SBI PO / CLERK 2019 CAPSULE

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SBI PO/CLERK 2019 CAPSULE (JANUARY – JUNE 2019)

INDEX

TOPIC Page No

BANKING & FINANCIAL AWARENESS 2

LIST OF INDEXES BY VARIOUS ORGANISATIONS 7

GDP FORECAST OF BY VARIOUS ORGANISATION 8

RANKINGS / REPORTS BY VARIOUS ORGANISATIONS 8

LIST OF VARIOUS COMMITTEE & ITS HEAD 11

LOAN SANCTIONED BY NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL TO INDIA 12

PENALITY IMPOSED BY RBI TO VARIOUS BANKS IN INDIA 13

LIST OF ACQUISTION & MERGER TOOK PLACE FROM JAN – JUNE 2019 13

APPS/SCHEMES/FACILITY LAUNCHED BY VARIOUS BANKS/ORGANISATIONS/COMPANY 13

NATIONAL NEWS 15

STATE NEWS 20

IIT’S IN NEWS 26

NATIONAL SUMMITS 26

INTERNATIONAL NEWS 30

INTERNATIONAL SUMMITS 34

LIST OF AGREEMENTS/MOU’S SIGNED BY INDIA WITH VARIOUS COUNTRIES 37

APPOINTMENTS / RESIGNATION /RETIREMENT / BRAND AMBASSADORS 38

AWARDS & HONOURS 41

BOOKS & AUTHORS 48

SPORTS NEWS 48

IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE DAY 57

OBITUARY 60

CABINET MINISTERS 2019 / LIST OF MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE)/ LIST OF 61

MINISTERS OF STATE

INTERIM BUDGET 2019-20 62

______RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs 7601808080 / 9043303030 www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 2 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | BANKING & FINANCIAL AWARENESS framework allowing them to resume their normal lending activities subject RBI IN NEWS to certain conditions and continuous monitoring. ➢ Second Bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement, 2019-20 Resolution ➢ The Reserve Bank has imposed monetary penalty of two million rupees of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) Reserve . For the third each on HDFC Bank, IDBI Bank and for non- time in a row, the 's (RBI) Monetary Policy compliance of various Know Your Customer/ Anti-Money Laundering norms. Committee (MPC) cut interest rates by 25 basis points, as was widely ➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will transfer interim dividend to the expected. On the basis of an assessment of the current and evolving central government for the half-year 28,000 crore rupees. macroeconomic situation, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) at its ➢ Reserve Bank of India (RBI) withdrew the 20% limit on investments by meeting decided to FPIs in corporate bonds of an entity with a view to encourage more foreign Policy Repo Rate 5.75% investments. Reverse Repo Rate 5.50 % ➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) approved the merger of DBS Bank Marginal Standing Facility Rate 6.0% Ltd.’s Indian business unit with its wholly owned local subsidiary. DBS Bank’s unit will merge with DBS Bank India with effect from 1st March 2019. Bank Rate 6.0% ➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Bank of have signed a CRR 4 % bilateral swap arrangement (BSA) for an amount up to $75 billion. SLR 19% ➢ RBI announced the modified revised framework for Trade Credit Policy

norms for imports of capital and non-capital goods by raising the trade ➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has initiated two surveys credit limit to $150 million under the automatic route. namely, Industrial Outlook Survey (IOS), and Services and ➢ The Reserve Bank of India notified a 2% interest subvention or Infrastructure Outlook Survey (SIOS). Subsidy for short-term crop loans during 2018-19 and 2019-20. ➢ Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has launched Survey on Retail Payment ➢ The Reserve Bank of India has eased business guidelines for white Habits of Individuals (SRPHi). Sigma Research & Consulting Pvt Ltd label ATMs by allowing companies that manage these machines to source has been engaged by RBI to conduct the fieldwork of the survey. cash directly from the . ➢ Shri Shaktikanta Das, Governor, Reserve Bank of India chaired a ➢ The government has doubled the income tax exemption meeting of the sub-committee of the 18th Financial Stability and limit for gratuity to Rs 20 lakh from the existing Rs 10 lakh. Gratuity law Development Council (FSDC) in , . The sub- applies to all employees who work in an organization where there are 10 or committee also deliberated on interlinking of various regulatory databases more employees in a year. and National Strategy for Financial Inclusion (NSFI). ➢ In accordance with a circular issued by the Reserve Bank of India ➢ RBI offers relief to MSMEs allows restructuring of debt up to Rs.25 crore. Markets regulator, SEBI withdrew the 20 per cent limit on investments The aggregate exposure, including non-fund-based facilities of banks and by Foreign Portfolio Investors in corporate bonds of an entity. In June NBFCs, to a borrower should not exceed 25 crore rupees as on January 1, 2018, SEBI had mandated that no Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) shall 2019. The restructuring will be implemented by 31st of March 2020. have an exposure of more than 20% of its corporate bond portfolio to ➢ After almost six months of the ban, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has a single corporate. allowed to restart opening new accounts for its ➢ Prime Minister unveiled the new series of visually consumers. impaired friendly coins in the denominations of Re.1, Rs.2, Rs.5, Rs.10 ➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issued a notification for all and Rs.20 through the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in terms of the RBI authorised non-bank Prepaid Payment Instrument (PPI) Issuers in Act at an event held in New . It was designed by the National order to limit the liability of Customers in unauthorised electronic Institute of Design. New Rs 20 coin is in polygon shape of 12 edges payment transactions in Prepaid Payment Instruments with a design of grains denoting the agricultural dominance of the (PPIs) comprising mobile wallets, prepaid payments cards, and paper country. The ‘Lion Capital of Ashoka Pillar’ is minted on the face of new vouchers such as Sodexo. 20-rupee coin with ‘Satyamev Jayate’ inscribed below it. ➢ The Reserve Bank of India has allowed tokenization of debit, credit ➢ The Reserve Bank of India announced to infuse long term liquidity and prepaid card transactions to enhance the safety of the digital worth $5 billion into the system through Foreign Exchange swap payment’s ecosystem in the country. arrangement with banks for 3 years that is capable of injecting around Rs. ➢ RBI has decided to conduct purchase of government securities under Open 35,000 crores into the system. Market Operations (OMOs) in February for an aggregate amount of ➢ The RBI named (SBI), ICICI Bank and HDFC Rs.375 billion. Bank as Domestic Systemically Important Banks (D-SIBs), which in ➢ The ESAF has got RBI (Reserve Bank of India) other words mean banks that are too big to fail. approval to operate as a scheduled bank. ➢ The Reserve Bank of India has prohibited India’s largest ➢ The Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB), Nepal’s central monetary authority, mortgage lender HDFC from owning more than the regulatory limit wrote to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to legalize Indian currency in . HDFC can hold 9.9% in the bank which is the maximum notes of denominations higher than Rs.100 in Nepal like Rs.200, Rs.500 and a non-banking finance company can own in a private bank. Rs.2,000. ➢ Reserve Bank of India maintained that there is no dilution in its stand ➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is likely to transfer an interim dividend regarding February 12 circular on stressed assets recognition and of up to Rs 30,000 crore to Rs 40,000 crore ($4.32 billion-$5.8 billion) to resolution. The circular directed lenders to refer any loan account over the government by March. Rs.2,000 crore under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) if it ➢ The Reserve Bank of India announced that it will inject 10,000 crore is not resolved within 180 days of default. rupees into the system to increase liquidity through Open Market ➢ Reserve Bank of India received a huge response for introducing a $5- Operations (OMOs). The offers have been instructed to be submitted in billion swap facility for the banks to facilitate permanent liquidity support. electronic format on the RBI Core Banking Solution (E-Kuber) system. ➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in consultation with the government ➢ The Reserve Bank of India eased out the operational curbs on three of India has set the limits for Ways and Means Advances (WMA) for the banks, Bank of India (BoI), (BoM) and Oriental first half of the financial year 2019-20 (April 2019 to September 2019) Bank of Commerce (OBC) and also allowed them to have an exit from the at Rs.75000 crore. Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) framework fully. ➢ RBI has altered the LCR (Liquidity Coverage Ratio) norms to offer an ➢ The Reserve Bank of India raised the limit of collateral-free additional 2% window to lenders. The central bank has brought in this agricultural loans to Rs. 1.6 lakh from the current Rs. 1 lakh with a view alteration in order to improve the cash position of banks by harmonising to help small and marginal farmers. liquidity requirements and giving away extra money to lenders. ➢ The Reserve Bank of India decided to raise the criteria for 'bulk ➢ The Reserve Bank set the average base rate to be charged from deposits' for banks to Rs 2 crore from the current Rs 1 crore, to provide borrowers by Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) and Micro- more operational freedom to lenders to raise funds. Finance Institutions (MFIs) at 9.21% for the first quarter of the next ➢ RBI restructuring package for small businesses will help recast Rs 1 fiscal (From April 2019). lakh crore of loans to 7 lakh MSME account holders. This scheme must be ➢ The Reserve Bank of India will inject long-term liquidity worth 5 billion implemented by every bank before March 2020. US Dollars into the banking system through a dollar-rupee buy-sell swap ➢ The Reserve Bank of India and the Bank of Japan formalised the USD for a tenure of three years. 75- billion swap agreement, which would act as a cushion against any ➢ The amalgamation of and into the Bank of sharp swings in the local currency whenever the international financial Baroda (BoB) has come into effect on April 1st, 2019 and all branches of markets turn volatile. the former two will function as branches of BoB. The merged entity would ➢ The Reserve Bank of India removed , Corporation also receive Rs.5,042 crore fund infusion from the government. Post the Bank and out of the prompt corrective action (PCA)

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7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 3 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | merger, has become the third largest bank in the ➢ According to the RBI reports, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) injected total country after State Bank of India (SBI) and HDFC Bank. liquidity of Rs 2.98 lakh crore in the market in 2018-19. ➢ Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has come out with guidelines for banks to set ➢ According to the Reserve Bank data released, bank credit rose 13.24 up new currency chests, which include a minimum area of 1,500 square percent to Rs 97.67 lakh crore for the fortnight to March 29, while feet for the strong room. deposits grew by 10.03 percent to Rs 125.72 lakh crore during the same ➢ Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) has partnered with M1Xchange Trade period. Receivables Discounting System (TReDS) platform for MSME bill ➢ The Reserve Bank of India said reinsurance brokers have been discounting. permitted to open non-interest-bearing foreign currency accounts ➢ Reserve Bank of India (RBI) plans to buy Rs.25,000 crore worth of bonds with banks for undertaking transactions. in two instalments from the secondary market in May. The first such open ➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said Exim Bank has provided soft loans market operations (OMO) for the fiscal year 2019-20, amounting to Rs of USD 266.60 million to Rwanda for various projects. 12,500 crore, will happen on 2nd May 2019. ➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will soon release new banknotes in the SBI IN NEWS Mahatma Gandhi (New) Series of Rs.20. The base colour of the note is ➢ The Maharashtra Chief Minister’s Office in Mumbai announced that SBI greenish yellow and bear the signature of Shaktikanta Das (RBI Governor). along with other banks agreed to provide finance for Nagpur-Mumbai The new denomination is 63 mm x 129 mm has the motif of the Ellora ‘Samruddhi Corridor’ expressway project. Caves on the reverse. ➢ NTPC has signed a term loan agreement for Rs.5,000 crore with State ➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has given 12 years to Life Bank of India. Insurance Corp to reduce its stake in IDBI Bank. ➢ The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) has organized ➢ The central bank has released draft 'Enabling Framework for workshop on “Committee of Creditors: An Institution of Public Faith” Regulatory Sandbox', proposed that fintech start-ups could set up in Mumbai. It was jointly organized with the State Bank of India (SBI) and regulatory sandbox or live testing of innovative products. the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA). ➢ Based on the recommendation of second , the ➢ SBI savings account rates and the interest rate on a few loans will Reserve Bank has divested its entire stake in now change as and when RBI changes its repo rate. State Bank of India (NHB) and the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (SBI) has linked its interest rate on savings account with a balance (NABARD). above 1 lakh and short-term loans to Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) repo ➢ In a move to tackle fund diversion, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has rate, effective 1 May 2019. proposed sterner rules on opening and running of current accounts of ➢ Paisalo Digital signed the first co-origination loan agreement with corporate borrowers. State Bank of India, the first agreement of its kind in the country that ➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released draft guidelines on liquidity State Bank of India has signed. risk management framework for non-banking financial companies ➢ State Bank of India (SBI) has re-priced home loans up to Rs 30 lakh (NBFCs) and core investment companies (CICs) with an aim to help them by 10 basis points. Accordingly, the interest rate on housing loans of such deal with severe liquidity problems and prevent re-occurrence of IL&FS size will now be in the range of 8.6 to 8.9 per cent. type of debt crisis. ➢ SBI Card raised Rs.700 crore from several financial institutions including ➢ Reserve Bank of India announced that it will allow large modern its parent State Bank of India (SBI) in the second half of FY19 as it aims currency chests to increase the service charges on cash deposited to grow above the industry average. by non-chest bank branches from the existing rate of Rs. 5 per packet ➢ The State Bank of India (SBI) has announced a strategic partnership of 100 pieces to a higher rate subject to a maximum of Rs. 8 per with the FMCG arm of The Art of Living Sri Sri Tattva. packet. ➢ The country’s largest lender SBI signed a pact with the third largest ➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has increased the eligibility cap on Bank in the world by capital size Bank of (BoC) to boost business home loans extended by regional rural banks and small finance banks to Rs. opportunities. 35 lakh in metropolitan areas and Rs. 25 lakh in other centres, provided the overall cost of the dwelling unit in the metropolitan centres and other OTHER BANKING & FINANCIAL AWARENESS centres does not exceed Rs. 45 lakh and Rs. 30 lakh. ➢ Nitin Gadkari has announced that the government has allowed ➢ The Reserve Bank of India said that it has imposed penalties on Five an Iranian bank Pasargad Bank to open a branch in Mumbai within Prepaid Payment Instrument (PPI) issuers, for violation of regulatory the next three months. Alongside, India’s UCO Bank will open a branch in norms. Namely, Western Union Inc, MoneyGram Payment Iran. Systems Inc, Vodafone m-pesa, PhonePe and Y-Cash Software Solutions. ➢ Country’s largest car maker Maruti will phase out diesel cars from its line- ➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced that the time-window for up from April 2020. using the Real Time Gross Settlement System (RTGS) for customer ➢ The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India organised an Insolvency transactions will be extended from 4:30 pm to 6 pm on all working days. and Bankruptcy Awareness Programme at Vadodara, . It will be effective from June 1, 2019. ➢ Social media giant Facebook announced that it will create an independent ➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a monetary penalty of Institute for Ethics in Artificial intelligence (AI) with an initial investment Rs. 1 crore on for its failure to fully automate the Non- of $7.5 million over a period of five years. Performing Asset (NPA) identification process, despite specific directions ➢ New Huawei smartphones are set to lose access to some Google apps issued in this regard. like YouTube and Maps and the next version of Android to be launched later ➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released its statement on ‘Payment this year. and Settlement Systems in India: Vision 2019–2021’, which outlined ➢ India’s largest and fastest growing consumer lending technology company the measures that the central bank will undertake to foster innovation, ZestMoney, partnered with Digit Insurance to offer EMI insurance to cybersecurity, financial inclusion, customer protection, and competition. the company’s five million customers. ➢ Sri Lanka Central Bank announced that the Reserve Bank of India ➢ BSNL has partnered with French company Be-Bound to offer data (RBI) has agreed to provide $400 million under a swap arrangement to connectivity through SMS in areas where there is no Internet connectivity or boost the island nation’s reserves. signal breaks. ➢ Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued a new framework for resolution of ➢ Finance Minister raised the annual turnover for availing bad loans, offering a 30-day gap for stress recognition. Lenders may composition scheme to Rs 1.5 crore from Rs 1 crore effective from April 1, recognize incipient stress in loan accounts, immediately on default, by 2019 to provide relief to small businesses under Goods and Services (GST) classifying such assets as special mention accounts (SMA). regime. The Goods and Services (GST) exemption limit has been doubled ➢ The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has waived off all transaction’s to Rs. 40 lakh annual turnover and Rs 20 lakh for north eastern states. charges in NEFT and RTGS to encourage digital transfer of funds. RBI has ➢ Markets regulator SEBI has allowed custodial services in the advised banks to pass on the benefits to their customers with effect from commodity derivatives market which would enable participation of 1st July 2019. institutional investors, including mutual funds, in the segment. ➢ Reserve Bank of India (RBl) permitted banks to accept number ➢ Private sector lender IDFC Bank said its name has been changed (Offline verification) for Know Your Customer (KYC) verification with the to IDFC First Bank Ltd. consent of the customers. ➢ HDFC Standard Life Insurance renamed itself to HDFC Life ➢ Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has released a report on “Benchmarking Insurance, following the receipt of relevant approvals from regulatory India’s Payment Systems”. It is necessary to gauge India’s progress vis- authorities. à-vis payment systems and instruments in major countries and give further ➢ Private sector insurer Bharti AXA Life Insurance started impetus to the planned efforts for deepening the digitization of payments. delivering policies and renewal premium receipt to customers via ➢ As per RBI press release, India’s foreign exchange reserves increased by instant messaging platform WhatsApp as a part of its alternative service USD 1.994 billion to 419.992 billion USD (till 24th May 2019). option to the policy holders. ______

7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 4 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | ➢ ICICI Bank, in a first-of-its-kind programme, signed a Memorandum subion period will be three thousand three hundred twenty-six rupees of Understanding (MoU) with Small Business FinCredit India Pvt. Ltd. per gram with the settlement date of 1st of February. (SBFC), a systemically important Non-Banking Finance Company for ➢ As per data released by the ministry of statistics and Programme entrepreneurs, to jointly provide credit worth up to Rs 1 Implementation, Retail inflation decline at 2.05% in January. crore to MSMEs for a tenure of 15 years. ➢ The GST Council slashed tax rates on under-construction housing ➢ The ministry of finance announced that the government has cut import properties from 12% to 5%. duties on crude and refined palm oil from Southeast Asian countries or ➢ SEBI board with a view to making more cost-effective trade in Indian ASEAN countries. stock market approved lowering of fees charged from brokers, stock ➢ IIT Bombay and 7 public sector oil companies inked a memorandum of exchange and the companies seeking to get listed. SEBI also decided to understanding (MoU) for setting up Centre of Excellence in Oil, Gas and reduce fees payable by the issuers for one refiling, which is done within Energy. The MoU was signed by heads of Indian Oil Corp (IOC), Oil and one year of validity of observation letter. The fees payable to brokers Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), GAIL India Ltd, Corp Ltd is reduced by 33.33% from Rs.15 per crore of transactions to (BPCL), Corp Ltd (HPCL), Ltd and Rs.10. In case of agri-commodity derivative transactions, the fee would be Engineers India Ltd. reduced sharply by 93.33% from Rs.15 to just Re.1. ➢ Dell has collaborated with UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of ➢ The National Health Authority (NHA), which is the apex body Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) and Ignus responsible for implementation of Ayushman Bharat – Pradhan Mantri for its first-of-its-kind hackathon with an aim to create a platform where Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) has signed a Memorandum of teachers, school representatives and a cross-sectional group expert related Understanding (MoU) with Uber– a ride-hailing app to provide free to education can interact with each other. healthcare services to Uber drivers. ➢ The government has amalgamated three Regional Rural Banks - ➢ The government has given a nod to the IDBI Bank to handle import and Gramin Bank, Malwa Gramin Bank and Sutlej Gramin Bank into a export transactions with Iran. This has been done to boost the trade single RRB with effect from January 1. between India and Iran amidst US sanctions on Iran. ➢ Indian Highways Management Company Ltd. (IHMCL), a company ➢ Life Insurance Corporation Housing Finance Ltd (LICHFL) partnered promoted by NHAI, has signed MOUs with state-run Oil Marketing with India Mortgage Guarantee Corporation (IMGC) to offer home Companies (IOCL, BPC, and HPC). It will ensure availability of FASTags buyers enhanced loan eligibility and easy loans and it will now be in a position at petroleum outlets across India. to offer extended loan tenure for borrowers till the age of 75 years. ➢ State-run lender UCO bank, formerly United Commercial Bank, ➢ National Housing Bank proposes stricter regulations for Housing Finance announced that has infused Rs 3076 crore of capital Companies. Increasing the Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) of these into it by the way of preferential allotment. companies from 12%to 15%, in a phased manner by 31st March 2022. This ➢ has signed a MoU with Indian Army on the will be accomplished by increasing the minimum CAR to 13% by 31st March Defence Salary Package. 2020, 14 % by 31st March 2021 and 15 % by 2022. Bringing down the public ➢ The Maharashtra state govt. has partnered with private sector lender borrowings to 12 times of the Net Owned Fund (NOF) from the to onboard Fair Price Shops (FPS) as Business Correspondent existing 16 times, by March 2022. Agents. ➢ The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) has signed a ➢ The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has signed Cooperation Agreement with the International Finance Corporation an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Invest India coinciding (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group (WBG). It will enable IFC to assist with Platinum Jubilee Annual Function of ICAI at under the aegis IBBI to further build the capacity of insolvency professionals, and insolvency of the Committee for Export of CA Services & WTO of ICAI. professional agencies for the purposes of the Code. The Cooperation ➢ Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) and Indian Oil Agreement envisages technical assistance up to June 30, 2021, by the IFC Corporation Limited (IOCL) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to IBBI. (MoU) for jointly developing infrastructure for fuels, lubricating oil, LPG, ➢ A report by ICRA (formerly known as Investment Information and Credit Natural Gas and any other related fuel and gas for meeting the requirement Rating Agency of India Limited) has stated that Small finance banks of National Waterways. (SFBS) are expected to witness a growth rate of 25-30% over the ➢ Two regional rural banks (RRB) — and Pandyan medium-term if they arrange an additional external capital in the range of Rs Grama Bank — will be amalgamated into a single RRB in named 4,000-6,000 crore till FY23. Tamil Nadu Grama Bank. It will be effective from April 1. Pallavan Grama ➢ The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) in the official Bank is sponsored by and is sponsored gazette notification, the Aadhaar (Pricing of Aadhaar Authentication by the . Services) Regulations 2019 put forth that business organisations ➢ The infusion into the equity market comes following a pull-out of 5,264 using Aadhaar services will now have to pay Rs 20 for each customer crore rupees by Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPI) in January. verification and 50 paise for authentication of each transaction carried ➢ Zimbabwe started to trade its new currency ‘the RTGS dollar’ after the out by the entities. central bank announced measures to try and resolve a chronic monetary ➢ The National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) collaborates with crisis. Google Arts and Culture for largest interactive online exhibition on ➢ Foreign direct investment into India has declined 11 percent to inventions and discoveries. $22.66 billion during April-September period of the current fiscal, according ➢ Industry lobby CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) has released a to ministry of commerce and industry data. ‘Suggested Election Manifesto’ for political parties to achieve an average ➢ Industry and Internal trade secretary Ramesh Abhishek notified that growth rate of 8 percent per annum in the next five years. government will form a small working group to have a watch over the matter ➢ Punjab National Bank has sanctioned loans worth Rs 689 crore to of angel tax profiled by start-ups. 1600 MSMEs under Prime Minister Narendra Modi ’59-minute’ initiative. ➢ The Government e Marketplace (GeM), the national public The loans have been sanctioned through psbloanin59minutes.com procurement platform of Ministry of Commerce and Industries, and portal as part of its effort to promote micro, small, and medium Competition Commission of India (CCI) have signed a Memorandum of enterprises. Under the Mudra Yojana Scheme, the bank has offered Understanding (MoU) to enable a fair and competitive environment in the e- loans to over 2.69 lakh small entrepreneurs till February 2019. Marketplace. ➢ The Ahmedabad bench of the National Company Law Tribunal ➢ will replace Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (NCLT) has approved the Rs 42,000-crore resolution plan submitted (HPCL) in the National Stock Exchange Fifty (NIFTY) 50 index. by ArcelorMittal for the debt-ridden Essar Steel Ltd. ➢ The Employees' Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) announced a ➢ World Health Organization released a Global Influenza Strategy for hike of 0.1% in the interest rate on employees' provident fund (PF) deposits 2019-2030 aimed at protecting people in all countries from the threat for FY 2018-19 from 8.55% to 8.65%. of influenza, one of the world’s greatest public health challenges. ➢ A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between IIFL Home ➢ Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS) has teamed up with NASSCOM Finance and the Maharashtra government for building affordable houses Foundation, to launch a centre of excellence in Bengaluru for training through credit-linked subsidy scheme (CLSS) under Pradhan Mantri Awas differently abled persons. Yojana (PMAY). ➢ Bank of India (BoI) has raised Rs.660.80 crore by issuing shares to ➢ State-run Bank of Baroda has tied up with 's KfW employees under Employee Share Purchase Scheme (ESPS). Development Bank for funding of USD 113 million to refinance solar ➢ A credit firm CRIF Highmark has collaborated with CreditVidya– data projects. The tie-up is part of an Indo-German Solar Energy Partnership analytics firm, to enable lenders to provide credit to new borrowers or those signed in 2015. who are underserved. ➢ The Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme 2018-19 (Series 6) has been opened ➢ India’s first digital insurer, AU Small Finance Bank Ltd. announced its and continue till 8th Feb 2019. The issue price of the Bond during this partnership with a new age insurtech company, Acko General Insurance

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7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 5 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | Limited and is now able to provide customized insurance products to its kept unchanged by the Government for the April-June quarter of the customers. financial year 2019-20. ➢ celebrated its 114th Foundation Day (12th March ➢ Manappuram Finance, a Non-banking finance company withdrew a 2019) at various centres of the bank across the nation and release which had issued earlier regarding securing Rs 695 undertook 114 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities to crore debt funding from NABARD. mark the day. ➢ GAIL India Ltd joined hand with Bharat Heavy Electricals ➢ IDBI Bank has been categorised as a “Private Sector Lender” following Ltd (BHEL) to cooperate in the development of solar power projects. acquisition of majority stake by Life Insurance Corporation. In January ➢ Government infused a capital of Rs.205 crore into the state-owned Bank 2019, LIC completed the process of picking up a controlling 51% stake in of Maharashtra in lieu of preferential allotment of shares. After the Capital the nearly crippled IDBI Bank. infusion, the shareholding of government in Bank of Maharashtra has ➢ ICICI Lombard partners with Mobikwik to provide cyber-insurance increased to 87.74 %. cover which aims to provide protection against unauthorised and fraudulent ➢ Reliance Nippon Life Asset Management (RNAM) joined hands transactions online, across bank accounts, debit and credit cards and with Google to enable the customers of Reliance Mutual Fund to carry mobile wallets. The service will be available through an app at Rs. 99 per out voice-based financial transactions. month along with an insured sum of Rs. 50000. ➢ Kotak Mahindra Bank becomes first lender to charge customers for UPI ➢ Microsoft India has partnered with the Ministry of Housing and Urban transactions starting 1st of May 2019 by charging Rs.2.50 per transaction Affairs (MoHUA) to deploy Microsoft’s Project Sangam (cloud-hosted, for an amount value below or equal to Rs.1,000, and Rs.5 per transaction mobile-first community learning platform) to prepare functionaries and will be levied for a payment value above Rs.1,000. officers crosswise over India on Swachh Bharat e-Learning Portal. ➢ and Gas Limited (IGL) signed a ➢ Hyundai Motor Group and Kia Motors Corporation announced a memorandum of understanding to set up integrated customer strategic partnership to invest 300 million dollars (about Rs 2,000 crore) services and optimise value for customers. in ride-hailing platform Ola for providing smart mobility solutions. ➢ WhatsApp has launched an India-focused fact-checking feature to ➢ WhatsApp announced that it has tied up with NASSCOM Foundation, to combat fake news and rumours starting with the run-up to the tackle the challenge of misinformation. elections. ➢ The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) signed a ➢ India has signed an agreement with National Bank for Agriculture and memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Securities and Exchange Rural Development Consultancy Service (NABCONS) for setting up Board of India (SEBI) for effective implementation of the new India-Africa Institute of Agriculture and Rural Development (IAIARD) bankruptcy law under IBC, 2016. in Malawi. ➢ announced that it has raised Rs.487 crore through ➢ One97 Communications-owned Paytm Money has got approval from Basel-III compliant bonds for funding its growth plans. the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to start offering ➢ The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur will a stock broking service such as the ability to trade in equities and cash adopt Amazon Web Services (AWS) Educate programme to help students segments, derivatives, and Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) among other gain cloud computing skills including hands-on experience in Artificial exchange-traded products. Intelligence (AI). ➢ Micromax co-founder Rahul Sharma has announced his incursion into ➢ The Jammu and Bank has proposed to sell its stake in PNB smart mobility with the launching of an AI (Artificial intelligence) Metlife India to private equity player Oman India Joint Investment enabled electric motorcycle. This launch is expected to hit the roads by Fund II for Rs. 185 crores. June this year. ➢ Google’s instant messaging mobile app “Allo” finally shutting down. It ➢ National Thermal Power Corporation (State-run power giant) has uses phone numbers as identifiers, and allows users to exchange inked a term-loan agreement with to raise Rs.2,000 crore, messages, files, voice notes and images. which would be used to part finance its capital expenditure. ➢ A Pune-based IT firm is developing software for the World’s Largest ➢ The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has reduced the Ground-Based Telescope “Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT)”, likely to transaction fees up to Rs.1,000 by 60% for promoting the adoption of come up in Hawaii, USA. The telescope is being constructed jointly by Unified Payments Interface (UPI). For UPI transactions up to Rs.1,000, India, US, China, Japan and . India is building the telescope’s the charge has been cut to 10 paise from 25 paise, and for complex optical structure, called the Segment Support Assembly (SSA). transactions above Rs.1,000 has been retained at 50 paise. ➢ US-based e-commerce platform eBay has partnered with Google to ➢ The Union government has announced that the deadline for the linking of offer as a form of payment option in its new “managed Aadhaar with PAN has been extended to 30th September 2019 from 31st payments” plan to enhance customer experience tailored to their personal March 2019. preferences. ➢ In order to safeguard domestic players against cheap ➢ Apple Partners with Goldman Sachs Group Inc to launch the Apple shipments, Department of Revenue, Government of India has imposed Card credit card for iPhones. The card is tied to Apple Pay, a service that anti-dumping duty up to USD 1559 (Rs.1,07,844) per tonne on the allows people to load banking information and pay in store or use it for import of certain solar cell components (Ethylene Vinyl Acetate Sheet for purchases online. Solar Module) from China, , Saudia Arabia and for ➢ Public sector lender Bank of Baroda has signed a period of 5 years. an MoU with agriculture services companies to develop an agriculture ➢ Total Gross GST revenue collected in the month of March, 2019 has digital platform, Baroda Kisan, which will provide solutions for agricultural crossed the Rupees One Lakh Crore mark as it has recorded the collection requirements. of Rs.1,06,577 crore of which CGST is Rs.20,353 ➢ ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund launched ICICI Prudential Bharat crore, SGST is Rs.27,520 crore, IGST is Rs.50,418 crore (including Rs. Consumption Scheme to get advantage from the Indian consumption 23,521crore collected on imports) and Cess is Rs. 8,286 crore (including market, which is considered as one of the fastest growing consumption Rs. 891crore collected on imports). markets globally. Nifty India Consumption Index is the benchmark for ➢ The foreign partner of SBI Life Insurance, BNP Paribas Cardif has sold the Scheme. 5 crore shares of the company for Rs 2,889 crore to increase its public ➢ , a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, shareholding to 25% of its paid-up equity share capital on or before October and Roland-Garros tournament, also called 2, 2020. This sale has not undertaken as per the methods prescribed by the , announced a three-year strategic technology partnership SEBI for achieving the Minimum Public Shareholding (MPS) Threshold. to re-imagine the tennis experience for the fans and the players ➢ Bank has signed a pact with Bharti Axa Life Insurance globally. Company Ltd to distribute the latter’s life insurance products to provide ➢ A wholly owned Subsidiary of National Stock Exchange of India, insurance solutions to the customers of . NSEIT decided to acquire a global cyber security ➢ BSE (earlier called Bombay Stock company Aujas Networks for an undisclosed sum. Exchange) and INX (India International Exchange) are the first Indian ➢ Government outreached its disinvestment target of Rs 80,000 crore exchanges to sign MoU (Memorandum of for the current financial year (2018-19) by Rs 5,000 crore. The Understanding) with MOEX ( Exchange) in order to allow disinvestment target has been fixed at Rs 90,000 crore for the next capital formation platform and connect investor community and companies financial year (i.e. FY 2020). in both India and . ➢ The government has decided to infuse a capital of 5,042 crore ➢ Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has received the In-Flight rupees into state-owned Bank of Baroda ahead of its merger with two Connectivity license from the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) other public sector lenders Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank, with Bank of for enabling in-flight and maritime connectivity (IFMC) within Indian Baroda which would be effective from 1st April 2019. airspace. ➢ Interest Rates on small-saving schemes including Public Provident ➢ A new seller-funding programme named “Amazon Wings” has been Fund (PPF) and National Savings Certificate (NSC) have been launched by Amazon India in partnership with Mumbai based Ketto, a ______

7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 6 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | crowd-funding platform to help the small businesses and entrepreneurs wholesale cryptocurrency trading which allows its users to trade on a to raise funds through latter. large scale with low price fluctuations. ➢ Under “Category II Alternate Investment Fund” (AIF), for the first ➢ Public sector BEML (Bharat Earth Movers Limited), has signed a time SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) has approved an memorandum of understanding (MoU) for financing earth moving and “airport’ specific fund”. The name of the fund is “Taking Off To the construction equipment manufactured by BEML with . Future Airport Fund“. It can raise a capital amounting to 1.5$bn (Rs. ➢ Exporters’ body Federation of Indian Export Organisations 10,000 crore). (FIEO) has inked an agreement with Mumbai-based Prin. L N Welingkar ➢ The Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology Institute of Management Development and Research to support (IDRBT), an arm of Reserve Bank of India, has launched a 5G Use Cases startups engaged in the export sector. Lab for banking and financial sector. ➢ State-owned Allahabad Bank the government has increased its ➢ Tata Power and Limited (IGL) signed a authorised capital by Rs.5,000 crore to Rs.8,000 crore. memorandum of understanding to set up integrated customer ➢ India’s largest IT services company Tata Consultancy Services services and optimise value for customers. (TCS) has helped modernize a network of more than 1.5 lakh post ➢ Emirates Islamic has announced the launch of Chat Banking services for offices in the country, making this the largest distributed e-postal customers via WhatsApp, marking a global first in the Islamic banking network in the world. sector. It has become the World’s 1st bank in the Islamic banking sector to ➢ Wirecard, digital financial technology provider, announced an expanded give such facility. It was supported by Infobip. partnership with RBL Bank to promote financial inclusion in India. ➢ The government has retained the interest rate for General Provident ➢ In a bid to enable financial inclusion and ease of buying for the Indian Fund (GPF) and other related schemes at 8 per cent for the April-June masses, Aegon Life Insurance, pioneer of digital insurance in India quarter. and MobiKwik, India’s leading FinTech Company have joined hands to ➢ RBL Bank has partnered with credit profiler CreditVidya to improve launch a Rs.20 smart digital insurance product. the lender's customer experience. ➢ FSS has launched FSS Voice Commerce, a real-time voice banking ➢ Tata Consultancy Services has partnered with Google Cloud to build platform that offers customers, meaningful, contextual and personalized industry-specific cloud solutions. banking interactions. ➢ Microsoft India and Tata Trusts have signed an agreement to jointly ➢ According to ACI Worldwide, Canara Bank has successfully rolled out work for the development of handloom clusters in the Eastern and major new functionality to support EMV card acquiring across its ATM North-Eastern parts of the country in order to build a digitally inclusive network and Aadhaar Authentication. society. ➢ Emirates Islamic Bank has announced the launch of Chat Banking ➢ State-run companies will have 12 months to monetise non-core assets services for customers via WhatsApp, marking a global first in the Islamic identified by a ministerial panel headed by the finance minister, failing banking sector. which the finance ministry may restrict budgetary allocations to the ➢ The union Government has retained the interest rate to 8% for General CPSEs. Provident Fund (GPF), Contributory Provident Fund and other related ➢ Cholamandalam MS General Insurance Company Limited has been schemes for the first quarter of current financial year. certified with ISO 31000. ISO 31000:2018 is an international risk ➢ Google has partnered with bullion refiner to allow Google Pay users to buy management standard. and sell gold through the app named MMTC-PAMP India. ➢ SREI Equipment Finance (SEFL) has entered into an alliance with Bank ➢ The Goods and Services Tax (GST) collection scaled an all-time high of of Baroda to offer joint loans for infrastructure equipment under a co- over last month was 1.13 lakh crore rupees. lending arrangement. ➢ The National Association of Software and Services Companies ➢ announced it has teamed up with Bharti AXA (NASSCOM) has entered a strategic partnership with GE Healthcare. The General Insurance for a two-wheeler insurance product offering. objective is to bring digital healthcare solutions to the market. ➢ In ‘Profit Attribution to Permanent Establishment (PE) in India’ NASSCOM has announced this partnership through its Centre of report, the CBDT (Central Board of Direct Taxes) Committee stated that Excellence-Internet of Things (CoE-IoT). MNCs that are suffering global losses or a global profit margin of less ➢ Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) partnered with Google on the than 2% and have their operations in India will be considered to have occasion of World Telecom Day. The main objective is to expand BSNL Wifi made a profit of 2% of Indian revenue and will be taxed accordingly. footprint in the country. ➢ Life insurer’s premium income grew 11% in FY19 over 2018 and non- ➢ PayPal India launched its popular OneTouch experience in India using life insurance firms witnessed a 13% rise in their total premium income Google Smart Lock. The integration with Google Smart Lock will offer to Rs 1.70 lakh crore in the financial year ended March 2019. a hassle-free payment procedure as well as maintain security to ➢ Reliance retail has become the first Indian retail company to clock prevent fraud. more than Rs.1 lakh crore in annual revenues. ➢ and HDFC Life Insurance have tied up to offer life cover ➢ General Insurance, a subsidiary of Indiabulls Integrated for customers who get a prepaid recharge done. Services, said it has received preliminary approval from regulator IRDAI ➢ Paytm has tied up with Citi to launch a credit card, called the Paytm First to foray into non-life business. Card. The new Paytm credit card is touted to offer one percent "Universal ➢ Google and Apple have removed the Chinese internet firm Byte dance’s Unlimited Cashback" to customers along with no restrictions on earning social media app TikTok in India from the Play Store and App Store. categories. ➢ BSE, India’s largest stock exchange has entered a Memorandum of ➢ Paytm has launched a recurring payment (auto pay) service for Understanding (MoU) with Network Intelligence, a global cybersecurity merchants that are working on a digital subscription model. services provider & CERT-IN empanelled vendor to provide cybersecurity ➢ Public service broadcaster Doordarshan has launched a souvenir services to its members in line with the cybersecurity framework set store on online shopping website Amazon India. The idea is to establish by SEBI. an even stronger relationship with viewers. ➢ Shares of IndusInd Bank gained 2% after ET Now reported that the ➢ The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) granted approval for IndusInd (NABARD) announced an Rs. 700-crore venture capital fund for equity Bank and Bharat Financial Inclusion Ltd merger. investments in agriculture and rural-focused startups. ➢ Markets regulator SEBI has reduced the minimum subscription ➢ Housing finance major HDFC Limited has partnered with India Mortgage requirement as well as defined trading lots for Real Estate Investment Guarantee Corporation (IMGC) to offer a mortgage-guaranteed home loan Trusts (REITs) and Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs). REITs product. have to offer their units in lots worth at least Rs.50,000 in initial and ➢ ICICI Bank, announced the launch of a co-branded multi-currency card follow on public offers. The minimum value of a single lot should be Rs.1 with online travel booking portal Goibibo. lakh in the case of InvITs. Further, leverage limit for InvITs has been ➢ As a part of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), LIC Housing Finance increased to 70 per cent from current 49 per cent. Ltd (LIC HFL) in association with Lok Bharti Education Society has ➢ SEBI has reduced the minimum required level for clearing unveiled a skilling centre named “UDYAM” in , which will provide corporations operating in international financial services centre (IFSC). skill development training to marginalized youth in the sectors of They should have at least Rs 100 crore net worth from three years of BFSI, Retail and IT/ITES. commencing operations. This net worth requirement in the form of liquid ➢ Markets regulator the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) assets has been brought down from the earlier Rs 300 crore. has barred leading stock exchange NSE from accessing the securities ➢ Kotak Mahindra Bank has announced the launch of an industry-first debit market for a period of six months in the much-awaited order on the card-based authentication solution on NPCI’s e-Mandate API platform. co-location case. ➢ BuyUcoin, which is the second oldest Cryptocurrency Exchange in ➢ New York-based investment and financial services major Goldman India, has announced the launch of a new and unique platform for Sachs have pumped in $250 million to construct one of its largest global workspaces in Bengaluru. ______

7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 7 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | ➢ City-based Bandhan Bank plans to open 16 more in 2018-19 at 36.5% (USD 9.15 billion). It also showed FDI equity inflows branches by June following the approval received from the Reserve Bank into India declined 1% to $44.4 billion in the year to 31 March. of India in2018-19 to open 64 new branches. ➢ GST Council has decided to introduce a new GST return system to ➢ SREI Equipment Finance tied up with Oriental Bank of Commerce to facilitate taxpayers. There are three main components to the new return – offer loans for the purchase of equipment under a co-lending arrangement. one main return (FORM GST RET-1) and two annexures (FORM GST ANX-1 ➢ launched Trade A1 Engine in partnership with IBM and FORM GST ANX-2). Standard Chartered in partnership with IBM has launched the Trade A1 ➢ Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI) partnered with IDFC FIRST Engine which will automate the high-risk process of trade documentation. Bank to provide financing solutions for vehicles across the country. ➢ The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) approved the resolution ➢ Facebook plans to launch its cryptocurrency by the first quarter of plan of to acquire debt-ridden Bhushan Energy Ltd. for 2020. The company is expected to reveal more details about the currency about Rs. 800 crore on 30 May. before testing begins later in 2019. The currency, which is being referred to ➢ The National Small Industries Corporation Limited (NSIC) signed a internally as “GlobalCoin”. Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of Micro, Small ➢ Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Multilateral Investment and Medium Enterprises (MSME) for the year 2018-19. Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance arm of the World ➢ Huawei Technologies Co. overtook Apple Inc. to claim the No. 2 spot Bank Group, have agreed to expand Development Finance in Asia and Pacific in smartphones in the first quarter, moving a step closer to its avowed to increase the flow of private sector investment. ambition of displacing Samsung at the top of the market. ➢ Karur Vysya Bank Ltd (KVB) partnered with Centrum Wealth ➢ The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has launched the Action Plan for Management Ltd (Centrum) to form private limited Joint Venture UV to Healthy Oceans and Sustainable Blue Economies for the Asia and provide wealth management services to its clients. Pacific region at the 52nd Annual Meeting of ADB’s Board of Governors ➢ National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) data showed that India in Fiji. has 20.6 health workers per 10,000 people. This is less than the World ➢ With a view to facilitate fundraising by startups, the Department for Health Organization’s (WHO) minimum overreach of 22.8 per 10,000 Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade has proposed relaxing the people. income tax laws pertaining to sale of residential properties and carrying ➢ ICICI Bank launched a centre in Bengaluru to provide business forward of losses. The relaxation laws are part of the ‘ Vision solutions exclusively to start-ups and MSME sector. 2024’ that’s been prepared by the DPIIT. ➢ partnered with Suryoday Small Finance Bank for vehicle ➢ India's largest telecom operator Ltd announced a five- loans.The two partners have signed an initial agreement to enter a strategic year multi-million-dollar IT outsourcing deal with tech giant IBM. financing partnership for three years. The collaboration will contribute to Vodafone Idea’s merger synergy ➢ Bank of Baroda (BoB) has declared Dighi Port chairman and managing objectives by decreasing its IT related costs. director Vijay Goverdhandas Kalantri and his son Vishal Kalantri as wilful ➢ In a first in recent history of tax filings, income tax e-filings in FY2019 defaulters for owing close to Rs 3,334 crore to a consortium of 16 banks in have dropped by more than 6. 6 lakh, a trend that analysts said was the country that include BoB, while Bank of India is the lead lender. surprising as tax base was expected to increase post demonetisation. ➢ SEBI signed MoU with MCA to facilitate the sharing of data and ➢ The country's foreign exchange reserves soared by USD 4. 368 billion to information for regulatory purposes. USD 418. 515 billion in the week to April 26, helped by the second dollar- ➢ The V.O. Chidambaranar Port Trust, Tuticorin and Central rupee swap auction, RBI data showed. Warehousing Corporation (CWC) have signed an MoU for facilitating ➢ Standard Life has successfully divested 1. 78 per cent of its stake in Direct Port Entry (DPE) of e-sealed factory stuffed export container to the HDFC Life Insurance to raise Rs 1, 404 crore. port under ‘Ease of Doing Business’. ➢ Max Life Insurance Co Ltd has notified that it will commemorate the 6th ➢ Centre has reduced the employer’s and employee’s contribution under the day of each month as ‘Protection Day’. The objective of this initiative Employees’ State Insurance (ESI) Act. It will be effective from July 1. was to raise awareness on financial protection. The Ministry of Labour and Employment has reduced the total contribution ➢ The external debt of state-owned electricity distribution companies towards ESI from 6.5% of an employee’s wages to 4%. For the employer’s (discoms) is set to increase to pre-UDAY levels of Rs. 2. 6 lakh crore it reduced from 4.7% to 3.25% and the employee’s contribution lowered by the end of this fiscal, a note by credit ratings agency CRISIL. to 0.75% of wages from 1.75%. ➢ Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based HR solutions provider Talocity would ➢ Adani-led has got its approvals from the Queensland state provide Yes Bank its AI-supported "touchless" technology for the government, Australia for the Carmichael coal mine project in Australia. bank's hiring process and Human Resource (HR) operations, Talocity. ➢ Bank credit grew by 13. 2% in financial year 2018-19 as compared to LIST OF INDEXES BY VARIOUS ORGANISATIONS 10. 3% in the previous financial year, mainly aided by loans to services and NAME OF THE PREPARED / TOP THE INDIA’S retail sector. INDEXES RELEASED LIST RANKING ➢ Facebook has selected as the center to develop WhatsApp’s BY drive into the mobile payments industry. The messaging service will ramp Global Trust Index Edelman Trust China (In 2nd - Informed up hiring, taking on 100 new software engineers for its payment’s 2019 Barometer Both Public Category platform. Most of the hires will be based in London, with additional roles in (World Category) 3rd - General . Economic Population ➢ Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) has put Forum (WEF)) Category together a pilot scheme to extend financial assistance of up to Rs. 10 Ease of Doing ’s Andhra 1st crore to new-age fintech Non-Banking Finance Companies (NBFCs) Business (EDB) Asia Pradesh engaged in financing small businesses and other income-generating Index 2018 Competitivene activities. ss Institute’s ➢ IT services firm and French digital content publishing firm (ACI) Rakuten Aquafadas signed an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) to ‘Future of World USA 3rd collaborate on building enhanced customer experience offerings. Consumption in Economic ➢ Japanese technology giant Sony has revealed it will stop selling its Fast-Growth Forum smartphones in several countries including India. Consumer Market ➢ Yamaha Corporation of Japan opened its first factory in India for musical – India’ instruments with a view to make it an export hub. Global Talent INSEAD 80th ➢ Drug firm Merck Ltd has been renamed as Procter & Gamble Health Ltd. Competitive Index business ➢ Rating agency ICRA, downgraded the long-term ratings of IDFC First (GTCI) 2019 school Bank after the lender posted weak results. The rating agency has 2019 Data Privacy CISCO 6th in General downgraded the private sector lender’s non-convertible debentures worth Benchmark Study Data Protection over Rs.38,000 crore to AA stable from AA+ stable. 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7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 9 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | ➢ Think tanks and Civil Societies Programme by Lauder Institute declared digital trade sectors, according to a new report titled ‘India and ASEAN: Observer Research Foundation (ORF) as top think tank under Best Co-creating the Future’ by industry body FICCI and consulting major New Idea or Paradigm developed by Think tank category. KPMG. By 2021, global e-commerce sales are expected to reach 4.5 ➢ Singapore is once again the most liveable location for Asian expatriates, trillion dollars, up from 1.3 trillion dollars in 2014. The e-commerce market having claimed the top spot every year since ECA’s liveability rankings began in India is estimated to reach 5 billion dollars by 2025 while the ASEAN in 2005. Singapore is followed Australia’s Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide in is estimated to reach a volume of 90 billion dollars. the second position. ➢ India’s data consumption is expected to grow at a Compounded ➢ Stripe, a San Francisco-based online payment processing firm that Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of about 72.6 percent to 10,96,58,793 analyses Companies that released the survey for the 2019, which placed million MB by 2022, according to the ASSOCHAM-PwC study. India in the 11th position for its extensive growth and overseas ➢ Total liabilities of the government increased to 83.40 lakh crore at expansion. In the world doing business online, Singapore and Hong the end of the December 2018 quarter from Rs.82.03 lakh crore in the Kong made its lead to the top position. previous quarter of the current fiscal by Finance Ministry. ➢ Jio Saavn– an India-based global audio and music that it scored the 1st ➢ India’s most valued lender HDFC Bank Ltd crossed the Rs.6 trillion rank among Indian companies and 28th rank globally in the 2019 list of market capitalization for the first time, making it only the country’s third “50 Most Innovative Companies”. firm to achieve the milestone after Tata Consultancy Services and ➢ chairman Ambani and also richest person Reliance Industries. th in Asia, topped the Hurun India Philanthropy list with donation amount ➢ According to latest report by World Gold Council (WGC), India is 11 of 437 crores. largest gold reserve, with the current holding pegged at 607 tonnes. India ➢ Reliance Industries' 61-year-old Chairman Mukesh Ambani is the is, however, world’s largest consumer of gold. World Gold Council is the world's eighth-richest person with a net worth of $54 billion, as per market development organization for the gold industry. Hurun Global Rich List 2019. ➢ The interim outlook report by OECD predicts the growth rate of word economy would grow 3.3% for 2019 and 3.4% for 2020, which ➢ The unemployment rate in India rose to 7.2% in February 2019, the is 0.2% and 0.1% lesser respectively as compared to the November 2018 highest since September 2016, and up from 5.9% in February 2018, forecasts. according to data compiled by the Centre for Monitoring Indian ➢ As per Monster Salary Index (MSI) Survey, a high Gender Pay Gap Economy (CMIE). (GPG) is observed in India, as women earn 19% less than men, where ➢ According to the Delta ranking report released by NITI men earn Rs 242.49 and women earn Rs 196.3, that is Rs 46.19 lesser Aayog, Assam’s Hailakandi has become the top aspirational district than men. The gap in 2018 was 20% and has narrowed by among the 112 aspirational districts of the country. Hailakandi in Assam has only 1% in 2019. made a giant leap from 52nd position to no. 1 position on the basis of its ➢ According to a survey by Transparency International, Assam tops in performance during November-December 2018 and January 2019. the ranking of best practices followed by states in budget formulation. Assam ➢ According to the Forbes list of the ultrawealthy, Mukesh Ambani, was followed by and while , , chairman of Reliance Industries, secured 13th place. Jeff and Punjab were figured at lower positions. Bezos remains the world’s richest person with a wealth of $131 billion. ➢ Bernard Arnault, the chairman of Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE Secondly, Bill Gates ranks second with wealth worth $96.5 billion and (LVMH) has overtaken Warren Buffett, the chairman of Berkshire Warren Buffett in 3rd position. Hathaway to become the third-richest person of the world, on the ➢ As per the National Annual Rural Sanitation Survey (NARSS), Bloomberg Billionaires Index. 96.5% of the rural Indian households have access to toilets and they use ➢ India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) predicted that the dependence it. It also re-confirmed the Open Defecation Free (ODF) status of Scheduled commercial banks on bulk deposits shall witness an increase if of 90.7% of villages. 95.4% of the villages surveyed found to credit growth is higher than deposit growth. The system level credit have minimal litter and minimal stagnant water. growth of 12.9% year-on-year continues to be greater than 9.3% ➢ Gurugram in the National Capital Region (NCR) emerged as the deposit growth and thus banks are keen on harnessing more deposits. most polluted region in the world in 2018 as per 2018 World Air ➢ The internet user base in India has exceeded 500 million mark and Quality Report. Bangladesh became the most polluted country closely is likely to reach 627 million by end 2019, according to a newly released followed by and India while Iceland, Finland, Australia, and Kantar IMRB ICUBE report. Sweden were among the least polluted countries. ➢ Indian team captain and former captain Mahendra ➢ NITI Aayog’s list of aspirational districts for the period of December Singh Dhoni are among the 8 Indian cricketers in the 2019’s ESPN World 2018-January 2019 has been topped by 3 districts of Fame 100 list, an annual list of the most famous athletes on the planet. - Chatra, Sahibganj, and Hazaribagh. These districts are also Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo is at the top spot, followed by said to have performed well in ‘health and nutrition’ parameters. basketball player LeBron James and FC Barcelona captain Lionel Messi. ➢ According to a “Knight Frank Prime International Residential Index ➢ The United Nation Environment Program (UNEP) has released (PIRI 100)” Report, Mumbai, the capital of Maharashtra and the the sixth edition of the Global Environment Outlook financial capital of India, has become the 16th most expensive prime (2019) titled ‘Healthy Planet, Healthy People’. residential market in the world and is the only Indian city to feature in the ➢ Asia’s richest man and Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh global top 20 list of expensive prime residential markets recorded in The Ambani topped Forbes’ the World’s Richest Sports Team Owners Wealth Report 2019. 2019 list. With a total net worth of about $50 billion, Mukesh Ambani ➢ Reliance Industries Chairman, Mukesh Ambani, jumped six positions to topped the list. Ambani is followed by former CEO of Microsoft, Steve rank 13th on Forbes World’s Billionaires list with USD 50 Ballmer who is worth $41.2 billion and owns the NBA team Los Angeles billion wealth. The list was topped by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and family Clippers. with USD 131 billion wealth followed by Bill Gates (USD 96.5 ➢ As per European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) bn) and Warren Buffet (USD 82.5 bn). report, counterfeit and pirated goods amounted to 3.3% of global trade. ➢ Kylie Jenner was declared by Forbes magazine as the youngest ➢ According to the ratings firm ICRA, fresh NPAs in the banking sector in ever self-made billionaire. FY'20 are expected to 1.9 to 2.4%. ICRA expects gross NPAs of the banking ➢ According to the finance ministry report, the GST collection in the month sector to 8.3 lakh crore or 7.9 per cent for March 2020, as compared to of February stood at 97 thousand 247 crore rupees. However, the estimated 9.2 per cent as of March 2019. collection in previous month was over one lakh crore rupees. ➢ According to an EEPC India-Deloitte strategy paper, India can achieve ➢ The GVK-led Mumbai International Airport Limited has been a three-fold “aspirational” increase in its engineering export to reach awarded the Best Airport by Size and Region in over 40 million passenger USD 200 billion by 2025, if concerted efforts are made by categories by the Airport Council International (ACI) World. This was the government and Industry to develop a conducive ecosystem and in recognition of excellence in customer experience in the Asia-Pacific region. ensuring inputs at competitive prices. ➢ According to BCG-IBA Report on EASE (Enhanced Access and Service ➢ India registered the highest growth of 27% among countries in patent Excellence) Reforms index released by Union Minister of Finance & applications in 2018 with the World Intellectual Property Organization Corporate Affairs, Punjab National Bank (PNB) which is fraud hit bank, (WIPO). India filed 2013 international patent applications during the year. secured the top spot among all public sector banks in the implementation ➢ In accordance with the International Energy Agency (IEA) Global of ‘Reforms agenda’. PNB which topped the list with a score of 78.4 out of Energy & CO2 status report, India’s energy demand has surpassed the 100 in the EASE-index was followed by BoB (77.8), SBI (74.6) and global demand growth in 2018. India’s primary demand increased 4% in Oriental Bank of Commerce (69). 2018 in comparison to energy consumption worldwide grew by 2.3%. This accounts for 11 per cent of global demand growth. ➢ India and 10-member ASEAN are among the fastest growing economies in the world with even faster growth rates for e-commerce and

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7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 10 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | ➢ In accordance with the 2018 global Multidimensional Poverty Index ➢ The India’s pharmaceutical exports rose by 11 per cent to USD 19.2 (MPI), India’s poverty rate has shown a drastic decrease in 10 years, from billion in 2018-19, mainly driven by higher demand in regions such as 55% to 28%. The index has shown that, in the years between 2005-06 and Europe, as per a commerce ministry data. and 2015-16, 271 million people are moved out of . ➢ Global warming has caused the Indian economy to be 31 ➢ A recent report titled ‘Mind the Gap – the state of employment in percent smaller than it would otherwise have been, according to India’ by Oxfam India, an international non-profit organisation has found a Stanford study which shows how earth’s temperature changes have that the gender wage gap in India is highest among Asian nations, increased inequalities. women are paid 34 percent less compared to men for performing the same ➢ A panel named by India’s central bank to study its capital structure is job and with same qualifications, also the Women’s labour force likely to identify excess reserves of up to Rs. 3 lakh crore ($43 billion), or participation in India is the lowest in the world. 1.5 percent of gross domestic product, according to ➢ Dhanbad, the coal capital of India scored 95.3 percent and become Merrill Lynch. the number one city in terms of highest 4G availability in India by the ➢ The Reserve Bank of India is the first central bank in the Asia-Pacific report name ‘OpenSignal’s hottest city for 4G Availability’. region to begin an explicit interest rate easing cycle buoyed by benign food ➢ Current Account Deficit (CAD) of India has widened to 2.5% of inflation and easier global financial condition, Fitch Ratings said. Fitch has GDP in the 3rd quarter of the current fiscal year primarily on account of a also estimated India to grow at 6.8% in current fiscal and 7.1% in the higher trade deficit though the foreign exchange reserves which continued next year. to soar. ➢ According to Report, Reliance Jio has become the ➢ has been ranked at second place in India, in terms of child second-largest telecom company in the country. Jio overtaken Bharti Airtel marriages among girls between the age of 15 and 19 years, according to in terms of customer base and now trails only Vodafone Idea. a report released by the National Family Health Survey (NFHS), Young ➢ London emerged as the top choice for Indian investors ahead of other Lives – an international study on childhood poverty. The survey has been cities such as Dubai and Singapore, with investments by Indian companies coordinated by the team of University of Oxford. in the British capital reaching an all-time high last year, according to a new ➢ claimed that it has become first district in the world using analysis. The UK emerged as the topmost country to attract Indian FDI both 5G coverage and broadband gigabit network. with 52 projects, ahead of the US (51) and the UAE (32), in 2018. ➢ According to a recent Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) report ➢ Andhra Pradesh IT minister Nara Lokesh, BJP MP Poonam Mahajan and titled ‘Asian Development Outlook 2019: Strengthening Disaster Xiaomi India head Manu Kumar Jain are among the 6 Indians featuring in Resilience’, around 26 trillion dollars from 2016 to 2030, or 1.7 trillion the list of Young Global Leaders, according to the World Economic dollars investment needed per year to build disaster-resilient Forum (WEF). infrastructure in Asia. ➢ The “100 Most Influential People in Climate Policy” list is comprised ➢ India is likely to install 7 GW of wind capacity by 2022 against the 60- of seven Indian names including Union Ministers Piyush Goyal and Dr GW target set by the government, Fitch Solutions Macro Research has Harsh Vardhan, who took important measures to combat climate change. said in a report. The list is prepared by Apolitical, a peer to peer learning platform for ➢ National Ranking of Higher Institutes was released by the Ministry of governments. Human Resources Development in New Delhi. Indian Institute of ➢ The government's FAME-II plan for electric mobility stands to reduce Technology Madras topped the rankings while the Indian Institute of 64% of the anticipated road-based energy demand by 2030 and 37% of Science, Bangalore bagged the second rank followed by IIT Delhi. carbon emissions by then, according to CII. The tentative aim is to have ➢ India’s Asset Management Companies (AMCs) own assets under 30% electric vehicles by 2030. management (AUM) worth Rs.24.46 trillion, according to data released by ➢ The Geological Survey of India (GSI) in its report notified that the the Association of Mutual Funds in India (AMFI), a mutual fund industry highest graphite reserves of India, that is, around 35% of India’s total lobby, for the January-March period. Graphite reserves are found in . ➢ India's steel demand is likely to grow by over 7 percent in 2019 and ➢ According to the 8th edition of Global Drug Survey (GDS) 2019, 2020, driven by sectors like construction, capital goods and railways, as Indians are seeking help more than any other countries to reduce their per the Indian Steel Association. alcohol intake. ➢ India’s population grew at an average annual rate of 1.2 per cent ➢ A new report by industry body FICCI says that strong economic growth between 2010 and 2019 to 1.36 billion, more than double the annual coupled with rapid emergence of India on the global horizon is poised growth rate of China, according to a report by the United Nations to drive the growth of MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences and Population Fund. exhibitions) tourism at a much faster rate. In 2018, MICE ➢ The air quality in , is ranked third on the WHO’s list of 15 was pegged at Rs. 25, 000 crore with 8 per cent growth year-on-year, most polluted cities and the situation is “deteriorating” as its MP has said the report titled 'India Inbound Tourism: Unlocking the focused on beautification and infrastructure, a Delhi-based environment Opportunity'. body claimed. in is in 2nd position after Kanpur as per ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the second most followed politician the Air Quality in India 2014-2019' report. in the world on social media after former US President Barack Obama, ➢ As per the first edition of Forbes World’s Best Bank survey, HDFC according to a report. Bank has been recognized as number 1 bank by customers in ➢ The US government has released first of its kind “Global Health India. Forbes partnered with market research firm Statista to measure Security Strategy”. The objective is to prevent, detect and respond to the best banks in 23 countries. ICICI Bank took the second spot and DBS threats from infectious diseases occurring naturally or accidently. bank grabbed the third position, followed by Kotak Mahindra Bank ➢ India and China top a list of countries where illegal sand mining has and IDFC Bank which are at the fourth and fifth spot. become a major environmental problem, according to a report named ‘Sand ➢ The Hong Kong city’s equity market has overtaken Japan to be the and Sustainability: finding new solutions for environmental world’s third largest in value, behind only the U.S. and mainland China, Hong governance of global sand resources’ released by the United Nations Kong courtesy of a rebound in stocks after their worst year since 2011, Environment Programme (UNEP). according to data compiled by Bloomberg. ➢ Indian actress Dia Mirza and Alibaba chief Jack Ma are among the 17 ➢ World Health Organization (WHO) has raised alarm over a 300 percent global public figures appointed by UN Secretary-General Antonio increase in the case of measles globally in the first quarter of 2019 Guterres as the new advocates to drive action and solidify global political compared with last year. will for the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). ➢ The United Nations owes India USD 38 million, the highest it has to ➢ India had more deaths among children under five than any other pay to any country, for the peacekeeping operations as of March 2019, UN country in 2015, with large disparities in the child mortality rate between Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said as he voiced concern over richer and poorer states, a Lancet study has found. the world body's deteriorating financial health. ➢ On the Mint Globetrotter Index, the “others" category comprises seven ➢ The TIME magazine in its list of 100 most influential people of 2019 cities across Africa, West Asia and the Indian Ocean. Among the seven cities, has included two Indian women lawyers - Menaka Guruswamy (9th) and Victoria, the capital of Seychelles, is the most expensive with an index value Arundhati Katju (9th), who spearheaded the legal challenge to strike down of 192 and a rank of 28. Dubai is way costlier than Delhi and ranks 24 on Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. the overall cost index. ➢ According to Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) report, business sentiments on ➢ The Hurun Research Institute released the Hurun India Art List 2019, a the country’s financial and macroeconomic conditions continue to decline in ranking of the top 50 Indian artists alive, based on the sales of their the second quarter of 2019 as compared to the second quarter in 2018. D&B works at public auctions from April 2018 to March 2019. Composite Business Optimism Index conclude 78.4 scores during Q2 ➢ With investments estimated at about USD 2. 7 billion across sectors, the 2019 as compared to 85.0 during Q2 2018, a decline of 7.7%. has emerged as the third largest foreign direct investor in India during 2017-18. Mauritius and Singapore are the top two countries for FDI in India during 2017-18. ______

7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 11 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | ➢ SpiceJet became fourth Indian airline to have a 100 aircraft in its fleet. ➢ HDFC Mutual Fund has surpassed ICICI Prudential MF to regain top ➢ According to the Reserve Bank of India’s weekly statistical position after two years as the largest asset management company supplement, the overall forex reserves rose to $420. 055 billion from (AMC). $418. 687 billion. ➢ After acquiring majority stake in REC Ltd (formerly Rural Electrification ➢ Under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) higher than the Corporation Limited), centre backed Power Finance Corporation (PFC) recoveries made through other mechanisms, the recovery rate is twice has become the India’s second largest Govt-owned Financial Firm after the liquidation value of the all the 94 cases resolved in the year 2018- State Bank of India (SBI), based on market capitalization. PFC has bought 19. the 52.63% controlling stake in REC through Rs 14,500 crore deal with ➢ The Asia-Pacific region is expected to grow at 5. 7% in 2019. According Union government. to the bank’s Asian Development Outlook 2019 report released in April, ➢ The Indian economy has lost its spot as the world’s fastest-growing developing Asia which comprises 45 nations ranging from China to Tuvalu is economy to China. A Reuters survey of economists said that India projected to grow by 5. 7% in 2019. However, the growth outlook for registered 6.3% annual growth in the January-March quarter, its slowest developing Asia is expected to moderate to 5. 6 % in 2020. pace in six quarters. China recorded a growth of 6.4% in the March Quarter. ➢ India’s IT conglomerate Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has become ➢ Forbes magazine has named Rihanna as the world’s richest female most valued firm in India in terms of market capitalization (market-cap) musician. Her worth is estimated at $600m (£472m) which includes followed by RIL, HDFC Bank, and ITC. revenues made from her fashion and beauty lines in addition to those from ➢ According to the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation her music career. data, Retail inflation rose 2.92% marginally in April this year. ➢ The industry body Sa-Dhan reported that the Indian microfinance sector ➢ Dell emerged as the most trusted brand in India in 2019, according to is expected to register a more than 30% year-on-year growth to the report of TRA Report 2019. LIC and Amazon ranked on third and fourth Rs.90,000 crore in 2018-19. The total gross loan portfolio (GLP) for the spots. sector stood at Rs.68,789 crore in 2017-18. ➢ United Nations report said that India is set to overtake China as the most ➢ Private lender YES Bank Ltd has slipped three notches to 10th spot, in populous country by 2027. India will have almost 1.64 billion inhabitants terms of market valuation, for the first time, as its shares slumped over by 2050. South Asia’s opportunity to reap the demographic dividend will 30% in the last four sessions after the bank reported a surprise net loss in peak by 2047. its March quarter earnings. ➢ According to Forbes magazine’s 2019 list of billionaires, The Abu Dhabi- ➢ President Ramnath Kovind declared the 4th edition of National based Keralite tycoon (worth 4.7 billion dollars) has been ranked the Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF India Rankings 2019) in New richest expat in UAE. Delhi. ➢ Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC), India’s top oil and gas producer, has Here the List: toppled Indian Oil Corp (IOC) to regain the crown of being the country’s Categories Names of Institution most profitable public sector company. Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) Overall Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras reported a 34% jump in its 2018- 19 fiscal net profit to Rs.26,716 crore. University Indian Institute of Science (IIS) Bangalore ➢ Mumbai ranked first in the study, ‘Traffic Index-2018’, by location Law National Law School of India University, technology specialist TomTom, with a congestion level of 65 per cent New Bengaluru Delhi ranked fourth with a congestion of 58 per cent. Architecture Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) ➢ According to Forbes Report, Rapper Jay-Z hip-hop artist to become a Kharagpur billionaire. Medical All India Institute of Medical Sciences ➢ Google tech Behemoth invented three new features- bus travel times (AIIMS) New Delhi from live traffic in 10 of the largest cities in India. The travel plan of Indian Engineering Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras users is predicted by transit time while traveling on buses. College , Delhi ➢ Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Trends Report said that the global Management Indian Institute of Management Bangalore internet users have touched 3.8 billion which is more than half of the Pharmacy Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi world’s population. China was found to have the largest internet user base at 21%. The internet users in India are 12%, and the are 8%.

➢ India’s rank as a source country for FDI dropped one place to the 10th LIST OF VARIOUS COMMITTEE & ITS HEAD position as it was overtaken by Spain. Investment in India rose by 6% to COMMITTEE HEAD PURPOSE USD 42 billion. According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) World Investment Report 2019, India Maharashtra State Finance To suggest whether a uniform tax rate received foreign direct investments (FDI) worth USD 42 billion in 2018. Minister, Sudhir should be imposed on lotteries or the ➢ According to the Randstad Employer Brand Research (REBR) 2019 Mungantiwar current differential tax rate system be reported that Amazon India, the E-commerce giant, is the most attractive continued. employer brand in the country. IIT- Hyderabad chairman B V All India Council for Technical ➢ The Second Edition of the United States Green Building Council’s R Mohan Reddy Education (AICTE) to stop setting up (USGBC) list of India’s top 10 states is released. The states which have new engineering colleges from 2020 and maximum number of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) review the creation of new capacity certified green buildings are listed below. Maharashtra bagged the top slot every two years after that. with 334 LEED-certified green buildings. It is followed by Karnataka and M.P. Bezbarauah For implementation of Clause VI of Tamil Nadu with the rankings 232 and 157 buildings respectively. the Assam Accord ➢ According to the report, FDI inflows have increased by 3.5% to $54 Former SEBI chairman U K To suggest long-term solutions for billion. India attracted over 77% of the total foreign direct investments Sinha the economic and financial ultimately landed up to the South Asian region. sustainability of the MSME sector ➢ Ministry of Commerce reported that India’s trade deficit expanded Former SEBI chairman U K Constituted by the Insolvency and to a six-month high of $15.4 billion in May, with import growth Sinha Bankruptcy board of India (IBBI) to outpacing export growth following a 37% jump in gold imports. Exports grew study the concept of ‘Group 3.93% in the month of May, while imports rose 4.31%. Insolvency’ and suggest a suitable ➢ Microsoft has reached a valuation of one trillion dollars for the first framework time after posting an increase in profits. It makes the software giant only Dr. Sankar De In order to strengthen SEBI’s research the third publicly traded company in history to reach the threshold after function and enhance its linkage to Apple and Amazon passed it in 2018. policy making. ➢ US retail giant Amazon has moved past hi-tech titans Apple and Google Aadhaar architect Nandan To suggest measures to strengthen to become the world's most valuable brand. According to the 2019 BrandZ Nilekani the safety and security of digital Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands rankings, Amazon online retailer payments in the country set its brand value quintuple in the past five years to reach $315.5billion. Harsh Vardhan To review the existing state ➢ USD 1.7 trillion needed per year to build disaster-resilient infrastructure of mortgage securitisation in in Asia: ADB report India and suggest measures to deepen ➢ PSBloansin59minutes.com has become the largest fintech online it on Development of Housing Finance lending platform, as quoted by a report from . The portal was Securitisation Market launched in November 2018 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It T. N. Manoharan To suggest policy and regulatory provides loans amounting up to Rs 1 crore to micro, small and medium interventions required for the enterprises (MSMEs) in just 59 minutes. ______

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7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 14 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | 2. Microsoft India - Project ReWeave - A new e-commerce platform re- 32. ICICI Bank - Insta Auto Loan – It will provide existing customers final weave.in for handloom weavers. sanction letters instantly. 3. - Auto-Sweep facility - To auto sweep-in 33. State-owned telecom firm BSNL - 'Bharat Fibre' - First operator to start and sweep-out the idle funds in the current account to Sweep Fixed Deposit optical fibre-based high-speed broadband service in Pulwama. and earn high interest. 34. HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company - Mosquito Disease 4. SBI Card and Etihad Airways - To launch a travel specific Visa credit Protection Policy – It will cover an individual against common mosquito- card for members and Indian travellers. borne diseases like Dengue Fever. 5. Ujjivan Small Finance Bank - ‘Kisan Suvidha loan’ - For small and 35. HDFC Capital Advisors - HDFC Affordable Real Estate and marginal farmers (loans to individuals with an amount ranging from Rs. Technology Programme (HeART) – It will provide a platform to real 60000 to Rs. 2 Lakh to fulfil the customized needs of the mass market estate technology companies with innovative products. segment). 36. Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) - ‘Bank on Wheels’ – Mobile Van Facility 6. Fino Payments bank and Suryoday Small Finance Bank - Offer will enable the public, especially senior citizens, conveniently get door-step Sweep Account Facility. banking facility available at identified locations of the lead districts. 7. HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company - Trip Protector 37. Microsoft - Azure Blockchain Service – It would simplify the insurance policy, a pioneering policy – It will safeguard travellers formation, management and governance so that businesses can focus on financially against the cost of cancellation levied by Hotels or Airlines. workflow logic and application development. 8. Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) - “Micro Bachat” - Available for 38. BharatPe - UPI Bahi Khata - India’s first Fintech (Financial standard healthy lives only in the age group of 18-55 years without technology) start-up enabling payments via interoperable UPI (Unified undergoing any medical examination coverage up to Rs 2 lakh. Payments Interface) QR (Quick Response) codes. 9. World Bank, UN Women, and Small Industries Development Bank 39. - BSE StAR MF - To enable more of India (SIDBI) - A new social impact bonds exclusively for women, called participation and help mutual fund distributors process transactions faster. Women’s Livelihood Bonds (WLBs), with an initial corpus of Rs.300 40. Corporation Bank - Corp SME Suvidha – It has been designed as part crore. of the bank’s efforts to provide the best products to the MSME sector. 10. ICICI Lombard - AnyTimeLoan.in (ATL) - To provide insurance 41. Karnataka Bank - KBL SB Salary (SB Salary Executive, SB Salary cover for its lenders and borrowers. Prime, and SB Salary Classic) - To cater the financial needs of the ‘employer- 11. State Bank of India (74% stake) and Hitachi Payment Services Pvt employee ecosystem’. With do not have the minimum balance criteria. Ltd (26%) - SBI Payment Services Pvt Ltd (SBIPSPL), in Mumbai - For 42. L&T Finance - Sabse Khaas Loan - For two-wheeler customers. establishing a digital payments platform for India and other countries in 43. Max Life Insurance Company - ‘My Protection Quotient’ (MyPQ) - the region. To ensuring financial protection in the country. 12. Development Credit Bank (DCB) Bank - Open Banking Platform - 44. FundzBazar - Selfie Wala KYC - It is applicable for the first-time Towards creating a collaborative mutual fund investors. ecosystem with enterprises, fintech’s and app developers, and 45. Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Aix-Marseille enhancing customer-service . University researchers at ISM – AntBot - First walking robot (2.3kg 13. IFFCO Tokio General Insurance - ‘Bank Locker Protector Policy’ - weight) to have navigational capabilities without GPS or mapping. To protect the contents of a bank locker such as jewellery, title documents, 46. Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry - mobile app Mashoka5 - for and other valuables. booking of Bungalow number -5, Ashoka Road in New Delhi. 14. Under World Bank funded project named Agri-business and Rural 47. AYUSH Ministry - e-AUSHADHI portal - for online licensing of Transformation (APART) - Rice Knowledge Bank (Assam) - To magnify Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Homoeopathy drugs and related matters at knowledge on rice production technologies and techniques, best production New Delhi. practices and state agriculture facts. 48. Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation Ministry – Swayatt - To 15. Google India – Bolo - Focuses on improving the reading and promote MSMEs, women and young entrepreneurs through e- comprehension skills of students, especially the ones in rural areas. transactions on the Government e-Marketplace (GeM). 16. Google India - Ok Google - Ability to unlock your phone with Voice 49. Law minister Shankar Prasad - Bandhu - A tele-law Match. mobile application that is integrated with a dashboard and an application. 17. Bank of Baroda - First public sector banks to launch a Crèche/child 50. Union Minister Piyush Goyal - Rail Drishti Dashboard - An online day-care facility for children of its employees at Mumbai. portal containing information related to passenger and freight trains and 18. State Bank of India - Doorstep Banking Service - For senior links to live feeds of IRCTC kitchens. citizens over 70 years of age and differently-abled customers. Cost for 51. Union minister Prakash Javadekar - SHREYAS (‘Scheme for Higher availing these services would be Rs.100 for each financial Education Youth in Apprenticeship and Skills’) - For providing industry transaction and Rs.60 for each non-financial transaction. apprenticeship opportunities to fresh graduates through the National 19. Aviva Life Insurance – WINGS - To empower women workforce. Apprenticeship Promotional Scheme (NAPS) in New Delhi. 20. State Bank of India (SBI) - YONO Cash (You Only Need One) - 52. Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar - Operation Digital Board - Customers can withdraw money from ATMs without using a card. To leverage technology in order to boost quality education in the country. 21. Xiaomi - Mi Pay - A UPI (Unified Payments Interface) Based mobile 53. Union Minister Piyush Goyal - ‘Online Platform for Display and Booking’ payment service in India to send money from one bank account to another. - Vacant Berths after chart preparation in www.irctc.co.in. 22. Intain Fintech – eMulya – It will facilitate secure, efficient and 54. Indian Space Research Organisation - Yuva VIgyani Karyakram/ trustworthy asset securitization transactions for Non-Banking Financial Catch them young/Yuvika 2019 - A “Young Scientist Programme” for the Companies (NBFCs) in India. School Children to be studying in the ninth standard. 23. Google – Stadia - Unveiled a video-game streaming platform. 55. Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) in collaboration with BEL 24. Google – Anthos - Lets users run applications from anywhere. and Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) with the 25. - campaign #BijliOnEMI - wherein customers buying support of Rail Corporation (DMRC), National Payment air-conditioners on EMI can avail an Insta Credit loan in their Bajaj Finserv Corporation of India (NPCI) and State Bank of India (SBI) - SWAGAT - the Wallet which they can use to pay their electricity bills on EMI. Automatic Fare Collection Gating System – It is compliant with the 26. Bharti Airtel and the FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) - My Circle National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) ecosystem for hassle-free - Aimed at aiding women in event of distress or an emergency situation, by commute across India. sending an SOS alert. 56. Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Puri - e-Dharti app - 27. IDBI Bank - NRI-Insta-Online - Account-opening process for NRIs All the three modules - Conversion, Substitution and Mutation related to residing in Financial Action Task Force (FATF) member countries. properties have been made online. 28. Bajaj Allianz General Insurance and Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance - 57. Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) – A document named UNNATEE Launched their first product 'Total Health Secure Goal' – It is designed (Unlocking NATional Energy Efficiency potential) - Aims at improving to take care of customers' health and life goals, through one comprehensive the energy efficiency in India. insurance policy. 58. Election Commission - ‘Observer App’ - Through which the Electoral 29. SBI General Insurance - CyRUSS (Cyber Risk Underwriting and Observers can submit the relevant document and material to Election Solution Suite) - To protect businesses from financial and reputational losses Commission directly. due to cyber-attacks. 59. Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) - ‘Shiksha Vani’ - 30. State Bank of India - Country’s first ‘Green Car Loan’ (Electric To publicize crucial information to students and parents in a timely manner. Vehicle) - To encourage customers to buy electric vehicles. 60. Election Commission of India - “Voter Turnout” - For the voters 31. Canara Bank and its life insurance partner Canara HSBC Oriental across the country to see the real time availability of voter turnout during Bank of Commerce Life Insurance - ’Webassurance’ – It will be able to the election season in the country. service the protection needs of its younger and net-savvy customers. ______

7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 15 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | 61. Department of Biotechnology (DBT) - ‘MANAV: Human Atlas ➢ The Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Prakash Initiative’ - A project for mapping every tissue of the human body to help Javadekar has announced to increase 5000 seats in Jawahar Navodaya better understand the roles of tissues and cells linked to various diseases. It Vidyalaya (JNV) for the Academic Year 2019-20. is a collaborated project between Indian Institute of Science, Education ➢ According to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman and Research (IISER) Pune, Persistent Systems and the National Dr K Sivan statement, the Union Government has allocated 10,900 crore Centre for Cell Science (NCCS). rupees for the development of 40 satellite launch vehicles in the next four 62. AYUSH Ministry - ‘Yoga Locator’ - To enable people to locate yoga years. events and centres providing training and instructors. ➢ The Lok Sabha passed “The DNA Technology (Use and Application) 63. L&T Financial Services (LTFS) - “Digital Sakhi” - An educational Regulation Bill, 2019” by voice vote after a brief discussion. programme aimed at digital financial inclusion of rural women, was launched ➢ The Ministry of Women and Child Development, Government of India, in 20 villages of Villupuram district in Tamil Nadu. has launched an online campaign, ‘#www: Web- Wonder Women’ to 64. Central Government - Veer Parivar App - To assist to the families of recognize the exceptional women who have been driving positive agenda of the martyred CRPF personnel with regard to issuance of ex gratia, social change via social media. The partners of the campaign pensionary benefits. are: Breakthrough and Twitter India. 65. Government of India – eCollabDDS - To provide a real time ➢ Union Cabinet has approved Scheduled Tribe (ST) status to six collaborative environment to visualize medical and dental images (digitized communities of Assam. X-Ray images or DICOM data) for Patient diagnosis and treatment planning ➢ The food businesses need to comply with new packaging regulations from remote locations. that bar use of recycled plastics and newspapers to wrap food articles by 1st 66. Ministry of HRD and National Council of Educational Research and July 2019. Training - e-Pathshala - It provides access to digital textbooks for all ➢ According to the Ministry of Civil Aviation, islands in Andaman will classes, graded learning materials. soon be connected by seaplanes that can land on or take-off from the 67. NIC, Government of India - Bhu-Naksha - To facilitate the water. Under the Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik (UDAN) scheme the management of digitized cadastral maps. government has approved flight operations on13 water aerodrome routes in 68. Ministry of Human Resource Development – ShaGun - To capture order to facilitate it. and showcase innovations and progress in Elementary Education sector of ➢ Delhi Metro became the first ever project in the country to receive power India by continuous monitoring of the flagship scheme - Sarva Shiksha generated from a waste-to-energy plant. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Abhiyan (SSA). (DMRC) receiving 2 MW power from a 12 MW capacity waste-to-energy plant set up in Ghazipur. NATIONAL NEWS ➢ IRSDC entered into a tripartite agreement with SNCF and AFD. The ➢ The Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs headed by Minister of State agreement provides in-kind grant financing up to EUR 7,00,000, through Hardeep S. Puri, extended the Credit-Linked Subsidy Scheme SNCF-hubs and connexions. (CLSS) for Middle Income Group (MIG) Scheme by another 12 months till ➢ After nearly 16 years of exploring the cosmos in infrared light, NASA’s March 31, 2020. Spitzer Space Telescope will be switched off permanently on Jan. 30, ➢ The Ministry of Textiles, Government of India had launched a Yarn Bank 2020. Scheme. Under the scheme, an interest-free corpus funds up to ➢ Tech Mahindra announced its biggest defence order worth over Rs 300 Rs.2.00 crore would be provided to the Special Purpose Vehicle crore with the Indian Navy. As part of the ‘Armed Forces Secure Access (SPV)/Consortium formed by power loom waivers. Card’ (AFSAC) Project, Tech Mahindra will implement RFID (Radio ➢ According to the provisional figures of Direct Tax collections 2018, the Frequency Identification) based Access Control System across all naval gross collections are at Rs.8.74 lakh crore. bases and ships. ➢ Exports of jute diversified products have risen since 2014 by 24%. ➢ Directorate General of Training (DGT) joined hands with IT networking ➢ The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) loan subsidy for middle- major Cisco and global consulting firm Accenture to skill youngsters for the income group has been extended till 31st March 2020. digital economy. ➢ India DST Department of Science and Technology along with ➢ Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has cleared the proposal to Doordarshan has launched the two-science communication initiative ‘DD purchase 10 lakh hand grenades for Indian Army under ‘’ Science’ and ‘India Science’. programme. ➢ Giriraj Singh, Minister of Micro, Small and Medium ➢ Indian low-cost carrier SpiceJet received “The International Air Enterprises (MSME) informed the parliament that the MSME ministry has Transport Association (IATA) Membership” becoming the first among established an Export Promotion Cell with an aim to create a the Indian low-cost carriers. SpiceJet is the fifth member of IATA from sustainable ecosystem for entire MSME development. India. ➢ The government gave out the 6-crore free cooking gas (LPG) connection ➢ Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy has announcement to ban the as the scheme to make available cleaner fuel in every household kitchen production, sale and use of single-use plastic products in the st under the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY). from 1 March,2019. ➢ The North Central Railway (NCR) has launched a mobile application ➢ IRCTC- Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation, the named Rail Kumbh Seva Mobile App to help people navigate through Railways’ subsidiary, will offer insurance of up to INR 50 lakh for Prayagraj city during Kumbh Mela. free for air passengers who book their tickets through its portal. IRCTC ➢ The Ministry of Road Transport & Highways has launched a portal has tied up with Bharti-Axa for the offer. IRCTC has tied up named Bhoomi Rashi to fully digitize and automate the entire process of with Galileo, a computer reservation system, for powering the flight land acquisition. search engine. ➢ The Centre has released around Rs 185 crore since financial year 2015- ➢ The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) and the Central Public Works 2016 to bridge the gap between literacy levels of tribal girls and the Department (CPWD) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on general female population. cooperation in building energy efficiency for five years. ➢ The Indian Parliament passed the National Council for Teacher ➢ The Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Dr. Harsh Education (Amendment) Bill, 2018, following the approval of the Rajya Vardhan launched National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) in New Sabha. The Bill seeks to amend the National Council for Teacher Education Delhi. (NCTE) Act, 1993. ➢ Ravi Shankar Inaugurates NIC Command & Control Centre at National ➢ Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister, Hardeep Singh Puri, launched Informatics Centre (NIC), New Delhi the ‘Swachh Survekshan 2019’, the fourth edition of the annual ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi released a commemorative coin of Rs. 350 nationwide cleanliness survey of urban India in New Delhi. in the national capital to mark the birth anniversary celebrations of Guru ➢ The Minister of State for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Shri Parshottam Gobind Singh Jee. Rupala informed that the Government had launched a Global ➢ The United States Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Environment Facility (GEF) assisted project namely, “Green – Ag: Centre (GIPC) launched an innovation initiative at the Raisina Dialogue in Transforming Indian Agriculture for global environment benefits and New Delhi. The initiative, titled “Fair Value for Innovation”, will examine the conservation of critical biodiversity and forest landscapes” in economic underpinnings. collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) during ➢ The President of India, Shri. Ram Nath Kovind gave his assent to September, 2018. The project was launched in high-conservation-value the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education rd landscapes of five States namely (i) : Chambal Landscape, (Amendment) Act, 2019.It was passed by the Parliament on 3 January, (ii) : Dampa Landscape, (iii) Odisha: Similipal Landscape, (iv) 2019. Rajasthan: Desert National Park Landscape and v) Uttarakhand: Corbett- ➢ Nashik in Maharashtra will be the site of the country’s second defence Rajaji Landscape. innovation hub after in Tamil Nadu.

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7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 16 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | ➢ , the Union Home Minister has approved the report of Task ➢ Under the Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-Dhan scheme, workers of Force created by Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to identify areas for use the unorganized sector will receive a minimum assured pension of three of Space Technology in improving Border Management. thousand rupees per month after attaining the age of 60 years. ➢ ‘Saksham 2019’, an annual high intensity one-month long people-centric ➢ Minister of Railways and Coal, Shri Piyush Goyal launched the mega campaign of Petroleum Conservation Research International Energy Agency’s (IEA) “The Future of Rail” report which Association (PCRA) was launched by the Ministry of Petroleum and analyses the current and future importance of rail around the world in New Natural Gas. Delhi. ➢ Two Commemorative coins in the denomination of Rs 100 and Rs ➢ Women entrepreneurs have set up around 1.38 lakhs MSME (Micro, 5 were released to mark the 102nd Birth Anniversary of late Tamil Nadu small and Medium Enterprises) projects under Prime Minister’s Chief Minister M.G. Ramachandran. Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) scheme since inception. ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a ‘Pravasi Teerth Darshan ➢ The Union Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA) launched Yojana’ under which a group of Indian diasporas will be taken on a the Shehri Samridhi Utsav, an initiative that aims to extend the outreach government sponsored tour of religious places in India twice a year. of Deendayal Antyodaya Mission – National Urban Livelihoods ➢ Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba commissioned the new Naval Air Mission (DAY-NULM) to the most vulnerable. Base ‘INS Kohassa’ at Diglipur in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. ➢ The “Darwaza Band- Part 2” campaign was launched by Swachh ➢ The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Bharat Mission Grameen focuses on sustaining the open defecation free Modi approved the creation of the National Bench of the Goods and status of villages across the country. The campaign launched by the Services Tax Appellate Tribunal (GSTAT) to ensure better resolution of Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation in Mumbai in the presence GST-related disputes. The National Bench would be set up in New Delhi. of actor . ➢ Nitin Gadkari, Minister for Road Transport & Highways, Shipping and ➢ The Union Government has increased the Minimum Support Price (MSP) Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation laid foundation of sugar for the year 2018-19 from Rs. 29 to Rs. 31 per Kilogram. stone for six Namami Ganga project in Agra and Mathura. ➢ PM Narendra Modi flagged off the World’s First Electric Engine ➢ India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C44) has successfully converted from diesel locomotive at the Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW) injected Microsat-R (Imaging Satellite) and Kalamsat-V2 satellites into in Varanasi. their designated orbits. ➢ A Pre-Departure Orientation Training (PDOT) programme under ➢ Cabinet has approved the landmark amendment to Article 280 of the Pravasi Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PKVY) has been launched by Government Constitution to increase powers of Autonomous Councils in Sixth Schedule to orient potential migrant workers with regard to culture. It has been areas of North East. administered by the Ministry of External Affairs in alliance with the ➢ The Supreme Court said it will be taking an “in-chamber” decision on Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE). the listing of petitions challenging the constitutional validity of Article ➢ Indian Coast Guard and the Airport Authority of India signed a 35-A, which provides special rights and privileges to permanent residents Memorandum of Understanding at Coast Guard Regional Headquarters in of Jammu and Kashmir. Port Blair for coordination in the aeronautical and maritime search and ➢ Bharat Fritz Werner Ltd (BFW), a Bengaluru-based machining solution rescue operations. provider, has partnered with Universal Robots, a Danish robot maker and ➢ The state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) stated that it a leader in collaborative robots, to co-create robots for MSME sector. has unveiled a Human Space Flight Centre at the ISRO headquarters in ➢ Government approved Setting up of Three Naval air Squadrons in Bengaluru. The ISRO aims to send humans to space by December 2021 Gujarat and Tamil Nadu. This Decision is taken to enrich the Indian Navy’s through its Gaganyaan mission. Overall Strength. ➢ World’s largest cashless health insurance scheme “the Pradhan Mantri ➢ Veer Savarkar International Airport in Port Blair has been declared Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY)”, popularly known as the Ayushman Bharat as an authorized Immigration Check post for entry into/exit from India launched PM-JAY app on Google play store to access scheme details in New with valid travel documents for all classes of passengers. Delhi. ➢ The Indian Navy inducted two Fast Interceptor Craft ➢ Delhi Government launched ‘Zero Fatality Corridor’ project under its (FIC) at Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu, to boost coastal security. The annual road safety action plan to reduce the number of road accidents on vessels were acquired for Sagar Prahari Bal, a unit of the Navy. the outer ring road stretch between Burari and Bhalaswa Chowk. ➢ Airports Authority of India (AAI) has imposed a ban on single-use ➢ President Ram Nath Kovind unveiled the life size portrait of former Prime plastic items at its 129 airports across the country. Minister at the Central Hall of Parliament. ➢ The Union Cabinet has approved 10% reservation in direct recruitments ➢ The International Labour Organization (ILO) centenary and for admission in higher educational institutions for the economically celebrations have been inaugurated by the Union Minister of Labour and backward section in the general category, under Constitution (One Employment, Santosh Kumar Gangwar at V.V. Giri National Labour Hundred and Twenty-Fourth Amendment) Bill 2019. Articles 15 and Institute in , . 16 of the Constitution will have to be amended. ➢ Surging Silk, Mega Event by Ministry of Textiles and Central Silk Board ➢ The Ministry of information and broadcasting has announced a 25% was held in New Delhi. The event was organized with a motive to highlight hike in existing advertisement rates for print media with immediate effect. the growth of silk industry in India. ➢ An agreement for Renukaji Dam Multipurpose Project has signed ➢ became the first state in the Northeast and second in the among the six states, namely Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, , country after Himachal Pradesh to launch a pan-India single-number Delhi, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand. emergency mobile application which will have a special women safety feature ➢ The Union government will set up 460 ‘Eklavya Model Residential for immediate assistance from police and volunteers. Persons in distress can Schools’ across the country. It would spend about Rs.25,000 crore dial a pan-India number: 112. towards the initiative of these schools. ➢ The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister ➢ Ministry of Defence has launched a mobile app ‘RDP India 2019’ with Narendra Modi, has approved the launch of Kisan Urja Suraksha evam the intent of making available the highlights of the event in Utthaan Mahabhiyan (KUSUM) with a central aid of Rs.34,422 crore to New Delhi. provide financial and water security to farmers. The scheme aims to ➢ The HRD Ministry has signed an agreement with Organization for provide water security to farmers through harnessing solar energy capacities Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for India’s of 25.75 gigawatt (GW) by 2022. Participation in Programme for International Student Assessment ➢ The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) (PISA) 2021. signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of ➢ Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) renamed as British Columbia (UBC), Canada for next 10 years to explore opportunities Department of promotion of Industry and Internal Trade. The newly for collaborations in the field of Forestry Science. named department is under Ministry of Commerce and Industry. ➢ Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a new park which houses ➢ Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi dedicated the National Salt the replicas of Seven Wonders of the World at Sarai Kale Khan. The park, Satyagraha Memorial at Dandi in Navsari district, Gujarat to the nation on which is called the 'Waste to Wonder Park', was built by the Mahatma Gandhi’s death anniversary. Municipal Corporation (SDMC). ➢ The Government reduced the import duty on parts and components of ➢ “VIVID-Vision Insight and Voices as India goes Digital”- the electric vehicles to 10-15 percent from 15-30 per cent in order to District Informatics Officer (DIO) meet, was organised by National promote domestic assembling of electric vehicles. Informatics Centre (NIC). It also released the Compendium ➢ The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the and launched Digidhan Mitra Chatbot and Technology incubation and Credit Linked Capital Subsidy and Technology Up-gradation Scheme (CLCS- development of entrepreneurs (TIDE 2.0) scheme. TUS) with a total outlay of Rs. 2900 crore. ➢ PM Narendra Modi dedicated a new National War Memorial, situated ➢ Scientists have developed an artificial pancreas smartphone iAPS app that in the complex in New Delhi, to the nation. will help in regulating blood sugar levels in diabetes patients. ______

7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 17 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | ➢ Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Ashwini Kumar Choubey Diwane’ museum at , New Delhi which is created by in the presence of Amitabh Bachchan, the goodwill ambassador for Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). hepatitis, WHO South-East Asia Region, launched the “National Action ➢ NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) and Adobe had signed Plan – Viral Hepatitis” in Mumbai. a Statement of Intent (SOI) to collectively drive the charter of developing ➢ The 3rd edition of the 3-day festival “Words in the Garden” based on creative skills and spreading digital literacy across all Atal Tinkering Labs the life and ideology of Mahatma Gandhi was held at India International (ATL) in India. Centre (IIC), New Delhi. ➢ “Van Dhan”, a scheme for Minimum Support Price (MSP) for Minor ➢ The 6-day long music and dance festival ‘Sopan 2019’ to encourage Forest Produce (MFP) and Development of Value Chain of MFPs was young artists to take up traditional art took place in New Delhi. It was launched by TRIFED (Tribal Cooperative Marketing Development organised by Sahitya Kala Parishad and the New Delhi government, in Federation of India) under Ministry of Tribal Affairs at a National partnership with New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC). Workshop in New Delhi. ➢ Union Minister KJ Alphons has said that the country's tourism sector ➢ A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between fetched 234 billion US Dollar revenue last year, registering a growth of over the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) and Council of 19%. He made the announcement at the 2nd ASEAN-India Youth Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in order to collaborate in the Summit in Guwahati. The country is ranked third in the tourism sector, area of food and agriculture, at ICAR Headquarters, Krishi Bhawan, New according to the 2018 report of the World Travel and Tourism Council Delhi. (WTTC). ➢ Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities ➢ has created history under ‘Make in India’ initiative, by (DEPwD), Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has organized a converting a diesel locomotive into electric locomotive for the first time in national conference on “Deendayal Disabled Rehabilitation Scheme” at the world. Dr. Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi. ➢ Around 35 thousand farmers in the country received payments of three ➢ Government has decided to extend the ban on the Students Islamic hundred crore rupees through e-payment facility of e-NAM platform. Movement of India (SIMI) which involved in various terror acts in the ➢ The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved country for a period of 5 years. Broadcasting Infrastructure and Network Development scheme of ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared ‘April 2019–March 2020’ as Prasar Bharti. Construction-Technology year and the use of advanced technology to ➢ According to Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma, Taj Mahal has revealed the meet the increasing demand of housing in the country caused by rapid top revenue-generating monuments in the country between 2015 and 2018. urbanization got stressed. ➢ The Union Cabinet has approved the proposal for Extension of tenure ➢ President Ram Nath Kovind has given his approval for an Ordinance which beyond 31st of March 2019 for three years of National Commission allows voluntary use of Aadhaar as ID proof for opening bank accounts for Safai Karmacharis (NCSK). and obtaining mobile SIM. ➢ The Union Home Ministry banned the J&K outfit Tehreek-ul Mujahideen ➢ In order to identify seismically hazardous zones and encourage mapping (TuM) under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). activities, the Geological Survey of India (GSI) launched 22 permanent ➢ Jual Oram has launched ‘Minimum Support Price’ (MSP) for Minor Forest Global Positioning System (GPS) stations across India, which is a part Produce and Value Addition Component of Van Dhan Scheme in New of its objective to establish and maintain a network of continuously Delhi. operating 35 permanent GPS stations in a phased manner. It has been ➢ Rail Minister announces a new Zone of Indian Railways named South set up and remaining 13 will be operational by March 2020. Coast Railway (SCoR) which consists of the Hyderabad, Secunderabad and ➢ A commute-planning app “ONE Delhi” was launched by Kailash Gahlot, Nanded divisions. Transport Minister of Delhi to allow users to plan their travel efficiently ➢ Edition of Indian Sign Language (ISL) Dictionary was launched by across government transport facilities. “One Delhi” is an upgraded version Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment, Thaawarchand Gehlot in New of PoochhO, which was launched in 2014.It was developed by Delhi Delhi. The Dictionary was developed by Indian Sign Language Research Integrated Multi-Modal Transit System (DIMTS). and Training Centre (ISLRTC) and it included 6 thousand words under ➢ The Union Cabinet has approved the proposal for setting up of a Centre different categories such as legal, academic, technical, medical and everyday for Disability Sports at Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh, to be registered under terms. the Societies Registration Act, 1860. ➢ India’s food processing ministry is working on a new scheme “Gram ➢ As part of GHTC-India, an Expo-cum-Conference named Construction Samridhi Yojana”, to bolster the unorganised food processing Technology India - 2019 (CTI-2019) was organized at Vigyan Bhawan, sector concentrated in rural areas. The scheme will be run in Uttar New Delhi. It was inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi. Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Punjab for a 5-year ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi was inaugurated the Phase-1 of the 6.5 period in the initial phase and thereafter in other states of the country. km long Ahmedabad Metro train. The 6.5 km long stretch that connects World Bank will be giving Rs.1,500 crore, Rs.1,000 crore will be borne by Vastral Gam to Apparel Park, will also include other two stations- Nirant the Centre while state governments will put in Rs.500 crore. Crossroads and Rabari Colony. ➢ Union Minister of Textiles, Smriti Zubin Irani, launched ➢ The second line of Mumbai monorail from Wadala to Gadge Maharaj a comprehensive scheme for Development of Knitting and Knitwear Chowk (Mahalaxmi) was opened to commuters by the Metropolitan Region Sector under PowerTex India in New Delhi. Apart from financial incentives, Development Authority (MMRDA). the two key elements are Yarn Bank Scheme - provide an interest-free ➢ The Centre has banned the Jamat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir corpus fund of a maximum of up to Rs.2 crore per yarn bank to a Special (JIJK) for five years under anti-terror law on grounds (Unlawful Activities Purpose Vehicle (SPV) and financial assistance for the solar energy (Prevention) Act, 1967). scheme. The Scheme with an outlay of Rs. 487.07 crores. ➢ The foundation stone for the ‘National Institute of Mental Health ➢ The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs chaired by Prime Rehabilitation’ (NIMHR), the first-of-its-kind institute in India, was Minister Narendra Modi has approved the “Pradhan Mantri JI-VAN (Jaiv laid down by Shakuntala D. Gamlin, Secretary, Department of Indhan- Vatavaran Anukool fasal awashesh Nivaran) Yojana” for Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD), Ministry of Social Justice providing financial support to Integrated Bioethanol Projects using and Empowerment at Sherpur Village along Bhopal-Sehore highway, lignocellulosic biomass and other renewable feedstock. The JI-VAN Yojana District Sehore, Madhya Pradesh. The Central Government approved will be supported with total financial outlay of Rs 1969.50 crore for the an outlay of Rs 180 crore for the project for an initial period of three years. period from 2018-19 to 2023-24. ➢ The Women and Child Development Ministry and the Skill ➢ Union Minister for Science & Technology, Earth Sciences and Environment, Development and Entrepreneurship Ministry entered into an agreement Forest and Climate Change, Harsh Vardhan launched an anthem “Plastic to provide skills training and employment to women. The agreement Waste-Free India’” which has been composed and produced by Pandit was signed in the presence of WCD Minister Maneka Gandhi and Skill Smriti Manch (PDUSM) – a non-profit Development Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. organisation which works in the field of social and environmental issues. The ➢ The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India anthem has been launched in seven languages - Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, (IRDAI) and National Health Authority (NHA) have formed a joint Tamil, Telegu, Malayalam and Kannada. It is an initiative which aims to working group (JWG) in order to suggest ways for more effective turn India into a plastic-free nation by 2022. implementation of the Centre’s Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan ➢ The government Introduced a Transport and Marketing Assistance Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY). (TMA) scheme for providing financial assistance for transport and ➢ The president of French space agency CNES (Centre national d’études marketing of agriculture products with a view to boosting export of spatiales), Jean-Yves Le Gall and K Sivan, Chairman of the Indian farm commodities to certain countries in Europe and North America. Space Research Organisation (ISRO), signed an agreement in ➢ The Minister of State for Culture (Independent charge) and Environment, Bengaluru, to implement the short-term plan for the French- Forest and Climate Change, Dr. Mahesh Sharma inaugurated ‘Azaadi ke Indian programme to develop a space-based maritime surveillance system. ______

7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 18 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | ➢ The Centre formed National Mission on Transformative Mobility and ➢ The Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a ‘Main Bhi Chowkidar’ Battery Storage to finalize the framework for a Phased Manufacturing campaign calling everyone who was fighting corruption, social evils Program (PMP). The main aim of the framework is localising the and working hard for the progress of India, as watchmen in New production of Electric Vehicles (EV) and its components within the Delhi. country and boost the adoption of clean energy vehicles. ➢ Indian low-cost carrier SpiceJet received “The International Air ➢ Minister of State (I/C) for Housing and Urban Affairs, Hardeep S Puri, has Transport Association (IATA) Membership” becoming the first among inaugurated the state-of-the-art India Urban Observatory and Video the Indian low-cost carriers. SpiceJet is the fifth member of IATA from Wall at New Delhi. The India Urban Observatory will plug into the sources India. of data from cities, both from real-time and archival sources. ➢ Indian Railways (ICF) has surpassed the top ➢ Information and Broadcasting Secretary Amit Khare has released Chinese manufacturers after creating a 40% record increase in its “Reference Annuals - India 2019 and Bharat 2019” in New Delhi. production. With this, Indian Railway’s oldest and premier coach ➢ The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the manufacturing unit becomes the single largest rail coach manufacturer investment sanction for construction of 624 Megawatt Kiru Hydro Electric in the world. Project in Jammu & Kashmir. ➢ Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has cleared the proposal to ➢ The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has slapped a fine of Rs.500 crore purchase 10 lakh hand grenades for Indian Army under ‘Make in India’ on German global auto giant for damaging the environment using “cheat programme. device” in its diesel cars in India Volkswagen. A bench headed by NGT ➢ The Indian Navy’s Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Training Facility Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel directed the German global auto (NBCTF) was inaugurated by Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sunil Lanba at giant to deposit the amount within two months. INS Shivaji in Lonavala. The training facility has been named ABHEDYA. ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the ‘Noida City Centre-Noida ➢ The Indian Air Force has formally inducted four US-made Electronic City section’ of the Delhi Metro's Blue Line. Chinook heavy-lift helicopters (CH 47 F(I)) at Chandigarh’s Air Force ➢ Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has decided to ground Station 12 Wing. The first batch of four helicopters has been delivered on Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft with immediate effect. It was also decided that schedule and the last batch is to be delivered by March 2020. India will not allow Boeing Co's 737 MAX aircraft to enter or transit its ➢ Indian Space Research Organisation will launch 29 satellites including airspace after 1030 GMT. the primary payload EMISAT, on the first of April. EMISAT has been ➢ The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, has laid the foundation stone of developed for monitoring radar network by India. EMISAT, weighing Integrated Command and Control Centres at five North Eastern Smart 436 kg, is intended for electromagnetic spectrum measurement. Polar Cities, through video conference from New Delhi. Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C45 will take off from Satish Dhawan ➢ National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) which is an Space Centre in Sriharikota. independent regulator under the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, has ➢ PM Modi announced that India has entered its name as an elite space reduced the prices of 390 non-scheduled cancer medicines which will power. An Anti-Satellite Weapon (A-SAT) successfully targeted a live result in annual saving of around Rs 800 crore for patients. satellite on a low earth orbit. The name of this mission was ‘Mission The revised prices have come into effect from 8th March 2019. ’. After the US, Russia, and China, India is the fourth country to ➢ The Government approved the establishment of two new benches acquire this space capability. of National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), at Amaravati in Andhra ➢ Indian Army has flagged off its first Mountaineering Expedition to Mt Pradesh and Indore in Madhya Pradesh in view of the increasing Makalu (8485m) as part of its objective of summiting all challenging caseload, especially under the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code 2016. peaks above 8000M. ➢ Union Labour Ministry decided to double the income tax exemption to ➢ Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) has recorded cargo Rs.20 lakh from the existing Rs.10 lakh for gratuity. movement of more than 200 million metric tonnes (MMT) at nine ports ➢ e Pulse Polio programme was launched by the President of India, Ram along the east and west coasts, becoming the first Indian port operator Nath Kovind. The launch took place by administering polio drops to children to achieve the milestone. below five years at the Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi on the eve ➢ Union Cabinet chaired by Narendra Modi approved the extension of of National Immunisation Day which was observed on 10th March 2019. the Biomedical Research Career Programme and Wellcome Trust ➢ Union Environment Minister, Dr. Harsh Vardhan released the India (WT)/DBT India Alliance beyond its initial 10-year term (2008-09 to Cooling Action Plan (ICAP) aimed at reducing emissions and providing 2018-29) to a new five-year phase (2019-20 to 2023-24). thermal comfort to citizens in New Delhi. ➢ The Ministry of Health has notified New Drugs and Clinical Trials ➢ National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) Limited received Rules, 2019 for the approval of new drugs and conduct of clinical trials in an approval from Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) for the country. acquisition of Lanco’s 500 MW Teesta hydro-electric power project at ➢ Interactive session was held between India and ambassadors & High the cost of Rs 907 crore in . Commissioners of European and Oceania Countries in New Delhi. ➢ Suresh Prabhu, The Union Minister of Commerce and Industry ➢ The commerce ministry has unveiled a blockchain-based coffee e- launched GI (Geographical Indication) website and tutorial video on marketplace which will facilitate farmers to integrate with markets to get IPR (Intellectual property Rights) in New Delhi. aware of fair prices for the commodity. ➢ For the first time ever, a team of Indian astronomers has discovered some ➢ University Grants Commission (UGC) has prohibited imparting sources in the universe that emit radio waves in a totally new distance degree programmes in agriculture. mechanism, by using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) ➢ Indian Statistical Institute has presented its report on the sample size which is located at Khodad in Junnar, 80 kms away from Pune. of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) slip counting to the Chief ➢ The Indian Sundarban was accorded with the status of ‘Wetland of Election Commissioner Sunil Arora. International Importance’ in the Ramsar Convention. Indian Sundarban ➢ Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE) became the first which is also a UNESCO (The United Nations Educational, Scientific shipyard in the country to deliver 100 warships. Its 100th warship landing and Cultural Organization) world heritage site, is home to the Royal craft utility (LCU) L-56 was recently handed over to Indian Navy. Tiger. ➢ Indian Army builds the longest suspension bridge over Indus river ➢ The Election Commission of India (ECI) informed the three-judge in Leh, . Built in a record time of 40 days ‘Maitri Bridge’ (260- bench headed by Ranjan Gogoi, the Chief Justice of India that exclusion of feet) is longest Suspension Bridge over Indus River. names from draft NRC (National Register of Citizens) in Assam will not ➢ The Ministry of Home Affairs has constituted Unlawful Activities affect the voting rights of persons in the upcoming elections provided that (Prevention) Tribunal, to determine the sufficient cause to ban Jamaat- their name features in the electoral rolls. e-Islami, and Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) faction. It ➢ Experts from the University of Birmingham and policy makers and will be headed by Justice Chander Shekhar of the . researchers from India announced a collaboration to jointly develop ➢ The Union Cabinet has given its approval to create one post as Deputy strategies to resolve health, social and economic issues linked to air Comptroller and Auditor General in the Office of the Comptroller and pollution in Delhi. Auditor General of India. ➢ Following the advice of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, at ➢ The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has approved the least 12 states in India have banned Electronic Nicotine Delivery merger of Tata Teleservices with Bharti Airtel Ltd. Systems (ENDS). Punjab, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Bihar, Uttar ➢ In a major boost to India’s firepower, country’s first Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry indigenously designed and developed Dhanush Artillery Gun was and Jharkhand have taken steps to ban the use of ENDS. inducted in the Indian Army during a ceremony held at Ordnance Factory in ➢ Third edition of Namaste Thailand festival, organised by the Royal Jabalpur, MP. Thai Embassy with an aim to strengthen bilateral ties and increase cultural ➢ The Indian Navy and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research exchange between India and Thailand, began at Select Citywalk in New (CSIR) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to undertake joint Delhi. research and development of advanced technologies for the Indian Navy. ______

7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 19 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | ➢ High-level discussion on “Fiscal Relations across levels of ➢ Cyclone “Fani” is one of the biggest and fiercest cyclonic storm over Government” was held by 15th Finance Commission under the the east coast in nearly two decades with a maximum wind speed of 240- chairmanship of Shri N. K. Singh in New Delhi. 250 kmph. ➢ Under the ambitious Project75-India, the Indian Navy desires to build ➢ The Environment Ministry has reportedly constituted a committee to 6 standard diesel-electric submarines which are under-construction at the implement the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP). The objective is Mazagon Dockyards Limited. This would incur an overall cost of to reduce the PM (particulate matter) 2. 5 and PM 10 concentration by Rs.50,000 crore. 20% to 30% in at least 102 cities by 2024. The committee will be headed ➢ The National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) and global by the Secretary, Union Environment Ministry. The headquarters of the private infrastructure operator ROADIS (owned by Public Sector Pension committee will be in New Delhi. Investment board abbreviated as PSP investment) have jointly set up a ➢ Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) and Automotive Research platform for investing up to $2 billion in road projects in India. Association of India (ARAI), an autonomous body affiliated to the Ministry ➢ State-owned telecom service provider Bharatiya Sanchar Nigam of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises have signed a MoU for Limited (BSNL) has received a license from the Department of cooperation on various projects related to e-mobility. Telecommunications to provide Internet and mobile services on flights. ➢ The union government plans to introduce artificial intelligence India has got a new “In-Flight and Maritime Connectivity” (IFMC) system in the MCA 21 portal as it seeks to make the compliance process license. easier as well as ensure routine enforcement activities are done round-the- ➢ The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has entered into 18 clock on autopilot basis. APAs (Advance Pricing Agreements) inclusive of 03 Bilateral ➢ The Indian Air Force (IAF) Chief Air Chief Marshal B. S. APAs (BAPAs) during the month of March 2019. Dhanoa visits Air Force Station in Bhisiana and Sarsawa to pay ➢ RailWire Wi-Fi by RailTel is now live at 1600 railway stations across the homage to the air warriors who made supreme sacrifice during Operation country, with Santacruz railway station in Mumbai becoming the 1600th Safed Sagar at Kargil. station to become a RailWire Wi-Fi zone, the Western Railway. ➢ Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa led a four aircraft, MiG-21 'Missing Man' ➢ The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) and the formation flypast at Air Force Station Bhisiana in Bhatinda, Punjab. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have joined hands to map, ➢ According to the Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR), nearly half validate and protect smaller wetlands in the coastal belt of the of the newly elected Lok Sabha members have criminal charges country. against them, a 26% increase as compared to 2014. ➢ India successfully test fired ‘Nirbhay’, the 1,000 km strike range sub- ➢ India’s fastest train ‘Vande Bharata Express’ completed 1 Lakh sonic cruise missile, off the coast of Odisha. kilometres without missing a single trip from New Delhi to Varanasi. The ➢ The Indo-Pacific Wing will integrate the Indian Ocean Rim Association indigenously built high-speed train was manufactured by the Integral (IORA), ASEAN region and the Quad. The Ministry of External Affairs has Coach Factory in Chennai. set up an Indo-Pacific Wing in the foreign office. ➢ Defence Research and Defence Organisation (DRDO) successfully ➢ Chief of Army Staff General Bipin Rawat commissioned the Indian Coast flight tested a 500 kg class Inertial Guided Bomb from a Su-30 MKI Guard Ship Veera at a ceremony held at Naval Jetty at the dockyard in aircraft at the Pokhran test range in Rajasthan. Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. ➢ The Dredging Corporation of India Limited (DCIL) has signed a MoU ➢ The Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral ‘Sunil Lanba’ has inaugurated the with Water & Power Consultancy Services (WAPCOS) Limited, a mini- maiden ‘state-of-the-art’ Virtual Reality Centre (VRC) at the Directorate of ratna PSU under Ministry of Water Resources, River Development, and Naval Design, New Delhi. Ganga Rejuvenation. ➢ The Union Cabinet has approved the continuation of the GSLV Phase - 4 ➢ The Home Ministry has cancelled the registration of Bengaluru- programmes consisting of five GSLV flights during the period from 2021 based NGO Infosys Foundation for alleged violation of norms in receiving to 2024. foreign grants. ➢ Ministry of Home Affairs has issued orders to suspend the LoC trade ➢ The Delhi High Court has ruled that the United Nations is not a State in Jammu & Kashmir. under Article 12 of the Constitution of India and is not amenable to its ➢ Twenty states and Union territories have so far joined a pan-India jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution. Background of the network of single emergency helpline number '112' on which immediate case. assistance can be sought by anyone in distress. ➢ The CBIC has introduced a weightage points system for appointing ➢ The steering committee has mandated that only companies that meet persons on compassionate ground, based on criteria such as family income, the 50% localisation threshold will be eligible for the incentives that dependents and remaining service period of the deceased. will be available under the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid ➢ In order to commemorate the 750th birth anniversary of Sri Vedanta and Electric Vehicles (FAME-II) scheme to boost electric mobility as well Desikan, Vice President, M. unveiled a postage stamp as the ‘Make in India’ initiative. in New Delhi. The stamp has been released by Indian postal department. ➢ The Ministry of AYUSH inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) ➢ Last year, the Indian government had announced green number with Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi plates for all electric vehicles wherein the private electric vehicles will get for cooperation in research and education in areas of traditional systems of white lettering on a green background and commercial EVs will yellow medicine and its integration with modern science. lettering. ➢ The newly built Coast Guard vessel ICGS C-441 will be commissioned into ➢ To nab tax evaders and reduce black money generation, the income the service at Vizhinjam Harbour, Kerala. tax department CBDT and Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) ➢ The CBSE students, from 2020, will be allowed to use magnifying signed an agreement to facilitate exchange of data between the two. glasses and portable video magnifiers during the Class X final ➢ SIPRI has set up a new initiative aiming to establish the annual examination. number of violent deaths worldwide. ➢ The total deposits in bank accounts opened under the Jan Dhan scheme, ➢ The Commerce Ministry has recommended an anti-dumping duty of which was launched about five years ago by the Modi-government, are set USD 1, 633. 17 per tonne on Saccharin, a kind of sweetener, from to cross Rs.1 lakh crore soon. to guard domestic manufacturers from cheap imports from the ➢ The Commerce and Industry Ministry has proposed a host of measures Southeast Asian country. such as tax incentives to promote budding entrepreneurs as part of the ➢ Indian Navy's frontline missile destroyer INS Ranjit was decommissioned ‘Startup India Vision 2024’. at Naval Dock in Visakhapatnam on May 6. The mighty destroyer served ➢ The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC), through a Indian Navy for 36 years. notification, has hiked the basic customs duty (BCD) on wheat to 40 ➢ The Indian Navy has launched the Scorpene-class submarine Vela, percent from 30 percent to curb imports and protect the domestic industry. the fourth of six underwater warships being built in India with French ➢ The Supreme Court bench headed by Justice L Nageswara Rao has collaboration, with an aim to boost Indian capability to defend and secure ordered the Reserve Bank of India to disclose its annual inspection reports the strategic sea lanes in Mumbai, Maharashtra. of banks, along with the list of wilful defaulters and information related to ➢ Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE) held a ‘Chintan them under the Right to Information Act. Baithak’ with the stakeholders of Renewable Energy sector in New Delhi. ➢ The Indian Navy has launched guided missile destroyer ‘Imphal’ at ➢ In a bid to evaluate the environmental performance of existing Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders in Mumbai, Maharashtra. schools across India, GRIHA Council released a rating tool ‘GRIHA for ➢ Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE) Ltd. has signed a Existing Day Schools’. It was founded by TERI (The Energy and contract with defence ministry to build eight Anti-Submarine Warfare Resources Institute) with an active aid from the Ministry of New and Shallow Watercrafts (ASWSWCs) for Indian Navy at the cost of Rs. 6311. Renewable Energy. 30 crore. ➢ Direct Tax collections fell short by Rs. 82, 000 crore at 11. 18 crore during 2018-19 with lower corporate tax collections emerging as one of the reasons for the lower mop. ______

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RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 20 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | ➢ The last captive white tiger named Bajirao at the Sanjay Gandhi National ➢ The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved Park in Mumbai died at the age of 18 years. the extension of President’s rule for another six months in Jammu and ➢ Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) has distributed more Kashmir. than one lakh bee-boxes among farmers and unemployed youths across ➢ Chandrani Murmu has become the youngest Member of Parliament (MP) the country in less than two years under its 'Honey Mission' initiative. to the . ➢ Petroleum Conservation Research Association (PCRA), Ministry of ➢ The Indian Air Force (IAF)has signed an agreement with the Indian Petroleum & Natural Gas, Government of India and World’s Third Largest Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for crew selection and training for Tractor manufacturer by volumes and TAFE (Tractors and Farm Equipment the prestigious Gangayaan, the country’s maiden manned mission. Limited) signed a MoU to aid conservation of resources across the ➢ Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has country. proposed to set up a National Data Warehouse with an aim to ➢ Electronics City Industrial Township Authority (ELCITA) in leveraging big data analytical tools. collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), inaugurated a foot ➢ The Union Cabinet approved the two Medical Bills, Indian Medical over bridge connecting the east and west phases of Electronics City. Council (Amendment Bill), 2019, and the Homoeopathy Central ➢ The first Apache Helicopter AH-64E (I) (Apache Guardian helicopter) was Council (Amendment Bill), 2019. Both the bills had lapsed in the 16th formally handed over to the Indian Air Force at Boeing production facility Lok Sabha session. The Bills will be reintroduced in the upcoming Parliament in Mesa, Arizona, USA. session. ➢ Indian Space Research Organization ISRO has successfully launched ➢ The Union Cabinet has cleared the New Delhi International Arbitration its earth observation satellite RISAT-2B from Satish Dhawan Space Centre Centre (NDIAC) Bill, 2019, which provides for setting up of an Sriharikota. It will be lifted off by the workhorse rocket PSLV-C46 in its 48th independent and autonomous body for institutional arbitration. flight. ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved major changes in the Prime ➢ The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Minister's scholarship scheme under the National Defence Fund. It has successfully conducted the flight test of 'Abhyas', a High-Speed Expendable enhanced rates of scholarship from 2000 rupees per month to 2500 rupees Aerial Target (HEAT), which offers a realistic threat scenario for practice of per month for boys and from 2250 rupees per month to 3000 rupees per weapon systems. The flight test was conducted at the Interim Test Range, month for girls. The Ministry of Home Affairs will be the nodal Ministry. Chandipur, in Odisha. ➢ The Union government has notified its decision to extend the benefit of ➢ The central government has extended the ban on the Liberation six thousand rupees per year to eligible farmers under the PM-KISAN Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for five years with immediate effect, a scheme. notification issued by the Union Home ministry. ➢ External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has flagged off the first batch of ➢ National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), HCL Foundation and Kailash Mansarovar Yatra -2019 in New Delhi. Indian National Trust for Art and Culture Heritage (INTACH) signed ➢ International Centre for Automotive Technology (ICAT) has released tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for Plantation of Rudraksha India’s first Type Approval Certificate (TAC) for Bharat Stage – VI norms. Trees in Uttarakhand under the ‘Namami Gange’ Programme. From 1st April 2020, Bharat Stage (BS)- VI norms are the automotive ➢ The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) had started emission norms to be implemented to curb online writing of Annual Performance Appraisal Report (APARs) in ➢ The Union Government has decided to raise the import limit on ‘Tur Dal’ SPARROW (Smart Performance Appraisal Report Recording Online Window) to four lakh tonnes for private traders till October 2019. for Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officers in Customs and Central Excise ➢ National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has conducted a in 2016-17. basic training programme at the Deendayal Port Trust in Kandla, Gujarat. ➢ The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation ➢ Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) has instituted the first (CTBTO) has offered India an "Observer" status and access to edition of Antarashtriya Yoga Diwas Media Samman (AYDMS), from 2019 to International Monitoring System (IMS) data. CTBTO’s headquarters is mark the contribution of media in spreading the message of Yoga. in Vienna, Austria. ➢ Union Minister for Tribal Affairs Arjun Munda has launched the “e- ➢ The Union Government has asked state transport departments to ensure governance initiatives for ST Welfare schemes”. As per the that all battery-operated vehicles (both existing and new) have number “SabkaSaath, SabkaVikas and SabkaVishwas”, these e-governance plates in Green. initiatives will serve their purpose of the betterment of tribal communities ➢ National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) has developed the world’s across the nation. first complete parent-wise genome assembly called ➢ India has successfully conducted the maiden flight test of its indigenously “NDDB_ABRO_Murrah” of riverine buffaloes. developed fired Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle (HSTDV) ➢ Indian Navy has achieved a significant milestone in enhancing its Anti- off in Odisha Coast. Air Warfare Capability with the maiden cooperative engagement firing of the ➢ The newly inducted Union Cabinet approved a new scheme which assures Medium Range Surface to Air Missile (MRSAM). minimum monthly pension of Rs.3,000 per month to small shopkeepers, ➢ According to tentative data released by the Election Commission (EC), in retail traders and the self-employed people after attaining the age of 60 2019 Lok Sabha elections clocked a record turnout of 67.11%. years. ➢ Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has ➢ Indian Railways received an order for 25 more energy efficient retrofit successfully test-fired an indigenously developed 500 kg class guided electrical locomotives from the public sector Bharat Heavy Electricals bomb from a Sukhoi combat jet at Pokhran in Rajasthan. Limited (BHEL). ➢ The National Health Authority (NHA) have signed an MoU under the ➢ The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has found a suitable Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) to window to launch India’s second spacecraft to the moon Chandrayaan-2. National Cancer Grid (NCG). Indu Bhushan is a CEO of Ayushman ISRO sources have confirmed that GSLV Mark-III will launch. Bharat PM-JAY and the National Health Authority. ➢ The Defense ministry has approved the procurement of 10 Kamov Ka- ➢ As per the Agricultural Ministry, food grains production for the 31 Airborne Early Warning and Control helicopters for the Indian Navy. agricultural year 2018-19 has been estimated at over 283 million ➢ India successfully test fired the short-range Quick Reaction Surface-to- tonnes. Air Missile (QRSAM) from a test range along the coast of Odisha. ➢ Preparations for 7th Economic Census are underway in New Delhi. The ➢ The 125-year-old Old High Court Building in Nagpur, Maharashtra, output of the census will be released in January 2020. Economic Census is and two Mughal-era monuments in Agra — Haveli of Agha Khan and the complete count of all economic establishment located within the Hathi Khana — are among the six monuments declared protected and of geographical boundary of the country. national importance by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in ➢ Delhi government has announced its plan to subsidize travel in public 2018. transport for women commuters in the Capital. ➢ Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has launched a series of development ➢ The Union government has reduced the rate of the contribution made by projects worth Rs.2900 Crores for Agra city. employees and employers under the Employees' State Insurance ➢ Indian Navy commenced largest ever coastal defence exercise SEA (ESI) Act from 6.5% to 4%. VIGIL in Indian Coast. It covered 7516.6km Indian Coastline and Exclusive ➢ Culture Minister Prahalad Singh Patel has inaugurated the exhibition titled Economic Zone (EEZ) of India. ‘Unknown Masterpieces of Himachal Folk Art’ in New Delhi. ➢ The annual ‘Mela ’ was celebrated with religious fervour STATE NEWS and gaiety at Tulmulla area of Kashmir. ANDHRA PRADESH ➢ Cyclone over East-Central Arabian sea has intensified into a Very Severe ➢ Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu launched the Prana Raksha Cyclonic Storm “VAYU”. (‘NCBN app’) web application developed by the Chittoor police at ➢ Union Cabinet has approved the Aadhaar and Other Laws Kuppam, Andhra Pradesh. The app has been designed to save the lives of (Amendment) Bill 2019. This will enable UIDAI to have a more robust road accident victims and reach out to women in distress. mechanism to serve the public interest and restrain the misuse of Aadhar. ______

7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 21 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | ➢ Harsimrat Kaur Badal - Union Minister of Food Processing Industries ➢ BOLD-QIT which is Border Electronically Dominated QRT commissioned Godavari Mega Aqua Food Park at Tundurru Village in Interception Technique was inaugurated by Home Minister Rajnath Bhimavaram Mandal, West Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh through Singh on 61 km India-Bangladesh border in Dhubri, Assam to deal with video conferencing. It will be the first Mega Aqua Food Park operationalised the problem of border safeguarding in the areas where border fences can’t exclusively for fish and marine products processing in the state of Andhra be constructed due to Brahmaputra river. Pradesh. ➢ India’s First Oil Museum will come up in Guwahati, Assam. It will be ➢ Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has announced a named as KB Malaviya National Oil Museum. KB Malaviya is called the scheme for farmers named Annadata Sukhibhava scheme. Under this father of India’s hydrocardon industry. scheme an amount of Rs 9,000 will be given to the farmers having land ➢ Assam Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Mukesh Sahu launched the ‘i-help’ less than 5 acres and above 5 acres Rs. 10,000 will be given. This will be in initiative at a meeting held at the Election Department, Janata Bhawan addition to the Rs 6,000 announced by the Central government. in Guwahati. The ‘i-help’ initiative to promote digital electoral literacy ➢ Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal announced a new railway zone in Assam. for Andhra Pradesh, that is the Southern Coast Railway and it will be ➢ Chief Electoral Officer of Assam Mukesh Sahu launched a new initiative headquartered in Visakhapatnam at the cost of Rs.205 crores. It will be called ‘Enajori’ at Janata Bhawan, Dispur in Guwahati for persons with the 18th zone in the country. It will comprise the disabilities with an aim that ‘No Voter to be Left behind’. existing Guntakal, Guntur and Vijayawada divisions. ➢ A Mobile App named ‘Sankalp’ has been developed by the Assam’s ➢ A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between HP Inc. Bongaigaon district administration team with the help of NIC India (Hewlett-Packard) and Andhra Pradesh Innovation Society (National Informatics Centre) to encourage the first-time voters. (APIS) and Andhra Pradesh Economic Development ➢ The Supreme Court has banned all mining activities along the ‘Kaziranga Board (APEDB) for constructing a Center of Excellence (CoE) for National Park’ and catchment area of rivers originating in Karbi Anglong additive manufacturing powered by HP’s 3D printing technology. Hills, Assam. ➢ National Green Tribunal (NGT) has slapped an interim penalty of Rs ➢ Assam celebrates major agricultural events as the festival of Bihu. 100 crore on the Andhra Pradesh government for inaction to prevent illegal ➢ Assam government will set up a Skill University at the cost of 850 crore sand mining in the state. rupees at Darrang district. Mission Director of Assam Skill Development ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated to the nation the 1.33 million Mission, AP Tiwari said that the proposed institution will be known as Skill metric ton capacity Visakhapatnam Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) City. facility at Guntur in Andhra Pradesh. ➢ Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani has launched the Integrated Large ➢ Andhra Pradesh MedTech Zone (AMTZ) has organized a one-day Scale Eri Farming under North East Region Textile Promotion Scheme workshop on Organ Bio Printing at the Kalam Convention Center, AMTZ (NERTPS) in Itanagar. Campus in Visakhapatnam. ➢ The Guwahati Railway Station has become the first ever railway ➢ Indian Coast Guard Ship (ICGS) ‘Vigraha’ decommissioned at station in the Indian Railways to get an ISO certification from Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. the National Green Tribunal (NGT) for providing passenger amenities in a ➢ Anthill Ventures, which helps start-ups scale up, has tied up with the clean and green environment. Andhra Pradesh government to offer A-Scale, its market access programme to start-ups in the State. BIHAR ➢ Andhra Pradesh government will provide 100 units free power to the ➢ The Bihar State Cabinet chaired by Chief Minister has Most Backward Classes (MBCs). approved the proposal to punish sons and daughters, who abandon their ➢ India’s First District cooling system will come up in Amravati, capital elderly parents, with jail term. The approval was announced on 11 June. of the Andhra Pradesh. The agreement between the National Central ➢ Governor of Bihar Lalji Tandon and Union Agriculture Minister Radha Cooling Company (Tabreed) for the District Cooling System at Amaravati. Mohan Singh jointly inaugurated the three -day Krishi Kumbh in Motihari. ARUNACHAL PRADESH ➢ Bihar has become the first state in the country to have raised a special ➢ The Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman inaugurated dog squad to detect liquor consignment. the 426.60 m long Pre-Stressed Concrete Box Girder type Diffo bridge ➢ The Bihar State government has announced to waive off 50% of the over Diffo river on Roing – Koronu- Paya road in Arunachal Pradesh. total taxes levied on the purchase and running of battery-propelled e- ➢ Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu inaugurated India’s rickshaws. The announcement was made by the deputy chief minister of longest 300-meter single- lane steel cable suspension bridge over Siang state Modi. River in Upper Siang district of state bordering China. The suspension bridge, ➢ The Bihar Government has announced a universal old age pension scheme also known as Byorung Bridge was built at a cost of Rs 4,843 crore. called Mukhyamantri Vridhajan Pension Yojana (MVPY), covers all ➢ Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister, Pema Khandu declared Pakke individuals who are above 60 years of age. The beneficiaries would be Paga Hornbill Festival (PPHF) as the “State Festival” during a provided with a sum of Rs. 400 as monthly pension. valedictory ceremony of the fourth edition of the festival at Seijosa in East ➢ Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh. ➢ Arunachal Pradesh’s East Siang District has achieved 100% CHHATTISGARH electrification under the Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana- ➢ The Chhattisgarh police for the first time has inducted women . commandos in the District Reserve Guard, its frontline anti-Naxal force. ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a dedicated 24x7 Satellite channel, ‘DD Arunprabha’ for Arunachal Pradesh during his visit to Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Tripura ➢ Union Minister for Road Transport & Highways, Shipping, Water Resources, ➢ Arunachal Pradesh’s Nyishi tribe celebrated its Boori Boot Yollo River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Shri Nitin Gadkari will festival (52nd) to welcome spring and a successful harvest. inaugurate the newly built, 5.1 km long, four-lane, cable stayed bridge “Atal ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for the strategically Setu” over river Mandovi in Goa. important Sela Tunnel Project in Arunachal Pradesh. ➢ The Deen Dayal Veterinary University in Uttar Pradesh proposed to set up the first goat fertility lab in the state under Rastriya Krashi Vikas Yojna ASSAM at the cost of Rs.22 crore. ➢ Assam Govt has hiked the parental income limit from 1 Lakh to 2 ➢ Drinking alcohol or cooking in public on Goa's beaches will now attract Lakhs to waive admission fees for students taking admission up to Post a fine of Rs 2,000 or imprisonment for up to three months. Graduate level. ➢ The Assam Government will provide a subsidy of 1.7 lakh rupees for the GUJARAT admission in the North East Skill Centre. The Centre has got the support ➢ Gujarat topped the country with annual fish production of 7.8 lakh tonnes, from Singapore's IITEES. followed by Tamil Nadu (7.02 lakh tonnes) and Kerala (6.43 lakh tonnes) ➢ The Northeast Railway sector (Guwahati, Assam) has launched a according to the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI). dedicated woman squad ‘JYOTI BAHINI’ to enhance security of women in ➢ Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani inaugurated India’s first railway station and trains. Dinosaur-Museum-cum-Park in the Mahisagar district. It is set to give ➢ Assam chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal launched the PRANAM visitors a Jurassic Park kind of feel. (Parents Responsibility and Norms for Accountability and ➢ State Government of Gujarat put into effect the legislation that Monitoring) Commission, a panel set up to look after the issues proposed to amend the ‘Gujarat Shops and Establishments (Regulation concerning a Bill brought in for protection of parents of state of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 2019’ which came into government employees. force from May 1, 2019. The bill allows shops across the state to function 24 hours. ______

7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 22 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | ➢ Gujarat Government has announced that the benefits of 10 per cent Government of India during a function organised at the Ice Stupa site quota for Economically Weaker sections of general category in at Gangles in Leh. educational institutions and government jobs will be applicable from ➢ Central Government banned Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front midnight tonight. (JKLF) under the provisions of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched ‘One Nation, One Card’ Model (UAPA), 1967 as an unlawful association. from Ahmedabad, Gujarat for seamless travel through different metros ➢ The longest suspension bridge (260-foot) over the Indus River at and other transport systems. The Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Choglamsar village opened to the public in Leh, Jammu & Kashmir. The Affairs introduced the ‘National Common Mobility Card’ (NCMC) to bridge has been named 'Maitri Bridge', symbolising the excellent civil- enable seamless travel by different metros and other transport systems military relations existing in the Leh Ladakh region. It was achieved by across the country besides retail shopping and purchases. Indian Army in just 40 days. ➢ A mobile application ‘Conquer Exam, Be a Warrior’ to cope with exam ➢ An Android-based application named “Sahulat” was launched to facilitate related stress and anxiety for students and their parents has been and to encourage the elder voters for participating in the elections in Jammu developed by Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar, Gujarat, and Kashmir’s Rajouri district. (IIPHG) in collaboration with National Mental Health Program, ➢ The Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) state Govt. has unveiled Healthcare Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Gujarat. Investment Policy-2019. Accordingly, 30% subsidy on capital ➢ The Gujarat health department has issued an Orange Alert for two- investment will be provided for setting up of multi-speciality Hospitals, days as the temperatures are likely to touch 44 degrees. Super Specialty Hospitals, Medical Colleges, Nursing Colleges and ➢ Union home minister Rajnath Singh and LG Anil Baijal inaugurated a Paramedical Colleges. state-of-the-art National Cyber Forensic Lab (NCFL) and the Delhi ➢ The Jammu and Kashmir Bank is now under the purview of Right to Police's cybercrime unit 'CyPAD' at , Sector 16C. It is the first Information Act and Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) guidelines. cybercrime awareness and detection centre in India. The decision was taken by the Board of Directors of the Jammu and Kashmir ➢ Gujarat becomes First State to implement 10% quota to Economically Bank. Weaker Section. ➢ The Prime Minister also dedicated to the nation the 220 KiloVolt - Alusteng -Drass - Kargil Leh transmission system. HARYANA ➢ The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for AYUSH Shri Shripad ➢ Haryana Chief Electoral Officer Rajeev Ranjan has inaugurated India’s Yesso Naik and Union Minister of State in Prime Minister's Office (PMO) Dr. first-of-its-kind ‘Voter Park’ in Gurugram, Haryana. Jitendra Singh has laid the foundation stone of Institute of High-Altitude ➢ The Punjab and Haryana High Court has accorded the status of “legal Medicinal Plants (IHAMP) at Bhaderwah in District Doda in J&K. The person or entity” to animals in Haryana. estimated cost of this prestigious project is Rs. 100 crores. ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated and laid foundation stones for six projects in Haryana, including a National Cancer Institute (NIC) at JHARKHAND Badhsa in Jhajjar district, which is also India’s Largest Cancer Hospital and ➢ Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das has inaugurated the 50 crore Shri Ayush University at Kurukshetra, in Haryana. rupees Haj House in Ranchi. ➢ The Haryana government has launched a mobile application named ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of revival of North Shiksha Setu to provide students information on attendance, fee, online Koel (Mandal Dam) project at Palamu, Jharkhand. admission and scholarships of all government colleges of the state. ➢ The Jharkhand government banned the Popular Front of India (PFI) in ➢ Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has announced to name all the the State to curb its anti-national activities and for links with terror outfits Child Care Institutes being run in the state as 'Jagannath .' like the IS. ➢ Tashiganag village in Himachal Pradesh named World's Highest ➢ The main event of International Day of Yoga 2019 (21st June) Polling Station with 15,256 feet. celebrations will be held in Ranchi, Jharkhand.

HIMACHAL PRADESH KARANATAKA ➢ Union Minister for Food Processing Industries Harsimrat Kaur Badal ➢ Minister of State in Department of Space Dr. Jitendra Singh inaugurated inaugurated Cremica Mega Food Park Pvt Ltd in Village Singhain, Una the 1st batch of UNNATI programme of Indian Space Research District of Himachal Pradesh. This is the first Mega Food Park Organisation (ISRO) in Bengaluru, Karnataka. operationalized in the State of Himachal Pradesh. ➢ The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman K. Siva has ➢ A bill was passed in the Himachal Pradesh assembly to make Sanskrit announced setting up of Human Space Flight Centre in Bengaluru, the second official language of the state. Karnataka. ➢ Under its diversification programme, FCI Aravali Gypsum and Minerals ➢ Karantaka government has launched “Jala Amrutha”, will be major India Limited (FAGMIL) has taken up a project to establish a 4th white water conservation scheme that will focus on drought-proofing cement plant in the country near village NohraDhar in Sirmour district, measures, including protection and rejuvenation of water bodies. The Himachal Pradesh, at a project cost of approximately Rs. 605 crores. Karnataka has announced the year 2019 as ‘Jalavarsha (year of water)’. ➢ Tashigang, a Himachal Pradesh village at an altitude of 15,256 feet, is ➢ Arecanut, known as supari or betel nut, made its entry in the list of now the highest polling station in the world. agricultural produce for the first time with the Geographical Indication ➢ The Meteorological Department has issued a yellow weather warning (GI) tag for ‘Sirsi Supari’. It is from Uttara Kannada district of for rain in Himachal Pradesh. Karnataka. ➢ The Himachal Pradesh government made it mandatory for trekkers to ➢ In order to avoid fluctuation in yarn prices, Ministry of Textiles has carry a GPS device to tackle any exigency on 18 June 2019. started Yarn bank, a first of its kind in Karnataka, to help thousands of ➢ The Minister of State for Railways Manoj Sinha has inaugurated the weavers at the Mysore Powerloom Silk Manufacturers Cooperative Society newly built broad-gauge railway line between Amb Andora and Daulatpur by ensuring steady supply of silk yarn and zari. in Una district, Himachal Pradesh. ➢ The Brahmakalashothsava festival 2019 has started in Karnataka. This is a 6-day festival celebrated annually in the ancient Chandkuru Sri JAMMU & KASHMIR Parameshwari Temple situated in Polali, ➢ Nitin Gadkari to inaugurate first inter-state bridge Kerrian Gandyal district in Karnataka. Bridge in Jammu and Kashmir. It was built at a cost of Rs.150 crore in ➢ Amasebailu, a small village situated on the left bank of Haldi river in a span of three and a half years linking areas of Katthua district with Udupi. It is the first village in Karnataka to have 100% solar-powered Punjab. houses. ➢ Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik gave his assent ➢ Karnataka government has launched ‘Pink Sarathi’ vehicles that are to Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill 2014. The bill procured by the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC). will grant reservation to people belonging to the Pahari community for ➢ Bengaluru based Semiconductor Company “SIGNALCHIP” unveiled government jobs. India’s first Indigenous Semiconductor Chips for 4G /LTE and 5G NR ➢ The Jammu & Kashmir Government declared Ladakh as the third MODEMs at an event in New Delhi which was addressed by the Secretary, administrative division of the state. The division will comprise Leh and Telecom, Mrs Aruna Sundararajan. Kargil districts, with Leh as the division’s headquarters. ➢ The Internet of Things (IoT) India Congress (4th), an event which will ➢ The Jammu and Kashmir administration headed by Governor Sathya see digital technology leaders converge to discuss and explore business Pal Malik, in its new “Reintegration Policy” draft, has proposed a opportunities in mainstreaming IoT, will be held in Bengaluru on August monthly stipend of Rs 6,000, jobs and rehabilitation measures, for militants, 22-23,2019. who wish to give up arms. ➢ Mangaluru City Police has launched an all-women police patrol unit in ➢ PD. Tshering, Chief Postmaster General, Jammu & Kashmir Circle, the city. An all-women police patrol unit, also named ‘Rani Abbakka released a ‘Special Stamp Cover on Ice Stupa’ by the Department of Post, Force’, was also launched by the Udupi district police recently. ______

7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 23 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | ➢ India's first Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence established by the ➢ The architectural heritage of Orchha town in Madhya Pradesh added to European Union was inaugurated at the Department of European Studies the Tentative List of UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites. The architectural (DES) at Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Karnataka by Ambassador heritage of Orchha town depicts a unique style of the Bundela dynasty. of the European Union (EU) to India and Bhutan, Tomasz Kozlowski. ➢ Bancha in Betul district is the first village in India to have zero wooden stoves and almost no use for LPG cylinders with all its 75 houses relying on KERALA solar-powered stoves to meet their cooking needs. ➢ The Kerala State Cabinet decided to recommend the Governor to ➢ India's first crematorium for cows will soon be built in Bhopal, promulgate an Ordinance amending the Kerala Pravasi Welfare Act. The informed by Mayor Alok Sharma. Act aims at providing a regular income for Non-Resident Keralites (NoRKs) returning home. MAHARASHTRA ➢ Around 30 lakh Kerala women stood shoulder to shoulder to form Vanitha ➢ Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi launched the Country’s Mathil (women’s wall). The wall stretched from Kasaragod in the north to First National Museum of Indian Cinema in Mumbai, Maharashtra in the south for about 620 Kms. that seeks to portray over a century-old journey of movies in India. ➢ The Union Government issued its nod for setting up the Centre for ➢ The Maharashtra government has set up a committee to review various Classical Language at the Thunchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University schemes implemented for the welfare of tribals in the state. The 17- in Tirur, Kerala. member committee headed by former MLA and Shramjeevi Sanghatna ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated to the nation an integrated president Pandit. refinery expansion complex of the public sector Bharat Petroleum ➢ The Kala Ghoda festival, India’s largest multi-cultural street festival Corporation in , Kerala. begins in Mumbai. ➢ Kerala’s Governor P. Sathasivam in his address to the state assembly ➢ The state government of Maharashtra launched a special scheme to curb announced Kerala government will soon launch a ‘Pravasi Dividend infant deaths. The government started distributing baby-care kits to the Pension Scheme’ to provide regular pension to Non-Resident Keralites. children born in primary health centres and government hospitals. This scheme is a part of welfare measures towards Pravasi Malayalis. ➢ Union Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu launched the Hirkani ➢ Kerala has become the first State to set up a Price Monitoring and Maharashtrachi scheme to provide a platform for women’s Self-Help Research Unit (PMRU). This unit will track violation of prices of essential Groups (SHGs) and the District Business Plan Competition to boost drugs and medical devices under the Drugs Price Control Order (DPCO). entrepreneurship in Maharashtra. ➢ Kochi hosted the first investor conference ASCEND 2019 to showcase ➢ Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis unveiled the State’s new industry friendly initiatives. The Kerala State Industrial Development 5 year industrial policy which will be effective from 1st April, 2019. Corporation (KSIDC) has conducted the conference in Kochi. ➢ Maharashtra government with National Disaster Management Authority ➢ Union Minister for Tourism K.J. Alphons inaugurated the project (NDMA) has conducted a two-day national workshop on Preparedness, ‘Development of Eco Circuit: Pathanamthitta – Gavi – Vagamon – Mitigation and Management of Heat Wave in Nagpur. Thekkady’ under the Swadesh Darshan scheme of Ministry of Tourism at ➢ Maharashtra Cabinet cleared a 29-kilometre metro line for Thane. It Vagamon, Kerala. will be implemented by the Maha Metro on behalf of the Thane Municipal ➢ Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan inducted India's first humanoid Corporation. robot gendered female named KP-BOT, into the Kerala Police force at the ➢ The first HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) treatment centre rank of Sub-Inspector (SI). and holistic clinic for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) ➢ The traditional and handmade product Marayoor Jaggery from Idukki by Humsafar trust in Mumbai, Maharashtra. district of Kerala received the Geographical Indication (GI) tag from the ➢ Maharashtra government launched a special scheme ‘Atal Aahar Central Government. Yojna’ for construction workers in the state which will provide good ➢ Kerala became the first state to tap into masala bond market by listing quality food at a highly subsidised rate. the Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (KIIFB)’s masala ➢ The second joint logistics node of tri-services has become operational bond worth of USD 312 million (Rs 2, 150 crore) in London Stock at naval base in Mumbai, Maharashtra to enhance interoperability, Exchange (LSE)’s International Securities Market (ISM). improve maintenance of military assets and provide logistical support to all ➢ The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) signed a power purchase the defence services. agreement with Kochi-based GJ Eco Power Pvt. Ltd. to establish Waste- ➢ Mining and metals major Vedanta Ltd has been declared the final bidder to-Energy (WtE) plants across the State. GJ Eco Power Pvt. Ltd. has been for two copper mining blocks in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur district. The implementing the project at the Brahmapuram solid waste treatment plant. blocks, located in Thanewasna and Dubarpeth. ➢ The opening of the famed Pooram festival was attended by ➢ Maharashtra Day is celebrated every year on 1st May to mark the Maratha more than 10, 000 people after an order disallowing a 54-year-old tusker speaking region that was founded on 1st May 1960. Thechikottukavu Ramachandran. ➢ The National Institute of Open Schooling Ministry of Human ➢ The state has awarded the work to the Uralungal Labour Contract Resources Development and National Health Mission of Public Health Cooperative Society and it has started working on the ambitious project Department of Government of Maharashtra signed a Memorandum of called E-Vidhan to enable the state to go completely paperless Understanding in Mumbai, focused at offering Vocational programmes to the legislature. Health Service Providers of Providers of National Health Mission (NHM) ➢ India’s largest startup ecosystem inaugurated in Kerala. The through National Institute of Open Schooling. Integrated Startup Complex under the Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM) ➢ Captain Aarohi Pandit, a 23-year-old pilot from Mumbai created includes the ultra-modern facilities of Maker Village that promotes hardware history by becoming the first woman in the world to cross the Atlantic startups. Ocean solo in a Light Sports Aircraft (LSA). She achieved the record by ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated to the nation the 13-km landing her aircraft at Iqaluit Airport in Canada. bypass of National Highway 66, a project that took more than four ➢ Elephanta festival of art and culture held in Mumbai. They are a decades to complete. collection of cave temples predominantly dedicated to Lord Shiv. ➢ Operation Olympics, an expert programme to train athletes in 11 ➢ Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Department of disciplines has commenced in Kerala. Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities organized the 2nd regional conference at Nehru Centre, Mumbai, on a scheme titled ‘Deendayal MADHYA PRADESH Disabled Rehabilitation Scheme (DDRS)’. ➢ Government of Madhya Pradesh, Kamal Nath, banned the purchase of ➢ Air India’s First ever Flight Simulator known as ‘Boeing 747-200’ was new vehicles and air conditioners (ACs) by the government exhibited in Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai. departments due to huge debt of the state. ➢ A hyper-local connectivity app called “Bhonga” has been developed ➢ Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath has launched Jai Kisan Rin by Mumbai-based Company Linkus Infratech, to connect users to their Mukti Yojana for Rs.50,000-crore farm debt-waiver scheme named. neighbourhood people in the city even without an Internet connection. ➢ The Madhya Pradesh government launched its flagship scheme “Bhonga” is a Marathi word which means megaphone or loudspeaker. ‘Mukhyamantri Yuva Swabhiman Yojana’ to provide employment for ➢ India’s first foreign interactive and Exotic World Park was youth. It was launched by the Chief Minister Kamal Nath. inaugurated in Mumbai. Bird lovers are up for a treat with this interactive ➢ The Madhya Pradesh state Government has decided to include the bird park in Mumbai. ancient tribal language ‘Gondi’, in tribal districts of the state. ➢ The second World Orange Festival has begun in Nagpur. The festival, ➢ The Madhya Pradesh government issued an ordinance raising reservation while offering its famed oranges to the world, will also showcase and brand for Other Backward Classes (OBC) to 27% from the present 14%, which the exquisite fruit in order to boost its export. was made by the Law and Legal Affairs Minister PC Sharma. ➢ PM Modi launched the four-laning of Solapur-Osmanabad section of ➢ The Centre has approved a proposal to change the name of a village in NH-211, underground sewerage system and three sewage treatment Madhya Pradesh from 'Durjanpur' to 'Shivdham'. plants. ______

7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 24 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | ➢ Union Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas and Skill Development & MANIPUR Entrepreneurship, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, inaugurated the first-ever, ➢ Imphal West district of Manipur namely Phayeng Village has Nua Odisha – Dharmapada Samvaad – Skill Saathi Youth Conclave at become India’s first carbon-positive settlement. Rail Auditorium in Bhubaneswar which was aired live across 427 locations in Odisha. MEGHALAYA ➢ Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched the scheme ‘Mukhya ➢ In Meghalaya, the Geological Survey of India (GSI) North Eastern Mantri Karigar Sahayata’ for financial assistance to craftsmen under the Region (NER) installed two geological display boards at Meghalaya’s two nodal department Directorate of handicrafts. The of the scheme is the. important geological sites namely Mawmluh cave and Therriaghat, Craftsmen with 10 years of experience and having annual income Sobhar in East Khasi Hill District. The stalagmite in Mawmluh cave has been below Rs.1 lakh are eligible to get an assistance of Rs.800 per month. tagged as Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP). For craftsmen above 80 years of age would get Rs.1000 per ➢ Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma launched a new project to month allowance for those has the same experience and annual income as boost medicinal and aromatic plants cultivation named “Aroma Mission”. above. ➢ National Green Tribunal (NGT) has imposed a fine of Rs.100 crore on ➢ Kandhamal Haldi (turmeric), Odisha’s locally grown turmeric in Meghalaya government for its failure to curb illegal coal mining in the its Kandhamal district has received the Geographical Indications (GI) state. tag from Intellectual Property India. It is organically grown by tribals. ➢ The government of Meghalaya has decided to rename the Dikkibandi PUNJAB stadium in Tura after P A Sangma. ➢ Punjab State government plans to ban online delivery of food without ➢ 28th edition of the annual ‘Caving in the Abode of the Clouds hygiene rating as per the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India Expedition’, a five-member team of cavers of Meghalaya Adventurers’ (FSSAI) guidelines. Association (MAA) has discovered India’s deepest shaft at Krem Um ➢ Punjab Govt. has discussed to Prepare Water Management Plan with Ladaw. It has 105 m deep shaft entrance passage. Israel Group to tackle declining ground water in Punjab. ➢ The Punjab state government will regularize over 5100 teachers with MIZORAM full pay scale next month. 'Sikhya Providers' and "volunteer teachers" ➢ Mizoram Assembly passed a new bill named Mizoram Maintenance of will get a pay hike of Rs.1,500 from next month. Household Registers Bill, 2019 with an objective to detect foreigners ➢ Punjab government approved a rural development scheme “Smart illegally residing in Mizoram, who takes away the benefits of the citizen Village Campaign” worth Rs 384.40 crore to build village infrastructure of Mizoram. and provide essential amenities. ➢ The Mizoram Government issued an order to ban the import of pigs and ➢ The Punjab state Government has declared the endangered Indus piglets, because there is a possibility of outbreak of Porcine Reproductive River dolphin as the state aquatic animal. and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS). ➢ The Check post in Gurdaspur district of Punjab will be authorized ➢ The Mizoram Cabinet has approved the proposed Mizoram Liquor immigration checkpoint to exit and entry for visiting Kartarpur Sahib Prohibition Bill, 2019 in the state. Gurdwara in Pakistan Dera Baba Nanak land Check post.

NAGALAND RAJASTHAN ➢ The Union Home Ministry has approved the changing of name of the Old ➢ Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani inaugurated the ‘Titanwala Mangkhi village in Tuensang of Nagaland to Mungankhun village. Museum’ which showcases the Chhipa community’s art of traditional ➢ The 75th anniversary of the Battle of Kohima was observed by the hand-block printing at Bagru, Rajasthan. Nagaland government on April 4th, 2019 with representatives from the ➢ The Rajasthan state government passed a Backward Classes UK and Japan. Theme: ‘Remembrance, Reconciliation and Rebirth’. Amendment Bill, 2019 to provide 5% quota in jobs and educational ➢ Entire state of Nagaland has declared ‘disturbed area’ under AFSPA - institutions to ‘Gurjars’ and four other communities. Armed Forces (Special Powers) Acts. ➢ Defence Research and Development Organisation ➢ Nagaland Chief Minister Mr Neiphiu Rio has inaugurated the state’s first (DRDO) successfully test fired indigenously developed, low weight, fire and Astro Turf Football Pitch at Indira Gandhi Stadium in Kohima. forget Man-Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile (MPATGM) for the second time in the Pokhran ranges of Rajasthan desert. The ODISHA indigenously developed Guided Pinaka is expected to boost the artillery’s ➢ Odisha Chief Minister, Shri Naveen Patnaik announced the extension of ability to achieve precision hits. free health services under Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana (BSKY) to all ➢ Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot announced the banned on the medical colleges and hospitals of Odisha from 1st February 2019. sale of e-cigarettes in Rajasthan. ➢ The Odisha state Government has announced “Jiban Sampark” project ➢ The Rajasthan government has increased the annual financial for the welfare of the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups at the annual assistance under the ‘Aapki Beti’ scheme It provides annual financial Adivasi Mela-2019 in association with UNICEF. assistance to the schoolgirl (class 1 to 8) in the state living under Below ➢ Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched the Ujjwala Poverty Line (BPL) and whose mother or father or both have died. As per Sanitary Napkin initiative in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. the revised scheme, girls will get an amount of Rs 2,100 instead of Rs ➢ Chief Minister Shri Naveen Patnaik launches Krushak Assistance for 1,100. Similarly, for girls (in class 9 to 12), financial aid has been increased Livelihood and Income Augmentation (KALIA) Naveen Patnaik to Rs 2,500 from Rs 1,500. launched Rs 10,000 crore Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation (KALIA) scheme named Chhatravritti Yojana in Keonjhar SIKKIM district. ➢ Sikkim, though being a smallest state have set an initiative to ➢ Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik announced in a video conference introduce UBI in the entire nation. on “Ama Gaon, Ama Bikash” a hike of Rs 200 per month in the social ➢ Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling has launched a scheme One security pension under Babu Pension Yojana (MBPY). Family One Job in Gangtok. Sikkim has become the first state in the ➢ The Odisha chief minister also distributed financial assistance of Rs. country to carry out such a programme for the people entitling them to state 3,000 each to six lakh women self-help groups as part of the state government employee benefits. government’s efforts to digitally empower women. Interest-free loans of up to Rs.3 lakhs for six lakh Women Self-Help Groups (WSHGs). TAMIL NADU ➢ The Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi dedicated to the Nation Multi- ➢ Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has launched a series of projects as Modal Logistics Park (MMLP), at Jharsugudaand, Odisha at a cost of a part of the Tamil Nadu Defence Industrial Corridor in Tiruchirppalli. Rs.100 Crores. ➢ A drainage-cleaning robot named Bandicoot, has been introduced for ➢ The Odisha government as part of its initiatives to empower women, the first time in India at the city corporation as part of launched the ‘Khushi’ scheme to provide free sanitary napkins to efforts to rid of manual scavenging at the cost of Rs 18 lakh in Chennai, schoolgirls across the state at the cost of INR 466 crore in a period of 5 Tamil Nadu. years. ➢ Coal Minister Piyush Goyal dedicated to the nation a 1,000-megawatt ➢ In a first-of-its-kind initiative, the Odisha government has launched a (MW) thermal power project of Neyveli Tamil Nadu Power Ltd boat ambulance service to ferry patients to hospitals in remote areas. (NTPL) at and a 150-MW solar power The total project cost Rs 5.40 crore. The ambulance service can be availed projects of Neyveli Lignite Corporation India by dialling ‘108’. Limited (NLCIL) at Ramanathapuram and districts ➢ Naveen Patnaik-led state cabinet gave its nod to the Odisha State Film in Tamil Nadu. Policy-2019. The state government decided to provide subsidy up to Rs 2.5 crore to filmmakers of English, Hindi or other language films. ______

7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 25 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | ➢ turmeric (Tamil Nadu) finally got a Geographical Indication ➢ At SRT Campus in Uttarakhand's Tehri, a cloud observatory system (GI) tag from the Geographical Indication Registry after an eight-year-long has been set up that could soon forecast news about cloud bursting which process. in turn would help in minimising damage. ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone for All India ➢ After a delay of over 11 years, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Institutes of Medical Sciences, (AIIMS) at . Singh Rawat has laid the foundation stone for the -Musssoorie ➢ Actor Vijay Sethupathi launched the mobile App ‘DigiCop’ of city police ropeway project which is considered to be a tourist novelty. department at the Commissioner’s office. Using the App, people can track ➢ Mukhyamantri Anchal Amrit Yojana was launched in Dehradun by the status of stolen two-wheelers and cell phones. Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat. The scheme aims ➢ Chennai Central railway station has been renamed by the Tamil Nadu to provide 100 ml milk twice a week, free of cost, to 2.5 lakh children at State Government as Puratchi Thalaivar Dr MG Ramachandran Central 20,000 Anganwadi Kendra’s of Uttarakhand. Railway Station after its late Chief Minister and founder of the Chennai’s ruling govt All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), Dr. UTTAR PRADESH MG Ramachandran. ➢ PepsiCo India will invest nearly Rs.500 crore to build a food ➢ International Day for Biological Diversity tree ambulance was manufacturing plant in Uttar Pradesh. It will invest $2.1 bn in India by inaugurated in Chennai, Tamil Nadu by Vice President of India, Venkaiah 2022, which is part of the $5.5 bn it had promised in November 2013. Naidu. ➢ Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister unveiled a 7-foot tall statue of Lord Rama at the Shodh Sansthan museum in Ayodhya on 7 June. ➢ Ola signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government ➢ Chaukhandi Stupa, an ancient Buddhist site located in Sarnath, Uttar of Telangana, to support the government’s efforts towards strengthening Pradesh, has been declared as a Monument and protected area of national the traffic infrastructure in the city. importance by Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). ➢ Telangana government has launched a digital business networking portal ➢ The Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) is constructing a road for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises MSMEs – Telangana using plastic waste for the first time ever. The road is constructed from State GlobalLinker (ts-msme.globallinker.com). Gomti Nagar Police Station to Indian Institute of Management (IIM) under a ➢ Telangana has secured the first rank for the second year in a row in pilot project by LDA in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. The LDA has followed the e-Learning training programme of Department of Personal and guidelines of the Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) in road Training (DoPT), Government of India. The training is being imparted to construction. achieve the goal of “training for all”. ➢ The Uttar Pradesh state Govt. has hiked old-age pension in the age ➢ The Nizamabad Lok Sabha constituency, where polling is underway group 60 to 79 years by rupees 100 monthly. along with 16 other constituencies in Telangana, may make it the Guinness ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Varanasi and Ghazipur in Uttar World Records for the maximum number of Electronic Voting Pradesh. He dedicated the 6th International Rice Research Institute Machines (EVMs). (IRRI), South Asia Regional Center (ISARC) to the nation in Varanasi. ➢ Indian archaeologists recently unearthed a life-sized stucco ➢ The Union Home Ministry (MHA) approved the Uttar Pradesh government’s sculpture from a Buddhist site at Phanigiri in Suryapet, Telangana. proposal to rename Allahabad as Prayagraj. ➢ Telangana released a draft block chain policy to set up country’s ➢ UP government announced to give a monthly pension of Rs.500 to first ‘Block chain District’ in Hyderabad. the destitute women in Varanasi. ➢ Telangana government has announced to increase the assistance under ➢ Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath flagged off the direct bus its flagship ‘Rythu Bandhu scheme’ for 2019-20 from Rs.4000 to services from Prayagraj to Katra. Rs.5000. ➢ Uttar Pradesh became the third state after Jharkhand and Gujarat to ➢ MNJ Institute of Oncology and Regional Cancer Centre has become approve the 10 per cent reservation for economically backward among the first State-run hospital in Telangana to enter into Guinness Book of upper castes in jobs and educational institutions. World Records. ➢ The Uttar Pradesh state Govt. has announced phenomenal increase in ➢ Secunderabad Railway Station, in Hyderabad, became the first the wages of Anganwadi workers, Mini Anganwadi workers, Sahayikas and railway station of South-Central Railway (SCR) zone to hoist a huge Prantiya Raksha Dal members. There will an increase of Rs. 1500 in the tricolour on a 100-foot tall pole. present honorarium of Anganwadi workers, Mini Anganwadi (Rs. 1250), ➢ A full-fledged B-Tech programme in Artificial Intelligence would be Sahayikas (Rs.750) increase in their present monthly salary. introduced by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad, ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Pradhan Mantri Kisan from the coming academic year. Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. ➢ The Telangana state government has decided to form a 'State Tiger ➢ The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi attended the 50th Raising Day Protection Force' to save the Big Cat population in the State. celebrations of Central Industrial Security Forces (CISF) in ➢ The Telangana state government has announced to create two more , Uttar Pradesh. districts named Narayanpet and Mulugu. Now the number of districts in ➢ Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Amethi in Uttar Pradesh to the State is 33. address a public meeting and lay the foundation stone of an Ordnance ➢ Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has inaugurated a regional unit of factory unit in Amethi. National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Hyderabad. ➢ Union Minister of State (IC) for AYUSH Shri Shripad Yesso Naik laid ➢ India’s first private sector unit for manufacturing Unmanned Aerial foundation stone for National Institute of Unani Medicine (NIUM) at Vehicles (UAV) was inaugurated at Adani Aerospace Park in Hyderabad, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh in the august presence of Union Minister of Telangana. State for External Affairs General V. K. Singh. ➢ INDUS FOOD-II with the theme of 'World Food Supermarket' has been TRIPURA started at Greater Noida to integrate Indian farmers and agricultural ➢ The government of Tripura announced ‘Notun Disha’ (New Direction) products with global value chains. for assessing the academic level of students in classes III-VIII and then ➢ Supercomputer named 'PARAM Shivay' of 833 teraflop capacity is built improving their current level. It was launched by state Education Minister for Rs.32.5 crore, at IIT-Banaras Hindu University (BHU). It will include 1 Ratan Lal Nath. peta byte secondary storage. ➢ The Tripura government has unveiled an official logo for the state’s tea to popularise the beverage and to promote the potentiality of tourism. The logo features Tripura’s iconic landmark, the “Neermahal” which is the ➢ West Bengal Education Minister, Partha Chatterjee has unveiled a web largest and one-of-its-kind water palace in India. portal, “Banglar Shiksha” (banglarshiksha.gov.in), to provide real-time ➢ Union Minister of State for Food Processing Industries Sadhvi Niranjan data on state-run and aided schools. Jyoti inaugurated Sikaria Mega Food Park Pvt Ltd at Village Tulakona in ➢ West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee launched a new scheme Agartala. called Yuvashree Plan II or Yuvashree Arpan under which 50,000 youths will receive financial assistance of Rs 1 lakh for setting up their own UTTARAKHAND business initiatives. Youngsters passing out of Industrial training ➢ The Centre has decided to set up a National Law University in institute (ITI) or other polytechnic institute will be eligible to get financial Uttarakhand. support from the micro, small and medium enterprises ➢ Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat launched a helpline (MSME) department. for quick redressal of public complaints. People can call on the helpline ➢ The 158th birth anniversary of Rabindra Nath Tagore is being number “1905” to lodge their complaints. celebrated all over West Bengal.

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7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 26 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | ➢ The West Bengal government announced two welfare initiatives for farmers. Both initiatives, which are part of the ‘Krishi Krishak Bondhu’ scheme came into effect from January 1,2019. NATIONAL SUMMITS ➢ The West Bengal state Government has announced to extend the Summit Key points/Theme Held in retirement age of College-university professors from 62 to 65 years and 106th Indian Science Theme: ‘Future India: Jalandhar, Punjab Vice-Chancellors from 65 to 70 years. Congress (ISC)-2019 Science and Technology’ ➢ Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated Railway electrification of Women’s Science It is a part of the 106th Jalandhar, Punjab 294-km long Andal-Sainthia-Pakur-Malda and Khana-Sainthia sections Congress Indian Science Congress in West Bengal. 5th Regional Centre NIPCCD is a premier Mohali, Punjab ➢ International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) decided of National Institute organisation devoted to to set up a World Heritage Centre housing ‘spiritual camps’ in45 countries, of Public Cooperation promotion of voluntary one of which is to be set up in Mayapur in West Bengal. The estimated and Child action, research, training, cost of this project is 3000 crores. Development and documentation in the ➢ Union Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma inaugurated India's first (NIPCCD) overall domain of women 'fulldome3D Digital Theatre' at the Science City- . and children development. ➢ A regional conference on ‘Deendayal Disabled Rehabilitation Scheme 29th Indian Paint Theme: ‘Paints Pe Charcha Agra, Uttar (DDRS)’ was organised in Kolkata, West Bengal. Conference – 2019 – Naye Aayaam’ Pradesh ➢ The West Bengal State government has set up a separate Directorate 15th edition of The theme of PBD 2019 is Varanasi, Uttar to deal with the cases of tax evasions. Pravasi Bhartiya "Role of Indian Diaspora in Pradesh ➢ The Indian Navy's first full-fledged Services Selection Board (SSB) Divas building a New India.” was inaugurated by Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba at Diamond Harbour Gandhian This Summit is being Prayagraj, Uttar near Kolkata. Resurgence Summit organised by the Pradesh

Parmarath Niketan, the IIT’S IN NEWS Harijan Sevak Sangh and ➢ Engineers from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT the Global Interfaith WASH Bombay) have developed a microprocessor called AJIT. It can be used inside Alliance. a set-top box, as a control panel for automation systems, in a traffic light National Cardiology Organised by Dept of Lucknow, Uttar controller or even robotic systems. Conference 2019 Cardiology in which leading Pradesh ➢ Indian Institute of Technology Madras has partnered national and international with ESPNcricinfo to launch Superstats which is a next level artificial experts from Europe, USA, intelligence to analyse cricket statistics through machine learning and Japan, Singapore South forecast. Superstats is developed by a team headed by the IIT Madras Korea, Indonesia and research scholars Raghunathan Rengaswamy, Mahesh Australia Panchagnula along with the ESPN team. 8th- edition of Home The exhibition has been Greater Noida, ➢ IIT Guwahati, Mandi, and Indian Institute of Science Expo India-2019 organized by the Export Uttar Pradesh Bengaluru, Department of Science (DST) have joined hands with Promotion Council for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) to develop Handicrafts a climate change vulnerability assessment for the Indian Himalayan region India Steel 2019 – The event provides an Mumbai, using a common framework called as the National Mission for Sustaining Exhibition and opportunity for all the Maharashtra the Himalayan Ecosystem (NMSHE). Conference stakeholders to deliberate ➢ Under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM), India’s 1st state- and identify ways to of-the-art 1.3 PetaFlop High-Performance Computing facility and contribute towards building data center ecosystem will set up at IIT Kharagpur. IIT Kharagpur signed a robust roadmap for the a MoU with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C- further growth of the steel DAC). sector. ➢ The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Ropar, has developed 10th edition of the To improve productivity of Mumbai, an app Roshni that would help the Visually Impaired to India Rubber Expo – the sector enabling India’s Maharashtra recognise currency notes. It is often difficult for the visually impaired 2019 efforts to become a 5 people to identify the denomination of the currency note. trillion-dollar economy. ➢ An app to detect fake currency has been developed by group of six Global Aviation The theme of summit is Mumbai, students from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Summit 2019 ‘Flying for all’. Maharashtra Kharagpur. The app has been demonstrated at Nationwide competition It will be organized by the Smart India Hackathon 2019. Ministry of Civil Aviation ➢ Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee has signed an MoU (MoCA) in collaboration with The Indian Space Research Organisation of the Department of with FICCI Space (ISRO) to develop Space Technology Cells at IIT 25th Partnership Theme: New India Rising to Mumbai, Roorkee, Uttarakhand. summit 2019 Global Occasions Maharashtra ➢ Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Delhi has developed an Artificial 9th International Theme: “Micro Irrigation Aurangabad, Intelligence-based electronic hardware system to detect malaria, Micro irrigation and Modern Agriculture”. Maharashtra tuberculosis, an intestinal parasite, and cervical cancer in milliseconds. conference ➢ The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has signed a Memorandum of th Understanding (MoU) with IIT - Delhi to collaborate in the field 67 Annual Armed It was organised under the Pune, Maharashtra of standardisation and conformity assessment. The MoU was signed by IIT Forces Medical supervision of Surg Vice Delhi Professor V Ramgopal Rao and Director General of BIS Surina Conference Admiral Ravi Kalra was Rajan. inaugurated by Lt Gen Bipin ➢ Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Government of India and Puri, Director General, Armed Forces Medical Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) have inked MoU for setting up a Centre of Excellence for Waste to Wealth Technologies Services. in India as a commemoration of 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi Kala Ghoda Arts The theme of KGAF 2019 is Mumbai, on 2 October 2019. Festival Retrospection Maharashtra ➢ Common Service Centre’s (CSC) e-Governance Services India Limited, Intersessional It was organized by the Mumbai, a special purpose vehicle under the Ministry of Electronics & IT, said it Meeting of Kimberley Union Ministry of Maharashtra has tied up with Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Kanpur to upscale Process (KP) Commerce & Industry, ‘Unnat Bharat Abhiyan’. Government of India; and ➢ Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati signed an MoU with co-organised by Gem & the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to set up an IITG-ISRO Jewellery Export Promotion Space Technology Cell (STC) at the institute where Assam Governor Council (GJEPC). inaugurated a new academic complex and research and development building.

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7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 27 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | 8th World Corporate The theme of the year 2019 Mumbai, satellite Social Responsibility is ‘Sustainable Maharashtra. broadcasting, BES Congress Development Goals EXPO 2019 (SDGs)’. Dr. Soumitro 27th World Book Fair This year’s theme is ‘Books New Delhi, India Chakraborty won ‘CEO of for Readers with Special the year’ award. Needs’ and Sharjah is the Second Edition of The Festival was hosted by Pune, Maharashtra ‘guest of honours’ country. World Count festival the award -winning 25th ‘BES EXPO 2019’ The Information and New Delhi 2019 screenwriter, author and Broadcasting Ministry is columnist Advita Kala. considering bringing a new SWIFT India and Theme: Digitisation in Mumbai, Integrated Broadcast Policy South Asia transition: The future of Maharashtra for the growing Conference innovation and cyber broadcasting sector in security India. Regional Maritime To discuss maritime safety Mumbai, 6th meeting of To provide essential drugs New Delhi, India Safety Conference in the India-ASEAN sub- Maharashtra Mission Steering free of cost in public health 2019 region, safeguarding our Group of National facilities and to set up IT- shores and promoting Health Mission (NHM) backed systems for drug maritime trade. procurement and quality Conference on the Ministry of Labour and Mumbai, assurance. VISION ZERO Employment inaugurated Maharashtra Second Conference It was inaugurated by the New Delhi, India and its relevance to of State AYUSH and Minister of State for AYUSH Occupational Safety and Health Ministers (Independent Charge) and Health conference Health & Family Welfare 9th Vibrant Gujarat Global Trade Show has Gandhinagar, Shripad Yesso Naik. Global Investors been organized as a part of Gujarat 2019 Asia LPG It will focus on ‘LPG – New Delhi, India Summit 2019 this summit. summit Energy for Life. Theme: “Youth Connect 2nd National It was Organized by Bureau New Delhi, India 2019: Shaping A New India Conference of Micro of Police Research and - The Story of Billion Missions of National Development, BPRD Dreams”. Police Mission Festival of Innovation National Innovation Gandhinagar, First Annual It was Inaugurated by I & B New Delhi, India and Foundation in association Gujarat Conference of Its ministry to discuss on Entrepreneurship with the Department of Media Units emerging areas of (FINE) Science and Technology. communication paradigm. First prize in Veterinary, 3rd Indo-German Theme: "Cleaner Air, New Delhi, India Herbal medication for Environment Forum Greener Economy:" coccidiosis was presented One Health India The main objective of the New Delhi, India to Periyasami Ramasami of Conference 2019 conference was to Salem, Tamil Nadu. formulate a roadmap for 9-day long It marks Ahmedabad, the response, International Kite the Uttarayan or Makar Gujarat preparedness, and Festival Sankranti, the day when management of current winter season starts regional, national and changing to summer and global health challenges farmers welcome the using a One Health approaching harvest collaborative approach. season, at Sabarmati River. National Conference Minister of Commerce & New Delhi, India Indian Panorama The festival is being New Delhi, India on Logistics Policy: Industry Suresh Prabhu Film Festival organized by the Context, Issues & has launched the SAFAR Directorate of Film The Way Forward Mobile App which will help Festivals, Ministry of to gauge the actual issues Information and faced by transporters on Broadcasting. the road. 4th Edition of Raisina Theme: “A World Reorder: New Delhi, India 33rd GST Council Union Finance Minister, New Delhi, India Dialogue New Geometries; Fluid meeting Shri Arun Jaitley chaired Partnerships; Uncertain this meeting. GST shall be Outcomes”. levied at effective GST rate 1st ‘National The objectives of the New Delhi, India of 5% without Input Tax Consultation on Child meeting are to follow up on Credit (ITC) on residential Protection’ the exercise of monitoring properties outside of the CCIs by States/UTs, affordable segment. to deliberate upon various GST shall be levied at aspects of child protection. effective GST of 1% 32nd Meeting of GST The limit of Annual New Delhi, India without ITC on affordable Council Turnover in the preceding housing properties. The Financial Year for availing new rate will come into Composition Scheme for force from 1st of April, Goods shall be increased 2019. to Rs 1.5 crore. Rising India Summit Theme: ‘Beyond Politics: New Delhi, India 2019 Defining National Priorities’ National Youth It is inaugurated by New Delhi, India International This conference was New Delhi, India Parliament Festival Minister of Youth Affairs conference on 8th organised by the Centre for 2019 and Sports, Col century Himalayan Escalation of Peace (CEP) Rajyavardhan Rathore sage Guru and was titled ‘Life and 25th International Theme: “Next Gen New Delhi, India Padmasambhava Legacy of Guru conference and Broadcasting in the IT Padmasambhava’ exhibition on World” terrestrial and

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7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 28 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | 5th India-Bangladesh The last Joint Consultative New Delhi, India Indian Industry and EXIM Joint Consultative Committee Meeting Bank of India. Committee Meeting between the two countries India-Africa bilateral trade was held in October 2017 volume to USD 150 billion at Dhaka. in the next few years. Parmanu Tech 2019- To discuss the issues New Delhi, India Nuclear Energy related to Nuclear Energy 34th edition of It is organized by India New Delhi, India Conference and Radiation Aahar- the Trade Promotion Technologies. International Food Organization (ITPO) 2 - day National The conference witnessed New Delhi, India and Hospitality Fair Conference on Unani exchange of MoU for First ever Space To enhance cooperation New Delhi, India Medicine scientific collaboration in Dialogue of India and between the space Unani Medicine between Japan agencies of both the CCRUM and Jamia nations Hamdard, New Delhi. 2nd edition of Indo- To provide a platform for New Delhi, India CREDAI’s Event YouthCon is the annual New Delhi, India Pacific Regional substantive and insightful ‘YouthCon-19’ Youth Conclave of CREDAI, Dialogue (IPRD) – discussions pertaining to held to bring together the 2019 the geopolitical future of the real estate developments affecting the Industry in India. maritime domain of the 1st Human Rights Theme: “State Power, New Delhi, India Indo-Pacific Conference 2019 - Business and Human 34th meeting of the The tax rate for New Delhi, India LAWASIA Rights: Contemporary Goods and Services under construction flats Challenges”. Tax Council slashed to 5% and 4th India-ASEAN The Summit is a platform New Delhi, India affordable homes to 1% by Expo Summit for the policy makers, the GST Council. industry captains and First workshop on The NITI Aayog and New Delhi, India business leaders to come development of the United States Agency together and forge a the India Energy for International common vision for India Modelling Forum Development and ASEAN’s mutual (IEMF) (USAID) organized the growth and progress. event. 14th Agricultural Theme: “Innovations for New Delhi, India International It was organised by New Delhi, India Science Congress Agricultural Workshop on National Disaster Transformation” Disaster Resilient Management Authority ‘4th Global Digital It is being hosted by the New Delhi, India Infrastructure (NDMA) in collaboration Health Partnership Ministry of Health and (IWDRI) with United Nations Office Summit’ Family Welfare in for Disaster Risk Reduction collaboration with the (UNISDR), and in World Health Organization partnership with the Global (WHO) and the Global Commission on Adaptation, Digital Health Partnership United Nations (GDHP). Development Programme ‘Aviation Conclave Theme: “Flying for All” New Delhi, India and the World Bank 2019’ 3rd Indo-Japan Government of India and New Delhi, India 20th India- Joint This was co-chaired by the New Delhi, India Workshop Government of Japan Commission for Union Minister of on Disaster Risk organized the event Economic Commerce and Industry, Reduction (DRR) Cooperation (JCEC) Suresh Prabhu and the FinTech Conclave It has been organized New Delhi, India Deputy Minister of by NITI Aayog. The Economic Development, Conclave was inaugurated Mr. Michele Geraci. by RBI Governor World Sustainable Theme: 'Attaining the 2030 New Delhi, India Shaktikanta Das. Development Agenda: Delivering on Our Biannual Army To ensure due diligence, New Delhi, India Summit (WSDS) Promise'. Commanders’ decisions are taken through 2019 Conference collegiate system International Digital Minister of State for Health New Delhi, India comprising Army Health Symposium and Family Welfare, Smt. Commanders & Senior Anupriya Patel, Officers. inaugurated this event. 4th Resilient Cities It is organised by the New Delhi, India Meeting of It was set up by the Atal New Delhi, India Asia-Pacific Congress International Council for the National Security Bihari Vajpayee 2019 Local Environmental Council government in 1998, with Initiatives (ICLEI) and co- Brajesh Mishra as the first hosted by South Delhi National Security Advisor Municipal Corporation (NSA). Naval Commanders The themes of 'Functional New Delhi, India Expo-cum The project of one New Delhi, India Conference Reorganisation of Indian Conference on thousand housing unit will Navy towards improving Construction be built in 6 state that Operational Efficiency' and Technology India are Gujarat, Jharkhand, 'Optimal Manning' will form 2019 (CTI-2019) Madhya Pradesh, Tamil the core of discussions Nadu, Tripura and Uttar towards finalising long term Pradesh. road map for the Indian 14th CII-EXIM Bank Organised by Ministry of New Delhi, India Navy. Conclave Commerce & Industry on World Trade Twelfth Ministerial New Delhi, India India-Africa Project Organisation (WTO) Conference of the WTO to Partnerships, in association ministerial meeting be held in in with Confederation of of developing June 2020. countries

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7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 29 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | Fifth Smart Cities The expo was organized by New Delhi, India Conference on Affordable Healthcare’ and India 2019 expo India Trade Promotion Pharmaceutical & that of India Medical Device Organization (ITPO). Medical Device sector 2019 is ‘Med-Tech India: 12th Capacity Building The cooperation with the New Delhi, India Gearing up for Ayushman workshop Regional Cooperation Bharat’ Agreement on Combating 12th Aero-India-2019 The tagline for Aero India Bangalore, Piracy and Armed Robbery 2019 is “The Runway to a Karnataka against Ships in Asia Billion Opportunities”. (ReCAAP) Information Second ASEAN-India For strengthening the Guwahati, Assam Sharing Centre (‘SC) in Youth Summit multilateral relations of the New Delhi. region. Challachitram Theme: 'Our Heritage, Our Guwahati, Assam First Annual The Information and New Delhi, India National Film Festival Pride'. Conference of Media Broadcasting Ministry has Units organized this event Third edition of Organised by the Royal New Delhi, India Madhya Dakshini South Central Zone Guwahati, Assam Namaste Thailand Thai Embassy with an aim Festival 2019 Cultural Centre (SCZCC) of festival to strengthen bilateral ties Ministry of Culture, and increase cultural Government of India has exchange between India organized this event and Thailand 2 Day Global The state government Chennai, Tamil 2nd Meeting of India- To deepen bilateral New Delhi, India Investors Summit would soon unveil e-vehicle Nadu Italy Joint Working cooperation for countering policy to give a boost to Group on Counter terrorism and transnational electric vehicles Terrorism crimes through regular manufacturing in the state. exchange of information, It is inaugurated by mutual capacity building Defence Minister Nirmala efforts, sharing of best Sitharaman. practices and mutual legal 37th edition of ‘ICT Theme: “Fostering India for Tamil Nadu, India assistance. Academy Bridge Industry 4.0” Conference on Future NITI Aayog is co-hosting a CSOI, 2019’ conference of Indian Banking conference on “The Future , Second World This forum will strengthen Goa, India of Indian Banking” with the Delhi Integrated Medicine regulatory framework Foundation for Economic Forum 2019 worldwide, to assure that Growth and Welfare the users of Homoeopathy (EGROW Foundation). could have wider access to National Convention - Chandimandir, quality-assured of War Decorated Haryana homeopathic medicines. India 2nd World Integrated The organizers of the forum Goa NuGen Mobility Organized by International Manesar, NCR, Medicine Forum 2019 are the Central Council for Summit, 2019 Centre for Automotive Haryana Research in Homeopathy, Technology (ICAT) under the Ministry of 33rd Surajkund This year Maharashtra is Faridabad, AYUSH. International Crafts the theme state and Haryana IBSA (India, & Secretary (Economic Cochin, Kerala Mela Thailand is the Partner ) Relations) in Ministry of Nation. Sherpas’ Meeting and External Affairs, Shri T.S. 4th Agri leadership Theme: “Entrepreneurship Ganaur, Sonipat 9th IBSA Trilateral Tirumurti led the Indian Summit 2019 & Agri Business; Agri Allied district, Haryana Ministerial Meeting delegation. – A Promising Sector and Meeting of the It was organised by Central Kochi, Kerala Agri Service- Direct Regional Heads of Board of Indirect Taxes and Marketing”. Customs Customs (CBIC) Global Skill Summit Theme: ‘Skilling Youth, Ranchi, Jharkhand Administration of 2019 Enabling Youth’. It was Asia Pacific Region of under the #MOMEMTUM the World Customs JHARKHAND campaign. Organisation (WCO) 40th International It will exhibit rich cultural Jaisalmer, Twelveth Regional It was organized by the Bhubaneswar, Annual Desert heritage of the state and Rajasthan Standards Conclave Confederation of Indian Odisha Festival attract thousands of Industry (CII) in tourists from all over the collaboration with the world to the Golden City. Department of Commerce, 10th National Foster, strengthen and Agartala, Tripura Government of India, the Science Film Festival create scientific temper MSME Department of the of India (NSFFl) through films that Government of Odisha, the popularise science, Bureau of Indian Standards technology, innovations, (BIS), National energy, environment, Accreditation Board of medicine and emerging Certification Bodies sciences, agriculture and (NABCB), the Export traditional knowledge. Inspection Council (EIC), 16th edition BioAsia Theme: ‘Life Sciences 4.0 – HICC, Hyderabad, and Centre for Research in 2019 Disrupt the Disruption’. Telangana International Trade (CRIT). Agri-Vision 2019 The objective of the Hyderabad, 5th International It is a joint initiative of the Bhubaneswar, conference on conference is to bring all Telangana Dam Safety Government of India, Odisha envisioning Agro- the stakeholders of Conference–2019 Government of Odisha and solutions for smart Agriculture production the World Bank under aegis and Sustainable together and create of the ongoing World Bank Agriculture business opportunities. assisted Dam 4th edition of Theme of India Pharma Bangalore, Rehabilitation and International 2019 is ‘Enabling Quality Karnataka Improvement Project

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7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 30 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | (DRIP) as a part of ➢ China landing a vehicle on the far side of the moon for the first time in institutional strengthening. history. ➢ The union Government has launched the Sino-Indian Digital INTERNATIONAL NEWS Collaboration Plaza (SIDCOP) to bring Indian IT companies and Chinese ➢ Pakistan Government has decided to launch Panda Bonds to raise enterprises closer to each other on a single AI enabled platform. loans from Chinese capital markets. Panda bonds are Chinese renminbi- ➢ South Africa President was the Chief Guest at the Republic Day Parade denominated bonds from a non-Chinese issuer, sold in the People’s 2019 - Cyril Ramaphosa. Republic of China. ➢ The Oxford Dictionaries has announced the Hindi Word of the Year ➢ Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is breaking off diplomatic 2018 as Nari Shakti. relations with the United States and is giving embassy personnel 72 hours ➢ A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Ministry to get out of the country. of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) and ➢ Turkmenistan has launched its first messaging app named University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada for next 10 years in New “BizBarde”. Delhi. It will help in exchange of students, researchers and faculty, ➢ A 33-year-old man Colin O’ Brady from the United States become developing research projects, livelihood opportunities and augment income the first person to complete a solo trek across Antarctica without any of the forest based communities. assistance. ➢ Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) announced entering into ➢ President of , Shavkat Mirziyoyev announced 2019 as agreements worth $93 million for providing Naval Medium Range the ‘Year of Active Investment and Social Development’ in the Surface-to-Air Missile (MRSAM) systems to India. backdrop of proposed investments from India to boost the economy of the ➢ Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has opened a new centre in Central Asian country, in his annual address to the Parliament. partnership with the UN to fight climate change and boost sustainable ➢ The United states of America (USA) and Israel officially quit development in Africa. the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ➢ In order to save Iran from the US (United States) sanctions, Project (UNESCO) amid concerns that the organization fosters anti-Israel bias. INSTEX (Instrument in Support of Trade Exercises) was launched by the ➢ Egypt President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has opened West Asia's largest governments of United Kingdom, and Germany. cathedral in its New Administrative Capital (45 kilometres east of ➢ The United States of America pulls out of Intermediate-Range Cairo). Nuclear Forces treaty with Russia. ➢ Qatar has withdrawn its membership from Organization of the ➢ UNESCO launched 2019 as The International Year of the Periodic Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Table of Chemical Elements in Paris. ➢ The largest Picasso exhibition ever held in China. ➢ Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)'s 40th communication ➢ The main camera of Hubble Space Telescope on board NASA's Space satellite GSAT-31 was successfully launched by European launch services Telescope has been shut down after it encountered a hardware problem. provider- Arianespace rocket from the European spaceport in French ➢ France will introduce its own tax on large internet and technology Guiana. companies from January 1. France has been pushing hard for a new so- ➢ Sahapedia in partnership with UNESCO organized the second edition called “GAFA tax” — named after Google, Apple, Facebook and of India Heritage Walk Festival (IHWF) 2019. Amazon -to ensure the global giants pay a fair share of taxes on their ➢ Women in the Hungary country with four children or more will be massive business operations in Europe. exempted for life from paying income tax. ➢ Thailand named the tiny, eye-catching, colourful fin plumaged Siamese ➢ The Government of Japan planned to invest an amount of 205.784 fighting fish as its aquatic animal with an aim to boost the conservation billion Yenequal to Rs 13000 crores to complete new projects in different and breeding of the same. states of India’s North- Eastern region. ➢ The Union Government has announced the Great Indian Bustard (GIB) ➢ World’s first television channel dedicated to human rights was as the mascot for the 13th Conference of Parties (COP) of the UN launched in London by the International Observatory of Human Rights Convention on the conservation of migratory species (CMS) to be held in (IOHR). Gujarat next year. ➢ US president has signed the ‘Asia Reassurance Initiative Act’. The ➢ INS Trikand, the frontline warship of the Indian Navy, participated in a law aims at countering the encroaching influence and growing multi-national training exercise ‘CUTCLASS EXPRESS 2019’. threat from China, and to reinvigorate U.S. leadership in Asia. ➢ Abu Dhabi has included Hindi as the third official language used in its Air India is resuming its services after 25 years from New Delhi to the ➢ courts, alongside Arabic and English, as part of a move designed to holy city of Najaf, Iraq. improve access to justice. ➢ Setting a first-of-its-kind record, Indian mountaineer 30-year-old ➢ The country formerly known as the Republic of Macedonia officially became the first female amputee to climb Mount changed its name to the Republic of North Macedonia on paper ending a Vinson, the highest peak of Antarctica. decades-long dispute that should pave the way for NATO membership. ➢ Japan launched the Epsilon – 4 rockets carrying 7 satellites developed ➢ Macedonia formally signed an agreement to join NATO (the North by private sector companies and Universities from the Uchinoura Space Atlantic Treaty Organization) to become the 30th member of the US-led Center in Kagoshima. alliance. ➢ The Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro has been named as the World ➢ Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani unveiled the first Iranian made semi- Capital of Architecture for 2020 by the UN Educational, Scientific, and heavy submarine named ‘Fateh’ (‘Conqueror’ in Persian), capable of being Cultural Organization (UNESCO). fitted with missiles, as per the reporting on Iran’s state TV. ➢ Iranian council known as the Expediency Council approved an anti- ➢ UAE leaders has announced the construction of the ‘Church of Saint money laundering bill to ease trade. This bill will be in line with the Francis’ and ‘Mosque of Grand Imam Ahmad AI- Tayyeb’ in Abu Dhabi. standards set by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). ➢ A small brown rat which lived on a tiny island off northern Australia is ➢ Palestine took over the chairmanship of the Group of 77 from Arab the world's first mammal known to have become extinct due to human- Republic of Egypt. induced climate change. ➢ Airports Authority of India (AAI) signed MoU with Society for ➢ China's state-run news agency, Xinhua unveiled the “world's first Applied Microwave Electronics Engineering and Research female AI news anchor" to read alongside its male AI news presenters. (SAMEER) for joint research programs in the field of Communication ➢ The world’s busiest airport for international customer numbers for the fifth Navigation and Surveillance (CNS). consecutive year with annual traffic for 2018 named as Dubai ➢ Shanghai is now home to the world’s longest 3D-printed concrete International Airport (DXB). bridge, produced by a team from the Tsinghua University School of ➢ India has raised the basic customs duty to 200% on all goods imported Architecture in . from Pakistan with immediate effect. India withdraw the Most Favoured ➢ The Pakistan government declared sugarcane juice as the “national Nation (MFN) status in the aftermath of the Pulwama terror attack. drink” of the country. ➢ Month-long ‘festival of India’ organized by the Indian Embassy and Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre begins in Kathmandu, Nepal. ➢ The Pakistan countries has abolished the long-standing facility of visa ➢ In a bid to reduce energy demand and provide emergency backup on arrival for Afghan nationals. power to trains in Japan, Tesla has claimed to develop its largest power ➢ Israel successfully tested the Arrow 3 missile system from Central storage system in Asia. It was launched in partnership with Kintetsu, a Israel, it is done in collaboration with American Missile Defense Agency. railway operator in Japan’s Osaka. ➢ Five nations Belgium, Dominican Republic, Germany, Indonesia ➢ China launched the first of its new-generation data relay satellites and South Africa assumed the charge as the Non-Permanent Members of “Tianlian II-01” into orbit that will provide data relay, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). measurement, and control services for its manned spacecraft. ______

7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 31 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | ➢ Japan has unveiled the name for its new imperial era, set to begin on ➢ China has successfully tested the World's First Armed Amphibious 1 May, will be ‘Reiwa’, signifying order and harmony. Drone Boat named ‘Marine Lizard’ and guided by China’s BeiDou ➢ launches the World’s First Fully-Fledged 5G mobile Navigation Satellite System which could be used in land and sea assault networks, a transformational leap that already has superpowers sparring operations, has been successfully tested by China. for control of an innovation that could potentially change the day-to-day lives ➢ Tech giant Google is all set to exhibit itself as AI first company in front of billions of people. of the world by opening new research centres across the globe such as in ➢ Australia is conducting 7 nation Indian Ocean military Tokyo, Zurich, New York, and Paris. Following this idea, the company exercise along with Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia, Thailand, , has opened its first centre in Africa in Ghana capital city, Accra. Indonesia and Singapore. Australia sent 4 Naval Ships and one military ➢ Two Indian Navy ships will participate in an international maritime th aircraft along with 1000 security personnel making it one the biggest military parade off the coast of Qingdao in China next week, marking the 70 exercise. anniversary of founding of the Chinese Navy. Indian Navy ships - INS ➢ Nepal successfully launched its first satellite “NepaliSat-1” into space Kolkata and INS Shakti. from Virginia in the United States. It weighs 1.3 kilograms, making it a ➢ Over 300 Days, Christina Koch will Set a New Record for Longest small satellite with limited capability. Space Flight by A Woman. ➢ The Attorney General William Barr of US has released 448 pages ➢ Indonesia has released a special commemorative stamp on the redacted version of Robert Mueller’s “Report on the Investigation into theme of Ramayana to mark the 70th anniversary of the establishment Russian Interference in the 2016 Election” which claims that the special of its diplomatic ties with India. counsel found no evidence of Russian meddling in US election in 2016. ➢ The UAE Cabinet has adopted the National Artificial Intelligence ➢ The Asian Tea Alliance (ATA), a union of five tea-growing and Strategy 2031 at the Presidential Palace in Abu Dhabi. According to Sheikh consuming countries, was launched in Guizhou in China, according to Mohammed bin Rashid, The UAE is moving ahead with its vision and industry sources. aspirations through a well-defined plan for the UAE Centennial 2071. ➢ Saudi Arabia has issued a formal order increasing the Haj quota of ➢ India and the US have structured the first reliable communication India to two lakhs from one lakh seventy five-thousand. This is the link between the Indian Navy & US Central as well as Pacific Naval third hike in three consecutive years. Commands under the COMCASA pact at New Delhi, India. ➢ The world’s first malaria vaccine has been rolled out in Malawi to ➢ India has signed an agreement with National Bank for Agriculture protect 360,000 children under two in Malawi, Kenya and Ghana in Sub- and Rural Development Consultancy Service (NABCONS) for setting Saharan Africa from the mosquito-borne disease that causes 435,000 people up India-Africa Institute of Agriculture and Rural global deaths each year. Development (IAIARD) in Malawi to enhance capacity in the areas of ➢ The government has extended the ban on import of milk and its agro-financing and entrepreneurship development for African countries. products, including chocolates, from China till laboratories at ports for ➢ The First Global Multi-Stakeholder Conference on Synergies is testing presence of toxic chemical melamine are upgraded. summoned by (UN DESA) the UN Department of Economic and Social ➢ Central Asia's biggest and resource-rich Kazakhstan has set up Affairs and the (UN FCCC) United Nations Framework Convention on Coordinating Council for attracting foreign investments including from India. Climate Change between the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development ➢ Iran's President Hassan Rouhani announced that he and visiting and the Paris Agreement on climate change, was held in Copenhagen, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan agreed to set up a joint border Denmark. It was hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and "reaction force" to counter terrorism to combat the attacks by militant the Ministry of Energy, Utilities and Climate. groups on both sides their frontier. ➢ At an estimated cost of $2.6 billion, the United States has approved the ➢ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he intends to name sale of 24 multi-mission Lockheed Martin-built MH-60 “Romeo” a new settlement in the Golan Heights after US President Donald Seahawk helicopters to India. Trump to honour his recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the strategic ➢ The United States Navy has signed an agreement with Oman to use plateau. the southern Omani ports which will allow American ships and warplanes ➢ The UAE’s flag carrier Etihad Airways has become the first airline in to take advantage of Omani ports and airports. the Gulf region to operate a flight without any single-use plastics on ➢ Amid heightened tensions with Pakistan, the Narendra Modi board, in a bid to raise awareness about pollution on Earth Day. Etihad government has cleared the procurement of 464 T-90 tanks from Russia Airways has pledged to reduce single-use plastic usage by 80% across the in a deal worth over Rs 13,500 crore. entire organization by the end of 2022. ➢ Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has launched its first ➢ India’s decision to skip the Belt and Road Forum (BRF) may have led to commercial drone delivery service through its Wing subsidiary. It had the exclusion of the Bangladesh- China- India- Myanmar (BCIM) launched its first air delivery service in North Canberra, Australia. Economic corridor from the list of projects covered by the China-led Belt ➢ The British government has published an “online harms white and Road Initiative (BRI) umbrella. paper” which is open for public consultation (till July) focuses to make ➢ Kim Jong-un (North Korean leader) and Vladimir Putin (Russian online social media platforms responsible to safeguard users, especially President) meet for their first summit talks in the Pacific port city of children. Vladivostok. ➢ Sri Lanka’s first satellite ‘Raavana-1’ was launched into space from ➢ The 14th edition of the annual Sino-Indian border trade opens at NASA’s Flight Facility on Virginia’s east shore. ‘Raavana 1’ weights Nathu La, which is the frontier post at Sino-Indian border in Sikkim. around 1.05 kg and the lifespan of the satellite is around one and a half ➢ Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh also called as Jamaat-ul- years. Mujahideen India or Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Hindustan declared as a banned ➢ Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has decided to ban the two terrorist organization by the government, the Home Ministry. All its fundamentalist terror networks namely National Thawheed Jamath manifestations have been inserted in the First Schedule to the Unlawful (NJT) & Jamathei Milathu Ibrahim (JMI). Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. ➢ Saudi Arabia lifted export ban on fruits and vegetables from Kerala. In ➢ India and Sweden have launched a joint programme that will work June 2018, the ban was imposed due to the outbreak of Nipah virus. towards addressing a range of challenges around smart cities and ➢ The U. K. government has passed an amendment, the Offensive clean technologies among others. Weapons Bill, by which Sikhs in the country will be allowed to carry ➢ India is joining hands with Japan and the (UAE) kirpans and use it during religious and cultural functions. to implement two projects in Africa. India will build a cancer hospital in ➢ The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) said its response to any "misadventure Kenya in collaboration with Japan and will to set up an Information and by the adversary" would be stronger than before as it decided to mark its Communications Technology (ICT) Centre in Ethiopia in partnership with retaliatory action on February 27 against the Indian air strikes on the the UAE. Balakot militant camp as “Operation Swift Retort”. ➢ UAE Govt has announced granting long-term visas for the top 100 ➢ Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a “sovereign internet” start-ups shaping the fourth industrial revolution. bill that will allow Russian authorities to isolate the country’s internet to ➢ The United Nations has described Cyclone Idai as one of the deadliest expand the Government Control of the Internet. storms on record in the southern hemisphere. ➢ India delivered the first pair of Mi-24 attack helicopters as a ➢ The first-ever blackhole to be pictured has been named “Powehi”. replacement to the Afghan Air Force. "Powehi", the name bestowed upon the first black hole pictured ever, is ➢ India for the first time will host and participate in a major army sourced from the Hawaiian word "Kumulipo", a primordial chant describing competition involving eight countries, including China and Russia, in the creation of the universe. Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. ➢ The World's Largest Aircraft took off over the Mojave Desert in ➢ Japan has started testing its fastest-ever bullet train ALFA-X version of California the first flight for the carbon-composite plane built by the Shinkansen train began three years, capable of reaching 400 Stratolaunch Systems Corp. kilometres per hour (249 mph). ______

7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 32 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | ➢ India has extended 1 billion- dollar Line of Credit to Mongolia to set ➢ China rejected U. S. Ambassador Terry Branstad’s call to Beijing to up it’s first-ever grass-root refinery at Sainshand in Dornogobi Province. engage in substantive dialogue with the Dalai Lama. ➢ The Saudi government has approved for the first time a scheme that ➢ Russia launched the world’s largest nuclear-powered icebreaker gives permanent residency to certain expatriates, allowing them to ‘Ural’ at the Baltic Shipyard in St Petersburg in order to improve its own real estate in the kingdom and reside with their families without a Saudi ability to tap the Arctic’s commercial potential. sponsor. This new system is named as the “Privileged Iqama”. ➢ US Space Agency announced that the National Aeronautics and Space ➢ The UK parliament became the first national legislative body in the Organization (NASA) is set for its Mission to Moon “Artemis” which is to world to declare a climate change "emergency". The historic move closely be achieved by 2024. Earlier, its goal to achieve this feat was by 2028. follows Extinction Rebellion protests that blocked traffic in key parts of After the Mission to Moon “Artemis”, NASA is planning to reach Mars by central London for a week in April. 2033. ➢ A Nepali teenager Bandana danced continuously for 126 hours to set ➢ A Nepalese Sherpa climber Kami Rita has scaled Mount Everest for a a Guinness World Records on 'Longest Dancing Marathon by an 23rd time, breaking his own record for the most successful ascents of the Individual', a feat previously holds by an Indian. world's highest peak. ➢ India and Bangladesh will co-produce a film on the life and works of ➢ India joined France, New Zealand, Canada and several other countries Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and a documentary on on in launching a major initiative in Paris to combat terrorism and Bangladesh Liberation War. extremism online and secure the internet. The initiative, 'Christchurch ➢ Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) in its World Health call to action', was named after the New Zealand city where 51 people Assembly held in Geneva, had for the first time recognized ‘burn out’ as a were killed in an attack on mosques. medical condition in its International Classification of Diseases ➢ Taiwan’s legislature voted to legalize same-sex marriage, a first in (ICD). Asia and a boost for LGBT rights activists who had championed the cause ➢ The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared Algeria and for two decades. Argentina as malaria-free countries. ➢ US President Donald Trump has outlined plans for a new US ➢ To create a new chapter in India-China cooperation in the new era of immigration system that replaces the existing green cards with 'Build digital transition, 2019 Sino-India IT and DT Industry Cooperation America' visa and substantially hikes the quota for young and highly skilled Forum was held on 27th May in Guiyang, China. workers from 12 to 57 per cent, a move likely to benefit thousands of ➢ The Malaysian government said that hundreds of tonnes of imported Indian professionals. plastic waste will be shipped back to where it came from insisting that the ➢ Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone signed an agreement to develop country did not want to be a global dumping ground. and operate a container terminal at Yangon Port in Myanmar. ➢ The US government has removed India from its monitoring list for ➢ According to a report by the Open Observatory of Network currency manipulation, clearing doubts over India’s foreign exchange Interference (OONI), China has started blocking all language editions of policies including undervaluation of currencies to gain export advantages. Wikipedia last month. ➢ World’s largest telecom equipment maker Huawei filed a motion in a US ➢ US President Donald Trump became first foreign leader at Japan’s court to declare National Defense Authorization Act Imperial Palace where he made history becoming the first world leader to (NDAA) as “unconstitutional”. meet with the new emperor of Japan “Emperor Naruhito”. Emperor ➢ The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), NASA’s first mission Naruhito ascended to the throne on May 1, opening what is called the era of to demonstrate a planetary defense technique will get one chance to hit its “Reiwa” or “beautiful harmony. target, the small moonlet asteroid is 150 m tall which orbiting a larger body ➢ United States Air Force (USAF) has successfully conducted the test of a in the binary asteroid system Didymos. DART slams into its target – laser weapons system called the Self-Protect High Energy Laser Didymos B – in September 2022. Demonstrator (SHiELD) in New Mexico. ➢ A two-day interaction was organised by the Commerce Ministry and ➢ The 8th edition of the Indo-Myanmar Coordinated Patrol (IMCOR) Indian High Commissions and embassies of eleven African countries is being held in Andaman & Nicobar Command. Under the program, to strengthen the India-Africa trade ties. Myanmar ships UMS King TabinShweHtee (773) and UMS Inlay (OPV-54) are ➢ Bilateral trade between India and the United States in goods and participating in the coordinated patrol (CORPAT) along with Indian Naval services grew 12. 6 per cent from USD 126 billion in 2017 to USD 142 Ship Saryu. billion in 2018. ➢ External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj attended the Shanghai ➢ WHO (World Health organization) collaborated with the International Cooperation Organization meeting of Council of Foreign Ministers in Food and Beverage Alliance (IFBA) to eliminate industrially produced Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. trans-fat (iTFA) from food supply worldwide by 2023. ➢ Pakistan successfully test-fired surface-to-surface medium-range guided ➢ The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announces the approval of ballistic missile Shaheen-II. It is a two-stage rocket with a diameter of 1.4 “Dengvaxia”, the first vaccine approved for the prevention of dengue m, length of 17.5 m, the weight of 25 tons and a range of 1500-2000 km. disease caused by all dengue virus serotypes (1, 2, 3 and 4) in people ages 9 through 16 who have laboratory-confirmed previous dengue infection and ➢ UAE’s Federal Authority for Identity and Citizenship (ICA) has issued who live in endemic areas. the first Golden Residence Permit in Abu Dhabi. Indian billionaire M. A, ➢ Mr Sedat Onal, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of visited Yousouf Ali was given the Golden card under the Scheme in UAE. India from 07-09 May 2019. ➢ A volcano on the Indonesian island of Bali erupted “Mount Agung”. ➢ The Islamic State terror group has claimed to have established a new ➢ Russia launches the first Arctic train service “Zarengold”. The first tourist "province" in India, the first of its kind announcement that came after train travelling through Russia's Arctic region and on to Norway set off clashes between militants and security forces in Kashmir on May 10. The from St. Petersburg station (Russia) with 91 passengers aboard for the Arabic name of the new branch is "Wilayah of Hind" (India Province), inaugural trial journey. the dreaded terror outfit, (also known as ISIS and ISIL). ➢ Insurance Regulatory & Development Authority of India (IRDAI) ➢ China has launched two new Type 052D guided-missile destroyers has increased the third party (TP) motor insurance premium for small and as it continues its push to upgrade its naval power. The two new warships medium private cars in the range of 12- 12.5% for 2019-20. were launched at the Dalian shipyard in northeast China. ➢ United Arab Emirates (UAE) has adopted the ‘National Strategy for ➢ Recently, the Australian flight carrier, Qantas has operated world’s Wellbeing 2031’ during its meeting at the Presidential Palace in Abu first zero waste commercial flight named QF739 from Sydney to Dhabi. Adelaide which disposed all waste through compost, reuse or recycle. ➢ The United Arab Emirates has reaffirmed their joint commitment to fight ➢ Konkan Railways Corporation Ltd has signed a contract agreement against terrorism and violent extremism in all its forms with Germany. with Nepal's Department of Railways to supply two 1600 HP DEMU ➢ Europe’s Highest Volcano Mount Etna, in southern Italy, erupted with train sets. These trains will be used to operationalise railway link between burst into life, spewed ash, fire, and spitting molten lava high into the sky. Jayanagar in India and Kurtha in Nepal. ➢ Russia has rejected an Iranian request to buy S-400 missile defence ➢ India has been unanimously chosen as co-chair of the Consultative systems, concerned that the sale would stoke more tension in the Middle Group (CG) of Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery East. (GFDRR) for the fiscal year 2020. ➢ Pakistan has approved a fund of 2,000 crore Pakistani rupees (₹930 ➢ Sri Lanka, Japan, and India signed an agreement to jointly develop the crore) to help boost its stock market. Pakistan’s stock market has been one East Container Terminal at the Colombo Port on 28th May. The joint of the world’s worst performing over the past two years. initiative is estimated to cost between $500 million and $700 million. As ➢ India, US, Japan, and Australia came together to support ASEAN-led per the agreement, Sri Lanka Port Authority (SLPA) will hold 51% majority architecture mechanism for a rule-based order to promote the free, open, stake in the port development while Japan and India will have combined prosperous and inclusive indo-pacific region in a meeting held at , stake of 49 percent. Thailand.

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7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 33 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | ➢ Mahindra Susten, the private equity division of Mahindra Group, has military personnel account to establish a new wall of 57 mile and 18- partnered with Mitsui & Co. Ltd, of Japan. The aim is to jointly develop and foot-high fence at the southern U.S. Mexico border. operate distributed solar power generation projects in India. ➢ The Security Council of UN has passed the new Resolution ➢ To mark the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Embassy 2462 which is intended to crack down on the financing of terrorist groups in Saudi organized ‘Gandhi Cycle Rally for Peace’ in association with the and ordering members to enforce laws against terror financing. Diplomatic Quarter Authority and Saudi Cycling Federation. ➢ The European Parliament has banned the single-use plastic cutlery, ➢ The union government notified an agreement with the Marshall Islands cotton buds, straws and stirrers that despoils beaches and pollutes oceans. a country of volcanic islands and coral atolls in the Pacific Ocean, for the ➢ Tesla has developed its ‘largest power storage system in exchange of banking and company information for tax purposes. It comes Asia’ at Osaka train station in Japan to reduce energy demand and under tax evasion and tax avoidance. It is called as Tax Information provide emergency backup power to trains in Japan. Exchange Agreement (TIEA). ➢ China’s Shanghai claimed to have the World’s First District with 5g ➢ India has partnered with Portugal to set up a National Maritime Coverage and a broadband gigabit network. It has conducted trial runs of Heritage Museum at Lothal in Gujarat. the 5G network in Shanghai’s Hongkou district. ➢ The African Union’s Peace and Security Council has suspended Sudan ➢ The UN Security Council has unanimously passed the first-ever as there is no civilian rule established in the country. resolution ordering members to enforce laws against terror ➢ Mount Sinabung volcano erupted in Sumatra Island of western financing. Indonesia. A huge column of ash was blasted and spread 7 km high to ➢ Microsoft developed a storage device in partnership with the University southeast and south of crater. of Washington that can translate digital information into DNA. ➢ National Center for Good Governance (NCGG) signed an MOU with ➢ Italy has signed a non-binding protocol with China to take part in Maldives Civil Services Commission building of 1000 Maldives civil Beijing's new Silk Road of transport and trade links stretching from Asia to servants for the next 5 years. Italy. ➢ Canada ban single-use plastics from the year 2021. Prime Minister ➢ Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena handed over a proposal Justin Trudeau planned to ban plastic bottles, straws and plastic bags seeking to declare the “Theravada Tripitaka” as a UNESCO World clogging the world’s oceans. Heritage. ➢ Imports from Pakistan to India has declined by 92% to $2.84 million ➢ Highlighting the close maritime proximity between India and in March 2019. This is after the imposition of 200% customs duties on all Indonesia, Indian Coast Guard Ship ‘Vijit’ became the first-ever Coast products following Pulwama terror attack. Guard ship to visit Sabang, Indonesia. ➢ Turkey announced that it will not back down from its decision to buy ➢ The Ministry of Human Resource Development Russian S-400 missile defence systems despite U.S.’s ultimatum. This has (MHRD), Government of India, signed a MoU with the Afghanistan created tension between Ankara and Washington, the NATO allies. Government to collaborate on Digital Education Initiatives. One of the ➢ Scientists from National Geographic Society and Tribhuvan main objectives of the MOU is to facilitate students and faculty from University installed have installed two highest weather stations in the Afghanistan to enroll and learn from the courses offered on SWAYAM, which world in an expedition to Mount Everest that wrapped up in June 2019. will expose them to latest technology courses and also upskill them in areas ➢ India designated as the Guest of Honour at the 33rd Feria Internacional of their interest. del Libro de Guadalajara (Guadalajara International Book Fair) in Mexico, ➢ India and Pakistan have agreed to work together to operationalize the National Book Trust. the which makes it easier for the Indian pilgrims to visit ➢ India extended USD 15 million assistance to Nigeria for organizing the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib at Kartarpur in Pakistan. After Kartarpur African Union (AU) summit scheduled to be held in Niamey. Corridor, now Government of Pakistan has given its consent to the proposal ➢ decided to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles by of opening Sharada Peeth Corridor for Hindu pilgrims to visit Sharada 2030 as part of a major strategy to protect the environment. It is one among Peeth located in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (POK). the 180 measures of the Irish government published in the ‘Climate Action ➢ European Union expanded the blacklist by 10 Countries adding the Plan’. United Arab Emirates, Barbados and the Marshall Island. The list had ➢ NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the National Science previously included five countries and now it became 15 countries. Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) discovered ➢ The first shipment under the United Nations ‘Transports ‘cannonball’ pulsar hurtling through space. It speeds nearly 2.5 million Internationaux Routiers’ (TIR) convention arrived miles per hour which is as fast as it could travel the distance between Earth in India from Afghanistan through Iran’s Chabahar Port. and the Moon in just 6 minutes. ➢ Cyclone Idai hit the Mozambique city of Beira and caused heavy rain ➢ India and the African Union has signed an agreement to establish an and landfall at the port city. ‘Cyclone’ has affected more than 1.5 million India-Africa health sciences collaborative platform. people in the three southern African countries Mozambique, ➢ Norway’s capital Oslo will become the world’s first city to Zimbabwe and Malawi. install wireless induction-based fast-charging systems for electric ➢ 3 astronauts, Nick Hague and Christina Koch from US and Alexey taxis, in a bid to make a zero-emission cab system by as early Ovchinin from Russia had arrived successfully at the International Space as 2023.This allows for charging up to 75 kilowatts. Norway wants all new Station (ISS) on Russian Soyuz spacecraft which was launched cars to be zero emission by 2025 whereas other nations, like Britain and from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome. France, have similar goals for 2040. ➢ Metropolitan Clearing Corporation of India Ltd (MCCIL) has become ➢ Norway set a new world record by selling 31% of electric cars in 2018. the first clearing corporation in India to receive recognition as a Third- It is set to end the sale of the fossil-fuelled car by 2025. Country Central Counterparty (TC-CCP) by Bank of England for offering ➢ Italy’s new Earth-observation satellite named PRISMA (Precursore various clearing services to UK-based entities. It has been granted under Iperspettrale della Missione Applicativa) has been launched from the Guiana United Kingdom’s Temporary Recognition Regime (TRR). Space Centre by 98 foot (30 meters) tall Vega rocket. PRISMA is ➢ The 33rd edition of the India-Indonesia Coordinated Patrol (Ind- an electro-optical instrument, which is designed to take medium Indo Corpat) was started at Port Blair, Andaman & Nicobar Islands in resolution photos to give information about environmental monitoring, order to enhance interoperability and strengthen existing bonds of friendship natural resources, pollution and crop health. between India and Indonesia. The closing ceremony will be held at ➢ US President Donald Trump formally recognised Israeli Belawan, Indonesia. sovereignty over the Israel-occupied Golan Heights, reversing decades of ➢ Maldives finance ministry has signed an agreement with United States policy and told the visiting Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin India’s Export-Import bank (EXIM) for line of credit (LOC) of 800 million Netanyahu, that Israel has an absolute right to self-defence. US dollars to finance the new government’s infrastructure projects. ➢ The World’s Largest E-Waste Recycling Facility has opened in Dubai, The EXIM Bank loans come with a 1.75 percent interest rate and a 15- UAE. It will process Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), year repayment period after five years of moratorium. IT asset disposition (ITAD), refrigerant gas and specialised waste. ➢ Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) signed a loan agreement on ➢ The Israeli cave explorers discovered the world’s longest cave behalf of the government of USD 83.11 million to Congo for named Malham near the Dead sea, beating the record-holder in Iran. The financing three solar photovoltaic power projects in the central African cave is spread in an area of 10 kilometers (6.25 miles) and it runs through country, with a total capacity of 35 megawatts in the three provinces the Israel’s largest mountain, Mount Sodom and spills out to the southwest — Karawa, Mbandaka, and Lusambo. corner of the adjacent Dead Sea. ➢ Directorate General of Mines Safety (DGMS) signed Memorandum of ➢ The Indian English word ‘chuddies’ recognized as official English word by Understanding (MoU) with Safety in Mines, Testing and Research the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The word is one of the new 650 Station (SIMTARS), Australia for cooperation in occupational safety. entries announced by the OED. ➢ Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi ➢ The Pentagon, the headquarters of the United States Department of will jointly inaugurate four projects in Bangladesh, including the supply Defence has notified that it has authorized to shift US $1 billion from a of 1,100 buses and trucks to Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation ______

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Saheb has designed these special notes. ➢ In a meeting between Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and his ➢ North Korea – United States Hanoi Summit has abruptly concluded Saudi counterpart and the chairman of Saudi Aramco, Khalid A Al-Falih, in Hanoi, Vietnam with no joint agreement after Kim insisted all US in New Delhi, it was decided that India and Saudi Arabia will revive and sanctions to be lifted on his country. expedite the implementation of USD 44 billion West Coast refinery project ➢ Malaysia became a member of the International Criminal Court in Maharashtra, in which Saudi Aramco will be holding a considerable (ICC), the world’s only permanent war crimes court which aims to prosecute stake. Capital: Riyadh; Currency: Saudi riyal the worst abuses when national courts are unable or unwilling. ➢ United States issued a pre-emptive warning to Iran on against ➢ President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree suspending Russia's pursuing three planned space rocket launches that it said would violate a UN participation in a key Cold War-era nuclear arms-control agreement Security Council resolution because they use ballistic missile technology. with the United States. ➢ ONGC Videsh (OVL) the overseas arm of ONGC, with Petrodorado South ➢ Pacific Trade Pact takes off with tariffs among six countries America has made its second oil discovery in Colombia. (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Mexico, and Singapore) that ➢ ISRO is building a “strategic asset” in Bhutan with this station, we can together amount to more than 13 percent of global gross domestic product keep an eye on China and its movements. (GDP) – a total of $10 trillion across much of the Asia-Pacic region. ➢ The government has cut import duties on crude and refined palm oil from Members of TPP are Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Southeast Asian countries. India imports 60%— 15.5 million tonnes Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, Peru, and Chile. annually — of its edible oil requirements, largely from Malaysia, Indonesia, ➢ Samsung Electronics led the largest number of patents related to self- Argentina, and . driving cars in Europe, far above traditional automobile manufacturers. ➢ A law named Asia Reassurance Initiative Act (ARIA) was passed by ➢ NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft broke a record after successfully entering Donald Trump on December 31st, 2018 according to which $1.5 billion will into orbit around the asteroid (a stone) Bennu – the smallest cosmic be funded by America to its Asian partners in the next 5 years. object ever to be orbited by a spacecraft. ➢ India has proposed setting up of an ‘India-Central Asia Development Group’ at the maiden India-Central Asia dialogue in Samarkand, Uzbekistan INTERNATIONAL SUMMITS attended by India’s Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj. Summit Key points/theme Held in ➢ The Union Cabinet approved amendments on currency swap arrangements 48th World Economic Theme: ‘Globalization Davos, Switzerland under which a standby facility of USD 400 million for SAARC member Forum Annual Meet 4.0: Shaping a Global countries will be incorporated. The member countries of SAARC Architecture in the Age (Headquarter: Kathmandu, Nepal) are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, of the Fourth Industrial India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Revolution’ ➢ Russian Railways Logistics Joint Stock Company (RZD) and Container 6th Session of the Theme: Resilience Geneva, Switzerland Corporation of India (CONCOR), the largest rail container transport biennial Global Dividend: Towards operator in India, signed the MoU for providing logistics services on INTSC Platform for (DDR) Sustainable and (International North-South Transport Corridor). Disaster Risk Reduction Inclusive Societies ➢ The United Nations owes India $38 million, the highest it has to pay (GP2019) to any country for the peacekeeping operations as of March 2019. 14th meeting of the Theme: “Clean Planet, Geneva, Switzerland ➢ India entered into a deal with Russia for leasing of a nuclear – Conference of the Healthy People: Sound powered attack submarine for Indian Navy worth USD 3 billion for a Parties to the Basel Management of period of 10 years. Under the pact, Russia will deliver Chakra III, an Convention (BC COP- Chemicals and Waste” Akula class submarine to the Indian Navy by 2025. Capital: Moscow; 14), the 9th meeting of Currency: Russian ruble. the Conference of the ➢ China lifted its broadband communication system by launching a Long Parties to the March – 3B carrier rocket with ‘ChinaSat 6C’ into a geostationary orbit Rotterdam Convention in Sichuan province. (RC COP-9) and the 9th ➢ The Marshall Islands is planning to release a digital currency called meeting of the “SOV” (Sovereign) in 2019, however, the launch date of the currency has Conference of the not been decided. Parties to the ➢ The Asian Business Leadership Forum (ABLF), a global leadership Stockholm Convention platform in partnership with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) ‘s Federal (SC COP-9) Government has decided to give further momentum to India-UAE ties. 4th Edition of Arab To make a joint Beirut, Lebanon 2019 has been declared as UAE’s Year of Tolerance by the UAE Economic and Social statement on a 29-item Government to underline the commitment to make compassion, inclusion Development Summit agenda that ranges and acceptance a part of everyday life. from discussions on an ➢ Pakistan elected as deputy chairman of the general body of Arab free trade zone the Parliamentary Union of the OIC member States (PUIC) in Rabat, and the economic effect Morocco. PUIC conference also adopted two resolutions presented by of Syrian refugees on Pakistan related to Kashmir. Capital: Islamabad; Currency: Pakistani host countries. rupee. 7th ASEAN-India Union Tourism Minister Ha Long City, Viet ➢ The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) had Tourism Ministers K. J. Alphons, co- Nam banned Russia in November 2015 because of evidence of state-sponsored meeting chaired the 7th Meeting doping and have decided to maintain it until samples and data of Tourism Ministers of from Moscow’s former anti-doping laboratory are made available. ASEAN-India with ➢ Japanese government decided to provide Rs.22 lakhs ($31,800) for Minister of Culture, the Rabindra Bharati Museum in Kolkata, West Bengal in order to Sports and Tourism of establish deeper and stronger historical and cultural ties with India. Capital: Viet Nam, Mr. Nguyen Tokyo; Currency: Japanese yen Ngoc Thien. ➢ A new coin that features the Crimea or Kerch Strait Bridge has been First India-Central Asia Aims at taking forward Samarkand, released by Russia’s central bank, to mark Crimea’s reunification with Dialogue the bilateral relations Uzbekistan Russia. which have ➢ India has provided a financial support worth USD 250 million strengthened following to Nepal, to reconstruct infrastructure in fields of housing, education, health the Prime Minister and cultural heritage, which had been ruined by the earthquake that took Narendra Modi’s visit to place on April 2015. Capital: Kathmandu; Currency: Nepalese rupee. all the five Central Asian ➢ India has signed a deal with a Russian firm to manufacture 7.5 lakh nations – Kazakhstan, AK-203 rifles, the latest derivative of the AK-47 rifles. The AK-203 rifles ______

7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 35 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Nepal-India Franchise Focuses on building the Kathmandu, Nepal Turkmenistan, and Investment Expo and relations between India Uzbekistan – in 2015 Conclave and Nepal through and the EAM’s tour entrepreneurship across the region in development. August 2018. 7th Foreign Office To further facilitate New Delhi, India 34th Meeting of the A joint exercise ‘Sary – Tashkent, consultations between their growth, including Shanghai Cooperation Arka – Antiterror 2019’ Uzbekistan India and Italy through strengthening Organisations (SCOs) will be held as decided the existing institutional Regional Anti-Terrorist by the RATS in the mechanisms. Structure (RATS) session. 4th Meeting of India- Discussed bilateral New Delhi, India First India-Central Asia Aims at taking forward Samarkand, Ukraine Working Group trade featuring the Dialogue the bilateral relations Uzbekistan on Trade and Economic importance of exports which have Cooperation (IU- and imports between strengthened following WGTEC) the 2 countries. the Prime Minister Third round of Foreign The Indian side was led New Delhi, India Narendra Modi’s visit to Office Consultations by Dr. Neena Malhotra, all the five Central Asian between India and Joint Secretary (East & nations – Kazakhstan, Botswana Southern Africa). To Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, review the entire gamut Turkmenistan, and of bilateral relations, Uzbekistan – in 2015 including political, and the EAM’s tour economic, commercial, across the region in defence, consular and August 2018. international World Government It provides a unique Dubai, UAE cooperation Summit platform to showcase 14th session of the The Union Minister also New Delhi, India and exchange best Conference of Parties launched a flagship practices and smart (COP-14) of the United project on enhancing solutions to the Nations Convention to capacity on forest challenges that nations Combat Desertification landscape restoration face. (UNCCD) (FLR) and Bonn Organization of Islamic This is the first time that Abu Dhabi, UAE Challenge in India, Cooperation (OIC) a leader of the non- through a pilot phase of foreign ministers meet Muslim country has 3.5 years implemented been invited India to in the States of the OIC conference. Haryana, Madhya World’s foremost To empower global United Arab Pradesh, Maharashtra, Artificial Intelligence dialogue on the future Emirates (UAE) Nagaland and (AI) Summit of government, Karnataka. business and society Taiwan Expo 2019 Theme: "Connect New Delhi, India 29th edition of the Abu India has been Abu Dhabi, UAE Taiwan, Connect the Dhabi International nominated as the world" Book Fair (ADIBF) “Guest of Honour” First Global Conference First-ever global Copenhagen, country at the Book Fair on Synergies coalition on clean and Denmark in Abu Dhabi. efficient cooling was 46th session of the Sushma Swaraj Abu Dhabi, UAE between the 2030 Council of Foreign attended the inaugural Agenda and Paris Ministers of the session of the Agreement. Organisation of Islamic Organisation of Islamic 17th World Economic Forum was themed on Amman, Jordan Co-operation (OIC) Co-operation meeting in Forum (WEF) in the three major visions: Abu Dhabi where she Middle East and North generating job was welcomed as a Africa (MENA) 2019 opportunities, “guest of honour”. empowering Arab 55th Munich Security It brings together Munich, Germany women and promoting Conference (MSC) leaders and security the most intriguing experts from across the start-ups. world World’s foremost To empower global United Arab 69th Berlin Director European Film Berlin, Germany Artificial Intelligence dialogue on the future Emirates (UAE) International Film Market (EFM) Matthijis (AI) Summit of government, Festival (Berlinale) Wouter Knol has business and society 2019 inaugurated the Indian 29th edition of the Abu India has been Abu Dhabi, UAE Pavilion in the event Dhabi International nominated as the 13th PETROTECH 2019 The ‘PETROTECH-2019’ Greater Noida, Uttar Book Fair (ADIBF) “Guest of Honour” is being organized Pradesh country at the Book Fair under the aegis of the in Abu Dhabi. Ministry of Petroleum & G20 leaders' summit This will be the first G20 Riyadh, Saudi Natural Gas, meeting in the Arab Arabia Government of India. world and the 15th 2nd meeting India- To deliberate upon Pokhara, Nepal meeting of the G20 Nepal Trade Treaty various bilateral issues (Group of Twenty). and non-tariff barriers 14th summit of the To address ‘current Mecca, Saudi Arabia in bilateral trade Organisation of Islamic issues in Muslim world’ 5th Asia Pacific Theme: Media Solutions Kathmandu, Nepal Cooperation (OIC) and ‘recent Broadcasting Union for Sustainable Future: developments in a (ABU) Media Summit Saving Lives, Building number of OIC member on Climate Action and Resilient Communities. states. Disaster Preparedness.

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7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 36 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | Second Edition of Belt Theme: “Belt and Road Beijing, China G-20 Finance Ministers To improve Fukuoka, Japan and Road Forum (BRF) Cooperation: Shaping a and Central Bank communication and Brighter Shared Future” governors transparency with other 7th China International A national-level Shanghai, China external stakeholders, Technology Fair professional fair to increase (CSITF) focused on international understanding of the technology trade. FSB’s work and Conference of Dialogue It is organized by the Beijing, China facilitate greater input on Asian Civilizations National Radio and from a wide array of Television stakeholders. Administration of the G20 Ministerial To discuss how Tsukuba, Japan People’s Republic of meeting on Trade and economies of G20 China. Digital Economy countries can promote Theme of the Forum: trade and investment Asian Values for the and maximize benefits World from development of Theme of this event: digital economy and “Exchanges and Mutual technologies. Learning among Asian 16th Asia Media Theme: Media Siem Reap, Civilizations and a Summit Digitisation with a focus Cambodia Community with a on developing markets. Shared Future”. 7th Regional It was headed by Siem Reap, 16th Shanghai Co- To further boost Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Comprehensive Chutima Cambodia operation Organisation defence and security Economic Partnership Bunyapraphasara, (SCO) Defence cooperation among the (RCEP) Intersessional Acting Minister of Ministers' conclave member countries in Ministerial Meeting Commerce of Thailand. the wake of evolving The 48th DG It was held between Dhaka, Bangladesh security challenges in conference India’s Border Security the region Force (BSF) and the 2020 high-level Theme: “Scaling up Lisbon, Portugal Border Guard conference of United ocean action based on Bangladesh (BGB) Nations General science and innovation Langkawi International Indian Air force for the Langkawi, Malaysia Assembly (UNGA) for the implementation Maritime Aero Expo first time is participating of Goal 14: stocktaking, (LIMA) 2019 in the relationship partnerships and between the services. solutions”. INS Kadmatt & Tejas 16th Ministerial Theme: "Partners in Doha, Qatar took part in it. Meeting of Asia Progress” 16th meeting of the To discuss Washington, DC, US Cooperation Dialogue U.S.-India Counter counterterrorism (ACD) terrorism Joint Working cooperation between 11th Meeting of Joint To further deepen Canberra, Australia Group and the Second the two countries, Working Group on counter-terrorism co- session of the U.S.- resolving to continue Counterterrorism operation through India Designations close coordination on regular exchange of Dialogue this important element information and sharing of the bilateral of best practices on relationship. countering extremism 7th India – US Defence Focused on encouraging Washington DC, and radicalization. Technology and Trade the United States and United States Initiative (DTII) Indian industry to work G7’s (Group of Seven) Britain, Canada, France, Metz, France together Environment Ministers Germany, Italy, Japan Ninth Round of To strengthen bilateral Washington DC, meeting and the United States the India-US Strategic security and civil United States gathered for a 2-day Security Dialogue nuclear cooperation, meeting including the 11th Arctic Council India re-elected as Rovaniemi, Finland establishment of six Ministerial Meeting Observer of the Arctic U.S. nuclear power Council plants in India First session of the UN- Theme is: “Innovation Nairobi, Kenya First BRICS Sherpa The Indian delegation Curitiba, Brazil Habitat Assembly for Better Quality of Life meeting was led by Secretary in in Cities and the Ministry of External Communities”. The Affairs T S Tirumurti. Sub-theme as: “Accelerated 4th Round of Free To enhance the two- Lima, Peru implementation of the Trade Agreement (FTA) way commerce between New Urban Agenda talks between India India and Peru. towards the and Peru. achievement of the 4th session of United Theme: “Innovative Nairobi, Kenya Sustainable Nations Environment solutions for Development Goals”. Assembly (UNEA) environmental International It is the conference Malmo, Southern challenges and Conference against against Anti-Semitism. Sweden sustainable production Anti-Semitism in and consumption”. memory of the First ever High-Level Theme: “Towards a Jakarta, Indonesia Holocaust Dialogue on Indo- Peaceful, Prosperous, Second Urban 20 (U20) It realize and promote a Tokyo, Japan Pacific Cooperation and Inclusive Region”. Mayors Summit free and open, inclusive (HLD-IPC) and sustainable, 2nd Global Disability From India a delegation Buenos Aires, human-centred future Summit headed by Union Argentina society. Minister for Social

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LIST OF AGREEMENTS/MOU’S SIGNED BY INDIA WITH VARIOUS COUNTRIES

Country Prime Minister Key Areas Capital/Currency Australia Scott Morrison To collaborate with SIMTARS (Safety in Mines, Canberra/ Australian Dollar Testing and Research Station) for implementation of risk-based safety management system, providing training and modernising R&D laboratory of DGMS (Directorate General of Mines Safety) Morocco Saadeddine Othmani On cooperation in the area of Cyber Security Rabat/ Moroccan dirham Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremsinghe To provide modern infrastructural facilities to Colombo, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte Swami Vipulananda Institute of Aesthetic /Rupee Studies of Eastern University in Batticaloa district of Sri Lanka. To increase cooperation in security and defence spheres in several areas, including regional security, curbing drug smuggling and human trafficking. Mongolia Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh In the field of art and culture & to strengthen Ulaanbaatar/ Mongolian tögrög Embassy of Mongolia and International Chamber of Media and Entertainment Industry (ICMEI). Uzbekistan Abdulla Aripov Long Term Contract with for Supply of Uranium Tashkent/ Uzbekistani som ore concentrates to widen its source base for the nuclear fuel. Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani (President) For 26 projects worth 9.5 million dollars in the Kabul/ Afghan Afghani field of infrastructure, public services such as health clinics and governance-related projects. Japan Shinzō Abe Dr. C.S. Mohapatra, Additional Secretary, Tokyo/Yen Department of Economic affairs, Government of India and Mr. Katsuo Matsumoto, Chief Representative, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed the Loan Agreement under Japan’s Official Development Assistance Loan Program. Maldives Ibrahim Mohamed Solih On the facilitation of visa arrangements. Male/ Maldivian Rufiyaa (President) On maritime and defence, radar system. Provide a liberal visa policy for Maldivians seeking medical treatment as well as education and business opportunities in India. Under the new visa agreement, Maldivian businessmen and tourists can stay in India without a visa for 90 days. Kuwait Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad For cooperation on the Recruitment of Kuwait City/ Dinar Al-Sabah Domestic Workers.

Poland Andrzej Duda (President) To foster relations in the field of coal mining Warsaw/ Polish Zloty and clean coal technologies. USA Donald Trump (President) To discuss trades and e-com rules. Washington, D.C./Dollar To the Statement of Guiding Principles (SGP) on triangular cooperation for global development. For the exchange of country-by-country (CBC) reports to check the tax evasions of Multinational Companies. Sri Lanka Ranil Wickramasinghe To establish a business centre for ICT Colombo, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte / incubators in Jaffna through grant of 25 crore Rupee Sri Lankan rupees from India. Norway Establishing the India-Norway Marine Pollution Oslo/ Norwegian krone Erna Solberg Initiative together with the Norwegian ministry of Foreign Affairs. Saudi Arabia Salman bin Abdulaziz Al It will invest 100 billion dollars in India in range Riyadh /Saudi riyal Saud of areas including energy, refining, petrochemicals, infrastructure, agriculture and manufacturing sectors Chile Sebastián Piñera (President) In the fields of mining, culture and Santiago/ Peso empowerment of persons with disabilities. President also visited Pablo Neruda Museum at Santiago in Chile. Netherlands Mark Rutte Bilateral cooperation in various fields, including Amsterdam/ Euro political, economic and cultural ties China Xi Jinping (President) For the export of Indian chilli meal to China Beijing/Renminbi

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Costa Rica Carlos Alvarado Quesada On waiving visa requirements for Diplomatic San Jose/ Costa Rican colon (President) and Official passport holders and the signing of the Letter of Intent to collaborate in the field of Biotechnology Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah For exchange of Information and Assistance in Bandar Seri Begawan/Brunei dollar Collection with respect to taxes in order to curb tax evasion and tax avoidance in New Delhi Sweden Stefan Löfven To cooperate in the field of various issues, Stockholm/ Swedish krona including AMR (Anti-microbial Resistance), communicable diseases and public health. India would join the “Alliance of Champions”, a creation between many countries globally to face and to fight AMR.

APPOINTMENTS (JAN – JUNE) Chairman of the National Commission for Bhagwan Lal Sahni Backward Classes NATIONAL Director-General of the National Archives P Venkata Ramesh Babu DESIGNATION CURRENT of India New Chairman of Railway Board Vinoth Kumar Yadav Secretary-General of the Medical Council of Rakesh Kumar Vats Director General (Investigation) of National Prabhat Singh India Human Rights Commission Chair the Cabinet Committee on Defence Minister Rajnath New President of the Alliance for Media Narasimhan Ram Parliamentary Affairs Singh Freedom (AFMF) Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Air Marshal SK Ghotia VSM Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi Training Command Executive Chairman of National Legal Justice AK Sikri Chief of India Meteorological Department Mrutyunjay Mohapatra Services Authority (NALSA) (IMD) Secretary of the Competition Commission P K Singh Pro Tem speaker of 17th Lok Sabha Dr Virendra Kumar of India (CCI) Leader of Rajya Sabha Thawarchand Gehlot Director General & Chairman of Ordnance Saurabh Kumar Cabinet Secretary Pradeep Kumar Sinha Factories (DGOF) New Finance Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg Director General of the (DG) Sashastra Kumar Rajesh Chandra First Head of Country's First Tri-services Major General A K Dhingra Seema Bal (SSB) Special Operations Division Commander Secretary General (15th) of National Jaideep Govind First IAF woman pilot Flight Lieutenant Mohana Human Rights Commission Singh Chairman of BARC India Punit Goenka First Indian Women Flight Engineer of the Hina Jaiswal Director General of NCC (DGNCC) Lt Gen Rajeev Chopra Indian Air Force (IAF) General Manager of Integral Coach Factory Next Navy Chief of India Vice Admiral Karambir New Chairman of National Book Trust Govind Prasad Sharma Singh (NBT) Chief Minister of Sikkim Prem Singh Tamang Director of Central Bureau of Investigation Kumar Shukla Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh Pema Khandu Election Commissioner of India Sushil Chandra Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Y S Jaganmohan Reddy 11th Chief Minister of Goa Pramod Sawant New Chairman of the Central Board of Pramod Chandra Mody New Governor of Assam Jagdish Mukhi Direct Taxes (CBDT) First Chairman of the newly C Lalsawta New Chairman of India Electronics and Jitendra Chaddah constituted Lokayukta in Mizoram Semiconductor Association (IESA) First Lokayukta of Nagaland Justice Uma Nath Singh Chairman of the Export Promotion Council Ravinder Kumar Passi First Lokayukta of Odisha Ex chief Justice of Gauhati for Handicrafts (EPCH) HC Ajit Singh 52nd Controller General of Defence Nayak First Day-Time Indian Woman Fighter Pilot Flight Lieutenant Bhawana Accounts of IAF Kanth Secretary General of ASSOCHAM Uday Kumar Varma 1st Chief Justice of Telangana HC Justice T B N President of Confederation of Indian Vikram Kirloskar Radhakrishnan Industry (CII) for the period of 2019-20 New Chief Justice of Bombay High Court Justice Pradeep Nandrajog Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) of Shiv Das Meena New Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court Justice Thottathil National Buildings Construction Bhaskaran Nair Corporation (NBCC) Radhakrishnan General Secretary of All India Federation of M S Yadav First Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Justice Vikram Nath PTI Employees’ Unions (AIFPTIEU) Court Chairperson of the News Broadcasting Justice A. K. Sikri Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh High Court P. R. Ramachandra Menon Standards Authority (NBSA) Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court Justice Abhay Shreeniwas National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval Oka Judicial Member of the National Consumer Justice V K Jain Chief Justice of Rajasthan High Court Justice Shripathi Ravindra Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) Chief Justice of Meghalaya High Court Justice Ajay Kumar Mittal Member of Office and Secrecy in UPSC Dr. T.C.A Anant Chief Justice of Delhi High Court Justice Dhirubhai Director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Ajit Kumar Mohanty Naranbhai Patel Secretary of Ministry of Road Transport and Sanjeev Ranjan 17th Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla Highways (MoRTH) Joined as a member of the 15th Finance Ajay Narayan Jha Chancellor of Central University of Gujarat Hasmukh Adhia Commission New chairman of the Agricultural Scientific Aditya Kumar Misra 24th Chief of Naval Staff (CNS) Vice Admiral Karambir Recruitment Board (ASRB) Singh

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Next US ambassador to United Nations Kelly Knight Craft Next High Commissioner of India to Anurag Bhushan the Republic of Malawi INTERNATIONAL Next High Commissioner of India to the Ms. Padmaja DESIGNATION CURRENT Republic of Fiji President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro (2nd Term) India's Next High Commissioner to South Seasoned diplomat Jaideep New President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro Africa Sarkar President of Madagascar Andry Rajoelina High Commissioner of India to the Republic Rakesh Malhotra New President of Congo Felix Tshisekedi of Cameroon New President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele High Commissioner of India to the Dr. K. J. Srinivasa President of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari Cooperative Republic of Guyana New President of Senegal Macky Sall First Indian to Head Global Solar Council, Pranav R Mehta President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky USA New President of Panama Laurentino Cortizo Director of South Africa’s Nelson Mandela Professor Faizel Ismail New President of North Macedonia Stevo Pendarovski School of Public Governance President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa Regional Director of World Health Poonam Khetrapal Singh Re-Elected President of Malawi Peter Mutharika Organization (WHO) South-East Asia Re-Elected President of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari New Chairman of African Union Egypt's President Abdel President of Indonesia Joko Widodo Fattah El Sisi New President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev First Hindu woman in Pakistan appointed as Justice Suman Kumari 1st Female President of Slovakia Zuzana Caputova Civil Judge Re-elected President of Comoros Azali Assoumani Investigation Head for Myanmar by UN Nicholas Koumjian New Prime Minister Palestinian Economist Dr. Mohammed First African American female mayor in Lori Lightfoot Shtayyeh Chicago First Female Prime Minister of Estonia Kaja Kallas First Indian Women in 359 years to join Gagandeep Kang Prime Minister of Thailand Prayuth Chan-ocha Royal Society New Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu Re-Elected to International Narcotics India's Jagjit Pavadia New Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison Control Board Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea James Marape Supreme Court of Fiji’s Non-Resident Panel Justice Madan Bhimrao New Prime Minister of Haiti Jean Michel Lapin Lokur Vice-President of Geneva-based ED Rakesh New Prime Minister of Finland Antti Rinne International Motorcycle Manufacturers Sharma Prime Minister of Sudan Mohamed Tahir Ayala Association (IMMA) New Prime Minister of Burkina Faso Joseph Marie Dabiré New President of the United Nations Professor Tijjani Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina (3rd) General Assembly Mohammad Bande Prime Minister of Taiwan Su Tseng-chang Head of UN Peacekeeping Operation in Lieutenant General Malaysia’s New King Sultan Abdullah South Sudan Shailesh Tinaikar Next Ambassador of India to the Republic Dinesh Bhatia Nominated as the Maldives’ Parliamentary Mohamed Nasheed of Argentina Speaker India’s new ambassador to China Vikram Misri Appointed Member of Commonwealth Former SC Judge K S Next Ambassador of India to the Royal Ruchira Kamboj Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal, London Radhakrishnan Kingdom of Bhutan Top Military Officer of the 29-nation NATO US Air Force General Tod D. Nepal’s ambassador to India Former Law Minister military alliance Wolters Nilambar Acharya Deputy Executive Director of the United Anita Bhatia Next Ambassador of India to the Republic Sanjay Kumar Verma Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the of Marshall Islands Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) for India’s Next High Commissioner to Former Army chief Dalbir Resource Management, Sustainability and Seychelles Singh Suhag Partnerships Next Ambassador of India to the Republic Suhel Ajaz Khan External Auditor of the World Health CAG Rajiv Mehrishi of Lebanon Organization (WHO) Next Ambassador of India to the Hashemite Anwar Haleem Chief Scientist of the World Health Soumya Swaminathan Kingdom of Jordan Organisation (WHO) Next Ambassador of India to Bosnia & Kumar Tuhin President of the 74th session of the UN Tijjani Muhammad-Bande Herzegovina General Assembly (UNGA) Next High Commissioner of India to the Ms. Padmaja Elected to the board of the International Air Ajay Singh Republic of Nauru Transport Association (IATA) Next Ambassador of India to the Republic Godavarthi Venkata First Indian American Woman to Preside Pramila Jayapal of Senegal Srinivas Over Us House Next Ambassador of India to the State of Subhash Chand International member of American Famous Writer Romila Eritrea Philosophical Society (APS) Thapar India’s next Ambassador to Vietnam Pranay Kumar Verma New Executive Director of the United Inger Andersen of Denmark India’s New Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Dr. Ausaf Sayeed Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Next Ambassador of India to Mexico Manpreet Vohra Pakistan’s Director General of Inter- Lieutenant General Faiz Next Ambassador of India to the Republic B. S. Mubarak Services Intelligence (DG-ISI) Hameed of El Salvador New Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Asif Saeed Khosa Next Ambassador of India to the Republic Kishan Dan Dewal Pakistan’s appointed as High Commissioner Mueenul Haq of to India Next Ambassador of India to the Republic Shri Santosh Jha First Female Senator of Pakistan from the Krishna Kumari Kohli of Uzbekistan Hindu Dalit community

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RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 40 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | Fort Bend County Judge in Texas Indian American K P President of IWF named as Chef de Birendra Prasad Baishya George Mission for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Next President of the 74th session UN Tijjani Muhammad-Bande Women’s Boxing team Coach Mohammed Ali Qamar General Assembly Vice-President of the Asian Hockey Mushtaque Ahmad Federation (AHF) BANKING & FINANCE First Ombudsman in Board of Control for Former Judge DK Jain DESIGNATION CURRENT Cricket in India (BCCI) CEO of Corporation Bank P V Bharathi President of Federation of India Brijbhushan Sharan Singh MD & CEO of Indian Overseas Bank Karnam Sekar (WFI) MD and CEO of Canara Bank R A Sankara Narayanan Assistant coach of Australia's men's team Former Australian captain Non-executive chairman of Bank of Baroda Hasmukh Adhia for the 50-over in England Executive Director of Syndicate Bank Nageshwara Rao First Indian to be appointed Head of Col (Dr) Bibhu Kalyan Nayak Executive Director of Bank of Baroda Murali Ramaswami International Hockey Federation (FIH) New Executive Directors of Punjab National Rajesh Kumar Yaduvanshi Health and Safety Committee Bank (PNB) & Agyey Kumar Azad General Secretary of the Asian Governing Mukesh Kumar MD & CEO of Axis Bank Amitabh Chaudhry Body of Judo Non-executive Part time Chairman of the Dr.Sanjiv Misra First Indian to be elected as a member of Praful Patel Axis Bank FIFA Executive Council MD & CEO of IDFC First Bank V Vaidyanathan Re-elected Asian Football Chief Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim MD & CEO of YES Bank Ravneet Singh Gill Al Khalifa Additional Director on the board of Yes R. Gandhi Men's National Team Chief Coach till the Former Australian field Bank end of 2020 hockey player Managing Director of Parthasarathi Mukherjee Graham Reid MD & CEO of ICICI Bank Sandeep Bakshi First-Ever Woman Referee of ICC India's GS Lakshmi Chief Operations Officer (COO) of RBL Bank Pankaj Sharma First Non-British President of Marylebone Sri Lankan cricketer Kumar Chairman cum Managing Director (MD) of R K Chhibber Cricket Club Sangakkara the J&K Bank New Technical Director for the Indian Romania's player Isac Doru Non-Executive Independent Chairman of N S Srinath Football Team Karur Vysya Bank President of Asia Anton Aditya Subowo Part-Time Chairman of Dilip Sadarangani First overseas player from India to join Ajinkya Rahane MD of Life Insurance Corporation of India & Hemant Bhargava Hampshire Non-Executive Chairman of IDBI Bank Head of Indian Women Hockey Squad for Managing Directors of LIC India Vipin Anand, T.C Suseel FIH Series Finals Kumar & Hemant Bhargava President of Anton Aditya Subowo CEO of LIC Mutual Fund Dinesh Pangtey Electoral Officer for the BCCI’s Annual N. Gopalaswami Chairman of Life Insurance Corporation of M R Kumar General Meeting India (LIC) New Head Coach of the Indian Veselin Matic CEO of the Citi India business Ashu Khullar Men’s Basketball Team Kotak Mahindra Bank’s Whole-Time KVS Manian and Gaurang Head coach of the ‘Malta national cricket Rajkumar Sharma Directors Shah team’ Re-elected president of Basketball K. Govindaraj Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan Pakistani economist Dr Federation of India (BFI) Reza Baqir Advisor of Delhi Capitals (formerly known Former India captain Sourav ’s India Head Kaushik Shaparia as Delhi Daredevils) for the upcoming Ganguly Board of Directors in Sairee Chahal edition of Vivo Indian Premier League Managing Director and Chief Executive Nitin Chugh (IPL) Officer of Ujjivan Small Finance Bank Mediator for resolving various Senior Advocate P S Independent Director of Ujjivan Small Sachin Bansal disputes related to cricket administration Narasimha Finance Bank in the country CEO of World Bank Kristalina Georgieva Chairman of Coordination Committee for Indian Sports Administrator First Woman Chief Economist of IMF Gita Gopinath (India - 2022 Asian Games Randhir Singh born) Re-appointed Chairman of ICC Chief/President of World Bank David Malpass (International Cricket Council) Cricket Chairman of NASSCOM for 2019-20 Keshav Murugesh Committee New President of International Chamber of Vikramjit Singh Sahney President of the Olympic Council of Asia Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al- Commerce (ICC) India (OCA) Sabah Managing Director (MD) and Chairman of Sanjiv Puri Ethics Officer of the Indian cricket board BCCI Ombudsman Justice D ITC Ltd on an BCCI’s ad-hoc basis K Jain New Secretary General of the General M N Sarma Insurance Council (GIC) RESIGNATION New Managing Director of Twitter India Manish Maheshwari ❖ Pentagon Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defence (US) - Kevin New Vice President & MD of Facebook India Ajit Mohan Sweeney CEO of PayU India Anirban Mukherjee ❖ Chairman of the National Stock Exchange of India Ltd (NSE) - Ashok First Independent Woman Director to BSE M Jayshree Vyas Chawla Board ❖ Malaysia’s King - Muhammad V India Policy Head of Gates Foundation Sanjay Ubale ❖ Head Coach of the Indian Football Team - Stephen Constantine Head of Marketing for India and South Asia Sujatha V Kumar ❖ Odisha Agriculture Minister - Pradeep Maharathy - VISA ❖ Tamil Nadu Youth Welfare and Sports Development Minister - Chief Risk Officer of Indiabulls Housing Naveen Uppal Balakrishna Reddy Finance Ltd ❖ Greece Defence Minister - Panos Kammenos ❖ International Boxing Federation (AIBA) President - Gafur Rahimov Executive Director of P Jayadevan ❖ Founder of Jet Airways (India) Ltd - Naresh Goyal Ltd for Tamil Nadu and Puducherry ❖ India’s doubles badminton coach - Tan Kim Her (Malaysia)

❖ Mizoram Governor - Kummanam Rajasekharan SPORTS ❖ Finland’s Prime Minister - Juha Sipila DESIGNATION CURRENT ❖ Bajaj Finserv’s Chairman and Non-Executive Director - Rahul Bajaj New Executive Chairman of ICC Manu Sawhney ❖ Political Party ‘Jammu and Kashmir Peoples’ Movement’(JKPM) - Civil CEO of International Cricket Council (ICC) Manu Sawhney Servant Shah Faesal

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7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 41 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | ❖ Google India MD - Rajan Anandan ❖ Myntra – Virat Kohli, ❖ Algeria President - Abdelaziz Bouteflika ❖ V- Nourish - ❖ Prime Minister of Mali – Maiga ❖ To promote Yoga in Goa - Namrata Menon ❖ Jet Airways - Nasim Zaidi ❖ Wipro President - Shaji Farooq EXERCISES ❖ Uber Asia Pacific Head - Amit Jain ❖ “African Lion 2019” – Morocco and the US - Southern Morocco. ❖ Union Steel Minister - Chaudhry Birendra Singh ❖ The 3rd edition of AUSINDEX 19 - India-Australia -Vishakhapatnam. ❖ Mali’s Prime Minister - Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga ❖ Al Nagah III 2019 - Indian and Royal Army of Oman (RAO) - HQ Jabel ❖ Pakistan's Finance Minister - Asad Umar Regiment, Nizwa, Oman. ❖ President of Archery Association of India (AAI) - B. V. P. Rao ❖ Sampriti-VIII - India-Bangladesh - Tangail, Bangladesh ❖ Paytm President - Bhushan Patil ❖ AFINDEX-19 – India – Africa – Pune, Maharashtra ❖ British Prime Minister - Theresa May ❖ Mitra shakti-VI – India -Sri Lanka - Diyatalawa Parade, Sri Lanka ❖ Papua New Guinea Prime Minister - Peter O'Neill ❖ TROPEX 19 (Theatre Level Operational Readiness Exercise) - ❖ Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has resigned from assembly Largest War Game of the Indian Navy - Kochi, Kerala constituency Bijepur. He had contested assembly elections from Hinjili and ❖ The US military forces and the Indian National Security Guard Bijepur constituencies and won both the seats. (NSG) is conducting joint exercises in Hyderabad. The US forces are from the 1st Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group stationed out of Okinawa in Japan. RETIREMENT ❖ Mainamati Maitree Exercise 2019 - India and Bangladesh – Tripura ❖ South African All-rounder - Cricketer Albie Morkel ❖ “Foal Eagle 2019” and “Key Resolve” - United States and South ❖ Former South Africa All-rounder - Johan Botha Korea ❖ Squash legend - Nicol David ❖ 33rd edition CORPAT- India–Indonesia - Port Blair ❖ West Indies batsman - Chris Gayle ❖ 2nd ‘IMBEX 2018-19 - India-Myanmar bilateral army exercise - ❖ South Korean National Football Team: Ki Sung-Yueng Chandimandir Military Station at Chandigarh. ❖ American Professional Wrestler - Stephanie Nicole Garcia- ❖ IAFTX 2019 - Indian Africa Field Training Exercise – Pune Colace aka Nikki Bella ❖ Exercise Topchi – Indian Army – Nashik ❖ Sri Lanka Cricketer - Lasith Malinga ❖ Vayu Shakti – Indian Air Force - Pokhran, Rajasthan ❖ Australian Footballer - Tim Cahill ❖ Exercise Rahat (Joint Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief ❖ Argentina Football striker - Gonzalo Higuain Exercise) - Jaipur, Rajasthan ❖ James DeGale - British Boxer ❖ The five-day multinational maritime exercise 'AMAN-19', in which 46 ❖ South African cricket team’s leg-spinner - Imran Tahir nations are taking part, commenced near the coastal city of Karachi with the ❖ Second Senior-Most Judge of the Supreme Court - Justice Arjan Kumar slogan “Together for Peace”. Sikri ❖ ‘Bold Kurukshetra–2019’ - India and Singapore - To develop military ❖ South Africa Cricketer - JP Duminy technology in Jhansi. ❖ Kazakhstan President - Nursultan Nazarbayev ❖ Indian Navy undertook the second edition of the bilateral maritime ❖ WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) Hall of Famer - Kurt Angle exercise between Indian Navy and Vietnam Peoples’ Navy at/ off Cam ❖ Former India and Punjab Pacer -Vikram Raj Vir Singh Ranh Bay, Vietnam. ❖ Malaysian badminton star- Lee Chong Wei ❖ The Sri Lanka Army have organized biggest ever military ‘Exercise - ❖ Executive Chairman of Wipro (30th July) - Azim Premji Western Shield’ with the largest ever contingent of Infantrymen is ❖ Indian cricketer - scheduled to begin on 1 July 2019 with the support of other service ❖ Former Australian skipper - Greg Chappell Regiments, Navy and Air Force troops. ❖ Barcelona Midfielder - Xavi Hernandez ❖ Varuna 19 - Indo-French joint naval exercise – Goa Coast ❖ Professional Footballer - Yaya Toure ❖ 25th edition of SIMBEX - Singapore-India Maritime Bilateral ❖ Germany’s double Olympic Biathlon Champion - Laura Dahlmeier Exercise - Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal. ❖ Cancer-hit Badminton Star - Lee Chong Wei ❖ Operation Sunrise 2 – India & Myanmar – In their Borders. ❖ Spain Footballer - Fernando Torres ❖ Garuda VI – India & France – France ❖ Former England Opening Batsman - Marcus Trescothick ❖ "Pacific Vanguard" drill - United States, Japan, South Korea, and Australia - Guam ❖ All Indian armed forces comprising Indian Army, Indian Navy and Indian BRAND AMBASSADOR Air Force hold joint exercise “Bull Strike” at Teressa Island in Andaman ❖ Commonwealth of Learning Goodwill Ambassador - Karthyayani Amma and Nicobar. (Kerala) ❖ Event ambassador for the 16th Tata - M C AWARDS & HONOURS ❖ Rajasthan Royals (IPL 2019) - Australia spin legend AWARDS WINNERS ❖ Swasth Immunised India – Actor Khan 3 Indian-origin women scientists Onisha Patel, Devika Kamath ❖ PolicyX.com - Cricketer awarded in 60 Superstars of STEM and Asha Rao ❖ PhonePe - Actor (Science, Technology, Engineering ❖ Morris Garages (MG Motors) for its India operation - Actor Benedict & Mathematics) list by Australian Cumberbatch government ❖ Ambassador of Karnataka Lok Sabha Elections 2019 - Paralympic High National Nritya Shiromani Award US-based Kathak dancer Anindita Jumper, Girish Gowda 2019 Neogy Anaam ❖ Aeronutrix’s Fast & Up Rope - Indian Test Cricketer Mayank Agarwal Received Honorary Membership of Virat Kohli and coach Ravi ❖ Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)’s ‘Share Her Journey’ campaign the (SCG) Shastri (for their contribution to - Assam filmmaker Rima Das the sport of cricket) ❖ Goodwill Ambassadors of the Election Commission in Maharashtra - ICSIs Lifetime Achievement Godrej Group Chairman Adi Godrej Transgender social activist Gauri Sawant Award for ‘Translating Excellence ❖ United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s Goodwill Ambassador in Corporate Governance into - Indian-American Padma Lakshmi Reality’ ❖ Brand Ambassador of Jammu And Kashmir Election Department - Sana Golden Globe 2019 Bohemian Rhapsody for best Dua ( 2017 Runner Up) motion picture drama ❖ Bus ticketing platform redBus - Mahendra Singh Dhoni 12th Shankar Vaidya Shree Award Dr. Rajan Deshpande ❖ Goodwill Ambassador of Street Child 2019 - Mithali 2018 Raj Team awarded for Legion of French Football Team ❖ Corporate Ambassador of Dubai based ‘RAKEZ’ - Former Cricketer Ravi Honour Shastri National Geospatial Award for IIT Roorkee professor Jayanta ❖ Brand Ambassador of Indo-American Arts Council (IAAC) - Michelin- Excellence -2017 (Lifetime Kumar Ghosh (for his star chef Vikas Khanna Achievement Award) by the Indian contribution towards the ❖ Limited ‘Navratna’ - Society for Remote Sensing development of geospatial science ❖ BharatPe - Bollywood Actor Salman Khan and applications)

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Nabaghana Parida (Dakshin EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2018 CEO and Managing director of Odisha Loksanakruti Samman , Siddhartha Lal 2018) National Youth Parliament Festival Shweta Umre from Maharashtra By Indian Council for Child Welfare Wahengbam Lamnganba Singh 2019 Awards (First position), Anjanakshi M.S (ICCW) for receiving National from Karnataka (Second position), Bravery Award 2018 Mamta Kumari from Bihar (Third Lifetime Achievement Award by Journalist Dinu Randive position) the Mantralaya and Vidhimandal “Saubhagya Award” under Pradhan The Central Zone Power Vartahar Sangh of Maharashtra Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana Distribution Company (CZPDC), Honoured by Bimal Roy Memorial and Farooque Bhopal and West Zone Power and Film Society Shaikhat Distribution Company (WZPDC), ‘Exhibitor of the Year Award’ at Defence Research and Indore 106th Indian Science Congress in Development Organisation Israel's prestigious Dan David Prize Noted Indian historian Sanjay Punjab (DRDO) Pavilion 2019 Subrahmanyam Gandhi Peace Prize for 2018 WHO Goodwill ambassador Yohei National e-Governance Award Railway's ticket booking mobile Sasakawa 2019 application - IRCTC Rail Connect 2019 Japan Prize Dr. Rattan Lal (for his mobile app and the Chhattisgarh contributions in “Biological government's 'Khanij online' and Production, Ecology”) 14 other such IT projects have been Dr. Yoshio Okamoto (for his chosen for National e-Governance contributions in “Materials and Awards 2019. Production” field) META Lifetime Achievement Award Eminent Indian playwright Mahesh Won Prestigious Laureus World Indian female wrestler Vinesh 2019 Elkunchwar Comeback of the Year Award 2018 Phogat Lifetime Achievement award at the G.R. Karthikeyan, Father of Three Indian expats From UAE Win Girish Pant, Surender Singh FMSCI annual awards India’s first driver Prestigious Pravasi Bharatiya Kandhari and Dr Zulekha Daud . Samman Award Raghul Rangasamy Upcoming Won Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda 8th Battalion of National Motorsports Person of the Year. Prabandhan Puraskar 2019 Disaster Response Force Asian Hockey Federation’s Player Indian skipper Manpreet Singh Republic Day Journalism Award Veteran Journalist and Former of the Year 2018 Women team's striker Lalremsiami 2019 Editor Dhirendra Nath - Rising Player of the Year 2018 Chakraborty. First Indian woman to receive Divya Karnad for her work on Romain Rolland Book Prize 2019 Tamil translation of Andrei Future of Nature award 2019 marine conservation. She is the Makine’s “La vie d’un homme second Indian to receive this award inconnu” (The Life of an after Dr. Charudutt Mishra. Unknown Man) at the Jaipur Top Employers Institute as global Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Literature Festival. The book was Top Employer for the third year in translated by S R Kichenamourty. a row. Sushila Devi Literature Award Namita Gokhale for her novel First Ever Football Ratna award 2019 “Things to Leave Behind” Laureus Sport for Good award Yuwa, a Jharkhand-based NGO Gandhi Peace Prize 2018 Yohei Sasakawa Winner under the Miniratna National Film Development Railway zone has bagged the Southern Railway Zone Category by Ministry of Micro, Corporation of India (NFDC) to number one position for Small and Medium Enterprises felicitate CPSEs in recognition for cleanliness in all the 17 railway (MSME) in its campaign their work in promoting SC/ST zones in the country entrepreneurs. Sansad Ratna Award 2019 under Anurag Thakur Australian Cricket Awards 2019 Off-spinner Nathan Lyon - Test Jury Committee Special Award player of the year. category Glenn Maxwell and Marcus Samman 2017 Noted Gujarati poet Sitanshu Stoinis - T20I and ODI Player of Yashashchandra for his poet the year respectively. Vakhar The inaugural women’s T20I Player Ashok Chakra 2019 Lance Naik Nazir Ahmad Wani of the year - Alyssa Healy. Bharat Ratna 2019 Pranab Mukherjee (Former Won Peace Prize in South Prime Minister Narendra Modi President), Korea (Bharatiya Jana Sangh Leader) and ICT Icon awards 2019 Shankar S, Film Director, (Singer) Producer, Writer. India's only port to get listed Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust Arun Alagappan, Executive among the top 30 global container (JNPT) Director, Cholamandalam. ports as per the latest Lloyds R. Dinesh, Managing Director, TVS Report. Logistics Services Limited (for their

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Travel Show 2019 (NYTTS 2019) Chameli Devi Jain Award for an Priyanka Dubey Honored with the ‘Freedom of the State Bank of India’s UK chief Outstanding Woman Journalist for City of London’ Sanjiv Chadha the year 2018. 61st annual Grammy Awards in Childish Gambino’s “This Is New York America” won four awards and First Prize in the category of TV Ministry of Tourism Gaga’s “Shallow,” from the movie Cinema Spot at the prestigious “A Star Is Born,” won two awards. international Golden City Gate Film has won seven honours in The Favourite Tourism Awards 2019. British Academy Film Awards ‘Yashwantrao Chavan National Former RBI Governor Raghuram (BAFTA)- 2019 in London Award 2018’ Rajan First recipient of the 'Bhagwan Indian Air Force Wing Commander Best Director from PETA for ‘A Star Bradley Cooper Mahavir Ahimsa Puraskar' Abhinandan Varthaman Is Born’ Harry Hatry Award for Performance Prajapati Trivedi Management by the American Society for Public Administration Honored for the Lifetime Badminton legend Prakash (ASPA) and the Center for Achievement at the Taj Mahal Padukone Accountability and Performance Palace, Mumbai (CAP). India Skipper Virat Kohli and pacer Honoured with the Social Men’s Sportsman of the Year Jasprit Bumrah as joint winners Enterprise Network (SEN) Sona Yukti (Cricket) category sustainability award for education Smriti Mandhana by Young Presidents Organisation Women’s Sportswoman of the Year Prestigious Kusumagraj Rashtriya Famous Novelist and Film (Cricket) award Sahitya Puruskar 2019 Director, Ved Rahi Commonwealth Youth Award for Social entrepreneur Padmanaban First Indian-origin woman Noor Inayat Khan the Asian region Gopalan honoured with a Blue Plaque at Best airport in the category of over Indira Gandhi International “40 million passengers per annum (IGI) airport Honoured with knighthood for his Alastair Cook (MPPA)” in Asia Pacific by Airports services to cricket. by Elizabeth II Council International (ACI) in the Best Bank Award by the Tamil Indian Bank Airport Service Quality (ASQ) Nadu government for successfully Programme for 2018. meeting the needs of women’s Honoured with issuing a new 50 Stephen Hawking self-help groups (SHGs). pence piece by Royal Mint World’s Most Ethical Companies by Private steel Major Tata Steel 2019 Templeton Prize Brazilian physicist and astronomer the Ethisphere Institute Marcelo Gleiser American Institute of Aeronautics Dr G Satheesh Reddy & another Two Indian oil companies has been Bharat Petroleum Corporation and Astronautics (AIAA) as the co- co-winner is Rondell J. Wilson awarded the exploration rights Limited, and Indian Oil winner of the 2019 Missile Systems for Abu Dhabi’s Onshore Block 1. Corporation Limited Award. Conferred with the prestigious Parijat Industries Conferred with the Maths and Physics Teacher Peter ‘Sarvashreshtha Suraksha prestigious Global Teacher Prize Tabichi, Puraskar’ (Bronze trophy) by for 2019 National Safety Council of India Honoured with Croatia’s Highest President Ram Nath Kovind (NSCI) for the year 2018. Civilian Award — the Grand Order First Indian-origin woman to be British Indian World War II spy of the King of Tomislav honoured with a Blue Plaque at 4 Noor Inayat Khan Awarded the prestigious Bodley Amartya Sen Taviton Street in Bloomsbury, Medal, the highest honour granted London (her former home). by the University of Oxford’s Conferred with ‘Non-Life Insurer of Bharti AXA General Insurance world-famous Bodleian Libraries the Year Award 2019′ 2018 Turing Award winners by Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun ‘Green Era Award for TVS Motor ACM (Association for Computing and Yoshua Bengio Sustainability’ at Lisbon in Machinery) Portugal. Honoured with the Martha Farrell Manu Gulati SKOCH Award2019 Odisha State Disaster award for Excellence in Women’s Management Authority Empowerment 2019 (OSDMA) for its remarkable Gold Rating Award by Indian Green Vijayawada Railway station achievements in the field of disaster Building Council (IGBC) management. Got global recognition by a Geneva Forest certification based non-profit firm Programme scheme ‘Certification Standard National STEM (Science, Kavya Kopparapu for Endorsement of Forest for Sustainable Forest Technology, Engineering and Certification (PEFC). Management (SFM)’ developed Math) Education Award 2019 by the Network for Certification and first Atal Behari Vajpayee Lifetime Conservation of Forest (NCCF) Award at the 37th Agartala Book Conferred with the prestigious Dr. Rajendra Kumar Joshi Fair in Agartala, Tripura Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award Honoured with Pritzker Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, 2019 Architecture Prize 2019.

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7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 44 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | 2019 Peabody Career Achievement Veteran actor Rita Moreno Felicitated by the Asian Tour with a Hero MotoCorp – Chairman, Dr. honour during the 78th Annual Special Achievement Award for his Pawan Munjal Peabody Awards Ceremony contributions to Asian Golf. Telangana Sports Journalist as sportsperson of Won the Prestigious John Dirks Vikram Patel Association (TSJA) Award 2019 the year, Pullella Gopichand as Canada Gairdner Global Health Coach of the Year and PV Award 2019 Sindhu as Outstanding Performer Honoured with the prestigious PM Narendra Modi in women’s section. Badminton Zayed Medal by UAE Association of ‘Global Slag Company of The Year’ Tata Steel Telangana received Association Award 2019 of the Year award. Honoured with Presidential Award Dr. Gyanaditya Shakya Indian was selected among 16 Social entrepreneur Neha of Maharshi Badrayan Vyas persons selected by Yale University Upadhyaya Samman 2019 as the 2019 World Fellows Felicitated with the coveted 'Public Namami Gange Prestigious Windham-Campbell Journalist & author Raghu Karnad Water Agency of the Year' award at Prize for his debut book, ‘Farthest the Global Water Summit in Field: An Indian Story of the London. Second World War Next Billion Edtech Prize 2019 India's education technology Bestowed with the Best Domestic Kent RO Systems Pvt. Ltd. startup 'Dost Education'. And Water Purifier Award 2018-19 for also, Ubongo (Tanzania) and its RO+UV+UF technology at the PraxiLabs (Egypt) startups won the Water Digest Water Awards prize organized at The Lalit, New Delhi New Zealand Prime Minister's Sir Rio Paralympics silver medallist First Woman to win the Abel Prize Professor Karen Uhlenbeck Edmund Hillary Fellowship for (First Indian Woman) for mathematics 2019. Vyas Samman 2018 Hindi writer Leeladhar Jagudi Freedom of the City of London GIC India Chief Alice G. Vaidyan Hans-Kilian Award 2019 Indian psychologist Award 2019 professor Ashis Nandy Best Athletic Coach in Asia 2019 Indonesian Eni Nuraeni Second edition of Business Line Union Finance Minister Arun Conferred with Lifetime Dr A K Singh Changemaker of the Year award Jaitley Achievement Award during 4th APJ First Prize of DD Mahila Kisan Swati Shingade of Pune Abdul Kalam Innovation Conclave Award for 2018-19 at Chandigarh University, Mohali. ‘Nari Shakti Puraskar’ Award 2019 Kathak dancer Seema Mehta UNESCO/Guillermo Cano Press Journalists Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Won the prize of $1 million (6.9 Lydian Nadhaswaram Freedom Prize 2019 Lone (Myanmar) crore) for his performance on the 2019 Citi Journalistic Excellence Mint's Teena Thacker American reality show ‘The World’s Awards Best’ World Press Photo of the Year 2019 Veteran Getty photographer John 22nd Gollapudi Srinivas National Cinematographer-turned-director C Moore Award for his debut film Tamil ‘96’ Prem Kumar World Press Photo Story of the Dutch-Swedish photographer 2019 Templeton Prize Brazilian physicist and astronomer Year Award 2019 Pieter Ten Hoopen Marcelo Gleiser Celent Model Bank 2019 Award in Fincare Small Finance Bank Pravasi Bhartiya Samman Award NRI scientist Dr Rajendra Joshi the category of Financial Inclusion, 2019 for 'Redesigning Lending to Reach Honoured with the Order of Ex-South Africa all-rounder Small Businesses' Ikhamanga in the Silver Division Honoured in the 2019 list of new Prominent scientist and by South Africa President fellows of the UK's Royal Society businessman Yusuf Hamied Awarded by the Tamil Nadu Sports Sportsperson of the Year Award: Chandigarh Five writers, Dr Chaman Ahuja Journalists’ Association (TNSJA) Ace table tennis player A Sharath Awards 2019 (), Dr Om Prakash Vasishta and the India Cements Kamal (Punjabi), Professor Tejwant TNSJA Lifetime Achievement Singh Gill (English), Dr Prasoon awardees: (Indian Prasad (Hindi) and Professor tennis player), V V Kumar (former Virender Kumar Alankar India leg-spinner), R (Sanskrit) were given the award of Gnanasekaran (Asian Games gold recognition for their lifelong medallist (200m). Coach of the contribution in the field of literature. year: R B Ramesh (chess coach) Won the Best Cinematography Malayalam film Bhayanakam TNSJA Team of the year 2018-19: Award at the Beijing International (Fear) directed by Jayaraj Tamil Nadu Women’s Football Film Festival, China. team. National Intellectual Property The Intellectual Property Rights TNSJA Young Achiever of the year Award 2019 Cell (IPR Cell) of Kerala 2018-19: P M Tabitha (athlete) Agricultural University (KAU) TNSJA Young Achiever of the year Inducted into the prestigious An Indian American scientist and 2018-19: D.Gukesh (world’s Cleveland International Hall of social activist Prof Sree Sreenath. second youngest Grand Master). fame 2019 Along with five other inductees - Dr Honoured with the prestigious National Award-winning filmmaker Akram Boutros, Ingrida Bublys, Master Deenanath Mangeshkar , Popular Paul Burik, Richard Fleischman, and Award 2019 Scriptwriter Salim Khan and Marilyn Madigan. yesteryears dancing Diva ; “Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant Sunil Kumar Gautam, Special Classical dancer Sucheta Bhide- Award” for the year 2018-19 for Commissioner of Police Chapekar (music & art category) his book “Samvidhan Kavya” (Operations) IPI’s 71st World Press Freedom Dawn Assistant Editor Cyril (Constitution of India in Poetic Hero by International Press Almeida form). Institute (IPI) National Intellectual Property Benny Antony Swacchta Pakhwada Awards-2019 All India Radio, Publication Award for 2019 Division and Children’s Film First Inductee of Comic-On Batman (It is a fictional character Society of India Museum’s Character Hall of Fame of DC Comics) Honoured with “D. Litt in Indian Astrologer Dr. Sohini Astrology” (Doctor of Sastri

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Africa) Russia awarded its highest state Narendra Modi for promoting the US President Donald Trump Tiger Woods honour 'Order of St Andrew the bilateral special and privileged bestowed with the Presidential Apostle' strategic partnership Medal of Freedom ‘Order of St. George’ Award 2019 Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ‘Global Asian of the Year 2018-19’ Bengaluru based doctor Hema Award for Contribution to Women’s Divakar Saraswati Samman, 2018 K Siva Reddy his collection of poetry titled Pakkaki Ottigilite Healthcare Ecosystem Won “United Nations Sustainable Acharya Balkrishna Development Goals (UNSDG) 10 Prestigious 'AIMA Managing India Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) Award 2019 for outstanding PSU of Most Influential People in Healthcare Award” in Geneva, the year Switzerland 2019 Swansea University Sri Lankan writer Guy Honoured with the Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Nobel Award by Sudhanshu Kumar International Dylan Thomas Prize Gunaratne International Human Rights United Nations Office for Disaster Dr. Pramod Kumar Mishra Council Risk Reduction (UNDRR) conferred West Bengal’s projects have won Sasakawa Award 2019 for Disaster Risk Reduction with the theme of the United Nations World Summit Utkarsh Bangla & Sabooj Sathi on the Information Society (WSIS) “Building Inclusive and Resilient Societies”. awards 2019 First Non-British President of Only Indian institute to feature in IIM Bangalore QS EMBA Rankings 2019 Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) Thailand's King has been crowned Maha Vajiralongkorn Calcutta Sports Journalists’ Club Sportsperson of the Year - Jhulan Award 2019 Goswami with a Golden-Tiered Headpiece Lifetime Achievement Awards - Fourth Edition of the annual India Gaganjeet Bhullar -'Outstanding Sukumar Samajpati (former India Golf Industry Association (GIA) Achievement as a player' award winger) and Sambaran Banerjee awards at the Delhi Golf Club category (Bengal’s Ranji Trophy winning 2019 Footballer of the Year award Raheem Sterling (Men), Parris captain) by Manchester City star (Women) Man Booker International Prize for Jokha Alharthi "Celestial Bodies” Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize Rana Dasgupta for his 2010 novel Japan’s second highest national Former Indian foreign secretary 2019 ‘Solo’ award in its 2019 Spring Imperial Shyam Saran Professional Footballers’ Liverpool’s Virgil Van Dijk Decorations as the “Order of the Association (PFA) Players’ Player of Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star”. the Year Award for 2018-19 Indian peacekeeper Police Officer Jitender Kumar – For courage and Goldman Environmental Prize Bayarjargal Agvaantseren will be honored with a prestigious sacrifice in the line of duty 2019 (Mongolia), Alfred Brownell UN medal 2019 (Liberia), Ana Colovic Lesoska Acknowledged as the most viewed Kapil Sharma (North Macedonia), Alberto stand-up comedian in India and Curamil (Chile), Jacqueline abroad by the World book of Evans (Cook Islands), Linda Records London. Garcia (USA) Seventh Edition of the Joan Miró Artist Nalini Malani Conferred with France’s Highest Former ISRO chief A. S. Kiran Prize 2019 Civilian Award “Knight of the Kumar Six Indian-origin students won the Rishik Gandhasri, Saketh Legion of Honour” prestigious Scripps National Sundar, Shruthika Padhy, 2019 John F Kennedy Profile in Nancy Pelosi Spelling Bee 2019 Sohum Sukhatankar, Abhijay Courage Award Kodali, Rohan Raja, Christopher 2019 Dr. Lee Jong-wook Memorial Professor Balram Bhargava Serrao and Erin Howard were Prize for Public Health named as co-champions. Each will Nine Dots Prize 2019 Mumbai-based Writer Annie receive the full winner's prize of Zaidi (Title: ‘Bread, Cement, 50,000 US Dollar in cash. Cactus’) Conferred with “Orden Mexicana Former President of India Pratibha Conferred With ‘Lifetime Professor N. Kumar del Aguila Azteca” (Order of the Patil Recognition Award’ By the Aztec Eagle), the highest civilian Confederation of Horticulture award of Mexico given to Association of India foreigners Airport gets International Status as Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar Airport of Global Leadership Awards 2019 by Google's CEO Sundar Pichai and per sub-rule (b) of rule 3 of the Indore, Madhya Pradesh USA Nasdaq President Adena Passport (Entry into India) Rules, Friedman 1950 by the Central Government Conferred with the Maldives' Narendra Modi Felicitated by the Council of Actor Anil Kapoor highest honour "Rule of Nishan European Chambers of Commerce Izzuddeen” (CEUCC) in India India's Automobile major has won Mahindra 2019 McCain Institute Award for IPS officer Chhaya Sharma the Gold Award in South Africa Courage and Leadership Jnanpith Award 2018 Noted English writer Amitav Honoured with a star on the Actress Anne Hathaway Ghosh Hollywood Walk of Fame 'World's Most Punctual Airline' for Sri Lankan Airlines PC Chandra Purashkaar 2019 Padma Bhushan Dr. Devi Prasad the second consecutive year by Shetty Flightstats’ ACJ Award for Investigative Journalist Nileena MS Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Nirmala Sitharaman & Journalism 2018 will confer the distinguished alumni Subrahmanyam Jaishankar award to the two Union Ministers

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7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 46 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | Eight-Year-Old Indian Girl Ms. Tony Rajkumari Devi and Babaulal Dahiya Agriculturist Honoured in UAE For Green Efforts Dilip Chakravarty Archaeologist Honoured with Humanitarian Indian actress MammenChandy Hematologist Award By UNICEF Conferred with Manas Order of the Chinese President Xi Jinping Gallantry Awards 2019: First Degree, the highest national The Gallantry Awards and Distinguished Service Decorations were award in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan conferred by President Ram Nath Kovind at the Defence Investiture BBC World Service Global Akshaya Patra Ceremony, held at , New Delhi. Champion Award 2019 Here the winner list: Femina Miss India World 2019 Title Suman Rao AWARD WINNER ‘Save Water Hero Award’ 2019 Social Activist Makarand Tilloo Kirti Chakras Constable Pradip Kumar Panda of CRPF 2019 Commonwealth Secretary- Indian engineer Nitesh Kumar (posthumously) General’s Innovation for Jangir Kirti Chakras Sepoy Vijay Kumar of Indian Army Sustainable Development Award in (posthumously) London ‘Uttam Yudh Seva Lieutenant General Anil Kumar Bhatt Medal’ Laureus Sports Awards 2019: Shaurya Chakra Irfan Ramzan Sheikh The Laureus World Sports Awards 2019 were announced at the Laureus Awards Ceremony in Monaco. 64th Film fare Awards 2019: Category Winner Country The 64th Awards ceremony, presented by , Sportsman of the Year (Tennis) honoured the best Indian Hindi-language films of 2018 held in Sportswoman of the Year Mumbai, Maharashtra. Simone Biles USA (Gymnastics) Here the Winners List: France’s Football Category Winner Team of the Year (Football) France Team Best Film Comeback of the Year (Golf) Tiger Woods USA Best Director Meghna (Raazi) Breakthrough of the Year Best Actor in a Leading Role (Male) () Japan (Tennis) Best Actor in a Leading Role (Raazi) Action Sportsperson of the Year (Female) Chloe Kim USA (Snowboarding) Best Actor in Supporting Role Gajarj Rao (), Vicky Lifetime Achievement Award (Male) Kaushal (Sanju) Arsene Wenger France (Football (Manager)) Best Actor in Supporting Role Surekha Sikhri (Badhaai Ho) Spirit of Sport Award (Skiing) Lindsey Vonn USA (Female) Exceptional Achievement Award Best Male Debut (Beyond the Clouds) Eliud Kipchoge Kenya (Running) Best Female Debut (Kedarnath) Sporting Moment of the Year Best Music Album () Xia Boyu China (Mountain Climbing) Best Lyricist Gulzar- "" (Raazi) Jharkhand based Best Playback Singer (Male) – "Ae Watan" (Raazi) Sport for Good Award (Football) India NGO – Yuwa – "Ghoomar" Best Playback Singer (Female) (Padmaavat)

‘SWACHH SURVEKHSHAN AWARDS 2019’ ➢ Lalit Kala Akademi (LKA) announced 15 winners of the 60th Annual Swachh Survekhshan-2019 Awards were presented by President Academy Awards scheduled at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) Ram Nath Kovind in New Delhi. and Sir JJ School of Art in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Here the Some Important List of Winners Here the Winners List: ➢ Top 3 India's Cleanest City – Indore (Madhya Pradesh), Ambikapur Name State (Chhattisgarh), Mysuru (Karnataka) Tabassum Khan Bihar ➢ Cleanest Big City >10 Lakh - Ahmedabad (Gujarat) Veenita Sadguru Goa ➢ Cleanest Medium City 3 - 10 Lakh – Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh) Chendvankar ➢ Cleanest Small City 1 - 3 Lakh - New Delhi Municipal Council Hiren Kumar Chotu Bhai Patel Gujarat ➢ Cleanest Capital/UT City - Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) Jayesh K.K Kerala ➢ Best Performing State - No.1 – Chhattisgarh Hemant Rao Madhya Pradesh ➢ India's Cleanest Cantonment - No.1- Board Vasudeo Taranath Kamath Maharashtra ➢ Best Ganga Town - No.1 From 57 Ganga Towns participating in SS-2019 Jitendra Suresh Sutar Maharashtra only DO - Gauchar (Uttarakhand) Douglas Maryan John Maharashtra

Sachin Kashinath Chaudhari Maharashtra President Kovind confers Padma awards 2019: Chandan Kumar Samal Odisha President Ram Nath Kovind has conferred the Padma awards 2019 on prominent personalities at a civil investiture ceremony in Jaya Jena Odisha Rashtrapati Bhawan. Gouri Vemula Telangana Padma Bhushan Awards 2019 Rashmi Singh Uttar Pradesh Name Field Sunil Kumar Viswakarma Uttar Pradesh Malayalam Actor Pratap Chandra Chakraborty West Bengal Pravin Gordhan South African Politician Jhon Chambers Former Cisco Head Prize 2018: Fiction and Non-Fiction and The Hindu Young Hukumdev Narayan Yadav, Kariya Munda Parliamentarians World Good Books Awards and Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa The Hindu Prize 2018 was announced in the Hindu Litfest 2018 held in Chennai. KuldipNayar Journalist (late) Shri Sankaralingam Nambi Narayanan Science & Engineering ✓ Neelum Saran Gour wins the The Hindu Prize 2018 – FICTION for the book ‘Requiem in Janki’.

Padma Shri Awards 2019 ✓ Manoranjan Byapari wins The Hindu Prize 2018 – NON- FICTION for the book ‘Interrogating My Chandal Life’. Name Field HarikaDronavalli Chess player ✓ Vinayak Varma wins Best Picture Book: Story for ‘Angry Akku’ Sharat Kamal Table Tennis player ✓ Rajiv Eipe wins Best Picture Book: Illustration for ‘Ammachi’s Bhagirati Devi and Muktaben Dagli Social Workers Amazing Machines’ Prabhudeva Actor ✓ Venita Coelho wins Best Picture Book: Fiction for ‘Boy No 32’ Music Director ✓ Mamta Nainy wins Best Picture Book: Non-Fiction for ‘A Brush S Jaishankar Former civil servant with Indian Art’.

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7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 47 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | ➢ Best Badminton Player: Ankit Mondal ICC AWARDS 2018: ➢ Best Chess Player: Koustav Chatterjee The ICC Awards are a set of sports awards for cricket. The awards ➢ Best Swimmer: Sayani Ghosh recognise and honour the best international cricket players of the previous ➢ Best TT player: Ayhika Mukharjee 12 months. The awards have been institutionalised by International Cricket ➢ Best Tennis Player: Yubarani Banerjee Council since 2004. Between 2011 and 2014 the awards were known, for ➢ Best Shooter: Mehuli Ghosh sponsorship reasons, as the LG ICC Awards. ➢ Best Basketball Player: Madhu Kumari Winners of 2018 ➢ Best Volleyball Player: Nayanika Biswas ➢ Cricketer of the Year: Virat Kohli (India) ➢ Test Player of the Year: Virat Kohl (India) ➢ ESPN Multi-Sport awards 2018: ➢ ODI Player of the Year: Virat Kohli (India) ESPN (originally an initialism for Entertainment and Sports Programming ➢ International Performance of the Year: Aaron Network) is a U.S.-based pay television sports channel owned by ESPN Inc. Finch (Australia) ESPN Multi-Sport awards 2018 recognised achievements across 11 ➢ Emerging Player of the Year: Rishabh Pant (India) categories. Winners of the Award are ➢ Associate Player of the Year: Calum MacLeod (Scotland) CATEGORY WON BY ➢ Umpire of the Year: Kumar Dharmasena (Sri Lanka) ➢ Women's Cricketer of the Year: Smriti Mandhana (India) Female sportsperson of the P.V. Sindhu (Badminton) ➢ Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year: Smriti Mandhana (India) year ➢ Women's T20I Cricketer of the Year: Alyssa Healy (Australia) ➢ Women's Emerging Cricketer of the Year: Sophie Ecclestone Male sportsperson of the year Neeraj Chopra (Javelin) ➢ Spirit of Cricket: Kane Williamson (New Zealand) ➢ Fan's Moment of the Year: India win U19 World Cup Comeback of the Year Saina Nehwal (Shuttle) ➢ ICC Test Team of the Year: Tom Latham (NZ), Dimuth Karunaratne (SL), Virat Kohli (Ind, captain), Kane Williamson (NZ), Henry Coach of the Year (Shooting) Nicholls (NZ), Rishabh Pant (Ind, -keeper), Jason Holder (WI), Nathan Lyon (Aus), Jasprit Bumrah (Ind), Kagiso Emerging Sportsperson of the Saurabh Chaudhary (Shooting) Rabada (SA), Mohammad Abbas (Pak) Year ➢ ICC ODI Team of the Year: (Ind), Jonny Bairstow (Eng), Virat Kohli (Ind, captain), (Eng), Ross Taylor (NZ), Jos Team of the Year Women’s team (Table Tennis) Buttler (Eng, wicketkeeper), BenStokes (Eng), MustafizurRahman (Ban), Kuldeep Match of the Year Amit Panghal vs Hasanboy Dusmatov Yadav (Ind), (Afg), Jasprit Bumrah (Ind) (Boxing)

2019 Pulitzer Prize Awards: Differently abled athlete of the Ekta Bhyan (Para-Athletics) ➢ The 2019 Pulitzer Prizes were awarded by the Pulitzer Prize Board for Year work during the 2018 calendar year. ➢ The Washington Post won two prizes, as The New York Times; The Lifetime Achievement Award Pradip Kumar Banerjee (Football) Wall Street Journal won one; and the Sun-Sentinel won its second Pulitzer for Public Service. Moment of the Year Women’s 4x400m Relay Here the List of Winners: JOURNALISM Public service: Staff of the South Florida Sun Sentinel CEAT Cricket Rating Awards 2019: Feature writing: Hannah Dreier of ProPublica ➢ India captain Virat Kohli bagged the International Cricketer and Commentary: Tony Messenger of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Batsman of the Year award during the CEAT Cricket Rating (CCR) Criticism: Carlos Lozada of The Washington Post International Awards 2019 in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Editorial writing: Brent Staples of the New York Times ➢ International Bowler of the Year 2019 - Jasprit Bumrah Editorial cartooning: Darrin Bell, a freelance cartoonist ➢ Junior Cricketer of the Year 2019 - Yashasvi Jaiswal Special citation: Staff of the Capital Gazette ➢ Outstanding Performance of the Year 2019 - Kuldeep Yadav BOOKS, DRAMA AND MUSIC ➢ Domestic Cricketer of the Year 2019 - Ashutosh Aman Fiction: “The Overstory” by Richard Powers ➢ CCR International Lifetime Achievement Award 2019 - Mohinder Drama: “Fairview” by Jackie Sibblies Drury Amarnath History: “Frederick Douglass” by David W. Blight ➢ International Test Cricketer of the Year 2019 – Cheteshwar Pujara Biography or autobiography: “The New Negro” by Jeffrey C. Stewart ➢ International ODI Cricketer of the Year 2019 – Rohit Sharma Poetry: “Be With” by Forrest Gander ➢ International T20 Player of the Year 2019 - Aaron Finch General nonfiction: “Amity and Prosperity” by Eliza Griswold ➢ International T20 Bowler of the Year 2019 - Rashid Khan Music: “p r i s m” by Ellen Reid ➢ International Women Cricketer of the Year 2019 – Smriti Mandhana Special citation: Aretha Franklin IPL AWARDS 2019: Complete List LSE names a professorship after economist Amartya Sen: Man of the Match (Final) Jasprit Bumrah (MI) ➢ The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has Orange Cap (Most Runs) David Warner (SH) 692 runs announced the creation of the Amartya Sen Chair in Inequality Studies, Purple Cap (Most ) Imran Tahir (CSK)- 26 wickets named in honour of the India-born economist, philosopher and Nobel Emerging Player (future star of Shubman Gill (KKR) laureate, who was Professor of Economics at LSE from 1971-82. International Cricket) Stylish Player KL Rahul (KXIP) Chhetri adjudged 'Best Sportsperson' by Calcutta Sports Journalists' Perfect Catch Kieron Pollard (MI) Club: Super Striker Andre Russell (KKR) ➢ India football captain Sunil Chhetri was adjudged the country's 'Best Most Valuable Player (earning more Andre Russell (KKR) Sportsperson of the Year' by the Calcutta Sports Journalists' Club. points in the whole season) ➢ Lifetime Achievement award: Former coach Akhtar Ali, Fair play Award (best spirit of the Sunrisers Hyderabad former India opener and Aroon Ghosh member of the 1962 Asian game throughout the season) Games gold medal winning football team. Gamechanger of the Match Rahul Chahar (Mumbai Indians) ➢ Bengal pacer (Junior Sportsperson of the Year), Mohun

Bagan's Shilton Paul (Footballer of the Year), East Bengal's Mahmoud Al-

Amna (Best Foreign Footballer) ➢ The 72nd Cannes Film Festival begins in Cannes, France. Mexican ➢ Best cricketer: Abhimanyu Easwaran filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu has been named the Jury ➢ Best Hockey Player: Suprajit Rakshit President. American film director Jim Jarmusch's ensemble zombie comedy ➢ Best Athlete (men): Safiqul Mondol film “The Dead Don't Die” will serve as the opening film of the festival. ➢ Best Athlete (women): Bhairabi Roy And “The Specials” will serve as the closing film in the festival. The Indian

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7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 48 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | Delegation led by I&B Secretary Shri Amit Khare met Film Commissioners 281 and Beyond – Auto Biography of Cricketer VVS Laxman of participating countries at Cannes Film Festival. Israel proposes India to No Spin - Auto Biography of Cricketer Shane Warne be the focus country in Jerusalem Film Festival, 2020. Gandhi: The years that changed the world (1914-1948) - Ramachandra Guha GUINNESS RECORDS Warlight, The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje ➢ Megha Engineering Infrastructure Limited (MEIL) of Telangana has Winning Like Sourav: Think & Succeed Like Ganguly - Abhirup found a place in the Limca Book of National Records and Asia Book of Bhattacharya Records for completing a power substation in seven months. Smart Cities Unbundle - Dr. Samir Sharma ➢ A Guinness World Record in Yoga was set by more than a thousand A Century is Not Enough - Autobiography of people who performed the Virabathrasan or the Warrior II Pose for 3 Imperfect – Auto Biography of Sanjay Manjrekar (cricketer-turned- minutes, in Sun Yat Sen Memorial Park, Hong Kong. commentator) ➢ An Official of Guinness Book of World Records, UK presented a Yoga and Mindfulness - Mansi Gulati certificate to Lakshyaraj Singh Mewar for the largest collection of clothes The Rule Breakers - Preeti Shenoy for donation after he donated more than 3 lakh clothing items in Udaipur. Atal Ji Ne Kaha - Brijendra Rehi ➢ CISF - The Central Industrial Security Force created the Guinness Straight Talk - Abhishek Manu Singhvi World Record for 'longest single line bicycle parade (moving)' in Calling Sehmat - Harinder S. Sikka Noida, to mark the 50 years of the paramilitary force. ➢ India achieved a Guinness World Records of ‘largest laundry lesson’ with SPORTS NEWS the participation of 400 young Indian men. The event was a part of #sharetheload campaign. The event was initiated by Ariel India. 2019 ➢ Around 5000 women of Konyak community performed at the local • Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG), formerly Khelo India School Games ground of Mon town, in their attempt to enter Guinness World Record (KISG), meaning Play India Youth Games, held annually in January or for ‘Largest Traditional Konyak Dance display’. February, are the national level multidisciplinary grassroot games in India ➢ The Polavaram irrigation project in Andhra Pradesh created held for two categories, namely under-17 years school students and two Guinness World Records for ‘pouring the highest amount of under-21 college students. concrete’ and ‘largest continuous concrete pour in 24 hours’. The History Polavaram irrigation project is located in West Godavari district of ➢ On 31 January 2018, Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, declared open the Andhra Pradesh. inaugural Khelo India School Games at the opening ceremony based on Guru–shishya tradition held at . From the 2019 events, BOOKS & AUTHORS Khelo India School Games were renamed to Khelo India Youth Games. We Are Displaced - Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai ➢ The first edition of the event was kicked off in New Delhi. A Crusade Against Corruption - Manohar Manoj ➢ The second edition of the event was kicked off in Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Let’s Talk on Air: Conversations with Radio Presenters - Rakesh Anand Sports Complex, a sports complex situated in Belawadi, Pune, Bakshi Maharashtra. The theme of the Games revolved around ‘kheloge toh The Fate of Butterflies - Nayantara Sahgal khiloge’ (if you play, you will prosper). Designing Destiny: The Heartfulness Way - Kamlesh Patel Overall Winners Every Vote Counts - Navin Chawla ➢ Maharashtra won the overall trophy with a total of 228 medals (85 Indian Fiscal Federalism - Dr. Y. V. Reddy gold, 62 silver and 81 bronze). 2nd Haryana -178 medals (62 gold, 56 silver Lessons Life Taught Me, Unknowingly - Autobiography of veteran and 60 bronze) while 3rd Delhi -136 medals (48 gold, 37 silver and 51 Bollywood actor bronze). My Life, My Mission - Autobiography of Yoga guru Baba Ramdev and co- ➢ Individually, Karnataka swimmer Srihari Nataraj (16-year-old’s timing of authored with senior journalist Uday Mahurkar. 26.16 secs in 50m backstroke) became the most medals winner by Function of Data Sovereignty: The Pursuit of Supremacy - -Vinit Goenka competing in seven events in the U-21 category and winning all of them. No Presents Please - Jayant Kaikini ➢ Ten-year-old Abhinav Shaw became the youngest gold medalist in India Positive - Chetan Bhagat shooting. Simplicity & Wisdom - Dinesh Shahra Static Khooni Vaisakhi - Nanak Singh (Jallianwala Bagh survivor) Sports Authority of India Quality, Accreditation & Ranking - Dr. H Chaturvedi • Headquarters: Delhi; Director General: Neelam Kapoor – A Social Revolution on Radio - Authored by - BlueKraft Digital Foundation 2019 Moving On, Moving Forward: A year in Office - Vice President M. ➢ The was a Grand Slam tennis tournament that Venkaiah Naidu took place at Melbourne Park. It was the 107th edition of the Australian Undaunted: Saving the Idea of India - P Chidambaram (former Finance Open, the 51st in the Open Era, and the first Grand Slam of the year. Minister) • Men's Singles: Serbia Novak Djokovic Changing India - Former PM Manmohan Singh • Women's Singles: Japan Naomi Osaka Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From • Men's Doubles: France Pierre-Hugues Herbert / France Nicolas - Tony Joseph Mahut Blue Water Ahoy! - Vice Admiral Anup Singh • Women's Doubles: Australia / China Radio Kashmir in Times of Peace & War - Dr Rajesh Bhat • Mixed Doubles: Czech Republic Barbora Krejčíková / United States The Great Disappointment: How Narendra Modi Squandered a Unique Opportunity to Transform the Indian Economy’ - Salman Anees Soz Indonesia Masters 2019 The Third Pillar — How Markets and the State leave the Community The Indonesia Masters 2019 Title took place at the Istora Senayan Behind - Raghuram Rajan in Jakarta, Indonesia. Saffron Swords - Manoshi Sinha Rawal CATEGORY WON BY Kundan: Saigal’s Life & Music - Sharad Dutt Women’s Singles Indian ace Badminton player, Saina Nehwal Politics of Jugaad: The Coalition Handbook - Journalist Saba Naqvi title Pan's Labyrinth: The Labyrinth of the Faun - Guillermo del Toro Men’s singles title Anders Antonsen of Denmark Shiksha: A Journey - Manish Sisodia Men’s Doubles Indonesia Marcus Fernaldi Gideon and Kevin Quichotte - Novelist Salman Rushdie Sanjaya sukamuljo Game Changer – Auto Biography of Pakistan’s former captain and star all- rounder Shahid Afridi and it is co-authored by Journalist Wajahat S Khan. Women’s Doubles Ayaka Takahashi and Misaki Matsutomo of Japan Darkness to light - Former American professional basketball player, Lamar Title Mixed Chinese mixed doubles pair of Zheng Siwei and Odom Doubles Huang Yaqiong Voyage to Antarctica - Felix Bast Story of Consciousness - Govind Bhattacharjee Premier Badminton League title 2019 An Autobiography of Moon - Ramesh Shishu ➢ Bengaluru Raptors have won their first ever Premier Badminton Shambhu Nath De - The discovery of cholera toxins - MS Murthy League title. Cricket World Cup: The Indian Challenge - Ashis Ray Award Winners:

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7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 49 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | • Best Comeback of the Tie – Sameer Verma The 2019 All England Open, officially YONEX All England Open • Attacking Player of the Tie – Kidambi Srikanth Badminton Championships 2019 was a BWF World Tour 1000 event which took place at Arena Birmingham in England. • Indian Oil Indian Player of the Tie – Kidambi Srikanth Category Winners Smartest Player of the Tie – Sameer Verma • Men’s Singles Kento Momota (Japan) • Attacking Player of the League – Mathias Christiansen Women’s Singles Chen Yufei (China) • Emerging Player of the League – Anders Antonsen Mohammad Ahsan (Indonesia) & Hendra Men’s Doubles • Indian Oil Indian Player of the League – Sameer Verma Setiawan (Indonesia) • Vodafone Smartest Player of the League – Kidambi Srikanth Women’s Doubles Chen Qingchen (China) & Jia Yifan (China) Zheng Siwei (China) & Huang Yaqiong Mixed Doubles Qatar Open Title 2019 (China) The Qatar Open Title 2019, currently known as the Qatar ExxonMobil Open for sponsorship reasons, is a professional tennis tournament played on 38th GeeBee Boxing Tournament 2019 outdoor hard courts held in Doha, Qatar. The 38th GeeBee Boxing Tournament was held at Helsinki, Men's Singles: Spain Finland. The Indian medal winners from the tournament are listed below: Men's Doubles: Belgium & France Pierre-Hugues Herbert Name Category Medal Qatar Ladies Open 2019 Kavinder Singh Bisht 56kg Gold The Qatar Ladies Open, known as the Qatar Total Open for sponsorship Thapa 60kg Silver reasons, is a women's tennis tournament held in Doha, Qatar. Mohammed Hussamuddin 56kg Silver Women's Singles:Belgium Govind Sahani 49kg Silver Women's Doubles: Chinese Taipei Chan Hao-Ching & Chinese Dinesh Dagar 69kg Silver Taipei Sumit Sangwan 91kg Bronze Saching Siwach 52 kg Bronze YONEX-SUNRISE India Open 2019 Naveen Kumar +91kg Bronze The 2019 India Open, officially the YONEX-SUNRISE India Open 2019, was a badminton tournament which took place at K. D. Jadhav Indoor Hall Indian Wells Masters 2019 in New Delhi, India. Professional tennis tournament Indian Wells Masters 2019 also known Winners List: as BNP Paribas Open held in California, United States. It was the 44th Men's Singles: Denmark Viktor Axelsen edition of the men's event and 31st of the women's event. Women's Singles:Thailand Ratchanok Intanon Here the winner list: Men's Doubles: Chinese Taipei Lee Yang & Chinese Taipei Wang Chi-lin Category Winner Women's Doubles: Indonesia Greysia Polii & Indonesia Apriyani Men’s Singles (Austria) Rahayu Women’s Singles (Canada) Mixed Doubles: China Wang Yilü & China Huang Dongping Nikola Mektic (Croatia) and Horacio Zeballo Men’s Doubles (Argentina) 57th International Wrestling Tournament 2019 Elise Mertens (Belgium) and 57th International Wrestling Tournament ‘Dan Kolov – Nikola Women’s Doubles () Petrov’ conducted in Ruse, .

WINNER CATEGORY MEDAL 2019: Men’s freestyle 65 kg GOLD The 2019 Swiss Open, officially the YONEX Swiss Open 2019 was a Pooja Dhanda Women’s freestyle 59 kg GOLD badminton tournament which took place at St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Women’s 65 kg SILVER Switzerland. Sandeep Tomar Men’s 61kg SILVER Here the winner list: Vinesh Phogat Women’s 53kg SILVER Category Winner

Men’s Singles Shi Yuqi (China) Dubai Tennis Championship 2019 Women’s Singles Chen Yufei (China) Dubai Tennis Championship 2019 commonly known as Dubai Duty Fajar Alfian and Muhammad Rian Ardianto Free Tennis Championship concluded in Dubai, UAE. It was the 27th Men’s Doubles (Indonesia) edition of men and 19th edition of women. Chang Ye-na and Jung Kyung-eun (South ➢ Men’s Singles – (Switzerland) Women’s Doubles Korea) ➢ Women’s Singles - (Switzerland) Mixed Doubles Bay-Smidt and Rikke Soby Hansen (Denmark) ➢ Men’s Doubles title - Rajeev Ram (USA) and (UK)

➢ Women’s Doubles title - Hsieh Su-wei (China) and Barbora 2019 Asian Youth Athletics Championships Strycova (Czech Republic). ➢ The Third edition of 2019 Asian Youth Athletics Championships was

continental athletics competition for Asian athletes aged 15 to 17. It was Mexican Open 2019 held at the Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground in Hong Kong. It was Mexican open which is a part of 2019 ATP (Association of Tennis Organised by the Hong Kong Amateur Athletic Association. Professionals) World Tour and 2019 WTA (Women’s Tennis ➢ India secured second position in the overall medals tally with 26 Association) Tour, was held at the Princess Mundo Imperial in medals including 8 gold, 9 silver and 9 bronze medals. Mexico. ➢ China topped the championship with 31 medals including 12 gold, 11 ➢ Men’s Singles - (Australia) silver and 8 bronze. Japan ranked third in the Championship with 20 ➢ Women’s Singles - Wang Yafan (China) medals. ➢ Men’s Doubles - (Germany) and India at the 2019 Asian Youth Athletics Championships: (Germany) MEN: ➢ Women’s Doubles - (Belarus) and (China) Event Gold Silver Bronze 400 metres Abdul Razak - - Cheramkulangara The 2019 SAFF (South Asian Football Federation) Women's Rasheed (IND) Championship (5th edition) was held in Biratnagar, Nepal. India won Medley relay India - - the tournament by defeating Nepal in the final. 200 metres - Shanmuga - ➢ Top scorer(s): India Indumathi Kathiresan, Nepal Sabitra Bhandari (4 Srinivas goals each) Nalubothu ➢ Best player(s): India Dangmei Grace 800 metres - Mathesh Babu Sumit Kharab ➢ Fair Play Award: Bangladesh 3000 metres - Amit Jangir 1500 metres - - Ajay 2019 All England Open

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7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 50 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | 2000 metres - Atul Kumar - 10m Air Rifle Shreya Agrawal steeplechase Bhimsingbhai Women Junior Gamit Individual 10,000 m walk Vishvendra Singh - Paramjeet 10m Air Rifle Yash Vardhan Singh Bisht Men Junior Pole vault - - Deepak Individual Yadav 10m Air Rifle Keval Triple jump - - Vishal Mor Men Junior Prajapati Shot put - Amandeep - 10m Air Rifle Divyansh Singh Singh Dhaliwal Men Individual Panwar Hammer throw Vipin Kumar - - Aishwarya 10m Air Rifle Decathlon Usaid Khan - Ali Ansari Pratap Singh Men Junior Tomar WOMEN: Divyansh Singh 10m Air Rifle Event Gold Silver Bronze Panwar, Ravi Kumar, Men Team 100 metres Avantika - - Deepak Kumar Santosh Narale Saurabh 200 metres - Avantika Santosh Deepthi 10m Air Pistol Chaudhary, Ravinder Narale Jeevanji Men Team Singh & Abhishek 800 metres - Pooja - Verma 1500 metres - - Chanthini 10m Air Rifle Chandran Women Elavenil Valarivan 100 metres Thabitha Philip - - Individual 10m Air Pistol Abhishek hurdles Maheswaran Medley relay - Deepthi Jeevanji - Men Verma Elavenil Valarivan, Avantika Santosh 10m Air Rifle Apurvi Chandela, Narale Women Team Sandra Ajimon Meghana Sajjanar Shiny Manu Bhaker, 10m Air Pistol Paramanthanam Priya Habbthanahally Women Team Shri Nivetha, Mohan Anuradha Long Jump Thabitha Philip - Ambrikha 10m Air Pistol Maheswaran Narzary Women Manu Bhaker Hammer - Harshita Sherawat - Individual throw 10m Air Pistol Manu Bhaker & Mixed Team Saurabh Chaudhary 2019 Lingshui China Masters Esha Singh, The 2019 Lingshui China Masters was a badminton tournament 10m Air Pistol Harshada which took place at Agile Stadium in China. This was the first Super 100 Women Junior Nithave, Tournament of the 2019 BWF World Tour. Team Devanshi Here the Winners List Dhama Category Winners Yash Vardhan, Men’s Singles Weng Hongyang (China) 10m Air Rifle Aishwary Pratap Women Singles Kim Ga-eun (South Korea) Men Junior Singh Tomar, Keval Lee Jhe-huei and Yang Po-hsuan Team Jashvantbhai Men’s Doubles (Chinese Taipei) Prajapati Baek Ha-na and Kim Hye-rin (South 10m Air Pistol Women’s Doubles Korea) Men Junior Sarabjot Singh and Ng Tsz Yau (Hong Individual Mixed Doubles Elavenil Kong) 10m Air Rifle Valarivan, Mixed Team MIAMI OPEN 2019 Ravi Kumar The 2019 Miami Open (also known as 2019 Miami Open presented by Itaú) 10m Air Pistol Sarabjot Singh, was a professional men and women's tennis tournament played on outdoor Men Junior Arjun Singh Cheema, hard courts in Miami Gardens, Florida, United States. Team Vijayveer Sidhu Here the Winners List: 10m Air Rifle C Kavi Rakshna, Event Winner Women Junior Shreya Agrawal, Team Mehuli Ghosh Mehuli Men’s Singles Roger Federer (Switzerland) 10m Air Rifle Ghosh, Keval Mixed Team Jashvantbhai Women’s Singles (Australia) Junior Prajapati 10m Air Pistol Men’s Doubles & (USA) Women Junior Esha Singh Individual Women’s Doubles Elise Mertens (Belgium) & Aryna Sabalenka 10m Air Rifle Mehuli Ghosh

(Belarus) Women Junior 10m Air Pistol Esha Singh, Mixed Team Vijayveer Sidhu Asian Airgun Championships 2019 Junior Indian shooters continued their dominance claiming five gold medals on 10m Air Rifle Shreya Agrawal, the final day of the Asian Airgun Championships to sign off with a total Mixed Team Yash Vardhan of 25 medals in Taoyuan, Taipei. India finished with 16 gold, 5 silver, Junior and 4 bronze medals. 10m Air Pistol Vijayveer Sidhu

Here the List of Indian Winners: Men Junior Event Gold Silver Bronze 2019 Malaysia Open

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7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 51 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | ➢ The 2019 Malaysia Open, officially the CELCOM AXIATA Malaysia 4×400 metres relay – Mohammad Anas – Open 2019, is a badminton tournament which takes place at Axiata Arena M. R. Poovamma in Malaysia from 2 to 7 April 2019 and has a total purse of $700,000. Vismaya Champions Velluvakoroth • Men’s Singles: Lin Dan (China) Arokia Rajiv • Women’s Singles: Tai Tzu-ying (China) • Men’s Doubles: Li Junhui (China) & Liu Yuchen (China) • Women’s Doubles: Chen Qingchen (China) & Jia Yifan (China) ➢ The 2019 Badminton Asia Championships, is a badminton • Mixed Doubles: Zheng Siwei (China) & Huang Yaqiong (China) tournament which took place at Wuhan Sports Center Gymnasium in China. The 2019 Badminton Asia Championships was the 39th edition of the 2019 Singapore Open (Badminton) Badminton Asia Championships. This tournament was hosted by the The 2019 Singapore Open, was a badminton tournament which took place Chinese Badminton Association. at in Singapore. Here is the complete list of winners of 2019 Badminton Asia Here the Winners List Championships: ➢ Men's Singles: Kento Momota (Japan) Event Winner ➢ Women's Singles: Tai Tzu-ying (China) Men’s singles Kento Momota (Japan) ➢ Men's Doubles: Takeshi Kamura (Japan) & Keigo Sonoda (Japan) Women’s singles Akane Yamaguchi (Japan) ➢ Women's Doubles: Mayu Matsumoto (Japan) & Wakana Nagahara Men’s doubles Hiroyuki Endo and Yuta Watanabe (Japan) (Japan) Women’s doubles Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan (China) ➢ Mixed Doubles: Dechapol Puavaranukroh (Thailand) & Sapsiree Mixed doubles Wang Yilü and Huang Dongping (China) Taerattanachai (Thailand) Asian Wrestling Championship 2019 2019 Asian Athletics Championships ➢ The 2019 Asian Wrestling Championships was held in Xi’an, China. ➢ The 2019 Asian Athletics Championships was the 23rd edition of ➢ India won 16 medals which include 1 gold, 3 silver and 4 bronze by men’s the Asian Athletics Championships. It was held at the Khalifa freestyle wrestlers, 3 silver and 1 bronze by men’s Greco-Roman International Stadium in Doha, Qatar. During the closing ceremony of wrestlers and 4 bronze won by women’s freestyle wrestlers. the 22nd Asian Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar India. ➢ India ranked 8th place in the tournament and the first three countries ➢ Bahrain topped the medal tally (11- Gold; 7-Silver; 4-Bronze; Total – ranked in the tournament were Iran followed by China and Japan. 22 Medals). India finished fourth in the medal tally (3- Gold; 7-Silver; 7- Bronze; Total – 17 Medals) Here the Indian Winners List India at the 2019 Asian Athletics Championships Event / Category Name Medal MEN EVENT GOLD SILVER BRONZE 1500 metres – Ajay Kumar – Men’s Freestyle/65-kg Bajrang Punia Gold Saroj 10,000 metres – – Gavit Murli Men’s Freestyle/74-kg Amit Kumar Dhankar Silver Kumar 400 metres – – Jabir Madari Men’s Freestyle/79-kg Parveen Rana Silver hurdles Palliyalil 3000 metres – Avinash – Men’s Freestyle/92-kg Vicky Chahar Silver steeplechase Sable Shot put Tejinder Pal – – Men’s Greco-Roman/77-kg Gurpreet Singh Silver Singh Toor Men’s Greco-Roman/82-kg Harpreet Singh Silver Javelin throw – Shivpal – Singh Men’s Greco-Roman/87-kg Sunil Kumar Silver Men’s Freestyle/61-kg Rahul Aware Bronze WOMEN EVENT GOLD SILVER BRONZE Men’s Freestyle/86-kg Deepak Punia Bronze Men’s Freestyle/97-kg Satyawart Kadian Bronze 200 metres – – Dutee Chand

Men’s Freestyle/125-kg Sumit Malik Bronze 400 metres – – M. R. Poovamma Men’s Greco-Roman/60-kg Gyanender Dahiya Bronze 800 metres Gomathi – – Women’s Freestyle/53-kg Vinesh Phogat Bronze Marimuthu Women’s Freestyle/59-kg Manju Kumari Bronze 1500 metres P. U. Chitra – – Women’s Freestyle/62-kg Sakshi Malik Bronze

5000 metres – – Parul Chaudhary Women’s Freestyle/68-kg Divya Kakran Bronze

10,000 metres – – Sanjivani Jadhav 67th Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell 2019 400 metres – – Sarita ➢ The 2019 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell (also known as the Torneo hurdles Gayakwad Godó) was a men’s tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 67th edition of the event and part of the ATP World Tour 500 4×400 metres – Prachi – series of the 2019 ATP World Tour. It took place at the Real Club de Tenis relay M. R. Barcelona in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Poovamma Winner List Sarita ➢ Singles: Austria Dominic Thiem Gayakwad ➢ Doubles: Colombia Juan Sebastián Cabal / Colombia V. K. Vismaya

Asian Boxing Championship 2019 Javelin throw – Annu Rani – The Asian Boxing Championship 2019 was held in Huamark Indoor Stadium Heptathlon – Swapna Barman – in Bangkok, Thailand.

Category Name Medal MIXED 52-kg Amit Panghal Gold EVENT GOLD SILVER BRONZE 81-kg Pooja Rani Gold 64-kg Simranjit Kaur Silver

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7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 52 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | 56-kg Kavinder Singh Bisht Silver • Women’s Doubles: Belarus Victoria Azarenka / Australia Ashleigh Barty 49-kg Deepak Singh Silver 75-kg Ashish Chaudhary Silver ISSF World Cup 3 2019: 51-kg Nikhat Zareen Bronze ➢ International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup 3 was 54-kg Manisha Moun Bronze held in Munich, Germany. India won 5 gold medal and a silver medal 57-kg Sonia Chahal Bronze totalling 6 medals and topped the medal tally. China won two gold, two 60-kg Sarita Devi Bronze silver, and five bronze medals and placed second in the medal tally. Next 60-kg Shiva Thapa Bronze tournament ISSF World Cup 4 is set to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 69-kg Ashish Bronze ➢ Saurabh Chaudhary won a gold medal in 10 metre air pistol and broke +91-kg Satish Kumar Bronze down his own world record of 245 by shooting 246. 3 points in the final. Asian Games champion Rahi Sarnobat and Manu Bhaker clinch sixth XXXVI Feliks Stamm International Boxing Tournament and seventh Olympic quota place in shooting for 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Indian boxers finished with a rich haul of six medals which includes 2 gold, Here the Winner List: 1 silver and 3 bronze medals at the XXXVI Feliks Stamm International NAME CATEGORY MEDAL Saurabh Chaudhary Boxing Tournament 2019 in Warsaw, Poland. 10 Metre Air Pistol Gold Here the list of Indian Winners: (World Record) Event/ Category Name Medal Apurvi Chandela 10 Metre Air Rifle Gold Fly (52-kg) Gaurav Solanki Gold Rahi Sarnobat 25 Metre Pistol Gold Divyansh Singh Panwar 10 Metre Air Rifle (Mixed Light (60-kg) Manish Kaushik Gold Gold Bantam (56-kg) Mohammed Silver & Anjum Moudgil Team) Saurabh Chaudhary & 10 Metre Air Pistol (Mixed Hussamuddin Gold Light Welter (64-kg) Ankit Khatana Bronze Manu Bhaker Team) Apurvi Chandela & Welter (69-kg) Mandeep Jangra Bronze 10 Metre Air Rifle (Mixed Deepak Kumar (sport Silver Heavy (91-kg) Sanjeet Bronze Team) shooter) Madrid Open 2019: ➢ The 2019 Madrid Open (sponsored by Mutua) is a professional tennis 2019 French Open tournament played on outdoor clay courts at the Park Manzanares in ➢ The 2019 French Open was a Grand Slam tennis tournament played on Madrid, Spain from 3 May–12 May 2019. outdoor clay courts. It was held at the in Paris, Here the Winners List: France. ➢ Men's Singles: Serbia Novak Djokovic ➢ Here the Winner List: ➢ Women's Singles: Netherlands ➢ Men's Singles: Spain ➢ Men's Doubles: Netherlands Jean-Julien Rojer / Romania Horia ➢ Women's Singles: Australia Ashleigh Barty Tecău ➢ Men's Doubles: Germany & Germany ➢ Women's Doubles: Chinese Taipei Hsieh Su-wei / Czech Republic ➢ Women's Doubles: Hungary Tímea Babos & France Barbora Strýcová ➢ Mixed Doubles: Chinese Taipei Latisha Chan & Croatia

Mumbai beat Chennai by one run to win record 4th IPL title: China claimed four gold medals at 2019 ITTF World Tour Hong Kong ➢ Mumbai Indians became IPL champions for the fourth time after Open, Queen Elizabeth Stadium, Hong Kong. defeating Chennai Super Kings by one run in a thrilling final in ➢ Women’s Singles: Wang Yidi Hyderabad. ➢ Men’s Singles: Lin Gaoyuan ➢ Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni became the most successful ➢ Men’s Doubles: Liang Jingkun and Lin Gaoyuan wicketkeeper in the history of IPL by taking his dismissals tally to 132, ➢ Women’s Doubles: Chen Ke and Mu Zi surpassing his India teammate Dinesh Karthik. ➢ Player of the series: Andre Russell (KKR) (510 runs and 11 wickets) ISSF Rifle/Pistol World Cup 2019: India finishes top of medal tally ➢ Most runs: David Warner (SRH) (692) with four medals ➢ Most wickets : Imran Tahir (CSK) (26) ❖ India drew blank on the final day but still topped the chart for the second consecutive ISSF World Cup, third time in two years, by 2019 IAAF World Relays Highlights: bagging three gold and a silver at the Beijing edition of the ➢ The 2019 IAAF World Relays was held in Yokohama, Japan from May Rifle/Pistol event. 11 to May 12, 2019. Two new events were established for 2019, both mixed ❖ India topped the medals tally ahead of hosts China (2 gold, 2 silver, 1 events: the 2 × 2 × 400 m relay and the shuttle hurdles relay. bronze), who won five medals in total. ➢ The 2 x 2 x 400 m mixed relay event has replaced 4 x 800 m relay which ❖ Anjum Moudgil and young Divyansh Singh Panwar – Gold in the featured in the previous events. 10m Air Rifle Mixed Team competition. ➢ Indian men’s 4 x 400 m relay and women’s 4 x 400 m relay teams ❖ Teenaged pair of Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary- Gold in the finished at 17th. 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team Pistol event. ➢ The Indian mixed 4 x 400 m relay team finished at 15th. ❖ Abhishek Verma – Gold in men’s 10m Air Pistol event. ➢ The top 10 finishers in the IAAF World Relays 2019 in men’s and women’s ❖ Divyansh – Won India’s first individual medal by clinching a 4×400 m relays event and top 12 finishers in mixed 4×400 m relays event silver in the men’s 10m Air Rifle. have qualified for the IAAF World Athletics Championship which will going to held in Doha, Qatar from September 28 to October 6, 2019. India Bags 57 Medals at India Open International Tournament: Here the Winner List: ❖ India bags a total of 57 medals including 12 Gold, 18 Silver and 27 Category Winner Bronze at India Open International Boxing tournament in Guwahati. ❖ MC Mary Kom, Shiva Thapa, L Sarita Devi, and Naman Tanwar won Men’s 4×100 m relay Brazil gold in their respective finals. Men’s 4×200 m relay US ❖ This was Mary’s second gold in the tournament, having won in 48 kg last Men’s 4×400 m relay Trinidad and Tobago year in the capital. Women’s 4x100m relay US ❖ On the other hand, Deepak defeated Govind Kumar in 49 kg final while Women’s 4×200 m relay France in 52 kg category- Amit Panghal defeated Sachin. Women’s 4×400 m relay Poland

Mixed 4×400 m relay US World Archery Championships 2019: Mixed 2x2x400 m relay US ❖ The Indian men’s recurve team bagged a Silver Medal at Den Bosch Mixed Shuttle Hurdles relay US in The Netherlands. ❖ Women's compound team Raj Kaur, Muskan Kirar, Jyothi Surekha Result of Italian Open 2019: Vennam bagged a Bronze Medal. • Men’s Singles: Spain Rafael Nadal ❖ Women’s Compound individual event Jyothi Surekha Vennam • Women’s Singles: Czech Republic Karolína Plíšková bagged a Bronze Medal. • Men’s Doubles: Colombia Juan Sebastián Cabal / Colombia Robert Farah GRAND PRIX WINNERS OF 2019

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Sergey Karjakin remains the youngest-ever GM, having achieved the feat at ➢ Australian cities Sydney and Brisbane have been announced as the first the age of 12 years and seven months in 2002. two host locations for the newest team event in men’s tennis from ➢ Asian Cup gold medallist Shakil Ahmed has set up a world record in indoor January 2020. rowing by completing one lakh metres in above 40 years category in Kolkata. ➢ India defeated Australia in the third ODI at Melbourne Cricket Ground ➢ India’s Mountaineer Satyarup becomes world’s youngest mountaineer (MCG) to win the ODI series and became the first Visiting team to win to climb 7 peaks, 7 volcano summits. bilateral series across the three formats against Australia in Australian soil. ➢ French sailor JeanLuc Van Den Heede has won the round-the-world ➢ Virat Kohli has become the first Indian as well as the first Asian captain yacht race after 212 days alone at sea without modern instruments. to win a Test series in Australia. Cheteshwar Pujara was declared man of ➢ The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced fixtures for the ICC the match as well as man-of-the-series. T20 World Cup 2020 Men’s and Women’s event in Australia in 2020. ➢ Indian pace trio of Ishant Sharma, and Jasprit ➢ India's Kartik Sharma has won the New South Wales men's Amateur Bumrah broke the 34-year record of highest test wickets in a calendar year Golf Championship in Australia. to become the most successful pace trio with 131 wickets in 2018. ➢ Indian cricketer Ambati Rayudu has been suspended from in ➢ Mohammed Shami has become the fastest Indian bowler to claim 100 International Cricket by the International Cricket Council (ICC). ODI wickets. ➢ The International Cricket Council (ICC) signed a five-year global ➢ Indian men's hockey coach was removed from the position - Harendra partnership deal with beverage manufacturer Coca-Cola Company. The Singh deal is reportedly worth Rs.300 crore. ➢ World Championship bronze medallist Assam’s Lovlina ➢ World champion Indian weightlifter notched Borgohain claimed the gold medal in 69 kg up a gold medal at the EGAT Cup in Thailand. Jeremy Lalrinnunga has category while Haryana boxer Manisha Moun had to settle with silver in won the silver in men's 67-kilogram category. Deni (Indonesia) total lifted 54 kg category at the Women’s National Boxing Championships held 303 kilograms and won Gold medal. Ruben Katoatau (Kiribati) took the at the JSW Sports’ Inspire Institute of Sports Vijayanagara, Karnataka. bronze with a total lift of 285 kilograms. ➢ The 80th National Table Tennis Championship began at Jawaharlal ➢ Indian women's team ODI skipper became the first female Nehru Indoor Stadium in Cuttack. cricketer to feature in 200 One-Day Internationals (ODI), during the ➢ India’s has won the International Tennis third ODI against New Zealand at Seddon Park, Hamilton. Federation’s 25,000-dollar Women’s tournament in Singapore by ➢ Golfer Vani Kapoor has become the first Indian to grab Australian defeating the top seed World No. 122, of the Netherlands. Ladies PGA Tour (LPGA) card after securing 12th Rank tied with three ➢ India’s wicket keeper Rishabh Pant became the first Indian wicket keeper others in the first ever qualifying tournament at the Ballarat Golf Club in batsman to score a century in Test against Australia on Australian soil after Australia. hitting 159 runs on the 2nd day of 4th Test Match at Sydney, Australia. ➢ INS Dronacharya team won the Regetta trophy in the Area Pulling ➢ Switzerland’s Roger Federer and Belinda Bencic captured Regatta Kochi 2019 of the (SNC Southern Naval Command) held in Kochi. the title for a second year which was held in Perth, Western ➢ Indian paddler G Sathiyan achieved a new career rank of 28 in the Australia, edging Germany’s Alexander Zverev and . world rankings. Manika Batra became the first female from India to ➢ 25 years old Indian fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah finishes 2018 as be enlisted in top 50 list, she made herself in rank 47. the highest international wicket-taker of 2018 with 78 wickets after ➢ Haryana Hammers defeated defending champions Punjab Royals by 6- taking 9 wickets in the 3rd Test Match against Australia held in Melbourne 3 in the summit clash at the Gautam Buddha University indoor stadium, Cricket Ground, Australia. Greater Noida in Uttar Pradesh to claim the fourth edition of the Pro ➢ The Brisbane International 2019 was played on outdoor hard courts Wrestling League (PWL). in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. won his first ATP ➢ India’s Smriti Mandhana attained top in the ICC ODI rankings for title since Memphis in 2016 with a dominating final set to beat Daniil batswomen, she grab first position after the match against New Zealand, Medvedev 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 in the Brisbane International final. whereas Ellyse Perry followed her in the second position and Indian ODI Pliskova improved her record in Brisbane to 13-2 and joined Victoria skipper Mithali Raj in fifth position. Azarenka (2009, 2016) and (2013-14) as the third ➢ Former Pakistan women's cricket team skipper Sana Mir became the woman to win the tournament twice. first Asian woman cricketer to play hundred T20 international matches. ➢ Egypt and Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has been named African ➢ Rohit Sharma (Indian Cricket Team Vice-Captain) became the 14th Footballer of the Year for the second time in a row. He received the Indian Cricketer to play 200 (ODIs) in the fourth award at a ceremony in Senegal. Houston Dash and South Africa Match against New Zealand held at Hamilton, New Zealand. forward Thembi Kgatlana was named Women’s Player of the Year. ➢ Rohit Sharma has become the highest run scorer in the Twenty20 ➢ The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced USA Cricket as International history. its 105th member. Headquarter: Dubai, UAE. ➢ Indian squash player Ramit Tandon defeated Egyptian Mohamed El ➢ 36 years old boxer, M C Mary Kom attained the first position in the latest Sherbini in the finals to win the Seattle Open, a PSA challenger squash ranking released by the International Boxing Association (AIBA) in the Tour event held in USA. Light Fly 45-48 kilograms category with 1700 points. ➢ Vidarbha won the Irani Cup 2018-19. Player of the Match: Akshay ➢ The seasoned Mahendra Singh Dhoni became the fifth player to score Karnewar (Vidarbha). ten thousand runs for India in One-day International Cricket, adding ➢ Jamie Chadwick from Bath, England made history by becoming the first another feather to his illustrious cap. Previously achieved the feat, which female driver to win the MRF challenge title after scoring a triple win in include , Sourav Ganguly, and Virat the final round in Chennai. Kohli. ➢ The 83rd edition of the Senior National Badminton Championship has ➢ Mohammed Shami succeeded the Indian record holder by Irfan begun in Guwahati. This is the first time the Nationals is returning to the Pathan to become the fastest Indian bowler to claim 100 ODI wickets. North-East since Guwahati last hosted it in 2010. ➢ Danish player Anders Antonsen won his first ever Indonesia Masters ➢ The world’s one and only fire engine with original Shrewsbury and Challiner after defeating world number one Kento Momota of Japan to claim the solid tyres preserved at National Rail Museum (New Delhi) won the 2019 title. “Statesman Challenger” trophy in the statesman 53rd edition Vintage ➢ Australian T20 cricket team “Brisbane Heat” won their maiden Women’s car rally. Big Bash League (WBBL) title by defeating Sydney Sixers in the final by three ➢ Meghalaya's state animal Clouded Leopard will be the mascot for the wickets at Drummoyne Oval in Sydney, Australia. National Games 2022 coinciding with the 50th year of the creation of the ➢ Lady Head constable Himachal Pradesh Police Rani won a Gold medal in state. the Senior National Women's Judo Championship 78 kg category at ➢ Sports Authority of India won 9th Hockey India Senior Women Visakhapatnam. National Championship (B Division) held in Hisar, Haryana. They ______

7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 54 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | defeated Hockey Chandigarh by 4-1 in the final. The event concluded at ➢ The International Cricket Council (ICC) has banned former Zimbabwe Kollam Hockey Stadium, Kerala. Cricket director Enock Ikope for a period of 10 years for breaching 3 ICC’s ➢ Railway Sports Promotion Board lifted the 9th Senior National Men's anti-corruption codes. Hockey Championship crown at Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. ➢ Kudo International Federation India (KIFI) has been provisionally ➢ India's young paddlers clinching four medals (1-gold, 2- silver and 1- recognised as National Sport Federation by the Ministry of Youth Affairs bronze) at the Bahrain Junior and Cadet Open Table Tennis tournament in and Sports. Manama, Bahra ➢ Manpreet Singh was named captain of the 18-member Indian hockey ➢ Russia’s has achieved his fourth ATP title after a team to play in the upcoming 28th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup. triumph against finalist Hungary’s Morton Fucsovics in the Finale of Sofia ➢ Tamil Nadu’s 16-year-old P Iniyan defeated Ukraine’s 37-year- Open 2019. old Grandmaster Sergey Fedorchuk in Noisiel Open chess ➢ Qatar won the AFC Asian Cup 2019 crown in Abu Dhabi. tournament in France to become India’s 61st Grandmaster. Iniyan ➢ A 22-year old men’s indoor world record in 1,500 metres was broken by crossed the mandatory 2500-mark in ELO ratings with the win to achieve Samuel Tefera, an Ethiopian teenager. He broke the record at the the feat. Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix by finishing the race in 3 minutes, 31.04 ➢ Indian gymnast was selected as Barbie role model & seconds. was presented with a one-of-a-kind doll by Barbie as the company ➢ International Cricket Council (ICC) banned UAE coach Irfan Ansari for a celebrates its 60th anniversary. She was part of the ‘Shero’ program period of 10 years, from all forms of Cricket as he was found guilty of launched in 2015 by the company. making a “corrupt approach” to Pakistan captain Sarfaraz Ahmed in 2017. ➢ Mumbai sailor Upamanyu Dutta bagged the bronze medal in the ➢ Chris Gayle toppled Shahid Afridi to top the list of most international Laser Standard race for men in the Laser Asian Sailing which concluded sixes during the 1st ODI between West Indies and England at the in Singapore. Nethra Kumanan of Chennai achieved a creditable 4th Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados. position in the Laser Radial event for women. ➢ The 16-year-old Indian Shooter Saurabh Chaudhary claimed gold ➢ Special Olympics World Games 2019 has made history by welcoming medal in the men's 10m air pistol event with a world record score of a record-breaking 200 nations ahead of the Games. It is being held 245.0 in the final at the season-opening International Shooting Sport in West Asia for the first time. Federation (ISSF) event. In addition, he sealed a berth for the 2020 ➢ Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has granted provisional Tokyo Olympics. recognition to All India Carrom Federation (AICF) as National Sport ➢ The International Olympic Committee (IOC) suspended all Indian Federation with immediate in order to facilitate the participation of Indian applications to host future events and urged international sports Athletes in the forthcoming National/International competitions. federations not to stage competitions in the country after two Pakistanis ➢ AIBA (International Boxing Association) Technical & Competition were denied visas to compete in New Delhi. Rules Commission and AIBA medical Commission has proposed certain ➢ Former Sri Lankan Cricket Captain has been banned changes in the rules after the Executive Committee Meetings in Moscow in from Cricket for two years, after he failed to co-operate in a corruption October 2018 and Istanbul in February 2019. investigation. ➢ England defeated India in the 3rd and final Women’s Twenty20 ➢ Afghanistan broke Australia's record for the highest Twenty20 cricket International in Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati, Assam. total as they posted 278 runs from their 20 overs in the second T20I against ➢ China’s 2016 Olympic champion, Liu Hong, broke the world record in Ireland at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Dehradun, the 50 km race walk, finishing in 3 hours, 59 minutes and 15 seconds Uttarakhand. (3:59:15), at the Chinese Race Walk Grand Prix in Huangshan, to ➢ Sri Lanka entered the record books and scripted history by becoming become the first woman to break the 4-hour barrier in the event. the first Asian team to win a Test series in South Africa. ➢ Argentina and Colombia are poised to co-host the 2020 Copa America ➢ In Chess, Indian Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta lifted the Cannes after South America’s ruling body CONMEBOL once again ruled out a US International Open trophy. He took an easy draw with Pier Luigi Basso of proposal to host the tournament. CONMEBOL’s ruling council met in Miami Italy in the ninth and final round. to discuss the issue ahead of a FIFA Council meeting in the city. ➢ Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary clinched the gold medal with ➢ Australia beat India by 35 runs to win their first bilateral One Day 483.4 points in the 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team event at the ISSF World International (ODI) series against India since 2016. It was India’s 1st Cup in New Delhi. ODI series defeat at home since 2015. M S Dhoni became the 4th Indian ➢ Vidarbha won the Ranji Trophy 2018-19 edition (85th season) at the batsman to reach 13,000. Virat Kohli created record by smashing 40th Vidarbha Cricket Association in Nagpur. ODI hundred. Player of the Series: Usman Khawaja. ➢ Apurvi Chandela has won the gold medal in the women's 10-metre air ➢ Five Indians have been appointed as members of various Technical rifle event at the Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range in New Delhi. Committees of Asian Gymnastics Union for a four-year term from 2019 to ➢ (France) won the Chennai Open ATP Challenger 2022. The five Indians are Deepak Kabra (Men’s Artistic Gymnastics), tennis singles tournament in Chennai. Akshata Shete (Rhythmic Gymnastics), Makarand Joshi (Aerobic ➢ Indian has made it to the top-100 of Men's Gymnastics), Sumith MR (Acrobatic Gymnastics) and Narayan Shashi Singles Tennis rankings. (Gymnastics for All). ➢ West Indies cricketer Chris Gayle became the first player in the ➢ Spanish football club Real Madrid has re-appointed Zinedine Zidane as world to hit 500 sixes the 14th batsman and second from the Caribbean its coach till 2022. after , to reach the milestone of 10,000 ODI runs, after scoring ➢ The All India Football Federation confirmed that India will be hosting 162 off 97 balls against England in the fourth ODI at the National Cricket the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in 2020, three years after hosting Stadium in St George’s, Grenada. the U-17 Men’s World Cup. The 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup was ➢ National champion Deepak Singh (49kg) was the lone Indian boxer to held in Uruguay. notch up a gold by defeating Jaafar Naseri, while five others ➢ Karnataka defeated Maharashtra to win their maiden Syed Mushtaq claimed silver medals in the Makran Cup in Chabahar, Iran. Ali Trophy at the Holkar Cricket Stadium in Indore. ➢ Swiss Tennis legend Roger Federer has claimed the 100th ATP ➢ Eighteen-year-old Diksha Dagar became the second Indian to win an title of his career with after beating 20-year-old Greek Stefanos event on Ladies European Tour after clinching South African Women’s Tsitsipas 6-4, 6-4 in the final of the Dubai Tennis Championships. The 20- Open in Cape Town. Aditi Ashok was the first Indian to win this title. time grand slam champion is the second man, after American Jimmy ➢ 29-year-old Indian athlete K.T. Irfan from Kerala has qualified for Connors to claim 100 titles. the Tokyo Olympics as he finished fourth in the men’s 20-kilometer ➢ Shashank Shekhar won the 10 kilometre race of Nepal’s Chief of category at the Asian Race-Walking Championships in Nomi, Japan. Army Staff (COAS) Open Marathon and Run for Fun which was held in ➢ Bengaluru FC clinched their maiden Indian Super League title as Nepal’s Capital- Kathmandu. Rahul Bheke found a championship-winning header in the dying minutes of ➢ Chris Gayle, West Indies opener has signed off his last One Day the final against FC Goa, in Mumbai, Maharashtra. International in the West Indies with a record half century against England ➢ The Board of Control For Cricket In India (BCCI) announced the at the Darren Sammy National Cricket Stadium in Saint Lucia. sports gaming platform Dream11 as the official partner for VIVO Indian ➢ Vivo Indian Premier League (IPL) 2019’s official partner, TATA Premier League (IPL) to boost the digital gaming. Motors, will promote its newly-launched SUV, Harrier, as its lead brand at ➢ The United World Wrestling (UWW) has taken away the Junior Asian the event and showcase the SUV by means of the IPL platform. The highest Wrestling Championship from India and asked all its affiliated federations strike rate will win the Harrier Super Striker Award in every to stop dealing with the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) due to the match and for the season. country’s diplomatic tension with Pakistan. ➢ Olympic Council of Asia decided to invite Oceania Nations to compete ➢ Afghanistan defeated Ireland by 7 wickets to win their first ever Test in 2022 Asian Games for the first time after a meeting held in Bangkok. Match in Dehradun, Uttrakhand. Rahmat Shah was awarded the Player of the Match. ______

7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 55 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | ➢ Former India hockey captain Sardar Singh along with 13 Indian Olympic ➢ For the 4th consecutive time, the Northern Command based Association (IOA) members, have been named in various Standing in Udhampur has won the 15th edition of General J J Singh Air Committees of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) at its 38th General Weapon Championship in Mhow, Madhya Pradesh. Assembly which held in Bangkok. ➢ Saurav Ghosal became the first Indian male squash player to enter ➢ The T10 cricket League is set to be played in Zayed Cricket Stadium the top 10 in the latest PSA – Professional Squash Association world of Abu Dhabi for the next five years, starting from 2019 season. The first rankings. Indian women squash players Joshna Chinappa and Dipika match in the T10 League will be held on 23rd October 2019. Pallikal had earlier reached top 10 in the world rankings. ➢ The 15th Special Olympics World Summer Games 2019 for athletes ➢ India has retained ICC Test Championship mace for the third year in with Intellectual disabilities held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates with a row after finishing at the top of ICC Test team rankings on the cut-off date motto “Meet the Determined”. The event saw the participation of 190 of April 1. It has also won the purse of USD 1 million. countries. The next Special Olympic Games are set to take place ➢ In the latest release of FIFA (The Federation Internationale de in Sweden in 2021. Football Association) world football rankings, Belgium has edged the ➢ India has lost the hosting rights of two international tennis tournaments World Cup winners France to retain at the first rank with 1737 points. The viz. Junior Davis Cup and Fed Cup which were scheduled to be held in RK Indian Football Team gained two places in the new FIFA rankings 101st Khanna stadium, New Delhi in April. Now both events will be held position. in Bangkok, Thailand. ➢ Sam Curran has become the youngest player to take a hat-trick in ➢ Dipa Karmakar qualifies for vault finals in Artistic Gymnastics World the Indian Premier League (IPL) match 2019. Cup at in Azerbaijan. ➢ The Kho-Kho Federation of India (KKFI) in collaboration with Burman ➢ The Supreme Court has set aside the life ban imposed on cricketer has launched a franchise-based league for the sport named “Ultimate Sreesanth by BCCI over his involvement in the 2013 IPL spot fixing KhoKho”. The league will be held either in September or October this year. scandal. ➢ The International Cricket Council (ICC) has sought closer working ➢ Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) paid over Rs.11 crore (1.6 million US relations with the Interpol to widen the scope of its fight against corruption dollars) as compensation to BCCI after losing case in ICC's Dispute in the sport. Resolution Committee. ➢ India has lost to South Korea in the final of Sultan Azlan Shah ➢ The 2019 season of the T10 Cricket Match signed to be held in the Hockey tournament at Ipoh in Malaysia. South Korea lifted the title, Zayed Cricket Stadium, Abu Dhabi for the next five years. The first defeating India in a shootout 4-2. match in the T10 League will be held on 23rd October 2019. ➢ 73-year-old Israeli Isaak Hayik set a new world record as the Oldest ➢ The 15th Special Olympics World Summer Games 2019 for athletes Person to play in a Professional Soccer Match. with Intellectual disabilities held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. ➢ Indian captain Virat Kohli was named the ‘Leading Cricketer in the India wins 368 medals at the Special Olympics World Summer Games World’ for the third time in a row in this year’s edition of the Wisden including 85 gold, 154 silver and 129 bronze. Jitendra Pawal won a Cricketers’ Almanack, the publication. Smriti Mandhana was the gold medal in the 200m race. ‘Leading Cricketer in the women’s game’. ➢ 35 years old Badminton player Joachim ➢ The All India Tennis Association (AITA) has signed an MoU with Persson of Denmark was banned for 18 months by the Badminton Serbian Tennis Federation (STF) to train Indian junior players under World Federation for match-fixing. He was ordered to pay $4,500. world renowned Serbian coaches, at the RK Khanna Stadium, New ➢ World football governing body FIFA has imposed a lifetime ban on 72 Delhi. years old, former Ecuadorian Football Federation (FEF) ➢ Golfer Tiger Woods clinched his Fifth Masters and 15th major title at President, Luis Chiriboga. He has also fined with million swiss Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia. francs ($1.01 million). ➢ Christian Garin became the first Chilean to win an ATP Tour title in 10 ➢ Suresh Raina etched his name in the history books of the Indian years when he beat Norway’s at the U.S. Men’s Premier League with the Chennai Super Kings batsman becoming the first Championship in Houston. batsman to score 5000 IPL runs. ➢ In tennis, continuing his good run, India's Prajnesh Gunneswaran ➢ Indian paddler Archana Kamath clinched a silver medal in the under- achieved a career-high ranking of 80 in the latest ATP rankings released. 21 women’s singles section of the Seamaster ITTF Challenge ➢ India’s Harsheel Dani, a former junior national champion, defeated Mads 2019 Oman Open Table Tennis Tournament, at Muscat. G Sathyan won a Christophersen of Denmark, World No 149, to clinch the 20th Victor Dutch bronze medal in the tournament. International Badminton title in Wateringen, Netherlands. ➢ Paralympic torch was unveiled by the Tokyo Organising ➢ Meena Kumari Maisnam clinched the gold medal in the 54 kg Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) which will category at the Boxing World Cup in Cologne, Germany. Sakshi (57kg) take place between 13th and 25th August 2020 to represent the Torch Relay. and Pwilao Basumatary (64kg) lost their final bouts and had to settle for The torch is made from the same recycled aluminum and is modelled after silver while Pinki Rani (51kg) and Parveen (60kg) won bronze as India the Japanese cherry blossom or “Sakura”. The colour of the torch finished with five medals. is “Sakura Pink”. ➢ Ethiopian athletes Gelete Burka (women’s race) and Abrha Milaw ➢ FIFA (The Federation Internationale de Football Association) (men’s race) won the 43rd edition of the Paris Marathon. World Cup 2022 security agreement aimed at building a strategic ➢ Former Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) president Jose Maria partnership for the preparation of the world cup and management of the Marin has been banned for life from all football activities by FIFA. security of event, signed between Qatar and France. ➢ FC Goa nicknamed as ‘The Gaurs’ emerged as champions of the 2019 ➢ Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary have won a Gold medal in Super Cup as they pipped Chennaiyin FC 2-1 in a tense affair at the Kalinga the 10-meter Air Pistol Mixed team event in Shooting at the 12th Asian Stadium in Bhubaneswar. 19-year-old Goa Goalkeeper Mohammad Airgun Championship at Taoyuan in Taipei. Nawaz has been named as Hero of the Match. ➢ India clinched South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Women’s ➢ ICC Cricket for Good, in partnership with UNICEF, announced ‘One Day Championship 2019 by defeating Nepal for 3-1 in Biratnagar, for Children’ bringing together cricket’s one billion fans to help build a Nepal. It was for the fifth time in a row that India won the championship. better world for every child. Indian Midfielder Indumathi Kathiresan and Nepali forward player ➢ The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has imposed a hefty fine Sabitra Bhandari became the top scorers in the match with four of one lakh seventy-six thousand Euros (170,000 Euros) on Pakistan goals each. Hockey Federation (PHF) for not honouring the Pro League commitments. ➢ The 2nd edition of Badminton Asia Mixed Team ➢ Indian Women’s Hockey team won the FIH (Fédération Internationale Championships aka Tong Yun Kai Cup 2019 was held in Queen Elizabeth de Hockey) Women's Series Finals Hiroshima 2019 after defeating the host Stadium, Hong Kong. China has grabbed the championship by defeating Japan held at the Hiroshima Hockey Stadium, Japan. Rani Rampal, Japan with 3-2. Indian Team Captain was the Best Player of the tournament and Gurjit Kaur ➢ International Olympics Committee (IOC) gave provisional green light emerged as the Top Scorer. for the inclusion of Breakdancing in the Paris Olympics 2024. Surfing, ➢ India's Bajrang Punia has regained the World Number One spot in Skateboarding and sport climbing also got approval for provisional the men's 65-kilogram freestyle category rankings. The rankings were inclusion in Summer Olympics 2024 from IOC. released by United World Wrestling. ➢ The Unique Mixed Teams Hopman Cup (Tennis tournament) in Perth has ➢ Former Olympic and three-time world champion Asbel Kiprop of been replaced by the ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) World Kenya was banned for four years for testing positive for the blood- Team Cup after 31 years. boosting drug EPO. ➢ India was defeated by the South Korea in the penalty shootout of the ➢ Services won their 6th Santosh Trophy Football Tournament title final 28th edition of Sultan Azlan Shah Cup 2019 was held at Azlan Shah over Punjab at the Guru Nanak Stadium in Ludhiana. Stadium in Ipoh, Malaysia.

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7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 56 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | ➢ The 31-year-old defeated Dusan Lajovic, in Rolex ➢ Serbia’s Dragan Mihailovic will take over as head coach of the Indian Monte-Carlo Masters final to capture the biggest title of his career and Men’s Volleyball team by the Volleyball Federation of India (VFI) and will make history as the first Italian to claim a Masters 1000 championship. be joined by Pryemyslaw Gaszyoski (Poland) and Valadimir Radosevic ➢ World No.1 Bajrang Punia (65kg) won India’s first gold medal at (Serbia) as the team’s physio and physiotherapist respectively. the Asian Wrestling Championships 2019 in Xi’an, China. Praveen ➢ Archery Association of India named its senior vice president Sunil Rana had to settle for silver in the 79kg category after he lost Sharma in accordance with Article 24 of AAI Constitution (as approved to Bahman Mohammad Teymouri of Iran. Satyavrat Kadian, on the by the Supreme Court on 4th December 2017) as its acting president to start other hand, bagged a bronze medal in the 97kg category. the election process. Sunil Sharma was preceded by BVP Rao. ➢ India’s Divyansh Singh Panwar has secured the country’s fourth ➢ Saurav Ghosal (men’s title) and Joshna Chinappa (women’s title) Olympic quota place in shooting by winning a silver in 10m air rifle rewrote India's squash history when the duo emerged champions in the event in the ISSF World Cup in Beijing, China. Asian Individual Squash Championship in , Malaysia. ➢ United States Cricket Team beat Hong Kong by 84 runs in the WCL ➢ Anmol Jain and Esha Singh won the mixed air pistol team bronze medal Division 2 to attain one-day International (ODI) status. in the Grand Prix of Liberation International Shooting Competition in ➢ French official Stephanie Frappart will become the first woman to Czech Republic. referee a Ligue 1 match and will take charge of Amiens Vs Strasbourg. ➢ Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) announced ➢ Australia’s Claire Polosak will create history as the first woman two new award categories to promote women's football across the globe. umpire ever to stand in a men’s One-Day International when she takes The two new award categories are off Women's Goalkeeper of the year the field in the final of the ICC World Cricket League Division 2. and a Women's Team of the year. ➢ Petra Kvitova has become the first player to win two WTA singles ➢ Former cricketers Sourav Ganguly and Sanjay Manjrekar along with titles this year after beating in the Stuttgart’s Porsche cricket writer and commentator Harsha Bhogle have been named in the Tennis Grand Prix final. International Cricket Council’s (ICC) commentary panel for the upcoming ➢ Bajrang Punia is set to become the first wrestler from India to fight World Cup, beginning May 30 in England and Wales. at the iconic Madison Square Garden in New York. ➢ The Asian Football Confederation announced that for the first time an ➢ Arjuna awardee and star Indian golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar won the all-female referee team will take charge of a Men’s Continental Club Cup outstanding achievement as a player award at the fourth edition of the Clash. Japanese referee Yoshimi Yamashita and assistants Makoto annual India Golf Industry Association (GIA) awards at the Delhi Bozono and Naomi Teshirogi. Golf Club, New Delhi. ➢ West Indies player John Campbell and Shai Hope created the history by ➢ Indian marathon runner, Nitendra Singh Rawat finished 27th in 2 making first-ever 350 plus run opening stand after sharing 365 runs for hours 15 minutes and 59 seconds in the men’s Elite race of the 1st wicket against Ireland. The venue of the match was Clontarf prestigious Virgin Money London Marathon 2019 at London. Cricket Club Ground, Dublin, Ireland. ➢ Raheem Sterling has been named the 2019 footballer of the year by ➢ Amul has been announced as the principal sponsor of the Afghanistan the Football Writers’ Association (FWA). The Manchester City and cricket team for the upcoming World Cup, slated to be held in England England forward topped the poll of the 400-strong FWA membership as and Wales from May 30. a clear winner, with 62 percent of the votes. ➢ India's Ganemat Sekhon returned the joint third-best score in the ➢ The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) along with Sky Running Women's Skeet event at this year's third International Shooting Sport Association of India organized the National Sky Running Federation (ISSF) World Cup Shotgun Stage 2 in Changwon, Korea. Championship at Auli, Uttarakhand. ➢ Former Croatia international and manager Igor Stimac will be appointed ➢ India's ace cueist Pankaj Advani won the inaugural Asian Snooker Tour as the Indian men’s team coach after the All India Football Federation’s title. Advani beat Nezhad in the final. (AIFF) technical committee recommended him for the post. ➢ India’s ace cueist Pankaj Advani won the 35th men’s Asian snooker ➢ The world’s first exclusive women’s cricket magazine ‘Criczone” was championship in Doha, Qatar. He defeated Thai’s Thanawat released with Indian team vice-captain Smriti Mandhana featuring as the Tirapongpaiboon. cover story. ➢ Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli overtook Suresh Raina to ➢ Pakistan off-spinner Sana Mir has become the most successful become the leading run-scorer in the Indian Premier League (IPL). women’s ODI spinner in history after she took her 147th wicket, highest ➢ Asian champion shot putter Manpreet Kaur has been banned for four ever by any spinner in One-day International (ODI) cricket. years by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) for flunking four dope ➢ India’s Rahil Gangjee finished tied 39th while Viraj Madappa faltered tests in 2017. on the final day and ended tied 53rd at the Asia-Pacific Diamond Cup in ➢ Chennai Super Kings' medium pacer Deepak Chahar has become the Japan. bowler with the most number of dot balls (20) in an innings in the history ➢ Rafael Nadal Claimed the Italian Open 2019 Title: of the Indian Premier League (IPL). ➢ Rafael Nadal has won a record 34th ATP Masters 1000 title by ➢ India cricketers were fined 20 lakh rupees each by the BCCI ombudsman defeating Novak Djokovic in the Italian Open final 2019. This is his ninth Justice D.K. Jain for their sexist comments on a popular TV chat show title. Hardik Pandya & K.L. Rahul. ➢ Nadal dominated in a 6-0, 4-6, 6-1 win broke a tie with his longtime rival ➢ The Asian Weightlifting Championships 2019 held in Ningbo, China. Djokovic. For his victory, Nadal received 1, 000 ATP Ranking points and ➢ India bagged one gold and two silver medals at the Asian Boxing earned Rs. 7. 5 crore. Djokovic produced an error-strewn performance in Championships in Bangkok. his 54th meeting with Nadal. ➢ Liverpool’s centre back Van Dijk was named Player of the Year by ➢ American golfer Brooks Koepka set a record in the lowest 36-hole England’s Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA). Arsenal’s Dutch score in Major golf history and seized a record seven-stroke lead after two forward Vivianne Miedema (22-years) claimed the women’s Player of the rounds of the US PGA Championship. Brooks Koepka now holds the 18, Year award. 36 and 72-hole scoring records for the US PGA Championship. ➢ According to the latest rankings released by International Shooting ➢ Mumbai-based racer Jehan Daruvala took his maiden win in the 2019 Sport Federation (ISSF), world cup gold medallist, Apurvi Chandela Formula 3 championship in Barcelona. became the world number one in women’s 10m Air Rifle category with 1, ➢ The Squash Rackets Federation of India (SRFI) announced a tie-up 926 rating points. with HCL with an aim to improve the health of the sport in the country. ➢ Yosuke Asaji won the Asia-Pacific Diamond Golf Cup 2019 by one ➢ Manchester City defeated Brighton by 4-1 at the Amex Stadium, shot at the Sobu Country Club. UK in Premier League title match. Manchester City became the first team ➢ The 8th edition Asian Youth Women Handball Championship 2019 to retain the title in last 10 years since Manchester United had done will be held in Jaipur from August 21 to 30. This is the first time Jaipur will the same in 2009. host this prestigious tournament. ➢ The Committee of Administrators (CoA) announced that the much-awaited ➢ ICC (International Cricket Council) has launched the “criiio campaign” elections for a new body of the Board of Control for Cricket in on the eve of the Men’s World Cup 2019. India (BCCI) will be held on October 22. ➢ World number one Bajrang Punia has become the first Indian to win ➢ Senior Bangladesh cricketer Shakib Al Hasan jumped to the top of the gold at the Ali Aliev wrestling tournament after defeating Viktor Rassadin of latest MRF Tyres ICC ODI rankings for all-rounders, which doesn’t Russia in the 65 kg freestyle in Kapiisk. feature a single Indian in the top-10 chart. ➢ The world body governing cricket, ICC unveiled an expanded men's ➢ Bayern Munich clinched German Cup 2019. Bayern Munich team rankings with 80 teams. India with defeated RB Leipzig in Olympiastadion, Berlin. 260 points have dropped three places to fifth in the latest list. The ICC ➢ China won the badminton world mixed-team championship, 16th edition T20 World Cup champions of 2009, Pakistan have consolidated their top of 2019 in Nanning, China. position with 286 points. The next three teams are South Africa (262), ➢ Croatia’s Ivo Karlovic became the oldest man to win a match at the England (261) and Australia (261). French Open 2019 for 46 years on 28th May. ______

7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 57 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | ➢ Asian youth champion Dr. Rohini Rau to lead all women Indian team ➢ Joshna Chinappa wins record 17th National Title in Squash after for the J80 World Championship to be staged in Bilbao, Spain, from outplaying Tamil Nadu's Sunayna Kuruvilla in the final. July 13 to 20. ➢ Asian champion PU Chitra (Palakkeezhil Unnikrishnan Chithra) of India ➢ Chelsea clinched the UEFA Europa League 2019 Cup. It scored four won a gold medal in women’s 1500m at Folksam Grand Prix 2019 held goals in a devastating second-half display to beat Arsenal 4-1 on 29 May at in Sollentuna, Sweden. the Baku Olympic Stadium in Azerbaijan. ➢ Indian Gymnast, Pranati Nayak aged 23 won bronze medal in vault event ➢ Recently, Korea Football Association (KFA) had withdrawn their bid at the 8th edition of Senior Asian Artistic Championships in Buyant to host Asian Cup 2023 which leave the sole other bidders China with a Ukhaa Sport Palace, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. free run to become hosts. ➢ The 20-time Grand Slam champion, Roger Federer of Switzerland ➢ Rajasthan Royals leg-spinner Shreyas Gopal had claimed the hat-trick in defeated David Goffin (Belgium) to win the 27th edition of the Halle Open the Indian Premier League (IPL)- 2019. 2019 (also known as Noventi Open 2019) at the Gerry Weber Stadion ➢ Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) has decided to bid for the 2024 in Halle, Germany. edition (take part-32 teams) of the biennial World Team ➢ The International Olympic Committee (IOC) inaugurated its 145 Championships. million Swiss francs ($145 million) new headquarters named Olympic ➢ South Korea has abandoned its bid to stage Asian Cup Football House in a ceremony held at the lakeside grounds of Olympic House in tournament 2023. The Korea Football Association (KFA) had pulled out to Lausanne, Switzerland. strategically focus on a joint bid with North Korea to host the Women's ➢ The 26-member squad of Indian women’s Rugby team created a World Cup in the same year. historic first international 15s rugby match win at Southern Plains ➢ The World Body Governing Badminton (BFA) has launched two new Sports Field in Manila, . formats of the game namely ‘Air Badminton’ and ‘Triples’. ➢ of the United States won the 4th edition of Mallorca Open ➢ India's Mahesh Mangaonkar triumphed for the second time in the Title 2019 against Belinda Bencic of Switzerland held at Santa Ponsa Tennis Sekisui Open in Kriens, Switzerland. Club in Mallorca, Spain. ➢ Indian shooter Manu Bhaker secured India its seventh Olympic quota with ➢ 22-year-old Girish A. Koushik of Mysore, Karnataka became India’s a fourth-place finish in the women's 10-meter air pistol event of the ISSF 63rd Grandmaster (GM) at the 37th Balaton International in Munich, Germany. Festival in Hungary. He became the third Grandmaster from Karnataka, ➢ Pakistan will host the 15th edition of the 2020 Asia Cup cricket after Thejkumar M S and Stany G A. tournament (in September 2020). ACC also reaffirmed its stand to ➢ International Olympic Committee (IOC) suspended the Olympic include cricket in the 2022 Asian Games scheduled in Hangzhou, China. status from the International Boxing Association (AIBA) and took over ➢ Liverpool breezed past Tottenham at Madrid to win the Champions the responsibilities of the qualifying and final tournaments for the 2020 League Football for the Sixth Time. Tokyo Games. AIBA has debts of about $17 million and it may be bankrupt ➢ Sunil Chhetri has become the Most Capped India player by surpassing in the near future. 's 107 international matches. ➢ In the final round of voting at the 134th session of the International ➢ China will stage the 2023 Asian Cup football after South Korea, Thailand Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne, Switzerland, Italy’s Milan and and Indonesia dropped their bids. This year's Asian Cup in the UAE was Cortina d’Ampezzo won the right to host the 2026 Winter Olympics. expanded to 24 nations for the first time with Qatar winning the final 3-1 ➢ In the finals of the St Peters Youth Centre Open Hockey Tournament against Japan. for 2019 held in Mumbai, teams of Central Railway (Women) and Union ➢ The Indian Junior Women's Hockey Team clinched the Cantor Bank of India (Men) emerged as champions. Olympian Preeti Yadav was Fitzgerald U21 International 4-Nations title in Dublin, Ireland. named as the Best player of the Tournament. ➢ The 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup (8th edition) started in France. ➢ The Sports Authority of India's (SAI) Mission Olympic Cell has ➢ Gymnastics Federation of India (GFI) has announced the Indian team included four archers namely Archers , Atanu Das, Pravin for the Senior Asian Artistic Gymnastics Championships to be held in Jadhav and Atul Verma in Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) for Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. ➢ Indian men's archery team secured the Olympic quota for the 2020 ➢ India's junior Boxing women's team was won best team trophy in 5th Tokyo Games. Black Forest Cup held in Villingen, Schwenningen, Germany. The team ➢ ICC has entered into content partnerships with global social media won 7 medals, including 5 gold. Tamanna (48kg), Anju, Neha, H. Ambeshori platforms Facebook, YouTube and Twitter to cater to the huge interest Devi (57kg), and Preeti Dahiya (60kg) won gold medals out of the 13- from fans in this event. member Indian squad. ➢ Under-20 Eurasian Athletics Championships held at Almaty, IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE DAY Kazakhstan, Indian juniors bagged 5 gold and 3 silver medals. ➢ Sidharth Rawat won his title in the $25,000 ITF men’s Futures tennis Important Day Observed/ Theme of 2019 tournament. Last year he won with Manish Sureshkumar for doubles. Celebrated ➢ defeat against world champion Magnus Carlsen of Defence Research and January 1st - Norway in the Armageddon game at the Altibox Norway Chess Tournament. Development ➢ International Hockey Federation (IHF) conducted Men's Hockey Series. Organisation (DRDO) The Final match is played at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar. Japan Day defeated Mexico by a goal 3 - 1. World Braille Day January 4th - ➢ The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), the NRI Day or Pravasi January 9th "Role of Indian Diaspora international governing body for the sport of athletics, changed its name Bharatiya Divas in building a New India". from IAAF to World Athletics. World Hindi Day January 10th - ➢ United States won the biggest-ever victory in FIFA Women’s World Cup. 26th Army Air Defence January 10th - They defeated Thailand in Group-F match at Reims in France. Day ➢ Peter Gilchrist won the 2019 Pacific International Billiards Indian Army Day (71st) January 15th - Championship at the Yarraville Club in Melbourne, Australia. National Youth Day January 12th - ➢ Indian cricketer Virat Kohli is the only Indian in the Forbes list of 14th Raising Day of January 19th - world’s highest-paid athletes. The list is topped by Barcelona and National Disaster Argentina football superstar Lionel Messi. Response Force (NDRF) ➢ Australia will be one of the two guest nations at the 2020 Copa 47th Statehood Day of January 21st - America. Qatar will also return to 2020 tournament, which will be co- Manipur, Meghalaya, hosted by Argentina and Colombia. Qatar and Japan are the guest nations and Tripura in 2019 Copa, which started on June 15 in Brazil. This year’s Copa America National Girl Child Day January 24th “Empowering Girls for a broadcast to a record 178 countries. Brighter Tomorrow”. ➢ Belgium remained to top the overall FIFA world rankings, followed International Day of January 24th “Education: A Key Driver by France, Brazil, England, and Portugal. The Indian men’s football team remained static at the 101st position in the latest FIFA rankings. Education for Inclusion and Empowerment” ➢ England captain Eoin Morgan set the world record for most sixes (17) th in a One Day International (ODI). He achieved this record during his 71-ball 69th foundation day of January 24 - 148-run knock against Afghanistan in World Cup on 18 June 2019. Uttar Pradesh th ➢ Afghanistan leg-spinner Rashid Khan is the most expensive bowler in 9th National Voters Day January 25 “No Voter to be Left World Cup history. He is the world’s No.3 ODI bowler. He played Sunrisers Behind” th Hyderabad in Indian Premier League. India’s Republic Day January 26 - ______

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39. Manohar Parrikar - Goa Chief Minister and Former Defence Minister World Music Day June 21st “Music at the 40. Alan Krueger - Former White House Economist and Princeton University intersections” Professor st World Hydrography day June 21 “Hydrographic 41. Satya Brata Sinha - Former Supreme Court Judge information driving 42. Chinmoy Roy - Veteran Bengali Actor marine knowledge”. 43. Dick Dale (King of the Surf Guitar) - American Rock Guitarist rd International Widows June 23 44. Captain Mohan Narayan Rao Samant - The 1971 India-Pakistan war Day hero of Indian Navy rd United Nations Public June 23 ‘Achieving the 45. Vinjamuri Anasuya Devi - Kala Prapoorna awardee Service Day Sustainable 46. Scott Walker- Legendary Singer-Songwriter Development Goals 47. Ashita - Malayalam Writer and Poet through effective 48. Bruce Yardley - Former Australian Spinner Delivery of Services, 49. Valery Bykovsky - Russian Cosmonaut Innovative 50. - Renowned Indian artist Transformation, and 51. L V Sharada Rao - Veteran Kannada actress Accountable 52. Shahnaz Rahmatullah - Renowned South Asian Singer Institutions’. 53. Nazi Adolf Eichmann - Israeli spymaster of Rafi Eitan rd International Olympic June 23 54. Prafulla Rajguru - Veteran journalist Day 55. HS D’Lima - Mumbai Activist th Day of the Seafarer June 25 “Get on board with 56. R Kanagaraj - AIADMK MLA from Sulur constituency gender equality” 57. J. Mahendran - Noted film director International Day June 26th “Health for Justice. 58. Kartik Chandra Rath - Eminent Theatre Organiser and Playwright against Drug Abuse and Justice for Health”. 59. Sydney Brenner - Biologist won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Illicit Trafficking Medicine BIMSTEC Day June 26th - 60. Kartik Chandra Rath - Veteran Dramatist, Theatre Organiser International MSME Day June 27th 61. Viharidas Gopaldas Patel - Noted Economist and ‘Father of 13th Statistics Day June 29th “Sustainable Entrepreneurship Movement Development Goals”. 62. Prafulla Rajguru - Veteran Journalist and Academician International Asteroid June 30th - 63. J. Mahendran - Noted film director Day 64. Kartik Chandra Rath - Eminent theatre organiser and playwright International Day of June 30th - 65. Sydney Brenner - Nobel Prize Winner - Medicine Parliamentarism 66. Arie Irawan - Golfer 67. Elriesa Theunissen-Fourie - Former Women’s World Cup cricketer Indian Army to commemorate 2019 as ‘Year of next of kin’: 68. Navtej Hundal - Actor ➢ The Indian Army is commemorating this year as the ‘Year of Next of 69. JK Ritheesh - Actor and former MP Kin’ and plans to reach out to the next of kin of battle casualties, ex- 70. Dr SK Shivakumar - Renowned Space Scientist of ISRO servicemen and serving soldiers to inform them of entitled financial benefits, 71. Pradeep Choubey - Renowned Hindi poet welfare schemes and help resolve pension related problems. 72. Garcia - Peru's Ex-president 73. Con de Lange - Cricketer OBITUARY 74. Patrick Rousseau - Former President of Cricket West Indies 1. Raghbir Singh Bhola - Former India hockey player 75. Jerrie Cobb - NASA's first female astronaut 2. Michel Legrand - Oscar-winning French composer 76. Amar Paul - Legendary Folk Singer 3. Atin Bandyopadhyay - winning Bengali writer 77. HK K Khan - Former Chief Secretary of Gujarat 4. Russell Baker - Pulitzer Prize winning writer 78. Subbiah Muthiah - Renowned Journalist-writer 5. - Veteran actor-writer 79. Rama Sengupta Paul - Veteran Lady Mountaineer of India 6. C H Lokanath - Veteran Kannada actor 80. Negasso Gidada - Former Ethiopian President 7. Dibyendu Palit - Renowned Bengali writer 81. Mark Medoff - Writer 8. Mary Oliver - Pulitzer Prize-winning poet 82. Pungam Kannan - Former Indian Footballer 9. Masazo Nonaka - World’s Oldest Man 83. K M Mani - Former Kerala Finance Minister 10. Ramakant Achrekar - Sachin Tendulkar's childhood coach cricket coach 84. Nadja Regin - Serbian Actor 85. Bibi Andersson - Sweden Actor ______

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Department of Space; LIST OF MINISTERS OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) and All-important policy Portfolio Minister Name Constituency issues; and All other portfolios not allocated to Ministry of Labour and Santosh Kumar Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh) any Minister. Employment Gangwar Ministry of Home Affairs Gandhinagar, Gujarat Ministry of Statistics and Rao Inderjit Singh Gurugram (), Programme Haryana Ministry of Defence Rajnath Singh Lucknow, Uttar Implementation; and Pradesh Ministry of Planning Minister of External Subrahmanyam Not Contested in Lok Ministry of Ayurveda, Shripad Yesso North Goa, Goa Affairs Jaishankar Sabha Election 2019 Yoga and Naturopathy, Naik Minister of Finance; and Nirmala Sitharaman Karnataka, Rajya Unani, Siddha and Minister of Corporate Sabha Homoeopathy (AYUSH) Affairs and Ministry of Defence. Minister of Road Nitin Jairam Gadkari Nagpur, Maharashtra Ministry of Development Dr. Jitendra Singh Udhampur, Jammu and Transport and Highways; of North Eastern Region, Kashmir and Minister of Micro, Prime Minister’s Office; Small and Medium Ministry of Personnel, Enterprises Public Grievances and Minister of Chemicals D.V. Sadananda Bangalore North, Pensions; Department of and Fertilizers Gowda Karnataka Atomic Energy; Minister of Health and Dr. Harsh Vardhan , Delhi Department of Space Family Welfare; Minister Ministry of Youth Affairs Kiren Rijiju Arunachal West, of Science and and Sports; and the ArunachaL Pradesh Technology; and Minister of Earth Sciences

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7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 62 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | Ministry of Minority and Ministry of Animal Affairs Husbandry, Dairying and Ministry of Culture; and Prahalad Singh Damoh, Madhya Fisheries. Ministry of Tourism Patel Pradesh Ministry of Agriculture Kailash Choudhary Barmer, Rajasthan Ministry of Power; Raj Kumar Singh Arrah, Bihar and Farmers Welfare. Ministry of New and Ministry of Women and Sushri Debasree Rajganj, West Bengal Renewable Energy; and Child Development. Chaudhuri Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship INTERIM BUDGET 2019-20 Ministry of Housing and Hardeep Singh Bihar (Lost in Lok Finance Minister Piyush Goyal presented the Interim Budget 2019-20 on Urban Affairs; Ministry of Puri Shaba Election 2019) February 1, 2019. It was the last Budget of the Modi Government before the Civil Aviation; and 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Ministry of Commerce This year, the government presented the Interim Budget, also known as and Industry ‘Vote on Account’ as it is close to the end of its term. An interim budget is Ministry of Shipping; and Mansukh L. Palitana, Gujarat usually passed by the Lok Sabha without discussion. Ministry of Chemicals and Mandaviya (Rajya Shaba) As per the Interim Budget or Vote on Account, the government seeks the Fertilizers approval of Parliament to meet its expenditure for the first four months (January-April) of the fiscal year with no changes in the taxation structure, LIST OF MINISTERS OF STATE until a new government takes over and presents a full Budget of the year Portfolio Minister Name Constituency in July 2019. Ministry of Steel. Faggansingh Mandla, Madhya HIGHLIGHTS OF INTERIM BUDGET 2019-20 Kulaste Pradesh State of the Economy: Ministry of Health and Ashwini Kumar Buxar, Bihar ➢ India has now become the 6th largest economy in the world. Family Welfare. Choubey ➢ Inflation has been brought down to 4.1 percent; average inflation stands Ministry of Parliamentary Arjun Ram Bikaner, Rajasthan at 4.6 percent. Affairs; and Meghwal ➢ The fiscal deficit has been brought down to 3.1 percent. The current Ministry of Heavy account deficit (CAD), against a high of 5.6% six years ago, is likely to be Industries and Public only 2.5% of GDP this year. Enterprises. ➢ In last 5 years (2014-2018), India witnessed structural reforms by Ministry of Road General (Retd.) V. Ghaziabad, Uttar introducing Goods & Services Tax (GST) and other taxation reforms. Transport and Highways. K. Singh Pradesh ➢ India attracted maximum Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in 2018-19, Ministry of Social Justice Krishan Pal Faridabad, Haryana amounting to USD 239 billion. This has been possible through rapid and Empowerment. liberalisation of FDI policy. Ministry of Consumer Danve Raosaheb Jalna, Maharashtra Affairs, Food and Public Dadarao ‘New India’ by 2022: Distribution. ➢ ‘New India’ by 2022, when we celebrate 75 years of India’s independence: Ministry of Home Affairs G. Kishan Reddy Secunderabad, an India which is clean and healthy, house with universal access to toilets, Telangana water and electricity. ➢ Farmers’ income would have doubled; youth and women would get ample Ministry of Agriculture Parshottam Gujarat (Rajya Sabha) opportunities to fulfil their dreams; an India free from terrorism, and Farmers Welfare. Rupala communalism, casteism, corruption and nepotism. Ministry of Social Justice Ramdas Athawale Maharashtra (Rajya

and Empowerment. Sabha) Banking Reforms: Ministry of Rural Sadhvi Niranjan Fatehpur, Uttar ➢ A number of measures have been undertaken for clean banking in recent Development. Jyoti Pradesh years such as through the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC). Re- Ministry of Environment, Babul Supriyo Asansol, West Bengal capitalisation of PSU banks was done. Forest and Climate ➢ The 4Rs approach of recognition, resolution, re-capitalisation and Change. reforms has been followed. Ministry of Animal Sanjeev Kumar Muzaffarnagar, Uttar

Husbandry, Dairying and Balyan Pradesh Steps against corruption: Fisheries. ➢ India saw a corruption-free government in recent years through measures Ministry of Human Dhotre Sanjay Akola, Maharashtra such as transparency in operations. The government conducted the Resource Development; Shamrao transparent auction of natural resources such as coal and spectrum. Ministry of ➢ Transparency was achieved through Real Estate (Regulation and Communications; and Development) Act, 2016 (RERA), Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Ministry of Electronics Act, 1988 and Fugitive Economic Offenders Act. and Information

Technology. Cleanliness: Ministry of Finance; and Anurag Singh Hamipur, Uttar Pradesh ➢ As a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary in October 2019, Ministry of Corporate Thakur the NDA Government launched a holistic programme ‘Swacch Bharat Affairs. Mission’ in 2014. The programme has been converted into a movement. Ministry of Railways. Angadi Suresh Belgaum, Karnataka ➢ Under the mission, 98% rural sanitation coverage has been achieved. Channabasappa ➢ 5.45 lakh villages have been declared Open Defecation Free (ODF). Ministry of Home Affairs. Nityanand Rai Ujiapur, Bihar Ministry of Jal Shakti; and Rattan Lal Kataria Ambala, Haryana Poor and backward classes: Ministry of Social Justice ➢ 10% reservation in educational institutions and Government services for and Empowerment. poors. In these institutions, around 25% extra seats (approximately 2 Ministry of External V. Muraleedharan Vadakara, Kerala lakh) will be provided so that, there is no shortfall of presently Affairs; and Ministry of available/reserved seats for any class. Parliamentary Affairs. ➢ Rs.60,000 crore was allocated for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Ministry of Tribal Affairs. Renuka Singh Surguja, Chhattisgarh Employment Gurantee Act (MGNREGA) Saruta ➢ Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) is being allocated Ministry of Commerce Som Parkash Hoshiarpur, Punjab 19,000 crore in BE 2019-20 as against 15,500 crore in RE 2018-19 Yojana and Industry. for construction of more rural roads. Ministry of Food Rameswar Teli Dibrugarh, Assam ➢ During the period 2014-18, a total number of 1.53 crore houses have Processing Industries. been built under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana. Ministry of Micro, Small Pratap Chandra Balasore, Odisha ➢ By March 2019, every household will have electricity under the and Medium Enterprises; Sarangi Saubhagya Yojana.

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7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 63 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | ➢ The Aspirational Districts Programme is providing targeted development to Forming a Welfare Development Board: the 115 most backward districts of the country. ➢ A Welfare Development Board will be created for nomadic and semi- nomadic community. A Committee under NITI Aayog will be formed to Health Sector: identify these committees. The Board shall ensure that special strategies are ➢ India has launched the world's largest healthcare programme, Ayushman designed and implemented to serve these hard-to-reach communities. Bharat – Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana to provide medical treatment for 50 crore people. As many as 10 lakh people have been Women’s development to women led development: benefitted so far under the scheme. ➢ The government stood up to into manifesto and provided the promised ➢ Many poor people are able to get affordable medicines through the Jan clean fuel for cooking to deliver 8 crore free LPG connections under the Aushadhi Kendra. Ujjwala Yojana. The government has already given 6 crore free LPG ➢ There are 21 All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) functioning connection. currently in India. Of these 21, 14 AIIMS were set up under the present ➢ More than 70 percent of beneficiaries of Pradhan Mantri Mudra government. The 22nd AIIMS will come up in Haryana. Yojana are women. ➢ Amongst many measures, benefits of Maternity leave of 26 weeks and Agriculture: Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana for pregnant women have ➢ Government undertook various initiatives to boost farmers’ income. It provided financial support to women while empowering them to participate ensured that the Minimum Support Price (MSP) is at least 50 percent of in work. the produce and introduced pro-farmers policy. ➢ Rs.750 crore was allocated for the Rashtriya Gokul Mission. Youth Development: ➢ It was announced to set up the ‘Rashtriya Kamdhenu Aayog’ for ➢ India is amongst the most youthful nations in the world. Through Pradhan production and productivity of cows. Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana, over 1 crore youth are being trained to help ➢ A separate ‘Department of Fisheries’ will be created to boost the them earn a livelihood. fisheries sector. ➢ With job seekers becoming job creators, India has become the world’s ➢ Under the Kisan Credit Card scheme (KCC), 2% interest subversion second largest start-up hub. will be given for farmers pursuing animal husbandry. Further, in case of ➢ The 16.53 crore loans have been disbursed under Pradhan Mantri Mudra timely repayment of loan, they will also get an additional 3% interest Yojana and Rs.7.23 lakh crore have been disbursed through the scheme. subvention. ➢ In order to take the benefits of Artificial Intelligence and related ➢ In case of farmers, affected by severe natural calamities, will be provided technologies to the people, a National Programme on 'Artificial the benefit of interest subvention of 2% and prompt repayment incentive Intelligence' has been envisaged by our Government. Nine priority areas of 3% for the entire period on timely repayment of their loans. have been identified. A National Artificial Intelligence portal will also be developed soon. Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN): ➢ Under this Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi programme, MSME sector: vulnerable landholding farmer families, having cultivable land upto 2 ➢ A scheme of sanctioning loans upto Rs.1 crore in 59 minutes has been hectares, will be provided direct income support at the rate of Rs.6,000 launched. per year. ➢ GST-registered SME units will get 2% interest rebate on incremental ➢ This income support will be transferred directly into the bank accounts of loan of 1 Crore. beneficiary farmers, in three equal instalments of Rs.2,000 each. This ➢ The requirement of sourcing from SMEs by Government enterprises has programme will be funded by Government of India. been increased to 25%. Of this, the material to the extent of at least 3% ➢ The complete expenditure of Rs.75000 crore for the scheme will borne will be sourced from women owned SMEs. by the Union Government. Over 12 crore farmer families will be benefitted ➢ MSMEs can now sell their products on the Government eMarketplace under the scheme. It will be implemented with effect from December 2018 (GeM), a one-stop-shop to facilitate online procurement of common use and the first instalment for the period upto 31st March 2019. goods. Transactions of over Rs.17,500 crore have taken place, resulting in ➢ The budget has allocated Rs.95000 crore for the agriculture sector average savings of 25-28%. The GeM platform is now being extended to (Rs.75000 for this scheme + 20000 crore as per revised estimate of current all CPSEs. year). ➢ Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), which will now be renamed as the Department for Promotion of Industries and Internal Labour and Workers Dignity: Trade. The department functions under the Ministry of Commerce and ➢ The Seventh Pay Commission recommendations were implemented Industry, Government of India. swiftly. ➢ The membership of Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) Strengthening Defence and National Security: has gone up by 2 crore in five years, reflecting formalisation of the ➢ The Defence Budget will cross Rs.3 lakh crore for the first time in 2019- economy and job creations. 20. ➢ In the event of death of a labourer during service, the amount to be paid ➢ The government has already disbursed Rs.35000 crore under One Rank by EPFO has been increased from Rs.2.5 lakh to Rs.6 lakh. One Pension (OROP). ➢ During the last five years the minimum wages of labourers of the all ➢ The Government also announced substantial hike in the Military categories have been increased by 42%, which is the highest ever. Service Pay (MSP) of all service personnel and special allowances given to ➢ The New Pension Scheme (NPS) has been liberalised. Naval and Air Force personnel deployed in high risk duties. ➢ The minimum pension was also increased to Rs.1,000. ➢ Keeping the contribution of the employee at 10%, we have increased the Infrastructure Sector: Government contribution by 4% making it 14%. ➢ Due to 'UDAAN Scheme', ordinary citizens are also travelling by air now. ➢ Maximum ceiling of the bonus given to the labourers has been increased India now has more than 100 operational airports with the inauguration of from Rs.3,500 to Rs.7,000 per month and the maximum ceiling of the pay the Pakyong airport in Sikkim. has been increased from Rs.10,000 to Rs.21,000 per month. ➢ India is the fastest highway developer in the world with 27 kms of ➢ The ceiling of payment of gratuity has been enhanced from Rs.10 lakhs highways built each day. Projects stuck for decades like the Eastern to Rs.20 lakhs. Peripheral Highway around Delhi or the Bogibeel rail-cum-road bridge ➢ The Employee's State Insurance (ESI) cover limit has been increased to in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh have been completed. Rs.21,000 from Rs.15,000 per month. ➢ Under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, construction of rural roads has been tripled. Around 15.8 lakh out of a total Rs.17.84 lakh 'Pradhan Mantri Shram-Yogi Maandhan': habitations have been connected with pucca roads under PMGSY. PMGSY ➢ Considering that half of the GDP comes from the unorganised sector, allocated Rs.19,000 crore in 2019-20 Finance Minister has announced the launch of the mega pension scheme for ➢ The flagship programme of Sagarmala along the coastal areas of the the unorganised sector workers with income of less than Rs.15,000. country will develop ports for faster handling of import and export cargo. ➢ Under the scheme, the workers will be able to earn Rs.3,000 after ➢ For the first time, container freight movement has started on inland attaining the age of 60 years. An unorganised sector worker joining waterways from Kolkata to Varanasi. pension yojana at the age of 29 years will have to contribute only Rs.100 per month till the age of 60 years. A worker joining the pension yojana at Railway Sector: 18 years, will have to contribute as little as Rs.55 per month only. ➢ The Indian Railways has experienced the safest year in its history. All ➢ The budget allocates the expenditure of Rs.500 crore for the scheme. unmanned level crossings on broad gauge network have been completely eliminated. ______

7601808080 / 9043303030 RACE Coaching Institute for Banking and Government Jobs www. RACEInstitute. in Courses Offered : BANK | SSC | RRB | TNPSC |KPSC 64 | SBI PO & CLERK 2019 CAPSULE | ➢ The introduction of the first indigenously developed "Vande Bharat Rs.50,000 crore, and compelled holders of large cash currency to disclose Express" will give the Indian passengers world class experience with speed, their source of earnings. service and safety. ➢ The capital support from the budget for railways is proposed at Rs.64,587 Vision for the next Decade: crore in 2019-20 (BE). The railways’ overall capital expenditure programme ➢ Poised to become a Five Trillion Dollar Economy in the next five years is of Rs.1,58, 658 crore. and aspire to become a Ten Trillion Dollar Economy in the next 8 years ➢ The Operating Ratio is expected to improve from 98.4% in 2017-18 to thereafter. 96.2% in 2018-19 (RE) and further to 95% in 2019-20 (BE). ➢ The people of North East have also received significant benefits of Vision for Ten Most Important Dimensions in 2030 infrastructure development. Arunachal Pradesh came on the air map 1. To build physical as well as social infrastructure for a ten Trillion recently and Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram have come on India’s rail Dollar economy and to provide ease of living. map for the first time. The allocation for the North Eastern Areas is being 2. To create a Digital India reaching every sector of the economy, every proposed to be increased by 21 percent to Rs.58,166 crore in 2019-20 corner of the country and impacting the life of all Indians. over 2018-19. 3. Making India a pollution free nation with green Mother Earth and Digital India Revolution: blue skies. ➢ India is now leading the world in consumption of mobile data. 4. Expanding rural industrialisation using modern digital technologies ➢ The monthly consumption of mobile data increased by 50% in the last to generate massive employment. five years. 5. Vision for India of 2030 is Clean Rivers, with safe drinking water to all ➢ The Government will make 1 lakh villages into Digital Villages over Indians, sustaining and nourishing life and efficient use of water in irrigation next five years. using micro-irrigation techniques. ➢ The cost of data and calling in India is possibly the lowest in the world. 6. India’s long coastline has the potential of becoming the strength of More than 3 lakh service centres employ over 12 lakh people today under the economy, particularly through exploitation of the Blue Economy, to the Digital India push. ensure better standards and quality of life for a large number of people living ➢ Jan Dhan-Aadhaar-Mobile (JAM) and Direct Benefit Transfer have in the coastal areas. been game changers. 7. Our space programme – Gaganyaan, India becoming the launch-pad ➢ Under Make in India, mobile and parts manufacturing companies have of satellites for the World and placing an Indian astronaut into space by 2022 increased from 2 to more than 268 providing huge job opportunities. reflect this dimension of our vision. 8. Making India self-sufficient in food, exporting to the world to meet Entertainment: their food needs and producing food in the most organic way. ➢ To promote entertainment industry, Single window clearance for film 9. Aiming at healthy society with an environment of health assurance and shootings is being extended to Indian film makers. Earlier, it was available the support of necessary health infrastructure. only for foreign film makers only. 10. Our Vision can be delivered by Team India - our employees working ➢ It will also introduce anti-camcording provisions in the Cinematograph together with the elected Government, transforming India into a Minimum Act to control the menace of piracy. Government Maximum Governance nation.

Simplification of Direct Tax System to benefit Tax-payers: Fiscal Expenditure: ➢ Due to Direct Tax System, the tax collections increased significantly from ➢ The Interim Budget pegs the Fiscal Deficit at 3.4 percent. Rs.6.38 Lakh crore in 2013-14 to almost Rs.12 lakh crore this year. The ➢ Total expenditure rises from revised estimates Rs.24,57,235 crore in 2018- number of returns filed have also increased from Rs.3.79 crore to Rs.6.85 19 to Rs.27,84,200 crore in 2019-20, a rise of Rs.3,26,965 crore. crore showing 80% growth in tax base. Last year, 99.54% of the ➢ Capital Expenditure for 2019-20 is estimated to be Rs.3,36,292 crore. income-tax returns were accepted as they were filed. ➢ Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) are proposed were allocated with ➢ All returns will be processed in twenty-four hours and refunds issued Rs.3,27,679 crore in 2019-20 as against Rs.3,04,849 crore in 2018-19 simultaneously. The entire process will be done in the back-end so that a revised estimates. tax payer need not interact with an official, thus, reducing time. ➢ Allocation for Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) is being ➢ It increased the basic exemption limit from Rs.2 lakh to Rs.2.5 Lakh and increased from Rs.23,357 crore in 2018-19 revised estimates to Rs.27,584 gave tax rebate so that no tax was payable by persons having income up crore in 2019-20. to Rs.3 lakh. It also reduced the tax rate from 10% to 5% for the tax ➢ The allocation of Rs.56,619 crore made in BE of 2018-19 for Scheduled slab of Rs.2.5 lakh to Rs.5 lakh. Caste, further increased to Rs.62,474 crore in RE is proposed to be ➢ Deduction of savings under section 80C was increased from Rs.1 lakh enhanced to Rs.76,801 crore in BE for 2019-20, an increase of 35.6% over to Rs.1.5 lakh. Deduction of interest for self-occupied house property BE of 2018-19. For the Scheduled Tribes also, proposed allocation in 2019- was raised from Rs.1.5 lakh to Rs.2 lakh. 20 BE is Rs.50,086 crore as against Rs.39,135 crore in BE 2018-19, an ➢ Threshold limit for presumptive taxation of small and start-ups business increase of 28%. was raised from Rs.1 crore to Rs.2 crore. The benefit of presumptive ➢ Allocation for National Education Mission is being increased from Rs.32,334 taxation was extended for the first time to small professionals fixing crore in 2018-19 revised estimates to Rs.38,572 crore in 2019-20. threshold limit at Rs.50 lakh. In order to promote a less cash economy, the Tax proposals: presumptive profit rate has been reduced from 8% to 6%. ➢ Individual tax payers with taxable income of up to Rs.5 lakh will get full ➢ The tax rate for companies with turnover of up to Rs.250 crore, covering tax rebate from now on. Those earning Rs.6.5 lakh will not have to pay tax, almost 99% of the companies, was reduced to 25% which was also if they invested in specified savings such as PF, PPF, etc. However, the tax applicable to new manufacturing companies without any turnover limits. slabs will remain unchanged. ➢ The Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) on fixed deposits and postal deposits GST Reform for benefit to consumers and businesses: will be exempted for interest earned up to Rs.40,000 from Rs.10,000 ➢ Cinema goers who were subjected to multiple taxes up to 50 percent are currently. Further, the TDS threshold for deduction of tax on rent is proposed mostly paying much lower tax at 12 percent now. Most items of daily use to be increased from Rs.1,80,000 to Rs.2,40,000 for providing relief to of the poor and middle class are now in the 0% or 5% tax slab. small taxpayers. ➢ Exemptions from GST for small businesses has been doubled from Rs.20 ➢ For salaried persons, Standard Deduction is being raised from the lakh to Rs.40 lakh. Similarly, small service providers with turnover upto current Rs.40,000 to Rs.50,000. Rs.50 lakhs can now opt for composition scheme and pay GST at 6% ➢ The benefit of capital gains under section 54 of the Income Tax Act of up instead of 18%. to Rs.2 crore will be increased to investment on two residential houses. This ➢ Businesses comprising over 90% of GST payers will be allowed to file benefit can be availed only once in a lifetime. quarterly return soon. ➢ The benefit of the section 80IBA of Income Tax Act,1961 will be ➢ The government abolished the duties on 36 capital goods. Indian extended for one more year for availing of the affordable housing i.e. to the Customs is introducing full digitization. housing projects approved till 31st March 2020. ➢ The average monthly tax collection in the current year is Rs.97,100 crore per month as compared to Rs.89,700 crore per month in the first year. The State revenues are improving with guaranteed 14% annual revenue increase for the first five years.

Demonetisation and Drive against Black Money: ➢ Demonetisation, have brought undisclosed income of about Rs.1,30,000 crore to tax, led to seizure and attachment of assets worth approximately ______

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