Important Weekly Current Affairs PDF Download (15th to 21st September 2019)

Dear Readers, Here we have given the list of Important Weekly Current Affairs 3rd week of September 2019. Candidates those who are preparing for Upcoming LIC HFL and IBPS PO/Clerk 2019 and other competitive exams can make use of it.

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Current Affairs: Important Days

Current Affairs: National

1. Union Minister Prakash Javadekar flagged off ‘Jaldoot’ water conservation initiative
2. White Water Rafting Expedition ‘Rudrashila’ flagged off at Jaisalmer
3. National Centre for Clean Coal Research & Development inaugurated at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)-Bengaluru
4. Government has launched a steel import monitoring system (SIMS) to provide information about steel imports
5. Government has declared a train service to Bangladesh’s Akhaura from Tripura’s Agartala by 2020
6. India has joined Global Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Development Hub
7. India has launched a major programme offering 1,000 PhD fellowships to ASEAN students at IITs
8. Indian Railwayto conduct “Massive Shramdan” drive with main focus on “Collection of Plastic Waste”
9. Union Minister Gehlot launched the Management Information System (MIS)portal under Accessible India Campaign

10. HRD Ministry announced a new scheme- National Educational Alliance for Technology (NEAT) aimed at using technology for better learning outcomes in Higher Education

Current Affairs: International

1. Saint Vincent and Grenadines became the 79th country to join the International Solar Alliance

2. Sri Lanka has unveiled the South Asia’s tallest tower

Current Affairs: State

1. Union Home Minister Amit Shah inaugurated the International Ramayana Festival in Delhi
2. Delhi Police has launched ‘Tatpar’ app to facilitate delivery of citizen-centric services

3. Himachal CM launched the Mukhya Mantri Seva Sankalp Helpline ‘1100’ for speedy redressal of public grievances

4. Traditional Neermahal Jal Utsav concludes at Rudrasagar lake in Tripura

5. First women marathon organized against drug addiction in Udhampur, J&K

6. Children’s week celebrated from September 16- 21, 2019 at Anganwadi centers in Uttar Pradesh
7. The country’s first Central Police University to come up in Greater Noida near the Yamuna Expressway

8. Telangana government has decided to declare 2020 as Artificial Intelligence (AI) year

9. Hyderabad-Karnataka region renamed as Kalyana Karnataka

10. Maharashtra government to set up Swachh Bharat World University in Wardha

11. Country’s first-ever trans art festival “Varnapakitt-2019” inaugurated in Kerala

Current Affairs: Banking and Finance

1. ECGC introduced a new insurance scheme ‘NIRVIK’ to enhance loan availability for exporters

2. GSTN has decided to make Aadhaar authentication mandatory for new dealers from Jan 2020
3. Saving deposits of public and private sector banks rose to Rs. 39.72 lakh crore in 2018-19
4. Microfinance Institutions Network (MFIN) and Sa-Dhan jointly launched the ‘Code for Responsible Lending’ for microfinance industry
5. RBI has allowed payment of all recurring bills through Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS)

6. London has overtaken India’s financial capital Mumbai to become the top center for trading the nation’s currency

7. Government has waived the three-year lock-in period on investments made by NRIs in infrastructure debt funds (IDFs)
8. Government has approved 8.65% interest rate on employees provident fund for 2018-19
9. Government has reduced the corporate tax rate for domestic company to 22% from 30%
10. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)slashedthe India’s economic growth forecast from 7.2% to 5.9%for 2019-20

Current Affairs: Business

1. Tata firm launches India’s first maritime broadband services
2. ZestMoney has joined hands with payment gateway PayUfor cardless EMI payment
3. Airtel Payments Bank has launched ‘Bharosa savings account’ scheme

Current Affairs: Committee

Current Affairs: Appointments

Current Affairs: Resignation

Current Affairs: Awards and Honours

1. Bangladesh’s bamboo-made school built by Arcadia Education Project has won the 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture
2. Bollywood actor Neena Gupta wins two awards at Indian International Film Festival of Boston
3. Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap’s film Gangs Of Wasseypur (Ranked 59^th) has become the only Indian film to feature in The Guardian list of 100 Best Films of the 21st century
4. Anjali Singh has become India’s first female has joined the Indian Embassy in Russia as the Deputy Air Attache
5. A documentary film ‘Moti Bagh’ based on a farmer in Uttarakhand has been nominated for Oscars
6. Rajnath Singh became the first defence minister to fly in the indigenous light combat aircraft Tejas
7. Entrepreneur and author Kapil Pathare honoured with Doctorate in Business from Ballsbridge University

Current Affairs: Ranking

Current Affairs: MOU

1. Visa and Bill Desk have partnered to roll out interface for recurring payments
2. Kerala inked a MoU with Maldives to strengthen cancer care in the island nation

3. Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, has signed an agreement with IBMfor nationwide Train-the-Trainer program in AI

4. ISRO, DRDO ink MoUs to provide technologies for Human Space Mission

5. Nasscom’s Data Security Council of India (DSCI) has collaborated with the electronics and IT ministry and Google India for ‘Digital Payment Abhiyan’

Current Affairs: Summit and Conference

1. 38th Sharjah International Book Fair to be organized from 30^th Oct to 9^th of Nov
2. Exhibition ‘Shashwat Maharathi : The Eternal Seeker’ on Chitracharya Upendra Maharath Inaugurated in New Delhi
3. International Workshop for National Water Museum inaugurated in New Delhi
4. 29th Meeting of the Northern Zonal Council held in Chandigarh, Haryana

Current Affairs: Defence

1. Indian Army to conduct Exercise ‘HimVijay’ in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam
2. Singapore, India, Thailand kicked off maiden trilateral exercise ‘SITMEX’ in Port Blair
3. Multinational military exercise ‘TSENTR-2019’kicked off in Russia
4. Astra missile successfully flight tested from Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter jet
5. Indian Army conducted a massive exercise ‘Chang Thang’ in Eastern Ladakh

Current Affairs: Books

Current Affairs: Sports

1. Pankaj Advani clinched his 22nd world title for the country by winning a fourth straight final in the 150-up format at the IBSF World Billiards Championship in Mandalay, Myanmar
2. Indian shuttler Sourabh Verma won the Vietnam Open title
3. Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen clinched the men’s singles title of Belgian International Challenge
4. Indian shuttler Kaushal Dharmamer clinched the Myanmar International Series
5. India beat Bangladesh to win the U-19 Asia Cup title in Sri Lanka
6. Spain beat Argentina 95-75 to win the Basketball World Cup in Beijing
7. Vinesh Phogat becomes first Indian wrestler to qualify for 2020 Tokyo Olympics
8. Beijing unveils new ‘ice’ panda mascot for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games

Current Affairs: Obituaries

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