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

Dear Readers, Here we have given the list of Important Weekly Current Affairs 1^stweek of May 2019. Candidates those who are preparing for Upcoming LIC AAO and SBI PO/Clerk2019examsand other competitive exams can make use of it.

Current Affairs: Important Days

Current Affairs: National

1. CPWD has constituted a 10-member committee headed by K M Soni to bring out ‘Safety Manual’ of the department
2. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highwayshas announced a green registration mark for all battery-operated vehicles

3. Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) will launch an awareness programme on Goods and Services Tax in collaboration with BSE
4. VP Venkaiah Naidu released a postage stamp to commemorate the 750th birth anniversary of Sri Vedanta Desikan
5. BSNL has launched ‘Bharat Fibre’ broadband service in Kashmir Valley
6. India to attend G-7 meet in France
7. Finance Ministry has imposed anti-dumping duty on saccharin imports from Indonesia

Current Affairs: International

1. UK becomes first parliament to declare climate emergency

2. Bank of Canada and Monetary Authority of Singapore have conducted Complete Cross-Border and Cross-Currency Payment
3. Canada’s redesigned $10 bill recognized as best international banknote of the year
4. Malaysia is set to open the world’s first crypto city

Current Affairs: State

1. The Meghalaya Cabinet approved the proposal for creation of a new Directorate of Dairy Development in the state

2. Mangaluru City Police has launched an all-women police patrol unit ‘Rani Abbakka Force’ in the city

Current Affairs: Banking and Finance

1. India Ratings marginally lowered country’s GDP growth projection for 2019-20 to 7.3 per cent
2. GST collections touch all-time high of over Rs. 1.13 lakh crore in April
3. LIC Housing Finance (LIC HFL) has launched ‘Udyam’, a skilling centre in Bengaluru
4. India was the biggest recipient of funds from Asian Development Bank last year
5. Asian Development Bank has launches $5 billion healthy oceans action plan

6. PNB Housing Finance to raise up to USD 1 billion from foreign markets
7. TheNetherlands has emerged as the third largest foreign direct investor in India during 2017-18

8. RBI has imposed penalties on five prepaid payment instrument (PPI) issuers, including Vodafone m-pesa and PhonePe, for violation of regulatory norms
9. RBI has increased the eligibility cap on home loans extended by regional rural banks and small finance banks to Rs. 35 lakh in metropolitan areas and Rs. 25 lakh in other centres

Current Affairs: Business

1. SEBI has fined NSE 1,000 crore in co-location case

2. Bharti AXA General Insurance will sell policies through social media messaging platform WhatsApp
3. Paytm launches recurring payments service for merchants

4. Huawei overtakes Apple to become second biggest Smartphone maker
5. According to the ADB’s Asian Development Outlook 2019 Asia-Pacific to grow 5.7% this year

Current Affairs: Appointments

Current Affairs: Resignation

Current Affairs: Awards and Honours

Current Affairs: Ranking

1. According to SIPRI India was 4th biggest military spender last year

Current Affairs: MOU

1. BHEL signs MoU with Automotive Research Association of India for e-mobility projects

2. Dredging Corporation of India Limited (DCIL) has inked a MoUwith WAPCOS Limited to jointly identify suitable future projects
3. IIT Delhi to build a Centre of Excellence for Waste to Wealth Technologies

4. CBDT and GSTN sign pact to nab evaders, reduce black money generation

5. Vodafone Idea signs multi-million dollar IT deal with IBM
6. Defence ministry approves Navy’s Rs. 3,600-crore deal with Russia for 10 Kamov-31 helicopters

7. E-Governance Services India ties up with IIT – Kanpur to upscale Unnat Bharat Abhiyan
8. India, UK in talks to build copycat Naval supercarrier under ‘Make in India

Current Affairs: Science and Technology

1. China successfully sent two Tianhui II-01 satellites into orbit from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center

2. ISRO is set to launch its latest radar imaging satellite (RISAT) by the end of next month
3. Momo-3 is Japan’s first private rocket to reach space

4. SpaceX launched the Falcon 9 rocket with Dragon spacecraft

Current Affairs: Defence

1. GRSE to build 8 anti-submarine warfare shallow watercraft for Indian Navy
2. Indo-French joint naval exercise Varuna 19.1 begins off Goa coast
3. Indian Navy launched fourth stealth Scorpene class submarine Vela in Mumbai
4. Indian Navy ‘INS Ranjit’ was decommissioned at the Naval Dockyard in Visakhapatnam

Current Affairs: Sports

1. G Sathiyan became first Indian to break into the top-25 of ITTF rankings
2. ApurviChandela attains world number one spot in women’s 10 m air rifle event
3. India retained its top position in the ICC Test rankings
4. World number one BajrangPunia wins gold at Ali Aliev tournament in Russia
5. Jaipur to host Asian youth Women Handball Championship
6. SauravGhoshal and JoshnaChinappa win Asian Individual Squash Championship titles

7. Indian boxers win six medals at 36th FeliksStamm International Boxing Tournament in Warsaw, Poland

8. Marc Marquez wins the Spanish motorcycling Grand Prix and regains world championship lead

Current Affairs: Books

Current Affairs: Obituaries

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