Important Weekly Current Affairs PDF 9 to 16 October

Dear Readers, Here we have given the list of Important Weekly Current Affairs 2nd week of October

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

other competitive exams can make use of it.

Current Affairs: Important Days

Date Important days Theme

October 7 Frontier Technologies as an

(first Monday of World Habitat Day innovative tool to transform

October) waste to wealth

October 7 World Cotton Day -

October 9 World Post Day -

October 10 World Mental Health Day -

International Day of the Girl "GirlForce: Unscripted and

October 11 Child Unstoppable"

October 11 World Obesity Day “It’s time to End Weight Stigma!”

October 11
Eat your egg today and every
(second Friday in World Egg Day
day
October)

World Migratory Bird Day “Protect Birds: Be the Solution to

October 12 (WMBD) Plastic Pollution.”

October 12 World Arthritis Day (WAD) Time2Work.

October 14 Video Standards Create a

World Standards Day
Global Stage

Our Actions Are Our Future.

October 16 World Food Day Healthy Diets For A

#ZEROHUNGER WORLD

1. The month of October is observed as the Breast Cancer Awareness Month every year

Current Affairs: National

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1. Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan launched domestically made green Eco-Friendly crackers

2. Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan launched Surakshit Matritva Aashwasan (SUMAN)

initiative in New Delhi

3. Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan launched Food Safety Mitra Scheme Eat Right

Jacket and Eat Right Jhola On the occasion of World Food Day
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Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Union Minister Harsh Vardhan

Constituency Chandni Chowk, Delhi

4. Government sets up high-level panel headed by the revenue secretary Mr Ajay Bhushan Pandey

to check money laundering activities.

5. Government has launched Mahatma Gandhi National Fellowship Programme with IIM Bangalore

6. External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar inaugurated e-VidyaBharti and e-ArogyaBharti (tele-

education and tele-medicine project) for African countries

Ministry of External Affairs

Union Minister S Jaishankar

Constituency Rajya Sabha (Gujarat)

7. 38thIndia Carpet Expo (15thin Varanasi) inaugurated at Sampurnanand Sanskrit University

Ground in Varanasi

8. Union HRD Minister launched the PM innovative learning programme ‘DHRUV’ in Bengaluru

9. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become the most-followed world leader on Instagram with

over 30 million followers

10. Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) launched the website and

mobile application L2Pro India on Intellectual Property Rights

11. India and Netherlands launched the second phase of the LOTUS-HR (Local Treatment of Urban

Sewage streams for Healthy Reuseplant)

12. Air India became the first airline in the world to use a Taxibot on a A320 aircraft with passengers

onboard
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Air India Headquarters New Delhi

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Air India Chairman & MD Ashwani Lohani

Current Affairs: International

1. India extend a Line of Credit of over 60 million US Dollars to Comoros in the field of

energy and maritime defence cooperation

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Comoros Capital Moroni

Comoros Currency Comorian franc

Comoros President Azali Bokassa Assoumani

2. According to World Bank report 'South Asia Economic Focus, Making (De) Centralization

Work' Bangladesh has become the second-fastest growing economy in South Asia after

Bhutan
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World Bank

Headquarters Washington, D.C., United States

President David Malpass

3. Dubai Customs launched the World Logistics Passport

Current Affairs: State

1. Goa government has launched ''112'' as the new integrated emergency number replacing the

traditional dial number ''100''

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Goa Capital Panaji

Goa CM Pramod Sawant

Goa Governor Mridula Sinha

2. 10th National Cultural Festival begins in Madhya Pradesh

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Madhya Pradesh Capital Bhopal

Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath

Madhya Pradesh Governor Lal Ji Tandon

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Current Affairs: Banking and Finance

1. IRDAI form working group headed by T.L. Alamelu to revisit the product structure of title

insurance
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IRDAI- Regulatory and Development Authority of India

Chairperson Subhash Chandra Khuntia

IRDAI Headquarters Hyderabad

2. Fintech start-up Shubh Loans has received a licence from the RBI to set up a non-banking

financial company

3. The RBI has mandated the creation of an internal ombudsman by non-bank issuers of prepaid

payments wallets

4. RBI has approved merger of Kerala’s district cooperative banks with Kerala State Co-operative

Bank

5. RBI has rejected the proposed merger of Lakshmi Vilas Bank with Indiabulls Housing Finance
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Lakshmi Vilas Bank MD & CEO -

Lakshmi Vilas Bank Headquarters Chennai

Lakshmi Vilas Bank Tagline The changing face of prosperity.

6. RBI has imposed a monetary penalty of Rs. 1 crore on Lakshmi Vilas Bank and Rs. 75 lakh on

Syndicate Bank for violating asset classification and fraud detection norms
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RBI Headquarters Mumbai

RBI Governor Shaktikant Das

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

7. India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) lowered its GDP growth forecast to 6.1% for FY20

8. Moody’s cuts India’s GDP growth forecast to 5.8% from 6.2% for FY20

9. Life Insurance Council announced a mass media campaign with the slogan ‘Sabse Pehle Life

Insurance’

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10. Baroda Asset Management India and BNP Paribas Asset Management India (BNPP AM) will

merge their mutual fund business

11. India and Asian Development Bank(ADB) have signed 190 million dollar loan agreement

for improving road connectivity in Rajasthan

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Asian Development Bank (ADB)

ADB President Takehiko Nakao

ADB Headquarters Mandaluyong, Philippines

12. ICICI Bank has launched a new Fixed Deposit (FD) scheme - FD Health
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ICICI Bank Headquarters Mumbai

ICICI Bank Tagline Hum Hain Na!

ICICI Bank MD & CEO Sandeep Bakhshi

Current Affairs: Business

1. Reliance Nippon Life Asset Management Company (AMC) renamed as Nippon India Mutual Fund

Current Affairs: Appointments

Antonio Costa Prime Minister of Portugal

President of the Indian Pharmaceutical

K Satish Reddy
Alliance (IPA) for 2019-2021

Kishan Dan Dewal Next Ambassador of India to Georgia

Kais Saied Tunisia's next president

Union Law Secretary

Anoop Kumar Mendiratta
(Secretary, Legal Affairs)

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Current Affairs: Awards and Honours

1. James Peebles ( half of the 9mn

Swedishkronor prize for his

theoretical discoveries about the

evolution of the universe) 2019 Nobel Prize for physics

2. Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz

(share the other half of the prize for

their discovery of the first planet

beyond our solar system)

John B Goodenough
2019 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
M Stanley Whittingham
( for the development of lithium-ion batteries)
Akira Yoshino

Honorary doctorate by the University of

Asha Bhosle Salford in Greater Manchester, England

2018 Nobel Prizes for literature

Olga Tokarczuk ( Polish writer) (for a narrative imagination that with

encyclopedic passion represents the crossing

of boundaries as a form of life)

2019 Nobel Prizes for literature

Peter Handke (Austria) (“for an influential work that with linguistic

ingenuity has explored the periphery and the

specificity of human experience)

Indira Gandhi award for national integration

Chandi Prasad Bhatt for the years 2017 and 2018

2019 Nobel Economics Prize for their

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael experimental approach to alleviating

Kremer global poverty

Madhya Pradesh government's National

Priyadarshan ( director and producer) Kishore Kumar Samman for 2018-19

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Margaret Atwood ( for her book 'The

Testaments') 2019 Booker Prize

Bernardine Evaristo ( for 'Girl, Woman, (prize money £50,000)

Other')

UNESCO heritage awards complete list of winners

Award of Distinction

• Keyuan Garden, Suzhou, China

• Vikram Sarabhai Library, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India

• Nelson School of Music, Nelson, New Zealand

Award of Merit

• Tseto Goenpa, Paro, Bhutan

• Guyue Bridge, Chi’an Town, Zhejiang, China

• Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue, Mumbai, India

• Our Lady of Glory Church, Mumbai, India

• Lyttelton Timeball Station, Christchurch, New Zealand

Honourable Mention

• The 5s Classroom, Preshil The Margaret Lyttle Memorial School, Kew, Australia

• Westpac Long Gallery, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia

• Liddell Bros. Packing Plant, Wuhan, China

• Flora Fountain, Mumbai, India

New Design in Heritage Contexts

• Joan Sutherland Theatre Passageway and Lift, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia

• Dry Pit Latrine in Jiaxian Ancient Jujube Garden, Nihegou Village, Shaanxi, China

• The Mills, Hong Kong SAR, China

Current Affairs: Summit and Conference

1. 39th World Congress of Poets (WCP) inaugurated at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar

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2. First-ever India International Cooperatives Trade Fair (IICTF) held at Pragati Maidan in Delhi

3. 2nd India-China Informal Summit held in Mahabalipuram, TamilNadu

4. Piyush Goyal to attend 9th RCEP Intersessional Ministerial

Meeting in Thailand

5. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the 41st DRDO Directors Conference in New Delhi
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DRDO – Defence Research and Development Organisation

DRDO Chairman G Satheesh Reddy

DRDO Headquarters New Delhi

Current Affairs: Ranking

Index India’s Rank Top Least Other info

Global 1. Singapore

Competitiveness 68th/ 141 2. US 103 indicators

Index

Four indicators

Seventeen 1.undernourishment

Global Hunger Index 102 / 117 countries shared Central 2. child stunting

the top rank with African 3. child wasting

GHI scores less Republic (weight for age)

than five 4. child mortality

Current Affairs: MOU

1. Stock exchange BSE joins hands with Ficci to enhance MSME and start-up environment

2. Energy Efficiency Services (EESL) and National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) have

entered into a joint venture for the deployment of smart meters across India.

3. India and Sierra Leone signed six agreements including

extending a credit line of 30 million US Dollars for rice cultivation

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Sierra Leone Capital Freetown

Sierra Leone Currency Sierra Leonean leone

Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio

4. Indian Highways Management Company Ltd (IHMCL) and Goods and Services Tax Network

(GSTN) signed an MOU to link FASTag with GST e-way bill system

Current Affairs: Science and Technology

1. Saturn has overtaken Jupiter as the planet with the most moons

Current Affairs: Books

Author Book

“Becoming: A Guided Journal for

Michelle Obama Discovering Your Voice”

‘Carpenters and Kings: Western

Siddhartha Sarma Christianity and the Idea of India’

Current Affairs: Defence

1. First India specific Rafale multi-role combat aircraft was handed over to Defence Minister

Rajnath Singh at a ceremony in Bordeaux, France

2. Joint military exercise between India and Japan ‘Dharma Guardian’ will be held at the Counter-

Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School Vairengte in Mizoram

3. 2 nd edition of Coordinated Patrol (CORPAT) of the navies of India and Bangladesh

commenced in Northern Bay of Bengal

4. India handed over the second pair of Mi-24V helicopters to war-torn Afghanistan
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Afghanistan Capital Kabul

Afghanistan Currency Afghani

Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani

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Current Affairs: Sports

1. US gymnastics star Simone Biles clinched a record-extending 15th world championship gold

medal

2. Germany's World Cup winner Bastian Schweinsteiger has announced his retirement from

football

3. Indian sprinter Nirmala Sheroen has been banned for 4 years by the Athletics Integrity Unit

4. Six-time champion M C Mary Kom settled for a bronze medal in the World Women's

Boxing Championships

5. Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen clinched his maiden BWF World Tour title by winning the Dutch

Open men's singles title

6. Former India captain Sourav Ganguly is all set to be named the new president of the Board of

Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)

7. Cricket West Indies (CWI) has appointed former West Indies player Phil Simmons as the new

head coach of the men's team

8. International Cricket Council (ICC) has changed the super over rule for all its major

events
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ICC Headquarters Dubai, United Arab Emirates

ICC Chairperson Shashank Manohar

ICC CEO Manu Sawhney

9. Valtteri Bottas has won the Formula One Japanese Grand Prix 2019

Current Affairs: Obituaries

Person Field

Cosmonaut

Alexei Leonov (The first person to perform a

spacewalk)

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