Important Weekly Current Affairs PDF 1 to 8 October

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

2019. Candidates those who are preparing for Upcoming IBPS RRB PO/Clerk, IBPS PO/Clerk and LIC

Assistant 2019 and other competitive exams can make use of it.

Current Affairs: Important Days

Date Important days Theme

"The Journey to Age
International Day of Older Persons
October 1 Equality"

October 1 ‘Coffee’s future needs

International Coffee Day
you’

October 1 World Vegetarian Day -

October 2 International Day of Non-Violence -

October 4 World Animal Day -

'Young Teachers: The

World Teachers' Day
October 5 Future of the Profession'

October 8 Air Force Day (India) -

“The Moon: Gateway to

World Space Week
October 4-10 the Stars.”

Life Below Water: For

National Wildlife Week
October 2 - 8 people and planet

Current Affairs: National

1. Ram Vilas Paswan launched the a mobile app ‘Consumer App’ to help consumers register

complaints and get redressal within 60 days

2. Smriti Irani Inaugurated the India's largest 'Charkha' made of waste plastic in Noida

3. Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) cards to continue as valid travel document till March 2020

4. Home Minister Amit Shah flagged off the Delhi-Katra Vande Bharat Express from the New

Delhi Railway Station

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5. Air India has launched "Namaskar Sewa" at Delhi airport to provide better services to the

passengers
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Air India Headquarters New Delhi

Air India Chairman & MD Ashwani Lohani

6. Government has launched a web portal, Prakash, to improve coal supply to power plants

7. Ministry of Tourism has launched Audio Guide facility App "Audio Odigos" for 12 sites of

India

8. Union Minister of Textiles, Smriti Irani to represent India at World Cotton Day celebrations in

Geneva

9. Government launches ‘Ganga Aamantran’ a month long exploratory open water rafting expedition

10. Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan launched a digital platform ‘eDantseva’ for oral health

information

11. Government constituted a working group under the chairmanship of Guruprasad Mohapatra to

prepare contours of New Industrial Policy

12. NITI Aayog, UNDP and Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) launched Youth Co:Lab, a youth lab

programme for entrepreneurs to accelerate innovation

13. Ministry of Tourism organises first of its kind Adventure Trekking Training course in Ladakh
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Ministry of Tourism

Minister of State (I\C) Prahalad Singh Patel

Constituency Damoh, Madhya Pradesh

Current Affairs: International

1. Madagascar is set to issue a postal stamp bearing the image of Mahatma Gandhi to celebrate his

150th birth anniversary

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Madagascar Capital Antananarivo

Madagascar Currency Malagasy ariary

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Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina

Current Affairs: State

1. Telangana has become one the fully electrified states in the country
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Telangana Capital Hyderabad

Telangana CM Chandrasekhar Rao

Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan

2. Rajasthan government announced a ban on pan masala containing magnesium carbonate,

nicotine, tobacco, mineral oil and flavoured 'supari' in the state

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Rajasthan Capital Jaipur

Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot

Rajasthan Governor Kalraj Mishra

3. Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Singh Rawat launched an awareness campaign ‘Urjagiri’ to stop

power theft
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Uttarakhand Capital Dehradun

Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Singh Rawat

Uttarakhand Governor Baby Rani Maurya

4. India’s first e-waste clinic to be set up in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

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Madhya Pradesh Capital Bhopal

Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath

Madhya Pradesh Governor Lal Ji Tandon

Current Affairs: Banking and Finance

1. RBI sets Ways and Means Advances (WMA) limit for Government at Rs. 35000 crore for second

half of FY 2019-20

2. India’s current account deficit (CAD) narrowed to $14.3 billion or 2% of GDP during April-June

quarter

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3. Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India has decided to reduce the policy

repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) by 25 basis points to 5.15% from 5.40% with

immediate effect
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RBI Headquarters Mumbai

RBI Governor Shaktikant Das

BP Kanungo, N S Vishwanathan,

RBI Deputy Governor and Mahesh Kumar Jain

Repo Rate 5.15%

Reverse Repo Rate 4.90%

Marginal Standing Facility 5.40%

Bank Rate 5.40%

CRR 4%

SLR 18.75

4. State Bank of India becoming the first Indian bank to have a branch in the Australian state of

Victoria
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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

5. All public sector banks across all states to function from 10 am to 4 pm from October 1

6. Axis Bank has launched the ‘Express FD’ a digital Fixed Deposit product
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Axis Bank CEO Amitabh Chaudhry

Axis Bank Headquarters Mumbai

Axis Bank Tagline Badhti Ka naam Zindagi

7. Paisalo Digital has signed a co-origination loan agreement with Bank of Baroda to empower
farmers, MSME segment and small businesses

8. S&P Global Ratings slashed India growth forecast for FY20 (2019-20) to 6.3% from 7.1%

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Interest rate on Small Savings Scheme from October and December Quarter

Instrument Interest rate (%) from Compounding Frequency

01.10.2019

Five Year Senior Citizen Savings 8.6 Quarterly and paid

Scheme

Five Year National Savings 7.9 Annually

Certificate

Public Provident Fund 7.9 Annually

Kisan Vikas Patra 7.6 (Will mature in 113 months) Annually

Sukanya Samriddhi Account 8.4 Annually

Scheme

Current Affairs: Appointments

New administrator for Punjab and

Jai Bhagwan Bhoria
Maharashtra Cooperative Bank

Executive Director for India at the

Surjit S Bhalla
International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Director General of the Press Information

KS Dhatwalia
Bureau (PIB)

Mallikarjuna Rao MD and CEO of Punjab National Bank

Abhishek Singh chief executive officer of MyGov India

Chairman and MD of NBCC (National

P K Gupta
Buildings Construction Corporation)

Managing Director and Chief Executive

Sushil Chandra Mishra
Officer (CEO) of Oil India Limited

Managing Director and Group Chief

Amur S Lakshminarayanan
Executive Officer of Tata Communications

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Current Affairs: Resignation

Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)

Kapil Dev
Cricket Advisory Committee
Current

Affairs: Awards and Honours

Thanu Padmanabhan M P Birla Memorial Award 2019 for his contributions to the

(physicist) world of cosmology ( trophy and a cheque for Rs. 2,51,000)

Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2019

Caroline Criado Perez
for her 2nd book ‘Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a
( British feminist, activist
World Designed for Men’
and journalist)
(Prize money - £25,000)

Azizbek Ashurov United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Nansen

Refugee Award 2019

Ben Stokes ( England Professional Cricketers' Association (PCA) Players' Player of

cricketer) the Year title

Yalitza Aparicio ( Mexican

actress) UNESCO’s goodwill ambassador for indigenous peoples

William G Kaelin Jr, 2019 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine

Peter J Ratcliffe, (for their discoveries of "how cells sense and adapt to oxygen

Gregg L Semenza availability)

Asia Environmental Enforcement Award by the United

Ramesh Pandey Nations

Environment Programme

1. Sachin Tendulkar bagged the 'Most Effective Swachhata Ambassador' award at India Today

Group's fifth edition of the Safaigiri Awards

Current Affairs: Summit and Conference

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1. 64th Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference 2019

inaugurated in Uganda

2. Film Division in association with India Tourism will organise

Gandhi Film Festival at JB Hall in Mumbai

3. Drone Innovators Network Summit-2019 was held in New Delhi

Current Affairs: Ranking

Index India’s Rank Top Least Other info

Global Firepower

(GFP) 2019 Military 4th United States Bhutan 137 Nations

Strength Ranking

1. Jaipur, Jodhpur and Durgapura were the top three ranking railway stations among 720 stations

in Cleanliness Survey Report

2. Singapore tops new ‘citizen-centric’ IMD Smart City Index 2019 (SCI)

Current Affairs: MOU

1. Aegon Life Insurance announced its tie-up with Paytm to offer comprehensive insurance products
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Paytm CEO Renu Satti

Paytm Headquarters Noida, Uttar Pradesh

2. National e Governance Division (NeGD) signed an MoU with The National Law Institute

University (NLIU), Bhopal to implement an ‘Online Capacity Building Programme on Cyber Law

3. Bank of Baroda has signed MoU with Indian Army for customised services
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Bank of Baroda CEO P. S. Jayakumar

Bank of Baroda Headquarters Vadodara

Bank of Baroda Tagline India's International Bank

4. India and Bangladesh signed a MoU for setting up a coastal surveillance system radar in

Bangladesh

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Bangladesh Capital Dhaka

Bangladesh Currency Taka

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

5. National Health Authority (NHA) has joined hands with Google for Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan

Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY) Implementation

Current Affairs: Science and Technology

1. A minor planet, between Mars and Jupiter, has been named after Pandit Jasraj, the doyen of

Indian classical vocal music

2. ISRO to celebrate 'World Space Week' with 7 academic institutions in Karnataka

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Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)

ISRO Director Kailasavadivoo Sivan

ISRO Headquarters Bengaluru

Current Affairs: Books

Author Book
“Lal Bahadur Shastri: Politics and

Sandeep Shastri Beyond”

Jaspreet Bindra “The Tech Whisperer”

Current Affairs: Defence

1. Indo – Mongolian joint military training ‘Nomadic Elephant-XIV’

commenced in Bakloh, Himachal Pradesh

2. Indo Maldives joint Exercise Ekuverin –19 to be held at Aundh

Military Station in Pune, Maharashtra

Current Affairs: Sports

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1. Sumit Nagal has won the men's singles title of ATP Challenger

Tournament at Buenos Aires in Argentina

2. C. A. Bhavani Devi clinched the silver medal in the women’s sabre

individual category in the Tournoi satellite competition (World level) at Ghent, Belgium

3. FIFA has banned former CONMEBOL president Eugenio

Figueredo from all football activities for life after finding him guilty of bribery

4. India Women T20I captain Harmanpreet Kaur became the first

Indian (male or female) to play 100 T20I matches

5. Maj AQ Khan won silver medal in 53rd Asian Body Building and

Physique Sports Championship 2019 in Indonesia

6. Novak Djokovic beats John Millman of Australia to win the Japan

Open tournament

7. Dominic Thiem and Naomi Osaka wins China Open men and

women single title respectively

8. India's senior bridge team led by Dipak Poddar has won a bronze

medal at World Bridge Championships

9. Austria's Christine Wolf won the Hero Women’s Indian Open at

the DLF Golf and Country Club course in Gurugram

Current Affairs: Obituaries

Person Field

K P S Menon Former Foreign Secretary

Indian National Army (INA)

V Ganesan veteran

Hargovind Laxmishanker Noted nephrologist and Padma

Trivedi Shri awardee

Renowned Kudmi Konkani folk

M Gopal Gowda
artist

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