Important Weekly Current Affairs PDF Download (01st to 07th February 2019)

Dear Readers, Here we have given the list of Important Weekly Current Affairs 1^st week of February 2019. Candidates those who are preparing for Upcoming NIACL AO Mains 2019 and other competitive exams can make use of it.

Current Affairs: Important Days

Current Affairs: National

1. The agriculture ministry released the final estimates for 2017-18 and the first estimates for 2018-19 of area and production of horticulture crops. As per the final estimates of 2017-18, horticulture production stood at record 311.7 MT

2. The country’s tourism sector fetched 234 billion US Dollar revenue last year, registering a growth of over 19%

3. Department of post will soon set up its own insurance company which will deal with its business of two products Postal life insurance and Rural Postal Life Insurance.
4. Minister of Railways & Coal, Shri Piyush Goyal launched the report “The Future of Rail” of International Energy Agency (IEA)

5. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated Railway electrification of 294-km long Andal-Sainthia-Pakur-Malda andKhana-Sainthia sections in West Bengal

6.    India-Monaco Business forum held in New Delhi

7. The total steel production in the country has increased from 88.98 MT in 2014-15 to 103.13 MT in 2017-18

8. The National Green Tribunal imposed a cost of Rs. 25 lakh on the Uttar Pradesh government for failing to stop dumping of sewage and untreated water in the Upper Ganga Canal.
9. Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation launched ShehriSamridhiUtsav initiative

10.  India and Germany join hands on water and waste management

11. Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen launched ‘Darwaza Band – Part 2’ campaign in Mumbai

Current Affairs: International

1. Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has opened a new centre, set up by the government in partnership with the UN to fight climate change and boost sustainable development in Africa. The new centre is located near the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Rome

2. The United Nations announced 2019 as the International Year of the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements

3.    Sri Lanka celebrating its 71st Independence Day on 4 February

4. Pakistan Army successfully test-fired the short range surface-to-surface ballistic missile ”Nasr” with a strike range of about 70 km

5. Thailand makes Siamese fighting fish national aquatic animal

6. Macedonia signed an accord to join NATO to become the 30th member of the US-led alliance

Current Affairs: State

1. Union Minister Rajyavardhan Rathore inaugurated a Passport Service Centre at Kotputli in Rajasthan.
2. Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot announced the monthly allowance scheme for educated, unemployed youth.

3. Mizoram government has banned import of pigs and piglets

4.    Indus River Dolphin declared Punjab’s State aquatic animal

5.    Sikkim state government signed MoU with Microsoft for digital learning

6. Kerala has become the first State to set up a price monitoring and research unit (PMRU) to track violation of prices of essential drugs and medical devices

7. “Sopan 2019” The Festival of Young Musicians and Dancers held in New Delhi

8.    Haryana government approved new MSME, Pharma policies to boost development

9. Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari laid the foundation stone for three highway projects worth over Rs. 2345 crore rupees

10. Madhya Pradesh government makes it mandatory for industries to hire 70% locals

11.  ‘Boori Boot Yullom’ festival begins in Arunachal Pradesh

12.  Maharashtra government sets up panel to review welfare schemes for tribals, the 17-member committee, headed by former MLA VivekPandit

Current Affairs: Banking and Finance

1. RBI lifted lending curbs on three public sector banks (PSBs), Bank of India, Bank of Maharashtra and Oriental Bank of Commerce to exit the PCA framework
2. The RBI has imposed a monetary penalty of  2 crore each on UCO Bank and Axis Bank, and Rs. 1 crore on Syndicate Bank.
3. RBI imposed a penalty of Rs. 1 crore fine on Union Bank of India

4. Sixth Bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement

5. Ujjivan Small Finance Bank (SFB) launched Ujjivan Bank KisanSuvidha loan to offer financial credit services to small and marginal farmers

6. The government revised its forecast for GDP growth for 2017-18 to 7.2% from the earlier estimate of 6.7%. It also revised the actual growth rate in 2016-17 to 8.2% from the 7.1% estimated earlier
7. Delhi based P2P Lending platform, Lendbox has received its NBFC Peer-to-Peer (P2P) certification from the RBI.
8. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has bought a 14% stake in micro-financier Annapurna Finance for Rs. 137 crore

9. The Ministry of Finance has announced the amalgamation of two regional rural banks in Tamilnadu- Pallavan GramaBank, sponsored by Indian Bank and Pandyan Grama Bank, sponsored by Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) into a single regional rural bank in the state and name the new entity as Tamil Nadu Grama Bank
10. Fitch Solutions, the research arm of Fitch Group, projected the government’s fiscal deficit to overshoot the budgeted target by 0.2 per cent to 3.6 per cent of GDP in 2019-20 fiscal.

11.  FDI declines 11% to $22.66 billion during April-September

12.  Fino Payments Bank introduced sweep account facility in association with Suryoday Small Finance Bank

13. The Indian Banking Association (IBA) issued advisory guidelines requesting banks to waive off the various fees to Kisan Credit Card

Current Affairs: Business

1. Indian payments conglomerate Paytm Acquired hotel booking platform Nightstay, launching the domestic hotel bookings on its platform for an undisclosed amount

2. The Punjab National Bank associated life insurance company, PNB MetLife has introduced the ace shuttler PV Sindhu as its brand ambassador.

3. Indostar Capital Finance to buy India Infoline Finance’s(IIFL Finance) Commercial Vehicle Finance Business
4. Swiggyacqui-hires Bengaluru-based AI startup Kint.io, an artificial intelligence (AI) startup, for an undisclosed sum.

 Current Affairs: Appointments

Current Affairs: Cabinet Approvals

1. MoU between India and Malaysia for Mutual Cooperation in the field of Company Secretaryship
2. MoU between India and Election Management Bodies of Namibia and Panama
3. MoU between India and Norway on India-Norway Ocean Dialogue
4. MoU between India and Brazil on cooperation in the field of Traditional Systems of Medicine and Homoeopathy
5. MoU between India and Maldives for Establishing Mutual Cooperation to Improve the Ecosystems for Agribusiness
6. MoU between India and the UAE on Development cooperation in Africa
7. Signing of Agreement between India and Ukraine for cooperation in Agriculture and Food Industry
8. MoU between India and Finland in the field of Biotechnology
9. MoU between India and Uzbekistan for promoting Bilateral cooperation in the area of e-Governance
10. Establishment of Circuit Bench of Calcutta High Court at Jalpaiguri
11. Introduction of National Institutes of Food Technology, Enterpreneurship and Management Bill, 2019 in the Parliament
12. Establishment of RashtriyaKamdhenuAayog for Conservation protection and development of cows and their progeny
13. Proposal for Official Amendments to the Banning of Unregulated Deposit Schemes Bill, 2018
14. Abolition of Institution of Income-Tax Ombudsman and Indirect Tax Ombudsman
15. Framework Agreement between India and Indonesia on cooperation in the exploration and uses of outer space for peaceful purposes

Current Affairs: Committee

1. The government has constituted a committee under the Central Electricity Authority (CEA), On the recommendation of Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha, to explore prepaid payments by state electricity distribution companies to power plants
2. Punjab government sets up committee to boost dairy sector

Current Affairs: Awards and Honours

1. The National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) has been named a winner under the ‘miniratna’ category by the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

2.     SBI UK chief SanjivChadha honoured with ‘Freedom of the City of London’ award

Current Affairs: Summit and Conference

1. PETROTECH-2019,the 13^th International Oil & Gas Conference & Exhibition, being organised under the aegis of the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Government of India, is all set to be inaugurated on February 10, 2019

2.    37^thedition of  ‘ICT Academy Bridge 2019’ conference inaugurated in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Theme of the event – “Fostering India for Industry 4.0”,

3. International Spice Conference 2019 held in Hyderabad. Theme of the conference is “Challenges of Change: Redefining the Value Chain”

4.    67th Annual Armed Forces Medical Conference organised by AFMC, Pune

5.    WLPGA 2019 ASIA LPG summit held in New Delhi

6.    BPRD organized 2nd National Conference of Micro Missions of National Police Mission in New Delhi

Current Affairs: Mobile Application

1.    National Testing Agency (NTA) launched mobile application for mock tests

2.    PradhanMantri Jan ArogyaYojana App launched on Google play store

Current Affairs: Ranking

1. According to Transparency International, Assam occupied the top slot in the ranking of best practices followed by states in Budget formulation,

Current Affairs: MOU

1. Ministry of Coal entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Ministry of Energy, Republic of Poland.

2.    Indian Coast Guard signed MoU with AAI for maritime search and rescue

Current Affairs: Defence

1. The Defence Acquisitions Council, DAC chaired by Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman approved indigenous construction of six submarines worth 40,000 crore rupees.
2. Israel Aerospace Industries announced entering into agreements worth $93 million for providing Naval MRSAM (Medium Range Surface to Air Missile) systems to India. The contracts for the air defence system were entered with the Indian Navy and the Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL)
3. The Defence Ministry has cleared a long-pending proposal of the Army to procure around 73,000 assault rifles from the US under fast track mode

Current Affairs: Science and Technology

1. Scientists have created an artificial intelligence (AI) based system that directly translates thoughts into intelligible, recognisable speech. The technology developed by researchers from Columbia University in the United States

Current Affairs: Sports

1. The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced a five year global partnership deal with beverage manufacturer Coca-Cola Company. Coca-Cola the exclusive non-alcoholic beverage partners of the ICC until 2023.

2. Mithali Raj, India’s One-day International (ODI) captain becoming the first female cricketer to play 200 ODIs.
3. Qatar won its first soccer title by beating four-time champion Japan 3-1 in the Asian Cup final
4. VaniKapoor became the first Indian to earn a card for the Australian Ladies PGA Tour (LPGA) after coming through its first-ever Qualifying Tournament at the Ballarat Golf Club in Ballarat, Australia
5. INS Dronacharya wins Kochi area boat pulling regatta trophy

6.     India’s Smriti Mandhana becomes number 1 in latest ICC women’s ODI rankings

7.     Haryana Hammers beat defending champions Punjab Royals to lift (Pro Wrestling League)PWL 4 title

8. Pakistan’s Sana Mir becomes first Asian woman to play hundred T20Is
9. Indian squash player RamitTandon defeated Egyptian Mohamed El Sherbini in the finals to win the Seattle Open

Current Affairs: Obituaries

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