Weekly Current Affairs Free PDF (22nd to 28th February 2019)

Dear Readers, Here we have given the list of Important Weekly Current Affairs 4^thweek of February 2019. Candidates those who are preparing for Upcoming Bank Exams and other competitive exams can make use of it.

Current Affairs: Important Days

Current Affairs: National

1. Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry launched Operation Digital Board provide better digital education in schools

2. Prime Minister Narendra Modi dedicated the National War Memorial near India Gate in New Delhi

3. Union Minister Ashwini Kumar Choubey launches national programme to eliminate viral hepatitis

4. Railway Minister Piyush Goyal launched Rail Drishti Dashboard to keep people informed about ongoing Railway works in New Delhi

5. Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiledworld’s largest Bhagwad Gita prepared by ISKCON Temple devotees in New Delhi

Current Affairs: International

1. A small brown rat of northern Australia is the world’s first mammal to become extinct due to climate change

2. Zimbabwe banks start trading new currency RTGS dollar

Current Affairs: State

1. Telangana to give Rs. 25 lakh each to families of Pulwama martyrs

2. Odisha to provide free sanitary napkins to 17 lakh girl students
3. Union Skill Development Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Inaugurated a “Skill Saathi Youth Conclave in Bhubaneswar, Odisha
4. Odisha cabinet approved State Film Policy 2019

5. Punjab to build Jallianwala memorial with soil from its 13,000 villages

6. Maharashtra government sets up transgender welfare board
7. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis increased the bonus for paddy cultivation from 200 to Rs. 500 per quintal

8. Bihar 1st state to deploy dog squad to check liquor smuggling
9. Bihar government approved 10 % quota for weaker sections in general category

10. Madhya Pradesh government launched‘Mukhyamantri Yuva Swabhiman Yojana’

11. Tamil Nadu became the first state in the country to get a second Coast Guard district headquarters at Thoothukudi

12. Delhi government presents Rs. 60,000 crore budget for 2019-20.

13. Assam launched PRANAM Commission to protect parents of government employees

14. Andhra Pradesh gets new railway zone called ‘South Coast Railway’ in Vishakhapatnam

Current Affairs: Banking and Finance

1. Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) hiked the interest rate on employees’ provident fund by0.1% to 8.65%

2. The government approved the infusion of Rs. 48,239 crore in 12 public sector banks to help them meet regulatory capital requirements
3. Foreign direct investment during April-December 2018-19 falls 7% to USD 33.49 billion
4. ICICI Lombard, a private general insurer, ties up with AnyTimeLoan.in (ATL), a peer-to-peer lending platform, to provide insurance cover for the latter’s lenders and borrowers.

5. Syndicate Bank to bring down NPA in the current year

6. RBI to soon put into circulation Rs. 100 bank notes in new series

7. RBI removed Allahabad Bank, Corporation Bank, Dhanlaxmi Bank from PCA framework

8. Kotak Mahindra Bank has raised the limit on total shareholding of foreign institutional investors and foreign portfolio investors in the company to 45 percent from 43 percent.

9. India’s fiscal deficit during April-January stood at Rs. 7.7 lakh crore or 121.5% of the budgeted estimate of Rs 6.24 lakh crore for 2018-19
10. Bank of Baroda has tied up with Germany’s KfW Development Bank for funding of USD 113 million to refinance solar projects

11. ICICI Bank introduced super-premium credit card Emeralde

12. IDBI Bank and Life Insurance Corporation of India have signed a bancassurance agreement

13. DCB Bank launched Open Banking for gen-next banking solutions

Current Affairs: Business

1. Adani Group wins bids to operate five Airports for 50 years. The Airports are Ahmedabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Lucknow, Mangaluru and Jaipur airports

Current Affairs: Appointments

Current Affairs: Resignation

Current Affairs: Awards and Honours

1. PV Sindhu becomes first woman to co-pilot Made-In-India Tejas at Aero India 2019 in Bengaluru

2. Playwright Mahesh Elkunchwar to be honoured with META lifetime achievement award

Oscar Awards 2019

• 91st Academy Awards (Oscars) has been announced at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood& Highland Center, the USA.
• Rami Malek won the Best Actor for “Bohemian Rhapsody”, Olivia Colman won Best Actress for ‘The Favourite’ and Filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron won the Best Director award for ‘Roma’ at the 91st Academy Awards in Los Angeles.

 President Conferred ‘Gandhi Peace Prize’

Lifetime Achievement Award for G.R. Karthikeyan

• R. Karthikeyan, father of India’s first Formula One driver Narain Karthikeyan,was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement award and Raghul Rangasamy was named the Upcoming Motorsports Person of the Year and received the Raymond Gautam Singhania Trophy at the FMSCI Annual Awards in Mumbai
• FIA president Jean Todt was the chief guest and handed over the awards.

Current Affairs: Summit and Conference

1. NITI Aayog organized the conference on Future of Indian Banking

2. Health Minister JP Nadda inaugurated the 4th Global Digital Health Partnership Summit in New Delhi

Current Affairs: Science and Technology

1.  Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurated India’s first humanoid police robot KP-BOT

3. SpaceX launches world’s first private Moon lander for Israel

4. NASA launched website to check daily weather on Mars

5. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is set to launch an electronic intelligence satellite ‘Emisat’ for the DRDO in March.

Current Affairs: MOU

1. BEL signs Teaming Agreement with Hughes India for Helicopter SATCOM solutions

2. India, Sri Lanka signed MoU to establish business centre for ICT incubators in Jaffna

3.    MoUs signed between India and South Korea

• MoU on release of commemorative postal stamp on Queen Hur (Suriratna)
• MoU on Start-up Cooperation
• MoU between Korean National Police Agency and MHA on Combating Transnational Crime And Developing Police Cooperation
• MoU between Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) and Prasar Bharti on Cooperation in Broadcasting
• MoU between National Highways Authority of India and Korea Expressway Corporation

4. IIT-Madras has entered into an agreement with Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI) to address public health issues
5. FCI Aravali Gypsum and Minerals India Limited (FAGMIL) signed MoU with Himachal Pradesh Government to establish a white cement plant project

Current Affairs: Defence

1.  DAC approved acquisition of defence equipment worth Rs. 2700 crore

2. India-Bangladesh Joint Military Exercise ‘Sampriti 2019’ to be held in Bangladesh

Current Affairs: Book

1. Venkaiah Naidu Released Dr H.Chaturvedi’s Book on ‘Quality, Accreditation & Ranking in New Delhi

• Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu released Dr H Chaturvedi’s edited book titled “Quality, Accreditation & Ranking – A Silent Revolution in the Offing in Indian Higher Education” in New Delhi.
• The Book has been published by the Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt Ltd.

Current Affairs: Sports

1. Sri Lanka first ever Asian team to win Test series in South Africa
2. Manpreet Pawar named Player of the Year 2018 by Asia Hockey

3. 21-year-old Mayank Markande becomes India’s 79th T20I cricketer
4. Indian Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta finished with 7.5 points to win the Cannes International Open
5. India’s Tennis player Prajnesh Gunneswaran achieved his career-best ranking, rising three places to 94th in the latest list.
6. Former Sri Lanka captain Sanath Jayasuriya was handed a two-year ban from all forms of cricket by the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) anti-corruption code
7. Chris Gayle has become the first ever batsman to smash 500 sixes in international cricket and the second batsman to slam 300 ODI sixes

Current Affairs: Obituaries

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