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Contents Top 50 current affairs September ................... 1

Top 50 current affairs August ......................... 4

Top 50 current affairs July ............................ 10

Top 50 current

affairs September

1. Rajnath Singh commissions INS

Khanderi into Indian Navy

2. The 14th conference of Parties (COP

14) to the UN Convention to Combat

Desertification was held in Greater

Noida.

3. Tripura High Court has ordered to ban

the centuries-old tradition of animals

sacrifice in religious places across the

state.

4. Saudi Arabia to offer tourist visas for

the first time

5. President Ram Nath Kovind on Sept.

26 unveiled the country’s first

indigenous High-Temperature Fuel

Cell System which has been

developed by the Council of Scientific

and Industrial Research (CSIR)

6. Cochin International Airport Ltd has

been selected as the best airport in

terms of services it offered to

passengers, based on a survey

conducted by Airport Council

International (ACI).

7. Infosys Bags UN Global Climate Action

Award for ‘Carbon Neutral Now’

Category

8. General Bipin Rawat takes over as

Chairman of Chiefs of Staff

Committee

9. China to host top defence and

security forum in October. The Beijing

Xiangshan Forum is scheduled to be

held from October 20 to 22. Theme –

‘Maintaining International Order and

Promoting Peace in the Asia-Pacific

Region’.

10. Russia formally accepts 2015 Paris

climate accord. It first signed the deal

in April 2016.

11. Facebook buys CTRL-labs

12. India ranked 44th in the IMD World

Digital Competitiveness Ranking 2019

(WDCR). US ranked first

13. Payal Jangid becomes the first Indian

to receive the Changemaker Award

2019

14. Former president Pranab Mukherjee

has released a book titled ‘Reset:

Regaining India’s Economic Legacy’

authored by BJP MP Subramanian

Swamy.

15. Bulgaria’s Kristalina Georgieva has

been selected as the new head of the

International Monetary Fund(IMF).

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16. The Indian duo of Pankaj Advani and

Aditya Mehta has won the IBSF World

Snooker Team title at Mandalay,

Myanmar.

17. Largest private sector lender HDFC

Bank has emerged as the most valued

Indian brand at USD 22.70 billion.

18. The International Cricket Council (ICC)

has given exclusive digital content

rights to Facebook for all events of

the ICC in the Indian sub-continent.

19. Prime Minister Modi receives “Global

Goalkeeper” award for Swachh Bharat

Abhiyan

20. India announces 12 million dollar

grant for high impact developmental

projects in Pacific Island countries

21. World Bank to provide Rs 3,000 crore

aid for food parks

22. India and the United States are set to

hold their first tri-services exercise

named “Tiger Triumph” at

Visakhapatnam and Kakinada (Andhra

Pradesh) in November 2019.

23. The documentary film named Moti

Bagh based on the life of Vidyadutt, a

farmer living in Pauri Garhwal region

of Uttarakhand has been nominated

for Oscars.

24. Bangladesh government has proposed

to set up a monument in Tripura in

memory of the martyrs of 1971

Bangladesh Liberation War.

25. India conducted a two-week special

training programme for Maldivian civil

servants in Delhi and Mussoorie.

26. The government has appointed PK

Mishra as the Principal Secretary to

Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

27. The Indian Air Force (IAF) resurrected

the Air Force Station Ambala-based 17

Squadron ‘Golden Arrows’, which will

operate the first squadron of Rafale

fighter jets in the near future.

28. India and Asian Development Bank,

ADB, signed 200-million dollar loan

agreement for upgrading rural roads

in 34 districts of Maharashtra to

improve road safety.

29. India has announced a humanitarian

assistance of one million dollar to help

people in the Bahamas affected by

Hurricane Dorian.

30. Standard Chartered Bank launched

“DigiSmart” credit card to offer

instant discounts and benefits across

key e-commerce categories of travel,

entertainment, fashion, groceries and

food delivery round the year.

31. World Tourism Day is celebrated on

27 September.

32. India has made a landmark

announcement of a line of credit

worth 1 Billion US dollars for the

development of the Far East region of

Russia.

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33. India has moved up six places to rank

34th on world travel and tourism

competitiveness index, in the latest

Travel and Tourism Competitiveness

Report (TTCR) of WEF.

34. Nobel Laureate from Bangladesh

Professor Muhammad Yunus was

conferred the ‘Lamp of Peace of Saint

Francis ‘ award by the Vatican

35. Gujarat Government and Delaware

State of America signed MoU -

Memorandum of Understanding for

sister state.

36. Joint military training, Exercise ‘Yudh

Abhyas – 2019’ was conducted at

Joint Base Lewis Mc Chord,

Washington, the USA (5-18th

September 2019).

37. India has announced a contribution of

USD 22 million to the Global Fund for

AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFTAM) for the

6th replenishment cycle (2020-22).

38. September month to be celebrated as

‘Rashtriya Poshan Maah’

39. Tech giant ‘Google’ has signed a

statement of intent with the Ministry

of Electronics and IT (MeitY) for rolling

out ‘Build for Digital India’

programme.

40. Yashaswini Singh Deswal won gold in

the women’s 10meter Air Pistol event

at the ISSF World Cup at in Rio de

Janeiro in Brazil.

41. Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc won Belgian

Grand Prix 2019.

42. In Tennis, Sumit Nagal has won the

men’s singles title of ATP Challenger

Tournament at Buenos Aires in

Argentina. He defeated Facundo

Bognis.

43. In Badminton, Indian shuttler Kaushal

Dharmamer won the men’s singles

title at the Maldives International

Challenge with a win over Siril Verma

in Male.

44. Indian shuttler Kaushal Dharmamer

won the Myanmar International

Series over Indonesia’s Karono Karono

45. In Badminton, Sourabh Verma won

the Vietnam Open Super 100 title,

defeating China’s Sun Fei Xiang at the

Ho Chi Minh City.

46. Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen won

men’s singles title of Belgian

International Challenge over Victor

Svendsen of Denmark

47. Pankaj Advani, has won IBSF World

Billiards Championship in Myanmar.

He defeated Nay Thway of Myanmar.

48. The FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup,

to be hosted by India, will be held

from 2nd to 21st November next year.

49. Rafael Nadal has won US Open Men’s

singles beating Daniil Medvedev

50. Russian tennis player Oksana

Selekhmeteva paired with Latvian

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player Kamilla Bartone won junior

doubles trophy at US Open.

Top 50 current

affairs August

New Policy rates-

Repo Rate – 5.40%

Reverse Repo Rate – 5.15%

MSF – 5.65%

Bank Rate – 5.65%

CRR – 4%

SLR – 18.75%

1. India has become the first country in

the world to issue Biometric Seafarer

Identity Document, BSID,capturing

the facial biometric data of seafarers.

2. China plans to issue its own

crytocurrency as early as November

11.

3. Microsoft Indialaunched a scheme to

provide 5000 government employees

over the next year on AI (artificial

intelligence) and cloud computing

skills. The program, called ‘Digital

Governance Tech Tour’, will comprise

of physical and virtual workshops.

4. Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium in Delhi will

be renamed as Arun Jaitley Stadium.

5. The 597-ft tall ‘Statue of Unity’ in

Gujarat and Mumbai’s Soho House

have been featured by the Time

magazine in its second annual list of

the 2019 World’s greatest places, a

compilation of 100 new and newly

“noteworthy destinations to

experience right now”.

6. Children are the happiest in Kerala

and the least happy in Madhya

Pradesh. The India Child Well-Being

Report released on Tuesday analysed

the well being of children based on 24

government data indicators. The

report has been compiled by non-

profit World Vision India and the

Institute of Financial Management

and Research.

7. Canara Bank has launched India’s first

one-time password (OTP) facility for

ATM withdrawals.

8. The Central Vigilance Commission

(CVC) has constituted Advisory Board

for Banking Frauds (ABBF) to examine

bank fraud of over 50 crore rupees

and recommend action. The panel in

its previous avatar called the Advisory

Board on Bank, Commercial and

Financial Frauds. The ABBF is headed

by former Vigilance Commissioner T

M Bhasin.

9. The ten-day annual festival of the

famous Madurai Meenakshi Amman

temple began in Tamil Nadu.

10. Gujarat topped the second Round of

Composite Water Management Index

(CWMI 2.0) released by NITI Aayog.

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11. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was

awarded the King Hamad Order of the

Renaissance by Bahraini King Hamad

bin Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa. PM

Narendra Modi also received the

Order of Zayed, UAE’s highest civilian

award.

12. Union Government is planning to

launch an e-commerce portal named

“Bharatcraft” for MSME’s to provide a

platform for MSMEs to market and

sell their products and in turn boost

the sector.

13. Punjab chief minister Captain

Amarinder Singh launched universal

health insurance scheme — Sarbat

Sehat Bima Yojana in Mohali .It will

benefit nearly 46 lakh families.

Beneficiaries can avail annual cashless

treatment up to Rs 5 lakh per family

per year, including pre-existing

diseases.

14. Nepalese authorities have banned

single-use plastics in the Everest

region in a bid to cut down on waste

left by climbers.

15. Union Home Minister Amit Shah

chaired the 24th meeting of Western

Zonal Council at Panaji in Goa.It is a

forum for the Centre and states to

exchange ideas on issues like health,

security and social welfare.

16. Power Minister R K Singh launched

the State Rooftop Solar Attractiveness

Index -SARAL in New Delhi. Karnataka

has been placed at the first rankin the

Index followed by Telangana and

Gujarat.

17. Divyang Satendra Singh Lohia from

Madhya Pradesh has become the first

Asian swimmer to cross the Catalina

Channel of America yesterday.

Satendra holds the Asian record of

crossing both the English and Catalina

channels.

18. The Board of Control for Cricket in

India (BCCI) announced that mobile

payments and e-commerce company

One 97 Communications Pvt. Ltd,

which operates under the Paytm

brand, has retained the title

sponsorship rights for all cricket

matches, domestic and international,

played in India for five years.

19. Google and the Telangana

government signed a Memorandum

of Understanding (MOU) to improve

and get more local language content

online using Google’s digital

publishing tool – Navlekha.

20. K Thangaraj, chief scientist at the

Centre for Cellular and Molecular

Biology(CCMB), Hyderabad,

Telangana, won this year’s J C Bose

Fellowship. The award is given for his

outstanding contribution in the field

of population and medical genomics

on August 17, 2019.

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21. India to host the World Youth Chess

Championship 2019 in Mumbai,

Maharashtra.

22. World Humanitarian Day (WHO) is

observed every year on 19 August.

Theme of 2019 WHD – #Women

Humanitarians

23. Lucknow’s famous Hazratganj

Chauraha renamed as “Atal Chowk” .

It is named in the memory of former

Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

24. Chennai Lions beat Dabang Delhi to

win the 2019 Ultimate Table Tennis

league title at Jawaharlal Nehru

Stadium in New Delhi. It is a

professional level table tennis league

in India launched in 2017.

25. The 5th Meeting of India-Nepal Joint

Commission held in Kathmandu on

21- 22 August.

26. The chief minister of TamilNaduShri

Edappadi K Palaniswami announced

trifurcation of Vellore district. Ranipet

and Tirupattur will be the new

districts carved out of Vellore. After

the trifurcation, TamilNadu will have

37 districts.

27. Tribal Affairs Ministry and Tribal

Cooperative Marketing Development

Federation of India (TRIFED) jointly

organized 9 – Day Aadi Mahotsav in

Leh – Ladakh.Theme – “A celebration

of the spirit of Tribal Craft, Culture

and Commerce”

28. Denmark’s third-largest lender, Jyske

Bank, has launched 10-year mortgage

deals at a negative interest rate of 0.5

percent

29. Palani panchamirtham has been

granted the Geographical Indication

(GI) tag. It is given as ‘prasadam’ at

the Murugan temple

30. The Ministries of Earth Sciences and

Agriculture have launched a mobile

application named Meghdoot that will

provide location, and crop and

livestock-specific weather-based agro

advisories to farmers in local

languages.

31. India has contributed one million US

Dollarsto the United Nations Special

Purpose Trust Fund for the Resident

Coordinator System.

32. Indian Institute of Technology Madras

(IIT-Madras) researchers have

developed a multimodal robotic

system called‘GraspMan,’with good

grasping, manipulation and

locomotion abilities for use in

industrial and field applications. The

system comprises a pair of graspers

that are capable of holding objects

securely and manipulate it much like

the human hand.

33. Priyam Chatterjee has become the

first Indian chef to be awarded the

‘Chevalier de l’Ordre du Mrite

Agricoleto’by the French Government.

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He received this award in contribution

towards reinventing the gastronomic

scene in India.

34. Google India announced a continued

long-term collaboration with Prasar

Bharati to bring all the live action on

YouTube and Google Search for

events of national importance such as

the Independence Day and Republic

Day telecast.

35. Alejandro Giammattei was elected as

the President of Guatemala.

36. Home minister Amit Shah released a

book title – Listening, Learning and

Leading on Vice President Shri

Venkaiah Naidu’s two years in office.

37. Andhra Pradesh government

launched the Navodayam scheme.

The scheme is for thousands of ailing

Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises

(MSMEs) in the state.Navodayam will

provide a lifeline to stressed MSMEs

by ensuring that all eligible units are

permitted for the one-time

restructuring of accounts up to March

31, 2020.

38. The Asian Development Bank (ADB)

has approved a loan of $200 million to

upgrade rural roads to all-weather

standards in 34 districts of India’s

Maharashtra State to better connect

rural areas with markets and services.

39. India contributes USD 5 million to UN

Palestine refugee agency

40. Mohali traffic police has launched the

3-D Smart Traffic Signal system based

on Artificial Intelligence.

41. The Statue of Unity has been

shortlisted for ‘The Structural Awards

2019’ of the UK-based Institution of

Structural Engineers (IStructE).

42. Maharashtra has granted USD 10

billion (about Rs. 70,0000 crores) plan

to establish the world’s first ultra-fast

hyperloop project to link Mumbai

with Pune.

43. Kolkata to get India’s first underwater

Metro

44. Gujarat CM launches ‘Vhali Dikri

Yojna’

45. Aadi Perukku festival being celebrated

in Tamil Nadu

46. India’s NDTV journalists Ravish Kumar

has won the ‘Magsaysay award 2019’

for his news show ‘Prime Time’

47. The 4th South Asian Speaker’s

Summit will be held in Male, Maldives

from 1st to 2nd September

2019.Theme – “Achieving Sustainable

Development Goals”.

48. Netherlands bans face-covering

clothing

49. Volodymyr Zelensky has been elected

Ukraine president

50. Jharkhand govt launches new scheme

– ‘Mukhya Mantri Krishi Ashirwad

Yojana. Under the scheme,

beneficiaries having farm land of less

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than one acre to five acres, will get

5,000 to 25,000 rupees in their bank

accounts.

Sports news-

Indian team created history by

winning one gold, one silver and two

bronze medals at the 45th WorldSkills

Kazan 2019 competition, in Russia. S

Aswatha Narayana won the gold

medal in water technology. Pranav

Nutalapati won silver medal in web

technologies. Sanjoy Pramanik and

Shweta Ratanpura won one bronze

medal each in Jewellery and graphic

design technology.

India’s Komalika Bari became recurve

cadet world champion at the World

Archery Youth Championships held in

Madrid (Spain) on 25th August. She

defeated higher-ranked Sonoda Waka

of Japan in the final.

Sindhu became the first Indian to win

a Badminton World Championships

gold by beating Nozomi Okuhara of

Japan in Basel, Switzerland.

Sai Praneeth won a bronze and

became only the second Indian men’s

singles player after the legendary

Prakash Padukone to win a medal at

Badminton World Championships.

In football, Gokulam Kerala FC won

the 129th Durand Cup, defeating

heavyweights Mohun Bagan at the

Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata

In Archery, the Indian team of

Sukhbeer Singh, Sangampreet Singh

Bisla and Tushar Phadtare won a

bronze medal in the junior compound

men’s team event in the World Youth

Championships in Madrid.

Constable Monali Jadhav from

Maharashtra won three medals,

including two golds, at World Police

and Fire Games International

Championship held in Chengdu,

China. She won the gold in target and

field archery and won bronze medal in

the ‘3D Archery’.

India win gold at Under- 12 Asian

Tennis Team championship in

Kazakhstan

Hima Das, Mohammad Anas win gold

at Athleticky Mitink Reiter in Czech

Republic.

Wrestler Deepak Punia has become

India’s first junior World Champion in

18 years. He defeated Russia’s Alik

Shebzukhov at Tallinn, Estonia.

Rafael Nadal won the Montreal

Masters Cup. He defeated Russian

Daniil Medvedev.

Bajrang Punia wins gold in Wrestling

at Tbilisi Grand Prix. He defeated

Iran’s Peiman Bibyani in the 65

Kilogram category final of the men’s

free style competition in Georgia.

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Sourabh Verma clinched the Men’s

Singles title in the Hyderabad Open.

He beat Singapore’s Loh Kean Yew.

Aishwarya Pissay became the first

Indian to claim a world title in

motorsports, annexing the FIM World

Cup ( Fédération Internationale de

Motocyclisme) in the women’s

category after the final round of the

championship at Varpalota in

Hungary.

Serena Williams topped the list of the

highest-paid female athletes 2019

published by Forbes.

German cancer researcher Fiona

Kolbinger won the mixed annual

4,000km(2,485 miles) cycling

Transcontinental Race from Burgas in

Bulgaria. She becomes the first

woman to win one of the world’s

toughest cycling races.

Australia’s Nick Kyrgios defeated

Russia’s Daniil Medvedev to win ATP

Washington Open title.

Satwiksairaj, Chirag 1st Indian doubles

pair to win Super 500 title in Thailand

Open.

Lovlina Borgohain won gold at the

Magomed Salam Umakhanov

Memorial International Boxing

Tournament 2019 held at Kaspiysk,

Russia

Indian junior shuttlers win 6 medals at

Bulgarian Open

In Badminton, Indian junior shuttlers

won six medals at the Bulgarian Junior

International Championships which

concluded in Pazardzhik, Bulgaria.

The medals comprised three gold, a

silver and two bronze.

The gold medals were won by Samiya

Imad Faruqui in women’s singles, the

duo of Edvin Joy and Shruti Mishra in

Mixed Doubles and pair of Tanisha

Crasto and Aditi Bhatt in women’s

doubles.

Men’s doubles combination of Ishan

Bhatnagar and Vishnuvardhan won

silver medal.

Malvika Bansod and Meiraba Luwang

won a bronze each in other singles

events.

Rogers cup winners-

Men’s singles: Rafael Nadal defeated

Daniil Medvedev

Women’s singles: Bianca Andreescu

defeated Serena Williams

Men’s doubles: Marcel Granollers,

Horacio Zeballos defeated Wesley

Koolhof and Robin Haase

Women’s doubles: Barbora

Krejčíková, Kateřina Siniaková

defeated Demi Schuurs and Anna-

Lena Gronefeld

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Top 50 current

affairs July

1. India ranked 103 in FIFA rankings

2. Indian origin Priti Patel appointed

Britain’s Home Secretary

3. ADB sanctions Rs. 1,925 Cr for power

projects in Tripura

4. According to Garg committee private

cryptocurrencies should be banned

completely in India

5. Boris Johnson will take over as Prime

Minister of Britain

6. India ranked 52nd rank in global

innovation index 2019

7. The IMF projected India GDP growth

at the rate of 7% in 2019

8. Abhay Singh and Tanvi Khanna win

Bengal Open squash titles

9. Boris Johnson to be UK’s new PM

10. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)

Madras developed a smart agricopter.

It can be used to eliminate manual

spraying of pesticides in agricultural

fields and help identify crop health by

using a imaging camera.

11. Hima Das won a gold medal in the

400-meter race with a season-best

time of 52.09 seconds at Nove Mesto

in the Czech Republic.

12. Chandrayaan-2 successfully launched

It was carried by GSLV Mark III. It

placed the high-stake lunar probe into

the designated highly elliptical orbit

around the earth in just 16 minutes

and 33 seconds.

13. Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi has won the

Indonesia Open BWF Tour Super 1000

tournament held in Jakarta,

Indonesia.

14. Uttar Pradesh has decided to follow

the ‘half glass water’ policy in order to

prevent wastage of water

15. Sachin Tendulkar inducted into ICC

Hall of Fame

16. In Tamil Nadu, two new districts are

going to be formed, taking the total

number of districts in the state to 35.

17. WB govt to sign MoU with British

Council to improve spoken English

skills of polytechnic students

18. Union Health Ministry has signed an

MoU with Ministries of Ayush,

Defence and Railways to strengthen

the efforts towards a TB-Free India by

2025.

19. HDFC Bank and Common Services

Centres (CSCs) launched a co-branded

‘Small Business Money Back Credit

Card’ for small traders and village-

level entrepreneurs (VLEs)

20. The Russian space agency

‘Roscosmos’ has successfully launched

into space an all-sky-survey satellite,

Spektrum-Rontgen-Gamma “Spektr-

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RG” on a Proton-M rocket from the

Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

21. Amir Khan wins WBC international

welterweight title

22. World Bank would offer a loan of

$250 million to the Kerala

Government for the Resilient Kerala

project

23. World population day is observed on

11 July

24. The French government will impose a

tax of up to €18 on plane tickets for

all flights from airports in France from

2020 to fund less-polluting

transportation projects.

25. Sri Lanka has become the fifth country

in the World Health Organisation

(WHO) Southeast Asia region to

eliminate measles.

26. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) board

has finalised a three- year roadmap

named “Utkarsh 2022” to improve

regulation & supervision and various

other functions of the central bank.

27. Dutee Chand won Gold medal in 100-

metres event at World Universiade

28. Board of Control for Cricket in India

(BCCI) has appointed former cricketer

Rahul Dravid as the head of National

Cricket Academy (NCA), Bengaluru.

29. Norwegian chess grandmaster

Magnus Carlsen defeated Maxime

Vachier-Lagrave (France) to win the

Croatia Grand Chess Tour.

30. Vice President Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu

has released a book titled

‘Vivekadeepini’. The original book is

written by Sri Adi Shankaracharya and

the conversion in different 10

languages has been done by Vedanta

Bharati.

31. Indian captain Sunil Chhetri has won

the AIFF Men’s footballer of the year

2018-19 award.

32. The second India-Russia Strategic

Economic Dialogue will be held in

New Delhi

33. Serena Williams was fined USD 10,000

by the All England Club for damaging

one of Wimbledon’s courts with her

racket prior to the start of the

tournament.

34. Kyriakos Mitsotakis becomes Greece’s

new PM

35. Ashutosh Gupta has been appointed

as the Country Manager for India of

LinkedIn

36. The Border Security Force (BSF) has

launched massive exercise, code-

named ‘Sudarshan’, to fortify the

‘anti-infiltration grid’ along the

Pakistan border in Punjab and Jammu.

37. Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu has

released a book titled ‘Land

Registration, Global Practices and

Lessons for India’ – written by the B.K.

Agarwal (Chief Secretary of Himachal

Pradesh) in New Delhi.

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38. Brazil defeated Peru 3-1 to win its first

Copa America title since 2007.

39. India’s wrestler Vinesh Phogat (in 53

Kg category) and Divya Kakran (in 68

kg category) have won Gold Medal at

the Grand Prix of Spain.

40. The annual Bonalu festival kicked off

in the city at the historic Golconda

Fort of Hyderabad.

41. India ranked 86th in the Henley

Passport Index 2019 with a mobility

score of 58. Japan and Singapore have

ranked 1st with a score of 189

42. Poznan Athletics Grand Prix: Hima Das

wins Gold in women’s 200 metres

43. French lawmakers approve 3% tax on

internet giants like Google, Amazon

and Facebook.

44. India’s first Design Development

Center ‘Fashionova’ has been

launched in Surat, Gujarat.

45. As per the Economic Survey 2018-19,

Maharashtra state has achieved first

rank in the NITI Aayog’s launched

“Agricultural Marketing and Farmer

Friendly Reforms Index (AMFFRI).

46. Jio launches ‘Digital Udaan’, a digital

literacy initiative in partnership with

Facebook.The objective of the Digital

Udaan’ is to provide digital literacy to

first-time internet users who are using

the connected internet ecosystem

and apps for the very first time.

47. IMF appoints economist David Lipton

as interim leader. He will replace

Christine Lagarde who was nominated

to head the European Central Bank.

48. The Chattisgarh government has

decided to increase the retirement

age of industrial labourers working in

private sectors to 60 years from the

current 58 years.

49. Operation Khumaar launched in

Jammu and Kashmir to make 312

panchayats tobacco-free

50. Tamil Nadu Government has declared

Tamil Yeoman (Cirrochroa thais) as

the state butterfly, based on the

recommendation of state forest

department.

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