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

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Current Affairs: Important Days

Date	Important days	Theme
October 7 (first Monday of October)	World Habitat Day	Frontier Technologies as an innovative tool to transform waste to wealth
October 7	World Cotton Day	–
October 9	World Post Day	–
October 10	World Mental Health Day	–
October 11	International Day of the Girl Child	“GirlForce: Unscripted and Unstoppable”
October 11	World Obesity Day	“It’s time to End Weight Stigma!”
October 11 (second Friday in October)	World Egg Day	Eat your egg today and every day
October 12	World Migratory Bird Day (WMBD)	“Protect Birds: Be the Solution to Plastic Pollution.”
October 12	World Arthritis Day (WAD)	Time2Work.
October 14	World Standards Day	Video Standards Create a Global Stage
October 16	World Food Day	Our Actions Are Our Future. Healthy Diets For A #ZEROHUNGER WORLD

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

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Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Union Minister	Harsh Vardhan
Constituency	Chandni Chowk, Delhi

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

Ministry of External Affairs
Union Minister	S Jaishankar
Constituency	Rajya Sabha (Gujarat)

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

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Air India Headquarters	New Delhi
Air India Chairman & MD	Ashwani Lohani

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

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Comoros Capital	Moroni
Comoros Currency	Comorian franc
Comoros President	Azali Bokassa Assoumani

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

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World Bank
Headquarters	Washington, D.C., United States
President	David Malpass

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”

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Goa Capital	Panaji
Goa CM	Pramod Sawant
Goa Governor	Mridula Sinha

2. 10th National Cultural Festival begins in Madhya Pradesh

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Madhya Pradesh Capital	Bhopal
Madhya Pradesh CM	Kamal Nath
Madhya Pradesh Governor	Lal Ji Tandon

Current Affairs: Banking and Finance

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

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IRDAI- Regulatory and Development Authority of India
Chairperson	Subhash Chandra Khuntia
IRDAI Headquarters	Hyderabad

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

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Lakshmi Vilas Bank MD & CEO	–
Lakshmi Vilas Bank Headquarters	Chennai
Lakshmi Vilas Bank Tagline	The changing face of prosperity.

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

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

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

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)
ADB President	Takehiko Nakao
ADB Headquarters	Mandaluyong, Philippines

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

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

Current Affairs: Business

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

Current Affairs: Appointments

Antonio Costa	Prime Minister of Portugal
K Satish Reddy	President of the Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (IPA) for 2019-2021
Kishan Dan Dewal	Next Ambassador of India to Georgia
Kais Saied	Tunisia’s next president
Anoop Kumar Mendiratta	Union Law Secretary (Secretary, Legal Affairs)

Current Affairs: Awards and Honours

1.    James Peebles (half of the 9mn Swedishkronor prize for his theoretical discoveries about the evolution of the universe) 2.    Michel Mayorand Didier Queloz (share the other half of the prize for their discovery of the first planet beyond our solar system)	2019 Nobel Prize for physics
John B Goodenough M Stanley Whittingham Akira Yoshino	2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry (for the development of lithium-ion batteries)
Asha Bhosle	Honorary doctorate by the University of Salford in Greater Manchester, England
Olga Tokarczuk (Polish writer)	2018 Nobel Prizes for literature (for a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life)
Peter Handke (Austria)	2019 Nobel Prizes for literature (“for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience)
Chandi Prasad Bhatt	Indira Gandhi award for national integration for the years 2017 and 2018
Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer	2019 Nobel Economics Prize for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty
Priyadarshan ( director and producer)	Madhya Pradesh government’s National Kishore Kumar Samman for 2018-19
Margaret Atwood ( for her book ‘The Testaments’) Bernardine Evaristo ( for ‘Girl, Woman, Other’)	2019 Booker Prize (prize money £50,000)

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

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

Current Affairs: Ranking

Index	India’s Rank	Top	Least	Other info
Global Competitiveness Index	68th/ 141	1. Singapore 2. US		103 indicators
Global Hunger Index	102 / 117	Seventeen countriess hared the top rank with GHI scores less than five	Central African Republic	Four indicators 1.undernourishment 2. child stunting 3. child wasting (weight for age) 4. child mortality

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

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Sierra Leone Capital	Freetown
Sierra Leone Currency	Sierra Leonean leone
Sierra Leone President	Julius Maada Bio

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

Author	Book
Michelle Obama	“Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice”
Siddhartha Sarma	‘Carpenters and Kings: Western Christianity and the Idea of India’

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

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Afghanistan Capital	Kabul
Afghanistan Currency	Afghani
Afghanistan President	Ashraf Ghani

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

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ICC Headquarters	Dubai, United Arab Emirates
ICC Chairperson	Shashank Manohar
ICC CEO	Manu Sawhney

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

Current Affairs: Obituaries

Person	Field
Alexei Leonov	Cosmonaut (The first person to perform a spacewalk)

 

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