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Yearly Current Affairs 2019

Yearly Current Affairs 2019 PDF in Hindi (हिंदी), Download

Yearly Current Affairs 2019 include the following sections:

1. National Affairs

Longest Electrified Rail Tunnel
Establishment of CDRI
Integrated Online Junction "Shagun"
Janaushashi Sugam App
Project SURE
Single-Use Plastic
MHRD Programme "NISHTHA"
CORAS (Commandos for Railway Security)
India's 1st 3D Smart Traffic Signal: INTELIGHTs
All India Tiger Estimation Report
Jaipur Walled City: 38th UNESCO World Heritage Site
New Jal Shakti Ministry
India's first Garbage Cafe
Operation Thirst
Economic Census
Cyclone FANI
India Re-Elected as Observer to ‘Arctic Council’
National Institutional Ranking Framework 2019
e-Aushadhi Portal
LADIS Portal
Operation Digital Board
India’s 1st Aqua Mega Food Park in Andhra Pradesh
PETROTECH-2019
Vande Bharat Express
DIPP renamed as the DPIIT
Allahabad renamed as Prayagraj

2. International Affairs

Kajin Sara Lake to become world's highest lake
GAFA Tax
Motihari- Amlekhgunj Oil Pipeline
goAML launched by UAE
Iran announces Withdrawal from JCPOA
UK became the 1st country to Declare Climate Emergency
Russia tests World’s First Floating Nuclear Power Plant
Sharda Peeth Corridor
Kazakhstan renamed its Capital Astana to Nursultan
Macedonia joined NATO
Qatar withdrew from OPEC

3. Government Schemes, Program, and policies

Jal Jeevan Mission Scheme
SAMARTH Scheme
One Nation One Ration Card
PM Shram Yogi Maandhan Scheme
Paramarsh Scheme for Higher Education
PM-Laghu Vyapari Maandhan Scheme
PM-KISAN Scheme
Gangajal Project
Utkarsh Bangla and Sabooj Sathi Schemes
Gram Samridhi Yojana
Pradhan Mantri JI-VAN Yojana
Mukhyamantri Anchal Amrit Yojana
SHREYAS Programme
KUSUM scheme
POSHAN Abhiyaan
Sujalam Sufalam Jal Sanchay Abhiyan

Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana
Saubhagya Scheme
Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana

4. Summits and Conference

UNCCD COP14
CITES COP18
G7 Summit
First World Youth Conference
Indian Ocean Conference
WTO Ministerial meeting
G20 Summit
BRICS Summit

5. Awards and Honours

Pulitzer Prize
Saraswati Samman
Croatia’s Highest Award
Vyas Samman
64th Filmfare Awards
Abel Prize
Swachh Survekhshan-2019 Awards
Pritzker Prize
Oscar Awards
Gandhi Peace Prize
Seoul Peace Prize
Bharat Ratna Award
Padma Vibhushan
Padma Bhushan
Nobel Prize

6. State Affairs

Meghalaya's "Walk to Work Campaign"
First-ever elephant Re-habilitation centre
India's first underwater train
Bihar's first community reserve: Gogabeel
Ist Himalayan Conclave
First Dinosaur Museum in Gujarat
Chhattisgarh Deployed 1st Anti-Naxal Women Commando Unit
New Railway Zone Announced for Andhra Pradesh
‘Rice Knowledge Bank'- Assam
India’s first district Cooling System to be built in Amravati
In Tehri, Uttarakhand, Himalayan Cloud Observatory has been established

6. Ranks of India in Different Indexes

Global Liveability Index
Water Stress Index
Public Affairs Index
Global Gender-Equality Index
World Press Freedom Index
World Happiness Report
Global Energy Transition Index
International IP index
Corruption Perception Index
Democracy Index
Global Talent Competitive Index
Ease-of-doing-business Index
Gender Gap Index

7. Important Committees

Bimal Jalan Panel on RBI Capital Reserves
Nandan Nilekani Committee
Amitabh Kant (Niti Aayog CEO) committee
Suresh Mathur committee
Anoop Satpathy Committee
B V R Mohan Reddy committee
Nandan Nilekani committee
U.K. Sinha committee
MS Swaminathan committee
Dr. Bibek Debroy Committee

8. Books & Author

New Delhi Conspiracy- Minakshi Lekhi
'Lessons Life Taught Me, Unknowingly' -Anupam Kher
‘My Life, My Mission’ We are Displaced- Malala Yousafzai
Big Billion Start UP: Mihir Dalal
Indian Fiscal Federalism- Dr. Y. V. Reddy
"The Third Pillar - How Markets and the State leave the Community Behind" –Raghuram Rajan
"Undaunted: Saving the Idea of India”- P Chidambaram
Every Vote Counts- Navin Chawla

9. Science & Technology, Defence, Space

Samudrayaan Project
Chandrayaan 2
NASA PUNCH Mission
First-Ever Space Museum in India
Agni-5
ISRO launched PSLV C-45 carrying EMISAT & 28 Nano-Satellites
‘Yuva Vigyani Karyakram’ for School Children
NASA's SPHEREx Mission to Investigate Universe
ISRO launched GSAT31
ISRO launched Kalamsat & Microsat R satellite
Dhanush Howitzer
Sub-Sonic Cruise Missile ‘Nirbhay’

10. Important Agreement & Deals

11. National and International Appointments

12. Sports

This compilation is a complete docket of important Current Affairs news and events that occurred in the last 9 months (1st January 2019 – mid-September 2019). This file is important and relevant for all competitive exams including UPSC, State PCS and other government exams.

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THE HINDU NEWSPAPER IMPORTANT ARTICLES 28.01.2020

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FRONT PAGE

CAA rules may seek ‘proof of religion’

Govt. sweetens Air India offer, puts 100% stake on the table

Centre, Assam govt. sign accord with Bodo groups

NATIONAL

Speaker seeks to stall EU debate on CAA

Govt. increases vigil on border with Nepal

Major gaps in our knowledge of coronovirus origin: report

Muslim personal law a cultural issue: AIMPLB

‘Why is a certificate needed to identify a transperson?

INTERNATIONAL

U.S. President set to unveil Israeli-Palestinian ‘peace plan’

OPINION

Retrieving the idea of citizenship

The tragedy of the regime’s co-travellers

A case of wholehearted biotechnology adoption

The road to genocide

Assessing the anti-CAA protests

Crime and politics

Abolition politics

A climate for innovation

UPSC IAS INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTS 2018 – Part 1, 2 and 3 Compiled

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Daily Current Affairs, 27th January 2020

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1) Republic Day 2020: India celebrates its 71st Republic Day

The nation celebrated the 71st Republic Day with a grand military parade and exhibition of its history, cultural diversity and strategic weaponry at the Rajpath, Delhi. This day is celebrated by all Indians and 26th of January has been declared as a national holiday by the government of India. The Republic Day ceremony commenced with Prime Minister Narendra Modi paying homage to martyrs at the National War Memorial instead of Amar Jawan Jyoti. The National Flag was unfurled followed by the National Anthem with a booming 21-gun salute.

Important Facts of 71st Republic Day:

•The chief guest for this year’s republic day parade is Brazilian president, Jair Messias Bolsonaro.

•For the first time, a contingent of women bikers of CRPF performed daredevil stunts.

•Jammu and Kashmir participated in the parade for the first time as a Union Territory.

•Meghalaya’s Tableau depicted the Double Decker Living Root Bridge which is a main tourist attraction of the state.

•Telangana’s tableau brought to life its floral festival called Bathukamma.

•The Tableau of Gujarat was on the theme Rani ki Vav – Jal Mandir which is a unique piece of ancient Indian architectural style, construction work and craftsmanship.

•The Air Force tableau displayed models of the Rafale aircraft, Tejas aircraft, Light Combat Helicopter, Akash Missiles System and Astra Missiles.

•The major attraction was fly-past by the newly inducted Chinook and Apache helicopters along with Sukhoi and advanced light helicopters.

•Anti-satellite weapons: Mission Shakti, Army’s battle tank Bhishma was also showcased in the parade.

2) The spirit of India ‘Bharat Parv 2020’ begins at Red Fort

•A festival to celebrate the spirit of India “Bharat Parv 2020” has begun at Red Fort Ground in New Delhi. The objective of Bharat Parv is to encourage people to visit different tourist places of the country and to inculcate the spirit of ‘Dekho Apna Desh’.

•Bharat Parv has many attractions for the public including the display of Tableaux of the Republic Day parade, performance by armed forces bands. The theme of this year’s Bharat Parv is ‘Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat’ and ‘Celebrating 150 Years of Mahatma Gandhi.

3) India’s 1st e-waste clinic opens in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

•India’s first e-waste clinic is being opened in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. It would enable segregation, processing and disposal of waste from both household and commercial units. The e-waste clinic was inaugurated by C K Mishra (Secretary to the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate change, MoEFCC).

•The e-waste clinic is jointly set up by the Central Pollution Control Board-CPCB and Bhopal Municipal Corporation-BMC. The e-waste clinic is being started on the basis of a three-month pilot project. If this project is successful, e-waste clinics will be established at other places in the country.

•The bus is decorated with e-waste material from outside and inside. A TV has been also installed in it, in which documentary films on the subject of environmental damage caused by e-waste will be shown.

4) West Bengal: Highest Vegetable Producing Indian state in 2018-19

•West Bengal emerged as the top State in vegetable production in 2018-19. West Bengal has overtaken Uttar Pradesh. They produced 29.55 million tonnes (mt) of vegetables last year against 27.70 mt in the year before. Vegetable production in Uttar Pradesh came down to 27.71 mt in 2018-19 from 28.32 mt the previous year. Andhra Pradesh continued to hold on to the pole position in fruits with 17.61 mt, followed by Maharashtra (10.82 mt) and Uttar Pradesh (10.65 mt).

5) U’khand’s DMMC selected for S. C. Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar 2020

•Uttarakhand, Disaster Mitigation and Management Centre (in the institution category) and Kumar Munnan Singh (individual category) have been selected for the Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar 2020. This award is given for their commendable work in Disaster Management. The winner institution receives a certificate and a cash prize of Rs 51 lakh and the money is to be used disaster management-related activities only. In the case of the winner being an individual, the person gets a certificate and a cash prize of Rs 5 lakh.

•The award was instituted to recognise the excellent work done by individuals and institutions in India in the field of disaster management. It is announced every year on January 23, the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.

6) ‘Innovation Festival’ begins in Arunachal Pradesh

•The ‘Innovation Festival’ kicked off at the Science Centre in Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh. The festival is being organized by the Arunachal Pradesh State Council for Science & Technology in collaboration with the National Innovation Foundation. The Innovation Festival, a 1st of its kind in the state. The aim of the festival is to foster the culture of innovation among all people of the state, especially in all the educational institutions.

7) The Hindu Group chairman N. Ram selected for Kerala National Media Award

•The chairman of “The Hindu Group” N. Ram has been selected as the outstanding media person in a national award instituted by Kerala Media Academy. The award was instituted for fearless and brilliant journalistic work at a national level. The award carrying a cash prize of ₹1 lakh, citation and sculpture were announced as part of the academy’s 40th-anniversary celebration.

Padma Awards 2020 Announced: Check here complete list in PDF

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Padma Awards — one of the highest civilian Awards of the country, are conferred in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The Awards are given in various disciplines/ fields of activities, viz. art, social work, public affairs, science and engineering, trade and industry, medicine, literature and education, sports, civil service, etc. ‘Padma Vibhushan’ is awarded for exceptional and distinguished service; ‘Padma Bhushan’ for distinguished service of high order and ‘Padma Shri’ for distinguished service in any field. The awards are announced on the occasion of Republic Day every year.

This year the President has approved conferment of 141 Padma Awards including 4 duo cases (in a duo case, the award is counted as one) as per list below. The list comprises 7 Padma Vibhushan, 16 Padma Bhushan and 118 Padma Shri Awards. 33 of the awardees are women and the list also includes 18 persons from the category of Foreigners/NRI/PIO/OCI and 12 Posthumous awardees.

Download the PDF of Complete List of Winners of the Padma Awards 2020

The HINDU Notes – 27th January 2020

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📰 India showcases A-SAT missile prowess

Chinook heavy lift and Apache attack helicopters make their debut during the Republic Day flypast

•India on Sunday showcased its anti-satellite (A-SAT) missile capability to the world as the weapon, Mission Shakti, developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), rolled out on the Rajpath during the 71st Republic Day parade.

•In addition, the Indian Air Force’s (IAF) newest inductions, Chinook heavy lift helicopters and Apache attack helicopters, also made their debut during the flypast.

•A DRDO marching contingent displayed the A-SAT missile along with a second equipment, the Air Defence Tactical Control Radar (ADTCR), as President and Supreme Commander of the armed forces Ram Nath Kovind reviewed the parade with Chief Guest Brazilian President Jair Messias Bolsonaro in attendance.

•There were 16 marching contingents this year, including six from the Army, and 22 tableaux from various States and departments in the 90-minute parade. The flypast consisted of 41 aircraft of the IAF and four helicopters of the Army Aviation.

Pinpoint accuracy

•On March 27, 2019 the DRDO shot down a live satellite in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) of 300 km using a modified interceptor of the Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) system in ‘hit to kill’ mode with 10-cm accuracy.

•The Defence Ministry in a statement last week termed the test a major breakthrough in demonstrating the A-SAT technology and said that the A-SAT weapons “play a critical role in providing the necessary strategic deterrence”.

•“The covert technology of ‘hit to kill’ developed for the first time in India for such applications enables it to destroy an enemy satellite by directly colliding with it with pinpoint accuracy,” a brochure issued by the Defence Ministry at the parade said.

•The ADTCR is used for volumetric surveillance, detection, tracking and friend/foe identification of aerial targets of different types and transmission of prioritised target data to multiple command posts and weapon systems.

•Three CH-47F(I) Chinook helicopters flew in a ‘vic’ formation followed by five AH-64E Apache helicopters, which flew in an ‘arrowhead’ formation.

•Both these helicopters were inducted into service last year. India has contracted 22 Apache helicopters and 15 Chinook helicopters from Boeing.

•In a change of tradition, before commencement of the parade, Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid homage to fallen soldiers by laying a wreath at the flame of the immortal warrior at the National War Memorial (NWM), instead of the Amar Jawan Jyoti (AJJ) at the India Gate.

•The NWM, inaugurated in February last year, is located at the ‘C’ Hexagon near the India Gate and was built in memory of about 22,500 Indian soldiers who laid down their lives in the post-independence period. The AJJ will now be used only for regimental events and visiting dignitaries.

📰 EU Parliament set to vote on Kashmir, citizenship Act