Important Weekly Current Affairs PDF 01 to 07 September

Dear Readers, Here we have given the list of Important Weekly Current Affairs 1st week of September

2019. Candidates those who are preparing for Upcoming IBPS PO/Clerk and LIC HFL 2019 and other

competitive exams can make use of it.

Current Affairs: Important Days

Date Important days Theme

September 1 National Nutrition Week -

September 2 World Coconut Day Coconut for Family Wellness

September 5 International Day of Charity -

September 5 National Teachers' Day -

Current Affairs: National

1. September month to be celebrated as 'Rashtriya Poshan Maah'

2. VP Venkaiah Naidu inaugurates India’s longest electrified rail tunnel in Andhra Pradesh
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Andhra Pradesh Capital Hyderabad, Amaravathi

Andhra Pradesh CM Jagan Mohan Reddy

Andhra Pradesh Governor Biswabhusan Harichandan

3. Election Commission launched Electors Verification Programme (EVP) across the country

4. KVIC launched ‘Terracotta Grinder’ at Varanasi to re-use wasted pottery

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Khadi and Village Industry Commission (KVIC)

KVIC Headquarters Mumbai

KVIC Chairman Vinai Kumar Saxena

5. Prakash Javadekar unveiled the new logo, certificate design of the Central Board of Film

Certification (CBFC)

6. Information and Broadcasting Ministry decides to discontinue single-use plastic inside the official

premises of the units under it

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Ministry of Information & Broadcasting

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Union Minister Prakash Javadekar

Constituency Rajya Sabha (Madhya Pradesh)

7. Cultural event ‘Namaste pacific’ held in New Delhi

8. Harsh Vardhan inaugurates 72nd Session of WHO Regional Committee of South-East Asia meet
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World Health Organization (WHO)

Headquarters Geneva, Switzerland

Director General Tedros Adhanom

9. Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGA) gets India's tallest ATC Tower

10. India to contribute USD 22 mn to Global Fund for AIDS, TB, malaria (GFTAM) for 2020-22

11. Tinsukia Junction in Assam becomes India's 4000th railway station to get free public WiFi

12. Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine in Jammu and Kashmir has been adjudged as the 'Best Swachh

Iconic place' in the country in the 'Swachh Iconic Places' list

13. Rs 125 crore allotted to IIT-Kharagpur for Centre's Sophisticated Analytical and Technical Help

Institute (SATHI) initiative

14. Food and Consumer Affairs Ministry has decided to ban single-use plastic from Sep 15
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Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

Union Minister Ramvilas Paswan

Constituency Not Contested in Election

15. Government has launched the updated Credit linked Capital Subsidy Scheme (CLCSS) for
MSMEs
Current Affairs: International

1. Nepal inaugurates educational institution built with India's assistance

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Nepal Capital Kathmandu

Nepal Currency Nepalese rupee

Nepal President Bidya Devi Bhandari

2. The 3rd India-Australia Cyber Policy Dialogue 2019 was held in New Delhi
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Australia Capital Canberra

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Australia Currency Australian dollar

Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison

3. WHO South-East Asia Region sets 2023 target to eliminate measles, rubella
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World Health Organization

Headquarters Geneva, Switzerland

Director General Tedros Adhanom

Current Affairs: State

1. Centre approves Gorewada International Zoo in Nagpur, Maharashtra

2. PM Modi inaugurated the Mumbai Metro's first coach built under ‘Make in India’
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Maharashtra Capital Mumbai

Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis

Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari

3. Meghalaya CM Conrad K Sangma has launched ‘walk to work’ Fit India campaign in the state
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Meghalaya Capital Shillong

Meghalaya CM Conrad Sangma

Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy

4. Haryana government waives Rs. 4,750 crore interest, penalty on crop loans
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Haryana Capital Chandigarh

Haryana CM Manohar lal Kathar

Haryana Governor Satyadev Narayan Arya

5. One nation-one ration card scheme was implemented on a pilot basis in the Odisha capital

6. Nuakhai is a festival to celebrate newly harvested food by the farmers in Odisha

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Odisha Capital Bhubaneswar

Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik

Odisha Governor Ganeshi Lal

7. Uttar Pradesh Police has launched a ‘C-Plan’ app to aid Community Policing
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Uttar Pradesh Capital Lucknow

Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adithiyanath

Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel

8. Delhi to include OBC, General category students in Jai Bheem Mukhyamantri Yojana to enhance

financial assistance from Rs. 40,000 to Rs. one lakh for coaching for various competitive exams.
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Delhi Capital New Delhi

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal

Delhi Governor Anil Baijal

9. Gujarat government and Delaware State of America signed MoU for sister state
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Gujarat Capital Gandhinagar

Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani

Gujarat Governor Acharya Dev Vrat

Current Affairs: Banking and Finance

1. World Bank to fund pro-poor tourism development projects worth $57 mn to top tourist hotspots of

Agra and Braj-Mathura regions in Uttar Pradesh

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World Bank

Headquarters Washington, D.C., United States

President David Malpass

2. DBS lowers India's GDP growth to 6.2% for FY20

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DBS bank MD & CEO Piyush Gupta

Headquarters Singapore

3. ECL Finance, a subsidiary of Edelweiss Financial Services and Central Bank of India partner to

co-lend to MSMEs

4. IRDAI sets up panel headed by Atul Sahai to revisit 3-yr old trade credit insurance guidelines
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IRDAI- Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India

Chairperson Subhash Chandra Khuntia

IRDAI Headquarters Hyderabad

5. ESIC signs Agreement with SBI for payments to ESIC beneficiaries on Real Time Basis
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State Bank of India Headquarters Mumbai

State Bank of India Tagline The Banker to every Indian

State Bank of India Chairperson Rajnish Kumar

6. ICICI Bank deploys 'robotic arms' to count currency notes

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ICICI Bank Headquarters Mumbai

Tagline Hum Hain Na!

MD & CEO Sandeep Bakhshi

7. GST Revenue collection in August stands at Rs. 98,202 crore

8. Cabinet approves Rs 9,300 crore capital infusion in IDBI Bank

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IDBI Bank MD & CEO Rakesh Sharma

IDBI Bank Headquarters Mumbai

IDBI Bank Tagline Aao Sochein Bada

9. The RBI has made it mandatory for banks to link retail loans with external benchmarks from

October 1
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RBI Headquarters Mumbai

RBI Governor Shaktikant Das

BP Kanungo, N S Vishwanathan,
RBI Deputy Governor and Mahesh Kumar Jain

10. Crisil cuts India’s GDP forecast to 6.3% FY20 (2019 - 2020)

11. Rating agency CARE cuts India’s GDP growth to 6.4-6.5% for FY20

12. Standard Chartered Bank launched its “DigiSmart” credit card

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Standard Chartered Bank CEO Bill Winters

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Standard Chartered Bank Headquarters London, United Kingdom

13. NDB to provide Rs 6,000 crore loan to Andhra Pradesh for social infrastructure projects
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New Development Bank (NDB)

NDB President K. V. Kamath

NDB Headquarters Shanghai, China

14. Centre to infuse Rs. 12,000 crore in three state general insurance firms

Current Affairs: Appointments

Tamilisai Soundararajan Governor of Telangana

Arif Mohammed Khan Governor of Kerala

Kalraj Mishra Governor of Rajasthan

Bandaru Dattatreya Governor of Himachal Pradesh

Bhagat Singh Koshyari Governor of Maharashtra

Director General (DG) of Border Security

Vivek Kumar Johri
Force (BSF)

Lt Gen Manoj Mukund

Vice Chief of Army Staff (VCAS)
Naravane

Lt Gen Anil Chouhan Eastern Army Commander

Justice Harish Chandra Acting Chief Justice of Jharkhand High

Mishra Court

Oleksiy Honcharuk Ukraine's new Prime minister

Sunil Arora
Chairman of the Association of World
( Chief Election
Election Bodies (A-WEB) for 2019-21
Commissioner)

Next High Commissioner of India to the

Jaideep Sarkar
Kingdom of Lesotho

B Bala Bhaskar Next Indian Ambassador to Norway

Current

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Affairs: Awards and Honours

1. 'Global Goalkeeper Award' by the Bill and Melinda Gates

PM Modi
Foundation for Swachch Bharat Abhiyaan
2. CSIR Young Scientist Award 2019 in the field of Chemical

John Mondal Sciences

(cash prize of ₹50,000 and a plaque)

3. 'Lamp of Peace of Saint Francis ' award by the Vatican
Muhammad Yunus
(for his contribution towards establishing peace and
(Bangladesh Professor)
harmony)
4. Odisha State Disaster

Management Authority IT Excellence Award-2019 for SATARK app

(OSDMA)

1. HRD Ministry has awarded the status of Institute of Eminence to the IIT-Madras, the IIT-

Kharagpur, Delhi University, Benares Hindu University and the University of Hyderabad

Current Affairs: Ranking

Index India’s Rank Top Least Other info

Travel and Tourism 34th - Released by

Competitiveness (140 countries) Spain World Economic

Report (TTCR) Forum's (WEF)

Released by

Global Liveability New Delhi – 118 Vienna Damascus, Economist

Index for 2019 Mumbai - 119 (Syria) Intelligence Unit

Current Affairs: MOU

1. IIT Kharagpur has

collaborated with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to develop National Artificial Intelligence

resource platform

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2. Ministry of Electronics and

Information Technology (MeitY) and Google tie up to Build for Digital India
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Ministry of Law and Justice, Minister of Communications; & Minister of Electronics

and Information Technology

Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad

Constituency Patna Sahib, Bihar

3. Multi Commodity Exchange of India (MCX) signs MoU with Zhengzhou Comm Exchange
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Multi Commodity Exchange of India (MCX)

MCX Chairman Mr. Saurabh Chandra

MCX Headquarters Mumbai

4. Wipro bags $300-million

deal from ICICI Bank to provide a comprehensive suite of services

5. India and South Korea

signed two MoUs to boost defence cooperation

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South Korea Capital Seoul

South Korea Currency South Korean won

South Korea President Moon Jae-in

Current Affairs: Summit and Conference

1. The Election Commission of India to host the 4th General Assembly of Association of World

Election Bodies (A-WEB) at Bengaluru

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Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora

Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa, Sushil Chandra

ECI Headquarters New Delhi

2. COP14 to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification begins in Greater Noida

3. A 3-day International Snacks Festival 2019 was inaugurated in Hyderabad, Telangana

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Telangana Capital Hyderabad

Telangana CM Chandrasekhar Rao

Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan

4. One day Joint India - New Development Bank (NDB) Workshop held in New Delhi
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New Development Bank (NDB)

NDB President K. V. Kamath

NDB Headquarters Shanghai, China

5. CBI's 1st national conference on cybercrime investigation inaugurated in New Delhi

Current Affairs: Defence

1. The Indian Air Force inducted eight US-made Apache AH-64E attack helicopters at the
Pathankot airbase

2. 15th Indo-US Joint Military Exercise Yudh Abhyas 2019 to be held in Washington

3. Iranian Army unveiled a new homegrown jet-propelled drone, named KIAN, with pinpoint

accuracy
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Iran Capital Tehran

Iran Currency Iranian rial

Iran President Hassan Rouhani

4. ASEAN-US Maritime Exercise Begins in Thailand

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Thailand Capital Bangkok

Thailand Currency Thai baht

Thailand Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha

5. India-Thailand Coordinated Patrol (Indo-Thai CORPAT) between

the navies of the two countries held in Thailand

Current Affairs: Science and technology

1. India to join developed nations in ocean studies with 'Samudrayaan' project

2. Asia's first 5th Generation - Virtual Reality based Advanced Driver Training Simulator Centre was

launched at Chennai

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Current Affairs: Books

Book Author

“A Short History of Indian Railways” Rajendra B Aklekar

“First They Erased Our Name: A

Rohingya Speaks” Sophie Ansel (France)

Selected speeches of President of India

‘Loktantra Ke Swar (Khand 2)’ and during his second year in office (July 2018 to

‘The Republican Ethic (Volume 2)’ July 2019).

Manish Sisodia

'Shiksha: A Journey' (Delhi Deputy CM & Education Minister)

Current Affairs: Sports

1. Ferrari racer Charles Leclerc beat Lewis Hamilton to win the Belgian Grand Prix

2. India’s Sasikumar Mukund ended runner-up in both singles and doubles at ATP Challenger

Tour, in Baotou, China.

3. Tejinderpal Singh Toor wins silver medal in shot put at Czech Republic athletic meet

4. 36th National Games to be held in Goa in October-November 2020

5. The India Under-15 team beats Nepal to won the SAFF U-15 Championship 2019 title held in

Kalyani Stadium, West Bengal

6. Former India women's team skipper Mithali Raj announced retirement from T20 Internationals

7. Nadubhagam Chundan, the snake boat of Pallathuruthy Boat Club, lifted the 67th Nehru Trophy

in Alappuzha

8. Steve Smith dethroned India captain Virat Kohli to reclaim the No.1 spot in ICC Test

rankings

9. Manu Bhaker-Saurabh Chaudhary win gold as India finish on top in ISSF World Cup

10. FIFA unveiled the official emblem for Qatar World Cup 2022
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FIFA Headquarters Zurich, Switzerland

President Gianni Infantino

11. Zimbabwe captain Hamilton Masakadza announced retirement from international cricket

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12. Misbah-ul-Haq named as Pakistan men's cricket head coach and chief selector

13. Indian cricketer Rohit Sharma has launched ‘Rohit4Rhinos’ campaign to save Rhinos in India

14. Anupama Swain wins bronze in World Martial Arts Mastership ‘Jiu-Jitsu 2019’ at Chungju in

South Korea

15. Bob Carter appointed as head coach of New Zealand women's cricket team

16. The 2019 World Wrestling Championships will be held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
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Kazakhstan Capital Nur-Sultan

Kazakhstan Currency Kazakhstani tenge

Kazakhstan Prime Minister Askar Mamin

17. Afghanistan test cricket captain Rashid Khan becoming the youngest test cricket captain

Current Affairs: Obituaries

Person Field

Valerie Harper Emmy Award-winning actress

Jessica Combs American professional Women racer

Udit Pratap Deo Former Kalahandi king

Robert Mugabe Former Zimbabwe President

Kiran Nagarkar Novelist and Playwright

Sukhdev Singh Libra Congress leader and former MP

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