January Current Affairs 2019

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January 2019 Current Affairs PDF

Important Days

• 15th Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas: Varanasi
• UN organized first Braille day: Jan 4th
• India New Naval Airbase: INS Kohasa in Portblair
• Chief Guest  at the Republic Day Parade 2019: South Asia President Cyril Ramaphosa
• GAFA Tax introduced by France
• National Voters day: Jan 25th.
• First global aviation summit: Mumbai – Theme: Flying for All

Appointments

• Chief Information Commissioner: Sudhir Bhargava
• 1st Chief Justice of Telangana High Court: B. Radha Krishna
• Prime Minister of Bangladesh: Sheikh Hasina
• Pakistan chief justice: Asif Saeed Khosa
• Pakistan first Hindu Women Civil Judge: Suman Kumari
• IMF first female chief Economist: Gita Gopinath
• Railway Board Chairman: Vinod Kumar Yadav

New Initiatives

• Vande Bharat Express train 18 launched, which was first engineless express
• Bhavana Kasturi – first female officer to lead all-male contingent at republic day
• Five years of National Action Plan to address the issue of Drug abuse.

SAUBHAGYA scheme

• Name of the Scheme: Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana’ (Saubhagya).
• The aim of the Scheme: Provide electricity connections
• Project Cost: Rs. 16, 320 crores.
• How Many districts to be implemented: 75 in Uttar Pradesh State for 74.4 Lakh households

Asia Reassurance Initiative Act

• Who Initiated: President Donald Trump US
• Aim: Establishes a multifaceted U.S. strategy to increase U.S. security, economic interests, and values in the Indo-Pacific region.

ST status to 6 Assam communities

• Name of the State: Assam
• Number of Communities: 6
• Name of the communities: Koch Rajbongshi, Tai Ahom, Chutiya, Matak, Moran and the Tea tribes.
• Status for: Scheduled Tribes (ST)

Womaniya on GeM for Women’s

• Name of the Market Place: Government e Marketplace [GeM]
• Launched by: Womaniya on GeM
• Aim: Help women entrepreneurs and women self-help groups
• How much provided: 80% finance

First National Museum of Indian Cinema in Mumbai

• Committee: Advisory Committee headed by noted filmmaker Shyam Benegal
• Number of Halls: 4
• Cost of museum build: Rs 140.61 crore

Awards

Bharat Ratna Awards Winners 2019

• Pranab Mukherjee
• Nanaji  Deshmukh
• Bhupen Hazarika

Ashok Chakra

• Lance Naik Nazir Ahmad Wani

Carnot Prize

• Piyush Goyal ( For reforms & Rural Electrician)

Gandhi Peace Prize for 2018

• Yohei Sasakawa, Japan (For his contribution in Leprosy Eradication)

76th Golden Globe Awards

• Glenn Close  for Best Actress
• Rami Malek for Best Actor

Sports

• Khelo India Khelo Games held at Pune and Maharastra won the title.
• Arunima Sinha 1st Amputee women to climb Everest.
• Mary Kom ranked in top chart of International Boxing Association
• Women national boxing championship held at Karnataka (place: Vijayanagar)
• Novak Djokovic wins Australian open for the 7th time.

Rankings

• India Corruption Rank in 2018 – 78th Place (Last Year 2017 was 81st)
• Largest Steel Producer by China (1st Place) and followed by India (Second Place)
• Inda GDP Growth in 2018 -19 Year: RBI – 7.4%, World Bank – 7.3%, and CSO – 7.2%

One Liner Current Affairs

• 15th Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas Convention held in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
• India Africa Field Training Exercise (IAFTX) 2019 to be held in Pune
• Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist Russell Baker Died At 93
• Ministry of Textiles launched “Artisan Speak” held at Elephanta Caves, near Mumbai
• India signs an agreement with OECD for participation in PISA 2021
• South India MSME summit 2019 held in Bengaluru, India
• SBI Ecowrap Report recommends Unconditional Cash Transfer to Farmers
• Indian economy may grow 7.4% in FY19, 7.6% in FY20: UN report
• Online inter-state trade through the e-NAM portal started
• IndiaFirst Life Insurance buys a stake in CSC e-Governance services

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