-Caribbean Summit – 2019 was held in • September 30: World Translation Day (Theme: New York. Translation and Indigenous languages) • World Maritime Day (WMD) 2019 was observed on September 26, 2019. (Theme: “Empowering • Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Women in the Maritime Community”) Bhadauria took charge as the new Chief of the • Bulgarian Economist Christina Georgieva was Indian Air Force (IAF). appointed as the new head of the International • NITI Aayog released the SEQI – School Monetary Fund. Education Quality Index. The highest • Narendra Modi has inaugurated the ‘Gandhi incremental performance was recorded in Peace Garden’ and 50 kilowatts ‘Gandhi Solar Kerala. Park’ at the UN headquarters, New York. • Kerala signs MoU with the Maldives to • The 64th Commonwealth Parliamentary strengthen cancer care in the island nation. Conference was held in Kampala, of • India won the SAFF Under-18 football Uganda. Championship by defeating Bangladesh in final • Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina wins ‘Vaccine held in Kathmandu, Nepal. Hero’ award of Global Alliance for Vaccination • Physicist and Cosmologist Thanu and Immunizations (GAVI). Padmanabhan was conferred the prestigious • Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina M P Birla Memorial Award 2019. was conferred Dr. Kalam Smriti International • K Siva Reddy a Telugu poet was awarded the Excellence Award 2019. Saraswati Samman 2018 award for his collection • Prime Minister Narendra Modi received the 2019 of poetry ‘Pakkaki Ottigilite’. ‘Global Goalkeeper Award’ by the Bill and • Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will offer tourist visas Melinda Gates Foundation. for the first time. • was honoured with • Suresh Chitturi has been appointed as chairman Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2018. of the International Egg Commission (IEC). • Gujarat government has launched India’s first (HQ: UK) ‘Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)’. • Dr. G.B. Deglurkar was conferred with • Ponung Doming is the first lady officer from prestigious Punyabhushan Award for his Arunachal Pradesh in the Indian army to be contribution to the field of Indian Archaeology. elevated to the rank of Lieutenant colonel. • ‘MASCRADE 2019’- Movement Against • India water week 2019: 24th - 28th September. Smuggling and Counterfeit Trade scheduled’ (Theme: Water Cooperation – Coping with event held in New Delhi. 21st Century Challenges) • Chief of Army Staff General Bipin Rawat takes • The UN Climate Change Summit, 2019 was held charge as Chairman of Chiefs of Staff in New York. Committee (COSC). • Senior journalist Ravish Kumar was awarded the • UNWTO selects India as the host country to inaugural Gauri Lankesh Memorial Award in celebrate World Tourism Day 2019. Bengaluru. • In National Tourism Awards Andhra Pradesh • Ladakhi Shondol dance enters Guinness book of won the first prize for Best State for world record as the largest Ladakhi dance. It is Comprehensive Development of Tourism. known as the ‘royal dance of Ladakh’. • Infosys won UN Global Climate Action Award in • Gully Boy has been announced India’s official ‘Climate Neutral Now’ category. entry to the Oscars 2020. • The first Indigenous High-Temperature Fuel Cell • Howdy Modi event was held in Houston, Texas. System was developed by the Council of • World Wrestling Championships held in Nur- Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). Sultan (Kazakhstan). India’s Rahul Aware, • The ’s (UAE) Hazza Al Deepak Punia won medals. Mansouri became the first Emirati and the first • Divij Sharan of India and partner Igor Zelenay of Arab astronaut to travel to International Space Slovakia, clinched Men’s Doubles Title at ATP Station (ISS). Tour Tennis Tournament held in St. Petersburg in Russia.

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• National Conference on Agriculture for Rabi as a new member. Global AMR R&D Secretariat Campaign 2019 held in New Delhi. is in , Germany. India’s first National • Sonu Nigam has been honored with ‘Magnificent Antimicrobial Resistance Hub was inaugurated Performing Arts Award’ at the 21st Century Icon in Kolkata. Awards in , (UK). • Athlete Hima Das was named brand • Madhukar Kamath, has been elected as ambassador of PepsiCo for its sports drink brand chairman of Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) Gatorade. for year 2019-2020. • National Artificial Insemination programme was • The Central government has cut the effective launched at Mathura, Uttar Pradesh. corporate tax rate inclusive of surcharge & cess • The 24th World Energy Congress and 8th Asian for existing domestic companies to 25.17% (from Ministerial Energy Roundtable (AMER8) were 34.94% now) and for new domestic companies, held in Abu Dhabi. it will be 15% now. • India and Asian Development Bank (ADB) • Nasscom’s Data Security Council of India signed 200-million-dollar loan agreement for (DSCI) has collaborated with Google India to upgrading rural roads in 34 districts of launch nationwide awareness campaign ‘Digital Maharashtra. Payment Abhiyan’. • National Conference on Crop residue • Google and Union Ministry of Electronics and Management for farmers from states of Punjab, IT (MeitY) launched ‘Build for Digital India’ Delhi, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh was held at programme for engineering students. New Delhi. • The first World Patient Safety Day was observed • India’s first-ever helicopter summit was held in by World Health Organization (WHO) on Dehradun. September 17. • Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) emerged as • Union Ministry of Home Affairs has announced champion in the 93rd All-India MCC-Murugappa to set up world-class National Police University Gold Cup hockey tournament. (NPU) in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh. • 7th Regional Comprehensive Economic • Telangana state government has declared 2020 Partnership (RCEP) ministerial meeting was as Artificial Intelligence year. held in Bangkok, Thailand. • ISRO and DRDO signed MoUs to provide • PM Modi launched indigenously-built coach for technologies for Human Space Mission. Mumbai metro. The coach has been built • Sri Lanka unveiled South Asia’s tallest tower by Bharat Earth Movers (BEML), Bengaluru. (350-metre-tall Lotus Tower) in Colombo. • The first Conference on Military Medicine for • The 5th International Ramayan Festival Shanghai Co-operation Organization (SCO) organized by Indian Council for Cultural Member States held in New Delhi. Relations (ICCR) was held in New Delhi. • Bangladesh won U17 Girls Subroto Cup • Hyderabad-Karnataka region Renamed as International Football 2019 title held in New ‘Kalyana Karnataka’. Delhi. • National Centre for Clean Coal Research and • Indian Railways won Best Ministry for Development (NCCCR&D) was inaugurated at Implementation of Swachhata Action Plan for Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru. 2018-19. • Microfinance Institutions Network (MFIN) and • of Afghanistan becomes the Sa-Dhan along with FIDC (Finance Industry youngest captain in test cricket. Development Council) have jointly launched the • Vatican awarded Bangladesh’s Nobel Laureate ‘Code for Responsible Lending’ (CRL) for the Prof Muhammad Yunus prestigious ‘Lamp of micro credit industry. Peace of Saint Francis ‘award. • Goods and Services Tax (GSTN) has made • Fourth Indian Ocean Conference 2019 was held Aadhaar authentication mandatory for new in Male, capital of Maldives. dealers from January 2020. • First National Conference on Cyber Crime • won FIBA basketball World Cup 2019 Investigation and Cyber Forensics was held in which was held at Beijing, China. New Delhi. • A commemorative pillar in memory of Polish • Nuakhai Juhar, a harvest festival welcoming the families who had made India their home during newly harvest crop of the season was celebrated World War II was unveiled at Kolhapur district of in Odisha. Maharashtra. • India has announced contribution of $22 million • Justice P Lakshmana Reddy was sworn-in as to Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria the first Lokayukta of Andhra Pradesh. (GFTAM). • UNESCO to publish Guru Nanak Dev writings in • Ashok Leyland has become the 1st Indian world languages. original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to meet • UN has appointed India’s Lieutenant General BS-VI emission norms across its entire range of (Retired) Abhijit Guha as the head of UN mission heavy-duty trucks. in Hodeidah, Yemen. • Mata Vaishno Devi shrine of Jammu and • India has joined Global Antimicrobial Resistance Kashmir has been named country’s ‘Best (AMR) Research and Development (R&D) hub Swachh Iconic Place’.

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• Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sunil Arora • Rajasthan’s Payal Jangid, aged 17, became the assumed Chairmanship of Association of World first Indian to receive the Changemaker Award Election Bodies (A-WEB). 4th General Assembly 2019 at the Goalkeepers Global Goals Awards of Association of World Election Bodies (A-WEB) 2019. held at Bengaluru. • Sri Lanka’s Lasith Malinga has become the first • 14th Conference of Parties (COP14) to UN T20I bowler to take 100 wickets. Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) • As per the World University Rankings 2020, the held Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh. University of Oxford is the number one university • Union Government celebrated the entire month in the world. of September as “Rashtriya Poshan Maah” • The Assam Government has launched a (National Nutrition Month). housing loan subsidy scheme “Aponar Apon • India’s longest electrified train tunnel was Ghar”. inaugurated between Cherlopalli and Rapuru in • Vietnam has inaugurated Southeast Asia’s Andhra Pradesh. South Central Railway (SCR) largest solar power farm. has commissioned the electrified tunnel in Indian • India and the United States first tri-services Railways. exercise code-named ‘Tiger Triumph’ was held • Tamil Nadu’s Dindigul lock and Kandangi saree at Visakhapatnam and Kakinada in Andhra got Geographical Indication (GI) tag. Pradesh. • Government of Indonesia was moving its current • 1st India, Singapore, Thailand Trilateral Naval capital from Jakarta (on the island of Java) to the Exercise (SITMEX) was held at Port Blair, sparsely populated East Kalimantan (on Borneo Andaman and Nicobar Islands. island). • The 2019 edition of Maitree, the joint military • India’s first ‘Garbage Café’ opened in Ambikapur exercise between India and Thailand was held in city in north Chhattisgarh. Meghalaya. • The composting plant in Okhla, New Delhi was • The 28th edition of India-Thailand Coordinated first in India to receive the carbon credits from Patrol (Indo-Thai CORPAT) between Indian the United Nations Framework Convention on Navy (IN) and Royal Thai Navy (RTN) was held Climate Change (UNFCCC). in Thailand. • NITI Aayog has selected McKinsey & Company • A joint military exercise between India and to set up India’s first Digital Capability Centre Kazakhstan named KAZIND-2019 was held in (DCC). Uttarakhand. • Gujarat Government and the Delaware State of • The Malabar Exercise 2019, the trilateral America signed MoU for sister state. maritime exercise between navies of India, • The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has Japan and the US began off the coast of Japan. named an asteroid after Indian classical singer • The bilateral ‘Exercise SHAKTI’ between the Pandit . (HQ: Paris, France) armies of India and France held in Rajasthan. • NTPC plans to set up a 5-gigawatt solar park in • The 10th edition of the joint military exercise the western state of Gujarat, which would be the Vajra Prahar 2019’ between India and the US biggest in the country. was held at Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) • According to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Seattle, US. report, India was ranked 34th in world Travel & • The 2nd joint military exercise ‘Dharma Guardian- Tourism Competitiveness Index 2019. Spain 2019’ between India and Japan held in Mizoram. tops the ranking index. • The 2nd edition of Coordinated Patrol (CORPAT) • India was ranked 44th in the IMD World Digital of the navies of India and Bangladesh was held Competitiveness Ranking 2019. The US was in Northern Bay of Bengal. ranked as the world’s most digitally competitive • The joint military training exercise between India economy. and United States (US) named Yudh Abhyas – • Sri Lanka has received ‘Make In India’ train 2019 held at Washington, US. “Pulathisi Express”.

• Microsoft India and the Central Board of August 2019 Secondary Education have partnered to build AI

learning for schools. • The 4th edition of the Internet of Things (IoT) • Payment technology company Visa announced India Congress 2019 held in Bengaluru. that it has signed up world badminton champion PV Sindhu as its brand ambassador for two • The Indian School of Business (ISB) and years. Microsoft India announced a new partnership to take forward their shared vision for an AI- • Wing Commander Anjali Singh has joined the empowered India. Indian Embassy in Russia as India’s first female military diplomat to be posted in any of the Indian • Discovery India and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) missions abroad. India have partnered with the Forest Directorate, the government of West Bengal and local • India’s Kallie has been awarded with communities to preserve Sundarbans in West “India’s Most Powerful Women in Media” award Bengal. at the famed Confluence Excellence Awards.

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• Union Human Resource Development Minister • Rajasthan won the “best innovation and initiative launched one of the world’s largest Integrated leadership award” for its achievements in higher Online Junction for School Education ‘Shagun’ in education in the World Education Summit-2019. New Delhi. • Indian journalist Ravish Kumar has been • India has become the first country in the world to awarded the 2019 Ramon Magsaysay Award. issue Biometric Seafarer Identity Document • DD News is awarded with “Champions of (BSID), capturing the facial biometric data of Empathy Award” for spreading awareness about seafarers. hepatitis. • Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers • In 2019’s BWF World Championships, P V launched a mobile application “Janaushadhi Sindhu became the first Indian shuttler to win the Sugam”. title. She defeated Japan’s Nozomi Okuhara. • President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated the • In football, Gokulam Kerala FC won the 129th first-ever World Youth Conference organised by Durand Cup. the UNESCO at Delhi. • Indian Para Swimmer Satendra Singh Lohia has • Amazon has opened its largest campus in the become the first Asian swimmer to cross the world in Hyderabad. Catalina Channel of America. • Union HRD Minister launched the training • India has won the inaugural T20 Physical programme NISHTHA, (National Initiative for Disability World Cricket Series 2019 held in School Heads and Teachers Holistic England. Advancement) to improve Learning Outcomes at • Aishwarya Pissay made history by becoming the the Elementary level across the country. first Indian to win a world title in motorsports. • The State Rooftop Solar Attractiveness Index- SARAL was launched during the Review July 2019 Planning and Monitoring (RPM) Meeting with States and State Power Utilities. Karnataka has topped the index. • The SBI has signed a MoU with National • According to NASA, India is the world’s largest Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) to emitter of anthropogenic sulphur dioxide. boost availability of capital for infrastructure • The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has projects. given renewable energy status to Ocean Energy. • National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) • Iceland commemorated the loss of 1st glacier has been selected for President’s award for “Okjokull”, lost due to climate change. utilization of Corporate Social Responsibility • According to the QS Best Student Cities Ranking fund in social development. compiled by global education consultancy QS • Microfinance Institutions Network (MFIN) has Quacquarelli Symonds, London was named the elected Nambiar as its chairman. world’s best city for students. • Indian Air Force (IAF) and Armée de l’Air (French • Canara Bank has launched India’s first OTP Air Force) are participating in Garuda VI, a facility for ATM withdrawals. bilateral air exercise at Mont de Marsan in • The Reserve Bank of India has approved the France. transfer of record `1.76 lakh crore dividend and • Jaya Arunachalam, Indian social worker and surplus reserves to the government. founder of Working Women’s Forum (WWF) • Reliance Jio and Microsoft announced a died at age of 87 in Chennai. partnership to accelerate the digital • Abu Dhabi, capital of United Area Emirates transformation in India. (UAE) is hosting International Security Alliance • Russia launched the world’s first floating nuclear (ISAs) first joint security exercise named reactor. ISALEX19. • Bhasha Mukherjee, a 23-year-old Indian origin • India has signed `200 crore deal with Russia for doctor was crowned Miss England 2019. acquiring Strum Ataka anti-tank missile. • Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) has • Aparna Kumar becomes 1st IPS Officer to selected Pramod Agarwal as the next chairman complete 7 Summits Challenge. of Coal India. • Goa Government approves amendment to • Indian sprinter P.T. Usha has been appointed as Factories Act to allow Women in Night Shifts. a member of the Asian Athletics Association’s • Veteran British journalist Sir Mark Tully was (AAA) Athletes Commission. conferred with ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ at st • Chandrima Shaha is set to be the 1 woman UK-India Awards in London for his contributions president of the Indian National Science to UK-India relationship. Academy. • Go Tribal campaign was launched by Union • Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson has topped Ministry of Tribal Affairs and TRIFED (Tribal the Forbes’ list of highest-paid female actors in Cooperative Marketing Development Federation the world and Dwayne ‘Rock’ Johnson tops the of India) in association with Amazon Global. Forbes list of the 10 highest-paid actors. • 34th Sailing Championship was held in • Serena Williams topped the List of Highest-Paid Female Athletes 2019 published by Forbes. Hyderabad, Telangana.

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• Germany’s Ursula von der Leyen appointed new • India has signed a loan agreement worth 400 President of EU Commission. million dollar with the World Bank to help treat • The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) constituted a and eliminate Tuberculosis from the country. working group to review regulatory guidelines • Indian Oil (IOCL), Bharat Petroleum Corporation and supervisory framework for Core Investment (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd Companies (CIC). The 6-member working group (HPCL) had signed a joint venture in New Delhi is chaired by Tapan Ray. for Kandla-Gorakhpur LPG Pipeline Project. • The Supreme Court of India has directed They will be laying the world’s longest LPG Meghalaya state government to deposit `100 pipeline from Kandla (Gujarat) to Gorakhpur crore fine imposed on it by National Green (UP). Tribunal (NGT) for failing to curb illegal coal • Former ISRO chief Dr. Kasturirangan led mining with Central Pollution Control Board Committee submitted the draft National (CPCB). Educational Policy (NEP) to HRD Minister • Delhi Police signed Memorandum of Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank in New Delhi. Understanding (MoU) with Solar Energy • Mercer has released 25th Annual Cost of Living Corporation of India (SECI) to set up Rooftop Survey. The costliest city in the world for the Solar Energy Systems. second consecutive year is Hong Kong followed • Maharashtra was ranked first in NITI Aayog by Tokyo, Singapore and Seoul. Mumbai was launched “Agricultural Marketing and Farmer ranked at the 67th position out of 209 cities Friendly Reforms Index (AMFFRI)”. surveyed. • Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers • Food and Nutrition Security Report is prepared Welfare has signed a Statement of Intent (SoI) by the UN World Food Programme in with IBM India for undertaking a pilot study to collaboration with the Ministry of Statistics and utilize Artificial Intelligence (AI) in agriculture. Programme Implementation. • Meghalaya became first state in India to ensure • Kerala has topped in NITI Aayog’s Health conservation of water and have its own State Index followed by Andhra Pradesh and Water Policy. Maharashtra. • WhatsApp has partnered with NITI Aayog, under • In the recently released QS World University the Women Entrepreneurship Platform (WEP) to rankings for 2020, IIT-Bombay which is ranked announce its plan to support and promote 152 is India’s best university for the second year women entrepreneurs in India. in a row. MIT of USA has topped the list. • Gujarat ranks on top in the installation of rooftop • Randstad rates Amazon India as India’s most solar projects with an installed capacity of attractive employer brand. 261.97 megawatts. • According to a report released by brand • India ranked 52nd in the 2019 Global Innovation analytics firm TRA Research, “Dell” has Index. Switzerland continued to be on top of the emerged as the most trusted brand in India in index. 2019. Jeep was ranked second and LIC ranked • Utkarsh 2022 a medium-term strategy to third. improve supervision and regulation, among • Japan gifts Manipur a “Peace Museum” which other functions of central bank was finalized by is built on the memories of one of the fiercest the RBI. battles of the Second World War. • The French government brought Gafa Tax (an • India has granted financial support of $15 acronym for Google, Apple, Facebook and million to Niger for the African Union Summit. Amazon). It will impose a 3% levy on sales Sub-Saharan Niger is hosting the African generated in the country by non-tax paying Union Summit for the first time. online giants. • The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has • Anshula Kant has been appointed as Managing become the first ever project in the country to Director and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of receive power generated from a waste-to- World Bank. energy plant. • Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR)’s ‘Plan Bee’ to • The Union government has approved the keep wild elephants away from train tracks has extension of Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman won the ‘Best Innovation Award’ in Indian Nidhi (PM-KISAN) to all the farmers in the Railways for the 2018-19 fiscal. country. Earlier the benefit of the scheme was • United States wins FIFA Women’s World Cup applicable to farmers having two hectares of 2019 held in Lyon, France. They defeated the land. . • Indian Navy launched Operation Sankalp in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman to June 2019 reassure Indian flagged vessels safe transit through the area.

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• Indian Railway Station Development • The Complaint Management System (CMS) is Corporation (IRSDC) entered a Tripartite a software application launched by Reserve Agreement with French Railways (SNCF) & Bank of India on its website. It will be used for AFD, a French Agency which will finance up to lodging complaints against banks and NBFCs 7,00,000 EURO, to support the Railway Station with a view to improve customer experience in Development Program in India. timely redressal of grievances. • The 2019 G-20 summit was held in Osaka, • The Reserve Bank of India constituted a six- Japan. The theme of the summit is Human member committee to review the ATM centred future society. interchange fee structure with a “view to • Telangana hosted the 32nd edition of the increase the ATM deployment in the unbanked International Seed Testing Association areas”. The committee will be led by V G congress. This is the first edition of ISTA congress Kannan, Chief Executive, Indian Banks to be held in Asia. Association. • The Intersessional meeting of Kimberley • Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover has Process (KP) was hosted by India at Mumbai. joined hands with BMW to develop next- • The ‘2nd Global Disability Summit’ was held in generation electric drive systems. Buenos Aires, Argentina. • Facebook has announced a digital currency • India’s was ranked 141 among 163 countries on called Libra that will allow its billions of users to the Global Peace Index 2019, while Iceland make financial transactions across the globe. remains the most peaceful country and • National Thermal Power Corporation Limited Afghanistan the least peaceful nation, as per the and Power Grid Corporation of India Limited report by Australian think tank Institute for have signed an agreement to set up National Economics & Peace. Electricity Distribution Company Ltd. • According to annual report on internet trends by • RBI’s U.K. Sinha led committee gave the venture capitalist Mary Meeker, India accounts recommendations for MSME sector. for 12% world’s internet users. China has the • National Aeronautics and Space largest base, accounting for 21% of all internet Administration’s robot named Bumble became users globally, and the US comes third at 8%. the first Astrobee robot to fly under its own power • Mumbai ranked first in the study, ‘Traffic in space. Index-2018’, compiled by location technology • After nearly 16 years of exploring the cosmos in specialist TomTom, with a congestion level of infrared light, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope 65%, while New Delhi ranked fourth with will be switched off permanently on Jan. 30, congestion of 58%. 2020. • According to global market research agency • Ajit Doval has been granted cabinet status and Kantar in its 2019’s ‘100 Top BrandZ Report’, US five more years as the National Security Adviser retail giant Amazon become the world’s most (NSA). valuable brand. • Ujjivan Small Finance Bank has appointed • India ranked 95th out of 129 countries in a new Flipkart founder Sachin Bansal as its index that measures global gender equality independent director. looking at aspects such as poverty, health, • Comptroller and Auditor General of India Rajiv education, literacy, political representation and Mehrishi was chosen External Auditor for equality at the workplace. The list was topped WHO. by . Chad was placed at bottom • Mrutyunjay Mohapatra was appointed as the most position (129th). chief of India Meteorological Department • The UAE has become the first country in the Gulf (IMD). to launch ‘goAML’, a new anti-money • Justice Dhirubhai Naranbhai Patel was sworn in laundering reporting platform developed by as Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court. the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to • Thailand’s new parliament has elected Prayuth curb organised crimes. Chan-ocha as the country’s prime minister. • Saudi Arabia has become the 1st Arab country • Senior bureaucrat Shefali Juneja is appointed to be granted full membership of the Financial as India’s representative in the council of Action Task Force. International Civil Aviation Organisation • In Russia, the first tourist train traveling through (ICAO), a United Nations body. Russia’s Arctic region and on to Norway set off • Ann Sarnoff becomes the first female CEO of from St. Petersburg station. The train was Warner Bros. named Zarengold. • Samant Goel took charge of the RAW, which • The 14th summit of the Organisation of Islamic looks after the external intelligence of the Cooperation (OIC) was held in Mecca, Saudi country. Arabia. • Qu Dongyu becomes the first Chinese national to • Financial Literacy Week 2019 was observed head the UN’s Food and Agriculture from June 3-7 on the theme of “Farmers and Organization. how they benefit by being a part of the formal • Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya sworn in as banking system”. Governor of Manipur.

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• Russia launched a nuclear-powered icebreaker, automatically change as and when RBI changes part of an ambitious programme to renew and its repo rate. expand its fleet of the vessels in order to improve • LIC Housing Finance (LIC HFL) has launched its ability to tap the Arctic’s commercial potential. ‘Udyam’, a skilling center in Bengaluru. • Cyril Ramaphosa was sworn in for a five-year • The Reserve Bank of India has decided to term as South Africa’s president. enhance the housing loan limits for Regional • The World Health Organization (WHO) declared Rural Banks (RRBs) and Small Finance Banks Algeria and Argentina as malaria-free, with no (SFBs) for eligibility under priority sector lending. recorded cases of indigenous transmission of Housing loans given by RRBs and SFBs to the disease since 2013 and 2010 respectively. individuals up to INR 35 lakh in metropolitan • Algeria: Capital: Algiers Currency: Dinar centers (with population of 10 lakh and above) • Argentina: Capital: Buenos Aires Currency: and INR 25 lakh in other centers. peso • The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural • The Saudi government has approved for the first Development (NABARD) announced `700-crore time a scheme that gives permanent residency venture capital fund for equity investments in to certain expatriates, allowing them to own real agriculture and rural-focused startups. NABARD has been contributing to other funds till now and estate in the kingdom and reside with their this is the first time that the rural development families without a Saudi sponsor. bank has launched a fund of its own. • Taiwan has approved a bill legalizing same-sex • The Reserve Bank of India has released a vision marriage, a landmark decision that makes the document ‘Payment and Settlement Systems in self-ruled island the first place in Asia to pass India: Vision 2019-2021’, with its core theme of gay marriage legislation. ‘Empowering Exceptional E-payment • Ireland has declared a climate emergency in Experience’ for ensuring a safe, secure, their country, to be the second country to do so. convenient, quick and affordable e-payment The UK parliament became the first national system. legislative body in the world to declare a climate • The Reserve Bank of India has announced that change emergency. it will allow large modern currency chests to • The Australian flight carrier, Qantas has increase the service charges on cash deposited operated the world’s first zero-waste commercial by non-chest bank branches from the existing flight from Sydney to Adelaide which disposed of rate of `5 per packet of 100 pieces to a higher all waste through compost, reuse or recycle. rate subject to a maximum of `8 per packet. • Singapore’s Parliament passed a law to curb the • Corporation Bank has launched ‘Corp SME spread of fake news under which offenders may Suvidha’, a product for GST-registered MSMEs. face up to 10-year jail or fines of up to S$1 million • RBI stated that all non-deposit-taking non- • The Asian Development Bank (ADB) launched a banking financial companies (NBFCs) with an $5 Billion Action Plan for Healthy Oceans and asset size of `5,000 crore and above, and all Sustainable Blue Economies for the Asia and deposit-taking NBFCs irrespective of their asset Pacific region at the 52nd Annual Meeting of size, must maintain a liquidity buffer in terms of ADB’s Board of Governors in Fiji. a Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR). • The United Nations Security Council designated • The RBI has extended timings for customer Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed chief transactions in the Real Time Gross Settlement Masood Azhar as a global terrorist after China (RTGS) system Now, customers will be able to lifted its hold on a proposal to blacklist him under carry on a RTGS transaction from 7:00 a.m. to the Security Council’s Sanctions Committee. 6:00 p.m. and inter-bank transactions from • Akihito became the first Japanese Emperor to 7:00 a.m. to 7:45 p.m. step down from the throne in more than 200 • RBI has constituted a six-member committee on years. His son, Crown Prince Naruhito, will the Development of Secondary Market for ascended the Chrysanthemum throne. US Corporate Loans to come up with President became the first world recommendations to increase the efficiencies of the debt market and aid in the resolution of leader to meet with the new emperor of Japan stressed assets. The committee, headed by TN Naruhito. Manoharan, Chairman, Canara Bank. • Stockholm International Peace Research • USA removed India from its currency monitoring Institute (SIPRI) has launched new initiative list of major trading partners, citing certain named Global Registry of Violent Deaths developments and steps being taken by New (GReVD) to count deaths caused by all forms of Delhi addressing some of its major concerns. violence across the world and display these in Switzerland is the other nation that has been open-source database. removed from the list. • State Bank of India has become the first • The Netherlands has emerged as the third domestic bank to link the interest rate to the largest foreign direct investor in India during Reserve Bank of India’s repo rate. The interest 2017-18, with investments pegged at about rates on large SBI savings account deposits and $2.67 billion across sectors. interest rate on some short-term loans will

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• The HDFC group has overtaken the 151-year- • Merchant service and UPI payments app old Tata group to emerge as India’s most BharatPe has roped in Bollywood actor Salman valuable by way of market capitalization. The Khan as its brand ambassador. combined market value of the five listed • The Reserve Bank of India has appointed its companies of the HDFC group – HDFC, HDFC former Deputy Governor, R Gandhi, on the Bank, HDFC Life, HDFC Asset Management board of private sector lender YES Bank as an and Gruh Finance stood at `11.66 lakh crore additional director. while the combined m-cap of 29 Tata group • Major General AK Dhingra has been appointed companies stood at `11.64 lakh crore. as the first head of country’s first tri-services • BSNL has announced that it has joined hands Special Operations Division comprising with internet major Google to expand its WiFi commandos from all three services. footprint across the country. • Indonesia’s Joko Widodo has been re-elected as • Bharti Airtel and HDFC Life Insurance have tied president of the country. up to offer life cover for customers who get a • Volodymyr Zelenskiy took the oath of office as prepaid recharge done. the president of Ukraine. • Digital payments company Paytm, in association • Muhammadu Buhari has been sworn in for a with Citibank, launched its first credit card called second term as Nigeria’s president. Paytm First Card. • Indian writer Annie Zaidi was announced as the • Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) acquired British 2019 winner of the Nine Dots Prize, a prestigious book prize created to award innovative thinking toy retailer ‘Hamleys’ in an all cash deal. that addresses contemporary issues around the • Iraq has become India’s top crude oil supplier for world. the second consecutive year, meeting more than • Jokha Alharthi, Omani author has won the one-fifth of the country’s oil needs in the 2018- prestigious Man Booker International Prize for 19 fiscal year. “Celestial Bodies”. • Markets regulator SEBI directed National Stock • United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Exchange to pay more than `625 crore in the Reduction (UNDRR) conferred Sasakawa case of misuse of its co-location facility. Award 2019 for Disaster Risk Reduction to Dr. • Asian Development Bank (ADB) has announced Pramod Kumar Mishra, Additional Principal that it has signed an agreement to provide USD Secretary to Prime Minister of India. 750 million equivalent in Indian rupee long-term • IPS officer Chhaya Sharma, who led the financing to electrify railway tracks in India. investigation team of the infamous Nirbhaya • HDFC Capital Advisors, a wholly-owned gang-rape and murder case, has been awarded subsidiary of HDFC Ltd, launched a new the 2019 McCain Institute Award for Courage initiative called ‘HDFC Affordable Real Estate and Leadership. and Technology Program (HeART). It aims to • Shahid Afridi released his autobiography, titled mentor, partner and invest in real estate ‘Game Changer’. technology companies that drive innovation and efficiencies within the affordable housing April 2019 ecosystem. • Microsoft has unveiled fully-managed Azure • Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has Blockchain Service that would simplify the partnered with the Department of Posts in a bid formation, management, and governance so that to transform it into a multi -service digital hub. businesses can focus on workflow logic and • India was the world’s fourth biggest military application development. spender in 2018 behind the United States, • Bombay Stock Exchange has appointed its first China, and Saudi Arabia, according to new data independent woman director Jayshree Vyas. think tank Stockholm International Peace • Flipkart-owned fashion e-commerce platform Research Institute (SIPRI). Myntra announced that it had appointed celebrity • India was ranked 19th out of 28 countries in the couple Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma as its Index of Cancer Preparedness (ICP) released first brand ambassadors. by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). • India’s Jagjit Pavadia has been re-elected by the • India ranked 140th out of 180 countries in the UN Economic and Social Council to a five-year World Press Freedom Index 2019, released by term on International Narcotics Control Board. Reporters Without Borders. The index is topped • Indian actress Dia Mirza and Alibaba chief Jack by Norway. Ma are among the 17 global public figures • The Indian Council of Medical Research has appointed by UN Secretary-General Antonio launched the ‘Malaria Elimination Research Guterres as the new advocates to drive action Alliance (MERA) India which is a and solidify global political will for the ambitious conglomeration of partners working on malaria Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). control in order to eliminate the disease from • Professor Tijjani Mohammad Bande has been India by 2030. appointed as the new President of the United • Phayeng village (Manipur) has been tagged India’s first Carbon-Positive Settlement. Nations General Assembly.

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• Gagandeep Kang has become the first Indian • The Reserve Bank of India has become the first female scientist to be elected as a Fellow of the central bank in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region to Royal Society (FRS) in the UK fellowship’s 358- begin an explicit interest rate easing cycle. year-history. • The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has divested its • India’s first exotic Bird Park ‘Essel World Bird entire stake held in National Housing Bank Park’ was launched by EsselWorld Leisure Pvt. (NHB), the regulator for housing finance Ltd, the entertainment arm of the $6-billion Essel companies, and National Bank for Agriculture Group in Mumbai. and Rural Development (NABARD) to the • The Guwahati Railway Station has become the government, which now holds 100% in these first ever railway station in the Indian Railways to entities. get an ISO certification from the National • The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has given Life Green Tribunal (NGT) for “providing passenger Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) 12 years to amenities in a clean and green environment.” reduce its stake by 10 percent from the existing • The Indian Navy undertook the second edition of 51% stake in IDBI Bank. the bilateral maritime exercise between the • Allahabad Bank stated that the government has Indian Navy and Vietnam Peoples’ Navy, (IN – increased its authorised capital by `5,000 crore VPN BILAT EX) at/ off Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam. to `8,000 crore. • Military forces of India and Singapore got • Bandhan Bank has received approval from the together to participate in a joint exercise “Bold Competition Commission of India (CCI) for the Kurukshetra” in Babina Cantonment in Jhansi. proposed scheme of amalgamation of Gruh • The sixth edition of the joint military training Finance with the bank. exercise between the Indian Army and the Sri • Canara Bank is the first public sector bank to Lankan Army, Exercise Mitra Shakti concluded shift to EMV chip and PIN for card present in Sri Lanka. transactions across the country’s vast ATM • The Indian Army has successfully built the network. longest suspension bridge ‘Matiri Bridge’ over • IDBI Bank has launched ‘NRI-Insta-Online’ the Indus River in the Leh-Ladakh region. account opening process for NRIs residing in the • UAE is set to host the world’s foremost Artificial Financial Action Task Force (FATF) member Intelligence (AI) Summit to empower global countries. dialogue on the future of government, business • The Institute for Development and Research in and society. Banking Technology (IDRBT), an arm of • Iran and Pakistan have agreed to set up a joint Reserve Bank of India, has launched a 5G Use border “reaction force” to combat the attacks by Cases Lab for banking and financial sector. militant groups on both sides their frontier. • The amalgamation of Vijaya Bank and Dena • Indonesia has released a special Bank into the Bank of Baroda (BoB) has come commemorative stamp on the theme of into effect and all branches of the former two will Ramayana to mark the function as branches of BoB. 70th anniversary of the establishment of its • PAISALO Digital Limited signed the first diplomatic ties with India. co-origination loan agreement with State Bank of • The world’s first armed amphibious drone boat India, the first agreement of its kind in the country named ‘Marine Lizard’ and guided by China’s that State Bank of India has signed. BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, has been • The BSE has signed a memorandum of successfully tested by China. understanding (MoU) with HDFC Bank with an • London is the first city in the world to implement objective to strengthen the BSE Start-ups a 24-hour, seven day a week Ultra Low Emission platform. Zone (ULEZ), inside which vehicles will have to • Microsoft Becomes World’s Third Company to meet tough emissions standards or face a Be Worth $1 Trillion. charge. • SBI General Insurance has launched a product • India has signed an MoU with the National Bank – cyber defence insurance to protect businesses for Agriculture and Rural Development from financial and reputational losses due to Consultancy Service (NABCONS) for setting up cyber-attacks. the India-Africa Institute of Agriculture and Rural • Reliance retail has become the first Indian retail Development (IAIARD) in Malawi. company to clock more than `1 lakh crore in • Zuzana Caputova won Slovakia’s presidential annual revenues. election, making her the country’s first female • Hong Kong’s equity market has overtaken Japan head of state. to be the world’s third largest in value, behind • Karnam Sekar is set to take over as the new only the U.S. and mainland China. Managing Director and CEO of Indian Overseas • As per the World Bank Report, India retained its Bank from July 1, 2019. position as the world’s top recipient of • State Bank of India (SBI) has launched India’s remittances with its diaspora sending a first ‘Green Car Loan’ (Electric Vehicle) to whopping USD 79 billion back home in 2018. encourage customers to buy electric vehicles. India was followed by China and Mexico.

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• The world’s first-ever malaria vaccine was • Garden Reach Ship Builders and Engineers Ltd launched in a pilot project in Africa’s Malawi. The (GRSE) became the ‘first Indian shipyard’ to country is the first of three in Africa in which the build and deliver 100 warships. vaccine, known as RTS,S will be made available • Indian Railways Integral Coach Factory (ICF), to children up to 2 years of age. Chennai the oldest and premier coach • Russia has successfully tested the world’s first manufacturing unit becomes the single largest floating nuclear power plant (NPP), Akademik rail coach manufacturer in the world. Lomonosov. • Union Minister Mahesh Sharma has inaugurated • India has successfully test-fired first ‘Azaadi Ke Diwane’ museum, dedicated to the indigenously designed and developed long- unsung heroes of the country’s freedom range sub-sonic cruise missile ‘Nirbhay’ from a struggle, on the Red Fort premises in New Delhi. test range in Odisha. • PM Narendra Modi launched the indigenously- • India’s first indigenously designed and developed National Common Mobility Card developed Dhanush artillery gun was inducted in (NCMC) to enable people to pay multiple kinds the Indian Army. of transport charges, including metro services • Mithali Raj has been named the goodwill and toll tax, across the country. The gate and ambassador of Team India at the Street Child reader prototype for the NCMC has been Cricket World Cup (SCCWC). developed by government-owned Bharat • The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has Electronics Limited (BEL). appointed Mohammed Ishtayeh as the new • The third edition of the biennial, bilateral Prime Minister. exercise AUSINDEX 19 between India and • President Jovenel Moise announced that Jean Australia will be held in Vishakhapatnam, Michel Lapin will be the new prime minister of Andhra Pradesh. Haiti. • The Indian Navy’s state of the art Nuclear, • Najma Akhtar was appointed as the first woman Biological, and Chemical Training Facility vice-chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, making (NBCTF) was inaugurated by Chief of Naval her the first woman to hold the charge. Staff Admiral Sunil Lanba at INS Shivaji, • SUN Group Chairman Vikramjit Singh Sahney Lonavala. elected as the new president of International • The joint training exercise MITRASHAKTI – VI Chamber of Commerce (ICC) – India. between Indian and Sri Lanka Army was held at • David Malpass has been appointed as the Diyatalawa in Sri Lanka. President of the World Bank. • The inaugural Africa-India Field Training • Manu Sawhney took over as the International Exercise-2019 for India and African nations Cricket Council (ICC) Chief Executive Officer. called AFINDEX-19 was held at Aundh Military • Dawn editor and Columnist Cyril Almeida from Station, Pune. Pakistan has won the IPI’s (International Press • Exercise Sampriti-VIII, a joint Indo-Bangladesh Institute) World Press Freedom Hero award in military exercise concluded at Tangail, 2019. Bangladesh. • Fincare Small Finance Bank (SFB) has been • Indo Oman Joint Exercise Al Nagah III 2019, a awarded the prestigious Celent Model Bank joint military exercise between Indian and Royal 2019 Award in the category of Financial Army of Oman (RAO), commenced at Nizwa, Inclusion, for ‘Redesigning Lending to Reach Oman. Small Businesses’. • Border Security Force (BSF) and Border Guards • journalists, Kyaw Soe Oo, and Bangladesh (BGB) took part in the 3-day have been selected for UNESCO/Guillermo ‘Mainamati Maitree Exercise 2019’ as a part of Cano Press Freedom Prize 2019. ‘Confidence Building Measures’ between India • Prime Minister Narendra Modi was decorated and Bangladesh held in Agartala, Tripura. with Order of St Andrew the Apostle – the • Tashigang, a Himachal Pradesh village at an highest state decoration of Russia, for altitude of 15,256 feet has become the highest exceptional services in promoting special and polling station in the world. privileged strategic partnership between the two • Erode turmeric (of Tamil Nadu) got a countries. Geographical Indication (GI) tag from the Geographical Indication Registry. March 2019 • Microsoft has announced that it has partnered with The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs

(MoHUA) to promote its Project ‘Sangam’ which • Indian scientists have developed a common is developed to accelerate Swachh Bharat framework for the assessment of climate change Mission (SBM) in India. vulnerability in all the states in the Himalayan • The Registrar of Geographical Indications, region. The assessment shows that the Government of India, accorded a GI tag, ‘Sirsi vulnerability index is the highest for Assam Supari’, to arecanut grown in Sirsi, Siddpaur and (0.72) and Mizoram (0.71). Sikkim is the least Yellapur taluks of Uttara Kannada district in vulnerable state. Karnataka.

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• Idukki’s The Marayoor Jaggery, the traditional • As per RBI notification, IDBI Bank has been and handmade product from Idukki district of categorized as a private sector lender following Kerala received the Geographical Indication (GI) the acquisition of majority stake by Life tag from the Central Government. Insurance Corporation. • Google has unveiled a new app ‘Bolo’ that aims • State Bank of India (SBI) has launched doorstep to help children in primary school learn to read in banking service for senior citizens over 70 years Hindi and English. of age and differently-abled customers. • India has moved up 2 places to rank 76th on a • The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) named State global energy transition index compiled by World Bank of India (SBI), ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank Economic Forum. Sweden remains on the top as Domestic Systemically Important Banks (D- and is followed by Switzerland and Norway in the SIBs), which in other words mean banks that are top three. too big to fail. • The World Happiness Report was released by • The State Bank of India has launched a new the Sustainable Development Solutions Network service called ‘YONO Cash’ for its customers for the United Nations. Finland topped the list using which customers can withdraw money followed by Denmark, Norway. from ATMs without using debit cards. • The human resource consulting firm, Mercer’s • According to BCG-IBA Report – EASE Reforms annual Quality of Living Survey 2019 has placed for Public Sector Banks, released by Union Austria’s capital city Vienna at the top spot. Minister of Finance & Corporate Affairs, Punjab • India, which is the world’s largest consumer of National Bank (PNB) secured the top spot gold, has the 11th largest gold reserve, with the among all public sector banks in the current holding pegged at 607 tonnes, as per the implementation of ‘Reforms agenda’. • The Reserve Bank of India has constituted an latest report by the World Gold Council (WGC). eight-member task force on offshore rupee The top spot is occupied by the USA, followed markets, headed by Usha Thorat former Deputy by Germany. Governor, to look into issues related to the • India is the second largest importer of weapons markets and recommend appropriate policy in the world, as per the annual report ‘Trends in measures to ensure the stability of the external International Arms Transfers-2018’ released by value of the rupee. the think tank Stockholm International Peace • The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to Research Institute (SIPRI). Saudi Arabia topped use a new tool for the first time to enhance the list. th liquidity in the system using which it will buy $5 • Abu Dhabi hosted the 46 session of the Council billion from the banks in a swap deal that is of Foreign Ministers of the Organisation of capable of injecting around `35,000 crores into Islamic the system. Banks will have to deposit dollar Co-operation (OIC). funds with RBI with the condition of buying them • The first BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, back from RBI after 3 years. and South Africa) Sherpa meeting held in • The Centre and the Asian Development Bank Curitiba, Brazil. (ADB) have signed a 926 million dollar loan • The world’s largest e-waste recycling plant has agreement to operationalize two lines of the been opened in Dubai Industrial Park, Dubai. Mumbai Metro Rail System. • Oslo, the capital city of Norway will become the • Tata, Reliance, and Airtel emerged as the top world’s first city to install wireless, induction- three Indian brands of 2019, according to a based charging stations for its fleet of electric report published by Interbrand, part of the taxis. Omnicom Media Group. • US President Donald Trump has signed a • The 4th IoT India Congress, an event which will proclamation recognising Israel’s sovereignty see digital technology leaders converge to over the Golan Heights. Golan Heights is the discuss and explore business opportunities in disputed area between Israel and Syria. mainstreaming Internet of Things (IoT), was held • Kazakhstan has renamed its capital Astana to in Bengaluru. Nursultan to honour outgoing leader Nursultan • India has signed a deal with a Russian firm to Nazarbayev. manufacture 7.5 lakh AK-203 rifles. • has become a member of the • Bhagwan Lal Sahni has been appointed as the International Criminal Court. Malaysia becomes chairman of the newly constituted National the 124th member of the court since its Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC). establishment in 2002. • Indian American television personality and food • IFFCO Tokio General Insurance has launched expert Padma Lakshmi has been appointed by ‘bank locker protector policy’, the first stand- the United Nations Development Programme alone bank locker cover offered by any (UNDP) as its Goodwill Ambassador. insurance company with a plan to protect the • Soumya Swaminathan, a Deputy Director- contents of a bank locker such as jewellery, title General of the World Health Organisation has documents, and other valuables. been named Chief Scientist of the WHO.

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• Mohammad Shtayyeh has been named as • University of Texas professor Karen Uhlenbeck Prime Minister of Palestine. has become the first woman to win the Abel • The government has appointed MR Kumar as Prize. the Chairman of Life Insurance Corporation • An Indian journalist, author and chief of The (LIC) and Vipin Anand and TC Suseel Kumar as Wire, ‘Raghu Karnad’ received the prestigious the managing directors (MDs). Windham-Campbell prize for his debut book, • President Ram Nath Kovind administered the ‘Farthest Field: oath of office to Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose An Indian story of Second World War’. as the country’s first Lokpal. • Indore has bagged the cleanest city award for • Kylie Jenner was named the youngest self-made the third straight year under Swachh billionaire of all time by Forbes magazine. Survekshan, 2019. • Peter Tabichi (Kenya), a member of the • Every Vote Counts - The Story of India’s Franciscan religious order has been conferred Elections authored by Navin Chawla. with the prestigious Global Teacher Prize for • Indian Fiscal Federalism was authored by 2019. Y V Reddy.

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