Important Weekly Current Affairs PDF Download (9th to 16th October 2019)

Dear Readers, Here we have given the list of Important Weekly Current Affairs 2^nd week of October 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

1. The month of October is observed as the Breast Cancer Awareness Month every year

Current Affairs: National

1. Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan launched domestically made green Eco-Friendly crackers
2. Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan launched Surakshit Matritva Aashwasan (SUMAN) initiative in New Delhi
3. Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan launched Food Safety Mitra Scheme Eat Right Jacket and Eat Right Jhola On the occasion of World Food Day

4. Government sets up high-level panel headed by the revenue secretary Mr Ajay Bhushan Pandey to check money laundering activities.
5. Government has launched Mahatma Gandhi National Fellowship Programme with IIM Bangalore
6. External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar inaugurated e-Vidya Bharti and e-Arogya Bharti (tele-education and tele-medicine project) for African countries

7. 38th India Carpet Expo (15th in Varanasi) inaugurated at Sampurnan and Sanskrit University Ground in Varanasi
8. Union HRD Minister launched the PM innovative learning programme ‘DHRUV’ in Bengaluru
9. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become the most-followed world leader on Instagram with over 30 million followers
10. Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) launched the website and mobile application L2 Pro India on Intellectual Property Rights
11. India and Netherlands launched the second phase of the LOTUS-HR(Local Treatment of Urban Sewage streams for Healthy Reuseplant)
12. Air India became the first airline in the world to use a Taxibot on a A320 aircraft with passengers on board

Current Affairs: International

1. India extend a Line of Credit of over 60 million US Dollars to Comoros in the field of energy and maritime defence cooperation

2. According to World Bank report ‘South Asia Economic Focus, Making (De) Centralization Work’ Bangladesh has become the second-fastest growing economy in South Asia after Bhutan

3. Dubai Customs launched the World Logistics Passport

Current Affairs: State

1. Goa government has launched ”112” as the new integrated emergency number replacing the traditional dial number ”100”

2. 10th National Cultural Festival begins in Madhya Pradesh

Current Affairs: Banking and Finance

1. IRDAI form working group headed by T.L. Alamelu to revisit the product structure of title insurance

2. Fintech start-up Shubh Loans has received a licence from the RBI to set up a non-banking financial company
3. The RBI has mandated the creation of an internal ombudsman by non-bank issuers of prepaid payments wallets
4. RBIhas approved merger of Kerala’s district cooperative banks with Kerala State Co-operative Bank
5. RBI has rejected the proposed merger of Lakshmi Vilas Bank with Indiabulls Housing Finance

6. RBI has imposed a monetary penalty of Rs. 1 crore on Lakshmi Vilas Bank and Rs. 75 lakh on Syndicate Bank for violating asset classification and fraud detection norms

7. India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) lowered its GDP growth forecast to 6.1% for FY20
8. Moody’s cuts India’s GDP growth forecast to 5.8% from 6.2% for FY20
9. Life Insurance Council announced a mass media campaign with the slogan ‘Sabse Pehle Life Insurance’
10. Baroda Asset Management India and BNP Paribas Asset Management India (BNPP AM) will merge their mutual fund business
11. India and Asian Development Bank(ADB) have signed 190 million dollar loan agreement for improving road connectivity in Rajasthan

12. ICICI Bank has launched a new Fixed Deposit (FD) scheme – FD Health

Current Affairs: Business

1. Reliance Nippon Life Asset Management Company (AMC) renamed as Nippon India Mutual Fund

Current Affairs: Appointments

Current Affairs: Awards and Honours

UNESCO heritage awards complete list of winners

Award of Distinction

• Keyuan Garden, Suzhou, China
• Vikram Sarabhai Library, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India
• Nelson School of Music, Nelson, New Zealand

 Award of Merit

• Tseto Goenpa, Paro, Bhutan
• Guyue Bridge, Chi’an Town, Zhejiang, China
• Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue, Mumbai, India
• Our Lady of Glory Church, Mumbai, India
• Lyttelton Timeball Station, Christchurch, New Zealand

Honourable Mention

• The 5s Classroom, Preshil The Margaret Lyttle Memorial School, Kew, Australia
• Westpac Long Gallery, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia
• Liddell Bros. Packing Plant, Wuhan, China
• Flora Fountain, Mumbai, India

New Design in Heritage Contexts

• Joan Sutherland Theatre Passageway and Lift, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia
• Dry Pit Latrine in Jiaxian Ancient Jujube Garden, Nihegou Village, Shaanxi, China
• The Mills, Hong Kong SAR, China

Current Affairs: Summit and Conference

1. 39th World Congress of Poets (WCP) inaugurated at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar
2. First-ever India International Cooperatives Trade Fair (IICTF) held at Pragati Maidan in Delhi
3. 2nd India-China Informal Summit held in Mahabalipuram, TamilNadu
4. Piyush Goyal to attend 9th RCEP Intersessional Ministerial Meeting in Thailand
5. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the 41st DRDO Directors Conference in New Delhi

Current Affairs: Ranking

Current Affairs: MOU

1. Stock exchange BSE joins hands with Ficci to enhance MSME and start-up environment
2. Energy Efficiency Services (EESL) and National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) have entered into a joint venture for the deployment of smart meters across India.
3. India and Sierra Leone signed six agreements including extending a credit line of 30 million US Dollars for rice cultivation

4. Indian Highways Management Company Ltd (IHMCL) and Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) signed an MOU to link FASTag with GST e-way bill system

Current Affairs: Science and Technology

1. Saturn has overtaken Jupiter as the planet with the most moons

Current Affairs: Books

Current Affairs: Defence

1. First India specific Rafale multi-role combat aircraft was handed over to Defence Minister Rajnath Singh at a ceremony in Bordeaux, France
2. Joint military exercise between India and Japan ‘Dharma Guardian’ will be held at the Counter-Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School Vairengte in Mizoram
3. 2^nd edition of Coordinated Patrol (CORPAT) of the navies of India and Bangladesh commenced in Northern Bay of Bengal
4. India handed over the second pair of Mi-24V helicopters to war-torn Afghanistan

Current Affairs: Sports

1. US gymnastics star Simone Biles clinched a record-extending 15th world championship gold medal
2. Germany’s World Cup winner Bastian Schweinsteiger has announced his retirement from football
3. Indian sprinter Nirmala Sheroen has been banned for 4 years by the Athletics Integrity Unit
4. Six-time champion M C Mary Kom settled for a bronze medal in the World Women’s Boxing Championships
5. Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen clinched his maiden BWF World Tour title by winning the Dutch Open men’s singles title
6. Former India captain Sourav Ganguly is all set to be named the new president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
7. Cricket West Indies (CWI) has appointed former West Indies player Phil Simmons as the new head coach of the men’s team
8. International Cricket Council (ICC) has changed the super over rule for all its major events

9. Valtteri Bottas has won the Formula One Japanese Grand Prix2019

Current Affairs: Obituaries

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