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Current Affairs – August 2019 Current Affairs ─ August 2019 This is a guide to provide you a precise summary and a huge collection of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) covering national and international current affairs for the month of August 2019. This guide will help you in preparing for Indian competitive examinations like Bank PO, Banking, Railway, IAS, PCS, UPSC, CAT, GATE, CDS, NDA, MCA, MBA, Engineering, IBPS, Clerical Gradeand Officer Grade, etc. Audience Aspirants who are preparing for different competitive exams like Bank PO, Banking, Railway, IAS, PCS, UPSC, CAT, GATE, CDS, NDA, MCA, MBA, Engineering, IBPS, Clerical Grade, Officer Grade, etc. Even though you are not preparing for any exams but are willing to have news encapsulated in a roll, which you can walk through within 30 minutes, then we have put all the major points for the whole month in a precise and interesting way. Copyright and Disclaimer Copyright 2019 by Tutorials Point (I) Pvt. Ltd. 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If you discover any errors on our website or in this tutorial, please notify us at [email protected] i Current Affairs – August 2019 Table of Contents Current Affairs ─ August 2019 ........................................................................................................................... i Audience........................................................................................................................................................... i Copyright and Disclaimer .................................................................................................................................. i Table of Contents............................................................................................................................................. ii APPOINTMENTS .......................................................................................................................... 1 AWARDS ..................................................................................................................................... 5 BILLS AND ACTS......................................................................................................................... 20 BOOKS & AUTHORS ................................................................................................................... 25 COMMITTEES ............................................................................................................................ 27 DEATHS ..................................................................................................................................... 30 DEFENCE ................................................................................................................................... 36 ECONOMIC ............................................................................................................................... 39 ENVIRONMENT ......................................................................................................................... 46 FINANCE.................................................................................................................................... 50 IMPORTANT DAYS ..................................................................................................................... 59 INTERNATIONAL ........................................................................................................................ 65 MISCELLANEOUS ....................................................................................................................... 76 NATIONAL ................................................................................................................................. 79 PERSONS IN NEWS .................................................................................................................. 104 ii Current Affairs – August 2019 PLACES IN NEWS ..................................................................................................................... 108 REGIONAL ............................................................................................................................... 111 REPORTS ................................................................................................................................. 122 RESIGNATIONS & RETIREMENTS ............................................................................................. 124 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ........................................................................................................ 127 SPORTS ................................................................................................................................... 135 iii Appointments Current Affairs – August 2019 1. Girraj Prasad Gupta appointed as the Controller General of Accounts 1983-batch Indian Civil Accounts Service (ICAS) Officer, Girraj Prasad Gupta took over as the Controller General of Accounts (CGA). Gupta has worked at higher positions in the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), Ministry of Rural development, and Ministry of Finance and as the Director of National Institute of Financial Management (NIFM), Faridabad. Mr. Gupta is credited for his work in development and implementation of Public Financial Management System (PFMS), a backbone IT infrastructure for Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) and other financial management modules in Government of India. 2. IFSG appointed Justice A.K. Sikri as ombudsman The Indian Federation of Sports Gaming (IFSG) has appointed Justice Arjan Kumar Sikri as its ombudsman and ethics officer. Justice A.K. Sikri will be responsible for investigating queries/complaints raised by the users of the online fantasy sports gaming platforms. Sikri has served as a former judge of the Supreme Court of India. He was recently appointed as a judge in the Singapore International Commercial Court. IFSG is India's self-regulatory industry body for the online fantasy sports gaming sector. 3. Rajiv Kumar appointed as Finance Secretary The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet approved the appointment of department of financial services (DFS) secretary Rajiv Kumar as the new finance secretary. Kumar succeeded 1983-batch IAS officer Subhash Chandra Garg. He is a 1984-batch Jharkhand cadre IAS officer. A finance secretary is the senior-most bureaucrat among the finance ministry’s five departments—economic affairs, revenue, expenditure, financial services and department of investment and public asset management (DIPAM). 1 Current Affairs – August 2019 4. Noel Quinn appointed as interim CEO of HSBC HSBC has appointed Noel Quinn as interim Group Chief Executive and as a Director of HSBC Holdings. He replaced John Flint. Mr. Quinn was appointed as the Chief Executive, Global Commercial Banking in December 2015. He became a Group Managing Director in September 2016. From 2011 to 2015, he was the Regional Head of Commercial Banking for Asia-Pacific, based in Hong Kong. He has since taken up postings including Head of Specialised and Equity Finance at HSBC. 5. Mindtree appointed Debashis Chatterjee as MD & CEO Mindtree Ltd has appointed Mr. Debashis Chatterjee as its new CEO & MD. Prior to joining Mindtree, Mr. Chatterjee was President, Global Delivery and Global Leader for the Digital Sytems and Technology practice at Cognizant. This is the first top management change at Mindtree since the company was taken over by Larsen and Toubro Ltd (L&T). Mindtree also appointed S.N. Subrahmanyan as its non- executive Vice Chairman. L&T's takeover of Mindtree marked India's first-ever hostile takeover in the IT space. 6. Sonia Gandhi named interim Congress President The Congress Working Committee (CWC) has named Sonia Gandhi as the interim Congress President. She has been made the President after Rahul Gandhi resigned as party president on May 25. She will be interim party chief till AICC elects new President. Sonia Gandhi took primary membership of Congress in 1997 and became its president in 1998. She went on to create history as the longest serving president from 1998 to 2017. She was first elected to the Lok Sabha from Amethi in 1999. 2 Current Affairs – August 2019 7. Kandikuppa Sreekant takes over as CMD of Power Grid Corporation Kandikuppa Sreekant has taken over as the Chairman and Managing Director of state- owned Power Grid Corporation. Prior to taking up this assignment, he was serving as the director (finance) of Power Grid. Sreekant has been appointed as CMD till December 31, 2023, the date of his superannuation, or until further orders, whichever is earlier. He has more than 33 years of experience in the power sector, involving finance and accounting functions. 8. Indian National Science Academy appointed Chandrima Shaha as its President Renowned biologist Chandrima Shaha became first woman president of Indian National Science Academy. She has experience of working as Director of the National Institute of Immunology, Delhi. She has served