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GENERAL AWARENESS–CURRENT AFFAIRS MONTH OF APRIL–2019

List of Important Days

April 1 - Utkala Dibasa (Odisha Day)

April 1-7 - Prevention of Blindness Week 2019

April 2 - World Autism Awareness Day (Theme – “Assistive Technologies, Active Participation”)

April 2 - International Children's Book Day

April 5 - India’s National Maritime Day (Theme – “Indian Ocean-An Ocean of opportunity”)

April 6 - International Day of Sport for Development and Peace

April 7 - World Health Day (Theme – “Universal health coverage: everyone, everywhere”)

April 10 - World Homoeopathy Day

Apr10-16 - World Homeopathy Awareness Week

April 12 - International Day of Human Space Flight / Cosmonautics Day / International Day of Aviation and Cosmonautics

April 17 - World Hemophilia Day (Theme - “Reaching Out: The First Step to Care”)

April 18 - International Day for Monuments and Sites (World Heritage Day) (Theme – “Rural Landscapes”)

April 19 - World Liver Day (WLD) (Theme – “Love Your Liver”)

April 21 - Civil Service Day

April 22 - 49th International Earth Day (Theme – “Protect Our Species”)

April 23 - World Book Day or World Book and Copyright Day

April 23 - UN English Language Day

April 24 - World Day For Animals In Laboratories (World Lab Animal Day)

April 24 - Pinhole Photography day

April 24 - National Panchayati Raj Day

April 25 - World Malaria Day (Theme - “Zero malaria starts with me”)

April 26 - World Intellectual Property Day (Theme – “Reach for Gold: IP and Sports.”)

April 28 - Workers' Memorial Day / World Day for Safety and Health at Work (Theme - “Dangerous substances – get them out of the workplace”)

April 29 - International Dance Day / World Dance Day

April 29 - Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare

April 30 - International Jazz Day Reserve Bank of India • The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cut its Repo rate under liquidity adjustment facility (LAF)

(the rate at which it lends to banks) by 25 basis points to 6%, with immediate effect.

• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced that it hasn't yet approved Lakshmi Vilas Bank and Indiabulls Housing Finance's merger proposal.


• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has come out with guidelines for banks to set up new currency chests, which include minimum area of 1,500 square feet for strong room. − The RBI said that the new chests should have a processing capacity of 6.6 lakh pieces of

banknotes per day. − It added that for those situated in the hilly/ inaccessible places, capacity should be 2.1 lakh

pieces of banknotes per day.

• The government has retained the interest rate for General Provident Fund (GPF), Contributory Provident Fund and other related schemes at 8 per cent for the first quarter of current financial year.

• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has put into circulation 50 rupees denomination banknotes signed by RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das. − The design of these notes is similar in all respects to 50 banknotes in Mahatma Gandhi new

series.

• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced that it has not issued any direction on a 5-day working week for commercial banks.

• The Bimal Jalan committee formed to study the RBI's capital structure is likely to identify excess reserves of up to ₹3 lakh crore, Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML) said. − Capping overall reserves at 20% from 25.5% will release ₹1.96 lakh crore, it added.

• Based on the recommendation of 2nd Narasimham Committee, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has divested its entire stake in National Housing Bank (NHB) and the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD).

• The Supreme Court has directed the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to disclose its inspection reports on banks to allow people to assess their health.

• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced it is going to issue new ₹20 denomination banknotes in the Mahatma Gandhi (New) Series.

State Bank of India • India's largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) cut the lending rates by a marginal 5 basis points

across all tenors with effective from April 10, a move which is likely to provide some respite to home loan borrower. − The revised one-year marginal cost of funds-based lending rate (MCLR) stands at 8.50% down

from 8.55% earlier. Other Banks • Beating private sector lender ICICI Bank, state-run Bank of Baroda (BoB) has become India's 3rd

largest bank after its merger with Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank came into effect on 1st April 2019. − With a total business of about ₹15 trillion, the merged entity is the 3-largest lender in India,

after State Bank of India (SBI) and HDFC Bank.

• The board of Lakshmi Vilas Bank approved a share swap acquisition by housing finance firm Indiabulls Housing Finance. The Chennai-headquartered bank has total assets of more than ₹40,400 crore while Indiabulls has an asset base of ₹1.32 lakh crore.

• Public sector lender Canara Bank and its life insurance partner Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance have announced the launch of 'Webassurance'.

Insurance • The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) set up a 13 member

committee to review regulatory framework on micro insurance, and to recommend measures to increase demand for such products. Head of the committee: Suresh Mathur (IRDAI's Executive Director)


Supreme Court • Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Supreme Court has directed the Election Commission to

increase Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) verification from 1 EVM per constituency to 5 randomly selected EVMs.

• The Supreme Court imposed a fine of 20 lakh rupees on the West Bengal government for imposing a 'virtual' ban on the public screening of the satirical film Bhobishyoter Bhoot in the state.

• The Supreme Court has banned all mining activities along the Kaziranga National Park and catchment area of rivers originating in Karbi Anglong Hills in Assam.

• BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay has filed a PIL in Supreme Court seeking direction to the Centre to ascertain the feasibility of linking Aadhaar with social media accounts.

High Courts and Sessions Courts • Madras High Court has issued an interim direction to the Centre to prohibit the download of

Chinese mobile application TikTok, stating it hosts inappropriate content, including pornography, which is available for access to children. − Chinese video-sharing application TikTok has been removed from Google Play Store and

Apple App Store in India, after the government's direction. − The Madras High Court lifted its ban on the downloads of video-sharing app TikTok after the

company said there's technology in place to ensure nude/obscene content is not uploaded.

• The Madras High Court in a ruling stated the term 'Bride' as per the Hindu Marriage Act also refers to transwomen and not just someone born as a woman.

Election Commission • Election Commission has barred the political parties, candidates and other organizations from

publishing advertisement in print media on the poll day and one day prior to poll day in all the election phases unless approved by it.

• The Election Commission has banned the release of PM Modi's biopic starring Vivek Oberoi till the Lok Sabha elections, a day before its release.

Central Government • The government is planning to link Social Media accounts with Mobile Numbers or official

identities like Aadhaar or Passport in a bid to control trolls and spread of fake news.

• The Union Cabinet has given its approval to create one post of Deputy Comptroller and Auditor General (Coordination, Communication and Information System) in the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.

• The Union Cabinet has approved the continuation of the GSLV Phase - 4 programmes consisting of 5 GSLV flights during the period from 2021 to 2024.

States • The Goa government has extended the retirement age for doctors working in its institutions from

60 to 62.

• The 75th anniversary of the Battle of Kohima was recently observed by the Nagaland government with representatives from the UK and Japan. − Theme - 'Remembrance, Reconciliation and Rebirth'.

• Himachal Pradesh celebrated 72nd Himachal Day on 15th April 2019.


Place in the News • The Chennai Central Railway Station, officially called Puratchi Thalaivar Dr. M.G. Ramachandran

Central Railway Station, lost world's longest railway station name title by a letter. − 'Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch' in Wales, with 58 letters,

remains the world's longest station name.

• The world's tallest indoor waterfall (131-foot-tall), opened for the general public at Singapore's Jewel Changi Airport.

Personalities • The birth anniversary of nationalist politician Babu Jagjivan Ram was observed on April 5 as

Samta Diwas.

• The 1st vote of 2019 Lok Sabha elections was cast in Arunachal Pradesh's Lohitpur by service voters.

Defence and National Security • In a major initiative to tackle terror, radicalization, and over ground terror activities in Jammu &

Kashmir, the Centre constituted a high-level Multi-Disciplinary Terror Monitoring Group (TMG) comprising a host of Central agencies.

• The United States has approved the sale of 24 multi-role MH-60 'Romeo' Seahawk helicopters to India at an estimated cost of $2.6 billion.

• State-owned Garden Reach Ship Builders and Engineers Ltd (GRSE) has become the “1st Indian shipyard” to build and deliver 100 warships. − The 100th warship ‘IN LCU L-56’ has been handed over to the Indian Navy. − GRSE had handed over its 99th warship, ‘ICGS Priyadarshini’, an advanced ‘Fast Patrol

Vessel’ to the Indian Coast Guard.

• The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) was partially removed from 3 of 9 districts of Arunachal Pradesh but would remain in force in the areas bordering Myanmar.

• The 2-day per week ban on movement of civilian vehicles on Jammu-Srinagar-Baramulla national highway for facilitating safe passage of security convoys came into effect from April 7.

• The 6th edition of the joint military training exercise between the Indian Army and the Sri Lankan Army, Exercise Mitra Shakti concluded in Sri Lanka.

• Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was celebrating its 54th Valour Day on April 9.

• The Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) has handed over 6 indigenously built Dhanush artillery guns to the Army. − Dhanush is the 1st indigenously built 155mm x 45mm calibre long-range artillery gun with a

strike range of 38-kilometre.

• The 3-day exercise, ‘Bold Kurukshetra–2019’, was conducted between India and Singapore at Babina Cantonment (Jhansi).

• A new state-of-the-art, Virtual Reality Centre (VRC) to provide a major boost to indigenous warship design capabilities of the Navy was inaugurated by Navy chief Admiral Sunil Lanba in New Delhi.

• India has successfully test-fired 1st indigenously designed and developed long-range sub-sonic cruise missile 'Nirbhay' from a test range in Odisha.

• In the wake of the Pulwama terror attack, the government has granted emergency powers to the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force to procure weapons and military hardware in order to enhance their operational preparedness along the border with Pakistan.


• Navies of India and Vietnam held a 4-day maritime exercise off Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam with an aim to boost operational cooperation.

• India and France are all set to hold their largest-ever naval exercise 'Varuna' with aircraft carriers, destroyers, submarines and fighters early next month as part of their expanding strategic partnership.

• Indian Naval Ships Kolkata and Shakti will arrive at Qingdao in China to participate in the International Fleet Review (IFR) as part of 70th Anniversary celebrations of People's Liberation Army (Navy).

• The Indian Navy launched guided missile destroyer Imphal at Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders in Mumbai.

• The Indian Army has claimed to have sighted "mysterious footprints" of a Yeti, a mythical creature of folklore in Nepal.

Committees/Commissions • The National Green Tribunal (NGT) formed a committee to look into the alleged erosion of

Yamuna floodplain due to movement of heavy vehicles in Haryana's Sonipat district.

• The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has formed a Central Monitoring Committee to prepare and enforce a national plan to make over 350 river stretches pollution free across the country.

Schemes/Initiatives • President Ram Nath Kovind launched ‘Veer Parivar App’, a mobile application for families of

CRPF personnel killed in the line of duty.

• A 35-member women police team named 'Sthree Shakthi' was launched in Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam.

• In a first, the Indian Army began recruiting women jawans by releasing an advertisement calling for women to join as Soldier General Duty (Women Military Police).

Summit/Conference • Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu was visited to Lucknow, during which he is the chief guest at

National Cardiology Conference 2019 was held at Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of medical sciences.

• Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Durga Shankar Misra inaugurated a seminar on Greenery and Landscaping in New Delhi.

• The International Centre for Automotive Technology (ICAT) is organizing a NuGen Mobility Summit, 2019, at Manesar, NCR, from 27th to 29th November 2019.

• The biannual Army Commanders’ Conference began in New Delhi.

• On this occasion, the Central Council for Research in Homeopathy (CCRH) was organizing a 2-day convention in New Delhi. Theme - Linking research with education and clinical practice.

• The 4th Resilient Cities Asia-Pacific 2019 Congress was organized by International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) and hosted by South Delhi Municipal Corporation in New Delhi.

• The 5th Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) Media Summit on Climate Action and Disaster Preparedness was held in Kathmandu (Nepal). Theme: “Media Solutions for Sustainable Future: Saving Lives, Building Resilient Communities”.

• The 2nd Belt and Road Forum (BRF) was held in Beijing, China.

• Saudi Arabia is going to host the 15th annual G20 Leaders' Summit in 2020 during 21st and 22nd November 2019, in its capital Riyadh.


Agreement/Deal/Signed • During the state visit of the President Ram Nath Kovind to Bolivia 9 MoUs were signed.

• India has signed a MoU with the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development Consultancy Service (NABCONS) for setting up the India-Africa Institute of Agriculture and Rural Development (IAIARD) in Malawi, a landlocked country in southeastern Africa.

• The All India Tennis Association has signed an MoU with Serbian Tennis Federation to train Indian junior players under Serbian coaches.

• The Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI) and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) have signed an MoU to map, validate and protect smaller wetlands in the coastal region and restore them through coastal livelihood programmes.

• The union cabinet has approved cooperation agreement between India and Denmark in the field of renewable energy with focus on offshore wind energy.

• IIT Hyderabad has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Japanese firm Terra Drone Corporation and its Indian subsidiary to set up a 1st-of-its-kind Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Drones).

• A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between the Ministry of AYUSH and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for cooperation in research and education in areas of traditional systems of medicine and its integration with modern science.

• The United Nations and the European Union (EU) have signed a joint framework aimed at strengthening partnership in counter-terrorism efforts.

Meet/Visit • The 7th Foreign Office consultations between India and Italy were held in New Delhi.

• Alexey Volin met Information and Broadcasting Secretary Amit Khare in New Delhi. − During the meeting, it was mutually agreed that an annual Indo-Russian Forum for Media

Cooperation be organized alternately in India and Russia to institutionalize the process of cooperation between the two countries in the media and entertainment sector.

• India and Sri Lanka have agreed to increase cooperation in security and defence spheres in several areas, including regional security, curbing drug smuggling and human trafficking. − The issues came up for discussion when Defence Secretary Sanjay Mitra called on Sri Lankan

President Maithripala Sirsena in Colombo during his official visit.

• India and Pakistan held a technical meeting to discuss the modalities for the Kartarpur corridor.

• India has convened a meeting of 25 developing member nations of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on May 13-14 in New Delhi.

• US President Donald Trump is going to visit Japan next month and become the 1st world leader to meet Crown Prince Naruhito after he's crowned Japan's new emperor on May 1. − Naruhito's 85-year-old father, Emperor Akihito, is ending his three-decade reign on April 30 by

abdicating.

• Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman met Indian Navy officers at the Naval Commanders' Conference in New Delhi to discuss security challenges faced by the country.

• North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited to Russia by train for his 1st meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. − Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un began their 1st-ever

talks in the Pacific port city of Vladivostok.

• US President Donald Trump has accepted Queen Elizabeth's invitation to make a state visit to the UK from June 3-5.


• Nepal’s President Bidya Devi Bhandari has left on a 9-day state visit to China. − During the visit she will attend the 2nd Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in

Beijing.

• Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was visited to Bishkek (capital of Kyrgyzstan) to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Defence Ministers' Meet.

Fund • India has offered to provide relief assistance to Nepal in the wake of the storm that killed at least

27 people.

• Saudi Arabia is going to provide $1 billion to Iraq to build a sports city.

• The National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) and global transport infrastructure operator Roadis will jointly set up a platform to invest up to $2 billion of equity in road projects in India.

• The UN owes $38 million (over ₹ 264 crore) to India for peacekeeping operations as of March 2019, the highest it owes to any country, Secretary-General António Guterres said in a report while expressing concern over the body's financial situation.

• Pakistan has reached an "agreement in principle" with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over a bailout program which will be worth $6-$8 billion.

• Saudi Arabia and the UAE announced financial support of 3 billion dollars for the people of Sudan following the overthrow of longtime leader Omar al-Bashir.

• Britain pledged £4 million to support Global Anti-Slavery Projects, from sexually exploited girls in Ethiopia to migrant workers in Malaysia and Mauritius.

• The Home Ministry has ordered for advance release of financial assistance of Rs. 1086 crore for four states to assist them in undertaking preventive and relief measures in response to cyclonic storm FANI.

Economy • The Asian Development Bank (ADB) lowered India’s growth by 40 basis points to 7.2 per cent in

fiscal year 2019-20. − The growth rate in FY 2020-21 likely to be 7.3 per cent.

• The World Bank has said it expects India's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to accelerate to 7.5% in fiscal year 2019-20.

• The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut India's growth forecast for 2019-20 from 7.5% to 7.3%, citing loss of momentum. − It has further projected the country to grow at 7.5% in 2020-21, supported by the continued

recovery of investment and robust consumption.

• India's annual retail inflation climbed to a 5-month high of 2.86% in March from 2.57% in February, government data showed.

• India's wholesale inflation, measured by Wholesale Price Index (WPI), accelerated to a 3-month high of 3.18% in March.

• The world's largest crypto-currency exchange Binance has launched its own blockchain titled 'Binance Chain' to rival Ethereum network. − Binance Chain will allow crypto startups to issue coins directly on the company's platform and

will serve as the basis of Binance's planned decentralized exchange.


Companies/Industry • American multinational technology company Google has officially shut down its social media

platform Google+ launched in 2011 to rival with other social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.

• To curb the spread of fake news ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Freeware, cross-platform messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service WhatsApp launched a fact-checking service titled 'Checkpoint' tipline in collaboration with New Delhi-based startup PROTO.

• American multinational technology company Apple has begun manufacturing the iPhone 7 in India in Bengaluru, making it the 3rd iPhone model being manufactured locally in the country. − The iPhone 7 joins the iPhone SE and iPhone 6s, which are also assembled locally by Apple.

• US healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson's (J&J) baby shampoo has failed quality tests by Drugs Control Organization of Rajasthan, which said "harmful ingredients" were found in it.

• American multinational technology company Microsoft was celebrated it's 44th birthday on Apr-5.

• World's richest man Jeff Bezos-led Amazon has confirmed it plans to launch a constellation of over 3,200 low-Earth orbit satellites for high-speed broadband connectivity. − "Project Kuiper" is aimed at communities that lack basic access to broadband internet globally,

the e-commerce giant said.

• Facebook-owned WhatsApp has agreed to comply with RBI norms to store data in servers located within India. − This comes days after the RBI revealed WhatsApp's UPI-based payments service 'WhatsApp

Pay' was still stuck in beta mode for not complying with the data localization norms.

• Google parent Alphabet has beat Amazon to launch one of the 1st commercial drone delivery businesses. Wing, the company's drone delivery arm, was testing drone delivery in Australia since 2014 and delivered medicines, chocolate to 3,000 homes in the last 18 months.

• Adani Enterprises has received the Australian government's approval for Groundwater Management Plan for the controversial Carmichael coal mine.

• India's Mahindra & Mahindra has signed a deal with American carmaker Ford Motor's Indian unit to jointly develop midsize Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) in India.

• US tech giant Microsoft has briefly topped $1 trillion in market capitalization for the 1st time after beating its quarterly earnings estimates. With this, Microsoft became world's 3rd trillion dollar company.

• Meat processor JBS has announced that its Seara processed foods unit became the 1st company in Brazil authorized by India to sell chicken products in the Asian nation.

• Social networking site Facebook has announced ban on personality quiz apps on its platform.

• IT service management company Financial Software Services (FSS) has launched real time voice banking platform titled FSS voice commerce.

• Walmart-owned Flipkart is partnering with Axis Bank or HDFC Bank will also launch it's own credit card later this quarter.

Stock Market • Alibaba-backed Paytm's subsidiary Paytm Money has received approval from Securities and

Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to begin stock broking services to let its users buy shares through the platform.

• India's benchmark index Sensex ended above 39,000 for the 1st time ever.

• Hong Kong’s equity market has overtaken Japan to be the world’s 3rd largest in value, behind only the U.S. and mainland China.


Exports/Imports • The Indian government has permitted poultry producers and starch manufacturers to import up to

1 lakh tonnes of corn at a lower import duty of 15%.

• India's imports from China totaled $60 billion during April-January period of 2018-19, a 5% fall from the year-ago period, according to the PHD Chamber of Commerce.

• For the first time in 3 years, India was the net importer of steel during the financial year 2018-19. − Indian steel exports fell by 34 percent to 6.36 million tonnes in the fiscal year that ended in

March 2019.

• The government extended the ban on import of milk and milk products, including chocolate, from China.

Taxation/Trade • The European Union (EU) has launched a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute against

India over import duties on IT products.

• The Goods and Service Tax (GST) collection in March 2019 rose to Rs 1,06,577 crore from Rs 97,247 crore in February.

• The United States has won a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling against China's use of Tariff-Rate Quotas (TRQ) for rice, wheat and corn.

• With Wheat production at record high, government has raised import duty on wheat from existing 30% to 40% to support local farmers interest.

Agriculture/Production • Kandhamal Haldi a variety of turmeric indigenous to southern Odisha earns Geographical

indication (GI) tag. Space • The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has launched Defence Research and

Development Organization’s (DRDO) defence intelligence satellite EMISAT along with 28 foreign satellites aboard PSLV-C45.

• Analysis of European Space Agency's Mars Express mission data has identified a potential source of methane on Mars for the first time.

• NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced that the space agency is aiming for a Mars landing in 2033.

• The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has revealed 4 of its spacecraft have broken own world record for navigating with a GPS signal farther than ever before at around 1.87 lakh kilometres from Earth. − NASA has also announced that its rocket engine test reached the milestone required to carry

astronauts to the Moon.

• Scientists have captured the 1st direct image of a black hole, using Event Horizon Telescope observations of the center of the galaxy M87, 55 million light-years from the Earth. − The Black hole whose photograph was released for the 1st time has been named 'Pōwehi' by

Hawaii university professor Larry Kimura.

• Launched by SpaceX in February, Israel's 1st mission to the Moon crashed on the lunar surface and failed to become the 1st successful privately funded lander. − So far only 3 countries namely US, Russia and China have successfully landed vehicles intact

on the Moon.


• The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has selected Elon Musk-led SpaceX to provide launch services for the 1st-ever mission to demonstrate the capability to deflect an asteroid by hitting it with a high-speed spacecraft. − The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is targeted to launch in June 2021 on

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. − The total cost to launch DART is approximately $69 million.

• The scientists of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have discovered that water is being released from the Moon during meteor showers.

• NASA's planet-hunting telescope TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has found its 1st Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting a star about 53 light-years from Earth, which is also its smallest-yet identified exoplanet. − The planet, named HD 21749c, takes about eight days to orbit its star, scientists revealed.

• 3 teams from India have won awards at the NASA’s annual Human Exploration Rover Challenge which invites high school and college students to build and test roving vehicles for future missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond. − Team from KIET Group of Institutions (Ghaziabad): AIAA Neil Armstrong Best Design

Award − Team from Mukesh Patel School of Technology Management and Engineering (Mumbai):

Frank Joe Sexton Memorial Pit Crew Award − Team from Lovely Professional University (Phagwara): STEM Engagement Award

• Nepal and Sri Lanka successfully launched 'NepaliSat-1' and 'Raavana-1', their respective 1st-ever satellites, into space from the US. − Both the satellites were developed under the 'BIRDS-3 Satellite Project'.

• NASA astronaut Christina Koch has been scheduled to stay on the International Space Station for over 300 days, thereby breaking the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman. − The earlier record was held by former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson at 288 days.

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA’s) InSight lander spacecraft has detected what’s believed to be a “marsquake” on the Red Planet.

• SpaceX has received approval from the US' Federal Communications Commission for its revised plan to launch over 1,500 Starlink internet-beaming satellites into a lower orbit at an altitude of 550 km.

• The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has announced that it is preparing to send the next man and the 1st woman to the lunar South Pole by the year 2024.

Science and Technology • Scientists at Israel's Tel Aviv University claim to have 3D-printed a heart, the size of a rabbit's

heart, using a patient's cells and biological materials.

• France has launched 'Tchap', its government-only chat app for officials, after fixing a bug that exposed chats and could let people chat with government workers.

• Harvard University scientists have successfully transmitted radio frequency using semiconductor laser for the 1st time, resulting in the "1st step towards ultra-high-speed WiFi". − The 1st sound data transmitted was American actor-singer Dean Martin's song 'Volare'.

Health/Diseases/Drugs • More than 1,000 cases of Ebola have been reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

since the outbreak was reported in August last year, including nearly 630 deaths.


• The Ministry of Commerce and Industries has urged the Health Ministry to frame law banning manufacture and sale of e-cigarettes in the country as in the absence of the domestic legislation, it would not be possible to put a blanket ban on its imports.

• The World Health Organization (WHO) has raised alarm over a 300 percent increase in the case of Measles globally in the 1st quarter of 2019 compared with last year.

• The words "chemists and druggists" appearing on the signboards of medical shops will soon be replaced with the word "pharmacy", according to an order by the Drugs Technical Advisory Board.

• The Union home ministry, in an attempt to improve investigations into cases of rape and sexual assault, has distributed more than 3,100 special kits for collecting blood and semen samples in addition to other evidence in different states and Union Territories (UT). − These Sexual Assault Evidence Collection Kits (SAECK) or Rape investigation kits have been

specially designed to conduct instant medico-legal investigation and gather crucial evidence in such cases.

• Government’s Think tank Niti Ayog has agreed to the proposal of the Dental Council of India which had sought to allow Dentists to practice as General Physicians after a bridge course.

• The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has launched ‘MERA (Malaria Elimination Research Alliance) India’ - a conglomeration of partners working on malaria control - in order to prioritise, plan and scale up research to eliminate the disease from India by 2030.

Energy/Gas/Oil • The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) chief K N Vyas has announced that India will soon have

12 more nuclear plants to improve the power situation and ensure there's a free flow of uninterrupted power supply for both industries and residential use.

• The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has started receiving 27 megawatts (MW) solar power from Madhya Pradesh's Rewa Mega Solar Power Plant.

• The UK has broken its own record for the longest period without generating electricity from coal, which lasted 90 hours and 45 minutes and is the longest since Industrial Revolution. − During this period, electricity was generated by 42% Gas and 23% Nuclear Energy among

others.

• In the backdrop of the US refusal to extend the sanctions waiver for India to import crude from Iran, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has taken steps necessary steps to end the imports from Iran.

• India's domestic crude oil production plunged over 4% in 2018-19, registering its 7th consecutive yearly fall.

Environment • Germany-based scientists have warned current Carbon dioxide levels are as high as three million

years ago, when Greenland was mostly green, sea levels were up to 20 meters higher and trees grew on Antarctica.

• The Cyclone Fani, formed in south-east Bay of Bengal and adjoining Indian Ocean, is set to intensify into a severe cyclonic storm.

Transport/Cars/Scooters • RailWire Wi-Fi by RailTel is now live at 1600 railway stations across the country, with Santacruz

railway station in Mumbai becoming the 1600th station to become a RailWire Wi-Fi zone.

• The world's largest airplane weighing nearly 2,26,800 kilograms with a 385-foot wingspan took its 1st ever flight in Mojave, California. Built by Stratolaunch, a company launched by Microsoft's late Co-founder Paul Allen in 2011, it's designed to launch rockets into orbit from the air.


• A Boeing 787 Dreamliner flown by Air India from Delhi landed at the Hyderabad airport without provision for additional fuel.

Festival • Traditional new year festivities are being celebrated in several parts of India on April 6.

− Andhra Pradesh & Telangana: People are celebrating Ugaadi across these two Telugu states to mark the beginning of the Hindu Lunar calendar.

− Maharashtra: Gudi Padwa signifies the welcoming of spring. This day marks the beginning of Chaitra Navratri, that lead up to Ram Navami.

− Manipur: Sajibu Nongma Panba Cheiraoba marking the beginning of the new Manipuri calendar was celebrated.

• In an annual tradition, Andhra Pradesh's Kairuppala village in Kurnool district, organized its 'Pidakala War', which involves two sides throwing cow dung at each other. − The event, which signifies a mythological Hindu dispute, took place a day after the Ugadi

festival.

• Different harvest festivals was celebrated in several parts of India. − They are Baisakhi, Odia New Year Maha Vishuba Sankranti, Tamil New Year Puthandu. − In Assam, Bohag Bihu was celebrated across the state with traditional fervor and enthusiasm.

• The 8th edition of Home Expo India 2019 began at India Expo Centre and Mart in Greater Noida.

• Mahavir Jayanti, the birth anniversary of 24th and last Jain Tirthankar Lord Mahavir was celebrated across the country on April 17.

Media /I.T / Telecommunication • South Korea was launched the world's 1st fully-fledged 5G mobile networks. Appointments/Election (or) Latest who is who? • The All India Football Federation (AIFF) President Praful Patel is going to become 1st Indian to be

elected as a member in the FIFA Executive Council for a four-year term.

• Eicher Motors appointed Vinod Dasari as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of its Royal Enfield unit, replacing Siddhartha Lal.

• Manu Sawhney assumed the position of Chief Executive of the ICC.

• Cash-strapped IL&FS has appointed C S Rajan, who is a Director on the IL&FS board, as the group's Managing Director. − He has taken over the position from Vineet Nayyar, who continues to serve as the group's

Executive Vice Chairman.

• Former actress Mayoori Kango, who made her Bollywood debut with 1995 film 'Naseem' and acted in films like 'Papa Kahte Hain', 'Betaabi' among others, has joined Google India as its industry head – agency business.

• Chicago has created history by electing an African-American woman as its mayor for the first time. − Lori Lightfoot, a 56-year-old former federal prosecutor and practicing lawyer who has never

before held elected office, won the city's mayoral race by a huge margin.

• Senior US Treasury official David Malpass has been selected as President of the World Bank.

• Justice Pradeep Nandrajog took oath as the new Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court.

• The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved proposals of the Department of Financial Services (DFS), providing new postings for various Public Sector Banks (PSBs). − R A Sankara Narayanan has been appointed as the new MD & CEO of Canara Bank − Karnam Sekar has been appointed as the new chief of Indian Overseas Bank (IOB)


− Murali Ramaswami has been appointed as the new Executive Director of Bank of Baroda (amalgamated entity)

− Rajesh Kumar Yaduvanshi has been appointed as the new Executive Director of Punjab National Bank

− Y Nageswara Rao has been appointed as the Officer on Special Duty (OSD) and whole time director in Syndicate Bank

• Professor Najma Akhtar has been appointed as the Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia.

• The US Senate has confirmed Colorado native David Bernhardt as Secretary of the Interior Department.

• RICS, a global body to promote professionalism and standards in the real estate sector, has appointed Tata Housing MD and CEO Sanjay Dutt as Chairman of its South Asia board.

• A new government for the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority has been sworn-in. − President Mahmoud Abbas picked Mohammed Ishtayeh as the new Prime Minister of the

country.

• Cairn Oil & Gas, a subsidiary of Vedanta, has appointed Ajay Dixit as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO). − The appointment comes after Sudhir Mathur stepped down as the company's CEO earlier this

month.

• Benjamin Netanyahu has been nominated to become Israel's Prime Minister for the 5 time after President Reuven Rivlin invited him to form the new government.

• Indian Cricketer Mithali Raj has been named as the Goodwill ambassador of the Indian team for the Street Child Cricket World Cup. − She will join former captain Saurav Ganguly and IPL franchise Rajasthan Royals in

supporting the team India for the Street Child Cricket World Cup.

• 1987-batch Indian Foreign Service officer Jaideep Sarkar has been appointed as India's next High Commissioner to South Africa.

• The government also appointed Suhel Ajaz Khan, presently serving as India's Deputy Chief of Mission in Saudi Arabia, as next Ambassador to Lebanon.

• Paytm Payments Bank has appointed the Co-founder and CEO of women's job and career community SHEROES, Sairee Chahal, to its board of directors.

• Professor Gagandeep Kang has become the 1st Indian female scientist to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in the UK fellowship's 358-year-history.

• Microblogging platform Twitter appointed Manish Maheshwari as its new Managing Director for the India market effective April 29.

• Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who played president in a TV series, has won the country's Presidential election by receiving 73.19% of the votes.

• Puranik Yogendra has become the 1st Indian-origin person to win an election in Japan, having gotten elected to Tokyo's Edogawa Ward assembly.

• Former Indian Army Chief General (Retired) Dalbir Singh Suhag has been appointed as India's next High Commissioner to the island nation of Seychelles.

• Supreme Court judge Indu Malhotra was appointed as the new member of the panel probing sexual harassment charges against Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, after Justice NV Ramana opted to recuse himself.

• Romania's Doru Isac has replaced Savio Medeira as the new technical director of the Indian Football Team.


• Yes Bank has appointed Shagun Gogia, the daughter of late Co-founder Ashok Kapur, as a Director after she was jointly nominated by Co-founder Rana Kapoor and mother Madhu Kapur.

• Air Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria will take over as the Vice Chief of Indian Air Force (IAF).

Resignation/Dismissed/Retired/Quit • Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has resigned after nearly two months of protests against

him following his initial announcement to seek a fifth term in office.

• Google India head Rajan Anandan has resigned from his post to "focus full-time on investing in promising early-stage technology startups across India and Southeast Asia". − His responsibility will be taken over by Country Director Sales Vikas Agnihotri in the interim.

Arrests/Jailed • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested in London after his diplomatic asylum was

withdrawn by Ecuador, in whose embassy he had been staying for the past 7 years.

• Sudan's Defence Minister announced that the Army has ousted and arrested President Omar al-Bashir.

Deaths • Biologist Sydney Brenner (92) who helped decipher the genetic code and jointly won the 2002

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, passed away.

• Kerala Congress (M) chief K M Mani (86), former Kerala Finance Minister and the longest serving member of Kerala Legislative Assembly, passed away.

• Bollywood Actor Navtej Hundal, who last portrayed the role of the Home Minister in the Vicky Kaushal starrer 'Uri: The Surgical Strike', passed away.

• Hollywood Actress Nadja Regin (87), who featured in 'From Russia With Love' (1963) and 'Goldfinger' (1964) from the James Bond film franchise, has passed away.

• Actor-director Raj Kumar Kapoor (87), who directed Shah Rukh Khan's debut television show 'Fauji' in 1988, passed away.

• Tamil actor and AIADMK leader J K Ritheesh (46) passed away following a heart attack.

• Former Peruvian President Alan García died after shooting himself in the head as police arrived at his home to arrest him in connection with a bribery investigation.

• The 1st-ever woman to pass the NASA astronaut testing in 1961, Jerrie Cobb (88) Passed away.

• South Africa-born Scotland all-rounder Con de Lange (38) passed away after a lengthy battle with brain tumour.

• Noted Bengali folk singer Amar Pal (96) passed away.

• Filmmaker John Singleton (51), the youngest-ever person as well as the first African-American to be nominated for the Best Director Oscar, has passed away.

Awards/Honours • The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has awarded Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the Zayed

Medal.

• Filmmaker Karan Johar unveiled his wax figure at the Madame Tussauds museum in Singapore, making him the 1st Indian filmmaker with a statue at the museum.

• Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat has been inducted into the International Hall of Fame at the US Army's Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth.


• Bollywood Actor Shah Rukh Khan was felicitated with an honorary doctorate in Philanthropy from the University of Law in London.

• ESPN, the one-stop destination for all things sports, has announced the winners of its 2nd annual Multi-Sport Awards, recognizing achievements across various sport disciplines in 2018. − Sportsperson of the Year (Male): Neeraj Chopra (Athletics) − Sportsperson of the Year (Female): P V Sindhu (Badminton) − Comeback of the Year: Saina Nehwal (Badminton) − Coach of the Year: Jaspal Rana (Shooting) − Emerging Sportsperson of the Year: Saurabh Chaudhary (Shooting) − Team of the Year: Women’s team (Table tennis) − Match of the Year: Amit Panghal vs Hasanboy Dusmatov (Boxing) − Differently-abled athlete of the Year: Ekta Bhyan (Para-athletics) − Moment of the Year: Women’s 4x400m relay − Lifetime Achievement Award: Pradip Kumar Banerjee (Football)

• Telugu poet K Siva Reddy has been selected for Saraswati Samman for the year 2018. − He is being honored with this prestigious award for his collection of poetry titled 'Pakkaki

Ottigilite'.

• The National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) was awarded the distinction of “Public Water Agency of the Year” by Global Water Intelligence.

• India’s education technology startup ‘Dost Education’ has bagged a $25,000 Next Billion Edtech Prize 2019. Ubongo (Tanzania) and PraxiLabs (Egypt) were the other two winners of the prize.

• Russia has chosen Prime Minister Narendra Modi for its highest civilian award - 'Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle'.

• A viral image of a 2-year-old Honduran asylum seeker crying at the US-Mexico border has been named 2019 World Press Photo of the Year. − The photo titled 'Crying Girl on the Border' was taken by Getty Images photojournalist John

Moore on June 12.

• North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been given the new title of "supreme representative of all the Korean people" amid a change in the country's leadership.

• The 2019 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano Press Freedom Prize has been awarded to 2 Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo. − The jury has recognized their exceptional courage in reporting on alleged human rights

violations in the Myanmar’s state of Rakhine.

• Alice G. Vaidyan, Chairman and Managing Director of the General Insurance Corporation (GIC) of India, India’s reinsurance major, has been awarded the Freedom of the City of London in recognition of her work to promote insurance ties between India and the UK.

• Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who have been jailed in Myanmar for the past 490 days, have won the Pulitzer Prize for revealing the massacre of 10 Muslim Rohingya men by Buddhist villagers and Myanmar security forces.

• US President Donald Trump has announced that he will award golfer Tiger Woods with the Presidential Medal of Freedom (America's highest civilian honour).

• The Indian Air Force (IAF) is going to recommend Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman for the gallantry medal Vir Chakra for shooting down Pakistani F-16 jet.

• A total of 150 Indian peacekeepers serving with the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) have received Medals of honour for their dedicated service and sacrifice.

• Nobel Prize announcements for 2019 will take place in the month of October.


• The Information and Broadcasting Ministry announced that the 66th National Film Awards will be declared after the general elections in compliance with the Model Code of Conduct.

• The 2nd edition of Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2019 was awarded to author Rana Dasgupta for his 2010 novel “Solo” which is a tale of estrangement and the ultimate failure of material existence.

• Ex-South Africa all-rounder Jacques Kallis was bestowed with Order of Ikhamanga in Silver by South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa.

• Derek C Lalchhanhima, a 6-year-old Mizoram boy who rushed a chicken to hospital after he accidentally ran over it with his cycle, has received 'Compassionate Kid' award by PETA India.

• The BCCI has recommended Indian men's cricket team all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, fast bowlers Mohammad Shami and Jasprit Bumrah, and Indian women's cricket team spinner Poonam Yadav for the Arjuna Award.

• Bengaluru-based health tech startup Niramai secured the top prize at the Hack Osaka event in Japan.

• Indian golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar won the 'Outstanding Achievement as a player' award at the fourth edition of the annual India Golf Industry Association (GIA) awards.

• The Table Tennis Federation of India has recommended Madhurika Patkar, Harmeet Desai and Sanil Shetty for the Arjuna Award.

• Gagandeep Kang becomes 1st Indian woman scientist to be awarded Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS), United Kingdom. − She is a clinician scientist, who is well known for her key role in development of Rotavac.

• Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk and Arsenal Women Football Club's Vivianne Miedema were named Professional Footballers' Association Players' Player of the Year for the 2018-19 season. − Manchester City's Raheem Sterling and Georgia Stanway were named as the Young Players of

the Year. Sports/Game • Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton won the 2019 Bahrain Grand Prix.

• Saurav Ghosal (10) became the 1st Indian male squash player to enter the top 10 in the PSA world rankings. − Indian women squash players, Joshna Chinappa and Dipika Pallikal, had earlier reached the

top-10 in the women's world rankings.

• RCB captain Virat Kohli became the 3rd cricketer to captain in 100 IPL matches, achieving the feat against RR. − Chennai Super Kings' M S Dhoni has captained in most IPL matches (162).

• 20-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer defeated John Isner in straight sets to win his 4th Miami Open title and his 101st career singles title.

• Indian shooters made a clean sweep of Gold medals in 10m Air Rifle event at the 12th Asian Airgun Championships in Taoyuan, Taipei.

• The Indian Badminton Tournament 2019 was held at K. D. Jadhav Indoor Hall in New Delhi during 26th to 31st March 2019 and had a total purse of $350,000. − Men’s Singles - Viktor Axelsen (Denmark) by defeating Srikanth Kidambi (India) − Women’s Singles - Ratchanok Intanon (Thailand) − Men’s Doubles - Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin (Chinese Taipei) − Women’s Doubles - Greysia Polii and Apriyani Rahayu (Indonesia) − Mixed Doubles - Wang Yilü and Huang Dongping (China)


• The International Cricket Council (ICC) has sought closer working relations with the Interpol to widen the scope of its fight against corruption in the sport.

• The Indian Men's Football Team gained two places to rise to 101 in recently released FIFA rankings. − With 1219 total ranking points, the Indian team lies 18th among the Asian countries. − Iran continued to top the Asian rankings at 21, followed by Japan (26), South Korea (37),

Australia (41) and Qatar (55). − Belgium holds on to the top spot, with France in the second spot and Brazil in third place.

• Chinese badminton ace Lin Dan clinched the Malaysia Open in Kuala Lumpur. − Women’s Singles: Tai Tzu-ying (Taiwan) − Men’s Doubles: Li Junhui & Liu Yuchen (China) − Women’s Doubles: Chen Qingchen & Jia Yifan (China) − Mixed Doubles: Zheng Siwei & Huang Yaqiong (China)

• Hockey India named Australia's Graham Reid as the new chief coach of the Indian men's hockey team.

• Wrestler Seth Rollins defeated Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 35 to become the new Universal Champion.

• Spanish tennis player Garbine Muguruza retained the title at the Monterrey Open after former world number one Victoria Azarenka retired in the final.

• Team India captain Virat Kohli has been named as the Wisden Almanack's 'Leading Cricketer of the Year' for the 3rd straight time.

• Shot-putter Manpreet Kaur, who won gold in 2017 Asian Championships, has been banned for 4 years by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) for failing four dope tests in 2017.

• Team India opener Smriti Mandhana has been named as the Wisden Almanack's 'Leading Women's Cricketer of the Year'.

• Rio Paralympics silver medallist Deepa Malik has been named as the recipient of the New Zealand Prime Minister's Sir Edmund Hillary Fellowship for 2019. − Deepa, the first Indian woman to earn a medal at the Paralympic Games, is a recipient of the

Padma Shri and Arjuna Award.

• Mercedes' British driver Lewis Hamilton won Formula One history's 1,000th race after claiming his 6th victory at the Chinese Grand Prix.

• India's Meena Kumari clinched the Gold medal in the 54 kg event at the Boxing World Cup in Cologne.

• KXIP opener Chris Gayle has become the 1st cricketer to score 100 50-plus scores in T20 cricket history.

• The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced India's 15-member squad for 2019 Cricket World Cup, which will take place in England and Wales from May 30 to July 14.

• Golfer Tiger Woods clinched his 5th Masters and 15th major title after winning by one stroke at Augusta National.

• The 2019 Singapore Open badminton tournament was recently concluded. − Men’s Singles - Kento Momota (Japan) − Women’s Singles - Tai Tzu-ying (Taiwan) − Men’s Doubles - Takeshi Kamura (Japan) and Keigo Sonoda (Japan) − Women’s Doubles - Mayu Matsumoto (Japan) and Wakana Nagahara (Japan) − Mixed Doubles - Dechapol Puavaranukroh (Thailand) and Sapsiree Taerattanachai (Thailand)


• India's Bajrang Punia has regained the world number one spot in the Men's 65-kilogram freestyle category rankings released by United World Wrestling.

• The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has imposed a hefty fine of one lakh seventy-six thousand Euros on Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) for not honoring the Pro League commitments.

• Former World Champion, Mirabai Chanu will spearhead India’s challenge at the Asian Weightlifting Championship, 2019 that begins at Ningbo, China.

• Delhi Capitals' leg-spinner Amit Mishra became the 1st Indian to claim 150 or more wickets in Indian Premier League (IPL).

• In Football, the Services lifted the Santosh Trophy 2019 by defeating Punjab in the final at Ludhiana.

• Fabio Fognini became the 1st Italian to win an ATP Masters 1000 title at the Monte Carlo Masters by defeating Dusan Lajovic.

• Kenya's former Olympic 1500 metres champion Asbel Kiprop has been handed a 4-year ban for doping.

• The venue for the IPL 2019 final has been shifted from Chennai to Hyderabad after Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) failed to get permission to get three closed stands of MA Chidambaram Stadium open.

• The Asian Weightlifting Championships held in Ningbo (China). − Javelin thrower Annu Rani and 3000-meter steeple chaser Avinash Sable won the silver

medals. − Quartermiler M P Poovamma, 5000-meter runner Parul Choudhary and 10000-meter runner

Gavit Murali Kumar bagged a bronze each. − Asian Games bronze medal winning Indian middle-distance runner P U Chitra won Gold

medal in women’s 1500m at the Asian Athletics Championships in Doha. − Asian Games silver medallist Dutee Chand clinched the bronze medal in 200-metre sprint.

• Chennai Super Kings captain M S Dhoni became the 1st Indian to hit 200 sixes in the Indian Premier League (IPL) after reaching the landmark figure in the match against Royal Challengers Bangalore.

• The Badminton Asia Championships held in Wuhan, China.

• Amateur boxer Amit Panghal claimed India's 1st Gold medal at the ongoing Asian Boxing Championships by defeating South Korea's Kim Inkyu in a unanimous decision in the 52kg category.

• Indian wrestlers Divya Kakran and Manju Kumari won Bronze medals at Asian Wrestling Championships.

• Umpire Sundaram Ravi is the only Indian among 22 match officials chosen to adjudicate matches in the 2019 World Cup.

• India's 16-year-old Saurabh Chaudhary and 17-year-old Manu Bhaker won Gold in the 10m Air Pistol mixed team event at the ISSF World Cup in Beijing.

• In shooting Abhishek Verma secured India's 5th Olympic quota place by winning the 10m air pistol Gold medal at the ISSF World Cup at Beijing, China.

• Australia's 31-year-old umpire Claire Polosak has become the 1st ever woman to officiate in a men's ODI.

• India bagged a Gold and two Silver medals at the Asian Boxing Championships in Bangkok.


• India finished top of medal tally at ISSF World Cup Rifle/ Pistol 2019 edition held in Beijing, China. − Top 2: India (3 Gold, 1 Silver), China (2 Gold, 2 Silver, 1 Bronze)

• Mercedes' Finnish driver Valtteri Bottas beat his English teammate Lewis Hamilton to win Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

• Dominic Thiem from Austria defeated Daniil Medvedev (Russia) in the final to win the Barcelona Open 2019.

• India’s Bajrang Punia is 1st Indian wrestler to be invited by American wrestling body for a special fight at iconic Madison Square Garden in New York, US.

• Japan's world number one Kento Momota defeated Shi Yuqi of China and retain his Badminton Asia Championships title.

Report • Of the total 49 lakh deaths due to diseases caused by exposure to air pollution in 2017, India and

China accounted for the most with 12 lakh deaths each, the State Of Global Air report 2019 revealed.

• The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, topped the HRD Ministry's national ranking of higher education institutes. − Bangalore's Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Delhi's Miranda House were adjudged best

university and college respectively. − IISc Bangalore and IIT-Delhi ranked 2nd and 3rd in the overall rankings of higher educational

institutions.

• A report by United Nations Population Fund recently revealed that India's population grew at an average of 1.2% annually between 2010 and 2019, more than double of China's 0.5% a year.

− India's population in 2019 stands at 1.36 billion while China's stands at 1.42 billion.

• Nearly 50 lakh men in India lost their jobs between 2016-2018, a report titled 'State of Working India' by Azim Premji University has claimed, highlighting the "beginning of the decline" coincided with "demonetisation" exercise.

• Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani and public-interest litigators Arundhati Katju and Menaka Guruswamy, who spearheaded a historic legal battle for LGBTQ rights in India, are among the Indians who have been named by TIME magazine in its prestigious 2019 List of the 100 most influential people in the world. − Other important people featured in the list are: Taylor Swift, Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson,

Chinese scientist He Jiankui, Facebook Co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Huawei Founder Ren Zhengfei, US President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping.

• India has dropped 2 places in the 2019 World Press Freedom Index released by Reporters Without Borders, ranking 140 out of 180 countries. − The index has been topped by Norway (1st) and Turkmenistan (180th) in the bottom position. − Top 5: Norway, Finland, Sweden, Netherlands, Denmark

• India rose to 17th position in Global Startup Ecosystem in 2019, up from the 37th spot in 2017, as per StartupBlink. − The country list was topped by the US, followed by the UK and Canada.

• India has become world's 4th biggest military spender according to Swedish arms watchdog SIPRI. − Pakistan stood at the 20th spot in the list. − Top 3: US, China, Saudi.


General - National • Indian Army's Combat Engineers of 'Sahas aur Yogyata' Regiment of 'Fire and Fury Corps' have

built the longest cable suspension bridge over Indus River in Leh in a record 40 days. − The 260-foot-long 'Maitri Bridge' was inaugurated by local war veterans on April 1.

• Registration for Kailash Manasarovar Yatra 2019 has begun from April 10. − External Affairs Ministry said in a release that the Yatra is scheduled from 8th June to 8th

September this year.

• India has built a 25-bed maternity hospital in Nepal. − The hospital has been built under the Government of India's Small Development Projects

Scheme.

• The Ministry of External Affairs has set up an Indo-Pacific division in the foreign office. − Head of Indo-Pacific Wing: Vikram Doraiswami.

• India has rebuilt Chhyoiphel Kundeling Monastery in Nepal.

• The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has asked Goa to pay ₹10-crore penalty for repeatedly missing the deadline for hosting 36th National Games.

• Aviation Secretary Pradeep Singh Kharola announced that the government is going to form a committee to temporarily allocate takeoff and landing slots left vacant by the grounding of Jet Airways flights.

• India will have a Defence Cyber Agency (DCA) by May this year to tackle threats arising from hackers, mostly from Pakistan and China.

General - International • Brunei introduced new sharia laws which include death by stoning for adultery and gay

relationships. − It also introduced public flogging as punishment for abortion as well as amputation for theft.

• Japan has announced that the name of its new imperial era, set to begin on May 1, will be "Reiwa". − While 'Rei' means "good" and "beautiful" as well as "order" or "command", 'Wa' means "peace"

or "harmony".

• The US House of Representatives has voted to end US involvement in Yemen’s civil war. − US President Donald Trump vetoed a bill passed by Congress to end the US' involvement in

Yemen's civil war.

• The South Korean government declared a state of national disaster over the massive blaze that engulfed five cities and counties along the northeastern coast.

• For the first time in its 75-year history, Germany opened the curtains of the chamber of the United Nations Security Council.

• The UK government has started issuing British passports without the words "European Union", despite the delay in Brexit.

• Malaysia is going to withdraw from the Rome Statute that established the International Criminal Court (ICC), a month after signing it.

• Rwanda began 100 days of mourning for over 800,000 people slaughtered in a genocide that shocked the world, a quarter of a century on from the day it began. − President Paul Kagame will start a week of commemoration activities by lighting a

remembrance flame at the Kigali Genocide Memorial, where more than 250,000 victims are believed to be buried, mainly from the Tutsi people.


• Foreign ministers from Group of Seven (G7) countries have called for a greater role for women in solving conflicts, saying that peace settlements with female involvement were more likely to endure.

• London has become the world's 1st city to launch a 24x7 Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ), inside which vehicles will have to meet emission standards or face a charge.

• Sri Lanka has opened a new railway line. − The railway line has been built with Chinese assistance under China's Belt and Road Initiative.

• Nepal is sending a team of government-appointed climbers up Mount Everest, the world's tallest peak, to re-measure its height.

• 43 days after the Indian Air Force struck Jaish-e-Mohammed training camps in Balakot, Pakistan military took a group of international media persons and foreign diplomats on a tour of the site.

• UK PM Theresa May expressed regret over the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and called it a shameful scar on British Indian history.

• The UK and the European Union have agreed to extend Brexit until October 31.

• New Zealand Parliament has voted to ban all types of semi-automatic weapons and assault rifles following the Christchurch attacks.

• The United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced that India is the Guest of Honour country at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair (ADIBF) 2019, was held from 24th to 30th April 2019.

• Nepal has banned online multiplayer game PUBG (PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds) saying its "violent content had a negative impact on children".

• South Korea's Constitutional Court ruled that the country's 66-year-old ban on abortion is unconstitutional and ordered the government to revise the current law by 2020.

• The Japanese government has partially lifted an evacuation order in Okuma, 1 of the 2 towns affected by the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.

• The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) voted unanimously voted for the resolution to completely end its peacekeeping operations in Haiti on October 15.

• In Bangladesh, the historic Mujibnagar day was observed on April 17.

• Egypt's Parliament passed amendments to the Constitution extending the president's term in office from 4 to 6 years and allow for a maximum of two terms.

• The European Parliament approved a law that aims to give greater protection to Whistleblowers across the European Union (EU). − Whistleblower - a person who informs on a person or organization regarded as engaging in an

unlawful or immoral activity.

• North Korea has test-fired a new type of tactical guided weapon with "a powerful warhead", with the nation's leader Kim Jong-un calling it "an event of very weighty significance in increasing the combat power".

• Malaysia has resumed a China-backed rail link project after the Chinese contractor agreed to cut the construction cost by one third to 10.6 billion US dollars.

• The 7th China International Technology Fair opened in Shanghai, a national-level professional fair focused on international technology trade.

• Iran and Pakistan are going to create a joint 'reaction force' on border between the two countries.

• Thousands of people attended the stone-laying ceremony of the 1st traditional Hindu temple in UAE capital Abu Dhabi.


• The Asian Tea Alliance (ATA), a union of 5 tea-growing and consuming countries, was recently launched in Guizhou in China.

• The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has set up the Amartya Sen Chair in Inequality Studies to honour the Nobel laureate.

• Egyptians are voting in a referendum that aims to cement the rule of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the former coup leader.

• Sharjah named World Book Capital for the year 2019. − Kuala Lumpur chosen as the World Book Capital for the year 2020.

• The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the Sri Lanka serial bomb blasts that killed 321 people and injured over 500 others.

• The United States has announced it won't grant any more sanctions exemptions to India and 7 other nations importing oil from Iran.

• Indonesia has released a Ramayana-themed commemorative stamp to mark the 70th anniversary of the establishment of its diplomatic ties with India.

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that he would name a new community in the Golan Heights after US President Donald Trump, who officially recognized the disputed area as Israeli territory last month. "

• UN’s International Labour Organization (ILO) announced that Qatar will officially abolish its Exit Visa system for all foreign workers by the end of 2019.

• Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has issued an order for a ban on burqa, veil or covering of the face in a manner which prevents anyone from being identified.

• Lebanon’s capital Beirut has set a new Guinness World Record for most number of national flags displayed in one city for 24 hours.

• The European Union has extended a ban on selling arms to Myanmar and prolonged sanctions against high-ranking officials till 30th April 2020, over their role in the Rohingya crisis.

• Pakistan's Senate has passed a bill to fix 18 years as the minimum age of marriage for girls, in a move aimed to end the practice of child marriage.

• The UAE Cabinet has adopted the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2031. − Its aims at positioning the UAE as a global leader in artificial intelligence by 2031 and to

develop an integrated system that employs artificial intelligence in vital areas in the country.

• The United Nations Security Council has adopted a resolution on sexual violence in conflicts that condemns the use of rape as a weapon of war.

Books and Authors

• Prasar Bharati Chairman, A Surya Prakash released a booklet of the 'Selected speeches of Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar in the Constituent Assembly', in New Delhi.

• A book containing English translation of the 100-year-old classic Punjabi poem about Jallianwala Bagh massacre, 'Khooni Vaisakhi' has been released in Abu Dhabi. − The poem was translated by Mr Suri whose grandfather, revolutionary poet and novelist

Nanak Singh, a Jallianwala Bagh survivor, wrote it after witnessing first-hand the events of April 13, 1919.

• A book titled “Politics of Jugaad: The Coalition Handbook” was recently released. − The book has been authored by one of India's renowned journalists Saba Naqvi.

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TO THE POINTS: APRIL–2019 • The CBDT extended the deadline to link PAN with Aadhaar by six months from March 31 to

September 30, 2019.

• Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank will merge with Bank of Baroda to create the third-largest lender of the country.

• Air Marshal NS Dhillon was appointed as the new Strategic Forces Command Chief.

• Maharatna public sector units GAIL India Ltd and Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) have inked a MoU for cooperation in the development of solar power projects.

• Under the framework of South-South Cooperation, India has offered $100 million Line of Credit to Bolivia for financing development projects.

• According to report ‘OpenSignal’s Hottest city for 4G Availability’ released by OpenSignal, Dhanbad has the highest 4G availability of 95.3%.

• Lewis Hamilton won the Bahrain Grand Prix 2019.

• South Korea team lifts Sultan Azlan Shah cup at Ipoh in Malaysia.

• The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) was awarded the ‘Best Sports Federation’ award in the country by the Association Chambers of Commerce and Industry (ASSOCHAM).

• Germany has extended by six months an embargo on weapons exports to Saudi Arabia, instituted in October 2018.

• The 16th meeting of the Canada-India Joint Working Group on Counter-Terrorism and its Expert Sub-group was held in Ottawa.

• The government has again extended its deadline to impose retaliatory customs duties on 29 US products, including almond, walnut, and pulses, till 2 May 2019.

• Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) host 2 days ‘Technology Conclave’ on 4 and 5 April 2019 at Pune.

• The Earth Hour 2019 was observed on March 30, 2019.

• Odisha was celebrating 84 years of its foundation on 1st April 2019.

• The World Autism Awareness Day was observed across the world on April 2.

• Finance Ministry stated that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) collection stood at Rs. 1.06 lakh crore in March.

• The Reserve Bank set the average base rate to be charged from borrowers by non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) and micro-finance institutions (MFIs) at 9.21 per cent for the first quarter of the next fiscal.

• Global software major Infosys stated that its consulting arm would buy 75 per cent equity stake in Starter N.V., a subsidiary of the Dutch-based ANN AMRO Bank.

• Satish Magar took over as the new national president of the Confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Associations of India (CREDAI).

• Manu Sawhney took over charge as CEO of the International Cricket Council (ICC).

• The bridge is constructed over the Indus river at Choglamsar in Leh and is the longest suspension bridge over the Indus river.

• Customers of Reliance Mutual Fund can now carry out voice-based financial transactions, with Reliance Nippon Life Asset Management (RNAM) partnering with internet major Google.


• China launched the first of its new-generation data relay satellites as part of the preparatory work for the nation’s next manned space missions.

• India and Chile signed three MoUs in the fields of mining, culture and empowerment of persons with disabilities.

• India has won ICC Test Championship mace for the third year in a row after finishing at the top of ICC Test team rankings.

• Veteran Tamil filmmaker-actor J Mahendran has passes away.

• Election Commission of India has appointed Shree K K Sharma (IPS 1982 Retd DG Border Security Force) as the Central Police Observer for the States of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

• ‘Kandhamal Haldi’, a variety of turmeric indigenous to southern Odisha, has earned the Geographical indication (GI) tag from Intellectual Property India.

• The Centre has extended the “disturbed area” tag under Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) for three districts of Arunachal Pradesh for another six months.

• From the 1st May 2019, Kotak Mahindra Bank will charge for Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions.

• BNP Paribas Cardif, the foreign partner of SBI Life Insurance, sold 5 crore shares of the company for Rs. 2,889 crore.

• Paytm Money has received approval from Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to begin stock broking services to let its users buy shares through the platform.

• Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has resigned after weeks of mass protests.

• Google India head Rajan Anandan has resigned from his post to focus full-time on investing in promising early-stage technology startups across India and Southeast Asia.

• Batman character announced as the first entrant to the Comic-Con Museum's Character Hall of Fame.

• India signed an agreement with a development bank for setting up India-Africa Institute of Agriculture and Rural Development (IAIARD) in Malawi.

• Saurav Ghosal became the first Indian male squash player to enter the top 10 in the PSA world rankings.

• The 2019 India Open, officially the YONEX-SUNRISE India Open 2019 badminton tournament concluded in New Delhi, India.

• Every Year on 4 April International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action was observed.

• South Korea launched the world’s first fully-fledged 5G mobile networks on 5th April 2019.

• Telangana state has ranked number one in eLearning training by reaching to 20,000 field staff during 2018-19.

• According to Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2019, Asian Development Bank (ADB) has lowered India’s growth forecast for 2019-20 to 7.2 per cent from 7.6 per cent estimated earlier.

• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will inject long-term liquidity worth USD 5 billion into the banking system through dollar-rupee buy-sell swap for a tenure of three years.

• RBI cuts the policy repo rate by 25 basis points to 6.0 per cent according to the first bimonthly policy of fiscal year 2019.

• State-owned Bank of Maharashtra stated that the government has infused Rs. 205 crore into the bank in lieu of preferential allotment of shares.


• The World Trade Organization has lowered its global trade forecast for the year 2019 to 2.6%.

• UN chief appoints Nicholas Koumjian as investigation head for Myanmar.

• India is going to organize NuGen Mobility summit 2019 in November.

• 4th Session of India-Ukraine working group on Trade and Economic Cooperation held in New Delhi.

• Vikram Patel was awarded with the prestigious John Dirks Canada Gairdner Global Health Award.

• Over 1.2 million people died in India due to air pollution in 2017, as per a global report on air pollution.

• Manoshi Sinha Rawal is the author of the book “Saffron Swords: Centuries of Indic Resistance to Invaders”.

• Supreme Court quashes RBI circular on debt resolution issued on 12 February 2018.

• On 5th April every year in India National Maritime day is observed. In 1919 was the day first time observed.

• WhatsApp has launched a tip line for Indians to submit rumours and uncertain information to combat false news in India during the national election.

• More than 113 million people across 53 countries experienced acute hunger in 2018 according to a new joint UN and European Union (EU) report.

• Markets regulator Sebi extended the timeline for the implementation of phase 1 of Unified Payments Interface (UPI) as an alternative payment mechanism for retail investors buying shares in a public issue from March 31 2019 to June 30 2019.

• Fitch retained India’s sovereign rating at ‘BBB-‘, the lowest investment grade, with stable outlook, saying a weak fiscal position continues to constrain its rating.

• Karnataka Bank has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Bharti AXA Life Insurance Company to distribute the latter’s life insurance products.

• RBI sets Ways and Means Advances (WMA) Limit for Government at Rs.75000 crore.

• Vipin Anand took charge as the Managing Director of the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC).

• Rakesh Malhotra was appointed as the next High Commissioner of India to the Republic of Cameroon.

• Exercise Western Shield the biggest-ever military exercise is going to organized by Sri Lanka.

• Retired IAS officer CS Rajan was appointed as the Managing Director of IL&FS.

• The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has inked a MoU with IIT Delhi to collaborate in the field of standardization and conformity assessment.

• Zayed Medal was recently conferred to prime minister Narendra Modi. This medal is given by UAE.

• Indian Football Team climbed two places to move to 101 rank in the FIFA rankings. Belgium topped in the rankings.

• As per the latest data of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), it has entered into 18 Advance Pricing Agreements (APAs) in the month of March 2019, which includes 3 Bilateral APAs (BAPAs). Total number of APAs entered into by the CBDT in the year 2018-19 is 52.

• Karan Johar became India's first film-maker to have a wax statue at Madame Tussauds in Singapore.


• “Experiential learning” is the punch line of the 2019-20 session of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).

• Phayeng Village in Imphal West district of Manipur has become India’s first carbon-positive settlement.

• Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has received the In-Flight Connectivity license from the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) for enabling in-flight and maritime connectivity (IFMC) within Indian airspace.

• Vikram Kirloskar took charge as the new President of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

• NASSCOM appoints Keshav Murugesh as Chairman.

• Femina Miss India 2017 runner up Sana Dua will be the brand ambassador of Jammu and Kashmir election department for general polls.

• Sahulat’, a mobile app aimed to facilitate voting by elders has been launched in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district.

• BSE and India International Exchange (India INX) have signed a MoU with Moscow Exchange (MOEX) to connect investor community and companies in both countries besides allowing a capital formation platform.

• Saudi Arabia's King Salman grants Iraq $1 billion to build sport city. The sports city would be located in Baghdad.

• Shah Rukh Khan conferred an honorary doctorate in Philanthropy by The University of Law, London.

• Dr. Sohini Sastri has been honoured with 'D. Litt in Astrology' by National American University, USA.

• Lakshmi Vilas Bank approves merger with lndiabulls Housing Finance.

• The government sold enemy shares worth around Rs. 1,150 crore in IT firm Wipro to Life Insurance Corporation and two other state-owned insurers.

• Viharidas Gopaldas Patel, well known economists, called as the Father of Entrepreneurship Movement in India, who died recently.

• The International Day of Sport for Development and Peace (IDSDP) was observed across the world on April 06.

• World Health Day is celebrated worldwide every year on 7th April. Theme - Universal Health Coverage: Everyone, Everywhere.

• Emirates Islamic has announced the launch of Chat Banking services for customers via WhatsApp, marking a global first in the Islamic banking sector.

• The priority sector lending certificates (PSLCs) volume rocketed to Rs. 3.3 trillion in FY19.

• David Malpass was appointed as President of World Bank.

• Praful Patel becomes 1st Indian Member of FIFA Executive Council.

• Justice Pradeep Nandrajog takes oath as new Chief Justice of Bombay High Court.

• State-run power giant NTPC has inked a term-loan agreement with Canara Bank to raise Rs. 2,000 crore, which would be used to part finance its capital expenditure.

• PV Sindhu and Neeraj Chopra were named as female and male sportsperson of the year in the ESPN India Multi-Sport Awards for their achievements in 2018.

• Bank of India offered to sell a 25 per cent stake in life insurance JV SUD Life Insurance for Rs. 1,106 crore.


• 3 day long National Cardiology Conference 2019 held in Lucknow.

• ‘African Lion’ is a joint military exercise between Morocco and US.

• Lin Dan, winner of the men’s single title in the 2019 Malaysia Open Badminton tournament.

• Women’s cricket all rounder Elriesa Theunissen-Fourie who died recently, played for South Africa.

• Nobel laureate Sydney Brenner recently passed away. He was associated with Medicine.

• National Handloom Week observed from 7th April to 14th April.

• UK introduces world’s first online safety regulations.

• As per the World Banks projection, the GDP growth of India is expected to be at 7.5% in the fiscal year 2019-20.

• Dhanush, India's first indigenously built long range artillery gun inducted by the Army.

• Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) along with Sky Running Association of India organized the National Sky Running Championship at Mountaineering and Skiing Institute of ITBP at Auli in Uttarakhand.

• Two Indian naval ships — INS ‘Kolkata’ and ‘Shakti’ — would take part in the Chinese Navy’s 70th anniversary of celebrations.

• Vikramjit Sahney was elected as the new president of International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) – India.

• Biannual Army Commanders Conference begins in New Delhi.

• Isaak Hayik set a new world record as the world’s oldest person to play in a professional soccer match. He belongs to Israel.

• The National Institutional Rankings Framework list for the best institutes of 2019 has been released by the Ministry of Human Resource Development. The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras has topped the list of higher education institutes.

• Guwahati has become the first ever railway station in the Indian Railways to get an ISO certification from the National Green Tribunal (NGT).

• The Supreme Court has ordered the Election Commission to increase the VVPAT count of one randomly selected electronic voting machine per Assembly constituency to five in the Lok Sabha polls.

• World Homoeopathy Day was observed across the world on April 10 every year.

• London becomes first city to implement 24x7 pollution charge zone.

• Google’s parent company Alphabet was launched its first public drone delivery service in Canberra, Australia.

• SBI cuts interest rate on home loans up to ₹30 Lakh by 10 basic points.

• Rs.1000 crore is the minimum Chest Balance Limit (CBL) specified as per the recent notification of RBI with regards to the minimum standards for setting up of a new Currency Chests.

• According to the IMF report, the GDP of India is expected to grow at 7.3% in 2019-20.

• Karnam Sekar to take over as MD, CEO of Indian Overseas Bank.

• India has topped the world’s remittance receiving nation list in 2018 based on the World Bank’s Migration and Development Report.

• The stock exchange BSE has signed an MoU with HDFC to spread awareness about the benefits of listing on BSE Startups platform.


• IIT Madras in collaboration with General Electric (GE) established India’s first ‘Cold Spray’ SMART (Surface Modification and Additive Research Technologies) Laboratory.

• Bold Kurukshetra 2019 is a joint military exercise being held between the Armies of India and Singapore.

• Dream11 is an Indian online firm related to Games and Sports.

• National Safe Motherhood Day was observed on 11th April.

• Recently, India has built a 25-bed maternity hospital in Nepal under the Government of India's Small Development Projects Scheme.

• The National Green Tribunal has slapped an interim penalty of Rs 100 crore on the Andhra Pradesh government for inaction to prevent illegal sand mining in the state.

• The government has retained the interest rate for General Provident Fund (GPF) and other related schemes at 8 per cent for the April-June quarter.

• IRDAI has mandated all the insurance companies to devise a mechanism for sharing status of claims with policyholders effective from 1 July 2019.

• HDFC Asset Management Co. Ltd ranked 1st in terms of assets under management.

• Benjamin Netanyahu is elected as the Prime Minister of Israeil.

• Vikram Nath was appointed as the first Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court.

• Jean-Michel Lapin was named as the Haiti’s new Prime Minister.

• According to a report released by the United Nations Population Fund, India’s population grew at average annual rate 1.2% between 2010 and 2019.

• Virat Kohli has been named as the ‘Leading Cricketer of Year’ 2019 by Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.

• Smriti Mandhana has been named as the ‘Women’s Leading Cricketer of Year’ 2019 by Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.

• Manpreet Kaur is related to Shot Puts.

• BSNL has collected a record revenue of Rs.6,500 crore from enterprise segment, making it sufficiently funded, which will help in meeting its various requirement.

• India has become YouTube’s largest and fastest growing market with 265 million Indians watching the video-sharing website every month.

• International Day of Human Space Flight was observed across the world on April 12, 2019.

• The UK and the European Union have agreed to extend Brexit until October 31.

• The Nation Green Tribunal (NGT) has formed a Central Monitoring Committee to prepare and enforce national plan to tackle pollution of over 350 river stretches in the country.

• Funtasy11, a fantasy sports platform, has roped in former Indian cricketer Murali Kartik as its brand ambassador.

• Shiv Das Meena has been appointed as the Chairman cum Managing Director (CMD) of National Buildings Construction Corporation (NBCC).

• Recently, Google Pay has announced its partnership with MMTC-PAMP India for buying and selling of gold through the application.

• India and Sweden launched a joint programme that will work towards addressing a range of challenges around smart cities and clean technologies among others.


• The All India Tennis Association (AITA) has signed an MoU with Serbian Tennis Federation (STF) to train Indian junior players under world renowned Serbian coaches.

• Telugu poet K Siva Reddy has been selected for the prestigious Saraswati Samman, 2018 for his collection of poetry titled Pakkaki Ottigilite.

• Deepa Malik has been selected for the New Zealand Prime Minister’s Sir Edmund Hillary Fellowship for 2019.

• Indonesian Eni Nuraeni was named by Asian Athletic Association (AAA) as the best athletic coach in Asia for short-haul run category this year.

• Google launched Anthos, a new open platform from Google Cloud, that lets users run applications from anywhere.

• Veteran Indian motorsport photographer George Francis has passed away.

• PAISALO Digital Limited signed the first co-origination loan agreement with State Bank of India.

• Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) bagged the prestigious ‘AIMA Managing India Award 2019 for outstanding PSU of the year.

• April 7 – 13 - World Allergy Week. Theme - The Global Problem of Food Allergy.

• Gargi Kaul was appointed Secretary, Defence Finance.

• Najma Akhtar becomes New Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia, as the first woman to head the 99-year-old university.

• The festival of harvest Baisakhi is being celebrated with traditional enthusiasm in the northern part of the country.

• Narendra Modi has been conferred with the “Order of Saint Andrew The Apostle”, the highest civilian award of Russia for 2019.

• India has been selected as the Guest of Honour country for the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair (ADIBF) 2019.

• Alice G. Vaidyan received 'CEO of the Year' award at the inaugural edition of ETPrime Women Leadership Awards (ETPWLA) in Mumbai.

• ‘Sabooj Sathi’ Scheme have won the prestigious World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) awards of the United Nations. The scheme is launched in West Bengal.

• Digital payments facilitator PayU has acquired US-based financial technology firm Wibmo for USD 70 million (about Rs 484 crore).

• HDFC Bank has been ranked as the number 1 bank in India for customer satisfaction as per the World’s Best Bank Survey of Forbes for India.

• As per Air Quality in India 2014-2019’ report, Kanpur ranked 1st as the most polluted city.

• India’s first-of-its-kind ‘Voter Park’ was inaugurated in Gurugram.

• The 2019 Ambedkar Jayanti marked the 128th birth anniversary of the Father of Indian Constitution.

• India marked the 100th anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 2019.

• The 21st ASEAN-India Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) was held in New Delhi.

• The Spring Meeting 2019 of the Boards of Governors of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was held in Washington DC, US.

• Mohammed Ishtaye sworn in as new Prime Minister of Palestine.


• Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone has been selected for the 2019 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano Press Freedom Prize.

• Dr. A K Singh conferred with Lifetime Achievement Award during 4th APJ Abdul Kalam Innovation Conclave at Chandigarh University, Mohali.

• John Moore won the World Press Photo of the Year award.

• UAE is going to host the world’s foremost Artificial Intelligence Summit.

• The Department of Telecom (DoT) approved the merger of Tata Teleservices and Bharti Airtel.

• The first ever test flight of the world’s largest airplane named Stratolaunch took place in California.

• The FICCI Ladies Organization (FLO) has partnered with Bharti Airtel to launch a mobile app named My Circle for women’s safety.

• Recently released book ‘Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid’ is authored by Jeff Kinney.

• ‘Ashakiranam,’ an autobiography of noted social worker Sankurathri Chandrasekhar, was released at a function.

• Lewis Hamilton won the Chinese Grand Prix to seize the overall lead from his Mercedes team mate Valtteri Bottas in Formula One’s 1,000th world championship.

• Meena Kumari Maisnam is an Indian player related to Boxing.

• FC Goa has won the 2019 Indian Super Cup of Football.

• Kento Momota is the winner of the men’s single title at the 2019 Singapore Open.

• Hindi poet Pradeep Choubey has passed away.

• Inzamam-ul-Haq and Mark Boucher, the former South Africa wicketkeeper, were made Honorary Life Members of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).

• June 30 is the deadline set by CBDT for its officers to dispose of all cases related to demonetization where assessment is required to be framed.

• EsselWorld Launches India’s First Foreign Interactive Bird Park in Mumbai.

• Project Kannamma is the initiative of the Rotary Club of Madras North to provide sanitary napkins to the students.

• One of the most popular festivals of the state Rongali Bihu festival is celebrated in Assam.

• R. Mohan has been choosed as the new part-time chairman of City Union Bank Ltd.

• Mike Budenholzer has been named the National Basketball Coaches Association’s 2019 Coach of the Year.

• M. Venkaiah Naidu addressed at the 4th Resilient Cities Asia-Pacific Congress 2019, organized by the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, in New Delhi.

• India successfully test-fired its first indigenously designed and developed long-range subsonic cruise missile ‘Nirbhay’ from a test range in Odisha.

• Marine Lizard, world’s first armed amphibious drone boat, was recently tested by China.

• American professional golfer Tiger Woods clinched his fifth Masters and an overall 15th major title, after winning 2019 Masters Tournament held at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia.

• Indian sports person Harsheel Dani is related to Badminton.


• Christian Garin won his ATP title in the final of the US Men’s Clay Court Championships in Houston. He hails from Chile.

• Renowned space scientist and former Indian Space Research Organization Satellite Center (ISAC) director Dr SK Shivakumar passed away.

• India is joining hands with Japan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to implement two projects in Africa as it seeks to extend its footprint on the continent.

• Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States. South Florida Sun-Sentinel newspaper won the prize in the Public service category.

• World Haemophilia Day was observed on 17 April every year.

• Google opens first Artificial Intelligence lab in Ghana.

• ADB committed to provide USD 3 billion in sovereign loans to India in 2018.

• The Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT), an arm of Reserve Bank of India, has launched a 5G Use Cases Lab for banking and financial sector. IDRBT is headquarted at Hyderabad.

• The Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) living in nearly 40 countries will now be able to open account in IDBI Bank without submitting paper documents.

• The 8th edition of Home Expo India 2019 was hosted by Greater Noida.

• Two Indian banks have been honored with the Celent Model Bank 2019 Awards.

• Punjab National Bank (PNB) has appointed Rajesh Kumar Yaduvanshi as the Executive Director of the bank.

• PwC has named Padmaja Alaganandan as its new chief people officer.

• Mithali Raj was named as the goodwill ambassador at the Street Child Cricket World Cup.

• Bus ticketing platform redBus has appointed Mahendra Singh Dhoni as its brand ambassador.

• World Health Organization (WHO) raised alarm over a 300 % increase in the case of measles globally in the first quarter of 2019 compared with last year.

• World Heritage Day observed on April 18.

• Singapore’s Changi Airport has long been touted as the “best airport in the world.”

• Canara Bank has become the first to shift to EMV chip cards as per RBI Mandate.

• The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank are launching their own blockchain and digital currency to familiarize staff with the concepts.

• India’s largest app for financial services, ETMONEY has integrated Unified Payment Interface (UPI) as a payment method on its platform.

• Bandhan Bank has received approval from the Competition Commission of India (CCI) for the proposed scheme of amalgamation of Gruh Finance with the bank.

• Sanjay Kumar, Indian who has been appointed in geospatial advisory committee by US.

• Jaideep Sarkar has been appointed as India's next High Commissioner to South Africa.

• The second edition of the bilateral maritime exercise between Indian Navy and Vietnam Peoples’ Navy (IN – VPN BILAT EX) took place at Cam Ranh Bay.

• Three Indians have been listed in the list of Time 100 Most Influential People 2019.

• The novel titled “Quichotte” has been written by Salman Rushdie.


• NepaliSat-1, the first satellite launched by Nepal.

• Raavana-1, the first satellite launched by Sri Lanka.

• Bank of Maharashtra has partnered with M1Xchange Trade Receivables Discounting System (TReDS) platform for MSME bill discounting.

• IIT Hyderabad has signed a MoU with Japanese firm Terra Drone Corporation and its Indian subsidiary to set up a first-of-its-kind Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or drones, Terra Drone India.

• The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has imposed a hefty fine of one lakh seventy-six thousand Euros on Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) for not honouring the Pro League commitments.

• Son of late ND Tiwari, Rohit Shekhar Tiwari, who passed away recently, was the member of BJP.

• Indiabulls General Insurance Company has received preliminary approval from regulator IRDAI to foray into non-life business.

• First Earth-Size planet, HD 21749b discovered recently by NASAs TESS Exoplanet Mission.

• ICGS Veera, the third offshore patrol vessels (OPV) of the Indian Coast Guard commissioned recently.

• Saudi government raises India's Haj quota to Rs.2 lakh from one lakh seventy five-thousand.

• Srei Equipment Finance Ltd (SEFL) and Bank of Baroda have entered into a co-lending arrangement for infrastructure equipment.

• Exim Bank has provided soft loans of approximately 266 million USD to Rwanda for various projects.

• Cholamandalam MS General Insurance gets ISO 31000:2018 certification. S. S. Gopalarathnam is the managing director of the company.

• Deutsche Bank appointed Kaushik Shaparia as the chief executive officer for India to succeed Ravneet Gill.

• Suhel Ajaz Khan appointed as the next Ambassador of India to Lebanon.

• India ranked 140th in the World Press Freedom Index 2019.

• The book containing English translation of the Punjabi poem, ‘Khooni Vaisakhi’ was launched in UAE.

• India’s Bajrang Punia has regained the world number one spot in the men’s 65-kilogram freestyle category rankings.

• NASA astronaut Christina Koch is going to have her mission on the International Space Station (ISS) extended to 328 days.

• World Liver Day observed on April 19.

• India observes the Civil Service Day on April 21.

• World Creativity and Innovation Day celebrated on April 21.

• World Earth Day was observed on 22nd April.

• Paytm Payments Bank has appointed Sairee Chahal to its board of Directors.

• The Royal Society of London has announced a list of 51 eminent scientists elected to its fellowship in the year 2019. Among these are Gagandeep Kang, who is now with the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad.


• Yusuf Hamied has been elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society, U.K. for his service to the cause of science.

• Indian-American Professor Sree Sreenath inducted into Cleveland International Hall of Fame.

• Kerala Agricultural Universities IPR cell has been selected for the National Intellectual Property Award 2019.

• Malayalam film Bhayanakam directed by Jayaraj won the best cinematography award at the Beijing International Film Festival.

• Sri Lanka is the partner country to join for the 25th CARAT Exercise Series between the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps.

• India and France will conduct their largest ever naval exercise ‘Varuna’ in May 2019.

• The new guided missile destroyer INS Imphal that is launched by Navy chief recently.

• Airtel Payments Bank ties up with Bharti AXA for two wheeler insurance.

• The mobile application Voter Turnout app that has recently launched by The Election Commission of India (ECI).

• Chandigarh will host the 18th Asian Billiards, the 20th Under-21 Asian Snooker Championship and the 3rd Ladies Asian Snooker Championship from April 27 to May 3.

• Santosh trophy is associated with Football.

• Scotland all-rounder Con de Lange lost his long battle with brain tumour and passed away, aged 38.

• Rama Sengupta Paul who died recently was a well known Mountaineer.

• World Book and Copyright Day observed on 23rd April.

• The UAE Cabinet has approved the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy to become global leader in artificial intelligence by 2031.

• The Foundation Stone Laying Ceremony (Shilanyas Vidhi) of the first traditional Hindu Mandir in UAE was held in Abu Dhabi.

• Kotak Mahindra Bank has become the first Destination Bank to go live with Net Banking and Debit Card-based e-mandate.

• SBI General Insurance Company launches cyber defence insurance for businesses.

• The Asian Tea Alliance (ATA) is a union of Five Asian countries to promote tea trade.

• Sunil Kumar Gautam has won the Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant Award for 2018-19.

• Manish Maheshwari has been appointed as the new Managing Director of Twitter India.

• Volodymyr Zelensky has recently won the Presidential election of Ukraine.

• Former Cricketer Ravi Shastri appointed as Ras Al Khaimah Economic Zone (RAKEZ) exclusive Corporate Ambassador to the Indian Business Community.

• India was ranked at 19 out of 28 countries in Index of Cancer Preparedness (ICP) released by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).

• India’s largest IT services company Tata Consultancy Services has deployed an integrated solution for India Post that has helped modernize a network of more than 1.5 lakh post offices in the country.

• India was ranked 17th position among 100 countries in Startup Ecosystem Ranking for 2019 released by StartupBlink.


• AYUSH- Ayurveda, Yoga & naturopathy, Unani, Siddha & Homoeopathy.

• MOU was signed between the Ministry of AYUSH and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi for cooperation in research and education in areas of traditional systems of medicine and its integration with modern science.

• National Panchayati Raj Day was observed on 24th April.

• State-owned Allahabad Bank the government has increased its authorized capital by Rs. 5,000 crore to Rs. 8,000 crore.

• Rs 50,000 is the new Minimum subscription requirement for Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) as defined by SEBI.

• The Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards are presented annually to honor extraordinary work in Business Program.

• The London School of Economics has recently created a new Chair in Inequality Studies under the name of Amartya Sen (famous economist).

• Uday Kumar Varma, a former bureaucrat who took over as the Secretary General of Assocham in August last year, has resigned from the post.

• Vikas Khhana, the star chef who has been named brand ambassador of a leading cultural organization which will organize the annual New York Indian Film Festival next month.

• Indian Ambassador presented 100 motorized wheelchairs to the Afghan National Army (ANA). Vinay Kumar is the current Ambassador to Afghanistan.

• Ministry of Ayush and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has signed MoU for cooperation in Research and Education of traditional system of medicines.

• Syndicate Bank and BEML have signed a MoU for financing Earth Moving & Construction Equipment manufactured by BEML.

• Services Football Team has won the 6th Santosh Trophy Football Tournament title that held in Guru Nanak Stadium, Ludhiana.

• April 24 is observed as the International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace.

• World Malaria Day is an international event observed every year on 25 April. Theme – Zero malaria starts with me.

• Malawi has launched the world’s first and only vaccine for malaria.

• Indonesia released a special commemorative stamp on the theme of Ramayana to mark the 70th anniversary of diplomatic ties with India.

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to name a new settlement in the Golden heights after US President Donald Trump.

• Russia has successfully tested the world’s first floating nuclear power plant (NPP), Akademik Lomonosova subsidiary of Rosatom nuclear corporation.

• Cyril Almeida has been named as the 71st World Press Freedom Hero by the International Press Institute (IPI).

• Benny Antony has been conferred with the National Intellectual Property Award for 2019 in the category of Top Individual for Patents and Commercialization.

• For the first time, Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana missed its loan disbursement target in FY19 by Rs 27000.

• State Bank of India has launched India’s first ‘Green Car Loan’ to encourage customers to buy electric vehicles.


• The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has divested its entire stake in NABARD and National Housing Bank (NHB) for Rs. 20 crore and Rs. 1,450 crore, on 26 February and 19 March, respectively. With this, the Government of India now holds 100% stake in both the financial institutions.

• Chinese telecom company Huawei’s business arm, Huawei Cloud, signed a memorandum on strategic cooperation to jointly develop solutions around cloud computing services for business organizations with Infosys.

• Tchap, government only chat app that is launched by France government.

• Jhulan Goswami, world’s leading wicket-taker in women’s one-day internationals, was awarded the ‘Best Sportsperson’ award by the Calcutta Sports Journalists’ Club.

• Punekar Puranik Yogendra first ethnic Indian to win Japan election. He belongs to Pune.

• World Intellectual Property Day was observed on 26th April.

• The Reserve Bank of India is the first central bank in the Asia-Pacific region to begin an explicit interest rate easing cycle.

• IndusInd Bank has received the approval from National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) recently to merge with the NBFC Bharat Financial Inclusion.

• BuyUcoin, Indian cryptocurrency exchange which has launched first of its kind wholesale cryptocurrency trading platform.

• The UAE’s flag carrier Etihad Airways has become the first airline in the Gulf region to operate a flight without any single-use plastics on board.

• Ex-army chief Dalbir Singh Suhag appointed as India high commissioner to Seychelles.

• Mini Ipe has become the first female to be appointed as the Zonal Manager of Life Insurance Corporation of India for South Central Zone.

• Salim Khan has been honored with the Master Deenanath Mangeshkar Lifetime Award 2019.

• The second edition of Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize was awarded to author Rana Dasgupta for his 2010 novel “Solo”, a tale of estrangement and the ultimate failure of material existence.

• 5th Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) Media Summit on Climate Action and Disaster Preparedness began in Kathmandu.

• 17 medals have been won by India at the 2019 Doha Asian Athletics Championships.

• Saurabh Chaudhary is an Indian athlete related to 10 metres Air Pistol.

• April 24-30 - World Immunization Week 2019. Theme - Protected Together: Vaccines Work.

• The Finance Ministry has approved 8.65 per cent rate of interest on Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) for 2018-19.

• The Indian Council of Medical Research has launched the ‘Malaria Elimination Research Alliance (MERA) India’ – a conglomeration of partners working on malaria control – in order to prioritise, plan and scale up research to eliminate the disease from India by 2030.

• RBI to introduce new Rs. 20 banknote. 63 mm x 129 mm is the Dimension of the new Rs 20 denomination banknote.

• Microsoft becomes world's third company to be worth $1 trillion.

• Javier Perez Tasso has been named as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of SWIFT.

• Japan scientists have succeeded in creating what they called the first ever artificial crater on an asteroid, a step towards shedding light on how the solar system evolved.


• Wirecard, the global innovation leader in digital financial technology, has tied up with RBL Bank, to promote financial inclusion in India.

• Aegon Life Insurance Company has joined with MobiKwik to launch an Rs 20 smart digital insurance product.

• India’s ace cueist Pankaj Advani defeated Ehsan Heydari Nezhad of Iran 6-4 to claim the inaugural Asian Snooker Tour title.

• Stéphanie Frappart who recently became the first female referee hails from France.

• World Day for Safety and Health at Work celebrated on April 28.

• World Veterinary Day is observed on 28 April globally to raise awareness in the public about the important roles veterinarian’s plays. Theme - Value of Vaccination.

• The government has hiked the customs duty on wheat to 40 percent from 30 percent to curb imports and protect the domestic industry.

• The second edition of Belt and Road Forum (BRF) was held in Beijing, China.

• 31 December 2019 is the new deadline for entities with net worth of above Rs.10000 million to implement Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) for participation in non-derivative markets.

• The NBFC Ombudsman Scheme 2018 has been extended to Non-Deposit Taking Non-Banking Financial Companies with assets size of Rs 100 crore and above.

• SEBI has reduced the minimum Net worth Requirements for Clearing Corporations in International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) over a period of three years from the commencement of operations to Rs 100 crore.

• Canara Bank has launched the life insurance product ‘Webassurance’ in collaboration with its insurance partner for the banks customers.

• IRDAI forms panel to review microinsurance framework. Suresh Mathur is the chairman of the committee.

• The Max Bupa Health insurance company has tied up with HDFC Bank to launch AnyTimeHealth (ATH) machines.

• Jacques Kallis has been honoured with the Order of Ikhamanga in the Silver Division.

• Indian Army signed an MoU with National Hydroelectric Power Corporation Limited (NHPC) to construct tunnels on borders with China and Pakistan for storage of ammunition and other war-related equipment.

• Australia’s Claire Polosak will create history as the first woman umpire ever to stand in a men’s One-Day International when she takes the field in the final of the ICC World Cricket League Division 2.

• Gaganjeet Bhullar won the Outstanding Achievement as a Player award at the annual India Golf Industry Association (GIA) award 2019.

• Abhishek Verma is an Indian player related to Shooting.

• Ace table tennis player A Sharath Kamal was honoured with the Sportsperson of the Year Award at the annual awards and scholarships function organized by the Tamil Nadu Sports Journalists’ Association (TNSJA) and the India Cements.

• Negasso Gidada who passed away recently was the former President of Ethiopia.

• Pungam Kannan who passed away recently was a former player of Football.

• Valtteri Bottas won the Azerbaijan Grand Prix 2019.

• International Workers’ Memorial Day observed on April 28.


• International Dance Day celebrated on April 29.

• Ayushman Bharat Diwas was observed on 30th April.

• Environmental Ministry forms panel for effective implementation of NCAP. C K Mishra is the chairman of the committee.

• Wipro acquires Philippines largest personal care company Splash Corporation.

• Dilip Kumar has been appointed as the Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in the office of Lokpal.

• Isac Doru has been appointed as the technical director by AIFF for the Indian National football team.

• Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria has been appointed as the new Vice Chief of Indian Air Force to take office from May 01, 2019.

• The SCO Defence Ministers’ Meet 2019 has been organized in Kyrgyzstan.

• Bajrang Punia becomes first Indian wrestler to fight at New York's iconic Madison Square Garden.

• Kento Momota won the men’s single title at the 2019 Badminton Asia Championships.

• Dominic Thiem has won the 2019 Barcelona Open.

• Petra Kvitova has won the Stuttgart’s Porsche Grand Prix 2019. She represents Czech Republic.

• Chaudhary Vidyasagarwho passed away recently was a Politician by profession.

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MODEL QUESTIONS 1. When is the World Intellectual Property Day celebrated?

(1) 2nd April (2) 10th April (3) 17th April (4) 26th April (5) None of these 2. When is the Ayushman Bharat Diwas celebrated in India?

(1) April 29 (2) April 30 (3) May 1 (4) May 2 (5) None of these

3. ------ to inject USD 5 billion more liquidity into banking system (1) Reserve Bank of India (2) Canara bank (3) Yes Bank (4) Dena Bank (5) None of these

4. ------- issues norms for banks to set up currency chests (1) State Bank of India (2) Reserve Bank of India (3) Corporation Bank (4) Canara Bank (5) None of these

5. RBI is to issue ₹20 denomination banknotes. It bears the signature of ________.

(1) Ram Nath Kovind (2) Narendra Modi (3) Shaktikanta Das (4) Urjit Patel (5) None of these

6. The new ₹20 denomination banknote has a motif of ________ on the reverse, depicting the

country's cultural heritage. (1) Ellora Caves (2) Ajanta Caves (3) Agra Fort (4) Fatehpur Sikri (5) None of these

7. SBI cut interest rate on home loans up to Rs 30 lakh by ____ bps.

(1) 8 (2) 10 (3) 7 (4) 9 (5) None of these 8. With which Bank did NTPC sign to raise Rs.2000 crore?

(1) SBI (2) Canara Bank (3) HDFC (4) IDBI Bank (5) None of these


9. Which private sector bank has tied up with CreditVidya for improving customer experience? (1) Dhanlaxmi Bank (2) RBL Bank (3) City Union Bank (4) Tamilnad Mercantile Bank (5) None of these

10. Which of the following Bank has rolled out new functionality to support EMV card acquiring

across its ATM network and Aadhaar Authentication? (1) ICICI Bank (2) TamilNad Mercantile Bank (3) HDFC Bank (4) Canara Bank (5) None of these

11. Non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) and microfinance companies (MFIs) raised about

Rs.26,200 crore through ________. (1) Forex swap (2) OMO (3) Securitization (4) Recapitalization (5) None of these

12. ECI launched _________

(1) Voter Turnout App (2) Citizen Voter Services (3) Electoral - Mobile Seva (4) Voter Helpline (5) None of these

13. Centre turned down _______ request for paramilitary forces.

(1) J&K (2) Uttar Pradesh (3) West Bengal (4) Tamil Nadu (5) None of these 14. Which of the following State has introduced the braille-enabled ballot papers at all polling

booths? (1) Assam (2) Meghalaya (3) Himachal Pradesh (4) Uttar Pradesh (5) None of these

15. Which state Introduces seven doctors to contest LS elections this time? (1) Maharashtra (2) Andhra Pradesh (3) TamilNadu (4) Kerala (5) None of these

16. ------- celebrates Bengali New Year's day (1) West Bengal (2) Kerala (3) Andhra Pradesh (4) Himachal Pradesh (5) None of these

17. ----------- remembers Marshal of the Air Force Arjan Singh on his birth centenary (1) President Ram Nath Kovind (2) Shri Suresh rajan (3) Shri Rajesh Sharma (4) Shri Prakash Javedakar (5) None of these

18. When was the State Himachal Pradesh formed? (1) 1971 (2) 1948 (3) 1964 (4) 1949 (5) None of these

19. Where is the headquarters of India Meteorological Department located?

(1) Kolkata (2) Mumbai (3) Hyderabad (4) New Delhi (5) None of these

20. Where is the headquarters of CRISIL located? (1) Mumbai (2) New Delhi (3) Hyderabad (4) Kolkata (5) None of these

21. In which State is Zojila located? (1) Himachal Pradesh (2) Assam (3) J&K (4) Punjab (5) None of these

22. After the Easter attacks in Sri Lanka, the Country's Defence Secretary took responsibility for the

disaster and resigned his position is _________. (1) Hemasiri Fernando (2) D. M.Jayaratne (3) Dingiri Banda (4) Ratnasiri Wickremanayake (5) None of these


23. Where was the month-long Indo-US military exercise held? (1) Kolkata (2) Hyderabad (3) New Delhi (4) Delhi (5) None of these

24. When did Yemeni Civil War begin? (1) 2011 (2) 2015 (3) 2012 (4) 2013 (5) None of these

25. Which Indian Navy Ship will take part in Chinese Navy’s 70th anniversary celebrations? (1) INS Ranvijay (2) INS Vikramaditya (3) INS Shakti (4) INS Gomati (5) None of these

26. Which of the following Naval Ship was decommissioned after three decades of service? (1) INS Arihant (2) INS Chakra (3) INS Sindhurashtra (4) INS Kozhikode (5) None of these

27. _________ sought the response from the Cabinet Committee on Security on a plea seeking directions to remove the dual control of Assam Rifles and bring it under the Ministry of Defence. (1) J&K HC (2) Delhi HC (3) Assam HC (4) Meghalaya HC (5) None of these

28. Which of the following is controlled by Ministry defence and Ministry of Home Affairs? (1) Central Reserve Police Force (2) J&K Security Force (3) Assam Rifles (4) Border Security Force (5) None of these

29. What was the name of the 3rd guided missile destroyer, which was launched recently under project 15B? (1) INS Imphal (2) INS Visakhapatnam (3) INS Mormugao (4) INS Kochi (5) None of these

30. What is the current status of Indian Army in inducting women as jawans?

(1) Started to induct (2) It will not induct (3) Discussion is still on (4) All of the above (5) None of these

31. Indian Army is to procure ________ from Israel and ________ from Russia for emergency procurements sanctioned by the Defence Ministry. (1) Spike NLOS Anti-Tank Missiles, 9K32 Strela-2 (2) Spike-MR Anti-Tank Missiles, 9K38 Igla (3) Spike-LR II Anti-Tank Missiles, 2K12 Kub (4) Spike-LR Anti-Tank Missiles, Igla-S VSHORAD (5) None of these

32. _________ has set up a 13 member committee to review the regulatory framework on

microinsurance & recommend measures. (1) IRDAI (2) AAI (3) SEBI (4) NABARD (5) None of these

33. --launched Modi Again and Saffron Swords.

(1) Garuda Prakashan (2) Suresh Kumar (3) Naresh Karthick (4) Vikram Kumar (5) None of these

34. FAME II scheme has made compulsory for electric vehicles to feature_________ localization for

receiving subsidies (1) 50% (2) 38% (3) 42% (4) 95% (5) None of these

35. Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) was launched in ___________. (1) 2016 (2) 2012 (3) 2014 (4) 2015 (5) None of these


36. Ministry of Home Affairs introduced SAECKs to carry out immediate investigations into sexual assault cases. What does SAECK stand for? (1) Social Assault Enforcement and Captive Kits (2) Sexual Assault Evidence Collection Kits (3) Sterile Action and forensic Evidence Collection Kits (4) Sexual Action Evidence Collection Kits (5) None of these

37. Which of the following is to organize NuGen Mobility Summit, 2019?

(1) Automobile Association of India (AAI) (2) Global Society of Automobile Manufacturers (GSAM) (3) Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) (4) International Centre for Automotive Technology (ICAT) (5) None of these

38. Where was the Global Conference on Synergies between the 2030 Agenda and Paris Agreement held? (1) Vienna, Austria (2) Copenhagen, Denmark (3) Stockholm, Sweden (4) Rome, Italy (5) None of these

39. The Asian Tea Alliance (ATA), a union of five tea-growing and consuming countries, was launched in _______. (1) Japan (2) India (3) China (4) Indonesia (5) None of these

40. With which organization did Indian Navy sign for its advanced technologies?

(1) Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) (2) Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) (3) Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) (4) Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) (5) None of these

41. With which of the following did the All India Tennis Association (AITA)sign MoU to train Indian junior players? (1) Korean Tennis Federation (KTF) (2) Serbian Tennis Federation (STF) (3) Cyprus Tennis Federation (CTF) (4) Cuban Tennis Federation (CTF) (5) None of these

42. ------- Government to place bill for ratification of BBIN initiative at its upper senate

(1) Bhutan (2) TamilNadu (3) Kerala (4) West Bengal (5) None of these 43. Which company bagged $321 million project from Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL)?

(1) Torrent Power Ltd (2) Reliance Industries (3) JSW Energy Ltd (4) Tata Projects (5) None of these

44. Saudi Arabia has increased the Haj quota of India from 1,75,000 to _________. (1) 3 Lakhs (2) 2 Lakhs (3) 2.5 Lakhs (4) 3.5 Lakhs (5) None of these

45. The rupee has plunged to close at ______ against the U.S. dollar after the RBI cut the interest rate

(1) 65.15 (2) 63.21 (3) 69.17 (4) 72.38 (5) None of these

46. IMF cut India growth forecast for 2019-20 to _______ per cent. (1) 7.1 (2) 7.3 (3) 7.5 (4) 7.8 (5) None of these


47. What technology did Hyundai launch in India that will allow users to interact with their cars using voice? (1) Predictive Automobile Technology (2) Automatic High-Beam control (3) Versatile Cruise Control (4) BlueLink connectivity feature (5) None of these

48. Google on April 2, 2019, officially shut down its social media platform Google+, which was

launched in _______. (1) 2007 (2) 2009 (3) 2013 (4) 2011 (5) None of these

49. Google launched its 1st drone delivery service in ________. (1) Finland (2) United States (3) Japan (4) Australia (5) None of these

50. Cholamandalam MS General Insurance got ISO 31000:2018 certification. The Certificate is valid for a period of _______-. (1) 2 years (2) 4 years (3) 3 years (4) 1 year (5) None of these

51. European Union has launched World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute against India over

import duties on ________. (1) IT products (2) Healthcare items (3) Medicines (4) Beauty products (5) None of these

52. Which of the following U.S program provides preferential duty-free entry from 129 designated beneficiary countries and territories? (1) Trade Policy and Negotiations (TPN) (2) Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) (3) Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) (4) All of the above (5) None of these

53. What is India's status with the USA's Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) program? (1) Expired status (2) Not eligible for GSP status (3) GSP status applicable (4) All of the above (5) None of these

54. Which department Proposes New Rules To Tax MNCs And Digital Firms In India (1) Income Tax Department (2) Ministry of Commerce and Industry (3) Ministry of Civil Aviation (4) Ministry of Agriculture (5) None of these

55. The anti-satellite (ASAT) test, Mission Shakti, covers all satellite in _________.

(1) Low Earth Orbit (LEO) (2) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) (3) Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) (4) Cosmotic Earth Orbit (CEO) (5) None of these

56. ___________ captured the first-ever image of Black hole?

(1) Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO) (2) Spitzer Space Telescope (SST) (3) Hubble Space Telescope (HST) (4) Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) (5) None of these


57. Astronomers captured the first-ever image of a black hole in a galaxy known as _________. (1) Bode's Galaxy (2) Centaurus A (3) Messier 87 (M87) (4) Small Magellanic Cloud (NGC 292) (5) None of these

58. NASA announced that SpaceX will fly its DART planetary-defence mission. What does stand for?

(1) Dashboard Asteroid Replenary Test (2) Double Asteroid Redirection Test (3) Direct Attack and Reversal Traverse (4) Defined Anterior Remote Tracker (5) None of these

59. Which of the following is to test Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) planetary-defence

mission? (1) JAXA (2) Israel Space Agency (3) ISRO (4) Space X (5) None of these

60. Nepal launched its first satellite NepaliSat-1 from which country? (1) Germany (2) Russia (3) India (4) United States (5) None of these

61. Which of the following mission of NASA recently recorded marsquake, a quake on the planet Mars? (1) MAVEN (2) Mars Orbiter Mission (3) Curiosity (4) InSight (5) None of these

62. Which of the following is a mission to Mercury? (1) Cassini–Huygens mission (2) Voyager 2 mission (3) Parker mission (4) BepiColombo mission (5) None of these

63. Six new spider species belongings to genus Habrocestum spotted in ________.

(1) Assam (2) Tamil Nadu (3) Mizoram (4) Kerala (5) None of these

64. The new state of physical matter where atoms can exist as both solid and liquid at the same time which was found while examining potassium is known as _________. (1) Semi-melted state (2) Bose–Einstein condensate (3) Plasma state (4) Chain-melted state (5) None of these

65. ------ vaccinations launched in post-cyclone Mozambique

(1) Cholera (2) Malaria (3) Swine Flu (4) Aids (5) None of these

66. Which of the following is the world's most advanced experimental vaccine to provide partial protection against malaria in young children? (1) RTS,S vaccine (2) Varicella vaccine (3) DTaP vaccine (4) Polysaccharide vaccine (5) None of these

67. Which Country is to undertake malaria vaccine in a bid to prevent the disease that kills young children across Africa and Asia? (1) Uganda (2) Algeria (3) Nigeria (4) Malawi (5) None of these

68. ------ Indraprastha Gas To Offer Integrated Services

(1) Tata Power (2) Regen Powertech Pvt. Ltd (3) Suzlon Energy Limited (4) Enercon India Pvt. (5) None of these

69. What grade of fuel did Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL) introduce in 2019? (1) BS-IV grade (2) BS-V grade (3) BS-VI grade (4) BS-VII grade (5) None of these


70. US _________ to extend the sanctions waiver for India to import crude from Iran. (1) accepted (2) refused (3) did not respond (4) All of these (5) None of these

71. India is to stop importing crude from _________ as US refused to extend the sanctions waiver. (1) Iran (2) Saudi Arabia (3) Kuwait (4) Mexico (5) None of these

72. Which of the following is the basic standards set by the government to regulate the emission of

air pollutants from motor vehicles? (1) Bharat Stage norms (2) Indian Oil Stage norms (3) ONGC Stage norms (4) GAIL Stage norms (5) None of these

73. The Bharat stage norms are based on _______. (1) American Norms (2) Anglo norms (3) Asian norms (4) Euro norms (5) None of these

74. India Meteorological Department (IMD) issues colour-coded warnings to alert the public ahead of severe or hazardous weather conditions. Yellow Colour code indicates ______. (1) be updated (2) no warning (3) be prepared (4) Take action (5) None of these

75. Which of the following is to set up a Central Monitoring Committee to ensure the implementation of action plan meant for reducing pollution? (1) Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) (2) National Green Tribunal (NGT) (3) Supreme Court of India (SC) (4) National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) (5) None of these

76. Government has given red alert on 30th April to States namely India, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Odisha for the _________. (1) Cyclone Ockhi (2) Cyclone Fani (3) Cyclone Sagar (4) Cyclone Pabuk (5) None of these

77. Aoleang, also called Mini Hornbill festival is celebrated in _________.

(1) Himachal Pradesh (2) Nagaland (3) Meghalaya (4) Assam (5) None of these

78. Which of the following received licence from the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to

provide Internet and mobile services on flights? (1) Bharti Airtel (2) Hughes Communications India Ltd. (3) BSNL (4) Vistara (5) None of these

79. The Department of Telecom (DoT) approved for the merger of Tata Teleservices (TTSL) with _________. (1) Vodafone Idea Limited (2) Jio (3) BSNL (4) Bharti Airtel (5) None of these

80. Who was appointed as ICC Chief Executive with immediate effect?

(1) Wavell Hinds (2) Manu Sawhney (3) Alistair Nicholson (4) Vikram Solanki (5) None of these

81. Who is elected as the Chicago’s first openly gay Mayor as well as the first African-American woman? (1) Lori Lightfoot (2) Toni Preckwinkle (3) Bill de Blasio (4) Andrew Cuomo (5) None of these


82. Who is the current MD and CEO of Ujjivan Small Finance Bank? (1) Samit Ghosh (2) Nitin Chugh (3) Sunil Patel (4) Nandlal Sarda (5) None of these

83. Jean Michel Lapin elected as the new prime minister of __________. (1) Belize (2) Jamaica (3) Panama (4) Haiti (5) None of these

84. Who was named as the brand ambassador of a fantasy sports platform, Funtasy11? (1) Murali Kartik (2) Gautam Gambhir (3) Suresh Raina (4) Hardik Pandya (5) None of these

85. Alan Garcia shot himself in the head to avoid arrest in Odebrecht probe. He was the former Prime

Minister of _____. (1) Brazil (2) Chile (3) Peru (4) Israel (5) None of these

86. Who is designated as Member (Signal & Telecom) of Railway Board

(1) Shri N. Kashinath (2) Shri Suresh Kumar (3) Shri Vikram Singh (4) Shri Naresh Kumar (5) None of these

87. Who Chairs at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) for research on inequality? (1) Amartya Sen (2) Naresh kumar (3) Suresh rajan (4) Rajesh Sharma (5) None of these

88. Who is the president of Egypt? (1) Mahmoud El-Sharif (2) Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (3) Mostafa Madbouly (4) Hassan Rouhani (5) None of these

89. Which company appointed Manish Maheshwari as new Managing Director of its India

operations? (1) Google (2) Twitter (3) Facebook (4) Whatsapp (5) None of these

90. Who is the Chairman of Insurance Regulatory & Development Authority of India (IRDAI)?

(1) Pravin Kutumbe (2) Subhash Chandra Khuntia (3) Sujay Banarji (4) Nilesh Sathe (5) None of these

91. Who was appointed as the Defence Secretary of Sri Lanka?

(1) Pujith Jayasundara (2) Chandana Wickramaratne (3) S.H.S Kottegoda (4) It is vacant (5) None of these

92. ______ Finance Minister Asad Umar resigns

(1) Indonesia (2) Paksitan (3) Saudi Arabia (4) South Africa (5) None of these 93. Which of the Sri Lankan IGP resigned after the deadly Easter bomb attcks?

(1) Chandra Fernando (2) Victor Perera (3) Pujith Jayasundara (4) Jayantha Wickramarathne (5) None of these

94. Pungam Kannan who passed away recently is associated with _________.

(1) Hockey (2) Football (3) Basketball (4) Athletics (5) None of these 95. Who instituted the Next Billion Edtech Prize 2019?

(1) Open Society Foundations (2) UK-based Varkey Foundation (3) US-based William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (4) United Nations Foundation (5) None of these


96. Which of the following has bagged the Next Billion Edtech Prize 2019? (1) Dost Education (2) Byju's Ed Tech (3) Disha's Technology (4) Lurning Education (5) None of these

97. Which of the following is awarded for excellence in newspaper journalism, literary achievements, musical composition? (1) Nobel Prize (2) Abel Prize (3) Pulitzer Prize (4) Oscar Awards (5) None of these

98. Which of the following won the Pulitzer Prizes for Trump probes? (1) New York Times and The Wall Street Journal (2) The New Yorker and Family Circle (3) Time and People (4) All of the above (5) None of these

99. Which popular scriptwriter won the Master Deenanath Mangeshkar Award 2019? (1) Javed Akhtar (2) Salim Khan (3) Mani Ratnam (4) Rajkumar Hirani (5) None of these

100. Which popular National Award-winning filmmaker won the Master Deenanath Mangeshkar

Award 2019? (1) Jayaraj (2) Rajesh Mapuskar (3) Sanjay Leela Bhansali (4) Madhur Bhandarkar (5) None of these

101. _________ has been honoured with the Order of Ikhamanga in the Silver Division. (1) Jacques Kallis (2) Gra Kirsten (3) Chester Williams (4) Eric Simons (5) None of these

102. Who was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize 2019? (1) Al Gore (2) Alfred Brownell (3) Bill McKibben (4) James Lovelock (5) None of these

103. Which of the following is the governing body of tennis in India?

(1) Indian Tennis Federation (ITF) (2) India Tennis Centre (ITC) (3) All India Tennis Association (AITA) (4) National Tennis Federation (NTF) (5) None of these

104. Which campaign at Men’s Cricket World Cup 2019 was announced by ICC Cricket for Good in partnership with UNICEF to help children? (1) China (2) Singapore (3) Japan (4) Malaysia (5) None of these

105. __________ lifts Maharashtra junior boys golf title in Pune (1) Rathi (2) Sooraj (3) Dinesh (4) Karthick (5) None of these

106. Who won gold in 10m air pistol at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup? (1) Abhishek Verma (2) Artem Chernousov (3) Jitu Rai (4) Vijay Kumar (5) None of these

107. Which of the following former Indian footballer was called the Pele of Asia?

(1) Shabbir Ali (2) Subrata Pal (3) Pungam Kannan (4) I.M.Vijayan (5) None of these


108. Human Development Report (HDR) 2019 will be published by __________. (1) United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (2) World Health Organization (WHO) (3) World Economic Forum (WEF) (4) International Economic Development Council (IEDC) (5) None of these

109. Changi airport gets world's tallest 131-ft indoor waterfall. The airport is located in _________. (1) China (2) Singapore (3) Japan (4) Malaysia (5) None of these

110. India ranked _________ in the countries for startup environment of global countries as per the

StartupBlink. (1) 5th (2) 12th (3) 17th (4) 22nd (5) None of these

111. Under which Ministry does Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) function?

(1) Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (2) Ministry of Human Resource Development (3) Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare (4) Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (5) None of these

112. Under which Ministry does Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) function? (1) Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (2) Ministry of Human Resource Development (3) Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare (4) Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (5) None of these

113. The Ministry of Commerce and Industries instructed the Health Ministry to frame law banning manufacture and sale of _________ in the country. (1) marijuana (2) bhang (3) e-cigarettes (4) e-charas (5) None of these

114. ___________ researcher develops easy OCR system for Bharati Script

(1) IIT Madras (2) IIT Roorkee (3) IIT Mumbai (4) IIT Pune (5) None of these

115. What is the current scenario of UK about the Jallianwala Bagh? (1) Issued a formal apology (2) Might issue a formal apology (3) Is not willing to issue a formal apology (4) Remaining silent (5) None of these

116. In which Country did Russia open a helicopter training centre?

(1) China (2) Austria (3) India (4) Venezuela (5) None of these

117. Which of the following Country assisted Sri Lanka to build its new railway line after 1948? (1) India (2) USA (3) Indonesia (4) China (5) None of these

118. Which of the following Country a new railway line that connects its coastal city of Matara and Beliatta in Hambantota was inaugurated? (1) Sri Lanka (2) Myanmar (3) China (4) Thailand (5) None of these

119. ______ to revive 2nd major China-linked project

(1) Malaysia (2) Singapore (3) Ireland (4) Pakistan (5) None of these


120. Which country successfully tested the world’s first floating nuclear power plant (NPP)? (1) China (2) Russia (3) India (4) US (5) None of these

121. Which country set a Guinness World Record for the number of national flags raised in a city for 24 hours? (1) Cyprus (2) Jordan (3) Lebanon (4) Israel (5) None of these

122. Which country recently banned Face-Covering in Public? (1) Sri Lanka (2) Indonesia (3) Iran (4) India (5) None of these

123. A Book of poem Khooni Vaisakhi on Jallianwala Bagh massacre released in __________

(1) UAE (2) Pakistan (3) Indonesia (4) Russia (5) None of these 124. Who is the author of the book “Politics of Jugaad: The Coalition Handbook”, where she examines

the possibility of coalition government after Lok Sabha polls (2019) (1) Saba Naqvi (2) Stephen King (3) Amishsi Roy (4) Jhumpa Lahiri (5) None of these

Ans: 1-4, 2-2, 3-1, 4-2, 5-3, 6-1, 7-2, 8-2, 9-2, 10-4, 11-3, 12-1, 13-3, 14-2, 15-1, 16-1, 17-1, 18-1, 19-4, 20-1, 21-3, 22-1, 23-3, 24-2, 25-3, 26-4, 27-2, 28-3, 29-1, 30-1, 31-4, 32-1, 33-1, 34-1, 35-3, 36-2, 37-4, 38-2, 39-3, 40-3, 41-2, 42-1, 43-4, 44-2, 45-3, 46-2, 47-4, 48-4, 49-4, 50-3, 51-1, 52-3, 53-1, 54-1, 55-1, 56-4, 57-3, 58-2, 59-4, 60-4, 61-4, 62-4, 63-4, 64-4, 65-1, 66-1, 67-4, 68-1, 69-3, 70-2, 71-1, 72-1, 73-4, 74-1, 75-2, 76-2, 77-2, 78-3, 79-4, 80-2, 81-1, 82-1, 83-4, 84-1, 85-3, 86-1, 87-1, 88-2, 89-2, 90-2, 91-3,92-2, 93-3, 94-2, 95-2, 96-1, 97-3, 98-1, 99-2, 100-4, 101-1, 102-2, 103-3, 104-2, 105-1, 106-1, 107-3, 108-1, 109-2, 110-3,111-1, 112-1, 113-3, 114-1, 115-2, 116-4, 117-4, 118-1, 119-1, 120-2, 121-3, 122-1, 123-1, 124-1.

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