Important Monthly Static GK Capsule July 2019...Gajendra Singh Shekhawat Minister for Jal Shakti...
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Important Monthly Static GK Capsule –July 2019
CONTENTS
Topics Page No.
List of Minister-Ministries and Constituency 2
International Organizations Present Heads & HQs 3
Indian Organizations Present Heads & HQs 5
States – Present Governor - CM 7
Banks – Present Heads, HQs and Taglines 8
Important Country - Currency - Capital 9
Schemes in July News 11
Sports Related Person in News 11
Parks, Stadiums and Airport 13
Important Abbreviations 14
Others 14
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List of Minister-Ministries Involved in July Month Current Affairs
Name Portfolios Constituency
Gajendra Singh Shekhawat Minister for Jal Shakti Jodhpur, Rajasthan
ShripadYessoNaik Minister of AYUSH North Goa, Goa
ShriNarendra Singh Tomar
Minister of Agriculture and
Farmers’ Welfare
Morena, Madhya Pradesh
Harsh Vardhan
Ministry of Health and Family
Welfare
ChandniChowk, Delhi
Amit Shah Minister of Home Affairs Gandhinagar, Gujarat
NirmalaSitharaman
Minister of Finance and Minister
of Corporate Affair
Rajyasabha ( Karnataka)
PiyushGoyal Commerce and Railway Minister RajyaSabha (Maharashtra)
Hardeep Singh Puri
Minister of State (Independent
Charge) of the Ministry of Civil
Aviation
-
PrakashJavadekar
Information and Broadcasting
Minister&
Minister of Environment, Forest
and Climate Change
RajyaSabha (Madhya
Pradesh)
ShripadYessoNaik
Minister of State (Independent
Charge) of the Ministry of
Ayurveda, Yoga and
Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and
Homoeopathy (AYUSH) &
Minister of State in the Ministry of
Defence
North Goa, Goa
Rajnath Singh Minister of Defence Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Minister of State (Independent
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KirenRijiju Charge) of the Ministry of Youth
Affairs and Sports & Minister of
State in the Ministry of Minority
Affairs
Arunachal West, Arunachal
Pradesh
NitinGadkari
Minister of Road Transport and
Highways
Nagpur, Maharasthra
SmritiZubinIrani
Minister of Women and Child
Development&Minister of
Textiles
Amethi, Uttar Pradesh
Ramesh PokhriyalNishank HRD Minister Haridwar, Uttarakhand
International Organizations Involved in July Month Current Affairs
International Organisation Head Headquarter
European Central Bank
President - Mario Draghi
Next President - Christine
Lagarde
Frankfurt, Germany
International Monetary Fund
(IMF)
CEO - Christine Lagarde ( upto12
Sep 2019)
Washington, D.C
United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO)
Director General
Audrey Azoulay
Paris, France
World Economic Forum (WEF)
Executive Chairman - Klaus
Schwab
Cologny, Switzerland
World Health Organization
(WHO)
Director General -
TedrosAdhanom
Geneva, Switzerland
International Court of Justice
(ICJ)
-
The Hague, Netherlands
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Asian Infrastructure Investment
Bank (AIIB)
President -
Jin Liqun
Beijing, China
World Bank
President -
David Malpass
Washington, D.C., United
States
International Solar Alliance (ISA)
Director General -
H.E. UpendraTripathy
India ( Gurugram, Haryana)
Asian Development Bank (ADB) President - TakehikoNakao Mandaluyong, Philippines
European Union
President of the Council - Donald
Tusk
President of the Commission -
Ursula von der Leyen
Brussels, Belgium
Pacific Asia Travel Association
(PATA)
-
Bangkok, Thailand
International Cricket Council
(ICC)
Chairman - ShashankManohar
CEO - Manu Sawhney
Dubai, United Arab
Emirates
South Asian Association for
Regional Cooperation (SAARC)
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Kathmandu, Nepal
Standard Chartered CEO - Bill Winters London, UK
International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA)
-
Vienna, Austria
Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO)
Director General -
QuDongyu
Rome, Italy
Apple Inc
CEO -
Timothy Donald Cook
Cupertino, California,
United States
FédérationInternationale de
Football Association (FIFA)
President -
Gianni Infantino
Zürich, Switzerland
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Indian Organizations Involved in July Month Current Affairs
Indian Organisation Head Headquarter
Tribal Cooperative Marketing
Development Federation of India
(TRIFED)
-
New Delhi
BhartiAirtel
Chairman - Sunil Mittal
MD & CEO - GopalVittal
New Delhi
National Aluminium Company
(NALCO)
Chairman & MD -
Dr. T. K. Chand
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
(BSNL)
CEO -
ShriAnupamShrivastava
Chairman & MD - Pravin Kumar
Purwar (Interim)
New Delhi
Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd
(BHEL)
CEO - AtulSobti
Chairman & M- NalinShinghal
New Delhi
Microfinance Institutions Network
(MFIN)
CEO - RatnaVishwanathan
Chairman - Manoj Kumar
Nambiar
Gurugram, Haryana
National Investment and
Infrastructure Fund (NIIF)
CEO - Sujoy Bose
Mumbai
Securities and Exchange Board
of India (SEBI)
Chairman - Ajay Tyagi
Mumbai
Bharatiya Reserve Bank Note
Mudran Private Limited
(BRBNMPL)
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Mysore, Karnataka
Board of Control for Cricket in
India (BCCI)
CEO-
Rahul Johri
Mumbai
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Defence Research and
Development Organisation
(DRDO)
Chairman –
Dr G. Satheesh Reddy
New Delhi
National Highways Authority of
India
(NHAI)
Chairman –
SanjeevRanjan
New Delhi
National Bank for Agriculture and
Rural Development (NABARD)
Chairman - Harsh Kumar
Bhanwala
Mumbai
Exim Bank CEO - David Rasquinha Mumbai
NITI Aayog
CEO - Amitabh Kant
Vice Chairman - Rajiv Kumar
New Delhi
Insurance Regulatory and
Development Authority of India
(IRDAI)
Chairman -
Subhash Chandra Khuntia
Hyderabad
Inland Waterways Authority of
India (IWAI)
Chairperson -
Amita Prasad
Noida, Uttar Pradesh
Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) Chairman –MR Kumar Mumbai
National Payments Corporation of
India (NPCI)
MD & CEO -
DilipAsbe
Mumbai
Indian Oil Corporation Limited
(IOCL)
Chairman - Sanjiv Singh
New Delhi
Central Marine Fisheries
Research Institute (CMFRI)
Director - Dr. A.
Gopalakrishnan
Kochi, Kerala
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
(HAL)
MD& Chairman –
R Madhavan
Bangalore, Karnataka
Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Chairman & MD
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Limited (MTNL) Sunil Kumar New Delhi
Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board
of India (IBBI)
Chairman -
M. S. Sahoo
New Delhi
Garden Reach Shipbuilders and
Engineers(GRSE)
Chairman and CEO -
Rear Admiral VK Saxena, (Retd)
Kolkata
List of States Involved in July Month Current Affairs
State Capital CM Governor
Chhattisgarh Atal Nagar BhupeshBaghel AnusuiyaUikey
Gujarat Gandhinagar Vijay Rupani AcharyaDevVrat
Haryana Chandigarh ManoharlalKathar Satyadev Narayan Arya
Goa Panaji PramodSawant MridulaSinha
Rajasthan Jaipur Ashok Gehlot Kalyan Singh
Jammu and
Kashmir
Jammu & Srinagar
-
Satya Pal Malik
Arunachal
Pradesh
Itanagar
PemaKhandu
BD Mishra
Uttarakhand Dehradun Trivendra Singh Rawat Baby Rani Maurya
Tamil Nadu Chennai E. Palanisamy BanwarilalPurohit
Meghalaya Shillong Conrad Sangma Tathagata Roy
Himachal Pradesh Shimla Jai Ram Thakur Kalraj Mishra
Madhya Pradesh Bhopal Kamal Nath LalJiTandon
Maharashtra
Mumbai
DevendraFadnavis
ChinamaniVidyasagarR
ao
Kerala Thiruvananthapuram PinarayiVijayan P. Sadasivam
Telangana Hyderabad Chandrasekhar Rao ESL Narashiman
Karnataka Bangalore B. S. Yediyurappa VajubaiRudubaiWala
Uttar Pradesh Lucknow Yogi Adityanath Anandiben Patel
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Banks Involved in July Month Current Affairs
Bank Tagline Headquarter CEO/Chairman
RBI
Mumbai
Governor - Shaktikant Das
Deputy Governor
BP Kanungo,
N S Vishwanathan,
Mahesh Kumar Jain
Indian Overseas
Bank
Good people to grow with
Chennai
CEO -
ShriKarnamSekar
Punjab National
Bank
The name you can bank
upon
New Delhi
CEO - Sunil Mehta
State Bank of
India
The Banker to every Indian Mumbai Rajnish Kumar
Karnataka Bank Your Family Bank, Across
India
Mangaluru Mahabaleshwara M S
Punjab & Sind
Bank
Where service is a way of life
New Delhi
S. HariShanker
Jammu &
Kashmir Bank
Serving to Empow
Srinagar
CEO -
R K Chhibber
Yes Bank Experience our Expertise Mumbai Ravneet Gill
MD & CEO-
Arunachal
Pradesh
Itanagar PemaKhandu B. D. Mishra
Punjab Chandigarh Amarinder Singh V.P. Singh Badnore
Odisha Bhubaneswar Naveen Patnaik GaneshiLal
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ICICI Bank Hum Hain Na! Mumbai SandeepBakhshi
IndusInd Bank We make you feel richer Mumbai RomeshSobti
Axis Bank BadhtiKanaamZindagi Mumbai CEO - Amitabh Chaudhry
HDFC Bank We Understand Your World Mumbai CEO - AdityaPuri
Andhra Bank Where India Bank Hyderabad J Packirisamy
Aditya Birla
Payments Bank
Get To Know Us Better
Mumbai
MD & CEO -
SudhakarRamasubramanian
Corporation
Bank
A Premier Public Sector
Bank, Prosperity for all
Mangalore
CEO - P.V. Bharathi
Bandhan Bank
"AapkaBhala, SabkiBhalai"
Kolkata
CEO - Chandra
ShekharGhosh
Important Countries Involved in July Month Current Affairs
Country Capital Currency Prime Minister President
UAE
Abu Dhabi
Dirham
Sheikh Mohammed
bin Rashed al-
Maktoum
-
Indonesia Jakarta Indonesian
rupiah
- JokoWidodo
Côte d'Ivoire
Yamoussoukro
West African
CFA franc
-
AlassaneOuattara
Maldives Malé Rufiyaa Ibrahim Mohamed
Solih
Morocco Rabat Moroccan
dirham
SaadeddineOthmani
-
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Pakistan Islamabad Rupee Imran Khan ArifAlvi
Netherlands Amsterdam Euro Mark Rutte -
Switzerland Bern Swiss franc - Ueli Maurer
Singapore Singapore dollar Singapore
City
Lee HsienLoong HalimahYacob
Japan Tokyo Japanese
yen
Shinzo Abe -
Sri Lanka
Colombo,
JayawardenepuraKotte
Sri Lankan
rupee
RanilWickremesinghe
MaithripalaSirisena
Bangladesh Dhaka Taka Sheikh Hasina Abdul Hamid
Greece
Athens
Euro
KyriakosMitsotakis ProkopisPavlopoulos
France Paris Euro & CFP
franc
- Emmanuel Macron
Ukraine Kyiv Ukrainian
hryvnia
VolodymyrGroysman VolodymyrZelensky
Papua New
Guinea
Port Moresby
Papua New
Guinean kina
James Marape
-
Senegal
Dakar
West African
CFA franc
-
MackySall
Japan Tokyo Japanese
yen
Shinzo Abe -
UK London Pound
Sterling
Boris Johnson -
Lithuania
Vilnius
Euro,
Lithuanian
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GitanasNauseda
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litas
Thailand Bangkok Thai baht Prayut Chan-o-cha -
US Washington DC Dollar - Donald Trump
China Beijing Renminbi,
Yuan
- Xi Jinping
Palau
Ngerulmud, Melekeok United States
Dollar
-
Thomas Remengesau
Jr.
Israel
Jerusalem
Israeli new
shekel
Benjamin Netanyahu -
Zimbabwe
Harare
US Dollar
-
EmmersonMnangagwa
Panama
Panama City
Panamanian
balboa,
United States
Dollar
-
LaurentinoCortizo
Saudi Arabia
Riyadh
Saudi riyal
-
King - Salman bin
Abdulaziz Al Saud
Schemes in July News
1. PradhanamntriSurakshaBeemaYojna (PMSBY) - Age 18 to 70 - Accidental insurance cover Rs. 2
lakh - premium Rs. 12 per Annum
2. PradhanMantriJeevanJyotiBeemaYojana (PMJJBY) –Age 18 – 50 (Maximum coverage 55) –
premium Rs. 330 per Annum – death cover Rs. 2 lakh
Sports Person in News
Athletes
1. Hima Das – Running
2. Dutee Chand - Running
3. MP Jabir – Running
4. Tajinder Pal Singh Toor - shot putter
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5. MuhammedAnas - – Running
6. K S Jeevan – Running
7. Meet ToranYadav – Para athlete
8. Ravinder Malik - Indian bodybuilder
9. Adam Peaty– Swimmer (UK)
10. CaelebDressel– Swimmer ( American)
Badminton
1. ParupalliKashyap
2. Li Shi Feng - China
Boxing
1. Amir Khan –England
2. Vijender Singh Beniwal– India
3. Shiva Thapa– India
4. Manny Pacquiao– Philippines
5. Ashish Kumar
Cricket
1. AmbatiRayudu
2. Solomon Mire –Zimbabwe
3. Ellyse Perry - Australia
Golf
1. ArjunBhati
2. Shane Lowry - Ireland
Racer
1. Marc Marquez – Spain (Moto GP)
2. Lewis Hamilton - (Formula 1)(Mercedes – Britain)
3. Max Verstappen - (Formula 1) (Red Bull - Belgium)
Shooting
1. Nina Chandel
2. ElavenilValarivan
3. Aayushi Gupta
4. AngadVir Singh Bajwa
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5. AnishBhanwala
Table Tennis
1. G. Sathiyan
2. Anthony Amalraj
3. Harmeet Desai
4. Ayhika Mukherjee
5. ManavThakkar
6. PoojaSahasrabudhe
7. KrittwikaSinha
Wrestler
1. VineshPhogat
2. DivyaKakran
3. PoojaDhanda
Chess
1. Prithu Gupta - India’s 64th Grand Master
Tennis
1. Novak Djokovic - Serbia
2. Roger Federer – Switzerland
3. SimonaHalep– Romania
4. John Isner - US
Football
1. ArjenRobben– Netherlands
Parks, Dam, stadiums and Airports
1. Devi AhilyaBaiHolkar International Airport – Indore, Madhya Pradesh
2. Dibang Multipurpose Project (hydro-electric project) –Dibang river - Arunachal Pradesh
3. Ujh Bridge (1000 meter) - Kathua district &Basantar Bridge (617.40-meter) in samba district of Jammu &
Kashmir
4. Pench Tiger Reserve or Pench National Park - Madhya Pradesh (across two states - Madhya Pradesh
and Maharashtra)
5. Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve - Tamil Nadu
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ABREVATION
1. MRSAM - medium range surface-to-air missile
2. NAAC - National Accreditation and Assessment Council
3. FATF -Financial Action Task Force
4. BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa
5. AMBIS - Automated Multi-modal Biometric Identification System
6. M-STrIPES - Monitoring system for Tigers’ Intensive Protection and Ecological Status
Other
1. 2020 Summer Olympics - Host country- Tokyo, Japan
2. 2022 Winter Olympics - Host country- Beijing, China
3. 2024 Summer Olympics - Host country- Paris, France
4. 2026 Winter Olympics (Milan-Cortina 2026) - Host country- Italy
5. 2019 G-20 summit – Osaka, Japan
6. 2020 G20 Riyadh summit - Saudi Arabia
7. 2022 G20 summit – India
8. Copa America 2019 –(Host country –Brazil) – (Winner – Brazil)
9. Copa America 2020 –( Host country - Argentina & Colombia )
10. 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup –(Host country – France) – (Winner – USA)
11. 2019 Summer Universiade - Naples, Italy
12. ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 - England and Wales
13. ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 - India
14. 21st Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship – Cuttack, Odisha
15. Bonalu festival - Golconda Fort -Telangana
16. PradhanMantri Jan DhanYojana (PMJDY) launched in 2014
17. SAARC countries – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
18. Country’s first National Sports University - Imphal, Manipur
19. PradhanMantriKisanUrjaSurakshaevamUtthaanMahabhiyan (PM-KUSUM) scheme - setting up of 25,750-
MW solar capacity by 2022 - total central financial support of Rs 34,422 crore
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Organization Director General Headquarters Border
SashastraSeemaBal
(SSB)
Kumar Rajesh
Chandra
New Delhi
Nepal and Bhutan
Central Reserve Police
Force (CRPF)
Rajiv RaiBhatnagar
New Delhi
-
Border Security Force
(BSF)
Rajni Kant Misra (up
to August 31)
Next DG - VK Johri
New Delhi
Pakistan and
Bangladesh
Indo-Tibetan Border
Police (ITBP)
S SDeswal
New Delhi
China
Assam Rifles
Lt Gen
SukhdeepSangwan
Shillong,
Meghalaya
Myanmar
Central Industrial Security
Force (CISF)
Rajesh Ranjan
New Delhi
-