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Date of Release: 16-12-2019
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1. Switzerland to Serve as Partner Country for BioAsia 2020 in Hyderabad

2. Puma Signs Sunil Chhetri as Brand Ambassador for 3 Years
3. Rani Rampal and Saurabh Chaudhary Wins Sports Person of the Year awards at the FICCI India Sports
Awards 2019
4. India’s First Pashu Kisan Credit Cards Distributed in Haryana’s Bhiwani
5. Infosys wins 2019 UN Global Climate Action Award in ‘Carbon Neutral Now’ category
6. ADB Lowers India’s GDP forecast to 5.1% for FY2019; 6.5% for FY 2020
7. National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) Ropes in Suniel Shetty as Brand Ambassador
8. Wasim Jaffer Becomes First Indian To Play 150 Ranji Matches
9. India ranked 9th in the 2019 Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI); Top- Sweden(on 4th- since first three
spot are blank)
10. Abu Dhabi named World’s Leading Sports Tourism Destination
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11. India Finishes Atop with 301 Medals at 2019 South Asian Games in Nepal.
12. India ranks 129th in 2019 human development index; Top- Norway
13. Super 30 founder Anand Kumar Invited by FIA to attend at Republic Day function in New York
14. Odisha Government Reduces Assistance under KALIA Scheme to Rs 4,000 from Rs 10,000
15. ISRO to Launch its Latest spy satellite RISAT-2BR1 along with 9 Foreign Satellites from Sriharikota on
December 11.
16. Miss South Africa Zozibini Tunzi Wins Miss Universe 2019 Title
17. Veteran Actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas awarded at Festival International Du Film De Marrakech in Morocco
for her contribution to cinema
18. 4th India Water Impact Summit 2019 held in Delhi
19. 7th OPEC & non-OPEC Ministerial Meet Held in Vienna
20. Former England cricket captain, Bob Willis, passes away at 70
21. Punjab Government has launched Enable Startup Track Acceleration (ESTAC) programme with an aim to
foster entrepreneurship and innovation in the state.
22. India-Russia Joint Tri-Services Exercise ‘Indra 2019’ to be held Simultaneously in Pune, Goa & Babina from
10 to 19 December
23. 2019 NATO Summit held in London, UK
24. China Tops, India 5th worst Country in invasive use of biometric data: Comparitech Report; Top- China
25. Girish Chandra Chaturvedi appointed as Chairman of NSE
26. Finance Commission headed by N.K. Singh submits report for FY21 to FM
27. Sebi orders LIC, SBI, Bank of Baroda to reduce stake to below 10 pc in UTI AMC by Dec 2020
28. NEFT made available 24*7 from December 16, 2019
29. HDFC ERGO general insurance company launches “my: health Woman Suraksha policy”, specially designed
to cover women against numerous illnesses and contingencies.
30. Mobile app namd Madhu App for e-learning launched in Odisha
31. India Partners Portugal to Set up Country’s first maritime museum at Lothal in Gujarat
32. Mumbai Central Certified India’s first ‘Eat Right Station’ by FSSAI
33. India Ranks 73 in UNCTAD B2C E-Commerce Index 2019; Netherlands Tops
34. India ranks 5th Most Vulnerable Country in Global Climate Risk Index 2020 by Germanwatch; Top- Japan
35. RBI 5th Bi-monthly Monetary Policy Review, 2019-20: Repo Rate unchanged at 5.15%- Repo Rate-5.15%;
Reverse Repo Rate-4.90%; Marginal Standing Facility Rate- 5.40%; Bank Rate- 5.40%; CRR- 4%; SLR- 18.5%.
The GDP growth projection for FY19 is pegged at 5.0% from earlier expectation of growth of 6.1 percent
36. Goldman predicts India’s GDP growth rate for FY20 at 5.3%
37. Google’s Sundar Pichai Named New Chief of Parent firm Alphabet
38. Pritivirajsing Roopun Appointed new President of Mauritius
39. Roger Federer becomes first living Swiss to get ‘coin’ minted in his honor
40. New Zealand win MCC’s Spirit of Cricket award 2019
41. Samsung becomes first smartphone company to hit $10 bn revenue in India
42. Typhoon Kammuri Makes Landfall In Philippines
43. Bajaj Finserv Launches #LoanFlexibleHai Campaign To Drive Awareness For Its Flexi Personal Loan
44. Veteran journalist at Press Trust of India, Bhaskar Menon passes away at 87
45. CRISIL cuts India’s GDP growth for FY20 to 5.1%
46. India and ADB Sign USD 206 million loan to strengthen urban services in 5 Tamil Nadu cities
47. Vice President Venkaiah Naidu Launches “Bharatiya Poshan Anthem” Penned by Prasoon Joshi
48. Indo-Nepal joint military Exercise SURYA KIRAN 2019 Commences in Rupendehi, Nepal
49. India-China joint training exercise HAND-IN-HAND 2019 to begin in Meghalaya
50. Author Tony Joseph wins 2019 Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize for ‘Early Indians’
51. Lionel Messi and Megan Rapinoe win 2019 Ballon d’Or awards
52. RBI adds Debt ETFs as eligible securities for repo transactions
53. Intensified Mission Indradhanush 2.0 Campaign Launched to prevent eight diseases
54. Govt Mandates Hallmarking for gold jewellery/artefacts from Jan 15, 2021
55. India Becomes First Country to make entire Haj process digital
56. Masatsugu Asakawa elected 10th President of ADB
57. Saudi Arabia assumes presidency of G20
58. 2019 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP25) Begins in Madrid, Spain
59. Labour Ministry to celebrate Pension Week from 30th Nov, 2019 to 6th Dec 2019
60. 10th Indian Organ Donation Day Held in New Delhi
61. Karnataka defeats Tamil Nadu to win Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (Cricket)
62. Soma Roy Burman Takes charge as new Controller General of Accounts (CGA)
63. Union Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju Launch 3rd Khelo India Youth Games in Guwahati
64. 2019 Syed Modi International Badminton Championships- Men’s Singles – Wang Tzu-wei; Women’s Single –
Carolina Marín
65. Third Global Ayurveda Summit 2019 Held in Kochi. The theme of the Summit was ‘Mainstreaming Ayurveda
through Startups, Innovation and Branding’.
66. UNESCO has designated Mumbai as a member of UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) in the field of
Film.
Hyderabad has also been included in this network in the field of Gastronomy.
67. World’s First Blockchain-based Carbon Trading Exchange Launched in Singapore
68. Dhanlaxmi Bank MD & CEO T. Latha Resigns
69. Six-time world champion M. C. Mary Kom has been included in a 10-member athlete ambassadors group
for boxers by the International Olympic Council’s Boxing Task Force to represent boxers at the Tokyo
Olympics 2020.
70. Noted Hindi poet Leeladhar Jagoori Conferred with KK Birla Foundation’s 2018 Vyas Samman for his
collection of poems, Jitne Log Utne Prem
71. Bangladeshi cricketer Shakib Al Hasan, banned from cricket for 2 years by ICC for match fixing.
72. Amit Shah to inaugurate SCO Joint Exercise on Urban Earthquake Search and Rescue (SCOJtEx) in New Delhi
73. India and Uzbekistan will hold their first-ever joint field training exercise named ‘DUSTLIK-2019’. It will be
held at Chirchiq area in Uzbekistan from November 04 to November 13, 2019.
74. South Africa defeated England 32-12 to win the Rugby World Cup title 2019.
75. Film Producer Champak Jain passes away
76. Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik selected for Italian Golden Sand Art Award 2019
77. Google to buy wearables maker “Fitbit” for $2.1 billion
78. The maps prepared by Survey General of India depicting the new Union Territories of Jammu & Kashmir
and Ladakh has been now released.
The new Union Territory of Ladakh consists of two districts of Kargil and Leh. The rest of the former State of
Jammu and Kashmir is in the new Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
79. As per the data released by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), India’s unemployment rate
in October rose to 8.5%. This is the highest since August 2016, and up from 7.2% in September. Here are
some other facts:
Urban unemployment rate: 8.9%
Rural unemployment rate: 8.3%.
Tripura and Haryana saw unemployment levels of more than 20% (the highest),
while unemployment was the lowest in Tamil Nadu at 1.1%.
80. OECD predicts India’s GDP growth at 6.6% in 2020-24
81. India ranked 133 in 2019 Women, Peace, and Security Index; Top- Norway
82. Industrialist and chairman of Modi Enterprises, Krishan Kumar Modi, passed away at the age of 79 years.
Modi was also a former president of FICCI. Modi led FICCI in 1997.
83. Madhuri Vijay’s first novel ‘The Far Field’ wins 2019 JCB prize for Literature
84. Biennial Commonwealth Law Ministers’ Conference begins in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Theme of the event:
“Equal Access to Justice and the Rule of Law”.
85. BofAML predicts India’s GDP growth rate for FY20 at 5.8%
86. Indian-origin researcher Neeraj Sharma wins ‘Early Career Researcher of the Year’ award by Australian Govt
87. Ashleigh Barty of Australia defeated the defending champion Elina Svitolina to win the WTA Finals 2019 in
women’s single.
88. Lakshya Sen Wins SaarLorLux Open Badminton Tournament in Germany
89. Novak Djokovic beat Denis Shapovalov to win fifth Paris Masters title
90. Atal Pension Yojana has over 1.9 cr subscribers now: PFRDA
91. 5th world conference of world anti-doping agency (WADA) held in Katowice, Poland
92. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has unveiled two new IT Initiatives named ICEDASH and ATITHI on
November 4, 2019 for improved monitoring and pace of customs clearance of imported goods and
facilitating arriving international passengers.
ICEDASH is an Ease of Doing Business monitoring dashboard of the Indian Customs helping the public see
the daily Customs clearance times of import cargo at various ports and airports.
The ATITHI app will facilitate hassle-free and faster clearance by Customs at the airports by electronic filing
of Customs baggage and currency declarations and thus enhance the experience of international tourists
and other visitors at the airports.
93. IIT Madras develops India’s “first indigenously” designed standing wheelchair named Arise
94. The US Navy exercise that it conducts with various other navies named ‘Cooperation Afloat Readiness and
Training (CARAT)- 2019’ has started with Bangladesh Navy in Chattogram, Bangladesh from 4 to 7
November, 2019.
CARAT is a series of annual bilateral military exercises conducted by the United States Pacific Fleet with
several member nations of ASEAN in Southeast Asia.
95. Reserve Bank announces the opening of first cohort under the Regulatory Sandbox; Theme- ‘Retail
Payments’
The innovative products/services that will be considered by RBI for inclusion under this ‘Retail Payments’
based RS is:
Mobile payments including feature phone-based payment services
Offline payment solutions
Contactless payments
96. Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) has allowed policyholders to revive their policies that have lapsed
for more than two years. Before: Earlier, after the IRDA Product Regulation 2013, which came into effect on
January 1, 2014, the revival period was restricted to two consecutive years from the date of the first unpaid
premium.
Now: The LIC policyholders who bought their policies after January 1, 2014 could revive their,
Non-linked policies within five years of the first unpaid premium.
Unit-linked policies within three years of the first unpaid premium.
97. N.V. Balasubramanian Retired Judge of Madras High Court Passes Away
98. India’s first global Mega Science Exhibition ‘Vigyan Samagam’ Begins in Kolkata
99. The first-ever ‘BIMSTEC Ports’ Conclave’ will be held at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. The permanent
secretariat of BIMSTEC is in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The current Chairmanship of BIMSTEC is with Sri Lanka
100. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved to provide $451-million (around Rs 3200 crore)
loan to strengthen power connectivity between the southern and northern parts of the Chennai–
Kanyakumari Industrial Corridor (CKIC) in Tamil Nadu.
101. The Indian Coast Guard conducted the Regional level Search and Rescue Workshop and Exercise –
2019 (ReSAREX – 2019) in Goa on November 05 and 06, 2019.
102. Venu Srinivasan (Chairman of TVS Motor Company and Sundaram Clayton) has been conferred with
the Deming Prize for Individuals 2019. Elgi Equipments (Coimbatore-headquartered) has bagged the
coveted 2019 Deming Prize for Total Quality Management.
103. Sudhir Mital elected as president of the Gymnastics Federation of India (GFI).
104. The Sixth G20 Parliamentary Speakers’ Summit was held in Tokyo, Japan from November 3-5, 2019.
The Indian delegation was led by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla. The G20 Parliamentary summit is also known
as P20 Speaker’s Summit.
105. India will be the host nation for the ‘No Money For Terror’ Conference to be held in 2020.
106. The ministry of commerce and industries has allocated a separate Harmonized System(HS) code to
Khadi fabrics.
HS Stands for Harmonized System and it is a six digit identification code. It was developed by the WCO
(World Customs Organization- HQ- Brussels, Belgium) and custom officers use HS Code to clear every
commodity that enters or crosses any international border.
107. Maharashtra has been ranked first among 18 large states in the first ever ranking of states on their
capacity to deliver justice to citizens as per the ‘India Justice Report (IJR) 2019’ published by the Tata Trusts
108. Eight Indian firms have been named in the KPMG and H2 Ventures’ ‘Fintech100’ list with two firms
in top 10. PayTm is ranked 5th while Ola is ranked 8th.
Ant Financial (China) is on rank one in the list. This report compiles a list of the best fintech innovators from
around the world.
109. Rajasthan Patrika group chairman Gulab Kothari Selected for Raja Ram Mohan Roy Award for
Journalism by PCI
110. Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu Inaugurates Three-days 10th Asian Conference on Emergency
Medicine 2019 (ACEM 2019) in New Delhi on November 7, 2019
111. The book titled ‘Simplicity and Wisdom’, dedicated to Late Vedanti Swami Pragananand, authored
by Renowned industrialist and philanthropist, Dinesh Shahra.
112. Manu Bhaker bags gold in 10m air pistol in the (14th) Asian Shooting Championship, 2019 in Doha,
Qatar
113. Indian start-up ecosystem continues to be the 3rd largest in the world, Top- China: NASSCOM
Report
Here are some other facts from the report:
8900-9300 Start-ups incepted during 2014-19, overall base growing at 12-15% y-o-y
1300+ Start-ups added in 2019
7 Unicorns added in 2019; total 24 unicorns are active in India
$ 4.4 bn Total funding received by Start-ups in 2019 (Jan-Sep)
60,000 New Direct Jobs created; 1.3-1.8 Lakh New Indirect Jobs created
114. India, Indonesia joint naval exercise ‘Samudra Shakti’ held in Bay of Bengal
115. IRDAI has barred Reliance Health Insurance Ltd (RHICL) from selling new policies due to its weak
financial health.
The regulator has also asked RHICL to transfer the entire policyholders’ liabilities along with financial assets
to Reliance General Insurance Co Ltd (RGICL), which in turn will settle claims of the existing policyholders.
116. Chairman of the Aditya Birla Group, Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla has been honoured with the ABLF
Global Asian Award by the UAE Government in Dubai.
117. India will be the host country for the FIH Hockey Men’s World Cup 2023. Apart from this, Spain and
the Netherlands have been selected to co-host the 2022 FIH Hockey Women’s World Cup.
118. Shilpostav- 2019 held in New Delhi. It is the annual fair of artisans from across the country.
119. Devendra Fadnavis resigns as chief minister of Maharashtra
120. Nomura cuts GDP prediction for India to 4.9% for FY20; 6.1% for FY21
121. The Reserve Bank of India has increased the household income limits for borrowers of Non-Banking
Financial Companies-Micro Finance Institutions (NBFC-MFIs) in rural and urban/semi urban areas as under:
For rural areas: Increased to Rs 1.25 lakhs from Rs 1 lakh
For urban/semi urban areas: Increased to Rs 2 lakhs from Rs 1.6 lakhs
122. ‘World Tolerance Summit’ to be held in Dubai
123. ADB approves $300 million for power transmission expansion in Bangladesh
124. The 15-year-old Shafali Verma has created history as she became the youngest Indian cricketer to
score a half-century in international cricket, surpassing Sachin Tendulkar’s 30-year-old record.
125. Kento Momota Defends Fuzhou China Open Badminton Title to Claim 10th Title of 2019
126. France Claims Fed Cup Title 2019 (Tennis) with 3-2 Win Against Australia
127. India’s first Elephant Memorial opens in Mathura
128. The three-day first-of-its-kind global conference, Sanskrit Bharati Vishwa Sammelan, held in New
Delhi
129. World’s first CNG port terminal to be set up at Bhavnagar in Gujarat
130. Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) has started a mass cleanliness-
cum-awareness drive in 50 identified beaches under the “Swachh – Nirmal Tat Abhiyaan” from 11th -17th
November, 2019.
131. IAF conducts Air-Fest 2019 in Nagpur
132. Writer Shanta Gokhale Selected for Tata Literature Live! Lifetime Achievement Award 2019
133. Former CEC TN Seshan Passes Away at 86
134. Dhrupad maestro and Padma Shri awardee Ramakant Gundecha passes away at 56
135. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the 11th edition of the BRICS summit to be held in
Brasilia, Brazil on 13-14 November 2019.
The theme of the BRICS summit 2019 is “Economic Growth for an Innovative Future.”
136. “National Capital Region -2041” Conclave held in New Delhi
137. The first India-US joint tri-services Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) Exercise
named ‘Tiger Triumph’ is scheduled to begin at Visakhapatnam from November 13 to 21.
138. SBI Report predicts India’s GDP for FY20 at 5% and FY21 at 6.2%
139. Cyclone Bulbul hits part of West Bengal and Odisha
140. Hyderabad to host ‘IndiaJoy’ from November 20-23. It is a global platform for Digital, Media and
Entertainment Corporations to collaborate and innovate.
141. Arvind Sawant Quits as Minister of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises; Prakash Javadekar gets
Additional charge
142. India has received the first prize at BRICS Young Scientist forum’s conclave in Brazil from 6- 8
November.
Ravi Prakash, who is a PhD scholar from Indian Council of Agricultural Research-National Dairy Research
Institute, has bagged the first position for inventing an affordable indigenously designed milk chilling unit
for small to marginal rural dairy farmers.
143. The Union Minister of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), Nitin Gadkari, will inaugurate
the 39th India International Trade Fair 2019 (IITF 2019) in New Delhi’s Pragati Maidan on November 14,
2019.
Theme- The theme of the 14-day fair (November 14-27, 2019) is ‘Ease of Doing Business’.
Partner Country – The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
Focus Country – The Republic of Korea
Focus States – Bihar and Jharkhand
144. The 6th World Congress on Rural and Agricultural Finance was held in New Delhi on November 12
and 13, 2019. APRACA Headquarters- Manila, Philippines
145. Luka Modric Wins The 2019 Golden Foot Award
146. Pravind Jugnauth sworn in as Prime Minister of Mauritius for a five-year term
147. YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh has launched the ‘Nadu-Nedu’
programme which aims at transforming government schools into vibrant and competitive institutions.
The scheme was launched on November 14, 2019 i.e Children’s Day.
The total budget of the scheme is Rs 12,000 crores.
148. Uttar Pradesh government has launched a web portal and a mobile application named e-Ganna
App, for sugarcane farmers of the state.
149. Assam State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (ASCPCR) has launched a mobile app named
‘Sishu Suraksha’ for the protection of rights of children of Assam.
150. Prime Minister Modi invited the President of Brazil, Mr. Jair Messias Bolsonaro to be the Chief
Guest at the Republic Day 2020.
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi met H.E. Mr. Jair Messias Bolsonaro, President of Brazil on the sidelines
of the 11th BRICS summit at Brasilia on 13 November 2019.
151. Moody’s Investors Service has revised its GDP growth rate prediction for India for Calender Year
2019 to 5.6% from its earlier prediction of 5.8%.
India’s GDP growth rate prediction for 2020 as per Moody’s- 6.6%.
India’s GDP growth rate prediction for 2021 as per Moody’s- 6.7%.
152. Google will launch a checking account service next year in a collaboration with Citigroup and a
credit union at Stanford University. It will be launched under a project code named Cache
153. National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX) has partnered with NSE Indices Limited and
launched India’s first agri index — ‘NCDEX Agridex’, for easy reference to price variations in agricultural
commodities.
The AGRIDEX tracks and replicates the performance of the ten most liquid commodities traded on the
NCDEX’s platform.
154. TIME magazine has released its first-ever TIME 100 Next and Indian athlete Dutee Chand has been
named in the list.
TIME 100 Next is a new expansion of the TIME 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
155. Indian mathematician, Vashishtha Narayan Singh passes away
156. Russian President Vladimir Putin invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the Victory Day
celebrations in May 09, 2020. Victory Day is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany
in 1945
157. “Bali Yatra” festival begins in Cuttack, Odisha
158. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Inaugurates Sisseri River Bridge in Arunachal Pradesh
159. 8th International Conference on Agricultural Statistics to be Held in New Delhi
160. The annual Bribery Risk Matrix 2019 was released by TRACE recently to measure business bribery
risk in 200 countries. India has been placed at 78th spot with bribery risk of 48.
Overall, New Zealand ranked first as the country with lowest bribery risk having risk score of 4 followed by
Norway and Denmark. Bangladesh emerged as the top most nation among the South Asian countries
where the bribery risk is high.
161. Harish Bhat Authors Novel Named ‘An Extreme Love for Coffee’
162. Two-day Regional Conference on Replication of Good Governance Practices Concludes in Jammu
163. India’s first-ever day-night pink ball Test match to be played at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens from
November 22 against Bangladesh
164.
Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu Releases the book ‘Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past’ authored by
Vikram Sampath
165. Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Harsh Vardhan has launched SAANS Campaign which
stands for ‘Social Awareness and Action to Neutralise Pneumonia Successfully’.
The aim of the campaign is to reduce child mortality due to pneumonia, which contributes to around 15%
deaths annually of children under the age of five.
The campaign was launched in Gandhinagar, Gujarat at the 6th National Summit on Good, Replicable
Practices and Innovations.
166. Union Minister for Home Affairs, Shri Amit Shah has inaugurated the 15 day National Tribal Festival
‘Aadi Mahotsav’ in New Delhi on November 16, 2019.
The theme of the event is: “A celebration of the spirit of tribal culture, craft, cuisine and commerce”.
167. The 1st National Agrochemicals Congress was held in New Delhi between November 13-16, 2019.
The theme of the event was: Country’s Status on Various Fronts of Agrochemicals.
168. Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for AYUSH and Defence, Shri Shripad Yesso Naik
inaugurated two days “International Conference on Yoga for Heart care” at Mysuru, Karnataka.
The theme of the event was: ‘Yoga for Heart Care’.
169. The Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Shri Ram Vilas Paswan has
released the Water Quality Report for State Capitals & Delhi as analysed by Bureau of India Standards (BIS).
Mumbai has topped the ranking, Hyderabad and Bhubaneshwar share the joint second spot while Ranchi is
on the third. Delhi is ranked at 15th.
170. Vodafone Idea posts India’s biggest ever quarterly loss at Rs 50,921 crore
171. ICICI Bank launches ‘Maha Loan Dhamaka’ to provide on-the-spot loan approvals
172. NCAER predicts India’s GDP growth at 4.9% in FY20
173. Pakistan became the first country in the world to introduce the World Health Organization (WHO)-
recommended typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV)
174. Union Minister Smriti Irani Inaugurates Bharatiya Poshan Krishi Kosh (BPKK) to Tackle Malnutrition
175. First Ever India-Qatar Bilateral Maritime Exercise Za’ir-Al-Bahr Begins in Doha
176. 4th India International Cherry Blossom Festival Held at Shillong
177. Indian Army Begins Exercise ‘Sindhu Sudarshan’ in Rajasthan’s Barmer
178. India Inks $91 Million Loan with ADB for Comprehensive Water Management in Karnataka
179. Veteran actors Rekha and Sridevi have been conferred with the Akkineni Nageswara Rao (ANR)
National Award for the years 2019 and 2018 respectively on November 17.
180. Stefanos Tsitsipas beats Dominic Thiem to win Maiden ATP Finals title
181. South Korea’s Joohyung Kim Wins Panasonic Open India 2019 (Golf)
182. Harmeet Desai Wins 2019 Indonesia Open TT Championship
183. Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde takes oath as the 47th Chief Justice of India on November 18, 2019. He
succeeds Justice Ranjan Gogoi.
184. The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) officially changes its name as World
Athletics
185. India ranked 59 in IMD World Talent Ranking Report; Top- Switzerland
186. The Union Minister for Rural Development, Panchayati Raj and Agriculture Shri Narendra Singh
Tomar inaugurated the SARAS India International Trade Fair (IITF) 2019 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi on
November 18, 2019.
187. 12th Urban Mobility India Conference and Expo 2019 Held in Lucknow
The theme of the conference was “Accessible and liveable Cities”.
188. International Principal’s Education Conference (IPEC) Inaugurated in Nagpur
189. India ASEAN InnoTech Summit 2019 Organised in Davao, Philippines
The theme of the three-day Technology & Innovation Summit is Accelerating towards innovative
development.
190. As per the ‘Prime Global Cities Index’ by Global property consultant Knight Frank, New Delhi has
been ranked at 9th place in terms of fastest growing prime residential market in the world.
Moscow has topped the ranking. Bengaluru is at 20th while Mumbai is ranked at 28th position.
191. Microsoft’s Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella has topped the Fortune’s Businessperson of the
Year 2019 list. Ajay Banga the CEO of Mastercard is the top Indian in the list and is ranked at 8th spot.
Jayshree Ullal of Arista is ranked at 18th.
192. Virat Kohli named PETA India’s 2019 Person of the Year
193. Visakhapatnam Police have launched first of its kind cybersecurity interactive robotic agent robot
named CYBIRA to improve the efficiency to address the complaints.
194. Renowned naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough has been awarded the 2019 Indira
Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development.
195. Bhubaneswar to host India’s home matches in 2020 Hockey Pro League
196. Swachh Survekshan Grameen 2019 Awards: Tamil Nadu Top State, Peddapalli (Telangana) Top
District
197. 3-day Global Bio-India Summit 2019 Begins in New Delhi
Theme: Power to Transform Lives: Bioscience to Bioeconomy – USD 100 Bn by 2025
198. NuGen Mobility Summit 2019 to be held from Nov 27-29 at Manesar
Theme 2019: “Smart & Green Mobility”
199. Greta Thunberg and Divina Maloum awarded International Children’s Peace Prize 2019
200. Manu Bhaker Bags gold in 10m Air Pistol at 2019 ISSF World Cup Final
201. Bangalore has emerged highest-ranked Indian city in the first-ever Prosperity & Inclusion City Seal
and Awards (PICSA) Index . The index has been topped by Zurich in Switzerland. While Bengaluru is placed
at 83rd position, Delhi (101) and Mumbai (107) are the other two Indian cities in the list
202. Afghanistan most impacted by terrorism, India Ranks 7th: 2019 Global Terrorism Index
203. Centre Constitutes High Level Committee on Petrochemical Investment Headed by AP bureaucrat
Rajat Bhargava
204. The Modern Coach Factory (MCF), Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh has introduced indigenously
developed humanoid robot named ‘Sona 1.5’ to transport documents from one place to another.
205. OECD Cuts Global Growth Forecast for 2020 to 2.9%. As per OECD, the world economy is projected
to grow 2.9% in 2019 and 2020, as against its earlier estimate of 3.0% in September.
206. Oxford Dictionaries has declared “climate emergency” as the word of the year for 2019
207. India ranks 8th in WHO study on physical activity among adolescents; Top- Bangladesh
208. G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting 2019 held in Nagoya, Japan
209. Kalaburagi Airport Inaugurated in Karnataka Under UDAN / RCS
210. The Union Territory (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir has achieved the highest road length in the
country under the Pradhan Mantri Grameen Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) in this year. 11,400 km construction
completed
211. India has been chosen to host the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Forum of Young
Scientists and Innovators in 2020.
212. 8th International Tourism Mart Organised at Imphal, Manipur
213. National Tribal Craft Mela 2019 inaugurated in Bhubaneswar
214. Indian Army conduct ‘Epic Run 2019’ in West Bengal
215. OECD predicts India’s GDP growth rate in 2020 at 6.2%
2019- 5.8%
◦2020- 6.2%
◦2021- 6.4%
216. Indian Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui has received the Lesley Ho Asian Film Talent Award at the
Singapore International Film Festival for his Netflix’s Emmy-nominated original series ‘Sacred Games’.
217. Eliud Kipchoge (Men's) and Dalilah Muhammad (Women's) Wins World Athlete of the Year 2019
218. Former Madhya Pradesh CM Kailash Joshi Passes Away at 91

219. Over 7 crore farmers have been benefited under Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN)
scheme: Government
220. Sangai Festival 2019 Commences in Manipur
221. Ocean Dance Festival 2019 Concludes in Cox Bazar, Bangladesh
222. Etawah Lion Safari in Uttar Pradesh opened for public. The Etawah lion safari is the first in India to
have a lion breeding centre set up with an aim to develop a research facility on Asiatic lions.
223. Lakshya Sen wins Scottish Badminton Open title
224. Rafael Nadal Beat Denis Shapovalov to Win 2019 Davis Cup Title
225. DoT sets up committee to examine the impact of telecom tariff hikes; Head – Rajiv Gauba
226. Book titled “Finding a Gaps” authored by Simon Taufel released
227. Floating school project of Bangladesh named ‘The Arcadia Education Project’ wins Aga Khan
Architecture Award.
228. Uttar Pradesh Govt to set up its First vulture conservation and breeding centre in Maharajganj
district
229. India Ratings projects India’s GDP growth for FY20 at 5.6%
230. Christopher Paolini’s first science fiction novel titled “To Sleep in a Sea of Stars” to be out soon
231. CII bestows India’s first Quality Ratna award on Chairman of Sundram Fasteners’, Mr Suresh
Krishna
232. Indian Journalist Neha Dixit Awarded with 2019 International Press Freedom Awards. Other
winners include:◦Patrícia Campos Mello – Brazil; Lucía Pineda Ubau and Miguel Mora – Nicaragua; Maxence
Melo Mubyazi – Tanzania
233. Rajasthan Writer Manisha Kulshreshtha Wins 28th Bihari Puraskar
234. American singer Billie Eilish named Billboard’s 2019 Woman of the Year; Taylor Swift named
inaugural ‘Woman of the Decade’ award.
235. Odia Weightlifter Jhili Dalabehera Bags Prestigious Ekalabya Puraskar 2019
236. Cartoonist Sudhir Dhar passes away at 87
237. “DEFCOM INDIA 2019” Seminar Held in New Delhi
Theme: “Communications: A Decisive Catalyst for Jointness”.
238. WATEC 2019 Conference Held at Tel Aviv in Israel
239. General Bipin Rawat set to be named first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS)
240. DRDO Chairman G Satheesh Reddy Gets Honorary Fellowship by UK’s Royal Aeronautical Society
241. Odisha to host Men’s Hockey World Cup in 2023
242. Former Navy Chief Admiral Sushil Kumar passes away at 79
243. Oil to telecom major Reliance Industries (RIL) surpasses the Rs 10-lakh-crore in market
capitalisation, becoming the first Indian company to do so.
244. National University of Singapore tops QS World University Asia Rankings 2020; IIT Bombay top
Indian at 34
245. Uddhav Bal Thackeray has sworn-in as the 19th chief minister of Maharashtra. He is the president
of Shiv Sena.
246. Sports Ministry forms expert committee for reviewing National Sports Code draft; Head- Justice
Mukundakam Sharma
247. Joint military exercise ‘SURYA KIRAN – XIV’ between India and Nepal will be conducted at
Salijhandi, Rupendehi district of Nepal from 03 to 16 December 2019.
248. Amur Swaminathan Lakshminarayanan appointed as Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive
Officer (CEO) of Tata Communications
249. Jeff Bezos – Amazon ($112 billion) tops Forbes ‘The Real-Time Billionaires List’. Reliance Industries
chairman Mukesh Ambani has become the 9th richest person- $60.6 billion. He is the top Indian.
250. India Ranks 12th among 61 nations in 2019 Global Diplomacy Index, China Tops
251. Shri. H R Khan has been appointed as the first chairman of the steering committee of the Code for
Responsible Lending (CRL) in micro-credit. HR Khan is a Former deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of
India (RBI). Microfinance Institutions Network (MFIN) and Sa-Dhan had jointly unveiled the ‘Code for
Responsible Lending’ (CRL) for the micro-credit industry in September 2019.
252. Malayalam poet Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri has won the Jnanpith Award 2019. He is
popularly known by the name “Akkitham”.
253. The 10th edition of joint military training (JMT) between Indian Air Force (IAF) and Republic of
Singapore Air Force (RSAF) is being held at Kalaikunda Air Force Station, West Bengal from Oct 31 to Dec
12.
254. Renowned Freedom fighter & former MP Laxminarayan Nayak passes away at 101
255. Aditya Birla Finance becomes first NBFC to list commercial paper on Stock Market
256. Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan has launched a mobile app named ‘Consumer App’ for
consumer complaint registration and redressal. Consumers can register their complaints via the app. The
complaints which are simple in nature will be resolved within 15 days, while complicated ones will be
redressed in 60 days.
257. India’s largest ‘charkha’ made of waste plastic inaugurated in Noida
258. RBI appoints Jai Bhagwan Bhoria as new administrator for PMC Bank
259. Kuldeep Singh Dhatwalia appointed chief spokesperson of government.
260. State Bank of India becomes first Indian bank to have office in Australia’s Victoria
261. Govt Keeps Interest Rates of Small Savings Scheme unchanged for Oct-Dec qtr of FY20. The list is
given below:
Savings Deposit- 4%
Senior Citizen Savings Scheme (SCSS)- 8.6%
Public Provident Fund Account (PPF )- 7.9%
National Savings Certificates (NSC)- 7.9%
Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP )- 7.6% (maturity- 113 months)
Sukanya Samriddhi Accounts- 8.4%
262. SS Mallikarjuna Rao appointed MD and CEO of Punjab National Bank
263. Surjit Bhalla appointed as executive director for India at IMF
264. IAS officer Abhishek Singh has been appointed the chief executive officer of MyGov India, the
government’s citizen-centric online platform.
265. Jaipur Railway Station Tops Indian Railways’ Station Cleanliness Survey 2019
266. Government has launched PRAKASH Portal for better coordination among the ministries of power,
coal and Indian Railways for coal supply to power plants.
PRAKASH stands for ”Power Rail Koyla Availability through Supply Harmony”.
267. Sachin Tendulkar Receives ‘Most Effective Swachhata Ambassador’ Award
268. England all-rounder Ben Stokes has bagged the Professional Cricketers’ Association (PCA) Players’
Player of the Year award 2019.
269. Jaspreet Bindra Authors his First Book “The Tech Whisperer”
270. S&P Global Ratings Projects India’s growth Forecast at 6.3% for FY20; 7% for FY21
271. Drone Innovators Network Summit-2019 Held in New Delhi
272. Indo-Maldives Joint Military Exercise Ekuverin 19 to be Held in Pune from 07-20 October
273. Bhumi Pednekar wins Face of Asia award at Busan International Film Festival
274. Government forms Working Group on Industrial Policy; Head- Dr. Guruprasad Mohapatra
275. Singapore Tops Citizen-centric IMD Smart City Index 2019; Hyderabad Top Indian City at 67
276. India has been ranked as the 4th most powerful military in the world according to Global Firepower
(GFP) 2019 Military Strength Ranking. Top- US
277. Novak Djokovic wins Japan Open Tennis Title 2019
278. Naomi Osaka and Dominic Thiem wins 2019 China Open Tennis Title
279. Country’s first-ever e-waste clinic to be set up in Bhopal
280. Michelle Obama’s book “Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice” to be launched
soon
281. Author and journalist Fakir Hassen Pens Book ”150 Years of Celebrating the Mahatma – the South
African Legacy”
282. 5th World Parliament of Science, Religion and Philosophy Held in Pune, Maharashtra on the theme
‘role of science, religion and philosophy for world peace and well-being of mankind’
283. World Congress of Poets 2019 Held in Bhubaneswar
284. First India International Cooperatives Trade Fair (IICTF) to be Held in New Delhi
285. Govt sets up high-level panel to check money laundering activities; Head- Ajay Bhushan Pandey
286. IRDAI Sets Up Working Group (WG) to Revisit Product Structure of Title Insurance; Head- T.L.
Alamelu
287. 2019 Nobel Prize In Physics Awarded to Three Scientists For New Understanding of Universe
Winners
James Peebles (USA) has won one half of the award for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology.
Michel Mayor (Switzerland) and Didier Queloz (Switzerland) have jointly been awarded the other half of the
award for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.
288. Saturn Overtakes Jupiter as Planet with Most Moons. Now, the total number of moons orbiting the
ringed planet has increased to 82.
289. 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Jointly Awarded to 3 Scientists for Development of Lithium-ion
Batteries-
John B Goodenough, USA
M Stanley Whittingham, USA
Akira Yoshino, Japan
290. India Ranks 68th While Singapore Tops the WEF Global Competitiveness Index 2019
291. The Reserve Bank of India has announced to introduce an internal ombudsman scheme at the large
non-bank PPI issuers i.e entities that have more than 10 million pre-paid payment instruments outstanding.
292. Ind-Ra reduces India’s GDP growth rate prediction for FY20 to 6.1%
293. Moody’s Slashes India’s GDP Growth Forecast to 5.8% for FY20 and 6.6% for FY21
294. The Reserve Bank of India has given approval to the Kerala state government to amalgamate 13
district cooperative banks (DCBs) with the Kerala State Cooperative Bank and form the new entity named
“Kerala Bank”. (Total of 14 banks)
295. Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation has launched a mobile app named “mHariyali”
which aims to encourage Public engagement in planting trees and other such Green drives.
296. Mukesh Ambani has again topped the Forbes India Rich List for 2019 with a total wealth of USD
51.4 billion.
297. Mumbai ranked 12th richest city in the world; Top- New York- New World Wealth report
298. Padma Shri awardee and eminent Saxophonist Kadri Gopalnath passes away. He was 69
299. Life Insurance Council, that is a forum of 24 life insurer companies will soon launch the insurance
industry’s first joint mass media campaign will a slogan ‘Sabse Pehle Life Insurance’.
300. Second Indo-Japan Joint Military Exercise DHARMA GUARDIAN 2019 to be Held from 19 Oct to 02
Nov in Mizoram
301. Alexei Leonov, First Man To Ever Walk In Space, passes away
302. Typhoon Hagibis hits Japan
303. Bill Gates Authors “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs
We Need”
304. The central government will launch a programme named ‘Vigyan Jyoti’ to help girl students
inculcate interest in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
305. India Ranks 7th in Brand Finance Nation Ranking 2019; United Retains Top Spot
306. Indo-US joint military exercise ‘Vajra Prahar’ to be held in Seattle
307. World Bank revises GDP Growth Rate for India at 6% for FY20; The GDP rate in 2018-19 was 6.9%
for India as per World Bank.
GDP Rate for India as per World Bank in FY21: 6.9%
GDP Rate for India as per World Bank in FY22: 7.2%
308. Lakshya Sen wins Dutch Open 2019 (Badminton)
309. Daniil Medvedev wins Shanghai Masters title 2019 (Tennis)
310. Conference on ‘One Nation One Tag – FASTag’ held in New Delhi
311. Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo & Michael Kremer Wins 2019 Nobel Prize in
Economic Sciences
312. Dubai Customs has launched the World Logistics Passport as part of the implementation of the first
phase of its Dubai Silk Road strategy.
313. IRDAI Constitutes Committee Headed by TR Alamelu to recommend amendments to Reinsurance,
Investment, FRBs and Llyods India Regulations
314. IMF revises GDP growth rate prediction for 2019 at 6.1% and for 2020 at 7.0%
315. HCL’s Shiv Nadar tops EdelGive Hurun India Philanthropy List 2019
316. Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo Jointly win Booker Prize 2019. Margaret Atwood has
won for her novel ‘The Testaments’ and Bernardine Evaristo for her novel ‘Girl, Woman, Other’.
317. Air India Becomes First Airline In The World To Use Taxibot On Commercial Airbus Flight
318. Book titled “Good Economics for Hard Times – Better Answers to our Biggest Problems” by Abhijit
Banerjee and Esther Duflo to be released
319. Priyanshu Rajawat Wins Men’s Singles title at Bahrain International Series (Badminton) 2019
320. Indian Railway to become world first ‘net-zero’ carbon emitter by 2030: Railway Minister Piyush
Goyal
321. Mastercard, Dhoni launch campaign – “Team Cashless India” to promote digital payments in India
322. India Ranks 102 among 117 Nations in Global Hunger Index 2019. 17 countries have shared the top
rank in the 2019 GHI
323. India ranked 82 in World Giving Index; Top- USA
324. India-Japan Joint Air Force Exercise ‘Shinyuu Maitri’ To be Held in West Bengal from Oct 17 to 23
325. Karnataka Tops NITI Aayog’s India Innovation Index 2019; Delhi Tops UT segment
326. Joint air training exercise ‘EX EASTERN BRIDGE-V’ between India and Oman begins at Masirah,
Oman
327. Viswanathan Anand authors book titled “Mind Master: Winning Lessons from a Champion’s Life”
328. Lionel Messi Wins Sixth European Golden Shoe Award
329. Veteran journalist Kanwar Sain Jolly passed away at 86
330. Abu Dhabi, UAE opens world’s first dedicated AI university – Mohammad Bin Zayed University of
Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI).
331. Govt expands PM’s Economic Advisory Council; appoints 3 part-time members- Now total strength
of PM-EAC is 7; Head- Bibek Debroy
332. India Ranks Third, China Tops Inaugural Hurun Global Unicorn List 2019
333. Former IMF chief Christine Lagarde officially appointed head of European Central Bank. She will
replace Mario Draghi from November 1.
334. India-Myanmar Naval Exercise IMNEX-2019 Commences in Visakhapatnam
335. SBI’s Rajnish Kumar elected as Chairman of Indian Banks Association
336. 7th World Military Games begins in China. players of Indian Armed Forces to take part
337. PM Unveils Book Titled “Bridgital Nation” Authored by N Chandrasekaran & Roopa Purushottam
338. Bloomberg names 20 Countries Will Dominate Global Growth in 2024; India on Second, China top
339. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a cinema advertisement campaign
titled ‘Feed Our Future’. Headquarters of UN World Food Programme – Rome, Italy
340. Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance has launched a first-of-its-kind video calling service known as i-SERV to
enhance the customer experience and provide swift resolutions to their queries.
341. Book “Srimad Bhagavad Gita Mein Bhudhiyog” by Late Govind Narayan Singh launched
342. PayPal Partners with Synchrony Financial to Launch co-branded Venmo credit card. Venmo is a
mobile payment service app owned by PayPal.
343. Justin Trudeau Wins Second Term as Prime Minister of Canada
344. No Government jobs for people with more than two kids after January 2021: Assam Cabinet
345. 18th NAM Summit to be held at Baku, Azerbaijan on October 25-26, 2019
346. Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) develops mobile app (E-Inspection App) to inspect
industries for pollution
347. India ranked 32 in Melbourne Mercer Global Pension Index (MMGPI); Top – Netherlands
348. IIT Bombay tops QS India University Rankings 2020
349. Government has made the following two appointments:
CEO of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)– Pankaj Kumar
Chairman of Staff Selection Commission (SSC)– Braj Raj Sharma
350. Sourav Ganguly elected as 39th President of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
351. Wipro elected as DJSI World index member for 10th consecutive year
352. Praveen Kumar wins gold in Wushu World Championship; 1st Indian male to win
353. Shri Prakash Javadekar launched the First National Protocol on Snow Leopard Population
Assessment in India. This was launched at the Global Snow Leopard & Ecosystem Protection (GSLEP)
Conference in New Delhi.
354. Indian Army will conduct exercise ‘Sindhu Sudarshan’ in the deserts of Rajasthan from 29
November to 4 December 2019. Indian Air Force (IAF) will also be the part of the exercise.
355. India Ranks 63rd on World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Ranking 2020; Top- New Zealand
356. First “Global Bio-India 2019” Summit to be held in New Delhi
357. Deepika Padukone and PV Sindhu Roped in as Brand Ambassador for PM Modi’s Bharat Ki Laxmi
Initiative
358. Fitch Ratings has revised the GDP growth rate prediction for India for FY20 to 5.5% from its earlier
prediction of 6.6%.
For FY21 (2020-2021)- 6.2% and
For FY22 (2021-2022)- 6.7%
359. Google has officially announced that it has achieved quantum supremacy. Google has developed a
54 qubit (quantum bit) processor named “Sycamore” that is able to perform a calculation in 200 seconds
that would have taken the world’s most powerful supercomputer 10,000 years
360. G C Murmu, R K Mathur appointed lieutenant governor of J&K and Ladakh respectively
Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir– Girish Chandra Murmu
Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh– Radha Krishna Mathur
Satya Pal Malik, the Governor of Jammu and Kashmir, has been appointed as the Governor of Goa. He will
take over from Mridula Sinha.
BJP Kerala unit president PS Sreedharan Pillai has been named the new governor of Mizoram.
Dineshwar Sharma, has been moved to Lakshadweep as the administrator.
361. India France joint Army exercise – “Ex Shakti -2019” to be held in Rajasthan
362. IRDAI forms working group to revisit the product structure of title insurance; Head- T L Alamelu
363. Irdai sets up panel to evaluate application under Regulatory Sandbox; Head- S Sadagopan
364. Indian cricketer Jasprit Bumrah and Batswoman Smriti Mandhana are the two Indian names among
the five winners of the Wisden India Almanack Cricketer of the Year award. The other three winners are:
Pakistan’s Fakhar Zaman, Sri Lanka’s Dimuth Karunaratne and Afghanistan Rashid Khan.
Wisden India Hall of Fame– Stalwarts Gundappa Viswanath and Lala Amarnath
Wisden India Book of the Year– “Cricket Country: The Untold History of the First All India Team” by
Prashant Kidambi.
365. Sports journalist and author K R Wadhwaney passes away
366. India Ranks 57 in Global Health Security Index; US Tops
367. Government sets up Committee to Resolve MeitY and NITI Aayog’s fight over AI; Head- K
VijayRaghavan
368. Odisha govt signs LoU for ‘drink from tap mission’ with UNICEF
369. Andhra Pradesh launches online platform SMARTPORT for Ease of Doing Business for Ports
370. ICICI Bank exits GST Network, sells entire 10% stake to 13 state govts
371. Karnataka defeats Tamil Nadu to win Vijay Hazare Trophy 2019-20 (Cricket)
372. Uttar Pradesh state government has launched a scheme named “Mukhya Mantri Kanya Sumangala
Yojana” for the benefit of girl child under which Girls from families with Rs 3 lakh or less annual income will
be given monetary assistance of Rs 15,000 in six phases (in 6 installments).
373. Uttar Pradesh state government’s Deepotsav celebrations on the eve of Diwali in Ayodhya has set a
Guinness World Records as 4 lakh 10 thousand ‘diyaas’ were lit on the banks of Saryu river.
374. Sophie Wilmes Becomes First Women to be Named as Belgian Prime Minister
375. Govt forms Committee of Secretaries to suggest measures to mitigate financial stress in telecom
sector; Head- Rajiv Gauba
376. European Union Extends Brexit Deadline Until January 31, 2020
377. Nawazuddin Siddiqui has been awarded the Golden Dragon Award at this year’s Cardiff
International Film Festival in the UK.
378. Chen Long and An Se-young wins 2019 French Open (badminton)
379. 35th ASEAN Summit Begins in Bangkok, Thailand

The theme of the Summit is “advancing partnership for sustainability”.
380. Tamil Nadu Becomes First State to Enact Law on Contract Farming
381. India ranked 5th in 2019 Global Microscope Report on Financial Inclusion; Top- Colombia
382. Central Government has increased the target for e-transactions in the financial year ending March
2020 to 45 billion (by volume) from 40 billion.
383. IIIT Hyderabad Researchers Create first-ever Indian Brain atlas to help early disease diagnosis
384. Lt Gen Arvind Dutta appointed Adjutant General of Indian Army
385. ICICI Bank crosses milestone of issuing 2 million FASTag, highest by any bank in India.
386. RBI sets WMA Limit for GoI for second half of the Financial Year 2019-20 at Rs 35,000 Crore
387. Kento Momota wins Korea Open (Badminton)
388. Rural Investors and Start-up Conclave (RISC) 2019 held in Hyderabad
389. CBDT extends PAN-Aadhaar linking deadline to December 31
390. Odisha Unveils Mascot ‘Tiki Mausi’ to Combat Malnutrition Among Children & Women
391. Indo-Kazakhstan Joint Military Exercise KAZIND – 2019 to be held at Pithoragarh from 02 to 15
October 2019
392. HDFC Bank Tops BrandZ Top 75 Most Valuable Indian Brands Ranking For Sixth Consecutive Year
393. General Bipin Rawat to take over as Chairman COSC
394. Kristalina Georgieva Appointed New Chief of IMF
395. Sebastian Coe Re-elected as IAAF President
396. India ranked 44th in world digital competitiveness rankings; Top- US
397. Book titled ‘Reset: Regaining India’s Economic Legacy’ authored by Subramanian Swamy launched
398. IAAF Chief Sebastian Coe Confers P.T. Usha with Veteran Pin
399. Paolo Borrometi wins Peter Mackler Award for mafia coverage
400. Mukesh Ambani Tops Hurun India Rich List 2019 for Eighth Consecutive Year
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