THE HINDU REVIEW|CURRENT AFFAIRS| MARCH 2019 The Most Important Current Affairs March 2019

All England Open Championships CHANG Ye Nami 2019: Complete List of Winners Na and MATSUYAMA 2019 All England Open, officially YONEX All England Women’s JUNG 4. and Chiharu Open Badminton Championships 2019 was a BWF Doubles Kyung Eun SHIDA World Tour 1000 event. (South (Japan) Here is the complete list of Winners Korea) Sl. Rinov Event Winner Runner Up Mathias No. RIVALDY BAY-SMIDT Mixed and Pitha Kento 5. and Rikke Men’s Doubles Haningtya 1. MOMOTA SOBY Singles (Denmark) MENTARI (Japan) (Denmark) () Women’ Tai Tzu-ying 2. s Singles (China) (Taiwan) Mohammad Vice President’s Visit To Paraguay And Costa Ahsan and Rica: Complete Highlights Men’s 3. Hendra and Soh Wooi The Vice President of India, M. Venkaiah Naidu visited Doubles Setiawan Yik (Malaysia) the Republic of Paraguay and the Republic of Costa (Indonesia) Rica. This was the first high-level visit from India to both these countries. He was accompanied by a Mayu Chen high-level delegation including the Minister of State Women’ Matsumoto Qingchen and for Tourism (I/C), Alphons Kannanthanam, the 4. s and Wakana Members of Parliament and senior officials from the Doubles Nagahara (China) Government of India. (Japan)

Yuta Visit To Paraguay: Watanabe Mixed and Huang The Vice President met with the President of the 5. and Arisa Doubles Yaqiong Republic of Paraguay, Mr. Mario Abdo Benítez, the Higashino (China) Vice President, Mr. Hugo Velázquez, and the (Japan) President of the National Congress (Senate), Mr. Silvio Ovelar. 2019 Championship Concludes: Complete List of Winners Visit To Costa Rica: The 2019 Swiss Open, officially the YONEX Swiss Open The visit of Vice President to the Republic of Costa 2019, was a badminton tournament which took place Rica was the first ever high-level visit from India to the at St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland. Here is the nation. The Vice President met the President of Costa complete list of Winners: Rica, Mr. Carlos Alvarado Quesada and held Delegation level talks with him which was followed by Sl. Event Winner Runner Up a joint press statement. No.

B Sai Men’s Shi Yuki Mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck becomes 1st 1. Praneet Singles (China) (India) Woman To Win Abel Prize University of Texas professor Karen Uhlenbeck Saena Women’s Chen Yufei become the first woman to win the Abel Prize, a 2. Kawakami Singles (China) mathematics honour first given in 2003. The 76-year- (Japan) old was awarded for the impact of her work on “analysis, geometry and mathematical physics”. and Men’s Muhammad and WANG 3. Doubles Rian Chi-Lin ARDIANTO (Taiwan) (Indonesia) 1 www.bankersadda.com | www.sscadda.com | www.careerpower.in | Adda247 App REPORT THE ERROR IN CAPSULE at [email protected]

THE HINDU REVIEW|CURRENT AFFAIRS| MARCH 2019 Best Short Film 12. The Soccer City (Non Fiction) Best Short Film 13. Rogan Josh (Fiction) Critics’ Award for Ranveer Singh for 14. Best Actor (Male) “Padmaavat” Critics’ Award for Neena Gupta, 15. Best Actor Badhaai Ho (Female) Critics Best Actor Ayushmann 16. In a Leading Role Khurrana (Male)

64th Filmfare Awards Announced: Complete List of Winners Winners of the 64th Filmfare Awards were announced at Jio Garden, BKC, Mumbai. Here’s the complete winner’s list: Sl. Banking/Insurance Current Affairs Category Winner No. IFFCO Tokio General Insurance launched ‘bank 1. Best Film Raazi locker protector policy’, the first stand-alone bank locker cover offered by any insurance company Critics’ Award for 2. AndhaDhun with a plan to protect the contents of a bank Best Film locker such as jewelry, title documents, and other Best Actor in a valuables. 3. Leading Role Alia Bhatt, Raazi SBI and Hitachi Payment Services Pvt Ltd, a (Female) wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd launched Best Actor in a their merchant-acquiring joint venture, SBI Ranbir Kapoor, 4. Leading Role Payment Services Pvt Ltd (SBIPSPL) in Mumbai for Sanju (Male) establishing a digital payments platform for India and other countries in the region. Meghna Gulzar, 5. Best Director United Bank of India signed a bancassurance Raazi deal with private life insurer HDFC Life Insurance Best Playback Arijit Singh for Ae 6. Company. Through this partnership, United Bank’s Singer (Male) Watan, Raazi customers will be able to take advantage of Shreya Ghoshal for HDFC Life’s expertise in life insurance products, Best Playback 7. Ghoomar, distribution and customer service. Singer (Female) “Padmaavat” The Insurance Regulatory and Development Best Debut Sara Ali Khan, Authority of India (IRDAI) and the National Health 8. Actor(Female) Kedarnath Authority (NHA) have formed a working group on the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Best Debut Ishaan Khatter, 9. Yojana (AB-PMJAY). The joint working group, to Actor(Male) Beyond The Clouds be chaired by Dinesh Arora, Deputy CEO of Best Debut Amar Kaushik, NHA, will have 10 members from both the 10. Director Stree organisations. 11. Best Music Album “Padmaavat” United Bank of India signed a bancassurance deal with private life insurer HDFC Life Insurance 2 www.bankersadda.com | www.sscadda.com | www.careerpower.in | Adda247 App REPORT THE ERROR IN CAPSULE at [email protected]

THE HINDU REVIEW|CURRENT AFFAIRS| MARCH 2019 Company. Through this partnership, United Bank’s The SBI launched a new service called ‘YONO customers will be able to take advantage of Cash’ for its customers using which customers can HDFC Life’s expertise in life insurance products, withdraw money from ATMs without using debit distribution and customer service. cards. This facility is available over 16,500 of its Korea Exim Bank comes forward to extend a Rs ATMs through the You Only Need One 4,100 crore loan for Visakhapatnam Metro Rail (YONO), mobile app platform for the first time in project. The state government had earlier sent a the country. proposal in this regard to the Central government, RBI provided no objection to Bandhan Bank for which in turn forwarded it to Korea Exim Bank. the proposed acquisition of Gruh Finance. SBI become the first domestic bank to link the The country’s largest lender SBI signed a pact with interest rate it offers on savings account deposits the Bank of China to boost business opportunities. to an external benchmark — the RBI’s repo SBI signed an MoU to enhance business synergies rate. By doing so, the bank will effectively link all between both the banks. Through this pact, both loan rates to an external benchmark either SBI and BoC will gain direct access to their directly or indirectly. respective markets of operation. Following are the changes: The RBI slapped a penalty of Rs 2 crore on PNB for 1. Savings accounts with deposits above Rs 1 lakh non-compliance of regulatory directions with would be priced at 2.75% below the prevailing regard to SWIFT operations. SWIFT is a global repo rate of 6.25%. messaging software used for sharing information 2. Cash credit accounts and overdraft facilities over on inter-bank transactions by financial entities. Rs 1 lakh would be priced at 2.25% over the repo Bank of Baroda signed an MoU with agriculture rate. At the prevailing repo rate of 6.25%, this services companies to develop an agriculture would mean a floor price of 8.5%. digital platform, Baroda Kisan, which will provide 3. For all other floating rate products, including retail solutions for agricultural requirements. BoB signed and corporate loans, the impact of SBI’s decision the agreement with Skymet Weather Services, to link savings account deposit rates to the repo Weather Risk Management Services, BigHaat, rate will be felt indirectly. Agrostar India, EM3 Agri Services, and Poorti Agri 4. For savings account holders with balances up to Services. Rs 1 lakh and borrowers with cash credit and The Finance Ministry decided to infuse Rs 5,042 overdraft limits up to Rs 1 lakh, interest rates will crore into BoB ahead of the merger of two other remain fixed. public sector lenders Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank PNB sanctioned loans worth Rs 689 crore to over with BoB. 1,600 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises State-owned lender PNB had sold stake in its (MSMEs) through housing finance arm, PNB Housing Finance the psbloansin59minutes.com portal as part of its (PNBHF) to General Atlantic Group and effort to promote such industries. VardePartners for Rs 1,851 crore at Rs 850 per SBI launched doorstep banking service for senior share. citizens over 70 years of age and differently-abled customers. Eligible customers can avail this service at a nominal fee of 100 rupees per transaction for financial transactions and 60 rupees for non-financial transactions. As per RBI notification, IDBI Bank categorized as a private sector lender following the acquisition of majority stake by Life Insurance Corporation. IDBI Bank under the prompt corrective action framework of RBI that bans it from corporate lending and branch expansions, salary hikes and other regular activities. The RBI named SBI, ICICI Bank and HDFC

Bank as Domestic Systemically Important Banks Economy Current Affairs (D-SIBs), which in other words mean banks that The OECD cut forecasts again for the global are too big to fail. As per the norms, these banks economy in 2019 and 2020. The Organisation for will have to set aside more capital for their Economic Co-Operation & Development forecast continued operation. in its interim outlook report that the world 3 www.bankersadda.com | www.sscadda.com | www.careerpower.in | Adda247 App REPORT THE ERROR IN CAPSULE at [email protected]