The Most Important Current Affairs JANAURY 2019
THE HINDU REVIEW|CURRENT AFFAIRS| JANUARY 2019 The Most Important Current Affairs JANAURY 2019 Padma Awards 2019 Announced: Complete 13. Shri V K Shunglu — Civil Service — Delhi List of Winners 14. Shri Hukumdev Narayan Yadav — Public Affairs — Bihar Padma Awards — one of the highest civilian Awards of the country, are conferred in three categories, namely, and (94) Padma Shri Awards. Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The Awards are given in various disciplines/ fields of activities, viz. art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc. The list comprises 4 Padma Vibhushan, 14 Padma Bhushan and 94 Padma Shri Awards. 21 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 11 persons from the category of foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI, 3 posthumous awardees and 1 transgender person. The list also Includes 3 Bharat Ratna Awardees. The Bharat Ratna Awardees in 2019 are: 1. Pranab Mukherjee 2. Bhupen Hazarika (Posthumously) 3. Nanaji Deshmukh (Posthumously) Padma Vibhushan (4) 1. Ms. Teejan Bai — Art-Vocals-Folk — Chhattisgarh Australian Open 2019 Concludes: Complete 2. Shri Ismail Omar Guelleh (Foreigner) — Public Affairs — Djibouti List of Winners 3. Shri Anilkumar Manibhai Naik — Trade & Industry- The Australian Open is a tennis tournament held Infrastructure — Maharashtra annually in Melbourne Park, Australia. The tournament 4. Shri Balwant Moreshwar Purandare — Art-Acting- is chronologically the first of the four Grand Slam tennis Theatre — Maharashtra events of the year – the other three being the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open. The 2018 Padma Bhushan (14) Australian Open was the 107th edition of the 1.
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