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Important Monthly Static GK Capsule –August 2019

CONTENTS

Topics Page No.

List of Minister-Ministries and Constituency 2

International Organizations Present Heads & HQs 3

Indian Organizations Present Heads & HQs 4

States – Present Governor - CM 6

Banks – Present Heads, HQs and Taglines 7

Important Country - Currency - Capital 9

Parks, Dam, Airports & lakes in August News 10

Sports Related Person in News 10

Schemes in August News 12

Important Abbreviations 12

Others 13

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List of Minister-Ministries Involved in August Month Current Affairs

Name Portfolios Constituency

Minister of Petroleum and Natural Rajya Sabha (Madhya
DharmendraPradhan Gas &Steel Pradesh)
Ministry of Culture & Ministry of
Prahlad Singh Patel Tourism (Independent Charge) Damoh, Madhya Pradesh
Ministry of Railways &Ministry of
PiyushGoyal Commerce and Industry RajyaSabha (Maharashtra)
Amit Shah Ministry of Home Affairs Gandhinagar, Gujarat
Ministry of Health and Family
Harsh Vardhan Welfare ChandniChowk, Delhi
Ministry of Science and Technology
Ministry of Earth Sciences
Ministry of Skill Development and
MahendraNathPandey Entrepreneurship Chandauli, Uttar Pradesh
Minister of Environment, Forest and
PrakashJavadekar Climate Change & Minister of RajyaSabha (Madhya
Information and Broadcasting Pradesh)
Minister of State (Independent
Hardeep Singh Puri Charge) of the Ministry of Housing -
and Urban Affairs & Ministry of Civil
Aviation
Ministry of Women and Child
SmritiZubinIrani Development &Minister of Textiles Amethi, Uttar Pradesh
Gajendra Singh
Shekhawat Ministry of Jal Shakti Jodhpur, Rajasthan
Ramesh Pokhriyal Haridwar, Uttarakhand
'Nishank' Minister of HRD
Raj Nath Singh Minister of Defence Lucknow,Uttar Pradesh
ArjunMunda Minister of Tribal Affairs Khunti, Jharkhand
Minister of State (Independent
KirenRijiju Charge) of the Ministry of Youth Arunachal West, Arunachal
Affairs and Sports Pradesh

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Minister of Agriculture and Farmers

Narendra Singh Tomar Welfare&Minister of Panchayati Raj Morena, Madhya Pradesh
Minister of State (Independent
Jitendra Singh Charge) of the Ministry of Udhampur, Jammu and
Development of North Eastern Kashmir
Region
Bangalore North,
D.V. SadanandaGowda Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers Karnataka
Minister of State (Independent
Mansukh L. Mandaviya Charge) of the Ministry of Shipping RajyaSabha (Gujarat)

International Organizations Involved in August Month Current Affairs

International Organisation
Anglo-Gulf Trade Bank (AGTB)
Apple
Goldman Sachs
International Cricket Council
(ICC)
United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR)
World Archery Federation
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCC)
World Economic Forum (WEF)
UNESCO
Intel Corp
Nomura Holdings
Head Headquarter
- Abu Dhabi, UAE
CEO - Tim Cook California, United States
CEO - David M. Solomon New York, United States
Chairperson -
ShashankManohar Dubai, United Arab
CEO - Manu Sawhney Emirates
Head - Geneva, Switzerland
FilippoGrandi
President - UğurErdener Lausanne, Switzerland
President - TakehikoNakao Mandaluyong, Philippines
- Bonn, Germany
Chairperson- Klaus Schwab Cologny, Switzerland
Director-General -
Audrey Azoulay Paris, France
CEO - Intel Corp California, United States
CEO - Koji Nagai Tokyo, Japan

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Indian Organizations Involved in August Month Current Affairs

Indian Organisation Head Headquarter

National Aluminium Chairman & MD
Company Ltd (Nalco) Dr. T. K. Chand Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Hindustan Copper Ltd Chairman & MD
(HCL) Santoshsharma Kolkata
Mineral Exploration
Company Ltd (MECL) - Nagpur, Maharashtra
Director General -
Narcotics Control Bureau RakeshAsthana New Delhi
BhartiAirtel CEO - GopalVittal New Delhi
National Housing Bank MD - S.K. Hota New Delhi
(NHB)
MD &CEO - Siddhartha Mohanty
LIC Housing Finance Maharashtra
DRDO Chairman - G Satheesh Reddy New Delhi
Oil and Natural Gas Chairman -
Corporation (ONGC) ShashiShanker VasantKunj, Delhi
Indian Oil Corporation
(IOC) Chairperson - Sanjiv Singh New Delhi
Power Grid Corporation of Chairman & Managing Director -
India Limited KandikuppaSreekant Gurgaon, Haryana
Life Insurance Corporation Chairman -
(LIC) M R Kumar Mumbai
National Investment and CEO -
Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) Sujoy Bose Mumbai
Chairman & MD -
Air India AshwaniLohani New Delhi
International Centre for
Automotive Technology - Manesar, Gurugram
(ICAT)
National Dairy
Development Board - Anand, Gujarat

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Khadi and Village Industry Chairman -

Commission (KVIC) Vinai Kumar Saxena Mumbai
National Payments MD & CEO -
Corporation of India (NPCI) DilipAsbe Mumbai
All India Institutes of
Medical Sciences (AIIMS) RandeepGuleria New Delhi
Indian National Science President -
Academy (INSA) ChandrimaShaha New Delhi
Garden Reach Shipbuilders Chairman & CEO -
& Engineers (GRSE) Admiral VK Saxena Kolkata
Indian Space Research Director -
Organisation (ISRO) Kailasavadivoo Sivan Bengaluru
Board Of Control For CEO -
Cricket In India (BCCI) Rahul Johri Mumbai
Indian Council of Medical Secretary & Director General
Research (ICMR) Dr.BalramBhargava New Delhi
National Council for Chairperson -
Teacher Education (NCTE) Dr.SatbirBedi New Delhi
Securities and Exchange Chairman - Ajay Tyagi
Board of India (SEBI) Mumbai
Paytm CEO - RenuSatti Noida, Uttar Pradesh
Centre for Cellular and
Molecular Biology - Hyderabad, Telangana
Science and Engineering Secretary -
Research Board (SERB) Prof SandeepVerma New Delhi
Wipro Limited Chairman - RishadPremji Bengaluru
ASSOCHAM President - BalkrishanGoenka New Delhi
Food Safety and Standards Chairperson -
Authority of India (FSSAI) Rita Teotia New Delhi
Central Vigilance Chief Vigilance Commissioner –
Commission Sharad Kumar New Delhi
Vice Chairman - Rajiv Kumar
NITI Aayog CEO - Amitabh Kant New Delhi
Small Industries Chairman and Managing

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Development Bank of India Director -

(SIDBI) Mohammad Mustafa Lucknow
Airports Authority of India Chairman -
(AAI) GuruprasadMohapatra New Delhi
National Hydro Power
Corporation (NHPC) - Faridabad, Haryana
Centre for Development of
Advanced Computing Pune
(CDAC)
Coal India Limited Chairman - Anil Kumar Jha Kolkata
Indian Institute of
Petroleum (IIP) - Dehradun, Uttarakhand
Hindustan Aeronautics MD & Chairman -
Limited (HAL) R Madhavan, Bangalore
Indian Institute of Mass
Communication (IIMC) - New Delhi
India Meteorological Director General -
Department (IMD) Dr.MrutyunjayMohapatra New Delhi
CBDT - Central Board of Chairman -
Direct Taxes Pramod Chandra Mody New Delhi
Marine Products Export
Development Authority -
(MPEDA) Kochi
Chairman -
IndiGo MeleveetilDamodaran Gurugram
Chairman - VikramajitSen
Bombay Stock Exchange MD & CEO - Mumbai
(BSE) AshishkumarChauhan

List of States Involved in August Month Current Affairs

State Capital CM Governor

Meghalaya Shillong Conrad Sangma Tathagata Roy

Delhi New Delhi ArvindKejriwal Anil Bijal

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Bhagat Singh Koshyari

Maharashtra Mumbai DevendraFadnavis
West Bengal Kolkata Mamata Banerjee JagdeepDhankhar
Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Yogi Adityanath Anandiben Patel
Gujarat Gandhinagar Vijay Rupani AcharyaDevVrat
Bihar Bihar Nitish Kumar FaguChauhan
Punjab Chandigarh Amarinder Singh V P Singh Badnore
Rajasthan Jaipur Ashok Gehlot Kalraj Mishra
BiswabhusanHarichandan
Andhra Pradesh Amaravathi Jagan Mohan Reddy
Manipur Imphal N. Biren Singh PadmanabhaAcharya
Chhattisgarh Atal Nagar BhupeshBaghel AnusuiyaUikey
West Bengal Kolkata Mamata Banerjee JagdeepDhankhar
Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Yogi Adithiyanath Anandiben Patel
Jharkhand Ranchi Raghubar Das DraupadiMurmu
VajubaiRudubaiWala
Karnataka Bangalore B. S. Yediyurappa
Jammu & Kashmir Jammu & Srinagar - Satya Pal Malik
Tamil Nadu Chennai E. Palanisamy BanwarilalPurohit
Odisha Bhubaneswar Naveen Patnaik GaneshiLal
Madhya Pradesh Bhopal Kamal Nath LalJiTandon
Satyadev Narayan Arya
Haryana Chandigarh ManoharlalKathar
TamilisaiSoundararajan
Telangana Hyderabad Chandrasekhar Rao
Assam Dishpur SarbanandaSonowal JagdishMukhi
Arunachal
Pradesh Itanagar PemaKhandu BD Mishra

Banks Involved in August Month Current Affairs

Bank Tagline Headquarter CEO/Chairman

Chairman - Rajnish
SBI The banker to every Indian Mumbai Kumar

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Governor - Shaktikant
Das
RBI Deputy Governor
Mumbai BP Kanungo,
N S Vishwanathan,
Mahesh Kumar Jain
Punjab National
Bank The name you can bank upon New Delhi CEO - Sunil Mehta
Janalakshmi Bengaluru ,
Small Finance LikhoApniKahaani Karnataka CEO - Ajay Kanwal
Bank
Federal Bank Your Perfect Banking Partner Aluva, Kerala CEO - ShyamSrinivasan
London, United CEO - Noel Quinn
HSBC Bank - Kingdom (Interim)
Indian Bank Your Tech-friendly bank Chennai CEO -
PadmajaChunduru
Bank of
Maharashtra One Family, One Bank Pune CEO - A. S. Rajeev
Banking For All,
IDBI Bank “AaoSocheinBada” Mumbai CEO -Rakesh Sharma
DBS Bank - Singapore CEO - Piyush Gupta
RBL Bank Apnoka Bank Mumbai CEO - VishwavirAhuja
Yes Bank Experience our Expertise Mumbai CEO - Ravneet Gill
Bank of Baroda India's International Bank Vadodara CEO - P. S. Jayakumar
Cholamandalam
MS General - Chennai -
Insurance
CEO - Amitabh
Axis Bank BadhtiKanaamZindagi Mumbai Chaudhry
KarurVysya Bank Karur, Tamil CEO - Mr. P. R.
Smart Way to Bank Nadu Seshadri
CEO - Chandra
Bandhan Bank "AapkaBhala, SabkiBhalai" Kolkata ShekharGhosh
HDFC Bank We understand your world Mumbai CEO - AdityaPuri

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MD & CEO - R. A.
Canara Bank Together we can Bengaluru Sankara Narayanan
Lakshmi Vilas The changing face of Chennai, Tamil CEO -Parthasarathi
Bank prosperity Nadu Mukherjee

Important Countries Involved in August Month Current Affairs

Country Capital Currency Prime Minister President
Russia Moscow Moscow - Vladimir Putin
UK London Pound Sterling Boris Johnson -
Gambia Banjul Gambian dalasi - Adama Barrow
Guinea Conakry Guinean Franc MamadyYoula -
China China Renminbi, - Xi Jinping
Yuan
Iran Tehran Iranian rial - Hassan Rouhani
Bangladesh Dhaka Bangladeshi Sheikh Hasina -
Taka
South Korea Seoul South Korean - Moon Jae-in
won
Japan Tokyo Japanese yen Shinzo Abe -
Alejandro
Guatemala Guatemala City Guatemalan - Giammattei
quetzal
Brazzaville cfa franc, Denis
Republic of central - SassouNguesso
Congo africancfa franc
Nepal Kathmandu Nepalese rupee - Bidya Devi
Bhandari
bhutanese
Bhutan Thimphu ngultrum, LotayTshering -
indian rupee
Sudan Khartoum Sudanese AbdallaHamdok -
pound
Italy Rome Euro - Sergio Mattarella
Khalifa bin Salman Al

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Bahrain Manama Bahraini dinar Khalifa -

Sheikh Mohammed
UAE Abu Dhabi Dirham bin Rashed al- -
Maktoum
France Paris Euro, cfp franc - Emmanuel Macron
Iceland Reykjavík Icelandic króna KatrinJakobsdottir -
Indonesia Jakarta Indonesian - JokoWidodo
rupiah
New Zealand
Cook Islands Avarua District dollar, Cook Henry Puna -
Islands dollar
Colombo,
Sri Lanka JayawardenepuraKotte Sri Lankan RanilWickremesinghe MaithripalaSirisena
rupee
Thailand Bangkok Thai baht Prayut Chan-o-cha -
Pakistan Islamabad Rupee Imran Khan -
Nauru Yaren Australian - Lionel Aingimea
dollar

Parks, Dam, Airports & lakes in August News

1. Kajin Sara lake -Manang district of Nepal
2. Gogabeel - an ox-bow lake - Katihar district of Bihar
3. Lemru Elephant Reserve –Chattisgarh
4. Okjokullglacier –Iceland
5. Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium– Delhi
6. Kalaburagi airport - Karnataka
7. Subansiri Lower Dam - Subansiri lower hydroelectric project - located along the borders of Assam
and Arunachal Pradesh

Sports Person in News

Athletes
1. Hima Das - Running
2. Mohammad Anas - Running
3. Dutee Chand- Running
4. Satendra Singh Lohia - Para swimmer

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5. V K Vismaya - Running
Archery
1. Komalika Bari – Jharkhand
Badminton
1. SourabhVerma - Madhya Pradesh
Boxing
1. Mary Kom - 51kg category
2. LovlinaBorgohain - 69kg category
Cricket
1. WahabRiaz– Pakistan
2. Dale Steyn - South Africa
3. Colin Ackermann - South Africa
4. HashimAmla - South Africa
5. MarnusLabuschagne - Australia
6. S. Sreesanth
7. Mitchell Johnson - Australia
Chess
1. Surya ShekharGanguly
Shooting
1. AishwaryPratap Singh Tomar
2. TinjitDhanota- Punjab
3. Esha Singh –Telengana
4. ElavenilValarivan
5. AbhishekVerma
6. SaurabhChaudhary
Tennis
1. SumitNagal– India
2. Roger Federer - Switzerland
Snooker
1. KreishhGurbaxani
Racing
1. AishwaryaPissay (Bangalore)–MotoGP
2. Alex Rins - Suzuki Ecstar -MotoGP
Football
1. Diego forlan–Uruguay

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2. Wesley Sneijder– Netherlands

3. Ashley Cole - England
4. Virgil van Dijk– Netherlands
5. Lucy Bronze - England

Wrestling
1. VineshPhogat
2. BajrangPunia
3. Deepak Punia
4. Vicky Chahar

Schemes
1. 'Mukhya Mantri Krishi Ashirwad Yojana' - Jharkhand - Money will be directly transferred into the
bank accounts of farmers in the state.
2. 'Mukhya Mantri Parivar Samridhi Yojna' - Haryana - which will provide social security to families.
Under the scheme, Rs 6000 per year will be given to each eligible family
3. "School Fagadaba" (Make education bettter) scheme – Manipur
4. SUPRA - Scientific and Useful Profound Research Advancement Scheme – launched by The
Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology, GOI -
For High Quality Research Funding
5. National Initiative for School Heads' and Teachers' Holistic Advancements (NISHTHA) - by HRD
Ministry - to train over 42 lakh teachers
6. „SarbatSehatBimaYojna‟ - Punjab - Universal health insurance scheme
7. PURNA project - Prevention of under Nutrition and Reduction of Nutritional Anaemia among
Adolescent Girls - Gujarat
8. SAMARTH - Scheme for Capacity Building in Textile Sector

Abbreviation
1. DPIIT - Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade
2. QRSAM - Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air Missile
3. AERA - Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India
4. NEFT - National Electronic Funds Transfer
5. FAME - Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid &) Electric Vehicle
6. FPI - Foreign Portfolio Investors
7. INAPH - Information Network for Animal Productivity and Health
8. AePS- Aadhaar-Enabled Payment System

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9. DIN - Documentation Identification Number

10. NEDL - National Essential Diagnostics List
11. GMS - Gold Monetisation Scheme
12. SUPRA - Scientific and Useful Profound Research Advancement
13. RTGS - Real-Time Gross Settlement
14. AFA - Additional Factor of Authentication
15. UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
16. MCLR - Marginal Cost of Funds based Lending Rate
17. ECF - Economic Capital Framework
18. KCC - Kisan Credit Card
19. BSID - Biometric Seafarer Identity Document
20. CAGR - Compound Annual Growth Rate
21. PAiSA - Portal for Affordable Credit and Interest Subvention Access

Others
1. 35th ASEAN Summit – Bangkok, Thailand
2. 36th ASEAN Summit - Vietnam
3. 2022 Commonwealth Game - Birmingham, England.
4. Tribal festival AadiMahotsav - Leh in Ladakh
5. BASIC - Brazil, South Africa, India, and China
6. Bandra railway station – Mumbai -
7. Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History - Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
8. 45th G7 summit–Biarritz, France
9. 46thG7 summit – USA
10. 47thG7 summit–UK
11. 2020 Summer Olympics - Host country- Tokyo, Japan
12. 2022 Winter Olympics - Host country- Beijing, China
13. 2024 Summer Olympics - Host country- Paris, France
14. 2026 Winter Olympics (Milan-Cortina 2026) - Host country- Italy
15. Defence Institute of High Altitude Research (DIHAR) - Leh

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