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• 84th Foundation Day of Odisha = 1st April

✓ Odisha Day is also known as “Utkal Divas”
• Rajasthan Day = 30th March
• World Autism Awareness Day = 2nd April

✓ Theme = 'Assistive Technologies, Active Participation'
• “Prevention of Blindness Week” = 1st to 7th April 2019

✓ To raise awareness regarding the precautions to be taken to prevent blindness
• International Mine Awareness Day (IMAD) = 4th April

✓ Theme = "United Nations Promotes SDGs – Safe Ground – Safe Home"
• National Maritime day = 5th April

✓ Theme = “Indian Ocean- An Ocean of Opportunity”
• United Nations’ (UN) International day of Sport for Development and Peace (IDSDP) =
6th April
• World Health Day = 7th April

✓ Theme = 'Universal health coverage (UHC): Everyone, Everywhere'
• National Handloom week = 7th April to 14th April

✓ Book = ‘The Indian textile Sourcebook’ = Launched
✓ Authored by = Avalon Fotheringham
✓ Published by = Thames and Hudson
✓ National handloom day = 7th August
• International Romani Day = 8th April
• 54th Valour Day of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) = 9th April
• World Homoeopathy Day = 10th April

✓ Theme = “Linking Education and Clinical Practice with Research: Advancing Scientific
Collaborations”
✓ World Homeopathic Awareness Week = 10th to 16th April
• National Safe Motherhood Day (NSMD) = 11th April

✓ Theme = “Midwives for Mothers”
• International Day of Human Space Flight = 12th April
• World Aviation and Cosmonautics Day = 12th April
• 100th anniversary of Jallianwallah Bagh Massacre also known as the Amritsar

massacre = 13th April 2019
• World Allergy Week 2019 = 7th to 13th April, 2019

✓ Theme = “The Global Problem of Food Allergy“
• Rajouri Day = 13th April

✓ The Year 2019 is being celebrated as the ‘Year of Next of Kin’ to help families of
martyrs.
• World Haemophilia Day = 17th April

✓ Theme = ‘Outreach and Identification’
• World Heritage Day or International Day for Monuments and Sites = 18th April
✓ Theme = 'Rural Landscapes'
• World Liver Day = 19th April
• Good Friday also known as Holy Friday or Black Friday = 19th April
• World Creativity And Innovation Day = 21st April
• Secretary’s day or Admin Day = 21st April
• National Civil Service Day = 21st April
• Earth Day = 22nd April

✓ Theme = 'Protect Our Species'
• World Book Day or World Book and Copyright Day = 23rd April
✓ Slogan = “Read – you are in Sharjah”
• National Fire Service Week = 14th April to 20th April

✓ Theme = “Fire Prevention is better than Fire Fighting”
• National Panchayati Raj Day = 24th April
• World Day for Animals in Laboratories also known as World Lab Animal Day = 24th April
✓ The adjoining week is known as “World Week for Animals in Laboratories”(WWAIL)
which is observed from April 21-28
• International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace = 24th April
• World Malaria Day = 25th April

✓ Theme = “Zero malaria starts with me”
• World Immunization Week 2019 = 24th-30th Aril

✓ Theme = ‘Protected Together: Vaccines Work’
• World Intellectual Property Day = 26th April

✓ Theme = “Reach Gold-Intellectual Property (IP) And Sports“
• World Veterinary Day = 27th April
✓ Theme = ‘Value of Vaccination’
• World Day for Safety and Health at Work (WDSHW) = 28th April
✓ Theme = “Safety and Health and the Future of Work”
• International Dance Day = 29th April

✓ Theme = “Dance and Spirituality”
• International Jazz Day = 30th April
• General secretary of the newly formed, All India Federation of PTI Employees’
Unions (AIFPTIEU) = M S Yadav
• High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Seychelles = Dalbir Singh Suhag

✓ Replaced = Ausaf Sayeed
• Uber’s Asia-Pacific region (APAC) Head = Amit Jain = Resigned

✓ Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty will take over the additional charge of APAC
• Vice Chief of Indian Air Force = Air Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria
✓ Air Marshal Anil Khosla = Retires
• Book = “Chequered Brilliance: The Many Lives of V K Krishna Menon” = A biography of

Indian nationalist, diplomat, and politician V K Krishna Menon = Released
✓ Written by = Former union minister and writer Jairam Ramesh
• PM of Palestine = Mohammed Ishtayeh

✓ President = Mahmoud Abbas
• Chairman of India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA) = Jitendra

Chaddah
✓ Replaced = Anil Kumar Muniswamy
• India MD of Twitter = Manish Maheshwari
• Former Chief Election Commissioner of India (ECI), and ex-civil aviation secretary =
Nasim Zaidi has resigned from the post of non-executive and non-independent director of Jet
Airways
• Exclusive Corporate Ambassador to the Indian Business Community of Ras Al

Khaimah Economic Zone (RAKEZ) in Dubai = Ravi Shastri
• Next Managing Director of McAfee India = Sanjay Manohar

✓ Replaced = Venkat Krishnapur
• Bengali New Year also known as Pahela Baishakh was celebrated in West Bengal on =
15th April
• 72nd Himachal Day = 15th April
• High Commissioner of India to the Republic of South Africa = Jaideep Sarkar

✓ Replaced = Ruchi Ghanashyam
• Ambassador of India to the Republic of Lebanon = Dr.Suhel Ajaz khan
• Ukrainian Presidential Election won by = Volodymyr Zelenskiy
✓ Ukraine = Kiev = hryvnia
• Mali’s Prime Minister = Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga = Resigned
• 1st Indian female scientist to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in
the UK fellowship's 358-year-history = Gagandeep Kang
• Book = ‘Khooni Vaisakhi’ = Launched

✓ A book containing English translation of the 100 year old classic Punjabi poem about
Jallianwala Bagh massacre has been released in Abu Dhabi
✓ It was translated by Mr. Suri whose grandfather, revolutionary poet and novelist Nanak
Singh
• Chief People Officer (CPO) of PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) India = Padmaja

Alaganandan
• President of Palestine = Mahmoud Abbas

✓ Prime Minister = Mohammed Ishtayeh
• ‘Ashakiranam’ = An autobiography of noted social worker Sankurathri Chandrasekhar

= Released
✓ Released by = Religious scholar Chaganti Koteswara Rao
• Book = “Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson’s Journal” = Launched

✓ Authored by = Jeff Kinney
• Brand ambassador of Fantasy 11, Gaming startup = Murali Kartik
• Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) of National Buildings Construction

Corporation (NBCC) = Shiv Das Meena
• President of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) – India = Vikramjit Singh Sahney
• Chief coach of the India men's hockey team = Graham Reid
• Chief Justice of Bombay high Court = Justice Pradeep Nandrajog
• 1st Woman Chairman & Managing Director of Pawan Hans Ltd = Usha Padhee
• Managing Director of Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) = CS Rajan

✓ Executive Vice-Chairman = Vineet Nayyar
• “Sahulat” = Mobile App = launched to facilitate and to encourage the elder voters for
participating in the elections in = Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district
• Book = “Kundan: Saigal’s Life & Music” = Released

✓ Authored by = Sharad Dutt
• Industry head of Google India = Mayoori Kango
• Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Royal Enfield = Vinod K. Dasari
• Managing Director of Life Insurance Corporation of India = Vipin Anand

✓ Chairman of LIC = MR Kumar
• High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Cameroon = Shri Rakesh Malhotra

✓ Cameroon = Yaounde = franc
• Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika = Resigned

✓ Algeria = Algiers = Dinar
• Head of the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar = Nicholas Koumjian of

the United States
• Government Sets Up Tribunal = headed by Justice Chander Shekhar = To Review Ban

Imposed On Jamaat-e-Islami, JKLF
• Books = “#Modi Again” and “Saffron Swords – Centuries of Indic Resistance to

Invaders” Launched
✓ Launched by = Garuda Prakashan Private Limited
✓ “#Modi Again: Why Modi is right for India, An Ex-Communist’s Manifesto” authored by
= Aabhas Maldahiyar = states the reasons about how Narendra Modi is right for India
✓ “Saffron Swords: Centuries of Indic Resistance to Invaders” written by = Manoshi Sinha

Rawal = is a book on 52 unsung warriors of India from last 1300 years
• New commander-in-chief Strategic Forces Command = Air Marshal Navkaranjit

Singh Dhillon
• World’s first district with 5G coverage and a broadband gigabit network = China’s
Shanghai
• Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Fleet = Rear Admiral Suraj Berry
• 1st Female President Of Slovakia = Zuzana Caputova

✓ Slovakia = Bratislava = Euro
• Ambassador of Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)’s ‘Share Her

Journey’ campaign = Assam filmmaker Rima Das
• Prime Minister of Guinea, Dr Ibrahima Kassory Fofana arrived in = New Delhi

✓ Guinea = Conarky = franc
✓ President = Alpha Conde
• First Inductee of Comic-On Museum’s Character Hall of Fame,in a ceremony at

50th Annual Comic-Con International in San Diego, USA = Batman
• India’s ‘Hump-backed mahseer’ , freshwater fish added in “Critically Endangered” list

by = International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species
• 'First' Indian Shipyard To Deliver 100 Warships = Garden Reach Ship Builders and
Engineers Ltd (GRSE)
• ‘Sankalp’ = A Mobile App = Has been developed by the Assam’s Bongaigaon district
administration team with the help of NIC (National Informatics Centre) to encourage the first
time voters
• EMISAT- a Defence Intelligence Satellite has been launched by = Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) in its 47th Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) mission, along with 28
other customer satellites, onboard the advanced PSLV-C45 Rocket
✓ PSLV C45 was launched from ISRO's Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota
✓ ISRO HQ = Bengaluru
✓ Established in = 1969
✓ ISRO Director = K. Sivan
• Telangana ranks number 1 in = e-Learning training program of the Department of Personnel

and Training (DoPT), Government India
• Kandhamal Haldi (turmeric) = Received the Geographical Indications (GI) tag from
Intellectual Property India
✓ It is Odisha’s locally grown turmeric in its Kandhamal district
• Japan’s government has unveiled an New Imperial Era = “Reiwa” or “pursuing

harmony” for soon-to-be Emperor Naruhito
✓ The new era to begin on May 1 will succeed the “Heisei” era (1989-2019) of Emperor
Akihito
• India + Chile = 3 MoUs = In the fields of mining, culture andempowerment of persons with
disabilities
• State of Global Air 2019 report = over 1.2 million people died in India due to air pollution in
2017
• Indian Army Builds Longest Suspension Bridge = ‘Matiri Bridge’ = Over River Indus In =
Leh-Ladakh
✓ The 260-feet long suspension bridge was built by the combat engineers belonging to
the Sahas aur Yogyata regiment of Indian Army’s Fire & Fury Corps
• John drinks Canada Gairdner Global Health award with prize money of $100,000 by
The Gairdner Foundation won by = Vikram patel, a psychiatrist and professor of global
health at Harvard Medical school
• World's first fully-fledged 5G mobile networks launched by = South Korea

✓ South Korea = Seoul = won
• NuGen Mobility Summit, 2019 will be held at = Manesar, NCR = from 27th to 29th
November 2019
✓ Will be organized by = International Centre for Automotive Technology (ICAT)
• Global Report on Food Crises 2019 = Around 113 million people across 53 countries faced
severe huger in 2018
✓ The report prepared by 15 leading global and regional organizations was led by UN
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP)
and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
✓ It was released by Food Security Information Network(FSIN).
• 1st Black-Woman Mayor of Chicago = Lori Lightfoot
• Zayed Medal won by = PM Narendra Modi = For giving a "big boost' to bilateral strategic
ties
✓ Given by = UAE
✓ President of the UAE = Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
✓ UAE = Abu Dhabi = Dirham
• Prestigious John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award 2019 won by = Vikram
Patel
• United States has approved the sale of 24 multi-mission Lockheed Martin-built MH-60
‘Romeo’ Seahawk helicopters to India = At a cost of $2.6 billion
• India’s first carbon-positive settlement = Phayeng, a scheduled caste village of the

Chakpa community in Imphal West district of Manipur
• Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) + Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-D) = MoU =
to collaborate in the field of standardisation and conformity assessment
✓ Director General of BIS = Surina Rajan
✓ Formation = 1 April 1987
✓ BIS is the National Standard Body of India established under the BIS Act 2016
✓ HQ = New Delhi
• 7th Foreign Office consultations between India and Italy were held in = New Delhi
✓ Italy = Rome = Euro
• BSE & India International Exchange (India INX) + Moscow Exchange (MOEX) = MoU =
To connect investor community and companies in both countries besides allowing a capital
formation platform
✓ BSE MD & CEO = Ashishkumar Chauhan
✓ MOEX CEO = Alexander Afanasiev
• Indian Astrologer Dr. Sohini Sastri = Honoured with “D. Litt in Astrology” (Doctor of
Letters) by = National American University, USA at an event held in Mumbai at Classique
Club
✓ For her immense knowledge and contribution towards Astrology
• Shah Rukh Khan was conferred with an honorary doctorate in Philanthropy by the
= University of Law, London
• Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court = Justice Thottathil Bhaskaran Nair Radhakrishnan
✓ Replaced = Biswanath Somadde
• Ambassador of India to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan = Shri Anwar Haleem

✓ Jordan = Amman = Dinar
• National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) + ROADIS (owned by Public Sector
Pension Investment board abbreviated as PSP investment) = jointly set up a platform for
investing up to $2 billion in road projects in India
• ‘Global Slag Company of the Year’ Award won by = Tata Steel = at the 14th Global Slag
Conference and Exhibition 2019
✓ Held in = Aachen, Germany
✓ Chairman of TATA Steels = Mr Ratan Naval Tata
• ‘Jashn-e-Ittihaad’ = A music and poetry festival = held at the Jamia Milia Islamia central
university in = New Delhi
✓ To spread awareness about unity amongst the youth
• Chennai Central railway station has been renamed by the = Tamil Nadu State
Government as = Puratchi Thalaivar Dr MG Ramachandran Central Railway Station =
✓ After its late Chief Minister and founder of the Chennai’s ruling govt All India Anna
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), Dr. MG Ramachandran
• Presidential Award of Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman 2019 with prize money of INR
1,00,000 and a certificate won by = Dr. Gyanaditya Shakya
• Biannual Army Commanders’ Conference began in = New Delhi

✓ For the planning and execution process of the Indian Army
• 1st ever railway station in the Indian Railways to get an ISO (International Organisation
for Standardisation) certification from the National Green Tribunal (NGT) = Guwahati
Railway Station
• Morocco + US = Joint Military Exercise 'African Lion 2019' Starts In = Morocco

✓ Morocco = Rabat = Dirham
• 3-day National Cardiology Conference 2019 has been started at = Sanjay Gandhi Post
Graduate Institute of medical sciences in = Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
• India’s first indigenously designed and developed Dhanush artillery gun was inducted
in the = Indian Army during a ceremony held at = Ordnance Factory in Jabalpur, MP
Chief of Army Staff of Indian Army = General Bipin Rawat
• National ranking of higher institutes by the Ministry of Human Resources Development

(HRD) has been released by = President Ram Nath Kovind in = New Delhi
Rankings =
✓ Overall = Indian Institute of Technology Madras
✓ University = Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
✓ Engineering = Indian Institute of Technology Madras
✓ College = Miranda House, Delhi
✓ Management = Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
✓ Pharmacy = Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi
✓ Law = National Law School of India University, Bengaluru
✓ Architecture = Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
✓ Medical = All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
• India + Singapore = Joint Military Exercise ‘Bold Kurukshetra–2019’ = participate in a
exercise in Babina Cantonment in Jhansi
• US Declares Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) As = Foreign Terrorist Organisation

✓ Iran = Tehran = rial
• 1st city in the world to implement a Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) for 24×7 hours a
week, inside which vehicles will have to meet tough emissions standards = London
• Prime Minister of Israel = Benjamin Netanyahu

✓ Israel = Jerusalem = Shekel
• 1st Chief Justice of new Andhra Pradesh High Court at Amaravati = Justice Vikram Nath
• Emami Limited has named Varun Dhawan as = Navratna Cool brand ambassador
• Prime Minister of Haiti = Jean Michel Lapin

✓ President = Jovenel Moise
✓ Haiti Capital = Port-au-Prince
✓ Currency = Haitian gourde
• Algeria’s first new president in 20 years = Abdelkader Bensalah
• India + Singapore = joint military exercise ‘Bold Kurukshetra–2019’ Started in =

Jhansi’s Babina Cantonment, Uttar Pradesh
✓ To strengthen cooperation against terrorism, develop defence technology and boost
maritime security
• 1st city in the world to implement a 24-hour, seven day a week Ultra Low Emission
Zone (ULEZ) = London (capital city of the UK)
✓ Prime Minister of UK = Theresa May
• National Green Tribunal (NGT) has imposed a penalty of Rs 100 crore on the = Andhra
Pradesh government = For illegal sand mining in the state
• 1st commercial drone delivery businesses in Australia has been launched by = Google
parent Alphabet
✓ Google parent Alphabet has beaten Amazon
• ‘CRPF Veer Parivar’ app has been launched by = President Ram Nath Kovind = For
families of CRPF personnel killed in the line of duty
• 17th Middle East and North Africa (MENA) World Economic Forum Held in = Jordan
✓ World Economic Forum HQ = Geneva, Switzerland
Chairman = Mr. Klaus Schwab
• ‘Public Water Agency of the Year’ award by Global Water Intelligence at the Global
Water Summit won by = National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) or Namami Gange
✓ Held in = London
• “Next Billion Edtech Prize 2019” won by = ‘Dost Education’, which is India’s education
technology startup
✓ For its ability to empower parents to take charge of their child’s early education
✓ The prize ‘The Next Billion Edtech Prize 2019’ is run by UK-based Varkey Foundation
• A new state of matter which can be solid and liquid at the same time = has been
discovered by scientists of the = University of Edinburgh
✓ This distinct state of matter named as the “chain-melted state”
• Astronomers have taken the first-ever image of a black hole = which is located in a
distant galaxy = 'Messier 87' (M87)
✓ Captured by = 'Event Horizon Telescope'
• Government Retains Interest Rate For General Provident Fund at = 8% for the first
quarter of the current financial year
• Secretary, Defence Finance = Gargi Kaul

✓ Special Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat = Sumeet Jerath
✓ Director General (Shipping), Ministry of Shipping = Amitabh Kumar
✓ Additional Secretary & Financial Advisor, Ministry of Culture = Rajesh Kumar
Chaturvedi
✓ Additional Secretary and Financial Advisor, Ministry of External Affairs = Raj Kumar
Goyal
✓ Additional Secretary, Department of Revenue = Anil Kumar Jha
✓ Additional Secretary, Ministry of Textiles = Prem Kumar Kataria
• A booklet of the = ‘Selected speeches of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar in the Constituent

Assembly’ has been released by = Prasar Bharati Chairman, A Surya Prakash
✓ To mark 128th birth anniversary of Dr B R Ambedkar (April 14), at an event in New
Delhi.
• Freedom of the City of London won by = Chairman and Managing Director of

the General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC), Alice G. Vaidyan
✓ For the recognition of her work to promote insurance ties between India and the UK
• Saraswati Samman, 2018 given to = K Siva Reddy = with a cash prize of 15 lakh rupees for
his collection of poetry titled ‘Pakkaki Ottigilite’
• According to ‘Political Leaders Position and Action on Air Quality in India 2014-2019’
report, released by Climate Trends = Kanpur (in Uttar Pradesh) is the most polluted city in
the world and is positioned 1 on the list
✓ 2nd = Faridabad, Haryana
✓ 3rd = Varanasi, UP
✓ 6th = Delhi
• “Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle” – the highest state decoration of Russia Given to
= Prime Minister Narendra Modi
✓ It is for exceptional services in promoting special and privileged strategic partnership
between the two countries
✓ This is the 7th international award that PM Modi has been honoured with
• Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Nobel Award by International Human Rights Council at Hotel
Sea Princess Juhu Mumbai won by = Sudhanshu Kumar, the founder of Digital Sukoon
• World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) awards of the United Nations (UN)
won by = “Utkarsh Bangla” (Skill training of the youth) and “Sabooj Sathi” (cycles for
students) = The schemes under the West Bengal government
• Guest of Honour country at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, ADIBF 2019 = India
✓ Announced by = UAE
✓ Director of ADIBF = Abdullah Majed Al Ali
• SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy = The most powerful operational rocket in the world has launched
its first commercial mission from = Florida
• 'AIMA Managing India Award 2019 for outstanding PSU of the year' Won by = Indian Oil
Corporation (IOC)
✓ Chairman, Indian Oil = Sanjiv Singh
• 21st ASEAN-India Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) was held at = New Delhi
✓ To improve the connectivity and strengthen the cooperation in the maritime sector
between Indian and the ASEAN countries
• 1st women vice-chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia University (JMI) = Professor Najma
Akhtar
• India’s first-of-its-kind ‘Voter Park’ has been Inaugurated in = Vikas Sadan building
complex, Gurugram
✓ Inaugurated by = Haryana Chief Electoral Officer = Rajeev Ranjan
✓ To raise voter awareness by instructing people about the electoral process
• Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) + Central Marine Fisheries Research

Institute (CMFRI) = Partnership = To map, validate and protect smaller wetlands in the
coastal region and preserve them through coastal livelihood programmes
• World Press Photo award 2019 won by = An image of a little girl crying, titled “Crying Girl
on the Border”, as she and her mother have been taken into custody by US border officials in
Texas
✓ Veteran Getty photographer John Moore took the picture in the Rio Grande Valley on
12th June 2018
• Lifetime Achievement Award 2019 For Contributions In Life Sciences, Aerospace and
Aeronautics won by = Dr A K Singh
✓ Award won During 4th APJ Abdul Kalam Innovation Conclave at Chandigarh
University, Mohali
• 2019 Citi Journalistic Excellence Award won by = Mint’s Teena Thacker
• India’s first exotic Bird Park ‘EsselWorld Bird Park’ = Launched by = EsselWorld Leisure
Pvt. Ltd., the family entertainment arm of the $6-billion Essel Group in Mumbai
• Guest of Honour Country at Abu Dhabi International Book Fair (ADIBF) 2019 = India
✓ UAE selected India as the Guest of Honour country at the Abu Dhabi International
Book Fair, ADIBF 2019, to attract a significant increase in the number of visitors with
various events and activities
• Rongali Bihu festival also known as ‘Bohaag Bihu’ Celebrated in = Assam
• UNESCO/Guillermo Cano Press Freedom Prize 2019 won by = Reuters journalists, Kyaw
Soe Oo and Wa Lone
✓ For recognizing their commitment, courage and resistance to freedom of expression.
• 4th Resilient Cities Asia-Pacific Congress 2019 Started in = New Delhi

✓ Organised by = International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) and
co-hosted by South Delhi Municipal Corporation
• World’s longest railway station name by an alphabet = Chennai Central Railway station in
Tamil Nadu or Puratchi Thalaivar Dr. M.G. Ramachandran Central Railway Station
• World’s Foremost Artificial Intelligence Summit will be hosted by = UAE

✓ To empower global dialogue on the future of government, business and society
✓ The inaugural ‘AI Everything’, AIE will take place at the Dubai World Trade Centre
• Tata Trusts + Microsoft India = MoU = for jointly rejuvenating the handloom clusters in the
eastern and north-eastern parts of India in order to build a digitally-inclusive society
• “Marine Lizard” = world’s first armed amphibious drone boat = which is guided by
China’s BeiDou Navigation Satellite System has been successfully tested by China
• “Roc” = world’s largest airplane a Strato launch’s behemoth = made its first test flight in
California, over the Mojave Desert
• 'My Circle' app has been launched by = Bharti Airtel and the FICCI Ladies
Organisation (FLO, the women business wing of apex trade body FICCI)
✓ It is Women’s Safety App to empower women in the event of any distress or panic
situation
• Project “Kannamma “ = Initiative by Rotary Club of Madras North
✓ To provide biodegradable sanitary napkins under the brand name, “Aavaram” to the girl
students in government schools of = Tamil Nadu
• India has successfully test-fired first indigenously designed and developed long-range
sub-sonic cruise missile = 'Nirbhay' = from a test range in = Odisha
• 8th edition of Home Expo India 2019 = opened at India Expo Centre and Mart, Greater
Noida
✓ The three-day exhibition has been organized by the Export Promotion Council for
Handicrafts (EPCH)
• Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Assocham) Secretary-General =

Uday Kumar Varma = Resigned
✓ ASSICHAM Headquarter = New Delhi
✓ Foundation = 1921
✓ President = Balkrishan Goenka
• Brand ambassador of Indo-American Arts Council (IAAC) = Vikas Khanna
• Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) + Welingkar Institute of Management

Development and Research = Signed an Agreement = in order to support startups engaged
in the export sector
• 1st edition of Naval Commanders’ Conference held in = New Delhi
• London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has announced = the creation
of the Amartya Sen Chair in Inequality Studies = named in honour of the India-born
economist, philosopher, and Nobel laureate, who was Professor of Economics at LSE from
1971-82
✓ Called the “Amartya Sen Chair in Inequality Studies,” = its holder will also serve as
Director of the LSE International Inequalities Institute = which facilitates
interdisciplinary work on subjects related to inequality
• ‘Veera’ = Indian Coast Guard vessel Veera = commissioned by General Bipin Rawat, Chief
of Army Staff = in a ceremony organised at Eastern Naval Command in Vishakhapatnam,
Andhra Pradesh
• Name of a village in Madhya Pradesh has been changed from = ‘Durjanpur‘ to ‘Shivdham’
• Pulitzer Prizes for their separate investigations of President Donald Trump and his
family won by = The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal
✓ The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online
journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.
✓ Complete list of 2019 Pulitzer Prize winners:
Public service Staff of the South Florida Sun Sentinel
Carlos Lozada of The Washington
Criticism
Post
Editorial writing Brent Staples of the New York Times
Fiction “The Overstory” by Richard Powers
Drama “Fairview” by Jackie Sibblies Drury
“Frederick Douglass” by David W.
History
Blight
“The New Negro” by Jeffrey C.
Biography or autobiography
Stewart
Poetry “Be With” by Forrest Gander
“Amity and Prosperity” by Eliza
General nonfiction
Griswold
Music “p r i s m” by Ellen Reid
Special Citation Aretha Franklin
• US Department of Interior inducted its very first Indian = Delhi-based Sanjay Kumar, CEO
of Geospatial Media and Communications and Secretary General of World Geospatial
Industry Council (WGIC) = To its prestigious National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC)
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has chosen an Indian

American student to have its CubeSat which is a mini research satellite to be sent to
space to detect cosmic rays = Keshav Raghvan
✓ NASA HQ = Washington, D.C., United States
✓ Founder = Dwight D. Eisenhower
✓ Formation = July 29, 1958
• NASA has awarded 3 teams of Indian students = in its 25th Annual Human Exploration
Rover challenge 2019 at = the US Space and Rocket Centre in = Huntsville, Alabama
✓ “AIAA Neil Armstrong Best Design Award” won by = Team from KIET Group of
Institutions in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
✓ “STEM Engagement Award” won by = Team from Lovely Professional University in
Phagwara, Punjab
✓ “Frank Joe Sexton Memorial Pit Crew Award” won by = The Mukesh Patel School of
Technology Management and Engineering, Mumbai, Maharashtra
• 2nd edition of the bilateral maritime exercise = between the Indian Navy and Vietnam
Peoples’ Navy, (IN – VPN BILAT EX) Held at/ off Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam
• Nepal and Sri Lanka Launches Its First Satellite From USA =
✓ Nepal successfully launched its first satellite NepaliSat-1 into space
✓ The satellite developed by the Nepalese scientists was launched from Virginia in the
United States
✓ Sri Lanka's first satellite 'Raavana-1' was also launched into space, marking Sri
Lanka's entry into the global space age
• NASA astronaut = Christina Koch is going to have her mission on the International
Space Station (ISS) extended to 328 days = which would set a record for the longest single
spaceflight by a woman
• UN medals of honour for their dedicated service and sacrifice won by = 150 Indian
peacekeepers serving with the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS)
• UK Royal Society honour won by = Padma Bhushan awardee Yusuf Hamied, who is the
chairman of Cipla pharmaceutical company
• India + France = To conduct their largest ever naval exercise 'Varuna' Off Goa Coast
• Asian Tea Alliance (ATA), a union of five tea-growing and consuming countries, was
opened in = Guizhou, China
✓ To boost tea trade, cultural and technical exchanges as well as the global promotion of
tea
• Indian Navy will participate in = International Fleet Review (IFR) = that is scheduled to
take place in Qingdao, China = As part of 70th Anniversary celebrations of People's Liberation
Army Navy (PLA Navy)
• India’s first retail company to cross the Rs.1 lakh crore annual revenue = Reliance
Industries
• A Guided Missile Destroyer ‘INS Imphal’ has been launched by = Navy Chief Admiral Sunil
Lamba at = Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) in Mumbai
✓ This ship is designed by the Indian Navy’s Directorate of Naval Designs, New Delhi.
• The election commission of India launched a = voters turnout app =

✓ To enable the people of India to watch realtime voter turnout.After collecting all the
information from officers, it will be compiled and displayed in the app
✓ The app is available in the Google Play Store and will only be supported on the Android
4.4 KitKat or above version
• Union territories and Twenty states have joined in a pan-India network of single
emergency helpline number ‘112’= Implemented by central government’s Nirbhaya Fund(
2012 Delhi gangrape case)
✓ To get immediate assistance to the people who are in trouble
• ‘Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant Award‘ = for 2018-19 by the Bureau of Police Research and
Development (BPR&D) = under the Ministry of Home Affairs, for his book titled ‘Samvidhan
Kavya‘ won by = Sunil Kumar Gautam, Special Commissioner of Police (Operations)
• Chief of former Judo Federation of India was re-elected as general secretary of Judo
Union = Mukesh Kumar
• India’s Haj Quota has been increased by = about 25,000, raising the number to = 2
lakh from 1.75 lakh by Saudi Arabia
• Global Startup Ecosystem Ranking for 2019 released by StartupBlink = India Ranks 17th
✓ China was ranked 27th. Bangalore, New Delhi, and Mumbai were the top cities in the
Indian startup ecosystem
✓ 1st = USA
✓ 2nd = UK
✓ 3rd = Canada
• Beijing International Film Festival = Malayalam film Bhayanakam (Fear) which was directed
by Jayaraj won the best cinematography award
• 2019 Index of Cancer Preparedness(ICP) has been released by = Economist Intelligence

Unit (EIU) = India ranks 19th
✓ Topped by = Australia
• Ministry of Ayush + Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) = MoU = For
cooperation in the field of research and education of traditional system of medicines and its
integration with modern science
• National Intellectual Property Award 2019 won by = Intellectual Property Rights Cell (IPR
Cell) of Kerala Agricultural University (KAU)
• Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi (CSA) honored veteran authors from Chandigarh at

Punjab Kala Bhawan =
Five writers =
✓ Dr Chaman Ahuja (Urdu),
✓ Dr Om Prakash Vasishta (Punjabi),
✓ Professor Tejwant Singh Gill (English),
✓ Dr Prasoon Prasad (Hindi) and
✓ Professor Virender Kumar Alankar (Sanskrit)
were given the award of recognition for their lifelong contribution in the field of literature
• Other Awards are:

Best Book Award in English (Novel ) – Masha Kaur
Best Book Award in Hindi (Novel) - Shashi Prabha
Best Book Award (Poetry) - Amarjeet Amar
Best story - Pragya Sharda
Best children’s literature – Anita Surbhi
Best Translation – Jang Bahadur Goyal
Best children’s literature (Punjabi) - Daljit Kaur Saini
Best Book Award in Punjabi (Novel) - Narender Pal Singh Komal
Best Book Award in Punjabi (Poetry) - Subhash Sharma
Best Translation in Punjabi - Arvinder Johal
Best Book Award in Urdu (Poetry) - Professor S S Bhatti
• Cleveland International Hall of fame given to = Indian-American scientist and social

activist Sree Sreenath
✓ For his contribution in applications in systems biology, global issues, and sustainable
development.
• Swacchta Pakhwada Award 2019 won by = Three organizations All India Radio, Publication
Division and Children’s Film Society of India
• According to a report, by = UN Ad hoc Interagency Coordinating Group on

Antimicrobial Resistance = if no action is taken, by 2050, drug-resistant diseases could
cause 10 million deaths every year = which would in turn cause damage to the economy
much like the 2008-2009 global financial crisis.
✓ The title of the report is = “No Time to Wait: Securing the future from drug-resistant
infections”
• 52nd Controller General of Defence Accounts (CGDA) = Shri.Rajendra Kumar Nayak
• World's First Floating Nuclear Power Plant has been successfully tested by = Russia
✓ Stated by = Akademik Lomonosov, a subsidiary of Rosatom nuclear corporation
✓ Russia = Moscow = ruble
• World’s first malaria vaccine = RTS, S is also known as Mosquirix = launched in Malawi
• Indonesia has released a special commemorative stamp on the theme of = Ramayana

✓ To mark the 70th anniversary of the establishment of its diplomatic ties with India
✓ Designed by = renowned Indonesian sculptor Padmashri Bapak Nyoman
Nuarta, featured a scene from Ramayana in which Jatayu valiantly fought to save Sita
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced = He will name a new
community in the Golan Heights after = US President Donald Trump = who officially
recognised the disputed area as Israeli territory
• Guest of Honour country at 29th Abu Dhabi International Book Fair 2019 = India
✓ 29th edition of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair (ADIBF) started and will conclude
on 30th April at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre.
• Kazakhstan has set up = Coordinating Council = For attracting foreign investments
including from India.
✓ The meeting identified the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) as a Unified
Center for the coordination of work on investment and promotion of the investment
image of Kazakhstan
✓ Kazakhstan PM = Askar Mamin
✓ Kazakhstan = Nur-Sultan = Tenge
• National Intellectual Property Award, 2019 in the category of Top Individual for Patents
and Commercialization won by = Dr. Benny Antony
• IPI’s (International Press Institute) World Press Freedom Hero award in 2019 won by =
Dawn editor and Columnist Cyril Almeida from Pakistan
✓ For his “critical” and “tenacious coverage” of the civil-military relations in Pakistan
• Deenanath Mangeshkar Award 2019 won by = Madhur Bhandarkar , popular scriptwriter

Salim Khan and dancing diva Helen
✓ The Award which is organized by Master Deenanath Mangeshkar Smruti Pratishthan
charitable trust, Pune, aims to encourage legends from the fields of music, drama, art
and social work
• 5th Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) Media Summit on Climate Action and
Disaster Preparedness was held in = Kathmandu, Nepal
✓ Theme = “Media Solutions for Sustainable Future: Saving Lives, Building Resilient
Communities”
• Quikr has acquired = Bengaluru-based secondhand goods marketplace = Zefo, for INR
200 Crore
✓ To strengthen the sales of its pre-owned goods business
• ‘Malaria Elimination Research Alliance (MERA) India has been launched by = The Indian
Council of Medical Research
✓ It is a conglomeration of partners working on malaria control in order to eliminate the
disease from India by 2030
• Zoologists at Trinity College Dublin have discovered two new bird species = named as
the Wakatobi white-eye and the Wangi-Wangi white-eye = in the Wakatobi Archipelago of
Sulawesi, Indonesia
✓ Details of their discovery were published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean
Society
✓ Indonesia = Jakarta = rupiah
• First Major Airline in the Gulf region To Fly Plastic-Free = Etihad Airways, UAE based
flag carrier
• 2nd edition of Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2019 = British Indian novelist Rana
Dasgupta
✓ For his 2010 novel “Solo”, deals with a tale of estrangement and the ultimate failure of
material existence.
• Indian Air Force Arjan Singh Memorial International hockey tournament = at the Astro
Turf Hockey Ground at Air Force in = Chandigarh = Won by = Integrated Coach Factory (ICF),
Chennai
✓ Defeated = South Central Railway, Hyderabad
• ‘SAECKs‘ (The Sexual Assault Evidence Collection Kits) or ‘rape investigation kits’ =
has been distributed by = Union Ministry of Home Affairs among states and union territories
✓ To collect blood and semen samples for carrying out immediate effective medico-legal
investigations on sexual assault cases
• QS Executive MBA Rankings 2019 = The Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore’s (IIM-

B) post-graduate programme in Enterprise Management (PGPEM) = has secured the 12th
rank in APAC (Asia Pacific) listing and came 61st globally
✓ With this, it became the only Indian B-school to secure a place among the top 100 B-
Schools across the world
✓ IIM-B also ranked first under the Management category in the National Institutional
Ranking Framework (NIRF) Rankings 2019
• National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) Limited + Indian Army = MoU = to

build four underground tunnels along China and Pakistan borders for storage of ammunition
and other war-related equipment.
• According to Akamai Technologies Report = India ranked as the 2nd-most targeted nation
by hackers in 2018 = with more than 120 crore account takeover attacks
✓ 1st = US
✓ 3rd = Canada
• Central Works Public Department (CPWD) has constituted an 8-member expert

committee to formulate a design policy = For building construction and infrastructure
development
✓ The committee has been set up under the chairmanship of CPWD's Additional Director
General M K Sharma
• ‘Compassionate Kid’ award 2019 by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals(PETA)
India won by = Mizoram Derek C Lalchhanhima (6 year old boy) = who saved life of a
chicken he accidentally ran over
✓ PETA HQ = Norfolk, Virginia, United States
✓ President = Ingrid Newkirk
• UN’s International Labour Organization announced = Qatar will abolish its exit visa
system for all foreign workers = by the end of 2019
✓ The country was committed to labour reform following an Amnesty international report
that the 2022 World Cup host was failing to stop widespread labour abuse
• Corporate Excellence award in the Manufacturing Industry, from Enterprise Asia of

Malaysia for 2019, at event in Andaz, Hyatt Hotel, New Delhi won by = Managing Director,
Heidelberg Prominent Fluid Controls India Pvt. Ltd., Prasanna Kumar Rao
• Book = “Politics of Jugaad: The Coalition Handbook” = Launched

✓ Composer = Journalist Saba Naqvi
✓ The book discusses the nature of transformation in Indian political parties and their role
in present times
• Government has hiked the customs duty on wheat to = 40% from 30%
✓ To curb imports and protect the domestic industry
• 5th Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) Media Summit = on Climate Action & Disaster
Preparedness was held at = Kathmandu, Nepal
✓ Theme = “Media Solutions for Sustainable Future: Saving Lives, Building Resilient
Communities”
• Ikhamanga Award 2019 in the Silver Division won by = Ex-South Africa all-
rounder Jacques Kallis
✓ South Africa President = Cyril Ramaphosa
• 2nd edition of Belt and Road Forum (BRF) was held in = Beijing, China
✓ Theme = “Belt and Road Cooperation: Shaping a Brighter Shared Future”
• Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un = met face-to-face for thefirst
time and vowed to seek closer ties
✓ The meeting was held at = Russia’s Pacific port city of Vladivostok
• INS Kolkata and INS Shakti arrived at Busan, South Korea = To participate in ADMM-
PLUS (ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting)
• Defence Ministry has awarded a contract of worth Rs 6,311 crore to = Garden Reach
Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited (GRSE)
✓ To build eight anti-submarine warfare shallow watercraft (ASWSWC) for the Indian
Navy
✓ GRSE Headquarters = Kolkata
BANKING & ECONOMY NEWS
• MD and CEO of ICICI Securities = Vijay Chandok
✓ ICICI Bank Headquarters = Mumbai
✓ Tagline = Hum Hain Na!
• Bank of Baroda has become the third largest bank in the country = The amalgamation
of Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank into the Bank of Baroda (BoB)has come into effect and all
branches of the former two will function as branches of BoB
• Reliance Nippon Life Asset Management (RNAM) + Google = To enable the customers of
Reliance Mutual Fund to carry out voice-based financial transactions
• Rajan Anandan = vice president for Google India and South East Asia, and essentially
heading Google in India = Resigned
✓ Interim responsibility = Vikas Agnihotri
• Tata Power + Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) = MoU = To set up integrated customer
services and optimize value for customers
• IT major HCL Technologies Completes Acquisition Of = US-based Strong-Bridge Envision

✓ To enhance its digital transformation consulting capabilities
✓ Deal was worth 45 million dollars
• First Lender To Charge For UPI transactions starting 1st of May 2019 = Kotak Mahindra
Bank (Kotak)
✓ For each Kotak Bank account, the first 30 UPI fund transfers will be free, after which a
charge will be levied on all fund transfers from the bank account
✓ The bank will charge Rs 2.50 per transaction for an amount value below or equal to Rs
1,000, and Rs 5 per transaction will be levied for a payment value above Rs 1,000
• Government infused a capital of Rs. 205 crore into the state owned = Bank of
Maharashtra
✓ After the Capital infusion, the shareholding of government in Bank of Maharashtra has
increased to 87.74 % from 87.01%
✓ HQ = Pune, Maharashtra
✓ MD & CEO = A.S. Rajeev
✓ Tagline = One Family One Bank
• India + National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development Consultancy Service
(NABCONS) = Agreement = For setting up India-Africa Institute of Agriculture and Rural
Development (IAIARD) in Malawi
✓ To enhance capacity in the areas of agro-financing and entrepreneurship development
for African countries
• Asian Development Bank downgraded economic growth forecasts for India and
Southeast Asia for 2019 = gross domestic product in India will probably increase by 7.2 % in
2019, down from a December forecast of 7.6%. Southeast Asia’s growth estimate was
lowered by 0.2 percentage point to 4.9%
✓ ADB HQ = Manila, Philippines
✓ President = Takehiko Nakao
• One97 Communications-owned Paytm Money, the wealth management arm of Paytm =

got approval from the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) = To start offering
a stock broking service such as the ability to trade in equities and cash segments, derivatives,
and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) among other exchange-traded products.
• 1st Bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement Released =

✓ Repo Rate = 6%
✓ Reverse Repo Rate = 5.75%
✓ Marginal standing facility (MSF) rate and the Bank Rate = 6.25%
✓ GDP growth for 2019-20 is projected at = 7.2%
✓ Cash Reserve Ratio(CRR) = 4%
✓ Statutory Liquidity Ratio(SLR) = 19.25%
• WhatsApp launched an India-focused fact-checking feature = To combat fake news and

rumours starting with the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections
✓ Developed in collaboration with India-based media skilling startup PROTO, the tip line
feature will help create a database of rumours to study misinformation during elections
as part of a research project commissioned and assisted by WhatsApp
• Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in consultation with the government of India = sets Limits
For Ways and Means Advances = for the first half of the financial year 2019-20 (April 2019 to
September 2019) at Rs 75000 crore
• Chatbot Making Startup Haptik was acquired by Reliance Jio Digital for = Rs.700 Crore
• RBI has tweaked Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) norms = To provide an additional 2%
window to lenders
✓ RBI 25th Governor = Shaktikant Das
✓ RBI HQ = Mumbai
✓ Foundation = 1 April 1935
• Bharatiya Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has received a licence from = Department of
Telecommunications
✓ To provide Internet and mobile services on flights
✓ Founded on = 1 October, 2000
✓ HQ = New Delhi
✓ MD & Chairman = Anupam Shrivastava
• India + National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development Consultancy Service
(NABCONS) = MoU = For setting up the India-Africa Institute of Agriculture and Rural
Development (IAIARD) in Malawi, a landlocked country in southeastern Africa
✓ Malawi = Lilongwe = Kwacha
• Karnataka Bank + Bharti AXA Life Insurance Company = MoU = to distribute the life
insurance products
✓ Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Karnataka Bank = Mahabaleshwara
MS
✓ HQ = Mangalore
• Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has given approval to = Paytm Money =
to start offering broking services
• Rating agency Fitch retained India's sovereign rating at 'BBB-' = the lowest investment
grade, with a stable outlook for the 13th straight year
✓ Fitch expects growth of 6.8% in current fiscal 19-20 and 7.1% in the next fiscal 20-21
✓ Fitch Headquarters = New York
✓ Founded = 1914
✓ CEO = Paul Taylor
• President of the World Bank = David Malpass

✓ Replaced = Jim Yong Kim
✓ HQ = Washington DC, USA
• President of Confederation of Indian Industry(CII) = Vikram Kirloskar
• NASSCOM (National Association of Software and services companies) Chairman =

Keshav Murugesh
✓ NASSCOM HQ = Noida, Uttar Pradesh
✓ First Black Women Mayor of Chicago = Lori Lightfoot
• Lakshmi Vilas Bank = To Merge With = Indiabulls Housing Finance
• Competition Commission of India (CCI) approved = engineering and construction major

Larsen & Toubro’s (L&T’s) proposal = To acquire up to 66.15% stake in Mindtree
• MD and CEO of Indian Overseas Bank = Karnam Sekar
• New president of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) – India = SUN Group

Chairman Vikramjit Singh Sahney
• “Amazon Wings” = A new seller-funding programme has been launched by = Amazon

India in partnership with Mumbai based Ketto, a crowd-funding platform to help the small
businesses and entrepreneurs to raise funds through latter
✓ Amazon HQ = Seattle, Washington, U.S
✓ Founder = Jef Bezos
✓ Formation = 1994
• Acc. To World Bank, India’s GDP growth is expected to accelerate moderately to = 7.5%
= in Fiscal Year 19-20
✓ HQ = Washington DC, USA
✓ World Bank President = David Malpass
• Tata Consultancy Services + Google Cloud = Partnership = To build industry-specific

cloud solutions
✓ Chairman of Tata Sons = Natarajan Chandrasekaran
• National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has reduced the transaction fees up
to Rs 1,000 by 60% = for promoting the adoption of Unified Payments Interface (UPI)
✓ For UPI transactions up to Rs.1,000, the charge has been cut to 10 paise from 25
paise, and for transactions above Rs.1,000 has been retained at 50 paise
✓ NPCI HQ = Mumbai
✓ COO = Praveena Rai
✓ Formation = 2008
• Bureau of Indian Standards(BIS) + IIT- Delhi = MoU = To collaborate in the field of

standardisation and conformity assessment
• National Thermal Power Corporation + Canara Bank = Agreement = to raise Rs 2,000

crore, which would be used to part finance its capital expenditure.
• As per the World Bank Report = India retained its position as the world's top recipient
of remittances = With its diaspora sending a whopping USD 79 billion back home in 2018
✓ 2nd = China
✓ Report Title = 'World Bank's Migration and Development Brief'
• 17th edition of World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North
Africa (MENA) was held at = Dead Sea,Jordan
✓ It is the 10th meeting in Jordan and 17th meeting in the MENA region
• Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) + HDFC Bank = Agreement = To spread more awareness
about the benefits of listing startups as well as to strengthen BSE startup platform
✓ BSE HQ = Mumbai, Maharashtra
✓ Chairman = S Ravi
✓ HDFC HQ = Mumbai
✓ CEO = Aditya Puri
• RBI Issues Norms For Banks To Set Up Currency Chests =

✓ The new chests should have a processing a capacity of 6.6 lakh pieces of banknotes
per day.
✓ The currency chests should have CBL of Rs 1,000 crore, subject to ground realities
and reasonable restrictions, at the discretion of the Reserve Bank
• According to data released by the Association of Mutual Funds in India (Amfi) = India’s
asset management companies (AMCs) own assets under management (AUM) worth Rs24.46
trillion
✓ HDFC Asset Management Co. Ltd has claimed the top spot with an average AUM of
Rs3.42 trillion
• International Monetary Fund (IMF) cut its economic growth forecasts for India = by 20
basis points (bps) each from its January predictions to = 7.3% for FY20 and 7.5% for the next
fiscal
✓ IMF HQ = Washington DC, USA
✓ MD of IMF = Christine Lagarde
• World’s 1st Islamic Bank To Launch Banking Via WhatsAp = Emirates Islamic
✓ Emirates Islamic is part of Emirates NBD Group, is one of the fastest growing banks in
the UAE.
✓ Emirates Islamic Bank was established in = 2004
• Google has launched a new open platform = ‘Anthos’ = To run and manage apps from
anywhere
✓ It lets users run applications on the public cloud or on existing on-premise hardware
investments
✓ Google Hq = California
✓ CEO = Sundar Pichai
✓ Founders = Larry page, Sergey Brin
✓ Foundation = 1998, California
• State Bank of India + PAISALO Digital Limited = signed the first co-origination loan
agreement
✓ To Introduce a platform for the last mile customer, the loan ticket is designed at Rs
10,000 to 2 lakh
• RBL Bank + CreditVidya = Partnership = To enhance the lender’s customer experience (by
offering them relevant credit products) and construct customised offerings for over 15 lakh
customers
• According to a report by the United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA) = India’s

population grew at an average annual rate of 1.2% between 2010 and 2019 to 1.36
billion, more than double the annual growth rate of China
✓ UNPFA HQ = New York, United States
✓ Head = Natalia Kanem
• According to Forbes World's Best Bank survey = HDFC Bank has been identified
as number 1 bank by customers in India
✓ 2nd = ICICI Bank
✓ 11th = SBI
• According to data compiled by Bloomberg =

✓ world’s 3rd largest in value = Hong Kong's equity market
✓ 1st = US
✓ 2nd = China
✓ 4th = Japan
• Google Pay + Bullion refiner MMTC-PAMP India = Partnership = To initiate buying and
selling of gold through the app to make Google Pay more useful for Indian customers
• PayU, Digital payments security and payment facilitator has acquired = Wibmo, a US-
based financial technology for USD 70 million
✓ To assist the company scale-up its business
• Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has approved the merger of = Tata

Teleservices with Bharti Airtel Ltd. = Subject to the condition that it furnishes a Rs 7200
crore bank guarantee
• SBI General Insurance has launched its new product = cyber defence insurance
✓ To protect businesses from financial and reputational losses due to cyber attacks
• New Chairman of Export Promotion Council for Handicraft (EPCH) = Ravinder Kumar
Passi
• Board of Directors in Paytm Payments Bank (PPB) = Sairee Chahal
• Deutsche Bank CEO For India = Kaushik Shaparia

✓ Replaced = Ravneet Gill
✓ Deutsche Bank Headquarters = Frankfurt, Germany
• Executive Director of Punjab National Bank = Rajesh Kumar Yaduvanshi
• ‘NRI-Insta Online’ has been launched by = IDBI Bank

✓ It is an account opening process for NRIs residing in Financial Action Task Force
(FATF)member countries to open an account in the Bank without visiting the branch or
submitting paper documents such as physical documents as well as KYC proofs
• Google has launched its first African artificial Intelligence (AI) laboratory in = Accra,
capital city of Ghana = to tackle Africa’s challenges
• India has became a net importer of steel = in the fiscal year 2018-2019 that ended on 31
March for the first time in 3 years = As the 25% import duty on steel products imposed by the
US diverted supplementary supplies to India
• Asian Development Bank (ADB) agreed to provide a total of USD 3.88 billion in
sovereign loans to = India in 2018 =
✓ Which is the highest ever loan amount since sovereign operations began in the country
in 1986
• 5G Use Cases Lab for banking and financial sector has been launched by = Institute for
Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT),an arm of Reserve Bank of India
• Celent Model Bank 2019 Award in the category of Financial Inclusion, for 'Redesigning
Lending to Reach Small Businesses' won by = Fincare Small Finance Bank (SFB)
✓ MD & CEO of Fincare Small Finance Bank = Mr. Rajeev Yadav
✓ HQ = Bengaluru , Karnataka
✓ Tagline = ‘a new era in smartbanking begins’
✓ Launched in = 2017
• India’s first comprehensive financial services app to integrate with Unified Payment
Interface (UPI) = ETMONEY
✓ ETMONEY HQ = Gurugram, Haryana
✓ CEO = Mukesh P Kalra
• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issued Rs. 50 denomination banknotes in = Mahatma
Gandhi (New) Series that bore = Shri Shaktikanta Das’ (Governor of RBI) signature
✓ The dimension of the Rs. 50 banknote is = 66 mm x 135 mm
✓ On the reverse side, the note has a ‘Swachh Bharat‘ logo printed on it with its slogan
• Bandhan Bank has received the approval of the = Competition Commission

of India (CCI) for the acquisition of = Gruh Finance = which is the affordable housing
finance arm of HDFC Ltd in a share-swap deal
✓ Bandhan Bank HQ = Kolkata, West Bengal
✓ Chairperson = Harun Rasid Khan
✓ Founded on = 23 August 2015
• First Public Sector Bank In India To Meet RBI’s EMV Mandate = Canara Bank
• International Monetary Fund (IMF) + World Bank = together launched a private blockchain
with a pseudo-token.
✓ The new token, called “Learning Coin” and only accessible within the IMF and World
Bank
✓ It has a purpose to teach relevant individuals within the organizations about blockchain
✓ World Bank President = David Malpass
✓ World Bank HQ = Washington DC, USA
✓ IMF HQ = Washington DC, USA
✓ MD of IMF = Christine Lagarde
• Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) + M1Xchange TReDSplatform = Partnership = for

Micro,Small and Medium Enterprises(MSMEs) bill discounting
What is TReDS?
✓ Trade Receivables Discounting System (TreDS) is a digital platform to assist MSMEs
to get their bills financed at a competitive rate through a vendue where multiple
registered financiers can participate
✓ Bank of Maharashtra HQ = Pune
✓ CEO = A. S. Rajeev
✓ Foundation = 1935
• World Press Freedom Index 2019 = India Ranks 140th

✓ Topped by = Norway
✓ Released by = Reporters Without Borders
✓ Reporters Without Borders (RWB) HQ = Paris, France
✓ Director General = Christophe Deloire
• Saudi Arabia Will Host G20 Summit In = November 2020 in Riyadh

✓ This would be the first G20 summit in the Arab world
• Resilient Cities Asia-Pacific (RCAP) 2019 Congress Held in = New Delhi, India
✓ Organized by = ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability
✓ Hosted by = South Delhi Municipal Corporation
• Bank of Baroda + Srei Equipment Finance Ltd = Collaboration = To offer joint loans for
infrastructure equipment under a new agreement
✓ Sourcing of loans will be facilitated through iQuippo, which is a Kanoria Foundation
initiative
✓ Bank of Baroda HQ = Vadodara
✓ CEO = P S Jayakumar
✓ Tagline = India's International Bank
• CRISIL Ltd, a diversified global analytics company = will transfer its rating business to its
proposed new wholly-owned subsidiary
✓ CRISIL full form = Credit Rating Information Services of India Limited
• Time 100 Most Influential People 2019 list has been released =
✓ Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani and public-interest litigators Arundhati
Katju and Menaka Guruswamy = who spearheaded a historic legal battle for LGBTQ
rights in India = are the Indian names that appeared in the list
• Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released a 14 page draft document named = “Enabling
Framework for Regulatory Sandbox”
✓ In this RBI proposes that Fintech start-ups can set up regulatory sandbox or live-testing
of innovative products and services in segments such as digital KYC, retail
payments and data analytics among others in the financial sector.
✓ The concept of Regulatory Sandbox (RS) was proposed by a committee headed by
RBI Executive Director Sudarshan Sen
• Exim Bank gives loans worth = 267$ million = For projects in Rwanda
Rwanda = Kigali = franc
• Airtel Payments Bank + Bharti AXA General Insurance = Joined hands =
✓ For a two-wheeler insurance product offering which is available on MyAirtel App and at
over 40,000 Airtel Payments Bank points across India
• According to the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) data
= Life insurer’s premium income grew 11% in FY19 over 2018 and
✓ Non-life insurance firms witnessed a 13% rise in their total premium income to
Rs 1.70 lakh crore in the financial year ended March 2019
• Bajaj Allianz General Insurance + Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance = Partnership = To launch
their 1st product titled ‘Total Health Secure Goal’
• Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) + Department of Posts = Partnership =

✓ To transform it into a multi-service digital hub
• Syndicate Bank + BEML Limited (Bharat Earth Movers Limited) = Signed an agreement =
for financing Earth Moving and Construction Equipment which is manufactured by BEML
• Central government has increased the authorized capital of state-owned Allahabad

Bank = From Rs. 3,000 crore to Rs. 8,000 crore = After consultation with the Reserve Bank
of India
• BSE + Network Intelligence = MoU = To provide cybersecurity services to its members in

line with the cybersecurity framework set by SEBI
✓ BSE CEO = Shri Ashish Kumar Chauhan
✓ Founder & CEO of Network Intelligence = K K Mookhey
• New Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Indian Overseas
Bank = Karnam Sekar
• Canara Bank + Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance = launched
’Webassurance’
✓ To enable its customers to purchase life insurance in a convenient and hassle-free way
✓ Canara Bank HQ = Bangalore
✓ Canara Bank Chairman = Shri. T.N. Manoharan
✓ MD & CEO = R A Sankara Narayanan
• First Indian Platform for Wholesale Cryptocurrency Trading = BuyUcoin

✓ This platform works on ‘free trading model’ which means it charges zero fee on any
trade
✓ This wholesale platform also known as OTC (Over-the-counter) Desk allows users to
trade on a large scale with low price fluctuations
• 1st central bank in the Asia-Pacific region (APAC) to begin an interest rate easing cycle
floated by benign food inflation and easier global financial condition = Reserve Bank of
India (RBI)
• 1st Destination Bank to launch debit card based e-mandates On NPCI’s (National
Payments Corporation of India) E-Mandate (electronic mandate) API(Application
Program Interface) Platform = Kotak Mahindra Bank
• United Nations + European Union (EU) = signed a joint framework aimed at strengthening
partnership in counter-terrorism efforts
✓ UN Secretary-General = António Guterres of Portugal
✓ Established on = 24th October 1945
✓ HQ = New York, United States
• According to Fitch Solutions Macro Research report = India is probably going to install
54.7GW of wind capacity by = 2022
• National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) approved merger of = private sector lender =
IndusInd Bank with Bharat Financial Inclusion (BFIL) = a microfinance company
✓ IndusInd Bank HQ = Mumbai
✓ CEO = Romesh Sobti
✓ Tagline = We Make You Feel Richer
• India’s first ‘Green Car Loan’ (Electric Vehicle) to encourage customers to buy electric
vehicles has been launched by = State Bank of India (SBI)
✓ The new scheme ‘Green Car Loan’ will offer loan at 20 basis points lower than the
interest rate on the existing car loan schemes
• Germany-based global provider of digital payments and commerce solutions Wirecard

+ RBL Bank = Partnership = To promote financial inclusion in India
• Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has divested its entire stake held in National Housing
Bank (NHB), and National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) to the
government For INR 1,470 crore = which now holds 100% in these entities
• Aegon Life Insurance + Mobikwik = Collaboration = To launch a Rs 20 smart digital

insurance product in order to protect its wallet users from death and accident related disability
cover for up to Rs 2 lakh
✓ The insurance product launched is termed as the Aegon Life Group Term Plus Plan.
It is available on Mobikwik App
• Markets regulator SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) has reduced the =
minimum subscription requirement as well as defined trading lots for Real Estate Investment
Trusts (REITs) and Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs)
✓ SEBI has also increased the leverage limit for InvITs from 49% to 70%
✓ While making an initial public offer and follow-on offer, the minimum subscription
shall not be less than Rs 1 lakh for InvITs and Rs 50,000 for REITs
✓ Currently, in the case of a REIT issue, the minimum subscription from any investor in
an initial offer and follow-on public offer is not less than Rs 2 lakh, while the same is Rs
10 lakh in case of InvIT
• Chief Operating Officer (COO) of LIC Housing Finance = Siddhartha Mohanty
• Microsoft has reached a valuation of = $1 trillion = for the first time = after a jump in stock
valuation that followed a qualitative-laden third fiscal quarter
✓ It has again taken over Apple as the world’s most valuable company
• IT services = HCL Technologies has set up a = CyberSecurity Fusion Centre (CSFC) in =

Frisco, Texas, US
To boost business growth by providing customers with a single point of contact for the
business security lifecycle – from detection to repairment
• Max Bupa, India’s health insurance company + HDFC Bank = Collaboration = launched
‘AnyTimeHealth (ATH) machines
✓ The machine is an automated, web-based model that permits customers to avail health
assessment, namely, Body Mass Index’, ‘Blood Pressure’, ‘Body Type & Fat
percentage’, ‘Muscle percentage’, ‘Bone Mass’, ‘Body Temperature’ and buy health
policy dynamically without incorporation of any kind of conventional manual efforts
• United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) India + NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission
(AIM) = Signed a Letter of Intent (LOI)
✓ To provide an open platform to promote participation, skill and empowerment among
young children across different communities
• Reserve Bank of India will shortly issue = ₹ 20 denomination banknotes in the Mahatma
Gandhi (New) Series = bearing the signature of Shri Shaktikanta Das, Governor, Reserve
Bank of India
✓ The new denomination has the motif of Ellora Caves on the reverse, depicting the
country's cultural heritage.
✓ The base colour of the note is Greenish Yellow. The dimension of the banknote will
be 63 mm x 129 mm
• Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) set up a 13-member

committee = in order to review regulatory framework on micro insurance,
✓ To suggest the steps to be taken to raise demand for such products in India by
recommending product designs with customer-friendly underwriting, example, easy
premium payment methods and simple claims settlement procedures
• Fortune magazine’s 2019 list of world’s 100 greatest leaders = Arunachalam

Muruganantham, inventor of a low-cost sanitary pad-making machine and
grassroots mechanism has been featured in this list
✓ He ranked 45th in the list released by the American publication
✓ He is a social entrepreneur from Tamil Nadu
• Insurance Regulatory & Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has set up a = 13
member committee under = IRDAI Executive Director Suresh Mathur
✓ To review the regulatory framework on microinsurance & recommend measures to
increase the demand for such products
✓ HQ = Hyderabad
✓ IRDAI Chairman = Subhash Chandra Khuntia
• India’s GDP growth projection for 2019-20 lowered to = 7.3 % by India Ratings and
Research, a Fitch Group company
• Wipro Acquires = Philippines' Largest Personal Care Company = 'Splash'
• 1st company in the domestic non-life insurance industry has collaborated with web
aggregator = Wishfin Insurance = To sell 2-wheeler policies via social media messaging
platform, WhatsApp = Bharti AXA General Insurance
• According to new data think tank Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
(SIPRI) = India was the world’s fourth biggest military spender in 2018 behind the United
States, China, and Saudi Arabia
SPORTS NEWS
• International Cricket Council (ICC) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) = Manu Sawhney
✓ ICC HQ = Dubai, United Arab Emirates
✓ Chairperson = Shashank Manohar
• Sultan Azlan Shah Cup 2019 = South Korea defeated India
• Bahrain Grand Prix 2019 won by = Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes)
• India Open 2019 or YONEX-SUNRISE India Open 2019 = Held at K. D. Jadhav Indoor Hall
in New Delhi, India
✓ Men’s Singles won by = Viktor Axelsen(Denmark) (Defeated = Srikanth Kidambi
(India))
✓ Women’s Singles won by = Ratchanok Intanon(Thailand) (Defeated = He Bingjiao
(China))
• Miami Open = Held at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida
✓ Men’s Singles won by = Roger Federer (Switzerland) (defeated = John Isner (United
States))
✓ Women’s Singles won by = Ashleigh Barty (Australia) (defeated = Karolina Pliskova
(Czech Republic))
• 12th Asian Airgun Championships = Held at Taoyuan, Taipei

✓ India Clinches 25 Medals
• ICC Test Championship mace for the third year won by = India
• Asian Tour with a “Special Achievement Award” won by = Hero MotoCorp Chairman, Dr.
Pawan Munjal
✓ For his contributions to Asian Golf, at the concluding ceremony of Hero Indian Open
Golf tournament, held at Gurugram, Haryana
• First Indian male squash player to enter the top 10 in latest Professional Squash
Association (PSA) world rankings = Saurav Ghosal
• Asian Tour with a Special Achievement Award for his contributions to Asian Golf won
by = Dr. Pawan Munjal, Chairman, Hero MotoCorp
• FIFA (The Federation Internationale de Football Association) world football rankings

2019 =
✓ Topped by = Belgium
✓ 2nd = France
✓ 101st = India
✓ With 1219 total ranking points, the Indian team lies 18th among the Asian
countries while Iran has topped it
• President of Asian Football Confederation = Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa

✓ Asian Football Confederation Hq = Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
✓ FIFA HQ = Zurich, Switzerland
✓ President = Gianni Infantino
• First Indian to be elected as a member of FIFA Executive Council = Praful Patel
• ESPN India awards for 2018 =

✓ Sportsperson of the Year (Male) = Neeraj Chopra (Javelin throw)
✓ Sportsperson of the Year (Female) = PV Sindhu (Badminton)
✓ Emerging Sportsperson of the Year = Saurabh Chaudhary (Pistol Shooting)
✓ Coach of the Year = Jaspal Rana (Pistol Shooting)
✓ Comeback of the Year = Saina Nehwal (Badminton)
✓ Lifetime Achievement award = Pradip Kumar ‘PK’ Banerjee (Football)
✓ Differently-abled Athlete of the year = Ekta Bhyan (Para-athletics)
• World’s oldest person to play in a professional soccer match = 73-year-old Israeli Isaak
Hayik set a new world record
✓ He played a match for FC Ironi Or Yehuda against FC Maccabi Ramat Gan
• Malaysia Open 2019 or CELCOM AXIATA Malaysia Open 2019 Held in = Malaysia =
✓ Men's Singles won by = Lin Dan of China (Defeated = Chen Long of China )
✓ Women's singles won by = Tai Tzu-ying of Chinese Taipei (Defeated = Japan's Akane
Yamaguchi)
• Wisden Almanack's 'Leading Cricketer of the Year' for the third straight time = Team
India captain Virat Kohli
✓ Leading female cricketer of the year 2019 = Smriti Mandhana
✓ Leading Twenty20 Cricketer for the second successive time = Rashid Khan
• Best Athletic Coach In Asia 2019 named by Asian Athletic Association (AAA) = Eni
Nuraeni of Indonesia
• New Zealand Prime Minister’s Sir Edmund Hillary Fellowship for 2019 won by = Deepa
Malik, Rio Paralympics silver medalist
• All India Tennis Association (AITA) + Serbian Tennis Federation (STF) = Collaboration =
To train Indian junior players under world renowned Serbian coaches, at the RK Khanna
Stadium, New Delhi
• MCC (the Marylebone Cricket Club) gives the honour of ‘Honorary Life Members’ to =
Pakistan’s Inzamam-ul-Haq and South Africa’s Mark Boucher
✓ For their exemplary achievements in the field of cricket
• 1st Indian to be appointed Chair of International Hockey Federation (FIH) Health and
Safety Committee = Bibhu Kalyan Nayak of Odisha
• 43rd edition of the Paris Marathon won by = Ethiopian athletes Gelete Burka (women’s
race) and Abrha Milaw (men’s race)
• Boxing World Cup 2019 Held at = Cologne in Germany

✓ India bagged a Gold and two Silver medals
✓ Gold = Meena Kumari Maisnam (from Manipur) claimed the Gold medal in the 54 kg
category
✓ Sakshi in 57 kgs and Pwilao Basumatary in 64 kgs had to settle for Silver medals after
they lost their final bouts.
✓ India finished the tournament with five medals
• Dutch International Badminton title 2019 Held at = Wateringen, The Netherlands

✓ Won by = Mumbai Shuttler Harsheel Dani
• Singapore Open Badminton title 2019 = at Singapore Indoor stadium in Singapore

✓ Men’s Singles won by = Kento Momota(Japan) (Defeated = Anthony Sinisuka
Ginting(Indonesia))
✓ Women’s Singles won by = Tai Tzu-ying(Taiwan) (Defeated = Nozomi
Okuhara(Japan))
• Chinese Grand Prix for a record sixth time won by = Lewis Hamilton = Formula One’s
1,000th world championship race
• Brand ambassador of redBus = Mahendra Singh Dhoni
• Goodwill Ambassador of Indian team for the Street Child Cricket World Cup 2019 =
Mithali Dorai Raj
• International cricket council (ICC) + UNICEF (United Nations International Children’s

Emergency Fund) = launched #OneDay4Children = A tournament-wide campaign to help
construct a better world for all children = at the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2019
• Goodwill Ambassador Of Team India At The Street Child Cricket World Cup = Indian
women's cricket team captain Mithali Raj
• 43rd edition of the Paris Marathon 2019 won by = Ethiopian athletes

✓ Gelete Burka in women’s race and
✓ Abrha Milaw in men’s race
• International Hockey Federation (FIH) has imposed a fine of = 170,000 Euros on =

Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF)
✓ For not honouring the Pro League commitments and has given PHF a time-limit till 20th
June, on failure of which PHF would have to pay double of penalty
• World Wrestling Rankings 2019 =
✓ India's Bajrang Punia has regained the world number one spot in the men's 65-
kilogram freestyle category rankings
✓ The rankings were released by United World Wrestling
• 6th Santosh Trophy Football Tournament title won by = Services at Guru Nanak
Stadium in Ludhiana, Punjab
✓ The Services football team represents the Indian defense services in the Santosh
Trophy
• First Italian to win an ATP Masters 1000 title = Italy’s Fabio Fognini
✓ This event held every year at the Monte Carlo Country Club in France
• All India Football Federation (AIFF) new technical director = Romanian football
manager,DoruIsac
✓ AIFF President = Praful Patel
• Asian Wrestling Championship = Held in China's Xian

✓ Gold medal Won by = Bajrang Punia
✓ Silver = Parveen Rana
✓ Bronze = Satywart Kadian
• United States Cricket Team won their first one-day international status = with a third
straight victory at the World Cricket League Division Two event in = Namibia.
✓ The Americans defeated Hong Kong by 84 runs
• 1st female referee, who will take charge of a Ligue 1 Conforama match in French
football history = Stephanie Frappart
• 23rd Edition of Asian Athletics Championships 2019 held at = Doha in Qatar

✓ India ended at the fourth spot in the medals tally with 3 Gold, 7 Silver and 7 Bronze
✓ Topped by = Bahrain
✓ 2nd = China
✓ 3rd = Japan
✓ Gold = Tejinder Pal Singh Toor (Shot put), Gomathi Marimuthu(800 metres) and P. U.
Chitra (1500 metres)
• Asian Snooker Tour title, in Bengaluru won by = India’s Pankaj Advani

✓ Defeated = Ehsan Heydari Nezhad of Iran
• ISSF World Cup Held in = Beijing

✓ India won gold each in 10 metres Air Rifle Mixed Team and 10 metres Air Pistol
Mixed team events
✓ Shooters Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary took the top spot in the 10 metres Air
Pistol Mixed Team event
✓ Anjum Moudgil and Divyansh Singh Panwar won gold in the 10 metres Air Rifle Mixed
Team event
✓ ISSF = International Shooting Sport Federation
✓ ISSF HQ = Munich, Germany
• 1st overseas player from India to represent Hampshire = Indian cricketer, Ajinkya
Madhukar Rahane
✓ He will replace Aiden Kyle Markram, who will join South Africa’s World Cup Team
• Asian Boxing Championships Held in Bangkok = India Wins 13 Medals

✓ India won 2 gold, 4 silver, and 7 bronze
✓ Boxers Pooja Rani and Amit Panghal gave India 2 gold medals
• 1st woman umpire to stand in a men’s ODI in the final match of ICC World Cricket
League 2 = Australia’s Claire Polosak
• 23rd edition of the Asian Athletics Championships 2019 = Held at Khalifa International
Stadium in Doha, Qatar
✓ Bahrain topped the medal tally with 11 Golds followed by China (9 Gold) and Japan (5
Gold)
✓ India clinched the 4th spot with 17 total medals including 3 Gold
• Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2019 won by = Mercedes' Finnish driver Valtteri Bottas
• 39th edition of the Badminton Asia Championships 2019 =

✓ Men’s singles won by = Kento Momota (Defeated = China Shi Yuqi)
✓ Women’s singles won by = Akane Yamaguchi (Japan) (Defeated = China He Bingjiao)
• 1st Indian wrestler to fight at New York’s iconic Madison Square Garden = 25 years old
Indian wrestler Bajrang Punia
• Sportsperson of the Year Award 2019 = at the annual awards and scholarships function
organised by = the Tamil Nadu Sports Journalists’ Association (TNSJA) and the India
Cements in Chennai won by = Sharath Kamal, Ace table tennis player
• Stuttgart's Porsche Grand Prix 2019 = Held at Stuttgart, Germany

✓ Won by = Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic)
✓ Defeated = Anett Kontaveit (Estonia)
• Barcelona Open 2019 won by = Dominic Thiem (Austria)

✓ Defeated = Daniil Medvedev (Russia)
• Virgin Money London Marathon 2019 Held at London,UK = Indian marathon runner,
Nitendra Singh Rawat finished 27th in 2 hours 15 minutes and 59 seconds
• Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) Players' Player of the Year for the 2018-19
season =
✓ PFA Player's Player of the Year = Virgil van Dyjk, Liverpool and Vivianne Miedema,
Arsenal
✓ PFA Young Player of the Year = Raheem Sterling, Manchester City and Georgia
Stanway, Manchester City
✓ PFA Special Achievement Award = Steph Houhgton: Former England and WBA
• 2019 ISSF Rifle/Pistol World Cup was held in = Beijing, China

✓ India won 4 medals which include 3 gold and 1 silver, finished first in the tournament
✓ Anjum Moudgil & Divyansh Singh Panwar = Gold = 10m Air Rifle Mixed
✓ Manu Bhaker & Saurabh Chaudhary = Gold = 10m Air Pistol Mixed
✓ Abhishek Verma = Gold = 10m Air Pistol
✓ Divyansh Singh Panwar = Silver = 10m Air Rifle
• Asian Road Para-Cycling Championships 2019 was held in = Tashkent, Uzbekistan

✓ Indian para cyclists won 1 silver and 2 bronze medals
✓ Divij Shah = Silver
✓ GurlalSingh = Bronze
✓ Sudhakar Marathe = Bronze
• 4th edition of the annual India Golf Industry Association (GIA) awards at the Delhi Golf
Club = Arjuna awardee and star Indian golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar won the outstanding
achievement as a player award
• 1st Indian to break into the world’s top 25 of the latest International Table Tennis
Federation (ITTF) Rankings = Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (26 years old India’s Table Tennis
player)
• Asian Weightlifting Championships 2019 was held in = Ningbo, China

✓ India won 5 medals which include 3 silver and 2 bronze medals and finished at 10th
place in the tournament
✓ Topped by = China with 54 medals
✓ Jhili Dalabehera won = Silver = Women 49-kg = Snatch
✓ Jhili Dalabehera = Silver = Women 49-kg = Clean and Jerk
✓ Jhili Dalabehera = Silver = Women 49-kg = Total (Snatch + Clean and Jerk)
✓ Pardeep Singh = Bronze = Men 102-kg = Clean and Jerk
✓ Mirabai Chanu = Bronze = Women 49-kg = Clean and Jerk
• Football Writers’ Association (FWA) Footballer of the Year 2019 = Raheem Sterling
• Asian Wrestling Championship 2019 held at Xi’an, China = India Finishes With 16 Medals
(1 Gold, 3 Silver & 4 Bronze)
✓ Topped by = Iran
✓ Only Bajrang Punia won the gold medal after defeating Kazakhstan’s Sayatbek
Okassov by 12-7 in 65kg men’s freestyle
OBITUARY
• Kartik Chandra Rath (Passed Away) = Veteran dramatist, theatre organiser and Economics
teacher
• J. Mahendran (Passed Away) = Noted Tamil Director
• Dilip Sarkar (Passed Away) = Senior Tripura Bhartiya Janta Party leader and five-time MLA
• Silamboli Su. Chellappan (Passed away) = Veteran Tamil Scholar and orator
• Dr. Viharidas Gopaldas Patel (Passed away) = An eminent economist and father of
entrepreneurship movement in India
• Arie Irawan (Passed away) = 28 years old Malaysian golfer
• Sydney Brenner (Passed Away) = 2002 Medicine Nobel Prize Winner
• C R Anandavally (Passed away) = An eminent Dubbing artist of Malayalam films
• Elriesa Theunissen-Fourie (Passed away) = South Africa Women’s World Cup cricketer
• Dr. B A Sanadi (Passed away) = Kannada poet
• Nadja Regin (Passed away) = Serbian actress
• Holkhomang Haokip (Passed Away) = Veteran politician and former minister of Manipur
• Karingozhakkal Mani Mani (Passed Away) = Veteran Kerala politician and former state
finance minister
• Navtej Hundal (passed away) = Indian Actor
• Drupad Borgohain (Passed away) = Veteran communist leader and former parliamentarian
• Paripooranand Painuli (Passed away) = Former Congress MP and freedom fighter
• Dr.Daniel Babu Paul (Passed away) = Writer, Orator and Former Kerala Additional Chief
Secretary
• Tommy Smith (Passed away) = Former Liverpool captain
• Colonel Raj Kapoor (Passed away) = Actor-cum-Director
• Pradeep Choubey (Passed away) = Hindi poet
• JK Ritheesh (Passed Away) = Actor and former Member of Parliament (MP)
of Ramanathapuram
• SK Shivakumar (Passed Away) = Former Director of Indian Space Research Organisation

Satellite Centre (ISAC)
• Alan Garcia (Passed Away) = Peru’s former president = shot himself in his bedroom at his
home in Lima
• Patrick Rousseau (Passed Away) = Former president of West Indies cricket Board (WICB)
• Jerrie Cobb (Passed Away) = NASA’s first female astronaut
• Con de Lange (Passed Away) = Scotland all-rounder, he was a slow left-armer and middle-
order batsman
• H K Khan (Passed Away) = Veteran IAS officer and former Chief Secretary of Gujarat
• Lorraine Warren (Passed Away) = paranormal investigator
• Amar Paul (passed away) = Eminent Bengali folk singer
• Subbiah Muthiah (passed away) = Renowned Journalist-writer
• Ms.KismatSagar (passed away) = Lucknow Door Darshan Kendra Director
• S. Muthiah (Passed Away) = Chennai's famed chronicler, cartographer, and journalist
• ChaudharyVidyasagar (Passed Away) = Former Himachal Pradesh minister and senior BJP
leader
• Rama Sengupta Paul (Passed Away) = veteran lady mountaineer
• Terry Rawlings (Passed Away) = British film editor
• Mark Medoff (Passed Away) = An Acclaimed Author
• Negasso Gidada Solon (Passed Away) = Former Ethiopian president
• Pungam Kannan (Passed Away) = Former India footballer
• John Singleton (Passed Away) = Academy Award-nominated filmmaker
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• High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Seychelles = Dalbir Singh Suhag

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• 72nd Himachal Day = 15th April

• High Commissioner of India to the Republic of South Africa = Jaideep Sarkar

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• President of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) – India = Vikramjit Singh Sahney

• Chief coach of the India men's hockey team = Graham Reid

• Chief Justice of Bombay high Court = Justice Pradeep Nandrajog

• Managing Director of Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) = CS Rajan

• Book = “Kundan: Saigal’s Life & Music” = Released

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