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

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Current Affairs: Important Days

Date	Important days	Theme
September 15	International Day of Democracy	“Participation”
September 15	Engineers Day	“Engineering For Change”
September 16	World Ozone Day	32 Years and Healing
September 17	World Patient Safety Day	“Speak Up for Patient Safety”
September 18	World Bamboo Day	–
September 18	World Water Monitoring Day	–
September 21	International Day of Peace and Non-Violence	–

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

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Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
Union Minister	Thaawar Chand Gehlot
Constituency	Rajya Sabha (Madhya Pradesh)

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

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Ministry for Human Resource Development (HRD)
Union Minister	Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’
Constituency	Haridwar, Uttarakhand

Current Affairs: International

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

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St. Vincent and Grenadines Capital	Kingstown
Israel Currency	Eastern Caribbean dollar
Israel Prime minister	Ralph E. Gonsalves

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

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Sri Lanka Capital	Colombo, Jayawardenepura Kotte
Sri Lanka Currency	Sri Lankan rupee
Sri Lanka President	Maithripala Sirisena

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

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Delhi Capital	New Delhi
Delhi CM	Arvind Kejriwal
Delhi Governor	Anil Bijal

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

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Himachal Pradesh Capital	Shimla
Himachal Pradesh CM	Jai Ram Thakur
Himachal Pradesh Governor	Bandaru Dattatreya

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

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Tripura Capital	Agartala
Tripura CM	Biplab Kumar Deb
Tripura Governor	Ramesh Bais

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

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Jammu & Kashmir Capital	Jammu & Srinagar
Jammu & Kashmir CM	Vacant
Jammu & Kashmir Governor	Satya Pal Malik

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

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Uttar Pradesh Capital	Lucknow
Uttar Pradesh CM	Yogi Adithiyanath
Uttar Pradesh Governor	Anandiben Patel

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

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Telangana Capital	Hyderabad
Telangana CM	Chandrasekhar Rao
Telangana Governor	Tamilisai Soundararajan

9. Hyderabad-Karnataka region renamed as Kalyana Karnataka

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Karnataka Capital	Bangalore
Karnataka CM	Kumarasamy
Karnataka Governor	Vajubai Rudubai Wala

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

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Maharashtra Capital	Mumbai
Maharashtra CM	Devendra Fadnavis
Maharashtra Governor	Bhagat Singh Koshyari

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

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Kerala Capital	Thiruvananthapuram
Kerala CM	Pinarayi Vijayan
Kerala Governor	Arif Mohammad Khan

Current Affairs: Banking and Finance

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

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Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India (ECGC)
Headquarters	Mumbai
Chairman &MD	Geetha Muralidhar

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)

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RBI Headquarters	Mumbai
RBI Governor	Shaktikant Das
RBI Deputy Governor	BP Kanungo, N S Vishwanathan, and Mahesh Kumar Jain

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

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UK Capital	London
UK Currency	Pound Sterling
UK PM	Boris Johnson

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

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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Secretary Generals	José Ángel Gurría
Headquarters	Paris, France

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

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Airtel Payments Bank
CEO	Anubrata Biswas
Headquarters	New Delhi

Current Affairs: Committee

Committee	Head of the committee	Other info
Committee of Experts to focus on non-personal data	Kris Gopalakrishnan (Infosys co-founder)	Formed by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
Company Law Committee (to improve ease of doing business)	Injeti Srinivas (secretary of the corporate affairs ministry)	Formed by Ministry of Corporate Affairs
Working group on Social Stock Exchanges (SSE)	Ishaat Hussain	Formed by Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)

Current Affairs: Appointments

Kapil Dev	Chancellor of Haryana Sports University
Ambati Rayudu	Hyderabad Captain for Vijay Hazare Trophy
Justice P Lakshmana Reddy	First Lokayukta of Andhra Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh High Court Chief Justice V. Ramasubramanian, Punjab and Haryana High Court Chief Justice Krishna Murari, Rajasthan High Court Chief Justice S. Ravindra Bhat Kerala High Court Chief Justice Hrishikesh Roy	Supreme Court judges

Current Affairs: Resignation

Takehiko Nakao

President of Asia Development Bank (January 16, 2020)

Current Affairs: Awards and Honours

1.	Chhaya Sharma (IPS officer)	2019 Asia Society Game Changers Award (for redefining the role of female police officers)
2.	Sheikh Hasina (Bangladesh PM)	Dr Kalam Smriti International Excellence Award 2019
3.	Anand Kumar (Super 30 founder and mathematician)	Education Excellence Award 2019 by Foundation For Excellence

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

Index	India’s Rank	Top	Least	Other info
Global Economic Freedom index	79th / 162	Hong Kong	Iraq	Released by Fraser Institute
Safe Cities Index (SCI)	Mumbai – 45 Delhi – 52	Tokyo	Yangon	Released by Economist Intelligence Unit
Best Business Schools 2019	Indian School of Business (ISB) – 7th (Hyderabad and Mohali)	IMD business school, Lausanne, Switzerland	–	By Forbes

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

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Maldives Capital	Malé
Maldives Currency	Rufiyaa
Maldives President	Ibrahim Mohamed Solih

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

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Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship
Union Minister	Mahendra Nath Pandey
Constituency	Chandauli, Uttar Pradesh

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

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DRDO –Defence Research and Development Organisation
DRDO Chairman	G Satheesh Reddy
DRDO Headquarters	New Delhi

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

Author	Book
Dhaval Kulkarni	“The Cousins Thackeray: Uddhav, Raj and the Shadow of their Senas”
Paro Anand	“Being Gandhi”

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

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China Capital	Beijing
China Currency	Renminbi, Yuan
China President	Xi Jinping

Current Affairs: Obituaries

Person	Field
Charlie Cole	Photographer
Sanjib Kumar Datta	Bollywood film editor
Sivaraman Cheriyanad	Kerala Writer
Kodela Sivaprasada Rao	Former speaker of the Andhra Pradesh
B J Khatal Patil	Former minister and senior Congress leader
Sathar	Veteran Kerala actor
Shyam Ramsay	Film director
Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali	Tunisia’s former president

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