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TABLE OF CONTENTS

SR.NO TOPIC

1. Top 100 Current Affairs of December

2. Top 50 Banking and Business affairs of December

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TOP 100 CURRENT AFFAIRS OF DECEMBER

APPOINTMENTS

1. At the age of 34, Sanna Marin of Finland (Capital: Helsinki,

Currency: Euro) who recently became the Prime Minister of the country is

also the youngest Prime Minister in the world currently.

2. The National Stock Exchange (NSE) has appointed Girish Chandra

Chaturvedi as its new chairman.

3. Former Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat has been appointed as

India’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS). He will be a Four-star

General.

4. Bollywood actor Suniel Shetty has been appointed as the brand

Ambassador of National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) (Headquarters:

New Delhi)

5. Government has appointed Soma Roy Burman, as 24th Controller

General of Accounts (CGA) of India.

6. Rajendran Chinna Veerappan was appointed as the Managing

Director and Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director (CMD) of

Catholic Syrian Bank (CSB) (Headquarters: Thrissur, Kerala).

7. Asian Development Bank (ADB) unanimously elected Masatsugu

Asakawa of Japan as its new president.

8. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google has been made the CEO of Alphabet,

the parent organization of Google.

9. Greta Thunberg, a teenage Swedish climate activist was named

TIME’s Person of the Year for 2019, she is the youngest person to be

honoured with the title in the 92-year history of TIME magazine.

10. Niranjan Hiranandani, has been appointed as the President of

ASSOCHAM (Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India)

which is headquartered at New Delhi.

11. Hemant Soren was sworn in as the 11th Chief Minister of

Jharkhand (Capital: Ranchi, Governor: Draupadi Murmu).

12. Dr Sangita Reddy, Joint Managing Director of Apollo Hospitals Group

was appointed as the President of Federation of Indian Chambers of

Commerce and Industry (FICCI) which is headquartered at New Delhi.

SCHEMES






13. Principal Scientific Adviser to the Govt of India Krishnasamy

VijayRaghavan launched national program called “EChO Network” in

New Delhi to bring citizens, govt etc to solve problems in the areas of

research knowledge, and awareness of Indian ecology and the

environment.

14. To improve ground water management Union Government recently

announced “Atal Bhujal Yojana” (ATAL JAL) which is a central sector

scheme with an outlay of Rs 6000 crores.

The scheme will be implemented for a 5-year period (2020-21 till 2024-

2025) in 7 States- Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh,

Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.

15. In collaboration with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF),

Jigneh Patel, a fellow at the Center for Healthcare Entrepreneurship (CfHE)

at IIT-Hyderabad, has launched India’s 1st ‘Vaccination On

Wheels’(VOW) Clinic ($100 million initiative) in Pune, Maharashtra.

16. “WE” (women) Hub, a Telangana State promoted incubator to

promote women entrepreneurship, has partnered with Start-up India

of DPIIT (Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade) to

launch programme for women entrepreneurs called “WING” in

Telangana.

17. As per the ministry of Labour and Employment, loans under the

Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY) which was launched in 2015

crossed the value of 10 Lakh crore (10.24 lakh crore as on November

1, 2019).

18. Andhra Pradesh government (CM: Jagan Mohan Reddy, Governor:

Biswabhusan Harichandan) launched a scheme “Nethanna Nestham”

for the weavers, under the scheme Rs 24,000 per annum would be

provided to each handloom weaver family.

19. Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has launched an

Education Loan Subsidy scheme called “Abhinandan”, under which a

one-time subsidy of up to Rs 50,000 to all educational loans will be

provided.

20. Union Government has decided to extend the initiative Atal Mission

for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) scheme for urban

renewal from 2020 to 2022.

Also, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has announced to

extend the deadline of Accessible India Campaign to March 2020.

21. Ministry of Electronics a++++nd Information Technology

(MeitY) has approved Rs.436 crore for Future Skills PRIME (Programme






for Reskilling/Upskilling of IT Manpower for Employability) over a period of

three years. The program aims to skill 412,000 IT professionals in new

technologies.

STATES

22. Haryana Police has adopted a unique barcoding software —

“Trakea” — to ensure that thousands of forensic reports that form the

backbone of the criminal investigation system and subsequent trials in

courts are not tampered.

23. Vice President Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated the 27th edition of National

Children’s Science Congress (NCSC) 2019 based on the theme

“Science, Technology and Innovation for a clean, green and healthy nation”

held in Thiruvananthapuram.

24. ‘Oxygen Parlour’ has been opened at Nashik Railway Station in

Maharashtra by Indian Railways in collaboration with Airo Guard to

provide an experience of breathing clean air and to battle against rising

air pollution.

25. Asian Development Bank (ADB) has inked a $490 million loan

agreement with Government of India for upgrading about 1,600 km of

Madhya Pradesh.

26. “Hornbill Festival” also called Festival of Festivals was recently

organised in Kohima.

27. Popular classical music festival ‘Tansen Samaroh 2019’ was held in

Gwalior, MP. Eminent vocalist Pandit Vidyadhar Vyas conferred with

National Tansen Award for 2019.

28. Human Library, a concept which seeks to replace books with humans,

was held in Mysuru, Karnataka.

29. Odisha won the ‘World Habitat Award’ by World Habitat, UK for

Jaga Mission also called Odisha Liveable Habitat Mission (OLHM), a slum

land project executed for the benefit of millions of urban-poor people living

in slums.

30. Jharkhand’s Mahuamilan station which comes under East Central

Railway (ECZ) zone has become 5500th station in the country to get

free Wi-Fi facility.

31. Odisha government has launched a smart learning phone

application ‘MadhuApp’ for school children. This app is aims to help

school students in learning their lessons via videos and tutorials.

32. Union Ministry of Home Affairs has sent an alert to all States

warning about a bug in Android operating system called ‘StrandHogg’.






It is a real-time malware application which would pose as genuine

applications and access all the users’ data.

33. Constructed by Akhil Bhartiya Kinnar Siksha Seva Trust (All-India

transgender education service trust) India’s first transgender

university will be opened in Kushinagar district of UP.

34. Department of Telecom Minister Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad launched a

web portal ‘Central Equipment Identity Register (CEIR)’ to trace the

stolen mobiles for Delhi subscribers, earlier the system was launched

in Mumbai.

35. Odisha government has launched the “Jalsathi” program (app

was also launched) in Bhubaneswar, to engage women under mission

“Shakti” in water distribution and consumer management. Also, the state

government has approved ‘SAMRIDHI’, the new Agriculture Policy for

the year 2020 for Odisha.

36. UNICEF has awarded the Kamareddy district of Telangana for

effective implementation of Swachh Bharat Mission in water

sanitation and hygiene sectors for the year 2019.

37. The Mumbai Central Terminus has been certified as India’s first

‘Eat Right Station’ with a 4-Star rating awarded by Food Safety and

Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), as a part of ‘Eat Right India’.

38. Foundation stone of India’s first Ganga centralised “Aqualab” was

laid at Wildlife Institute of India (WII) Dehradun, Uttarakhand.

NATIONAL

40. King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden inaugurated

Sarai Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) in Uttarakhand. It is the first STP

to be completed under Hybrid Annuity (HAM) Based Public Private

Partnership Model (PPPM).

41. First “Pashu Kisan Credit Card” that can be used to meet the day-

to-day expenses on animal feed was given in Bhiwani, Haryana

recently.

42. Union Minister for food processing Harsimrat Kaur Badal

inaugurated Avantee mega Food Park in Dewas, MP. This first food

park of central India.

43. Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) has

set up a 28 member Standing Committee headed by India’s first Chief

Statistician Pronab Sen on Economic Statistics (SCES) in order to

develop methodologies in conducting surveys on the industry, services

sector and employment in place of multiple panels on these issues.






44. Operation “Clean Art” to crack down the illegal trade for

mongoose hair was launched by the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau

(WCCB).

45. President of India Shri Ram Nath Kovind approved the

Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019. Now the bill has changed into

Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019. This act grants citizenship to

undocumented non-Muslims migrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan

and Afghanistan who came to India on or before December 31, 2014.

The act will also relax the requirement of residence in India for citizenship

by naturalisation from 11 years to 5 years for these migrants.

46. “Aberdeen” police station from the Andaman and Nicobar

Islands has topped the list of best performing Police Stations across

the country for the year 2019 released by Ministry of Home Affairs.

47. PM Narendra Modi chaired the first meeting of the National

Ganga Council (National Council for Rejuvenation, Protection and

Management of River Ganga) (formed in 2016) in Kanpur, UP.

The Central Government, has approved Rs. 20,000 crores for the

period 2015-20 to the five states (Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar,

Jharkhand, and West Bengal) through which Ganga passes, to ensure

adequate and uninterrupted water flows in the river.

48. According to the new report, “2019 Pollution and Health Metrics:

Global, Regional and Country Analysis” released by Global Alliance on

Health and Pollution (GAHP), India leads the world with about 2.3

million (23,26,771) deaths in 2017 in terms of premature deaths due

to pollution.

49. For the first time in the history of the Indian Parliament, on

December 6, 2019, tribal language “Santhali” was used when MP

Sarojni Hembram from Odisha used it to demand Bharat Ratna for

Pundit Raghunath Murmu, the Santhali scholar who introduced Ol Chiki

script for the language in 1925.

50. As per the 7th edition of the India Skills Report 2020 about 46.21%

students were found employable or ready to take up jobs in 2019.

Maharashtra and Mumbai emerged as the top ranked state and city

respectively in terms of employability.




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51. ISRO launched RISAT-2BR1 which is a spy satellite that is launched

to boost Indian military’s Earth surveillance. This was PSLV’s 50th launch.

52. On ‘The Forbes 2019 list of the ‘World’s 100 Most Powerful

Women’, Union Finance Minister of India Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman

was ranked 34th in the list. The list was topped by German Chancellor

Angela Merkel.

53. Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change

released the biennial “India State of Forest Report (ISFR)”, in New

Delhi, according to the report, the total forest and tree cover of the

country now stands at 80.73 million hectare which is 24.56% of the

geographical area of the country.

MP has the largest forest cover. It was followed by Arunachal Pradesh.

Mizoram (85.41%) has the highest land under forest cover as a percentage

of total geographical area.

54. Union Government has announced to rename world’s longest

tunnel (connecting Manali to Leh) under Rohtang Pass in Himachal

Pradesh after former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, it will be now

known as Atal Tunnel (8.8 Km length).

EVENTS

55. Winter Solstice this year fell on December 22. The winter solstice

happens every year when the Sun reaches its most southerly declination of

-23.5 degrees. In other words, it is when the North Pole is tilted farthest

away from the Sun, delivering the fewest hours of sunlight of the year.

56. Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) hosted the sixth Indian Ocean

Dialogue and the eleventh edition of the Delhi dialogue in New

Delhi.

Indian Ocean Dialogue Theme: “Indo-Pacific: Re-imagining the Indian

Ocean through an Expanded Geography”.

Delhi Dialogue Theme: “Advancing Partnership in Indo-Pacific”.

57. National Tribal Dance Festival namely “Tribal fest 2019” was held

in Raipur, Chhattisgarh.

58 4th edition of International Seminar cum Exhibition on Naval

weapon Systems – NAVARMS-19 with the theme “Make in India – Fight

Category: Opportunities and Imperatives” was held in New Delhi.

59. 7th edition of India-Sri Lanka joint training exercise- ‘Mitra

Shakti 2019’ was held in Pune recently.






60. The International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) 10th

Asian Elephant Specialist Group (AsESG) meeting was held at Kota

Kinabalu in Sabah, Malaysia.

61. Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare, Dr. Harsh Vardhan

inaugurated the second edition of the ‘Eat Right Mela’ along with

11th National Street food festival at Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium in New

Delhi. The theme of the mela was “Healthier Diets”.

62. Transforming Education Conference for Humanity (TECH) 2019

jointly organized by UNESCO and Mahatma Gandhi Institute of

Education for Peace and Sustainable Development (MGIEP) was held in

Vishakhapatnam, AP.

63. Organised by Ministry of Jal Shakti and IIT-Kanpur, fourth India

Water Impact Summit was held in New Delhi. The theme for this year’s

summit was: ‘Valuing Water – Transforming Ganga’.

64. The Joint tri service exercise between India and Russia,

“INDRA” was held in Goa and Pune simultaneously.

65. Second edition of “Startup India Global Venture Capital

Summit” was held in Goa. The summit was organized by DPIIT under

Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Theme: ‘India Opportunity-

Investing in tomorrow together’.

66. International Seminar on Climate Smart Farming Systems’ for

BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and

Economic Cooperation) countries was held in New Delhi.

67. First ever Global Refugee Forum (GRF) was held in Geneva,

Switzerland, which was co-hosted by United Nations Refugee Agency

(UNHCR).

68. Eighth edition of India-China joint training exercise Hand-in-Hand

2019 was conducted at Umroi, Meghalaya recently.

RANKS

69. Global Climate Risk Index 2020, published by “German watch”

found Japan to be the most vulnerable country to climate change,

followed by Philippines, Germany, Madagascar and India.

70. India was ranked 129 in the Human Development Index

released by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for 189

countries.

The report was titled “Beyond Income, Beyond Averages, Beyond Today:

Inequalities in Human Development in 21st century”. The rankings were






listed based on the assessment of poverty, education, life

expectancy and access to health care.

71. According to the Gender Gap Index of the World Economic Forum

(WEF), India is ranked 112th in terms of gender gap. Iceland is the most

gender-equal country. The global gender gap –is measured across four key

areas, or sub-indexes: health, education, work and politics.

72. According to the US agency National Science Foundation’s (NSF)

report ‘Science and Engineering Indicators 2019’ on the number of

scientific papers published worldwide for the year 2019, India was ranked

as the world’s 3rd largest publisher of science and

engineering(S&E) articles. The list was topped by China.

73. Tamil Nadu’s Molugamboondi gram panchayat topped the

ranking for the year 2019 on gram panchayats in the country, on

implementation of development and infrastructure programmes under

the Mission Antyodaya scheme. Gujarat has most top 10 entries with 99

gram panchayats in the list.

74. India was ranked 9th out 57 countries & EU in the Climate Change

Performance Index released during the COP25 held in Madrid. As

none of the countries assessed is already on a path compatible with the

Paris climate targets, the first three places of the ranking remain

unoccupied, at fourth spot is Sweden.

75. Kerala with the score of 70 topped the 2nd edition of Sustainable

Development Goals (SDG) India Index released by the NITI Aayog in

New Delhi recently. The composite score of India has improved to 60

in 2019 from 57 in 2018.

The index gives a brief analysis on the progress made by states and union

territories (UTs) towards achieving the 2030 SDG targets.

The Index this year ranked states based on 54 targets spread over

100 indicators out of 306 outlined by the UN.

76. Tamil Nadu stood at the first position in the big states category in

the first ‘Good Governance Index’ (GGI) launched by Dr Jitendra Singh

in New Delhi. Jharkhand was last in this category.

In the “North east & hill states” and “Union Territory”” category, Himachal

Pradesh and Puducherry stood first respectively.

77. According to a UK-based market research company Euromonitor

International, seven Indian cities — including the national capital —

have made it to the list of the ‘Top 100 City Destinations’ of 2019.

While Delhi currently features as the 11th city on the list, it is expected

to take on the eighth position in the rankings in 2019.






INTERNATIONAL

78. United States President Donald Trump has signed the 2020 National

Defense Authorization Act, authorising the establishment of Space Force

which would become the sixth branch of the armed forces.

The main goal of the Space Force is to secure and extend American

dominance of the space domain.

79. Abu Dhabi, capital city of UAE has been selected as the World’s

Leading Sports Tourism Destination at the World Travel Awards (WTA)

2019 held in Muscat, Oman.

80. An island in South Pacific region, Bougainville was voted to

become the world’s newest nation by gaining independence from Papua

New Guinea.

81. Netherlands (Capital: Amsterdam, Currency: Euro) has officially

announced to drop the nickname ‘Holland’ from January 2020.

82. The Prime Minister of Portugal (Capital: Lisbon, Currency: Euro),

António Luís Santos da Costa, announced the Portuguese govt’s launch

of Gandhi Citizenship Education Prize to perpetuate Mahatma Gandhi’s

ideals during the 2nd meeting of National Committee (of which he is

a member) for Commemoration of the 150th Birth anniversary of

Mahatma Gandhi held in New Delhi.

First edition of the prize will be awarded to animal welfare.

The National Committee which was formed for two years i.e. from

October 2, 2018 to October 2, 2020 has 125 members (including nine

International members).

83. US astronaut Christina Koch has set the record for the longest

single spaceflight by a woman when she reached, and crossed, 289 days

in her current mission.

84. Donald Trump became the third President to be impeached by

the US House. He was accused of enlisting foreign government to

investigate political rival before 2020 election. The other two American

presidents to have been impeached are Bill Clinton (in 1998) and Andrew

Johnson (in 1868).




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85. Russia recently unveiled world’s first Avangard hypersonic

intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). It can fly 27 times the speed

of sound.

AWARDS

86. B.P Raju, Deputy superintendent in CBI has won ‘India Cyber Cop

of the Year 2019’ award given by NASSCOM (National Association of

Software and Services Companies)-DSCI (Data Security Council of India)

in the Annual Information Security Summit (AISS) held at Gurugram.

87. Sahitya Akademi announced Awards in 23 languages for the

year 2019 were announced for 7 books of poetry, 4 novel, 6 short stories,

3 essays.

Shashi Tharoor, renowned Indian politician, writer won the Sahitya

Akademi award for his book “An Era of Darkness: The British Empire

in India”.

88. Author Amitabha Bagchi has won DSC Prize for South Asian

Literature 2019, for his novel “Half the Night is Gone”.

89. Author Tony Joseph has won 12th ‘Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize’

for his 2018 book, ‘Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where

We Came’.

90. Malala Yousafzai a Pakistani activist for female education was named

as “the most famous teenager in the world” of the decade by the

United Nations.

91. Bollywood actor Deepika Padukone won the World Economic

Forum’s (WEF) Annual Crystal Awards 2020 for her leadership in

raising mental health awareness.

92. Cricketer Krishnamachari Srikkanth former Indian women’s Cricket

team captain Anjum Chopra will be awarded prestigious CK Nayudu

Lifetime Award of the BCCI for the year 2019.

93. Miss South Africa Zozibini Tunzi was crowned as Miss Universe

2019 at the event held in Atlanta, United States.

SPORTS

94. Wasim Jaffer, from Mumbai, Maharashtra and former Indian Cricketer

becomes the first Indian to play 150 Ranji Matches.

95. Gandikota Sarva Lakshmi, former Indian Cricketer became the first

woman referee in the Men’s ODI match. The match was played

between USA and UAE in Sharjah, UAE.






96. India topped the South Asian Games held in Nepal with a best-

ever medal haul of 312 including 174 Golds. Next South Asian games is

scheduled to be held in Karachi, Pakistan in 2022.

97. 2019 Ballon d’Or awards winners:

Best Male Player: Lionel Messi of Argentina. He won the award for a

record 6th time in his career.

Best Female Player: Megan Rapinoe of United States

Kopa Trophy (for best player in world under age of 21): Matthijs de

Ligt of Netherlands

Yashin Trophy (for best goalkeeper in the world): Alisson Becker of

Brazil.

98. Virat Kohli was ranked in the “Wisden’s Five cricketers of the

decade list” released by Wisden for the last decade (2010-2019). The

other four cricketers in the list are Steve Smith, Ellyse Perry of Australia

and Dale Steyn, AB DE Villiers of South Africa.

OBITUARIES

99. Inventor of Universal Product Code (UPC) or Barcode, George

Joseph Laurer, passed away.

100. Noted Indian Film and theatre actor Shriram Lagoo passed away

in Pune.




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TOP 50 BANKING & BUSINESS AFFAIRS OF DECEMBER

1. The 8 West African countries namely- Ivory Coast, Mali, Burkina Faso,

Benin, Niger, Senegal, Togo and Guinea-Bissau have agreed to change

the name of their common currency to ‘Eco’. currently they use CFA

France as their currency. All these countries, except Guinea-Bissau, are

former French colonies.

2. International Monetary Fund (IMF) has retained India’s economic

growth forecast at 6.1% for FY20.

3. Union Finance Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman launched an

online auction platform named “eBkray” in New Delhi in order to

increase transparency in auctioning of assets attached by banks.

4. State Bank of India (SBI) and Germany’s KfW Development Bank

have signed a loan agreement of US $277 million to establish an

energy-efficient housing programme in India.

5. Union Government has announced “Partial Credit Guarantee

Scheme”, for Public Sector Banks (PSBs), the scheme will allow

purchasing of high-rated pooled assets from financially sound Non-Banking

Financial Companies (NBFCs) / Housing Finance Companies (HFCs)

amounting to a total of Rs 1 lakh crore.

6. According to to-Consumer (B2C) E-commerce Index 2019” released

by UNCTAD’s India has been ranked at 73rd spot out of 152 countries

in the index that measures an economy’s preparedness to support online

shopping. Netherlands topped the index.

7. Axis Bank and Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) has entered into a

partnership to launch co-branded credit cards for customers

preferring cashless and hassle-free payments.

8. American business, financial company & rating agency Moody’s has

downgraded India’s FY20 GDP growth projection to 4.9%.

9. Bengaluru headquartered PhonePe Private Limited (PhonePe), an

Indian e-commerce payment system and digital wallet company, has

crossed 5 billion transactions on its app.

10. Afghanistan recently became the first nation to formally recognize

Indian Pharmacopoeia (IP), an official book of standards for drugs

manufactured & marketed in India in terms of their identity, purity and

strength.






11. New Development Bank (NDB) (Headquarters: Shanghai, China)

has agreed to provide $100 million to India’s National Investment and

Infrastructure Fund’s (NIIF).

12. Reliance Strategic Business Ventures Ltd (RSBVL), a wholly-

owned subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), has acquired a

51.78 % stake in Asteria Aerospace (Headquarters: Bengaluru).

13. The appellate court of the World Trade Organization (WTO) that

acts as trade dispute settlement body for the members was shut down

by the United States.

14. Reliance Industries Limited topped the list of Fortune India 500 list

for the first-time surpassing IOC.

15. (RBI) has set a Rs. 50-lakh limit on the aggregate lending to all

borrowers across all Non-Banking Financial Company – Peer to Peer

(NBFC-P2P) lending platforms.

16. According to a Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

(SIPRI) report, arms sales worldwide rose up by 4.6% in 2018 and

India was ranked 10th in the overall country ranking while, United

States (US) topped the list.

17. Wipro has partnered with NASSCOM (National Association of

Software and Services Companies) to launch ‘Future Skills’ platform to

train 10,000 students in new age technologies such as artificial

intelligence (AI), big data, cloud computing, cyber security and

internet of things (IoT).

18. According to the report titled “Global House Price Index 2019”,

released by Knight Frank, India was ranked at 47th place out of 56

countries, while Hungary topped the list.

19. To facilitate smooth settlement of NEFT transactions in the

accounts of the member banks maintained with the Reserve Bank in a

24x7 environment, RBI has announced an additional collateralised

intra-day liquidity facility, to be called Liquidity Support (LS).

20. Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has announced to

grant a loan worth of $210 ($145-million will be given to improve

irrigation service delivery and strengthen flood risk management in

West Bengal and remaining $65-million will be given for 250-megawatt

(MW) solar power project in Jodhpur) million to India.

21. Asian Development Bank (ADB) has granted $250 million loan to

Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) to expand energy efficiency

investments in India by way of identifying new business opportunities.






22. Department of fisheries of govt. of India, NABARD and the state

government of Tamil Nadu have signed the first tripartite Memorandum

of Agreement (MoA) for implementation of Fisheries and Aquaculture

Development Fund (FIDF).

23. According to the report titled “Digital States of India – A

Comparative Analysis” which maps all the States and Union Territories

on their policy and infrastructure readiness and mission mode project’s

performance Chhattisgarh has emerged as the top state.

24. Napean Opportunities LLP has acquired 16.01% and Honey

Wheat Investment Ltd has acquired 9.99 % paid-up share capital of

SBI General Insurance.

25. In order to boost small value digital transactions, RBI has launched

semi-closed prepaid payment instrument (PPI) for transaction of

goods and services up to a limit of Rs 10,000.

26. RBI conducted simultaneous sale and purchase of government

bonds under the Open Market Operations (OMO) mechanism, (this

concept is similar to “Operation Twist” that adopted by US Federal

Reserve) with an aim to reduce interest rates on long-term bonds &

improve the liquidity position in the market.

27. In a first, Walmart India, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Walmart Inc

has joined hands with HDFC Bank to launch a co-branded credit

card.

28. RBI has allowed 24×7 transactions facility under the National

Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) system to customers on all days

including weekends and holidays from December 16,2019.

29. RBI has restricted Primary Urban cooperative banks (UCBs)

exposure to a single borrower & a group of connected borrowers at 10%

and 25%, respectively.

Bank has also hiked the priority sector lending (PSL) target for UCBs

to 75% of adjusted net bank credit (ANBC). The target has to be reached

in phases — 50 per cent by March 2021, 60 per cent by March 2022, and

75 per cent by March 2023.

30. Exim bank has provided $500 million Line of Credit (LoC) to

Bangladesh for defence-related procurement in the neighbouring

country.




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31. Union government has approved the signing of a Memorandum of

Cooperation (MOC) between India and Japan regarding the

formation of ‘India-Japan Steel Dialogue’ to strengthen

cooperation in the steel sector.

32. International Finance Corporation (IFC) will invest around $ 200

million in Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Limited (MMFSL),

a rural NBFC to create a ‘pool’ specifically for MSMEs in low income states.

33. Canada's biggest public pension fund Canada Pension Plan

Investment Board (CPPIB) is investing up to $600 million in India's

National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF).

34. Fitch Ratings slashed India's GDP growth forecast in the current

fiscal to 4.6 per cent. India’s growth rate will be 5.6 % in FY 2020-21 and

6.5 % in FY2021-22

35. SEBI has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with

the Astana Financial Services Authority (AFSA) to strengthen cross-

border cooperation in areas such as securities regulation and at the same

time improve the efficiency of monitoring operations.

36. CRISIL – a credit rating agency has lowered its estimate of India’s

gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate to 5.1 % for the current

financial year –FY20.

37. Best Performing Award for Rural Self Employment Training

Institutes (RSETI) was given to Andhra Bank for the financial year

2018-19.

38. To deepen the bond market and bring in retail participation in the bond

market the Union Government, cleared the launch of India’s first Bharat

Bond Exchange Traded Fund (ETF), which will be managed by

Edelweiss Asset Management.

39. Mastercard has tied-up with Federal Bank to provide an

additional layer of security function called ‘Mastercard Identity

Check’ for digital transactions done by bank’s cardholders.

40 RBI has appointed J&K Bank and SBI as the UTLBC (Union Territory

Lead Bank Convenor) of the newly formed UTs of Jammu & Kashmir

and Ladakh respectively.

41. As per RBI’s ‘Guidelines for ‘on tap’ Licensing of Small Finance

Banks (SFB), for Private applicants minimum paid-up voting equity

capital/ net worth requirement shall be Rs.200 crore.

For Primary Urban Co-operative Banks (UCBs), aspiring to voluntarily

transit into SFBs, initial requirement of net worth shall be at Rs.100






crores that will have to be increased to Rs.200 crores within 5 years.

Also, payment banks can convert into SFBs after five years of operations.

42. HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company, has launched “my: health

Woman Suraksha policy”, a comprehensive medical insurance scheme

specially designed for women. Women aged 18–65 years are eligible for

the policy & they will be offered a sum insured ranging from Rs. 1 lakh to

1 crore.

43. Asian Development Bank (ADB) has lowered India’s GDP

growth forecast to 5.1% for the FY – 20.

44. According to the UK-based Centre for Economics and Business

Research (CEBR) report titled ‘World Economic League Table 2020′(WELT

2020), India is expected to overtake Germany as the fourth-largest

economy in the world by 2026. It also estimated that India will overtake

Japan as the third-largest economy by 2034.

45. ZestMoney, an AI - driven EMI financing platform has partnered with

Chinese smartphone company, Xiaomi, to launch new loan service app

called “MiCredit” in the Indian market.

46. According to the RBI’s annual report on “Trend and Progress of

Banking in India 2018-19”, the gross NPA of the Scheduled Commercial

Banks (SCBs) improved to 9.1% in March 2019 from 11.2% in March

2018.While, Net non-performing assets of all commercial banks declined to

3.7 % in 2018-19 as compared to 6 % in the previous fiscal.

Also, in the FY-19 bank frauds grew 74% as compared to FY-18 to

reach 6801 cases worth of Rs 71,543 crore.

47. IRDAI (Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India) has

constituted a 10-member working group headed by IRDAI member T.

L. Alamelu to make recommendations for loss prevention &

minimization in the general insurance industry.

48. RBI’s fifth bi-monthly monetary policy statement, the rates were kept

unchanged:

Repo rate: 5.15%.

Reverse repo rate: 4.9%

Bank Rate: 5.4%

Marginal Standing Facility: 5.4%

49. Vakrangee Finserve Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of

Vakrangee Limited (VL) has partnered with Union Bank of India for






20,000 Banking Business Correspondent (BC) points for Nextgen

Vakrangee Kendra.

50. Government of India signed MoU with Flipkart for selling the

products made by women self-help groups under Deendayal

Antyodaya Yojana-National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM) on

the e-commerce platform.




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