Important Weekly Current Affairs PDF Download (01st to 08th April 2019)

Dear Readers, Here we have given the list of Important Weekly Current Affairs 1^stweek of April 2019. Candidates those who are preparing for Upcoming LIC AAO and SBI PO2019examsand other competitive exams can make use of it.

Current Affairs: Important Days

Current Affairs: National

1. The CBDT extended the deadline to link PAN with Aadhaar by six months from March 31 to September 30, 2019
2. Goods and Services Tax (GST) collection stood at Rs. 1.06 lakh crore in March
3. Government proposed 2 committees to probe complaints against Information Commissioners
4. The government to set up a multi-disciplinary terror monitoring group (TMG) for Jammu & Kashmir
5. WhatsApp has launched a tip line for Indians to curb fake news during the national election

Current Affairs: International

1. South Korea will launch the world’s first fully-fledged 5G mobile networks

2. According to a new joint UN and European Union (EU) report, more than 113 million people across 53 countries experienced acute hunger last year
3. Bollywood filmmaker Karan Johar has unveiled his wax statue at Madame Tussauds in Singapore

Current Affairs: State

1. Odisha is celebrating 84 years of its foundationon 1st April 2019

2. Odisha has received Geographical indication (GI) tag for ‘KandhamalHaldi’ variety of turmeric

3. Centre has extended the “disturbed area” tag under  Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) for 3 districts of  Arunachal Pradesh for another six months

4. Telangana state has ranked number one in eLearning training by reaching to 20,000 field staff during 2018-19

5. Phayeng Village in Imphal West district of Manipurhas become India’s first carbon-positive settlement

Current Affairs: Banking and Finance

1. Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank will merge with Bank of Baroda to create the third-largest lender of the country

2.      RBI sets NBFC-MFIs’ average base rate at 9.21% for April-June

3. RBI will inject long-term liquidity worth USD 5 billion into the banking system through dollar-rupee swap auction
4. RBI sets Ways and Means Advances (WMA) limit for Government at Rs. 75000 crore for the first half of the FY 2019-20
5. RBI has tweaked liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) norms to provide an additional 2 per cent window to lenders
6. MPC decided to reduce the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) by 25 basis points to 6.0%from 6.25%

7. Kotak Mahindra Bank will charge for Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions from the 1st May 2019

8. Asian Development Bankhas lowered India’s growth forecast for 2019-20 to 7.2 % from 7.6 %

9. Bank of Maharashtra gets Rs. 205 crore capital from government

10. The World Trade Organization loweredthe Global trade growth for 2019 to 2.6% from 3.7%

11. SEBI extends phase 1 deadline of UPI for retail IPO investors till June 30, 2019

12. Fitch retained India’s sovereign ratingatlowest investment grade ‘BBB-‘,with stable outlook
13. Karnataka Bank has entered into a MoU with Bharti AXA Life Insurance Company to distribute the latter’s life insurance products

14. Emirates Islamic becomes world’s first Islamic bank to launch banking via WhatsApp

15. Priority Sector Lending Certificates volume crossed Rs. 3-trillion in FY19

Current Affairs: Business

1. Eight core industries show 2.1% growth in February 2019
2. Paytm’s subsidiary Paytm Money has received approval from SEBI to begin stock broking services
3. Reliance Jio acquired Mumbai based chatbot making startupHaptik for Rs. 700 crore
4. BSNL has received the In-Flight Connectivity license from the Department of Telecommunications

5. Lakshmi Vilas Bank approved merger with lndiabulls Housing Finance

6. The government sold enemy shares worth Rs. 1,150 crore in Wipro to Life Insurance Corporation and two other state-owned insurers
7. Bank of India to sell 25% stake in life insurance JV SUD Life Insurance for Rs. 1,106 crore

Current Affairs: Appointments

Current Affairs: Resignation

Current Affairs: Awards and Honours

1. Batman to be first inductee into Comic-Con Museum’s Character Hall of Fame
2. Shah Rukh Khan was conferred an honorary doctorate in Philanthropy by The University of Law, London.
3. Indian Astrologer Dr SohiniSastri has been honoured with ‘D. Litt in Astrology’ by National American University, USA

ESPN India Multi-Sport Awards

• Olympic silver medallist P V Sindhu and star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra were named as female and male sportsperson of the year in the ESPN India Multi-Sport Awards for their achievements in 2018.
• Sportsperson of the Year (Male) – Neeraj Chopra (athletics)
• Sportsperson of the Year (Female) – P V Sindhu (badminton)
• Comeback of the Year – Saina Nehwal (badminton)
• Coach of the Year – JaspalRana (shooting)
• Emerging Sportsperson of the Year – Saurabh Chaudhary (shooting)
• Team of the Year – Women’s team (table tennis)
• Match of the Year – AmitPanghalvsHasanboyDusmatov (boxing)
• Differently-abled athlete of the Year – EktaBhyan (para-athletics)
• Moment of the Year – Women’s 4x400m relay
• Lifetime Achievement Award – Pradip Kumar Banerjee (football)

Current Affairs: Summit and Conference

1. India to organize NuGen Mobility summit 2019 in November
2. 4th Session of India-Ukraine working group on Trade and Economic Cooperation held in New Delhi
3. 7th Foreign office consultations between India and Italy held in Delhi

4. 3-day National Cardiology Conference held at Lucknow

Current Affairs: Ranking

1. According to report ‘OpenSignal’s Hottest city for 4G Availability’ Jharkhand’s Dhanbad tops in India

Current Affairs: MOU

1. GAIL India Ltd and BHEL have inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for cooperation in the development of solar power projects
2. India has offered $100 million Line of Credit to Bolivia for financing development projects

3. Reliance Mutual Fund partners with Google to launch voice-based transactions
4. China launched the first of its new-generation data relay satelliteTianlian II-01
5. India and Chile signed three MoUs in the fields of mining, culture and empowerment of persons with disabilities

6. India signed an agreement with a development bank for setting up India-Africa Institute of Agriculture and Rural Development (IAIARD) in Malawi
7. Tata Power has signed a pact with Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) for setting up rooftop solar projects in the country
8. The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has inked a MoUwith the IIT Delhi to collaborate in the field of standardisation and conformity assessment
9. BSE and India INX become first Indian exchanges to sign MoU with Moscow Exchange
10. Saudi Arabia will fund the construction of a $1 billion sports city in Iraq

11. NTPC has inked a Rs. 2,000 crore term-loan agreement with Canara Bank

Current Affairs: Mobile App and Portal

1. Sahulatmobile app aimed to facilitate voting by elders has been launched in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district

Current Affairs: Defence

1. ISRO opened a visitors’ gallery with 5,000 capacities at Andhra Pradesh’s SriharikotaIsland
2. ISRO launched India’s latest satellite EMISAT and 28 other smaller satellites was launched from the Sriharikota spaceport
3. Army constructs Maitri Bridge on Indus river to link villages in Leh
4. US approved sale of 24 MH 60 Romeo Seahawk helicopters to India for $2.4 bn
5. Sri Lankan army is going to conduct Exercise Western Shield, its biggest-ever military exercise in July 2019
6. Morocco-US joint military exercise ‘African Lion 2019’ concluded in Morocco

Current Affairs: Sports

1. Five times world champion Lewis Hamilton won the Bahrain Grand Prix
2. Roger Federer lifted his fourth ATP Miami Open title
3. South Korea win the Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey tournament at Ipoh in Malaysia
4. India finished with 16 gold, five silver and four bronze in 12^th Asian Airgun Championships in Taoyuan, Taipei.
5. India has won ICC Test Championship mace for the third year in a row
6. SauravGhosal became the first Indian male squash player to enter the top 10 in the PSA world rankings.
7. ICC to join hands with Interpol to tackle corruption in sport

8. Indian Football Team climbed two places to move to 101 rank in the FIFA latest rankings

Complete Winners list of Malaysia Open 2019

• The2019 Malaysia Open, officially the CELCOM AXIATA Malaysia Open 2019, is a badminton tournament which takes place at Axiata Arena in Malaysia from 2 to 7 April 2019 and has a total purse of $700,000.

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