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RBI fines 4 Public Sector Banks for violating Punjab & Sind Bank sets up Cen-MARG KYC norms
Punjab & Sind Bank has set up a centralised
The Reserve Bank of India has imposed hub “Centralised MSME & Retail Group”. It penalties on four state-run lenders for violating will process retail and MSME loans for the better Know Your Customer norms and anti-money efficiency of branches in business acquisition. laundering standards.
The Cen-MARG has been envisioned to ensure
Punjab National Bank, Allahabad Bank, and qualitative improvement in credit appraisal, UCO Bank were fined Rs 50 lakh each while improved turnaround time, uniform Corporation Bank was fined Rs 25 lakh. documentation, and efficient monitoring. N S Vishwanathan gets extension by one year RBI board finalises ‘Utkarsh 2022’ as RBI deputy governor
The Reserve Bank of India board has finalised
Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor N S a three-year roadmap ‘Utkarsh 2022’. Vishwanathan has been given a one-year
It is a three-year road map for medium term extension by the GoI. Presently he is heading objectives to be achieved for improving the Department of Banking Regulation of the regulation and supervision of the central bank. Reserve Bank of India. SBI slashes lending rates by 5 bps RBI sets up panel to review CICs
State Bank of India has reduced its benchmark
The Reserve Bank of India has set up a working lending rate by 5 bps across all loan tenures. group to review the regulatory and supervisory
The lender’s one-year marginal cost of funds framework for core investment companies based lending rate (MCLR) will be 8.4% (CIC). compared with 8.45%.
The group will be headed by Tapan Ray, non- RBI fines Union Bank, SBI for flouting norms executive chairman, Central Bank of India.

The Reserve Bank of India has penalised State The panel will examine the current regulatory Bank of India and Union Bank of India for framework for CICs in terms of adequacy, violating certain regulatory guidelines. efficacy and effectiveness.
SBI was fined Rs 7 crore for non-compliance ‘Vasool So-Ft’ launched to digitize NPA on Income Recognition and Asset Classification recovery process norms, code of conduct for opening and
Karnataka Bank Ltd has launched the web tool operating current accounts and reporting of data ‘Vasool So-Ft’ (Vasool So-Fast) for digitalising on Central Repository of Information on Large the Non Performing Asset recovery process of Credits, and fraud risk management and the bank. classification and reporting of frauds.
The digital tool for the recovery of stressed assets
The central bank also imposed a Rs 10 lakh will provide an end to end digital solution. It will fine on Union Bank of India for non compliance enable easy and faster processing, real time with the directions on the cyber security information and immediate decision making in framework in banks. the recovery area. HDFC Bank terminated & delisted its GDRs

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India is expected to grow by 7% in 2019 and
Private sector lender HDFC Bank has 7.2% in 2020, slightly slower than projected in terminated and de-listed its 22 outstanding global April, ADB said in its supplement to the Asian depository receipts (GDRs) from the Development Outlook 2019. Luxembourg Stock Exchange. HDFC Bank, CSC launch credit card for VLEs
The action has been taken due to low trading and small traders volume of GDRs.
HDFC Bank and Common Services Centres Centre cuts interest on GPF by 10 bps launched a co-branded ‘Small Business Money
Finance Ministry has cut the rate of General Back Credit Card’ for small traders and village- provident fund (GPF) by 10 basis points from level entrepreneurs (VLEs). 8% to 7.9%.
The credit card is specifically designed for VLEs
During the year 2019-2020, accumulations at and VLE-sourced customers. It will give users the credit of subscribers to the GPF and other easy access to credit for their day-to-day similar funds shall carry interest at the rate of business expenses. 7.9% with effect from July 1, 2019 to 30th IMF lowers India’s growth outlook for FY20 September 2019.
The International Monetary Fund has lowered ADB cuts India’s GDP growth rate from 7.2% its annual growth forecast for India from 7.3% to 7% for FY20 to 7% in financial year 2019-20.
Asian Development Bank lowered India’s GDP
The IMF’s stance reflects a weaker-than- growth rate from 7.2% to 7% for the current expected outlook for domestic demand. fiscal year.


STATE AFFAIRS

Tamil yeoman declared Tamil Nadu’s state
The Supreme Court of India has directed the butterfly Meghalaya government to deposit the Rs 100
Tamil yeoman (Cirrochroa thais) butterfly has crore fine. been declared the state butterfly of Tamil Nadu.
The fine was imposed by the NGT for failing to
These butterflies are also known as Tamil curb illegal coal mining with the Central Pollution Maravan, which means warrior, are found Control Board. mainly in the hilly areas. 316 tourist spots to be developed by Assam
Tamil Nadu is only the fifth state in the country Govt to declare its state butterfly.
Assam Tourism Development Corporation will Tripura gets Rs 358 crore from GoI for road spent 150 crore rupees to develop the 316 projects locations under Axom Darshan.
The GoI has sanctioned an additional amount 10k monthly allowance to Padma Shri of Rs 358 crore for the construction of new awardees by Odisha govt roads in rural areas of Tripura.
Odisha government has decided to give Meghalaya fined Rs 100 cr for illegal coal monthly allowance of Rs 10,000 to Padma mining 3 www.arifin.in Current Affairs Magazine AUGUST 2019 award winners of the state facing financial and 35th districts of Tamil Nadu. problems. Andhra Pradesh first state to reserve 75%
The decision has been taken on the basis of the private jobs for locals Culture Department’s report on the economic
Andhra Pradesh has become the first state in conditions of the Padma award winners of the the country to reserve jobs for locals. The state. Andhra Pradesh Assembly passed the Andhra Maharashtra increases aid to kin of Martyred Pradesh Employment of Local Candidates in Jawans Industries/Factories Act, 2019.
Maharashtra government increased financial
Industries/Factories Act, 2019 reserves 75% aid to families of jawans martyred in war or private jobs across all categories in industrial war-like situations or conflict related to national units, factories, joint ventures as well as the security from Rs 25 lakh to Rs 1 crore. project that are in public-private partnership
Personnel wounded in conflict will get monetary (PPP) mode. compensation ranging from Rs 20 lakh to Rs Gujarat tops in rooftop solar installation across 60 lakh each, depending on the severity of their the country injury.
Gujarat ranks on top in the installation of rooftop Chengalpet, Tenkasi to be new districts in solar projects with an installed capacity of Tamil Nadu 261.97 megawatts.
The number of districts in Tamil Nadu will go
Total rooftop solar installation in India currently up to 35 as the government announced its stands at 1,700.54 MW. decision to carve out Tenkasi district from
Gujarat is followed by Maharashtra and Tamil Tirunelveli district and Chengalpet district from Nadu with 198.52 MW and 151.62 MW. Kancheepuram district will become the 34th

NATIONAL NEWS ‘Tribes India’ & ‘Go Tribal Campaign’ of wheat from any ration shop in the country as Tribes India launched long as their ration cards are linked to Aadhaar.
‘Go Tribal Campaign’ of Tribes India launched Jal Shakti Abhiyan to promote the use of tribal handicrafts,
Union Jal Shakti Minister has launched a water handicrafts and natural products. conservation campaign ‘Jal Shakti Abhiyan’ ,
‘Tribes India’ launched globally through with an emphasis on 1592 stressed blocks in Amazon Global Selling to step up Exports of 256 districts. Tribal Products.
The campaign will run through citizen ‘One nation one ration card’ scheme from July participation during the monsoon 1st July-15th 1, 2020 September. An additional phase II will run from
‘One Nation One Ration Card’ scheme will be 1st October-30th November for states available across the country from July 1, 2020. receiving the northeast retreating monsoons.
The scheme will allow portability of food security
The campaign will focus on five aspects: water benefits according to which the poor migrant conservation and rainwater harvesting, workers will be able to buy subsidised rice and renovation of traditional and other water bodies,

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The centre will promote the city in the field of watershed development, and intensive the fashion design sector. afforestation.
It will also fulfill the business needs from co- UGC approves a scheme “STRIDE” to boost working space, technicians, expert advises to research culture in India cognitive workshops and exposure to the
University Grants Commission has approved a industry. ‘Scheme for Trans-disciplinary Research for India ranked 86th in the Henley Passport India’s Developing Economy’ to boost research Index 2019 culture in India.
The Henley Passport Index 2019 have ranked
It will provide support to research projects that the Indian passport on the 86th position with a are socially relevant, locally need-based, mobility score of 58. nationally important and globally significant.
The score points out that Indian passport
An Advisory Committee has been set up by holders can access 58 countries around the the UGC under the chairmanship of Prof world without a prior visa. Japan and Singapore Bhushan Patwardhan to oversee the entire holds the top spot with a score of 189. scheme.
The index includes 199 passports and 227 Objectives of STRIDE: travel destinations including micro-states and  To identify young talent, strengthen research territories. culture, build capacity, promote innovation and ISRO ties up with Russian agency to select, support transdisciplinary research for India’s train Indian astronauts developing economy and national development.
Indian Space Research Organisation has signed  To fund multi-institutional network high impact a contract with Russia’s Glavkosmos for research projects in humanities and human selection support, medical examination and sciences. space training of Indian astronauts. Maharashtra ranks first in NITI Aayog’s
ISRO has planned to send two unmanned AMFFR Index missions before the mission ‘Gaganyaan-1
Maharashtra achieves first rank in NITI Aayog Pink City Jaipur gets UNESCO World launched “Agricultural Marketing and Farmer Heritage tag Friendly Reforms Index (AMFFRI)”.
In a remarkable achievement, India gets its 38th
The index ranks states based on the degree of UNESCO World Heritage Site as Pink City reforms they have undertaken in agricultural Jaipur. marketing.
India’s nomination of the Jaipur City, Rajasthan
AMFFRI has a score that can have minimum got inscribed on the World Heritage List of value “0” implying no reforms and maximum UNESCO during the 43rd Session of the World value “100” implying complete reforms in the Heritage Committee held at Baku, Azerbaijan. selected areas. NHAI and NIIF Signs MoU for funding India’s first Design Development Centre highway projects launched in Gujarat
National Highways Authority of India (NHAI)
India’s first Design Development Center and National Investment and Infrastructure ‘Fashionova’ was launched in the Textile city Fund (NIIF) signed an MoU for funding Surat. highway projects.

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The MoU is related to co-operation in formation
The agreement also involves a range of of SPVs to execute the fund arrangement for maintenance and other services for sub-systems large size road projects particularly green field of Israel Aerospace’s naval medium range projects to be executed by NHAI in future. surface-to-air missile. Setting up of Neutrino Observatory India, Italy to set up fast-track mechanism
The Union Minister of Atomic Energy and Space
India and Italy have decided to set up a fast informed Rajya Sabha about the India-based track mechanism to facilitate investors and Neutrino Observatory (INO). companies.
The Government of India has approved a
The meeting was attended by Ambassador of project to build the India-based Neutrino Italy to India, Lorenzo Angeloni and Secretary Observatory (INO) at Pottipuram in the Theni of Department of Industrial Policy and District of Tamil Nadu. Promotion, Ramesh Abhishek.
The project aims to set up a 51000 ton Iron
The fast-track system in Italy aims to identify Calorimeter (ICAL) detector to observe and solve problems faced by Indian companies naturally occurring atmospheric neutrinos in a and investors. cavern at the end of an approximately 2 km Chandrayaan-2, India’s second moon mission long tunnel in a mountain. launched
This will help to reduce the noise from cosmic
Indian Space Research Organisation launched rays that are ever present over-ground and Chandrayaan 2 from Satish Dhawan Space which would outnumber the rare neutrino Center at Sriharikota. interactions even in a detector as large as ICAL.
It was launched by GSLV MkIII-M1 Vehicle
According to India, The INO project does not at 14:43 hours IST. The lander-Vikram will land disturb the ecosystem around the site and does near South Pole of the moon on Sep 7, 2019. not release any radiation, as it does not have
Chandrayaan 2 is India’s 2nd moon mission. any radioactive substance. It measures cosmic India to launch first-ever space war exercise rays. ‘IndSpaceEx’ Israel Aerospace signs $50 million deal with
The Indian armed forces are all set to conduct Indian navy the country’s first-ever simulated space warfare
Israel Aerospace signs $50 million follow-up exercise “IndSpaceEx”. deal with Indian navy. Under the deal, Israel
This excercise will lead to an assessment of the Aerospace Industries will provide “imminent threats” in the expanse beyond earth complementary missile systems to the Indian and the drafting of a joint space doctrine for navy and India’s MDL Shipyard. futuristic battles. Ministry of Defence will organize exercise with all three forces together.

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USA designates Baloch Liberation Army as
Kyriakos Mitsotakis was sworn in as the prime terror group minister of Greece.
The Department of State of USA has designated
Mitsotakis is the son of former prime minister the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and Constantine Mitsotakis, one of the country’s Hizballah operative Husain Ali Hazzima as longest serving parliamentarians. Specially Designated Global Terrorists. Russia launched Soyuz Carrier Rocket with
The USA has also blamed the organizations for 33 satellites the attacks on Chinese assets amid an ongoing
Russia successfully launched Soyuz-2.1a carrier civil war like situation in Pakistan’s biggest rocket with a hydrometeorological satellite and province Balochistan. 32 small satellites. U.S. Senate passes provision to give India
The satellite will provide images of clouds, the NATO ally-like status surface of the Earth, ice and snow covers in the
The U.S. Senate has passed a legislative visible, infrared and microwave ranges. provision National Defense Authorisation Act for France to impose green tax on plane tickets India. from 2020
The act will bring India at par with America’s
France will impose green tax up to •18 on plane NATO allies which will increase U.S.-India tickets from 2020. The move aims to fund less- defence cooperation in the Indian Ocean in the polluting transportation projects. areas of humanitarian assistance, counter
A similar tax was introduced in Sweden in April terrorism, counter-piracy and maritime security. 2018, which imposed an added charge of up to
The act has been passed for the fiscal year 2020. •40 on every ticket in a bid to lessen the impact Iraq’s Babylon listed as World Heritage Site of air travel on the climate. by UNESCO North Korea revises constitution
UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has
North Korea has revised its constitution to make listed Iraq’s Babylon as a World Heritage Site. Kim Jong Un as official head of state, a promotion
Babylon is developed as a walled city of that could help normalise the isolated country’s mudbrick temples and towers, constituting the diplomatic relations with the rest of the world. Tower of Babel, and the Ishtar Gate.
Earlier Kim ruled as a chairman of state Affairs Sri Lanka inaugurates model village built with Commission. The previous constitution stated Indian assistance that the chairman of SAC served as a Supreme
Sri Lanka has inaugurated first model village built Leader. with Indian assistance. The village is a part of Russia launches space telescope Spektr-RG housing project meant for war affected people.
Russia launched a space telescope from the
India has partnered with the ministry of housing cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. It was and construction and cultural affairs of Sri Lanka a joint project with Germany. The Russian space to build 100 model villages with Indian grant of agency, showed a Proton-M rocket carrying the Rs 1,200 million. Spektr-RG taking off from the launch pad. Kyriakos Mitsotakis becomes Greece’s new
The Spektr-RG, is a space observatory intended PM to replace the Spektr-R, known as the “Russian 7 www.arifin.in Current Affairs Magazine AUGUST 2019 Hubble”, Spektr-R was launched in 2011 to ‘P625’ frigate will be mainly used for offshore observe black holes, neutron stars and magnetic patrol, environment monitoring and anti-piracy fields. Its successor will take up similar duties. combats. U.S. sets $5 bn fine for Facebook
The Type 053 frigate was commissioned into
U.S.’s Federal Trade Commission have China’s People’s Liberation Army Navy in 1994 approved a $5 billion penalty to be levied on as the Tongling. Facebook. Palau Becomes 76th Country to Join ISA
The penalty have been approved to settle a
Palau, an archipelago of over 500 islands in probe into the social network’s privacy and data Oceania, became the 76th signatory country to protection lapses. It would be the largest penalty join the International Solar Alliance. ever imposed by the FTC for privacy violations.
The International Solar Alliance is a group of UN Report: Over 820 million people suffering 121 solar resource-rich countries with from hunger headquarters in Gurugram, India.
A UN report has said, more than 821 million
The organisation aims to deploy over 1,000 people suffered from hunger worldwide last gigawatts of solar energy and mobilise more than year. It is the third year in a row that the number USD 1,000 billion into solar power by 2030, has risen. according to the United Nations Framework
The report named, ‘The State of Food Security Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). and Nutrition in the World’, produced by the Boris Johnson announced as Britain’s next UN Food and Agriculture Organization and prime minister other UN agencies, including WHO, was
Boris Johnson will replace Theresa May as released. Britain’s next Prime Minister.
The report is part of tracking progress towards
Boris Johnson, who was the face of the 2016 Sustainable Development Goal to Zero Hunger, Brexit referendum, won the votes of 92,153 which aims to end hunger, promote food security members of the Conservative party. Queen and end all forms of malnutrition by 2030. Elizabeth will formally appoint Johnson before
Number of hungry people in the world in 2018: he will enter Downing Street. 821.6 million (or 1 in 9 people) NASA to send “first woman and next man” on
in Asia: 513.9 million. Moon in 2024
in Africa: 256.1million.
U.S. space agency NASA prepares to send
in Latin America and the Caribbean: 42.5 million. “first woman and next man” on Moon as part of China gifts warship ‘P625’ to Sri Lanka its ambitious Artemis programme in 2024.
China has gifted warship ‘P625’ to Sri Lanka.
NASA has marked the 50th anniversary of the As a new member of the Lankan Navy, the historic first Moon landing.

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PEOPLE IN NEWS

K. Natarajan has sworn in as the 23rd chief of Summit challenge ICG
Aparna Kumar becomes first IPS officer to
K. Natarajan took over as the Director-General complete Seven Summit challenge by scaling Mt of the Indian Coast Guard (ICG). He has Denali. become the 23rd chief of India’s coastal security
Mt Denali is the tallest mountain in North force. He took over from Rajendra Singh. America. FIEO elects Sharad Kumar Saraf as new US auto industry legend Lee Iacocca passes president away
Exporters body Federation of Indian Export
Automobile industry legend from USA Lee Organisations (FIEO) has elected Sharad Iacocca passed away. Kumar Saraf as its new president.
He was known for creating the iconic Ford
Sharad Kumar Saraf will replace renowned Mustang and saving Chrysler from bankruptcy. exporter Ganesh Kumar Gupta. Ursula von der Leyen elected as next EU P.K. Purwar appointed as the CMD of BSNL president
The GoI has appointed MTNL CMD P.K.
European Commission has elected Ursula von Purwar as the Chairman and Managing Director der Leyen as its new president. of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. He has been
She will replace Jean Claude Juncker. She has appointed for a period of three months starting become the first woman to be elected to lead July 1. the EU’s executive arm.
He will replace Anupam Shrivastava as the Nalin Shinghal appointed CMD of BHEL CMD of BSNL.
Nalin Shinghal has been appointed as the Professional motorcycle racer, Carlin Dunne chairman and managing director of Bharat Heavy passes away Electricals Limited.
Professional motorcycle racer, Carlin Dunne
He will replace Atul Sobti as the chairman and passes away. managing director of BHEL.
He unfortunately suffered a fatal crash during Harideesh Kumar appointed as Director of Ducati Streetfighter V4 prototype run at Pikes IBPS Peak Hill Climb. He was also known as “The
B Harideesh Kumar has been appointed as King of the Mountain”. director of Institute of Banking Personnel Manoj Kumar Nambiar elected chairman of Selection for a period of three years. Earlier, he MFIN was the Executive Director of Canara Bank.
Microfinance Institutions Network has elected “Vivekadeepini” book released by the Vice Manoj Kumar Nambiar as its chairman. President of India
MFIN comprises 56 NBFC-MFIs and 40
The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah associates including banks, small finance banks Naidu has released the book ‘Vivekadeepini’ and NBFCs. in ten languages. IPS officer Aparna Kumar completes Seven
It is a concise book of aphorisms that contains

9 www.arifin.in Current Affairs Magazine AUGUST 2019 glimpses of India’s wisdom. The book will be Kalraj Mishra appointed Himachal Pradesh published by Vedanta Bharati. Governor Arun Kumar appointed as DGCA chief
President Ram Nath Kovind has appointed
Arun Kumar has been appointed as the Director Kalraj Mishra as the Governor of Himachal General of aviation regulator Directorate Pradesh. General of Civil Aviation. He will replace BS
Acharya Devvrat has been transferred from Bhullar. Himachal Pradesh and appointed as the Former India goalkeeper Celestine passes governor of Gujarat. away Bangladesh ex-dictator H.M. Ershad passes
Former India football goalkeeper from Tamil away Nadu A. U. Celestine passed away.
Bangladesh’s former military dictator H.M.
He played for the Tamil Nadu men’s team in the Ershad passed away. He became the president senior Nationals as a keeper in the 1965 and of Bangladesh in December 1983 and ruled the 69 National championships. country till 1990.
He represented India in the Merdeka Cup in Computer genius Fernando Corbató passes Malaysia in 1969. away MN Rao appointed DG of Fire Services, Civil
American computer scientist Fernando Corbato Defence and Home Guard passed away.
The Central government appointed M
He worked in 1960s on Computer Time Sharing Nageswar Rao, as the Director General of Fire System which allowed multiple users in different Services, Civil Defence and Home Guard. Rao locations to access a single computer will replace former CBI Chief Alok Verma. simultaneously through telephone lines which India’s Anshula Kant is World Bank MD and paved the way for the personal computer and CFO the computer passwords.
The World Bank Group announced that Anshula 1971 war hero Lt Gen Gharaya passes away Kant, an Indian national, has been appointed
Retired Lt Gen Joginder Singh Gharaya, who Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer. was awarded the Maha Vir Chakra in the 1971 Ms. Kant will be the first woman CFO of the Indo-Pak war and Kirti Chakra in the 1947 Bank. Hyderabad operations, passed away. Former BSFI secretary C.Kapur passes away. Boxing legend ‘Sweet Pea’ Whitaker passes
Former Billiards and Snooker Federation of away India secretary C.Kapur passed away. Mr.
Former oylmpic boxing gold medallist and four Kapur served for the cue-sports for more than weight World champion “Pernell whitaker” 40 years. passed away. Kiran More appointed USA cricket team’s
He won world titles at lightweight, light interim coach welterweight, welterweight and light
Former India wicket keeper-batsman Kiran middleweight. More will take charge as the interim coach of Ursula von der Leyen elected EU commission the senior USA cricket team. president
He will replace the head coach Pubudu
Ursula von der Leyen has been confirmed as the Dassanayake. European commission’s first female President and the first German in the job for more than 50 years. 10 www.arifin.in Current Affairs Magazine AUGUST 2019 Coca cola appoints Sarvita Sethi in M&A role assignment for Kumar, who is currently working
Global beverages major Coco-Cola announced as Director in the Prime Minister’s Office. top level changes in its India and southwest Asia 3-time Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit passes away unit with the appointment of Sarvita Sethi as Vice
Three-time Delhi Chief Minister and senior president, M&A and New Ventures and Harsh Congress leader Shiela Dixit passed away in Bhutani as Vice-president finance(CFO). New Delhi. She served as Delhi’s chief minister President appoints Governors for for 15 years. Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh Ajay Bhadoo appointed as Joint Secretary to
President Ram Nath Kovind has appointed the President Anusuiya Uikey as Governor of Chhattisgarh.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet
Biswa Bhusan Harichandan has been named as approved the appointment of Ajay Bhadoo as Governor of Andhra Pradesh. Joint Secretary to President Ram Nath Kovind. Justice AK Sikri appointed as judge in SICC
Bhadoo, a Gujarat batch IAS officer is currently
The President of the Republic of Singapore has serving as the Vadodara Municipal made the appointment of Justice Sikri. It currently Commissioner. has 16 international judges as part of its panel. New governors appointed to 6 Indian States
The SICC is a division of the Singapore high
President Ram Nath Kovind has transferred 2 court and part of the Supreme Court of that Governors and made 4 new appointments country, designed to deal with transnational across 6 States. New appointments are as commercial disputes. follows: Upender Singh Rawat named India’s next  Madhya Pradesh: Lalji Tandon will replace Ambassador to Panama Anandiben Patel.
IFS officer Upender Singh Rawat has been  Uttar Pradesh: Anandiben Patel will replace Ram appointed as India’s next Ambassador to Naik. Panama. He will succeed Ravi Thapar.  West Bengal: Jagdeep Dhankhar will replace Sanjeev Kumar Singla appointed as India’s Keshari Nath Tripathi. Ambassador to Israel  Bihar: Phagu Chuhan will replace Lalji Tandon.
Senior diplomat Sanjeev Kumar Singla has been  Nagaland: R.N. Ravi will replace P.B. Acharya. appointed as the next Indian Ambassador to  Tripura: Ramesh Bais will replace Kaptan Singh Israel. Solanki.
Earlier he was serving as Private Secretary (PS) M.M. Naravane to be next Vice-Chief of Army to Prime Minister of India. He will replace Pavan Staff Kapoor, who assumed charge as the
Lieutenant-General M.M. Naravane, has been Ambassador to Israel in 2016. appointed as the next Vice-Chief of the Army IFS officer Vivek Kumar appointed private Staff. He will replace Lt. Gen. D. Anbu. secretary to PM
He is currently serving as General Officer
Indian Foreign Service officer Vivek Kumar was Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Army appointed as private secretary to Prime Minister Command. Narendra Modi. Mark Esper appointed as Pentagon chief
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet,
The U.S. Senate confirmed former soldier Mark headed by the prime minister, cleared the new Esper as Secretary of Defence, filling America’s

11 www.arifin.in Current Affairs Magazine AUGUST 2019 longest-ever Pentagon leadership vacuum as in 1988 for ‘Escape from Sobibor.’ He was Washington faces mounting tensions with Iran. from Netherland. Dejan Papic appointed as India’s table tennis RAW officer appointed as new BSF Director coach General
The Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI)
IPS officer V.K. Johri has been appointed as has appointed the Canadian Dejan Papic as the the next Director General (DG) of the country’s head coach of the Indian table tennis team. He largest border guarding force, Border Security has signed a one-year contract and will be the Force(BSF). in charge through the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
He is presently serving as the Special Secretary Priti Patel appointed as Britain’s Home in the external intelligence agency RAW, under Secretary the Cabinet Secretariat.
Priti Patel has been appointed as Britain’s Home
The order has been issued by the Appointments Secretary in the newly-unveiled Boris Johnson Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) that is headed Cabinet. by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
She has become the Britain’s first Indian-origin Girish Bapat appointed as chairman of Home Secretary. estimates committee Ajay Bhalla appointed as Home Secretary
Girish Bapat has been appointed the chairman
Ajay Kumar Bhalla has been appointed Officer of the “Estimates Committee” of the parliament. on Special Duty (OSD) to the Ministry of Home
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla made the Affairs. appointment.
Bhalla will take over as Home Secretary from Lt Gen Paramjit Singh to be new DGMO of incumbent Rajive Gauba. Bhalla is currently Army serving as Power Secretary.
Lt Gen Paramjit Singh, who has vast experience ‘Blade Runner’ actor Rutger Hauer passes in counter-terror operations, will be the next away Director General of Military Operations
Dutch film actor Rutger Hauer, who specialized in (DGMO) of the Indian Army. menacing roles including a memorable turn as a
Lt Gen Singh, currently serving as General Officer murderous android in ‘Blade Runner’, passed away. Commanding of the Army’s Nagrota-based XVI
He won a supporting actor Golden Globe award Corps, will take over as the new DGMO on October, succeeding Lt Gen Anil Chauhan.

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SPORTS

Max Verstappen wins Austrian Grand Prix
They defeated the Netherlands with a scrore of
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won the Austrian 2-0. This is the 4th world cup title for the US’s Grand Prix for the second year in a row women football team.
while champion Mercedes lost for the first time Canada Open Badminton: Li Shi Feng won the in this season. men’s singles title Indian Pro Boxer Wins WBC Asia Title
Li Shi Feng has won the men’s singles title of
Indian pro boxer Vaibhav Yadav has become Canada Open Badminton. He defeated India’s the WBC Asia Silver Welterweight Champion. Parupalli Kashyap in the title clash. He defeated Thailand’s Fahpetch Singmanassak World Youth Cup: Arinjeeta Dey wins silver in the title bout held in Pattaya, Thailand. medal
The fight was conducted by the Asian Boxing
Arinjeeta Dey, a 10-year-old girl, has won a Council and approved by the World Boxing silver medal in the World Youth Cup held in Council (WBC). Umag, Croatia. Ambati Rayudu retires from international
The tournament was organised by World Karate cricket Federation affiliated to the International Olympic
Indian batsman Ambati Rayudu has announced Association. his retirement from international cricket. Rahul Dravid appointed NCA’s Head of
He has played 55 ODIs for India, scoring 1694 Cricket runs at an average of 47.05 with three hundreds
BCCI has formally appointed Rahul Dravid as and 10 half-centuries. the National Cricket Academy’s Head of India loses to Pakistan in the IBSF Snooker Cricket. World Cup finals
Dravid will oversee all cricket related activities
The Indian team lost to Pakistan in the final of at NCA and will be involved in mentoring, the IBSF Snooker World Cup in Doha. India coaching, training and motivating players, lost the summit clash by 1-3. coaches and support staff at the NCA.
Pankaj Advani and Laxman Rawat represented Magnus Carlsen won the 2019 Croatia Grand the Indian team in the world cup. Chess Tour title Arjen Robben announces retirement from
Magnus Carlsen won the 2019 Croatia Grand football Chess Tour title. He scored 8 points.
Dutch winger Arjen Robben has announced his
Wesley So finished second with 7 points. India’s retirement from football at the age of 35 after a Viswanathan Anand ended up with 4.5 points 10-year spell with German giants Bayern and finished 11th. Munich. Vinesh, Divya wins gold at Wrestling Grand
He has played 96 international matches for the Prix of Spain Netherlands, scoring 37 goals, and starred in
Wrestler Vinesh Phogat has won a gold medal the team which reached the 2010 World Cup in the 53kg category, while Divya Kakran has final. won the gold medal in the 68kg category at the U.S. wins FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019 Grand Prix of Spain.
United States wins FIFA Women’s World Cup
Pooja Dhanda (57kg) has won a silver after 2019 held in Lyon, France. losing the title clash to Russia’s Veronika Chumikova.

13 www.arifin.in Current Affairs Magazine AUGUST 2019 Dutee Chand wins gold in Summer University Djokovic beats Federer to win fifth Wimbledon Games title
Dutee Chand from Odisha has won the gold
Serbian Novak Djokovic won his fifth medal in the women’s 100 metre sprint at the Wimbledon title after defeating Swiss tennis ace 30th Summer University Games in Naples, Italy. Roger Federer.
This is the first time an Indian has won a 100-
This is Djokovic’s 16th Grand Slam and 5th metre gold at this global event. Wimbledon title. He is now level with Bjorn Borg India Football Federation’s AIFF Awards as a five-time Wimbledon winner. announced Lewis Hamilton wins sixth British Grand Prix.
Best Grassroots Development Programme:
Lewis Hamilton made a thrilling victory in the Jammu & Kashmir Football Association. Silverstone circuit to win his sixth British Grand
Best Referee: R. Venkatesh (Tamil Nadu). Prix, his seventh victory in ten races in 2019
Best Assistant Referee: Joseph Tony and the 80th win of his career. (Karnataka). Vinesh Phogat wins gold at Yasar Dogu
Emerging Women’s Footballer 2018-19: International Dangmei Grace (Manipur).
India wrestler Vinesh Phogat has won her
Emerging Men’s Footballer of the Year: Abdul second consecutive gold in 53kg, at Yasar Dogu Sahal (Kerala). International in Istanbul.
Women’s Footballer of the Year: Ashalata Devi.
Phogat beat her Russian opponent Ekaterina
Men’s Footballer of the Year: Sunil Chhetri. Poleshchuk in the final match to bag the gold Gold medals for India in Commonwealth medal. Championships England scripts history, claims maiden ICC
Rakhi Halder and Davinder Kaur have won a World Cup title 2019
gold medal each in the senior women’s section England lifted the ICC Cricket World Cup of weightlifting in the Commonwealth Trophy 2019 at the Lord’s cricket stadium in Championships. London.

Davinder Kaur has won the gold medal in England defeated New Zealand with more women’s 59kg event. While Rakhi Halder has number of boundaries in the Super Over thriller won the gold medal in the 64kg category. The in the grand finale of ICC Cricket World Cup Championship is taking place in Apia, Samoa. Trophy 2019.  ‘Robot umpires’ debut in U.S. baseball league Player of the tournament: Kane Williamson (New
The Independent Atlantic League became the Zealand).  first American professional baseball league to Player of the Match Award: Ben Stokes let a computer call balls and strikes. The umpires (England). have the ability to override the computer, which  Highest run scorer of the tournament: Rohit considers a pitch a strike when the ball bounces Sharma (India). and then crosses the zone.  Highest wicket taker of the tournament: Mitchell G. Sathiyan, Anthony Amalraj win bronze in Starc (Australia). Australian Open Sreeshankar wins gold at Tatyana Kolpakova
In Table Tennis, Indian pair G. Sathiyan and International Athletics Anthony Amalraj won the bronze at the World
M. Sreeshankar has won the long jump gold at Tour Platinum Australian Open. They defeat the Tatyana Kolpakova International athletics. Korean pair of Jeoung Youngsik and Lee The tournament was held in Bishkek Sangsu. (Kyrgyzstan).

14 www.arifin.in Current Affairs Magazine AUGUST 2019 The Championships, Wimbledon 2019
Star Indian sprinter Hima Das clinched gold in a
The Championships, Wimbledon, commonly 200m race in 23.25 seconds creditable timing known as Wimbledon is the oldest tennis in the Tabor Athletics Meet in Czech Republic. tournament in the world. It has been held at the Sarabjot Singh wins gold medal in ISSF Junior All England Club in Wimbledon, London, since World Cup 1877 and is played on outdoor grass courts.
ISSF Junior World Cup, Sarabjot Singh shot a The Championships, Wimbledon (2019) was the 239.6 to bag the men’s 10 metres air pistol gold. 133rd edition of the tournament.
This is India’s ninth yellow metal at the event in Sharath Kamal voted IOC Sportsperson of the Suhl, Germany. Year Indian Men & Women’s teams win
Sharath Kamal was voted the Sportsperson of Commonwealth Table Tennis title the Year in the annual Indian Oil Sports Conclave.
India has made a record by winning gold in both
The other nominees were cricketer Cheteshwar men’s and women’s category of the 21st Pujara, Grandmaster B Adhiban, hockey player Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship Simranjeet Singh and table tennis player Manika taking place in Odisha. Batra.
The Indian men’s team won the final match
Sharath Kamal is a professional table tennis defeating England 3-2. player from Tamil Nadu, India.
The Indian women’s team defeated England 3- Amir Khan wins WBC international 0 in final match to won the gold for the first time welterweight title in the history of the commonwealth games.
Olympic silver medallist Amir Khan clinched the North Korea wins Intercontinental Cup title WBC international welterweight title. He
North Korea wins the 2nd edition of knocked out Australian Billy Dib in the fourth Intercontinental Cup football tournament. round of his bout in the inaugural Super Boxing
North Korea beats Tajikistan in the finals held League held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. in Ahmedabad. North Korea, Tajikistan, India
He is a British professional boxer who was also and Syria participated in the event. the Britain’s youngest boxer to won a silver Shane Lowry wins British Open medal in the lightweight division at the 2004
Irishman Shane Lowry wins British Open to claim Olympics at the age of 17. his first major golfing title at Royal Portrush. India will host ISSF World Cup 2020
He became the 2nd player from the Republic of
International Shooting Sport Federation Ireland, after Padraig Harrington in 2007 and approved India’s application to host the ISSF 2008, to lift the Claret Jug. World Cup stages. Kapil Dev led CAC to pick Team India’s head
World Cup will be held in New Delhi from coach March 15 to 26 ,2020. The last edition of ISSF
Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) led by World Cup was held in Munich, Germany. World Cup-winning former captain Kapil Dev Anish Bhanwala claims gold medal in ISSF entrusted with the responsibility of selecting Junior World Cup India’s new coach.
Shooter Anish Bhanwala claimed gold in 25m
Apart from Kapil, former women’s captain rapid fire pistol competition to continue India’s Shantha Rangaswamy and former men’s coach dominance in the tournament in Suhl, Germany. Anshuman Gaekwad have also in the panel. Hima Das wins gold in “Tabor Athletics”

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IIT Kanpur honours Gopichand with honorary has won the Network for the Promotion of Asian doctorate Cinema (NETPAC) Award at the 23rd Bucheon
IIT Kanpur honours India’s chief national International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) in badminton coach Pullela Gopichand with South Korea. honorary doctorate on the occasion of their 52nd ‘Best Innovation Award’ won by NEFR convocation.
Northeast Frontier Railway has won the ‘Best
Former President APJ Abdul Kalam and former Innovation Award’ for unique strategy adopted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh are past to keep wild elephants away from train tracks. recipients of the honour ‘Nagarkirtan’ wins big at SAARC film fest NALCO to get President’s award for excellent
Director Kaushik Ganguly’s Bengali film CSR ‘Nagarkirtan’, has won 4 awards in SAARC
National Aluminium Company Limited has been film festival. The movie was honoured with ‘Best selected for President’s award for utilisation of Feature Film’, ‘Best Director’, ‘Best Actor’ and Corporate Social Responsibility fund in social ‘Best Original Score’ awards. development.
Two other Indian films have won awards at the
NALCO started a scheme “Aliali Jhia” in 2015 fest,’Na Bole Wo Haram’, a 20-minute film by to promote the education of Girls of BPL families. debutant director Nitish Patankar, bagged the NALCO is an Odisha based Navaratna ‘Best Short Film’ award, while ‘Walking With Company. the Wind’ by Praveen Morchhale received the Sports Journalists Federation of India 2019 Special Jury award for direction and story. Awards Rohan Bopanna and Smriti Mandhana got
SJFI Medal (Highest Honour): Prakash Arjuna Award Padukone (Badminton).
Sports and Youth Affairs Minister conferred
Sportsperson of the Year Award: Pankaj Advani Arjuna Awards to tennis player Rohan Bopanna (Billiards and Snooker) and Bajrang Punia and Women cricketer Smriti Mandhana. (Wrestling).
Bopanna who won the Gold medal in tennis
Emerging Talent of the Year Award: Saurabh men’s double category in Asian Games 2018 and Choudhary (Shooting). Mandhana was the ICC women’s player of the Ajay Banga, Azim Premji to receive excellence year 2018. awards from USISPF Vocalist S Sowmya wins Sangita Kalanidhi
The US-India Strategic Partnership Forum has award announced that Mastercard CEO and President
Vocalist S. Sowmya has been chosen for the Ajay Banga and Wipro Chairman Azim Premji Sangita Kalanidhi award of the Music Academy. will receive the 2019 Global Excellence Awards.
She will preside over the 93rd annual conference
This is the Second Annual Leadership Summit of the Academy. of USISPF. 6 firms honoured with CSR Journal Excellence
They have been honored with the awards for Awards their significant contribution to strengthening
3rd Edition of the CSR Journal Excellence economic ties between the US and India. Awards honoured 6 firms for the best practices ‘Gully Boy’ wins NETPAC award in Bucheon in Corporate Social Responsibility. film festival
The theme of the event was ‘India First’. The
Filmmaker Zoya Akhtar’s directorial ‘Gully Boy’ winners of the awards are:  Tata Power won in the category “Education &

16 www.arifin.in Current Affairs Magazine AUGUST 2019 Skill Training”. People’s Choice Award at a prestigious sand  ReNew Power won in the category “Women sculpting festival in the U.S. Empowerment & Child Welfare”.
Pattnaik was participating in the 2019 Revere  YES Bank Ltd. won in the category “Health & Beach International Sand Sculpting Festival in Sanitation”. Boston, Massachusetts.  Mahindra & Mahindra won in the category
He won the People’s Choice Award for his sand “Environment”. sculpture ‘Stop Plastic Pollution, Save Our  Hindustan Zinc won in the category “Agriculture Ocean’. & Rural Development”. Meryl Streep to receive Tribute Actor Award  Aditya Birla Capital Ltd. won in the category at TIFF 2019 “Sports”.
Veteran star Meryl Streep will be honoured Sudarsan Pattnaik wins Peoples Choice Award Tribute Actor award at the 2019 in 44th Toronto in the U.S. International Film Festival.
Padma Awardee Sudarsan Pattnaik has won the
The 70-year-old actor will be the first-ever recipient of the award in TIFF.


Know more about Jammu & Kashmir… My Dear Friends, I am sure you must be knowing about the Pride of Jammu & Kashmir… The Paradise on Odisha- “Dutee Chand” ! Earth She has become the Identity of sports in Odisha and she has put Odisha on the World map. No 1. Capitals : - doubt she has transformed herself in to a Champion. (i) Summer - Srinagar But friends, I have a simple question. Was she born (ii) Winter - Jammu as a CHAMPION ? 2. Governor : - Satya Pal Malik Surely Not. She too has gone the same way as 3. History : - you all are going through right now. But she didn’t buckle down under pressure and kept her nerves • Instrument of Accession signed on 26th cool. And today the world is venerating her. October, 1947. So, my dear friends, there might be many • J&K became an integral part of India. philosophies about success. You will find a galaxy • India can interfere in 3 areas of J&K, namely; of Motivational Quotes over the internet. But it will (a) Defence help you only when you “Rise to the Occasion”. Yours, (b) External Affairs Kamalesh Sir. (c) Communication (Trainer, Mentor, Guide and much more…) • It inserted Article-370 in Indian constitution along with Article 35(A). 4. Geography and Climate : - • Valleys: Kashmir, Tawi, Poonch, Sind, Lidder etc. • Important Rivers: Indus, Tawi, Ravi, Chenab, Jhelum. 5. State Symbols:

17 www.arifin.in Current Affairs Magazine AUGUST 2019 Flower - Lotus 16. Dal Lake: Tree - Chinar Symbol of Srinagar city Animal - Hangul (Kashmir Stag) Famous Shalimar and Nishant Bagh and Bird - Black necked crane Mughal Gardens are located near it. 6. Neighbouring States: It is famous for Shikaras (House boats) (1) Punjab 17. Mata Vaishnodevi Shrine - On Trikuta (2) Himachal Pradesh Mountains. 7. Neighbouring Countries: 18. Nomadic Tribes - Dogras, Gujjars, Gaddis (1) Pakistan 19. Main Agricultural Products: - Saffron, Cherry, Apple, Almonds, Walnuts. (2) Afghanistan 20. J&K is the Largest apple producing state. (3) China 21. .Pashmina Shawl-Derived from Wool of a Goat 8. J&K has its own: (Changthangi) (1) Flag 22. Kashmir is famous for Kashmir Willow/Bat (2) Citizenship 23. Important Personalities: (3) Constitution (1) Ustad Allah Rakha Khan and his son Zakir 9. Godwin Austen(K2) : Highest peak of J&K Hussain - Tabla and 2nd highest in the world after Everest. (2) Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma - Santoor 10. Siachen Glacier : Highest Battlefield in the 24. Kawa: world. A traditional Kashmir drink made up of Green 11. LoC : (Line of control) Tea, Spices and Almond. Drawn after the Shimla conference on 2nd July, 25. Protected Regions: 1972. Salim ali National Park This region covers POK (Pak Occupied Kashmir) and Gilgit Baltistan. Dachigham National Park 12. CoK: China Occupied Kashmir 26. Srinagar LoAC (Line of Actual Control) Built by Emperor Ashoka Drawn after Sino India war, 1962 It Means “City of Lakshmi” Also called “Aksai Chin”. 27. India’s 1st floating post office - Kashmir 13. Religious Communities: 28. Hemis National Park – Famous for snow Leopard (i) Hindus (In Jammu region) 29. Sheer chai/Gulabi chai: Traditional pink tea. (ii) Muslims (Kashmir valley) 30. Amarnath cave: Founded by Buta Malik, A (iii) Buddhist and Tibetans (Ladakh Region) muslim shepherd. 14. Dances: 31. Dras: (i) Dhumal (Performed by Men) Coldest inhabited place in India (Minimum (ii) Rouff (Performed by Women) temperature -–60° C) 15. Chasme Sahi: It is also the 2nd coldest place in the world. Famous Mughal Garden built around a natural 32. Pangong Lake: spring in Kashmir. Located at a height of 4350 mtr. It’s a 143km. Built by Shah Jahan (1632) long lake which extends from Ladakh to Tibet. He gifted it to his elder son “Dara Sikoh”

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1. Veer Chotrani is associated to which sports? 10.Which Indian politician has authored the book (a) Athletics (b) Wrestling titled ‘The New Delhi Conspiracy’? (c) Badminton (d) Squash (a) Shashi Tharoor 2. Who is the current director of Intelligence Bureau (b) Abhishek Manu Singhvi (IB)? (c) Sanjay Nirupam (a) Anil Dhasmana (b) Arvind Kumar (d) Meenakshi Lekhi (c) Samant Kumar Goel (d) Rajiv Jain 11. Which state government has launched Dastak 3. Which state government has launched free crop campaign against AES & JE disease? insurance scheme for farmers? (a) Rajasthan (b) MP (a) Jharkhand (b) Madhya Pradesh (c) Uttar Pradesh (d) Bihar (c) West Bengal (d) Rajasthan 12.Which city is hosting the first-ever ISA’s joint 4. Abburi Chaya Devi, who passed away recently, security exercise “ISALEX19”? was the famous fiction writer of which language? (a) Pune (b) Paris (a) Telugu (b) Tamil (c) New York (d) Abu Dhabi (c) Malayalam (d) Kannada 13.STRIDE, which is in news recently, is associated 5. What is the theme of the 2019 edition of World to which of the following issues? Vitiligo Day (WVD)? a) To boost research culture a) Children, Research, and Hope for the b) To boost women empowerment Future c) To promote tribal handicrafts b) The Quality of Life of a Vitiligo Patient d) To promote child education c) Mental and Medical Journey of Living with 14.On which date, the 2019 edition of International Vitiligo Olympic Day (IOD) is observed? d) How I Feel (a) June 23 (b) June 39 6. Who is the new Managing Director of National (c) June 25 (d) June 27 Housing Bank (NHB)? 15.The first-ever India International Cooperatives (a) Sriram Kalyanaraman Trade Fair (IICTF) will be held in which of the (b) Ashwani Kumar Tripathi following cities? (c) R S Garg (a) Pune (b) New Delhi (d) Sarada Kumar Hota (c) Dehradun (d) Bhopal 7. Mohammed Baji, who passed away recently, 16.Which district administration of J&K has was the eminent freedom fighter of which state? launched ‘Operation Khumaar’ to make 312 (a) West Bengal (b) Odisha panchayats tobacco-free? (c) UP (d) Tamil Nadu (a) Rajouri (b) Udhampur 8. What is the theme of the 13th National Statistics (c) Kathua (d) Poonch Day (NSD-2019)? 17.Santosh Rana, who passed away recently, was a) Administrative Statistics the veteran leader of which political party? b) Quality Assurance in Official Statistics (a) CPI (ML) (b) BJP c) Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare (c) INC (d) SP d) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 18.Who is the author of the book ‘A Prime Minister 9. Who has become the first IPS Officer to to Remember- Memories of a Military Chief’? complete ‘Seventh Summit’ Challenge? (a) Vishnu Bhagwat (b) Sureesh Mehta (a) Dipankar Ghosh (b) Aparna Kumar (c) Sushil Kumar (d) Vijai Singh Shekhawat (c) Malavath Purna (d) Nawang Gombu

19 www.arifin.in Current Affairs Magazine AUGUST 2019 19.The 21st Commonwealth Table Tennis 29.Which Indian personality has been elected as a Championship will be hosted by which of the member of International Olympic Committee following states? (IOC)? (a) Odisha (b) Jharkhand (a) Pargat Singh (b) Narinder Batra (c) Punjab (d) West Bengal (c) Ramandeep Singh(d) Dilip Tirkey 20.India has inked Rs 200 crore defence deal with 30.Impressed tortoise, which is in news recently, is which country for ‘Strum Ataka’ anti-tank discovered in which of the following states? missile? (a) Andhra Pradesh (b) Arunachal Pradesh (c) Nagaland (d) Odisha (a) United States (b) Israel 31.The first UIDAI-run Aadhaar Seva Kendra (c) Russia (d) France (ASK) operational in which of the following 21.Which water conservation campaign has been cities? launched by Central Government? (a) Delhi & Vijayawada (a) Jal Bachav Abhiyan (b) Bhopal & Jaipur (b) Jal Tarang Abhiyan (c) Nagpur & Varanasi (c) Jal Suraksha Abhiyan (d) Varanasi & Delhi (d) Jal Shakti Abhiyan 32.Where is the headquarters of Centre for DNA 22.On which date, the 2019 edition of International Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD) is Day of the Tropics is observed? located? (a) June 27 (b) June 28 (a) Delhi (b) Hyderabad (c) June 29 (d) June 30 (c) Lucknow (d) Indore 23.Which country has officially resumed commercial 33.Who is the author of the autobiography ‘Lessons whaling? Life Taught Me, Unknowingly”? (a) Japan (b) South Korea (a) Sanjay Dutt (b) Irrfan Khan (c) New Zealand (d) UK (c) Anupam Kher (d) Naseeruddin Shah 24.Which of the following butterfly species has been 34.The 2nd edition of International Day of officially declared as state butterfly of Tamil Parliamentarism (IDP-2019) was observed on which of the following dates? Nadu? (a) June 27 (b) June 28 (a) Cirrochroa thais (b) Papilio bianor (c) June 29 (d) June 30 (c) Papilio buddha (d) Troides Minos 35.Who has been elected new chairman of 25.Indo-French Joint Air Exercise “Garuda-V” has Microfinance Institutions Network (MFIN)? started in which of the following sites? (a) Harsh Shrivastava (a) Montpellier (b) Pune (b) Vineet Chattree (c) Jodhpur (d) Mont-de-Marsan (c) Manoj Kumar Nambiar 26.Which Indian scientist has been selected as the (d) Jagadish Ramadugu Co-Investigator for NASA’s PUNCH mission? 36.Who is the head of the RBI committee to a) Dipankar Banerjee strengthen Core Investment Companies (CIC) b) Raghunath Anant Mashelkar framework? c) Ashoke Sen (a) Lily Vadera (b) N S Venkatesh d) Narendra Karmarkar (c) T Ravishankar (d) Tapan Ray 27.Dr. Jaya Arunachalam, veteran social activist has 37.What is the rank of the Indian passport at the passed away. She was from which state? 2019 Henley Passport Index? (a) Kerala (b) Karnataka (a) 55th (b) 64th (c) 86th (d) 77th (c) Andhra Pradesh (d) Tamil Nadu 38.Who is the head of the high-powered committee 28.Which of the following public sector banks has of Chief Ministers (CMs) to transform Indian agriculture? signed MoU with NIIF to boost capital (a) Devendra Fadnavis (b) Ramesh Chand availability for infrastructure projects? (c) Manohar Lal Khattar (d) Vijay Rupani (a) SBI (b) PNB (c) BoB (d) BoI 20 www.arifin.in Current Affairs Magazine AUGUST 2019 39.Babu Narayanan, who passed away recently, 48.Which of the following Indian business leaders was the popular filmmaker of which regional will receive 2019 Global excellence awards cinema? from US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (a) Tamil (b) Malayalam (USISPF)? (c) Telugu (d) Kannada (a) Anand Mahindra (b) Ratan Tata 40.Ambati Rayudu, who recently retired from all (c) Mukesh Ambani (d) Ajay Banga forms of cricket, is from which state? 49.Who is the author of the book ‘Whispers of (a) Telangana (b) Andhra Pradesh Time’? (c) Tamil Nadu (d) Karnataka (a) Jhumpa Lahiri (b) Krishna Saksena 41.Dragonfly mission, which is in news to explore (c) Vikram Seth (d) Rohinton Mistry Saturn’s Moon Titan, is associated to which 50.Where is the headquarters of National Institute space agency? of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (a) Roscosmos (b) CNES (NIRDPR)? (c) ISRO (d) NASA (a) Hyderabad (b) New Delhi 42.Which state government has launched toll-free (c) Mumbai (d) Raipur CM helpline 1076? 51.The scientists of India and which country have (a) Uttar Pradesh (b) Madhya Pradesh identified a new gene linked to schizophrenia? (c) Jharkhand (d) Rajasthan (a) South Africa (b) Russia 43.Which Indian sprinter has won gold in women’s (c) Australia (d) Belgium 200 m at the Poznan Athletics Grand Prix in 52.MOSAiC mission, which is in news recently, is Poland? a year-long expedition into which of the (a) Dutee Chand (b) Hima Das following oceans? (c) Sarita Gayakwad (d) Sathi Geetha (a) Arctic ocean (b) Antarctica ocean 44.The world’s largest burn and plastic surgery (c) Pacific ocean (d) Indian ocean institute Institute has started functioning in which 53.Which city of Rajasthan has recently declared of the following cities? UNESCO World Heritage site? (a) Yangon (b) Jakarta (a) Bikaner (b) Udaipur (c) Pune (d) Dhaka (c) Jaipur (d) Jodhpur 45.Which international organisation has recently 54.The Government of India (GoI) has signed pact with which tech company for pilot study on using released its report ‘Working on a Warmer AI in Agriculture? Planet”? (a) Infosys (b) Wipro (a) ILO (b) UNICEF (c) Microsoft (d) IBM (c) UNESCO (d) FAO 55.On which date, the 2019 edition of National 46.What is the theme of the 2019 edition of UN Doctor’s Day (NDD) is celebrated in India? MSME Day? (a) July 5 (b) July 1 a) Entrepreneurship: A way of success (c) July 3 (d) July 7 b) Big Money For Small Business: Financing 56.Damnganga-Pinjal river inter-linking project, the SDGs sometimes seen in news, is associated to which c) The Youth Dimension of the following states? d) Small business – big impact (a) Tamil Nadu (b) Karnataka 47.Which of the following railway zones has (c) Jharkhand (d) Maharashtra commissioned the longest electrified tunnel in 57.Ikram Ali Khil, who broke Sachin Tendulkar’s Indian Railways? rare World Cup record, is from which country? (a) South Central Railway (a) Afghanistan (b) South Africa (b) Northern Railway (c) Pakistan (d) England (c) Central Railway 58.Which state has topped the NITI Aayog’s 2019 (d) Western Railway AMFFR Index? (a) Gujarat (b) Madhya Pradesh (c) Rajasthan (d) Maharashtra 21 www.arifin.in Current Affairs Magazine AUGUST 2019 59.The Athi Varadar festival has started in which of 69.Who is the current chief of National Skill the following states? Development Corporation (NSDC)? (a) Kerala (b) Odisha (a) Manish Kumar (b) Jyotsna Sitling (c) Tamil Nadu (d) Karnataka (c) K P Krishnan (d) Anil Manibhai Naik 60.Which of the following ancient sites of Iraq has 70.What is the theme of 2019 edition of been declared a UNESCO World Heritage International Co-operative Day (ICD)? Site? a) Cooperative Enterprise Empowers Women (a) Babylon (b) Baghdad b) Coops 4 Decent Work (c) Mosul (d) Karbala c) Co-operatives ensure no one is left behind 61.Who is the author of the book “War over Words: d) Choose co-operatives, choose equality Censorship in India, 1930-1960”? 71.Which state government has decided to produce (a) Rohinton Mistry (b) Devika Sethi its own seeds under brand name Sah-Beej? (c) Amitav Ghosh (d) Sudeep Nagarkar (a) Chhattisgarh (b) Uttar Pradesh 62.Which UT / state has decided to introduce Bi- (c) Rajasthan (d) Madhya Pradesh cycle sharing scheme? 72.Who has been appointed as Head of Cricket at (a) Tamil Nadu (b) Karnataka the National Cricket Academy (NCA)? (c) Odisha (d) Puducherry (a) Saurav Ganguly (b) V V S Laxman 63.Arinjeeta Dey, who won silver in 2019 World (c) Anil Kumble (d) Rahul Dravid Youth Cup, is from which state? 73.Budj Bim Cultural Landscape is located in which (a) West Bengal (b) UP country? (c) Jharkhand (d) Haryana (a) West Indies (b) New Zealand 64.Reliance Jio has partnered with which social (c) Australia (d) England media platform for its Digital Udaan? 74.The Asia’s first Six Sigma Institute of Mountain (a) Instagram (b) Twitter Medicines and High Altitude Rescue is set to (c) Facebook (d) WhatsApp come up in which Indian state? 65.Which of the following public sector banks has (a) Himachal Pradesh (b) Uttarakhand set up a centralized hub to process retail and (c) Jammu & Kashmir (d) Sikkim MSME loans? 75.The term Utkarsh 2022 in news is related to (a) SBI which organization? (b) Punjab National Bank (a) IRDA (b) NABARD (c) Punjab & Sind Bank (c) SEBI (d) RBI (d) Dena Bank 76.Which new method has been identified for 66.Which Indian manufacturing plant has been predicting monsoon? included in the WEF’s Global Lighthouse (a) Xenon-7 (b) Krypton-7 Network (GLN)? (c) Argon-7 (d) Beryllium-7 a) Jindal Steel and Power Ltd 77.Which new section has been inserted in the b) Durgapur Steel Plant SEBI Act to act against entities that tamper or c) Rourkela Steel Plant destroy electronic databases? d) Tata Steel Kalinganagar (a) Section 16A (b) Section 18AA 67.India’s first design development centre (c) Section 19HA (d) Section 15HAA ‘Fashionova’ has recently launched in which of 78.Which place in Kerala is slated to be home of the following cities? India’s first elephant rehabilitation centre? (a) Pune (b) Surat (a) Kottoor (b) Thrissur (c) Ahmedabad (d) Delhi (c) Alappuzha (d) Kollam 68.The Kargil Tribute Song has been composed 79.India’s first cow sanctuary is located in which by which noted Hindi lyricist? district of Madhya Pradesh? (a) A M Turaz (b) Swanand Kirkire (a) Neemuch (b) Agar Malwa (c) Sammer Anjaan (d) Neelesh Misra (c) Mandsaur (d) Ujjain

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80.The Union Government has launched which 90.The 2019 Women Startup Summit (WSS) is human atlas initiative for holistic understanding scheduled to be held in which city? of human body? (a) Pune (b) Kolkata (a) Gupha Manav (b) Manav (c) New Delhi (d) Kochi (c) Primitive man (d) Cave Manav 91.Prasar Bharati has signed MoU with which IIT 81.Who has become the first Indian sprinter to win for research collaboration in newly emerging Gold in the 100m event at the 30th World technologies? University Games (WUG-2019)? (a) IIT Delhi (b) IIT Bombay (a) Ashwini Akkunji (b) Sathi Geetha (c) IIT Indore (d) IIT Kanpur (c) Hima Das (d) Dutee Chand 92.On which date, the 2019 edition of World 82.The famous Kataragama temple is located in Population Day (WPD) is observed? which country? (a) July 10 (b) July 11 (a) Nepal (b) Sri Lanka (c) July 12 (d) July 13 (c) Myanmar (d) Bangladesh 93.Who has been sworn-in as the new Prime 83.The Skill development training programme for Minister of Greece? jail inmates has started in which district of (a) Kyriakos Mitsotakis Assam? (b) Dimitris Koutsoumpas (a) Cachar (b) Bongaigaon (c) Alexis Tsipras (c) Karbi Anglong (d) Kokrajhar (d) Fofi Gennimata 84.Who has been adjudged as the AIFF Men’s 94.Which Indian movie has won the NETPAC Footballer of the Year 2019? Award for Best Asian Film at the 23rd Bucheon (a) Jeje Lalpekhlua (b) Lallianzuala Chhangte Film Festival 2019? (c) Abdul Samad (d) Sunil Chhetri (a) Gully Boy (b) Kabir Singh 85.Which state government has recently (c) Bharat (d) Super 30 implemented Center’s Witness Protection 95.Under whose chairmanship, the 2nd India- Scheme (WPS)? Russia Strategic Economic Dialogue (IRSED) (a) Rajasthan (b) Jharkhand was held in New Delhi? (c) Odisha (d) Gujarat (a) Ajay Narayan Jha 86.Who has been appointed as the new chief of (b) Subhash Chandra Garg the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (c) Nirmala Sitharaman (DGCA)? (d) Rajiv Kumar (a) Arun Kumar (b) Pradip Kumar 96.Under which section of UAPA act of 1967, the (c) Aditi Chauhan (d) Pronay Halder Government of India (GoI) has banned Sikhs 87.Who has been appointed CMD of Bharat for Justice (SFJ)? Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL)? (a) Section 3(2) (b) Section 3(3) (a) C K Vineeth (b) Narayan Das (c) Section 3(1) (d) Section 3(4) (c) Pravin Kumar Purwar (d) Anirudh Singh 97.Which European country has decided to impose 88.The Amrabad Tiger Reserve (ATR) is located a green tax on plane tickets from 2020? in which state? (a) Austria (b) France (a) Andhra Pradesh (b) Telangana (c) Germany (d) Poland (c) Karnataka (d) Kerala 98.Which pharmaceutical company has become the 89.The Plan Bee, which won the Indian Railways India’s first company to launch Romiplostim to ‘s Best Innovation Award, is associated to which treat chronic ITP? railway zone? (a) Lupin (b) Cipla (a) Western Railway (c) Sun Pharma (d) Intas (b) Northern Railway 99.The Prosecco hills is located in which country? (c) Northeast Frontier Railway (a) Spain (b) Italy (d) North Central Railway (c) Norway (d) Sweden

23 www.arifin.in Current Affairs Magazine AUGUST 2019 100. Which IT company has partnered with 110. The Film Division of India (FDI) has launched a AICTE to equip students with career skills? documentary film club “KSHITIJ” in which city? (a) TCS (b) Infosys (a) Pune (b) Mumbai (c) Reliance (d) Wipro (c) Delhi (d) Jaipur 101. Which Indian weightlifter has won Gold in 111. The Asia’s largest solar Power project is 81 kg category at the 2019 Commonwealth located in which district of Madhya Padesh? Championships in Apia? (a) Jabalpur (b) Chhindwara (a) Gurdeep Singh (b) Rustam Sarang (c) Indore (d) Rewa (c) Ajay Singh (d) Deepak Lather 112. Who has been appointed as MD & CFO of 102. Who has been appointed as Secretary of the World Bank (WB)? Overseas Indian Affairs? (a) Sunil Mehta (a) Sumanta Chaudhury (b) Anup (b) Anshula Kant Wadhawan (c) Anant Narayan Nanda (c) Karnam Sekar (d) Vikas Swarup (d) R A Sankara Narayanan 103. Which is the India’s most expensive office 113. Anthony Amalraj is associated to which location , as per Commercial Real Estate sports? Services (CBRE)’s latest survey? (a) Tennis (b) Golf (a) Connaught Place (c) Badminton (d) Table Tennis (b) Nariman Point 114. M J Radhakrishnan, who passed away (c) Bandra Kurla Complex recently, was the renowned film maker of (d) India Gate which regional cinema? 104. The Operation Thirst has been launched by (a) Malayalam (b) Tamil which Indian organisation? (c) Telugu (d) Odia (a) Indian Army (b) ISRO 115. The first-ever Himalayan states’ conclave is (c) Indian Railway (d) BARC slated to be held in which state? 105. Which international organisation has released (a) Meghalaya (b) Himachal Pradesh the 2019 global Multidimensional Poverty (c) Uttarakhand (d) Jammu and Kashmir Index (MPI)? 116. Which Indian organization has collaborated (a) WHO (b) UNDP with Ministry of Health to conduct largest (c) FAO (d) ILO pan-India oral health survey? 106. The Residential Asset Price Monitoring (a) Tata memorial (b) Sanjeevan Hospitalw Survey (RAPMS) has been conducted by (c) Apollo Hospitals(d) AIIMS which Indian organisation? 117. The rare footage of 1948 film Vande Mataram (a) NHB (b) SEBI has become part of NFAI. The film was (c) NABARD (d) RBI directed by whom? 107. Who has been elected as the new President (a) Sudhir Phadke (b) Satish Jakatdar of the European Parliament? (c) P L Deshpande (d) Ram Gabale (a) David Sassoli (b) Jan Zahradil 118. The researchers of which country have found (c) Ska Keller (d) Sira Rego that Electronic cigarettes damage brain stem 108. Which state government has announced Rs cells? 10k monthly allowance for Padma Shri (a) South Africa (b) India awardees? (c) France (d) United States (a) Jharkhand (b) Odisha 119. The Agri-Business Incubation Centre in (c) Punjab (d) MP Raipur has been set up under which central 109. The first-ever Global Conference for Media scheme? Freedom was held in which city? a) RAFTAAR (a) Paris (b) New York b) Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana (c) London (d) Berlin c) Soil Health Card d) National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture

24 www.arifin.in Current Affairs Magazine AUGUST 2019 120. The 2019 Kharchi Puja Festival has 131. Which Bollywood personality is set to be celebrated in which state? honoured with honorary doctorate by (a) Nagaland (b) Arunachal Pradesh Melbourne’s La Trobe University? (c) Mizoram (d) Tripura (a) Priyanka Chopra 121. Who won the men’s title at the 2019 (b) Shah Rukh Khan Wimbledon tennis tournament? (c) Madhuri Dixit (a) Rafael Nadal (b) Roger Federer (d) Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (c) Andy Murray (d) Novak Djokovic 132. Which Indian surgeon has been conferred the 122. Who has been adjudged player of the tournament Honorary Fellowship of The Royal College at the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup? of Surgeons (FRCS) of Thailand? (a) Eoin Morgan (b) Ben Stokes (a) Ramakanta Panda (c) Mark Wood (d) Kane Williamson (b) Deep Goel 123. Pardeep Singh, who has created a new (c) P Raghu Ram Commonwealth record in the clean and jerk (d) Pradeep Chowbey category, is from which state? 133. Which of the following NBFCs has become (a) Haryana (b) Punjab the first NBFC to get $100 million loan from (c) Himachal Pradesh (d) Uttarkhand AIIB for Green Energy Funding? 124. Which Indian woman wrestler has won gold (a) L&T Finance Holdings in the 53kg category at Yasar Dogu (b) HDB Financial Services (c) Muthoot International in Istanbul? (d) Tata Capital (a) Kavita Devi (b) Babita Kumari 134. Who won the women’s title at the 2019 (c) Vinesh Phogat (d) Sakshi Malik Wimbledon tennis tournament? 125. Which state has become the first Indian state (a) Angelique Kerber (b) Naomi Osaka to have water policy? (c) Serena Williams (d) Simona Halep (a) Meghalaya (b) Tamil Nadu 135. Which state has become the first Indian state (c) Rajasthan (d) Himachal Pradesh to get fund through World Bank’s climate 126. Which Indian movie has won the Best Feature resilience program? Film award at the 2019 SAARC film festival? (a) Tamil Nadu (b) Kerala (a) Walking With the Wind (c) Andhra Pradesh (d) Odisha (b) Village Rockstars 136. Which former SC Judge of India has been (c) Nagarkirtan appointed as an International Judge of the (d) Na Bole Wo Haram! Singapore International Commercial Court 127. Which state government has observed the (SICC)? first-ever Save Water Day on 12th July? (a) Arjan Kumar Sikr (a) Andhra Pradesh (b) Jharkhand (b) Adarsh Kumar Goel (c) Odisha (d) West Bengal (c) Sanjay Kishan Kaul 128. Who has been appointed the new Governor (d) Surinder Singh Nijjar of Himachal Pradesh? 137. The Kasarkod beach is located in which (a) Kalraj Mishra (b) Jagdish Mukhi state? (c) Lalji Tandon (d) Acharya Devvrat (a) Tamil Nadu (b) Puducherry 129. Hussain Muhammad Ershad, who passed (c) Karnataka (d) Kerala away recently, was the former military dictator 138. The researchers at which Indian institute have of which country? developed technology to pack microbial (a) Myanmar (b) Bangladesh strains in tiny capsules? (c) Pakistan (d) Iran a) Indian Institute of Water Management, 130. The Spektr-RG space telescope is a joint Bhubaneshwar venture of which of the following countries? b) Indian Institute of Seed Research, Mau (a) Russia & Germany c) Central Plantation Crops Research Institute, (b) India & Russia Kasargod (c) France & United States d) Indian Institute of Spices Research (IISR), (d) China & South Korea Kozhikode 25 www.arifin.in Current Affairs Magazine AUGUST 2019 139. What is the theme of 2019 edition of World 149. Which Indian organisation has decided to Youth Skills Day (WYSD)? develop the Broadband Readiness Index a) Skills Development to Improve Youth (BRI) for Indian States and Union Territories Employment (UT)? b) Skills for All (a) TRAI (b) BSNL c) World Skills for peace and prosperity (c) ICRIER (d) MTNL d) Learning to learn for life and work 150. The Markandeshwar temple is located on the 140. Which Indian organisation has published the bank of which river in Maharashtra? first comprehensive census of orchids of India (a) Wainganga (b) Painganga “Orchids of India : A Pictorial Guide”? (c) Wardha (d) Koyna a) Tata Institute of Fundamental Research 151. Which state government has raised financial b) National Centre for Cell Science aid for Martyrs’ Kin to Rs.1 crore? c) Zoological Survey of India (a) Odisha (b) Kerala d) Botanical Survey of India (c) Tamil Nadu (d) Maharashtra 141. Who has been selected for Sangeet Natak 152. Which country has become the 76th signatory Akademi Fellowships in the field of country to join the International Solar Alliance performing arts? (ISA) Framework Agreement? (a) Tarun Bhattacharya (b) Zakir Hussain (a) Norway (b) Palau (c) Rajiv Naik (d) Malini Awasthi (c) Sweden (d) Latvia 142. Ursula von der Leyen, who has been elected 153. Which Indian woman sprinter has won gold as the European Commission’s first female in the 200m race at “Tabor Athletics”? president, is from which country? (a) Dutee chand (b) VK Vismaya (a) Austria (b) Poland (c) Hima Das (d) Swapna Barman (c) France (d) Germany 154. Which Indian Government campaign has won 143. Swarup Dutta, who passed away recently, the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) was the veteran actor of which regional Gold Award 2019 in the “Marketing - Primary cinema? Government Destination” category? (a) Odia (b) Tamil (a) Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (c) Bengali (d) Telugu (b) Find the Incredible You 144. The researchers at which University have (c) India Shining developed a low-cost filter to remove arsenic God\’s Own Country from water? (a) Delhi University (b) IIT Bombay 155. Who is the author of the book “Kargil: Untold (c) Tezpur University (d) IISC Bangalore stories from the War”? 145. Which state / UT government has launched (a) Rachna Bisht Rawat “Happiness Utsav” in its schools? (b) Mrunal Thakur (a) Haryana (b) Rajasthan (c) Prakash Kovelamudi (c) Madhya Pradesh (d) Delhi (d) Lakshmi Manchu 146. Vijayveer Sidhu is associated to which sports? 156. Which Indian organisation has introduced (a) Judo (b) Weightlifting web-based application system for (c) Shooting (d) Wrestling contribution from Fund of Funds for Startups 147. The International Shark Awareness Day (FFS)? (ISAD) is observed on which date? (a) IRDA (b) SEBI (a) July 17 (b) July 14 (c) RBI (d) SIDBI (c) July 16 (d) July 15 157. Which Indian woman cricketer has been 148. From which city, the first-ever international conferred the 2018 Arjuna Award? commercial flight from Madhya Pradesh has (a) Veda Krishnamurthy launched? (b) Smriti Mandhana (a) Indore (b) Bhopal (c) Harmanpreet Kaur (c) Jabalpur (d) Gwalior (d) Jhulan Goswami 26 www.arifin.in Current Affairs Magazine AUGUST 2019 158. The Union Cabinet has approved Inter- 167. The ‘Medicine from the Sky’ is the pilot Institutional Agreement between India and project of which state government? which country for 3D bioprinting & (a) Telangana (b) Andhra Pradesh regenerative medicine? (c) Kerala (d) Tamil Nadu (a) United States (b) France 168. ICC has suspended which country’s Cricket (c) Italy (d) Canada Federation with immediate effect for breach 159. The 2019 World Day for International Justice of constitution? (WDIJ) is observed on which date? (a) Belgium (b) Zimbabwe (a) July 19 (b) July 17 (c) Spain (d) Brunei (c) July 18 (d) July 16 169. Which Indian golfer has won the FCG 160. The World Health Organization (WHO) has Callaway Junior world Golf Championship declared Ebola outbreak as global health 2019? emergency in which African country? (a) Arjun Bhati (b) Shubhankar Sharma (a) Mozambique (b) Zambia (c) Rashid Khan (d) Mukesh Kumar (c) DR Congo (d) Angola 170. Which state / UT police has launched the new 161. Which Indian cricketer has been inducted into e-challan system for the use of Traffic Police? ICC Hall of Fame? (a) Delhi (b) Pondicherry (a) Saurav Ganguly (c) Himchal Pradesh (d) Haryana (b) V V S Laxman 171. The 10th Jagran Film Festival (JFF-2019) (c) Javagal Srinath has started in which city? (d) Sachin Tendulkar (a) New Delhi (b) Mumbai 162. Which state / UT Cricket Association has (c) Kolkata (d) Kochi been granted the status of a Full Member of 172. The Andhra Bank has partnered with which the BCCI? company to launch AI chatbot “ABHi”? (a) Daman & Diu (b) A & N Islands (a) Microsoft (b) Wipro (c) Pondicherry (d) Lakshadweep (c) Infosys (d) Floatbot 163. Paramarsh scheme is associated to which 173. Which former Indian athlete has been union ministry? nominated for IAAF Veteran Pin? (a) Ministry of Defense (a) Milkha Singh (b) Ministry of Railways (b) PT Usha (c) Ministry of Finance (c) Anju Bobby George (d) Ministry of HRD (d) Manju Bala Swami 164. What name has been given to the recently 174. The 5th International Police Expo 2019 was launched UGC Guide to Student Induction held at which city? Programme (SIP)? (a) Kanpur (b) Udaipur (a) Praveshika (b) Deeksha (c) New Delhi (d) Shimla (c) Deeksharambh (d) Dakshina 175. Prithu Gupta is associated to which sports? 165. On which date, the Nelson Mandela (a) Chess (b) Judo International Day (NMID) is observed? (c) Hockey (d) Football (a) July 19 (b) July 20 176. The Indian women team has defeated which (c) July 18 (d) July 21 team to won Gold at the 21st Commonwealth 166. Motihari- Amlekhgunj petroleum pipeline Table Tennis Championship 2019? project, sometimes seen in news, is connected (a) Australia (b) South Africa to India & which country? (c) England (d) Singapore (a) Bangladesh (b) Nepal 177. The 2019 Durand Cup is slated to be held in (c) Myanmar (d) Sri Lanka which state? (a) Bangaluru (b) Agra (c) New Delhi (d) Kolkata

27 www.arifin.in Current Affairs Magazine AUGUST 2019 178. The scientists of which country have 188. The Union Government has banned which developed a concept named Ramanujan antibiotic in animal food industry? Machine? (a) Biaxin (b) Keflex (a) United States (b) Israel (c) Colistin (d) Doxycycline (c) Japan (d) France 189. The Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) 179. Which section of the Wildlife Protection Act facility has recently opened in which city? of 1972 empowers the states to send a list of (a) Shimla (b) Jabalpur wild animals to the Centre requesting it to (c) Kochi (d) Hyderabad declare them vermin for selective slaughter? 190. The 2019 Hand-in-Hand military exercise is (a) Section 61 (b) Section 63 scheduled to be held in which Indian state? (c) Section 62 (d) Section 64 (a) Meghalaya (b) Nagaland 180. The AIFF Golden Baby Leagues handbook (c) Arunachal Pradesh (d) Sikkim 2019-20 is associated to which sports? 191. Yukiya Amano, who passed away recently, (a) Basketball (b) Football was the Chief of which international (c) Hockey (d) Badminton organisation? 181. The Union Government has proposed which (a) UNICEF (b) UNESCO light urban rail transit system for small cities? (c) FAO (d) IAEA (a) Metrolight (b) MetroTank 192. Chandrayaan-2 will explore & perform (c) Metrolite (d) MetroRail studies on which region of Moon? 182. Arun Kumar Roy, who passed away recently, (a) North pole (b) West pole was the veteran Left leader of which state? (c) South pole (d) East pole (a) Odisha (b) Bihar 193. Where is the headquarters of Central Marine (c) West Bengal (d) Jharkhand Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI)? 183. Who has become India’s first gold-medallist (a) Kochi (b) Nagpur at the President’s Cup boxing tournament? (c) Delhi (d) Shimla (a) Vikas Krishan Yadav 194. The 2019 International shark meet is slated (b) Shiva Thapa to be held in which Indian city? (c) Mohammed Ali Qamar (a) Cuttack (b) Chennai (d) Jagdish Singh (c) Bengaluru (d) Kochi 184. Which state government has decided to set 195. Who is the author of the book “Indo-Pak up India’s first Space Park? Relations : Beyond Pulwama & Balakot”? (a) Kerala (b) Tamil Nadu (a) Nirad C. Chaudhuri (c) Andhra Pradesh (d) Telangana (b) Amish Tripathi 185. Which Indian bodybuilder has clinched 2019 (c) Vinit Goenka Mr. South Asia title? (d) U V Singh (a) Yatinder Singh 196. Who has been appointed as the Chairman of (b) Miihier Singh Asian Boxing Confederation’s (ASBC) (c) Yogesh Kumar Sanan competitions commission? (d) Ravinder Kumar Malik (a) Kishen Narsi 186. The 11th biennial edition of DefExpo India – (b) Akhil Kumar 2020 is scheduled to be held in which city? (c) Manish Kaushik (a) Delhi (b) Lucknow (d) Varghese Johnson (c) Amravati (d) Hyderabad 197. Who has been chosen for the Sangita 187. The 2019 Homeless World Cup football Kalanidhi award of the Music Academy? tournament is scheduled to be held in which (a) Seetha Narayanan country? (b) S Ramanathan (a) United Kingdom (b) France (c) S Sowmya (c) United States (d) Germany (d) Priyadarshini Govind

28 www.arifin.in Current Affairs Magazine AUGUST 2019 198. Who has been elected as chairman of the 207. Who is the head of the reconstituted Group Commonwealth Table Tennis Federation of Ministers (GoM) on sexual harassment at (CTTF)? workplace? (a) Indu Puri (a) Ramesh Pokhriyal (b) Smriti Irani (b) M P Singh (c) Nirmala Sitharaman (d) Amit Shah (c) Kamlesh Mehta 208. Which state has become the first Indian State (d) Vivek Kohli to reserve 75% private jobs for local youths? 199. Who won the women’s singles titles at the (a) West Bengal (b) Madhya Pradesh 21st Commonwealth Table Tennis (c) Kerala (d) Andhra Pradesh Championships? 209. Which IIT has developed ‘Agricopter’ to (a) Ayhika Mukherjee eliminate manual spraying of pesticides in (b) Pooja Sahasrabudhe agricultural farms? (c) Krittwika Sinha Roy (a) IIT Delhi (b) IIT Madras (d) Manika Batra (c) IIT Indore (d) IIT Bombay 200. Who represented India at the NAM 210. Who is the head of the Cryptocurrency panel Ministerial Meeting in Caracas? that proposes ban on private digital (a) Ranjan Mathai currencies? (b) Syed Akbaruddin (a) Nirmala Sitharaman (c) Subrahmanyam Jaishankar (b) Subhash Chandra Garg (d) Vijay Keshav Gokhale (c) N K Singh 201. Which hockey player has been chosen for (d) Anurag Thakur 2019 Mohun Bagan Ratna? 211. Who officially took over charge as new British (a) Udham Singh (b) Keshav Dutt Prime Minister? (c) Leslie Claudius (d) Dhanraj Pillay (a) Jeremy Corbyn(b) Boris Johnson 202. The scientists of which country have (c) Jeremy Hunt (d) Nigel Farage developed a method to convert Jute fibre into 212. Who has been appointed Britain’s first low-cost bio-degradable cellulose sheets? Indian-origin home secretary? (a) Sri Lanka (b) Myanmar (a) Shailesh Vara (b) Priti Patel (c) India (d) Bangladesh (c) Indarjit Singh (d) Virendra Sharma 203. Who has been appointed next Vice Chief of 213. Indian Railway’s first printing press heritage Indian Army? gallery has opened in which city? (a) Manoj Mukund Naravane (a) Mumbai (b) Kolkata (b) I S Ghuman (c) Delhi (d) Chennai (c) A S Kler 214. Who has been appointed the new Union (d) Cherish Matheson Home Secretary of Government of India 204. On which date, the 159th Income Tax Day (GoI)? (ITD-2019) is celebrated in India? (a) Subhash Chandra Garg (a) July 25 (b) July 26 (b) Anshu Prakash (c) July 24 (d) July 23 (c) Atanu Chakraborty 205. Which state government has decided to bring (d) Ajay Kumar Bhalla legislation for ensuring Journalists’ job 215. What is the India’s rank in the Global security? Innovation Index (GII) 2019? (a) West Bengal (b) Odisha (a) 64th (b) 52nd (c) Jharkhand (d) Uttar Pradesh (c) 45th (d) 33rd 206. Which IIT has developed an AI app 216. Which RBI deputy governor has been CARE4U for elderly people? assigned to run the monetary policy portfolio? (a) IIT Kanpur (b) IIT Kharagpur (a) Viral Acharya (b) M K Jain (c) IIT Bombay (d) IIT Madras (c) N S Vishwanathan (d) B P Kanungo

29 www.arifin.in Current Affairs Magazine AUGUST 2019 217. Which state government has decided to ply 228. Which state has become No. 1 in ‘water taxis’ in its inland waterways? implementation of Pradhan Mantri Suraksha (a) Kerala (b) Andhra Pradesh Bima Yojana (PMSBY)? (c) Goa (d) Tamil Nadu (a) Rajasthan (b) Odisha 218. Ehsan Mania, who has been appointed chief (c) Punjab (d) Uttar Pradesh of the ICC’s Finance & Commercial Affairs 229. The researchers at which Indian organisation (F&CA), is from which country? have discovered 28 new stars in Milky Way (a) Afghanistan (b) New Zealand galaxy? (c) Pakistan (d) England (a) VSSC (b) BARC 219. Who has been appointed the new national (c) ISRO (d) ARIES coach of the Indian table tennis team? 230. The National Institute of Miners’ Health (a) Veselin Matic (b) Igor Stimac (NIMH), works under which union ministry? (c) Dejan Papic (d) Harendra Singh a) Ministry of Women and Child Development 220. On which date, National Broadcasting day b) Ministry of Railways (NBD) is celebrated in India? c) Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (a) July 23 (b) July 24 (MoH&FW) (c) July 26 (d) July 25 d) Ministry of Mines 221. India’s first dragon blood-oozing tree has 231. Who is the newly appointed appointed recently discovered in which state? chairperson of National Anti-profiteering (a) Assam (b) Kerala Authority (NAA)? (c) Nagaland (d) Tripura (a) Badri Narain Sharma 222. Who is the author of the book ‘Fire and Fury (b) Amand Shah Corps - Saga of Valour, Fortitude and (c) R Bhagyadevi Sacrifice’? (d) J C Chauhan (a) Brij Mohan Kaul (b) Ranbir Singh 232. Who is the author of the book “Chandra (c) Mukund Naravane (d) D Anbu Shekhar – The Last Icon of Ideological 223. Which company has become the official Politics”? sponsor for the Indian cricket team? (a) Rama Devi (a) BYJU’s (b) Jio (b) Harivansh (c) Vedantu (d) Airtel (c) Bhupesh Baghel 224. SUPARCO is the official space agency of (d) Snehlata Shrivastava which country? 233. Securitypedia has been launched by which (a) Sri Lanka (b) Myanmar Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) of (c) Bangladesh (d) Pakistan India? 225. India’s first space war drill “IndSpaceEx” has (a) SSB (b) ITBP kick started in which city? (c) BSF (d) CISF (a) Kochi (b) Visakhapatnam 234. Which state has topped in solar rooftop (c) New Delhi (d) Nellore installations? 226. How many companies are honoured with the (a) Gujarat (b) Maharashtra 2019 CSR Journal Excellence Awards? (c) Rajasthan (d) Tamil Nadu (a) 5 (b) 6 (c) 7 (d) 4 235. Attoor Ravi Varma, who passed away 227. Beji Caid Essebsi, who passed away recently, recently, was the renowned poet and was the President of which African country? translator of which language? (a) Congo (b) Tunisia (a) Tamil (b) Malayalam (c) South Africa (d) Nigeria (c) Telugu (d) Kannada

30 www.arifin.in Current Affairs Magazine AUGUST 2019 236. Who is set to become the first ever recipient 239. Which Indian economist has unveiled an of Tribute Actor Award at TIFF 2019? account aggregator model “Sahamati”? (a) Leonardo DiCaprio (a) Amartya Sen (b) Kirk Douglas (b) Raghuram Rajan (c) Meryl Streep (c) Nandan Nilekani (d) Ellen DeGeneres (d) Jagdish Bhagwati 237. Which Arab nation has recently launched its 240. The researchers at which IIT have developed first Underwater Military Museum? a novel molecular framework for superbugs? (a) Kuwait (b) Saudi Arabia (a) IIT Bombay (b) IIT Kanpur (c) Jordan (d) Oman (c) IIT Madras (d) IIT Indore 238. The GST Council has decided to reduce GST Rate on Electrical Vehicles from 12% to how much per cent? (a) 10% (b) 8% (c) 5% (d) 6%

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One fine morning a gentleman rang up a doctor and said – “Sir, my wife is having severe stomach ache, could you suggest some medicines?” The Doctor replied – “Could you get her along to my clinic so that I can do a preliminary check-up before I prescribe some medicines?” The person replied – “That is absolutely not needed Sir. I know it is a case of severe acidity/gastritis. You suggest some medicines; I will note them down and get it from the nearest pharmacy.” To this doctor replied – “I am sorry gentleman, I do not prescribe any medicine without seeing my patient. I am sorry again.” The person continued – “But doctor I know it is a case of severe acidity/gastritis. Why should I unnecessary come along with her to the clinic? You can suggest some medicines over the telephone itself.” This time the doctor was irritated and said – “Look gentleman, you have to get her to the clinic anyhow. Am I the doctor or you?” The gentleman argued no further and visited the clinic immediately with his wife. The doctor did a thorough check-up. It was not a acidity/gastritis case. She has severe problems with her appendix that needed to be operated upon immediately. On getting the person’s approval, the doctor went with the operation and she was perfectly alright. After a few days, she was discharged from the clinic. A few months later, the same gentleman called up the doctor again and said – “Sir, my wife is having severe stomach ache. Could you keep your operation theatre ready? The Doctor replied – “Could you get her along to my clinic so that I can do a preliminary check-up before I prescribe some curative measures?” The person replied – “That is absolutely not needed Sir. I know it is a case of appendicitis. You did the same thing last time when I had visited your clinic. You keep your operation table ready. Get ready for the surgery. I am getting her along”. The doctor was annoyed and said – “I will do a preliminary check-up before I decide the course of action. Am I the doctor or you? The doctor continued – “And moreover gentleman, previously she had appendicitis and I had removed the appendix. So there is no chance of her having the same problem again, as a person has only ONE appendix and I have personally removed that in her last visit.” To this the gentleman fell silent for a while and replied – “Sir, a person cannot have two appendixes. I totally agree to your point. But a person can have two wives right?” LESSON: Assumptions trouble you at times. Be smart in making them.

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