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CONTENTS
BANKING & FINANCIAL AWARENESS ........................................................................................................... 5
CURRENT RATES ......................................................................................................................................................... 5
INDIA’S GROWTH PREDICTION ................................................................................................................................. 5
RBI IN NEWS ................................................................................................................................................................ 6
SBI IN NEWS ................................................................................................................................................................ 9
OTHER BANK IN NEWS............................................................................................................................................... 9
MOU’S/AGREEMENTS SIGNED BY BANKS ................................................................................................................... 11
LOANS/FUNDS SANCTIONED BY BANKS ................................................................................................................ 12
APPOINTMENTS RELATED TO BANKING SECTOR: ............................................................................................... 15
INDIAN AFFAIRS ............................................................................................................................................ 17
FIRST IN INDIA .......................................................................................................................................................... 17
LONGEST,LARGEST,HIGHEST: ................................................................................................................................. 20
CABINET APPROVALS ............................................................................................................................................... 21
BILL /Acts PASSED .................................................................................................................................................... 22
STATEWISE NEWS .................................................................................................................................................... 24
SCHEME ...................................................................................................................................................................... 25
LAUNCHES/INAUGURATIONS ..................................................................................................................................... 29
CAMPAIGN .................................................................................................................................................................. 30
FESTIVAL ................................................................................................................................................................... 31
BUDGET ....................................................................................................................................................................... 32
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS............................................................................................................................ 35
FIRST IN THE WORLD ............................................................................................................................................... 35
LONGEST,LARGEST,HIGHEST: ................................................................................................................................. 35
OTHER INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS:............................................................................................................................... 36
VISIT ................................................................................................................................................................ 37
INDIA VISIT ................................................................................................................................................................ 37
FOREIGN VISIT .......................................................................................................................................................... 41
SUMMITS/CONFERENCE IN NEWS .............................................................................................................. 50
COMMITTEES & MEETING IN NEWS ............................................................................................................ 56
MOU’s & AGREEMENTS ................................................................................................................................. 66
MOU's with Other Country ......................................................................................................................................... 66
MOU’S – States Wise .................................................................................................................................................. 68
MOU’s Between Organizations ................................................................................................................................... 68
INDEX .............................................................................................................................................................. 71
RANKING ..................................................................................................................................................................... 71
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REPORT:....................................................................................................................................................................... 78
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS .......................................................................................................................... 86
Recognitions ............................................................................................................................................................ 129
Geographical Indication(GI) tag: ............................................................................................................................... 131
APPOINTMENTS & RESIGNS ....................................................................................................................... 132
Cabinet Ministers ...................................................................................................................................................... 139
Chief Minister of India............................................................................................................................................... 140
Governor in India ...................................................................................................................................................... 140
Brand Ambassadors .................................................................................................................................................. 141
Presidents of International Countries: ...................................................................................................................... 142
Prime Minister’s of International Countries ............................................................................................................. 143
Resignation................................................................................................................................................................ 144
BUSINESS ...................................................................................................................................................... 144
BUSINESS INITIATIVES ............................................................................................................................................... 144
ANTI DUMPING DUTY ............................................................................................................................................... 145
ACQUISITIONS & MERGERS ................................................................................................................................... 145
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY ........................................................................................................................... 146
APP & WEB PORTAL .................................................................................................................................................. 146
SATELLITES ............................................................................................................................................................. 148
INVENTIONS ............................................................................................................................................................ 148
ENVIRONMENT ............................................................................................................................................ 149
DEFENCE ....................................................................................................................................................... 150
MISSILES .................................................................................................................................................................. 150
COMMISSION/DECOMMISSION ............................................................................................................................. 151
EXERCISES ............................................................................................................................................................... 151
SPORTS .......................................................................................................................................................... 155
BOOKS & AUTHORS...................................................................................................................................... 182
OBITUARY ..................................................................................................................................................... 187
IMPORTANT DAYS ....................................................................................................................................... 200
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BANKING & FINANCIAL AWARENESS

CURRENT RATES
Policy rates 3rd Bi-Monthly 4th Bi-Monthly 5th Bi-Monthly
Monetary Monetary Monetary
Policy(August Policy(October Policy(December
2019) 2019) 2019)
Repo Rate 5.40 % 5.15% 5.15%
Reverse Repo Rate 5.15 % 4.90% 4.90%
Marginal Standing 5.65 % 5.40% 5.40%
Facility (MSF)
Bank Rate 5.65 % 5.40% 5.40%
Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) 4% 4% 4%
Statutory Liquidity Ratio 18.75%(SLR will be 18.75%%(SLR will 18.50%(18.50% from
(SLR) changed to 18.50 on be changed to 18.50 October 12, 2019 It
October 12,2019) on October 12,2019) will again change on
January 4, 2020)
INDIA’S GROWTH PREDICTION

Organization Predictions
CRISIL (formerly Credit Rating Information Services 5.1% from 6.3% for FY 20 (December)
of India Limited)
Asian Development Bank (ADB) 5.1% from 6.5% for FY20(December)
Moody’s Investors Service 5.6% for 2019 (December)
Moody’s 4.9% for FY20 (Fiscal Year 2019-20)
(December)
Fitch Ratings Inc. 4.6 % for FY20(December)
International Monetary Fund (IMF) 6.1% for FY20(December)
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and 6.6% in 2020-24(November)
Development(OECD)
State Bank of India (SBI)’s report titled “EcoWrap” 5% in Fiscal Year 2020 (FY20) (November)
Nomura 4.9% from 5.7% for FY20(November)
Moody’s 5.6% from 5.8% for FY20(November)
Moody’s revises India’s economic outlook to “negative” from “Stable”.
National Council of Applied Economic Research 4.9% for Fiscal year (FY)-20) (November)
(NCAER)
ICRA (originally named Investment Information and 4.7 % 2nd quarter (Q2 – 1 April – 30 June) of
Credit Rating Agency of India Limited) FY -Fiscal Year 2020
India Ratings and Research(Ind-Ra) 5.6% from 6.1% FY20 (November)
National Statistical Office (NSO) 4.5% in second quarter (Q2: July-September)
(November)
OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) cuts global growth forecast for
2020 to 2.9 % from 3%(November)
Standard & Poor (S&P) Global ratings 6.3% for 2019-2020(October)
Expectation - 7% for the year 2020-
2021(October)
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) 6.1% (from 6.9%)for 2019-20(October)
India Ratings and Research(Ind-Ra) 6.1% from 6.7% for FY20(October)
World Bank’s report- “South Asia Economic Focus, 6% for 2019 from 7.5%(October)
Fall 2019 : Making (De)centralization work”
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International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s World 6.1% for 2019 from previous 7.3% . 7% for
Economic Outlook(WEO) 2020.(October)
Fitch Ratings 5.5 percent for FY20 from 6.6%(October)
DBS bank (formerly Development Bank of 6.2% for FY20.(September)

Singapore Ltd)
CRISIL (formerly Credit Rating Information 6.3% for FY20 (Fiscal Year 2020)(September)
Services of India Limited)
Asian Development Bank (ADB) 6.5% for FY 2019-20(September)
United Nations Conference on Trade and 6% for 2019(September)
Development (UNCTAD)
National Council of Applied Economic Research 6.2% in FY 2019-20(August)
(NCAER)
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) 6.2 % in 2019(FY-Fiscal Year 2020) (August)
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and 6.0% in Q1 (April 2019 to June 2019) of Fiscal
Industry(FICCI) year FY 2019-20(August)
Ministry of Statistics and Programme 5% in April to June quarter of 2019-
Implementation 20(August)
RBI IN NEWS
DECEMBER
 RBI-made-National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) transactions on a 24X7 basis.
 “Operation Twist”- RBI decided to conduct simultaneous sale and purchase of government
bonds under the Open Market Operations (OMO) mechanism.
---RBI will buy bonds worth Rs 10,000 crore of 6.45% maturing in the year 2029 and issuing
bonds worth Rs 10,000 crore maturing in the year 2020.
 RBI- limit on the aggregate lending to all borrowers across all Non-Banking Financial Company
– Peer to Peer (NBFC-P2P) lending platforms-to Rs. 50-lakh.
 RBI-launched a semi-closed prepaid payment instrument (PPI) for the transaction of goods and
services up to a limit of Rs 10,000.
 RBI releases report on ‘Trend and Progress of Banking in India 2018-19
-----Gross NPAs of Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs) declined to 9.1 % in 2019 from 11.2 % in
2018.
-----Bank fraud rise 74% to Rs 71,543 cr in 2018-19.
-----Green finance development faces many challenges, such as “greenwashing” /false claims of
environmental compliance.Click here to read more.
 RBI-asked all primary urban cooperative banks (UCBs) to report all exposures of Rs 5 crore
and above to the Central Repository of Information on Large Credits (CRILC).
 Reserve Bank releases draft circular on loan exposure limits & PSL threshold for UCBs
---- Exposure limits a single borrower & a group of connected borrowers at 10% and 25% from
earlier 15% and 40%.
---- Priority Sector Lending (PSL) target for urban cooperative banks (UCBs) to 75% from 40%.
NOVEMBER
 RBI tightens liquidity management framework for non-banking financial companies (NBFCs).
♦ NBFCs with assets of Rs 10,000 crore and above will have to maintain at least 50% of LCR,
while those with assets of Rs 5000-10,000 crore will have to maintain 30% LCR & and build
up to 100 % over four years.
 RBI issues new rules for the pay scale of senior officials of private, foreign banks
♦ If the non-payment is up to 200 % of the fixed salary, then at least 50 % of it should be paid
in other than cash mode. If non-cash pay exceeds 200 %, then 67 %of it should be paid in
non-cash ways.
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 Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has raised the household income eligibility limit for eligible
borrowers from NBFC –MFIs (Non-Banking Financial Companies- Micro finance Institutions)
♦ Increased to Rs 1.25 lakh from the existing Rs 1 lakh in rural areas and from Rs 1.6 lakh to
Rs 2 lakh in urban /semi-urban areas.
♦ Increased the limit on disbursal of loans to Rs 75,000 from Rs 60,000 for the 1st cycle, and
from Rs 1 lakh for the successive cycles to Rs 1.25 lakh.Click here to read more
 Banks cannot charge on NEFT transactions from January 2020 as per RBI’s report titled
“Furthering Digital Payments”.
OCTOBER
 India’s current account deficit (CAD) narrowed to $ 14.3 billion or 2% of Gross Domestic
Product (GDP) during the first quarter(April – June) of 2019-20.
 Smt. Usha Thorat-heads the committee that recommends- Offshore Rupee Markets.
 RBI came up with a new reporting system for all co-operative banks (urban, State & district
central) called Central Information System for Banking Infrastructure (CISBI).
RBI) has decided to operationalise unified Department of Supervision (DoS) & Department of
Regulation (DoR).
SEPTEMBER
 RBI- asked banks to link all new types of floating-rate loans (home, auto loans & and micro,
small and medium enterprises (MSME)) to external benchmark like repo rate from October 1,
2019.
 RBI selects Daffodil Software Pvt Ltd for developing mobile app for visually impaired
 RBI increases loan exposure limit of banks to a single NBFC (excluding gold loan companies)
from 15% to 20%
 RBI reduces the risk weight on consumer credit required by banks from 125 % to 100 %
 RBI proposes new rule to set up Rs 200 crore minimum capital for SFB under 'on tap' license
regime
 RBI Panel Chaired By Mahesh Kumar Jain Suggests To Set Up Of A Federal Body Like GST
Council For The Agriculture Sector Read full details here: RBI Panel Chaired By Mahesh
Kumar Jain Suggests To Set Up Of A Federal Body Like GST Council For The Agriculture
Sector.
 RBI allows all recurring bill payments through Bharat Bill Payment System(BBPS)
 RBI Revises Guidelines On Concurrent Audit System As Per The Recommendations Of An
Expert Committee Headed By Y.H. Malegam Read full details here: RBI Revises Guidelines On
Concurrent Audit System As Per The Recommendations Of An Expert Committee Headed
By Y.H. Malegam.
RBI increased the loan sanction limit for small exporters to Rs 40 crore per borrower from Rs
25 crore.
AUGUST
 RBI-barred-both deposit-taking and non- deposit taking NBFCs(Non-Banking Finance
Companies) from charging pre-payment/foreclosure charges on any floating rate term loans.
 RBI-tightens fit and proper guidelines for the position of elected directors on the board of PSBs.
 RBI imposes fine on 9 commercial Banks for non-compliance relating to reporting of
frauds.Click here to read more.
 Penalty of Rs.1.5 crore was fined on Bank of India over “non-compliance with RBI’s (Reserve
Bank of India) direction on frauds” in Rotomac group companies.
 Bank Retail loan growth slips to 5-year low in the first half of 2019 at 7.3 %: RBI.
 RBI) has permitted all categories of billers (except prepaid recharges), who provide for
recurring bill payments to participate in BBPS (Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS)on a
voluntary basis.
 RBI relaxes bank lending norms to NBFCs and eased bank’s exposure limits.
 RBI permits domestic banks to directly sell their NPAs overseas as part of one-time settlement.
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 RBI’s Task Force on offshore rupee markets headed by Usha Thorat recommends extension of
onshore market hours to 9 AM to 9 PM, from 9 AM to 5 PM
 Reserve Bank asks banks not to count failed transactions, balance enquiry as ''free ATM
transactions''.
 RBI Extends Timings of Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) Transactions by an hour from 7 am
instead of 8 am.
 RBI issues guidelines on Interest Subvention Scheme for Kisan Credit Card (KCC) to Fisheries
and Animal Husbandry farmers during 2018-19 and 2019-20.Click here to read more.
 RBI released the report on the Economic Capital Framework submitted by the panel headed by
Bimal Jalan.Click here to read more.
 RBI extended the banking license of Rupee Cooperative Bank Ltd till November 30, 2019.
 RBI has released its annual report for the fiscal year (FY) 2018-19.Click here to read more.
 RBI extends time limit for PPIs to become full KYC complaint by 6 months.
 RBI- Housing Finance Companies (HFCs) will be treated as one of the categories of NBFCs
(Non-Banking Financial Companies) & it will come under RBI’s supervision.
JULY
 Powers Of SEBI & RBI In Finance Bill 2019
Amendments to RBI Act
♦ More Powers to regulate NBFCs
♦ Regulation of HFCs moved from NHB to RBI
♦ Removal of Directors & Supersession of board
♦ Resolution of NBFCs
♦ Non-uniform approach and a missed opportunity
♦ Debarment of Auditors
Amendments to Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act (SCRA), 1956
Amendments to SEBI Act, 1992
♦ Checks and Balances on SEBI’s Expenses
♦ Clarification on Electronic Communication & penalty on broker
♦ Alteration, Destruction etc. of records and failure to protect electronic database
 RBI- suggested-the timings of different foreign exchange market from 9 am to 9 pm instead of 9
am to 5 pm.
 RBI -launched “Utkarsh 2022”, central bank’s medium-term strategy framework (2019-22), in
line with evolving macroeconomic environment.
 RBI relaxes norms of NBFC and Corporates Raised through ECB.Click here to read more.
APPROVAL BY RBI:
DECEMBER
 RBI issues final guidelines for on-tap licence to small finance banks(SFB).
♦ Minimum paid-up voting equity capital has been doubled to Rs 200 crore from Rs 100
crore.
♦ Payment banks which have completed 5 years of operations, are eligible to become
SFBs.
 RBI increases aggregate lending limits imposed on peer-to-peer (P2P) lenders to Rs 50 lakh
from 10 lakh.
 RBI – appointed- J&K Bank as lead bankers for J&K & SBI as lead bankers for Ladakh.
NOVEMBER
 RBI-revised the SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) currency swap
arrangement framework for a period of November 14, 2019, to November 13, 2022.
 RBI excluded Vijaya Bank, Dena bank from 2nd schedule of RBI Act, 1934.
OCTOBER
 Shubh Loans- received a Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) license from the Reserve
Bank of India (RBI).
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 ‘Kerala Bank’(Which is a amalgamation of 13 district co-operative banks (DCBs) with Kerala

State Co-operative Bank) – received-RBI’s approval.
 Reserve Bank of India (RBI)-denied the proposed merger of Indiabulls Housing Finance and
Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB).
 Credit Saison India –received-RBI’s license - to set up a non-banking financial company(NBFC)
in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
 Vreedhi Financial Services –receives- NBFC licence from RBI.
SEPTEMBER
 RBI barred the Equitas Small Finance Bank (ESFB) from opening new branches.
 RBI bans PMC Bank, account holders will not be able to withdraw more than 1000 in a day
 RBI Placed Lakshmi Vilas Bank Under Prompt Corrective Action(PCA) Framework.
AUGUST
 RBI approved-Bank of China to offer regular banking services in India.
 RBI-permitted processing of e-mandate on credit and debit cards along with Prepaid Payment
Instruments (PPIs).
RBI -approves Surplus Transfer of Rs 1.76 Lakh Crore to govt as it accepts Bimal Jalan Panel
recommendation.Click here to read more.
JULY
 RBI gets the power to regulate housing finance companies instead of National Housing
Bank(NHB).
 RBI board has finalized a three- year roadmap ‘Utkarsh 2022’ to improve regulation &
supervision.
RBI panel recommends an increase in collateral-free lending, MUDRA loan limit to Rs 20 lakh.
SBI IN NEWS
DECEMBER
 SBI - bring new OTP-based cash withdrawal system for above Rs 10,000 from January 1, 2020.
NOVEMBER
 SBI card- partnered with Vistara- to provide premium, co-branded credit card.
AUGUST
 SBI(Shanghai branch)-become the first Indian Bank to be connected to China’s National
Advance Payment System (CNAPS).
JULY
 SBI- National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF)-signed an MoU to provide financing
solutions to the infrastructure sector.
 SBI waived Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) and National Electronic Fund Transfer (NEFT)
charges for its app YONO(You Only Need One), internet and mobile banking customers
effective from 1 July 2019.
OTHER BANK IN NEWS

DECEMBER
 78 % depositors - Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative (PMC) Bank have been allowed to
withdraw their entire deposits even though the ceiling of Rs 50,000 on withdrawal continues.
 National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) -has set up a subsidiary to take the Unified
Payment Interface (UPI) model to other countries.
 1,95,901 complaints received by RBI Ombudsman in 2018-19.
 No MDR (merchant discount rate) charges will be applicable on transactions/ payments done
via RuPay and UPI (Unified Payments Interface) platforms beginning January 1, 2020.
NOVEMBER
 India, China and Russia- partnered together to explore an alternative to the SWIFT payment
mechanism-Russia’s SPFS (System for Transfer of Financial Messages) will be linked to Chinese
Cross-border Interbank Payment System (CIPS).
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 Sundaram BNP Paribas Home Finance renamed as Sundaram Home Finance Ltd.
 NBFCs with Rs 500 crore assets now under the purview of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code
(IBC), 2016.
OCTOBER
 Axis Bank-has launched digital fixed-deposit (FD) product named ‘Express FD’.
 UPI transactions registers a new high of 955 million in September 2019 : NPCI.
 House Building Advance (HBA)-interest rate-reduced-from 8.5% to 7.9% for one year.
 No charges on digital payments to large businesses with an annual turnover over Rs 50 crore
from Nov 1, 2019.
 Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance - launched a first-of-its-kind video calling service within the life
insurance industry called i-SERV.
 Unified Payments Interface (UPI) - achieved the double milestone of 1 billion transactions as
well as has crossed 100 million users in October 2019.
SEPTEMBER
 Standard Chartered Bank launches new "DigiSmart" credit card.
 MSME Ministry Launched Updated Credit Linked Capital Subsidy Scheme (CLCSS)
 Karnataka Bank MD & CEO MS Mahabaleshwara inducted into IBA’s Managing Committee
 NPCI reduced merchant discount rate on RuPay Debit Card to 0.60 % on transactions above Rs
2,000
 ECGC introduces ‘NIRVIK’ scheme to provide 90% insurance cover on the loan amount of
exporters: Piyush Goyal
 Code for Responsible Lending (CRL) for the micro-credit industry launched by MFIN, Sa-Dhan
and FIDC
 Government exempts 2% TDS on cash payments of over Rs 1 crore made through APMCs
 Airtel Payments Bank launched 'Bharosa' savings account
 Visa in partnership with BillDesk to launch interface for recurring payments , "standing
instructions (SI) Hub"
 India Post launches speed post service International Speed Post (EMS) for Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Brazil, Ecuador, Kazakhstan, Lithuania and North McDonia.
 BoB launches agri digital platform called “Baroda Kisan”
 PNB launches 1st of its kind Preventive Vigilance portal to facilitate all staff to contribute
towards arresting procedural lapses
 Basel-based BIS launches ‘green’ bond fund for central banks to promote green finance.
AUGUST
 National Housing Bank (NHB) infused an additional Rs 10,000 crore in Non-Banking Financial
Companies (NBFCs) for Housing Finance Companies (HFCs).
 India Post Payments Bank (IPPB)-converted to a small finance bank (SFB) with the aim to
provide micro-credit.
 Jana Small Finance Bank to operate as a Scheduled Bank.
 MSCI added HDFC Life Insurance to its Global Standard Index-removed Union Bank of
India(UBI) from its India Smallcap Index.
 India’s first Corporate credit card for SMEs launched by B2B payments startup EnKash.
 Denmark’s Jyske Bank unveiled world's first negative interest rate home loan.
 Balkan country Serbia becomes 73rd non-regional member of Asian Infrastructure Investment
Bank(AIIB).
 Canara Bank-launched India's first one-time password (OTP) facility for ATM withdrawals over
Rs.10,000 in a day.
 10 public sector banks merged into four large entities: Nirmala Sitharaman.Click here to read
more.
JULY
 Punjab & Sind Bank sets up centralised hub ‘Cen-MARG’ to process retail and MSME loans.
 Total deposits in Jan Dhan accounts cross Rs.1 lakh crore(Rs 1,00,495.94 crore).
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 HDFC Bank (Housing Development Finance Corporation) has terminated and de-listed its 22
outstanding global depository receipts (GDRs) from the Luxembourg Stock Exchange citing low
trading volume of GDRs.
 ICICI(Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India)- launched a new digital platform
called ‘InstaBIZ’. -for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs).
 Andhra Bank rolls-out Al chatbot “ABHi” in Telangana.
 India will be the first recipient of local currency financing by the Asian Infrastructure and
Investment Bank (AIIB).
 Standard Chartered is all set to be the first foreign bank to initiate operations at GIFT IFSC.
The changes in the rates of the schemes are as follows:

Scheme New interest rate(from 01.10.2019) Time
Savings Deposit 4.0% Annually
1 year Time Deposit 6.9% Quarterly
5 year Recurring Deposit 7.2% Quarterly
5 year Senior Citizen Savings Scheme 8.6`% Quarterly and paid
5 year Monthly Income Account 7.6% Monthly and paid
5 year National Savings Certificate 7.9% Annually
Public Provident Fund Scheme 7.9% Annually
Kisan Vikas Patra 7.6% (will mature in 113 months) Annually
Sukanya Samriddhi Account Scheme 8.4% Annually
MOU’S/AGREEMENTS SIGNED BY BANKS

DECEMBER
 Walmart India, - joined hands with HDFC (Housing Development Finance Corporation )Bank to
launch a co-branded credit card.
 Aditya Birla health insurance teams up with MobiKwik to offer affordable health insurance
plans.
 BlackBuck - with IDFC &Yes Bank to provide free FASTags to truckers.
 Mastercard - with Federal bank for additional digital security called ‘Mastercard Identity
Check’
 Axis Bank-signed MoU with -Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) to launch co-branded credit
cards.
 Bank of Baroda (BoB)- signed a MoU with Gujarat govt to provide MSME loans.
NOVEMBER
 ICICI Lombard & Fino payments bank tie up to offer sachet based insurance products.
 IndiaFirst Life Insurance-partnered with Spice Money-provides ‘insurance khata’-aims at the
informal sector & agricultural labourers with seasonal incomes.
 Ashok Leyland ink pact with Axis bank & ICICI bank for commercial vehicle financing.
OCTOBER
 Star Health Insurance-signed MoU-with Paytm- to sell comprehensive life insurance products.
 Indian Army - MoU with- Bank of Baroda (BoB)- for a new, customized banking experience
 United Bank of India-MoU with - Srei Equipment Finance Ltd partnered to provide loans to
MSME and retail sector customers.
SEPTEMBER
 SBI-signed-MoU with- Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC)-for the Direct Benefit
Transfer (DBT) facility.
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 Repco Home Finance Ltd (RHFL ) -signed-MoU with-SBI (State Bank of India) Life Insurance- to
provide SBI Life’s range of products to its customers.
 Airtel Payments Bank -signed-MoU–with -HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company -to offer
unique Mosquito Diseases Protection Policy (MDPP).
AUGUST
 Karnataka Bank-signed MoU with - Fintech company Finwizard Technology Pvt Ltd (widely
known as "fisdom")- to offer wealth management products and services.
 Indian Bank- signed MoU with- Cholamandalam MS (Chola MS) General Insurance Company-to
deliver a wide range of insurance policies to the Indian bank customers.
 Bandhan Bank- signed MoU with- Standard Chartered Bank-to provide co-branded credit cards
to its 40 lakh savings bank account holders across the 1,000 branches of Bandhan.
 Indian Bank- signed MoU with- Tata AIG General Insurance-to offer Tata AIG General
Insurance’s diverse range of general insurance policies to the bank’s customers.
 RBL Bank- signed MoU with- Samsung India and Mastercard-the tie-up will allow the
customers of RBL bank to make contactless transactions with enhanced security on their
Samsung Pay-compatible smartphones efficiently.
 BookMyForex join hands with YES Bank for foreign exchange travel card.
 Acko General Insurance, has partnered with ZestMoney to offer credit card insurance to its
(ZestMoney) customers.
JULY
 Airtel Payments Bank- Bharti AXA Life Insurance-to offer Bharti AXA Life POS (Point of Sale)
Saral Jeevan Bima Yojana.
 Reliance Jio -partners with Facebook- to launch literacy drive “’Digital Udaan” for first-time
internet users in India.
 Samsung partners with Paisabazaar.com –to launch financial products.
MoU with Government e-Marketplace (GeM)
 With Union Bank of India (UBI)- to provide cashless, paperless and transparent payment
system to small traders.
 With Federal Bank- to offer a number of services including transfer of funds through GeM Pool
Accounts (GPA), advising of Performance Bank Guarantees (e-PBG) and Earnest Money Deposit
(EMD) to the registered users on the portal.
 With Indian bank & Canara bank- to provide a paperless, cashless, and transparent payment
system on its portal.
 With Central Bank of India for payment-related services.
 With UCO Bank & BoM for payment-related services.
LOANS/FUNDS SANCTIONED BY BANKS

Loan issued Received by Amount Points to be noted
DECEMBER
Asian Development Bank Tamil Nadu $206 million To develop water supply,
(ADB) (Ambur,Tiruchirapp sewerage infrastructure
alli, Tiruppur,
Madurai and
Vellore)
Exim bank (Export- Bangladesh $500 million For defence-related
Import Bank of India) (Rs 3561 crore) procurement in the
neighbouring country.
KfW (formerly KfW- State Bank of India $277 million For establishing an energy-
Kreditanstalt für (SBI) (about Rs 1,958 efficient housing programme in
Wiederaufbau crore) India.
Bankengruppe)
Asian Development Bank Energy Efficiency $250 million To improve energy efficiencies
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(ADB) Services Limited (about Rs 1,775 in India

(EESL) crore)
New Development Bank National Investment $100 million To invest in up to 10 private
(NDB) and Infrastructure equity funds managed by fund
Fund’s (NIIF) managers in India.
Asian Development Bank Madhya $490 million For upgrading about 1,600 km
(ADB) Pradesh(MP)
Asian Infrastructure India $210 million For irrigation ($145-mn) &
Investment Bank (AIIB) solar energy projects($65-mn)
in India.
NOVEMBER
Asian Development Bank Tamil Nadu $451 Chennai-Kanyakumari
(ADB) million(mn) industrial corridor power links
(about Rs 3,200 in Tamil Nadu
crore)
Green Climate Fund Andhra Pradesh, $43 million To boost climate resilience
Maharashtra and
Odisha
Asian Infrastructure Tata Cleantech $75-million To help mobilize private capital
Investment Bank (AIIB) Capital Limited into renewable energy, power
(TLLC) transmission and water
infrastructure.
The bank also extended the
loans worth over $2.2 billion
for funding power
transmission and distribution
projects in Assam, metro rail
projects in Chennai, Mumbai
and rural water supply system
in Karnataka.
Asian Development Bank Government of India $ 91 million Karnataka Integrated and
(ADB) (GoI) Sustainable Water Resources
Management Investment
Program (IWRM) to renovate
the Vijayanagara Channel
irrigation systems in
Karnataka.
Asian Development Bank West Bengal $150 million To boost capital investment
(ADB) (about Rs 1,065 and infrastructure.
crore)
Asian Development Bank Government of India $451 million To strengthen power
(ADB) connectivity between the
southern and northern parts of
the Chennai–Kanyakumari
Industrial Corridor (CKIC).
OCTOBER
Asian Development Bank Rajasthan $190 million To upgrade 754 kilometers of
(ADB) Rajasthan state highways
World Bank (WB) Odisha $ 165 million To support smallholder
farmers in Odisha
New Development Bank India 300 million For Renewable Energy Sector
(NDB) Development Project.
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It also extends Fundo Clima

Brazil National Climate Fund
Project ($ 500 million ).
SEPTEMBER
Asian Development Bank Maharashtra $ 200 million To upgrade about 2,100
(ADB) (about Rs 1,400 kilometers of rural roads to all-
crore) weather standards in
Maharashtra’s 34 districts for
better connecting rural areas
with markets and services.
Under the project, a provision
of contractual maintenance for
5 years following construction
has also been provided. In
addition to the loan amount, $1
million will be provided for
institutional strengthening of
the Maharashtra
Rural Roads Development
Association.
AUGUST
Asian Development GRIL( GR $23 million This will promote the GRIL’s
Bank(ADB) Infraprojects ability for the construction of
Limited) roads & highways in India.
JUNE
Asian Development Bank Chhattisgarh $350 million It will improve the connectivity
(ADB) and access to basic services
and livelihood opportunities in
the state with total cost of the
project is $521.69 million.
World Bank Tamil Nadu $287 million For the state’s Health System
Reform Programme in New
Delhi. It is aimed to improve
the quality of health care,
reduce the burden of non-
communicable diseases (NCDs)
and fill equity gaps in
reproductive and child health
services.Click here to read
more.
Indian government Nepal 1.6 billion For rebuilding of houses in
Nepalese Nuwakot and Gorkha districts,
rupees which were damaged in the
devastating earthquake in
2015.
Export-Import Bank of Ghana and $245 million For agricultural and railway
India (Exim Bank) Mozambique projects
Asian Development Bank Tripura Rs. 1650 crore For overall infrastructure
(ADB) development of seven districts
headquarter towns of Tripura.
The ADB will give 80 percent of
1650 crore as grant-in-aid &
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Tripura Govt will have to repay

back only 20 percent loan in
due course of time.
World Bank Rajasthan $ 250 Million For Phase II of Rajasthan State
Highways Development
Project.
World Bank Jharkhand $147 million To improve the management
capacity of the urban local
bodies (ULBs)
World Bank Uttarakhand $31.58 million Loan is from the World Bank's
(about Rs 221 International Bank for
crore) Reconstruction and
Development (IBRD).
World Bank Andra Pradesh $328 million For improving health services
of Andhra Pradesh. The
International Bank for
Reconstruction and
Development (IBRD) loan has a
23.5-year maturity and
includes a grace period of 6-
year.
World Bank Government of India $400 Million For the Program Towards
Elimination of TB,which kills
approximately half a million
people in India every year.It
will also support the
government’s National
Strategic Plan to end TB in
India by 2025.
World Bank Kerala $250 million For the Kerala Resilient
(Rs 1,725 crore) Programme. $160 million will
be given on ‘easy terms’ with
interest of less than 1.5% with
a repayment period of 30
years. For the balance amount,
the interest will be 4% &
repayment period will be 20
years +moratorium of five
years.
APPOINTMENTS RELATED TO BANKING SECTOR:

National
Name Appointed As Entity/Place Points To Be Noted
DECEMBER
PR Ravi Mohan Chairman ESAF Small Ravi has replaced R Prabha,
Finance Bank whose tenure as chairman
(SFB) has ended. ESAF Stands for
Evangelical Social Action
Forum.
Devesh Srivastava Chairman and Managing General Insurance He succeeded Alice G.
Director (MD) Corporation of Vaidyan, first lady CMD of
India (GIC Re) GIC Re.
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Rajendran Chinna Managing Director (MD) Catholic Syrian

Veerappan and Chief Executive Bank (CSB)
Officer (CEO)
NOVEMBER
P.S Rajan Chief Executive Officer Kerala Bank He earlier worked as General
(CEO) Manager of Union Bank of
India.
OCTOBER
S. S. Mallikarjuna Managing Punjab National Rao will replace Sunil Mehta
Rao Director(MD)and Chief Bank(PNB) of PNB
Executive Officer (CEO)
Suman Kathpalia Managing Director (MD) IndusInd Bank He will replace Romesh
and Chief Executive Sobti, who will retire in
Officer (CEO) March 2020.
SEPTEMBER
Praveen Jadhav Chief Executive Officer & Paytm Money Prior to this, he was in the
Managing Director (MD) position of full-time director.
Shyam Srinivasan Chief Executive Officer Federal Bank With this, he will serve the
(CEO) & Managing bank as the head for a
Director (MD) decade (September 23,
2010-September 22, 2020).
Vaijinath M. Chief Executive Officer Dewan Housing He will succeed Harshil
Gavarshetty (CEO) and key managerial Finance Mehta.
personnel Corporation Ltd
Samuel Joseph Deputy Managing Director Industrial He succeeds the KP Nair.
Jebaraj (DMD) Development Bank This is the first major
of India (IDBI appointment on the Bank’s
Bank) Board after Life Insurance
Corporation of India (LIC)
acquired a majority stake of
51% (January 2019) in the
bank
AUGUST
Siddhartha MD (Managing Director) LIC Housing He replaces Shri Vinay Shah.
Mohanty & CEO (Chief Executive Finance (Life
Officer) Insurance
Corporation HFL)
Noel Quinn Chief Executive Officer HSBC bank He replaces John Flint
(CEO)(Interim)
JULY
AK Misra Additional director Jammu and He was the former executive
Kashmir Bank director of RBI. His
appointment shall be for a
period of two years with
effect from 2019, to 2021, or
till further orders.
N S Vishwanathan Deputy governor Reserve Bank of His tenure was extended for
India (RBI) one more year with effect
from July 4, 2019.
Karnam Sekar Managing Director Indian Overseas He replaces R
(MD)and Chief Executive Bank (IOB) Subramaniakumar.
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Officer(CEO)
Anshula Kant Managing Director World Bank(WB) Since September 2018 she
(MD)and Chief Financial has been a Managing
Officer(CFO) Director and member of the
World Bank Board.
RESIGNATION:
Name Resigned as Entity/Place
OCTOBER
T. Latha Managing Director (MD) and Dhanlaxmi Bank
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
SEPTEMBER
Anshula Kant Managing Director (MD) State Bank of India (SBI). This
comes after her appointment as
the MD and Chief Financial
Officer (CFO) of World Bank
Group.
Takehiko Nakao President Asian Development Bank (ADB)
AUGUST
Parthasarathi Mukherjee Managing Director(MD) and Lakshmi Vilas Bank(LVB)
Chief Executive Officer(CEO)
JUNE
Mukesh Sabharwal Independent director Yes Bank
Ajai Kumar Interim Managing Director (MD) Yes Bank
and Chief Executive (CEO)
Viral Acharya Deputy Governor Reserve Bank of India
INDIAN AFFAIRS
FIRST IN INDIA
DECEMBER
 Mumbai Central railway station-1st to receive FSSAI’s ‘Eat Right Station’ certification.
 India’s 1st National maritime heritage museum to be built in Lothal, Gujarat with the help of
Portugal.
 1st of its kind independent director’s data bank-launched-Indian Institute for Corporate Affairs
(IICA).
 India’s 1st Ganga Centralised aqualab to be set up in Dehradun, Uttarakhand.
 First-ever Human Library Chapter 2-Mysuru, Karnataka.
 Wasim Jaffer- first Indian Cricketer to play 150 Ranji Matches.
 1st Pashu Kisan credit cards (Animal husbandry Credit Card) –launched in-Bhiwani district of
Haryana.
 Gandikota Sarva Lakshmi (Former Indian cricketer)- first woman referee in the Men’s ODI
(One Day International) match .
 Rohit Sharma (32), - First Indian Brand Ambassador of La Liga-also first non footballer
appointed as brand Ambassador.
 India’s 1st corporate bond called ‘Bharat Bond ETF’-launched by-Edelweiss Asset Management
Company (AMC).
 Haryana-1st state-to introduce-“Trakea-barcoding system of Forensic Science Laboratory
(FSL)” to enable foolproof security of the samples collected in Forensic reports.
 Country’s first- waste exchange platform“Madras Waste Exchange”
(www.madraswasteexchange.com) -launched by Chennai Corporation, Tamil Nadu.
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 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)-in collaboration with- Jigneh Patel, a fellow at the
Center for Healthcare Entrepreneurship (CfHE) at IIT(Indian Institutes of Technology)
Hyderabad (Telangana) launched India’s 1st vaccination on Wheels (VOW) Clinic- in Pune,
Maharashtra.
 Dharmendra Pradhan unveils India’s First CNG Bus which can run 1000 Kms in one fill in New
Delhi.
 Indian Railways for the 1st time- starts new Him Darshan express train between Kalka
(Haryana)-Shimla (Himachal Pradesh)
 India’s 1st lignite-based 500 MW thermal unit commissioned in Tamil Nadu (TN) by Bharat
Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL).
 India’s 1st university for transgender will open in Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh (UP)- constructed
by Akhil Bhartiya Kinnar Siksha Seva Trust (All-India transgender education service trust).
 Amit Shah laid the foundation stone of India’s first transit-oriented development (TOD) project.
 Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT)- becomes 1st station to get “Eat Right Station”
certification from FSSAI.
 India’s 1st Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) - Army chief General Bipin Rawat .Click here to read
more abt CDS
NOVEMBER
 India’s first indigenously developed standing wheelchair named “Arise”- developed-by-
Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras(IITM).
 Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) ‘s , National Environmental Engineering
Research Institute (NEERI) launches India’s 1st air pollution web repository called “IndAIR”.
 India’s First Elephant Memorial - “Wildlife SOS Elephant Memorial” opens on Agra-Mathura
Highway in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh.
 India’s first Signal Fish “Pteropsaron indicum” found in Kerala.
 Assam govt-launched-Sishu Suraksh app- first of its kind- for child right protection.
 1st ‘Geochemical Baseline Atlas of India’-released by-Council of Scientific & Industrial
Research- National Geophysical Research Institute (CSIR- NGRI).
 Lieutenant Colonel Jyoti Sharma - designated as the 1st woman Judge Advocate General (JAG)
of the Indian Army-on a foreign mission (Sseychelles).
 Kolkata-1st city to install ‘Third Umpire’-Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain
Reaction(RT-PCR) machines-to assess medical reports.
 Chitharesh Natesan (‘Indian Monster’ )- first Indian to win ‘Mr Universe 2019’.
 Lieutenant Shivangi became first Indian women pilot of Indian Navy.
 First ever Global Bio-India Summit was held in New Delhi.
 Reliance Industries Limited (RIL)-first Indian company to cross Rs.10 lakh crore in market
capitalization (m-cap).
 Suresh Krishna-receives-India’s First ‘Quality Ratna’ award.
 G Satheesh Reddy-1st Indian to receive-Honorary Fellowship of the Society 2019 by Royal
Aeronautical Society (RAeS).
 Delhi - 1st in India to host 10th Commonwealth Youth Parliament.
 Aditya Birla Finance Ltd (ABFL)-1st company to list commercial papers (CPS) on stock
exchanges.
OCTOBER
 First National Nutrition Survey-Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare with the
assistance of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
 First time-India achieves one-crore LED street light mark installed under the Street Light
National Programme.
 1st time in India- Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) will compensate
for passengers of the Tejas Express - if the train is late.
 Rajasthan -first State-launched-‘Policy on Pneumoconiosis Detection, Prevention, Control and
Rehabilitation’.
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 India’s first Village secretariat system-launched-Andhra Pradesh.

 India’s first floating basketball court opens in Arabian Sea in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
 India’s first e-waste clinic to be set up in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
 India’s 1st plant to produce diesel from plastic waste in Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh.
 Indian Army’s first mountain combat exercise ‘Him Vijay’ 2019 begun in Arunachal Pradesh.
 Telangana police becomes the first in country to integrate police patrol systems with passenger
cabs.
 India’s 1st 'Garbage Cafe' with the tagline ‘More the waste better the taste’ in Ambikapur of
Surguja district, Chhattisgarh.
 TamilNadu-first state-to enact-contract farming-“Tamil Nadu Agricultural Produce and Livestock
Contract Farming and Services (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2019”.
 India’s first training and performance programme of world-famous KHON Ramlila-to be held in
Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh –in collaboration with Uttar Pradesh & Thailand.
 Andhra Pradesh (AP) - first state in India to launch an online platform SMARTPORT-as part of
implementing the Ease of Doing Business (EDB) Reforms.
 Tamil Nadu - first state in India to enact law on contract farming.
 Punjab - first state - to launch ‘job helpline’ for unemployed youth.
 1st ever landmark Container Cargo consignment (movement of goods) to sail on inland
waterways from Haldia Dock Complex (HDC), West Bengal to the Inland Waterways Authority
of India (IWAI) terminal in Pandu, Guwahati, in the river Brahmaputra.
 ‘Vigyan Samagam 2019’, India’s 1st-ever global mega-science exhibition-held in Kolkata, West
Bengal.
SEPTEMBER
 ICICI Bank-first in India- to deploy industrial ‘robotic arms’ to count millions of notes in
currency chests.
 Asia’s first 5th Generation – Virtual Reality (VR) based Advanced Driver Training Simulator
Centre launched in Chennai.
 India’s first International Women’s Trade Centre (iWTC)-to be set up- in Kozhikode,Kerala.
 Niti Aayog selected McKinsey & Company to set up India’s first Digital Capability Centre in New
Delhi.
 Ram Nath Kovind, launched first Indigenous High Temperature Fuel Cell System developed by
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) under flagship programme named “New
Millennium Indian Technology Leadership Initiative (NMITLI)”.
 Rajnath Singh becomes first Indian defence minister to fly in home-built LCA Tejas from the
HAL Airport, Bengaluru.
 First of its kind in Indian Railways,Fun Zone has been set up at the Visakhapatnam Railway
Station, Andhra Pradesh.
 Gujarat launches-India's first ‘Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)’ to combat particulate air
pollution.
 First of its kind- Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot launched India's first 'Jan Soochna Portal' RAJIV
campaign to provide access to information about govt. departments in a single platform.
 India’s first Central Police University - established in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
 India’s first National Antimicrobial Resistance Hub inaugurated in Kolkata, West Bengal.
 CBDT sets up NeAC & appoints Krishna Mohan Prasad as its first Principal Chief Commissioner
of Income Tax of NeAC.
AUGUST
 Gujarat - country’s first Central Institute of Chemical Engineering & Technology (CICET)-would
be built either at Ahmedabad or Surat.
 India’s 1st automated battery charging & changing station for e-buses inaugurated sin
Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
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 Maharashtra Chief Minister(CM) Devendra Fadnavis – launched – first of its kind- a special
digitized policing system called “Automated Multi-modal Biometric Identification System
(AMBIS)” to aid police investigations.
 India's first 3-D smart traffic signal ‘Intelights’ designed by Chitkara University students
launched Chandigarh, Punjab.
 Rajasthan - first state in the country to implement biofuel policy.
 Rajasthan tops in free medicine scheme implementation.
 First space museum of India-was set up at Hyderabad in association with Indian Space
Research Organisation (ISRO).
 India's first underwater train project is set to launch in Kolkata, West Bengal under the
Hooghly river.
 Department of Revenue of the Ministry of Finance conducted India’s first national Time
Release Study (TRS).
 Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) sets up India’s 1st FinTech centre of excellence-“Fin
Blue” in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
 India’s first-of-its-kind clinical ecotoxicology facility was inaugurated at the All India Institute
of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi.
 India -got its first National Essential Diagnostics List (NEDL) finalized by the Indian Council of
Medical Research (ICMR).
JULY
 Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has operationalized its first “Aadhaar Seva
Kendra” (ASKs) in Delhi and Vijayawada.
 ‘Fashionova’- India’s first Design Development Centre launched in Surat, Gujarat.
 Tata Steel Kalinganagar -First & only Indian manufacturing plant - included in prestigious
Lighthouse Network of the World Economic Forum.
 Delhi-Jaipur and Delhi-Agra are India’s first highway corridors to get charging stations for
electric vehicles by March 2020.
 Delhi-Lucknow Tejas Express, - set to be the first train to be operated by private players.
 India’s first cow sanctuary Kamdhenu Gau Abhyaranya in Madhya Pradesh to be privatised
 India’s first elephant rehabilitation centre will be set up at Kerala’s Kottoor.
 Tamil Nadu - first state in India to manufacture electric cars-tied with Hyundai.
 TVS Motor launches India’s first Ethanol based motorcycle ‘TVS Apache RTR 200 Fi E100’.
 Meghalaya - first state to ensure water conservation with its State Water Policy.
 Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Amalraj Anthony Arputharaj won India’s first ever bronze medal
in men’s doubles competition at the 2019 World Tour Platinum Australian Open that held in
Geelong Arena ,Geelong in Australia.
 First-ever Himalayan States Conclave - hosted by Mussoorie, Uttarakhand.
 India’s first ‘Garbage Cafe’ for Ragpickers - Ambikapur of Surguja district, Chhattisgarh.
 India’s first space tech park to come up in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
 India’s First Smart School Campus in Pune to be launched by Singapore’s GIIS.
 CRPF unveils country’s first body protector jointly developed by DRDO for women personnel in
combat.
 Andhra Pradesh became the first state in India to reserve 75% private jobs for locals.
 First Bamboo Industrial Park will be set up at Manderdisa in Dima Hasao district of Assam.
 Indian Air Force (IAF) Wing Commander Tarun Chaudhri created history by becoming the first
pilot to perform a wingsuit skydive jump.
LONGEST,LARGEST,HIGHEST:
NOVEMBER
 The longest-serving British MP of Indian origin, Keith Vaz, announces retirement.
OCTOBER
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 India’s highest permanent bridge-“Col. Chewang Rinchen Setu/Bridge” over River Shyok,
connecting Durbuk and Daulat Beg Oldie in Eastern Ladakh-inaugurated by Defence Minister Mr
Rajnath Singh.
 India’s longest 9.2 km long Chenani-Nashri tunnel -located on National Highway-44 (NH 44) in
Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) will be named after Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee.
 Ghaziabad’s Loni town is India’s most polluted city.
SEPTEMBER
 Longest electrified railway tunnel (6.7km) between Cherlopalli and Rapuru costing Rs 437
crores-inaugurated by Venkaiah Naidu- in Andhra Pradesh.
 NTPC ltd - announced to set up a 5GW(biggest) solar national park in Gujarat .
AUGUST
 Chhattisgarh govt.- increased-reservation for Scheduled caste (SC) from 12% to 13% and for
Other Backward Classes(OBC) from 14% to 27% -after this the state’s reservation becomes a
total of 72 percent, which is the highest in the country.
 Udaipur - host 3rd edition of India’s largest education brainstorming event “ScooNews Global
Educators Fest 2019”.
JULY
 South Central Railways (SCR) - commissioned the longest electrified tunnel in between
Cherlopalli and Rapuru stations in Nellore district, Andhra Pradesh.
 Bhabha Kavach called as “India’s lightest bulletproof jacket” was launched at the International
Police Expo 2019 in New Delhi.
CABINET APPROVALS
DECEMBER
 Cabinet approves-Partial Credit Guarantee Scheme
♦ Will allow purchasing of high-rated pooled assets from - Non-Banking Financial
Companies (NBFCs) / Housing Finance Companies (HFCs) amounting to a total of Rs 1
lakh crore.
 Authorised capital of India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited (IIFCL)-increased to Rs.
25,000 crores from Rs. 6,000 crores-will provide additional equity support of Rs. 5,300 crores
in FY20 (Financial Year 2019-20) and Rs. 10,000 crores in FY21.
 National Highways Authority of India(NHAI) was authorzed to set up Infrastructure
Investment Trust (InvIT).
 Approved to conduct Census in the year 2021- with a cost of Rs. 8,754.23 crores –in whole
country except Assam & vl update National Population Register.
 Administrative control of Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited (BCPL) is transferred to
Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas(MoPNG) from the Department of Chemicals &
Petrochemicals.
 Rs. 627.40 crore for 10 projects under Swadesh Darshan Scheme-was approved.
NOVEMBER
 Union Cabinet gave its assent for the establishment of a ‘Special Window’ fund of Rs 25,000
crore for the stuck housing project across the country.
 National Institute for Sowa-Rigpa (NISR)-establishment- Leh-estimated cost of Rs 47.25 crore.
 Recycling of Ships Bill, 2019 and accession to the Hong Kong International Convention for the
Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships, 2009-approved.
 Authorized capital of Food Corporation of India (FCI)-increased from Rs. 3,500 crores to Rs.
10,000 crores.
OCTOBER
 Approval to 5% hike in Dearness Allowance (DA) / Dearness Relief (DR) for central
government employees and pensioners from 12% to 17%.
 Approved the merger of telecom companies Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL).
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 Cabinet approved a capital infusion of Rs 9,300 crore in IDBI Bank.
 Cabinet approved to Payment Productivity Linked Bonus to railway employees for the FY
2018-19 .
AUGUST
 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) policy on various sectors like Coal Mining, Contract
Manufacturing, Single Brand Retail Trading (SBRT) and Digital Media was approved.
♦ FDI up to 100% is permitted on the automatic route in most sectors/ activities.
♦ FDI Policy provides that 30% of the value of goods has to be procured from India if SBRT
entity has FDI more than 51%.
♦ The extant FDI policy provides for 49% FDI under approval route in Up-linking of ‘News &
Current Affairs’ TV Channels. It has been decided to permit 26% FDI under government
route.
 Sugar export policy for evacuation of surplus stocks during sugar season 2019-20 for providing
a lump sum export subsidy at Rs. 10,448 per Metric Tonne (MT) to sugar mills & total
estimated expenditure of about Rs.6,268 crore will be incurred for this purpose.
 Approval was given for establishment of 75 additional Government Medical Colleges by 2021-
22.
 Establishment - International Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) along with
its supporting Secretariat Office in New Delhi.
 Cabinet approved the Introduction of Chit Funds (Amendment) Bill, 2019-it is aimed at
reducing the regulatory or compliance burden of the registered Chit Funds Industry and
protect the interests of the Chit subscribers.
JULY
 Cabinet – hiked Minimum Support Prices (MSPs) for all Kharif Crops for 2019-20.
 Cabinet approved-leasing out 3 airports namely Ahmedabad, Lucknow and Mangaluru of
Airports Authority of India (AAI)-to the highest bidder M/s. Adani Enterprises Ltd.
 Cabinet approved Code on Wages Bill 2019 - replaces the Payment of Wages Act, 1936,
Minimum Wages Act, 1948, Payment of Bonus Act, 1965, and the Equal Remuneration Act,
1976.
 Cabinet approved Code on Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Bill, 2019 -
enhance the coverage of the safety, health and working conditions provisions manifold as
compared to the present scenario.
 Cabinet approved- introduction of Inter-State River Water Disputes (Amendment) Bill, 2019-to
solve the disputes relating to waters of inter-State rivers and river valley thereof.
 Cabinet approved-to amend the National Institutes of Design (NID) Act, 2014, to include 4 new
such centres (Amaravati, Bhopal, Jorhat, and Kurukshetra).
 Cabinet approved 7 amendments to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 (IBC) -
resolution plan for an insolvent company should be processed with in 330 days(Earlier it was
270 days).
 Cabinet approve National Institute of Miners’ Health (NIMH) merge / amalgamate with Indian
Council of Medical Research (ICMR)-National Institute of Occupational Health (NIOH).
 Cabinet approved -to increase the number of judges in the Supreme Court (SC) from 30, at
present, to 33, excluding the Chief Justice of India (CJI).
 Cabinet approves setting up ISRO Technical Liaison Unit at Moscow.
BILL /Acts PASSED

DECEMBER
 Personal Data Protection Bill.
♦ Proposes a penalty of up to Rs 15 crore or 4% of an entity’s global revenue and up to 3-
year jail term for company executives who violate privacy norms.
 Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens (Amendment) Bill, 2019-approved
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♦ Provides basic needs, safety and security to senior citizens.

♦ Ceiling of Rs.10,000 as maintenance towards welfare.
 Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019
♦ This act amended Citizenship Act, 1955.
♦ Relax the requirement of residence in India for citizenship by naturalisation from 11
years to 5 years for these migrants.
♦ The act will not be applicable to tribal areas of Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura
as included in the sixth schedule of the Constitution and States of Arunachal Pradesh,
Mizoram and Nagaland that are protected by the Inner Line Permit (ILP).
♦ Illegal migrants other than the 6 communities which are Hindu, Buddhist, Christian,
Parsi, Jain and Sikh.Click here to read more.
 Arms (Amendment) Bill, 2019
♦ Amends Arms Act 1959.
♦ Gun limit to individuals-2 guns & ancestral guns in a deactivated state.
♦ Prison term-Between 10 years to life imprisonment.
 Recycling of Ships Bill, 2019
♦ Existing ships will be given 5-year compliance to remove the hazardous material.
♦ The already existing Shipbreaking Code (revised),2013 and the provisions of the Hong
Kong Convention, 2009 will be dovetailed (joined together) in this act.
OCTOBER
 J&K and Ladakh formally become UTs under J&K Reorganisation Act, 2019.
SEPTEMBER
 Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967, declared Maulana Masood Azhar, Hafiz Saeed, Zaki-
ur-Rehman Lakhvi & Dawood Ibrahim as individual terrorists.
AUGUST
 National Medical Commission Bill, 2019 was approved by the Cabinet, which repeals the Indian
Medical Council Act, 1956-the following changes are made in the bill,
♦ Clause 4(1)(c) – 22 part-time Members instead of 14 members.
♦ Clause 4(4)(b) – 10 members instead of 6 members.
♦ Clause 4(4)(c) – 9 members instead of 5 members.
♦ Clause 37(2) – added at the end “for the purposes of teaching also”.
 Parliament passed the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) (Amendment) Bill, 2019-
provides a 330-day timeline for insolvency resolution process
 Parliament -passed the Banning of Unregulated Deposit Schemes Bill, 2019 which will replace
the Banning of Unregulated Deposit Schemes Ordinance, 2019.
 President of India Ram Nath Kovind gave his assent to the Finance Bill 2019.
 President of India, Ram Nath Kovind gave his assent to the Muslim Women (Protection of
Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2019-it criminalizes instant 'triple talaq' among Muslims and attracts
a jail term of 3 years for the husband.
 President of India Ram Nath Kovind –assented Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Act
2019 aimed to make India hub of domestic and global arbitration for settling commercial
disputes. It will amend Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996.
 President of India Ram Nath Kovind gave his assent to the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act,
2019 it makes -Headgear Compulsory for children aged above 4 Years Click here to read
more.
 Ram Nath Kovind approved the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment (UAPA) Bill,
2019 under which individuals can be declared as terrorists, their properties can be seized and
travel ban can be imposed once they are declared as terrorists.
JULY
 Parliament passed the Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2019 seeks to amends the Companies Act,
2013.
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 Parliament passed the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill 2019.
JUNE
 Cabinet introduced “The Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers’ Cadre) Bill,
2019” by replacing “The Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers’ Cadre)
Ordinance, 2019”
 “New Delhi International Arbitration Centre (NDIAC) Bill, 2019” introduced to promote ease of
doing business in India.
 “The Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Bill, 2019” introduced to ensure transparency,
accountability and quality in the governance of medical education in the country.
 Cabinet approved the bill to fine people with Rs 10,000 for blocking ambulances which is part
of Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill.
 Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Bill, 2019 -will safeguard transparency, accountability,
and quality in the governance of medical education in the country.
STATEWISE NEWS
DECEMBER
 17th edition of BioAsia2020- held in Hyderabad, Telangana-Theme - “Today For Tomorrow”.
♦ Switzerland will be the country partner.
 Manipur-fourth state to get Inner Line Permit (ILP) regime.
 Andhra Pradesh - Disha bill, 2019 to dispose of crimes against women in 21 days.
 Mumbai-Nagpur Samruddhi expressway(700-km) to be named after late Bal Thackeray.
 Gujarat police - 7th state police to get ‘President’s Colours’(highest honour given to a police
force in India) .
 Madagascar and Comoros –included- in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) Division.
NOVEMBER
 President’s rule was imposed in Maharashtra-for 3rd time in 59-year history.
 Andhra Pradesh (AP) - to celebrate ‘Sand Week’ from November 14-19, 2019 .
 “NSO survey on Household Social Consumption: Education as part of 75th round of National
Sample Survey (NSS)”- National Statistical Office (NSO) survey-the literacy rate in the age
group of seven years and above was recorded at 77.7% during July 2017-June 2018 in India.
 39th edition of the India International Trade Fair 2019 (IITF-2019)-in New Delhi.
♦ Theme -“Ease of Doing Business”
♦ Partner country- Afghanistan
♦ Focus country- Republic of Korea
♦ Focus states- Bihar and Jharkhand.
OCTOBER
 Amit Shah flagged off the 2nd Vande Bharat Express train-runs between –New Delhi and Katra
(Shri Mata Vaishno Devi), Jammu and Kashmir.
 Odisha government-launched-“Mo Sarkar”-for ensuring transparency in governance.
 Lohian Khas-New Delhi Intercity Express renamed as ‘Sarbat da Bhala Express’.
 Assam govt –announces-2 new policies- “Govt job policy”-stating - No govt jobs for those with
more than two kids starting from 2021” & “a New Land Policy”.
SEPTEMBER
 Justice Harish Chandra Mishra appointed as the new Acting Chief Justice of Jharkhand HC.
 Justice P. Lakshmana Reddy - sworn in as the Andhra Pradesh’s (AP) first Lokayukta.
 Pema Khandu inaugurated -State’s first community-managed 24 kW(Kilowatt ) Dikshi
Hydroelectric Project on the Phudungto river at Dikshi village in West Kameng district of
Arunachal Pradesh.
 Justice Vikram Nath is the new Chief Justice of Gujarat HC
 Justice Harish Chandra Mishra is the new Acting Chief Justice of Jharkhand HC
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 4th General Assembly of the Association Of World Election Bodies (A-WEB) for the Year 2019
held in Bengaluru- India took over as A-WEB’s Chair for the 2019-21 term- Sunil Arora took the
chair.
 Justice C.K. Abdul Rehim, appointed as Acting CJ of the Kerala High Court.
 Odisha unveils mascot “Tikki Mausi” to combat malnutrition among women and children.
 Meenakshi Madan Rai takes charge as acting CJ of the Sikkim HC
 Vineet Kothari of Rajasthan appointed as the Acting CJ of Madras
 5th edition of Aqua Aquaria India for the year 2019-held in-Hyderabad, Telangana with the
theme “To take Blue Revolution to India's hinterland”.
 Telangana state Government will celebrate 2020 as Year of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
AUGUST
 CM of Assam Sarbananda Sonowal- inaugurated the state’s first-ever Compressed Natural Gas
(CNG) fuel station at Chowkidingee, Dibrugarh, Assam.
 Government announced to repeal Article 370 [except the first clause 370 (1)] and Article 35A
which grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). Union Home Minister Amit Shah
announced to bifurcate the state into 2 Union Territories – Jammu and Kashmir.Read full
details here: Centre to Repeal of Article 370 And 35A That Grants Special Status To J&K.
 Madhya Pradesh- second state to unveil-Action Plan for Containment of Antimicrobial
Resistance after Kerala.
 Citizens of Indore (Madhya Pradesh) take big steps to become No. 1 in Jal Shakti Abhiyan- after
they got the top spot in Swachhata Abhiyan continuously since the last 3 years.
 World-class Indian Institute of Skills (IIS) will be set up in Mumbai, Maharashtra in association
with Tata Educational and Development Trust (TEDT).
 Prakash Javadekar-approved-the establishment of new International Standard Zoo and
Biopark-Gorewada in Nagpur, Maharashtra.
 7th Community Radio Sammelan for the year 2019-New Delhi-theme-‘Community Radio for
SDGs’ (Sustainable Development Goals).
 Vellore district of Tamil Nadu-trifurcated & formed 2 new districts -Ranipet and Tirupattur-
now totally-37 districts in Tamil Nadu.
JULY
 Tamil Nadu declared ‘Tamil Yeoman’ or ‘Tamil Maravan’ as its state butterfly.
 First ever India International Cooperatives Trade Fair (IICTF)- Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.
 Nagaland declared- “disturbed area” for six more months -under the powers conferred by
Section 3 of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 -No. 28 of 1958 (AFSPA).
 Uttar Pradesh govt -launches toll-free ‘CM helpline 1076’ for complaint registration.
 ‘Operation Milap’, the Delhi Police Crime Branch has rescued 333 children in 7 months.
 Puducherry -will soon to operationalize Bicycle-Sharing Scheme.
 Uttar Pradesh becomes No.1 in implementation of Pradhanamntri Suraksha Beema Yojna in the
country.
 Western Railways first printing press heritage gallery opened at Mahalaxmi, Mumbai.
 Odisha Secretariat Renamed As ‘Lok Seva Bhawan’.
 Tamil Nadu (TN) celebrated its first ‘Hospital Day’ on the commemoration of the birth
anniversary Muthulakshmi Reddy.
 UP Government to install 251-metre-tall statue of Lord Ram in Ayodhya; Set to become the
world’s tallest statue.
 UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath unveiled the 7-foot tall statue of Lord Ram which depicts
Kodamb Ram.
SCHEME
Central Government Schemes
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DECEMBER
 Loans sanctioned under Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana crossed Rs. 10.24 lakh crore
value.
♦ Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana-will provide loan upto 10 lakh to the non-
corporate, non-farm small/micro enterprises.
 Ayushman Bharat -Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY)- 65 lakh
patients were treated under this scheme.
 Interest subvention scheme for MSMEs- operational guidelines changed-eligible
units of GST have been exempted from the requirement of Udyog Aadhar Number
(UAN).
 Phase III of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)-launched.
---Aim-To construct 1,25,000 km of roads with an estimated cost of about 80,250
crores rupees (Central Share of Rs. 53,800 crores) for the period 2019-20 – 2024-
25.
 Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) for urban
renewal extended the target year from 2020 to 2022.
 Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi launched Atal Bhujal Yojana (ATAL JAL) after
Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
--- To improve ground water management -in 7 States(Gujarat, Haryana,
Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh(MP), Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh (UP)).
----Outlay- Rs 6000 crores.
--- Rohtang Tunnel was renamed as Atal Tunnel.
 Except Bengal, the whole Country(India) declared open defecation-free under
Swachh Bharat Mission-Urban (SBM-U).
 Centre to provide free wifi service to all villages by March 2020 through Bharatnet
project.
 Finance Ministry announced mandatory linkage of Aadhar for Pradhan Mantri Vaya
Vandana Yojana (PMVVY).
 More than 1 crore houses sanctioned under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-PMAY
(Urban).
NOVEMBER
 Bharatiya Poshan Krishi Kosh (BPKK)- to reduce malnutrition- by -Union Minister
of Women and Child Development (MoWCD) in collaboration with Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation.
 Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY) -maternity scheme-reached only
31% of its intended beneficiaries.
 Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana scheme also known as Ayushman Bharat
♦ Gujarat - best performer in terms of no. of hospital admissions.
♦ Bihar and Uttar Pradesh(UP) - ranked worst performers in terms of no. of
beneficiaries.
 7 crore farmers -benefited under Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN)
scheme.
OCTOBER
 Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY)-had treated 90,000 cancer patients in a
year- Tamil Nadu emerged as the top state-followed by-Kerala, Madhya Pradesh,
Chhattisgarh and Gujarat .
 Pradhan Mantri Innovative Learning Programme – DHRUV –launched by-Shri
Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank'-New Delhi.
 50 lakh people have benefited from free of cost treatment under the Ayushmaan
Bharat- Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana(PM-JAY)- Gujarat, Tamil Nadu,
Chhattisgarh, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh emerged as the top performers.
 Food Safety Mitra (FSM) Scheme-launched by Dr Harsh Vardhan-on World Food Day.
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 Disabled people and people aged above 80 years can vote through postal ballot in-
order to increase the voters’ turnout.
 Minister of coal & mines, and parliamentary affairs Shri Prahlad Singh Joshi -set
target of producing 750 million tonnes of coal in the financial year 2020-21 and also
of producing 1 billion tonnes of coal in the financial year 2023-2024 by Coal India
Ltd (CIL).
SEPTEMBER
 Sabka Vishwas legacy dispute resolution scheme for taxpayers.
Case type Amount range relief
Pending case Less than or equal to Rs. 50 lakhs 70%
Pending case Greater than Rs. 50 lakh 50%
Non pending case Less than or equal to Rs. 50 lakh 60%
Non pending case Greater than Rs. 50 lakh 40%
 Nitin Gadkari -launched the updated Credit linked Capital Subsidy Scheme (CLCSS) to enable
micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) access to capital.
 Centre introduced - scheme named ‘Assistance for Deep Sea Fishing’ for the fishermen in Tamil
Nadu.
 Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandana Yojana (PMMVY) achieved a mark of reaching 1 crore
(1,00,11,200) beneficiaries in India.
AUGUST
 Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) approved Rs 4,900 crore
project for interlinking of Kosi and Mechi rivers of Bihar.
 Hardeep Singh Puri stated that the central government is committed to achieve its target of
providing ‘Housing for all’ under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) in two years before the
deadline by 2020.
 Nepali and Santhali from-will be included-in the scheme component ‘Award of Senior/Junior
Fellowships to Outstanding Artistes in the Fields of Culture’.
JULY
 ‘One Nation One Ration Card’ scheme will be available across the country from July 1, 2020.
 University Grants Commission (UGC) approved a new initiative – Scheme for Trans-
disciplinary Research for India’s Developing Economy (STRIDE) to boost research culture in
India.
 Government extends Kisan Credit Card (KCC) facility to fisheries, animal husbandry sector.
 Around 35 crore LED bulbs distributed under UJALA scheme saved Rs 18,341 crore annually.
 Under “Swachh Bharat Mission (Gramin)” 9 crores 62 lakh individual household toilets have
been constructed since 2014.
 ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ scheme- Uttarakhand was named among best performing states
aong with Haryana which bagged 3 awards with its district Bhiwani and Mahendragarh.
 Ministry of Women and Child Development(WCD)-implement-Swadhar Greh Scheme for the
rehabilitation of women in difficult circumstances.
 Around 30 lakh workers enrolled under PM Shram Yogi Maandhan Scheme.
 Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) - launched a scheme ‘Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre
(I4C)’ for the period 2018-2020.
 India has fixed a deadline of 2025 for eradicating tuberculosis (TB) against the global deadline
of 2030.
 Pradhan Mantri Laghu Vyapari Maan-Dhan Yojana (PM-LVMY) was launched by the Union
labour and Employment ministry for retailers and small traders to provide Rs.3000 per month.
State Government Schemes

DECEMBER
 Andhra Pradesh:YSR Aasaraa Scheme-provides-Rs 5000 per month, who come under the
Aarogyasri Scheme.
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♦ Eligibility-Annual income is not more than Rs.5 lakh per year.

 Andhra Pradesh:YSR Law Nestham scheme- provides stipend of Rs 5,000 to junior lawyers.
 Odisha:KALIA (Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation)-reduced the
subsidy from Rs 10,000 to Rs 4000 per year.
 Kerala launches ‘Vijayamritham’ & ‘Sahachari’ to support differently-abled people.
♦ Vijayamritham-Provides a one-time cash award to meritorious differently-abled people.
♦ Sahachari scheme-To provide encouragement to NCC/NSS/SPC units functioning in
schools that offer assistance to differently-abled students with over 40% disability in
their studies.
 “Mo Sarkar” scheme – Odisha government included its agriculture department with this
scheme- for empowerment of farmers and development of rural Odisha .
 Odisha launched- “Jalsathi” program-to ensure clean drinking water through piped water
systems & ‘SAMRIDHI’, the new Agriculture Policy for the year 2020 .
 Andhra Pradesh:Netanna Nestham -welfare scheme for weavers.
----- Objective - To provide Rs 24,000 per annum for each handloom weaver family.
 ‘Mukhyamantri Aawas Yojana’- Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal launched the scheme for Jhuggi
Jhopri (JJ) clusters to provide a pucca house .
 Maharashtra govt.launched “Mahatma Jyotirao Phule Farmer Loan Waiver Scheme” &
subsidized meal scheme named “Shiv Bhojan” programme for the poor.
 Assam- launched -Abhinandan scheme (Education Loan Subsidy scheme).
NOVEMBER
 Andhra Pradesh (AP) launched- ‘Nadu-Nedu’ scheme which aims to transform government
schools into vibrant and competitive institutions.
 Delhi govt launched ‘Mukhyamantri Septic Tank Safai Yojana’ to eradicate manual scavenging.
 Assam- -to provide Rs 30,000 for 1 tola of gold (11.66 grams) for free of cost to brides
belonging to economically weaker sections ( less than Rs 5 lakh annual income) –under-
Arundhati gold scheme.
 Andhra Pradesh (AP)-YSR Matsyakara Bharosa- welfare scheme for fishermen.
 Guru Ghasidas National Park (GGNP)-4th Tiger Reserve in Chhattisgarh.
OCTOBER
 Uttar Pradesh –launched- Mukhya Mantri Kanya Sumangala Yojana- to empower the girl
child.If a girl child is born the family will get 15,000.
 Madhya Pradesh –launched- 'Mukhya Mantri Kanya Vivah/Nikah Yojna',- brides from
economically backward sections of the state are eligible to receive Rs 51,000 if they prove that
the groom's house has a toilet before the wedding.
 Andhra Pradesh-launched- YSR Kanti Velugu Scheme 2019 –in which people’s can screen their
eyes free of cost and spectacles will also be provided.
SEPTEMBER
 Rajasthan - launched -health insurance scheme called Ayushman Bharat-Mahatma Gandhi
Rajasthan Swasthya Bima Yojna (AB-MGRSBY) by integrating the Bhamashah Health Insurance
Scheme(BSBY) Ayushman Bharat- Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojna Scheme(AB-PMJAY) .
 Assam-launches 3 welfare scheme- Aponar Apon Ghar, Free Drugs Scheme for 651 Tea Garden
Hospitals, Abhinandan.
 Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar launched 2 insurance schemes “Mukhyamantri Vyapari
Samuhik Niji Durghatna Beema Yojana” and “Mukhyamantri Vyapari Kshatipurti Beema
Yojana” for traders.
 Chief Minister (CM) of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal – launched- Mukhyamantri Kirayedar Bijli Meter
Yojana under which tenants residing in Delhi will be able to avail power subsidy.
 Chief Minister(CM) of Uttarakhand shriTrivendra Singh Rawat has launched “MukhyaMantri
Dal PoshitYojana” scheme to provide 2kg of pulses at subsidised price every month in the state.
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 Gujarat –launched-flagship financial assistance scheme -‘Vhali Dikri Yojna’ - for the welfare of
girl child.
 Haryana govt- launched ‘Mukhya Mantri Parivar Samridhi Yojna’- to provide social security to
families under this scheme Rs 6,000 per year will be given to each eligible family.
 Jharkhand govt- Mukhyamantri Krishi Ashirwad Yojana - Shri Venkaiah Naidu, farmers/
beneficiaries having farmlands of less than 1 acre to 5 acres will be provided financial
assistance of Rs5,000-25,000.
 Manipur launched "School Fagadaba" (Make education better) scheme with the aim to improve
the infrastructure, quality education and overall improvement of government schools.
LAUNCHES/INAUGURATIONS
DECEMBER
 Vice president Venkaiah Naidu launched “Poshan Anthem” in New Delhi
♦ Lyricist - Shri Prasoon Joshi and its composer was singer Shri Shankar Mahadevan.
 PM Modi & Maldivian President jointly inaugurated 4 key development projects.
♦ India Coast Guard Ship(CGS) Kaamiyaab was gifted to Maldives.
♦ RuPay payment system was launched.
♦ Lighting up of Malé using LED (Light Emitting Diodes) lights.
♦ Launch of 3 fish processing plants. Click here to Read More
 Ekal Vidyalaya Sangathan-launched to promote the education among rural and tribal children.
♦ 400 new ‘Eklavya Model residential schools‘ –to be set up-by 2022.
 Lt Governor Girish Chandra Murmu inaugurated 72-metre all-weather bridge in Rajouri in J&K.
 Andhra Pradesh CM Jaganmohan Reddy inaugurated first Virtual Police station at AU in Andhra
Pradesh.
 IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad launched National Broadband Mission- to engage in digital
communication infrastructure.
--Aim-To provide broadband access to all villages in the country by 2022.
 Union Minister Amit Shah lays foundation for Bharat Vandana Park in New Delhi.
 Ministry of External Affairs (MEA)- relaxed certain guidelines for Overseas Citizenship of India
(OCI)- for reissuing of passport for those people aged below 20 years and those aged above 50
years.
 Rabung bridge on the Migging-Tuting road in Arunachal Pradesh‘s(AR) Upper Siang district-
inaugurated.
 Railway Protection Force –renamed as- Indian Railway Protection Service.
NOVEMBER
 Narendra Modi inaugurated Integrated Check Post(ICP) -at Kartarpur Sahib corridor at Dera
Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur city of Punjab in India.
 Rajnath Singh -inaugurated - 200-metre-Sisseri River bridge at Lower Dibang Valley in
Arunachal Pradesh.
♦ Connects -Dibang Valley and Siang district
♦ Build under Project Brahmank of Border Roads Organisation(BRO).
OCTOBER
 ‘Surakshit Matritva Aashwasan (SUMAN)’ for Zero Preventable Maternal and Newborn Deaths-
launched by-Dr. Harsh Vardhan.
 Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ – launched-Pradhan Mantri Innovative Learning Program-
‘DHRUV’ from Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).
 Nirmala Sitharaman released commemorative coin of Rs 125 of Paramahansa Yogananda.
 Centre releases new political map after official formation of the UT of J&K, and Ladakh-
redrawn by Survey of India, Department of Science & Technology.
 Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman-launched 2new initiatives: ICEDASH & ATITHI in New
Delhi-for improved monitoring and pace of customs clearance of goods.
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SEPTEMBER
 5th edition of Aqua Aquaria India 2019-held in- Hyderabad, Telangana with the theme “To take
Blue Revolution to India’s hinterland”.
 PM of India & Nepal jointly inaugurate South Asia’s first cross-border petroleum products
pipeline from Motihari in India to Amlekhgunj in Nepal.
 Himachal Pradesh Shri Jai Ram Thakur launched the “Mukhya Mantri Seva Sankalp Helpline
'1100' (Chief Minister’s Service Resolution Helpline) for redressal of public grievances.
 Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi inaugurated the first Metro Coach in Mumbai under the
‘Make in India’ initiative at Jio World Centre, Maharashtra, Mumbai.
 Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated the “Garvi Gujarat Bhavan” at Akbar Road in
New Delhi.
 Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation (DDWS), Ministry of Jal Shakti, Government of
India(GoI) launched 10 Year Rural Sanitation Strategy (2019-2029) to focus on sustaining the
change in sanitation behaviour that has been achieved under Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen
(SBM-G).
AUGUST
 “Innovation for Clean Air” (IfCA)-launched by India and UK in Bengaluru.
 Karnataka government launched E-Step, an initiative to empower student start-ups.
 President Ram Nath Govind-inaugurated Bunker Museum at Raj Bhavan, Mumbai.
 Shah Rukh Khan (SRK)-launched-heritage postal stamp of Bandra station in Mumbai,
Maharashtra on the completion of 150 years of the railway station.
 Smriti Zubin Irani-inaugurated Project SU.RE(Sustainable Resolution)a joint project of
CMAI(Clothing Manufacturers Association of India)& IMG Reliance(International Management
Group, during Lakme Fashion Winter/Festive 2019) in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
 Harsh Vardhan-inaugurated the FSSAI’s (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India) first
National Food Laboratory(NFL) - Delhi, NCR(National Capital Region) in Ghaziabad.
 Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) released a draft on
National Resource Efficiency Policy (NREP) 2019-to streamline the efficient use of the
resources with minimum negative impact on environment.Click here to read more.
JULY
 Operation Khumaar launched in J&K to make 312 panchayats free from tobacco
 Railway Protection Force (RPF) - launched - ‘Operation Thirst’ to crackdown the selling of
unauthorized Packaged Drinking Water (PDW) in the premises of railway stations.
 Women And Child Development(WCD) - National level, Sex Ratio at Birth (SRB) - increased to
931 from 923 for the time period between FY(financial year) 2015-16 and 2018-19.
 Under Bharat Net, more than 1.28 Lakh Gram Panchayats linked with optical fibre .
 Tenkasi and Chengalpattu added 2 news districts in Tamil Nadu which makes 35 districts.
 E-postal ballot registered 60.14% turnout in 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
CAMPAIGN
DECEMBER
 Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment(MoSJE)-extended -Accessible India Campaign-
deadline to March 2020.
OCTOBER
 United Nations World Food Programme (UNWFP)- launched its 2nd global cinema campaign
“Feed Our Future” in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
SEPTEMBER
 Harsh Vardhan -launched - POSHAN Maah (nutrition campaign) 2019 to promote the “eat right
India movement”.
 Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal- launched 'champions campaign' against dengue
 Dr Harsh Vardhan launched ‘TB Harega Desh Jeetega’ campaign & National TB Prevalence
Survey 2019.
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 Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi launched nationwide campaign “Swachhta Hi Seva
2019”(SHS) in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh(UP) with the theme for 2019 is ‘plastic waste awareness
and management’.
AUGUST
 ‘Angikaar campaign' - launched by Shri Hardeep Singh Puri,Minister of State(MoS-
independent) of Housing and Urban Affairs(MoHUA), in order to bring the PMAY(U) (Pradhan
MantriAwasYojana-Urban) beneficiaries into the fold of other schemes like the Ujjawala(free
gas connections) and Ayushman Bharat(health protection scheme).
JULY
 Union Jal Shakti Minister, Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, launched the Jal Shakti Abhiyan
(JSA)- a campaign for water conservation and water security in New Delhi.
 Uttar Pradesh launched “Dastak Campaign” to eradicate deadly Acute Encephalitis Syndrome
(AES) and Japanese Encephalitis (JE) disease.
 Dr. Harsh Vardhan launched campaign -“Jagrukta Abhiyaan” in New Delhi to sensitize and
mobilize the people on measures about prevention and control of Vector-Borne Diseases
(VBDs) like Malaria, Dengue, and Chikungunya.
FESTIVAL
DECEMBER
 30th edition of Konark festival & International Sand Art Festival 2019 – Odisha.
 20th edition of the Hornbill festival-Nagaland.
 “Namaste Orchha” festival- Madhya Pradesh (MP).
 16th edition of the State-level Orange Festival-Manipur.
 95th edition of Classical music festival ‘Tansen Samaroh 2019’- Gwalior ,Madhya Pradesh(MP)
---Vocalist Pandit Vidyadhar Vyas conferred with National Tansen Award for 2019.
 11th National Street food festival -held in New Delhi.
 National Tribal Dance Fest 2019 started in Raipur, Chhattisgarh.
 Mandu festival 2019- Madhya Pradesh(MP)- to promote Tribal Tourism.
 Losar Festival (Ladakhi New Year) celebrated in Ladakh.
 ‘Dhanu Jatra’ - open-air theater festival - in western Odisha.
NOVEMBER
 5th India International Science Festival 2019 held in Kolkata, West Bengal with the theme
“RISEN India – Research, Innovation, and Science Empowering the Nation”.Click here to read
more.
 National Tribal Festival called Aadi Mahotsav 2019-New Delhi-Theme - “A Celebration of the
Spirit of Tribal Crafts, Culture and Commerce”.
 ‘Bali Yatra’ Festival-Cuttack, Odisha. It was celebrated at the bank of Mahanadi river.
 4th International Cherry Blossom Festival 2019 - in Shillong, Meghalaya-first time celebrated
by India & South Korea.
Sangai festival 2019 - in Imphal, Manipur.
OCTOBER
 7th edition of Tawang Festival 2019-held in -Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh.
 Chhath festival 2019 – celebrated in-Bihar.
 Shirui Lily Festival 2019-Ukhrul, .Manipur.
 “Sangam 2019-20 Youth Festival”-organized by Indian Army in collaboration with Jammu
University-with theme-‘Let’s Build Our Nation’.
 “Indo-Bangla Baul Music Festival 2019”-held in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
SEPTEMBER
 International Snacks Festival 2019-inaugurated in Hyderabad, Telangana.
 Nuakhai festival also called as Nuakhai Parab or Nuakhai Bhetghat- celebrated in Odisha.
 5th International Ramayana Festival was inaugurated in New Delhi.
 Bathukamma- festival of flowers celebrated in-Warangal city of Telangana.
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 5th Indian International Science Festival to be held in Kolkata.

AUGUST
 National tribal festival named “Aadi Mahotsav” commenced at the Polo Ground, Leh-Ladakh
with the theme “A celebration of the spirit of Tribal Craft,Culture and Commerce”.
JULY
 J&K celebrated Annual Chamliyal Mela.
 World famous Jagannath Rath Yatra 2019(also known as Chariot Festival) –Celebrated - in
Puri, Odisha.
 IFFI (International Film Festival of India) - Golden Jubilee Edition 2019 (50th edition)-to be
held in Panaji, Goa.
BUDGET
Highlights of Union Budget 2019-20

 Held on: July 5th 2019
 Presented by: Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman
 Total Expenditure: Rs. 2,786,349 crores (US$ 417.95 billion), 14.09 % increase from 2018-19.
 Focus: “Gaon, Garib and Kisan” (Village, Poor and Farmer) was the centre of all policies of the
Modi 2.0 Government
 Add on: Govt. cut its fiscal deficit target to 3.3% of GDP (Gross Domestic Product) in 2019-20
against 3.4% estimated earlier
Major Expenditure:
 Total capital expenditure: Rs. 876, 209 crores (US$ 131.43 billion)
 Centrally sponsored schemes: Rs 331,610 crore (US$ 49.74 billion)
 Defence: Rs 305,296 crore (US$ 45.79 billion)
 Pension: Rs 174,300 crore (US$ 26.14 billion)
 Food: Rs 184,220 crore (US$ 27.63 billion)
 Fertilizer: Rs 79,996 crore (US$ 11.99 billion)
 Petroleum: Rs 37,478 crore (US$ 5.62 billion)
Allocations to Ministries
 - Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA)- Rs 1,19,025 crore.
 - The fertilizer subsidy allocations have seen a hike of around Rs 10,000 crore from Rs
70,090.35 crore (Budget Estimates 2018-19) to Rs 79,996 crore (Budget Estimates 2019-20).
 - Ministry of Development of North Easter Region- Rs 3,000 crore.
 - Department of Atomic Energy (DAE)- Rs 16,925 crore
 - Women and Child Development Ministry- Rs 29,000 crore
 - Ministry of External Affairs- Rs 17,800 crore
 - Defence- Rs 3.18 Lakh crore
 - Ministry of skill development – Rs 2989 crore
Taxes:
 Turnover limit for 25% corporate tax: Rs. 400 crores
 Basic customs duty hike: on auto parts, digital camera, cashew, certain synthetic rubber, optical
fibers, vinyl and 12.5 % on gold
 Customs duty exempted: components of specified electronic good, certain parts of electric
vehicles
 Cess on petrol & diesel: Raised by Re1 per litre
 Nominal GST for procuring goods: 0.1%
 Add on:
-Permanent Account Number (PAN) and Aadhaar made interchangeable for convenience of
taxpayers
-Direct tax revenue was increased by 78% to Rs. 11.37 lakh crore
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- The threshold exemption limit for a supplier of goods was proposed to be enhanced from Rs
20 lakh to an amount exceeding Rs 40 lakhs
For economy:
 Target: $3 trillion in FY20
 Intents:
 - Creation of blueprint for gas, water grids & regional airports
 - Expansion of Swachch Bharat
 - Disinvestment target of Rs. 1,05,000 crores in FY 20
Banking and Financial Sector:
 Capital to Public Sector Banks: Rs 70,000 crore
 Domestic credit growth: 13.8%
 Forward plans:To separate the National Pension Scheme Trust from Pension Fund Regulatory
and Development Authority (PFRDA)
 Add on: New series of coins easily identifiable to the visually impaired to be made available for
public use shortly
Small businesses/MSMEs:
 Fund allocated for MSME FY 2019-20: 350 crores (2% interest)
 Intents:
 - payment platform for MSMEs
 -100 new clusters for 50,000 artisans,
 - 10,000 new farmer producer organization
 - Television programme for startups
 - Expansion of SHG
 Add on:
- A separate portal will provide up to Rs1 crore loan in 59 minutes for MSMEs (Micro, Small &
Medium Enterprises
Transportation:
 Fund allocated: Rs 83,000 crores
 Intents: Restructuring of National Highway programme, upgradation of 1,25,000 km of roads
under PMGSY
 Add on:Navigational capacity of Ganga to be enhanced via multi modal terminals at Sahibganj
and Haldia and a navigational lock at Farakka by 2019-20, under Jal Marg Vikas Project.
Aviation:
 Budget allocated: Rs. 12,473.26 crore
 Intents: Aircraft financing and leasing, development of MRO services, New Space India (NSIL),
privatization of Air India.
Railways:
 Budget allocated: Rs 94,071 crore (US$ 14.11 billion) in 2019-20
 Forward plans: Invest more in suburban rail network, station modernization.
 Add on: 657 kilometers of Metro Rail network have become operational across the country
Rural India:
 Fund allocated: Rs 60,000 crores(MGNREGS)
 Intents: e-NAM (National Agriculture Market), “Zero Budget Natural Farming ZBNF”
Urban India:
 Feats:
 - 95% Open Defecation Free (ODF) cities
 - 1 crore download of Swachhata App
 Intents: To make India ODF by 2nd October 2019
Youth:
 Intents: New national education policy, National research foundation, legislation for (HECI),
National Sports Education Board (NSEB).
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 - Stand-up India scheme to be continued for the period of 2020-25

 - 400 crore provided for “World Class Institutions”, for FY 2019-20
Tourism:
 Intents: 17 world-class tourist sites
Labour reforms:
 Intents: Four labour codes, new age skills like robotics, 3D printing
Education:
 Proposal: Rs. 400 crores for world-class higher education institutions in FY20
 Intents:
 - New education policy
 - National research foundation
 - Gandhi-pedia
 - higher education commission
 - National sports education board
 - 5% customs duty for imported books
Agriculture/Fisheries:
 Intents: Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana to address infrastructure gaps, supporting
private entrepreneurship.
For NRIs:
 Intents: Issuing Aadhaar card for non-resident Indians (NRIs) with Indian passports after their
arrival in India without waiting for the mandatory 180 days.
Feats:
 - 1 trillion dollar added to Indian economy over the last 5 years
 - 6th largest economy in the world
 - 3rd largest in Purchasing Power Parity (PPP)
 - Structural reforms in indirect taxation, bankruptcy and real estate
 Add on:
- India’s Ease of Doing Business ranking under the category of ‘paying taxes’ jumped from 172
in 2017 to 121 in 2019
- Indian economy will become a 3 trillion-dollar economy in 2019-20 and Government aspires
to make India a 5 trillion-dollar economy in the coming years
- According to Article 112 of the Indian Constitution, the Union Budget (annual financial
statement) of a year, is a statement of the estimated receipts and expenditure of the
government for that particular year.Click here to read more
Overview Of Economic Survey 2018-19

• Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman presented the
Economic Survey 2018-19. It was prepared by the Chief Economic Advisor Krishnamurthy
Subramanian. It had a cover page in skyblue colour.
Highlights of the Economic Survey 2018-19
 Sustained real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate of 8% is needed for a $5 trillion
economy by 2024-25.
 National Total Fertility Rate expected to be below replacement rate by 2021.Working age
population to grow by roughly 9.7mn per year during 2021-31 and 4.2mn per year during
2031-41.
 93.1% of households have access to toilets. 96.5% of those with access to toilets are using
them in rural India.
 ‘National level dashboard’ under the Ministry of Labour & Employment for regular
notifications on minimum wages, proposed by the Survey.
 Growth of GDP moderated to 6.8% in 2018-19 from 7.2% in 2017-18.
 Fiscal deficit of the Central Government declined from 3.5% of GDP in 2017-18 to 3.4% in
2018-19.
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 The survey projects GDP to grow at 7% in 2019-20.

 Kerala and Himachal Pradesh are the front runners with a score of 69 amongst states.
Chandigarh and Puducherry are the front runners with a score of 68 and 65 respectively
among the UTs in Sustainable Development Goal
 The telecom industry’s contribution to GDP is estimated to reach 8.2% by 2020.
 The services sector growth declined marginally to 7.5% in 2018-19.
 Government expenditure on Health increased to 1.5% in 2018-19 from 1.2% in 2014-15.
 About 1.54 crore houses completed under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY).Click here
to read a detailed explanation on Economic Survey.
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
FIRST IN THE WORLD
DECEMBER
 India - 1st country in the world to make Haj 2020 process completely digital.
 DHC-2 de Havilland Beaver- World’s First fully electric commercial Seaplane - in Canada.
 Afghanistan - 1st nation to recognize Indian Pharmacopoeia.
 World’s first Global Refugee Forum -held in Geneva, Switzerland.
--- $ 2.2 billion was pledged by the World Bank(WB) Group.
--- Co-hosted by UNHCR and co-convened by Turkey, Germany, Ethiopia and Costa Rica.
 Russia-only nation in the world that owns hypersonic weapons.
NOVEMBER
 World’s first CNG (Compressed natural gas) terminal to be built in Bhavnagar port, Gujarat.
 Pakistan -first country-launched-Typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV)- new typhoid vaccine-
approved by WHO.
OCTOBER
 Singapore set to become the first country to ban ads for unhealthy sugary drinks.
 World’s first Artificial Intelligence (AI) university, named Mohamed Bin Zayed University of
Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) established in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
 Air India becomes world’s first airline to bring taxibot technology on A320 aircraft.
AUGUST
 World's first ultra-fast Hyperloop project –granted in Maharashtra- worth $10billion (Rs.
70,0000 crore) stretching over 117.5km, will link Mumbai with Pune.
 India launched - world’s first-ever Biometric Seafarer Identity Document (BSID) which
captures the facial biometric data of seafarers.
 Kajin Sara lake in Manang district of Nepal is all set to record the world’s highest lake-it will
replace the Tilicho lake.
 Akademik Lomonosov: World's first floating nuclear reactor of Russia launched in Arctic.
JULY
 France - first country to pass GAFA tax on digital giants.
LONGEST,LARGEST,HIGHEST:
NOVEMBER
 As per International Monetary Fund (IMF), Guyana - expected to be fastest growing country in
the world at 86% in 2020.
 Sri Lanka -becomes 1st South Asian country to call match-fixing a crime.
 World’s Largest GPU (graphics processing unit)-accelerated cloud-based supercomputer
named NDv2 on Microsoft Azure-by-NVIDIA .
OCTOBER
 World’s oldest natural pearl named ‘Abu Dhabi Pearl’ - discovered at a Neolithic site on
Marawah Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
 Male white bellbird(Procnias albus)-is the World’s loudest bird which hits 125.4 decibels.
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SEPTEMBER
 Shri Maithripala Sirisena unveiled “Lotus tower” which is the tallest tower of South Asia that
cost over $100 million.
 Vietnam - inaugurated Southeast Asia’s largest solar power farm called ‘Dau Tieng Solar Power
Complex’.
AUGUST
 Union HRD Minister launches world’s largest teachers’ training programme National Initiative
for School Heads and Teachers Holistic Advancement (NISHTHA) in New Delhi.
 E-commerce company Amazon, inaugurated its single-largest campus in the world-in
Hyderabad, Telangana.
JULY
 World’s largest burn and plastic surgery institute named Sheikh Hasina National Burn and
Plastic Surgery Institute, inaugurated in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
 World’s smallest fossil monkey “Parvimico materdei” found in the forests of Amazon.
OTHER INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS:

DECEMBER
 Saudi Arabia -1st Arab nation to assume the G20 presidency.
 Bougainville: World’s newest nation after voted for independence from Papua New Guinea.
 Poland leaves European Union’s 2050 climate neutrality agreement.
 8 West African Nations agreed to rename their common currency known as “CFA Franc” to
“Eco”.
 US has officially launched “US space force (USSF)”, the 1st new US military service in more than
70 years focusing on warfare in space.
 Netherlands- nickname ‘Holland’-will be scrapped from January 2020.
NOVEMBER
 BHIM-UPI QR (Bharat Interface for Money- Unified Payments Interface Quick Response) –
launched-in Singapore. With this transaction, BHIM usage for the first time enters an
international country.
 India pledged to contribute $13.5 million for 2020 UN Development Activities.
 Saudi Arabia elected to UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee.
OCTOBER
 Ecuador will quit Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) from January 1,
2020 due to fiscal problems.
 United Nations(UN) General Assembly has elected 14 new members to the 47-member body of UN
Human Rights Council(UNHRC).
 India became a member of Group of 20 (G20) Global Smart Cities Alliance on Technology
Governance.
 Italy to introduce 3% web tax on digital giants from 2020.
 Sri Lanka along with the support of the United Nations (UN) Environment Programme (UNEP)
adopted “Colombo Declaration on Sustainable Nitrogen Management”-with an aim to half the
nitrogen waste by 2030.
SEPTEMBER
 Nepal’s biggest hindu festival named Bada Dashain-celebrated.
 Saudi Arabia will offer tourist visas for the first time.
WHO South-East Asia Region set to eliminate measles & rubella by 2023.
AUGUST
 Financial Action Task Force(FATF)- blacklisted Pakistan against terror financing and money
laundering.
 Indonesia chooses East Borneo Island for its new capital.
JULY
 Japan officially resumes commercial whaling after more than 30 years.
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 World Health Organization(WHO) –launched- first guideline on self-care interventions for

health named “WHO Consolidated Guideline on Self-Care Interventions for Health”- by 2030,
there will be shortage of 18 million health workers.
 Iran breached enriched Uranium Stockpile limit set by 2015 nuclear deal.
 Sri Lanka inaugurated its first model village built with Indian assistance at Ranidugama in
Gampaha.
 Sharjah issues its first Golden card visa to an Indian Lalu Samuel, Chairman of Kingston
Holdings.
 Saudi Arabia adopts Digital India &‘equality of women’ motto for Haj 2019. 2 apps namely
“Indian Haj Information System” app introduced to receive grievances and feedback from Hajis
to improve the service. Another app: e-MASIHA (Medical Assistance System for Indian-Hajis
abroad) is also launched to store pilgrim’s health information &medical history.
 Sri Lanka - declared ‘measles-free’ nation by World Health Organization (WHO).
 UK’s new £50 pound note features codebreaker Alan Turing.
 Palau became the 76th country to sign the International Solar Alliance (ISA) Framework
Agreement.
Pakistan opens historic 1,000-year-old Hindu temple in Punjab for worship after 72 years.
VISIT
INDIA VISIT
DECEMBER
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s visit to India
 This was his first overseas visit after becoming President.
 From: November 28-30, 2019
 Duration: 3 days
 Purpose: Bilateral talks on release of Indian fishermen’s boats, economy and security, and to
work on key issues like security, economic development and welfare of the people.
 Add on:
- The Srilankan president also met External Affairs Minister (EAM) Shri Subrahmanyam
Jaishankar and discussed on various bilateral issues
- Shri Narendra Modi announced to offer $450 million Line of Credit(LoC) to Sri Lanka in
which $400 million will be provided for infrastructure projects and $50 million provided for
counter terror measures to Sri Lanka.Click here to read more
Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf Folke and Queen Silvia Renate to India
 From: December 2-6, 2019
 MoU: 3 signed on cooperation, polar science and promoting safety of the maritime
environment.
 Add on:
- Inaugurated sewage plant at Haridwar’s Sarai village in Uttarakhand
-A Memorandum of Intent (MoI) was signed by AIIMS Delhi finance director Randeep Guleria,
AIIMS Jodhpur Director Sanjeev Misra and Swedish Trade Commissioner in New Delhi
Anders Wickberg to set up the health care innovation centre.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with the Swedish king and queen inaugurated
the India-Sweden High-Level Dialogue on innovation policy
-The Swedish companies announced to help India in building climate neutral smart
city in Gurgaon, Haryana
- This is the 3rd time they both have visited India.Click here to read more
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Mauritius PM Pravind Jugnauth visit to India

 On: December 6
 Purpose: Bilateral discussion
 Add on:
- Both the leaders agreed to work together to build up bilateral relations and to deepen the
fraternal and enduring ties, based on mutual interest and priorities.
- Recent development projects in Mauritius such as Metro Express Project, ENT (Ear Nose
Throat) Hospital, Social Housing Project by the Indian govt. were reiterated
- His wife Mrs. Kobita Jugnauth also visited India with Pravind Jugnauth.Click here to read
more
NOVEMBER
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates’s visit to India
 Duration: 3 days from November 16-18 2019
 Purpose: To review work of his foundations in India
 Awards: 3 Lifetime achievement awards for Dr. Cyrus S Poonawalla– Chairman and Managing
Director(MD) of Serum Institute of India, Dr. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw– Chairman and Managing
Director(MD) of biopharmaceutical company Biocon India, Dr. Prakash Baba Amte– Director of
Lok Biradari Prakalp(LBP)
 Add on:
-Health ministry signed MoC with Gates Foundation for support in innovation
-ICMR (The Indian Council of Medical Research) signed DoI with US institution & BMGF for
collaboration in healthcare research in New Delhi
-The Event marked 108th foundation day of the ICMR.Click here to Read More
German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel’s 2 day visit to India(Oct 31-Nov 1, 2019)
Objective: To boost strategic ties in Defence & Security
5th Indo-German Inter-Governmental Consultations (IGC):
Venue: New Delhi
Co-Chaired by: PM Modi and Angela Merkel
♦ Joint Declaration of Intent (JDI):
5 JDI was signed for Green Urban Mobility, In Research & Development (R&D) on AI, In the field
of prevention of marine litter, Cooperation on Strategic Projects, Consultations for the period
2020-2024.
♦ MoU/Agreements:17 MoU’s in various fields were signed.
Important takeaways from the visit:
♦ Will invest €1 billion in environmentally-friendly urban mobility over next 5 years.
--- €200 million for Tamil Nadu Bus Sector.
♦ Both countries will create “Digital Experts Group” to provide innovations in future policy
initiatives.
Gifts Presented:
 Handloom woollen Khadi stole from Ladakh,“Call of Ladakh” and Ratnam pen. Click here to
read more.
OCTOBER
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to India
 On: October 03-06, 2019
 To attend: India Economic Summit
33rd India Economic Summit:
 Edition: 33rd
 From: 03-04 October 2019
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 Organized by: World Economic Forum (WEF) in partnership with Confederation of Indian
Industry (CII)
 Co-chaired by: Sheikh Hasina with Sania Mirza.
 Theme: ’Innovating for India: Strengthening South Asia, Impacting the World ‘
 MoU: Signed 7 MoU’s.Click here to read more
Visit of the King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands to India
 From: October 14-18, 2019
 Purpose: To boost bilateral and political co-operation (US$ 12.87 billion (2018-2019))
 Attended: The inaugural session of 25th Technology summit in New Delhi
DST-CII India Netherlands Summit
 Edition: 25th
 Held in: New Delhi
 Theme: ‘NEXUS’
 Books released: Ms. Mona Keijzer, Dutch State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Climate
Policy and Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare(MoHFW) and
Science and Technology, together released a book titled,“Science, Technology and Innovation
Partnership”.Click here to read more
SEPTEMBER
PM of St. Vincent and the Grenadines Dr. Hon’ble Ralph Everard Gonsalves’s visit to India
 He became the first-ever Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines to make an official
visit to India.
 From: September 8-12, 2019
 Purpose: To participate in the high-level United Nations Convention on Combating
Desertification (UNCCD) Symposium
 Held in: New Delhi
 Meet: Heldbilateral discussions with PM Modi and External Affairs Minister (EAM) Dr. S
Jaishankar.Click here to read more
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy visit to India

 Phil Murphy became the 1st governor of the US (United States) state to visit India.
 MoU:
-Signed sister state agreement and IIT Gandhinagar in Gujarat.
-Nasscom, Princeton University and NRDC (National Research Development Corporation) in
Delhi.
-Sister state partnership agreement, Film production and T-hub in Telangana
-TiE Mumbai, SNDT University and Film production in Mumbai
 Meet:
- Met PM and discussed India-New Jersey relations
- Met EAM and discussed mutual relationships of the two places.Click here to read more
Mongolian President Battulga’s Visit to India

 It is the first state visit by a Mongolian president in the last 10 years.
 From: 19-23 September 2019
 MoU: Signed 4 MoU’s on Cultural Exchange Protocol, Disaster Management and Disaster Risk
Reduction, Cooperation and Usage of Outer Space, Comprehensive Work Plan for cooperation
in the field of Animal Health and Dairy.
 Add on: Modi and Battulga, jointly unveiled a statue of Lord Buddha.Click here to read more
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Deputy Prime Minister & Commerce Minister of Thailand Jurin Laksanawisit’s 4 day visit to
India (Sep 25-28, 2019)
 This was his first Visit to India.
 Objective: To Promote trade
 Worth of total Agreement signed –Rs.2400 crore
Visit to Mumbai:
 MoU: Between - Association of Furniture Manufacturers & Traders, India & Thai Hevae Wood
Association; Thailand-India Business Council and GlobalLinker to create an online platform for
SMEs .
 Agreements signed worth 4.45 billion Thai baht (about Rs 900 crore) focusing food,
construction material, logistics and real estate development sectors.
Visit to Chennai:
 Agreements signed worth 7.623 billion Thai baht (about Rs 1,500 crore) focusing rubber
market.Click here to read more.
PM Narendra Modi’s a day long visit to Jharkhand (Sep 12, 2019)

Launches/Inaugurations
 Kisan Maan-Dhan Yojana (KMY):
♦ About KMY: Monthly pension scheme for small and marginal farmers
♦ Eligibility:Farmers aged between 18-40 years
♦ Benefit:Govt will provide Rs 3000 after attaining 60 years.
♦ Farmers Monthly Contribution:Varies from Rs.55-Rs.200 depending on age.
♦ Total Outlay for next 3 years: Rs 10,774 Crores.
♦ Pension Fund Manager-Life Insurance Corporation of India(LIC).
 Pradhan Mantri Laghu Vyapari Mandhan Yojana (PMLVMY):
♦ About PMLVMY: Monthly Pension Scheme to small shopkeepers and traders
♦ Eligibility: Shopkeeper/Traders aged between 18-40 years & Turnover less the 1.5 crore.
♦ Benefit: Govt will provide Rs 3000 after attaining 60 years.
♦ Total Outlay: Rs 750 crore
♦ Pension Fund Manager-Life Insurance Corporation of India(LIC).
 Nation’s second Multi-Modal Terminal(MMT) across river Ganga was dedicated
♦ Built by: Inland Waterways Authority of India(IWAI).
♦ Total Cost:Phase 1 cost:Rs.290 crores & Phase 2:Around Rs.376 crores.
 India’s First paperless assembly.Click here to read more.
AUGUST
State Visit of Mr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu, President of the Republic of Zambia to India
 It was the 1st visit at the level of Head of State from Africa after formation of the new
Government and the first-ever visit of President Lungu to India.
 From: August 20-22, 2019
 MoU: 6 signed on various fields
 Add on:
- President of Zambia, Edgar Chagwa Lungu was accorded a Guard of Honour on his arrival to
India
- India’s tele-education and telemedicine expertise would create new opportunities for the
youth in Zambia
- Focus of bilateral meeting was on cooperation in defence, security, geology and mineral
resources, energy, health, education, infrastructure, culture, trade and investment-related
issued.Click here to read more
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ADB President Mr. Takehiko Nakao Pledges Over $12 Billion to India in Support of New
Flagship Initiatives
 On: August 29, 2019
 Add on:
- Committed over $21 billion in lending to India over next 3 years (2020-22)
- Announced a $100 million investment in the National Investment and Infrastructure
Fund (NIIF)
- He attended the launch of an ADB publication in Kolkata, West Bengal.Click here to read
more
France’s NSA Emmanuel Bonne visit to India

 On: August 29, 2019
 In: Delhi
 Purpose: Indo-French Strategic Dialogue 2019
 Deal Signed: To acquire 36 Rafale fighter (Estimate: 7.8 billion euros)
 Add on:
-Emmanuel Bonne, Diplomatic Adviser and G7 Sherpa to French President Emmanuel
Macronarrived New Delhifor the biannual Indo-French Strategic Dialogue 2019.
- In September 2016, India had signed a deal with the French government and Dassault
Aviation to acquire 36 Rafale fighter jets for over 7.8 billion euros.Click here to read more
JULY
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Varanasi, UP
 On: July 6th 2019
 Purpose: To Unveil the statue of former PM Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri
 At: Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport in Varanasi, UP
 Add on:
-PM launched a tree plantation drive at Harahua primary school in Anand Kanan forest
- Also visited the Virtual Experiential Museum at Man Mahal, situated on the banks of the
Ganges near the iconic Dashashwamedh Ghat, Varanasi.Click here to read more
FOREIGN VISIT
NOVEMBER
P.M Modi’s visit to Thailand from November 2-4 2019
 To attend: ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) and RCEP (Regional
Comprehensive Economic Partnership) summits.
ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations)
 Edition: 35 th
 Held in: Bangkok, Thailand
 Held on: October 31-November 4, 2019
 Theme: Advancing Partnership for sustainability
 Inaugurated by: Thailand PM Prayut Chan -o-Cha
 Current Chair: Mr. Nguyen Xuan Phuc, PM, Vietnam
RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership)
 Edition: 3rd
 Held in: Bangkok
 Proposal: Free Trade Agreement (FTA)
 Members: 10 ASEAN members, 5 FTA Partners
 Add on: India is not a member of RCEP, opted out of the agreement in 2019.PM also addressed
14th East Asia Summit (EAS) in Bangkok &16th edition of the ASEAN-India summit.Click here
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Overview of Narendra Modi’s visit to Brazil

 Objective :11th BRICS summit with the theme “Economic growth for an innovative future” held
in Brasilia, Brazil.
 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to be 2020 Republic Day chief guest.Click here to read
more.
Overview of Defence minister Rajnath singh’s 2- day visit to Singapore from November 19-20,
2019
 He will attend 4th edition of annual India-Singapore Defence Ministers’ Dialogue 2019 in
Singapore.
 India & Singapore exchanged LoI on use of integrated test range (ITR) at chandipur, Odisha.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s visit to Uzbekistan

 Duration:3 Days
 Held in: Tashkent, Uzbekistan
 Held on: November 1-3, 2019
 Purpose: To attend state meet of Shanghai Co-operation Organization (SCO)
 MoU’s: 3 signed, 1 for Military Medicine and 2 for Military Education on October 2018.
Assistance to the Uzbek army:
 To support Military medicine
 To develop IT complex in Armed Forces Academy
 Concession on (LoC) of $40 million for procurement
 Invite by India: For joint Exercises in 2020 in India
SCO meet at Tashkent:
 Edition: 18th
 Addressed by: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh
 Meet: Council of Heads of Government (CHG)
 Next meet: Will be hosted by India in 2020
 Initiatives: On Economic system, Relaxing Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) reforms, allowing
100% investment in coal mining & manufacturing sectors, allowing 26% investments in digital
media.
 Members present: Mr. Abdulla NigmatovichAripov PM of Uzbekistan, Heads of SCO, Mr.
JumakhonGiyosov Executive Director of Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS). Click here
to Read More
BRICS trade ministers meet in Brazil

 Edition: 9th
 Attended by: Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal
 Held on: November 11,2019
 Held at: Brasilia, Brazil
 Focus: Trade facilitation, Investment promotion and Co-operation in customs.
 Issues Discussed: Co-operation in e-commerce, Investment facilitation, MSMEs & Intellectual
property right.
 MoU: signed by BRICS members (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) on Trade and
investment promotion.Click here to Read More
ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus(ADMM-Plus) 2019

 Edition: 6th
 Held at: Bangkok, Thailand
 Held on: November 18, 2019
 Attended by: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh along with 17 other defence ministers of the
ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations)
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 Theme: “Sustainable Security”

 First meet: Held in 2010 in Hanoi, Vietnam
 10 ASEAN countries: Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam,
Brunei, Cambodia, Myanmar (Burma), and Laos.
 8 Dialogue Members: Australia, New Zealand, India, China, Russia, the US, Japan and South
Korea.Click here to Read More
WATEC Conference 2019

 Edition: 8th
 Held in: Tel Aviv, Israel
 Held on: November 18-21, 2019
 Attended by: Union Minister of Jal Shakti, Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat
 Theme: “Water Stewardship and Innovation – driving global leadership in the responsible
planning management, and protection of water”
 Organized by: Kenes Exhibitions
 Aim: To get updates on water and environmental management technologies and
solutions.Click here to Read More
G20 foreign ministers meeting 2019

 Attended by: External Affairs Minister(EAM) Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
 Held in: Japanese City of Nagoya
 Held on: From November 22-23, 2019
 Chaired by: Japan
 Attended by: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, France, India, Indonesia,
Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the United
Kingdom and the United States & and the European Union.
 Aim: To promote free trade, 2030 Agenda of Sustainable Development Goals implementation.
 Decisions: All ministers agreed to reform the Geneva(Switzerland) Headquartered World
Trade Organization (WTO)
 Add on: U. S. (United States) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dint participate G20
meeting.Click here to Read More
UNESCO General Conference 2019

 Edition: 40th
 Held in: Paris, France
 Held on: from November 12-27 2019
 Addressed by: Union Minister of Human Resource and Development(MHRD) Shri Ramesh
Pokhriyal Nishank
 Add on:Adopted the recommendation on Open Educational Resources(OER) to reach
Sustainable Development Goal 4(SDG 4), to provide a quality education, also UNESCO’s 2030
Framework for Action
Global Framework of Professional Teaching Standards
 Edition: 1st
 Launched by: Education International (EI) and UNESCO
 Held on: 16th November 2019
 In presence of: Education Ministers, EI member organizations & policy experts
 Education portals by India: SWAYAM (Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring
Minds), E-VidyaBharati and Arogyabharati, SWAYAM PRABHA.Click here to Read More
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NITI Aayog–DRC Dialogue

 Edition: 5th
 Held in: Wuhan, China
 Held on: 28 November 2019
 Lead by: Dr. Rajiv Kumar, Vice-Chairman of NITI Aayog &Ma Jiantang, Party Secretary of DRC,
China
 Meet: NITI Aayog with Development Research Centre (DRC), of the State Council, People’s
Republic of China.
 Discussions: About global economy, globalization and macroeconomic policies in China and
India, innovation and development, potential for Sino-India trade and economic
cooperation.Click here to Read More
OCTOBER
Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu’s 5 day visit to Comoros and Sierra Leone (Oct 10-14, 2019)
Visit to Comoros (Oct 10-12, 2019)
 Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu was the 1st ever high-level Indian dignitary to visit Comoros.
 Award:He received Comoros’ highest civilian honour, ‘The Order of the Green Crescent’
 MoU’s:6 MoU’s were signed in Defence Cooperation, Of Protocol for consultations between
India and Comoros, Health and Medicine, on the exemption of Visas for the diplomatic and
official passport holder, Arts and Culture, e-VidyaBharati and e-AarogyaBharati (e-VBAB).
 LoC:India will provide over USD 60 million(USD 41.6 mn for setting up 18MW power plant in
Moroni and a vocational training centre, USD 20 mn for the procurement of High-Speed
Interceptor Boats)
Visit to Sierra Leone (Oct 12-14, 2019)
 MoU’s:6 MoU’s were signed on various fields.
♦ LoC: US$ 30 million for Irrigation development in Tomabum.US $ 15 million for Potable
Water Project.Click here to read more.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 2 day visit to Saudi Arabia (Oct 28-29, 2019)
 Objective:To boost ties in energy and finance sector.
 MoU:12 MoU’s were signed in security cooperation, Civil Aviation, medical products
regulations & various other sectors.
 RuPay card was launched (Third gulf nation were Rupay was launched).
 India became the 4th Country to establish Strategic Partnership Council with Saudi Arabia after
the United Kingdom(UK), France and China.
3rd edition of the Future Investment Initiative(FII) Forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia:
 India’s aim to invest $100 billion by 2024 in refineries, pipelines & gas terminals.
 India’s aim to invest $1.5 trillion in next 5 years in Infrastructure sector. Click here to read
more.
President Ram Nath Kovind’s visit to Philippines and Japan

Visit to the Philippines
 From: October 17- 21, 2019
 Purpose: Visited the Philippines at the invitation of Mr. Rodrigo Roa Duterte, President of the
Philippines
 Agreements: 4 agreements signed, on security, tourism, science and technology, and culture
 Add on:He addressed India-Philippines Business Conclave and the 4th ASEAN (Association of
Southeast Asian Nations) -India Business Summit for 2019 in Manila, Philippines
Visit to Japan:
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 Purpose: To attend the Enthronement Ceremony of the Emperor Naruhitoof Japan

 Add on: Laid the foundation stone for Sri Sathya Sai Sanathana Samskruti Project at Sai no Sato,
Kakegawa, Japan to promote Indian traditional culture.Click here to read more
Defence minister Mr. Rajnath Singh’s visit to France

 From:October 7-9, 2019
 Purpose:To discusskey aspects of bilateral defence partnership between both countriesand to
attend official handover ceremony of the first Rafale fighter jet acquired by the Indian Air Force
(IAF).
 Meet: With French president Emmanuel Macron.
First Rafale aircraft:
 Meet at: Merignac Airbase in Bordeaux, France
 Add on:
- Received the first (RB-001) of the 36 Rafale aircrafts from France on behalf of the Indian Air
Force (IAF)
- He was welcomed by The Dassault Aviation Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Eric Trappier.
- 36 Rafale aircraft procurement was signed between the Government of India and the
Government of France on 23 September, 2016 worth Rs 59,000 crore.Click here to read
more
SEPTEMBER
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Vladivostok, Russia
 It was the first visit by an Indian Prime Minister to Far East Region of Russia.
 On: September 4-5, 2019
 Purpose: To attend 5th Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) and20th India-Russia Annual
Summit for 2019.
 MoU: 30 singed to promote trade and investment, 16 with private and 14 in government-to-
government sector
 Add on:Participated as the Chief Guest at the 5th Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) for
2019.Click here to read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the United States

 CEO round-table meet:
 On: September 21, 2019
 Participants: CEO’s of 17 global energy companies
 MoU: Signed between US natural gas company Tellurian Inc. and Petronet LNG Limited (PLL)
of India
UN Climate Action Summit:
 Edition: 74th
 Held on: September 23, 2019
 Theme: “Climate Action Summit 2019: A Race We Can Win. A Race We Must Win”.Click here to
read more
President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind visit to Iceland, Switzerland and Slovenia
 Purpose: To strengthen economic and political ties
Visit to Iceland:
 MoU: 3 MoU’s signed on fisheries collaboration, Cultural co-operation & visa and passport
Visit to Switzerland:
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 MoU: signed 3 agreements on Technical cooperation on climate change, Alliance in science and
technology and renewal of Hindi chair at the University of Lausanne.
Visit to Slovenia:
 MoU: signed 7 MoU’s on Investment, sports, culture, river rejuvenation, science, technology
and standards.Click here to read more
External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar’s visit to Maldives for IOC 2019
 On: September 3-4, 2019
 Purpose: To attend the 4th edition of the Indian Ocean Conference (IOC)
 Treaty Signed: On mutual legal assistance in criminal matters
Indian Ocean Conference (IOC)
 Edition: 4th
 Held on: September 3-4, 2019
 Held at: Paradise Island Resort in Maldives
 Theme: “Securing the Indian Ocean Region: Traditional and Non-Traditional Challenges”
 Organized by: India in associate with Govt. of Maldives and S. Rajaratnam School of
International studies (RSIS), Singapore.Click here to read more
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s visit to Japan and South Korea

Visit to Japan:
 From: September 2–3, 2019
 In: Tokyo, Japan
 Co-Chaired by: Japan – India Defence Ministerial Meeting 2019
 Meet: With Defence Minister of Japan Mr. Takeshi lwaya
 Purpose: To discuss Various issues of mutual concern
Visit to South Korea:
 At: Seoul, Republic of Korea (ROK)
 MoU: 2 MoU’s signed to enhance defence educational exchanges and extend logistical
support.Click here to read more
External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar’s visit to Indonesia and Singapore

Visit to Indonesia
 Purpose: Bilateral visit target of $50 billion by 2025
Visit to Singapore
 Purpose: To attend India-Singapore: The next phase-business and innovation summit 2019
 At: Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre.Click here to read more
External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar’s visit to Poland and Belgium

Visit to Poland:
 From: August 28-29, 2019
 Launches: EAM officially launched a direct flight services between Warsaw, and New Delhi
 Meet: Met FM Prof. Czaputowicz, Mateusz Morawiecki the Prime Minister of Poland and Deputy
PM of Poland Piotr Gliński and held bilateral talks
Visit to Belgium:
 On: August 29, 2019
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 At: Brussels
 Purpose: To discuss India-European Union (EU) Strategic Partnership on regional, global and
multilateral issues in Brussels.Click here to read more
AUGUST
President Ram Nath Kovind’s visit to Benin, Gambia and Guinea
 It was the first ever visit of the Head of State/Head of Government of India to all 3 countries.
 From: 28 July to 3 August, 2019
 Purpose: To deepen the Indian relations with the African nations
President’s visit to Benin:
 From: July 28-30, 2019
 MoU: 4 signed on Cultural exchange programme, Export Credit and Investment Insurance,
Telecommunication.
 Add on:India offers $100 Mn Financial Aid to Benin
President’s visit to Gambia:
 From: July 30 – August 1, 2019
 MoU: 2 signed on co-operation in the field of Traditional System of medicine and homeopathy
 Add on: India offered the Gambia a grant of $500,000 in support of skill development and
cottage industry project.
President’s visit to Guinea:
 From: August 1-3, 2019
 Honour: Honoured with ‘The National Order of Merit’ by president of Guinea, Alpha Conde.
 MoU: 3 signed on cooperation in the field of traditional system of medicine and homeopathy,
Telecommunications and renewable energy.
 Add on: India extended a new Line of Credit (LoC) of $170 million for Conakry Water Supply
Project.Click here to read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Visit to Bhutan

 From: August 17-18, 2019
 Purpose: To strengthen the relationship between two countries
 MoU: Signed 9 MoU’s on various fields of science & technology, 1 power purchase agreement
exchanged between the countries.
 Add on:
- Prime Minister Modi received a guard of honour at the Tashichhoedzong Palace, Thimphu,
Bhutan
-PM inaugurated the Mangdechhu hydroelectric power plant, at the cost of Rs. 4500 Crores
and funded by India through a 70% loan and 30% grant.Click here to read more
Overview of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar visit to Bangladesh

 From: August 19-20, 2019
 Purpose: To review bilateral relations
 Add on:
- He paid respects to Bangladesh’s founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the
Bangabandhu Memorial Museum in Dhanmondi area of Dhaka, Bangladesh
-Held talks with Bangladeshi Counterpart Dr. A K Abdul Menon and discussed steps to further
expand the bilateral partnership across several sectors.Click here to read more
Vice President Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu’s three nation tour to Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia
 Vice President Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu was the first high-level dignitary from India to visit the
three countries.
 From: August 17-21, 2019
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 Purpose: To enhance India’s bilateral ties and to promote people-to-people contacts and
business opportunities
Visit to Lithuania:
 From: August 17-19, 2019
 MoU: signed 2 MoU’s on Agriculture and Allied sectors and Cultural Exchange Program from
2019-21.
 Add on:
-Vice President addressed the India Lithuania Business Forum 2019 in Vilnius, Lithuania
-History of Lithuania’ in Hindi presented to Vice President
Visit to Latvia:
 From: August 19-20, 2019
 Add on:
-He addressed the India-Latvia Business Forum 2019 in Riga
-He unveiled the bust of Mahatma Gandhi at Latvia’s prestigious National Library
Visit to Estonia:
 From: August 20-21, 2019
 MoU: 3 singed on e-governance and emerging digital technologies and cooperation in the area
of CyberSecurity
 Add on: He addressed the India-Estonia Business Forum 2019 in Tallinn, Estonia.Click here to
read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Visit to France, UAE and Bahrain and G7 Summit
 From: 22-26 August 2019
Visit to France:
 From: August 22-23, 2019
 Purpose: For a Bilateral summit in Paris
 MoU: 4 signed on various fields
 Meet: Met French President Emmanuel Macron at Château de Chantilly held bilateral talks.
 Add on:Inaugurated memorial in honour of victims of two Air India crashes in France
Visit to United Arab Emirates:
 From: August 23-24, 2019
 MoU: 6 signed
 Launches:
- Launched RuPay card in Abu Dhabi, the same has already been launched in Singapore and
Bhutan
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Abu Dhabi crown prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed
Al Nahyan jointly released a commemorative stamp of Mahatma Gandhi ahead of his 150th
birth anniversary
 Add on:UAE honours PM Narendra Modi with highest civilian award ‘Order Of Zayed’
Visit to Bahrain
 From: August 24-25, 2019
 MoU: 4 signed in the field of culture, space, solar energy and Rupay card.
 Honour: PM honoured with “The King Hamad Order of the Renaissance”
 Launches: launched the $4.2 million redevelopment project of the 200-year-old Lord Sri
Krishna temple in Manama
G7 summit 2019:
 Edition:45th
 Held in: Biarritz, France
 Held on: 24-26 August, 2019
 Next summit: Will be held in the United States
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 Add on: PM addressed G7 Summit’s session on ‘Biodiversity, Oceans, Climate.’ & highlighted
efforts in putting digital technology & inclusion during session on Digital Transformation.Click
here to read more
External Affairs Minister S.Jaishankar Visit to Russia and Hungary

 From: August 25-28, 2019
 Purpose: To review bilateral relations
Visit to Hungary:
 From: August 25-27, 2019
 Meet:
-Held talks with Foreign Minister of Hungary Peter Szijjarto followed by delegation-level
talks, where bilateral and multilateral issues.
-Exchanges his views on the bilateral economic relations and cooperation with the Mihaly
Varga, the Hungarian finance minister and deputy prime minister(PM)
Visit to Russia:
 From: August 27-28, 2019
 Meet: Meet Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov and discussed regional and international issues.
 Add on: Unveiled a statue of Mahatma Gandhi at the premises of the Indian embassy in
Moscow, Russia on the occasion of Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary.Click here to read more
External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar, visit to Bangkok, Thailand

 From: August 1-2, 2019
 Purpose: Bilateral and multilateral meets was on theIndo Pacific, terror and India’s Act East
policy
ASEAN-India Ministerial Meeting 2019:
 Edition: 26th
 Held On: August 1, 2019
 Co-chaired by: Jai Shankar and his Thai counterpart H. E. Don Pramudwinai
 Add on: He highlighted methods & resources of further strengthening the ASEAN-India
Strategic Partnership in the Indo-Pacific region at the ASEAN-India Ministerial Meet.
Mekong Ganga Cooperation (MGC) Ministerial Meeting 2019:
 Edition: 10th
 Held on: August 1,2019
 Co-chaired by: Jaishankar and H. E. Mr. Pham Binh Minh, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister
of Foreign Affairs of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
 Add on:Ministers agreed to hold the 11th MGC Ministerial Meeting on the margins of ASEAN
Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in 2020 in Viet Nam
ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) 2019:
 Edition: 26th
 Held on: 2, August, 2019
 Chaired by: H. E. Mr. Don Pramudwinai, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand
 Add on: EAM enumerated India’s Indo-Pacific vision of a free, open, inclusive and rules-based
Indo-Pacific.Click here to read more
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar visit to Beijing, China

 From: August 11-13, 2019
 Purpose: To discuss Bilateral, regional and global issues
 MoU: 5 signed on bilateral relations, sports, culture, Traditional medicine & Museum
 Meet: Met Foreign Minister and State Councillor Wang Yi, Vice President Wang Qishan
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India-China Media Forum 2019:

 Edition: 4th
 Held in: Beijing, China
 Held on: August 12, 2019
 Add on: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on jointly
inaugurated the ‘India-China Film Week’ in Beijing, China.Click here to read more
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar visit to Nepal

 From: August 21-22, 2019
 Purpose: To review bilateral relations and to participate in 5th Joint Commission Meeting 2019
India-Nepal Joint commission meeting 2019:
 Edition: 5th
 Held on: August 21, 2019
 Held in: Kathmandu, Nepal
 MoU: Signed between the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) and Nepal’s
Department of Food Technology and Quality Control (DFTQC) on food safety and
standards.Click here to read more
JULY
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Visit to Japan 2019
 From: June 28-29, 2019
 Purpose: To attend G20 summit
 Held in: Osaka, Japan
 Previous summit: Held in Buenos Aires, Argentina
 Next summit: Will be in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2020
 Participants: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia,
Italy, Japan, Mexico, Republic of Korea, Republic of South Africa, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey,
United Kingdom, United States of America and European Union
 Add on:
- Modi, Trump, Abe held 2nd Japan-America-India (JAI) trilateral talks in Osaka, Japan
- G20 countries were invited to join global coalition on disaster resilience
named ‘International Coalition on Disaster Resilient Infrastructure’.Click here to read
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Defence minister Rajnath Singh’s visit to Mozambique

 From: July 28-30 2019
 MoU: Signed 2 MoU’s to strengthen the Indo-Mozambican Defence cooperation
 Meet: Met Prime Minister of MozambiqueCarlos Agostinho do Rosário in Maputo, Mozambique,
Foreign Affairs and Cooperation minister, H. E. Pacheco.Click here to read more
SUMMITS/CONFERENCE IN NEWS
Name of Summit/Conference Place Facts about the summit /conference
DECEMBER
17th India-EU (European Union) Brussels, Belgium The summit which will be held at Brussels,
summit for the year 2020 Belgium, is aimed at expanding strategic
partnerships with Europe.
International Conference of Art Dhaka, Bangladesh Archaeologist R. Nagaswamy was honoured
at the Silver Jubilee International Conference
of Art in Dhaka by Bangladesh culture
minister K.M.Khalid for his contribution to
art, archaeology, history and culture.
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2nd edition of the Startup India Goa Theme - “India Opportunity – Investing in
Global Venture Capital Summit tomorrow together”Click here to Read
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Pacific Air Force Chiefs Hawaii, United Theme-‘Collaborative approach towards
Conference (PACS-2019) States(US) Regional Security‘.
GeoSmart India Conference Hyderabad, Telangana Theme -“Ignite – Innovate – Integrate”.
2019
2019 NATO (North Atlantic London The year 2019 marks the 70th
Treaty Organization) Summit anniversary of the summit.
25th UN Climate Change Madrid, Spain 24th conference known as COP24 was
Conference held in Katowice Poland.Click here to
read more.
4th India water impact summit New Delhi Theme “Valuing Water | Transforming
2019 Ganga”
36th International Geological New Delhi Theme - ‘Geosciences: The Basic Science
Congress (IGC) for Sustainable Development’
FICCI ARISE Conference 2019 New Delhi Theme- ‘Future Ready Learners and
Schools’
9th Global sports summit ‘TURF New Delhi It was organized by FICCI.
2019’
Annual Conference of New Delhi Theme: New India Aspiring for 5 trillion
ASSOCHAM USD PM target’s to achieve 5 Trillion
Dollar Economy.
G20 summit for 2020 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Theme - “Realising Opportunities of the
21st Century for All”
27th National children’s science Thiruvananthapuram, Theme- “Science, Technology and
congress 2019 Kerala Innovation for a clean, green and healthy
nation”
Transforming Education Visakhapatnam, Dell technologies announced a
Conference for Humanity (TECH Andhra Pradesh partnership with UNESCO (United
2019) Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization) MGIEP (Mahatma
Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace)
to improve educational quality in
classrooms by using ICT (Information and
Communication Technology) tools.
NOVEMBER
35th ASEAN summit Bangkok, Thailand The theme of the summit was “Advancing
Partnership for sustainability”.
3rd edition of the RCEP summit
16th edition of the ASEAN-India This was his first official visit to the
summit country to participate in the India-Asean
Summit.
14th East Asia Summit (EAS) Shri Modi proposed new initiative for
creating safe and secure maritime domain
in the Indo Pacific region and also
proposed initiative to strengthen Blue
economy (sustainable use of ocean
resources for economic growth).
Commonwealth Law Ministers’ Colombo, Sri Lanka The theme of 2019 CLM Conference is
Conference (CLM) 2019 ‘Equal Access to Justice and the Rule of
Law’.
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2nd India ASEAN (Association of Davao, Philippines Theme “Accelerating towards innovative
Southeast Asian Nations) development”.
InnoTech Summit 2019
Shanghai Cooperation India This is the first time India will be hosting
Organisation(SCO) 19th heads of the meeting after its admission into SCO
government council meet 2020 as a member in 2017.
27th Conference of Central and Kolkata, West Bengal The theme of this conference was
State Statistical Organizations “Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”.
NuGen Mobility Summit Manesar, Haryana The purpose of the event is to provide
innovative ideas and experience on
Automotive technologies. Click here to
Read More
2nd ‘No money for terror Melbourne, Australia 3rd ‘No Money for Terror’ Conference will
conference 2019’ be organized in India in 2020.
5th International Conference on Mysuru, Karnataka Theme- ‘Yoga for Heart Care’.
Yoga 2019
Innovation for Defence New Delhi Defence Minister Rajnath Singh was the
Excellence (iDEX) conference Chief Guest of the event. Launch of iDEX
Portal, launch of Defence India Startup
Challenge (DISC)-III
Sanskrit Bharati Vishwa New Delhi First of its kind global conference on the
Sammelan Sanskrit language.
India-ASEAN (Association of New Delhi Theme- “Today, Tomorrow, Together”
Southeast Asian Nations)
Business Summit 2019
8th edition of the International New Delhi India for the first time hosted the
Conference on Agricultural conference. The Chief guest of the event
Statistics (ICAS-VIII) will be Bill Gates (original name William
Henry Gates III).
Theme - “Statistics for Transformation of
Agriculture to Achieve the Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs)”.
21st (XXI) annual conference of New Delhi Theme - “Addiction in a Rapidly Changing
the International Society of World“.
Addiction Medicine (ISAM)
2nd edition of the South Asia New Delhi The summit was organised by WCD &
Safety Summit 2019 Facebook to increase digital literacy in
India .
World Conference on Access to New Delhi Theme “Achieving the SDGs (sustainable
Medical Products 2019 development goals) 2030”
40th UNESCO General Paris, France 1st Global Framework of Professional
Conference Teaching Standards by Education
International (EI) and UNESCO.Union
Minister of Human Resource and
Development(MHRD) Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal
Nishank attended the conference from India.
Click here to read more.
8th WATEC (Water Technology Tel Aviv, Israel Theme “Water Stewardship and Innovation –
and Environment Control ) driving global leadership in the responsible
Conference 2019 planning management, and protection of
water”. Union Minister of Jal Shakti, Shri
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat addressed the
conference.
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OCTOBER
5th edition of World Coffee Bengaluru, Karnataka Theme ‘sustainably through
Conference (WCC) & Expo 2020 consumption’
7th edition of C40 world mayors Copenhagen, Denmark Kolkata state Government has received
Summit 2019 the prestigious “6th C40 Cities Bloomberg
Philanthropies Awards 2019
3rd “Global Ayurveda Summit” Kochi, Kerala Theme- ‘Mainstreaming Ayurveda
through Startups, Innovation and
Branding’ & organised by Confederation
of Indian Industry (CII).
United Nations (UN) Climate Madrid, Spain Previously this conference was to be held
Change Conference (also known in Chile but in view of the anti-
as Conference of the Parties government protest in Santiago, there
(COP) 25 climate summit 2019) will no longer conference held in Chile.
2nd India-China Informal Mahabalipuram, Tamil 2020: Year of India-China Cultural and
Summit Nadu People to People Exchanges.Click here to
more.
Drone Innovators Network New Delhi It is organized by the World Economic
Summit-2019 Forum(WEF) under the aegis of the
Ministry of Civil Aviation.
33rd edition of the India New Delhi Theme-‘Innovating for India:
Economic Summit Strengthening South Asia, Impacting the
World‘.It was co-chaired by the
Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh
Hasina co-chaired along with India’s
Sania Mirza.
‘India Sports Summit- Fitness: New Delhi It was organised by the Confederation of
$10 Billion Opportunity’ Indian Industry (CII), Union Ministry of
Youth Affairs & Sports (MYAS),
Sportscom, and Sportskeeda.
3rd Edition of India Mobile New Delhi Theme “Imagine: a new Connected world;
Congress (IMC) 2019 Intelligent. Immersive. Inventive”
4th ASEAN-India Business Manila, Philippines
Summit for 2019
46th G7 Economic Summit for Miami, Florida, United G7 Countries - Canada, France, Germany,
2020 States Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom (UK) and
the United States.
91st International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) General Assembly in 2022 will be hosted by
India.
SEPTEMBER
2019 UNICEF South Asian Colombo city, Srilanka United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Parliamentarian Conference on along with the parliament of Srilanka
Children Rights Convention conducted the conference. This is the 3rd
convention conducted by UNICEF with
parliamentarians for children where the
meeting aims to discuss the issues faced by
children and on the challenges to improve the
child rights.
4th edition of Indian Ocean Maldives The theme “Securing the Indian Ocean
Conference (IOC) 2019 Region: Traditional and Non-Traditional
Challenges”.External Affairs Minister (EAM)
of India, Dr. S. Jaishankar visited Maldives to
address the conference.
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National conference on 2019 New Delhi, Delhi During the conference Shri Naidu,
‘India-Africa Partnership in a released two books on Indian Council of
Changing Global Order– World Affairs (ICWA) named “Shakti Ki
Priorities, Prospects and Manyata- Samyukta Rashtra Suraksha
Challenges’ Parishad” written by Dilip Sinha and
“Bharat Aur European Sangh: Ek
Antarangik Drishtikon” by Bhaswati
Mukherjee.
First National Conference on New Delhi The Director of Central Bureau of
Cyber Crime Investigation and Investigation (CBI) Rishi Kumar Shukla
Cyber Forensics inaugurated the conference at the CBI
headquarters.
First conference on military New Delhi The aim of the conference was to share
medicine for Shanghai the best medicinal practice and render
Cooperation Organization (SCO) medical support in military field and to
member countries overcome common challenges involved.
74th edition of United Nations New York, United It was hosted/convened by the UN
(UN) Climate Action Summit States Secretary-General António Guterres in
2019 order to meet the urgent need to address
climate change; to achieve the goals of the
Paris Agreement and to galvanize action
that can limit climate change to 2°C and
even to 1.5°C. The theme of this summit
was "Climate Action Summit 2019: A Race
We Can Win. A Race We Must Win". Read
full details here: Overview of United
Nations Climate Action Summit 2019
held at UN Headquarters in New York,
United States
63rd Annual Regular Session of Vienna, Austria The Indian delegation to the conference
the International Atomic Energy was led by Dr. K N Vyas, Chairman of the
Agency (IAEA) General Atomic Energy Commission(AEC) and
Conference Secretary of the Department of Atomic
Energy(DEA). Read full details here: 5
Days Long 63rd General Conference Of
IAEA Held In Vienna, Austria
AUGUST
22nd National Conference on e- Shillong, Meghalaya The theme of this Conference was “Digital
Governance (NCeG) 2019 India: Success to Excellence”. This is the
first-ever e-Conference in the northeast
region in Shillong, Meghalaya.
45th G7 Summit for the year Biarritz, France PM addressed G7 Summit’s session on
2019 ‘Biodiversity, Oceans, Climate.’ He
highlighted India’s large scale efforts
towards eliminating single use plastic,
conserving water, harnessing solar
energy and protecting flora and fauna for
a sustainable future.The next G7 Summit
(46th) for the year 2020 will be held in
the United States.
Regional Conference on Good Jaipur, Rajasthan It was launched by Department of
Governance Administrative Reforms and Public
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Grievances (DARPG) with the Department

of Administrative Reforms, Government
of Rajasthan and the Harish Chandra
Mathur Rajasthan State Institute of Public
Administration (HCMRIPA). The theme of
the conference for 2019 is “Strengthening
State Institute of Public Administration”.
18th Conference of the Parties Geneva, Switzerland 183 CITES member nations participated
(CoP18) of Convention on in the latest meeting held in Geneva. Click
International Trade in here to read more
Endangered Species of Wild
Fauna and Flora (CITES)
National Conference of Tourism New Delhi, Delhi It was organised by the Union Ministry of
Ministers Tourism was held in New Delhi.Three
new MoUs and five new Letters of Intent
(LoIs) to the prospective ‘Monument
Mitras’ were handed over. Read full
details here: National Conference Of
Tourism Ministers Organised By The
Tourism Ministry In New Delhi
India Economic Summit 2019 New Delhi, Delhi World Economic Forum (WEF) in
collaboration with CII will organize 2-day
India Economic Summit 2019 scheduled
to be held in New Delhi with the aim of
promoting strong collaboration between
South Asia and ASEAN nations with
theme 'Innovating for India:
Strengthening South Asia, Impacting the
World'.Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina and
tennis star Sania Mirza will be among co-
chairs for India Economic Summit.
First World Youth Conference New Delhi, Delhi The president addressed the event
on kindness celebrating the 150th birth anniversary of
Mahatma Gandhi on the theme
'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam: Gandhi for the
Contemporary World’.
12th edition of India security New Delhi, Delhi It is organised by the Associated
summit Chambers of Commerce and Industry of
India (ASSOCHAM) was held in New
Delhi. The theme for the year 2019 is
“Towards New National Cyber Security
Strategy”.
Global Investors Summit 2019 Srinagar, Jammu and The Confederation of Indian Industries
Kashmir(J&K) (CII) will be the national partner for the
investor's summit, which has signed an
MoU(Memorandum of understanding)
with Jammu and Kashmir Trade
Promotion Organisation (JKTPO).
JULY
14th Session of the Conference Greater Noida, Uttar
of the Parties (COP) of the Pradesh, India
United Nations Convention to
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First Global Conference for London, UK The conference was structured around 4
Media Freedom 2019 themes: protection and prosecution,
impunity, national frameworks & legislation,
building trust in media and countering
disinformation and media sustainability.
5th International Dharma- Rajgir, Bihar The theme of “Sat-Chit-Ananda & Nirvana
Dhamma conference in Dharma-Dhamma Traditions”.
India-Nepal Logistics Summit Kathmandu, Nepal The theme of the summit was
“Transforming Logistics Landscape”.
COMMITTEES & MEETING IN NEWS

Name of Meeting/Committee Place Facts about the summit /conference
MEETINGS HELD
DECEMBER
1st meeting of National Ganga Kanpur, Uttar PM Modi chaired the meeting. Rs. 20,000
Council Pradesh(UP) crores will be provided for the period
2015-20 to 5 states( Uttarakhand, Uttar
Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, and West
Bengal).Click here to read more
6th Indian Ocean Dialogue and New Delhi, Delhi Indian Ocean Dialogue Theme: “Indo-
the 11th edition of the Delhi Pacific: Re-imagining the Indian Ocean
dialogue through an Expanded Geography”. Delhi
Dialogue Theme: “Advancing Partnership
in Indo-Pacific”. Gulf states and Africa
were included in Indo-Pacific policy.
6th Joint Commission Meeting New Delhi, Delhi It signed 3MoU.
(JCM) between India and i.Cooperation between the election
Maldives commissions of India and Maldives.
ii. Cooperation between their Financial
Intelligence Units(FIU) of India and
Maldives.
iii. Instrument of Ratification(also MoU)
for the treaty on mutual legal assistance
in criminal matters of India and Maldives.
38th Goods and Services Tax New Delhi, Delhi Union Minister for Finance & Corporate
(GST) Council Meeting Affairs Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman chaired
the Meeting. Tax on lottery- 28%,18 %
tax on woven and non-woven bags..It will
be effective from March 2020.Click here
to read more.
7th edition of the OPEC Vienna, Austria Oil producing countries decided to cut oil
(Organization of the Petroleum production by 500,000 barrels per day
Exporting Countries) and non- with effect from January 1, 2020.
OPEC Ministerial Meeting
NOVEMBER
19th Indian Ocean Rim Abu Dhabi, United The theme of this meeting was
Association (IORA) Council of Arab Emirates (UAE) “Promoting a Shared Destiny and Path to
Ministers (COM) Meeting Prosperity in the Indian Ocean”. UAE
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assumed the IORA’s presidency for 2019-

2021.Click here to read more.
6th edition of the ASEAN Bangkok, Thailand The theme was “Sustainable Security”.
Defence Ministers’ Meeting- Defence Minister Rajnath Singh attended
Plus (ADMM-Plus) the meeting from Indian Side.
9th BRICS trade ministers Brasilia, Brazil Piyush Goyal attended the meeting. MoU
meeting was signed between all the 5 BRICS
(Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa)
countries on trade and investment
promotion.
50th edition of the World Davos-Klosters, The theme of the forum is fixed as
Economic Forum(WEF) Switzerland ‘Stakeholders for a Cohesive and
Sustainable World.’
15th governing council meeting Dhaka, Bangladesh Shri Prakash Javadekar participated in
(GCM) of the South Asia the meeting.Click here to read more.
Cooperative Environment
Programme 2019 (SACEP)
Rising Himachal: Global Dharamshala, The partner country for the event was
Investor’s Meet 2019 Himachal Pradesh United Arab Emirates (UAE).
The Brand Ambassador for Investors’
Meet was Bollywood actress Yami
Gautam.Click here to read more.
G20 (or Group of 20) foreign Nagoya, Japan External Affairs Minister(EAM)
ministers meeting 2019 Subrahmanyam Jaishankar attended the
2-day Meeting.Click here to read more.
10th Meeting of the Heads of New Delhi Dealing with Prevention and Elimination
Departments of Member-States of Emergency Situations
of SCO (Shanghai Cooperation
Organization)
National Capital Region(NCR) - NewDelhi Theme - “Planning for Tomorrow’s
2041 Greatest Capital Region”
1st edition of the ‘BIMSTEC Visakhapatnam, 3 MoU were signed between Ranong Port
Ports’ Conclave’ Andhra Pradesh(AP) (Port Authority of Thailand) and the Port
Trusts of Chennai, Visakhapatnam and
Kolkata for strengthening the port
connectivity which is one of the key
objectives of the BIMSTEC member
countries.Click here to read more.
OCTOBER
XVIII (18th) summit of heads of Baku, Azerbaijan Theme-“Upholding the Bandung
state and government of the Principles to ensure concerted and
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) adequate response to the challenges of
the contemporary world.”Click here to
read more.
9th Regional Comprehensive Bangkok, Thailand Union Minister of Commerce & Industry
Economic Partnership (RCEP) and Railways, Mr Piyush Goyal
Intersessional Ministerial represented India at the meet.
Meeting for 2019
29th BASIC (Brazil, South Beijing, China India’s offer to host the 30th BASIC
Africa, India, China)ministerial ministerial meeting was welcomed.Click
meet on climate change here to read more.
Goa Maritime Conclave (GMC) Goa Theme “Common Maritime Priorities in
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2019 IOR and need for Regional Maritime

Strategy”
5th World Parliament of Maharashtra(Pune) Theme - ‘Role of Science, Religion and
Science, Religion and Philosophy for World Peace and well-
Philosophy 2019 being of Mankind’.It is organised by MIT
(Maharashtra Institute of Technology)
World Peace University in association
with World Peace Centre.
11th Edition of Nuclear Energy New Delhi Theme- “Economics of Nuclear Power-
Conclave 2019 Innovation towards Safer & Cost Effective
Technologies”. It was organized by India
Energy Forum (IEF). Click here to read
more
1st edition of “Global Bio-India New Delhi Shri Harsh Vardhan released “Guidelines
2019” Summit for Evaluation of Nano pharmaceuticals
in India” for safe and efficient assessment
of novel nano-formulations.
SEPTEMBER
24th Edition of World Energy Abu Dhabi, United Under the theme “Energy for Prosperity”.
Congress (WEC) for 2019 Arab Emirates (UAE) The triennial event is a global flagship
event of World Energy Council.
4th General Assembly of the Bengaluru, Karnataka ♦ India took over as A-WEB’s Chair for
Association of World Election the 2019-21 term.
Bodies (A-WEB) for the year ♦ An International Conference on
2019 “Initiatives and Challenges of Social
Media and Information Technology in
Elections” held in Bengaluru.
♦ Sunil Arora assumed the Chairmanship
of Association of World Election Bodies
(AWEB) for the term 2019-21. India
took over the Chair from Romania.
50th Edition of World Davos-Klosters, The Chief Minister of Punjab Captain
Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Switzerland Amarinder Singh will be attending the
Meeting for 2020 meeting as he has accepted the invitation
of WEF president Borge Brende which
was issued on behalf of the Forum Board
of Trustees.
‘72nd Session of the WHO New Delhi Union Minister of Health and Family
Regional Committee for South- Welfare(MoHFW) Dr. Harsh Vardhan
East Asia’ inaugurated the ‘Committee and was also
unanimously elected as the chair of the
72nd Session of the WHO(World Health
Organisation) Regional Committee for
South-East Asia.This is the second time
that India is hosting this session and the
previous one was also hosted by India in
New Delhi.Click here to read more.
6th World Congress on Rural New Delhi Theme-“Rural and Agricultural Finance:
and Agricultural Critical Input to achieve Inclusive and
Finance(WCRAF) Sustainable Development”.
37th Good and Service Panaji, Goa Meeting held under the Chairmanship of
Tax (GST) Council Meeting Nirmala Sitharaman on September 20,
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2019. It was attended by Union Minister

of State for Finance & Corporate Affairs
Shri Anurag Thakur, Chief Minister of Goa
Shri Pramod Sawant, Finance Ministers of
States & Union territories (UTs) and
senior officers of the Ministry of Finance.
Click here to read more
21st session of the Food and Panaji, Goa It was the 2nd session of the Coordinating
Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Committee in Asia, organized by the Food
and World Health Organisation Safety and Standards Authority of India
(WHO) Coordinating in collaboration with the WHO and FAO
Committee of Asia for 2019 of UN.
AUGUST
ASEAN(Association of Bangkok, Thailand
Southeast Asian Nations )-India
Ministerial Meeting 2019
8th Inter-Sessional Ministerial Beijing, China It was held before the 7th RCEP
Meeting of Regional ministerial meet which will be convened
Comprehensive Economic in Bangkok, Thailand on September 2019.
Partnership (RCEP) 2019 In this meeting, all partner countries
agreed to finalize trading deal
negotiations. Click here to read more.
India and China Navy Joint Beijing, China In order to improve military to military
Working Group (JWG) cooperation, India and China reviewed
the situation on the border and agreed on
more port calls by each side’s Navies at a
meeting of the Joint Working Group
(JWG) between the Defence Ministries in
Beijing, China.
4th edition of Internet of Things Bengaluru, Karnataka The theme of 'Mainstreaming the Internet of
(IoT) India Congress 2019 Things'. The 2-day Congress was organized
by Institution of Engineering and Technology
(IET) IoT Panel with a footfall of over1600
participants and about 70 speakers from
over 6 countries.
4th United States-India California, U.S. The Indian delegation was led jointly by
Maritime Security Dialogue Indra Mani Pandey, Additional Secretary
(D&ISA), Ministry of External Affairs and
Smt. Richa Misra, Joint Secretary (Navy),
Ministry of Defence. Both sides exchanged
their views on maritime developments in the
Indo-Pacific region.
National Conference on Chennai, Tamil Nadu It was inaugurated by Shripad Yesso Naik,
Varmam Science Union Minister of State (Independent
Charge) in the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga &
Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and
Homoeopathy (AYUSH).
30th Pro-Active Governance New Delhi It was chaired by Prime Minister
and Timely Implementation Narendra Modi. On his 30th interaction,
(PRAGATI) platform many issues were reviewed. This was the
first meeting of PRAGATI chaired by the
Prime Minister in his second term in
office. Grievances under Pradhan Mantri
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Awas Yojana (Urban) was reviewed and

the Prime Minister directed all the
officers to achieve the target of ‘housing
for all by 2022’. Click here to read
more.
International dialogue on New Delhi Union Minister of Commerce & Industry
South-South and Triangular and Railways, Shri PiyushGoyal
Cooperation addressed the International dialogue on
South-South and Triangular Cooperation
that was held in New Delhi. It was
organised by Research and Information
System (RIS) and the United Nations
Office for South-South
Cooperation(UNOSSC).
5th BRICS Minister of Sao Paulo, Brazil The Indian delegation was led by Union
Environment Meeting Minister of Environment, Forest and
Climate Change, Shri Prakash Javadekar.
The participated BRICS Ministers praised
the Indian Presidency of the 14th session
of the CoP of the United Nations
Convention to Combat Desertification.
Read full details here: 5th Meeting Of
BRICS Minister Of Environment Held
In Sao Paulo, Brazil
28th session of BASIC (Brazil, Sao Paulo, Brazil Shri Prakash Javadekar represented
South Africa, India, and China) India.This comes ahead of United Nations
Ministerial meeting 2019 on Framework for Climate Change (COP-25)
Climate Change meet scheduled to be held in Santiago,
Chile from 2 – 13 December 2019. Read
full details here: 28th BASIC Ministerial
Meeting 2019 On Climate Change Held
In Sao Paulo, Brazil
15th India-US Defence Policy Washington, United Officials of both countries agreed to follow a
Group meeting, 2019 on States policy environment conducive to cooperation
defence issues between the Defence industry and start-ups
in both countries. Indian side was led by
Sanjay Mitra, defence secretary & US was led
by John Rood for policy.
JULY
Ministerial Meeting of the Caracas, Venezuela The theme of the meeting is “Promotion and
Coordinating Bureau of the Consolidation of Peace through Respect for
Non-Aligned Movement (Co- International Law”. India was represented by
BNAM) Syed Akbaruddin.
44th session of the World City of Fuzhou, China It was decided during the 43rd session of the
Heritage Committee in 2020 World Heritage Committee in Baku,
Azerbaijan.
13th edition of the annual Global Hyderabad Vice President of India, Shri Venkaiah
Healthcare Summit (GHS) Naidu inaugurated the summit.
19th Commonwealth Foreign London, United It was chaired by UK Foreign Secretary
Affairs Ministers’ Meeting Kingdom (UK) Jeremy Hunt as part of Britain’s term as
(CFAMM) for the year 2019 the current Chair-in-Office of the
Commonwealth.Dr. S Jaishankar
addressed the meeting behalf of India.
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India – Association of Southeast New Delhi For informal consultation on Regional

Asian Nations (ASEAN) Troika Comprehensive Economic Partnership
Trade Ministers’ Meeting
2nd India-Russia Strategic New Delhi It was chaired by Rajiv Kumar, Vice-
Economic Dialogue (IRSED) Chairman of India’s think tank, NITI Aayog,
2019 and Russia’s Deputy Minister of Economic
Development, Timur Maksimov.
5th India-EU High Level New Delhi It was co-chaired by Mr. Sanjiv Arora,
Dialogue on Migration and Secretary (Consular, Passport & Visa and
Mobility (HLDMM) Overseas Indian Affairs) and Ms. Paraskevi
Michou, Director General [Migration and
Home Affairs], European Commission.
36th Goods & Service Tax (GST) New Delhi The meeting was chaired Smt. Nirmala
Council Meeting Sitharaman. The GST rate on all Electric
Vehicles (EVs) was reduced from 12% to 5%.
The GST rate on charger or charging stations
for EVs was reduced from 18% to 5%. Hiring
of electric buses (of carrying capacity of more
than 12 passengers) by local authorities was
exempted from GST.Click here to read
more.
BRICS Foreign Ministers Rio De Janeiro, Brazil India was represented by Gen. (retd) VK
Meeting 2019 Singh who is the Union Minister of State
for Road Transport and Highways.Click
here to read more.
G20 Ministerial meeting on Tsukuba city, Ibaraki It is one of the eight Ministerial Meetings.
Trade and Digital Economy Prefecture, Japan The Indian delegation for G20 Ministerial
Meeting was led by the Union Minister of
Commerce and Industry &
Railways,Piyush Goyal.Click here to
read more.
COMMITTEES FORMED
Name of the Committee Head Facts about the Committee
/Organization which formed
the committee
DECEMBER
Hyderabad Encounter V S Sirpurkar 3-member inquiry commission consists
commission by Supreme Court of Rekha Sondur Baldota and
(SC) Devarayapuram Ramasamy Karthikeyan
The commission will inquire into the
encounter killing of the four accused
involvedin the Hyderabad(Telangana)
gang-rape and murder case of a
veterinarian. The report has to be
submitted to the SC within 6 months.
Working group to study loss T. L. Alamelu 10-member committee will make
prevention in insurance biz by recommendations for loss prevention &
IRDAI minimization in the general insurance
industry.
Panel to speed up rape trials by The Supreme Court (SC) has formed two-
Supreme Court (SC) Judge Committee to speed up the disposal
process of rape cases across the country,
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comprising Justice Subhash Reddy and

Justice MR Shah.
Committee on Investor Abraham Koshy It comprises of 8-member. The panel has
Protection and Education Fund been tasked to suggest activities related
(IPEF) by SEBI to the education and protection of
investors.Click here to Read More
Economic Statistics Committee Pronab Sen(India’s The committee consists of 28 members to
by Ministry of Statistics and first chief statistician) develop methodologies in conducting
Programme surveys on the industry, services sector
Implementation(MOSPI) and employment in place of multiple
panels on these issues.
NOVEMBER
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Tapan Ray Recommends tighter norms for Core
forms Committee to tighter Investment Companies.The current asset
norms for Core Investment size of Rs.100 crore and access to public
Companies funds for registration as CIC should be
retained.
Centre has formed a panel for Atul Karwal 7 member panel will implement union home
100 days homestay to CAPF minister Amit Shah’s order of implementing
jawans 100 days homestay of the CAPF(Central
Armed Police Forces) jawans.
Union Ministry of water Mihir Shah To draft a new National Water Policy
resources (MoWR) forms (NWP)
committee on National Water
Policy
Development Council for Guruprasad Council comprises of 23 –member. The
Bicycle by Department for Mohapatra (Secretary Council will be active for 2 years, will be
Promotion of Industry and DPIIT) responsible for planning in design,
Internal Trade (DPIIT) engineering and manufacturing of lighter,
smarter, value added, safe and faster
premium bicycles.
Company Law Committee by Injeti Srinivas The 11-member committee submitted its
Ministry of Corporate Affairs report to Nirmala Sitharaman.Click here
to read more.
Committee to review the draft Mukundakam Sharma Committee consists of 13-member expert
of the National Sports code committee.They will review the draft of the
National Code for Good Governance in
Sports, 2017. .Click here to Read More
Steering committee of the Code Harun Rashid Khan(1st CRL is formed to safeguard their loan asset
for Responsible Lending (CRL) Chairman) by preventing over-leveraging of micro
in micro-credit borrowers.Members of the steering
committee include Harsh Shrivastava of
MFIN (Microfinance Institutions Network), P
Satish of Sa-Dhan, Srinivas Bonam of
IndusInd Bank and Sonia Krishnankutty of
L&T Finance among others.
OCTOBER
Government constitutes Guruprasad To prepare contours of new industrial
working group to prepare Mohapatra policy to make India a manufacturing
contours of new industrial hub.It will be the third industrial policy
policy after the first in 1956 and the second in
1991. It will replace the Industrial Policy
of 1991.
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Insurance Regulatory and T.L. Alamelu The panel will review the product
Development Authority of India structure of title insurance, which which
(IRDAI) forms working group covers any loss caused due to a defect in
(WG) to review the product the ‘title’ of the property arising out of
structure of title insurance third-party challenges. WG will submit its
report in 12 weeks’ time from the date of
the order.
Centre forms inter-ministerial Mr. Ajay Bhushan To check money laundering activities. It
panel to check money Pandey is set up as per the powers conferred
laundering under Section 72A of the Prevention of
Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002.
Govt sets up panel to resolve Shri Krishnaswamy To resolve the difference between the
MeitY and Niti fight over AI Vijay Raghavan Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) and
govt. think tank National Institution for
Transforming India(NITI) Aayog over the
implementation of the ambitious
Artificial Intelligence (AI) mission.
IRDAI (Insurance Regulatory S Sadagopan 8-member panel formed to to promote
and Development Authority of innovative ideas to foster growth in the
India), has formed a panel to insurance sector & will evaluate
evaluate applications filed applications filed under the Regulatory
under the Regulatory Sandbox Sandbox (RS).
Union government formed a Mr Rajiv Gauba To examine the financial stress of the
Committee of Secretaries (CoS) telecom sector faced by service providers
on telecom sector such as Bharti Airtel and Vodafone-Idea
Ltd.
Centre High-Level Advisory Surjit Bhalla The panel suggests to form easier entry
Group (HLAG) on trade and to foreign investors.Click here to read
policy the entire recommendation by the
panel.
SEPTEMBER
Ministry of Finance sets up Shri Atanu The Committee submitted its final report
Panel on Fintech related issues Chakraborty “‘Steering Committee on Fintech related
issues 2019 ” to the Finance and Corporate
Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in New
Delhi.Click here to read more abt the
committee
6-member taskforce on TN Manoharan The Panel has submitted its report to RBI
secondary market for corporate Governor Shaktikanta Das. It recommended
loans easing rules around the securitization of loan
assets by suggesting to consider single loan
securitization to incentivize investors to
acquire loans through the secondary market
mechanism.Click here to read the whole
recommendation suggested by the panel
Govt sets up committee to look Sanjay Mitra 3-member panel will look into assets,
into assets, liabilities of JK liabilities of Jammu and Kashmir(J&K)
between two successor Union territories(UT)
J&K and Ladakh.The members are Arun
Goyal & Giriraj Prasad Gupta.
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RBI forms the Panel for the Harsh Vardhan The panel has submitted its report to the
development of housing finance governor of the Reserve Bank of India
securitisation market (RBI) Shaktikanta Das.Click here to read
more.
Govt forms Panel of ministers from Nirmala Sitharaman It will study the proposal of Ministry of
commerce, health, agriculture, Health, Government of India(GoI) to ban
chemicals and petrochemicals, and the production and import of e-
food processing departments cigarettes, through an ordinance.
IRDAI (Insurance Regulatory Atul Sahai 9-member panel will review its three-
and Development Authority of year old guidelines (set up in 2016) on
India) has set up a panel to trade credit insurance due to the
revisit 3-yr old trade credit changing market requirements.It would
insurance guidelines study the scope of changes and suggest
suitable amendments to be added or
changed to the guidelines based on
Terms of Reference(ToR) after complete
examination on the current guidelines.
Corporate affairs ministry Injeti Srinivas 11- member committee will promote the
constituted the company law ease of living and by providing Ease of
committee Doing Business to the companies abiding
the law decided to be set up, a company
law committee to look into the issues
pertaining to the implementation of the
Companies Act, 2013 and the Limited
Liability Partnership Act, 2008.
Securities and Exchange Board Ishaat Hussain To suggest possible measures and
of India(SEBI) has formed regulations in creating the ‘social stock
committee to suggest structure exchanges’. The formation of this
and norms for social stock
exchanges
47th Central Sanctioning and Durga Shanker Mishra The Committee approved 630 proposals
Monitoring Committee (CSMC) from participating states for the
construction of 1.23 lakh houses with an
overall investment of Rs. 4,988 cr under
the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana- Urban
(PMAY-U). With this, cumulative
sanctions of houses under PMAY(U)
crossed 90 lakh houses against the
validated demand of 1.12 crore. The
union government will provide the
assistance worth Rs. 1,805 cr.
Government reconstitutes EAC-PM till 2021
• Union Government reconstituted the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM)
for a period of 2 years with effect from September 26, 2019. Dr. Bibek Debroy will continue as
Chairman and Mr Ratan P. Watal will continue as the Member Secretary.Dr Sajjid Chinoy, Indian
economist at JP Morgan is the new part-time member and Ashima Goel of Indira Gandhi Institute of
Development Research (IGIDR) will continue to be the Part-Time Member.
AUGUST
Government forms panel of Amit Shah 4-member panel will propose action
ministers to combat mob against mob lynching. The panel was
violence and lynchings headed by then Home minister Rajnath
Singh when it was formed.
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Ministry of Statistics and 8-member committee will recommend

Programme Implementation operational level modifications for
(MoSPI) constituted an restructuring the National Statistical
committee for restructuring Office (NSO). NSO will be chaired by
NSO Pravin Srivastava, the chief statistician,
and MoSPI secretary.
Government of India Three member committee will resolve
constituted committee to dispute between the Indian Railways and
resolve dispute between SAIL Steel Authority of India regarding issues
and Railways related to the quantity and supply of
high-quality steel rails. Click here to
read more
High level steering committee Injeti Srinivas The committee has recommended to
on Corporate Social make CSR expenditure tax-deductible
Responsibility (CSR) and that non-compliance of CSR norms be
treated as a civil offence. The committee
presented its recommendations to
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.
Ministry of Civil Aviation The committee is constituted to
(MoCA) forms panel to rationalise additional taxes that airlines
rationalise additional taxes on have to pay while uplifting Air Turbine
ATF Fuel (ATF) at airports across India.
Rajnath Singh forms panel to Apurva Chandra 12-member high-level committee will
review Defence Procurement revise and align the procedure of Defence
Procedure procurement with the aim of
strengthening the 'Make in India'
initiative.Click here to read more.
National Green Tribunal(NGT) Justice Adarsh Kumar To look into the issues of illegal sand
has formed a committee to look Goel mining in the Yamuna river and sought a
illegal sand mining in the report within a month. The panel consists
Yamuna of Delhi district magistrate, Delhi
Pollution Control Committee (DPCC), and
Central Pollution Control Board.
Group of experts panel on Akhilesh Ranjan The committee submitted a report to
replacing I-T Act with DTC Nirmala Sitharaman(Finance Minister),
to replace the Income Tax Act with a new
Direct Tax Code(DTC).Click here to read
more.
National Green Tribunal (NGT) S P Garg The committee suggests that all water
committee to conserve water bodies in Delhi must be provided with
bodies in Delhi Unique Identification Numbers (UID)
after properly demarcating them and
mapping them on GPS (Global Positioning
System) platforms in order to conserve
them.
Inter-State Council was reconstituted with Prime Minister Narendra Modi as its chairman and 6
Union ministers and chief ministers as members.
JULY
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Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Aruna Sundararajan To look into the revival plans for Telecom
Prasad forms panel for reviving sector which is under financial stress. It
Telecom Sector will review the issues in the sector and
promote Ease of Doing Business (EDB).
Prime Minister Narendra Modi Devendra Fadnavis For transforming Indian agriculture and
forms panel of CMs to raising farmers’ income. It will suggest
'transform Indian agriculture' policy measures, attract investments and
raise growth in food processing.
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Tapan Ray The Panel will review the regulatory and
forms panel to review supervisory framework for core
regulatory norms on core investment companies (CIC).
investment firms
SC constituted a high powered To frame an emergency plan to prevent
committee to prevent extinction the extinction of Great Indian Bustard,
of Indian birds Lesser Florican. The 3 member panel
comprises Deepak Apte, Dr. Asad R
Rahmani and Dr. Dhananjai Mohan.
Union Government Amit Shah It comprises of 3 other ministers namely
reconstituted the Group of finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman,
Ministers (GoM) called the Air commerce, and railway minister Piyush
India Specific Alternative Goyal and civil aviation minister Hardeep
Mechanism (AISAM) on Air Singh Puri.
India disinvestment
Government sets up Inter- Subhash Chandra Garg Recommended that private
Ministerial committee on cryptocurrencies be banned completely
virtual currency in India except for the one’s issue by the
state and a fine of up to 250 million
rupees ($3.63 million) and imprisonment
for up to 10 years for anyone who mines,
generates, holds, sells, transfers or issues
cryptocurrency.
Union Government has Amit Shah To examine frameworks for dealing with
reconstituted a Group of matters of sexual harassment of women
Ministers (GoM) on sexual at the workplace
harassment at workplace
MOU’s & AGREEMENTS

MOU's with Other Country
MoU between Field
DECEMBER
India and Germany For cooperation on strategic projects in the field of Railways
India and Maldives For cooperation in the field of electoral management and
administration.
India & Japan Cooperation in the steel sector, In the field of power supply
India and Brazil Social Security.
India & Vietnam For cooperation in education, scientific research
India and Brazil On Bioenergy Cooperation.
India and Saudi Arabia For Security Cooperation.
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India & Bangladesh On cooperation in Youth matters

India & Uzbekistan On cooperation in combating transnational organized crime and
International terrorism
India & Switzerland For Signing of Protocol to amend the Air Services Agreement
NOVEMBER
India and Bangladesh For withdrawal of 1.82 cusec of water from Feni River by India
India and Paraguay Tourism
India and Brazil Health and medicine & Protocol convention on tax evasion
India and Switzerland Climate change and environment
India and Guinea Renewable energy
India and Finland For strengthening cooperation in the field of Tourism
India and Comoros Cooperation in the field of Health and Medicine
India and Uzbekistan Security Cooperation
India and Saudi Arabia For establishment of Strategic Partnership Council
India and Myanmar Bilateral cooperation for prevention of trafficking in persons,
rescue, recovery, repatriation and reintegration of victims of
trafficking.
India and Chile For the avoidance of double taxation .
OCTOBER
India and St. Vincent & the In the field of Traditional Systems of Medicine
Grenadines
India and America Agreement on Science and Technology
India and Kuwait In the field of accounting, finance and audit knowledge base
AUGUST
India and Maldives On Training and Capacity Building Programme for Maldivian
Civil Servants was operationalised after the discussions held
between the senior officials of the Department of Administrative
Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG), the National Centre for
Good Governance (NCGG) and the Maldives Civil Service
Commission in a ceremony held at the Civil Services Commission
of Maldives at Male, Maldives. Read full details here: MoU
Between India & Maldives On Training And Capacity
Building Programme For Maldivian Civil Servants
Operationalised
India and Guinea In the Field of Traditional Systems of Medicine and Homeopathy
India and Peru In the field of Medicinal Plants
India and Gambia In the Field of Traditional Systems of Medicine
JULY
India and Maldives In the Health Sector
In the field of ferry services
India and Myanmar The MoU was signed in December 2017 under which now,India
handed over the 250 pre-fabricated houses for use of Refugees
returned from Bangladesh to Myanmar’s Rakhine State.
India and the USA In the areas of regenerative medicine and 3D bioprinting, new
technologies, exchange of scientific information and
technologies, and joint use of scientific infrastructure.
India and Bahrain On Cooperation in the Exploration and Uses of Outer Space
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MOU’S – States Wise

State MoU with Field/Purpose
DECEMBER
Tamil Nadu (TN) NABARD (National 1st tripartite Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) for
Bank for implementation of Fisheries and Aquaculture
Agriculture and Development Fund (FIDF). The total outlay of the fund is
Rural Rs. 7522.48 crores. Click here to Read More
Development) &
Department of
fisheries.
OCTOBER
Odisha United Nations For "drink from tap mission".
government Children's Fund
(UNICEF)
SEPTEMBER
Rajasthan UNESCO To further enhance music, art and craft forms, and other
intangible cultural heritage of the state. Read full details
here: UNESCO Ties Up With Rajasthan To Promote
State’s Intangible Cultural Heritage
Kerala & Regional Maldives To strengthen cancer care in the island nation by giving
Cancer Centre training to doctors. Maldivian minister Abdulla Ameen
(RCC) and Kerala’s health minister KK Shylaja signed the MoU
in presence of Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan.
AUGUST
Government of Government of Agreed to abjure the path of violence, join the
Tripura India (GoI) and mainstream and abide by the Constitution of India. It
Tripura National also decided to surrender its 88 cadres with their
Liberation Front of weapons.
Twipra (NLFT)
16 State Textile Ministry To take project Samarth– which is Scheme for Capacity
Governments Building In Textile Sector (SCBTS) to impart skill based
training to workers. Click here to read more.
MOU’s Between Organizations

Organization MoU with Field/Purpose
DECEMBER
Ministry of UNICEF ( United Launched “YuWaah- (Generation Unlimited India)”
Women and Child Nations Children’s
Development Fund )
(WCD)
Central Drugs Saudi Food and For Cooperation in the field of medical products
Standard Control Drug Authority regulations.
Organization (SFDA)
(CDSCO)
Indian Council of National Bank of To promote agriculture & farming systems research.
Agricultural Agriculture and
Research (ICAR) Rural Development
(NABARD)
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Council of National Centre for To establish a framework for promoting and supporting
Scientific & Scientific Research scientific and technological research by cooperation.
Industrial (CNRS), France
Research (CSIR),
India
Wipro NASSCOM To launch ‘Future Skills’ platform to train 10,000
(National students from over 20 engineering colleges in India
Association of
Software and
Services
Companies)
Securities and Astana Financial For mutual cooperation and technical assistance.
Exchange Board Services Authority
of India (SEBI) (AFSA)
Government of Flipkart For selling the products made by women self-help
India groups under Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana-National
Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM)
OCTOBER
National Health Google To strengthen Ayushman Bharat scheme.
Authority(NHA)
Makhanlal UNICEF (United To work together on child rights
Chaturvedi Nations Children’s
National Fund)
University of
Journalism and
Communication
SEPTEMBER
Google Ministry of For rolling out ‘Build for Digital India’ programme,
Electronics and which will provide engineering students with a platform
Information to develop market-ready, technology-based solutions
Technology(MeitY) that deals with key social challenges
Central Board of Microsoft To incorporate cloud-based technology in high school

Secondary teachers' capacity building programs and teaching. This
Education (CBSE) program, designed for teachers of 8th to 10th grade, will
be run in 10 cities across India from September 11,
2019
Confederation of Ministry of For facilitation of green initiatives in Indian Railways at

Indian Industries Railways New Delhi. Coffee Table Publications on Energy
(CII) Efficiency, GreenCo Rating (developed by CII) and Green
Buildings (including railway stations) were also
released during the signing ceremony. Read full details
here: Ministry Of Railways & Confederation Of
Indian Industries (CII) Sign MoU On Green
Initiatives
IBM Directorate To train trainers in Basic Artificial Intelligence (AI) will
(International General of Training be carried out. The program will be of one year duration
Business (DGT) division of and will have 14 instructors at 7 locations with over 200
Machines the Ministry of Skill workshops. Read full details here: Agreement Between
Corporation) Development & Skill India And IBM For Nationwide Train-The-
Entrepreneurship Trainer Program In AI
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Indian Space Defense Research To develop human-centric systems for the 'Gaganyaan'
Research and Development project.
Organization Organization
(ISRO) (DRDO)
Defence Research Central University To set up a processing center called “ Kalam Center for
and Development of Jammu (CUJ) Science and Technology (KCST)” at the university for
Organisation(DRD research purposes. The 'Kalam centre will have modern
O) day facilities & equipment will create a pool of research
scholars in these areas.
AUGUST
Reliance Jio Microsoft Announced a 10-year long-term strategic relationship to
Infocomm Limited Corporation accelerate the digital transformation of the Indian
economy and society.
Common Service Ministry of To turn all 2.5 lakh gram panchayats into ‘digital
Centre e- Panchayati Raj panchayats’
Governance (MoPR )
Services India
Limited, a Special
Purpose Vehicle
Indian Army's Tata Realty To provide quality housing to army personnel. By this
Army Welfare housing MoU, the Indian army can now take over dwelling units
Housing in 13 'Ready to Move in’ projects of Tata Realty pan
Organisation India.
(AWHO)
National Institute Shri Mata Vaishno To work jointly to accelerate, expand and achieve the
of Solar Energy Devi University objective of National Solar Mission through training
(NISE) (SMVDU) programmes.
Department of National AIDS The MoU was signed including inclusion of target
Social Control groups of NACO and National Action Plan for Drug
Justice (DoSJ&E), Organization Demand Reduction (NAPDDR) in the programmes of
Ministry of Social (NACO), under the NAPDDR & NACO for awareness generation. Read full
Justice and Ministry of Health details here: Department of Social Justice &
Empowerment and Family Welfare Empowerment and National AIDS Control
(MoSJ&E) (MoH&FW) Organization signed an MoU
India Indian Navy (IN) The MoU was signed to hand over Cyclone Detection
Meteorological Radar(CDR) building by the IMD to the Indian Navy(IN)
Department(IMD) for meteorological purposes. The MoU was signed in
presence of Rear Admiral RJ Nadkarni, Chief of Staff,
Southern Naval Command (SNC) and Dr. D.Pradhan,
Scientist ‘G’, Additional Director General(DG) of
Meteorology (Instruments), IMD, Delhi.
Microsoft Indian School of To set up an AI Digital Lab powered by PlatiFi
Business (ISB) technologies (a Microsoft partner) at B School's campus
Hyderabad, Telangana to study issues that are relevant
for business and public policy.
Government e Small Industries To benefit Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Marketplace Development Bank (MSMEs), women entrepreneurs, Self Help Groups
(GeM) of India (SIDBI) (SHGs), Women Self Help Groups and various loan
beneficiaries under Micro Units Development and
Refinance Agency (MUDRA) and Stand-up India scheme.
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JULY
Centre for Cellular Centre for DNA To provide high quality DNA-based diagnostic services
and Molecular Fingerprinting and to the public at a lower rate and to engage in scientific
Biology (CCMB) Diagnostics (CDFD) research to improve understanding of human genetic
disorders.
International Union Agriculture To provide Farmers with the weather forecast and soil
Business Ministry moisture information.
Machines
NITI Aayog WhatsApp To promote women entrepreneurs
INDEX
RANKING
INDIA’S RANK
Index/Report/Field Position of India Ranks
DECEMBER
“Business-to-Consumer (B2C) UNCTAD (United 73. India
E-commerce Index 2019” Nations Conference on Top 3 Country:
Trade and 1. Netherlands ,2. Switzerland and
Development) 3. Singapore,Click here to read more.
Global Climate Risk Index Germanwatch Top 5 Countries:
(CRI) 2020: Who Suffers Most 1.Japan, 2.Philippines
from Extreme Weather 3.Germany,4.Madagascar
Events? Weather-Related Loss 5.India
Events in 2018 &1999 to 2018 Click here to Read More
Climate Change Performance Germanwatch and 9.India
Index (CCPI) 2020 NewClimate Institute Top 3 Countries:
report together with The top three ranks were left empty.
the Climate Action 4.Sweden, 5.Denmark, 6.Morocco
Network (CAN) United States(US) ranked 61st(last) on
the list.
Gender Gap Index 2019 World Economic 112. India
Forum (WEF) Top 3 Countries:
1.Iceland
2.Norway
3.Finland
Click here to Read More
NOVEMBER
Bribery Risk Index 2019 Trace Bribery Risk India ranked 78th
Matrix Top most bribery risk countries:
1.Somalia,2.South Sudan
3.North Korea,4.Yemen
5.Venezuela
Top least bribery risk countries:
1.New Zealand,2.Norway
3. Denmark,4. Sweden
5. Finland.Click here to read more.
2019 Global Diplomacy Index Lowy Institute 12.India.
Top 3 Countries:
1.China,2.United States of America(USA).
3.France.
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7th edition of 2019 Global Institute for Economics 7. India

Terrorism Index: Measuring and Peace(IEP) Top 3 Countries:
1. Afghanistan
he impact of terrorism 2. Iraq
3. Nigeria
Most deadliest terrorist group:
1. Taliban (Afghanistan)
2. ISIS (Iraq and Syria)
3. Boko Haram (Nigeria)
2019 Nomura’s Food Nomura Global Market 44. India
Vulnerability Index Research
QS World University Quacquarelli Symonds 34. IIT Bombay (Mumbai, Maharashtra).
Rankings:Asia 2020 (QS) 43.IIT Delhi (New Delhi).
50.IIT Madras (Chennai, Tamil Nadu).
Top 3 Universities:
1.National University of Singapore
(Singapore).
2.Nanyang Technological
University(NTU) (Singapore).
3.University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong).
2019 Global Diplomacy Index Lowy Institute 12.India.
Top 3 Country
1.China.
2.United States of America(USA).
3.France.
OCTOBER
Global Firepower Index (GFP) Global Firepower 4. India
/Military Strength Ranking Top 3 States:
2019 1.United States
2.Russia,
3.China
2019 Global Competitiveness World Economic 68.India
Index 4.0. Forum(WEF) Top 3 Country
1.Singapore
2.United States
3. Hong Kong SAR(Special
Administrative Region)
Global Hunger Index 2019 Irish aid agency India ranks at 102nd Position.
Concern Worldwide Top 17 Countries:
and German Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria,
organisation Welt Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Estonia,
Hunger Hilfe Kuwait, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro,
Romania, Slovak Republic, Turkey,
Ukraine and Uruguay.
10th World Giving Index 2019 Charities Aid 82. India
Foundation (CAF) Top 3 Countries:
1. USA ,2. Myanmar,3. New Zealand
1st Edition of Hurun Global Hurun Research 3. India
Unicorn List for 2019 Institute Top 2 Countries:
1. China,
2. United States (US)
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Pension Index 2019 Top 3 Countries:
1. Netherlands
2. Denmark
3. Australia
Global Health Security Index Nuclear Threat 57. India
2019 Initiative (NTI) and the Top 3 Countries:
Johns Hopkins 1. United States (US)
University Center for 2. United Kingdom (77.9) and
Health Security (CHS), 3. Netherlands
with research by the Click here to read more.
Economist Intelligence
Unit (EIU)
Masters in Management Financial Times(FT) 17.IIM-Calcutta
Rankings 2019 21.IIM-Ahmedabad
Top 3 Universities:
1. University of St.Gallen(Switzerland)
2. HEC Paris(France)
3. London Business School(United
Kingdom (UK))
SEPTEMBER
Global Happiness Survey 2019 Market research firm Top 3 Countries:
Ipsos 1. Australia and Canada(86%)
2. China(83%)
3. Great Britain(82%)
India ranked 9th with 77%.
World Travel & Tourism World Economic Top 3 Countries:
Competitiveness Index (TTCI) Forum(WEF) 1. Spain
2019 2. France
3. Germany.
4. Japan (tops in Asia pacific Region)
India was ranked at the 34th spot.
2019 list of gold reserves World Gold Council 1. United States
(WGC) 2. Germany,3. International Monetary
Fund(IMF),India ranked in 10th
place(overall, including IMF) & ranked
9th (excluding IMF’s rank)
AUGUST
Water Stress Index 2019 Verisk Maplecroft India ranked as the 46th highest risk
country in the world.Chennai is the “tip
of the iceberg” for India’s water-stressed
cities.
Global GDP Ranking 2018 World Bank data India’s GDP rose from $2.65 trillion in
2017 to $2.7 trillion in 2018.
Top 3 Countries:
1.United States
2.China
3.Japan
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Prime Global Cities Index Q1 Knight Frank  Berlin(Germany) topped.

2019(Fastest growing prime  Istanbul(Turkey) and
market globally) Vancouver(Canada) were the weakest
markets.
 Bengaluru (2.8%) and Mumbai (0.8%)
were ranked 15th and 30th.
 Delhi ranked at 10th.
Henley Passport Index 2019 Henley Top 5 Countries:
1 Japan and Singapore.
2 South Korea, Germany & Finland.
3 Denmark and Italy,4 France and
Sweden,5 Austria, Netherlands, Portugal
& Switzerland,India ranked at 86th
Position.
World’s Safe city index(SCI) Economist Intelligence Top 3 Cities:
for the year 2019 Unit sponsored by NEC 1. Tokyo(Japan)
corporation 2. Singapore
3. Osaka.
Mumbai was ranked 45th safest city
whereas Delhi stood at the 52nd
position.
JULY
Henley Passport Index 2019 Henley & Partners Top 3 Countries Passport:
1. Japan and Singapore
2. South Korea, Finland and Germany
3. Denmark, Italy, and Luxembourg
Indian passport ranked at 86th position
Global Multidimensional UN Development India registered a fastest reduction of
Poverty Index (MPI) 2019 Programme (UNDP), poverty rate from 55.1% to 27.9% and
the Oxford Poverty and lifted 271 million (from 640 million to
Human Development around 369 million) out of poverty.
Initiative (OPHI) Jharkhand is among the poorest regions
in the world improving the fastest
followed by Rattanak Kiri in Cambodia.
12th Edition Of The Global Union Minister of Top 5 country:
Innovation Index For The Year Commerce & Industry 1. Switzerland, 2. Sweden
2019 and Railways 3. United States of America, 4.
Netherlands, 5. United Kingdom.India
was ranked 52nd in 2019 with the score
36.58 out of 100 from 57th position in
2018.
QS Best Student Cities Ranking Quacquarelli Symonds World’s best city for students
2019 (QS) 1.London, UK,2. Tokyo, Japan,3.
Melbourne, Australia.Bangalore was
ranked 81st and Mumbai stood at 85th
position, Delhi was ranked 113th and
Chennai stood at 115 out of a total of
120 cities ranked in the list.
STATE WISE RANKING

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DECEMBER
Good Governance Index (GGI) Ministry of Personnel, Top 3 Ranks in Big States:
2019 Public Grievances & 1.Tamil Nadu
Pensions 2.Maharashtra
3.Karnataka
2nd edition of Sustainable NITI (National Launched by Rajiv Kumar(vice-chairman
Development Goals (SDG) Institution for of NITI Aayog).
India Index 2019 Transforming India) Index was developed in collaboration
Aayog with: Min. Of Statistics and Programme
Implementation +UN India +Global
Green Growth Institute.
India’s overall score: 60(earlier:57)
Top 3 Best Performers:
1.Kerala, 2.Himachal Pradesh
3.Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil
Nadu
Worst Performers:
1.Bihar, 2.Jharkhand
3.Arunachal Pradesh
2019 rankings on gram People’s Plan Top 3 Gram Panchayats:
panchayats under the Mission Campaign (PPC) of 1.Molugamboondi (Tamil Nadu)
Antyodaya scheme Ministry of Panchayat 2. Bambhaniya (Gujarat)
Raj 3. Four more Gujarat panchayats were
tied for third ranks.Click here to read
more.
States with coverage of area Top 3 Area coverage under micro-
under micro-irrigation (MI) irrigation:
for the year 2019. Under 1.Tamil Nadu
Pradhan Mantri Krishi 2.Gujarat
Sinchayee Yojana (PMKSY) 3.Andhra Pradesh.Click here to read
more.
NOVEMBER
Prosperity & Inclusion City Basque institutions Top Cities:
Seal and Awards (PICSA) and compiled by D&L 1.Zurich (Switzerland)
Index 2019 Partners 2. Vienna (Austria)
3. Copenhagen (Denmark)
Indian Cities:
83.Bangalore (India)
101. Delhi (India)
107.Mumbai (India)
OCTOBER
Smart City Index 2019 International Institute Indian Cities in Index:
for Management 67.Hyderabad,68.New Delhi
Development’s (IMD’s) 78.Mumbai,79. Bengaluru
Top 3 Cities
1. Singapore,2. Zurich
3. Oslo
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2019 Henley Passport Index Henley & Partners 82. India

ranking Top 3 Countries:
1. Japan and Singapore
2. South Korea, Germany and Finland
3. Denmark, Italy and Luxembourg
Brand Finance Nation Brands Brand Finance 7. India
2019 Top 3 Countries:
1. United States of America (USA)
2. China
3. Germany
India Innovation Index (III) National Institution for Top 3 States:
2019 Transforming 1. Karnataka
India(NITI) along with 2.Tamil Nadu
the Institute for 3.Maharashtra
Competitiveness Click here to read more.
University-Industry Linkages Progress, Harmony and Top 3 States:
(UILs) Index 2019 Development Chamber of 1. Karnataka
Commerce and Industry 2. Kerala and
(PHDCCI) and the 3.Gujarat
Ministry of Science and
Technology, Government of
India
2nd edition of Quacquarelli Quacquarelli Symonds Top 3 Universities:
Symonds (QS) India 1.Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
University Rankings 2020 (IITB)
2.Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore(IISB)
3.Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
(IITD).Click here to read more.
SEPTEMBER
2019 “Global Liveability Economist Intelligence Top 3 cities:
Index” Unit(EIU) 1. Vienna (Austria) ,2. Melbourne
(Australia) ,3. Sydney(Australia)
Rank of Indian cities:
118. Delhi (India) ,119. Mumbai (India)
"Global Happiness Survey" Ipsos Top Countries:
2019 1. Australia and Canada tied at the top
spot (at 86 per cent)
2. China(83%)
3. Great Britain(82%)
India ranked at 9th Position at 77%.
2019 world travel & tourism World Economic 34. India
competitiveness index Forum(WEF) Top 4 countries:
1. Spain ,2. France ,3. Germany
4. Japan (tops in Asia pacific Region)
Co-living index for the year Knight Frank Top 3 Cities:
2019 titled "Insights on Co- 1. Beijing (China)
living – An Asia-Pacific 2. Tokyo(Japan)
Perspective" 3. Shanghai(China)
Mumbai ranked at the 5th spot, New
Delhi ranked at the 11th spot and the
electronic city of India, Bengaluru
ranked at the 19th spot in the index.
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First edition of School National Institution for Top 3 States in Overall Performance
Education Quality Index Transforming Ranking (2016-17):
(SEQI) 2019 India(NITI)Aayog Large States - 1. Kerala 2. Rajasthan 3.
Karnataka
Small States - 1. Manipur 2. Tripura 3.
Goa
Union Territories - 1. Chandigarh 2.
Dadra and Nagar Haveli 3. Delhi
World Digital International Institute Top 3 Countries:

Competitiveness Rankings for Management 1. United State (US)
(WDCR) 2019 Development’s (IMD) 2. Singapore
3. Sweden
India ranked at 44th position in 2019
AUGUST
State Rooftop Solar RK Singh, Union Top 5 States:
Attractiveness Index 2019 Minister of State for 1. Karnataka(78.8)
(SARAL) Power and New & 2. Telangana(72.2)
Renewable Energy (IC) 3. Gujarat(67.9)
and Skill Development 4. Andra Pradesh(66.1). Read full details
& Entrepreneurship here: Karnataka Tops In State Rooftop
Solar Attractiveness Index(SARAL)
2019
“Child well-being index” 2019 World Vision India and Top 3 States:
Institute for Financial Kerala (0.76), followed by Tamil Nadu
Management and (0.67) and Himachal Pradesh (0.67)
Research-Leveraging Puducherry topped the spot among
Evidence for Access Union territory. Read full details here:
and Development Kerala, TN, Himachal & Py Tops The
(IFMR LEAD) 2019 India Child Well-Being Index
JULY
Agricultural Marketing and NITI (National Top 5 States:
Farmer Friendly Reforms Institution for 1.Maharashtra
Index(AMFFRI) Transforming India) 2.Gujarat
Aayog 3.Rajasthan
4.Madhya Pradesh
5.Haryana
Performance Grading Index Ministry of Human Top 3 States/ UTs:
2017-18-in the field of Resource Development 1. Chandigarh
education (HRD) 2. Kerala
3. Gujarat
Kerala had the highest literacy rate
followed by Lakshadweep and Mizoram.
World Reputation Rankings Times Higher Top 3 institutes:
2019 Education 1. Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Bengaluru,
2. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
Madras and
3. Manipal Academy of Higher Education
(MAHE), Manipal
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Moving Price Index 2019 Movinga Rank of cities for individual

relocation:1. San Francisco,2. New
York,3. Geneva,Delhi placed in 85th rank.
Rank of cities for family relocation:
1. San Francisco,2. Boston,3. Geneva,
Delhi placed in 84th Rank.
Women Entrepreneur Cities Dell Top 3 Cities:
Index 2019 1. Bay Area , San Francisco
2. New York, United States
3. London, England.
IHS Markit, Singapore topped among
asian city.
Processing of solid waste Ministry of Top 2 states:
Environment, Forest 1. Chhattisgarh
And Climate Change 2. Telangana
(MoEFCC)
REPORT:
Report/Study Title Released by Points to be noted
DECEMBER
“World malaria report 2019” World Health India reported 2.6million fewer cases
Organization (WHO) with 28% reduction in malaria cases.
The country next to India was Uganda. It
reported 1.5million fewer cases.
India-only non-African country in top
11.
“Human Development Report United Nations 129.India.
2019– Beyond income, Development Top 3 Country:
beyond averages, beyond Programme(UNDP) 1. Norway.
today: Inequalities in human 2. Switzerland.
development in the 21st 3. Ireland. Click here to Read More
century”
Morbidity and Mortality World Health Nigeria,an African country tops the list
Weekly Report (MMWR) Organization(WHO) with 2.4 million in 2018 unvaccinated
2018 and UNICEF (United children (4 million unvaccinated
Nations Children’s children in 2017).
Fund) India has the 2nd highest number of
children who are not vaccinated against
measles with 2.3 million in 2018 (2.9
million in 2017) Click here to Read
More
7th edition of the India Skills Wheebox (global talent- Top ranked states in employability:
Report 2020 assessment company), 1. Maharashtra
PeopleStrong and 2. Tamil Nadu
Confederation of Indian 3. Uttar Pradesh(UP)
Industry (CII) with Top ranked cities in employability:
UNDP , AICTE (All India 1. Mumbai (Maharashtra)
Council for Technical 2.Hyderabad(Telangana)
Education) and AIU Click here to read more.
(Association of Indian
Universities)
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‘Birth Registration for Every UNICEF (United Nations India, Bangladesh and Nepal have
Child by 2030: Are we on Children’s Fund) contributed to the global progress in this
track?’ field.
The number of registered children
increased from 41% in 2005–2006 to 80
% over a decade in India.Click here to
read more.
‘Science and Engineering National Science The report ranks the countries on the
Indicators 2019’ Foundation (NSF) number of scientific papers published
worldwide for the year 2019.
Top 3 Countries:
3.India.
1.China.
2.United States.Click here to read
more.
2019 Pollution and Health Global Alliance on Top 3 Countries, which have
Metrics: Global, Regional and Health and Pollution Premature deaths due to pollution in
Country Analysis (GAHP) 2017:
1.India
2.China
3. Nigeria
3rd global report on trends World Health India is off track to achieve 30%
in tobacco prevalence 2000- Organisation (WHO) reduction in tobacco use by 2025 when
2025 compared to its 2010 levels.Click here
to read more.
Global House Price Index Q3 Knight Frank 47.India
2019 Top 3 Country:
1.Hungary
2.Luxembourg
3.Croatia.
India State of Forest Report Forest Survey of India Total forest and tree cover of the
(ISFR)2019 (16th) (FSI) country now stands at 80.73 million
hectares which is 24.56% of the
geographical area of the country.
Top states with increased forest
cover:
1. Karnataka,
2. Andhra Pradesh,
3. Kerala.
Area wise toppers:
1.Madhya Pradesh (MP)
2. Arunachal Pradesh
3. Chhattisgarh.
Mangrove cover:
1.Gujarat ,
2.Maharashtra
3.Odisha.Click here to read more.
World Economic League Centre for Economics India is expected to overtake Germany
Table 2020′(WELT 2020) and Business Research as the fourth-largest economy in the
(CEBR) world by 2026.Click here to read more.
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15th Finance commission headed by N K Singh submits its 1st report for the FY 2020-21 to
President Ram Nath Kovind. Click here to Read More
NOVEMBER
2nd edition of the report titled Georgetown Institute for 133. India
Women, Peace, and Security Women, Peace and Top 3 Countries:
(WPS) Index for the year 2019 Security(GIWPS), America in 1. Norway
collaboration with The Peace 2. Switzerland
Research Institute of Oslo 3. Finland
(PRIO), Norway Click here to read more
‘India Justice Report 2019’ Tata Trusts ,Centre for Social States detail among Largest
Justice, Common Cause, and and Mid State: –
Commonwealth Human Rights 1.Maharashtra,2.Kerala
Initiative 3.Tamil Nadu
4.Punjab
States detail among small
states: –
1.Goa,2.Sikkim
3.Himachal Pradesh
‘Anaemia among men in India: Lancet Global Health Highest state among men:
A nationally representative 1.Bihar (32.9%),
cross-sectional study ’ 2.West Bengal (30.46%),
3.Jharkhand (30.3%),
4.Meghalaya (29.13%) and
5.Odisha(28.45%)
Lowest state among men:
1.Manipur (9.19%),
2.Mizoram (9.78%),
3.Nagaland (10.23%),
4.Goa (10.68%) and
5.Kerala (11.77%).Click here
to read more.
“Brown to Green Report 2019” Non-Governmental Among the G20 nations, India
Organisations(NGOs) from the was the only country close to
majority of the G20 (group of the 1.5-degree celsius
20) countries and 14 research temperature rise pathway.
organisations
“Fighting for Breath- A call to UNICEF(United Nations Pneumonia is one of the
action on childhood Children’s Fund ,originally leading killers of children in
pneumonia” known as the United Nations India, claiming more than 14
International Children’s children under the age of 5
Emergency Fund ) and charity years every hour in 2018.
groups Save the Children & Top 5 Countries:
Every Breath Counts Coalition 1.Nigeria (162,000),
2.India (127,000),
3.Pakistan (58,000),
4.Democratic Republic of
Congo (40,000) and 5.Ethiopia
(32,000).
Water Quality Report 2019 BIS’s (Bureau of Indian Top 3 City:
Standards) 1.Mumbai,2.Hyderabad
3.Bhubaneshwar
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Accidental deaths and suicides National Crime Records Bureau Top 5 States:
in India for the year 2016 (NCRB) 1. Maharashtra(40% of death-
3,661)
2. Karnataka(2,079 deaths)
3. Madhya Pradesh (1321 deaths)
4.Andhra Pradesh(804 deaths)
5.Chhattisgarh (682 deaths)
World Talent Ranking (WTR) International Institute of 59.India
report for the year 2019 Management Development’s Top 3 Country:
(IMD) 1.Switzerland
2.Denmark
3.Sweden
Road Accidents in India-2018 Ministry of Road Transport and Highest number of deaths:
Highways 1. Uttar Pradesh (UP)
2. Maharashtra
Highest number of accidents:
1. Tamil Nadu. Click here to
read more.
First ever global trends for World Health 8. India
adolescent insufficient physical Organisation(WHO) 1. Bangladesh
activity 2019 Click here to read more.
OCTOBER
Health System Strengthening Ministry of Health and Family Top 5 states/UTs: Dadra and
Conditionality Report of States Welfare (MOHFW) Nagar Haveli, Haryana, Assam,
2018-19 Kerala and Punjab were the top
five states/UTs which
performed well.Click here to
read more.
The State of the World’s United Nations Children’s Fund It was for the first time in 20
Children (SOWC) 2019: (UNICEF) years, it evaluated the issue of
Children, food and nutrition- children, food and nutrition.
Growing well in a changing Click here to read more.
world
Wealthiest City Worldwide New World Wealth (NWW) 12. Mumbai (Maharashtra)
2019 22. New Delhi, India
26. Bangalore (Karnataka)
28. Hyderabad (Telangana)
Top 3 Countries:
1. New York City, United States of
America(USA) ,2. Tokyo, Japan ,3.
San Francisco Bay Arena,USA
Global Tuberculosis(TB) report World Health 8 countries reported for 2/3rd of
2019 Organisation(WHO) global TB. Among them, India
topped the list in high burden TB
reported countries. India reported
27% of total TB cases around the
world. It was followed by
China(9%), Indonesia(8%),
Pakistan(6%) and
Bangladesh(4%).
“The CS Gender 3000 in 2019: Credit Suisse Research 23. India
The changing face of Institute (CSRI) Top 2 Countries:
companies“ 1. Singapore
2. Italy
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Crime in India Report 2017 National Crime Records Bureau Top 3 States:
(NCRB) 1. Uttar Pradesh
2. Maharashtra
3. West Bengal
Doing Business 2020- World Bank’s (WB) 63. India
Comparing Business Top 3 Countries:
Regulation in 190 Economies 1. New Zealand
2. Singapore
3. Hong Kong, China.
“Global Microscope 2019: The Economist Intelligence 5. India
enabling environment for Unit’s(EIU) Top 3 Countries:
financial inclusion” 1. Columbia
2. Peru
3. Uruguay
“Adolescents, Diets and United Nations Children’s More than 80 % of adolescents
Nutrition: Growing Well in a Fund, originally known as the in India suffer from “hidden
Changing World 2019” United Nations International hunger”(a form of
Children’s Emergency undernutrition), and less than
Fund(UNICEF) 10 % of boys and girls eat
fruits and eggs daily.
Intensified Attacks, New Intensified Attacks, New Arab States constituted the
Defences; Developments in the Defences; Developments in the deadliest part of the world for
Fight to Protect Journalists and Fight to Protect Journalists and journalists (30 % of global
End Impunity 2019 (covers the End Impunity killings- 149 people killed
period 2014-2018) between 2014-18), followed by
Latin America and the
Caribbean region (26 %, 127
people killed) and the Asia and
Pacific States (24 %, 120
people killed).
SEPTEMBER
Digital Economy Report 2019 – United Nations Conference on Global Internet Protocol(IP)
Value Creation and Capture: Trade and Development traffic has grown from about
Implications for developing (UNCTAD) 100 gigabytes (GB) per day in
countries 1992 to more than 45,000 GB
per second in 2017.By 2022,
global IP traffic is projected to
reach 150,700 GB per sec.Click
here to read the entire
report.
"India Iodine Survey 2018-19" Nutrition International in Top 3 States/UT’s:
collaboration with the All India 1.Jammu and Kashmir (J&K)
Institute of Medical Sciences 2.Nagaland and
(AIIMS) and, the Indian Coalition 3.Manipur
for the Control of Iodine Deficiency
Disorders (ICCIDD), and Kantar
On importing of coking coal Fitch Solutions Macro Research India will overtake China as
the largest importer of coking
coal by 2025.
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Global Malaria Cases in 2017 Lancet journal India is ranked fourth in Global
Malaria Cases in 2017.India has
4% of the cases worldwide
behind the African countries
Nigeria, Democratic Republic of
Congo and Mozambique. In 2017,
10 million malaria cases in India
out of the 219 million cases of
malaria worldwide. Read in
detail: According To A Report
Published In The Lancet
Journal, India Is Ranked Fourth
In Global Malaria Cases In 2017
"Digital Economy Report 2019 - United Nations Conference on DER was formerly known as the
Value Creation and Capture: Trade and Development Information Economy Report. It
Implications for developing (UNCTAD) examines the scope for value
countries" creation and capture in the digital
economy by developing countries.
Read full details here: UNCTAD
released its first ‘Digital
Economy Report 2019’
2nd edition of perception-based Commerce and industry Top 3 States:
index of mobility of goods and minister Shri Piyush Goyal 1. Gujarat
efficiency, the Logistics Ease 2. Punjab and
Across Different States (LEADS) 3. Andhra Pradesh
index
T N Manoharan Taskforce on Secondary Market for Corporate Loans submits its Report to
RBI
• A 6-member taskforce on secondary market for corporate loans, headed by Canara Bank
Chairman TN Manoharan has submitted its report to RBI (Reserve Bank of India) Governor
Shaktikanta Das. It has proposed for setting up of a Self-Regulatory Body for the
standardization of corporate loan documents. Read full deatils here: T N Manoharan
Taskforce on Secondary Market for Corporate Loans submits its Report to RBI.
Overview Of The Report Submitted To RBI By A Panel Headed By Harsh Vardhan For The
Development Of Housing Finance Securitisation Market
• The panel headed by Harsh Vardhan, senior advisor, Bain and Co., for the development of
housing finance securitisation market has submitted its report to the governor of the
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Shaktikanta Das. The six-member committee was set up by RBI
on May 29, 2019. The panel suggested that the National Housing Bank (NHB) should create
an intermediary for standard-setting and market-making for the instruments. Read full
details here: Overview Of The Report Submitted To RBI By A Panel Headed By Harsh
Vardhan For The Development Of Housing Finance Securitisation Market
AUGUST
Annual Observance Report of International Monetary India failed to comply with the multiple
the Special Data Fund (IMF) requirements prescribed in Special Data
Dissemination Standard for Dissemination Standard (SDDS) which
2018 are mandatory for all IMF members.
“Building Better Courts Vidhi centre Top-performing states in court
(Surveying the Infrastructure infrastructure facility:
of India's District Courts)” 1. Delhi (90%) and
2. Kerala (84%)
Poorest Performing states:
Bihar (26%) and Manipur (29%)
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“Top 100 Retailers in Asia Euromonitor Top 3 Retailers in 2018:

2019” International Walmart Inc which acquired Flipkart in
2018($16 Bn deal) with Gross
Merchandise Volume(GMV) of $14. 49
Bn. Amazon(US) came on the second
spot with $9.8 Bn GMV followed by
Mumbai based retail company Future
Group with $3.8Bn GMV(3rd position)
and Reliance Group(4th position ) with
$3.6 Bn GMV.
Report on Breastfeeding Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Top State:
Minister of Health and Manipur.
Family welfare Worst Performing State:
Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Bihar.The
national capital Delhi is also one among
the worst-performing states.
4th edition of Top Companies LinkedIn Top 3 Companies:
list for India 2019 for best 1. Walmart acquired Flipkart was
workplace ranked first place as the best workplace
in India.
2. Amazon and
3. Oyo
Climate Change and Land, an Intergovernmental Read full details here: IPCC Reports
IPCC special report on Panel on Climate Land To Be A Critical Resource
climate change, Change (IPCC)
desertification, land
degradation, sustainable land
management, food security,
and greenhouse gas fluxes in
terrestrial ecosystems
4th report of “Skin and Bones TRAFFIC It revealed that nearly 2000 tigers were
Unresolved: An Analysis of poached between 2000 and 2018 in
Tiger Seizures from 2000- India which is the home for more than
2018” half of the global tiger population (75%).
Read full details here: 2019 Report By
“TRAFFIC” Reveals 2000 Tigers
Poached Over The Past 19 Years
Composite Water NITI Aayog(National Top 3 States:
Management Index 2019” Institution for 1. Gujarat
(CWMI 2.0) for the year Transforming India) in 2. Andhra Pradesh
2017-2018 association with 3. Madhya Pradesh
Ministry of Jal Shakti .
and Ministry of Rural
Development
JULY
Annual banking statistics Swiss National Bank India has slipped to 74th place.
report (SNB) Top 5 Countries:
1.United Kingdom,
2.United States,
3.West Indies,
4.France,
5.Hong Kong.
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Working on a Warmer International Labour India is projected to lose 5.8% of

Planet: The Impact of Heat Organisation (ILO) working hours in 2030 equivalent to 34
Stress on Labour million full-time jobs due to global
Productivity and Decent warming.
Work
India: Health of the Nation’s Indian Council of Total death in the country due to NCDs
States Medical Research was 61.8% in 2016, as compared to
(ICMR) 37.9% in 1990.
“Global Prime Office CBRE, an American real Top 5 Expensive office location:
Occupancy Costs survey” estate consulting firm 1. Hong Kong’s Central district,2.
London’s West End,3. Hong Kong’s
Kowloon,4. New York’s Midtown
Manhattan and 5. Beijing’s Finance
Street.New Delhi’s Connaught Place (CP)
- 9th most expensive office location
Mumbai’s Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC)-
27th most expensive office location
Nariman Point- Central Business District
(CBD) - 40th most expensive office
location.
Global Study on Homicide United Nations Office It stated that the overall Homicide Rate
2019 on Drugs and Crime declined by 10% in India over the period
(UNODC) 2009- 2015, from 3.8 to 3.4 per 100,000
population and it was increased
‘Noticeably’ in some Northern States.
World’s largest economy IHS Markit In 2025, India will overtake Japan to
become the World’s 3rd Largest
Economy. India will overtake the United
Kingdom (UK) to become the fifth
biggest economy in 2019.
Small Industries Credit Information Top 3 states:

Development Bank of India’s Bureau (India) Limited 1. Gujarat
(SIDBI) Micro, Small & (CIBIL) 2. Andhra Pradesh
Medium Enterprises (MSME) 3. Haryana
Pulse Report
The Era of Rising Fintech Razorpay Software Pvt Most digitised cities:
Ltd 1. Bengaluru
2. Hyderabad
3. Mumbai
State of Food Security and United Nations (UN) It stated that in the year 2018, more
Nutrition in the World 2019 Food and Agriculture than 820 million people suffered hunger,
Organisation (FAO), food insecurity and malnutrition
International Fund for worldwide. It is for the third year in a
Agricultural row the number has risen.
Development (IFAD),
UN Children’s Fund
(UNICEF), the World
Food Programme
(WFP) and the World
Health Organisation
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Highest number of Reserve Bank of India Top 3 States/UTs:

Automated Teller Machine (RBI) 1. Maharashtra
(ATM) frauds in India 2. Delhi
3. Tamil Nadu
Solar rooftop installations Union Minister of State Top 3 States:
for New and Renewable 1. Gujarat
Energy and Power R K 2. Maharashtra
Singh 3. Tamil Nadu
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

2019 Nobel Prize
Name Category Awarded for
William G Kaelin Jr(USA), Peter 2019 Nobel Prize in For discovering how cells sense and adapt
J Ratcliffe(UK), and Gregg L Physiology or to oxygen availability.
Semenza(USA) Medicine
James Peebles(Canada), Michel 2019 Nobel Prize in ♦ James Peebles chosen for “theoretical
Mayor(Switzerland) and Didier Physics discoveries in physical cosmology”.
Queloz(Switzerland) ♦ Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for “the
discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-
type star”
John B Goodenough (97) 2019 Nobel prize in ♦ For their pivotal role in making lithium-ion
(Germany), M Stanley Chemistry batteries.
Whittingham (77) (United ♦ John Bannister Goodenough becomes the
Kingdom) and Akira Yoshino oldest winner of a Nobel prize.
(71)(Japan)
Olga Tokarczuk(Polish) 2018 Nobel Prize for ♦ For a narrative imagination that with
Literature encyclopedic passion represents the crossing
of boundaries as a form of life
Peter Handke(Austria) 2019 Nobel Prize in ♦ For an influential work that with
Literature linguistic ingenuity has explored the
periphery and the specificity of human
experience.
♦ It is for the first time in 118-year history
that 2 literature prizes are given in the
same year.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy 2019 Nobel Peace ♦ He is the first Ethiopian to be awarded a
Ahmed Ali Prize(100th award) Nobel Prize.
Abhijit Vinayak Sveriges Riksbank ♦ For their experimental approach to
Banerjee(India), Esther (Nobel) Prize in reduce global poverty.
Duflo(France) and Michael Economic Sciences
Kremer(USA) 2019
Overview Of Padma Awards-2019
On January 25,2019 President of India Ram Nath Kovind announced Padma Awards,which is the
highest civilian Awards in the country.The Padma Awards are conferred under 3 categorized viz-
Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri.President Ram Nath Kovind has approved
conferment of 112 Padma Awards including one duo which is considered to be one award.The Padma
Awards consist of 4 Padma Vibhushan award,14 Padma Bhushan Award and 94 Padma Shri awards
Winners of Padma Vibhushan 2019:
Name Field State
Ms. Teejan Bai Art-Vocals-Folk Chhattisgarh
Shri Ismail Omar Guelleh (Foreigner) Public Affairs Djibouti
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Shri Anilkumar Manibhai Naik Trade & Industry- Maharashtra

Infrastructure
Shri Balwant Moreshwar Purandare Art-Acting- Maharashtra
Theatre
Click here to read the entire award list
2019 Sahitya Akademi Awards in 23 languages announced
Sl. No Title and genre Author Language
1 Chanakya (Novel) Joysree Goswami Mahanta Assamese
2 Ghumer Darja Thele (Essays) Chinmoy Guha Bengali
3 Akhai Athumniphrai (Poetry) Phukan Ch. Basumatary Bodo
4 Bandralta Darpan (Essays) Om Sharma Jandriar Dogri
5 An Era of Darkness (Non- Shashi Tharoor English
Fiction)
6 Mojma Revu Re (Essays) Ratilal Borisagar Gujarati
7 Chheelate Hue Apne Ko Nand Kishore Acharya Hindi
(Poetry)
8 Kudi Esaru (Autobiography) Vijaya Kannada
9 Akh Yaad Akh Qayamat Abdul Ahad Hajini Kashmiri
(Short Stories)
10 The Words (Poetry) Nilba A. Khandekar Konkani
11 Jingik Oriaon Karait (Poetry) Kumar Manish Arvind Maithili
12 Achan Piranna Veedu V. Madhusoodanan Nair Malayalam
(Poetry)
13 Ei Amadi Adungeigi Eethat L. Birmangol Singh (Beryl Manipuri
(Novel) Thanga)
14 Kadachit Ajoonahi (Poetry) Anuradha Patil Marathi
15 Bhaswati (Short Stories) Tarun Kanti Mishra Odia
16 Antheen (Short Stories) Kirpal Kazak Punjabi
17 Bareek Baat (Short Stories) Ramsawroop Kisan Rajasthani
18 Prajnachakshusham (Poetry) Penna Madhusudan Sanskrit
19 Sisirjali (Short Stories) Kali Charan Hembram Santali
20 Jeejal (Short Stories) Ishwar Moorjani Sindhi
21 Sool (Novel) Cho. Dharman Tamil
22 Septabhoomi (Novel) Bandi Narayana Swamy Telugu
23 Sawaneh-E-Sir Syed: Ek Shafey Kidwai Urdu
Bazdeed (Biography)
Overview Of The 91st Academy Awards (Oscars 2019)
• The award is presented in Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.
Category Winner
Best picture Green Book
Best actress Olivia Colman – The Favourite
Best actor Rami Malek – Bohemian Rhapsody
Best supporting actress Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk
Best supporting actor Mahershala Ali – Green Book
Best director Alfonso Cuaron – Roma
Best original screenplay Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie and Peter Farrelly – Roma
Best adapted screenplay Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Spike Lee –
BlacKkKlansman
Best animated feature Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
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Best foreign language film Roma – Mexico
Best documentary feature Free Solo
Best original song Shallow (A Star Is Born) – Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony
Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt
Best original score Ludwig Goransson – Black Panther
Best production design Hannah Beachler and Jay Hart – Black Panther
Best costume design Ruth E Carter – Black Panther
Best cinematography Alfonso Cuaron – Roma
Best visual effects Paul Lambert, Ian Hunter, Tristan Myles and JD Schwalm – First Man
Best make-up and Greg Cannom, Kate Biscoe and Patricia DeHaney – Vice
hairstyling
Best sound editing John Warhurst and Nina Hartstone – Bohemian Rhapsody
Best sound mixing Paul Massey, Tim Cavagin and John Casali – Bohemian Rhapsody
Best film editing John Ottman – Bohemian Rhapsody
Best animated short Bao
Best documentary short Period. End of Sentence.
Best live action short Skin

Overview of National Film Awards 2019
• The annual National Film Awards 2019 were announced by jury heads Rahul Rawail, AS Kanal
and Utpal Bhorpujari. It was the 66th Edition. This year, a total of 419 films had competed for
the awards. The awards are given in 31 categories. The announcement was made at Shastri
Bhawan, New Delhi. Film friendly state: Uttarakhand bagged an award for the film friendly
state. This new award was instituted in 2019. Vice President Venkaiah naidu confers 66th
National film awards on December 23, 2019. Actor, Shri Amitabh Bachchan received 50th
Dadasaheb Phalke Award.
List of Winners:
Feature Films Section:
S.NO. Title of Film Name Of Film Awardee
1 Best Feature Film HELLARO (Gujarati) Producer: Saarthi
Productions LLP
Director: Abhishek
Shah
2 Indira Gandhi Award for NAAL (Marathi) Producer:
Best Debut Film of a Mrudhgandh Films
Director LLP
Director: Sudhakar
Reddy Yakkanti
3 Award for Best Popular BADHAAI HO (Hindi) Producer: Junglee
Film Providing Wholesome Pictures Limited
Entertainment Director: Amit
Sharma
4 Nargis Dutt Award for Best ONDALLA ERADALLA (Kannada) Producer: D N
Feature Film on National Cinemas
Integration Director: Satya
Prakash D
5 Best Film on Social Issues PADMAN (Hindi) Producer: Hope
Productions Pvt. Ltd.
Director: R. Balki
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6 Best Film on Environment PAANI (Marathi) Producer: Purple

Conservation/Preservation Pebble Pictures
Director: Addinath
Kothare
7 Best Children’s Film SARKARI HIRIYA PRATHAMIKA SHALE Producer : Rishab
KASARGODU (Kannada) Shetty Films
Director: Rishab
Shetty
8 Best Direction URI : THE SURGICAL STRIKE (Hindi) Director: Aditya Dhar
9 Best Actor (Shared) ANDHADHUN (Hindi) & URI : THE Ayushmann
SURGICAL STRIKE (Hindi) Khurrana & Vicky
Kaushal
10 Best Actress MAHANATI (Telugu) Keerthy Suresh
11 Best Supporting Actor CHUMBAK (Marathi) Supporting
Actor:Swanand
Kirkire
12 Best Supporting Actress BADHAAI HO (Hindi) Supporting
Actress: Surekha
Sikri
13 Best Child Artist ONDALLA ERADALLA (Kannada) P V Rohith
HARJEETA (Punjabi) Sameep Singh
HAMID (Urdu) Talha Arshad Reshi
NAAL (Marathi) Shrinivas Pokale
14 Best Male Playback Singer PADMAAVAT (Hindi) Arijit Singh
Song “ Binte
Dil Misriya mein …. ”
15 Best Female Playback NATHICHARAMI (Kannada) Bindhu Malini
Singer Song “ Maayavi
Manave…..”
16 Best Cinematography OLU (Malayalam) Cameraman: M J
Radhakrishnan
17 Best Screenplay CHI ARJUN LA SOW (Telugu) Screenplay writer
ANDHADHUN (Hindi) (original): Rahul
TARIKH (Bengali) Ravindran
Screenplay writer
(adapted): Sriram
Raghavan , Arijit
Biswas, Yogesh
Chandekar, Hemant
Rao & Pooja Ladha
Surti
Dialogue Writer:
Churni Ganguly
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18 Best Audiography TENDLYA (Marathi) Location Sound

URI :THE SURGICAL STRIKE (Hindi) Recordist (for sync
RANGASTHALAM (Telugu) sound films only) :
Gaurav Verma
Sound Designer :
Bishwadeep Dipak
Chatterjee
Re- recordist of the
final mixed track:
Raja Krishnan M.R
19 Best Editing NATHICHARAMI (Kannada) Editor: Nagendra K
Ujjani
20 Best Production Design KAMMARA SAMBHAVAM (Malayalam) Production Designer:
Bangalan
21 Best Costume Designer MAHANATI (Telugu) Costume Director:
Indrakshi Pattanaik,
Gaurang Shah &
Archana Rao
22 Best Make-up Artist AWE (Telugu) Make-up Artist:
Ranjith
23 Best Music Direction PAADMAAVAT (Hindi) Music Director
URI :THE SURGICAL (Songs): Sanjay Leela
STRIKE (Hindi) Bhansali
Music Director
(Background Music):
Shashwat Sachdev
24 Best Lyrics NATHICHARAMI (Kannada) Lyricist: Manjunatha
S (Manasor)
Song “ Maayavi
Manave….”
25 Special Jury Award HELLARO (Gujarati) Actresses : Shraddha
& KEDARA (Bengali) Dangar, Shachi Joshi,
Denisha Ghumra,
Neelam Paanchal,
Tarjani Bhadla,
Brinda Nayak, Tejal
Panchasara,
Kaushambi Bhatt,
Ekta Bachwani,
Kamini Panchal,
Jagruti Thakore,
Riddhi Yadav &
Prapti Mehta &
Director : Indradip
Dasgupta
26 Best Special Effects AWE (Telugu) Srushti Creative
& KGF (Kannada) Studio & Unifi Media
27 Best Choreography PADMAAVAT (Hindi) Kruti Mahesh Madya
& Jyoti Tomar
Song: Ghoomar
28 Best Action Direction KGF (Kannada)) Vikram More & Anbu
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Award (Stunt Ariv

Choreography)
Best Feature Film in each of the language specified in the Schedule VIII of the Constitution:
S.No Name of Title of Film Awardee
Award
1 Best REVA Producer: Brainbox Studios
Gujarati Director: Rahul Surendrabhai Bhole &
Film Vinit Kumar Ambubhai Kanojiya
2 Best Punjabi HARJEETA Producer: Sizzlin Productions
Film Director: Vijay Kumar Arora
3 Best BULBUL CAN SING Producer: Flying River Films
Assamese Director: Rima Das
Film
4 Best AMORI Producer: Opus Ga La
Konkani Director: Dinesh P Bhonsle
Film
5 Best NATHICHARAMI Producer: Tejaswini Enterprises
Kannada Director: Manjunatha S. (Mansore)
Film
6 Best Telugu MAHANATI Producer: Swapna Cinema
Film Director: Nag Ashwin
7 Best SUDANI FROM NIGERIA Producer: The Happy Hours Entertainments
Malayalam Director: Zakariya
Film
8 Best Bengali EK JE CHHILO RAJA Producer: SVF Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
Film Director: Srijit Mukherjee
9 Best Urdu HAMID Producer: Saregama India Limited
Film Director: Aijaz Khan
10 Best Hindi ANDHADHUN Producer: Matchbox Pictures Pvt. Ltd.
Film Director: Sriram Raghavan
11 Best Tamil BAARAM Producer: Reckless Roses
Film Director: Priya Krishnaswamy
12 Best BHONGA Producer: Nalinee Productions
Marathi Director: Shivaji Lotan Patil
Film
Best Feature Film in each of the languages other than those specified in Schedule VIII of the
Constitution:
1 Best Garo MA’AMA Producer: Anna Films
Film Director: Dominic Sangma
2 Best MISHING Producer: BB Entertainment Trade Private
Sherdukpan Limited
Film Director: Bobby Sarma Baruah
3 Best IN THE LAND OF POISON Producer: Aaas Productions
Pangchenpa WOMEN Director: Manju Borah
Film
4 Best TURTLE Producer: Shivazza Films & Entertainment
Rajasthani Director: Dinesh S Yadav
Film
5 Special NATHICHARAMI(Kannada) Sruthi Hariharan (Actress)
Mention KADAKH (Hindi) Chandrachoor Rai (Actor)
JOSEPH (Malayalam) Joju George (Actor)
SUDANI FROM NIGERIA Savithri (Actress)
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Non-Feature Films Section:
S.No. Name of Award Title of Film Awardee
1 BEST NON- Son Rise Producer: V2 Films & Design Pvt. Ltd.
FEATURE FILM & Director : Vibha Bakshi&
The Secret Life of Frogs Producer: Bedi Universal
Director : Ajay Bedi & Vijay Bedi.
2 BEST DEBUT NON- Feluda_50 Years Rays Producer & Director :Sagnik Chatterjee
FEATURE FILM OF Detective
A DIRECTOR
3 BEST ARTS and Bunkar: The Last of The Producer: Narrative Pictures & S apana
CULTURE FILM Varanasi Weavers SharmaDirector : Satyaprakash
Upadhyay
4 BEST SCIENCE & G.D.Naidu : The Edison Of Producer: Films Division
TECHNOLOGY India Director : Renjith Kumar
FILM
5 BEST Rediscovering Jajam Producer: Rachel Bracken Singh
PROMOTIONAL Director : Avinash Maurya & Kriti Gupta
FILM
6 BEST The World’s Most Famous Producer: Natural History Unit India
ENVIRONMENT Tiger Director: Subbiah Nallamuthu
FILM
7 BEST FILM ON Taala Te Kunjee Producer: Simardeep Singh Bhatia
SOCIAL ISSUES Director : Shilpi Gulati
8 BEST Sarala Virala Producer: Sujatha H R
EDUCATIONAL Director : Eregowda
FILM
9 BEST FILM ON Swimming Through The Producer: Perspective
SPORTS Darkness Director : Supriyo Sen
10 BEST Amoli Producer: Culture Machine Media Pvt.
INVESTIGATIVE Ltd.
FILM Director : Jasmine Kaur Roy &
Avinash Roy
11 SPECIAL JURY Why Me? – Director & Director : Harish Shah &
AWARD Ekaant – Art Direction Art Director : Neeraj Singh
12 BEST SHORT Kharvas Producer: Shree Mahalasa Productions
FICTION FILM Ponda
Director : Aditya Suhas Jambhale
13 BEST FILM ON Chalo Jeete Hain Producer: Sundial Ventures Pvt. Ltd.
FAMILY VALUES Director : Mangesh Hadawale
14 BEST DIRECTION Aai Shappath Director : Gautam Vaze
15 BEST The Secret Life of Frogs Cameraman: Ajay Bedi & Vijay Bedi
CINEMATOGRAPHY
16 BEST ON- The Secret Life of Frogs On location sound recordist : Ajay Bedi
LOCATION SOUND
RECORDIST
17 BEST Children of The Soil Re-recordist (final mixed track)
AUDIOGRAPHY : Bishwadeep Chatterjee
18 BEST EDITING Son Rise Editor : Hemanti Sarkar
19 BEST MUSIC Jyoti Music Director: Kedar Divekar
DIRECTION
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20 BEST NARRATION/ Madhubani – The Station of Deepak Agnihotri & Urvija Upaddhyay
VOICE OVER Colours
21 SPECIAL MENTION Mahaan Hutatma – Director Director : Sagar Puranik
Glow Worm in a Jungle – Director : Ramana Dumpala
Director Director : Sameer Sadhwani & Kishor
Laddoo Sadhwani
Best Book on Cinema:
S. Title of the Book Name of the Author Name of the Publisher
No.
1 Mouna Prathanapole Author : S Kerala State Chalachitra Academy
(Malayalam) Jayachandran Nair
Special Mention
1 In A Cult Of Their Own: Author :Amborish Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd
Bollywood Beyond Box Office Roychoudhury
(English)
Award for Best Film Critic:
S. No. Name of Critic Language
1. Blais Johny & Anant Vijay Malayalam & Hindi
National Sports Awards 2019
On August 29,2019, President of India Ramnath Kovind gave away the national sports awards in New
Delhi.Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award:
S.No. Name of the Sportsperson Discipline
1. Sh. Bajrang Punia Wrestling
2. Ms. Deepa Malik(The first Paralympian to Para Athletics
receive the prestigious honour.)
About Khel Ratna Award: This award is given for the spectacular and most outstanding performance
in the field of sports by a sportsperson over a period of 4 years. Awardee will receive a cash prize of
Rs. 7.5 lakh.
Arjuna Award: It was awarded to 19 sportspersons for 2019.
S.No. Name of the Sportsperson Discipline
1. Sh. Tajinderpal Singh Toor Athletics
2. Mohammed Anas Yahiya Athletics
3. Sh. S. Bhaskaran Body Building
4. Ms. Sonia Lather Boxing
5. Sh. Ravindra Jadeja Cricket
6. Sh. Chinglensana Singh Kangujam Hockey
7. Sh. Ajay Thakur Kabaddi
8. Sh. Gaurav Singh Gill Motor Sports
9. Sh. Pramod Bhagat Para Sports (Badminton)
10. Ms. Anjum Moudgil Shooting
11. Sh. Harmeet Rajul Desai Table Tennis
12. Ms. Pooja Dhanda Wrestling
13. Sh. Fouaad Mirza Equestrian
14. Sh. Gurpreet Singh Sandhu Football
15. Ms. Poonam Yadav Cricket
16. Ms. Swapna Barman Athletics
17. Sh. Sundar Singh Gurjar Para Sports (Athletics)
18. Sh. Bhamidipati Sai Praneeth Badminton
19. Sh. Simran Singh Shergill Polo
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About Arjuna Award: This award is given for consistently outstanding performance for 4 years. It is
India’s second-highest sporting award after Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award. Arjuna Awardees will
receive statuettes, certificates and cash prize of Rs. 5 lakh each.
Dronacharya Award (regular category):
S.No. Name of the Coach Discipline
1. Sh. Vimal Kumar Badminton
2. Sh. Sandeep Gupta Table tennis
3. Sh. Mohinder Singh Dhillon Athletics
Dronacharya Award (lifetime category):
S.No. Name of the Coach Discipline
1. Sh. Merzban Patel Hockey
2. Sh. Rambir Singh Khokhar Kabaddi
3. Sh. Sanjay Bhardwaj Cricket
About Dronacharya Award: It is meant for coaches. It is given for producing medal winners at
prestigious International sports events. Dronacharya Awardees will receive statuettes, certificates and
cash prize of Rs. 5 lakh each.
Dhyan Chand Award:
S.No. Name Discipline
1 Sh. Manuel Fredricks Hockey
2 Sh. Arup Basak Table Tennis
3 Sh. Manoj Kumar Wrestling
4 Sh. NittenKirrtane Tennis
5 Sh. C. Lalremsanga Archery
About Dhyan Chand Award: This award is given for lifetime contribution to sports development.
Dhyan Chand Awardees will receive statuettes, certificates and cash prize of Rs. 5 lakh each.
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (Maka) Trophy, 2019 – Overall top performing university in inter-
university tournaments will be given MAKA Trophy, award money of Rs. 10 lakh and certificate.
Panjab University, Chandigarh
Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar –A trophy and citation is given to the entity in the Rashtriya
Khel Protsahan Puruskar, 2019.
S. No. Category Entity recommended for
Rashtriya Khel Protsahan
Puruskar, 2019
1. Identification and Nurturing of Budding and (i) Gagan Narang Sports
Young Talent’ Promotion Foundation
(ii) GoSports Foundation
2. Encouragement to sports through Corporate —
Social Responsibility
3. ‘Employment to sportspersons and other —
welfare measures’
4. Sports for Development Rayalaseema Development
Trust
DECEMBER
ICC awards 2019:
S.No Award Awardees Country
1 Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Ellyse Perry Australia.
Award
2 ODI cricketer of the year Ellyse Perry Australia.
3 T20 Cricketer of the Year Alyssa Healy Australia.
4 Emerging Cricketer of the Chanida Sutthiruang Thailand.
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5 ODI skipper of the year Meg Lanning Australia.
6 T20 Skipper of the year Meg Lanning Australia.
7 Women’s ODI Team of the Indians: Smrithi Mandana, –
Year Shikha Pandey, Jhulan
Goswami and Poonam Yadav.
8 Womens’ T20 Team of the Indians: Smrithi Mandana, –
year Deepti Sharma and Radha
Yadav.
NOVEMBER
Swachh Survekshan Grameen 2019 awards: Tamil Nadu tops State list, Peddapalli of Telangana
tops in District list
The top ranked States and Districts which received awards are as below:
Overall Ranking:
Rank States Districts
1 Tamil Nadu Peddapalli, Telangana
2 Haryana Faridabad, Haryana
3 Gujarat Rewari, Haryana
Key Points:
i.Uttar Pradesh adjudged as the State with Maximum Citizen Participation.
The top ranked States and Districts which received awards are as below:
Overall Ranking:
Rank States Districts
1 Tamil Nadu Peddapalli, Telangana
2 Haryana Faridabad, Haryana
3 Gujarat Rewari, Haryana
Key Points:
i.Uttar Pradesh adjudged as the State with Maximum Citizen Participation.
States were judged and ranked in their respective zones as well and rankings are as follow:
North Zone Haryana
South Zone Tamil Nadu
East Zone Jharkhand
West Zone Gujarat
North East Zone Mizoram
Union Territory Daman and Diu
v.Top Performing districts: Peddapalli district of Telangana was conferred with the award of top
district of India in terms of sanitation and cleanliness. Faridabad of Haryana and Rewari bagged the
2nd and 3rd place respectively.
Districts were judged and ranked in their respective zones as well and rankings are as follow:
North Zone Faridabad, Haryana
South Zone Peddapalli, Telangana
East Zone Khunti, Jharkhand
West Zone Patan, Gujarat
North East Zone Kolasib, Mizoram
Union Territory Daman, Daman and Diu
Highlights of 50th edition of IFFI held in Goa 20th-28th Nov 2019

The 50th edition of the International Film Festival of India(IFFI) was held in Goa from November 20-
28, 2019. It was organized by Directorate of Film Festivals (DFF), Union ministry of information and
broadcasting in collaboration with Govt of Goa. Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan and Kollywood
actor Rajinikanth together announced the 50th edition of the IFFI open, in presence of Union Minister
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for Information & Broadcasting(MoIB) Shri Prakash Javadekar and other officials. The festival opened
with the Italian film ‘Despite the Fog’ directed by Goran Paskaljevic. The key highlights of the IFFI, one
of the oldest film festivals of Asia, are as follows,
♦ During the inauguration of the festival Rajinikanth was conferred with the 1st ever instituted
‘Icon of Golden Jubilee Award‘ for his outstanding contribution to Indian cinema. French
actress Ms. Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert was conferred with the Lifetime Achievement
Award.
♦ Tribute to the former Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parikar was paid during the opening
ceremony by screening a short film depicting his contribution to IFFI.
♦ Focus country: Russia was the focus country in the 2019 IFFI. 8 Russian films were screened
during the festival.
♦ It is also to be noted that Haryana participated in the IFFI for the first time.
ICFT-UNESCO Fellini medal awarded to IFFI:
IFFI was awarded the ICFT-UNESCO Fellini medal 2019. The announcement in this regard was made
by Georges Dupont, Director General(DG) of the International Council for Film Television and Audio-
visual Communication (ICFT). The award was given for IFFI’s completion of its 50 years.
IFFI collaborates with the ICFT Paris(France) to present a special ICFT Prize consisting of the UNESCO
Gandhi Medal. This medal was issued by UNESCO in 1994 to commemorate the 125th birth
anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The ICFT- UNESCO Gandhi Medal 2019 was conferred to Italian film
‘Rwanda’, directed by Riccardo Salvetti. The award is given to movies that reflect Mahatma Gandhi’s
ideals of peace, tolerance and non-violence.
IFFI to focus on legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray next year:
Shri Amit Khare also announced that IFFI 2020 and 2021 which will be the 51st and 52nd edition
respectively will be a tribute to legendary filmmaker of India from West Bengal, Satyajit Ray. His
centenary celebrations will be observed from 2020.
Awards:
i.The Best Director award was given to Lijo Jose Pellissery for the film ‘Jallikattu’, who won the Silver
Peacock Trophy and a cash prize of Rs. 15,00,000.
ii.Golden Peacock: The french movie ‘Particles’, directed by Blaise Harrison bagged the award for Best
Film in IFFI 2019. The award comes with the Golden Peacock trophy, certificate and a cash prize
amount of Rs. 40,00,000, shared equally between the Director and the Producer.
iii.Usha Jadhav was awarded the Best Actor (Female) for her portrayal of ‘Prabha Mai’, in the Marathi
film ‘Mai Ghatt: Crime No, 103/2005’
iv.Seu Jorge won the Best Actor (Male) for his portrayal of Carlos Marighella in the Brazilian movie
‘Marighella. Both Seu & Usha received the Silver Peacock Trophy and a cash Prize of Rs 10,00,000
each.
v.Special Jury award, which carries the Silver Peacock Award and a cash prize of Rs. 15,00,000, was
awarded to Pema Tseden for the Chinese movie ‘Balloon’.
Awards:Various awards were given during the festival. They are as follows,
Award name Name of the film Awardee
Best Actor (Male) Marighella Actor: Seu Jorge.
Best Actor (Female) Mai Ghatt: Crime Actor: Usha Jadhav for
No, 103/2005 the portrayal role
‘Prabha Mai’
Best Director award Jallikattu Director: Lijo Jose
Pellissery
Best Film Particles Director: Blaise
Harrison
Best Debut Feature Film Abou Leila Directors: Amin Sidi
of a Director & Boumediene for ‘Abou
Marius Olteanu Leila’
&
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‘Monsters’.
Special Jury Award Balloon Director: Pema Tseden
ICFT –UNESCO Gandhi Rwanda Director: Riccardo
Medal Salvett
Special mention under Bahattar Hoorain Director: Sanjay P.
ICFT-UNESCO Gandhi Singh Chauhan
medal category
Special mention Hellaro Director: Abhishek
Shah
Icon of Golden Jubilee – Actor: Rajinikanth.
Award
Lifetime achievement – French actress: Isabelle
Award Anne Madeleine
Huppert
2019 WTA Player Award winners
Australia’s Ashleigh Barty named Player of the year.
List of 2019 WTA Player Award Winners:
Winners Country Category
Ashleigh Barty Australia Player of the year
Bianca Vanessa Canada Newcomer of the year
Andreescu
Sofia Anna Kenin United States Most Improved Player of
(US) the year
Timea Babos and Kristina Hungary and Doubles Team of the Year
Mladenovic France
Belinda Bencic Switzerland Comeback player of the
year
OCTOBER
Overview of Asian Academy Creative Awards 2019 Regional Winners

Category Awardee
Best Actor in a Leading Role Sumedh Mudgalkar – RadhaKrishn by Swastik Productions
for Star Bharat
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Balaji Manohar – Bhak by HOOQ
Best Actress in a Leading Role Shefali Shah – Delhi Crime by Golden Karavan
Productions/Ivanhoe Pictures for Netflix
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Mona Ambegaonkar – Bhak by HOOQ
Best Adaptation of an Existing Format Hear Me Love Me by Fremantle India for Amazon Prime
Best Animated Programme or Series Lamput : Collection V2 by Vaibhav Studios for Cartoon
(2D or 3D) Network
Best Cinematography Magesh Madan – Mega Icons – Dalai Lama by National
Geographic India
Best Comedy Performance Zakir Khan for Kaksha Gyarvi by OML (Only Much Louder)
Entertainment for Amazon Prime Video
Best Comedy Programme Sketchy Behaviour by OML Entertainment for Amazon
Prime Video
Best Current Affairs Programme or India’s Game-Changers: Kiran Mazumdar Shaw by BBC
Series (British Broadcasting Corporation) World News
Best Direction (Fiction) Richie Mehta for Delhi Crime by Golden Karavan
Productions/ Ivanhoe Pictures for Netflix
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Best Direction (Non-Fiction) Paramangsu Mukherjee – Mega Icons – APJ Abdul Kalam by
National Geographic India
Best Documentary Programme (one- TARINI by National Geographic India
off)
Best Documentary Series Firepower: Defending India by AETN18 Media for History
TV18
Best Drama Series Delhi Crime by Golden Karavan Productions/Ivanhoe
Pictures for Netflix
Best Editing Beverley Mills – Delhi Crime by Golden Karavan
Productions/Ivanhoe Pictures for Netflix
Best Feature Film Gully Boy by Excel Entertainment
Best Infotainment Programme The President’s Bodyguard by National Geographic India
Best Lifestyle Programme Travel Trends India by CNN (Cable News Network)
Best Lifestyle, Entertainment Maniesh Paul – Indian Idol 10 by Fremantle India for Sony
Presenter/Host Entertainment
Best Non Scripted Entertainment Masters of Taste – The Family Table by National Geographic
India
Best Original Programme by a Delhi Crime by Golden Karavan Productions/Ivanhoe
Streamer/OTT Pictures for Netflix
Best Original Screenplay Richie Mehta – Delhi Crime by Golden Karavan
Productions/ Ivanhoe Pictures for Netflix
Best Promo or Trailer RadhaKrishn by Swastik Productions for Star Bharat
Best Short Form Content Lamput : The Airport by Vaibhav Studios for Cartoon
Network
Best Single News Story/Report Yogita Limaye: Afghanistan Sexual Harassment by BBC
World News
Best Sports Programme (one VIVO IPL (Indian Premier League) CRICKET LIVE – Maruti
off/series) Suzuki Cricket Live – VIVO IPL Final 2019 by STAR TV
INDIA
Best Telenovela or Soap Opera Series Chandragupta Maurya by One Life Studios for Sony
Entertainment Television
Best Theme Song or Title Theme Bhak – ‘City of Schemes’ by Surya Ragunaathan & Adriel
George for HOOQ
Best Visual or Special FX in TV Series or RadhaKrishn by Swastik Productions for Star Bharat
Feature Film
SEPTEMBER
President Ram Nath Kovind Addresses Swachh Mahotsav 2019 Held In Vigyan Bhavan, New
Delhi
The President presented the Swachh Bharat Awards 2019 in various categories for outstanding
contribution to Swachh Bharat Mission in New Delhi.
List of Swachh Bharat Awards 2019

S.No Name of the Award Award won by
1 Best Swachh Iconic Place award Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Temple in Jammu and
Kashmir(J&K)
Category: Overall improvement in sanitation
2 Best Swachh Iconic Place Award Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT)
Category: Swachh Bharat Mission Initiative
3 Best ministry for implementation of Ministry of Railways
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4 Swachhta Pakhwada Award Department of Defence
5 Best Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) Power Grid Corporation
(for its contribution to Swachh Bharat Kosh)
6 Open Defecation Free (ODF) and Gujarat and Sikkim
Behavior Change
7 Ganga Gram Award Village Baghori in Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand
8 Swachh Bharat Summer Internship Ranjitha S for NCC(National Cadet Corps)
Bharatiya Shaheed Sainik School (Nainital) for
NSS(National Service Scheme),Vision Youth
Association(Anantapuramu Andhra Pradesh)
for Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (NYKS)
Key Highlights:
i. The Mata Vaishno Devi shrine, a religious pilgrimage atop the Trikuta hills in Reasi district of Jammu
& Kashmir (J&K) was adjudged as best Best Swachh Iconic Place in India 2019 for overall
improvement in sanitation by undertaking initiatives such as water kiosks, reverse vending machines,
installation of kill waste machine, etc.
President Kovind bestowed the award to Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board (SMVDSB).
Other awards: In 2017, the shrine got a special award from the Ministry of Drinking Water and
Sanitation for retaining 2nd position, behind only to the Golden Temple. In 2018, the shrine was also
declared as the cleanest religious place by the India Today Group.
ii. The Victorian-era railway station & UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization )World Heritage Site ,the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) in Mumbai,
Maharashtra has been awarded the Best swachh iconic place in India 2019 under Swachh Bharat
Mission Initiative such as accomplishment of the action plan, involvement of stakeholders in execution
of action plans, fund leverage, fund utilization, cleanliness in peripheral area, etc.
The award has been received by Ministry of Railways jointly along with BrihanMumbai Municipal
Corporation(BMC) and CSR partner SBI (State Bank of India) Foundation.
iii. Indian Railways got selected as the best ministry for implementation of Swachhata action plan for
2018-19. Shri Vinod Kumar Yadav, Chairman, Railway Board has received the award. Indian Railways
had spent about 3000 crore on cleanliness campaign on its various properties during 2018-19.
As per Cleanliness Ranking Survey for 2018, three best stations Jodhpur, Jaipur & Tirupati were also
awarded.
iv. Addressing the event, President stated that cleanliness as a pathway to success and also an
essential condition for success of government’s initiative ‘Jal Jeevan Mission’.
He also underscored the construction of toilets across India under Swachh Bharat Mission that helps
in maintaining dignity of women as well as their empowerment.
v. Over 1300 swachhata champions including school children, NCC cadets, volunteers from NSS and
NYKS, swachhagrahies, sarpanches, representatives from States and UTs, central government
ministries and media persons attended the event. Read full details here: President Ram Nath Kovind
Addresses Swachh Mahotsav 2019 Held In Vigyan Bhavan, New
Overview Of 71st Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards For 2019

The 71st annual Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony for 2019 was held over two nights
on September 14- 15, 2019 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, United States.
Key Points:
 Home Box Office’s (HBO) Game of Thrones received 10 awards at Creative Arts Emmy Awards
2019.
 HBO’s “Chernobyl” won 7 awards and Amazon Prime Video’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” won
6 awards.
 National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) won 2 Emmy Awards for interactive
programming focused on the SpaceX Demonstration Mission-1 and its Mars InSight mission.
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 Norman Lear became the oldest Emmy Winner at the age of 97 for Outstanding Variety Special
(Live) in ‘Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s All in the Family’ and ‘The Jeffersons
special’. He surpassed the record held by Sir David Attenborough (aged 93).
 The late TV personality and chef Anthony Bourdain, who passed away in June 2018, won 2
posthumous Emmys for his series, Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown.
 ‘Game of Thrones’ season 8 has secured 32 nominations at 71st Emmy Awards, creating a
record for the most number of Emmy nominations received in a single year surpassing the
record held by Drama series ‘NYPD Blue’ with 27 nominations in 1994.
 American television host James Corden, who anchors the late-night talk show ‘The Late Late
Show,’ became the most-nominated person (6 categories) in the 71st Emmy Awards.
List of Winners:
Category Awardee
Outstanding Guest Actress In A Drama Series Cherry Jones for The Handmaid’s Tale, “Holly”
Outstanding Prosthetic Makeup for a Series, Star Trek: Discovery, “If Memory Serves”
Limited Series, Movie or Special
Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Barry, “ronny/lily”
Drama Series (Half-Hour) And Animation
Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Limited Series or Chernobyl, “1:23:45”
Movie
Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative The Handmaid’s Tale, “Holly”
Contemporary Program (One Hour or More)
Outstanding Guest Actor In A Comedy Series Luke Kirby as Lenny Bruce on The Marvelous
Mrs. Maisel (Episode: “All Alone”)
Outstanding Choreography For Scripted Kathryn Burns for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend –
Programming (Juried) “Routines: Don’t Be a Lawyer, Antidepressants
Are So Not a Big Deal”
Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Chernobyl
Period or Fantasy Program (One Hour or More)
Outstanding Production Design for a Narrative Russian Doll, “Nothing In This World Is Easy”
Program (Half-Hour)
Outstanding Sound Editing for a Comedy or Game Of Thrones, “The Long Night”
Drama Series (One Hour)
Outstanding Sound Editing for a Comedy or Barry, “ronny/lily”
Drama Series (Half-Hour) And Animation
Outstanding Special Visual Effects In A Supporting Chernobyl, “1:23:45”
Role
Outstanding Special Visual Effects Game Of Thrones, “The Bells”
Outstanding Fantasy/Sci-Fi Costumes Game Of Thrones, “The Bells”
Outstanding Guest Actor In A Drama Series Bradley Whitford as Commander Joseph
Lawrence on The Handmaid’s Tale,
“Postpartum”
Outstanding Cinematography for a Multi-Camera The Ranch, “Reckless”
Series
Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, “Simone”
Series (One Hour)
Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series ane Lynch as Sophie Lennon on The Marvelous
Mrs. Maisel, “Vote For Kennedy, Vote For
Kennedy”
Outstanding Main Title Design Game Of Thrones
Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music Nicholas Britell for Succession
Outstanding Actor In A Short Form Comedy or Chris O’Dowd as Tom on State Of The Union
Drama Series
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Outstanding Creative Achievement In Interactive Bandersnatch (Black Mirror)

Media Within A Scripted Program
Outstanding Music Composition for a Series Ramin Djawadi for Game Of Thrones, “The Long
(Original Dramatic Score) Night”
Outstanding Music Composition for a Limited Hildur Guðnadóttir for Chernobyl, “Please
Series, Movie or Special (Original Dramatic Score) Remain Calm”
Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series Fleabag
Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series Game Of Thrones
Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Game Of Thrones, “The Long Night”
Drama Series (One Hour)
Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Series Chernobyl, “Please Remain Calm”
or Movie
Outstanding Structured Reality Program Queer Eye
Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Free Solo
Program
Outstanding Narrator Sir David Attenborough for Our Planet, “One
Planet”
Outstanding Music Composition for a Brandon Roberts and Marco Beltrami for Free
Documentary Series or Special (Original Dramatic Solo
Underscore)
Outstanding Creative Achievement In Interactive Free Solo, 360
Media Within An Unscripted Program
Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special Hannah Gadsby: Nanette
Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown, “Kenya”
Outstanding Motion Design (juried) Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj
Outstanding Informational Series or Special Anthony Bourdain for Parts Unknown
Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special Leaving Neverland
Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series Our Planet
Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Nonfiction Free Solo
Program
Outstanding Sound Editing for a Nonfiction Free Solo
Program (Single or Multi-Camera)
Overview of 20th Edition of NEXA IIFA Awards for 2019
• The 20th Edition of NEXA International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA Awards) for 2019
was held on September 18, 2019 at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Indoor Stadium, Mumbai,
Maharashtra. For the first time, the award ceremony was held in India.
Category Awardee
Best Film Raazi
Best Actor in a Leading Role (Female) Alia Bhatt for Raazi
Best Actor in a Leading Role (Male) Ranveer Singh for Padmaavat
Best Director Sriram Raghavan for Andhadhun
Best Supporting Actor (Female) Aditi Rao Hydari for Padmaavat
Best Supporting Actor (Male) Vicky Kaushal for Sanju
Best Debutant (Female) Sara Ali Khan for Kedarnath
Best Debutant (Male) Ishaan Khatter for Dhadak and Beyond
the Clouds
Best Playback Singer (Male) Arijit Singh for “Ae Watan”- Raazi
Best Playback Singer (Female) Harshdeep Kaur and Vibha Saraf for
“Dilbaro” – Raazi
Best Lyricist Amitabh Bhattacharya for “Dhadak
(Title Track)”- “Dhadak”
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Best Music Director Amaal Mallik, Guru Randhawa, Rochak

Kohli, Saurabh-Vaibhav, Yo Yo Honey
Singh and Zack Knight (Sonu Ke Titu Ki
Sweety)
Best Story/ Screenplay Sriram Raghavan, Pooja Ladha Surti,
Arijit Biswas, Yogesh Chandekar and
Hemanth Rao for Andhadhun
Best music direction in the last 20 years Pritam Chakraborty for Ae Dil Hai
Mushkil
Best director in the last 20 years Rajkumar Hirani
Best film in the last 20 years Rakesh Roshan’s film Kaho Na Pyaar Hai
Best actor in the last 20 years Ranbir Kapoor for Barfi
Best actress in the last 20 years Deepika Padukone for Chennai Express
Outstanding Contribution to Indian Cinema (Dance & Saroj Khan
Choreography)
Critics’ Award for Best Film AndhaDhun
Critics’ Award for Best Actor (Female) Neena Gupta, Badhaai Ho
Critics’ Award for Best Actor (Male) Ranveer Singh, “Padmaavat”
Best Debut Director Amar Kaushik, Stree
Best Dialogue Akshat Ghildial, Badhaai Ho
Best Original Story Anubhav Sinha, Mulk
Best Actor (Male) in a Short Film Hussain Dalal, Shameless
Best Actor (Female) in a Short Film Kirti Kulhari, Maya
People’s Choice Award for Best Short Film Plus Minus
Best Short Film (Fiction) Rogan Josh
Best Short Film (Non Fiction) The Soccer City
Best Music Album Padmaavat
Best Lyrics Gulzar for Ae Watan, Raazi & for
AndhaDhun
Best Background Score Daniel George, AndhaDhun
Best Sound Design Kunal Sharma, Tumbbad
Best Choreography Kruti Mahesh Midya, Jyoti Tomaar for
Ghoomar, “Padmaavat”
Best Cinematography Sudeep Chatterjee — Padmaavat
Best Editing Pooja Ladha Surti, AndhaDhun
Best Costume Sheetal Sharma, Manto
Best Production Design Nitin Zihani Chaudhary and Rajesh
Yadav (Tumbbad)
Best VFX (Visual Effects) Red Chillies Fx, Zero
Best Sound Mixing Ajay Kumar P.B (Post House)-
Andhadhun
Best Special Effects Filmgate Films AB-Tumbbad
Outstanding Achievement in Indian Cinema (Lifetime Legendary actor and comedian, Syed
Achievement Award ) Ishtiaq Ahmed Jafri, aka Jagdeep
Overview Of 71st Primetime Emmy Awards For 2019 Held At The Microsoft Theater In
Downtown Los Angeles, California, US
The 71st Edition of Primetime Emmy Awards for 2019 was held at the Microsoft Theater in
Downtown Los Angeles, California, United States (US) on September 22, 2019.
Key Points:
i. The awards were presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS).
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ii. They were given to the best in the US prime time television programming and individual
achievement from June 1, 2018 until May 31, 2019.
iii. The ceremony was broadcasted in the US by Fox Broadcasting Company and produced by Don
Mischer Productions and Done+Dusted. A total of 27 awards were presented.
iv. Fleabag, a British comedy-drama television show created and written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge,
won the most awards with 4.
v. The nominations were announced by D’Arcy Carden and Ken Jeong on July 16, 2019 and Game of
Thrones (HBO) topped the nominations list with 14.
vii. Actor Billy Porter for his role “Pose” in Episode: “Love Is the Message” became the first openly gay,
black man to receive the outstanding Lead Actor in drama.
List of Winners:
Category Winner
Outstanding Comedy Series Fleabag (Prime Video)
Outstanding Drama Series Game of Thrones (HBO-Home Box Office)
Outstanding Limited Series Chernobyl (HBO)
Outstanding Television Movie Bandersnatch (Black Mirror) (Netflix)
Outstanding Variety Talk Series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Outstanding Variety Sketch Series Saturday Night Live (NBC-National Broadcasting
Company)
Outstanding Competition Program RuPaul’s Drag Race (VH1- Video Hits One)
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Bill Hader on Barry (Episode: “The Truth Has a Ring to It”)
Series (HBO)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Phoebe Waller-Bridge on Fleabag (Episode: “Episode 1”)
Comedy Series (Prime Video)
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Billy Porter on Pose (Episode: “Love Is the Message”) (FX)
Series
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Jodie Comer on Killing Eve (Episode: “I Hope You Like
Series Missionary!”) (BBC-British Broadcasting Corporation
America)
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Jharrel Jerome on When They See Us (Netflix)
Series or Movie
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Michelle Williams on Fosse/Verdon (FX)
Limited Series or Movie
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Tony Shalhoub on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Episode:
Comedy Series “We’re Going to the Catskills!”) (Prime Video)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Alex Borstein on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Episode:
Comedy Series “Vote for Kennedy, Vote for Kennedy”) (Prime Video)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Peter Dinklage on Game of Thrones (Episode: “The Iron
Drama Series Throne”) (HBO)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Julia Garner on Ozark (Episode: “The Gold Coast”) (Netflix)
Drama Series
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Ben Whishaw on A Very English Scandal (Episode:
Limited Series or Movie “Episode 3”) (Prime Video)
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Patricia Arquette on The Act (Episode: “Teeth”) (Hulu)
Limited Series or Movie
Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Fleabag (Episode: “Episode 1”), Directed by Harry
Series Bradbeer (Prime Video)
Outstanding Directing for a Drama Ozark (Episode: “Reparations”), Directed by Jason Bateman
Series (Netflix)
Outstanding Directing for a Limited Chernobyl, Directed by Johan Renck (HBO)
Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special
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Outstanding Directing for a Variety Saturday Night Live (Episode: “Host: Adam Sandler”),
Series Directed by Don Roy King (NBC)
Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Fleabag (Episode: “Episode 1”), Written by Phoebe Waller-
Series Bridge (Prime Video)
Outstanding Writing for a Drama Succession (Episode: “Nobody Is Ever Missing”), Written
Series by Jesse Armstrong (HBO)
Outstanding Writing for a Limited Chernobyl, Written by Craig Mazin (HBO)
Series, Movie, or Dramatic Special
Outstanding Writing for a Variety Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Series
Overview of FIFA Football Awards 2019 held in Teatroalla Scala in Milan, Italy
• On September 23, 2019 the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) which is
called as International Federation of Association Football in English conducted the FIFA
Football Awards 2019 held in Teatroalla Scala in Milan, Italy. The awards are briefed below. It
was the 4th edition after the award’s revival (the award was earlier given under the name FIFA
World Player of the Year which merged with France Football’s Ballon d’Or in 2010 to become
the FIFA Ballon d’Or in a six-year partnership). The first awarding ceremony held in 2016.
 Argentinian football player Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini, commonly known as Lionel
Messi won 2019 Best FIFA Men’s Player of the Year award for the first time after the
award’s revival.
 American soccer player Megan Rapinoe won the Best FIFA Women’s Player award 2019 for
the first time.
Award Winner Football Club(FC)
The Best FIFA Men’s Player Lionel Messi (Argentina) Barcelona FC
The Best FIFA Women’s Player Megan Rapinoe (America) Reign FC
The Best FIFA Men’s coach JurgenKlopp (Germany) Liverpool FC
The Best FIFA Women’s coach Jill Ellis (America) –
Best FIFA Men’s goalkeeper Alisson Becker (Brazil) Liverpool FC
The Best FIFA Women’s goalkeeper Sari van Veenendaal Atlético Madrid
(Netherlands) Femenino
FIFA Puskás Award Daniel Zsori (Hungary) Fehérvár FC
FIFA fan Award Silvia Grecco –
FIFA fair play award Marcelo Bielsa and the Leeds –
United squad
President of India, Shri Ram NathKovind awarded Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prizes 2019
• President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind, presented the 2019 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prizes
on the occasion of 77th Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Foundation Day in
New Delhi.
Awarded field Awardee

Biological Sciences Dr. KayaratSai Krishnan, Indian Institute of Science Education and
Research(IISER), Pune. & Dr. SoumenBasak, National Institute of
Immunology (NII), New Delhi
Chemical Sciences Dr. Raghavan B Sunoj, India Institute of Technology(IIT), Bombay &
Dr. Tapas Kumar Maji, Jawahar Lal Nehru Centre for Advanced
Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru
Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean Dr. Subimal Ghosh, IIT, Bombay
and Planetary Sciences
Engineering Sciences Dr. Manik Varma, Microsoft Research(MSR) India, Bengaluru.
Mathematical Sciences Dr. DishantMayur Bhai Pancholi Institute of Mathematical
Sciences(IMSc), Chennai
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Dr. Neena Gupta, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata

Medical Sciences Dr. Dhiraj Kumar, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and
Biotechnology(ICGEB), New Delhi.
Dr. Mohammad Javed Ali, LV Prasad Eye Institute(LVPEI), Hyderabad
Physical Sciences Dr. Aninda Sinha, Indian Institute of Science(IISc), Bengaluru.
Dr. Shankar Ghosh, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research(TIFR),
Mumbai
JULY
29 new World Heritage sites for 2019 by UNESCO
 The 2019 list includes natural sites, such as Vatnajökull National Park in Iceland; cultural sites,
such as the historic city of Sheki in Azerbaijan and the archaeological ruins of Liangzhu City in
southeast China; and just one mixed site this year the Paraty and Ilha Grande in Brazil, which
combines natural and cultural elements.
♦ Australia: Budj Bim Cultural Landscape
♦ Azerbaijan: Historic Centre of Sheki with the Khan's Palace
♦ Bahrain: Dilmun Burial Mounds
♦ Brazil: Paraty and Ilha Grande -- Culture and Biodiversity
♦ Burkina Faso: Ancient ferrous metallurgy sites of Burkina Faso
♦ Canada: Writing-on-Stone/Áísínai'pi
♦ China: Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City
♦ China: Migratory Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of
China, Phase I
♦ Czech Republic: Landscape for Breeding and Training of Ceremonial Carriage Horses at
Kladruby nad Labem
♦ Czech Republic/Germany: Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region
♦ France: French Austral Lands and Seas
♦ Germany: Water Management System of Augsburg
♦ Iceland: Vatnajökull National Park
♦ India: Jaipur City, Rajasthan
♦ Indonesia: Ombilin Coal Mining Heritage of Sawahlunto
♦ Iran: Hyrcanian Forests
♦ Iraq: Babylon
♦ Italy: Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano a Valdobbiadene
♦ Japan: Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group: Mounded Tombs of Ancient Japan
♦ Republic of Korea: Seowon, Korean Neo-Confucian Academies
♦ Lao People's Democratic Republic: Megalithic Jar Sites in Xiengkhuang -- Plain of Jars
♦ Myanmar: Bagan
♦ Poland: Krzemionki Prehistoric Striped Flint Mining Region
♦ Portugal: Royal Building of Mafra -- Palace, Basilica, Convent, Cerco Garden and Hunting
Park, Tapada
♦ Portugal: Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte in Braga
♦ Russian Federation: Churches of the Pskov School of Architecture
♦ Spain: Risco Caido and the Sacred Mountains of Gran Canaria Cultural Landscape
♦ United Kingdom: Jodrell Bank Observatory
♦ United States: The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowships (Akademi Ratna) and Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards
(Akademi Puraskar) for the Year 2018 announced
On July 16, 2019, Sangeet Natak Akademi (SNA) Fellowships (Akademi Ratna) and Sangeet Natak
Akademi Awards (Akademi Puraskar) for the Year 2018 were announced by the General Council of
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the Sangeet Natak Akademi, the National Academy of Music, Dance and Drama headquartered at New
Delhi. The awards will be conferred by the President of India at a special investiture ceremony.
General Council of the Sangeet Natak Akademi
The meeting of the General Council of the Sangeet Natak Akademi was held on June 26, 2019 at
Guwahati, Assam. It selected 44 artists from the field of Music, Dance, Theatre,
Traditional/Folk/Tribal Music/Dance/Theatre, Puppetry and Overall contribution/scholarship in the
Performing Arts for the Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards (Akademi Puraskar) for the year 2018. These
44 artists include three joint awards. The Fellowship of the Akademi is the most prestigious and rare
honor, which is restricted to 40 numbers at any given time.
Prize Money
Akademi Fellow carries a purse money of Rs 3,00,000 and Akademi Award carries Rs 1,00,000,
besides a Tamrapatra and Angavastram.
Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellow (Akademi Ratna) Awards
The General Council unanimously elected 4 eminent personalities in the field of performing arts for
Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellow (Akademi Ratna). They are
Zakir Hussain- Tabla Virtuoso
Sonal Mansingh- Dancer
Jatin Goswami- Dancer & Choreographer
Kalyanasundaram Pillai- Bharatanatyam exponent
Sangeet Natak Akademi Awards (Akademi Puraskar)
Music
In the field of Music, 11 eminent artists were awarded.
Mani Prasad Hindustani Vocal
Madhup Mudgal Hindustani Vocal
Tarun Bhattacharya Hindustani Instrumental – (Santoor)
Tejendra Narayan Hindustani Instrumental – (Sarod)
Majumdar
Alamelu Mani Carnatic Vocal
Malladi Suribabu Carnatic Vocal
S.Kasim & S Babu Carnatic Instrumental – Nagaswaram
Ganesh & Kumaresh Carnatic Instrumental – Violin
Suresh Wadkar Other Major Traditions of Music – “Sugam
Sangeet”
Shanti Hiranand Other Major Traditions of Music – “Sugam
Sangeet”
H. Ashangbi Devi Other Major Traditions of Music – “Nata
Sankirtana” Manipur
Dance
In the field of Dance, 9 eminent artists were awarded.
Radha Sridhar Bharatanatyam
Ishira & Maulik Shah Kathak (Joint Award) Kathak
Akham Lakshmi Devi Manipuri
Surupa Sen Odissi
Tankeswar Hazarika Borbayan Sattriya
Gopika Varma Mohiniattam
Deepak Mazumdar Contemporary Dance
Pasumurthy Ramalinga Sastry Kuchipudi
Tapan Kumar Pattanayak Chhau
Theatre
In the field of Theatre, 9 eminent artists were awarded.
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Rajiv Naik Playwriting

Laltluangliana Khiangte Playwriting
Sanjay Upadhyay Direction
S.Raghunandana Direction
Suhas Joshi Acting
Teekam Joshi Acting
Swapan Nandy Mime
Bhagawat A S Nanjappa Other Major Traditions of Theatre-
Yakshagana
A.M. Parameswaran Kuttan Other Major Traditions of Theatre-
Chakkiyar Kutiyattam
Traditional/Folk/Tribal Music/Dance/Theatre and Puppetry
In the field of Traditional/Folk/Tribal Music/Dance/Theatre and Puppetry, 10 artists were awarded.
Malini Awasthi Folk Music, Uttar Pradesh
Gazi Khan Barna Folk Music – Khartal, Rajasthan
Narendar Singh Negi Folk Songs, Uttrakhand
Niranjan Rajyaguru Folk Music, Gujarat
Mohd. Sadiq Bhagat Folk Theatre (Bhand Pather), J&K
Kota Sachidanand Shastry Harikatha, Andhra Pradesh
Arjun Singh Dhruve Folk Dance, Madhya Pradesh
Somnath Battu Folk Music, Himachal Pradesh
Anupama Hoskere Puppetry (String), Karnataka
Hem Chandra Goswami Mask Making, Assam
Overall Contribution / Scholarship in Performing Arts
In the field of Overall Contribution / Scholarship in Performing Arts, 2 artists were awarded.
Diwan Singh Bajeli (Scholar)
Puru Dadhich (Overall Contribution)
Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskars for the Year 2018
Sangeet Natak Akademi, in the meeting of its General Council held on 26 June 2019 at Guwahati,
Assam, selected 32 (Including one joint Awards) artists of India who have made a mark as young
talents in their respective fields of the performing arts for Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar 2018.
It will be presented at a special ceremony by the Shekhar Sen, Chairman of Sangeet Natak Akademi.
Criteria
It is conferred upon artists below the age of 40 years with the objective to identify and encourage
outstanding young talents in diverse fields of performing arts and giving them national recognition
early in their lives, so that they may work with greater commitment and dedication in their chosen
fields.
Prize Money
Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar carries a purse money of Rs 25,000.
Music
In the field of Music, 8 artists were awarded.
Sameehan Kashalkar Hindustani Vocal Music
Ruchira Kedar Hindustani Vocal Music
Dhruv Bedi Hindustani Instrumental Music–Sitar
Shubh Maharaj Hindustani Instrumental – Tabla
Sandeep Narayan Carnatic Vocal Music
J.B.Sruthi Sagar Carnatic Instrumental Music–Flute
R.Sridhar Carnatic Instrumental Music–Violin
M.D.Pallavi Other Major Traditions of Music – Bhava Sangeet
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Dance
In the field of Dance, 8 artists were awarded.
Vijna Rani Vasudevan & Rajith Babu (Joint Bharatanatyam
Award)
Durgesh Gangani Kathak
Kalamandalam Vaisakh Kathakali
Manju Elangbam Manipuri
Madhulita Mohapatra Odissi
Anjali Borbora Borthakur Sattriya
Rakesh Sai Babu Chhau
Vikram Mohan Contemporary
Dance
Theatre
In the field of Theatre, 7 artists were awarded.
Chavan Pramod R Direction
Namrata Sharma Acting
Sunil Palwal Acting
Preeti Jha Tiwari Acting
Kuldeep Patgiri Mime
Subhadeep Guha Allied Theatre Arts – Music for Theatre
Kalamandalam Sajith Other Major Traditions of Theatre –
Vijayan Kutiyattam
Traditional/Folk/Tribal Music/Dance/Theatre and Puppetry
In the field of Traditional/Folk/Tribal Music/Dance/Theatre and Puppetry, 8 artists were awarded.
Chandan Tiwari Folk Music-Bihar
Dinesh Kumar Jangde Panthi Dance – Chhattisgarh
Manoj Kumar Das Traditional Music – Khol, Assam
Chandani Mansing Zala Puppetry, Gujarat
A.Aneshori Devi Traditional & Folk Music, Manipur
P.Rajkumar Folk Dance, Tamilnadu
Madhushree Haital Folk Music (Jhumar) – West Bengal
Ashok Kumar Folk Music-Uttar Pradesh
Gallantry awards and other decorations- 2019
• President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind approved 132 Awards to Armed Forces Personnel and
members of Paramilitary Forces. President is the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces.
There were 2 Kirti Chakras, 1 Vir Chakra, 14 Shaurya Chakras, 8 Bar to Sena Medals (Gallantry),
90 Sena Medals (Gallantry), 5 Nao Sena Medals (Gallantry), 7 Vayu Sena Medals (Gallantry) and
5 Yudh Seva Medals.
Kirti Chakra 2019

About the award: It is awarded for valour, courageous action or self-sacrifice away from the field of
battle. It is awarded to civilians as well as military personnel, including posthumous awards. It is
second in order of precedence of peacetime gallantry awards which comes after Ashoka Chakra and
before Shaurya Chakra. It was established as the “Ashoka Chakra, Class II” by the President of India on
4 January 1952 (with effect from 15 August 1947). The statutes were revised and the decoration
renamed on 27 January 1967.
Medal design: The medal is made of standard silver and is circular in shape. The green ribbon is
divided into three equal parts by two orange vertical lines.
Awardees: Sapper Prakash Jadhav of the Rashtriya Rifles (posthumously) and Harshpal Singh, Dy
Commandant of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were awarded Kirti Chakras 2019.
Vir Chakra 2019
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About the award: It is awarded for acts of gallantry in the presence of enemy, whether on land or at
sea or in the air. It was established by the President of India on 26 January 1950 (with effect from 15
August 1947). It is given only to Military personnel.
Medal design: The medal is made of standard silver with a five-pointed heraldic star embossed on it.
The star shall have in the centre a Chakra and within the Chakra shall be a domed centre piece bearing
the gilded State Emblem. The words ‘VirChakra’ is embossed both in Hindi and English on the reverse
and the two versions are separated by two lotus flowers.
Awardee: Wing Commander of Indian Air Force (IAF) Abhinandan Varthaman, who downed an
enemy jet during an aerial combat with Pakistan in February 2019 and was held captive for 3 days,
was conferred the Vir Chakra 2019, India’s third-highest war time gallantry medal.
Shaurya Chakra 2019
i. About the award: It is awarded for valour, courageous action or self-sacrifice while not engaged in
direct action with the enemy. It is awarded to civilians as well as military personnel, sometimes
posthumously. It is third in order of precedence of peacetime gallantry awards and comes after the
Ashoka Chakra and Kirti Chakra. It precedes the Sena Medal.
ii. Medal design: It is a circular bronze medal with a green ribbon divided into four equal parts by
three vertical lines.
iii. Awardees: Following 14 personnel were awarded Shaurya Chakras for 2019:
Sl No Name Service
1 Lieutenant Colonel Ajay Singh Kushwah Army
2 Major Vibhuti Shankar Dhoundiyal (posthumously) Army
3 Captain Maheshkumar Bhure Army
4 Lance Naik Sandeep Singh (posthumously) Army
5 Sepoy Brajesh Kumar (posthumously) Army
6 Sepoy Hari Singh (posthumously) Army
7 Rifleman Ajveer Singh Chauhan Army
8 Rifleman Shive Kumar (posthumously) Army
9 Amit Singh Rana Navy
10 Constable Sable Dnyaneshwar Shriram MHA*
11 Constable Zaker Hussain MHA
12 Special Police Official Ashiq Hussain Malik (posthumously) MHA
13 Head Constable Subash Chander MHA
14 Sub Inspector Imran Hussain Tak (posthumously) MHA
*MHA- Ministry of Home Affairs
Sena Medals 2019
About the award: It is awarded to members of the Indian army, of all ranks. It can be awarded for
gallantry or it can also be for distinguished service carried out by any soldier, not in the face of the
enemy. It is preceded by the Vir Chakra, Shaurya Chakra & Yudh Seva Medal and also the Vishisht Seva
Medal. It was established on 17 June 1960, by the President of India.
Medal design: It is a circular silver medal with a bayonet, pointed upwards and 32 mm, red ribbon,
with a white central stripe- Red 15 mm, white 2 mm, red 15 mm.Bar to Sena Medal (Gallantry) 2019
Sl No Name Service
1 Colonel Ashutosh Sharma Army
2 Major K Naveen Reddy Army
3 Major Sagar Prakash Pardeshi Army
4 Major Tasou Prao Army
5 Major MD Sahwaj Alam Army
6 Major Kaustubh Prakashkumar Rane (posthumously) Army
7 Major Manish Kumar Singh Army
8 Sepoy Sunil Kumar Army
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Sena Medal (Gallantry) 2019

90 Army personnel were awarded Sena medals (Gallantry) 2019.
Nao Sena Medals 2019
i. About the award: It is a gallantry award for servicemen in the Indian Navy. It was established by
the President of India on 17 June 1960.
ii. Medal design: The medal is pentangular in shape, with curved sides made of standard silver. The
mounting shall is a fixed ring attached to a metal stripe 3mm wide ornamented with Ashoka leaves. It
has embossed on its obverse the Naval Crest. On its reverse, it has a trident within a circle and rope
and the inscription “Nao Sena Medal” in Hindi, embossed along the upper rim. The riband is navy blue
colour with a white thin silver stripe down the centre.
iii. Awardees: Following are the awardees:
1 Captain Naveen Thapa
2 Lt Cdr Ruchir Rakesh Khajuria
3 Takhellambam Rakhesh Singh
4 Shaminder Singh
5 Shri Niwas
Vayu Sena Medals 2019
i. About the award: It is an Indian military decoration, usually awarded in peacetime for a job well
done. It can be awarded Posthumously. It was established on 17 June 1960 by the President of India. It
is awarded for all ranks of Indian Air Force.
ii. Medal design: A four-armed silver star with the points shaped like lotus blooms. In the centre, the
national emblem. Suspended by a straight bar suspender and normally named and dated on the edge.
In the reverse side, A Himalayan Eagle with wings spread, and the legend, above and below, in Hindi
“Vayu Sena Medal” or “Air Force / Medal”. Ribbon: 30 mm, alternating 2 mm diagonal (lower left to
upper right) stripes of grey and orange-saffron. The ribbon has an overall “woven” appearance.
iii. Awardees: Following are the awardees:
Sl No Name
1 Group Captain Saumitra Tamaskar
2 Wing Commander Pranav Raj
3 Wing Commander Amit Ranjan
4 Squadron leader Rahul Basoya
5 Squadron leader Pankaj Arvind Bhujade
6 Squadron leader B Karthik Narayan Reddy
7 Squadron leader Shashank Singh
Yudh Seva Medal 2019
About the award: It is is one of India’s military decorations for distinguished service during wartime.
It is awarded for a high degree of distinguished service in an operational context, which includes times
of war, conflict, or hostilities and may be awarded posthumously. It is the wartime equivalent of the
Vishisht Seva Medal (VSM). It was established on June 26, 1980.
Awardees: Following are the awardees:
Sl No Name Service
1 Air Commodore Sunil Kashinath Vidhate AVSM VM Air Force
2 Group Captain Yeshpal Singh Negi VM VSM Air Force
3 Group Captain Hemant Kumar Air Force
4 Group Captain Hansel Joseph Sequeira Air Force
5 Squadron Leader Minty Aggarwal Air Force
Tatrakshak Medals 2019
President’s Tatrakshak Medal (Distinguished Service) 2019
It was awarded to IG Thekkumpurath Prabhakaran Sadanandan of Indian Coast Guard (ICG).
Tatrakshak Medals (Gallantry) 2019 to ICG personnel
1 DIG Yoginder Dhaka
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2 Comdt Anurup Singh

3 Dy Comdt Utkersh Sharma
4 Satish
5 Trinatha Behera
Tatrakshak Medal (Meritorious Service) 2019 to ICG personnel
1 IG Maneesh Vishal Pathak
2 DIG Neeraj Tiwari
Fire Service Medals 2019 for Gallantry
President Ramnath Kovind awarded ‘Fire Service Medals 2019’ to 56 personnel.
 ‘Fire Service Medals for Gallantry 2019’ was awarded to Umapathi Dhandapani of Tamil Naidu.
 Shivashankara Nanjunde Gowda, Manjunath Narayan Belaguppa, Kriparam Sharma are among
8 personnel who have been awarded ‘Fire Service Medal 2019 for Distinguished Service’.
 ‘Fire Service Medal 2019 for Meritorious Service’ was awarded to 47 personnel including
Kuleswar Teron, Promod Talukdar and Prasanna Teron.
Home Guard and Civil Defence Medals 2019
President Ramnath Kovind awarded ‘Home Guard and Civil Defence Medals 2019′ to 44 personnel.
 Home Guard and Civil Defence Medals 2019 for Distinguished Service’ was conferred to 8
personnel including Bhuban Saikia and Ashok Kumar Verma.
 Home Guard and Civil Defence Medals 2019 for Meritorious Service was given to 36 personnel
including Gobin Saikia, Laxmi Sahu, Aslam Khan, and Sayar Singh Solanki.
Correctional Service Medals 2019 on prison personnel
President Ram Nath Kovind approved the conferment of Correctional Service Medals 2019 on prison
personnel.
 Shakil Allauddin Shaikh, Subedar, Satara District Prison; N Hemantakumar Singh, Jailor,
Manipur Central Jail, Sajiwa, and Sanjay Gupta, Deputy Superintendent, Mondoli Prison
Headquarters were conferred with the Distinguished Service medal.
 Mukkamalla Venugopal Reddy, Jailor, Office of the District, Sub-Jails Officer, Vijayawada;
Animalla Sesha Hanuman, Head Warden, District Jail, Eluru and Ramesh Prashad,
Superintendent, District Jail, Hajipur are among 37 prison personnel who were conferred with
the Correctional Service Medals 2019 for their Meritorious Service.
Police Medals 2019
NDRF Personnel
6 personnel of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) were awarded with the Police Medals 2019.
They are
 Shri Randeep Kumar Rana, Dy. Inspector General was awarded with President’s Police Medal
2019 for Distinguished Service.
 Shri Alok Kumar, Commandant, Shri Ravi Kant, Second-in-Command, Shri Bhawani Singh,
Assistant Commandant, Inspector Raj Kumar, and Assistant Sub Inspector (GD) Narain Singh
were awarded Police Medal 2019 for Meritorious Service in recognition of their selfless service
to the nation.
BSF Personnel
56 Border Security Force (BSF) officials were honoured with Police Medals 2019. 5 were awarded
Police Medal for Gallantry, 5- President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service and Police Medal for
Meritorious Service was awarded to 46 personnel.
COAS and VCOAS Commendation Cards Awards 2019
370 and 262 Army personnel were awarded Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and Vice Chief of the Army
Staff (VCOAS) Commendation Cards 2019 respectively.
President Awards the Certificate of Honour and Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman for the Year 2019
Certificate of Honour 2019 was given to the following Scholars:
Sl No Name Category
1 Shri Sripada Satyanarayanamurthy Sanskrit
2 Shri Rajendra Nath Sarma Sanskrit
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3 Prof. Ramji Thakur Sanskrit

4 Prof. Chand Kiran Saluja Sanskrit
5 Dr. Shri Krishan Sharma Sanskrit
6 Dr. V. Ramakrishna Bhatt Sanskrit
7 Vidwan Janardana Hegde Sanskrit
8 Dr. Kala Acharya Sanskrit
9 Prof. (Dr.) Harekrishna Satapathy Sanskrit
10 Pandit Satya Dev Sharma Sanskrit
11 Shri Banwari Lal Gaur Sanskrit
12 Dr. V.S. Karunakaran Sanskrit
13 Prof. Yugal Kishor Mishra Sanskrit
14 Pandit Manudev Bhattacharya Sanskrit
15 Shri Subuddhi Charan Goswami Sanskrit
16 Dr. Uma Shankar Vyas Pali
17 Prof. Kamal Chand Sogani Prakrit
18 Prof. Faizanullah Farooqi Arabic
19 Mohammad Iqbal Husain Arabic
20 Dr. Mohd. Samiullah Khan Arabic
21 Prof. Dr. Iraq Raza Zaidi Persian
22 Prof. Chander Shekhar Persian
23 Mohammad Sidiq Niazmand Persian
24 Shri Hampa Nagarajaiah Classical Kannada
25 Prof. Ravva Srihari Classical Telugu
26 Dr.C.P. Achuthan Unny Classical Malayalam
27 Pandit Dr. Antaryami Mishra Classical Odia
Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman 2019 was given to the following Scholars:
Sl No Name Category
1 Dr. Ashok Thapliyal Sanskrit
2 Prof. Sujata Tripathi Sanskrit
3 Dr. Sanju Mishra Sanskrit
4 Dr. Abhijit Hanmant Joshi Sanskrit
5 Dr. Sharachchandra Dwivedi Sanskrit
6 Ms. Anoma Shriram Sakhare Pali
7 Shri Ashish Kumar Jain Prakrit
8 Dr. Fauzan Ahmad Arabic
9 ER.M. Shahbaz Alam Persian
10 Shri G.B. Harisha Classical Kannada
11 Shri S. Karthik Classical Kannada
12 Dr. M. Byrappa Classical Kannada
13 Dr. Addanki Srinivas Classical Telugu
14 Dr. V. Triveni Classical Telugu
15 Dr. D.K. Prabhakar Classical Telugu
16 Dr. Rajeev R.R. Classical Malayalam
17 Shri Santhosh Thottingal Classical Malayalam
18 Dr. Subrat Kumar Prusty Classical Odia
Name of Awards Award Winner Field Points to be noted

Awards given to the Sports Personalities
DECEMBER
Men’s Ballon d’Or award Lionel Andrés Messi Football This is his 6th Ballon d’Or
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2019 Cuccittini award.

Other Awards:
♦ Women’s Ballon d’Or award
2019 -Megan Rapinoe.
♦ Yashin Trophy 2019 -
Alisson Becker
♦ Kopa Trophy 2019-Matthijs
de Ligt.
2019 Marylebone New Zealand The award was presented
Cricket Club’s(MCCs) during the second test match
Christopher Martin- against England at Hamilton’s
Jenkins Spirit of Cricket Seddon Park stadium in New
award Zealand.
Golden Target Award Divyansh Singh India has received three of the
from International Panwar, Elavenil 12 awards of Golden Target
Shooting Sport Valarivan and Awards, while China and the
Federation (ISSF) Saurabh Chaudhary United States (US) have won
two each. Click here to Read
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Federation of Indian Rani Rampal & It is jointly organized by FIT
Chambers of Commerce Saurabh Chaudhary India, Ministry of Youth Affairs
and Industry(FICCI)’s and Sports & FICCI. Click here
‘Sports Person of the to Read More
Year 2019’
BBC’s (British Benjamin Andrew Cricketer Tanni Grey-Thompson won the
Broadcasting Stokes (Ben Stokes) Lifetime Achievement
Corporation) Sports (England Cricketer) Award.Click here to read
Personality of the Year more.
2019
‘Junior Freestyle Deepak Punia Wrestling Punia is the first Indian
Wrestler of the Year’ wrestler in 18 years to win a
2019 junior world title at the Junior
World Championships held in
Tallinn, Estonia in August
2019.
International Tennis Rafael Nadal of Tennis Ashleigh Barty of Australia
Federation (ITF) for Spain and won the Women’s Singles
2019-Men’s Singles championship.Click here to
read the entire winners
BCCI’s CK Nayudu Krishnamachari Cricket Anjum Chopra (42) also
Lifetime Achievement Srikkanth (60) received this award along with
Award Srikkanth.
NOVEMBER
‘Golden Foot’ award Luka Modric (34) Football Real Madrid midfielder Luka
2019 Modric (34) from Crotia
became the 17th winner of the
Golden Foot award in Monaco.
World Athletics Award Eliud Kipchoge of Dalihah Muhammad of
2019- Male Athlete of Kenya America has been awarded
the year 2019 Female Athelete of the year
2019.Click here to read
more.
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27th Ekalabya Award Jhilli Dalabehera weightlifter The award organized by Indian
2019 Metals Public Charitable Trust
(IMPaCT) managed by IMFA
(Indian Metals and Ferro
Alloys limited) group. Other
Prize Winners: Jabamani Tudu
(Odisha), women footballer
and Namita Toppo (Odisha), a
women hockey player.
OCTOBER
European Golden Shoe Lionel Messi Football It was his sixth Golden Shoe.
for the 2018/19 season He is already the only player in
history to get five Golden
Shoes.
7th Edition of Wisden Jasprit Bumrah & Cricket The book titled “Cricket
India Almanack Smriti Mandhana Country: The Untold History of
Cricketer of the Year the First All India Team” by
2019 award Prashant Kidambi was
adjudged the Wisden India
Book of the Year 2019
(Publisher: Penguin India).
SEPTEMBER
Union of European Eric Cantona Football He has won 5 English
Football Association’s championships with Leeds and
(UEFA) President's Manchester United in the
Award 2019 1990s and 2 French titles with
Marseille.
AUGUST
Bharat Gaurav Award Kapil Dev Sports He was awarded during the
2019 99th foundation day of East
Bengal Club, the Kolkata soccer
giants, at the award ceremony
held at Netaji Indoor Stadium,
Kolkata, West Bengal.
JULY
Mohun Bagan Ratna Keshav Dutt & Other Awardees:
2019 Prasun Banerjee  Best Football Player for the
season 2018-19-Arijit Bagui,
 India’s hat-trick hero of
2019 ICC World Cup-
Mohammed Shami,
 Lifetime Achievement
Award -Ashok Chatterjee
(Footballer)
All India Football Sunil Chhetr - Men’s Football  Ashalata Devi- Women’s
Federation‘s (AIFF) Footballer of the Footballer of the year 2019
Awards year 2019  AIFF Emerging Men’s
Footballer of the Year Sahal
Abdul Samad (Kerala)
 AIFF Emerging Women’s
Footballer of the Year
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Dangmei Grace (Manipur)

 Best grassroots
development programme
Jammu and Kashmir
Football Association
 AIFF Award for the Best
Assistant Referee Joseph
Tony (Karnataka)
 AIFF Award for the Best
Referee R Venkatesh (TN).
Awards for Literature/Journalism

DECEMBER
Wharton-QS Stars Rahul Adhikari Academician He received the award for
Reimagine Education “International Changemaker
Award 2019 popularly Olympiad (ICO)”, an annual
known as the “Oscars” of international competition
education program.The award function
was organized by QS
Quacquarelli Symonds ,The
Wharton School of Business &
Wharton’s Alfred West Jr.
Learning Lab.
DSC Prize for South Amitabha Bagchi For his book “Half The Night Is
Asian Literature 2019 Gone”
Lokmanya Tilak Sanjay Gupta For his great contribution in

National Journalism the field of Journalism. The
Award award was instituted by the
Kesari-Maratha Trust.
Shireen Dalvi (journalist) returns State Sahitya Akademi Award to protest against Citizenship
Amendment Bill
NOVEMBER
International Press Neha Dixit Journalist It is awarded by the
Freedom Awards 2019 Committee to Protect
Journalist (CPJ) in New York.
Other honorees
Patrícia Campos Mello,
Brazil Lucía Pineda Ubau and
Miguel Mora, Nicaragua
Maxence Melo Mubyazi,
Tanzania.
2019 Karmaveer Chakra Rahul Adhikari Academician The award was given for his
Award and REX contribution in the education
Karmaveer Global sector.
Fellowship
55th Jnanpith Award Akkitham Achuthan poet He is also the 6th Malayalam
2019 Namboodri Poet to receive the Jnanpith
award.
OCTOBER
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2019 Booker Prize Margaret Atwood Author For her novel ‘The Testament’
(79)
Bernardine Everisto Author For ‘Girl, Woman, Other’
(60)
28th Vyas Samman for Leeladhar Jagoori Writer The award was conferred to
2018 him by well-known author
Govind Mishra, for his 12th
anthology (collection of poems
or other pieces of writing) of
poetry collection ‘Jitne Log
Utne Prem’.
27th Ezhuthachan Anand Writer
Puraskaram 2019
SEPTEMBER
Education Excellence Anand Kumar Academics Contributions towards
Award 2019 by the imparting education to the
Foundation For needy students.
Excellence (FFE)
SASTRA Ramanujan Adam Harper Academics He will be awarded with a
prize for 2019 citation and an award of $10,000.
The award is given to people
under the age of 32 working in
the area influenced by
mathematician Srinivasa
Ramanujan.
28th Saraswati Samman Dr. K Siva Reddy Literature The Vice President, Shri M.
2018 Venkaiah Naidu has honored
the Telugu litterateur Dr. K
Siva Reddy with the 28th
Saraswati Samman 2018 for
the creation of his famous
poetry collection ‘Pakkaki
Ottigilite' (Turning aside while
lying down) in 2016
AUGUST
2019 Raman Magsaysay Ravish Kumar JournalismFive other individuals were
Award declared winners of this award
along with Ravish Kumar.
2019 Pushkin Medal Meeta Narain She was honoured with the
award for her extraordinary
contribution to Russian studies
abroad.
Awards given to Film/Music Industry
DECEMBER
2019 Harivarasanam Ilaiyaraja Music The award has been instituted
award by the Travancore Devaswom
Board (TDB). since 2012 and
comprises of a cash prize of Rs
1 lakh, a citation, and a plaque.
50th Dadasaheb Phalke Amitabh Bachchan Actor He received the award from
Award 2018 President Ram Nath Kovind in
Delhi, for his outstanding
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contribution to the film

industry.
OCTOBER
Chetana Silver Jubilee Sripathi Singer On the other hand, Oscar-
National Award 2019 Panditaradhyula winning sound engineer Resul
Balasubrahmanyam Pookutty won the national
audio excellence award,
instituted in memory of Fr.
Paul Alengattukaran, the
founder of the Chetana Sound
Studio.
50th, the Golden Jubilee edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) 2019 will be held in
Goa. Russia will be the partner country.
♦ Rajinikanth to be honoured with first “Icon of Golden Jubilee Award”.
♦ French actor Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert will be honoured with “Life Time
Achievement Award” for a ‘foreign artiste’
SEPTEMBER
Indian International Neena Gupta Actress She won the two awards
Film Festival of namely, Best Actress award for
Boston(IFFB) 2019 the film 'Badhaai Ho' & her
film “ Last Color”.
Nominated for the 'Gully Boy' Film Directed by Zoya Akhtar, the
Oscar 2020 Film film has been sent for an Oscar
Awards from India for the Best International
Feature Film category. The
story of the film was inspired
by the life of rap artists, Naezy
and Divine, who have come out
of the narrow streets of
Dharavi to realize their dream
of becoming rappers.
2019 Dadasaheb Phalke Amitabh Bachchan Actor It is conferred to a person for

award his/her lifetime achievement
in cinema. He will be
presented with a Swarna
Kamal (Golden Lotus)
medallion, a shawl and a cash
prize of Rs 10 lakh during the
award presentation.
AUGUST
BAF TA-LA(British Steve Coogan Actor He will be honoured during the
Academy of Film & 2019 Britannia awards to be
Television Arts Los held on 25th October at the
Angeles branch) -2019 Beverly Hilton Hotel,
Charlie Chaplin California, America.
Britannia Award for
Excellence in Comedy”
14th edition of 2019 I’m Jeeja Documentary It was directed by Swati
'We Care Film Festival Film Chakraborty bagged the top
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on Disability Issues' award in the 30-minute

category short film
documentary.
JULY
2019 Locarno Hilary Swank Actress The film festival will screen the
International Film films of Hilary Swank- “Boys
Festival Don’t Cry” (1999) and “Million
Dollar Baby” (2004) for which
she had won Best Actress
Academy Awards.Previous
recipients of the Leopard Club
Award are Meg Ryan, Adrien
Brody, Stefania Sandrelli, Andy
Garcia, Mia Farrow and Faye
Dunaway.
9th edition of the ‘Nagarkirtan’ Film The film won four awards (Best
SAARC( South Asian Director’, ‘Best Actor’ and ‘Best
Association for Regional Original Score’,‘Best Feature
Cooperation) festival Film’).Riddhi Sen won the best
actor award & Prabuddha
2019 in Colombo,
Bannerjee bagged Best Original
Srilanka
Score for Nagarkirtan. Best Short
Film Award to Na Bole Wo Haram
directed by Nitish Patan. Special
Jury Award for Direction and
Story was conferred to ‘Walking
with the Wind’, by Praveen
Morchhale.
Sangita Kalanidhi S. Sowmya Carnatic
Seetha Narayanan, a veteran
Award 2019 vocalist
vocalist and M S Sheela, who
has been a torch-bearer of
Carnatic music in Karnataka,
were selected for the Sangita
Kala Acharya award.
Awards given to Organizations/Banks/Ministries/State/City
DECEMBER
National award for Uttar Pradesh State UP has received the award for the
Excellence for implementation of Sugamya
Rehabilitation of Bharat Abhiyan.
Persons with Read full list of awards
here: Citation of Awardees of
Disabilities (PwDs,
National Awards for the
Divyangjan)
Empowerment of Persons with
Disabilities (Divyangjan) 2019
NOTTO (National Tamil Nadu (TN) Gujarat won three awards for the
Organ and Tissue Best SOTTO (State Organ Tissue
Transplant Transplant Organization), Best
Organization) awards- hospital and Best coordinator in
the organ donation field and
Best State award in
Madhya Pradesh (MP) won the
cadaveric organ
Best SOTTO award.
donation
World Habitat Award Odisha Odisha won the ‘World Habitat
2019 Award 2019’ for Jaga Mission
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also called Odisha Liveable

Habitat Mission (OLHM)
United Nations Global Infosys Ltd Organization Infosys, is the 1st Indian
Climate Action Award corporate to receive the
in the ‘Climate Neutral award. The award was given
Now‘ category for its outstanding
achievements in combating
climate change.
2019 World Habitat Karnataka State For Restoration of Dignity and
Award Human Rights of Indigenous
Tribal Community in
Karnataka
United Nations International Children’s and Education Fund (UNICEF) has awarded the Kamareddy
district of Telangana for effective implementation of Swachh Bharat Mission in water sanitation and
hygiene sectors for the year 2019.
NOVEMBER
2019 ‘Golden Peacock NTPC ltd (National Organization For its efforts in providing
Award for Thermal Power cleaner and green energy, in-
Sustainability’ award Corporation Limited) order to minimize
environmental impact.
OCTOBER
Best Learning and Jammu and Kashmir State It had covered 60% of the
Sharing Space Award beneficiary families, with
2019 regard to golden card
generation
DigiDhan Mission Fin- BharatPe Firm For ‘Innovation in Digital
tech Award 2018-2019 Payments through Emerging
Technology’ at the MeitY
(Ministry of Electronics and
Information Technology)
Start-up Summit 2019 held in
New Delhi.
2019 Golden Leaf Tobacco Board of India It was awarded under ‘Most
Award at the Tab Expo Impressive Public Service
2019 Initiative category for the year
2019’ for initiating various
sustainability (green)
initiatives in Flue-Cured
Virginia (FCV) tobacco
cultivation in India.
SEPTEMBER
Forbes World’s best Visa Organization Nearly 17 Indian companies
'regarded' companies were listed.
list 2019 Top 3 entities:
1. Visa ,2. Ferrari,3. Infosys
BrandZ Top 75 Most HDFC Bank Banks LIC ( Life Insurance
Valuable Indian Brands Corporation of India) stood at
2019 ranking by WPP & number two with a brand
Kantar Millward Brown value of Rs 1.43 lakh crore.
United Nations (UN) Infosys Limited Organization The award was won in the
Global Climate Action 'Climate Neutral Now' category
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Award 2019 for its efforts to combat

climate change. It will be given
this award during the UN
Climate Change Conference
(COP25) in Santiago, Chile
AUGUST
“Best innovation and Rajasthan For its  The Innovative Practices for
initiative leadership achievement Academic Excellence award
award” at the 14th in higher went to Sant Nandlal Vidya
World Education education. Mandir, Jharkhand.
Summit-2019  Emerging University of India
award conferred upon O P
Jindal University, Raigarh,
Chattisgarh.
Euromoney’s ‘World’s DBS Bank Previously it won Global
Best Bank’ Finance's "Best Bank in the
World" in August 2018 and
The Banker's "Bank of the Year
- Global" in November 2018.
JULY
World Economic Quantela Inc Digital It is a new age digital
Forum’s (WEF) technology technology solutions company
Technology Pioneers company focused on IoT(Internet of
Things).
Best innovation award Northeast Frontier ‘Plan Bee’ ‘Plan Bee’, a strategy of using
from Indian Railways Railway’s (NFR) an amplified version of honey
bees sound to keep wild
elephants away from train
tracks.
Other Awards Conferred

DECEMBER
ET Lifetime Arun Jaitley For Public He was the former Finance
Achievement Award Service Minister of India, he was also
for Public Service 2019 the Minister of Corporate
Affairs from May 2014 to May
2019, Minister of Defence from
March 2017 to September
2017, Minister of Information
and Broadcasting from
November 2014 to July 2016,
Minister of Law and Justice
from July 2003 to May 2004
and Minister of State for
Information and Broadcasting
from October 1999 to
September 2000.
Harmony foundation’s Noble Click here to Read More
Mother Teresa reformists
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Memorial Awards for

Social Justice (MTMA)
awards 2019
Miss Universe 2019 Zozibini Tunzi Beauty Pagent She was crowned Miss
Universe 2019 by Catriona
Gray, Miss Universe 2018
during the 68th edition of the
Miss Universe Pageant held in
Atlanta, Georgia.
World’s Leading Sports Abu Dhabi It is set to host the FINA
Tourism Destination (International Swimming
by the 26th Edition of Federation) Short Course
the World Travel World Championship in 2020.
Awards (WTA) 2019
‘Zuri’ Copernicus Masters Social The application was developed
Award also called Space Entrepreneur by Gurgaon-based startup Blue
Oscars, ship category Sky Analytics.
World Economic Deepika Padukone She was honoured for her

Forum’s (WEF) 26th leadership in raising mental
Annual Crystal Awards health awareness.
2020 Other Winners:
Theaster Gates (United States
(US)), Jin Xing (China) &
Lynette Wallworth (Australia)
Miss World 2019 at Toni-Ann Singh (23) of Beauty Pagent Miss India 2019, Suman Ratan
69th Miss World Jamaica Singh Rao, who hails from
competition 2019 in Rajasthan, finished 3rd in the
London, United contest. She also won the Miss
Kingdon (UK) World Asia 2019.
India Cyber Cop of the B.P Raju It was given by NASSCOM

Year 2019 (National Association of
Software and Services
Companies)-DSCI (Data
Security Council of India) in
the Annual Information
Security Summit (AISS) held at
Gurugram.
Bharat Award 2019 Aditya K. He became the 1st child from
Kerala to receive Bharat
Award for bravery.
Army Design Bureau Major Anoop Mishra For indigenously developing the
Excellence Award bullet-proof jacket named
‘Sarvatra Kawach’ .The award
was presented during the Army
Technology Seminar (ARTECH)
that held in New Delhi with the
theme ‘Technologies for Non –
Contact Warfare’
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Belgium’s ‘Carnival of Aalst’ has removed from UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization)’s Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity List.
Urdu author Mujtaba Hussain from Hyderabad, Telangana had said he will return his Padma Shri
award to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
Portuguese govt launched Gandhi Citizenship Education Prize to perpetuate Mahatma Gandhi’s
ideals.
Archaeologist R. Nagaswamy was honoured at the Silver Jubilee International Conference of Art in
Dhaka, Bangladesh -for his contribution to art, archaeology, history and culture.
NOVEMBER
‘Miss Asia Global 2019’ Sara Beauty Pagent Nguyen Thi Yen Trang from
Damnjanovic(Serbia) Vietnam won the ‘Miss Asia
2019’ Title, crowned by Honey
Tianmia, who won Miss Asia
title in 2017. Samiksha Singh
from India won the sub-title of
‘Miss Beautiful Face’ Title.
Deming award Venu Srinivasan Industrialist He is the first Indian to receive
‘Distinguished Service this Deming Award
Award for
Dissemination and
Promotion Overseas’
2019 Asia Business Kumar Mangalam Birla The award was given for
Leadership Forum ‘powerful individual whose
(ABLF) Global Asian business footprint and
Award commitment to excellence
have engaged international
interest’.
1st George Schaller Ullas Karanth For his contribution in the field
lifetime award 2019 of wildlife conservation
science
BRICS-Young Ravi Prakash Theme-“Cybersecurity and Bio
Innovator Prize, 2019 economy”.
India Council for Rezwana Choudhury Singer The award was given by High
Culture Relations Bannya Commissioner of India Riva
(ICCR) distinguished Ganguly Das at a programme
alumni award 2019 titled ‘ICCR Scholar’s Evening
and Award Presentation
Ceremony’.
Indira Gandhi Prize for Sir David Frederick English For his tireless work to
Peace, Disarmament, Attenborough (93) broadcaster preserve and protect
and Development and natural biodiversity.
2019 historian
International Greta Thunberg ♦ Greta Thunberg - honored -
Children’s Peace Prize (Swedan) & Divina due to her effort against the
2019 Maloum (Cameroonian) struggle in climate change.
♦ Divina Maloum - honored
for her fighting spirit and
‘Peaceful struggle’ against
Boko Haram jihadist group.
National Award for Hridayeshwar Singh He became the youngest
Empowerment of Bhati (17 years) patent holder and also the
Person with youngest differently-abled
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Disabilities, 2019 patent holder in the world.

under the category-
Outstanding Creative
Child (Male)-2019
OCTOBER
2019 India’s Most Kallie Puri Media She was also honored with
Powerful Women in Two ‘Outstanding Media &
Media award Entertainment Award’ at the
annual 21st Century Icon
Awards in London.
Railway Cleanliness Jaipur, Jodhpur, and Railway The Survey was conducted by
Survey 2019 Durgapura of Rajasthan Ministry of Railways
2019 Swachchta Sachin Tendulkar President of India Shri Ram
Ambassador award Nath Kovind presented the
award
2019 rural Swachhta Peddapalli district of Cleanest Next 2 Places:
survey (sanitation Telangana district 2. Faridabad(Haryana)
survey) 3. Rewari(Haryana)
2019 UN High Azizbek Ashurov Kyrgyzstan He was awarded for ending
Commissioner for Lawyer status of stateless people
Refugees (UNHCR) through his organisation
prestigious Nansen Ferghana Valley Lawyers
Award Without Borders (FVLWB) in
Kyrgyzstan which thus became
the world’s first country to end
statelessness.
10th Edition of India Shanti Raghavan & Entrepreneur For building an ecosystem of
Social Entrepreneur of Dipesh Sutariya skilling, employment and
the Year Award 2019 entrepreneurship for persons
with disabilities (PwDs)
15th International Greta Thunberg & The award will be presented
Children’s Peace Prize Divina Maloum by international organisation
for 2019 for the defence of children’s
rights KidsRights Foundation
Vishwa-Vigyan- Prof Dr Vishwanath D Sumitra Mahajan (Former
Darshanik Award Karad Union Minister and Ex
LokSabha Speaker)
2019 Dnyaneshwara Former union minister Arif Mohammad Khan
World Peace Prize Padma Bhushan Dr (Governor of Kerala)
Karan Singh
United Nations Asia Ramesh Pandey Indian Forest For combating trans-boundary
Environmental Service (IFS) environmental crime.
Enforcement Award officer
2019
Four heritage landmarks ♦ Vikram Sarabhai
from India were chosen Library from Indian
for the UNESCO (United Institute of
Nations Educational, Management (IIM)
Scientific and Cultural ♦ Keneseth Eliyahoo
Organization) Asia- Synagogue,
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Pacific Awards for ♦ Our Lady of Glory

Cultural Heritage Church and
Conservation 2019 ♦ Merit Flora Fountain
‘Most Eminent Senior K. Parasaran (92) Vice President of India Shri
Citizen Award’ for the Venkaiah Naidu presented the
year 2019 award.
Udyog Rattan Award Thakur Anup Singh For his work in transforming
2019 how Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprises (MSMEs) can
accelerate their business by
using technology.
European Parliament’s Ilham Tohti Economist For his over 20 years of work
Sakharov Prize 2019 defending China’s Uighur
minority.
Golden Sand Art Sudarsan Pattnaik Sand Artist He will be felicitated during
Award 2019 the International Scorrana
Sand Nativity festival in Italy
which is to be held from
November 13 to 18, 2019.
Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg (16) - refused to accept an environmental award
2019 from Nordic Council.
SEPTEMBER
Global Goalkeeper Narendra Modi Service For his work under the Swachh
Award 2019 by the Bill Bharat Abhiyan (SBA) Mission.
and Melinda Gates He will be honored during his
Foundation visit to United States (US) in
September 2019.
Oscars of science Event Horizon Science For producing the world’s first
Telescope Team image of a black hole which was
consisting of 347 launched by Silicon Valley
scientists entrepreneurs and it is the eighth
year of award. They won $3
million.
Right Livelihood Greta Thunberg Climate For prompting and amplifying
Award 2019(Sweden's Activist political demands, scientific facts
Alternative Nobel for immediate climate action in
Prize) Stockholm, Sweden. She has
shared the award with Brazilian
Indigenous leader Davi
Kopenawa of the Yanomami
people, and the Hutukara
Yanomami Association (Brazil),
women's rights lawyer Guo
Jianmei (China) and human rights
defender Aminatou Haidar
(Western Sahara) .
2019 ‘Lamp of Peace of Prof MuhammadYunus Promoting The lamp of peace award
Saint Francis ‘ award Peace recognizes distinguished work
by Vatican by an individual in promoting
city(smallest country peace.
in the world)
World University Indian Institute of Institute Since 2012, for the first time
Rankings 2020 by Technology (IIT) Ropar Indian institutions did not feature
Times Higher and Indian Institute of among the top 300 in World
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Education (THE) Science (IISc) Bangalore University Rankings 2020. Read

were ranked first full details here: IIT Ropar & IISc
Bangalore ranked No 1 among the
56 Indian institutes in the Times
Higher Education World
University Ranking 2020
Aga Khan Architecture Arcadia Education The novel project is about the
Award 2019 Project in South construction of a floating
Kanarchor of school in an area which is
Bangladesh underwater during monsoon
for the welfare of marginalised
children in Bangladesh.
Acadmie des beaux- Raghu Rai Photographer The award is named in honour
arts Photography of William Klein, the American
Award - William Klein born French photographer and
for 2019 filmmaker. Rai won Padma
Shree in 1972, which is a first
for any photographer.
Dr Kalam Smriti Sheik Hasina Service For her contribution in holding
International a healthy relation between
Excellence Award for India and Bangladesh,
the year 2019 International peace and
cooperation.
Amnesty Greta Thunberg Environmenta The award ceremony held at
International’s l activist the George Washington
‘Ambassadors of University, Washington D.C,
Conscience’ award for America, is the highest human
the year 2019 rights award constituted by
the Amnesty International.
Forbes' “Best Indian School of School
International 1-Year Business (ISB)
Business Schools Hyderabad, Telangana
2019” rankings
National Geoscience Syed Wajih Ahmad Science Dr. Sohini Ganguly, of Goa
Awards for the year Naqvi University was conferred with
2018’s Award for the Young Scientist Award-
Excellence 2018.Read full details here:
Union Minister Pralhad Joshi
Confers The National
Geoscience Awards For 2018
In Delhi
Pacific Asia Travel The Kerala tourism has Tourism The awards are given for an
Association (PATA) won 3 PATA gold ethnic food restaurant run by
awards for the year awards women at Kumarakom(Kerala)
2019 under its Responsible
Tourism(RT) mission, for
Kerala tourism campaign
advertisement 'Come Out and
Play' & the third one was for
its website
www.keralatourism.org
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1st Gauri Lankesh Ravish Kumar Journalism He was awarded in recognition

Memorial Award 2019 of his sharp news analysis and
by the Gauri Lankesh uncompromising secular
Memorial Trust stance.
Changemaker Award Payal Jangir She is the first Indian to
2019 at the receive the Changemaker
Goalkeepers Global Award 2019 at the
Goals Awards 2019 Goalkeepers Global Goals
Awards 2019 presented by the
Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation at a ceremony held
in New York, United States for
her work towards the abolition
of child marriage in her village
and other neighboring areas.
Airport Council Cochin International Airport It stood at the top spot in 5-15
International (ACI), ‘s Airport Ltd (CIAL) million passenger category
best airport in terms of among the airports in the Asia-
services it offered to Pacific region.
passengers for the year
2018
31st Punyabhushan Dr. G.B. Deglurkar Archeologist In recognition of his immense
Award for 2019 contribution in the field of
Archaeology during the ceremony
held in Pune, Maharashtra. The
event was organised by Pune
based Punyabhushan Foundation.
2019 M P Birla Thanu Padmanabhan Physicist For his contributions in the
Memorial Award field of cosmology. The award
that comprises a citation, a
trophy and a cheque for Rs
2,51,000 was given by H V
Lodha, Chairman of Madhav
Prasad(MP) Birla Group
AUGUST
‘Pride of Nation Award’ Vinayak S Hiremath He was presented by the
Defence Minister of India,
Rajnath Singh on the occasion
of Kargil Vijay Diwas (July 26).
He is the first South Indian
doctor to offer free insulin
consultation and treatment to
gestational (pregnancy)
diabetic mothers and family
members of the Indian Army.
National Award Indresh Tripathi Police He is a MIG police station in-
charge in Indore will be
conferred with
the National Award on January
26, 2020 by the central
Government for his excellent
services at the national level.
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Dr.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam K.Sivan Scientist The award is given by Tamil

award Nadu Government.
Entrepreneur of the Ruhan Rajput Enterpreneur The event was hosted by
Year award 2019 America’s Business Magazine
Entrepreneur India along with
its Franchise India in New
Delhi.
Miss World Diversity Transsexual woman Beauty This was her third successive
2019 held in Port Naaz Joshi pageant victory in this beauty pageant
Louis, Mauritius competition as she won the
title previously in 2017 and
2018. Naaz Joshi had also won
Miss Republic International
Beauty Ambassador 2017 and
Miss United Nationals
Ambassador.
'Chevalier de l'Ordre Priyam Chatterjee Chef With this distinction,
du Mrite Agricoleto' Chatterjee becomes the 1st
(Order of Agricultural Indian from Kolkata (West
Merit) Bengal) to receive this honour,
in recognition of his great
contribution towards
reinventing the gastronomic
scene in India.
2019 Prem Bhatia Mr. Rajdeep Sardesai Journalist and 2019 award for Environmental
Award for his consulting reporting was given to Down
Outstanding Political editor at India to Earth’s IshanKukreti and
Reporting Today independent journalist
TV(television) Sharada Balasubramaniam.
2019 South Asian Navneeth Murali Student He ousted other competitors in
Spelling Bee contest the finals by spelling the word
flipe, which means "to strip off
by or as if by peeling".
Clark R Bavin Wildlife Vivek Menon Biologist, He received the award at 18th
Law Enforcement author and meeting of Conference of
Award for the year wildlife Parties to CITES held in
2019 conservationi Geneva, Switzerland.
st
2019 Guinness World Short video creation For creating the largest online
Records (formerly The platform, Likee video album of people waving
Guinness Book of the Indian flag during its 'No
Records) matter where I am,
#IAMINDIAN' campaign.
‘Eminent Engineer Prabhakar Singh Engineer The award is conferred by the
Award’ for the Year Institution of Engineers (India)
2019 for his distinguished and
exemplary Service in the field
of Engineering and
Technology.'
Time magazine published its second annual list of the “World’s Greatest Places” with total of 100 places in
the list. India’s Statue of Unity in Gujarat and ‘Soho House‘ in Mumbai featured in this year’s list. The list is a
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compilation of 100 new and “newly noteworthy destinations to experience right now”. Read full
details here: Time Magazine Features Statue Of Unity, Mumbai’s Soho House Among Its 100 Greatest Places
In The World
JULY
US-India Strategic Azim Premji and For their contribution to
Partnership Forum Ajaypal Singh Banga strengthening economic ties
(USISPF)’s 2019 Global between the US and India.
Excellence Award
4th World Wealth Yoga Toran Yadav Yoga He strikes two silver medals in
Championship 2019 in the rhythmic pair and artistic
Bulgaria, Sofia. pair and a bronze medal in
athletic yoga.
Gandhi Mandela Peace Thich Nhat Hanh Spiritual Its celebrated victory of ‘Love
Medal 2019 leader, poet, over Hatred’, 150 years of
and peace Gandhi and 100 years of
activist. Mandela’s inspirational lives.
Pacific Asia Travel “Find the Incredible Campaign These awards are given by
Association (PATA) you” PATA to tourism industry
Gold Award 2019 organizations and individuals
under the “Marketing – making an outstanding
Primary Government contribution towards the
Destination” category. promotion of the travel
industry throughout the Asia
Pacific Region.
12th South Asia Ravinder Kumar Malik
Bodybuilding and
Physic Sports
Championships 2019
Indian Women of Priya Priyadarshini Jain She was also one among the
Influence award 2019 others featured in the coffee table
at United Kingdom book on ‘50 most influential
Parliament, London Indian women worldwide’
featuring top Indian president
PartibhaPatil, Nita Ambani, MP
Caroline, HemaMalini,
Shilpashetty.
Mr. Deaf World 2019 Vidisha Baliyan She became the first Indian,
crowned Miss Deaf World
2019 which was held in
Mbombela, South Africa.
People’s Choice Prize Sudarshan Pattnaik Sand Artist He sculpted the sand art based
at the Boston on the global issue of plastic
International Sand Art pollution with a message
Championship 2019 inscribed “Stop plastic
pollution, Save our Ocean”. He
received the People’s Choice
medal from Revere Beach
Partnership Board Member
Adrienne Sacco-Maguir.
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Recognitions
Name of the Person Field
DECEMBER
Greta Thunberg TIME’s Person of the Year for 2019.She becomes the
youngest person to receive the award.Click here to Read
More
34 .Nirmala Sitharaman (India) 16th Forbes powerful women list 2019
Top 3 women:
1.Angela Merkel (Germany)
2.Christine Lagarde (France)
3.Nancy Pelosi (United States (US))
Nuad Thai (Thailand) UNESCO’s (United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization) prestigious heritage list.
Top 5 Celebrity: Forbes India celebrity list 2019
1.Virat Kohli
2.Akshay Kumar
3.Salman Khan
4.Amitabh Bachchan
5.Ms Dhoni
Malala Yousafzai (also known as Most famous teenager in the world by the United Nations
Malala), a Pakistani activist (UN)
Christina Hammock Koch (40) Longest single space mission by a woman
NOVEMBER
Kerala Startup Mission(KSUM) World’s top Public Business Accelerator
Suranga Bawadi(Vijayapura, World Monument Watch List for 2020 under the category
Karnataka) of “Ancient Water System of the Deccan Plateau”
Dutee Chand (23) TIME 100 Next
Virat Kohli, Joaquin Rafael Phoenix People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
India’s ‘Person of the Year for 2019’
Top 3 Person’s in the list: Fortune’s Businessperson of the year 2019
1.Satya Nadella(CEO, Microsoft (Indian
origin))
2.Elizabeth Gaines(CEO, Fortescue
Metals Group)
3.Brian Niccol CEO, Chipotle Mexican
Grill
9. Mukesh Ambani Forbes Real time Billionaires list 2019
Top 3 person’s in the list:
1.Jeff Bezos
2.Bernard Arnault and family
3. Bill Gates
OCTOBER
Uttar Pradesh Guinness World Records record for lighting 6 lakh earthen
lamps on the Saryu river bank.
Mukesh Ambani retains the top Forbes India Rich List 2019
position for 12th straight year followed
by Gautam Adani, Hinduja brothers
Christina Koch (40) & Jessica Meir (42) First ever all-female spacewalk
13.PV (Pusarla Venkata) Sindhu Forbes list of the highest-paid women athletes 2019
Top 3 Sports Person:
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1.Serena Williams (Tennis- America)

2.Naomi Osaka (Tennis- Japan)
3.Angelique Kerber (Tennis- Germany)
Bill Gates (63) World’s richest man 2019
6.Shantanu Narayen (CEO of Adobe The Best-Performing CEOs in the World, 2019
Inc),
7.Ajaypal Singh Banga (CEO of
Mastercard) and
9.Satya Narayana Nadella (CEO of
Microsoft)Top 3 CEO’s
1. Jensen Huang (NVIDIA)
2.Marc Russell Benioff(Salesforce.com)
3.François-Henri Pinault(Kering)
Nirmal Purja(Nepal) Creates new speed record by climbing the world’s 14
highest peaks in 7 months
Mumbai Member of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) in
the field of “film”
Hyderabad Member of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) in
the field of “gastronomy” (art of choosing, cooking, and
eating good food).
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) - become the first Indian company to have a market capitalization
(m-cap) of Rs 9,00,666 crore.
SEPTEMBER
India’s Dhirubhai Ambani International “Global Top 50 IB Schools 2019" by United Kingdom(UK)
School (DAIS)
Priyavrata Youngest person to pass the“Mahapariksha”
Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan. Andhra Youngest state governor
Pradesh governor Biswa Bhusan
Harichandan is the oldest at the age of 85
among the current governors.
Secunderabad railway station The first station awarded with green ‘Platinum rating’ by
the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC)
Moti Bagh- documentary film Nominated for an Oscar 2020
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) Most valued domestic firm in market capitalisation (m-
cap)
Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) QS(Quacquarelli Symonds) Graduate Employability

Bombay- topped all the Indian Rankings 2020
institutes in the list with band ranking
111-120
Ladakhi Shondol dance Creates history by entering into the Guinness book of
world records
India's Immediate Payment Service World’s best real-time payment service in comparison to
(IMPS) the similar facilities of 54 countries.
Pooja Desai Mrs India - Pride of the Nation 2019

PT Usha Veteran Pin by the International Association of Athletics
Federation (IAAF)
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AUGUST
Bill Gates. Jeff Bezos of Amazon still Second richest person as per Bloomberg Billionaire Index
holds his no.1 spot as the world's
richest person.
1) Dwayne Johnson,2) Chris Forbes magazine’s Worlds Highest-Paid Actors Of 2019
Hemsworth,3) Robert Downey Jr,4) list
Akshay Kumar
Scarlett Johansson (United States) Forbes magazine’s world’s Highest-Paid actresses of 2019
topped list
Wing Commander Shalija Dhami First-Ever Female Officer To Be Appointed As Flight
Commander
1) Taylor Swift , 2) Beyonce, 3) Rihanna Forbes magazine's ‘highest-paid woman in music’
category for the year 2019
JULY
Aparna Kumar First civil servant & IPS Officer to conquer the ‘Seven
Summits’ challenge
Dipankar Banerjee Included as co-investigator in NASA (National Aeronautics
and Space Administration) for its PUNCH mission
Aditya Birla World Academy Only Indian School to feature in ‘The Commonwealth At
70: From Westminster to the World’ Book
Taylor Swift, Akshay Kumar only Indian Forbes Celebrity 100 list 2019
in the Forbes Highest-Paid Celebrities
2019 stood at the 33rd spot.
1. Jeff Bezos, 2. Bernard Arnault, 3. Bloomberg Billionaires Index 2019
Gates
1. Tata, 2.Life Insurance Brand Finance India 100 2019
Corporation(LIC), 3.Infosys
1. Walmart, 2. Sinopec Group, 3. Royal Fortune Global 500 list 2019
Dutch Shell
Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) topped
among Indian Companies
Geographical Indication(GI) tag:

PRODUCT STATE IT BELONG TO
Kandhamal Haldi (turmeric) Odisha
Kolhapuri chappal Kolhapur, Maharashtra
Rasagola Odisha
‘Panchamirtham’ of Palani temple Tamil Nadu(It became the first temple offering - Prashad -
from Tamil Nadu to be conferred this honor.)
Tawlhlohpuan(a woven fabric) Mizoram
Mizo Puanchei(a colourful Mizo shawl) Mizoram
Tirur betel vine Kerala
Dindigul lock and Karaikudi Kandangi Tamil Nadu
sarees
Erode Turmeric Tamil Nadu
Srivilliputtur Palkova Virudhunagar district of Tamil Nadu
Sirsi Supari Karnataka
Coorg Arabica Coffee Karnataka
Wayanad Robusta Coffee Kerala
Chikmagalur Arabica Coffee Karnataka
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Araku Valley Arabica Coffee Andhra pradesh

Bababudangiri arabica coffee Karnataka
Marayoor jaggery Kerala
Thirubuvanam silk sarees Tamil Nadu
Green and White Tea Darjeeling
APPOINTMENTS & RESIGNS

National
DECEMBER
Ripu Daman Bevli Ambassador of India Plogging He is also known as,
‘Plogman of India’.
Hari Mohan Chairman Ordnance Factory Board He succeeds Shri
(OFB) Saurabh Kumar.
Girish Chandra Chairman National Stock Exchange Chaturvedi replaced
Chaturvedi Ashok Chawla.
Harsh Kumar Chairman National Bank for In December 2013, he was
Bhanwala Agriculture and Rural appointed as the chairman
Development (NABARD) of NABARD by succeeding
Prakash Bakshi who
retired in September 2013.
Sridhar Patra Chairman-Cum- National Aluminium Sridhar Patra succeeded
Managing Company Ltd (NALCO) Shri Tapan Kumar
Director(CMD) Chand.
Lieutenant General Chief of Army Staff Indian Army He was appointed for a
Manoj Mukund (COAS) (28th) period of 3 years. He is
Naravane currently the Vice Chief of
the Army Staff and will
replace Army Chief
General Bipin Rawat.
Soma Roy Burman Controller General of Ministry of Finance She succeeds J. P. S.
Accounts (CGA) Chawla.
Arun Kumar Sinha Director Special Protection Group
(SPG)
Ajit Anantrao Pawar Deputy Chief Maharashtra He sworn in as
(60) Minister Maharashtra’s deputy
chief minister in
Mumbai, for the 4th time.
Sushil Kumar Modi Head Group of Ministers (GoM) He replaced Nirmala
on the Integrated Goods Sitharaman
and Service Tax (IGST)
Dr Sangita Reddy President Federation of Indian She succeeds Mr Sandip
Chambers of Commerce Somany, Vice Chairman
and Industry (FICCI) and Managing Director,
HSIL Limited.
Arnab Goswami President News Broadcasters The NBF board members
Federation (NBF) elected R. Jai Krishna, a
former journalist and
public policy specialist in
the media sector, as the
first Secretary-General and
Executive Director of NBF.
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Niranjan Hiranandani President Assocham (Associated He replaces Welspun

Chambers of Commerce Group Chairman
and Industry of India) Balkrishan Goenka.
NOVEMBER
Laishram Sarita Devi Member First International Boxing She will represent the
(37) Asociation’s (AIBA) Asian bloc. She was among
athletes commission the 6 boxers who were
selected as members from
5 continents- Asia,
Oceania, Africa, Americas
and Europe (it has 2
representatives).
Sudhir Mital President Gymnastics Federation of Shantikumar Singh
India elected as General
secretary.
OCTOBER
Rajnish Kumar Chairman Indian Banks’ He succeeds Sunil
Association(IBA) Mehta, the former
Managing Director(MD)
& Chief Executive
Officer(CEO) of Punjab
National Bank (PNB).
Arvind Singh Chairman Airports Authority of He replaces Anuj
India(AAI) Aggarwal
Sukhbir Singh Chief National Highways He replaces Nagendra
Sandhu Authority of India (NHAI) Nath Sinha
Sharad Arvind Bobde Chief Justice India The current Chief Justice
(63) Ranjan Gogoi (46th ) is
retiring on November
17, 2019.
Abhishek Singh Chief Executive MyGov India He replaces tech
Officer(CEO) entrepreneur Arvind
Gupta.
Pankaj Kumar Chief Executive Unique Identification He replaces Ajay
Officer(CEO) Authority of India (UIDAI) Bhushan Pandey.
PK Gupta Chairman and National Buildings He succeeds in Shri Shiv
Managing Director Construction Das Meena.
(CMD) Corporation(NBCC)
Anup Kumar Singh Director-General National Security Guard He succeeds Sudeep

Lakhtakia.
Pramod Kumar Director-General Bureau of Indian He will replace Shri

Tiwari Standards(BIS) Rohit Kumar Parmar.
Surjit S Bhalla Executive Director International Monetary
(ED) for India Fund (IMF)
Sourav Ganguly President(39) Board of Control for Prior to his
Cricket in India (BCCI) appointment, C K
Khanna served as the
interim president.
Kuldeep Singh Principal Government of India He has been appointed

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Dhatwalia Spokesperson as the new principal

Director General (DG) of
the Press Information
Bureau (PIB), the
publicity wing of the
central government.
SEPTEMBER
Vijay Kumar Chopra Chairman Press Trust of India (PTI) Vineet Jain was elected
as Vice-Chairman of PTI.
Read full details here:
Vijay Kumar Chopra &
Vineet Jain Elected As
Chairman And Vice
Chairman Of PTI
Respectively
Nilesh Shah Chairman Association of Mutual He will replace Nimesh
Funds in India (AMFI) Shah. The AMFI board
has also elected
Saurabh Nanavati, Chief
Executive Officer,
Invesco Mutual Fund as
its new vice-chairman.
Bipin Rawat Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee He Succeeds Indian Air
(COSC) Force (IAF) chief, Air
Chief Marshal B.S.
Dhanoa who retires on
September 30, 2019
Rakesh Kumar Singh Chief of Air Indian Air force (IAF) Currently serving as the
Bhadauria Staff(26th) Vice Chief of the IAF,
Bhadauria will replace
incumbent Chief B S
Dhanoa. An alumnus of
the National Defence
Academy commissioned
to IAF in 1980,
Bhadauria headed the
Cost Negotiation
Committee (CNC) for the
Rafale deal.
Vivek Kumar (V.K) Director General Border Security He succeeds Rajni Kant
Johri (DG)(25th) Force(BSF) Misra, who retired on
August 31, 2019.
Justices V Judge Supreme Court(SC) of Supreme Court(SC) of
Ramasubramanian, India India has appointed 4 new
Krishna Murari, S judges which now took the
Ravindra Bhat and total strength of judges to
34. Recently the
Hrishikesh Roy
parliament increased the
no. of judges to
34(inclusive of Chief
Justice(CJ)) from previous
count of 31.
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Manoj Mukund Vice chief Army staff He replaces Lieutenant

Naravane General Devraj Anbu
who was superannuated
on August 31, 2019.
Naravane has been
awarded Param Vishisht
Seva Medal (2019)
Harjit Singh Arora Vice chief Indian Air Force(IAF) He will succeed Air
Marshal Rakesh Kumar
Singh Bhadauria. Air
marshal Balakrishnan
Suresh,air officer
commanding-in-chief of
Southern Air Command
was appointed as the
Western Air commander
of the IAF & will succeed
veteran Air Marshal
Raghunath Nambiar .
AUGUST
Rajiv Gauba Cabinet Secretary India He will be replacing PK
Sinha.
Pramod Chandra Chairman Central Board of Direct
Mody Taxes (CBDT)
Kandikuppa Chairman and MD Power Grid Corporation He replaces Ravi P Singh
Sreekant of India Ltd. (director (personnel),
who held the post of
chairman & MD of the
company give away the
additional charge.
Pramod Agrawal Chairman-cum- Coal India Limited (CIL) He will succeed
Managing Director incumbent Anil Kumar
Jha retiring in January
2020.
Sonia Gandhi Chief(Interim) Indian National Congress She had held the post of
Congress President
between 1998 and 2017.
She succeeds Rahul
Gandhi.
Girraj Prasad Gupta Controller General of Ministry of Finance He succeeds Anthony
Accounts (CGA) Lianzuala as the new
CGA, Department of
Expenditure, Ministry of
Finance.
Harshad Pandurang Director National Institute of He replaces Shri.
Thakur Health and Family Sudhansh Pant. Earlier
Welfare(NIHFW) Thakur was a professor
at Tata Institute of Social
Sciences (TISS),
Mumbai.
Rakesh Asthana Director General Narcotics Control Bureau The post of NCB was
(NCB) lying vacant as
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incumbent Abhay was

appointed as a director
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
National Police
Academy, Hyderabad,
Telangana.
VG Somani Drug Controller Central Drugs Standard He is currently Joint
General of India Control Organisation Drugs Controller of
(DCGI) (CDSCO) India. He succeeds Dr. S.
Eswara Reddy.
Pradeep Kumar(PK) Officer on Special Prime Minister's He Succeeds Nripendra
Sinha Duty (OSD) Office(PMO) Misra.
Ms Chandrima Shaha President Indian National Science She is all set to become
(66) Academy (INSA) the first woman
president of the Indian
National Science
Academy (INSA) from
January 1, 2020. She will
succeed Ajay K. Sood.
Shaha will assume her
new office along with
the newly elected
council of 30 other
members from January.
Amit Nayyar President Paytm His appointment comes
a week after Madhur
Deora, the Chief
Financial Officer(CFO)
was also elected as the
President of Paytm.
Before joining Paytm, he
worked as Managing
Director(MD) at
Mumbai-based
investment bank
Arpwood Capital.
E L S N Bala Prasad Special Secretary President Ram Nath He was appointed under
Kovind the Central Staffing
Scheme.
JULY
Manoj Kumar Chairman Microfinance Institutions Vineet Chattreem was
Nambiar Network (MFIN) selected as the vice
chairman succeeding
Dibyajyoti Pattanaik.
Adhir Ranjan Chairman Public Accounts
Chowdhury Committee (PAC)
Girish Chairman Estimates committee
Bhalchandra Bapat
Dr.Nalin Shinghal Chairman and Bharat Heavy Electricals He succeeded D.
Managing Director Limited(BHEL)
P.K. Purwar Chairman and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd He succeeds Anupam
Managing Director (BSNL) Shrivastava who has
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(CMD) resigned on 30.06.2019.

Badri Narain Sharma Chairperson National Anti-profiteering NAA has 3 members
Authority (NAA) including J C Chauhan &
IRS officers R
Bhagyadevi & Amand
Shah.
B Harideesh Kumar Director Institute of Banking He succeeded Anup
Personnel Selection Sankar Bhattacharya.
Rahul Dravid Head of Cricket National Cricket Academy
(NCA)
Dejan Papic Head Coach Table Tennis Federation
of India (TTFI)
Ashutosh Gupta Manager for LinkedIn He will replace Mahesh
Business in India Narayanan
Adhir Ranjan Members Public Accounts
Chowdhury, Satya Pal Committee(PAC)
Singh & Jayant Sinha
A. K. Sikri Ombudsman Indian Federation of India’s first and only
Sports Gaming (IFSG) Sports Gaming self-
regulatory industry
body.
Vivek Kumar Private secretary Prime Minister Narendra He replaces Sanjeev
Modi Kumar Singla, who has
been appointed India's
ambassador to Israel.
Manoj Mukund Vice Chief Indian Army He succeeds Lieutenant
Naravane General D. Anbu who is
retiring next month.
INTERNATIONAL
Name Appointed as Entity/place Points to be noted
DECEMBER
Sundar Pichai CEO (Chief Alphabet He was followed by the resignation of
Executive Officer) Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Sethuraman Director National Science He will succeed France Anne-Dominic
Panchanathan Foundation Cordova, who retires in 2020.
(NSF) of America
Masatsugu President Asian Asakawa will be assuming office on
Asakawa Development Bank January 17, 2020, after resignation
(ADB) Takehiko Nakao,current President of ADB.
NOVEMBER
Suman Billa Director United Nations He was appointed in Technical
World Tourism Cooperation and Silk Road
Organisation Development at D1 level in UNWTO
(UNWTO)
Dr. Vinaya Shetty General Vice International She is the first Indian and Asian to be
President(GVP) Organisation elected as General Vice
Development President(GVP) of the IODA
Association
Nita Ambani (56) Honorary Trustee New York She became the 1st Indian to become a
(United States) trustee in the 149-year history of this
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based The museum.

Metropolitan
Museum of Art
(Met)
OCTOBER
Christine Lagarde Chief European She will be replacing Mario Draghi
(63) Central Bank (Italy) from November 1, 2019.She is
(ECB) the 1st women head of ECB.
Rafael Mariano Director-General International To promote the peaceful use of nuclear
Grossi (58) Atomic Energy energy and to inhibit its use for any
Agency (IAEA) military purpose, including nuclear
weapons
SEPTEMBER
Suresh Chitturi Chairman International Egg His appointment was announced at the
Commission(IEC) IEC Global Leadership Conference in
Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. He is
also the first chair from Asian region. He
succeeds Tim Lambert from Canada.
Sebastian Coe Chief International A former Olympic and world champion,
Association of Coe was previously elected as the head of
Athletics IAAF in 2015. On the other hand,
Federation (IAAF) President of Athletics Federation of India,
Adille Sumariwalla also re-elected as
member of the Council of IAAF for a
second four-year term.
Kristalina Chief International She will be the second woman chief of the
Georgieva Monetary Fund 189-member IMF & will take over as
(IMF) Managing Director of the IMF on October
1, 2019. She will replace Christine
Lagarde, who resigned from her post after
being elected president of the European
Central Bank (ECB).
AUGUST
P T Usha Member Asian Athletics She was appointed as one of the 6
(Pilavullakandi Association’s members of the Asian Athletics
Thekkeparambil (AAA) Athletes Association’s (AAA)Athletes Commission,
Usha) Commission in recognition of her outstanding
achievements at the continental stage.It
will be headed by Andrey Abduvaliyev.
Justice Madan Supreme Court Fiji He will serve as the judge of the non-
Lokur (SC) judge resident panel of the Supreme Court of
Fiji. This is the first time ever an
Indian has been appointed to the
Supreme Court of another country.
JULY
Vivek Kohli Chairman Commonwealth Vivek Kohli defeated incumbent Alan
TT Federation Ransome (England) by securing 16
votes more than him in the elections
held in Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
Badri Narain Chairperson National Anti- He will continue as the NAA chairman
Sharma profiteering for two years.
Authority (NAA)
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Priti Patel Home secretary United Kingdom She was the first Indian-origin home
(UK) secretary.
David Lipton Interim leader International He replaces Christine Lagarde who
Monetary Fund was nominated to head the European
(IMF) Central Bank.
Ursula von der President European She will be replacing Jean-Claude
Leyen Commission Juncker.
Christine Lagarde President ECB (European She would succeed current ECB
Designate Central Bank) president Mario Draghi (Italy), whose
term ends on October 31.She is the
first woman to lead the bank.
Cabinet Ministers
Complete list Of Union Council Of Ministers 2019: Cabinet Ministers with their constituency:
Highlights
 Nirmala Sitharaman has become the first full-time female Finance Minister of India.
 Central government had formed ‘Jal Shakti’ Ministry by Merging Water Resources and Drinking
Water Ministries.
 Subrahmanyam Jaishankar had become first career diplomat to be appointed as External
Affairs Minister of India.
 Smriti Irani is the youngest council of ministers in the second term of Modi government. She is
currently 43 years of age.Click here to read the entire minister list
S.No. Cabinet Ministers Portfolio Constituency
1. Narendra Modi Prime Minister and also in-charge Varansai, Uttar Pradesh
of:Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances
and Pensions;Department of Atomic
Energy;Department of Space; andAll
important policy issues; andAll other
portfolios not allocated to any Ministers.
2. Raj Nath Singh Minister of Defence Lucknow, U.P
3. Amit Shah Minister of Home Affairs. Gandhi Nagar, Gujarat
4. Nitin Jairam Minister of Road Transport and Nagpur, Maharashtra
Gadkari Highways;andMinister of Micro, Small and
Medium Enterprises
5. D.V. Sadananda Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers. Bangalore North, Karnatka
Gowda
6. Nirmala Minister of Finance; andMinister of Rajya Sabha (Karnatka)
Sitharaman Corporate Affairs
7. Ramvilas Paswan Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Not contested in election
Public Distribution
8. Narendra Singh Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Morena, M.P
Tomar Welfare; Minister of Rural Development;
andMinister of Panchayati Raj
9. Ravi Shankar Minister of Law and Justice; Minister of Patna Sahib, Bihar
Prasad Communications; and Minister of
Electronics and Information Technology
10. Harsimrat Kaur Minister of Food Processing Industries. Bathinda, Punjab
Badal
11. Shri Thaawar Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Rajya Sabha (M.P)
Chand Gehlot
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12. Subrahmanyam Minister of External Affairs. Not contested in election

Jaishankar
13. Ramesh Minister of Human Resource Development Hardwar, Uttarakhand
Pokhriyal
‘Nishank’
14. Arjun Munda Minister of Tribal Affairs Khunti, Jharkhand
15. Smriti Zubin Irani Minister of Women and Child Development; Amethi, U.P
and Minister of Textiles
16. Dr. Harsh Minister of Health and Family Chandni Chowk, New
Vardhan Welfare;Minister of Science and Technology; Delhi
and Minister of Earth Sciences.
17. Prakash Minister of Environment, Forest and Rajya Sabha (M.P)
Javadekar ClimateChange;Minister of Information and
Broadcasting, and Minister of Heavy
Industries and Public Enterprise
18. Piyush Goyal Minister of Railways; and Minister of Rajya Sabha
Commerce and Industry (Maharashtra)
19. Dharmendra Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas; Rajya Sabha (M.P)
Pradhan andMinister of Steel
20. Mukhtar Abbas Minister of Minority Affairs Rajya Sabha (Jharkhand)
Naqvi
21. Pralhad Joshi Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; Minister Dharwad, Karnatka
of Coal; andMinister of Mines
22. Dr. Mahendra Minister of Skill Development and Chandauli, U.P
Nath Pandey Entrepreneurship
23. Giriraj Singh Minister of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Begusarai, Bihar
Fisheries
24. Gajendra Singh Minister of Jal Shakti. Jodhpur, Rajasthan
Shekhawat
Chief Minister of India

DECEMBER
Hemant Soren 11th Chief Minister Jharkhand He succeeds Raghubar Das.
NOVEMBER
Uddhav Bal 19th Chief Minister Maharashtra He succeeds Devendra Gangadharrao
Thackeray (CM) Fadnavis
OCTOBER
Manohar Lal Chief Minister (CM) Haryana JJP leader Dushyant Chautala took
Khattar oath as the deputy CM of the state.
JULY
BS Yediyurappa Chief Minister(19th) Karnataka He has the record of taking the oath
of office as Chief Minister of
Karnataka for the fourth time.
Governor in India
DECEMBER
Ravindra Governor Meghalaya Ravi will act as the governor in the absence
Narayana Ravi of leave of Tathagata Roy who was the
previous Governor of Meghalaya.
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Dr. Tamilisai Governor Telangana She succeeds E S L Narasimhan
Soundararajan
Bhagat Singh Governor Maharashtra He succeeds VidyaSagar Rao
Koshyari
Kalraj Mishra Governor Rajasthan He succeeds Kalyan Singh
Arif Mohammed Governor Kerala He succeeds P Sathasivam
Khan
Bandaru Governor Himachal He succeeds Kalraj Mishra

Dattatreya Pradesh
JULY
Kalraj Mishra Governor(19th) Himachal He will replace Acharya Devvrat.
Pradesh
Acharya Devvrat Governor(20th) Gujarat He will replace Om Prakash Kohli.
Anusuiya Uikey Governor(6th) Chhattisgarh Anusuiya Uikey replaced Anandiben Patel
Biswa Bhusan Governor(23rd) Andhra Harichandran (84), has replaced ESL
Harichandan Pradesh Narasimhan
Lal Ji Tandon Governor(28th) Madhya He will replace Anandi Ben Patel
Pradesh
Anandi Ben Patel Governor(21st) Uttar Pradesh He will replace Ram Naik
Phagu Chauhan Governor(29th) Bihar He will replace Lal Ji Tandon
Jagdeep Dhankhar Governor(28th) West Bengal He will replace Keshari Nath Tripathi
Ramesh Bais Governor(18th) Tripura He will replace Kaptan Singh Solanki
RN Ravi Governor(20th) Nagaland He will replace Padmanabha Acharya
Brand Ambassadors
DECEMBER
Sunil chhetri Brand Ambassador PUMA For 3 years.
Suniel Shetty Brand Ambassador National Anti-Doping
Agency (NADA)
Salman Khan Brand Ambassador PepsiCo
OCTOBER
Ayushmann Brand Ambassador United Nations Children’s To raise awareness and
Khurrana Fund (UNICEF) and Union speak up against sexual
Ministry of Women and abuse of children.
Child Development
(MWCD)
Deepika Padukone, Brand Ambassador ‘Bharat Ki Laxmi’
PV Sindhu movement
Jasprit Bumrah Brand Ambassador cultsport
SEPTEMBER
Hima Das Brand Ambassador Gatorade India which is a Hima, nicknamed as
subsidiary of PepsiCo Dhing express, joins
India shuttler P.V Sindhu and
javelin thrower Neeraj
Chopra as brand
ambassadors in the
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country.
Pusarla Venkata Brand Ambassador Visa, Inc Sindhu will promote the
Sindhu (PV Sindhu) brand through advertising
campaigns & also become
an athlete member of
Team Visa for the Tokyo
2020 Olympic Games.
Presidents of International Countries:

DECEMBER
Prithiviraj Singh President Mauritius He preceded Ammenah Gurib-Fakim
Roopun (61) who resigned in March 2018. Also, Mr.
Marie Cyril Eddy Boissezon appointed
as the new Vice-President of the
Republic of Mauritius.
Hage Gottfried President Namibia He has been named as President of
Geingob (78) Namibia for the second term with
56.3% votes.
Abdelmadjid President Algeria Tebboune served as the PM from May
Tebboune (74) 2017 to August 2017, under the
governance of President Abdelaziz
Bouteflika.
NOVEMBER
Sheikh Khalifa bin President(4th) United Arab He succeeds Maktoum bin Rashid Al
Zayed Al Nahyan Emirates(UAE) Maktoum
Senator Jeanine Anez President(Interim) Bolivia He succeeds Evo Morales
Nandasena Gotabaya President(7th) Sri Lanka He replaced President Maithripala
Rajapaksa Sirisena for a period of 5 years.
OCTOBER
Kais Saied (61) President Tunisia He became the 6th President of
Tunisia. He succeeds Mohamed
Ennaceur (5th president).
Mokgweetsi Eric President Republic of He succeeds Ian Khama
Keabetswe Masisi Botswana
(58)
Joko Widodo President Indonesia He succeeds Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono
Alberto Angel President Argentina He beats current President Mauricio
Fernandez (60) Macri.
Filipe Jacinto Nyusi President Mozambique He succeeds Armando Guebuza
AUGUST
Alejandro Eduardo President Guatemala He is from Vamos party defeating
Giammattei Falla Sandra Torres, Former first
lady(spouse of Alvaro Colom- 47th
Guatemala president) by gaining more
than 58% of the votes. Giammattei
succeeds outgoing corruption-tainted
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President Jimmy Morales (50th

president of Guatemala).
Lionel Aingimea President(15) Nauru He defeated his rival David Adeang.He
succeeds the outgoing President Baron
Waqa.
Prime Minister’s of International Countries

DECEMBER
Abdelaziz Djerad Prime Minister Algeria Djerad succeeds Noureddine Bedoui as
the new PM.
Manuel Marrero Prime Minister Cuba He has been the Tourism Minister of
Cruz Cuba for the last 16 years. He was
appointed by the Cuba’s President
Miguel Diaz-Canel.
Sanna Mirella Prime Finland She replaced Antti Juhani Rinne, who
Marin Minister(46) resigned from the post.She became the
world’s youngest serving Prime
Minister (PM) at the age of 34.
Alexander Boris de Prime Minister United Kingdom He belongs to Conservative Party. 15
Pfeffel Johnson (UK) Indian origin politicians also included
in the House of Commons in UK.
NOVEMBER
Pravid Jugnauth Prime Minister Mauritius He Succeeds Sir Anerood Jugnauth
Mahinda Rajapaksa Prime Minister Sri Lanka He succeeded Ranil
Wickremesinghe.He was appointed as
the 23rd Prime Minister.
OCTOBER
Antonio Luis Santos Prime Minister Portugal He Succeeds Pedro Manuel Mamede
da Costa Passos Coelho
Sophie Wilmes (44) Prime Belgium She will replace Charles Yves Jean
Minister(Interim) Ghislaine Michel
SEPTEMBER
Oleksiy Honcharuk Prime Ukraine Mr Honcharuk, Ukraine’s youngest
Minister(17th) ever head of government, succeeded
Volodymyr Borysovych Groysman.
AUGUST
Abdalla Hamdok Prime Sudan He succeeds Mohamed Tahir Ayala
Minister(15th)
JULY
Kyriakos Mitsotakis Prime Minister Greece He succeed current Prime Minister
Alexis Tsipras.
Benjamin Prime Minister Israel He become Israel‘s longest-serving
Netanyahu prime minister,surpassing the record
of David Ben-Gurion,country’s
founding father, first leader & succeeds
Ehud Olmert.
Boris Johnson Prime Minister United Kingdom He succeeds Theresa May
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Resignation
Name Resigned as Entity/Place
DECEMBER
Abdul Mahdi Prime Minister (PM) Iraq
Antii Rinne Prime Minister (PM) Finland
NOVEMBER
Devendra Fadnavis Chief Minister (CM) Maharashtra
Evo Morales President Bolivia
Arvind Sawant Ministry of Heavy Industries Minister
and Public Enterprises
OCTOBER
Kapil Dev Chairman Cricket Advisory Committee
(CAC)
Saad El-Din Rafik Al-Hariri Prime Minister(PM) Lebanon
SEPTEMBER
Vijaya Kamlesh Tahilramani High Court Chief Justice(HC-CJ) Madras
Jack Ma Founder & Chairman Alibaba Groups
Kim Ji Hyun Women's singles badminton India
coach
AUGUST
Naresh Takkar Managing Director (MD) and ICRA (formerly Investment
Group Chief Executive Officer Information and Credit Rating
(CEO) Agency of India Limited)
Giuseppe Conte Prime Minister Italy
JULY
Navjot Singh Sidhu Cabinet Minister Punjab
HD Kumaraswamy Chief Minister Karnataka
Christine Lagarde Managing Director (MD) International Monetary Fund
(IMF)
Rahul Gandhi President Congress Party
Ramush Haradinaj Prime Minister Kosovo
BUSINESS
BUSINESS INITIATIVES
DECEMBER
 US - India’s 6th biggest oil supplier replaced Kuwait; Iraq remains as top supplier.
 Finance Ministry - set Rs 1.1 lakh crore monthly GST collection target.
 Infosys launched 3 blockchain-powered distributed applications - Infosys Supply Chain
Distributed Application, Infosys Government Services Distributed Application, and Infosys
Insurance Distributed Application.
NOVEMBER
 Documentation Identification Number (DIN) system of Central Board of Indirect Taxes and
Customs (CBIC) came into existence.
OCTOBER
 World Trade Organisation (WTO)- forecast -global trade growth to 1.2% for 2019.
 Document Identification Number (DIN)-created by-Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) to
ensure greater transparency and accountability in tax administration for taxpayers.
 Indian railways-allowed-e-commerce companies(Amazon)-to use its-EMU (electric multiple
unit) services.
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 Government granted ‘Maharatna’ status to Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL) and Power Grid Corp
(PGCIL).
SEPTEMBER
 Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology(MeitY) partnered with Google for rolling
out ‘Build for Digital India’ programme.
 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into India grew by 28% to $16.33 billion- first quarter (Q1)-
April-June 2019-20-Singapore emerged as the largest source followed by Mauritius ($4.67
billion), the United States ($1.45 billion), the Netherlands ($1.35 billion), and Japan ($472
million).
 India will overtake China as the largest importer of coking coal by 2025.
 Niti Aayog selected McKinsey & Company to set up India's first Digital Capability Centre in New
Delhi.
 US becomes the world’s top oil exporter surpassing Saudi Arabia and Russia.
 Nirmala Sitharaman made another presentation on the measures to boost economic growth.
Read full details here: Overview of union minister of finance & corporate affairs Smt.
Nirmala Sitharaman's presentation on measures to boost economic growth
 Govt waives- 3-year lock-in period on NRI investments in IDF bonds.
 UAE tops in non-residents investments in Indian MFs with the share of 16%
 SEBI relaxes norms to allow smart cities raise funds through ‘Muni Bonds’.
AUGUST
 Consumer affairs ministry releases draft called “e-commerce guidelines for consumer
protection 2019”.
JULY
 Govt sets a target to raise health services expenditure to 2.5% of GDP by 2025.
 Railways aim to install CCTV cameras in over 7,020 train coaches by March 2021.
 India’s turnover ratio2018 fell by 60% in 10 years- by-World Bank data.
 RIL outpace TCS to become the most valued firm by m-cap with more than 8 Lakh Crore.
 Reliance Jio tops the largest telecom company of India.
ANTI DUMPING DUTY

AUGUST
 Finance Ministry imposed Anti Dumping Duty on PTA imports from South Korea & Thailand.
 Air India is the first Indian Airline to fly over Zero Degree North Pole.
 SEBI relaxed the compliance requirements for Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPI) & will provide
Rs 1 crore reward for informants in insider trading cases.
JULY
 200% duty on all goods originating in or exported from Pakistan.
 Govt waived off basic customs duty (BCD) on products imported for nuclear plants.
ACQUISITIONS & MERGERS

DECEMBER
 Reliance Strategic Business Ventures Ltd (RSBVL)-acquired- 51.78 % stake in Asteria
Aerospace for Rs 23.12 crore.
 Patanjali Ayurved completes acquisition of debt-ridden Ruchi Soya-for Rs.4,350 crore.
NOVEMBER
 CCI- approved the amalgamation of the BNP (Bank of Paris and the Netherlands) Paribas-
BNPP Mutual Fund and Bank of Baroda (BOB) Mutual Fund, under Section 31(1) of the
Competition Act, 2002.
 Muthoot Finance acquired IDBI’s MF business for Rs 215 crore.
 CreditAccess grameen will acquire Madura micro finance for Rs 876 crore.
OCTOBER
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 Nippon Life Insurance-acquired 75 % stake in Reliance Nippon Life Asset Management

(RNAM) & renamed as Nippon India Mutual Fund (NIMF).
 ShopClues owned by Clues Network Pvt. Ltd was acquired by Singapore based e-commerce
platform Qoo10 private Ltd.
AUGUST
 Fynd acquired by Reliance industries worth 2.95 Billion Indian rupees( $42.33 million).
 Microsoft acquired BlueTalon for Undisclosed amount.
 Dharmesh Mehta and other investors bought 100% stake in IDFC Securities Ltd from IDFC
Financial Holding Company (IDFC FHCL) for Undisclosed amount.
 Amazon will acquire a 49% stake in Kishore Biyani-led Future Coupons Ltd for Undisclosed
amount.
JULY
 Bharti Airtel Limited and Bharti Hexacom Limited –merged with - consumer mobile businesses
(CMB) of Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL) and Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited
(TTML).
 YES Bank acquires 9.47% stake in Eveready Industries by invoking pledged shares.
 Walmart Labs -acqui-hired 2 Bengaluru-based health tech startups FloCare and BigTrade to
strengthen its customer technology and supply chain.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

APP & WEB PORTAL
Mobile apps/portal Launched by Purpose
DECEMBER
Madhu app Odisha Shri Naveen For students by providing video lectures
Patnaik and exercise in Odia language.Named
after freedom fighter Madhusudan Das.
eBkray Union Finance To increase transparency in auctioning
Minister(FM) Smt. of assets attached by banks. eBkray is
Nirmala Sitharaman linked with Indian Banks Auctions
Mortgaged Properties Information
(IBAPI) portal (https://ibapi.in/). Click
here to read more.
e-certificate portal and ePAUTI Chief Minister of Odisha, The e-certificate project is a part of
App Naveen Patnaik 5T model of Governance by the
revenue and disaster management
department.
e-PAUTI App can pay land revenue
online with the help of their
smartphones without visiting a
government office.
NOVEMBER
‘Farmitra’ Bajaj Allianz General This app intends to help the farmers
Insurance needs and address their worries.
“CRS Sanction Management Indian Railways To strengthen IT enablement of
System”, “Rail-road crossing GAD railways
approval system” and “TMS for
construction”
e-Ganna app Uttar Pradesh (UP) For sugarcane farmers in Lucknow as
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
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Rythu Mitra Telangana To serve the needs of farmers of

Siddipet.
OCTOBER
eDantseva website and mobile Dr Harsh Vardhan With the aim to provide oral health
application information collected from authentic
scientific resources.
e-Vidyabharti (tele-education) Subrahmanyam To ease the delivery of online
and e-ArogyaBharti(Tele- Jaishankar education to 54 African countries
Medicine) projects
Sahyatri Indian Railways For online complaints registration.
mHariyali Hardeep Singh Puri Encourages people to plant trees and
for Green drives.website for
“Environment Protection in
Government Colonies” were also
launched
India Post Mobile Banking Department of Post For its savings account holders to
facilitate easier transactions.
UAN Registration, E-Inspection Shri Santosh Kumar These apps were developed by EPFO
and DIGI Locker Gangwar for enhancing ease of doing business
and also to promote transparency in
EPFO. A booklet commemorating the
journey of EPFO from 1952 to 2019
was also released.
SEPTEMBER
CHC Farm Machinery App & Narendra Singh Tomar CHC Farm Machinery App: Narendra
Krishi Kisan App Singh Tomar launched the CHC Farm
Machinery App for the farmers to
connect with the Custom Hiring
Centers(CHC) located within 50 km
radius.Krishi Kisan App: Through this
app, farmer will be provided with
information about high-yielding
crops and seeds in their nearby area.
AUGUST
Meghdoot Minister for Earth It is developed by experts from the
Science, Science and India Meteorological Department
Technology Dr. Harsh (IMD) and Indian Institute of Tropical
Vardhan Meteorology(IITM) and the Indian
Council of Agricultural
Research(ICAR).
‘Uber for tractors’ Agricultural Ministry and To aid farmers in accessing cutting-
the Government of India edge technology at affordable prices.
Farmers can book and hire
agricultural equipment and use them
on rent basis. Click here to read
more.
JULY
Meri Fasal Mera Byora” Haryana Government For farmers to directly avail crop
(https://www.fasalhry.in/ ) related benefits of state government
schemes after self -reporting their
land and crop-related details.
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CARE4U IIT (Indian Institute of To provide better elderly care

Technology ) Kharagpur practices.
SATELLITES
DECEMBER
 Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO)-launched -India’s radar imaging earth observation
satellite RISAT-2BR1-by PLSV-C48 (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-48) from Sriharikota,
Andhra Pradesh.
♦ “Duchifat 3”- Israeli satellite was launched . Click here to Read More
 1st Satellite of Ethiopia-Ethiopian Remote Sensing Satellite-1 or ETRSS-1- launched by a Chinese
Long March 4B carrier rocket (CZ-4B) from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in North China.
 Earth observation satellite named China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite- 4A (CBERS-4A)-
launched by Long March-4B rocket in the northern Chinese province of Shanxi.
 Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC)-launched Rohini (RH) 200 sounding rocket from
Thumba in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala - to study changes in the earth’s upper atmosphere
during the eclipse.
NOVEMBER
 China launched Sudan’s first ever satellite named Sudan Remote Sensing Satellite(SRSS-1).
 Earth observation satellite, CARTOSAT 3-launched by PSLV-C47rocket-Sriharikota in Andhra
Pradesh(AP).
OCTOBER
 NASA- launched Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) space weather satellite from
Northrop Grumman’s L-1011 Stargazer aircraft.
SEPTEMBER
 NASA - launched RamanSat 2, a miniature satellite made by Indian student Aabhaas Sikka.
JULY
 Russian space agency Roscosmos - launched its Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket -with a
hydrometeorological satellite and 32 small satellites- from the Vostochny spaceport.
 India’s heaviest rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) Mk-III, nicknamed
‘Bahubali’ carried the Chandrayaan-2 mission successfully from the Satish Dhawan Space
Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota, off the coast of Andhra Pradesh.Click here to read more.
 ISRO to launch India’s 1st solar mission Aditya-L1 in the first half of 2020.
INVENTIONS
DECEMBER
 World’s 1st ocean-going liquid hydrogen carrier ship - Suiso Frontier-launched by Japan.
 “Shandong”-China’s first indigenously-produced aircraft carrier .
 International Astronomical Union (IAU) names a star and a planet with Indian names: Bibha
and Santamasa.
--- Bibha was named after Indian woman scientist Bibha Choudhury.
 ‘HIP 7943’ was named as “Sharjah”-appreciating the achievements of Sharjah,UAE & one of its
planet (exoplanet) was named as “Barjeel”.
NOVEMBER
 “Pegasus”, new spyware attack in WhatsApp to spy journalists & others, especially Indians.
 NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has launched its 1st all-electric
experimental aircraft named the X-57 “Maxwell.”
OCTOBER
 First satellite-servicing spacecraft named “MEV-1” (Mission Extension Vehicle-1)- launched on
the Russian Proton rocket in Kazakhstan.
 NASA’s hubble space telescope –observed- 1st Confirmed Interstellar Comet-2I / Borisov.
 Debayan Saha- IIT Kharagpur graduate invents “PM 2.5” device to curb air pollution.
 Researchers from IIIT Hyderabad created first-ever Indian Brain atlas.
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 Scientists discover 8th continent, “Greater Adria” hidden under Europe.
 Astronomers detect a Jupiter-like planet named "GJ 3512 b"-30 light-years from the sun.
 Second interstellar object named 2I/Borisov – discovered by amateur astronomer Gennady
Borisov from MARGO observatory, Crimea.
 Minor planet 2006 VP32 (number -300128), located between Mars and Jupiter named as
“Panditjasraj”- after - first Indian musician.
AUGUST
 India's first large scale trial for Two new TB vaccines “IMMUVAC and VPM1002”, was launched
by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
 Transmitting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) of NASA - discovered 3 new planets which are
the smallest and nearest- just 73 light-years away from our earth.
 Flipkart launched ‘Samarth’ initiative to support weavers, artisans and makers of handicrafts
to its platform.
 NASA’s TESS satellite discovers first nearby super Earth named GJ 357 d.
 Astronomers at the Institute for Planetary sciences and Astrophysics, Grenoble, France (IPAG)
have discovered a 2nd planet called 'B Pictoris c'-which is about nearly twice the mass of Sun
and lies about 63 light years away from Earth.
JULY
 NASA’s TESS space telescope discovers its smallest planet named L 98-59b.
 Manav-a new human atlas initiative has been launched by the Department of Biotechnology
(DBT) and Persistent Systems.
 Russian space agency - launched Proton-M rocket carrying the Spektr-RG(Spectrum Roentgen
Gamma) space telescope from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
ENVIRONMENT
DECEMBER
 Operation Clean Art: To crackdown illegal trade in mongoose hair launched.
 Typhoon Tisoy (Kammuri) hits the Philippines.
 “Typhoon Phanfone” also known as “Ursula” hits Central Philippines.
NOVEMBER
 Spider species was named after Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar as “Marengo
sachintendulkar” & “Indomarengo chavarapater” after Saint Kuriakose Elias Chavara in Kerala.
 NASA renames Ultima thule to Arrokoth after Nazi controversy.
 Cyclone Bulbul-hits West Bengal, Odisha & Bangladesh- the center of the storm was northwest
of the Bay of Bengal, 95 km east-northeast of Paradip (Odisha) with winds speeds crossing
over 100 kmph.
 ‘Avian botulism’- killed 18,000 Migratory Birds at Sambhar Lake(Rajasthan).
OCTOBER
 “Ancient buried river” that linked the Ganga and Yamuna rivers-undiscovered in-Prayagraj
(formerly Allahabad), Uttar Pradesh.
 Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS) - discovered the 1st & unique eel-
loach species of miniature well-dwelling subterranean fish named ‘Pangio bhujia’.
 Saharan silver ant (Cataglyphis bombycina) - world’s fastest ant.
 Honey-coloured insect, blind and wingless beetle named after climate activist Greta Thunberg
(16)- formal scientific name is Nelloptodes gretae.
 2000-year old historic trade settlement & a Pallava-period statue of Lord Vishnu - unearthed -
near the banks of Swarnamukhi river in the village of Gottiprolu in Andhra Pradesh (AP).
 Typhoon Hagibis-hits-Japan- Wind speeds upto 225 km/hr.
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 Cyclone ‘Kyarr’- First Super Cyclonic storm in the Arabian Sea in the last 12 years after Cyclone
Gonu
SEPTEMBER
 Hurricane Dorian - affected the Bahamas and the Southeastern United States (US) with the
maximum sustained winds of 175 kph (110 mph).
 Keezhadi excavation in Tamil Nadu leads to a major turning point in the cultural
historiography of the ancient Sangam Age.
 United in Science for 2019- the average global temperature between 2015-2019 will be the
hottest-by-United Nations.
 Protodontopteryx ruthae -world’s oldest bird species is discovered in Waipara, New zealand.
AUGUST
 Remains of the World's largest parrot that lived 19 million years ago have been discovered in
New Zealand which is nicknamed as "Squawkzilla".
 Earth has lost 53% of its wildlife since 1970: WWF report.
 India is the world’s top emitter of anthropogenic sulphur dioxide(SO2) in the world.
 Nations around the world moved to protect giraffes as endangered species-in- Wild Fauna and
Flora (CITES) 2019, in Geneva, Switzerland.
JULY
 “Dracaena cambodiana”, India’s first dragon blood-oozing tree discovered in Assam.
 Scaly-Foot Snail became the first-ever species endangered due to deep-sea mining.
DEFENCE
MISSILES
DECEMBER
 Agni-III surface-to-surface ballistic missile-strike range of 3,500 kilometres-test fired at APJ
Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha.
 Prithvi-2 surface-to-surface missile-strike range of 3,50 kilometres –Odisha.
 Land & air version of the surface-to-surface supersonic cruise missile BrahMos-Chandipur
district of Odisha-with strike range - 300 kilometers.
 2 Pinaka missiles-test fired from Chandipur in Odisha-with strike range -75 km.
 Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missile (QRSAM)-test fired in Odisha-by Defence Research and
Development Organisation (DRDO).
 Russia-launched-first regiment of Avangard hypersonic missiles.
NOVEMBER
 Agni-II, an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM)( 20-meter-long, 17-tonnes)-test fired -
Dr. Abdul Kalam Island off Odisha-firepower is up to 2000 km.
 Shaheen-1 surface-to-surface ballistic missile-with strike range upto 650 kilometers.
 Nuclear-capable surface-to-surface Prithvi-2 missile(nine-metre tall) - test-fired - Chandipur,
Odisha – strike range-350 km.
 Indian Army(IA) - test-fired two newly-acquired Spike LR (long-range) anti-tank missiles -
Mhow, Madhya Pradesh(MP)- with a strike range of up to 4 kilometers.
 Brahmos supersonic cruise missile-290-km strike range-test fired in the Arabian sea.
OCTOBER
 China-unveiled-DF-41 (Dongfeng-41) the most powerful intercontinental-range ballistic
missile in world.
 Israeli Spike anti-tank guided missiles-inducted into- Indian Army.
 Minuteman III -intercontinental ballistic missile-test fired by United States.
 IAF- test-fired 2 Brahmos surface to surface missile from mobile platform at Trak Island of the
Andaman Nicobar Islands- can hit-target-close to 300kms away.
SEPTEMBER
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 Man Portable Anti Tank Guided Missile (MP-ATGM)-Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh -with maximum
range of around 2.5 kms, will replace Soviet-era anti-tank missiles.
 Air-to-Air missile Astra from Su-30 MKI Bay of Bengal off the coast of Odisha –with a range of
over 70 km and can fly towards its target at a speed of over 5,555 kilometres per hour.
AUGUST
 Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air Missile (QRSAM)-test fired in Chandipur in Odisha-was
developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for the India Army.
 290km range surface to surface(SSM) name “Ghaznavi”-test fired in Sonmiani flight test range
of Balochistan- developed by National Development Complex (NDC).
 Iranian Defense Ministry has unveiled its new home-grown air defence system called “Bavar-
373”.
JULY
 China has tested its latest submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), JL-3.
 DRDO successfully carried out 3 successful test firings of Nag missiles in one day (day & night)
in Pokhran, Rajasthan.
 Indian Army successfully conducted the trials of third Generation Anti-Tank Guided Missile-
NAG at Pokhran, Rajasthan.
 INS Tarkash reached Saint Petersburg, Russia to take part in the Russian Navy Day parade.
COMMISSION/DECOMMISSION
DECEMBER
 Indian Air Force decommissioned its last MiG-27 (Nicknamed - ‘Bahadur’) squadron in Jodhpur
base in Rajasthan.
SEPTEMBER
 Rajnath Singh commissioned-India’s second Scorpene-class attack submarine INS Khanderi,
India’s first P-17 Shivalik-class frigate INS Nilgiri and the largest aircraft carrier drydock.
 Rajnath Singh commissioned Indian Coast Guard Ship (ICGS) Varaha at the Chennai Port Trust,
Tamil Nadu.
JULY
 Fifth Dornier squadron of the Indian Navy- Indian Naval Air Squadron 313 (INAS 313 )
commissioned at the Naval Air Enclave in Meenambakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
 Indigenously built LCU MK IV class ship “LCU L56” commissioned into Indian Navy.
EXERCISES
Name of the Exercise Participating Countries Venue
DECEMBER
MITRA SHAKTI 2019(Military & India-Sri Lanka Pune, Maharashtra
Army)
HAND-IN-HAND 2019 India and China Umroi, Meghalaya
INDRA 2019(Joint tri-services India and Russia Babina (near Jhansi in Uttar
exercise) Pradesh(UP)), Pune and Goa.
Apharan- Large scale anti- Indian Navy Kochi coast of Kerala
hijacking exercise
Swachchh Samundra NW-2019- Indian Coast Guard (ICG) Gulf of Kutch(GoK), Gujarat
Pollution response exercise
NOVEMBER
INDRA 2019 India and Russia(first-ever
joint tri-service)
Sindu Sudarshan-VII Strike Corps of the Indian Jaisalmer-Barmer deserts of
Army(IA) Rajasthan
Za’ir-Al-Bahr 2019(Navy Qatar and India Doha, Qatar.This is the first
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Exercise) naval exercise between 2

countries
‘CT-TTX‘ (counter-terrorism “Quad” countries (4 New Delhi
table-top exercise) countries-India, the US, Japan
and Australia)
Mine Countermeasure Exercise India & Japan (Navy) Kochi, Kerala
(MINEX) 2019
‘SURYA KIRAN – XIV’ (Joint India and Nepal Salijhandi, Rupendehi district
Military) of Nepal
OCTOBER
4thKAZIND-2019 India and Kazakhstan Pithoragarh, Uttarakhand
2019 Nomadic Elephant-XIV India and Mongolia Himachal Pradesh
10th edition of Ekuverin 2019 India and Maldives Pune, Maharashtra
Sudarshan Chakra Vahini war Indian Army Jaisalmer, Rajasthan
exercise 2019
Coordinated Patrol (CORPAT) Indian Navy(IN) –Bangladesh Northern Bay of Bengal
2019 Navy(BN)
Dharma Guardian-2019 India and Japan(Military) Mizoram
Vajra Prahar 2019 India and the US (United Seattle, US
States)(Military)
‘Shinyuu Maitri’ 2019 India and Japan-Air Force West Bengal
exercise
Ex Eastern Bridge – V India and Oman(Air Force) Oman
Defence of Andaman & Nicobar Indian Army, Navy, and Port Blair, Andaman and
Islands 2019 (DANX-19) Airforce Nicobar Islands
IMNEX-2019 India- Myanmar(Navy Visakhapatnam, Andhra

Exercise) Pradesh
Ex Shakti -2019 India and France(Army) Rajasthan
Dustlik-2019 India-Uzbekistan(Military) Chirchiq, Uzbekistan
Shanghai Cooperation SCO member states New Delhi.Click here to read

Organization (SCO) Joint Exercise more.
on Urban Earthquake Search &
Rescue (SCOJtEx)- 2019
Samudra Shakti 2019 India navy & Indonesia navy Bay of Bengal
Regional Level Search and Rescue Indian Coast Guard(ICG) Near Goa
Workshop and Exercise 2019
(ReSAREX- 19)
MILAN Multi-lateral Naval Multinational naval exercise Visakhapatnam, Andhra
Exercise for the year 2020(First Pradesh
Mainland Exercise)
SEPTEMBER
First Asean-US Maritime Exercise United States (US) and 10 Sattahip Naval Base in
(AUMX) Association of Southeast Thailand
Asian Nations (ASEAN)
countries
15th edition of biggest joint India and the United Washington(US)
military exercise ‘Yudh Abhyas’ States(US)
2019
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28th edition of India-Thailand Indian Naval Ship(INS) Kesari Bangkok, Thailand

Coordinated Patrol(Indo-Thai and Thailand Ship(HTMS)
CORPAT) Kraburi
Maitree – 2019 India and Thailand Umroi, Meghalaya
SITMEX (Singapore-India- Singapore, India and Port Blair, the capital of
Thailand Maritime Exercise) Thailand Andaman and Nicobar islands
TSENTR 2019 8 SCO member countries DONGUZ ranges near
inclusive of Russia namely Orenburg, Russia
China, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,
Uzbekistan, India, and
Pakistan
ExerciseTiger Triumph India and the United Visakhapatnam and Kakinada,
States(US) first ever tri- both of state Andhra Pradesh
services exercise
23rd edition of “Malabar 2019” India, US and Japan Sasebo, Japan
AUGUST
"Tsentr (centre) 2019" Shanghai Cooperation Orenburg, Russia
Organisation (SCO) Member
countries including India and
Pakistan
Multilateral Naval Exercise named Visakhapatnam
‘MILAN‘ 2020
14th Edition of KONKAN-19 India & Britain .Indian Navy’s South Coast of the United
Bilateral Navy Exercise INS Tarkash participated Kingdom (UK)
Indo-USCG joint exercise Indian Coast Guards Shaurya Chennai coast, Tamil Nadu
and Abheek, and Chetak
helicopter along with
Stratton took part in an Indo-
USCG joint exercise off the
Chennai coast.
Shaheen-VIII China and Pakistan(air Holton, China close to the

forces) Indian border of around 300
km north of Ladakh, Jammu
and Kashmir(J&K).
JULY
International Security Alliance UAE, France, the Italian Abu Dhabi, UAE (United Arab
(ISA), ISALEX19 Republic, Bahrain, Morocco, Emirates)
Spain, Senegal, Singapore,
and the Slovak Republic.
Garuda VI Indian Air Force (IAF) and Mont de Marsan in France

Armée de l’Air (French Air
Force)
8th edition of Hand-in- India and China Umroi near Shillong in
Hand(HiH)Military exercise 2019 Meghalaya.
IndSpaceEx Three armed forces of India New Delhi
(Army, Navy, and Air Force)
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OTHER DEFENCE NEWS:

 IAF formally inducted four heavy-lift Chinook helicopters-in- Air Force Station, Chandigarh.
 Indian Army inducted Four Indigenous ‘Dhanush’ Howitzers guns- first long-range artillery
gun-38km
 US has consented the sale of 24 "MH-60R Seahawk" helicopters to India for $2.6 bn.
 Indian Government clears procurement of 464 Russian tanks under the T-90 Project.
 Indian Navy’s –to buy-10 ‘Kamov Ka-31’ Helicopters worth of Rs 3,600 crore from Russia.
 INS Vela, Indian Navy's 4th Scorpene-class submarine was launched at Mazagon Dockyard in
Mumbai.
 India receives its first Apache Guardian attack helicopter in Boeing’s production facility in
Mesa, Arizona US.
 Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) successfully conducted the flight test
of ABHYAS in Odisha.
 ‘Operation Sunrise 2’- India and Myanmar- targeted the militant groups operating in Manipur,
Nagaland, and Assam to bust terror camps.
 “Operation Sankalp”- in the Gulf of Oman- INS Chennai and INS Sunayna in the region to
undertake maritime security operations.
 India scraped $500 million arms deal with Israel for the purchase of Spike anti-tank missiles
from defence contractor Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.
 INS Tarkash reaches Alexandria as part of the Overseas Deployment programme.
 India signed a deal with Russia for acquiring the ‘Strum Ataka’ anti-tank missiles -worth -
around Rs 200 Crore.
 ISRO signed a contract with Russian company Glavkosmos to train Indian astronauts for
‘Gaganyaan’.
 Indian Army & National eGovernance Division (NeGD), a part of the Ministry of Electronics and
Information Technology (MeitY), signed a MoU to develop a revamped application.
 Operation Sudarshan launched by BSF to fortify the anti-infiltration grid along Pakistan border.
 Indian Army -will buy the Excalibur artillery ammunition from the US (United States) under
the emergency procurement procedures which can strike targets more than 50 km away.
 Two new heavy-lift Chinook helicopters for IAF arrived at the Mundra port, Gujarat –
manufactured by Boeing.
 Two Defence Industrial Corridors to be set up in Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
 upGrad with Liverpool John Moores University offers India’s 1st online Master’s degree
program in Machine Learning and AI.
 India signed a Rs 1500 crore contract with Russia for the acquisition of R-27air-to-air missile
which gives the additional capability to target enemy aircraft at long Ranges. These missiles are
to be equipped on the Su-30MKI combat aircraft of the Indian Air Force (IAF).
 Israel and the US successfully tested Arrow-3 Anti-Ballistic Missile System.
 United States (US) approved foreign military sales worth $670 million to support India’s C-17
military transport aircraft.
 "Mission Reach Out"-launched after revocation of Article 370 in Jammu Division.
 Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), chaired by Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh approved the
procurement of indigenous Software Defined Radio (SDR Tactical) worth Rs 1,100 crore and
Next-Generation Maritime Mobile Coastal Batteries (NGMMCB, Long Range) for the Indian
Navy worth Rs 1,247 crore.
 11th C-17 Globemaster III Transport Aircraft of Boeing, delivered to IAF.
 Indian Air Force (IAF) – received- ‘Apache AH-64E’ fighter helicopters- from US in Boeing at
Airforce Station, Pathankot, Punjab.
 World's biggest transport spaceship Kounotori8 launched by Japan.
 Defence Ministry signed Rs.5,500 crore contract for additional indigenous Akash SAM systems
and LCAs.
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 Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) delivered 101st warship ‘Annie Besant’ to
Indian Coast Guard.
 11th edition of Maitree Diwas (Civil-Military Friendship)- Arunachal Pradesh –theme - “Know
Your Army”.
 Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) delivered -ICGS (Indian Coast Guard Ship)
Amrit Kaur to - Indian Coast Guard (ICG).
 Israel made Anti Tank Guided Missiles Spike (ATGMS)-inducted into Indian Army.
 103rd LCU amphibious ship LCU L-57 – deleivered by -Garden Reach Shipbuilders &
Engineers Ltd (GRSE).
SPORTS
WINNERS OF TOURNAMENT/CHAMPIONSHIP:
Sports/Tournament/title Venue Winner Points to be noted
Australian F1 Grand Prix Australia Mercedes Formula He was followed by Lewis
2019 One (F1) driver Hamilton of Mercedes and Red
Valtteri Bottas Bull’s Max Verstappen.
Asian Youth Athletes Hong Kong China topped the India secured second position in
Championship championship with the overall medals tally with 26
31 medals medals including 8 gold, 9 silver
including 12 gold, and 9 bronze medals.
11 silver and 8
bronze.
15th Special Olympics Abu Dhabi, India wins 368 85 Motto “Meet the Determined”. The
World Summer Games United Arab gold, 154 silver and next Special Olympic Games are
2019 Emirates 129 bronze. set to take place in Sweden in
2021.
Bahrain Grand Prix 2019 Bahrain Lewis Hamilton of Mercede's Valtteri Bottas of
Mercedes Finland ranked second position.
Chinese Grand Prix China Lewis Hamilton
23rd edition of Asian Khalifa Bahrain (BHR) won India won 17 medals which
Athletics Championship Internation 22 medals include 3 gold, 7 silver and 7
al Stadium bronze.
in Doha, 3 gold medal winners:Gomathi
Qatar Marimuthu (women’s 800m race).
Tejinder Pal Singh Toor wins gold
in men’s shot put. PU Chitra wins
gold in women’s 1500m race.
Click here to read the entire
winners.
Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2019 Baku, Valtteri Viktor Top 5 rank:
Azerbaijan Bottas (Finland) of 1. Valtteri Viktor Bottas
Mercedes 2. Hamilton
3. Sebastian Vettel
4. Max Verstappen
Asian Wrestling Xi’an, China Iran topped the India won 16 medals which
Championship 2019 medal tally by include 1 gold, 3 silver and 4
winning 11 gold bronze by men’s freestyle
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and 6 Bronze.It is wrestlers. Bajrang Punia bags gold

followed by China, in 65-kg Category
Japan.
Asian Road Para-Cycling Tashkent, Indian para cyclists Divij Shah has clinched silver medal
Championships 2019 Uzbekistan won a silver and in the C5 category. GurlalSingh,
two bronze medals became the only Indian cyclist (able-
bodied or otherwise) to win a medal
at the Asian Games level grabbed a
bronze in the C4 section.Sudhakar
Marathe, a Hand cyclist from
Maharashtra has claimed bronze for
India in H5 category.
Asian Weightlifting Ningbo, Overall medal tally India won 5 medals which include
Championships 2019 China was clinched by 3 silver and 2 bronze medals,
China. finished tenth place in the
tournament.Click here to read
the winners.
Spanish Grand Prix Barcelona Lewis Hamilton This is third victory of 2019 and
(Mercedes) of fourth in Spain following victories
United Kingdom.He in 2014, 2017 and 2018.
celebrated the 76th
win of his Formula
1 career,
Monaco Grand Prix that Monte Lewis Hamilton of This was his sixth straight win in
was held in Circuit de Carlo, Mercedes the year 2019.
Monaco La Condamine Monaco.
Archery World Cup Stage 3 Antalya, Men’s compound They performed against Anton
Turkey Abhishek Bulaev, Alexander Dambaev & Pavel
Verma,Rajat Chauhan Krylov of Russia&registered a win
&Aman Sainiwon with 235-230. India scored 59, 58,
bronze 59, 59 in four rounds.
Ali Aliev Tournament 2019 Kaspiysk Bajrang Punia He defeated Russian wrestler
Dagestan, Viktor Rassadin in 65-kg category
Russia by 13-8.
Under-20 Eurasian Almaty, Indian juniors The national teams from
Athletics Championships Kazakshsta bagged 5 gold and 3 Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
n silver medals Uzbekistan, Iran, India and
Tajikistan participated in a 2-day
event held on May 29-30, 2019.
Cantor Fitzgerald U21 Dublin, Indian Junior They defeated Ireland
International 4-Nations Ireland Women Hockey
title team
2019 Canadian Grand Prix Montreal, Lewis Hamilton
Quebec, (Mercedes) of
Canada United Kingdom
2019 Pacific International Reventon Sourav Kothari He defeated Tyson Crinis of
Snooker Championship, Classic, in Australia to win the title.
Melbourne,
Australia
2019 Pacific International Melbourne, Peter Gilchrist of He defeated India’s Sourav
Billiards Championship at Australia Singapore Kothari (Kolkata)
the Yarraville Club
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76th Senior National Pune, Joshna Chinappa She has surpassed the record of
Squash Championship, Maharastra 16 titles, which stood for 27 years
2019 held by Bhuvneshwari Kumari of
Rajastan
FIH (Federation Kalinga India India defeated South Africa.
Internationale de Hockey) Stadium in Manpreet Singh won the Best
Men’s Series Finals hockey Bhubanesw Player of the Tournament Award,
tournament 2019 ar, Odisha while Vivek Sagar wins the Best
Junior Player Award.
2019 Asian Continental Xingtai, Nihal Sarin He scored eight points from nine
Chess Championship China rounds of the event .Click here to
read more.
33rd Federation Cup Gautam Punjab Police It is organised by the Basketball
Basketball Championship Buddha (Men) and Eastern Federation of India (BFI) and the
for Men and Women for the University, Railway (Women) Uttar Pradesh Basketball
year 2019 Greater Association (UPBA).
Noida, Uttar
Pradesh
119th United States (US) Pebble Gary Woodland He secured his first major career
open 2019 Beach Golf title after defeating two-time
Links, defending champion Brooks
California Koepka(US).
Folksam Grand Prix 2019 Sollentuna, PU Chitra(1500m) She ran her season best by clocking 4
Sweden minutes 12.65 seconds .While in
men’s 1500m, Jinson Johnson from
India won a silver medal.
8th edition of Senior Asian Ulaanbaatar Pranati Nayak(won She hails from West Bengal, India
Artistic Championships , Mongolia bronze)
35th men’s Asian snooker Doha, Qatar Pankaj Advani He defeated Thai’s Thanawat
championship Tirapongpaiboon.
FIH ( Fédération Hiroshima, India They defeated Japan. Rani Rampal,
Internationale de Hockey) Japan Indian Team Captain was the best
Women's Series Finals player of the tournament & Gurjit
Hiroshima 2019 Kaur emerged as the top-scorer.
International 15s rugby Manila, India(Bronze) They defeated Singapore.
match Philippines
French Grand Prix 2019 Circuit Paul Lewis Hamilton of This was his sixth win from eight
Ricard, Le Mercedes Grand Prix of the season 2019 and
Castellet, 79th of his career.
France
26th Asian junior Macau, Veer Chotrani He defeated another Indian seed
Individual squash China Yash Fadte
championship 2019(U-19)
2019 Austrian Grand Prix Red Bull Red Bull’s Max He defeated Ferrari’s Charles
Ring, Verstappen Leclerc
Spielberg, (Belgium)
Austria
Poznań Athletics Grand Golecin Hima Das(women’s V.K. Vismaya won bronze medal in
Prix 2019 Stadium, 200m) the women’s 200m,In men’s
Poznań, 200m, Muhammed Anas won
Poland bronze, In men’s 400-metre, KS
Jeevan won bronze medal,In
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men’s Shotput, Asian champion

Tajinder Pal Singh Toor won
bronze medal.
30th Summer Universiade Napoli, Italy Elavenil Valarivan She won silver medal in 10m Air
Games 2019 (19) Rifle Women’s event.
World Youth Cup 2019 Umag, Arinjeeta Dey She won a silver medal in the
Croatia Karate under 12 age category. It
was organized by World Karate
Federation affiliated to the
International Olympic
Association.
Grand Prix of Spain Madrid, Vinesh Phogat She won gold medal in 53kg category.
Women’s Wrestling for the Spain Divya Kakran won gold in the 68 kg
year 2019 category.
Silver Medals
Pooja Dhanda in 57kg category
Seema (50kg), Manju Kumari (59kg)
and Kiran (76kg)
2019 Kutno Athletics Meet Poland Hima Das She won gold in Women’s 200 m
VK Vismaya bagged silver in
Women’s 200 m.Muhammed Anas
won gold in Men’s 200m race.
M P Jabir won gold in Men’s 400m
hurdles.Jithin Paul won bronze in
Men’s 400m hurdles.
Croatia Grand Chess Tour Croatia Magnus He defeated Maxime Vachier
2019 Carlsen(Norway) Lagrav of France
Kladno Memorial Athletics Czech Hima Das Muhammed Anas Yahiya also won
Meet 2019 Republic gold in the men’s 400m. In men’s
javelin final, the Indian trio Vipin
Kasana(82.51m), Abhishek
Singh(77.32m ) & Davinder Singh
(76.58m ) claimed top three spots.
Tejinder Pal Singh Toor won the
bronze medal in men’s shot put.
British Grand Prix at the Silverstone, Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes, Valtteri Bottas attained
Silverstone Circuit United Mercedes the second position, and Ferrari’s
Kingdom Charles Leclerc attained the third
position in the Grand Prix.
30th Summer University Naples, Italy India got 29th place Dutee Chand Women’s 100-metre
Games (XXX Summer in the list with the sprint(Gold),Elavenil Valarivan
Universiade) 2019 total medal tally of Women’s 10m Air Rifle(Silver),
4 (1Gold, 1Silver, 2 Nina Chandel, Elavenil Valarivan
Bronze). and Aayushi Gupta Women’s team
Air Rifle(Bronze) and Angad Vir
Singh Bajwa Men’s skeet(Bronze).
Tabor Athletics Meet 2019 Czech Hima Das (19) from Assam
Republic clinched her 4th international
gold in women’s 200m race with a
time of 23.25 seconds and
Muhammed Anas Yahiya (Kerala)
also won gold in the men’s 400m.
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Commonwealth Apia, Samoa India topped the Ajay Singh created a new
Weightlifting medal tally by Commonwealth record in the
Championships winning 35 medals clean and jerk category by lifting
across three more than double his body weight
categories viz 22 (190kg). Pardeep Singh created a
golds, 10 silvers new record in the clean and jerk
and 3 bronze category by lifting 202kgs. Jeremy
medals in all Lalrinnunga competing in 67 kg
categories. India male event broke a youth world
also broke a total of record with lift of 136 kg in
22 records. snatch. Jhilli Dalabehera won the
gold in the women’s 45 kg event,
and set 6 records with a clean and
jerk lift of 94 kg and a total lift of
164 kg at the Commonwealth
(Senior and Junior) and Junior
National level.
2019 Formula 1 German Germany Max Verstappen Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel won the
Grand Prix (Dutch) second place and Scuderia Toro
Rosso’s Daniil Kvyat finished
third.Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes
finished 11th.
Formula 1 Hungarian Hungary Mercedes’ Lewis He outpaced max verstappen to the
grand prix Hamilton second spot. Ferrari’s Sebastian
Vettel and Charles Leclerc took third
and fourth spot respectively.
Tbilisi Grand Prix 2019 Tbilisi, Bajrang Punia He won gold in 65kg men’s
Georgia freestyle competition at Tbilisi
Grand Prix 2019 against Iran's
Peiman Bibyani by 2-0. The event
was held at the New Sports
Palace, Tbilisi, Georgia and was
organised by the Georgian
Wrestling Federation.
Medved event 2019 Minsk, Vinesh Phogat Vinesh Phogat won Silver medal.
Belarus She suffered a 0-10 (technical
superiority) defeat against N
Malisheva of Russia. She had won
3 consecutive gold medals at the
Grand Prix of Spain, Yasar Dogu
International and Poland Open in
2019.
Junior World Tallinn, Deepak Punia He won gold in 86-kg junior freestyle
Championships 2019 Estonia category by beating Alik Shebzukhov
of Russia.In the 92kg, Vicky Chahar
defeated Mongolia's Batmagnai
Eenkhtuvshin and claimed the
bronze medal.
2019 US (United States) Kansas City, Simone Arianne Biles became the first woman in
Gymnastics Championships Missouri, US Biles the world to make a “triple-
double” floor exercise landing
which is a finale featuring two
flips and three twists
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5th edition of Jaisalmer Indian Army team Indian Army was trained under
'International Army Scout Military won the event the aegis of Southern Command.
Masters Competition 2019’ Station, Read full details here: Indian
Rajasthan Army Emerged As The Winner
In 5th ‘International Army
Scout Masters
Competition’2019
Athleticky Mitink Reiter Czech Hima Das won gold Mohammad Anas won gold in
Event 2019 Republic in women’s 300 m men’s 300 m
555 kms long 10th edition Ladakh, Ashish Kasodekar He became the 1st Indian to
of ‘La Ultra The High’ Jammu, and complete the 555 kms long race.
marathon 2019 Kashmir Ashish came in 3rd at 126 hrs 18
(J&K) min to finish the distance.
2019 World Archery Youth Madrid, India won 2 golds  Raginee Markoo and Singh
Championships Spain and 1 bronze Sukhbeer won India’s first gold
medal to win India’s first
compound junior mixed
teamgold medal at the Madrid.
 The second gold to india was
earned by Komalika Bari.
Read full details here: India wins
two gold at the 2019 World
Archery Youth Championships
held in Madrid, Spain
Women’s 400m race in Brno, Czech VK Vismaya(gold) She finished the race in 52.12s
International Athletic Republic which was her personal best.
Meeting – Josef Seckar
Memorial (MJS)
45th Edition of the World Kazan Expo The Indian team won 1 Gold, 1 Silver
Skills International Internation and 2 Bronze medals along with 15
Competition for the year al Medallions of Excellence at the
2019, a biennial event Exhibition competition. Read full details here:
45th World Skills International
Centre, Competition For 2019 Held At Kazan,
Russia Russia
Poland Open Wrestling Warsaw, Vinesh Phogat She defeated wrestler Roksana of
Tournament the capital Poland by 3-2. She had won gold
of Poland at the Grand Prix of Spain and at
the Yasar Dogu International at
Istanbul, Turkey in July 2019.
V. Koci memorial athletics Decin, Tejinderpal Singh Tejinder has a personal best
meet 2019 Czech Toor (24) won throw of 20.75 meters.
Republic silver
2019 Belgian Grand Prix Stavelot, Charles Leclerc The second and third place were
Belgium (21yr) of Ferrari won by Mercedes’s Lewis
won gold Hamilton(England) and
Mercedes’s ValtteriBottas
(Finland) respectively.
World Martial Arts Konkuk Anupama Swain With this, she qualified for the
Mastership Jiu-Jitsu 2019 University clinched a bronze 2022 Asian Games. She was
Glocal medal trained by Hariprasad Patnayak.
Campus in
Chungju,
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South Korea
2019 Italian Grand Monza, Italy Charles This marks Ferrari’s first Italian
Prix(formally known as Leclerc(Monaco) Grand Prix win in 9 years (last
Formula 1 Gran Premio win 2010) and also Charles’s
Heineken d'Italia 2019) second successive win in the F1
Formula 1(F1) race race after winning the maiden
2019 Belgian Grand Prix.
Formula 1 (F1) Singapore Marina Bay Ferrari’s Sebastian The second and the third spot was
Airlines Singapore Grand Street Vettel of Germany won by Ferrari’s Charles Lecrec
Prix 2019 Circuit, (Monaco) and Red Bull’s Max
Singapore Verstappen (Belgium)
respectively.
Fide World Grand Prix Skolkovo, Koneru Hampi While other Indian ,D Harika
2019 Russia secured the sixth place with 5
points.
International Billiards & Mandalay, Pankaj Advani and It was the 23rd world title for
Snooker Federation (IBSF) Myanmar Aditya Mehta Advani and the first title for
World Snooker Team Mehta. The event was a part of
Championship 2019 Myanmar Open Billiards 2019.
2019 Russia F1 Grand Prix Sochi Lewis Carl Mercedes ValteriBottas(Finland)
(Formula 1 GP) Autodrom Davidson Hamilton and Ferrari’s Charles Lecrec
race track in (Monaco) won the second and
Russia. third spot respectively. By this
win, Hamilton became all-time
record holder, winning his 143rd
Grand Prix totally, surpassing
Michael Schumacher’s(Germany)
mark which he held for 18 years.
Badminton
SEPTEMBER
Overview of Korea Open 2019 held in Incheon, South Korea
 The Korea Open 2019, a badminton Super 500 tournament was held at Incheon International
Airport Skydom in Incheon, South Korea from September 24 – 29, 2019.
Category Winner Runner
Men’s Singles Kento Momota (Japan) Chou Tien-chen (Taiwan)
Women’s Singles He Bingjiao (China) Ratchanok Intanon (Thailand)
Men’s Doubles Fajar Alfian & Muhammad Rian Takeshi Kamura & Keigo Sonoda
Ardianto (Indonesia) (Japan)
Women’s Doubles Kim So-yeong & Kong Hee-yong Lee So-hee & Shin Seung-chan (South
(South Korea) Korea)
Mixed Doubles Dechapol Puavaranukroh & Zheng Siwei & Huang Yaqiong
Sapsiree Taerattanachai (Thailand) (China)
Overview of YONEX-SUNRISE Vietnam Open 2019

• The YONEX Belgian International 2019, an annual badminton tournament, was held at
Sportoase, Leuven, Belgium from September 11-14, 2019. The total prize money of the
tournament was $25,000.
Men’s Singles Lakshya Sen (India) Victor Svendsen (Denmark)
Women’s Singles Line Christophersen (Denmark) Neslihan Yiğit (Turkey)
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Men’s Doubles Ben Lane & Sean Bjarne Geiss & Jan Colin Volker
Vendy (England) (Germany)
Women’s Doubles Gabriela Stoeva & Stefani Rachel Honderich & Kristen Tsai
Stoeva (Bulgaria) (Canada)
Mixed Doubles Ben Lane & Jessica Mikkel Mikkel & Amalie Magelund
Pugh (England) (Denmark)
Overview Of 2019 China Open Held In Jiangsu, China

 The 2019 China open, officially called as VICTOR China Open 2019 was held at Olympic Sports
Center Xincheng Gymnasium in Changzhou, Jiangsu, China from September 17-22, 2019.
Women’s singles Carolin Marin (Spain) Tai Tzu Ying (Taiwan)
Men’s singles KentoMomota (Japan) Anthony Sinisuka Ginting (Indonesia)
Men’s doubles Marcus Fernaldi Gideon Mohammad Ahsan (Indonesia) &
(Indonesia) & Kevin Sanjaya Hendra Setiawan (Indonesia)
Sukamuljo (Indonesia)
Women’s doubles Chen Qingchen (China) & JiaYifan Misaki Matsutomo (Japan) & Ayaka
(China) Takahashi (Japan)
Mixed doubles Zheng Siwei (China) & Huang Wang Yilü (China) & Huang Dongping
Yaqiong (China) (China)
AUGUST
Overview of Toyota Thailand Open (Badminton) 2019 held in Bangkok, Thailand
Men’s Singles Chou Tien-chen (Taiwan) Angus Ng Ka Long (Hong
Kong)
Women’s Singles Chen Yufei (China) Ratchanok Intanon (Thailand)
Men’s Doubles Satwiksairaj Rankireddy & Li Junhui & Liu Yuchen (China)
Chirag Shetty (India)
Women’s Doubles Shiho Tanaka & Koharu Du Yue & Li Yinhui (China)
Yonemoto (Japan)
Mixed Doubles Wang Yilü & Huang Dongping Yuta Watanabe & Arisa
(China) Higashino (Japan)
Overview of Hyderabad Open (Badminton) 2019, officially known as IDBI Federal Life
Insurance Hyderabad Open 2019held at G.M.C. Balayogi SATS Indoor Stadium in Hyderabad,
India
Men’s Singles Sourabh Verma (India) Loh Kean Yew (Singapore)
Women’s Singles Yeo Jia Min (Singapore) An Se-young (South Korea)
Men’s Doubles Muhammad Shohibul Fikri Na Sung-seung & Wang Chan (South
& Bagas Maulana (Indonesia) Korea)
Women’s Doubles Baek Ha-na & Jung Kyung-eun Ashwini Ponnappa & N Sikki Reddy
(South Korea) (India)
Mixed Doubles Cheah Yee See & Hoo Pang Ron Mychelle Crhystine Bandaso & Adnan
(Malaysia) Maulana (Indonesia)
Overview of Total 2019 BWF World Championships held in Basel, Switzerland

Men’s Singles Kento Momota (Japan) Anders Antonsen (Denmark)
Women’s Singles PV Sindhu (India) Nozomi Okuhara (Japan)
Men’s Doubles Mohammad Ahsan & Hendra Takuro Hoki & Yugo Kobayash
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Setiawan (Indonesia) (Japan)

Women’s Doubles Mayu Matsumoto & Wakana Yuki Fukushima & Sayaka Hirota
Nagahara (Japan) (Japan)
Mixed Doubles Zheng Siwei & Huang Yaqiong Dechapol Puavaranukroh &
(China) Sapsiree
Taerattanachai(Thailand)
JULY
Canada Open 2019 (Badminton Tournament) held in Markin-MacPhail Centre, Canada
Event Winner Runner
Men’s Singles Li Shi feng ( China) Parupalli Kashyap(India)
Women’s Singles An Se-young (South Korea) Wang Zhiyi (China)
Men’s Doubles Mathias Boe & Mads Conrad-Petersen Hiroki Okamura & Masayuki
(Denmark) Onodera(Japan)
Women’s Setyana Mapasa & Gronya Somerville Chang Ye-na & Kim Hye-rin(South
Doubles (Australia) Korea)
Mixed Doubles Ko Sung-hyun & Eom Hye-won Guo Xinwa & Zhang Shuxian(China)
38th edition of the Indonesia Open for the year 2019 held in Jakarta, Indonesia
Event Winner Runner
Men’s Singles Chou Tien Chen (Taiwan) Anders Antonsen (Denmark)
Women’s Singles Akane Yamaguchi (Japan) PV Sindhu (India)
Men’s Doubles Marcus Fernaldi Gideon & Mohammad Ahsan & Hendra
Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo Setiawan (Indonesia)
(Indonesia)
Women’s Doubles Yuki Fukushima & Sayaka Misaki Matsutomo & Ayaka
Hirota (Japan) Takahashi (Japan)
Mixed Doubles Zheng Siwei & Huang Wang Yilyu & Huang
Yaqiong (China) Dongping (China)
Boxing
NOVEMBER
Asian Youth Boxing Championship Kazakhstan topped the Gold medal: Naorem Chanu
held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia medal tally followed by India (51kg), Vinka (64kg)
at second place with a total Sanamacha Chanu (75kg),
of 12 medals (5 gold, 2 silver Poonam (54kg) and Sushma
and 5 bronze) (81kg) won Gold.
Silver medal: Selay Soy
(49kg) and Ankit Narwal
(60kg).
Bronze medal: Arundhati
Choudhury (69kg),
Komalpreet Kaur (81kg),
Jaismine (57kg),Satender
Singh (91kg) and Aman
(91kg).
OCTOBER
11th AIBA Women’s World Boxing India was ranked 9th in the Manju Rani won silver medal
Championships 2019 in Ulan-Ude, medal tally by winning 4 in 48 kg (Light Flyweight)
Russia medals Category
Jamuna Boro won bronze
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medal in the 54 kg category

(Bantamweight)
MC Mary Kom won bronze
medal in the 51 kg Category
(Flyweight)
Lovlina Borgohain won
bronze medal in the 69 kg
category (Welterweight).
ASBC Asian Junior Boxing Indian boxers clinched 21 Gold medalists;

Championships 2019 held in medals (6 gold, 9 silver, 6 Vishvanath Suresh(46kg),
Fujairah, UAE bronze) Bishwamitra Chongtham
(48kg), Kalpana(46kg), Preeti
Dahiya(60kg), Tanshbir Kaur
Sandhu(80kg), Alfiya
Tarannum Pathan(80+kg)
Silver medalists:
Yogesh Kagra(63kg), Jaydeep
Rawat(66kg), Rahul(70kg),
Tamanna(48kg),Tannu(52kg)
, Neha(54kg), Khushi 63kg
Sharvari Kalyankar 70kg
Khushi75kg.
SEPTEMBER
Ekaterinburg AIBA (Association India had won 2 medals Asian Games gold medallist
Internationale de Boxe Amateur or Amit Panghal won silver in
International Boxing Association) 52kg category while 52kg
2019 World Boxing Championships category clinched bronze in
63kg category.
AUGUST
Magomed Salam Umakhanov Indian boxers claimed 6 Gold:
Memorial International Boxing medals at the tournament- 2 Lovlina Borgohain (69kg),
Tournament 2019 was held in golds, 1 silver, and 3 bronze Neeraj (57kg).
Kaspiysk, Russia Silver: Gaurav Solanki.
Bronze: Pooja Rani (75kg),
Govind Sahani (49Kg) and
Jony (60Kg).
3rd Nation”s Cup 2019 held in India’s junior women boxers 4 Gold medal winner:
Sports Hall ,Vrbas, Serbia team has clinched 12 Tamanna(Haryana)-48
medals(4 gold, 4 silver and 4 kg,Ambeshori
bronze medals) Devi(Manipur)-57 kg,Preeti
Dahiya(Haryana)-60
kg,Priyanka (Haryana)-66 kg
Read full details here: India’s
Junior Women Boxers Win
12 Medals Including 4 Gold
At 3rd Nations’ Cup 2019
Held In Serbia
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JULY
World Boxing Council (WBC) Asia Vaibhav Yadav(India) He defeated Fahpetch
silver welterweight championship Singmanassak of Thailand.
2019in Pattaya, Thailand
World Boxing Council (WBC) Amir Khan(Britain) He defeated Australian Billy
International Welterweight Title in Dib
King Abdullah Sports City, Jeddah,
Saudi Arabia.
Kazakhstan President’s Cup Boxing Shiva Thapa In Women’s 60kg category,
Tournament 2019 in Astana, Indian boxer Parveen settled
Kazakhstan with silver by losing against
Kazakhstan’s Rimma
Volosenko.Sweety Boora (81kg)
and Duryodhan Singh Negi
(69kg) settled with bronze
medals.
Cricket
DECEMBER
 Indian team defeated West Indies to win the T20I series
♦ Virat Kohli (2,563)- leading run scorer in the T20I.
♦ Virat Kohli - 1st Indian batsman to score 1,000 T20I runs in home ground.
♦ Rohit Sharma - fastest batsman to 400 international sixes.
♦ K L Rahul completes 1,000 T20I runs, becomes joint third-fastest to do so.
 Abid Ali (32)(Pakistan )- first to score hundreds on both test and ODI debut.
 ICC test rankings 2019:
Team Ranking Batting Ranking Bowling All Rounder Ranking
Ranking
India Virat Kohli (India) Pat Cummins Jason Holder (Barbados)
(Australia)
New Zealand Steve Smith Kagiso Rabada Ravindra Jadeja (India)
(Australia) (South Africa)
South Africa Kane Williamson Neil Wagner Ben Stokes (England)
(New Zealand) (New Zealand)
Indian Ranking
Cheteshwar Jasprit Bumrah Ravichandran Ashwin ranked
Pujara ranked 4th ranked 6th 6th
Ajinkya Rahane Ravichandran Mohammad Shami ranked 29th
ranked 7th Ashwin ranked
11th
 ICC women’sT20I rankings:

Rank Batting Rankings Bowler Rankings All-rounder Country (Team)
Rankings Rankings
1 Suzannah Wilson “Suzie” Megan Schutt Ellyse Alexandra Australia
Bates (New Zealand) (Australia) Perry (Australia)
2 Meg Moira Lanning Radha Yadav Sophie Frances England
(Australia) (India) Monique Devine
(New Zealand)
3 Alyssa Healy (Australia) Shabnim Ismail Hayley Kristen New Zealand
(South Africa) Matthews (West
Indies)
Indian Rankings
Indian Jemimah Rodriques 4th Deepti Sharma India received 4th
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Ranking Rank. was ranked 5th Place

Smriti Mandhana Poonam Yadav
received 7th Rank. won the 6th Rank
Harmanpreet Kaur
received 9th Rank.
NOVEMBER
ICC T20 ranking 2019
Rank Bowling Batting All rounder Team
1 Rashid khan Babar Azam Mohammad Pakistan
(Afghanistan) (Pakistan) Nabi
(Afghanistan)
2 Mitchell Santner Aaron Finch Glenn Maxwell Australia
(New Zealand) (Australia)
(Australia)
3 Imad Wasim Dawid Richard England
(Pakistan) Malan Berrington
(England) (Scotland)
Rank of 42nd – Deepak 7th – Rohit 5th –
Indian Lokendrasingh Sharma India
players Chahar
ICC One Day International (ODI) ranking 2019
Rank Bowling Batting All rounder Team
1 Jasprit (India) Virat Kohli Ben England
(India) Stokes(England)
2 Trent Boult Rohit Sharma India
(New (India)
Zealand)
3 Mujeeb Ur Babar New
Rahman Azam(Pakistan) Zealand
(Afghanistan)
 India women’s cricket team wins 5th T20I title against West Indies.
♦ Shafali Verma- youngest Indian to score an international half-century at the age of 15
years and 286 days & breaks Sachin Tendulkar’s 30 year old record.
 India defeated Bangladesh in the test match series
♦ This is first ever day-night Test match and first match played with a SG pink ball.
♦ Virat Kohli - third batsman to score 70 international centuries.
♦ Wriddhiman Saha - fifth Indian wicket-keeper to affect 100 dismissals.
♦ Ravichandran Ashwin-fastest Indian, to take 250 Test wickets at home.
OCTOBER
 Australian women’s cricket team broke the record for most consecutive wins in One Day
International (ODI) cricket with their 18th triumph.
 Zimbabwe and Nepal readmitted as ICC members; Indra Nooyi reappointed as ICC Independent
Director
 Karnataka clinched the 18th season of Vijay Hazare Trophy 2019-20 also known as the Ranji
One-Day Trophy.
 Indian Women’s Cricket Team –defeated- Sri Lanka- on the basis of Duckworth-Lewis
(DLS)method and won the Emerging Asia Cup 2019 title.
SEPTEMBER
 Overview Of Indian Cricket Team’s Tour To West Indies
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♦ India won all the 3 formats(T20I, ODI, Test against West Indies).
♦ Virat Kohli eclipsed -Sourav Ganguly to become the second highest run-scorer for India
in ODIs.
♦ Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah became the fastest Indian bowler to take 50 Test wickets.
♦ Virat Kohli became the most successful Indian Captain in Overseas Tests.
♦ Jasprit Bumrah of India became the first Asian to take 5-wicket hauls in Tests in
Australia, England, South Africa and the West Indies.Click here to read more records
broken in the tour.
 2019 Duleep Trophy at Chinnaswamy stadium, Bengaluru- India Red won by defeating India
green.
 India won ACC (Asian Cricket Council) Under-19 Asia Cup 2019 by beating Bangladesh in R.
Premadasa International Stadium, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
 Afghanistan cricket team created a new record of most consecutive against Bangladesh.
 Overview of T20I series held between South Africa and India
♦ Virat Kohli (2450 runs) surpassed the record held by Rohit Sharma (2443 runs) by
becoming the highest run-scorer in the history of T20I cricket.
♦ India’s Rohit Sharma equalled Indian MS Dhoni’s record of playing most T20Is for an
Indian team.
AUGUST
 Ravi Shastri re-appointed as head coach of Indian men's cricket team.
 Australia's Marnus Labuschagne born in South Africa became the first person to replace as a
concussion substitute in Test cricket. He replaced Steve Smith.
 BCCI Ombudsman DK Jain has ordered for the reduction in the ban of Indian cricketer
Shanthakumaran Sreesanth (S. Sreesanth) for 7 years which will come to end by September
2020.
 Vikram Rathour was appointed as India's new batting coach. He succeeds Sanjay Bangar.
Bharath Arun and R Sridhar retained as bowling and fielding coaches respectively.
 Paytm to continue as BCCI title sponsor till 2023 for Rs 326.8 crore.
 Dream 11, Hyundai and ACC Cement secure BCCI Partners’ Rights for the next 4 years.
 Feroz Shah Kotla Cricket Ground in Delhi is set to be renamed as Arun Jaitley Stadium.
JULY
 ICC Men’s World Cup 2019 was the 12th Cricket World Cup held in England and Wales.10
teams participated in the cricket tournament with a total of 48 matches played between the
teams. The Finals were held at the Lord’s Cricket Ground between New Zealand and England.
England lifted the first World Cup title beating New Zealand on boundary count after both the
match and the subsequent Super Over finished as ties. Kane Stuart Williamson of New Zealand
was named as the Player of the Tournament with 578 runs who received the award from
Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar. Ben Stokes of England was awarded the Man of the Match.
Australian left-arm pacer Mitchell Starc topped the table of wicket-takers(27 wickets). Rohit
Sharma scored highest runs(648 runs).Click here to read more.
Recognition/Person in News:
DECEMBER
 Fastest man to score 7000 test runs -Steve Smith, Australian cricketer -breaks 73-year-old
record –set by Wally Hammond.
 Kuldeep Yadav - 1st Indian bowler to take two ODI hat-tricks.
 Rohit Sharma (32 years) became the leading run-scorer in the 50 over ODI format in
 Rohit breaks his own world record for most international 6s in 2019.
 Shai Hope Becomes Second-Fastest Batsman To Score 3,000 ODI Runs.
 Wisden’s Five cricketers of the decade list
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--- Virat Kohli only Indian named in Wisden’s Five cricketers of the decade list.
---Other Players in the list are Steve Smith (Australia) Ellyse Perry (Australia) Dale Steyn
(South Africa) AB de Villiers (South Africa)
Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bumrah were only two Indians in Wisden’s T20I team of the decade.
NOVEMBER
 Smriti Mandhana became fastest Indian women to score 2000 ODI runs.
 Rohit Sharma broke the record of Mahendra Singh Dhoni for most sixes by an Indian captain in
T20I cricket.
 Rohit became the first Indian as well as the second male cricketer in history to play 100 T20Is.
 Deepak Chahar-first Indian to take hat-trick in the shortest format(T20I)
 India spinner Yuzvendra Chahal surpassed Jasprit Bumrah to become the fastest Indian bowler.
OCTOBER
 Alyssa Healy(Australia)-created a world record -for the highest individual score in women’s
T20I (148 runs off 61 balls against Sri Lanka).
 Harmanpreet Kaur became the first Indian cricketer to appear in 100 T20I.
 Mithali Raj becomes the first woman in history to have an international cricket career over 20
years.
 Virat Kohli- became the first Indian to score 40 international hundreds as a captain.Click here
to read all highlights of the India vs South Africa Test series 2019.
SEPTEMBER
 Lasith Malinga(Sri lanka) became- highest T20I wicket-taker surpassing Pakistan’s all-rounder
Shahid Afridi.
 Afghanistan test cricket captain Rashid Khan becomes the youngest test cricket captain at the
age of 20 years and 350 days.
 Steve Smith of Australia piped Indian captain Virat Kohli and secured the top spot.
 Sri Lanka’s Lasith Malinga- first bowler to take 100 wickets in the T20I (twenty-twenty
International) format during a 3rd T20I match -became the first-ever bowler to take a double
hat-trick. Currently, Malinga is the only player with 5 limited-overs International hat-tricks.
 Amol Muzumpar(Indian Cricketer)-appointed as -South Africa’s Interim batting coach.
 Megan Schutt(Australian)- first woman to have two hat tricks in white ball cricket.
AUGUST
 Steve Smith becomes second fastest to score 25 test centuries overtaking Virat Kohli.
 Ireland women’s cricket team makes record-breaking performance-makes two records against
the Netherlands
♦ Ireland made the highest opening stand in the T20 Internationals.
♦ They made highest T20 Internationals score made by a team. They scored 213-4 from 20
overs.
 New Zealand's fast bowler Tim Southee now equaled former Indian cricketer Sachin
Tendulkar's record tally of sixes in Test cricket(69 sixes).
 Kerala all-rounder Jalaj Saxena has become the 1st Indian cricketer to sets rare record in
Indian first-class cricket history.
JULY
 ICC (International Cricket Council) ranking-Virat Kohli topped batsman ranking and Pat
Cummins topped in Bowler ranking.
 Sachin Tendulkar became the 6th Indian to be inducted into ICC Hall of Fame along with South
African pace legend Allan Donald and Australian woman cricketer Cathryn Fitzpatrick.
 Chandigarh gets BCCI affiliation after nearly four decades.
 Ellyse Perry of Australia becomes the first cricketer to reach 1000 runs & 100 wickets in T20
format.
Football
DECEMBER
 FIFA(Federation Internationale de Football Association) ranking 2019
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Belgium 1
France 2
Brazil 3
India 19
 Belgium - FIFA Team of the Year title for 2019 for 2nd successive time.
 Liverpool won the16th FIFA club world cup 2019 held in Doha, Qatar.
NOVEMBER
 Thomas Dennerby-Indian Head Coach of FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup 2020.
 Brazil defeated Mexico-in -18th edition of the FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football
Association) under 17 World Cup trophy held in Brasilia, Brazil.
 FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association)/Coca-Cola World Ranking rankings
2019-
Country Rank
Belgium 1
France 2
Brazil 3
OCTOBER
 Mr Eugenio Figueredo-former president of South American Football Confederation, commonly
known as CONMEBOL (CONfederación SudaMEricana de FútBOL)-banned for lifetime by FIFA.
 India won 3rd SAFF U-15 Women’s Championships 2019-defeated Bangladesh.
SEPTEMBER
 SAFF (South Asian Football Federation) U-15 Championship 2019- India won by defeating
Nepal held in - Kalyani Stadium, West Bengal.
 Manipur won -25th Senior Women's National Football Championship held at CHF Ground in
Pasighat, Arunachal Pradesh.
 Smiling panda, named Bing Dwen Dwen-mascot for Beijing Winter Olympics 2022.A walking
Chinese lantern Shuey Rhon Rhon - for Winter Paralympics 2022.
 FIFA Rankings: India drops to 104,Belgium remained its top position.
AUGUST
 Liverpool won 44th UEFA Super Cup 2019 at the Vodafone Park, Istanbul, Turkey by defeating
Chelsea.
 Saidan Secondary School of Mizoram won U 14 Subroto Cup International Football tournament
title 2019 in New Delhi defeating Unique Model Academy, Manipur. It is Asia’s largest youth
football tournament.
 Odisha’s Kalinga Stadium gets provisional clearance to be the 1st venue for 2020 FIFA U-17
Women’s World Cup.
JULY
 Overview of FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019-FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019 or 8th edition of
the FIFA Women’s World Cup was held in France in 9 cities.
♦ United States(US) - won -by defeating the Netherlands.
♦ Golden Boot Award -Megan Rapinoe(United States), Silver Boot: Alex Morgan (USA)
and Bronze Boot: Ellen White (ENG).
♦ Golden Ball Award -Megan Rapinoe(United States),Silver Ball: Lucy Bronze (ENG) &
Bronze Ball: Rose Lavelle (USA).
♦ Giulia Gwinn of Germany won the Best young player of the tournament award.
♦ Sari van Veenendaal of Netherland won the Best goalkeeper of the tournament award
(Golden Glove).
♦ France won the Fair Play award in the tournament.
 46th Edition of Copa America-Brazil won by defeating Peru. It was the 9th title for Brazil and
first since 2007.
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 15th edition of the CONCACAF (Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean
Association Football) Gold Cup 2019- Mexico won by defeating United States. It was the 8th
title for Mexico.
 Federation Internationale de Football Association(FIFA)- Belgium leads the overall FIFA
rankings, followed by Brazil, France, England, and Uruguay.
Tennis
NOVEMBER
 Top 3 players in the ATP ranking 2019:
Rank Player Name Country
1 Rafael Nadal Spain
2 Novak Djokovic Serbia
3 Roger Federer Switzerland
127 Sumit Nagal India
 Spain won-Sixth Davis Cup title 2019- Rafael Nadal(Spain) won Men’s singles title.
OCTOBER
 Sumit Nagal(Haryana)- become the first Indian to win a set against Roger Federer.
 2nd edition of World Deaf Tennis Championships 2019 held in Antalya, Turkey.
♦ Prithvi Sekhar won gold in men’s singles title.
♦ He has also won the men’s doubles bronze medal with Prashanth Dasharath
Harsambhavi.
SEPTEMBER
Overview of US Open 2019 held at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York,
United States
Men’s Singles Rafael Nadal (Spain) Daniil Medvedev (Russia)
Women’s Singles Bianca Andreescu (Canada) Serena Williams (USA)
Men’s Doubles Juan Sebastian Cabal & Robert Marcel Granollers (Spain)
Farah (Colombia) & Horacio Zeballos (Argentina)
Women’s Doubles Elise Mertens (Belgium) & Ashleigh Barty (Australia) & Victoria
Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus) Azarenka (Belarus)
Mixed Doubles Jamie Murray (Great Britain) & Michael Venus (New Zealand) & Chan
Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) Hao-ching (Chinese Taipei)
AUGUST
Overview of Cincinnati Masters/ Western & Southern Open 2019 in U.S.
Men’s Singles Daniil Medvedev (Russia) David Goffin (Belgium)
Women’s Singles Madison Keys (America) Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia)
Men’s Doubles Ivan Dodig (Croatia) & Filip Juan Sebastián Cabal & Robert Farah
Polášek (Slovakia) (Colombia)
Women’s Doubles Lucie Hradecká (Czech Anna-Lena Grönefeld (Germany) & Demi
Republic) & Andreja Klepač Schuurs (Netherlands)
(Slovakia)
Overview of 2019 Rogers Cup/Canadian Open
 Men’s tournament was held at IGA Stadium, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and Women’s
tournament was held at Aviva Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Men’s Singles Rafael Nadal (Spain) Daniil Sergeyevich Medvedev (Russia)
Women’s Singles Bianca Vanessa Andreescu Serena Williams (America)
(Canada)
Men’s Doubles Marcel Granollers (Spain) & Robin Haase & Wesley Koolhof
Horacio Zeballos (Argentina) (Netherlands)
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Women’s Doubles Barbora Krejčíková & Kateřina Anna-Lena Groenefel (Germany) & Demi
Siniaková (Czech Republic) Schuurs (Netherlands)
Overview of Washington Open (Citi Open) 2019 in Washington DC, United States
Men’s Singles Nick Kyrgios (Australia) Daniil Medvedev (Russia)
Women’s Singles Jessica Pegula (America) Camila Giorgi (Italy)
Men’s Doubles Raven Klaasen (South Africa) & Michael Jean-Julien Rojer (Netherlands)
Venus (New Zealand) & Horia Tecău (Romania)
Women’s Doubles Cori Gauff & Caty McNally (America) Maria Sanchez (America) &
Fanny Stollar (Hungary)
JULY
 Chinese tennis great Li Na, France’s Mary Pierce and Yevgeny Kafelnikov of Russia were
inducted into Tennis Hall of Fame.Li Na is the first Asian inducted to Hall of Fame.
 Overview of 2019 Wimbledon Championships
♦ 2019 Wimbledon Championships was the 133rd edition ,a grass court major
Championship was the 3rd Grand Slam tournament
Title Winner Runner up
Men’s Singles Novak Djokovic(Serbia) Roger federer(Switzerland)
Women’s Singles Simona Halep(Romania) Serena Williams(United States of
America)
Men’s Doubles Juan Sebastián Cabal (Colombia) Nicolas Mahut (France)
Robert Farah (Colombia) Édouard Roger-Vasselin (France)
Women’s Doubles Hsieh Su-wei (Chinese Taipei) Gabriela Dabrowski (Canada)
Barbora Strýcová (Czech Republic ) Xu Yifan (China)
Mixed Doubles Ivan Dodig (Croatia) Robert Lindstedt (Sweden)
Latisha Chan (Chinese Taipei) Jeļena Ostapenko (Latvia)
Shooting
DECEMBER
Highlights of 63rd National Shooting Championship Competitions held in New Delhi
 63rd edition of the National Shooting Championship Competitions (NSCC) in shotgun events
organised by the National Rifle Association of India(NRAI) was held at Dr. Karni Singh Shooting
Ranges in New Delhi
 Angad Bajwa & Mairaj unofficially hit world record score in skeet final.
 Sangram Dahiya, Varsha Varman win double trap national titles.
 Shreyashi Singh and Punjab’s Manavjit Singh Sandhu won gold medal in Trap Men and Women
event.
 Manavaditya Singh Rathore and Anushka Singh Bhati won a gold medal in the trap mixed
event. Click here to Read More
NOVEMBER
 14th edition of Asian Shooting Championships for the year 2019 held in Doha, Qatar
S.No Category Player Name Event Medal
1 Men’s category Udhayveer Sidhu 25 m standard pistol Gold
Vijayveer Sidhu team
Gurpreet Singh
2 Angad Vir Singh Skeet Gold
Bajwa
3 Women’s Manu Bhaker 10 m air pistol Gold
4 category Anjum Moudgil 50 m rifle prone team Gold
Kajal Saini
Tejaswini Sawant
5 Mixed Abhishek Verma 10 m air pistol team Gold
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Manu Bhaker
 Highlights of 2019 ISSF World Cup Final in Putian, China
♦ India topped the medal tally by securing 3 gold
Event Gold Medal
Women’s 10m Air Pistol Manu Bhaker
Men’s 10m Air Rifle Divyansh Singh Panwar
Women’s 10m Air Rifle Elavenil Valarivan
SEPTEMBER
 2019 International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) World Cup Rifle / Pistol event held in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil.
♦ Sanjeev Rajput and Yashaswini Singh Deswal secured Olympic Quota for the 2020 Tokyo
Olympics.
Sl Event Winners Medal
No
1 Mixed 10m air Manu Bhaker & Saurabh Gold
pistol Chaudhary
2 Women’s 10m air Elavenil Valarivan Gold
rifle
3 Men’s 10m Air Abhishek Verma Gold
Pistol
4 Women’s 10m air Yashaswini Singh Deswal Gold
pistol
5 Mixed 10M Air Apurvi Chandela & Deepak Gold
Rifle Kumar
6 Men’s 50m rifle Sanjeev Rajput Silver
7 Mixed 10m air Yashaswini Deswal & Silver
pistol Abhishek Verma
8 Men’s 10m Air Saurabh Chaudhary Bronze
Pistol
9 Mixed 10m air Anjum Moudgil & Divyansh Bronze
pistol Singh Panwar
JULY
International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Junior World Cup Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun 2019
was held at the Shooting Center, Suhl, Germany
Records held by Indians
 Udhayveer Sidhu ,Vijayveer and Adarsh broke record in 25m Standard Pistol Men Junior Team.
Udhayveer shot 575 in the event to lead a clean sweep for India as Adarsh Singh (568) and
Anish Bhanwala (566) won silver and bronze respectively. Udhayveer combined with Adarsh
and his twin Vijayveer Sidhu won a team gold in the event with a combined effort of 1707, a
junior world record.
 Shreya Agrawal, Mehuli Ghosh and Elavenil Valarivan won gold in 10m Air Rifle Women Junior
Team with a junior world record score of 1883.3.
 Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar clinched the gold in the 50m Rifle 3×40 Men Junior with a
junior world record 459.3 score in the final. The earlier world junior record of 458.7 was shot
by Filip Nepejchal of the Czech Republic in the Beijing World Cup in April 2019.Click here to
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Retirement:
Name of the Person Sport they belong to/ Country Points to be Noted
DECEMBER
Laura Alexandra Marsh (33) Cricket/England Laura has won 3 World Cups in
her 13-year career, she made her
debut in 2006 as a pace bowler,
later on she switched to spin.
Vernon Philander (34) Cricket/ South Africa He has played 97 matches
across all three formats, taking
a combined 261 wickets with
1784 runs in his international
career.
Shadab Bashir Jakati (39) Cricket/India He hails from Goa.He
represents Chennai Super
Kings in the year 2009, Royal
Challengers Bangalore in the
year 2014 & Gujarat Lions in
the year 2017 in Indian
Premier League (IPL).He
represents Goa in first class
cricket.
Peter Siddle (34) Cricket/Australia Siddle ends his career at the
13th spot on the list of highest
wicket-takers for Australia.
Caroline Wozniacki Tennis/Denmark She announced her retirement
from tennis after next month’s
Australian Open, the first
Grand Slam tournament of the
year 2019 and WTA (Women’s
Tennis Association) event in
Auckland.
Leander Paes Tennis/India He is also the first Indian and
the only tennis player to have
participated in the seven
Olympic Games.
NOVEMBER
Nicola Adams (37 years) Boxing/UK Adams was the 1st female
boxer who won an Olympic
gold medal at the London
Olympics in 2012 in the United
Kingdom(UK), and also the
first female boxer to become a
double Olympic champion
after winning a second gold
medal at the Rio Olympics
2016, in Brazil.
Amy Johanna Kenealy (31) Cricket/Ireland
Tim James Murtagh (38) Cricket/Ireland He represented England in the
2000 ICC Under-19 Cricket
World Cup.
David Villa Sanchez (37) Football/Spain He played three World Cups in
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his career and was a key

member of the Spain team,
which was a FIFA (Fédération
Internationale de Football
Association) World Cup
winner in 2010 and won the
European Championships in
2008. He scored the highest 59
goals for Spain.
OCTOBER
Li Xuerui (28) Badminton/China She won the All England
Championship 2012 & striked
silver medals at the World
Championships 2013 and 2014
editions.
Jennifer Louise Gunn (33) Cricket/England She is the most capped player
in T20Is (Twenty-Twenty
International).
Abhishek Mohan Nayar (36) Cricket/India
Claudio Marchisio(33) Football/Italy He was nicknamed ‘Il
Principino – the little prince”.
Marchisio won 55 caps for
Italy & was also took part at
UEFA(Union of European
Football Associations) Euro
2012.
Bastian Schweinsteiger(35) Football/Germany He also led his team to win the
2014 World Cup in Brazil by
defeating Argentina.
Conor James Dwyer (30) Swimming/America He won Olympic gold medal
twice.
SEPTEMBER
Mithali Raj Cricket/India He retired from T20
internationals.
Hamilton Masakadza (36) Cricket/ Zimbabwe He created a record by becoming

the highest individual scorer in
the career's last Twenty-20
Internationals (T20I) game by
scoring 71 runs (42 balls)
Mohammad Nabi(34) Cricket/ Afghanistan He has played only 2 test
matches for Afghanistan (25
runs & 4 wickets)
Dinesh Mongia (42) Cricket/India He has announced his
retirement from all formats of
cricket. He played 57 matches
in his ODI career.
Sarah Taylor(30) Cricket/England
Samuel Eto'o(38) Football/ Cameroon He retired from all forms of
football.
AUGUST
Sally Pearson(32) Athlete/Australia She won the 8 major
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championship medals for

Australia throughout her 16-
year career.
Daniel Vettori(40) Cricket/ New Zealand Vettori has played over 291
ODI matches and 113 Tests for
New Zealand.
Brendon McCullum(37) Cricket/ New Zealand He announced retirement from
all forms of cricket.
Dale Steyn(36) Cricket/South Africa Dale Steyn is in 8th position in
the all-time test bowling list
and took 26 five-wicket hauls.
Hashim Amla(36) Cricket/South Africa He is the only South Africa
batsman to score a triple
century — 311 not out against
England at The Oval in 2012.
Cecil Wright(85) Cricket/West Indies He will play his last match
representing Uppermill cricket
club against Pennine League
Side Springhead cricket club of
England on September 7, 2019.
Ajantha Mendis(34) Cricket/Srilanka He made his debut in 2008,
announced his retirement from
all forms of cricket on August 28,
2019. He was Famous for his
“carrom ball”. He snapped 70
wickets in 19 Tests, 152 in 87
ODIs and 66 in 39 T20Is.
Wesley Sneijder (35) Football/ Netherlands He announced his retirement
from football after arranging a
business deal with Dutch
football club FC Utrecht.
Ashley Cole(38) Football/England He announced his retirement
from football, ending his 20-
year playing career. It is
expected that he would be
pursuing a career in coaching.
Dwayne Johnson(47) Wrestling/America He is popularly known by his
ring name “The Rock”.
JULY
Ambati Rayudu(33) Cricket/ Andhra Pradesh, India He Played 55 One Day
International(ODI’s), 6
Twenty20
International(T20I’s), 97 First
Class Cricket and 160 List A
Cricket.He also played for
Hyderabad in domestic cricket,
and Chennai Super Kings in the
Indian Premier League (IPL).
Shoaib Malik(37) Cricket/Pakistan He played his last ODI match
against India at 2019 World
Cup in Manchester. Malik
played 287 ODIs and scored
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7,534 runs at an average of

34.55. He scored nine
centuries and 44 half- half-
centuries. He also took 158
wickets in his ODI career.
Jade Dernbach(33) Cricket/ England He was born in Johannesburg,
South Africa, and moved to
England as a 14-year-old. ii. He
last played an international
match in 2014. He made his
first-class debut in 2003 and
won the NBC Denis Compton
Award in 2004 and 2009.
Solomon Farai Mire (29) Cricket/ Zimbabwe He also currently holds the
record for the highest score for
Zimbabwe in a T20I for the 94
he scored against Pakistan in
2018.
Nuwan Kulasekara(37) Cricket/ Sri Lanka He hails from Nittambuwa, Sri
Lanka.
Lasith Malinga(35) Cricket/ Sri Lanka He is the third-highest wicket-
taker in ODI cricket with 335
wickets in 219 innings .
Mohammad Amir(27) Cricket/ Pakistan He represented Pakistan in 36
Tests since making his debut
as a 17-year-old in 2009.In
August 2018, he was one of the
thirty-three players to be
awarded a central contract for
the 2018–19 season by the
Pakistan Cricket Board.
Peter Crouch(38) Football/ England He represented England
(debut against Colombia in
May 2005) in 2 World Cups in
2006 and 2010.In 2019, he had
joined Burnley Football Club.
Arjen Robben(35) Football/ Bedum, Netherlands He made his professional
debut in the year 2000 for FC
Groningen. In April 2003 he
made a debut to the
International football
matches.In 2004, he joined
Chelsea Football cup.He joined
Bayern in 2009 from Real
Madrid, played 309
competitive games.
Marc Batchelor(49) Football/ Johannesburg, South He won four major trophies
Africa with Orlando Pirates including
the 1995 African Cup of
Champions Clubs.
John Obi Mikel(32) Football/ Nigeria He was the former captain of
the Nigeria National Team and
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played for Trabzonspor as a

defensive midfielder.He won
89 caps and scored six goals
between 2005 and 2019 for
the Super Eagles.
Patrice Evra(38) Football/ Manchester United He won 5 Premier League
and the France titles, 2 Serie A titles and 1
Champions League.
Other sports
DECEMBER
 21st Asian Archery Championship for the year 2019 was held in Bangkok, Thailand.
♦ South Korea topped the list India is placed 2nd Position.
♦ India obtained 1 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze medals totalling the medal count to 7
Category Medal Name
Compound Mixed team Gold Abhishek Verma and
Jyothi Surekha Vennam.
Compound Men’s team Silver Mohan Bhardwaj, Rajat
Chauhan and
Abhishek Verma.
Compound Women’s Silver Priya Gurjar, Muskan Kirar and
team Jyothi Surekha Vennam.
Recurve Men’s Bronze Atanu Das.
individual
Recurve Men’s team Bronze Atanu Das, Tarundeep Rai and
Jayanta Talukdar.
Recurve Women’s team Bronze Ankita Bhakat, Deepika
Kumari and
Bombayla Devi Laishram.
Recurve Mixed team Bronze Atanu Das and
Deepika Kumari
 WADA’s (World Anti-Doping Agency) Executive Committee has banned Russia.
 13th South Asian Games held in Kathmandu & Pokhara, Nepal
♦ India topped the medal tally won- 311 medals(173 gold, 93 silver, and 45 bronze medals.
♦ Mascot-Blackbuck (Krishnashar).Click here to read the entire news
 6th edition of Qatar Weightlifting International Cup 2019 held in Doha, Qatar.
----- Saikhom Mirabai Chanu won gold in women’s 49 kg category.
----- Jeremy Lalrinnunga won silver medal in men’s 67 kg category.He broke 27 records.
----- Rakhi Halder won Bronze medal in women’s 64kg category.He makes 2 national records.
 Koneru Humpy won the -FIDE Women’s World Rapid Champion 2019-held in Moscow, Russia.
NOVEMBER
 35th edition of National Junior Athletics Championships 2019 held in Acharya Nagarjuna
University, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh .
Some Record Created:
♦ Maheshwari broke national record in 3000m steeplechase.
♦ Long jumper Shaili Singh of Karnataka & shot putter Bharti of Haryana broke the under-
16 National records.
♦ Ritik Malik (Fastest Runner)- break the national and Meet records of Gurindervir Singh
(10.69).
♦ Chanda of Delhi won the medal in the 1500m under 20 girls group with a time of 4
minutes 17.18 seconds by beating the previous record of Lili Das (4 minutes
17.29seconds) set in 2016.
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♦ Niva Antony of Kerala achieved record in the pole vault category in the under 20 girls
group. Antony set a new national and Meet record surpassing Mariya Jaison’s 3.70m set
in 2015 in Ranchi, Jharkhand.
 9th World Para Athletics Championships 2019 held in Dubai, UAE
♦ China secured the top spot won 25 golds, 23 silvers and 11 bronze – including eight
world records.
♦ India ranked 24th position with 9 medals( 2 gold, 2 silver, 5 bronze)
♦ Key Athlete- Sandeep Chaudhary (Javelin throw )(Broke World record), Sumit Antil
(Javelin throw) (Broke World record).
♦ Click here to read the entire list of winners.
 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has officially changed its name to
“World Athletics”.
 2019 U-15 Asian Wrestling C’ships held in Taichun, China.
-----India topped the medal ranking with 28 medals which included 13 gold, 14 silver and 1
bronze medal.
OCTOBER
 17th IAAF World Athletics Championships for 2019 held in Khalifa International Stadium,
Doha, Qatar
♦ Mascot: The event mascot was “Falah”.
♦ The 18th edition will be held in Eugene, Oregon, United States in 2021.
♦ India was ranked 58th in the championship.
♦ Annu Rani became the first Indian to reach the finals of the women’s javelin throw
event.Click here to read more.
 India to host 3×3 basketball qualifying tournament for Tokyo Olympics in march 2020.
 XLIX (49th) World Artistic Gymnastics Championships for 2019 - held in- Stuttgart, Germany,
50th Edition: The 2021 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships (50th Edition) will be held
in Copenhagen, Denmark.
 World Youth Chess Championship 2019 held in Mumbai, India.India bagged seven medals
(highest medals than any other country).
 49th edition World Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2019 held in Stuttgart, Germany.
♦ American gymnast Simone biles won 19th world title, breaks the record for most world
medals won by any gymnast
 2020 Asian Track cycling championship held in Jincheon, South Korea
♦ Ronaldo Singh Laitonjam won a gold medal in men’s junior Keirin event.
♦ James Singh from India also won a bronze medal in the same event.
♦ Triyasha Paul won the bronze medal in Women junior 500m Time Trial.
♦ India also won 2 bronze medals in men’s as well as women’s junior sprint team.
♦ Ronaldo was also a part of Men Junior Team Sprint. Currently, he is World No 1 in both
the Junior Events.
 9 edition of the Sultan of Johor Cup 2019-Hockey tournament- Johor Bahru, Malaysia.
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♦ Great Britain defeated India. Malaysia secured third place.

 Bengal Warriors won the 7th season of 2019 Vivo Pro Kabaddi League (PKL).
♦ Pardeep Narwal of Patna Pirates became the first player to score 1,000 raid points in
PKL history.
 Raunak Sadhwani became the 65th chess Grandmaster (GM) of India.
 15th edition of the World Wushu Championships (WWC) 2019 held in Shanghai, China
♦ India was ranked 10th with 1 Gold, 2 Silver and 1 Bronze.
♦ Praveen Kumar became the first Indian man to win a gold medal
♦ Poonam won silver medal in Women’s Sanda 75 kg.
♦ Y Sanathoi Devi won silver medal in Women’s Sanda 52 kg.
♦ Vikrant Baliyan won Bronze medal in Men’s Sanda 60 kg.
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 7th CISM Military World Games for the year 2019 held in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China
Sport Event Winner Medal
Track & Disabled Men’s 100m IT1, Anandan Gold
Field Men’s 200m IT1 & Men’s Gunasekaran
400m IT1
Men’s Javelin Throw Shivpal Singh Gold
Disabled Men’s Shot Put IF1 Aneesh Kumar Gold
Surendran Pillai
Disabled Men’s Shot Put IF5 Virender Gold
Boxing Men’s Light Fly(46-49KG) Deepak Silver
Men’s Bantam(52-56KG) Chirag Bronze
Shooting 25m Center Fire Pistol Men Gurpreet Singh Bronze
Individual
Tennis Men’s Singles Balaji Sriram Bronze
 Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom (36) has been inducted into the 10-member sports
ambassador group by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Boxing workforce.
 South Africa defeated England’s team - in the final of the 9th edition of Rugby World Cup 2019
held at International Stadium, Yokohama, Japan.
 Overview of 3rd edition of world U23 Wrestling Championship held from Oct 28-Nov 3 in
Budapest, Hungary
♦ Ravinder obtained a silver medal in the final of Men’s freestyle event.
♦ Pooja Gehlot won silver medal in the 53 kg women’s wrestling category.
SEPTEMBER
World Wrestling Championships 2019 held at Barys Arena in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan
• Kazakhstan from September 14-22, 2019. It was organized by the United World Wrestling
(UWW). It was a qualifying event for Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics where the top 6 wrestlers
from each category qualified for the event. India won 5 medals (1 Silver & 4 Bronze). It was
ranked 17th in the list of medal table.
Category Winner Medal
Men’s 86kg freestyle Deepak Punia Silver
Men’s 65 kg freestyle Bajrang Punia Bronze
Men’s 61kg freestyle Rahul Aware Bronze
Men’s 57-kg freestyle Ravi Kumar Dahiya Bronze
Women’s 53 kg freestyle Vinesh Phogat Bronze
Read full details here: World Wrestling Championships 2019 held at Barys Arena in Nur-
Sultan, Kazakhstan.
 Indian wrestler Deepak Punia clinched the top spot in the rankings released by United World
Wrestling (UWW) in the 86 kg category with 82 points.
 Mayank Vaid becomes 1st Indian to complete Enduroman triathlon in 2019, breaks world
record for shortest completion time held between London and Paris
 The 10th Asia Pacific Youth Games for 2019 were held in Vladivostok, Russia. India won a total
of 16 gold, 13 silver and 5 bronze medals taking the total to 34 medals in 7 different sports
events. Assam swimmer Astha Choudhury won five medals including two gold (4×50 metre
mixed freestyle & 4×50 mixed individual medley relay) and three silver (100 metre freestyle,
200 metre freestyle & 100 metre individual medley). Read full details here: Overview of 10th
Asia Pacific Youth Games for 2019 held in Vladivostok, Russia.
 2019 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Weightlifting Championships was
held at Eastern National Sports Training Center in Pattaya, Thailand.
AUGUST
 For the first time, Bangalore(Karnataka) will host the 10th AASF (Asia Swimming Federation)
Asian Age Group Championships 2019.
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 Germany’s Fiona Kolbinger becomes the first woman to win cycling’s Transcontinental Race
2019.
 Aishwarya Pissay creates history by becoming the first indian woman to win FIM Bajas World
Cup.
 Three new sports including Women’s T20 cricket included in the CWG 2022
♦ Women’s T20 (twenty-twenty) cricket
♦ Beach volleyball and
♦ Para-table tennis.
JULY
 International Olympic Committee (IOC) has removed a ban on the Kuwait Olympic Committee
(KOC) and permitted to compete in the 2020 Olympics.
 Hima Das won her fifth gold of the month after she won the 400m race in Prague, Czech
Republic. In Men’s category, Muhammad Anas won the gold medal by completing the 400 m
race in 45.40 seconds.
 21st Edition of the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships held in Cuttack, Odisha:
India topped the medal tally by winning
Event Winner Runner
Men’s Singles Harmeet Desai (India) G Sathiyan (India)
Women’s Singles Ayhika Mukherjee (India) Madurika Patkar (India)
Men’s Doubles Anthony Amalraj & Manav G Sathiyan and Sharath Kamal (India)
Thakkar (India)
Women’s Doubles Pooja Sahasrabudhe & Sreeja Akula & Mousumi Paul (India)
Krtittwika Sinha Roy
(India)
Mixed Doubles Sathiyan Gnanasekaran & Peng Yu En Koen & Goi Rui Xuan
Archana Kamath (India) (Singapore)
 Khelo India Youth Games 2020 will be held in Guwahati, Assam.
Upcoming Sports Events

Asian Games :
 Venue of Asian Games 2018 - Jakarta-Palembang, Indonesia.
 Venue of Asian Games 2022 – Hangzhou, China.
 Venue of Asian Games 2026 – Nagoya, Japan
Commonwealth Games (CWG)
 Venue of CWG Games 2018 – Gold Coast, Australia.
 Venue of CWG Games 2022 – Birmingham, England.
Olympics Games
Summer Olympic :
 Venue of Summer Olympic Games 2020 – Tokyo, Japan
♦ Miraitowa is the mascot of 2020 Tokyo Olympics
♦ Someity is the mascot of Tokyo 2020 Paralympics
♦ Torch unveiled, on the concept of "“Share Your Light". The torch is made from the same
recycled aluminum and is modeled after the Japanese cherry blossom or “sakura”. The
color of the torch is “Sakura Pink”.
 Venue of Summer Olympic & Paralympic Games 2024 – Paris, France .
Winter Olympic :
 Venue of Winter Olympic Games 2018 – Pyeongchang, South Korea.
 Venue of Winter Olympic Games 2022 – Beijing, China
 Venue of Winter Olympic Games 2026 – Italy’s Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo
ICC World Cup Cricket
 Venue of ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 – England, Wales.
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 Venue of ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 – India.

ICC World Cup T20
 Venue of World Cup T20 2016– India.
 Venue of World Cup 2020 – Australia.
ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup
 Venue of ICC Women Cricket World Cup 2017 – England.
 Venue of ICC Women Cricket World Cup 2021 – New Zealand.
ICC Women’s World Cup T20
 Venue of World Cup 2014 – Bangladesh.
 Venue of World Cup T20 2016– India.
 Venue of World Cup T20 2018– West Indies
 Venue of World Cup 2020 – Australia.
Hockey Men’s World Cup
 Venue of Hockey Men’s World Cup 2014 – The Hague, Netherlands.
 Venue of Hockey Men’s World Cup 2018 – Bhubaneswar, India.
 2023 FIH Men’s hockey world cup- Bhubaneswar and Rourkela, Odisha.
Hockey Women’s World Cup
 Venue of Hockey Men’s World Cup 2018 – London, England.
FIFA (Football) World Cup
 Venue of FIFA World Cup 2018 – Russia.
 Venue of FIFA World Cup 2022 – Qatar.
 18th edition of FIFA U-17 World Cup for the year 2019-Brazil.
 Nigeria set to host 2020 FIFA women U-20 World cup.
FIFA Women's World Cup
 Venue of FIFA World Cup 2019 – France.
 China to host the inaugural edition of expanded FIFA 24-team Club World Cup in 2021.
 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup for the year 2020 to be conducted in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.

23rd edition of the World Corporate Games
 23rd edition of the World Corporate Games-Qatar.
♦ Formula 1 race 2020:Hanoi,Vietnam.
♦ 2023 IAAF World Championships- Budapest,Hungary.
♦ Pakistan to host 2020 Asia Cricket Cup.
♦ Khelo India Youth Games 2019-Pune,Maharashtra.
♦ Egypt to host 2019 Africa Cup of Nations(Football).
♦ Beijing, China to host FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019-Son of Dreams was unveiled as official
Mascot.
♦ 39th National Games in 2022-Meghalaya.
♦ 24 team ATP Cup in 2020- Australian cities Sydney and Brisbane (First 2 host locations).
♦ Egypt-to host-African Cup for the fifth time in 2019.
♦ China-to host-football Asian Cup 2023
♦ Odisha to host -21st Commonwealth Championship from July 17-22, 2019.
♦ ISSF World Cup stages 2019-to be held at the Dr. Karni Singh Range, Tughlakabad, New Delhi.
♦ 2020 Tokyo Olympics will feature Table Tennis Mixed Doubles event.
♦ 36th National Games- will be held in Goa.
♦ 13th Edition of ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 2020 to be held in South Africa.
♦ International Hockey Federation (FIH) Hockey Men’s World Cup is hosted by India in 2023.
♦ India set to host World Kabaddi cup 2019 in Punjab.
♦ Belgrade, Serbia to host its first-ever World Athletics Indoor Championships 2022.
♦ Yangzhou, China - host city of the World Athletics Half Marathon Championships 2022.
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BOOKS & AUTHORS

Book Name Author Other Information
DECEMBER
Braille edition of “Exam warriors” PM Narendra Modi Thaawarchand Gehlot released the book.
The Legacy of Militancy in Inderjit Singh The book is about how Punjab’s militancy
Punjab: Long Road to Jaijee & Dona Suri affected judiciary by delaying trials, how the
Normalcy popular culture has been influenced and how
the youth today are still responding to
conditions in the northern state.
Mind Master: Winning Lessons Viswanathan It was published by Hachette India. He
from a Champion’s Life Anand and Susan became the first grandmaster from India in
Ninan 1988.
‘Turbulence and Triumph: The Rahul Agarwal and The book is about life journey of Prime
Modi Years’ Bharathi S Minister Shri Narendra Modi from his days as
Pradhan a young boy in Gujarat till becoming the
Prime Minister of India.
Crossing the Barriers – I Got Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Shri Sunil
Inked Arora has released a booklet during the
National Workshop on Accessible Elections
2019 in New Delhi
Dreams of a Billion: India and Boria Majumdar & The book describes about the chronicle
the Olympic Games Nalin Mehta India’s journey in the global sports arena of
Olympics .The book will be published by
HarperCollins India in January 2020.
Diamond In My Palm Sanjay It describes, how the world’s 12 greatest
Dharwadker diamonds originated from Golconda and
Kollur mines in Andhra Pradesh & later took
away by Mughals, Persians, Brits, French,
Turks and Russians after centuries of bloody
wars, conspiracies and million-dollar deals,
and now ensconced in their national
treasures.
Politics of Opportunism R P N (Ratanjit Swaminathan Gurumurthy has released this
Pratap Narain ) book.It talks about the relation between the
Singh centre and states & the growth of regional
parties in India.
The Renaissance Man-The Deepa Venkat and Book describes about Arun Jaitley.
Many Facets of Arun Jaitley Muppavarapu
Harshavardhan
NOVEMBER
“The First Sikh:The Life and Nikky-Guninder It aims to “We should unite the people with a
Legacy of Guru Nanak” Kaur Singh deep love, the book offers fascinating insights
into the life of Guru that discovers a key
features of Sikhism”.
“Kashmir” Chitralekha Zutshi The book portrays the history of the region
that was made up of interconnected political
and religious ideologies, literary traditions,
and social classes etc.
“Savarkar: Echoes from a Vikram Sampath Vice President of India Shri Venkaiah Naidu
Forgotten Past,1883-1924” released the book. The book describes the
life of freedom fighter and philosopher
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Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, popularly known

as Veer Savarkar.
“The Daughter from a Wishing Sudha Murty The book published by Penguin Random
Tree: Unusual Tales about House India, portrays life of enchanting
Women in Mythology” women and their untold stories.
“From Shanties to School” Manimala Roy It explores 1991 economic reforms on
literacy especially among the migrant
laborers of Delhi and their children.
“From uttapam to sprouted dal UNICEF (United The book is based on the findings of the
parantha” Nations Children’s overall National Nutrition Survey 2016-18,
Fund ) according to which 35 % of children under
the age of five are stunted (low height for
age), 17% are Wasted (low weight for height)
and 33 % are underweight.
The Chronicle Matt Reeck The book is a translation of Booker-prize
shortlisted 1987 Urdu novel “Tazkirah”
penned by Late Pakistani writer Intizar
Husain.
The Third Pillar: How Markets Raghuram Govind The book is a reflection on the present state
and the State Leave the Rajan of the World in the views of the trinity of
Community Behind’ Markets, State and Community as the three
pillars of the Society and how the first two
have moved ahead leaving the third behind.
Finding the Gaps-Transferable Simon James Arthur He has written this book to share his
Skills to be the best you can be Taufel experience in Umpiring, Coaching, Training
and Administration in Cricket.
Hemant Karkare -A Daughter’s Jui Karkare Navare The book portrays former Anti Terrorism
Memoir Squad(ATS) chief Hemant Karkare’s life as a
father to Jui Navare. The book has been
published by Crossword.
RN Kao: Gentleman Spymaster Nitin Anant A book on the life history of legendary
Gokhale Spymaster and one of the Founding father of
India’s external agency RAW (Research and
Analysis Wing), Rameshwar Nath Kao.
OCTOBER
India and the Netherlands – Venu Rajamony The book portrays the history of bilateral
Past, Present and Future relations between India and the Netherlands.
The first copy of the book was received by
Dutch King Willem-Alexander in presence of
all high officials. The book has been
published by Bombay Ink.
“Carpenters and Kings: Siddhartha Sarma It examines the history of Christianity in
Western Christianity and the India in the context of local and global events.
Idea of India”
How to Avoid a Climate Bill Gates It will be published by UK-based Allen Lane
Disaster: The Solutions We publishers. The book is about climate change
Have and the Breakthroughs and the possible solutions to prevent an
We Need environmental crisis.
The Great Game in the Phunchok Stobdan It describes the several unknown insights
Buddhist Himalayas: India and into the India-China, India-Tibet and China-
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China’s Quest for Strategic Tibet relationships.

Dominance
India in a Warming world: Edited by Navroz The foreword of the book is written by Nitin
Integrating Climate Change K Dubash Desai, former Under-Secretary-General
and Development (Economic and Social Affairs) at the United
Nations.
The Daughter from a Wishing Sudha Murty The previous 3 books in the series of the
Tree: Unusual Tales About author are “The Serpent’s Revenge: Unusual
Women in Mythology Tales from the Mahabharata”, “The Man from
the Egg: Unusual Tales about the Trinity”,
and “The Upside-Down King: Unusual Tales
about Rama and Krishna”.
“Bridgital Nation” Natarajan
Chandrasekaran
and Ms. Roopa
Purushothaman
“Dark Fear, Eerie Cities: New Sarunas Paunksnis The book which has 5 chapters focuses the
Hindi Cinema in Neoliberal film forms on urban life and culture of the
India” new middle class, as well as pessimism,
violence, and fear.
Ten Studies in Kashmir: Kashi Nath Pandit The book, brought out by the Indian Council
History and Politics of Social Science Research (ICSSR), contains
ten studies on various aspects of the current
history and politics of the State of Jammu and
Kashmir, documents the happenings from
1947 till the revocation of special status of
the state.
Measuring Poverty around the Anthony Barnes The book has been edited by his colleagues
World Atkinson John Micklewright and Andrea Brandolini as
requested by the author and was then
published. The book portrays the better
measurements to be taken to alleviate
poverty.
“The True Meaning of Yoga” Atman in Ravi The new book talks about Yoga, which has
very little to do with physical and breathing
exercises & transcending the body and mind.
The Unquiet River: A Arupjyoti Saikia The book which will be published by Oxford
biography of the Brahmaputra University Press (OUP), portrays the
landscape of Assam valley and the livelihoods
around, that shaped the river.
SEPTEMBER
“India’s Lost Frontier the Story Raghvendra Singh It is published by Rupa Publications, New
of the North-West Frontier Delhi. The book presents the history of
Province of Pakistan” Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which was
earlier known as the North-West Frontier
Province (NWFP).
“First They Erased Our Name: Sophie Ansel The book documents the troubles of Rohingya
A Rohingya Speaks” (France) community, through the eyes of a Rohingya,
“Habiburahman”, who was born and raised in a
small village in western Burma( now Myanmar),
in 1979, grew up stateless with his people when
their own country’s military leader ordered that
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Rohingya were not one among the 135

recognized ethnic groups that formed the 8
‘national races’.
2nd edition of ‘Loktantra Ke Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah
Swar (Khand 2)’ and ‘The Naidu released these book, which has
Republican Ethic (Volume 2)’ selected speeches of President of India Ram
Nath Kovind.
‘Fortune Turners: The Quartet Aditya Bhushan It is published by Global Cricket School. It
that spun India to glory’ and Sachin Bajaj reveals the careers of the famous four
spinners of Indian cricket team- Bishan Singh
Bedi, Erapalli Prasanna, Bhagwat
Chandrashekhar and S. Venkataraghavan.
‘Rethinking Good Governance’ Vinod Rai Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah
Naidu has released the book. The book has
been published by Rupa publications.
"Being Gandhi" Paro Anand It marks the 150th anniversary of Mahatma
Gandhi. The book, published by Harper
Collins Children's Books, explores the life
events of Gandhiji.
Turbulence & Triumph: The Rahul Agarwal and It is published by Om Books International. It
Modi Years Bharathi S depicts the journey of Prime Minister Narendra
Pradhan Modi from this young days to becoming 14th
prime minister of India.
‘Himalayan Odyssey’ Veerendra Kumar The book is an English translation of the Kendra
Sahitya Akademi and Kerala Sahitya Akademi
award-winning Malayalam original
‘Haimavathabhuvil’ by Veerendra Kumar, who is
also the Chief Managing Director(CMD) of
Mathrubhumi.
India in the Persianate Age: Richard M Eaton This book mainly focuses on the rise of Persian
1000-1765 culture and also about the civilisations,
architecture, upheavals, and the art of the Indian
subcontinent between 11th and 18th centuries.
The book is published by Penguin India.
'Girl Power: Indian Women Neha J The book is about the stories/achievements
Who Broke The Rules' Hiranandani of 50 Indian women role models. The book is
published by Scholastic India.
‘Professor Ayushman’ The book is conceived by the National Medicinal
Plants Board (NMPB) was unveiled by the Ayush
ministry in New Delhi. This book will raise
awareness in children about the importance of
medicinal plants and their usage.
'Reset: Regaining India's Subramanian Pranab Mukherjee, the former president of
Economic Legacy' Swamy India has released a book .The book has been
published by Rupa Publications India.
Game of Votes: Visual Media Farhat Basir Khan It details the evolution of election campaigns in
Politics and Elections in the India. It has been published by SAGE Publication.
Digital Era The preface of the book has been written by
Former President Pranab Mukherjee.
Lal Bahadur Shastri: Politics Sandeep Shastri It is published by Rupa Publications. It
and Beyond depicts the early influences, political
associations and historical decisions of Lal
Bahadur Shastri, India’s second prime
minister.
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AUGUST
The Book of gutsy Women Hilary Rodham To honour famous women personalities. The
Clinton (called as book will be published by Simon & Schuster
Hilary Clinton) publications on October 1, 2019.
and her daughter
Chelsea Clinton
‘Listening, Learning and The book marks Shri Venkaiah Naidu's two
Leading’ years of service as vice president was
launched by Union Home minister Amit Shah
at Kalaivanar Arangam, Chennai during the
function organized by Information and
Broadcasting Ministry.
Sridevi: Girl Woman Superstar Satyarth Nayak The book recalled the life and times(in Hindi,
Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada
cinema) of the legendary actor Sridevi will be
published under the Ebury Press imprint of
Penguin Random House in October 2019.
'Kashmir’s untold story: Delhi- based The book portrays the time of political and
Declassification filmmaker Iqbal geographical consolidations of Jammu &
Chand Malhotra Kashmir (J&K), beginning from the era of
and defence Maharaja Gulab Singh till the present day.It
analyst Maroof was published by Bloomsbury publishers.
Raza
"Big Billion Startup: The Mihir Dalal This book recounts the story of how Binny
Untold Flipkart Story" and is Bansal and Sachin Bansal (both-former
published by “Pan Macmillan founders of flipkart) built e-commerce giant
India” Flipkart
"Obama: The Call of History" Peter Baker A book on Barack Obama, former United
States (US) President, titled "Obama: The Call
of History" has been written by Peter Baker,
the Chief White House Correspondent for
The New York Times. It gives an in-depth
account of Obama's years in office.
A Short History of Indian Rajendra B The book covers the history of Indian
Railways Aklekar Railways details the journey of the national
transporter starting from the 1830s(almost
15 years before the official train run of 1853)
to the new high-speed Train 18 and Prime
Minister(PM) Narendra Modi's ambitious
bullet train project, has been introduced in
Mumbai, Maharashtra.
'Jin Dhoondha Tin Paaiyan O P Singh Chief Minister of Haryana, Manohar Lal
Khattar released a book.
JULY
Whispers of Time Dr. Krishna Minister of Textiles and Minister of Women
Saksena (91) and Child Development, Smriti Zubin Irani
launched the book ‘at India International
Centre in New Delhi.
Vivekadeepini Adi It is a concise book of aphorisms (a
Shankaracharya memorable expression of a general truth or
principle).
War over Words: Censorship Devika Sethi It explains the state censorship in India in the
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in India, 1930-1960 transition period from colonial to national

rule, when historical actors behaved in
unpredictable ways.
Kargil: Untold stories from the Rachna Bisht The book has been published by Penguin
War Rawat Random House. 2019 marks the 20th
anniversary of the Kargil War, that was
initiated in the May of 1999 in an effort to
displace Pakistani soldiers from the peaks
they had occupied on the Indian side of the
Line of Control (LoC). India got the victory in
the war, but lost over 500 soldiers.
Who Stole My Job Sunil Mishra The book was first released in April 2019 and
has received a very positive response from
readers across the globe.
Indo-Pak Relations: Beyond Dr. U V Singh It deals with the fundamental causes of the
Pulwama and Balakot Indo-Pak conflict. It is published by Pentagon
Press.
''Fire and Fury Corps -Saga of It showcases the history and achievements of
Valour, Fortitude and Sacrifice the 'Fire & Fury Corps’ which guards the Line
of Control (LoC) and Line of Actual Control
(LAC) in Ladakh region of Jammu and
Kashmir, was released by Lieutenant General
Ranbir Singh, General Officer Commanding-
in-Chief Northern Command at Leh .
Chandra Shekhar - The Last Shri Harivansh, The book was released at the Balayogi
Icon of Ideological Politics Deputy Chairman, Auditorium, Parliament Library Building in
Rajya Sabha, and NewDelhi
Shri Ravi Dutt
Bajpai
New-Age Technology and Rajya Sabha The book is published by Konark Publishers.
Industrial Revolution 4.0 Member, Dr The Vice President of India Shri Venkaiah
Narendra Jadhav Naidu released the book.
NOVEMBER
 Sahitya Akademi publishes new anthology called “Modern English Poetry” to mark 200 years of
Indian English poetry-edited by Sudeep Sen.
 “Climate emergency”- Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year 2019.
OBITUARY
NATIONAL
Name of the person Place of Demise,Field Points to be noted
who passed away
DECEMBER
Gollapudi Maruti Actor and writer/Chennai, He was named as the best writer for his film
Rao(80) Tamil Nadu ‘Doctor Chakravarthy’ in the Nandi Award in
1989.
Gita Siddharth Kak Actress/ She has worked in the National Award winning
Mumbai,Maharashtra film Garam Hava (1973), including Trishul, Disco
Dancer, Ram Teri Ganga Maili, Noorie, Desh
Premee, Dance Dance, etc.
Dr S Mohan (89) Administrator/ Chennai, He was born in Tamil Nadu.He served as the
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Tamil Nadu. former Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court,

Chief Justice of Madras High court & chairman of
National Cyber Safety and Security Standards.
Shiv Sharma(85) Administrator/ Gurugram, He served as former Director-General of
Haryana Doordarshan. He was associated with the news
coverage of Asian games in 1982 in Delhi, India.
Ganga Prasad Author/ Sri Lanka He hailed from Uttarkashi, a Himalayan town in
Vimal(80) Uttarakhand. Some of the awards he won are,Poetry
People Prize (1978), Dinkar Award from government
of Bihar (1987), Indian Language Award (Bhartiya
Bhasha Parishad) (1992) and Mahatma Gandhi
samman, U.P. (2016).
Laxminarayan Freedom He born in 1918 at Nimchauni in Tikamgarh of
Nayak(101) fighter,politician/Madhya Madhya Pradesh.
Pradesh
Tara Sinha(87) Industrialist/ She is the first Indian woman to establish a
national advertising agency.
Vishwesha Tirtha Indian Guru/ Udupi He was born in Ramakunja village of Karnataka.
Swami (88) (Karnataka) He had created history by becoming the only
seer among the seers of the Ashta Mutts of
Udupi, which propagate the Dwaita philosophy.
Tukaram Sakharam Politician/Maharashtra He was the Minister of State for Power and Rural
Dighole Development in the Shiv Sena-BJP government
and Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA)
in Maharashtra from 1995-1999.
Bhagabat Politician/Odisha He was the former Higher Education Minister of
Mohanty(90) Odisha.
Ishwar Dayal Swami Politician/ Faridabad, He was born in Babyal, Ambala district, Haryana.
(90) Haryana. He was Former Union Minister of State for Home
Affairs.
Mr. Vikho-o Yhoshu Politician/Nagland He was the Assembly speaker of Nagaland
(67)
Vikas Sabnis (69) Political cartoonist/ He considered the famous cartoonist Description
Mumbai, Maharashtra Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Laxman & Shiv
Sena founder Bal Thackeray as his role models.
After working in Thackeray ‘s weekly magazine
‘Marmik’, for 12 years, Sabnis joined the Marathi
daily newspaper ‘Loksatta’.
Bhawani Mukherji Table Tennis (TT) head Bhawani Mukherji was the first person to receive
coach/Zirakpur, the Dronacharya Award in TT in the year 2012.
Chandigarh Tapan Bose who led the Uttar Pradesh team in
nationals also deceased recently.
Paramananda Theatre artist/Balasore, He has acted in more than hundred dramas and
Sahu(72) Odisha was an artist in the All India Radio (AIR) also
known as Akashvani, and Doordarshan, a
television network.
G. Nanjundan Translator and professor/ He received the Sahitya Akademi prize for
Bengaluru, Karnataka translation 2012 in Tamil for translation for his
work “Akkaa”.He also translated, Jnanpith
awardee U R Ananthamurthy’s ‘Bhava’ and
‘Avasthe’.
Savita Devi Vocalists/ She was known for her thumirs. She was the
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daughter of Padma Shree awardee Late

Siddheshwari Devi who was the recipient of the
Padma Shri award. Savita also received training
in sitar from Pandit Ravi Shankar.She was the
author of the book ‘Maa…Siddheshwari’ which
was the biography of her mother Siddeshwari
Devi.
L.S. Sheshagiri Rao Writer/Bengaluru, His first work Idu Jeevana, an anthology of short
(94) Karnataka stories was released in 1948. He is best known
for his book “Hosagannada Sahitya Charitre”. He
was honoured with Kendra Sahitya Akademi
award in 2001 for his work English Sahitya
Charitre.
Chandrakanth Writer/Bengaluru, He was a awardee of Karnataka Rajyotsava
Karadalli (70) Karnataka award in 2019 and Bala Sahitya Akademi award
from the union government. He also received
‘Good Teacher’ award from both State and
Nation Government.
NOVEMBER
Sushil Kumar Administrator/ New Delhi He served as the 16th Chief of the Naval Staff
between 1998 and 2001 & also oversaw Kargil
conflict in 1999.
Shaukat Kaifi Actor and Writer/ Juhu, She was born in Hyderabad, Telangana. She is
Mumbai best known for her work in M.S Sathyu’s ‘Garm
Hava’, Muzaffar Ali’s ‘Umrao Jaan’, Sagar
Sarhadi’s ‘Bazaar’ and Mira Nair’s Oscar-
nominated film ‘Salaam Bombay’, she has also
written an autobiography, ‘Kaifi and I’.
Girija Kir(86) Author/Maharashtra Some of her famous biographical works include
Gabharyatil Manase, Jagavegli Manase, Kalavant,
and Sahitya Sahvas. Girijaghar.
Ramakant Dhrupad singer/Bhopal, He was awarded the Padma Shri for 2012 in the
Gundecha(57) Madhya Pradesh field of Art – Indian Classical Music – Vocal along
with his brother Umakant Gundecha.
Narayana Iyer Former chief election He had served as the 18th Cabinet Secretary of
Seshan(86) commissioner (CEC)/ India, the senior-most position in the Indian civil
Chennai, Tamil Nadu service hierarchy in 1989. In 1996, Seshan
received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for his
role in cleaning up the electoral process in the
country.
Nikanth Khadilkar Journalist/ Mumbai,
Maharashtra
Vashishtha Narayan Mathematician/Patna, He was born in 1942 in Basantpur village of the
Singh(74) Bihar Bhojpur district in Bihar, Narayan Singh was said
to have challenged Einstein’s theory of relativity.
Nabaneeta Dev Poet,Novelist,Columnist She won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1999
Sen(81) and a writer/ Kolkata Padmashree in 2000.
Perungulam S Politician/New Delhi He was born in Born in Thiruvananthapuram,
Krishnan(86) Kerala. He earlier worked as the former Union
Secretary of the Ministry of Welfare
Kshiti Goswami(77) Politician/ Tamil Nadu He was a Senior Revolutionary Socialist Party
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(RSP) leader and former West Bengal minister.

Kailash Chandra Politician/ Madhya He was the former 9th Chief Minister of Madhya
Josh(90) Pradesh Pradesh.
Abdul Jabbar(62) Social Activist/ Madhya In 1987, Jabbar was a convener of the Bhopal Gas
Pradesh Peedith Mahila Udyog Sanghathan, which
effortlessly work to get the justice for the worst
industries tragedy victims and their kin.
Sudhir Dar(87) Cartoonist/ Gurgaon, He had also drawn calendars for the World Bank
Haryana for 20 years. His cartoons have also appeared in
The Independent, The Pioneer, Delhi Times, New
York Times, The Washington Post and Saturday
Review.
OCTOBER
Geetanjali Actress/ Hyderabad, She was born in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh. She
Telangana acted in nearly 500 films and some of her other
memorable films include ‘Doctor Chakravarti’,
‘Letha Manasulu’ and ‘Sambarala Rambabu’.
M Gopal Gowda First Kudmi Konkani folk He was first-ever Kudmi writer.
artiste/Mangaluru
Krishnan Kumar Industrialist/New Delhi He hailed from Patiala district, Punjab. Former
Modi(K.K.Modi) President of Federation of Indian Chambers of
Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and Chairman of
Modi Enterprises .
Dr Hargovind Nephrologist/Ahmedabad, He was awarded Padma Shri, the fourth highest
Laxmishanker Gujarat civilian award, in 2015 for his contribution as a
Trivedi(87) nephrologist to the society.
Krishna Gopalkrishna Philatelist and coin He has been awarded gold medal from the
Kadekodi(102) collector central government for collecting stamps
released in 64 different countries with the
picture of Mahatma Gandhi.
Colathur Nutrition He was conferred Padmashri in 1970 & Padma

Gopalan(101) scientist/Chennai Bhushan in 2003.Some of the prestigious awards
he received were World Health
Organisation’s(WHO) Health for All medal in
1988, the International Union of Nutrition
Sciences’ (IUNS) award for path breaking work
on nutritional problems in developing countries
in 1989 & it recognised him as a ‘Living legend in
nutrition science’ in 2013. Federation of Asian
Nutrition Societies (FANS) conferred him the
‘Living Legend Award’ in August 2019.
Dilip Ramanbhai Politician/Gujarat He was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra.He was
Parikh(82) former Gujarat Chief Minister (CM).
Kadri Gopalnath Saxophone He was born in Mangalore, Karnataka. He was
player/Mangaluru, awarded the Padma Shri in 2004 and also
Karnataka Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for Carnatic
Music – Instrumental (Saxophone) in the same
year.
K.B. Siddaiah(65) Socio-Political He was the recipient of the Sahithya Akademi

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philosopher, poet and Award in the year 2004.

social activist
Dadu Chougule Wrestler/ Kolhapur, He was also awarded the prestigious Dhyan
Maharashtra Chand Award for lifetime achievement in sports
in 2018. He won a silver medal in the 1974
Commonwealth Games held in New Zealand.The
Government of Maharashtra honoured him with
‘Shivchattrapati Puraskar’.
V. Nanammal(99) Yoga teacher/Coimbatore She was born in Coimbatore. She has received
Nari Shakti Puraskar award received from
former President of India Pranab Mukherjee in
2016, India’s fourth-highest civilian award the
Padma Shri in 2018, Yoga Ratna award in 2017,
etc.
SEPTEMBER
Madhav Apte(86) Cricketer/ Mumbai, He was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra. He had
Maharashtra played 67 first class matches inclusive of 46
Ranji trophy matches for Mumbai and three for
Bengal scoring 3336 runs with 6 centuries and
16 half centuries.
Veeru Krishnan Kathak dancer/ Mumbai, He was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Besides
Maharashtra being an actor, he was also a famous kathak
dancer. Many Bollywood celebrities like Katrina
Kaif, Athiya Shetty, Karanvir Bohra, and others
were trained in Kathak by him.
Kottakkal Kathakali maestro/ He was born in Naduvattom, near Pattambi, in
Chandrasekhara Kottakkal, Kerala Palakkad district. He has won many an accolade,
Warrier(74) including the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award,
Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Akademi Award,
Kalamandalam Award, and Tulaseevanam
Award.
Ram Jethmalani(95) Lawyer & former union He was born in Shikarpur, Sindh.He had worked
law minister/Delhi as union law minister and in the National
Democratic Alliance (NDA) government of Atal
Bihari Vajpayee.
Kiran Nagarkar(77) Novelist and Playwright/ He was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra.He is
Mumbai known for authoring the books, ‘Cuckold,'(1997)
which won him the 2001 Sahitya Akademi award
.He wasawarded the Order of Merit of the
Federal Republic of Germany in 2012.
S Sriram Producer/ Chennai He was born in Chennai. He headed the Alayam
productions and mostly collaborated with Indian
filmmaker Mani Ratnam, including the 1996
National award winning film “Bombay”. His last
production was tamil film ‘Samurai’ in 2002.
Bhagat Ram Vats (BR PTI senior He was well known for covering the 1st Lok
Vats)(97) correspondent/New Delhi Sabha polls and had also travelled with the then
Prime Minister(PM) Jawaharlal Nehru(1st PM)
for 14 years covering his political activities,
especially the election tours in 1952, 1957 and
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1962.
AUGUST
Neelam Sharma(50) Anchor/ Noida She was awarded the 2018 'Nari Shakti Puraskar’
by the President of India Shri Ram Nath
Govind.She is one among the founding anchors of
Doordarshan News.
V. G. Siddhartha Business man/ Netravati Siddhartha was the son-in-law of former
Hegde(60) river near Mangaluru Karnataka chief minister SM Krishna. Hailing
from the Chikmagalur district of Karnataka, he
established Cafe Coffee Day in 1996, which is an
Indian café chain owned by Coffee Day Global
Limited.
VB Cricketer/ Chennai, Tamil The Chennai born cricketer represented India in
Chandrasekhar(57) Nadu seven ODIs(One Day Internationals) between
1988 and 1990.
Anant Setalvad(84) Cricket He was a cricket commentator for All India Radio
commentator/Mumbai, (AIR) in Ranji Trophy, BCCI (Board of Control for
Maharashtra Cricket in India) tournaments and also for some
test matches from the mid-1960s13 to 1980s.
Kanchan Chaudhary Director General of Police She was born in Himachal Pradesh and she is the
Bhattacharya(72) (DGP)/ Mumbai, second woman IPS (Indian Police Service) officer
Maharashtra of India after Kiran Bedi and India's first woman
Director General of Police (DGP).
Anant Setalvad(84) Cricket He was a cricket commentator for All India Radio
commentator/Mumbai, (AIR) in Ranji Trophy, BCCI (Board of Control for
Maharashtra Cricket in India) tournaments and also for some
test matches from the mid-1960s13 to 1980s.
Kanchan Chaudhary Director General of Police She was the second woman IPS (Indian Police
Bhattacharya(72) (DGP)/ Mumbai, Service) officer of India after Kiran Bedi and
Maharashtra India's first woman Director General of Police
(DGP).She hailed from Himachal Pradesh
YG Rajalakshmi Educationalist, journalist She played a major role in setting up of the
Parthasarathy(93) and social worker/ Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan(PSBB) group of
Chennai, Tamil Nadu schools. She received the Padma Shri award in
2010 for her contribution to the field of
education and literature.She hailed from
Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Dayanidhi Nayak(95) Freedom fighter/ Bargarh, He had struggled against the British Government
Odisha during the Quit India movement (8 August
1942). He was also jailed for 9 months and he
was one of the 32 freedom fighters from
Panimora.
Karpuri Devi(94) Madhubani painting and The National Award recipient contributed
Sujni artist/ Madhubani towards setting up of the Mithila Museum which
district of Bihar is located in Tokamachi hills in Japan’s Niigata
region.She hailed from Ranti village of Bihar.
Noel Kelman(92) Navy Commander/ He was also awarded the king’s commendation
Porvorim, Goa (for brave conduct) in the Second World War
(WW II), for sinking a Japanese submarine. He
was a Kirti Chakra (peacetime gallantry award)
awardee.He hailed from Goa.
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Sushma Swaraj(67) Politician/ New Delhi She was born in Haryana. She served as the
Minister of Information and Broadcasting from
30 September 2000 – 29 January 2003 in Atal
Bihari Vajpayee govt. Then from 29 January 2003
– 22 May 2004, she served as the Minister of
Health and Family Welfare. She also served as
the Leader of the Opposition in the 15th Lok
Sabha 21 December 2009 – 26 May 2014. From
26 May 2014 – 7 January 2016, she was the
Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs. Then her last
post was as the well-respected Minister of
External Affairs 26 May 2014 – 30 May 2019 in
Narendra Modi govt.
Jagannath Mishra(82) Politician/ New Delhi He was former Bihar chief minister.He was born
in Supaul district, Bihar.
Arun Jaitley(66) Politician/ New Delhi He was born in New Delhi.Lawyer by profession,
Arun Jaitley, who was born on 28 December
1952, was a member of the political Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) and held various portfolios
during the Government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee
and Shri Narendra Modi government’s first term.
Read full details here: Former Finance Minister
ArunJaitly Passed Away At The Age Of 66
Babulal Gaur(89) Politician/ Bhopal, He was served as the Chief Minister of Madhya
Madhya Pradesh Pradesh from August 2004 to November
2005.He was born in Pratapgarh district of Uttar
Pradesh.
Damodar Ganesh Social Worker/ He was born in Maharashtra. He had dedicated his
Bapat(84) Chhattisgarh life to the treatment and service of leprosy patients at
Bhartiya Kushta Nivarak Sangh in Janjgir-Champa
district. He was known for his social work in tribal
areas in Chhattisgarh.He was a Padma Shri awardee.
Niranjan Singh Writer(Punjabi)/ Tasneem served as a professor in Satish Chander
Tasneem(91) Ludhiana, Punjab Dhawan(SCD) government college in Ludhiana.
He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi award for
his book “Gawache Arth” (The Lost Meaning) in
1999.He was born in Amritsar.
JULY
Basant Kumar Birla Businessman/Mumbai He was born in Kolkata, West Bengal. He wrote
several books including an autobiography titled
‘Svantah Sukhaya’.
Rakesh Shukla Cricketer/Delhi He was born in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. He played
121 first-class matches, claimed 295 wickets and
aggregated 3798 runs. He made his debut in
1969 and retired in the 1985-86 season.
Soumendranath Cricketer/ Kolkata, West He was born in Kolkata, West Bengal. He was
Kundu Bengal conferred the Cricket Association of Bengal
(CAB) Kartick Bose Lifetime Achievement award
in 2013-14.
M J Radhakrishnan Cinematographer/ He won Kerala State Award for Best

Trivandrum Cinematography seven time for the movie
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(Thiruvananthapuram), Deshadanam in 1996, Karunam in 1999,

Kerala Adayalangal, Ottakkayyan in 2007, Bioscope in
2008, Veettilekkulla Vazhi in 2010, Akasathinte
Niram in 2011, Kaadu Pookkunna Neram 2016.
C. Kapur Cue-sports / Kolkata, He served for the cue-sports for more than 40
West Bengal years.
Subir Vithal Gokarn Economist/ He hailed from Mumbai, Maharashtra. He served
as RBI deputy Governor from 2009 to 2012.He
was the youngest RBI Governor at the time.He
served as the Director of Research at Brookings
Institution India Centre, Chief Economist of
Standard & Poor’s Asia-pacific and as Executive
Director and Chief Economist of Credit Rating
Information Services of India Limited (CRISIL).
AU Celestine Football Player/Tamil He played for the Tamil Nadu state men’s team
Nadu as a goalkeeper in Senior Nationals in the 1965
and 1969 National Championships and also
represented India in the Merdeka Cup in
Malaysia in 1969.
Barun Haldar News Reader/Kolkata. He was born in Kolkata, West Bengal. He was a
popular presenter of Western Music in All India
Radio Kolkata.
M. K. Seetharam Kulal Playwright, writer and He worked in an insurance firm & composed lyrics
former president/ Bejai, ‘Pakkilu Muji Onji Gududu’ and ‘Mokeda Singari’ for
Karnataka the popular Tulu film ‘Pagetha Puge’ in 1972.He
received the “Ranga Kala Bhooshana” award for his
contributions to Tulu literature.He joined Karnataka
Tulu Sahitya Academy in 2005 & it presented the
Tulu Academy Award for his work in Tulu theatre in
2015.He has written Tulu language books ‘Mannda
Magal Abbakka’ (Queen Abbakka: Daughter of the
Soil) & ‘Darmogu Darmada Saval’ were published in
2007.
Sudershan Agarwal Politician/ New Delhi He was born in Ludhiana, Punjab. He served as
the second Governor of Uttarakhand between
2003 and 2007 during which he also established
a Him Jyoti School in the Sahastradhara.He was
appointed as Governor of Sikkim in 2007.
Dr. Wilfred Mesquita Politician/Mumbai He was born in Divar in North Goa district. He was a
former commissioner for NRI (Non-resident Indian)
affairs and held portfolios of Revenue, Environment,
Sports and Youth Affairs, Power, Law and Judiciary
and Legislative Affairs. In the 1990s, he had also
served as a minister in Congress-led government.He
was a leader of the Goa BJP since 2007 and worked as
the party’s vice president and spokesman.
Sheila Dikshit Politician/New Delhi She was born in Kapurthala, Punjab.She was
former 3-time chief minister of Delhi. The
longest-serving chief minister of Delhi was the
recipient of 2010 Dara Shikoh award by Indo-
Iran Society and Delhi Women of the Decade
Achievers Award 2013 by All Ladies League for
Outstanding Public Service.
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Mukesh Goud Politician/ Hyderabad, He served as BC (Backward Classes) welfare

Telangana minister in 2007 and then as Minister for
warehouse and marketing in 2009.He had served
as MLA (Member of the Legislative
Assembly)from Maharajgunj constituency in
1989 and 2004 and from Goshamahal assembly
constituency in 2009.
Vitthalbhai Politician/ Ahmedabad, He also served as director of Indian farmers
Hansrajbhai Radadiya Gujarat Fertilizer Cooperative Ltd (IFFCO).He was also
the chairman of Rajkot District Cooperative
Bank.
Dr. Jaya Arunachalam Social Activist/ Chennai, She was born in Tamil Nadu .She is the founder of
Tamil Nadu Working Women’s Forum (WWF). She was the
recipient of Padma Shri in 1987, International
Activist Award by Gleitsman Foundation in 2003,
Jamnalal Bajaj Award in 2009, Bharat Ratna Rajiv
Gandhi Mahila Shakthi Award in 2009.
Raja Dhale Writer, artist & He was one of the founding members of the Dalit
activist/Mumbai, Panther started in April 1972, alongside Namdeo
Maharashtra Dhasal and Arun Krushnaji Kamble. He was born in
Maharashtra. Apart from Social Service he authoured
two books namely, Dalit Pantherchi Sansthapana:
Vastusthiti Ani Viparyas”, “Arun Kolhatkarchi Gacchi:
Ek Nirupan”.
INTERNATIONAL
Name of the person Place of Demise/Field Points to be noted
who passed away
DECEMBER
Ron Leibman(82) Actor/U.S.(United States) He won a Tony Award in 1993 for his
performance in the Broadway’s Angels in
America & an Emmy Award (1979) on the short-
lived CBS show Kaz, passed away due to
complications of pneumonia.
Daniel Louis Aiello Actor/ New Jersey, United He was born in New York,US. He was best known
Jr.(86) States(US) for featuring in films such as “The Godfather”,
“Moonstruck” and “Do The Right Thing”.
Sir Peter George Snell Athelete/United States He was born in New Zealand.He had won the 3
Olympic gold medals & and made the world mile
record-holder. Since 1920, he is the first male
player to win the 800 m and 1500 m titles at the
same Olympics. After him, no male runner has
repeated this feat.
Basil Butcher (86) Cricketer/Florida, United He was born in British Guiana, Butcher. He was
States(US) the first person of Amerindian (indigenous
American) descent to represent the West Indies.
Paul Adolph Economist/United States He was the former Chairman of the Federal
Volcker(92) (US) Reserve of the United States (US).
George Joseph Engineer/US (United He was the inventor of Universal Product
Laurer(94) States) Code(UPC) or Barcode.
Martin Peter Football / England He was the legend of West Ham United Football
Club. He joined West Ham in 1959 at the age of
15. He also won the UEFA Cup and two League
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Cups with Tottenham.

Irving Louis Musician & He also wrote songs for the Kingston Trio (“The
Burgie(95) Songwriter/United States Seine,” “El Matador,” and “The Wanderer”) and
(US) for other groups.
Caroll Edwin Puppeteer & cartoonist/ He was honored with 4 Daytime Emmy Awards
Spinney(85) Connecticut, US and two Grammy Awards for his work on the
children’s programme.
NOVEMBER
Jacques Dupont(91) Cyclist/France He is a French cyclist who won a gold medal in
Olympic Games which in London on 11 August
1948. At the age of 20, he won the gold medal in
Olympic under the category of 1000-meter track
trial in London and defeated Belgian Pyre Nihant
by a second.
Clive James (80) Journalist, writer and He was born in Kogarah, New South Wales,
critic/ Cambridge, Australia as Vivian Leopold James and lived in
England the United States (US). He was awarded the
Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal for Literature in
2003 and was honoured with a special award for
his 50 year career in the 2015 BAFTA (British
Academy of Film and Television Arts).
Ernest James Novelist/America awarded a “genius grant” in 1993 by the MacArthur
Gaines(86) Foundation, was inducted into the French Ordre des
Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) as a
Chevalier.Two of his books, The 1971 Autobiography
of Miss Jane Pittman (which won the Directors Guild
of America Award, 8 Emmy Awards, nominated for a
BAFTA award) and A Gathering of Old Men (1984),
became television movies.
Yasuhiro Politician/ Tokyo, Japan He was former Prime Minister of Japan.He served
Nakasone(101) from 1982 to 1987.
OCTOBER
Sadako Ogata(92) Academician/ Tokyo, She was born in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. She was
Japan the First female UN refugee chief .She served as
the 8th Chief of the UN refugees from 1991-2000.
She had also served as the head of the Japan
International Cooperation Agency (JICA) from
2003- 2012 and also as the chairman of the
United Nations Children's Fund(UNICEF) from
1978-1979.
Diahann Carroll(84) Actress, singer, and She was born in New York, United States .She
model/United States was also the first black woman to win the Tony
Award for best actress for her role in the
Broadway musical No Strings.She won Golden
Globe award.
Alexei Leonov(85) Astronaut/ Moscow, He was born in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia.He was the
Russia first human to walk in space. was awarded the
country's highest honor 'Hero of the Soviet Union'.
Sara Danius(57) Author/ Stockholm, He was born in Täby, Sweden.She was the 1st female
Sweden head of Nobel's literature award and the first female
head of the prestigious Swedish Nobel's literature
award body.She served as the first female permanent
secretary of the Swedish Academy from 2015 - 2018.
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Alicia Alonso(98) Ballet dancer & She also received prestigious awards from the United
choreographer/Cuba Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization- UNESCO (Pablo Picasso Medal for her
extraordinary contribution to dance in 1999) ,Spain
(Gold medal from the Circulo de Bellas Artes of
Madrid in 1998), and France (Grand Prix de la Ville de
Paris in 1999).
P.V. Broadcast journalist/ He was born in Yangon, Myanmar, on April 1, 1921.
Krishnamoorthy(98) Chennai, Tamil Nadu He was the first Directorate General (DG) of
Doordarshan when Doordarshan was
separated From AIR in 1976.
Satyapriya Buddhist He was born in Cox's Bazar’s Ramu,
Mohathero(89) pundit/Bangladesh Bangladesh.He was the second highest Buddhist
leader of Bangladesh and head of Sima Bihar of
Ramu.He was the recipient of Ekushey Padak, the
second-highest civilian award of Bangladesh, in
2015 for social work.
Peter Edward Ginger Drummer/England He was born in London, England.He won the
Baker(80) Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006.
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of
fame in 1993 as a member of ‘Cream’.
Jessye Norman(74) Opera singer/ New York, She won Augusta, Georgia.She won prestigious
United States(US) Kennedy Center Honor in 1997, Grammy Award for
Best Opera Recording for “Bartók: Bluebeard’s Castle”
in 1998, Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording for
“Wagner: Lohengrin” in 1998, Grammy Award for
Best Opera Recording for “Wagner: Die Walkuere”in
1989, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006,
National Medal of Arts in 2009 and France’s Legion
d’Honneur.
Kalidas Karmakar(73) Painter/ Bangladesh He received Shilpakala Padak in 2016, and
Ekushey Padak in 2018, the second-highest
civilian award by the Bangladesh Govt.
Eric Pleskow(95) Producer/ United He was born in Austria,Vienna.He was the president
States(US) of the film company United Artists from 1973 to 1978
and then as co-founder of Orion Pictures where many
films under these film companies won Oscar awards.
Jose Romulo Sosa Singer/ United States(US) He was born in Mexico City , Mexico. He has sung
Ortiz(71) many super hit songs like De Pueblo en Pueblo,’
‘Hasta Que Vuelvas,’ ‘Sentimientos,’ ‘Paloma’ and
‘Gavilan o Paloma.’. He was also awarded several
awards in his 4-decade music career. He was
nominated for the Grammy Award 6 times.
Andres Gimeno(82) Tennis Player/ Barcelona, He was born in Barcelona, Spain.He was 34 years and
Spain 9 months old when he achieved
Roland Garros ( French Open) in 1972 and became
the oldest first-time men's Grand Slam champion
/Male French Open champion in the
Open era.
SEPTEMBER
Franco Columbu Bodybuilder, powerlifter, He won the title of Mr. Olympia in the year 1976
(Nicknamed, “the actor and and 1981.
Sardinian author/Sardinia, Italy
Strongman”)(78)
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Abdul Qadir(63) Cricketer/ Lahore, He was born in Lahore, Pakistan. Qadir had
Pakistan played 67 Tests and 104 One Day Internationals
(ODI) taking a total of 368 wickets representing
his country.
Fernando Ricksen(43) Footballer/ Airdrie, He was born in Hoensbroek, Limburg,
North Lanarkshire, Netherland. He earned 12 caps for the
Scotland Netherlands between 2000 and 2003.
Charlie Cole(64) Photographer/ Bali, He was born in Bonham, Texas, United States (US). In
Indonesia the year1990, Cole won the World Press Photo Award
for his photo, which became an image of the 1989
pro-democracy protest.
Robert Mugabe(95) Politician/Singapore He was born in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe. He was the
former President (2nd) and first prime minister of
Zimbabwe. Mugabe served as the president for 37
year since 1987 until he was ousted from power in a
military coup(forcible transition of power).
Akilisi Pohiva(78) Politician, Climate change He was born in Fakakakai, Tonga. He was the first
campaigner/ New prime minister of the South Pacific island nation
Zealand elected by parliament rather than appointed by the
King.
Zine el-Abidine Ben Politician/ Jeddah, Saudi He was born in Hammam Sousse, Tunisia. He was
Ali(83) Arabia ousted from power in 2011 at the start of the Arab
spring movement in which many leaders were swept
from power. He ruled Tunisia as president from 1987
until he was ousted in 2011.
Jacques René Politician/ Paris, France He was born in Paris, France. He hold two-term
Chirac(86) (1995-2007) as French president & was the first
leader to accept France’s role in the Holocaust (World
War II genocide) and opposed the United States
invasion on Iraq in 2003. He was nicknamed as “Le
Bulldozer”.
Michael Mendel(54) Producer/ Los Angeles He won three Emmys in 1995, 1997, and 1998
for "Lisa's Wedding", "Homer's Phobia", and
"Trash of the Titans". He joined Rick and Morty
in 2013, where he won his 4th Emmy Award for
the episode "Pickle Rick" in 2018.
LaShawn Daniels(41) Songwriter/ South He was born in United States(US). He was
familiarly known as Carolina, US honoured with grammy award in 2001 for best
Big Shiz R&B song in writing the song ‘Say My Name’ of
‘Destiny’s Child’ which was nominated 7 times.
AUGUST
Richard Williams(86) Animator/ Bristol, United He was born in Toronto, Canada.Triple Oscar-
Kingdom (UK) winning and triple BAFTA-winning animator
Richard Williams, was best known for creating
Roger Rabbit.
Takis (Panayiotis Artist He was born in Athens, Greece.He was known for
Vassilakis)(93) his kinetic sculptures, that made use of
technology, motion, and light and were displayed
in art galleries and museums around the world
has passed away in Athens, Greece at the age of
93. He was the founder of Takis Foundation, a
research Center for the Art and the Sciences that
contains a museum, garden, and the sculptor's
studio, and aims to promote the appreciation of
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Valerie Harper(80) Comedian/ Los Angeles, She was born in Suffern, New York .She won
United States Emmy award 4 times.
Malcolm Nash(74) Cricketer/ London He was born in Abergavenny, United
Kingdom(UK).Former England cricketer Malcolm
Nash, who was best known for being hit by Sir
Garfield Sobers for six sixes in an over has passed
away after he collapsed while attending a dinner
at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London.
D.A. Pennebaker(94) Documentary maker/ He was born in Evanston, Illinois, United States.He
New York, US was the recipient of honorary Academy Award/
Lifetime Oscar in 2013.
Ferdinand Karl Engineer/ Rosenheim, He was born in Austria.He is well known for creating
Piëch(82) Germany a revolution in German automaker Volkswagen in the
1990s
José Luis Brown(62) Footballer/ La Plata, He was born in Ranchos, Argentina José worked as
Argentina coach of the U-23 team of Argentina that won a gold
medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Argentina won
1986 World Cup while Jose Played for it.
Nicolas Leoz(90) Footballer/ Asuncion, He was born in Paraguay .He was a key suspect in the
Paraguay FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football
Association) corruption scandal investigated by the
United States (US) Justice Department in 2015. He
had served as the President of the Confederation of
South American Football (CONMEBOL) from 1986 to
2013.
Toni Morrison(88) Novelist/ New York, She was born in Ohio, America & was the first African
United States American to win the Nobel Prize for literature. Most
of her work focused on the African community,
African women
Rizia Rahman(79) Novelist/ Dhaka, She was born in Kolkata & moved to Bangladesh
Bangladesh & an awardee of Ekushey Padak in 2019, the 2nd
-highest civilian award in Bangladesh.
Dorothy Eleanor Pilot/ Washington, She was born in Woodburn, Oregon, US .She is
Olsen(103) United States one of the member of a group of civilian
volunteers who flew planes during World War II.
She flew about 60 missions as part of the 6th
Ferry Group of the Women Airforce Service
Pilots (WASP).
Jean Poet and fiction writer/ She was born in Sri Lanka.The author has written
Arasanayagam(88) Kandy, Sri Lanka over 50 books focused mainly on civil wars,
ethnic and religious turmoils in Sri Lanka as her
subject.
Harold ‘Hal’ Theatrical producer and He had won 21 Tony Awards over the course of
Prince(91) director/ Reykjavík, his career.He was born in Manhattan, New York,
Iceland United States.
JULY
Cesar Pelli Architect/ Connecticut, Pelli’s famous works include Pacific Design
United States Center in Los Angeles, London’s Canary Wharf
Tower, and a terminal at Washington’s Reagan
National Airport.His last project was the
Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco, which
is the tallest skyscraper in the San Francisco
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skyline, with a top roof height of 970 feet (296

m).In 1995, Pelli won the American Institute of
Architects(AIA) gold medal.
Mandla Maseko Aviator,Pretoria, South He is set to become the first black African in
Africa space.
Pernell Whitaker Boxer/Virginia, United He won Olympic gold at the 1984 Summer Games
States in Los Angeles, gold at the 1983 Pan American
Games, silver at the 1982 World Championships
and also won world titles at lightweight, light
welterweight, welterweight and light
middleweight.He was nicknamed as ‘Sweet Pea’.
Lee Iacocca Businessman/ California He was born in Pennsylvania, United States. In
1984, he released his autobiography titled
“Iacocca-An Autobiography” and in 1988, he
released a book titled “Talking Straight” which
was his best seller books.
Fernando J. Corbato Computer Scientist/ In 1990, he received the A. M. Turing Award,
Massachusetts, U.S widely considered the computing field’s
equivalent of the Nobel Prize.He is also a pioneer
in the development of time-sharing operating
systems known as MIT Compatible Time-Sharing
System.
Yukiya Amano Diplomat/ He was born in Yugawara, Japan.He was the 5th
Director-General of the International Atomic
Energy Agency.
Momir Bulatovic Politician/ Raći, He was born in Belgrade, PR Serbia, FPR
Montenegro Yugoslavia. He served as Montenegro’s President
from 1990 until 1998.
Fernando de La Rua Politician / Buenos Aires, He was born in Córdoba, Argentina. He served as
Argentina a president of Argentina from 1999 to December
2001.
Beji Caid Essebsi Politician / Tunis, Tunisia He is the North African country’s first
Jaipal Reddy Politician /Hyderabad He served as a Union Minister for Information
and Broadcasting in the IK Gujral cabinet in 1998
& Union Minister for the Ministry of Earth
Sciences & Ministry of Science and Technology
from 2012-2014 & conferred best
parliamentarian award 1998.
Peter McNamara Tennis Player/Germany He was born in Melbourne, Australia.
Russi Taylor Voice Actress/ Glendale, He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she
California, US became the voice of Minnie Mouse in 1986.
IMPORTANT DAYS
Observed Day Other information
date/week
DECEMBER
December 1, World AIDS (Acquired Theme - ‘Communities make Difference’.
2019 immunodeficiency
syndrome) day
December 1, Indigenous Faith Day (IFD) It is observed by Arunachal Pradesh (AP).
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2019
December 2 , International Day for the The day aims to eradicate slavery-like human
2019 Abolition of Slavery trafficking, sexual exploitation, child labour, forced
marriage etc.
December 2 , National Pollution Control To create awareness on controlling and managing
2019 Day pollution produced by industrial processes or
human negligence.
December 2 , World Computer Literacy The day is observed to mark the significance of
2019 Day computers and to promote awareness about
computers and other electronic devices.
December 3 , International Day of Theme - ‘Promoting the participation of persons
2019 Persons with Disabilities with disabilities and their leadership: taking action
(IDPD) on the 2030 Development Agenda’
December 4, Indian Navy Day The day is celebrated in memory of the Operation
2019 Trident that was launched by the Indian Navy(IN)
in Pakistan’s Karachi harbour during the 1971
Indo-Pakistan war.
December 5, International Volunteer Theme - “Volunteer for an inclusive future”
2019 Day (IVD) for Economic
and Social Development
December 5,2019 World soil day Theme - “Stop Soil Erosion, Save our Future”
December 7,2019 International Civil Aviation Theme - “75 years of connecting the world”.
Day (ICAD)
December 7,2019 Armed Forces Flag Day or
Flag Day India
December 8, 35th South Asian SAARC has a permanent secretariat in Kathmandu,
2019 Association for Regional Nepal while SDF is headquartered at Thimpu,
Cooperation (SAARC) Bhutan.
Charter Day
December 9, International Anti- Theme - “United Against Corruption”
2019 Corruption Day
December 9, International Day of This year marks the 70th anniversary of the
2019 Commemoration and Genocide Convention.
Dignity of the Victims of the
Crime of Genocide and of
the Prevention of this
Crime
December 10, Human Rights Day Theme - “Youth Standing Up for Human Rights”
2019
December 11, International Mountain Day Theme - “Mountains Matter for Youth”
2019 (IMD)
December 11, UNICEF (United Nations UNICEF was created by the United Nations General
2019 Children’s Fund) day Assembly(UNGA) on December 11, 1946, as the
United Nations International Children’s Emergency
Fund to provide emergency food, nutrition,
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education to children, devastated due to World War

II.
December 12, International Universal Theme: “Keep the promise.”
2019 Health Coverage Day(UHC)
December 12, International Day of The day was first introduced in Turkmenistan after
2019 Neutrality the UN permanently declared it as a neutral state
since 12 December 1995.
December 14 National Energy National Energy Conservation Week is observed
2019 Conservation Day from 9th to 14th December 2019.
International Tea Day United Nations (UN) has designated May 21 as
International Tea Day after accepting the proposal
moved by India.Currently it was celebrated on 15th
of December.
December 16, Vijay Diwas The day is celebrated for commemorating India’s
2019 victory over Pakistan in 1971 Indo-Pakistan war.
December 18, International Migrants Day The theme for the year 2019 “We Together.”
2019 (IMD)
December 18, Minorities Rights Day It is observed by the National Commission of
2019 Minorities (NCM).
December 18, World Arabic Language The theme for the year 2019 is “Arabic Language
2019 Day and Artificial Intelligence (AI)”.
December 20, International Human To promote the culture of solidarity and the spirit
2019 Solidarity Day of sharing to combat poverty.
December 22, National Mathematics Day To mark the birth anniversary of legendary Indian
2019 mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan and his
contributions in the field of mathematics. The 2019
SASTRA Ramanujan Prize was presented to Adam
Harper of the University of Warwick, England for
his outstanding contributions to probabilistic
number theory.
December 23, National Farmers Day / To mark the birth anniversary of Chaudhary Charan
2019 Kisan Divas Singh, the 5th Prime Minister (PM) of India (from
July 1979 to January 1980).
December 24, National Consumer Rights Theme: Alternate consumer grievance/dispute
2019 Day redressal.
December 25, National Good Governance PM Modi laid foundation stone of Atal Bihari
2019 Day(GGD) Vajpayee Medical University.
Also unveiled a 25 feet bronze statue of Vajpayee in
the UP govt. Building (Lok Bhavan).Click here to
read more
NOVEMBER
November 1, World Vegan Day It was established by UK celebrity, Louise Wallis in
2019 the year 1994.
November 2, International Day to End The campaign for 2019 is #KeepTruthAlive.
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2019 Impunity for Crimes

against Journalists
November 5, World Tsunami Awareness This year promotes the target of “Sendai Seven
2019 Day Campaign”, which seeks to reduce the disaster
damage to critical infrastructure and disruption of
basic services.
November 6, International day for
2019 preventing the
environment from war and
armed conflicts
November 7, National Cancer Awareness The day was first observed in 2014. The day
2019 Day coincides with the birth anniversary of scientist
Marie Curie (Marie Skłodowska Curie), winner of
the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics.
November 7, 2019 Infant Protection Day To spread awareness regarding protecting,
promoting and developing infants by taking proper
care.
November 8, International Day of The theme of 2019 is ‘sports imaging’.
2019 Radiology (IDOR)
November 9, National Legal Service day It extent the awareness among the people
2019 (NLSD) regarding the Functions and their activities of Legal
Services in the Country.
November 10, World Science Day for The theme for the year 2019 is “Open Science,
2019 Peace and Development leaving no one behind”.
November 11, National Education Day It is observed annually on November 11
2019 commemorating the birth anniversary of Maulana
Sayyid Abul Kalam Ghulam Muhiyuddin Ahmed bin
Khairuddin Al-Hussaini Azad (familiarly known as
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad), the first vice president
of India and also the first education minister of
India (1947-1958).
November 12 World Pneumonia Day The theme for the year 2019 is “Healthy lungs for
2019 all”.
November 12, Public Service Broadcasting To celebrate and commemorate the first and last
2019 Day visit of Mahatma Gandhi to the studio of All India
Radio(AIR) in Delhi 1947.
November 12, 550th birth anniversary of The day is also known as Prakash Parv/Guru Nanak
2019 Guru Nanak Dev Jayanti. He was the first of the 10 Sikh gurus and the
founder of Sikhism. His birthday is observed every year
on Kartik Poornima.Click here to read more.
November 13, World Kindness Day This day provides an opportunity to act kindly with
2019 others as kindness is an important unifying human
standard.
November 14, World Diabetes Day (WDD) Theme “Family and Diabetes”
2019
November 14, Children’s Day (Bal Diwas) To commemorate the birth anniversary of first
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2019 Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru

fondly called Chacha Nehru.
November 16 International Day for In 1995, UNESCO established the Madanjeet Singh
2019 Tolerance Prize for the promotion of Tolerance and Non-
Violence to commemorate the 125th birth
anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
November 16 National Press Day To commemorate the establishment of the Press
2019 Council of India (PCI). It was formed on July 4,
1966, by the Parliament which officially started
working on November 16, 1966.
November 17, National Epilepsy Day The aim of this day is to create awareness about
2019 epilepsy, its causes, and treatment.
November 17, World Day of 2019 Theme: – ‘Life is not a car part’.
2019 Remembrance for Road
Traffic Victims
November 18, 2nd National Naturopathy This Day aims to promote the drugless medicine to
2019 day prevent diseases, which is caused by changing the
lifestyle.
November 18 – World Antibiotic 2019 Theme – “Antibiotics: handle with care.”
24,2019 Awareness Week (WAAW)
November 19, National Integration Day Is observed all over India to mark the birth
2019 (also known as Quami Ekta anniversary of the first woman Prime Minister
Divas) (PM) of India, Indira Gandhi.
November 19, World Toilet Day The Theme for the year 2019 is “Leaving no one
2019 behind”.
November 19, International Men’s Day The 2019 theme was “Making a difference for men
2019 2019 and boys”.
19th November, Women’s To empower and support women in business
2019 Entrepreneurship Day worldwide. According to data on the Startup India
2019 portal, there are only 14% women entrepreneurs
in India.
November 19, World Day for Prevention It was launched by the Women’s World Summit
2019 of Child Abuse Foundation (WWSF) in 2000.
19th -25th Qaumi Ekta Week (National This Week is observed every year with the main
November,2019 Integration Week) 2019 theme of “Secularism, Anti-Communalism and Non-
Violence”.Click here to read more.
November 19-25, World Heritage Week The main objective of the celebration is to raise
2019 awareness to people on the preservation of the
cultural heritage and monuments.
November 20, Africa Industrialization Day Theme “Positioning African Industry to supply the
2019 (AID) AfCFTA Market”.
November 20 World Children’s Day The day is celebrated to promote international

togetherness and awareness among children
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globally, and to improve their welfare.
November 20(3rd World Chronic Obstructive The theme for the year 2019 is “All Together to End
Wednesday of Pulmonary Disease (COPD) COPD”.
November) day
21st November World Fisheries Day The day is celebrated to intimate people about the
2019 importance of water and the lives it supports, the
consequence of overfishing, ocean and coastal
pollution and the ill treatment of fishermen.
21 November World Philosophy day This day is celebrated to persist the value of
2019 philosophy in shaping minds and culture of people.
November 21, World Television Day To highlight the importance of television in
2019 generating communication and globalisation.
25th November International day for the The theme - “Orange the World: Generation
2019 Elimination of Violence Equality Stands Against Rape”.
against Women 2019
26th November National Milk Day It is observed to commemorate the birth
2019 anniversary of Dr.Verghese Kurien.
November 26, Constitution Day ( Shri Pokhriyal also launched the portal ‘Abhiyanta’
2019 ‘Samvidhan Divas) of AICTE.
November 29, International day of The day is observed to remember the struggle of
2019 Solidarity with the Palestinian people to achieve Independence and
Palestinian people Sovereignty.
November 30 to Pension week The Pension week aims at enrolling 1 crore recipients
December 6, 2019 under the Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maan-Dhan (PM-
SYM) and 50 lakh recipients under National Pension
Scheme for traders and self-employees (NPS-Traders)
by March 2020.
November 30 Day of Remembrance for all The day is observed as a tribute to the victims of
Victims of Chemical chemical warfare and also aims to reaffirm its
Warfare commitment to the Organisation for the Prohibition of
Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to eliminate the threat of
chemical weapons.
November 30, 10th Indian Organ To create awareness on organ donation and to
2019 Donation Day (IODD) motivate people in donating organs after their
death.
PM Modi announces to celebrate September as a month of nutrition
Prime Minister(PM) of India Shri Narendra Modi announced in his “Mann Ki Baat” programme (PM
addressing the nation programme) to celebrate September month, as a month of nutrition as part of
‘POSHAN Abhiyaan ’(National Nutrition Mission). It is a multi-ministerial convergence mission with
the aim to make india free from malnutrition by 2022. Read full details here: PM Modi announces to
celebrate September as a month of nutrition
OCTOBER
October 1-31, Breast cancer awareness A pink ribbon is an international symbol of breast
2019 month cancer awareness. PV Sindhu launched the world’s
first ‘Life-size Augmented Reality'(AR) technology
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in the “ABC of breast health” app.

October 1, 2019 World Vegetarian Day The day initiates the month of October as
Vegetarian Awareness Month & ends with
November 1, World Vegan Day, as the end of that
month of celebration.
October 1, 2019 International Coffee Day It was launched in Milan, Italy
October 1, 2019 International Day of Older Theme - “The Journey to Age Equality“
Persons
October 2, 2019 150th Gandhi Jayanti/  1,650-kg ‘charkha’ (spinning wheel) made of
International Day of Non- plastic waste, the world’s largest
Violence 2019 inaugurated in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
 Commemorative coin of Rs 150 was
released.
 He set a target to achieve the goal to
eradicate ‘single-use plastic’ from India by
the year 2022.
 He launched a book, ‘My Life, My Message’,
on the life of Gandhi.
October 4-10, World Space Week (WSW) The theme for the year 2019 is “The Moon:
2019 Gateway to the Stars”.
October 4, 2019 World Animal Day Heinrich Zimmermann organized the first World
Animal Day in 1925 & was declared as a universal
observation at a convention of ecologists in
Florence, Italy.
October 5, 2019 World Teacher’s Day or The theme of this day for 2019 is Young Teachers:
International Teachers Day The Future of the Profession.
2nd -8th October, Wildlife Week The theme for the year 2019 is “Life Below Water:
2019 For People And Planet”.
October 7, 2019 World Habitat Day Theme- “Frontier Technologies as an innovative
tool to transform waste to wealth”
October 7, 2019 First World Cotton Day It wasorganized by the World Trade Organization
(WTO) as an initiative of the Cotton-4 countries
(Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali) in
collaboration with the FAO, UNCTAD, ITC and the
International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC).The
5 day WCD programme was held in Geneva,
Switzerland from October 7-11, 2019.Click here to
read more
October 9, 2019 World Post Day The day was mooted by an Indian, Anand Mohan
Narula, during the UPU Congress held in Tokyo,
Japan in 1969.
October 9 – 15, National postal week Aim to create broader awareness about the India Post's
2019 role and activities in the lives of people and business
and its contribution to social and economic
development.
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October 10, 2019 World Mental Health Day Theme - “suicide prevention”. WHO has launched
an awareness campaign called “40 seconds of
action” to improve mental health, knowledge on
suicide prevention and reduce stigma associated
with suicide.
October 10, 2019 World Sight Day Theme - “Vision First”.
October 11, 2019 World egg day Theme - “Eat your egg today and every day.''
October 11, 2019 World Obesity Day The day which was first established in 2015, aims
to raise awareness on obesity and ways to prevent
them and also maintaining a healthy weight and
reverse the obesity crisis.
October 11, 2019 International Day of the Girl Theme - “GirlForce: Unscripted and Unstoppable”
Child
October 12, 2019 World migratory bird day Theme - “Protect Birds: Be the Solution to Plastic
Pollution”.
October 12, 2019 World arthritis day Theme -"Time2Work".
October 13, 2019 International day for Theme -“Reduce disaster damage to critical
disaster reduction infrastructure and disruption of basic services”.
October 14, 2019 World standards Day Theme -“Video Standards Create a Global Stage”.
October 15, 2019 International Day of Rural Theme- “Rural Women and girls building climate
Women resilience”.
October 15, 2019 World Student’s Day The day is celebrated commemorating the birth
anniversary of former President (11th president) of
India Shri Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. This year, 2019,
marks the 88th birth anniversary.He was also
known as the “Missile Man of India” for his work
Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998.
October 15, 2019 Global Handwashing Day Theme - “Clean Hands For All”.
October 15, 2019 World Mathematics Day World Mathematics Day was observed on October
15, 2019. It is observed annually since 2007 by
educational resource provider 3P Learning.
Shakuntala Devi of India is known as a Human-
Computer.
October 15, 2019 White cane safety day The day aims to create awareness on the
significance of white cane among the common
people and also about the special needs of the
visually impaired. White cane is considered as the
important symbol of blindness and tool of
independence.
October 16, 2019 World Food Day Theme - “Our actions are our future. Healthy diets
for a #zerohunger world”
October 17, 2019 World Trauma Day (WTD) To create awareness on the increasing rate of
accidents and injuries causing death and disability
across the world and the need to prevent them.
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October 17, 2019 International Day for the Theme - “Acting together to empower children,
Eradication of Poverty their families, and communities to end poverty”
October 20, 2019 National Solidarity Day It commemorates the national integrity shown by
Indians at Sino- Indo war against China. China had
attacked India on this day in 1962.
October 20, 2019 World Osteoporosis Day To create awareness on the prevention, diagnosis
and treatment of Osteoporosis which is a disease of
bone in which the density and quality of bone are
reduced.
October 20, 2019 World Statistics Day World Statistics Day (WSD) is observed on October
20, once every 5 years, first celebrated in 2010 and
next on 20 October 2020.
October 20, 2019 International Chefs Day 2019 campaign theme is “How Healthy Food
Works”.
October 20–26, 7th International lead The three key themes for 2019 are: Learn the Risks,
2019 poisoning prevention week Join the Action, Eliminate Lead Paint.
(ILPPW)
October 21, 2019 61st Edition of National Commemorated to pay homage to the CRPF
Police Commemoration Day (Central Reserve Police Force) personnel who were
killed by the Chinese Army in 1959.
October 21, 2019 Global Iodine Deficiency The aim of this day is to create awareness on iodine
Disorders (IDD) Prevention deficiency which leads to many health problems
Day and also on theadequate use of iodine in day to day
life.
October 22, 2019 International Stuttering The theme for the year 2019 is “Growth Through
Awareness Day(ISAD) Speaking”.To raise awareness on the people of 1%
of the world’s population having speech disorder of
stuttering (also known as stammering).
October 23, 2019 International Snow Leopard The day is observed to raise awareness on
Day protecting and preserving the rarest and
endangered animal (snow leopards) on the
planet.Click here to read more.
October 24, 2019 World polio day Theme - "Stories of Progress: Past and present"
October 24, 2019 World Development Observed to draw the attention of the world to
Information Day (WDID) development problems and necessity of
strengthening international cooperation to solve
them.
October 24, 2019 United Nations Day Theme - “Our Planet. Our Future”.
October 24- 30 Disarmament week Observed to highlight the danger of the arms race,
2019 propagate the need for its cessation and increase
public understanding of the urgent
tasks of disarmament.
October 24 -31, 7th Global Media and Theme - “Media and Information Literate Citizens:
2019 Information Literacy (MIL) Informed, Engaged, Empowered”.
week
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October 25, 2019 National Ayurveda Day/ The theme of the day was “Ayurveda for
Dhanwantari Jayanti Longevity”.
October 27, 2019 World Day for Audiovisual Theme - “Engage the Past Through Sound and
Heritage (WDAH) Images”.
October 27, 2019 73rd Infantry Day The day is observed to commemorate the
dedication and duties of the Indian Army’s gallant
infantrymen. Army chief General Bipin Rawat
released a commemorative stamp on Siachen
Glacier.
October 28, 2019 18th International This day commemorates the 1st public appearance
Animation Day (IAD) of Charles-Emile Reynaud’s Theatre Optique (a
machine that creates images on a screen using a
projector and mirrors) at the Grevin Museum in
Paris, France
28th October to Vigilance Awareness Week Theme for the year 2019 is “Integrity- A way of
2nd November life”.
October 29, 2019 World Stroke Day The hashtag for 2019 on WSD is
“#DontBeTheOne” focusing to prevent the disease, as
one in 4 people are at the risk of suffering from
stroke.
October 29, 2019 International Internet Day To commemorate the day in the history of
telecommunication and technology celebrating the
event of sending the first electronic message
through the internet from one computer to another
in 1969 in California, United States(US). The year
2019 also marks the 50th anniversary of the
International Internet Day.
October 31, 2019 World Savings Day/ Thrift Theme - "Savings give life a lift".
Day
October 31, 2019 World Cities Day Theme -“Changing the world: innovations and
better life for future generations”. The general
theme of WCD is ‘Better City, Better Life’.
October 31, 2019 National Unity Day National Unity Day, also known as Rashtriya Ekta
(Rashtriya Ekta Diwas) Diwas was observed, commemorating the 144th
birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the
first deputy prime minister of India. Also familiarly
known as “the Iron Man of India”, Patel’s dream of
scrapping Article 370 and full integration of Jammu
and Kashmir with India came to effect on his 144th
birthday as a tribute to him. Click here to read
more
SEPTEMBER
September 2, World Coconut Day It was established in 2009 to commemorate the
2019 formation day of Asian Pacific Coconut Community
(APCC) which is under the aegis of the United
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Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia

and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP). The day highlights the
importance and uses of coconuts.
September 5, National teachers’ day It was celebrated across the country. The aim of
2019 this day is to honour the efforts of teachers all over
India. It is celebrated since 1962 to honor Dr.
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan who was born on 5th
September 1888. Click here to read more
September 5, International Day of The first International Day of Charity under the
2019 Charity resolution/A/RES/67/105 was observed in the year
2013. The day aims to create awareness about the role
of charity to alleviate poverty and hunger.
September 1 to 7, National Nutrition Week It was observed to educate people about the
2019 (NNW) importance of their health and well-being. It is an
annual nutrition event organized by the Food and
Nutrition Board within the Ministry of Women and
Child Development, Government of India. It was
launched by the Food and Nutrition Board in 1982.
September 8, International Literacy Day Theme ‘Literacy and Multilingualism’.
2019 (ILD)
September 9 Himalaya Day 2019 It was celebrated in the Biotech Auditorium of the
Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT) Roorkee. It was first celebrated in
the year 2010.
September 10, World Suicide Prevention Theme “Working Together to Prevent Suicide”. In
2019 Day (WSPD) 2019 order to raise awareness and to prevent people
from committing suicide, International Association
for Suicide Prevention (IASP) host this day in
collaboration with global partners World Health
Organisation (WHO) and World Federation for
Mental Health (WFMH) every year.
September 11, National Forest Martyrs’ To commemorate foresters who had laid their lives
2019 Day to protect nature and wildlife in the remote corners
of the country.
September 12, International Day for Aims to raise awareness of the UN’s efforts to work
2019 South-South Cooperation on technical cooperation among developing
countries. The day also celebrates the political,
social and economical developments made by
regions and countries in the south in recent years.
The theme for the year 2019 is “South-South
Cooperation is From Commitment to Action —
Follow up to Buenos Aires Plan of Action+40”. Read
full details here: United Nations Day For South-
South Cooperation Is Annually Observed On
September 12, 2019
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September 14, Hindi Diwas (hindi day) This day marks the adoption of Hindi language
2019 (written in Devanagari script) as official language
of the nation, under article 343 of the Indian
constitution in 1949. Union home minister Shri
Amit Shah presented 2019 Rajbhasha Gaurav
Puraskar and Rajbhasha Kirti Puraskar awards to
the chiefs of various departments, Ministries and
other officers for promoting the language.
September 15, 52nd Engineers Day Theme "Engineering for change". It was also
2019 celebrated in SriLanka and Tanzania while others
countries celebrate this day on other dates. The day
is celebrated to mark the birth anniversary of the
greatest Indian engineer Bharat Ratna (1955)
Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya (Sir MV).
September 15, International Day of Theme ‘Participation’. The day emphasizes to
2019 Democracy provide an opportunity to review the state of
democracy in the world and raises awareness
about democracy.
September 16, International Day for the The International Day for the Preservation of the
2019 Preservation of the Ozone Ozone Layer by the United Nations (UN)
Layer or World Ozone Day proclaimed in December 19, 1994, is observed
annually on September 16 under the resolution
A/RES/49/114. The theme for the year 2019 is “32
Years and Healing”. The year 2019 marked the 25th
World Ozone Day celebrations.
September 17, World Patient Safety Day To mark the importance of patient safety under the
2019 (WPSD) campaign ‘Medication without Harm’. The theme
for the year 2019 is ‘Patient Safety: a global health
priority’ and its slogan is ‘Speak up for patient
safety’. Read full details here: First World Patient
Safety Day by WHO observed on 17th
September 2019
September 18, World Bamboo Day (WBD) It is the 10th Edition. The Bamboo Forum of India
2019 celebrated WBD under the theme ‘Bamboo for
sustainable development goals‘ at Lamyanba
Shanglen, Palace Compound, Imphal, Manipur.
September 21, World Alzheimer’s Day It is held annually to raise awareness about
2019 (WAD) Alzheimer's and Dementia. The theme for the year
is raising awareness and challenging the stigma
around the disease.
September 21, International Day of Peace, The day aims to strengthen the ideals of peace and
2019 also known as World Peace recognises the efforts of those people who have
Day worked hard to end conflict and promote peace.
The theme of this Day for 2019 was ‘Climate Action
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for Peace’. The theme focuses on the need of

fighting climate change by protecting and
promoting peace throughout the world.
September 21, International Coastal It encourages people along with ocean conservation
2019 Cleanup Day (ICCD) groups, and environmental organizations to clean up
the garbage/trash on the beach. 2019 International
Coastal Cleanup Animal is The Pelican.
September 22, World rose day The purpose of celebrating this day is to make
2019 cancer patients become strong enough to face the
disease with spirit and will power.
September 22, World Rhino Day It is an international ecological observance to raise
2019 awareness on the protection of 5 existing species of
rhinoceros- white rhino, black rhino, Indian rhino,
Javan rhino, and Sumatran rhino. Indian cricketer
& brand ambassador for rhino protection in WWF
India, Rohit Sharma had launched “Rohit4Rhinos
campaign” in partnership with WWF India and
Animal Planet.
September 23, International Day of Sign The theme of this day for 2019 is “Sign Language Rights
2019 Languages (IDSL) for All”. The day corresponds with International Week
of the Deaf, which also took place annually from 24th -
30th September. Read full details here: International
Day of Sign Languages (IDSL) observed on
September 23, 2019
September 23, Ayushman Bharat Diwas It was on this day a year ago Ayushman Bharat Yojana
2019 or Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) was
launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi from
Ranchi, Jharkhand. It is the world's largest health care
programme which provides a health cover of Rs 5 lakh
annually to vulnerable families.
24 - 28 6th India Water Week 2019 Theme “Water cooperation: Coping with 21st
September, 2019 Century Challenges”. The event was addressed by
Union Minister for Jal Shakti Shri Gajendra Singh
Sekhawat. Read full details here: President
inaugurates 6th India Water Week 2019 in New
Delhi
September 25, World Pharmacists Day The aim of this day is to promote and spread
2019 awareness about the pharmacist’s (health
professionals who practice in pharmacy) key role
in improving health in every part of the world.The
theme for the year 2019 is "Safe and effective
medicines for all".
September 25, Antyodaya Diwas Day To commemorate the birth anniversary of Pandit
2019 Deendayal Upadhyaya, a noted philosopher,
historian, and political activist.
26th September World contraception day To create awareness about the contraceptive
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2019 methods available and enable the young people to

make informed decisions regarding their sexual
and reproductive health
September 26, World Maritime Day It stresses the importance of safety, maritime
2019 (WMD) security, and marine environment and marks the
contribution of international maritime industries
towards the economy of the world. The theme for
WMD 2019 is “Empowering women in the
maritime community” which emphasizes gender
equality in line with the United Nations Sustainable
Development Goals (UNSDGs- Goal 5).
September 26, World Environmental Theme “Climate change challenges, time for global
2019 Health Day (WEHD) Environmental Health to act in unison”. The day
was declared by the International Federation of
Environmental Health (IFEH) to review
environmental health issues and take appropriate
actions. It was first observed in the year 2011 in
Indonesia.
September 26, International Day for the The day creates public awareness of nuclear
2019 total elimination of nuclear disarmament matters, educates people on the
weapons potential threat by nuclear weapons and stresses
the need for their elimination.
September 27, World Tourism Day(WTD) The theme for the year 2019 is “Tourism and jobs:
2019 a better future for all”. The host nation for this
2019 WTD is India, selected by the United Nations
World Tourism Organisation(UNWTO) where the
main eventwas held at New Delhi. The day aims to
promote social, cultural, political and economic
values through tourism. Read full details here:
World Tourism Day observed on September 27
2019
September 28, World Rabies Day (WRD) Theme “Rabies: Vaccinate to Eliminate”. This 13th
2019 annual observance raises awareness about rabies
disease and its preventable measures. Rabies is a
viral disease that causes inflammation of the brain
(acute encephalitis) in warm-blooded animals. It is
a zoonotic disease i.e. transmitted from one species
to another, commonly by a bite from an infected
animal
September 28, International Day for Theme “Leaving No One Behind!”. This 4th annual
2019 Universal Access to observance promotes the idea that every individual
Information (IDUAI), also in the world has the right to seek and receive
known as Access to information. IDUAI was first observed in 2016 by
Information Day United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO) after the adoption of 38
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C/Resolution 57.
September 29, World Deaf Day (WDD) It creates awareness about the contributions of
2019 deaf people to society. The day was initiated by the
World Federation of the Deaf (WFD)
headquartered in Helsinki, Finland.
September 29, World Heart Day (WHD) The day which is celebrated annually creates
2019 awareness of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD)
including heart disease & stroke .
September 30, International Translation This day is observed as a tribute to the work of
2019 Day language professionals playing an important role in
uniting the nations, contributing to the
development and strengthening world peace and
security. The theme for 2019 is “Translation and
Indigenous Languages”.
AUGUST
August (1-7), World Breastfeeding Week To encourage breastfeeding and improve the health
2019 of babies around the world. Click here to read
more
August 6, 2019 Hiroshima Day It marks the anniversary of the atomic bombing of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States (US)
in 1945. During World War II, an American B-29
bomber had dropped the first atomic bomb
nicknamed ‘Little Boy’ on Hiroshima on August 6,
1945.
August 7, 2019 National Handloom Day To honour the Handloom weavers of the country
and also to highlight the Handloom industry. A
function to mark the occasion was held at Vigyan
Bhawan, New Delhi. Bhubaneswar, Odisha having a
rich tradition of Handlooms, has been chosen as the
venue to conduct various events. The prime
objective to hold the events in Bhubaneswar is for
empowering women and girls.
August 9, 2019 International Day of the It is celebrated to raise awareness about the
World's Indigenous People protection of the rights of the world's indigenous
population. The theme of International Day of the
World's Indigenous Peoples 2019 is ‘‘Indigenous
Languages”.
August 9, 2019 Nagasaki Day On this day, the United States had dropped an
atomic bomb known as “Fat Man” on Nagasaki city
of Japan in 1945 during World War II. 2019 marks
the 74th anniversary of the disastrous event.
August 10 World Biofuel Day In order to create awareness about the importance
of non-fossil fuels as an alternative to conventional
fossil fuels and to highlight the various efforts
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made by Government in the biofuel sector, August

10 is observed as World Biofuel Day. The theme for
the World Biofuel Day 2019 was “Production of
Biodiesel from Used Cooking Oil (UCO)”.
August 12 World Elephant Day To create awareness and bring attention to the
urgent plight (dangerous situation) of Asian and
African elephants. The day was first launched on
August 12, 2012. Singapore announced on World
elephant day that ivory sales will be banned from
the country from 2021. Read full details here:
World Elephant Day Celebrated On August 12,
2019
August 12, 2019 Vikram Sarabhai’s 100th He was born on 12 August 1919 in Ahmedabad,
birth anniversary Gujarat. He was a Padma Bhushan and Padma
Vibhushan awardee. Read full details here:
Founder Of ISRO, Vikram Sarabhai’s 100th Birth
Anniversary Observed On 12 August,2019
August 12, 2019 International Youth Day To recognize the efforts put in by the youth for the
betterment of the society. The 2019 theme is
“Transforming education”.
August 13, 2019 International Left-Handers The objective of this day is to promote awareness
Day of the inconveniences faced by left-handers in a
predominantly right-handed world.
August 13, 2019 World organ donation day To create awareness about organ donation and to
motivate people to donate organs thus saving lives
after their death. Spain has the highest donor rate
in the world at 46.9million people followed by
Portugal at 34 million as of 2017.
August 14, 2019 Pakistan observed its 73rd The Acting High Commissioner of Pakistan Syed
Independence Day as Haider Shah read out the message of Pakistan
'Kashmir Solidarity Day' President Arif Alvi and Prime Minister Imran Khan,
hosted on the Chancery's lawns, by hoisting the
Pakistani flag to the tune of its national anthem.
Pakistan has announced to celebrate August 15 -
India's Independence Day - as "Black Day".
August 15, 2019 73rd Indian Independence Prime Minister Narendra Modi unfurled the national
Day flag at the Red Fort, New Delhi. He received a Guard of
Honour from a contingent of the Army, Navy, Air Force
and Delhi Police. Flying Officer Preetam Sangwan
assisted PM Modi in the unfurling of the national flag,
Flight Lieutenant Jyoti Yadav and Flight Lieutenant
Mansi Geda were positioned on either side of the
saluting dais for the Prime Minister. Click here to read
more.
August 17, 2019 Navroz or Jamshedi Navroz Navroz means a "new day" and the Parsi New Year
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is popularly referred as Pateti. In India, it is

celebrated on the first day of the first month of the
Shahenshahi Calendar for health, wealth.
August 19, 2019 World Humanitarian Day The Campaign for the 2019 World Humanitarian
(WHD) 2019 Day is ‘Women Humanitarians’. It aims to draw
attention towards the work of women in crises
throughout the world.
August 19, 2019 World photography day The aim of this day is to encourage people to
express their feelings, emotions and social thinking
through their photography skills.
20 August 2019 World Mosquito Day This day honor the British doctor Sir Ronald Ross’s
groundbreaking discovery in 1897 that, female
Anopheles mosquitoes transmit malaria between
humans.
20 August 2019 Sadbhavana Diwas This day is observed to encourage the national
(harmony day) integration, peace, affection & communal harmony
among the Indian people of all religions. 2019
commemorates the 75th birth anniversary of Rajiv
Gandhi.
August 21, 2019 World Senior Citizen Day The day is recognized to create awareness of the
condition of elder people and support them
through senescence. The day was first announced
on 14th of December in the year 1990, by the
United Nations General Assembly(UNGA) & it was
celebrated for the first time on October 1, 1991.
August 21, 2019 International Day of It is observed with the aim to focus on the
Remembrance and Tribute resilience of victims and their families.This is the
to the Victims of Terrorism second International Day of Remembrance and
Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism.
August 22, 2019 International Day It aims to honor the victims and survivors of
Commemorating the disgraceful acts who often remain forgotten. On 28
Victims of Acts of Violence May 2019 United Nation General Assembly (UNGA)
in a meeting , adopted resolution A/RES/73/296
Based on Religion or Belief
for the same. The world observed ‘International
Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of
Violence Based on Religion or Belief’ for the 1st
time.
August 23, 2019 International Day for the This day is observed as a remembrance of people
Remembrance of the Slave involved in the tragedy of the transatlantic slave
Trade and its Abolition trade. The theme for the year 2019 is "Remember
Slavery: The Power of the Arts for Justice".
August 25- National Eye Donation It aims to create mass public awareness about the
September 8, Fortnight importance of eye donation and to motivate people
2019 to pledge their eyes for donation after death.
August 26, 2019 Women's Equality Day It commemorates the passage of the 19th
Amendment in the United States of America (USA)
Constitution by US Congress in 1920 that provides
equal rights to women, including the right to vote.
It is an annual event in the US. The amendment for
the same was first introduced in 1878.
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August 29, 2019 International Day against The day raises awareness about the effects of
Nuclear Tests (IDANT) nuclear weapon test explosions or any other
nuclear explosions. The day also calls to bring the
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT)
into force, which was adopted by UNGA in 1996.
August 29,2019 National Sports Day It was observed across the country to create
awareness about sports in public. August 29 marks
the birth anniversary of India’s hockey legend,
Major Dhyan Chand. Prime Minister (PM) Shri
Narendra Modi has launched a nation-wide ‘Fit
India’ Movement on the occasion of National Sports
Day in New Delhi. President of India Ramnath
Kovind felicitated National Sports awards along
with Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award
2018 at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. Read full details
here: National Sports Day Observed On 29th August,
2019.Odisha CM, Naveen Patnaik presents Biju
Patnaik Award for Sports, Bravery and State Award
for Social Service Read full details here: Odisha CM,
Naveen Patnaik Presents Biju Patnaik Award For
Sports, Bravery And State Award For Social Service
August 30, 2019 International Day of the The day aims to increase awareness about the
Victims of Enforced number of enforced disappearances around the
Disappearance world. Enforced disappearance is a situation where
people literally disappeared; from their loved ones
and their community when a person is secretly
abducted or imprisoned by a state (or someone
acting with state consent) and then refuse to say
where they are.
25 to 30 August, 2019 World Water Week Theme “Water for society – Including all”. Dr. Jackie
2019 King was awarded the 2019 Stockholm Water Prize
Laureate during the conference for her
contribution to global river management.
JULY
July 1 2nd anniversary of Sahaj and Sugam returns for small taxpayers are
GST(Goods and Services proposed by the Finance ministry.
Tax)
July 1 National Doctors’ Day The theme of National Doctor’s day 2019 is “Zero
tolerance to violence against doctors and clinical
establishment”.
July 2 World Sports Journalists It was established by the International Sports and
Day Press Association in 1994 to mark the 70th
anniversary of its foundation which was founded
on July 2, 1924, during the Summer Olympics in
Paris.
July 2 World UFO (Unidentified To increase awareness among people about the
Flying Objects) day existence of UFO. The first World UFO Day was
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celebrated in 2001.
July 6 International Day of The theme for 2019 is “Coops 4 decent work”.
Cooperatives
July 6 World Zoonoses Day To create awareness on zoonotic diseases and to
teach people to take the right action on diseases.
The word zoonoses is derived from the Greek
words zoon (animal) and nosos (ailment).
July 11, 2019 World Population Day It creates awareness of the growing population issues.
Population issue may be family planning, gender
equality, child marriage, human rights, right to health,
baby's health, etc. It was established by the United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 1989.
July 12, 2019 International Malala Day It is observed by the United Nations (UN) to highlight
the work for the education of Pakistani children by the
Pakistani child activist Malala Yousafzai. The first
International Malala Day was announced by the UN in
November 10, 2012, exactly a month later (9 October
2012) when she was shot by the Taliban for
campaigning for girls’ education in Pakistan.
July 14, 2019 French government It celebrates the actions of a mob of Frenchmen,
celebrated its National tired of the rule of their king, who stormed a prison
Day(Bastille Day) to get weapons & to free prisoners. The day marks
the anniversary of the French revolution on 14 July
1789. It is officially known as la Fete Nationale
(The national celebration) or commonly in France
as La quatorze Juillet (the 14th of July).
July 14, 2019 International Shark The objective of the day is to spread awareness
Awareness Day about the dangers of sharks. The theme for the year
2019 is "The sharks in crisis: a call to action for the
Mediterranean."
July 15, 2019 World Youth Skills Day The theme for the year is “Learning to learn for life
(WYSD) and work”. On the occasion of WYSD, National Skill
Development Corporation (NSDC) partnered with
Canada-based BetterU to provide opportunities for
India's youth to gain access to learning at
affordable prices.
July 17, 2019 World Day for The objective of the day is to unite everyone who
International Justice is also wants to support justice as well as promote victims
known as International rights & to help prevent serious crimes and those
Criminal Justice Day or that put the peace, security, and well-being of the
International Justice Day world at risk.
July 18, 2019 Nelson Mandela It marks the 101th birth anniversary of Nelson
International Day Mandela, who was born on July 18, 1918. The day is
celebrated since 2009 after United Nations (UN)
passed a Resolution A/RES/64/13 declaring July
18 as "Nelson Mandela International Day" in
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recognition of the former South African President’s

contribution to “the culture of peace and freedom.”
July 23, 2019 National broadcasting day The first-ever radio broadcast in the country went
on air from the Bombay Station under the then
private company, the Indian Broadcasting
Company (IBC) on 23rd July 1927. The Indian
Broadcasting Service became All India Radio on 8th
June 1936. Radio broadcasting began in the year
1923 under radio club of Bombay initiative.
July 24, 2019 159th Aaykar Diwas Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) and all field
(Income Tax Day) offices celebrated the 159th Aaykar Diwas (Income
Tax Day). The main function was held at New Delhi
which was presided over by Finance Minister
Nirmala Sitharaman. 'Kardaata e-Sahyog Abhiyaan'
to assist and support taxpayers and other
stakeholders to e-file their returns & discharge
other tax-relatedobligations.
July 26, 2019 Kargil Vijay Diwas It was celebrated throughout India to
commemorate India’s victory over Pakistan in
the 1999 Kargil War. This day marks the victory of
Indian armed forces in Operation Vijay in 1999 &
honors the martyrs who sacrificed their lives for
India in the Kargil War. The theme for Kargil Vijay
Diwas 2019 was "Remember, Rejoice and Renew".
On July 14, 2019, Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh
lit the victory flame to mark the 20th anniversary
of the successful culmination of Operation Vijay-
Kargil Vijay Diwas -‘Remember, Rejoice and
Renew’. A relay of a Victory Flame is conducted
from the National War Memorial (NMW) in New
Delhi to Kargil War Memorial at Dras, Kargil
District. Jammu and Kashmir.
July 27, 2019 81st CRPF raising day The Minister of State (MoS) for home, Nityananda
Rai attended the 81st CRPF raising day celebration
and paid tributes to Martyrs of the force at the
National Police Memorial at Chanakyapuri, New
Delhi. As a way of providing assistance to the
families of Martyrs on a real-time basis, the
President Shri Ram Nath Govind launched Veer
Parivar app in April 2019.
July 28, 2019 World Nature Conservation It is celebrated with an objective to increase
Day awareness about natural resources and protecting
them. The day recognizes that a healthy
environment is a foundation for a stable and
productive society and to ensure the well-being of
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present and future generations.

July 28, 2019 World Hepatitis Day It is observed to raise awareness of the global
(WHD) burden of viral hepatitis. The theme of the World
Health Organization (WHO) for WHD 2019 is
“Invest in Eliminating Hepatitis”. July 28 was
chosen to celebrate WHD as it is the birthday of
scientist Dr Baruch Blumberg who discovered the
hepatitis B virus (HBV).
July 29, 2019 World Tiger Day It is celebrated to promote the assurance of natural
environment of tigers and increase awareness
about the preservation of tiger. The day was built
up in 2010 at Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit in
Russia where the signatories declared an
agreement that the governments of tiger populated
counties would double the tiger population by
2022. This 12-year goal (2010 – 2022) was termed
as TX2.Click here to read more.
July 30, 2019 World Day Against In order to raise awareness of the situation of
Trafficking In Persons victims of human trafficking and promotion and
protection of their rights, the UN General Assembly
designated July 30 as the World Day Against
Trafficking In Persons. The theme for 2019 is
“Human Trafficking: call your government to
action”
JUNE
June 1 World Milk Day Theme - "Drink Milk: Today & Everyday".
June 1 Global Day of Parents Theme – “Honor your parents”
June 3 World Bicycle Day The main aim of this day is to recognize the bicycle
as a clean, affordable and environment-friendly
mode of transport.
June 3 - 7 Financial Literacy (FL) The theme is "Farmers"
Week
June 4 International Day of It aims to spread awareness about the pain and
Innocent Children Victims sufferings faced by the children who are the victims
of Aggression of physical, mental and emotional abuse. On April 2,
2019, a campaign "Act to Protect Children affected
by Conflict" was launched by Ms. Virginia Gamba,
the Special Representative of the Secretary-General
for Children and Armed Conflict.
June 5 International Day for the To promote awareness in combating IUU. The day was
Fight Against Illegal, first celebrated in 2018. The day June 5 is chosen to
Unreported and mark the day on which Agreement on Port State
Unregulated (IUU) Fishing Measures came into existence in 2016. The proposal
was endorsed by the Committee on Fisheries (COFI).
June 5 World Environment Day The theme of the year is ‘Beat Air Pollution’. In
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(WED) 2018, India was the host country. China is the

country for World Environment Day 2019.Click
here to read more
June 6 Maharana Pratap Singh He is renowned as a true patriot who commenced
Jayanti the first war of independence. The year 2019
commemorated the 479th birth anniversary of the
great warrior. He was the 13th Rajput king of
Mewar, a province in modern-day Rajasthan.
June 7 World Food Safety Day The theme for the year 2019 is “Food Safety,
everyone’s business”. On this occasion, an event
was launched in New York with a panel
discussion.Click here to read more
June 8 World Brain Tumor Day This day is observed on 8th June every year since
2000. It aimed at creating awareness among the
public about the brain and also focuses on helping
people suffering from a brain tumor.
June 8 World Ocean Day The theme of World Ocean Day 2019 was 'Gender
and the Ocean'.World celebrates Oceans Day to
raise awareness of the challenges humanity facing
to protect the world’s ocean.
June 12 World Day Against Child It was introduced to focus on the extent of child
Labour (WDACL) labour worldwide and the efforts required to
eliminate it. The theme for the year is “Children
shouldn’t work in fields, but on dreams!”.Click
here to read more.
June 13 International Albinism The day is observed to preserve the rights of
Awareness Day (IAAD) persons with albinism and take efforts to ensure
equal access for them in employment, education,
justice, and good health. The theme for 2019 is
"Still Standing Strong".
June 14 World Blood Donor Day It is celebrated by the World Health Organization
2019 (WBDD) (WHO) to raise awareness of blood donation. The
theme of this year’s campaign is blood donation
and universal access to safe blood transfusion, as a
component of achieving universal health coverage.
The Slogan for World Blood Day 2019 is "Safe
blood for all”.
June 15 World Elder Abuse The theme of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
Awareness Day (WEAAD) 2019 is "Lifting Up Voices".
June 1-15 Swachhta Pakhwada Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE)
(cleanliness fortnight) and institutions under it, successfully observed
Swachhta Pakhwada (cleanliness fortnight) from
June 1-15 2019. The campaign was inaugurated by
Secretary, MNRE Shri Aanand Kumar by delivering
a lecture on the importance of Swachhata in life.
June 16 International Day of Family This day recognizes the contribution of migrant
Remittances workers to their families and communities back
home, and to the sustainable development of their
native countries.
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June 17 World Day to Combat 2019 Theme of WDCD is “Let’s Grow the Future
Desertification and Together”. Desertification is the degradation of
Drought (WDCD) land in various areas like arid, semi-arid and dry
sub-humid. It is caused by human activities and
then by climatic variations.
June 18 International Picnic Day It is a day to encourage people to go outdoors and
enjoy each other’s company. According to the
Guinness Book of World Records, the world's
largest picnic was held in Lisbon, Portugal.
June 18 Sustainable Gastronomy It highlights the need to focus the attention on the
Day role that sustainable gastronomy can play. The
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)
designated to celebrate June 18 as Sustainable
Gastronomy Day through its resolution
A/RES/71/246 adopted on 21 December 2016.
June 18 Autistic Pride Day Autism is a neurological developmental disability
that affect the development of normal brain,
hampers communication, social interaction,
cognition and behavior.
June 19 International Day for the This day aims to create awareness on the necessity
Elimination of Sexual to curb conflict-related sexual violence, and to
Violence in Conflict honour the victims and survivors of sexual violence
throughout the world.
June 19 World sickle cell day This day was organized by the United Nation General
Assembly in 2008 to raise awareness Sickle cell disease
(SCD) is an inherited genetic abnormality of hemoglobin
(the oxygen-carrying protein found in red blood cells).
June 20 World Refugee Day The Theme for the 2019 World Refugee Day is
#Step With Refugees — Take A Step on World
Refugee Day.
June 21 Summer Solstice day It is also known as the ‘June Solstice’. Summer
Solstice is the longest day of the year which is
considered as the start of the summer season.
June 21 World Music Day It is also known as Fête de la Musique’ meaning
“festival of music”.It aims to honor both amateur
and professional musicians. The theme of world
music day 2019 is “Music at the intersections”.
June 21 International Day of Yoga There are two themes for World Yoga Day 2019 ,
(IDY) United Nation has declared theme as “Yoga for
Climate Action” and Ministry of Ayush , India has
declared theme for Yoga Day is ” Yoga for
Heart“.Click here to read more.
June 21 World Hydrography Day The theme for WHD 2019 is "Hydrographic
(WHD) information driving marine knowledge".
June 23 International Widows Day It is observed to address the issues that widows
and their children face in some countries. Loomba
Foundation initiated the International Widow’s Day
in 2005. It was on June 23, 1954, Shrimati Pushpa
Wati Loomba, mother of the foundation’s founder,
Lord Loomba, became a widow.
June 23 United Nations Public The United Nations Public Service Forum (UNPSF)
Service Day 2019 will take place in the Republic of Azerbaijan
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from 24-26 June 2019, with the theme of ‘Achieving

the Sustainable Development Goals through
effective Delivery of Services, Innovative
Transformation, and Accountable Institutions’.
June 23 International Olympic Day This day marks the birth of modern Olympic games
on June 23, 1894, at Sorbonne in Paris.Olympic Day
is based on the three pillars:Move, Learn, Discover.
June 24 Indian Air Force (IAF) Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa was the chief guest of
commemorated 20 years of the event. IAF used Mirage 2000 fighter aircraft to
Kargil war reenact Tiger Hill attack.
June 25 Day of the seafarer The theme for Day of the Seafarer 2019 is, “Get on
board with gender equality”. The 2019 campaign is
dubbed as "I Am On Board with gender equality".
June 25 World Vitiligo Day (WVD) The theme for this year is “The Quality of Life of a
Vitiligo Patient”.The first WVD was observed in
2011.
June 26 BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal The member countries consisting of Bangladesh,
Initiative for Multi-Sectoral India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Nepal, and
Technical and Economic Bhutan in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bishwadip Dey,
Cooperation) Day in Dhaka, Acting High Commissioner represented India in the
Bangladesh BIMSTEC founding day event.
June 26 International Day in In 1997, by resolution 52/149, the UN General
Support of Victims of Assembly declared 26 June as the International Day
Torture in Support of Victims of Torture.
June 26 International Day against The theme for 2019 was "Health for Justice. Justice
Drug Abuse and Illicit for Health". The theme for the day in India is ‘Listen
Trafficking First’.Click here to read more.
June 27 International Micro, Small International Trade Center, the United Nations
and Medium-sized (MSME) launched its flagship report: “The SME
Enterprises Day Competitiveness Outlook 2019: Big money for
small businesses”. The Ministry of Micro Small and
Medium Enterprises organized an international
convention on the theme “Indian MSMEs, Global
Aspirations” in New Delhi. Click here to read
more.
June 29 Statistics Day(13th Statistics The theme for Statistics Day 2019 is “Sustainable
Day) Development Goals”. The Prof. C.R. Rao Award
2019 was conferred to Dr. Subhra Sankar Dhar,
Associate Professor, IIT (Indian Institute of
Technology), Kanpur for his contribution in the
field of Statistics.
June 29 International Day of the It is observed to create awareness on specific
Tropics challenges faced by tropical areas and to highlight
the important role that the countries in the tropics
play in achieving Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs). Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi launched
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the first State of the Tropics Report on June 29,

2014.
June 30 International Day of It is also the date, in 1889, on which the Inter-
Parliamentarism Parliamentary Union, the global organization of
parliaments was established.
June 30 International Asteroid Day It is aimed to create awareness about the asteroid
impact hazard. It also informs people about the
crisis communication actions to be taken in case of
a possible near-Earth object threat. The day marks
the anniversary of the Tunguska impact over
Siberia, Russian Federation, on 30 June 1908.
MAY
May 1 International Labour Day The theme of International Labour Day 2019 was
or Workers day “Sustainable Pension for all: The Role of Social
Partners”.
May 2 World Tuna Day To highlight the importance of tuna fish,to promote
more sustainable fishing practices help in achieving
the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
May 2(First World Password Day This day is celebrated to promote better password
Thursday of May) habits for digital protection for online shopping,
dating, banking, social media, private work, and life
communications.
May 3 World Press Freedom Day Theme “Media for Democracy: Journalism and
Elections in Times of Disinformation”.
May 3(First National Space Day To promote Science, Technology, Engineering and
Friday of May) Mathematics (STEM) education in young people and to
inspire them to pursue a carrier in space-related jobs.
May 4 International Firefighters’The symbol for International Firefighters Day is a
Day (IFFD) red and blue ribbon. The color red signifies fire and
the blue denotes water.
May 4 Coal Miners Day Several communities raise awareness & funds for
organizations in the coal mining area & workers.
May 5(First World Laughter Day The day was first celebrated on May 10, 1998, in
Sunday of May) Mumbai and arranged by Dr. Madan Kataria,
founder of the worldwide Laughter Yoga
Movement.
May 5 International Midwives Day The theme for this year’s celebration is “Midwives:
Defenders of Women’s Rights“
May 6 International No Diet Day The INDD symbol is a blue ribbon.The INDD was
(INDD) first created in 1992 by Mary Evans Young to help
people appreciate their own bodies.
May 7 World Asthma Day The theme of this year is "STOP for Asthma". STOP
means Symptom evaluation, Test response,
Observe and assess, Proceed to adjust treatment.
May 7 World Athletics Day Observed to promote Athletics as the primary sport in
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schools and institutions, to raise awareness about the

sports and to educate youngsters about the importance
of the sports.
May 7 59th Raising Day of Border It is a nodal road construction agency under the
Roads Organization (BRO) Ministry of Defence. It was formed on 7th May 1960,
with the primary role of providing road connectivity in
border areas.
May 8 World Thalassaemia Day Theme - “Universal Access to Quality Thalassaemia
2019 Healthcare Services: Building Bridges with and for
Patients”.
May 8 World Red Cross Day Theme - “#Love”.
May 8 Day of Remembrance and On May 9, 74th anniversary of victory over Nazism
Reconciliation in Europe in Second World War was aobserved.
May 9 158th birth anniversary of He is Asia’s first Nobel laureate & composer of
Rabindra Nath Tagore India’s National Anthem. This day is called
‘Rabindra Jayanti‘ symbolising birth anniversary.
May 11 National Technology Day This day marks the remembrance of the successful
launch of Shakti-I nuclear missile at Pokhran Test
Range in Rajasthan on May 11, 1998.
May 11 World Migratory Bird Day Theme –“Protect Birds: Be the Solution to Plastic
2019 Pollution!” .It is celebrated twice in the year, which
falls on the second Saturday in May and October. In
2019, it was celebrated on May 11 and will on
October 10.
May 12 International Nurses Day Theme –‘Nurses – A Voice to Lead –Health for All’.
May 6 to 12 5th United Nations Global Theme – “Leadership for road safety”. It launched
Road Safety Week an ongoing campaign “Save Lives – #SpeakUp” to
achieve global goals by ensuring the safety of
human life. It runs on the philosophy of “Decade of
Action for Road Safety 2011-2020”.
May 15 International Day of Theme –"Families and Climate Action: Focus on
Families or IDF SDG 13".
May 16 International Day of Living This day was declared by the United Nations
Together in Peace General Assembly in its resolution 72/130. This
day is celebrated to promote peace, tolerance,
inclusion, solidarity and understanding across the
world.
May 16 International Day of Light This the 2nd edition of the International Day of
Light.
May 16 World Hypertension Day Theme - "Know Your Numbers".
(WHD) 2019
May 16 National Dengue Day In India, Directorate of National Vector Borne
Disease Control Programe (NVBDCP) is the nodal
centre for the surveillance and prevention of
dengue. Dengue is caused due to the dengue virus -
DENV, 1-4 serotype, which is transmitted by the
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bite of female Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus).

May 17 World Telecommunication Theme - “Bridging the Standardization Gap”
and Information Society
Day
May 18 International Museum Day Theme - “Museums as Cultural Hubs: The future of
2019 tradition”.
May 18 Day of Vesak also known as This day commemorates the birth anniversary of
Buddha Purnima, Buddha Gautama Buddha (or Lord Buddha). This year it
Day or Buddha Jayanti day coincides with May 18, which witnessed the
2,563rd birth anniversary of the Lord Buddha.
May 18 World AIDS Vaccine Day The day is also known as HIV Vaccine Awareness
(WAVD) Day. It is headed by National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Disease (NIAID), Washington DC,
USA.
May 20 World Bee Day Theme - “Save the Bees”. This day marks the
birthday of Anton Janša (1734) who pioneered the
modern beekeeping techniques in his native
Slovenia in the 18th century.
May 20 World Metrology Day Theme - “The International System of Units –
Fundamentally better”.
May 21 World Day for Cultural The objective is to bridge the gap between cultures
Diversity for Dialogue and which is urgent and necessary for peace, stability
Development and development.
May 21 National Anti-Terrorism This day is celebrated as a Anti-terrorism Day
Day because on the same day in 1991, former Prime
Minister Rajiv Gandhi was killed by a woman
operative of the separatist Lankan Tamil outfit
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
May 21 International Tea Day UN has designated May 21 as International Tea Day
after accepting the proposal moved by India at the
FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization)
Intergovernmental Group (IGG). Currently, the day
is observed every year on the 15th of December.
May 15 to 21 National Vesak week Sri Lanka declared National Vesak week from May
15 to 21, 2019 to mark the celebrations of one of
the most important events of Buddhists all over the
world.
May 23 International Day to End An obstetric fistula is a hole between the vagina
Obstetric Fistula and rectum or bladder that is caused by prolonged
obstructed labor, leaving a woman incontinent of
urine or feces or both. Obstructed labor means,
labor that goes unattended, the labor can last up to
six or seven days.
May 24 International Theme - ‘A Connected Commonwealth’.
Commonwealth Day
May 23 World Turtle Day Theme - “Adopt, Don’t Shop".
May 28 World Hunger Day Theme - “#SustainabilityIs”.
May 28 Veer Savarkar aka Vinayak To commemorate the sacrifices made by him
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Damodar Savarkar during the freedom struggle. He was born on May

28, 1883 in Bhagpur village near Nasik in
Maharashtra. He was a freedom fighter who called
1857 revolt as the first war of independence.
May 29 International Day of United Theme - “Protecting Civilians, Protecting Peace”.
Nations Peacekeepers
May 29 World Digestive Health Day Theme - “Early Diagnosis and Treatment of
Gastrointestinal (GI) Cancer”.
May 29 International Everest Day On this day, Nepalese Tenzing Norgay and New
Zealand's Edmund Hillary had climbed the Mt.
Everest for the first time in 1953. Nepal decided to
observe the day as International Everest Day since
2008 when the legendary climber Edmund Hillary
passed away.
May 31 World No-Tobacco Day Theme - "Tobacco and Lung health". In India,
(WNTD) Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), in
partnership with WHO India, organized a 'National
Consultation on Tobacco and Lung Health’ in New
Delhi. The theme of the event was "Don't Let
Tobacco Take Your Breath Away - Choose Health
Not Tobacco".
APRIL
1st April Odisha Day is also known It is celebrated to commemorate the sacrifices of
as “Utkal Divas” people for formation of Odisha province in 1936.
2nd April World Autism Awareness The theme for 2019 was “Assistive Technologies,
Day (WAAD) Active Participation”.
4th April International Mine Theme - “United nations promotes SDGs –Safe
Awareness Day Ground –Safe Home” (SDG –Sustainable
Development Goals)
5th April National Maritime day The theme - "Indian Ocean- An Ocean of
Opportunity".
7th April World Health Day Theme - "Universal health Coverage: Everyone,
Everywhere" under the WHO slogan "Health for
All".
1st to 7th April Prevention of Blindness Prevention of Blindness Week was launched by
Week Jawaharlal Nehru and Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur,
under Societies Registration Act of 1860.
7th April to 14th National Handloom week ‘The Indian textile Sourcebook’ authored by Avalon
April Fotheringham and published by Thames & Hudson
will launch on 9th April.
7th April Platinum Jubilee The commemoration day was observed to honour the
Commemoration of the supreme sacrifice made by the courageous Ordnance
Battle of Kangla Tongbi Personnel of 221 Advance Ordnance Depot in the line of
duty during the night of 6/ 7 April 1944 (during World
War-II). It was fought against Japanese forces.
7th April International Day of The day commemorates the slaughter of 800,000
Reflection on the 1994 people (where Tutsis and moderate Hutus were
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Rwanda Genocide killed by members of the army, militias,civilians of

the Hutu community) for a period of 100 days
during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda,central Africa.
8th April International Roma Day It brings into limelight the grave fact about the 6
2019 million Romani people (living in the EU, European
Union) and 4 million living in the enlargement
region (Montenegro, Serbia, North Macedonia,
Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
9th April 54th Valour Day of Central To Pay Tribute to Martyrs of police at the National
Reserve Police Force Police Memorial in New Delhi. On this day, President
(CRPF) Ram Nath Kovind launched Veer Parivar App for
assistance to the next of kin of the CRPF martyrs.
10th April World Homoeopathy Day Theme - "Linking Education and Clinical Practice
2019 with Research: Advancing Scientific
Collaborations".
11th April National Safe Motherhood Theme - "Midwives for Mothers"
Day 2019
12th April International Day of This day is also celebrated as ‘Cosmonautics Day’ in
Human Space Flight Russia since 1963.
12th April World Aviation and On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin
Cosmonautics Day 2019 carried out the famous flight in spacecraft Vostok 1
started from Baikonur Cosmodrome.
10th to 16th April 64th Railway Week 2019 During this, the Running Efficiency Shield was
presented to Stationery and O&M Branches (joint
winners) which were selected as "Best Maintained
Branch" of the Railway Board
13th April Rajouri Day 2019 The Year 2019 is being celebrated as the ‘Year of
Next of Kin’ to help families of martyrs.
7th to 13th April World Allergy Week 2019 Theme - "The Global Problem of Food Allergy".
13th April 100th anniversary To celebrate the harvest festival of Baisakhi and to
Jallianwallah Bagh protest against the Rowlatt Act. On that event,
Massacre also known as the troops of the British Indian Army under the
Amritsar massacre command of Colonel Dyer opened fire at the
people.
17th April Bangladesh celebrated To commemorate the formation of a provisional
Mujeebnagar Day government in Baidyanathtala, (later renamed as
Mujibnagar) Meherpur in 1971 of independent
Bangladesh.
17th April World Hemophilia Day Theme- ‘Outreach and Identification’
18th April World Heritage Day 2019 Theme-"Rural Landscapes".
19th April World Liver Day 2019 As per World Health Organisation liver diseases are
10th most common cause of death in India.
19th April Good Friday also known as The day is observed every year in honor and
Holy Friday or Black Friday remembrance of Jesus's Crucifixion and Christians
believe Jesus was crucified on Good Friday and rose
again three days later which is marked as Easter.
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21st April World Creativity and The United Nations (UN) recognized 21st April as an
Innovation Day 2019 official World Creativity and Innovation Day and 2018
marks the first year the UN was observed WCID.
21st April Secretary’s day or Admin To recognize the work of secretaries, receptionists,
Day administrative assistants, and other administrative
support professionals.
21st April National Civil Service Day The function was organized by the Department of
Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances and
Pensions during which PM gave “Prime Minister
Award for Excellence in Public Administration”
22nd April Global Earth Day 2019 Theme for 2019 was Protecting Our Species
14th to 20th April National Fire Service Week Theme : "Fire Prevention is better than Fire
Fighting".
22nd April International Mother Earth United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has
Day passed a resolution and This year marked the 10th
anniversary of International Mother Earth Day.
23rd April World Book and Copyright Also known as World Book Day. This year Sharjah,
Day UAE has been selected a World Book Capital 2019.
24th April National Panchayati Raj The Constitution (73rd Amendment) Act, 1992 that
Day (NPRD) came into force on 24th April 1993 has vested
constitutional status on Panchayati Raj institutions
24th April World Day for Animals in The adjoining week is known as “World Week for
Laboratories also known as Animals in Laboratories” (WWAIL) which is
World Lab Animal Day observed from April 21-28.
24th April International Day of To promote the day, the UN General Assembly
Multilateralism and convened a one-day high-level plenary meeting on
Diplomacy for Peace the same day.
24th -30th April World Immunization Week Theme : “Protected Together: Vaccines Work”
25th April World Malaria Day Theme : “Zero malaria starts with me”
25th April International Girls in ICTA specialized agency of UN i.e. International

(Information and Telecommunication Union (ITU) and 171 countries
Communications celebrate this day worldwide. The aim is to bridge
Technology) Day the gender digital divide.
27th April World Veterinary Day Theme : 'Value of Vaccination'.
28th April World Day for Safety and Theme : “Safety and Health and the Future of
Health at Work Work”.
29th April International Dance Day Theme : "Dance and Spirituality"
30th April International Jazz Day The day was designated in 2011 by UNESCO.
MARCH
1st March Zero Discrimination Day Theme - "Act to change laws that Discriminate"
1st March Civil Accounts Day It showcased the progress of the flagship project of
the Indian Civil Accounts Organization namely the
Public Financial Management System (PFMS).
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1st March World Civil Defence Day Theme - “Children’s safety, our responsibility”
3rd March World Hearing Day Theme - “Check your Hearing”
3rd March World Wildlife Day Theme - ‘Life below water: for people and planet’
4th March National Safety Day (NSC) Theme - “Cultivate and Sustain a safety culture for
building nation”.
4th March National Security Day also To praise the work of security forces such as army
known as Rashtriya officers, para-military, policemen and commandos.
Suraksha Diwas
4th March World Day of Fight against It aims to spread awareness about the prevalent
Sexual Exploitation sexual exploitation, largely among women and
children.
7th March Janaushadhi Divas To create awareness and provide further impetus
to the Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi
Pariyojana (PMBJP) scheme. The government plans
to have at least one PMBJP Kendra in each block by
2020.
8th March International Women’s Day Theme –“Think equal, build smart, innovate for
change.”
10th March National Immunisation Day Pulse Polio programme was launched by the
President of India
10th March 50th Raising Day of Central History Book of CISF “CISF: Force of the Future”
Industrial Security Force and Annual Publication “Special Issue of Sentinel”
(CISF) were released by PM Narendra Modi.
11th March 34th inception day of Rajiv Gauba was the chief guest
National Crime Records
Bureau (NCRB)
12th March to 16th India Smart Utility Week It is organized by India Smart Grid Forum (ISGF) as
March 2019 (ISUW) 2019 an International Conference and Exhibition on
Smart Energy, Gas and Water for Smarter Cities.
12th March 89th anniversary of the The 400 km Dandi March was started from
Dandi Satyagraha or Salt Sabarmati Ashram on from March 12, 1930.
Satyagraha
14th March World Kidney Day Theme for World Kidney Day 2019 is Kidney
Health for Everyone Everywhere.
15th March World Consumer Rightsday Theme is “Trusted Smart Products”.
15th March World Sleep Day Theme for World Sleep Day was ‘Healthy Sleep,
Healthy Aging’.
16th March National Vaccination Day On this day in 1995, the first dose of oral vaccine
against polio was given in India.
18th March Ordnance Factories Day Indian Ordnance Factories are regarded as the
backbone of India’s Defence. On 18th March 1802,
the production of the oldest Ordnance Factory of
India was commenced at Cossipore, Kolkata.
18th March Global Recycling Day The theme for Global Recycling Day 2019 was
“Recycling into the Future”.
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20th March World Sparrow Day(WSD) Theme for World Sparrow Day 2019 was “I love
sparrows”.
20th March International Happiness Theme of International Day of Happiness 2019 is

Day ‘Happier Together’.
21st March International Day for the Theme “Mitigating and countering rising
Elimination of Racial nationalist populism and extreme supremacist
Discrimination ideologies”.
21st March World Down Syndrome This year the focus of the day was on “Leave no one
Day behind” by creating opportunities for people with
Down syndrome to live fulfilling lives.
21st March World Poetry Day To encourage the reading, writing, and teaching of
poetry throughout the world.
21st March International Day of Theme for International Day of Forests: “Forests
Forests (IDF) and Education – Learn to Love Forests”.
22nd March World Water Day (WWD) Theme for World Water Day 2019 is “Leaving no
one behind”.
22nd March 107th foundation day To commemorate Bihar’s separation from Bengal
called Bihar Diwas 2019 or Presidency in 1912. It is a public holiday in Bihar.
Bihar Day
23rd March World Meteorological Day The theme 2019 was “The Sun, the Earth and the
Weather”.
23rd March Martyr’s Day (88th) or To commemorate the death anniversary of three of
Shaheed Diwas India’s freedom fighter Bhagat Singh, Shivaram
Hari Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar.
24th March International Day for the To Honor the memory of victims of gross and
Right to the Truth systematic human rights violations and to promote
Concerning Gross Human the importance of justice.
Rights Violations and for
the Dignity of Victims
24th March International Day for To honor the achievers who have shown
Achievers (IDA) determination and confidence on their journey.
24th March World Tuberculosis Day Theme for World Tuberculosis Day 2019 was "Its
time"
25th March International Day of To mark the anniversary of the abduction of Alec
Solidarity with detained Collett, a former journalist who was kidnapped by
and missing staff members armed gunman in 1985. The day aims to prepare
action, demand justice and to protect UN staff and
peacekeepers, the workers in non-governmental
community and the press.
25th March International Day of Theme 2019 was “Remember Slavery: The Power
Remembrance of the of the Arts for Justice”.
Victims of Slavery and the
Transatlantic Slave Trade
26th March Epilepsy Awareness Day In order to encourage the people to wear the colour
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also known as World to increase the awareness.It is eurological disorder

Purple Day in which brain activity becomes abnormal seizures.
27th March World Theatre Day For 2019, famous theatre director, playwright,
academic and faculty member, Carlos CELDRAN
from Cuba was selected as the speaker of World
Theatre Day message 2019.
29th March World Piano Day
30th March World Idli Day
FEBRUARY
2nd February World Wetlands Day Theme- “Wetlands and Climate Change”.
4th February World Cancer Day Theme- “I Am and I will”.
4th -10th February 30th National Road Safety Theme-“Sadak Suraksha-Jeevan Raksha”
Week, 2019
6th February International Day of Zero The theme for the year 2019 is #EndGFM.
Tolerance for Female
Genital Mutilation (FGM)
8th February National Cleft Day India’s first toll free national cleft helpline named
Smile Train India cleft Helpline launched
8th February National Deworming Day National Deworming Day (NDD) is observed bi-
(NDD) annually on 10th February and 10th August every
year in all states.This year is celebrated on 8th Feb
since 10th February is Sunday.
10th February World Pulses Day
11th February International Day of The theme 2019 was “Investment in Women and
Women and Girls in Science Girls in Science for Inclusive Green Growth".
11th February World Day of the Sick It was initiated by Pope John Paul II in 1992 with
an aim to encourage people to pray for those who
suffer from ill and for their caregivers.
12th February Productivity Day NPC also celebrates National Productivity Week
from 12th Feb to 18th Feb, 2019.
12th February International Darwin Day
13th February World Radio Day Theme 2019 -“Dialogue, Tolerance and Peace”.
20th February World Day of Social Justice Theme of 2019 – ‘If you want Peace and
Development, Work for Social Justice’
21st February International Mother Theme for the year 2019- “Indigenous languages
Language day matter for development, peace building and
reconciliation”.
22nd February World Thinking Day The theme 2019 was "Leadership".
24th February Central Excise day
27th February World NGO Day It was officially recognized and declared by the 12
member countries of the IX Baltic Sea NGO Forum
of the Council of the Baltic Sea States
28th February National Science Day To mark the discovery of the ‘Raman Effect‘ by the
physicist Sir Chandrashekhara Venkata Raman.
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28th February Rare Disease Day Theme - “Bridging health and social care”
JANUARY
1st January 2019 Defence Research and DRDO has made the country self-reliant in areas of
Development missiles, radars, sonars and torpedoes and many
Organisation(DRDO) other systems.
4th January 2019 World Braille Day It is celebrated in the rememberance of Louis
Braille who was the inventor of Braille
9th January 2019 Non Resident Day or Marks the contribution of overseas Indian
Bharatiya Pravasi Day community in the development of India
10th January 2019 World Hindi day The main focus of World Hindi Day is “to promote
the language at the global stage”.
10th January 2019 26th Army Air Defence Day The Corps of Army Air Defence is the youngest arm
of Indian Army
12th January 2019 National Youth Day (also To honour the birthday of Swami Vivekananda.
known as Yuva Diwas) Theme of “Be The Voice of New India” and “Find
solutions and contribute to policy”.
14th January 2019 Armed Forces Veterans This Day is commemorated in the memory of first
Day Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Armed
Forces Field Marshal K M Cariappa becoming a
veteran in 1953.
15th January 2019 71st Army Day To commemorate our soldiers for their bravery
and sacrifice
21st January 19 47th statehood day Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura.
23rd January 2019 122 Birth Anniversary of He was a member of the Indian National Congress
nd
the great Freedom Fighter and later he formed Indian National Army also
Subhas Chandra Bose known as Azad Hind Fauz.
24th January 2019 National Girl Child Day The theme for National Girl Child Day 2019
is “Empowering Girls for a Brighter Tomorrow”.
24th January 2019 69th foundation day of
Uttar Pradesh
24th January 2019 International Day of Theme for 2019 as “Empowering Girls for a
Education Brighter Tomorrow”.
25th January, 49 full Statehood Day of
th
2019 Himachal Pradesh

25th January, 9th National Voters Day Theme-‘No voter to be left behind’
2019 (NVD)
26th January 2019 70th Republic Day South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa,was the
Chief Guest of the 70th Republic Day
27th January International Holocaust
2019 Remembrance Day
28th January 2019 Data Protection Day also To raise awareness and promote privacy and data
known as Data Privacy Day protection
30th January 2019 World Leprosy Eradication Theme for World Leprosy Day is ‘ending
Day discrimination, stigma, and prejudice’.
30th January 2019 National Martyr’s Day or The day was observed to mark the death
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Sarvodaya Day anniversary of our greatest Hero and father of the

nation, Mahatma Gandhi who was assassinated by
Nathuram Dodse on 30th January 1948.
Other News Related On Important Days
 UNESCO has named the year 2019 as The International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical
Elements in Paris.
 Indian Army is commemorating ‘2019’ as the ‘Year of Next of Kin’.
 The U.S.(United States) celebrated Apollo 11 human moon landing mission. US space agency
NASA(National Aeronautics and Space Administration ) celebrated the moment astronauts
landed on the moon for the first time 50 years ago on July 20, 1969. Neil Armstrong became the
first person to step onto the surface of the moon followed by Aldrin, who joined him 19
minutes later.
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INDIA’S GROWTH PREDICTION

DBS bank (formerly Development Bank of 6.2% for FY20.(September)

 ‘Kerala Bank’(Which is a amalgamation of 13 district co-operative banks (DCBs) with Kerala

OTHER BANK IN NEWS

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Sukanya Samriddhi Account Scheme 8.4% Annually

MOU’S/AGREEMENTS SIGNED BY BANKS

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(ADB) Services Limited (about Rs 1,775 in India

It also extends Fundo Clima

Tripura Govt will have to repay

APPOINTMENTS RELATED TO BANKING SECTOR:

Rajendran Chinna Managing Director (MD) Catholic Syrian

 India’s first Village secretariat system-launched-Andhra Pradesh.

BILL /Acts PASSED

♦ Provides basic needs, safety and security to senior citizens.

State Government Schemes

♦ Eligibility-Annual income is not more than Rs.5 lakh per year.

 5th Indian International Science Festival to be held in Kolkata.

Highlights of Union Budget 2019-20

 - Stand-up India scheme to be continued for the period of 2020-25

Overview Of Economic Survey 2018-19

 The survey projects GDP to grow at 7% in 2019-20.

OTHER INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS:

 World Health Organization(WHO) –launched- first guideline on self-care interventions for

Mauritius PM Pravind Jugnauth visit to India

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy visit to India

Mongolian President Battulga’s Visit to India

PM Narendra Modi’s a day long visit to Jharkhand (Sep 12, 2019)

France’s NSA Emmanuel Bonne visit to India

Overview of Narendra Modi’s visit to Brazil

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s visit to Uzbekistan

BRICS trade ministers meet in Brazil

ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus(ADMM-Plus) 2019

 Theme: “Sustainable Security”

WATEC Conference 2019

G20 foreign ministers meeting 2019

UNESCO General Conference 2019

NITI Aayog–DRC Dialogue

President Ram Nath Kovind’s visit to Philippines and Japan

 Purpose: To attend the Enthronement Ceremony of the Emperor Naruhitoof Japan

Defence minister Mr. Rajnath Singh’s visit to France

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the United States

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s visit to Japan and South Korea

External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar’s visit to Indonesia and Singapore

External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar’s visit to Poland and Belgium

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Visit to Bhutan

Overview of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar visit to Bangladesh