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1. Manu Sawhney has been appointed as the

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the
International Cricket Council (ICC)
(Headquarter: Dubai).

2. NASSCOM (National Association of Software and services companies)

has appointed Keshav Murugesh, as its chairman for 2019-20.

3. Vipin Anand has been appointed as the Managing Director of the Life
Insurance Corporation of India (LIC).

4. Chandra Shekhar Rajan to be designated as Managing Director of

IL&FS (Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services).

5. Davis Malpass was recently chosen as the next President of the

World Bank.

6. Vikram Kirloskar was appointed as the president of Confederation

of Indian Industry (CII) for the period 2019-20.

7. Praful Patel, President of All India Football Federation (AIFF) has been
designated as FIFA Executive Council member.

1. The merger of Bank of Baroda, with

Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank came into force
from 1st April 2019.

The merged entity which is called “Bank of

Baroda” now becomes India’s largest
commercial bank after State Bank of India and
HDFC Bank.

2. ADB in its publication Asian Development Outlook 2019 has demoted

growth forecasts for India to 7.2% for the fiscal year 2019-20.

3. Reserve Bank of India has set the limits for Ways and Means
Advances (WMA) to Rs. 75000 crores for the first half of the financial
year 2019-20.

The rate of interest issued on the Ways and Means Advances (WMA) will be
Repo Rate while the overdraft will exceed the Repo Rate by flat 2%.

4. First Bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement for 2019-20.

Repo Rate: 6%

Reverse Repo Rate: 5.75%

Marginal Standing Facility Rate: 6.25%

Bank Rate: 6.25%

Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR): 4%

Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR): 19.25%

5. Karnataka Bank (Headquarter: Mangalore) has signed a pact with

Bharti Axa Life Insurance Company Ltd to distribute life insurance
products to provide insurance solutions to the customers of Karnataka Bank.

1. Reliance Nippon Life Asset Management

(RNAM) has partnered with Google to
provide voice-based financial transactions
to the customers, thus becoming the first
Indian company to provide the service.

2. Paytm Money, the wealth management arm

of Paytm, has got approval from the Securities
and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to start
offering a stock broking service.

3. Reliance Jio Digital, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries has acquired a

chatbot making start-up firm Haptik for Rs.700 crores.

4. Bombay Stock Exchange and INX (India International Exchange) are

the first Indian exchanges to sign with MOEX (Moscow Exchange) to
allow capital formation platform and connect investor community and
companies in both India and Russia.
5. Under “Category II Alternate Investment Fund” (AIF), SEBI for the first
time has approved an “airport’ specific fund”. The name of the fund is
“Taking Off to the Future Airport Fund”.

It can raise a capital amounting to Rs. 10,000 crores.

1. Vikram Patel, a psychiatrist and professor

has been honoured with prestigious John drinks
Canada Gairdner Global Health award
recently.

2. UAE (Capital: Abu Dhabi, Currency:

Dirham) honoured PM Narendra Modi with its highest civilian award,
the Zayed Medal for boosting the bilateral ties between both of the
nations.

3. Indian Astrologer Dr Sohini Sastri has been honoured with Doctor

of Letters (D. Litt) in Astrology by National American University, USA.

4. Tata Steel bagged the “Global Slag Company of the Year” award
at the 14th Global Slag Conference and Exhibition 2019, for its innovative
practices in the development of new applications for Steel by-products
(Slag).

5. Gyanaditya Shakya has been honoured with the Presidential Award of

Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman 2019.

He has been awarded for his works in the Pali language. 

1. Three - day National Cardiology

Conference 2019 was held at Sanjay Gandhi
Post Graduate Institute of medical sciences in
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.

2. Prevention of Blindness Week: April 1-7

3. National Handloom week: April 7 - 14

4. World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD): April 2

Theme: Assistive Technologies, Active Participation

5. International Mine Awareness Day: April 4

Theme: “United nations promotes SDGs –Safe Ground –Safe Home”

6. National Maritime Day: April 5

Theme:  Indian Ocean- An Ocean of Opportunity

7. International Day of Sport for development and Peace: April 6

8. World Health Day: April 7

Theme: Universal Health Coverage: Everyone, Everywhere

1. Kandhamal Haldi (turmeric), Odisha’s

locally grown turmeric in its Kandhamal district
has received the Geographical Indications (GI)
tag from Intellectual Property India.

2. "Phayeng", a scheduled caste village of

the Chakpa community in Imphal West district of
Manipur has been tagged as India’s first carbon-positive settlement.

3. “Sahulat”, a mobile app launched to facilitate and to encourage the

elder voters for participating in the elections in Jammu and
Kashmir’s Rajouri district.

1. ISRO’s launch vehicle PSLV C-45, has

successfully launched the 436 kg Electronic
intelligence satellite EMISAT.

2. Indian Army achieved a record-breaking

feat by constructing ‘Maitri’, the 260-feet
longest suspension bridge over the Indus
river in the Leh-Ladakh region in just 40 days.

3. 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.

4. ‘Chennai Central’ railway station has been renamed as ‘Puratchi Thalaivar

Dr M G Ramachandran Chennai Central’ after Dr. ‘MG Ramachandran’.

1. To counter the growing Chinese influence in

 the India Ocean Australia and six other
nations- Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia, Thailand,
Vietnam, Indonesia and Singapore conducted
Indian Ocean military exercise recently.

2. International Union for Conservation of Nature

(IUCN) (Headquarter: Gland, Switzerland)
added hump-backed mahseer, also known as
‘Tor remadevii’ or ‘tiger of water’ in critically endangered species list
(Red List).

3. The Ministry of External Affairs has signed an MoU with National Bank for
Agriculture and Rural Development Consultancy Service (NABCONS) for
setting up India-Africa Institute of Agriculture and Rural
Development (IAIARD) in Malawi (Capital: Lilongwe, Currency:
Kwacha)

1. Danish Player, Viktor Axelsen defeated

India’s Kidambi Srikanth to win the India Open
2019 organized at the K.D. Jadhav Indoor hall in
New Delhi. Ratchanok Intanon from Thailand
(Currency: Baht, Capital: Bangkok) won the
event in the women’s category.

2. Five times world champion Lewis Hamilton

of Mercedes won Bahrain Grand Prix 2019.

3. Saurav Ghosal moved up two places to become the first Indian male
squash player to break into the top 10 of the latest PSA (Professional
Squash Association, (Headquarters: Leeds, England)) world ranking.

4. India has retained ICC Test Championship mace for the third year
in a row after finishing at the top of ICC Test team rankings on the cut-off
date of April 1.

5. PV Sindhu and Neeraj Chopra (Athletics) have won the

Sportsperson of the Year under Female and Male category
respectively in the ESPN Multi-Sport Awards 2018.

1. Kartik Chandra Rath, a veteran

dramatist, theatre organiser and Economics
teacher passed away.

2. Eminent economist and father of

entrepreneurship movement in India, Dr
Viharidas Gopaldas Patel passed away recently.

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