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

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Current Affairs: Important Days

Date	Important days	Theme
February 24	Central Excise Day	–
February 28	National Science Day	Science for people and people for science

Current Affairs: National

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

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Minister for Human Resource Development (HRD)	Prakash Javadekar
Constituency	Madhya Pradesh, Rajya Sabha

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

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Chief of Indian Army	Bipin Rawat
Vice Chief of Indian Army	Devraj Anbu

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

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Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare	Ashwini Kumar Choubey
Constituency	Buxar, Bihar

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

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Minister of Railways	Piyush Goyal
Constituency	Rajya Sabha, Maharashtra

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

Current Affairs: International

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

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Australia Capital	Canberra
Australia Currency	Australian dollar
Australia Prime Minister	Scott Morrison

Zimbabwe banks start trading new currency RTGS dollar

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Zimbabwe Capital	Harare
Zimbabwe Currency	Dollar
Zimbabwe Prime Minister	Emmerson Mnangagwa

Current Affairs: State

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

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Telangana Capital	Hyderabad
Telangana Chief Minister	K. Chandrashekar Rao
Telangana Governor	E. S. L. Narasimhan

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

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Odisha Capital	Bhubaneswar
Odisha Chief Minister	Naveen Patnaik
Odisha Governor	Ganeshi Lal

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

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Punjab Capital	Chandigarh
Punjab Chief Minister	Amarinder Singh
Punjab Governor	V P Singh Badnore

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

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Maharashtra Capital	Mumbai
Maharashtra Chief Minister	Devendra Fadnavis
Maharashtra Governor	Chinamani Vidyasagar Rao

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

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Bihar Capital	Patna
Bihar Chief Minister	Nitish Kumar
Bihar Governor	Lalji Tandon

Madhya Pradesh government launched‘Mukhyamantri Yuva Swabhiman Yojana’

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Madhya Pradesh Capital	Bhopal
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister	Kamal Nath
Madhya Pradesh Governor	Anandiben patel

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

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Tamil Nadu Capital	Chennai
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister	E. Palanisamy
Tamil Nadu Governor	Banwarilal Purohit

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

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New Delhi Chief Minister	Arvind Kejiriwal
New Delhi Governor	Anil Baijal

Assam launched PRANAM Commission to protect parents of government employees

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Assam Capital	Dishpur
Assam Chief Minister	Sarbananda Sonowal
Assam Governor	Jagdish Mukhi

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

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Andhra Pradesh Capital	‎Amaravati
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister	N. Chandrababu Naidu
Andhra Pradesh Governor	E. S. L. Narasimhan

Current Affairs: Banking and Finance

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

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Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) Headquarters	New Delhi
Union Labour Minister	Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar

The government approved the infusion of Rs. 48,239 crore in 12 public sector banks to help them meet regulatory capital requirements
Foreign direct investment during April-December 2018-19 falls 7% to USD 33.49 billion
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.

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ICICI Lombard Headquarters	Mumbai
ICICI Lombard CEO	Bhargav Dasgupta

Syndicate Bank to bring down NPA in the current year

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Syndicate Bank Headquarter	Manipal
Syndicate Bank Tagline	Faithful Friendly Bank
Syndicate Bank CEO	Mrutyunjay Mahapatra

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

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

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.

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Kotak Mahindra Bank Headquarters	Mumbai
Kotak Mahindra Bank Tagline	Let’s make money simple
Kotak Mahindra Bank CEO	Uday Kotak

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
Bank of Baroda has tied up with Germany’s KfW Development Bank for funding of USD 113 million to refinance solar projects

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Bank of Baroda Headquarters	Vadodara
Bank of Baroda CEO	P. S. Jayakumar
Bank of Baroda Tagline	India’s International Bank

ICICI Bank introduced super-premium credit card Emeralde

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ICICI Bank Headquarters	Mumbai
ICICI Bank MD and CEO	Sandeep Bakhshi
ICICI Bank Tagline	Hum Hain Na!

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

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IDBI Bank Headquarters	Mumbai
IDBI Bank MD and CEO	B Sriram
IDBI Bank Tagline	Banking For All, Aao Sochein Bada.

DCB Bank launched Open Banking for gen-next banking solutions

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DCB Bank Headquarters	Maharashtra
DCB Bank CEO	Murali M. Natrajan
DCB Bank Tagline	We Value You

Current Affairs: Business

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

Current Affairs: Appointments

India’s Boxing Chief Ajay Singh	President of the Foundation Board for Better Boxing of AIBA
Justice DK Jain	First Ombudsman for BCCI
Tarun Sridhar ( Secretary of Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying )	Secretary, Department of Fisheries
Reema bint Bandar	First female Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States.
Indra Nooyi	Amazon board of directors
Muhammadu Buhari	Re-elected as Nigerian President

Current Affairs: Resignation

Mohammad Javad Zarif

Iranian Foreign Minister

Current Affairs: Awards and Honours

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.

Category	Winner
Best Picture	Green Book
Best Actor in a Leading Role	Rami Malek for Bohemian Rhapsody
Best Actress in a Leading Role	Olivia Colman for The Favourite
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Mahershala Ali for Green Book
Best Actress in a Supporting Role	Regina King for If Beale Street Could Talk.
Best Animated Feature	Spiderman: Into the Spider Verse
Best Cinematography	Alfonso Cuarón for Roma
Best Costume Design	Ruth Carter for Black Panther
Best Directing	Alfonso Cuarón for Roma
Best Documentary Feature	Free solo
Best Documentary Short	Rayka Zehtabchi and Melissa Berton for Period. End of Sentence
Best Film Editing	John Ottman for Bohemian Rhapsody
Best Foreign Language	Roma (Mexico)
Makeup & Hairstyling	Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe and Patricia Dehaney for Vice
Best Music Original Score	Ludwig Goransson for Black Panther
Best Music Original Song	Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt for SHALLOW from A Star Is Born
Best Production Design	Hannah Beachler (Production Design); Jay Hart (Set Decoration) for Black Panther
Best Short Film Animated	Domee Shi and Becky Neiman-Cobb for Bao
Best Short Film Live Action	Guy Nattiv and Jaime Ray Newman for Skin
Best Sound Editing	John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone for Bohemian Rhapsody
Best Sound Mixing	Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and John Casali for Bohemian Rhapsody
Best Visual Effects	Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles and J.D. Schwalm for First Man
Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)	Charlie Wachtel & David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott & Spike Lee for Blackkklansman
Best Writing (Original Screenplay)	Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly for Green Book

President Conferred ‘Gandhi Peace Prize’

YEAR	AWARDEES	LOCATED AT	FIELD
2015	Vivekananda Kendra	KANYAKUMARI, TN	Rural Development, Education and Development of natural resources.
2016	Akshaya Patra Foundation and Sulabh International	BENGALURU, KARNATAKA	1.For Providing mid-day meals to millions of children across India 2. Sulabh International for its contribution in improving the condition of sanitation in India and emancipation of manual scavengers
2017	Ekal Abhiyan Trust	KOLKATA, WEST BENGAL	For Providing Education for Rural and Tribal Children in remote areas pan India, Rural Empowerment, Gender and Social Equality
2018	Yohei Sasakawa (Goodwill Ambassador of the World Health Organisation for Leprosy Elimination)	Japan	His contribution in Leprosy Eradication in India and across the world.

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

NITI Aayog organized the conference on Future of Indian Banking

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NITI Aayog CEO	Amitabh Kant
NITI Aayog Vice Chairman	Rajiv Kumar

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

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Kerala Capital	Thiruvananthapuram
Kerala Chief Minister	Pinarayi Vijayan
Kerala Governor	P. Sadasivam

SpaceX launches world’s first private Moon lander for Israel

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Israel Capital	Jerusalem
Israel Currency	Israeli new shekel
Israel Prime Minister	Benjamin Netanyahu

NASA launched website to check daily weather on Mars

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NASA Headquarters	Washington, D.C., United States
NASA Head	Jim Bridenstine

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

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ISRO Headquarters	Bangalore
ISRO Chairman	Kailasavadivoo Sivan

Current Affairs: MOU

BEL signs Teaming Agreement with Hughes India for Helicopter SATCOM solutions

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BEL headquarters	Bengaluru, Karnataka
Chairman and Managing Director	M V Gowtama

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

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

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

IIT-Madras has entered into an agreement with Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI) to address public health issues
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

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Defence Minister	Nirmala Sitharaman
Constituency	Rajya Sabha, Karnataka

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

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Bangladesh Capital	Dhaka
Bangladesh Currency	Thaka
Bangladesh Prime Minster	Sheikh Hassina
Bangladesh President	Abdul Hamid

Current Affairs: Book

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

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

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Asian Hockey Federation Headquarters	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Asian Hockey Federation President	Abdullah of Pahang

21-year-old Mayank Markande becomes India’s 79th T20I cricketer
Indian Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta finished with 7.5 points to win the Cannes International Open
India’s Tennis player Prajnesh Gunneswaran achieved his career-best ranking, rising three places to 94th in the latest list.
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
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

Person	Field
Raj Kumar Barjatya	Bollywood film producer
Pratik Choudhury	Bengali singer and music composer
Rajendran	Tamil Nadu, sitting Lok Sabha member from AIADMK
Kodi Ramakrishna	Veteran Telugu film director

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