Monthly Current Affairs PDF and Quiz April 2019
• The theme for this year is Assistive Technologies, Active Participation. • Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder which affects communication and socialisation. • They have difficulties with making eye China successfully launches second generation contact with people, using gestures and data relay satellite actions for communication. • Currently, studies say one in 59 children have autism.
Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to resign before his mandate expires
Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika will resign before his mandate expires on 28 April.
• A statement issued by the President's office China has successfully launched the first of its new- said the president will take steps to ensure generation data relay satellites into orbit that will state institutions continue to function during provide data relay, measurement and control services the transition period. for its manned spacecraft. • Millions of Algerians have been holding weekly protests nationwide calling for the 82- • The Tianlian II-01 satellite was launched by year-old Bouteflika to step down after almost a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the 20 years in office. Xichang Satellite Launch Centre. • He has rarely been seen in public since he • The Tianlian II network will be markedly suffered a stroke in 201 more advanced in mission planning, system management and operations than the first- Points to Remember generation network composed of Tianlian I satellites. • Capital: Algiers • The satellite is developed by the China • Currency: Algerian dinar Academy of Space Technology under the China Aerospace Science and Technology US approves sale of 24 MH 60 Romeo Seahawk Corporation. helicopters to India • China launched its first data relay satellite, the Tianlian I-01, in April 200 The US has approved the sale of 24 multi-role MH- 60 Romeo Seahawk helicopters to India at an World Autism Awareness Day: 2 April 2019 estimated cost of 4 billion US dollars.
• It is considered the world's most advanced maritime helicopter. • The choppers will provide the Indian defence forces with the capability to perform anti- surface and anti-submarine warfare missions.
South Korea to launch world's first national 5G April 2 is celebrated all world over as World Autism networks Awareness Day and April, the month for autism awareness. The UAE government has announced granting long- term visas for the top 100 start-ups shaping the fourth industrial revolution.
• The 100 Arab start-ups were selected at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa, held in Jordan between 6- 7th April.
• According to the World Economic Forum's South Korea launched the world's first nationwide latest report, 20% of the Arab world's 100 5G mobile networks. most promising startups are based in the UAE. • Three top telecom providers SK Telecom, • The initiative aims to further integrate the KT, and LG Uplus began their 5G services at Arab world's most promising start-up 11 pm local time 3 April 2019 entrepreneurs into a national and regional • Experts say 5G will bring smartphones near- dialogue on pressing challenges. instantaneous connectivity will be 20 times faster than 4G. Points to Remember
International Day for Mine Awareness and • UAE Capital: Abu Dhabi Assistance: 04 April • Currency: United Arab Emirates Dirham • It is formed by seven emirates: Ajman, On 8 December 2005, the United Nations (UN) Dubai, Fujairah, Ras Al Khaimah, Sharjah General Assembly declared that April 4 of each year and Umm Al Quwain. would be officially proclaimed and observed as International Day for Mine Awareness and Japan space probe drops explosive on an asteroid Assistance in Mine Action. to make a crater
• This day aims to raise awareness about Japan's space agency JAXA,has said its Hayabusa2 landmines and progress toward their spacecraft released an explosive onto an asteroid. eradication. • It was first observed on April 4, 200 • The explosive was used to make a crater on • Theme: Safe Ground - Safe Home its surface and collect underground samples to find possible clues to the origin of the solar Chicago makes history electing Lori Lightfoot as system. the first black woman • Hayabusa2 successfully touched down on a tiny flat surface on the boulder-rich asteroid Chicago has created history by electing an African- in February 2019 American woman as its mayor for the first time. Points to remember • Lori Lightfoot, a 56-year-old former federal prosecutor and practising lawyer who has • The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency never before held elected office, won the (JAXA) is a Japanese national aerospace and city's mayoral race by a huge margin. space agency. • Lightfoot will take over office from Mayor • Headquarters: Tokyo Rahm Emanuel, who previously served as chief of staff under former President Barack US declares Iran force as foreign terrorist Obama. organisation
UAE announces long-term visas for best 100 Arab start-ups • The image which has been captured by a network of eight telescopes across the world shows an intensely bright 'ring of fire' surrounding a perfectly circular dark hole. • According to some scientists, the black hole is located 500 million trillion kilometres away.
The US designated Iran's Revolutionary Guard Google Wing launches first home delivery drone Corps a foreign terrorist organisation, an service unprecedented declaration against a foreign government that may prompt retaliation and make it harder for American diplomats and military officers to work with allies in the region.
• It is the first time that the US has designated an entity of another government as a terrorist organization. • The IRGC is a paramilitary organization formed in the wake of Iran's 1979 Islamic Wing, owned by Google's parent company Alphabet, Revolution to defend the government. The will deliver takeaway food, coffee and medicines by force answers only to Iran's supreme leader, drone to about 100 homes in Canberra. operates independently of the regular military and has vast economic interests across the • It has been testing its drones in Australia country. since 2014 but many residents had complained about the noise. Israel: Voting begins to elect new parliament • Australia's aviation authority gave Wing permission to launch a commercial service Israelis began voting to elect a new parliament. after examining its safety record and Fourteen main parties are competing for 120 seats in operational plans. the Knesset or parliament. London becomes the first city to implement 24x7 • Incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin pollution charge zone Netanyahu is running for his fifth term in office. London became the first city in the world to • His main challenger is Benny Gantz, a former implement a special Ultra Low Emission Zone chief of staff of the Israeli military. (ULEZ). • Voters will cast their ballots for a party, not a candidate. The more votes a party gets, the • The ULEZ would charge an entry fee for more seats it obtains in the Knesset as the older vehicles if they do not meet the government is based on a nationwide emission standards. proportional representation system. • In an attempt to reduce air pollution and • Political parties must pass an electoral protect public health, the ULEZ will be threshold of 25 percent to gain a Knesset seat. operational for 24 hours and seven days a week. Astronomers take 1st ever image of a black hole • Motorists who drive into the zone in a vehicle that does not meet the new emission standard Astronomers have taken the first-ever image of a will have to pay a daily charge. black hole, which is located in a distant galaxy. SpaceX carries out first commercial launch with Falcon Heavy rocket SpaceX has carried out its first commercial launch UAE has announced that India will be the Guest of with its Falcon Heavy rocket. Honour country at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, ADIBF 2019 • It completed the task with placing a Saudi satellite in orbit. • It will be held from 24th to 30th April 2019 • The rocket carried a Saudi Arabian satellite • The fair aims to highlight the UAE’s rich operated by Arabsat, a year after sending heritage, showcasing its authenticity and founder Elon Musk's red Tesla roadster into modernity, as well as its cultural and literary orbit as a test. output. • The Indian Pavilion will host Indian authors Points to remember and literary scholars who will serve as ambassadors for the literature and art of their • CEO: Elon Musk country. • Founded: 6 May 2002 • Headquarters: California, United States UAE to host world’s foremost Artificial Intelligence Summit Sudan's army ousts president Omar al-Bashir
UAE is set to host the world’s foremost Artificial Intelligence, AI Summit to empower global dialogue Sudan Defence Minister Awad Ibnouf announced on the future of government, business and society. that the President has been removed from power and detained by the army. • The inaugural 'AI Everything', AIE will take place at the Dubai World Trade Centre, • A three-month state of emergency is being between 30 April to 1st May. put in place. • The two-day event will bring together world • He said, Sudan's constitution is being leaders to define the underlying pillars of suspended, border crossings are being closed governance, business and society. until further notice and airspace is being closed for 24 hours. Finland’s Social Democrats declare general • Mr Bashir is the subject of an international election victory arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC), which accuses him of organising war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan's western Darfur region.
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• Capital: Khartoum
• Currency: Sudanese pound The leader of Finland’s centre-left Social Democratic India to be Guest of Honour country at ADIBF Party (SDP) Antti Rinne, has declared victory in the 2019 general election. • The victory was declared after almost Idai in mid-March, providing rescue, medical complete results showed his party winning by care and relief to around 3,500 people in a razor-thin margin with 17%. Beira. • The nationalist, Eurosceptic Finns party was in second place with 15%, according to Points to Remember nearly complete results published by the justice ministry. • Capital: Maputo • If final results confirm the outcome, Rinne • Currency: Mozambican metical could become Finland’s first leftwing prime minister since 200 World Heritage Day 2019: 18 April
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• Finland Capital: Helsinki • Currency: Euro
China makes world’s 1st armored amphibious drone boat
China has successfully tested the world’s first armed amphibious drone boat. World Heritage Day is celebrated every year on April 1 • It is capable of forming a combat triad with aerial drones and other drone ships. • The day is also known as the International • Built by Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Day for Monuments and Sites. Group under China Shipbuilding Industry • The day is celebrated to raise awareness Corporation, the drone ship is named about the diversity of cultural heritage, asMarine Lizard. monuments and their relevance. • Having a maximum operation range of 1,200 • The theme for 2019 is ‘Rural Landscapes’. kms, the Marine Lizard can be remotely controlled via satellites. Google opened its first Africa Artificial Intelligence lab in Ghana INS Magar loaded with relief material reaches Mozambique Google has opened an Artificial Intelligence (AI) research lab in Ghana’s capital Accra.
It is the first lab of its kind in Africa.
• The lab would develop solutions in areas including agriculture, like helping in diagnosing certain types of crop disease. • Google opened new research centers across the globe such as in Tokyo, Zurich, New York, and Paris, to exhibit itself as AI first Indian naval ship INS Magar reached Mozambique's company in front of the world. Beira city loaded with suitable relief material. Points to Remember • The ship handed over 250 tonne of rice and 500 kg of epidemic medicines for the • Ghana's capital: Accra population of Beira affected by Cyclone Idai. • Currency: Ghanaian cedi • Three Indian Naval ships were among the first responders in the aftermath of Cyclone Sri Lanka’s 1st satellite ‘Raavana-1’ launched into space
Sri Lanka’s first satellite ‘Raavana-1’ was launched into space from NASA’s Flight Facility on Virginia’s east shore.
• ‘Raavana 1’ weights around 05 kg and the lifespan of the satellite is around one and a The 7th China International Technology Fair opened half years. in Shanghai. • The launch marks Sri Lanka’s entry into the global space age. • It is a national-level professional fair focused • The satellite was designed and built at the on international technology trade. Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan by • With an exhibition space covering 35,000 two Sri Lankan research engineers. square meters, the fair has five exhibition areas including professional technologies, Historic Mujibnagar day being observed in technological innovation, and trade services. Bangladesh • Nearly 1,000 companies and organizations are attending the fair. • The CSITF has become an important showcase for the latest technologies worldwide since 2013 when the first exhibition was held.
Saudi Arabia to host the G20 summit in 2020
Saudi Arabia announced it will host the G20 summit The historic Mujibnagar day was observed on 17 in November 2020 in the capital Riyadh. April in Bangladesh. • It will be the first G20 meeting in the Arab • The day marks the oath taking ceremony of world will be held in November 2020. Bangladesh's first government in 1971 at • Japan will host this year's G20 summit in Baidyanathtala in Meherpur. Osaka, which will be held June 28-29 • On this day in 1971, senior leaders of the • In 2018, the conference was held in Buenos liberation movement of Bangladesh Aries, Argentina. had assembled at Baidyanathtala to form the • The G20 is made up of 19 of the world's provisional government of independent biggest economies, as well as the European Bangladesh. Union. It was formed in 1999 to discuss • Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was policy matters and financial stability. declared the President in absentia as he was arrested and flown to Pakistan after the India rebuilds Chhyoiphel Kundeling monastery Pakistan military crackdown on the then in Nepal ‘East Pakistan’ on the night of March 25, 197 India has rebuilt Chhyoiphel Kundeling Monastery 7th China International Technology Fair kicks in Nepal. start in Shanghai • The Monastery has been reconstructed with Government of India grant of 19 million Nepalese rupees. • The Chhyoiphel Kundeling Monastery was Mount Agung volcano in Bali erupts again established in 1946 with the active initiation and contribution of Lisankhu villagers.
Saudi Arabia increases India's Haj Quota to 2 lakh
Saudi Arabia has issued a formal order increasing the Haj quota of India to two lakhs from one lakh seventy five-thousand. In Indonesia, Mount Agung volcano in Bali resort • The decision will ensure that all the Haj Island erupted. applicants from big states like Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Bihar can • Thousands of masks have been distributed to embark pilgrimage this year as their waiting the communities amid the fears of the ashes lists have been cleared due to the increase in impacting human respiratory. quota. • Mount Agung is situated in Karangasem • The Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin district and about 70 km from tourist hub Salman at a meeting with Prime Minister Kuta. Narendra Modi had announced that Indian • In its last eruption in 1963, more than 1,100 Haj quota would be increased by 25 thousand people were killed. to two lakhs. • A record number of two lakh Indian Muslims Earth Day 2019: 22 April will perform Haj this year without subsidy. Earth Day is an annual event celebrated on April 2 INS Kolkata and INS Shakti to arrive in China to participate in IFR • Worldwide, various events are held to demonstrate support for environmental protection. • It was first celebrated in 1970, now this event includes events in more than 193 countries. • Theme: 'Protect Our Species'
Comedian Zelensky wins the presidency by a landslide victory
In Ukraine, comedian and political newcomer Indian Naval Ships Kolkata and Shakti will arrive at Volodymyr Zelensky has apparently secured a Qingdao in China to participate in the International landslide victory in the Presidential election. Fleet Review IFR as part of 70th Anniversary celebrations of People's Liberation Army (Navy). • Exit polls indicated that he is going to take 73 per cent of the votes while incumbent Petro • International Fleet Review is a parade of Poroshenko securing 25 per cent. naval ships, aircraft and submarines, and is • Zelensky's only previous political role has organised by nations to promote goodwill, been playing the President on television. strengthen cooperation and showcase their organisational capabilities. Points to remember • IFR also serves as an ideal platform for the world’s navies to showcase their prowess and • Capital: Kyiv indigenous ship designing and shipbuilding • Currency: Ukrainian hryvnia capabilities in a global and international arena. UAE adopts National Artificial Intelligence • It is planned to reach Mars by 2021 to Strategy 2031 coincide with the 50th anniversary of the founding of the UAE. The UAE Cabinet has adopted the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 203 NASA astronaut to set a record for the longest spaceflight by a woman • Its aims at positioning the UAE as a global leader in artificial intelligence by 2031 and to develop an integrated system that employs artificial intelligence in vital areas in the country. • The strategy includes eight objectives and a number of initiatives, aimed at employing artificial intelligence in vital areas such as education, government services and the community wellbeing. NASA astronaut Christina Koch is going to have her mission on the International Space Station (ISS) Olive Ridley hatchlings begin a new journey from extended to 328 days. Gahirmatha coast • This would set a record for the longest single Millions of baby Olive Ridley turtles have started spaceflight by a woman. emerging from the pits at Gahirmatha beach in • Koch arrived at the space station on March 14 Kendrapara district. and now is scheduled to remain in orbit until February 2020. • This Sanctuary is known as the World’s • She will eclipse the record of 288 days set by largest nesting ground for these endangered former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson in species. 2016-1 • Around 50 lakh turtles had congregated at the • The longest single spaceflight by a NASA beach for nesting in March. astronaut is 340 days, set by former NASA • Every year, the female Olive Ridley turtles astronaut Scott Kelly during his one-year come ashore, dig a nest and lay about 100 mission in 2015-1 eggs. • After this, they conceal the nests before World Book Day 2019: 23 April returning to the sea. • The eggs incubate in the warm sand and after World Book Day is celebrated by UNESCO and 40 to 45 days, two-inch baby turtles hatch. other related organisations every year on the 23rd of April. UAE's Hope Probe project bound for Mars is 85% complete • Also called the World Book and Copyright Day, it is an occasion to promote the joy of The UAE Space Agency and Mohammed bin Rashid books and the art of reading. Space Centre (MBRSC) have announced that 85% of • 23rd April was selected by UNESCO to pay the Hope Probe project has been completed. tribute to great literary figures including William Shakespeare, Miguel Cervantes and • Hope Probe is an ambitious dream project of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega who died on this UAE to send a mission to Mars. day. • Hope Probe is scheduled to be launched in • This date was finalised in the year 1995 in the July 2020. UNESCO General Conference, held in Paris, • With a successful launch, UAE hopes to to honour authors and books worldwide. become the first Arabic and Islamic country to make the Mars Mission dream a reality. Indonesia releases special stamp on the theme of Ramayana Indonesia has released a special commemorative Etihad becomes first major airline to operate stamp on the theme of Ramayana to mark the 70th plastic-free anniversary of the establishment of its diplomatic ties with India.
• The stamp has been designed by renowned Indonesian sculptor Padmashri Bapak Nyoman Nuarta. • It featured a scene from Ramayana in which Jatayu valiantly fought to save Sita. • India's Ambassador Pradeep Kumar Rawat and Indonesia's Vice Foreign Minister Abdurrahman Mohammad Fachir attended UAE's carrier Etihad Airways has become the first the event. airline in the Gulf region to operate a flight without any single-use plastics on board., Israel to name a new town in Golan after Trump • This was concluded in a bid to raise Israel would name a new place in the Golan Heights awareness about pollution on Earth Day after U.S. President Donald Trump. (April 22). • It is a part of Etihad's pledge to reduce single- • It will be named as an expression of gratitude use plastic usage by 80 per cent not just in- for his recognition of its claim of sovereignty flight, but across the entire organisation by over the strategic plateau. the end of 202 • Israel captured the Golan from Syria in a 1967 war and annexed it, in a move not Kim Jong-un & Vladimir Putin to hold first recognized internationally. summit talks in Vladivostok • The United States broke with other world powers last month when Trump signed a North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Russian decree recognizing Israeli sovereignty there. President Vladimir Putin met for their first summit talks in the Pacific port city of Vladivostok. UN, EU sign joint framework to strengthen partnership in counter-terrorism efforts • The two leaders talked about the Korean peninsula's nuclear problem. The United Nations and the European Union (EU) • Kim is believed to seek support after failing have signed a joint framework aimed at to reach an agreement with US President strengthening partnership in counter-terrorism Trump on Pyongyang's nuclear weapons efforts. programme at Hanoi earlier this year.
• The framework was enacted on the occasion NASA's InSight detects first likely 'quake' on of the second EU-UN high-level political Mars dialogue on Counter-Terrorism that was held in New York. • The UN-EU initiative will focus on terrorism and violent extremism prevention in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, as well as support victims of terrorism offenders.
Points to Remember
• European Union Headquarters: Brussels, NASA's robotic Mars InSight lander has recorded a Belgium likely marsquake for the first time ever. • Member states: 28 states • The US space agency said the faint seismic • It displays the 100 volume series titled signal, detected by the lander's Seismic Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, apart instrument, was recorded on April from various publications on the freedom • NASA said this is the first recorded trembling struggle. that appears to have come from inside the plane. ABU Media Summit on Climate Action and • Scientists still are examining the data to Disaster Preparedness underway in Nepal determine the exact cause of the signal. 5th Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) Media World Malaria Day: 25 April 2019 Summit on Climate Action and Disaster Preparedness began in Kathmandu. World Malaria Day (WMD) is an international observance commemorated every year on 25 April. • The theme of the two-day summit is “Media Solutions for Sustainable Future: Saving • It is observed to spread awareness about Lives, Building Resilient Communities”. malaria disease globally and to promote • The basic aim of the summit is to address the efforts to prevent malaria around the world. issue of fully utilizing the media’s potential • The theme of the World Malaria Day 2019 of accelerating climate action and disaster was “Zero malaria starts with me”. preparedness. • WMD is one of eight official global public • Over 200 participants including political health campaigns currently marked by the leaders, representatives of UN agencies and World Health Organization (WHO). NGOs scientists and media persons are attending the evet. World Intellectual Property Day: 26 April Points to remember World Intellectual Property Day observed across the globe on 26 April. • Nepal Capital: Kathmandu • Currency: Nepalese rupee • Intellectual property refers to creations of the • President: Bidhya Devi Bhandari mind, inventions, literary and artistic works, and symbols, names and images used in 1. International Dance Day: 29 April 2019 commercial activities. • The day is observed across the world to spread awareness about the role that intellectual property rights like patents, trademarks, industrial designs and copyright play in encouraging innovation and creativity. • The theme of World Intellectual Property Day 2019 is ‘Reach for Gold: IP and Sports’.
India Pavilion inaugurated at Abu Dhabi International Book Fair 2019 International Dance Day is a global celebration of dance, created by the Dance Committee of the The India Pavilion at the 29th Abu Dhabi International Theatre Institute (ITI), the main partner International Book Fair has been inaugurated. for the performing arts of UNESCO.
• India has been designated as the Guest of • The event takes place every year on 29th Honour for the Book Fair, which is being April, the anniversary of the birth of Jean- held from 24th – 30th April 2019 Georges Noverre (1727–1810), the creator of • The India Pavilion lays special focus on the modern ballet. life and philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi. • Every year a message from an outstanding • It follows 21 April 2019, Easter attacks in choreographer or dancer is circulated which more than 250 people were killed. throughout the world. • Some Muslim organisations had also come • This year message has been created by forward and suggested a ban on burqa to help Karima MANSOUR of Egypt, who is a stabilize the security situation Dancer, Choreographer & Educator Points to remember 2. South Korea set to hold ASEAN maritime drills • Capital: Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte A two-part maritime exercise by the 10-member • Currency: Sri Lankan rupee Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) • Prime minister: Ranil Wickremesinghe and its partnering countries is slated to start in South • President: Maithripala Sirisena Korea's port city of Busan.
• The exercise aims to counter maritime crime, including illicit transactions of weapons and other banned items. • The drills are scheduled to take place from 29 April to 2 May in South Korea, following ISRO launches observation satellite EMISAT which they will be held in Singapore from May 9 to May 13. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) • The maritime exercise involves 18 countries successfully launched its latest observation satellite of the ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting EMISAT. plus six other countries are slated to send military personnel. • The launch vehicle PSLV-C45 lifted off from • Naval forces from India, Brunei, China, the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and the Sriharikota carrying EMISAT and 28 other United States are scheduled to practice customer payloads. rescuing ships hijacked by armed groups, • The main satellite EMISAT and the 28 amongst other maritime security operations. customer satellites will be ed into two different orbits, and later, the fourth stage 3. Sri Lankan President bans all types of face engine of the rocket will be taken to a third coverings orbit in space. • The foreign satellites include 24 from the United States, two from Lithuania and one each from Switzerland and Spain.
EC clears revised MGNREGA wage rates from April 1
Election Commission has approved a request of the Rural Development Ministry to revise the wages under the MGNREGA scheme from April Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has issued an order for a ban on burqa, veil or covering of the • The wages paid under the Mahatma Gandhi face in a manner which prevents anyone from being National Rural Employment Guarantee Act identified. (MGNREGA) are linked with the Consumer Price Index for agricultural labourers (CPI- • Any garment or item which obstructs the AL). identification of a persons face would be • The new wage rates are notified on April 1, barred. the beginning of the new financial year. • Different states have different wage rates so India and Chile signed three MOUs the increase in wages will also be different. • The increase could be up to 5 per cent over India and Chile signed three MOU for cooperation in and above the current wage. the fields of mining, culture and Empowerment of • Points to Remember persons with disabilities. • MNREGA was launched on Launched 2 Feb 200 • The agreements would further enhance engagement in economic, social and cultural Odisha celebrating 84th foundation day fields between the two countries. • Chile is the sixth largest trading partner of India in the Latin American region. • They also agreed to work together to strengthen the global response to defeat and destroy terrorism in all its forms and manifestations.
Points to Remember
Odisha is celebrating 84 years of its foundation. • Capital: Santiago • Currency: Chilean peso • The day is also known as ‘Utkal Divas.’ • To commemorate the sacrifices of people for Supply of ultra-clean Euro-VI grade fuels begins the formation of Odisha province in 1936, in cities adjoining NCR programmes are being organised at various places across the State. • Odisha was the first State to be formed on linguistic basis in 193 • Earlier, Odisha was part of Bihar.
Points to Remember
• Governor: Ganeshi Lal • Capital: Bhubaneswar • Chief minister: Naveen Patnaik Supply of ultra-clean Euro-VI grade petrol and diesel • Lok Sabha seats: 21 has begun in cities adjoining the national capital. • Rajya Sabha seats: 10 • Delhi in April 2018 became the first city in Kandhamal haldi gets GI tag the country to leapfrog from Euro-IV grade petrol and diesel to Euro-VI fuels. Kandhamal haldi (turmeric) produced by the tribal • Cities in the 12 contiguous districts of farmers in Odisha's Kandhamal district received the Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, as well as the Geographical Indication (GI) tag. city of Agra, switched over to the cleaner fuel. • Kandhamal turmeric, originally grown by • Rest of the country will follow suit from tribal people in Kandhamal, is famous for its April 2020. medicinal properties. • In 2015 India had decided to leapfrog to • Kandhamal haldi is organic by default being Euro-VI emission norm compliant petrol and cultivated by more than 60,000 families. diesel from April 2020, from the Euro-IV grade at present. The colour of Kandhamal haldi is golden yellow • Euro-VI grade fuel contains 10 ppm of being well distinguished from other varieties. sulphur as against 50 ppm in Euro-IV fuels. India inks an agreement for setting up India- • It was constructed by the combat engineers Africa Institute of Agriculture & Rural (Sahas aur Yogyata Regiment) of the Fire and Development Fury Corps of the Indian Army in a record time of 40 days, ferrying almost 500 tons of equipment and construction material.
Telangana tops in eLearning training for field staff
In eLearning training, Telangana state has ranked number one by reaching 20,000 field staff during 2018-19
India signed an agreement with a development bank • This is the second year in succession that the for setting up the India-Africa Institute of State got the distinction under the Agriculture and Rural Development (IAIARD) in Department of Personnel and Training Malawi. (DoPT). • Dr MCR HRD Institute enrolled over 20, 000 • IAIARD will be a Pan-African Institute field staff in different districts of the State to wherein trainees not only from Malawi but impart training on 12 soft skills modules and also from other African countries, will three domain-specific modules. receive training to develop their human resources and build their capacity. Rajan Anandan logs out of Google India • The travel, logistics and training course expenses for students from other African Rajan Anandan, Google’s vice-president for countries will be borne by the Government of Southeast Asia (SEA) and India, stepped down. India for an initial period of three years. • This institute will be the first of its kind • Anandan is also an investor in multiple developed in an African country by India. startups and is slated to join venture fund Sequoia Capital. Points to Remember • Caesar Sengupta, who leads Google’s most important project ‘Next Billion Users’, is • Malawi Capital: Lilongwe likely to succeed Anandan. • Vikas Agnihotri, country director-sales, at Maitri Bridge over Indus in Leh opened to the Google, will be replacing Anandan in the public interim, after he steps down by April-end.
WhatsApp launches ‘tipline’ to tackle rumours ahead of elections
WhatsApp launched a new service named as 'tipline'.
• It allows users to submit for review messages they think are misleading or carry unsubstantiated information, in the latest of a The 260-foot Maitri Bridge, the longest suspension series of steps to curb misinformation on the bridge over the Indus River at Choglamsar village in messaging platform. Leh was opened to the public. • Users can send suspicious messages to the 'tipline phone number' to validate the • The bridge has been named 'Maitri Bridge', authenticity of claims in those messages, symbolising the excellent civil-military which may be in the form of text, images or relations existing in the Leh-Ladakh region. videos. • The service will respond by classifying the said information as “true, false, misleading, disputed or out of scope and (may) include any other related information that is available • Users can check the authenticity of the information or rumours received on the platform by reporting the forward to the WhatsApp number +91-9643-000-88 Airlines flying through the Indian airspace will now NuGen Mobility Summit 2019 be able to offer their passengers Wi-Fi connectivity in the air. The International Centre for Automotive Technology (ICAT) will organise a NuGen Mobility Summit, • India has got a new “in-flight and maritime 2019, at Manesar, NCR, from 27th to 29th November connectivity” (IFMC) license. 2019 • India's state-run telecom operator, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) procured • NuGen Mobility Summit is a biennial event the license from Inmarsat, a British being organised by the International Centre telecommunications satellite company that for Automotive Technology in collaboration offers global mobile services. with SAE-NIS. • According to the rules, passengers can make • More than 2500 participants and over 250 phone calls or use the Internet when a flight exhibitors are expected to take part in the is at a minimum height of 3,000m in Indian Summit. airspace to avoid interference with terrestrial mobile networks. India likely to grow at 2% in the current fiscal year: ADB Bureau of Indian Standards inks an MoU with IIT Delhi
The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi to collaborate in the field of standardisation and conformity assessment.
• The MoU was signed by IIT Delhi Director Professor V Ramgopal Rao and Director Asian Development Bank, ADB, says India's growth General of BIS Surina Rajan. is set to pick up. • BIS and IIT Delhi have also agreed to set up a Centre of Excellence in the field of • ADB said India is expected to grow at 2 per standardization, testing and conformity cent in the current fiscal on strengthening assessment. consumption. • It is expected to grow at 3 per cent in 2020 as Points to Remember policy rates are cut and farmers receive income support, bolstering domestic demand. • The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) is the National Standards Body of India. Indian flights will have WiFi soon • Formed: 23 December 1986 • Headquarters: Manak Bhawan, New Delhi
National Maritime Day: 5 April • The day marks the beginning of Chaitra Navratri, that lead up to Ram Navami.
Indian Navy signs MoU with Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
The Indian Navy and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) inked an MoU to undertake joint research and development of 5 April marks the National Maritime Day of India. advanced technologies for the Indian Navy.
• On this day in 1919, navigation history was • This will be a collaborative arrangement created when SS Loyalty, the first ship of The between labs of CSIR, the Indian Navy and Scindia Steam Navigation Company Ltd. Indian industry. journeyed to the United Kingdom. • The MoU provides a formal framework for • It was a crucial step for Indian shipping interaction between the Indian Navy and history when sea routes were controlled by CSIR. the British. • It would facilitate joint R&D activities in diverse fields of Mechanical, Electronics, Vice President inaugurates 3-day National Communication, Computer Science, Cardiology Conference in Lucknow Propulsion systems, Metallurgy and Nanotechnology. Vice President inaugurated the 3-day conference organised by Dept of Cardiology in Lucknow. World Health Day: 7 April 2019
• The conference leads national and The World Health Day is a global health awareness international experts from Europe, USA, day celebrated every year on 7 April, under the Japan, Singapore South Korea, Indonesia and sponsorship of the World Health Organization Australia deliberate on the latest topics of (WHO). Interventional and cutting edge technology. • The conference being held for the first time • This day dedicated to spreading awareness in Uttar Pradesh offers an opportunity to about equal healthcare facilities worldwide, showcase newer innovations in Cardiology the importance of health and wellness. that can help deliver cost-effective • Theme: ‘Universal Coverage: Everyone, cardiology care to patients. Everywhere.’ Traditional new year festivities being held in Points to Remember several parts of the country • World Health Organisation Formation: 7 Traditional new year festivities are being celebrated April 1948 in several parts of the country. • Headquarters Geneva, Switzerland • Head Director-General: Tedros Adhanom • Festivals of Chaitra Sukladi, Ugadi, Gudi Padava, Cheti Chand, Navreh and Sajibu Phayeng Village of Manipur becomes Indias first Cheiraoba are being celebrated with carbon-positive settlement traditional fervour and gaiety. • In Telangana, people are celebrating Ugaadi Phayeng Village of Manipur has been tagged as across two Telugu states, Telangana and India's first carbon-positive settlement. Andhra Pradesh to mark the beginning of the Hindu Lunar calendar. • A village is given the carbon-positive tag if it • In Maharashtra, Gudi Padwa signifies the sequesters more carbon than it emits, slowing welcoming of spring. the accumulation of greenhouse gases and Dhanush gun has been inducted in the Indian mitigating the effects of climate change. army. • Phayeng is a scheduled caste village of the • This is expected to add more firepower to the Chakpa community in Imphal West district. armed forces. • As part of the carbon-positive village project, • Dhanush Gun system can be employed in all Phayeng will receive a grant of Rs10 crore in types of terrain and is one of the new phases to facilitate afforestation in the generations towed artillery gun system catchment of river Maklang that flows along better-upgraded features over the existing the village. Bofors.
NGT imposes Rs 100 crore penalty on Andhra Revolt Intellicorp announces India’s first AI- Pradesh government enabled e-motorcycle]
Micromax co-founder Rahul Sharma has announced his new venture Revolt Intellicorp Pvt Ltd that will be making smart electric two-wheelers and connected devices.
• The e-motorcycle is supposed to be launched The National Green Tribunal has slapped an interim in June this year. penalty of Rs 100 crore on the Andhra Pradesh • For now, the company has only let out some government for inaction to prevent illegal sand crucial specifications of the bike. As per it, mining in the state. the bike will be able to cover over 150 km on a single charge. • A bench, headed by NGT Chairperson Justice • The company is headquartered in Gurgram Adarsh Kumar Goel, directed the chief with a manufacturing facility in Manesar, secretary of Andhra Pradesh to forthwith Haryana. prohibit all unregulated sand mining. • The tribunal directed the state government to Government sells Rs 1,150 crore worth enemy deposit Rs 100 crore 'environment shares in Wipro compensation' with the Central Pollution Control Board within a month. The government has sold enemy shares worth around • The tribunal's direction came on a plea filed Rs 1,150 crore in information technology firm Wipro by Andhra Pradesh resident Anumolu Ltd. Gandhi, alleging illegal sand mining was causing damage to Krishna, Godavari rivers • Apart from Life Insurance Corporation, and their tributaries in the state. General Insurance Corporation and The New India Assurance Corporation have bought the Dhanush Artillery Gun inducted into Indian shares. Army • The Custodian of Enemy Property for India is an entity of the central government which Dhanush, the first indigenous long-range artillery looks after enemy property and shares. gun has been inducted into the Indian Army. Points to Remember • The 155 mm calibre artillery gun was manufactured by the Jabalpur-based Gun • As per the Enemy Property Act, 1968, Carriage Factory. ‘enemy property’ refers to any property that • After the induction of M-777 ultra-light was belonging to a person who migrated from howitzers in November 2018, the country's India to an enemy country when war broke first indigenously designed and developed out. Justice Pradeep Nandrajog takes oath as new • AIIMS has been ranked first among medical Chief Justice of Bombay High Court sciences institutes and National Law School, Bangalore has topped law colleges. Justice Pradeep Nandrajog took oath as the new Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court. International Convention on World Homoeopathy Day • He was d the oath by Maharashtra Governor C Vidyasagar Rao at the Raj Bhavan. • Justice Nandrajog was serving as the Chief Justice of the Rajasthan High Court since March 2017, following his transfer from the Delhi High Court.
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• Maharashtra Capital: Mumbai A two day convention is being organised on 9-10th • Governor: C. Vidyasagar Rao April 2019 by the Central Council for Research in • Chief minister: Devendra Fadnavis Homoeopathy (CCRH) on the occasion of the World Homoeopathy Day. CRPF celebrated its 54th Valour Day • It is an autonomous research organization President Ram Nath Kovind paid homage to the under Ministry of AYUSH. martyrs of police at National Police Memorial in • The World Homoeopathy Day is observed to New Delhi on the occasion of 54th Valour Day of commemorate the birth anniversary of the Central Reserve Police Force. founder of Homoeopathy, Dr. Christian Fredrich Samuel Hahnemann. • 9th April is celebrated as Valour Day in the Force. RBI issued norms for banks to set up currency • The President also launched the App - Veer chests Parivar for assistance to next of kin of Martyrs of CRPF personnel. The Reserve Bank of India came out with guidelines • The Central Reserve Police Force is India's for banks to set up new currency chests, which largest Central Armed Police Forces. It include minimum area of 1,500 square feet for strong functions under the authority of the Ministry room. of Home Affairs of the Government of India. • Besides, the new chests should have a IIT-Madras tops HRD's national ranking of processing capacity of 6 lakh pieces of institutes banknotes per day. • For those situated in the hilly/ inaccessible President Ram Nath Kovind released the national places, the capacity of 1 lakh pieces of ranking of higher institutes by the Ministry of Human banknotes per day. Resources Development in New Delhi. • Earlier, a RBI appointed committee had recommended that the apex bank should • Indian Institute of Technology Madras encourage banks to open large currency topped the rankings while the Indian Institute chests with modern facilities and Chest of Science, Bangalore bagged the second Balance Limit (CBL) of at least Rs 1,000 rank followed by IIT Delhi. crore. • Delhi University's Miranda House was ranked the best among colleges across the IMF scales down India's growth projection for country. current fiscal to 3% The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has moderately scaled down India’s economic growth projection to 3 per cent for the current financial year from its earlier forecast of 4 per cent.
• Despite this, the country will remain the fastest-growing large economy as the nearest The River Periyar in Kerala is again witnessing the competitor China's growth is pegged at 6 per decolourisation. The decolourisation of River Periyar cent, 3 per cent and 1 per cent for 2018, 2019 which provides drinking water to Kochi city. and 2020, respectively. • The pollution control Board (PCB) has Online Harms White Paper attributed the change in colour to the poor quality of water as a result of eutrophication. The UK Department of Digital, Culture, Media and • River Periyar flows in the state of Kerala. It Sport in association with Home Office have released originates in the Western Ghats and flows the Online Harms White Paper. north for a short distance to Periyar Lake. • Periyar Lake is an artificial reservoir created • The White paper sets out a programme of by Mullaperiyar Dam across the river. From action to tackle content or activity that harms the Periyar Lake, tunnel carries water through individual users, particularly children, or mountains to the Vaigai River in Tamil Nadu, threatens our way of life in the UK, either by where it is used for irrigation. undermining national security or by undermining our shared rights, India builds a maternity hospital in Nepal responsibilities and opportunities to foster integration. India has built a 25-bed maternity hospital in Nepal. 'Desi Bofors' Dhanush inducted in Army in bid • The hospital has been built under the to modernise artillery Government of India's Small Development Projects Scheme. • Indian Ambassador to Nepal Manjeev Singh Puri inaugurated the Chandra Narayan Yadav Memorial Maternity Hospital in Siraha district. • The Hospital will provide quality maternity and health care services to the people of 50 Village Development Committees in and around Siraha district. • It will also help in reducing maternal and In an important step towards upgrading the combat child mortality rate. power of the artillery, the Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) handed over the first six Dhanush 155 India's population grew at a 2 % average annual millimetre (mm) artillery guns to the army. rate between 2010 and 2019: UN report • This is part of an order for 114 guns being India's population grew at an average annual rate of delivered by the OFB’s Gun Carriage 2 per cent between 2010 and 2019, according to a Factory, Jabalpur. report by the United Nations Population Fund. • The Dhanush is also called the “Desi Bofors”, having been developed from blueprints • It is more than double the annual growth rate supplied by Bofors in the 1980s, when India of China bought 400 Swedish FH-77B howitzers. • India's population in 2019 stood at 36 billion. Decolourisation of River Periyar • In comparison, China's population stood at 42 tech giant Google to build industry-specific cloud billion in 2019 solutions. • China's population grew at an average annual rate of 0.5 per cent between 2010 and 2019 • These solutions will help organisations accelerate their digital transformation and Bold Kurukshetra 2019: Singapore, India joint leverage data-driven insights that power military exercise kicks off superior customer experiences. • TCS' solutions on the Google cloud platform will help enterprises build secure, cloud- native analytics platforms, and are cost- effective, easy to maintain, and future ready.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu get the fifth term
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party Military forces of India and Singapore got together has won 36 seats and surpassed the main rival, the to participate in a joint exercise in Babina Blue and White party in the 2019 Israel election. Cantonment in Jhansi. • The results were released by the committee • The three-day exercise, ‘Bold Kurukshetra– after two days of counting ballots and delays 2019’, is being conducted to develop military caused by computer malfunctions. technology, boost maritime security and • The results mean Netanyahu is heading for a bolster the nations’ fight against terrorism. record fifth term in office and would become • The two countries had signed a cooperation Israel's longest-serving Prime Minister. agreement to strengthen the defence ties between the Indian Military and Singapore Points to Remember Armed Forces in November 201 • Capital: Jerusalem Govt retains interest rate for General Provident • Currency: Israeli new shekel Fund at 8% PM Modi awarded with Russia’s highest state The government has retained the interest rate for honour General Provident Fund (GPF), Contributory Provident Fund and other related schemes at 8 per cent for the first quarter of the current financial year.
• The interest rate on these funds was at 8 per cent in the January-March quarter of 2018-19 and government kept it unchanged for April to June for 2019-20. • The interest rate will be applicable on provident funds of central government Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been conferred employees, railways and defence forces. on the Order of St Andrew the Apostle highest state decoration of Russia. TCS, Google partner to build industry-specific cloud solutions • He was decorated with the award for his exceptional services in promoting a special India's largest software services firm Tata and privileged strategic partnership between Consultancy Services (TCS) has collaborated with Russian and India. • In 2017, Chinese president Xi Jinping was awarded the Order of St Andrew the Apostle. • Recently, PM Modi has been awarded the Points to Remember United Arab Emirates's top honour as well as of countries including South Korea, Saudi • Bharti Airtel CEO: Gopal Vittal Arabia, Palestine and Afghanistan. • Headquarters: New Delhi
India, Sweden ink pact to collaborate on Google launches a new cloud platform, Anthos solutions for smart cities, clean tech Google launched Anthos, a new open platform from India and Sweden launched a joint programme that Google Cloud, that lets users run applications from will work towards addressing a range of challenges anywhere. around smart cities and clean technologies among others. • Anthos allows users to run applications, unmodified, on existing on-premise hardware • The programme was co-founded by the or on the public cloud. Indian Department of Science and • It is based on the Cloud Services Platform Technology (DST) and Swedish agency that Google announced last year. Vinnova. • Anthos is a completely software-based • Vinnova will provide funding to Swedish solution. Users can set it up on existing participants up to 2,500,000 Swedish Krona hardware, claimed Google. (around Rs 87 crore) as a grant. • On the Indian side, a conditional grant of up NGT forms the Central Monitoring Committee to 50 per cent (with a limit of Rs 5 crore) per to prepare a national plan for polluted rivers project will be provided to the Indian partners. A bench headed by NGT (National Green Tribunal) Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel has formed DoT approved the merger of TTSL and Bharti a Central Monitoring Committee to enforce a Airtel national plan to reduce the river pollution.
• It will make over 350 river stretches across the country pollution free as it has caused a serious threat to the safety of water and environment. • The Central Monitoring Committee will also coordinate with the River Rejuvenation Committees of the states and oversee the execution of the action plans.
The Department of Telecom has given approval for Namami Gange gets approved with Global the merger of Tata Teleservices (TTSL) with Bharti recognition at Global Water Summit Airtel. The National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) was • The merger is subject to the condition that the awarded the distinction of “Public Water Agency of Sunil Bharti Mittal-led firm furnishes Rs the Year” at the Global Water Summit in London. 7,200 crore worth bank guarantee. • The merger will be taken on record after • The Global Water Awards are presented at Airtel submits a bank guarantee of about Rs the Global Water Summit, the major business 6,000 crore for one-time spectrum charges conference for the water industry worldwide. and another Rs 1,200 crore for the spectrum • The awards recognise excellence across the that would be acquired from TTSL. international water industry and reward those • As part of the proposed agreement, Airtel will initiatives in the water, wastewater, and absorb Tata consumer mobile business desalination sectors, which bring remarkable (CMB) operations in 19 telecom circles. improvements in the lives of people. Retail inflation inches up to 86% in March • Tata Trusts and Microsoft will leverage each other's strengths to provide business and communication skills, design education and digital literacy to handloom weavers so that they may build a sustainable future.
Points to Remember
• Google CEO: Sundar Pichai
Retail inflation saw a marginal rise of 86 per cent in Ambedkar Jayanti: 14 April March this year on account of increase in prices of food articles and fuel. Ambedkar Jayanti or Bhim Jayanti marks the birth anniversary of Bhimrao Ambedkar or BR Ambedkar • According to the data released by - the "Father of The Indian Constitution". the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, the inflation based on the • Celebrated on April 14, Ambedkar Jayanti Consumer Price Index was 57 per cent in honours the Dalit icon who dedicated his life February this year. working for the upliftment of untouchables, • On a yearly basis, it was 28 per cent in March women and labourers. 201 • Dr BR Ambedkar not just gave India its Constitution, but also played a key role in the Navy gets virtual reality centre for designing formation of Reserve Bank of India - the warships country's central banking institution. • The government has declared a public Admiral Sunil Lanba, the Chief of the Naval Staff, holiday on 14 April for all Central inaugurated the maiden ‘state-of-the-art’ Virtual government offices, including industrial Reality Centre (VRC) at the Directorate of Naval establishments, throughout India. Design, New Delhi. Giant six-engine aircraft lands its first flight in • This centre would provide a major boost to California the Indigenous warship design capabilities of the Indian Navy. • It will provide impetus to self-reliance and greater fillip to warship construction under “Make in India” initiative of the Indian government. • This project will facilitate collaborative design reviews for continuous interaction between the designers and the end users to improve design and ergonomics onboard warships. The world's largest aeroplane designed by Stratolaunch with two fuselages and six Boeing 747 Tata Trusts, Microsoft join hands to support engines, made its first test flight in California, USA. handloom weaving community
• The mega jet carried out its maiden voyage Tata Trusts and Microsoft India inked a pact to over the Mojave desert. jointly rejuvenate handloom clusters in the eastern • It is designed to carry into space and drop a and north-eastern parts of the country. rocket that would ignite to deploy satellites. • Both the entities have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in this regard. • The aircraft is so big its wingspan is longer India successfully test-fired it's first indigenously than a football field, or about 5 times that of designed and developed long-range sub-sonic cruise an Airbus A380. missile 'Nirbhay' from a test range in Odisha.
Different harvest festivals being celebrated in • The missile can be deployed from multiple several parts of the country platforms. • It was test-fired at the Integrated Test Range • President Ram Nath Kovind have greeted the (ITR) at Chandipur. nation on Vaisakhi, Vishu, Rongali Bihu, • The missile is capable of loitering and Naba Barsha, Puthandu Pirappu. cruising at 0.7 Mach at altitude as low as 100 meters. Points to Remember CMFRI joins hands with ISRO to protect coastal • The list of the various new year and harvest wetlands festivals with their associated states is as follows: • Vishu: Kerala • Rongali Bihu: Assam • Puthandu Pirappu: Tamil Nadu • Poila Baisakh: West Bengal • Maha Vishuba Sankranti: Odisha
NGT directs MoEF to submit a report on the constitution of Biodiversity Management Committees The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) and the Indian Space Research National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Organisation (ISRO) have joined hands to map, Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to validate and protect smaller wetlands in the coastal submit a report on the constitution of Biodiversity belt of the country. Management Committees (BMC) at the local level in every state within three months. • A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the CMFRI and the • A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Space Applications Centre (SAC) of the Adarsh Kumar Goel also asked the states who ISRO to develop a mobile app and a have not constituted the committees to file an centralised web portal with a complete affidavit stating the reason for the delay. database of wetlands smaller than 25 hectares • The tribunal on August 8 last year had in the country. directed a monitoring committee comprising • As per the MoU, the two scientific institutes officials from the Ministry of Environment will identify and demarcate wetlands, and and Forests and National Biodiversity restore the degraded wetlands through Authority to furnish a report. suitable livelihood options like coastal aquaculture. Points to remember Points to Remember • Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change: Harsh Vardhan • Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) Headquarters: Kochi India successfully test fires sub-sonic cruise missile 'Nirbhay' World Hemophilia Day: 17 April Every year April 17 is celebrated as World • Kaziranga National Park: Golaghat and Hemophilia Day to increase awareness about Nagaon districts, Assam haemophilia and other bleeding disorders. • It is famous for one-horned rhinoceros.
• This year, the theme of World Hemophilia Mahavir Jayanti celebrated with traditional Day is ‘outreach and identification’. fervour • Haemophilia is an inherited genetic disorder that weakens the ability of the body to clot The birth anniversary of 24th and last Jain Tirthankar blood. Lord Mahavir was celebrated across the country on • The deficiency of a clotting protein in the 17 April. blood leads to haemophilia. • It is one of the most sacred days for Jain WHO raises alarm over 300% increase in case of people. measles globally • The followers of Lord Mahavir celebrate this festival by chanting prayers, offering Prasad The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised and participating in chariot processions. alarm over a 300 percent increase in the case of measles globally in the first quarter of 2019 Points to Remember compared with last year. • First tirthankara of Jainism: Rishabhanatha; • The UN body said provisional data has Symbol: Bull indicated a clear trend, with all regions of the • Last tirthankara of Jainism: Mahavira ; world seeing outbreaks. Symbol: Lion • So far this year, 170 countries have reported 112,163 measles cases to WHO. AUSINDEX-19 Concludes • Measles is a highly contagious infectious disease caused by the measles virus.
Points to Remember
• WHO Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland • Founded: 7 April 1948
Supreme Court bans mining activities along Kaziranga park
The Supreme Court has banned all mining activities along the Kaziranga National Park and catchment The Australian and Indian Navy have concluded a area of rivers originating in Karbi Anglong Hills in two-week long bilateral maritime exercise code- Assam. named AUSINDEX.
• A bench comprising Justices Arun Mishra • The current edition of the exercise had the and Deepak Gupta issued a notice to the participation of the highest number of units Assam government and sought its reply thus far with four frontline ships with integral within three weeks. helicopters, one submarine and a variety of • The mining activity in this area were aircraft. resulting in environment degradation and • For the first time, 55 American and 20 New habitat destruction in an important elephant Zealand military personnel embarked and tiger habitat. onboard the RAN ships and witnessed the exercises during AUSINDEX-19 Points to Remember • The third edition of the exercise which commenced on 02 Apr 19 included a series of advanced warfare drills in all three dimensions comprising anti-submarine warfare exercises, air defense exercises and cross deck flying.
Home Expo India 2019 begins
The 8th edition of Home Expo India 2019 began at India Expo Centre and Mart in Greater Noida. Chief of Army Staff General Bipin Rawat commissioned the Indian Coast Guard Ship Veera at • It covers sectors with maximum thrust and a ceremony held at Visakhapatnam. growth potential in home decor, furnishing, furniture, flooring and textiles. • Veera is third in the series of offshore patrol • About 500 companies in permanent marts vessels of the Coast Guard. will be exhibiting their collection under these • It is built by L&T at its shipbuilding facility categories. at Kattupalli in Chennai. • The three-day exhibition has been organized • The commissioning of Veera will enhance by the Export Promotion Council for the Indian Coast Guard’s operational Handicrafts. capability to discharge its multifarious maritime tasks. TikTok vanishes from Google Play Store after Madras HC ban NASA detects Universe’s first molecule in space
Scientists have detected the most ancient type of molecule in our universe in space for the first time ever.
• Helium hydride ion (HeH+) was the first molecule that formed when falling temperatures in the young universe allowed recombination of the light elements produced Google and Apple have blocked access to popular in the Big Bang. Chinese video making application TikTok in India. • At that time, ionised hydrogen and neutral helium atoms reacted to form HeH+. • Madras High Court that had directed the Centre to ban TikTok app over concerns India drops down on World Press Freedom Index about access to pornographic content through it. India has dropped two places on a global press • The Ministry of Electronics and Information freedom index to be ranked 140th out of 180 Technology (MeitY) order will only stop countries in the annual Reporters Without Borders future downloads of TikTok. analysis. • People who already have the app downloaded in their devices will be able to continue using • The index is an indicator of how hatred of it on their smartphones. journalists has degenerated into violence in countries across the world. Coast Guard patrol ship Veera commissioned • Six Indian journalists were reportedly killed in the year 2018 owing to their work. • Norway is ranked first in the 2019 Index for the third year running while Finland has taken the second place. Mali's PM Soumeylow Boubeye Maiga resigns • Terra Drone is actively working to implement unmanned traffic management (UTM) for Mali’s Prime Minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga drones for various government departments has resigned along with his whole government. in India.
• He has resigned following a motion of no Indian Navy launches Guided-missile destroyer confidence over its failure to handle violence 'Imphal' in the West African country. • Legislators had discussed a possible motion of no confidence in the government because of last month's massacre and failure to disarm militias.
Points to remember
• Mali Capital: Bamako • Currency West African CFA franc The Indian Navy launched guided missile destroyer ‘Imphal’ at Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders in Mumbai. Gangandeep Kang is the first Indian woman scientist to be elected Royal Society Fellow • Imphal is the third ship to be launched under a project in which ships are built to carry and Dr Gagandeep Kang made history by becoming operate two multiple role helicopters. India’s first woman to be made a Fellow of the • Enhanced stealth features have been achieved prestigious Royal Society London. through the shaping of hull and use of radar transparent deck fittings which make the • Kang is a leading scientist in India and her ships difficult to detect. main research focus is on viral infections in children and the testing of rotavirus vaccines. Civil Services Day: 21 April • Kang currently serves as the executive director of the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI), Faridabad. • Fellowship of the Society is one of the most coveted honours in the scientific world and some of history's greatest scientists like Isaac Newton (1672), Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein (1921), were associated with it.
Tokyo-based Terra Drone inks pact with IIT The Civil Service Day is celebrated on 21 April every Hyderabad year.
Terra Drone Corporation, a Tokyo-based industrial • The purpose of this day is to rededicate and drone solutions provider along with its subsidiary recommit themselves to the cause of the Terra Drone India has signed a tripartite people. memorandum of understanding (MoU) with IIT- • On this occasion, all officers of Central and Hyderabad. State Governments are honoured for excellence in public administration by the • The MoU has been signed to co-establish the Prime Minister of India. first-of-its-kind Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Unmanned Aerial Solutions (drones) in Points to Remember India. • The Civil Services refer to the career SpiceJet, Emirates sign MoU for codeshare bureaucrats who are the permanent executive partnership branch of the Republic of India. • The civil service system is the backbone of the administrative machinery of the country.
Bhopal gas tragedy among the world's major industrial accidents of the 20th century: UN
The 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy which killed thousands Budget carrier Spicejet announced the signing of an of people is among the world's "major industrial initial pact for codeshare partnership with Gulf accidents" of the 20th century according to a UN carrier Emirates. report. • The reciprocal partnership will allow the • UN warned that 78 million workers die from opening of new routes and destinations for occupational accidents and work-related passengers of the two airlines. diseases each year. • SpiceJet passengers from 51 domestic • The report released by the UN labour agency destinations will be able to access Emirates' International Labour Organization (ILO) said network across the US, Europe, Africa and that in 1984, at least 30 tons of methyl the Middle East. isocyanate gas, which was released from the • Code-sharing allows an airline to book its Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, passengers on its partner carriers and provide affected over 600,000 workers and nearby seamless travel to destinations where it has inhabitants. no presence. • The report titled 'The Safety and Health at the Heart of the Future of Work - Building on 100 Points to remember years of experience' said the Bhopal disaster was among the world's "major industrial • Spice Jet Headquarters: Gurugram accidents after 1919". • CEO: Ajay Singh
Points to remember MOU signed between Ministry of AYUSH and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research • International Labour Organization Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland • Head: Guy Ryder
Naval Commanders’ Conference 2019/1
The first edition of Naval Commanders’ Conference of 2019 is scheduled at New Delhi from 23 to 25
April 2019 A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was • The conference is the apex forum within the signed between the Ministry of AYUSH and Council Service for interaction between the Naval of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) at New Commanders. Delhi. • The Chief of the Naval Staff, with the Commanders-in-Chief, will review major • The MoU has been signed for cooperation in operational, material, logistics, Human research and education in areas of traditional Resources, training and administrative systems of medicine and its integration with activities undertaken during the previous six modern science. months and deliberate upon the course to be steered in the ensuing six months. • Previously, CSIR jointly with Department of • QS Rankings uses parameters such as AYUSH developed the Traditional leadership, executive profile, diversity, Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL), a career outcomes, etc, for ranking. globally recognized proprietary database on Indian systems of medicine for preventing India extends a ban on import of Chinese milk bio-piracy and misappropriation of our products traditional knowledge. • Points to Remember • AYUSH: Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy • Ministry of AYUSH officeholder: Shripad Naik
Nasim Zaidi quits Jet Airways board The government extended the ban on import of milk Jet Airways' non-executive and non-independent and its products, including chocolates, from China. director Nasim Zaidi has quit the board. • The ban was first imposed in September 2008 • Mr Zaidi, the former Chief Election and extended subsequently from time to time. Commissioner and ex-civil aviation • The ban was imposed on apprehensions of secretary, joined the Jet Airways board in the presence of melamine in some milk August last year. consignments from China. • The airline has ceased all its operations • Melamine is a toxic chemical used for temporarily last week and is under the making plastics and fertilisers. management control of SBI-led consortium • Although India does not import milk, milk of lenders following a debt-recast plan. products from China, it has imposed the ban as a preventive measure. IIM-Bangalore becomes only Indian institute to feature in QS EMBA Rankings 2019 Indian Coast Guard Vessel C-441 commissioned
A new Coast Guard vessel C- 441 has been commissioned at Vizhinjam harbour in Kerala.
• Indian Coast Guard Ship C- 441 is capable to undertake multifarious tasks such as close coast surveillance, interdiction, search and rescue and rendering assistance to boats in The Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore distress at sea. (IIM-B) has once again made a mark at the global • It will enhance the search and rescue capacity level. of Kerala seas. • The ship is commanded by Assistant • The institute's post-graduate programme in Commandant Amit K Choudhary and has 13 Enterprise Management (PGPEM) has crew onboard with specialisation in various secured the 12th rank in APAC listing and fields. came 61st globally in the QS Executive MBA Rankings 2019 Real life 'Padman' makes it to Fortune's World • It is the only Indian B-school to secure a place Leaders List among the top 100 B-Schools across the world. India’s original “Padman” Arunachalam Muruganantham has been featured on Fortune magazine's list of world’s 100 greatest leaders. • He became famous for producing low-cost sanitary napkins. • He ranks 45th in the list and is featured along with stalwarts from various walks of life such as Bill and Melinda Gates, Jacinda Ardern, and Robert Mueller. • Bill Gates topped the chart due to the massive charity work they have done. A red alert has been declared in Tamil Nadu for April Bimal Jalan panel on RBI's capital size to submit 30 and May 1 as a major cyclone, Fani, is likely to the report by June hit the north coast of the state over the two days.
A high-level panel led by former RBI governor • Fishermen have been advised not to venture Bimal Jalan, set up to decide the appropriate capital out into the sea during the coming week. reserves that the central bank should maintain, is • The India Meteorological Department (IMD) likely to submit its report by June. said that after gaining more strength, the cyclonic circulation has finally induced a • The six-member Jalan panel was appointed low-pressure area. on December 26, 2018, to review the • The system is formed over Equatorial Indian Economic Capital Framework for the RBI. Ocean and adjoining the southeast Bay of • The committee was to submit its report in 90 Bengal. days from the first day of its meeting, which was held on January Indian Army signs MoU with NHPC for • The panel has got an extension beyond its construction of tunnels on China, Pakistan three-month term. borders
Cultural Festival begins in Guwahati
South Central Zone Cultural Centre (SCZCC) of Ministry of Culture, Government of India is organizing Madhya Dakshini Festival 2019
• The festival is being celebrated in collaboration with North East Zone Cultural Indian Army signed an MoU with National Centre (NEZCC) from April 25 to 28, 2019 Hydroelectric Power Corporation Limited (NHPC). in four venues of Guwahati. • In the festival, around 100 folk artists from • The MoU is for the construct tunnels on Central India, states from Maharashtra, borders with China and Pakistan for storage Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Andra of ammunition and other war-related Pradesh will perform vibrant and colourful equipment. folk dances showing the rich cultural heritage • Under the pilot project, three tunnels will be of India. built on China border while one will be built • The inauguration of the festival was along the Line of Control with Pakistan. organized at Shilpgram of NEZCC at • The project is meant to bolster the Indian Panjabari, Guwahati. Army's capabilities along the Chinese border.
Major cyclone Fani, likely to cross Tamil Nadu Orange alert in Gujarat • Mrs Sitharaman will also hold bilateral meetings with her counterparts from some SCO member countries on the sidelines of the conclave. • The SCO Defence Ministers will explore ways to further boost defence and security cooperation among the member countries. Following the sudden spurt in heat across Gujarat, the state health department has issued an 'Orange Points to remember Alert'. • The SCO was founded at a summit in • The warning is issued with temperatures Shanghai in 2001 by the Presidents of China, likely to touch 44 degrees Celsius according Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan to the weather department. and Uzbekistan. • Meteorological Centre (MC) Ahmedabad • India and Pakistan became its full members released warning for a heat wave in multiple in 2017. regions of Gujarat for the next 48 hours. • Kyrgyzstan is the Chair of the SCO at present. Points to remember 1. Defence Ministry-PSU to build 8 anti- • Capital: Gandhinagar submarine shallow watercrafts • Chief minister: Vijay Rupani • Governor: Om Prakash Kohli • Rajya Sabha Seats: 11 • Lok Sabha Seats: 26
Wirecard partners RBL Bank to drive financial inclusion
Wirecard announced an expanded partnership with RBL Bank to promote financial inclusion in India.
• This partnership will make digital payment and banking transactions more readily Kolkata-based defence shipyard Garden Reach accessible to all Indian citizens, including Shipbuilders & Engineers signed an Rs. 6,311-crore those living in remote areas. contract with the Defence Ministry to build eight • In partnership with RBL, Wirecard will anti-submarine warfare shallow watercraft for the empower its retail agents to enable the Indian Navy. financially under-served to access basic • The first vessel is to be delivered within 42 payment and banking services. months from the contract, that is by October • These include cash withdrawals and deposits 2022. as well as balance enquiries. • The ASWSWCs are equipped with 4. Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to sophisticated sonar, with an algorithm that attend SCO Defence Ministers' meet in Bishkek differentiates the signals reflected off the enemy submarine from those bouncing off Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman attended the the sea bed. Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Defence • These vessels will also have the ability to Ministers' meeting in the Kyrgyzstan capital sprint fast for short bursts. Bishkek. 2. Wipro Consumer Care acquires Splash • To make the merger a smooth affair, the Corporation government last week decided to infuse 5,042 crore rupees in Bank of Baroda to enhance its Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting (WCCL) has capital base to meet the additional expense. acquired the Philippines-based personal care maker • Branches of Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank will Splash Corporation. function as Bank of Baroda outlets from • WCCL is the consumer care business of April following the amalgamation. software provider Wipro Ltd. Points to Remember • Splash Corporation is among the top five local companies in the Philippines, where it • This is the second merger of state-run banks gets 85% of its annual revenue of around $80 in recent years in the banking sector after million. State Bank had merged five of its associate • The transaction is expected to strengthen the banks from April 201 consumer care portfolio in personal care apart from completing its South East Asian Reserve Bank to inject USD 5 billion more footprint. liquidity into the banking system Points to Remember The Reserve Bank of India will inject long-term liquidity worth 5 billion US Dollars into the banking • Wipro chairman: Azim Premji system. • Headquarters: Bangalore • It will inject through a dollar-rupee buy-sell swap for a tenure of three years on April 2 • The move intends to meet the durable liquidity needs of the system. • It is the second such auction within a month. • Earlier, on March 26, the central bank had Vijaya Bank, Dena Bank to merge with Bank of bought USD 5 billion through similar swap Baroda auction in a bid to ease liquidity ahead of elections.
Kotak Bank first lender to charge for UPI use
Kotak Mahindra Bank (Kotak) told its customers that it will charge customers for UPI transactions starting first of May 2019
Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank will merge with Bank • The bank said every month, for each Kotak of Baroda (BoB) to create the third-largest lender of Bank account, the first 30 UPI fund transfers the country. will be free, after which a charge will be levied on all fund transfers from the bank • The government-forced merger, announced account. in September last year, creates the third • This will be applicable across all platforms, largest bank in the country after State Bank including Paytm, PhonePe, Google Pay or of India and HDFC Bank. Truecaller Pay among others. • All customers of Dena Bank, which is under • The bank will charge Rs 50 per transaction prompt corrective action (PCA) framework for an amount value below or equal to Rs of the RBI, will have renewed access to credit 1,000, and Rs 5 per transaction will be levied facilities immediately. for a payment value above Rs 1,000. RBI sets WMA Limit for Government at Rs challenge Amazon's Alexa and Google 75000 crore for H1 of 2019-20 Assistant.
Paytm Money receives Sebi approval to start stock broking services
The Reserve Bank of India, in consultation with the Government of India, has decided that the limits for Ways and Means Advances (WMA) for the first half of the financial year 2019-20 (April 2019 to The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) September 2019) will be Rs 75000 crore. has given approval to Paytm Money to start offering broking services. • The Reserve Bank may trigger fresh floatation of market loans when the • According to reports, it had applied for the Government of India utilises 75% of the licence in October last year. WMA limit. • Paytm Money has also received membership • The Reserve Bank retains the flexibility to of NSE and BSE. revise the limit at any time, in consultation • To handle the broking operations, Paytm with the Government of India. Money is looking to set up a team to deal with • The interest rate on WMA will be Repo Rate settlements, trade, risks, treasury and other and overdraft will be 2% above the Repo functions of a broking house. Rate. • The broking services will allow investors to trade in the cash segment, derivatives, Reliance Jio acquires Haptik for Rs 700 crore exchange-traded funds (ETFs), among other listed entities.
RBI cuts repo rate by 25 basis points
Reliance Industries Ltd announced that its subsidiary Reliance Jio has acquired Mumbai-based Haptik for about Rs 700 crore. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cut its repo rate • Haptik is one of the world's largest under liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) by 25 basis conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) points to 6%, with immediate effect. platforms. • Reliance will hold about 87 per cent of the • This is the second consecutive rate cut from business, with the rest being held by Haptic's RBI under new Governor Shaktikanta Das, founders and employees via stock options. after a rate cut in February. • With this acquisition, Jio, with its widespread • Consequently, the reverse repo rate under the reach, will be in a formidable position to LAF stands adjusted to 75 per cent, and the marginal standing facility (MSF) rate and the • GHIAL has entered into a Purchase Bank Rate to 25 per cent. Agreement to issue and allot US$ 300 Mn 375% senior secured notes of 5-year tenure. RBI tweaks LCR norms to boost liquidity • The proceeds from the Notes will be used towards the capital expenditure with respect In a bid to further improve the cash position of banks, to the master plan (expansion) of the Rajiv RBI has tweaked liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) Gandhi International Airport at Hyderabad. norms to provide an additional 2 per cent window to • It will be used in increasing the capacity of lenders. the Airport to 34 Mn Passengers Per Annum (MPPA). • This move will harmonise the liquidity requirements of banks and release additional BSE, India INX become first Indian exchanges to money for lending. sign MoU with Moscow Exchange • LCR indicates the proportion of highly liquid assets held by banks to ensure their ability to meet short-term obligations.
NTPC signs Rs 2,000 cr term loan pact with Canara Bank
BSE and India International Exchange (India INX) have signed a memorandum of understanding with Moscow Exchange (MOEX).
• The MoU has been signed to connect investor State-run NTPC has inked a term-loan agreement community and companies in both countries with Canara Bank to raise Rs 2,000 crore. besides allowing a capital formation platform. • The loan has a door to door tenure of 15 years • BSE and India INX are the first Indian and will be utilised to part finance the capital exchanges to enter into the MoU with expenditure of the NTPC. Moscow exchange. • In February this year, NTPC had signed a • The exchange companies have agreed to the term loan agreement for Rs 5,000 crore with secondment of senior personnel to enhance State Bank of India. understanding of activities in each other's • The loan facility from SBI was also aimed at market. part financing the company's capital expenditure. Lakshmi Vilas Bank to merge with Indiabulls • Points to Remember Housing • Canara Bank Headquarters: Bangalore, Karnataka, India Chennai-based Lakshmi Vilas Bank is set to merge • Chairman: Shri T. N. Manoharan with Indiabulls Housing Finance in a share-swap deal. GMR Hyderabad International to raise USD 300 mn in the international bond market • It reflects the trend of consolidation in the financial services sector. GMR Hyderabad International Airport (GHIAL), a • The boards of both entities approved the subsidiary of GMR Airports announced that it had on merger proposal. April 03, 2019 successfully priced an offering of • The shareholders of Lakshmi Vilas Bank US$ 300 Mn bonds in the international bond market. (LVB) will get 14 shares of Indiabulls Housing Finance (IBHF) for every 100 equity shares held in the bank.
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• Lakshmi Vilas Bank Headquarters: Chennai
CCI approves L&T's proposal to acquire up to 615% stake in Mindtree HDFC Asset Management Co. Ltd has claimed the Larsen and Toubro (L&T) have secured the approval top spot with an average AUM of ₹42 trillion. of Competition Commission of India (CCI) to acquire a controlling stake in Mindtree. • It overtook ICICI Prudential Asset Management Co. Ltd with an average AUM • The competition watchdog has allowed L&T of at ₹20 trillion. to acquire up to 615 per cent stake in the • India’s asset management companies Bengaluru-based IT services firm. (AMCs) own assets under management • With this, the engineering and construction (AUM) worth ₹246 trillion, according to data major has cleared the first step in its hostile released by the Association of Mutual Funds takeover of Mindtree. in India (Amfi). • Stake acquisition deals beyond a certain limit need CCI's approval to go through. Banks close FY19 with 124% credit growth and deposits up to 03% SBI cuts interest rates on home loans
The State Bank of India has re-priced home loans up According to the Reserve Bank data released, bank to Rs 30 lakh by 10 basis points. credit rose 124 per cent to Rs 967 lakh crore for the fortnight to March 29 • The interest rate on housing loans of such size will now be in the range of 6 to 9 per cent. • The deposits grew by 03 per cent to Rs 1272 • The bank has also lowered its lending rates lakh crore during the same period. by a nominal five basis points across all • This is the second consecutive double-digits tenors. credit growth after the same had declined to • This is the first reduction by SBI in over 17 54 per cent in FY17 at Rs 741 lakh crore, months. which was the lowest since 196 • Personal loans rose 17 per cent in February HDFC AMC ranks first, ICICI AMC second in 2019, down from 20.4 per cent in February terms of assets 201
RBL Bank ties up with CreditVidya for improving the customer experience RBL Bank has partnered with credit profiler • Customers buying air conditioners of Rs CreditVidya to improve the lender's customer 20,000 and above will be eligible for an experience. Instant Credit loan of Rs 5000. • For those purchasing air conditioners above • Through this partnership, the private sector Rs 40,000 will receive Rs 7000 as an Instant lender will be able to gain significant insights Credit loan to their Wallet. into its customer base. • This will assist the customer to pay the • The bank had first partnered with installations charges of the air-conditioner CreditVidya in 2018 for instant and and their electricity bills on EMI. automated verification of employment details of salaried card applicants. BoM partners with M1Xchange for MSME bill • CreditVidya helps lenders and wallets assess discounting risk of customers.
PAISALO, SBI sign first co-origination loan agreement to empower MSMEs
PAISALO Digital Limited signed the first co- origination loan agreement with State Bank of India.
It is the first agreement of its kind in the country that State Bank of India has signed. State-owned Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) has • Introducing a platform for the last mile partnered with M1Xchange TReDS platform for customer, the loan ticket is designed at Rs MSME bill discounting. 10,000 to 2 lakh. • PAISALO Digital Limited is a leading • Trade Receivables Discounting System systemically important non-deposit taking (TReDS) is a digital platform to support NBFC registered with the Reserve Bank of micro, small and medium enterprises India, in operations since 199 (MSMEs) to get their bills financed at a • The agreement was signed with a vision of competitive rate through an auction where empowering the AGRI, MSME segment and multiple registered financiers can participate. small businesses. • Mynd Solutions is a technology management firm which runs the TReDS platform of Bajaj Finserv launches industry first proposition M1Xchange. to pay electricity bill on EMIs • The main purpose of TReDS platform is to facilitate smooth flow of liquidity in the system and make finance available at a competitive rate.
BoB, Srei Equipment Finance Ltd joins hand to offer joint loans
Bajaj Finance Ltd. has launched the #BijliOnEMI campaign wherein customer buying air conditioners will also have the option to pay for their electricity bill on EMI.
Srei Equipment Finance Ltd and Bank of Baroda will Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB) proposes to raise Rs come together to offer joint loans for infrastructure 1816 crore by allotting 99 per cent of its shares at Rs equipment under a new agreement. 112 a piece on a preferential basis to Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd. • The partners will be able to leverage each other's customers and cross-sell their • Earlier this month, the private sector lender products. had announced its merger with Indiabulls • Srei's 'iQuippo' platform will facilitate the Housing Finance Ltd (IBHL) in a share-swap sourcing of loans under this arrangement. deal. • The board of LVB has approved the merger Points to remember with IBHL in which shareholders of the bank will get 14 shares of IBHL for every 100 • Bank of Baroda Headquarters: Vadodara, shares they hold. Gujarat • CEO: P. S. Jayakumar RBI approves the proposal of HDFC for holding a 9.9% stake in Bandhan Ban SBI General launches cyber defence insurance for businesses The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has given its nod to HDFC Ltd for acquiring up to 9.9 per cent stake in SBI General Insurance has launched a product to Bandhan Bank following the Gruh Finance deal. protect businesses from financial and reputational losses due to cyber attacks. • Gruh Finance, the affordable housing finance arm of HDFC Ltd, was taken over by • In the initial phase, the focus will be on SMEs Bandhan Bank in a share-swap deal in and mid-market businesses, but later the January 2019. product can cater to larger business • The scheme remains subject to the approvals conglomerates as well. from the National Company Law Tribunal • This offers protection against the growing and the respective shareholders of Gruh threat of cyber breaches. Finance and Bandhan Bank. • It is designed to protect against major insurable cyber exposures like hacking Government raises authorised capital of attacks, identity theft, disclosure of sensitive Allahabad Bank to Rs 8,000 crore information and business interruption. State-owned Allahabad Bank said on April 23 the BEML and Syndicate Bank sign MoU government has increased its authorised capital by Rs 5,000 crore to Rs 8,000 crore. Syndicate Bank and BEML Limited, a 'Miniratna' Public Sector Undertaking, have signed an MOU for • The central government after consultation financing Earth Moving and Construction with the Reserve Bank of India has increased Equipment manufactured by BEML. the authorised capital of the bank. • The increase in authorised capital will enable • Under the MOU, BEML will nominate the bank to raise further fund up to a Syndicate Bank as a preferred financier for maximum ceiling of Rs 8,000 crore. financing its customers. • The customers under the tie-up arrangement Points to remember will be provided loans in the range of Rs 20 Lakh to Rs 300 Lakh and preferential pricing • Headquarters: Kolkata by Syndicate Bank. • Founded: 24 April 1865 • MD & CEO: S. S. Mallikarjuna Rao Lakshmi Vilas Bank to raise Rs 1816 crore via preferential shares sale to Indiabulls Housing RBI divests its entire stake in NABARD and Finance NHB Based on the recommendation of the second • They should have at least Rs 100 crore net Narasimham Committee, the Reserve Bank has worth from three years of commencing divested its entire stake in National Housing Bank operations. (NHB) and the National Bank for Agriculture and • This net worth requirement in the form of Rural Development (NABARD). liquid assets has been brought down from the earlier Rs 300 crore. • RBI has sold the entire stake worth twenty • However, the minimum net worth required to crore rupees in NABARD and 1,450 crore be held in liquid assets for clearing rupees in NHB in the last quarter of 2018-19. corporations on the commencement of • With this, the government now holds a 100 operations remains the same as Rs 50 crore. per cent stake in both these financial institutions. Points to Remember
RBI to issue new Rs 20 denomination banknotes • SEBI Headquarters: Mumbai • Chairman: Ajay Tyagi
Vijay Chandok to head ICICI Securities The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will soon release new banknotes of Rs 20 denomination in the Mahatma Gandhi (New) Series.
• It will bear the signature of RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das. • The new denomination has the motif of the Ellora Caves on the reverse. • The base colour of the note is greenish yellow. • All the banknotes in the denomination of Rs 20 issued by the RBI in the earlier series will continue to be legal tender. ICICI Securities has appointed Vijay Chandok as an • The dimension of the new Rs 20 note will be additional director and as a Managing Director and 63 mm x 129 mm. CEO of the company with effect from May 7, 2019. Sebi reduces minimum net worth requirements • Vijay Chandok, presently Executive Director for clearing corp in IFSC of the ICICI Bank, has tendered his resignation from the board of the bank to take effect at the end of the day on May 6, 2019. • A subsidiary of ICICI bank, the company said that Shilpa Kumar has tendered her resignation as the Managing Director and CEO and also a director of the company with effect from May 6, 2019. • She will be taking up a senior level position Sebi has reduced the minimum required level for at ICICI Bank Limited, the company said. clearing corporations operating in international • Chandok is also on the boards of ICICI Bank financial services centre. UK PLC and ICICI Bank Canada. Air Marshal NS Dhillon appointed as new • Mr Dasari takes over from Siddhartha Lal, Strategic Forces Command chief who will continue as the MD of Eicher Motors Ltd. Fighter pilot Air Marshal NS Dhillon has been appointed as the new Strategic Forces Command Senior US Treasury official David Malpass Chief. selected as President of World Bank
• The Strategic Forces Command (SFC) is tasked to look after the strategic nuclear arsenal of the country and is a part of India's Nuclear Command Authority (NCA) headed by PM Narendra Modi. • Dhillon graduated from the National Defence Academy in Khadakwasla in Pune and later attended Defence Services Staff College in Wellington Cantonment and National Senior US Treasury official David Malpass has been Defence College in New Delhi. selected as President of the World Bank. • The SFC was created on January 4, 2003, by the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Government and • The World Bank's executive board Air Marshal Teja Mohan Asthana became the unanimously selected 63-year-old Malpass as first commander-in-chief of the SFC. the bank's 13th President for a five-year. • The World Bank President is Chair of Boards Sawhney takes over as Chief Executive of ICC of Directors of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced International Development Association. that Manu Sawhney will assume the position of Chief Executive with immediate effect. Points to Remember
• Sawhney has been working alongside the • Headquarters: Washington, D.C., United outgoing Chief Executive David Richardson States for the last six weeks. • Membership: 189 countries (IBRD); 173 • Richardson will remain with the ICC until countries (IDA) July as originally planned to oversee the delivery of the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup Men's hockey team gets Graham Reid as coach 2019.
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• ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2019 Hosts: England, Wales
Eicher Motors appoints Vinod Dasari as Royal Enfield CEO
Eicher Motors Ltd. has appointed Vinod K. Dasari as Australian Graham Reid's appointment as the men's the chief executive officer of Royal Enfield. national team chief coach till the end of 2020 was ratified after Hockey India received necessary clearance from the Sports Authority of India (SAI). • Dasari will also join the board of Eicher Motors as an executive director with immediate effect. • Reid's tenure will be till the end of next year. As per industry standards, every international • He stepped down as managing director and CEO of Ashok Leyland on March 3 coach's contract is supposed to be for an • Akhtar is the head of the Department of Olympic cycle. Training and Capacity Building in Education • But his contract will have a provision of at the National Institute of Educational extension till 202 Planning and Administration in New Delhi. • Everything will depend on India's • She has been appointed Jamia vice chancellor performances leading upto the Tokyo for five years. Olympics. • Akthar is also the first woman vice- chancellor of any central university in Delhi. SUN Group chairman Vikramjit Sahney names as the new president of ICC India Rajesh Kumar Yaduvanshi appointed as Punjab National Bank Executive Director SUN Group Chairman Vikramjit Singh Sahney elected as the new president of International Punjab National Bank (PNB) has appointed Rajesh Chamber of Commerce (ICC) - India. Kumar Yaduvanshi as the Executive Director of the bank with effect from April 1 • He will succeed in Jawahar Vadivelu. • The International Chamber of Commerce is • He has also worked with Dena Bank in the largest, most representative business capacity of the Executive Director. organization in the world. • Yadivanshi, having 34 years of banking career, had joined PNB as a management Points to Remember trainee in 198 • With his joining, PNB now has three • Founded: 1919 Executive Directors, the others being L V • Headquarters: Paris, France Prabhakar and A K Azad.
Vikram Nath appointed as first Chief Justice of Mithali Raj named goodwill ambassador for new Andhra Pradesh High Court Street Child Cricket World Cup
Justice Vikram Nath, the senior most judge of Indian women's cricket team captain Mithali Raj has Allahabad High Court, was appointed on as the first been named the goodwill ambassador of Team India Chief Justice of the newly-constituted Andhra at the Street Child Cricket World Cup (SCCWC). Pradesh High Court. • She, alongside Saurav Ganguly and • The Collegium of Supreme Court comprising Rajasthan Royals, joins in supporting the of Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi team as they gear up for the final match at besides Judges S A Bobde and N V Ramana Lords, just ahead of the ICC Cricket World recommended the name of Justice Vikram Cup. Nath. • The Street Child Cricket World Cup 2019 • The new Andhra Pradesh High court was (SCCWC) is the first cricket world cup for established on 1 January 2019 this year street-connected children. following the division of a combined high • The tournament is being organised by Street court of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Child United (SCU), a UK based organisation. Najma Akhtar becomes Jamia Millia Islamia’s first woman vice chancellor Jaideep Sarkar appointed as India's next High Commissioner to South Africa Professor Najma Akhtar was appointed Vice Chancellor of New Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia. Jaideep Sarkar has been appointed as India's next High Commissioner to South Africa. • She became the first woman to head the 99- year-old university. • Sarkar, a 1987-batch Indian Foreign Service • Maheshwari, who previously served as the officer, is currently serving as India's CEO of Network18 Digital, takes over the ambassador in Bhutan. new role from April 29. • He served in Indian Missions in Tokyo, Seoul and Bangladesh as well. Points to remember • The government also appointed Suhel Ajaz Khan, presently serving as India's Deputy • Twitter CEO: Jack Dorsey Chief of Mission in Saudi Arabia, as the next • Founded: 21 March 2006 Ambassador to Lebanon. • Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Points to Remember Shri Rajendra Kumar Nayak Took Over as CGDA • South Africa capital: Pretoria is the administrative capital, Cape Town is the Shri Rajendra Kumar Nayak took over as the 52nd legislative capital and Bloemfontein is the Controller General of Defence Accounts. judicial capital. • Currency: South African Rand • He is from the Indian Defence Accounts Service of 1983 batch. Deutsche Bank appoints Kaushik Shaparia as CEO • Shri Nayak has held important assignments in the Defence Accounts Department and on deputation in the Government of India. • He was Additional Controller General of Defence Accounts, Defence Accounts Department, Ministry of Defence before taking over as the CGDA.
Karnam Sekar appointed as Indian Overseas Bank’s new MD & CEO
Deutsche Bank appointed Kaushik Shaparia as the Dena Bank’s former Managing Director Karnam chief executive officer for India to succeed Ravneet Sekar has been appointed as the new Managing Gill. Director and Chief Executive Officer of Indian Overseas Bank. • Gill left the bank to head private lender YES Bank earlier this year. • Sekar is likely to take up the position from • Shaparia’s appointment will be effective July 1, 2019. from May 2019. • At Indian Overseas Bank, he will take over • Shaparia served as Asia Pacific Head of the charge from R Subramaniakumar. Corporate Banking Coverage within Institu- tional and Treasury Coverage. Points to Remember
Twitter appoints Manish Maheshwari as India • Headquarters: Chennai MD • Tagline: Good People to Grow With
Twitter has appointed Manish Maheshwari as the Former army chief General Dalbir Singh Managing Director of its India operations. appointed Indian envoy to Seychelles
• Last year, Taranjeet Singh had stepped down Former army chief General Dalbir Singh was named as the India Country Director and Balaji as the Indian high commissioner India to Seychelles. Krish was given charge of leading the country's operations in the interim period. • Seychelles is an Indian Ocean island nation. UAE confers prestigious Zayed Medal on PM Modi • Gen Singh was the army chief when India carried out surgical strikes against terror launch pads in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in September 201 • He was the army chief from 2014 to 201
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• Seychelles Capital: Victoria • Currency: Seychellois rupee UAE has conferred the prestigious Zayed Medal on 3. Isac Doru appointed as AIFF technical Prime Minister Modi. director • It is the highest decoration awarded to kings, All India Football Federation (AIFF) appointed Isac presidents and heads of states. Doru as its new technical director. • The award comes in appreciation of Prime • Doru was selected from a list of over 60 Minister Modi’s role in consolidating the candidates who had applied for the post. long-standing friendship and joint strategic cooperation between the two countries. • The 56-year-old comes with a rich experience • UAE express their appreciation for PM of almost 29 years in international football Modi’s role and efforts in developing friendly across several countries including France, relations and extending bridges of Japan, USA, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Qatar cooperation between the UAE and India in amongst others. various fields.
Shah Rukh Khan felicitated with an Honorary Doctorate by London’s University of Law
Vikram Patel awarded the prestigious John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award
The Gairdner Foundation announced the 2019 Canada Gairdner Award laureates, recognising Goa and Boston-based Vikram Patel.
• He has been awarded for his research career After the honorary doctorates from The University of raising the global profile of mental health Bedfordshire and The University of Edinburgh, problems. superstar Shah Rukh Khan has received an honorary • Each year seven Canada Gairdner Awards are doctorate in Philanthropy by The University of Law, presented to honour the world's most London. significant biomedical and global health researchers. • The actor received the merit during a • Laureates receive a $100,000 cash graduation ceremony for more than 350 honorarium and will be formally presented students. with their awards on October 24, 2019, at the • Over the years, he has established himself as annual Canada Gairdner Awards Gala in a successful actor, film producer, television Toronto. host, philanthropist and an entrepreneur. • He has lent support to the Indian government's campaigns, including Pulse Polio and National Aids Control Organization. • He has worked closely with several charitable foundations, including the Make-a-Wish Foundation.
Tata Steel gets an award at Global Slag Conference & Exhibition Rio Paralympics silver medallist Deepa Malik has been named as the recipient of the New Zealand Tata Steel has been named as the 'Global Slag Prime Minister's Sir Edmund Hillary Fellowship for Company of the Year' at the 14th Global Slag 2019. Conference and Exhibition 2019. • She is the first Indian woman to earn a medal • The award was presented to Tata Steel for its at the Paralympic Games. innovative practices in the development of • The Fellowship Program has been running new applications for Steel by-products since 2008, which aims to strengthen the (Slag). relationship between India and New Zealand • The award demonstrates global recognition by showcasing the different aspects of the of Tata Steels commitment towards warm friendship between the two countries. sustainability & circular economy principles. • NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant was the • The conference was held in Aachen, recipient of this prestigious fellowship in 201 Germany. • It was one of the largest global annual slag Journalists jailed in Myanmar to receive U.N. event, attended by major steelmakers, steel Press Freedom Prize mill service providers & associated companies. Two Reuters journalists who are currently serving seven-year prison sentences in Myanmar are to be Telugu poet K Siva Reddy selected for awarded a prize for press freedom by the U.N.’s prestigious Saraswati Samman 2018 cultural organization.
Telugu poet K Siva Reddy has been selected for the • The 2019 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano Press prestigious Saraswati Samman, 2018 for his Freedom Prize is being awarded to Wa Lone collection of poetry titled ‘Pakkaki Ottigilite’. and Kyaw Soe Oo • The award carries prize money of $25,000. • The award carries a cash prize of 15 lakh rupees, a citation and a plaque. Points to Remember • The award, instituted by the KK Birla Foundation in 199 • UNESCO: United Nations Educational, • It is given annually for an outstanding literary Scientific and Cultural Organization work written in any Indian language and • Headquarters: Paris, France published during the last 10 years. • Head: Audrey Azoulay
Paralympian Deepa Malik named for New The New York Times, Wall Street Journal Zealand Sir Edmund Hillary Fellowship awarded Pulitzer Prizes
The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal were awarded Pulitzer Prizes for their separate investigations of President Donald Trump and his family. • The South Florida Sun Sentinel won the Pulitzer for public service for its coverage of failings by school and law enforcement officials before and after the February 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. • The Associated Press won a Pulitzer for international reporting for its coverage of the The BCCI recommended cricketers Mohammad war in Yemen. Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja and Poonam • Reuters was honoured for international Yadav for the Arjuna award. reporting for its coverage of atrocities committed against Rohingya Muslims in • The decision was taken during a meeting of Myanmar. the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators in New Delhi. Points to remember • 25-year-old Bumrah is currently playing in the IPL for Mumbai Indians. • The Pulitzer Prize is an award for • Pacer Shami has been a crucial cog in the achievements in newspaper, magazine and Indian bowling set up. online journalism. • All-rounder Jadeja has also made a comeback • Each winner receives a certificate and a in the limited overs team and has been named US$15,000 cash award. in the 15-member squad for the World Cup. • The 27-year-old leg-spinner, Poonam, is the Malayalam film "Bhayanakam" wins best fourth name to be nominated for the coveted cinematography award at Beijing International award. Film Festival 4. Raheem Sterling named 2019 FWA footballer of the year Raheem Sterling has been voted the 2019 Footballer of the Year by the Football Writers’ Association.
• He was more than 100 votes ahead of Liverpool defender Virgil Van Dijk. • The FWA Women’s Footballer of the Year Malayalam film "Bhayanakam" (Fear) directed by award for 2019 was awarded to Manchester Jayaraj won the best cinematography award at the City’s England forward player Nikita Parris. Beijing International Film Festival.
• The cinematography was done by Nikihil S Praveen. • The film had also won the best
cinematography award at the 65th National Film Awards. Hamilton wins Bahrain Grand Prix • The film portrays the visits of first World War veteran to a small village in the backwaters of Kerala's Kuttanand as a postman during the World War-II.
BCCI recommends four cricketers for Arjuna award • Indian shooting's next assignment is scheduled at Al Ain, UAE where the ISSF Shotgun World Cup stage two commences on April
Saurav Ghosal scripts history, beco`mes first Indian male squash player to enter top 10 of PSA rankings
Defending world champion Lewis Hamilton claimed Saurav Ghosal scripted history after he became the a dramatic victory for Mercedes in the Bahrain Grand first Indian male squash player to enter the top 10 in Prix. the latest PSA world rankings.
• He took advantage of Ferrari boy Charles • It was a first of sorts for any Indian male Leclerc's wretched misfortune. squash player as before Saurav it was only • Leclerc came home third as the race finished two Indian women players, Joshna Chinappa behind a Safety Car. and Dipika Pallikal had made it to the top 10 • Bottas stayed on top in the driver's in the world rankings. championship, one point ahead of Hamilton. • Riding on his recent run of good • Points to Remember performances, Ghosal has moved up two • Valtteri Bottas won the season-opening places to a career-high ranking of Australian Grand Prix. • Egypt's world champion Ali Farag maintains his position at the top of the ladder. Roger Federer wins Miami Open ICC to join hands with Interpol to fight Roger Federer lifted the 101st title of his remarkable corruption in sport career by winning the Miami Open.
• He defeated the defending champion John Isner 6-1, 6-4 in just 63 minutes.
• Only American Jimmy Connors, with 109, has more career singles titles than Federer. • Isner struggled to continue late in the second set, hampered by pain in his left foot.
• This is the fourth Miami open title for Federer. The International Cricket Council (ICC) has sought closer working relations with the Interpol to widen India finish with 16 gold medals at Asian Airgun the scope of its fight against corruption in the sport. Championships • The cooperation was discussed during ICC Indian shooters signed off with a total of 25 medals Anti-Corruption Unit General Manager, Alex at Asian Airgun Championships Taoyuan, Taipei. Marshall's visit to the Interpol headquarters in Lyon, France. • India finished with 16 gold, five silver and • Marshall said the idea is to ensure that players four bronze. are better educated about the corruptors and Interpol's vast network would be helpful in • On the last day of the competition, Yash this. Vardhan and Shreya Agrawal bagged three gold medals each. Points to Remember • The International Criminal Police India clinch 7 gold, 3 silver, 2 bronze in Ghana Organization is more commonly known as Junior & Cadet Open Interpol. • It is an international organization that facilitates worldwide police cooperation. • Headquarters: Lyon, France
Indian football team rises two places to 101 in FIFA rankings
The Indian football team gained two places to rise to 101 in the new FIFA rankings. In table tennis, India's young paddlers clinched seven gold, three silver and two bronze medals in the • With 1219 total ranking points, the Indian Ghana Junior & Cadet Open, an ITTF Junior circuit team lies 18th among the Asian countries. event. • Iran continued to top the Asian rankings at 21, followed by Japan (26), South Korea (37), • Ananya Chande and Diya Chitale, both from Australia (41) and Qatar (55). Maharashtra, proved to be stars of the • Overall, Belgium remained on top with 1737 weekend, accounting for nine medals - seven points, ahead of France (1734), Brazil (1676), gold, one silver and one bronze. England (1647) and Croatia (1621). • Ananya also cornered a silver in the junior doubles along with Ruby Chan of England ITBP organises first National Sky Running and a bronze in the junior girl's singles. Championship All India Football Federation President Praful Border guarding force Indo Tibetan Border Police Patel becomes 1st Indian to be elected as a (ITBP) along with Sky Running Association of India member of FIFA Executive Council organised the National Sky Running Championship at Mountaineering and Skiing Institute of ITBP at All India Football Federation president Praful Patel Auli in Uttarakhand. has become the first Indian to be elected as a member of the FIFA Executive Council. • This is the first time such championship was organised at a high altitude of up to 4000 • He got 38 out of 46 votes. metres. • Mr Patel was one of the eight candidates • The high altitude marathon was organised for vying for the spot in the election which was both junior and senior categories from April held during the 29th Asian Football 4 to April 5, 2019. Confederations Congress in Kuala Lumpur. • Various athletes from ITBP, Himachal • The membership in the council will be for Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, four years, from 2019 to 202 Haryana and Uttarakhand participated in the championship. Virat Kohli becomes all-time leading IPL scorer
Points to Remember
• The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) is one of the seven Central Armed Police Forces of India, raised on 24 October 1962, under the CRPF Act. • The ITBP was intended for deployment along India's border with Tibet. Virat Kohli overtook Suresh Raina to become the leading run-scorer in the Indian Premier League.
• Up against Kolkata Knight Riders, Kohli also became the 2nd fastest after Chris Gayle to reach 8000 T20 runs. • Till date, Virat Kohli and Suresh Raina are the only two players to score 5000 runs in the IPL. Both men got to the landmark this year. • Rohit Sharma (Mumbai Indians) is 3rd in the list of most runs in the IPL with 4600 runs. Dream11, India's biggest sports game announced the • David Warner (Sunrisers Hyderabad) is 4th completion of a secondary investment by Steadview with 4278 runs. Capital, an Asia-focused alternative asset manager.
Lin Dan clinches Malaysia Open • This investment marks Dream11's entry into the 'Unicorn Club' as the first Indian gaming Chinese badminton ace Lin Dan clinched the company to achieve this milestone. Malaysia Open in Kuala Lumpur. • Dream11 is the market leader with over 50 million users. • After an electric performance, he beat countryman Chen Long 9-21, 21-7, 21-1 Virat Kohli and Smriti Mandhana named as • The title is Lin's first win this year, and also Wisden’s Leading Cricketers in the World his first major success since taking the Malaysia Open in 201
India bow out of 2020 Olympic Qualifying tournament
In Football, Indian women's team bowed out of the 2020 Olympic Qualifying tournament in Mandalay on goal difference despite a 3-3 draw against Myanmar. Indian captain Virat Kohli was named the ‘Leading • Both India and Myanmar were on six points Cricketer in the World’ for the third time in a row in from two games but Myanmar enjoyed a this year’s edition of the Wisden Cricketers’. better goal difference of (8) compared to (4) of India. • This is the third time in a row that the Indian • India had begun their campaign with a captain gained this title. victory against Indonesia 2-0 and thrashed • Smriti Mandhana was the Leading Cricketer Nepal 3-1 in the second game. in the women’s game. • Kohli also won the ICC’s cricketer, test and Dream11 becomes the first Indian gaming one-day international player of the year company to be a unicorn awards in January 2019.
Tiger Woods bags fifth Masters at Augusta • He grabbing the lead from Mercedes team- mate Valtteri Bottas at the first corner and powering to victory in Shanghai. • Max Verstappen of Red Bull was fourth and Charles Leclerc was fifth.
Points to Remember
• Lewis Hamilton 2019 team: Mercedes Golf icon Tiger Woods has won his fifth Masters, the Gelete Burka and Abrha Milaw win 2019 Paris first major of the season play this week at the Marathon Augusta National course.
• This came 14 years after his first victory here in 200 • Tiger has undergone several back operations and endured a series of personal vicissitudes over the past 11 years. • His earlier Masters victories came in 1997,
2001, 2002 and 200 Ethiopian athletes Gelete Burka (women’s race) and Meena Kumari Maisnam clinches gold in Boxing Abrha Milaw (men’s race) won the 43rd edition of World Cup the Paris Marathon.
• They led a record 60,000 participants to the finish line through the French capital. • Milaw won the men’s race with a time of 2 hours: 07 minutes and: 50 seconds. • Burka was the fastest woman with 2 hours: 22 minutes and: 48 seconds. • In the wheelchair race, Julien Casoli won for the third time. India finished with 5 medals in the Boxing World • The Paris marathon is one of the world's most Cup which concluded at Cologne, Germany. popular running events.
• Meena Kumari Maisnam continued her fine Kento Momota beats Anthony Ginting to win run to win gold in the 54 kg. Singapore Open • Reigning youth world champion Sakshi (57 kg) and India Open champion Pwilao Japan's Kento Momota won the Singapore Basumatary (64 kg) settled for the silver. Badminton Open men’s singles title by beating • Pinki Rani (51 kg) and Parveen ( 60 kg) won seventh seed Anthony Ginting 10-21, 21-19, 21-1 bronze. • In the women's final, Tai Tzu-Ying claimed Lewis Hamilton wins Formula One's 1,000th race her second Singapore Open title with a 21-19, 21-15 victory over Japan's Nozomi Okuhara. Lewis Hamilton won the 1,000th Formula One Grand Prix. Harsheel Dani clinches Dutch International title
• This was world champion Hamilton’s sixth Former junior national champion Harsheel Dani victory at the Chinese Grand Prix and second rallied from a game down against Mads in a row this season. Christophersen of Denmark to clinch the Dutch • The rankings were released by United World International badminton title in The Hague. Wrestling. • Punia, who won Gold in the Asian Games • Dani eased to a 15-21, 21-12, 21-13 win in and Commonwealth Games as well as a silver just 47 minutes. in the World Championships last year. • The 22-year-old missed out almost eight • He had first reached the world number one months last year due to ankle surgery. spot in November 2019. • Dani won the Ghana international crown last • He won a gold medal at the Dan Kolov- year. Nikola Petrov tournament in Bulgaria last month. Chandigarh to host Asian Billiards, Snooker Championships Asian Athletics Championships begins in Doha
The Asian Athletics Championships begin in Doha.
• The Asian Athletics Championships is an event organized by the Asian Athletics Association. • In the 2017 Championships held in Bhubaneswar. • In 2017, India had finished on top with a Chandigarh will host the 18th Asian Billiards, the record-breaking haul of 29 medals - 12 gold, 20th Under-21 Asian Snooker Championship and the 5 silver and 12 bronze. China had finished 3rd Ladies Asian Snooker Championship from April second with 20 medals. 27 to May Services lift Santosh Trophy • Internationally renowned players from around 15 Asian countries will be In Football, the Services lifted the Santosh Trophy, participating in this championship. beating Punjab 1-0l in the final at Ludhiana. • The current World Billiards Champion, Pankaj Advani will spearhead the Indian • In the first half, both the teams were goal- challenge. less. In the second half, Services scored the • The championship is being organized under lone goal and held on till the final whistle. the aegis of the Asian Confederation of • The only goal in the match was scored by Billiard Sports (ACBS) and Billiards and Bikash Thapa in the 61st-minute. Snooker Federation of India (BSFI). Points to remember Bajrang regains top spot in world wrestling rankings • Santosh Trophy Most successful team: West Bengal (32 titles)
India bag five medals including two silvers on Day 1 at Asian Athletics Championship
India opened their account at the 23rd Asian Athletics Championship in Doha, Qatar on when Annu Rani won the silver medal in women’s javelin throw. India's Bajrang Punia has regained the world number one spot in the men's 65-kilogram freestyle category • Parul Chaudhary bagged a bronze medal in rankings. women’s 5000m race. • Avinash Sable won a silver medal in men’s • He defeated Kazakhstan's Sayatbek Okassov 3000m steeplechase. 12-7 in a nail-biting 65kg men's freestyle • MR Poovamma finished third in women’s final. 400m with bronze and Gavit Murali Kumar • It is Bajrang's second gold at this bagged another bronze medal for India in the championship, having won one in 201 10,000m event. • Another Indian Parveen Rana, lost to Bahman Mohammad Teymouri of Iran in the Asia Badminton Championships to begins at final 0-3 in 79kg category securing a silver Wuhan in China medal. • In 97 Kg category, Satywart Kadian picked a bronze medal defeating Haobin Gao of China by 8-
Asian Athletics Championship concluded
India bagged four medals, including a Gold, on the final day of the Asian Athletics Championships at The Asia Badminton Championships began at Doha. Wuhan in China. • PU Chitra successfully defended her • It will continue until the 28th of April. Women's 1,500 metres Gold she had won in • India will be represented by Kidambi 201 Srikanth and Sameer Verma in men's singles. • India ended at the fourth spot in the medals • P.V. Sindhu and Saina Nehwal will compete tally with 3 Gold, 7 Silver and 7 Bronze. in women's singles. • Bahrain topped the table with 11 Gold, 7 Silver and 4 Bronze. BCCI shifts IPL final from Chennai to • China was second with 10 Gold, 13 Silver Hyderabad and 7 Bronze. • India had won 29 medals - 12 Gold, 5 Silver The Indian Premier League final scheduled on May and 12 Bronze in the last edition in 12 was shifted from Chennai to Hyderabad. Bhubaneswar in 2017, topping the medal tally for the first time. • The decision came after the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) failed to get Pankaj Advani wins inaugural Asian Snooker requisite permission from the government to Tour title open the three closed stands. India's Pankaj Advani defeated Ehsan Heydari Points to remember Nezhad of Iran 6-4 to claim the inaugural Asian Snooker Tour title. • Chennai cricket stadium: M. A. Chidambaram Stadium • The Indian had earlier defeated Aung Phyo of • Hyderabad cricket stadium: Rajiv Gandhi Myanmar in the semifinal. International Cricket Stadium • Advani had earlier won the second leg of the Tour in China. Bajrang Punia wins Gold in Asian Wrestling Championship Divya, Manju win bronze medals in Asian Wrestling Championship World number one Bajrang Punia won a gold medal to reclaim his Asian Championship crown. In Wrestling, India's Divya Kakran and Manju Kumari bagged bronze medals for the country in the women's competition of the Asian Championships in Xi'an, China. • Asian Games bronze-medallist Kakran Gurpreet, Sunil settle for silver at Asian defeated Battsetseg Soronzonbold of Wrestling Championship Mongolia via fall in the playoffs of the 68- kilogram category. India's Gurpreet Singh and Sunil Kumar settled for a • It was double delight for India as Manju also silver medal each in their Greco-Roman categories at secured a bronze medal earlier in the day by the Asian Wrestling Championships in Xi'an, China. beating Vietnam's Thi Huong Dao 11- • Gurpreet had to be satisfied with a second India bag two gold at ISSF World Cup spot after being handed a 0-8 defeat by Hyeonwoo Kim of Korea in the final of 77- In Shooting, India opened its medal account with kilogram category. gold each in 10 metres Air Rifle Mixed Team and 10 • In 87 kilogram, Sunil Kumar failed to clinch metres Air Pistol Mixed team events at the ISSF the top spot as he went down to Hossein World Cup in Beijing. Ahmad Nouri of Iran in the title clash.
• Young shooters Manu Bhaker and Saurabh 5. Valtteri Bottas wins the Azerbaijan Grand Chaudhary took the top spot in the 10 metres Prix Air Pistol Mixed Team event. • Also, Anjum Moudgil and Divyansh Singh Panwar opened the country's gold account in the 10 metres Air Rifle Mixed Team event.
Divyansh secures India's fourth Olympic quota in shooting
India's Divyansh Singh Panwar secured the country's fourth Olympic quota place in shooting by winning a silver in the ISSF World Cup in Beijing. Valtteri Bottas won the Azerbaijan Grand Prix to retake the Formula One world championship lead • The 17-year-old teenager Divyansh finished from teammate Lewis Hamilton. second in the 10m air rifle event in the International Shooting Sport Federation • Mercedes set an all-time record of four World Cup for pistol and rifle shooters. consecutive one-twos at the start of a season. • Sebastian Vettel was on able to score the third This is India's fourth 2020 Tokyo Olympic quota position for Ferrari. after Anjum Moudgil and Apurvi Chandela (10m air rifle women) and Saurabh Choudhary (10m Air 6. China's Ma Long captures the third world title Pistol men). China's Ma Long captured a third ITTF-World table Shooter Abhishek Verma bags Gold at ISSF tennis championships completing a dream comeback World Cup after six months on the sidelines with a knee injury.
India's Abhishek Verma bagged a Gold medal in the • The 30-year-old, nicknamed the 'Dragon', 10-metre Air Pistol event at the International defeated Sweden's Mattias Falck 4-1 in the Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup at final. Beijing in China. • Ma Long now joins the elite club of male paddlers, who have won the Worlds singles • He clinched the top honours with a total score for three consecutive times: Victor Barna and of 247 points. China’s Zhuang Zedong being the others. • Russia's Artem Chernousov won the Silver. • Ma Long, current World No. 11, won the • With the Gold, Abhishek has secured India's Worlds crown in 2015 (Suzhou), 2017 fifth 2020 Tokyo Olympic quota. (Dusseldorf) and 2019 at Budapest. 7. Ajinkya Rahane to play county cricket for Claire Polosak to be the first female umpire in Hampshire men's ODI
Australia's Claire Polosak made history by becoming India Test vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane becomes the first female umpire to stand in a men's one-day first Indian to play county cricket for Hampshire. international. • She officiated in the final of the World • He will play in the County Championship Cricket League Division 2 between hosts throughout the months of May, June, and Namibia and Oman. July. • The right-handed batsman will replace South • Polosak has already stood in 15 women's Africa’s Aiden Markram. ODIs, the first one in November 2016 between Australia and South Africa. Bajrang Punia to become first Indian to compete • She has also umpired the semi-final of the at Madison Square Garden wrestling event Women's T20 World Cup in 2018 between England and India and four matches at the 2017 Women's World Cup. India finished on the top spot at ISSF World Cup
India topped the standings at the International Shooting Sport Federation, ISSF World Cup in Beijing. Asian champion Bajrang Punia is to become the first Indian wrestler to fight at New York’s iconic • India bagged four medals comprising 3 Gold Madison Square Garden. and a Silver. • China followed India in the Beijing edition • Punia, who won the 65kg men’s freestyle by bagging 2 gold, as many silver and a gold at the recent Asian championships, will bronze. be among top wrestlers selected by the American governing body for the May 6 • In the last edition in New Delhi, India had tournament. jointly topped the standings with Hungary. • The 25-year-old will take on two-time US Japan's Kento Momota retains his Badminton national champion Yianni Diakomahlis in the Asia Championships “Grapple at the Garden” Beat the Streets event. There was a double golden delight for Japan at • Punia has eight gold medals from his Badminton Asia Championships. previous nine international tournaments • World number one Kento Momota retained including last year’s Commonwealth and his Badminton Asia Championships title in Asian Games. Shanghai. • He defeated Shi Yuqi of China 21-12, 11-11, 21-18.
• There was more joy for Japan as Akane Yamaguchi became the first Japanese to win the women's crown by defeating He Bingjiao.
Renowned Hindi poet Pradeep Choubey died of a Economist VG Patel passes away cardiac arrest in his home.
Noted economist, Viharidas Gopaldas Patel passed • Choubey (70) was the younger brother of a away after a brief illness. He was 79. celebrated humorist, satirist and poet Shail Chaturvedi. • He was also known as the ‘Father of • Choubey, known for his humorous poetry Entrepreneurship Movement’ in India. • He quit his job at Dena Bank to pursue his • In 2017, the Government of India had passion for poetry and travelled across the decorated him with a Padma Shri for his nation enthralling audiences with his contribution to the entrepreneurship punches. movement. • Patel had set up the Entrepreneurship Noted Bengali folk singer Amar Pal dies in Development Institute of India (EDII) in Kolkata Ahmedabad in 1983 to work for potential and existing entrepreneurs. • EDII is now a globally-recognised institution in this field.
MLA Jagan Prasad Garg passes away
BJP MLA Jagan Prasad Garg passed away. He was 6
• He suddenly fell ill and was admitted to a Noted Bengali folk singer Amar Pal died in Kolkata hospital in Agra where he breathed his last. after a prolonged illness. He was 9 • Jagan Prasad was elected MLA for the fifth time from North Assembly constituency in • He is one of the legendary figures to Agra. popularise Bengali folk songs. • Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has condoled • His playback in Satyajit Ray directed Hirak his death. Rajar Deshe 'Kotai Ranga Dekhi Duniyay' was one of the hit songs among Bengali Renowned Hindi poet Pradeep Choubey passes circles. away Former Indian footballer Pungam Kannan passed away • Manoshi Sinha Rawal’s "Saffron Swords: Centuries of Indic Resistance to Invaders" is another book of timeless tales.
Prasar Bharati Chairman releases booklet of 'Selected speeches of Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar in the Constituent Assembly' Former India footballer Pungam Kannan died following a prolonged illness.
• He played 14 matches for India & was the former Mohun Bagan & East Bengal forward.
• He also won Santosh Trophy for Bengal twice in a row (1971-73) and was the top- scorer. Prasar Bharati Chairman, A Surya Prakash released • It was legendary German coach Dettmar a booklet of the 'Selected speeches of Dr Bhimrao Cramer who had given him the best Ambedkar in the Constituent Assembly', in New appreciation by calling him 'Pele of Asia' in Delhi. 1968. • The event was organized to commemorate the contributions of Baba Saheb in the upliftment of underprivileged in the country. • Mr Surya Prakash also called upon students to read the speeches of Baba Saheb to have a sense of respect towards his contribution in Garuda Prakashan launches ‘#Modi Again’ and Nation building. ‘Saffron Swords’ Points to Remember
• Prasar Bharati CEO: Shashi Shekhar Vempati • Headquarters: New Delhi • Founded: 23 November 1997
Book on Jallianwala Bagh poem 'Khooni Vaisakhi' released in UAE India’s publishing houses Garuda Prakashan launched its next two books ‘#Modi Again’ and ‘Saffron Swords - Centuries of Indic Resistance to Invaders’
• Aabhas Maldahiyar’s “#Modi Again: Why Modi is right for India, An Ex-Communist’s Manifesto" is the story of someone who was raised on Communist ideology but grew to A book containing English translation of the 100- question the dogmas he was taught in the year-old classic Punjabi poem about Jallianwala education system. Bagh massacre, 'Khooni Vaisakhi' has been released in Abu Dhabi. • India's Ambassador to the UAE Navdeep Q. Who among the following has been appointed as Singh Suri commended the launch of the the head of ICICI Securities? book, saying the ballad is now reaching a global audience. Rahul Prajapati • The poem was translated by Mr Suri whose grandfather, revolutionary poet and novelist Nanak Singh, a Jallianwala Bagh survivor, Sachin Patel wrote it after witnessing first-hand the events of April 13, 1919. Vijay Chandok • The book was also released in New Delhi on April 13, marking 100 years since the N N Jha Jallianwala Bagh massacre that took place in Amritsar. Abhinav Singh
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Weather forecasting Satellite Q. When was MNREGA launched?
2 Feb 2006 Q. Election Commission has approved a request to revise the wages under the MGNREGA scheme from 2 March 2008
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Novak Djokovic Q. Odisha foundation day is also known as? Andy Murray Solidarity Day Roger Federer Utkal Divas John Isner Orissa Divas
Swabhiman Divas Q. World Autism Awareness Day is celebrated every None of these year on which of the following day?
30 March Q. Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank have been merged 31 March with which of the following bank? 1 April IndusInd Bank 2 April State Bank of India 3 April Punjab & Sind Bank
Bank of Baroda Q. What is the capital of Algeria? Indian Bank Port Louis
Algiers Q. Who among the following has been appointed as new Strategic Forces Command chief? Rabat
Teja Mohan Asthana Tunis
NS Dhillon Victoria
Greg Bilton
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Q. India has signed three MOU for cooperation in the fields of mining, culture and Empowerment of Q. Who among the following takes over as Chief persons with disabilities with which of the following Executive of International Cricket Council? country? Shashank Manohar South Korea Manu Sawhney Chile David Richardson South Africa Lalit Modi Ethiopia Anurag Thakur Paraguay
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Agra
Q. Indian teams finished with a total of ______Russia gold medals at the Asian Airgun Championships in USA Taipei? France 10 Germany 16 Israel 18
22 Q. Recently opened Maitri Bridge has been built 7 across which of the following river?
Ravi Q. Which of the following country will host ICC Jhelum Men's Cricket World Cup 2019? Indus Australia, New Zealand Chenab England, Wales Satluj India, Bangladesh
UAE, Saudi Arabaia Q. Which of the following state has topped in Cuba, Jamaica eLearning training for field staff?
Madhya Pradesh Q. What is the capital of Malawi? Andhra Pradesh Lusaka Telangana Lilongwe Punjab Harare Uttarakhand Bamako
Mogadishu Q. Which of the following bank has become the first lender to charge for UPI use?
Q. India will buy 24 MH 60 Romeo Seahawk State Bank of India helicopters from which of the following country? Punjab National Bank Kotak Mahindra Bank Saurav Ghosal
HDFC Bank Mahesh Mangaonkar
Axis Bank
Q. Who among the following is the author of the book "Saffron Swords: Centuries of Indic Resistance Q. What is the limit for Ways and Means Advances to Invaders"? (WMA) set for H1 of 2019-20 by Government of India? Aabhas Maldahiyar
Rs 15000 crore Manoshi Sinha Rawal
Rs 50000 crore Major Surender Poonia
Rs 90000 crore Ashok Shrivastav
Rs 75000 crore Maj Gen GD Bakhshi
Rs 85000 crore
Q. India-Africa Institute of Agriculture and Rural Development (IAIARD) will be set up in which of Q. Which of the following has platform has launched the following country? ‘tipline’ to tackle rumours ahead of elections? Zambia Facebook Malawi Instagram Burundi WhatsApp Madagascar Twitter Namibia Skype
Q. Which of the following country launched the Q. Who among the following became the first Indian world's first nationwide 5G mobile networks? male squash player to enter top 10 of PSA rankings? USA Harinder Pal Sandhu China Kush Kumar Japan Siddarth South Korea France Q. Reliance Jio has acquired Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms named as ______for Rs 700 crore.
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ET Money Q. NuGen Mobility Summit 2019 in November will be organised at which of the following location? Ola Money
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Pune
Chennai Q. Who has been elected as the Chicago’s first African-American woman mayor?
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7.2% Lori Lightfoot
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Vikram Patel Incom
Sachin Jaiswal Connect
Sanju Divedi Echostar
Radha Pal Iridium Communications
Q. The headquarters of International Criminal Police Q. The headquarters of the Bureau of Indian Organization, Interpol are located in which of the Standards is located in which of the following city? following country? Chennai Germany Kolkata Russia New Delhi France Pune Austria Gwalior Spain
Q. National Maritime Day is celebrated every year Q. International Day for Mine Awareness and on which of the following day? Assistance was first observed in which of the 2 April following year? 3 April 2002 4 April 1999 5 April 2006 6 April 2003
2010 Q. In reference to RBI, LAF stands for ______.
Light Adjustment Facility Q. BSNL have gained a licence form a British telecommunications satellite company named as Lower Adjustment Facility ______to provide telecom services in airlines? Loan Adjustment Facility Liquidity Adjustment Facility Q. In April 2019, who among the following has been conferred with an Honorary Doctorate by London’s Liability Adjustment Frequency University of Law?
Salman Khan Q. What is the current Bank Rate? Aamir Khan 5.25% Amitabh Bachchan 6.25% Ajay Devgan 6.5% Shahrukh Khan 6.75%
7.0 % Q. According to the latest FIFA rankings, India ranks at ______place?
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Liquidity Coverage Ratio 92
Loan Cover Ratio 116
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Q. Which of the following country has conferred the rankings? prestigious Zayed Medal to Narander Modi? Belgium
Oman France
Saudi Arabia Brazil
UAE England
Qatar Croatia
Yemen
Q. A 3-day National Cardiology Conference has been inaugurated in which of the following city? Pune New Delhi
Gwalior Mumbai
Ranchi Bangalore
Lucknow Pune
New Delhi
Q. In April 2019, NTPC has signs Rs 2,000 cr term loan pact with which of the following bank? Q. Ugadi is the New Year's Day for the people of ______? State Bank of India
Punjab Punjab National Bank
Bihar Canara Bank
Andhra Pradesh Indian Bank
Assam Allahabad Bank
Bihar
Q. In April 2019, GMR Hyderabad International will raise ______in the international bond market. Q. In April 2019, To undertake joint research and development of advanced technologies the Indian USD 100 million Navy have signed an MoU with ______. USD 200 million Defence Research and Development Organisation USD 300 million Q. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research USD 400 million IIT Kharagpur USD 500 million Bharat Electronics Limited
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited Q. BSE, India INX signed an MoU with Moscow Exchange. BSE stands for ______.
Q. The headquarters of Canara Bank is located at Bharat Stock Exchange ______. Bombay Stock Exchange Chennai Bharat State Exchange Bombay Supreme Exchange
None of These Q. In table tennis, the Indian team has won ______gold medals in the Ghana Junior & Cadet Open.
4 Q. Who among the following has been selected as the president of World Bank? 6
Wilbur Ross 7
David Malpass 10
Christine Lagarde 15
Dina Powell
Geeta Gopinath Q. Who among the following has been elected as the member of FIFA Executive Council?
Rahul Yadav Q. The headquarters of World Bank is located in which of the following city? Praful Patel
Vienna Sanjay Gill
Paris Naveen Tomar
New York Akshay Dhingra
Washington
London Q. Lakshmi Vilas Bank will merge with ______.
LIC Housing Finance
Q. Recently VG Patel passed away. He was a famous DHFL ______. Indiabulls Housing Finance Writer Bajaj Finserv Economist None of These Hockey player
Politician Q. The headquarters of Lakshmi Vilas Bank is Singer located in which of the following city? New Delhi Meghalaya
Pune Manipur
Mumbai Assam
Chennai Tripura
Gandhinagar
Q. About 66.15% stake in MindTree will be acquired by which of the following company? Q. World Health Day is celebrated every year on which of the following day? TCS
4 April Reliance Industries
5 April Larsen and Toubro
6 April Wipro
7 April None of these
8 April
Q. ITBP organised first National Sky Running Championship in which of the following state? Q. The headquarters of the World Health Organisation is located in which of the following Sikkim city? Uttrakhand London Himachal Pradesh Paris Arunachal Pradesh Rome Assam New York
Geneva Q. Indo-Tibetan Border Police were raised on ______.
Q. India’s first carbon-positive settlement, Phayeng 10 December 1996 Village is located in which of the following state? 18 July 1999 Nagaland 24 October 1962 1 April 1954
18 April 1996 Q. The Hayabusa2 spacecraft released an explosive onto an asteroid. The spacecraft belong to which of
the following country? Q. Which of the following country has announced China long-term visas for best 100 Arab start-ups? Russia China USA Oman Japan Saudi Arabia France UAE
Kuwait Q. The National Green Tribunal has slapped a
penalty of Rs 100 crore on which of the following Q. Pradeep Nandrajog took oath as new Chief Justice state for inaction to prevent illegal sand mining in the of which of the following high court? state?
Allahabad High Court Jharkhand
Bombay High Court Tamil Nadu
Delhi High Court Madhya Pradesh
Punjab High Court Andhra Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh High Court Assam
Q. Who among the following won Malaysia Open Q. Indian army have inducted Dhanush. It is a/an title? ______.
Chen Long Long range Ballistic missile
Lin Dan Lightweight helicopter
Carolina Marin Artillery Gun
Peter Gade Battle Tank
Manu Attri Sniper Gun Q. Who among the following is the governor of Maharashtra? Q. Who among the following looks after enemy property and shares in India? BD Mishra
State Government Jagdish Mukhi
Central Government Mridula Sinha
Reserve Bank of India OP Kohli
Owner Company itself C. Vidyasagar Rao
Enemy country
Q. Which of the following institute has topped in national ranking of higher institutes of Ministry of Q. Which of the following company has announced Human Resources Development? India’s first AI-enabled e-motorcycle? IISc Bangalore IIT Mumbai Bajaj IIT Madras Hero MotoCorp IIT BHU Revolt Intellicorp None of these
Tata Motors Q. In which year Central Reserve Police Force was Eicher Motors established? 1938
Q. On 5 April 2019, who among the following 1949 became all-time leading IPL scorer? 1966 1962 Rohit Sharma 1959 David Warner
Virat Kohli Q. Recently which country's paramilitary force has been designated as foreign terrorist organization by David Warner USA?
Rishabh Pant Iraq Iran
Syria Libya Russia None of these
Q. 'Knesset' is the parliament of which country? Q. Graham Reid has been appointed as Coach of men's national hockey team. He belongs to which Japan country? Canada England Israel Australia Germany West Indies None of these Sri Lanka
None of these Q. Which of the following is India's largest Central
Armed Police Forces? Q. Which railway station has become the India’s CRPF first-ever railway station to get green ISO CISF certification? BSF Indore SSB Hyderabad None of these Guwahati Nagpur
Q. Which of the following college got first position Bhopal in the national ranking of higher institutes released by HRD ministry? Q. Who has been appointed as president of World Miranda House Bank? Lady Shri Ram College for Women David Malpass Hansraj College Steven Mnuchin St Stephen's College Larry Kudlow None of these Jeffrey Gerrish
None of these Q. The World Homoeopathy Day is observed to commemorate the birth anniversary of the founder of Homoeopathy. Who is the founder? Q. Which of the following is responsible for the decolorisation of Periyar river? Samuel Hahnemann Eutrophication George Vithoulkas Deposition James Tyler Kent Weathering Galen Carbon Dating 8.1 All of these
Q. Kushagra Rawat is associated with which sports?
Q. Recently which country has released Online Boxing Harms White Paper? Swimming India Badminton UK Shooting Japan Chess Germany
Italy Q. Who has been named as female sportsperson of the year at the ESPN India Multi-Sport Awards 2018? Q. What is ‘Dhanush’? Mary Kom Short Range Missile P V Sindhu Medium Range Missile Saina Nehwal Submarine Krishna Puniya Artillery Gun P Kashyap None
Q. Global Cooling Coalition has recently been Q. Which of the following has become the first launched in which of the following countries? Indian gaming company to be a unicorn? Denmark Dream 11 Spain SportsXS Argentina Libero Sports Chile Sports365 Japan IMG
Q. Which of the following comes under Service Q. What is the Indian Economy growth forecast by Voters? IMF for current fiscal year? Members of Armed Forces of the Union of India 7.0 Members of Armed Police forces of the States 7.3 serving outside 7.6 Persons employed under Government of India on 6.9 posts outside India All of these Q. Recently, MLA Jagan Prasad Garg passes away. None He was elected MLA from which among the following seat?
Q. Which of the following player has been named for North Assembly constituency in Vishakhapatnam Wisden's 'Leading Cricketer', recently? North Assembly constituency in Delhi M S Dhoni Virat Kohli North Assembly constituency in Agra
Shikhar Dhawan North Assembly constituency in Gwalior Rohit Sharma North Assembly constituency in Patna Harbhajan Singh
Q. Which among the following banks, ranks first in Q. In which among the following countries, India has terms of assets under management (AUM)? built a 25-bed maternity hospital? ICICI AMC Nepal KOTAK AMC Bhutan PNB AMC Srilanka HDFC AMC Myanmar SBI AMC None of these
Q. Who among the following has been named as the Q. Who among the following inaugurated the Wisden’s Leading Cricketer in women’s game? Chandra Narayan Yadav Memorial Maternity Hospital in Siraha district of Nepal? Deepti Sharma
Khadga Prasad Oli Ekta Bisht
Nilambar Acharya Smriti Mandhana
Manjeev Singh Puri Mithali Raj
Narendra Modi None of these
Man Mohan Adhikari
Q. Who among the following won the ICC’s cricketer, test and one-day international player of the Q. Who among the following is the new president of year awards in January 2019? the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) M.S Dhoni India?
Bhuvneshwar Kumar Narayanaswami Srinivasan
Cheteshwar Pujara Zaheer Abbas
Virat Kohli Vikramjit Sahney
Shikhar Dhawan Srinivasan
Shashank Manohar
Q. Which among the following cities became the first city in the world to implement a special Ultra Low Q. According to UN report, India's population grew Emission Zone (ULEZ)? at a ______average annual rate between 2010 and New York 2019.
London 1.0%
Tokyo 1.2%
Paris 1.6%
Moscow 0.7 %
0.5%
Q. Military forces of India and Singapore got together to participate in a joint exercise Bold Q. Which of the following company has carried out Kurukshetra 2019, in which among the following its first commercial launch with its Falcon Heavy places? rocket? Kanpur Cantonment in UP Neuralink Babina Cantonment in Jhansi Tesla Danapur Cantonment in Bihar SpaceX The Police Cantonment Complex Pune The Boring Company None of these Blue Origin Q. Government retains interest rate for General Provident Fund at ______. Q. What is the capital of Sudan? 8.2% Mogadishu 7% Khartoum 7.8% Nairobi 6.6% Juba 8% Harare
Q. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has collaborated Q. Who among the following has been removed from with which of the following company to build the position of president of Sudan? industry-specific cloud solutions? John Garang Facebook Omar al-Bashir Yahoo Muammar Gaddafi Google Ali Osman Taha Microsoft None of these None of these
Q. Which of the following country has been named Q. Who among the following has been elected as the as the Guest of Honour country at the Abu Dhabi Israeli Prime Minister for the 5th time? International Book Fair, ADIBF 2019? Hassan Rouhani India Shimon Peres China Bashar al-Assad Oman Benjamin Netanyahu Bangladesh Ariel Sharon Japan
Q. Who among the following has been appointed as 11.28% the first Chief Justice of new Andhra Pradesh High 8.24% Court? 19.87% Vikram Nath 13.24% Jatin Kamal 11.23% Rahul Jeet Singh
Manohar Pal Q. Who among the following released booklet of Y.D Thakur 'Selected speeches of Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar in the Constituent Assembly'?
Q. Who among the following has been selected for Surya Prakash prestigious Saraswati Samman 2018? Rahul Jaiswal Mahasweta Devi Ranjan Ghosh Mahadevi Varma Sachin Tripathi Irshad Kamil Anant Singh K Siva Reddy
None of these Q. The headquarters of Prasar Bharati is at ______.
Chennai Q. Who among the following has been named for Sir Mumbai Edmund Hillary Fellowship 2019? New Delhi P. V. Sindhu Pune Deepa Malik Bangalore Mary Kom
Aamir Khan Q. PM Modi has been conferred on the Order of St Kapil Dev Andrew the Apostle highest state decoration of which of the following country?
Q. Banks close FY19 with credit growth of ______. China Russia Amsterdam
Japan Prague
France
Oman Q. The Department of Telecom has given approval for the merger of Tata Teleservices (TTSL) with
______. Q. Which of the following bank has tied up with Vodafone Idea Limited CreditVidya for improving customer experience? BSNL RBL Bank Bharti Airtel HDFC Bank Reliance Jio ICICI Bank None of these Axis Bank
Yes Bank Q. Who among the following is the CEO of Bharti
Airtel? Q. India has signed a pact to collaborate on solutions Sunil Duggal for smart cities, clean tech with which of the following country? Gopal Vittal
France Kumar Mangalam Birla
Sweden Sunil Mittal
Germany Dilip Shanghvi
Russia
Norway Q. PAISALO Digital Limited signed the first co- origination loan agreement with which of the
following bank? Q. What is the capital of Sweden? Punjab National Bank Oslo State Bank of India Helsinki Indian Bank Stockholm Allahabad Bank Axis Bank Q. Which of the following won the ‘Public Water Agency of the Year’ at the Global Water Summit?
National Mission for Clean Ganga Q. Which of the following organisation launched cloud platform Anthos? National Green Tribunal
Microsoft Central Pollution Control Board
Google Clean Ganga Project
Yahoo None of these
Apple Q. In March 2019, Retail inflation stands at ______.
3.46%
Q. Who among the following is the current 2.86% chairperson of National Green Tribunal? 1.22% Lokeshwar Singh Panta 2.65% Adarsh Kumar Goel 4.33% Swatanter Kumar
Rahul Kumar Jha Q. Virtual Reality Centre (VRC) for the Indian Navy Ajay Mishra has been inaugurated at ______.
Pune
Q. The world Global Water Summit held in which of Kolkata the following city? New Delhi Paris Chennai Moscow Mumbai London
Berlin Q. Tata Trusts join hands to support the handloom Vienna weaving community with which of the following organisation?
Microsoft Indra Nooyi
Google Tim Cook
Yahoo
Facebook Q. Which of the following country will host the world’s foremost Artificial Intelligence Summit? Apple USA
UAE Q. Ambedkar Jayanti is celebrated every year on ______. Japan
10 April China
14 April France
11 April
15 April Q. The festival ‘Vishu’ is celebrated in which of the following Indian State? 12 April Jharkhand
Assam Q. Who among the following is known as Father of The Indian Constitution? West Bengal
Mahatma Gandhi Kerala
J.L. Nehru Madhya Pradesh
B.R. Ambedkar
Mahatma Gandhi Q. Tiger Woods is associated with which of the following sports? None of These Chess
Golf Q. Who among the following is the CEO of Google? Tennis Larry Page Cricket Satya Nadella Football Sundar Pichai Q. Who among the following became the first woman vice-chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia? Q. The world's largest aeroplane designed by Stratolaunch is equipped with ______Boeing 747 Shama Khatoon engines? Najma Akhtar 3 Zahida Khan 4 Shakshi Kumari 5 None of these 6
7 Q. Who among the following won the gold medal at the Boxing World Cup at Cologne, Germany?
Q. Who among the following has declared his victory Meena Kumari in the general election at Finland? Sakshi Timo Soini Pwilao Basumatary Antti Rinne Pinki Rani Alexander Stubb Parveen Sanna Marin
None of these Q. Lewis Hamilton is associated with which of the following Formula One racing team?
Q. Puthandu Pirappu is the new year celebrated in Ferrari which of the following India state? Renault Jammu and Kashmir Red Bull Nagaland Mercedes Tamil Nadu Racing Point Gujarat
Karnataka Q. Who among the following won 2019 Paris Marathon (men’s race)? Tiki Gelana Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited
Abrha Milaw None of these
Mare Dibaba
Tamirat Tola Q. The headquarters of Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) is located at ______. Rosa Mota Chennai
Mumbai Q. India successfully test 'Nirbhay’. It is a/an_____? Kochi Battleship Diu Artillery Gun Kanyakumari Cruise Missile
Battle Tank Q. Who among the following is the Minister of None of these Environment, Forest and Climate Change?
Rajnath Singh Q. Recently Pradeep Choubey passed away. He was Nitin Gadkari a/an_____. Prakash Javadekar Sitar Player Harsh Vardhan Poet Jitendra Singh Politician
Journalist Q. Which of the following launched industry first Sports Person proposition to pay electricity bill on EMIs?
Capital First Ltd. Q. CMFRI joins hands with which of the following Bajaj Finserv Ltd. organizations to protect coastal wetlands? Kotak Mahindra Bank Defence Research and Development Organisation RBL Bank Indian Space Research Organisation HDFC Bank Bharat Electronics Limited 0.2 Mach, 200 meter
Q. The headquarter of UNESCO is located at______0.5 Mach, 500 meter
London 0.7 Mach, 100 meter
Paris 1.2 Mach, 300 meter
Moscow 0.4 Mach, 800 meter
Vienna
Berlin Q. World Hemophilia Day is celebrated every year on______.
12 April Q. Who among the following won Singapore Open? 16 April Kento Momota 19 April Kenichi Tago 17 April Chen Long 15 April Shi Yuqi
None of These Q. The headquarters of World Health Organization
is located in which of the following city? Q. Who among the following won the Dutch London International title? Vienna Rahul Jaiswal Paris Harsheel Dani Geneva Ajay Anand New York Sachin Ahuja
Manpreet Singh Q. Measles is a disease caused by ______.
Fungi Q. The indigenously developed ‘Nirbhay’ missile can travel at a speed of ______at altitudes as low Virus as ______. Bacteria Protozoa
None of these Q. What is the symbol of last tirthankara of Jainism, Lord Mahavir?
Snake Q. Which of the following country has made world’s 1st armored amphibious drone boat? Bull
Japan Lotus
Russia Lion
USA Sparrow
China
Australia Q. AUSINDEX is a joint military exercise between India and______.
Angola Q. Kaziranga National Park is located in which of the following Indian State? Austria
Jammu and Kashmir Australia
Gujarat Argentina
Maharashtra None of these
Assam
Kerala Q. Home Expo India 2019 begins at ______.
Pune
Q. Indian naval ship ‘INS Magar’ have reached with Greater Noida relief material to which of the following country? Agra Sudan Chennai Nigeria Gwalior Mozambique
Algeria Q. The Pulitzer Prize is awarded in the field of Ghana ______? Science and Technology Anmol Khurana
Arts Amit Trivedi
Journalism None of These
Cinema
Sports Q. Mujibnagar day is observed in which of the following country?
Pakistan Q. World Heritage Day is observed every year on______. China
18 April Sri Lanka
16 April Bangladesh
19 April Myanmar
17 April
20 April Q. The Mujibnagar day is observed every year on ______.
19 April Q. What is the theme of 2019 ‘World Heritage Day’? 18 April Our Villages 17 April Rural Landscapes 16 April Ecofriendly Villages 15 April Tourism with environment
None of these Q. Indian coast guard ship ‘Veera’ has been
commissioned at ______. Q. Who among the following has been appointed as Visakhapatnam appointed as Executive Director of Punjab National Bank? Kochi
Vipin Pal Mumbai
Rajesh Kumar Kolkata Mangalore
Q. TikTok app has been removed from the play store after the ban issued by which of the following high Q. Google opened its first Africa Artificial court? Intelligence lab in ______. Delhi High Court Angola Punjab High Court Ghana Madras High Court Namibia Allahabad High Court Kenya Bombay High Court Gabon
Q. According to a recent study by NASA, what was Q. Recently launched satellite ‘Raavana-1’ marks the the first molecule formed in space? entry of which of the following country into space? Hydrogen chloride ion Bangladesh Helium hydride ion Myanmar Hydrogen oxide ion Sri Lanka Helium sulphate ion Pakistan None of these Nepal
Q. Which of the following city will host Asian Q. Who among the following has been named as the Billiards, Snooker Championships? goodwill ambassador for Street Child Cricket World Cup? New Delhi
Virat Kohli Agra
Mithali Raj Hyderabad
Kapil Dev Chandigarh
Jhulan Goswami Pune
Rahul Dravid Q. What is India’s rank on World Press Freedom Rahul Jaikar Index? Sachin Joshi 121 Jaideep Sarkar 136 Pankaj Ahlawat 140 Ankur Soni 156
161 Q. What is the capital of Mali?
Dakar Q. Which of the following bank partners with Lomé M1Xchange for MSME bill discounting? Bamako Punjab National Bank Mopti Bank of Maharashtra Accra Canara Bank
Bank of India Q. Who among the following is the first Indian State Bank of India woman scientist to be elected Royal Society Fellow?
Sakshi Singh Q. Which of the following bank has to join hands Gangandeep Kang with Srei Equipment Finance Ltd to offer joint loans? Deepali Raj Bank of Baroda Prabha Mahajan Bank of Maharashtra Priya Anand Axis Bank
Bank of India Q. Who among the following tops in world wrestling Canara Bank rankings in the men's 65-kilogram freestyle category rankings?
Q. Who among the following has been appointed as Sushil Kumar India's next High Commissioner to South Africa? Niurhun Skrabin Bajrang Punia None of these
Karam Shakir
David Habat Q. Deutsche Bank has appointed ______as chief executive officer for India.
Dinesh Paliwal Q. Pankaj Advani is related to which of the following sports? Kaushik Shaparia
Golf Sachin Tandon
Billiards Bharat Desai
Chess Rahul Tyagi
Shooting
Cricket Q. Deutsche Bank is headquartered in ______.
France
Q. Which of the following ship/ships went to China Poland to participate in the International Fleet Review? Canada INS Kolkata Germany INS Shakti Norway INS Kadmatt
Both A and B Q. 7th China International Technology Fair kicks All of these start in which of the following city?
Beijing
Q. A book on Jallianwala Bagh poem named as Shanghai ______released in UAE. Shenzhen Khooni Bagh Wuhan Laal Vaisakhi Tokyo Khooni Vaisakhi
Laal Bagh Q. Which of the following country will host G20 IIT Delhi summit in 2020? IIT Kanpur India IIT Hyderabad UAE IIT Kharagpur Saudi Arabia IIT Madras South Africa
China Q. Which of the following country will cost G20 summit in June 2019?
Q. India rebuilds Chhyoiphel Kundeling monastery China in which of the following country? Japan Myanmar France China Australia Nepal Indonesia Bhutan
Mangolia Q. Mount Agung is located in which of the following country?
Q. Saudi Arabia increases India's Haj Quota to Laos ______. Vietnam 1.8 Lakh Indonesia 1.9 Lakh Japan 2 Lakh Chile 2.10 Lakh
2.25 lakh Q. Indian Navy launched guided missile destroyer ‘Imphal’ from which of the following locations?
Q. Tokyo-based Terra Drone inks pact with which of Diu the following institute? Chennai Mumbai Vienna
Kolkata
Mangalore Q. Naval Commanders’ conference 2019/1 will take place in which of the following city?
Mumbai Q. Civil Services Day is celebrated every year on ______. Chennai
12 April New Delhi
20 April Pune
18 April Banglore
21 April
24 April Q. Asian Athletics Championships 2019 begins in which of the following city?
Abu Dhabi Q. In which of the following year Bhopal gas tragedy took place? Dubai
1992 Doha
1984 Muscat
1961 Hyderabad
1998
1978 Q. Which of the following country topped the medallist in 2017 Asian Athletics Championships
held in India? Q. The headquarters of the International Labour China Organization is located at ______. Bangladesh Geneva India London Sri Lanka Paris Indonesia New York Q. Comedian Zelensky wins the presidential election of which of the following country? Q. Recently, Amar Pal passed away, he was a famous ______. Laos
Journalist Ukraine
Cricketer Namibia
Folk singer Finland
Sitar Player Argentina
Politician
Q. Which of the following team has won the 2019 Santosh Trophy? Q. Previously, Mount Agung erupts in the year ______. Goa
1999 Services
1963 West Bengal
1981 Punjab
1919 Kerala
1876
Q. Which of the following country has adopted the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2031? Q. Earth Day is is celebrated every year on ______. Canada
18 April UAE
20 April China
22 April Australia
23 April Japan
19 April
Q. Gahirmatha coast which is famous for Olive Ridley turtles is located in which of the following India state? Tamil nadu Pawan Sinha
Kerala Mangal Singh
Andhra Pradesh Mansi Singh
Odisha
Gujarat Q. Annu Rani who won a silver medal at Asian Athletics Championship is related to which of the
following sports? Q. In April 2019, SpiceJet has signed an MoU for 400-meter relay codeshare partnership with which of the following airlines? Discus throw
Philippine Airlines Javelin throw
Emirates Long jump
Qatar Airways None of these
Lufthansa
Singapore Airlines Q. What is the capital of Ukraine?
Budapest
Q. Who among the following is the CEO of SpiceJet? Bucharest
Rahul Sinha Kyiv
Ajay Singh Riga
Amitabh Kant Minsk
Sachin Joshi
Akashdeep Singh Q. Hope Probe is project bound for Mars by which of the following country?
Saudi Arabia Q. Who among the following has been appointed as the Managing Director of Twitter India? UAE
Rahul Jaiswal Canada
Manish Maheshwari South Africa Chile Dharmendra Pradhan
Q. Who among the following will set a record for the Q. Nasim Zaidi quits from the post of non-executive longest spaceflight by a woman? and non-independent director of which of the following organisation? Jessica Meir Jet Airways Anne McClain Spice Jet Anna Lee GoAir Christina Koch Air India None of these None of These
Q. In April 2019, Which of the following organisation has signed an MoU with Ministry of Q. Which of the following insurance company AYUSH for cooperation in research and education in launches cyber defence insurance for businesses? areas of traditional systems of medicine? New India Assurance Tata Institute of Fundamental Research SBI General Insurance Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Royal Sundaram General Insurance Jawaharlal Nehru Centre For Advanced Scientific TATA AIG Research Iffco Tokio Council of Scientific & Industrial Research
None of these Q. In April 2019, For financing Earthmoving and
Construction Equipment, Bharat Earth Movers Q. Who among the following is the officeholder of Limited (BEML) has signed an MoU with which of Ministry of AYUSH? the following bank?
Pramod Sawant ICICI Bank
Santosh Gangwar Punjab national Bank
Jitendra Singh Syndicate Bank
Shripad Naik Canara Bank HDFC Bank
Q. Indonesia releases special stamp on the theme of ______. Q. Which of the following film has won the best cinematography award at Beijing International Film Mahabarata Festival? Ramayana The Postman Bhagavad Gita Cuban Colony Yoga Sutras Bhayanakam Manusmriti Joseph
Varathan Q. Parveen Rana is related to which of the following sports?
Q. Asia Badminton Championships 2019 has begun Cricketer in which of the following country? Football India Wrestling Sri Lanka Badminton Myanmar Table Tennis Afghanistan
China Q. RBI approves the proposal of HDFC for holding a ______stake in Bandhan Bank
Q. Indiabulls Housing Finance is merging with which 9.9% of the following bank? 12.6% Karur Vysya Bank 19% Lakshmi Vilas Bank 21% South Indian Bank 6% DCB Bank
Bandhan Bank Q. World Book Day 2019 is observed every year on Canara Bank ______. Bank of Baroda 20 April Indian Bank 24 April Bandhan Bank 23 April Allahabad Bank 21 April
22 April Q. Allahabad Bank is headquartered in which of the following city?
Q. In April 2019, The government has increased Kolkata authorised capital of Allahabad Bank to ______. Prayagraj Rs 6,000 crore Pune Rs 8,000 crore Banglore Rs 10,000 crore Mumbai Rs 12,000 crore
Rs 20,000 crore Q. Who among the following has taken over as the 52nd Controller General of Defence Accounts?
Q. The new venue for the final of 2019 IPL match is Prabhat Arya Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium. It is located in Rajendra Kumar Nayak which of the following city? Nandan Singh Tripathi Chennai Amit Oswal New Delhi Pradeep Singh Banglore
Hyderabad Q. M. A. Chidambaram Cricket Stadium is located in Mohali which of the following city?
Pune Q. In January 2019, Which of the following bank has Banglore acquired Gruh Finance? Mumbai Etihad Airways
Chennai
Visakhapatnam Q. Kim Jong-un & Vladimir Putin hold first summit talks in ______.
Seoul Q. Which of the following country will name a new town after U.S. President Donald Trump? Moscow
Iran Vladivostok
Israel St Petersburg
Ukraine None of these
Iraq
Vietnam Q. India extends a ban on the import of milk products from which of the following country?
Pakistan Q. What is the number of member states is the European Union (EU)? Bangladesh
15 China
18 Sri Lanka
28 Bhutan
31
19 Q. Indian Coast Guard commissioned Vessel C-441 in which of the following Indian state?
Goa Q. Which of the following became the first major airline to operate plastic-free? Kerala
Emirates Gujarat
Southwest Airlines Andhra Pradesh
Qatar Airways Odisha
Gulf Air Q. RBI divests its entire stake in NABARD and NHB India on the recommendation of ______. China Narasimham Committee Bahrain A C Shah Committee Japan Ghosh Committee Qatar Abid Hussain Committee
None of these Q. What is the name of NASA's robotic Mars lander that has likely recorded the first ‘marsquake’?
Q. Who among the following topped the Fortune's Mars 2020 Rover World Leaders List? Mariner 3 Jack Ma Curiosity Jeff Bezos InSight Bill Gates Phoenix Tim Cook
Donald Trump Q. What was the theme of the 2019 World Malaria day?
Q. India ended at ______spot in the 2019 Asian Ready to beat malaria Athletics Championship? Zero malaria starts with me 2 End Malaria for Good 3 Set by the Roll Back Malaria Partnership 4 None of these 5
6 Q. World Maralria day is celebrated every year on ______.
Q. Which of the following country has topped the 23 April medals table at the 2019 Asian Athletics 24 April championship? 25 April Robin K. Dhowan
26 April Bikram Sing
27 April
Q. What is the capital of Seychelles?
Q. Which of the following committee has been Lome formed by RBI to review the Economic Capital Victoria Framework for the RBI? Port Louis Narasimham Committee Praslin Jalan Committee Dakar A C Shah Committee
Ghosh Committee Q. In April 2019, Who among the following won Abid Hussain Committee Asian Snooker Tour title?
Aung Phyo Q. In April 2019, Karnam Sekar has been appointed Pankaj Advani as the MD & CEO of which of the following bank? Heydari Nezhad Canara Bank Mark Allen UCO Bank Mark Selby IDBI Bank
Indian Overseas Bank Q. Divya Kakran is related to which of the following Bandhan Bank sports?
Hockey Q. Who among the following has been appointed as Boxing the Indian envoy to Seychelles? Javelin Throw Dalbir Singh Long Jump Birender Singh Dhanoa Wrestling Arup Raha
Q. Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary won 24 April ______medal in the 10 metres Air Pistol Mixed 25 April Team event at ISSF World Cup? 26 April Gold 27 April Silver 28 April Bronze
No Medal Q. What was the theme of the 2019 World Silver and Bronze Intellectual Property Day?
Know your rights Q. The Madhya Dakshini Festival 2019 is being Reach for Gold: IP and Sports celebrated in which of the following Indian state? A way to Intellectual Property Assam Contribution of Intellectual Property Karnataka None of these Madhya Pradesh
Jharkhand Q. Which of the following country is the host for 5th Tamil Nadu Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) Media Summit on Climate Action and Disaster Preparedness? Q. A major cyclone named as ______likely to hit Tamil Nadu on April 30 and May 1. India
Kenneth China
Idai Bangladesh
Fani Nepal
Hudhud Myanmar
Vardha
Q. Divyansh, who recently secures India's fourth Olympic quota, is related to which of the following Q. World Intellectual Property Day is observed every sports? year on ______. Long Jump RBL Bank
Shooting Axis Bank
High Jump HDFC Bank
Archery Bandhan bank
Judo
Q. Who among the following is the current President of Nepal? Q. Which of the following country is named as the Guest of honour at the Abu Dhabi International Book Ram Baran Yadav Fair 2019? Win Myint France Sheikh Hasina China Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury India Bidhya Devi Bhandari Bangladesh
Indonesia Q. With which of the following bank, Wirecard has partnered to drive financial inclusion?
Q. The Indian army has signed an MoU with which State Bank of India of the following organisation for the construction of RBL Bank tunnels on China, Pakistan borders? Axis Bank BEML Limited HDFC Bank Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited Canara Bank Larsen & Toubro Q. International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) NHPC Limited World Cup is being organised in which of the Tata Projects Limited following country?
Bangladesh
Q. With which of the following bank, Wirecard has UAE partnered to drive financial inclusion? Canada State Bank of India China Terrorist attack
Russia Scarcity of specific food item like pulses
Q. Who among the following is not a cricketer Severe weather conditions like heatwaves recommended by BCCI for Arjuna award 2019? The spread of an endemic Mohammad Shami None of these Jasprit Bumrah Q. What is the number of Rajya Sabha seats in Rishabh Pant Gujarat?
Ravindra Jadeja 16
Poonam Yadav 22
Q. What is the colour of the new Rs 20 denomination 11 launched by RBI in the Mahatma Gandhi (New) 9 Series? 26 Lavender Q. Who among the following is the current Chairman Chocolate Brown of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)? Greenish Yellow Subhash Chandra Khuntia Dark Green Rajnish Kumar Fluorescent Blue Ashish Kumar Chauhan Q. What is the motif on the new Rs 20 denomination Ajay Tyagi launched by RBI in the Mahatma Gandhi (New) Series? Shaktikanta Das
Taj Mahal Q. In April 2019, Sebi reduces minimum net worth requirements for clearing corp in IFSC to ______. Ellora Caves Rs. 200 Crore India Gate Rs. 500 Crore Konark Sun Temple Rs. 100 Crore Qutub Minar Rs. 700 Crore Q. Recently Orange alert has been issued in Gujarat. It is related to ______. Rs. 1,000 Crore Q. Gurpreet Singh and Sunil Kumar are related to 2014 which of the following sports? 2010
Cricket
Football Q. Which of the following country bans all types of face coverings that prevent anyone from being identified? Wrestling Bangladesh Chess UAE Judo Sri Lanka
Pakistan Q. International Dance Day is observed every year on Indonesia ______. Q. Who among the following won Azerbaijan Grand 30 April Prix? 28 April Valtteri Bottas 29 April Sebastian Vette 27 April Lewis Hamilton 26 April Max Verstappen Q. Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Defence Nico Rosberg Ministers' meeting was held in which of the following country? Q. Which of the following country will hold ASEAN maritime drills 2019? Russia Indonesia Kyrgyzstan South Korea Tajikistan Singapore Uzbekistan Laos China Both 1 and 3 Q. India became a full-time member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in the year ______. Q. Who among the following won ITTF-World table tennis championships? 2008 Ma Lin 2017 Wang Liqin 2018 Ma Long
Timo Boll Q. With which of the following PSU, Defence Ministry has signed an contract to develop 8 anti-submarine Fang Bo shallow watercraft?
MSTC Limited Q. Who among the following will be the first Indian to Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited play county cricket for Hampshire? Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd Virat Kohli Goa Shipyard Rishabh Pant Bharat Earth Movers Shikhar Dhawan
Ajinkya Rahane Q. Which of the following company has acquired Splash Hardik Pandya Corporation, a Philippines-based personal care maker?
Johnson & Johnson Q. Who among the following will be the first Indian to ITC Limited compete at Madison Square Garden wrestling event? Wipro Consumer Care and Lighting Sakshi Malik Dabur Bajrang Punia Britannia Industries Vinesh Phogat
Yogeshwar Dutt Q. Who among the following has been appointed as the Sushil Kumar technical director of All India Football Federation?
John Jensen Q. What is the current capital of Sri Lanka? Isac Doru Colombo Roger Lemerre Anuradhapura Stuart Pearce Bentota None of these Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
Mannar Q. Who among the following became the first female umpire in men's ODI? Doris Turner Bangladesh
Kathy Cross UAE
Claire Polosak
Doris Turner Q. Kento Momota won Badminton Asia Championships. He is from which of the following country? Jacqueline Williams China
Indonesia Q. Who among the following has been named as named 2019 FWA Men’s footballer of the year? Japan
John Stones Russia
Harry Kane France
Raheem Sterling
David Silva Q. Recently Pungam Kannan passed away. He was associated with which of the following sports? Kyle Walker Cricket
Wrestling Q. Who among the following has been as named 2019 FWA Women’s footballer of the year? Boxing
Jill Scott Long Jump
Nikita Parris Football
Demi Stokes
Georgia Stanway Q. Who among the following is the chairman of Wipro?
Fara Williams Vishal Sikka
Lakshmi Mittal
Q. Which of the following country has topped in the Azim Premji International Shooting Sport Federation, ISSF World Gautam Adani Cup, Beijing? Dilip Shanghvi China
France
India