Current Affairs / January 2019 to December 2019 / 1 of 616 Year 2019 Current Affairs January to December 2019 Total Page : 616 Topic Page No. Polity - 4 Appointment - 36 Economic - 69 Defence - 101 Military exercise - 121 Events - 133 Days - 154 Book-writer - 219 Sports - 230 Awards - 312 Index - 403 Scientific Researches - 438 Historical Places - 467 Deaths - 472 Culture - 498 Schemes - 503 Foreign - 559 GI tag - 606 Governor & CM - 610 2 of 616 / Current Affairs / January 2019 to December 2019 Copyright: Alert Info Media Pvt Ltd Writer: Sanmay Prakash Publisher: Alert Info Media Pvt. Ltd. Office: E26, Nirbhay Nagar, Agra - 282007 (UP) Email: [email protected] Warning: Republishing this e-book in any way without written permission is prohibited. Disclaimer: Our team has prepared it from many sources including PIB & News- Papers. We have tried our best to produce better content. However, the publisher is not responsible for any type of typing and other errors. The jurisdiction of any dispute will be Agra. All rights reserved. No part of this e-book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, Electronic, Mechanical, Photocopying, Recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Current Affairs / January 2019 to December 2019 / 3 of 616 Parliament / Politics Who is the Speaker of 17th Lok Sabha? a. Maneka Gandhi b. Uma Bharti c. Sambita Patra d. Om Birla Answer: d. Om Birla Central Government Prime Minister: Narendra Modi Prime Minister is also in-charge of these ministries: Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space; And All important policy issues; And All other departments not allocated to any minister. Cabinet Ministers: • Rajnath Singh - Defence Minister. • Amit Shah - Home Minister. • Nitin Jairam Gadkari - Minister of Road Transport and Highways; And Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. 4 of 616 / Current Affairs / January 2019 to December 2019 • DV Sadananda Gowda - Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers. • Nirmala Sitharaman - Finance Minister and Minister of Corporate Affairs. • Ram Vilas Paswan - Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution. • Narendra Singh Tomar - Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare; Minister of Rural Development; And Minister of Panchayati Raj. • Ravi Shankar Prasad - Minister of Law and Justice; Minister of Communications and Minister of Electronics and Information Technology. • Harsimrat Kaur Badal - Food Processing Industries Minister. • Thawar Chand Gehlot- Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment. • Subrahmanyam Jaishankar - Foreign Minister. • Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank - Human Resource Development Minister. • Arjun Munda - Minister of Tribal Affairs • Smriti Zubin Irani - Minister of Women and Child Development and Minister of Textiles. • Dr. Harsh Vardhan - Minister of Health and Family Welfare; Minister of Science and Technology and Minister of Earth Sciences. • Prakash Javadekar - Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Minister of Information and Broadcasting. Current Affairs / January 2019 to December 2019 / 5 of 616 • Piyush Goyal - Railway Minister and Minister of Commerce and Industry. • Dharmendra Pradhan - Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas; And Steel Minister. • Mukhtar Abbas Naqv - Minority Affairs Minister. • Prahlad Joshi - Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; Minister of Coal; And Minister of Mines. • Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey -Minister of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. • Arvind Ganpat Sawant - Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises. • Giriraj Singh - Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairy • Gajendra Singh Shekhawat - Minister of Water Power. --------------- Who is the 47th Chief of India? a. S A Bobde b. N V Ramanna c. Indu Malhotra d. Arun Mishra Answer: a. S A Bobde - His full name is Sharad Arvind Bobde. - Justice Bobde took oath on 18 November 2019 - He will remain as Chief Justice till 23rd April 2021. --------------- Which party won the most seats in Jharkhand assembly election 2019 result? 6 of 616 / Current Affairs / January 2019 to December 2019 a. B J P b. Congress c. JM d. RJD Answer: c. JM - Votes were counted for the 81 assembly seats of Jharkhand on 23 December 2019. Seats according to party - JMM = 30 BJP = 25 Congress = 16 RJD = 1 AJSU = 2 Jharkhand vikash morcha = 3 Seats by alliance JMM + INC + RJD = 47 BJP = 25 JVM = 3 AJSU = 2 Other = 4 ------------------------------ Allahabad High Court revoked the membership of which Vidhan Sabha member in December 2019 because of contesting on the basis of wrong documents? a. Amrish Patel b. Abdulla Azam Khan c. Mahendra Awadhesh d. Zakir Hussain Answer: b. Abdulla Azam Khan Current Affairs / January 2019 to December 2019 / 7 of 616 - The court said that Abdullah Azam was not 25 years old at the time of election. - He is the son of Samajwadi Party MP Azam Khan. ------------------------- Under which law did the government shut down the internet in 8 states and union territories of the country in December 2019? a. CRPC, 1973 b. Indian Telegraph Act, 1985 c. Temporary Suspension of Telecom Services (Public Emergency or Public Safety) Rules, 2017 d. All of the above Answer: d. All of the above - Governments under different circumstances resort to different laws to ban internet service. Protests have been taking place across the country ever since the revised law of citizenship (CAA) came into existence on 13 December. In December 2019, the internet remained stalled in these states for several days. -------------------------------- How many Bills were passed by both the Houses in the Winter Session of Parliament (2019)? a. 10 bills b. 12 Bills c. 15 bills d. 20 bills Answer: c. 15 bill 8 of 616 / Current Affairs / January 2019 to December 2019 Out of these 15 bills, 11 were passed in both the houses in this session. In this session, 14 bills were passed in Lok Sabha and 15 in Rajya Sabha. - Winter session of Parliament lasted from 18 November to 13 December 2019. A total of 20 meetings were held during this period in 26 days. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Prahlad Joshi said that in this session, the working efficiency of Lok Sabha was 116% and that of Rajya Sabha was 99%. Among the important bills passed by both the houses during the session - Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 - SPG Amendment Bill, - Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial Amendment Bill, - The Constitution (126th Amendment) Bill, 2019 (SC ST reservation to be extended for ten years) - Taxation law amendment bill - The Electronic Cigarettes (Production, Manufacture, Import, Export, Distribution, Storage and Advertising) Restrictions Bill, 2019 - The Ordnance Act (Amendment) Bill, 2019 - Chitfund Amendment Bill - Bill related to the rights of bisexual persons - The National Capital Territory (Recognition of Property Rights of Residents of Unauthorized Colonies) Bill, 2019 - The Constitution (126th Amendment) Bill, 2019 - International Financial Services Center Authority Bill, 2019 Current Affairs / January 2019 to December 2019 / 9 of 616 Which Assembly passed the bill to complete the hearing of the rape case in 14 days and the provision of death sentence to the convict in 21 days, on 13 December 2019? a. Uttar Pradesh b. Bihar c. Telangana d. Andhra Pradesh Answer: d. Andhra Pradesh - The name of the law will be - Andhra Pradesh Criminal Law (Amendment) Act 2019 With this, Andhra Pradesh has become the first state to include the provision of capital punishment in the case of rape. -------------------------- After Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Mizoram, the Central Government has now implemented the Inner Line Permit(ILP) in which fourth state, so that permission has to be taken to go there first? a. Manipur b. Assam c. Tripura d. Meghalaya Answer: a. Manipur Manipur is the fourth state after Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Mizoram where the Inner Line Permit ie ILP has come into force. - Inner line permit is a travel document issued by the Government of India (for its citizens), so that they can travel for a specified period in a protected area. 10 of 616 / Current Affairs / January 2019 to December 2019 - Meaning, if someone from any part of India goes to Manipur, then he cannot go there until he gets permission. - President Ram Nath Kovind signed this order on 11 December 2019. --------------- Who was appointed the chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament? a. Adhiranjan Chaudhary b. Amit Shah c. Om Birla d. Meenakshi Lekhi Answer: a. Adhiranjan Chowdhury - He is the leader of the Congress Parliamentary Party in the Lok Sabha. --------------- What is the name of the largest union territory of the country? a. Jammu – Kashmir b. Ladakh c. Delhi d. Puducherry Answer: b. Ladakh Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh is R. K. Mittal. --------------- Name the largest district in the country? a. Kargil b. Jammu c. Srinagar d. Leh Answer: d. Leh (District of Ladakh) Current Affairs / January 2019 to December 2019 / 11 of 616 --------------- In which district are the districts of Gilgit, Gilgit Wazarat , Chilhas presently in the possession of Pakistan? a. Kargil b. Jammu c. Leh d. Srinagar Answer: c. Leh --------------- Muzaffarabad and Mirpur, occupied by Pakistan, are situated to which union territory map? a. Jammu – Kashmir b. Ladakh c. Delhi d. Puducherry Answer: a. Jammu - Kashmir ------------------------ Who issues the official map of the country? a. Geological survey of India b. Survey of India c. Archaeological survey of India d. None of these Answer: