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Weekly Current Affairs August 1st Week
Weekly Current Affairs August 1st Week
Weekly Current Affairs August 1st Week
Dear Readers, Here we have given the list of Important Weekly Current Affairs 1st week of August 2019.
Candidates those who are preparing for Upcoming SBI Clerk and LIC ADO 2019 and other competitive exams
can make use of it.
1. Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched Atal Community Innovation Centre (ACIC) in
New Delhi
2. Culture and Tourism Minister Prahlad Singh Patel on flagged off a mobile library bus service in
Delhi
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4. India and UK have launched a joint initiative named Innovating for Clean Air (IfCA) in Bengaluru
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5. Government to set up JV firm ‘Khanij Bidesh India Ltd’ (KABIL) to ensure strategic minerals
supply
6. Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) has set up a task force on
7. Union home minister Amit Shah will head a panel of ministers to combat mob lynchings in the
country
8. One Nation-One Ration Card scheme launched on a pilot basis in 4 states (Telangana, Andhra
10. Government revokes Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir, bifurcates state into two UTs
11. Centre has approved the Rs. 4,900 crore project for interlinking of Kosi and Mechi rivers of Bihar
12. President Kovind has given his assent to The Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India,
1. Maharashtra government decides to waive off exam fees for class 10 th and 12 th students
3. West Bengal Government has launched an awareness campaign ‘Save Green, Stay Clean’
in Kolkata for preserving the greenery and keeping the environment clean.
4. Kolkata to get India’s first underwater Metro below the riverbed of the Hooghly River
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5. Noida got its first 'Pink Toilet' dedicated to women with facilities for sanitary napkins and baby
care.
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6. Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani has launched the ‘Vhali Dikri Yojna’ for the welfare of
girl child
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7. Mohali traffic police have launched 3-D Smart Traffic Signal devised by the students of a
Chandigarh university
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1. India received the highest-ever FDI inflow of $64.37 billion during the fiscal ended March 2019
2. CRISIL cuts India's GDP growth to 6.9% from 7.1% for FY20 (2019-20)
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3. Postal department decides to convert India Post Payments Bank to a small finance bank (SFB)
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5. SBI Shanghai becomes 1st Indian bank to link up with China payment system
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6. National Housing Bank to provide liquidity infusion facility of Rs. 10,000 crore to HFCs
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SLR 18.75 %
CRR 4%
9. RBI has imposed a fine of Rs. 50 lakh on Punjab National Bank for delay in flagging the fraud
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10. Microsoft and Publicis Sapient have partnered with Anglo-Gulf Trade Bank (AGTB) to launch the
11. Sovereign Gold Bonds (Series III )2019-20 will be opened on August 05-09, 2019
1. Bharti Airtel will shut down its 3G network across India’s 22 telecom circles by March 2020
3. Apple in partnership with Goldman Sachs has started the issue of its Credit Card that is named
“Apple Card”.
4. India’s Reliance industries to buy majority stake in Google-backed Fynd for $42.3 million
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Atanu Chakraborty
Nominated on central board of RBI
(Economic Affairs secretary)
Rakesh Asthana
Additional charge of Director General
( Director General of Security
Narcotics Control Bureau
(Civil Aviation))
2. Bhasha Mukherjee
Miss England 2019
(India-born doctor)
1. India has been ranked as the 46th highest risk country in the world in the Water Stress Index
2019
2. India has slipped to 7th position in in the World Bank’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP)ranking
1. India has extended $500,000 assistance to Gambia for skill development and cottage industry
projects
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1. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) laid the foundation stone for the Space Situational
1. The 45th WorldSkills Competition will be held at the KAZAN EXPO International Exhibition
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4. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to lead delegation in 4th South Asian Speaker's Summit in Maldives
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1. India has signed a deal worth around Rs 1,500 crore to acquire R-27 air-to-air missiles from
Russia
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1. Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar wins gold in Men's Rifle 3 Positions (3P) at Sardar Sajjan Singh
2. Tinjit Dhanota and Esha Singh won the Men's and Women's 10 metres Air Pistol gold medal at
3. Pakistan's 34-year-old pacer Wahab Riaz is set to retire from Test cricket
4. Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes driver) has won the Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix 2019
5. Vinesh Phogat has win the gold in women's 53kg category at Poland Open wrestling tournament
in Warsaw
6. Dwayne Johnson, popularly known as 'The Rock', has officially announced his retirement from
WWE
7. Former New Zealand all-rounder Daniel Vettori's jersey number 11 has been retired
8. South Africa bowler Dale Steyn has announced his retirement from Test cricket
9. Franky Zapata crossed the English Channel on Jet powered hoverboard on 2nd Try
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