1. ____________________ approved merger with NBFC Indiabulls Housing Finance (IBH) through a share swap deal, in which 100 shares of Bank will fetch 14 of Indiabulls Housing finance.
- Merger will help Indiabulls Housing finance get entry into banking, after an unsuccessful application made by it in 2013 for a banking licence.
- Indiabulls HC NPA are approx .7 % and LVB is weak at 13 % NPAs. Merged entity will have 3% NPA.
2. Bollywood Actor ____________________ honored by a honorary doctorate by University Of Law (London), for his Philanthropy work.
3. Indian Navy initiated process to acquire six lethal submarines under ambitious ____________________ , costing over 50000 crores.
- Navy will build 6 conventional diesel-electric submarines which would be almost 50 per cent bigger than under-construction Scorpene class submarines being built at Mazagon Dockyards Limited in Mumbai.
4. ______________ Aerospace Exploration Agency spacecraft Hayabusa2 blasted surface of an asteroid for the first time to form a crater. Spacecraft will collect its underground samples to find possible clues to origin of solar system.
5. Phayeng, a village of Chakpa community in Imphal West district of ____________________________ has been named as India’s first carbon-positive settlement. It has been revived from dry village through determination of its residents and funding under National Adaptation Fund for Climate Change (NAFCC), a central scheme launched in 2015-16 to support adaptation for climate change impact in states.
6. Book Kundan: Saigal’s Life & Music”, authored by _______________ has been released.
7. __________________ - National Maritime day in India. 2019 theme is “Indian Ocean- An Ocean of Opportunity”. It was first celebrated in 1964.
8. Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) approved loans worth $280 million for its first two projects in ______________. A $200 million loan will improve housing conditions for low-income communities in Colombo while another loan of $80 million will be used to reduce risk and damage from landslides in __________________.
9. Pradeep Nandrajog will be appointed as new Chief Justice of Bombay High Court (Maharashtra). He is currently Chief Justice at ________________ High Court.
10. IT industry’s apex body Nasscom appointed _________________ as its chairman for fiscal 2019-20. U.B. Pravin Rao is appointed as Vice Chairman for same term.
11. ESPN India Multi-Sport Awards 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)
- Differently-abled athlete of the Year – Ekta Bhyan (para-athletics)
- Lifetime Achievement – Pradip Kumar Banerjee (football)
12. ______________________ received licence from Department of Telecommunications to provide Internet and mobile services on flights.
13. BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange) and India International Exchange (India INX) signed MOU with Moscow Exchange (MOEX) (______________) to connect investor community and companies in both countries besides allowing a capital formation platform.
14. CS Rajan has been appointed Managing Director while Vineet Nayyar named as Executive Vice-Chairman of ____________________ .
15. _________________ signed Bancassurance MoU with Bharti AXA Life Insurance Company to distribute Insurer’s life insurance products.
16. Asian Development Bank (ADB) published its ‘Asian Development Outlook 2019’ report -
- ADB has cut India’s growth forecast to _______________ for 2019-20 because of a slower-than-expected pickup in investment demand. Growth rate in Financial Year 2020-21 is likely to be 7.3%.
- Growth in East Asia decelerated by 0.2% to 6.0% in 2018, weighed down by weakening external trade and moderating investment in China PRC but sustained by resilient domestic consumption.
17. Scientists at Tsinghua University and __________________ Academy of Sciences' have discovered a possible death switch mechanism in plant's immune system that triggers infected cells to self-destruct, thus limiting the spread of the disease and keeping other parts of the plant healthy.
- Researchers discovered that some plants have evolved to carry a resistance protein called ZAR1 that can detect bacterial proteins like AvrAC. These plants use special proteins as bait and trick the bacterial protein into attacking them instead.
- the discovery will provide clues to cell death control and immunity for plants.
18. National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) and global transport infrastructure operator Roadis (Canada Based) will jointly set up a platform to invest up to ________________ of equity in road projects in India. Platform would target toll-operate-transfer models and acquisitions of existing road concessions.
