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INDEX Part-1 (CURRENT AFFAIRS) 1. Appointment (National/ International) (Covered Jan to 7june 2019) 2. Awards (64th Awards 2019, Pulitzer Award 2019, Bhart rattan, Padma Vibhsan, Pdma bhusan, Grammy award, Nobel price 2018, 64th 2019, Oscar award, Befta Award 3. Budget (2019) 4. Insurance Awarness 5. ’s Ranking Index (Covered Jan to 7June 2019) 6. Important MoU (Covered Jan to 7June 2019) 7. Web Portal/ App (Covered Jan to 7june 2019 8. Scheme (State gov/ Centre Gov) (Covered Jan to 7june 2019) 9. Important Loan (Covered Jan to 7June 2019) 10. Company Merger List (Covered Jan to 7June 2019) 11. Important Summit (Covered Jan to 7June 2019) 12. Partnership and Agreement (Covered Jan to 7June 2019) 13. Defence News (Covered Jan to 7June 2019) 14. Important Current Affairs in short (Covered Jan to 7June 2019) 15. Important Banking and finance in short (Covered Jan to 7June 2019 16. GDP FORCASTING 17. Payment Bank, Public bank, Private bank, Small Finacial bank 18. Obituary 19. Book and Author 20 Government Sponsored Socially Oriented Insurance Schemes 21. Sports Affaris (Jan to 7June 22. Important Days and Theme

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1. Important Dam in India 2. Mojor Sea port 3. Lake (State –wise)

4. Importatnt National Park 5. Flok Dance (State-wise) 6. Stadium Game Realted 7. Important Temple in India 8. Founder of Fomous Website 9. River and City 10. List of Countries –Capital and Currencies 11. Wildlife Sanctuaries (State-wise) 12. Chief Ministers And Governors 13. Cabinet Ministers 14. States Festivels 15. International Orgnisations headquater 16. List of Important Airport 17. International Stoke exchange list 18. Census-2011 19. Revolutions in the filed of Agriculture in India 20. International Boderline and Boundaries Line

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1. Appointments

ORGANIZATION PERSON ▪ New Member of 15th Finance Commission ▪ Ajay Narayan Jha ▪ New Non-executive chairman of Bank of Baroda ▪ Ex-Finance Secretary Hasmukh Adhia ▪ Senegal’s President ▪ Macky Sall (Second term) ▪ Chairman of National Commission for Backward ▪ Bhagwan Lal Sahni Classes ▪ President of Olympic Council of Asia ▪ Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah ▪ New Chairman of Coordination Committee for 2022 ▪ Randhir Singh Asian Games

▪ New Prime minister of Estonia ▪ Kaja Kallas (First Female) ▪ New Secretary-General of the Medical Council of ▪ Rakesh Kumar Vats India ▪ Chief Scientist at WHO ▪ Soumya Swaminathan ▪ New Director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre ▪ Ajit Kumar Mohanty

▪ Head committee on Comprehensive Insurance ▪ Dr Alok Srivastava Scheme for Advocates (5 members Committee) ▪ Citibank India New head ▪ Ashu Khullar

▪ Goodwill Ambassador of UNDP ▪ Padma Lakshmi ▪ New Finance Secretary ▪ Subhas Chandra Garg ▪ New Prime Minister of Palestine ▪ Mohammad Shtayyeh ▪ Special directors in the Enforcement Directorate ▪ Anup Kumar Dubey and (ED). Sushil Kumar

▪ OIC body’s deputy chairman ▪ Pakistan

▪ New Agricultural Scientific Recruitment Board ▪ Aditya Kumar Misra (ASRB) Chief ▪ First Lokayukta Chairman of Mizoram ▪ C Lalsawta sworn ▪ Non-executive Chairman of Axis Bank ▪ Rakesh Makhija ▪ New chairman of LIC ▪ M.R. Kumar

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel ▪ Chief Minister of Goa ▪ Pramod Sawant ▪ India’s first Lokpal ▪ Ex-Supreme Court judge Justice PC Ghose ▪ PhonePe Brand Ambassador ▪ Aamir Khan ▪ Basketball Federation of India (BFI) President ▪ Govindaraj re-elected

▪ President of Comoros ▪ Azali Assoumani re- elected ▪ New President of ▪ Zuzana Caputova (First Female) ▪ Chief Justice of Telangana HC ▪ Justice T B N Radhakrishnan ▪ Chairman of Railway Board ▪ VK Yadav ▪ Axis Bank MD & CEO ▪ Amitabh Chaudhry ▪ New president ▪ Jair Bolsonaro ▪ New LIC’s Acting Chairman ▪ Hemant Bhargava ▪ Competition Commission of India secretary (CCI) ▪ P K Singh ▪ RBL Bank chief operations officer ▪ Pankaj Sharma ▪ Executive Chairman of National Legal Services ▪ Justice AK Sikri Authority (NALSA) ▪ Chief Justice of Pakistan ▪ Justice Asif Khosa ▪ Chief Economic Advisor ▪ Krishnamurthy V Subramanian ▪ New JIPMER director (Jawaharlal Institute of ▪ Dr Rakesh Aggarwal Postgraduate Medical Education & Research ) ▪ GST panel headed ▪ Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar, Sushil Kumar Modi ▪ RBI set up 5-member panel for boost digital ▪ Nandan Nilekani payments head

▪ IMF as 1st woman and 11th Chief Economist ▪ India-born Gita Gopinath ▪ New Director General of the Sashastra Seema Bal ▪ Rajesh Chandra (SSB) ▪ Facebook India as VP and MD ▪ Ajit Mohan

▪ New Venezuela President ▪ Nicolas Maduro (2nd Term) ▪ New Taiwan PM ▪ Su Tseng-chang

▪ New chief credit officer (CCO) of Axis Bank ▪ Deepak Maheshwari

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel ▪ New independent directors of ICICI bank ▪ B Sriram, Rama Bijapurkar ▪ New ICC’s chief executive ▪ Manu Sawhney ▪ New Women Team’s Coach ▪ Mohammed Ali Qamar ▪ Supreme Court Justice ▪ Justice Sanjiv Khanna, Justice Dinesh Maheshwari ▪ Ambassador of 16th Tata Marathon ▪ Mary Kom ▪ New Director General (Investigation) in the National ▪ Prabhat Singh Human Rights Commission. ▪ New Chief Justice of Pakistan ▪ Asif Khosa ▪ MD, CEO of IDFC First Bank ▪ V Vaidyanathan ▪ New Prime Minister of Sweden ▪ Stefan Lofven ▪ New President of Madagascar ▪ Andry Rajoelina ▪ Interim Finance & Corporate Affairs minister ▪ Piyush Goyal ▪ Yes bank’s MD and CEO ▪ Ranveet Gill ▪ new Malaysian King ▪ Sultan Abdullah ▪ New IndiGo CEO ▪ Ronojoy Dutta ▪ MD of Lakshmi Vilas Bank ▪ Parthasarathi Mukherjeet reappointed for another two years ▪ Brand Ambassdor for Flamingo ▪ Hrithik Roshan ▪ Regional Director WHO SOUTH EAST Asia ▪ Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh (reappointed) ▪ Part time Chairman of Federal Bank ▪ Dilip Sadarangani ▪ BARC (Broadcast Audience Research Council) India ▪ Punit Goenka chairman ▪ New director of the Central Bureau of Investigation ▪ Rishi Kumar Shukla (CBI)

▪ CEO of Corporation Bank ▪ P V Bharathi

▪ New President of El Salvador ▪ Former mayor Nayib Bukele ▪ New civil aviation secretary ▪ Pradeep Singh Kharola ▪ Secretary, Ministry of Minority Affairs ▪ Shri Sailesh

▪ New Union Sports Secretary ▪ Radheyshyam Julaniya

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel ▪ New chairman of African Union ▪ ’s President Abdel Fattah El Sisi

▪ New Election Commissioner ▪ Sushil Chandra ▪ Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Air ▪ Ashwani Lohani India ▪ new chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes ▪ Pramod Chandra Mody (CBDT) ▪ German sports and lifestyle brand PUMA have ▪ 6 times world champion appointed as women’s training Ambassador woman M C Mary Kom ▪ CEO of PayU India ▪ Anirban Mukherjee ▪ President of the Foundation Board for ▪ Ajay Singh Better Boxing of AIBA (International Boxing Association) ▪ First ombudsman for the Board of Control for ▪ D.K. Jain Cricket in India (BCCI).

▪ Brand ambassador of Swasth Immunised India ▪ Khan ▪ President of the Federation of India ▪ Brij Bhushan Sharan (WFI) ▪ Sudan’s Prime Minister ▪ Mohamed Tahir Ayala ▪ Amazon’s Board of Directors ▪ PepsiCo’s former CEO Indra Nooyi ▪ Non-Executive Chairman of IDBI Bank ▪ Hemand Bhargava ▪ New Chairman of National Book Trust (NBT) ▪ Govind Prasad Sharma ▪ Nigeria’s President ▪ Muhammadu Buhari

▪ New Managing Director of LIC ▪ Vipin Anand

▪ Industry Head of Google India ▪ Former Actress, Mayoori kango ▪ Indian Overseas Bank’s new MD & CEO ▪ Karnam Sekar ▪ 52nd Controller General of Defence Accounts (CGDA) ▪ Rajendra Kumar Nayak ▪ Twitter New India Head ▪ Manish Maheshwari ▪ New Chairman of Export Promotion Council for ▪ Ravinder Kumar Passi Handicraft (EPCH)

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel ▪ Deutsche Bank head for India ▪ Kaushik Shaparia ▪ New Executive Director of Punjab National Bank ▪ Rajesh Yaduvanshi ▪ New brand ambassador of redBus ▪ Mahendra Singh Dhoni

▪ Goodwill Ambassador of Street Child Cricket World ▪ Cup 2019 ▪ New Secretary, Defence Finance ▪ Gargi Kaul, ▪ Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) of ▪ Shiv Das Meena National Buildings Construction Corporation (NBCC) ▪ First Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh HC ▪ Justice Vikram Nath ▪ Algeria’s first new president ▪ Abdelkader Bensalah ▪ Haiti’s New Prime Minister ▪ Jean Michel Lapin ▪ Israel’s Prime Minister ▪ Benjamin Netanyahu (5th Term) ▪ New President of ICC India ▪ Vikramjit Sing Sahney ▪ First woman CMD of Pawan Hans Ltd ▪ Usha Padhee ▪ president of Asian Football Confederation ▪ Sheikh Salman ▪ New Nasscom Chairman ▪ Keshav Murugesh ▪ New president of Confederation of Indian Industry ▪ Vikram Kirloskar (CII) ▪ World bank’s new President ▪ David Malpass ▪ New RBI Governor ▪ Shaktikanta Das

▪ New Chief Election Commissioner of India [23rd ▪ Shri Sunil Arora Chief Election Commissioner (CEC)] ▪ Finance Secretary ▪ Shri A. N. Jha ▪ New Chief Economic Advisor ▪ Krishnamurthy Subramanian ▪ Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh ▪ Kamal Nath ▪ Chief Minister of Rajasthan ▪ Ashok Gehlot ▪ Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh ▪ Bhupesh Baghe ▪ Member of UPSC ▪ Shri Bharat Bhushan Vyas

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel ▪ Director, National Crime Records Bureau [NCRB] ▪ Shri Ramphal Pawar

▪ New Indian Ambassador to US ▪ Harsh Vardhan Shringla ▪ Assumes charge of secretary, National Commission ▪ Shri Ashok Kumar Singh for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) ▪ New president of Film and Television Institute of ▪ Brijendra Pal Singh India (FTII) Society and Chairman of Governing Council. ▪ Technical Member in the Appellate Tribunal for ▪ Shri Ravindra Kumar Electricity. Verma ▪ Archery association president ▪ B.V.P Rao ▪ India’s chief boxing coach ▪ CA Kuttappa ▪ president ▪ Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador ▪ US Defense Secretary ▪ Patrick Shanahan ▪ Asia Pacific seat on the UN’s Committee on ▪ Preeti Saran Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR). ▪ Bombay Stock Exchange appoints first independent ▪ Jayshree Vyas woman Director ▪ New Vice Chief of Indian Air Force ▪ Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria ▪ Officer on Special Duty in office of Lokpal ▪ Dilip Kumar

▪ New Member of 15th Finance Commission’s ▪ Dr. Krishnamurthy Advisory Council Subramanian will be the twelfth Member of the Council. ▪ new King ▪ Maha Vajiralongkorn

▪ first brand ambassadors of Myntra. ▪ and ▪ Chief Justice Of The Chhattisgarh HC ▪ Justice PR Ramachandra Menon ▪ New Indian men’s volleyball team coach ▪ Serbian Dragan Mihailovic ▪ Committee headed by Aadhaar architect ▪ Nandan Nilekani

▪ New Navy Chief ▪ Karambir Singh

▪ Malawi's President ▪ Peter Mutharika (2nd term) ▪ Indian Army officer appointed the commander of ▪ Lieutenant General UN Mission in South Sudan Shailesh Tinaikar

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel ▪ Arunachal Pradesh’s CM ▪ Pema Khandu (2nd term) ▪ New Sikkim‘s Chief Minister ▪ P.S. Golay

▪ Odisha CM ▪ Naveen Patnaik (Fifth Term) ▪ TAFE (Tractors and Farm Equipment) brand ▪ Askhay Kumar ambassador ▪ Supreme Court gets four new judges ▪ Aniruddha Bose, A S Bopanna, B R Gavai and Surya Kant. ▪ New Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh ▪ Jagan Mohan Reddy

▪ New Chairperson of the News Broadcasting ▪ Justice A. K. Sikri Standards Authority (NBSA) ▪ New CMD of ITC ▪ Sanjiv Puri

▪ New CEO of LIC Mutual Fund ▪ Dinesh Pangtey

▪ First woman to be inducted into ICC match referee ▪ India’s G.S. Lakshmi panel ▪ Brand ambassador of BharatPe ▪ Salman Khan

▪ Japan’s new Emperor ▪ Naruhito ▪ UN Re-Elects International Narcotics Board ▪ Jagjit Pavadia ▪ North Macedonia’s new president ▪ Stevo Pendarovski ▪ Member Of Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral ▪ Former SC Judge K S Tribunal, London Radhakrishnan ▪ New President of the United Nations General ▪ Professor Tijjani Assembly. Mohammad Bande ▪ President of Indonesia ▪ Joko Widodo second term ▪ ’s new president ▪ Volodymyr Zelenskiy ▪ South Africa’s President ▪ Cyril Ramaphosa ▪ Walmart chief technology officer ▪ Suresh Kumar ▪ ’s prime minister ▪ Scott Morrison ▪ Nigeria’s President ▪ Muhammadu Buhari ▪ New Papua New Guinea prime minister ▪ James Marape ▪ New Axis bank chairman ▪ Rakesh Makhija

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel 2. AWARDS Award PERSON / ORGANIZATION PURPOSE/ FIELD ▪ Legion of ▪ French World Cup ▪ Sport Honour champions

▪ World Memory ▪ Dhruv Manoj ▪ “names and faces” , Championships “random words (Gold) ▪ African Football ▪ Liverpool’s Mohamed ▪ Sport Player of the Salah Year(2018) ▪ ‘Exhibitor of the ▪ Defence Research and ▪ Defence Year Award’ Development Organisation (DRDO) ▪ Sushila Devi ▪ Namita Gokhale ▪ Literature (“Things to Literature Leave Behind) Award

▪ First-ever Philip ▪ PM Narendra Modi ▪ Politics Kotler Presidential award ▪ Gandhi Peace ▪ WHO Goodwill ▪ Prize for 2018 ambassador Yohei Sasakawa ▪ Gandhi Peace ▪ EkalAbhiyan Trust ▪ Its work in the field of Prize for 2017 education for rural and tribal children, rural empowerment and gender and social equality. ▪ Gandhi Peace ▪ AkshayaPatra ▪ Its work towards Prize for 2016 Foundation providing midday meals to children across India, and Sulabh International for its contribution towards the improvement of sanitation facilities in India and the emancipation of manual scavengers.

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel ▪ Sheikh Saud ▪ Bharat Ratna CNR Rao ▪ Eminent Scientist International Prize for Materials Research ▪ Sansad Ratna ▪ BJP MP Anurag ▪ Politician Award ▪ ICC Cricketer of ▪ Virat Kohli ▪ Cricketer the Year ▪ ICC Men’s Test ▪ Virat Kohli ▪ Cricketer Player of the Year ▪ ICC Men’s ODI ▪ Virat Kohli ▪ Cricketer Player of the year ▪ “International ▪ Rishabh Pant ▪ Cricketer Cricket Council’s (ICC) Emerging Player of the year” ▪ IRCTC’s Trains ▪ Southern Railway ▪ Cleanliness Survey Award ▪ Best Tableau in ▪ ICAR- Indian Council of ▪ Republic Day Agricultural Research Parade (ICAR) for its representation of Tableau on ‘Kisan Gandhi’ with the theme: “Mishrit Kheti, Khushiyon Ki Kheti” ▪ Tripura- best state tableau with the theme: ‘Empowering Rural Economy the Gandhian Way’whereas the second position was bagged by Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab was placed in the third spot. ▪ Best marching ▪ Gorkha Brigade ▪ contingent trophy of the Republic Day parade

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel ▪ Australian ▪ Manus Island ’s ▪ Debut book “No Friends literary prize refugee Behrouz But the Mountains” Boochani ▪ K.Veeramani ▪ P.S.Krishnan ▪ Award for Social Justice ▪ “Freedom of the ▪ The State Bank of India’s ▪ Contribution in City of London” UK head Shri Sanjiv promoting the bilateral Chadha relations ▪ ’s highest ▪ Francois Laborde ▪ Old Bengal Priest civilian honour ▪ Aegis Graham ▪ Yes Bank ▪ ‘Innovation in Data Bell Award Science’ 2018 ▪ Israel’s ▪ Sanjay Subrahmanyam ▪ ‘Past time dimension’ prestigious Dan for his work in macro David Prize history. ▪ EY ▪ Siddhartha Lal ▪ MD & CEO of Eicher Entrepreneur of Motors the Year 2018

▪ Swachhata ▪ AMRUT cities and ▪ Excellence Municipal Corporations Awards 2019 of Raigarh(1st), Ambikapurand (2nd) Kumbakonam(3rd) ▪ International ▪ Eva de ▪ Hockey Player Hockey Goede from Netherlands Federation’s and Arthur van Players of the Doren of Belgium Year for 2018 ▪ International ▪ Abdul Aziz Muhamat, a ▪ Sudanese refugee human rights Manus Island refugee, prize ▪ Laureus Sports ▪ Jharkhand’s NGO Yuwa ▪ Working for girl for Good Honour empowerment

▪ “Football Ratna” ▪ Sunil Chhetri ▪ Indian Football Team Captain ▪ Top Employers ▪ Tata Consultancy ▪ TCS the only firm among Institute Services (TCS) the top 10 IT services brands which has received this certification.

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel ▪ Gandhi Peace ▪ Vivekanand Kendra, ▪ Kanyakumari, gets the Prize for 2015 Kanyakumari award for 2015 for their contribution to rural development, education, development of natural resources. ▪ Gandhi Peace ▪ Akshaya Patra ▪ For 2016, it has been Prize for 2016 Foundation and Sulabh jointly given to Akshaya International (jointly) Patra foundation for its contribution in providing mid-day meals to children and Sulabh International for its contribution in improving the condition of sanitation and emancipation of manual scavengers. ▪ Gandhi Peace ▪ Ekal Abhiyan Trust ▪ Ekal Abhiyan Trust has Prize for 2017 won the award for 2017 for their contribution in providing education for rural and tribal children in remote areas, rural empowerment, gender, and social equality. ▪ Gandhi Peace ▪ Yohei Sasakawa ▪ Yohei Sasakawa for Prize for 2018 2018, who is Goodwill Ambassador of the World Health Organisation for Leprosy Elimination, for his role in leprosy eradication. ▪ ’s highest ▪ PM Narendra Modi ▪ Russia for exceptional State Honour services in promoting ▪ “Order of Saint bilateral ties. Andrew the Apostle” ▪ “Global Slag ▪ Tata Steel ▪ For its innovative Company of the practices in the Year” development of new applications for Steel by- products (Slag).

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel ▪ Presidential ▪ Dr. Gyanaditya Shakya ▪ Prize money of INR Award of 1,00,000 and a certificate. Maharshi He accepted award from Badrayan Vyas Vice- President of India M Samman 2019 Venkaiah Naidu. ▪ “Next Billion ▪ Dost Education ▪ ‘Dost Education’, which Edtech Prize is India’s education 2019” technology startup won a $25,000 (Rs 17 lakhs)tech prize for its ability to empower parents to take charge of their child’s early education. ▪ UAE’s highest ▪ PM Modi ▪ For boosting the bilateral civilian ties between both of the award, Zayed nations. Medal ▪ World Summit ▪ “Utkarsh Bangla” and ▪ The schemes under on the “Sabooj Sathi” the West Bengal Information government, Society (WSIS) namely, “Utkarsh awards of Bangla” (Skill training of the United the youth) and“Sabooj Nations (UN). Sathi” (cycles for students) ▪ “Best Digital ▪ Sudhanshu Kumar, the ▪ Agency Award” founder of Digital Sukoon ▪ Saraswati ▪ Telugu poet K Siva ▪ Telugu poet K Siva Samman 2018 Reddy Reddy has been honoured with the prestigious Saraswati Samman, 2018with a cash prize of 15 lakh rupees for his collection of poetry titled ‘Pakkaki Ottigilite’. ▪ World Press ▪ “Crying Girl on the ▪ An image of a little girl Photo award Border” crying, titled “Crying Girl 2019 on the Border”, as she and her mother have been taken into custody by US border officials in Texas,

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel won the prestigious World Press Photo of the Year. ▪ Veteran Getty photographer John Moore took the picture in the Rio Grande Valley on 12th June 2018.

▪ Celent Model ▪ Fincare Small Finance ▪ Financial Inclusion Bank 2019 Bank category, for ‘Redesigning Award Lending to Reach Small Businesses’. ▪ UN Medal for ▪ 150 Indian ▪ For serving the mission their service in peacekeepers with extreme dedication UN Mission in and sacrifice. South Sudan (UNMISS)

▪ National ▪ The Intellectual ▪ Contributions in best Intellectual Property Rights cell facilitation for Property Award (IPR cell) of Kerala registration of 2019 Agricultural University Geographical Indications (KAU) and promotion of registered GI in the country. ▪ Best ▪ Malayalam film ▪ Malayalam cinematography “Bhayanakam” film Bhayanakam (Fear) award at which was directed International by Jayaraj won the best Film Festival cinematography award at the Beijing International Film Festival and had also won the best cinematography award at the 65th National Film Awards. ▪ World Press ▪ Dawn Journalist Cyril ▪ Dawn editor and Freedom Hero Almeida Columnist Cyril Almeida in 2019 from Pakistan has won the IPI’s (International Press Institute) World Press Freedom Hero award in 2019 for his

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel “critical” and “tenacious coverage” of the civil- military relations in Pakistan. ▪ Deenanath ▪ Madhur Bhandarkar, ▪ Deenanath Mangeshkar Mangeshkar Salim Khan, diva Helen Smruti Pratishthan Award 2019 charitable trust, Pune, aims to encourage legends from the fields of music, drama, art and social work. ▪ Rabindranath ▪ Rana Dasgupta ▪ For his 2010 novel “Solo”, Tagore Literary deals with a tale of Prize 2019 estrangement and the ultimate failure of material existence. The Award included a Tagore statue, a certificate for contribution to literature and a cash prize of $10,000. ▪ ‘Public Water ▪ National Mission for ▪ Namami Gange which is Agency of the Clean Ganga (NMCG) India’s flagship Year’ or Namami Gange programme, was presented, with the ‘Public Water Agency of the Year’ award by Global Water Intelligence at the Global Water Summit held in London on 9th April, 2019.

▪ National Water ▪ Madurai district ▪ Rejuvenations and Awards 2018 creating new water bodies ▪ National Water ▪ Maharashtra (State) ▪ Resource management in Awards 2018 India ▪ ‘Non-Life ▪ Bharti AXA General ▪ Insurer of the Insurance Year Award 2019’ ▪ Best Bank ▪ Indian Bank ▪ Successfully meeting the Award from the needs of women’s self-

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel state help groups (SHGs). government of Tamil Nadu ▪ International ▪ TVS Motor ▪ Awarded the ‘Green Era Sustainability Award for Award Sustainability’ at Lisbon, . ▪ Swachh ▪ Indore bagged award ▪ Survekhshan for cleanest city 2019 Awards ▪ Municipal Council area gets cleanest small city award ▪ ASQ (Airport ▪ ’s Biju ▪ Award for being the best Service Quality) Patnaik International airport in size and region award 2018 Airport (2-5 million passengers in Asia-Pacific) for the year 2018.

▪ Golden Peacock ▪ ACKO General Insurance ▪ For their contextual Award 2019 micro insurance product - “Ola Ride Insurance“.

▪ Chameli Devi ▪ BBC Journalist Priyanka ▪ Outstanding women Jain Award Dubey journalist.

▪ Yaswantrao ▪ Ex-RBI Governor ▪ Contribution towards Chavan National Raghuram Rajan economic development Award ▪ Commonwealth ▪ Padmanaban Gopalan ▪ Social entrepreneur from Youth Award for Tamil Nadu, Padmanaban the Asian region Gopalan, founder of No Food Waste ▪ SKOCH Award ▪ Odisha State Disaster ▪ For its remarkable 2018 Management Authority achievements in the field (OSDMA) of disaster management.

▪ Nari Shakti ▪ Kathak dancer Seema ▪ Contribution towards Puraskar Mehta women empowerment the last 15 years ▪ Vyas Samman ▪ Leeladhar Jagudi ▪ Collection of poems “Jitne 2018 Log Utne Prem” published in 2013. He also authored

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel several poetry anthologies. ▪ Abel Prize ▪ American ▪ first woman to win the professor Karen prestigious math award Uhlenbeck ▪ Global Teacher ▪ Peter Tabichi ▪ Peter Tabichi, a Kenyan Prize for 2019 math and physics teacher and a member of the Franciscan religious order has been conferred with the prestigious $1 million Varkey Foundation ▪ Oxford ▪ Amartya Sen ▪ The highest honour University’s bestowed by the Bodley award University of Oxford’s world-famous Bodleian Libraries for his contribution in literature, culture, science, and communication.

▪ Martha Farrell ▪ Delhi government school ▪ Promoting gender quality Award 2019 teacher Manu Gulati and women’s empowerment.

▪ Pravasi ▪ Dr. Rajendra Kumar Joshi ▪ Bharatiya Samman Award ▪ Amitav Ghosh ▪ Jnanpith Award, 2018 ▪ Jnanpith Selection Board ▪ Shree Saini ▪ Miss India Worldwide ▪ New York-based India 2018 Festival Committee (IFC) ▪ Uttar Pradesh ▪ Nations Climate Action ▪ United Nation based startup Award HelpUsGreen ▪ Laxmikant ▪ Mohammed Rafi Award ▪ NGO Spandan Arts Shantaram Kudalkar ▪ Usha Timothy ▪ Mohammed Rafi Award ▪ NGO Spandan Arts ▪ Manju Mehta ▪ Tansen Samman, 2018 ▪ Madhya Pradesh Government ▪ Luka Modrić ▪ FIFA Ballon d'Or Award ▪ FIFA and France Football Association

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel ▪ Eliud Kipchoge ▪ IAAF Male Athlete of the ▪ International Association year of Athletics Federations ▪ Caterine ▪ IAAF Female Athlete of ▪ International Association Ibarguen the year of Athletics Federations ▪ Rattan Lal ▪ Glinka World Soil Prize ▪ UN's Food and 2018 Agriculture Organization (FAO) ▪ Vanessa Ponce ▪ Miss World 2018 ▪ Miss World Organization de Leon ▪ Prathamesh ▪ Mister Supranational ▪ World Beauty Maulingkar 2018 Association, S.A. ▪ Salman Khan ▪ Asian Academy Creative ▪ Asian Academy Creative Award 2018 Award(AAA) ▪ Anurag Kashyap ▪ Asian Academy Creative ▪ Asian Academy Creative Award 2018 Award(AAA) ▪ Kanimozhi ▪ Best woman ▪ Indian Parliamentary Parliamentarian Award Group 2018 ▪ A plaque on ▪ Lt Gen JFR Jacob ▪ Who negotiated the Ammunition Hill historic surrender of Wall of Honour Pakistani troops in Dhaka after the 1971 Bangladesh’s liberation war ▪ Goldman ▪ Alfred Brownell from ▪ Grassroots Environmental Liberia, Bayarjargal environmental Prize 2019 Agvaantseren from ▪ Also called the Mongolia, Ana Colovic Green Nobel Lesoska from North Prize Macedonia, Jacqueline Evans from the Cook Islands, Alberto Curamil from , and Linda Garcia from the United States. ▪ France’s highest ▪ Former ISRO chief AS ▪ for his contribution to civilian award – Kiran Kumar India-France space Chevalier of cooperation Order of the Legion of Honour ▪ 27th PC Chandra ▪ Dr Devi Prasad Shetty ▪ He is one of India's top Awards cardiac surgeon who has

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel an experience of more than 35 years. ▪ Highest US ▪ Tiger Woods ▪ Describing the golfer as civilian awards “one of the greatest athletes in the history of sports.” ▪ 2018 BANK ▪ Canada ▪ The International Bank NOTE OF YEAR Note Society (IBNS) AWARD announces that its voting membership has selected the Bank of Canada ▪ V K Krishna ▪ G D Robert Govender ▪ Indian–origin journalist Menon award in South Africa was 2019 honoured with V K Krishna Menon Award 2019 in for his contribution as pioneer of decolonised journalism. He became first person to be honoured with this award posthumously. ▪ McCain Institute ▪ IPS officer Chhaya ▪ Chhaya Sharma, who led Award Sharma the investigation team of the infamous Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case, has been awarded the 2019 McCain Institute Award for Courage and Leadership on Friday ▪ Sasakawa ▪ Dr. Pramod Kumar ▪ P. K. Mishra from India Award 2019 Mishra received the 2019 Sasakawa award in recognition of his long- term dedication to improve the resilience of communities most exposed to disasters and his personal commitment to social inclusion as a critical principle to reduce inequality and poverty, enhancing the safety net of the socially

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▪ World Book of ▪ Kapil Sharma ▪ Records London most viewed stand-up comedians in India ▪ Council of ▪ Anil Kapoor ▪ Promoting Children’s European Rights Chambers of Commerce (CEUCC) Award ▪ Japan’s ‘Order of ▪ Former foreign secretary ▪ For his contributions to the Rising Sun’ Shyam Saran strengthen the strategic award ties and enhancing mutual understanding between India and Japan. ▪ Man Booker ▪ Jokha Alharthi ▪ Jokha Alharthi, the first International female Omani novelist to prize be translated into English, has won the Man Booker International prize, 2019 for her novel Celestial Bodies. The author will share the prize money £50,000 (approximately Rs 45 lakh) equally with her translator Marilyn Booth. ▪ Celestial Bodies, a compelling tale of love and heartbreak, written in Arabic, is posited in the Omani village of al-Awafi and traces the lives of sisters: Mayya, Asma and Khawla. ▪ Nine Dots book ▪ Indian writer Annie Zaidi ▪ Mumbai-based Zaidi, a award freelance writer whose work includes reportage, essays, short stories, poetry and plays, won for

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▪ Horticulture ▪ N kumar ▪ N Kumar, Vice- award for TNAU Chancellor, Tamil Nadu V-C Agricultural University, has been conferred the lifetime recognition award by the Confederation of Horticulture Association of India. The award has been conferred for his outstanding contribution in the field of horticulture and academic leadership focussed on human resource development in agriculture.

64th Filmware Awards 2019

64th Filmfare Awards 2019 was held at Jio Garden, BKC, Mumbai. Category Winner ▪ Best Film ▪ ▪ Best Actor in a Leading Role (Male) ▪ () ▪ Best Actor in a Leading Role (Female) ▪ (Raazi) ▪ Best Director ▪ Meghna (Raazi) ▪ Best Actor in Supporting Role (Male) ▪ Gajarj Rao (), (Sanju) ▪ Best Actor in Supporting Role ▪ Surekha Sikhri (Badhaai Ho) (Female) ▪ Best Music Album ▪ ()

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Category Winner ▪ Public service ▪ Staff of the South Florida Sun Sentinel ▪ Criticism ▪ Carlos Lozada of The Washington Post ▪ Editorial writing ▪ Brent Staples of the New York Times ▪ Breaking News Reporting ▪ Staff of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ▪ Investigative Reporting ▪ Matt Hamilton, Harriet Ryan and Paul Pringle of the Los Angeles Times ▪ Explanatory Reporting ▪ David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner of The New York Times ▪ Local Reporting ▪ Staff of The Advocate, Baton Rouge, La. ▪ National Reporting ▪ Staff of The Wall Street Journal ▪ International Reporting ▪ Maggie Michael, Maad al-Zikry and Nariman El- Mofty of Associated Press ▪ Staff of Reuters, with notable contributions from Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo ▪ Feature Writing ▪ Hannah Dreier of ProPublica ▪ Commentary ▪ Tony Messenger of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ▪ Editorial Cartooning ▪ Darrin Bell, freelancer ▪ Breaking News Photography ▪ Photography Staff of Reuters ▪ Feature Photography ▪ Lorenzo Tugnoli of The Washington Post

BOOKD, DRAMA AND MUSIC

Category Winner ▪ Fiction ▪ “The Overstory” by Richard Powers ▪ Drama ▪ “Fairview” by Jackie Sibblies Drury ▪ History ▪ “Frederick Douglass” by David W. Blight ▪ Biography or ▪ “The New Negro” by Jeffrey C. Stewart autobiography ▪ Poetry ▪ “Be With” by Forrest Gander ▪ General ▪ “Amity and Prosperity” by Eliza Griswold nonfiction ▪ Music ▪ “p r i s m” by Ellen Reid

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Bharat Ratna

Name Filed Pranab Mukherjee former President Dr. Bhupen Hazarika Musician (posthumously) Shri Nanaji Deshmukh social activist (posthumously)

Padma Vibhushan

Name Field State/Country Intro

Ms. Teejan (Art-Vocals- Chhattisgarh 1st female Pandvani folk singer - Bai Folk) promoting Chhatisgarh's 3,000 year old traditional art form Shri Ismail (Public Affairs) Djibouti President of Djibouti- extended Omar Guelleh support during Operation Rahat, for rescuing Indians and foreigners from war-hit Yemen Shri (Trade & Maharashtra Group Chairman of engineering Anilkumar Industry- conglomerate Larsen & Toubro Manibhai Infrastructure) Naik Shri Balwant (Art-Acting- Maharashtra Marathi Theatre legend and Moreshwar Theatre) historian - especially known for Purandare his play 'Jaanta Raja' on Chhatrapati Shivaji

Padma Bhushan

No. Name Field State/Country Intro

1. Shri John (Trade & USA American Technology Chambers Industry- Business Leader – Technology) Formal CEO of CISCO System

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel 2. Shri Sukhdev (Public Affairs) Punjab Formal Minister in Singh Dhindsa Central and Punjab Govt 3. Shri Pravin (Public Affairs) South Africa South African anti- Gordhan Apartheid Leader and current Minister 4. Shri Mahashay (Trade & Delhi Founder CEO and Dharam Pal Industry-Food Iconic Face of MDH Gulati Processing) Masala 5. Shri Darshan (Social Work) Social Worker Lal Jain Providing Free Education to poor student- Founder president of Saraswati Nadi shodha Santhan 6. Shri Ashok (Medicine- Maharashtra Doctor and Founder of Laxmanrao Affordable Vivekananda Hospital - Kukade Healthcare) serving the needy in the backward, drought-prone Latur region 7. Shri Kariya (Public Affairs) Jharkhand Veteran Tribal Leader Munda and 8 times MP 8. Shri (Art-Music-Sitar) West Bengal Veteran Sitar and Budhaditya Surbahar Artist Mukherjee 9. Shri S Nambi (Science & Kerala Narayan Engineering- Space) 10 Shri Mohanlal (Art-Acting-Film) Kerala Malayalam Film Viswanathan Superstar- acted in Nair 350+ films 11. Shri Kuldip Literature & Delhi Veteran Journalist & Nayar Education Author (Posthumous) (Journalism) 12. Ms. Bachendri (Sports- Uttarakhand Woman mountaineer Pal Mountaineering) who has lead multiple mountaineering and rafting expeditions - first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest 13. Shri V K (Civil Service) Delhi Shunglu

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Grammy Award Category Winner Album of the Year Golden Hour by Kacey Musgraves Record of the Year “This is America”, Childish Gambino Best New Artist Dua Lipa Best Rap Album Invasion of Privacy by Cardi B Song of the Year “This is America”, Childish Gambino Best Rock Album From the Fires by Greta Van Fleet Best Rock Song “Masseducation” by St. Vincent Dance/Electronic Album Woman Worldwide, Justice Producer of the Year Blanton Alspaugh Best Music Video “This is America”, Childish Gambino Best Country Song “Space Cowboy” by Kacey Musgraves Best Folk Song All Ashore by Punch Brothers Best Comedy Album Equanimity & the Bird Revelation by Dave Chappelle

BAFTA 2019 Winners List

Category Winner Best Film Roma Best Director Alfonso Cuaron (Roma) Best Actress Olivia Colman (The Favourite) Best Actor Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody) Best Supporting Actress Rachel Weisz (The Favourite)

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S. Field Winner Description No. “for their discovery of cancer Physiology or James P Allison (USA) and Tasaku 1. therapy by inhibition of Medicine Honjo (Japan) negative immune regulation” Arthur Ashkin (USA), Gerard "for groundbreaking inventions 2. Physics Mourou (France) in the field of laser physics" and Donna Strickland (Canada) (a) one half to Frances H. Arnold (a) "for the directed evolution of (USA) enzymes" 3. Chemistry (b) other half jointly to George P. (b) "for the phage display of Smith (USA) and Sir Gregory P. peptides and antibodies" Winter (UK) “for their efforts to end the use Denis Mukwege (Congo) and 4. Peace of sexual violence as a weapon Nadia Murad (Iraq) of war and armed conflict” (a) “for integrating climate change into long- macroeconomic analysis” Economic (a) William D. Nordhaus (USA) (b) 5. (b) “for integrating Sciences Paul M. Romer (USA) technological innovations into long-run macroeconomic analysis.”

Oscar Awards 2019 Sl. Category Winner No. 1. Best Picture Green Book 2. Best Actress in a Leading Role Olivia Colman for The Favourite 3. Best Actor in a Leading Role Rami Malek for Bohemian Rhapsody 4. Best Directing Alfonso Cuarón for Roma 5. Best Supporting Actor Mahershala Ali for Green Book 6. Best Supporting Actress Regina King for If Beale Street Could Talk. 7. Best Foreign Language Roma 8. Best Documentary Feature Free Solo

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4. BUDGET

Scheme About PM Kisaan Samman Nidhi 75000 crs. MGNREGA 60,000 crs.Under PM gram sadak yojana Rural roads under Gram 19000 Crs. Sadak Yojana.

Railways 64,587 Crs Mudra Yojana 7.23 Crs. Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi launched to provide assured monthly pension Mandhan of 3000 rupees per month, with contribution of 100 rupees per month, for workers in unorganized sector after 60 years of age. Pradhanmantri Shramyogi Mandhan 500 Crs to be launched for poor people yogna Gokul Scheme 7500 crs. The “Rashtriya Gokul Mission” has been launched by the Government for conservation and development of indigenous breeds in a focused and scientific manner. The mission also envisages establishment of integrated cattle development centres „Gokul Grams to develop indigenous breeds including upto 40% nondescript breeds.

Standard deduction limit limit increased to INR 50, 000 from INR 40,000 earlier Food for all 1.7 lakhs crs Defence budget 3 lakhs crs

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Index Index released by India’s 1st Rank Rank Global Corruption Transparency International 78 Perception Index Most Powerful Henley Passport Index 79th Japan Passports EIU Democracy Economist Intelligent Unit 41st Narway Index 2018 global talent INSEAD business school in 80th competitiveness partnership with Tata Communications and Adecco Group General Data CISCO 6th Protection Regulation (GDPR) readiness index.

Bloomberg 2019 54th Innovative Index

Online Companies Stripe, a San Francisco-based 11th Singapore/Hongkong positioned online payment processing firm International IP US Chambers of Commerce 36th US Index ‘Inclusive Internet ‘Economist Intelligence Unit 47th Sweden Index 2019’ (EIU) for Facebook 2018 Global Go To Think Tank 1ST India Think Tank Index Report” Most live able ECA international survey Singapore (14th location for Asian consecutive year) World’s most Swiss based company IQ Air Gurugram polluted city in AirVisual and non profit 2018 organization Greenpeace Forbes World’s Forbes Mukesh Amazon’s Jeff Billionaires Ambani Bezos and family ranks 13th with USD 131 billion richest

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Highest number of PLOS Biology 16TH Malaysia impacted species in hotspots

Quality of Living Mercer’s Austria’s capital Survey 2019 city Vienna

World’s Most Economist Intelligence Unit Singapore, Paris and Expensive Cities (EIU) survey Hong Kong shared Survey top spot World Happiness Sustainable Development 140th Report Solutions Network World’s busiest Airports Council International 12th Hartsfield–Jackson airports (ACI) Atlanta International Airport (US) Global Energy World Economic Forum 76th Sweden Transition index (WEF) World’s best 59th (Indira Singapore airport aviation hub Gandhi International (IGI) Airport, New Delhi) World Press International NGO, Reporters 140th Freedom Index without Borders 2019 Startup Ecosystem StartupBlink. 17th United States Ranking for 2019 2019 Index of Economist Intelligence Unit 19th Australia Cancer (EIU) Preparedness (ICP) FIFA Rankings FIFA (The Federation 101st Belgium Internationale de Football Association) Targeted nation by Akamai Technologies 2nd US hackers in 2018 Passport Index UNDP human development 67th Singapore index Best airport 8th (rajiv Habad international ranking gandhi airport ,Qatar

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airport hyderabad Global World Economic Forum 43rd Singapore Competitiveness Index Global Gender 95th Demark enquality Index 2019

❖ Telangana secured top spot in eLearning Training for Field Staff Telangana has secured the first rank for the second year in a row in the e-Learning training programme of Department of Personal and Training (DoPT), Government of India. The training is being imparted to achieve the goal of “training for all”. 1) Over 20, 000 field staff in different districts of Telangana was imparted training on 12 soft skills modules and 3 domain-specific modules on RTI, Office Procedures, and Finance & Accounts, by Dr MCR HRD Institute. 2) The institute is also mentoring other states to spread the Comprehensive Online Modified Modules on Induction Training (COMMIT) Programme as a national mission. ❖ President Ramnath Kovind Released NIRF, ARIIA 2019 Rankings : IIT Madras ranked No.1 On 8th April 2019,President Ramnath Kovind Published National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2019and Atal Ranking of Institutions for Innovation Achievements (ARIIA) 2019 ranking for higher educational institutes in India at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi.

The rankings are as follows: Category Winner Overall Indian Institute of Technology Madras University Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras College Miranda House, Delhi

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IMPORTANT MoU’s

MoU Between Two Countries ▪ MoU on Tax info exchange ▪ India and Brunei ▪ MoU on field of food and ▪ Indian Council of Agricultural agriculture Research (ICAR) and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) ▪ MoU on Cooperation in the field ▪ India and Tajikistan of Renewable Energy

▪ MoU on Cooperation in Weather ▪ India and the UK and Climate Sciences

▪ MoU on Undertaking non- ▪ India and Norway intrusive Geological Surveys and Investigations

▪ MoU on Cooperation in the field ▪ India and Argentina of Medical Products Regulation

▪ MoU on reports on Missing and ▪ India and USA Exploited Children

▪ MoU on Cancer Research ▪ India and UK Initiative

▪ MoU on Cooperation in the field ▪ India and of Occupational Safety and Health

▪ MoU on Technology Cooperation ▪ India and Austria in the Road Infrastructure Sector

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel ▪ MoU on Mutual Legal Assistance ▪ India and (MLAT) in Civil and Commercial Matters.

▪ MoU on Collaborate On Digital ▪ India and Afghanistan Education Initiatives ▪ MoU on Cooperation on youth ▪ India and Morocco affairs

▪ MoU on Exchange of information ▪ India and Morocco and technical cooperation cooperation in the field of Housing and Human Settlement. ▪ MoU on Antarctic Cooperation ▪ India and Argentine ▪ MoU on Cooperation in the field ▪ India and Saudi Arabia of Housing ▪ MoU on Startup Cooperation ▪ India and Republic of Korea ▪ MoU on Combating illicit ▪ India and Indonesia trafficking in narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and its precursors ▪ MoU on strengthen cooperation ▪ India and African in the healthcare sector ▪ MoU in the field of coal mining ▪ signed between India and Poland and clean coal technologies ▪ Mutual Cooperation in the field ▪ MoU between India and Malaysia of company secretaryship ▪ MoU for cooperation in the field ▪ India and the Electoral Commission of electoral management and of Namibia (ECN) & Electoral administration Tribunal of Panama (ETP) ▪ Ocean Dialogue to promote ▪ between India and Norway cooperation in the areas of mutual interest pertaining to the development of blue economy. ▪ MoU on cooperation in the field ▪ between India and Brazil of medicine and homeopathy ▪ Establishing mutual cooperation ▪ between India and Maldives to improve the ecosystems for agriculture ▪ MoU on development ▪ between India and United Arab cooperation in Africa Emirates.

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel ▪ Cooperation in agriculture and ▪ between India and Ukraine food industry ▪ MoU on field of biotechnology ▪ between India and Finland ▪ MoU on promoting bilateral ▪ between India and Uzbekistan cooperation in the area of e- Governance ▪ MoU on establishing ISRO’s TTC ▪ Between India and Indonesia station ▪ MoU on agreement for digital ▪ Between Sikkim and Microsoft learning ▪ MoU on Marine Pollution ▪ between India and Norway Initiative ▪ MoU on Security Protection ▪ between India and Sweden Agreement ▪ MoU on strategic partnership ▪ Edelweiss and Bank of Singapore

▪ MoU on Reciprocal Facilitation of ▪ Between India and Morocco procedures for issue of Business Visa ▪ Facilitate Mutual Recognition of ▪ between India and Morocco Academic Qualifications ▪ MoU on Cooperation in the field ▪ between India and Vietnam of Communications ▪ MoU on simplification of visa ▪ between India and South Africa requirements ▪ MoU on combating ▪ between South Korea and India Transnational Crime and developing Police Cooperation ▪ MoU on establish business ▪ Between India and Sri Lanka centre for ICT incubators in Jaffna

▪ MoU on Renewable Energy ▪ India and Denmark ▪ MoU on area of Biotechnology ▪ between India and Brazil ▪ MoU on field of Communications ▪ India and Cambodia ▪ MoU on Traditional Systems of ▪ India and Bolivia Medicine and Homoeopathy ▪ MoU on issue jointly Postage ▪ India and Republic of Korea Stamp ▪ MoU on Geology and Mineral ▪ India and Bolivia Resources ▪ MoU on smart cities, clean tech ▪ India and Sweden

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel ▪ MoU on bilateral cooperation in ▪ India and Netherlands various fields, including political, economic scientific and cultural ▪ MoU on joint research and ▪ Indian Navy and Council of Scientific development of advanced and Industrial Research (CSIR) technologies for the Indian Navy. ▪ MoU to conserve smaller ▪ Indian Space Research wetlands to combat effects of Organisation (ISRO) has partnered climate change with the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) ▪ MoU on research and education ▪ Ministry of Ayush and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) ▪ MoU on Cyber Security Services ▪ Network Intelligence and Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) ▪ MoU on Standardisation and ▪ Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) Conformity Assessment and IIT Delhi ▪ India-Vietnam ▪ Observing that Indian companies were increasingly looking to invest in emerging sectors like renewable energy and energy conservation, infrastructure, agriculture, agro- products, textiles, pharma and oil and gas, Shri Naidu informed him of India’s commitment to address various issues relating to market access and trade barriers. ▪ Konkan Railways signs ▪ Konkan Railways Corporation Ltd agreement with Nepal (KRCL) on Friday signed an agreement with Nepal’s Department of Railways under which the former will supply two 1600 HP DEMU train sets. ▪ The agreement was signed in Kathmandu in the presence of Indian Ambassador to Nepal, Manjeev Singh Puri, and Nepalese Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport Secretary, Madhusudan Adhikari. ▪ The said trains will run on the 34 km long stretch between Jayanagar in India and Kurtha in Nepal.

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel ▪ India and the United States ▪ Agreed to strengthen economic co- operation and bilateral trade by ensuring greater collaboration amongst stakeholders, including government, businesses and entrepreneurs. ▪ A bilateral trade meeting was held between the two countries in New Delhi on Monday. Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu and US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross co-chaired the meeting.

WEB PORTAL/ APP

Web ORGANIZATION PURPOSE portal/App ‘Banglar Shiksha’ West Bengal West Bengal Education Government Minister, Partha Chatterjee unveiled a web portal, “Banglar Shiksha“(banglarshiksha.gov.in), to provide real-time data on state-run and aided schools.

“Bolo App” Google Help children in India with reading, comprehension skills

‘One Delhi’ App Delhi government Obtaining the estimated time of arrival for buses and metros. Providing information about their fares. Providing the best route and mode of travel between two places. List of tourist spots in Delhi.

e-Dharti App Hardeep S Puri, Allow the lessee of the property to see Minister of Housing and the basic details of property along with Urban Affairs its location on map.

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel “YONO Cash” SBI For its customers using which customers can withdraw money from ATMs without using debit cards.YONO – You Only Need One.

“Observer App” Election Commission Electoral Observers can submit the relevant document and material to Election Commission directly. ‘Conquer Exam, Be Indian Institute of Reduce the exam pressure a Warrior’ App Public Health ‘Mi Pay’ Xiaomi i Xiaomi launched Mi Pay, a UPI (Unified Payments Interface) Based mobile payment service in India to send money from one bank account to another or between UPI (Unified Payments Interface) accounts. The service provider of this application is ICICI Bank “My Circle” Airtel collaboration women’s safety with FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) ETMONEY ETMONEY ETMONEY India’s largest app for financial services has integrated with UPI as a payment method. ET Money has clocked Rs 2,000 crore of mutual fund sales on its app Voter Turnout Election commission People of India to watch realtime App of India voter turnout.After collecting all the information from officers, it will be compiled and displayed in the app e-AUSHADHI Minister of State (IC) for e-AUSHADHI portal for online licensing portal AYUSH, Shripad Yesso of Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Naik Homoeopathy drugs and related matters.

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SCHEME PURPOSE Pradhan Mantri JI-VAN Yojana Pradhan Mantri JI-VAN (Jaiv Indhan – Vatavaran Anukool fasal awashesh Nivaran) Yojana. It will provide financial support integrated Bioethanol projects using lignocellulosic biomass and other renewable feedstock. The total financial outlay is of Rs.1969.50cr for the period from 2018-19 to 2023-24.

Arun-3 Hydro Arun-3 Hydro Electric Project (Nepal portion) by Sutlej Jal Vikas Nigam (SJVN) Limited. The project is on Arun River in Sankhuwasabha district of Eastern Nepal.

Gram Samridhi Yojana The scheme is aimed at helping the cottage industry, farmer (Ministry of Food Processing producers’ organisation and individual food Industries ) processors to increase capacity, upgrade technology besides skill improvement, entrepreneurship development and strengthening the farm-to market supply chain.

Mukhyamantri Parivar It is primarily meant for farmers of the state who cultivate on Samman Nidhi Yojana land with areas upto five acres and the families with an 2019 (Haryana) income of less than Rs. 15,000 per month. The scheme would provide a sum of Rs. 6,000 yearly and each family has to nominate a member who will be provided with this amount.

‘Jal Amrutha’ (Karnataka For the purpose of inauguration of the scheme, a function was Government organized by the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj department at Dr B R Ambedkar Bhavan in Bengaluru. The scheme plans to make people aware about the importance of conserving water and to prompt them to come up with ways to avoid wastage of water. STARS scheme (HRD Ministry) i)Funds worth Rs 250 crore have been approved by the HRD ministry which will be utilised to sponsor about 500 science projects, selected on the basis of competitions. ii) The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is the coordinator of the project, to whom the interested candidates would submit their applications.

Transport and Marketing Government of India with a view to boost to export of farm Assistance (TMA) scheme commodities to certain countries in Europe and North America introduced a scheme for providing financial assistance for transport and marketing of agriculture products.

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‘Mukhya Mantri Karigar The nodal department of the scheme is the Directorate of Sahayata’ (Odisha) handicrafts. i)Craftsmen with 10 years of experience and having annual income below Rs.1 lakh are eligible to get an assistance of Rs.800 per month. ii) For craftsmen above 80 years of age would get Rs.1000 per month allowance for those has the same experience and annual income as above.

Yuvashree Arpan scheme Yuvashree Arpan under which 50,000 youths will receive (West Bengal) financial assistance of Rs 1 lakh for setting up an their own business initiatives. Mukhyamantri Anchal Amrit The scheme aims to provide 100 ml milk twice a week, free Yojana (Uttarakhand) of cost, to 2.5 lakh children at 20,000 Anganwadi kendras of Uttarakhand.

‘Atal Aahar Yojna’ The target is set to cover 20000 workers and provide them (Maharashtra) with good quality food at a nominal cost of Rs.5 in the first phase of the scheme. The government is already providing a Subsidy of Rs.4.5 lakh to labourers for house construction and is planning to provide help in education, income and health as well.

Doorstep Banking (SBI) The State Bank of India has initiated a new ‘doorstep banking’ service for senior citizens, differently-abled and infirm account holders as well as visually impaired customers.

‘Wings’ (Aviva Life Insurance) It will helps women dream about what they will become, giving them a clearer picture of their future and their growth prospects. The programme will give them an avenue to freely communicate in a safe environment, allowing them to focus on growth and improvement.

‘The Krushak Assistance for Chief Minister of Odisha,Naveen Patnaik, launched a Rs Livelihood and Income 10,180-crore scheme,for overall development of small, Augmentation (KALIA)’ marginal and landless farmers. ‘Krishi Krishak Bondhu’ (West (i)If a farmer aged between 18 to 60 years dies naturally or Bengal) unnaturally,the state government will pay his family Rs 2 lakh. (ii) Under the second initiative, farmers would get Rs 2,500 twice a year for growing a single crop on one acre of land. Atal Solar Krishi Pump Encouraging farmers to enrol farmers Yojana(Maharashtra ) The things included: two LED bulbs, a DC fan and a mobile charging socket.

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Mission Shakti scheme Interest-free loans of up to Rs.3 lakh for six lakh women self- (Odisha) help groups (WSHGs) benefitting about 70 lakh women in Odisha. ‘Ama Ghare LED’ (Odisha) Under which about 95 lakh families in the State will each get four LED bulbs free of cost.

‘One Family, One Job’ (Sikkim) Under which for every family one government job has been allotted ‘Jai Kisan Rin Mukti Yojana “Jai Kisan Rin Mukti Yojana” scheme was launched by (MP) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shri. Kamal Nath.It is Rs 50,000 crore farm loan waiver scheme for farmers. The loan waiver forms could be submitted till February 5 and farmers would start getting the benefits from February 22.

UNNATI programme (ISRO) Unispace Nanosatellite Assembly and Training programme. It has been launched by ISRO as part of initiative by United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNISPACE-50).

Biju Swasthya Kalyan Yojana Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik announced extension (Odisha) of free health services to all medical colleges and hospitals of Odisha from 1st February 2019. “Yuva Swabhiman Yojana” For youths of the weak section in urban areas of Madhya (Madhya Pradesh) Pradesh. Under this scheme, 100 days of employment will be provided. Jiban Sampark (Odisha) “Jiban Sampark” Project in partnership with UNICEF India (United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund) while inaugurating Tribal Fair also known as “Adivasi Mela” on Republic day. The Adivasi Mela’ is an annual event to showcase the lifestyle, artefacts, culture, tradition and music of the tribal people community of Odisha.

Kalia scholarship Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income scheme (Odisha) Augmentation (KALIA). The beneficiaries will be provided scholarships to pursue higher education in professional courses at free of cost. Children of farmers who have taken admission at Government Professional colleges on merit basis are eligible for this scheme. Shehri Samridhi Utsav Aim to extend the reach of Deendayal Antyodaya Mission – (Ministry of Housing & Urban National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM). Affairs)

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Mukhya Mantri Vriddha The scheme facilitates the amount of Rs. 400 monthly pension Pension for all in the state above the age of 60 years who are not Yojana (MMVPY), (Bihar) getting pension from the government. ‘Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Under this scheme, workers of unorganized sectors whose Mandhan’ (Finance Minister) monthly income is less than Rs. 15,000 may avail the benefits by contributing Rs. 100 per month to further get Rs. 3000 per month after 60 year of age. KALIA Chhatra Bruti’ (Odisha) It aims at providing financial assistance for technical and professional education to farmers’ children by incurring all expenses involved in various levels of education, such as course fee, hostel fee, mess fee by state govt.

Khusi scheme (Odisha) Aimed at improving menstrual hygiene among adolescent girl students in the state, with an outlay of Rs 466.08 crore over a period of 5 years.

Pradhan Mantri Kisan (i)The scheme will provide Rs 6,000 per Samman Nidhi scheme year to small and marginal farmer families having combined land holding/ownership of upto 2 hectares. (ii). The amount will be given in three installments of Rs 2,000 each and will be transferred directly to the bank account of the beneficiaries through Direct Benefit Transfer, ensuring transparency in the entire process and saving time for the farmers. ‘Mukhyamantri Yuva Guarantees 100 days of employment every year to urban Swabhiman Yojana’ (MP) youth from Economically Weaker Sections(EWS). Young Scientist Programme’ To get young school children interested in space science and or ‘YUva VIgyani KAryakram’ technology (YUVIKA 2019) The ISRO Young Scientist Programme YUVIKA 2019, which received an astounding response from students across the country, will be inaugurated on 13 May 2019. The Indian Space Research Organisation, in a fresh announcement today, stated that YUVIKA 2019, which is a two week summer vacation residential programme, will be conducted from 13 to 26 May 2019.

SIDBI’s pilot scheme Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) launched a pilot scheme to extend financial assistance of up to Rs 10 crore to new-age fintech non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) engaged in financing small businesses and other income-generating activities. ‘SMESuvidha’ State-owned Corporation Bank has launched ‘SMESuvidha’ scheme to provide loans to the GST-registered MSMEs at affordable interest rates. The product is designed as a part of the lender’s efforts to improve service and provide best products to MSME sector

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ORGANIZATION/BANK Loan Amount PURPOSE

Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank USD 455 Million Andhra Pradesh Rural (AIIB) Roads Project Asian Development Bank (ADB) USD 926 Million Mumbai Metro Rail Project ADB USD 26 million For improving drainage infrastructure in Dibrugarh town of Assam Asian Development Bank (ADB) USD50 million Invest in India’s renewable energy producer company Avaada Energy Private Limited (AEPL).

World Bank USD 25.2 Million Chhattisgarh Public Financial Management and Accountability Program World Bank USD 96 Million Additional Financing for Uttarakhand Disaster Recovery Project

World Bank 250 Million For National Rural Economic Transformation Project (NRETP) World Bank Rs. 2200 crores ($328- For Andhra Pradesh million) Health Systems Strengthening Project (APHSSP) World Bank $137 Million For the Additional Financing of the Dam Rehabilitation and Improvement Project (DRIP), Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Tamil Nadu and Uttarakhand.

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ADB $750-mn loan to fund railway track electrification in India World Bank $35 million World Bank to invest $35 million in Manapurram Finance ADB $350million State and District Roads in Chhattisgarh World Bank $287milliom Tamil Nadu Health System Reform Programme

COMPANY MERGER LIST

Merge Company About ▪ Telecom Department sanctions ▪ The Telecom Department has sanctioned merger of TTSL and Bharti Airtel the merger of TTSL (Tata Teleservices Limited) consumer mobility business with Bharti Airtel, subject to the condition that Sunil Mittal led firm provides bank guarantees of about Rs. 7,200 crore. ▪ Lakshmi Vilas Bank got merge with ▪ The board of Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB), Indiabulls Housing Finance has approved the merger of private sector lender with Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd, mortgage financier in an all-stock deal. ▪ IndusInd Bank and Bharat ▪ National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) Financial Inclusion approved merger of private sector lender IndusInd Bank with Bharat Financial Inclusion (BFIL), a microfinance company. Now, BFIL become the subsidiary of IndusInd Bank. Last year, IndusInd Bank had received ‘No Objection’ from Reserve Bank of India, National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange. ▪ Chatbot Making Startup Haptik and ▪ Reliance Jio Digital, a subsidiary Reliance Jio Digital of Reliance Industries has acquired a chatbot making startup firm Haptik forRs.700 Crore. ▪ Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank,with ▪ The government has decided to infuse a Bank of Baroda capital of 5,042 crore rupees into state- owned Bank of Baroda ahead of its merger with two other public sector lenders Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank,with

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Bank of Baroda which would be effective from 1st April 2019.

▪ Pallavan Grama Bank and Pandyan ▪ Under the sponsorship of Indian Bank, Grama Bank merged two regional rural bank – Pallavan Grama Bank and Pandyan Grama Bank will be amalgamated to form a single RRB i.e. Tamil Nadu Grama Bank in Tamil Nadu. The consolidation will be effective from April 1, 2019. ▪ Airtel to merge broadband satellite ▪ Bharti Airte has decided to merge its business with Hughes India unit broadband satellite, or VSAT, business with that of market leader Hughes Communications India, to create a stronger no. 1 in the space, in a bid to increase scale, improve operational efficiencies and target new customers in areas such as in-flight connectivity. ▪ Mukesh Ambani’s RIL buys out ▪ Reliance Brands, a subsidiary of Reliance British toy-maker Hamleys Industries Ltd. (RIL), has signed a definitive agreement with C Banner International, a Hong Kong-listed company, to acquire 100% shares of centuries-old British toy retailer Hamleys for £68 million.

▪ Govt to merge CSO with NSSO to ▪ The government has approved the merger create new stats body of National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) with the Central Statistics Office (CSO) under the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI). ▪ The restructuring is in line with the proposed National Policy on Official Statistics which was floated last year. The policy suggests discontinuing with the role of the Chief Statistician of India as secretary to the National Statistical Commission (NSC) and doing away with the user of the terms CSO and NSSO Instead, the two will be treated as being under a single entity called the National Statistical Organisation (NSO).

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▪ Airtel and Tata Tele merger ▪ Telecom operator Bharti Airte is learnt to have submitted a bank guarantee of Rs 644 crore in telecom tribunal TDSAT to complete the merger of Tata Teleservices consumer business with the company. ▪ Merger of Indus Towers and Bharti ▪ Bharti and Vodafone Group Tuesday named Bimal Dayal as the CEO of the mega tower company proposed to be formed from merger of Indus Towers and Bharti Infratel and said the merger process is in “advanced stage of completion”. ▪ Dayal will be responsible for the combined business and take forward integration of the two companies in preparation of the merger, a joint statement said.

IMPORTANT SUMMIT

Summit Location About ▪ 17thedition of World ▪ Dead ▪ Over 1000 representatives from Economic Forum on Sea,Jordan more than 50 countries participated the Middle East and in the meeting.It is the 10th meeting North Africa (MENA) in Jordan . ▪ Global Water ▪ London ▪ National Mission for Clean Ganga Summit (NMCG) or Namami Gange which is India’s flagship programme, was presented, with the ‘Public Water Agency of the Year’ award by Global Water Intelligence ▪ 21st ASEAN-India ▪ New Delhi ▪ Improve the connectivity and Senior Officials strengthen the cooperation in the maritime sector between Indian and the ASEAN countries. ▪ G20 summit ▪ Saudi ▪ Arabia ▪ First edition of Naval ▪ New Delhi ▪ The Hon’ble Defence Minister Commanders’ Nirmala Sitharaman addressed Naval Conference of 2019 Commanders Conference on the opening day.

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▪ It is the apex forum within the Service for interaction between the Naval Commanders, Chief of the Naval Staff, with the Commanders-in- Chief. They will review operational, material, logistics, HR, training and administrative activities which were undertaken during the previous six months. The themes of ‘Functional Reorganization of Indian Navy towards enhancing Operational Efficiency’ and ‘Optimal Manning’ were the core of discussions in this conference.

▪ 5th Asia Pacific ▪ Kathmandu, ▪ The aim of this two day summit was Broadcasting Union Nepal to address the key issue of utilizing (ABU) Media Summit media’s full potential of accelerating on Climate Action climate action and disaster and Disaster preparedness and connect different Preparedness stakeholders to media professionals for collaboration and joint practical projects.

▪ 4th Session of India- ▪ New Delhi ▪ India and Ukraine have discussed Ukraine working bilateral trade featuring the group on Trade and importance of exports and imports Economic between the 2 countries. Cooperation ▪ ‘Indian Ocean Rim ▪ New Delhi ▪ Collaboration of Ministry of Home Association’ Affairs with the Ministry of External Affairs and National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) solely based on Disaster Risk Management. IORA has set Disaster Risk Management its priority to enhance resilience in IORA countries according to its ‘2017-2021’ Action plan.

▪ 2nd ASEAN – India ▪ Guwahati ▪ Which was conducted to strengthen Youth Summit the mutual cooperation among ASEAN countries. It was inaugurated by Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and Union

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Minister of State for Tourism K J Alphons. ▪ World Government ▪ Dubai ▪ The seventh session of the World Summit’s seventh Government Summit began on session Sunday, 10th February 2019, in Dubai, (UAE). More than 4,000 people from 140 countries participated in the event.

▪ 5th International ▪ Bhubanesh ▪ State Water Resources Dam Safety war, Odish minister Niranjan Pujari and Union Conference 2019 a Water Resources & Ganga Rejuvenation Secretary U.P. Singh inaugurated the 5th International Dam Safety Conference 2019 in Bhubaneshwar, Odisha. ▪ 55th Security ▪ Munich, ▪ 55th Munich Security Conference Conference (MSC) Germany (MSC), an annual meeting that brings together leaders and security experts from across the world, was held from 15th to 17th February 2019. Deputy National Security Adviser Pankaj Saran attended the conference and participated in various events besides holding bilateral meetings with several countries. ▪ 4th Agri leadership ▪ Sonipat dist ▪ Union Minister of Agriculture and Summit 2019 rict, Haryan Farmer’s Welfare, Radha a MohanSingh, inaugurated the 4th Agri Leadership Summit 2019 at the India International Horticulture Market (IIHM) in Ganaur, Sonipat district, H aryana. It was a 3-day summit which took place from 15th February 2019 to 17th February 2019. ▪ Global Business ▪ New Delhi ▪ Prime Minister Narendra Summit Modi addressed the Global Business Summit in New Delhi. ▪ i)He announced that India would be a 10 trillion-dollar economy- the third largest in the world. ii)He highlighted the role of his government’s policies in establishing a high growth rate and controlling inflation.

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iii) The government would provide conducive environment for start-ups and promote renewable sources of energy.

▪ 4th India-ASEAN ▪ New Delhi ▪ Union Minister of Commerce & Expo and Summit Industry and Civil Aviation, Suresh Prabhu, inaugurated the 4th India- ASEAN Expo and Summit, held from 21st to 23rd February, 2019, in New Delhi. ▪ It flagship event of Department of Commerce, being organised with Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) to carry forward the momentum and to further strengthen India-ASEAN relationsunder the Act-East Policy.

▪ 4th Global Digital ▪ New Delhi, ▪ Union Minister of Health and Family Health Partnership India Welfare, Shri J P Nadda, inaugurated Summit the ‘4th Global Digital Health Partnership Summit ’, the global intergovernmental meeting on digital health, hosted by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in collaboration with World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Digital Health Partnership (GDHP).The summit held in New Delhi. ▪ International Spice ▪ Hyderabad ▪ International Spice Conference is Conference 2019 considered as platform for all business houses, the spice associations, the policy makers, the farmers and the users, to connect and interact. ▪ The fourth edition of this conference was held in the City of Pearls and the capital city of Telangana- Hyderabad. The theme for the conference 2019 is ‘Challenges of Change, Redefining the Value Chain’. ▪ 16th Ministerial ▪ Qatar, Doha ▪ The meeting is taking place when the Meeting of the world is undergoing complex changes Member States of the and developments at all political,

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Asian Cooperation economic and financial spheres, Dialogue (ACD) stressing the need to deepen cooperation among Asian countries to meet the challenges of the future. ▪ G-7 ▪ France ▪ 7 industrialised nations (France, Japan, United States, Canada, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom) meet organised by France. ▪ India will be attending the Group of 7 industrialised nations meet organised by France in Biarritz in August along with Australia, Chile and South Africa, in a sign of the recognition of India’s growing economic heft in the international arena. ▪ IBSA (India, Brazil & ▪ Cochin from ▪ South Africa) May 3-5, Sherpas’ Meeting 2019. ▪ the 15th Finance ▪ Mumbai ▪ Commission with the Reserve Bank of India ▪ Central Board of ▪ Kochi ▪ India is hosting this meeting in its Indirect Taxes and capacity as Vice Chair of the Asia Customs (CBIC) is Pacific region that it assumed on 1st organising a meeting July, 2018 for a two-year period. of the Regional ▪ The meeting will take stock of the Heads of Customs progress being made in carrying Administration of forward the programmes and Asia Pacific Region of initiatives of WCO to promote, the World Customs facilitate and secure the cross-border Organisation (WCO) trade in the region and the capacity building and technical assistance required to achieve this goal. ▪ World Trade ▪ New Delhi ▪ The meeting is being held at a time Organisation, WTO, when the multilateral rule-based- ministerial meeting trading system is facing serious and grave challenges. ▪ It will provide an opportunity to the Ministers to discuss various issues and the way forward. On the first day, there will be a meeting of senior officers of the participating countries. On the 2nd day, the Ministerial Meeting will be held. ▪ UN to hold 2020 ▪ Portugal’s ▪ The UNGA “decides to convene the ocean conference Lisbon high-level 2020 United Nations

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Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development in Lisbon, from June 2 to 6, 2020,” according to a resolution adopted by the 80th plenary meeting of the UNGA 73rd session ▪ Meeting of Council of ▪ Kyrgyzstan ▪ The meeting will exchange views on Foreign Ministers of capital issues of international and regional Shanghai Co- Bishkek importance. It will also review the operation preparations for the forthcoming SCO Organization (SCO). Summit in Bishkek which commences on the 13th of next month.

▪ 2019 Urban 20 ▪ Tokyo, ▪ First U20 Summit in Buenos Aires, Mayors Summit Japan U20 cities continue to engage with G20 and call on their national governments to work together to address the most pressing challenges our world is facing. The Summit will be two-days event that will address issues like climate action, circular economy, social inclusion, sustainable economic growth, and gender equality, as well as their linkages with the 2030 Agenda. ▪ SWIFT India and ▪ Mumbai ▪ The conference saw the participation South Asia of 500 delegates representing Conference financial institutions, regulators, market infrastructure experts, multinational corporations, and other industry professionals, to discuss the most pertinent issues concerning the nation’s financial market. ▪ The theme of the conference was “Digitisation in transition: The future of innovation and cyber security.

North Korea – United States Hanoi, Vietnam Hanoi Summit has abruptly concluded Inaugural Space Dialogue of New Delhi, India India and Japan

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Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue – Manekshaw Centre, New Delhi 2019 organised Countries of the Indo-Pacific, namely Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, , Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Seychelles, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America participated in the event.

Indo-Japan workshop on New Delhi, India Disaster Risk Reduction FinTech Conclave commenced New Delhi Langkawi International Langkawi, Malaysia Maritime Aero Expo (LIMA- 2019) US-India Counter-terrorism Joint Washington, DC, US Working Group Meeting

12. PARTNERSHIP AND AGREEMENT

Partnership/ Agreement About ▪ NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission ▪ Statement of Intent (SOI) to collectively partners with Adobe drive the charter of developing creative skills and spreading digital literacy across all Atal Tinkering Labs (ATL) in India. ▪ ATLs are being established in more than 5,000 schools in India where students of class 6th to class 12th acquire problem solving and innovation skills, developing innovative solutions leveraging Tinkering technologies like 3D printers, robotics, miniaturised electronics, IOT and programming, do it yourself kits with support from teachers.

▪ ICICI Lombard partnered with ATL ▪ Provide insurance cover to its lenders (AnyTimeLoan.in) and borrowers ▪ Bancassurance Agreement signed by ▪ As part of the agreement, IDBI Bank will IDBI Bank and LIC become the preferred bank for LIC premium payments and also function as premium point to boost sale of LIC products, thereby gaining from fees and float income.

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▪ Ayushman Bharat and Uber ink ▪ A ride-hailing app to provide free partnership healthcare services to Uber drivers. ▪ Life Insurance Corporation Housing ▪ Offer home buyers enhanced loan Finance Ltd (LICHFL) partnered eligibility and easy loans and it will now with India Mortgage Guarantee be in a position to offer extended loan Corporation (IMGC) tenure for borrowers till the age of 75 years, increasing the loan quantum and reducing the burden of monthly EMIs for borrowers.

▪ SBI and Hitachi Payment Services ▪ For establishing a digital payments launched SBIPSPL (SBI Payment platform for India and other countries in Services Pvt Ltd) the region, in Mumbai. ▪ Bancassurance deal signed between ▪ United Bank of India aims to provide the United Bank of India and HDFC Life facilities of life insurance products to its customers through HDFC Life. ▪ India & Russia Deals ▪ India entered into a deal with Russia for leasing of a nuclear – powered attack submarine for Indian Navy worth USD 3 billion for a period of 10 years.

▪ AU Small Finance Bank partnered with ▪ AU Small Finance Bank is working on Acko General Insurance offering customers access to financial services and products directly through their digital channels and building a robust digital banking platform to offer best in class products in Digital Loans, Deposits, and Investment segments.

▪ IBBI inks cooperation deal with ▪ The cooperation agreement provides International Finance Corporation a technical assistance by IFC to IBBI (IFC) (Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India ) until 30th June, 2021.It will provide training of insolvency professionals and trainers by the IFC to IBBI. IBBI provides a platform for re- organization and insolvency resolution of corporate persons, individuals and partnership firmsin a time bound manner for maximization of the value of assets.

▪ Hinduja Global Solutions ▪ launch a centre of excellence (HGS) partnered with NASSCOM in Bengaluru for training differently- Foundation abled persons (PwDs) which will train a minimum of 100 PwDs making them industry-ready over the next 12 months with a goal to place at least 50% of them

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in companies already sensitised for hiring them.

▪ US – India ▪ U.S.-India Strategic Security Dialogue held in Washington DC, United States. Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale led the Indian delegation and Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Andrea Thompson led the US delegation.

▪ Article 3 of the Agreement ▪ The Union Cabinet approved Amendment to the Article 3 of the Agreement between India and Bhutan regarding Ma ndechhu Hydro Electric Project (MHEP) in order to extend the loan repayment tenure by two years extended by India to Bhutan, for implementation of the said Project in Bhutan from 15 to 17 years. ▪ ISRO and IIT Roorkee ▪ Aim to strengthen institutional interactions and thereby enhance the scope of the activities pursued under STC commensurate with the programmatic goals of ISRO.

▪ ICICI Lombard partnered with ▪ ICICI Lombard and digital financial MobiKwik services company MobiKwik entered into a partnership to provide cyber insurance cover of Rs. 50000.

▪ IBBI(Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board ▪ The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India) and SEBI (Securities and of India (IBBI) signed a Memorandum of Exchange Board of India) Understanding (MoU) with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) seeking effective implementation of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (Code) and its allied rules and regulations, which have redefined the debt-equity relationship and aims to promote entrepreneurship and debt market,at Mumbai.

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▪ eBay joined hands with google ▪ US-based e-commerce platform eBay has partnered with Google to offer Google Pay as a form of payment option in its new “managed payments” plan. The collaboration will enhance customer experience tailored to their personal preferences. ▪ Ola and Telangana Govt. ▪ Ola and the Government of Telangana to support the government’s initiative to implement smart solutions to enhance mobility experience further strengthening traffic infrastructure in Hyderabad. ▪ 14th CII-EXIM Bank Conclave on India- ▪ Three day 14th CII-EXIM Bank Conclave Africa Project Partnerships on India-Africa Project Partnerships concluded in New Delhi. The Conclave will enhance the partnership between India and Africa in economic as well as business terms.

▪ SBI signed MoU with Bank of China for ▪ State Bank of India (SBI) signed a pact business opportunities with the third largest Bank in the world by capital size,Bank of China (BoC) to boost business opportunities. It will enhance the business cooperation between both the banks. ▪ Apple partnered with Goldman Sachs ▪ The Tech Giant Apple has partnered with and Mastercard Goldman Sachs and Mastercard to launch a new credit card called Apple Card. ▪ GAIL and BHEL Sign an agreement ▪ GAIL India Ltd joined hand with Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) to cooperate in the development of solar power projects. ▪ Canara Bank and its life insurance ▪ Canara Bank and its life insurance partner Canara HSBC OBC Life partner Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance launched ’Webassurance’ to enable its customers to purchase life insurance in a convenient and hassle-free way.

▪ NITI Aayog , UNICEF signed a LOI ▪ United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) India and NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to provide an open platform to promote participation, skill

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and empowerment among young children across different communities. ▪ Aegon Life Insurance collaborated with ▪ Mobikwik, digital financial services MobiKwik company collaborated with pioneer of digital insurance in India, Aegon Life Insurance to launch a Rs 20 smart digital insurance product in order to protect its wallet users from death and accident related disability cover for up to Rs 2 lakh.

▪ ▪ ▪ Airtel Payments Bank joined hands ▪ Airtel Payments Bank joined hands with Bharti AXA General Insurance with Bharti AXA General Insurance for a two-wheeler insurance product offering which is available on MyAirtel App and at over 40,000 Airtel Payments Bank points across India.

▪ Bank of Maharashtra and M1Xchange ▪ State-owned Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) join hands has partnered with M1Xchange TReDSplatform for Micro,Small and Medium Enterprises(MSMEs) bill discounting.Trade Receivables Discounting System (TreDS) is a digital platform to assist MSMEs to get their bills financed at a competitive rate through a vendue where multiple registered financiers can participate.

▪ India join hands with Japan and UAE ▪ India joined hands with Japan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to implement two projectsin Africa as it seeks to extend its footprint on the continent as a counter to China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). ▪ i. India will build a cancer hospital in Kenya in collaboration with Japan and will to set up an information and communications technology (ICT) center in Ethiopia in partnership with the UAE. ii. Through this partnership, India has undertaken many projects like the ambitious Pan African e-network project on tele-education and tele-medicine which provides “integrated” satellite, fiber optics and wireless network

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between educational and medical institutes in Africa and India. ▪ Tata Trusts and Microsoft India for ▪ A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) jointly collaborating has been signed by Tata Trusts and Microsoft India forjointly rejuvenating the handl oom clusters in the eastern and north- eastern parts of India in order to build a digitally-inclusive society. ▪ Google Pay partners with MMTC-PAMP ▪ Google Pay has partnered with Bullion refiner MMTC-PAMP India to initiate buying and selling of gold through the app to make Google Pay more useful for Indian customers. MMTC-PAMP is India’s only London Bullion Market Association (LBMA)-accredited gold refinery. ▪ RBL Bank partners with CreditVidya ▪ RBL Bank has partnered with CreditVidya to enhance the lender’s customer experience (by offering them relevant credit products) and construct customised offerings for over 15 lakh customers.

▪ PFS in a joint venture with USICEF ▪ PTC India Financial Services (PFS) an finances Infrastructure finance company has partnered with the US-India Clean Energy Finance (USICEF) to leverage funds for solar projects in India. PFS Managing Director and CEO stated that this innovative venture can contribute to achieve India’s distributed energy target of 40 GW (gigawatt) by 2022.

▪ BSE signed an agreement with HDFC ▪ Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), Asia’s Bank oldest exchange has signed an agreement with HDFC Bank to spread more awareness about the benefits of listing startups as well as to strengthen BSE startup platform. ▪ NIIF and ROADIS on a joint venture ▪ The National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) and global private infrastructure operator ROADIS (owned by Public Sector Pension Investment board abbreviated as PSP investment) have jointly set up a

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platform for investing up to $2 billion in road projects in India. ▪ Karnataka Bank Signs agreement With ▪ Karnataka Bank has signed a pact with Bharti AXA Bharti Axa Life Insurance Company Ltd to distribute the latter’s life insurance products to provide insurance solutions to the customers of Karnataka Bank. ▪ Tata Power joined hands with ▪ Tata Power has signed an agreement Indraprastha Gas ink with Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) for green energy solutions including rooftop solar projects, setting up of commercial-scale EV charging/battery swapping stations. ▪ India-Africa Institute of Agriculture ▪ India has signed an and Rural Development (IAIARD) agreement with National Bank for in Malawi, India signed an agreement Agriculture and Rural Development Consultancy Service (NABCONS) for setting up India- Africa Institute of Agriculture and Rural Development (IAIARD) in Malawi to enhance capacity in the areas of agro- financing and entrepreneurship development for African countries ▪ Reliance Mutual Fund partnering with ▪ Reliance Nippon Life Asset Google Management (RNAM) has joined hands with Google to enable the customers of Reliance Mutual Fund to carry out voice- based financial transactions. ▪ Syndicate Bank and SBI Life Insurance ▪ Syndicate Bank and SBI Life Insurance signed a bancassurance pact aiming to offer a comprehensive financial planning solution to its customers. ▪ Through the pact, Syndicate Bank will provide penetration in the market with its 3,000 branches and SBI Life’s diverse range of protection, wealth creation and savings insurance products will be brought to the table to the customers. ▪ ICICI Bank and Small Business ▪ ICICI Bank, in a first-of-its-kind FinCredit programme, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Small Business FinCredit India Pvt. Ltd. (SBFC), a systemically important Non- Banking Finance Company for entrepreneurs, to jointly provide credit

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worth up to Rs 1 crore to MSMEs for a tenure of 15 years.

▪ SBI Card & Etihad Guest ▪ SBI Card, the country’s second largest credit card issuer and Etihad Guest, the loyalty programme of Etihad Airways have weld their hand together for a specific visa credit card to come into play for members and Indian travellers. Etihad Guest SBI Card, Etihad Guest SBI Premier Card ▪ It has been launched in order to confront the constraints of international travel. ▪ Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited ▪ For cooperation on various projects (BHEL) and Automotive Research related to e-mobility. Association of India (ARAI)Sign MoU ▪ BHEL’s scope of work in the project includes design, engineering, manufacturing, supply and installation of the EV charging stations along with a central monitoring system with a user- friendly mobile app. ▪ Income Tax Department and the Goods ▪ For sharing data to prevent anomalies. and Services Tax Network (GSTN) are ▪ States that the GSTN can ask for and be all set to sign an MoU provided data relating to an assessee’s status of filing income tax returns, turnover, gross total income, financial ratios, and any other data with the I-T Department to be decided at a later date. The order also provides for the automatic exchange of such data, and not just based on requests, the modalities of which will be decided.

▪ NIOS has signed a Memorandum of ▪ For imparting skill education in Understanding with Indian Medical Paramedical Courses to the learners. Association ▪ The MoU is initially for period of three years for the paramedical courses all over the country through its Accredited Vocational Institutions (AVIs). ▪ e-Governance Services India ties up ▪ Common Service Centre’s (CSC) e- with IIT-Kanpur Governance Services India Limited, a special purpose vehicle under the Ministry of Electronics & IT, on Friday said it has tied up with Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Kanpur to upscale ‘Unnat Bharat Abhiyan’.

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▪ ‘Unnat Bharat Abhiyan’ is an initiative of the Ministry of HRD. It aims to find solutions to accelerate sustainable growth in rural India. ▪ Commerce ministry organises ▪ Commerce Ministry and Indian High interaction to boost India-Africa trade Commissions and embassies of eleven ties African countries to strengthen the India- Africa trade ties. ▪ The interaction was arranged over Digital Video Conference (DVC) over two days, on May 3rd and May 6th with the Indian business community in Africa. ▪ In order to build an effective engagement with the Indian Diaspora in Africa, the interactions with Indian Diaspora were held in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, and Mauritius, Nigeria, Mozambique, Ghana, South Africa, Botswana, and Madagascar.

▪ TAFE, PCRA ink pact ▪ Tractor maker TAFE and Petroleum Conservation Research Association (PCRA), signed an MoU to jointly conduct agriculture workshops by involving TAFE’s extensive dealership network in spreading awareness and sensitising farmers on the advantages of maintenance and upkeep of their tractors, thereby helping them maximise their productivity and profitability, according to a statement. ▪ This joint CSR effort by TAFE and PCRA is aimed at helping the farmers to minimise costs through conservation, recycling and use of alternate energy. ▪ Doordarshan partners with Amazon ▪ DD Souvenir gallery was started on 21 India June 2018. The online store will sell branded articles like cups, T-shirts and water bottles. ▪ The development makes Doordarshan India’s first broadcaster to start a souvenir store. The pubcaster believes that the online souvenir store will not only strengthen the relationship with viewers but also help in establishing Doordarshan brand value.

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▪ Agreement signed between National ▪ Taking up a project of ‘Plantation of Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), HCL Rudraksh Trees in Uttarakhand’ under Foundation and INTACH the ‘Namami Gange’ Programme. ▪ While the project aims at planting 10,000 Rudraksh trees in the catchment area of river Ganga in Uttarakhand in association with the local community and other stakeholders, it will also help in generating income for people residing in those areas. ▪ Housing finance major HDFC Limited ▪ The partnership aims to make it possible has partnered with India Mortgage for HDFC to further penetrate home loan Guarantee Corporation (IMGC) market and access an enlarged customer base, helping them to own a home of their choice. ▪ This product will help HDFC to offer more loan to a home loan customer on an enhanced eligibility. It also helps customers to avail loans beyond their retirement period. The finer details of the product are being worked out and will be known to market soon. ▪ Ola partners with Visa, SBI to launch ▪ Homegrown ride-hailing platform Ola has credit cards launched a credit card in partnership with SBI and Visa, the company said in a statement. Ola users will be able to apply, view and manage their credit cards directly on the Ola app and will get instant cashbacks, which can be redeemed against Ola rides, flight and hotel bookings. ▪ BSNL Partners With Google ▪ State-run telecom major BSNL has partnered with Google to increase access to its WiFi footprint in the country. With the launch of this service, people across the country will be able to enjoy BSNL’s free WiFi services. This initiative will allow customers use BSNL’s high speed internet services on WiFi. ▪ Indian Hotels Co. (IHCL) and ▪ Indian Hotels Co. (IHCL) and Singapore’s Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC sovereign wealth fund GIC will set up a three-year, Rs 4,000-crore investment platform to acquire hotels in the luxury, upper-upscale and upscale segments, the company said on Friday. ▪ National Small Industries Corporation ▪ The MOU was signed by Ram Mohan Limited (NSIC) signed a Memorandum Mishra, AS & DC(MSME) and CMD (NSIC) of Understanding (MOU) with Ministry with Dr. Arun Kumar Panda, Secretary,

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of Micro, Small and Medium MSME, in the presence of Alka Enterprises (MSME) Nangia Arora, Joint Secretary, SME, Mercy Epao, Director (SME), P. Udaya kumar, Director -P&M (NSIC) and A.K. Mittal, Director-Finance (NSIC). ▪ The MOU envisages provision of enhanced services by NSIC under its marketing, financial, technology and other support services schemes for MSMEs in the country.

▪ Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), ▪ Stating the MoU was signed on May 24, Guwahati has signed an MoU with The an IIT-G press release on Wednesday said Indian Space Research Organisation the IITG-ISRO STC would be first of its (ISRO) kind in the North-east region to augment research and capacity building processes in the field of space-technology. ▪ The STC will constitute faculty members from IIT Guwahati, visiting scientists/ experts from ISRO, research students and technical staff, the release said.

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Military Exercise Countries Purpose ▪ ‘Sampriti-2019’ ▪ India and ▪ Which aimed to increase mutual Bangladesh cooperation and camaraderie with an impressive ceremony in Tangail, Bangladesh. ▪ “Mainamati ▪ Border Security ▪ The main objective of this Maitree Force exercise was to plan and Exercise 2019” (BSF) and Border conduct anti-smuggling and Guards anti-criminal activity related Bangladesh (BGB) operations with an aim to achieve better joint operational efficiency and border management in the area. ▪ Held in Tripura

▪ “Foal Eagle ▪ U.S. and South ▪ This is being done to ease 2019” and “Key Korea tensions with North Korea Resolve”

▪ Al Nagah III ▪ India and Oman ▪ Where both the armies will be exchanging expertise in tactics, weapon handling and firing, in order to enhance inter operability in counter-terrorist operations in semi urban mountainous terrain. ▪ Held in Jabel Al Akhdar Mountains in Oman

▪ US-India ▪ US army and NSG ▪ The aim of these exercises is to security in Hyderabad enhance preparedness and partnership tackle any crisis that affects the public health and safety.

▪ AFINDEX-19 ▪ India–Africa ▪ Between the Indian Army and 16 African nations was commenced in Pune, Maharashtra on March 18, 2019 for training the participating contingents in Humanitarian Mine Assistance (HMA) and Peace Keeping Operations (PKO) under the United Nations Charter.

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▪ MITRASHAKTI – ▪ Indian and Sri ▪ Between Indian and Sri Lanka VI Lanka Army is being held at Diyatalawa in Sri Lanka to strengthen interoperability, mutual understanding and built a better relationship between both the armies. ▪ ‘Bold ▪ India and ▪ Started in Jhansi’s Babina Kurukshetra– Singapore Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh to 2019’ strengthen cooperation against terrorism, develop defence technology and boost maritime security. ▪ ‘IN – VPN BILAT ▪ Indo-Vietnam ▪ The Indian Navy held the 2nd EX’ edition of the bilateral maritime exercise between the Indian Navy and Vietnam Peoples’ Navy, (IN – VPN BILAT EX) at Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam during 13th to 16th April, 2019. ▪ AFRICAN LION ▪ Morocco –US ▪ It was conducted from March 2019 16 to April 7,2019. The annual Military exercise materialized in the region of Agadir,Tifnit,Tan- Tan, Tata and Ben Guerir with the participation of thousands of military personnel.

▪ ‘Varuna’ (Naval) ▪ India and France ▪ The first phase of a mega naval exercise off the coast of Goa which is aimed at developing inter-operability between the the two forces in dealing with various security challenges.

▪ IMDEX 19 ▪ India- Singapore ▪ The annual bilateral exercise saw its progression from traditional anti-submarine exercises to more complex maritime exercises such as advanced air defence operations, anti air/ surface practice firings, tactical exercises, etc. ▪ 8th Indo- ▪ India-Myanmar ▪ Navy ships from Myanmar Myanmar reached Port Blair to attend the Coordinated opening ceremony of the 8th Patrol (IMCOR) Indo-Myanmar Coordinated

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Patrol (IMCOR) which will be held from May 20-28. “Myanmar Navy Ship UMS King TabinShweHtee (773) and UMS Inlay (OPV-54) have arrived at Port Blair on May 20 for the ‘Opening Ceremony’ of the 8th Indo-Myanmar coordinated patrol (IMCOR), at Andaman and Nicobar Command.

❖ India’s defence satellite EMISAT 60 “Romeo'”Seahawk helicopters to India. successfully launched by ISRO These choppers designed for targeting ships, ISRO’s workhorse launch vehicle Polar hunting submarines and conducting search- Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV C-45), in and-rescue operations at sea, would replenish its 47th mission, has successfully launched the age-old fleet of British-made Sea King the 436 kg Electronic intelligence helicopters, used by India. satellite EMISAT and 28 co-passenger ❖ Indian Navy inked a pact with satellites into their designated orbits from CSIR Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, On 5th April, 2019, Indian Navy and Council Andhra Pradesh. This was the 71st launch of Scientific and Industrial Research vehicle mission for Sriharikota. (CSIR) have signed Memorandum of ❖ COMCASA: First secure link understanding to tackle joint research and between India, US navies set up development of advanced technologies for India and the US have structured the first the Indian Navy. reliable communication link between the ❖ India, Sri Lanka agree to Indian Navy & US Central as well as Pacific Strengthen Bond in Security and Naval Commands under the COMCASA pact Defence Spheres at New Delhi,India. India and Sri Lanka have agreed to enhance i. The Indo-US military-information sharing collaboration in security and defence pact, COMCASA was signed at the 2+2 spheres in several fields, including regional bilateral summit on 6th September, 2018. security, controlling drug smuggling and ii. By implementing the path-breaking human trafficking. agreement, COMCASA the US has initiated the Defence Secretary of India Sanjay Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Module Mitra and Sri Lankan President Maithripala GPS System in some of C-130 and C-17 Sirisena‘s meeting in Colomboresulted in transport aircraft. this agreement. iii. US has given assurance of not disclosing ❖ Debrief of Indian Navy coastal India’s data with another country and defence exercise “Sea Vigil” was without prior permission US couldn’t access chaired by Vice Admiral MS Pawar in it. New Delhi ❖ US has consented the sale of 24 The debrief of the Indian Navy exercise “MH-60R Seahawk” helicopters to termed as ‘Sea Vigil’ (held from January 22 India for $2.6 bn to 23) was conducted. The meeting was At an estimated cost of $2.6 billion, the chaired by Vice Admiral MS Pawar, AVSM, United States has approved the sale of 24 VSM, the Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff multi-mission Lockheed Martin-built MH-

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel (DCNS). It was conducted at the Naval ❖ Indian Army inks MoU with NHPC headquarters, New Delhi. to build tunnels on China, Pakistan ❖ Indian Navy’s warships- INS borders Kolkata and INS Shakti at Busan, South Recently, Indian Army signed a Korea to participate in ADMM-PLUS Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) INS Kolkata and INS Shakti arrived at Busan, with National Hydroelectric Power South Korea to participate in ADMM-PLUS Corporation (NHPC) Limited, to build four (ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting). underground tunnels along China and ❖ By SIPRI report, India’s military Pakistan borders for storage of ammunition expenditure rises by 3.1% to reach $66.5 and other war-related equipment. billion and 1)Three tunnels will be built along Chinese Pakistan’s by 11% border and one tunnel will be build along to reach $11.4 the Pakistan border. billion in 2018 2) The tunnel can store 175-200 metric According to the tonnes of ammunition and the cost of this report from the pilot project is around Rs 15 Stockholm International Peace ❖ Macedonia inked agreement Research Institute to join NATO Military Alliance (SIPRI), a think- On February 6,2019, Macedonia signed an tank, the world’s accord, to become the 30th member of the military NATO military alliance. expenditure has risen by 2.6% to reach 1.82 The historic agreement was signed $ trillion in 2018. This shows that military between Macedonia’s Foreign Minister expenditure has increased for the 2nd Nikola Dimitrov and NATO consecutive year to the highest level since Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. 1988 and is 76% higher than it was in 1998. In this total share, India, United States, China, ❖ Multinational Maritime Saudi Arabia and France altogether Exercise ‘Aman 19’ commenced in contributed to 60% per cent of the amount, Karachi with US and China being the 2 biggest The 5-day multinational maritime spenders. exercise ‘AMAN-19’ in which 46 ❖ Indian, US navies conduct Anti- nations participated from all over the Submarine Warfare drill in Indian world was formally commenced at Ocean Pakistan Navy Dockyard, with a colorful Recently, Indian and the US navies conducted flag hosting ceremony.Pakistan’s Naval joint submarine hunting exercise near Diego Chief, Admiral Zafar Mahmood Garcia in the Indian Ocean in which India’s Abbasi welcomed the participations of P8I Neptune Aircraft and US P-8A Poseidon Exercise AMAN-19, the 6th episode of the maritime patrol aircraft along with the USS Spruance have participated. The objective of AMAN initiative,with motto “Together for this exercise is to lay the groundwork for Peace”. coordinating maritime patrol and Principal aim to conduct this exercise is to reconnaissance. facilitate a forum of understanding of each other’s maritime concepts and

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel operation cultures and to produce ways Vela, the fourth Scorpene class submarine and means to confront common threat at being constructed by Mazagon Dock sea. Shipbuilders Limited for the Indian Navy, ❖ Indian Army carried out the was launched today, on 06 May 2019, by annual exercise named ‘Exercise Mrs Veena Ajay Kumar, wife of Dr Ajay Topchi’ Kumar, IAS, Secretary Defence Production, Indian army demonstrated its artillery who was the Chief Guest on the occasion. firepower, aviation and surveillance VAdm AK Saxena, CWP&A was also capacity at the annual ‘Exercise Topchi’ at present during the launching ceremony. Deolali Camp near Nashik. This event reaffirms the steps taken by i. The latest ultra-light Howitzer M-777, Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd (MDL) in self-propelled gun K-9 Vajra and the ongoing ‘Make In India’ programme, indigenous Swathi weapon-locating radar which is being actively implemented by was demonstrated. the Department of Defence Production ii. The aviation assets showcased were (MoD). the indigenous advanced light helicopter, ❖ IN Ships Kolkata and Shakti light combat helicopter, Cheetah & Chetak undertake Group Sail with Naval Ships of helicopters Japan, Philippines and the USA IN Ships Kolkata and Shakti carried out Group ❖ IAF carried out ‘Vayu Shakti’ Sail with naval ships of Japan, Philippines and exercise at Pokhran the United States of America in the South On 16th February 2019, Indian Air Force China Sea from 03 May to 09 May 19. The six- conducted mega exercise ‘Vayu Shakti’ day long Group Sail had participation of six in Pokhran, Rajasthan. The exercise was combatants from the four participating conducted two days after 40 CRPF countries and included the Guided Missile personnel killed in a suicide attack in Destroyer INS Kolkata and Fleet Support Ship Kashmir’s Pulwama. INS Shakti of India, Helicopter Carrier JMSDF After 36 years, Indian Navy’s frontline Izumo and Guided Missile Destroyer JMSDF Murasame of Japan; Frigate BRP Andres missile destroyer INS Ranjit to be Bonifacio of Philippines and Arleigh Burke decommissioned Class Destroyer USS Williams P Lawrence of INS Ranjit, the Indian Navy’s frontline USA. The Group Sail was aimed to deepen the missile destroyer, will be decommissioned existing partnership and foster mutual at the naval dockyard in Visakhapatnam understanding among participating navies. on May 6 after having served for 36 years. ❖ Indian Army to commemorate INS Ranjit was the third of the five Kashin- 2019 as ‘Year of next of kin’ class destroyers built by erstwhile USSR, The Indian Army is commemorating this year and was commissioned in 1983, a as the ‘Year of Next of Kin’ and plans to reach statement issued by the navy Thursday out to the next of kin of battle casualties, ex- said. servicemen and serving soldiers to inform them of entitled financial benefits, welfare ❖ Launch of Fourth Scorpene Class schemes and help resolve pension related Submarine – VELA problems.

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel The issue gains importance in light of most from the headquarters to the hill location,” next of kin of deceased soldiers being unaware senior Army sources said here. of the financial benefits that are entitled to ❖ Jaisalmer gets Ready to Host them. Incorrect and incomplete International Army Scout Masters documentation is a common problem for most Competition 2019 of the next of kin, which aggravates their International Army Scout Masters plight. Competition as a part of International ❖ First Apache Helicopter formally Army Games will be organised under the handed over to The IAF aegis of Konark Corps at Jaisalmer from 24 First AH-64E (I) – Apache Guardian July to 17 August 2019. The event will helicopter was formally handed over to witness participation of the Mechanised the Indian Air Force at Boeing production Infantry Scout Teams of eight countries facility in Mesa, Arizona, USA on 10 May including Russia who is the founding 19. Air Marshal AS Butola, represented the member of this format of International Indian Air Force and accepted the first Army Games. Apache in a ceremony at Boeing The Russian Delegation, Senior Military production facility, representatives from and Diplomatic dignitaries from US Government were also present. participating countries visited Jaisalmer ❖ DRDO Successfully Conducts Flight Military Station on 14 and 15 May 2019. Test of ABHYAS The delegates were shown and briefed on Defence Research and Development the special training facilities created at Organisation (DRDO) conducted Jaisalmer and Pokhran. successful flight test of ABHYAS – High- ❖ Indian Navy’s Service Selection speed Expendable Aerial Target (HEAT) Board Inaugurated At Kolkata from Interim Test Range, Chandipur in Admiral Sunil Lanba, the Chief of Naval Odisha today. Theflight test was tracked Staff inaugurated Indian Navy’s first full- by various RADARS & Electro Optic fledged Service Selection Board (SSB) Systems and proved its performance in today at Diamond Harbour, near Kolkata. fully autonomous way point navigation The Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, mode. Eastern Naval Command, Vice Admiral ❖ Army to shift its Training Karambir Singh, was also present at the Command Headquarters to Meerut venue. In a bid to save funds and ensure better ❖ Indian warships take part in connectivity with the Army headquarters, international maritime defence exhibition the Indian Army is planning to shift its in Singapore training command headquarters from Two warships of the Indian Navy–INS Shimla in Himachal Pradesh to Meerut, Kolkata and INS Shakti–are participating Uttar Pradesh in the near future. in a three-day Asia Pacific naval and “The Training Command is now planned to maritime event being held here, according be shifted from Shimla to Meerut to save to an official statement. costs and man-hours spent in travelling The International Maritime Defence Exhibition Asia (IMDEX Asia-2019)

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel commenced on May 14 and will also ❖ Successful Firing of Brahmos Air witness the participation of some of Launched Missile from Su-30 MKI Aircraft India’s leading engineering and ship Today, IAF successfully fired the BrahMos building firms, including Larsen & Toubro air version missile from its frontline Su-30 and BrahMos, which makes the state-of- MKI fighter aircraft. The launch from the the-art air, sea and ground launch cruise aircraft was smooth and the missile missiles. followed the desired trajectory before “Vice-Admiral M S Pawar, Deputy Chief of directly hitting the land target. Naval Staff led the delegation to the Asia The air launched BrahMos missile is a 2.5 Pacific gathering of naval and maritime ton supersonic air to surface cruise missile event,” the Indian High Commission here with ranges of close to 300 km, designed said in a statement . and developed by BAPL. ❖ Indian Coast Guard Ship Vigraha ❖ Tech Mahindra signs Rs 300 crore Decommissioned defence contract with Indian Navy Indian Coast Guard Ship (ICGS) Vigraha, a Tech Mahindra today announced its frontline offshore patrol vessel, sailed into biggest defence order worth over Rs 300 history at the sunset on Wednesday. After crore with the Indian Navy. As part of the 29 glorious years of service from 1990 to ‘Armed Forces Secure Access Card’ 2019, the ship was decommissioned at the (AFSAC) Project, Tech Mahindra will coast guard jetty here. implement RFID (Radio Frequency ❖ Brief on SIMBEX-19 Identification) based Access Control On successful completion of IMDEX 19, IN System across all naval bases and ships. ships Kolkata and Shakti are continuing ❖ Bhawana Kanth Is India’s First their stay at Singapore to participate in Woman Pilot to Qualify for Combat the annual Singapore India Maritime Missions Bilateral Exercise SIMBEX-2019 Flight Lieutenant Bhawana Kanth, who scheduled from 16 May to 22 May 19. was commissioned into the Indian Air Since its inception in 1993, SIMBEX has Force as one of the first women fighter grown in tactical and operational pilots in 2016, has created history by complexity. the annual bilateral exercise becoming the first woman to qualify for saw its progression from traditional anti- combat missions on a fighter jet. She has submarine exercises to more complex successfully completed the operational maritime exercises such as advanced air syllabus for carrying out combat missions defence operations, anti air/ surface on MiG-21 Bison aircraft, during the day. practice firings, tactical exercises, etc. “She is the first woman fighter pilot to be Over the years SIMBEX has stood the test qualified to undertake missions on a of time in demonstrating the nation’s fighter aircraft by day. commitment to enhance maritime ❖ Assam Rifles and Coast Guard cooperation between the two navies and personnel to train together bolster bonds of friendship between the In a first, the Assam Rifles (AR) would be two countries. training together with the Indian Coast

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel Guard to enhance inter-forces cooperation and interoperability. The charter of affiliation, in this regard, was signed by the Director General (DG) of the Indian Coast Guard, Rajendra Singh and DG, Assam Rifles Lt Gen Sukhdeep Sangwan on Wednesday. ❖ DRDO successfully test fires AKASH – MK -1S Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has successfully test fired AKASH-MK-1S missile from ITR , Chandipur, Odhisa on 25 and 27 May 2019. Akash Mk1S is an upgrade of existing AKASH missile with indigenous Seeker. AKASH Mk1S is a surface to air missile which can neutralize advanced aerial targets. The Akash weapon system has combination of both command guidance and active terminal seeker guidance. Seeker and guidance performance have been consistently established in both the missions. ❖ Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa receives Baton of Chairman COSC

Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa received the baton of Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee from outgoing Chairman COSC and Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Sunil Lanba, here today. Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa will be the Chairman COSC with effect from May 31, 2019 consequent to relinquishment of charge by Admiral Sunil Lanba upon superannuation.

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✓ AP gets separate HC from Khanpur in New Delhi to mark the 6 crore January 1 LPG connections under PMUY Under the Andhra Pradesh got a separate high court scheme, the government provides a which will temporarily function from the subsidy of Rs 1,600 to state-owned fuel Chief Minister’s camp office in Amravati, retailers for every free LPG gas the new capital of the state till a connection that they give to poor permanent building for the High Court is households. being set up at the ‘Justice City’in ✓ ISRO launches ‘Samwad’ with Amaravati. students to engage them on space ✓ U.S., Israel quit UNESCO citing science bias Indian Space Research Organisation The United states of America (ISRO) launched a new platform named (USA) and Israel officially quit the United “Samwad with Students” (SwS) as part Nations Educational, Scientific and of the enhanced outreach programme and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) amid to engage youngsters across India to concerns that the organization fosters capture their scientific temperament in anti-Israel bias. Bengaluru. UNESCO was established in 1945 after the The first SwS event saw interaction of 40 end of world war II to foster peace and it students and 10 teachers from select is best known for its World Heritage schools with ISRO Chairman Dr K programs which designates cultural sites Sivan during which the students were and aims to preserve traditions.Both the briefed about Indian space programme countries filed the notice to withdraw and their benefits to the common man at from the organization in 2017. The United the Anthariksh Bhavan, Bengaluru. The states, one of the founding member of Q&A session that followed saw Dr Sivan UNESCO has demanded “Fundamental engaging students on a series of topics Reform” in the organization. ranging from rockets, satellites, ✓ Govt Releases 6-Crore LPG Chandrayaan, Gaganyaan and various Connections under PMUY space applications. Government gave out the 6-crore free ✓ Hundred percent household cooking gas (LPG) connection as the electrification achieved in 25 states scheme to make available cleaner fuel in under SAUBHAGYA scheme: every household kitchens under Ministry of Power the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana On December 31, 2018, the Minister of (PMUY). State (IC) for Power and New & Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu handed Renewable Energy Shri over papers for an LPG connection RKSingh announced that 25 states have to Jasmina Khatoon from Shivpark, achieved 100 percent household

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel electrification unde Centre’s ‘Pradhan weaker sections in general category. Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana’ For the implementation of the (Saubhagya). quota, Articles 15 and 16 of the The Government with the support of Constitution will have to be amended. State Power Departments and DISCOMs This would be availed by those whose have already connected about 2.39 annual income is below Rs 8 lakh and Crore households since launch of have up to five acres of land. The quota scheme Only about 10.48 Lakh will be over and above the existing 50 per households are left to be electrified in 4 cent reservation. States viz., Assam, Rajasthan, Meghalaya ✓ Union Cabinet cleared the and Chhattisgarh. The highest volume of redrafted Citizenship Amendment electrification was done in the State Bill of Uttar Pradesh with 74.4 Lakh willing On January 7, 2019, the Union Cabinet households being electrified in all of chaired by Prime Minister Narendra its 75 districts. Modi cleared the redrafted Citizenship ✓ Andhra tops ACI’s Ease of Amendment Bill thus providing Indian Doing Business index citizenship to non-Muslims In the latest ranking of Singapore’s Asia from Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Competitiveness Institute’s (ACI), Ease of Pakistan. Doing Business (EDB) index 2018, Andhra Focus: Pradesh emerged on top of the 21 states • First introduced in Parliament of India that were considered for the in 2016,the bill seeks to amend ranking,While Maharashtra and Delhi cam the Citizenship Act 1955. e in second and third place, respectively. • It enables grant of Indian ✓ Cyclonic Storm ‘PABUK’ over nationality to people from minority Andaman Sea & neighbourhood communities — Hindus, Sikhs, On 5th January 2019, a warning was Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and issued by The India Meteorological Christians— from Afghanistan, Department (IMD) that a Cyclonic storm Bangladesh and Pakistan after six years “PABUK” over Andaman Sea and of residence in India instead of 12 even if neighbourhood is moving towards west- they don’t possess any proper document. northwestwards with a speed of 21 • This would, however, nullify the kmph.Cyclone warning for Andaman 1985 Assam Accord under which any Islands is “ORANGE MESSAGE”. foreign national, irrespective of religion, ✓ Cabinet approved 10 pc quota who had entered the state after 1971 for economically weaker sections in should be deported. general category ✓ Andaman to be First Island to On January 7, 2019, the Union Cabinet operate seaplanes under UDAN-3 chaired by Prime Minister Narendra The Ministry of Civil Aviation has Modi approved 10 % quota in jobs and approved operations of seaplanes in educational institutions for economically the Andaman Islands under UDAN-

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel 3 (Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik) making by an upswing in consumption, and Andaman the first island of India to investment growth has firmed as the operate seaplanes. effects of temporary factors wane, the The Union Minister for Civil Aviation, World Bank said in its latest report. Suresh Prabhu has approved operations ✓ 352nd Prakash Utsav of Guru on 13 water aerodrome routes out of five Gobind Singh celebrated on January are from Andaman islands which others 13 are from dams in Gujarat and coastal On January 13, 2019, the 352nd birth areas in Kerala. The Islands of Andaman anniversary of the 10th Sikh Guru, Guru that would be connected through Govind Singh ji, was celebrated seaplanes are Campbell Bay, Car Nicobar, as Prakash utsav at Patna Sahib, Havelock, Hutbay, Neil, Long island and in Bihar, the birth place of Guruji. Diglipur. PM released commemorative coin on ✓ Indian Army and Punjab Sikh Guru Gobind Singh in New Delhi National Bank (PNB) singed MOU On January 13, 2019, Prime Minister for updated salary packages Narendra Modi released a On January 8, 2019, Indian commemorative coin of 350 Army and Punjab National Bank rupees on Guru Govind Singh ji in New (PNB) signed a Memorandum of Delhi on the eve of 352nd birth Understanding (MoU) on the Defence anniversary of the 10th Sikh Guru. Salary Package. ✓ DD Science and India Science: ✓ IRCTC tied up with Bharti AXA 2 National Level initiatives General insurance company to offer launched by DST and Prasar Bharti free travel insurance for air in field of Science Communication travelers On January 15, 2019, Union Science & On 9th January 2019,IRCTC tied up with Technology Minister, Dr. Harsh Bharti AXA General insurance company to Vardhan inaugurated 2 national level provide free travel insurance to the air initiatives in the field of Science and travellers. This insurance is applicable to Communications.These initiatives are the only those who book ticket in the official first step in creating a national science website of air ticketing irctc,IRCTC Air – channel for the country. air.irctc.co.in. ✓ India-Myanmar bilateral ✓ India’s GDP expected to grow army exercise, IMBEX 2018-19 held at 7.3% in 2018-19: World Bank in Chandimandir th On 9 January 2019, World Bank On January 14, 2019, India-Myanmar projected India’ GDP, expected to grow at bilateral army exercise, IMBEX begun at 7.3% in the fiscal year 2018-19, and 7.5% Chandimandir , headquarters of the in the following two years. The Bank said Western Command in Chandigarh. India will continue to be the fastest It is the second edition of the growing major economy in the world. In IMBEX EXERCISE. The motive of IMBEX India, the growth has accelerated, driven 2018-19 are: .To train the Myanmar

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel delegation for participation in United festival at Seijosa in East Kameng district, Nations peace keeping operations under Arunachal Pradesh. the UN flag. ✓ 15th Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas ✓ Indian universities move up Convention held in Varanasi, Uttar in global ranking with 49 Pradesh institutions On 21st January 2019, the celebration On 15th January 2019, the London- of 15th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas was based, Times Higher Education commenced in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. (THE) released the Emerging Prime Minister of Mauritius, Mr. Pravind Economies University Jugnauth was the chief Guest of Rankings 2019 report which shows Convention. The theme of this year’s that India has improved its ranking and Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas (PBD) secured a higher position convention was “Role of Indian with 49 institutions making it to the list. Diaspora in building New India”. According to this year’s report 25 Indian ✓ Prime Minister launches institutions figure in the top Pravasi Teerth Darshan Yojana 200 institutes, a rise from 17 last year. On 22nd January 2019, Prime Minister The report stated that the Indian Narendra Modi launched Pravasi Teerth Institute of Science (IISc), Darshan Yojana in New Delhi. Under this Bangaluru retains the highest spot for scheme a group of Indian origin currently India (14th), followed by the Indian in different nations will be taken to all Institute of Technology Bombay religious places in India twice a year. (27th). Last year India had 42 institutions Focus in the overall list. i. Eligibility criteria for the scheme is the ✓ Mukesh Ambani in Top Global person should be Indian origin and aged Thinkers List of Foreign Policy between 45 to 65. The group will be Chairman and Managing Director of selected out of them with first preference Reliance Industries, Mukesh given to people from ‘Girmitiya Countries’ Ambani who is also the Richest Indian, such as Mauritius, Fiji, Suriname, Guyana, has been featured in the Top “Global Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica. Thinkers 2019”ranking released by the ii. First batch with 40 members are at prestigious Foreign Policy publishing. Pravasi Bharatiya Divas and will begin ✓ Arunachal govt declares their tour from there. Pakke Paga Hornbill Festival as iii. Religious places of all major religious ‘state festival’ in India are included in the scheme and On 20th January 2019, Arunachal Pradesh Government will bear all the expenses Chief including the airfare from their country of Minister, Pema Khandu declared Pakke residence. Paga Hornbill Festival (PPHF) as the ✓ Nari-Shakti’ is the Oxford “State Festival” during a valedictory Dictionaries Hindi Word of the year ceremony of the fourth edition of the for 2018

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel On 26th January 2019, The International Monetary Fund (IMF) the Oxford Dictionaries announced that released its World Economic Outlook the word ‘Nari Shakti’ which is derived Update in Davos, Switzerland. The report from Sanskrit has been chosen as the stated that India’s gross domestic product Hindi Word of the year for 2018. (GDP) is poised to grow by 7.5% in the ✓ Train 18 named Vande Bharat 2019-20 fiscal and 7.7% in 2020-2021. Express: Piyush Goyal ✓ Dubai Airport retains top On 27th January 2019, Union Minister of position as world’s Busiest Airport Railways, Piyush Goyal announced On 28th January 2019,Dubai International that Train 18 which is India’s first (DXB) airport became the world’s busiest indigenously developed engineless airport for international passengers for semi high speed train has been named the fifth consecutive year in 2018. as Vande Bharat Express. ✓ K J Alphons Inaugurated first ✓ Civil aviation ministry Swadesh Darshan Project in Sikkim launched Country’s first GI store in On 28th January 2019, Union Tourism Goa Minister K J Alphons Inaugurated first On January 29, 2019,Civil Aviation Swadesh Darshan Project in Sikkim. It minister Suresh Pabhu launched the was inaugurated in the presence of country’s first Geographical Indication Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation for (GI) store at Dabolim International Sikkim Ugen T Gyatso in Zero Point, Airport in Goa. Gangtok, Sikkim. The GI stores will promote local products ✓ Pakistan Appoints Its First made by the artisans and handicrafts at Ever Female Hindu Civil Judge the airport . On January 29, 2019,Suman ii. The store is set up by Airports Kumari became the first Hindu Authority of India in partnership with The woman to be appointed as a civil judge in Cashew Export Promotional Council of Pakistan after passing an examination for India.The Plan of implementing 101 more induction of judicial officers. . stores are in cards,which may extend to The first judge from the Hindu 201 stores in near future. community was Justice Rana ✓ World Economic Forum Bhagwandas,who served in pakistan Annual Meeting held in Davos from 2005-2007. From 22nd January 2019, the flagship ✓ ISRO launched Human Space event of World Economic Forum, Flight Centre in Bengaluru The World Economic Forum Annual On 30th January 2019, Indian Space Meeting-2019 was held in Davos- Research Organization (ISRO) launched Klosters, Switzerland. The theme of the the Human Space Flight Centre event was “Globalization 4.0: Shaping a (HSFC) which will act as the hub of ISRO’s Global Architecture in the Age of the future manned missions at the Fourth Industrial Revolution”. The headquarters of ISRO in Bengaluru, event concluded on 25th January 2019. Karnataka.

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel India’s first manned mission was communication satellite “GSAT-31” from announced on 15th August 2018 and it is French Guiana by Arianespace launch set to happen by 2022 which is going to vehicle. It will replace the InSAT be the 75th year of Independence. Former satellite. ISRO chairman K. Kasturirangan unveiled ✓ Boori Boot Yollo festival the full scale model of Gaganyaan’s crew celebrated Nyishi tribe in module in the presence of ISRO’s Arunachal Pradesh chairman K. Sivan. Nyishi tribe celebrated ’52nd Boori ✓ Kala ghoda festival 2019 was Boot Yollo festival’ with great held in Mumbai enthusiasm to welcome spring and a On 2nd February 2019, the Kala ghoda successful harvest.It is celebrated in the festival-KAGF, India’s largest multi- month of feb. cultural street festival begins Nyishi is the largest community in Mumbai to celebrate it’s 20 years of art in Arunachal Pradesh,found in Daporijo, and culture through cinema, theatre, Upper Subansiri Locale and Raga and dance, literature and sculpture. Dollungmukh ranges of Lower Subansiri ✓ World heritage centre to be Region of Arunachal Pradesh. set up at Mayapur in West Bengal ✓ Hindi becomes the third high International Society for Krishna court language in Abu Dhabi Consciousness (ISKCON) has decided to Hindi is included as the third official set up a “World Heritage Centre” housing language in the Abu Dhabi court “spiritual camps” of 45 countries, at its system with a motive to improve access headquarter, Mayapur in Nadia district of to justice for foreign workers . West Bengal. The camp of each country Authorities have created bilingual would reflect its culture, dress, lifestyle, language guides to explain complex legal food and ambiance. terms in an effort to help people ✓ Words Count Festival 2019 understand court process. The other two was held in Pune official languages are Arabic and English. On February 4, 2019, second edition of ✓ Facebook acquires GrokStyle World Count festival 2019 was held in virtual search start-up to boost AI Pune, Maharashtra, with an aim to bring capabilities together speakers from several socio- In an attempt to enable users shop better political spheres and share their insights using Artificial on various issues. Intelligence(AI) capabilities, Facebook h ✓ India’s 40th Communication as acquired US-based virtual search start- Satellite, GSAT-31 has been up, GrokStyle, at an undisclosed amount. successfully launched from French GrokStyle was founded in 2015 and is Guiana based in San Francisco, USA. On 6th February 2019, Indian Space ✓ Meghalaya government to Research Organization (ISRO) rename Dikki Bandi stadium after P successfully launched its 40th

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel A Sangma The park is set up on 57.81 acre of land On February 9,2019,The Meghalaya and the facilities at its Central Cabinet decided to rename the Dikki Processing Centre (CPC) includes pre- Bandi stadium in Tura town after processing line, freezing and cold storage former Lok Sabha Speaker Purno A of fish and shrimp, an ice plant and food Sangma. testing laboratory.. Purno Agitok Sangma served as the Chief ✓ 13th edition of International Minister of Meghalaya from 1988 to Oil & Gas Conference & Exhibition 1990.Conrad K Sangma and James K ‘PETROTECH-2019’ held in New Sangma are sons of Purno A Sangma. Delhi ✓ `Exercise Rahat´ concluded in The 13th edition of PETROTECH- Jaipur on 12th February 2019 was held at India Expo On 12th February 2019, Joint Mart in Greater Noida,National Capital Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Region,New Relief Exercise `Exercise Delhi from 10th to 12th February 2019. Rahat´ concluded in Jaipur, Rajasthan. It It was organised by Oil and Natural Gas was demonstrated in Jaipur, Kota and Corporation Ltd. (ONGC) in association Alwar in Rajasthan. with the Federation of Indian Petroleum Indian Army was represented by Jaipur Industries under the aegis of the Ministry based Sapta Shakti Command. of Petroleum and Natural Gas. The Representatives from Armed theme of PROTECH-2019 was “Shaping Forces, National Disaster Management the New Energy World through Response Mechanism (NDMRM), SDMA Innovation & Collaboration”. Rajasthan and DLMAs participated in ✓ $40 million loan agreement the exercise. With a view to cooperate signed between Centre, Himachal efforts for humanitarian assistance and Pradesh and World Bank for Shimla Disaster Relief operations NDMA water supply coordinated the exercise. A loan agreement of $40 million (4 crore ✓ Nation’s first Aqua Mega Food INR) was signed between the Government Park commissioned in AP by of India, Government of Himachal Harsimrat Kaur Pradesh and World Bank, for bringing Godavari Mega Aqua Food Park, first clean and reliable drinking water to the aqua mega food park was commissioned citizens of Greater Shimla area, who have by Secretary of Ministry of Food been facing severe shortages of water and Processing Industries (MoFPI), Pushpa water-borne epidemics in the last few Subrahmanyam on behalf of Food years. Processing Industries Minister Shimla Water Supply and Sewerage Harsimrat Kaur Badal via video Service Reform Programmatic conferencing in Bhimavaram of West Development Policy Loan 1 is expected Godavari District ,Andhra Pradesh. to improve Water Supply & Sanitation (WSS) services in and around Shimla.

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel ✓ Thiruvananthapuram to host Missions and Counter Insurgency Attukal Pongala festival, world’s Operations. largest religious congregation of The complex includes a central obelisk, women an eternal flame and six bronze Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala shall murals depicting famous battles fought host the AttaukalPonkala festival-one of by Indian Army, Indian Air the largest religious gathering of women Force and Indian Navy. Busts of on a single day. the 21 awardees of Param Veer The festival involves preparation Chakra have been installed at Param of ‘Pongala’- a mixture of rice, jaggery Yoddha Sthal. and scraped coconut cooked in fresh ✓ Piyush Goyal initiated Rail earthen or metal pots,by lakhs of women, Drishti Dashboard for passengers to in order to worship the presiding deity promote transparency of Attukal Bhagavathy temple. Union Minister Piyush ✓ Tele-law mobile app, Nyaya Goyal launched Rail Drishti Dashboard, Bandhu launched by Department of an online portal containing information Justice related to passenger and freight trains On 19th February 2019, a tele-law mobile and links to live feeds of IRCTC kitchens.It application ‘Nyaya Bandhu’ was has been developed by the Centre for launched by the Union Minister for Law Railway Information System (CRIS). and Justice and IT Ravi Shankar The URL of the dashboard Prasad. is raildrishti.cris.org.in and it is very ✓ Union Minister of State Sadhvi well optimized and user friendly so that those in remote villages can also access Niranjan Jyoti inaugurated first and know everything about railways. It Mega Food Park of Tripura can be accessed using desktop/laptop or Union Minister of State for Food a mobile device such as phone or tablet. Processing Industries,Sadhvi Niranjan ✓ Southern Coast Railway: Piyush Jyoti,inaugurated Tripura’s first mega Goyal Announces New Railway Zone food park named Sikaria Mega Food For Andhra Pradesh Park Pvt Ltd at Union Railway Minister Piyush Village Tulakona in Agartala. Goyal announced a new railway zone ✓ National War Memorial to the for Andhra Pradesh, that is the Southern nation dedicated to the nation by Coast Railway and it will be headquartered PM Modi in Visakhapatnam. Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated it will be the 18th zone in the country. The to the nation the National War new zone will comprise the existing Guntakal, Guntur and Vijayawada d Memorial(NWM) near India ivisions that currently fall under the South Gate in New Delhi which commemorates Central Railway. The cost of creating the soldiers who participated and made infrastructure for a new zone is around Rs. the supreme sacrifice in Peacekeeping 205 crore.

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✓ Commemorative notes to be nation a 1,000-megawatt (MW) thermal released to mark Gandhi’s 150th birth power project of Neyveli Tamil Nadu anniversary Power Ltd (NTPL) at Thoothukudi and On 27th February 2019, a UAE based a 150-MW solar power projects of Neyveli company will release 12 bank notes of Lignite Corporation India zero value which is the first ever limited Limited (NLCIL) at Ramanathapuram and V edition commemorative series to mark the irudhunagar districts in Tamil Nadu. 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma ✓ Malaysia joined the Gandhi. International Criminal Court ✓ Mukesh Ambani becomes first Malaysia became a member of Indian to join top 10 richest list of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the world’s only permanent war crimes court Hurun Research which aims to prosecute the worst abuses Reliance Industries Chairman and Managing when national courts are unable or unwilling. Director Mukesh Ambani became the first Malaysia is the 124th member of the court Indian and the only Asian to enter since its establishment in 2002. the Global top 10 richest billionaire list compiled by Hurun Research, China after ✓ A series of visually impaired a USD 9 billion or 20% surge in his wealth friendly Re 1, Rs 2, Rs 5, Rs 10, Rs 20 to USD 54 billion. coins unveiled by PM Modi India is at 5th spot with 104 billionaires. Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the Last year, the country had added 32 new series of visually impaired billionaires, but this year it lost 28. friendly coins of in the denominations of Re Mumbai and New Delhi are the billionaire 1, Rs 2, Rs 5, Rs 10 and Rs 20 at an event capitals of the country. held in New Delhi where visually impaired ✓ Prayagraj Kumbha Mela 2019 children were specially invited. All the new makes it to the Guinness World series coins will be issued for circulation only Records through the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in terms of the RBI Act. The exact date of Prayagraj Kumbh Mela 2019 organised issuance of new series coins is yet to be from 15th January 2019- 4th March 2019 announced. in Prayagraj (formerly Allahabad), Uttar Pradesh has made it to the Guinness World ✓ Saudi Arabia became the world’s Records in three sectors. largest importer of weapons, the These sectors are: position held by India for a decade: • The largest traffic and crowd SIPRI management plan. India lost its position as the world’s largest importer of weapons, which it held for over a • The biggest painting exercise of decade, with Saudi Arabia topping the global public sites under “Paint My City” scheme. share of arms imports • The biggest sanitation and waste between 2014 and 2018, as per the data disposal mechanism. published by the Stockholm International ✓ Piyush Goyal dedicated NTPL’s Peace Research Institute (Sipri), the 1,000-MW thermal power project to leading Stockholm-based think tank that the country measures weapons imports over five- Coal Minister Piyush Goyal dedicated to the year periods.

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✓ India provides financial The target was hit by the DRDO support of USD 250 million to Nepal developed Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) for reconstruction of infrastructures Interceptor Missile, in Low Earth Orbit after earthquake (LEO) in a “Hit to Kill” mode at a height of 300 km from the earth’s surface. The satellite India has provided a financial support worth used as target in the mission was one of USD 250 million to Nepal, to reconstruct India’s existing satellites. infrastructure in fields of housing, education, Mission Shakti is a joint programme of DRDO health and cultural heritage, which had been and the Indian Space Research ruined by the earthquake that took place on Organisation (ISRO). There are many April 2015. countries which have A-SAT capability but it ✓ Brazil hosted first BRICS Sherpa has been demonstrated by only 4 countries: Meeting United States, Russia, China and India. th On 15 March 2019, the first BRICS (Brazil, ✓ South Korea unveils 5G Russia, India, China and South Africa) networks early to secure world first Sherpa meeting held in Curitiba, South Korea has unveiled the world’s first Brazil under the Presidency of Brazil. Indian nationwide 5G mobile networks. This has delegation was led by Secretary in the made South Korea to be the first providers of Ministry of External Affairs T S Tirumurti. the super-fast wireless technology. ✓ renames its capital ✓ NITI Aayog & Rocky Mountain Astana as Nursultan after ex-president Institute (RMI) ensures success of the On 20th March 2019,Kazakhstan has FAME II Scheme renamed its capital as Nursultan from its Under the Faster Adoption and previous name Astana in order to recognize Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles II (FAME its outgoing leader Nursultan II) scheme, the NITI Aayog and Rocky Nazarbayev(78), who has served nearly 30 Mountain Institute (RMI) have released a years as president of Kazakhstan. report titled ‘India’s Electric Mobility The name was changed after Kassym- Transformation: Progress to Date and Jomart Tokayev sworn in as president of Future Opportunities’. The report is based Kazakhstan.The new president will serve on opportunities for the automobile sector till April 2020. and government. ✓ India becomes the 4th country ✓ Around 5000 Konyak women to conduct A-SAT missile test “Mission dance to set a Guinness World Record Shakti” successfully at Mon, Nagaland On 27 March 2019, India has proved its On 8th April 2019, in the programme capability of defending its outer space assets organized at Mon (Nagaland) during after Defence Research and Development the Aoleang Monyu festival (usually held Organisation (DRDO) has conducted a between 1st April to 3rd April every year) successful Anti-Satellite (ASAT) missile around 5000 Konyak Naga women in their test “Mission Shakti” from the Dr APJ Abdul traditional attire attempted to set a Guinness Kalam Island (earlier, Wheeler island) in World Record for the ‘Largest Traditional Odisha. It took just 3 minute.This is India’s Konyak Dance’. first successful Anti-Satellite (ASAT) missile test. ✓ Guwahati Railway station becomes the first to get ISO

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel certification in India Police (100), women(1090) and fire(101) The Guwahati Railway Station has become helpline numbers are amalgamated in this the first ever railway station in the Indian and is similar to ‘911’ in the US. Railways to get an ISO (International Kerala, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Organisation for Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Himachal Standardisation) certification from Pradesh, Rajasthan, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, the National Green Tribunal (NGT). Nagaland, Gujarat, Telangana, Lakshadweep, ✓ London becomes first city to Andaman, and Nicobar Islands, and implement 24×7 pollution charge zone Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Jammu and On 8th April, 2019, London became the first Kashmir are the joined states and UTs. city in the world to implement a Ultra Low ✓ Indonesia releases Ramayana Emission Zone (ULEZ) for 24×7 hours a stamp week, inside which vehicles will have to meet On 23 April 2019, Indonesia released a tough emissions standards. special stamp on the theme of Ramayana at This zone aims to reduce toxic air pollution the 70th anniversary of the establishment of and protect public health. diplomatic ties between India and Indonesia ✓ Between 2010-’19, India’s event in the presence of India’ Ambassador population grew at 1.2% average Pradeep Kumar Rawat and Indonesia’s annual rate: UN report Deputy Foreign Minister Abdurrahman According to the United Nations Population Mohammad Fachir. Fund, India’s population grew to 1.36 ✓ First Global Conference on billion at an average annual rate of 1.2% Synergies between the 2030 Agenda between 2010 and 2019 which stands more and Paris Agreement in Copenhagen, than double the annual growth rate of China. Denmark ✓ India to be Guest of Honour The first global multi-stakeholder conference Country at Abu Dhabi International on synergies is summoned by (UN DESA) Book Fair (ADIBF) 2019 the UN Department of Economic and Social On 12th April 2019, UAE selected India as Affairs and the (UN FCCC) United Nations the Guest of Honour country at the Abu Framework Convention on Climate Dhabi International Book Fair, ADIBF 2019, Changebetween the 2030 Agenda for to attract a significant increase in the number Sustainable Development and the Paris of visitors with various events and activities. Agreement on climate change, was held ✓ Union Territories and Twenty in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and states join pan-India Single Emergency the Ministry of Energy, Utilities and Climate. helpline Number ‘112’ ✓ India retains top spot with On 19th April 2019, To get immediate assistance to the people who are in trouble, largest remittances globally, Union territories and Twenty states have amounting to $79 in 2018: World Bank joined in a pan-India network of single According to World Bank’s Migration and emergency helpline number ‘112’, which is Development Brief; with the Indian diaspora implemented by central government’s sending 79$ billion back to their home Nirbhaya Fund( 2012 Delhi gangrape case). country, India retained its position as the world’s top recipient of remittances in 2018.

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➢ Bharti AXA Life uses On January 3, 2019, as per the latest data WhatsApp to deliver policy, of Association of Mutual funds in India renewal premium (AMFI), HDFC Mutual Fund has On 02nd January 2019, private sector surpassed ICICI Prudential MF to become insurer Bharti AXA Life Insurance started the country’s largest asset management delivering policies and renewal premium company (AMC) after a gap of receipt to customers via instant over two years. messaging platform WhatsApp as a part ➢ Government amalgamated of its alternative service option to the three Regional Rural Banks-Punjab policy holders. Gramin Bank, Malwa Gramin Bank Bharti AXA Life Insurance, a joint venture and Sutlej Gramin Bank into a between Bharti Enterprises and French single Bank Insurance major AXA is one of the first With the effect from 1st January 2019, the few insurers to provide the option of three Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) policy contract, renewal premium – Punjab Gramin Bank, Malwa Gramin receipts and claim intimation through Bank and Sutlej Gramin Bank has been whatsapp. The Policy contract will be amalgamated into a single RRB by the available for download shortly after its Government. issuance. After consulting the sponsor banks of the ➢ Bancassurance pact was three RRBs, the central government felt signed between Syndicate Bank and that in the interest of the banks and the SBI Life Insurance areas served by them, they should be On January 2, 2019, Syndicate amalgamated into a single RRB. National Bank and SBI Life Insurance signed Bank for Agriculture and Rural a bancassurance pact aiming to offer a Development (NABARD), the comprehensive financial planning Government of Punjab, Punjab National solution to its customers. Bank, State Bank of India and Punjab and Through the pact, Syndicate Bank will Sind Bank are the sponsor banks of the provide penetration in the market with its said RRBs. 3,000 branches and SBI Life’s diverse ➢ IRDAI slapped a penalty of Rs range of protection, wealth creation and 5 lakh on United India Insurance Co savings insurance products will be for violating motor settlement brought to the table to the customers. norms ➢ HDFC MF surpassed ICICI On January 4, 2019, the Insurance Prudential MF to become largest Regulatory and Development Authority of AMC in India: AMFI India (IRDAI) slapped a penalty of Rs 5 lakh on United India Insurance Co for

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel violating norms regarding settlement of of criteria for directors: RBI motor claims. The insurer also violated On January 11, 2019, the Reserve Bank file and use guidelines issued by the of India (RBI), under the relevant Authority. provisions of the Banking Regulation ➢ Jana Small Finance Bank Act, 1949, imposed a penalty of Rs 3 Launches Current Account with crore on Citibank India for non- Unique Auto-Sweep Facility compliance in criteria for directors of the On 8th January 2019, the private bank. sector Jana Small Finance Bank has ➢ IDFC Bank re-named IDFC launched a new Current First Bank: Registrar of Companies, Account with Auto-Sweep facility that will Chennai enable bank’s existing and potential new On January 13, 2019, private sector customers to auto sweep-in and sweep- lender IDFC Bank changed its name out the idle funds in the current account to IDFC First Bank Ltd owing to the to Sweep Fixed Deposit and earn high merge of the bank with Non-Banking interest. Finance Company (NBFC) Capital ➢ Sri Lanka’s Central Bank Gets First on December 2018. USD 400 Million Swap From RBI The change was effective from On January 9, 2019,the Reserve bank of January 12, 2019 by virtue of ‘Certificate India has agreed to disburse Sri lanka’s of Incorporation pursuant to change of loan amount of USD 400 million to name‘ issued by the Registrar of boost the nation’s reserve.RBI has Companies, Chennai. The board of IDFC agreed to issue the fund under the Bank also approved the appointment of V SAARC(South Asian Association for Vaidyanathan, founder and chairman of Regional Cooperation) SWAP facility Capital First Ltd, as managing director system.It is also said that another request and chief executive officer of the merged of currency SWAP USD 1 billion is under entity. process . . ➢ ’s Pasargad Bank ➢ RBI fined Bank of received RBI’s nod to open its Maharashtra with 1 Crore branch in Mumbai On January 16, 2019,Reserve Bank of On January 8, 2019, the Union Road India (RBI),imposed a Rs 1-crore penalty Minister Nitin Gadkari, on successful on state-owned Bank of Maharashtra meeting with Iran’s Minister of Foreign (BoM) for non-compliance of Know Your Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif, Customer (KYC)guidelines and fraud- announced that Reserve Bank of India classification norms. (RBI) has approved Iran’s Pasargad The penalty has been imposed on failure Bank to open branches in Mumbai for of the bank to follow the rules and easing trade related transactions. regulation issued by the RBI. In the year ➢ Rs 3 crore penalty slapped on 2018, the RBI had imposed a penalty of Rs Citibank India for non-compliance 1 crore on BoM on account of delay on

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel the part of the bank to detect and freely exchangeable in Nepal and there is report fraud in accounts. no ban lifted on it. With the ➢ GDP growth likely to be tad implementation of this new rule, Nepali higher at 7.5% in FY20: India citizens cannot carry these Ratings and Research denominations to other countries except On 17th January 2019, a Fitch group India and Nepali people are also not company India ratings and allowed to bring in such notes from other research estimated that India’s GDP countries. growth to be a “tad higher” at 7.5% in ➢ Bihar State GDP Growth financial year 2019-20. Earlier it outshines nation’s growth: CRISIL was 7.2% during fiscal year 2018-19. As per a report published by CRISIL The economy seen a growth rate (Credit Rating Information Services of of 7.2% in the current financial year India Limited), Bihar has been ranked the against 6.7% in the previous year Top State in terms of Gross State estimated by Central Statistics Office Domestic Product (GSDP) by clocking a (CSO). growth rate of 11.3 per cent in financial ii. According to India Ratings investments year 2017-2018. are slow but steady gaining traction with Focus gross fixed capital formation growing i. Andhra Pradesh has been ranked at 12.2% in FY19 and projected to grow at second spot with GSDP growth 10.3% in FY20. rate 11.2 per cent whereas Gujarat has ➢ HDFC Standard Life Insurance been ranked at third spot with GSDP renamed to HDFC Life Insurance growth rate of 11.1 per cent. On January 16, 2019, HDFC Standard ii. Bihar was ranked at 8th spot with GSDP Life Insurance renamed itself to HDFC growth rate of 9.9 per cent in 2017. Life Insurance. iii. Madhya Pradesh which was the top ➢ Nepal ‘s Central bank state in 2017 with GSDP growth rate of 14 announces to ban the use of Indian per cent has lost its top spot with a growth rate of 7.3 per cent in 2018. rupee notes above 100 ➢ Nepal’s central bank has banned the use Indian economy may grow of Indian currency notes of Rs 2,000, Rs 7.4% in FY19, 7.6% in FY20: UN 500 and Rs 200 denominations, a move report that could affect Indian tourists visiting On 23rd January 2019, the United Nations the Himalayan nation where Indian released the World Economic Situation currency is widely used. and Prospects (WESP) report which The decision to ban notes has come up projected India’s gross domestic with Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s product (GDP) to grow at 7.4 per decision that Indian denominations of cent during 2018-19 and improve to 7.6 Rs.200, 500 and 2,000 cannot be carried per cent in the next fiscal. and used for trading.The notes with a Besides the report projected that the denomination of Rs.100 and below are gross domestic product (GDP) of India

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel in 2020-21 will grow at 7.4 per cent. The ADB Bank bought this stake with a motive robust private consumption, a more of attracting long -term funds from global expansionary fiscal stance and benefits lenders and investors. ADB’s investment from previous reforms are the major increased Annapurna Finance’s net worth pulling forces for India’s Economic by 580 crores. ADB’s investment is considered to be the growth. second equity investment following Oman ➢ FDI grew 18% in FY18 to Rs. India Joint Investment Fund (OIJIF) Rs 28.25 lakh crore: RBI data 155-crore investment. On 28th January 2019, Reserve Bank of ➢ RBI Penalised a total of Rs.5.2 India released a data on “Census on Crore on Axis Bank, UCO Bank and Foreign Liabilities and Assets of Indian Syndicate Bank for violation of norms Direct Investment Companies, 2017- On 5th February 2019,Axis Bank, UCO Bank 18”which shows that the Foreign Direct and Syndicate Bank are Penalised with a Investment (FDI) has been increased by total of Rs.5.2 Crore by RBI for violating 18 per cent to Rs. 28.25 lakh crore. the guidelines in regulatory compliance.The Segregation of the Penalised ➢ Ujjivan Small Finance Bank amount are as follows: Axis Bank and UCO Bank has been imposed launches Kisan Suvidha loan product with a Penalty of Rs.2 Crore each for their not for small and marginal farmers commiting with the norms related to th On 30 January 2019, ‘Kisan Suvidha loan’ payment through cheques. Further Axis for small and marginal Bank has also imposed a Penalty of 20 Lakhs farmers launched by Ujjivan Small Finance for the detection and impounding of Bank. The scheme will attempt to reach the counterfeit notes. bottom of the pyramid with products and Syndicate Bank is imposed with a Penalty of services. Rs.1 Crore for contradicting the norms in Kisan Suvidha loan can be used by farmers Checking norms and Risk Management. for both agriculture and allied activities. ➢ Government forecasted 7.5 per The product is specially designed to cater to the needs of customers for various allied and cent GDP growth in FY20 th agricultural activities. Ujjivan Small Finance On 5 February 2019, the Economic Affairs Bank launched the product in Tamil Nadu, Secretary, Subhash Chandra Garg said that West Bengal, Karnataka and Odisha with the finance ministry is expecting the GDP an eye to expand the product offerings. growth to reach 7.5 per cent in 2019-20 It provides loans to individuals with an from 7.2 per cent projected for the amount ranging from Rs. 60000 to Rs. 2 current fiscal. Lakh to fulfill the customized needs of the ➢ Fino Payments Bank and mass market segment. Suryoday Small Finance Bank come ➢ Asian Development Bank together to offer sweep account facility acquires 14% stake in Annapurna Fino Payments Bank (FPB) has joined hands Finance with Suryoday Small Finance Bank in order to On February 3,2019,The Asian Development initiate sweep account facility. Bank (ADB) bought 14% stake in micro- As per Reserve Bank of India, Payments financier Annapurna Finance. banks can only take deposits upto ₹ 1 lakhs

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel but this partnership will allow customer to Policy Rates 6th Bi- 5th Bi- seamlessly transfer the excess amount from Monthly Monthly their Fino payment bank (FPB) account to Monetary Monetary Suryoday Small Finance bank (SSFB) account. Policy(Feb Policy(Dec The Customer who wants to use Sweep 2019) 2018) Account Facility needs to activate the facility Repo Rate 6.25% 6.50% by FPB’s Mobile App or by visiting FPB’s Reverse Repo 6.00% 6.25% branch. Rate ➢ 6th Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy Marginal 6.50% 6.75% Released By Reserve Bank Of India Standing (RBI) Facility Rate On 7th February 2019,Reserve Bank of Bank Rate 6.50% 6.75% India(RBI)’s six-member monetary policy Reserve Ratios 6th Bi-Monthly 5th Bi-Monthly committee chaired by RBI Governor Monetary Monetary Shaktikanta Das released its 6th Bi- Policy(Feb Policy(Dec Monthly Monetary Policy.This is the First 2019) 2018) Bi-Monthly Policy for Shaktikanta Das after Cash Reserve 4% 4% he took charge as the RBI Governor. Ratio(CRR) RBI had reduced 0.25 basis points in the Statutory 19.25% 19.5% Policy Rates with immediate effect.The Liquidity Change in Policy rates are as follows: Ratio(SLR)

➢ RBI penalized Rs 1 crore on Europe and the Americas. State Bank of India Earlier in 2005 and 2007 ADB issued bond in Reserve Bank of India has slapped Rs 1 crore the Philippine domestic capital market but it penalty on SBI for not monitoring the end use was the first time to mobilize Philippine peso of funds in respect of one of its borrowers. funding from international investors through RBI levied fine on State Bank of India,by a currency linked structure. exercising its powers under Section 47 A of ➢ RBI slaps Rs 1.5 crore fine on the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 . Allahabad Bank for fraud reporting ➢ Asian Development Bank raised delay $100 million in international market On Feb. 8 2019, Allahabad Bank said On 8th February 2019, The Asian the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has Development Bank raised $100 million imposed a penalty of Rs 1.5 crore on them from peso-linked bonds in the for not monitoring end use of funds, delay in international market. It was their maiden classification and reporting of fraud and non- issue of Philippine peso. adherence with RBI guidelines during The move will help to reduce foreign restructuring of accounts in respect of one of exchange risk for ADB’s borrowers and its borrowers. support its growing local currency lending ➢ IRDAI imposes Rs 9 lakh fine on operations in Philippines. J P Morgan was United India Insurance the sole lead manager and bonds were fully Insurance Regulatory and Development placed with institutional investors in Asia, Authority has imposed a fine of Rs nine

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel lakh on state-owned United India Payment Interface (UPI)’ to facilitate secure Insurance. payments and financial transactions on its Insurance regulator IRDAI,imposed a sum platform. of 5 lakh imposed for violation of Amazon Pay UPI will be exclusively for regulations such as assigning of Android users, where every customer will be able to use their Amazon Pay UPI ID to shop surveyors and submitting reports,insurer on Amazon.in, make payments including offering a settlement to the insured as recharges and bill payments without entering well as paying the claim to the insured. bank credentials. Transactions held on The balance 4 lakh – 1 lakh each Amazon is secured through mobile was for violations of circular and verification as well as with UPI pin. guidelines on rates and discounts an Customers can link their bank account with insurer can offer . UPI pin. ➢ RBI imposes penalties on ➢ J P Morgan became First US Various Banks for violating various Bank with Cryptocurrency norms On 14th February 2019, JP Morgan rolled out The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has as the first US bank with penalised various banks for not complying cryptocurrency. The change in opinion of JP with various norms of RBI. Morgan is the first step in the program of HDFC Bank, Kotak Mahindra making it more competitive. The currency is Band and IDBI Bank were fined Rs 2 million designed to be decentralized so that no one each for non-compliance with respect has control over transactions being sent over to Know Your Customer (KYC) norms the network. and Anti-Money Laundering ➢ A Penalty of Rs 3.5 crore (AML) standards. imposed on PNB, OBC and Bank of Allahabad Bank, Andhra Bank, Indian India by RBI Overseas bank and Bank of On 14th February 2019, The Reserve Bank of Maharashtra were penalised for not India (RBI) imposed monetary penalty on following directions set by RBI on monitoring three Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) end use of funds, exchange of information banks due to deficiencies in regulatory with other banks, classification and reporting compliance with the directions issued by RBI of frauds and restructuring of accounts. The on monitoring end use of funds, information penalty was Rs 10 million for Andhra exchange with other banks and on Bank and Rs 15 million each for restructuring of accounts. others.Bank of Baroda and Union Bank of Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) - Rs 1.5 India has imposed a penalty of Rs 1 crore, Punjab National Bank (PNB)- Rs 1 crore each for violating various banking crore, Bank of India- Rs 1 crore. norms. ➢ RBI approved transfer of Rs ➢ Amazon launched ‘Amazon Pay 28,000 crore as interim dividend to the UPI’ in collaboration with Axis Bank Government of India for Indian android users The Reserve Bank of India On 14th February 2019, Amazon in (RBI) decided to transfer Rs. 28,000 partnership with Axis crore as interim dividend to Bank launched ‘Amazon Pay Unified the Government of India in the

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel current Financial Year (FY) 2018-19, in infusion would be used as buffer for any order to enable the Centre to meet its financial uncertainty or as a growth capital revised fiscal deficit target of 3.4% of for the merger of BoB (Bank of Baroda), Dena the GDP for FY19.Now, GoI have Rs Bank, Vijaya Bank. 68,000 crore as dividend for the 2018-19 ➢ Zimbabwe Starts Trading New fiscal, as Rs 40,000 crore dividend was Currency RTGS dollar th transferred to govt in August 2018. On 20 February 2019, Zimbabwe’s central bank announced the discontinuation of its ➢ A deal of USD 1.5 billion signed official currency, quasi-currency bond note by IOC to buy US crude oil officially pegged at parity with the U.S. Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), has signed its dollar and launched a new currency very first annual deal to buy U.S. crude oil, called RTGS dollars, to resolve a long-term paying USD 1.5 billion for 60,000 barrels a monetary crisis. day beginning April 2019 to March 2020 to ➢ RBI formalised USD 75-billion diversify its crude sources. swap pact with Bank of Japan ➢ Capital Infusion of Rs. 48,239 The Reserve Bank of India (RBI)and Crore into 12 State-Run Banks the Bank of Japan formalised the USD 75- On 19th February 2019, the Finance billion swap agreement, which would act as Ministry announced a capital infusion of Rs a cushion against any sharp swings in the 48,239 crore in 12 public sector banks local currency whenever the international (PSBs). financial markets turn volatile. This has been done to enable them to meet i. It will enable the availability of USD 75- their regulatory capital requirements and to billion in foreign capital for use as and when increase the availability of credit for stronger the need arises, bringing greater stability to lenders. The largest beneficiaries of this the foreign exchange and capital markets infusion are: in India and serve as a second line of defence i) Corporation Bank- Rs. 9086 crores as India has about USD 398 billion foreign ii) Allahabad Bank- Rs. 6896 crores exchange reserves to cushion sudden dollar iii) Bank of India- Rs. 4,638 crores outflows. iv) Bank of Maharashtra- Rs. 205 ➢ Corporation bank, Allahabad crores Bank and Dhanlaxmi bank are out of v) Punjab National Bank- Rs. 5,908 PCA framework crores On 26th February 2019, the Board for vi) Union Bank of India- Rs. 4,112 Financial Supervision (BFS) of the Reserve crores Bank of India has removed 2 public sector vii) Andhra Bank- Rs. 3,256 crores banks- Corporation Bank and Allahabad viii) Syndicate Bank- Rs. 1,603 crores Bank and 1 private sector bank – Dhanlaxmi ix) Central Bank of India, United Bank, Bank from PCA (Prompt Corrective Action) UCO Bank and Indian Overseas Bank- Rs. framework. 12,535 crores According to BFS, Allahabad Bank and This infusion takes the total government Corporation Bank had received Rs 6,896 infusion to Rs 1,00,958 crore out of the total crore and Rs 9,086 crore respectively which of Rs 1.06-lakh crore capitalisation led to increase in their capital funds and also programme of PSBs for this financial year. increased their loan loss provision. According The remaining Rs. 5,000 crore capital to RBI, Dhanlaxmi bank was found to be not

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel breaching any of the risk threshold of the PCA India has constituted a task force which will Framework, hence was removed out of the be headed by its former deputy PCA Framework. governor, Usha Thorat to examine issues ➢ RBI will infuse Rs. 37,500 Crore related to offshore rupee markets and into the system through OMO recommend policy measures. On 26th February 2019, The Reserve Bank of The 8-member task force will aim to ensure India announced that in order to increase stability of the external value of the domestic liquidity, it will infuse Rs. 37,500 crore into currency. the system through purchase of government The motive behind this is to develop deep and securities under Open Market Operations liquid on-shore financial markets that will act (OMOs) in February. as a price setter of the Rupee globally. The infusion will be made through three ➢ RBI slaps penalty of Rs. 11 crores auctions of Rs 125 billion each during the on five banks for non-strengthening of 2nd, 3rd and 4th week. The aggregate amount ‘SWIFT’ related controls will be Rs 375 billion. A penalty of the following amount has been imposed by the Reserve Bank of India on 4 ➢ Cabinet approvedRs.1450 crore PSU banks and 1 private sector bank: for share capital of RBI in NHB • Union Bank– Rs. 3 crores Cabinet approved Rs.1450crfor the share • Dena Bank– Rs. 2 crores capital of RBI in National Housing Bank • IDBI Bank– Rs. 1crore (NHB), which operate as the principal agency • Karnataka Bank– Rs. 4 crores to promote housing finance institutions in The penalty has been imposed for the delay India. The decision is the resultant of the caused in following the guidelines mentioned amendments made to the NHB Act, 1987 in in ‘Time bound implementation and 2018. strengthening of SWIFT related ➢ Moody has projected Indian controls’ issued by the Reserve Bank of India economy growth at 7.3% for 2019-20 on 20th February 2018. According to the US-based rating agency State Bank of India- Rs. 1 crore for delaying – Moody’s quarterly Global Macro the implementation of the daily reconciliation Outlook which was released on 1st March, of Swift transaction logs with effect from 2019, Indian economy is expected to grow February 20, 2018 at 226 “low intensity at 7.3 per cent in 2019 and 2020. branches” of the bank. ➢ India Growth rate falls to 6.6% ➢ India’s Unemployment Rate shot in Q3 up to 7.2% in Feb’19: CMIE On 28th February, 2019, the Central The unemployment rate in India rose Statistics Office (CSO) has estimated the to 7.2% in February 2019, the highest India’s economy to have slowed to 6.6% in since September 2016, and up the December quarter (Q3) from 7% in the from 5.9% in February 2018, according to previous (July-September) quarter which is data compiled by the Centre for Monitoring slowest in five quarters. Indian Economy (CMIE). ➢ RBI constituted a panel under The number of employed persons in India Usha Thorat on Offshore Rupee was estimated at 400 million in February 2019 compared with 406 million last year. markets ➢ Bank of Baroda becomes the On 28th February, 2019, Reserve Bank of first PSBs to launch creche/day-care

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel facility for employees’ children about appointment of LIC as a corporate Bank of Baroda has become one of the first agent under bancassurance channel. public sector banks to launch a crèche/child ➢ SBI, ICICI and HDFC named as day-care facility for children of its employees. Systemically Important Banks by RBI i.The day-care facility has been launched at On 15th March 2019, Reserve Bank of India its Mumbai corporate office in Bandra Kurla named State Bank of India, ICICI Bank and Complex and is being mulled further on HDFC Bank as Domestic Systemically being implemented at the head office in Important Banks (D-SIBs). The banks which Vadodara, Gujarat. are too big to fail are named by the RBI ii. The bank will bear 60% of the cost annually since 2015. incurred every month and rest 40% will be ➢ RBI has given its approval to borne by the parents. Bandhan Bank to acquire Gruh Finance iii. The bank has tied up with Klay Prep On 14th March 2019, Reserve Bank of India Schools and Daycare for launching this provided a no objection to Kolkata facility. headquartered Bandhan Bank for ➢ HDFC becomes the third Indian the proposed acquisition of Gruh Finance. company to achieve a market value of Gruh Finance Limited,a Ahmedabad more than Rs.6 trillion headquartered Subsidiary of HDFC On 13th March, HDFC Bank became Limited, is a Housing Finance Company the third Indian company after Reliance (HFC) recognized by the National Housing Industries (Rs. 8.52 trillion) and TCS (Rs. Bank (NHB) and it was taken over in January 7.49 trillion) to achieve a market value of by Kolkata-based Bandhan Bank in a share- Rs. 6 trillion, owing to a sudden upsurge in its swap deal. share prices. ➢ Exim Bank agreed to grant $83 ➢ IDBI Bank categorized as million line of credit to Congo for Private Sector Lender by RBI financing 3 solar power projects On 14th March 2019, The Reserve Bank of On 19th March 2019, Export-Import Bank of India categorized IDBI Bank as a Private India (Exim Bank) signed a loan agreement Sector Bank with effect from January 21, on behalf of the government of USD 83.11 2019 following Life Insurance Corporation of million (approx Rs.5,72,08,76,850) to Congo India (LIC) is acquiring 51 per cent of the for financing three solar power projectsin total paid-up equity share capital of the bank. the central African country. Following the appointment of MR Kumar as It aims to provide support for financing three the Chairman of Life Insurance Corporation of solar photovoltaic power projects with a total India (LIC), Hemant Bhargava ceases to be capacity of 35 megawatts in the three the Non-Executive chairman of IDBI Bank as provinces — Karawa, Mbandaka, and he no longer heads the parent company LIC. Lusambo. I IDBI Bank has been under the Prompt ➢ India’s GDP growth forecast Corrective Action (PCA) framework of RBI trimmed to 6.8% for FY20 by Fitch which bans it from corporate lending, branch Fitch rating in its Global Economic Outlook, expansions, salary hikes and other regular has decreased the India’s economic growth activities. forecast to 6.8% from 7% earlier for FY19- II. IDBI has charted out a revival strategy to 20 (1 April 2019 – 31 March 2020). bring banking and insurance under one roof Fitch also slashed GDP growth forecast along with LIC. The bank also informed

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel for FY19 (ending March 2019) to 7.2% from ➢ Bank of Baroda inked MoU with 7.8% that was projected in the December 6 firms to develop “Baroda Kisan” edition. Bank of Baroda has signed memorandum of ➢ India extends Rs. 35.5 million understanding (MoU) with six financial grant to Nepal firms namely Skymet Weather India extended a financial grant of 35.5 Services, Weather Risk Management million Nepalese rupees to Nepal for the Services, BigHaat, Agrostar India, EM3 Agri construction of an educational campus to Services and Poorti Agri Services to boost the learning environment of the develop “Baroda Kisan”. It will provide students. The educational campus was jointly solutions for all major agricultural inaugurated by District Coordination requirements through its holistic approach. Committee and Campus management The execution of the platform will be done committee on 22nd March 2019. by IT Centre of Excellence (ITCoE) of Bank ➢ Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has of Baroda in partnership with IBM India. appointed a five-member committee ➢ Govt decides to infuse Rs 5042 under the chairmanship of Nandan Cr into Bank Of Baroda ahead of the Nilekhani to strengthen digital merger payments On 28th March 2019, The government has On 25th March 2019 Reserve Bank of India decided to infuse a capital of 5,042 crore (RBI) has appointed 5-member committee rupees into state-owned Bank of under the chairmanship of Nandan Baroda ahead of its merger with two other Nilekani to strengthen digital payments as public sector lenders Dena Bank and Vijaya well as to boost financial inclusion through Bank,with Bank of Baroda which would be Financial Technology.It will provide effective from 1st April 2019. recommendations in 3 months. ➢ Bank of Baroda becomes the 3rd i. The decision regarding the formation of largest bank after its merger with committee was taken during the first event of Dena Bank & Vijaya Bank Financial Technology (Fintech) Conclave, On April 1, 2019, the merger of Dena Bank which was organized by NITI Aayog in New and Vijaya Bank into Bank of Baroda has Delhi. come into effect. With this ii. The purpose of the event was to shape amalgamation, Bank of Baroda becomes India’s predominance in FinTech, build the the India’s second largest public sector future strategy and policy to uplift the bank and third largest commercial financial inclusion. bank after State Bank of India iii. With the revolution in the FinTech sector (SBI) and HDFC Bank. India’s aim is to emerge as a 10 trillion ➢ Consulting arm of Infosys will dollar economy. buy 75% stake in Dutch Bank ➢ RBI slaps Rs 2 crore penalty on Subsidiary PNB for violation of SWIFT norms Consulting arm of Global IT Services On 25th March 2019, The Reserve Bank of major, Infosys will buy 75% stake in Starter India slapped Rs.2 crore as penalty for non- NV which is a subsidiary of Dutch based ABN compliance of regulatory AMRO Bank for $144 million (approx. Rs directions regarding SWIFT operations on 999 crore) in an all-cash deal. Punjab National Bank. This move is aimed at strategic partnership in

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Netherlands. ABN Amro which is the third government in Bank of Maharashtra has largest bank of Netherland will hold the increased to 87.74 % from 87.01%. remaining 25 per cent stake in Starter NV. ➢ ADB cuts India’s growth rate ➢ One97 Communications-owned from 7.6% 7.2% in 2019-20, as global Paytm Money Gets SEBI Approval for risks to Brexit surge Stock Broking As global risks from trade tensions to Brexit On 2nd April 2019, One97 Communications- surge, the ADB (Asia Development Bank) in owned Paytm Money, the wealth its publication Asian Development Outlook management arm of Paytm, has got approval 2019 has demoted growth forecasts for India from the Securities and Exchange Board of and Southeast Asia for 2019. For India, it has India (SEBI) to start offering a stock broking been downgraded by 40 basis points service such as the ability to trade in equities to 7.2% for fiscal year 2019-20 and cash segments, derivatives, and while Southeast Asia’s growth estimate was exchange-traded funds (ETFs) among other lowered to 4.9% by 0.2 percentage point. exchange-traded products. ➢ First Bi-monthly Monetary ➢ Government infused Rs 205 Policy Statement for 2019-20-RBI cuts crore into Bank of Maharashtra repo rate by 25 basis points On 30th March 2019, Government infused a On 6th April 2019, Reserve Bank of India capital of Rs. 205 crore into the state (RBI)’s six-member monetary policy owned Bank of Maharashtra in lieu of committee chaired by RBI Governor preferential allotment of shares. Shaktikanta Das released its 1st Bi-Monthly After the Capital infusion, the shareholding of Monetary Policy for 2019-20 Policy Rates 1st Bi-Monthly Monetary 6th Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy 2019-2020(Apr- Policy(Feb 2019) 2019) Repo Rate 6.00 % 6.25% Reverse Repo Rate 5.75 % 6.00% Marginal Standing Facility 6.25 % 6.50% Rate Bank Rate 6.25 % 6.50% Reserve Ratios 1st Bi-Monthly Monetary 6th Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy 2019-2020(Apr 2019) Policy(Feb 2019) Cash Reserve Ratio(CRR) 4% 4% Statutory Liquidity 19.25% 19.25% Ratio(SLR)

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Organization 2018-19 2019-20 Fitch 7.2% 6.8% UN report 7.4% 7.1% Government of India 7.2% 7.5% forecasted Moody 7.3% ADB 7.2% World Bank 7.5% International Monetary 7.3% 7.3% Fund (IMF) FICCI 7.1% Organisation for 7.5% Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

➢ World Bank estimates India’s ➢ DBI Bank launches NRI-Insta GDP grow to 7.5% in Fiscal Year 2019- Online, A paperless account opening 20 facility for NRIs The World Bank notified that India’s IDBI Bank has launched ‘NRI-Insta Online’ consistent hold in investment sector, account opening process for NRIs residing in mainly private-improved export Financial Action Task Force (FATF) member performance and resilient consumption, countries to open an account in the Bank has led its GDP growth forecast to mount without visiting the branch or submitting to 7.5 per cent for fiscal year 2019-20. paper documents such as physical documents ➢ India’s growth rate to increase as well as KYC proofs. This online facility is from 7.3% in 2019 to 7.5% in 2020 available in IDBI Bank’s website. According to the World Economic Outlook ➢ Bandhan Bank got the approval (WEO) report released by International from CCI to acquire Gruh Finance Monetary Fund (IMF), India’s growth rate is On 16th April 2019, Kolkata- estimated to rise from 7.3% in 2019 to based Bandhan Bank has received the 7.5% in 2020 provided it receives impetus approval of the Competition Commission from the fiscal policy and is backed by the of India (CCI) for the acquisition of Gruh ongoing recovery of investment and Finance which is the affordable housing consumption within expanded approach finance arm of HDFC Ltd in a share-swap of monetary policy. deal. The approval has been given under the ➢ HDFC Bank ranked No. 1 in India sub-section (1) of Section 31 of by the survey of Forbes the Competition Act, 2002. On 12th April 2019, as per the first edition ➢ BSE, India INX- the first ever of Forbes World’s Best Bank survey, HDFC Indian exchanges to sign MoU with Bank has been recognized as number 1 MOEX bank by customers in India.

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BSE (earlier called Bombay Stock With the profound vision of empowering the Exchange) and INX (India International ‘Agri’, ‘MSME segment’ and small Exchange) are the first Indian exchanges to businesses, PAISALO Digital Limited signed sign MoU (Memorandum of the first co-origination loan agreement Understanding) with MOEX (Moscow Exch (designed at Rs.10,000 to 2 lakh) with State ange) in order to allow capital formation Bank of India (SBI). The company expects to platform and connect investor community pay out 200,000 loan applications in FY20. and companies in both India and Russia. ➢ NTPC Inked Term-Loan ➢ State Bank of India (SBI) Agreement of Rs.2,000 crore with launched India’s first ‘Green Car Loan’ Canara Bank (Electric Vehicle) to encourage On 5th April 2019, National Thermal Power customers to buy electric vehicles Corporation(NPTC) has signed a term- loan On World Earth Day- April 22, 2019 the State Pact of Rs.2,000 crore with Canara Bank. Bank of India (SBI) has launched India’s first The Loan facility prolonged at an interest rate ‘Green Car Loan’ (Electric Vehicle) to linked to 3-Month MCLR of Bank. The lent encourage customers to buy electric vehicles. amount would be utilized to part finance The new scheme ‘Green Car Loan’ will offer company’s capital expenditure. loan at 20 basis points lower than the ➢ ADB agreed to grant highest- interest rate on the existing car loan schemes. ever USD 3 billion in sovereign loans to ➢ RBI is going to issue new Rs 20 India denomination banknote with greenish- On 16th April 2019, Asian Development yellow colour Bank (ADB) agreed to provide a total of USD The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will issue 3.88 billion in sovereign loans to India in new Rs 20 denomination banknotes having a 2018, which is the highest ever loan amount base colour of greenish -yellow with size of since sovereign operations began in the 63 X 129 mm. The first Rs 20 notes were country in 1986. issued in the Mahatma Gandhi Series in 1) With this total USD 21.6 billion in loans, August 2001. granted from ADB’s own resources, which ➢ Kotak Mahindra Bank becomes exceeded the target of USD 19.71 billion and the first Destination Bank to launch up 10 percent from 2017. debit card based e-mandates On NPCI’s 2) ADB committed several projects like a USD E-Mandate API Platform 100-million loan to Ostro Kutch Wind, which is a renewable energy company for Kotak Mahindra Bank (Kotak) has launched constructing and operating a 250-megawatt the first debit card-based authentication wind power project in Gujarat, also solution on NPCI’s (National Payments provided USD 30 million in equity and USD Corporation of India) e-Mandate (electronic 20 millionin debt security to Annapurna mandate) API (Application Program Finance, a microfinance company. Interface) platform, thus being the first ever 3) In 2018, ADB signed an arrangement with Destination Bank to go live with both Net the International Solar Alliance for Banking and Debit Card-based e-mandate promoting solar energy deployment across authentication. Asia, the Pacific, and South Asia. ➢ SBI signs its first ever co- 4). ADB continued to deliver climate origination loan agreement with financing to USD 3.6 billion in 2018 and has PAISALO Digital Limited a target to double its annual climate

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel financing to USD 6 billion in approvals by International Finance Corporation (IFC), a 2020. member company of the World Bank ➢ Exim Bank gives loans worth group, will invest $35 million in 267$ million for projects in Rwanda Manappuram Finance in a bid to tap the The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) notified Indian gold loan market in their first such that Exim Bank has proffered soft loans foray. worth 266.6$ million to Rwanda for various “We are making our first investment in a projects. gold-loan finance • for supporting agricultural projects • for the development of Special company to create Economic Zones (SEZs) opportunities for • for financing road projects in Rwanda. the rural and poor households to ➢ GST collection scales all-time transition from high of Rs 1.13 trillion in April informal to formal GST revenue mop-up scaled a monthly forms of credit,” record high of over Rs 1.13 trillion in April, said Jun Zhang, IFC an increase of 10 per cent over the Country Head for collection in the year-ago period, on the India. back of anti-evasion steps taken by tax ➢ Indian Overseas Bank launches ‘Bank on Wheels’ facility officers. Indian Overseas Bank (IOB), on Monday, Total number of summary sales return announced that it has launched ‘Bank on GSTR-3B filed for the month of March up Wheels’ facility in 14 of its lead districts in to April 30 stood at 72.13 lakh. April 2019 Tamil Nadu and Kerala, besides is the second consecutive month when Vijayawada. The bank said the mobile van Goods and Services Tax (GST) collection facility will enable the public, especially exceeded Rs 1 trillion. In March, the mop- senior citizens, conveniently get door-step up was Rs 1.06 trillion. “The total gross banking facility available at identified GST revenue collected in April 2019 is Rs locations of the lead districts. 1,13,865 crore. A dedicated banking correspondent will ➢ SEBI Fines NSE Over Rs 1,000 crore accompany the vehicle with a micro ATM in Co-Location Scandal Market regulator Securities Exchange inside the van to take care of services such Board of India (SEBI) on Tuesday, April 30, as account opening, enrollment of has ordered National Stock Exchange customers in Social Security Scheme, (NSE) to pay a fine of over Rs 1,000 crore passbook printing, and other financial in relation to a co-location scandal through inclusion activities. Chennai, which NSE favoured a set of brokers to Kanyakumari, Karur and Nagapattinam make illegal gains through preferential are some of the areas that will be covered access to the exchange servers. in Tamil Nadu. ➢ World Bank to invest $35 million in ➢ RBI extends RTGS timings from Manapurram Finance 4:30 pm to 6 pm

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel To facilitate high-value fund transfers, the Fiji. The Action Plan for Healthy Oceans Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has and Sustainable Blue Economies targets announced an extension of timings for maritime welfare in the Asia-Pacific. customer transactions through Real Time ADB president Takehiko Nakao said it was Gross Settlement (RTGS) by one and half part of a more, “resilient future, where hours from 4:30 PM to 06 PM. humanity and oceans thrive together”. Of In a notification, issued from Mumbai the world’s 10 rivers carrying the most yesterday, RBI said that new timing will be plastic pollution to the ocean, the ADB said effective from 1st June. The RTGS is an eight were in the region. Without online fund transfer system, supported by immediate action, the ADB said about 90 the RBI, which enables money transaction percent of the region’s coral reefs could be on a real-time basis. dead by 2050. The minimum amount for the transaction ➢ Bank credit grows 13.2% in FY19 under this system is Rs 2 lakh. There is no Bank credit grew by 13.2% in financial upper limit on the value of funds that can year 2018-19 as compared to 10.3% in the be transferred via the RTGS system. previous financial year, mainly aided by ➢ Vodafone Idea announces multi- loans to services and retail sector. million dollar IT outsourcing deal with Deposit growth also gained momentum, IBM growing by 10% as compared to 6.7% a India’s largest telecom operator Vodafone year ago. “We have to be a bit careful while Idea Ltd Friday announced a five-year looking at this data because a bump-up has multi-million-dollar IT outsourcing deal happened in the month of March. If you with tech giant IBM. This engagement will see, up to February, credit growth was not also contribute to Vodafone Idea’s merger that strong,” said Madan Sabnavis, chief synergy objectives by reducing its IT economist, CARE Ratings. related costs,” the telecom firm said in a ➢ Centre plans 3 CPSE ETFs in FY20 statement. to meet Rs 90,000-cr disinvestment target The company did not divulge the size of The Ministry of Finance’s Department of the deal but some reports pegged it at Investment and Public Asset Management about $700 million. (DIPAM) is examining plans to launch ➢ RBI slaps Rs 11 lakh fine on Yes three equity exchange-traded funds Bank for violating money transfer norms (ETFs) in the current fiscal year, Business “(The) Reserve Bank of India (RBI) vide Standard has learnt. DIPAM expects that its speaking order dates April 22, 2019, the three ETFs will be attractive to imposed a penalty of Rs 11,25,000 investors who want to invest in specific under the Payment and Settlement sectors, and will help the Centre meet an Systems Act, 2007,” Yes bank said in a ambitious Rs 90,000 crore disinvestment regulatory filing. target for 2019-20 (FY20). ➢ ADB launches $US5 billion ocean ➢ RBI slaps ₹1-cr fine on Nainital health initiative Bank The plan was announced at the ADB board The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has of governor’s meeting, held last week in imposed a monetary penalty of ₹1 crore on

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel Nainital Bank for its failure to fully suggestions on promoting digital automate the non-performing asset (NPA) payments to Governor Shaktikanta Das. identification process, despite specific In January, the RBI had set up the five- directions issued in this regard. member panel on deepening digital Nabard announces ₹ 700-cr venture payments with a view to encouraging capital fund for agri, rural startups digitisation of payments and enhance The National Bank for Agriculture and financial inclusion through digitisation. Rural Development (NABARD) on Monday In a statement, the Reserve Bank said the announced a Rs 700-crore venture capital committee held its deliberations including fund for equity investments in agriculture consultations with various stakeholders and rural-focused startups. and submitted its report yesterday to Mr NABARD has been contributing to other Das. funds till now and this is the first time that ➢ Tripura Gramin Bank among top the rural development bank has launched banking performers in country a fund of its own. The Tripura Gramin Bank has emerged as The fund has been launched by one of the top performers in the banking Nabventures, a subsidiary of NABARD, and sector in the 2018-19 financial year has a proposed corpus of Rs 500 crore across the country, investing heavily to with an option to retain over- promote entrepreneurship. subscriptions of Rs 200 crore, called as the Speaking to reporters, TGB Chairman greenshoe option, an official statement Mahendra Mohan Goswami said the state said. Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) has ➢ RBI’s vision 2021 looks at a ‘cash- registered a net profit of Rs. 125.44 crore lite’ society, cyber security, and more in the last financial year. The Bank also The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on registered business of Rs. 9,000 crores in Wednesday released its statement on last financial year, with net Non- ‘Payment and Settlement Systems in India: Performing Asset (NPA) of zero percent Vision 2019–2021’, which outlined the and gross NPA of 8.94 percent, much measures that the central bank will below the mandate set by the Reserve undertake to foster innovation, Bank of India (RBI) and NABARD. cybersecurity, financial inclusion, ➢ RBI to buy Rs 15,000 crore of gilts customer protection, and competition. via OMO; revises VRR route for FPI debt The Payment Systems Vision 2021 investment envisages achieving a ‘highly digital’ and The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday ‘cash-lite’ society through the goalposts of said it will conduct the purchase of competition, cost-effectiveness, government securities (gilts) under open convenience, and confidence, said the RBI. market operation to the tune of Rs 15,000 ➢ Nilekani-led panel on digital crore on June 13. payments submits report to RBI It also notified the revised voluntary A Reserve Bank of India-appointed retention route for foreign portfolio committee headed by Aadhaar architect investors for debt investment. Nandan Nilekani has submitted its

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel ➢ Public sector banks recover Rs 1.2 general managers were present on the trillion from stressed assets in FY19 occasion, the release added. Public sector banks (PSBs) have recovered ➢ RBI sets up panel to develop close to Rs 1.2 trillion from stressed assets secondary market for corporate loans during the financial ended March, The Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday primarily helped by resolution under the constituted a task force on development of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), an secondary market for corporate loans. official said. The six-member task force will have T. N. During the first half of the previous fiscal, Manoharan, Chairman of Canara Bank, as banks recovered Rs 60,713 crore from bad its chairperson and will submit its report loans. by the end of August 2019. ➢ Corporation Bank launches ‘Corp The RBI said that the terms of reference of SME Suvidha’ for MSMEs the task force would include review of the Corporation Bank has launched ‘Corp SME existing state of the market for loan sale or Suvidha’, a product for GST-registered transfer in India as well as the MSMEs. international experience in loan trading. A press release said that the product has ➢ six-member Monetary Policy been designed as part of the bank’s efforts Committee to provide best products to MSME sector. The six-member Monetary Policy PV Bharathi, Managing Director and Chief Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of Executive Officer of the bank, launched the India reduced the repo rate at its third product in Mangaluru recently. Gopal meeting this year by 25 basis points to Murli Bhagat, Executive Director , and 5.75% to address growth concerns. (6 June 2019) Policy Rates 1st Bi-Monthly Monetary 6th Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy 2019-2020(Apr- Policy(June 2019) 2019) Repo Rate 6.00 % 5.75% Reverse Repo Rate 5.75 % 5.50% Marginal Standing 6.25 % 6% Facility Rate Bank Rate 6.25 % 6% Reserve Ratios 1st Bi-Monthly Monetary 6th Bi-Monthly Monetary Policy 2019-2020(Apr 2019) Policy(June2019) Cash Reserve Ratio(CRR) 4% 4% Statutory Liquidity 19.25% 19% Ratio(SLR)

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Chair Payment Bank Headquarter Tagline MD/ CEO/ CMD man Banking Is Now Airtel Payment At Your Sunil Bank (1st New Delhi Fingertips Anubrata Vishwas Bharti Payment Bank, India’s First Mittal April 1 2016) Payment Bank Mahen dra FINO Payment Qadar Aapki Mumbai Rishi Gupta Kumar Bank Mehnat Ki Chouh an

Indian Post Aapka Bank Suresh New Delhi Suresh Sethi Payment Bank Aapka Dwar Sethi

YOUR EVERYDAY Vivek Jiyo Payment BANK For all of Mumbai H Srikrishnan Bhand Bank your payments, ari banking and financial needs Vijay Simplifying Shekh Paytm Payment Satish Kumar Noida Payments For ar Bank Gupta India Sharm a Himan Sudhakar Aditya Birla Get To Know shu Mumbai Ramasubramania Payment Bank Us Better Kapani n a

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Mr. B. Technology NSDL Payment Mr. G. V. A. Mumbai Trust and Bank Nageswara Rao Prabha Reach kar

Vodafone M- Suresh Pesa Payment Mumbai -- Sunil Sood Sethi Bank

Bank Name & CEO of Bank & Headquarter & Tagline

S.No. Bank Name CEO of Bank Headquarter Tagline

1. Allahabad Bank S. S. Mallikarjuna Kolkata A tradition of Rao trust 2. Andhra Bank J Packirisamy Hyderabad Where India Banks 3. Bank of Baroda P. S. Jayakumar India’s Vadodara International Bank 4. Bank of India Dinbandhu Mumbai Relationships Mohapatra beyond Banking 5. Bank of A. S. Rajeev Pune One Family Maharashtra One Bank 6. Canara Bank Rakesh Kumar Bangalore Together we Sharma (lying can vacant after his term completed) 7. Central Bank of Pallav Mahapatra Mumbai Central To you India Since 1911, Build A Better Life Around Us 8. Corporation Bank P.V. Bharathi A Premier Mangalore Public Sector Bank,

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel Prosperity for all 9. Dena Bank Karnam Sekar Mumbai Trusted Family Bank 10. Indian Bank Padmaja Chunduru Your Tech- Chennai friendly bank

11. Indian Overseas R. Subramanian Good people to Bank Kumar Chennai grow with

12. Oriental Bank of Mukesh Kumar Jain Gurugram Where every Commerce individual is committed 13. Punjab & Sind S. Hari Shanker New Delhi Where Service Bank Is A Way Of Life 14. Punjab National Sunil Mehta New Delhi The Name you Bank can Bank Upon 15. State Bank of Rajnish With you all India Kumar (Chairman) Mumbai the way, Pure Banking Nothing Else, The Nation’s banks on us 16. Syndicate Bank Mrutyunjay Manipal Faithful. Mahapatra Friendly 17. UCO Bank Atul Kumar Goel Kolkata Honors Your Trust 18. Union Bank of Rajkiran Rai G. Mumbai Good people to India bank with 19. United Bank of Ashok Kumar Kolkata The Bank that India Pradhan begins with “U” 20. Vijaya Bank R. A. Sankara Bangalore A Friend You Narayanan Can Bank On

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel Private Sector Banks and their CEOs & MDs Bank CEO / CMD / Head Headquarter Tagline Axis Bank Dr. Sanjeev Misra (Non- Mumbai Badhti Ka Naam Executive Zindagi Chairman) Amitabh Chaudhry (MD & CEO) Bandhan Bank Chandra Shekhar Kolkata, West Aapka Bhala, Sabki Ghosh (MD & CEO) Bengal, India. Bhalai Anup Kumar Sinha (Part time Chairman) Catholic Syrian S. Anantharaman Thrissur Support all the way Bank (Chairman) C. VR. Rajendran (MD & CEO) City Union Bank Mahalingam (Non- Tamilnadu Trust and Excellene Executive Chairman) since 1904 Dr. N. Kamakodi (MD & CEO) Dhanalakshmi T Latha (MD & CEO) Thrissur,Kerela Tann. Mann. Dhan Bank Federal Bank Shyam Srinivasan (MD Kerala Your perfect banking & CEO) partner HDFC Bank Aditya Puri (MD) Mumbai We understand your world ICICI Bank Girish Chandra Mumbai Khayaal Apka Chaturvedi (Chairman) Mr. Sandeep Bakhshi (MD & CEO) IDFC First Bank Vaidhnathan Mumbai Banking Hatke IndusInd Bank R Seshasayee Mumbai We make money (Chairman) Romesh simple Sobti (MD & CEO) Jammu & Kashmir Parvez Ahmed Srinagar Serving to Empower Bank (Chairman & CEO) Karnataka Bank Jayarama Bhat (Non- Mangalore Your family bank Executive Chairman) across India Mahabaleshwara M. S (MD & CEO) Karur Vysya Bank Swaminathan (Non- Tamilnadu Smart way to bank Executive Chairman) P. R. Seshadri (MD & CEO)

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel Kotak Mahindra Dr. Shankar Acharya Mumbai Lets make money Bank (Non-Executive simple Chairman) Uday Kotak (MD & CEO) Lakshmi Vilas Parthasarathi Tamilnadu The Changing Face of Bank Mukherjee (MD & CEO) prosperity Nainital Bank Mukesh Sharma Nainital Banking with personal (Cahirman & CEO) touch RBL Bank Prakash Chandra (Non- Maharashtra Apno ka Bank Executive Chairman) Vishwavir Ahuja (MD & CEO) South Indian Bank Salim Gangadharan Kerala Experience next (Non-Executive generation banking Chairman) V. G. Mathew (MD & CEO) Yes Bank Ltd. Ravneet Singh Gill Mumbai Experience our (frontrunner for MD & expertise CEO) Brahm Dutt (Non- Executive Chairman) DCB BANK Mumbai We Value You

Small Finance Banks and their Headquarters, Heads and Taglines:

Name of Small Finance Headquarters MD & CEO Taglines Bank AU small finance Bank Jaipur ,Rajasthan Sanjay Agarwal ‘Chalo Aage Limited Badhe’ Equitas small Finance Chennai,Tamilnadu P N Vasudevan ‘Its Fun Banking’ Bank Arun Ramanathan(Chairman) Capital Lab Small Jalandar,Punjab Sarvajit Singh Samra Viswas se Vikas Finance bank Inder Krishan tak’ sardana(Chairman)

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel ESAF Small Finance Thrissur,Kerala K Paul Thomas Joy of Banking’ Bank Raveendranathan Prabha (chairman) FINCARE small finance Bengaluru,Karnataka Rajeev Yadav ‘a new era in Bank smartbanking begins’ Janalakshmi small Bengaluru,Karnataka Ajay Kanwal Likho Apni Finance Bank (Jana SFB) Kahaani

North East Small Guwahati,Assam Rupali Kalita Your Door step Finance Bank Banker’ Suryodaya Small Navi R Bhaskar Babu A bank of smiles Finance Bank Mumbai,Maharashtra Utkarsh Small Finance Varanasi,U.P Raghvendra Singh Aapki Umeed Ka Bank Khata’ Ujjivan Small Finance Bengaluru,Karnataka Samit Ghosh We belive in Bank your belief

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PERSON FIELD Kader Khan Veteran actor-writer CH Loknath Veteran Kannada actor Dibyendu Palit Bengali writer and Sahitya Akademi awardee Ramakant Achrekar Dronacharya awardee and cricketer Lenin Rajendran Malayalam Director Sir Michael Atiyah Fields Medal-Winning Mathematician Vishnu Hari Dalmia Vishwa Hindu Parishad Mary Oliver Pulitzer Prize-winning Sitanshu Yashaschandra Gujarati poet awarded Saraswati Samman (‘Vakhar) Krishna Sobti Jnanpith awardee , Hindi fiction writer George Fernandes Former defence minister Albert Finney Actor (five time oscar nominee) Mahesh Anand Bollywood actor Manfred Eigen German Nobel Prize winning Chemist Andrea Levy Best-selling British Author Namwar Singh Hindi author and literary Zhores Alferov Russian Nobel Prize winner for physics in 2000 Bill Playle Former batsman V. Dhananjaya Kumar Former Union minister Jerry Merryman co-inventor of the World’s First Handheld Electronic Calculator Dies at 86 Kane Tanaka 116-year-old Japanese woman The world’s oldest living person by Guinness World Records.

Manohar Parrikar Goa CM L V Sharada Rao Veteran Kannada actress Ashita Veteran Malayalam writer and poet Valery Bykovsky Russian cosmonaut, who made the first of his three flights to space in 1963, passed away at the age of 84 years.

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Viharidas Gopaldas Patel Padma Shri awardee, Noted economist and ‘Father of Entrepreneurship Movement’ Sydney Brenner Biologist ,Nobel Prize in 2002 in Physiology Nadja Regin James Bond Actress SK Shivakumar Former Director of Indian Space Research Organisation Satellite Centre (ISAC). Jerrie Cobb NASA’s first female astronaut candidate Amar Paul Famous Bengali Folk Singer Negasso Gidada Former Ethiopian president Justice Subhashan Reddy Former chief justice of the Kerala and Madras High Courts Hirannaiah Kannada theatre personality Master Dr.NR Madhava Menon Father of modern legal education in India Y.C. Deveshwar Industry leader and ITC Chairman Bob Hawke Former Australian Prime Minister Veeru Devgan father of Ajay Devgn, Action Director Murray Gell-Mann Nobel prize winner for physics

19. BOOK- AUTHOR

Book Author ‘Game Changer’ Shahid Afridi Released His Autobiography ‘Every Vote Counts’ Navin Chawla Launched ‘Mann Ki Baat – A Social Revolution on Arun Jaitley Radio’ ‘Quality, Accreditation & Ranking’ Dr. H Chaturvedi’s ‘Simplicity & Wisdom’ Mr. Dinesh Shahra “Undaunted: Saving the Idea of India” P Chidambaram’s ‘We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories Malala Yousafzai from Refugee Girls Around the World,’ ‘Changing India’ Formal PM Manmohan Singh “The Republican Ethic” in English and Vice President of India Shri M.Venkaiah Naidu “Loktantra ke Swar” in Hindi ‘Blue Waters Ahoy!’ Admiral Sunil Lanba “Making of New India” Arun Jaitley “Law, Justice and Judicial Power – Justice P Mool Chand Sharma N Bhagwati’s Approach”

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Jallianwala Bagh massacre, ‘Khooni Abu Dhabi, UAE Vaisakhi’ “Indian Fiscal Federalism” Dr. Y.V. Reddy and G.R. Reddy "Timeless Laxman" Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday released a book "Timeless Laxman", based on the life and times of legendary cartoonist, the late R.K. Laxman. "I am very happy to be part of Laxman's journey in time," the PM remarked and added that he is also happy that Laxman's cartoons are being made available to all.

20. GOVERNMENT SPONSORED SOCIALLY ORIENTED INSURANCE SCHEMES • Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY) • Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY) • Life Cover under Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) • Varishtha Pension Bima Yojana • Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) • Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandana Yojana (PMVVY) • Restructured Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme (RWBCIS

➢ Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima approvals and tie up with banks for this Yojana (PMJJBY) purpose.

The PMJJBY is available to people in the age group of 18 to 50 years having a bank account ➢ Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima who give their consent to join / enable auto- Yojana (PMSBY) debit. Aadhar would be the primary KYC for The Scheme is available to people in the age the bank account. The life cover of Rs. 2 lakhs group 18 to 70 years with a bank account who shall be for the one year period stretching give their consent to join / enable auto-debit from 1st June to 31st May and will be on or before 31st May for the coverage period renewable. Risk coverage under this scheme is 1st June to 31st May on an annual renewal for Rs. 2 Lakh in case of death of the insured, basis. Aadhar would be the primary KYC for due to any reason. The premium is Rs. 330 per the bank account. The risk coverage under the annum which is to be auto-debited in one scheme isRs.2 lakh for accidental death and installment f rom the subscriber’s bank full disability and Rs. 1 lakh for partial account as per the option given by him on or disability. The premium of Rs. 12 per annum is before 31st May of each annual coverage to be deducted from the account holder’s bank period under the scheme. The scheme is being account through ‘auto-debit’ facility in one offered by Life Insurance Corporation and all installment. The scheme is being offered by other life insurers who are willing to offer the Public Sector General Insurance Companies or product on similar terms with necessary

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel any other General Insurance Company who senior citizens. Under the scheme a total no. of are willing to offer the product on similar 3.16 lakh annuitants are being benefited and terms with necessary approvals and tie up the corpus amounts to Rs. 6,095 crore. For the with banks for this purpose. benefit of citizens aged 60 years and above, the Hon'ble Finance Minister in his Budget Speech ➢ Life Cover under Pradhan Mantri for the year 2014-15 proposed to revive the scheme for a limited period from 15 August, Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) 2014 to 14 August, 2015. Accordingly, the The Hon’ble Prime Minister in his revived Varishtha Pension BimaYojana Independence Day Speech announced a (VPBY) was formally launched by the Finance comprehensive program of Financial Minister on 14.08.2014 and has been opened Inclusion targeting a large number of people during the window stretching from 15th who are currently deprived of even August, 2014 to 14th August, 2015. Thus all rudimentary financial services. In this those who subscribe to the VPBY during this period will receive an assured guaranteed direction, the Pradhan Mantri Jan return of 9% under the policy. The scheme is DhanYojana (PMJDY) sets out to provide a administered through Life Insurance basic Bank account to every family who till Corporation of India (LIC). Under the Scheme now had no account. The bank account the subscribers on payment of a lump sum comes with a RuPay debit card with a built- amount get pension at a guaranteed rate of 9% in accidental insurance cover of Rs. 1 lakh. per annum (payable monthly). Any gap in the During the launch on 28.08.14 in New Delhi, guaranteed return over the return generated by the LIC on the fund is compensated by Hon’ble Prime Minister also announced a life Government of India by way of subsidy cover of Rs. 30,000/- for those subscribing to payment in the scheme. The scheme allows a bank account with a RuPay debit card withdrawals of deposit amount by the before 26th January, 2015 to complement annuitant after fifteen years of purchase of the the Rs. 1 lakh accident insurance cover. This policy. life insurance cover of Rs. 30,000/- under Pradhan Mantri Jan DhanYojana, gives life ➢ Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima insurance cover on death of the life assured, Yojana (PMFBY) due to any reason, to the deceased’s family. The Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojna was The scheme aims to provide security to launched on 18th February 2016 by Prime families from economically weaker sections Minister Shri Narendra Modi. 21 states who cannot afford direct purchase of such implemented the scheme in Kharif 2016 insurance. The premium subscription for the whereas 23 states and 2 UTs have life cover under PMJDY is borne by the implemented the scheme in Rabi 2016-17. Government of India. Approximately 3.7 Crores farmers have been insured in the Kharif 2016 for 3.7 crore ha of ➢ Varishtha Pension Bima Yojana land at premium of Rs 16212 crore for a sum The NDA Government during its last term in insured of Rs 128568.94 crore as per figures office had introduced the Varishtha Pension available on 31.03.2017. BimaYojana (VPBY) as a pension scheme for

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel PMFBY provides a comprehensive insurance ➢ Restructured Weather Based cover against failure of the crop thus helping Crop Insurance Scheme (RWBCIS) in stabilising the income of the farmers. The The RWBCIS was launched on 18th February Scheme covers all Food & Oilseeds crops and 2016 by Hon’ble Prime Minister 12 states Annual Commercial/Horticultural Crops for implemented the scheme in Kharif 2016 which past yield data is available and for whereas 9 states have implemented the which requisite number of Crop Cutting scheme in Rabi 2016-17. Approximately 15 Experiments (CCEs) are conductedbeing lakhs farmers have been insured in the Kharif 2016 for 16.95 lakh ha of land at premium of under General Crop Estimation Survey Rs983.96 crore for a sum insured of (GCES). The scheme is implemented by Rs8536.53 crore as per figures available on empanelled general insurance companies. 31.03.2017. Selection of Implementing Agency (IA) is Weather Based Crop Insurance Scheme done by the concerned State Government (WBCIS) aims to mitigate the hardship of the through bidding. The scheme is compulsory insured farmers against the likelihood of for loanee farmers availing Crop Loan /KCC financial loss on account of anticipated crop loss resulting from adverse weather account for notified crops and voluntary for conditions relating to rainfall, temperature, other others. The scheme is being wind, humidity etc. WBCIS uses weather administered by Ministry of Agriculture. parameters as “proxy‟ for crop yields in ➢ Pradhan Mantri Vaya Vandana compensating the cultivators for deemed crop Yojana (PMVVY) losses. Pay-out structures are developed to the extent of losses deemed to have been suffered Based on the success and popularity of using the weather triggers. Varishtha Pension Bima Yojana 2003 (VPBY- Weather Station (RWS) or Backup Weather 2003), Varishtha Pension Bima Yojana 2014 Station (BWS) as the case may be, and the (VPBY-2014) schemes, and to protect elderly claims process shall commence once the persons aged 60 years and above against a weather data is received. Claims processing future fall in their interest income due to the are strictly as per the insurance term sheets, uncertain market conditions, as also to payout structure and the Scheme provisions. provide social security during old age, it is All standard Claims are processed and paid decided to launch a simplified scheme of within 45 days from the end of the risk period. assured pension of 8% called the The scheme is being administered by Ministry ‘प्रधानमंत्रीवयवन्दनायोजना’. of Agriculture. ‘प्रधानमंत्रीवयवन्दनायोजना’ is being implemented through Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India. As per the scheme, on payment of an ✓ Ayushman Bharat initial lump sum amount ranging from a ➢ About Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya minimum purchase price of Rs. 1, 50,000/- for Yojana (PM-JAY) a minimum pension of Rs 1000/- per month to India has achieved significant public health a maximum purchase price of Rs. 7, 50,000/- gains and improvements in health care access for maximum pension of Rs. 5,000/- per and quality over the last three decades. The month, subscribers will get an assured health sector is amongst the largest and pension based on a guaranteed rate of return fasting growing sectors, expected to reach of 8% per annum, payable monthly.

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US$ 280 billion by 2020. At the same time, India’s health sector faces immense PM-JAY will cover medical and hospitalization challenges. It continues to be characterized expenses for almost all secondary care and by high out-of-pocket expenditure, low most of tertiary care procedures. PM-JAY has financial protection, low health insurance defined 1,350 medical packages covering coverage amongst both rural and urban surgery, medical and day care treatments population. It is a matter of grave concern including medicines, diagnostics and that we incur a high out-of-pocket transport. expenditure on account of health and medical costs. 62.58% of our population has to pay for To ensure that nobody is left out (especially their own health and hospitalization expenses girl child, women, children and elderly), there and are not covered through any form of will be no cap on family size and age in the health protection. Besides using their income Mission. The scheme will be cashless & and savings, people borrow money or sell paperless at public hospitals and empanelled their assets to meet their healthcare needs, private hospitals. The beneficiaries will not be thereby pushing 4.6% of the population required to pay any charges for the below the poverty line. The Government of hospitalization expenses. The benefit also India is committed to ensuring that its includes pre and post-hospitalization population has universal access to good expenses. The scheme is an entitlement quality health care services without based, the beneficiary is decided on the basis anyone having to face financial hardship of family being figured in SECC as a consequence. database. When fully implemented, the PM- JAY will become the world’s largest Under the ambit of Ayushman government funded health protection Bharat, a Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya mission. Yojana (PM-JAY) to reduce the financial burden on poor and vulnerable groups ✓ Benefits of PM-JAY arising out of catastrophic hospital episodes ➢ Beneficiary Level and ensure their access to quality health • Government provides health services was conceived. PM-JAY seeks to insurance cover of up to Rs. 5,00,000 per accelerate India’s progress towards family per year. achievement of Universal Health Coverage • More than 10.74 crore poor and (UHC) and Sustainable Development Goal - 3 vulnerable families (approximately 50 crore (SDG3). beneficiaries) covered across the country.

• All families listed in the SECC Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM- database as per defined criteria will be JAY) will provide financial protection covered. No cap on family size and age of (Swasthya Suraksha) to 10.74 crore poor, members. deprived rural families and identified • Priority to girl child, women and and occupational categories of urban workers’ senior citizens. families as per the latest Socio-Economic • Free treatment available at all public Caste Census (SECC) data (approx. 50 crore and empaneled private hospitals in times of beneficiaries). It will have offer a benefit need. cover of Rs. 500,000 per family per year (on a • Covers secondary and tertiary care family floater basis). hospitalization.

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• 1,350 medical packages covering deficit areas, from private care providers, surgery, medical and day care treatments, especially the not-for profit providers. cost of medicines and diagnostics. • Significantly reduce out of pocket • All pre-existing diseases covered. expenditure for hospitalization. Mitigate Hospitals cannot deny treatment. financial risk arising out of catastrophic • Cashless and paperless access to health episodes and consequent quality health care services. impoverishment for poor and vulnerable • Hospitals will not be allowed to families. charge any additional money from • Acting as a steward, align the growth beneficiaries for the treatment. of private sector with public health goals. • Eligible beneificiares can avail • Enhanced used to of evidence based services across India, offering benefit of health care and cost control for improved national portability. Can reach out for health outcomes. information, assistance, complaints and • Strengthen public health care systems grievances to a 24X7 helpline number - through infusion of insurance revenues. 14555 • Enable creation of new health infrastructure in rural, remote and under- ➢ Health System served areas. • Help India progressively achieve • Increase health expenditure by Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and Government as a percentage of GDP. Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). • Enhanced patient satisfaction. • Ensure improved access and • Improved health outcomes. affordability, of quality secondary and • Improvement in population-level tertiary care services through a combination productivity and efficiency of public hospitals and well measured • Improved quality of life for the strategic purchasing of services in health care population

21. SPORTS

➢ Hopman Cup: Roger Federer & ➢ Maharashtra to host Khelo Belinda Bencic retain title for India Youth Games 2019 Switzerland From 9th January 2019, Maharashtra is From 29 December 2018, the Hopman going to host the second edition of Cup which is an annual international eight- the Khelo India Youth Games which team indoor hard court tennis includes completions in 18 different tournament was held disciplines at Balewadi Sports Complex in Perth, Western Australia. It is a mixed in Pune. The event will conclude on competition in which male and female players 20th January 2019. are on combined teams and represent their countries. The Event was concluded on ➢ Egypt to host 2019 Africa Cup 5th January 2019. of Nations On 08th January 2019, Confederation of

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel African Football’s (CAF) Executive From 22nd January 2019, the Indonesia Committee announced that Egypt will Masters 2019 Title,a badminton host African Cup for the fifth time in tournament which is officially known 2019. South Africa was the other country as DAIHATSU Indonesia Masters who made a bid to host the event. 2019,took place at the Istora Senayan ➢ Mary Kom attained number in Jakarta, Indonesia. The event one position in AIBA rankings concluded on 27th January 2019. On 10th January 2019, 36 years old ➢ (Men’s Single) Danish player boxer, M C Mary Kom attained Anders Antonsen won his first ever the first position in the latest women Indonesia Masters after defeating ranking released by the International world number one Kento Momota Boxing Association (AIBA) in the Light of Japan Fly 45-48 kilograms category with 1700 On 27th January 2019,Anders points. Antonsen of Denmark won his maiden ➢ 80th National Table Tennis Indonesia Masters title by Championship begins in defeating Japanese top-seeded Kento On 4th January 2019, 80th National Table Momota in men’s single final in Jakarta, Tennis Championship organized Indonesia. by Odisha State Table Tennis ➢ ICC roped in Coca-Cola as official Association (OSTTA) began at sponsor Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium On January 31, 2019,The International in Cuttack, Odisha. The event concluded Cricket Council (ICC) signed a five-year on 9th January 2019. global partnership deal with beverage ➢ Khelo India Youth Games: manufacturer Coca-Cola Company.ICC and Hosts Maharashtra finish top with Coco-cola’s partnership will be continue till 2023 228 medals ➢ Mithali becomes first female to th On 20 January 2019, the Khelo India play 200 ODIs Youth Games concluded at the Shiv On 1st February 2019, 36 years old India’s Chhatrapati Sports Complex, Balewadi Women Cricket team captain, Mithali in Pune with the Raj became the first female player to host Maharashtra leading the medals play 200 ODIs during the 3rd and Final ODI table by winning a mammoth 85 gold, 62 against New Zealand. silver and 81 bronze for a total of 228 ➢ Qatar won their First-ever Asian medals in the Games. Cup Title In Football by defeating ➢ India’s Saina Nehwal Japan Won Indonesia Masters Title 2019 On 2nd February 2019,Qatar won its first against ’s Carolina Marin major soccer title by beating four-time champion Japan 3-1 in the 17th edition of the 2019 Indonesia Masters,officially AFC Asian Cup held in United Arab known as DAIHATSU Indonesia Emirates(UAE). Masters 2019, held in Istora Gelora Bung Karno,Indonesia

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➢ Smriti Mandhana topped in Saina Nehwal retained her women’s singles Women’s ODI cricket batswomen crown after defeating PV Sindhu. ranking Sorabh Verma defeated Lakshya Sen to win On February 3,2019,India’s Smriti the men’s singles crown for the third time Mandhana topped in the ICC ODI (after 2011 and 2017). batswomen rankings ,she grabbed the first ➢ India Win Team Event At position after the match against New Mallakhamb World Championship in Zealand,whereas Ellyse Perry followed her in Mumbai the second position and Indian ODI skipper First Mallakhamb World Championship was Mithali Raj in fifth position. held in in central Mumbai in ➢ Vidarbha clinched second which India became the winner. successive Ranji Title defeating This sport involves athletes performing Saurashtra various yogic and gymnastic poses while On 7th February 2019,Defending champions hanging from a rope or on a pole. 15 Vidarbha won the Ranji Trophy 2018- countries participated in the event- Spain, 19,which is 85th season of the Ranji Trophy Germany, ,Italy, USA, Iran, by defeating Saurashtra.This victory is their Norway, England, France, Malaysia, Successive victory since they won the Trophy Singapore, Japan, Vietnam, Bahrain, and India. last year.The Ranji Trophy is played from the month of November,2018 to 7th February ➢ , Saurabh Chaudhary 2019, in which 37 Teams won gold in 10m Air Pistol Mixed Category Participated.Vidarbha won Rs.5 Crore Saurabh Chaudhary and Manu Rupees. Bhaker claimed gold medal in 10m Air ➢ Railways win Senior National Pistol Mixed team event on ISSF World Cup Men’s Hockey Title by defeating in New Delhi. i. The duo finished top in the 10m Air Pistol Punjab Mixed Team Final with 483.4 points on the The Railway Sports Promotion Board final day of the World Cup. (RSPB)won the 9th Hockey India Senior Men ii. Both of them had earlier equaled National Championship 2019 (A Qualification World Record and also set a new Div),defeating Punjab by 3-2 at Gwalior, qualification world record junior by shooting Madhya Pradesh. 778 points. ➢ Vidarbha clinches the Irani Cup ➢ Saurabh Chaudhary won gold in title 10m Air Pistol On 16th February, 2019, Vidarbha became Saurabh Chaudhary finished top of the the only 3rd team Bombay and 10m Air Pistol category and brought Karnataka in Indian Domestic Cricket history an Olympic quota for Tokyo 2020 in the to defend their Irani cup titles at Jamtha category. Stadium in Nagpur by defeating Rest of i.He secured Olympic Quota with a world India(RoI). record score of 245.0 after some ➢ 83rd edition of the Senior phenomenal shooting. National Badminton Championship ii.He is the 1st Indian shooter to win gold at begins in Guwahati the youth Olympic, Asian Games, Junior ISSF The 83rd Yonex Sunrise Senior Badminton World Championship and Asian Air gun Nationals was held at Guwahati, Assam. championship

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➢ bags gold in ➢ Karnataka defeated women’s 10m Air Rifle Maharashtra to clinch their first Syed Indian shooter won women’s 10m Air Mushtaq Ali Trophy Rifle and bagged India’s first gold medal by Karnataka cricket team breaking the world record in the Shooting defeated Maharashtra to win their World Cup 2019. She was the only Indian maiden Trophy at the shooter to qualify for the final round. Holkar Cricket Stadium in Indore. i. Apurvi secured a total score of 252.9 to ➢ K T Irfan named as first Indian finish on the top of podium in the women’s athlete to be chosen for Tokyo 10m Air Rifle event. She was at the fourth Olympics 2020 spot in the qualification round. 29-year-old Indian athlete from Kerala, K.T. ii. Apurvi Chandela had won a bronze medal Irfan has qualified for the Tokyo along shooter Ravi Kumar in the 2018 Asian Olympics as he finished fourth in the men’s Games held in Jakarta, Indonesia in the 10m 20 kilometer category at the Asian Race Mixed Rifle event. Walking Championships in Nomi, Japan. ➢ Oceania Nations will participate ➢ Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas wins in 2022 Asian Games Australian F1 Grand Prix 2019 Olympic Council of Asia decided to Mercedes Formula One (F1) driver Valtteri invite Oceania Nations to compete in 2022 Bottas has clinched his first championship in Asian Games for the first time after a the Australian Grand Prix held in Melbourne. meeting held in Bangkok. He was followed by Lewis Hamilton of ➢ 38th GeeBee Boxing Tournament at Mercedes and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen. Helsinki in Finland ➢ Asian Youth Athletes 38th GeeBee Boxing Tournament was organized by European Boxing Championship: India finishes second in Confederation from March 7, 2019 to March medal tally 10, 2019 in Helsinki, Finland.The India finishes second in Asian Youth tournament title has been clinched Athletes Championship held in Hong by England after claiming 6 gold medals. Kong with a gold added to the medal tally on ➢ Argentina and Colombia will co- the final day of the championship. India secured second position in the overall host Copa America 2020 medals tally with 26 medals including 8 On 14th March 2019, After South America’s gold, 9 silver and 9 bronze medals. ruling body CONMEBOL once again ruled out China topped the championship with 31 a US proposal to host the medals including 12 gold, 11 silver and 8 tournament, Argentina and Colombia are bronze. Japan ranked third in the poised to co-host the 2020 Copa America. Championship with 20 medals. Japan got 6 ➢ Special Olympics World Games gold, 8 silver and 6 bronze medals. 2019 kick off at Abu Dhabi ➢ India defeated Nepal, won SAFF Special Olympics World Games 2019 began Women’s championship at Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) on On 22nd March 2019, India clinched South 14th Match 2019 and made history by Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Women’s welcoming a record-breaking 200 nations at Championship 2019 by defeating the Games comprising 195 participating and Nepal for 3-1 in Biratnagar, Nepal. It was 5 observing.

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel for the fifth time in a row that India won the while Chinese Taipei won 11 medals and championship. attained 3rd spot. ➢ Saina Nehwal named as TSJA ➢ India wins ICC Test sports person of the year Championship Mace for 3rd straight On 20th March 2019,Telangana Sports year Journalist Association (TSJA) named India has retained ICC Test London Olympics Bronze medalist Saina Championship mace for the third year in Nehwal as sportsperson of the year, Pullella a row after finishing at the top of ICC Test Gopichand as Coach of the Year and PV Sindhu as Outstanding Performer in women’s team rankings on the cut-off date of April section. Badminton Association of 1. It has also won the purse of USD 1 Telangana received Association of the million. Year award at the Annual Telangana Sports ➢ Australian Olympian,Graham Journalist Association Awards 2018 held at Reid Appointed as Indian Men’s Hyderabad. Hockey Team Chief Coach ➢ South Korea won Azlan Shah On 8th April 2019, former Australia Hockey Cup by defeating India Coach, Graham Reid was appointed as On 30th March, India was defeated by the Chief Coach of Indian men’s hockey the South Korea in the penalty shootout of team. Reid’s occupancy as the coach of the final 28th edition of Sultan Azlan Shah Indian men’s hockey team is till the end th Cup 2019. 17 Ranked South Korea defeated of 2020.He, 54, is succeeding Harendra World number 5, India to won the Sultan Singh,former Indian Hockey player. Azlan Shah Cup which was held at Azlan Shah Stadium in Ipoh, Malaysia. ➢ Virat Kohli and Smriti ➢ Lewis Hamilton grabs Bahrain Mandhana named Grand Prix 2019 Wisden’sleading cricketers of the year Five times world champion Lewis 2019 Hamilton of Mercedes captured Bahrain On 10th April 2019, Wisden Cricketers’ Grand Prix 2019 title by beating Almanack 2019 has named Virat Mercedes Valtteri Bottas of Kohli and Smriti Mandhana as Finland who secured second the Leading male and female cricketer position. Charles Leclerc was finished of the year 2019 respectively. with third position and became Ferrari’s ➢ Lewis Hamilton clinched youngest ever race winner at the age of Formula One’s 1000th race title 21. British racing driver, Lewis Hamilton has ➢ India Clinches 25 Medals In 12th achieved his 75th career victory Asian Airgun Championship 2019 Held in Formula One’s 1000th race at the In Chinese Taipei Chinese Grand Prix on 14th April, 2019. India topped the medal tally by He has delivered a crushing performance winning 25 medals viz, 16 gold, 5 silver to win this title. and 4 bronze medals. Republic of Korea ➢ ICC partners with UNICEF to followed the India by winning 16 medals deliver ‘#OneDay4Children’ at Men’s Cricket World Cup 2019

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel On 16th April 2019, International cricket defeated Ehsan Heydari Nezhad of Iran by council (ICC) cricket for good in 6-4 to clinch the inaugural Asian Snooker partnership with UNICEF (United Nations Tour title, in Bengaluru. International Children’s Emergency ➢ Australia’s Claire Polosak Fund), launched #OneDay4Children, a became first female umpire to stand in tournament-wide campaign to help men’s ODI construct a better world for all children, The 31-year-old, Australia’s Claire at the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Polosak became the first 2019. womanumpire to stand in a men’s ODI in ➢ Services bags the 6th Santosh the final match of ICC World Cricket Trophy Football Tournament title League 2 on April 27. Previously, she against Punjab at Guru Nanak Stadium stood in 15 women’s ODI matches, the With a second-half strike by Bikash Thapa first one played between Australia and at the Guru Nanak Stadium in Ludhiana, South Africa in November 2016. Services won their 6th ➢ Bajrang Punia became First Football Tournament title with a 1-0 Indian Wrestler to fight at New York’s victory over Punjab. The Services football Iconic Madison Square Garden team represents the Indian defense On 27th April 2019, 25 years old Indian services in the Santosh Trophy. wrestler Bajrang Punia became the first ➢ USA secure ODI status for the Indian wrestler to fight at New York’s first time iconic Madison Square Garden. On 24th April 2019, United States Cricket ➢ Valtteri Bottas grabs Azerbaijan Team won their first one-day Grand Prix 2019 international status with a third straight On 28th April 2019, Valtteri Viktor victory at the World Cricket League Bottas (Finland) of Mercedes Division Two event in Namibia. The captured Formula 1 State Oil Company Americans defeated Hong Kong by 84 of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) runs. Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2019 by ➢ Pankaj Advani, India’s cueist beating Mercedes team-mate Lewis defeated Ehsan Heydari Nezhad of Iran Hamilton at the Baku City Circuit in Baku, to clinch Asian Snooker Tour title Azerbaijan. Bottas finished the race 1.5 India’s Pankaj Advani, the 21-time world seconds ahead of Hamilton. snooker and billiards champion has

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Italian Open (Tennis) 2019 Event Winner Runner-up Men’s Singles Rafael Nadal (Spain) Novak Djokovic () Men’s Doubles Juan Sebastian Cabal Raven Klaasen (South Africa) (Columbia) Michael Venus (New Zealand) Robert Farah (Columbia) Women’s Karolina Pliskova (Czech Johanna Konta (UK) Singles Republic) Women’s Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) Anna-Lena Gronefeld (Germany) Doubles Ashleigh Barty (Australia) Demi Schuurs (Netherlands)

2019 ISSF WORLD CUP 3

Venue: Munich, Germany Name of the Shooter Event Name Medal won Saurabh Chaudhary(World Record) 10 metre air pistol Gold Apurvi Chandela 10 metre air rifle Gold Rahi Sarnobat 25 metre pistol Gold Divyansh Singh Panwar & Anjum 10 metre air rifle(Mixed Gold Moudgil Team) Saurabh Chaudhary & Manu Bhaker 10 metre air pistol(Mixed Gold Team) Apurvi Chandela & Deepak Kumar 10 metre air rifle(Mixed Silver (sport shooter) Team)

Australian Open 2019

Sl. Event Winner Runner-Up No. 1. Men’s Singles Novak Djokovic (Serbia) Rafael Nadal (Spain) 2. Women’s Singles Naomi Osaka (Japan) Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic) 3. Men’s Doubles Pierre-Hugues Herbert Henri Kontinen (Finland) and (France) and Nicolas John Peers (Australia) Mahut (France)

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4. Women’s Doubles Samantha Stosur Tímea Babos () and (Australia) and Zhang Kristina Mladenovic (France) Shuai (China) 5. Mix Doubles Barbora Krejčíková Astra Sharma (Australia) and (Czech Republic) and John-Patrick Smith (Australia) Rajeev Ram (United States)

Dubai Tennis Championship 2019

Category Winner Runner–up Men’s Singles Roger Federer (Switzerland) Stefanos Tsitsipas () Women’s Singles Belinda Bencic (Switzerland) Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic) Men’s Doubles Rajeev Ram (USA) and Joe Salisbury Ben McLachlan (New Zealand) and (UK) Jan-Lennard Struff (Germany) Women’s Doubles Hsieh Su-wei (Chinese Taipei) and Lucie Hradecka (Czech Republic) Barbora Strycova (Czech Republic) and Ekaterina Makarova (Russia)

Finland Boxing Tournament

➢ India claimed one Gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze in the tournament. The list of Indian medalist is given below. Name Medal Category Kavinder Singh Bisht Gold 56 kg Mohammed Hussamudding Silver 56 kg

Shiva Thapa Silver 60 kg Govind Sahani Silver 49 kg

Dinesh Dagar Silver 69 kg Sumit Sangwan Bronze 91 kg Saching Siwach Bronze 52 kg

Naveen Kumar Bronze +91 kg

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The 39th edition of Badminton Asia Championship 2019 was held from 23 to 28 April 2019 at the Wuhan Sports Center Gymnasium in Wuhan, China. This tournament was hosted by the Chinese Badminton Association, sanctioned from the Badminton Asia. The prize money for the event was USD 400,000.

Event Winner Runner Men’s Single Kento Momota (Japan) Shi Yuqi (China) Women’s Single Akane Yamaguchi (Japan) He Bingjiao (China) Men’s Doubles Hiroyuki Endo (Japan) Marcus Fernaldi Gideon (Indonesia) Yuta Watanabe (Japan) Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo (Indonesia) Women’s Doubles Chen Qingchen (China) Mayu Matsumoto (Japan) Jia Yifan (China) Wakana Nagahara (Japan) Mixed Doubles Wang Yilu (China) He Jiting (China) Huang Dongping (China) Du Yue (China)

Asian Athletics Championship 2019

The 23rd edition of Asian Athletics Championship was held from 21 to 24 April 2019 at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha, Qatar. India won 17 medals which include 3 gold, 7 silver, and 7 bronze, finished fourth in the tournament. There are total 43 nations competing at Asian Athletics Championship 2019 and 43 events are conducted. This Asian Athletics Championship event is organized by the Asian Athletics Association (AAA). The previous Asian Athletics Championship took place at the in Bhubaneswar, India from 6 to 9 July, 2017.

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 Bahrain (BHR) 11 7 4 22

2 China (CHN) 9 13 7 29

3 Japan (JPN) 5 4 9 18

4 India (IND) 3 7 7 17

5 Uzbekistan (UZB) 3 0 2 5

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The 2019 ISSF World Cup is the annual edition of the ISSF World Cup in the Olympic shooting events, governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation. The World Cup series will be also as the qualification tournaments for the 2020 Olympic Games. Held - Beijing, China Dates- 21 April to 29 April Note- India Finishes Top of Medal tally with 4 Medals Event Name Medal Info 10m Air Rifle Anjum Moudgil Gold Anjum Moudgil and Divyansh Singh Mixed Divyansh Singh Panwar won India’s first gold medal in Panwar 10m Air Rifle mixed event at ISSF World Cup in Beijing. They beat Chinese pair of Liu Ruxuan and by 17-15. 10m Air Pistol Manu Bhaker Gold Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary Mixed Saurabh won India’s second gold in 10m Air Chaudhary Pistol mixed event. They beat their Chinese opponent by 16-6. 10m Air Pistol Abhishek Verma Gold Abhishek Verma won India’s third gold medal in 10m Air Pistol. Abhishek Verma secured Olympic Quota in 10m Air Pistol. 10m Air Rifle Divyansh Singh Silver Teenager Divyansh Singh Panwar won Panwar a silver medal in 10m Air Rifle event.

Asian Boxing Championship 2019

The Asian Boxing Championship 2019 was held in Huamark Indoor Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand. This was the first time women and men boxing championship held together. This event was organized by International Boxing Association or AIBA. Medals won by Indian Athletes Category Name Medal 52-kg Amit Panghal Gold 81-kg Pooja Rani Gold 64-kg Simranjit Kaur Silver 56-kg Kavinder Singh Bisht Silver 49-kg Deepak Singh Silver 75-kg Ashish Chaudhary Silver 51-kg Nikhat Zareen Bronze 54-kg Manisha Moun Bronze

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57-kg Sonia Chahal Bronze 60-kg Sarita Devi Bronze 60-kg Shiva Thapa Bronze 69-kg Ashish Bronze +91-kg Satish Kumar Bronze

Asian Wrestling Championship 2019

The Asian Wrestling Championship 2019 was held in Xi’an, China from April 23 to April 28, 2019. India won 16 medals which include 1 gold, 3 silver and 4 bronze by men’s freestyle wrestlers, 3 silver and 1 bronze by men’s Greco-Roman wrestlers and 4 bronze won by women’s freestyle wrestlers. India ranked 8th place in the tournament and the first three countries ranked in the tournament were Iran followed by China and Japan. Countries in Medal Tally Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 Iran 11 0 6 17

2 China 5 5 6 16

3 Japan 4 7 6 17

4 Uzbekistan 2 3 5 10

5 Kazakhstan 2 2 12 16

Medals won by Indian Wrestlers

Event Catogory Name Medal Men’s Freestyle 65-kg Bajrang Punia Gold Men’s Freestyle 74-kg Amit Kumar Dhankar Silver Men’s Freestyle 79-kg Parveen Rana Silver Men’s Freestyle 92-kg Vicky Chahar Silver Men’s Greco-Roman 77-kg Gurpreet Singh Silver Men’s Greco-Roman 82-kg Harpreet Singh Silver Men’s Greco-Roman 87-kg Sunil Kumar Silver Men’s Freestyle 61-kg Rahul Aware Bronze Men’s Freestyle 86-kg Deepak Punia Bronze Men’s Freestyle 97-kg Satyawart Kadian Bronze

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Men’s Freestyle 125-kg Sumit Malik Bronze Men’s Greco-Roman 60-kg Gyanender Dahiya Bronze Women’s Freestyle 53-kg Vinesh Phogat Bronze Women’s Freestyle 59-kg Manju Kumari Bronze Women’s Freestyle 62-kg Sakshi Malik Bronze Women’s Freestyle 68-kg Divya Kakran Bronze

Up-Coming Sport Event

8th FIFA women's World Cup [2019] France

(AFC) Asian Football Cup [2019] UAE

IWF World championship [2019] Pattaya (Thailand)

30th Southeast Asian Games [2019)] Philippines (Manila)

13th SAG Games () [2019] Nepal (Kathmandu)

12th Cricket World Cup (Men) (2019] England 18th Fina World Aquatics (Swimming) Championship South Korea (Gwangiu) [2019]

18th FIBA Basket Ball World Cup [2019] China

Japan (Tokyo) 32 Olympic games [2020] Motto -Discover Tomorrow

16th Summer Paralympic [2020] Japan (Tokyo)

3rd Winter Youth Olympic [2020] Switzerland (Lausanne)

7th T-20 women World Cup [2020] Australia

13th Under-19 Cricket World Cup [2020] South Africa

4th Youth Asian Games (2021] Indonesia (Surabaya)

31th Southeast Asian Games [2021] Vietnam (Hanoi)

12th Cricket World Cup (Women) [2021] New Zealand

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19th Fina World Aquatics (Swimming) Championship Japan (Fukuoka) [2021] 22th FIFA (Men) World Cup football [2022] Qatar (Doha)

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19th Asian games [2022] China (Hangzhou) 22nd [2022] [Motto of commonwealth games: Humanity Equality Destiny] South Africa (Durban) Head Quarter of Common Wealth GamesEngland (London) Note: Paralympics game is for athletes with a range of Physical Disabilities IVth Asian Para Games [2022] China (Hangzhou)

8th T-20 women World Cup [2022] South Africa

14th Under-19 Cricket World Cup [2022] West Indies

32th Southeast Asian Games [2023] Cambodia (Phnom Penh)

13th Cricket World Cup (Men) [2023] India 20th Fina World Aquatics (Swimming) Championship Qatar (Doha) [2023]

1st Asian games [1951] New Delhi

11th Winter Paralympic [2014] Russia (Sochi)

1st Youth Asian Games [2009] Singapore

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel 22. Important Date and Theme Dates Day Theme 1st January Defence Research and Development Organisation(DRDO) Day 4th January World Braille Day 9th January Bharatiya Pravasi Day or Non 'role of Indian diaspora in Resident Day building new India' 10th January World Hindi Day 10th January 26th Army Air Defence Day 12th January National Youth Day Be The Voice of New India” 14th January Armed Forces Veterans Day 15th January 71st Army Day 24th January National Girl Child Day “Empowering Girls for a Brighter Tomorrow”. 24th January International Day of Education 25th January National Voters Day ‘No voter to be left behind’ 26th January 70th Republic Day Chief Guest South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa 26th January International Customs Day “SMART borders for seamless Trade, Travel and Transport.” 30th January National Martyr’s Day or Sarvodaya Day 2nd February World Wetlands Day Wetlands and Climate Change 4th February World Cancer Day “I Am and I Will.” 6 February International Day of Zero Tolerance #EndGFM. for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) 10th February, World Pulses Day 11th February International Day of Women and Girls in Science 13th February “World Radio Day” “Dialogue, Tolerance and Peace”.

20TH February World Day of Social Justice ‘If you want Peace and Development, Work for Social Justice’

21st February International Mother Language day “Indigenous languages matter for development, peace building and reconciliation”.

28th February National Science day

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1st March World civil defence day “Children’s safety, our responsibility”. 1st March Zero Discrimination day “Act to change laws that Discriminate”.

3rd March World Hearing Day “Check your Hearing” 3rd March World Wildlife Day ‘Life below water: for people and planet’,

4th March National Safety Day – “Cultivate and Sustain a safety culture for building nation”.

8th March International Women’s Day Think equal, build smart, innovate for change.

14th March World Kidney Day Kidney Health for Everyone Everywhere. 15th March World Consumer Rights Day “Trusted Smart Products”

18th March Global Recycling Day “Recycling into the Future”.

20th March World Sparrow day “I love sparrows”. 20th March International Day of Happiness International Day of Happiness 2019 is ‘Happier Together’.

21st March World Poetry Day 21st March International Day of Forests “Forests and Education – Learn observed to Love Forests”.

22nd March World Water Day (WWD) “Leaving no one behind”. 23rd March World Meteorological Day “The Sun, the Earth and the Weather”. 24th March World Tuberculosis Day ‘Its time’ 26th March World Purple day 27th March World Theatre Day 2nd April World Autism Awareness Day “Assistive Technologies, Active Participation”. 5th April National Maritime Day “Indian Ocean- An Ocean of Opportunity”. 7th April World Health Day “Universal health Coverage: Everyone, Everywhere” 10th April World Homoeopathy Day “Linking Education and Clinical Practice with Research:

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Advancing Scientific Collaborations”. 11th April “National Safe Motherhood Day” ‘Midwives for Mothers’ 12th April World Aviation and Cosmonautics Day 17th April World Haemophilia Day Outreach and Identification’ 18th April World Heritage Day “Rural Landscapes” 19th April World Liver day 21st April National Civil Service Day 22nd April Earth Day ‘Protecting Our Species’ 22nd April International Mother Earth Day 23rd April World Book and Copyright Day 25th April World Malaria Day “Zero malaria starts with me”. 24th April National Panchayati Raj Day 26th April World Intellectual Property Day “Reach for Gold: IP and Sports” 28th April World Day for Safety and Health “Safety and Health and the Future of Work” 29th April International Dance Day “Dance and Spirituality”. 1 May Labour Day/May day (Sustainable partner for all: The Role of social partner) 1 May Maharashtra/Gujarat day 2 May World Password Day 3 May World Press Freedom Day Theme 2019- “Media for Democracy: Journalism and Elections in Times for Disinformation.” 7 May World Athletics Day 8 May World Red Cross Day Theme 2019- #Love 8 May World Thalassemia Day “Universal access to quality Thalassemia healthcare services: Building bridge with and for patient”. 6-12 May Fifth United Nations Global Road ‘Leadership for Road Safety’ Safety Week 8 May World Thalassemia Day Theme2019- “Universal access to quality Thalassemia healthcare services: Building bridge with and for patient”. 11 May National Technology Day 11 May World Migratory Bird Day ‘Protect Birds: Be the Solution to Plastic Pollution.’ 15 May International Day of Families International Day of Families is “Families and Climate Action: Focus on SDG 13″.

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18 May International Museum Day Theme- “Museums as Cultural Hubs: The Future of Tradition”

18 May World AIDS Vaccine Day 20 May World Metrology Day Theme 2019- The International System of Units – Fundamentally better. 21 May Anti-Terrorism Day Death anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi 29 May International Everest Day Theme 2019- “Save the Himalayas”

31 May Anti-Tobacco Day / No Tobacco "Tobacco and lung health." Day June 3 World Bicycle Day June 4 International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression June 5 World Environment Day June 8 World Ocean Day June 8 World Brain Tumor Day June 12 The World Day against Child Labour June 14 World Blood Donor Day June 15 World Elder Abuse Awareness Day June 16 International Day of Family Remittances (IDFR) June 17 World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought June 19 International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict June 20 World Refugee Day June 21 International Yoga Day June 23 United Nations Public Service Day June 26 International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking June 29 National Statistics Day July 1 National Doctors’ Day July 1 Goods And Services Tax Day July 2 World Sports Journalists Day July 6 World Zoonosis Day July 7 International Day of Cooperatives July 11 World Population Day

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July 12 International Malala Day July 15 World Youth Skills Day July 17 International Justice Day July 18 International Nelson Mandela Day July 26 Kargil Vijay Diwas July 28 World Hepatitis Day July 29 International Tiger Day July 30 World day against trafficking in persons August 6 73rd Hiroshima day August 7 National Handloom Day August 9 International Day Of The World’s Indigenous Peoples August 12 18th International Youth Day August 13 International left handers day August 20 World Mosquito Day August 20 National Sadbhavana Day August 21 World senior citizen day September 2 World Coconut Day September 1-7 National Nutrition Week September 8 World Literacy Day September 14 Hindi Diwas September 21 International Day of Peace September 21 World Alzheimer’s Day September 23 International Day of Sign Languages September 29 World Heart Day September 27 World Maritime Day September 27 World TOURISM day October 1 International Day For Older Persons October 2 International Day Of Non Violence October 5 World Teachers Day October 9 World Post Day October 11 International Day Of Girl Child October 15 International Day For Rural Women October 15 Rashtriya Mahila Kisan Diwas October 20 National Solidarity Day October 24 World Polio Day October 24 United Nation’s Day October 31 Ekta Diwas

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November 1 World Vegan Day November 5 Ayurveda Day November 5 World Tsunami Awareness Day November 7 National Cancer Awareness Day November 11 National Education Day November 12 World Pneumonia Awareness Day November 14 Children’s Day November 14 World Diabetes Day November 16 National Press Day November 18 The World Day For Remembrance Of Road Traffic Victims November 19 World Toilet Day November 21 World Television Day November 26 National Constitution Day/National Law Day December 1 World AIDS Day December 2 National Pollution Control December 3 World Day of Handicapped December 4 Indian Navy Day December 10 Human Rights Day December 11 International Mountain Day December 14 World Energy Conservation Day December 16 Vijay Diwas December 22 National Mathematics Day December 23 Kisan Divas December 24 National Consumers Day

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1. Dam

Dam River State Idukki Dam Periyar Kerala Tehri Dam Bhagirathi Uttarakhand Sardar Sarovar Dam Narmada Gujarat Nagarjun Sagar Dam Krishna Telangana Bhakra Dam Satluj Himachal Pradesh Lakhwar Dam Yamuna Uttarakhand Srisailam Dam Krishna Telangana Pakal Dul Dam Marusudar J&K Salal Dam Chenab J&K Madupetty Dam Palar Kerala Indira Sagar Dam Narmada Madhya Pradesh Rihand Dam Rihand Uttar Pradesh Pong Dam Beas Himachal Pradesh Ranjit Sagar Dam Ravi Punjab Baglihar Dam Chenab J&K Supa Dam Kali Nadi Karnataka Koteshwar Dam Bhagi Rathi Nadi Uttra Khand Pillur Dam Bhavani Tamil Nadu Parbati Dam Parbati himachal Pradesh ukai Dam Tapi Nadi Gujarat Chakra Dam Chakra Karnataka

2. MAJOR SEA PORTS Major Sea Ports Location Kandla Port Gujarat Nhava Sheva Port Maharashtra Marmugao Port Goa Mangalore Port Karnataka

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Madras Port Tamil Nadu Cochin Port Kerala Visakhapatnam Port Andhra Pradesh Paradip Port Odisha Haldia Port West Bengal Mumbai Port West Mumbai Port Blair Andaman Islands Tuticorin Port Tamil Nadu Mundra Port Gujarat Ennore Port Chennai

3. LAKES

Name of the State Name of the Lake ▪ Andhra Pradesh ▪ Kolleru Lake ▪ Pulicat Lake ▪ Assam ▪ Chandubi Lake ▪ Chapanala Lake ▪ Haflong Lake ▪ Son Beel Lake ▪ Bihar ▪ Kanwar Lake ▪ Gujarat ▪ Hamirsar Lake

▪ Kankaria Lake ▪ Lakhota Lake ▪ Sursagar Lake ▪ Thol Lake ▪ Vastrapur Lake ▪ Himachal Pradesh ▪ Brighu Lake ▪ Dashair and Dhankar Lake ▪ Kareri and Kumarwah lake ▪ Khajjiar Lake ▪ Macchial Lake ▪ Manimahesh Lake ▪ Nako Lake ▪ Pandoh Lake ▪ Prashar Lake ▪ Renuka Lake ▪ Rewalsar Lake

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▪ Seruvalsar and Manimahesh Lake ▪ Haryana ▪ Badkhal Lake ▪ Beauty lake ▪ Blue Bird Lake ▪ Brahma Sarovar ▪ Current lake ▪ Karna Lake ▪ Sannihit Sarovar ▪ Surajkund ▪ Tilyar Lake ▪ Jammu and Kashmir ▪ Dal Lake ▪ Manasbal Lake ▪ Mansar Lake ▪ Pangong Tso ▪ Sheshnag Lake ▪ Tso Moriri ▪ Wular Lake ▪ Karnataka ▪ Agara Lake ▪ Bellandur Lake ▪ Byrasandra Lake ▪ Hebbal Lake ▪ Kempambudhi Lake ▪ Lalbagh Lake ▪ Madiwala Lake ▪ Puttenahalli Lake ▪ Sankey Lake ▪ Ulsoor Lake ▪ Dalavai Lake ▪ Devanoor Lake ▪ Karanji lake ▪ Kukkarahalli lake ▪ Lingambudhi Lake ▪ Honnamana Kere ▪ Pampa Sarovar ▪ Kerala ▪ Ashtamudi Lake ▪ Kuttanad Lake ▪ Maanaanchira, Kozhikode ▪ Manakody Kayal ▪ Padinjarechira, Thrissur city ▪ Paravur Kayal ▪ Punnamada Lake ▪ Shasthamkotta lake ▪ Vadakkechira, Thrissur city

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▪ Vanchikulam, Thrissur ▪ Vellayani Lake ▪ Vembanad Lake ▪ Madhya Pradesh ▪ Bhoj Wetland ▪ Lower Lake ▪ Moti lake ▪ Sarang pani lake ▪ Shahpura lake ▪ Tawa Reservoir ▪ Upper Lake ▪ Maharashtra ▪ Gorewada Lake ▪ Khindsi Lake ▪ Lonar Lake ▪ Mehrun Lake ▪ Pashan Lake ▪ Powai Lake ▪ Rankala Lake ▪ Salim Ali Lake ▪ Shivasagar lake ▪ Talao Pali ▪ Upvan Lake ▪ Venna Lake ▪ Meghalaya ▪ Umiam Lake ▪ Manipur ▪ Loktak Lake ▪ Mizoram ▪ Palak dïl ▪ Tam Dil ▪ Odisha ▪ Anshupa Lake ▪ Chilika Lake ▪ Kanjia lake ▪ Punjab ▪ Harike Lake ▪ Kanjli Lake ▪ Ropar Lake ▪ Rajasthan ▪ Ana Sagar Lake ▪ Balsamand lake ▪ Dhebar Lake ▪ Jaisamand Lake

▪ Jal Mahal, Man Sagar lake ▪ Kaylana Lake ▪ Nakki Lake ▪ Pushkar Lake ▪ Rajsamand Lake ▪ Ramgarh Lake

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▪ Talwara Lake ▪ Sambhar Salt Lake ▪ Fateh Sagar Lake ▪ Rangsagar lake ▪ Uday sagar Lake ▪ Sikkim ▪ Gurudongmar Lake ▪ Khecheopalri Lake ▪ Lake Tsongmo ▪ Lake Cholamu ▪ Telangana ▪ Alwal Cheruvu Lake ▪ Durgam Cheruvu (Secret Lake) ▪ Himayat Sagar ▪ Hussain Sagar ▪ Osman Sagar ▪ Safilguda Lake ▪ Saroornagar Lake ▪ Shamirpet Lake ▪ Tamil Nadu ▪ Berijam Lake ▪ Chembarambakkam Lake ▪ Kaliveli Lake ▪ Kaveripakkam Lake ▪ Kodaikanal Lake ▪ Ooty Lake ▪ Perumal Eri ▪ Red Hills Lake ▪ Sholavaram Lake ▪ Singanallur Lake ▪ Veeranam Lake ▪ Uttar Pradesh ▪ Amakhera Lake ▪ Barua Sagar Tal ▪ Belasagar Lake ▪ Bhadi Tal ▪ Chando Tal Lake ▪ Keetham Lake ▪ Nachan Tal ▪ Ramgarh Tal Lake ▪ Sheikha Jheel ▪ Uttarakhand ▪ Skeleton Lake (Roopkund Lake) ▪ Bhimtal Lake ▪ Dodital ▪ Nainital Lake ▪ Naukuchiatal ▪ Sat Tal

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▪ West Bengal ▪ Debar Lake ▪ East Calcutta Wetlands ▪ Jore Pokhri ▪ Mirik Lake ▪ Rabindra Sarobar ▪ Rasikbil ▪ Santragachhi Lake ▪ Senchal Lake

4. NATIONAL PARK

Name State 1. Bandhavgarh National Park Madhya Pradesh 2. Kanha National Park Madhya Pradesh 3. Panna National Park Madhya Pradesh 4. Pench National Park Madhya Pradesh 5. Thattekkad Bird Sanctuary Kerala 6. Idukki Wildlife Sanctuary Kerala 7. Eravikulam National Park Kerala 8. Kumarakom Bird Sanctuary Kerala 9. Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary Kerala 10. Sariska Wildlife Sanctuary Rajasthan 11. Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary Rajasthan 12. Keoladeo National Park Rajasthan 13. Nagarhole National Park Rajasthan 14. Ranthambore National Park Rajasthan 15. Sambhar Wildlife Sanctuary Rajasthan 16. Rajaji National Park Uttarakhand 17. Corbett National Park Uttarakhand 18. Manas National Park Assam 19. Kaziranga National Park Assam 20. Sanjay Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary Maharashtra 21. Mahim Nature Park Maharashtra 22. Dachigam National Park J&K 23. Hemis High Altitude Park J&K 24. Chilka Lake Bird Sanctuary Odisha 25. Nandankanan Zoo Odisha 26. Similipal National Park Odisha 27. Bandipur National Park Karnataka 28. Dandeli National Park Karnataka 29. Dudhwa National Park Uttar Pradesh

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30. Gir National Park Gujarat 31. Mudumalai Wildlife Sanctuary Tamilnadu 32. Nagarjunasagar Wildlife Sanctuary Telangana 33. Renuka Wildlife Sanctuary Himachal Pradesh 34. Sultanpur Bird Sanctuary Haryana (Gurgoan) 35. Sunderbans Tiger Reserve West Bengal

5. FOLK DANCE

States/UT Folk Dance Jharkhand Chhanu, Sarahul, Jat-Jatin, Karma, Danga, Bidesia, Sohrai. Uttarakhand Gadhwali, Kumayuni, Kajari, Jhora, Raslila, Chappeli. Andra Pradesh Kuchipudi (Classical), Ghantamardala, (Ottam Thedal, Mohiniattam, Kummi, Siddhi, Madhuri, Chhadi. Chhattisgarh Goudi, Karma, Jhumar, Dagla, Pali, Tapali, Navrani, Diwari, Mundari. Arunachal Pradesh Mask dance (Mukhauta Nritya), War dance. Himachal Pradesh Jhora, Jhali, Chharhi, Dhaman, Chhapeli, Mahasu, Nati, Dangi, Chamba, Thali, Jhainta, Daf, Stick dance etc. Goa Mandi, Jhagor, Khol, Dakni etc. Assam Bihu, Bichhua, Natpuja, Maharas, Kaligopal, Bagurumba, Naga dance, Khel Gopal, Tabal Chongli, Canoe, Jhumura Hobjanai etc. West Bengal Kathi, Gambhira, Dhali, Jatra, Baul, Marasia, Mahal, Keertan etc. Kerala Kathakali (Classical), Ottam Thulal, Mohini-attam, Kaikottikali, Tappatikali, Kali Auttam. Meghalaya Laho, Baala etc. Manipur Manipuri (Classical), Rakhal, Nat Rash, Maha Rash, Raukhat etc. Nagaland Chong, Khaiva, Lim, Nuralim etc. Orissa Odissi (Classical), Savari, Ghumara, Painka, Munari, Chhau, Chadya Dandanata etc. Maharashtra Lavani, Nakata, Koli, Lezim, Gafa, Dahikala Dasavtar or Bohada, Tamasha, Mauni, Powara, Gouricha etc. Karnataka Yakshagan, huttar, Suggi, Kunitha, Karga, Lambi Gujarat Garba, Dandiya Ras, Tippani Juriun, Bhavai. Punjab Bhagra, Giddha, Daff, Dhaman etc. Rajasthan Ghumar, Chakri, Ganagor, Jhulan Leela, Jhuma, Suisini, Ghapal, Panihari, Ginad etc.

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6. STADIUM

Stadium Name Location Associated Sport Game ▪ ▪ Mumbai, Maharashtra Cricket ▪ HPCA Stadium ▪ Dharamshala, Himachal Cricket Pradesh ▪ Feroz Shah Kotla Ground ▪ Delhi Cricket ▪ M.A. Chidambaram ▪ Chennai , Tamil Nadu Cricket Stadium ▪ ▪ Kolkata , West Bengal Cricket ▪ Gymkhana Ground ▪ Mumbai , Maharashtra Cricket ▪ Jsca Stadium ▪ Ranchi, Jharkhand Cricket ▪ Khanderi Cricket Stadium ▪ Rajkot , Gujarat Cricket ▪ Subrata Roy Sahara ▪ Pune , Maharashtra Cricket Stadium ▪ Dr. D.Y. Patil Stadium ▪ Navi Mumbai , Football & Cricket Maharashtra ▪ New Vca Stadium ▪ Nagpur, Maharashtra Cricket ▪ Maharani Usharaje Trust ▪ Indore, Madhya Cricket Cricket Ground Pradesh ▪ Rajiv Gandhi ▪ Hyderabad , Andhra Cricket International Stadium Pradesh ▪ Apca-Vdca Stadium ▪ Visakhapatnam , Cricket Andhra Pradesh ▪ Indira ▪ Vijayawada, Andhra Cricket Pradesh ▪ ▪ Jodhpur, Rajasthan Cricket

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel ▪ Jawahar Lal Nehru ▪ Kochi, Kerala Multipurpose Stadium ▪ IPCL Sport Complex ▪ Vadodara, Gujarat Cricket ▪ K.D. Singh Babu Stadium ▪ Lucknow , Uttar Multipurpose Pradesh ▪ ▪ Margao, Goa Football & Cricket ▪ ▪ Jammu , Jammu & Cricket Kashmir ▪ Indira Priyadarshini ▪ Visakhapatnam , Cricket Stadium Andhra Pradesh ▪ Roop Singh Stadium ▪ Gwalior , Madhya Cricket Pradesh ▪ Nahar Singh Stadium ▪ Faridabad, Haryana Cricket ▪ Madhav Rao SC India ▪ Rajkot, Gujarat Cricket Ground ▪ Sector 16 Stadium ▪ Chandigarh Cricket ▪ Nehru Stadium ▪ Pune, Maharashtra Cricket (Multipurpose) ▪ University Stadium ▪ Thiruvananthapuram, Football Kerala (Multipurpose) ▪ Jawahar Lal Nehru ▪ Delhi Multipurpose Stadium ▪ Keenan Stadium ▪ Jamshedpur , Cricket And Jharkhand Football ▪ Sardar Patel Stadium ▪ Ahmedabad , Gujarat Cricket ▪ Moti Bagh Stadium ▪ Vadodara , Gujarat Cricket ▪ Sher-I-Kashmir Stadium ▪ Srinagar, Jammu & Cricket Kashmir ▪ Sawai Mani Singh Stadium ▪ Jaipur , Rajasthan Cricket ▪ Gandhi Sports Complex ▪ Amritsar , Punjab Cricket Ground ▪ Barabati Stadium ▪ Cuttack, Orissa Cricket ▪ M. Chinnasawami Stadium ▪ Bangalore , Karnataka Cricket ▪ Vca Ground ▪ Nagpur , Maharashtra Cricket ▪ Lal Bahadur Shastri ▪ Hyderabad , Andhra Cricket Stadium Pradesh ▪ ▪ Kanpur , Uttar Pradesh Cricket ▪ ▪ Mumbai , Maharashtra Cricket

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7. TEMPLE

S. No. Temples States 1. ▪ Kamakhya Temple ▪ Guwahati, Assam 2. ▪ Sukresvara temple ▪ Assam 3. ▪ Mahabalipuram Temple ▪ Tamil nadu 4. ▪ Meenakshi temple ▪ Madurai, Tamil Nadu 5. ▪ Brihadeeswarar Temple ▪ Tamil Nadu 6. ▪ Kanchipuram Temple ▪ Tamil Nadu 7. ▪ Srisailam Temple ▪ Andhra Pradesh 8. ▪ Tirupathi Temple ▪ Andhra Pradesh 9. ▪ Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple ▪ Kerala 10. ▪ Shabarimala ayyappa temple ▪ Kerala 11. ▪ Gomateshwra Temple ▪ Karnataka 12. ▪ Virupaksha Temple ▪ Bangalore (Karnataka) 13. ▪ Golden temple – ▪ Amritsar, Punjab 14. ▪ Somnath temple ▪ Gujarat 15. ▪ Siddhivinayak Temple ▪ Maharashtra 16. ▪ Mahabodhi Temple ▪ Gaya, Bihar 17. ▪ Amarnath Temple ▪ Jammu & Kashmir 18. ▪ Markandeshwar Temple ▪ Haryana 19. ▪ Konark Sun Temple ▪ Odisha 20. ▪ Birla Mandir ▪ Jaipur

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8. WEBSITES FOUNDER

Websites Name Founders Blogger Evan Willam Belli Email Shiva Ayyadurai Ebay Pierre Omidyar Facebook Mark Zuckerberg Flipkart Sachin and Binny Bansal Google Larry Page & Sergey Brin Gtalk Richard Wah kan Hi5 Ramu Yalamanchi Hotmail Sabeer Bhatia Ibibo Ashish Kashyap Internet Tim Berners Lee Kosmix Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman Linkdin Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue& Koonstantin Guericke Mozilla Firefox Dave Hyatt & Blake Ross Myspace Chris Dewolfe & Tom Anderson Nimbuzz Martin Smink & Evert Jaap Lugt OLX Alec Oxenford & Fabrice Grinda Orkut Buyukkokten Opera Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner & Geir lvarsoy Paypal Max Levchin and Peter Thiel Paytm Vijay Shekhar Sharma Rediffmail Ajit Balakrishnan Skype Niklas Zennstrom, JanusFriis & Reid Hoffman Twitter Jack Dorsey & Dick Costolo Yahoo David Filo & Jerry Yang YouTube Steve Chen, Chad Hurley & JawedKarim WhatsApp Laurel Kirtz Wikipedia Jimmy Wales Wikileaks Julian Assange

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9. RIVER-CITY City➖➖River➖➖State◀️ Agra➖Yamuna➖Uttar Pradesh Ahmedabad➖Sabarmati➖Gujarat Allahabad➖At the confluence of Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati➖Uttar Pradesh Ayodhya➖Saryu➖Uttar Pradesh Badrinath➖Alaknanda➖Uttarakhand Banki➖Mahanadi➖Odisha Brahmapur➖Rushikulya➖Odisha Chhatrapur➖Rushikulya➖Odisha Bhagalpur➖Ganga➖Bihar Kolkata➖Hugli➖West Bengal Cuttack➖Mahanadi➖Odisha New Delhi➖Yamuna➖Delhi Dibrugarh➖Brahmaputra➖Assam Ferozpur➖Sutlej➖Punjab Guwahati➖Brahmaputra➖Assam Haridwar➖Ganga➖Uttarakhand Hyderabad➖Musi➖Telangana Jabalpur➖Narmada➖Madhya Pradesh Kanpur➖Ganga➖Uttar Pradesh Kota➖Chambal➖Rajasthan Kottayam➖Meenachil➖Kerala Jaunpur➖Gomti➖Uttar Pradesh Patna➖Ganga➖Bihar Rajahmundry➖Godavari➖Andhra Pradesh Srinagar➖Jhelum➖Jammu & Kashmir Surat➖Tapi➖Gujarat Tiruchirapalli➖Kaveri➖Tamil Nadu Varanasi➖Ganga➖Uttar Pradesh

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Vijayawada➖Krishna➖Andhra Pradesh Vadodara➖Vishwamitri➖Gujarat Mathura➖Yamuna➖Uttar Pradesh Mirzapur➖Ganga➖Uttar Pradesh Auraiya➖Yamuna➖Uttar Pradesh Etawah➖Yamuna➖Uttar Pradesh Bangalore➖Vrishabhavathi➖Karnataka Farrukhabad➖Ganga➖Uttar Pradesh Fatehgarh➖Ganga➖Uttar Pradesh Kannauj➖Ganga➖Uttar Pradesh Mangalore➖Netravati, Gurupura➖Karnataka Shimoga➖Tunga River➖Karnataka Bhadravathi➖Bhadra➖Karnataka Hospet➖Tungabhadra➖Karnataka Karwar➖Kali➖Karnataka Bagalkot➖Ghataprabha➖Karnataka Honnavar➖Sharavathi➖Karnataka Gwalior➖Chambal➖Madhya Pradesh Gorakhpur➖Rapti➖Uttar Pradesh Lucknow➖Gomti➖Uttar Pradesh Kanpur➖Ganga➖Uttar Pradesh Shuklaganj➖Ganga➖Uttar Pradesh Chakeri➖Ganga➖Uttar Pradesh Malegaon➖Girna River➖Maharashtra Sambalpur➖Mahanadi➖Odisha Rourkela➖Brahmani➖Odisha Pune➖Mula, Mutha➖Maharashtra Daman➖Daman Ganga River➖Daman Madurai➖Vaigai➖Tamil Nadu Thiruchirapalli➖Kaveri➖Tamil Nadu Chennai➖Cooum, Adyar➖Tamil Nadu Coimbatore➖Noyyal➖Tamil Nadu Erode➖Kaveri➖Tamil Nadu Tirunelveli➖Thamirabarani➖Tamil Nadu

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Bharuch➖Narmada➖Gujarat Karjat➖Ulhas➖Maharashtra Nashik➖Godavari➖Maharashtra Mahad➖Savitri➖Maharashtra Nanded➖Godavari➖Maharashtra Kolhapur➖Panchaganga➖Maharashtra Nellore➖Pennar➖Andhra Pradesh Nizamabad➖Godavari➖Telangana Saguli➖Krishna➖Maharashtra Karad➖Krishna, Koyna➖Maharashtra Hajipur➖Ganga➖Bihar Ujjain➖Shipra➖Madhya Pradesh.

10. LIST OF COUNTRIES, CAPITALS, CURRENCIES

List of Countries having Rupee/Rupiah as their Currency

Country Capital Currency India New Delhi Rupee Indonesia Jakarta Rupiah Nepal Kathmandu Nepalese Rupee Sri Lanka Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte Sri Lankan Rupee Seychelles Victoria Seychellois Rupee Pakistan Islamabad Pakistani Rupee Maldives Male Maldivian Rufiyaa Mauritius Port Louis Mauritian Rupee

List of Countries having Dinar/Dirham as their Currency

Country Capital Currency Algeria Algiers Algerian Dinar Bahrain Manama Bahraini Dinar

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Iraq Baghdad Iraqi Dinar Jordan Amman Jordanian Dinar Kuwait City Kuwaiti Dinar Libya Tripoli Libyan Dinar Macedonia Skopje Macedonian Denar Serbia Belgrade Serbian Dinar Tunisia Tunis Tunisian Dinar UAE Abu Dhabi UAE Dirham

List of Countries having Euro as their Currency

Country Capital Country Capital Andorra Andorra la Vella Latvia Riga Austria Vienna Luxembourg Luxembourg Belgium Brussels Malta Valletta Nicosia Monaco Monaco Estonia Tallinn Montenegro Podgorica Finland Helsinki Netherlands Amsterdam France Paris Portugal Lisbon Germany Berlin San Marino Greece Athens Slovakia Bratislava Ireland Reykjavik Slovenia Ljubljana Italy Rome Spain Madrid Lithuania Vilnius Vatican City Vatican City

List of Countries having Dollar as their Currency

Country Capital Currency Antigua and Saint John’s Eastern Caribbean Dollar Barbuda Australia Canberra Australian Dollar Bahamas Nassau Bahamian Dollar Barbados Bridgetown Barbadian Dollar

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Belize Belmopan Belize Dollar Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan Brunei Dollar Bermuda Hamilton Bermudian Dollar Canada Ottawa Canadian Dollar Dominica Roseau Eastern Caribbean Dollar Fiji Suva Fijian Dollar Grenada Saint George's Eastern Caribbean Dollar Guyana Georgetown Guyanese Dollar Jamaica Kingston Jamaican dollar Kiribati Tarawa Kiribati dollar Liberia Monrovia Liberian dollar Namibia Windhoek Namibian Dollar Nauru Yaren District Australian Dollar New Zealand Wellington New Zealand Dollar Palau Ngerulmud United States Dollar Panama Panama City United States Dollar Singapore Singapore Singapore Dollar Taiwan Taipei New Taiwan Dollar Trinidad and Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago Dollar Tobago Tuvalu Funafuti Australian dollar, Tuvaluan dollar United States Washington, D.C. United States Dollar Zimbabwe Harare Zimbabwe Dollar

Countries having Peso as their Currency

Country Capital Currency Argentina Buenos Aires Argentine peso Chile Santiago Chilean peso Colombia Bogotá Colombian peso Cuba Havana Cuban convertible peso Dominican Republic Santo Domingo Dominican peso Mexico Mexico City Mexican peso Philippines Manila Philippine peso Uruguay Montevideo Uruguayan peso

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Country Capital Currency Cambodia Phnom Penh Riel Iran Tehran Rial Oman Muscat Rial Qatar Doha Riyal Saudi Arabia Riyadh Saudi Riyal

Countries having Pound as their Currency

Country Capital Currency United Currency Pound sterling Kingdom Egypt Cairo Egyptian pound Lebanon Beirut Lebanese pound South Sudan Juba South Sudanese pound Sudan Khartoum Sudanese pound Syria Damascus Syrian pound

Countries having Currency same as their Country name

Country Capital Currency Afghanistan Kabul Afghan Afghani Bangladesh Dhaka Bangladeshi taka Georgia Tbilisi Georgian lari Israel Jerusalem Israeli new shekel Japan Tokyo Japanese yen Kazakhstan Astana Kazakhstani Tenge Kyrgyzstan Bishkek Kyrgyzstani Som Laos Vientiane Lao kip Malaysia Kuala Lumpur Malaysian ringgit Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Mongolian Togrog Myanmar (Burma) Naypyidaw Burmese kyat North Korea Pyongyang North Korean won

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South Korea Seoul South Korean won Tajikistan Dushanbe Tajikistani Somoni Thailand Bangkok Thai baht Ankara Turkish lira Turkmenistan Ashgabat Turkmenistan Manat Uzbekistan Tashkent Uzbekistani Som Nicaragua Managua Nicaraguan Cordoba Bolivia Sucre La Paz Bolivian boliviano Paraguay Asunción Paraguayan Guarani Venezuela Caracas Venezuelan bolivar Albania Tirana Albanian Lek Belarus Minsk Belarusian Ruble Sofia Bulgarian lev Zagreb Croatian Kuna Czech Republic Prague Czech koruna Denmark Copenhagen Danish krone Hungary Budapest Hungarian forint Iceland Reykjavik Icelandic krona Norway Oslo Norwegian krone Poland Warsaw Polish zloty Bucharest Romanian Leu Russia Moscow Russian Ruble Sierra Leone Freetown Sierra Leonean Leone Rwanda Kigali Rwandan Franc Madagascar Antananarivo Malagasy Ariary Kenya Nairobi Kenyan shilling Ghana Accra Ghanaian cedi Gambia Banjul Gambian dalasi Ethiopia Addis Ababa Ethiopian birr Angola Luanda Angolan kwanza

Countries having Different Currencies

Country Capital Currency China Beijing Renminbi Peru Lima Sol

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12. STATE CHIEF MINISTERS AND GOVERNORS

S. State and U.T. Chief Minister Governor NO Jagan Reddy 1 Andhra Pradesh Shri E.S Lakshmi Narasimhan

2 Andaman & U.T Admiral (Retd) Devendra Kumar Nicobar (UT) Joshi 3 Arunachal Shri Pema Khandu Retired Brigadier BD Mishra Pradesh Shri Sarbananda 4 Assam Sonowal Shri Jagdish Mukhi

5 Bihar Shri Nitish Kumar Shri Lalji Tandon

6 Chandigarh (UT) U.T Shri V.P. Singh Badnore 7 Chhatisgarh Shri Bhupesh Baghel Anandi Ben Patel

Dadra and Nagar 8 Haveli (UT) U.T Shri Vikram Dev Dutt, IAS

9 Daman and Diu U.T Shri Vikram Dev Dutt, IAS (UT) 10 Delhi (NCT) Shri Arvind Kejriwal Anil Baijal 11 Goa Shri Pramod Sawant Smt. Mridula Sinha

12 Gujarat Shri Vijaybhai Shri Om Prakash Kohli R. Rupani 13 Haryana Shri Manohar Lal Satyadev Narayan Arya

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15 Jammu and Mehbooba Mufti Sayeed Shri Satya Pal Malik Kashmir 16 Jharkhand Shri Raghubar Das Smt. Draupadi Murmu

17 Kerala Shri Pinarayi Vijayan Shri Justice (Retd.) Palaniswamy Sathasivam 18 Lakshadweep U.T Shri Vijay Kumar IAS (UT) 19 Madhya Pradesh Shri Kamal Nath Anandi Ben Patel

20 Maharashtra Shri Devendra Fadnavis Shri Chennamaneni Vidyasagar Rao Shri Nongthombam 21 Manipur Biren Singh Dr. Najma A. Heptulla 22. Jharkhad Shri Raghubar Das Smt. Draupadi Murmu

23 Meghalya Conrad Sangma Shri Tathgata Roy

24. Mizoram Zoramthanga Shri Kummanam Rajasekharan

25. Nagaland Shri. Neiphiu Rio Shri Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya 26. Odisha Shri Naveen Patnaik Shri Ganeshi Lal

27. Puducherry (UT) Shri. V. Narayanasamy Dr. Kiran Bedi

28. Punjab Capt. Amrinder Singh Shri V.P. Singh Badnore

29 Rajasthan Shri Ashok Gehlot Shri Kalyan Singh

Shri P S GOLAY 30 Sikkim Shri Ganga Prasad

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel 31 Tamil Nadu Edappadi K Palaniswami Shri. Barnwarilal Purohit

32. Telangana Shri K Chandrasekhar Shri E.S Lakshmi Narasimhan Rao (Add. Charge) 33. Tripura Biplab Kumar Deb Shri Kaptan Singh Solanki

34 Uttar Pradesh Shri Yogi Aadityanath Shri Ram Naik

35 Uttarakhand Shri Trivendra Singh Baby Rani Maurya Rawat 36 West Bengal Km. Mamata Banerjee Shri Keshari Nath Tripathi

13. CABINET MINSITERS

Council of Ministers

Shri Narendra Modi Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space

All important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister

Constituency: Varanasi, UP

Cabinet Ministers

Raj Nath Singh

Ministry of Defence Constituency: Lucknow,UP

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Shri Amit Shah

Ministry of Home Affairs Constituency: Gandhi Nagar, GUJRAT

Shri Nitin Jairam Gadkari

Ministry of Road Transport and Highways Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Constituency: Nagpur, MAHARASHTRA

Shri D.V. Sadananda Gowda

Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers Constituency: Bangluru, KARNATKA

Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman

Ministry of Finance Ministry of Corporate Affairs Constituency: Rajhya Sabha (Karnatka)

Shri Ramvilas Paswan

Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Constituency: NA

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Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Ministry of Rural Development Ministry of Panchayati Raj Constituency: Morena, MP

Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad

Ministry of Law and Justice Ministry of Communications Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology Constituency: Patna Sahib, BIHAR

Smt. Harsimrat Kaur Badal

Ministry of Food Processing Industries Constituency: Bathinda,PUNJAB

Shri Thaawar Chand Gehlot

Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment Constituency: Rajhya Sabha, MP

Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

Ministry of External Affairs Constituency: NA

Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank'

Ministry of Human Resource Development Constituency: Haridwar, UK

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Shri Arjun Munda

Ministry of Tribal Affairs Constituency: Khunti(Jharkhand)

Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani

Ministry of Women and Child Development Ministry of Textiles Constituency: Amethi, UP

Dr. Harsh Vardhan

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Ministry of Science and Technology

Ministry of Earth Sciences Constituency: Chandni Chowk, DELHI

Shri Prakash Javadekar

Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Constituency: Rajhya Sabha, MP

Shri Piyush Goyal

Ministry of Railways Ministry of Commerce and Industry Constituency: Rajhya Sabha, MAHARASHTRA

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Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry of Steel Constituency: Rajhya Sabha, MP

Shri Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

Ministry of Minority Affairs Constituency: Rajhya Sabha, JHARKHAND

Shri Pralhad Joshi

Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs Ministry of Coal Ministry of Mines Constituency: Dharwaad, KARNATKA

Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey

Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Constituency: Chandauli, UP

Shri Arvind Ganpat Sawant

Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Constituency: South Mumbai, MAHARASHTRA

Shri Giriraj Singh

Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries

Constituency: Begusarai, BIHAR

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Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat

Ministry of Jal Shakti Constituency: Jodhpur, RAJASTHAN

Ministers of State (Independent Charge)

Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar

Ministry of Labour and Employment Constituency: Barely, UP

Shri Rao Inderjit Singh

Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation

Ministry of Planning Constituency: Gurugram, HARYANA

Shri Shripad Yesso Naik

Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) Constituency: North Goa, GOA

Dr. Jitendra Singh

Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region Constituency: Udhampur, J&K

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Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports Constituency: Arunachal West, ARUNACHAL PARDESH

Shri Prahalad Singh Patel

Ministry of Culture Constituency: Damoh, MP

Shri Raj Kumar Singh

Ministry of Power Ministry of New and Renewable Energy Constituency: Aarah, BIHAR

Shri Hardeep Singh Puri

Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs

Ministry of Civil Aviation Constituency: Lost from Amritsar

Shri Mansukh L. Mandaviya

Ministry of Shipping Constituency: Rajhya Sabha, GUJRAT

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Shri Shripad Yesso Naik

Ministry of Defence Constituency: North Goa, GOA

Dr. Jitendra Singh

Prime Minister's Office Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Department of Atomic Energy Department of Space Constituency: Udhampur, J&K

Shri Kiren Rijiju

Ministry of Minority Affairs Constituency: Arunachal West, ARUNACHAL PARDESH

Shri Prahalad Singh Patel

Ministry of Tourism Constituency: Damoh, MP

Shri Raj Kumar Singh

Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Constituency: Aarah, BIHAR

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Ministry of Commerce and Industry Constituency: Lost from Amritsar

Shri Mansukh L. Mandaviya

Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers Constituency: Rajhya Sabha, GUJRAT

Shri Faggansingh Kulaste

Ministry of Steel Constituency: Mandla, MP

Shri Ashwini Kumar Choubey

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Constituency: Bauxer, BIHAR

Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal

Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Constituency: Bikaner, RAJASTHAN

General (Retd.) V.K. Singh

Ministry of Road Transport and Highways Constituency: Gaziabad, UP

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Shri Krishan Pal

Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment Constituency: Faridabad, HARYANA

Shri Danve Raosaheb Dadarao

Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Constituency: Jaalna, MAHARASHTRA

Shri G. Kishan Reddy

Ministry of Home Affairs Constituency: Secundrabaad, TELANGNA

Shri Parshottam Rupala

Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Constituency: Rajhya Sabha , GUJRAT

Shri Ramdas Athawale

Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment Constituency: Rajhya Sabha, MAHARASHTRA

Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti

Ministry of Rural Development

Constituency: Fatehpur, UP

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Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Constituency: Asansol, WEST BENGAL

Shri Sanjeev Kumar Balyan

Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries Constituency: Muzzafarnagar, UP

Shri Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao

Ministry of Human Resource Development Ministry of Communications Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology Constituency: Akola, MAHARASHTRA

Shri Anurag Singh Thakur

Ministry of Finance Ministry of Corporate Affairs Constituency: Hamirpur, HIMACHAL PARDESH

Shri Angadi Suresh Channabasappa

Ministry of Railways Constituency: Belgaon, KARNATKA

Shri Nityanand Rai

Ministry of Home Affairs Constituency: Ujiapur, BIHAR

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Shri Rattan Lal Kataria

Ministry of Jal Shakti Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment Constituency: Ambala, HARYANA

Shri V. Muraleedharan

Ministry of External Affairs Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs Constituency: Rajya Sabha, KERLA

Smt. Renuka Singh Saruta

Ministry of Tribal Affairs Constituency: Sarguja, CHHATISHGARAH

Shri Som Parkash

Ministry of Commerce and Industry Constituency: Hoshiarpur, PUNJAB

Shri Rameswar Teli

Ministry of Food Processing Industries Constituency: Dibrugarh, ASSAM

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Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries Constituency: Balasor, ODISHA

Shri Kailash Choudhary

Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Constituency: Barmer, RAJSTHAN

Sushri Debasree Chaudhuri

Ministry of Women and Child Development Constituency: Raiganj, WEST BENGAL

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14. STATES FESTIVELS

State Festival Andhra Pradesh Brahmotsavam, Ugadi or the Telugu New Year, Dasara, Sri Rama Navami, Deccan festival, Durga festival. Arunachal Pradesh Solung, Losar Festival, Murung, Reh, Mopin, Boori Boot, Monpa festval. Assam Ambubasi festival, Bohag Bihu, Baishagu festival, Majuli festival, Dehing Patkai festival, Pragjyothi dance festival. Bihar Bihula, Chhath Puja, Madhushravani, Rajgir Dance festival. Goa Fontainhas Festival of Art, sunburn festival, Ladainha, Mando Festival, Ghumot fest, Chikalkalo. Gujarat Kite Festival, Holi, Modhera Dance Festival, Saptak Music Festival. Haryana Baisakhi festival. Jammu and Kashmir Dosmuchey festival, Matho Narang, Gemis Festival, Galdan Namchot.

Jharkhand Sarhul, Dansi, Karma, Hal Punhya, Rohin, Bandna. Karnataka Pattadakal Dance festival, Gudi Padwa. Kerala Onam, Nishagandhi festival, vaikathashtami festival. Madhya Pradesh Tejaji Fair, Khajuraho festival. Maharashtra Kalidas festival, Chikoo Utsav. Manipur Yaoshang, Chavang Kut. Nongkrem Dance Festival, Meghalaya Wangala Festival, Bob Dylan festival, Ahaia festival. Mizoram ChapcharKut Festival

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Telangana Bonalu Tripura Kharchi Puja Uttar Pradesh Kumbh Mela, Ram Leela. Uttarakhand Ganga Dusshera West Bengal Durga Puja, Nandikar National Theatre festival.

15. International Organizations & Headquater

International Organizations Headquarter

United Nations Organization New York, US (UN) United Nations Children’s New York, US Fund (UNICEF) United Nations Populations New York, US Fund (UNFPA) United Nations Conference on Trade & Development Geneva, Switzerland (UNCTAD) World Health Organization Geneva, Switzerland (WHO) World Economic Forum Geneva, Switzerland

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel International Geneva, Switzerland LabourOrganisation (ILO) World Trade Organisation Geneva, Switzerland

World Meteorological Geneva, Switzerland Organisation World Intellectual Property Geneva, Switzerland Organisation International Committee of Geneva, Switzerland the Red Cross United Nations Education Scientific & Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Paris, France Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development Paris, France (OECD) United Nations Industrial Development Organisation Vienna, Austria (UNIDO) International Atomic Agency Vienna, Austria

Organisation of Petroleum Vienna, Austria Exporting Countries (OPEC) Amnesty International London, UK

International Maritime London, UK Organisation

Commonwealth of Nations London, UK South Asian Association for Kathmandu, Nepal Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Association of South East Jakarta, Indonesia Nations (ASEAN) Asia Pacific Economic Singapore Cooperation (APEC) North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Brussels, Belgium

International Cricket Council Dubai, UAE (ICC)

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel Food & Agricultural Rome, Italy Organisation (FAO) International Court of Justice The Hague, The Netherland International Olympic Lausanne, Switzerland Committee The Fédération Internationale Zurich, Switzerland de Football Association (FIFA) The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) The Hague, The Netherlands

World Wide Fund for Nature Avenue du Mont-Blanc, Gland, (WWF) Vaud, Switzerland Asian Infrastructure Beijing, China

Investment Bank (AIIB) New Development Bank Shanghai, China (BRICS Development Bank) Asian Development Bank Manila, Philippines (ADB) International Monetary Fund Washington DC, US (IMF)

World Bank Washington DC, US

16. LIST OF IMPORTANT AIRPORTS IN INDIA

Airport City State/UT Kempegowda International Airport Bangalore Karnataka Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Intl.Airport Kolkata West Bengal Rajiv Gandhi International Airport Hyderabad Telangana Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Ahmedabad Gujarat Airport Chaudhary Charan Singh Intl. Airport Lucknow Uttar Pradesh Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi Intl. Airport Guwahati Assam Srinagar Airport Srinagar J&K Biju Patnaik International Airport Bhubaneswar Odisha

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel Visakhapatnam Airport Visakhapatnam Andhra Pradesh Devi Ahilyabai Holkar Airport Indore Madhya Pradesh Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Intl. Airport Nagpur Maharashtra Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport Patna Bihar Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Amritsar Punjab Airport Swami Vivekananda Airport Raipur Chhattisgarh Bagdogra Airport Bagdogra West Bengal Veer Savarkar International Airport Port Blair andaman&Nicobar Islands Birsa Munda Airport Ranchi Jharkhand Maharana Pratap Airport Udaipur Rajasthan Raja Bhoj International Airport Bhopal Madhya Pradesh Jolly Grant Airport Dehradun Uttrakhand Rajahmundry Airport Rajahmundry Andhra Pradesh Silchar Airport Silchar Assam Lengpui Airport Aizwal Mizoram Zaruki International Airport Shillong Meghalaya Daporijo Airport Daporijo Arunachal Pradesh Tezu Airport Tezu Arunachal Pradesh Kandla Airport Kandla Gujarat Sonari Airport Jamshedpur Jharkhand Birsa Munda Airport Ranchi Jharkhand Agatti Aerodrome Agatti Lakshadweep

17. IMPORTANT STOKE EXCHANGES IN WORLD

Stoke Exchange Country New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) New York City, US NASDAQ OMX New York City, US Tokyo Stock Exchange Tokyo, Japan London Stock Exchange London, UK Shanghai Stock Exchange Shanghai, China BM&F Bovespa Sao Paul, Brazil Deutsche Börse Frankfurt, Germany JSE Limited Johannesburg, South Africa. Borsa Italia Milan, Italy

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18. CENSUS 2011

1) The population of the country as per the provisional figures of Census 2011 is 1210.19 million of which 623.7 million (51.54%) are males&586.46 million (48.46%) are females. The major highlights of the Census 2011 (Provisional figures) are as under: *The population of India has increased by more than 181 million during the decade 2001- 2011. 2) %age growth in 2001-2011 is 17.64; males 17.19&females 18.12. 3) *Uttar Pradesh (199.5 million) is the most populous State in the country followed by Maharashtra with 112 million.

Slogan Our census, Our Future India's 1st Census 1872 2011 Census is 15th Census Total Population 1,21,01,93,422 India's Rank in population 2nd with 17.5% (1st China with 19%) Most Populous State Uttar Pradesh Least Populous State Sikkim Most Literate State Kerala (93.9%) Least Literate State Bihar (63.82%) National Sex Ratio Female : Male (940 : 1000) Highest Sex Ratio (State) Kerala (1084 : 1000) Lowest Sex Ratio (State) Haryana Highest Sex Ratio (UT) Puducherry Least Sex Ratio (UT) Damn & Dayyu (61 : 1000) Literacy of Male 82.14% Literacy of Female 65.46%

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Facebook Page Facebook Group Telegram Group Telegram Channel Population Growth Rate 17.64% Highest fertility Rate Meghalaya Most literate union territory Lakshadweep (92.2%) Least literate Union Territory Dadra Nagar & Haweli Least literate Union Territory Dadra Nagar & Haweli Highest Density of Population Bihar (1102 sq.km) Lowest Density of Population Arunachal Pradesh (17) Total number of districts 640 Density of Population in India 382 sq. km Increase in population (during 2001- 181 million 2011)

19. REVOLUTIONS IN THE FIELD OF AGRICULTURE IN INDIA

Black Revolution Petroleum Production Blue Revolution Fish Production Brown Revolution Leather/Non-conventional (India)/Cocoa production Golden Fiber Revolution Jute Production Golden Revolution Fruits/Overall Horticulture development/Honey Production Green Revolution Food grains Grey Revolution Fertilizer Pink Revolution Onion production/Pharmaceutical (India)/ Prawn production Red Revolution Meat & Tomato Production Round Revolution Potato Silver Fiber Revolution Cotton Silver Revolution Egg/Poultry Production White Revolution (In India: Milk/Dairy production Operation Flood) Yellow Revolution Oil Seeds production Evergreen Revolution Overall development of Agriculture

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20. INTERNATIONAL BORDERS/BOUNDARY LINES

Borders/Boundary Lines Between two Countries Durand Line Afghanistan & Pakistan Hindenburg Line Germany & Poland. Mason-dixon Line Line of demarcation between four states in the United States.

Mannerheim Line Russia-Finland border. Macmahon Line India & China Medicine Line Canada & the United States Order-neisse Line Poland & Germany Radcliffe Line India & Pakistan. Siegfried Line Germany on its border with France. 17th Parallel North Vietnam & South Vietnam 26th Parallel south Africa, Australia & South America 30TH PARALLEL Equator & the North Pole 38th Parallel Separates North Korea&South Korea. 42nd Parallel north New York - Pennsylania Border. 49th Parallel USA&Canada

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